T.G.I.F - Teval.Grave.Interaction.Face by fritt3rr

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Sultai graveyard and aristocrats combo deck commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around aggressively loading the graveyard through self-mill, dredge, and creature tutors, using Teval's combat trigger to ramp lands and generate Zombie tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The primary win condition is a compact infinite drain combo featuring Gravecrawler, Warren Soultrader, and an aristocrat drain piece such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Bastion of Remembrance. Buried Alive and Hermit Druid act as premier single-card enablers, while cheap reanimation spells like Reanimate and Chthonian Nightmare assemble the combo at minimal mana cost. Backed by explosive mana acceleration from Dark Ritual, Culling the Weak, and Insidious Roots, the deck reliably threatens game-ending loops on Turn 5. It also leverages asymmetric hate pieces in Dauthi Voidwalker and Notion Thief to punish opposing strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bringer of the Last Gift
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Caustic Caterpillar
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Kiora's Follower
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Cottage
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat