Teval, The Balanced Self-Miller by Kronicalchaos

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-landfall midrange strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. Teval drives the engine by milling cards on attack, recurring lands directly to the battlefield, and generating 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck accelerates mana using efficient ramp and self-mill engines such as Life from the Loam, The Gitrog Monster, and Six. By filling the graveyard, it turns the discard pile into a versatile resource pool. The primary win condition culminates around Turn 6 by resolving Living Death to build a lethal flying board with Wonder and Avenger of Zendikar, or by assembling an infinite loop with Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar, and Teval for infinite tokens and mana. Free interaction like Fierce Guardianship and Force of Vigor protects critical turns, while Gilt-Leaf Archdruid leverages Druid tokens to strip opposing mana bases.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grist, Voracious Larva // Grist, the Plague Swarm
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Pull from Tomorrow
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper