Teval - Zombies with Jobs by t3trunk

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard midrange strategy built around Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on setting up early graveyard velocity through efficient mill and dredge engines, using cards like Hermit Druid, Stitcher's Supplier, and Life from the Loam. Once Teval hits the battlefield, attacking fuels both mana development and token generation by recurring lands and triggering Zombie creation whenever cards leave the graveyard. The mid-game transitions into compounding board advantage with engines like Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, and Meren of Clan Nel Toth. The deck caps its pressure with explosive combat finishes, leveraging Living Death or reanimating Craterhoof Behemoth to overwhelm all three opponents at once. While resilient against traditional creature removal, the strategy requires careful navigation around targeted graveyard exile effects.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Carnivorous Cultivator // Enroot
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Farseek
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Lie in Wait
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Postmortem Professor
  • 1 Primal Witchstalker
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 River of Tears
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Master of Lake-town
  • 1 The Wise Mothman
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast