-Teval Recursion upgrade- by user5770462

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is a graveyard-centric midrange strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on early ramp and aggressive self-mill to build a packed graveyard that serves as a second hand. Teval accelerates mana by recurring land cards on each attack while generating 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck converts these board resources and card-flow engines into decisive burst finishes on Turn 6 using mass reanimation spells like Living Death or targeted packages via Buried Alive and Victimize. The primary win condition reanimates Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord alongside a massive Lord of Extinction, sacrificing the elemental to fling lethal damage at all three opponents simultaneously. Redundant value engines like Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, and Life from the Loam provide resilient recovery against spot removal, while Dauthi Voidwalker restricts opposing graveyard strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Araumi of the Dead Tide
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bad River
  • 1 Barren Moor
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Earthshaker Giant
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Golgari Thug
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Maelstrom Pulse
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Old Stickfingers
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan