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Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai lands and graveyard midrange strategy piloted by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on ramping quickly into Teval on turn 3 or 4, then attacking to mill cards, ramp lands from the graveyard, and build an army of Zombie tokens. Redundant landfall and graveyard engines such as The Gitrog Monster, Six, Titania, Protector of Argoth, and Field of the Dead rapidly expand resource advantage and token volume across the middle turns. The deck uses self-mill and land sacrifices to fill the graveyard as an accessible second hand, leveraging reanimation spells like Dread Return, Victimize, and Animate Dead. It closes games decisively on turn 6 by resolving or reanimating Craterhoof Behemoth to overwhelm all three opponents in a single lethal combat step. Sylvan Safekeeper and targeted countermagic provide essential protection against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Petrified Field
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Selvala, Heart of the Wilds
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Willowrush Verge
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast