Teval start by user7311788

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Landfall Midrange strategy led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It combines mana acceleration, graveyard recursion, and wide creature token creation to control the board and pressure opponents. In the early turns, efficient ramp spells such as Farseek, Arcane Signet, and Search for Tomorrow fix all three colors to deploy Teval on Turn 3. When Teval attacks on Turn 4, it mills cards, returns lands directly to the battlefield tapped, and creates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. Midgame plays compound this advantage through redundant landfall engines like Scute Swarm, Rampaging Baloths, and Avenger of Zendikar, alongside aristocrats drain from Mirkwood Bats and The Meathook Massacre. The late game converts wide creature swarms into table-wide lethal combat damage through Craterhoof Behemoth, Return of the Wildspeaker, or mass reanimation via Rise of the Dark Realms.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Collective Resistance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consult the Star Charts
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Mental Note
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Return of the Wildspeaker
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Search for Tomorrow
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sire of Stagnation
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Gitrog, Ravenous Ride
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witherbloom Charm
  • 1 Witherbloom, the Balancer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil