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Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This deck is a self-mill reanimator strategy helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale, built to fill the graveyard as fast as possible and then cheat enormous threats into play. The commander generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens and returns lands from the graveyard, enabling both a wide token army and explosive mana. The primary win condition is an infinite combo with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar, using the token swarm to generate infinite mana and then cast or reanimate Craterhoof Behemoth for an overrun kill. Backup lines include a Dark Depths+Thespian's Stage Marit Lage, mass reanimation via Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms, and pure value beatdown from high-impact threats like Valgavoth, Terror Eater and Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. The deck leverages a dense tutor package to find its combo pieces and key reanimation targets, while the commander's ability to create tokens and return lands provides a steady source of board presence and mana acceleration throughout the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth