Teval - Sultai Shenanigans by FrisbeeLad

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Sultai lands and graveyard strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It accelerates mana production through low-cost ramp, depletion lands, and land-drop enhancers like Exploration. The deck aggressively fills its graveyard using dredge, surveil, and targeted self-mill engines such as Hedron Crab, Stitcher's Supplier, and Life from the Loam. Teval leverages this graveyard to recur lands and generate a resilient army of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The mid-game culminates in explosive turns powered by Lumra, Bellow of the Woods, Aftermath Analyst, or Living Death, which return all milled lands to play and trigger landfall payoffs like Field of the Dead and Insidious Roots. Finally, the deck closes out the game on Turn 6 using overwhelming trample overruns from Craterhoof Behemoth, Finale of Devastation, or Tyvar, the Pummeler.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Augmenter Pugilist // Echoing Equation
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Bane of Progress
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drag to the Roots
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hickory Woodlot
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Managorger Hydra
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Peat Bog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pit of Offerings
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Saprazzan Skerry
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Tyvar, the Pummeler
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome