Sultai Arisen by taylorisaho

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai graveyard-matters deck helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The primary plan is to aggressively self-mill to fill the graveyard, then leverage land recursion, token generation, and reanimation spells to build a dominant board. Teval provides a steady stream of Zombie Druid tokens and sets up land recursion, while the deck's core engine cards - The Gitrog Monster, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, and Teval's Judgment - turn every milled land and graveyard trigger into card advantage. The primary win condition is the infinite combo of Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar (or Warren Soultrader) with a drain outlet like Zulaport Cutthroat or Ayara, First of Locthwain. A secondary finisher is Craterhoof Behemoth with a wide token board. The deck is highly resilient to disruption thanks to dense recursion and multiple overlapping value engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delay
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat