Teval combo

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale, focusing on a cohesive synergy between self-mill, landfall, and aristocrat token generation. Early turns establish mana velocity through cheap dorks, exploration effects, and land tutors. On Turn 3 or 4, Teval enters the battlefield and immediately starts converting combat attacks into land ramp and 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck builds massive resource momentum using engines like The Gitrog Monster, Six, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and Life from the Loam. It proactively suppresses opposing creature boards with Dictate of Erebos and controls the stack with free interaction like Fierce Guardianship and Deadly Rollick. Victory is achieved either by overrunning the table with Craterhoof Behemoth or assembling an aristocrats sacrifice loop using Gravecrawler, Phyrexian Altar, and life-drain outlets like Vein Ripper and The Meathook Massacre.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beledros Witherbloom
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chomping Changeling
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Begets Life
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Reaper's Scythe
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Horizon of Progress
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kira, Great Glass-Spinner
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Master of Death
  • 1 Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Silverback Elder
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skyclave Shade
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strands of Night
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Undead Hand Ninja
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Recon
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zagoth Triome