Teval The Balanced Scale by user9300440

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-landfall midrange strategy led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around rapidly filling the graveyard through self-mill creatures and dredge effects, converting milled lands into ramp and generating large armies of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck uses its graveyard as an expanded resource pool, generating steady card advantage through Life from the Loam, Six, and Ripples of Undeath. Once a wide creature board is established, the deck transitions from value generation to a lethal finish around Turn 6 by reanimating Craterhoof Behemoth, mass-reanimating threats with Living Death, or draining the table with Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck exhibits high resilience against single-target removal due to extensive recursion, though it remains vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile and board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Churn
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eldrazi Monument
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Master of Death
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery