Graveyard Baddies by user1938541

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale commands a Sultai graveyard-landfall strategy that blends steady self-mill, land recursion, and explosive mass reanimation. The deck establishes early mana velocity through efficient two-mana ramp, self-milling creatures, and dredge tools like Life from the Loam. Once Teval is deployed, each combat step mills three cards, ramps a land from the graveyard to the battlefield, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the yard. This continuous resource generation rapidly stocks the graveyard with high-impact threats, including Lord of Extinction, Avenger of Zendikar, Consuming Aberration, and Wonder. The midgame leverages mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Afterlife from the Loam to flood the board with an evasive army, while Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord provides an alternate burst finisher by sacrificing giant creatures for unblockable direct life loss across the table. While vulnerable to dedicated graveyard exile and lacking cheap countermagic, the deck possesses immense recursive resilience and redundant value engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Afterlife from the Loam
• 1 Amphin Mutineer
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Casualties of War
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Crawling Sensation
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Dawnhart Rejuvenator
• 1 Dictate of Erebos
• 1 Diviner of Mist
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Essence Anchor
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Floral Evoker
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 6 Forest
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grapple with the Past
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Grisly Salvage
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 4 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
• 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
• 1 Kishla Skimmer
• 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lord of Extinction
• 1 Lord of the Forsaken
• 1 Memorial to Folly
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Mishra's Bauble
• 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Necropolis Fiend
• 1 Noxious Gearhulk
• 1 Nyx Weaver
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steward of the Harvest
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Treasured Find
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Welcome the Dead
• 1 Whoosh!
• 1 Will of the Sultai
• 1 Winternight Stories
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery