Teval - Real by Dred_00

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai lands and graveyard midrange strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It accelerates its mana base through self-mill, additional land-drop enablers, and recurring lands straight from the graveyard onto the battlefield. Teval rewards land recursion and card movement out of the graveyard by creating a steady army of 2/2 Zombie Druids. The deck leverages heavy graveyard integration using cards like Life from the Loam, Six, and The Gitrog Monster to maintain continuous card flow and fuel sacrifice engines like Braids, Cabal Minion. In the late game, it transitions into lethal pressure with explosive finishers like Living Death, Avenger of Zendikar, and Field of the Dead, granting evasive combat through Wonder and Brawn or draining the table with Syr Konrad, the Grim. The deck maintains excellent longevity and resource recursion, though it requires careful management against opposing graveyard hate and sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrupt Decay
• 1 Aftermath Analyst
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
• 1 Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest
• 1 Brawn
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cackling Counterpart
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Dakmor Salvage
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drownyard Temple
• 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 6 Forest
• 1 Genesis
• 1 Golgari Grave-Troll
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Haunted Mire
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Honest Rutstein
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 4 Island
• 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Memorial to Folly
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Plumb the Forbidden
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Reclamation Sage
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 Satyr Wayfinder
• 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1 Shriekmaw
• 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1 Six
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spore Frog
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Urborg Lhurgoyf
• 1 Wight of the Reliquary
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 World Shaper
• 1 Wrenn and Seven
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1 Zuran Orb