Teval, the Balanced Scale [READY] by eckoefx

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale heads a Sultai self-mill, lands, and graveyard-combo list that wins by looping creatures out of the yard rather than by fair combat. Teval attacks to mill three and bounce a land back into play, then prints a 2/2 Zombie Druid whenever any card leaves the graveyard, so every fetch, dredge, escape, and reanimation spell doubles as token production. The 99 is a self-contained combo deck: Gravecrawler plus Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar goes infinite, Laboratory Maniac plus Altar of Dementia mills out, and Bloodghast plus extra land drops repeats the same leave-the-yard trigger. Backup kills are a token swarm pumped by Craterhoof Behemoth or Finale of Devastation, or drain from Ayara, First of Locthwain and The Meathook Massacre. Teval is a cheap, recastable value body, not the deck's search engine or a required combo piece - most lines live entirely in the 99 and still fire if the commander never resolves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 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 Argoth, Sanctum of Nature
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabin of the Dead
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Formidable Speaker
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rampant Frogantua
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zagoth Triome