Teval by Nopster

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Sultai deck focuses on graveyard reanimation and land-based value engines led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The deck rapidly fills its graveyard using cheap self-mill cards like Stitcher's Supplier, Hedron Crab, and Grisly Salvage. Once Teval enters combat, it accelerates mana by returning milled lands directly to the battlefield while generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The midgame transitions into explosive turns by deploying massive threats such as Titan of Industry, Koma, Cosmos Serpent, and Ancient Brass Dragon ahead of curve. The primary endgame relies on resolving mass reanimation spells like Living Death or Rise of the Dark Realms, pairing an overwhelming creature board with Wonder for evasive flying damage and Syr Konrad, the Grim for direct life loss. Alternatively, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord can sacrifice an enormous Lord of Extinction to drain the entire table simultaneously.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dina's Guidance
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Impervious Greatwurm
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Koma, Cosmos Serpent
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Qarsi Revenant
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Seedship Broodtender
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sultai Charm
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Titan of Industry
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Worldspine Wurm