Teval idea 2.0 by RSmith77

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Sultai Graveyard Landfall and Token engine piloted by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan accelerates mana on the opening turns through dense one- and two-drop ramp, landing Teval by Turn 3. Once active, Teval attacks to fuel the graveyard, recur land cards directly to the battlefield, and generate a growing army of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck compounds this advantage using graveyard engines like Six, Life from the Loam, Hermit Druid, and Muldrotha, the Gravetide. Victory is achieved by converting accumulated board presence and graveyard depth into a decisive finish around Turn 6–7 via mass overruns (Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede), massive asymmetric reanimation (Living Death), or life-draining payoffs (Syr Konrad, the Grim, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord). A robust suite of interaction and protection spells like Sylvan Safekeeper ensures resilience against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armored Scrapgorger
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth