Stompy Reanimate by Stefanrkent

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Reanimator strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It leverages rapid self-mill and targeted graveyard tutors such as Entomb and Buried Alive to put massive creature threats into the graveyard early. The primary plan uses efficient reanimation spells—including Reanimate, Animate Dead, Exhume, and Persist—to cheat game-ending behemoths into play well ahead of curve. Payoffs like Consecrated Sphinx, Demolisher Spawn, Giant Adephage, Massacre Wurm, and Rise of the Dark Realms provide decisive board control and crushing combat damage. Teval augments this plan by converting attacks into self-mill, ramping lands directly from the graveyard to the battlefield, and creating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck features extreme engine resilience, functioning seamlessly even if the commander is removed, while using countermagic, Culling Ritual, and Archetype of Endurance to protect its board and dismantle opposing boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alien Symbiosis
  • 1 Altered Ego
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archetype of Endurance
  • 1 Back for More
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demolisher Spawn
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadwing Scavenger
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
  • 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flood of Recollection
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Giant Adephage
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kozilek, the Great Distortion
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Mana Leak
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moldgraf Monstrosity
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Natural Affinity
  • 1 Not Dead After All
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Putrid Imp
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reclaim
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rootcoil Creeper
  • 1 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Souls of the Lost
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stoic Rebuttal
  • 1 Strategic Planning
  • 1 Sultai Ascendancy
  • 1 Summon Undead
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Thornwood Falls
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Torrential Gearhulk
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery