Teval by user5229501

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Sultai deck harnesses Teval, the Balanced Scale to merge self-mill, landfall, and token production into an attrition-heavy graveyard strategy. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with green sorceries and establishing self-mill engines such as Hedron Crab, Nyx Weaver, and Teval itself. Once cards fill the graveyard, the deck generates continuous board presence through Zombie Druid tokens and recurring land drops. In the mid-to-late game, the deck pivots toward decisive win conditions. Mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Afterlife from the Loam return overwhelming boards, while evasive enablers like Wonder and Eternal Skylord allow wide token armies to fly over defenses. Against heavily defended boards, tall creatures like Lord of Extinction and Consuming Aberration can be sacrificed to Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord for direct table-wide life loss. The deck exhibits resilient resource loops, though it remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and fast combo strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 Avatar Destiny
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consuming Aberration
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Eternal Skylord
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Glorious Decay
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Leaves from the Vine
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Merchant of Many Hats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nethergoyf
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Ostrich-Horse
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Retrofitted Transmogrant
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Rocky Rebuke
  • 1 Shared Roots
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Snapping Voidcraw
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tam, Observant Sequencer // Deep Sight
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 True Ancestry
  • 1 Under the Skin
  • 1 Vastlands Scavenger // Bind to Life
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery