Beyond the Grave by zbriggs09

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai lands and graveyard reanimator strategy piloted by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana, filling the graveyard through repeatable self-mill, and leveraging land-recursion engines like Life from the Loam, Conduit of Worlds, and Six. As cards leave the graveyard, Teval builds a wide board of 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens while steadily ramping lands onto the battlefield. The deck transitions into the late game by deploying overwhelming reanimation spells like Living Death or executing high-power burst damage using Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Lord of Extinction. Evasion from Wonder enables lethal alpha strikes with wide token armies. While resilient against single-target removal and prolonged attrition, the deck relies heavily on its graveyard and possesses limited stack interaction, making it vulnerable to timely graveyard hate and exile sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Disciple of Bolas
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Lord of the Forsaken
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Oath of Ghouls
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery