Horrors and Zombies and Dragons, Sultai by user9008670

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-centric engine that converts self-mill and sacrifice loops into overwhelming board presence and resource denial. Commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale, the deck uses Teval's attack trigger to mill cards and return lands directly from the graveyard to the battlefield, triggering Teval's ability to create 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The list pairs this engine with recursive creatures like Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, and Nether Traitor to feed aristocrat sacrifice outlets such as Phyrexian Altar and Priest of Forgotten Gods. Opponents face persistent attrition from Grave Pact, Savra, Queen of the Golgari, and Mana Breach, which punish opposing spellcasting while Teval easily recovers lands. The game closes through life-drain engines like Syr Konrad, the Grim and Ayara, First of Locthwain or an evasive token overrun facilitated by Wonder.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Evolution Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fiend Artisan
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gardenize
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hydro-Man, Fluid Felon
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Immoral Bargain
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Mana Breach
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Moonshadow
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pick Your Poison
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reef Worm
  • 1 Savra, Queen of the Golgari
  • 1 Seal of Primordium
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spell Snare
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teacher's Pest
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Dross Pits
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Turbulent Wilderness
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Witness Protection
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zimone and Dina