1v1 for pod by bud

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This Sultai deck blends graveyard reanimation with land-based value engines under Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan accelerates mana on Turns 1 and 2, casts Teval on Turn 3, and begins self-milling and land ramping on Turn 4. The deck transitions into a lethal win state on Turn 5 by reanimating massive disruptive threats like Razaketh, the Foulblooded, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, or Toxrill, the Corrosive, or resolving Living Death. It closes the game on Turn 6 via Craterhoof Behemoth or an infinite token loop with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar. Backed by a premier interaction suite containing free countermagic, channel lands, and efficient removal, the deck maintains high resilience against opposing interaction and disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Amphibian Downpour
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Echoing Deeps
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Growth Spiral
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotuslight Dancers
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Stargaze
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Tutor
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wash Away
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Winter, Cynical Opportunist
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome