Teval Crafter by user5246756

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Sultai graveyard-landfall value deck built around Teval, the Balanced Scale. Teval's attack trigger mills three and returns a land from the graveyard to the battlefield, while her second trigger converts every card leaving the graveyard into 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. The wider strategy is to fill the graveyard with lands, creatures, and engines, then recur them with Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, The Gitrog Monster, Life from the Loam, and World Shaper. Landfall payoffs such as Tatyova, Benthic Druid, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait, Avenger of Zendikar, and Scute Swarm convert that mana and recursion into an overwhelming board. Wins come from a critical-mass creature swarm finished by Craterhoof Behemoth, Overwhelming Stampede, or Triumph of the Hordes, with Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms as mass-reanimation alternatives. Teval is a strong value engine rather than a required combo piece; the 99 contains several "hidden commanders" that can run the plan without her.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Curse of the Restless Dead
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dryad's Revival
  • 1 Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Herd Heirloom
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overflowing Basin
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Perplex
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast