TEVAL by Bamboozled

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 67

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Sultai graveyard midrange strategy helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient 1-mana and 2-mana mana dorks such as Delighted Halfling, Birds of Paradise, and Bloom Tender. Once Teval enters combat, each attack fuels self-mill, ramps lands directly from the graveyard, and spawns an army of 2/2 Zombie Druids whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck leverages heavy card advantage engines like The One Ring, Rhystic Study, and Six while disrupting opponents with format-defining free countermagic and removal. Games close rapidly around Turn 5 through two primary win conditions: an Aristocrats loop using Warren Soultrader and Gravecrawler with Zulaport Cutthroat or Syr Konrad, the Grim, or a lethal combat alpha strike powered by Craterhoof Behemoth. Dense recursion ensures high resilience against board wipes and targeted interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diregraf Rebirth
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Echo of Eons
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Forest
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Overlord of the Balemurk
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Winternight Stories
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat