Teval V3.0 by Jmdt784

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale leads a resilient Sultai graveyard and landfall midrange deck that blends self-mill, land recursion, token production, and reanimation. The primary strategy accelerates early mana through green ramp and utility creatures, resolving Teval on Turn 3 to begin attacking on Turn 4. Each attack mills cards, recurs lands, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck compounds this board presence with powerhouses like Field of the Dead, Insidious Roots, and The Gitrog Monster, rapidly filling both the battlefield and the graveyard. Access to utility lands via Crop Rotation, Elvish Reclaimer, and Wight of the Reliquary allows consistent assembly of Dark Depths and Thespian's Stage or Strip Mine locks. The deck transitions into a lethal clock around Turn 6-7 using Craterhoof Behemoth, Awakening Hall mass reanimation, or Syr Konrad drain, supported by Sylvan Safekeeper and efficient removal like Assassin's Trophy and Deadly Rollick.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Champion of Lambholt
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Elvish Reclaimer
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pollywog Prodigy
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zagoth Triome