DeadLands by user6119132

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai midrange strategy that integrates self-mill, graveyard land recursion, and explosive landfall triggers under Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan accelerates mana in the opening turns with ramp spells and extra-land effects, then casts the commander to mill cards and return lands to play while generating Zombie Druid tokens. Midgame engines such as The Gitrog Monster, Life from the Loam, and Ancient Greenwarden build massive card advantage and fill the graveyard with lands. The deck reaches a must-answer state around Turn 6 by resolving mass land-recursion spells like Lumra, Bellow of the Woods or Aftermath Analyst alongside payoff creatures like Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Titania, Nature's Force. This flood of land drops creates an overwhelming army of tokens that closes the game on Turn 7. Abundant creature reanimation and redundant value engines give the deck strong recovery against removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Dryad Arbor
  • 1 Dust Bowl
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overlord of the Hauntwoods
  • 1 Perennial Behemoth
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Silvan Reveler
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Slogurk, the Overslime
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 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 Mending of Dominaria
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titania, Nature's Force
  • 1 Titania, Protector of Argoth
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Wrenn and Seven