Teval, the Balanced Scale Optimized by MikeMilling11

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is a high-powered competitive Commander (cEDH) shell focused on executing lightning-fast, compact combo finishes while leveraging efficient interaction and card advantage. Built around the premier format win condition of Thassa's Oracle combined with Demonic Consultation, the deck can reliably threaten a game-ending stack on Turn 3. It features dense fast mana (Dark Ritual, Chrome Mox, Sol Ring, Lotus Petal) and an exhaustive tutor package (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Imperial Seal, Wishclaw Talisman) to eliminate variance. Secondary win lines like Witherbloom Apprentice plus Chain of Smog, Food Chain creature loops, and raw advantage engines like Ad Nauseam, Peer into the Abyss, and The One Ring provide robust redundancy. Backed by free counterspells like Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Pact of Negation, the deck defends its combo windows while actively disrupting opponents with Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carpet of Flowers
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elvish Spirit Guide
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Misthollow Griffin
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muddle the Mixture
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Neoform
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Rejuvenating Springs
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Summoner's Pact
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Worldly Tutor