Teval Upgraded by tizz44

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard and landfall midrange strategy centered around Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan combines efficient early self-mill with land ramp to fill the graveyard with utility lands, massive threats, and recursion enablers. Once Teval hits the battlefield, attacking triggers self-mill and returns lands directly to play, triggering Teval to create 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck compounds this advantage through redundant engines like The Gitrog Monster, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, and Field of the Dead, continuously generating mana velocity and board presence. It reaches a decisive state around Turn 6 by resolving mass recursion like Living Death, creating overwhelming evasive token swarms with Wonder and Pathbreaker Ibex, or draining the table using Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Syr Konrad, the Grim, and Mirkwood Bats. It boasts exceptional resilience against targeted removal and board wipes because the graveyard serves as an accessible second hand.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Augmenter Pugilist // Echoing Equation
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Geralf, the Fleshwright
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Junk Winder
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Mask of Memory
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Nephalia Drownyard
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Pathbreaker Ibex
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Sivriss, Nightmare Speaker
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Caryatid
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Vona's Hunger
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery