Teval BGU - lands matter, recursion by Baalinor

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai lands-in-graveyard midrange engine led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard with land cards and creature threats through self-mill, then converting those resources into overwhelming board presence and mana advantage. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with green land ramp and low-cost self-mill enablers. Once Teval, the Balanced Scale enters play, attacking triggers a recurring loop: milling cards, returning lands directly to the battlefield tapped, and generating 2/2 Zombie Druid creature tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The midgame compounds this advantage through powerhouse land engines like The Gitrog Monster, Six, and Muldrotha, the Gravetide, drawing cards and establishing board control. The deck closes games by executing a massive land recursion spell like Splendid Reclamation or Aftermath Analyst alongside landfall swarm engines like Scute Swarm or Avenger of Zendikar, culminating in a lethal overrun with Craterhoof Behemoth or flying evasion from Wonder.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pernicious Deed
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Fen
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Waterlogged Grove
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome