Teval by user4066820

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This Sultai deck harnesses Teval, the Balanced Scale to convert land drops, self-mill, and graveyard recursion into an expanding army of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens and rapid mana acceleration. The early game focuses on deploying 2-CMC ramp spells to cast Teval on Turn 3. Starting on Turn 4, Teval's attack triggers mill cards and recur lands directly to the battlefield, generating tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The mid-game leverages massive mana reserves into game-ending landfall bombs such as Scapeshift, Avenger of Zendikar, and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, or mass recursion spells like Living Death. Additionally, the deck incorporates a compact infinite loop with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar, generating infinite mana and tokens with Teval in play. While vulnerable to dedicated graveyard hate and sweepers, redundant recursion engines ensure resilient mid-game rebuilding.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abyssal Harvester
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Barkchannel Pathway // Tidechannel Pathway
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Blackblade Reforged
  • 1 Blossoming Tortoise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Come Back Wrong
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hall of the Bandit Lord
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kenrith's Transformation
  • 1 Khalni Ambush // Khalni Territory
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spore Frog
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorph
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Zagoth Triome