Teval landfall reanimator by darkfirey

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale leads a high-synergy Sultai landfall and graveyard reanimation strategy. The deck accelerates in the opening turns using efficient mana creatures and land searchers to cast Teval on Turn 3. Starting on Turn 4, Teval attacks to mill cards, return lands directly to the battlefield, and create 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. The deck turns its graveyard into an active resource hub through powerful dredge and retrace cards like Life from the Loam and Six. On Turn 5, it triggers explosive landfall surges using Lumra, Bellow of the Woods or Aftermath Analyst, flooding the battlefield with lands to trigger Field of the Dead, Scute Swarm, and Avenger of Zendikar. It defends its development with cheap interaction like Flare of Denial and flexible removal such as Assassin's Trophy and Culling Ritual. On Turn 6, the deck closes the game with a lethal combat assault powered by Craterhoof Behemoth or an unanswerable mass reanimation via Living Death.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arboreal Grazer
  • 1 Ardyn, the Usurper
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flare of Denial
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sodden Verdure
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spider-Sense
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya Coast
  • 1 Yuna's Decision