Teval likes to play with lands by MobComplex

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard and landfall midrange deck commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan combines efficient self-mill with land recursion and token generation. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost ramp spells and milling key cards into the graveyard. Once Teval hits the battlefield, attacking triggers land recursion and generates Zombie Druid tokens while activating card-advantage engines like Kishla Skimmer and The Gitrog Monster. The mid-game accelerates into explosive turns where cards like Will of the Sultai or Aftermath Analyst return all milled lands to the battlefield at once. This triggers massive landfall surges from Scute Swarm, Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer, and Avenger of Zendikar. The deck protects its board with Sylvan Safekeeper and cheap counterspells before finishing opponents with an evasive swarm powered by Wonder or an overrun attack with Craterhoof Behemoth.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farseek
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lignify
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temporal Trespass
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome