Teval by basbas

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Teval, the Balanced Scale leads a Sultai lands and graveyard deck that turns land drops into cards, mana, and tokens. Teval attacks to mill three and return a land tapped while any card leaving the graveyard creates a 2/2 Zombie Druid. The deck stacks extra-land effects (Aesi, Azusa, Exploration, Dryad, Oracle) with landfall payoffs (Tatyova, Lotus Cobra, Nissa, Tireless Provisioner, Scute Swarm, Field of the Dead) and graveyard recursion (Crucible of Worlds, Ramunap Excavator, Glacierwood Siege, Walk-In Closet) to build a wide board. Wins come from Craterhoof Behemoth or Beastmaster Ascension overruns, or grinding with Field of the Dead and Scute Swarm. A four-card Lotus Cobra/Nissa/Springheart Nantuko/Tireless Provisioner loop makes infinite mana and tokens but needs a separate outlet.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Beastmaster Ascension
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cryptolith Rite
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exploration Broodship
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 4 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 2 Snow-Covered Island
  • 2 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titan of Littjara
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Walk-In Closet // Forgotten Cellar
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayward Swordtooth
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zagoth Triome