Sultai Arise by user1230687

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard and landfall midrange engine commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana early, stocking the graveyard through consistent self-mill, and leveraging Teval's attack trigger to ramp lands while creating an army of 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck features layered recursion through cards like Six, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and Conduit of Worlds, ensuring that every milled card acts as an extension of your hand. Mid-game setups transition into explosive game-ending turns via mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Afterlife from the Loam, or direct table drain using Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Supported by efficient interaction and landfall payoffs such as The Gitrog Monster and Avenger of Zendikar, the deck maintains steady board presence, resilience against removal, and reliable win lines.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery