Teval by Eragon99

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Sultai deck helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale leverages self-mill, land recursion, and graveyard reanimation to create overwhelming board states and explosive combo finishes. In the early turns, the deck accelerates mana with low-cost ramp and dorks to deploy Teval on Turn 3. Attacking with Teval on Turn 4 mills cards, ramps lands directly from the graveyard to the battlefield tapped, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. The deck utilizes the stocked graveyard as an extended hand via Six, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and reanimation spells. The primary win condition executes on Turn 5 by casting Buried Alive to place Lord of Extinction and Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord into the graveyard, reanimating them with Victimize, and activating Jarad to sacrifice Lord of Extinction for 40+ direct life loss to each opponent. Secondary paths involve Syr Konrad, the Grim drain loops, Field of the Dead zombie swarms with Wonder, and Glacial Chasm stalling.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dig Up
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of Extinction
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Marwyn, the Preserver
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Paramecia Coloniex
  • 1 Perpetual Timepiece
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Something Worth Saving
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Curiosity
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Theorix Charm
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery