teval by Maresvow

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Sultai midrange deck commands the board by merging self-mill, landfall, and graveyard recursion under Teval, the Balanced Scale. Early turns focus on establishing 2-CMC mana ramp and early graveyard setup with cards like Farseek, Sakura-Tribe Elder, and Stitcher's Supplier. Once Teval enters combat on Turn 4, every attack mills cards, accelerates land drops from the graveyard, and generates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The mid-game leverages powerful secondary recursion engines like Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Six, The Gitrog Monster, and Insidious Roots to turn the graveyard into a virtually limitless second hand. The deck transitions into a lethal win on Turn 6 by resolving mass reanimation via Living Death, overwhelming the table with Craterhoof Behemoth, or instantly draining all opponents simultaneously through Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord sacrificing a massive Lord of Extinction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Afterlife from the Loam
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Beacon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Consuming Aberration
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Crawling Sensation
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Disciple of Bolas
• 1 Diviner of Mist
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Floral Evoker
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 6 Forest
• 1 Golgari Rot Farm
• 1 Grapple with the Past
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 4 Island
• 1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
• 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
• 1 Kishla Skimmer
• 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
• 1 Lethal Scheme
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lord of Extinction
• 1 Memorial to Folly
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Millikin
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Necromantic Selection
• 1 Noxious Gearhulk
• 1 Nyx Weaver
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
• 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• 1 Six
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Springbloom Druid
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Turbulent Fen
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Vernal Fen
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Welcome the Dead
• 1 Will of the Sultai
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery