Landfall by smirnoXx_

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Landfall and Graveyard Midrange strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana with 17+ fetchlands, recurring lands from the graveyard, and generating massive board value through landfall triggers. On early turns, the deck sets up extra land-drop effects using Exploration, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, and Dryad of the Ilysian Grove, while deploying graveyard land-enablers such as Crucible of Worlds and Ramunap Excavator. Teval provides continuous self-mill, land recursion, and 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens upon attacking. The deck transitions into a win on Turns 5–6 using explosive landfall payoffs like Scapeshift, Avenger of Zendikar, Scute Swarm, and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, or by executing an infinite mana loop with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar into Torment of Hailfire. While possessing immense mana velocity, card draw, and engine resilience, the deck runs almost no reactive interaction, leaving it vulnerable to opposing fast combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Ruins
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Auroral Procession
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Crucible of Worlds
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disorienting Choice
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Essence Anchor
  • 1 Eumidian Terrabotanist
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Glarb, Calamity's Augur
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Maze
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Loot, Exuberant Explorer
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mossborn Hydra
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Nissa, Worldsoul Speaker
  • 1 Nyxbloom Ancient
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Realms Uncharted
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Retrieve
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scapeshift
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Scythecat Cub
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starfield Vocalist
  • 1 Sultai Ascendancy
  • 1 Summer Bloom
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Territory Culler
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tifa Lockhart
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Traveling Chocobo
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vibrant Cityscape
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Wrenn and Realmbreaker
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zimone, Mystery Unraveler