Sultai Arisen Modified Precon by walzzer

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale and focuses on self-mill, land recursion, and graveyard value engines. The early game establishes mana development through green land search and cheap self-mill enablers like Hermit Druid and Mesmeric Orb. Once Teval is deployed on Turn 4, every attack mills cards, ramps lands directly from the graveyard, and creates 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. Mid-game turns leverage synergies where cards leaving the graveyard trigger payoffs like Tormod, the Desecrator, Kheru Goldkeeper, and Teval's Judgment. The deck closes games around Turn 8 through mass reanimation spells like Living Death, wide combat damage from Avenger of Zendikar, or passive life drain from Syr Konrad, the Grim. While resilient against single-target removal due to extensive recursion, it requires careful navigation around graveyard exile and board sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Binding the Old Gods
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Botanical Sanctum
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Curse of the Swine
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drown in Filth
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Flooded Grove
  • 1 Forbid
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Glacierwood Siege
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hermit Druid
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Skimmer
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Life // Death
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mesmeric Orb
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necromantic Selection
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Return to Nature
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, Arbiter of Virtue
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery