Sultai Arisen by Xensidia

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-landfall strategy commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. It accelerates early mana with green ramp spells and mills cards aggressively through engines like Stitcher's Supplier, Grisly Salvage, and Ripples of Undeath. Teval converts combat attacks into additional land ramp and 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The primary win condition revolves around establishing an overwhelming board state through mass reanimation spells like Living Death or high-impact bombs such as Avenger of Zendikar, Lord of Extinction, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Evasion is provided by Wonder in the graveyard, allowing a wide token and creature army to eliminate the table across two combat steps. While the deck boasts strong functional redundancy, high card velocity, and robust engine recovery, it is vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard hate and carries light counterspell protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Grapple with the Past
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedge Shredder
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 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 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 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 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 River Kelpie
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Satyr Wayfinder
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springbloom Druid
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 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, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Treasure Cruise
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery