teval by CraudioBochecha

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Sultai Landfall and Graveyard engine commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The strategy combines efficient early mana acceleration and self-mill with powerful land-recursion engines like Life from the Loam, Ramunap Excavator, and The Gitrog Monster. On turn 4, Teval attacks to ramp lands from the graveyard and generate Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck pivots into a decisive win on turns 5 and 6 by resolving massive land-return effects like Splendid Reclamation or Lumra, Bellow of the Woods to create dozens of tokens with Scute Swarm and Field of the Dead, or by reanimating game-dominating Praetors such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur. It also possesses an infinite combo finish through Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar backed by death drains. While light on stack countermagic, its extreme recursion and resource generation overwhelm interactive tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acererak the Archlich
  • 1 Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • 1 Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Haunted Mire
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Nissa, Resurgent Animist
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Oracle of Mul Daya
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return of the Mole Man
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splendid Reclamation
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Yarok, the Desecrated
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zagoth Triome
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat