Teval by user4418342

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard and landfall midrange deck commanded by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan revolves around filling the graveyard through self-mill engines like Hedron Crab, Ripples of Undeath, and Teval's attack trigger. As lands and creatures enter and leave the graveyard, the deck generates substantial board presence with Zombie tokens from Teval, Field of the Dead, and Tormod, the Desecrator. Mana velocity scales smoothly through land-recursion engines like Life from the Loam, Conduit of Worlds, and The Gitrog Monster. The mid-to-late game converts this resource surplus into game-ending pressure through mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Afterlife from the Loam, or massive token swarms powered by Avenger of Zendikar, Eldrazi Monument, and Wonder. While the deck features outstanding recursive grind and redundancy, it lacks cheap stack interaction, instant-speed protection, and compact infinite combos, making it reliant on untapping with large creature boards.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Afterlife from the Loam
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Avenger of Zendikar
• 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Crawling Sensation
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Death Begets Life
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Eldrazi Monument
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Field of the Dead
• 1 Floral Evoker
• 6 Forest
• 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Harrow
• 1 Hedge Shredder
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 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 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
• 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• 1 Opulent Palace
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Putrefy
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 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 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tatyova, Benthic Druid
• 1 Tear Asunder
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Titans' Nest
• 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Underground Mortuary
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Welcome the Dead
• 1 Will of the Sultai
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Zagoth Triome