teval the zombie king by thedevil613

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 90

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive Sultai combo list built for cEDH. It leverages explosive mana acceleration and efficient tutors to assemble compact, game-ending combinations as early as Turn 2 or 3. The primary win condition is Thassa's Oracle combined with Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact, which wins immediately by emptying the library. As a backup, the deck runs the two-card infinite combo of Witherbloom Apprentice and Chain of Smog, as well as Laboratory Maniac and reanimation lines. Teval, the Balanced Scale provides card advantage, land recursion, and token generation in the command zone during longer games, but the deck functions completely independently of its commander. Robust card engines like Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, and The One Ring fuel the hand, while an elite interaction package featuring Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Veil of Summer protects combo turns and disrupts opponents at minimal mana cost.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Banishing Knack
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Borne Upon a Wind
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chain of Smog
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gaea's Cradle
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gilt-Leaf Archdruid
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Laboratory Maniac
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Oboro Breezecaller
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tropical Island
  • 1 Tyvar, Jubilant Brawler
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Valley Floodcaller
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat