Teval Grave Mog by user6945955

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai Graveyard Reanimator strategy piloted by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on filling the graveyard quickly through self-mill, discard, and targeted creature tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive. Once big threats are in the graveyard, the deck uses efficient reanimation spells such as Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, and Living Death to cheat massive, game-warping creatures into play ahead of curve. Key reanimation targets like Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater strip opponents of cards and mana while Teval, the Balanced Scale generates extra land drops and an army of 2/2 Zombie tokens. The deck features strong engine recovery and runs independently of its commander. While it possesses powerful removal and creature locks, its reliance on the graveyard leaves it open to targeted graveyard exile and fast non-creature combo decks.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Astral Cornucopia
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conduit of Worlds
  • 1 Crawling Infestation
  • 1 Crawling Sensation
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Diviner of Mist
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Emperor of Bones
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flayer of Loyalties
  • 1 Floral Evoker
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fraying Sanity
  • 1 Gemstone Mine
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kishla Trawlers
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Nyx Weaver
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plea for Power
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steward of the Harvest
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Cruelty of Gix
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traumatize
  • 1 Ulamog, the Defiler
  • 1 Underworld Connections
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Winternight Stories