Teval, the Afterlife Dragon by zach.mead

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-centric engine led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on rapid mana development on Turns 1 and 2, deploying Teval on Turn 3 to begin milling cards, recovering lands, and generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens. The deck uses the graveyard as an extended hand through pieces like Life from the Loam, Six, and Muldrotha, the Gravetide. Victory is achieved either by assembling a lethal aristocrats loop with Buried Alive finding Gravecrawler, Warren Soultrader, and Zulaport Cutthroat / Mirkwood Bats, or by reanimating Craterhoof Behemoth with Dread Return to overrun the table with Zombie and Plant tokens. The deck exhibits exceptional engine recovery due to low-cost reanimation spells, though it remains vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and must time its combo turns carefully around opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Altar of the Brood
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Beast Within
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Cauldron of Essence
• 1 Cephalid Coliseum
• 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Conduit of Worlds
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Dreamroot Cascade
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Foreboding Landscape
• 4 Forest
• 1 Grapple with the Past
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Hedron Crab
• 1 Hinterland Harbor
• 1 Insidious Roots
• 2 Island
• 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
• 1 Kishla Skimmer
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Malevolent Rumble
• 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Overgrown Tomb
• 1 Perpetual Timepiece
• 1 Persist
• 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Rampant Growth
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reassembling Skeleton
• 1 Rejuvenating Springs
• 1 Ripples of Undeath
• 1 River Kelpie
• 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
• 1 Shifting Woodland
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
• 1 Six
• 1 Skull Prophet
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stitcher's Supplier
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Teval's Judgment
• 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
• 1 The Gitrog Monster
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Three Visits
• 1 Timeless Witness
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Titans' Nest
• 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1 Tortured Existence
• 1 Twilight Diviner
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Undergrowth Stadium
• 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Warren Soultrader
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya Coast
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat