A. EL MERO TEVAL by user9306059

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a Sultai graveyard-centric aristocrats and reanimator engine helmed by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The game plan focuses on rapid self-mill and resource accumulation through landfall and leaves-graveyard triggers. Early turns establish mana acceleration using dorks and rocks like Bloom Tender, Lotus Cobra, and Sol Ring, followed by self-mill enablers such as Stitcher's Supplier, Hedron Crab, and Ripples of Undeath. Once Teval, the Balanced Scale attacks, it ramps lands from the graveyard while generating 2/2 Zombie tokens. The deck translates this board presence and deep graveyard into decisive win conditions via mass reanimation with Living Death or repeatable sacrifice loops using Gravecrawler, Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar, and aristocrat drain engines like Zulaport Cutthroat and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Resilient recursion pieces such as Six, Muldrotha, the Gravetide, and low-cost reanimation spells ensure the deck rebuilds effortlessly after sweepers, presenting lethal table-wide drain on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aftermath Analyst
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bloom Tender
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contaminated Aquifer
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreamroot Cascade
  • 1 Drownyard Temple
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midnight Tilling
  • 1 Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Opulent Palace
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Skull Prophet
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Timeless Witness
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Will of the Sultai
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat