Teval Retool by Thockwi

Format: Commander

Commander: Teval, the Balanced Scale

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This Sultai deck is an engine-driven graveyard and lands midrange strategy led by Teval, the Balanced Scale. The deck focuses on filling the graveyard through self-mill creatures and dredge spells like Life from the Loam and Dakmor Salvage. Teval turns graveyard interactions into ramp and board presence by returning lands to play and generating 2/2 Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard. The deck compounds this board advantage with token engines such as Field of the Dead, Insidious Roots, and Scute Swarm. Once a wide board is established by Turn 5 or 6, the deck accesses game-ending finishers like Craterhoof Behemoth directly through creature tutors such as Finale of Devastation and Green Sun's Zenith or through efficient reanimation. With high redundancy, deep card flow, and resilient backup engines, the deck reliably pivots into an overwhelming combat overrun.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Analyze the Pollen
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awaken the Honored Dead
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Breeding Pool
  • 1 Brokers Hideout
  • 1 Cabaretti Courtyard
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Dakmor Salvage
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Evendo, Waking Haven
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Festering Thicket
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Foreboding Landscape
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Great Arashin City
  • 1 Green Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Grolnok, the Omnivore
  • 1 Hedron Crab
  • 1 Heritage Reclamation
  • 1 Hinterland Harbor
  • 1 Horizon Explorer
  • 1 Icetill Explorer
  • 1 Insidious Roots
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Kheru Goldkeeper
  • 1 Kishla Village
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Life from the Loam
  • 1 Maestros Theater
  • 1 Masked Vandal
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Millikin
  • 1 Molt Tender
  • 1 Naga Fleshcrafter
  • 1 Nature's Rhythm
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Obscura Storefront
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Polluted Cistern // Dim Oubliette
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rain-Slicked Copse
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
  • 1 Singularity Rupture
  • 1 Six
  • 1 Smuggler's Surprise
  • 1 Snow-Covered Forest
  • 1 Snow-Covered Island
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Summon: Titan
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teval's Judgment
  • 1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The Mycotyrant
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Titans' Nest
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Traverse the Ulvenwald
  • 1 Underrealm Lich
  • 1 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery