Teval, the Balanced Scale — Commander art

Teval v2

Teval, the Balanced Scale Commander Deck

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Teval is a Sultai graveyard-value deck. It mills itself relentlessly, then turns every card leaving the graveyard into value: Zombie tokens from Teval, plus cards, Treasure, Plants and drain from a suite of leave-the-graveyard payoffs. Lands are the main fuel. Teval's attack trigger, lands played from the graveyard and mass land returns keep cards flowing out of the yard. That triggers landfall and token engines, while reanimation and recursion bring back the big threats the self-mill dumps there. How it wins: It builds an overwhelming board of tokens and recurred threats, then closes with an alpha strike pumped by Craterhoof Behemoth or Mossborn Hydra's growth, backed by sacrifice drains from Jarad and Syr Konrad's pings. Key roles: - Self-mill fuel: Attack triggers, enter-the-battlefield mills, upkeep mills and dredge stock the graveyard with lands and creatures for Teval and the recursion suite to exploit (Hedron Crab, Ripples of Undeath, Golgari Grave-Troll). - Leave-the-graveyard payoffs: Alongside Teval's Zombies, these cards convert every exile, reanimation or land replay into card draw, Treasure, tokens or damage, so ordinary recursion becomes an engine (Teval's Judgment, Kheru Goldkeeper, Syr Konrad, the Grim). - Lands from the graveyard and landfall: Extra land drops and playing or mass-returning lands from the yard keep pulling cards out of the graveyard. Each land drop also fuels landfall draws, tokens, mills and Bloodghast (Mole Man, Moloid Master, Aftermath Analyst, Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait). - Reanimation and recasting: Milled creatures come back to the battlefield or get recast from the graveyard, cheating out big threats and retriggering leave-the-graveyard payoffs (Muldrotha, the Gravetide, Colossal Grave-Reaver, Living Death). - Sacrifice outlets and drain: Spare tokens and creatures are sacrificed to fetch lands, mill further or drain opponents, while Cauldron of Essence pings on each death (Altar of Dementia, Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord, Cauldron of Essence). - Token army finishers: The wide board of Zombies, Plants and Moloids gets turned lethal through a mass pump, an evasion grant or one huge landfall-scaled attacker (Craterhoof Behemoth, Wonder, Mossborn Hydra).

Teval v2 decklist

  • Deathrite Shaman
  • Aftermath Analyst
  • Golgari Rot Farm
  • Bloodghast
  • Victimize
  • Life from the Loam
  • Evolving Wilds
  • Shifting Woodland
  • Malevolent Rumble
  • Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • Altar of Dementia
  • Lightning Greaves
  • Three Visits
  • Awaken the Honored Dead
  • Undergrowth Stadium
  • Colossal Grave-Reaver
  • Tortured Existence
  • Mistrise Village
  • Kheru Goldkeeper
  • Sylvan Safekeeper
  • Petrified Field
  • Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
  • Swallowed by Leviathan
  • Spymaster's Vault
  • Wight of the Reliquary
  • 4× Swamp
  • Turbulent Fen
  • Bonny Pall, Clearcutter
  • Origin of Metalbending
  • Nyx Weaver
  • Hedge Shredder
  • Breeding Pool
  • Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
  • Elixir of Immortality
  • Teval's Judgment
  • Sol Ring
  • Dread Return
  • Undercity Sewers
  • Fabled Passage
  • Fountainport
  • Zagoth Triome
  • Field of the Dead
  • Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
  • Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • Lotus Vale
  • Conduit of Worlds
  • Command Tower
  • Spelunking
  • Will of the Sultai
  • Kishla Skimmer
  • Eternal Witness
  • Smuggler's Surprise
  • Wonder
  • Six
  • Tear Asunder
  • Ripples of Undeath
  • Reanimate
  • Insidious Roots
  • Living Death
  • Wastewood Verge
  • Zuran Orb
  • 4× Island
  • 4× Forest
  • Hedron Crab
  • Assassin's Trophy
  • Azusa, Lost but Seeking
  • Arcane Signet
  • Maze of Ith
  • Boseiju, Who Endures
  • Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • Watery Grave
  • Underground Mortuary
  • Turbulent Wilderness
  • Dimir Aqueduct
  • Sodden Verdure
  • Cauldron of Essence
  • Death Begets Life
  • Kagha, Shadow Archdruid
  • Golgari Grave-Troll
  • The Scarab God
  • Mossborn Hydra
  • Muldrotha, the Gravetide
  • Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • Craterhoof Behemoth
  • The Gitrog Monster
  • Avenger of Zendikar
  • Ardyn, the Usurper
  • Massacre Wurm
  • Noxious Gearhulk
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