Teval Loop

Teval, the Balanced Scale Commander Deck

Teval, the Balanced Scale drives a self-mill engine, using its attack trigger to fill the graveyard with lands and creatures while generating a steady stream of Zombie Druid tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard through reanimation, replaying, or other graveyard recursion. The deck accelerates land drops aggressively, playing lands from the graveyard through multiple effects and triggering landfall payoffs like token creation and mana production, while Syr Konrad, the Grim converts the constant churn of creatures entering and leaving the graveyard into direct damage across all opponents. The primary win condition is casting Living Death repeatedly — using reanimation and recursion to reload it from the graveyard, resetting boards while returning a stocked graveyard full of creatures to the battlefield and triggering Syr Konrad for lethal damage — with Rhystic Study providing the card advantage to sustain the engine and Cyclonic Rift serving as the deck's reset button when the board gets out of hand.

Decklist

• Field of the Dead
• Misty Rainforest
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Rampant Growth
• Spore Frog
• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Mystic Remora
• Rhystic Study
• Zagoth Triome
• Sidisi, Brood Tyrant
• Negate
• Living Death
• Decree of Pain
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Scute Swarm
• Counterspell
• Verdant Catacombs
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• Heroic Intervention
• Burgeoning
• Phyrexian Altar
• Out of the Tombs
• Altar of Dementia
• Eternal Witness
• Reanimate
• Rejuvenating Springs
• Fellwar Stone
• Azusa, Lost but Seeking
• Nyx Weaver
• Hedge Maze
• Undergrowth Recon
• Golgari Rot Farm
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Polluted Delta
• Victimize
• Shifting Woodland
• Ripples of Undeath
• Dreamroot Cascade
• Tireless Provisioner
• Talisman of Resilience
• Reliquary Tower
• Disorienting Choice
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Cultivate
• Llanowar Wastes
• Hedge Shredder
• Lotus Cobra
• Wastewood Verge
• Yavimaya Coast
• Colossal Grave-Reaver
• Teval's Judgment
• Hedron Crab
• Phyrexian Reclamation
• Timeless Witness
• Kheru Goldkeeper
• Awaken the Honored Dead
• Stitcher's Supplier
• Nature's Lore
• Hinterland Harbor
• Underground River
• Watery Grave
• Breeding Pool
• Farseek
• Evendo, Waking Haven
• Icetill Explorer
• Overgrown Tomb
• Muldrotha, the Gravetide
• Twilight Diviner
• Undergrowth Stadium
• Assassin's Trophy
• Animate Dead
• Culling Ritual
• Fabled Passage
• Woodland Cemetery
• Cyclonic Rift
• Emeritus of Abundance // Regrowth
• Cauldron of Essence
• Mole Man, Moloid Master
• Narset's Reversal
• Three Visits
• Lightning Greaves
• Talisman of Dominance
• Sunken Hollow
• Arcane Signet
• Sol Ring
• 3× Swamp
• 3× Forest
• 2× Island
• Umbral Collar Zealot
• Birds of Paradise
• Fang, Fearless l'Cie
• Neerdiv, Devious Diver
• Moldervine Reclamation