Teval, the Balanced Scale [Commander{top}]
Teval, the Balanced Scale [Commander{top}] Commander Deck
Teval, the Balanced Scale rewards filling the graveyard and casting spells from it, so the deck aggressively self-mills through dedicated creatures and spells to stock the graveyard while using landfall triggers and sacrifice outlets to generate value and fuel recursive engines. A constellation of recursion pieces — most notably Muldrotha, the Gravetide — allows the deck to replay permanents from the graveyard turn after turn, maintaining card advantage and board presence while draining opponents with Syr Konrad, the Grim as creatures constantly enter and leave the graveyard. The deck wins by grinding opponents down through recursive loops, life drain, and finally threatening lethal damage with massive finishers that grow proportionally to the number of cards across all graveyards.
Decklist
- Altar of Bhaal
- Araumi of the Dead Tide [Recursion]
- Arcane Signet [Ramp]
- Avenger of Zendikar [Landfall]
- Bad River [Land]
- Barren Moor [Land]
- Beast Within [Removal]
- Blighted Woodland [Land]
- Buried Alive [Tutor]
- Cephalid Coliseum [Land]
- Colossal Grave-Reaver [Recursion]
- Command Beacon [Land]
- Command Tower [Land]
- Conduit of Worlds [Recursion]
- Crux of Fate [Removal]
- Crypt of Agadeem [Land]
- Darkwater Catacombs [Land]
- Dread Return [Recursion]
- Dreamroot Cascade [Land]
- Drownyard Temple [Land]
- Earthshaker Giant [Finisher]
- Eternal Witness [Recursion]
- Exotic Orchard [Land]
- Farseek [Ramp]
- Fetid Pools [Land]
- Foreboding Landscape [Land]
- 5× Forest [Land]
- Glacierwood Siege [Recursion]
- Glowspore Shaman [Mill]
- Golgari Rot Farm [Land]
- Golgari Thug [Mill]
- Grapple with the Past [Mill]
- Grave Titan [Tokens]
- Gravecrawler [Recursion]
- Harrow [Ramp]
- Hedron Crab [Mill]
- High Market [Land]
- Hinterland Harbor [Land]
- Insidious Roots [Ramp]
- 3× Island [Land]
- Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord [Sac Outlet]
- Kishla Skimmer [Draw]
- Kotis, Sibsig Champion [Recursion]
- Lethal Scheme [Removal]
- Life from the Loam [Recursion]
- Living Death [Recursion]
- Llanowar Wastes [Land]
- Lord of Extinction [Finisher]
- Lotuslight Dancers [Tutor]
- Maelstrom Pulse [Removal]
- Memorial to Folly [Land]
- Meren of Clan Nel Toth [Recursion]
- Mirkwood Bats [Drain]
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide [Recursion]
- Myriad Landscape [Land]
- Noxious Gearhulk [Removal]
- Ob Nixilis, the Fallen [Landfall]
- Old Stickfingers [Mill]
- Opulent Palace [Land]
- Phyrexian Reclamation [Recursion]
- Putrefy [Removal]
- Rampant Growth [Ramp]
- Ripples of Undeath [Mill]
- Sakura-Tribe Elder [Ramp]
- Shigeki, Jukai Visionary [Ramp]
- Sidisi, Brood Tyrant [Mill]
- Skull Prophet [Ramp]
- Sol Ring [Ramp]
- Springbloom Druid [Ramp]
- Stitcher's Supplier [Mill]
- Sunken Hollow [Land]
- 6× Swamp [Land]
- Syr Konrad, the Grim [Drain]
- Tatyova, Benthic Druid [Draw]
- Tear Asunder [Removal]
- Terramorphic Expanse [Land]
- Teval's Judgment [Draw]
- The Gitrog Monster [Draw]
- Timeless Witness [Recursion]
- Titans' Nest [Ramp]
- Tormod, the Desecrator [Tokens]
- Victimize [Recursion]
- Wight of the Reliquary [Ramp]
- Will of the Sultai [Ramp]
- Woe Strider [Sac Outlet]
- Wonder [Evasion]
- Woodland Cemetery [Land]
- Yahenni, Undying Partisan [Sac Outlet]