Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale Commander Deck
Teval, the Balanced Scale drives a self-mill and opponent mill strategy simultaneously, filling graveyards through attacks, landfall triggers, and draw-step payoffs while converting milled lands into free battlefield plays to maintain mana advantage. The graveyard becomes a resource hub fueling recursive threats, graveyard-power creatures, and reanimation effects, with Teval's second triggered ability generating a steady stream of Zombie tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard through recursion or exile. The deck wins through mill-doubling combos centered on Fraying Sanity paired with mass mill spells like Traumatize or Maddening Cacophony, or by grinding opponents out with Consuming Aberration and similar threats that grow as graveyards fill.
Decklist
- Teferi's Tutelage
- Hell's Caretaker
- Startled Awake // Persistent Nightmare
- Fraying Sanity
- Frantic Search
- Jace, Wielder of Mysteries
- Jace, Memory Adept
- Traumatize
- Sphinx's Tutelage
- Sidisi, Undead Vizier
- Dark Ritual
- Psychic Corrosion
- Fleet Swallower
- Havengul Lich
- Mirko Vosk, Mind Drinker
- Sadistic Sacrament
- Ruin Crab
- Maddening Cacophony
- Court of Cunning
- Tasha's Hideous Laughter
- Nemesis of Reason
- Jace, the Perfected Mind
- Breach the Multiverse
- Brawn
- Cruel Somnophage // Can't Wake Up
- Archive Trap
- Archway of Innovation
- Barrowgoyf
- Liliana, Death's Majesty
- Hazel's Nocturne
- Grisly Salvage
- The Mindskinner
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Deadbridge Chant
- Rampant Growth
- Eaten by Piranhas
- Riverchurn Monument
- Ponder
- Colossal Grave-Reaver
- Diviner of Mist
- Will of the Sultai
- Contaminated Aquifer
- Consuming Aberration
- Crypt of Agadeem
- Foreboding Landscape
- Grapple with the Past
- Hedron Crab
- Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
- Lord of Extinction
- Putrefy
- Fetid Pools
- Memorial to Folly
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Wonder
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Singularity Rupture
- Thought Scour
- Superior Spider-Man
- Altar of the Brood
- Muldrotha, the Gravetide
- Golgari Rot Farm
- Opulent Palace
- Splinter's Technique
- Sunken Hollow
- Dreamroot Cascade
- Command Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Sol Ring
- Exotic Orchard
- Terramorphic Expanse
- Hinterland Harbor
- Millikin
- Woodland Cemetery
- Temple of Malady
- Haunted Mire
- The Wise Mothman
- Spider-Sense
- 6× Forest
- 6× Island
- 6× Swamp
- Kotis, Sibsig Champion
- Murder
- Dispel
- Brush Off