Art by Chris Rahn
Commander deckBGU
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Fill the graveyard with lands and value pieces through self-mill, attack with Teval to ramp lands directly to the battlefield, and trigger massive token generation and landfall payouts as cards repeatedly leave your graveyard.
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Deck anatomy
What this list actually runs on: how cheaply it casts things, and whether it has enough ramp, card draw and interaction to keep up at the table. Each block is one card — hover for its name.
Mana curve · 62 nonland cards
The working parts
Counted from Scryfall’s community card tags, not from the builder’s own labels. A card that does two jobs counts twice, so these add up to more than the deck. The hatched band is a common rule of thumb, not a law — combo decks run leaner, battlecruiser decks heavier.
Colored mana symbols
Commander
1Teval, the Balanced Scale
1BGULegendary Creature — Spirit Dragon
Chosen commander for the requested strategy.
Ramp
10
Sakura-Tribe Elder
1GCreature — Snake Shaman
sacrifices to ramp and puts a card in the graveyard
Springbloom Druid
2GCreature — Elf Druid
puts a land in the graveyard while ramping two basics
Card Draw
10
Greater Good
2GGEnchantment
draws massive cards sacrificing big threats and fuels the graveyard
Fact or Fiction
3UInstant
instant speed digging that dumps cards directly into graveyard
Frantic Search
2UInstant
free card selection that discards lands into the graveyard
Grisly Salvage
BGInstant
digs five deep for a creature or land and mills the rest
Winding Way
1GSorcery
draws multiple lands or creatures while dumping fuel into the yard
Grapple with the Past
1GInstant
mills three and retrieves any creature or land, triggering Teval
Life from the Loam
1GSorcery
reusable land recursion engine that fuels dredge every turn
Morbid Opportunist
2BCreature — Human Rogue
steady card draw from token and creature deaths
Removal
10
Abrupt Decay
BGInstant
uncounterable removal for early threats and utility permanents
Tear Asunder
1GInstant
exiles problem artifacts or enchantments with kicker flexibility
Rapid Hybridization
UInstant
cheap instant answer to high-threat opposing commanders
Culling Ritual
2BGSorcery
sweeps low-cost permanents and generates explosive mana
Binding the Old Gods
2BGEnchantment — Saga
destroys a permanent, ramps a typed land, and gives deathtouch
Threats/Wincons
24
Ramunap Excavator
2GCreature — Snake Cleric
replays milled lands from the graveyard
Conduit of Worlds
2GGArtifact
replays lands and casts permanents from the graveyard
Six
2GLegendary Creature — Treefolk
mills on attack and gives nonland cards retrace to trigger Teval
The Mending of Dominaria
3GGEnchantment — Saga
mills, retrieves creatures, and mass recurs lands
Titania, Protector of Argoth
3GGLegendary Creature — Elemental
rewards land sacrifice with 5/3 Elementals and recurs a land
Tatyova, Benthic Druid
3GULegendary Creature — Merfolk Druid
draws cards and gains life off Teval's land recursion
Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait
4GULegendary Creature — Serpent
grants extra land drops and massive card draw on landfall
Tireless Provisioner
2GCreature — Elf Scout
creates Food or Treasure tokens on every land entry
Tireless Tracker
2GCreature — Human Scout
turns land recursion into Clue tokens and grows tall
Syr Konrad, the Grim
3BBLegendary Creature — Human Knight
pumps out direct damage when creatures mill or leave the graveyard
Avenger of Zendikar
5GGCreature — Elemental
classic lands win condition that grows an army quickly
Rampaging Baloths
4GGCreature — Beast
creates 4/4 Beast tokens whenever lands enter
Aftermath Analyst
1GCreature — Elf Detective
mills early and mass recurs all lands from graveyard
Splendid Reclamation
3GSorcery
returns every milled land to the battlefield at once
World Shaper
3GCreature — Merfolk Shaman
mills on attack and returns all lands on death
Centaur Vinecrasher
3GCreature — Plant Centaur
grows huge from graveyard lands and recurs itself repeatedly
Wight of the Reliquary
BGCreature — Zombie Knight
sacrifices tokens to tutor any land straight into play
Slogurk, the Overslime
1GULegendary Creature — Ooze
grows from lands hitting graveyard and bounces to recur them
The Gitrog Monster
3BGLegendary Creature — Frog Horror
engine that draws cards off lands entering graveyard and extra drops
Old Stickfingers
XBGLegendary Creature — Horror
scalable creature tutor to graveyard that grows massive
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
BBGGLegendary Creature — Zombie Elf
grows from full graveyard and flings large creatures to finish opponents
Lord of Extinction
3BGCreature — Elemental
massive threat fueled by loaded graveyards
Spelunking
2GEnchantment
makes lands returned tapped by Teval enter untapped instead
Utility
8
Swiftfoot Boots
2Artifact — Equipment
protects Teval and grants haste to attack immediately
Lightning Greaves
2Artifact — Equipment
free equip haste and shroud for commander attacks
Eternal Witness
1GGCreature — Human Shaman
returns any essential card from graveyard to trigger Teval
Dread Return
2BBSorcery
reanimates a bomb threat and flashes back using Zombie tokens
Mesmeric Orb
2Artifact
continuous symmetrical mill engine that rapidly fills your graveyard
Perpetual Timepiece
2Artifact
tap to self-mill and provides emergency graveyard shuffle protection
Underrealm Lich
3BGCreature — Zombie Elf Shaman
replaces card draws with selective card digging and heavy milling
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
1GLegendary Enchantment Creature — Snake Druid
early ramp that bounces and channels for late-game mass card recursion
