Teval, the Balanced Scale is featured as one of the face commanders in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's Commander precons released alongside Tarkir: Dragonstorm. This guide won't be going over the pre-con, rather, a deck built exclusively with Teval, the Balanced Scale🐎 in mind.

This Sultai (black/green/blue) commander is all 💖about moving cards from the graveyard to generate value. The main way this is done is through self mill to set up your graveyard, followed by various recursion effects to get the cards back while generating tokens. If you like graveyard strategies, Teval, the Balanced Scale is the perfect commander choice for you.

Decklist

The decklist contains 28 creatures, 12 sorceries, seven instants, 12 artifacts, seven enchantments, and 34 lands (one being on the backside🌸 of a sorcery). All the cards either mill yourself, remove cards from the graveyard, or create tok🌸ens from either of those happening.

Key Cards

Teval, The Balanced Scale

What the whole deck is built around, Teval, the Balanced Scale does everything you want the deck to be doing. Teval mills you cards and removes any lands milled while giving you 2/2 Zombie tokens whenever cards leave the graveyard.

Since the cards are put into the graveyard first before leﷺaving with Teval's effect, when you rꦐeturn a land to the battlefield, you will also trigger Teval's second effect to create a 2/2 Zombie.

Teval's effect only triggers for each instant of a card leaving your graveyard. However, this effect is not once per turn. This means you can keep utilizing Teval to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:generate a ton of Zombie tokens, so long as you have ways to remove cards from your graveyard (whic♌h there are plenty of in the deck).

Muldrotha, The Gravetide

Muldrotha, the Gravetide is one of the easiest ways to ensure that you're able to get cards out of your graveyard to trigger Teval and similar effects. It allows you to cast a permanent spell from your graveyard and play lands, also allowing you to make sure you don✅'t lose any valuable p🐼ermanents.

One thing Muldrotha can't use from the graveyard are non-permanent spells. Luckily, the decklist only includes 19 in total, so odds are you'll always be able to cast something from your gꦫraveyard to make sure all your effects are going off.

Gravecrawler

Gravecrawler is a card you can keep casting from your graveyard, so long as you control another Zombie. This makes it a great card to trigger Teval and all 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:effects that create tokens when a card 🦩leaves the graveyard. Gravecrawler isn't once per turn, making it trivial to loop it.

There is an easy infinite combo with Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar that only requires one other Zombie. With Te𒀰val and similar effects, you can create an infinite number of creature tokens to easily run away with the game. This is how the combo works.

Tortured Existence

Tortured Existence is one of the easiest ways to trigger your Teval and similar effects. So long as you have black mana and a creature in your hand and graveyard, you can keep using Tortured🌠 Existence to🅷 generate a ton of tokens at instant speed.

The biggest benefit of Tortured Existence is how easy it makes getting your best creatures back from the graveyard. You don't have to worry ab🃏out any form of removal (outside of ones that exile) as you can return the card from the graveyard to the hand. All of this while triggering your primary permanents.

How To Play The Deck

A Teval, the Balanced Scale Commander deck wants to be self-milling so that your graveyard always has creatures to take out of it, amassing a giant army of creature tokens. Teval, Chalk Outline, Insidious Roots, Desecrated Tomb, and Tormod, the Desecrator all share the effect to create a creaꦺture token when a creature leaves the graveyard, and all act as essential back-up commanders.

You need ways to mill yourself consistently, something best done with permanents. Skull Prop💮het, Molt Tender, and Hedron Crab are all excellent choices that offer some utility. Ripples of Unꦡdeath mills and returns cards from the graveyard, possessing both effects you want your deck to be doing.

Since the deck is so graveyard heavy, it is vital to get permanents onto the battlefield that allow you to use cards from your graveyard. In a Teval deck, your graveyard essentially acts as a second hand, as there are a ton of ways to get any card you want out of it. These cards are the most important, so save your counterspells for protecting them.

The primary win condition of the deck is winning through combat. A Teval deck can make a lot of tokens fast, so you will be able to go wide with an army of tokens that just can't all be blocked. The Gravecrawler infinite combo makes achieving a win even easier, since you'll have an infinite number of tokens to swing out with on your next turn. Even witho﷽ut the infinite, your deck generates a ton of tokens easily with how often you move stuff in and out of the graveyard.

The biggest weakness of the deck is its reliance on card synergies. A lot of cards in the deck need another card to function to their maximum potential. As such, removal can be especially backbreaking if it cuts off your engine. Counterspell♓s can help toꦡ stem to bleeding, as well as being able to recast permanents from your graveyard, but you still need to draw those cards to recover from removal.