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Teval, the Balanced Scale

Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · {1}{B}{G}{U} · Black/Green/Blue commander

Flying Whenever Teval attacks, mill three cards. Then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.

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What Teval, the Balanced Scale actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · attackWhenever Teval attacks, mill three cards. Then you may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
• Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature token.
• Keyword · flyingflying

What a Teval, the Balanced Scale deck needs

Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• land ramp, extra land drops and landfall payoffs (its text counts or triggers on lands)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)
• token payoffs — anthems, sacrifice outlets and go-wide finishers (it makes tokens on repeat)
• cards leaving your graveyard — flashback, escape, delve and reanimation (each one triggers it)
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Teval, the Balanced Scale deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 16× Put a land onto the battlefield — for a landfall commander this triggers where a normal land drop does not
• 10× A spell you cast from outside your hand — flashback, foretell, escape, adventure, cascade, plot and their kin
• 6× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 4× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 12× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 4× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs

Best cards for Teval, the Balanced Scale

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Combos with Teval, the Balanced Scale

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Teval, the Balanced Scale is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar5,530 decks
• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton1,150 decks
• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Beifong's Bounty Hunters + Altar Of Dementia631 decks
• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Tortured Existence + Pitiless Plunderer + Altar Of Dementia627 decks
• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Titans' Nest + Embalmer's Tools622 decks
• Teval, the Balanced Scale + Beifong's Bounty Hunters + Phyrexian Altar505 decks

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