Teval, the Balanced Scale 
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon · Tarkir: Dragonstorm 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.
Plays well with: Tokens, Graveyard, Combat, Value engine, Recursion
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📖 How to build Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale is a four-mana Sultai Legendary Creature, Spirit Dragon with flying. Whenever it attacks, you mill three cards and may return a land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Whenever one or more cards leave your graveyard, you create a 2/2 black Zombie Druid token. The game plan is to attack in the air, fill your graveyard, recur lands, and build a growing army of Zombie Druid tokens.
Build around cards that ramp you into Teval early and that move cards out of your graveyard, since each of those events can trigger the token ability. The popular list offers ramp such as Birds of Paradise, Cultivate, Farseek, Kodama's Reach, Nature's Lore, Rampant Growth, and Three Visits, and Dark Ritual can provide a quick burst of mana. Counterspell and Beast Within can help protect your board or answer threats.
Teval is a single flying creature, so removal on it shuts down the whole plan. Its token trigger only works when cards leave your graveyard, so a deck with little recursion or graveyard movement will get less value from it. The mill is self-inflicted, and the land return is optional, so you should weigh whether milling helps your strategy. Its three-color cost also requires Sultai mana to cast.
Deck guide written with AI assistance based on the card's rules text.
🔗 Tokens synergy
$38.75
$12.92
$0.33
$33.22
$3.81
$3.25
$3.60
$1.71🔗 Graveyard synergy
$1.39
$10.31
$1.87
$1.59
$1.38
$0.41
$7.40
$12.27🔗 Combat synergy
$0.58
$0.39
$0.55
$7.25
$41.29
$10.18
$0.76
$12.74🧩 Top staples for this deck
✔️ Auto-includes (you probably already run these): Sol Ring, Command Tower, Arcane Signet, Exotic Orchard, Reliquary Tower, Swiftfoot Boots, Lightning Greaves, Path of Ancestry.
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$33.79🪙 Budget picks (under $2€2)
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