Teval, the Balanced Scale

Gameplan

Teval turns your graveyard into a token engine: mill yourself to fill the yard, then trigger cards leaving your graveyard (reanimation, flashback, escape, recursion) to spit out 2/2 Zombie Druids each time. Attack to mill three and ramp lands back, while building a wide board that you eventually pump or sacrifice for value. You win by going wide with Zombies, grinding inevitability through recursion, or assembling a graveyard-based combo.

Key Cards

• Splendid Reclamation — Returns every land from your graveyard at once, exploding mana and triggering Teval to make a Zombie.
• World Shaper — On death it dumps lands into play and pairs with self-mill, while its leaving the yard fuels Teval.
• Eternal Witness — Returning cards from the yard repeatedly triggers Teval's Zombie maker and rebuys your best spells.
• Muldrotha, the Gravetide — Lets you recur permanents from the yard every turn, generating constant leaves-the-graveyard triggers.
• Altar of Dementia — Sacrifice your Zombie tokens to mill yourself or kill opponents, looping with recursion for a win.
• Stitcher's Supplier — Cheap, repeatable self-mill that fills the yard for Teval and reanimation targets.

Upgrade Path

Add more cheap repeatable self-mill (Stitcher's Supplier, Hedron Crab, Mesmeric Orb) and efficient recursion that triggers Teval multiple times per turn. Lean into a dedicated win condition—either Altar of Dementia mill loops, an Overrun-style finisher like Craterhoof Behemoth, or a reanimation toolbox with big payoffs. Round out with graveyard-hate protection and fast mana to deploy Teval and protect your engine.