Card
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Mana cost {1}{B}{G}{U}
Legendary Creature — Spirit Dragon 4/4
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 170 known combos. 1 official ruling.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · TDC · #8
- Cheapest printing
- €6.21
- EDHREC salt
- 0.60
- Color identity
- Black, Green, Blue
- Keywords
- Flying, Mill
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
170 known combos.
- Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Teval, the Balanced Scale
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Teval, the Balanced Scale
Produces: Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Beifong's Bounty Hunters + Altar of Dementia + Teval, the Balanced Scale
Produces: Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-04-04 · Wizards of the Coast
If multiple cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Teval’s last ability will trigger only once.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast