Sultai Arisen deck

From Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander set

Format: Commander

Teval, the Balanced Scale

Teval, the Balanced Scale

Creatures 37

1 Amphin Mutineer
Amphin Mutineer

Creature — Salamander Pirate

3/3

When this creature enters, exile up to one target non-Salamander creature. That creature's controller creates a 4/3 blue Salamander Warrior creature token.
Encore ( , Exile this card from your graveyard: For each opponent, create a token copy that attacks that opponent this turn if able. They gain haste. Sacrifice them at the beginning of the next end step. Activate only as a sorcery.)
If an effect stops a token from attacking a specific player, that token can attack any player, planeswalker, or battle, or not attack at all. If the effect stops the token from attacking a specific player unless a cost is paid, you don't have to pay that cost unless you want to attack that player.

Exiling the card with encore is a cost to activate the ability. Once you announce that you're activating it, no player may take actions until you've finished. They can't try to remove the card from your graveyard to stop you from paying the cost.

Opponents who have left the game aren't counted when determining how many tokens to create.

The tokens copy only what's on the original card. Effects that modified that creature when it was previously on the battlefield won't be copied.

If the target non-Salamander creature is an illegal target by the time Amphin Mutineer's ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn't resolve. No player creates a Salamander Warrior token.

If one of the tokens can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, you aren't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.

If one of the tokens somehow is under another player's control as the delayed triggered ability resolves, you can't sacrifice that token. It remains on the battlefield indefinitely, even if you regain control of it later.

Each token must attack the appropriate player if able.
1 Avenger of Zendikar
Avenger of Zendikar

Creature — Elemental

5/5

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 green Plant creature token for each land you control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may put a +1/+1 counter on each Plant creature you control.
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.

A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
1 Colossal Grave-Reaver
Colossal Grave-Reaver

Creature — Dragon

7/6

Flying
Whenever this creature enters or attacks, mill three cards.
Whenever one or more creature cards are put into your graveyard from your library, put one of them onto the battlefield.
All three of the milled cards are put into your graveyard at the same time. If there is more than one creature card among those cards, the last ability triggers only once.
1 Consuming Aberration
Consuming Aberration

Creature — Horror

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Consuming Aberration's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in your opponents' graveyards.
Whenever you cast a spell, each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a land card, then puts those cards into their graveyard.
The ability that defines Consuming Aberration's power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield.

An ability that triggers when a player casts a spell resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered or otherwise leaves the stack without resolving.

If an opponent has no land cards in their library, all the cards from that library will be revealed and put into their graveyard.
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
Dauthi Voidwalker

Creature — Dauthi Rogue

3/2

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)
If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it.
, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.
If an attacking creature has multiple evasion abilities, such as shadow and flying, a creature can block it only if that creature satisfies all of the appropriate evasion abilities.

If your opponent discards a card while you control Dauthi Voidwalker, abilities that function when that card is discarded still work, even though that card never reaches that player's graveyard. In addition, spells or abilities that check the characteristics of the discarded card can find that card in exile.

While Dauthi Voidwalker is on the battlefield, nontoken creatures your opponents control won't die. They'll be exiled instead. Abilities that would trigger when those creatures die won't trigger.

Tokens still die while Dauthi Voidwalker is on the battlefield.

If a card has in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.

Playing a card with Dauthi Voidwalker's last ability is still subject to normal timing restrictions.

If you cast a card this way, you may not cast it for any other alternative costs it has, but you may pay for additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the spell requires an additional cost, you must pay that cost.
1 Disciple of Bolas
Disciple of Bolas

Creature — Human Wizard

2/1

When this creature enters, sacrifice another creature. You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is that creature's power.
If you control at least one other creature when the ability resolves, you must sacrifice one. If you don't control any other creatures at that time, the ability won't do anything.

The creature's power as it last existed on the battlefield is the amount of life you gain and the number of cards you draw.
1 Diviner of Mist
1 Floral Evoker
Floral Evoker

Creature — Snake Druid

2/3

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, put a+1/+1 counter on this creature.
, Discard a creature card: Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.

A landfall ability doesn’t trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve. (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.)
1 Gravecrawler
Gravecrawler

Creature — Zombie

2/1

This creature can't block.
You may cast this card from your graveyard as long as you control a Zombie.
Gravecrawler's ability doesn't change when you could cast it.

Once you've cast Gravecrawler and it's on the stack, it doesn't matter if you lose control of the other Zombie.
1 Hedron Crab
Hedron Crab

Creature — Crab

0/2

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, target player mills three cards.
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.

A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
1 Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Legendary Creature — Zombie Elf

2/2

Jarad gets +1/+1 for each creature card in your graveyard.
, Sacrifice another creature: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power.
Sacrifice a Swamp and a Forest: Return this card from your graveyard to your hand.
Jarad's first ability applies only when Jarad is on the battlefield.

The life loss is based on the power of the sacrificed creature as it last existed on the battlefield.

To activate Jarad's last ability, you must sacrifice two lands. It doesn't matter what other land types the two lands have, as long as one is a Swamp and one is a Forest. Even if one of the lands you sacrifice is both a Swamp and a Forest, you have to sacrifice another land that is a Swamp or a Forest.

You can sacrifice any land with the land type Swamp or Forest, not just ones named Swamp or Forest. For example, you could sacrifice two Overgrown Tombs.
1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
Junji, the Midnight Sky

Legendary Creature — Dragon Spirit

5/5
Flying, menace
When Junji dies, choose one —
Each opponent discards two cards and loses 2 life.
Put target non-Dragon creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose 2 life.
1 Kishla Skimmer
1 Kotis, Sibsig Champion
1 Lord of Extinction
Lord of Extinction

Creature — Elemental

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Lord of Extinction's power and toughness are each equal to the number of cards in all graveyards.
The ability that defines Lord of Extinction's power and toughness works in all zones, not just the battlefield. If Lord of Extinction is in your graveyard, it will count itself.

If an instant or sorcery spell deals damage to Lord of Extinction or lowers its toughness, that spell is put into its owner's graveyard before state-based actions are performed. That card will raise Lord of Extinction's toughness before the game checks to see if it dies.
1 Lord of the Forsaken
1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

3/4

Whenever another creature you control dies, you get an experience counter.
At the beginning of your end step, choose target creature card in your graveyard. If that card's mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have, return it to the battlefield. Otherwise, put it into your hand.
If Meren of Clan Nel Toth leaves the battlefield at the same time as other creatures you control die, its first ability will trigger for each of those creatures.

You can’t choose to put the creature card into your hand if its mana value is less than or equal to the number of experience counters you have as the ability resolves.

If a creature card in your graveyard has in its mana cost, X is 0.

Experience counters are the second kind of counters a player can have, joining poison.

All experience counters are identical, no matter how you got them. For example, the last ability will count experience counters that you got from the first ability, from another ability, from proliferating, and so on.

Each game pack includes a card labeled “Experience” with the suggestion “Place your experience counters here.” This card isn’t required for play. It’s simply a convenient spot to put your experience counters, which can be represented with dice, glass beads, or other small items.
1 Millikin
Millikin

Artifact Creature — Construct

0/1

, Mill a card: Add . (To mill a card, put the top card of your library into your graveyard.)
If an effect allows you to look at the top card of your library any time or to play with the top card of your library revealed, and you activate Millikin’s mana ability while casting a spell, you can’t look at the new top card of your library until you are done casting the spell. The same is true if you activate Millikin’s ability while activating another ability.
1 Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar
Multani, Yavimaya's Avatar

Legendary Creature — Elemental Avatar

0/0

Reach, trample
Multani gets +1/+1 for each land you control and each land card in your graveyard.
, Return two lands you control to their owner's hand: Return Multani from your graveyard to your hand.
Multani's ability that modifies its power and toughness applies only while it's on the battlefield. In all other zones, it's a 0/0 creature card.

To activate Multani's last ability, you must return lands you control from the battlefield to their owner's hand. Land cards in your graveyard can't be returned this way.
1 Necropolis Fiend
Necropolis Fiend

Creature — Demon

4/5

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
Flying
, , Exile X cards from your graveyard: Target creature gets -X/-X until end of turn.
Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.

You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.
1 Noxious Gearhulk
Noxious Gearhulk

Artifact Creature — Construct

5/4

Menace
When this creature enters, you may destroy another target creature. If a creature is destroyed this way, you gain life equal to its toughness.
Use the toughness of the creature as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how much life to gain.

If the target creature has indestructible, it isn't destroyed this way and you won't gain life. If it is destroyed but put into a zone other than a graveyard, you'll gain life.
1 Nyx Weaver
1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Legendary Creature — Demon

3/3

Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.

A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of the permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (As a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing.).
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 River Kelpie
River Kelpie

Creature — Beast

3/3

Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.

The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.

If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.

If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.

When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.

If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.

If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.

If River Kelpie and another permanent are each put onto the battlefield from a graveyard at the same time, River Kelpie's first ability will trigger twice. (It will see the other permanent entering.)

If you cast another artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker spell from a graveyard, only the second ability triggers. That's because the card is put onto the stack, not onto the battlefield.

If you cast River Kelpie itself from your graveyard (by using Yawgmoth's Will, for example), neither ability triggers. The first ability doesn't trigger because River Kelpie is put onto the stack; the second ability doesn't trigger because it works only while River Kelpie is already on the battlefield.

If you play a land card from a graveyard (by using Crucible of Worlds, for example), only the first ability triggers. That's because the land (which isn't a spell) is put directly onto the battlefield from the graveyard.

River Kelpie doesn't give you the ability to cast spells from graveyards. Its second ability merely triggers whenever a spell is cast this way (by using Memory Plunder, for example).
1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
1 Satyr Wayfinder
1 Shigeki, Jukai Visionary
Shigeki, Jukai Visionary

Legendary Enchantment Creature — Snake Druid

1/3

, , Return Shigeki to its owner's hand: Reveal the top four cards of your library. You may put a land card from among them onto the battlefield tapped. Put the rest into your graveyard.
Channel — , Discard this card: Return X target nonlegendary cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Discarding the card is part of the cost to activate a channel ability.

If a channel ability requires a target, you may not activate it without a target just to discard the card.
1 Skull Prophet
1 Springbloom Druid
Springbloom Druid

Creature — Elf Druid

1/1

When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a land. If you do, search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
While resolving Springbloom Druid's triggered ability, you can't sacrifice multiple lands to search for more than two basic land cards.
1 Steward of the Harvest
Steward of the Harvest

Creature — Human Druid

3/3

When this creature enters, exile up to three target land cards from your graveyard.
Creatures you control have all activated abilities of all land cards exiled with this creature.
Creatures you control gain only activated abilities of the exiled land cards. They don’t gain triggered abilities, static abilities, or keyword abilities that aren’t activated abilities.

Activated abilities contain a colon. They’re generally written “[Cost]: [Effect].” Some keywords are activated abilities; they have colons in their reminder text.

If an activated ability of a land card exiled with Steward of the Harvest references the card it’s printed on by name, treat the version of that ability on each creature you control as though it referenced the creature that has it by name instead.

Land cards with one or more basic land types have the intrinsic activated ability “ : Add [mana symbol],” even if the text box doesn’t actually contain that text or the card has no text box. For Plains, [mana symbol] is ; for Islands, ; for Swamps, ; for Mountains, ; and for Forests, .
1 Stitcher's Supplier
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang
Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Legendary Creature — Human Shaman

4/5

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for .)
: Mill two cards, then return a nonland card of an opponent's choice from your graveyard to your hand.
Tasigur, the Golden Fang is banned as a commander in Duel Commander format, but it may be part of your deck.

Because delve isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs, such as flashback. It can also be used to pay for additional costs that include generic mana.

Delve doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value. For example, Treasure Cruise's mana value is 8 even if you exiled three cards to cast it.

You can exile cards to pay only for generic mana, and you can't exile more cards than the generic mana requirement of a spell with delve. For example, you can't exile more than seven cards from your graveyard to cast Treasure Cruise unless an effect has increased its cost.

Tasigur's last ability doesn't target any card or player. You choose an opponent and that player chooses a nonland card only after you mill two cards.

The chosen opponent can choose any nonland card in your graveyard, not just one of the milled cards.

The chosen opponent can choose any nonland card in your graveyard, not just one of the cards that was just put there.

Tasigur's last ability doesn't target any card or player. You choose an opponent as the ability resolves and that player chooses a nonland card after you put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard.
1 Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale

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.
If multiple cards leave your graveyard at the same time, Teval’s last ability will trigger only once.
1 Timeless Witness
Timeless Witness

Creature — Human Shaman

2/1

When this creature enters, return target card from your graveyard to your hand.
Eternalize ( , Exile this card from your graveyard: Create a token that's a copy of it, except it's a 4/4 black Zombie Human Shaman with no mana cost. Eternalize only as a sorcery.)
If a creature card with eternalize is put into your graveyard during your main phase, you'll have priority immediately afterward. You can activate its eternalize ability before any player can try to exile it.

Once you've activated an eternalize ability, the card is immediately exiled. Opponents can't try to stop the ability by exiling the card.

The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics specifically modified by eternalize. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.

The token is a Zombie in addition to its other types and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 4/4. It has no mana cost, and thus its mana value is 0. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.
1 Woe Strider
Woe Strider

Creature — Horror

3/2

When this creature enters, create a 0/1 white Goat creature token.
Sacrifice another creature: Scry 1.
Escape— , Exile four other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)
This creature escapes with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Escape's permission doesn't change when you may cast the spell from your graveyard.

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an escape cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was and no matter whether an alternative cost was paid.

After an escaped spell resolves, it returns to its owner's graveyard if it's not a permanent spell. If it is a permanent spell, it enters the battlefield and will return to its owner's graveyard if it dies later. Perhaps it will escape again—good underworld security is so hard to come by these days.

If a card has multiple abilities giving you permission to cast it, such as two escape abilities or an escape ability and a flashback ability, you choose which one to apply. The others have no effect.

If you cast a spell with its escape permission, you can't choose to apply any other alternative costs or to cast it without paying its mana cost. If it has any additional costs, you must pay those.

If a card with escape is put into your graveyard during your turn, you'll be able to cast it right away if it's legal to do so, before an opponent can take any actions.

Once you begin casting a spell with escape, it immediately moves to the stack. Players can't take any other actions until you're done casting the spell.
1 Wonder

Instants 7

Sorceries 12

Artifacts 4

Enchantments 3

Lands 37

Blue 8

Black 20

Green 19

Multicolor 13

Colorless 3

Lands 37

1 5

2 15

3 13

4 11

5 8

6 5

7+ 6

Lands 37

Teval, the Balanced Scale

Forest

6×

Island

4×

Swamp

5×

Cephalid Coliseum

Command Tower

Contaminated Aquifer

Crypt of Agadeem

Darkwater Catacombs

Dreamroot Cascade

Drownyard Temple

Exotic Orchard

Fetid Pools

Foreboding Landscape

Golgari Rot Farm

Haunted Mire

Hinterland Harbor

Llanowar Wastes

Memorial to Folly

Myriad Landscape

Opulent Palace

Sunken Hollow

Temple of Malady

Terramorphic Expanse

Woodland Cemetery

Amphin Mutineer

Avenger of Zendikar

Colossal Grave-Reaver

Consuming Aberration

Dauthi Voidwalker

Disciple of Bolas

Diviner of Mist

Floral Evoker

Gravecrawler

Hedron Crab

Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord

Junji, the Midnight Sky

Kishla Skimmer

Kotis, Sibsig Champion

Lord of Extinction

Lord of the Forsaken

Meren of Clan Nel Toth

Millikin

Necropolis Fiend

Noxious Gearhulk

Nyx Weaver

Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Reassembling Skeleton

River Kelpie

Sakura-Tribe Elder

Satyr Wayfinder

Shigeki, Jukai Visionary

Skull Prophet

Springbloom Druid

Steward of the Harvest

Stitcher's Supplier

Tasigur, the Golden Fang

Timeless Witness

Woe Strider

Wonder

Afterlife from the Loam

Casualties of War

Cultivate

Farseek

Forbidden Alchemy

Grapple with the Past

Grisly Salvage

Harrow

Lethal Scheme

Life from the Loam

Living Death

Necromantic Selection

Putrefy

Rampant Growth

Tear Asunder

Treasure Cruise

Victimize

Welcome the Dead

Will of the Sultai

Arcane Signet

Conduit of Worlds

Crawling Sensation

Essence Anchor

Phyrexian Reclamation

Sol Ring

Teval's Judgment