CommanderTestLabor DE
Price
€299.69of €300.00
Overall win rate
25%18 wins in 71 scored games
Games
71played in 7 tournaments
Rank
24in the rankings up to €300 · Elo 1539 (start 1500)
Cards
100incl. commander · 36 lands, 14 of them basic
Game Changer
2of at most 3 allowed
Combos
4complete in the deck
Rules check
Passed100 cards, colors, banlist

AI note: the Forge AI can't play 6 cards of this deck (replaced with similar cards in the Forge games) and plays 5 more only partially well. This result is therefore somewhat less meaningful. Affected cards

At most €300 including the commander. If prices rise above that, the shopping list is rebuilt automatically.

grey: role in the deckGame Changer counts for the bracketCombo part of a comboAI can't play replaced in tournamentsAI limited played weakly by the AI

Commander (1)

Creatures (30)

Instants (8)

Sorceries (13)

Artifacts (6)

Enchantments (6)

Lands (36)

Teval, the Balanced Scale
Card image: © Wizards of the Coast, via Scryfall

Combos in the deck (4)

Detected from the decklist (Commander Spellbook): theoretically possible, see Spellbook for requirements. Whether a combo actually came together in games is shown above under “What the games show”.

  • Phyrexian Altar + … → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    7 versions, each with one of: Reassembling Skeleton · Tortured Existence · Teval, the Balanced Scale · Insidious Roots · Tormod, the Desecrator · Kheru Goldkeeper
  • Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Kheru Goldkeeper + Tortured Existence → Infinite self-discard triggers
  • Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers

Commander Spellbook lists 10 entries because every version counts separately (for example with a different sacrifice outlet). Here each combo counts once.

Show all 10 entries
  • Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Kheru Goldkeeper + Tortured Existence → Infinite self-discard triggers
  • Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar → Infinite blinking, Infinite colored mana, Infinite death triggers
  • Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Teval, the Balanced Scale → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Insidious Roots → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Tormod, the Desecrator → Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature LTB
  • Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Tormod, the Desecrator → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Phyrexian Altar + Insidious Roots + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Phyrexian Altar + Reassembling Skeleton + Teval, the Balanced Scale → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Phyrexian Altar + Kheru Goldkeeper + Reassembling Skeleton → Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB, Infinite creature sacrifice triggers

Adjusted for the Forge AI

The list above is the best tested version, the way you would play it in real games. The Forge AI can't play a few cards – they were replaced in the tournament (the deck builder also rearranges other slots within the budget). The win rate comes from games with these replacements; the original cards themselves were not tested by the AI.

In the list (original cards)
  • Command Beacon: AI can't play it
  • Darkwater Catacombs: AI can't play it
  • Memorial to Folly: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Phyrexian Altar: AI plays it poorly
  • Phyrexian Reclamation: AI can't play it
  • Reassembling Skeleton: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Sylvan Safekeeper: AI can't play it
  • Tormod, the Desecrator: adjusted to make room for another replacement
  • Tortured Existence: AI can't play it
  • Toxic Deluge: AI can't play it
Played instead in the tournament
  • Cyclonic Rift: replacement
  • Fetid Pools: replacement
  • Heroic Intervention: replacement
  • Millikin: replacement
  • Myriad Landscape: replacement
  • Shigeki, Jukai Visionary: replacement
  • Syr Konrad, the Grim: replacement
  • Verdant Catacombs: replacement
  • Wight of the Reliquary: replacement
  • Woe Strider: replacement

What the games show

From 71 analysed games in 7 tournaments (tournament lists as played by Forge). Games that hit the time limit don't count, just like in the rankings. Values in brackets: average of all decks in the same price class. “logged”: recorded in the game log. “indication”: recurring pattern, but no proof of cause and effect.

Play style: mixed – 69% combat damage, the rest direct damage

Strengths

  • Stable mana: fewer than 3 lands after turn 3 in only 3% of games (all-deck avg: 9%) logged (2 of 71 games)

Weaknesses

  • Often eliminated first: in 32% of games (all-deck avg: 25%) logged (23 of 71 games)

Damage per game all games

Total damage to opponents ÷ all 71 games – what the card contributes over the whole test

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 10.8hit in 25 of 71 games
  2. Teval, the Balanced Scale avg 6.9hit in 45 of 71 games
  3. Zombie Druid Token avg 2.1hit in 16 of 71 games

Damage when used when it hits

Total damage ÷ games in which the card dealt damage – its strength when used

  1. Syr Konrad, the Grim avg 30.8hit in 25 of 71 games
  2. Teval, the Balanced Scale avg 10.9hit in 45 of 71 games
  3. The Gitrog Monster avg 9.5hit in 10 of 71 games

Top finishers eliminates opponents

Cards that most often knocked an opposing commander out of the game

  1. Zombie Druid Token 15×71 games in deck
  2. Syr Konrad, the Grim 11×71 games in deck
  3. Plant Token 7×71 games in deck

Best interaction answers threats

Opposing cards destroyed, exiled, bounced or countered when this card resolved (tokens excluded)

  1. Necromantic Selection 45×avg 0.6 per game · 71 games in deck
  2. Living Death 27×avg 0.4 per game · 71 games in deck
  3. Rhystic Study 13×avg 0.2 per game · 71 games in deck

Biggest walls blocks the most

Opposing cards that blocked this deck's attackers most often – 21% of 968 attackers blocked in total, 11% of those by flyers or reach

  1. Squirrel Token 14×blocked in 3 games

Rarely cast candidates to cut

Cards in this list that were cast least often in their games – often too expensive or too slow (lands excluded)

  1. Hedge Shredder 4%cast in 3 of 71 games
  2. Conduit of Worlds 6%cast in 4 of 71 games
  3. Rampant Growth 6%cast in 4 of 71 games

Wins by turn speed

On which own turn the 18 wins came

  • by turn 70%
  • turns 8–96%
  • turns 10–1128%
  • turns 12–1344%
  • turn 14+22%

Combos in play logged Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Kheru Goldkeeper + Tortured Existence: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Living Death + Eternal Witness + Phyrexian Altar: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won · Tortured Existence + Phyrexian Altar + Teval, the Balanced Scale: all pieces cast in 0 games, 0 won

Mana curve without lands

Average 3.22

0
12
1
15
2
10
3
13
4
7
5
1
6
5
7+

Roles in the deck

Ramp
14 / 14
Card draw
6 / 6
Removal
7 / 7
Board wipe
2 / 2
Protection
2 / 2
Strategy
32 cards no target

Count / target from the EDHREC average deck (the line), red means clearly below. Strategy: the remaining cards without one of these roles, such as the creatures and effects the deck is built around. 63 non-land cards in total.

Card types

Creatures
30
Instants
8
Sorceries
13
Artifacts
6
Enchantments
6
Lands
36

Most expensive cards

Rhystic Study
€36.66
Phyrexian Altar
€35.94
Icetill Explorer
€23.67
Polluted Delta
€19.12
Colossal Grave-Reaver
€12.20
Breeding Pool
€9.89
Watery Grave
€9.82
Teval's Judgment
€9.61

What the program has learned

Each tournament the deck tests one card. A verdict needs at least 40 games with and without the card. Since the deck is rebuilt every tournament with current prices and data, tested cards can drop out again later.

No swap has enough games for a verdict yet.

3 more tested cards are still collecting games.

Shopping list for Cardmarket

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Total €299.69 Cardmarket average as of Oct 27, 2026

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Placement in every tournament

Oldest on the left. Green: top 3, blue: top 10.

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Best place 12 · average place 31.4 · 0× top 3 · 0× top 10 out of 7 tournaments

Played by the Forge AI, four players per game. An average deck wins 25%. How are decks tested?