Teysa Karlov 2.0 by LordWooT

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats engine led by Teysa Karlov that combines token generation, sacrifice outlets, and death triggers into an oppressive grind and rapid combo finish. The commander doubles all death triggers, amplifying card draw from Skullclamp and Midnight Reaper, ramp from Pitiless Plunderer, and board control from Grave Pact. The primary win condition bypasses combat entirely by reanimating Reveillark and Karmic Guide alongside a sacrifice outlet and a drain effect like Blood Artist or Zulaport Cutthroat to drain all opponents simultaneously. Tutors such as Buried Alive assemble the pieces directly into the graveyard, while silence effects like Grand Abolisher protect the winning turn. Even without the commander, the 99 functions independently as a resilient combo-reanimator engine capable of closing the game on Turn 5.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commissar Severina Raine
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Eirdu, Carrier of Dawn // Isilu, Carrier of Twilight
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exalted Sunborn
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mother of Runes
  • 1 Myrel, Shield of Argive
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Ratadrabik of Urborg
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat