clues by user6186920

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa, Opulent Oligarch

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov aristocrats deck built around Teysa, Opulent Oligarch, aiming to turn incidental life loss into Clue tokens, then turn Clues into flying Spirit tokens, cards, and table-wide drain. The primary plan is attrition: creatures and tokens enter and die constantly, with payoffs like Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim, Corpse Knight, Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Nadier's Nightblade converting every death and sacrifice into damage to all three opponents. The deck snowballs through token multipliers such as Mondrak, Glory Dominus, Ocelot Pride, and Thalisse, Reverent Medium, while Krark-Clan Ironworks, Academy Manufactor, and Pitiless Plunderer create an explosive artifact-sacrifice burst. It has no compact infinite combo; wins come from accumulated drain triggers, with Westvale Abbey and Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER as backup beatdown/token finishers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Cecil Harvey
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Drana's Emissary
  • 1 Dreg Recycler
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elegy Acolyte
  • 1 Enduring Innocence
  • 1 Fanatical Offering
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Despair
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Hex
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Loyal Subordinate
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Pactdoll Terror
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Reckoner's Bargain
  • 1 Sanctum of Stone Fangs
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Wispdrinker Vampire
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow