Teysa by user9615686

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 13

Deck overview

This is an Orzhov aristocrats deck built around Teysa, Orzhov Scion, sacrifice outlets, death-trigger payoffs, and white or black creature tokens. The strongest ordinary plan is to assemble Teysa, Orzhov Scion, a sacrifice outlet, repeatable fodder such as Reassembling Skeleton, and Dictate of Erebos or a life-loss payoff. That plan can repeatedly trade expendable creatures for opposing creatures and incremental damage. The deck has good battlefield removal and several redundant outlets and payoffs, but its mana is mostly on curve, its lands create early friction, and its tutoring is very limited. Darkest Hour creates a powerful interaction with Teysa, Orzhov Scion, but it needs a sacrifice outlet and a separate payoff, so it is not a compact ordinary win. The deck can produce strong late-game attrition, but it lacks reliable protection and a supported route to eliminate all three opponents quickly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ajani's Pridemate
  • 1 Angel of Condemnation
  • 1 Arcane Lighthouse
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Banisher Priest
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Bairn
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Bone Picker
  • 1 Bound by Moonsilver
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Condemn
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Darkest Hour
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Entreat the Angels
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fisk Tower
  • 1 Genesis Chamber
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Glorious Anthem
  • 1 Grind // Dust
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Increasing Devotion
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Lunarch
  • 1 Mirage Mirror
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nevermore
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Oblivion Ring
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Planar Cleansing
  • 1 Precinct Captain
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Restoration Gearsmith
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rupture Spire
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skirsdag High Priest
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Spear of Heliod
  • 1 Spectral Procession
  • 1 Spirit Bonds
  • 1 Stasis Snare
  • 1 Suture Priest
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Utter End
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Xathrid Necromancer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat