Ritual of Ash by user2124519

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats build centered on Teysa Karlov. The game plan revolves around assembling a three-part engine consisting of disposable fodder, free sacrifice outlets, and life-drain payoffs. Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger, causing token generators like Afterlife creatures to produce twice as many bodies and drain cards like Blood Artist and Cruel Celebrant to bleed opponents for double the life loss. The deck features deep functional redundancy across all core categories, ensuring consistent engine assembly without dedicated tutors. While it lacks infinite combos and countermagic protection, instant-speed sacrifice outlets allow you to extract maximum value in response to opposing removal. The deck pressures the entire table at once, closing games out by turn 8 through compounding combat damage and unstoppable life-drain triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archangel Avacyn // Avacyn, the Purifier
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bone-Cairn Butcher
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cartel Aristocrat
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Garrison Cat
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Gravedig
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Shadow Summoning
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skirsdag High Priest
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat