Teysa Karlov by Draaky

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This Orzhov Aristocrats deck leverages Teysa Karlov to double death triggers, weaponizing creature sacrifices into heavy card advantage, mana ramp, and life drain. The deck relies on high functional redundancy across three core pillars: free sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder and Ashnod's Altar, recursive creatures such as Gravecrawler and Forsaken Miner, and drain payoffs like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. Early turns establish mana rocks and fodder, transitioning by Turn 4 into an active value engine powered by Skullclamp and Grim Haruspex. On Turn 5, the deck reaches critical onset, threatening immediate table-wide lethality through infinite drain loops with Warren Soultrader or non-stop spell velocity via Bolas's Citadel. While vulnerable to graveyard hate and lacking countermagic, its dense reanimation suite and resilient engine recovery ensure formidable persistence across long games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Scout for Survivors
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat