Teysa Taxes by LeeJames91

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats combo list commanded by Teysa Karlov. Its strategy centers on converting disposable creature tokens and recurring creatures into overwhelming card advantage, mana acceleration, and lethal life drain. Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger on permanents you control, supercharging token generation from afterlife creatures, treasure production from Pitiless Plunderer, and board drain from Blood Artist and Cruel Celebrant. The deck accelerates through cheap tutors, fast rituals, and engines like Skullclamp and Necropotence. Once assembled around Turn 4 or 5, it transitions into game-ending infinite sacrifice loops involving Pitiless Plunderer and Reassembling Skeleton, Reveillark with Karmic Guide, or the classic Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combination. Robust asymmetric disruption like Grave Pact, Blind Obedience, and Dauthi Voidwalker keeps opposing boards suppressed, while protective spells like Grand Abolisher and Silence secure uninterruptible win turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crawling Chorus
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dredge
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imperious Oligarch
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat