The Twin Reaper by sephir

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats strategy led by Teysa Karlov, designed to generate massive resource advantages and close games through repeated creature death triggers. The early game establishes free sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder alongside recurring creature fodder such as Reassembling Skeleton and Ophiomancer. Once Teysa is deployed on Turn 4, every death trigger on your permanents triggers an additional time, turning engines like Grim Haruspex and Bastion of Remembrance into overwhelming draw and drain engines. The primary path to victory involves assembling an infinite death loop using Pitiless Plunderer, Reassembling Skeleton, a sacrifice outlet, and Teysa Karlov, generating infinite Treasure mana and draining the entire table in a single turn. Against aggressive creature decks, cards like Grave Pact and Butcher of Malakir establish dominant board control, while mass reanimation spells like Living Death provide explosive recoveries.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Bidding
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Burrog Banemaker
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Creakwood Safewright
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fix What's Broken
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Goldmire Bridge
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Harsh Annotation
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Kami of False Hope
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirror Entity
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 15 Plains
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Salvage
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thalia's Geistcaller
  • 1 Tithe Drinker
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Fanatic of Aclazotz
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat