Teysa by russty

Format: Commander

Creator: russty

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 57

Deck overview

This deck is a focused Orzhov Aristocrats combo strategy commanded by Teysa Karlov. Rather than depending on its commander to win, the deck uses Teysa's death-harmonicon ability to supercharge value engines, draw steps, and drain triggers. The core game plan is to deploy early sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer or Carrion Feeder, establish recurring fodder such as Gravecrawler or Forsaken Miner, and capitalize on blood artists like Cruel Celebrant and Zulaport Cutthroat. High tutor density and efficient graveyard reanimation allow the list to rapidly pivot from incremental attrition into infinite game-ending loops, notably Leonin Relic-Warder combined with Animate Dead or Gravecrawler loops with Phyrexian Altar. With protection pieces like Grand Abolisher and Silence guarding critical combo windows, the deck consistently threatens to drain the entire table in a single decisive turn by Turn 5 while maintaining robust mid-game recovery.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkest Hour
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Scrubland
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat