Spiritual Tokens by Sorcerer5728

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This deck is a streamlined Orzhov Aristocrats combo build led by Teysa Karlov. The primary strategy focuses on assembling low-cost sacrifice outlets, recurring creature fodder, and redundant drain permanents to accumulate card advantage and pressure life totals. While Teysa Karlov provides immense acceleration by doubling all death triggers, the deck's primary victory route revolves around infinite loops that do not strictly require the commander. Using Animate Dead or Necromancy with Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward or Leonin Relic-Warder, the deck creates an infinite loop of enters-the-battlefield and death triggers. Paired with any aristocrat drain effect like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, or Corpse Knight, this immediately eliminates all three opponents on Turn 5. A secondary infinite loop utilizing Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Darkest Hour provides robust redundancy. Protected by efficient disruption and proactive silence spells like Silence and Orim's Chant, the deck combines resilience, velocity, and same-turn lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkest Hour
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Leonin Relic-Warder
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Recruiter of the Guard
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shred Memory
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Partition
  • 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Surge of Salvation
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat