Teysa by user9092647

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Teysa, Orzhov Scion deck is an aristocrats combo-control build designed to grind resource advantages before closing the game with infinite sacrifice loops. The primary win condition combines Teysa with Nether Traitor, Pitiless Plunderer, a free sacrifice outlet like Viscera Seer, and a blood artist effect such as Cruel Celebrant or Blood Artist to drain the entire table instantly. High functional redundancy among sacrifice outlets and drain payoffs provides resilience against single-target removal, while powerful draw engines like Skullclamp, Grim Haruspex, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare ensure a steady flow of cards. The deck controls the board through efficient removal spells and Teysa's repeatable creature exile ability. Although vulnerable to graveyard hate and lacking stack-based countermagic, versatile recursion engines like Sun Titan, Victimize, and Animate Dead allow rapid recovery from board wipes and disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ashnod, Flesh Mechanist
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lingering Souls
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marble Diamond
  • 1 Merciless Eviction
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Ghoul
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Requiem Angel
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zoraline, Cosmos Caller
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat