The Karlovs by Valkarion

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Teysa Karlov leads a death-trigger aristocrats deck that doubles every death-trigger. The primary path is to build a board of self-recurring fodder, sacrifice outlets, and drain/benefit permanents, turning each sacrifice into cards, Treasures, and opponent life loss. The deck's sharpest win line is the Luminous Broodmoth + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton loop, which with a free sac outlet and a Blood Artist effect produces infinite death triggers and kills all opponents. Teysa exponentially accelerates the engine, but the combo can run without her. Secondary plans are token generation, grave-based recursion, and a large Exsanguinate. There is no hidden commander; the deck is built around Teysa.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Curse of the Restless Dead
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fracture
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Mana Tithe
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Rebirth
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spoils of Blood
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat