Teysa by tachygale

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is a synergistic aristocrats engine commanded by Teysa Karlov. It focuses on multiplying death triggers to extract overwhelming resource advantage, board control, and lethal drain bursts. The deck deploys low-cost sacrifice outlets such as Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder, and Warren Soultrader alongside recursive creatures and token generators like Gravecrawler, Bloodghast, and Ophiomancer. When Teysa enters on Turn 4, every creature death yields doubled card draw via Skullclamp or Dark Prophecy and doubled life loss via Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance. The primary win condition is a compact 3-card combo: sacrificing Gravecrawler to Warren Soultrader to generate Treasures, recasting Gravecrawler, and draining the entire table in a single turn. Backed by Grave Pact for asymmetric board wipes and powerful recursion like Sevinne's Reclamation, the deck grinds opponents down while maintaining explosive same-turn combo potential.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Endless Foot Assault
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Monologue Tax
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat