BETTER GET READY TO DIE! by PrismariTransfer

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Teysa Karlov heads an Orzhov aristocrats deck that turns every death into a doubled cascade of life loss, card draw, and tokens. The primary plan is to curve into Teysa, flood the board with cheap token-makers and death-pingers such as Doomed Traveler, Blood Artist, Bastion of Remembrance, and Cruel Celebrant, then sacrifice creatures through Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar. The fastest clean win is the Nim Deathmantle + Altar + token-maker loop, which with Teysa online produces infinite death triggers and drains every opponent. Sephiroth is a hidden commander: with Teysa, two deaths in a turn transform it and create a drain emblem. Vito, Aetherflux Reservoir, and Bolas's Citadel provide backup paths.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Angelic Purge
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Blot Out the Sky
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crested Sunmare
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cryptic Spires
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Darkstar Augur
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dire Fleet Hoarder
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dutiful Attendant
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Emergency Weld
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Flesh Carver
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Garrison Cat
  • 1 Greedy Freebooter
  • 1 Griffin Aerie
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lolth, Spider Queen
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Roc Egg
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silversmote Ghoul
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Wurmcoil Engine