teysa by Tebacho

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats engine led by Teysa, Orzhov Scion. It converts low-cost black recursive creatures into a continuous stream of white Spirit tokens, life drain, and board control. The primary game plan focuses on deploying early sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder or Viscera Seer alongside recurring creatures such as Gravecrawler and Reassembling Skeleton. Once Teysa is active, the deck grinds down opposing creature boards using Teysa's targeted exile ability, Grave Pact, and Sadistic Hypnotist. The deck secures victory on Turn 6 by assembling mana-positive sacrifice loops using Pitiless Plunderer or Ashnod's Altar with Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance, or Altar of Dementia to drain or mill the entire table in a single turn. While it possesses resilient recursion and strong creature suppression, it remains vulnerable to instant-speed graveyard exile and lacks noncreature interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherworks Marvel
  • 1 Altar of Bhaal // Bone Offering
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Bloodflow Connoisseur
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Dark Privilege
  • 1 Daxos, Blessed by the Sun
  • 1 Desecrated Tomb
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Fang, Fearless l'Cie
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Glasswing Grace // Age-Graced Chapel
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Hardened Tactician
  • 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
  • 1 Ishgard, the Holy See // Faith & Grief
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Malevolent Awakening
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 On Wings of Gold
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pelakka Predation // Pelakka Caverns
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Phyrexian Plaguelord
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sadistic Hypnotist
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sepulcher Ghoul
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Spirit Bonds
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Twilight Diviner
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan