Bracket 4 Teysa by user1023156

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Orzhov Aristocrats deck commanded by Teysa Karlov, designed to double death triggers and accelerate drain clocks into game-ending combos. The strategy revolves around deploying cheap, disposable creatures alongside versatile sacrifice outlets such as Warren Soultrader, Phyrexian Altar, and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. Death triggers fuel explosive card draw through Skullclamp and Grim Haruspex while bleeding the table via Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance. The primary route to victory utilizes deterministic sacrifice loops, specifically recurring Gravecrawler alongside Warren Soultrader or Phyrexian Altar to drain all opponents simultaneously. Asymmetric control pieces like Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos keep opposing creature boards clear, ensuring total control while assembling key combo pieces through efficient black tutors. Even without the commander, the deck executes its primary win conditions with full autonomy.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zahur, Glory's Past
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat