Teysa Karlov by user4966526

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a classic Orzhov aristocrats deck helmed by Teysa Karlov, built to convert every creature death into a cascade of triggers. Teysa doubles all death-triggered abilities, so a single sacrifice with Grim Haruspex, Pitiless Plunderer, and Blood Artist on board draws two cards, makes two Treasures, and drains twice. The primary win is incremental drain from a dense suite of Blood Artist effects, accelerated into an infinite loop using Pitiless Plunderer plus Timeline Culler or Reassembling Skeleton with a sac outlet and draw engine, eventually finding a drainer to kill the table. Token generation from Nested Shambler, Wriggling Grub, Hallowed Spiritkeeper, and Hangarback Walker fuels the engine, while Drivnod, Carnage Dominus and Teysa, Orzhov Scion serve as redundant doubling pieces in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Agent Venom
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desperate Plea
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Fanatical Devotion
  • 1 Feral Ghoul
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 Hostile Hostel // Creeping Inn
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Neglected Manor
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Monk
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Timeline Culler
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Weatherlight Compleated
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat