Teysa Karlov - 💰 - (B/W) - Br3 - “The Cost of Doing Business” by Sartoris

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This Orzhov Aristocrats deck is led by Teysa Karlov, who doubles all death triggers and gives creature tokens vigilance and lifelink. The strategy revolves around deploying cheap, recurring sacrifice fodder like Reassembling Skeleton and Ophiomancer, free sacrifice outlets such as Carrion Feeder and Ashnod's Altar, and drain payoffs including Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance. With Teysa on the battlefield, every death trigger fires twice, rapidly depleting opponents' life totals while refueling your hand through draw engines like Grim Haruspex and Skullclamp. Asymmetric control pieces like Dictate of Erebos and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician keep opposing boards clear of threats. The deck can close games through sustained incremental drain by Turn 8, explosive turns with Syr Konrad, the Grim or Plumb the Forbidden, or the instant two-card infinite combo of Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghoulish Procession
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Oathsworn Vampire
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat