Teysa Karlov, Version 1 by hush_23

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats midrange strategy commanded by Teysa Karlov. The game plan revolves around assembling a three-part engine consisting of disposable creature fodder, free sacrifice outlets, and life-draining payoffs. Teysa Karlov acts as an engine amplifier, doubling every death trigger produced by permanents you control. This accelerates card draw engines like Skullclamp and Midnight Reaper while doubling life loss from staples such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Mirkwood Bats. The deck operates primarily at sorcery speed during deployment but shifts to instant-speed value conversion when interacting or responding to opposing removal. Without generic tutors or infinite combos, the list relies on deep functional redundancy and steady card flow to overwhelm opponents through cumulative life drain and board attrition, closing the game around turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Body Count
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call to the Grave
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Denethor, Ruling Steward
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dutiful Attendant
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Garrison Cat
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Harvest
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 High-Society Hunter
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Kaya, Geist Hunter
  • 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soldevi Adnate
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Spawning Bed
  • 18 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat