Teysa W3 by alraunen

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Orzhov Aristocrats build piloted by Teysa Karlov. The primary strategy focuses on establishing a four-part engine consisting of sacrifice outlets, sacrificial fodder, death-trigger drain payoffs, and the commander to double every death trigger. By turning small creatures and tokens into card draw, mana velocity, and direct life drain, the deck grinds down opponents while maintaining a high life total. While it lacks fast mana and dedicated two-card infinite combos, its exceptional functional redundancy ensures consistent assembly by Turn 4 and a lethal clock by Turn 7. Interaction is robust, utilizing premier white and black exile removal alongside versatile board sweepers like Farewell. The deck recovers well from traditional board wipes thanks to afterlife triggers and token-generating death effects, though it remains somewhat vulnerable to graveyard hate and mass exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Oketra's Monument
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindicate
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat