Blood of Martyrs by Lumitora

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

An Orzhov aristocrats build built around Teysa Karlov's death-trigger doubling. The primary plan is to generate small expendable creatures and tokens, sacrifice them through Viscera Seer or Priest of Forgotten Gods, and convert each death into multiple life losses with Blood Artist and similar drainers. Teysa, Orzhov Scion acts as a hidden second engine, producing Spirit tokens from black creature deaths and giving the deck reach in long games. Secondary plans use Black Market/Syr Konrad and mass reanimation such as Living Death or Funeral Room // Awakening Hall to turn a full graveyard into a finishing swing. The commander's token vigilance/lifelink keeps the board stable while the engine builds.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 Ancient Craving
  • 1 Angelheart Vial
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Corpse Knight
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Cruelclaw's Heist
  • 1 Culling Scales
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Guildgate
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Revitalize
  • 1 Season of Loss
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 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 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Uncharted Haven
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat