Teysa Killov by Bawhp

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is a synergistic Aristocrats build commanded by Teysa Karlov, whose ability doubles all triggered abilities caused by creatures dying. The game plan centers on establishing a three-part engine consisting of sacrifice outlets, recursive or token fodder, and drain payoffs. Early turns focus on playing low-cost creatures and mana rocks. By Turn 5, the deck establishes an active sacrifice engine. On Turn 6, it deploys asymmetric attrition pieces like Grave Pact or accelerated drain threats like Mirkwood Bats and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Doubled death triggers quickly decimate opposing creature boards while draining life totals across the entire table, closing the game around Turn 8. While the deck possesses immense creature-based attrition and high functional redundancy, its low land count (29 lands) and absence of nonland tutors make it reliant on natural card flow and vulnerable to early mana stalls, artifact combos, and rest-in-peace style graveyard exile effects.

Decklist (102 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Archaeomancer's Map
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Carmen, Cruel Skymarcher
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Erode
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Inkshield
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lake-town Lookout
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Norn's Wellspring
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 10 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowheart, Dark Justiciar
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Syr Vondam, Sunstar Exemplar
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Queen of Dale
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat