Somewhat Damaged

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This Orzhov deck is commanded by Teysa Karlov, who turns death into a double-strength engine. The strategy relies on assembling three key components: sacrifice outlets, disposable creature fodder, and life-draining aristocrat payoffs. Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger, accelerating life loss for opponents while buffering your own total. High functional redundancy ensures consistent setup by Turn 4. By Turn 6, engines like Pitiless Plunderer, Bastion of Remembrance, and Syr Konrad, the Grim create lethal board states that close out games by Turn 7. The deck handles targeted removal well by sacrificing creatures in response, but it must watch for exile sweepers and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Battle Menu
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Clarion Spirit
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damnable Pact
  • 1 Dark Tutelage
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Decanter of Endless Water
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Killing Wave
  • 1 Lake-town Lookout
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Nine-Lives Familiar
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Locket
  • 1 Overkill
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Restoration Magic
  • 1 Restoration Seminar
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Split Up
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thoughtpicker Witch
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Whisper, Blood Liturgist
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat