Teysa Chance on Me by fritt3rr

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats strategy helmed by Teysa Karlov, designed to generate overwhelming incremental value and life drain by doubling every creature death trigger. The deck establishes a resilient board state consisting of recurring creature fodder, free sacrifice outlets, and life-draining payoffs like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat. With Teysa on the battlefield, every sacrificed creature extracts twice the life from opponents while padding your own life buffer. The deck leverages heavy graveyard recursion through Living Death, Victimize, and Reanimate to rebuild rapidly after opposing interaction. While it lacks fast combo finishes and stack protection, its dense functional redundancy and instant-speed sacrifice mechanics allow it to grind down the table and close games reliably by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Allay
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Bridge
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Demonic Counsel
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hidden Stockpile
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kaya's Wrath
  • 1 Life Insurance
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Markov Purifier
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 11 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Requiting Hex
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Skrelv's Hive
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 South Wind Avatar
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Starscape Cleric
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Weatherlight Compleated
  • 1 Wispdrinker Vampire
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat