Teysa Karlov by user3983299

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats engine designed to exploit creature deaths for steady card advantage, mana generation, and life drain. Led by Teysa Karlov, the strategy doubles every death trigger you control, turning standard sacrifice loops into overwhelming damage bursts. The deck curves out with low-cost token generators and afterlife creatures, establishes a free sacrifice outlet, and drops passive drain pieces like Blood Artist and Cruel Celebrant. Once Teysa arrives, every sacrificed creature drains the table twice while creating double tokens or Treasure from pieces like Pawn of Ulamog and Pitiless Plunderer. The deck protects its board through resilient death triggers and recovers swiftly from sweepers using mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Raise the Past. While it lacks blue counterspells to contest non-permanent combos, its high functional redundancy ensures a dependable clock that closes out games around Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Carrier Thrall
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Confidant
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Falkenrath Noble
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Field of Souls
  • 1 Garrison Cat
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Liesa, Forgotten Archangel
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rabid Attack
  • 1 Raise the Past
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vault of the Archangel
  • 1 Vein Ripper
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat