Teysa Taxes by youngjinbhur

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Teysa Karlov commands an Orzhov aristocrats deck built around sacrifice engines, life drain, and infinite recursion loops. While Teysa doubles every death trigger to accelerate value and life swings, the deck operates independently through robust death triggers and sacrifice outlets. You win either by establishing incremental drain through cards like Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, and Bastion of Remembrance, or by executing infinite sacrifice combos. Primary loops include Reveillark paired with Karmic Guide, Putrid Goblin alongside Luminous Broodmoth, or the two-card combo of Exquisite Blood with Sanguine Bond or Bloodthirsty Conqueror. Protection spells and stax pieces secure your board while assembling the winning loop.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blind Obedience
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crawling Chorus
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Doomed Dissenter
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dredge
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Imperious Oligarch
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Karmic Guide
  • 1 Kor Haven
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Legions to Ashes
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Painter's Servant
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Putrid Goblin
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stinging Study
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat