Cheap Combo Teysa by Spades

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Teysa, Orzhov Scion deck operates as an Orzhov Aristocrats engine that converts creature deaths into flying Spirit tokens, life drain, and on-board creature removal. The early turns focus on establishing mana, sacrifice outlets like Viscera Seer and Carrion Feeder, and value engines like Skullclamp or Morbid Opportunist. Once Teysa, Orzhov Scion enters alongside black token generators such as Ophiomancer or Thalisse, Reverent Medium, every dying black creature produces a white Spirit, doubling death triggers and fueling Teysa's repeatable exile ability. The deck can close games through sustained life drain via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance, swarming with evasive Spirit tokens, or assembling an infinite death loop with Darkest Hour and a free sacrifice outlet. Supported by robust single-target removal, board wipes, and graveyard recursion like Sun Titan and Victimize, the deck grinds out opponents through resilient, asymmetric resource attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Afterlife Insurance
• 1 Ainok Strike Leader
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Baron Bertram Graywater
• 1 Bastion of Remembrance
• 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
• 1 Blood Artist
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corpse Knight
• 1 Darkest Hour
• 1 Dawn to Dusk
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Despark
• 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
• 1 Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
• 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
• 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Fracture
• 1 General's Kabuto
• 1 Gideon's Memorial
• 1 Godless Shrine
• 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Lingering Souls
• 1 Lively Dirge
• 1 Mana Tithe
• 1 Monk Idealist
• 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
• 1 Morbid Opportunist
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murder
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Night Dealings
• 1 Ophiomancer
• 1 Overwrite the Multiverse
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pitiless Plunderer
• 14 Plains
• 1 Quest for the Holy Relic
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Secure the Wastes
• 1 Selfless Spirit
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sun Titan
• 20 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
• 1 Tainted Field
• 1 Teysa Karlov
• 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Vampiric Rites
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 Welcoming Vampire
• 1 White Sun's Twilight
• 1 Witch's Cauldron
• 1 Woe Strider
• 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• 1 Zulaport Cutthroat