Teysa Karlov by RoadKamelot

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Teysa Karlov leads an Orzhov aristocrats deck that turns death into cards, mana, tokens, and life loss. The primary plan is to build a token/recursion board, feed cheap permanents to sacrifice outlets, and let doubled death triggers drain opponents. The deadliest line centers on hidden commander Teysa, Orzhov Scion: with Darkest Hour and any sacrifice outlet, she generates endless Spirit tokens that loop through Blood Artist into lethal damage. A secondary Reassembling Skeleton-Pitiless Plunderer-altar loop reaches the same result, while Bitterblossom, Mondrak, and Skullclamp keep the engine fed. The commander's doubling is a multiplier, not the combo itself.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anafenza, Unyielding Lineage
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blight Mound
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Body Launderer
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Darkest Hour
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Indebted Spirit
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Lazotep Quarry
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Monk
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solitude
  • 1 Springleaf Drum
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Weatherlight Compleated
  • 1 Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat