Orzhov Aristocrats by user6566309

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a classic Orzhov aristocrats deck helmed by Teysa Karlov, built to weaponize death triggers through a dense engine of sacrifice outlets, token generators, and drain payoffs. The primary plan is to generate a critical mass of disposable creatures and tokens, feed them to outlets like Viscera Seer, Carrion Feeder, and Phyrexian Altar, and convert every death into life loss through Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant, Bastion of Remembrance, and the commander's doubling effect. The deck's main combo engine is Reassembling Skeleton or Bloodghast with Pitiless Plunderer or a free sacrifice outlet to generate infinite death triggers and mana, finishing through any of the drain payoffs, Altar of Dementia mill, or a massive Teysa, Orzhov Scion loop. The deck also carries recursive threats like Reveillark and Living Death to rebuild and pivot into a midrange combat plan when the combo lines are disrupted.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife Insurance
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reveillark
  • 1 Rite of Oblivion
  • 1 Shadowy Backstreet
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat