Teysa Karlov by jwein625

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a classic Orzhov Aristocrats strategy led by Teysa Karlov. Its primary game plan revolves around generating small creature tokens and recursive fodder, sacrificing them through free sacrifice outlets, and draining the entire table using blood artist effects. Teysa Karlov doubles every death trigger, accelerating card draw, token generation, and drain damage. Dense internal redundancy ensures that the deck reliably establishes its core engine by turn 4 and presents a game-ending threat by turn 5 or 6. Explosive mana generators like Ashnod's Altar, Warren Soultrader, and Pitiless Plunderer feed into mass recursion spells such as Living Death and Rally the Ancestors to finish off opponents in massive drain bursts. The deck possesses flexible single-target removal to handle diverse threats, though it remains somewhat vulnerable to graveyard exile and mass permanent wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ao, the Dawn Sky
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brought Back
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cathar Commando
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concealed Courtyard
  • 1 Crawling Chorus
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Dark Prophecy
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Garrison Cat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Hangarback Walker
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Kabira Takedown // Kabira Plateau
  • 1 Knight of the White Orchid
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mangara, the Diplomat
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Nested Shambler
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 6 Plains
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Rally the Ancestors
  • 1 Ranger of Eos
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Vanquish the Horde
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat