Working Copy of - Teysa Karlov by Doobliheim

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is an Orzhov Aristocrats engine helmed by Teysa Karlov. It leverages extensive functional redundancy across sacrifice outlets, recursive fodder, and death-trigger payoffs. The primary game plan establishes low-cost creature engines on early turns, then deploys Teysa Karlov on Turn 4 to double all death triggers. From Turn 5 onward, the deck generates asymmetric card advantage, Treasure mana, and life drain, while controlling opposing boards through doubled Grave Pact triggers and Yawgmoth, Thran Physician. Life totals across all three opponents are systematically drained to zero by Turn 7. The deck features robust graveyard recursion and instant-speed sacrifice options to resist single-target removal, though it remains vulnerable to mass exile effects and dedicated graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Akroma's Will
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Athreos, God of Passage
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodline Recollector // Ancestral Craving
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Charismatic Conqueror
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Continue?
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elenda's Hierophant
  • 1 Elenda, the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 7 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Secure the Wastes
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Silent Clearing
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Tithe Taker
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • 1 Yahenni, Undying Partisan
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat