Teysa Karlov Bracket 3 by YorLevi

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Teysa Karlov is an Orzhov aristocrats deck that turns creature deaths into life loss, card draw, and tokens. The primary plan is to establish a sacrifice loop-Reassembling Skeleton or Bloodsoaked Champion fed to Viscera Seer or Ashnod's Altar-while Teysa doubles every drain trigger from Blood Artist, Cruel Celebrant, Zulaport Cutthroat, and similar payoffs. Secondary paths include grinding with token producers and recursion, and a compact infinite-mana kill using Ashnod's Altar plus Pitiless Plunderer. Syr Konrad acts as a hidden commander-style payoff that punishes any creature death or graveyard movement. The deck is resilient through recursion but vulnerable to instant-speed interaction and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Acolyte of Aclazotz
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bartolomé del Presidio
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Champion
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Chittering Witch
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Connoisseur
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Mutation
  • 1 Dawn Charm
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death Denied
  • 1 Demonic Collusion
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dewdrop Cure
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Disenchant
  • 1 Disentomb
  • 1 Divine Resilience
  • 1 Doomed Traveler
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elvish Doomsayer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Grave Venerations
  • 1 Gravedig
  • 1 Gutterbones
  • 1 Hallowed Spiritkeeper
  • 1 Hunted Witness
  • 1 Infestation Sage
  • 1 Lampad of Death's Vigil
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Macabre Waltz
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Nyx Lotus
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Enforcer
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Pious Evangel // Wayward Disciple
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 14 Plains
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Realm of Koh
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Resourceful Return
  • 1 Shaile, Dean of Radiance // Embrose, Dean of Shadow
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectacular Tactics
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Synapse Necromage
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Thraben Charm
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vesperlark
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wriggling Grub
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat