Teysa Karlov Life drain by user9348062

Format: Commander

Commander: Teysa Karlov

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck runs an Orzhov aristocrats strategy centered on Teysa Karlov, who doubles every death trigger you control. Your primary plan develops a board of sacrifice fodder like Reassembling Skeleton and token makers, paired with free sacrifice outlets like Ashnod's Altar and Viscera Seer. As your creatures die, drain engines like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, and Bastion of Remembrance siphon opponent life totals at twice the normal rate. You can close games through continuous combat chip and death-trigger attrition, or assemble an infinite sacrifice loop using Ashnod's Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, and a recurring creature to drain the entire table in a single turn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Butcher of Malakir
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cruel Celebrant
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Haunt of the Dead Marshes
  • 1 Heliod's Intervention
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Horn of Gondor
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Idyllic Tutor
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Mastermind's Acquisition
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Ministrant of Obligation
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moon-Blessed Cleric
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Ozox, the Clattering King
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Persistent Specimen
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 12 Plains
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rebuff the Wicked
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return to Dust
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shattered Sanctum
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Susurian Voidborn
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Remedy
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teysa Karlov
  • 1 Teysa, Opulent Oligarch
  • 1 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
  • 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
  • 1 The Masamune
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Venerated Stormsinger
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vindictive Vampire
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat