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Teysa Karlov Commander Deck

Teysa Karlov doubles all death triggers from permanents you control, turning a board full of sacrifice outlets and token generators into an engine that drains opponents dry through repeated life loss effects from cards like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat triggering twice each time a creature dies. The deck floods the board with small tokens — many with lifelink thanks to Teysa — through creatures that replace themselves on death, Vampire synergies, and engines like Elenda, the Dusk Rose, then feeds them into free sacrifice outlets to chain triggers continuously. The life drain accumulates quickly enough to kill the table, and the life gained through lifelink tokens and drain effects can be converted into additional damage via Sanguine Bond and Exquisite Blood, which together form a lethal loop whenever an opponent loses life.

Decklist

• 6× Plains
• 9× Swamp
• Arcane Signet
• Command Tower
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Bojuka Bog
• Ashnod's Altar
• Blood Artist
• Rogue's Passage
• Scoured Barrens
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Swords to Plowshares
• Unclaimed Territory
• Temple of Silence
• Village Rites
• Bloodghast
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Orzhov Basilica
• Path to Exile
• Phyrexian Arena
• Phyrexian Reclamation
• Butcher of Malakir
• Commander's Sphere
• Swiftfoot Boots
• Path of Ancestry
• Tainted Field
• Bloodthrone Vampire
• Cartel Aristocrat
• Orzhov Guildgate
• Viscera Seer
• Ophiomancer
• Sanguine Bond
• Vindicate
• Carrier Thrall
• Diabolic Tutor
• High Market
• Final Payment
• Kaya's Wrath
• Fumigate
• Ifnir Deadlands
• Yahenni, Undying Partisan
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Vault of the Archangel
• Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• Windbrisk Heights
• Austere Command
• Isolated Chapel
• Cruel Celebrant
• Exquisite Blood
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Utter End
• Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• Mastermind's Acquisition
• Martyr of Dusk
• Shineshadow Snarl
• Fracture
• Damn
• The Book of Vile Darkness
• Eye of Vecna
• Deadly Dispute
• Voldaren Estate
• Welcoming Vampire
• Secluded Courtyard
• Blade of the Bloodchief
• Reckoner's Bargain
• Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• Elesh Norn // The Argent Etchings
• Bartolomé del Presidio
• March of the Canonized
• Elenda's Hierophant
• Charismatic Conqueror
• Master of Dark Rites
• Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
• Warren Soultrader
• Marionette Apprentice
• Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• Venerated Stormsinger
• Worthy Cost
• Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
• Massacre Wurm
• Wrath of God
• Westvale Abbey // Ormendahl, Profane Prince
• Hand of Vecna
• Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin