Necronomicon | Teysa Karlov | Primer
Commander / EDH
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Minor Updates —June 11, 2020
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Boreas Charger: This thing seems better and better the more I look at it. It ramps, has a death trigger we can double, and pseudo-draws cards when it dies. All of this reminds me of Solemn Simulacrum, a card I like a lot.
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Teferi's Protection: I didn't know about the 2017 phasing rules change until relatively recently, but ever since I did, I knew I had to find a place for it. Completely removing ourselves from the game for multiple turns is pretty good. It also saves our board from mass exile, one of our worst enemies.
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Ministrant of Obligation: This guy's still good but we've already got cards that function similarly. I like the ramp from boreas charger more since it's an effect we don't have as much access to but still want.
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Smothering Tithe: It's still good, and I wouldn't cut it if I was running more synergy for it like Revel in Riches. But as it is, we don't have enough in the deck to push it over the edge into overpowered territory like some decks do. As a standalone ramp spell, it feels too slow like Black Market which I cut for the same reason. In a higher average CMC deck, I could see keeping more expensive ramp like this, or maybe if you play in a meta with a ton of card draw. I feel comfortable cutting it since I'm putting in boreas charger, a ramp spell with more synergy, versatility, and utility.
GertzDK I don't like Gate to Phyrexia because you can't use it as a sack outlet, since it only works once in your upkeep. It might be annoying for other people, but nothing you can get around with. Considering how often you will activate this in a game, most likely just better to play a good instant speed removal card like Despark or even a Merciless Eviction instead.
April 13, 2020 4:15 p.m.
GertzDK phsycord I agree with phsycord. However, I could maaaybe see running it in a heavy artifact meta in which you can get value out of it every turn. It's certainly not a good sac outlet. All it does well is repeatedly kill the most threatening artifact which, in a non-artifact meta, may not be that threatening. Because of how much single-target permanent-exile we have in BW, we don't have a hard time dealing with problem artifacts. I can only see it getting out of hand when up against multiple artifact-reliant decks.
April 13, 2020 7:56 p.m.
sub780lime says... #5
I am planning to put Lurrus of the Dream-Den in my Teysa deck. The recursion is great!
May 3, 2020 7:30 p.m.
You still have Massacre Wurm in combo but it's neither in the main nor maybeboard.
Also another card suggestion: Hell's Caretaker
May 4, 2020 4:48 p.m.
sub780lime says... #8
I run Hell's Caretaker of mine and have gotten quite a bit of mileage out of it. I look at Garrison Cat and while it does what the deck wants to do, I don't know if it does it better than anything else already in the deck. The other afterlife one drops do other things (flying or lifelink).
May 4, 2020 10:03 p.m.
Garrison cat is similar to Doomed Traveler and Hunted Witness, with Teysa on the battlefield they give 3 death triggers for only 1 mana. They are the "best" card that give 3 death triggers, the others ones cost 2 mana (Orzhov Enforcer, Doomed Dissenter, Tithe Taker, Carrier Thrall, Imperious Oligarch) you could argue about the purpose of token flying, deathtouch, 2/2 but from a cost for deathtrigger perspective it's strickly better.
May 5, 2020 12:02 p.m.
sub780lime says... #10
I definitely wouldn't remove Tithe Taker for Garrison Cat, but I see your point and if there's a desire to lower the curve further, I do agree the others could be swapped out, especially Imperious Oligarch.
May 6, 2020 5:37 p.m.
Eloniel Lurrus is alright, but I don't think any of the CMC < 2 permanents in the deck are worth recurring only once per turn. I already have Phyrexian Reclamation and the Reassembling Skeleton which do a better job. Massacre Wurm is still in the combos since unfortunately, right now I can't edit the description. Every time I save a new description, the editor deletes half of it. I've been waiting to see if it fixes itself, but it hasn't yet, so eventually, I'll have to get the admins' attention. I like Hell's Caretaker but it seems very slow and costly. Cards like that die quickly in my meta, and I don't like playing such slow cards.
sub780lime Personally, I like 1-drop fodder like Garrison Cat more than 2-drops like Tithe Taker. The extra abilities tacked onto two drop fodder don't interest me compared to the tokens they make on death. Since I'm mainly aiming for the tokens, I'd rather them be 1 less mana. That being said, I don't think I'll include the cat since Hunted Witness and Doomed Traveler have been enough.
May 11, 2020 6:08 p.m.
sub780lime It did. Fortunately, it's cured now. I also fixed the problem where the Teysa image wasn't showing in the description. Don't know if that was a problem for anyone else though.
GertzDK says... #1
What about Gate to Phyrexia ? Too meta?
April 13, 2020 3:55 p.m.