Teysa's Death Party

Commander / EDH Aristocrats WB (Orzhov)

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Death Triggers (33)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Dimir House Guard
• 1x Dire Fleet Hoarder
• 1x Doomed Dissenter
• 1x Doomed Traveler
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Elenda, the Dusk Rose
• 1x Garrison Cat
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hallowed Spiritkeeper
• 1x Hunted Witness
• 1x Imperious Oligarch
• 1x Martyr of Dusk
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Ministrant of Obligation
• 1x Murder Investigation
• 1x Myr Sire
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Orzhov Enforcer
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Requiem Angel
• 1x Seraph of the Scales
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Sultai Emissary
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Tithe Taker
• 1x Vesperlark
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat

Sac Outlets (12)

• 1x Blood Bairn
• 1x Bloodflow Connoisseur
• 1x Bloodthrone Vampire
• 1x Cartel Aristocrat
• 1x Martyr's Cause
• 1x Priest of Forgotten Gods
• 1x Spawning Pit
• 1x Stronghold Assassin
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist
• 1x Woe Strider

Recursion (10)

• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Brought Back
• 1x Call of the Death-Dweller
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Enduring Renewal
• 1x Nightmare Shepherd
• 1x Vesperlark
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Wake the Dead
• 1x Whisper, Blood Liturgist

Ramp (7)

• 1x Carrier Thrall
• 1x Dire Fleet Hoarder
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Sifter of Skulls
• 1x Sol Ring

Removal (5)

• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Final Payment
• 1x Mutual Destruction
• 1x Spark Harvest
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion

Commander (1)

Mana Base (36)

• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Forsaken Sanctuary
• 1x Orzhov Guildgate
• 11x Plains
• 1x Scoured Barrens
• 17x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Field
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Witch's Cottage

Additional Cost (8)

• 1x Altar's Reap
• 1x Blood for Bones
• 1x Bone Splinters
• 1x Costly Plunder
• 1x Final Payment
• 1x Mutual Destruction
• 1x Spark Harvest
• 1x Victimize

Board Wipes (4)

• 1x Kaya's Wrath
• 1x Shatter the Sky
• 1x Slaughter the Strong
• 1x Wrath of God

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Ramp

Aside from the obvious Sol Ring and Orzhov Signet, you can get creative with ramp. One main ramp method in this deck is using cards like Pitiless Plunderer, Gleaming Barrier, and Carrier Thrall to accumulate Treasure tokens, and 1/1 Eldrazi Scions that sac for to ramp.

Death Triggers

There are a few levels of death triggers in this deck. There are the very cheap creatures (1 or 2 CMC) to get out during early game, that are easily sacrifice-able and revive-able, like Hunted Witness and Carrier Thrall.

Then there are the death triggers for midgame. These are mid-range CMC (3-4 CMC) creatures that trigger not only when they die, but also when your other creatures die. These include creatures like Pitiless Plunderer or Elenda, the Dusk Rose. Midgame death triggers also include enchantments like Field of Souls or Dark Prophecy.

Late-game death triggers are often expensive (5+ CMC) enchantments, or sometimes creatures, that have epic death triggers. Dictate of Erebos, Martyr's Bond, and Butcher of Malakir all essentially have the same effect, forcing your opponents to sacrifice two creatures or permanents (with Teysa). In addition, Open the Graves can get you a buttload of 2/2s.

Sac Outlets

Play cards that let you sacrifice your creatures. Creatures like Martyr's Cause, Spawning Pit, or Viscera Seer that let you sacrifice. Also cast spells that are super cheap because you have to sacrifice a creature as an 'additional cost', which, in this deck is also good. Some examples are Bone Splinters, Costly Plunder or Victimize.

Also, I added in Wrath of God and Kaya's Wrath as boardwipes for good measure. You can just kill everything, and then get some creature tokens on the board while your opponent has nothing.

Recursion

There are not an infinite number of cards with good death triggers, so we can recycle the good ones by bringing them back from the graveyard. This lets us re-use the best death triggers and always have creatures out as blockers (or attackers) despite how many we sacrifice.

For recursion, we have a few instant or sorceries that bring back cards from the graveyard, like Victimize and Brought Back, but the main source of recursion is from creatures. Whisper, Blood Liturgist lets you sac to bring stuff back (it rhymes so you know it's great :). When Dutiful Attendant dies, you can get some creatures from the graves, and Vesperlark is in this deck only for it's Evoke, which gets back two (with Teysa) early-game creatures back. Also, Nightmare Shepherd brings back all of your dying stuff as 1/1s, but they keep their death triggers and that's all that really matters so it's pretty great.

I also want to give a special shout out to Wake the Dead which lets you reap the benefits of however many creatures you have in your graveyard (probably a lot!).

Combos and Win Conditions

• Any boardwipe plus Open the Graves, killing everything and then giving me a number of 2/2s that is twice the number of creatures I controlled. Opponents have nothing, they dead.
• Teysa Karlov + Enduring Renewal + Zulaport Cutthroat + Dire Fleet Hoarder + any free sac outlet = opponents loose infinite life and you gain infinite life — there are very similar combos that can be made with replacing Enduring Renewal with Nightmare Shepherd, or Dire Fleet Hoarder with Gleaming Barrier, etc.
• Teysa Karlov + Enduring Renewal + Sifter of Skulls + Gleaming Barrier + any free sac outlet = infinite Treasures
• Dictate of Erebos, Martyr's Bond, and Butcher of Malakir are all basically win cons because they can easily make opponents sac all (or a lot of) their creatures.

Other than these main strategies, I added some card draw for good measure, just to make sure the low mana costs never force you to start top-decking.

Feedback is always welcome!

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Date added	4 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	2 - 0 Mythic Rares 24 - 0 Rares 17 - 0 Uncommons 28 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.81
Tokens	2/2 C Artifact Creature Spawn, Copy Clone, Eldrazi Scion 1/1 C, Goat 0/1 W, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Manifest 2/2 C, Morph 2/2 C, Phyrexian Myr 1/1 C, Soldier 1/1 W, Soldier 1/1 W w/ Lifelink, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, Treasure, Vampire 1/1 W, Zombie 2/2 B
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