Teysa Karlov

Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Casual)

    So I think that all of us have the certain card that we just want to make work no matter who inefficient they might be. To me that card is Teysa, Orzhov Scion which is just one of those card I fell in love with as soon as I saw it when browsing Ravnica block.

    Now I want to go through the thought process of making a casual deck based around a creature this one of course being Teysa herself. First off we need to look at the strengths of out foundation in order to build upon it. Teysa is a source or reoccurring removal as well as a generator for tokens. So from here we have two choices that we came make. The first choice is to create a combo deck that from or just make a deck were Teysa is a growing source of advantage. We will be doing the combo route in this article.

    If were going the route of a combo deck things like Painter’s Servant could be useful as it would provide a combo to field wipe with spectral procession. Painter’s Servant makes the tokens both black and white thus they are created again when sacrificed to Teysa so you can exile as many creatures as you want. Now all you need to do is add some other outlets to get a variety of effects. If you want limitless mana you could use Ashnod’s Altar again with Painter and Teysa.

    Twilight Drover is another combo type card as it can get big real quick if you have a combo outlet it make it have unending +1/+1 counters on it.  Other combos include getting souls attendants for limitless life, Altar of Dementia to mill your opponent, and carnage alter to draw cards (though this one is a little worse). All of these seem rather solid sure there not going to win legacy tournaments but overall I’m happy with the results.

    So with that done let’s try to put together a deck list of some sort for the simple combo version of the deck.

Creatures

X4 Teysa, Orzhov Scion
X4 Twilight Drover
X4Soul’s Attendants
X4 Painter’s Servant

Instants
X4 Spectral Procession
X4 Sword to Plowshares

Artifacts
X4 Ashnod’s Altar
X4 Altar of Dementia
X2 Carnage Altar

Lands
X4 Marsh Flats
X4 Godless Shrines
X10 Plains
X8 Swamps

    Seems solid enough for a casual type deck we could certainly add card like dark confidant if we wanted to make it more competitive but it seems unlikely that a creature based combo deck like this could even truly be an actual legacy deck. That being said we certainly fulfilled or goal of making a combo Teysa deck and I got to say I love the flavor with all the altars and Teysa sacrificing things it makes me happy inside.