Teysa - Tokens - Aristocrats

Commander / EDH* Aristocrats Sacrifice Tokens WB (Orzhov)

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Creature (39)

• 1x Doomed Traveler
• 1x Viscera Seer
• 1x Abyssal Gatekeeper
• 1x Bishop of Wings
• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Cruel Celebrant
• 1x Dire Fleet Hoarder
• 1x Gleaming Barrier
• 1x Golgari Thug
• 1x Pitiless Pontiff
• 1x Spirit of Malevolence
• 1x Tithe Taker
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Dutiful Attendant
• 1x Filigree Familiar
• 1x Grim Haruspex
• 1x Hallowed Spiritkeeper
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Ministrant of Obligation
• 1x Nadier's Nightblade
• 1x Reliquary Monk
• 1x Teysa, Orzhov Scion
• 1x Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
• 1x Pitiless Plunderer
• 1x Seraph of the Scales
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x Treasure Keeper
• 1x Vindictive Vampire
• 1x Archon of Justice
• 1x Krav, the Unredeemed
• 1x Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1x Demon of Dark Schemes
• 1x Regna, the Redeemer
• 1x Requiem Angel
• 1x Sun Titan
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts
• 1x Reya Dawnbringer

Enchantment (12)

• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Bastion of Remembrance
• 1x Dark Prophecy
• 1x Angelic Accord
• 1x Court of Grace
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Divine Visitation
• 1x Rampage of the Valkyries
• 1x Revel in Riches
• 1x Ethereal Absolution
• 1x Martyr's Bond
• 1x Debtors' Knell

Artifact (11)

• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Orzhov Signet
• 1x Talisman of Hierarchy
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Heirloom Blade
• 1x Jar of Eyeballs
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Relic Vial
• 1x Aetherworks Marvel

Commander (1)

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Concealed Courtyard
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 12x Plains
• 13x Swamp
• 1x Temple of Silence
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse

Sorcery (3)

• 1x Consecrate / Consume
• 1x Open the Vaults
• 1x Revival / Revenge

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Sideboard

Creature (3)

• 1x Cavalier of Dawn
• 1x Cavalier of Night
• 1x Maw of the Obzedat

Planeswalker (1)

• 1x Kaya the Inexorable

Enchantment (1)

• 1x Cathars' Crusade

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Maybeboard

Creature (22)

• 1x Deathgreeter
• 1x Cartel Aristocrat
• 1x Gatekeeper of Malakir
• 1x Imperious Oligarch
• 1x Blistergrub
• 1x Cathodion
• 1x Dross Harvester
• 1x Kheru Bloodsucker
• 1x Orzhov Pontiff
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Falkenrath Noble
• 1x Mausoleum Guard
• 1x Orzhov Racketeers
• 1x Adarkar Valkyrie
• 1x Archon of Falling Stars
• 1x Harvester of Souls
• 1x Light of the Legion
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Knight of the Last Breath
• 1x Overseer of the Damned
• 1x Thieving Amalgam
• 1x Ashen Rider

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Shadows of the Past
• 1x Grave Betrayal

Artifact (1)

• 1x Blade of the Bloodchief

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A lot of the card selection is based on budget, and what cards I already own.

Out of personal preference, and ease of recursion, most interaction in the deck aims to come attached to permanents. LTB triggers are the best, since our commander doubles them up. With a reliable sac outlet, they can be used at instant speed.

We want our commander out as much of the time as possible, so we're running a selection of instants and equipment that grant indestructibility and/or hexproof.

We're also running some repeatable and/or mass recursion, to get back key pieces and continue sacrificing creatures with juicy LTB triggers.

Cards that replace themselves or others on death

• Cavalier of Dawn / Cavalier of Night have removal on ETB, and recursion on death. handy.

• Treasure Keeper - 2 cards cast for 1 creature dying? thank you very much!

• Heirloom Blade - pay to equip to an angel token, sac, get 2 angels off the top. sounds good to me.

• Dutiful Attendant - returns things to hand, but still very nice

• Golgari Thug - puts things we want on top of our library, and can bring itself back after you're done drawing those. what value!

And some more at-will recursion:

• Sun Titan

• Witch of the Moors - edict and we get a creature back to our hand

• Open the Vaults - sure, it can help out opponents, but with the enchantments we're running, it's likely to benefit us more

• Revival / Revenge (Revival) (it's in the name)

• Demon of Dark Schemes - a personal favorite, since it can often net us a ton of just on its ETB, and then we can select from any graveyard for fairly cheap - especially when Teysa turns that 4:1 ratio into a 2:1

Karmic Justice and Martyr's Bond help discourage our opponents from destroying our stuff as well.

Card Draw comes in a few forms here:

Creatures that draw us cards when they die:

• Filigree Familiar

• Solemn Simulacrum

Permanents that draw us cards when a creature (mostly nontoken) dies

• Grim Haruspex

• Midnight Reaper

• Dark Prophecy

• Jar of Eyeballs - not every creature death = card draw, but being able to reliably pick a card from the top 4+ is still very nice

Sacrifice outlets that directly draw us cards

• Krav, the Unredeemed

• Relic Vial

And... other stuff, I guess?

• Consecrate / Consume (Consecrate)

I'm generally not too big on infinite combos, but Divine Visitation is just too juicy to not use (and I already own it) Divine Visitation + Requiem Angel or Bishop of Wings + Divine Visitation = endless supply of angel tokens if we don't have Teysa in play, infinite amount of angels if we do.

To add:

• tutors - it would be nice to be able to get the enchantments and, to a lesser extent creatures, we need

Currently, there are clearly too many cards here, and the manabase isn't even in yet. Need to either:

• thin out some redundancies

• remove some mechanic/effect that doesn't serve us

Removing the classic Aristocrats cards which drain our opponents when creatures die is a possible direction. After all, we can just beat faces with our flying, vigilant, life-linking tokens.

Date added	3 years
Last updated	3 years
Key combos	Divine Visitation + Requiem Angel Bishop of Wings + Divine Visitation
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	6 - 3 Mythic Rares 33 - 1 Rares 22 - 1 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.71
Tokens	Angel 4/4 W, Angel 4/4 W w/ Vigilance, Emblem Kaya the Inexorable, Energy Reserve, Golem 3/3 C, Human Soldier 1/1 W, Morph 2/2 C, Spirit 1/1 W, Spirit 1/1 WB, The Monarch, Treasure, Warrior 1/1 W