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Welcome to my Teysa Karlov EDH guide.
This is the first EDH deck I ´ve ever built. For more than a year and a half I have been actively playing and upgrading this deck as my main. With every new expansion I was able to find new cards to try and upgrade the list. It had many goals throughout the past year, but I have eventually decided to opt for the death-trigger strategy, that slowly pings your opponents down before one explosive finale that should win you the game. Currently, the deck focuses on assembling pieces from three important categories to win the game - death triggers, something to die and trigger them and a way to kill our creatures, since our opponents won´t.
With that being said, this deck is not really competitive. It can be consistent, but it is adjusted for a slower meta, where games can last anywhere between 8-15 turns. It will not win you the game on turn 5, but it can establish a nice board state by then. I personally enjoy that with the right permanents, most of your spells do much more that what they say on the tin, usually with bonuses of chipping away at your opponents´ life total or giving you resources to advance further.
Bi-product of this playstyle is the incredibly oppressive environment you create with a board state that heavily punishes your opponents for interacting. Often, your opponents should think twice about removing or blocking your board pieces, leaving them for you to decide their fate.
In this guide I will walk you through the general strategies and goals of the deck and give some commentary on each individual piece. We will get to see how some of the rules of the game work in favour of the deck and how we can use them to our advantage. I will also recommend some interesting cards that are currently not parts of the deck, but were either heavily considered at some point, or were included, but got thrown out.
I don´t have much to say about the land base, except that it currently has all possible lands within my budget. I have included all lands that don´t enter tapped or have a way doing so, with only a few exceptions. Mana fixing has never been an issue with this deck, usually it´s the mana deficiency, since Orzhov doesn´t have access to much ramp.
These are the cards you want to get on the battlefield ASAP to create a wall of bodies that your opponents will have to remove before the triggers get there too. The thing is, that this deck also focuses on generating tokens on death, meaning that removing one creature will more often than not result in many more taking its place.
The bread and butter of this deck. These rascals will help you win the game once enough creatures die. The more of these guys you can get on the battlefield, the fewer bodies you need to actually win. And remember, all of their death triggers are doubled through Teysa.
Be cautious watching the triggers and read the cards carefully. It has happened many times, that I have decided to wipe my board to get rid of one player, only to find out I have actually won the game.
So, our opponents don´t want to kill our creatures? Do we have to do everything around here?
Yes. And it feels even better that way.
These cards are meant to enable death triggers en masse without our opponent´s help. At his point it is worth noting two important rulings from Gatherer:
"If a creature dying at the same time that another permanent you control leaves the battlefield causes a triggered ability of that permanent to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
"If a creature dying at the same time as Teysa (including Teysa itself dying) causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time."
This means that board wipes will not only trigger our pingers as if they were still on the battlefield, they will also still be doubled, making for some enormous hits coming from your side every time you wipe the board.
These cards exist in the deck to help us get to the important pieces faster or to make sure we always have something to do. Revival spells are also great for when important pieces are removed from our board before we fully got to utilize them.
Every good deck needs some interaction. We had a lot of it in the Sacrificial Altar category, but there´s also some cards we can use to hinder our opponents´ strategies without having an impact on our board.
These cards don´t really help us work towards the general strategy of the deck, but can be used to finish our opponents or degrade their life total even faster.
In this section I ´dl ike to take a look at some of the cards that had their place in the deck in the past. I´d also like to talk about some budget options, since no one wants to spend $250 on a deck they might not enjoy playing. I will also try to comment on some of the cards I have seen in Teysa Karlov online decklists and edhrec.com page and offer my insight into those options.
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