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Make lots of tokens, hit with them, sacrifice them, win the game.

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> Introduction

The deck is built around our comander's ability which causes death triggers to occur 2 times. Mainly these death triggers generate tokens, steal life from our opponents, make us draw cards, or force opponents to sacrifice creatures. On the other hand, Teysa's second passive ability makes our tokens have vigilance and lifelink which allows us to play the deck in an aggro mode and still have blockers to defend ourselves.

> How to play the deck

This list has a medium mana curve so we will always try to start with a hand that has at least one mana rock so we can ramp a bit, and low cost token generating creatures or enchantments. With that in play, we will play commander to take advantage of double death triggers either to generate more creature tokens, draw more cards or ramp more.
There is no need to be afraid of sacrificing creatures because the deck has multiple recursion options such as Living Death or Phyrexian Reclamation that allow us to recover creatures from the graveyard.
Board control is guaranteed with cards like Grave Pact which force our opponents to sacrifice up to 2 creatures for every one of ours that dies. On the other hand, cards like Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Attrition allow us to sacrifice creatures and eliminate major threats. If we do not draw these cards, or we do not have a token generation engine, the deck includes a few removal spells.

> Win conditions

> Stomp opponents with tokens:

This deck is capable of generating an absurd amount of tokens, from creatures that generate tokens when attacking such as Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, as well as creatures or enchantments that generate tokens when other creatures die such as Pawn of Ulamog, Sifter of Skulls, Ogre Slumlord or Blight Mound.
In addition, Teysa's second passive ability makes our tokens have vigilance and lifelink which fits perfectly with this strategy. Cards like Cathars' Crusade or Inkshield can easily give us the victory if used at the right time.

> Drain life from opponents:

Cards like Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant or Blood Artist drain life from our opponents every time one of our creatures or tokens dies. Thanks to Teysa this effect is doubled whenever the comander is on the battlefield. In short, we can sacrifice our creatures with any of the sac outlets draining the life of our opponents to 0. On the other hand, this deck can "ramp" exaggeratedly with cards such as Pitiless Plunderer, Black Market, Pawn of Ulamog or Sifter of Skulls. This mana can be used to cast Debt to the Deathless and demolish our opponents in a single turn.

> Liliana, Dreadhorde General:

If the token generation and sacrifice strategy fails, this card can by itself win the game as its -9 ressets our opponents' board completely.

> Infinite combos

I am not a big fan of winning games with infinite combos, however, this list opens up the possibility for several options for infinite mana generation / token generation / drain life from opponents combos. I have included the cards that allow these combos because by themselves are pieces that fit perfectly with the aristocrat strategy of the deck, in addition, my playgroups have decks ranging from low - medium power levels, to high - competitive levels, so I like my deck to be able to at least give a fight to the decks of higher power level and that is why I include the infinite combos. How the combos work?:

> Nim Deathmantle combos:

To make combos with Nim Deathmantle we need:
-Something that generates tokens on death (itself or another creature we control), for example, Pawn of Ulamog, Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Tithe Taker, Orzhov Enforcer, Blight Mound + any other creature, etc.
-A free Sac outlet such as Viscera Seer, Yahenni, Undying Partisan or Yawgmoth, Thran Physician if we have enough life points. However, the best option in this section would be the altars: Ashnod's Altar or Phyrexian Altar, as they also give us the necessary ramp for the combo.
-Ramping by death: Any card that generate a source of mana when one of our creatures dies. As we have seen in the previous point, Altars are the best option, but other cards such as Pitiless Plunderer, Sifter of Skulls or Pawn of Ulamog can also fulfill this function.
-Drain life on LTB trigger. Any card that drains life from our opponents every time one of our creatures dies, such as Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant or Blood Artist.

How does the combo work?
Simple, we sacrifice to Ashnod's Altar any creature that generates tokens with its death (with Teysa in play, 2 tokens will be generated) generating 2 colorless mana (for instance we could use Orzhov Enforcer), then we use the ability of Nim Deathmantle to return the sacrificed creature to the battlefield (for this we must have 2 additional mana at the beginning of the combo), we sacrifice the generated tokens, generating 4 colorless mana allowing the process to be repeated infinitely generating infinite colorless mana in the process. If on the battlefield we have any permanent that steals life from our opponents every time one of our creatures dies, we will win the game by draining infinite lives from our opponents. There are several combinations of cards that achieve the same effect.

> Nether Traitor / Reassembling Skeleton / Bloodsoaked Champion / Oathsworn Vampire combos:

This combo is very similar to the previous one, but in this case we don't need Nim Deathmantle since Nether Traitor, Reassembling Skeleton, Oathsworn Vampire and Bloodsoaked Champion have their own recursion ability. For this combo we need:
-A free Sac outlet such as Viscera Seer, Yahenni, Undying Partisan or Yawgmoth, Thran Physician if we have enough life points. However, the best option in this section would be Phyrexian Altar, as it gives us the colored mana we need for the combo.
-Token generator on creature death (only for Nether Traitor). Any card that generates creature tokens when a creature we control dies. Pawn of Ulamog, Blight Mound, Ogre Slumlord, ... are useful for this purpose.
-Ramping by death: For this combo we need to generate black mana when sacrificing any of these sac fodders. The only options we have in this section are Phyrexian Altar (which also serves as a sac outlet) or Pitiless Plunderer that generates a treasure when any of our creatures die.
-Drain life on LTB trigger. Any card that drains life from our opponents every time one of our creatures dies, such as Zulaport Cutthroat, Cruel Celebrant or Blood Artist.

How does the combo work?
Starting with the combo with Nether Traitor (for this combo it is not necessary to have the commander on the battlefield). We sacrifice the Nether Traitor, if we do it with Phyrexian Altar we generate a point of black mana, if not, we need to have on the battlefield Pitiless Plunderer to generate the treasure. When Nether Traitor dies a creature token will be generated thanks to one of the generators mentioned above that we will also sacrifice, allowing the activation of the Nether Traitor's own recursion ability using the mana that we have generated at the beginning. With each death we will be draining the life of our opponents, so we repeat this loop as many times as we want until we win the match. As you can see this loop is not only infinite but we also generate infinite black mana, so if we don't have any life draining cards on the battlefield, we can spend this infinite mana with Debt to the Deathless to finish the game.

If we use Reassembling Skeleton for the combo, the operation is very similar although the reursion ability of the Reassembling Skeleton requires one black and one colorless mana to activate it, without any restriction unlike the Nether Traitor, which requires the death of another creature. In this case, there are two options: If we use Phyrexian Altar we will need a creature token generator to get the second mana point to revive Reassembling Skeleton. The second option is simpler and we will only need Pitiless Plunderer and the commander to generate 2 treasures for each death. If we do not have the commander, as in the previous case we will also need a token generator per creature death. From there, the combo continues as in the combo with Nether Traitor and we drain the life of our opponents until we win the game.

To do the combo with Bloodsoaked Champion or Oathsworn Vampire, is the same as the Reassembling Skeleton with an extra condition such as having to atack prior to do the combo or have gained life this same turn.

In this category there are other variants using the Luminous Broodmoth that allows us to perform an iteration of the "free" combo thanks to its ability.

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