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Deck Comments / Re: Teysa, Emperess of Death - Comments
« on: January 28, 2019, 08:10:09 pm »
I feel like your deck lacks a bit of focus.
Is it supposed to be an aristocrat deck, a token deck, a reanimation deck or a death trigger deck?
Don't get me wrong, tokens and Aristocrats go hand in hand, but Aristocrats usually win by sacrificing tokens, not by making them big, so I'm a bit confused as to why you're running Cathars' Crusade?
I could say the same about Divine Visitation: this card is mostly useful in an aristocrat deck if you want to go infinite with Requiem Angel, or it's useful if you run a full-token aggro strategy, but it's not so useful on its own in an aristocrat deck.
Your deck also runs a lot of creatures that will create tokens once (when they die), and very few cards that can create tokens consistently (like Grave Titan), so I'm worried your deck will end up running out of gas.
If I were you, I'd replace one-off effects with effects you can abuse with Teysa's ability, like Requiem Angel, Teysa, Orzhov Scion, etc. as those could allow you to go infinite, and then win with Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat
You also run some cards that benefit from non-tokens dying, like Field of Souls, Ogre Slumlord. To make these cards consistent, if you want to go full death-triggers with this deck, then I'd go with Bloodghast, Reassembling Skeleton or Nether Traitor. Those creatures recur themselves and would allow you to cut some recursion to focus the deck on whichever strategy you go for.
If you go for Aristocrats/tokens, the 1st change I'd make is Arguel's Blood Fast: there's no reason not to run Vampiric Rites. It also costs 2 mana to activate, acts as a sac outlet, and gives you draw.
I'd also work on reducing your curve: 9 cards at 5 CMC, and 9 cards at 6 CMC, that's 20% of your deck that's over 5 CMC, which means your deck will most likely end up being very slow if you can't get a mana engine going on (speaking of which, you need Smothering Tithe).
Is it supposed to be an aristocrat deck, a token deck, a reanimation deck or a death trigger deck?
Don't get me wrong, tokens and Aristocrats go hand in hand, but Aristocrats usually win by sacrificing tokens, not by making them big, so I'm a bit confused as to why you're running Cathars' Crusade?
I could say the same about Divine Visitation: this card is mostly useful in an aristocrat deck if you want to go infinite with Requiem Angel, or it's useful if you run a full-token aggro strategy, but it's not so useful on its own in an aristocrat deck.
Your deck also runs a lot of creatures that will create tokens once (when they die), and very few cards that can create tokens consistently (like Grave Titan), so I'm worried your deck will end up running out of gas.
If I were you, I'd replace one-off effects with effects you can abuse with Teysa's ability, like Requiem Angel, Teysa, Orzhov Scion, etc. as those could allow you to go infinite, and then win with Blood Artist/Zulaport Cutthroat
You also run some cards that benefit from non-tokens dying, like Field of Souls, Ogre Slumlord. To make these cards consistent, if you want to go full death-triggers with this deck, then I'd go with Bloodghast, Reassembling Skeleton or Nether Traitor. Those creatures recur themselves and would allow you to cut some recursion to focus the deck on whichever strategy you go for.
If you go for Aristocrats/tokens, the 1st change I'd make is Arguel's Blood Fast: there's no reason not to run Vampiric Rites. It also costs 2 mana to activate, acts as a sac outlet, and gives you draw.
I'd also work on reducing your curve: 9 cards at 5 CMC, and 9 cards at 6 CMC, that's 20% of your deck that's over 5 CMC, which means your deck will most likely end up being very slow if you can't get a mana engine going on (speaking of which, you need Smothering Tithe).
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