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Teysa Karlov
Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {2}{W}{B} · Black/White commander
If a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
Creature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.
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What Teysa Karlov actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a creature dying causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
- Static ability · keyword_grantCreature tokens you control have vigilance and lifelink.
What a Teysa Karlov deck needs
Plays as death-trigger doubler. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- death-trigger payoffs, sacrifice outlets and expendable bodies (its doubler multiplies every death trigger)
- creatures that profit from vigilance/lifelink (it grants the team them)
The Teysa Karlov deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 12× A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- 8× A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- 5× Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- 10× Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- 8× Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
Best cards for Teysa Karlov
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A permanent that pays off creatures dying — the trigger a death-trigger doubler multiplies
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Blood Artist2 mana
- Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Cruel Celebrant2 mana
- Elas il-Kor, Sadistic Pilgrim2 mana
- Marionette Apprentice2 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
A permanent whose own trigger fires on attacking — the fuel an attack-trigger doubler multiplies, and the payoff an attack commander wants beside it
- Voice of Victory2 mana
- Guide of Souls1 mana
- Adeline, Resplendent Cathar3 mana
- Ainok Strike Leader2 mana
- Jacked Rabbit2 mana
- Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd2 mana
- Valley Rotcaller2 mana
- Sun Titan6 mana
Sacrifice a creature for no mana, repeatably
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Viscera Seer1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Bartolomé del Presidio2 mana
- Spawning Pit2 mana
- Umbral Collar Zealot2 mana
- Bloodthrone Vampire2 mana
- Cartel Aristocrat2 mana
Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it
- Nurgle's Rot1 mana
- Ojer Taq, Deepest Foundation // Temple of Civilization6 mana
- Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead5 mana
- Phyrexian Triniform9 mana
- Hildibrand Manderville // Gentleman's Rise2 mana
- Edgar, Charmed Groom // Edgar Markov's Coffin4 mana
- Exquisite Huntmaster4 mana
- Grixis Slavedriver6 mana
Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide
- Replicating Ring3 mana
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer5 mana
- Hero of Bladehold4 mana
- Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
- Elspeth, Sun's Champion6 mana
- Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
- Cosmogrand Zenith3 mana
- Kaya, Geist Hunter3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Path to Exile1 mana
- Swords to Plowshares1 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Damn2 mana
- Vanquish the Horde8 mana
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Wrath of God4 mana
- Day of Judgment4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Kaya's Wrath4 mana
Refill your hand
- Esper Sentinel1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Archivist of Oghma2 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Combos with Teysa Karlov
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Teysa Karlov is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Viscera Seer14,588 decks
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Carrion Feeder10,070 decks
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Bartolomé Del Presidio9,006 decks
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Yahenni, Undying Partisan6,591 decks
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Woe Strider4,218 decks
- Teysa Karlov + Pitiless Plunderer + Reassembling Skeleton + Umbral Collar Zealot3,241 decks
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