How about Kaya's Guile ?? i think is a good card for this deck.

Zordy93 It has a lot of utility, but outside of graveyard heavy metas, it's a bit lacking. The forced sacrifice is good but overcosted by itself for 3 mana. Exiling graveyards is really good but only in certain metas. The other two abilities don't really do anything for our deck, so I'd say if you're at least getting value from the graveyard aspect, then it's worth looking at. My meta isn't hyper graveyard centered, so I'm gonna go without it.

Great Deck!
Wouldn't Bloodghast , Brood of Cockroaches and Nether Traitor be better options to Doomed Traveler , Reassembling Skeleton , or Hunted Witness ? They may not create extra tokens, but they can repeatedly trigger non-token-death-triggers.

I play all three cards you wanted to swap out in my own Teysa Deck (Teysa Karlov's Citadel).

Reassembling Skeleton is simply awesome because you can do this in instant speed and it has really nice combos you can pull off to get infinite death triggers and sometimes also infinite mana. The same goes for Nether Traitor , awesome card and I'd include it.

If you are not on a budget then Bloodghast might be an improvement over Doomed Traveler or Hunted Witness . Sometimes can screw you if you don't have enough fixing, but depending you'll be playing this card early, I think it should be fine. Only downside is that you don't get immediate value. Both Travler and Witness give you 2 creatures for , which is nice.

For Brood of Cockroaches I'm a bit sceptical, because you get it back in to your hand EOT. So no combos are possible like the ones for Skeleton and Traitor. I'd rather run a Doomed Traveler or Hunted Witness instead for immediate value.

It seems like combo 2 is missing the sac outlet. I am think there should be a "+ Sac Outlet" included. Let me know if I am wrong.

@sub780lime: imo the wording of the 2nd combo is correct, as it states: "one creature dying" creates you two tokens and two spirits (also tokens).

But of course it's awesome if you have a sack outlet on board and can instantly create 9 death triggers off of one non token creature dying.

The wording specifically mentions sac'ing a creature with no sac outlet mentioned:

"Ogre Slumlord or Pawn of Ulamog + Requiem Angel + Teysa: The angel triggers on any non-spirit creature, so with it, Ogre Slumlord or Pawn of Ulamog , and Teysa in play at once, a single creature dying will grant two tokens and two spirits. The tokens can then be sac'd to make four 1/1 spirits. This results in a possible total of 9 death triggers from one creature dying."

Well then go with: The tokens can then be sac'd with a sac outlet to make four 1/1 spirits. But imo it's pretty clear you need a sac outlet to sac something...

In two color decks I normally play it conservative when I cut in lands that dont instantly tap for colored mana. In my opinion prismatic vista is not better than just running a plains. I feel the card doesn't gain value until the third color, its perfect when wincons are in splash colors.

Thank you phsycord, for sharing your thoughts, they were very insightful.

phsycord, I see what you are saying about assumed information by needing a sac outlet. I am only pointing out there is an inconsistency between combo 2 and combo 3. If the combo is its end result (winning in combo 3, 9 death triggers in combo 2), then the sac outlet is a requirement and should be listed. If the sac outlet in combo 2 is just a bonus and not a core part of the combo being conveyed, then the wording you mentioned would definitely be a little clearer.

Any new cards from M20?

The Cavalier's are the most obvious choices, but I don't think they add enough and the weight of their color for their CMC's is prohibitive. Brought Back could be an interesting play, but not strong enough at this decks price point, IMO.

V6e6n6om Overall, M20 isn’t as impressive as it’s recent predecessors. Like sub780lime says, Brought Back is probably the closest to making the cut, but it’s a bit too situational. The cavaliers are cute but too color intensive for they power they bring. I’m not fully sold on my opinions yet, so I’ll see how the set rolls out

Masterful what about corpse knight. For our token generation damage.

Corpse Knight

V6e6n6om I’d rather play Vindictive Vampire or Falkenrath Noble . Corpse knight’s not a death trigger so Teysa can’t double it, and I don’t have enough token cards to take advantage of it otherwise. I could see it in a list with 20-30 token generators, or something more budget, but right now, it doesn’t do enough.

I've been away for a bit, but I'd like to address the general comments since I've been gone, so here goes.

alika Nether Traitor is definitely good but I prefer Reassembling Skeleton . I haven't needed the redundancy because of all my tutors, and (thankfully) my playgroup doesn't play much grave hate. If you're having trouble with sticking skeleton or accessing him, I'd definitely play traitor as well. As for Bloodghast or Brood of Cockroaches , they wouldn't be bad in a deck like this, I prefer 3 immediate creatures over one per turn, especially when 3 creatures is often all I need to draw into more. I'll add both to the maybeboard though, good suggestions, thanks for liking the deck, and sorry for the late reply!

sub780lime and phsycord, I'll change the wording to: The tokens can then be sac'd with a sac outlet, as it makes more sense. Thanks for correcting this.

Would Skeletal Vampire be useful as a token generator or too expensive?

Due to the amount of life gain these decks can use, I'm surprised no one has mentioned Vizkopa Guildmage . Essentially double the damage of the already doubled aristocrats. I know it would need ramp for consistency but it still seems worth it to me

I love this build! I don't have Recruiter of the Guard but might be getting it soon, which cards do you usually find with it? Thanks!

Tiddlydon Yeah, I'd say Skeletal Vampire is too much mana to replace any of the cards currently in the deck, especially since it's not a death trigger. It wouldn't do poorly though in a budget build, but I'd still personally rather play token generators that work off death triggers like Ogre Slumlord or Requiem Angel .

SwordOfMorning I don't usually kill with token damage, so I wouldn't play Vizkopa Guildmage . I could see running it in more of a token-centric lifegain build. This build doesn't actually gain as much life as you might think which is why I don't play lifegain payoffs.

Sabelaine Recruiter of the Guard isn't super necessary to the success of the deck, he just makes it more consistent. I mainly use him to start a Ranger of Eos death chain, but he can also get Blood Artist and friends which are the main wincons. If you're willing to spend the money he's a great addition.