In multiplayer Commander, cards in hand represent options, and options dictate the flow of the game. On Moxfield’s deckbuilding charts, few commanders extract raw card advantage from the battlefield as ruthlessly as the ancient corruptor himself: Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools.
As a mono-black Planeswalker commander with the Partner mechanic, Tevesh Szat represents an engine of pure sacrifice-based value. His +2 ability shields your life total and board state by creating two 0/1 Thrull tokens. However, his most powerful engine is his +1 ability, allowing you to sacrifice a creature or Planeswalker to draw two cards – a count that increases to three cards if the sacrificed permanent was a commander. By constantly consuming disposable tokens, cheap recursive creatures, and utility commanders, Tevesh Szat locks down the board with an unstoppable stream of resources.
Here is the strategic operational blueprint of Moxfield’s premier Tevesh Szat list, detailing how to convert expendable life into overwhelming card advantage.
1. Core Mechanics & Strategic Phases
Succeeding with Tevesh Szat requires maintaining a steady stream of sacrificial fodder while setting up interactive protection spells to safeguard him from combat.
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Early Game (Turns 1–2): Focus on fast mana acceleration and establishing cheap, recursive creatures like Reassembling Skeleton or Bloodghast. These will serve as fuel for your commander’s draw engine.
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Mid Game (Turns 3–4): Cast Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools. Immediately activate his +2 to build defensive blockers, or use his +1 to sacrifice your early-game fodder, drawing deeply into your deck to find high-impact control pieces and combo elements.
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Late Game (Turns 5+): Assemble your high-tier mana engines. Drain the table with classic aristocrat triggers or activate Tevesh Szat’s ultimate –10 ability to permanently seize control of every opponent’s commander, securing an immediate concession.
2. Moxfield Highlights: The Sacrificial Altar
The highest-rated community lists on Moxfield optimize Tevesh Szat by surrounding him with highly synergistic death-trigger engines, powerful mana doublers, and game-ending drain threats.
Bloodghast / Reassembling Skeleton
The ultimate fuel. Because Tevesh Szat requires a constant supply of creatures to sacrifice for card draw, creatures that can easily return from the graveyard to the battlefield are essential. Bloodghast returns automatically with Landfall, while Reassembling Skeleton can be brought back at instant speed for just two mana.
Zulaport Cutthroat / Blood Artist
The premier passive drain engines. With Tevesh Szat constantly sacrificing creatures, these cheap aristocrat staples turn every death trigger into a direct life-total swing. They slowly wither your opponents‘ health pools while keeping your own life total safe from aggressive attacks.
Cabal Coffers / Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
The classic mono-black mana engine. This land pairing generates astronomical amounts of black mana based on the number of Swamps you control. This allows you to easily fund your recursive creatures, cast high-cost control spells, or channel massive amounts of mana into game-ending spells.
Skullclamp
An outstanding auxiliary draw engine. When paired with Tevesh Szat’s Thrull tokens, equipping Skullclamp to a 0/1 token instantly kills it, drawing you two cards for a single generic mana. This perfectly complements Tevesh’s built-in abilities, allowing you to draw through your deck at blinding speed.
3. Copy & Paste Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools 100-Card Decklist
Use the text box below to copy the complete highly-optimized community list. It contains exactly 1 Commander and 99 mainboard cards, calibrated perfectly for an error-free import into Moxfield.
1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
1 Ad Nauseam
1 Animate Dead
1 Arcane Signet
1 Arid Mesa
1 Ashnod's Altar
1 Bastion of Remembrance
1 Bitterblossom
1 Blood Artist
1 Bloodghast
1 Bloodstained Mire
1 Bolas's Citadel
1 Cabal Coffers
1 Cabal Ritual
1 Carrion Feeder
1 Chrome Mox
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Culling the Weak
1 Dark Prophecy
1 Dark Ritual
1 Dauthi Voidwalker
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Diabolic Intent
1 Dismember
1 Elspeth's Nightmare
1 Entomb
1 Exsanguinate
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fabled Passage
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Gixian Puppeteer
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Grim Haruspex
1 Grim Tutor
1 Imperial Seal
1 Jet Medallion
1 Leyline of the Void
1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
1 Lotus Petal
1 Mana Confluence
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mana Vault
1 Marsh Flats
1 Mayhem Devil
1 Meathook Massacre
1 Mental Misstep
1 Mind Stone
1 Mishra's Bauble
1 Misty Rainforest
1 Morbid Curiosity
1 Mutilate
1 Mystic Remora
1 Necropotence
1 Oppression
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Otawara, Soaring City
1 Phyrexian Altar
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Phyrexian Tower
1 Plaza of Heroes
1 Polluted Delta
1 Ponder
1 Preordain
1 Reanimate
1 Reassembling Skeleton
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Rhystic Study
1 Sangromancer
1 Scalding Tarn
1 Sensen's Divining Top
1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Soldevi Adnate
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Tarnished Citadel
1 Thassa's Oracle
1 Torment of Hailfire
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Unmarked Grave
1 Underworld Connections
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
1 Urza's Saga
1 Vampiric Tutor
1 Viscera Seer
1 Volrath's Stronghold
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Windswept Heath
1 Wooded Foothills
1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
1 Zulaport Cutthroat
14 Swamp
Summary: Sacrificing to Succeed
Moxfield’s top deck builders prioritize Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools because he turns your creatures into the most reliable card-drawing engine in the command zone. By keeping a steady supply of sacrificial thrulls and recursive skeletons, you establish a resource disparity that your opponents simply cannot overcome. Copy the flawless 100-card decklist above, make the necessary sacrifices, and claim absolute victory at your next Commander pod.
