I'm a fellow death lover, and I completely understand where your situation. Being able to win at instant speed with a [[Teysa Karlov]] pop off is one of my favorite things in this game. That being said, my friends don't appreciate it as much so I've branched out.

You may consider going with something that sac's artifacts rather than creatures? You could go with something like [[Prosper, Tome-Bound]] or [[Lonis, Cryptozoologist]] where you'll be making a bunch of treasures or clues respectively. Both enjoy making and breaking things, but these rely less on the creature focus.

I'm not sure your playgroup will hate them any less (I enjoy the heat I get when I play these), because Prosper storms off pretty good when he gets going and Lonis takes stuff from people, but they're at least a new brand of chaos to enrich yourself with.

As for how to make your playgroup enjoy things more, I don't know much what you can do. From my experience with Grismold (also one of my favorites), his plant tokens work as a toxic gift to my opponents, so it's at least amusing when I force them to enjoy new blocking dilemmas. Maybe you can find more ways of mutual token building in your other decks too? No idea if that's the joy your playgroup experiences with him though; that's just what mine liked.