Gisa the Hellraiser by Skomoto

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa, the Hellraiser

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This mono-black deck is helmed by Gisa, the Hellraiser, converting frequent crimes into a swarming army of 3/3 menace Zombie Rogues. The deck integrates dense, hyper-efficient removal spells and low-cost repeatable disruption pieces like Ghost Vacuum and Unlicensed Hearse to trigger Gisa on both your turn and opponents' turns. Supported by traditional Zombie tribal lords like Undead Warchief and Death Baron, the token army quickly scales into an evasive combat threat. In parallel, an aristocrats engine featuring Blood Artist, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Mirkwood Bats extracts lethal value from every token created or sacrificed. Mana doublers and explosive lands such as Cabal Coffers and Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx provide the mana velocity required to recast threats and fuel large turns. The deck delivers a high-tempo balance of interactive control, resilient graveyard recursion, and inevitable multiplayer pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Baleful Mastery
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasting Station
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Cling to Dust
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Desert
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Embalmer's Tools
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Forsaken Miner
  • 1 Gempalm Polluter
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Malicious Affliction
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Murderous Rider // Swift End
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Raven of Fell Omens
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rotten Reunion
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 19 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Unlicensed Hearse
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withered Wretch
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zombie Trailblazer