Gisa by Dariandrephos

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghoulcaller Gisa

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Zombie Tribal and Aristocrats strategy led by Ghoulcaller Gisa. The primary game plan revolves around casting synergistic Zombie creatures and lords in the early turns, establishing Gisa on Turn 4 or 5, and using her activated ability to sacrifice high-power creatures into exponential waves of 2/2 Zombie tokens. Once a critical mass of tokens is assembled, the deck closes the game through evasive combat buffs (menace, fear, swampwalk) and recurring aristocrat drain triggers from cards like Bastion of Remembrance, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Blood Artist. If combat stalls, Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Contamination provide explosive burst damage or asymmetric mana denial to secure victory across mid-game turns.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adaptive Automaton
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Banner of Kinship
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Cemetery Recruitment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Contamination
  • 1 Corpse Harvester
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursecloth Wrappings
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Death-Priest of Myrkul
  • 1 Door of Destinies
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Haunted One
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Liliana's Mastery
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Macabre Reconstruction
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ninja Teen
  • 1 Obelisk of Urd
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Risen Executioner
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 27 Swamp
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Tomb Tyrant
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Vampiric Rites
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 White Lotus Tile
  • 1 Witch's Cauldron
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat