Gisa by user3626267

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa, the Hellraiser

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This mono-black aristocrats deck leverages Gisa, the Hellraiser to convert interaction into an aggressive Zombie army. Low-cost ramp and rituals deploy Gisa by Turn 4. From there, instant-speed removal, graveyard exile, and abilities trigger Gisa's crime mechanic on each player's turn, rapidly generating 3/3 Zombie Rogue tokens with menace. The strategy translates this token swarm into lethal pressure by Turn 5 or 6, either by attacking through defenses or sacrificing creatures to aristocrat drain engines like Blood Artist, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Mirkwood Bats. Backed by explosive mana lands like Cabal Coffers and asymmetric attrition engines like Tergrid, God of Fright, the deck easily pivots into game-closing plays with Exsanguinate or Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Strong card-draw engines sustain resources throughout the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Attrition
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blot Out
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Chainer's Edict
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Desert
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geth, Lord of the Vault
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heartless Act
  • 1 Hostile Negotiations
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Magus of the Coffers
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nirkana Revenant
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Royal Assassin
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Smothering Abomination
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vengeful Bloodwitch
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withered Wretch
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat