wretched ranks by user7033504

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghoulcaller Gisa

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Zombie tribal aristocrats engine commanded by Ghoulcaller Gisa. The primary strategy focuses on deploying resilient low-curve Zombies, ramping into Gisa, and sacrificing high-power bodies to exponentially widen the board with 2/2 Zombie tokens. The deck translates this token army into victory through dual avenues: swarming combat backed by anthem lords like Death Baron and Undead Warchief, and non-combat drain from aristocrat payoffs including Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Vengeful Dead, and Mirkwood Bats. Draw engines like Cryptbreaker, Graveborn Muse, and Skullclamp maintain deep card replenishment, while graveyard recursion loops like Gravecrawler and Lord of the Undead ensure long-term resilience. The deck lacks fast infinite combos or stack interaction, leaving it vulnerable to instant-speed board wipes and artifact-heavy strategies, but it reliably establishes overwhelming board presence and lethal burn around Turn 6 to 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Corpse Augur
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Eternal Taskmaster
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana's Reaver
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Razorlash Transmogrant
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulless One
  • 34 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Butler
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wight of Precinct Six
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord