No Rest for the Wicked by GrimlockX

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa, the Hellraiser

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black aristocrats and token swarm deck commanded by Gisa, the Hellraiser. The primary game plan revolves around exploiting Gisa's crime trigger, which creates two 2/2 Zombie Rogues (buffed to 3/3 with menace) whenever you target an opponent, their permanents, or their graveyard. To maximize this ability across every turn of the table rotation, the deck runs low-cost, repeatable crime activators such as Glasses of Urza, Codex Shredder, Ghost Vacuum, and Liquimetal Torque, alongside a deep suite of cheap instant-speed removal. Once Gisa lands on Turn 4, these enablers flood the battlefield with an evasive zombie army while drawing cards through engines like Cryptbreaker, Undead Augur, and Skullclamp. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through overwhelming menace combat damage, swampwalk enablers, and potent aristocrat drain effects from Ayara, First of Locthwain, Mirkwood Bats, and Gray Merchant of Asphodel, supported by creature locks from Grave Pact.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Codex Shredder
  • 1 Consuming Corruption
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cremate
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Down
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Desert
  • 1 Detection Tower
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Embalmer's Tools
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gempalm Polluter
  • 1 Ghost Vacuum
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Glasses of Urza
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kaervek, the Punisher
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Persistent Constrictor
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plumb the Forbidden
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Progenitus
  • 1 Shoot the Sheriff
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 28 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zombie Trailblazer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat