Gisa, the Hellraiser by Tapion1981

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa, the Hellraiser

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Gisa, the Hellraiser is a sacrifice-oriented mono-black Zombie aristocrats deck. The primary plan is to assemble a Gravecrawler loop with a Zombie sac outlet and Phyrexian Altar/Warren Soultrader/Pitiless Plunderer, converting each sacrifice into life loss via Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Ayara, or Mirkwood Bats. Secondary paths use Gisa's crime trigger to amass Zombie tokens, Ghoulcaller Gisa and Cryptbreaker to generate fodder, and Bolas's Citadel/Necropotence to dig. Big X spells (Exsanguinate, Torment of Hailfire) and Gray Merchant close games when mana is high. The commander is a multiplier, not an engine piece; the graveyard is the main resource, so graveyard hate is the deck's key vulnerability.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Market
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa, the Hellraiser
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malicious Affliction
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 21 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat