Gisa by toddtodderson

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa, Glorious Resurrector

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a mono-black Zombie/aristocrats attrition deck. It turns every death into value: sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder and Viscera Seer feed Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Bastion of Remembrance, Ayara, First of Locthwain, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Gisa, Glorious Resurrector completes the engine by exiling creatures opponents would lose to wipes, edicts, or combat, then returning them at your upkeep with decayed to attack or be sacrificed. The deck has three real finish paths: incremental drain plus zombie beatdown, burst life-loss from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and Exsanguinate, and a compact infinite loop with Bontu's Monument, Gravecrawler, and a Zombie sacrifice outlet. It is a grind-first deck with a low curve and heavy redundancy rather than a fast all-in combo deck.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Chainer's Edict
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Dark Bargain
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Final Act
  • 1 Gisa, Glorious Resurrector
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mutilate
  • 1 Nantuko Husk
  • 1 Nantuko Shade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nightmare Shepherd
  • 1 Noxious Gearhulk
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Rankle, Master of Pranks
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spawning Pit
  • 1 Supernatural Stamina
  • 30 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vindictive Lich
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zombie Trailblazer
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat