Glissa Commander

Format: Commander

Commander: Glissa Sunslayer

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Golgari Midrange deck leverages Glissa Sunslayer as an efficient early engine to pressure opponents, draw cards, and strip utility enchantments or counters. The mana base relies on a dense suite of 1-mana dorks and 2-mana land ramp to deploy Glissa on Turn 2 and accelerate into potent midrange threats like Elder Gargaroth, Questing Beast, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. Card advantage flows consistently through combat damage triggers, Black Market Connections, and The Great Henge. Once a wide board is established, the deck transitions into lethal pressure via creature tutors like Natural Order and Finale of Devastation, finding decisive finishers such as Craterhoof Behemoth or Triumph of the Hordes. Robust removal like Assassin's Trophy, Force of Vigor, and Toxic Deluge keeps opposing strategies in check, while instant-speed protection like Heroic Intervention shields key creatures during critical combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Badgermole Cub
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bridgeworks Battle // Tanglespan Bridgeworks
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Concordant Crossroads
  • 1 Craterhoof Behemoth
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Defiler of Vigor
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Elder Gargaroth
  • 1 Eldritch Evolution
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Endurance
  • 1 Fanatic of Rhonas
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Garruk's Uprising
  • 1 Gix's Command
  • 1 Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor
  • 1 Glissa Sunslayer
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Lair of the Hydra
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Natural Order
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Nissa, Ascended Animist
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ohran Frostfang
  • 1 Okina, Temple to the Grandfathers
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Questing Beast
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Restless Cottage
  • 1 Rishkar's Expertise
  • 1 Sarulf, Realm Eater
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tail Swipe
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Resilience
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Turntimber Symbiosis // Turntimber, Serpentine Wood
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Tyvar's Stand
  • 1 Underground Mortuary
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Zopandrel, Hunger Dominus