Wretched Ranks (Big Boys) by Orlun

Format: Commander

Commander: Ghoulcaller Gisa

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is a mono-black Zombie swarm and aristocrats strategy led by Ghoulcaller Gisa. The core engine leverages high-power, low-mana creatures such as Phyrexian Dreadnought, Hunted Horror, Rotting Regisaur, and Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant as high-yield sacrifice fodder. When Gisa sacrifices these creatures, she generates massive bursts of 2/2 black Zombie tokens in a single tap. These tokens fuel multiple scaling avenues: wide combat attacks enhanced by Zombie lords like Death Baron and Undead Warchief, heavy card draw engines like Skullclamp and Undead Augur, and lethal life drain via Ayara, First of Locthwain, Plague Belcher, and The Meathook Massacre. Supported by big-mana engines like Cabal Coffers and resilient recursive lines with Gravecrawler, the deck reliably presents overwhelming board states on Turn 5 and closes out tables by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Death's Shadow
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flare of Malice
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Hunted Bonebrute
  • 1 Hunted Horror
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant
  • 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Dreadnought
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Soulgorger
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rot-Curse Rakshasa
  • 1 Rotting Regisaur
  • 1 Shakedown Heavy
  • 1 Sidisi, Regent of the Mire
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 29 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 Thornbite Staff
  • 1 Thousand-Year Elixir
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord