Zombie Combos by nosliwelyk

Format: Commander

Commander: Gisa and Geralf

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Dimir Zombie deck is built around commander Gisa and Geralf, focusing on graveyard value, self-mill, and Aristocrats combo finishes. The deck leverages efficient graveyard tutors such as Buried Alive, Entomb, and Lively Dirge to stock key creatures in the graveyard. The primary win condition is an infinite sacrifice loop utilizing Gravecrawler and Phyrexian Altar alongside a drain payoff such as Diregraf Captain, Bastion of Remembrance, Vengeful Dead, or Syr Konrad, the Grim. Alternate game-ending engines include Altar of Dementia table mill and Rooftop Storm storm-style deployments. Card advantage is maintained through engines like Undead Augur, Midnight Reaper, and Secrets of the Dead. While the deck possesses explosive same-turn combo potential once pieces are assembled on Turn 6, its reliance on multiple permanent types and the graveyard makes it susceptible to targeted exile and well-timed removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Excavation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ballad of the Black Flag
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Case of the Stashed Skeleton
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curate
  • 1 Deranged Assistant
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Guildgate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dismal Backwater
  • 1 Dread Summons
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Jwar Isle Refuge
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
  • 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Mental Note
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 No Mercy
  • 1 Paradox Shaper // Omit Variables
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rowan's Grim Search
  • 1 Salt Marsh
  • 1 Secrets of the Dead
  • 1 Sinister Sabotage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Submerged Boneyard
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Treno, Dark City
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undermine
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Vela the Night-Clad
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord