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Grave Danger

Gisa and Geralf Commander Precon

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This is a Zombie tribal graveyard deck. Gisa and Geralf fill the graveyard on entry, and then once per turn let the deck recast a Zombie creature from the graveyard. That makes milled and dead Zombies a second hand. Self-mill, sacrifice outlets and death triggers turn the creature pile into card advantage and life drain, while lords and token makers build a wide undead board. How it wins: It overwhelms opponents with a large, anthem-pumped Zombie army, sometimes made evasive with flying, intimidate or menace, while a stream of Zombie deaths and enter triggers drains the table. Key roles: - Graveyard fuel: Self-mill effects stock the graveyard with Zombies for Gisa and Geralf's once-per-turn recasting, and some also fill the yard for mass reanimation and graveyard-count payoffs (Geralf's Mindcrusher, Liliana, Untouched by Death, Mire Triton). - Recursion engines: Further ways to cast or return creatures from graveyards extend Gisa and Geralf's reach beyond one Zombie per turn, including whole-graveyard returns and stealing opponents' dead creatures (Havengul Lich, Zombie Apocalypse, Scourge of Nel Toth). - Sacrifice and death payoffs: Sac outlets and edict effects turn expendable Zombies into cards, tokens and life loss. Undying and graveyard recasting mean the dead creatures come back anyway (Undead Augur, Vengeful Dead, Open the Graves). - Mass token production: Big sorceries and kicked creatures flood the board with 2/2 Zombies, and amass creatures grow an Army that also counts as a Zombie (Army of the Damned, Josu Vess, Lich Knight, Necrotic Hex). - Lords and evasion: Anthems and keyword granters make the horde lethal, giving tokens flying, deathtouch, hexproof or menace so the swarm can attack past blockers (Diregraf Captain, Eternal Skylord, Vela the Night-Clad). - Drain finishers: Devotion and graveyard-count enter triggers deal large chunks of damage, and recasting them from the graveyard repeats the payoff (Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Lotleth Giant, Loyal Subordinate).

Grave Danger decklist

  • Geralf's Mindcrusher
  • Laboratory Drudge
  • Army of the Damned
  • Cemetery Reaper
  • Champion of the Perished
  • Crippling Fear
  • Gravespawn Sovereign
  • Josu Vess, Lich Knight
  • Liliana, Untouched by Death
  • Liliana's Mastery
  • Liliana's Standard Bearer
  • Midnight Reaper
  • Necromantic Selection
  • Necrotic Hex
  • Open the Graves
  • Overseer of the Damned
  • Scourge of Nel Toth
  • Unbreathing Horde
  • Zombie Apocalypse
  • Enter the God-Eternals
  • Havengul Lich
  • Undermine
  • Vela the Night-Clad
  • Grimoire of the Dead
  • Choked Estuary
  • Sunken Hollow
  • Temple of Deceit
  • Deep Analysis
  • Distant Melody
  • Eternal Skylord
  • Lazotep Plating
  • Sinister Sabotage
  • Cruel Revival
  • Curse of Disturbance
  • Feed the Swarm
  • Fleshbag Marauder
  • Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • Lazotep Reaver
  • Liliana's Devotee
  • Lord of the Accursed
  • Lotleth Giant
  • Loyal Subordinate
  • Mire Triton
  • Murder
  • Spark Reaper
  • Syphon Flesh
  • Undead Augur
  • Vampiric Rites
  • Vengeful Dead
  • Victimize
  • Vizier of the Scorpion
  • Withered Wretch
  • Diregraf Captain
  • Gleaming Overseer
  • Pilfered Plans
  • Arcane Signet
  • Commander's Sphere
  • Dimir Signet
  • Heraldic Banner
  • Sol Ring
  • Talisman of Dominance
  • Unstable Obelisk
  • Wayfarer's Bauble
  • Command Tower
  • Dismal Backwater
  • Jwar Isle Refuge
  • Salt Marsh
  • Submerged Boneyard
  • 4× Island
  • 3× Island
  • 3× Island
  • 3× Island
  • 5× Swamp
  • 5× Swamp
  • 4× Swamp
  • 4× Swamp
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