Gisa & Geralf's Bogus Journey

Commander / EDH Tribal UB (Dimir) Zombie

dangerfly

Land (34)

• 1x Ancient Tomb
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Cavern of Souls
• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crypt of Agadeem
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Fetid Pools
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x High Market
• 2x Island
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 6x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Temple of Deceit
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Instant (8)

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Intuition
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Pact of Negation
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Creature (24)

• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Corpse Connoisseur
• 1x Corpse Harvester
• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Relentless Dead
• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier
• 1x Snapcaster Mage
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Vengeful Dead
• 1x Wonder
• 1x Zombie Master

Enchantment (9)

• 1x Dictate of Erebos
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Grave Pact
• 1x Necropotence
• 1x Phyrexian Arena
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Rooftop Storm
• 1x Secrets of the Dead

Commander (1)

Artifact (12)

• 1x Ashnod's Altar
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Door of Destinies
• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Mox Diamond
• 1x Perpetual Timepiece
• 1x Phyrexian Altar
• 1x Sensei's Divining Top
• 1x Skullclamp
• 1x Sol Ring

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Bitter Ordeal
• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Damnation
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Toxic Deluge
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Planeswalker (3)

• 1x Liliana of the Dark Realms
• 1x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 1x Liliana Vess

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Sideboard

Creature (10)

• 1x Drunau Corpse Trawler
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Lich Lord of Unx
• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Risen Executioner
• 1x Stitcher Geralf
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Vengeful Pharaoh
• 1x Wight of Precinct Six

Sorcery (5)

• 1x Army of the Damned
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Moan of the Unhallowed
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Rise from the Grave

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Call to the Grave
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile

Instant (4)

• 1x Compelling Deterrence
• 1x Fact or Fiction
• 1x Forbidden Alchemy
• 1x Tragic Slip

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This is a Gisa and Geralf Zombie Tribal EDH deck that only exiles can stop. It's downright hilarious against the rare mill deck, but other notable archetypes will come to respect the dead.

The most consistent strategy of this deck is to cast your commander and start pulling Lords out of your graveyard. Zombies are lucky enough to have plenty (I've got 7!), so keep them coming and your enemies won't know which to hit (except it's obviously Undead Warchief). If you can get off Rooftop Storm, you can go ahead and say "mission accomplished" as your momentum is unstoppable. But even before then, if you can secure the Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth + Cabal Coffers using the tutors or Expedition Map, you're golden. Opponents start to think wraths are futile, and it's just a matter of time before their own fallen heroes join the ranks of the undead (see Liliana Vess's ultimate).

Token generation is a sub-theme, though I got rid of Army of the Damned because it was never resolving. Noosegraf Mob, Diregraf Colossus, Endless Ranks of the Dead, and Liliana, the Last Hope are all great in this regard.

Tutors like Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Sidisi, Undead Vizier keep the great cards in your hand. Cheap graveyard tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive are just as valuable. I love my Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos. Every game I've been able to resolve it has been an inevitable sweep, and if you can wheel in Fleshbag Marauder, it's double sacrifice each death. Get it off early with rocks and watch the tears come down.

Gravecrawler is an auto-include that is surprisingly powerful to sacrifice over and over again with Ashnod's Altar, Grimgrin, Corpse-Born, Victimize, Secrets of the Dead, and Corpse Harvester. Relentless Dead can function in the same role for 1 more swamp a casting and return to your hand while pulling other creatures of CMC X to the battlefield. Prized Amalgam will win the award for showing up for every party so long as you can get him into your graveyard.

Lastly, graveyard shenanigans like Living Death make this a super fun miracle deck that can be threatening until it's finally put to rest. Games never seem fully lost after a particularly destructive wrath, because unlike everyone else at the table, your creatures come back from the graveyard nearly 100% of the time. Finally, winning by exiling all opponent's libraries with Bitter Ordeal after gravestorming with Gravecrawler infinite times is a real pleasure.

Let me know what you think and what on my sideboard might be swapped in. I am especially terrible at noticing diamonds in the rough, so let me know if you spot anything with unrecognized potential.

Cards elsewhere in my collection that could find a home in Gisa & Geralf:

CREATURES

• Corpse Augur (in Meren of Clan Nel Toth)

INSTANTS

• Arcane Denial (in Derevi, Empyrial Tactician)

• Muddle the Mixture (in Brago, King Eternal)

• Swan Song (in Teferi, Temporal Archmage)

SORCERIES

• In Garruk's Wake

• Dread Return (in Tasigur, the Golden Fang)

• Rite of Replication (in Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Mizzix of the Izmagnus, and Tasigur, the Golden Fang)

ARTIFACTS

• Basalt Monolith (in Teferi, Temporal Archmage and Brago, King Eternal)

• Chromatic Lantern in BINDER

• Obelisk of Urd (in Krenko, Mob Boss)

• Nevinyrral's Disk (in Teferi, Temporal Archmage)

• Mind Stone (in Teferi, Temporal Archmage, Krenko, Mob Boss, and Brago, King Eternal)

ENCHANTMENTS

• Mystic Remora (in Brago, King Eternal)

LANDS

• Bojuka Bog (in Meren of Clan Nel Toth)

• Underground River

Date added	7 years
Last updated	6 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 4 Mythic Rares 53 - 8 Rares 18 - 7 Uncommons 6 - 2 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.95
Tokens	Emblem Liliana of the Dark Realms, Emblem Liliana, the Last Hope, Human Cleric 1/1 BW, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie Wizard 1/1 UB, Zombie X/X U
Folders	EDH