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Gisa and Geralf
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander
When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.
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What Gisa and Geralf actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · etbWhen Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
- Static ability · restrictionOnce during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.
- Keyword · millmill
What a Gisa and Geralf deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 6× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- 16× A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- 26× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
Best cards for Gisa and Geralf
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
- Displacer Kitten4 mana
- Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
- Conjurer's Closet5 mana
- Nephalia Smuggler1 mana
- Y'shtola Rhul6 mana
- Escape Protocol2 mana
- Gandalf, Shadow's Foe7 mana
- Essence Flux1 mana
A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Hedron Crab1 mana
- Ruin Crab1 mana
- Millikin2 mana
- Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
- Excavated Wall1 mana
- Exhibition Tidecaller1 mana
- Eye Collector1 mana
A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- Carrion Feeder1 mana
- Gravecrawler1 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Champion of the Perished1 mana
- Cryptbreaker1 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Death Baron // Death Baron0 mana
- Grimgrin, Corpse-Born // Grimgrin, Corpse-Born0 mana
A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
- Bojuka Bog0 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
- Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
- Dimir Aqueduct0 mana
- Dismal Backwater0 mana
- Lotus Field0 mana
- Mortuary Mire0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Altar of Dementia2 mana
- Brain Freeze2 mana
- Mindcrank2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Codex Shredder1 mana
- Hedron Crab1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Do or Die2 mana
- Force of Despair3 mana
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Innocent Blood1 mana
- Coils of the Medusa2 mana
- Forced March3 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Lively Dirge2 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Insatiable Avarice1 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana