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Gisa, the Hellraiser
Legendary Creature — Human Warlock · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander
What Gisa, the Hellraiser 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 · otherWhenever you commit a crime, create two tapped 2/2 blue and black Zombie Rogue creature tokens. This ability triggers only once each turn.
- Static ability · lordSkeletons and Zombies you control get +1/+1 and have menace.
- Keyword · wardward
- AbilityWard—{2}, Pay 2 life.
What a Gisa, the Hellraiser deck needs
Plays as skeleton typal. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- targeted spells and abilities aimed at opponents and their permanents (each crime is a trigger)
- creatures that profit from menace (it grants the team it)
- skeleton/zombie creatures (its text counts them)
The Gisa, the Hellraiser deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 33× A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality
- 8× A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Gisa, the Hellraiser
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.
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
- Forsaken Miner1 mana
- Tinybones, the Pickpocket1 mana
- Accursed Marauder2 mana
A team pump that actually pumps tokens
- Patchwork Banner3 mana
- Heraldic Banner3 mana
- Adaptive Automaton3 mana
- Cemetery Reaper3 mana
- Chief of the Foundry3 mana
- Icon of Ancestry3 mana
- Banner of Kinship5 mana
- Vanquisher's Banner5 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
- Cut Down1 mana
- Erebos's Intervention1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
- Extinction Event4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
- The Meathook Massacre2 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Herald's Horn3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
- Brotherhood Regalia2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
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