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Glissa, the Traitor
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Zombie Elf · {B}{G}{G} · Black/Green commander
First strike, deathtouch
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
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What Glissa, the Traitor 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 · deathWhenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.
- Keyword · first strikefirst strike
- Keyword · deathtouchdeathtouch
What a Glissa, the Traitor deck needs
Plays as removal payoff. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- removal and deathtouch (each opposing creature death returns an artifact)
- artifacts with value to return
The Glissa, the Traitor deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 14× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- 9× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- 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 Glissa, the Traitor
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 permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Lotus Petal0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Lion's Eye Diamond0 mana
- Ornithopter0 mana
Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
- Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
- Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
- Aftermath Analyst2 mana
- Ripples of Undeath2 mana
- Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
- Six3 mana
- Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
- Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Assassin's Trophy2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Beast Within3 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Nature's Claim1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Entomb1 mana
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 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
- Vicious Rivalry4 mana
- Endemic Plague4 mana
Refill your hand
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Sylvan Library2 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Asceticism5 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Golgari Signet2 mana
- Incubation Druid2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
- Heritage Druid1 mana
- Joraga Treespeaker1 mana
Combos with Glissa, the Traitor
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Glissa, the Traitor is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Glissa, the Traitor + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Transmogrifying Wand + Imotekh The Stormlord114 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Ashnod's Altar + Ornithopter91 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Ornithopter60 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor + Dictate Of Erebos + Ashnod's Altar + Ornithopter58 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor + Grave Pact + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Memnite51 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor + Dictate Of Erebos + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Ornithopter51 decks