Commander: Gisa & Geralf

New idea. I'm just going to present this finished a Commander deck, and talk about how I got there.

 

Instant 1 Gigadrowse 1 Repeal 1 Sudden Spoiling 1 Truth or Tale 1 Blue Sun's Zenith 1 Catalog 1 Reaping the Graves 1 Capsize 1 Frantic Search	Artifacts 1 Dimir Signet 1 Nihil Spellbomb 1 Dimir Cluestone 1 Bontu's Monument 1 Nevinyrral's Disk 1 Nim Deathmantle
Enchantment 1 Energy Flux 1 Hissing Miasma 1 Call to the Grave 1 Liliana's Mastery 1 Open the Graves 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead	Sorcery 1 Read the Bones 1 Pore Over the Pages 1 Deny Reality 1 Divination 1 Dregs of Sorrow 1 Life's Finale 1 Decree of Pain
Lands 1 Dismal Backwater 15 Swamp 1 Salt Marsh 9 Island 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Terramorphic Expanse 1 Temple of the False God 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Mortuary Mire 1 Submerged Boneyard 1 Halimar Depths 1 Leechridden Swamp 1 Morphic Pool 1 Castle Vantress Planeswalker 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death	Creatures 1 Scrapskin Drake 1 Ghoulraiser 1 Unbreathing Horde 1 Diregraf Captain 1 Lord of the Undead 1 Zombie Outlander 1 Vodalian Zombie 1 Cemetery Reaper 1 Cryptoplasm 1 Reef Pirates 1 Drunau Corpse Trawler 1 Lamplighter of Selhoff 1 Soulless One 1 Clone 1 Gempalm Polluter 1 Graveborn Muse 1 Noxious Ghoul 1 Withered Wretch 1 Zombie Brute 1 Undead Warchief 1 Nefashu 1 Twisted Abomination 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1 Gravedigger 1 Lord of the Accursed 1 Phyrexian Delver 1 Accursed Horde 1 Dread Slaver 1 Lim-Dûl the Necromancer 1 Risen Executioner 1 Zombie Master 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 1 Shipwreck Dowser

Gisa and Geralf is my long overdue zombie build. I probably could have a 60 card deck but my buddy Fuz already made one and I'm not sure I have anything new to offer on the notion. Zombie tribal is pretty resilient and can go pretty far. 

But in Commander, I'm working something a bit different. G&G is an expensive creature for the ability-

casting it on turn four is something I want to do, but isn't likely to pay off until turns five or six. And since they don't get any zombie bonuses, getting rid of them isn't terribly difficult. 

Still, playing G&G is something that gives you access to your graveyard in a pretty cool way. I've added Ghoulraiser and Gravedigger so I can repeatedly utilize creatures from my graveyard, but one big challenge has been the mill quality of G&G. This deck has some powerful spells that I really want to use because it is a little on the slow side. A Life's Finale or Gigadrowse can be huge!

Enter Shipwreck Dowser. It's not much and it's not a zombie but it does allow for me to recur spells and I can even get second helpings from it when it dies by bringing it back with Gravedigger or even Phyrexian Delver. 

Nim Deathmantle was a great suggestion from Caitlin and I'm using Bontu's Monument to help keep me in games just a little longer. 

All in all, I just find this deck entertaining to play. It's hasn't played out as being too powerful but it also has serious threats that opponents have to respect. I'm digging it.