Glissa betraying you w/ artifacts and stuff

Commander / EDH Artifact BG (Golgari) Multiplayer

The_Traitor

Land (38)

• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Blooming Marsh
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Castle Locthwain
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 4x Forest
• 1x Golgari Rot Farm
• 1x Hissing Quagmire
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Llanowar Wastes
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Nurturing Peatland
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Phyrexian Tower
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Prismatic Vista
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Tainted Wood
• 1x Temple of Malady
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Twilight Mire
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Whispers
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Wooded Foothills
• 1x Woodland Cemetery

Gamewinner (4)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Scuttling Doom Engine
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Boardclear (3)

• 1x Gaze of Granite
• 1x Phyrexian Scriptures
• 1x Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Combopiece (1)

• 1x Forbidden Orchard

Draw (1)

• 1x Castle Locthwain

Ramp (16)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Burnished Hart
• 1x Cloud Key
• 1x Everflowing Chalice
• 1x Foundry Inspector
• 1x Golgari Signet
• 1x Hedron Archive
• 1x Jhoira's Familiar
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Thran Dynamo
• 1x Unstable Obelisk
• 1x Wayfarer's Bauble

Synergy (13)

• 1x Buried Ruin
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Ichor Wellspring
• 1x Inventors' Fair
• 1x Krark-Clan Ironworks
• 1x Nemesis Mask
• 1x Phyrexia's Core
• 1x Semblance Anvil
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Trading Post
• 1x Tree of Tales
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Protection (7)

• 1x Darksteel Forge
• 1x Darksteel Plate
• 1x Ensnaring Bridge
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Platinum Angel
• 1x Platinum Emperion
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots

Graveyard Hate (3)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Nihil Spellbomb
• 1x Soul-Guide Lantern

Graveyard Synergy (1)

• 1x Scrap Trawler

Commander (1)

Value (16)

• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Clock of Omens
• 1x Crucible of Worlds
• 1x Gonti's Aether Heart
• 1x Hangarback Walker
• 1x Junk Diver
• 1x Marionette Master
• 1x Mindslaver
• 1x Mirrorworks
• 1x Mystic Forge
• 1x Shimmer Myr
• 1x Smokestack
• 1x Steel Hellkite
• 1x The Immortal Sun
• 1x Ugin, the Ineffable
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine

Removal (12)

• 1x Executioner's Capsule
• 1x Eye of Doom
• 1x Meteor Golem
• 1x Nemesis Mask
• 1x Nevinyrral's Disk
• 1x Noxious Gearhulk
• 1x Oblivion Stone
• 1x Ratchet Bomb
• 1x Spine of Ish Sah
• 1x Sylvok Replica
• 1x Thornbite Staff
• 1x Viridian Longbow

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Glissa, the Traitor was the first Commander I have ever played and I absolutely love the deck. It has some super fun combos and is all for value and synergy. You will discover new funny interactions every game. An absolute joy to play.

General Strategy

The Game Plan of this Deck is relatively clear: Control the board with artifact removal, that can come back and generate value with artifacts in general. Our Commander is very important we need Glissa, the Traitor on the battlefield to get value out of our cards. Many Cards like a Thornbite Staff are complete Trash without her. That is why this deck is running a lot of Protection like Lightning Greaves or Darksteel Plate. Without Glissa, the Traitor it is also hard to compensate the lack of carddraw by value in the deck. It might very well happen, that you can use only very few things to stay in the game.

Winning the Game

The Deck can win the game with combos like Mindslaver+Forbidden Orchard, Ugin, the Spirit Dragon, an Scuttling Engine/Marionette Master chain, or simply with a Blightsteel Colossus. Sometimes even Glissa, the Traitor or another creature like a Wurmcoil Engine can win by simply keeping the board clear and dealing damage.

The best cards in the deck

Removal

• Executioner's Capsule: Very powerful removal card, you will get back just for using it
• Spine of Ish Sah: Similar to the Executioner's Capsule, can get you card advantage for it's higher cost if you have a sacrifice outlet.
• Noxious Gearhulk: can be reocurring removal with an sacrifice outlet, the life gain can be really important as well.
• Oblivion Stone: kill everything but Glissa, the Traitor and get all our artifacts back. Crazy value play.
• Ratchet Bomb: reocurring removal.
• Steel Hellkite: you can remove a lot of things quite easily and get a lot of value.
• Sylvok Replica: reocurring artifac/enchantment removal for the rest of the game.
• Thornbite Staff: can consistently clear the board for an small amount of mana.
• Unstable Obelisk: reocurring permanent removal, that can get itself back and ramps you.

Ramp

The cost reducing cards are generally speaking best, since you want to recast the spells you got back a lot of times...

• Cloud Key
• Semblance Anvil
• The Immortal Sun

reocurring ramp cards are really good as well...

• Burnished Hart
• Wayfarer's Bauble

and the ramp cards that draw you cards are good engines.

• Mind Stone
• Hedron Archive

Synergy and Value

• Smokestack: will destroy your oppenents more than you if played carefully, can get you a lot of value.
• Krark-Clan Ironworks: The best sacrifice outlet in the deck. can get you a ton of value, especially with cards like Noxious Gearhulk.
• Trading Post: This Decks needs sacrifice outlets, this card will most of the time draw you cards, a relatively rare pleasure in this deck.
• Mystic Forge: nice card advantage
• Hangarback Walker: just gets you a lot of artifacts. and if you get it back even more. good combo piece

Some Combos that will probably go infinite of the Deck:

• Mindslaver+Forbidden Orchard+Glissa, the Traitor: Give the player you are controlling with Mindslaver the token and attack into Glissa, the Traitor. Get back Mindslaver. Loop.
• Hangarback Walker+Smokestack+Glissa, the Traitor: You cast the Hangarback Walker for a realtive high amount of mana and sacrife its tokens to the Smokestack. You shhould be able to get the Hangarback Walker consistently back.
• Glissa, the Traitor+any Removal Card(+Trading Post/Krark-Clan Ironworks/Phyrexian Core): Removal Loop
• Glissa, the Traitor+Darksteel Plate+Nevinyrral's Disk/other board clears: infinite boardclears
• Darksteel Forge+Nevinyrral's Disk: Infinite Boardclears, mostly one sided.

Combos:

This Deck will Combo most of the time, often with cards like Hangarback Walker or Wurmcoil Engine+Krark-Clan Ironworksor a Trading Post. I cannot cover all of them, since most cards somehow combo with Glissa, the Traitor or try to give additional value to Glissa, the Traitors effect. You will see this deck winning often by just chaining a lot of spells with a Marionette Master on the field or by recasting and sacrificing aScuttling Doom Engine a lot. There are more ways to win as covered before though. As said, this Deck is super fun because you will discover new combos and synergys all to time.

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	15 - 0 Mythic Rares 43 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.89
Tokens	Copy Clone, Energy Reserve, Goat 0/1 W, Servo 1/1 C, Spirit 1/1 C, Spirit 2/2 C, Thopter 1/1 C, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink