Gisa and Geralf card art — Art by Aaron J. Riley · © Wizards of the Coast

Grave Danger

Bracket 2

SCD — Starter Commander Decks · 2022-12-02

Commander: Gisa and Geralf · Color identity: BU

Bracket

Power Level

4.3/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

No hard floors (no Game Changers, no two-card infinite combo, no mass land destruction) — verdict from optimization score 24/75 (13 interaction, 9 card draw, 1 fast-mana)
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 5 Starter Commander Decks decks we analyzed, this is 3rd strongest — power 4.3 versus a set average of 4.3. That is 0.3 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Starter Commander Decks decks

Chaos Incarnate — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Draconic Destruction — Bracket 2, power 4.4
First Flight — Bracket 2, power 4.2
Token Triumph — Bracket 2, power 4.2

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Animated Army — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Counter Intelligence — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Dance of the Elements — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Divine Convocation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Doom Prevails — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Gisa and Geralf's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
Sign in Blood Card advantage $3.14

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Gisa and Geralf
1 Geralf's Mindcrusher
1 Laboratory Drudge
1 Army of the Damned
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Champion of the Perished
1 Crippling Fear
1 Gravespawn Sovereign
1 Josu Vess, Lich Knight
1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
1 Liliana's Mastery
1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Necromantic Selection
1 Necrotic Hex
1 Open the Graves
1 Overseer of the Damned
1 Scourge of Nel Toth
1 Unbreathing Horde
1 Zombie Apocalypse
1 Enter the God-Eternals
1 Havengul Lich
1 Undermine
1 Vela the Night-Clad
1 Grimoire of the Dead
1 Choked Estuary
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Deep Analysis
1 Distant Melody
1 Eternal Skylord
1 Lazotep Plating
1 Sinister Sabotage
1 Cruel Revival
1 Curse of Disturbance
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Lazotep Reaver
1 Liliana's Devotee
1 Lord of the Accursed
1 Lotleth Giant
1 Loyal Subordinate
1 Mire Triton
1 Murder
1 Spark Reaper
1 Syphon Flesh
1 Undead Augur
1 Vampiric Rites
1 Vengeful Dead
1 Victimize
1 Vizier of the Scorpion
1 Withered Wretch
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Gleaming Overseer
1 Pilfered Plans
1 Arcane Signet
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Dimir Signet
1 Heraldic Banner
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Wayfarer's Bauble
1 Command Tower
1 Dismal Backwater
1 Jwar Isle Refuge
1 Salt Marsh
1 Submerged Boneyard
4 Island
3 Island
3 Island
3 Island
5 Swamp
5 Swamp
4 Swamp
4 Swamp

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/GraveDanger_SCD.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.