Gisa and Geralf
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
When Gisa and Geralf enters, mill four cards.
Once during each of your turns, you may cast a Zombie creature spell from your graveyard.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BU
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Innistrad Remastered
- Price
- $0.35
- EDHREC rank
- #3749
Gisa and Geralf land on the battlefield and immediately mill four cards, then give you a free Zombie cast from your graveyard every turn — that's card advantage and graveyard setup stapled to a single four-mana body. The cost is real: four mana is a tempo ask, and the once-per-turn restriction means you won't outpace dedicated engines like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver or sacrifice payoffs like Sidisi, Undead Vizier, but as a value piece in the 99 the floor is remarkably high.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver runs Gisa and Geralf as a self-fueling engine: Wilhelt generates Decayed tokens to sacrifice, while Gisa and Geralf stockpile the graveyard and recur the Zombies that keep dying, turning the sacrifice loop into a card-advantage flywheel.
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born needs a steady stream of Zombies to sacrifice for counters and to untap, and Gisa and Geralf deliver that supply by recasting threats directly from the graveyard — the two together mean Grimgrin rarely runs out of fuel.
The Scarab God
The Scarab God wants as many Zombies in the graveyard as possible to drain opponents each upkeep, and Gisa and Geralf accelerate the fill rate while also casting those same Zombies back out, keeping pressure on the board and the life total simultaneously.
Varina, Lich Queen
Varina, Lich Queen rewards attacking with Zombies with card draw and discard, which stocks the graveyard perfectly for Gisa and Geralf to then recast whatever got pitched — the two cards create a tight loop of draw, discard, and recursion.
Thraximundar
Thraximundar wants opponents to sacrifice creatures on attack, and Gisa and Geralf give the deck enough recurring Zombie presence to sustain those attacks over a long game without running out of board presence.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gisa and Geralf is a Commander card through and through — the combination of enters-the-battlefield mill, graveyard recursion, and tribal synergy maps perfectly onto the long, multiplayer game where that value compounds over many turns. In Modern and Pioneer the four-mana investment for a non-immediate-impact creature simply doesn't compete with the format's speed, and Zombie tribal in those formats has tighter, cheaper options for filling the graveyard. Legacy and Vintage are theoretically legal homes but offer no realistic path to play; the formats move too fast and the competition for slots is too fierce. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander format where Gisa and Geralf could see occasional play, particularly in a Zombie-focused list that wants the grind-it-out recursion axis.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Gisa and GeralfSidisi, Undead VizierNexus of Fate
Infinite turns; Lock
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Gisa and GeralfSidisi, Undead VizierBeacon of Tomorrows
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.35 bulk tier
At $0.35, Gisa and Geralf sits firmly in bulk territory — a buy-in low enough that including it in any Zombie or graveyard-focused Commander deck is a no-brainer financial decision. Bulk mythics with sustained tribal relevance tend to hold this floor reliably, so there's no urgency to speculate upward, but there's also essentially no risk in picking up a copy today.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.