Glissa, the Traitor

Glissa, the Traitor is a creature recursion engine that punishes your opponents while filling your graveyard with artifacts. Her deathtouch and first strike make her a excellent blocker and attacker, but the real magic happens when creatures die—whether they're yours or your opponents'. Every creature death becomes a free artifact recycle, letting you loop cheap artifacts, sacrifice outlets, and utility pieces repeatedly. The deck wants to play defensive creatures early while setting up a sacrifice engine, then transition into a grindy mid-game where you're recouping value faster than opponents can rebuild.

Your win comes from generating incremental advantage through artifact loops and attrition. Pack the deck with cheap artifacts like Ornithopter, Nim Deathmantle, and Viscera Seer, then layer in creatures that force opponents to block or sacrifice. Once you're recurring artifacts and creatures every turn cycle, you'll be assembling card advantage that's hard to interact with. Some builds lean into aristocrats synergies with Zulaport Cutthroat and Blood Artist, turning each recursive loop into drain damage until opponents are on single digits.

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