Wretched Ranks Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict
Everything in the Wretched Ranks Commander deck: all 100 cards with current prices, what the deck is worth against the sealed price, the 0 new cards, and whether it is worth buying.
Ghoulcaller Gisa
{B}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Create X 2/2 black Zombie creature tokens, where X is the sacrificed creature's power.
Is Wretched Ranks worth buying?
This is a very focused, linear deck that sticks out from the rest for its go-wide gameplay, and it should play differently out of the box than any of the other options. Zombies are generally appealing to a wide enough audience that I could totally see this deck capturing new Magic players, and it hits a lot of the right notes with its synergistic lords, board wipes, and token-making effects. Not as flashy as angels or dragons, but a fun and engaging play experience all the same.
How Wretched Ranks plays
It’s zombies, y’all. Wretched Ranks goes all in digging up the undead, and it offers the best go-wide experience of the typal decks in this line-up. Instead of beating down with large flying angels and dragons, this deck wants to build up an overwhelming board of braindead bodies and run the opponents over with lords and recursion.
I roll my eyes a little at Ghoulcaller Gisa being the commander, since it’s over a decade old at this point and wasn’t even that good when it was printed back in Commander 2014. It gets the point of the deck across and is fairly straightforward for new players, but I’d be tempted to run Zul Ashur, Lich Lord as my commander instead.
Most valuable cards in Wretched Ranks
Wretched Ranks decklist
Commander 1
- 1Ghoulcaller Gisafoil$3.46
Creatures 31
- 1Carrion Feeder$2.16
- 1Champion of the Perished$0.24
- 1Cryptbreaker$0.25
- 1Gravecrawler$0.60
- 1Eternal Taskmaster$0.25
- 1Mire Triton$0.23
- 1Razorlash Transmogrant$0.25
- 1Undead Augur$0.23
- 1Undead Butler$0.23
- 1Wight of Precinct Six$0.23
- 1Zul Ashur, Lich Lord$0.32
- 1Ayara, First of Locthwain$4.51
- 1Cemetery Reaper$0.17
- 1Death Baron$0.98
- 1Diregraf Colossus$0.58
- 1Fleshbag Marauder$0.20
- 1Headless Rider$0.69
- 1Lord of the Accursed$0.19
- 1Lord of the Undead$1.99
- 1Midnight Reaper$0.21
- 1Graveborn Muse$2.26
- 1Josu Vess, Lich Knight$0.24
- 1Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet$0.64
- 1Liliana's Reaver$0.21
- 1Soulless One$0.27
- 1Undead Warchief$4.55
- 1Vengeful Dead$0.23
- 1God-Eternal Bontu$0.26
- 1Gray Merchant of Asphodel$0.64
- 1Noxious Ghoul$0.33
- 1Grave Titan$0.28
Instants 5
- 1Consuming Corruption$0.21
- 1Go for the Throat$0.27
- 1Consumed by Greed$0.23
- 1Withering Torment$1.30
- 1Tendrils of Corruption$0.30
Sorceries 9
- 1Cemetery Recruitment$0.19
- 1Night's Whisper$0.27
- 1Sign in Blood$0.27
- 1Ambition's Cost$0.24
- 1Moan of the Unhallowed$0.22
- 1Mutilate$0.29
- 1Syphon Flesh$0.24
- 1Necrotic Hex$0.25
- 1Army of the Damned$0.37
Artifacts 8
- 1Sol Ring$1.39
- 1Arcane Signet$0.41
- 1Charcoal Diamond$0.25
- 1Mind Stone$0.32
- 1Bontu's Monument$2.74
- 1Commander's Sphere$0.23
- 1Infernal Idol$0.29
- 1Patchwork Banner$1.77
Enchantments 7
- 1Bad Moon$0.32
- 1Oversold Cemetery$0.41
- 1Phyrexian Arena$3.05
- 1Endless Ranks of the Dead$1.04
- 1Marchesa's Decree$0.24
- 1Liliana's Mastery$0.23
- 1Open the Graves$0.23
Lands 39
- 1Barren Moor$0.22
- 1Bojuka Bog$1.52
- 1Castle Locthwain$1.06
- 1Geier Reach Sanitarium$0.83
- 1Memorial to Folly$0.21
- 33Swamp$0.00
- 1Witch's Cottage$0.34
Upgrading Wretched Ranks
Black zombie decks usually work like this: You’ll have a lot of zombies, some cards make 2/2 zombie tokens, which will often be 3/3 or higher thanks to zombie lords and other payoffs, and then some graveyard synergies or death triggers. If your zombies die, you draw more cards, fill your graveyard, get them back, or drain your opponent’s life. And if they don’t, you just attack.
Draftsim's upgrade guide makes 16 changes to this deck. The first picks (hover for the card):
More on Wretched Ranks and the Foundations precons
- Official Foundations Commander decklists (Wizards of the Coast)
- New Foundations Commander Precons Are Stacked With Staples and Valuable Reprints by A.L. Walser (September 21, 2026)
- All 12 Mono-Colored Commander Precons in Magic Ranked by A.L. Walser (October 29, 2026)