An all artifact deck designed to take full advantage of the abilities of General Glissa, the Traitor, but also function just as reliably without her in play.

Card suggestions are welcome, as long as they adhere to the restrictions below and are justified (and if possible, with suggested cuts too). This deck is somewhat of a budget build. I won't be including cards priced like Verdant Catacombs unless there is a particularly good reason.

Glissa, Purveyor of Artifacts

Restrictions

In addition to the regular EDH deck restrictions, this deck is to contain no spells other than artifacts, in order to make everything recurrable through Glissa, the Traitor

Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

All cards will be black-bordered and modern framed. (Glissa wants everything to be uniform in appearance.)

This deck is designed for casual group games.

Playing Your Commander

The preferred play style for this deck is to get Glissa, the Traitor on board as soon as you might start getting attacked. No one wants to attack into a first striking, deathtouch creature. As Glissa is quite threatening, you can play her on easy mode if you choose not to attack in the early game. However, if you're feeling adventurous, attacking early forces you into hard mode, and will draw a lot of hate towards Glissa and most likely your graveyard strategies.

Is this the deck for you?

You will enjoy this deck if:

You like artifacts.

You like graveyard recursion.

You like lots of interactions between your cards (and discovering new ones).

You like ramping into big things quick.

You appreciate no-investment card advantage.

You will not enjoy this deck if:

You only play decks with counter spells.

You don't like artifacts.

You don't appreciate a mono-artifact build and think it could be done better with other non-artifact cards. (You're welcome to modify this list for yourself.)

You don't like complex card interactions.

You don't like shuffling your deck.

Caution: Getting your graveyard exiled sucks. You should be able to deal with permanents like Rest in Peace easily enough, as long as you don't get hit too hard initially. If you're worried about graveyard hate, you can either use politics to your advantage or set up a mechanism to recur artifacts in response.

Combos

Difficulty: Easy

Glissa's ability lets you reuse artifacts. Cards such as Executioner's Capsule

Cards such as Nevinyrral's Disk

Difficulty: Medium

Difficulty: Hard

Plans