Zombies by Ulbricht

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver commands a synergistic Dimir Zombie Aristocrats deck designed to overwhelm opponents through resilient token swarms, death-trigger attrition, and layered recursion. The deck leverages Wilhelt's ability to turn dying nontoken Zombies into decayed tokens, effectively doubling sacrifice fodder while providing steady end-step card draw. Early turns focus on establishing mana rocks and low-cost Zombies such as Cryptbreaker and Gravecrawler. By Turn 4, Wilhelt enters to anchor the card-advantage engine. Midgame turns expand the horde using token producers like Diregraf Colossus, Grave Titan, and Poppet Stitcher. The deck closes games through two primary vectors: alpha strikes empowered by lords (Death Baron, Undead Warchief) and evasion enablers (Wonder, Cover of Darkness), or catastrophic life drain via Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Diregraf Captain, and Vengeful Dead. While resilient against standard destruction, the deck must navigate vulnerability to exile sweepers and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Castle Locthwain
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 1 Ice Tunnel
  • 1 Imprisoned in the Moon
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moonsilver Key
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
  • 1 Puppeteer Clique
  • 1 Ravenous Rotbelly
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord