BARON WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA by thedevil613

Format: Commander

Commander: Baron Helmut Zemo

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 75

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized mono-black turbo combo and reanimator strategy designed for competitive Commander pods. Commanded by Baron Helmut Zemo, the deck leverages dense 0-1 mana acceleration, explosive rituals, and premier black tutors to assemble game-winning combinations rapidly. Its primary win condition revolves around an infinite sacrifice loop utilizing Warren Soultrader, Gravecrawler, and a drain payoff such as Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, or Marionette Apprentice. Since Warren Soultrader is a Zombie, it enables Gravecrawler to recast itself repeatedly using generated Treasure tokens, draining all three opponents out on the same turn. The deck also features potent alternative paths to victory, including Doctor Doom, Unrivaled paired with Demonic Consultation, storm lines through Peer into the Abyss and K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth, and heavy card advantage engines like Necropotence and Vilis, Broker of Blood. Supported by asymmetric disruption like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters, the deck applies swift pressure while disrupting opposing game plans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashiok, Wicked Manipulator
  • 1 Asmodeus the Archfiend
  • 1 Baron Helmut Zemo
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blitzwing, Cruel Tormentor // Blitzwing, Adaptive Assailant
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bog Witch
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chainer, Dementia Master
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Edict
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Divining Witch
  • 1 Doctor Doom, Unrivaled
  • 1 Doomsday Excruciator
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Gwenom, Remorseless
  • 1 Horobi, Death's Wail
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Massacre Girl
  • 1 Mornsong Aria
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ominous Harvest
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Shredder, Shadow Master
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Skirge Familiar
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Songs of the Damned
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Visions of Villainy
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zodiark, Umbral God
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat