Dig Up Her Bones by nicelookingowl

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Dimir Zombie Aristocrats and tribal swarm strategy commanded by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost Zombies, leveraging Wilhelt to convert dying nontoken creatures into 2/2 decayed Zombie tokens, and generating substantial card advantage on the end step. The deck scales into the midgame using powerful tribal lords, token doublers like Necroduality, and recurring card draw engines like Undead Augur and Skullclamp. It transitions to a win by overwhelming opponents through wide combat attacks buffed by Coat of Arms, unblockable evasion granted by Zombie Master combined with Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, or massive life drain from Gray Merchant of Asphodel and The Scarab God. Robust interaction and defensive tools like Fierce Guardianship and Lazotep Plating protect key pieces while graveyard recursion with Living Death ensures resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Coat of Arms
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Graf Harvest
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Lost Monarch of Ifnir
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Open the Graves
  • 1 Overcharged Amalgam
  • 1 Oversold Cemetery
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terror
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Tomb Tyrant
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vanquisher's Banner
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zombie Master
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord