Zombonies by Toronto

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver leads a Dimir Zombie deck whose real identity is a compact combo/aristocrats engine: Gravecrawler plus a free sacrifice outlet produces infinite mana and infinite death triggers, converted into a table kill by Diregraf Captain, Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Bolas's Citadel, or Shepherd of Rot. The commander supplies the decayed-token generation and end-step card draw that make the primary loop self-sustaining, while a deep reanimation package - Reanimate, Animate Dead, Victimize, Whip of Erebos, Meathook Massacre II, The Soul Stone - recovers the same graveyard pieces over and over. When the combo is disrupted, the deck pivots to a midrange Zombie plan, with lords, Necroduality/Roaming Throne trigger doubling, and Gray Merchant devotion drain. Ten interlocking combo lines live mostly in the 99, so this is not a one-trick commander-dependent build: Wilhelt accelerates the plan, but does not solely define it.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Dizzy Spell
  • 1 Drift of Phantasms
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fabricate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Heartstone
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Intruder Alarm
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meathook Massacre II
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shepherd of Rot
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sidisi, Undead Vizier
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Grounds
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Whir of Invention
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord