Zombie horde by KingArma

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Zombie Tribal Aristocrats strategy commanded by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. It focuses on assembling an expansive undead army, turning expendable creature bodies into cards and decayed tokens, and grinding out opponents through combat pressure and aristocrat life drain. Accelerating with early rocks, the deck deploys Wilhelt on Turn 4 to convert nontoken Zombies into a continuous stream of cards and tokens. By Turn 6, it establishes critical mass through synergistic lords, death triggers like Diregraf Captain and Plague Belcher, and heavy hitters such as Grave Titan and The Scarab God. The game is closed around Turn 8 through wide evasive combat, burst life loss from Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or mass recursion via Living Death. While light on instant-speed interaction and countermagic, the deck features exceptional resilience through redundant reanimation and tribal recursion.

Decklist (101 cards)

• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archghoul of Thraben
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Carrion Feeder
• 1 Castle Locthwain
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crowded Crypt
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Crypt of Agadeem
• 1 Cryptbreaker
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dance of the Dead
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Death Baron
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Diregraf Captain
• 1 Diregraf Colossus
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Drown in the Loch
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fetid Pools
• 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
• 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1 Gisa and Geralf
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 God-Eternal Bontu
• 1 Grave Titan
• 1 Gravecrawler
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Headless Rider
• 1 Heraldic Banner
• 1 Hordewing Skaab
• 4 Island
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• 1 Liliana, Untouched by Death
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Accursed
• 1 Lord of the Undead
• 1 Midnight Reaper
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mutavault
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Noxious Ghoul
• 1 Patchwork Banner
• 1 Plague Belcher
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relentless Dead
• 1 Rooftop Storm
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Temple of Deceit
• 1 The Meathook Massacre
• 1 The Scarab God
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Unclaimed Territory
• 1 Undead Augur
• 1 Undead Warchief
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Unholy Grotto
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vengeful Dead
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 War Room
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
• 1 Witch's Cottage
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Zombie Master
• 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord