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Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Zombie typal aristocrats build commanded by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. The strategy focuses on establishing early board presence with low-mana Zombies, deploying Wilhelt to convert expendable creatures into decayed tokens and steady card advantage, and steadily growing an army. As the game develops, the deck leverages sacrifice outlets like Carrion Feeder and Phyrexian Altar alongside death-trigger drain engines including Diregraf Captain, Plague Belcher, and Vengeful Dead. In the mid-to-late game, the deck shifts from incremental chip damage to game-ending plays through massive devotion bursts with Gray Merchant of Asphodel or sweeping graveyard recursion via Living Death, Patriarch's Bidding, and Zombie Apocalypse. Evasive enablers such as Hordewing Skaab and Cover of Darkness ensure combat connections against crowded boards. While vulnerable to targeted graveyard exile and mass exile sweepers, dense typal redundancy and secondary engines allow the deck to rebuild quickly and close games decisively.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archghoul of Thraben
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Gempalm Polluter
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Grave Titan
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Kindred Dominance
  • 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Patriarch's Bidding
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prophet of the Scarab
  • 1 Ravenous Rotbelly
  • 1 Relentless Dead
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Rot Hulk
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Vengeful Dead
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wand of Orcus
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord