Liam’s Zombie Deck by user4547642

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Dimir deck is a synergistic Zombie Aristocrats strategy helmed by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. The game plan revolves around deploying cheap Zombie creatures and token generators to establish a resilient board presence, which Wilhelt converts into card advantage and non-decayed replacement tokens. The deck features potent stax and attrition elements, notably using Braids, Cabal Minion and Noxious Ghoul to break parity by sacrificing expendable decayed tokens while stripping opponents of creatures and mana. Victory is achieved either through compounding aristocrat drain (Diregraf Captain, Ayara, First of Locthwain, Gray Merchant of Asphodel) or compact infinite combo lines. The primary instant-kill combo utilizes Rooftop Storm alongside Acererak the Archlich, infinitely casting Acererak for zero mana to venture through Lost Mine of Phandelver and drain the entire table. Backed by graveyard recursion, the deck maintains steady mid-game resilience despite light countermagic.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 A.I.M. Labs
  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Acererak the Archlich
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Braids, Cabal Minion
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Dimir Aqueduct
  • 1 Dimir Cluestone
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Discovery // Dispersal
  • 1 Doom Blade
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Empty the Laboratory
  • 1 Enter the God-Eternals
  • 1 Eternal Taskmaster
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Geralf, the Fleshwright
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 God-Eternal Bontu
  • 1 God-Eternal Kefnet
  • 1 Graveborn Muse
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gravedigger
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
  • 1 Havengul Lich
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Lich's Tomb
  • 1 Liliana's Reaver
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Memorial to Folly
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mire Triton
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Secret Passage
  • 1 Serpent's Pass
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tormod, the Desecrator
  • 1 Undead Warchief
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord