Braaaaains by tirellovic

Format: Commander

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Dimir Zombie deck is piloted by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver and blends resilient tribal beatdown with potent aristocrats combo finishes. The deck develops by casting early Zombies and utility mana rocks, deploying Wilhelt on Turn 4 to establish continuous token generation and steady card advantage. In the mid-game, the deck leverages mass creature recursion and aristocrat drain effects to control opposing creature boards. It reaches a decisive game finish on Turn 6 by assembling infinite sacrifice loops with Rooftop Storm and Gravecrawler or Poppet Stitcher and Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, draining all three opponents simultaneously with Diregraf Captain, Plague Belcher, or Bastion of Remembrance. While the deck has exceptional engine recovery through spells like Living Death and Victimize, its reliance on permanents and the graveyard leaves it exposed to well-timed spot removal and mass graveyard exile.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archghoul of Thraben
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bladestitched Skaab
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cemetery Reaper
  • 1 Champion of the Perished
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Cleaver Skaab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Cryptbreaker
  • 1 Curse of Disturbance
  • 1 Curse of the Restless Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dark Salvation
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Death Baron
  • 1 Death Tyrant
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Diregraf Captain
  • 1 Diregraf Colossus
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Empty the Laboratory
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fleshbag Marauder
  • 1 Geralf, the Fleshwright
  • 1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
  • 1 Gisa and Geralf
  • 1 Gleaming Overseer
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grim Servant
  • 1 Headless Rider
  • 1 Hordewing Skaab
  • 9 Island
  • 1 Lethal Scheme
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Accursed
  • 1 Lord of the Undead
  • 1 Mausoleum Secrets
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Necroduality
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Noxious Ghoul
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Plague Belcher
  • 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Ravenous Rotbelly
  • 1 Rooftop Storm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 16 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Scarab God
  • 1 Unclaimed Territory
  • 1 Undead Augur
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unholy Grotto
  • 1 Unstoppable Slasher
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
  • 1 Zombie Apocalypse
  • 1 Zul Ashur, Lich Lord