Wilhelt's Legions of the Undead

Commander / EDH* Sacrifice Tokens UB (Dimir) Zombie

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Card Draw (10)

• 1x Empty the Laboratory
• 1x Undead Augur
• 1x Fell Stinger
• 1x Liliana's Standard Bearer
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Pact of the Serpent
• 1x Corpse Augur
• 1x Distant Melody
• 1x Kels, Fight Fixer
• 1x Species Specialist

Token Generators (8)

• 1x Cryptbreaker
• 1x Diregraf Colossus
• 1x Cleaver Skaab
• 1x Josu Vess, Lich Knight
• 1x Ghoulcaller Gisa
• 1x Liliana, Death's Majesty
• 1x Noosegraf Mob
• 1x Army of the Damned

Removal (6)

• 1x Tragic Slip
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Fleshbag Marauder
• 1x Liliana, Untouched By Death
• 1x Overcharged Amalgam
• 1x Ravenous Rotbelly

Mana Sources (3)

• 1x Undead Warchief
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Basic Lands (20)

• 8x Island
• 12x Swamp

Doublers (2)

• 1x Necroduality
• 1x Reflections of Littjara

Tutors (1)

• 1x Sidisi, Undead Vizier

Anthems (9)

• 1x Bladestitched Skaab
• 1x Cemetery Reaper
• 1x Death Baron
• 1x Diregraf Captain
• 1x Haunted One
• 1x Liliana's Devotee
• 1x Lord of the Accursed
• 1x Tomb Tyrant
• 1x Hordewing Skaab

Multi Lands (9)

• 1x Choked Estuary
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Darkwater Catacombs
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Murkwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Tainted Isle
• 1x Unclaimed Territory

Pesky Zombies (5)

• 1x Champion of the Perished
• 1x Gravecrawler
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Unbreathing Horde
• 1x Endling

Recursion (5)

• 1x Gisa and Geralf
• 1x Ghouls' Night Out
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Patriarch's Bidding
• 1x Zombie Apocalypse

Combat Support (1)

• 1x Faces of the Past

Fetch Lands (1)

• 1x Myriad Landscape

Commander (1)

Ramp (7)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Jet Medallion
• 1x Mind Stone
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Crowded Crypt

Special Lands (7)

• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Malakir Mire  ^Flip
• 1x Memorial to Folly
• 1x Mortuary Mire
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Unholy Grotto
• 1x Westvale Abbey  ^Flip

Smoothers (3)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Portent

Boardwipes (2)

• 1x Noxious Ghoul
• 1x Necrotic Hex

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Token Generators (15)

• 1x Dark Salvation
• 1x Corpse Cobble
• 1x Dread Summons
• 1x Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1x Graveyard Marshal
• 1x Necromancer's Stockpile
• 1x Curse of the Restless Dead
• 1x Tymaret Calls the Dead
• 1x Endless Ranks of the Dead
• 1x Havengul Runebinder
• 1x Tormod, the Desecrator
• 1x Undead Alchemist
• 1x Awaken the Erstwhile
• 1x Open the Graves
• 1x Stitcher Geralf

Recursion (7)

• 1x Undead Butler
• 1x Hour of Eternity
• 1x Gravedigger
• 1x Gravespawn Sovereign
• 1x Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
• 1x Gorex, the Tombshell
• 1x The Cauldron of Eternity

Death Triggers (3)

• 1x Blood Artist
• 1x Zulaport Cutthroat
• 1x Vengeful Dead

Combat Support (2)

• 1x Wand of Orcus
• 1x Drunau Corpse Trawler

Too Expensive (1)

• 1x Rot Hulk

Anthems (9)

• 1x Graf Harvest
• 1x Geralf, Visionary Stitcher
• 1x Gleaming Overseer
• 1x Icon of Ancestry
• 1x Lord of the Undead
• 1x Vizier of the Scorpion
• 1x Eternal Skylord
• 1x Liliana's Mastery
• 1x Obelisk of Urd

Other Zombies (7)

• 1x Patchwork Crawler
• 1x Loyal Subordinate
• 1x Prized Amalgam
• 1x Tomebound Lich
• 1x Bone Miser
• 1x Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1x Pontiff of Blight

Combat Zombies (6)

• 1x Carrion Feeder
• 1x Ludevic, Necrogenius  ^Flip
• 1x Liliana's Reaver
• 1x Soulless One
• 1x Fallen Shinobi
• 1x Geralf's Masterpiece

Ramp (3)

• 1x Pillar of Origins
• 1x Commander's Sphere
• 1x Dimir Locket

Fetch Lands (2)

• 1x Ash Barrens
• 1x Warped Landscape

Card Draw (8)

• 1x Culling Dais
• 1x Archghoul of Thraben
• 1x Midnight Reaper
• 1x Notion Rain
• 1x Spark Reaper
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Prowling Geistcatcher
• 1x Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth

Removal (8)

• 1x Fatal Push
• 1x Graf Reaver
• 1x Cruel Revival
• 1x Syphon Flesh
• 1x Ruthless Deathfang
• 1x Butcher of Malakir
• 1x Eater of Hope
• 1x Overseer of the Damned

Graveyard Mill (4)

• 1x Stitcher's Supplier
• 1x Mire Triton
• 1x Master of Death
• 1x Forgotten Creation

Protection (4)

• 1x Kaya's Ghostform
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Negate
• 1x False Demise

Tutors (2)

• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Vile Entomber

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Gameplay Mission: Create a huge army of zombies that create more zombies when they die. Attack your opponents with wave after wave of the undead. Have fun in the process without worrying so much about removal and answers (zombies are mostly brainless, after all).

Power Cards ($5-10): Noxious Ghoul, Necroduality, Undead Warchief, Mutavault

Sleeper Cards: Liliana’s Standard Bearer, Faces of the Past, Necotic Hex

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Possible Edits

ADD E Medallion

CONSIDER L Undead (SPG),

CHANGE Endling & Gisa (or two of the other high mana zombies) to mana rocks

CHANGE some of the "lose life" card draw to boardwipes, smoothers (Preordain), or removal (F Despair, M Affliction) ? (play more games first)

ADD Negate and Counterspell for boardwipe protection? (“ “ “ “)

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Stats

47 cards in main strategy (29 zombies plus 5 additional token generators and 14 other zombie supports)

26 of the 29 zombies are non-legendary (compatible with Reflections of Littjara)

27 cards benefit from creatures dying or being in your graveyard (partial aristocrats / reanimator theme)

6 lands ETB tapped (16% of total)

2 colorless non-fetch lands (5% of total)

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During Game

Use Empty the Laboratory primarily on token zombies (esp those with decayed)

Remember that many cards that target other players' graveyards if those are better sources for the effect

Use tutors and graveyard recursion to tutor for Rooftop Storm, Necroduality, Ghoulcaller Gisa, or Noxious Ghoul in most cases (5 CMC)

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Deck Notes

Based on the "Undead Unleashed" pre-con

Kept pre-con’s focus on zombies dying leading to making more zombies, but added even more zombies and token generators

This version is heavier on black spells, but only 2 cards have UU in casting cost (Empty the Laboratory and Overcharged Amalgam)

Original build had 26 zombies and 15 token generators; v2 focuses more on zombie creature cards

Heavy emphasis on cards that benefit from sacrifice / dying effects or cards going into graveyard

Not currently using protection spells since Wilhelt isn’t crucial to strategy and deck has lots of death / sacrifice triggers

Has some additional cards with $5-10 market value but all of these were bought for <$5

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Card Notes

Wilhelt and Cryptbreaker can also help with card draw

Liliana Death's Majesty can also serve as recursion and asymmetrical boardwipe

Liliana Untouched by Death can also help with mill and card draw

Cemetery Reaper also helps with graveyard removal

Heraldic Banner and Undead Warchief also function as anthems

Crowded Crypt also helps with mass recursion

Mutavault can be turned into a 2/2 zombie for 1 mana when needed for an effect

Several cards also help with token generation (e.g. Liliana's Mastery, Cemetery Reaper, Liliana's Devotee)

Not currently using Gary because 5 CMC and deck isn't heavy on devotion to black (26% blue, 18 token generators)

Considered Sakashima’s Will, but only 6 of the anthems are +X/+X creatures

Originally ran Endless Ranks of the Dead but it is slower to act than most of the other token generators

Date added	3 years
Last updated	5 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	8 - 0 Mythic Rares 39 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.46
Tokens	Copy Clone, Human Cleric 1/1 WB, Zombie 2/2 B, Zombie 2/2 B w/ Decayed, Zombie Knight 2/2 B