Baron Helmut Zemo

Baron Helmut Zemo Commander Deck

Baron Helmut Zemo is a self-milling reanimator deck that aggressively fills the graveyard through dredge, mill-on-entry effects, and surveil to fuel both Zemo's connive triggers and his boast ability, which can cast up to three high-mana-value black spells for free by exiling cards with enough black mana symbols from the graveyard. The deck wins by reanimating or copying massive threats like Archon of Cruelty and Army of the Damned, draining opponents through death triggers and devotion payoffs like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, or simply overwhelming the board with reanimated creatures via Rise of the Dark Realms. K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth accelerates the strategy by converting life into black mana, enabling the deck to chain expensive spells well ahead of schedule while Zemo's boast ability serves as a recurring engine to replay the graveyard's most impactful cards each combat.

Decklist

• Angel of Suffering
• Arcane Signet
• Archenemy's Charm
• Archon of Cruelty
• Army of the Damned
• Avatar of Woe
• Ayara, First of Locthwain
• Barrowgoyf
• Bojuka Bog
• Breach the Multiverse
• Buried Alive
• Cabal Coffers
• Cabal Ritual
• Crypt Ghast
• Dark Petition
• Dark Ritual
• Darkness
• Deadly Rollick
• Decree of Pain
• Defile
• Demonic Tutor
• Dismember
• Doom Whisperer
• Entomb
• Fatal Push
• Feed the Swarm
• Fell the Profane
• Force of Despair
• Gifted Aetherborn
• Go for the Throat
• Golgari Thug
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Imp's Mischief
• In Garruk's Wake
• Jet Medallion
• Junji, the Midnight Sky
• K'rrik, Son of Yawgmoth
• Kaervek, the Punisher
• Living Death
• Lord of the Void
• M.O.D.O.K.
• Malakir Rebirth
• Massacre Wurm
• Mind Stone
• Necromantic Selection
• Persist
• Pestilence
• Phyrexian Arena
• Phyrexian Obliterator
• Reanimate
• Ripples of Undeath
• Rise of the Dark Realms
• Rune-Scarred Demon
• Scion of Darkness
• Shard of the Nightbringer
• Sheoldred's Edict
• Shoot the Sheriff
• Shredder, Shadow Master
• Sign in Blood
• Smallpox
• Snuff Out
• Sol Ring
• Songs of the Damned
• Spymaster's Vault
• Stinkweed Imp
• Stitcher's Supplier
• Street Wraith
• Sudden Spoiling
• 29× Swamp
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• The Cloning of Shredder
• The Meathook Massacre
• The Soul Stone
• Timeline Culler
• Troll of Khazad-dûm
• Undead Butler
• Unearth
• Whispersilk Cloak
• Will of the Abzan
• Witch's Cottage
• Zodiark, Umbral God