Zombie tribal aristocrats. The deck floods the board with Zombies, pumps them with stacked lords, and keeps sacrificing and recurring them. Wilhelt turns every nontoken, non-decayed Zombie death into a fresh decayed 2/2 and converts a Zombie into a card each end step, while death-trigger drain and draw pieces punish every sacrifice. The graveyard doubles as a second hand, with recast-from-graveyard engines and mass reanimation rebuilding the army after wipes. How it wins: Repeated Zombie deaths drain opponents through death triggers and devotion bursts while a wide, lord-pumped, evasive Zombie army finishes them in combat. Key roles: - Token and body generation: These cards keep the board full of Zombies so there is always fodder to sacrifice and attackers to swing. Wilhelt's decayed replacements and amass Army tokens add to this (Headless Rider, Diregraf Colossus, Liliana's Mastery). - Lords and evasion: Anthem effects grant +1/+1 or more, deathtouch, menace, flying or swampwalk, turning small tokens and decayed bodies into lethal threats (Undead Warchief, Death Baron, Hordewing Skaab). - Sacrifice outlets and death payoffs: Free and repeatable outlets, including Wilhelt's end-step sacrifice, turn each Zombie death into life drain or extra cards (Diregraf Captain, Undead Augur, Bastion of Remembrance). - Graveyard recursion loops: Self-recurring Zombies and permissions to cast Zombies from the graveyard let the same bodies die over and over. Mills and tutors-to-graveyard stock the yard, and combined with free outlets and death drains these loops can grind opponents out (Gravecrawler, Gisa and Geralf, Zul Ashur, Lich Lord). - Mass revival and reset: Board-wide reanimation brings back the whole army in one turn, and one-sided sweepers clear opposing non-Zombie creatures (Zombie Apocalypse, Crippling Fear, Necromantic Selection). - Tribal card advantage and drain finishers: Effects that scale with Zombie count draw piles of cards or drain the table directly, rewarding a wide board (Kindred Discovery, The Scarab God, Gray Merchant of Asphodel).

Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver decklist

• Acererak the Archlich
• Arcane Signet
• Bastion of Remembrance
• Bojuka Bog
• Carrion Feeder
• Castle Locthwain
• Cemetery Reaper
• Champion of the Perished
• Choked Estuary
• Command Tower
• Crippling Fear
• Death Baron
• Dimir Signet
• Diregraf Captain
• Diregraf Colossus
• Distant Melody
• Ebondeath, Dracolich
• Eternal Skylord
• Feed the Swarm
• Gisa and Geralf
• Gleaming Overseer
• Go for the Throat
• God-Eternal Bontu
• Graveborn Muse
• Gravecrawler
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Havengul Lich
• Headless Rider
• Hordewing Skaab
• 10× Island
• Kindred Discovery
• Lazotep Plating
• Lazotep Reaver
• Liliana's Mastery
• Liliana's Standard Bearer
• Liliana, Dreadhorde General
• Liliana, Untouched by Death
• Lord of the Accursed
• Lord of the Undead
• Midnight Reaper
• Murderous Rider
• Necromantic Selection
• Noxious Ghoul
• Organ Hoarder
• Overcharged Amalgam
• Patchwork Banner
• Phyrexian Arena
• Prized Amalgam
• Relentless Dead
• Rooftop Storm
• Sol Ring
• Sunken Hollow
• 18× Swamp
• Talisman of Dominance
• Temple of Deceit
• The Scarab God
• Undead Augur
• Undead Butler
• Undead Warchief
• Underground River
• Unearth
• Vampiric Rites
• Vengeful Dead
• Victimize
• Vile Entomber
• Withering Torment
• Zombie Apocalypse
• Zombie Master
• Zul Ashur, Lich Lord
• Mind Stone
• Fellwar Stone
• Thought Vessel
• Unclaimed Territory
• Secluded Courtyard