Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver

Gameplan

Wilhelt is a UB Zombie tribal engine that turns every zombie death into a fresh decayed token, then converts those tokens into cards each end step. You flood the board with zombies, sacrifice them for value and damage, and grind the table out with relentless card advantage before closing with an overrun, drain, or aristocrats combo.

Key Cards

• Gravecrawler — Recurs from the graveyard endlessly to feed Wilhelt's draw and any sac outlet for infinite-ish value.
• Viscera Seer — Free sac outlet that lets you loop dying zombies into decayed tokens and combo lines.
• Diregraf Captain — Anthem plus drain that pings each opponent every time a zombie dies, turning tokens into a kill engine.
• Carrion Feeder — Repeatable free sac outlet that grows and triggers Wilhelt's token generation.
• Plague Belcher — Throws decayed damage onto opponents and provides a sac engine with anthem-style stats.
• Open the Graves — Doubles up token creation on every nontoken zombie death, compounding the board.

Upgrade Path

Add free sacrifice outlets (Carrion Feeder, Viscera Seer, Ashnod's Altar) and drain payoffs (Bastion of Remembrance, Blood Artist) to assemble Gravecrawler combos. Improve mana with dual lands and fast rocks, and slot tutors like Diabolic Intent and recursion like Phyrexian Reclamation to find and rebuy key pieces. Round out with stax-light protection (Imp's Mischief, counterspells) and graveyard-hate insurance to keep your engine online.