Wilhelt, The Rotcleaver Zombie Combo EDH Deck Tech

Let's take a look at my Zombie Combo Deck!
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[@luziankrieger8370]

Deck concept = money

[@danielrappe7128]

Thats what i thought . Only full of stapels

[@txag007]

Very cool deck! I like the reanimating aspect and still staying ‘zombie tribal.’ I’ll give this one a try. One suggestion, replace 2 or 3 of the swamps with the snow-covered swamp to help with Field of the Dead. If you think it is worth it, add a snow-covered island too.

[@nelsikegaming]

Thank you so much for the tip!!! That is so spot on!!

[@disturbansbrother6493]

Thank you one of the best wilhelt decks ive seen!

[@nelsikegaming]

Means a ton! Thank you!

[@BUHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

I always thought willhelt tribal zombs were too slow but you showed me they way man ty

[@nelsikegaming]

hahaha! Glad to help out!

[@BiggousDiccous]

Have that same grave crawler in my deck, awesome artwork on that card! Great video man. I ended up swapping wilhelt for the scarab god, removed the self mill and focused token generation. My play group absolutely hates it.

[@nelsikegaming]

Thank you!!! I absolutely love that art!

[@homidahroun8486]

Surprised not to see Acererak for use with Rooftop Storm. Sure, you could deck yourself if it's late enough in the game, but I'd say it's generally more likely you'll have enough deck to kill the table.

[@nelsikegaming]

I hate that two card combo so much haha made way too many games be boring. Took it out within a week.

[@HootNBerries]

Absolutely beautiful deck!

[@nelsikegaming]

Thank you! Glad you think so!

[@xDukii]

gotta love the foil pimping

[@nelsikegaming]

I'll be uploading a video soon of my foiled out Atraxa deck! Made it a goal to get as many borderless foils and promos and it is shinyyyy!

[@jayjayhooksch1]

In my wilhelt deck I found more than 1 reanimate spell to be too clunky. With only 4 entomb effects (entomb, vile entomber, unmarked grave and buried alive) in your deck you're going to be stuck with multiple reanimate spell and no targets in graveyard a lot of the time. To solve this issue I cut down to just 1 reanimate and cut buried alive as well. Our decks are very similar, I run less reanimate package for a few more combo pieces (mikeaus the unhallowed, pitiless plunderer, diregraf captain, vengeful dead) in addition to pyre of heroes and moonsilver key as pseudo tutors. Thanks for the video!

[@nelsikegaming]

Thank you Jesse! The deck has changed a bit since the video but I agree that does sometimes happen, however it's less often and since the deck is now less tribal and more combo based I need many reanimation spells to reanimate two targets, either Rot Hulk, or Phyrexian Delver to retrieve Sidisi and tutor for my pieces. If you look at the list in the description you'll see the changes. The goal is to tutor as much as possible now.

[@LucaDV92]

Nice video. You could replace some Swamps with Snow Swamps, to make it easier to take advantage of Field of the Dead.

[@nelsikegaming]

Will do!!

[@MyLifeRemixed]

Tombstone Stairwell works nicely with Wilhelt. Throw in Meathook Massacre for more fun (for you...not your opponents)

[@nelsikegaming]

I took Tombstone Stairwell out of this and threw it into my Varina deck. Meathook Massacre is in this list already! 😀

[@nelsikegaming]

I found Tombstone didn't work fast enough for this specific build. In Varina however, it works wonderfully the way I have her set up.

[@_theloremaster]

Can confirm, tombstone stairwell is ridiculously fun!

[@sergbastian5]

Bro not coming at you, loved the in-depth guide and I learned a ton! Also learned you might be dyslexic-- the names are right in front of you and you say the name of the card wrong pretty often.... Assuming you actually paid for these cards I would think you know what the name of an $80 card is. Just slow down when you're saying the card's title and you're golden. A golden zombie of course. Thanks for the vid 👍

[@nelsikegaming]

Appreciate the comment! English isn't my first language. That could be it as well haha. The reason I read them so fast is because I like going VERY in depth and if I don't the video will be over an hour long easy.

[@TheCapi246]

Definitely trying this out. Can you post your list for the previous version that wins on turn 5? Thanks!

[@chasekol9661]

Agreed I have this deck been wanting to turn it into something extremely salty wondering if it had that infinite combo in it

[@christianairoldi8116]

can you load that "better" deck list? turn 5?

[@anthole88]

will give this a try! My wilhelt never seems right :(

[@nelsikegaming]

Let me know how it goes!! I'm curious what you mean by that haha

[@anthole88]

@@nelsikegaming thanks bro! Getting some essentials pieces haha

[@BiggousDiccous]

Get rid of all the self mill and just focus token generation and zombie lords. I swapped wilhelt for the scarab god and my play group almost refuses to play against it. Even with on par commanders like a full tilt toxrill.

[@Memelord4dayz]

@DaGuuch I like to swap between wilhelt and sg every so often. I think overall I like wilhelt m. He's better with reanimation, I have a card that let's ke create 2/2 black zombies from any zombie permanent on the battlefield. so when I get board wiped, double tokens lol

[@victinyy]

Is there a link for the turn 5-6 win build?

[@Grainsauce]

Where did you get your playmat??? It's hard to find any decent zombie playmats

[@nelsikegaming]

undead plague playmat from yourplaymat.com

[@christianairoldi8116]

how do you feel about Cryptic Gateway? i use a Necropotence and many other card draws. i think this could be valuable

[@nelsikegaming]

what an amazing card!! I had no idea it existed thank you!!!!

[@kris1822]

post the best version of it for those of us who want it to be faster lol at least the decklist

[@KennethKnickerbocker]

Since you have rooftop storm, why not throw in a copy of acerak litch king from AFR? That goes “infinite” if you venture into the mines of phandelver.

[@nelsikegaming]

I don't like two card combos. Leads to games where I don't really feel like I did anything to earn my win. Even in competitive games.

[@tylewis8598]

For the Top combo you could run helm of awakening.

[@nelsikegaming]

I own like 5 copies but removed it from the deck as it also helps my opponents a bit

[@tylewis8598]

@@nelsikegaming I meant strictly for just the combo! Not to play on turn 2! Lol

[@DarkMK8]

Where can I find a deck that is as good as yours but not as close in price lol ?

[@nelsikegaming]

Don't get foils, take out the fast mana and expensive lands, remove the free counterspells and you can have a deck JUST like this. It might not be as optimized but it should still be consistent and do the same thing.

[@nelsikegaming]

Replace the tutors for Prolific Tutor and Diabolic Tutor, maybe even a Scheming Symmetry. Take out the $300 Gilded Drake for whatever you want maybe another counter spell!

[@DarkMK8]

@@nelsikegaming Thank you very much! I’m going to follow the list on moxfield!

[@DevildudeEMZ]

Do you have the turn 5 deck win list ?

[@PokemonGO-nl1qf]

Nested Shambler is better than 1 minus 1 one or?

[@nelsikegaming]

Sorry I didn't understand your question. I looked up Nested Chandler and he does look like a great fit here.

[@PokemonGO-nl1qf]

@@nelsikegaming an extra creature for Altars is cooler than the other 1 drop. My opinion.

[@nelsikegaming]

@@PokemonGO-nl1qf I agree! Thank you!

[@PokemonGO-nl1qf]

@@nelsikegaming an you kann kill your opponents with 1 Million squirrels in zombie tribal 🤣😄

[@nelsikegaming]

@@PokemonGO-nl1qf And that just makes it a lot more fun! Plus he's only 5 cents.

[@weihaigoh9734]

A lot of nice card but I don't have money to buy them and players selling them xD.

[@nelsikegaming]

Proxy them!

[@weihaigoh9734]

Reject proxy xD

[@nelsikegaming]

@@weihaigoh9734 I don't play them myself but I wouldn't gatekeep anyone from playing the game