The Uprising Dead
Commanded by Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
100 cards in the deck, 2 on the bench. No tracked games yet.
How it has actually done
These are results from Commander games recorded at a table, not a rating. See commander stats worth tracking and what mmr means in magic, which rates the deck rather than its pilot.
Combos in this deck
4 combos · 4 infinite. These come from Commander Spellbook, which only knows the ones somebody has written up, so this deck can hold more than these and never fewer.
INFINITE Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar
INFINITE Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Ashnod's Altar
INFINITE Gravecrawler + Rooftop Storm + Carrion Feeder
Show the other 1 combo
INFINITE Mikaeus, the Unhallowed + Plague Belcher + Carrion Feeder
Bracket 4: Optimized
This is a floor, read off the cards in the list, so a deck can play higher than this and never lower. Read how the commander bracket system works, and bring it to your Rule 0 conversation.
Game Changers in this list
- 2 Game Changers — any at all puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above
- a two-card infinite combo (Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar) — more than Bracket 3 allows
What it's built out of
Measured against the Balanced Midrange blueprint. Counts overlap and sum past 100, because a card counts toward every job it does, which is how deck builders count. See the 100-card commander deck template.
Slot by slot: 4 slots are outside their band, 6 inside
| Slot | In the deck | Target | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lands | 36 | 37 | On target |
| Ramp | 13 | 10 | 3 over |
| Card advantage | 11 | 10 | On target |
| Spot removal | 4 | 8 | 4 short |
| Board wipes | 3 | 3 | On target |
| Creatures | 34 | 28 | On target |
| Recursion | 9 | 3 | 6 over |
| Protection | 1 | 3 | On target |
| Tutors | 4 | 2 | On target |
| Artifacts | 12 | 25 | 13 short |
| Enchantments | 3 | — | No target |
| Instants | 7 | — | No target |
| Sorceries | 8 | — | No target |
| Planeswalkers | 1 | — | No target |
| Counterspells | 3 | — | No target |
| Graveyard hate | 3 | — | No target |
| Token makers | 9 | — | No target |
| Sacrifice outlets | 11 | — | No target |
Mana curve
Average mana value 3.22 across 64 nonland cards, against a target of 3.54. More on what makes a good curve and on building the mana base.
- 0-1 9
- 2 11
- 3 22
- 4 8
- 5 9
- 6 4
- 7+ 1
The written read
An AI review of this specific list, generated by its owner. Bracket 4: Optimized.
The deck uses Wilhelt's grave-death synergy as a value engine around repeatable sacrifice and recursion: free or repeatable Zombie recursion (Gravecrawler, Rooftop Storm, Undead Butler, etc.) plus multiple sacrifice outlets lets you loop deaths to generate infinite death triggers, tokens, or storm count, which the deck converts into life-drain (Gray Merchant / Vengeful Dead / Plague Belcher) or opponent milling to close the game; Wilhelt adds card draw and steady Zombie token churn to keep the engine fueled and finish games.
Typically closes around turn 5 in a four-player game. Turn 5 is typical because the deck needs to assemble a sacrifice outlet plus a reanimator/recursion piece and a payoff (drain or token engine); adding faster dedicated fast-mana/tutoring acceleration for the combo pieces would move it earlier.
Its three strongest interactions
- Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar: repeatedly castable Gravecrawler sacrificed to Phyrexian Altar produces an engine of infinite sacrifice events and mana that the deck converts into infinite death triggers (Vengeful Dead / Plague Belcher) or storm count to close the game.
- Rooftop Storm + Gravecrawler: Rooftop Storm makes Gravecrawler free to cast from the graveyard, enabling repeat sacrifice loops with existing altars (Ashnod's Altar / Altar of Dementia) to generate huge board/state advantages (tokens, triggers, milling) without additional mana.
- Necroduality + Diregraf Colossus: Necroduality copies each Colossus token-creation, doubling the number of Zombies entering and producing outsized board presence and additional devotion/drain effects (Gray Merchant, Diregraf Captain triggers) that pressure opponents and accelerate a finish.
Cards that would extend them
- Zulaport Cutthroat: extends the Gravecrawler + Phyrexian Altar synergy by converting each sacrifice into incremental life loss for opponents, turning a sacrifice loop into an immediate, repeatable win condition.
- Altar of the Brood: extends the Rooftop Storm + Gravecrawler synergy by turning repeated sacrifices and reanimation into opponent milling, allowing the sacrifice loop to win by milling players out.
- Endless Ranks of the Dead: extends the Necroduality + Diregraf Colossus synergy by turning doubled token creation into steady exponential board growth each upkeep, converting token-doubling into a passive win engine (you already have Endless Ranks on the bench).
The decklist
100 cards, grouped by the main job each one does. Every name links to its own page, with its win rate, the commanders it's most played under, and the colors it turns up in.
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- 1 Bojuka Bog
- 1 Cabal Coffers
- 1 Choked Estuary
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Contaminated Aquifer
- 1 Darkwater Catacombs
- 1 Demolition Field
- 1 Dimir Aqueduct
- 1 Dismal Backwater
- 1 Exotic Orchard
- 1 Mortuary Mire
- 1 Myriad Landscape
- 1 Path of Ancestry
- 1 Sunken Hollow
- 8 Swamp
- 9 Swamp
- 1 Tainted Isle
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 1 Temple of Deceit
- 1 Unclaimed Territory
- 1 Underground River
Ramp 11
Creature 11
Card Advantage 9
Recursion 7
Tokens 5
Sacrifice Outlet 3
Counterspell 3
Spot Removal 3
Board Wipe 2
Instant 2
Enchantment 2
Sorcery 1
Protection 1
2 on the bench (sideboard and wishlist), outside the 100
Sideboard 2 not counted
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Commander 1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver Deck 1 Altar of Dementia 1 Arcane Signet 1 Archghoul of Thraben 1 Army of the Damned 1 Ashnod's Altar 1 Back for Seconds 1 Bojuka Bog 1 Bontu's Monument 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare 1 Cabal Coffers 1 Carrion Feeder 1 Cemetery Reaper 1 Champion of the Perished 1 Choked Estuary 1 Command Tower 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Contaminated Aquifer 1 Counterspell 1 Crowded Crypt 1 Dark Ritual 1 Darkwater Catacombs 1 Death Baron 1 Demolition Field 1 Diabolic Intent 1 Dimir Aqueduct 1 Diregraf Captain 1 Diregraf Colossus 1 Dismal Backwater 1 Distant Melody 1 Entomb 1 Exotic Orchard 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Fell Stinger 1 Fellwar Stone 1 Fierce Guardianship 1 Fleshbag Marauder 1 Ghouls' Night Out 1 God-Eternal Bontu 1 Gravecrawler 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel 1 Grim Tutor 1 Grimgrin, Corpse-Born 1 Hordewing Skaab 1 Liliana's Standard Bearer 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General 1 Lord of the Accursed 1 Midnight Reaper 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed 1 Mind Stone 1 Moment of Truth 1 Mortuary Mire 1 Myriad Landscape 1 Necroduality 1 No Mercy 1 Noxious Ghoul 1 Overcharged Amalgam 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Phyrexian Altar 1 Plague Belcher 1 Poppet Stitcher // Poppet Factory 1 Prized Amalgam 1 Ravenous Rotbelly 1 Raving Dead 1 Rooftop Storm 1 Sol Ring 1 Stitcher's Supplier 1 Sunken Hollow 8 Swamp 9 Swamp 1 Swan Song 1 Tainted Isle 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire 1 Talisman of Dominance 1 Temple of Deceit 1 The Scarab God 1 Tomb Tyrant 1 Unclaimed Territory 1 Undead Augur 1 Undead Butler 1 Underground River 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Vengeful Dead 1 Vindictive Lich 1 Zombie Apocalypse Sideboard 1 Endless Ranks of the Dead 1 Headless Rider
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