Baron Helmut Zemo

Baron Helmut Zemo is a powerful graveyard-to-hand engine that rewards you for casting black spells and filling your graveyard with high-impact cards. Your gameplan is to cast cheap black spells early to trigger connive repeatedly, which mills cards into your graveyard while giving Zemo evasion. Once you've stacked enough high-mana-value black cards in the bin, swing with Zemo and use his boast ability to exile fifteen mana symbols' worth of cards, then cast up to three copies for free each turn.

The deck wants to be a midrange graveyard deck that generates massive value from redundancy and card advantage. You'll load the graveyard with expensive payoffs like Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Gravecrawler, and tutors, then activate the boast ability to multiply them. Connive triggers also give Zemo evasion, making it easier to connect for the boast activation. Your wins come from recurring threats, draining opponents with Gray Merchant loops, or simply overwhelming the board with copied creatures and effects.

Early game focuses on cheap black spells (discard outlets, removal, cantrips) to power connive. Mid-game sets up graveyard density and mana ramp. Late game is boast turn—swing, exile the yard, and cast three free cards that end the game.

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