Art by Wero Gallo

Baron Helmut Zemo

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain

Whenever you cast a black spell from your hand, Baron Helmut Zemo connives. Boast — Exile any number of black cards from your graveyard with fifteen or more black mana symbols among their mana costs: Copy those exiled cards. You may cast up to three of the copies without paying their mana costs. (Activate only if this creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.)

Build a deck with Baron Helmut Zemo

Baron Helmut Zemo deck guide

Baron Helmut Zemo is a mono-black creature commander. It leads 2,537 decks on EDHREC, where it ranks #980 among all commanders.

Most Baron Helmut Zemo decks are built around reanimator, devotion and graveyard, with dredge and self-mill builds close behind.

A typical Baron Helmut Zemo list runs 35 lands (28 basic), 26 creatures, 10 instants, 14 sorceries, 8 artifacts and 6 enchantments.

The cards played most with Baron Helmut Zemo: Reanimate (66% of decks), Sol Ring (66% of decks), Ripples of Undeath (65% of decks), Massacre Wurm (65% of decks), Sign in Blood (62% of decks) and Arcane Signet (60% of decks).

Well-known combos with Baron Helmut Zemo:

Doomsday Excruciator + Breach the Multiverse
Pox Plague + Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Peer into the Abyss + Bloodletter of Aclazotz

Play data from EDHREC, updated daily.

Average Card Type Breakdown

Creature

26%

Instant

10%

Sorcery

14%

Artifact

Enchantment

Land

35%

Average Mana Curve

12%

28%

14%

15%

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Most Played With Baron Helmut Zemo (190)

Reanimate

66% of decks · $10.10

Sol Ring

66% of decks · $1.34

Ripples of Undeath

65% of decks · $8.68

Massacre Wurm

65% of decks · $2.44

62% of decks · $3.14

Arcane Signet

60% of decks · $0.49

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

57% of decks · $18.44

Breach the Multiverse

57% of decks · $11.45

Ardyn, the Usurper

56% of decks · $1.78

Lightning Greaves

55% of decks · $4.10

Crypt Ghast

55% of decks · $17.44

Entomb

54% of decks · $18.32

Vilis, Broker of Blood

51% of decks · $9.93

Jet Medallion

51% of decks · $14.67

Cabal Ritual

48% of decks

Meathook Massacre II

48% of decks · $2.44

Dauthi Voidwalker

47% of decks · $5.72

Ayara, First of Locthwain

46% of decks · $8.44

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

46% of decks · $36.69

Temporal Extortion

45% of decks · $27.65

Fell the Profane

44% of decks

Phyrexian Arena

44% of decks · $4.16

Feed the Swarm

44% of decks · $0.24

Bolas's Citadel

42% of decks · $15.83

Peer into the Abyss

41% of decks · $3.59

Swiftfoot Boots

41% of decks

Doom Whisperer

41% of decks · $6.48

Animate Dead

41% of decks · $7.45

The Soul Stone

40% of decks · $60.43

Songs of the Damned

39% of decks · $2.91

Dismember

38% of decks · $4.78

Rise of the Dark Realms

37% of decks · $6.73

Malakir Rebirth

37% of decks

Syr Konrad, the Grim

36% of decks · $1.67

Toxic Deluge

36% of decks · $5.02

Hoarding Broodlord

36% of decks · $5.30

Imp's Mischief

36% of decks · $9.18

Shard of the Nightbringer

35% of decks · $4.48

Deadly Rollick

35% of decks · $28.68

Blood Pet

34% of decks · $0.61

Angel of Suffering

34% of decks · $4.20

Agadeem's Awakening

32% of decks

The Darkness Crystal

32% of decks · $4.28

Vile Entomber

32% of decks · $0.23

Boggart Trawler

32% of decks

Stitch Together

32% of decks · $1.44

Grave Researcher

31% of decks

Overlord of the Balemurk

31% of decks · $18.90

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

30% of decks · $98.55

Withering Torment

30% of decks · $1.60

Snuff Out

29% of decks · $12.98

Consuming Corruption

27% of decks · $0.26

Unmarked Grave

27% of decks · $3.76

Victimize

27% of decks · $1.25

Defile

26% of decks · $1.43

Undead Butler

26% of decks · $0.36

Mesmeric Orb

26% of decks · $17.97

Bubbling Muck

25% of decks · $4.87

Night's Whisper

25% of decks · $6.25

M.O.D.O.K.

25% of decks · $3.72

Archon of Cruelty

25% of decks · $1.69

Army of the Damned

23% of decks · $1.80

Black Market Connections

23% of decks · $10.53

Saw in Half

23% of decks · $5.73

Cemetery Tampering

23% of decks · $0.38

Culling the Weak

23% of decks · $8.03

Demonic Tutor

23% of decks · $69.17

Abhorrent Overlord

22% of decks · $0.43

Beseech the Mirror

22% of decks · $21.21

Lord of the Void

22% of decks · $16.02

Nirkana Revenant

22% of decks · $6.94

Archfiend of Ifnir

21% of decks · $0.35

Lethal Scheme

21% of decks · $0.27

Living Death

20% of decks · $6.29

Vampiric Tutor

20% of decks · $54.03

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

20% of decks · $14.47

Damnation

19% of decks · $21.01

Out of the Tombs

18% of decks · $11.70

Bitter Triumph

18% of decks · $0.32

Charcoal Diamond

18% of decks · $0.35

Sheoldred, Whispering One

17% of decks · $20.76

Basal Thrull

16% of decks

Necropotence

16% of decks · $38.23

Monument to Endurance

16% of decks · $16.96

Hagra Mauling

15% of decks

The Meathook Massacre

15% of decks · $24.81

Doctor Doom, Unrivaled

15% of decks · $37.14

Profane Transfusion

15% of decks · $1.48

Mire Triton

15% of decks · $0.29

Dark Deal

15% of decks · $2.21

Blasphemous Edict

15% of decks · $4.24

Dread Return

14% of decks · $0.60

Skirge Familiar

14% of decks · $0.31

Scion of Darkness

14% of decks · $0.34

Nyx Lotus

14% of decks · $4.76

Infernal Grasp

14% of decks · $0.32

Fellwar Stone

14% of decks

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

14% of decks · $4.23

Twilight Prophet

13% of decks · $3.70

The War in Heaven

13% of decks · $0.73

Underworld Dreams

13% of decks · $2.19

Orcish Bowmasters

13% of decks · $43.37

Millikin

13% of decks · $0.33

Force of Despair

13% of decks · $7.17

Flare of Malice

13% of decks · $3.10

Troll of Khazad-dûm

13% of decks · $6.49

Beseech the Queen

13% of decks · $8.42

Bloodghast

13% of decks · $0.92

Decorum Dissertation

13% of decks · $5.43

Whip of Erebos

12% of decks · $9.52

Sacrifice

12% of decks

Gwenom, Remorseless

12% of decks · $5.26

Perpetual Timepiece

12% of decks · $0.34

Necromantic Selection

12% of decks · $0.29

Defiler of Flesh

12% of decks · $0.41

Professor Onyx

12% of decks · $4.75

Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer

11% of decks · $1.60

Doomsday

11% of decks · $1.42

Noxious Gearhulk

11% of decks · $0.45

Darkness

11% of decks · $23.83

Throne of Eldraine

11% of decks · $29.40

Reiver Demon

11% of decks · $1.03

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

11% of decks · $36.82

Lively Dirge

11% of decks · $6.11

Bone Miser

11% of decks · $28.39

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

10% of decks · $21.95

Scion of Halaster

10% of decks · $0.25

Exsanguinate

10% of decks · $0.41

Grave Pact

10% of decks · $30.52

Bitterbloom Bearer

10% of decks · $14.06

In Garruk's Wake

10% of decks · $3.17

Lotus Petal

10% of decks

Necromancy

10% of decks · $19.41

Diresight

10% of decks · $0.17

Malboro

10% of decks · $0.24

Pox

10% of decks

Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber

10% of decks

Visions of Villainy

10% of decks · $0.17

Deadly Dispute

9% of decks · $0.27

Palantír of Orthanc

9% of decks · $18.64

Altar of Dementia

9% of decks · $17.15

Expedition Map

9% of decks · $1.43

Persist

9% of decks · $0.71

Grim Servant

9% of decks · $0.23

Mind Stone

9% of decks

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

9% of decks · $0.65

Stargaze

9% of decks · $0.25

One Ring to Rule Them All

9% of decks · $2.10

Grim Tutor

8% of decks · $23.87

Incarnation Technique

8% of decks · $9.35

Imperial Seal

8% of decks · $166.33

Not Dead After All

8% of decks · $1.65

Risky Research

8% of decks · $0.21

Kaya's Ghostform

8% of decks · $1.71

Chrome Mox

8% of decks · $167.03

Fated Return

8% of decks · $0.30

Chain of Smog

8% of decks · $8.35

Final Parting

8% of decks · $0.66

Sorin Markov

8% of decks · $9.55

Wayfarer's Bauble

8% of decks · $5.61

Virtue of Persistence

8% of decks

Bontu's Monument

8% of decks · $4.60

Wishclaw Talisman

7% of decks · $2.47

Drag to the Underworld

7% of decks · $0.18

Morality Shift

7% of decks · $5.41

Razaketh's Rite

7% of decks · $0.34

Black Market

7% of decks · $6.30

Demonic Counsel

7% of decks · $2.18

Go for the Throat

7% of decks · $0.62

Village Rites

7% of decks · $0.93

Zof Consumption

7% of decks

Unearth

6% of decks · $0.54

Dance of the Dead

6% of decks

Promise of Power

6% of decks · $0.60

Sudden Spoiling

6% of decks · $6.95

Construct a Cosmic Cube

6% of decks · $0.20

Exquisite Blood

6% of decks · $40.36

Mox Amber

6% of decks · $86.61

The One Ring

6% of decks · $115.41

Fraying Omnipotence

6% of decks · $0.71

Rain of Filth

6% of decks · $8.26

Diabolic Intent

6% of decks · $17.44

Mox Diamond

6% of decks

Insatiable Avarice

6% of decks · $6.03

Sensei's Divining Top

6% of decks · $40.31

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

6% of decks · $20.16

Sheoldred's Edict

6% of decks · $1.44

Commander's Plate

6% of decks · $38.90

Dark Petition

5% of decks · $3.27

Dark Prophecy

5% of decks · $5.79

New Cards

The Master of Lake-town

17% of decks · $0.59

Avacyn, Angel of Horror

16% of decks · $15.93

Dark Matter Manipulator

14% of decks · $1.03

Vraska's Final Mercy

4% of decks · $0.32

Liliana the Repentant

3% of decks · $0.75

Creatures (50)

Massacre Wurm

65% of decks · $2.44

Valgavoth, Terror Eater

57% of decks · $18.44

Ardyn, the Usurper

56% of decks · $1.78

Crypt Ghast

55% of decks · $17.44

Vilis, Broker of Blood

51% of decks · $9.93

Dauthi Voidwalker

47% of decks · $5.72

Ayara, First of Locthwain

46% of decks · $8.44

Bloodletter of Aclazotz

46% of decks · $36.69

Doom Whisperer

41% of decks · $6.48

Syr Konrad, the Grim

36% of decks · $1.67

Hoarding Broodlord

36% of decks · $5.30

Shard of the Nightbringer

35% of decks · $4.48

Blood Pet

34% of decks · $0.61

Angel of Suffering

34% of decks · $4.20

Vile Entomber

32% of decks · $0.23

Boggart Trawler

32% of decks

Grave Researcher

31% of decks

Overlord of the Balemurk

31% of decks · $18.90

Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

30% of decks · $98.55

Undead Butler

26% of decks · $0.36

M.O.D.O.K.

25% of decks · $3.72

Archon of Cruelty

25% of decks · $1.69

Abhorrent Overlord

22% of decks · $0.43

Lord of the Void

22% of decks · $16.02

Nirkana Revenant

22% of decks · $6.94

Archfiend of Ifnir

21% of decks · $0.35

Razaketh, the Foulblooded

20% of decks · $14.47

Sheoldred, Whispering One

17% of decks · $20.76

Basal Thrull

16% of decks

Doctor Doom, Unrivaled

15% of decks · $37.14

Mire Triton

15% of decks · $0.29

Skirge Familiar

14% of decks · $0.31

Scion of Darkness

14% of decks · $0.34

Braids, Arisen Nightmare

14% of decks · $4.23

Twilight Prophet

13% of decks · $3.70

Orcish Bowmasters

13% of decks · $43.37

Millikin

13% of decks · $0.33

Troll of Khazad-dûm

13% of decks · $6.49

Bloodghast

13% of decks · $0.92

Gwenom, Remorseless

12% of decks · $5.26

Defiler of Flesh

12% of decks · $0.41

Noxious Gearhulk

11% of decks · $0.45

Reiver Demon

11% of decks · $1.03

Bloodthirsty Conqueror

11% of decks · $36.82

Bone Miser

11% of decks · $28.39

Mikaeus, the Unhallowed

10% of decks · $21.95

Bitterbloom Bearer

10% of decks · $14.06

Malboro

10% of decks · $0.24

Grim Servant

9% of decks · $0.23

Gix, Yawgmoth Praetor

9% of decks · $0.65

Instants (33)

Entomb

54% of decks · $18.32

Cabal Ritual

48% of decks

Fell the Profane

44% of decks

Songs of the Damned

39% of decks · $2.91

Dismember

38% of decks · $4.78

Malakir Rebirth

37% of decks

Imp's Mischief

36% of decks · $9.18

Deadly Rollick

35% of decks · $28.68

Withering Torment

30% of decks · $1.60

Snuff Out

29% of decks · $12.98

Consuming Corruption

27% of decks · $0.26

Defile

26% of decks · $1.43

Saw in Half

23% of decks · $5.73

Culling the Weak

23% of decks · $8.03

Lethal Scheme

21% of decks · $0.27

Vampiric Tutor

20% of decks · $54.03

Bitter Triumph

18% of decks · $0.32

Hagra Mauling

15% of decks

Infernal Grasp

14% of decks · $0.32

Force of Despair

13% of decks · $7.17

Flare of Malice

13% of decks · $3.10

Sacrifice

12% of decks

Darkness

11% of decks · $23.83

Visions of Villainy

10% of decks · $0.17

Deadly Dispute

9% of decks · $0.27

Not Dead After All

8% of decks · $1.65

Fated Return

8% of decks · $0.30

Drag to the Underworld

7% of decks · $0.18

Go for the Throat

7% of decks · $0.62

Village Rites

7% of decks · $0.93

Sudden Spoiling

6% of decks · $6.95

Rain of Filth

6% of decks · $8.26

Sheoldred's Edict

6% of decks · $1.44

Sorceries (50)

Reanimate

66% of decks · $10.10

62% of decks · $3.14

Breach the Multiverse

57% of decks · $11.45

Temporal Extortion

45% of decks · $27.65

Feed the Swarm

44% of decks · $0.24

Peer into the Abyss

41% of decks · $3.59

Rise of the Dark Realms

37% of decks · $6.73

Toxic Deluge

36% of decks · $5.02

Agadeem's Awakening

32% of decks

Stitch Together

32% of decks · $1.44

Unmarked Grave

27% of decks · $3.76

Victimize

27% of decks · $1.25

Bubbling Muck

25% of decks · $4.87

Night's Whisper

25% of decks · $6.25

Army of the Damned

23% of decks · $1.80

Demonic Tutor

23% of decks · $69.17

Beseech the Mirror

22% of decks · $21.21

Living Death

20% of decks · $6.29

Damnation

19% of decks · $21.01

Profane Transfusion

15% of decks · $1.48

Dark Deal

15% of decks · $2.21

Blasphemous Edict

15% of decks · $4.24

Dread Return

14% of decks · $0.60

Beseech the Queen

13% of decks · $8.42

Decorum Dissertation

13% of decks · $5.43

Necromantic Selection

12% of decks · $0.29

Doomsday

11% of decks · $1.42

Lively Dirge

11% of decks · $6.11

Exsanguinate

10% of decks · $0.41

In Garruk's Wake

10% of decks · $3.17

Diresight

10% of decks · $0.17

Pox

10% of decks

Persist

9% of decks · $0.71

Stargaze

9% of decks · $0.25

Grim Tutor

8% of decks · $23.87

Incarnation Technique

8% of decks · $9.35

Imperial Seal

8% of decks · $166.33

Risky Research

8% of decks · $0.21

Chain of Smog

8% of decks · $8.35

Final Parting

8% of decks · $0.66

Morality Shift

7% of decks · $5.41

Razaketh's Rite

7% of decks · $0.34

Demonic Counsel

7% of decks · $2.18

Zof Consumption

7% of decks

Unearth

6% of decks · $0.54

Promise of Power

6% of decks · $0.60

Fraying Omnipotence

6% of decks · $0.71

Diabolic Intent

6% of decks · $17.44

Insatiable Avarice

6% of decks · $6.03

Dark Petition

5% of decks · $3.27

Utility Artifacts (18)

Lightning Greaves

55% of decks · $4.10

Jet Medallion

51% of decks · $14.67

Bolas's Citadel

42% of decks · $15.83

Swiftfoot Boots

41% of decks

The Darkness Crystal

32% of decks · $4.28

Mesmeric Orb

26% of decks · $17.97

Monument to Endurance

16% of decks · $16.96

Whip of Erebos

12% of decks · $9.52

Perpetual Timepiece

12% of decks · $0.34

Palantír of Orthanc

9% of decks · $18.64

Altar of Dementia

9% of decks · $17.15

Expedition Map

9% of decks · $1.43

Wayfarer's Bauble

8% of decks · $5.61

Bontu's Monument

8% of decks · $4.60

Wishclaw Talisman

7% of decks · $2.47

The One Ring

6% of decks · $115.41

Sensei's Divining Top

6% of decks · $40.31

Commander's Plate

6% of decks · $38.90

Mana Artifacts (13)

Sol Ring

66% of decks · $1.34

Arcane Signet

60% of decks · $0.49

The Soul Stone

40% of decks · $60.43

Charcoal Diamond

18% of decks · $0.35

Nyx Lotus

14% of decks · $4.76

Fellwar Stone

14% of decks

Throne of Eldraine

11% of decks · $29.40

Lotus Petal

10% of decks

Mind Stone

9% of decks

Chrome Mox

8% of decks · $167.03

Mox Amber

6% of decks · $86.61

Mox Diamond

6% of decks

Sceptre of Eternal Glory

6% of decks · $20.16

Enchantments (23)

Ripples of Undeath

65% of decks · $8.68

Meathook Massacre II

48% of decks · $2.44

Phyrexian Arena

44% of decks · $4.16

Animate Dead

41% of decks · $7.45

Black Market Connections

23% of decks · $10.53

Cemetery Tampering

23% of decks · $0.38

Out of the Tombs

18% of decks · $11.70

Necropotence

16% of decks · $38.23

The Meathook Massacre

15% of decks · $24.81

The War in Heaven

13% of decks · $0.73

Underworld Dreams

13% of decks · $2.19

Scion of Halaster

10% of decks · $0.25

Grave Pact

10% of decks · $30.52

Necromancy

10% of decks · $19.41

Unholy Annex // Ritual Chamber

10% of decks

One Ring to Rule Them All

9% of decks · $2.10

Kaya's Ghostform

8% of decks · $1.71

Virtue of Persistence

8% of decks

Black Market

7% of decks · $6.30

Dance of the Dead

6% of decks

Construct a Cosmic Cube

6% of decks · $0.20

Exquisite Blood

6% of decks · $40.36

Dark Prophecy

5% of decks · $5.79

Planeswalkers (3)

Professor Onyx

12% of decks · $4.75

Ral Zarek, Guest Lecturer

11% of decks · $1.60

Sorin Markov

8% of decks · $9.55

Utility Lands (23)

Cabal Coffers

60% of decks

Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

48% of decks

Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

47% of decks

Bojuka Bog

44% of decks

Takenuma, Abandoned Mire

36% of decks

Cabal Stronghold

34% of decks

Dakmor Salvage

33% of decks

Spymaster's Vault

29% of decks

Crypt of Agadeem

28% of decks

Shizo, Death's Storehouse

20% of decks

Phyrexian Tower

19% of decks

Rogue's Passage

17% of decks

Witch's Cottage

15% of decks

Castle Locthwain

14% of decks

War Room

10% of decks

Reliquary Tower

9% of decks

The Black Gate

8% of decks

Ancient Tomb

7% of decks

Tomb Fortress

6% of decks

Lake of the Dead

6% of decks

Susur Secundi, Void Altar

6% of decks

Geier Reach Sanitarium

6% of decks

Urza's Saga

5% of decks

Lands (16)

Swamp

95% of decks

Fell the Profane

44% of decks

Malakir Rebirth

37% of decks

Agadeem's Awakening

32% of decks

Boggart Trawler

32% of decks

Hagra Mauling

15% of decks

Myriad Landscape

11% of decks

Urza's Cave

9% of decks

Gemstone Caverns

7% of decks

Zof Consumption

7% of decks

Bloodstained Mire

6% of decks

Polluted Delta

6% of decks

Marsh Flats

6% of decks

Verdant Catacombs

6% of decks

Snow-Covered Swamp

6% of decks

Prismatic Vista

6% of decks

Play-rate data via EDHREC. Card images and prices via Scryfall.

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