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Baron Helmut Zemo

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · {B}{B}{B} · Black commander

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.)

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What Baron Helmut Zemo actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever you cast a black spell from your hand, Baron Helmut Zemo connives.
• Keyword · boastboast
• AbilityBoast — 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 payi

What a Baron Helmut Zemo deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• black spells cast from hand (each one connives)
• heavy-black cards in the graveyard (its boast recasts copies free)

The Baron Helmut Zemo deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 12× Mana value at or above the floor — for a cascade commander a cheap card is a DEFECT, not a bargain
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a whole board at once
• 8× Refill your hand
• 3× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 10× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

Best cards for Baron Helmut Zemo

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