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Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain · {2}{U} · Blue commander

Whenever Helmut Zemo attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to his power from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. If you cast a spell this way, put a +1/+1 counter on Helmut Zemo.

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What Helmut Zemo, Mastermind 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 · attackWhenever Helmut Zemo attacks, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value less than or equal to his power from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it

What a Helmut Zemo, Mastermind deck needs

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

• instants and sorceries to recast from your graveyard (each attack casts one with mana value up to its power)
• self-mill and discard to stock the graveyard
• haste, evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine)

The Helmut Zemo, Mastermind deck plan

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

• 9× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 7× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
• 8× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 8× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand

Best cards for Helmut Zemo, Mastermind

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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