Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver card art — Art by Chris Rallis · © Wizards of the Coast

Undead Unleashed

Bracket 2

MIC — Midnight Hunt Commander · 2021-09-24

Commander: Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver · Color identity: BU

Bracket

Power Level

4.3/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

No hard floors (no Game Changers, no two-card infinite combo, no mass land destruction) — verdict from optimization score 24/75 (13 interaction, 9 card draw, 1 fast-mana)
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 2 Midnight Hunt Commander decks we analyzed, this is the strongest — power 4.3 versus a set average of 4.2. That is 0.3 below the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.

More Midnight Hunt Commander decks

Coven Counters — Bracket 2, power 4.0

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Animated Army — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Counter Intelligence — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Dance of the Elements — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Divine Convocation — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Doom Prevails — Bracket 2, power 4.3

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
Counterspell Interaction $4.28
Swan Song Interaction $10.69
Negate Interaction $0.24
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $27.37

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver
1 Liliana, Death's Majesty
1 Forgotten Creation
1 Havengul Runebinder
1 Stitcher Geralf
1 Undead Alchemist
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Cemetery Reaper
1 Death Baron
1 Diregraf Colossus
1 Eater of Hope
1 Gravespawn Sovereign
1 Midnight Reaper
1 Overseer of the Damned
1 Gisa and Geralf
1 Eternal Skylord
1 Corpse Augur
1 Fleshbag Marauder
1 Liliana's Devotee
1 Lord of the Accursed
1 Spark Reaper
1 Undead Augur
1 Diregraf Captain
1 Gleaming Overseer
1 Ruthless Deathfang
1 Hour of Eternity
1 Army of the Damned
1 Dark Salvation
1 Dread Summons
1 Zombie Apocalypse
1 Distant Melody
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Syphon Flesh
1 Aetherspouts
1 Go for the Throat
1 Arcane Signet
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Sky Diamond
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Rooftop Storm
1 Dreadhorde Invasion
1 Endless Ranks of the Dead
1 Liliana's Mastery
1 Open the Graves
1 Choked Estuary
1 Darkwater Catacombs
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Temple of Deceit
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Command Tower
1 Dimir Aqueduct
1 Mortuary Mire
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Tainted Isle
1 Unclaimed Territory
12 Island
15 Swamp
1 Eloise, Nephalia Sleuth
1 Cleaver Skaab
1 Curse of Unbinding
1 Drown in Dreams
1 Empty the Laboratory
1 Hordewing Skaab
1 Shadow Kin
1 Crowded Crypt
1 Curse of the Restless Dead
1 Ghouls' Night Out
1 Gorex, the Tombshell
1 Prowling Geistcatcher
1 Ravenous Rotbelly
1 Tomb Tyrant

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/UndeadUnleashed_MIC.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.