Baron Helmut Zemo
Mana Cost:
Type: Legendary Creature — Human Noble Villain
Oracle Text:
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.)
Power/Toughness: 3/3
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: Marvel Super Heroes
Price ( USD): $33.98
USD: $33.98
Public Decks Using This Card
No public decks are currently using this card.
Character Background
Baron Helmut Zemo is a grindy value engine for a control or midrange black strategy that’s happy to keep mana open and refill its hand. His core loop is simple: with {B}{B}{B}, you rely on repeated casts from your hand—any black spell—to trigger connive, digging toward removal, counterspells, and key threats while discarding the excess you can later turn into resources. Then comes the boast: if Zemo attacked, you can exile black cards with at least fifteen total black mana symbols from your graveyard, copy them, and cast up to three copies for free. That effectively converts a stocked graveyard into sudden tempo swings and “virtual card draw” without spending additional mana. Deckbuilding tip: prioritize spells that both cost black mana and fill the graveyard efficiently—think self-mill, cheap black draw, and recurring black removal—so your boast condition is realistic early. In practice, aim for a deck that casts many black spells and naturally leaves high-value black cards in the yard, then time your first successful attack to cash out.
Generated using gpt-5.4-nano · Updated at 2026-04-22 17:11:26 UTC