Show Your Devotion to Baron Helmut Zemo Head Games Commander Podcast

And what's your rule zero conversation about it?

So Baron Helmet Zemo is three black pips, three mana total for a 3-3 human noble villain.

Creature types don't really matter here.

Whenever you cast a black spell from your hand, Zemo connives, which means you draw a card and discard a card.

If the discarded card is a non-land card, Zemo gets a plus one, plus one counter.

And then it has Boast, which down at the bottom in parentheses says you can activate this... only if the creature attacked this turn and only once each turn.

And to activate the ability, you also need to exile any number of black cards from your graveyard with 15 or more black mana symbols among their mana cost.

Copy those exiled cards.

You may cast up to three of the copies without paying their mana cost.

So there's a lot of words there.

So to try to simplify it, if Zemo has attacked this turn, you may activate this ability by exiling any number of cards.

They have to be black cards, exiling any number of black cards from your graveyard.

Got a total of 15 black mana pips or more.

and then you can cast up to three of them for free is essentially how it works.

It has that copy them and then cast them clause.

There's a lot of guardrails there, but in practice, it means you exile a bunch of cards from your graveyard.

You get to cast three of them for free.

That's really, hopefully, the simplified version.

Real quick question.

Does timing matter? Since it's only when he attacks, you can then activate it.

So could you do this in the middle of combat?

It is not while he is attacking.

But it's active.

But you can activate it during the attack phase, right? Or am I not looking at this right?

No, I think you I think you are, in fact, right.