@@YakubMyBeloved is it? if i have my removal in early game they have no chance, they dont even care getting over turn 4 or 5, i wouldnt call that respectable.
I put morbid opportunist into my zombies as a way to draw more to avoid running out of steam and really loving it. With the decayed zombies and especially Jadar it gets you a draw every turn when you attack with the decayed token. And you can get a draw on opponents turn if something dies. A lot of value at 3 mana
Love this, out of the snow themed zombie decks I've seen so far this is definitely my favorite. I've gotta say though, that Meathook Massacre and Lolth without the snow package has been my favorite version so far. It's basically an aggro deck with aristocrats synergies and I've been loving it.
I made a similar deck for the mid-week brawl. I also added in Poppet Stitcher which turns off the decayed effect and allows Jadar to make more zombies since they lose Decayed effect.
Luca I love this deck! I haven't been a fan of standard for awhile now, but this just might make me play again. I love historic though! I would LOVE to see what you can do with zombies in historic with these new cards! Keep up the great work man!!
I’d love to see an esper version of this, that splashed kaya and leaned more towards the ‘blood money’ style of deck. Since blue is already a splash and mana fixing is pretty decent rn, I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch
@@taurelith4867 I mean we don’t have fetches, but the new innistrad duals are spectacular. There’s also snow duals and pathways. The style of deck I was talking about would also use treasure from 1 or more sources. Also, to have one card in each of the splash colors, each with 1 mana pip, is not a hard splash at all. Look at the party decks in the format, an Aggro deck that is playing like 3.5 colors
@jett hayes Blood on the snow really wants a snow mana base and going into three colors means at best you’ll get back a three drop. There’s something to be said for white black but three color means snow cards aren’t a possibility
I'm trying a midrange version with Poppet Stitcher, not going over 3cmc cards, relying more on tokens, based on decks I have been facing on Arena. So far the deck contains Lands (22); Creatures (24) : 4 Poppet, 4 Jadar, 4 Adversary or Wight, 4 Champion, 4 Skaab and 4 Shambling Ghast; and Support (14): 4 Flip the Switch, 4 Bloodchief Thrist or Infernal Grasp, 3 Village Rites & 3 Rotten Reunion (nice against blood money and clerics and combos with poppet). I have seen variations with Morbid Oportunist and/or board wipes with The Meathook Massacre, both working well with decay. Also some play Lolth, to abuse decay, but with Massacre and Lolth, the mana base must be stretched.
I'm struggling to find a meaningful 3 drop for zombies, came interested to see what you came up with. Disappointed to see no 3 drops at all but glad I'm not the only one lol
I made a deck similar to this, and it's carried me to Gold (good for me, at least). I tried to include stuff like Narfi, but I found myself winning a lot more by going more aggro and low to the ground with stuff like Falcon Abomination, and going for single removals like Soul Shatter instead of Blood on the Snow or Crippling Fear. Also included Realmswalker to add some card advantage, but I'm still debating that one; Village Rites might just be the smarter option there
Best magic content out there. If you're already sick of seeing/playing every other deck with Wrenn, Gold, Chariot and Epiphany this is the place to be. Edit: I guess CGB did just post a pretty cool vampire tribal/burn deck
Village rites is great for card draw, might wanna consider deadly dispute for a replacement as it allows you sac either a creature or artifact and creates a treasure token as well.
How about a hybrid between this deck and that poppet deck you made last week? I tried it a bit, and when it goes off, it really goes off (champion of perished + ghoul caller + factory is pretty broken).
game 1 NOt attacking with Jadar did make a difference, opponent could block a 3/3 and go to 1 keeping the skullport alive, but attacking with Jadar would force them to block a 4 power creature.
Weird how in the 3rd match, the spirt and aspirant didn't die the second they hit the battlefield 🤔 it says until the end of turn meaning anything thag isn't a zombie should basically die?
@@LegenVD But it could give us some "Let's do this again" thing against control matchups or just after board sweepers. Of course, its not spicy as Voyage in Rogues (Im actually manage to mill 36 cards just by single Voyage returning all my rogues), since zombie doesn't have a lot of good etb triggers, but still. At least single copy should make a cut imho
@@Nink262 I'm no pro but I agree with you. In my mind, an aggro list you dont want to sweep your own creatures. Blood wants a game changing 5 or 6 drop to return. I do run two voyage and they've done well for me. If you havent won the game yet by turn 6/7, getting all your zombies back means you're not out yet.
@@tns4 He won two games by doing exactly that with Draugr in play. The zombies pressure early. Late game you can Blood+Draugr or Crippling fear. Voyage seems like jank and this deck doesn't have "free" turns to foretell. Also the format is full of exile effects. If you're behind bringing back a bunch of 1 to 4 power guys ain't gonna win you the game, clearing the entire board and "drawing 5" with draugr will.
I've been having lots of fun with a mono black aggro variant, courtesy of Magic Aids. it is surprisingly effective and catches many opponents off guard.
@@javelin9979 it's nothing competitive, i was mostly just inspired by Magic Aids plus I'm a F2P player so i make do with what I have available. but I guess I'll make a list: - 4x dungeon crawler -4x eye twitch -3x Malamir rebirth -4x village rites -2x Flunk -4x Grim wanderer -2x infernal Grasp -1x Null priest Oblivion -3x tainted adversary -2x vengeful strangler -3x wight -1x curse of leeches -1x graveyard trespasser -2x nighthawk scavenger -1x soul shatter -1x ebondeath dracolich -1x gelatinous cube -2x hive of the eye tyrant -19x swamp
I've played nothing but zombies since innistrad came out and made a few tweaks to this shell. Went down to 3 jadar bec he is legendary. Went down 2 wight and up to 4 tainted adversary, that card is even better than it looks. And i replaced sweepers with Lolth spider queen for mid game. works very well with decayed. I also played with Falcon abomination a bit, seems promising.
Gisa has no zombie synergy, that's what's so annoying about her. Her effect doesn't make the returned creatures into zombies. As above poster said too; if you wipe with "blood on the snow" with Gisa in play you DON'T get their creatures, because the Gisa that exiled them left play; the one you have is a "new" Gisa. Draugr doesn't have that issue.
@@Bladius_ oh I thought that the creatures are zombies because they gain decay which is the zombie's mechanic in the set but you are right they don't gain the zombie type its very disappointing
Sometime i wonder about zombie with decayed, Like most of the zombie that the necromancer/stitcher create these days is damn fragile huh the mtga animation proves it
Blood on the snow single handedly removes so many interesting less-than-aggro creature decks from the format. Such a shame as there is quite a bit of tribal support for once.
The whole "Oh you play a goblin deck? No no, I play a goblin deck now." I love it.
As a gobbo player that game hurt my soul
Match 3 was epic. Very well played.
It takes a lot of braaaaiiins to pilot this deck :)
Winner
Teehee haha
lol ok
I haven't played Magic in over a year but I still enjoy watching mono red decks lose, I just can't explain it.
Actually, mono red is pretty bad in the current standard. Mono white and mono green are the new turn your cards sideway and win decks
I know the feeling! In addition to what Ray says, I prefer a meta where decks exist that require you to do more than just ‘turn sideways’.
@@rayzhang7591 mono Red goblins is quite respectable in the current standard
@@YakubMyBeloved is it? if i have my removal in early game they have no chance, they dont even care getting over turn 4 or 5, i wouldnt call that respectable.
Would love to see the Historic Zombie list as well... hoping it's much more competitive now.
Yes, I would love to see this too!
Necromancer + Sweepers......quite a swingy combo. Really powerful effect on a good body. Pretty cool card!
35:38 the fact you grinded through so many Kaya triggers is incredible. I usually mark that cycle as a game winner.
That goblins game was fun to watch! Thanks for the Innistrad content!
The game against Orzhov was amazing!
Close game
Tribal decks have always that special flavor I like. I definitely prefer them over control decks
A tribal deck can be a control deck too. Tribal just means there's a common theme among cards. Control is a style of play, not a style of deck.
Wow that match 3! So glad I didn't spoil myself by seeing how long it was. Great game
I put morbid opportunist into my zombies as a way to draw more to avoid running out of steam and really loving it. With the decayed zombies and especially Jadar it gets you a draw every turn when you attack with the decayed token. And you can get a draw on opponents turn if something dies. A lot of value at 3 mana
Love this, out of the snow themed zombie decks I've seen so far this is definitely my favorite. I've gotta say though, that Meathook Massacre and Lolth without the snow package has been my favorite version so far. It's basically an aggro deck with aristocrats synergies and I've been loving it.
That Draugr Necromancer really worked overtime xD
This set is such a breathe of fresh air. Really enjoying the uploads as well man. Going to catch the VoD of yesterday's stream after work too. Thanks.
Sweet match against clerics! This is the kind of tribal magic I love to see.
Match 3 was amaaaaazing. Wow.
I made a similar deck for the mid-week brawl. I also added in Poppet Stitcher which turns off the decayed effect and allows Jadar to make more zombies since they lose Decayed effect.
Oooh this looks fun, I love the Draugr!
Luca I love this deck! I haven't been a fan of standard for awhile now, but this just might make me play again. I love historic though! I would LOVE to see what you can do with zombies in historic with these new cards! Keep up the great work man!!
Great content as usual, loved to see you throwing goblins and Orah at the opponent's face haha
That match 3 was SO GOOOOOD. I love me some zombies.
As you walk along the edge of the frozen river, dead hands poke out from beneath it, grasping at the air, hoping for something to eat.
I love the Decks you play and how you play them. Everytime I copy the deck I realize I can't play them because of missing wildcards🙄😂
I never even thought of dracolich and jadar combo that's smart!
I’d love to see an esper version of this, that splashed kaya and leaned more towards the ‘blood money’ style of deck. Since blue is already a splash and mana fixing is pretty decent rn, I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch
i've personally seen a lot of 3 color decks struggle since rotation, do we really have good manafixing?
@@taurelith4867 I mean we don’t have fetches, but the new innistrad duals are spectacular. There’s also snow duals and pathways. The style of deck I was talking about would also use treasure from 1 or more sources. Also, to have one card in each of the splash colors, each with 1 mana pip, is not a hard splash at all.
Look at the party decks in the format, an Aggro deck that is playing like 3.5 colors
@jett hayes
Blood on the snow really wants a snow mana base and going into three colors means at best you’ll get back a three drop. There’s something to be said for white black but three color means snow cards aren’t a possibility
Great video, thanks for your hard work.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I need my daily LVD ASMR
ice king and his zombies. Winter is here! :)
I'm trying a midrange version with Poppet Stitcher, not going over 3cmc cards, relying more on tokens, based on decks I have been facing on Arena. So far the deck contains Lands (22); Creatures (24) : 4 Poppet, 4 Jadar, 4 Adversary or Wight, 4 Champion, 4 Skaab and 4 Shambling Ghast; and Support (14): 4 Flip the Switch, 4 Bloodchief Thrist or Infernal Grasp, 3 Village Rites & 3 Rotten Reunion (nice against blood money and clerics and combos with poppet). I have seen variations with Morbid Oportunist and/or board wipes with The Meathook Massacre, both working well with decay. Also some play Lolth, to abuse decay, but with Massacre and Lolth, the mana base must be stretched.
Also I'd really love if you keep doing more draft videos as well, really appreciate the way you explain your thought process in these
I'm struggling to find a meaningful 3 drop for zombies, came interested to see what you came up with. Disappointed to see no 3 drops at all but glad I'm not the only one lol
Can sometimes still doublespell on three, so it's not the end of the world.
Meathook massacre for 1?
Hobbling Zombie
is a decent 3 drop. Not top tier maybe but it threatens the board and leaves a zombie behind when it dies.
Poppet Stitcher is the one I've been seen on Arena.
@@francisstranieri2067 I dont have the mythics for poppet haha. Also, in aggro I'm not playing enough instants/sorceries to really poppet off.
I made a deck similar to this, and it's carried me to Gold (good for me, at least). I tried to include stuff like Narfi, but I found myself winning a lot more by going more aggro and low to the ground with stuff like Falcon Abomination, and going for single removals like Soul Shatter instead of Blood on the Snow or Crippling Fear. Also included Realmswalker to add some card advantage, but I'm still debating that one; Village Rites might just be the smarter option there
Ayyy the man the myth the LengenVD, back with another cool deck!
The mana the mythic the LegenVD fits better I think.
@@bumpy1031 Jesus that’s amazing
Best magic content out there. If you're already sick of seeing/playing every other deck with Wrenn, Gold, Chariot and Epiphany this is the place to be.
Edit: I guess CGB did just post a pretty cool vampire tribal/burn deck
I've been waiting months for this deck
Waiting to use crippling fear was a very odd choice
Village rites is great for card draw, might wanna consider deadly dispute for a replacement as it allows you sac either a creature or artifact and creates a treasure token as well.
Not really a good suggestion. No other artifacts in the deck, and the treasure token isn't really worth it when you don't have a tall curve.
16:53
"look at me"
"im the goblin player now"
Surprised you didnt include Ghoulish Procession
but this build looks very nice :)
16:48 "I'm the goblin player now."
How about a hybrid between this deck and that poppet deck you made last week? I tried it a bit, and when it goes off, it really goes off (champion of perished + ghoul caller + factory is pretty broken).
Ooo yea factory + ghoulcaller is just a nice combo by itself but if you add champion of the perished to that…
not enough spells and Crippling fear is a nonbo. Poppet looks like a zombies card but he isn't; he's a "stack of spells" card.
@@Bladius_ I dont run crippling fear and with 20+ spells and ghoul caller its not that hard to flip poppet.
Can't wait for more draft content!
game 1 NOt attacking with Jadar did make a difference, opponent could block a 3/3 and go to 1 keeping the skullport alive, but attacking with Jadar would force them to block a 4 power creature.
Playing wight?! This is a blue black deck! (White)
Yes! I wanted this.
I am having a BLAST with the Corrupted Clerics, if my rare wildcards weren’t constantly more scarce than white rhinos I would build this too.
Weird how in the 3rd match, the spirt and aspirant didn't die the second they hit the battlefield 🤔 it says until the end of turn meaning anything thag isn't a zombie should basically die?
It only applies to things that are currently in play.
Was hoping for you to steal some crabs with this deck!
Match number 3 was a pleasure to watch. The opponent would have won it if they understood how to use pyre
he played that so wrong 14 damage 13 life just play the crippling fear
Here it is !
What about Haunting Voyage instead Blood on the snow?
Our creatures aren't high impact enough for Voyage I think.
@@LegenVD But it could give us some "Let's do this again" thing against control matchups or just after board sweepers.
Of course, its not spicy as Voyage in Rogues (Im actually manage to mill 36 cards just by single Voyage returning all my rogues), since zombie doesn't have a lot of good etb triggers, but still.
At least single copy should make a cut imho
@@Nink262 I'm no pro but I agree with you. In my mind, an aggro list you dont want to sweep your own creatures. Blood wants a game changing 5 or 6 drop to return. I do run two voyage and they've done well for me. If you havent won the game yet by turn 6/7, getting all your zombies back means you're not out yet.
@@tns4 He won two games by doing exactly that with Draugr in play.
The zombies pressure early. Late game you can Blood+Draugr or Crippling fear.
Voyage seems like jank and this deck doesn't have "free" turns to foretell. Also the format is full of exile effects.
If you're behind bringing back a bunch of 1 to 4 power guys ain't gonna win you the game, clearing the entire board and "drawing 5" with draugr will.
@LegenVDcan you make an artifact deck with this standard rotation?? I’ve always been big on it and looking at the rotation it looks near impossible
You should check out Jim Davis' uw artifact deck he recently tested. It seemed pretty solid if you're looking for a fun deck.
I've been having lots of fun with a mono black aggro variant, courtesy of Magic Aids. it is surprisingly effective and catches many opponents off guard.
To quote him: “this makes daddy proud”
deck list? i only saw the bw variant
@@javelin9979 it's nothing competitive, i was mostly just inspired by Magic Aids plus I'm a F2P player so i make do with what I have available. but I guess I'll make a list:
- 4x dungeon crawler
-4x eye twitch
-3x Malamir rebirth
-4x village rites
-2x Flunk
-4x Grim wanderer
-2x infernal Grasp
-1x Null priest Oblivion
-3x tainted adversary
-2x vengeful strangler
-3x wight
-1x curse of leeches
-1x graveyard trespasser
-2x nighthawk scavenger
-1x soul shatter
-1x ebondeath dracolich
-1x gelatinous cube
-2x hive of the eye tyrant
-19x swamp
@@RandomPerson-mv8bn nice thanks for the list
@@javelin9979 yeah, np. definitely can use some tweaking if you've got the cards, I've enjoyed it quite a bit as is though hopefully you will too.
Acererak is kinda fun to add in this deck.
With so much removal being played right now, would it be good to add a counterspell to protect your key combos?
i need all these cards lol i made a zombies vampires deck today full zombie would be awesome 🤔
I feel like a lot of these cards will end up in my future zombie unleashed edh precon :)
Algorithm engagement for the crab king.
I've played nothing but zombies since innistrad came out and made a few tweaks to this shell. Went down to 3 jadar bec he is legendary. Went down 2 wight and up to 4 tainted adversary, that card is even better than it looks. And i replaced sweepers with Lolth spider queen for mid game. works very well with decayed. I also played with Falcon abomination a bit, seems promising.
Orzhov opponent threw so hard the game by sacrificing that creature and not paying attention to the Necromancer ability
Man I love inistrad... The powerlevel is just much more fun.
it honestly feels like we're back to fair magic
Once they ban blizzard brawl/Ekisa's chariot I think the format will be amazing.
Another vid! Nice!
Making new zombies, with sacrifice synergy and in dimir colours is probably the best birthday present wiz could give me
Have you tried putting Gisa instead of Dragur necromancer its a very similar effect but Gisa has better synergy with zombies
But she is, herself, not a zombie. Also doesn't synergize with blood on the snow.
Gisa has no zombie synergy, that's what's so annoying about her. Her effect doesn't make the returned creatures into zombies.
As above poster said too; if you wipe with "blood on the snow" with Gisa in play you DON'T get their creatures, because the Gisa that exiled them left play; the one you have is a "new" Gisa. Draugr doesn't have that issue.
@@Bladius_ oh I thought that the creatures are zombies because they gain decay which is the zombie's mechanic in the set but you are right they don't gain the zombie type its very disappointing
@@yoav.kats6328 YEP! it really sucks to have a Gisa who does nothing actually related to Zombies... and her art is full of zombies...
Super cool deck, but I fear it is very vulnerable to board clears, no?
That's every creature deck
Look at me... I'm the goblin player now
finalllyyyy
Is he playing in the play queue? Why is there no rank?
pog
So what ive done is make a flying super zombie deck and win most of em
Asked them to make a mobile version. I like the software but don't play on pc.
There already is Arena on Mobile.
@@LegenVD I was talking about the tracking software.
Sometime i wonder about zombie with decayed, Like most of the zombie that the necromancer/stitcher create these days is damn fragile huh the mtga animation proves it
I pretty much use the decayed tokens as sacrifice fodder unless I can pump their power up and zerg rush.
Why not put a couple copies of meat hook massacre? so many things dies in thoses games, wouldn't be a good way to drain/gain life? ^^
ugh so many zombies, so few wildcards
A Nidoran user pic? A legend.
To much jafer without any rotton reunions
I hated Dimir until I saw this deck…
Played a couple zombie decks, never lost to them yet. They seem to lose steam pretty quickly. Simic with Wrenn has been dominating for me...
Yo
Zombie nation
8:35 was such a terrible block
It's fine if they are playing around removal.
@@LegenVD ahh i stand corrected.
Blood on the snow single handedly removes so many interesting less-than-aggro creature decks from the format. Such a shame as there is quite a bit of tribal support for once.
Took this same exact deck into platinum ranks, won 2 out of 10. oof. therefor 2/10 wouldnt recommend
why this dude doesnt play in mythic rank? so much thinking wasted in plastic elo
You play a lot more unique decks in the play queue, and thus more unique gameplay. Mythic has the same decks over and over again.
Its annoying that many of the good zombie cards in this set….are humans. What in the fucj
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