2:25 first up, there's me, because that's what Mitch says on pretty much every deck tech. I'm absurdly good ramp that gets you a basic land on Turn 2. Wizards! Reprint me! Thank you. As of this posting, my lowest TCGPlayer market price is $3.33 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing. You heard the man. Reprint me!
My favorite thing with this deck. Main phase: casts Approach of the Second Sun. Battlephase:Attacks with 8 zombies or more. Main phase 2: casts Approach of the Second Sun
Am ithe only one who misses the good old times when i could check the price of cards in the decks while looking at Mitch's decktechs? Bring that back Mitch!!!!
OMH! I love this deck! Thank you Mitch. Also, I'm glad to hear you getting back to your old self. You were actually really silly and nutty in this video. Like waiting until almost there end of the video to say 'hi'. It might just be me, but you've seemed a bit down in some recent videos and it's good to hear the fun back on your voice. I'm sorry, if I'm mis-stating that. I mean no offense. Love your content, please keep up the brilliant work!
One card that could be added as an upgrade is Reconnaissance. It lets you untap all your zombies if they end up in unfavorable blocks and still get the Varina trigger, but more importantly it grants pseudo vigilance because after damage you can still untap them.
i've been playing Thraximundar since i started playing EDH and while over the years i've played him mostly as grixis I recently changed to focus on zombie tribal and am loving it!
Oooooo! She came in the Amanatou precon, I might just take her out, disassemble my 5 color zombie deck and focus a deck with her as commander. Thanx for the help!
Hey Mitch, I am a new commander player and new subscriber and I wanna thank you. I was always tempted by commander but the players at my LGS all have very expensive decks and when I played with them with a precon deck i got destroyed. That was before I found your channel. I cant invest too much in the hobby right now and even if I can invest like 500$ I dont want it to be in 1 Deck. I built your upgraded Vito deck last week ( came to about 100$ on the canadian market) and Im super competitive but more impotantly Im having fun playing. Im planning on building many more decks with ur help. SO thx again. keep doing this pls.
So happy with the new style. Not reading every card aloud is so much more friendly, and really shows a greater understanding of your audience. It really was quite painful before :) Keep up the good work! I do still have to watch your videos at at least 1.25x speed, because I'm not sure if someone told you to speak slowly when reading aloud or if it's just you; but as an Australian it make me think I am having a stroke.
I love my Varina deck and I know her looting effect is good, but it can really suck if you have an empty hand to begin with. I like using Library of Leng to help my discards be more selective. Great deck!
Sir Conrad hits when a creature hits any graveyard and when a creature leaves YOUR graveyard, not any graveyard. It won’t effect how this deck runs but it doesn’t add value against enemy reanimation.
Ah I see Garring is a man of culture as well~ When my tokens are simple 2/2, "Behind The Scenes" do a lot of work. And when they are strong of course "True Conviction" makes them even better. "Zombie Trailblazer" and "Wonder" in both cases. "Curse of Disturbance" does a lot of work cursing the player on top. And with this deck since last year, my "Alhammarret's Archive" I had stored in a binder, finally have a permanent home~
Hey Mitch so happy you put this video together I just finished making a deck with her about a month ago or so. I’ve found that rooftop storm is actually an amazing add to this deck
I run a Varina Deck, she's the first commander deck I ever built and I've slowly upgraded her over the years. Needless to say she's a powerhouse now and can easily flood the board with Zombies, Zombie Gods and Boardwipes galore. She's so damn fun to play.
Looks like a nice, straight forward zombie deck built for synergy and fun. My ONLY feedback for this deck, I suspect it does too much looting and not enough draw. I realize that could be a budget issue too.
Varina is my favorite deck I have ever built. She was my first ever commander deck back in 2018 and I still have her to this day. She started out as budget but as time went on, and upgraded her and cards rose in price, she is now about $500
I have this type of deck and run a Profane Processions in it which works very well. It combos with all your zombie token generators and Smothering Tithe.
Varina is my main deck. I know Alhammaret’s archive isn’t budget, but Teferi’s Ageless Insight is and those both turn Varina into a serious draw engine. Diviner’s Wand is my favorite obscure tech for this deck. She gets huge out of nowhere.
I made a deck like this a few years ago. It's a cheap deck. The thing I'm most worried about is the fact that you churn through the deck really quickly, and her ability isn't a "may" so if your hand is ever empty you basically mill yourself.
Tactic 8 could have been called "Dead and Gone" since it features exile effects (gone) and it's in a zombie deck (dead). Or "Cremation" since exile effects get rid of something and prevent graveyard shenanigans (come to think of it, necromancers would be in deep trouble if cremation were popular) EDIT: or "Dead Doornails" since these cards are aimed at artifacts and enchantments.
Roofrop Storm, Noxious Ghoul, Grave Crawler, and a sac outlet like Carrion feeder, Or Nantuko Husk can whipe out a board. also if you us Butcher of Malakir, Erebos edict or Grave pact can also whipe out boards. If one include green you use the same combo pump up Carrion Feeder or Nantuko Husk and with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord kill every one.
I have a Varina deck, and the moment I realized she didn't have to attack to trigger, my mind went wild. It's a hilarious deck to pilot, great for tribal, reanimator, lifegain, it does everything you want in esper. Also, if you can afford it, rooftop storm and liliana, untouched is a fantastic combo in this deck!
Varina has to be my favorite deck. I'll always remember removing a player from the stack because he cast Aetherize which was going to hose me. I tapped shepherd of rot, activated loch lord of unx and cycled gempalm polluter targeting the dude. Needless to say his face turned sour and sad lol
I have a Varina deck, but I use it as a way to run a really janky but fun combo. I have all the cards that ping when things die, like Vengeful dead, Diregraf Captain and Plague Belcher, and then try to fill my graveyard with as many zombies as possible. My win con is then to have either Arcane Adaption or Conspiracy in play naming humans, so all my zombies are zombie humans. Finally you cast Zombie Apocalypse, and return everything from your graveyard to the battlefield, then they die triggering all the Ping lords. It can easily close out a game in a single turn, especially if you use Varina to remove all the non creatures from your graveyard to farm up some tokens for the big finish.
Varina has become my favorite commanders since she came out! Ominous Seas is a perfect fit because a giant Kraken along with a bunch of zombies is ridiculous.
I've built her and she is by far my favorite deck to play and it is almost the same as this list some minor differences but ifnir does put in work and anything he doesn't kill most of the time gets tapped from the zombies entering I did put the exquisite blood and sanguine bond combo in but just one of them can win the game with a swing with 10 or 15 zombies gain that life deal the damage I love it
Cryptbreaker and Gravespawn Sovereign, both are sub 5$ but in zombie tribal being able to tap 3 untapped zombies to draw a card or Tap 5 untapped zombies to take a creature from any graveyard and put it on the battlefield is pretty strong. Unfortunately Gravespawn Sovereign is a high cmc creature at 4bb but still a bomb though as it's ability is not T: so can use the turn it's brought into play.
The Scarab God is my favourite. I've just assembled it and can't wait to overwhelm my opponents with neverending hordes. Also draining is a fun way to win without attacking
Library of Leng takes this deck to the next level. Discard anything you don’t need, and anything you want to keep goes on top of your deck. And it’s only $1.50!
I have been mucking about with trying to put together a zombie deck using Muldrotha as the commander, only for this beauty of a list to land in my lap. Do I pivot and build Varina instead? Dang it, Mitch! Why'd you have to go and make me start thinking?!
My Varina deck is so fun. After I got my stimulus check, I put her together, and the best combo is having Varina out, with Alhammarrett’s archive, and bone miser. Pair that with Rooftop Storm, to just EXPLODE.
some upgrades: Rooftop Storm, because paying 0 for (nontoken) zombies is good. Especially with zombies that can cast from the graveyard, like Gravecrawler. Also a less reasonable, but still upgrade to the land base could be Field of the Dead. because free zombies for playing land.
YESS I STARTED MAGIC A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WITH A GOAL OF DIMIR ZOMBIES GOT VARINA FROM THE BOX BEEN A DREAM, WAS A GOOD FIRST DECK AND TIME TO UPGRADE BABBBY YEAHHH
Quite surprised there is no Teferi's Ageless Insight or Dreadhorde Invasion. Anyway huge thanks for this deck, been waiting for it so long I even made one myself xD
How about library of leng on the deck i have a varina deck and library of leng helps a lot with card selection and better yet it still triggers the diacards effects
My fiance runs her as his commander for his zombie deck. Throw in library of leng for hilarity and getting around the discard issue. Varina is a great, unexpected zombie commander
Surpassed army of the damned didn’t land anywhere in this. Also any of the effects that double card draw, like alhammaret’s archive, would be super good in a deck like this.
Is anyone else never able to match prices in these videos? I go for heavily played and damaged card conditions and my deck price is usually a bit higher, and then shipping comes in and will sometimes double the cost. What am I potentially messing up?
I love Varina, she was my first commander deck at first it was around $80 after 2 years it’s around $400 lol best deck, I don’t recommend open the graves if it’s a big token deck it won’t make much. I took it out
Mitch: Syr Konrad, The Grim, I'm sure he's great at parties
Me: but he's not a warrior wizard rogue or cleric.
2:25 first up, there's me, because that's what Mitch says on pretty much every deck tech. I'm absurdly good ramp that gets you a basic land on Turn 2. Wizards! Reprint me! Thank you.
As of this posting, my lowest TCGPlayer market price is $3.33 for my Modern Masters 2015 printing. You heard the man. Reprint me!
your price goes up 5% everytime its featured
My favorite thing with this deck. Main phase: casts Approach of the Second Sun. Battlephase:Attacks with 8 zombies or more. Main phase 2: casts Approach of the Second Sun
Yeah, I’ve won quite a few games doing exactly that.
I'm going more with a pinger combo build, but I'm really considering putting Approach in because I can't imagine a better deck for it, really.
@@theamazingincrediblespider9689 velamochus lorehold can do it nice now
That's exactly why I'm building in the first place
Am ithe only one who misses the good old times when i could check the price of cards in the decks while looking at Mitch's decktechs? Bring that back Mitch!!!!
>thought this video was ancient
>looks at date and views
"31 views Sep 24,2020"
Hell yeah new vid!!!
3 budget additions are: Teferi's ageless insight, silversmote ghoul and graveborn muse.
Also Library of Leng is a must have for this deck and is only a couple dollars.
I would not use the muse. It can very easily cost you the game
@@ApexZer0 that's the fun part about it sometimes
That moment when you like the deck and you already have all the reasonable upgrades waiting in your collection :o
Lazotel Plating is underrated.
Aside the amass factor, I absolutely love having a pseudo Heroic Intervention that protects me in blue.
Great timing! I was just working on putting a deck together with her
How does he always do this?
I love my varina deck
Varina is my favorite deck by far!!!
OMH! I love this deck! Thank you Mitch. Also, I'm glad to hear you getting back to your old self. You were actually really silly and nutty in this video. Like waiting until almost there end of the video to say 'hi'. It might just be me, but you've seemed a bit down in some recent videos and it's good to hear the fun back on your voice. I'm sorry, if I'm mis-stating that. I mean no offense. Love your content, please keep up the brilliant work!
This episode is amazing if you put it on .75 speed, it sounds like Mitch is drunkenly explaining how awesome zombies are
One card that could be added as an upgrade is Reconnaissance. It lets you untap all your zombies if they end up in unfavorable blocks and still get the Varina trigger, but more importantly it grants pseudo vigilance because after damage you can still untap them.
OH MAY GOD I"M THE ONLY ONE WHO MISS THE JAZZ IN THE INTRO!? GOD DAMN, I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE
I actually hate the new intro, the old intro was perfect!
Nah man, you're not alone. Jazz forever.
Bring back the jazz!
The old intro was way better tbh.
Archfiend of Ifnir is such a bomb in this deck. Glad to see it as the Golden Pick
i've been playing Thraximundar since i started playing EDH and while over the years i've played him mostly as grixis I recently changed to focus on zombie tribal and am loving it!
I'm loving the jokes and fun little comments added here and there! Makes me chuckle while I learn about awesome commanders I've never seen!
Oooooo! She came in the Amanatou precon, I might just take her out, disassemble my 5 color zombie deck and focus a deck with her as commander. Thanx for the help!
I was just talking about building Varina. What timing!
Varina was my first EDH list I built and I still love playing her today!
Idk if there's a video but I wanna see how you decide to build a commander deck and how you do it that'd be really cool to see
Let's go new video.
Edit: So happy it's zombie tribal. I really wanted to make a deck like this since I've made my first deck.
I was also making one
Hey Mitch, I am a new commander player and new subscriber and I wanna thank you. I was always tempted by commander but the players at my LGS all have very expensive decks and when I played with them with a precon deck i got destroyed. That was before I found your channel. I cant invest too much in the hobby right now and even if I can invest like 500$ I dont want it to be in 1 Deck. I built your upgraded Vito deck last week ( came to about 100$ on the canadian market) and Im super competitive but more impotantly Im having fun playing. Im planning on building many more decks with ur help. SO thx again. keep doing this pls.
Thank you for the kind words and I’m glad you have found the channel to be helpful!
So happy with the new style. Not reading every card aloud is so much more friendly, and really shows a greater understanding of your audience. It really was quite painful before :) Keep up the good work!
I do still have to watch your videos at at least 1.25x speed, because I'm not sure if someone told you to speak slowly when reading aloud or if it's just you; but as an Australian it make me think I am having a stroke.
Does anyone else knows when close quarter episode 2 is coming out?
MITCH REALLY NEEDS TO GET ON IT!
Now and ep 3 too
I love my Varina deck and I know her looting effect is good, but it can really suck if you have an empty hand to begin with. I like using Library of Leng to help my discards be more selective. Great deck!
Dammit. Someone is telling people how good my favorite commander is.
I had this exact same thought lol
Wow, I'm so glad people haven't forgotten about Varina.
Zombie tribal
Sir Conrad hits when a creature hits any graveyard and when a creature leaves YOUR graveyard, not any graveyard. It won’t effect how this deck runs but it doesn’t add value against enemy reanimation.
Ah
I see Garring is a man of culture as well~
When my tokens are simple 2/2, "Behind The Scenes" do a lot of work.
And when they are strong of course "True Conviction" makes them even better.
"Zombie Trailblazer" and "Wonder" in both cases.
"Curse of Disturbance" does a lot of work cursing the player on top.
And with this deck since last year, my "Alhammarret's Archive" I had stored in a binder, finally have a permanent home~
Thanks this is great! Question, why isn’t the card price at the footer anymore? Thanks!
Great episode, Mitch. Love the direction you're taking with more joking and time to breathe. stay frosty!
Hey Mitch so happy you put this video together I just finished making a deck with her about a month ago or so. I’ve found that rooftop storm is actually an amazing add to this deck
I run a Varina Deck, she's the first commander deck I ever built and I've slowly upgraded her over the years. Needless to say she's a powerhouse now and can easily flood the board with Zombies, Zombie Gods and Boardwipes galore. She's so damn fun to play.
Tactic #8: Shadow Realm
Looks like a nice, straight forward zombie deck built for synergy and fun. My ONLY feedback for this deck, I suspect it does too much looting and not enough draw. I realize that could be a budget issue too.
Varina is my favorite deck I have ever built. She was my first ever commander deck back in 2018 and I still have her to this day. She started out as budget but as time went on, and upgraded her and cards rose in price, she is now about $500
i miss the days when Mitch used to just be a robot, and not be so comfortable,lol
Yeah, seriously. His flow is awful now
I'm looking to build a deck around Empty the pits, and I think I'll throw it in this brew with a couple other modifications
Wasn’t corpse knight one of the cards that had some misprints at release and had to be errated? I seem to recall that.
Thank you!!!! I’ve been working on this deck for a hot minute but couldn’t quite make it work.
This is some wholesome content thank you Mitch for all you do for the community 😊
For around $10, Alhammarret's Archive would be an amazing addition, just might be too expensive (cmc) to utilize properly.
I was going to add this as well. If you're going to break the bank for any card I'd do it for this one.
Big fan of the more quirky confident Mitch btw. Also, I'm pretty sure you got through this whole thing without saying 'whatnot' so good job 😂
I have this type of deck and run a Profane Processions in it which works very well. It combos with all your zombie token generators and Smothering Tithe.
tactic number 8: eternal slumber.
Probably not the best suggestion, but at least I tried.
Varina is my main deck.
I know Alhammaret’s archive isn’t budget, but Teferi’s Ageless Insight is and those both turn Varina into a serious draw engine.
Diviner’s Wand is my favorite obscure tech for this deck. She gets huge out of nowhere.
I made a deck like this a few years ago. It's a cheap deck. The thing I'm most worried about is the fact that you churn through the deck really quickly, and her ability isn't a "may" so if your hand is ever empty you basically mill yourself.
You could always sacrifice Varina if the card draw gets too heavy
Yes! Was really hoping you would make a deck tech on her and now it's here!
Tactic 8 could have been called "Dead and Gone" since it features exile effects (gone) and it's in a zombie deck (dead). Or "Cremation" since exile effects get rid of something and prevent graveyard shenanigans (come to think of it, necromancers would be in deep trouble if cremation were popular)
EDIT: or "Dead Doornails" since these cards are aimed at artifacts and enchantments.
Cremation is a good one!
Roofrop Storm, Noxious Ghoul, Grave Crawler, and a sac outlet like Carrion feeder, Or Nantuko Husk can whipe out a board. also if you us Butcher of Malakir, Erebos edict or Grave pact can also whipe out boards. If one include green you use the same combo pump up Carrion Feeder or Nantuko Husk and with Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord kill every one.
I JUST started putting a list together today for this exact commander! Wonderful!
I have a Varina deck, and the moment I realized she didn't have to attack to trigger, my mind went wild. It's a hilarious deck to pilot, great for tribal, reanimator, lifegain, it does everything you want in esper. Also, if you can afford it, rooftop storm and liliana, untouched is a fantastic combo in this deck!
I would’ve called the exile tactic: Beyond death. Because yknow, you’re sending them to exile, beyond the graveyard.
Varina has to be my favorite deck. I'll always remember removing a player from the stack because he cast Aetherize which was going to hose me. I tapped shepherd of rot, activated loch lord of unx and cycled gempalm polluter targeting the dude. Needless to say his face turned sour and sad lol
Two thumbs up for this series, keep them coming , thanks so much !!
I have a Varina deck, but I use it as a way to run a really janky but fun combo. I have all the cards that ping when things die, like Vengeful dead, Diregraf Captain and Plague Belcher, and then try to fill my graveyard with as many zombies as possible. My win con is then to have either Arcane Adaption or Conspiracy in play naming humans, so all my zombies are zombie humans. Finally you cast Zombie Apocalypse, and return everything from your graveyard to the battlefield, then they die triggering all the Ping lords. It can easily close out a game in a single turn, especially if you use Varina to remove all the non creatures from your graveyard to farm up some tokens for the big finish.
I'm glad you put Shepard of rot it's my favorite piece in my Varina deck
Varina has become my favorite commanders since she came out! Ominous Seas is a perfect fit because a giant Kraken along with a bunch of zombies is ridiculous.
Been trying to make this deck work for a while. Thanx Mitch! 👍
I've built her and she is by far my favorite deck to play and it is almost the same as this list some minor differences but ifnir does put in work and anything he doesn't kill most of the time gets tapped from the zombies entering I did put the exquisite blood and sanguine bond combo in but just one of them can win the game with a swing with 10 or 15 zombies gain that life deal the damage I love it
Cryptbreaker and Gravespawn Sovereign, both are sub 5$ but in zombie tribal being able to tap 3 untapped zombies to draw a card or Tap 5 untapped zombies to take a creature from any graveyard and put it on the battlefield is pretty strong. Unfortunately Gravespawn Sovereign is a high cmc creature at 4bb but still a bomb though as it's ability is not T: so can use the turn it's brought into play.
I feel like the Scarab God would be fairly decent in this deck, since you're already exiling things anyway why not?
Include would be Gisa and Geralf, as well as Grimgrin, corpse born
I’ve always loved The Scarab God for zombie tribal but this one looks amazing, too!
Carving pumpkins and listening to a new deck tech is a great way to spend the afternoon 😄
The Scarab God is my favourite. I've just assembled it and can't wait to overwhelm my opponents with neverending hordes. Also draining is a fun way to win without attacking
Library of Leng takes this deck to the next level.
Discard anything you don’t need, and anything you want to keep goes on top of your deck.
And it’s only $1.50!
Why didn't you just get the guy who did the commander's quarter millions to do the "my lord" bit? He had a great accent
I have been mucking about with trying to put together a zombie deck using Muldrotha as the commander, only for this beauty of a list to land in my lap. Do I pivot and build Varina instead? Dang it, Mitch! Why'd you have to go and make me start thinking?!
My Varina deck is so fun. After I got my stimulus check, I put her together, and the best combo is having Varina out, with Alhammarrett’s archive, and bone miser. Pair that with Rooftop Storm, to just EXPLODE.
I have had a varina deck for a couple years now and she's actually my most expensive deck. Losing to this list is gonna feel really bad.
Library of leng allows to the stacking of the top cards of your library I highly recommend running that card
A couple of considerations for this deck
Ayara, first of locthwain
Peer into the abyss
maybe bones to dust or something like that instead of buried? since you're turning them into nothing via exile?
some upgrades: Rooftop Storm, because paying 0 for (nontoken) zombies is good. Especially with zombies that can cast from the graveyard, like Gravecrawler. Also a less reasonable, but still upgrade to the land base could be Field of the Dead. because free zombies for playing land.
awesome deck! I picked up the singles off TCGplayer and am looking forward to my next game night.
I have the reasonable upgrades version and it's so much fun. Sometimes, op.
I love my varina deck. How did you build a zombie deck and not have gravecrawler at least in the upgrades.
YESS I STARTED MAGIC A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WITH A GOAL OF DIMIR ZOMBIES
GOT VARINA FROM THE BOX
BEEN A DREAM, WAS A GOOD FIRST DECK AND TIME TO UPGRADE BABBBY YEAHHH
Would be woth it adding the new Tormod and something like Library of Leng or something to recicle the graveyard?
Quite surprised there is no Teferi's Ageless Insight or Dreadhorde Invasion. Anyway huge thanks for this deck, been waiting for it so long I even made one myself xD
Can u do Moraug budget??? I would love to see how that would be done.
Thanks for considering!
ooooo yes...
There is my 2 week old Varina deck 2 feet away from me, no joke. It is very fun
I'm so glad Mitch has comedy in his videos now 😂😂
Is thought reflection here? Cause it is pure card advantage in this deck.
On that note, teferi's ageless insight is Both cheaper in mana cost and budget!
old edition wrath of god reads bury all creatures, it used to a keyword to denote can't be regenerated
How about library of leng on the deck i have a varina deck and library of leng helps a lot with card selection and better yet it still triggers the diacards effects
Another good reasonable upgrade might be Alhammarret's Archive, since that doubles up the card draw and lifegain from swinging with your zombies.
The good old commander and wayfarer's bauble plus 98 cards tribal deck!
Awesome decklist! With the recent Modern Horizons 2 and Strixhaven sets, are there any additions that would help the deck out?
Bag of holding works wonders here when there’s graveyard hate and also you can’t go wrong with bolas citadel
How did Library of Leng not make your list? it's cheap and a must-have in any Varina build.
My fiance runs her as his commander for his zombie deck. Throw in library of leng for hilarity and getting around the discard issue. Varina is a great, unexpected zombie commander
Add Phyrexian Altar, and Gravecrawler, paired with the Open the Graves, which is already in the deck, for any infinite zombie combo.
Surpassed army of the damned didn’t land anywhere in this. Also any of the effects that double card draw, like alhammaret’s archive, would be super good in a deck like this.
Also, I'm pretty sure burying is a term in MTG for destroying with the inability to regenerate.
Is anyone else never able to match prices in these videos? I go for heavily played and damaged card conditions and my deck price is usually a bit higher, and then shipping comes in and will sometimes double the cost. What am I potentially messing up?
with the amount of discard you get, no shoutout for Zombie Apocalypse?
I love Varina, she was my first commander deck at first it was around $80 after 2 years it’s around $400 lol best deck, I don’t recommend open the graves if it’s a big token deck it won’t make much. I took it out
This is perfect, I've been trying to fiddle with my Zombie edh 😍