Exploit Zombies - Crimson Vow Standard - Mythic Ranked - MTG Arena

[@ThatsHellBoy]

Thoroughly enjoying your decks and play by play commentary. Your thought processes and calming voice are the gem of your channel. Keep doing what youre doing.

[@LegenVD]

Glad you like them!

[@jorgamund07]

Sweet, a zombie deck! _sees how many rares and mythics it takes_ WELP

[@drewgregory4079]

welcome to MTG in the year of our lord 2021. You only get to play uncommons if they're removal and commons are strictly draft chaff or for use in ladder grind mono red and mono white agro.

[@Xylarxcode]

That's been my issue too. If you're not willing to pay real money (like me), it is still possible to make decent headway, but you'll be playing that same one or two decks you have quite often. It's a grind, but it is possible to keep up. The real challenge, for me at least, lies in not considering that grind a chore. If I don't feel like playing, I won't. Trying to force it will just make me want to stop playing the game long term. Plus, there's always drafts to shake things up, if you ever get tired of facing standard decks with their super strong cards. It's nice to get into a draft every once in a while where you'll only have to face one bomb per deck, if that. Many decks don't even have any and it's not too difficult to break even. And even if you operate on a loss, you always get to something out of the deal. You may have to work your way back up afterwards, but it doesn't usually take too long. All in all, the game is fun and diverse enough that it's possible to enjoy on a F2P basis, provided you don't set your sights too high.

[@jorgamund07]

@@Xylarxcode I'm willing to pay real money. I'm not willing to pay real money for packs with the "wrong" mythics and rares, and a tiny chance for wildcards if I buy 30 or so. If Arena let me buy wildcards directly for gems, I'd be dangerously close to a whale. But I bet they'd overprice them, because the company is so heavily tied to the random pack mechanic.

[@xenogenesis9635]

I know this is a really late response to this particular video, but I've always loved playing Zombie decks. Just started again after a downtime of almost 2 years and had to create a new account, obviously this is my favorite channel since forever and this is definetly gonna be my first crafted deck. Thank you so much for this, you're content has always been amazing, I don't care about getting rekt by removal based control freaks, this deck is beautiful and exactly what I was looking for. Keep up the great work man, you're awesome! All I need is two more rare wildcards to craft the two Amalgams and I can slap people :)

[@ZanderEzekial77]

I really dig the golf commentator vibes to your content my dude. A nice weekend chill pill.

[@balthazardiarienzo]

Nice Addition, that you now Put the mentioned cards always in Display. I really appreciate the extra effort, especially for new Players this is very helpful.

[@pbbdmedia]

Been looking forward to this!! Any draft videos in our future? They’re always an impeccable educational introduction to the set.

[@LegenVD]

Draft video will be out tomorrow.

[@pbbdmedia]

@@LegenVD …and the day after…?? 😜

[@scholarofthelosttrove]

@@pbbdmedia on the seventh day, God rested

[@jameshanus3813]

@@pbbdmedia The fixing is really good in this set, so your main goal should be to pick the best cards from each pack in pack 1 then decide on your direction in pack 2

[@XBluDiamondX]

@@jameshanus3813 Does this even work? I try to use the strategies I read and listen about and it all culminates and terrible performances. It is hard to see why people gush over this format when it is always a feels bad experience most of the time to me.

[@rilstylez]

I really appreciate your work. Thanks for putting out fantastic content! Please keep it up!

[@newmanibrahimovic9]

after all the years I've been watching your videos, I still tell my self" there's "attack with all" button" 🤣

[@arenahacks4836]

Wow I like these new additions for dimir zombies! Good stuff!

[@TylerOGuinn]

It's simple, I see Blue Black, I watch the video. Zombies Tribal?? Hell yes.

[@heinzmuller7712]

Agadeem's Awakening is really nice in this Deck. Get everything back TWICE. Necroduality triggers when the creature enters (not like reflections of littjara when you cast it). It also helps avoiding flood/screw. And the best sweeper for this Deck is imho Meathook Massacre (not Fear/Snow). You can play it for 0 vs. Control. So they are dead when they use their sweeper.

[@LegenVD]

Meathook was certainly worth a mention in the extra cards segment. I like Agadeem's more in BO3 where there's fewer aggro decks to punish the life loss.

[@Sibula]

What about the one from Kaldheim that gets back everything of the same type? Seems like a good fit for a deck full of zombies, although it is a bit expensive if you just want a couple creatures back to finish the game.

[@LegenVD]

@@Sibula Maybe as a sideboard card vs decks with a lot of sweepers.

[@sazger]

@@Sibula Hauntingb Voyage. Yeah maybe a one of

[@hadanfelipe]

Beautiful! Zombies are my favourite creatures.

[@Skytho]

at 18:19, I'm liking copy priest since one more snow land would let you kill the summoner

[@TDiveley87]

This deck is insane. Thanks for sharing.

[@Breakbeat.]

Sign in Blood is one of my favorite cards and Fell Stinger has one built in! That's awesome.

[@justinmariniak2333]

This looks like such a fun deck!

[@amarauk9687]

My god what a number they did with zombies these last expansions :3

[@JasonTownsendJasonTownsend]

Ran this deck from gold to upper diamond with no problem. Love it.

[@heliez8264]

From Bronze to Mythic in 3 days. Tried this deck, always loved themed deck and Zombies above all else, often Zombies are good but not top tier. I have to say I was brand new to the season and went from Bronze to Mythic in 3 days. Losing about every 3-4th matches if unlucky. Otherwise they was always a way to win. I made two little changes, I swapped one Archghoul for a Narfi, and removed 1 blue mana for a Haunted Voyage. In order to deal with some long games. GJ, looking foward for new decks.

[@LegenVD]

Nice work!

[@randallholloway8686]

I've been crazy into my red black vamp deck with blood tokens. I splashed white yesterday for that vampire that dies and becomes an artifact and spawns 3 2/2 lifelink vamps and then returns to battlefield on its own. That and Sorin himself with tokens. It's so dope and I see bigger board presences now amongst all the colors. Used to just be scute swarm, dumb landfall cats (🧂 incl) and elves

[@Super-hb7ld]

Love to see headless rider and Necroduality work out, been hyped for them every since they got spoiled.

[@hunterpauli763]

That rally against mono-white later in the video is gonna hurt my wildcards so bad.

[@jakenhsman]

I usually try not to net deck, but this list looks so fun I want to give it a try. I had some success with zombie aggro last season, this list seems like a fun shakeup. I ran 4 copies of "Flip the Switch" to deal with the turn 4 or 5 sweeper, but Amalgam seems like a strict upgrade on that card

[@swashkevich8522]

Playing +2 Meathook and -2 Priest of haunted Edge... After the headless riders pop off a couple times, and you've got your opponent on the ropes, popping Meathook to get the extra 5-7 damage from blowing up your own team is pretty satisfying as a win con

[@klaiken989]

Awesome deck!

[@winthrop2396]

This deck is soooooo much fun

[@winthrop2396]

When do you decide to mulligan?

[@Mark-xl2du]

Immagine in historic, with all the drain build you made :O With return of the ranks and the giant zombie that make itself a 2\2 for casting zombie spelss ecc!

[@ScorgeTheDemon]

Ok good I wasn’t the only person that thought of an exploit zombie deck mine does have quite a few differences tho like I have reflections of jittjara (I still have necroduality tho) and I also do token creations with it with poppet stitcher and using geralt to give the zombies flying

[@JasonTownsendJasonTownsend]

I've been running some of that "creatures that aren't the chosen type get -3/-3", its been great

[@Fattness124]

Did you ever consider Narfi for this one? Seems like him being an extremely recursive creature would provide tons of value for exploit.

[@davidgonzalez3335]

That's what I thought when I saw the snow lands

[@Big_Dai]

And with Necroduality, you can Legend-Rule-it and keep the untapped token in play.

[@Robopengy]

What would come out to fit Narfi?

[@davidgonzalez3335]

@@Robopengy Maybe one Archgoul of Thraben or one copy of the many drop two the deck has I think one copy of Narfi is ok because of his mana cost (the main porpuse of having Narfi is casting him from the graveyard)

[@LegenVD]

Didn't include Narfi or Ebondeath since Legendary creatures are a little awkward to copy with Necroduality.

[@User-jo7jp]

ahh yes, i dont know if its because its friday or because this deck looks sick but im excited for the fun to commence!

[@LS-hg3qj]

I went ~90% winrate with this deck from bronze to mythic, only changes: -1snow island, -1archghoul --- +1Narfi, +1 haunting voyage (this won me quite some games) I started playing MTG 2 weeks ago. so pretty good deck i would say

[@calvinmobley9628]

Priest of the haunted edge is so slept on. I feel i never see anyone playing it, but when it came out i used to great effect in my lurrus deck

[@ares8553]

Hey, Legend - this video was so good it cleared my indecision about the first bigboi deck I should craft (been playing for a month). Crafted it and I can say after two weeks I'm not regretting it, I love it; but a question arose: _What would you swap for some more removal versus these pesky 0 IQ monowhite decks?_ Your videos are top notch; you're by far my favorite MTGA content creator - calm, educational, clever, classy. Thank you.

[@LegenVD]

Cards like Ray of Enfeeblement and Parasitic Grasp can be brought in over some of the slower cards like Necroduality, Archghoul or Amalgam.

[@Proxiee]

Wanted to get back into arena. Got this deck then started at the bottom in ranked. Just hit diamond in 2 days. Damn good deck imo

[@LegendaryO34]

28:59 The opponent probably should have swung with their chargers here to threaten lethal

[@heywes]

I was thinking the same thing. Fire blades death trigger can go face can’t it? So it would have been lethal had they attacked?

[@TheChzoronzon]

wow, almost identical to my build

[@PaulissVegan]

honestly, play deadly dispute, helps ramping into Necroduality and finds more zombies

[@LegenVD]

Don't really want to sacrifice Champion, so would only work well with Shambling Ghast, seems a little too inconsistent.

[@PaulissVegan]

@@LegenVD you can sac tokens which don't have much value in the deck or ghast yep

[@LegenVD]

@@PaulissVegan If we're sacrificing a token then it's not really ramping into Necroduality since we want to cast it before turn four with this plan.

[@Derael]

I have some doubts that going for snowlands and necroduality is the best way to play zombies. I think tempo variant with more instant speed interactions with flip the switch and the zombie tribal instant that taps creatures and draws a card might be quite a bit better to go with amalgam, and get those hits with huge champions in. Flip the switch also provides some nice exploit fodder, and if we don't play snow, mana will be quite a bit better. But maybe priest is just too good to pass, and I'm underestimating it too much.

[@LegenVD]

The build-around card was Necroduality, so whether or not this is the best Zombie build wasn't my primary goal.

[@Derael]

@@LegenVD Makes sense. I think zombie deck had potential to compete with other best decks in the format, but Necroduality just feels way too clunky for competitive scene. But this is probably one of the best variants of the deck specifically built around it.

[@thehumblee.w.8370]

Since faceless haven is now banned. What other land would you suggest putting in the deck? Hive of the eye tyrant? Thanks!

[@LegenVD]

Hive is good!

[@weiao7156]

have you tried the blood mechanic its literally hard to make a deck about it

[@calebwessels3805]

You Ever think about playing the Eternal Card game? Honestly love the game as a good break from Magic. It's a digital card game with some fun interactions it just isn't that popular at the moment but I think it's great.

[@DarkRuler2500]

Please do a zombie deck with the War of the Spark and Amonkhet zombies in historic. I am having so much fun with Necroduality Amass. :D

[@DarkRuler2500]

@Redemption Games The Amass itself can create ridiculously large zombies in short time. Also in historic you have access to Death Touch zombies and even Graveyard revivers. There even are the Zombie Semi-Lords that grant Zombie Tokens abilities (such as HExproof, Deathtouch, flying) which work well with Necroduality too. I am loving it :)

[@joefat420]

Best part of my day

[@DanyF02]

I've been trying struggling to make a more controlly version of a zombie deck using Blood on the Snow since the creature returning also triggers Necroduality. I'm also try to make something work with Gladewalker Ritualist to get multiple cards with Necroduality. Do you think there's potencial in that?

[@LegenVD]

I would stick to two colors, but can certainly play Blood on the Snow.

[@pescettoculetto7732]

In match 3 opponent could have won had he attacked with both Charger also! Presenting letal both if left unblocked or if being blocked by their 1 damages of death trigger. Am i mistaken?

[@LegenVD]

They probably should have attacked, but it wasn’t a guaranteed kill.

[@Yokinos]

Could be beneficial to include 1 of Haunted Voyage, as a way of recursion

[@Amphok]

i would love to see a new werewolf from you

[@patrickevanroach7498]

Can we have a slug deck

[@User-jo7jp]

UB slug slime! lets blobberize them green and white creature decks.

[@dennisaronnygard8459]

What site is best to use to find created decks ?

[@LegenVD]

Untapped.gg and MTGGoldfish are the ones I frequently use.

[@wiliyantoadinata9170]

finally bontu kefnet oketra and rhonas can join the group ....

[@mattd9205]

nice

[@larrygreen7062]

I wonder how long till LVD tries the Infinite Life combo with Ill-Tempered Loner and Anglefire Ignition.

[@sazger]

It's pretty funny. Another good combo is the new Ollenbock Escort that gives indestructible and lifelink on sac, combine that with a pumped up Venerable Warsinger to keep bringing the Ollenbock back

[@Aldrasos]

I'm looking to build a zombie deck like this. As soon as I get the bloody wildcards. At the moment though, catapult captain + zombie phalanx is an op combo, especially with a couple of river demons

[@MrBuns-yi2hk]

Necroduality with Champion of the Perished? Oh you have it lol.

[@Toracero23]

damn that's work well play

[@RandomPerson-mv8bn]

14:05 the prophet

[@powerplayer1000]

How do yeall feel about that 1/13, 5 mana zombie :-p

[@LegenVD]

A little too expensive.

[@georgiosbilianis8824]

If you would play Bo3 with this deck, any sideboard recommendations?

[@LegenVD]

Sweepers I mentioned in the intro including Meathook, Graf Reaver, couple counterspells for Epiphany decks like Test of Talents and Wash Away.

[@georgiosbilianis8824]

@@LegenVD Thank you for your answer. Keep making amazing content.

[@t3st1221]

Not the 2 mana 3/3 with exploit? Is the life upkeep drawback so bad?

[@LegenVD]

It's just a little underwhelming and not something you typically would want to copy with Necroduality as the damage would add up quickly. Fine sideboard card when facing Planewalkers though.

[@kellyyukevich8427]

Seems fair.

[@Blueeyeddevil603]

The deck is baller. But I think removal has to be added. It's nearly impossible to make a deck these days without sweepers. Some BoTS should even this masterpiece out quite nicely.

[@Big_Dai]

Meathook at least.

[@virtueofabsolution7641]

Ohh sweet deck can’t wait to see it! Oh. Oh he’s playing best of 1. Thought we were actually going to play real magic. Also you missed Poppet Stitcher. Doesn’t work with Archgoul but is insanely strong.

[@LegenVD]

Not enough ways to enable Poppet Stitcher, would require a significantly different build. No need to be condescending or gatekeeping people from playing what they like.

[@matthewshannon7406]

🧟‍♂️

[@lukesdewhurst]

I like how they differentiate between the different ways a zombie has been animated. Like science is inferior to black magic and therefore the zombies decay. But it doesnt explain the power of the scaabs which i presume are risen by scientific means?

[@Big_Dai]

Supposedly, to make a skaab, they use Angel's blood.. probably explains a lot.

[@User-jo7jp]

would it be fair to say, when choosing between two types of zombies you tend to pick skaabs?

[@lukesdewhurst]

@@User-jo7jp you mean just stitch them together haha!?

[@jojodelacroix]

I really feel like you should remove priest of haunted edge if for no other reason than the meta is just so control heavy that it’s going to really set you back at times. I know you arguably won a match because of it being able to remove the blade historian but you are more than likely going to lose a ton of matches due to it not helping you punch through early and pressure all the epiphany decks. Seems worth the trade off at least in the short term while the meta looks the way it does.

[@LegenVD]

Creature decks like Monowhite and Monogreen are still a much bigger metagame share than Epiphany, especially in best of one. With the exploit creatures it's not as much of a liability as it used to be. Just takes one game of curving Priest into either Rider or Archghoul to convince me.

[@edwinortiz1262]

what do you suggest instead

[@aetherllama8398]

@@edwinortiz1262 Jadar would be better, makes a decayed zombie each turn.

[@rileymeyer4540]

I have been climbing in historic for a while and all my standard decks cycled out so I built this one and started climbing the ladder from bronze and in my experience this deck under preforms so bad. I am struggling to get past silver cause every single person is playing some sort of instant sorcery izzet deck and if not red blue then red something but this deck gets folded by none creature decks and that’s the only thing I can find on ladder. I think this deck relies on a few key cards to much and in my experience it never has any finishing power and when you finally do have the main engine of the deck doing stuff it’s either to late or they have a much better engine up and running. And for some reason I can literally NEVER get necroduality in my hand I have dug down to 17 cards left in my library one time and it still dodges me. I think it needs more than I few tweaks to get there but overall it is fun to see zombie nonsense but I wouldn’t recommend you built this deck there are much better ones on this channel to choose from. Love the content though keep it up 👍. Also if you built the deck as well please let me know how your experience has been with the deck cause I want to know if it really is the deck our I have trash rng Edit: after playing a lot more with this deck i will say it is good against some creature decks (mono white is still kind of an issue) the problem is I never seem to match up against creature decks

[@urfavginga5765]

Add poppet stitcher to this bro

[@eightys_style6077]

Blood on the snow with headless rider would of worked too

[@MrSirbra]

I watched the wrong video... thought the thumbnail said nude zombies. Ugh, wasted lots of lotion!

[@Asian_Caleb]

Ayyyy I was thinking about pulling the trigger on zombies but I’m still not sure

[@thcdreams654]

Are these Zombies in danger?

[@justinauyeung1290]

Math is for blockers!

[@TheRealHanzan]

priests seems very underwhelming so far lol

[@cd8547]

My god epiphany is such a lame card lol.

[@User-jo7jp]

agreed. time walk is much better... its only two mana!

[@douglasingersoll7486]

Hello 🙂

[@theaeskey2502]

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[@theaeskey2502]

@@k3rr3k lol.