The History of Zombie Decks | MTG Deck History #20

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Komentáře • 73

  • @SmugLookingBarrel
    @SmugLookingBarrel Před 2 lety +19

    One of my favourite magic moments, I was teaching the rules and the basics of the game to a friend of mine, using decks I had built from packs of Shadows over Innistrad, and I remember reanimating my zombies over and over until my opponent, exasperated, said "Why do your zombies keep coming back from the dead?"
    I'll always remember that.

  • @LadyBernkastel92
    @LadyBernkastel92 Před 2 lety +8

    Undead Warchief is my favorite Zombie lord. I know they aren't great by current standards, but I will always love that Undead Warchief gives Unholy Strength to all zombies, while the Daru Warchief gave Holy Strength to all Soldiers. Such fun flavor, even if Goblins kindda wound up with the best toys from that block.

  • @Aggrobuns
    @Aggrobuns Před 2 lety +16

    Referring Hogaak's reign as a "little wrinkle" is just funny. Great video!

  • @vinnythewebsurfer
    @vinnythewebsurfer Před 2 lety +7

    Gotta give amonkhet zombies credit for trying in an environment with Energy and Hazoret Red

  • @matthewmata9914
    @matthewmata9914 Před 2 lety +25

    Gravecrawler is my favorite Magic card of all time. Zombies are the BEST! I can't even tell you how many times I lost at FNM trying to get Endless Ranks of the Dead to go off for me. That and trying to cast Army of the Damned. Zombies rule.

    • @nickbalmes6640
      @nickbalmes6640 Před 2 lety +1

      Hopefully Crimson Vow can give us Zombie fans more Standard-legal toys to play with :)

    • @jasonrustmann9876
      @jasonrustmann9876 Před 2 lety +2

      There's a black enchantment that makes it so all lands only make black mana, but requires you to sacrifice a creature to keep it in play, with grave crawler and at least one other zombie, you effectively lock out most every non black playing deck, great way to get hated out of your friend group lol

    • @martyschriver
      @martyschriver Před 2 lety

      @@jasonrustmann9876 or just play Urborg, tomb of Yawgmoth

    • @blabik
      @blabik Před 2 lety +1

      @@nickbalmes6640 You just got Champion of the Perished. Don't be too greedy XD

  • @ChrisMcGiggity
    @ChrisMcGiggity Před 8 měsíci +1

    Idk if it was on purpose or not but knowing you I think it was, but towards the end of the video when you talked about "zombie decks may rise again" I thought that was brilliant and hilarious.. cause ya know.. zombies dont stay dead and keep rising again 😂 great video even though its 2 years old at this point but still loved it! Keep up the great work nizzahon! Love what you do

  • @Kuronosa
    @Kuronosa Před 2 lety +7

    No way I got here first... Zambies.

  • @monogreen
    @monogreen Před 2 lety +4

    Thank you for the Prehistory, I really appreciate it, I;d love to see it in these videos going forward

    • @NizzahonMagic
      @NizzahonMagic  Před 2 lety +3

      I've done it in all the videos on tribal decks.

    • @darksteel913
      @darksteel913 Před 2 lety

      @@NizzahonMagic would be fun to see them in archetype videos that have some prehistory. For example some of the first Aggro death shadow actually appeared in the Eldrazi pro tour in the 21-23 point modern decklist. Might not be worth the effort to dig for though.

  • @SirZapdos
    @SirZapdos Před 2 lety +3

    Grave Defiler is part of the same cycle as Goblin Ringleader, just in case anyone didn't realize that Ringleader was part of a cycle. I didn't always realize that.

  • @johnchaffee2618
    @johnchaffee2618 Před 2 lety +3

    Love your videos they inspired me to make a modern tournament deck thats colorless and I was wondering if maybe you could dive into more colorless sets.

  • @N7spectre117
    @N7spectre117 Před 2 lety +1

    Werewolves crashed the humans party in midnight hunt. Here's hoping zombies crash the vampire party in crimson vow.

  • @Fojenstein3D
    @Fojenstein3D Před 2 lety

    Loving the content. Glad I found this. Thanks for the research.

  • @alaraplatt8104
    @alaraplatt8104 Před 2 lety +3

    brains.....

  • @TheRealHanzan
    @TheRealHanzan Před 2 lety

    I remember playing tons of dredge during the 2015-2019 time... and got myself 4 copies of Hogaak and the day they arrived Wizards banned it x)

  • @agomez7740
    @agomez7740 Před 2 lety +1

    While it was not a zombie deck, the old suicide black decks used to play both sangromancy and carnophage

  • @blacklancejeo6625
    @blacklancejeo6625 Před 2 lety +2

    Too bad no historic zombie lists yet, but we will have one eventually try and succeed

  • @scaryeri6798
    @scaryeri6798 Před 2 lety

    you rock dude! thanks for the content

  • @efroeli
    @efroeli Před 2 lety

    Great work!

  • @elizacogen711
    @elizacogen711 Před 2 lety +3

    As a zombie commander player, you saying lord of the undead was a big upgrade over zombie master hurt a little

    • @genesis4322
      @genesis4322 Před 2 lety

      I mean i'd still run Zombie Master because he does do something Lord of the Undead can't.

    • @elizacogen711
      @elizacogen711 Před 2 lety

      @@genesis4322 yeah my scarab god deck runs zombie master but not lord of the undead. there are a million 3 mana zombie lords at this point, and in that deck you don't really want to be returning them to your hand, you want them in the yard to reanimate

  • @nickbobst2220
    @nickbobst2220 Před 2 lety +5

    Hello, I'm number two.

  • @TheEntrncd
    @TheEntrncd Před 2 lety

    BW zombies in historic is a real deck and will be placing soon. It's not my cup of tea but it is very powerful.

  • @brendanwilkinson9199
    @brendanwilkinson9199 Před 2 lety

    No mention of Rooftop Storm. It's one of the greatest cards for zombies

    • @NizzahonMagic
      @NizzahonMagic  Před 2 lety

      Not one that ever did a thing in major tournaments.

  • @SephonDK
    @SephonDK Před 2 lety

    One note! Black actually has two characteristic races, according to MaRo... Zombies, and Vampires. It's the only color that has formally been assigned two. :)

  • @ryanwonderschool
    @ryanwonderschool Před 2 lety +2

    Fxck, I wanted to vote for Splinter Twin this specific time ;-(

    • @dasetof
      @dasetof Před 2 lety

      Splinter twin is the most spooky deck of all times

  • @otw_felipe5351
    @otw_felipe5351 Před 2 lety

    Since I started playing MTG, I've always chose zombies as my favorite tribe, and I still love them undead fuckers ❤️❤️❤️

  • @gorgondork
    @gorgondork Před 2 lety +1

    Spooky!

  • @kartoffelnpommesgut
    @kartoffelnpommesgut Před 2 lety

    Zombie bombardment for modern maybe one day will make it

  • @rareroe305
    @rareroe305 Před 2 lety +1

    7:07 Jacklord? All Jacks get +1/+1?

  • @dragonmaster613
    @dragonmaster613 Před 2 lety

    Hogaak would be a beast in Commander EDH.

  • @jamesrenegade1010
    @jamesrenegade1010 Před 2 lety

    My favorite tribe in mtg. 🧟🧟

  • @jdogx211
    @jdogx211 Před 2 lety

    ??? What time zone you in Nizz.???

  • @rareroe305
    @rareroe305 Před 2 lety

    12:24 Rise again? I see what you did there.

  • @thesamuraiman
    @thesamuraiman Před 2 lety +1

    💜

  • @worgenzwithm14z
    @worgenzwithm14z Před 2 lety

    it's not really used in Zombie decks I guess but I love love love love carrion feeder

  • @nickfanzo
    @nickfanzo Před 6 měsíci

    In 8th grade I traded a black lotus for some zombie masters
    ……

  • @jordonnicoli6093
    @jordonnicoli6093 Před 2 lety

    How about commander deck?
    I have Grixis Zombie commander deck.

    • @NizzahonMagic
      @NizzahonMagic  Před 2 lety

      Yep, those are a thing, but it is incredibly difficult to talk about Commander in the same manner as I talk about other formats in these videos. The environment is very different, and there isn't like a specific Zombie deck that is the big one in Commander, there are hundreds!

  • @rareroe305
    @rareroe305 Před 2 lety

    Well that Undead Warchief looks suspiciously like the Daru Warchief.

    • @lunotique
      @lunotique Před 2 lety +2

      Daru warchief's artist, Tim Hildebrandt, and zombie warchief, Greg Hildebrandt, are twin brothers, soooo... even if they weren't made by the same artist, it's more than possible that Greg made a zombie version of it's brother's soldier...
      Fyi:
      Greg made 3 of the warchiefs ( green beast, blue illusion, black zombie) and Tim made 2 of them ( red goblin and white soldier )

    • @rareroe305
      @rareroe305 Před 2 lety

      @@lunotique Interesting. I'd only ever seen the Daru before this, and was wondering if it was a cycle. But then I could only find the Daru and Zombie in the Gatherer.

  • @Dayyyjoey26
    @Dayyyjoey26 Před 2 lety

    Suprised rooftop storm didn’t get a mention

    • @NizzahonMagic
      @NizzahonMagic  Před 2 lety

      It has never really been a thing in competitive Magic.

  • @guilhermeribeiro402
    @guilhermeribeiro402 Před 2 lety

    *Binding Mommy*

  • @kingginger3335
    @kingginger3335 Před 2 lety +1

    An Undead Warchief Foil is $20 now. It was like 80 cents until a couple weeks ago

  • @blakecandesign9628
    @blakecandesign9628 Před 2 lety

    Let’s not forget Wizards ruined a whole tribe for this set, with 1 keyword… Decayed 😂😢

    • @crazygermn
      @crazygermn Před 2 lety +2

      Champion of the Perished has literally jumpstarted zombie decks in multiple formats

    • @blakecandesign9628
      @blakecandesign9628 Před 2 lety

      @@crazygermn - Did he jumpstart Zombies in the set I’m talking about - Standard? Where ‘decayed’ ruined the whole tribe?

    • @bladetb3934
      @bladetb3934 Před 2 lety

      @@blakecandesign9628 I think you mean format. And honestly that's your fault for still playing in that cesspool of a format. Come play pioneer like a real human, and dominate with BW zombies

    • @blakecandesign9628
      @blakecandesign9628 Před 2 lety

      @@bladetb3934 - You’re correct. I meant to say ‘Format’. And my point still stands, Zombies (in standard) were ruined with 1 keyword. I didn’t mention what format I usually play, as that has no relevance to my comment. Stay on topic if you want to criticise my point of view.

    • @bladetb3934
      @bladetb3934 Před 2 lety

      @@blakecandesign9628 that's not a point, merely an opinion. Nice try though.