Varina, Lich Queen | Budget Commander Deck Tech $48 | Zombie Tribal Discard | EDH | MTG | Commander

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Komentáře • 231

  • @pixelbomb97
    @pixelbomb97 Před 3 lety +177

    Mitch: Syr Konrad, The Grim, I'm sure he's great at parties
    Me: but he's not a warrior wizard rogue or cleric.

  • @WayfarersBauble
    @WayfarersBauble Před 3 lety +145

    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!

    • @Jahsart23
      @Jahsart23 Před 3 lety

      your price goes up 5% everytime its featured

  • @seansloan7015
    @seansloan7015 Před 3 lety +37

    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

    • @adym15
      @adym15 Před 3 lety +2

      Yeah, I’ve won quite a few games doing exactly that.

    • @theamazingincrediblespider9689
      @theamazingincrediblespider9689 Před 3 lety +3

      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.

    • @dwaynebrice1697
      @dwaynebrice1697 Před 3 lety

      @@theamazingincrediblespider9689 velamochus lorehold can do it nice now

    • @thatguyintherain3168
      @thatguyintherain3168 Před rokem

      That's exactly why I'm building in the first place

  • @Testosteroman
    @Testosteroman Před 3 lety +34

    3 budget additions are: Teferi's ageless insight, silversmote ghoul and graveborn muse.

    • @deelyturner2429
      @deelyturner2429 Před 3 lety +5

      Also Library of Leng is a must have for this deck and is only a couple dollars.

    • @ApexZer0
      @ApexZer0 Před 3 lety +2

      I would not use the muse. It can very easily cost you the game

    • @brandonneal554
      @brandonneal554 Před 2 lety

      @@ApexZer0 that's the fun part about it sometimes

  • @bogdanmihai9907
    @bogdanmihai9907 Před 3 lety +8

    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!!!!

  • @chrishentschel511
    @chrishentschel511 Před 3 lety +33

    Great timing! I was just working on putting a deck together with her

  • @alexfraser5154
    @alexfraser5154 Před 3 lety +21

    >thought this video was ancient
    >looks at date and views
    "31 views Sep 24,2020"
    Hell yeah new vid!!!

  • @shinsua_
    @shinsua_ Před 3 lety +3

    Lazotel Plating is underrated.
    Aside the amass factor, I absolutely love having a pseudo Heroic Intervention that protects me in blue.

  • @Kaylx3
    @Kaylx3 Před 3 lety +6

    That moment when you like the deck and you already have all the reasonable upgrades waiting in your collection :o

  • @NotSceptile
    @NotSceptile Před 3 lety +6

    This episode is amazing if you put it on .75 speed, it sounds like Mitch is drunkenly explaining how awesome zombies are

  • @blindcommander
    @blindcommander Před 3 lety +11

    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!

  • @TheGrifcannon22
    @TheGrifcannon22 Před 3 lety +4

    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.

  • @sindividual
    @sindividual Před 3 lety +10

    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!

  • @clintrogers1436
    @clintrogers1436 Před 3 lety +2

    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!

  • @H.P.Clodcraft
    @H.P.Clodcraft Před 3 lety +9

    I was just talking about building Varina. What timing!

  • @Ironiclast1312
    @Ironiclast1312 Před 3 lety +6

    Archfiend of Ifnir is such a bomb in this deck. Glad to see it as the Golden Pick

  • @stevenstella3581
    @stevenstella3581 Před 3 lety

    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

  • @DGweekly
    @DGweekly Před 3 lety +2

    Varina was my first EDH list I built and I still love playing her today!

  • @caiubibarros6663
    @caiubibarros6663 Před 3 lety +37

    OH MAY GOD I"M THE ONLY ONE WHO MISS THE JAZZ IN THE INTRO!? GOD DAMN, I CAN'T BE THE ONLY ONE

  • @clashpython3051
    @clashpython3051 Před 3 lety +12

    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.

    • @bbb356
      @bbb356 Před 3 lety +2

      I was also making one

  • @The7thBobba
    @The7thBobba Před 3 lety

    Great episode, Mitch. Love the direction you're taking with more joking and time to breathe. stay frosty!

  • @myrical4147
    @myrical4147 Před 3 lety +10

    Dammit. Someone is telling people how good my favorite commander is.

  • @LordDuddy77
    @LordDuddy77 Před 3 lety

    Been trying to make this deck work for a while. Thanx Mitch! 👍

  • @deltacommand8053
    @deltacommand8053 Před 3 lety

    Thank you!!!! I’ve been working on this deck for a hot minute but couldn’t quite make it work.

  • @michaelking7391
    @michaelking7391 Před 3 lety

    I JUST started putting a list together today for this exact commander! Wonderful!

  • @zerodoesadventure1824
    @zerodoesadventure1824 Před 3 lety

    This is some wholesome content thank you Mitch for all you do for the community 😊

  • @shinobihouzin
    @shinobihouzin Před 3 lety

    Two thumbs up for this series, keep them coming , thanks so much !!

  • @heldrin4968
    @heldrin4968 Před 3 lety +2

    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.

    • @TheCommandersQuarters
      @TheCommandersQuarters  Před 3 lety +1

      Thank you for the kind words and I’m glad you have found the channel to be helpful!

  • @michaelatkinson88
    @michaelatkinson88 Před 3 lety +3

    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!

  • @dartagnanwilliams4972
    @dartagnanwilliams4972 Před 3 lety

    Yes! Was really hoping you would make a deck tech on her and now it's here!

  • @Theepicman131
    @Theepicman131 Před 3 lety

    I'm glad you put Shepard of rot it's my favorite piece in my Varina deck

  • @chaseshadows566
    @chaseshadows566 Před 3 lety +1

    Wow, I'm so glad people haven't forgotten about Varina.
    Zombie tribal

  • @Skylersthemann1
    @Skylersthemann1 Před 3 lety +3

    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!

  • @Dragonborne223
    @Dragonborne223 Před 3 lety

    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 😂

  • @michaelgarner2082
    @michaelgarner2082 Před 3 lety

    I’ve always loved The Scarab God for zombie tribal but this one looks amazing, too!

  • @levequ8344
    @levequ8344 Před 3 lety

    Carving pumpkins and listening to a new deck tech is a great way to spend the afternoon 😄

  • @HaveAVindicare
    @HaveAVindicare Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @Trasgobardo
    @Trasgobardo Před 3 lety

    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~

  • @davidhershberger7899
    @davidhershberger7899 Před 2 lety

    awesome deck! I picked up the singles off TCGplayer and am looking forward to my next game night.

  • @glitchedjson4042
    @glitchedjson4042 Před 3 lety +2

    tactic number 8: eternal slumber.
    Probably not the best suggestion, but at least I tried.

  • @funpolepel
    @funpolepel Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @deadXfish
    @deadXfish Před 3 lety +1

    This is perfect, I've been trying to fiddle with my Zombie edh 😍

  • @terriblemonstersart8144

    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.

  • @gyrostep9502
    @gyrostep9502 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @ShadowWarlock3
    @ShadowWarlock3 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @Lucy-ym4dv
    @Lucy-ym4dv Před 3 lety

    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

  • @rowanmanning1464
    @rowanmanning1464 Před 3 lety +1

    There is my 2 week old Varina deck 2 feet away from me, no joke. It is very fun

  • @Overi4096
    @Overi4096 Před 3 lety

    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

  • @ehallam08
    @ehallam08 Před 3 lety +1

    I have the reasonable upgrades version and it's so much fun. Sometimes, op.

  • @memestg747
    @memestg747 Před 3 lety +23

    Does anyone else knows when close quarter episode 2 is coming out?

  • @crimsontechie613
    @crimsontechie613 Před 3 lety +2

    I would’ve called the exile tactic: Beyond death. Because yknow, you’re sending them to exile, beyond the graveyard.

  • @tabeltop
    @tabeltop Před 3 lety +3

    For around $10, Alhammarret's Archive would be an amazing addition, just might be too expensive (cmc) to utilize properly.

    • @thedark1owns
      @thedark1owns Před 3 lety

      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.

  • @fishie666at6
    @fishie666at6 Před 3 lety

    Library of leng allows to the stacking of the top cards of your library I highly recommend running that card

  • @alanmartinez6877
    @alanmartinez6877 Před 3 lety

    Bag of holding works wonders here when there’s graveyard hate and also you can’t go wrong with bolas citadel

  • @davidschmaltz1938
    @davidschmaltz1938 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @brianjuris2061
    @brianjuris2061 Před 3 lety

    A couple of considerations for this deck
    Ayara, first of locthwain
    Peer into the abyss

  • @MetalFerno09
    @MetalFerno09 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @acasigua
    @acasigua Před 3 lety

    The good old commander and wayfarer's bauble plus 98 cards tribal deck!

  • @mtghippie3144
    @mtghippie3144 Před 3 lety +5

    Thanks this is great! Question, why isn’t the card price at the footer anymore? Thanks!

  • @valkyrieestes3242
    @valkyrieestes3242 Před 10 měsíci

    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

  • @Cyanferno
    @Cyanferno Před 3 lety

    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!

  • @RicardoSilva-pk4nc
    @RicardoSilva-pk4nc Před 3 lety

    Nice mount... i will definitely try it.

  • @Scrumbumbler
    @Scrumbumbler Před 3 lety

    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

  • @buddbenner7427
    @buddbenner7427 Před 3 lety

    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

  • @lukestacey9018
    @lukestacey9018 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @Filip-uo2sq
    @Filip-uo2sq Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @Mizelei2012
    @Mizelei2012 Před 3 lety

    I have this one! It was my 4th commander deck. Archfiend of Ifnir and Bone Miser should be the top picks!

    • @Mizelei2012
      @Mizelei2012 Před 3 lety

      I have gotta say, I have put no ramp in the deck. Getting Varina out early is not as valuable as getting zombies onto the field early. I prefer to cast Varina on turn 4 and attack with 2 Z's already on the field. This can get the engine started which can guarantee my land drops. This results in me having a lot of mana in the late game (Also through Crypt of Agadeem)

  • @damienkai651
    @damienkai651 Před 3 lety

    I'm so glad Mitch has comedy in his videos now 😂😂

  • @garrettbaeza959
    @garrettbaeza959 Před 4 měsíci

    Include would be Gisa and Geralf, as well as Grimgrin, corpse born

  • @benrichardson5662
    @benrichardson5662 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @mleet3125
    @mleet3125 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @SacredUirusu
    @SacredUirusu Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @bisharp2176
    @bisharp2176 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @JohnnyRose775
    @JohnnyRose775 Před 3 lety

    Another good reasonable upgrade might be Alhammarret's Archive, since that doubles up the card draw and lifegain from swinging with your zombies.

  • @ccubed7861
    @ccubed7861 Před 3 lety

    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!

  • @righteousoctopus5837
    @righteousoctopus5837 Před 3 lety

    Zombie tribal is my favorite deck. Grimgrin is probably my favorite commander he's a walking sac outlet and removal card and aggressive as hell

  • @AspelShuyin
    @AspelShuyin Před 3 lety +3

    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.

    • @kaboomeow
      @kaboomeow Před 3 lety +1

      You could always sacrifice Varina if the card draw gets too heavy

  • @deelyturner2429
    @deelyturner2429 Před 3 lety +1

    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.

  • @LuisPerez-vx6gw
    @LuisPerez-vx6gw Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @harutakami1313
    @harutakami1313 Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @hithere3684
    @hithere3684 Před 3 lety

    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

  • @bryceparker4261
    @bryceparker4261 Před 3 lety

    Library of Leng. All star in my Varina deck

  • @fillupurcup
    @fillupurcup Před 3 lety

    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.

  • @danimitetwitch
    @danimitetwitch Před 3 lety +1

    Wasn’t corpse knight one of the cards that had some misprints at release and had to be errated? I seem to recall that.

  • @Wildonion1
    @Wildonion1 Před 3 lety

    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?!

  • @xenomorph6003
    @xenomorph6003 Před 2 lety

    Bone Mizer is a solid pick for this type of deck

  • @ivoryyapper
    @ivoryyapper Před 3 lety +2

    Tactic #8: Shadow Realm

  • @HZAres
    @HZAres Před 3 lety

    old edition wrath of god reads bury all creatures, it used to a keyword to denote can't be regenerated

  • @CKG-hh2bw
    @CKG-hh2bw Před 3 lety +1

    FINALLY THANK U MITCH

  • @t3hp00ky2
    @t3hp00ky2 Před 3 lety

    Add Phyrexian Altar, and Gravecrawler, paired with the Open the Graves, which is already in the deck, for any infinite zombie combo.

  • @bagosk8r90
    @bagosk8r90 Před 3 lety

    Drown in the lich is a good one too :p

  • @Treanorium
    @Treanorium Před 3 lety

    Where is Rooftop Storm? That card wins games by itself! :D

  • @Giga-lemesh
    @Giga-lemesh Před 3 lety +1

    Loving the sass about not mentioning lands

  • @alejandroroncocampana929

    Would be woth it adding the new Tormod and something like Library of Leng or something to recicle the graveyard?

  • @alexmacgregor5265
    @alexmacgregor5265 Před 3 lety +4

    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

  • @ApacheStoryteller
    @ApacheStoryteller Před 3 lety

    With the reasonable upgrades made it almost card for card the same as my deck, guess good cards are good cards lol

  • @mor4261
    @mor4261 Před 3 lety

    I prefer Ghoulcaller Gisa, but the lich queen seems cool too!

  • @drumerman14
    @drumerman14 Před 3 lety

    Awesome decklist! With the recent Modern Horizons 2 and Strixhaven sets, are there any additions that would help the deck out?

  • @walkaroundincircles
    @walkaroundincircles Před 3 lety

    Shoulda waited a few weeks till October for this one Mitch.

  • @TheMorbidHobo
    @TheMorbidHobo Před 3 lety

    Also, I'm pretty sure burying is a term in MTG for destroying with the inability to regenerate.