@@TheCatgirlGaymer well undead Auger is great; zombie dies, lose 1 life, and draw. Be sure to get Pontiff of Blight and Gray Merchant in your deck also so when you storm off with Rooftop/Vanquisher’s banner, then start Sacking you don’t kill yourself as well 😅
BZ-“You want to know why all the graves are open though? Because Cryptbreaker keeps opening all the doors to the...what’s it called?” Me- “...crypts?” BZ- “ all the doors in the little thingies” Me- “crypts” BZ- “ mausoleum yea!” Me- “...”
I personally run Balthor the Defiled as the commander. Dont forget interesting cards like: - Grimoire of the Dead - Unbreathing Horde - Helldozer - Vengeful Pharaoh - Champion of the Perished - Tainted Adversary - Geralf's Messenger - Dictate of Erebos - Cover of Darkness
You missed one of the most fun and powerful enchantment for a zombie deck: Tombstone Stairwell. You can attack with hasty zombies and massive etb and death triggers EACH turn.
10:00 The reason for Extort reminder text being ignored is because of a different card. Trinisphere has reminder text explaining how it works and it uses colored costs to demonstrate this, so to make the card fit in any decks color identity, the rule to ignore reminder text was added.
Minus the newer zombie cards that you could not cover; really great job covering nearly all of the better zombies when you covered it. I was impressed with it.
Love this video, the new crimson vow zombie commander deck is a great one to get to get started on your zombie commander deck you get a decent deck that you can play right away and have fun, and you get a lot of cards that you’ll use in a really good zombie commander deck. Same with the spirits one. I’d recommend the zombie one for anyone that wants to just buy them and keep them sealed they’ll be worth 100-150 down the road, same with the spirits and probably vampires, new campenna they got better, and will keep getting better with this block.
Honestly after MH and CV I would love if you guys redid this video. I’m making a dimir zombies rn and it would be super helpful, and would be an update on an old classic. Wilhelt really changed the game
You guys are seriously going to break my budget. I spent hour's editing my first noob deck and was sure it was strong and ready to go until I opened this video and now every card it's "I want that!" "Oh epic I wonder how much that costs" "oh that's such a great back up card in case the original plan goes wrong" the shopping list on TCG is just growing and growing. I'm having to reason with myself now for why a card won't work for me or I'd be fully broke I'm surprised you guys react so down to army of the damned. I really think it's OP even more so with a commander with flashback. You could have 13-26 2/2 on the table backed up by some bigger hitters and fliers. Possibly 3/3 with a support card. Even if they are small they would seem to wreck.
There is a muse cycle, yes. White one taxes attackers (have to pay 2 for each creature attacking you), Blue one mills each player equal to the cards in their hand, Black one you went over, Red one bolts people with few cards in hand and the Green one untaps your stuff.
Awesome video I have a zombie deck but Kalitas is the commander even though he isn’t a zombie so it’s more of a mono black good stuff deck with some zombie synergy 😁
You missed one big big one, mikaeus the unhallowed. Btw when mass reviving zombies, grey merchant syphons hard. Also with mikaeus and ham sandwich after revival its a win, skinrender or plague belcher plus sac outlet plus a drainer; mik undying gets infinite with any minus counter etb zombie
I'd like to know how many people got The Cranberries reference at the start of the video. Ghoulcaller Gisa is the best Zombie Commander Liliana Heretical Healer is great also.
This is coming pretty late, but relevant considering that a lot of people are building/editing zombies with the new precon/set. Don't take anyones opinion for fact. Make sure you do your own critical thinking. This video is a great intro to a lot of older zombie cards but say for instance these guys say endless ranks of the undead is such a great card but then put off army of the damned like it's so-so. But if you think about how long it would take you to get 13 zombies from ERotD, it would be at least one full turn from the moment you play it. And that's only if you have 26 zombies already in play. If you have 9 zombies out when you take your upkeep, thats only 4 zombies. (It rounds down) then youd have at least 13 zombie next upkeep as long as nothing happens to them and that will create you 6 more creating a total of 10 in this magical scenario spanning 3 turns. Now if you look at Armybof the damned, you play it and bam you have 13 zombies for 8 mana seems like a decent rate, quick and tonthe point. There when you need them. Oh whats this? You can play it again from your graveyard? So card advantage on top of that. I'd say in almost every case i'd drop ERotD and replace it with AotD.
What about narfi betrayer king as commander, simple tribal blue black. Full it up with tribal zombies & changeling and good blue card draw. Add in artifacts that also can be chosen to benefit zombies, or take it up a level an make morphon the boundless a zombie leader.
Grave Titan is okay, it's not a card we're huge fans of. It's a lot of mana for just some creatures. Seems like we can get more out of most of the other cards we've mentioned
@@NitpickingNerds I'd love to see your eldrazi tribal video if u think 6 is alot ^~^ also I'm wondering if there's a way to make 5 color zombie work wizards showing us all those cool colors in war of the spark for zombie but no 5 color commander 😭
I don’t think Zombie Trailblazer works the way you described, actually. It doesn’t turn the lands into basic swamps, it just gives them the type “Swamp” on top. Think Urborg, not Blood Moon. It does take away other basic land types though, so e.g. forests stop being able to tap for black.
@@NitpickingNerds Okay, I was wrong. It turns out the rules are confusing here: An effect setting the types of a land to one of the basic land types inherently removes all abilities. This is inconsistent with how type-setting works e.g. with creatures, and nothing on the card or the gatherer text tells you that this is how it works.
Almost all of them had some stupid joke you had to do when you played them too. Infernal caretaker you had to say "hahaha, I am so fat" whenever you drew him
I have a LOT of words about Extort and how the current version of the rule is wrong, but it's a lot to write in a comment section and I've already done so elsewhere on a Magic video...
Ooh, that's a good one. You win the "best card we forgot" award haha seems like we miss at least one juicy card each time. it's a solid abyss type effect
Your descriptor says "Welcome to the ultmate Dragon tribal guide!" 2 things: Ultimate is misspelled and more obviously this is zombie video, not Dragons. Just a helpful FYI
Nice video yet again, thx for the nice finds (totally didn't know about Zombie trailblazer). Do you guys rehearse your script or have a powerpoint handy to get through these long videos or do you have photographic memories xD
So we write up only the cards we’re talking about, everything else is basically improv and we have a general idea the message we want to convey. A lot of times if a take has to be re-done it’ll just sound completely different 😅
No deathbringer thoctar for a zombie commander deck? You have a bunch of zombies that give other zombies deathtouch which would synergies well with DBT making him op
At 30:17 when Beezy says "It goes infinite with Ham Sandwich plus Gravecrawler" what is Ham Sandwich referring to? Is it a MTG slang term or another name for a card or something?
Ham Sandwich is our fill-in for lots of different cards that can combo, so the ham sandwich for Gravecrawler could be Phyrexian Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, etc
I have a sidisi deck. Graveyard matter deck... bring back every thing... zombie tribal of course and dont forget to play Sultai cards... it's fun deck wont win all the time...not overpowered but can win... best cheap fun card in the deck is... haha name it if u know it...
@@NitpickingNerds You guys are the best and I love the channel. I hope the channel continues to grow for a long time. You have a super fan from Costa Rica !!! Hugs !!!
I don't understand why you didn't include Liliana, Heretical Healer as a zombie commander. She is the only Liliana planeswalker that can be used as a commander because she has a legendary creature side.
Only tap for one black. It is just a "swamp", not a "...swamp in addition to other land types". And it make the swampwalking zombie master busted for your zombie tribal
@@workyoutube7798 That is wrong. Yes, it takes away other land types like “forest”, but it does not remove other abilities. So a basic forest becomes (effectively) a basic swamp, because the ”Tap: Add Green” ability comes from the land type, but Gaea’s Cradle doesn’t lose its ability because that has nothing to do with land types.
@@workyoutube7798 Okay, I was wrong actually. It turns out the rules are confusing here: An effect setting the types of a land to one of the basic land types inherently removes all abilities. This is inconsistent with how type-setting works e.g. with creatures, and nothing on the card or the gatherer text tells you that this is how it works.
Rewatching this in the Wilhelt era and I’m loving hearing you guys repeatedly talking about the Missing Zombie Commander 😂
Just picked his precon up a few days ago. But I've stuck to Sultai aristocrats mainly. I'm watching to learn what good zombies there are.
@@TheCatgirlGaymer might be worth to wait a bit for upgrades. Too much zombie hype now, prices inflated up the yeeyaw
@@TheCatgirlGaymer well undead Auger is great; zombie dies, lose 1 life, and draw. Be sure to get Pontiff of Blight and Gray Merchant in your deck also so when you storm off with Rooftop/Vanquisher’s banner, then start Sacking you don’t kill yourself as well 😅
@@quayo90 Luckily, I managed to pick up a heavily played Gary a few months ago. He's pretty much an auto include.
Grave danger starter deck is a great upgrade for undead unleashed
Im literally watching 2 years later and you’ve gone from 5k to 90k. Now, thats impressive. Congrats guys!
Thanks so much! Hope you’re still enjoying the older stuff 😂
129k today! 🎉
BZ-“You want to know why all the graves are open though? Because Cryptbreaker keeps opening all the doors to the...what’s it called?”
Me- “...crypts?”
BZ- “
all the doors in the little thingies”
Me- “crypts”
BZ- “ mausoleum yea!”
Me- “...”
Jonathan Jones lmao that’s great
I personally run Balthor the Defiled as the commander. Dont forget interesting cards like:
- Grimoire of the Dead
- Unbreathing Horde
- Helldozer
- Vengeful Pharaoh
- Champion of the Perished
- Tainted Adversary
- Geralf's Messenger
- Dictate of Erebos
- Cover of Darkness
Yeah this video definitely needs a part 2 now after midnight hunt
I would love to see this series come back. They are helpful and great to watch with plenty of tribes to choose from
You missed one of the most fun and powerful enchantment for a zombie deck: Tombstone Stairwell. You can attack with hasty zombies and massive etb and death triggers EACH turn.
That card is weird and confusing but seems really cool in a graveyard deck 😎
Late to the party: it is a win con with Vengeful Deaf. Easy to assemble and 2 turn is all it takes usually.
@@sensei470 😳😳🧟♀️
10:00
The reason for Extort reminder text being ignored is because of a different card. Trinisphere has reminder text explaining how it works and it uses colored costs to demonstrate this, so to make the card fit in any decks color identity, the rule to ignore reminder text was added.
So I think they pretty much nailed the new zombie commander precon that was announced today…over a year ago.
I’m a time traveler and you guys have grown alot since then! Congratulation. And thanks for the Zombie tips for a new planeswalker.
Minus the newer zombie cards that you could not cover; really great job covering nearly all of the better zombies when you covered it.
I was impressed with it.
Y’all hit 100000 subs in 2 years congratulations!!!🎉
Love this video, the new crimson vow zombie commander deck is a great one to get to get started on your zombie commander deck you get a decent deck that you can play right away and have fun, and you get a lot of cards that you’ll use in a really good zombie commander deck. Same with the spirits one. I’d recommend the zombie one for anyone that wants to just buy them and keep them sealed they’ll be worth 100-150 down the road, same with the spirits and probably vampires, new campenna they got better, and will keep getting better with this block.
Appreciate the Cranberries reference
I actually missed the joke 1st go lol
Yo! Can we get an updated zombie tribal video with all the new zombie cards that came out? Would love to see that. Thanks!
I miss Disclaimer Guy. I've been toying with tossing together a Varina deck, and I love everything here, even after they made the zombie precon.
"not to be nitpicky"
channel name : nitpicking nerds
We only nitpick when we need to.
Honestly after MH and CV I would love if you guys redid this video. I’m making a dimir zombies rn and it would be super helpful, and would be an update on an old classic. Wilhelt really changed the game
You guys are seriously going to break my budget. I spent hour's editing my first noob deck and was sure it was strong and ready to go until I opened this video and now every card it's "I want that!" "Oh epic I wonder how much that costs" "oh that's such a great back up card in case the original plan goes wrong" the shopping list on TCG is just growing and growing. I'm having to reason with myself now for why a card won't work for me or I'd be fully broke
I'm surprised you guys react so down to army of the damned. I really think it's OP even more so with a commander with flashback. You could have 13-26 2/2 on the table backed up by some bigger hitters and fliers. Possibly 3/3 with a support card. Even if they are small they would seem to wreck.
26:28 "Baahhhh, go have fun kids" -Yolo
I have watch so much mtg content sence covid lockdown. Just found your channel. Ty now I get to binge watch another great new to me channel.
Zombies are my favorite tribe. I play Gisa and Geralf and I'm debating on building Judith zombie sacrifice deck
There is a muse cycle, yes. White one taxes attackers (have to pay 2 for each creature attacking you), Blue one mills each player equal to the cards in their hand, Black one you went over, Red one bolts people with few cards in hand and the Green one untaps your stuff.
Wow, the red one is such butts that she even works for Tibalt in his duel deck
Most of my Varina deck is present here. Deck is fun as hell and performs pretty well.
You tribe your best and you succeed! Cryptbreaker is my favorite zombie creature 1/1 for 1.
It's such a great design. It's even an engine that fuels itself!
You are now at 18.6k subs! You've grown 13,000 since this video! Very nice
Awesome video I have a zombie deck but Kalitas is the commander even though he isn’t a zombie so it’s more of a mono black good stuff deck with some zombie synergy 😁
He is a solid zombie commander
Can somebody please bit coin Beezy enough for a cheeseburger, dude is starving.
CommanderCrom he is a twig!
I say we feed them and get a couple cycles of testosterone. We can rebuild them. We have the technology.
You missed one big big one, mikaeus the unhallowed. Btw when mass reviving zombies, grey merchant syphons hard. Also with mikaeus and ham sandwich after revival its a win, skinrender or plague belcher plus sac outlet plus a drainer; mik undying gets infinite with any minus counter etb zombie
MagicKamek I do like that! Mikaeus was in the commanders part.
Time traveler here. Wew, youve grown 10 times since this video is posted
I appreciate the Cranberries reference at the beginning.
I'd like to know how many people got The Cranberries reference at the start of the video. Ghoulcaller Gisa is the best Zombie Commander Liliana Heretical Healer is great also.
Just so you know guys you've grown 10k since this video
10K in 8 months? That’s pretty awesome, we love stats like that :D
Annointed procession is one I'm running in my zombie deck, double creature token.
This is coming pretty late, but relevant considering that a lot of people are building/editing zombies with the new precon/set. Don't take anyones opinion for fact. Make sure you do your own critical thinking. This video is a great intro to a lot of older zombie cards but say for instance these guys say endless ranks of the undead is such a great card but then put off army of the damned like it's so-so. But if you think about how long it would take you to get 13 zombies from ERotD, it would be at least one full turn from the moment you play it. And that's only if you have 26 zombies already in play. If you have 9 zombies out when you take your upkeep, thats only 4 zombies. (It rounds down) then youd have at least 13 zombie next upkeep as long as nothing happens to them and that will create you 6 more creating a total of 10 in this magical scenario spanning 3 turns. Now if you look at Armybof the damned, you play it and bam you have 13 zombies for 8 mana seems like a decent rate, quick and tonthe point. There when you need them. Oh whats this? You can play it again from your graveyard? So card advantage on top of that. I'd say in almost every case i'd drop ERotD and replace it with AotD.
Lord of the undead and fleshbag marauder is a repeatable combo.
Subbed! I know I'm late to the video but I'm building a zombie deck now, it was helpful!
sweet zombies! i expect to see 4 variations of Extremely Slow Zombies :P
tornadojoe87 you will get zero and like it
Another really great zombie, Rotlung Reanimator.
A spicy one no doubt
5642 subs? I'm traveling forward in time 100k+ subs....💀
Need to amend the list with all the new Zombie cards from Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow....especially Necroduality
Havengul Lich is a STAR
I have a Liliana Theme Zombie Tribal, it’s crazy!
Great video
Eyyyyy!!!! Thanks fellas! This is fantastic!
tab021 we do it for you!
With their tanks and their bomb and their bombs and their guns... in your head they're still fighten.
Grimgrin, Corpse-Born is my zombie commander.
Y'all should retouch on this now since we just got through inastrad
The Scarab God ;)
What about narfi betrayer king as commander, simple tribal blue black.
Full it up with tribal zombies & changeling and good blue card draw.
Add in artifacts that also can be chosen to benefit zombies, or take it up a level an make morphon the boundless a zombie leader.
There is a Muse cycle. Dreamborn, Lavaborn, Windborn, Seedborn, and Graveborn.
Where is Grave Titan?
He makes much Zombies
Grave Titan is okay, it's not a card we're huge fans of. It's a lot of mana for just some creatures. Seems like we can get more out of most of the other cards we've mentioned
@@NitpickingNerds I'd love to see your eldrazi tribal video if u think 6 is alot ^~^ also I'm wondering if there's a way to make 5 color zombie work wizards showing us all those cool colors in war of the spark for zombie but no 5 color commander 😭
gempalm polluter ftw
so much knowledge. thank s you
Happy to provide it! we love doing these tribal outline videos
I don’t think Zombie Trailblazer works the way you described, actually. It doesn’t turn the lands into basic swamps, it just gives them the type “Swamp” on top. Think Urborg, not Blood Moon. It does take away other basic land types though, so e.g. forests stop being able to tap for black.
We checked online and I think it causes the land to lose all types and abilities and become a regular Swamp that only taps for B
@@NitpickingNerds Okay, I was wrong. It turns out the rules are confusing here: An effect setting the types of a land to one of the basic land types inherently removes all abilities. This is inconsistent with how type-setting works e.g. with creatures, and nothing on the card or the gatherer text tells you that this is how it works.
All of these "ancient" zombies were in my original zombie deck. Back when they were new
Almost all of them had some stupid joke you had to do when you played them too.
Infernal caretaker you had to say "hahaha, I am so fat" whenever you drew him
Oh when you drew him? That's a telegraph baby #value
Love the video! also your title reads the complete guild to zombie tribal not guide?
We fixed that lol
not a zombie but great in most zombie decks is skirge familiar fills the grave and ramps you out
U got the spirit to create spirit tribe video? Its a 5 Color Excercise ;)
Peter Bartrina I like that lol
I have a LOT of words about Extort and how the current version of the rule is wrong, but it's a lot to write in a comment section and I've already done so elsewhere on a Magic video...
Currently build varina now
Surprise there was no Necromancers Stockpile. such a good filiter card, an you get more zombies for you zombies!!
No Call to the grave?
Ooh, that's a good one. You win the "best card we forgot" award haha seems like we miss at least one juicy card each time. it's a solid abyss type effect
Disclaimer Guy put the seed of doubt in my mind: which one isn't real, zombies or the Nitpicking Nerds???
Your descriptor says "Welcome to the ultmate Dragon tribal guide!"
2 things: Ultimate is misspelled and more obviously this is zombie video, not Dragons. Just a helpful FYI
Lol 😂 we fixed it I think lol
@@NitpickingNerds Ultimate is still spelled wrong....
Work UA-cam I hate you!
@@NitpickingNerds I
80.2k subs 2 years later 🤌🏻
🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻
It should have been undead warchief, lord of the undead, death baron, relentless dead, and endless ranks of the dead as the main
I do really love the tribal list tho
7000 in 5 months. Not too shabby.
thank god we got willhelt
On the Dread Summons card what does the X Represent, what number?
Nice video yet again, thx for the nice finds (totally didn't know about Zombie trailblazer).
Do you guys rehearse your script or have a powerpoint handy to get through these long videos or do you have photographic memories xD
So we write up only the cards we’re talking about, everything else is basically improv and we have a general idea the message we want to convey. A lot of times if a take has to be re-done it’ll just sound completely different 😅
Helldozer… that is all.😈
No deathbringer thoctar for a zombie commander deck?
You have a bunch of zombies that give other zombies deathtouch which would synergies well with DBT making him op
At 30:17 when Beezy says "It goes infinite with Ham Sandwich plus Gravecrawler" what is Ham Sandwich referring to? Is it a MTG slang term or another name for a card or something?
Ham Sandwich is our fill-in for lots of different cards that can combo, so the ham sandwich for Gravecrawler could be Phyrexian Altar, Pitiless Plunderer, etc
He said queen!!!
Even back then, not a single mention of grave titan
We haven't like grave titan basically ever
I have a sidisi deck. Graveyard matter deck... bring back every thing... zombie tribal of course and dont forget to play Sultai cards... it's fun deck wont win all the time...not overpowered but can win... best cheap fun card in the deck is... haha name it if u know it...
It's that card that plays all the card from opponents deck in Sultai
1:05 Omg was that a purposeful reference? I just noticed that, lol.
What reference?
@@NitpickingNerds Umbrella from Resident Evil
@@EJsGameplay nope! Lol 😂
How could you guys leave our Thraximundar?!?! Also, Coat of Arms is all but required.
You guys didn't mention soulless one
*/* zombie where * is equal to the number of all zombie in play and in all graveyards
ZOMBIES !!! FUCK YEAH !!! Thanks guys !!!
No problem! Zombies are one of the coolest tribes in my humble opinion. -Beezy
@@NitpickingNerds thank you Beezy !! You guys are awesome !!!
Hey thanks to you too! Super awesome to see such positivity :D
@@NitpickingNerds You guys are the best and I love the channel. I hope the channel continues to grow for a long time. You have a super fan from Costa Rica !!! Hugs !!!
Mono black ghoulcaller gisa is zombie tribal
Wilhelt has arrived.
INDEED
Come on what about tormod the desecrator & shadowcat
I don't understand why you didn't include Liliana, Heretical Healer as a zombie commander. She is the only Liliana planeswalker that can be used as a commander because she has a legendary creature side.
Just checked and I was so wrong, I guess the reason might be it's not super popular? Plus the zombie bit isn't the main part of the card?
3:19 they where both wrong, he said "lich qweing"
You are wrong lol
So glad you got rid of Joe
Would Zombie Trailblazer make it so lands can only tap for black mana or tap for black mana in addition to what they could tap for before?
Only tap for one black. It is just a "swamp", not a "...swamp in addition to other land types". And it make the swampwalking zombie master busted for your zombie tribal
@@workyoutube7798 That is wrong. Yes, it takes away other land types like “forest”, but it does not remove other abilities. So a basic forest becomes (effectively) a basic swamp, because the ”Tap: Add Green” ability comes from the land type, but Gaea’s Cradle doesn’t lose its ability because that has nothing to do with land types.
@@workyoutube7798 Okay, I was wrong actually. It turns out the rules are confusing here: An effect setting the types of a land to one of the basic land types inherently removes all abilities. This is inconsistent with how type-setting works e.g. with creatures, and nothing on the card or the gatherer text tells you that this is how it works.
No love for thraximundar
What about grimgrinhe has blue
When's the Homarid episode?
Coming any day now!
Why no patriarchs bidding?
Soulless one?
Time traveller: 5k to 17k in 9 months gg 😬
zombies are a slow tribal,i like them but are better elves or goblins
I think he said Qling
Gary
What's in your head?
A thick, syrup-like substance containing reflective confetti
and zombies
Update the guide, love zombies! www.moxfield.com/decks/LQxKb7CYREC5qt0jp1rPgg
Complete guild?
HouskenWang ShadowSlayer oops fixed it