Can Your Submitted Deck Beat Andrea Mengucci? | Mono Black Zombies vs Izzet Murktide 

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Thanks a lot for choosing my deck (if im correct, my first name is Thorben and i send in Mono black Zombies). Was great watching the games. Really enjoyed it and well we are talking about beating Mengucci on a cardmarket video, that doesnt happen too often :)

I believe in Game 3 in response to the bounce side of brazen borrow you are supposed to also sacrifice the undead augur. You'll be at the same total cards in hand, but you will effectively remove brazen borrower from andrea. The carrion would also then be out of bolt range thus requiring an unholy heat or EE. Your next couple turns would've looked similar in play even if andrea had the heat for carrion, EXCEPT andrea wouldn't have the borrower in play to threaten life total or eventually crew the hearse.

Mengu playing murktide in paper? Excited to watch this one.

I was so confused here 3:07. I was like this is pretty safe all he has is burn so he would at least get to draw a card. Then the Spell Pierce suddenly transformed into Spell Snare.

Dudes.. the edit and animations of all your videos are excellent!!! continue with more modern content please ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

it doesn't get better than this... finishing a day of work only to stumble on a just released banger from the Cardmarket team. highlight of the day !

As someone new to magic, I definitely appreciate the fact that you guys explain the rules on every card when you cast it for the first time, very helpful ❤❤

Andrea Mengucci is quickly becoming one of my favorite people

This zombie deck seems really fun to play, and it can obviously win some games. Think I might try to pick this one up!

loved this episode! super easy to follow and great job describing the cards/actions at a good pace with good visuals! i dont know the guest but he knew his stuff and i love seeing collabs with other creators

That really was great content! Gives all the creative minds a reason to brew some really cool budget decks. (I'd like to count myself to these brewers but somehow I doubt that). Please more of this stuff! It's always exciting to see tier 1 decks getting challenged by outsiders. Thanks for your work!

Very fun video. I particularly enjoyed that this one was a cheaper non-meta archetype rather than a cheap variant of a meta archetype like these videos have been previously.

I think this is a really exciting series hope you guys can try again soon!

LETS GO more Mengu and card market makes me excited! Hopefully you guys have some more Mengu and Thoralf soon?

Love the latest content and showcasing different formats of the game. Easy to follow and understand whats happening. Keep up the good work!

Super entertaining. Absolutely love this mixture of casual, positive attitude combined with pro skill magic. Best of both worlds!

Cardmarket is probably my favorite MTG channel on RU-vid, MAYBE second to Commander At Home, but suffice it to say that if I'm ever ordering some singles, I'm doing it from y'all. Keep up the excellent work, and I hope your channel continues to prosper.

Very interesting! Especially comparing budget decks with "normal" decks :)

I loved the Arena Boys so so much. Cardmarket's content is just that times 10. Loving it and all the various formats you all do!

This is by far the best Magic channel. Amazing production quality and friendly gamers. Just really positive games where it seems like everyone is having fun.

This was an awesome video - loved it! What a close matchup

Mengu is my favorite guest for every show! So passionate for the game!

Isn't this Saffron Olive's Zombie Combo deck from the recent mtg goldfish article?

LOVE this kind of content, very fun, and helps it feel very unique!!

I love this series so much. Please make more vids like this

Mengu is the best guest you guys feature, I absolutely love watching him play paper magic in the videos!

One of the things that I love about Magic is that a budget deck -- $100, $50, heck even $25 (though that takes more luck) -- can legitimately threaten a win against a much more expensive and meta deck. Sure, sure, more expensive decks usually have better consistency, more margin for error, and can deal with more matchups. They definitely have the advantage! But with a misstep or a bad draw in the right circumstances and, all of a sudden, your deck that you had to take a mortgage out for is dying to 15¢ draft chaff.

The editing in these is always amazin

Would love to see a video of you guys doing a cube draft of community submitted cards. You could even tailor it to certain themes. - "Submit Alara /Ravnica/Theros/Homelands/Alpha/Unset cards" So you can get keywords focused on certain themes. Or doing Jumpstart of community packs. Get people to submit a 20card theme pack and mix and match them for some quick games.

Really liked the video and both decks - it's my first time seeing Mengu's deck, and, as a beginner Izzet player, I'm really impressed! Have a little question about a particular card choice for the mono black deck - why Infernal Grasp and not Go for the Throat? It's both cheaper to buy (if I'm not mistaken) and doesn't have a life point cost. Sure, it can't hit artifact creatures and that might be a problem in other matchups, but Mengu's deck doesn't run any

Enjoy the modern and pioneer paper gameplay. Energy is high here. Love it. Keep it up.

I'd love the see some Atarka Gruul in Pioneer. It's capable of 'fairly' playing a 20/20 trample dinosaur on turn 2. That's fun. It would be cool to see you fellas give it a spin.

I remember that list when Seth from mtggoldfish first featured it a few months ago, I was really interested with the possibility of playing it and try my hand at modern with it

Awesome content as usual guys! Great distraction from work today

Honestly I've been playing a lot more Go For the Throat than Infernal Grasp in specifically standard and pioneer and I've noticed very little change in the hits. I know there are more artifact creatures in modern because of Hammertime but it might be worth flipping those two

This decklist splashing white and playing Wayward Servant is a lot stronger, so if you're impressed by this very nice showing, you can try a less budget version, it is surprisingly competetive.

I love watching you all play paper magic!

Mengu is really good! He should try playing professionally!

im no pro player so idk if it wouldve been a good move, but at 29:28 i wouldve sacced the augur in response to the bounce. especially seeing 2 more in hand after the first draw it feels better imo to get the feeder outta bolt range and have a threat that asks to go 1 for 1 with explosives. plus, its the same number of cards in hand whether its sacced or bounced so its not like youre down a card that way

That was fun! Zombies was my first budget Modern deck when I was in high school in 2012. (Now I'm feeling a bit old. lol.)

Super entertaining to watch, good job both 🎉

Great video, i need more budget decks

So cool to see a budget zombies list

This was a great matchup, I’m in the process of building a izzet murkTide deck it’s my first modern deck I can’t wait to get the rest of the cards and start playing more 1v1 btw the ragavan reprint helped a lot lol

That is one sweet Zombies deck! I undervalued the enchantment in the deck. The Gravecrawler + Putrid Goblin combo with it are really good! I do wonder if life loss is enough of an issue to be playing another 1B removal spell over Infernal Grasp though.

this mono black zombie deck looks perfect for after-work-kitchen-table-modern, we will try it out (:

the music editor keeps getting better and better give him a raise

Love the games, Really trying to get myself over the hump to get into Modern. Really like the stuff here, lots of ideas.

Great video, always good to see mengu playing tabletop mtg

This match was crazy, i was at the edge of my seat, great content guys

Some nice roque decks can go a long way, given this was like 1K vs 100 Euro, this was extremely close, sadly felt like we have seen the same 5 cards in the zombie decks again and again, would have loved to see the combos working a bit better, headless rider creating a huge board or just adding those +1/+1 counters with the putrid goblin and the thran vigil...really fun deck, especially for the budget

This was so fun! Would you consider doing another one of these?

Great video! Really enjoy the content, I do love a feature match.

Love cardmarket feature match absolutely my favorite videos you do

Gotta say, I love the amount of dice in this video

When I am sitting on an empty hand and draw a land, I usually dont even play it. I keep it inmy hand as a "mysterious threat", often look at it intently as if it's a powerful instant.

Orzov zombies is fun too, gives you life gain with wayward servant and hand disruption with tidehollow sculler

10:15 flippin the bird casually

Great games and love the content, thanks!

At 30:30, even without the knowledge of the opponents hand, isn’t it better to also sacrifice the undead augur? It draws of itself, had more undead augur copies in hand an would get the carrion feeder to 4 toughness and out of lightning bolt range, a point that was earlier mentioned in game 1 or 2. Would also have fizzled the petty theft disallowing the brazen borrower to be on an adventure -> card advantage Would love to hear your thoughts on it, besides that. Awesome content as always, much appreciated!

So happy every time you have Andrea Mengucci on!

Awesome stuff!! Have a great rest of you day!

Hey, great video! Is this a deck that I could consider as a first deck? Something I can walk into a local game with? Thanks!

Putrid Goblin 💚 One of these days one of my million goblin decks will make it into one of these cardmarket videos!

Game 3 I believe zombies should’ve had it at 37:02 because you have 7 mana, thran vigil, carrion feeder, then gravecrawler. Sac grave crawler and play it from your graveyard 3 times and put 3 counters and the putrid goblin and attack for exactly 5!

That zombie deck looks awesome!

Best MTG channel, love the videos. Thank you.

Cardmarket, please find a way to make these videos more frequent! I don't know of any other channels that have paper gameplay of 60-card formats with actually good editing and charismatic players. More more more!

Nice Zombie Deck! instead of fatal push maybe try it with bone shards. Sacrifice Gravecrawler and all the the other effects triggers

was fun to watch. Still i miss the pauper content on regular base you promised at some point. Pauper content is still so rare these days :( push the format of the people!

Great idea to compete viewer decks against Mengu

A cool line that I saw that I don't think was worth it towards the end was evoking Fury and crewing Unlicensed Hearse with the sacrifice on the stack. Being able to kill the opponent's creatures and getting another 4 power would be super nice, but alas Putrid Goblin is rude :(

37:35 i'm not sure, can't fury crew the hearse before it gets sac'ed? it would clear the board and hearse with brazen borrower were lethal.

If i want to upgrade this deck to a non-budget / stronger version. Which cards should i change? Could you post a decklist perhaps? Kind regards

Love to see a death shadow deck! 😅

Great video, thanks!

Infernal grasp should have been doom blade or go for the throat. That was some close games tho

This is probably my favorite Magic channel since Pretty Deece and Thoralf is creeping up to Patrick Chapin in terms of my favorite pro Magic personalities. As an American, I’m sure I’m not someone eligible to submit a deck but I love seeing the rogue brews people come up with.

Duel commander would be really cool to see

Great games :-) But if you knew you are facing Murktide, wouldn’t another removal spell for 2 mana have been better? Like go for the throat or doomblade 😢

whats the song starting at 23:20 ? u guys use it for alot videos but cant find a name or anything

I'm sad it wasn't my deck but it was very fun. Good games!

If Jamin played the following sequence on the last turn, Andrea would go to 2 Play Thran Play Gravecrawler Play Carrion feeder Sac Crawler to feeder Andrea can respond to the Feeder's trigger to exile Crawler and Grasp, which triggers Sigil and put 1 +1/+1 on Putrid Goblin. However if Andrea misses the opportunity to respond, you chain the Crawler loop until Putrid gets to be a 5/5 and kills on the spot.

I love this pls make more sub 100 euros deck videos

Watching this i miss my old mono black aggro deck

In the first game without that counterspell Jamin would have won with exact lethal. That was extremely close 😬.

Music choice at 7:35 went so hard

That was such a fun game!

Nice video. Great match

Not sacrificing the Undead Augur in response to the Brazen Borrower in game 3 seems like a huge mistake. Sacrificing the Gravecrawlers and then the Augur fizzles Borrower, denying Mengu the ability to turn the corner and get aggressive, draws an additional card, and gets the Carrion Feeder out of Bolt range (forcing either a 2-for-1 or low impact EE crack). With two Augurs in hand, there's no real reason to hang onto a third one. Maybe wouldn't change the outcome, but it seems like a missed opportunity. Edit: Absolutely turns that game from a loss to a win, that Borrower went coast-to-coast. Fizzle Adventures whenever you can, it's an often overlooked part of their design - the creature only goes on the adventure if the spell resolves.

Oh god. Have been playing no ban historic on Arena the last few days, and Andrea's deck is definetly one of the meta ones in that event. And like the other meta ones, it's also very annoying to play against for an aggro/beatdown player like me 😅

No temptation to sack the augur to the feeder so that the brazen borrower fizzles?

20:57 Maybe I’m not seeing the effects right, but if Jamin sacrificed the carrion crawler first and brought it back, he would have done additional damage? -2 for no crawler, but +2 for the sac ability +1 for Champion’s ability?

Btw, as someone who watches both the magic and YGO channels, I would love to see content like this on the YGO channel someday as well!

Wait why didnt they go with the Thran Vigil, Goblin, and Carriorn feeder combo 2nd to last turn?

great video. love the content

Lost to running infernal grasp over go for the throat. What a shame. Was really rooting for the zombie brew.

Did Jamin cast a crawler from hand instead of playing feeder first and the one from the yard to keep a backup zombie or did he cheat the crawler out of the yard without the other zombie on the board and miss his trigger for the +1/+1 counter? Edit: was his first one bounced not removed?

zombies had it in the last game if you cast vigil, feeder, and grave crawler you could of made a 5/5 putrid goblin