Playing My Meme Poison Deck Against Andrea Mengucci 

👑☠ Decklists: bit.ly/4bhn9Ge Find Andrea's Channel here: www.youtube.com/@MengusWorkshop

I like to think Andrea traveled all the way to Germany just to play a match against some jank and then went home again.

Even when he's not playing Turbo Fog, Karl plays Turbo Fog

The poison overlay on the health bar was a really nice touch

Carl obsessively arranging like 50 dice on sixes and getting immediately mad about andrea moving one sent me))) love yalls energy

Prologue to...WHAT? Pythesis? :D Hail to Pythexia!

Card Market and Mengu's Workshop are my favorite channels for MTG content. Online MTG loses so much from the lack of personal interaction. Thank you for showing there is an audience for this content.

The lore of the crown should be you plundered the cave of a colossal dreadmaw instead of a dragon

Love the post production :D The storm count jumping up to match where carl was pointing at 5:37 is hilarious.

Carl’s pronunciation was seemingly inspired by SaffronOlive in this video lol What a cool poison deck!

3:17 And that favor is much appreciated. Every time there's a Carl-less match and the dice just sit there misaligned, my heart sheds a silent, lonely tear.

Visualizing the poison on top of the life total was a very nice touch

MEME!?!?!

All the pauper content is super fun. Poison is just the kind of mechanic that is irresistable for the Johnnys of the world, I understand. Mengu liked the vibe so much he brought it home to his workshop, thats truly the greatest compliment.

the editing in this episode was a step above your usually already high quality. I really loved it. (the cut back to Andrea moving the dice, the moving mana symbols to play along with Adrea's and Carl's Talk, the Poison filling up the life total, it was just fun without being overbearing)

Andrea pulling out the counter spell before Carl even casted to cast was hilarious. xD

This is the kinda stuff that makes me love Pauper. Just so much weird stuff you can do with just commons

I love when Andrea gets excited and goes whoooo. I think you two look like brothers ❤

After the first win Carl's interview looked like the ravings of a madman.

This is so FUN. I wanna see more janky, odd, off-meta Pauper content! This is what it’s all abouttt☀️☀️☀️

I don't know about your decklist in particular, but poison storm is legit in pauper right now

I appreciate you putting all of those dice on 6!!!

Love this!! Getting more into pauper recently and enjoying your videos on them !

Is that an Andrea Mengucci pauper Izzet list?! I was just looking for an Izzet Delver Pauper list! Wow thanks Cardmarket and Andrea Mengucci!

Those pyroblasts were brutal

'With all due respect.' *YEET!, goblin grin. I love the vibe these videos carry.

Never a bad time for more pauper and Andrea. Also I love Carl's deck, it reminds me of all the absolute jank I've built because I had a "wait... what if?!" idea at some point.

Back on phyrexia I made an artisan standard deck based on proliferate and poison counters, because I love the mechanic. But this deck with the prisms and the depletion lands is a lot more fun. I love it

Poison storm is real deck, not a meme. Recent multiple challenge top 8s by Kalikaz (premier pauper combo player)… check out his RU-vid channel for leagues and challenges

I was surprised Carl even got a game against Izzet Snakes tbh. Let alone a game AFTER sideboard! I thought for sure his only chance to win would be preboard. Well done! Another fun video :)

Carl's typical manic energy is really what makes this matchup so great. He's just as surprised as we are every step of the way.

this was a sneaky way to put a pauper match up, i like it lol

Cool to see this pop up! I just built a Zevlor Poison deck for Commander that includes a bunch of these spells that have Proliferate stapled on. Pretty scary dishing out 9+ poison counters on a turn!

Thank you as always for Mengu and Pauper content, just great stuff!

@Cardmarket said "Don't try this at home", but I would love to play some Pauper rounds vs Andrea or Carl at home 😅

I spent way too long wondering why the mana base was so bad until I realized this was pauper. XD

Love me some 60 card, 4-of's Magic. :D Do I enjoy the 100 card singleton formats? For sure! But I also love 60 card 4-of's, and we don't get to see nearly as much of that as we used to. Thanks for keeping it alive!

The editing is really high quality, the musics, the details in the life and poinson counters, the mana... everything is just perfect and in the details but it makes the game easy to follow and fun to watch :) Every paper magic video should be like that!

Bro is wearing The Armor of God, I recognize that. That's the Breastplate of Righteousness and the Helmet of Salvation. Man got that armor from his local Christian bookshop.

The mics picking up that crisp card snap sound... you guys get it. That sound is so satisfying.

these fallen empire lands seeing play makes me very happy!! perhaps Hymn to Tourach is not the only playable card from that very misunderstood set

Watching Carl put all the dice in perfect order should be added to those "Oddly satisfying" compilations! And it's always cool to see weird and unusual decks be played that are surprisingly effective, maybe you could do some user-submitted decks again? I don't really have anything but there are a lot of very creative people out there!

Heart of the cards was strong with Men-Gu-Oh and Carl-Gi-Oh! Great content as always :)

i've been playing the EXACT same kind of deck on Arena in alchemy for a couple months. It's honestly such a fun deck to play, even though you don't win super often

Carl never stop throwing people's cards across the room 🤣

Proliferate poison strategies! You love to see it! Dimir proliferate was my first Standard deck, in the far distant past of All Will Be One XD

The interaction between the charge counter lands, prism, and proliferation is excellent and might be worth exploring further

18:50 if I've learned anything about magic it is Island Ponder Keep baby thank you Bosh

i had found and played a version of that poison deck when me and my friend were trying pauper, it's honestly so fun

this was a great deck to watch. more like this would be great.

What I’ve learned trying to make a poison deck is that easy to make a bad poison deck. There are many different ways to give someone poison counters that you’re temped to mix them, while it’s better to go heavy in to way specific way to give your opponent poison counters.

my 2 fav magic channels :) love seeing mengucci here

"we don't use tokens here so we have this arsenic for you to drink" lol best part of the video

perfect production value

Great video! It might be a good idea to add that this is a pauper video in the title or thumbnail so people know what they’re in for when they click. Awesome video again!

It's Against the Odds, but in paper! I loved this one! Carl was having so much fun. The edits were funny and on pt too. Content Idea: Go back to doing user submitted decks. Card Market does this from time to time, but mix it up. Play BOTH decks user submitted rather than 1 vs the meta. That way a community member always wins a deck.

3:10 i have watched alot of gameplay footage and have never noticed. I'll be sure to rewatch games or future matches for this easter egg.

only cardmarket could make a video I could enjoy about a deck with a mechanic I dislike so much. A room with menug and carl in it simultaneously must be such a positive environment thanks for the content

Love these vs videos :)

I think Andrea should have animations like this for his next workshop video. Tommy will NEVER get to leave the editing booth!

Holy shit i was not prepared for the nostalgia blast of seeing that simple plastic knight armor. I had that same toy growing up and it triggered so many lost memories. Thank you.

The editors, as always, deserve as much praise as the great people in front of the camera

i want to see more of this deck

Really liked the poison deck! :D

I'd lean on the green mana and add some fog effects, sure you don't kill them as fast, but depending on matchup can (like this one for example) it'd be pretty good I think

Proliferate with Pentad Prism and the depletion lands is actually really scary! Being able to cast "free" spells or keeping 2-mana lands on the board seems quite strong.

One of the first times I've ever rooted for Infect. And I was playing jank Infect with the Infect lord in standard from scars back in the day. Lol

Poison and storm are legitimately my two favourite mechanics hahaha Christmas came early

Great content as always😉👍🏻 One thing to point out. In game one Carl should of had one more turn. Each time he cast Weather the Storm, they only counted the Storm count. You gain 3 life from the spell itself too. So Carl should of gained a total of 9 more life the first game.

Love the storm deck :)

I very much appreciate Carl's OCD with dice, it gives me a little peace of mind in this crazy world :)

These types of videos are my favourite.

Such a cool deck idea.

‘I made fun of you so long, and then I die’ 😁

I've stumbled upon a meme deck that surprisingly kinda works - BG Throne of the Grim Captain (historic arena) It is about self mill and no one sees it coming when you get a 7/7 hexproof lifelink etc!

2:50 How I feel realising I have now have to wait for the next veedeo with Andrea xD

LOVED IT

"You're not going to boink me with a huge snake!" - Carlmarket 2024

I really want to see the turbofog deck again! (Also waiting for some judge tower and dandan games)

Ok but that poison deck looks like so much fun

Karl, that deck has legs. I would love to see it played again. You should stick with it. Consider trying Waxmane Baku in the deck, the only other common that could add mana while you're going off. I can't think of a lot of spirit or arcane cards that would work well with it - maybe Ideas Unbound or Peer Through Depths - but you'd only need one to get it going. Also, repeatedly proliferating The Modern Age could be a big game!

happy to see mengu on his skred!

Maybe thrumming bird in the sideboard for the proliferate deck, then when the opponent sides out all their removal, you side in thrumming bird to fight for the initiative/monarch and still prolifirate.

Carl you are not equipped enough for the pain that Andrea can do with kindness and magic cards :D He is an angel after all.

This deck actually looks pretty cool 😅

I love how mangu called out carls need for dice on 6 after DUMPING THEM 😂

Ok, that's a cool deck. And the fun thing is, I played similar archetype in ONE draft, so maybe I'll give it a go myself.

I have the vague feeling weather the storm may be a pet card of carl

I love how i always cheer for the meme decks and it always ends up with andrea winning anyhow.

i very mach like pauper poisen storm, one of my first decks in pauper but you need to play snap in the deck, antaping your lands that taps for two mana is so good and lets you storm of faster

Thank my boy Andrea beat that discusting toxic deck 🙌

Andrea just drew like every single counterspell in that last game

This video just made me notice the typo in Bring the Ending's text (it's instead of its).

I like to think that the Cardmarket accountant is always calling Carl just BEGGING him to stop buying costumes!

Surprisingly cromulent meme, this - would love to see more slightly janky builds here :)

ok ngl i wanna build this deck, it looks sick

Just want to point out that not only carl alligns all of the dice so that they have the 6 on top. He also alligns them so that they have the 5 on the side.

Around 2:20 in - "I'll put this back on (ie, the armour) if I feel threatened." Well, Carl... Andrea IS playing Red so he might be able to Threaten you somehow! Do you have any creatures in play yet? Around 18:45 in - "Is it a good hand? Maybe. Who knows!? Is it a bad hand? Maybe. Who knows!?" Gotta love Carl and the team at CardMarket for this sort of script writing! :D I heard meme deck I wasn't expecting Pauper but creatureless infect is hilarious :D Also, would you ever consider Venarian Gold in a deck like this?

I almost died laughing when Carl said "You're not going to boink me with a huge snake." and realizing he is playing Deep Anal-ysis.

I really enjoy watching Carl's hairbrained concoctions