Zada, Hedron Grinder - EDH Super Budget Deck Tech $15 | Magic the Gathering | Commander 

Just a quick note, and a big thanks to Saint Jahn for pointing this out to me! With Zada's ability, Soul's Fire actually will only let you target one of your creatures and not the entire team. You can still use this to have one of your pumped up creates deal a lot of damage to one target. I have updated the deck to include Run Amok, which will be very effective in the deck! Apologies for missing this interaction, and a big thanks again to Saint Jahn!

I never knew that a $0.09 commander could produce such an interesting deck, well done guys👍

Some of the best commander content out there these days, very concise and very informative

This deck should be subtitled Commander's Nickels.

I'd really like to watch some of these decks be played

as soon as you mentioned the red cantrips I got really hype for this deck mass card draw in red? 5 cent cards that would otherwise be useless in any other deck? this is why I love the commander format

Dude, you have managed to become one of my favorite magic content creators in like a week :-) really creative stuff and i like your upload schedule. there seems to be a new video from you every few days. by the way, the deck looks really cool. i love that you could fit in an infinite combo in a 15 dollar deck!

So I was looking at the card [Seize the Day] in this deck, and I noticed something. Yes, this card gives you an extra combat step for each creature you control, but it only untaps all your creatures just the once. I was thinking you might want to add [Angel's Trumpet] to the deck for the vigilance. This would allow for a MASSIVELY explosive turn - play the trumpet, play Seize the Day, and go off! [Oketra's Monument] and [Hovermyr] are two other interesting vigilance ideas for this deck.

Your decks are incredible for the money. Absolutely LOVE this channel, keep it up.

Just wanted to say that, despite having only recently found you guys, I'm in love with this channel. Easily my most favorite mtg channel by far. Thank you so much for these deck techs!

I wish there were more channels like yours that showed how accessible edh can be. I will make sure to share your videos!

I love your channel so much. Thank you for all the great affordable deck ideas in one place

Your channel is skyrocketing at this moment, great work! I already have a Zada deck and came here for some upgrades, you sure have some awesome editing skills! :D

A great video for a great commander. One of my favourite budget edh deck so far. Great work!!

So much inspiration, thank you!

I saw Zada a year and a half ago and i started building my own. my current build is focused on tribal/goblins + tons of rituals and yeah, it is very explosive. Took notes on the kari sev's expertise, never saw that comming, thanks a lot!

So good! This is quite the enticing build!

I've had a tricked-out Zada deck for awhile and this still gave me some new ideas :) nice work

Long time viewer first time poster. I am so happy you make this content. My playgroup went from playing $800 decks to making budget builds and having just as much fun. Thank you, from all of our wallets!

Yo, i was looking through RU-vid and found this video and got so excited that i got up and made it ,and i just so happened to have most of the cards, i look forward to use this deck. thank you!

Found your channel this morning, watched like 10 episodes and subbed. Awesome work my guy.

Another awesome deck, can’t believe what you’re able to create within such a small budget!

I was looking to make a budget deck this October and I think I’ll finally finish my zada deck that I forgot about. Thank you for your deck tech video.👍

I'm so thankful for this because I need to create commander decks for cheap because the 2018 ones are crap to me except Aminatou and I was wanting to have more than one EDH deck to play. BTW you've just gained a fan and a subscriber!

Hey man, I just discovered your videos, and I want to say that I am impressed. These deck techs are great and seriously well researched. They remind me of the fun of pauper; searching for strange cards that are rarely ever seen. Plus the budget thing helps

Love it. I had a similar Zada deck but was missing a few of the key parts. My friends had no idea what to do when I played it the first few times. I would really enjoy seeing a Zedruu Deck sometime. All hail the great golden goat.

So glad you've got Spark of Creativity in this deck. That card is so insane in Zada

this deck seem's op for the price. It almost seem's more than focus. very fun. Glad you took my chalenge. continue to make awsome video. I love then. It's impressive the content you make for a new youtuber.

Dude this channel is Amazing. Please keep up the great work!

The trick with Kari Zev's Expertise on Zada is genius! Something like that would never have occurred to me! Thank you so much for sharing your decks with this channel.

beyond excited i found this channel!! I am broke and love commander this is perfect! keep posting videos my friend.

Now this deck got me my first wins ever in EDH, and it also introduced me to how ridiculous EDH could be. Drawing several cards off a cantrip, while buffing my whole board, and then attacking for so much damage my opponents just concede on the spot...this is not something I could do in other formats. It was amazing. And all for $15!

Congrats on your 2000 subs!

Guys you keep coming up with amazing content and decks I'm so impressed keep it up.

Great deck. I have Zada about 85% done and will be including some of these ideas in to it tonight. Keep the great content coming.

Another fun mechanic for this is cards like Mob Rule and Insurrection, where you can steal opponents creatures for a turn. Not only does this give you potentially huge amount and huge power creatures to swing with, but your opponents have nothing to block with. It's absolutely a game ender and it's very likely to get one since you're drawing so many cards

Love the $15 budget. Would love to see more of these.

Yes. That deck is so fun

Undying Flames is some pretty spicy tech. The epic ability does copy, so you basically end up chucking the total CMC worth of your deck around the table

Thanks, was looking for an entry level mono red.

This channel deserves more subs :)

It's refreshing to see such a cheap Zada deck, I picked a prerelease version of her and have been kicking around ideas. Under $15 is a great place to start

Zada is an awesome general to build. I have a friend who made one with some bulk he had laying around, and it was crazy.

Meekstone is a good addition. You can swing out with a burst of big monsters that will be small enough to untap on your turn, but your opponents will have to think harder before attacking.

Great editing and voice :) big fan

Why does he only have 5,4K subs? This guy should be hitting at least 100K with that work ethic and reasonable and, mroe importantly, very smart explanation on why everything works and so many other things. Until today i didn't know about this channel and i'm already regretting it... awesome work *like 'n sub* :D

I'm glad you make super budget decks because I'm a relitivaly young mtg player with no reliable source of money so this is very helpful

I got this deck and it’s a lot of fun to play!

I was looking for some of the pieces of this deck in my commons and realized gravatic punch is potentially game winning, dealing damage equal to all your creatures power to target opponent, and thanks to jumpstart you can do it twice!

I love this deck! Since I have most of the cards lying around I guess i'll give it a try :)

OMG... Best one yet!!!

I played this at my lgs wednesday night commander game but added purforos and coat of arms, sure they more than double the price of the deck but it worked every time.

I'm just passing by but I wanted to commend you on the great audio quality. The video solid as well.

I have One of these with some changes and is a LOT of fun!

I love the deck tech! My Zada is a little bit different, but I found couple cards I will add from your list. One card I would recommend for upgrade section is Past in Flames maybe even instead of ruby medallion. 80% I cast that card I won the game on that turn or next and sometimes it can help you get back from boardwipes because of all the spells that gives tokens. Btw just found out about channel recently and it has amazing content!

Amazing, as always. Bonus round and fling really would make this deck pop off!

I sadly don't have all of these but I do have Grand Warlord Radha and this deck tech gave me some ideas for her. Very interesting deck! Can't wait to see what else you think up!

Oh my god. When I first opened packs of BFZ and got Zada, this was exactly what I tried making!! Couldn’t make it work for lack of card draw and an overly heavy focus on goblins. I am SO happy to see someone else try to make Zada work!!!

I just found you randomly on youtube. What the heck you are awesome! :D I'll hope you do this forever ^.^

Awesome decktech - I myself had a Zada EDH deck that was quite similar to this that I later changed to a Tana the Bloodsower + Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker token deck to build around Zada, Mirrorwing Dragon and Ink-treader Nephilim! I will say this though, at 14:59 you recommend Inner Fire as a way Zada can push damage through, but sadly because it targets 2 things (a creature and a player), Zada won't copy it for each creature you control. For this sort of effect, I'd recommend Arcbond (and uh, find a way to give a creature lifelink, perhaps basilisk collar). Chandra's Ignition is also sweet. If the spell targets Zada, but says "each ______" or "you _______", it's fair game!

I made my own spin on him with only commons and uncommon I had laying around. Zada was reprinted in masters 25 at common so I followed the theme. I most of the cards for it but I also put in fireball. Fireball with battle hym/dragonrage= one shot. Emrakul's Hatcher also works. Another thing that's good is spawning bed which is a colorless land that creates bodies in a pinch.

Another amazing video!

Oh man, this deck is sweet!

I honestly love that you also give some budget cards to throw in if you feel like being a bit spicy, also a 15$ deck makes me want to buy to give it to family and friends who do not know how to play magic, I feel these hold more value then the current C18 granted no Commander product is focused but I think others would love to play Focus builds instead of more expensive jank.

One of my favorite decks to run in the Kingdoms variant for commander. Think my record for this deck was 500+ damage in a single turn. Great deck tech. For budget includes, I'd recommend Dictate of Twin Gods. As a fun include, I'd recommend Indomitable Creativity. Hitting an Ogre Battledriver and a bunch of other creatures can be game ending. For non-budget, Tempt with Vengeance....because reasons.

Thank you for this deck tech. Definitely going to build this deck. Just found Fists of Flame also. Drawing a card for each creature you control and providing an increasingly massive attack boost on each of them at instant speed for 1R sounds pretty good; if you have drawn one card from your draw step already and you control Zada and four other creatures, you'll draw four cards and pump your team for a total of 2+3+4+5+6=20 damage. Gets even more disgusting if you've already cast say an Accelerate on the team. Think I''ll swap it for e.g. Telim Tor's Edict.

With a slight variation to this deck, I was able to draw my library on turn 5. I had 69 cards in my hand before losing the game just to prove a point. Like most other decks, this does have glaring weakness that I choose not to address. I like the "eggs in one basket" aspect of it. My nephew has since made an anti-zada deck. Oh the laughs. Thank you very much for the videos.

Nice deck tech man, It proves than any color in commander is viable

Upgrades. To work with Beetleback and impact tremors, Nim Deathmantle, and Ashnots alter. Sac a goblin and the chief to the alter, for 4 colorless and use that many to summon the chief from the graveyard equipped to the death mantle. For 2 more goblin tobys. Also add Hissing Iguanar so when your sacrificing, your pinging away and as creatures are returning to the field. With tremors your still pinging.

This deck looks super fun. I'm pretty noobish still but the combos here seem simple enough for me to get a hold of.

Just wanted to put in the Purphoros, God of the Forge seems incredible in this deck as a secondary win con. Like if he's out and you can get 20 creatures to enter the battlefield you win, plus he can help push through extra damage with the +1/+0. Plus there's a good chance he'll be a creature and he's indestructible.

Mirrorwing Dragon serves as a 2nd Zada basically. Flying also makes it a little more likely to get through blockers.

I know this video is old I have been brewing a goblin tribal and I picked to be the commander, I knew the draw spells, and I really like the fists of flame combo with drawing a lot

A card that you could add to this deck to help with the large sum of draw power is Spellbook. costs no more than $1 and for 0 gives you no maximum hand size.

5:51 I'm pretty new to Magic, but this is so cool to me. These card draw spells are super cheap (literally) and they bounce off the commander ability to multiply value. And there are so many of them! I would really like to see your process when deck building. I assume you could comb through red "target creature" cards to piece together a similar deck, but this is something else.

Again, yet another FANTASTIC deck profile. I'm so glad you're doing this. Idk how much I can stress this, but as a cEDH player, your channel has given me SO many ideas. A lot of my friends get tired of playing against Gitrog and Chromium. Lol I bought your Tasigur deck and it is so much fun, and it looks like I've found another fun deck to play. On top of that, my playgroup loves playing with me again! I really appreciate your hard work, man. KEEP 'EM COMING!!

Okay, I bought this deck out of my reluctance to believe that mono red could be as effective as you made this deck sound. I've only been able to do a few minor tweaks and alterations to the deck so far(hope you don't mind, I had to make the deck my own lol), but I took this deck to magic night with my group recently and I made 6 people SIMULTANEOUSLY scoop because I had drawn half my deck in one turn and was STILL drawing cards and getting mana to drop more cards. It felt like I was playing mono blue or SIMIC colors! Everybody told me to keep going even after they scooped just because they couldn't believe what they were seeing, and wanted to find out just how far I could go...it was NUTS. Way back in my novice beginner days, I played mono red and quickly dropped it cause every game would be the same; I'd start out strong but burn out REAL fast and not be able to hold on and rebuild after. I felt like the creatures were weaker compared to the other colors, so I switched to green. Later I'd flirt with red by using it as a secondary to another colors (Gruul, Izzet etc), but it would never be as anything more than utility. After seeing this commander and playing this deck, I maaay have to admit that I must have just been doing something wrong, because I've never felt like MORE of a magic player than when I was popping off with this deck. In short...I think you've turned me into a red player again, so yeah...keep it up. *Thumbs up* LOL!

this is freakin' sweet! if I got tons of 1/1 like 20 1/1 or 0/1 cast "Otherworldly Outburst" on Zada, then "Rile" pinging them and killing them then VOILA! from 1/1 going to 3/2! this is sweet man! great vid!

I would love to see a Teysa, Envoy of Ghosts deck made at budget. She has been a commander I've always been interested in running.

love the concept of this deck think im going to buy it lol!

I know this video is old but I made a Pauper commander deck with Zada (Commander had to be uncommon at some point) and I love it. Only downside is it doesn't hold up against high power decks if Zada gets removed too many times. Can't really ramp out lands with Red. Also chose to go Goblin Tribal. Currently it sits around $40. Two most expensive cards are Path of Ancestry around $6-7 and Goblin General coming in around $5. Everything else is at or under $2

ok so first thing. Im new to the channel and I like it. Props for explaining what each card does, because I'm usually just listening and it helps a lot. second thing has probably been mentioned by someone else, but using combat celebrant you can activate krenko twice. Considering you had the cards right next to each other, i found it odd that you wouldn't mention this.Anyway gj.

Good deck man, literally on point, hey it would be great to see a lathliss the dragon queen deck tech on here!

Weird but crazy effective synergy I found is traitorous greed. You can target zada because of the way it’s worded and it would effectively untap and give haste to all your creatures but also gives you 2 mana of any color for each creature as well

Love your content!

Nice deck tech!

Awesome build man, was looking for a budget deck for a friend of mine. Would love to see a Wasitora deck.

I've been looking forward to build zada as well. Rn, i think storm kiln artist and fists of flame are the best cards for the deck. I cant believe ruby medallion only costs like $5 5 years ago. I should have been into magic earlier lol

I accidently didn't get a Temils edict when I ordered my cards, and was thinking of putting in Street Riot from guilds in, and then I started thinking of other chards that effect my board, and I started looking. Aggravated Assault would be so freaking good in this deck, it's expensive though. 1 red 3 colourless, pay 2 red 3 colourless, untap all creatures you control, another combat phase, followed by another main phase happens. With how much Mana this deck can get in a turn. You can easily have 3/4 more combat phases. It's messy. It's easily a reasonable upgrade.

This deck is kind of hilarious I love it

With that much creatures that make more than one token into play you may use the infinite combo of "Nim deathmantle" and "Ashnod's Altar" in the upgrades

Just bought for $22 in 2020 with the exception of basic lands and some of the cheap token makers like dragon fodder and krenko which I already had. My friend group likes to play super expensive decks that require mana fixing and are quite slow and some of us cant afford decks that even come close to competing with them once they get set up so I think I will use this to change our groups meta lol. Still loving the channel by the way Mitch keep it up.

I've always wanted a good Zada deck. I have a lot of really good upgrades for this, so I think I'm gonna go through the list and see what I'm gonna take out for my upgrades and buy everything else(but the lands) in foil 🤔

I've loved Zada since she was printed. I've built and refined my list and tested and tuned. I've built mine a storm combo style deck but there are so many ways to build this deck it's crazy. Sweet list.

god damn mitch. This is an amazing deck. im gonna buy this. incredible

My suggestion for an upgrade is library of leng. A 1 mana artifact that not only gives u infinite hand size but if u would discard cards, u can place them on top of the deck instead.

I think it's crazy that the sleeves and deck box would cost more than the deck itself. I didn't even think that was possible

That’s what I was thinking. I also added Guttersnipe for dealing damage from instants and Sorceries.

Love everything about the video and deck! Also I am so happy you references Zada as female, nice to know the lore!

Awesome stuff. Please do Marchesa the Black Rose next !