In the 99, Nethroi is an excellent include for a walls deck, like Doran, the Siege Tower.

Modular Nethroi sounds like it fucks hard. Also you skipped over the biggest bastard in these decks, Mr. “I have negative 20 power in grave so now I bring back 30 power of creatures” and yes that is legal

Hmmm, hold on...if it reanimates creatures with total power 10 or less, that means I could bring back literally EVERYTHING in a Doran deck AT THE SAME TIME.

Oh, you also missed the funniest, newest deck type of Nethroi. The Ring Wraith Nethroi. Toss as much of your deck into the graveyard as possible and resurrect 3-5 of your 9 Ring Wraiths at once to make a one tap commander with an equally one tap board state.

I'm surprised you didn't mention how with scourge of the sky claves you can increase the power of which nethroi is allowed to reanimate

Death's shadow (if you have 14 or more life in a game where you start at 40) and scourge of the skyclaves (if the player with the highest life total has more than 20 life) often have negative power. Which allows you to reanimate creatures with more than 10 total power cause math is great like that sometimes.

Slicer “group hug” voltron always gives me a good laugh.

Personally, I prefer to make my Nethroi reanimate as many relentless rats as possible.

As a proud Illuna discount Cacade deck enjoyer, can agree. We do not build wide, we build tall. Until we randomly gacha a wincon and beat everyone's face in at once. When an Apex mutates, it better be your goddamn win con, because lord help you if you get a second turn.

I'm still hoping for a Chulane roast someday, and now's a great time with the release of Wilds of Eldraine, so I will once again request it.

would love to see you pull of a modular deck with this also love the no hesitation 'no it cant get it'

I play him as the commander for a three-color Reanimator Hydra deck that wants to turn as many 0/0 hydras to the battlefield just so they can die for blood artist effects or for the hidden commander, polukranos the reborn's wurm coil side. It's a very fun deck

One of the bucket list decks I want to build is a nethroi combo deck where you put a bunch of hydras + blood artist effects in the yard and then reanimate 20 0/0s that die immediately and drain the whole table out

I haven't tried nethroi modular, but I made a really good Hamza one. One turn you have a few teeny robots, and the next you're drawing 3 cards for each one you play and they're all FREE. Then you play 5 counter doublers, a sac outlet, and a walking ballista and watch the world burn

All I could think was "Ya' know 0 is a number??" 🤔

I continue to ask for Yeva, Because Seedborne Muse Needed the Help

My Nethroi deck is a self-mill deck with a bunch of mutate creatures to apply keywords and even more 0/0s that come in with counters on them like "Phantom Nishoba", "Heroes' Bane", and "Embodiment of Agonies". Additional cards like "Phytohydra" and "Managorger Hydra" gives other useful abilities. Sadly it folds pretty hard to repeated graveyard exile so gotta fade all those late game Bogs.

BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED, Sliver Tribal.

I had a deck list all tee'd up for a Nethroi, Apex of Walls deck, with self mill, a ton of 0 power walls, and specific creatures to tutor up other creatures/enchantments that make walls into monsters. Never ended up making it, but now that you've reminded me I think I just might.

I'd love to see you roast Mizzix of the Izmagnus, for when you only have one red mana but you still really need to cast demonfire for 20.

So happy to see this. I've been brewing a Modular Nethroi deck for a while. It is a weird sort of balancing act but if I can pull it off it will be SO satisfying.

I think I'm gonna join you on that modular train, that shit sounds hilarious

My wife's Nethroi has a ton of creatures that are 0/0 but come back with counters on them. Things like Polukranos, Unchained and Noosegraf Mob. Makes for a late game board state even with multiple board wipes and interaction from others. One of my favorites flavor-wise

Didn't even mention the most sus thing with Nethroi. Roiling Horror and Scourge of the Skyclaves. These have the lovely distinction of usually having greatly negative power. And when adding up to a total these negatives indeed subtract, giving you a free disgusting bonus to the power you can reanimate.

My man, this boy is in Siege Rhino and Trag Tusk colors. He's a PTSD machine

Made a Nethroi 0-power tribal deck when Ikoria released. The look on people's faces was hilarious when I just created a huge pile of large butts before uttering the phrase "I cast Doran, the Siege Tower".

Looking forward to whatever video the modular nethroy deck shows up in

"Modular Nethroi"... Thank you, I have plans again

We need to roast Sefris. Also known as "That infinite combo bitch larping as a dungeon deck"

Dying at "Poop Knife Lenny" 😂😂 Also, Nethroi turns Buried Alive into a 1 card win condition if you cast it and find Protean Hulk, Viscera Seer, Blood Artist, and Restoration Angel, then Mutate Nethroi to return and use the Hulk line to find Karmic Guide returning Hulk to play, then use the line again to find Reveillark and place the ETB on the stack to sacrifice Karmic Guide and Restoration Angel to the Seer, thus returning both of them to play with the trigger and then blinking the Reveillark with the Restoration Angel ETB and returning Hulk with the Karmic Guide ETB and then present a loop of sacrificing the creatures with their own triggers on the stack with Blood Artist in play. So that's kind of neat :3

Thank you so much for the inspiration. Been working on a decklist for this ever since this first came out three months ago, finally got the order submitted today. And just to clarify, I did focus the deck around the modular nethroi concept mixing the archetypes of mass reanimation and hardened scales to produce a glorious, "oh no I forgot to keep up counterspell mana, where'd that army of undead eldritch horrors come from?" Moment at the table that I am excited to get to resolve exactly once before becoming public enemy #1 across the lands. Hope to do you proud with the degeneracy!

How are you always so damn clever with these? Seriously

We're eventually going to need a compilation of every "poop knife" reference, lol!

“Poop knife lane” lol😂

I took that modular sentence as a goddamn challenge and wound up making an overly complicated kci walking ballista one shot deck. So many funky steps you gotta finish all your tasks before you can blow someone out the airlock but if you want to see a bunch of 10/10's reanimated at the same time modular is definitely where you want to be since you can reanimate corpsejack menace, winding constrictor, kami of whispering hope, and benevolent hydra in one mutate and still bring back all 18 modular creatures (we dont include the sunburst one) and still have 2 power of reanimate left over just to spite people.

Currently building Nethroi in arena entirely with the purpose of reanimating one of the fucked up Abzan/Golgari/Selesnya hobbit combos that we keep getting more of and I’m not gonna lie it’s really funny

Bro that boi can get it like yo what that tongue do!

Where's my homegirl Marwyn at? I gotta see the purest concentration of elf hate possible.

These videos are fuckin hilarious. I still hope to see a Rhys the Redeemed video someday. It was my first commander and he created some amazing moments for me against the boys

You forgot my favorite version - Dredging some obnoxious infinite combo.

We gotta get the chaotic goose that is Lord of Tresserhorn

I would 100% be willing to give modular version permission to go off. Heck I will build a kingmaker deck just to see it happen

I have a Nethroi deck, it's aristocrats. I play a mini game of 'get 10 power worth of creatures in the graveyard, reanimate them, see if I win instantly' - I do not dump any specific creatures in there, it's just whatever flops in with dredge. My playgroup is surprisingly OK with it because we keep finding different interactions with some weird cards and it never wins the same way twice. I only take 20 minute turns about 10% of the time!

Love your vids

I'm utterly shocked nobody is talking about the absolute crime synergy that is Scourge of the Skyclaves. Don't know how it works? You're going to need some bleach after this one. Scourge of the Skyclaves has P/T equal to (20 - h), where h is the highest life total among players. It's a */*, meaning this power and toughness is calculated in all zones. Because of this, Scourge of the Skyclaves is a -20/-20 at the start of an EDH game. Cast Entomb, Unmarked Grave, or Buried Alive and slap Scourge into the graveyard. When reanimating with Nethroi, the -20 counts towards the total power, meaning Nethroi reanimates according to (p - 20 = 10), where p is the amount of power you reanimate. In layman's terms, Nethroi now reanimates for THIRTY POWER.

I recently had a bunch of fun playing Drivnod modular. It's a lovely mechanic I wish hadn't been pushed into boros when it got revisited, but still oozes charm, regardless. (Also, as always, requesting Urtet!)

Crushin’ it as always, but I’m here in Round 11 of askin’ for my boy Greven, Predator Captain to be allowed to take the stand!

Ahhh my favorite causal deck. I use it as a reainamator deck using as many Godzilla cards as possible (that includes Biollante alt art) Best thing is grabbing all my zero power players (Kolarian Hydra, Golgari Troll, lord of extinction, tree of perdition, Ghave, and a couple others) while also using low power creatures with great ETB’s. And because I love it so much, I threw in Filth and an Urborg, Tomb of Yahgmoth, just in case I’m playing someone who doesn’t have black.

Got the Biollante print as the commander of a toxic deck. It's pretty fun

Had to stop at 1:37 to leave a comment. You’re gold normally but that planet fitness followed by brazzers premium jokes are certified platinum, danke for the laughs

Mald, any day you bring Modular Nethroi to my table is a day i let that shit get off. Because i will also laugh forever.

I built a "mudular" Nethroi deck (no modular creatures, but a bunch of 0/0's that enter with counters). It's especially deadly when you mutate upon your basic tramply 4/4, and oops it's now a 9/9 trample deathtouch with 20 new friends

Nethroi is a sorcery in the command zone. And is also super fun to play

My two favorite kinds of creatures to put in the graveyard here. 0/0's that enter with many counters, or the */*'s that are power and toughness equal to your life total or hand size.

I'm amazed you didn't drag Scourge of the Skyclaves alongside Nethroi. Shits insane, like that's an extra 20 power of elves you can reanimate Or a second copy of craterhoof behemoth and 15 power worth of elves

Hey great vid as always. But the true apex of death is when you turn heartless hidestugu sideways and nuke the whole table.

I need you to roast the criminal that is Heliod, The Warped Eclipse.

Built an entirely cat themed historic deck around Nethroi and I still fucking love playing it.

Now this is where my Doran the siege tower treefolk toughness works really well. You wouldn’t think it but it is really good.

alternatively, a mass reanimator for your entire infinite combo :3

[mutates Nethroi] [dumps a boatload of dead 0-power elves back on the field alongside Shaman of the Pack]

you had your fingers crossed at the end here huh

My friend had a Modular Nethroi deck, and it fucks. Get you one!

And here I've been using Nethroi to bring back 5 rat colonies

Ha, funny man go brrr with cat beast and robots. He is Transformers Beast Wars.

Any time you see White, Green, and Black together on a card that has the word "graveyard" in the rules text, you know shenanigans are going to ensue and someone is gonna have a bad time.

I feel like Nethroi and ShadowBorn apostles would actually slay (themselves), and provide good synergy.

Finally one of my commanders made it to the front of the line. My Nethroi deck focuses on low power creatures with powerful etb's. Ravenous chupacabra, hornet queen, bane of progress etc. Tortured existence is also a fun card in this deck especially if you use it to dump a golgari grave troll into the hard every activation

I'm trying to brew up some Nethroi Hydras over here. And one mutated Brisela, because seeing Nethroi in a pile of two face down angels is a weird sight.

I lost it at "Poopknife lenny"

i've also been making a modular nethroi for a while it's surprisingly good

And here I am playing a Dino Elemental Cat tribal deck with nethroi and Kaheera

I don’t even have to watch the video to know it’s worth a like button.

I made a modular nethroi wdh deck before and it was really fun. I even milled someone because of alter of dementia. It was really fun but I had to take it apart because it got too easy to stop.

I am once again requesting a war crime tribunal for Heartless Hidetsugu

Nethroi is the perfect commander for an Abzan Greasefang vehicles build

Loved my nethroi deck when he first dropped, filled with garbage 0/0’s that entered with counters to be fed to a Phyrexia altar

Another good one that I played against once was a rat colony deck

Wall players be tossing their whole library into the graveyard when they run this.

My first thought was archon of the wild rose and Gylwain with a bunch of normally 0/2 or 0/1 creatures. You could throw in ellivere or doomwake giant if you wanna do big damage/clear the field. I wish I knew about Nethroi while I was playing my Abzan aura deck.

Nethroi wants to be a horrific archon of death but in practice it mostly ends up being a second pest infestation in a trench coat.

Ah yes good ol dredge into pocket combo

I have come across exactly 2 of these decks, and they were both reanimate 1 of 10 different infinite combos from my yard.

A thought. Make this psycho a Sliver commander and go 'Assuming Direct Control' every recast.

Wow. Jokes on point as ever 😹 loved the bit about only getting it to work against blind hospital children. Day like 30 of asking for zacama and like 7 of asking for wasitora

I have a Nethroi deck that's perhaps a little unorthodox. Big Mill Nethroi. Mill most of my deck into my graveyard, using Nethroi not as a reanimation strategy but as a stalling tactic, putting creatures I can sacrifice for value as well as creatures with Regrowth effects on them to get the true prize: Eerie Ultimatum, Living Death, or Rise of the Dark Realms. Oh, and I have Odric Lunarch Marshal, Vorinclex, and Fynn in there along with a bunch of other big beaters. I'm sure Mald would absolutely HATE my deck lmao

As someone who has been trying to build nethroi decks for a while, your suggestion for a modular nethroi deck isn't to far off from what i consider the best strategy for nethroi, which is creatures who lie about their power and toughness, like fertilid, bane of progress, and kalonian hydra.

for modular, i think approaching with some enchantments that increases +1/+1 counters are enough alongside some mill

I mean Nethroi reanimating a Scourge of the Skyclaves at power -20 or lower means the the big boys came to town

Nethroi is amazing..... asking again for the tax evader atla palani nest tender!

Can you cover Obeka, Brute Chronologist. Got to love permenant, exponetial myriad creatures. And completely negating stack play on your turn. ❤

This commander is so underrated. He absolutely wrecks in a value based deck. Draw, ramp, removal, sac outlets, combo pieces all brought back at once. Landfall triggers go hard. I had to stop playing him because I ground out wins so much.

Yeah, he's a fantastic card in defender decks and in the best colors for it. Shit like tree of perdition, and creatures deal damage via toughness go hard on him.

Dude I have a Nethroi deck that's using all the Modular stuff and it's intense. Most games I win if I get to play the commander once, man's on another level

Mutate is my favorite playstyle in the game. It astonishes me how many player can't deal with 1 monster. My stack record is gain life inflict damage 2 times, rip a card from opponent's hand, they sacrifice a creature of their choice, I kill a creature of my choice, get a land on mutate, and draw a card on mutate.

i have a nethroi deck, it is 1/3 infect, 1/3 mutation and 1/3 aristocrats it is jankie, it is clunky, but most of all, it is fun as hell Reanimating every single infect card from the grave, mutatuing so they are now flying and hitting constanstly 4 or 5 flying infect. Freaking love it man

theres some fun 0/0 hydras without x Costs that fit with the Modular idea pretty well too

WE NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE SKYCLAVE DEAMON THAT MAKES THE POWER GO FROM 10 TO 30😂😂😂

Fun fact: getting Death's Shadow or Scourge of the Skyclaves *RAISES* the total power limit, letting you grab more asshole from the butt bog

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