The audience was here for a million UW Evoke videos, so we don’t mind the same deck repeatedly. I personally like refinements on something you have expertise with.

I'd rather see you playing a deck that you enjoy over and over again than you playing decks that you don't enjoy just for diversity. It's great to follow the journey and to see the deck evolve and improve over time. Great content overall and I'm glad to have you back.

I like the same deck to see the continued evolution of it. And i have it in paper, so it's good for me to see.

Get 'em! Thanks for continuing to tweak this list. Late to dinner cut was probably smart. The peaceful rhino is a great sight for my sore eyes.

I want to be mardu main, I copied every list from you. Exellent work I love it. I play in my local store. Keep posting we are here for that🎉

Love to see another mardu video, the deck seems fun as hell and I'm excited to test it out and make it in paper too. Keep up the vids!

I love seeing you play this deck a ton! if i really wanted to watch people play ponza or madness there are plenty of people i could watch, but as the creator of this deck you are my favorite authority on it

Abraços do Brasil ! Adoro esse deck! Parabéns

KCS seems like a dope idea and i would like to see the addition of one blood fountain as well

Our rat lock champion has returned

No shame in the tilt concede to the SECOND dino into pirate. I would have been steaming lol.

I played this at a paper tournament recently and unfortunately went 2-2. Won against Ponza and Heroic. Lost against Ponza and Madness. Really like the deck but it takes some experience to pilot this one well. Well thought out Mulligans and the early turns seem to be crucial to it. As always, well played Snap Bolt!

Don't play Magic anymore but I've been enjoying these Mardu videos. Love the passion!

Great matches in this vid Snap Bolt! Awesome to see you back, and I'll echo everyone else, very happy to see you continue playing a deck you enjoy, not tiresome for me to watch at all :)

Hey! Personally I'm here because of this deck, I've tried brewing something like this when I saw the spoiler for the rat. I'm always looking for the next video with this deck to see updates :) have a good one and thanks for the content!

I see snap bolt, I watch!

MARDU HYPE!

I am definitely here to watch you cast cards you have fun playing! Thank you for the content!

Games 2&3 of round 5 were HOT! So many “not like this” moments.

small bit of advice, if you are going to wide fire and play a tapped land, wildfire first, you might want to play a different tapped land, like at 9:35ish you could have had an untapped black source next turn even if they kill the swamp

56:05 I think they declined their Broodscale trigger. Weird.

~55:00, where OP started the infinite colorless mana + infinite broodscale line. The only conclusion I can draw is that they misclicked and canceled the loop because the broodscale ability to 'create a 0/1 Eldrazi spawn token' is a *may* ability.

Seems like a strong deck with some mismatched incentives. Feels like you want more copies of cheap unconditional removal/charms over the strands, especially with Eldrazi popping up so frequently. So many decks just seems to revolve around around specific creatures or jamming fat initiative creatures. Also seems like you want to pick either ardent elementaliet + ephemerate or Goliath paladin to lean into as non monarch value. Idk if paladin is necessary you don’t seem to be concerned about killing them quickly which is most of what initiative does. Maybe +1 palace guards monarch seems better in your deck and it’s cheaper. Good video dude!

Commenting again just to shoutout the discord server for the deck! I suppose a lot of people watching this video might be interested in it, there's a reddit post on the pauper subreddit about it ✌️

hey there! love your videos! playing an alternative version of mardu with glintblade in paper, and im doing good. Thinking about using your initiative list now. I know its hard but if you had to replace prismatic strands what would it be? Im having trouble finding them at MOL, Thx a lot!

Rat lock? I suddenly feel the need for a Bx Clue deck. Ratlock solves the case!

Was there any temptation game 1 to wildfire the forest with the 2 enchantments? Obviously their draw was crazy (and with the spawns they had a lot of mana regardless so could definitely believe your line was better). Fortunately our local meta doesnt have much ponza (yet) so haven't played against it much!

I like dropping late to dinner, it was definitely win-more and cutting it drops a lot of vulnerability

Sick list, have you considered Krark Clan Shaman for this deck? Seems helpful to have that 3rd damage a lot of times (especially vs wall combo). I'm building out a version of this rn!

almost forgot to upvote this masterpiece :,0

Yeah bro, let's GO. And this version is even more affordable to me lol, great

1:23:20 you'd rather be able to answer their combo with galv imo

In round 3, it seems like they declined the Broodscale trigger. It is a may after all, and a strange decision.

I will say you could probably afford to drop one palace sentinel to add the late to dinner back in. While it does make graveyard hate better against us we're already pretty weak to it so I don't think that's gonna be the make or break. It also allows us to pretty freely discard our clunky 4 drops to looting when they're bad and get them back once we've stabilized which I like.

In game 3 around 55:26 I think the opponent accidentally misclicked no for the broodscale trigger.

YESSSS MARDU INIT

R1G1: OUCH

So a question for the gruul eldrazi deck. Should they be running the colorless lesson cards from Strixhaven? Sounds like it would be a good use of all the additional colorless mana

Hi again. If you had only one paper copy of Goliath Paladin, what would you substitute while you were waiting for additional copies to arrive in the mail? Also no Dust to Dust, would you sub Revoke Existence, Cast into the Fire, or just use the slots for a different matchup? Is it just irreplaceable because 2-for-1 is so good in Pauper?

Why run one Terminate over another Cast Down, is it just for Guardian of the Guildpact? Does anything even regenerate in this format? Seems better to go less color-intensive, plus turn off Hydrobast. If it's just for Guardian, why not an Edict? Sorry if answered already, new to this format, this deck, and your channel

How about Gruul LD and br madness? Good or bad match?

This deck is Epic! UW Flicker 2024!

Im gonna make this deck in paper, would you say that this is the best version to build? Or are there cards that you are experimenting with a little in this version that you wouldnt recommend for a paper version that I wont be updating probably

spoilers..... rough league, half the time it felt like there were 45 lands in the deck rest of the time mully for lands... then draw all lands... way to tough it out. I like the changes looks good even didn't get the result ya wanted. ponza had the nuts 2 of 3 not much you can do without counters when they slam fatty after fatty starting on turn 2 on the play. Glad the thraben charm was finally able to show off its flexibility a bit. Flexible answers are never as efficient as more narrow ones, but i think that this one comes close. I like the oversears a lot of the time ephem to draw is just better than eating a card out of their hand, the refurbished fam was not nearly as good this league and i think the oversears were much better than them, digging seemed way better when you are facing down some of the more grindy value oriented decks in pauper.

please please please get timestamps in ur vids

2:03:56 how?

After 60 seconds of analyzing your videos mardu iniative have more views count around 100-200 view more then other deck

How do you deal with the actual combos?

Love mardu🖤❤️🤍

22 power on board turn 3 game 1 that's just rude.

I don't think you should worry much about diversity. Play whatever you think is fun. The opponents' decks add a considerable amount of variety anyway. If you feel like its too much of the same stuff, you can always swap it up a bit. Do it because you want to though, not because you think some invisible person called "the fans" want it, lol.

The algorithm may or may not care but, personally, I was disappointed when the previous wasn’t another iteration of this deck. It was still a good time, don’t get me wrong, but I find it as hard to walk away from Mardu Initiative as a viewer as you do when you’re playing it.