Best casual EDH content on the web. This tickles my funny bone in a whole new way. I always looked to cEDH to do broken and powerful stuff but you have shown me the light. That can also be done in casual. Holy balls. And for 40$ nonetheless! Keep these coming. I've got friends to lose!
This was a really solid change of pace, a proper deep dive into your reasoning for what why and where while still somehow keeping the same density of comedy that your shorter videos have, props ^^
Love these concise, >20 minute deck breakdowns that describe every card's role in the deck rather than just explain what the cards do. Makes things more digestible and makes it easier to figure out how to sub cards out if you want to. Also while I'm here I'll drop a request for Marchesa, the Black Rose
Man, Henzie’s so good. The intro said it all… play lands, draw a million cards, yeet your board into the abyss. My monocolor decks each do ONE of these well apiece… Krenko, Gix, and Kodama of the West Tree. Obviously Henzie is everything I want to do in the game of Magic.
Mald caught in 4k? Hell of a camera upgrade man. Thanks for putting together a budget list to work from for Henzie! Ill eventually get my list put together one of these days. Lol
Been liking your content for a while, but this takes the cake! A fun deck with some of my pet cards (Ayara and Phage cause I'm down BAD) subscribed baby!! Keep it going
There would be a place in heaven for you for making your content if it weren't so cursed. I don't feel like a massive nerd when sharing your roasts to non-magic people (the "I have no idea what I watched, but it was funny" moments). You are a great breath of fresh air in the MtG content creators community. When you run out of cards to roast, you might go for them XD.
I started my Henzie Deck with a budget of exactly 40$. Actually sitting on a 100$-120$ deck after 3 years of hard work searching for the cards all over the place.
INCREDIBLE deck tech! I adore Henzie both as a deck of my own and as a commander design, it’s so versatile and so many good cards fit in him. Personally, I like committing untold war crimes by swinging with a 5 mana Ancient Copper Dragon and then proceeding to just dump my hand :)
I'm working on building Henzie right now. I overlooked it before, but when you did you commander roast on him, I actually realized how awesome he is as a commander.
Great ideas! Kardur, Doomscourge is one of my favorite pieces in my Henzie deck, dropping in at a critical turn to make sure all the big attacks miss me and I can safely blitz away. If I get a loop going to recur him every turn, all the better.
The one card I added to the list that I think more people should consider is Anger. Despite the deck really wanting to have Henzie out it isn't always possible or fast enough and with Anger in the bin the deck actually manages to do hasty stuff without the big guy. Also Anger being 4 mana makes him rather easy to blitz out and kill!
I just bought the precon, let's see what I have to add... I'm looking for sleeves that just have a hammer or screwdriver, or some other simple tool. I fully expect to be told I'm a Tool; "that's Mr Tool, thank you very much"
I must say, I've been a fan of your short form content for quite some time. Longer form videos like this are even more wonderful! Mr. Hound, thank you for this deck tech. I will proceed to take this concept and run with it. Cementing myself as a criminal amongst my playgroup, just as Henzie and the Riveteers intended.
Well, this deck tech earned you a sub!! Absolutely hilarious and yet practical. I picked this up from the blind buy box at Walmart, did not realize how egregious it could be 😂
Excellent timing! I managed to snag a copy of the precon for cheap at a LGS and I'm putting together an upgrade list. I bought it after watching your Henzie roast so please do more content like this! Speaking of, Thalia and Gitrog roast?
Between work and kiddo, I pretty much only get to watch videos when I'm multitasking some other chore. This makes me a bad viewer who rarely likes/comments because my hands are doing other things and I'm only like 20% engaged anyway. I literally stopped washing dishes, turned off the water, dried my hands, and walked across the room to find my glasses just to write this comment to boost engagement for you. This (and the roasts, obviously) is EXACTLY the content I want ❤
Think I might pick this one up- Henzie seems like such a fun commander and I want to try him at tables that aren't just my proxy-prone self and siblings. Thanks for the list!
I know this was two months ago, but I just bought as much of this deck as my flgs had in stock. Very excited to try it this weekend and watch my friends declare me the archenemy for the rest of the day..
Gooood stuff! I've been looking at Henzie for my next Commander (even though he's a bit high up in the ranks) because he just looks like a bunch of fun. Love this formate! If I could request, I would request Ayara First of Locthwain or Syr Konrad.
You can tell when a creator knows how to build functional decks when they actually take time to upgrade the manabase and acceleration/fixing of the precon Henzie is one of those decks that feels like it could use 15+ extra slots for all the random stuff I want to jam into it. To throw my hat into the ring with other commenters (read: justify my own madness), here are some things I've been considering for my own list -Tree of Perdition -Homura, Human Ascendant -Chaos Defiler -Summoner's Egg -Drivnod, Carnage Dominus -Mimic Vat -Braids, Arisen Nightmare -Ruthless Technomancer -Chainer, Nightmare Adept -Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire -Kodama of the East Tree -Rakshasa Debaser -Ruin Grinder -Body Snatcher -Emergent Woodwurm -Morbid Opportunist -Jaxis, the Troublemaker -Delina, Wild Mage -Mortuary There's also the elephant in the room that is Birthing Pod, but I find that adding it to a deck just makes me want to warp it into a dedicated Pod deck. Also worth noting that you might want to be careful about "spin to win" mechanics like Gamekeeper and Doors of Durin if you're running Phage... unless you enjoy living dangerously
Nice list man. Roast Alaundo next. Just made a list of the man that is effectively Storm Solitaire for about 120 dollars with all the untap effects under the sun including like 18 or 19 free rolls (cards that are 1 mana that untap). And that is the type of shenanigan I think your sense of humor will thrive with.
Phenomenal, love this commander and love what you have done with him, but I will recommend drivnod, carnage dominous. he will double all effects that trigger upon death (including blitz card draw)
Pretty cool concept. I personally am working on a Tor Wauki the Younger deck right now, though it is cool see other deck techs for inspiration. As always your content is informative and pithy.
I'm not sure gorex works that way. I could be wrong but I believe that discounts on cards don't change the actual cost of the card. While I believe you can still exile cards since its an additional cost the actual cost that is looked at is the 2B6C so even though it's "discounted" it'll still cost 8 to blitz unless Henzie has died.
Day 1 of asking for the only two commanders that made my opponents unreasonably angry, Norin the Wary chaos and Jhoira of the Ghitu "Cute mana cost, I ain't paying it".
I love this deck so much, but my local pod frequently features the Ur-Dragon, a massive Reyhan+Rohgrak +1/+1 counters, and the new Tyranid deck which are so massive.
Some more pieces that I think are interesting for us and not too expensive (no particular order): _Brass' Tunnel Grinder_ (Card selection, ramp AND discover X - even if we don't discard, we can still reliably charge this) _Gyre Sage_ (Doesn't work right out of the box, but can become a source of big mana) _Bringer of the Last Gift_ (Living Death on a stick) _Deadly Brew_ (Not the greatest removal in the world, but nice value bc it includes recursion for us) _Doom Weaver_ (More of a late game card, but can potentially draw one million cards) _Mask of Griselbrand_ (Really not sure about this, but it might fit?) _Underworld Sentinel_ (Candidate for the you-might-want-to-hard-cast-this list, but also does a solid job if blitzed) _Surrak and Goreclaw_ and/or _Chainer, Nightmare Adept_ (In case you're running mass recursion, these will give your board haste - among other benefits) _Hellkite Tyrant_ (By the time you're blitzing this you can almost always grab one or two mana rocks OR make the Daretti player go cry in a corner)
When New Capenna came out my friends and I all grabbed a different commander pre-con and I fell in love with Henzie immediately. Unfortunately my tweaked version has never worked as well as the precon did during that first game so I'm looking forward to seeing if your tips get some of that old magic back for me. Do you think 33 lands is really enough with how top heavy the curve is?
Remember, he said the Zendikar MDFCs will come in as tapped lands in most games, which brings the count up to 35. Combine that with the ramp pieces, including the Treasure token generating card, and it should run much smoother than you expect.
Shout out to my homies, The Tarrasque, Shard of the Night Bringer, Warstorm Surge, Helm of Awaking, and Goblin Arcanomancer for being the GOATS in my Henzie deck.
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Hey Mald, great work! Quick Question: what would you take out of the deck to include the more expensive cards?
YESSSSSS I NEEDED MORE MH, Thank you for this longer form content!!
I too would like to know what you would take out to put in the upgraded cards.. could u provide a full upgraded deck list?
I don't see them lmao
Hey Can you reply what you would change, or maybe do an updated upgraded decklist ?
"More unnecessary sacrifices than WWI."
Perfect. I'm stealing that one.
Glad to be of service 🫡
@@maldhoundI may or may not be an aristocrats main.
@@ryanstewart2289he's a proletariat-not main
My favorite thing about Ayara is that if you sacrifice the zomboi before it's exiled, she can just keep bringing it back.
But how on earth would this deck manage to sacrifice something?
@@maldhound the best this control deck has for that is ‘Make Disappear’ at most and least for casualty
Best casual EDH content on the web. This tickles my funny bone in a whole new way. I always looked to cEDH to do broken and powerful stuff but you have shown me the light. That can also be done in casual. Holy balls. And for 40$ nonetheless! Keep these coming. I've got friends to lose!
Thank you so much!
We asked for a full deck and this man delivered
Did my best 🙏
Keep this series alive, we stan shitposting and education in the same vid. It's a peanut butter cup for your brain!
This was a really solid change of pace, a proper deep dive into your reasoning for what why and where while still somehow keeping the same density of comedy that your shorter videos have, props ^^
Literally the best MTG content creator in the game right now.
Love these concise, >20 minute deck breakdowns that describe every card's role in the deck rather than just explain what the cards do. Makes things more digestible and makes it easier to figure out how to sub cards out if you want to. Also while I'm here I'll drop a request for Marchesa, the Black Rose
Man, Henzie’s so good. The intro said it all… play lands, draw a million cards, yeet your board into the abyss.
My monocolor decks each do ONE of these well apiece… Krenko, Gix, and Kodama of the West Tree. Obviously Henzie is everything I want to do in the game of Magic.
This is the funniest deck tech I have ever seen! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much!
I have to come agree and say I enjoyed this immensely.
I seriously learn so much about the game every single maldhound video I watch
Mald caught in 4k? Hell of a camera upgrade man. Thanks for putting together a budget list to work from for Henzie! Ill eventually get my list put together one of these days. Lol
Yes, Gorex! You know what you're doing.
Been liking your content for a while, but this takes the cake! A fun deck with some of my pet cards (Ayara and Phage cause I'm down BAD) subscribed baby!! Keep it going
this deck is incredibly my jam, thank you so much. the "You deserve this Paul" is an nice touch i'd have never have thought of
There would be a place in heaven for you for making your content if it weren't so cursed.
I don't feel like a massive nerd when sharing your roasts to non-magic people (the "I have no idea what I watched, but it was funny" moments).
You are a great breath of fresh air in the MtG content creators community. When you run out of cards to roast, you might go for them XD.
i definitely want to see more videos on commander decks just like this
I started my Henzie Deck with a budget of exactly 40$.
Actually sitting on a 100$-120$ deck after 3 years of hard work searching for the cards all over the place.
Oh my god. Has it *actually* been 3 YEARS since Henzie came out???
Plz post your list?
@@jemm113No New Capenna came out April ‘22, idk where this three years is coming from
I really like the deck building breakdown, having the "it do what it do" labels is extremely helpful.
I would love to see more deck techs from you, your delivery is always perfect, had me smiling throughout. Keep up the good work
Thank you for the support! They will be continuing at least for a while
This video is is going to send me down the dark path of Toolboxing my group, thank you
The Etali funeral-casket line SENT ME
INCREDIBLE deck tech! I adore Henzie both as a deck of my own and as a commander design, it’s so versatile and so many good cards fit in him. Personally, I like committing untold war crimes by swinging with a 5 mana Ancient Copper Dragon and then proceeding to just dump my hand :)
Love watching any Henzie videos. That card single handedly ended my 7 year magic hiatus.
I'm working on building Henzie right now. I overlooked it before, but when you did you commander roast on him, I actually realized how awesome he is as a commander.
I love the subcategory title in the upgrades section "You deserve this Paul"
I loved Henzie as a concept, might build this one! Thanks for the tech deck, loved the format :D!
Great ideas! Kardur, Doomscourge is one of my favorite pieces in my Henzie deck, dropping in at a critical turn to make sure all the big attacks miss me and I can safely blitz away. If I get a loop going to recur him every turn, all the better.
The one card I added to the list that I think more people should consider is Anger. Despite the deck really wanting to have Henzie out it isn't always possible or fast enough and with Anger in the bin the deck actually manages to do hasty stuff without the big guy. Also Anger being 4 mana makes him rather easy to blitz out and kill!
Your Henzie video made me want to get their precon to try it, but this is better!
This is the first deck tech that made me 100% on board with getting this deck for myself some day
I just bought the precon, let's see what I have to add... I'm looking for sleeves that just have a hammer or screwdriver, or some other simple tool. I fully expect to be told I'm a Tool; "that's Mr Tool, thank you very much"
I'm not gonna lie you sold me on this deck. You described the contents of the deck like a used car salesman and I love it.
Full length video! WHOO!
More to come!
Omg. This was beautiful. I put my first iteration of this together from your Tiktok response. Can't wait to commit all the felonies!
seeing kogla in any deck makes my brain do the dopamine
i love that card
I must say, I've been a fan of your short form content for quite some time. Longer form videos like this are even more wonderful! Mr. Hound, thank you for this deck tech. I will proceed to take this concept and run with it. Cementing myself as a criminal amongst my playgroup, just as Henzie and the Riveteers intended.
Well, this deck tech earned you a sub!! Absolutely hilarious and yet practical. I picked this up from the blind buy box at Walmart, did not realize how egregious it could be 😂
Excellent timing! I managed to snag a copy of the precon for cheap at a LGS and I'm putting together an upgrade list. I bought it after watching your Henzie roast so please do more content like this!
Speaking of, Thalia and Gitrog roast?
I’d highly recommend that legendary gruul tyranid as blitz support, it’s a silly card that is totally fun for everyone involved
This feels like it has so much interaction for different types of shenanigans, both mechanical and social. Thanks for concocting/showing me this!
Between work and kiddo, I pretty much only get to watch videos when I'm multitasking some other chore. This makes me a bad viewer who rarely likes/comments because my hands are doing other things and I'm only like 20% engaged anyway. I literally stopped washing dishes, turned off the water, dried my hands, and walked across the room to find my glasses just to write this comment to boost engagement for you.
This (and the roasts, obviously) is EXACTLY the content I want ❤
Thank you so much! I’m really glad that this is hitting the mark for you
Think I might pick this one up- Henzie seems like such a fun commander and I want to try him at tables that aren't just my proxy-prone self and siblings. Thanks for the list!
Perfect video. For me, this fills the void that Magic the Noah left (since he stopped releasing MtG content).
A massive compliment, thank you!
Always watching my sub list for one of your new vids, never dissapointed!
I know this was two months ago, but I just bought as much of this deck as my flgs had in stock. Very excited to try it this weekend and watch my friends declare me the archenemy for the rest of the day..
I just built a Toolbox deck. Now I can enhance it with a budget. Thanks, Mald!
This is awesome. You're awesome, and beautiful, and you have such a big brain. Keep making these videos!
Thank you so much!
"Make sure to stay toxic." - Magic since 1996
Loved the vid, this is a series i would like to see continue
Thank you! I will begin work on the next
I found a funny synergy with "Tree of Perdition" in which you can instantly set an opponent's life total to 13 with no chance to block.
This is pretty close to the hebzie deck I'm currently working on. Good to know I'm not completely wrong.
I loved this, you're comedy is great and I love your thoughts on commander as a game. I would love to see a decklist for Obeka!!
Love this deck guide. Gonna work on building it this week.
That is the one Jund Deck to end all friendships 😂
Love the longer form videos! Keep it up!
This deck looks like a lot of fun.
Banger, I'm gonna build this for sure.
Gooood stuff! I've been looking at Henzie for my next Commander (even though he's a bit high up in the ranks) because he just looks like a bunch of fun. Love this formate! If I could request, I would request Ayara First of Locthwain or Syr Konrad.
Love the deck techs
Our man came through 🙏🙏🙏 can’t wait to play my last game with my group!
oh, we need more of these
Any deck that can play Phage is a good deck. And Paul always deserves it.
We need to see a beautiful Izzet list from you!
This looks brutal.
Thank you Sir
You can tell when a creator knows how to build functional decks when they actually take time to upgrade the manabase and acceleration/fixing of the precon
Henzie is one of those decks that feels like it could use 15+ extra slots for all the random stuff I want to jam into it. To throw my hat into the ring with other commenters (read: justify my own madness), here are some things I've been considering for my own list
-Tree of Perdition
-Homura, Human Ascendant
-Chaos Defiler
-Summoner's Egg
-Drivnod, Carnage Dominus
-Mimic Vat
-Braids, Arisen Nightmare
-Ruthless Technomancer
-Chainer, Nightmare Adept
-Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire
-Kodama of the East Tree
-Rakshasa Debaser
-Ruin Grinder
-Body Snatcher
-Emergent Woodwurm
-Morbid Opportunist
-Jaxis, the Troublemaker
-Delina, Wild Mage
-Mortuary
There's also the elephant in the room that is Birthing Pod, but I find that adding it to a deck just makes me want to warp it into a dedicated Pod deck. Also worth noting that you might want to be careful about "spin to win" mechanics like Gamekeeper and Doors of Durin if you're running Phage... unless you enjoy living dangerously
Nice list man. Roast Alaundo next. Just made a list of the man that is effectively Storm Solitaire for about 120 dollars with all the untap effects under the sun including like 18 or 19 free rolls (cards that are 1 mana that untap). And that is the type of shenanigan I think your sense of humor will thrive with.
Yeah, this was great. Thank you.
Neat list, and affordable is a plus. I'd love to see your Niv Glizzy deck.
Phenomenal, love this commander and love what you have done with him, but I will recommend drivnod, carnage dominous. he will double all effects that trigger upon death (including blitz card draw)
Yes drivnod is great! I should update the upgrades list with him, but he is too pricy for the base one
@@maldhound fair enough, I run him in my toolbox deck and he is always a target for removal due to the fact I like to hardcast him
Pretty cool concept. I personally am working on a Tor Wauki the Younger deck right now, though it is cool see other deck techs for inspiration. As always your content is informative and pithy.
I'm not sure gorex works that way. I could be wrong but I believe that discounts on cards don't change the actual cost of the card. While I believe you can still exile cards since its an additional cost the actual cost that is looked at is the 2B6C so even though it's "discounted" it'll still cost 8 to blitz unless Henzie has died.
Day 1 of asking for the only two commanders that made my opponents unreasonably angry, Norin the Wary chaos and Jhoira of the Ghitu "Cute mana cost, I ain't paying it".
I love this deck so much, but my local pod frequently features the Ur-Dragon, a massive Reyhan+Rohgrak +1/+1 counters, and the new Tyranid deck which are so massive.
Love the deck prob gonna be my next build. Quick question though what would you take out to replace with the upgrades
Just watched you play this on Shuffle Up and Play. Looked like fun.
Some more pieces that I think are interesting for us and not too expensive (no particular order):
_Brass' Tunnel Grinder_ (Card selection, ramp AND discover X - even if we don't discard, we can still reliably charge this)
_Gyre Sage_ (Doesn't work right out of the box, but can become a source of big mana)
_Bringer of the Last Gift_ (Living Death on a stick)
_Deadly Brew_ (Not the greatest removal in the world, but nice value bc it includes recursion for us)
_Doom Weaver_ (More of a late game card, but can potentially draw one million cards)
_Mask of Griselbrand_ (Really not sure about this, but it might fit?)
_Underworld Sentinel_ (Candidate for the you-might-want-to-hard-cast-this list, but also does a solid job if blitzed)
_Surrak and Goreclaw_ and/or _Chainer, Nightmare Adept_ (In case you're running mass recursion, these will give your board haste - among other benefits)
_Hellkite Tyrant_ (By the time you're blitzing this you can almost always grab one or two mana rocks OR make the Daretti player go cry in a corner)
Henzie is the deck that got me into magic and life insurance scam is too accurate lmfao
these deck tech videos are great! keep it up
More deck techs, this was lit
another fun card in here would be Massacre Girl. deletes tokens, and any other creatures if it has tokens to hit.
Rakdos charm. Also im really excited ive wanted to build him for a while there's a few things i didn't know about in your list
Rakdos charm was one of the last cuts actually, can’t remember what I cut it for
Dam bro you channela growing bigger and bigger
Great stuff!
LETS GOOOOOOO HE DID IT
You’ve absolutely convinced me to buy this and be as toxic as possible. I look forward to losing my friends and roommates.
Would literally kill for a Hord of Notions deck. He’s my pet card and I love him. Plus we are going back to Lorwyn so why not?
Your thumbnail is the stuff of nightmares
Great Video!
This was dope!
Thank you!
When New Capenna came out my friends and I all grabbed a different commander pre-con and I fell in love with Henzie immediately. Unfortunately my tweaked version has never worked as well as the precon did during that first game so I'm looking forward to seeing if your tips get some of that old magic back for me. Do you think 33 lands is really enough with how top heavy the curve is?
Remember, he said the Zendikar MDFCs will come in as tapped lands in most games, which brings the count up to 35. Combine that with the ramp pieces, including the Treasure token generating card, and it should run much smoother than you expect.
Great video thamks mald
love the deck!
I am here to report that Gorex, The Tombshell is absolutely broken in this deck.
You now have a devout Gorex follower in me, Maldhound 🤣
Love the video, can you cover Galazeth Prismari next?!
Made me actually wanna make this deck
Shout out to my homies, The Tarrasque, Shard of the Night Bringer, Warstorm Surge, Helm of Awaking, and Goblin Arcanomancer for being the GOATS in my Henzie deck.
"you deserve this Paul"
Graze pact might be a good one for an upgrade carde as well.