This is a Idea for a super fun and very competitive standard deck. There is a very few zombie pod decks out there and even less played to there best. I feel with the right skilled person playing this kind of deck it can give anyone a run for their money in standard! I just went 4-0 with 3 2-0 games at FMN with this deck. I will try to explain all the in's and out's of this beast. If you can think of something as well let me know in the comments! The write up might take a day or so, there really is soooo many tricks and answers to this bad boy!

I'm going to start by diving into the thick of it.

Birthing Pod - With Gravecrawler and Messengers, This card is flat out insane. Getting huge cards out and buffing your own messenger While getting out a Phyrexian Obliterator is just plain nasty. Not to mention Blood artist Giving you life for doing so and pinging them each time.

Blood Artist - This is in most all zombie decks now. For great reason. Even more so in birthing pod. If I have any zombie out plus a gravecrawler I will pod out Falkenrath Aristocrat for a one cost for one damage sac engine. It's a really nice win condition. This also makes them take 3 instead of 2 from messenger deaths.

Diregraf Ghoul - DAT ONE DROP AGRO. Helps gravecrawler early game as well.

Falkenrath Aristocrat - Blocks flyers, Wins if they have no flyers with haste. great sac engines out there. Really easy to pod out.

Fume Spitter - This guys only job(and he does it better then anyone else I know!) Is to get that pesky undying counter off Messenger, so he can do it again. Also great blocker.

Geralf's Messenger - I pretty much only use birthing pod on this guy. He takes it like a baus and comes back for more, as well as getting two damage in while doing it. He farms out Aristocrat and Obliterator.

Go for the Throat - one of the best removals for black right now. BUT ONLY ONE YOU SAY?? Hell yeah only one! WHY YOU ASK? WELL..

Tragic slip - That's why. You are killing yourself and your enemy so much that morbid is up more turns then not for this card to be one of the best things to draw when you see someone getting to big.

Gravecrawler - Best card for zombies. Needed always. BUT I never really Birthing Pod him. I have never had Birthing Pod out and not had a two drop on the field that I didn't mind tossing to get a Messenger. Messenger is just way to good to not pod out every time you can. BUT Gravecrawler is AMAZING early game agro that just doesn't go away. And with Blood Artist out I really don't care if they die or not. And winning by just tossing them into Falkenrath Aristocrat happens way more then you would think.

Highborn Ghoul - I get flack for this guy but I will defend him any chance I get. For a two drop He gets in and does the damage I want, then gets podded out into a messenger. I have killed off soo many planeswalkers with this guy. He fits the agro theme so well. I always swing with him once or twice before tossing him out to get messengers out. Great early game damage that is hard to deal with.

Killing wave - For pesky token decks. Also a great win condition even if they don't have a board. BUT WAIT YOU SAY? IT ONLY WORKS IF THEY HAVE A BOARD NUBBB LULUL. Lets get crazy. You attack and hit them for some and they block some with your super awesome agro. You get them right next to death but not fully too it. you have a BLOOD ARTIST in play. After attacking and on phase 2 you only need 2 mana to do what you want, kill your whole board. That's right! YOU choose the order in which each dies. Kill off all of your other creatures and blood artist last to let it do all the damage before it goes out for each one you kill. It may be a silly win condition, but it works so well and again, more often then you think.

Phyrexian Metamorph - Copying messenger always first. The way it works is you can copy messenger, it gets undying and deals 2 like normal. BUT when it comes back into play from Undying, it gets +1/+1 and you copy anything else on the field. You like something they have out? Why not get a upgraded version of it for yourself =D

Phyrexian Obliterator - Messenger Pods into this, you keep Messenger you get something that DESTROYS EVERYTHING.

SIDEBOARD

Geth's Verdict - For all the silly silly heatproof in the meta right now.

Manic Vandal - I heard you like buying 35 dollar swords so my uncommon can kill them lawl.

Skinrender - Placeholder, but not just so, he's a great card on his own merit, Play against Indestructible.

Zealous Conscripts - When you know they put alot of eggs in one basket, take that basket and toss it and all those eggs into their face.