That full control cat oven trick blew my mind. Been having so much success with RakSac and that's another tool for the box. Always learn something new with your videos.
Great content as usual. The priority trick to sacrifice multiple foods for the same cat was amazing. This is the MtG channel where I learn techs the most.
One of the best mtg streamers. Nice voice, nice personality/humor and also a lot of insight on the game, cards and strategies. Keep up the good work and the sneaky pop culture references!
Also you missed Lethal at 55:29 the play was to: use oven on gutterbones (devil = down to 8), return cat with the food (devil = down to 7 + cat = down to 6), use lands to play priest in hand, sac priest and cat to priest (priest and devil = down to 2) use priest mana to cast oven in hand, use oven to sac priest (devil = down to 1), use food to get cat back (devil = down to 0 and lethal while cat is on the stack) ... of course anything like revitalise would have left you with and awkward board state but call the deathdweller could help you out with that 😂👌🏾
@@ToadimusPrime So what do you play now? Seems like sacdos has some interesting lines, I got bored of ramp and flash pretty quick, and most aggro decks seem repetitive as well. I do have my eye on some dimir decks atm
I've really grown to like the sacrifice decks. I do feel bad since a lot of the interactions take a little longer to resolve to to all the clicking and what-not. Plus it is a very budget list that could use some pretty old cards. I think I like the Jund versions with one of Korvold, Vraska, and citadel. I feel like with the larger creatures and more value based gameplay you don't get beat up on so easily, just my preference though. Great video as always
With some practice, I've got the cat/oven cycle down pretty quick. The key is to hit the spacebar for any confirmations required, and only use the mouse for selecting objects and targets. For cat/oven you click the oven, click the cat (on board), hit spacebar, click the cat (from your hand), click the food, hit spacebar. It gets very fluid with a little practice.
@@CanuckMonkey13 It's still slow compared to nearly any other deck is the problem. Also people that don't play paper say it's instantaneous in paper but it's still really annoying in paper.
That double cat trigger trick is absolutely FILTHY! I didnt know you can do that and now I wonder how many people will. I'm now even more terrified of sac decks now!
"Absolutely rolled...not even competitive games" Well, it seems like a pattern, 'cause that's my everyday start. Sometimes it's hard to get around the saltiness to keep trying. Damn.
Seems like some decks are just loser decks for a day, and winner decks other days. Dunno. I switch around to different decks when I get a few losses in a row and then go to stomping.
It's the power level of the format as designed by WotC. It's not fun. It feels like a chore to play the game, and until they tone down the bs, it's only going to get worse.
I have a note to make: In my RS-Deck i play 2 Leylines of the Void for several decks that play with the graveyard, such as RS or Zenith-Cycle, which normally scoop on turn 0 when they see the Leyline. Maybe a thing to discuss?
At around 31m, you say you're having a problem not having enough creatures for Priest. That's actually exactly why I like Woe Strider over some of the other options, as if you're in a bind, you can play it with a Priest on the board and immediately have ammo. And since you can cast it back from your graveyard the next turn, it's not like you are sacrificing all your Woe Strider value.
I like to run Gadarak in my Rakdos build. At least one or two, cuz sometimes it really helps with making sure you have mana to spend; especially with the cat.
Hey CGB, long teime subscriber here. Love the content you are pushing out every day! Gj on that and keep it up. Just a small pointer. It is very annoying when you out of all people complain about how long a payer takes to make a decision when your turns average out to 45 seconds or more. Especially when you play control deck. Those turns require coffee for me to watch them. xD Anyway, you'll still get a like from me!
I think the Demonic Embrace might be a little greedy in this deck. Don't forget about Whisper Squad if you're looking to fill out your curve with creatures. Plus, it's good to use the 2 mana from Priest to go get more Squad to sac next turn. Maybe Scorpion is just better though. Where'd Kroxa go?
I think the only thing that’s bad about sacrifice decks is how long it takes to resolve things, not so much anything to do with the deck itself. It’s, much in the spirit of modern jund, just incredibly fair value-based gameplay.
I'm sad that this video will get us more rakdos but oh well... Still a great vid. Is there a chance you could make an orzhov spin on this? I prefer orzhov kind of sac decks, and trying hard to make it work.
would archfiend's vessel be a good card to run in this deck if you're running call? even if it's just fodder for blocking or something i think it could expand on a thing or two
Am new to MTG can someone explain to me why the concede @ 51:43? 23 life to opponents 7..you may have been dead in the water for a little waiting for something to cast but life total gave you a decent clock, no?
CGB *CHALLENGE* Can you make a deck that comes out of left field to disrupt the tippy top S-tier meta with cards everyone else has written off? (sort of like Kethis Combo before last rotation) If you can manage to do this, I'll love you so much that it'll approach jeopardizing my current long term relationship. You will be the hero and savior we could never deserve. *YOU HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED* - Chris
Would you ever consider replacing gutterbones with Lurrus? Every minion is faster gutterbones with a Lurrus in play, and it lets you get key cards back if they remove them.
After having played this version of rakdos sac with demonic i have to admit it's much better; starting hands with 3 lands-butcher-demonic embrace and oven.. ON THE PLAY, are 99% a turn 4 victory
It floors me that I never see any of these Rakos Sacrifice decks running blood aspirant. He is perfect for that style. Every Cauldron cycle you do gives it +2/+2, it gets +1/+1's from fabled passage and has the ability to sacrifice another creature for 2 mana if you find yourself in a pinch with no oven and a claim the first born on deck. This guy gets as out of hand as an ajani's pridemate on a life gain deck.
I was just playing the IKO version of this deck a couple of hours ago and I was thinking I needed to find a M21 updated version (since I'm not clever enough to brew it myself!) Thanks for anticipating my needs CGB!
Demonic embrace isn't really an improvement - it just slows down the main strategy. You can do the 4 damage easier and it blocks precious creature slots. I like Woe Strider much more since it brings some sacrifice fodder with it and fits the main strategy perfectly.
Standard is so absolutely trash right now, it’s been trash for so long I dont think I will play it again for a long time. I enjoy the decks you put out but I gave up on playing magic until jumpstart when historic will be crazy
I'm currently playing the SAME deck, with the only difference of scorpions instead of gutterbones. The +2 / - 2 life is still a huge game maker. Anyway, diamond potential confirmed
Rankle is good but it’s relatively inefficient and honestly I don’t think it wins you the game quite quick enough. But it is a really good card still I just think it’s more suited to mono black
Might be my computer but when people touch all the cards constantly it slows down my game sometimes to the point of not being able to take actions. its really annoying
Why is it that every time they release something there is a card so good everyone plays around just that leaves the game with 2-3 decks for months Maybe next time just an artifact that costs 1 colorless and of u tap it you win the game
If you don't get Call of the Death Dweller, vessel is just kinda bad. Getting the demon just isn't reliable enough without 4 calls and Lurrus, perhaps a few in the main deck, or other reanimation.
Not the biggest rakdos sacrifice fan but nonetheless congrats on getting that diamond. Now we aim for bigger diamonds. Comment for the algorithm day 27
That full control cat oven trick blew my mind. Been having so much success with RakSac and that's another tool for the box. Always learn something new with your videos.
same for me
Where in the video was that?
Great content as usual. The priority trick to sacrifice multiple foods for the same cat was amazing. This is the MtG channel where I learn techs the most.
"Lord forgive me for what I'm about to do"
He does not forgive those who worship the (mayhem) devil!!!1111 u dy!!!!!!!!!!111!1111
One of the best mtg streamers. Nice voice, nice personality/humor and also a lot of insight on the game, cards and strategies. Keep up the good work and the sneaky pop culture references!
Also you missed Lethal at 55:29 the play was to: use oven on gutterbones (devil = down to 8), return cat with the food (devil = down to 7 + cat = down to 6), use lands to play priest in hand, sac priest and cat to priest (priest and devil = down to 2) use priest mana to cast oven in hand, use oven to sac priest (devil = down to 1), use food to get cat back (devil = down to 0 and lethal while cat is on the stack)
... of course anything like revitalise would have left you with and awkward board state but call the deathdweller could help you out with that 😂👌🏾
Not gonna lie, ever since CGB pointed out that there's people that touch every card, I can't unsee it.
LEAVE CGB's LANDS ALONE!
Pretty sure that it is bugged. Or maybe it shows the movement even when you are tabbed out or something.
@@rostigerrolf4490 I touch every card just to fuck with people. It's like flicking your cards.
That play at 39:00 is something I've never thought to do before. Well done, and duly noted.
I’ve been working for the last week to craft a rakdos sacrifice deck and here comes cgb with a new deck list. Keep up the good work.
@@ToadimusPrime So what do you play now? Seems like sacdos has some interesting lines, I got bored of ramp and flash pretty quick, and most aggro decks seem repetitive as well. I do have my eye on some dimir decks atm
I've really grown to like the sacrifice decks. I do feel bad since a lot of the interactions take a little longer to resolve to to all the clicking and what-not. Plus it is a very budget list that could use some pretty old cards. I think I like the Jund versions with one of Korvold, Vraska, and citadel. I feel like with the larger creatures and more value based gameplay you don't get beat up on so easily, just my preference though. Great video as always
With some practice, I've got the cat/oven cycle down pretty quick. The key is to hit the spacebar for any confirmations required, and only use the mouse for selecting objects and targets. For cat/oven you click the oven, click the cat (on board), hit spacebar, click the cat (from your hand), click the food, hit spacebar. It gets very fluid with a little practice.
I rock korvold and bolas due to being more explosive, vraska feels slower plus more expensive and I'm ftp
I hate the deck. I don’t like playing it, people scoop to it early, in ranked. That’s how much people hate it. I get it, I hate playing against it.
@@jasonfuqua4284 I still would prefer cat oven deck to blue white control, you know, or hand hate
@@CanuckMonkey13 It's still slow compared to nearly any other deck is the problem. Also people that don't play paper say it's instantaneous in paper but it's still really annoying in paper.
"Absolutely rolled...not even competitive games": CGB wins.
He top decked pretty well while the opponent absolutely flooded. I'm pretty sure ramp will beat this deck most games.
Pretty sure ramp deck punted that game away
Hi CGB, keep up the great work :)
Kool Kids club, report in!
Glad you didn't go with Klub, that would have been an unfortunate acronym.
Not enough creatures. That's why I use Strider. Him with the goat plus escape has saved me many times
And another sacrifice if you claim
I use kroxa and use full control to sacrefice him at instant speed. saved me many times aswell
@@olivierlingbeek6482 Yeah, I'm still running my pre-M21 build with 2x lurrus and 2x kroxa, though I haven't run into much scavenging ooze so far.
Great video Covert, love your decks and channel!!!
17:57 I did and now I have scratches all over my arm...
That double cat trigger trick is absolutely FILTHY! I didnt know you can do that and now I wonder how many people will. I'm now even more terrified of sac decks now!
CGB has convincing salesman vibes sometimes... full of confidence and a way with words
Still surprised to not see baby Chandra. She makes 2 sacrificial creatures and can recast all these instant/sorcery spells from the graveyard.
"Absolutely rolled...not even competitive games"
Well, it seems like a pattern, 'cause that's my everyday start. Sometimes it's hard to get around the saltiness to keep trying. Damn.
Seems like some decks are just loser decks for a day, and winner decks other days. Dunno. I switch around to different decks when I get a few losses in a row and then go to stomping.
It's the power level of the format as designed by WotC. It's not fun. It feels like a chore to play the game, and until they tone down the bs, it's only going to get worse.
I have a note to make:
In my RS-Deck i play 2 Leylines of the Void for several decks that play with the graveyard, such as RS or Zenith-Cycle, which normally scoop on turn 0 when they see the Leyline. Maybe a thing to discuss?
delicious updates to the deck, i'll have to work them in
At around 31m, you say you're having a problem not having enough creatures for Priest. That's actually exactly why I like Woe Strider over some of the other options, as if you're in a bind, you can play it with a Priest on the board and immediately have ammo. And since you can cast it back from your graveyard the next turn, it's not like you are sacrificing all your Woe Strider value.
That trick at 39mins! I had no idea
Innnnteresting. I swear I recall you admitting you absolutely hate this deck and cant stand playing against it... Now youre on the team.
I like to run Gadarak in my Rakdos build. At least one or two, cuz sometimes it really helps with making sure you have mana to spend; especially with the cat.
Hey CGB, long teime subscriber here. Love the content you are pushing out every day! Gj on that and keep it up. Just a small pointer. It is very annoying when you out of all people complain about how long a payer takes to make a decision when your turns average out to 45 seconds or more. Especially when you play control deck. Those turns require coffee for me to watch them. xD Anyway, you'll still get a like from me!
why is vid 59:59 and not 69:69? plz fix.
Hello for Brazil sz, I love the Rakdos Sicrifices
I love how you always show love to the CkC
Been running something similar to this for quite a while. I'll have to adjust it for sure. You know how to break stuff 🤣
I think the Demonic Embrace might be a little greedy in this deck. Don't forget about Whisper Squad if you're looking to fill out your curve with creatures. Plus, it's good to use the 2 mana from Priest to go get more Squad to sac next turn. Maybe Scorpion is just better though. Where'd Kroxa go?
Duuude I got to sleep! Why you gotta upload now? :D Love your content man!
I think the only thing that’s bad about sacrifice decks is how long it takes to resolve things, not so much anything to do with the deck itself. It’s, much in the spirit of modern jund, just incredibly fair value-based gameplay.
I'm sad that this video will get us more rakdos but oh well... Still a great vid. Is there a chance you could make an orzhov spin on this? I prefer orzhov kind of sac decks, and trying hard to make it work.
would archfiend's vessel be a good card to run in this deck if you're running call? even if it's just fodder for blocking or something i think it could expand on a thing or two
When u started talking about them touching the cards i was laughing my ass off
I'm thinking now that he's calling attention to it, people are probably doing it just to tilt others
Should I ever be matched against CGB (which I will probably not, bc he's already ranking to high) I'd definitly be touching all cards all the time
Day 8 of asking CGB to play a deck around Dream Trawler, magic Mirror, and teferi Draw more enchantment
Do you think that sacrifice decks will be viable after rotation? Havoc Jester is like mayhem devil but the extra mana cost is tough
just hit mythic with this, tnx!!!!
Am new to MTG can someone explain to me why the concede @ 51:43? 23 life to opponents 7..you may have been dead in the water for a little waiting for something to cast but life total gave you a decent clock, no?
"I guess this is a 3/3 now"
Narrator "it was not a 3/3"
What do you think about Chandra's Pyreling in this deck? It's got plenty of triggers to go off with fiend, scorpion, mayhem and butcher
Seems like the deck could use some midnight reapers, but I really like the demonic embrace touch
Normally I agree with you, but I feel woe strider is solid. Maybe 2. Plus you can escape it. I can see how it would be a hinderance though.
If you use fling on bread horde butcher is it possible to do 3 times its damage?
For the nifty cat oven trick...you have to do the damage all 3 together or 1 + 2? Can't do 3 separate ones right?
CGB *CHALLENGE*
Can you make a deck that comes out of left field to disrupt the tippy top S-tier meta with cards everyone else has written off? (sort of like Kethis Combo before last rotation)
If you can manage to do this, I'll love you so much that it'll approach jeopardizing my current long term relationship. You will be the hero and savior we could never deserve.
*YOU HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED*
- Chris
I ♥ Rakdos Sacrifice!!! 😸
I guess demonic embrace is a 2 for 1 loss card tempo vs removal/bounces.( on why not lot of people are playing it )
Would you ever consider replacing gutterbones with Lurrus? Every minion is faster gutterbones with a Lurrus in play, and it lets you get key cards back if they remove them.
Last update i did to my Rakdos Sacrifice was Bastion of Remembrance.. i think it's very good for the archetype
After having played this version of rakdos sac with demonic i have to admit it's much better; starting hands with 3 lands-butcher-demonic embrace and oven.. ON THE PLAY, are 99% a turn 4 victory
It floors me that I never see any of these Rakos Sacrifice decks running blood aspirant. He is perfect for that style. Every Cauldron cycle you do gives it +2/+2, it gets +1/+1's from fabled passage and has the ability to sacrifice another creature for 2 mana if you find yourself in a pinch with no oven and a claim the first born on deck. This guy gets as out of hand as an ajani's pridemate on a life gain deck.
I was just playing the IKO version of this deck a couple of hours ago and I was thinking I needed to find a M21 updated version (since I'm not clever enough to brew it myself!) Thanks for anticipating my needs CGB!
Good Deck.
Exactly an hour. Nice
Thanks CGB
This deck is a sultry debutante on ladder
- Chris
rakdos control with peer is very good .. try it
Demonic embrace isn't really an improvement - it just slows down the main strategy. You can do the 4 damage easier and it blocks precious creature slots. I like Woe Strider much more since it brings some sacrifice fodder with it and fits the main strategy perfectly.
@40:20 it was actaully lethal :D
Standard is so absolutely trash right now, it’s been trash for so long I dont think I will play it again for a long time. I enjoy the decks you put out but I gave up on playing magic until jumpstart when historic will be crazy
Let the nonsense begin! :)
It'sa me, it'sa CGB!
i don't have butchers and I replaced them with kroxa and crusaders. Didn't regret it
what is a mobi / moby card? What does that mean?
Try one or two Gadruk in this deck!
Thats kaalia in the demonic embrace art
CGB you are a god for making freaking Rakdefice entertaining to watch (I just don't like the colour red😂😂)
You should be playing Kurtis and take out demonic embrace to be really evil
Knight of Ebon legion not good for this deck?
Just out of curiosity why not Torbran, for the extra damage with mayhem devil?
Because devil and butcher are the only red creatures so torbran would just be kinda bad most of the times
I'm currently playing the SAME deck, with the only difference of scorpions instead of gutterbones. The +2 / - 2 life is still a huge game maker.
Anyway, diamond potential confirmed
I feel people are intentionally touching every card 1,000 times against CGB to upset the great man! #hooligans
You seem really off lately brotha, hope all is well.
Ive been playing a similar deck, but I have a 2 of Rankle, what's your opinion on this?
Rankle is good but it’s relatively inefficient and honestly I don’t think it wins you the game quite quick enough. But it is a really good card still I just think it’s more suited to mono black
I can't wait for rotation
Were you wishing that you had the woestrider in the deck rather than those Rites cards sitting in your hand
Might be my computer but when people touch all the cards constantly it slows down my game sometimes to the point of not being able to take actions. its really annoying
No lurrus?
Why is it that every time they release something there is a card so good everyone plays around just that leaves the game with 2-3 decks for months
Maybe next time just an artifact that costs 1 colorless and of u tap it you win the game
Because that's what R&D wants the format to look like.
So CGB had to pull in red to get diamond...fitting
CGB I usually root for you but i couldnt bring myself to root for a sac deck :(
Did you think about running archfiend's vessel? and if you didn't why?
If you don't get Call of the Death Dweller, vessel is just kinda bad. Getting the demon just isn't reliable enough without 4 calls and Lurrus, perhaps a few in the main deck, or other reanimation.
Maybe put gadrak in the deck? 🤔
This vid lasts 59:59. Kinda nice.
I had to drop village rites because the deck started to feel lacking in creatures. Put in woe strider and my win-rate increased.
Woe strider and mayhem devil are just a really mean tag team. maybe leave in a couple village rites and lose fiends
Cruel celebrant an idea instead of footlight fiend?
that card needs white to cast
Evening ladies 😎
IMO, dont run footlight, trim gutterbones, and put in woe strider. It is so helpful for 2 creatures for priest and also another sac outlet
at least a couple woe striders.
@@imperialtutor8687 yeah, I run 4 In all mine but 3 would be good
Rakdos, sweet.
I use a couple/3 embercleave
And where is new 5/5 demon in m21? Sacrifice can be insane with him and torbran, I think
Not the biggest rakdos sacrifice fan but nonetheless congrats on getting that diamond. Now we aim for bigger diamonds. Comment for the algorithm day 27
This deck is gonna sink after priest rotates
Can i buy old historic anologies? I wanna play a tribal deck of some sort and just dont have some cards available
Sadly the only one that you can buy is historic anthology 3
potato patch uwu that sucks so some players have a higher cardlist available than players that started playing recently
@@cro6029 yeah It does suck because there are a lot of really good cards in anthology 1 and 2. Like meddling mage, Thalia, and others.
Evil blue white control destroys this deck
Why is gutterbones a rare?
I still prefer Orzhov with the newly added Vito, but yeah
I like to call it rakdosafice
Everytime they play shrines or enchantment its tuff to deal with..