Personally I think disfigure is better in this meta. Yeah some things it doesn't hit, but the -2 power can make a difference against mono red. Also catches people that don't know indestructible doesn't save them from that.
@jacobesplin9301 I'm only in diamond, but playing a home brew grixis control based around forge and dross, with proliferate spells, and I rarely come across mono red. When I do though, disfigure has always helped me win more than I believe cut down could. Just because mono red can buff past cut down easier than disfigure.
i love the clock. please keep adding it -- it like lets the viewers know that they're about to watch an aggro game only and to not take the results of the other games too seriously. also, the banter every time the opponent drops a turn 1 mountain is freakin hiliarious
Eh, it's pretty stale at this point. Mono red is cheap, relatively easy to pilot and it plays fast. For someone who doesn't play endless hours of MTGA every day those can be pretty high priority things. If you want a consistent deck that will win games and doesn't completely die off on rotation, you just update your mono red every new expansion with handful of cards without breaking the bank. It's also enemy of content creation usually because it either wins fast or loses fast and thus makes for boring content outside videos like this dedicated to hating going out of your way to counter it. Most of all shits on slow overly complicated showboat decks that are more about masturbating over their solitaire combo kills and value engines than actually winning the game.
@@EggsAreGood55 Seriously. If a person can't enjoy MTG without playing braindead mono red for fast wins, why even play the game at all? That being said, I agree that watching combo decks spend 5 minutes a turn triggering things gets just as annoying. However, between those two extremes, there are countless deck variations to try out and have fun with. Those are what I enjoy playing with and against.
Black has crept too far into the other color pies. Lifegain with no drawback, sweepers, big creatures. That along with too much efficient removal and cheap discard. Black is really the only color you need, which is unfortunate. Used to be that black would give you powerful spells, but at a cost. Now wizards is saying, here, have everything! 😂
@@bittermin3148 Black has always had access to those things in their colour pie. Lifegain, sweepers and big creatures, black is no stranger to these type of cards. Regarding creep, if anything since the start of magic black is the colour pie that have shrunk the most (for example red took rituals away from black), where as the other colours keep expanding their repertoire. For example, both White and Red now get card draw regularly. During current FIRE design, i would say black has remained the fairest colour. The other colours have gotten ways to cheat on mana/cast things for free, take multiple extra turns, play spells worth 15+ mana on turn 4, etc. Black has done none of those things. Current design philosophy in standard only supports midrange archetypes for (mono)black, most other archetypes are neutered because blacks mechanics are considered to be unfun to play against, so what they are left with are decent creatures, good removal and some subpar discard spells. When was the last time you saw an effect like Smallpox, Bottomless Pit, Plague Spitter or Descent into Madness in standard? A decade?
@@qubingjianshen8210reanimation of big expensive stuff had been by far the most popular way to cheat stuff into play in standard in recent years. Heck, half the black decks play virtue of persistence which reanimates something every turn, bundled with a 2 mana removal spell that bypasses indestructible AND gains you life, all on the same card. Monoblack is anything my but fair, and there is a reason why the monocolors that dominate the meta are red and black.
Don't worry diamond is the same, play mill -> get smashed by aggro Add cheap instant removal -> play against domain, artifact shenanigans and graveyard combos you can't touch😂😂
I just crafted the deck. Before I played about 1-3 games against mono Red. Now after crafting I haven't seen mono Red in 10+ games. Now it's mostly mono black or dimir
It's a beautiful thing when you make a deck to hunt for mono red/aggro and it actually works. When I do this I end up facing mostly control and discard decks.
Holy crap. I've watched almost 2000 CGB videos, and this may be my favorite of all time - and it wasn't even UW. I might watch that rant again, because I am down with that mission statement.
screw the matchmaker lol I literally played 12 monored decks in a row and got annoyed so I switched to this deck. 5 games straight now against control no monored in sight😅
Thanks for the great outro today. I actually do the dishes while watching your daily vids. It’s the one hour a day I get all to myself while the family does other things. Your content has made me a better Magic player and it’s pretty much always entertaining! You’re cool too!
God I loved watching that! Mono Red Stomping. It may be ultra weak to control and maybe some combo decks but it stomps mono Red so well. I almost feel like I just watched some ASMR video.
Hands down the best video you’ve ever made. Thank you for letting me partake in your conquest for a little while and enjoy the second hand misery. You’re cool, CGB
PSA: DISFIGURE is a MUCH BETTER CUT DOWN vs Mono Red! Since it often kills the buffed Bird and makes the Mouse and Cacophony do 0 damage on death! And it is still a combat trick against midrange piles where Cut Down would be a dead card, so it is a replace 4 for me!🎉🎉🎉
Yeah. The only creatures that Disfigure can't kill but Cut Down can are 1/3 and 2/3 - and those aren't really that prevalent in the current meta. In every other case Disfigure is equivalent or better than Cut Down as a removal, while also doubling up as a combat trick.
Plus, disfigure still lowers the power of any creature they manage to buff, fling and explode for triple damage, effectively preventing up to 6 damage from such sources. Could be the difference where cut down can be countered by big enough buffs.
OMG your ending commentary was the best. You took acting as an undergrad right? You probably have more views per week than a C tier sitcom on a cable channel. CGB always enduring through the pain for us.
Best CGB video in a while! Salt and all! Farming mono red w/ mono black removal does 2 things really well, ranks you up due to a ridiculous amount of mono red players(80% of the meta), also, if the mono red players start loosing more often due to people(me and you) playing more mono black removal, they will be forced to try other decks if they want to increase their ranking, thus thinning the mono red decks we see everyday.
I built this exact deck and tested it against several mono red decks. It wins most of the time. also, until I watched this video, I did not notice that mono red aggro relies havily on its own creates and therefore sacrifices removal. Good stuff.
i love running into this deck with my mostly red/green deck. they always wait till my beast is high atk then try to kill it. but boom royal treatment hexproof and they quit. i just smile and wave. the odd part is they never take it with the bat but always go for a buff card or monster.
I started running this deck yesterday and I am absolutely tearing through the ladder. Anything other than aggro is basically a scoop (I’m maybe 1-4 against Caretaker’s Talent), but you see that so little by comparison that it really doesn’t matter.
I kinda understand the rant in the end, even as a red player. MTG Arena match making can be frustrating. My favorite decks are janky midrange / combo doing big things in few turns and I absolutely hate Mono Blue or UW Control decks that do nothing for 5 minutes except countering your cool spells. And once I decide to play more aggro to combat them, I only play against monored. I probably gonna queue up this deck on the ladder to play against only decks with no creatures.
This video has singlehandedly brought about the most annoying two weeks I've ever experienced in MTGA, (WHICH I'M NOT BLAMING ON CGB, just on people who see a deck do well and run to mimic it). I'm not even playing Mono-Red, I'm mostly playing UG Frogs, WG Rabbits or RG Dinos. Now it seems like every game I've played in the last half month has been either mono-red/boros mice or monoblack discard/removal, and I'm just so done with it.
“They got their carrot” is a dire misunderstanding of humans. Asking why Mythic players still want to rank is like asking why rich people still want money. You can always dream of having more.
CGB, since I haven't seen this deck on the channel since rotation, I'd like to see a video on Fae Blade. It has an extremely strong matchup against mono-red by attacking both their hand and creatures aggressively(and having a 1-mana 2/2 flier to block). But also isn't just completely dead to the rest of the field. In fact it's pretty good against most things. And I don't think I've seen you use Rottenmouth Viper yet.
Whats your aversion to disfigure as a replacement for cut down? I mean the obvious reasoning with the fling decks around is it kills heartfire / scamp without taking damage, and even if the have a pump spell to get out of range it saves you 2-4 life instead of fizzling. But less obvious, the venn diagram of what cut down and disfigure hit isn't too dissimilar. Pretty much only whiffs on kitesail larcenist / valley questcaller (only popular 2/3's). And there's a handful of very minor played cards that one can hit (aftermath analyst, darkstar augur, duelist of the mind, gwenna, loamspeaker, metropolis reformer, pia nalaar, samut, skystrike officer, zur) and the other can't (hollow marauder, outcaster trailblazer, aurelia's vindicator) pretty rare to see any of those so there's really very little difference in targets. Heck the fact you can buy yourself a turn from a 7/1 forge token matters more
Gix's Command killing smalls, except for your bat because you put counters on it, always felt so damn good. Fun to see it happening at mythic instead of in whatever jank I put together to get to platinum and then get bored and make something else.
Think I might just give this a try. I wanna compare it to the Abzaan Control list you put out awhile ago. When BloomBurrow dropped, I had to modify it a little bit. I put in 4 tear asunder. And took out some land. I think it was at 24 or 25. I find, this is just my experience with arena, its to much land. 22 is honestly what I like, Arena is gonna screw you either way so I like to play the odds more and have less Land. I believe the deck already had two Tear Asunders in it. so I only took out 2 land. Plays alot better and kept it competitive. This build seems so similar. Gonna make some notes after I play this. Thank you for all hard work on these! Cant state enough how much I have learned from you sir!!
My room mate said it best: "I just play mono red and if I don't win by turn 4 I concede" Over an hour, it really does grind out more wins to always win or lose on turn 4 while literally not reading a single word on any card.
I recommend that if you craft this deck, just play in the play queue and enjoy the mono red games. I crafted, decided to play in the regular ranked queue. Played mono red 2 of 10 games, of those 1 they were on the play with a turn 3 kill. The others I was farmed horribly by tokens and control. When I then played 11 games in the play queue, it was super fun and just Turn 1 conceded on the control decks.
I love midrange decks, unfortunately, monored seems to always be the cheaper alternative for those of us that don't have a lot of resources/time to devote to arena :( still thoroughly enjoy these monored stomping videos. Keep them coming!
I don't play a ton, I just watch videos and see cards I would like to play, only get 2 to start typically, and do the challenges a couple times a week. From the random rare and mythic pulls from packs, I try and make decks. It's totally possible if you are smart about crafting cards and over time, you get a nice standard collection. I also invest in a rare land every few wildcards, which honestly are the best cards if you want to win.
I played a similar deck but with edicts over Savor as well as Ruthless Negotiation instead of Gumdrop poisoner (anted better match-up vs control), out of a dozen games I played vs mono-red once! Just once!
28:30 I am able to tell if am on the play or not by looking at the color of the icons on the bottom right. If they're blue it means the opponent is on the play, if its orange it means you are on the play.
I am trying this deck but I actually fit in two of the new black glimmer card, enduring tenacity. It gives me an out into grindier decks that I am really enjoying :p This deck rocks!
The little intro segment really hits for me, counter and/or kill their 1/2 drop and all of a sudden the light goes out of their eyes half the time, I honestly want to play more cards lol Tbf, sometimes *I* dont have it then I cry, but such is life
We're talking about a group that goes into the tank on the question of "do I cast this spell that wins the game when OP is tapped out and can't respond?" They play it because they can and it boosts their ego to steal wins. Even if they weren't getting to high ranks, they'd still play it because other decks are hard. And don't give me that "I don't have time to pay anything else and get my daily wins" line. If it's such a chore to play magic and you're stuck in a loop of "must play mono red to finish dailies, so Ican keep playing mono red, so I can finish dailies, ad nauseum," why are you playing if it's not the hard PP?
It's the cheapest meta deck to build As an F2P player that started last month I could not build this monoblack deck with the wildcards I have (though far closer than any other top deck on untapped!)
Also for the record I'm all in favor for less RDW, it's a problem I don't see an answer for considering the amount of rares in good decks (particularly manabases)
@@taxman4889 bruh, I've never played monored even in the beginning. You don't need a "meta deck" - just be creative, look through the cards, watch all sorts of videos, find out what you like, purchase key cards you enjoy and will put in multiple decks, invest in the rare lands (prob the best investment - eg. every few rares invest in a rare land for a colour pair you like), it's not hard and you can start having fun now rather than mindlessly grind cheap aggro
There's only one time I've ever played aggro. Back in OG Innistrad Standard when Thragtusk and Angel of Serenity were common terrors, my budget ass played something that swung fast enough to both ignore the lifegain and outpace the 5/3 (as an enchantment kept it from blocking), as well as win the game before the Angel hit and wiped my board. And it still wasn't red.
Great video! It's egregious seeing so much "mono red" being played today, Wizards clearly doesn't have an applicable plan for the future of "standard." Like you said with the average time in BO1 standard, it's less than 4 minutes. I personally understand why the power creep in MTG is so high & why the financial evolution of Wizards has occurred. However i genuinely miss going to a store & having a 10+ minute match with a friend or random, actually utilizing my brain trying to find complex ways using "Mid range' styles cards. Now it seems the state of standard is one bad set away from dying. It's all subjective on what you'd prefer to play, but i truly think a majority of the community wishes standard was different rather than play a 3 minute braindead match...I understand my opinion doesn't really matter, i'm yapping away haha I just wish the "meta" wouldn't be 4 deck heavy of "aggro." In the past for example...the 2013 pro tour, an average match was around 14+ minutes, due to it being a majority of "mid range" & "control."
I made a deck like this back in the day, except with duress, massacre wurm, phyrexian obliterator, and black sun's zenith -- played against a lot of aggro for some reason lol
With the decks I really like playing I play about ever 1-3 games against mono Red which I always lose. Now I crafted this deck and it's a blast against mono Red because in the last 10+ games with this deckI haven't seen mono Red at all
After resolving myself of the grief/shame after crafting Gumdrop Poisoners, just to get immediately paired against Abzan Midrange(No, not Abzan Control. This was "Deep-Cavern Bat reveals Beza/Eternal Wanderer/Pawpatch Formation" midrange), I thoroughly enjoyed the games against monored that involved turn 1 Cut Down. Also, I'm personally putting R/W Tokens into the "auto-scoop" pile with U/W control. Not unwinnable, but not worth my time.
I think the main reason people play Mono Red at the highest levels is that it's very fast games. It's either a quick win or a quick loss and it's a good chance of win. If you're that dedicated, you are probably going for your 15 wins every day
I'm sure you would see the meta change in the rewards system functioned differently. Right now, it rewards fast wins and scooping if it doesn't look like a guaranteed win early so you don't waste time.
I remember a lot of players were turned down by simple monored players during arena release. And wizards, for player retention, rigged matchmaker to pair monored with decks, that can deal with monored)
Build a mainly white deck where the whole purpose is to put everything the opponent has in exile. I have a mono white one, works pretty good. Great against red decks, i have 8 one mana exile creature card spells in it, among other exile effects. would love to see your take on it.
I think red is my second favorite mono color after green, but it's only fun as an occasional treat that catches the opponent off guard, not a cookie cutter deck than plays out the exact same every single time. Also mono red without any burn spells is sacrilege.
Against aggro mono red I have a mono black " hand removal" plus a couple of "creature removal" spells. Generally turn 3 no more relèvent spells in their hands and then they scoop the game XD.
I made a deck of nothing but cheap 1-2 mana kill spells, Sheoldred, and Mirrex because I got so sick of losing to monored. It's crazy how often this deck wins against other decks but it's even crazier how I NEVER see monored when playing it.
I put Cut Downs back into my deck and suddenly started running into mono red everywhere. I think the matchmaker has finally turned on them.
Personally I think disfigure is better in this meta. Yeah some things it doesn't hit, but the -2 power can make a difference against mono red. Also catches people that don't know indestructible doesn't save them from that.
@@slaughtr3 yeah I always forget 😂 even though ik
Personally every time I have tried to update my decks to deal specifically with mono red I end up never getting matched against it. You lucky bastard.
@jacobesplin9301 I'm only in diamond, but playing a home brew grixis control based around forge and dross, with proliferate spells, and I rarely come across mono red. When I do though, disfigure has always helped me win more than I believe cut down could. Just because mono red can buff past cut down easier than disfigure.
@@slaughtr3 the matchmaking Is rigged. It's finding out how to beat it is the challenge
36:18 "Pretty good rank, usually means aggro. Those sleeves usually mean aggro. So its definetly control" This is so real
i love the clock. please keep adding it -- it like lets the viewers know that they're about to watch an aggro game only and to not take the results of the other games too seriously. also, the banter every time the opponent drops a turn 1 mountain is freakin hiliarious
CGB talking about the minds of a mono red player was something I never knew I wanted to watch lol
Eh, it's pretty stale at this point.
Mono red is cheap, relatively easy to pilot and it plays fast. For someone who doesn't play endless hours of MTGA every day those can be pretty high priority things. If you want a consistent deck that will win games and doesn't completely die off on rotation, you just update your mono red every new expansion with handful of cards without breaking the bank.
It's also enemy of content creation usually because it either wins fast or loses fast and thus makes for boring content outside videos like this dedicated to hating going out of your way to counter it.
Most of all shits on slow overly complicated showboat decks that are more about masturbating over their solitaire combo kills and value engines than actually winning the game.
@@JushakF ☝️ Found the person who was offended by the end of the video 😆
@@EggsAreGood55 Seriously. If a person can't enjoy MTG without playing braindead mono red for fast wins, why even play the game at all? That being said, I agree that watching combo decks spend 5 minutes a turn triggering things gets just as annoying. However, between those two extremes, there are countless deck variations to try out and have fun with. Those are what I enjoy playing with and against.
@@Jeffko78
I also don't like themeless combo decks, but at least those players have to use brain 🧠.
@@JushakF LOL, you're not talking about the game, you're talking about reaching a rank, no more. It's not Magic, it's a pointless, dreary farm…
4 minutes is a surprisingly long amount of time for a mono red player to hold their attention on something
“Mono black bullshit” is a top tier deck 😂
Always has been
Beyond easy mode deck, always has been.
Black has crept too far into the other color pies. Lifegain with no drawback, sweepers, big creatures. That along with too much efficient removal and cheap discard. Black is really the only color you need, which is unfortunate. Used to be that black would give you powerful spells, but at a cost. Now wizards is saying, here, have everything! 😂
@@bittermin3148 Black has always had access to those things in their colour pie.
Lifegain, sweepers and big creatures, black is no stranger to these type of cards.
Regarding creep, if anything since the start of magic black is the colour pie that have shrunk the most (for example red took rituals away from black), where as the other colours keep expanding their repertoire. For example, both White and Red now get card draw regularly.
During current FIRE design, i would say black has remained the fairest colour.
The other colours have gotten ways to cheat on mana/cast things for free, take multiple extra turns, play spells worth 15+ mana on turn 4, etc.
Black has done none of those things.
Current design philosophy in standard only supports midrange archetypes for (mono)black, most other archetypes are neutered because blacks mechanics are considered to be unfun to play against, so what they are left with are decent creatures, good removal and some subpar discard spells.
When was the last time you saw an effect like Smallpox, Bottomless Pit, Plague Spitter or Descent into Madness in standard? A decade?
@@qubingjianshen8210reanimation of big expensive stuff had been by far the most popular way to cheat stuff into play in standard in recent years. Heck, half the black decks play virtue of persistence which reanimates something every turn, bundled with a 2 mana removal spell that bypasses indestructible AND gains you life, all on the same card. Monoblack is anything my but fair, and there is a reason why the monocolors that dominate the meta are red and black.
Being a Platinum plebian, I know I will NOT come across mono red once I take this deck for a ride.
Don't worry diamond is the same, play mill -> get smashed by aggro
Add cheap instant removal -> play against domain, artifact shenanigans and graveyard combos you can't touch😂😂
Same I'm in plat and i encounter mono red like every 5 games or so at best. 🤣
I just crafted the deck. Before I played about 1-3 games against mono Red. Now after crafting I haven't seen mono Red in 10+ games. Now it's mostly mono black or dimir
It's a beautiful thing when you make a deck to hunt for mono red/aggro and it actually works. When I do this I end up facing mostly control and discard decks.
At no point did I expect MTG: Arena to be the vehicle for artistic exploration of the human condition. Sir, you are a master. 46:53
“Turn three win make PP hard” is hilarious. Another banger of a video! I too enjoy farming the red pump spell decks with removal!
Jimmy is at home mad AF watching this
Has to be one of my favorite videos of the season 😂 purely to watch you put mono red in the hole it deserves.
it's so cathartic lol, if only I could get to mythic to try this out too :p
Holy crap.
I've watched almost 2000 CGB videos, and this may be my favorite of all time - and it wasn't even UW. I might watch that rant again, because I am down with that mission statement.
UA-cam rolled an ad in the middle of your Yorion Emporium ad, yours was much better
CGB, loved the rant at the end. It's like you were in my head 😂 You're not crazy, WOTC is for this meta. Thanks for doing the Lord's work!
As a man bruised and withered by the nonstop onslaught of mono red, this might be my favorite video of yours. (Your Shigeki is a close second)
holy shit cgb losing it at the end of this episode is the deepest I've seen him traverse the abyss and I am here for it 🍿
lol the monored song was pretty good too if you haven't seen it 🤣
The strange flopping like noise the fish token makes when it enters from fountain port will never get old to me 😄
who recorded that sound in my room without permission?!
Rarran is foaming at the mouth at the thought of hunting down Mono Red
I love it how for 12 games straight I played against the mirror but when i switched to a control deck i played against mono red 3 times in a row.
Loved the last part, the mono red mind interpretation was pure art
screw the matchmaker lol I literally played 12 monored decks in a row and got annoyed so I switched to this deck. 5 games straight now against control no monored in sight😅
I'll que up mono red just for you buddy
Edit ten straight games against life gain control
The end was one of the funniest endings ever 😂😂😂 but I think mono red is good in getting your dailys really fast
Thanks for the great outro today. I actually do the dishes while watching your daily vids. It’s the one hour a day I get all to myself while the family does other things. Your content has made me a better Magic player and it’s pretty much always entertaining! You’re cool too!
God I loved watching that! Mono Red Stomping. It may be ultra weak to control and maybe some combo decks but it stomps mono Red so well. I almost feel like I just watched some ASMR video.
Hands down the best video you’ve ever made. Thank you for letting me partake in your conquest for a little while and enjoy the second hand misery. You’re cool, CGB
45:41 Little Jimmy can be number 1 in the world!!! 🤣🤣🤣
That Ultimate Guard ad... Absolute GOLD! I couldn't believe it until I sleeved it!
Consoomer
The outro is a demonstration of a good actor. I loved this theatre. It was great
Aaaaand the ending talk is why I never ever miss a Standard or Brawl CGB video, even the old ones. Always till the end. Thanks sensei 💙
when I saw the timer in game 1 I literally laughed out loud
Crafted this deck and have yet to play a red deck.
PSA: DISFIGURE is a MUCH BETTER CUT DOWN vs Mono Red! Since it often kills the buffed Bird and makes the Mouse and Cacophony do 0 damage on death! And it is still a combat trick against midrange piles where Cut Down would be a dead card, so it is a replace 4 for me!🎉🎉🎉
100% agree. Run 3 in my grixis control deck. Now I just need a good mana base for 3 color xD
Yeah. The only creatures that Disfigure can't kill but Cut Down can are 1/3 and 2/3 - and those aren't really that prevalent in the current meta. In every other case Disfigure is equivalent or better than Cut Down as a removal, while also doubling up as a combat trick.
@@antongrigoryev6381 cut down will also hit a 1/4. But disfigure can hit a big forge token.
Plus, disfigure still lowers the power of any creature they manage to buff, fling and explode for triple damage, effectively preventing up to 6 damage from such sources. Could be the difference where cut down can be countered by big enough buffs.
Glad I stuck around to the end today
OMG your ending commentary was the best. You took acting as an undergrad right? You probably have more views per week than a C tier sitcom on a cable channel. CGB always enduring through the pain for us.
It’s called having a personality
@@honestabe411 I mean, he definitely has some showmanship that not a lot of people have but yeah, personality is a huge part!
That end rant was hilarious. your editor must have had a field day
Best CGB video in a while! Salt and all! Farming mono red w/ mono black removal does 2 things really well, ranks you up due to a ridiculous amount of mono red players(80% of the meta), also, if the mono red players start loosing more often due to people(me and you) playing more mono black removal, they will be forced to try other decks if they want to increase their ranking, thus thinning the mono red decks we see everyday.
I built this exact deck and tested it against several mono red decks. It wins most of the time. also, until I watched this video, I did not notice that mono red aggro relies havily on its own creates and therefore sacrifices removal. Good stuff.
Best post game analysis 😂😂 spilling the absolute truth
This was one of the most therapeutic videos I have ever watched
i love running into this deck with my mostly red/green deck. they always wait till my beast is high atk then try to kill it. but boom royal treatment hexproof and they quit. i just smile and wave. the odd part is they never take it with the bat but always go for a buff card or monster.
I started running this deck yesterday and I am absolutely tearing through the ladder. Anything other than aggro is basically a scoop (I’m maybe 1-4 against Caretaker’s Talent), but you see that so little by comparison that it really doesn’t matter.
Wow the ted talk at the end was unexpected and great.
Loved the monologue at the end! Peak CGB content
I kinda understand the rant in the end, even as a red player. MTG Arena match making can be frustrating.
My favorite decks are janky midrange / combo doing big things in few turns and I absolutely hate Mono Blue or UW Control decks that do nothing for 5 minutes except countering your cool spells. And once I decide to play more aggro to combat them, I only play against monored.
I probably gonna queue up this deck on the ladder to play against only decks with no creatures.
This video has singlehandedly brought about the most annoying two weeks I've ever experienced in MTGA, (WHICH I'M NOT BLAMING ON CGB, just on people who see a deck do well and run to mimic it). I'm not even playing Mono-Red, I'm mostly playing UG Frogs, WG Rabbits or RG Dinos. Now it seems like every game I've played in the last half month has been either mono-red/boros mice or monoblack discard/removal, and I'm just so done with it.
28:34 your turn is orange, opponent is blue. if you go first, the phase/turn thingy at the bottom is orange. I forget it often as well.
@7:13 always love a good Blue Oyster Cult reference!
I was wondering why that sounded familiar 😄
The outtro had me laughing so hard, thank you CBG
“They got their carrot” is a dire misunderstanding of humans. Asking why Mythic players still want to rank is like asking why rich people still want money. You can always dream of having more.
CGB, since I haven't seen this deck on the channel since rotation, I'd like to see a video on Fae Blade. It has an extremely strong matchup against mono-red by attacking both their hand and creatures aggressively(and having a 1-mana 2/2 flier to block). But also isn't just completely dead to the rest of the field. In fact it's pretty good against most things. And I don't think I've seen you use Rottenmouth Viper yet.
Whats your aversion to disfigure as a replacement for cut down? I mean the obvious reasoning with the fling decks around is it kills heartfire / scamp without taking damage, and even if the have a pump spell to get out of range it saves you 2-4 life instead of fizzling. But less obvious, the venn diagram of what cut down and disfigure hit isn't too dissimilar. Pretty much only whiffs on kitesail larcenist / valley questcaller (only popular 2/3's). And there's a handful of very minor played cards that one can hit (aftermath analyst, darkstar augur, duelist of the mind, gwenna, loamspeaker, metropolis reformer, pia nalaar, samut, skystrike officer, zur) and the other can't (hollow marauder, outcaster trailblazer, aurelia's vindicator)
pretty rare to see any of those so there's really very little difference in targets. Heck the fact you can buy yourself a turn from a 7/1 forge token matters more
Best cgb video in a while felt honest, raw. Feel like that deserves to be rewarded
Gix's Command killing smalls, except for your bat because you put counters on it, always felt so damn good. Fun to see it happening at mythic instead of in whatever jank I put together to get to platinum and then get bored and make something else.
I can't wait for Moment of Craving to come back to Standard. It was one of my favorite cards agaisnt mono red during Ixalan Standard
Great speech at the end! Very funny. 😂😂
Think I might just give this a try. I wanna compare it to the Abzaan Control list you put out awhile ago. When BloomBurrow dropped, I had to modify it a little bit. I put in 4 tear asunder. And took out some land. I think it was at 24 or 25. I find, this is just my experience with arena, its to much land. 22 is honestly what I like, Arena is gonna screw you either way so I like to play the odds more and have less Land. I believe the deck already had two Tear Asunders in it. so I only took out 2 land. Plays alot better and kept it competitive. This build seems so similar. Gonna make some notes after I play this. Thank you for all hard work on these! Cant state enough how much I have learned from you sir!!
My room mate said it best: "I just play mono red and if I don't win by turn 4 I concede"
Over an hour, it really does grind out more wins to always win or lose on turn 4 while literally not reading a single word on any card.
I recommend that if you craft this deck, just play in the play queue and enjoy the mono red games. I crafted, decided to play in the regular ranked queue. Played mono red 2 of 10 games, of those 1 they were on the play with a turn 3 kill. The others I was farmed horribly by tokens and control. When I then played 11 games in the play queue, it was super fun and just Turn 1 conceded on the control decks.
I love midrange decks, unfortunately, monored seems to always be the cheaper alternative for those of us that don't have a lot of resources/time to devote to arena :( still thoroughly enjoy these monored stomping videos. Keep them coming!
I don't play a ton, I just watch videos and see cards I would like to play, only get 2 to start typically, and do the challenges a couple times a week. From the random rare and mythic pulls from packs, I try and make decks. It's totally possible if you are smart about crafting cards and over time, you get a nice standard collection. I also invest in a rare land every few wildcards, which honestly are the best cards if you want to win.
The last rant is way good 😂
Bro went nuts.
As a not so wise man once said.
"Bigger number, better person."
I feel like that's also part of the red reason.
I played a similar deck but with edicts over Savor as well as Ruthless Negotiation instead of Gumdrop poisoner (anted better match-up vs control), out of a dozen games I played vs mono-red once! Just once!
6:17 insert admiral Duke 'Where'd you study tactics, boy?'
Thx CGB, I'll try this deck because I hate monored too. I hope I'll have such good times as you had in your games!
28:30 I am able to tell if am on the play or not by looking at the color of the icons on the bottom right. If they're blue it means the opponent is on the play, if its orange it means you are on the play.
I am trying this deck but I actually fit in two of the new black glimmer card, enduring tenacity. It gives me an out into grindier decks that I am really enjoying :p This deck rocks!
The little intro segment really hits for me, counter and/or kill their 1/2 drop and all of a sudden the light goes out of their eyes half the time, I honestly want to play more cards lol
Tbf, sometimes *I* dont have it then I cry, but such is life
We're talking about a group that goes into the tank on the question of "do I cast this spell that wins the game when OP is tapped out and can't respond?" They play it because they can and it boosts their ego to steal wins. Even if they weren't getting to high ranks, they'd still play it because other decks are hard.
And don't give me that "I don't have time to pay anything else and get my daily wins" line. If it's such a chore to play magic and you're stuck in a loop of "must play mono red to finish dailies, so Ican keep playing mono red, so I can finish dailies, ad nauseum," why are you playing if it's not the hard PP?
It's the cheapest meta deck to build
As an F2P player that started last month I could not build this monoblack deck with the wildcards I have (though far closer than any other top deck on untapped!)
Also for the record I'm all in favor for less RDW, it's a problem I don't see an answer for considering the amount of rares in good decks (particularly manabases)
@@taxman4889 bruh, I've never played monored even in the beginning. You don't need a "meta deck" - just be creative, look through the cards, watch all sorts of videos, find out what you like, purchase key cards you enjoy and will put in multiple decks, invest in the rare lands (prob the best investment - eg. every few rares invest in a rare land for a colour pair you like), it's not hard and you can start having fun now rather than mindlessly grind cheap aggro
I play this deck with 'Play With Fire' sleeves to remind mono red opponents just how important direct damage would be for the matchup.
This may be my favorite CGB video.
Dang. That line about doing something hard at the end actually hit me right when I needed it
Best impression of the red part of the color pie ever
There's only one time I've ever played aggro.
Back in OG Innistrad Standard when Thragtusk and Angel of Serenity were common terrors, my budget ass played something that swung fast enough to both ignore the lifegain and outpace the 5/3 (as an enchantment kept it from blocking), as well as win the game before the Angel hit and wiped my board.
And it still wasn't red.
5:44 SUFFOCATION!
NO BREATHING
Great video!
It's egregious seeing so much "mono red" being played today, Wizards clearly doesn't have an applicable plan for the future of "standard." Like you said with the average time in BO1 standard, it's less than 4 minutes. I personally understand why the power creep in MTG is so high & why the financial evolution of Wizards has occurred. However i genuinely miss going to a store & having a 10+ minute match with a friend or random, actually utilizing my brain trying to find complex ways using "Mid range' styles cards. Now it seems the state of standard is one bad set away from dying. It's all subjective on what you'd prefer to play, but i truly think a majority of the community wishes standard was different rather than play a 3 minute braindead match...I understand my opinion doesn't really matter, i'm yapping away haha
I just wish the "meta" wouldn't be 4 deck heavy of "aggro." In the past for example...the 2013 pro tour, an average match was around 14+ minutes, due to it being a majority of "mid range" & "control."
I made a deck like this back in the day, except with duress, massacre wurm, phyrexian obliterator, and black sun's zenith -- played against a lot of aggro for some reason lol
With the decks I really like playing I play about ever 1-3 games against mono Red which I always lose. Now I crafted this deck and it's a blast against mono Red because in the last 10+ games with this deckI haven't seen mono Red at all
when talking about why play mono red, surprised there was no mention of the ease of farming daiyles
10:05 virtue gets Gix too. Missed that. I always think of virtue does minus two minus two as well, but it's -3!
The best promo video I've seen on any youtube videos to date.
After resolving myself of the grief/shame after crafting Gumdrop Poisoners, just to get immediately paired against Abzan Midrange(No, not Abzan Control. This was "Deep-Cavern Bat reveals Beza/Eternal Wanderer/Pawpatch Formation" midrange), I thoroughly enjoyed the games against monored that involved turn 1 Cut Down. Also, I'm personally putting R/W Tokens into the "auto-scoop" pile with U/W control. Not unwinnable, but not worth my time.
I think the main reason people play Mono Red at the highest levels is that it's very fast games. It's either a quick win or a quick loss and it's a good chance of win. If you're that dedicated, you are probably going for your 15 wins every day
I made this but I squeezed in a tinybones for another 1-drop that can block anything well great deck for b01
I'm sure you would see the meta change in the rewards system functioned differently. Right now, it rewards fast wins and scooping if it doesn't look like a guaranteed win early so you don't waste time.
I remember a lot of players were turned down by simple monored players during arena release. And wizards, for player retention, rigged matchmaker to pair monored with decks, that can deal with monored)
Build a mainly white deck where the whole purpose is to put everything the opponent has in exile. I have a mono white one, works pretty good. Great against red decks, i have 8 one mana exile creature card spells in it, among other exile effects. would love to see your take on it.
I will never not watch the entirety of the Yorion Emporium advert. I will never not sleeve it to believe it.
Man this brought joy to my soul.
I think red is my second favorite mono color after green, but it's only fun as an occasional treat that catches the opponent off guard, not a cookie cutter deck than plays out the exact same every single time. Also mono red without any burn spells is sacrilege.
This outro is wild and I love it 🤣
This has to be one of the best vids you’ve ever made lol
The edittor is starting to realize its true powers
This is the True Villain Arch of Cgb.
As much as I loved the gameplay, I loved the ending even more. Toughness is still useful in this world. Cheers!
3.8 minutes because some of them like roping instead of scooping, probably
Against aggro mono red I have a mono black " hand removal" plus a couple of "creature removal" spells. Generally turn 3 no more relèvent spells in their hands and then they scoop the game XD.
I didn't realize catharsis by proxy was a thing - but here we are.
I made a deck of nothing but cheap 1-2 mana kill spells, Sheoldred, and Mirrex because I got so sick of losing to monored. It's crazy how often this deck wins against other decks but it's even crazier how I NEVER see monored when playing it.
MTG Arena Algo there buddy. Enjoy.
The Papa Roach reference 😂😂☠️