Man that game against Atraxa in the beginning was a joy to watch. You explained so well how you used psychological tricks to trap them with the big finale. Well played.
24:05 is such a beautiful demonstration of the double-binds provided by Azorius Control. Blue's counterspells and white's single-target attacker-hate punish players for carefully meting out their threats, and white's board wipes punish overcommitting to the board. Adding blue's mill as a win con presents the same double bind on a whole new axis: if you maximize value you'll be milled out faster, but if you maximize damage then you'll run out of resources faster. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
@@rafaelrico maybe for self mill, until Golgari took that job. But nah, even in the old days of Antiquity, Azorious Control with 3 Millstone was winning. Just throw up removal and counterspell at anything that threatens you, and tap Millstone when they get low on cards.
I love seeing you win, but seeing you lose is almost (if not much more) gratifying. I think it's because you're so godawful cocky when you shouldn't be in certain situations. Lol! That back to back, off the top lightning strike to the face was so awesome.
I know I'm in a CGB comment section when I see a bunch of people commenting that he should've done something differently when they clearly don't know how the card works. Celestus is sorcery speed, people. It would be super busted if you could activate it at instant speed. It was highlighted for mana.
If I meet you at the tables out there in the public world I'd be happy to yell, "Whattup CGB!" Cause it sounds like we are in a Pendleton Ward cartoon.
Seems like it might be fun to try this theme in Esper, which can throw in Ertai as another destroy-you-draw plus maybe one or two Breach the Multiverse.
1:35:00 You should have played the land first and then Jace and then Dissipate here. He would have had to have another Negate to stop you and it seemed like all he had were 3 mana counters after.
That double lightning bolt though.. last night i played a shelly onto an open board and my opponent zero cards in hand. He topped a go for the throat. Next turn i played a second shelly same situation. He topped ANOTHER go for the throat. I cycled and drew a third shelly and played it and he topped an edict. I swear to god. Im in diamond 2 as well. Have been for the last 5 days lol.
Just fyi, u don't have to hover your opponents library to check the amount of cards they have left. Hovering either players face/life total or your own library also shows what they've got left.
Dude! Field of Ruin. It makes them draw a land and it saves you from all the Mirex / Blast Zone / Foundry deaths that have probably kept you from mythic for the last few days
CGB I’m sure you know that, but if you hover the cursor on your own library the opponent’s tooltip also lights up, but they don’t know that is what you’re checking because it looks like you’re concerned with self mill
The fact that Arena will flood you to death one game and then next game mana starve you with the same deck, it's terrible. So my deck has too much mana and too little at the same time?!? So obvious they fabricate losses to keep everyone around 50% win regardless of skill or build...
@gameschooldadMTG Funny, I play both paper since 96 and arena since 2019 and arena decks gets land screwed 1 way or another WAY more often than in paper for my whole play group.
@@gameschooldadMTG It happens in paper about 20-30% of the time, which is probable. It happens in arena something like 60-70% of the time. Remember when people started tracking their games to prove something was off statistically, and Wizard's response was to make it against the rules to track these things?
You should see the cards advantage I get from impulse drawing up to 3-4 cards a turn with some draw with advantage. Not no big score either, that not drawing that like paying for 2 cards to be 2 new cards so no card advantage, but read card advantage up to 2 or 5 if I you use the unearth the Phyrexia dragon engine.
@@dizzlegrizzle1919 What you said may be true. But the opponent will be forced to use a counter spell. My friend played this along with his Chandra, pure mono red aggro.
"Back to back, off the lop, lightning strike for lethal" sounds like a first verse of a playful nursery rhyme. Please, can someone more poetically talented than me come up with the second verse?
Because of tempo loss. Takes a turn just to get it on the field, on top of the two mana to ATTEMPT to get a land from it, potentially taking two turns worth of tempo to get anything worthwhile. Also, if you believe that Arena fks with the shuffler then be aware it seems statistically likely they fk with the shuffler to neuter realm breaker specifically. I get a land with it about 20-30% of the time which is statistically BS. 1-((60-24)/60)^3 is 78.4%. That's the real MINIMUM odds of getting a land out of it each time you use it, but that has NEVER been my experience. I got sidetracked by my rage. Mathematically, Realm Breaker is good, but the shuffler hates me so much I could never make it give me shit.
I still play this weird deck but i have a lot of fun. Actually had cgb like losses where I laughed my ass off to my own stupidity. I', been stuck in Platinum forever but I played quite a number of fun decks I never see in your streams because I added like 1 copy of every plainswalker in the deck on purpose. Actually thinking off it, it would be fun if you showcased some of the most ingenious decks I seen playing that way. maybe you should play my deck, see if you meet the same decks. Couple beauties out there I never seen you play .
YES MILL FINALLY !!!!!! not quite the colors I was expecting (jace + Breach the multiverse) but it's still a mill deck !!!! ❤❤❤❤❤ P. S. You should try fitting founding of the third path in for more mill + spell copies
CGB, I know you are hating Standard ATM as most all of us are of course. But you made me laugh and cry for your luck (or unluck?) over these segments of "Will XXXXX get me to Mythic?" then I have in awhile. I know it will prob bring you misery if it keeps like this, but I can't help but be happy to have lots of U/W and U/W/x standard content to watch over the last week compared to the last few months. Wish we had a fun standard format, one that wasn't so played out, standard needs a big shake up and sadly I don't think we will get it for another year.
And this is why I never hit Mythic. I do not have the patience or time to grind for hours until Arena decides to not hate me :-P I get my daily wins and move on to friendlier things, like gunfights, hack n' slash, gore.. you know, the little kid stuff.
Game one could have potentially been saved by activating the Celestus instead of trying to dig for Negate, the Celestus gives you a life when it triggers.
What happens when your opponent has over 100 cards in their deck? Doesn’t always happen, but I’ve had it happen to me a few times. Anyone else experience this?
I’ve posted this before But I’m off the wandering emperor. It’s just not good. Not hear me out. I run Jace and Deluge and depop/drag (depending on UW or UB). So that’s 12 in the 4 drop space. You take out your emperors and replace them with low cost removal. 8 1-2 cc removal 7 counterspell 12 Jace/deluge/sweepers 27 lands That leaves 6 cards. Those are4 Liliana in my UB or 2 Farewell in UW. The last slots are filled up with low cost removal or card draw. Trust me! Try UW without the emperors
This makes some sense, and I think this mainly works because everyone plays emperor in UW control. So even if you don't play her, your opponents have to play around her thinking you do.
In UB and Esper I'm really digging the 4 mana Kaito. Draws cards and keeps relevant creatures from attacking, which buys a ton of time. Super underrated, and way better now that Invoke is off the menu.
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WHAT WILL IT TAKE???!?!?!??!
Edit - Celestus is sorcery speed YOU FOOLS!
I'm sorry I doubted you. I'm yelling at you as the second lightning strike hits and I'm wrong. Oops 😅
Bro just play GW enchantments if you wanna rank. Literally pointless to play control to rank up.
@kaaaaahle i only play mill and im mythic, can assure you its not pointless lol
@@DenizAydanG yeah and you took 3 times longer to get there than you needed to
@@DenizAydanG also what a lame play style to exclusively play lol
Just here to say that once again, I love this video. The longer form is really just such an unexpected joy. You are very appreciated!
Man that game against Atraxa in the beginning was a joy to watch. You explained so well how you used psychological tricks to trap them with the big finale.
Well played.
@1:16:01 "You Thalia'd me? When I specifically asked you not to?"
Sequencing around 1:14:20 was absolutely beautiful. As was the entire game. A joy to watch!
That double lightning strike though
am I wrong in thinking he could have used the celes to gain the 1 extra life needed?
Celestus tap is only sorcery speed. @@Hexrampant
@@Hexrampantyes
I legit would've started screaming lmao
@@Hexrampant Can only activate as sorcery
This comment remembers the clown suit offer
Care to elaborate?
He said he’d put on a clown suit “if we’d like it” or something. Now he’s got to hold to his word 😤
Yep, he put it out there that we require intros and a clown suit because CGB doesn't care about us anymore.
Pepperidge Farms Remembers
It wasn’t an offer. It was a threat
If you own the Blue nickname, you have to make "I'm blue" your new theme song
24:05 is such a beautiful demonstration of the double-binds provided by Azorius Control. Blue's counterspells and white's single-target attacker-hate punish players for carefully meting out their threats, and white's board wipes punish overcommitting to the board.
Adding blue's mill as a win con presents the same double bind on a whole new axis: if you maximize value you'll be milled out faster, but if you maximize damage then you'll run out of resources faster.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
From watching all your videos for the last two years has made me fall in love with control and whenever I play a not control deck I get bored 😂
Watching your pain as arena just forces the losses is as painful as living through them. :-P Appreciate the showing.
Did CGB just will a Chandra into the opponent's deck by thinking about it?
CGB < IS > the shuffler 🤯
At 7:30 couldn’t CGB have just activated the celestus’ ability to swap day/night and gain a life?
Nope. Activate only as a sorcery.
@@FlawlessRhythmGG gotcha, thx! (I should read the card, it explains it)
Wow, i've never expected that Azorius could work so good as mill deck!
What color(s) did you think Mill belonged to?
@@wickederebusi used to think that dimir is the classic color to mill
@@rafaelrico maybe for self mill, until Golgari took that job.
But nah, even in the old days of Antiquity, Azorious Control with 3 Millstone was winning. Just throw up removal and counterspell at anything that threatens you, and tap Millstone when they get low on cards.
Those top decks of monored can turn anybody crazy
I love seeing you win, but seeing you lose is almost (if not much more) gratifying. I think it's because you're so godawful cocky when you shouldn't be in certain situations. Lol! That back to back, off the top lightning strike to the face was so awesome.
I hope that the one deck pushing him to mythic will be a Mono R list.
This would be hilarious
Mono R as CGB's saviour sounds about right :)
I hope mono red players go back to Pokemon or Yugioh and let us enjoy some intelligent and strategic game, LOL
There where a lot of times when he could've used partition on Jace but didn't is there a reason not to?
You're my boy Blue, you're my boy
Azorius is also one of my favorite color combinations to play. ❤
I know I'm in a CGB comment section when I see a bunch of people commenting that he should've done something differently when they clearly don't know how the card works. Celestus is sorcery speed, people. It would be super busted if you could activate it at instant speed. It was highlighted for mana.
@@loam4187 he couldn't use it. It's sorcery speed only, not instant. 🤦♂
Hovering over your own grave shows enemy deck size
lmao dis dude still trying and i love it. mad respect CGB
First game was Arena experience in a nutshell
If I meet you at the tables out there in the public world I'd be happy to yell, "Whattup CGB!" Cause it sounds like we are in a Pendleton Ward cartoon.
Seems like it might be fun to try this theme in Esper, which can throw in Ertai as another destroy-you-draw plus maybe one or two Breach the Multiverse.
1:35:00 You should have played the land first and then Jace and then Dissipate here. He would have had to have another Negate to stop you and it seemed like all he had were 3 mana counters after.
That double lightning bolt though.. last night i played a shelly onto an open board and my opponent zero cards in hand. He topped a go for the throat. Next turn i played a second shelly same situation. He topped ANOTHER go for the throat. I cycled and drew a third shelly and played it and he topped an edict. I swear to god. Im in diamond 2 as well. Have been for the last 5 days lol.
I think the safer play was just paying for a celestus trigger and going to 1
Just fyi, u don't have to hover your opponents library to check the amount of cards they have left. Hovering either players face/life total or your own library also shows what they've got left.
@7:53 you could have activated the celestus and lived at one
You might want to go read the card before posting wrong information.
Another long video of a control deck. Love it
Dude! Field of Ruin. It makes them draw a land and it saves you from all the Mirex / Blast Zone / Foundry deaths that have probably kept you from mythic for the last few days
CGB I’m sure you know that, but if you hover the cursor on your own library the opponent’s tooltip also lights up, but they don’t know that is what you’re checking because it looks like you’re concerned with self mill
The fact that Arena will flood you to death one game and then next game mana starve you with the same deck, it's terrible. So my deck has too much mana and too little at the same time?!? So obvious they fabricate losses to keep everyone around 50% win regardless of skill or build...
@gameschooldadMTG Funny, I play both paper since 96 and arena since 2019 and arena decks gets land screwed 1 way or another WAY more often than in paper for my whole play group.
@@gameschooldadMTG It happens in paper about 20-30% of the time, which is probable. It happens in arena something like 60-70% of the time. Remember when people started tracking their games to prove something was off statistically, and Wizard's response was to make it against the rules to track these things?
MTG ARENA experience at its finest on this comment ^^
You should see the cards advantage I get from impulse drawing up to 3-4 cards a turn with some draw with advantage. Not no big score either, that not drawing that like paying for 2 cards to be 2 new cards so no card advantage, but read card advantage up to 2 or 5 if I you use the unearth the Phyrexia dragon engine.
Mono Red does have a 1 card they have to draw. It's Kumano in opening hand.
You're my boy, Blue!
the hullbreaker horror came out of no where
lobster is king
Been enjoying the longer videos
Now imagine *_Repeated Reverberation_* being playable in standard.
@@dizzlegrizzle1919 What you said may be true. But the opponent will be forced to use a counter spell. My friend played this along with his Chandra, pure mono red aggro.
holding up my end of the bargain and liking and commenting when CovertGoMill appears.
Where’s the LOTR historic brawl been?
35:55 has you looking at the camera for a second after making that horrible joke
Double lightening strikes...shuffler is fine.
Yeah, you can smell the Lightning Strike from the top before it actually happens... 🤔
3/40*2/39 is only something around 6/1600. That's perfectly reasonable odds to top deck two in a row.
"Back to back, off the lop, lightning strike for lethal" sounds like a first verse of a playful nursery rhyme. Please, can someone more poetically talented than me come up with the second verse?
So good to see cgb back on form
Curious why not put realm breaker in your deck. Very good card to fix mana screw. Plus it synergizes with mill
Because of tempo loss.
Takes a turn just to get it on the field, on top of the two mana to ATTEMPT to get a land from it, potentially taking two turns worth of tempo to get anything worthwhile.
Also, if you believe that Arena fks with the shuffler then be aware it seems statistically likely they fk with the shuffler to neuter realm breaker specifically. I get a land with it about 20-30% of the time which is statistically BS. 1-((60-24)/60)^3 is 78.4%. That's the real MINIMUM odds of getting a land out of it each time you use it, but that has NEVER been my experience.
I got sidetracked by my rage. Mathematically, Realm Breaker is good, but the shuffler hates me so much I could never make it give me shit.
Why don't play mill decks?
You could do a series called 'Blues Clues' where you help people not make common deck building issues @covergoblue ;)
copyright infringement.
I got mythic after a month using ur extra cards mono red deck ty!
In the first game, couldn't you have activated the Celestus to switch day/night to gain a life to live at 1?
Sorcery Speed only
Ah, dang. :( @@Lordidude
But, didn't he anticipate the burn? I guess it could have been a niche play.@@Lordidude
I understand how frustrating it is to be so close only to be beaten down again.
this time for sure!
I still play this weird deck but i have a lot of fun. Actually had cgb like losses where I laughed my ass off to my own stupidity. I', been stuck in Platinum forever but I played quite a number of fun decks I never see in your streams because I added like 1 copy of every plainswalker in the deck on purpose.
Actually thinking off it, it would be fun if you showcased some of the most ingenious decks I seen playing that way. maybe you should play my deck, see if you meet the same decks. Couple beauties out there I never seen you play .
First game lightning strike shenanigans was brutal. Much respect to CGB for keeping it cool.
Fun fact, if you hover your library you can see both library sizes.
Beautiful second game
MILL MILL MILL!!!
Ahhh - another CovertGoShuffler episode :)
YES MILL FINALLY !!!!!! not quite the colors I was expecting (jace + Breach the multiverse) but it's still a mill deck !!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
P. S. You should try fitting founding of the third path in for more mill + spell copies
Yessssssss azorius control VAMOOOOOSSSS
Oh god no, no, OH GOD WHY!
THE LADDER!
GOD WHYYYY!
CGB, I know you are hating Standard ATM as most all of us are of course. But you made me laugh and cry for your luck (or unluck?) over these segments of "Will XXXXX get me to Mythic?" then I have in awhile. I know it will prob bring you misery if it keeps like this, but I can't help but be happy to have lots of U/W and U/W/x standard content to watch over the last week compared to the last few months. Wish we had a fun standard format, one that wasn't so played out, standard needs a big shake up and sadly I don't think we will get it for another year.
You are CGB!
I built a liliana + Jace control and it kicks ass.
I’ve only played 3 games but I’m 2-1 with it.
I got to mythic yesterday with Dimir Toxic (with a twist on it)
Another one. Love the extra content, but my gawd, I'm ready for new cards. LOTR wore off so quickly. Lol.
And this is why I never hit Mythic. I do not have the patience or time to grind for hours until Arena decides to not hate me :-P I get my daily wins and move on to friendlier things, like gunfights, hack n' slash, gore.. you know, the little kid stuff.
Magic e culo = Magic is ass.
Totally agreed.
Celeste’s! First game winnable
Monored. Do it CGB. All Will Be One.
I was wondering how long it’d take CGB to use Jace after it gate keeped him out of Mythic like twice.
If only he would accept that his Red Draw Deck is the solution to reach Mythic...
It was so satisfying to see a control mage lose to gruul. such warm and fuzzy feelings when that happens.
Will you mill yourself into a historic brawl vid
There is no single deck in the standard meta I hate more, than this one...
Sounding like an enchantment player over here
Love it
AZ mill is goated in bo1
Game one could have potentially been saved by activating the Celestus instead of trying to dig for Negate, the Celestus gives you a life when it triggers.
I thought CGB would do it instead of look for the negate
Read the card, friends ;)
@@darthduckky411 Yep, Celestus was not highlighted for action for a reason.
Should just give up and play Alchemy using the ring, Shelly and orcish bowmasters. Thats all it takes. :)
HISTORIC BRAWL!!! )':
Nobody ever tell me Arena doesnt rig against you. It happens way to much to be anything else to everyone i know
Couldn't he have activated Celestus at 7:30 for the 1 life?
Looks like it to me, tilted blunder
Can only be activated as a sorcery
@@seandavis1194 ah overlooked that oops
Obviously the answer is mardu angels.
Against that first match u could of looted and gain 1 life which would leave you at 1 life
Like and comment cause of stoic reaction to huge unluck with 2 lightning strikes in a row
First game u activate celestus and stay alive
Mono red, just do it.
1. Game celestus?
sorcery speed
thanks@@leandrobiciato3451
A mill deck that doesn't mill is never going to be a good mill deck.
1st game was fucked. Cgb should've won
Day 2 of no clown suit 😢
Can mill you get mythic? I sure hope not, don't give them ideas
What happens when your opponent has over 100 cards in their deck? Doesn’t always happen, but I’ve had it happen to me a few times. Anyone else experience this?
Sorry CGB!
I’ve posted this before
But I’m off the wandering emperor. It’s just not good.
Not hear me out. I run Jace and Deluge and depop/drag (depending on UW or UB). So that’s 12 in the 4 drop space. You take out your emperors and replace them with low cost removal.
8 1-2 cc removal
7 counterspell
12 Jace/deluge/sweepers
27 lands
That leaves 6 cards. Those are4 Liliana in my UB or 2 Farewell in UW. The last slots are filled up with low cost removal or card draw.
Trust me! Try UW without the emperors
This makes some sense, and I think this mainly works because everyone plays emperor in UW control. So even if you don't play her, your opponents have to play around her thinking you do.
In UB and Esper I'm really digging the 4 mana Kaito. Draws cards and keeps relevant creatures from attacking, which buys a ton of time. Super underrated, and way better now that Invoke is off the menu.
agree, 4 emperor is usually unnessecary, especialy if wincon is mill
GW Enchantments, like MonoRed, its miserable, boring and childish. Sorry Aggro players, but thats the true.
1 minute ago?
yes sir
5 minutes ago?
Yes sit
I hate jace so much lol
Maybe