Unironically won 5 out of 7 of my Metagame matches in Arena from people rage quitting against my mono blue tempo. Felt bad so I went back in with a Grixis deck. Rage quit game 1 against a mono blue tempo deck.
was really fun before BOW. But the Espher Midrange decks were quite hard to play against. Also jund midrange but they had to top deck the shit out of you if they don't wanna loose the match the rest was just eeezzzz even mono r aggro
Blue mirror matches feel like a chess game where someone is waiting for the 1st person to play their spell and see if you'll waste your counters on something that might matter or not.
that wouldnt be a chess game then because chess has people forced to move and logic behind it rather than reaction behind it, it'd be playing slaps. the game where you try to slap your opponent but not get slapped in the hand and whoever gets slapped in the hand loses and whoever slaps them in the face wins
u usually play nothing for 7turns and then on the opponents end step some card draw skirmish before the counter spell splash show begins. But the hermit(the distub buddy idk malevocent,,,,) in standard does a great job to get under this.
Fun is a finite resource in a game of magic. Mono blue ensures that you hold a monopoly on it. Splash black for targeted discard and it's even more enjoyable.
I love my simic deck, it does everything in this video and comes with the added benefit of stealing cards directly from my opponents deck. So not only can my opponents never feel the joy of actually playing cards, but I get to experience their joy when I play their cards.
One time I was in a commander pod with a Muldrotha player. I countered Muldrotha every. Single. Goddamn. Time he tried to cast it. At one point he let Muldrotha go to the graveyard, and then tried to Animate Dead. Key word: "tried".
There was a time (2020 i think) that i made a mono blue deck with no win condition...it was just counters and draw cards (and graveyard reshufle) to play till the oponent concedes or deck out.... Yeah i was a bad person back them.
Accurate af. Honnestly I find it annoying that decks full of counterspells + draw cards actualy work. I mean what the hell, we're not supposed to just look at an empty board the whole game (until there's a Teferi and then you have to concede or get bored to death)
as a former Avatar player(master of all elements, including colorless), I agree. blue control is just dumb... there is no "can I afford to counter this spell" anymore, it's just "counter? YES!" main problem is card draw really. too much and everyone is too fucking fast and powerful, used to be that you needed to wait till turn 3-4 till you get some cards back aside from cantrips. and with blue it's the worst cause they draw counters or other things that prevent other players from drawing.
Lol and here I am playing blue/white pillowfort. Actually since we usually play 4+ player commander I usually dont interfere unless they do something that directly effects me haha.
This is why I love Black Black: I take everything other colors can do, pay a bunch of life for it and make it more fun and fair Blue: Yeah but you don't have counterspells Black: exactly.
I personally play blue as an azorius defensive deck, slowly building my advantage while using the counterspells to protect my board while only stopping one-card wins from my opponents. That way they still can feel like they're doing something while i know they will never be able to close out the game.
My very first game of paper Magic was against a mono-blue player. I immediately gave up on the game and started playing Hearthstone instead. Best decision I ever made.
Facts, one thing I noticed is when a spell can't be countered they rage quit alot. I get a huge laugh when they try countering those cards and didn't read the fine print first.
Here the thing though: you can also hate fun playing as black. I once made this absolutely nasty discarding deck that forced my opponent to discard all the cards in their hand, and then if they didn’t have any cards they would have to sacrifice their creatures, and if they had no creatures it would deal damage to them. So many people rage quit it was hilarious
You forgot the best part of Blue. Mill so your opponent doesn't even have the chance to TRY to have fun. Let them see their cards go the the graveyard.
The only time I'd actually agree with physical violence being an acceptable answer in any card game to resolve the stack. "Counter me one more time boy, and you'll be countin them teeth of yours on the floor". You had it coming hard counter players 😁
played against this guy once when started out. he had some stupid bullshit where when he drew cards, i had to loose cards, and if some of those cards happened to be XY cards, he could draw more cards, since me and him had a really huge deck, we kept drawing cards back and forth for a good 40 minutes, neither of us could do anything but draw cards.
Subscribed, if we can choose which blue player gets banned then I have a suggestion. I have a friend who thinks he can play blue but fails can you ban him from any deck containing blue please? If not full ban will be acceptable.
Like, I understand the existance of counterspells, but most blue meta decks are literally just "Nothing happens until I say I win." unless they draw bad.
true since alpha. I simply dont understand why to this day every Deck has countermeeasures against it, aside of control. Do something like 2 Mana Artefact, This spell cant be countered. And the ongoing effect is: Spells cant get countered. I mean for real. We have lowmana cards which destroy all creaturs, why nothing against Counter or other Control cards. World champlionship always go like this: Nothing but Lands until Turn 17, and than, someone plays one card, conter, counter, counter, counter , counter, counter, good game.
My buddy likes Dimir and Azorious and Bant because he has a God complex. Nothing but stax and control out of him and all of his decks...which I find ironic, considering that my favorite combination is Gruul, which almost exclusively have beef with his colors of choice, lol
Coming from yugioh, where over half the game is trying to out your opponent's negates (they have like 5), this honestly seems like normal gameplay to me. Help.
You have to understand that blue players actually LOVE fun. We love it so much that we realized there is only a finite amount of fun to be had in any magic game, and we want to monopolize ALL of the fun for ourselves.
@@zirilan3398 whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there. First off, like.....18 counters at max lol. And 2 wincons. Counter decks still need room for draw and powder keg, you know.
hello, it's me, a dimir player. i can confirm that this video is 100% scientifically true. every single blue card in my deck is a counterspell. thank you for bringing this to public notice. a dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
You claim to be of the Dimir and yet you mention them aloud? Thank you for bringing this to public notice. A dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 - White gets Balance, Land Tax, Armageddon, Replinish, Moat, Humility, and other good stuff that is so busted it gets banned, restricted, and in many cases no other cards like it printed again.
I would never just run counter spells. I run a lot of removal too, so if the opponent somehow gets a permanent onto the battlefield, it will be removed immediately!
tell me a format where this works. Aggro decks took over long ago, Planeswalker with flash.... There in modern control decks are screwed, legacy RU Delver is the only way to play it, or sneak and show/sneak and tell
As a blue player, seeing Noah demonstrate why blue isn't fun whilst going against another player, who isn't having fun and has my exact name (this is not a joke) is really interesting. Noah are you in my walls?
"I don't care if I lose, I don't care about your fun. I only care about my fun, and my fun is not letting you do shit as much as I can" - As a Yugioh player who naturally become MTG blue card player.
I too am a yugioh player who is addicted to purple cards that say "no, you can't do that". I'm also a zombie player, so I spend my zombies to pay the cost of saying no. And then I bring my zombies back. So, anyways, appropos of nothing, I recently got my first commander deck for christmas and it's blue black for some reason?
You know what the best way to express you're hatred for blue is? Ironically it's using blue.... You know cause that's where 99% of all counterspells are.
as the first deck I ever played was a blue/black counter deck where I just laughed at how I countered my opponent's entire turn this is absolutely true now I just spam dragons so even if I lose I get to look at pretty dragons
Yeah, I used to play commander and one of my opponents had a mono blue deck with Talrand, Sky Summoner as his commander. Dude ran only card draw, bounce, and counterspells and it stinking WORKED because his commander attached a 2/2 flyer on every. Stinking. Spell. You couldn't block the minions because, guess what, FLYING! And you couldn't take care of the commander because, guess what, COUNTERSPELL!!! I so wanted to run Niv-Mizzet, Parun against him because, guess what, CAN'T COUNTERSPELL THAT COMMANDER AND I DRAW A CARD EVERY TIME YOU ATTEMPT SOMETHING, FISH BOY!!!!!!!
Then he casts mindbreak trap in response to Niv-Mizzet! The first rule of playing against mono blue effectively is to never assume you're safe from interaction.
I run him myself. You think he's bad? Try Aesi Tyrant of The Gyre Straight. I have ONLY big creatures, mainly hydras and I have reliquary tower so for every 2 lands I'm able to play on my turn I am also able to draw cards. Include a River Hopoe for life gain to spend on dead turns and I'm basically unbeatable. I even beat out my gfs mono-red aggro burn deck, there's literally nothing but direct damage spells, a few monsters, and one of our many Chandra plainswalkers.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago Ooookay calm down there. You not impressing anyone with simic good stuff outside of your kitchen table. Mono red burn is, by design, one of the most disenfranchised deck archetypes in EDH. Maybe have her use a better deck the next time you go around benchmarking. >.>
I like how they made white's theme be the most useless mechanic (lifegain) and made blue's be the two most powerful ones (countering and card advantage)
@@drlavalava7719 Lifegain has some good enablers (as long as your opponent doesn't play any removal) but lifegain on its own is very bad. It doesn't forward your gameplan in any meaningful way, it just maybe slows down your opponent's clock by a turn.
@@retronymph Lifegain on its own is a great way to make burn players cry as they are stuck topdecking lands and shocks once their opening hand is empty
in my defense I also have a couple red cards that get stronger every time I play a coun- I mean every time I cast a noncreature spell and that could be anything alright, not just counters
I currently have six commander decks, one of which is mono-blue (none of the other ones run blue). I built it at a time when I wanted to make a mono-colored deck for each color and the Izzet colors are my least favorite; so I built it with the thought process: "I hate blue, so if it has to exist, I'll make everyone else hate it as much as I do" lol
I have a couple of friends who are quite fond of blue, and I try over and over again to demonstrate that blue takes less skill and planning than other colours, and it simply isn't fun. They kept poking fun at me, countering my glorious green spells that I spend 4 turns building towards. They always reply with that same old stupid blue reply "BuT iM hAvInG fUn..." I got so fed up that I went into arena and tried to make the most obnoxious, spitefull and petty blue mill deck that I could muster. Just to prove a point. That was the first and only time I made it to Mythic rank...
I come from another cardgame-verse, a different universe where Blue players are called "Drytron Herald" players (it's still 2021 in that universe). By the way I don't know how to play Magic, but I can *100% relate with the pain of a negation-spam* (Yu-Gi-Oh! 's meta is fun like Oliver Twist's childhood)
The difference is that in mtg you need lands to play cards, and in blue there are no tutors. Drytron Fairies is hyper-consistent, it continuously reuses its resources, and has powerful monsters on top of that, not just small but efficient creatures, but bosses with 4k atk. Drytron is even more unfair than playing blue.
I want to ask a question, whats the difference between running a blue counter deck vs mono red burn everything deck. with a good hand, you drop a creature, then just burn all the creatures your opponent drops? or mono black with a ton of murder sacrafice cards?
To be honest a fast enough red deck can be just as annoying and anti-fun as a blue deck. If it can win so fast the the other player doesn't really even get to play their deck it's so toxic. At least the game is over quick then though, as opposed to blue players durdling for a million years controlling everything but not having any way to actually win the game.
Also blue can go against almost any deck. What ever the card it can be countered. Can't say that for others tho. But I've learned that mono Blue is weak against flash and aggro.
0:24 This actually inspires me to actually play the game instead of just find out stuff about it - and also to feel upset, but that's just because I once actually thought blue was morally acceptable
I built an azorius tempo/control deck that uses mirrari conjecture + mythos of Illuna to recur counter spells and board wipes every turn. Every time I win a match with that deck, someone else starts their joker arc.
Man i hate playing mono blue, I hate blue + one of any other color but once there is blue and two other colors it's suddenly my jam and I love those decks.
Unironically won 5 out of 7 of my Metagame matches in Arena from people rage quitting against my mono blue tempo. Felt bad so I went back in with a Grixis deck. Rage quit game 1 against a mono blue tempo deck.
Me sowing: Haha f*ck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this f*ckin sucks
How exactly do you win a game ironically??
You fucked around and you found out
@@tarvoc746 I think they were thinking about the word literally
was really fun before BOW. But the Espher Midrange decks were quite hard to play against.
Also jund midrange but they had to top deck the shit out of you if they don't wanna loose the match
the rest was just eeezzzz
even mono r aggro
Waiting for the next blue teferi with “+1 you win the game and the next game after”
They hid that card in 5 random packs of Magic 30th Anniversary.
It comes free in the Blue Supremacists membership bundle
Blue mirror matches feel like a chess game where someone is waiting for the 1st person to play their spell and see if you'll waste your counters on something that might matter or not.
I seem to remember a Pro Modern game that was 2 RWU control decks.... First spell was played on turn 8 irrc
that wouldnt be a chess game then because chess has people forced to move and logic behind it rather than reaction behind it, it'd be playing slaps. the game where you try to slap your opponent but not get slapped in the hand and whoever gets slapped in the hand loses and whoever slaps them in the face wins
u usually play nothing for 7turns and then on the opponents end step some card draw skirmish before the counter spell splash show begins. But the hermit(the distub buddy idk malevocent,,,,) in standard does a great job to get under this.
a chess game indeed. remember...3.5 iq
@@eVuLeX “The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
-Fundamentals of Chess 1883
Fun is a finite resource in a game of magic. Mono blue ensures that you hold a monopoly on it. Splash black for targeted discard and it's even more enjoyable.
Most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. Simic players are even worse (a Simic player)
I love my simic deck, it does everything in this video and comes with the added benefit of stealing cards directly from my opponents deck. So not only can my opponents never feel the joy of actually playing cards, but I get to experience their joy when I play their cards.
One time I was in a commander pod with a Muldrotha player. I countered Muldrotha every. Single. Goddamn. Time he tried to cast it. At one point he let Muldrotha go to the graveyard, and then tried to Animate Dead. Key word: "tried".
As someone who has let my commander go to the graveyard to cast for cheap you don't try that shit against blue
There was a time (2020 i think) that i made a mono blue deck with no win condition...it was just counters and draw cards (and graveyard reshufle) to play till the oponent concedes or deck out.... Yeah i was a bad person back them.
I liked the part when you refused to let opponent play the game
I'm a blue/green player. I try to restrict my counterspells to actually protecting my fun stuff
That is the only ok way to play blue. If you are using it to protect the best colour green.
I have progress tyrant as a commander and just gotta say that is is so fun having people ask if it resolves for every spell, and counter once a turn.
awesome video...that felt so good that someone is finally makeing this point so well
The irl cards being as expensive as they are is enough of a deterrent for me.
Good video lol
This is why thought distortion is one of my favorite cards of all time
Pretty much how entire yugioh is being played today. A race on who can bring up their "negate your opponent from playing" setup first.
IQ and Fun are two different categories. If the opponent can’t play any cards, then I have to win
Accurate af. Honnestly I find it annoying that decks full of counterspells + draw cards actualy work. I mean what the hell, we're not supposed to just look at an empty board the whole game (until there's a Teferi and then you have to concede or get bored to death)
God forbid they pull out the "This spell can't be countered"
Noah pls make a tier list with all the color combinations and rank how evil they are
Blue player here. Feel called out but can confirm!
as a former Avatar player(master of all elements, including colorless), I agree.
blue control is just dumb... there is no "can I afford to counter this spell" anymore, it's just "counter? YES!"
main problem is card draw really. too much and everyone is too fucking fast and powerful, used to be that you needed to wait till turn 3-4 till you get some cards back aside from cantrips.
and with blue it's the worst cause they draw counters or other things that prevent other players from drawing.
Lol and here I am playing blue/white pillowfort. Actually since we usually play 4+ player commander I usually dont interfere unless they do something that directly effects me haha.
This is why I love Black
Black: I take everything other colors can do, pay a bunch of life for it and make it more fun and fair
Blue: Yeah but you don't have counterspells
Black: exactly.
I don't even play Magic anymore, but I gotta say that you slapping back everything your opponents tried to do gave me secondhand annoyance.
I personally play blue as an azorius defensive deck, slowly building my advantage while using the counterspells to protect my board while only stopping one-card wins from my opponents. That way they still can feel like they're doing something while i know they will never be able to close out the game.
Funnily enough my mono black Deck makes blue peeps ragequit, feels good everytime.
From a Hearthstone player, this us equivalent to play against a secret mage with objection and counterspell all the time, which is casually, Blue.
I am happy to say that I no longer play Mono-Blue with Counterspells.
Now I play White-Blue with Counterspells and Pacify.
You sullied yourself playing blue just to enlighten us, well played sir
Me when I play my Baral, Chief of Complaints EDH deck
as a blue player myself this is true
My very first game of paper Magic was against a mono-blue player.
I immediately gave up on the game and started playing Hearthstone instead. Best decision I ever made.
ah yes that's what my Teferi needed, an empty boardstate. Cool deck idea
The look on their face when ‘this spell cannot be countered’ 🤣
Blue has bounce spells too for the uncounterable things. Like, giving you hope to play that creature then OOPS back where you came from, b#tch.
Facts, one thing I noticed is when a spell can't be countered they rage quit alot. I get a huge laugh when they try countering those cards and didn't read the fine print first.
Seeing you doing it to a werewolf deck insulted me twice xD
As someone who plays mono blue, more so izzet though, I have one thing I’d like to say as a counter point:
At least I don’t play mono white.
What if you wanted to play Magic the Gathering, but your opponent said 'Counter target spell'
Here the thing though: you can also hate fun playing as black. I once made this absolutely nasty discarding deck that forced my opponent to discard all the cards in their hand, and then if they didn’t have any cards they would have to sacrifice their creatures, and if they had no creatures it would deal damage to them. So many people rage quit it was hilarious
As a Yu-Gi-Oh player i can say: This is very normaly.
Oof this video called me out in every way possible, gonna have to nope this.
You forgot the best part of Blue. Mill so your opponent doesn't even have the chance to TRY to have fun. Let them see their cards go the the graveyard.
Blue is the equivalent of playing yugioh
Just play commander yall. Maybe 1v1 ain't for me but commander definitely takes the edge off.
Blue player here- no lies detected LMAO
Wait, what if we mix blue colors with other colors?
The only time I'd actually agree with physical violence being an acceptable answer in any card game to resolve the stack. "Counter me one more time boy, and you'll be countin them teeth of yours on the floor". You had it coming hard counter players 😁
I play blue sometimes. You know I much I spent over a blue deck? Yeah, now suffer like my wallet did.
I've feel royally attacked. 😅😂
So for a person who wished to only bring chaos and despair to the opponent (I’m not even interested in winning 🤷🏽♂️) you would recommend Blue, right?
played against this guy once when started out.
he had some stupid bullshit where when he drew cards, i had to loose cards, and if some of those cards happened to be XY cards, he could draw more cards, since me and him had a really huge deck, we kept drawing cards back and forth for a good 40 minutes, neither of us could do anything but draw cards.
I like playing blue... and I am thoroughly enjoying this video. 😆
Say what you will, you all play the reverse card in Uno. Hypocrites, the lot.
- Jace
2:31 I'M DYING 🤣
Subscribed, if we can choose which blue player gets banned then I have a suggestion.
I have a friend who thinks he can play blue but fails can you ban him from any deck containing blue please?
If not full ban will be acceptable.
Like, I understand the existance of counterspells, but most blue meta decks are literally just "Nothing happens until I say I win." unless they draw bad.
The best is brawl where all they do is counter then smash you with a 1/1 commander....
imagine a blue player countering everything you have while a 1/1 flyer stings you to death. that must be so fun to play against, i'm sure.
true since alpha. I simply dont understand why to this day every Deck has countermeeasures against it, aside of control. Do something like 2 Mana Artefact, This spell cant be countered. And the ongoing effect is: Spells cant get countered. I mean for real. We have lowmana cards which destroy all creaturs, why nothing against Counter or other Control cards.
World champlionship always go like this: Nothing but Lands until Turn 17, and than, someone plays one card, conter, counter, counter, counter , counter, counter, good game.
The opponents forgot to say mother may I and that’s why they got countered.
I might play the only blue deck that does not use counterspells to prevent fun. Only really broke creatures with proliferate
Last game of magic I played I had 15 turns on the stack before they gave up
You play blue because you think you are smart. I play blue because I know I have the IQ of a slightly warmed up potato. We are not the same.
My buddy likes Dimir and Azorious and Bant because he has a God complex. Nothing but stax and control out of him and all of his decks...which I find ironic, considering that my favorite combination is Gruul, which almost exclusively have beef with his colors of choice, lol
Coming from yugioh, where over half the game is trying to out your opponent's negates (they have like 5), this honestly seems like normal gameplay to me.
Help.
You have to understand that blue players actually LOVE fun. We love it so much that we realized there is only a finite amount of fun to be had in any magic game, and we want to monopolize ALL of the fun for ourselves.
This is how I describe counter or lockdown strats, they're what you play when you want to have all the fun.
@@Pandaman64don't throw us staxx-players into the same pot as the average 39 counter 1 wincon-players. At least we take pride in our craft.
when all your brain power goes into over-rationalizing why such basic plays are fun instead of thinking of fun plays instead:
@@zirilan3398 whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there.
First off, like.....18 counters at max lol. And 2 wincons. Counter decks still need room for draw and powder keg, you know.
@@Pandaman64 my experience with says otherwise
“There is a finite amount of fun to be had and I want all of it” -my local blue player
hello, it's me, a dimir player. i can confirm that this video is 100% scientifically true. every single blue card in my deck is a counterspell. thank you for bringing this to public notice. a dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
You've said too much...
Clearly you play Rakdos, since no dimir player would admit that and you want to see the world burn.
You claim to be of the Dimir and yet you mention them aloud? Thank you for bringing this to public notice. A dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
@@zyibesixdouze4863 Dimir *player*, not Dimir. Important difference.
Dimir? What? I don't know this word...
Giving one colour draw and counterspells as it's central themes was definitly a decision
But white gets Lifegain and 1/1s. Just as Richard Garfield intended.
It was one of the decisions of all time!
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 - White gets Balance, Land Tax, Armageddon, Replinish, Moat, Humility, and other good stuff that is so busted it gets banned, restricted, and in many cases no other cards like it printed again.
Funny coming from a Yu-Gi-Oh player. During Tear format.
@@meliafanno.1808 never said I agreed with Yugiohs design decisions
I play blue because I'm illiterate. "Too many words on that card, counter"
Hello fellow YuGiOh player!
@@Nekogami04 No! I'm not gay
I would never just run counter spells. I run a lot of removal too, so if the opponent somehow gets a permanent onto the battlefield, it will be removed immediately!
tell me a format where this works. Aggro decks took over long ago, Planeswalker with flash....
There in modern control decks are screwed, legacy RU Delver is the only way to play it, or sneak and show/sneak and tell
@@trutherx3440 standard. I am having a 90% winrate on arena
@@trutherx3440 It's not about winning, it's about sending a message.
@@trutherx3440 you frustrate people into rage quitting, bonus point if you take maximum amount of time possible for each action
@@szylaj hate such players....
As a blue player, seeing Noah demonstrate why blue isn't fun whilst going against another player, who isn't having fun and has my exact name (this is not a joke) is really interesting.
Noah are you in my walls?
Wait, that’s you?
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 he's probably talking about Arthur, so most likely no
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 Sorry for the confusion but Erop is right I'm talking about the actual name haha
It is time to rethink your life’s choices is what it means
@@lazydroidproductions1087 Never, blue player forever lol
"I don't care if I lose, I don't care about your fun. I only care about my fun, and my fun is not letting you do shit as much as I can" - As a Yugioh player who naturally become MTG blue card player.
I too am a yugioh player who is addicted to purple cards that say "no, you can't do that".
I'm also a zombie player, so I spend my zombies to pay the cost of saying no.
And then I bring my zombies back.
So, anyways, appropos of nothing, I recently got my first commander deck for christmas and it's blue black for some reason?
@@Xahnel i play yugiog i play zombes i go only green in mtg
WTF?! Any original thought in that mind of yours?
ive never tapped an island in my life... this video describes my experience in MTG, every deck ive ever build has been forged with a hatred for blue
Sadly we don't get enough good bluehate nowadays without it getting banned. Still waiting on Cavern of Souls Print for pioneer
I only tap islands for my all color decks. (and my secret blue black deck)
You sir, are a true friends to Magic players.
You know what the best way to express you're hatred for blue is?
Ironically it's using blue.... You know cause that's where 99% of all counterspells are.
Keep fighting the good fight brother.
as the first deck I ever played was a blue/black counter deck where I just laughed at how I countered my opponent's entire turn this is absolutely true
now I just spam dragons so even if I lose I get to look at pretty dragons
character growth at its finest
Dragons are the best!
Now play blue/black dragons. I hear Silumgar is a cool guy
i stack my deck with counter proof creatures
to spite blue
Absolutely! These are the games I get to enjoy my card art. So pretty.
Yeah, I used to play commander and one of my opponents had a mono blue deck with Talrand, Sky Summoner as his commander. Dude ran only card draw, bounce, and counterspells and it stinking WORKED because his commander attached a 2/2 flyer on every. Stinking. Spell. You couldn't block the minions because, guess what, FLYING! And you couldn't take care of the commander because, guess what, COUNTERSPELL!!! I so wanted to run Niv-Mizzet, Parun against him because, guess what, CAN'T COUNTERSPELL THAT COMMANDER AND I DRAW A CARD EVERY TIME YOU ATTEMPT SOMETHING, FISH BOY!!!!!!!
Then he casts mindbreak trap in response to Niv-Mizzet! The first rule of playing against mono blue effectively is to never assume you're safe from interaction.
I run him myself. You think he's bad? Try Aesi Tyrant of The Gyre Straight. I have ONLY big creatures, mainly hydras and I have reliquary tower so for every 2 lands I'm able to play on my turn I am also able to draw cards. Include a River Hopoe for life gain to spend on dead turns and I'm basically unbeatable. I even beat out my gfs mono-red aggro burn deck, there's literally nothing but direct damage spells, a few monsters, and one of our many Chandra plainswalkers.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago Ooookay calm down there. You not impressing anyone with simic good stuff outside of your kitchen table.
Mono red burn is, by design, one of the most disenfranchised deck archetypes in EDH. Maybe have her use a better deck the next time you go around benchmarking. >.>
@@kargnak idek what that means.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago New to the hobby?
As a blue player I can proudly say my motto is: The less fun the opponent takes, the more fun stays with me.
As a blue player this 100% scientifically accurate, i even have a deck named "Go play hearthstone instead."
You
Are
A
Loser
I like how they made white's theme be the most useless mechanic (lifegain) and made blue's be the two most powerful ones (countering and card advantage)
Have you never played against a lifegain deck?
@@drlavalava7719 Lifegain has some good enablers (as long as your opponent doesn't play any removal) but lifegain on its own is very bad. It doesn't forward your gameplan in any meaningful way, it just maybe slows down your opponent's clock by a turn.
@@retronymph White has plenty of answers to removal, and lifelink slows your opponent’s clock while helping you win.
@@retronymph Lifegain on its own is a great way to make burn players cry as they are stuck topdecking lands and shocks once their opening hand is empty
@@ActionCow69 It used to be, until they printed 35 cards that said "Your opponent can't gain life this turn / ever"
False, you played creatures. What are you, an aggro player?
While this video is on the stack, I cast counterspell. Now plz delet
🤓whell akshully magic the gathering is a very complicated game and blue players work very hard🤓
- some blue player
in my defense I also have a couple red cards that get stronger every time I play a coun- I mean every time I cast a noncreature spell and that could be anything alright, not just counters
I currently have six commander decks, one of which is mono-blue (none of the other ones run blue). I built it at a time when I wanted to make a mono-colored deck for each color and the Izzet colors are my least favorite; so I built it with the thought process: "I hate blue, so if it has to exist, I'll make everyone else hate it as much as I do" lol
Can confirm I am a blue player
straight to jail
You know, fuck it. Straight to hell
@@badboom6823 can I play tempo decks in jail?
@@ColinSomething No, you have to play aggro in jail.
@@Mwarrior1991they probably tap 2 island in response
The best way to play is to make sure the other person cannot play.
The amount of fun is finite and I want to have all of it.
I have a couple of friends who are quite fond of blue, and I try over and over again to demonstrate that blue takes less skill and planning than other colours, and it simply isn't fun. They kept poking fun at me, countering my glorious green spells that I spend 4 turns building towards.
They always reply with that same old stupid blue reply "BuT iM hAvInG fUn..."
I got so fed up that I went into arena and tried to make the most obnoxious, spitefull and petty blue mill deck that I could muster. Just to prove a point.
That was the first and only time I made it to Mythic rank...
Did your have fun
@@ahmadazem4167 The better question is did he have their fun?
Magic is a zero-sum game. There is a limited amount of fun, and I will have all of it.
Blue is my favourite colour, also I play infect in commander and I am 1/4 french. Those things are totally unconnected.
As a Simic and Izzet player, I can confirm every word. I play 1,700 counterspells in every deck and no lands. All you need is counterspell.
I don't go that far I save room for creatures that counter spells.
I come from another cardgame-verse, a different universe where Blue players are called "Drytron Herald" players (it's still 2021 in that universe).
By the way I don't know how to play Magic, but I can *100% relate with the pain of a negation-spam* (Yu-Gi-Oh! 's meta is fun like Oliver Twist's childhood)
The difference is that in mtg you need lands to play cards, and in blue there are no tutors. Drytron Fairies is hyper-consistent, it continuously reuses its resources, and has powerful monsters on top of that, not just small but efficient creatures, but bosses with 4k atk. Drytron is even more unfair than playing blue.
@@lorenzotanzi9851 Ikr
* deletes the deck slot with Drytron Herald *
As a man whose cousin runs an Azorius exile deck EVERY time we play commander, I FEEL this! 🤣
Do a "in the mind of a discard / mill deck player"
Even Satan is more moral than mill players
The mind of a blue player: it's only fun for me if you aren't having fun.
Can confirm countering spells is fun cause you take away their fun
They should make a card call "fun drain" so we can have even more fun
You mean when you claim their fun for yourself.
I want to ask a question, whats the difference between running a blue counter deck vs mono red burn everything deck. with a good hand, you drop a creature, then just burn all the creatures your opponent drops? or mono black with a ton of murder sacrafice cards?
To be honest a fast enough red deck can be just as annoying and anti-fun as a blue deck. If it can win so fast the the other player doesn't really even get to play their deck it's so toxic. At least the game is over quick then though, as opposed to blue players durdling for a million years controlling everything but not having any way to actually win the game.
Also blue can go against almost any deck. What ever the card it can be countered. Can't say that for others tho. But I've learned that mono Blue is weak against flash and aggro.
0:24 This actually inspires me to actually play the game instead of just find out stuff about it - and also to feel upset, but that's just because I once actually thought blue was morally acceptable
I built an azorius tempo/control deck that uses mirrari conjecture + mythos of Illuna to recur counter spells and board wipes every turn. Every time I win a match with that deck, someone else starts their joker arc.
Man i hate playing mono blue, I hate blue + one of any other color but once there is blue and two other colors it's suddenly my jam and I love those decks.
Sounds like you’re just bad at the game
Temur is a lot of fun along with counter burn.
@@ianfrazier6858 I mean yeah but also rude man.
I played against a deck that was literally just tarrant as the commander, and then every other card was draw and counter spells.
I do the same thing but run Baral as commander 😌
@@ianfrazier6858 do you know that the point of playing games is to have fun?
blue more like poo
Gottem
I was going to make a full blown powerpoint presentation around these players, but you made the rant for me. Thanks!