Mambo nr. 5 music queues in, cgb starts singing: a little bit of value in my deck, a little bit of adventure, what the heck, a little bit of tribal is all i see, a little bit of knights is all i need *riff in*
Great game vs the Monoblack mirror-match. I liked that you just "disabled" Priest of Forgotten Gods instead of being scared of her and wasting removal, opting for the Piper of the Swarm instead. Great video as always. Keep up the good work CGB!!
This is my favorite version of Knights yet. Some use the cat food combo (cauldron familiar + witch's oven) with Ayara. I like Lucky Clover with Murderous Rider. You can decline the extra trigger and make it fizzle and go to the yard too.
I really like listening to you. You speak clear English, explain your thoughts out loud, give a brief introduction to the deck and then test it against different decks. Good job!
Preach on your assessment of Golos decks around 18:45. When I asked about the metagame challenge, I didn't want to play Golos because "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!" I want the other player to have a good time too. It doesn't seem sporting to use the only deck that fixes the mana flood/screw problem.
I guess I will convert my Golgari (mainly for the Inkeeper and some Once Upon) to mono black. Your mana base and card draw look a lot more consistent. Great deck1 Thanks for the work you are putting in for us!
Thank you for you frequent uploads - you are one of the two go-to channels I love watching. I can't afford to even get one deck myself, so it's great to watch them being played!
That FotD game, had sorta the same thing happened to me too, I was playing Mardu Knights for the 12-win event, up against Golos, managed to smork em and finished it with the Curry Favor, whatever that means lol.
Gets better every time. This build IMO is the most resilient so far on the series. Though yeah it can be prone to flooding but the castles make up for it, so it has a decent draw engine going in return. Really sweet build CGB. There goes my 4 Rare WC for the Black lance Hahah!
@@covertgoblue It may end up finding use in the future. It's a pretty good card itself, so I guess it's worth it. Hope to see more of your Mono-Series. All the best.
Man I either try to desperately survive the first turns against Mono-Red or try to desperately smash in against Field of the Dead. It's just a lot of despairing in the current meta
Dropped a couple of Legions Ends, and a Paragon (not wanting to use a wildcard for such a niche cards 4th copy) and a couple of lands, and added in one Lucky Clover and a play set of Icon of Ancestry. Make your boys that wee bit beefier. Been working well so far for me.
CGB went to combat at 25:46, but didn't remember that Questing Beast had deathtouch until 26:03. So he had to go full control to Swift End before blockers were declared to keep his Knight of the Ebon Legion.
Honestly think this deck could make a comeback. Lurrus seems good vs decks with removal and answers for clover. Demonic embrace makes your 1/1 death toucher decent same with the 2/1 lifelink. This deck laughs at mono red and mono green aggro most times you just have too many efficient ways to kill their creatures. Maybe this is the mono black deck we should be playing.
Don't underestimate Reaper of Night in an Adventure deck. Playing it turn 4 with a Clover on the board is almost guaranteed to empty your opponent's hand.
I feel like you're really missing out by not playing Ayara, she adds draining when you can't get in with your limited creatures, she also gives you extra outs when digging for swordmasters drawing extra cards. If you do though you will want to add midnight reaper to allow you to churn through a ton of cards in a turn.
Yeah I know, I'm just glad you did 4 mono black decks lol. Just a suggestion, either way love the content keep up the good work! I think Rankle is just a good card, and sometimes you should just play powerful cards in your deck over the weaker more synergistic piece so totally get shoving him into most mono black shells honestly.
It's a glitch, opp conceded during the attack, putting him to zero, then the game subtracted the incoming hits. Wouldn't have been lethal, as CGB forgot to pump the knight...
13:09 The opponent has 9 life. Suddenly Smitten Swordmaster does 8 damage and then the opponent ends up at -5 when CGB has 8 damage on board? I don't understand.
When the opponent concedes during an attack, the damage gets calculated wrong. Generally it gets doubled (so it would've been 8 damage down to 1, then the animation of the creatures attacking would've taken off another 8 to -7), but in this case it looks like the opponent conceded while Old Smitty was attacking, so it was -8 then -2 -2 -2 from each of the other three creatures. It usually doesn't matter (and it doesn't matter for the result itself; the opponent has to concede for the "glitch" to happen), but on this occasion it covered up the fact that CGB had missed lethal by forgetting to pump Knight of the Ebon Legion. At least, that was covered up until CGB blabbed about it and snitched on himself.
@@covertgoblue Surely Smitten Swordmaster and Lucky Clover are mythics. They're so powerful for their CMCs they MUST be high rarity. I mean, they're basically Oko. BTW, I'm enjoying the mono-black series (and your content in general). I'm pretty new to the game and tried to make a Mono-Black Control/Lifegain/Citadel thing happen in M20 standard. I'm still messing around with it on Arena and I'm looking forward to adding a bunch of ELD cards (Rider, Rankle, Castle) for paper.
I'd say starting loyalty has to be 3, his +2 food ability has to be a +1 ability, his +1 elk ability has to be a -1 ability and his -5 can become a -3.
@@royalblizzardgaming4355 For a 3 mana planeswalker he is disgustingly overpowered. I don't think he'll get banned since wotc is kinda forcing planeswalkers on us
@@royalblizzardgaming4355 They can't ban him. They need to get us used to overpowered planeswalkers so that they can print a 2-mana Teferi, HoD as a rare in Core 2021 (The Teferi Edition).
For every Field of the Dead deck defeated, a cute puppy is born somewhere.
Redundant. All puppies are cute.
For every Field of the Dead deck defeated, a kitten is resurrected from a sad pie.
It's a land dead, so be eco-zealous: For every FoD deck defeated, the global CO2 concentration goes down 1 part per million.
This makes me happy, yet I have not contributed to the birth of any puppies, so that makes me sad
Mambo nr. 5 music queues in, cgb starts singing: a little bit of value in my deck, a little bit of adventure, what the heck, a little bit of tribal is all i see, a little bit of knights is all i need *riff in*
Damn youre really doing the 1 vid per day, respect
Since March of this year, 1 vid per day, every day, even when on vacay
@@covertgoblue Works for Pewds, so yeah.
Great game vs the Monoblack mirror-match. I liked that you just "disabled" Priest of Forgotten Gods instead of being scared of her and wasting removal, opting for the Piper of the Swarm instead. Great video as always. Keep up the good work CGB!!
This is my favorite version of Knights yet. Some use the cat food combo (cauldron familiar + witch's oven) with Ayara. I like Lucky Clover with Murderous Rider. You can decline the extra trigger and make it fizzle and go to the yard too.
“We got really lucky”
You drew 50% land in that last game and still beat jeskai fires poppin off
I really like listening to you. You speak clear English, explain your thoughts out loud, give a brief introduction to the deck and then test it against different decks. Good job!
Preach on your assessment of Golos decks around 18:45. When I asked about the metagame challenge, I didn't want to play Golos because "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!" I want the other player to have a good time too. It doesn't seem sporting to use the only deck that fixes the mana flood/screw problem.
I guess I will convert my Golgari (mainly for the Inkeeper and some Once Upon) to mono black. Your mana base and card draw look a lot more consistent. Great deck1 Thanks for the work you are putting in for us!
Thank you for you frequent uploads - you are one of the two go-to channels I love watching. I can't afford to even get one deck myself, so it's great to watch them being played!
This dude! Even on sunday?! What's wrong with you cgb??? Thanks btw
Smitten Swordmaster is MVP
Clover and Swordmaster have actually won me quite some games against fields!
That FotD game, had sorta the same thing happened to me too, I was playing Mardu Knights for the 12-win event, up against Golos, managed to smork em and finished it with the Curry Favor, whatever that means lol.
Man these were some good games!
Awesome video. I had a blast watching this video. I'm always excited for mono black decks
Gets better every time. This build IMO is the most resilient so far on the series. Though yeah it can be prone to flooding but the castles make up for it, so it has a decent draw engine going in return. Really sweet build CGB. There goes my 4 Rare WC for the Black lance Hahah!
Paragon can be other things, it is the most cuttable
@@covertgoblue It may end up finding use in the future. It's a pretty good card itself, so I guess it's worth it. Hope to see more of your Mono-Series. All the best.
What a comeback against the four color knights. Yeesh!
Until watching this video I could have sworn that profane insight was sorcery speed, been casting at as a sorcery the whole time. Oh well I guess.
I’m gonna run Selesyna Adventures. I’m not running Once Upon a a Time because of budget restrictions though. They’re like 12$ each
that's probably alright, I am not 100% that deck should run Once Upon a time
Man I either try to desperately survive the first turns against Mono-Red or try to desperately smash in against Field of the Dead. It's just a lot of despairing in the current meta
Love it! I feel like I wouldn't play this deck nearly as well as you but it was a blast to watch
Great games! Loved how rankle really shines in the mirror
great as usual. possitive, good skills and humble. my man
I built a similar one, doesnt seems to competitive but ton of fun. liked the lucky clover idea, thanks man
Subbed! Another great video. Keep up the good work!
Great video! This is what I subbed for I look forward to the rest of the season
Dropped a couple of Legions Ends, and a Paragon (not wanting to use a wildcard for such a niche cards 4th copy) and a couple of lands, and added in one Lucky Clover and a play set of Icon of Ancestry. Make your boys that wee bit beefier. Been working well so far for me.
I played icons for a while and cut them for being slow and unnecessary
Yeah I've found that when they work they really *W O R K* but when they don't help or are unplayable its pretty brutal to try and recover from.
Thanks cgb, I'm gonna steal this one.
26:12 why didnt you just main phase swift end and then attack instead of using full control during the attack step?
CGB went to combat at 25:46, but didn't remember that Questing Beast had deathtouch until 26:03. So he had to go full control to Swift End before blockers were declared to keep his Knight of the Ebon Legion.
Wow. Never figured Smitten Swordmaster would actually get to be a 1-mana Warleader's Helix.
This really show how strong black got just from eldraine...
It seems they are really messing with the color identities, black has haste and flash
Would this be adjustable for a deck in current Standard? Looks like fun 😁
"it's lightning helix!!!!" for 1 black pretty good
That swordmaster is doin WORK!
I'm amazed this went 7-0. Well played, good sir.
These knights seem to really enjoy curry! You could say they favor it over all other dishes.
Christ that knights vs knights game was fucking crazy. Well played. I thought you were done for sure after turn 3
"Hey opponent, do you like Curry?! Well too bad it's all we serve here! Eat it!"
It's a favor of curry.
Why no Heraldic Banners or midnight reaper?
Honestly think this deck could make a comeback. Lurrus seems good vs decks with removal and answers for clover. Demonic embrace makes your 1/1 death toucher decent same with the 2/1 lifelink.
This deck laughs at mono red and mono green aggro most times you just have too many efficient ways to kill their creatures. Maybe this is the mono black deck we should be playing.
Don't underestimate Reaper of Night in an Adventure deck. Playing it turn 4 with a Clover on the board is almost guaranteed to empty your opponent's hand.
Great games, this has to be my favorite black yet.
Have you done a deck with Revenge of Ravens?
recorded it today
@@covertgoblue Awesome, I am looking forward to it!
@@covertgoblue Revenge of Ravens helped me go 7-0 in the BO3 Standard Metagame Challenge. It's a great sideboard card.
We belong, we belong
42:30 such a nail biter!
I feel like you're really missing out by not playing Ayara, she adds draining when you can't get in with your limited creatures, she also gives you extra outs when digging for swordmasters drawing extra cards. If you do though you will want to add midnight reaper to allow you to churn through a ton of cards in a turn.
I played her in the Aristocrats build, the object is to try different cards and themes and try not to spam the same deck all week (cough RANKLE cough)
Yeah I know, I'm just glad you did 4 mono black decks lol. Just a suggestion, either way love the content keep up the good work!
I think Rankle is just a good card, and sometimes you should just play powerful cards in your deck over the weaker more synergistic piece so totally get shoving him into most mono black shells honestly.
Where's your Cavalair of Night?
13:10
it is a visual bug that occurs when the opponent concedes during damage
It's a glitch, opp conceded during the attack, putting him to zero, then the game subtracted the incoming hits. Wouldn't have been lethal, as CGB forgot to pump the knight...
Ah. Strange. XD
budget frendly 16 rares 3 mythink hmmmm?
I can't believe you passed on the chance to sing "Because the Knight".
Dat smitten - MVP :)
13:09 The opponent has 9 life. Suddenly Smitten Swordmaster does 8 damage and then the opponent ends up at -5 when CGB has 8 damage on board? I don't understand.
When the opponent concedes during an attack, the damage gets calculated wrong. Generally it gets doubled (so it would've been 8 damage down to 1, then the animation of the creatures attacking would've taken off another 8 to -7), but in this case it looks like the opponent conceded while Old Smitty was attacking, so it was -8 then -2 -2 -2 from each of the other three creatures.
It usually doesn't matter (and it doesn't matter for the result itself; the opponent has to concede for the "glitch" to happen), but on this occasion it covered up the fact that CGB had missed lethal by forgetting to pump Knight of the Ebon Legion. At least, that was covered up until CGB blabbed about it and snitched on himself.
Love the longer vids!
13:09
what the hell was that?
Can I ask why you play the ebon legion instead of the foulmire on turn one?
Btw, you're a boss!
Because Ebon generates value over time, foulmire is a slightly better blocker, but you also want to save him for Clover
@@cephelos1098 thanks for the answer! Makes sense :)
CGB, why do you never seem to use Murderous Rider/Swift End to kill planeswalkers?
Not accurate
@@covertgoblue Yep, about, 5 minutes after i posted that, you used it to kill a planeswalker :P
The word never is never used accurately ;)
Now this monoB is sweet. 👍🏻
blacker than mono black magic
Nice one mate, decent and fun deck to play. Btw Midnight Reaper does help:)
I found losing life was a real problem and if you are double-Swift Ending and double Foulmire Knighting you have to stay alive
@@covertgoblue Makes sense, my greedy ass just can't resist the reaper:)
Great vid CGB!
Lucky Clover is somehow 2 mana. Broken as hell lol
CGB Had lethal if he 0layed the black lance paragon at the end
20 rares + 13 mythics = budget
13 mythic?
@@covertgoblue Surely Smitten Swordmaster and Lucky Clover are mythics. They're so powerful for their CMCs they MUST be high rarity. I mean, they're basically Oko.
BTW, I'm enjoying the mono-black series (and your content in general). I'm pretty new to the game and tried to make a Mono-Black Control/Lifegain/Citadel thing happen in M20 standard. I'm still messing around with it on Arena and I'm looking forward to adding a bunch of ELD cards (Rider, Rankle, Castle) for paper.
Whoops 3 not 13
Interesting deck!
Except for swordmaster there does not seem much of a knight payoff from playing knight tribal in mono black.
and when you watch the video you will see that the swordmaster is all the payoff we need. I did test with Icon on Ancestry but it was pretty bad
CovertGoBlue, gotcha, I just wish we had more mono colored payoffs for knights, especially in black my favorite color.
Look atcha, taking green out of the grind.
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Ban the swordmaster!1!!
Great games
WP gj
Revisit this deck!
make a deck out of Sentinal's Eyes
where all suffering of field of the death....it's that or mono red :(
really knice top deck
get it? knight + nice!
I'll show myself out
Abraham Perez this somehow made me laugh
Oko would be balanced if he started with 1 less loyalty and his +1 was a -1
maybe
I'd say starting loyalty has to be 3, his +2 food ability has to be a +1 ability, his +1 elk ability has to be a -1 ability and his -5 can become a -3.
Maybe Space Monkey. We can both agree he’s too strong as is. You think he’ll be banned in standard?
@@royalblizzardgaming4355 For a 3 mana planeswalker he is disgustingly overpowered. I don't think he'll get banned since wotc is kinda forcing planeswalkers on us
@@royalblizzardgaming4355 They can't ban him. They need to get us used to overpowered planeswalkers so that they can print a 2-mana Teferi, HoD as a rare in Core 2021 (The Teferi Edition).
Mono black is ok, but golgari is so much fast
Curry favor ftw man!
Ah yes I comment!!
Great as usual...but more commentary and less singing...better yet no singing.
First?
Congrats?