@suNn.K.O won't work. The sacrifice effect is a cost, so it cannot be responded to. Only way to stop it is to counter the creature or either of its triggered abilities.
@@Jacob-pp3kb If you remove it in response to the breaker's ETB it works, since then the LTB trigger resolves before the ETB (whether or not it is sacrificed).
The next-level play is to make a Crucias value deck now, so that after your opponent mulligans hard for their counterspells/removal and keeps up mana to interact with the combo you just start slamming midrange cards and win the old-fashioned way.
There is another 97 land brawl deck I encountered on Arena, based on the commander Laelia, The Blade Reforged. I don't remember what the other key cards were but I got one-shot by the opponent exiling most of his library and hitting for about 70 damage.
The discover/cascade cards are Geological Appraiser, Trumpeting Carnosaur, Throes of Chaos, and Daring Discovery (with Hidden Volcano in the manabase). You can technically also run Hit the Mother Lode, but waiting until turn 7 to go off is not a great strategy
Anything with Discover exiles cards one-by-one, which means every one of them triggers Laelia. Etali's Favor, Geological Appraiser, Trumpeting Carnosaur, Throes of Chaos and Daring Discovery are your Discover spells, though there probably are some 6+ cards (with maybe cheaper alternative costs) that can be included to increase resilience, and not requiring all lands to be Mountains allows for probably all the utility lands you can find in red, most notably Hidden Volcano which lets you Discover too.
@@09419I mean any dredge deck still plays it Sure, dredge isn't the top deck anywhere but legacy and vintage dredge are still powerful tier 2 decks so saying it's completely irrelevant is kind of a stretch
@@michaelgreen2687 you are correct, but the funny thing is it looks like he had dark ritual in hand, so with the mage he could have used his treasure to cast dark ritual, which would add BBB and create another treasure, THEN cast bolt bent. So normally yes, you're right, but here he actually could have used bolt bend to survive and win!
But are the low chances of hitting it to ramp worth the extra card in the deck after the combo? That lessens the chance of drawing the volcanic geyser and needing an extra turn
You're still 100% to hit at least one geyser on your draw two and even if you hit geyser amber and the geyser gets countered you'll still draw geyser next turn. The cases where the amber messes with the combo are really narrow @mse326
@@I43573 How do you figure you're 100%? There would be more than 1 non geyser left in the deck between the Amber and nonmountains. And next turn may not come. This is already usually a turn 5 win, there is hardly a guarantee you get turn 6. And what is the chance of hitting the amber? That is also pretty low. You have far less chance of being able to ramp with it, than you do having it mess with the draw preventing the Geyser, it isn't a benefit
I've wanted that for a looooooooong time. I personally don't even play digitally-modified cards - I just really don't like them in my Brawl decks. Alchemy Brawl should be separate. (I'm sure someone will mention the idea of Explorer Brawl. Explorer lacks a ton of cards that are simply staples in Brawl, like Swords to Plowshares or the fetchlands. That would miss the point.)
Because it's an alchemy card it can be errataed to "discard a nonland card". If they do that it still would be a cool commander, but it wouldn't be as stupid
I hope so. I'm going to use this as a thought experiment with the goal to see exactly how long it takes them to rebalance the card. If they get on it in a reasonable time, I'll cut them some slck I guess.
Fully agree. I really dislike the designs, perpetually, draft etc. really breaks paper magic rules which I get is what they wanted. I just really dislike it and it doesn't give me a good play experience. I typically conceeded if I see a digital only commander. I will use my time in another match.
@@connorbell5340 "seek a card with X" could be replaced by "reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with X, put it in your hand, then shuffle (or put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any/random order, both work) and the only difference is the hand/deck knowledge…
Nice. Really liked the video, but hopefully now people will know how to play against this deck and it's winrate will drop. For the mobile gamers who want to give this deck a try: my phone struggles with multiple things in this combo and when you try to target your Caldera Breaker with Corrupted Conviction, it moves all the way to the right because of all the lands exiled with it. So you have to scroll through all the lands to target your Caldera Breaker (which is harder than it sounds like, at least on my phone). Btw, if your Crucias is still on the battlefield at the end of the turn in which you did the thing, it will fetch the Volcanic Geyser. So in that case you wouldn't necessarily have to draw it off your Corrupted Conviction and you can still win that turn.
Played against this deck, I know what it does, and still got wrecked. Knowing what to do and what the other decks does, not always mean you can avoid it.
@@dcrow9650A deck with literally any counter will win 100% of the time, or a deck with 2-3 spot removals. Both are increaibly common to run and if people know what this commander does then they can mulligan for them. Sure, they might not have it, but when enough people see this deck from cgb or his minions that flood the queues with these decks, the WR is going to absolutely plummet through the floor and get so bad people wont want to play it anymore.
@@eewweeppkk If you know what you are playing against, I don't think you even need 2-3 spot removal spells. Just have one instant-speed removal spell for Caldera Breaker in response to its trigger and they cannot win.
5:33 I don’t know what the name of the song here is, but it immediately stands out when the melody at 6:37 happens. It just incessantly echoes through my head the moment I hear that part lol
Switched the sac outlet for Diabolic Intent (which conveniently searches for those Volcanic Geysers so you can add any non-Mountain lands you wish) and added a Reanimate to avoid Caldera Discarding shenanigans and also for the early "discard Caldera with Phyrexian Scrapyard + Reanimate" win and got 9-0... Unbelievable.
@@homeboy2258 Yeah, any kind of "loses all abilities" card on Crucias and/or exiling the Caldera or countering its ability is the end, but that's what we got for playing glass cannon degenerate decks, I guess
Diabolic Intent is 2 mana. You win on turn 5 with no mana left if you use corrupted conviction, so unless you get a nut draw with mox amber that's worse
@@apoiio This is true, but Crucias does produce a treasure token at end step (if he's still there) and you'll have your two mana but it would take doing this on your opponents turn instead which is risky but still can be done.
Don't bother with Brawl, Wizards totally ruined it. I remember when it got released it used to be full of janky cards to reach the 100 card, now you quite literally lose to a combo every other game, really feels like Brawl is just MTGA's version cEDH, nothing janky or fun out there
@@TheSmartCinema Stop building your decks like a stupid commander deck. This isn't any where near the same format. Nor did alchemy ruin it. And most certainly is this deck not broken. Literally loses to one counterspell or removal. Some thing all decks have.
@@tonysmith9905 You would need specifically an exile-based, instant removal, which is not that common. Removing Crucias delays the combo, but doesn't stop it. Counters work, as does bouncing, but that means that only one color can deal with this deck optimally. And if you're mono green you might as well just scoop.
For a moment, I thought it was The First Sliver as commander cascading into Tibalt's Trickery into Cultivator Collossus, then play all the lands from your deck and hit your opponent in the face for trample!
It's worth adding 0-drop creatures to this list, like Ornithopter and Stonecoil Serpent. It gives you blockers to play on turns 2 and 4, and that's more important that drawing into redundant geysers. There's also an alternative build running ~50 1-drops and seeking for Callous Sell-sword as the sac outlet. It lets you play a bunch of blockers, removal, and hand disruption. It's a stronger build overall, but if you're spending wildcards and casting multiple spells, you might as well play a real deck at that point.
Man, this right here is what makes watching Boy in Blue so fun. I never know what random stuff he is gonna pop out and try to make it work and we get to enjoy the ride.
Whatever you do; DO NOT PLAY THIS ON YOUR PHONE! You won't be able to select the golem for sacrifice (when you touch it, the mountains scroll out) and you will time out.
I guess one of the tricky things in the mulligan is if they're playing a fair Crucias deck, mulliganing heavily will be a death sentence as fair Crucias can 1-for-1 effectively even though mulliganing aggressively will work against the combo version. Also a discard spell will work against this deck after the 2nd Cruicias trigger (in addition to counterspells and instant speed removal).
I knew he was my spirit animal when I tried to make a deck without any land and ended up finding his video while doing research. Long live out-of-the-box thinking!
Ayyy another budget brawl deck to add to my collection! I also have a Laelia the blade reforged deck that has 94 lands, but it doesnt seem as good as this(even though I have around 60-65% wr with it)
Thank you for the video!!! And in turn, a great heads up because I had never seen the combo before. Since the video, I have faced it 5 times and survived every time. It reminds me of the Leyla deck. When you know what's coming, it is almost too easy to stop. But I guess on the other hand, if you don't know what is coming, you are already dead 😅.
Playing on my phone, when I hit breaker to sac him, all my lands spread out and it takes forever to find breaker, it won’t highlight him. Is there something in settings that will stop that?
Loved the Gruul ramp deck conceding out of shame when they failed to kill you, then you turned around and ramped out harder in one turn than they had over the course of the entire match.
74% win rate... sounds about right. I just tried this out and won 8/10. Once, I did the combo, but didn't draw a Volcanic Geyser. I drew Raucous Theater before I combo'd off, so I wasn't able to surveil, which is probably why. Once, I had Curse of Silence played on me turn 1, so I couldn't play Crucias until turn 5, which was too late. Counter spells and instant removal were played on Crucias a few times, but they were tapped out when I went to pull off the combo a few turns later.
Kind of unplayable on mobile. When you go to sack the creature, it reveals all 80+ mountains stacked under it. You then have to swipe your finger across the screen like ten times to reveal the creature again, but sometimes as you swipe it sends the stack of mountains the wrong way. Lost one game because I couldn’t reveal the creature in time to sac it.
Crucias, Titan of the Waves + Molten Duplication + Dualcaster Mage + 40 lands and 47 0-1 mana spells wins around 7-8 out of10 brawl matches. Extremely glass cannon deck. If you include no cards above 1 mana except Molten Duplication and Dualcaster Mage you can combo on turn 4-5 every game by discarding 1 drops to Crucias's ability to guarenteed find your two combo pieces in 2 triggers/turns. Play discard, removal, spree cards, value creatures, X spells, etc to complete the deck.
Do First Sliver, Cultivator Colossus, Tibalt's Trickery and 97 lands next. Win with Maze's End and 10 Gates, Crawling Barrens, or a lethal Colossus. Stick lifegain lands in and you should survive off of your colossus turn.
Definitely a misplay to keep attacking thinking the opponent won’t block. You either pop them in the face for 60 or lose, it’s totally pointless to attack
I just tried playing this on mobile, but it's literally impossible due the interface. As soon as you try to sacrifice the Caldera, it just shows all the mountains underneath while moving the sacrifice target off the board. You even can't scroll to find it because the mobile interface is trash, especially for combo players
I had this issue too, thought it was just my phone. Fun deck and it might not look like you're scrolling but I promise you'll get to him if you keep scrolling through the lands. Keep up the grind, and be patient because you'll get a good amount of fast wins with this deck
A reason why this is one of the best preforming decks is because the Deck Weight is all messed up due to it playing so many lands. The matchmaker thinks the deck is weak, so it often matches you up against weaker decks, letting you stomp on them. TBH, they should massivly increase the matchmaking card weight of Cladera Breaker, since its never played fairly anyway.
My experience with this deck has been as follows lost to every blue deck, lost to every black deck that's it, but it has been 10+ games in a row against a deck with a counterspell of an instant speed removal for the golem. Haven't faced a single green deck
Counterplay is to counter the first cast then mill 3 cards, GG. Also, you can kill Breaker before the ability resolves and BOOM all lands exiled. Same if you exile it after ability resolves. Same if you just return it back to his hand for 1 mana with Fading Hope and BOOM, yes, all lands exiled anyway.
This deck is vulnerable to basically any interaction you can dream of. White, blue and black have plenty of good and cheap ways to stop the combo, and even red and green should have a few things they can do. The deck basically wins due to the opponent's miscalculation: they tap out at the wrong time and give the combo player a window.
i'm not sure how i feel about this. Both components you need for the deck to work exclusively and ONLY exist in ARENA through their special "alchemy" set that is digital only. Cards that for all intensive purposes exist today, could be gone tomorrow.
is this better than the sliver brawl with trickery and harvester using maze's end as the win con? I'm gonna have to make this and do like 20 of each to gauge win rates
Nope. Crucias decks get beat by interaction. Sliver gets beat by only land interaction which there is MUCH less of. And Sliver is technically 1-2 turns faster with optimal lands.
now that we know how the hell que works . caldera breaker is 9 points, crucias, titan of the waves is 720 points corrupted conviction is 18 points. lands are 0. (total 747) assuming a braw deck runs. if a deck is 50 playable cards worth 9 points and popular commanders are at least 360 points. (810) if you run any GOOD brawl cards you get dinged 45 points (alseid of life's bounty is considered a 45point card.) basically this is a guaranteed turn like 5 win against REALLY sub optimal decks (casuals)
I feel like this is a golden opportunity to play a Crucias deck that idles until turn 3 and then does *anything* besides this combo. There's got to be some way to take advantage zigging while all of your opponents are expecting a zag.
Hilarious! I've played Arena for over a year, but never played a brawl outside of MWM. I must have opened Crusias in a free pack or something, so I just crafted Caldera Breaker and replaced the rare lands I was missing with basics. I went 2-1, conceding a game where the opponent heisted my deck turn 1. No way to win at that point.
Trying to figure out the odds if it gets destroyed in response to the ETB, and I dont like this math: cast the sac/draw 2. deck will be around 80 lands and 4 geysers when that spell resolves. Or is it right to keep the treasure? Mountains get exiled from deck. Now it only has 4 geysers and a maximum of 7 lands: three fetchlands, two swamps, Cavern and Command tower. Hand will have 6/7 cards at most. Play/draw and mulligans will affect this probably doing this turn 5, so five lands already in play. Crucias can discard the fetchlands after all this nonsense to draw the geysers + make a treasure ... Is Frank around?
Its honestly disgusting how they have run this format into the ground now its just standards 2.0 with 5 health more but still only 2,5 turns on average
Pretty sure hand disruption kills this, no? Like discard him as he approaches 6 mana. The deck doesnt have any counterspells or protection and view opponents hand cards range from cmc 1-3.
I normally skip brawl because it would take me too many wild cards to play most of your decks; however, this one I could craft. What I liked best is NOT this deck, but that you mined untapped to find a fun deck to show us!
can someone tell me if there is a way to turn off the fact that when I go to sacrifice the Breaker it “unstacks” all the mountains and i have to slide through all 80 something the select him as my target to sacrifice
So much for having an easy combo to do my dailies with now 😂 Keeping the combo pieces in your opening hand is risky though because of all the low cost discard and exile spells
I did wonder why I was seeing this build everywhere today...... Thankfully it folds cold to countermagic: all you gotta do is counter the caldera brawler & the deck does nothing.
I tried using this deck on mobile and would've won first game but wouldn't let me sacrifice my creature eveytime id click it it wouldn't click the creature
Some thoughts -- I notice you were never paired with Baral, Teferi, Rusko, Golos, or any of the other high end evil decks, which is probably why the deck's win rate is so high. In addition to countermagic, a simple Thoughtseize discarding the big red guy is an instant loss, or a Stifle effect cancelling one or more of the triggers. Now, a deck "improvement" if you will -- and this will enable the deck to go off a turn sooner -- instead of relying on a sac effect and geyser, just play Repercussion. Y'know, that enchantment that says whenever a creature takes damage, that creature's controller takes that much damage? Sure, it's more susceptible to an enchantment removal spell, and if your opponent doesn't have any creatures, or only has creatures with hexproof or ward... Well, ouch. On the other hand, you win a turn sooner if you have exactly enough mana to cast the big 6/6 and Crucias is dead. And you'd win because you dealt them 80 something to their face
Well Cool kids club, we got around 24 hours to play Brawl before every other person you go against is playing this deck
Play something with blue. Counter caldera breaker and this deck scoops
@@haggleboggle Or just remove the Breaker as soon as it hits the 'field. Iunno how this deck keeps winning lol.
I'm doing it.
@suNn.K.O won't work. The sacrifice effect is a cost, so it cannot be responded to. Only way to stop it is to counter the creature or either of its triggered abilities.
@@Jacob-pp3kb If you remove it in response to the breaker's ETB it works, since then the LTB trigger resolves before the ETB (whether or not it is sacrificed).
The next-level play is to make a Crucias value deck now, so that after your opponent mulligans hard for their counterspells/removal and keeps up mana to interact with the combo you just start slamming midrange cards and win the old-fashioned way.
RIP to the opponent who had Bolt Bend but used it on the wrong target.
I don't think they'd have had a 4 power creature for the cost reduction after Rowan ate 80.
The opponent would not have had a 4 power creature at that point and wouldn't have been able to cast it anymore.
@@michaelgreen2687 They had the ritual. Storm-Kiln Artist would've created another treasure token from the ritual, so that's 4 mana.
At 13:22, you say "fire at will", but actually, you're facing the other Kenrith twin
I swear I can see the look on the face of the first opponent like.. “Wait what.. what just happened?”
There is another 97 land brawl deck I encountered on Arena, based on the commander Laelia, The Blade Reforged. I don't remember what the other key cards were but I got one-shot by the opponent exiling most of his library and hitting for about 70 damage.
For reference, this uses a discover/cascade chain with Etali's Favor at the bottom to give Laelia Trample (and like 90+ counters).
The discover/cascade cards are Geological Appraiser, Trumpeting Carnosaur, Throes of Chaos, and Daring Discovery (with Hidden Volcano in the manabase). You can technically also run Hit the Mother Lode, but waiting until turn 7 to go off is not a great strategy
Anything with Discover exiles cards one-by-one, which means every one of them triggers Laelia.
Etali's Favor, Geological Appraiser, Trumpeting Carnosaur, Throes of Chaos and Daring Discovery are your Discover spells, though there probably are some 6+ cards (with maybe cheaper alternative costs) that can be included to increase resilience, and not requiring all lands to be Mountains allows for probably all the utility lands you can find in red, most notably Hidden Volcano which lets you Discover too.
All red discorver/cascade deck, MTGGolfdfish made a vide on it
It's her and any etali card
How dare you, CGB. I am not a Mesa Falcon. You're a Mesa Falcon. I am very clearly a Golgari Grave Troll.
Banned twice in modern and irrelevant in all other formats?
My comment was about the same thing but I realized most of my decks are jank... I am a Mesa Falcon whether I want to admit it or not
@@09419 Smelly creature that dwells in dark places and works mostly with black and green cards.
@@09419I mean any dredge deck still plays it
Sure, dredge isn't the top deck anywhere but legacy and vintage dredge are still powerful tier 2 decks so saying it's completely irrelevant is kind of a stretch
Everybody’s a Mesa Falcon at one point in their life 😂
Alchemy is where the interns at WOTC go to learn game design
Just put "discard a nonland" and the card is perfectly fine
I thought the learn game design at hearthstone
That premature Bolt Bend must've felt so bad!
If they wait they will lose the cost reduction when scion dies and not be able to cast it at all.
@@michaelgreen2687 you are correct, but the funny thing is it looks like he had dark ritual in hand, so with the mage he could have used his treasure to cast dark ritual, which would add BBB and create another treasure, THEN cast bolt bent. So normally yes, you're right, but here he actually could have used bolt bend to survive and win!
You can actually play Mox Amber in this deck to ramp to the combo a turn earlier and it doesn't mess with Crucias
But are the low chances of hitting it to ramp worth the extra card in the deck after the combo? That lessens the chance of drawing the volcanic geyser and needing an extra turn
You're still 100% to hit at least one geyser on your draw two and even if you hit geyser amber and the geyser gets countered you'll still draw geyser next turn. The cases where the amber messes with the combo are really narrow @mse326
@@I43573 How do you figure you're 100%? There would be more than 1 non geyser left in the deck between the Amber and nonmountains. And next turn may not come. This is already usually a turn 5 win, there is hardly a guarantee you get turn 6.
And what is the chance of hitting the amber? That is also pretty low. You have far less chance of being able to ramp with it, than you do having it mess with the draw preventing the Geyser, it isn't a benefit
@@mse326
The chance of it messing your draw up is 0. Surveil off of theater, draw 2 off conviction. 3 is more than 1 so you always get a geyser
@@josephcole8102 There are 6 non-Mountain cards in the deck. What's to stop all of those from being above all four of the geysers?
This really reinforces the idea that I want a historic brawl format without alchemy cards.
I've wanted that for a looooooooong time. I personally don't even play digitally-modified cards - I just really don't like them in my Brawl decks. Alchemy Brawl should be separate.
(I'm sure someone will mention the idea of Explorer Brawl. Explorer lacks a ton of cards that are simply staples in Brawl, like Swords to Plowshares or the fetchlands. That would miss the point.)
Because it's an alchemy card it can be errataed to "discard a nonland card". If they do that it still would be a cool commander, but it wouldn't be as stupid
I hope so. I'm going to use this as a thought experiment with the goal to see exactly how long it takes them to rebalance the card. If they get on it in a reasonable time, I'll cut them some slck I guess.
Fully agree. I really dislike the designs, perpetually, draft etc. really breaks paper magic rules which I get is what they wanted. I just really dislike it and it doesn't give me a good play experience. I typically conceeded if I see a digital only commander. I will use my time in another match.
@@connorbell5340 "seek a card with X" could be replaced by "reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a card with X, put it in your hand, then shuffle (or put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any/random order, both work) and the only difference is the hand/deck knowledge…
Nice.
Really liked the video, but hopefully now people will know how to play against this deck and it's winrate will drop.
For the mobile gamers who want to give this deck a try: my phone struggles with multiple things in this combo and when you try to target your Caldera Breaker with Corrupted Conviction, it moves all the way to the right because of all the lands exiled with it. So you have to scroll through all the lands to target your Caldera Breaker (which is harder than it sounds like, at least on my phone).
Btw, if your Crucias is still on the battlefield at the end of the turn in which you did the thing, it will fetch the Volcanic Geyser. So in that case you wouldn't necessarily have to draw it off your Corrupted Conviction and you can still win that turn.
Played against this deck, I know what it does, and still got wrecked. Knowing what to do and what the other decks does, not always mean you can avoid it.
@@dcrow9650A deck with literally any counter will win 100% of the time, or a deck with 2-3 spot removals. Both are increaibly common to run and if people know what this commander does then they can mulligan for them.
Sure, they might not have it, but when enough people see this deck from cgb or his minions that flood the queues with these decks, the WR is going to absolutely plummet through the floor and get so bad people wont want to play it anymore.
@@eewweeppkk If you know what you are playing against, I don't think you even need 2-3 spot removal spells. Just have one instant-speed removal spell for Caldera Breaker in response to its trigger and they cannot win.
@@eewweeppkk 6 months later im winning like crazy with it...
5:33
I don’t know what the name of the song here is, but it immediately stands out when the melody at 6:37 happens.
It just incessantly echoes through my head the moment I hear that part lol
Time to run a deck of counter spells and farm these boys
Switched the sac outlet for Diabolic Intent (which conveniently searches for those Volcanic Geysers so you can add any non-Mountain lands you wish) and added a Reanimate to avoid Caldera Discarding shenanigans and also for the early "discard Caldera with Phyrexian Scrapyard + Reanimate" win and got 9-0... Unbelievable.
Started playing the deck about a week ago and so far I'm around 32-3 with it. Got slaughtered in those 3 losses 😂 Glass cannon but still hella fun
@@homeboy2258 Yeah, any kind of "loses all abilities" card on Crucias and/or exiling the Caldera or countering its ability is the end, but that's what we got for playing glass cannon degenerate decks, I guess
Diabolic Intent is 2 mana. You win on turn 5 with no mana left if you use corrupted conviction, so unless you get a nut draw with mox amber that's worse
Diabolic Intent costs 2, so an extra turn. not worth
@@apoiio This is true, but Crucias does produce a treasure token at end step (if he's still there) and you'll have your two mana but it would take doing this on your opponents turn instead which is risky but still can be done.
[Opponent] *Taps out to play Gishath and draw 4 and put 15+ power on the board at once*
[CGB] Omae wa mo....
I left MTG arena for a while and come back to find SO MANY MORE BROKEN COMBOS. Wizards. Wizards....
yup, so glad I stopped playing arena because of crap like this, alchemy ruined it
@@lowskinator literally play interaction? alchemy did not invent interaction
Don't bother with Brawl, Wizards totally ruined it. I remember when it got released it used to be full of janky cards to reach the 100 card, now you quite literally lose to a combo every other game, really feels like Brawl is just MTGA's version cEDH, nothing janky or fun out there
@@TheSmartCinema Stop building your decks like a stupid commander deck. This isn't any where near the same format. Nor did alchemy ruin it. And most certainly is this deck not broken. Literally loses to one counterspell or removal. Some thing all decks have.
@@tonysmith9905 You would need specifically an exile-based, instant removal, which is not that common. Removing Crucias delays the combo, but doesn't stop it. Counters work, as does bouncing, but that means that only one color can deal with this deck optimally. And if you're mono green you might as well just scoop.
For a moment, I thought it was The First Sliver as commander cascading into Tibalt's Trickery into Cultivator Collossus, then play all the lands from your deck and hit your opponent in the face for trample!
34:20 lost to colorless? 100% glass cannon confirmed
Will also lose to Baral.
@@haggleboggle I mean. A lot of things loose to Baral.
@@haggleboggle Or just about any removal spell?
It's worth adding 0-drop creatures to this list, like Ornithopter and Stonecoil Serpent. It gives you blockers to play on turns 2 and 4, and that's more important that drawing into redundant geysers.
There's also an alternative build running ~50 1-drops and seeking for Callous Sell-sword as the sac outlet. It lets you play a bunch of blockers, removal, and hand disruption. It's a stronger build overall, but if you're spending wildcards and casting multiple spells, you might as well play a real deck at that point.
Just one question... why the Cavern of Souls? When is that ever useful? Might as well put another Mountain in there.
Man, this right here is what makes watching Boy in Blue so fun. I never know what random stuff he is gonna pop out and try to make it work and we get to enjoy the ride.
Whatever you do; DO NOT PLAY THIS ON YOUR PHONE! You won't be able to select the golem for sacrifice (when you touch it, the mountains scroll out) and you will time out.
Must just be u
It's me too.
I guess one of the tricky things in the mulligan is if they're playing a fair Crucias deck, mulliganing heavily will be a death sentence as fair Crucias can 1-for-1 effectively even though mulliganing aggressively will work against the combo version. Also a discard spell will work against this deck after the 2nd Cruicias trigger (in addition to counterspells and instant speed removal).
I mulliganed to 3 to get black mana and it still hits on curve
I love all this embracing of the mesa falcon. Next up is mesa falcon merch!
I guess we're gonna have to make some kind of Mesa Falcon theme deck sometime, and when it happen, it will be cool
Somewhere out there magic the noah is having an unspeakably good time
Frrr
I knew he was my spirit animal when I tried to make a deck without any land and ended up finding his video while doing research. Long live out-of-the-box thinking!
Ayyy another budget brawl deck to add to my collection! I also have a Laelia the blade reforged deck that has 94 lands, but it doesnt seem as good as this(even though I have around 60-65% wr with it)
Thank you for the video!!! And in turn, a great heads up because I had never seen the combo before. Since the video, I have faced it 5 times and survived every time. It reminds me of the Leyla deck. When you know what's coming, it is almost too easy to stop. But I guess on the other hand, if you don't know what is coming, you are already dead 😅.
Playing on my phone, when I hit breaker to sac him, all my lands spread out and it takes forever to find breaker, it won’t highlight him. Is there something in settings that will stop that?
Having this same issue
Everybody gangsta till i get a single counterspell
Loved the Gruul ramp deck conceding out of shame when they failed to kill you, then you turned around and ramped out harder in one turn than they had over the course of the entire match.
Does Arena not have Valakut? Sadness on the stack.
If it did, odds are low you'd see it with this combo.
It does not.
Sliver queen, tibalts trickery, cultivator colossus, gates, and maze end
74% win rate... sounds about right. I just tried this out and won 8/10.
Once, I did the combo, but didn't draw a Volcanic Geyser. I drew Raucous Theater before I combo'd off, so I wasn't able to surveil, which is probably why.
Once, I had Curse of Silence played on me turn 1, so I couldn't play Crucias until turn 5, which was too late.
Counter spells and instant removal were played on Crucias a few times, but they were tapped out when I went to pull off the combo a few turns later.
Next set of ten I went 7/10 so 74% it is...
Caldera Breaker countered
Caldera Breaker bounced before sacrifice trigger
Thought Erasure'd
Kind of unplayable on mobile. When you go to sack the creature, it reveals all 80+ mountains stacked under it. You then have to swipe your finger across the screen like ten times to reveal the creature again, but sometimes as you swipe it sends the stack of mountains the wrong way. Lost one game because I couldn’t reveal the creature in time to sac it.
Crucias, Titan of the Waves + Molten Duplication + Dualcaster Mage + 40 lands and 47 0-1 mana spells wins around 7-8 out of10 brawl matches. Extremely glass cannon deck.
If you include no cards above 1 mana except Molten Duplication and Dualcaster Mage you can combo on turn 4-5 every game by discarding 1 drops to Crucias's ability to guarenteed find your two combo pieces in 2 triggers/turns. Play discard, removal, spree cards, value creatures, X spells, etc to complete the deck.
Do First Sliver, Cultivator Colossus, Tibalt's Trickery and 97 lands next.
Win with Maze's End and 10 Gates, Crawling Barrens, or a lethal Colossus. Stick lifegain lands in and you should survive off of your colossus turn.
So play an entirely different deck? Copy.
Probably been done like 2 years ago
"Only one correct number"
Nice.
I saw someone bust this deck out against me a few days ago. Excited to see you play it!
Would this deck benefit from dark ritual. At best it lets you combo one turn earlier, at worse its irrelevant.
Definitely a misplay to keep attacking thinking the opponent won’t block. You either pop them in the face for 60 or lose, it’s totally pointless to attack
its about establishing dominance not just winning
I started to play this when you told about on the live, its very funny deck! lol
since few months now this deck is a horror in the brawl matchups xD
I just tried playing this on mobile, but it's literally impossible due the interface. As soon as you try to sacrifice the Caldera, it just shows all the mountains underneath while moving the sacrifice target off the board. You even can't scroll to find it because the mobile interface is trash, especially for combo players
I had this issue too, thought it was just my phone. Fun deck and it might not look like you're scrolling but I promise you'll get to him if you keep scrolling through the lands. Keep up the grind, and be patient because you'll get a good amount of fast wins with this deck
A reason why this is one of the best preforming decks is because the Deck Weight is all messed up due to it playing so many lands.
The matchmaker thinks the deck is weak, so it often matches you up against weaker decks, letting you stomp on them.
TBH, they should massivly increase the matchmaking card weight of Cladera Breaker, since its never played fairly anyway.
My experience with this deck has been as follows
lost to every blue deck,
lost to every black deck
that's it, but it has been 10+ games in a row against a deck with a counterspell of an instant speed removal for the golem.
Haven't faced a single green deck
Almost like decks with any interaction counter it with zero effort.
Counterplay is to counter the first cast then mill 3 cards, GG. Also, you can kill Breaker before the ability resolves and BOOM all lands exiled. Same if you exile it after ability resolves. Same if you just return it back to his hand for 1 mana with Fading Hope and BOOM, yes, all lands exiled anyway.
This deck is vulnerable to basically any interaction you can dream of. White, blue and black have plenty of good and cheap ways to stop the combo, and even red and green should have a few things they can do.
The deck basically wins due to the opponent's miscalculation: they tap out at the wrong time and give the combo player a window.
I wish Crucias was printed on paper solely for the art
i'm not sure how i feel about this. Both components you need for the deck to work exclusively and ONLY exist in ARENA through their special "alchemy" set that is digital only. Cards that for all intensive purposes exist today, could be gone tomorrow.
Intents and purposes
CGB, try: Laelia, the Blade Reforged as the Commander. X1 Etali’s Favor; x1 Throes of Chaos; x1 Geological Appraiser; x1 Daring Discovery; x1 Trumpeting Carnosaur; x94 Mountain.
There’s a glass cannon!
Whoever came up with this combo, should become CEO of wotc straightaway and president of the world. So hilarious.
CONGRATS ON 200K!!!
is this better than the sliver brawl with trickery and harvester using maze's end as the win con? I'm gonna have to make this and do like 20 of each to gauge win rates
Nope. Crucias decks get beat by interaction. Sliver gets beat by only land interaction which there is MUCH less of. And Sliver is technically 1-2 turns faster with optimal lands.
MonoBlackMagic would be proud
Damn, I’ve been playing this for a few months to grind my wins. Now it’s more out there!
I remember winning so many games of MTG with volcanic geyser.... Excuse me great joy
Whats the other deck like this treasure hunt? Where its all land and that card that with the diver on it?
Are you using a card to make Crucias castable from exile? He is only playing from my deck
I beat a deck like this the other day by pulling out a Return the Favor when they went for the big damage
how do you find Crucias, Titan of the Waves...hes not in my card library not even in crafted
now that we know how the hell que works . caldera breaker is 9 points, crucias, titan of the waves is 720 points corrupted conviction is 18 points. lands are 0. (total 747)
assuming a braw deck runs.
if a deck is 50 playable cards worth 9 points and popular commanders are at least 360 points. (810) if you run any GOOD brawl cards you get dinged 45 points (alseid of life's bounty is considered a 45point card.)
basically this is a guaranteed turn like 5 win against REALLY sub optimal decks (casuals)
I feel like this is a golden opportunity to play a Crucias deck that idles until turn 3 and then does *anything* besides this combo. There's got to be some way to take advantage zigging while all of your opponents are expecting a zag.
Did you manage anything?
Hilarious! I've played Arena for over a year, but never played a brawl outside of MWM. I must have opened Crusias in a free pack or something, so I just crafted Caldera Breaker and replaced the rare lands I was missing with basics. I went 2-1, conceding a game where the opponent heisted my deck turn 1. No way to win at that point.
I'm actually grateful for this video. I've been farming netdeckers all day. Thanks CGB!
Only recently did I actually look at the art for Crucias and saw how derpy his face truly is.
Trying to figure out the odds if it gets destroyed in response to the ETB, and I dont like this math:
cast the sac/draw 2. deck will be around 80 lands and 4 geysers when that spell resolves. Or is it right to keep the treasure?
Mountains get exiled from deck. Now it only has 4 geysers and a maximum of 7 lands: three fetchlands, two swamps, Cavern and Command tower.
Hand will have 6/7 cards at most. Play/draw and mulligans will affect this
probably doing this turn 5, so five lands already in play.
Crucias can discard the fetchlands after all this nonsense to draw the geysers + make a treasure
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Is Frank around?
Its honestly disgusting how they have run this format into the ground
now its just standards 2.0 with 5 health more
but still only 2,5 turns on average
lmao
Deck wins at turn 5 earliest
Deck loses to a counterspell or a removal spell
RuN ForMaT IntO gROuNd
I hope you make a deck around coveted falcon and greed’s gambit!
"THERE'S ONLY 1 CORRECT NUMBER!!!"
😂😂😂
Am I going crazy or are certain cards show up with purple text?
Whenever I try to sacrifice caldera with all of those lands all it does is expand and show the lands and not let me pick caldera
Same
What is that colorless deck you keep loosing too that we havnt seen?
Magic: The Gathering the way that Dr. Richard Garfield intended it!
Its not childish, its whimsical!
Pretty sure hand disruption kills this, no? Like discard him as he approaches 6 mana. The deck doesnt have any counterspells or protection and view opponents hand cards range from cmc 1-3.
Now this is what we call power gaming.
We are Mesa Falcons now. Oh my goodness.
Where to look at winrates? None of the sites seems have winrates for all players with all decks
Love the mana "curve" :-)))
I normally skip brawl because it would take me too many wild cards to play most of your decks; however, this one I could craft. What I liked best is NOT this deck, but that you mined untapped to find a fun deck to show us!
I just redownloaded arena and this is everywhere. I just want to play my jank :(
can someone tell me if there is a way to turn off the fact that when I go to sacrifice the Breaker it “unstacks” all the mountains and i have to slide through all 80 something the select him as my target to sacrifice
only way is to not play on mobile/mobile mode. For whatever reason it stacks on top instead of under, like the pc version.
200K? Wow. When did this happen?
My lesson, all my blue decks, +1 confounding conundrum
So much for having an easy combo to do my dailies with now 😂
Keeping the combo pieces in your opening hand is risky though because of all the low cost discard and exile spells
YOU LEAVE MY GREEN ALONE!!! YOU BIG BULLY!!! XD
I did wonder why I was seeing this build everywhere today......
Thankfully it folds cold to countermagic: all you gotta do is counter the caldera brawler & the deck does nothing.
Kill it in response to first trigger, 2nd trigger does nothing, they lose
This is the all-in-est of combos.
"How can we say Magic's a real game?" - fyp, Cgb.
Mesa Falcons Unite! 🦅🦅
Lol i was running a crucias combo like this over a year ago. Brawl is a balanced game mode :)
“Gish my ath” 😂
I’ve been playing this deck for a few months now lol
I tried using this deck on mobile and would've won first game but wouldn't let me sacrifice my creature eveytime id click it it wouldn't click the creature
Wish there was a standard card pool singleton format that didn't have a command zone.
One day you will meet someone with Deflecting Swat
Some thoughts -- I notice you were never paired with Baral, Teferi, Rusko, Golos, or any of the other high end evil decks, which is probably why the deck's win rate is so high. In addition to countermagic, a simple Thoughtseize discarding the big red guy is an instant loss, or a Stifle effect cancelling one or more of the triggers.
Now, a deck "improvement" if you will -- and this will enable the deck to go off a turn sooner -- instead of relying on a sac effect and geyser, just play Repercussion. Y'know, that enchantment that says whenever a creature takes damage, that creature's controller takes that much damage? Sure, it's more susceptible to an enchantment removal spell, and if your opponent doesn't have any creatures, or only has creatures with hexproof or ward... Well, ouch. On the other hand, you win a turn sooner if you have exactly enough mana to cast the big 6/6 and Crucias is dead. And you'd win because you dealt them 80 something to their face
Mesa Falcon shout out is such a great name!
Wont let me click on breaker, keeps making me go through lands on moblie