@@traviscFTW I do the same thing here. "What is the worse possible scenario for this game?" One turn later is already happening. What a time to be alive.
@24:00, you had two curses competing: can never draw removal against a resolved Sheoldred, and always draw the 4th copy of a card you've already seen 3 of. It's like the old "tie buttered toast to the back of a cat and see if it lands butter-down or feet-first" joke
Never in my entire life of playing mtg with real cards i drawn 4 copies of the same cards(beside lands) in the beginning of the game. On arena i had plenty, pretty weird huh?
Can we talk about how CGB with Jace avatar repeatedly calling Vraska's name and being sad about her and saying "I'm sorry Vraska" at the end, is a *massive* flavor win?
I’ve been wanting to make a Mono Black Superfriends deck in standard but wish we had a couple more Mono Black Planeswalkers. If we still had Lolth and Professor Onyx in standard right now..oh what could’ve been. Ha
I miss the old mono black superfriends a lot. It didnt have a high winrate by no means but was so fun with shambling ghast, dispute, meathook massacre, blood on the snow, lolth, onyx etc.
Path of Peril seems decent into the mono-red and soldier matchups that make up a lot of the meta, so it might be worth replacing Vraska for those in the deck. Probably don't and won't ever cleave it, but if necessary, bankbuster can let you do it with the treasure it makes down the line.
@@mikeyj.philly It's also extremely susceptible to farewell. One sided board wipe (they only have to name artifacts) that erases all your Planeswalkers.... yikes.
Every time I don’t draw a 3rd lane and draw my fourth of whatever card I literally scream “SONIO” as loud as I can. My neighbors a have no idea what’s going on
6 mana is so much that anything that's going to cost that much has a floor that's basically the ceiling of every other mana value. 6 mana Chandra has two purposes: inevitability against Control and her uncounterability. It's the fact that emblems can't be removed, that hers count the opponent down every turn, and that she's guaranteed to hit (short of an Aether Gust) the board that make her still a solid sideboard slot (though not as often as 4-mana Chandra). As much as I want the new 6-mana Chandra to be good too I expect she's going to be closer to Vraska here: by the time she's cast, the game is decided.
you could show some bird-synergy, there are some really funny combos with thrummingbird, Tekuthal, Kaito Shizuki and Trawler Drake. Especially if you include Drown in Ichor as a removal you can hit Kaitos Ultimate at Turn 4, summon tekuthal and completely go nuts with tokens and tons of proliferate.
I have seen the skeletor dude in several vids. He even tries to represent other colors by changing sleeves but by now everyone knows he is playing red.
8:14 Today I remembered this after getting a hand with 1 mountain and 3 End the Festivities, so I kept it to test if I was going to draw the 4th one before drawing a land and it actually happened lol
Glad to see I'm not the only one getting paired against mono red 1 out of 2 . Switch vraska out for an oblitorater to completely dominate mono red maybe?
I love the part where there's a deck in standard that lets you make 100 misplays in 3 turns and completely dominate a more skilled opponent. Skill-based game everyone.
That Mono Red prediction and then smashing… I laughed more than I should’ve. And then laughed more when the next mono red smashed back 😂😂😂 God I hate mono red. Good video 👍
I played this in previous standard for shits and giggles for a long time with Corrupt instead of Vraska. Eventually put Multifrous Munitions or whatever, -2-2 to all in, because of soliders and Monored. It was alright.
Vraska seems better in multi-color decks. I've seen her pop off in Esper, but I play Orzhov. I splash for 2 of her and Kaya and 1 Sorin alongside 4 Wandering Emperors, 2 Elspeths, and 2 Eternal Wanderers. Being primarily white gives Farmhand/Restoration/Spirited Companion plenty of room to let you hit your land drops every turn. The deck usually wins by sticking a few walkers after sweeping or gaining control of the board, making incredible threats by stacking up Farmhands/Architects/tokens with +1/+1 and ability counters
I'm a bigger fan of Bankbuster since watching this feed. In other news... the 1-drop Phyresis Roach and his InsectVillian(TM) Friends are poised to break Alchemy. Seriously, poison counters without the equivalent of life gain goes down like a bad DCU film.
I've had somewhat decent success with a mishra meld deck in a "dragon shell" before ONE, which is basically control + harvester, fable and dragons. One of the key cards there definitely is Rivaz of the Claw, ramping for dragons and enabling casts from the graveyard. Thinking about it the Capricious Hellraiser should be a great addition in there.
when i see a black deck like that, im thiking back on my mono white deck with 4 whte knights and 4 sliver knights ^^ 4 swords to P and enchantment witch gives protection from collor of my choice
Im starting to embrace the pure joy that is teching against and beating down the monored. CGB, youve taught me the dark arts and I'm forever changed :D lol the evil chuckle is so relatable when i see it :D SO. F---. SATISFYING. guess you could say the same for any meta-dominator toiletgamers netdeck. exists across time and space, lol
I do love a bit of mono black, i think there are better cards than Vraska though. I've picked a few up in paper for post rotation though, Sorin will be missed.
I got a deck thats dominating best of 1. 61-11 atm. Deck 3 Saheeli, Filigree Master (BRO) 219 1 Mountain (ELD) 263 3 The Wandering Emperor (NEO) 42 3 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (BRO) 66 3 Adarkar Wastes (DMU) 243 3 Deserted Beach (MID) 260 4 Shivan Reef (DMU) 255 3 Stormcarved Coast (VOW) 265 4 Sundown Pass (VOW) 266 4 Wedding Announcement (VOW) 45 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker (NEO) 141 4 Third Path Iconoclast (BRO) 223 3 Make Disappear (SNC) 49 2 Abrade (VOW) 139 2 Voltage Surge (NEO) 171 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (NEO) 276 1 Otawara, Soaring City (NEO) 271 1 Seachrome Coast (ONE) 258 2 Destroy Evil (DMU) 17 2 Runic Shot (DMU) 30 1 Soul Partition (BRO) 26 3 Battlefield Forge (BRO) 257 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (NEO) 268 2 Blue Sun's Twilight (ONE) 43 you can toy with control decks, go over the top of aggro, and also pluck the best thing from midrange decks. The deck only has blue sun twilight for the new set, but it has rolled over ever plat/diamond deck ive played with it. i dont grind hard enough for mythic every season, but this is the deck that i have had the most success with. It doesnt look like much, but it all works together.
I played 4 games in a row last week where for the first two turns, each of my opponents played 2 swamps and Bankbuster. Arena gave me an Abrade in each game. Mono black is fine, it just feels incredibly repetitive and far too linear currently
Poor skeletor. Never meet your heroes.
Skeletor got his soul read. CGB called mono-red before the mountain even came out. Poor guy couldn’t catch a break.
You know he unsubed from cgb
Shoulda played something else lmao
That fourth Trespasser was the best draw possible!
Dude, the way he just calls it out is amazing lol
@@traviscFTW I do the same thing here. "What is the worse possible scenario for this game?" One turn later is already happening. What a time to be alive.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@@Echoes0fTime It's like Arena is listening to you!
Hey dude! I’m Dan the first easy win you had in this video. Once I noticed it was you I just played it out even though I knew I was screwed. Big fan!
Would love a compilation video of every time "Shuffler is fine" moments hahaha.
BRO, that fourth tresspasser draw had me rolling.
@24:00, you had two curses competing: can never draw removal against a resolved Sheoldred, and always draw the 4th copy of a card you've already seen 3 of. It's like the old "tie buttered toast to the back of a cat and see if it lands butter-down or feet-first" joke
8:34 I laughed out loud. My wife looked at me funny.
favourite part of the video: that fourth trespasser. 👊
8:30 was the perfect draw. Immediately made me laugh pretty hard. Well played, well played.
Never in my entire life of playing mtg with real cards i drawn 4 copies of the same cards(beside lands) in the beginning of the game. On arena i had plenty, pretty weird huh?
This video came out five minutes ago and I’ve already watched all 51 minutes and it is a guaranteed classic cgb banger
Lololol the drawing 4 trespassers before 3 lands was sooo good
That forth trespasser was epic!
Can we talk about how CGB with Jace avatar repeatedly calling Vraska's name and being sad about her and saying "I'm sorry Vraska" at the end, is a *massive* flavor win?
I’ve been wanting to make a Mono Black Superfriends deck in standard but wish we had a couple more Mono Black Planeswalkers. If we still had Lolth and Professor Onyx in standard right now..oh what could’ve been. Ha
I miss the old mono black superfriends a lot. It didnt have a high winrate by no means but was so fun with shambling ghast, dispute, meathook massacre, blood on the snow, lolth, onyx etc.
I miss Onyx, imagine Onyx in a format with Corrupt.
I died laughing at the commentary on this one 😂
I have to give you you’re props CGB for the use of relevant 90’s hip hop and R&B references in your videos.. this man is highly cultured!!
8:35 i'm dead. literally crying from laughing.
Path of Peril seems decent into the mono-red and soldier matchups that make up a lot of the meta, so it might be worth replacing Vraska for those in the deck. Probably don't and won't ever cleave it, but if necessary, bankbuster can let you do it with the treasure it makes down the line.
Immediately started dying laughing after drawing that fourth trespasser
CGB -Cut Down is great thanks magic gods
Me- has never seen a target for cut down in games where I draw it
We mono red players usually hang out at cgb's mom's house.
8:34 ITS FINE YEP HAVING A NORMAL ONE
I heard the song when i read the video and now it wont get out of my head
Oh man I'm gonna have this song stuck in my head now
I've found something jank and interesting. Mirrorbox + Mycrosynth + Jin-Gitaxias = Mono Blue Super friends.
Or better yet, Brilliant Restoration for Superfriends Reanimator.
I'll try to build something with this combo
@@the_stoic8878 been trying to build this for a week. It simply doesn't line up. Too hard to get combo in hand with those colors.
@@mikeyj.philly It's also extremely susceptible to farewell. One sided board wipe (they only have to name artifacts) that erases all your Planeswalkers.... yikes.
Add a sweeper of some sort? A few times in this video the opponents seemed to have billions of creatures, might solve some situations :)
The problem with Mono-Black Vraska is the really obvious issue that Invoke Despair will always be the better 5 mana play.
Not always
@@BogMouse3137 yes always tf
@@OneLastJellyGuy vraska can better control the board as long as you protect and create more card advantage
@@BogMouse3137 no she can’t lol she can clear 1 creature, invoke clears a minimum of 1 + their wedding + their emperor ur tripping
I love go for the throat good reprint nice removal I remember last time it was in standard
That soldier player was probably trying to see what you were up to lol
I love that your recognized Skelator haha
Every time I don’t draw a 3rd lane and draw my fourth of whatever card I literally scream “SONIO” as loud as I can. My neighbors a have no idea what’s going on
That fourth trespasser lmao
6 mana is so much that anything that's going to cost that much has a floor that's basically the ceiling of every other mana value. 6 mana Chandra has two purposes: inevitability against Control and her uncounterability. It's the fact that emblems can't be removed, that hers count the opponent down every turn, and that she's guaranteed to hit (short of an Aether Gust) the board that make her still a solid sideboard slot (though not as often as 4-mana Chandra). As much as I want the new 6-mana Chandra to be good too I expect she's going to be closer to Vraska here: by the time she's cast, the game is decided.
Bel biv devoe
thx for that earworm cgb x)
you could show some bird-synergy, there are some really funny combos with thrummingbird, Tekuthal, Kaito Shizuki and Trawler Drake.
Especially if you include Drown in Ichor as a removal you can hit Kaitos Ultimate at Turn 4, summon tekuthal and completely go nuts with tokens and tons of proliferate.
46:20 Where do Mono Red Players hang out?
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In the red zone
Liked for "He-Man right here, baby."
Mono red players hang out in the mcdonalds play place ball pit.
I have seen the skeletor dude in several vids. He even tries to represent other colors by changing sleeves but by now everyone knows he is playing red.
29:10 miss the old "hook for three"
8:14 Today I remembered this after getting a hand with 1 mountain and 3 End the Festivities, so I kept it to test if I was going to draw the 4th one before drawing a land and it actually happened lol
Those soldier plays 😂
Glad to see I'm not the only one getting paired against mono red 1 out of 2 .
Switch vraska out for an oblitorater to completely dominate mono red maybe?
2 archfiend, 2 obliterator. I like them both and they each have pros and cons
I love the part where there's a deck in standard that lets you make 100 misplays in 3 turns and completely dominate a more skilled opponent.
Skill-based game everyone.
@@ashtheswan705 BO3 Is just handicapping your luck to mitigate bad beats. It is still and has always been mostly gambling.
I miss Meathook Massacre so much. That card kept these types of brain dead aggro decks in their place
Very entertaining, as usual. Those mono red players probably hang out in nirvana. Or is it purgatory?
That Mono Red prediction and then smashing… I laughed more than I should’ve.
And then laughed more when the next mono red smashed back 😂😂😂
God I hate mono red.
Good video 👍
I played this in previous standard for shits and giggles for a long time with Corrupt instead of Vraska. Eventually put Multifrous Munitions or whatever, -2-2 to all in, because of soliders and Monored. It was alright.
It did rain on vraska's wedding. It rained glistening oil
What a meme that trespasser
I have an esper super-friends deck where Vraska shines. She just needs more friends.
Bel Biv DeVoe and now you know.
Vraska seems better in multi-color decks. I've seen her pop off in Esper, but I play Orzhov. I splash for 2 of her and Kaya and 1 Sorin alongside 4 Wandering Emperors, 2 Elspeths, and 2 Eternal Wanderers. Being primarily white gives Farmhand/Restoration/Spirited Companion plenty of room to let you hit your land drops every turn. The deck usually wins by sticking a few walkers after sweeping or gaining control of the board, making incredible threats by stacking up Farmhands/Architects/tokens with +1/+1 and ability counters
I'm a bigger fan of Bankbuster since watching this feed. In other news... the 1-drop Phyresis Roach and his InsectVillian(TM) Friends are poised to break Alchemy. Seriously, poison counters without the equivalent of life gain goes down like a bad DCU film.
Damn nice vid aigan. Are there any dragon decks that can be played in standart rn?
I've had somewhat decent success with a mishra meld deck in a "dragon shell" before ONE, which is basically control + harvester, fable and dragons. One of the key cards there definitely is Rivaz of the Claw, ramping for dragons and enabling casts from the graveyard. Thinking about it the Capricious Hellraiser should be a great addition in there.
Watching you predict and destroy mono red is extremely satisfying.
when i see a black deck like that, im thiking back on my mono white deck with 4 whte knights and 4 sliver knights ^^ 4 swords to P and enchantment witch gives protection from collor of my choice
7:50 GG did you had fun in this match?
Im starting to embrace the pure joy that is teching against and beating down the monored. CGB, youve taught me the dark arts and I'm forever changed :D lol the evil chuckle is so relatable when i see it :D
SO. F---. SATISFYING.
guess you could say the same for any meta-dominator toiletgamers netdeck. exists across time and space, lol
Mono red giveth, and mono red taketh away!
mono red hangs out in the space bar
Imagine playing an aggro deck and *not attack*
Meathook we miss you 😢 fallen hero that could of helped vs soldiers and mono-red
when does cgb stream?
Mono black is and always will be cool!
If you could play with some cards from the recent set or two at some point that would be great.
Do motored planeswalkers next! Hilarity of chandra, koth, and jaya together making everything burn!
Did I see that right? 4 Trespassers before the 3rd land?
I kinda feel like this planeswalker needs to be in an esper deck or something.
life of toshiro is actually really nice in the current meta
I do love a bit of mono black, i think there are better cards than Vraska though. I've picked a few up in paper for post rotation though, Sorin will be missed.
46:11 Dkayed, a Yu-Gi-Oh streamer, tells opponents that he streamrolls to go back to Fortnite.
tbh i think people don't groan at MonoBlack, but more at Rakdos/Grixis that are also casually playing Invoke Despair
Bel biv devoe now you know.
I got a deck thats dominating best of 1. 61-11 atm.
Deck
3 Saheeli, Filigree Master (BRO) 219
1 Mountain (ELD) 263
3 The Wandering Emperor (NEO) 42
3 Teferi, Temporal Pilgrim (BRO) 66
3 Adarkar Wastes (DMU) 243
3 Deserted Beach (MID) 260
4 Shivan Reef (DMU) 255
3 Stormcarved Coast (VOW) 265
4 Sundown Pass (VOW) 266
4 Wedding Announcement (VOW) 45
4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker (NEO) 141
4 Third Path Iconoclast (BRO) 223
3 Make Disappear (SNC) 49
2 Abrade (VOW) 139
2 Voltage Surge (NEO) 171
1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance (NEO) 276
1 Otawara, Soaring City (NEO) 271
1 Seachrome Coast (ONE) 258
2 Destroy Evil (DMU) 17
2 Runic Shot (DMU) 30
1 Soul Partition (BRO) 26
3 Battlefield Forge (BRO) 257
1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (NEO) 268
2 Blue Sun's Twilight (ONE) 43
you can toy with control decks, go over the top of aggro, and also pluck the best thing from midrange decks. The deck only has blue sun twilight for the new set, but it has rolled over ever plat/diamond deck ive played with it. i dont grind hard enough for mythic every season, but this is the deck that i have had the most success with. It doesnt look like much, but it all works together.
Skeletor surrender turn one amazing
8:20 must see ;)
I played 4 games in a row last week where for the first two turns, each of my opponents played 2 swamps and Bankbuster. Arena gave me an Abrade in each game. Mono black is fine, it just feels incredibly repetitive and far too linear currently
Poor Skeletor
Play a bot deck get the bot treatment.
When you beat monored you send them running for the hills. Cuz, red? Hills?
What does BMing stand for?
I like Sultai Usurper Friends personally
There's nothing to see here. Everything's fine. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the shuffler! Everything is as it should be.
Glad you eventually got to proliferate once after 50 minutes of gameplay xD
I have a question about the Lore of MTG.. Did Vraska and others chose to become Compleated or were they forced to accept it?
They were infected with phyresis and compleated against their will.
Never trust a big butt and a smile.
Almost as good as the shuffler in real Life
When vraska comes. Ops...
This is Monoblack, Monoblack, Monoblack
Surely the monored players hang out in the mountains?
Question: Where do mono red players hang around?
Answer: In the mountains.
PoisonnNnnnnnn.
POISON, POISON, P-POISON
I want a Dimir toxic deck with Vraska.
under the mountain
-- where do mono red players hang out
When will we see jin gitaxis bridge??
Answer to your question : they are crying in a corner.
bro, this skeletor guy has been domed by multiple mtga creators in a row💀
I prefer my mono black with a few slime counters from our favorite slug lord