the problem it's Arena, in paper you don't do that normally. but in Bo1 it has like a "help" land mix so the % always hit the 4/5 lands. and "aggro" with some 6 and 8 drops.. so basically it's not free will, like in real life paper game.
As the oracles foretold, in the era where Tier 1 is destroyed by the ban hammer of WoTC, a deck shall remain, a red or combination of red aggro deck, as the prophecy states "When Tier 1 falls, Red shall rise"
CGB watching you pilot Aggro big creatures was fun, because you made it look so hard! I’m always impressed by your U/W control abilities. As a Gruul player the rules are simple. SMASH
I made it in the video!!! I was the guy playing the weird jund deck. It was a list I found meant for Bo3 but I was missing a lot of the sb stuff so thought I would try it in bo1 because I was getting bored of playing ramp and cat combo.
There were bannings? (Goes to look) Oh wow. Teferi, Growth Spiral, Cauldron Familiar AND Wilderness Reclamation? There will be rejoicing and gnashing of teeth in equal measure over this one.
Me: just play unplayable jank decks with low winrate in free play mode, CGB: every day creates an original deck with high winrate in ranked. Nice decks, awesome content
Catch a joke :) He's a content producer and as such an entertainer. Gotta be able to deal with him playing a bit slower while commenting on his gameplay for the audience, being a fan or not.
@@The_savvy_Lynx Not being totally serious here, and I'm sure most people can take it. Just find it a bit much sometimes if he expects a deck to be his or that his opponent will always know him, no questions asked :p Oh and this is nothing about speed of play. No issues with that.
Play forest, Umori (shoot devil), Raptor (shoot cat), Raptor (shoot face, opp to 11). Original raptor now hits for 6 and Terror of the Peaks hits for 5, that's game.
You discovered this the experimental way (always good to experiment) but the relevant mutation rule is 702.139c As a mutating creature spell resolves, if its target is legal, it doesn’t enter the battlefield. Rather, it merges with the target creature and becomes one object represented by more than one card or token (see rule 721, “Merging with Permanents”).
There is no temur rec without it, the decks will cease to exist. It may just evolve into some kind of temur control. Even then though I doubt it will be competitive
Now with Reclamation, Teferi, and Cat banned I am so happy :D. I tried this list out as is and I have to say it's pretty good, dumb fun. Like you I play Bo1, and I was running a more low-ball Gruul list before with the little haste critters and Embercleave because it matched well with Mono Red, but with Mono Green running around I think this matches up better. Now with the gaping chasm of the post-ban meta I have no idea what's coming next.
"Cycling is a deck I hate more than most any other. It's not cause I hate poor people!" x-D When I started with arena one months ago, I "bought" also cycling because of ROI and to win at least SOME games. Being a noob to MTG is really tough and often frustrating. CYCLING helped me to stick with this game.
Love that you played against your izzet control deck. I've gotten to plat 2 now with it. Had a 12 and 2 run with it today. Life's better without tef, rec and cat lol
With cat oven and teferi gone, UW flyers might be one of the best decks now. Its decent against red aggro and ramp decks and control might be too weak against it without teferi. Except control with black maybe, if they run a lot of single target removal.
17:45 SO glad I am not the ONLY person who has made a dingus move and miscalculated incoming damage lol...zero IQ was a great name for this deck 😂 Except I only do this when I am high....
Cycling totally does suck, and I think the reason it sucks more than other overused decks is thar that it's virtually impossible to interact with. Unless you can kill them really quickly with your creatures, it doesn't matter if you kill what's on their board, and virtually all they have to be able to do is cycle stuff, which means none of it can be countered... So the only chance you get to interact with their cards is when they eventually play Zenith Flare, if you have a counterspell. If you aren't playing blue (and leaving mana open constantly for counterspells), you're essentially just playing against a timer
@@kirakreep I suppose you could, if you can gain life faster than they can burn you. Is lifegain viable in standard? I haven't really seen it played, but I don't play all that much, so I wouldn't know
@@God-ch8lq oh, that's in Standard?? (as I said, I haven't played all that much lately, and honestly pretty much just know the m21 cards I've pulled from packs) I really like Tormod's Crypt, but have gotten weird responses to running it in a couple EDH decks. Do people play it in the current meta? I suppose it could be a good pick for your sideboard Of course, there's also Ashiok
CGB hates the Cycling deck “not because I hate poor people....” Lol!!! That’s golden. Seriously. I admit, whenever I’m playing against a Cycling deck, thay does come to mind. “Can they only afford uncommons and commons?” Lol.
This is green&red, we play green&red, mutate face till they're dead. First comes marauding raptor, then comes Radha heart of keld, we finish with terror of the peaks and they die!!!!!
'we need an interactive piece off the top' - Draws an interactive piece off the top 'we'll need to do something about the red mana' - Draws red mana off the top 'we need a land for the Pyroceratops' - Draws a land off the top for Pyroceratops 'it would be nice to draw a 3 drop for the in between, especially a mutate creature' - First draws a 2 drop, then a 3 drop mutate creature I think you're a very good player and a very good content creator CGB but why does not Arena work this way for me? It seems like you're playing a different game. You can't keep a 2 color deck with only one color, you can't keep a curve of 1 to 5 with nothing in between with an aggro deck. Would you make another video to show us how it is done?
You have to put a stop for your own draw step, and wish upon a Teferi card you should always keep by your computer, and it just works! (Not sure how the bans will affect this, but I'll use Master of Time for the _time_ being. Just to be safe.) Also, the past month or so he was getting manascrewed or flooded left-and-right. Our boy CGB needs a break every now and then!
I think its 2 parts. One he builds good decks that are consistent so he has the better chance to draw what he needs even down to his mana bases that he does work on. 2) He probably cuts games where he gets mana screwed because thats not fun content to watch. It is no fun for him and no fun for the viewer to watch either player not cast spells.
@@BosSoxFan15 Definitely this. Also just the variance of any card game can make anyone look like a god or a super weak player based on small sample size
@@nikvalinsky I think though that CGB does do a great job of showing the strengths and weaknesses of the deck by showing legitimate losses and wins. He also is very talented and makes the proper decisions while explaining them to us.
He was online talking about it, although I think he's still online and maybe talking about it _right now_ over at Twitch Join the discord to get a notification
mutate functions as the creature already in plan becoming the mutated creature so it isnt "entering" the battlefield it more like and enchantment that is making the arboreal grazer a copy of gemrazor than a separate creature entering battlefield
i think he had lethal on board. Castle of garenbrig gave him the mana and he could have kept one creature by blocking a mentor taking 18. then forerunner+ the 4 power creature remaining made 7+6 damage versus the 3 blocking giving him lethal.
Damn, seems like a fun deck, but this would eat up 2/3 of my rare wildcards, plus a good chunk of them are rotating in a month or two, and I don't want to have them go to waste.
17:41 I think CGB threw this. He blocked the only trample creature, if he had blocked one of the mentors, he would have gone down to 2, then the next attack was for 13, all trample, against 8 life and a single T3 blocker. Then again, he saw the mistake a few seconds after he died. Just a tiny bit too late, probably 'cause he is not used to playing big monsters and actually think things through. Stompy decks, sometimes, require you to think... Who knew!
In the aggro vs control matchup, the aggro deck requires more skill to play. Managing your resources is way harder than just playing to survive in the most efficient way. Change my mind.
17:40 Should have blocked one of the mentors to stay alive. if you dont block with the questing beast, then you can prevent the lifegain and hope to topdeck a land for leathal
Woohoo!!! Made it into the video getting stomped by the Terror (7Dragons). Thanks for all the great content CGB and I’ll hope for a rematch someday!
Only CGB would play gruul aggro with 26 lands
He knows what his fans demand
is more of a midrange tbh
I really need to hit my landdrops
@@kionashi Nah its aggro with answers
the problem it's Arena, in paper you don't do that normally. but in Bo1 it has like a "help" land mix so the % always hit the 4/5 lands. and "aggro" with some 6 and 8 drops.. so basically it's not free will, like in real life paper game.
As the oracles foretold, in the era where Tier 1 is destroyed by the ban hammer of WoTC, a deck shall remain, a red or combination of red aggro deck, as the prophecy states "When Tier 1 falls, Red shall rise"
CGB watching you pilot Aggro big creatures was fun, because you made it look so hard! I’m always impressed by your U/W control abilities. As a Gruul player the rules are simple. SMASH
Oh FFS! Lethal CGB!
I'll post where when I watch the video.
Thanks for the shoutout CGB. I actually created this deck and also invented MTG and youtube. Honest.
Awesome deck, had a lot of fun with it his afternoon, cheers CBG
I made it in the video!!! I was the guy playing the weird jund deck. It was a list I found meant for Bo3 but I was missing a lot of the sb stuff so thought I would try it in bo1 because I was getting bored of playing ramp and cat combo.
I was just hammering on a deck like this with today's bannings 🙂
There were bannings? (Goes to look) Oh wow. Teferi, Growth Spiral, Cauldron Familiar AND Wilderness Reclamation? There will be rejoicing and gnashing of teeth in equal measure over this one.
@@timothymarks1041 Yuuuup. MTG players are pretty happy today.
Couldreon familiar wasn't even the problem it's the free sac outlet in oven that made it busted, neutered my only deck (jund sac)
This deck will kill it now with all the bannings.
Be sure to spay or neuter your cat decks!
CGB senpai this is my deck! thanks for playing it!
XD CGB overthinking gruul for the accidental win
Me: just play unplayable jank decks with low winrate in free play mode, CGB: every day creates an original deck with high winrate in ranked. Nice decks, awesome content
They aren't original more often than not. CGB would tell you that too.
"I Built the deck.."
"I built the deck!!!"
"I built the deck"
"No, I seriously built the deck"
"I Built the deck"
Solid stuff! Looking forward to your take on the surprise bans!
I made this
- a respectable person
47:50 CGB just expecting that everyone is his fan, whereas actually he's more likely just offending random people on Arena. Nice!
He is the king of casual, never saw him in a tourneament, so...
Catch a joke :) He's a content producer and as such an entertainer. Gotta be able to deal with him playing a bit slower while commenting on his gameplay for the audience, being a fan or not.
@@The_savvy_Lynx Not being totally serious here, and I'm sure most people can take it. Just find it a bit much sometimes if he expects a deck to be his or that his opponent will always know him, no questions asked :p
Oh and this is nothing about speed of play. No issues with that.
I was screaming at my screen for the +2 from the raptor, glad you played to win anyway :D
@46:45 I was waiting for the moment you would realise you had lethal all along!
Looks like the opponent saw it first :)
It was me! I invented Gruul Stompy!
oh, you played my deck. so cool!
13:16 Missed lethal on this turn
Play forest, Umori (shoot devil), Raptor (shoot cat), Raptor (shoot face, opp to 11). Original raptor now hits for 6 and Terror of the Peaks hits for 5, that's game.
@@LegendaryO34 Also just Umori (Face) Gemrazer (face) Terror attack 4 + 4 +5 = 13
You discovered this the experimental way (always good to experiment) but the relevant mutation rule is
702.139c As a mutating creature spell resolves, if its target is legal, it doesn’t enter the battlefield. Rather, it merges with the target creature and becomes one object represented by more than one card or token (see rule 721, “Merging with Permanents”).
Did anybody else really like that Jund Midrange deck he played against?
It's nice to see brews on the ladder.
Another gruul terror of the peaks deck. I cant wait!
Just to leave a comment, double masters box from Cool Stuff with cgb5 is $308.74 after discount.
Soon the matchup vs Temur Reclamation will be even better, as they won't even have access to Wilderness Reclamation! ;)
...haha...
There is no temur rec without it, the decks will cease to exist. It may just evolve into some kind of temur control. Even then though I doubt it will be competitive
@brianv3ntura @@luken4133 that's the joke
@@edoardospagnolo6252 oh😂
Actually, there’s no Temur Rec anymore. Because the card that defines it, and after which it is named - Wilderness “Reclamation” - has been banned.
This looks like my deck, except I run only forests and green creatures.
so its nothing like your deck then
Lmao
Looks like mine too, except I play UW control
@@tazitus_ That sounds a lot like this deck of playing cards I just bought.
51:11 The Jegantha tells us that they are Rakdos without Red. They have claims and Devils they can't play.
ZERO IQ DECK !? right up my alley.
Keep showing the stats at the end. That's fantastic.
CBG: This deck is zero IQ
Also CBG: *takes 45 seconds to decide what to do each turn*
(j/k CBG, I love you)
The joke is that I am zero iq, not the deck
I want to play Blue, but I'm just a gruul scrub. "Har har 'rawr' means I love you in dinosaur."
This and sultai control is my new go to now that the bans have been rolled in
Fun deck! I respect your opinion on cycling decks. Well said!👍😎
Glad you enjoyed!
I literally have made every single deck you have ever played before you played it
Love your videos man
See you in the next video, big voice CGB!!
It is I CGB I am the one respectable person who created this deck
Can't wait to see what CGB plays after bans.
Last video of T3feri's official channel. Thank you for the great content.
I love this deck, holy moly
This looks pre-recorded xD. Otherwise, there would be gnashing of teeth teferi is gone
It is
Hope we will get a appropriate reaction from CGB in on of the next few videos.
What? I didn't play in a while. Was Teferi banned?
@@_Encie yeah, they announced it a few hours ago.
@@mguy5923 just read up on it. The cat and wilderness rec too
Can you please say every welcome from now until forever in your Hulk Gruul voice? Love it.
@12:12 ...ahhh.. O...Kayyyyyy.....
"Just because a fish is a fish, that doesn't mean it's a FISH, RIGHT?"
;>}
Now with Reclamation, Teferi, and Cat banned I am so happy :D. I tried this list out as is and I have to say it's pretty good, dumb fun. Like you I play Bo1, and I was running a more low-ball Gruul list before with the little haste critters and Embercleave because it matched well with Mono Red, but with Mono Green running around I think this matches up better. Now with the gaping chasm of the post-ban meta I have no idea what's coming next.
"Cycling is a deck I hate more than most any other. It's not cause I hate poor people!" x-D
When I started with arena one months ago, I "bought" also cycling because of ROI and to win at least SOME games. Being a noob to MTG is really tough and often frustrating. CYCLING helped me to stick with this game.
Evil CGB made this deck😎
Thanks CGB!
Pelt Collector couldn't block Questing Beast
i love Gruul.
you can be assured that i will try this deck.
Love that you played against your izzet control deck. I've gotten to plat 2 now with it. Had a 12 and 2 run with it today. Life's better without tef, rec and cat lol
Phil Ivey is one of your deck names? I KNEW you played poker!
Smashing, baby!
Elder Gargaroth is a sweet card. Been playing it as a two-off in some decks
47:07 This whole channel summed up in one sentence.
This is my deck. I invented Gruul.
With cat oven and teferi gone, UW flyers might be one of the best decks now. Its decent against red aggro and ramp decks and control might be too weak against it without teferi. Except control with black maybe, if they run a lot of single target removal.
CGB is so good with Gruul which is wierd because he is a azorius Control mage
looks fun
17:45 SO glad I am not the ONLY person who has made a dingus move and miscalculated incoming damage lol...zero IQ was a great name for this deck 😂 Except I only do this when I am high....
Oh look it's my deck Kappa
Cycling totally does suck, and I think the reason it sucks more than other overused decks is thar that it's virtually impossible to interact with. Unless you can kill them really quickly with your creatures, it doesn't matter if you kill what's on their board, and virtually all they have to be able to do is cycle stuff, which means none of it can be countered... So the only chance you get to interact with their cards is when they eventually play Zenith Flare, if you have a counterspell.
If you aren't playing blue (and leaving mana open constantly for counterspells), you're essentially just playing against a timer
Or you could play a deck that gains lives and clean the boare, like sultai and u wreck them
@@kirakreep I suppose you could, if you can gain life faster than they can burn you. Is lifegain viable in standard? I haven't really seen it played, but I don't play all that much, so I wouldn't know
Tormods crypt exiles their gtaveyard, making zenith flare worthless
@@God-ch8lq oh, that's in Standard?? (as I said, I haven't played all that much lately, and honestly pretty much just know the m21 cards I've pulled from packs)
I really like Tormod's Crypt, but have gotten weird responses to running it in a couple EDH decks. Do people play it in the current meta? I suppose it could be a good pick for your sideboard
Of course, there's also Ashiok
I also claim to have made this deck.
I also claim to have made this deck.
Me too, apart from some of the card choices. It was before Ikoria, so...
I too claim to have made this deck!
I made this deck!! And so did my wife........ ;)
My dog made this deck.
My god made the dicks.
love you cgb 🥰🥰🥰
The protector of Jank is no more
Did anyone else notice he played vs the same person playing temur adventures at 18:59 and 27:06. Match making is fine btw
"another beautiful day in GRUUL land" 😃
CGB give us your opinion about the Bannings.
CGB hates the Cycling deck “not because I hate poor people....” Lol!!! That’s golden. Seriously. I admit, whenever I’m playing against a Cycling deck, thay does come to mind. “Can they only afford uncommons and commons?” Lol.
Nice commentary b8. That's next level. BTW: I did not make the deck. Or did I...?
It was me who made this, your sister
My daily today is using 20 red and green spells, so I'm gonna give this deck a go ^_^
This is green&red, we play green&red, mutate face till they're dead. First comes marauding raptor, then comes Radha heart of keld, we finish with terror of the peaks and they die!!!!!
'we need an interactive piece off the top' - Draws an interactive piece off the top
'we'll need to do something about the red mana' - Draws red mana off the top
'we need a land for the Pyroceratops' - Draws a land off the top for Pyroceratops
'it would be nice to draw a 3 drop for the in between, especially a mutate creature' - First draws a 2 drop, then a 3 drop mutate creature
I think you're a very good player and a very good content creator CGB but why does not Arena work this way for me? It seems like you're playing a different game. You can't keep a 2 color deck with only one color, you can't keep a curve of 1 to 5 with nothing in between with an aggro deck.
Would you make another video to show us how it is done?
You have to put a stop for your own draw step, and wish upon a Teferi card you should always keep by your computer, and it just works!
(Not sure how the bans will affect this, but I'll use Master of Time for the _time_ being. Just to be safe.)
Also, the past month or so he was getting manascrewed or flooded left-and-right. Our boy CGB needs a break every now and then!
I think its 2 parts. One he builds good decks that are consistent so he has the better chance to draw what he needs even down to his mana bases that he does work on. 2) He probably cuts games where he gets mana screwed because thats not fun content to watch. It is no fun for him and no fun for the viewer to watch either player not cast spells.
@@BosSoxFan15 Definitely this. Also just the variance of any card game can make anyone look like a god or a super weak player based on small sample size
@@nikvalinsky I think though that CGB does do a great job of showing the strengths and weaknesses of the deck by showing legitimate losses and wins. He also is very talented and makes the proper decisions while explaining them to us.
BosSoxfan15 I agree with that, as well. There is no question that this is exceptional content from a great player.
Gruul smash
CGB, opinions on the bans?
He was online talking about it, although I think he's still online and maybe talking about it _right now_ over at Twitch
Join the discord to get a notification
I bet he'll talk about it on the ArenaCraft podcast with Arjuna!
@@hunszaszist Damn, I missed the Twitch notification. Thank you!
Ardusk smooth plug, did he pay you?
@@mrginge143 Not as much as he paid etaoinshr, he's doing the work of God!
Aggro with tap lands 😁✌🏻
I had plans for a similar list, but I want to play elder gargaroth.
Sadly I don't have nearly enough mythic wildcards
I saw someone playing this deck and crushed it with "sultai big brain" jajajajaja
mutate functions as the creature already in plan becoming the mutated creature so it isnt "entering" the battlefield it more like and enchantment that is making the arboreal grazer a copy of gemrazor than a separate creature entering battlefield
Oof, at 17:37 you had potential lethal next turn if you drew an untapped, non-shock land. Forgetting about trample happens to all of us :/
i think he had lethal on board. Castle of garenbrig gave him the mana and he could have kept one creature by blocking a mentor taking 18. then forerunner+ the 4 power creature remaining made 7+6 damage versus the 3 blocking giving him lethal.
Can you make an updated version of your jeskai mutate deck, now that Teferi has been banned?
I see "zero IQ deck", I click.
When I see a cgb video, I click
Damn, seems like a fun deck, but this would eat up 2/3 of my rare wildcards, plus a good chunk of them are rotating in a month or two, and I don't want to have them go to waste.
See Jee Bhee
17:41 I think CGB threw this. He blocked the only trample creature, if he had blocked one of the mentors, he would have gone down to 2, then the next attack was for 13, all trample, against 8 life and a single T3 blocker. Then again, he saw the mistake a few seconds after he died. Just a tiny bit too late, probably 'cause he is not used to playing big monsters and actually think things through. Stompy decks, sometimes, require you to think... Who knew!
Cool Kids club, report in!!
Will your ban reactions be on the CGB Gaming channel? I tried watching the VOD on twitch but parts were muted due to copyrighted audio.
“I made this deck, but I auto include x card; therefore it’s my deck”
My grandpa made this deck back in 1943
In the aggro vs control matchup, the aggro deck requires more skill to play. Managing your resources is way harder than just playing to survive in the most efficient way. Change my mind.
Arena should make a queue so big brain players can use their big brain decks to play other big brain players and their big brain decks.
What is your opinion on the New bans? Always watch the whole video btw...
All hail the shill duty lol
With t3feri gone and the possible rise of counter cards is the embercleave just dead weight?
After you name it 0 IQ... Nobody will tell you who made it
17:40 Should have blocked one of the mentors to stay alive. if you dont block with the questing beast, then you can prevent the lifegain and hope to topdeck a land for leathal
“You didn’t build that!”
I dont made that, thanks God!
13:45 could've won by burning face with 2 marauding raptors the umori and swinging face in reverse order of course