@@TheCrmerry Blue White Jace Mill. Basically the next deck in this series except I replaced some spot removal with a couple of Temporary Lockdowns and Impulses.
@@TheCrmerry Just remember, it's NOT the version with the Terisian Mindbreaker. While that card seems a natural fit for the mill strat, it's just too narrow.
The only way I can think to save that Cathar was to risk it, and crack the Map Token on him: if you get land, nothing changes and you get one land out of the deck; if you get a permanent, Cathar becomes a 3/3 (base), and when you flip to night, if you don't play anything that turn, he becomes a 4/4 (3/3 base +1/+1).
Someone could probably calculate the odds the next card would be land to see if that was objectively the better play (with the known information at the time).
I see completely different decks if I switch decks. It’s insane. Some days I’m allowed to climb and do nothing but win, and others I just get smashed with impossible bs game after game. I know people say it’s not in standard ranked, but if you try a deck that has off meta cards all of a sudden you face other weird decks as well, that just happen to counter your strategy. Infuriating. Or maybe I’m just really unlucky 10 games in a row every few days.
I hope this video gets as many views as it deserves. This is peak Arena content like we'd expect it to be. Because "Shuffler is fine" gets absolutely TROUNCED by "matchmaker is fine".
Love to see this "journey to Mythic" style of content! Thanks for all you do CGB! Hand of Justice has been doing a series of "journey" vids with mono-red, mono-white, boros humans, naya humans. I like the meta journeys more than the creative jank builds. Cheers!
I think the system has good intentions as it tries to match decks with similar metrics but unfortunately it doesn't work out in practice. They should just leave it alone so we don't feel cheated@@AtomicCenturion
Nice to see you finally get a sampling of what people refer to by rigged. Typical day is 80%+ on the draw, 70%+ bad matchup or mirror, 70%+ mana flood or hose and "the shuffler is fine'. now that you know how my day goes perhaps 5-6 of 7 days a week, how do you like it? :-P i watch you play because usually it provides a more reasonable experience and I can at least hope to enjoy it sometime.
This is just, on average, not true. There are 2 players in every game. One of them needs to be on the draw. People need to actually track their games because I felt the same way until I started looking at stats.
20:27, you could get 1 counter on it AND flip it to night-time, which makes it have 4 toughness on the opponents' turn and therefore not vulnerable to the Virtue.
At 33:44 I think the play was definitely to attack with all. If they double block a vanguard, they let Adeline through and go to 2. They probably wouldn't have - they would have blocked how they did - but it was a better attack. The game was lost by more than 3 life, so it didnt REALLY matter, but worth considering for the future. Love the vids man, and you were clearly not at 100% mentally after an 18 hour grind lol.
I felt all of those horrible matches… yikes. This was soooo entertaining 🎉 thanks so much. I have been sick all Christmas Day and I’m locked away from my kids and family. This was a lovely pick me up. Also play Boros humans with Inti and heart fire duelist 😊Thanks for being so consistent with your content. It is always a great watch 👍
I played your Azorious Control deck to hit Mythic for the 3rd time ever this season! Beating mono-red with control to get into Mythic is definitely my greatest magic highlight
The thing that feels the worst in this game is long runs of being on the draw. It feels worse than being on the play feels good. It gets me to stop playing. I can’t believe we are still here and that WotC has not prioritized finding some way to try to balance it out more
At least the Control player gets to experience the receiving end of draw-go-wipe. I wonder what a your climb with a control deck for your playstyle would have looked like.
The BS of arena (which has been proven btw) combined with mono red aggro is just absolutely ridiculous..I’ll gladly stick to paper only even though i don’t get to play that often
@20:41 I think the better play here is to explore first, targeting the Brutal Cathar. IF you get a +1 counter then you don't play anything, pass the turn, and it flips to become a 4/4. If you get a land, then you proceed with the play as you made it.
@CovertGoBlue it is possible to get to Mythic with this awesome deck, just reached today (admitted with some strugle, dident have enough to craft all so had to freestyle alittle 😅) Thanks for the inspiration! 1 Boseiju, Who Endures, 4 Hopeful Initiate, 4 Coppercoat Vanguard, 2 Annex Sentry, 4 Brutal Cathar , 3 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, 6 Plains, 4 Cavern of Souls, 4 Lunarch Veteran, 4 Kellan, Daring Traveler, 2 Razorverge Thicket, 2 Secluded Courtyard, 1 Melira, the Living Cure, 2 Sigarda, Font of Blessings, 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, 2 Sigarda, Champion of Light, 3 Plaza of Heroes, 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire, 1 Brushland, 1 Chaplain of Alms, 2 Wedding Announcement, 3 Recruitment Officer
This looks like it had a good run overall, but the losses took so much longer than the wins. It won more than it lost, but spent a lot more time losing than winning, which I can see being very painful for a control mage to play.
Mono red IS toilet gaming.. The unfortunate truth is that it gets the job done without even trying to play a game.. R.I.P. CGB on the last game. It hurts to see this happen as a control player 🫣 always love the content though! We all appreciate you!!
I'm not a control player at all, I prefer creature based decks, and Arena is just unplayable at the moment for people like me. I still somehow made it to Mythic but I had to switch to a deck that was just not fun for me.
Try the Pirate deck. It has good game against control and for some reason I avoided it today and reached Mythic for my first time ever. Just joined Mtg Arwam a month ago. Been playing paper magic for years though.
In no world should anyone be subjected to 5 or more straight games on the draw. Wizards NEEDS to fix their fucking game . And that’s not even mentioning the shuffler… don’t get me started on the shuffler
as much that i feel for u, it was good for me to see your struggle with this. sometimes i like to rebuild fun decks i see you play with, like this one. but as i try it, i get flooded with bad matchups and constant beeing on the draw, like loosing 4-5 games in a row or more. every time i got mixed feelings about it. am i that bad? could you be cutting bad games out of videos? did i get screwed by the matchmaking while you get blessed because of beeing a creator? am i just that unlucky? seeing this run did really good for me.
EVERY SINGLE TIME i try to run less than 23 lands i drought like you wouldnt believe. earlier today it was 2 land to opponents 8, another one 3 lands to 7... how is it so hard to draw friggin lands?!
35:36 Why not cast the Brutal Cathar off the Cavern of Souls and get the Hopeful Initiate countered instead? I could be wrong to think that'd be better, because the Hopeful is more powerful with Adeline as it keeps it growing, do I have it right?
1:05:42 it makes me so angry to see how mono red is punished for not doing what like 99% of mono red players do and just mindlessly attack for every point of damage that they can. They had lethal if they did from montrous rage role leaving the battlefield.
@@yuanshi9346 ah mb I was thinking of the wicked role. I just remembered that mono red has done that before with a role and couldn't remember what other card gave them a role now I remember it's that creature that has 3 options.
Many including CGB dumps on mono-red but it gets the job done carrying lots of players to mythic. All that with a cheap cost to craft it too. It basically new players friendly and it gets new players coming to play MTG which WOTC wants. Unlike STUPID control players that sits there dropping mana and pass, and wipes board thinking they have done some brilliant stuff which brings nothing to the table for WOTC.
What do you mean it's not fair that I play a 12 lands in a deck of 60 cards and draw no more and no less than exactly 3 lands every game? That's mono red and it's fair and balanced and very fun to play against. It's so fun that WoTC has made sure that it is the top archtype in BO1 since arena came out.
The only 1 in days 1 of asking for a cgb/arjuna reunion..boo standard. Sorry, but I'll give you 4 standard/timeless videos and give ad revenue, but I need to hear "turtle" in 2024
Have played “standard” magic for 25+ years, still play it every day, can’t say I have ever hated a standard more than the one we are in right now. Give me back eldrazi winter, or affinity, or sultai ramp and rogues, they were all better than this.
In this game, you play against the shuffler. Doesn't require skill at all. I seem to never go first as well. The coding in this game is trash. If you play on Android, the game will lock up or crash a lot.
id like to share: my setup in short, is Howling Mine, with Eye of the Beholder both for super card draw, then ojah god for triple tokens and horn of Gondor, for super wins. or I Helm of Replicate my Ojah twice for 81 6/6s
![Bonehoard Dracosaur Rakdos Midrange | Standard [MTG Arena]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/svNx0XrQBg0/mqdefault.jpg)
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Congratulations CGB, this was EXACTLY my experience piloting this deck. At which point I did indeed switch to mill.
Which mill deck?
@@TheCrmerry Blue White Jace Mill. Basically the next deck in this series except I replaced some spot removal with a couple of Temporary Lockdowns and Impulses.
@@Surya-uj7re thanks. I'll check it out.
@@TheCrmerry Just remember, it's NOT the version with the Terisian Mindbreaker. While that card seems a natural fit for the mill strat, it's just too narrow.
The transition from scowling, frustrated CGB to happy, arms crossed CGB at the end, 😂. Appreciate the realistic content, this is the Arena I know.
The only way I can think to save that Cathar was to risk it, and crack the Map Token on him: if you get land, nothing changes and you get one land out of the deck; if you get a permanent, Cathar becomes a 3/3 (base), and when you flip to night, if you don't play anything that turn, he becomes a 4/4 (3/3 base +1/+1).
I was shouting the same thing lol
@@jacobcisneros7731 same here
same 😅@@jacobcisneros7731
Someone could probably calculate the odds the next card would be land to see if that was objectively the better play (with the known information at the time).
His next card was Sigarda, it would've worked, too.
happy to see I'm not the only one who gets the worst matchups as soon as they queue a creature-based deck
I see completely different decks if I switch decks. It’s insane. Some days I’m allowed to climb and do nothing but win, and others I just get smashed with impossible bs game after game. I know people say it’s not in standard ranked, but if you try a deck that has off meta cards all of a sudden you face other weird decks as well, that just happen to counter your strategy. Infuriating. Or maybe I’m just really unlucky 10 games in a row every few days.
I hope this video gets as many views as it deserves.
This is peak Arena content like we'd expect it to be.
Because "Shuffler is fine" gets absolutely TROUNCED by "matchmaker is fine".
Matchmaker is the real villain of Arena. Shuffler is a street pickpocket compared to 5 families Mafia boss Matchmaker.
I've not started the games yet but something tells me this exact deck did not, in fact, get this man to mythic.
Some of the best standard content in quite a while! CGB's reaction for the final match is EPIC!!!
It's almost like every game against mono red is the first :P
Love to see this "journey to Mythic" style of content! Thanks for all you do CGB! Hand of Justice has been doing a series of "journey" vids with mono-red, mono-white, boros humans, naya humans. I like the meta journeys more than the creative jank builds. Cheers!
I've tried your board-wipe rakdos deck from yesterday, suddenly all the creature decks disappeared from arena for about 10 games. rigged
I swear it happens every time. Whatever deck you play prepare to go up against your worst matchup for the next hour
I think the system has good intentions as it tries to match decks with similar metrics but unfortunately it doesn't work out in practice. They should just leave it alone so we don't feel cheated@@AtomicCenturion
Its 100% rigged. When i build a anti red lifegain deck all of a sudden red dissapeared from the game for 3 days.
Gotta play best of 3, from what I've found best of 3 is much better in that regard
Those games were hard to stomach. A majority of us know exactly how you feel
CGB! Loving the "No QuEsTiOnS!" Makes me laugh every time.
in the game against golgari couldn't you have put a map counter on the cathar and then flipped it to make it a 6/4 so it wouldn't die to virtue?
Only if it's a nonland explore.
It was the sigarda it would have worked
Actually 4/4 because it wouldn't be a human type anymore but yes, it would have avoided Virtue.
Tilt. And wrong play inevitably means more engagement with the video.
I think the response is "no questions" 😂
CGB, Do you ever go first?! good lord. The rate that mono red goes on the play is insane.
This was the video I needed to see that it’s not JUST that I’m a bad player…though that is a significant contributor to my loses
One hour until you got to play vs mono red. Control is not dead it is thriving.
You sounded a little like Darth Sidious there with “do it, attack with your cottage” 15:37
Nice to see you finally get a sampling of what people refer to by rigged. Typical day is 80%+ on the draw, 70%+ bad matchup or mirror, 70%+ mana flood or hose and "the shuffler is fine'. now that you know how my day goes perhaps 5-6 of 7 days a week, how do you like it? :-P i watch you play because usually it provides a more reasonable experience and I can at least hope to enjoy it sometime.
This is just, on average, not true. There are 2 players in every game. One of them needs to be on the draw. People need to actually track their games because I felt the same way until I started looking at stats.
@@kaybe87 you just outed yourself as a bad player
20:27, you could get 1 counter on it AND flip it to night-time, which makes it have 4 toughness on the opponents' turn and therefore not vulnerable to the Virtue.
At 33:44 I think the play was definitely to attack with all. If they double block a vanguard, they let Adeline through and go to 2. They probably wouldn't have - they would have blocked how they did - but it was a better attack. The game was lost by more than 3 life, so it didnt REALLY matter, but worth considering for the future. Love the vids man, and you were clearly not at 100% mentally after an 18 hour grind lol.
The token would have been smaller as well.
I felt all of those horrible matches… yikes. This was soooo entertaining 🎉 thanks so much. I have been sick all Christmas Day and I’m locked away from my kids and family. This was a lovely pick me up. Also play Boros humans with Inti and heart fire duelist 😊Thanks for being so consistent with your content. It is always a great watch 👍
Red just so tough to beat with the rage
Games like that last one are the Reason why I am playing less Arena
I played your Azorious Control deck to hit Mythic for the 3rd time ever this season! Beating mono-red with control to get into Mythic is definitely my greatest magic highlight
Can you give the list?
This has been me. Its either Atraxa or Azorious control stuck in plat 1
The thing that feels the worst in this game is long runs of being on the draw. It feels worse than being on the play feels good. It gets me to stop playing. I can’t believe we are still here and that WotC has not prioritized finding some way to try to balance it out more
At least the Control player gets to experience the receiving end of draw-go-wipe. I wonder what a your climb with a control deck for your playstyle would have looked like.
The BS of arena (which has been proven btw) combined with mono red aggro is just absolutely ridiculous..I’ll gladly stick to paper only even though i don’t get to play that often
somehow CGB spends the entire episode salting about both monoR aggro AND UW control sweepers
the man must really hate his job
Monsterous rage should have been green
At 21:00, couldn't CGB have used the map on the carthar, and then pass to make it nighttime. Then, the brutal cathar has 4 toughness.
What are the advantages of going green? why not a similar mono-white deck?
@20:41 I think the better play here is to explore first, targeting the Brutal Cathar. IF you get a +1 counter then you don't play anything, pass the turn, and it flips to become a 4/4. If you get a land, then you proceed with the play as you made it.
@CovertGoBlue it is possible to get to Mythic with this awesome deck, just reached today (admitted with some strugle, dident have enough to craft all so had to freestyle alittle 😅) Thanks for the inspiration!
1 Boseiju, Who Endures, 4 Hopeful Initiate, 4 Coppercoat Vanguard, 2 Annex Sentry, 4 Brutal Cathar , 3 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar, 6 Plains, 4 Cavern of Souls, 4 Lunarch Veteran, 4 Kellan, Daring Traveler, 2 Razorverge Thicket, 2 Secluded Courtyard, 1 Melira, the Living Cure, 2 Sigarda, Font of Blessings, 4 Thalia, Guardian of Thraben, 2 Sigarda, Champion of Light, 3 Plaza of Heroes, 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire, 1 Brushland, 1 Chaplain of Alms, 2 Wedding Announcement, 3 Recruitment Officer
This looks like it had a good run overall, but the losses took so much longer than the wins. It won more than it lost, but spent a lot more time losing than winning, which I can see being very painful for a control mage to play.
Mono red IS toilet gaming.. The unfortunate truth is that it gets the job done without even trying to play a game.. R.I.P. CGB on the last game. It hurts to see this happen as a control player 🫣 always love the content though! We all appreciate you!!
CGB subtle 90s hip hop refs!
CGB, this is my type of deck. I think I'm gonna play it on the ladder 😈
Ran into this exact deck just an hour ago while piloting some Esper control. Gave me a really hard time. Hate it! 😅
my god, that last game made me rofl so hard...
Remember that day? When I .... NO QUESTIONS 😂😂
You should see if you could make a deco around The Ring Tempts You effect I made one and it is fun to do it is a black and white deck
I can send it to you if you like
skoomababy is a great username 1:14:00
Now we know why people go 0-45 when they netdeck CGB sometimes!
I'm not a control player at all, I prefer creature based decks, and Arena is just unplayable at the moment for people like me. I still somehow made it to Mythic but I had to switch to a deck that was just not fun for me.
Try the Pirate deck. It has good game against control and for some reason I avoided it today and reached Mythic for my first time ever. Just joined Mtg Arwam a month ago. Been playing paper magic for years though.
@@breakingthewall2112mythic in 1 month ?.....1 month..ok.
52:20 you totally could’ve attacked with sigarda because coven is not enabled with your board state
I wish I'd have the luck to play these kinds of decks. Mine are never close and I'm just constantly shut down.
Yeah, maybe one too many board wipes in Standard right now. ;)
5 too many by my count
Honestly mono red needs a hard nerf. At this point I think Kumano and monstrous rage should be banned. Their synergies are way too easy to pull off.
That volcano in Iceland rn. Damn
Why do you think about volcanoes when watching this video?
because CGB was just on vacation there and right after he left the island started to rip in half (its because he didnt throw the ring in)
Mono Red getting revenge after not managing to get their hands on CGB.
In no world should anyone be subjected to 5 or more straight games on the draw. Wizards NEEDS to fix their fucking game . And that’s not even mentioning the shuffler… don’t get me started on the shuffler
as much that i feel for u, it was good for me to see your struggle with this. sometimes i like to rebuild fun decks i see you play with, like this one. but as i try it, i get flooded with bad matchups and constant beeing on the draw, like loosing 4-5 games in a row or more. every time i got mixed feelings about it. am i that bad? could you be cutting bad games out of videos? did i get screwed by the matchmaking while you get blessed because of beeing a creator? am i just that unlucky? seeing this run did really good for me.
Wizards could have not printed _any_ red cards in the last set and mono red would still have been an awful, overplayed coin toss to match against.
EVERY SINGLE TIME i try to run less than 23 lands i drought like you wouldnt believe. earlier today it was 2 land to opponents 8, another one 3 lands to 7... how is it so hard to draw friggin lands?!
35:36 Why not cast the Brutal Cathar off the Cavern of Souls and get the Hopeful Initiate countered instead? I could be wrong to think that'd be better, because the Hopeful is more powerful with Adeline as it keeps it growing, do I have it right?
36:08 "my choices are limited." No, I'm pretty sure your choices are standard and historic brawl.
You can do it!
48:37 me at peak optimism
Fwiw, congrats on the important part.. 18 hours straight = 1 month of vacation with your wife (I hope you guys had fun!)
1:05:42 it makes me so angry to see how mono red is punished for not doing what like 99% of mono red players do and just mindlessly attack for every point of damage that they can. They had lethal if they did from montrous rage role leaving the battlefield.
You are remembering the wrong role
@@yuanshi9346 ah mb I was thinking of the wicked role. I just remembered that mono red has done that before with a role and couldn't remember what other card gave them a role now I remember it's that creature that has 3 options.
Diamond? LOL. MTGA pisses me off so much with their rigged games that I barely bother doing platinum ^^'
@1:13:27 FFS MONO RED!!!!!
All the mono red decks are mythic by now. Long live the red mages. - RDW’s
Could've flipped the cathar that one game and used the map token to pump it out of range of the virtue. This has been captain hindsight signing off
Hindsight tells us the move would’ve worked but even without that information, many would argue it’s the objectively correct play there.
Many including CGB dumps on mono-red but it gets the job done carrying lots of players to mythic. All that with a cheap cost to craft it too. It basically new players friendly and it gets new players coming to play MTG which WOTC wants. Unlike STUPID control players that sits there dropping mana and pass, and wipes board thinking they have done some brilliant stuff which brings nothing to the table for WOTC.
That's true. Midrange is the best feels for gaming but still I will never play mono red just so bad. But I also don't play control so lol
Monored é o melhor pq n tira seu tempo, no turno 4 tu ja perde e passa pra outra, melhor q jogar 30 minutos com um control pra no fim tomar 2 sunfall
Skate or die. Die Die Die Die Die.
Thx
u give me luck i won 900 dollars while watching this vid
that doesnt sound right
IVE BEEN FEELING LIKE ITS RIGGED TOO
CGB missing a lot of plays recently lol.
Deck looks like wildcard tribal...
I end every season in diamond 4 twenty
What do you mean it's not fair that I play a 12 lands in a deck of 60 cards and draw no more and no less than exactly 3 lands every game? That's mono red and it's fair and balanced and very fun to play against. It's so fun that WoTC has made sure that it is the top archtype in BO1 since arena came out.
this deck sucks.. it only works on the play against monored. if the opponent has the one ring and divine purge... what are you going to do ?
uh probably gonna not play a bogus format like alchemy
The only 1 in days 1 of asking for a cgb/arjuna reunion..boo standard. Sorry, but I'll give you 4 standard/timeless videos and give ad revenue, but I need to hear "turtle" in 2024
Dino is much stronger than white, Dino aggro-midrange
Have played “standard” magic for 25+ years, still play it every day, can’t say I have ever hated a standard more than the one we are in right now. Give me back eldrazi winter, or affinity, or sultai ramp and rogues, they were all better than this.
But CGB, you can't have been speaking metaphorically when you said you would unalive yourself....
but cgb
In this game, you play against the shuffler. Doesn't require skill at all. I seem to never go first as well. The coding in this game is trash. If you play on Android, the game will lock up or crash a lot.
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Oh hai. I got here early today
I demand that you stop slandering mono red. It is not very nice
id like to share: my setup in short, is Howling Mine, with Eye of the Beholder both for super card draw, then ojah god for triple tokens and horn of Gondor, for super wins. or I Helm of Replicate my Ojah twice for 81 6/6s
Yeah because we really need more aggro Decks in the meta
Aggro decks are the most powerful option right now. Why would you expect to see less of them?
Please show cherry picked games against different decks. It's kinda boring like this.