yeah I'm suddenly seeing the vision with deadly cover up, and given depopulate and farewell are rotating out soon i think it has real legs being considered as the primary sweeper in the format, which has a lotta implications given its black instead of white
Hey, I played that first game! Fun fact, I was so tired that night I didn't even recognize you until halfway through... I was muted, but you missed a bunch of happy emotes :) And yeah, I resolved that Wandering Emperor on my turn thinking I'd have mana up for No More Lies, but didn't realize I had the wrong colors open... Wouldn't have changed much of anything, though! Anyways, my Arena career is now complete with a game against the One in Best of One. What more can I ask? Cheers!
_"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes._ _Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away.... but sometimes he wouldn’t go away._ _Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin'.... ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then.... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and.... they rip you to pieces._ _You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist._ _At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945._ _Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”_
I play blue/white control and yeah, black hoses it in this meta. You can't land planeswalkers because they always have planeswalker removal, you can't win with creature lands because they're the only target for their creature removal, and a bunch of black creatures have card draw when they swing, so if you don't remove them same-turn you get out-tempod. Super hard matchup.
If you put in some discard or mill(not much, just a bit.) There’s a devious play you can make against mono, where you use cover-up to sweep, then exile all of their lands. It’s more of a green/black play because you can assassin trophy the basics after, but it still works against mono green(and to some extent mono-red)
I’ve really enjoyed this one. I put in more pain lands since being able to interact early is important. Also swapped in 2 The End for even more threat removal. Enjoying grinding with this thing!
I really wish there were some targeted card draw in standard. Casting Ancestral Recall targeting your opponent would be a great way to send a message, both intimidation and a literal message, "I honestly think you have no hope of winning, and if you thought it through I think you'd agree. Please consider conceding." Or maybe it would be a good idea to play a creature and kill it yourself. That would be pretty on-brand for Dimir and would communicate the same message.
Have you been able to find any kind of home for undergrowth recon? I'm really interested in this card for having a lot of the same energy as arcane bombardment, but that might also include unplayability. Other than "bad", what kind of deck wants this? Is infinite reuse of lands with sac abilities good enough? A control deck that runs heavy green perhaps?
I thought Deduce would be good, but I had no idea it would be a four of in control lists, good. Quick Study didn't even get that kind of usage, and Quick Study is sick af.
That one is a dead card against Aggro. The power of Deadly Cover-Up is to be useful against both Control and Aggro. You can't afford dead cards in Best of One, so you trade off too much for enhancing the dissection strategy more than it's needed 🤟
@@RafaelAAMerlo true. But I think if you did bo3 then it’s a must sideboard for this strat. Greedy bo1 could play it but would be like min maxing. I do love that card.
As a very selfish request could you please announce as far as you can whenever you decide to visit Europe for an event hopefully as far west in Germany as possible I can tell you all the best places to get whatever kind of food you like
Every time you release a deck I need to play against a copy cat. Lucky me that they play without any patience and rather stupid 😉. I am more interested in the deck ideas you play "against" - getting the idea and doing my own creation. Cheers Rotsch
i just tried dimir control in 3 different Qualifier, and it ALWAYS lose to boros cuz u can't remove enchants and u even lose to mono red Urabrask Forge. It's fraustrating that i can't plat what I like cuz the meta sucks
The meta always sucks. Always and forever. When the meta is good it's because a deck strategy you like is viable, not because the meta doesn't suck. Embrace the suck. The meta determines what is playable, it's up to you to either choose a viable deck from the meta or build a counter deck that has 50 percent or better against the field.
@@joseph1150 So much truth here. As much as I love the Combo archetype and I'm not fully happy when it's not S Tier (in Standard almost never), the Spike in me plays many things because Magic itself is fun, beyond my single favourite strategy 🤟
@@joseph1150 Amen. I may use this as copypasta for every MTGA content creator's comment section filled with people whining about whatever archetype they don't like.
why not dmir proliferation. why not dmir wither with massacre girl, reanimation and terror tides. why not dmir archfield gifting with coveted falcon? is ancient one decend not worth updating? His deck build is random cards with good stuff. no thanks. might as well have shoeldred, some haughty djinns etc.
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the fact that this board clear is not a dead card against control is massive
yeah I'm suddenly seeing the vision with deadly cover up, and given depopulate and farewell are rotating out soon i think it has real legs being considered as the primary sweeper in the format, which has a lotta implications given its black instead of white
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat” - Boros Convoke
Now get off my lawn! 😂
Ogs remember the 8 shark dimir control deck from eldraine
Can haz shark tokens?
give me my Dimir Gargoyle mill control back
Keebler elf remembers
Hey, I played that first game! Fun fact, I was so tired that night I didn't even recognize you until halfway through... I was muted, but you missed a bunch of happy emotes :)
And yeah, I resolved that Wandering Emperor on my turn thinking I'd have mana up for No More Lies, but didn't realize I had the wrong colors open... Wouldn't have changed much of anything, though!
Anyways, my Arena career is now complete with a game against the One in Best of One. What more can I ask? Cheers!
Congrats on the match! It was a pleasure to watch. May the Jeskai colors become better over the next sets 🤍❤💙
16:13 - that whole bit had me laughing hard :D
Winning by decking the opponent through attrition is my favorite win condition, thank you for providing us with this content
Love to see some love for Dimir, looks quite solid
“But CBG, today is Sunday. Wasn’t the meat & beat yesterday?”
…
“No questions!”
_"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes._
_Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away.... but sometimes he wouldn’t go away._
_Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin'.... ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then.... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and.... they rip you to pieces._
_You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist._
_At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945._
_Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”_
I play blue/white control and yeah, black hoses it in this meta.
You can't land planeswalkers because they always have planeswalker removal, you can't win with creature lands because they're the only target for their creature removal, and a bunch of black creatures have card draw when they swing, so if you don't remove them same-turn you get out-tempod. Super hard matchup.
You'll beat me every time I surrender on the spot to control decks to save time.
This is a perfect take on the dimir vs azorious match up. I agree.
bro was a menace in the first game
Man, this deck is manically badass. I love it.
Standard desperately needs to rotate. Yesterday.
They want us to play alchemy...
I will not play alchemy. I protest.
The Shark control is back!!!
If you put in some discard or mill(not much, just a bit.) There’s a devious play you can make against mono, where you use cover-up to sweep, then exile all of their lands. It’s more of a green/black play because you can assassin trophy the basics after, but it still works against mono green(and to some extent mono-red)
"Hiding in the mana base, just below the surface.." OMG!!
With how much control is sneaking back into the meta, counterspells are becoming playable. I love it. Devious Coverup baby.
Sharks vs Angels, classic. Thanks for the entertaining tribal show
" Now get off my lawn! " Lol
Boros getting wrecked with almost full life is such a joy.
I’ve really enjoyed this one. I put in more pain lands since being able to interact early is important. Also swapped in 2 The End for even more threat removal. Enjoying grinding with this thing!
The obligatory "Eeeh, Shuffler? ..."
Picking their game plan apart piece by piece until they conceed is chef's spaghetti.
16:36 this is what we're here for!
That was hilarious. Also the preparation for it. ^^
I really wish there were some targeted card draw in standard. Casting Ancestral Recall targeting your opponent would be a great way to send a message, both intimidation and a literal message, "I honestly think you have no hope of winning, and if you thought it through I think you'd agree. Please consider conceding."
Or maybe it would be a good idea to play a creature and kill it yourself. That would be pretty on-brand for Dimir and would communicate the same message.
I have had good experiences with "Parh of Peril". It's a good replacement for "Meathook Massacre". 😁
This brings me back to the heydays of Test of Talents. Information is power!
Ashiok and shark typhoon was my first dimir control deck.
Have you been able to find any kind of home for undergrowth recon? I'm really interested in this card for having a lot of the same energy as arcane bombardment, but that might also include unplayability. Other than "bad", what kind of deck wants this? Is infinite reuse of lands with sac abilities good enough? A control deck that runs heavy green perhaps?
I didn't realize that deadly cover-up can exile lands......it does...
hey CGB, congrats on your role as Sokka in Netflix's ATLA
control players will really sit down for hours crafting the perfect combination of 60 cards that allow them to do nothing for 40 mins
The Deadly Coverup reminds me of Earwig Squad. OMG that card made my friends rage
Did anyone else notice that you can use Deadly Cover-Up on lands "basic lands"????
I thought Deduce would be good, but I had no idea it would be a four of in control lists, good. Quick Study didn't even get that kind of usage, and Quick Study is sick af.
5 wins in a raw with your deck on Platinium rank 2. Thanks CGB ! Very powerful against everything
I was just yesterday thinking id love to see what seedshark could do with the new cards but lamenting that i only own one, lol.
Oooo this deck looks fun! 🦈
First game felt like solitaire
Isn't that how control is supposed to play? (Only slight sarcasm...)
Staring matches... -.-
:D
Am I wrong thinking that once you "The End" the shark, this deck can't do anything (apart from attacking with reefs)?
Game 1 was glorious.
Love this deck
Not going to lie, Giada is my favorite commander and it hurt me internally to see the angels get stomped so hard. 😂
Game 1 was an unintentional ASMR video 😴
Thank you for making content. You're cool.
This is secretly Esper
Sweet deck! I would like to see Meat Hook Massacre unbanned.
the stone brain could be good? You enhance the dissection strat.
That one is a dead card against Aggro. The power of Deadly Cover-Up is to be useful against both Control and Aggro. You can't afford dead cards in Best of One, so you trade off too much for enhancing the dissection strategy more than it's needed 🤟
@@RafaelAAMerlo true. But I think if you did bo3 then it’s a must sideboard for this strat. Greedy bo1 could play it but would be like min maxing. I do love that card.
That first game was so great :)
Hahahaha that first game was brutal
by the looks of things, you can use Deadly cover-up on basic lands....
You can, but if you do it to late you could help your opponent by making all their top decks gas
As I watch this and you say no questions idk why but I yelled back no fucking questions
That's naughty, dawg
Why was that first game so funny? What kind of sick world is this?
At this point. As I click on the video and load it. I download deck and make it
i noticed all boros get stuck at 3 mana for 2 turns. does not look great.
Why did the jeskai player continue for so long?
Thumbed down because blue based control.
My dimir is Just like this one, but i am using ojer pakpatik. Excelent deck, but azorius seems stronger against this Aggro meta
Day 42 of asking for Covert Go Beard
No Questions!
As a very selfish request could you please announce as far as you can whenever you decide to visit Europe for an event hopefully as far west in Germany as possible I can tell you all the best places to get whatever kind of food you like
SHAAAAAAAAAAARK!
Early video? Nice!
Every time you release a deck I need to play against a copy cat. Lucky me that they play without any patience and rather stupid 😉. I am more interested in the deck ideas you play "against" - getting the idea and doing my own creation. Cheers Rotsch
The Anti Control Control deck... Feels like this would die to aggro or tempo though...
I thought he quit.
Land, go.
Ah control vs control - let’s try to avoid playing magic as long as possible… fun!
Biting the inside of your mouth always sucks. My heart mourns for you.
i just tried dimir control in 3 different Qualifier, and it ALWAYS lose to boros cuz u can't remove enchants and u even lose to mono red Urabrask Forge. It's fraustrating that i can't plat what I like cuz the meta sucks
The meta always sucks. Always and forever. When the meta is good it's because a deck strategy you like is viable, not because the meta doesn't suck.
Embrace the suck.
The meta determines what is playable, it's up to you to either choose a viable deck from the meta or build a counter deck that has 50 percent or better against the field.
@@joseph1150 So much truth here. As much as I love the Combo archetype and I'm not fully happy when it's not S Tier (in Standard almost never), the Spike in me plays many things because Magic itself is fun, beyond my single favourite strategy 🤟
@@joseph1150 Amen. I may use this as copypasta for every MTGA content creator's comment section filled with people whining about whatever archetype they don't like.
SHARK!!!
Love it
glorious
Thanks alot I really enjoy having to take an hour a game against these control dorks now.
Is it me or are the videos like 20 minutes lesd than they use to be
Not sure why you care bc if you watched them to the end you’d know why 👍👀👍
CGB beats meat. Sweet
why no assassins trophy though?
why not dmir proliferation. why not dmir wither with massacre girl, reanimation and terror tides. why not dmir archfield gifting with coveted falcon? is ancient one decend not worth updating?
His deck build is random cards with good stuff. no thanks. might as well have shoeldred, some haughty djinns etc.
But, CGB...
Day 3 of NO QUESTIONS!!
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29:08
fewer
you smell like cheese
Dimir standing up to boros and life gain garbage? Sign me up.
Meat and beat wtf the branding
Be happy it isn't Beat 'n' Meet...
That first game was less fun to watch then paint drying, maybe even grass growing. Control is just...boring.
Filthy deck
Boo! Just another esper pile