Black players are a lot like Blue players, but instead of stopping them from casting spells, they let their opponents resolve their creatures, giving them the false hope they'll get to attack, only for removal to ruin their day.
Once made a white/black deck with 12 destroy target creature cards and a bunch of white enchantments to back it up. I don't regret what I did, but I do understand now why I no longer have friends. Perhaps murdering them was *not* so good for me.
I totally understand you, Orzhov Lifedrain Control is fun to play, but not to play against. I had the opportunity to bagin playing Commander with my friends before draining them completely.
my favorite arena deck right now is my good old mono-red aggro burn pile. is it so wrong of me to enjoy a mono-black aggro burn pile with 10+ removal slots when all I'm trying to do is play lands until i can flip a corrupt off the top?
Here's the thing. I am unequivocally a Black player. I've been playing Black since I first started the game, and most of my decks are Mono-black. And this is the inside of my mind. This is exactly how I build decks, right down to the "I don't care how I win, I'll just kind of drain them out I guess."
I'm the opposite, I almost exclusively play white deck combinations. I like to have as many creatures/tokens on the field as possible at all times. I love watching mono black players run out of hand cards and then concede as I summon the next wave.
My mono black tastes have evolved over the years. Originally, it was about killing my opponents. I tried guns, maces, elaborate rube-Goldberg machinations that delivered polonium on their last untap step, but now, I find myself playing 12 swamps and 48 copies of thoughtseize. Nobody has lived to correct my deck construction illegality thus far.
I played blue/black back in planar chaos when blue was basically black for a set. 4 piracy charms, 4 funeral charms, counter, bounce, discard and creature destruction. It had 3 creatures and no win condition.
I used to play an Abzan deck (which later became a WUBG deck) whose goal was to kill, counter and control everything the opponent played. No win condition but to shuffle my things back into my own deck so I would never run out of things to kill their stuff with. The only win condition was the opponent drawing through their entire deck one card at a time.
@@MerlinTheCommenter So I played this deck for a long time and I honed it down to a pretty precise tool of evil. After lots of testing I eventually decided that there were certain effects that I just absolutely could not allow to resolve. Namely graveyard hate, but there are others. You can have all the removal you want, but if someone exiles all your important stuff out of the graveyard you're just cooked and there's no other way to stop things from resolving in the first place than with good old counterspells. Plus there are cards in blue that go really well with the strategy. Devious cover up counters and shuffles stuff from the gy back in, clear the mind can get my whole gy back and replace itself in one card, and my personal favorite became disinformation campaign. Ripping cards from their hand prevents them from building up a big hand and shotgunning it all out in one turn. Discovery / dispersal let me dig for cards I needed or have nontargeted removal at instant speed plus the surveil resets disinformation campaign...I really hate blue in general, but it was just too good a fit for the strategy not to include.
I feel attacked. My horobi deck… it does this on a grand scale. He isn’t even a murderer at that point, in the words of Stalin, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.” Horobi has killed literally millions of creatures, so anything that dies to him is just another statistic at this point.
I have an artifact creature that gets stronger for every artifact and enchantment in my graveyard is in my deck just to counter milling decks (all I have in that deck are artifact and enchantment spells)
Notice that most of the games his opponent barely took damage and died anyway. This is the power of asserting that much dominance. You don't need to kill your opponents when they kill themselves out of despair.
Oh my Jeebus. I thought I knew what to expect when I opened this video, and I had no idea. I love the comedic format of this shit; I laughed harder in more repetition at this than I have in a long, long time. Touchè fellow dark magus. lol
1:06 I got that feeling when I used turox (you know the giant slug) on a player who has up to 50 1/1 creature tokens and then used deadfast demon to turn those slug tokens into 6/6 with flying. And the opponent still felt they had a chance man that felt satisfying.
Black player : Sacrifice everything. Destroy all the things. You lose the game. Your opponent also loses the game. No one else can win the game, or any game, ever. Green player : Search your deck for all your lands and creatures and put them into play all at once. Throw all your creatures at target opponent. If you hit them, you win the game. Blue player : Take your entire library and put it in your hand. Counter target fun. If your opponent isn't having any fun, you win the game. Otherwise, you lose the game. White player : Prevent all damage. Gain life. Stop anyone from attacking anyone. Take up farming. Make some angels or something. Everyone wins the game. Red player : At the start if your turn, flip a coin. If it's heads, deal 20 damage to target player. If they live, you lose the game, otherwise you win the game. Artifact player : Do whatever you want. Win the game or not, whatever is cool with you.
I got my first deck at the age of six. I started with black and I always will play black. I love playing black. And yes killing things is the best part about it. 😌
I play Anawon the ruin thief as commander. I get the murderer buzz from making my opponent mill all of their favorite cards before they are even able to try to cast them. I’m not really interested in winning from mill, I just love that milling my opponents happens as a side effect of just playing straight forward magic. The deck has a little bit of everything magic has to offer. Play a creature, attack, draw a creature mill a couple cards. Pump some boys, attack, and mill an exponential amount of cards. It’s sorta a mill deck but it’s really just a damage to face deck. The milling is just the side quest, but really what I like about it is that it’s got all sorts of win conditions that work well off of each other without really being a combo deck. I got big creatures like green but they grow off of cards in the grace yard, I build an army of unblockable rogues and pump them up like white and they through the commander supply the milling and food for the big beasts, I have one two card combo that supplies infinite mill if I do decide that milling a person out with a 2/2 unblocable is something I want to do. I don’t have anything that obviously red, but the low to the ground unblockables does not feel like it belongs to a dimir deck. It’s very aggressive and quick to do damage. I have black cards that raise creatures from my enemyies’ graveyards. That’s as black as it gets. I don’t have a lot of cancel spells, but the milling is the second most blue thing ever. The excessive amount of card draw? Delicious. I’m missing ramp for sure but the only cards more than 4 manna are removal spells.
I feel that. I started with black bc I liked the concept and then I realized that white removal can sometimes be more reliable... and it also kills other permanents like enchantments and artifacts. Dude, I just wanna kill everything so I had to use white.
I remember playing a game against a Black player in Arena with only one monster and I played it out just to spite him because neither of us could finish the game but he would run out of cards eventually and I could infinitely summon tokens.
This exactly why I run 4 weatherlight compleateds in mono red… urabrasks forge as well…. You kill enough stuff I scry through my whole deck to deal as much face damage as possible
I play a mono black rats deck that functions more like a white deck with its token generation, a red deck with its speed, and a blue deck with its card draw.
As a lover of mono black, this is scandalously inaccurate.
I also love to make my opponent discard.
Yay more misery to inflict :)
Chad MonoB Discard player vs Virgin MonoU Mill player
That's just killing before it gets played.
This is correct, I also love when they don't have cards to play
That's just killing before birth. AKA abortion.
Black players are a lot like Blue players, but instead of stopping them from casting spells, they let their opponents resolve their creatures, giving them the false hope they'll get to attack, only for removal to ruin their day.
Worse than blue players
Black is slower blue
I play dimir :)
Just play Sultai for ramp.
@@theshreddedone8322 at least you get some value out of the cards, blue can be even worse
Once made a white/black deck with 12 destroy target creature cards and a bunch of white enchantments to back it up. I don't regret what I did, but I do understand now why I no longer have friends.
Perhaps murdering them was *not* so good for me.
... was it in self defense after they played against this deck?
@@puggynator It was preemptively... out of kindness so they didn't have to play against that deck.
Black and white baby....yeah
twelve is a concerningly small number.
and they were never truly your friends.
I totally understand you, Orzhov Lifedrain Control is fun to play, but not to play against. I had the opportunity to bagin playing Commander with my friends before draining them completely.
You know you're beyond help when you think to yourself "damn, this sounds like a fun deck to play, I'm gonna make that" after watching this video
Lol
my favorite arena deck right now is my good old mono-red aggro burn pile. is it so wrong of me to enjoy a mono-black aggro burn pile with 10+ removal slots when all I'm trying to do is play lands until i can flip a corrupt off the top?
... I like it.
You see that guy right there? He doesn't have health insurance- People who play black in a nutshell.
I went to the comments and read this at the exact time Noah was saying it 😂🤣😂
Even better when you're a White/Black player like me because you get to choose who gets insurance. (Hint: it's only my creatures.)
Edit: Typo
You heard it hear first, for-profit healthcare is just WB control.
Is this a commentary on capitalism?
@@flameofmage1099 as a Teysa Karlov player, I can confirm - only my creatures have health insurance.
The mind of a Dimir player:
“I don’t like anyone having fun, I like killing”
The mind of a Dimir player:
“My opponent could be playing better, let me show him how by giving him a CLEAN SLATE. Again”
The mind of a Dimir player:
"I'm so good at killing and countering that the cards don't even go into your hand before I do it."
@@crownysuccubus1524accurate
That's not fair. I have fun when I get to kill things.
Mind of a dimir player
"Everyone mills everything. Including me, I just have a larger beck, that's why- .....and that's why kozilek should be banned."
Here's the thing. I am unequivocally a Black player. I've been playing Black since I first started the game, and most of my decks are Mono-black. And this is the inside of my mind. This is exactly how I build decks, right down to the "I don't care how I win, I'll just kind of drain them out I guess."
I'm the opposite, I almost exclusively play white deck combinations. I like to have as many creatures/tokens on the field as possible at all times. I love watching mono black players run out of hand cards and then concede as I summon the next wave.
@@drakesilmore3760 This guy.
@@drakesilmore3760 me when i untap with rabble rousing
My mono black tastes have evolved over the years. Originally, it was about killing my opponents. I tried guns, maces, elaborate rube-Goldberg machinations that delivered polonium on their last untap step, but now, I find myself playing 12 swamps and 48 copies of thoughtseize. Nobody has lived to correct my deck construction illegality thus far.
Ahh the best kind of MonoB player
Mono-black player since I was 8, remember making a grown man cry with my pink zombies deck in commander. it’s one of my best memories
I played blue/black back in planar chaos when blue was basically black for a set. 4 piracy charms, 4 funeral charms, counter, bounce, discard and creature destruction.
It had 3 creatures and no win condition.
blue player...
Why
@@pichonhugot2891 tbh don't think I've ever actually played a proper "blue deck". Most of them are mono black or black + another colour.
@@LookADistarction just because
Good, good.
I really love this series of "Inside the mind of a MTG player"
As an aristocrats player, I can confirm: my friends are resources to be disposed of for value.
As a combination black mage/health insurance broker I approve of this assessment.
1:08 that “in the video game” is needed
My favorite thing about black is sacrificing permanents that are about to die anyway. It feels so good to squeeze that last bit of use out of them.
“That’s gonna be fun in the future if that ever happens”
I cackled
I used to play an Abzan deck (which later became a WUBG deck) whose goal was to kill, counter and control everything the opponent played. No win condition but to shuffle my things back into my own deck so I would never run out of things to kill their stuff with. The only win condition was the opponent drawing through their entire deck one card at a time.
Probably the most common win condition for my decks.
This man went from Abzan to WUBG because he couldn't resist that sweet sweet control blue. Same, brother. 😂
Oh, that's sounds horrible! I love it!
@@MerlinTheCommenter So I played this deck for a long time and I honed it down to a pretty precise tool of evil. After lots of testing I eventually decided that there were certain effects that I just absolutely could not allow to resolve. Namely graveyard hate, but there are others. You can have all the removal you want, but if someone exiles all your important stuff out of the graveyard you're just cooked and there's no other way to stop things from resolving in the first place than with good old counterspells. Plus there are cards in blue that go really well with the strategy. Devious cover up counters and shuffles stuff from the gy back in, clear the mind can get my whole gy back and replace itself in one card, and my personal favorite became disinformation campaign. Ripping cards from their hand prevents them from building up a big hand and shotgunning it all out in one turn. Discovery / dispersal let me dig for cards I needed or have nontargeted removal at instant speed plus the surveil resets disinformation campaign...I really hate blue in general, but it was just too good a fit for the strategy not to include.
You love torture.🤧
I feel attacked. My horobi deck… it does this on a grand scale. He isn’t even a murderer at that point, in the words of Stalin, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.”
Horobi has killed literally millions of creatures, so anything that dies to him is just another statistic at this point.
Unironically quoting Stalin. You smell.
Noah boutta be in a netflix documentary
The amount of catharsis this gave me is incalculable
As a island swamper, we also love milling, whether your deck or our own 🐱
I have an artifact creature that gets stronger for every artifact and enchantment in my graveyard is in my deck just to counter milling decks (all I have in that deck are artifact and enchantment spells)
"I have no desire to win this game, just to kill your creatures" XD
Whoever had "Never gonna give you up" put in the commercial feed, I didn't know I needed to hear it until it played. Thank you.
"Their life choices have led to me killing them."
This is a great motto.
"ah look at that , its just so cool" me whenever i see a concede lmao
"everything's gotta die, especially my creatures"
You forgot the integral part of an Aristocrat player's mind
I love these vids you make about each color! Can’t wait for more! And even combos like a chaos deck
That Selesnya enchantments deck had it coming.
Congrats on 50k Noah! I’ve been here since 9k and I can’t believe how well your doing.
This channel singlehandedly got me back into Magic for the first time since Zendikar vs Eldrazi, thank you Noah
Black and Blue really is peak psychopath and I love it.
that 4:43 that guy is the MVP, you don't have to let yourself die by losing all you card but he stay in there to the end
As a Black and a Blue player i can 100% confirm this video.
The name of the video grabbed me ... then I remembered its a MTG channel.
4:40 perfection, no notes, 11/10
You can't be disappointed at losing everything when that's the whole goal of the deck. It's depressing but true.
And, despite all this, black is still not the most hated color.
Stumble on your channel randomly now I am hook. LOl..
Love your humor. Keep up the awesome commentary.
i liked doing a mass army of 1/1 undeads with deathtouch, really fun when you have like 20 of them
If they didn't want to die, they never would have entered the battlefield.
seeing the 2 extra copies of sheoldred in your hand waiting to go physically hurt me
Bant control decks: "wincon? whats that?"
Notice that most of the games his opponent barely took damage and died anyway.
This is the power of asserting that much dominance. You don't need to kill your opponents when they kill themselves out of despair.
Oh my Jeebus. I thought I knew what to expect when I opened this video, and I had no idea. I love the comedic format of this shit; I laughed harder in more repetition at this than I have in a long, long time. Touchè fellow dark magus. lol
"With my arm, with my fingers, you have killed her." -Petelgeuse Romanee-Conti
1:06 I got that feeling when I used turox (you know the giant slug) on a player who has up to 50 1/1 creature tokens and then used deadfast demon to turn those slug tokens into 6/6 with flying. And the opponent still felt they had a chance man that felt satisfying.
“I’m not a psychopath, but”
Black in a nutshell.
Black player : Sacrifice everything. Destroy all the things. You lose the game. Your opponent also loses the game. No one else can win the game, or any game, ever.
Green player : Search your deck for all your lands and creatures and put them into play all at once. Throw all your creatures at target opponent. If you hit them, you win the game.
Blue player : Take your entire library and put it in your hand. Counter target fun. If your opponent isn't having any fun, you win the game. Otherwise, you lose the game.
White player : Prevent all damage. Gain life. Stop anyone from attacking anyone. Take up farming. Make some angels or something. Everyone wins the game.
Red player : At the start if your turn, flip a coin. If it's heads, deal 20 damage to target player. If they live, you lose the game, otherwise you win the game.
Artifact player : Do whatever you want. Win the game or not, whatever is cool with you.
Noah is KILLING IT.
Ohhhhh man I just read the title and I’m like oh shit Noah’s gone off the deep end lol
I feel like my black-white brawl deck is getting called out
Truly how death magic should play like in most games
Power at any cost.
This is basically every mono black deck. Played against this yesterday, this sort of deck. It was wonderful.
Honestly, my favourite part about Black is the revival/return options, epsecially in combination with sacrificing/exploiting.
I love this videos, most underrated MTG player
Dude discovered spot removal and just went nuts.
Bro I don't know why but the health insurance bit got me I was cackling for a solid 5 minutes
As a golgari player, I don't see a problem with killing friends if you can just grow more friends from their corpses
I feel like Noah played against my black edh Lillian deck lmao.
These recent vids have been awesome noah. Keep it up
Me playing Coffers: *in goofy voice " I LOVE MURDER, ILL DO IT AGAIN"
Black in a nutshell: AAAAnnnd its gone.
I love how he had to specify “MTG” in the title this time
This is the deck I play on MTGA when I've finally have enough of the 20 meta net decks I just versed in a row.
The phrase: Now I'm not a psychopath, but... Made me laugh so hard that I lost my soda hahaha very apt
You killed it this video
Us monoblack may be 13% of players but we commit more than half of the killing.
I remember when Psychatog got to play some Upheaval. That was so wild and fun for one person at the table.
I unironically need this deck list
"He doesn't have health insurance" LOL
I got my first deck at the age of six. I started with black and I always will play black. I love playing black. And yes killing things is the best part about it. 😌
I play Anawon the ruin thief as commander.
I get the murderer buzz from making my opponent mill all of their favorite cards before they are even able to try to cast them.
I’m not really interested in winning from mill, I just love that milling my opponents happens as a side effect of just playing straight forward magic.
The deck has a little bit of everything magic has to offer.
Play a creature, attack, draw a creature mill a couple cards. Pump some boys, attack, and mill an exponential amount of cards.
It’s sorta a mill deck but it’s really just a damage to face deck. The milling is just the side quest, but really what I like about it is that it’s got all sorts of win conditions that work well off of each other without really being a combo deck.
I got big creatures like green but they grow off of cards in the grace yard, I build an army of unblockable rogues and pump them up like white and they through the commander supply the milling and food for the big beasts, I have one two card combo that supplies infinite mill if I do decide that milling a person out with a 2/2 unblocable is something I want to do. I don’t have anything that obviously red, but the low to the ground unblockables does not feel like it belongs to a dimir deck. It’s very aggressive and quick to do damage. I have black cards that raise creatures from my enemyies’ graveyards. That’s as black as it gets.
I don’t have a lot of cancel spells, but the milling is the second most blue thing ever. The excessive amount of card draw? Delicious.
I’m missing ramp for sure but the only cards more than 4 manna are removal spells.
I like that he uses Murder for the flavor
Me sitting here without health insurance 😶
I feel that. I started with black bc I liked the concept and then I realized that white removal can sometimes be more reliable... and it also kills other permanents like enchantments and artifacts.
Dude, I just wanna kill everything so I had to use white.
But are you're exiling them, are you really even *killing* them?
lmao
@@astuteanansi4935 nah, they became farmers
“Um actually, this would be considered unduly prejudicial, meaning it couldn’t be used in a courtroom.”
I have never felt so seen.
I remember playing a game against a Black player in Arena with only one monster and I played it out just to spite him because neither of us could finish the game but he would run out of cards eventually and I could infinitely summon tokens.
I have exactly 1 tattoo on my body. It's the Black Mana symbol. This video gave me much joy. Continue the slaughter.
My favorite EDH deck is Yawgmoth. I can wipe the entire board and kill everyone in the process, and it feels amazing every time.
I hope to see this in court.
Tergrid, Liliana and Sheoldred are besties. They sit at the mean girls table.
The mind of a Golgari player:
"Boy I sure love my graveyard! I hope someone doesn't have a Bojuka Bog in hand..."
as someone who loves undergrowth, can confirm. exiling my graveyard is such an easy way to make me sad.
This exactly why I run 4 weatherlight compleateds in mono red… urabrasks forge as well…. You kill enough stuff I scry through my whole deck to deal as much face damage as possible
I play a mono black rats deck that functions more like a white deck with its token generation, a red deck with its speed, and a blue deck with its card draw.
As a new MTG player who started with Necrons, yeah, this is how I think. Destroy and exile tickle me pink
Not a psychopath, but yes, the warm fuzzy feeling you speak of, it's real🌞
I play a Torshiro Umezawa deck, and i 100% agree
The only problem with being faster than light is that you live in complete darkness.
If you think these black psyco players are bad enough, keep in mind that there’s people that plays blue.
I love how this is the only video to include "MTG" in the title so algorithms don't think its a racist video.
with blue and white esper is just unfeeling cruelty
Can you do the mind of a 5 color player?
I feel so understood in this video... I teared up from all this murder
This also applies very well to Rakdos Midrange
Look, I just don't want the opponent to have a board state. Messes up the perfect looking table beneath all the cards.
I'm a zombie Dimir... my blue card are a way to ensure nothing stops the growth of the horde
Wizards saw Murder and said: 3 mana is too expensive, lets make it 2
Funny how you added MTG to the title