It's such a breath of fresh air from the videos of other creators "trying" TCG's, there's effort and enjoyment rather than "idk what's happening lololol what is happening, so silly"
to be fair, these guys milk the "i'm new to this game" spin on their videos for like a year or two its kind if silly, they can only pretend to know nothing for so long
CGB's advice is revealing the true secret to Rarran. That BO1 is just is a mess of randomness and matchup checks, and ranking up is mostly about bashing your head against it for enough time.
This is true about most online competitive games. With time and effort you can generally climb. Sure there are some skill checks as you get into the higher tiers but time and effort will place you above the bulk of people.
I wouldn’t even consider it a secret REMOTELY, before arena bo1 magic was for true multiplayer formats (commander) and kitchen table almost exclusively. this is for a reason.
@@ski9019 Certainly you get more skilled at things with time and effort, but that's not my point. I'm talking about how much skill actually contributes to your 'rank'. You might hear a fighting game player refer to two characters as a 6:4 matchup, meaning if equally skilled players fight each other, one character would win 60% of the time, and the other 40%. BO1 magic simply has a lot more 7:3 and 8:2 matchups than BO3 (or most competitive games).
@@ski9019you missed the entire point. Best of one is largely considered a joke because a lot of the stupid variance that is completely out of your control in best of one is shored up by best of three and the virtue of having a side deck. Best of three removes a large portion of the bashing your head against the wall until you climb aspect unless you are legitimately stuck at the rank you deserve.
Yeah, and that's why aggro decks are better for ranking up - you may not have better win rate, but who cares, you get to bang your head against it faster.
First, want to say that it’s really nice to see you enjoying magic and getting better at it. Second, and I know it’s a bit of a meme, but I would genuinely recommend you to try playing BO3, maybe when you get to diamond, if you are worried about loosing ranks. And I’m not saying that because “it’s how it is supposed to be played” or whatever, but because it might just address some of the gripes you have with the game: 1. You like control more and control decks benefit heavily from sideboarding, more so than any other archetype. 2. You said that you would rather win games consistently, instead of minimising the time spent on each game. And BO3 is much better suited for that than BO1. 3. You also said that you don’t like not knowing what you are going against, again, BO3 helps with that, you know exactly what to mulligan for in games 2 and 3. 4. It would also help with specific matchups a lot, just from this stream, having access to sideboard would massively increase your chances against those off-meta combo decks you faced at the beginning of the stream, 4 leylines of sanctity would be really good against discard and you can have those lockdowns in sideboard to hate the monored without having a card in the main deck that’s a bit awkward in some situations, because it hits your stuff like beanstalks and tokens.
@@PoYi-fi1zt yeah same. feels great to play with a sideboard, but sometimes you really gotta spend over half an hour - an hour on 3 games and if you end up losing... doesn't feel great lol
1:03:46 Rarran getting real confused because the meteorite tokens are for some god forsaken reason writing "Roxanne, Starfall Savant" in the [Card_name] slot despite clearly being meteorite tokens must be a real fun gameplay experience. Arena is a functional piece of software.
I feel like its worth pointing out that ranking up in best of 3 can be a lot easier if you know how to sideboard. Best of 1 can be very do or die, and youre way more prone to losing from a brick or something. In best of 3 you have second chances, and on top of that you can swap out your cards so you can better deal with whatever deck youre up against. Wins in individual games count toward your rankups as well. So if you win a match you get two points worth for example.
Yeah I think BO3 has the player with the bigger edge winning more often. So if you feel like you’re a better player or have a strong deck for the meta BO3 would be best.
Man, I did NOT know what to expect with this video. I thought I might get to listen to CGB's thought process regarding more the core concepts of Magic than his normal videos where he just shortcuts everything because we're used to the BS. Instead I got to cringe at every misplay and every small bit of missed value Rarran let go. CGB was audibly holding back. You could hear the words he wasn't saying. It was painful. I love you guys together.
Must be tough for Hearthstone players to get into the mindset of bluffing and waiting on your opponent before interacting. Baiting and Goading opponents into misplays.
Actually, there is a turn-2 kill in standard. Turn 1: Leyline of guidepact + land + heartfire hero Turn 2: Land + Gaea's Might(domain pump spell) + fling adventure spell. That's 7 from combat 7 from the mouse die trigger and 7 from fling =21
as a person who started and stuck with mono black midrange (began playing in Brother's War hit mythic first in ALL WILL BE ONE), suffered through domain ramp, suffered through atraxa Whenever I run into a deck like rarran's I make them earn the win in the full best of three. I love the content Rarran you've got mythic in the bag.
Rarran insisting on using the tear asunder on the treasure token to prevent the 3 1/1s with 3 board wipes in hand was so painful that is such a horrendous play lol
Wait till warranty finds out that alot of professional magic players also play poker. They're both card games about hidden information and reading your opponent.
Turn 2 Win in Current Standard (Since @Covertgoblue asked in the video): (And it is not very consistent. Buut..) On the Play, Opponent plays: Turn 1: 1: Free Leyline of the Guild Pact (Gives Opponent "Domain 5") 2: Mountain + Heartfire Hero Turn 2: 1: Mountain or Forest 2: Attacks with Heartfire Hero 3: Casts Gaea's Might (+5/+5 because of Domain 5 from Leyline of the Guild Pact) on Heartfire Hero Making the Hero a 7/7 for 7 Damage 4: 2nd Main Phase Casts Burn Together from Callous Sell-Sword's Adventure mode sacrificing the Heartfire Hero for another +14 Damage Total damage: 21 on Turn 2.
So I'm a long time magic player who was introduced to your content by your collaborative stuff with snuey in runeterra I wanna let ya know I've greatly enjoyed watching you play MTG it's a good time watching you learn as you go Keep on trucking brother and play some runeterra as well sometimes 😂 As a suggestion for you based on you being a control player coming from hearthstone I think you should look at the boros token control deck It plays very much like a hearthstone control shell and it's very very very good ATM
great stream today Rarran! I know you like to collab with voxy and CGB for magic but I hope in the future you can get other mtg creators. I would personally like to see you get coached by Jim Davis, fun guy, pro tour level player, and I feel that his humor can mix with yours.
I'm honestly confused by the stream. One of the first things said was that the deck needed more land. The majority of the losses especially was due to not drawing land. And they never added more land.
The meteorite actually has a bug. The paper token says "When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target." but in arena it says Roxanne, instead of Meteorite for some reason.
I was saying how psyched I was for this stream in the comments on the last few, it was so good, it was so nice seeing Rarran go from the depths of below YGO to "I love life right now need one more" I mean he's going to need a second mortgage but that's small potatoes. Edit: Rarran did surprisingly well in his first ever draft going like 2/3 or 3/3 or something like that after his 10th game ish. It would be nice to see CGB and Rarran do this same type of stream and draft, draft is a way better way of building a collection, getting mythic in limited is near unpossible unless you're playing a ridiculous amount but it might rival this grind so that could be a cool new arc. Unfortunately standard rotation is 3 years and soon a random 5 year or something foundation set and for Rarran to play around on Arena like he does on Hearthstone he's going to need to build up his collection and wildcards significantly so next set release it might be a good time to start drafting to get that collection in the bank. Also Rarran is playing for the enjoyment of the game but every win and loss feels stagnating, should be playing constructed events maybe or limited events that way you get small rewards for your time so you always get that dopamine hit of making progress. If Rarran plays at this same level he'll go 50% or better I'd imagine. Imagine Rarran got 20 play points through 20 7 win finishes, won the qualifier weekend and paid his mortgage off.
Is it bad I now want to see the Blake squared Worst Possible Commander game? The amount of counterspells going at The One in Best of One would be glorious. (Extra points if the cast teach Rarran the Jin Gitaxias prismatic bridge deck.)
This was so fun to watch, listening to you and CGB yap it up is such comfort content that when I finished I restarted the video and watched it through again :)
11:25 Don't ask for any deck, he'll throw Domain Ramp at ya xD 14:11 maybe cut 2 of each of the 5 mana wipes and a white sun, add 2 temps and 2 of the 4 mana wipe and a cut down
When Rarran actually gets into it and starts learning the intracacies, it gets really really enjoyable to watch (Easily the best content). I love this Rarran and good luck hitting mythic!
@@sidneypowelstock6812 Exactly that. The things that you need to kill, it kills. When they pump it doesn't fizzle out like Cut Down does and saves you at least two life. Same can be said about a 2/2 creature that got a counter on it or whatever too. Disfigure never fizzles or is completely dead whereas Cut down can be and rots in your hand. It's much better against mono red as Cut Down still does damage to you because they get to ping your life based on the creature that dies power and Disfigure makes it 0 most of the time. Disfigure is clearly the better one black pip removal spell right now and it's not close with how much life it saves you, especially in BO1.
I love how rarran started out hating mono red and developed into wishing to run into mono red to avoid 40 min games. That's why i can't be mad at mono red. They have the decency to end me quickly. Bring the hate, red haters.
How do you ask someone to coach you and then do the opposite of everything he tells you and be very uncoachable? That being said I watched the whole thing, just to see cgb squirm.😂
BO1 was always easy to get mythic with - just follow the meta. Unless you are a god and can find some shit nobody plays (I used to do that when the game was released with Nicol Bolas, the Reveger :D )
Deck needs more lands. Cards like Demolition Field should be considered spells. You saw the problem a lot where Rarran needed 3 colors on turn 3 while trying to cast cards with multiple colored mana in their cost.
It's such a breath of fresh air from the videos of other creators "trying" TCG's, there's effort and enjoyment rather than "idk what's happening lololol what is happening, so silly"
Bruh, after his time spent in the Master Duel purgatory, no game can be "too complicated" for Rarran
I mean tbf that’s the new card game experience for everyone lol card games are complicated
tbh Magic has become very complicated, i'm actually impressed arena doesn't bug out at least once per game
You mean like Rarrans other TCG reviews?
to be fair, these guys milk the "i'm new to this game" spin on their videos for like a year or two its kind if silly, they can only pretend to know nothing for so long
Rarran with the brain of a Mono Red Player, Soul of a "Control" player, and Heart of a Mono Black Player
I love the CGB collabs. You guys have great chemistry.
it's awesome because it's like two friends talking
Agreed, all their collabs are awesome.
This is one long stream of "one of the games of Magic of all time" over and over again, man has unlocked access to a secret meta I've never seen
CGB's advice is revealing the true secret to Rarran. That BO1 is just is a mess of randomness and matchup checks, and ranking up is mostly about bashing your head against it for enough time.
This is true about most online competitive games. With time and effort you can generally climb. Sure there are some skill checks as you get into the higher tiers but time and effort will place you above the bulk of people.
I wouldn’t even consider it a secret REMOTELY, before arena bo1 magic was for true multiplayer formats (commander) and kitchen table almost exclusively. this is for a reason.
@@ski9019 Certainly you get more skilled at things with time and effort, but that's not my point. I'm talking about how much skill actually contributes to your 'rank'. You might hear a fighting game player refer to two characters as a 6:4 matchup, meaning if equally skilled players fight each other, one character would win 60% of the time, and the other 40%. BO1 magic simply has a lot more 7:3 and 8:2 matchups than BO3 (or most competitive games).
@@ski9019you missed the entire point. Best of one is largely considered a joke because a lot of the stupid variance that is completely out of your control in best of one is shored up by best of three and the virtue of having a side deck. Best of three removes a large portion of the bashing your head against the wall until you climb aspect unless you are legitimately stuck at the rank you deserve.
Yeah, and that's why aggro decks are better for ranking up - you may not have better win rate, but who cares, you get to bang your head against it faster.
First, want to say that it’s really nice to see you enjoying magic and getting better at it.
Second, and I know it’s a bit of a meme, but I would genuinely recommend you to try playing BO3, maybe when you get to diamond, if you are worried about loosing ranks. And I’m not saying that because “it’s how it is supposed to be played” or whatever, but because it might just address some of the gripes you have with the game:
1. You like control more and control decks benefit heavily from sideboarding, more so than any other archetype.
2. You said that you would rather win games consistently, instead of minimising the time spent on each game. And BO3 is much better suited for that than BO1.
3. You also said that you don’t like not knowing what you are going against, again, BO3 helps with that, you know exactly what to mulligan for in games 2 and 3.
4. It would also help with specific matchups a lot, just from this stream, having access to sideboard would massively increase your chances against those off-meta combo decks you faced at the beginning of the stream, 4 leylines of sanctity would be really good against discard and you can have those lockdowns in sideboard to hate the monored without having a card in the main deck that’s a bit awkward in some situations, because it hits your stuff like beanstalks and tokens.
you just have to be prepared to spend an hour playing 1 game
@@rippinskidyeah, but it seems that rarran is ok with long games and you also get 2 rank points
Best of three is truth. I respect people who do best of one but I need a side board
I love best of 3 but it just takes forever
@@PoYi-fi1zt yeah same. feels great to play with a sideboard, but sometimes you really gotta spend over half an hour - an hour on 3 games and if you end up losing... doesn't feel great lol
1:03:46 Rarran getting real confused because the meteorite tokens are for some god forsaken reason writing "Roxanne, Starfall Savant" in the [Card_name] slot despite clearly being meteorite tokens must be a real fun gameplay experience. Arena is a functional piece of software.
That was awesome !
Best stream ever, do it again please :)
I feel like its worth pointing out that ranking up in best of 3 can be a lot easier if you know how to sideboard. Best of 1 can be very do or die, and youre way more prone to losing from a brick or something.
In best of 3 you have second chances, and on top of that you can swap out your cards so you can better deal with whatever deck youre up against.
Wins in individual games count toward your rankups as well. So if you win a match you get two points worth for example.
Yeah I think BO3 has the player with the bigger edge winning more often. So if you feel like you’re a better player or have a strong deck for the meta BO3 would be best.
I hate that white suns does the board wipe animation regardless of whether it's destroying all creatures
Man, I did NOT know what to expect with this video. I thought I might get to listen to CGB's thought process regarding more the core concepts of Magic than his normal videos where he just shortcuts everything because we're used to the BS.
Instead I got to cringe at every misplay and every small bit of missed value Rarran let go. CGB was audibly holding back. You could hear the words he wasn't saying. It was painful.
I love you guys together.
"borderline true" is such a funny thing for CGB to say
the non standard legal cards in the bonus sheet are for draft in case anyone was curious that doesnt play personally
They also don’t replace a rare/mythic in the pack, so it’s not a scam like they implied in the video
Lol, Rarran lost focus during his first really long game. That tokens game was tough on the guy.
A true MTG Grind Game
Must be tough for Hearthstone players to get into the mindset of bluffing and waiting on your opponent before interacting.
Baiting and Goading opponents into misplays.
Actually, there is a turn-2 kill in standard.
Turn 1: Leyline of guidepact + land + heartfire hero
Turn 2: Land + Gaea's Might(domain pump spell) + fling adventure spell.
That's 7 from combat 7 from the mouse die trigger and 7 from fling =21
You guys have such good chemistry. Always a blast when you make content together!
as a person who started and stuck with mono black midrange (began playing in Brother's War hit mythic first in ALL WILL BE ONE), suffered through domain ramp, suffered through atraxa Whenever I run into a deck like rarran's I make them earn the win in the full best of three. I love the content Rarran you've got mythic in the bag.
Rarran insisting on using the tear asunder on the treasure token to prevent the 3 1/1s with 3 board wipes in hand was so painful that is such a horrendous play lol
Wait till warranty finds out that alot of professional magic players also play poker. They're both card games about hidden information and reading your opponent.
And unlike magic, you know whats in the deck xD
@@LukasPlasilif you know what you’re playing against then you do know what’s in the deck
If you do the Midweek Magic - events, you can get two free rare cards.
Missed the stream because of work but I'm glad you and cgb are doing this
Such a wonderful and fun collaboration, you two have a great chemistry! We want more!
Hold up. A fellow Abzan Control gamer? Rarran, you're a rare breed!
The hate on frogs :(. Give the Hippy d Hops some love . They hopped me to mythic
Turn 2 Win in Current Standard (Since @Covertgoblue asked in the video): (And it is not very consistent. Buut..)
On the Play, Opponent plays:
Turn 1:
1: Free Leyline of the Guild Pact (Gives Opponent "Domain 5")
2: Mountain + Heartfire Hero
Turn 2:
1: Mountain or Forest
2: Attacks with Heartfire Hero
3: Casts Gaea's Might (+5/+5 because of Domain 5 from Leyline of the Guild Pact) on Heartfire Hero Making the Hero a 7/7 for 7 Damage
4: 2nd Main Phase Casts Burn Together from Callous Sell-Sword's Adventure mode sacrificing the Heartfire Hero for another +14 Damage
Total damage: 21 on Turn 2.
Describing this as "opponent plays" confused the hell out of me. Like, Leyline doesn't give opponent domain 5...
Thanks to Leyline the Lands could be any colour, they just have to come into play untapped.
So I'm a long time magic player who was introduced to your content by your collaborative stuff with snuey in runeterra
I wanna let ya know I've greatly enjoyed watching you play MTG it's a good time watching you learn as you go
Keep on trucking brother and play some runeterra as well sometimes 😂
As a suggestion for you based on you being a control player coming from hearthstone I think you should look at the boros token control deck
It plays very much like a hearthstone control shell and it's very very very good ATM
Great Stream. Love the collaboration! ❤
great stream today Rarran! I know you like to collab with voxy and CGB for magic but I hope in the future you can get other mtg creators. I would personally like to see you get coached by Jim Davis, fun guy, pro tour level player, and I feel that his humor can mix with yours.
I'm honestly confused by the stream. One of the first things said was that the deck needed more land. The majority of the losses especially was due to not drawing land. And they never added more land.
The meteorite actually has a bug. The paper token says "When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target." but in arena it says Roxanne, instead of Meteorite for some reason.
Hey Rarran, new sub here, sent by CGB. Good job learning the game. With a teacher like cgb you will get to mythic with ease
Great stream! Hope you guys do more of this
Rar's favorite catch phrase:
Cant believe CGB let this man play a 25 land control deck, and he kept getting punished for it the entire stream lol
3:14:56 there are two types of starting Magic players, the all in hit with everything and Rarran
As mono red player (well, any combo of jund) player, I can understand your pain, and revel in it :)
Watching this makes me feel very confident that I can get to platinum
I missed the stream, but I’m excited to watch this. Welcome to the dojo ❤
It's amazing, wich deck you played against. Great process :)
Someone needs to tell him that patience is a wincon....
i smiled so much during this vid. hehe. keep it up
This was awesome, do more please
I was saying how psyched I was for this stream in the comments on the last few, it was so good, it was so nice seeing Rarran go from the depths of below YGO to "I love life right now need one more" I mean he's going to need a second mortgage but that's small potatoes.
Edit: Rarran did surprisingly well in his first ever draft going like 2/3 or 3/3 or something like that after his 10th game ish. It would be nice to see CGB and Rarran do this same type of stream and draft, draft is a way better way of building a collection, getting mythic in limited is near unpossible unless you're playing a ridiculous amount but it might rival this grind so that could be a cool new arc. Unfortunately standard rotation is 3 years and soon a random 5 year or something foundation set and for Rarran to play around on Arena like he does on Hearthstone he's going to need to build up his collection and wildcards significantly so next set release it might be a good time to start drafting to get that collection in the bank. Also Rarran is playing for the enjoyment of the game but every win and loss feels stagnating, should be playing constructed events maybe or limited events that way you get small rewards for your time so you always get that dopamine hit of making progress. If Rarran plays at this same level he'll go 50% or better I'd imagine. Imagine Rarran got 20 play points through 20 7 win finishes, won the qualifier weekend and paid his mortgage off.
Is it bad I now want to see the Blake squared Worst Possible Commander game? The amount of counterspells going at The One in Best of One would be glorious. (Extra points if the cast teach Rarran the Jin Gitaxias prismatic bridge deck.)
Great to watch but frustrating to watch as well. 😂
Now THIS is podracing…
He should try spinning. That's a good trick
This was a great video! The deck looks pretty solid but imo you are playing against meme decks / opponents.
Where is mono red?
This vid inspired me to make and play mono red, I got plat in the time it took Rarran like 4 games with this deck
This was so fun to watch, listening to you and CGB yap it up is such comfort content that when I finished I restarted the video and watched it through again :)
11:25 Don't ask for any deck, he'll throw Domain Ramp at ya xD
14:11 maybe cut 2 of each of the 5 mana wipes and a white sun, add 2 temps and 2 of the 4 mana wipe and a cut down
I like to toilet game to some standard land destruction
When Rarran actually gets into it and starts learning the intracacies, it gets really really enjoyable to watch (Easily the best content). I love this Rarran and good luck hitting mythic!
This is so funny lmao!
Losing 4 in a row sounds awful, i enjoy you and cgb doing content together. Magic is a fun game
Epic stream
This was a lot of fun. 😊
The one in best of one
5h of cgb makes me happy
Damn, someone teach rarran to QQ and Z to count lands
OK wait: rarran cgb and voxy played phasmaphobia together? Someone link it
I would love to see rarran play brawl
I dont get the mental acrobatics that somehow playing nothing but removal is any less brain dead than mono red
Cut Down is just soooo much worse than Disfigure at this point, wish my control friends would all realize this.
it seems better against pump spell blowouts i guess but what makes it so much better?
@@sidneypowelstock6812 Exactly that. The things that you need to kill, it kills. When they pump it doesn't fizzle out like Cut Down does and saves you at least two life. Same can be said about a 2/2 creature that got a counter on it or whatever too. Disfigure never fizzles or is completely dead whereas Cut down can be and rots in your hand. It's much better against mono red as Cut Down still does damage to you because they get to ping your life based on the creature that dies power and Disfigure makes it 0 most of the time. Disfigure is clearly the better one black pip removal spell right now and it's not close with how much life it saves you, especially in BO1.
this is great
A L G O R I T H M G A N G
Nooo I missed it
I love how rarran started out hating mono red and developed into wishing to run into mono red to avoid 40 min games.
That's why i can't be mad at mono red. They have the decency to end me quickly.
Bring the hate, red haters.
I love CGB❤❤ 4:14:20
GJ, you can play a deck someone made for you.
Why was this guy bullying BrianZ?
Do it again, I think is how you learn the most
of course the moment you do a collab you get paired up against the goofiest and most insane decks people could ever cook... great stream nevertheless
This video gave me anxiety
How do you ask someone to coach you and then do the opposite of everything he tells you and be very uncoachable? That being said I watched the whole thing, just to see cgb squirm.😂
BO1 was always easy to get mythic with - just follow the meta.
Unless you are a god and can find some shit nobody plays (I used to do that when the game was released with Nicol Bolas, the Reveger :D )
He doesn't listen
i feel like rarran got stream sniped a lot here like a good half of the games
Hovering in Diamond 2 and I too would like to be tutored by Sensei Dan
Here for some secondhand pearls of wisdom
Rarran not taking CGB's advice triggers me to no end.
Deck needs more lands. Cards like Demolition Field should be considered spells. You saw the problem a lot where Rarran needed 3 colors on turn 3 while trying to cast cards with multiple colored mana in their cost.
Play red deck = win
LegendVD did a video on Temur doppelgang (different from this), so it might be slightly more common now.
Oh my gosh, I’m so so mad you just conceited after a 40 minute match. Out of respect, just let the guy finish it out and good game him!!!
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Has anyone got the decklist by any chance ? thx
The match maker and shuffler really like newer players. Players don't spend $ if they lose or games are bad.
You don't need CGB, just play monored. Stronger than anything he can offer you 😂😂😂