I feel you on casting the wrong side on accident, btw. I've accidentally cast the wrong side of Mosswood Dreadknight, and hardcast Slickshot when I meant to plot, because my brain was on autopilot and in both cases, felt like a moron after.
I'm really proud of CGB for being so enamoured with U/W control that he even misplays on purpose just so they can have every possible chance at winning
That first match up is exactly why you shouldn't vomit out your own hand when you have lethal already. You had 15 damage, if they have an answer to one bull you can archangel, if they have an answer that hits all your bulls then you should wait anyway!
lol i was so confused watching that. I get streaming gameplay has to be taxing, and newer formats go much slower than stuff like modern...but wow. that was something else.
Those events man... today I was cooking in Mythic, reaching numbers and all. Then I went for an event, and even used the same deck, and took a shameful 2-3. Sucks. When you lost this early games, I knew what you're talking about. And thanks for keeping it real, ti really does help.
Don't worry about game one... Look at it this way, most people learn better from mistakes. You already mentioned before the miss-click the importance on Boseiju, that was just a full demonstration of how important it can be. Great lesson from The One.
I've been running domain/ramp for the last few seasons, it's always been a solid choice for best of 1, it's extremely easy to tailor it based on the current meta and it's always sat around a ~55% winrate (minus a few iterations where i was experimenting with different cards). My particular decklist is more control orientated (which ironically performs worse vs control decks, you were very correct that the blue/white match up is scary) and is tailored to just be an all arounder capable of dealing with a vast majority of meta decks with a bunch of 2 offs, for example 4 beanstalks will end up being 2-3 dead cards in the grindy games. I think that this particular decklist is better at outright winning the game, it's basically a rampy combo-ish deck that just wants to end the game.
Although it’s a lot of fun to see how mad y’r when you commit gaffes. The most important is still you notice and explain what you did wrong. And I really appreciate the way you communicate your lines of thoughts. Despite sometimes I beg to differ I can see a logic in that.
It's fun to watch you play, even if your play isn't perfect -- and honestly, sometimes it's even more entertaining to see a couple of mistakes! I like as much Standard as you want to throw at me, so I vote 'yes' for these weekly 'Standard check-in' videos!
Real magic is played in events and tournaments. Ladder until you get 400- mythic is all about get a fast deck with 55% WR and play like crazy. It’s about optimize your time, it’s better play 10 games in 30 minutes with 55% WR than 3 games in the same time with 60% WR. And thats why ladder it’s so crowded with mono red/boros, although Untapped shows that B/W Control has better performance (at least until TJ, the new meta is still on progress) So answering the question, I vote for more events/tournaments videos.
You missed a huge play at 17:19 I think; if you leyline binding your atraxa you get to not only draw a card off beanstalk and keep a 7/7 keyword soup card, you also get another etb trigger off atraxa for a double stuffed full grip of cards.
If you don't mind me saying, I think you're underestimating not just the ramp deck, but Spelunking in general, however I feel like that's because you aren't recognizing the "lands come into play untapped" a lot. Like in the last game where you were deciding between grabbing a Plains to use the angel or an Island to play the binding. Spelunking makes the land come into play untapped so you could still use the binding at 2 mana if you grabbed the plains anyway, then any land draw lets you double kick Archangel of Wrath instead of just WBR providers.
If you are looking for a positive outlook on this, I have a theory. It could be the case that the current meta currently favors skill considerably, enough so that a deck like ramp can still outperform everything else from just knowing how to play it really well. If this theory is true, I would expect in August right before the next expansion hits that new decks will be consistently winning the challenges/leagues instead of ramp.
Maybe impractical in such a fast meta, but I’d be super curious to see a Golgari Deserts deck. Ever since Caverns, I’ve been convinced that Spelunking (all lands enter untapped) could be crazy, as every dual land has to come in tapped anymore, and with Deserts Due and your Lands committing crimes every turn, it could be cool. Or dip into Red and have Ojer Axonil and Solohim turn all your Deserts into big burn spells
I crafted a Grixis outlaw & crime deck with my precious wildcards, then I faced 3 Mono Black Sheoldred decks back to back and lost all 3 games, it was like the Arena was mocking me saying "ha-ha, you dumb dumb could have saved money and simply played Mono Black with good old Sheoldred".
I'm not sure how it would work, but it would actually be really cool to see you make a documentary style journey of you entering the competitive scene to prove a point about ramp not really being able to keep up anymore. I know you don't like best of 3 anymore, but I think it could be a really cool spin to see you go through he process of doing it.
First game, when they did farewell you could have done layline binding on your atraxa, then when farewell hits it exiles your binding and atraxa ETBs again.
I've played against this multiple times since OTJ, with both Slickshot Show-Off (in Mono-Red and Gruul flavorings) and with Mono-Black Aggro, and frankly, unless I get mana screwed or flooded, I've just been too fast for the ramp to matter, even with the Temp Lockdown and Sunfall.
That's exactly it. The Bo1 meta is entirely different from the bo3 meta. Being able to side against monored and aggro is how mid-range always stays above the curve against this archetypes in bo3 standard. Its really hard for a fast aggro deck to stay relevant in a pro tour environment, really.
@@efuii Makes sense. If you tune your mid-range deck 'post sideboard' for aggro in Bo1, you're just gonna get obliterated by any control decks you face, so it's a pick your poison type situation. I tend to prefer more midrange decks on the whole, but working 70+ hours a week of late doesn't give me a lot of time to do so, in Arena.
17:00 I think you are supposed to bind your atraxa, so you can hit them for 7 next turn, and then just keep playing a board they have to sweep until they run outta sweepers.
Outlaws is definitely a power creep but its no War of the Spark.. M20 and WotS with all its planeswalkers and so much combo and control but also super fast mono red. Most broken standard i remember so Outlaws is not so bad. Its definitely fun, espeically when youre able to slow it down as Teferi would say
Well... in Magic, with all these power cards available now, one mistake can cost you your win big time. It happen to me more than once. Only one mistake is often just enough to lose your game.
I was thinking the same thing. So many arena games play out like this(feels like it's a constant back and forth), yet maybe 1 in 100 in paper. Game is is completely fake at this point.
We've all been there. Making miss plays. Bad decisions etc etc. Just goes to show you that no matter how strong the deck is how you play matters just as much.
I'm just curious on thoughts for the first game. If you bind your own atraxa in response to the farewell she comes right back. I don't think it's a misplay that you didn't or anything, just wondering if that's worth the tempo or if you were saving it and we're locked in on herd migration/recruiter at that point. love the video!
Ciao covert! Ho lo stesso deck,ripreso dal sito mtg.. È davvero bello e divertente,ma nn l ho mai provato in evento fino adesso! Sei un gran giocatore,grande covert! Un saluto dall Italia!!!😂😂😂
I know you got punished for a misclick. However, it was greedy using a second Herd Migration, because Final Showdown exists, and it could have been a one-of in a control deck. It's true that 15 power wasn't enough to close the game if the opponent had the emperor, which is why just playing both side of the recruiter, and saving the other migration was the play.
@@Anonymous-fs7ef CGB admitted misplaying by misclicking on the Recruiter and not saving the Boseiju, which is true. CGB didn't explicitly admit the second Herd Migration was a mistake, which plays around Get Lost, but would fail to play around Final Showdown. It's also just an overall overcommitment. As for low value comments... welcome to RUclips.
I just played my first draft and built my deck around how you run your decks, I ended up winning and got a collector booster from Outlaws as the prize, pulled a special guest Prismatic Vista and a Terror of the Peaks!!
How about we make that mistake feel so much worse - Opponent was at 13, you had 15 damage on the field and an Archangel in hand at the start of turn... Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
In all fairness, bo3 is an entirely different beast than bo1. In bo3 there's barely any chance for aggro to win over mid-range decks. I would be surprised if boros won the tournament over ramp or Naya mid-range.
Everyone punts. 1 was clearly an mis-click, the other brain fart. You get 1 of those a video😉 Hope kitten gets better and sleep does too🤞 My buddy is playing this deck @ the PT this weekend, well if it’s a good call
This is me, only 38 seconds into the video, grabbing some popcorn and hoping you get crushed. Because I hate this deck. And I hate you just a little for playing it. ;(
Can someone explain how someone can cast the planeswalker in response to an opponent attacking. I’ve rewatched the play against the wandering emperor player and don’t get it.
You had lethal on board with just the guys you had and the Archangel of Wrath from your hand >.> Watching you overextend like that hurt SO much Even if he removes one of your four tokens, he takes 9 from combat and 4 more from your angel. The only thing that saves him there that doesn't ALSO save him from your big swing is a wandering emperor minus, but then you shoot the emp with one of the angel's kicks. He is still staring down a huge board at three life and no permanents and not much of a hand, and you still have the herd migration + recruiter for if he somehow answerd that stuff. The mistake wasn't "playing the wrong side of the recruiter"... It was going for the recruiter wombo at all.
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Out of context quotes:
"i'm okay with murders" - CGB 2024
I feel you on casting the wrong side on accident, btw. I've accidentally cast the wrong side of Mosswood Dreadknight, and hardcast Slickshot when I meant to plot, because my brain was on autopilot and in both cases, felt like a moron after.
plot needs a little animation when you cast it
There's a bug with the one squirrel that has the fetch quest adventure when you plot it with the new Jace the card is totally blank lol
For me it was misclicking the "Destroy all Dragons" part of Crux of Fate
@@WizardTideTime908did this yesterday lmao
I'm really proud of CGB for being so enamoured with U/W control that he even misplays on purpose just so they can have every possible chance at winning
That blue white player exiling their own memory deluge was an interesting play
im so sick of azorious control in standard lmao. i hit mythic yesterday it was the only thing that made me stumble.
That first match up is exactly why you shouldn't vomit out your own hand when you have lethal already. You had 15 damage, if they have an answer to one bull you can archangel, if they have an answer that hits all your bulls then you should wait anyway!
Yeah, I was puzzled why went for the 2nd herd migration too. Seemed greedy
lol i was so confused watching that. I get streaming gameplay has to be taxing, and newer formats go much slower than stuff like modern...but wow. that was something else.
Especially in a Standard with instant speed boardwipes. He misplayed that so hard.
I’m pretty sure he was just trying to flex, only for it to backfire miserably.
He literally monologued about how hard he misplayed that game, so the five of you added nothing of value to the conversation.
Those events man... today I was cooking in Mythic, reaching numbers and all. Then I went for an event, and even used the same deck, and took a shameful 2-3. Sucks. When you lost this early games, I knew what you're talking about. And thanks for keeping it real, ti really does help.
It's also a good lesson on playing to your outs and knowing what you're opponents is were. What purpose did the recruiter and second herd serve?
Don't worry about game one... Look at it this way, most people learn better from mistakes. You already mentioned before the miss-click the importance on Boseiju, that was just a full demonstration of how important it can be. Great lesson from The One.
I've been running domain/ramp for the last few seasons, it's always been a solid choice for best of 1, it's extremely easy to tailor it based on the current meta and it's always sat around a ~55% winrate (minus a few iterations where i was experimenting with different cards).
My particular decklist is more control orientated (which ironically performs worse vs control decks, you were very correct that the blue/white match up is scary) and is tailored to just be an all arounder capable of dealing with a vast majority of meta decks with a bunch of 2 offs, for example 4 beanstalks will end up being 2-3 dead cards in the grindy games.
I think that this particular decklist is better at outright winning the game, it's basically a rampy combo-ish deck that just wants to end the game.
Although it’s a lot of fun to see how mad y’r when you commit gaffes. The most important is still you notice and explain what you did wrong. And I really appreciate the way you communicate your lines of thoughts. Despite sometimes I beg to differ I can see a logic in that.
and really glad to hear about the little kitty, hope the new medicine help out and this becames just a phase she grow out off! sending good vibes
It wasnt a silly mistake CGB, it was a fatal one. No questions.
You could have binding Atraxa at 17:10, the farewell would bring her bacl while the opponent was tapped out
No. “Nonland permanent an opponent controls”
@@VG-ej4ut omg, I never notice that part of the card
It's fun to watch you play, even if your play isn't perfect -- and honestly, sometimes it's even more entertaining to see a couple of mistakes!
I like as much Standard as you want to throw at me, so I vote 'yes' for these weekly 'Standard check-in' videos!
I find these event videos to be the most entertaining, especially when showcasing decks from the pro tours. Keep this up, it works well.
Don’t worry CGB, we all get defeated by lack of sleep caused by cat antics
1 hour video?
As CGB would say: "Oh Baby!"
Real magic is played in events and tournaments. Ladder until you get 400- mythic is all about get a fast deck with 55% WR and play like crazy.
It’s about optimize your time, it’s better play 10 games in 30 minutes with 55% WR than 3 games in the same time with 60% WR. And thats why ladder it’s so crowded with mono red/boros, although Untapped shows that B/W Control has better performance (at least until TJ, the new meta is still on progress)
So answering the question, I vote for more events/tournaments videos.
Banger video, we all have off days try not to be too hard on yourself. You're still cool CGB.
You missed a huge play at 17:19 I think; if you leyline binding your atraxa you get to not only draw a card off beanstalk and keep a 7/7 keyword soup card, you also get another etb trigger off atraxa for a double stuffed full grip of cards.
If you don't mind me saying, I think you're underestimating not just the ramp deck, but Spelunking in general, however I feel like that's because you aren't recognizing the "lands come into play untapped" a lot. Like in the last game where you were deciding between grabbing a Plains to use the angel or an Island to play the binding. Spelunking makes the land come into play untapped so you could still use the binding at 2 mana if you grabbed the plains anyway, then any land draw lets you double kick Archangel of Wrath instead of just WBR providers.
If you are looking for a positive outlook on this, I have a theory. It could be the case that the current meta currently favors skill considerably, enough so that a deck like ramp can still outperform everything else from just knowing how to play it really well. If this theory is true, I would expect in August right before the next expansion hits that new decks will be consistently winning the challenges/leagues instead of ramp.
Love the content! Ty CGB!
I’ve never heard the phrase “raw drawn” before this video . Pretty fantastic
Maybe impractical in such a fast meta, but I’d be super curious to see a Golgari Deserts deck. Ever since Caverns, I’ve been convinced that Spelunking (all lands enter untapped) could be crazy, as every dual land has to come in tapped anymore, and with Deserts Due and your Lands committing crimes every turn, it could be cool.
Or dip into Red and have Ojer Axonil and Solohim turn all your Deserts into big burn spells
i've loved a couple lightning helices in this shell. great vs aggro, and can unlock your Battles
Its always fun looking at the competitive meta, especially if you can figure out a way to make it work for best of one
Love the content CGB, I've based tons of decks on yours and they always crush on ladder
The reaction at 19:00 xD
17:09 can you bind your own Atraxa, then Boseiju the binding to get it back?...
Last night I was wishing more content creators would upload games from the Standard Event. It's like he read my mind!
my dog takes seizure med too... he got really groggy the first few days, but now he's totally normal and playful.
I crafted a Grixis outlaw & crime deck with my precious wildcards, then I faced 3 Mono Black Sheoldred decks back to back and lost all 3 games, it was like the Arena was mocking me saying "ha-ha, you dumb dumb could have saved money and simply played Mono Black with good old Sheoldred".
This is why rotation needs to go back to block. New sets don't get to shine because they're overshadowed by more powerful cards from previous sets.
ramp control is the favorite deck I watch. Thank you always for amazing your vide :D
I'm not sure how it would work, but it would actually be really cool to see you make a documentary style journey of you entering the competitive scene to prove a point about ramp not really being able to keep up anymore.
I know you don't like best of 3 anymore, but I think it could be a really cool spin to see you go through he process of doing it.
First game, when they did farewell you could have done layline binding on your atraxa, then when farewell hits it exiles your binding and atraxa ETBs again.
You can’t bind your own permanent. Read the card
Two years later and 3 months from rotating out of standard jetmir gardens gets animation when enters the battlefield lol
I've played against this multiple times since OTJ, with both Slickshot Show-Off (in Mono-Red and Gruul flavorings) and with Mono-Black Aggro, and frankly, unless I get mana screwed or flooded, I've just been too fast for the ramp to matter, even with the Temp Lockdown and Sunfall.
That's exactly it. The Bo1 meta is entirely different from the bo3 meta. Being able to side against monored and aggro is how mid-range always stays above the curve against this archetypes in bo3 standard. Its really hard for a fast aggro deck to stay relevant in a pro tour environment, really.
@@efuii Makes sense. If you tune your mid-range deck 'post sideboard' for aggro in Bo1, you're just gonna get obliterated by any control decks you face, so it's a pick your poison type situation.
I tend to prefer more midrange decks on the whole, but working 70+ hours a week of late doesn't give me a lot of time to do so, in Arena.
Don't love ramp still being so competitive, but I do love the occasional Robert Palmer.
17:00 I think you are supposed to bind your atraxa, so you can hit them for 7 next turn, and then just keep playing a board they have to sweep until they run outta sweepers.
That’s exactly what I was thinking
Binding only hits opponents stuff
@@GreggDoerOfGamingis correct. Unfortunately that wouldn't work
@@GreggDoerOfGaming Whoops, you are definitely right, I always forget that about leyline binding.
I really like to see what is powerful in the meta- even if it is something that isn't necessarily new
They fixed the sideboard bug. Took em too damn long but they fixed it.
Oh Really that was really annoying bug
Outlaws is definitely a power creep but its no War of the Spark.. M20 and WotS with all its planeswalkers and so much combo and control but also super fast mono red. Most broken standard i remember so Outlaws is not so bad. Its definitely fun, espeically when youre able to slow it down as Teferi would say
Well... in Magic, with all these power cards available now, one mistake can cost you your win big time. It happen to me more than once. Only one mistake is often just enough to lose your game.
I want to see what you can do with insidious roots and bloodtithe harvester and the new stuff. It's exciting, trust!
I REFUSE to believe this game is RIGGED to its bones
I was thinking the same thing. So many arena games play out like this(feels like it's a constant back and forth), yet maybe 1 in 100 in paper. Game is is completely fake at this point.
We've all been there. Making miss plays. Bad decisions etc etc. Just goes to show you that no matter how strong the deck is how you play matters just as much.
aggro breaking CGB's mind
Shoulda named the video “havin a day but lemme cook”
I suspected that BO3 is behind the curb because less people played while the sideboard board bug was happening
19:00 hilarious sequence of events
spelunking is really good with the new cappena sac lands and a couple of echoing deeps. thats a +5 life if u copy a brokers hideout or something
Don’t care about the misplays, we’re all human! Still an entertaining video! Both of those opponents know you had it anyways.
I'm just curious on thoughts for the first game. If you bind your own atraxa in response to the farewell she comes right back. I don't think it's a misplay that you didn't or anything, just wondering if that's worth the tempo or if you were saving it and we're locked in on herd migration/recruiter at that point. love the video!
I live for the even money dance
I was in crokeyz chat yesterday saying i cant believe people still play this and even he was saying this deck is still really good
Great content! Love events, and love that you try Bo3 in Bo1. Love that you worked so hard on 2 hours of sleep!!!
Ciao covert!
Ho lo stesso deck,ripreso dal sito mtg..
È davvero bello e divertente,ma nn l ho mai provato in evento fino adesso!
Sei un gran giocatore,grande covert! Un saluto dall Italia!!!😂😂😂
So basically, you blame the cat for your losses 🤣
So totally waiting for the rotation so the Triomes rotate and domain stops being a deck.
I know you got punished for a misclick. However, it was greedy using a second Herd Migration, because Final Showdown exists, and it could have been a one-of in a control deck.
It's true that 15 power wasn't enough to close the game if the opponent had the emperor, which is why just playing both side of the recruiter, and saving the other migration was the play.
He knows he misplayed if you listened. No value added comment.
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CGB admitted misplaying by misclicking on the Recruiter and not saving the Boseiju, which is true.
CGB didn't explicitly admit the second Herd Migration was a mistake, which plays around Get Lost, but would fail to play around Final Showdown. It's also just an overall overcommitment.
As for low value comments... welcome to RUclips.
@@lelouch_zenny we all know you would’ve played perfectly. Don’t worry.
@@Anonymous-fs7ef I can believe you'd say that! Such a low value comment! Just kidding!
Is this the deck that just won the Pro Tour?
I like standard events. I got a lot of Play Point through this when LCI came out. I should do them more again
Love the weekly meta idea 👍
Gruul ramp is dead, all hail 5c ramp 😂
But seriously, I love both the MTGO meta reviews and the standard events, thank you for the content!
I just played my first draft and built my deck around how you run your decks, I ended up winning and got a collector booster from Outlaws as the prize, pulled a special guest Prismatic Vista and a Terror of the Peaks!!
dont beat yourself about the recruiter, sometimes we just click to fast for arena and it goes wrong, but you play that game like a freaking pro!
How about we make that mistake feel so much worse - Opponent was at 13, you had 15 damage on the field and an Archangel in hand at the start of turn...
Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer
He’s a better magic player than you.
@@Anonymous-fs7ef Of course he is. It's just a joke, man. Hence the Darkest Dungeon quote at the end.
Open that Vault CGB!!!
In all fairness, bo3 is an entirely different beast than bo1. In bo3 there's barely any chance for aggro to win over mid-range decks. I would be surprised if boros won the tournament over ramp or Naya mid-range.
I like the look at the meta and the events
More of this please
wow what a punt in the first game. heart breaking
Everyone punts. 1 was clearly an mis-click, the other brain fart. You get 1 of those a video😉
Hope kitten gets better and sleep does too🤞
My buddy is playing this deck @ the PT this weekend, well if it’s a good call
The blunder herd around the world lol
youre basing your POV on one player event? Domain ramp gets run over by boros
Sunfall is broken, its just not a healthy card should of been banned ages ago.
I think yoshihiko ikawa used this same deck in the pro tour. It's really strong.
This is me, only 38 seconds into the video, grabbing some popcorn and hoping you get crushed. Because I hate this deck. And I hate you just a little for playing it. ;(
15:37 So instead of hitting the emperor with the ability for 2 damage, you attacked it for 3 and took 4 from the token. Definitely a line…
Let’s see you try. He’s a much better play than you on average.
Finally! I have so many questions...
how do you feel now that it won the pro tour lol
It's just one of those days.
"overall I'm okay with murders".. ehm 😅
Can someone explain how someone can cast the planeswalker in response to an opponent attacking. I’ve rewatched the play against the wandering emperor player and don’t get it.
wandering emperor can be cast at anytime and can use its abilities at any time
You had lethal on board with just the guys you had and the Archangel of Wrath from your hand >.>
Watching you overextend like that hurt SO much
Even if he removes one of your four tokens, he takes 9 from combat and 4 more from your angel. The only thing that saves him there that doesn't ALSO save him from your big swing is a wandering emperor minus, but then you shoot the emp with one of the angel's kicks. He is still staring down a huge board at three life and no permanents and not much of a hand, and you still have the herd migration + recruiter for if he somehow answerd that stuff.
The mistake wasn't "playing the wrong side of the recruiter"... It was going for the recruiter wombo at all.
Would love to see you try to do what he does.
Ramp would be less strong if there was more land removal. Just saying.
CovertGoNapTime!
good stuff
CovertGoMisplay
51:10 Should have been fetch for the pains this way if you could luckydraw wrath. As 5c enjoyer in the past this play broke my heart
Such a shame, I was hoping for the 7-2/9-0
Sadly New Capenna rotates this year and with it the "triomes"
Day 4, very respectfully asking CGB to make a Magda, the Hoard Master standard deck
Lack of sleep always throws away those concentration. Get some rest dude.
And here we can see the deleterous effects of playing too much monored on the player's reflexion and decision capabilities.
Monored, not even once.
Whaaat mono red didn’t win? Even tho it’s most played ever in all events
Love the event content :)
still got 4-0 with Domain last night at LGS
Maybe Bo3 Meta is different to Bo1 Meta
We've all been there