I mean, the video is here. We can see why he's good. I also love he can think and explain his thought process at the same time. Deserves a sub and like.
Thank you so much for putting your videos up, I can't stop watching them. I have successfully used 2 decks you made to move up the latter! Hope you win all the games that matter! Thanks for the help!
Idk what it was i loved more in this video baneslayer demanding respect, the long grindy games of attrition, or just seeing the finally go out for x=10 and seeing someone scoop but this was just incredibly satisfying. Keep up the U/W greatness.
CGB, I love you. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see UW Control with Baneslayer Angel as someone who started playing standard in 2009/2010. I started playing again with Theros and miss that old school standard meta of fair midrange and control decks. Well, I'm off to build a variant of this, although I may splash red for some more removal and clarion. Edit: Lmao at that game vs reclamation - he had the literal nut draw, perfect card answer for everything! Edit#2: Holy shit that game vs Rakdos sac was insane! well played
Coming from a MTG noob, you're really smart at thinking ahead! I'm motivated to consider my opponent's choices more often. I like watching you predict ECD and Stonecoil.
Give it time any you'll get there. The cards used in decks are very predictable in most Arena ranked games as it's heavy with netdecking. It becomes second nature after enough experience.
Stonecoil is because opp held priority during second main with no available mana and their land drop already made for turn. Little arena tell. But yeah straight up he is hella adept at predicting plays, even against brews
MaxxxPower here. Funny to watch our game together again. Was a nice one, thanks for your wishes, I made the 1200 that day. Cheers, nice content, greetings from Austria.
38:50 Opponent nooooooo. You have lethal if CGB does nothing or if CGB kills your stuff in response, just swing! Hopefully, that's his first time losing to Absorb like that and he will remember for next time.
Just want to thank you for staying on the content grind. You are my favorite MTG player and creator. I learn a lot from your videos and really enjoy your podcast. Just want to share some positive vibes, thanks again and keep it up! I always look forward to your stuff!
I first started watching you this season, I remember seeing you climbing through the ranks facing different janky decks, and then the absolute slog through mythic against MONO RED and such. I feel proud FOR you, CGB! Keep up the amazing content.
LOVE THAT ANGEL!!! Power creep personified. "In my day" a 4/4 flyer with vigilance for the same cost, my beloved Serra had the same i quit reaction after a couple no tap attacks against their 2-3 power ground dwellers. Now this beauty here isn't even considered a powerhouse?! Sad I say. Love the content, thank you! Esp blue white control, my BABY That have around the 40 minute mark with the 2 absorbs to stay alive AT 1 then toss out The Bain Angel. WOW I'd have liked to have been in their room. LOL! ESP if they're fighting to be in the top pile of players. Just SO AWESOME!!! I reacted more to that win than you did. Haha. LOVE SEEING AN ANGEL DOING WORK and will get absorbs!
@@Angel24Marin Maybe, but in arena we used lyra as a top-end in control decks for quite some time. baneslayer is pretty much the same card, with some added protection, and i've never faced her in any game since m21 was introduced. if she was a medium during her time, she could have stayed a medium during our time as well. but right now we have so many cards that do so much more for the same cost.
@@geolan31 Lyra was a sideboard card in a weaker format. Burn was a lot better and boardwipes worse. Current control list can survive at low health as long as they keep the board clean but in Dominaria they needed to get life faster. In addition Dream Trawler do the same job as Bane but better against removal.
And yet again, 34:50 the cards you needed the most but never showed up in the previous long losing game, show right up at your next match's starting hand. Also, 12:30 LOL, master troll. Love it.
Loving this channel. I normally stop playing ranked when I hit platinum. I got dropped back down to silver again today. I've just built this deck. I'm going to have a go at piloting it, with tweaks along the way, until I hit diamond. Felt sorry for my opponents during a couple of the games earlier but I'm sure the feeling will pass once I've climbed out of gold.
"I don't need to prove I'm the greatest, I just am darn it" terrific !!! by the way , i just have copy your deck and play 7-0 wins from gold to platinum . and i have change 1 Swift Response with Runed Halo.
Judging by the comments this might be one of the most fan favorite deck! 💪😊 PLS make at least one more video with it and more games! Pls pls pls... I don't play magic anymore but when I did I came to the game right when "baneslayer revolution" began so this is kind of very nostalgic video for me hehe!😁 Pls at least one more video of this. ✌️
I just went six and two with it....did very well against aggro....ran into some problems with a bantish deck....played in bo1 did well....by tomorrow i expect mana problems and shuffler problems as is the case with most decks; but i didn't have those problems today....good deck
Is there any reason to run baneslayer over dream trawler aside from the 1-mana difference? I've been trying to make my control finish out the game a bit quicker.
Not really. The only interesting interaction is that having first strike, Banslayer is a good counter to Dream Trawler as it would destroy it in combat. Maybe a sideboard card against control.
Edit: So I clearly messed up the timestamp and frankly I don't know what time I meant but there was a point where I'm convinced Gadwick was the play! Who's that information useful to? Nobody. I don't apologize and will take no questions.
I wouldn't have thought that Absorb would counter a Stonecoil due to it having Protection From Multicolored. I guess that only works after it's on the table.
That game four reclamation deck must have been scientificaly designed to just beat your deck with perfect draws at the exact perfect moments. I mean two Negates and three disputes in this BO1 Format ist pretty ballsy and musst suck to play against the current meta.
Since the great banning of 2020, what would you suggest to change. I didnt have enough rare wild cards to build this list exactly, but I've done the following, would like to know what you think: Deck 5 Plains (IKO) 262 3 Temple of Enlightenment (THB) 246 4 Raugrin Triome (IKO) 251 6 Island (IKO) 265 3 Brazen Borrower (ELD) 39 2 Fae of Wishes (ELD) 44 1 Tranquil Cove (M20) 259 3 Baneslayer Angel (M21) 6 2 Gadwick, the Wizened (JMP) 48 4 Shatter the Sky (THB) 37 4 Absorb (RNA) 151 4 Swift Response (M21) 40 3 Elspeth Conquers Death (THB) 13 4 Omen of the Sea (THB) 58 3 Castle Ardenvale (ELD) 238 1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242 4 Hallowed Fountain (RNA) 251 2 Dovin's Veto (WAR) 193 2 Raise the Alarm (M20) 34 Sideboard 1 Field of Ruin (THB) 242 1 Devout Decree (M20) 13 1 Aether Gust (M20) 42 1 Heliod's Intervention (THB) 19 1 Light of Hope (IKO) 20 1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (M21) 1 1 Time Wipe (WAR) 223 1 Finale of Revelation (WAR) 51 1 Mass Manipulation (RNA) 42 1 Grafdigger's Cage (M20) 227 1 Radiant Fountain (M21) 248 Also your mono white Orzhov build got me to mythic last season!! SO thank you!!
nobody plays around absorb because they're netdeckers. They just copy-paste a list and then click on the highlighted cards until daily wins appear on their screen.
Lycra isn't currently in Standard and he's playing standard Bo1 Ranked. Dream Trawler is the next best finisher for UW control, arguably superior to Baneslayer.
If you had swift response'd the tapped Stonecoil on *your* turn, you would have had the mana to cast borrower on their turn and start the clock one turn sooner... #Algorithm
"I don't need to prove I'm the greatest, I just am darn it" - aaaand that's when I decided cgb deserves a like for ballzyness
Truth be damned
😂 Def the GOAT for that one. Solidified my sub.
I mean, the video is here. We can see why he's good. I also love he can think and explain his thought process at the same time. Deserves a sub and like.
Thank you so much for putting your videos up, I can't stop watching them. I have successfully used 2 decks you made to move up the latter! Hope you win all the games that matter! Thanks for the help!
40:11 the pure excitement for a clutch Boomer Angel makes me weep for joy
Idk what it was i loved more in this video baneslayer demanding respect, the long grindy games of attrition, or just seeing the finally go out for x=10 and seeing someone scoop but this was just incredibly satisfying. Keep up the U/W greatness.
"the cards become much more good" -CGB, qualifying final hours
The last time I was this early, baneslayer was only in M10
CGB, I love you. I can't tell you how happy it makes me to see UW Control with Baneslayer Angel as someone who started playing standard in 2009/2010. I started playing again with Theros and miss that old school standard meta of fair midrange and control decks. Well, I'm off to build a variant of this, although I may splash red for some more removal and clarion.
Edit: Lmao at that game vs reclamation - he had the literal nut draw, perfect card answer for everything!
Edit#2: Holy shit that game vs Rakdos sac was insane! well played
Coming from a MTG noob, you're really smart at thinking ahead! I'm motivated to consider my opponent's choices more often. I like watching you predict ECD and Stonecoil.
Give it time any you'll get there. The cards used in decks are very predictable in most Arena ranked games as it's heavy with netdecking. It becomes second nature after enough experience.
Stonecoil is because opp held priority during second main with no available mana and their land drop already made for turn. Little arena tell. But yeah straight up he is hella adept at predicting plays, even against brews
Everyone is playing the same decks for the most part so its really not that hard to predict
I can appreciate a control deck that's showing love to Baneslayer Angel :)
MaxxxPower here. Funny to watch our game together again. Was a nice one, thanks for your wishes, I made the 1200 that day. Cheers, nice content, greetings from Austria.
The last match was super intense! Great video, as always! Thanks and good luck!
38:50 Opponent nooooooo. You have lethal if CGB does nothing or if CGB kills your stuff in response, just swing!
Hopefully, that's his first time losing to Absorb like that and he will remember for next time.
If he just slam all-in to CGB, the game would end with his victory.
Just want to thank you for staying on the content grind. You are my favorite MTG player and creator. I learn a lot from your videos and really enjoy your podcast. Just want to share some positive vibes, thanks again and keep it up! I always look forward to your stuff!
Assistant installed!! Great addition!!! Tks man
Great gameplay and thank you for your thoughts as you play. The value is tremendous!
I first started watching you this season, I remember seeing you climbing through the ranks facing different janky decks, and then the absolute slog through mythic against MONO RED and such. I feel proud FOR you, CGB! Keep up the amazing content.
Thanks. Gave me some inspiration to play a Chevill list that has been doing really good against aggro post bannings
Baneslayer Angel is my favorite card in the game. Glad you play it sometimes! I hope that with the rotation Baneslayer sees much more play.
CGB: "The stick means they have a Stonecoil Serpent"
Me: "There was a stick?"
Awesome gameplay, I could watch you play blue white all day, that said I couldn't stand playing one game of blue-white myself
The most satisfying RUclips video I've watched since July :D
LOVE THAT ANGEL!!! Power creep personified. "In my day" a 4/4 flyer with vigilance for the same cost, my beloved Serra had the same i quit reaction after a couple no tap attacks against their 2-3 power ground dwellers. Now this beauty here isn't even considered a powerhouse?! Sad I say.
Love the content, thank you! Esp blue white control, my BABY
That have around the 40 minute mark with the 2 absorbs to stay alive AT 1 then toss out The Bain Angel. WOW I'd have liked to have been in their room. LOL! ESP if they're fighting to be in the top pile of players. Just SO AWESOME!!! I reacted more to that win than you did. Haha. LOVE SEEING AN ANGEL DOING WORK and will get absorbs!
That Baneslayer Angel barely impacts the meta just goes to show how much of a power creep there's been...
Baneslayer was already a medium card at her time.
@@Angel24Marin Maybe, but in arena we used lyra as a top-end in control decks for quite some time. baneslayer is pretty much the same card, with some added protection, and i've never faced her in any game since m21 was introduced.
if she was a medium during her time, she could have stayed a medium during our time as well. but right now we have so many cards that do so much more for the same cost.
Teferi and reclamations. Once those gone and 2 pieces or Jund, Bane and many other creatures are back, probably.
@@geolan31 Lyra was a sideboard card in a weaker format. Burn was a lot better and boardwipes worse. Current control list can survive at low health as long as they keep the board clean but in Dominaria they needed to get life faster. In addition Dream Trawler do the same job as Bane but better against removal.
@@futuropasado Thankfully, both have been banned now.
And yet again, 34:50 the cards you needed the most but never showed up in the previous long losing game, show right up at your next match's starting hand.
Also, 12:30 LOL, master troll. Love it.
Crazy watching this now. What an insane format this was lmao.
This was a great video! An interesting deck and I learned a LOT.
My favorite episode for CGB- last mythic ⏳ hour.
Good job being the Greatest! I find this statement accurate.
Loving this channel. I normally stop playing ranked when I hit platinum. I got dropped back down to silver again today. I've just built this deck. I'm going to have a go at piloting it, with tweaks along the way, until I hit diamond. Felt sorry for my opponents during a couple of the games earlier but I'm sure the feeling will pass once I've climbed out of gold.
I'd love to see more games with this deck!
The double absorb from 1 while they had lethal on board was.... something... I don't think you can come back harder than that. holy cow
Aww yeah, keep up the blue/white control!
"I don't need to prove I'm the greatest, I just am darn it" terrific !!!
by the way , i just have copy your deck and play 7-0 wins from gold to platinum . and i have change 1 Swift Response with Runed Halo.
Judging by the comments this might be one of the most fan favorite deck! 💪😊 PLS make at least one more video with it and more games! Pls pls pls... I don't play magic anymore but when I did I came to the game right when "baneslayer revolution" began so this is kind of very nostalgic video for me hehe!😁 Pls at least one more video of this. ✌️
cgb is the king!! thanks for all the videos and knowledge sharing man!
Sweet god Thank you for saying "sad robot". I thought I was the only one left.
Ah yes my favorite content creator, convertgoblue
Gratz on the rank!
I lost my shiţ when you said "look at this boomer card dumpstering this zoomer deck" 😂😂😭
“...Let the nonsense begin...” best catch phrase man
Main deck negates AND disputes in Bo1, that was some bravery right there
It's very satisfying watching Baneslayer Angel put in work ✊
CGB the slayer of many 1200-1300 players hopes and dreams!
CGB always has god-tier reads on the opponent
Wait till you see tomorrow’s video - vs elderspell/bolas
The problem with baneslayer angel is it wins the game on turn 5 but to be good in this standard you need to win on turn 4
Turn 3-4 or stabilize there.
You can hit that Watcher of the Spheres on T2 lmao
37:50 CGB could run 60 landand still be mana screwed. The shuffler is fine!
Love your content CGB.
covert go play lots, covert go greatest
41:56 You've vastly underestimated how casually I play this game and don't pay attention to the meta and trends.
Always impressed by videos of netdecks...
I just went six and two with it....did very well against aggro....ran into some problems with a bantish deck....played in bo1 did well....by tomorrow i expect mana problems and shuffler problems as is the case with most decks; but i didn't have those problems today....good deck
Smyke....What a player .....BEST TOPDECKER EVER
Curious on where you ended in the mtga rankings. Great video, great deck, and great finish to the season.
Is there any reason to run baneslayer over dream trawler aside from the 1-mana difference? I've been trying to make my control finish out the game a bit quicker.
Not really. The only interesting interaction is that having first strike, Banslayer is a good counter to Dream Trawler as it would destroy it in combat. Maybe a sideboard card against control.
I've just built the deck with one dream trawler so that I didn't have to burn a wild card on the third baneslayer.
Watch the video. Baneslayer trades with bonecrusher + cleave, first strike really matters. Think about the cards
Haha, your evil laugh when you absorb the mono green zoomer’s 7/7 stone coiled serpent
Around 5:30. Why not play Gadwick and hold up absorb? I think ECD looks better holding off on it
Edit: So I clearly messed up the timestamp and frankly I don't know what time I meant but there was a point where I'm convinced Gadwick was the play! Who's that information useful to? Nobody. I don't apologize and will take no questions.
"Would you like some Teferi to your Teferi?"Ehm no?! No I really think I do not want any more Teferi...
So ready for the rotation so that cards like to Teferi are gone.
Now they don't have to be too scared to play Teferi, Time Raveler.
So tired of wilderness and ovens.
Uro
which decks are the best ones to counter oven rakdos?
espatec fuet - I find blue/white control to be pretty effective. Just run board wipes and Fae of Wishes to get grafdiggers and you’re set 👌🏼
You’ll he excited about the bans then
Who would have though! All wee needed was my boy J Davis to say the word! Thank you for your service!
I wouldn't have thought that Absorb would counter a Stonecoil due to it having Protection From Multicolored. I guess that only works after it's on the table.
Baneslayer one of my favorite cards. How would this deck be adapted after the bans? Thanks :)
That game four reclamation deck must have been scientificaly designed to just beat your deck with perfect draws at the exact perfect moments.
I mean two Negates and three disputes in this BO1 Format ist pretty ballsy and musst suck to play against the current meta.
I love how you name your decks 🤣
hope u can revisit this deck post banning. is it as relevant? what would u replace taferi with?
50:45 Amazing that game panned out.
"Look at this Boomer card dumpstering this Zoomer deck" -CGB, 2020
I was really into that last game and wished it kept going
A copy of Ronaldinho Mangara goes very well in this deck too
LOL I just made this deck exactly as you made it and I won 8-9 games before losing in standard. Wow.
congrats cgb 81 is nice
Hey dude,
Do you think that with Teferi's ban, this deck is bad?
What would be a good to replace Teferi with?
It would be so epic of the opponent had a thought distortion on that last turn
Now that Teferi is banned, what would you replace it with in this deck?
Is this any different(better/worse) than using Dream Trawler? It basically plays the same way
Yay Cgb plays Azorius
HYPED
Now that Teferi is banned what changes would you make to WU control?
What's a good sub for 3feri here since he got nuked?
Impressive, ninja’d baneslayer into the meta
nice , great deck :)
So what goes in place of teferi now??
don't you run halo in that sideboard specifically to stop Explosion?
2:17. Damn right!
Can you make an update on this deck with some new cards? 🤩
Since the great banning of 2020, what would you suggest to change. I didnt have enough rare wild cards to build this list exactly, but I've done the following, would like to know what you think:
Deck
5 Plains (IKO) 262
3 Temple of Enlightenment (THB) 246
4 Raugrin Triome (IKO) 251
6 Island (IKO) 265
3 Brazen Borrower (ELD) 39
2 Fae of Wishes (ELD) 44
1 Tranquil Cove (M20) 259
3 Baneslayer Angel (M21) 6
2 Gadwick, the Wizened (JMP) 48
4 Shatter the Sky (THB) 37
4 Absorb (RNA) 151
4 Swift Response (M21) 40
3 Elspeth Conquers Death (THB) 13
4 Omen of the Sea (THB) 58
3 Castle Ardenvale (ELD) 238
1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242
4 Hallowed Fountain (RNA) 251
2 Dovin's Veto (WAR) 193
2 Raise the Alarm (M20) 34
Sideboard
1 Field of Ruin (THB) 242
1 Devout Decree (M20) 13
1 Aether Gust (M20) 42
1 Heliod's Intervention (THB) 19
1 Light of Hope (IKO) 20
1 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon (M21) 1
1 Time Wipe (WAR) 223
1 Finale of Revelation (WAR) 51
1 Mass Manipulation (RNA) 42
1 Grafdigger's Cage (M20) 227
1 Radiant Fountain (M21) 248
Also your mono white Orzhov build got me to mythic last season!! SO thank you!!
I turned this into Bant for the turn 3 baneslayer :)
now ehy would that first guy go for top 1200 if the is currently #1337
What do you mean rakdos has no way to kill it? priest? first born + cauldron? etc.
Claim can't touch it. It costs too much. Priest and deathtouch butcher are pretty much the only outs.
I finished this season hitting #15 on the ladder feelsgood 😌
nobody plays around absorb because they're netdeckers. They just copy-paste a list and then click on the highlighted cards until daily wins appear on their screen.
Would 2 baneslayers and 1 Lyra be an objectively better deck?
Lycra isn't currently in Standard and he's playing standard Bo1 Ranked. Dream Trawler is the next best finisher for UW control, arguably superior to Baneslayer.
Gadwick, Old Man :D
For the algorithm!
Baneslayer Angel best card m21!
Is the reason for baneslayer over dream trawler mana constraint
He likes the first strike, made a difference vs Embercleave in the vid
I love evil control cgb >:D
Why u took the angel back to hand with Teferi and played the angel again? Don't understand that...
To block? Is that a hard thing to understand?
@@covertgoblue ah, sry, too tired, really didnt get it while watching! Thx for explaining!
Why no rewind?
If you had swift response'd the tapped Stonecoil on *your* turn, you would have had the mana to cast borrower on their turn and start the clock one turn sooner...
#Algorithm