Unironically won 5 out of 7 of my Metagame matches in Arena from people rage quitting against my mono blue tempo. Felt bad so I went back in with a Grixis deck. Rage quit game 1 against a mono blue tempo deck.
was really fun before BOW. But the Espher Midrange decks were quite hard to play against. Also jund midrange but they had to top deck the shit out of you if they don't wanna loose the match the rest was just eeezzzz even mono r aggro
You have to understand that blue players actually LOVE fun. We love it so much that we realized there is only a finite amount of fun to be had in any magic game, and we want to monopolize ALL of the fun for ourselves.
@@zirilan3398 whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there. First off, like.....18 counters at max lol. And 2 wincons. Counter decks still need room for draw and powder keg, you know.
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 - White gets Balance, Land Tax, Armageddon, Replinish, Moat, Humility, and other good stuff that is so busted it gets banned, restricted, and in many cases no other cards like it printed again.
hello, it's me, a dimir player. i can confirm that this video is 100% scientifically true. every single blue card in my deck is a counterspell. thank you for bringing this to public notice. a dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
You claim to be of the Dimir and yet you mention them aloud? Thank you for bringing this to public notice. A dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
I would never just run counter spells. I run a lot of removal too, so if the opponent somehow gets a permanent onto the battlefield, it will be removed immediately!
tell me a format where this works. Aggro decks took over long ago, Planeswalker with flash.... There in modern control decks are screwed, legacy RU Delver is the only way to play it, or sneak and show/sneak and tell
As a blue player, seeing Noah demonstrate why blue isn't fun whilst going against another player, who isn't having fun and has my exact name (this is not a joke) is really interesting. Noah are you in my walls?
You know what the best way to express you're hatred for blue is? Ironically it's using blue.... You know cause that's where 99% of all counterspells are.
"I don't care if I lose, I don't care about your fun. I only care about my fun, and my fun is not letting you do shit as much as I can" - As a Yugioh player who naturally become MTG blue card player.
I too am a yugioh player who is addicted to purple cards that say "no, you can't do that". I'm also a zombie player, so I spend my zombies to pay the cost of saying no. And then I bring my zombies back. So, anyways, appropos of nothing, I recently got my first commander deck for christmas and it's blue black for some reason?
I like how they made white's theme be the most useless mechanic (lifegain) and made blue's be the two most powerful ones (countering and card advantage)
@@drlavalava7719 Lifegain has some good enablers (as long as your opponent doesn't play any removal) but lifegain on its own is very bad. It doesn't forward your gameplan in any meaningful way, it just maybe slows down your opponent's clock by a turn.
@@retronymph Lifegain on its own is a great way to make burn players cry as they are stuck topdecking lands and shocks once their opening hand is empty
as the first deck I ever played was a blue/black counter deck where I just laughed at how I countered my opponent's entire turn this is absolutely true now I just spam dragons so even if I lose I get to look at pretty dragons
Yeah, I used to play commander and one of my opponents had a mono blue deck with Talrand, Sky Summoner as his commander. Dude ran only card draw, bounce, and counterspells and it stinking WORKED because his commander attached a 2/2 flyer on every. Stinking. Spell. You couldn't block the minions because, guess what, FLYING! And you couldn't take care of the commander because, guess what, COUNTERSPELL!!! I so wanted to run Niv-Mizzet, Parun against him because, guess what, CAN'T COUNTERSPELL THAT COMMANDER AND I DRAW A CARD EVERY TIME YOU ATTEMPT SOMETHING, FISH BOY!!!!!!!
Then he casts mindbreak trap in response to Niv-Mizzet! The first rule of playing against mono blue effectively is to never assume you're safe from interaction.
I run him myself. You think he's bad? Try Aesi Tyrant of The Gyre Straight. I have ONLY big creatures, mainly hydras and I have reliquary tower so for every 2 lands I'm able to play on my turn I am also able to draw cards. Include a River Hopoe for life gain to spend on dead turns and I'm basically unbeatable. I even beat out my gfs mono-red aggro burn deck, there's literally nothing but direct damage spells, a few monsters, and one of our many Chandra plainswalkers.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago Ooookay calm down there. You not impressing anyone with simic good stuff outside of your kitchen table. Mono red burn is, by design, one of the most disenfranchised deck archetypes in EDH. Maybe have her use a better deck the next time you go around benchmarking. >.>
Blue mirror matches feel like a chess game where someone is waiting for the 1st person to play their spell and see if you'll waste your counters on something that might matter or not.
that wouldnt be a chess game then because chess has people forced to move and logic behind it rather than reaction behind it, it'd be playing slaps. the game where you try to slap your opponent but not get slapped in the hand and whoever gets slapped in the hand loses and whoever slaps them in the face wins
u usually play nothing for 7turns and then on the opponents end step some card draw skirmish before the counter spell splash show begins. But the hermit(the distub buddy idk malevocent,,,,) in standard does a great job to get under this.
I currently have six commander decks, one of which is mono-blue (none of the other ones run blue). I built it at a time when I wanted to make a mono-colored deck for each color and the Izzet colors are my least favorite; so I built it with the thought process: "I hate blue, so if it has to exist, I'll make everyone else hate it as much as I do" lol
in my defense I also have a couple red cards that get stronger every time I play a coun- I mean every time I cast a noncreature spell and that could be anything alright, not just counters
I have a couple of friends who are quite fond of blue, and I try over and over again to demonstrate that blue takes less skill and planning than other colours, and it simply isn't fun. They kept poking fun at me, countering my glorious green spells that I spend 4 turns building towards. They always reply with that same old stupid blue reply "BuT iM hAvInG fUn..." I got so fed up that I went into arena and tried to make the most obnoxious, spitefull and petty blue mill deck that I could muster. Just to prove a point. That was the first and only time I made it to Mythic rank...
I love my simic deck, it does everything in this video and comes with the added benefit of stealing cards directly from my opponents deck. So not only can my opponents never feel the joy of actually playing cards, but I get to experience their joy when I play their cards.
0:24 This actually inspires me to actually play the game instead of just find out stuff about it - and also to feel upset, but that's just because I once actually thought blue was morally acceptable
Fun is a finite resource in a game of magic. Mono blue ensures that you hold a monopoly on it. Splash black for targeted discard and it's even more enjoyable.
I built an azorius tempo/control deck that uses mirrari conjecture + mythos of Illuna to recur counter spells and board wipes every turn. Every time I win a match with that deck, someone else starts their joker arc.
I come from another cardgame-verse, a different universe where Blue players are called "Drytron Herald" players (it's still 2021 in that universe). By the way I don't know how to play Magic, but I can *100% relate with the pain of a negation-spam* (Yu-Gi-Oh! 's meta is fun like Oliver Twist's childhood)
The difference is that in mtg you need lands to play cards, and in blue there are no tutors. Drytron Fairies is hyper-consistent, it continuously reuses its resources, and has powerful monsters on top of that, not just small but efficient creatures, but bosses with 4k atk. Drytron is even more unfair than playing blue.
One time I was in a commander pod with a Muldrotha player. I countered Muldrotha every. Single. Goddamn. Time he tried to cast it. At one point he let Muldrotha go to the graveyard, and then tried to Animate Dead. Key word: "tried".
Man i hate playing mono blue, I hate blue + one of any other color but once there is blue and two other colors it's suddenly my jam and I love those decks.
There was a time (2020 i think) that i made a mono blue deck with no win condition...it was just counters and draw cards (and graveyard reshufle) to play till the oponent concedes or deck out.... Yeah i was a bad person back them.
I think this had the opposite effect. It's freaking hilarious and it teaches everyone else humility. Screw your killer combo and kneel before my blue balls.
Someday people will realize: You beat blue by stocking up mana and casting multipel cards in successions, EPECIALLY after the blue player uses most or all of their mana. They either have nothing but counterspells, which damns them in the long run and makes them extremely vulnerable to things existing on the field or they categorically do not have enough counterspells to hit everything, especially at once. Green and red naturally kick blue's teeth in when played like this because red has a lot of burst power for cheap and no one card is worth a good counterspell and green can just build up enough mana, or force out bad counterspells on cheap utilities before the really scary shit starts rolling in. This is why they need mill and bounce effects, why they need strong blockers. They struggle to do anything to things already on the field and if they over-invest ine one avenue, then they leave themselves very vulnerable in another. Didn't bring enough blockers? Guess you die to that 1/1 goblin that snuck through. Overcommit on card value to removing a mediocre threat? What are you going to do about the bigger threat later? And what are you going to do about that first card if you *didn't* dump a bunch of value into getting rid of it. I find mono blue to be very feast or famine in that you're being really oppressive or you're absolutely helpless and there is no in between.
When something resolves, blue's dead. No good interactions, no lifegain, no good creatures. Blue has only card draw, tempo and counters and it needs to utilize them well because there are not infinite resources.
Blue isn't about preventing everything, its about slowing you down enough that their stompy 8/8 for 10 becomes viable. Every good control player is a Timmy at heart.
Fact, as much as I hate playing blue. They rage quit the moment you have two or more creatures on the field if they can't return one of them to your hand right away
@@MTGMagicMalGiocato lol thats pure bullshit perpetuated by blue apologists, current blue even in standard has so many options to negate spells that actually got through its not even funny. 1 cost fading hope, slip out of the back are the most prominent. And then big creatures that get cheaper or stronger with more instants in their graveyard, so even after they drop a creature they have lots of mana for 1-3 counterspells.
As a Blue player myself, I do put a bit more thought into my builds. I also bounce your stuff back to your hand so I can counter it and I have graveyard recursion with cards like Clear The Mind and Learn From The Past. Splash in a little green and I have mill protection with Gaea's Blessing. The win-con of most Blue decks is to get your opponent to lose all hope.
Accurate af. Honnestly I find it annoying that decks full of counterspells + draw cards actualy work. I mean what the hell, we're not supposed to just look at an empty board the whole game (until there's a Teferi and then you have to concede or get bored to death)
I want to ask a question, whats the difference between running a blue counter deck vs mono red burn everything deck. with a good hand, you drop a creature, then just burn all the creatures your opponent drops? or mono black with a ton of murder sacrafice cards?
To be honest a fast enough red deck can be just as annoying and anti-fun as a blue deck. If it can win so fast the the other player doesn't really even get to play their deck it's so toxic. At least the game is over quick then though, as opposed to blue players durdling for a million years controlling everything but not having any way to actually win the game.
Also blue can go against almost any deck. What ever the card it can be countered. Can't say that for others tho. But I've learned that mono Blue is weak against flash and aggro.
I play Mono-Blue like i play Red Deck Win, i even build the deck very similarly. Except instead of Burning Life Points like RDW, i burn player's spells. My win-condition is usually a land, or a creature that doubles as a Counterspell. 40 counter spells, 24 lands. Voracious Greatshark is my Waifu Card
I'm convinced all mono blue players, on arena, are all playing ironically out of spite. Nobody knows who started it, but it's just a dominos effect now.
@@morrius0757 i hopeless lost against a stupid monoblue wizard counterspell tribal deck, so dont tell me it aint good. the only problem he had was actualy winning xD
The fact blue is the color that lets you do the most "4th wall breaking" things like pulling specific cards or stacking the top most cards of your deck.
A great thing to do to an opponent is when you counter their spell, read them the flavor text at the bottom of the card. For example, with Syncopate, it says, "Fool! Can't you see the tide has turned against you?" or, "Patience, mage. Killing you now would be too easy." :P
It's the people not the colour. People have forgotten that you can have fun, while your opponent has fun too. It is the same with aggro decks that kill you turn 2 or lose. Winning is being so insentivised in online formats, that the joy of playing is corrupted.
I love that I see this video right after finishing a game of me just using oracle of the alpha to shuffle power nine into my deck and making my turns take 17 days because mystic forge is a very fun card.
I just look at counter spells and removal as the same thing. It's just that one bypasses etb's and one doesn't, one can affect multiple things and one can't. Besides no control deck has ever won a game with counter spells or removal, they have to win the game somehow. I mainly play aggro and control has never bothered me, it's just another obstacle 👍
I actively try to avoid putting anything blue to any of my decks. Not one single blue card in any of my decks so far, and no plans to change that anytime soon. Blue is cancer.
Facts, one thing I noticed is when a spell can't be countered they rage quit alot. I get a huge laugh when they try countering those cards and didn't read the fine print first.
My very first game of paper Magic was against a mono-blue player. I immediately gave up on the game and started playing Hearthstone instead. Best decision I ever made.
Tbh, blue color is unironically the reason why MtG came to the "If you are playing Magic, you opponent doesn't" state (Cant remember the right quote). All blue color identity should have been splitted between other colors.
you should do this but with every color. 'black players just kill every creature' 'red players just rely on rng to win' 'colorless players are just being edgy'
I like my Rielle, the Everwise EDH deck. I don't need to be smart, just discard a bunch of cards to draw a bunch of cards and occasionally counter a spell or two. At least my win con is typically doming people with 21 commander damage.
Unironically won 5 out of 7 of my Metagame matches in Arena from people rage quitting against my mono blue tempo. Felt bad so I went back in with a Grixis deck. Rage quit game 1 against a mono blue tempo deck.
Me sowing: Haha f*ck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this f*ckin sucks
How exactly do you win a game ironically??
You fucked around and you found out
@@tarvoc746 I think they were thinking about the word literally
was really fun before BOW. But the Espher Midrange decks were quite hard to play against.
Also jund midrange but they had to top deck the shit out of you if they don't wanna loose the match
the rest was just eeezzzz
even mono r aggro
You have to understand that blue players actually LOVE fun. We love it so much that we realized there is only a finite amount of fun to be had in any magic game, and we want to monopolize ALL of the fun for ourselves.
This is how I describe counter or lockdown strats, they're what you play when you want to have all the fun.
@@Pandaman64don't throw us staxx-players into the same pot as the average 39 counter 1 wincon-players. At least we take pride in our craft.
when all your brain power goes into over-rationalizing why such basic plays are fun instead of thinking of fun plays instead:
@@zirilan3398 whoa whoa whoa. Hold on there.
First off, like.....18 counters at max lol. And 2 wincons. Counter decks still need room for draw and powder keg, you know.
@@Pandaman64 my experience with says otherwise
“There is a finite amount of fun to be had and I want all of it” -my local blue player
Giving one colour draw and counterspells as it's central themes was definitly a decision
But white gets Lifegain and 1/1s. Just as Richard Garfield intended.
It was one of the decisions of all time!
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 - White gets Balance, Land Tax, Armageddon, Replinish, Moat, Humility, and other good stuff that is so busted it gets banned, restricted, and in many cases no other cards like it printed again.
Funny coming from a Yu-Gi-Oh player. During Tear format.
@@meliafanno.1808 never said I agreed with Yugiohs design decisions
hello, it's me, a dimir player. i can confirm that this video is 100% scientifically true. every single blue card in my deck is a counterspell. thank you for bringing this to public notice. a dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
You've said too much...
Clearly you play Rakdos, since no dimir player would admit that and you want to see the world burn.
You claim to be of the Dimir and yet you mention them aloud? Thank you for bringing this to public notice. A dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.
@@zyibesixdouze4863 Dimir *player*, not Dimir. Important difference.
Dimir? What? I don't know this word...
I would never just run counter spells. I run a lot of removal too, so if the opponent somehow gets a permanent onto the battlefield, it will be removed immediately!
tell me a format where this works. Aggro decks took over long ago, Planeswalker with flash....
There in modern control decks are screwed, legacy RU Delver is the only way to play it, or sneak and show/sneak and tell
@@trutherx3440 standard. I am having a 90% winrate on arena
@@trutherx3440 It's not about winning, it's about sending a message.
@@trutherx3440 you frustrate people into rage quitting, bonus point if you take maximum amount of time possible for each action
@@szylaj hate such players....
I play blue because I'm illiterate. "Too many words on that card, counter"
Hello fellow YuGiOh player!
@@Nekogami04 No! I'm not gay
As a blue player, seeing Noah demonstrate why blue isn't fun whilst going against another player, who isn't having fun and has my exact name (this is not a joke) is really interesting.
Noah are you in my walls?
Wait, that’s you?
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 he's probably talking about Arthur, so most likely no
@@dreamsalongthepath7377 Sorry for the confusion but Erop is right I'm talking about the actual name haha
It is time to rethink your life’s choices is what it means
@@lazydroidproductions1087 Never, blue player forever lol
ive never tapped an island in my life... this video describes my experience in MTG, every deck ive ever build has been forged with a hatred for blue
Sadly we don't get enough good bluehate nowadays without it getting banned. Still waiting on Cavern of Souls Print for pioneer
I only tap islands for my all color decks. (and my secret blue black deck)
You sir, are a true friends to Magic players.
You know what the best way to express you're hatred for blue is?
Ironically it's using blue.... You know cause that's where 99% of all counterspells are.
Keep fighting the good fight brother.
As a blue player I can proudly say my motto is: The less fun the opponent takes, the more fun stays with me.
"I don't care if I lose, I don't care about your fun. I only care about my fun, and my fun is not letting you do shit as much as I can" - As a Yugioh player who naturally become MTG blue card player.
I too am a yugioh player who is addicted to purple cards that say "no, you can't do that".
I'm also a zombie player, so I spend my zombies to pay the cost of saying no.
And then I bring my zombies back.
So, anyways, appropos of nothing, I recently got my first commander deck for christmas and it's blue black for some reason?
@@Xahnel i play yugiog i play zombes i go only green in mtg
WTF?! Any original thought in that mind of yours?
I like how they made white's theme be the most useless mechanic (lifegain) and made blue's be the two most powerful ones (countering and card advantage)
Have you never played against a lifegain deck?
@@drlavalava7719 Lifegain has some good enablers (as long as your opponent doesn't play any removal) but lifegain on its own is very bad. It doesn't forward your gameplan in any meaningful way, it just maybe slows down your opponent's clock by a turn.
@@retronymph White has plenty of answers to removal, and lifelink slows your opponent’s clock while helping you win.
@@retronymph Lifegain on its own is a great way to make burn players cry as they are stuck topdecking lands and shocks once their opening hand is empty
@@ActionCow69 It used to be, until they printed 35 cards that said "Your opponent can't gain life this turn / ever"
as the first deck I ever played was a blue/black counter deck where I just laughed at how I countered my opponent's entire turn this is absolutely true
now I just spam dragons so even if I lose I get to look at pretty dragons
character growth at its finest
Dragons are the best!
Now play blue/black dragons. I hear Silumgar is a cool guy
i stack my deck with counter proof creatures
to spite blue
Absolutely! These are the games I get to enjoy my card art. So pretty.
As a blue player this 100% scientifically accurate, i even have a deck named "Go play hearthstone instead."
You
Are
A
Loser
Waiting for the next blue teferi with “+1 you win the game and the next game after”
They hid that card in 5 random packs of Magic 30th Anniversary.
It comes free in the Blue Supremacists membership bundle
Yeah, I used to play commander and one of my opponents had a mono blue deck with Talrand, Sky Summoner as his commander. Dude ran only card draw, bounce, and counterspells and it stinking WORKED because his commander attached a 2/2 flyer on every. Stinking. Spell. You couldn't block the minions because, guess what, FLYING! And you couldn't take care of the commander because, guess what, COUNTERSPELL!!! I so wanted to run Niv-Mizzet, Parun against him because, guess what, CAN'T COUNTERSPELL THAT COMMANDER AND I DRAW A CARD EVERY TIME YOU ATTEMPT SOMETHING, FISH BOY!!!!!!!
Then he casts mindbreak trap in response to Niv-Mizzet! The first rule of playing against mono blue effectively is to never assume you're safe from interaction.
I run him myself. You think he's bad? Try Aesi Tyrant of The Gyre Straight. I have ONLY big creatures, mainly hydras and I have reliquary tower so for every 2 lands I'm able to play on my turn I am also able to draw cards. Include a River Hopoe for life gain to spend on dead turns and I'm basically unbeatable. I even beat out my gfs mono-red aggro burn deck, there's literally nothing but direct damage spells, a few monsters, and one of our many Chandra plainswalkers.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago Ooookay calm down there. You not impressing anyone with simic good stuff outside of your kitchen table.
Mono red burn is, by design, one of the most disenfranchised deck archetypes in EDH. Maybe have her use a better deck the next time you go around benchmarking. >.>
@@kargnak idek what that means.
@@SeviathTheHumanDrago New to the hobby?
Blue mirror matches feel like a chess game where someone is waiting for the 1st person to play their spell and see if you'll waste your counters on something that might matter or not.
I seem to remember a Pro Modern game that was 2 RWU control decks.... First spell was played on turn 8 irrc
that wouldnt be a chess game then because chess has people forced to move and logic behind it rather than reaction behind it, it'd be playing slaps. the game where you try to slap your opponent but not get slapped in the hand and whoever gets slapped in the hand loses and whoever slaps them in the face wins
u usually play nothing for 7turns and then on the opponents end step some card draw skirmish before the counter spell splash show begins. But the hermit(the distub buddy idk malevocent,,,,) in standard does a great job to get under this.
a chess game indeed. remember...3.5 iq
@@eVuLeX “The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.”
-Fundamentals of Chess 1883
I currently have six commander decks, one of which is mono-blue (none of the other ones run blue). I built it at a time when I wanted to make a mono-colored deck for each color and the Izzet colors are my least favorite; so I built it with the thought process: "I hate blue, so if it has to exist, I'll make everyone else hate it as much as I do" lol
The best way to play is to make sure the other person cannot play.
The amount of fun is finite and I want to have all of it.
in my defense I also have a couple red cards that get stronger every time I play a coun- I mean every time I cast a noncreature spell and that could be anything alright, not just counters
As a Simic and Izzet player, I can confirm every word. I play 1,700 counterspells in every deck and no lands. All you need is counterspell.
I don't go that far I save room for creatures that counter spells.
🤓whell akshully magic the gathering is a very complicated game and blue players work very hard🤓
- some blue player
I have a couple of friends who are quite fond of blue, and I try over and over again to demonstrate that blue takes less skill and planning than other colours, and it simply isn't fun. They kept poking fun at me, countering my glorious green spells that I spend 4 turns building towards.
They always reply with that same old stupid blue reply "BuT iM hAvInG fUn..."
I got so fed up that I went into arena and tried to make the most obnoxious, spitefull and petty blue mill deck that I could muster. Just to prove a point.
That was the first and only time I made it to Mythic rank...
Did your have fun
@@ahmadazem4167 The better question is did he have their fun?
Can confirm I am a blue player
straight to jail
You know, fuck it. Straight to hell
@@badboom6823 can I play tempo decks in jail?
@@ColinSomething No, you have to play aggro in jail.
@@Mwarrior1991they probably tap 2 island in response
Most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. Simic players are even worse (a Simic player)
I love my simic deck, it does everything in this video and comes with the added benefit of stealing cards directly from my opponents deck. So not only can my opponents never feel the joy of actually playing cards, but I get to experience their joy when I play their cards.
0:24 This actually inspires me to actually play the game instead of just find out stuff about it - and also to feel upset, but that's just because I once actually thought blue was morally acceptable
As a man whose cousin runs an Azorius exile deck EVERY time we play commander, I FEEL this! 🤣
Fun is a finite resource in a game of magic. Mono blue ensures that you hold a monopoly on it. Splash black for targeted discard and it's even more enjoyable.
Magic is a zero-sum game. There is a limited amount of fun, and I will have all of it.
Blue is my favourite colour, also I play infect in commander and I am 1/4 french. Those things are totally unconnected.
The mind of a blue player: it's only fun for me if you aren't having fun.
While this video is on the stack, I cast counterspell. Now plz delet
I built an azorius tempo/control deck that uses mirrari conjecture + mythos of Illuna to recur counter spells and board wipes every turn. Every time I win a match with that deck, someone else starts their joker arc.
False, you played creatures. What are you, an aggro player?
I come from another cardgame-verse, a different universe where Blue players are called "Drytron Herald" players (it's still 2021 in that universe).
By the way I don't know how to play Magic, but I can *100% relate with the pain of a negation-spam* (Yu-Gi-Oh! 's meta is fun like Oliver Twist's childhood)
The difference is that in mtg you need lands to play cards, and in blue there are no tutors. Drytron Fairies is hyper-consistent, it continuously reuses its resources, and has powerful monsters on top of that, not just small but efficient creatures, but bosses with 4k atk. Drytron is even more unfair than playing blue.
@@lorenzotanzi9851 Ikr
* deletes the deck slot with Drytron Herald *
I was going to make a full blown powerpoint presentation around these players, but you made the rant for me. Thanks!
One time I was in a commander pod with a Muldrotha player. I countered Muldrotha every. Single. Goddamn. Time he tried to cast it. At one point he let Muldrotha go to the graveyard, and then tried to Animate Dead. Key word: "tried".
As someone who has let my commander go to the graveyard to cast for cheap you don't try that shit against blue
Man i hate playing mono blue, I hate blue + one of any other color but once there is blue and two other colors it's suddenly my jam and I love those decks.
Sounds like you’re just bad at the game
Temur is a lot of fun along with counter burn.
@@ianfrazier6858 I mean yeah but also rude man.
There was a time (2020 i think) that i made a mono blue deck with no win condition...it was just counters and draw cards (and graveyard reshufle) to play till the oponent concedes or deck out.... Yeah i was a bad person back them.
I played against a deck that was literally just tarrant as the commander, and then every other card was draw and counter spells.
I do the same thing but run Baral as commander 😌
@@ianfrazier6858 do you know that the point of playing games is to have fun?
Can confirm countering spells is fun cause you take away their fun
They should make a card call "fun drain" so we can have even more fun
You mean when you claim their fun for yourself.
I think this had the opposite effect. It's freaking hilarious and it teaches everyone else humility. Screw your killer combo and kneel before my blue balls.
Do a "in the mind of a discard / mill deck player"
Even Satan is more moral than mill players
You forgot to wait for 1 minute to read every card in your hand and on the battlefield before countering.
As a blue player, I live in constant fear of carnage tyrant. I also love mono U devotion with the merfolk card that shits out like a million tokens.
As someone who plays dimir and grixis, I can confirm that we enjoy devouring the souls of children.
Someday people will realize: You beat blue by stocking up mana and casting multipel cards in successions, EPECIALLY after the blue player uses most or all of their mana.
They either have nothing but counterspells, which damns them in the long run and makes them extremely vulnerable to things existing on the field or they categorically do not have enough counterspells to hit everything, especially at once. Green and red naturally kick blue's teeth in when played like this because red has a lot of burst power for cheap and no one card is worth a good counterspell and green can just build up enough mana, or force out bad counterspells on cheap utilities before the really scary shit starts rolling in.
This is why they need mill and bounce effects, why they need strong blockers. They struggle to do anything to things already on the field and if they over-invest ine one avenue, then they leave themselves very vulnerable in another. Didn't bring enough blockers? Guess you die to that 1/1 goblin that snuck through. Overcommit on card value to removing a mediocre threat? What are you going to do about the bigger threat later? And what are you going to do about that first card if you *didn't* dump a bunch of value into getting rid of it.
I find mono blue to be very feast or famine in that you're being really oppressive or you're absolutely helpless and there is no in between.
When something resolves, blue's dead. No good interactions, no lifegain, no good creatures. Blue has only card draw, tempo and counters and it needs to utilize them well because there are not infinite resources.
Blue isn't about preventing everything, its about slowing you down enough that their stompy 8/8 for 10 becomes viable. Every good control player is a Timmy at heart.
Fact, as much as I hate playing blue. They rage quit the moment you have two or more creatures on the field if they can't return one of them to your hand right away
@@MTGMagicMalGiocato lol thats pure bullshit perpetuated by blue apologists, current blue even in standard has so many options to negate spells that actually got through its not even funny. 1 cost fading hope, slip out of the back are the most prominent. And then big creatures that get cheaper or stronger with more instants in their graveyard, so even after they drop a creature they have lots of mana for 1-3 counterspells.
You made some sick plays there! I would know, I’m a blue player!
The amount of fun in a game of magic is finite. And I want all of it.
I liked the part when you refused to let opponent play the game
As a Blue player myself, I do put a bit more thought into my builds. I also bounce your stuff back to your hand so I can counter it and I have graveyard recursion with cards like Clear The Mind and Learn From The Past. Splash in a little green and I have mill protection with Gaea's Blessing.
The win-con of most Blue decks is to get your opponent to lose all hope.
Spell Pierce is my favorite anti planeswalker spell. good work!
Accurate af. Honnestly I find it annoying that decks full of counterspells + draw cards actualy work. I mean what the hell, we're not supposed to just look at an empty board the whole game (until there's a Teferi and then you have to concede or get bored to death)
"I wish my parents loved me" me too man, me too
I don't even play Magic anymore, but I gotta say that you slapping back everything your opponents tried to do gave me secondhand annoyance.
I have progress tyrant as a commander and just gotta say that is is so fun having people ask if it resolves for every spell, and counter once a turn.
I want to ask a question, whats the difference between running a blue counter deck vs mono red burn everything deck. with a good hand, you drop a creature, then just burn all the creatures your opponent drops? or mono black with a ton of murder sacrafice cards?
To be honest a fast enough red deck can be just as annoying and anti-fun as a blue deck. If it can win so fast the the other player doesn't really even get to play their deck it's so toxic. At least the game is over quick then though, as opposed to blue players durdling for a million years controlling everything but not having any way to actually win the game.
Also blue can go against almost any deck. What ever the card it can be countered. Can't say that for others tho. But I've learned that mono Blue is weak against flash and aggro.
awesome video...that felt so good that someone is finally makeing this point so well
I play Mono-Blue like i play Red Deck Win, i even build the deck very similarly. Except instead of Burning Life Points like RDW, i burn player's spells.
My win-condition is usually a land, or a creature that doubles as a Counterspell.
40 counter spells, 24 lands. Voracious Greatshark is my Waifu Card
i like running blue with red. force half your deck into your hand so you can summon all the things
Noah pls make a tier list with all the color combinations and rank how evil they are
I'm convinced all mono blue players, on arena, are all playing ironically out of spite. Nobody knows who started it, but it's just a dominos effect now.
i think you actualy fuled my mind with so much love for blue, ima build a commander counterspell deck. See ya soon.
Luckily, in EDH, blue isn't as good, still good but not as. Having 3 opponents is far more difficult for blue to handle.
They call him ba-ral because he's ba-sed.
@@najawin8348 facts
@@morrius0757 i hopeless lost against a stupid monoblue wizard counterspell tribal deck, so dont tell me it aint good. the only problem he had was actualy winning xD
@@AkitoKamimura Baral just attacks you 21 times. Duh.
I'm a blue/green player. I try to restrict my counterspells to actually protecting my fun stuff
That is the only ok way to play blue. If you are using it to protect the best colour green.
As a blue player, yeah. This is accurate. But he underestimates the joy I get from not allowing you to play things.
You are definitely and undoubtedly a very bad person. And I like that.
The fact blue is the color that lets you do the most "4th wall breaking" things like pulling specific cards or stacking the top most cards of your deck.
woah, blue looks really fun! i'm gonna make a blue deck right now
A great thing to do to an opponent is when you counter their spell, read them the flavor text at the bottom of the card. For example, with Syncopate, it says, "Fool! Can't you see the tide has turned against you?" or, "Patience, mage. Killing you now would be too easy." :P
blue more like poo
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It's the people not the colour. People have forgotten that you can have fun, while your opponent has fun too. It is the same with aggro decks that kill you turn 2 or lose. Winning is being so insentivised in online formats, that the joy of playing is corrupted.
I love that I see this video right after finishing a game of me just using oracle of the alpha to shuffle power nine into my deck and making my turns take 17 days because mystic forge is a very fun card.
I played blue until it wasn't funny for me anymore. Neither player having fun is the ultimate blue achievement!
whoa nice try you weren't a true blue player, you actually used the combo step
Oh man after watching this video I love blue even more, even though I'm most of the time a Dimir player, not a monoblue player.
as a mill controll player i can only say that everything you just said is absolut true
It's true, all I do is mill my opponent and counter their spells. It's absolutely hilarious and yes I am a bad person.
As a blue player I have to say this is so accurate. Subscribed.
This is why I love Blue! "Didn't say please" Best card
as a blue player myself this is true
You know what they say. Blue is the color of your opponents tears.
I just look at counter spells and removal as the same thing. It's just that one bypasses etb's and one doesn't, one can affect multiple things and one can't. Besides no control deck has ever won a game with counter spells or removal, they have to win the game somehow. I mainly play aggro and control has never bothered me, it's just another obstacle 👍
I actively try to avoid putting anything blue to any of my decks. Not one single blue card in any of my decks so far, and no plans to change that anytime soon. Blue is cancer.
The look on their face when ‘this spell cannot be countered’ 🤣
Blue has bounce spells too for the uncounterable things. Like, giving you hope to play that creature then OOPS back where you came from, b#tch.
Facts, one thing I noticed is when a spell can't be countered they rage quit alot. I get a huge laugh when they try countering those cards and didn't read the fine print first.
As a mono Red player I have an attention span of roughly 5 turns.
That’s pretty high for a red player, good job!
God I love blue
You just gave me an idea. You go to a fortune teller for a Tarot card reading and if something bad comes up BOOM Counterspell.
The irl cards being as expensive as they are is enough of a deterrent for me.
Good video lol
This is why thought distortion is one of my favorite cards of all time
My very first game of paper Magic was against a mono-blue player.
I immediately gave up on the game and started playing Hearthstone instead. Best decision I ever made.
Tbh, blue color is unironically the reason why MtG came to the "If you are playing Magic, you opponent doesn't" state (Cant remember the right quote). All blue color identity should have been splitted between other colors.
Pretty much how entire yugioh is being played today. A race on who can bring up their "negate your opponent from playing" setup first.
you should do this but with every color. 'black players just kill every creature' 'red players just rely on rng to win' 'colorless players are just being edgy'
I like my Rielle, the Everwise EDH deck. I don't need to be smart, just discard a bunch of cards to draw a bunch of cards and occasionally counter a spell or two. At least my win con is typically doming people with 21 commander damage.
Two mono-blue players against each other.... There is the solid definition of doing NOTHING at maximum effort.
As a commander player, with a Roil Omnath deck, blue is used strictly for the in color elementals to make the red & green cards do their thing better
Always funny to see a deck like this in action, from outside the game.
As a female, I am offend, but as a blue player and not a white player, I'm able to take a joke.
This is categorically untrue, I play blue and I hate myself and think I'm stupid
I've been saying for years blue is broken and the game is basically "play blue or lose"
and peoeple shrug it off and say skill issue, it's not.
*Sweats nervously with my 15 counter spells*