This is one thing I love to do as well. When something becomes so obnoxious it can no longer be ignored, you build a deck specifically against that one card combo or ability. Set aside all preconceptions and the voice in your head telling you it will never work. And when it does work it is glorious.
We're on the same wavelength because I just made a Mono Blue Mill deck and not only is it loads of fun, but it's great against 4-Color Omnath and even Mutate decks that make you search for mana. It's like - "yes, please, do my job for me lol!" After all this time, it's still great to see you working diligently, and dedicated to what you love to do, and it's heartwarming to see the level of care, attention to detail, and honestly love you put forth in the deckbuilding, streaming, editing, and just in general. Keep it up, as we all know you will. Stay safe, and be well.
42:05 "I guess what we have to do is draw Into the Story. That's how we win the game, right? We 16 them here and we draw Into the Story and we 12, and with our draw step, that's game." Playing Tutelage would give you a better chance of winning. They had 30 cards, so Tutelage means you immediately mill them for 6, and then another 6 on your draw step, so they're at 18. (You have two Cacophonys in hand, so after looting with Tutelage you're still guaranteed to have something to discard to Kroxa.) Into the Story would then mill for another 18, winning you the game. But unlike the line you took, this gets you one card deeper into your deck.
Hey CGB, great video as always! I'm just wondering when you'll do an update to your Narset deck from last format since you teased it last week and I'd be super excited to see an updated version of it.
Oh... this is good. This was so fun to watch once you actually got to go head-to-head with Omnath, and the fact that it was 80 Omnath made it so much sweeter! Since the season's ended, I took your deck and your recommendations about your original, Omnath-specific deck and just tore up the ranked ladder. So much fun! I lost to mono-red on a bad draw, but this baby tore through most other decks... Omnath, Adventures, Doom Fortold... decked them all. I know it may seem repetitive to some viewers, but you've got to do your original build on the ladder. It is hilarious content to watch peeps get so tilted. Put on your headband and evil glasses and give the peoples what they want... 60 minutes of decking Omnath, haha. Here's the build I used, and it was so much fun tonight: Merfolk Secretkeeper x4 Ruin Crabby x4 Unsummon x3 Confounding Conundrum x3 Folio of Fancies x1 Maddening Cacophony x4 Sweet Oblivion x3 Glasspool Mimic x2 Teferi's Tutelage x4 Didn't Say Please x4 Sleep x3 Into the Story x3 Overflowing Insight x1 Sea Gate Restoration x4 Castle Vantress x2 Islands x11 Fabled Passage x4 ...I was decking everyone all over the place on the ladder, haha. Thank you so much for such an evil, fun night!!!
I have seen very few conditions in which I rather have a vantress gargoyle or a nighthawk scavenger besides not having the double black or three mana. Even when monsters out grow my scavenger its a kill from block with lightgain.
When will there be another jank week? I’d like to vote for jolreal and the coatl that grows when you draw cards, mixed with sprite dragon and improbable alliance.
Dang CGB has figured out the true power of those new mythic modal lands! It enables you to rig yourself a match against omnath! That finally makes sense to me 🤔
Hey CGB is there any chance you can release the original deck? I kind of want to try a mono blue turbo mill type deck but I definitely dont wanna spend wildcards on it.
Honestly, I've got no problem with how the play queue matchmaking works. When I first started playing Arena, if I had to play my starter deck against meta decks every game, I wouldn't still be playing. It could probably use some refinement, but overall I like it.
But thats exactly the problem CGB had, those people with starter decks were having to fight a meta deck designed to beat the strongest deck in the format
It might be an ok thing if it would work. But f.e. it gives you more mirror matches and specific match ups. That's very bad if you want construct a deck and have fun/test it against the format. But it doesn't even work anyway so when I build an none meta fun deck it's either rogues or somewhat similar decks a lot of the time. Which is not fun either way.
@@Sey_Moore But what happens when you are playing a starter and want to start making tweaks? At what point does a starter deck stop being a starter deck?
@@patrickoconnell9387 It already sort of works like that tho, but its soft restricted. When playing starter ~70% of matches are against starter decks. Personally i came back to MTGA about 3-4 months ago. At first i was using starter decks exclusively, but when i started tweaking starter my opponent decks shot through the roof towards meta, so i just gave up playing anything but starter until i built my meta deck.
I do believe that Ruin Crab is actually better than Teferi's Tutelage. Which is crazy to say, because before ZNR I thought Teferi's Tutelage was already OP. Saying this because of my experience in playing a deck featuring Protean Thaumaturge, and even with that pro-enchantment card, the deck seemed to get better when I dropped Teferi's Tutelage for Call of the Deathdweller and Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a companion instead. Of course, that may be just because the meta I faced last night in Ranked Standard (gold) was 90% trying to mill me back and feeding my graveyard.
@@jamescollier9196 There was a game in which both players played the landfall mill crab (i believe it were 5 or 6 crabs between the two of them). His opponent mutated on two of their crabs, CGB stole both of them and proclaimed himself Crab Champion.
"If I'm going to play un-ranked I'm going to try to do something fun, I'm going to try to do something different" *Plays mono-blue tutelage mill deck* Mission failed.
I created a hybrid mill/rogue Dimir deck that got me to mythic pretty quickly. Basically using rogues to help mill while also pressuring life total enough you have a second win con if needed.
I wish people turn-one-scooped to me on the play queue. I always get the ones who "good game" me on turn three... and then turn four... and then turn five... Yah I'm not gonna scoop to your scute swarm honey, but it's so precious that you think so.
I honestly think they just need to exclude decks with the most popular cards in them, a running list from each set, and then just have the rest be a match free-for all. A "Fun list" free for all. Make it a separate format. Have a Ranked, Playtesting, and Fun Play queue where only Jank is allowed.
Be way better if Wizards including a play any tier deck option not have it auto match you up against somebody with the same power decks. That way people who play commons sand uncommons have a way to test agains Omnath and Ugin etc. just to see how viable budgets decks are.
how do u think i feel playing mono red goblins and never getting that third land, or simic ramp with only lands, or playing a combo deck and never drawing either of my combo cards? however seems like mono white aggro has a perfect hand every game without fail.
The sequence I love best that inevitably results in a scoop is turn 1 island > crab, turn 2 crab > island > crab, and then they just pack it up if they can't kill the crabs, which is good, because on turn 3 we're dropping a fabled passage.
Play the event, crush with Omnath, become a Pro! IMO, the better content would be you re-watching your event vid, stopping at points where you need time to explain or multiple lines you could take, and making content that way.
When you're rooting for mill you know the format is degenerate.
This is why I play commander :P
Lol true
As a degenerate Mill fan, I'm loving this shit.
Is there any reason to even consider milling as win con? Is there any fun in it?
@@AtrolinK the point is that the game is so un fun right now that mill is looking like a good option
Merchant: So here is a new cool Budget deck, only 2 Rares.
CGB: So here is a new cool Anti Budget Deck almost only Rares and Mythic.
"...it's not as good as the budget version, but we are going to do it anyway!"
Blame the algorithm
Cgb: "what's 6 x 4? 18?" #nailedit #banomnath
#banonmath
I was gonna comment this too. #banomnath
Math is for blockers.
#mathisforblockers
Lol, that pause after that fabled passage came up empty was epic
This is one thing I love to do as well. When something becomes so obnoxious it can no longer be ignored, you build a deck specifically against that one card combo or ability. Set aside all preconceptions and the voice in your head telling you it will never work. And when it does work it is glorious.
Bro thanks for shouting me out here! always great to see you in my chat! Great video!!
Happy to do it and thank you!
Mom: what are you doing in there?
Me: just watching some video of a guy who has crabs.
We're on the same wavelength because I just made a Mono Blue Mill deck and not only is it loads of fun, but it's great against 4-Color Omnath and even Mutate decks that make you search for mana. It's like - "yes, please, do my job for me lol!" After all this time, it's still great to see you working diligently, and dedicated to what you love to do, and it's heartwarming to see the level of care, attention to detail, and honestly love you put forth in the deckbuilding, streaming, editing, and just in general. Keep it up, as we all know you will. Stay safe, and be well.
"Whats 6x4, 18?"
Math is for blockers
42:05 "I guess what we have to do is draw Into the Story. That's how we win the game, right? We 16 them here and we draw Into the Story and we 12, and with our draw step, that's game."
Playing Tutelage would give you a better chance of winning. They had 30 cards, so Tutelage means you immediately mill them for 6, and then another 6 on your draw step, so they're at 18. (You have two Cacophonys in hand, so after looting with Tutelage you're still guaranteed to have something to discard to Kroxa.) Into the Story would then mill for another 18, winning you the game. But unlike the line you took, this gets you one card deeper into your deck.
Wish i could like this twice. As always love the content. This is my favorite type of deck, thank you for finally playing it
Glad you enjoyed it!
"What's 6x4 anyway? 18?" Mill doesn't need math. Math is for blockers.
Qwik Mafs
Hey CGB, great video as always! I'm just wondering when you'll do an update to your Narset deck from last format since you teased it last week and I'd be super excited to see an updated version of it.
I have no intention of making that rogue deck but I still took a screenshot for the pose.
Same! Haha
@@harriesimpel8406 I ended up crafting the deck. Copied it from the vid and never used the screenshot :(
Dude!!! The crab Battle was insane, almost die laughing about. 😹
Praise the Crab Lord!
* Solid Snake Voice * : CRAB...BATTLE!
we will all remember where we were when the great crab war of 2020 broke out
Only one can wear the crown of King Crab.
Oh... this is good. This was so fun to watch once you actually got to go head-to-head with Omnath, and the fact that it was 80 Omnath made it so much sweeter!
Since the season's ended, I took your deck and your recommendations about your original, Omnath-specific deck and just tore up the ranked ladder. So much fun! I lost to mono-red on a bad draw, but this baby tore through most other decks... Omnath, Adventures, Doom Fortold... decked them all.
I know it may seem repetitive to some viewers, but you've got to do your original build on the ladder. It is hilarious content to watch peeps get so tilted. Put on your headband and evil glasses and give the peoples what they want... 60 minutes of decking Omnath, haha.
Here's the build I used, and it was so much fun tonight:
Merfolk Secretkeeper x4
Ruin Crabby x4
Unsummon x3
Confounding Conundrum x3
Folio of Fancies x1
Maddening Cacophony x4
Sweet Oblivion x3
Glasspool Mimic x2
Teferi's Tutelage x4
Didn't Say Please x4
Sleep x3
Into the Story x3
Overflowing Insight x1
Sea Gate Restoration x4
Castle Vantress x2
Islands x11
Fabled Passage x4
...I was decking everyone all over the place on the ladder, haha. Thank you so much for such an evil, fun night!!!
Hahahahahahahaaaahaahaaha that last game was funny AF 💪💪💪 good job as always CGB.
You saved the best game for the very end. You know how to keep people thrilled. Well played.
if you wanted rares i would put teferi's ageless insight and jace before overflowing insight
I love the "combo" of those 2. Draw 4 cards a turn without losing loyalty
I have seen very few conditions in which I rather have a vantress gargoyle or a nighthawk scavenger
besides not having the double black or three mana. Even when monsters out grow my scavenger its a kill from block with lightgain.
Fun idea behind the deck!
You could have put in some pathway lands for even more rares, they dont come into play tapped.
When will there be another jank week? I’d like to vote for jolreal and the coatl that grows when you draw cards, mixed with sprite dragon and improbable alliance.
I am happily milling those damn Omnath decks ... With a Omnath crab mill deck.
Yeah, standard is a disaster.
This was fun. Stax Rocman made a really fun mill deck for historic. You should take a look.
Hi CGB!! Thank you for 1h of huge entertainment a day, best regards from Spain!!
My pleasure!
Great videos bro!
I usually mill Omnath using rogues
24:30 Epic Crab Battles of Historyyy
Dang CGB has figured out the true power of those new mythic modal lands! It enables you to rig yourself a match against omnath! That finally makes sense to me 🤔
I’ve been playing Thassa’s Oracle and keep winning vs Mill decks
I have yet to play in actual mill deck in ranked(rogues doesn't really count).
Honestly one of your most entertaining videos :D.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So the reasoning behind the fast plays in the first game with the starter deck is because that person just wants the daily gold asap for drafts
CGB is the champion of Crabfest 2020. Although, there are reports he won using stolen crab from his opponents.
How do you miss lethal with a mill deck? Love the content CGB.
Anyone with a clue what the threshold is for playing vs starter decks? I have 4 rares and im still fighting mythics and multiple rare cards
I hope you do play!! It would be great to see you there
Man. This mono blue deck is ROCKING my way to Mythic!!! :D ..........
This video has the most crab-on-crab violence I've ever seen.
CGB, please consider ALSO post the version of this deck that you think is BEST (without worrying about Rares & Mythics)
A Dimir control version of this with Peer into the abyss is a lot of fun imo
You could exchange 8 Islands with the blue Pathways and maybe sad robot for Overflowing Insight. Even Teferi could catch some damage for you.
I would kind of like to see the first version.
Last night I was legit thinking what would I love to see? Mono blue with a little bit of control and a lot of mill.
Can't tell you how many post I see a day in the Magic FB groups hating on mill and the people who play haha I love it
@covertgoblue would you consider doing historic ranked?
I only play in Play cue. it IS fun, because you CAN scoop if you get screwed by the shuffler, or opp is playing mono red etc etc and you don't GAF!!
Hey CGB is there any chance you can release the original deck? I kind of want to try a mono blue turbo mill type deck but I definitely dont wanna spend wildcards on it.
How deep is your mill?
Like the ocean?
How many crabs
You have?
how is overflowing insight legal?
rofl because it costs 7? gtfo.
Honestly, I've got no problem with how the play queue matchmaking works. When I first started playing Arena, if I had to play my starter deck against meta decks every game, I wouldn't still be playing. It could probably use some refinement, but overall I like it.
But thats exactly the problem CGB had, those people with starter decks were having to fight a meta deck designed to beat the strongest deck in the format
It might be an ok thing if it would work. But f.e. it gives you more mirror matches and specific match ups. That's very bad if you want construct a deck and have fun/test it against the format. But it doesn't even work anyway so when I build an none meta fun deck it's either rogues or somewhat similar decks a lot of the time. Which is not fun either way.
Match starter vs starter and custom vs custom. Problem solved. There plenty of people playing starter whatever the time anyway.
@@Sey_Moore But what happens when you are playing a starter and want to start making tweaks? At what point does a starter deck stop being a starter deck?
@@patrickoconnell9387 It already sort of works like that tho, but its soft restricted. When playing starter ~70% of matches are against starter decks. Personally i came back to MTGA about 3-4 months ago. At first i was using starter decks exclusively, but when i started tweaking starter my opponent decks shot through the roof towards meta, so i just gave up playing anything but starter until i built my meta deck.
The second channel needs a supercut of turn-0 scoops as a sort of channel trailer.
I want you to try an Anointed procession, mythos of Illuna embalm/eternalize deck with teferi in UW.
It's Homey's plan to bop the man. If you remember In Living Color. I think they need to come up with a Halloween candy called sallty rope.
What's up brotha, I have a mono blue mill no rogues deck, haven't put it to the test in ranked but people do scoop when I first turn crab.
You spoil us with your crabby decks, oh mighty Crab champion.
Wasn't digging till we got to that last match and it made it all worth it.
I do believe that Ruin Crab is actually better than Teferi's Tutelage. Which is crazy to say, because before ZNR I thought Teferi's Tutelage was already OP.
Saying this because of my experience in playing a deck featuring Protean Thaumaturge, and even with that pro-enchantment card, the deck seemed to get better when I dropped Teferi's Tutelage for Call of the Deathdweller and Lurrus of the Dream-Den as a companion instead. Of course, that may be just because the meta I faced last night in Ranked Standard (gold) was 90% trying to mill me back and feeding my graveyard.
is it possible to have the list with less rare? I really love mill
Already missing lethal on the first game: 6x4= 24 + 6 more for the turn, opponent had 27 cards left
I mean, I'm glad they try to do something for the players just picking up a prebuilt deck.
34:20 ....enough said... ok fine: “I give to you...crabs!”
'Who has crabs now!?' XD 23:13
And yet somehow whenever I starter deck normal queue for a quest I get vast majority meta opponents...
Why have 8 ruin crabs when you can have 12 with Protean Thaumaturge, plus he's a rare
Steps out of the mythic play queue and just rains salt on everyone
How is he playing Overflowing Insight?
You should totally play! Would love to watch you play competitively
First game already more fun than many I've seen in weeks 😄
But CGB, how can you be the Crab Champion if there is no Growth-Chamber Guardian?
Who was it that played crab tribal? CGB or someone else?
@@jamescollier9196 There was a game in which both players played the landfall mill crab (i believe it were 5 or 6 crabs between the two of them). His opponent mutated on two of their crabs, CGB stole both of them and proclaimed himself Crab Champion.
Played sea gate storm caller and doubled maddening cacophony ... 16 card mill!
CGB: What’s 6X4? 18?
Me: wait, what?
"If I'm going to play un-ranked I'm going to try to do something fun, I'm going to try to do something different"
*Plays mono-blue tutelage mill deck*
Mission failed.
He didn't say fun for you to view or fun for the opponent. Milling Omnath is always - Mission Accomplished.
@@davestier6247
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mill mono red and omnath cobra wizwards you have done great
I bet the opponent in the last match is saying, "3 crabs?? Shuffler's fine
Seriously... who plays either Rogues or Omnath in the play queue?
The ultimate crab game made me smile LOL that was great xD
Everyone: I've so tired of facing Omnath decks, wtf is wrong this matchmaker?!
CGB: Where did all the Omnaths go?
normal people: gonna build all commons deck to trick matchmaking
CGB: I only used rares and mythics so I could matchup with only omnath decks
If you do play in the tournament it would be good to see it.
I created a hybrid mill/rogue Dimir deck that got me to mythic pretty quickly. Basically using rogues to help mill while also pressuring life total enough you have a second win con if needed.
I wish people turn-one-scooped to me on the play queue. I always get the ones who "good game" me on turn three... and then turn four... and then turn five... Yah I'm not gonna scoop to your scute swarm honey, but it's so precious that you think so.
That Mutate Mill looked sweet
Loved the ultimate crab battle
the deck you played isnt the same deck you posted in your deck list or deck tech
I honestly think they just need to exclude decks with the most popular cards in them, a running list from each set, and then just have the rest be a match free-for all. A "Fun list" free for all. Make it a separate format. Have a Ranked, Playtesting, and Fun Play queue where only Jank is allowed.
I straight up died when he drew the 4th tutelage.
Be way better if Wizards including a play any tier deck option not have it auto match you up against somebody with the same power decks. That way people who play commons sand uncommons have a way to test agains Omnath and Ugin etc. just to see how viable budgets decks are.
One thing CGB and my girlfriend have in common is they gave me crabs
Yeah its rigged, funny how I ran scute swarm and ended up against mills , then swapped to mono green and went against rogues and sultai control.
how do u think i feel playing mono red goblins and never getting that third land, or simic ramp with only lands, or playing a combo deck and never drawing either of my combo cards? however seems like mono white aggro has a perfect hand every game without fail.
The sequence I love best that inevitably results in a scoop is turn 1 island > crab, turn 2 crab > island > crab, and then they just pack it up if they can't kill the crabs, which is good, because on turn 3 we're dropping a fabled passage.
Matchmaking is def rigged. Last night i tested it. No way its "coincidence" red aggro? Vs mono green. Combo deck? Uw control. Etc..
Duuuuuddde... I still think Ruin Crab just needs the right shell. Played some Sealed for fun recently and went 7-2, usually because of Ruin Crab.
9:57 @CGB what's 9 +10?
9:57 For the record, 6 times 4 is not 18.
No Sea Gate Stormcaller ?! With Maddening Cacophony its a MUST!
Play the event, crush with Omnath, become a Pro!
IMO, the better content would be you re-watching your event vid, stopping at points where you need time to explain or multiple lines you could take, and making content that way.
Please, give us the original deck list, the one without all the rares and mithicals.
I find rune crab way more tilting than omnath personally. Especially because it's uncommon. Way op for a one Mana uncommon I think
OMG working the match-maker for content...noice.
Playing a standrad event would solve this play queue problem but I bet you're saving that for a banned uro deck