I forgot to upload the intro - my fault - so here you go - "Hello and welcome back to another day in the Arena. It's me, it's CGB, and today in the Arena blah blah blah" Possibly for the best since this video was already a long one!
@@jonhill1679 yeah, his deck talk throughs are great, but he also talks through all the cards while he's playing and the entire deck is listed on aetherhub in the comments
It's black and green, it's absolutely mean, with rankle he delivers the spankle. It's our boi, the most dapper streamer on all of RUclips. He conquers our hearts and confuses us still, with no intro he is yet chill. Solid video as always mate!
Thats a really cool take on Golgari. Personally im playing a Deck with a lot of undergrowth creatures and a Cauldron of Eternity. A little antisynergetic at times since that shuffles creates into your deck after they die But theres nothing like pumping lothleth giants out turn after turn
41:50 I thought I was the only one, I feel that it's always rude to GG someone just after you pulled off a lethal on them.. of cource it was good for you! I prefer to GG only when I lose or in response to someone who lost and GG'd me
I made a deck that's simular to this, but it plays so awkwardly... Maybe I need to give up on trying to get Rotting Regi out on turn 2 and cut out the Golden Goose for maybe the Crab King and see how the deck plays out then.
@@robspear03 Depends. I was going to experiment with him as well as some other cards, including the Crab King when I get back on. I've tried Nullhide, but... I forgot you can't cast noncreature spells while he's out lol
Started playing this to grind my way back to mythic. So far so good, has a lot of options and hedge really gets you out of tight spots. I've had a few issues with opening hands, but I also told myself they were probably mulligans. I think the weakest card in the deck is guardian. Double green is hard to hit, but I like barkhide troll as the two drop. Order of midnight I think has some great upside as well.
This is great. Love this build CBG! I want to love rankle but I feel like it needs death touch or something? Oh btw I pulled a foil great henge at my pre release hehe 👍😎
this might be a stupid question but i can seem ti find out why so ill ask it anyway. how come you have so many options in your play meny. i cant find constructed event like the one you are playing in. :D is it because of ranking or is there something els. im in EU BTW.
The wingless Cat could be on purpose... I played against someone with a wingless Cat, but the deck had Chandra sleeves... That puzzled me - until I figured how to choose a non-fully grown Cat as my pet :) The BG deck is awesome though. A bit too many rares and mythics for me to build at the moment, but maybe later on :P I enjoy watching it nonetheless - and I might play it this weekend in the "Win every card"-tournament :)
This deck almost exclusively consists of rare and mythic cards. It has strong creatures, powerful removal and card draw. Is there a cheaper deck that can reliably beat it or are we doomed to have golgari meta for a while?
@@covertgoblue It's definitely about money, because if only a more expensive deck can reliably beat this one, than the aforementioned deck will define the meta. However, if it's countered by a cheaper deck, the meta will shift to reflect that. Btw, I played against adventure decks. They are good, but don't seem as strong and versatile as this Golgari one.
Yo, can you play Izzet Phoenix? I know that the "draw 2" izzet now is more relevant, but I went 11/1 with this cool decklist, which I made when thinking about how creature heavy this meta is gonna be //Main 4 Arclight Phoenix 1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft 4 Crackling Drake 2 Fabled Passage 4 Finale of Promise 1 Goblin Electromancer 6 Island 3 Lava Coil 3 Mission Briefing 7 Mountain 4 Opt 2 Pteramander 1 Quench 4 Shock 4 Steam Vents 2 Temple of Epiphany 2 The Royal Scions 4 Thrill of Possibility 2 Unsummon
This deck's nickname apparently is Golgari Midrhenge, which I find extremely cringeworthy, so thank you for not using that. Anyway, hear me out here: does a Henge deck like this really need to be Golgari? I played it for a while, then I got beaten twice by the monogreen version, switched to that, and it felt smoother, somehow more powerful? No taplands and shocklands, plenty of power for the Henge without Rotting Regisaur's awkward card disadvantage (Yorvo does pretty much the same job in the same spot, and you don't strictly need T4 Henge anyway), and Vivien to trample over those puny tokens, which also means no need to take to the air with more self-damaging black stuff. I know all the cool kids are playing this, and the reason, I think, is because Murderous Rider looks like the ultimate Spike card. But I dare to challenge that notion a bit, especially in non-strictly-control builds that want to play tempo. There are complex play patterns buried within, but the general idea is that spot removal in midrange is of two kinds: if you lean aggressive, then you get on the board and use removal to clear a path, but you don't want to do that through a 3-mana spell, it needs to be cheaper or you're losing tempo 1-to-1-ing targets that are cheaper than your removal; or you're leaning control, then you won't rush your removal, you'll wait and pick the best targets for it. As you noted, this deck definitely leans aggro with a card advantage engine attached. "But Kuma, what are you gonna do in your monogreen Henge deck when they drop a big bad thing on your face?". The answer is Voracious Hydra on one hand, but mostly Vivien once again (it might be worth remembering Vivien kills planeswalkers too). With Vivien, you kill stuff while also improving your board, so you're not losing tempo. "But Kuma, Murderous Rider is instant speed!". Yeah, but you're a tapdown deck, you never really exploit instant speed, so it's meaningless. "But Kuma, Murderous Rider gains you life!". That's a misconception. The amount of time, resource and opportunity between Rider's loss of life and its potential lifegain are such that it might be more correct to say it doesn't actually gain you any life, ever (of course it does sometimes, but it's more of an incidental, unreliable occurrence). And the built-in life loss is also ultimately not irrelevant in a few popular matchups, like Cavalcade. And let's be honest, the creature itself is nice and all, but a 2/3 for 3 is vastly less cost effective than anything else in the deck; if we run Murderous Rider, it's for the adventure, which is Hero's Downfall. And did we use to run 4x Hero's Downfall in every deck with a bit of black in it? We actually didn't. I'm not saying Murderous Rider is not a strong card, it's very very strong, but not auto-include as a 4-ofs in every list with black in it, I don't think. The one card from the Golgari version that I miss in the monogreen version is Knight of the Ebon Legion; Pelt Collector is an okay replacement, but very far from its power level. So if one argued, "You must play Golgari for Knight of the Ebon Legion alone", then I might ultimately agree; for the other black cards, not really (I like Rankle, but not all these lists even include Rankle; some include Pelt Collector to keep it very low to the ground).
I usually do the same as you did not saying good game on opponents loss...but heck that was a good game against that white green match up and if i was the opponent i would felt the same (even if it was a sour top deck) :)
I mispronounce things on purpose in front of my friend who hates it. His least favorite thing I mispronounce is "ravine" (I say RAH-vine) and "plymouth" (I say PLY-mouth).
This list is pretty solid, but it's definitely not the best golgari, not as good as the golgari mid-range I've been running that plays super friends. I'm surprised nobody has used it yet across the youtubes, even handily dispatches the "almighty" golos of the dead that everyone is QQ about. It's what I won my meta challenge with anyways. Everyone has their own playstyle though. I've recently been tuning it to sultai just for that added jab vs the wider spread of threats so unmoored ego and a counterspell option board gives a little more coverage. + Mu yanling and oko don't hurt lol
@@davidparuk4727 i don't care that he got a sponsor now- in fact i feel happy for him. But: Something changed imho. For me he used to be THE man in MTG. His Vids were perfect, tactical and got lots of great tipps. Now every new Video contains THE BEST DECK EVER IN MAGIC. At least that is what the title wants us to believe. That is what bothers me.
I find his videos to be the same.... that's my point. For me it's fine if the titles are clickbait if it brings in new viewers.... what's in the video is what I care about and I haven't seen any change there.
I would ignore this comment if I didn't care about my viewers - the channel is more popular than ever. Watch time is the best it has ever been. I put more work into showcasing good games than I used to (think about how many close games we have had lately, that isn't luck, it is work to play more and find good games). Is there any chance that this frustration is coming for a personal problem you have? Is there a reason you have to lash out in comments and put down what I am doing in front of others? I want to keep you as a viewer but this is the one warning you get, do not even think about bashing my sponsors or implying sponsors make this channel worse.
I forgot to upload the intro - my fault - so here you go - "Hello and welcome back to another day in the Arena. It's me, it's CGB, and today in the Arena blah blah blah" Possibly for the best since this video was already a long one!
Finally I'm at peace again
No way, the intro and deck tech is the best part of the video!
hah, oh good I thought I somehow started the video and blacked out for a few minutes when the next thing I know is you starting play.
The deck tech is pretty valuable for new players.
@@jonhill1679 yeah, his deck talk throughs are great, but he also talks through all the cards while he's playing and the entire deck is listed on aetherhub in the comments
Not saying your intro so people comment about it and your video rises in the ranks of the RUclips algorithm.
CGB is playing 4d chess
galaxy brain
My wife literally just asked from the kitchen "why didn't he do his intro?"
It's black and green, it's absolutely mean, with rankle he delivers the spankle. It's our boi, the most dapper streamer on all of RUclips. He conquers our hearts and confuses us still, with no intro he is yet chill. Solid video as always mate!
3 years later still an insanely awsome deck💯💯
I miss it, so I'll say it... Hello, its me, it's CGB
and welcome back to another day in the Arena
Add a couple manifold keys in your deck to play with great henge. Make regisaur unblockable or untap henge.
Manifold key is AWESOME 🔥
Dude thanks for playing this deck! It convinced me to craft it and I’m very happy with it :) GGs
Not having you do your intro throws me completely off when watching and hearing you in the background xD
OMG no "Hello, its me, its CGB!" intro. Who are you and where is CGB? O:
My favorite golgari strat is to spam one drop death touch to fuel undergrowth for stuff like molder hulk and stall for veraska win condition
Thats a really cool take on Golgari.
Personally im playing a Deck with a lot of undergrowth creatures and a Cauldron of Eternity.
A little antisynergetic at times since that shuffles creates into your deck after they die
But theres nothing like pumping lothleth giants out turn after turn
😂 dude. Your deck building skills are epic. People see me stealing these every night after work on Arena
Seven wins! I was already planning on playing this list during next week's event and this cements it further.
Can’t help but wonder if “better closer warmer” is a tenacious d reference
Damn you were sassy in this episode. Sassy CGB is the best CGB lmao
Thanks dude!
No intro. We want a refund.
here it is $0
@@covertgoblue Are you willing to refund the same amount to everyone who'll ask for it?
@@Kumagoro42 yes, but no comments for everyone
Wow, what a great henge!
41:50 I thought I was the only one, I feel that it's always rude to GG someone just after you pulled off a lethal on them.. of cource it was good for you! I prefer to GG only when I lose or in response to someone who lost and GG'd me
Hey, do you have a deck list?
4:10 I'm really sad you didn't just play the land, cast growth chamber, attack with rankle and sac growth chamber.
I made a deck that's simular to this, but it plays so awkwardly... Maybe I need to give up on trying to get Rotting Regi out on turn 2 and cut out the Golden Goose for maybe the Crab King and see how the deck plays out then.
Which one is crab king?
@@chadgwalva3144 The guardian
@@robspear03 Depends. I was going to experiment with him as well as some other cards, including the Crab King when I get back on. I've tried Nullhide, but... I forgot you can't cast noncreature spells while he's out lol
Started playing this to grind my way back to mythic. So far so good, has a lot of options and hedge really gets you out of tight spots. I've had a few issues with opening hands, but I also told myself they were probably mulligans. I think the weakest card in the deck is guardian. Double green is hard to hit, but I like barkhide troll as the two drop. Order of midnight I think has some great upside as well.
Grove chamber guardian is AWESOME
Nice list man! thanks for your work btw! and hello from France!
49:15 Drop the Land? i think is a mistake ... if you drop the Land .. and play it out you can Draw ? :D or play a Rider
I tried to click "keep" xD And sometimes I put the mouse pointer over a card wait for the closeup... Anybody else?
This is great. Love this build CBG! I want to love rankle but I feel like it needs death touch or something? Oh btw I pulled a foil great henge at my pre release hehe 👍😎
this might be a stupid question but i can seem ti find out why so ill ask it anyway. how come you have so many options in your play meny. i cant find constructed event like the one you are playing in. :D is it because of ranking or is there something els. im in EU BTW.
First opponent: "Nobody makes me bleed my own blood!"
So many games without being able to enjoy the henge got compensated with a last opponent who did not respect the henge and got destroyed by it :)
Yep 😂😂😂
How do u think this deck plays against golos field of dead decks?
I didnt know until this vid that rankle said choose up to 3. It kinda blew my mind
41 in: All Henges are at the bottom of the deck
You should put a copy of infinite impermanence in your deck to negate their effect.
My golgari deck got matched against this one today. Beat them with removal and garruk
Opponent: *plays cards*
Cgb: "try hard deck"
Triggered by the cat not getting its wings comment. Lmao
The wingless Cat could be on purpose... I played against someone with a wingless Cat, but the deck had Chandra sleeves... That puzzled me - until I figured how to choose a non-fully grown Cat as my pet :)
The BG deck is awesome though. A bit too many rares and mythics for me to build at the moment, but maybe later on :P I enjoy watching it nonetheless - and I might play it this weekend in the "Win every card"-tournament :)
Hey you !
You're CGB
I love you beyond theros
so much
This deck reminds me of when o first started playing and picking up all the green and black
Wish I had this deck in paper. Looks like just the fun I need.
For mere $300-400 you can have it.
This deck almost exclusively consists of rare and mythic cards. It has strong creatures, powerful removal and card draw.
Is there a cheaper deck that can reliably beat it or are we doomed to have golgari meta for a while?
its never just about money. Check out the adventure deck coming tomorrow/today
@@covertgoblue It's definitely about money, because if only a more expensive deck can reliably beat this one, than the aforementioned deck will define the meta.
However, if it's countered by a cheaper deck, the meta will shift to reflect that.
Btw, I played against adventure decks. They are good, but don't seem as strong and versatile as this Golgari one.
but it isn't just about the money
@@covertgoblue Yep, it's also about winning.
Rotting regisaur + henge is so broken
Yo, can you play Izzet Phoenix? I know that the "draw 2" izzet now is more relevant, but I went 11/1 with this cool decklist, which I made when thinking about how creature heavy this meta is gonna be
//Main
4 Arclight Phoenix
1 Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft
4 Crackling Drake
2 Fabled Passage
4 Finale of Promise
1 Goblin Electromancer
6 Island
3 Lava Coil
3 Mission Briefing
7 Mountain
4 Opt
2 Pteramander
1 Quench
4 Shock
4 Steam Vents
2 Temple of Epiphany
2 The Royal Scions
4 Thrill of Possibility
2 Unsummon
Hey can't wait to check it out!
Damn, good game with that red deck
This deck's nickname apparently is Golgari Midrhenge, which I find extremely cringeworthy, so thank you for not using that.
Anyway, hear me out here: does a Henge deck like this really need to be Golgari? I played it for a while, then I got beaten twice by the monogreen version, switched to that, and it felt smoother, somehow more powerful? No taplands and shocklands, plenty of power for the Henge without Rotting Regisaur's awkward card disadvantage (Yorvo does pretty much the same job in the same spot, and you don't strictly need T4 Henge anyway), and Vivien to trample over those puny tokens, which also means no need to take to the air with more self-damaging black stuff.
I know all the cool kids are playing this, and the reason, I think, is because Murderous Rider looks like the ultimate Spike card. But I dare to challenge that notion a bit, especially in non-strictly-control builds that want to play tempo. There are complex play patterns buried within, but the general idea is that spot removal in midrange is of two kinds: if you lean aggressive, then you get on the board and use removal to clear a path, but you don't want to do that through a 3-mana spell, it needs to be cheaper or you're losing tempo 1-to-1-ing targets that are cheaper than your removal; or you're leaning control, then you won't rush your removal, you'll wait and pick the best targets for it. As you noted, this deck definitely leans aggro with a card advantage engine attached.
"But Kuma, what are you gonna do in your monogreen Henge deck when they drop a big bad thing on your face?". The answer is Voracious Hydra on one hand, but mostly Vivien once again (it might be worth remembering Vivien kills planeswalkers too). With Vivien, you kill stuff while also improving your board, so you're not losing tempo.
"But Kuma, Murderous Rider is instant speed!". Yeah, but you're a tapdown deck, you never really exploit instant speed, so it's meaningless.
"But Kuma, Murderous Rider gains you life!". That's a misconception. The amount of time, resource and opportunity between Rider's loss of life and its potential lifegain are such that it might be more correct to say it doesn't actually gain you any life, ever (of course it does sometimes, but it's more of an incidental, unreliable occurrence). And the built-in life loss is also ultimately not irrelevant in a few popular matchups, like Cavalcade. And let's be honest, the creature itself is nice and all, but a 2/3 for 3 is vastly less cost effective than anything else in the deck; if we run Murderous Rider, it's for the adventure, which is Hero's Downfall. And did we use to run 4x Hero's Downfall in every deck with a bit of black in it? We actually didn't.
I'm not saying Murderous Rider is not a strong card, it's very very strong, but not auto-include as a 4-ofs in every list with black in it, I don't think.
The one card from the Golgari version that I miss in the monogreen version is Knight of the Ebon Legion; Pelt Collector is an okay replacement, but very far from its power level. So if one argued, "You must play Golgari for Knight of the Ebon Legion alone", then I might ultimately agree; for the other black cards, not really (I like Rankle, but not all these lists even include Rankle; some include Pelt Collector to keep it very low to the ground).
that cracked me at the stardt red players are like predators they smell fear
What is your ranking in the game?
changes every day. I finished the season around 200 Mythic
@@covertgoblue that's pretty good, you should think about starting a RUclips channel and share some of your replays.
... I have three lol
CRAB KING CRAB KING CRAB KING CRAB KING
I usually do the same as you did not saying good game on opponents loss...but heck that was a good game against that white green match up and if i was the opponent i would felt the same (even if it was a sour top deck) :)
You should have called the video Kielbasa Midrange
It's the temple of milady!
@CovertGoBlue not making fun of you! I actually thought it was funny, and you even rubbed it in during stream that it bled.
Flexin on those red mages
9 out of 10 games, red aggro.. every single day
Hello. It me! It's CGB! there... I said it. Do I gotta do everything around here? Lol
Now I’m wondering if saying “wrath of Gad” was more comment bait... Well it worked.
I mispronounce things on purpose in front of my friend who hates it. His least favorite thing I mispronounce is "ravine" (I say RAH-vine) and "plymouth" (I say PLY-mouth).
just for culture, "maladie" is the french for illness and it's pronounced "mahlahdee".
Not sure if the temple's name actually comes from here.
#SackTheEditorOhWait
Hello, who is this?
noiceeeee
hello my friend
This list is pretty solid, but it's definitely not the best golgari, not as good as the golgari mid-range I've been running that plays super friends. I'm surprised nobody has used it yet across the youtubes, even handily dispatches the "almighty" golos of the dead that everyone is QQ about.
It's what I won my meta challenge with anyways. Everyone has their own playstyle though. I've recently been tuning it to sultai just for that added jab vs the wider spread of threats so unmoored ego and a counterspell option board gives a little more coverage. + Mu yanling and oko don't hurt lol
Strongest is a reference to the size of the creatures
People who get triggered by misprenunciations trigger me
I can't believe you mispronounced maylayday
never not full control, cant trust the client
since you claim this is the strongest golgari, you have seen every single golgari?
Strongest is a reference to the size of the creatures
Your puns are pretty unhenged.
No Welcome? No Intro? 😥😥
Pleased by your mispronunciation, thx buddy.
FIRST... FINALLY
gj dude !
proud of you buddy
no one cares
@@RickStinkum I do. He's EPIC
like your vids, you're terrible at pronouncing things tho
Again- Clickbait Title...what happened to you??? Ever since you got sponsored.
Who cares? If it works great... more support for our boy?
@@davidparuk4727 i don't care that he got a sponsor now- in fact i feel happy for him. But: Something changed imho. For me he used to be THE man in MTG. His Vids were perfect, tactical and got lots of great tipps. Now every new Video contains THE BEST DECK EVER IN MAGIC. At least that is what the title wants us to believe. That is what bothers me.
I find his videos to be the same.... that's my point. For me it's fine if the titles are clickbait if it brings in new viewers.... what's in the video is what I care about and I haven't seen any change there.
I would ignore this comment if I didn't care about my viewers - the channel is more popular than ever. Watch time is the best it has ever been. I put more work into showcasing good games than I used to (think about how many close games we have had lately, that isn't luck, it is work to play more and find good games). Is there any chance that this frustration is coming for a personal problem you have? Is there a reason you have to lash out in comments and put down what I am doing in front of others? I want to keep you as a viewer but this is the one warning you get, do not even think about bashing my sponsors or implying sponsors make this channel worse.