@@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412 I get your being hyperbolic, but you are severely overblowing the consistency of the t2 win. I play the deck everyday and I can count the number of times I’ve had the t2 in my opener on 1 hand and even then it gets answered more times than not. I’d say 75% of the time it’s unsuccessful.
@mcmarkmarkson7115 actually, I can relate. I don't like playing red, but if I don't I have no chance. I have the feeling I'm seeing less red players and more black ones tho... but that may be just my experience since untapped says other things
+3/+0 for 1 with upside is just stupid. Especially with leyline. With slickshot and Leyline each Turn inside out deals +10 damage basically. 2 Inside outs +1 mana fling would do easy 42 dmg from empty board.
I was just about to write this same comment :D I remember the times after Thrones of Eldraine where people would doompost about how broken Standard had become, how powercreep had become insane. Yeah... I miss the days where Questing Beast was an absolutely insane card.
What makes this card busted imo is that unlike other leylines, having multiples copies of it in your opening hand is not that bad because the effects actually stack. Other leylines are mostly meh because copies on the battlefield after the first are pretty much dead cards in most situations, that was a nice drawback for being able to play them for free on turn 0.
Yup. This, in addition to copying for no additional cost (even leyline of lightning has you pay 1 to deal just 1 damage) Copying a pump spell for free is so far beyond that it's insane. I'd have less of a problem with leyline of resonance if it cost you actual mana to copy the spell.
@@profozpin227 Plus the copying doesn't just copy the pump. As we saw with Witch's Mark, it also gives insane card advantage for red. Play 1, discard 1, draw 2 is normally 'equal' with the upside that you're getting rid of what you don't want on top of the other effect. But play 1, discard 2, draw 4. That's 4 new cards, and two roles. I know in some colors this isn't out of the ordinary. But this is basically monored aggro with a slight green splash. It's supposed to die when it runs out of gas.
True but the real issue is that it multiplies the value of all other parts of the deck, the other 3 leylines are utility cards that enable minor functions that don't win the game outright. Tribal synergy, gy hate and cost modifiers are not even in the same universe as double every spell. The effect of that leyline is essentially 2R worth of value for free for every single spell because that's what is usually costs to duplicate a spell (or have that stapled to a planeswalker)
Hi CGB. Long-time mesa falcon here. I played you at 32:15. You didn't get to see the full deck, but it's domain, ramp into Atraxa (i was pretty mana screwed). And yes, I am always ready to face monored. I basically learned that from you early on. It was an honor and a priviledge to play against you (weird being the gandalf in our matchup but i get it). Hopefully next time I'm recording when our paths cross. Until then, you're cool..
I was a yugioh player for over a decade but got tired of the 1-2 turn wins. I moved to Magic recently and now it’s happening in standard. I can’t get a break lol
Links were a mistake but hey at least in mtg the turn two ends after 90 seconds and not 15 minutes of the same combo line into just draw the hand traps lmao.
@@EpicNicks i find that your opponent killing you on turn 3 in magic way worse because at least in yugioh your opponent can fuck up the combo and you can handtrap them to death, and you also need to have knowledge to know when and where to handtrap each deck, and you also sometimes get a grind game where there are decisions being made. In mtg you die in 2 seconds and there is barely anything you can do to ever interact with your opponent. you either also play mono red or you literally cannot physically interact with what ur opponent is doing turn 2
And here I thought Valgavoth was going to be a problem in Standard. A 9/9 lifelink card advantage engine may as well be blank cardboard when it takes four whole turns to appear
Yep I have actually lost games when I get a 9/9 Life Link down on turn4 against mono red and he pumps up a creature to over 10 with first strike... it's fine. Mtg is fine.
You are telling ME that getting 4 free mana value on turn 0 that doubles spell value in a format that is already very fast would be a little broken? Naaaaah couldn't be
@@pneuma08 I think its the best, its really nice that you need so little pay to win to compete Try the fish thing one mana and the leyline goes to your hand, easy Its so dominant, because its so easy to set up while soon people will find way more busted stuff
I think monored needs to be cheap and strong so new players can have some fun. My sisters kid started playing mtg and he has lots of fun with mono red his favorite. My logic is eventually he will get board with it when he know more about the game.
@@StaneMalovrh Mono red/Mono white has been staple aggro for a long time. The thing is that even with Embercleave MonoR hasn't been so fast and consistent at the same time. It's ok for simple aggro to be strong. It's good skill check for most non-aggro players. It's really bad when the simplest thing is strongest thing You can do. Currently You can die on the draw just by playing tapland. And especially gruul version doesn't have issues with turn 3 kill through interaction designed just to counter these kinds of decks
@@Dragon_Fyreyep, I've played lots of life gain bats which is quite good against mono red - I usually come up against turn 4 reanimate Valgavoth concede decks, very rarely mono red.
But everyone on the internet told me RDW is unplayable in Bo3 and that only Bo1 scrubs would think the red leyline is good. Are you saying the internet lied to me? Impossible!
I was trying this deck out. I don't have all the creatures but I had pulled a couple of the leyline so I tried it. I had two leylines out, and I won on turn 2 WITHOUT EVER DECLARING ATTACKERS. I played a scamp turn 1. Played turn inside out turn 2. It doubled with the Leyline. I flung it with callous sellsword. The guy had a blocker out. I didn't have trample, but you fling a power 10 scamp and it's game over. It is madness.
@@Renavatio2586 it was bad a few days ago but I didn’t even encounter 1 mono red today (about 15 games) I’m low rankings tho so I think they all just rose up out of my rank thankfully 😂
@@BeforeThisNovember Yes you can, that type of free value should never have been printed in the first place. They banned wilderness reclamation and fires of invention due the free value they generated being oppressive to all other decks.
@@davidsantiago7808 Only in unranked bo1. Ranked queues and bo3 queues do not have deck weighting. Hence why you see CGB going up against a variety of powerful decks.
@@nulshift CGB's editor cuts down long vods, there's no telling whether or not they're cherry picked or not so you can't use that as an example. As someone who personally plays mtga and has hit mythic several times and has been playing since the game came out in 2018, I can assure you that they use the same algorithm in unranked bo1 as they do in ranked bo1. Perhaps it's different for best of 3 but I doubt it, because Wotc is severely allergic to putting any money or resources into MTGA that isn't the bare minimum.
I literally quit playing standard and MTG altogether due to mono red, after years of playing everyday. I’m so disappointed with aggro. I’m waiting for bans or a large meta shift to get back into it.
Is there a deck that can keep up? I have seen some low cost removal. In my 30 years of Magic, this is almost as ridiculous as Lotus and a Mox on turn one.
@@Uphold-your-Rightsi would expect decks to be able to keep up, but sideboards will likely end up incredibly warped around this deck, and the matchup is guaranteed not to be fun. some slower decks might be a bit cooked.
I really do not know who had the idea that one drops get 2 drop stats and a mountain of text and abilities and that one drop pump spells get large buffs, drawing or board value. Remember when a 1/1 haste was a thing, now its a 1/2 prowess haste? Or when +3 was all you got for your pump spell, now it's a +3 manifest if it dies a 2/2? Then leyline, turning Might of the Meek into pay 1 draw two... Been KO'd by a mono red on turn 1.5. Played a tapped land gained a life and lost before un-tapping...
Think of their tbought process for.the Meathook ban. And now think of their thought process when they add make cards like this. Two completely different worlds.
Winning 1 tournament is irrelevant. You can find lone tournaments where Mesa Falcon was in the winning deck. Anyone actually playing Bo3 will tell you they rarely see it. Is way less prevalent than Azorious tempo, Dimir Midrange, and Domain Ramp, etc. Doubt Leyline red is even in the top10.
51:00 You didn't get the proliferate because the Scamp died in combat. Means you couldn't sacrifice it, so the "if you do" part of the trigger prevented the effect.
I definitely feel something needs to happen. Control isn't even a option anymore and most midrange strategies are to slow unless you have all the answers immediately.
@drummingtildeath I need to see your list. I keep trying different cards for b03 and always find something that just feels bad in at least a few matchups
@drummingtildeath I checked out that video. There's some things I like and some I don't. I think it's imperative to have 1 mana removal of some kind. The only problem is if you slant way too hard for aggro, you have a harder time against the other grind matchups. Times like this really make me miss march of otherworldly light 😢
When I was 10 my local game store had an alpha black lotus for 300$. I asked my father for it for Christmas. His exact words were “I will be dead and buried before I spend 300$ on cardboard”. I love to show my parents the price of that card every couple of years.
Today I had two games where I played one land and died before my second turn. I'm sure this happens to everyone. Imagine if chess had turn two kills you couldn't prevent. Would it even be remembered? No one wants to play a game where they literally do not take part in that game. I do not understand what Wizards are doing. There's nothing less fun than playing a game where you don't actually get to play. It was bad enough with mono red before
so u mean like faceing countersepeling blue decks this is teribal but so is that and u have just as mutch chans to do any ting but this ends by tur 3 insted of turn 20
I thought playing my silly raccoons deck against bats discarding my cards was bad, but at least I could beat those. RDW, auras, and reanimator just got absolutely insane cards this set. I wanna go back to bloomburrow.
> year 2025 - aggro can now win with 1 mana on turn 1 > year 2026 - aggro can now win with no lands > year 2035 - aggro can now win by having the right avatar > year 2042 - aggro can now win by just saying gg while shuffling deck
Winning one tournament is a far cry from the Bo1 experience of playing it every game. Bo3 you'll see it less than a fifth of the time. Both in paper and on arena.
imagine playing this format in paper. you collect the cards, sleeve them up, go to a location, interact with other human beings, sit down, shuffle your deck, and get to play 2 turns. Magic is dead.
The last time i played mtg was around kamigawa and i liked it a lot next to other tcgs at that time. I started with arena about a month ago to witness this format. I dont even know if i should go through the trouble of getting all the rares so i can play some decks that are competitive anymore. I guess for now it is farming the daily wins with the most unfun deck i ever played because i dont have all day to farming the wins with the mediocre control or rabbits aggro where i am missing between 12-20 rares (lands not included).
I honestly don't know what's worse, the fact than mono red kills you on turn 2-3 or the fact that if you're playing literally any different deck you'll immediately lose come turn 4 to a valgavoth
In just about every other format, when a deck becomes so strong and so prevalent that you either play that deck or you need to devote a big portion of your deck to combat it, there are bans. This is Affinity all over again.
I just talked about this in BO3 it’s even better because your opponent gets 21 chances to draw it instead of 7 (assuming it goes to game 3) the card is just busted doesn’t matter in BO1 or BO3
There's a branch of communism, "accelerationism", that states that capitalism will eventually tear itself apart by its contradictions and this process should quicken, so we can enjoy communism a little longer and the suffering under capitalism ends sooner. Looks like CGB agrees with this tactic! - He'll just play mono-red, promoting the deck until 90% of games contain a mono-red deck and WotC HAS to act and ban some key cards. Chapeau, Comrade Go Blue!
Imagine if there was ever a meta deck that was actually fun 😂 Unfortunately, fun is interactive games where both players decisions determine the winner. Meta frowns upon this as your opponent being able to interact, is a problem. You don’t want your opponent to be able to interact with you because then you might lose, so the most optimal decks cannot be interacted with particularly well. The end result is that we get the decks that we do in Arena where the opening draw, top-decking, $$$$, going first etc. are far more likely to determine the winner. You barely even have to pay attention. Mythic is a quantity of time invested in play rather than skill.
The issue with power creep is that sometimes you have to find out that the power has crept too far all at once very very quickly. The fact multiple formats are having controversial and emergency bans all within a few months certainly is concerning
I used to hate mono-red with a passion. But having tried the new leyline/inside out combo, I have to admit...it's actually pretty fulfilling to win on turn 2 in std.
On the match where you didn't get to Proliferate with the Cacapohony Scamp, you can only sacrifice a creature that's alive. It died from combat, even if it did damage the opponent.
I already said this card was such a pain in BO1 that it should be banned. I could never have thought it would be good enough in BO3 to win an event. Just wandering how those who said it was actually a bad inconscistent deck will argue their position now.
The sell sword version was inconsistent though, I played the RG w/ burn build in tabletop cause it was better, now w/ leyline, RG verge and no slickshot it got better and cheaper.
@@estelaguarda5423 Most of the thing I've red stated that leyline make the deck inconscistent and bad. It seems they were wrong. That's all i'm saying.
@@estelaguarda5423 Yeah honestly, the sellsword part of it was the inconsistent part. Sellsword sits in your hand and does nothing until you can win with it. Witch's mark and protection give you more consistency, and also double up from leylines as a benefit. Witch's mark doubling is a huge card advantage for a mono red deck.
A hand of four ducks would be pretty bad...there are no obvious ducks in MTG so far, but if you want to argue that something in MTG is a duck, I guess Yanling's Harbinger is probably your best bet? Four of those would probably not be a great hand. Closest relatives are The Goosemother and Swans of Bryn Argoll. I made the assumption that a duck would have the bird subtype and include blue in its color identity, so if there's a non-blue duck I could have missed it.
It's incredible to watch a man's will to live disappear in real time. Just remember the good times when mullstone was a legitimate wincon CGB, it will all be allright
"Wizards did it, they let Hearthstone be the best game. Yu-Gi-Oh! players are laughing at us" Me who plays all three - Laughs at myself with excellence
I tried this deck but it says that "Deck Contains Cards not in your collection" But I do own them and everything is crafted but won't let me play the deck. Please help
Monored might be the worst, kill you on Turn 2 ... but every deck in standard now is some insane slam the board with huge pumping creatures, kill you on Turn 3-4, or some unstoppable combo, like lose half your life just for attacking but then also lose the other half because of course you do..??? Or mill your entire deck in one turn BS..
Exaclty. Not only are we dealing with the BUSTED aggro decks that win on turn 2-3, but if you get a game going past turn 3, you are dealing with as you said unbeatable instawin combos, reanimate cards like atraxa or valgavoth that are instawins themselves, or you deal with losing to counterspell + sunfall + dopplegang spam. Its miserable.
Yeah standard is just... RDW kills you fast, reanimator just putting miserable cards on the field, counters scaling their creatures to +40/+40 w/ trample, and control decks wiping the board until they can win with a single fish
Standard is so fun right now! Sometimes I even get to play a 2nd land if I go first! 😊
Buy hundred collector boosters and we will fix everything I promise.
@@jarnopiispanen3483 that's why I go mono red as well. I just can't compete with pay to win otherwise
@@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412 I get your being hyperbolic, but you are severely overblowing the consistency of the t2 win. I play the deck everyday and I can count the number of times I’ve had the t2 in my opener on 1 hand and even then it gets answered more times than not. I’d say 75% of the time it’s unsuccessful.
@mcmarkmarkson7115 actually, I can relate. I don't like playing red, but if I don't I have no chance. I have the feeling I'm seeing less red players and more black ones tho... but that may be just my experience since untapped says other things
Skill issue obv. Just play an untapped swamp and have a Cut down in your opening hand.
Opponent at 2 life, 2 lands, with an empty board and CGB at 18 life: “I might lose” and ain’t that just the video summed up right there.
I mean he had a plotted slickshot. That is essentially on the board at that point. I agree it is absurd though
The fact you can even SAY that sentence and realistically have it happen in a standard format is freaking so beyond sad…
+3/+0 for 1 with upside is just stupid. Especially with leyline. With slickshot and Leyline each Turn inside out deals +10 damage basically. 2 Inside outs +1 mana fling would do easy 42 dmg from empty board.
I was just about to write this same comment :D
I remember the times after Thrones of Eldraine where people would doompost about how broken Standard had become, how powercreep had become insane.
Yeah... I miss the days where Questing Beast was an absolutely insane card.
What makes this card busted imo is that unlike other leylines, having multiples copies of it in your opening hand is not that bad because the effects actually stack. Other leylines are mostly meh because copies on the battlefield after the first are pretty much dead cards in most situations, that was a nice drawback for being able to play them for free on turn 0.
Yup. This, in addition to copying for no additional cost (even leyline of lightning has you pay 1 to deal just 1 damage) Copying a pump spell for free is so far beyond that it's insane. I'd have less of a problem with leyline of resonance if it cost you actual mana to copy the spell.
@@profozpin227 Plus the copying doesn't just copy the pump. As we saw with Witch's Mark, it also gives insane card advantage for red. Play 1, discard 1, draw 2 is normally 'equal' with the upside that you're getting rid of what you don't want on top of the other effect. But play 1, discard 2, draw 4. That's 4 new cards, and two roles. I know in some colors this isn't out of the ordinary. But this is basically monored aggro with a slight green splash. It's supposed to die when it runs out of gas.
True but the real issue is that it multiplies the value of all other parts of the deck, the other 3 leylines are utility cards that enable minor functions that don't win the game outright. Tribal synergy, gy hate and cost modifiers are not even in the same universe as double every spell.
The effect of that leyline is essentially 2R worth of value for free for every single spell because that's what is usually costs to duplicate a spell (or have that stapled to a planeswalker)
@@profozpin227it should of been pay 1 to copy the effect at bare minimum.
Not only did it win...It also took 2nd place in that tournament. 102 players.
It's fine.
What took first place? Why not complain about that? ^^
@@mcmarkmarkson7115learn to read, my guy, this deck won 1st AND 2nd place out of 102
@@mcmarkmarkson7115 The same deck took first and second...
@@Breeze.501st ah my bad
Tbf the second place deck is more focused on continued board presence... but it's still got a lot of the same cards, including 4 Leyline.
Hi CGB. Long-time mesa falcon here. I played you at 32:15. You didn't get to see the full deck, but it's domain, ramp into Atraxa (i was pretty mana screwed). And yes, I am always ready to face monored. I basically learned that from you early on. It was an honor and a priviledge to play against you (weird being the gandalf in our matchup but i get it). Hopefully next time I'm recording when our paths cross. Until then, you're cool..
I just want to say I love that you are separating the decks by putting the new cards to the left and everything else piled up to the right!
Let's get this comment noticed by CGB. I think that helps for organization, significantly.
I was a yugioh player for over a decade but got tired of the 1-2 turn wins. I moved to Magic recently and now it’s happening in standard. I can’t get a break lol
Links were a mistake but hey at least in mtg the turn two ends after 90 seconds and not 15 minutes of the same combo line into just draw the hand traps lmao.
It seems like it's your fault, you brought the curse with you
I feel you brother just started mtga with my mono green deck its just praying I can survive to t3
@@EpicNicks i find that your opponent killing you on turn 3 in magic way worse because at least in yugioh your opponent can fuck up the combo and you can handtrap them to death, and you also need to have knowledge to know when and where to handtrap each deck, and you also sometimes get a grind game where there are decisions being made. In mtg you die in 2 seconds and there is barely anything you can do to ever interact with your opponent. you either also play mono red or you literally cannot physically interact with what ur opponent is doing turn 2
Can you stop playing again then please?
And here I thought Valgavoth was going to be a problem in Standard. A 9/9 lifelink card advantage engine may as well be blank cardboard when it takes four whole turns to appear
TOO SLOW :)
Yep I have actually lost games when I get a 9/9 Life Link down on turn4 against mono red and he pumps up a creature to over 10 with first strike... it's fine. Mtg is fine.
It is fun though, been enjoying black/blue Valga and red/blue Rollercoaster
You are telling ME that getting 4 free mana value on turn 0 that doubles spell value in a format that is already very fast would be a little broken? Naaaaah couldn't be
Like its the only thing lol
The thing is it would probably have been fine if it wasn't buffing an already dominant archetype.
@@pneuma08 I think its the best, its really nice that you need so little pay to win to compete
Try the fish thing one mana and the leyline goes to your hand, easy
Its so dominant, because its so easy to set up while soon people will find way more busted stuff
I think monored needs to be cheap and strong so new players can have some fun. My sisters kid started playing mtg and he has lots of fun with mono red his favorite.
My logic is eventually he will get board with it when he know more about the game.
@@StaneMalovrh Mono red/Mono white has been staple aggro for a long time. The thing is that even with Embercleave MonoR hasn't been so fast and consistent at the same time. It's ok for simple aggro to be strong. It's good skill check for most non-aggro players. It's really bad when the simplest thing is strongest thing You can do. Currently You can die on the draw just by playing tapland. And especially gruul version doesn't have issues with turn 3 kill through interaction designed just to counter these kinds of decks
Poor CGB. At least watching his slow descent into madness is good content 😅
The most fun part of standard right now is when you find a deck that is not red in ladder, real challenge
I love when I have an opponent where they cast a spell and I do not already know every card in their deck 😅
Just do what I do. Build a deck with cheap removal, and you'll never see another red deck again
@@atlas4247 True. Targeting a deck is the best way for the algorithm to remove it as a potential opponent.
@@Dragon_Fyreyep, I've played lots of life gain bats which is quite good against mono red - I usually come up against turn 4 reanimate Valgavoth concede decks, very rarely mono red.
I played 18 games in standard just now...16 mono red , the other 2 were actually interesting and fun so 2/18 I enjoyed 😒😆
You were the chosen one! It was said that you would destroy the RED, not join them! Bring balance to the META.
But everyone on the internet told me RDW is unplayable in Bo3 and that only Bo1 scrubs would think the red leyline is good. Are you saying the internet lied to me? Impossible!
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Well to be fair, Burn Together is too risky in BO3, that's why the best BO3 agro deck is the Grul version. Its more resilient to removal.
@@jasonslade6259red with extra step is still red
Had an opponent start with 3 Leylines on the board, they put a scamp out turn 1 and then the scamp hit me for 40 (Includes sacrificing it) on turn 2.
That’s a one in a million game tho, can’t be mad at that.
The problem is, decks like this are consistently winning within a couple rounds.
@@BeforeThisNovemberAnd the sheer number of people playing right now makes it even worse.
I was trying this deck out.
I don't have all the creatures but I had pulled a couple of the leyline so I tried it.
I had two leylines out, and I won on turn 2 WITHOUT EVER DECLARING ATTACKERS. I played a scamp turn 1. Played turn inside out turn 2. It doubled with the Leyline. I flung it with callous sellsword. The guy had a blocker out. I didn't have trample, but you fling a power 10 scamp and it's game over.
It is madness.
@@Renavatio2586 it was bad a few days ago but I didn’t even encounter 1 mono red today (about 15 games)
I’m low rankings tho so I think they all just rose up out of my rank thankfully 😂
@@BeforeThisNovember Yes you can, that type of free value should never have been printed in the first place. They banned wilderness reclamation and fires of invention due the free value they generated being oppressive to all other decks.
CGB is truly on his villain arc.
Opponent"s Life Total: 2 CGB's Life Total: 18 ... "We're probably dead here"
Turn Inside Out is literally all the fifty million "not dead after all" but it's THREE TIMES AS EFFECTIVE like whaaaat were they thinking
They should just put mono red in its own queue
They already kind of do the matchmaking algorithm is favored towards mirror matches due to its coding.
@@davidsantiago7808 Only in unranked bo1. Ranked queues and bo3 queues do not have deck weighting. Hence why you see CGB going up against a variety of powerful decks.
@@nulshift CGB's editor cuts down long vods, there's no telling whether or not they're cherry picked or not so you can't use that as an example. As someone who personally plays mtga and has hit mythic several times and has been playing since the game came out in 2018, I can assure you that they use the same algorithm in unranked bo1 as they do in ranked bo1. Perhaps it's different for best of 3 but I doubt it, because Wotc is severely allergic to putting any money or resources into MTGA that isn't the bare minimum.
I’m definitely someone who is moving on from standard. I really enjoy the non-standard content.
Agreed
Slowly but surely we All are
Wait until you realise that all the other formats are just as stagnant or even more so.
I would too if my collection wasn't entirely standard based. Don't have any staples for historic or timeless, or any of the lands. Sucks.
@@tylerblalack6684 us and 80% of arena players!
Bad reason scamp proliferates - it was supposed to slot into One's limited, oil counters Rakdos deck
covertgoblue is my favourite red aggro streamer
Yu-Gi-Oh player's are laughing at us 😂 was the funniest thing ive heard today.
Honestly, it's True lul
I literally quit playing standard and MTG altogether due to mono red, after years of playing everyday. I’m so disappointed with aggro. I’m waiting for bans or a large meta shift to get back into it.
I can’t even remember the last time they actually banned anything in standard. Maybe during the Lord of the rings expansion if I recall.
@@NickTemperistic It was in may last year, they banned Fable of the Mirror-Breaker, Invoke Despair and Reckoner Bankbuster.
@@deimos8703 I don't know why they stopped though and only did it for that expansion
Is there a deck that can keep up? I have seen some low cost removal.
In my 30 years of Magic, this is almost as ridiculous as Lotus and a Mox on turn one.
@@Uphold-your-Rightsi would expect decks to be able to keep up, but sideboards will likely end up incredibly warped around this deck, and the matchup is guaranteed not to be fun. some slower decks might be a bit cooked.
I really do not know who had the idea that one drops get 2 drop stats and a mountain of text and abilities and that one drop pump spells get large buffs, drawing or board value. Remember when a 1/1 haste was a thing, now its a 1/2 prowess haste? Or when +3 was all you got for your pump spell, now it's a +3 manifest if it dies a 2/2? Then leyline, turning Might of the Meek into pay 1 draw two...
Been KO'd by a mono red on turn 1.5. Played a tapped land gained a life and lost before un-tapping...
Skill issue
Think of their tbought process for.the Meathook ban. And now think of their thought process when they add make cards like this. Two completely different worlds.
Usually watching Magic videos make me want to play the game more but for some reason this gave me the opposite of that.
Top-notch content. This is arguably the most watchable magic has ever been.
Uh-oh what will all the people who claim it's only a bo1 problem gonna say now?
Just play bo5 :')
@@its_trias Real MTG-Gamers play Bo7!
@@arokan327 next it's gonna be Bo25 like in Counter Strike
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Winning 1 tournament is irrelevant. You can find lone tournaments where Mesa Falcon was in the winning deck. Anyone actually playing Bo3 will tell you they rarely see it. Is way less prevalent than Azorious tempo, Dimir Midrange, and Domain Ramp, etc. Doubt Leyline red is even in the top10.
51:00 You didn't get the proliferate because the Scamp died in combat. Means you couldn't sacrifice it, so the "if you do" part of the trigger prevented the effect.
I definitely feel something needs to happen. Control isn't even a option anymore and most midrange strategies are to slow unless you have all the answers immediately.
What's great is when I play to counter this and matchmake only against control.
I won ten in a row on ladder with azorius control this week. Currently around 14-2.
@drummingtildeath I need to see your list. I keep trying different cards for b03 and always find something that just feels bad in at least a few matchups
@@cobblertcg it's Sloth's Azorius control from a few days ago, except I cut a couple of the impending mythic creatures and added a couple of smite
@drummingtildeath I checked out that video. There's some things I like and some I don't. I think it's imperative to have 1 mana removal of some kind. The only problem is if you slant way too hard for aggro, you have a harder time against the other grind matchups. Times like this really make me miss march of otherworldly light 😢
When I was 10 my local game store had an alpha black lotus for 300$. I asked my father for it for Christmas. His exact words were “I will be dead and buried before I spend 300$ on cardboard”. I love to show my parents the price of that card every couple of years.
50:52 Cacophony scamp received lethal damage and died before you could sacrifice it
Today I had two games where I played one land and died before my second turn. I'm sure this happens to everyone.
Imagine if chess had turn two kills you couldn't prevent. Would it even be remembered?
No one wants to play a game where they literally do not take part in that game.
I do not understand what Wizards are doing. There's nothing less fun than playing a game where you don't actually get to play. It was bad enough with mono red before
They are appealing to zoomers with no attention span
so u mean like faceing countersepeling blue decks this is teribal but so is that and u have just as mutch chans to do any ting but this ends by tur 3 insted of turn 20
@@stefanhansen8623 you write like a not smart person
@@stefanhansen8623 I think your comment gave me a stroke
@@honestabe411 Writes like a monored player
51:12 You didn't proliferate because you didn't sacrifice the Scamp. It traded with the 2/2.
Hearing CovertGoBLUE say "oh great, another blue deck" definitely solidifies his new villain arch.
I want to go back to simpler times when orzhov bats and simic frogs could have a nice friendly game against each other
I thought playing my silly raccoons deck against bats discarding my cards was bad, but at least I could beat those.
RDW, auras, and reanimator just got absolutely insane cards this set. I wanna go back to bloomburrow.
The war of the spark block was the most fun I have ever had playing standard aside from back when it was announced as type 2 in 97
Everyone knew Leyline is busted as soon as card was spoiled ,i said they need to preban it before release ... Its broken as hell
51:06 You only get the proliferate if you sacrifice. In your case Scamp died from combat damage, not sacrifice.
Game 2 was outrageous!!! I saw the win literal second you did with the double strike!!
No cell sword? No problem!!
I never thought I’d see the day that covert would go red mono red he joined the Darkside
Thanks, CGB now everyone is mono red in best of 3 as well.
I didn’t know you could play Magic in Black Ops 3
> year 2025 - aggro can now win with 1 mana on turn 1
> year 2026 - aggro can now win with no lands
> year 2035 - aggro can now win by having the right avatar
> year 2042 - aggro can now win by just saying gg while shuffling deck
I'm riding CGB's villain arc all the way
When i cant finish watching a CGB video i always leave it running on mute in the background, cause im ALWAYS staying till the end
covert go red is really enjoying his new decks!
Winning one tournament is a far cry from the Bo1 experience of playing it every game. Bo3 you'll see it less than a fifth of the time. Both in paper and on arena.
Ngl this meta kinda sucks as an aggro main bc if your not on mono red you get dunked on by the anti mono red decks harder than leyline does
You know a format is broken when it's either THE deck or anti-THE deck, and nothing else has a chance.
@@deerseed9503 One of the listed reasons they issue bans. This won't last long.
It's like CGB is possessed in this vid. He doesn't want to win but his body is winning for him haha
Picnic ruiner, my beloved.
Excellent, time to build a deck around it now or wait for the leyline ban or auto scoop to it everytime.
I’m glad you finally admit that best of one isn’t real magic
imagine playing this format in paper. you collect the cards, sleeve them up, go to a location, interact with other human beings, sit down, shuffle your deck, and get to play 2 turns. Magic is dead.
Well, you've just about convinced me to give up playing Monored: The Aggroing...
Overt Stop Red, really enjoying the content.
I'm conflicted about putting a like on this video. It's there for cgb, not for Mono-Red which will always be the enemy....
The last time i played mtg was around kamigawa and i liked it a lot next to other tcgs at that time. I started with arena about a month ago to witness this format. I dont even know if i should go through the trouble of getting all the rares so i can play some decks that are competitive anymore. I guess for now it is farming the daily wins with the most unfun deck i ever played because i dont have all day to farming the wins with the mediocre control or rabbits aggro where i am missing between 12-20 rares (lands not included).
I honestly don't know what's worse, the fact than mono red kills you on turn 2-3 or the fact that if you're playing literally any different deck you'll immediately lose come turn 4 to a valgavoth
In just about every other format, when a deck becomes so strong and so prevalent that you either play that deck or you need to devote a big portion of your deck to combat it, there are bans. This is Affinity all over again.
So glad to see him not play a toxic blue deck.
I just talked about this in BO3 it’s even better because your opponent gets 21 chances to draw it instead of 7 (assuming it goes to game 3) the card is just busted doesn’t matter in BO1 or BO3
I like standard content *and* the collab videos :)
There's a branch of communism, "accelerationism", that states that capitalism will eventually tear itself apart by its contradictions and this process should quicken, so we can enjoy communism a little longer and the suffering under capitalism ends sooner.
Looks like CGB agrees with this tactic! - He'll just play mono-red, promoting the deck until 90% of games contain a mono-red deck and WotC HAS to act and ban some key cards.
Chapeau, Comrade Go Blue!
And here I thought my reanimator deck was nuts. Red is out of control
Just like Richard Garfield intended! Peak MTG.
Imagine if there was ever a meta deck that was actually fun 😂
Unfortunately, fun is interactive games where both players decisions determine the winner. Meta frowns upon this as your opponent being able to interact, is a problem. You don’t want your opponent to be able to interact with you because then you might lose, so the most optimal decks cannot be interacted with particularly well. The end result is that we get the decks that we do in Arena where the opening draw, top-decking, $$$$, going first etc. are far more likely to determine the winner. You barely even have to pay attention. Mythic is a quantity of time invested in play rather than skill.
I think if I were a kid right now seeing the state of Standard, I wouldn't even start playing the game
Damn i hate that ive barely ran into it in Bo3 but i bet it will run rampant now
I remember when magic games lasted longer than two turns.
I keep coming back to CGB because it's fun to watch him progressively lose his mind.
We'll all huff the ban copium with you CGB
The issue with power creep is that sometimes you have to find out that the power has crept too far all at once very very quickly. The fact multiple formats are having controversial and emergency bans all within a few months certainly is concerning
thanks for the decklist
CGB on his way to finding the best mono red deck to hate lol
I used to hate mono-red with a passion. But having tried the new leyline/inside out combo, I have to admit...it's actually pretty fulfilling to win on turn 2 in std.
On the match where you didn't get to Proliferate with the Cacapohony Scamp, you can only sacrifice a creature that's alive. It died from combat, even if it did damage the opponent.
Ah that makes sense
I already said this card was such a pain in BO1 that it should be banned.
I could never have thought it would be good enough in BO3 to win an event.
Just wandering how those who said it was actually a bad inconscistent deck will argue their position now.
The sell sword version was inconsistent though, I played the RG w/ burn build in tabletop cause it was better, now w/ leyline, RG verge and no slickshot it got better and cheaper.
@@estelaguarda5423 Most of the thing I've red stated that leyline make the deck inconscistent and bad. It seems they were wrong. That's all i'm saying.
@@estelaguarda5423 Yeah honestly, the sellsword part of it was the inconsistent part. Sellsword sits in your hand and does nothing until you can win with it. Witch's mark and protection give you more consistency, and also double up from leylines as a benefit. Witch's mark doubling is a huge card advantage for a mono red deck.
A hand of four ducks would be pretty bad...there are no obvious ducks in MTG so far, but if you want to argue that something in MTG is a duck, I guess Yanling's Harbinger is probably your best bet? Four of those would probably not be a great hand. Closest relatives are The Goosemother and Swans of Bryn Argoll.
I made the assumption that a duck would have the bird subtype and include blue in its color identity, so if there's a non-blue duck I could have missed it.
“JuSt PlAy BeSt Of ThReE tHo!”
No one serious about magic plays bo1. It's for little kids bro. This guy proved it by making a bo3 into them playing bo1.. What a joke.
@@cyclonebee1939 the joke is that the deck wins best of three tourneys too
@@drocka36 yet doesn't show it. Cause the ones I saw that are doing well use a good about of green and don't use the ley
I think it would be entertaining to see a showdown of the various red decks from past standards. Which standard’s mono-red deck wins?
I guess this makes all the pre-leyline mono red players technically right in that Bloomburrow mono red wasn't that bad.
It was about time you played a deck that requires skill.
It's incredible to watch a man's will to live disappear in real time. Just remember the good times when mullstone was a legitimate wincon CGB, it will all be allright
"Wizards did it, they let Hearthstone be the best game. Yu-Gi-Oh! players are laughing at us"
Me who plays all three - Laughs at myself with excellence
You could play Rakdos for Deep Cavern Bat and Ashnod's Intervention
Along with Not Dead
Truthfully, I thought that Screaming nemesis was going to be a red staple. With all the life gain and all. Haven't seen it played once.
Yes this is exactly what wizards want. They said they have people test it so no way they didn't know this would be the outcome.
I tried this deck but it says that "Deck Contains Cards not in your collection" But I do own them and everything is crafted but won't let me play the deck. Please help
Monored might be the worst, kill you on Turn 2 ... but every deck in standard now is some insane slam the board with huge pumping creatures, kill you on Turn 3-4, or some unstoppable combo, like lose half your life just for attacking but then also lose the other half because of course you do..??? Or mill your entire deck in one turn BS..
Exaclty. Not only are we dealing with the BUSTED aggro decks that win on turn 2-3, but if you get a game going past turn 3, you are dealing with as you said unbeatable instawin combos, reanimate cards like atraxa or valgavoth that are instawins themselves, or you deal with losing to counterspell + sunfall + dopplegang spam. Its miserable.
@@WitnessedOne my big question is why is standard faster than modern? They used to do bans to keep modern from being a turn 4 format.
@@atk9989 Probably because modern has better answers to these threats.
Yeah standard is just... RDW kills you fast, reanimator just putting miserable cards on the field, counters scaling their creatures to +40/+40 w/ trample, and control decks wiping the board until they can win with a single fish
as both hearthstone and magic player I can attest this game is out of control in the most hearthstone of ways these days
Modern magic doesn't even feel like a card game anymore
15:30 bro actually just ripped ancestral recall off the top in red in standard
These aggro decks hurt my soul
Silencing everyone going "But red isn't that broken cause bo3!!!!"
The confidence to take a 1 land hand is absurd
Sorry son, I can't buy you yugioh cards but don't worry. We have Yu-Gi-Oh at home. Yu-Gi-Oh at home: watch this video
So you’re telling me to craft 4 before the ban without telling me to craft 4
Wizards didn't want Modern to be a turn 4 format but made Standard is a turn 2/3 format.
15:37 It’s so fucked up that mono-red gets to play Ancestral Recall now
The Scamp at 50:47 died to combat damage, thats why you didnt get to proliferate