Long time listener, first time caller. I just want to say that you've always been my favorite "villain" of MTG streamers. Your sardonic wit is undeniable. I come here for the earnest feels (esp. against mono-red), and the calculated, well-explained play-by-plays. Thank you for your contribution to the community!
Hey give him a break little Timmy was playing on his tablet and his mom kept poking her head in his room to make sure he was doing his homework so he had to keep hiding it under his widddle pillow-wiwwo.
I actually felt his pain. Arena constantly crashes when I make the mistake of playing on my phone. Sure this is what was happening. That being said he was playing mono red so still happy to see him lose.
This is literally every game for me now. Opponent goes Off to the Races, I barely survive with single digit HP to turn 4, manage to stabilize, run him out of cards, think okay now I can rebuild.. And they just top deck gas for five turns in a row while I top deck literally 5 lands. 🎉
At 16:02 they could have used Gix's Command to put the +1/+1 on your Slasher and use the 4th mode to force you to sacrifice it - it won't come back because Slasher doesn't care about what type of counter it has when it dies. If they did this before combat they could freely attack (at least with Preacher, although trading Tinybones for the Bat is probably good enough).
43:05 Fun fact: Manifest Dredge + blinking works with every kind of permanent, not just creatures. This includes One with Multiverse... and Omniscience ;)
I've been rocking a deck like this for a week or so. It's the only one I've had consistent success with(38-23 with it as of this video). You have some cards in here I hadn't thought to use. Excited to try them out!
Well it's old yugioh. Current yugioh is basically solitaire now. If you don't have hand disruption in your starting hand, you've basically already lost.
@@itsyaboiherman I really liked pokemon tcg back in the day. People would just spam EX mons and I loved running anti-meta with suicune and others with abilities where they didn't take damage from EX mons. Then they came out hex maniac which nullified abilities and GX mons and it just wasn't fun anymore. Everyone just spammed EX/GX cards. Haven't played since.
I run a Dimir version of the combo. I use mocking jay to copy Slasher. The bird counter spell and bounce cards to get through. Sometimes I don’t even have the combo and if slasher sticks folks scoop.
Yeah I've been playing a midrange version of this deck. The absolute best feeling is when you're close to death, your opponent needs 1 half ok draw and you're done, and they just accept the combo death. Lots of people just don't seem to understand it, despite it being pretty simple
This deck (I’ve been playing it since day 1) has brought me back to MtG. Debating getting it in paper. Also 6:30 you had to have known they had flash on that spell bro lmao. They were getting stopped by the client on their turn multiple times with that card in hand
Awesome content CGB! And your match comment make it more entertaining! Just one small question, i see the deck is a bit different than the deck list linked (i.e. there is no Preacher or Go For The Troath in the decklist published), would be possible have the new list or see a gameplay with the list linked? It looks an interesting list. Thanks for your contents!!!
the first deck i made this set is similar to this, using the unholy annex, bloodletter, slasher, cant believe it slipped under the radar still havent seen anyone playing it, now seen some creators playing with it, one of my favourite cards from the set, i feel its better than phyrexian arena
bailed on slasher, but annex and bloodletter have felt good black feeding on red leyline and auras may have possibly influenced my standard ladder experience
I personally didn't have much luck with this deck but I've been experimenting with Meathook Massacre II in another, similar, deck and I think that might be an underrated card from this set. I don't even use it for the XX component, I just use it to make a player have to pay 3 life for give me their creature. It's pretty powerful.
The Manifest Dread deck in the last game is scary to go up against. Had an opponent who had two face down cards. I destroyed one which turned out to be a land. The other they used Splash Portal to cheat in a Portal to Phyrexia 😅
Consider using “the end” I’ve had people just concede after using it. Just exile a piece of their combo wombo’s. It gets cheaper too if red has a good start.
Haven't played Magic in a long time. Is that first opponent's deck like the new version of UW Heroic? Edit: Lilianna of the Veil in Standard also makes me feel like I'm on crazy pills. I really have been away a while.
Hey CGB, loved the video! I know you hate domain, but there is a new build that has the new overlords (green and white) that is way more fun to play with DU Zur, turning them into creatures way early with a bunch of keyword and making aggro players miserable. I hope you can give it a try!
Hey, I wonder if you've noticed, that green has a common room, that's turns every land into land of any colour. Wonder how you'd built a deck around that.
I don't think the Lilianas are flavor in this deck, they're stay-alive cards like the rest. Sticking around after the removal to draw attacks is more important than her +1 utility.
I feel that in the match that ended at 21:38 if you played the slayer instead of Liliana you would have won that one. They would have had to block with the bat or lose 1/2 their life and you could have played either Lily or Alcy on the following turn when you attacked. Forcing them to block and when they would have been able to drop something you could lily them and hit them for the ko.
If I play this deck... I never see graveyard synergy... If I play graveyard synergy I run into this deck. If I do run into graveyard synergy.. . I don't have leyline in starting hand.
Game 1 really exemplifies my idea of the perfect game of magic. Both CGB and his opponent got to do their thing, both had just enough interaction to take care of problem pieces without it being a case of oops all removal feels bad, both were within grasp of victory, and at the end of the day it was a top deck sprint to the finish that enabled the win.
Cgb can you make another video on the blue white control with temp lock down I wanna spend money 2 craft the deck but I wanna see more of a guide to it before I buy it
I'we been playing with Bloodletters and Rush of Dread Deck ... It's really fun.. I haven't updated it for Duskmourn yet... Has 4 Bloodletters and 4 Rushes and then some tutoring to make the combo more consistent - a Lively Dirge also (kind f tutors a Bloodletter) and 1 drops and sacrifice things (Greedy Freeboter, Ashnod, Braids, Tarrions Journal..) for drawing all the needed lands also and stalling the opponent just a bit.. Definitely going to put Slashers in it and perhaps a Grievous Wound.. Dunno if I'll end up cutting a Rush of Dread or two.. This one has way more removal than mine... Dunno if I wan't t g that route.. I'll definitely not use 4 leylines - I hate the whole concept and I don't see hawing more than one of the black ones to do much.
But yes - that is perhaps my most played standard deck - tho I'm not sure it count' as ne deck as it has been updated a bit.. So I guess it's "enjoyable".. You never really need to scoop as there's a change to come back from 1 - 20 life totals..
I honestly don’t mind mono-red, but slow mono-red players? F them man. They trash. Same way I don’t mind blue control as long they play fast. People who take 2 mins per turn drive me nuts
People who play BO3, does the existence of Leyline of the Void just invalidate reanimator decks? I don't play that format, but it seems like such a powerful card to keep in the sideboard to just wreck a whole a deck.
The guy who roped himself must be playing on his phone. Arena constantly crashes and takes forever to load back on the phone. Had this happen too many times myself...
Anyone else here thoroughly enjoy mono colored decks far more than two colored decks, and way, WAY more than three colored decks? They just feel so much more like how magic was meant to be played to me. Mono red excluded.
“Unstoppable” I take it for a spin, then proceed to have 5 games in a row against BW enchantments, get spanked. What am I to do with the game I love and invested so much time/money into. 🤷🏻♂️
I don't want to play Bo3: I generally build decks that run off artifacts/enchantments/value. I haven't played Arena in over a week, and thats unlikely to change. In addition to RDW dominating Bo1, the shuffler insists on manascrew 20-25% of the time. And that's not even including opponent getting manascewed. Play 3 or 4 magic games just to play 1 fun game? I am sick and tired of losing because I played a tapland on turn 1 or 2. I am sick and tired of going 5-0 monday, 0-5 tuesday, 5-0 wednesday, 0-5 thursday like clockwork. I am sick and tired of having to play a bunch of lousy magic games where someone is manascrewed half the time, or they draw all 4 wraths against control, or crap like that, just to get to play that one game that's actually fun for both players. I am sick and tired of thinking my new deck is good because it was a monday, or thinking its bad because its tuesday.(forced winrates shuffler) But most of all, I am sick and tired of the color breaks watering down strategy. Wizards can go **** themselves. It's time to go back to cockatrice, or whatever other platform is out there to play more eternal formats, where I don't need to be frustrated for 2 hours for a wildcard. Are you going to fix your shuffler Wizards? Or do I need to start playing ramp/mill/shuffle decks on tuesdays and thursdays?
i made this deck a while ago before duckmourn came out with bloodletter and rush of dread. now that duskmourn is out, i can combo it with rush of dread, grevious wound, unstopabble slasher, and sometimes, caustic bronco. its fun
I'm very familiar with that deck. It was what everyone wanting to counter mono Red ran. When they saw me running Green/White, they were not having a good time overall. Certainly helped me get to Mythic amidst those two types being the dominant ones.
I’ve played Magic for about a year and with how many times I’ve heard “I basically timewalked them” or “you just timewalked yourself” I’m convinced Magic players don’t know what time walk does
@@honestabe411 but it gets around blockers. I played this exact list cutting two leyline for two rushes and I have had success and the games where rush has won was a game that the board was clogged.
@@nikolaj5461 oh wait leylines are in there to exile the red creatures. So you’d be giving up some consistency there. I’d rather have a better chance against red than run rush of dread
Long time listener, first time caller. I just want to say that you've always been my favorite "villain" of MTG streamers. Your sardonic wit is undeniable. I come here for the earnest feels (esp. against mono-red), and the calculated, well-explained play-by-plays. Thank you for your contribution to the community!
Fastest deck, slowest players, gotta love it
It's more fun to drive a slow car fast.
It's deliberate to try to get a cheap win when people run out of patience.
Me the mono ref player : trash this is so slow lol
haven't watched the vid yet
will assume it's mono red staring down an untapped swamp
If they're losing, sure. But azorius is clearly the slowest lol
Let’s give maxtc06 a round of applause for single-handedly carrying this video’s runtime 👏
Hey give him a break little Timmy was playing on his tablet and his mom kept poking her head in his room to make sure he was doing his homework so he had to keep hiding it under his widddle pillow-wiwwo.
I actually felt his pain. Arena constantly crashes when I make the mistake of playing on my phone. Sure this is what was happening. That being said he was playing mono red so still happy to see him lose.
That first games redeems CGB from missing lethal that time with the Djinn & 3 Steaps ahead
Much like that Three Steps Ahead he didn't want to COPY his mistake.
This is literally every game for me now. Opponent goes Off to the Races, I barely survive with single digit HP to turn 4, manage to stabilize, run him out of cards, think okay now I can rebuild.. And they just top deck gas for five turns in a row while I top deck literally 5 lands. 🎉
At 16:02 they could have used Gix's Command to put the +1/+1 on your Slasher and use the 4th mode to force you to sacrifice it - it won't come back because Slasher doesn't care about what type of counter it has when it dies. If they did this before combat they could freely attack (at least with Preacher, although trading Tinybones for the Bat is probably good enough).
43:05 Fun fact: Manifest Dredge + blinking works with every kind of permanent, not just creatures. This includes One with Multiverse... and Omniscience ;)
Seems like CGB was sleeping under a rock these days... I have managed to do a 2 turn combo with this in standard already.
@@correnegadagaming8417 splash portal?
Whats the combo?
@@cclear6819 I uploaded a video about it. You can have a dread permanent by turn 2, then use splash portal on it.
@@cclear6819 If you blink any manifested permanent, it comes back face up.
It's the Sash-Ringing, Flash-Singing, the Bash-Pinging... The Hash Slinging Slasher!
I've been rocking a deck like this for a week or so. It's the only one I've had consistent success with(38-23 with it as of this video). You have some cards in here I hadn't thought to use. Excited to try them out!
What decklist do you use? Would love to see an alterbative vision, been meaning to try it
Escape Tunnel is pretty nasty with this list, I run 2x
@@Bukkitall Ooh, I was thinking more of removal, but that is nasty too
>spends his whole first match whining about opponent topdecks
>topdecks himself into victory and is ecstatic over it
Honey if he isn't whining then it isn't the cool club kids.
I was really rooting for the opponent hard that game.
Me too. I tend to usually root for his opponents. @@darron614
"15 cards in your deck can be cool and the rest have to keep you from dying"
Oh, MTG is Yu-Gi-Oh now. That's Yu-Gi-Oh.
Well it's old yugioh. Current yugioh is basically solitaire now. If you don't have hand disruption in your starting hand, you've basically already lost.
@BlackWinds true, that's why I'm going back to magic and learning pokemon 😂😂
@@itsyaboiherman I really liked pokemon tcg back in the day. People would just spam EX mons and I loved running anti-meta with suicune and others with abilities where they didn't take damage from EX mons. Then they came out hex maniac which nullified abilities and GX mons and it just wasn't fun anymore. Everyone just spammed EX/GX cards. Haven't played since.
I run a Dimir version of the combo. I use mocking jay to copy Slasher. The bird counter spell and bounce cards to get through. Sometimes I don’t even have the combo and if slasher sticks folks scoop.
Do you use the 1 blue instant that says target creature can't be blocked this turn? Seems decent with slasher
Yeah I've been playing a midrange version of this deck. The absolute best feeling is when you're close to death, your opponent needs 1 half ok draw and you're done, and they just accept the combo death. Lots of people just don't seem to understand it, despite it being pretty simple
"All your life, rounded up"
35:53 "I love this gay man!"
Hmm. Honey, it is I love this 'Game' man. But I do love this gay man though!
😂
whats not to love?
@@benanderson944 Thanks for clearing that up, Ben! Can't believe I got it wrong in my 100% serious comment.
@@perlundgren7797I know right us "gays" need to stick together.
It’d be hilarious if they brought gary back to standard so mono black devotion could be it’s full beautiful self
This deck (I’ve been playing it since day 1) has brought me back to MtG. Debating getting it in paper. Also 6:30 you had to have known they had flash on that spell bro lmao. They were getting stopped by the client on their turn multiple times with that card in hand
Should this deck run escape tunnel? Or would it make playing Bloodletter less consistent?
if the meta is slow enough to support a tap land
meta feels... fast
Awesome content CGB! And your match comment make it more entertaining! Just one small question, i see the deck is a bit different than the deck list linked (i.e. there is no Preacher or Go For The Troath in the decklist published), would be possible have the new list or see a gameplay with the list linked? It looks an interesting list. Thanks for your contents!!!
Unholy anex is like almost phyrexian arena. Its so good
the first deck i made this set is similar to this, using the unholy annex, bloodletter, slasher, cant believe it slipped under the radar still havent seen anyone playing it, now seen some creators playing with it, one of my favourite cards from the set, i feel its better than phyrexian arena
bailed on slasher, but annex and bloodletter have felt good
black feeding on red leyline and auras may have possibly influenced my standard ladder experience
@@evilotto9200 yeah there is a deck to be made there with annex and bloodletter for sure, ill be tweaking it for a while
I really like the 15 random cards idea! Sounds fun or at least funny. I hope it works out!
5:25 : me when I have to play against mono red
Love mono black, can’t wait to try this deck.
The formula u mentioned at the end sounds pretty fun
I personally didn't have much luck with this deck but I've been experimenting with Meathook Massacre II in another, similar, deck and I think that might be an underrated card from this set. I don't even use it for the XX component, I just use it to make a player have to pay 3 life for give me their creature. It's pretty powerful.
The Manifest Dread deck in the last game is scary to go up against. Had an opponent who had two face down cards. I destroyed one which turned out to be a land. The other they used Splash Portal to cheat in a Portal to Phyrexia 😅
“Valgavoth can live in the void” NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
I've been watching for the past week, and it seems like mono red isn't that bad. 😂
Consider using “the end” I’ve had people just concede after using it. Just exile a piece of their combo wombo’s. It gets cheaper too if red has a good start.
I’ve been playing this deck for a few days. It’s fun!
Would be cool to see you trying the deck that Ares had at the end, blue-green
Now I want a playset of Slasher altered to have Eddie Murphy in his red jumpsuit shouting "I want half!"
That Maxtc06 is a streamer too. What the hell man lmao.
Bruh literally anyone can be a streamer rn
Bo1 is a very different format but i cant help but think back to hogaak summer.
If leyline of the void is playable main deck somethings wrong
I like the 15 card flex deck inside the Anti-Red Shell idea. Maybe a Mindskinner deck?
Haven't played Magic in a long time. Is that first opponent's deck like the new version of UW Heroic?
Edit: Lilianna of the Veil in Standard also makes me feel like I'm on crazy pills. I really have been away a while.
Hey CGB, loved the video! I know you hate domain, but there is a new build that has the new overlords (green and white) that is way more fun to play with DU Zur, turning them into creatures way early with a bunch of keyword and making aggro players miserable. I hope you can give it a try!
Tbh CGB should have crosswords to solve or something while waiting for roping red players
CGB looks like the art on Nowhere to Run when he's realizing the red-deck-wins metagame of this format
Would this be good for a beginner? I like the creepy factor of black and would like to find a solid deck to start with
Hey, I wonder if you've noticed, that green has a common room, that's turns every land into land of any colour. Wonder how you'd built a deck around that.
bloodletter + greivous wound + gingerbrute is a pretty funny combo tho :P
I never thought I would miss Rogues, but here we are.
Hell ya Leyline of the Void - brings me back…
The only thing I hate more than blue/white control is mono black.
I think we know maxtc06 irl 😂😂😂
I don't think the Lilianas are flavor in this deck, they're stay-alive cards like the rest. Sticking around after the removal to draw attacks is more important than her +1 utility.
Nowhere to hide art looks so much like CGB during the first game !
Holy smokes, that first game =)
I feel that in the match that ended at 21:38 if you played the slayer instead of Liliana you would have won that one. They would have had to block with the bat or lose 1/2 their life and you could have played either Lily or Alcy on the following turn when you attacked. Forcing them to block and when they would have been able to drop something you could lily them and hit them for the ko.
Damn there are some real best of one noises in this video
A gift after the end of live commander? Love to see it!
eraser head cgb is really telling of how this meta feels to play against
If I play this deck... I never see graveyard synergy... If I play graveyard synergy I run into this deck. If I do run into graveyard synergy.. . I don't have leyline in starting hand.
That's because the shuffler and matchmaking are so "random."
Do you think Escape Tunnel is worth trying?
They need to Reprint fatal push into standard asap.
So, either die on turn 3 from mono-red, with a hope of winning if you're running heal, or die turn 4 due to monoblack otk. Neat
Game 1 really exemplifies my idea of the perfect game of magic. Both CGB and his opponent got to do their thing, both had just enough interaction to take care of problem pieces without it being a case of oops all removal feels bad, both were within grasp of victory, and at the end of the day it was a top deck sprint to the finish that enabled the win.
Cgb can you make another video on the blue white control with temp lock down I wanna spend money 2 craft the deck but I wanna see more of a guide to it before I buy it
@10:13 In the business we call that... We take those lol
I'we been playing with Bloodletters and Rush of Dread Deck ... It's really fun.. I haven't updated it for Duskmourn yet... Has 4 Bloodletters and 4 Rushes and then some tutoring to make the combo more consistent - a Lively Dirge also (kind f tutors a Bloodletter) and 1 drops and sacrifice things (Greedy Freeboter, Ashnod, Braids, Tarrions Journal..) for drawing all the needed lands also and stalling the opponent just a bit.. Definitely going to put Slashers in it and perhaps a Grievous Wound.. Dunno if I'll end up cutting a Rush of Dread or two..
This one has way more removal than mine... Dunno if I wan't t g that route.. I'll definitely not use 4 leylines - I hate the whole concept and I don't see hawing more than one of the black ones to do much.
But yes - that is perhaps my most played standard deck - tho I'm not sure it count' as ne deck as it has been updated a bit.. So I guess it's "enjoyable".. You never really need to scoop as there's a change to come back from 1 - 20 life totals..
I honestly don’t mind mono-red, but slow mono-red players? F them man. They trash.
Same way I don’t mind blue control as long they play fast. People who take 2 mins per turn drive me nuts
Instructions unclear. Started playing mono red
People who play BO3, does the existence of Leyline of the Void just invalidate reanimator decks? I don't play that format, but it seems like such a powerful card to keep in the sideboard to just wreck a whole a deck.
Sideboard enchantment removal
For even smoother plays why not put in Demonic Counsel to help find Bloodletter?
The guy who roped himself must be playing on his phone. Arena constantly crashes and takes forever to load back on the phone. Had this happen too many times myself...
Black midrange is so fun to play
this combo with rush of dread!!
Why not include 1 or 2 copies of Rush of Dread for the extra pressure
5 drop sorcery that's dead unless you have a 4 drop creature alive on board. I've played it on release and with slasher and it just feels bad.
@@txflood2519 It doesn't otk, but it still makes every hit huge. I can't say for sure if it would be an improvement, but it's not dead.
Imagine playing leyline and Valgabroth Lair and casting Beseech for the other half of the slasher combo...
Are we just going to ignore that the art of Nowhere to Run is just CGB playing against Mono Red???
To be honest i love dunking on slow mono red players with Boros forge
“Enjoy standard” does not compute in my brain.
Anyone else here thoroughly enjoy mono colored decks far more than two colored decks, and way, WAY more than three colored decks? They just feel so much more like how magic was meant to be played to me.
Mono red excluded.
I thought this would finally be bo3 based on the title
“Unstoppable” I take it for a spin, then proceed to have 5 games in a row against BW enchantments, get spanked. What am I to do with the game I love and invested so much time/money into. 🤷🏻♂️
First time?
I don't want to play Bo3: I generally build decks that run off artifacts/enchantments/value. I haven't played Arena in over a week, and thats unlikely to change. In addition to RDW dominating Bo1, the shuffler insists on manascrew 20-25% of the time. And that's not even including opponent getting manascewed. Play 3 or 4 magic games just to play 1 fun game?
I am sick and tired of losing because I played a tapland on turn 1 or 2.
I am sick and tired of going 5-0 monday, 0-5 tuesday, 5-0 wednesday, 0-5 thursday like clockwork.
I am sick and tired of having to play a bunch of lousy magic games where someone is manascrewed half the time, or they draw all 4 wraths against control, or crap like that, just to get to play that one game that's actually fun for both players.
I am sick and tired of thinking my new deck is good because it was a monday, or thinking its bad because its tuesday.(forced winrates shuffler)
But most of all, I am sick and tired of the color breaks watering down strategy.
Wizards can go **** themselves. It's time to go back to cockatrice, or whatever other platform is out there to play more eternal formats, where I don't need to be frustrated for 2 hours for a wildcard.
Are you going to fix your shuffler Wizards? Or do I need to start playing ramp/mill/shuffle decks on tuesdays and thursdays?
Has cgb talked about going to Vegas or not?
Ropping to the max.
leyline of resonance not withstanding, black is the strongest color rn if you ask me
i made this deck a while ago before duckmourn came out with bloodletter and rush of dread. now that duskmourn is out, i can combo it with rush of dread, grevious wound, unstopabble slasher, and sometimes, caustic bronco. its fun
I'm very familiar with that deck. It was what everyone wanting to counter mono Red ran. When they saw me running Green/White, they were not having a good time overall. Certainly helped me get to Mythic amidst those two types being the dominant ones.
play orzhov 4 bats and 4 sheltering ghosts + some reanimators to be extra annoying?
Why put Virtue of Persistence in a deck that wants to put everything into exile with the Leyline?
leyline only exiles oppos card not our own
I am so freaking bad, lmao. Even with the best decks, I’m still losing most of my games 😂
Oppinion: walk the plank and Fell should trade mana costs
Longest game of monored in history
I’ve played Magic for about a year and with how many times I’ve heard “I basically timewalked them” or “you just timewalked yourself” I’m convinced Magic players don’t know what time walk does
It’s a joke bro chill
The dude on Nowhere to Run looks so much like CGB it's creepy
I feel like max was just hoping to get his ladder points by boring his opponents into concession.
How to enjoy standard: Watch other people play
Why is it no longer good to use Go for the throat?
leyline of the void mess up with your own slasher also.
I don't have all of the cards in full, but half of my opponents give up soon enough anyway.
CGB is for the children!
5:25 sounding like a Bloodborne character lol
why do these decks not run Rush of Dread as well to increase the chances of the combo?
It costs too much to cast
@@honestabe411 but it gets around blockers. I played this exact list cutting two leyline for two rushes and I have had success and the games where rush has won was a game that the board was clogged.
@@nikolaj5461 fair enough I think 4 leylines is overkill, unless you really want to beat reanimator
@@nikolaj5461 oh wait leylines are in there to exile the red creatures. So you’d be giving up some consistency there. I’d rather have a better chance against red than run rush of dread
How to enjoy standard: always be on the play.
great g fuel bit
Wtb an update on the Temur dopplegang deck