Swayze's version of this deck ran Invasion of Tolvada, which I think improves the reliability. Firstly it means you have 8 cards to go off instead of 4. Secondly Squirm can chain into Invasion if your graveyard isn't descended enough.

Another nice add to the top end is hullbreaker horror, lets you use all those low cost spells as double removal for wierd enchantments/artifacts/tokens/planeswalkers. The black and blue invasion is decent in this deck too. Helps give you some alternate lines if you cant fins your emergence

Been playing a variation of the squirmergence deck and its exactly like that. When it works it feels like such an op powerplay, then again there are plenty of instances where you don't have the pieces in place or you are just a turn too slow for this meta

I really, really enjoy milling this deck out with Jace.

47:36 Instead of the shield counter, you should have destroyed one of the mites with his destroy artifact mode. Would have kept you in at 8 poison counters.

I had heard of pay to win magic, but this is the first time seeing the pay to lose side of things 💸

I've missed the outro talking about the deck. Welcome back, CGB!

Glad to have ya back!

Hey CGB, saw the constant land troubles you were having and thought I would just make one card recommendation that I think will help with the strat your going for. Blancheood prowler can take up the 2 mana slot for the one mill wizard, and allow you to both mill and hit your land drops, as well as counting as a permanent one it’s killed for a jump block. You already have a decent amount of ways to cast your squirm from graveyard/get it back from graveyard, you hitting land drops seems to be a struggle though. Just wanted to throw the suggestion out there

In the audio settings of the game, you can enable background audio, so when you click away it keeps playing. I had the same issue yesterday. Thanks for all of the great videos!

One important thing you need to know about One with the Multiverse, is that you can cast spells from the top not only for 0, but by paying their mana cost, so you could get rid of cheap stuff searching for the big hitters.

I love Squirming Emergence. My video that goes live tomorrow pulled off a turn 3 on the play Ghalta into Titan and Etali, but the opponent scooped before seeing the Titan and Etali. It's a lot of fun.

At 17:35 you could have discarded a squirming emergence so you could have gotten it back with founding the third path. You could have also cast your other bitter triumph during your upkeep to discard the atraxa if one didn't get milled.

Been waiting for this one! I just got back into MTG after quitting after Return to Ravnica I think. It's funny, the deck I played reminds me so much of this. Had Grizly salvage and mulch and I don't even remember what reanimated the stuff but you used Grizelbrand usually or the big green 13/13 guy.

Was in Iceland and Norway in June this year. Beautiful places.

ive seen some crazy decks with the new set in between the constant mono red. spelunking with triomes also seemed like a crazy idea to get your mana to work

CGB, I cannot believe you sang the Shakira World Cup song. I do that at the very least once a month. That was awesome.

I played three squirming versions, and had the exact same experience with all of them. If you like combo decks in the play queue it is worth the crafting cost.

I hope your trip went well :D

Ive played this deck alot, it's tons of fun. The thing is, you NEED the currate because that let's you bin stuff but also make sure you hit your lands, because the odds of milling 2 or 3 lands and drawing the 7 mana bombs are too high if your not stacking the odds in your favor

7, nice to see you back :)

Thanks for playing this deck... I feel like when I play against it.. it's so dominant.

Played against this deck while running Jace control. I have never played an easier game of magic

I've been tuning a bo1 jund anvil deck and it lost pretty much every time to squirming emergence decks. Then I went up to 4 riveteers charm(the card is at least good in every matchup) which basically says target squirming emergence player loses the game and now the deck beats squirming emergence most of the time. Soul cauldron is kinda the same deal but riveteers charm is better in more other matchups and also shuts down souls of the lost which these squirming emergence decks also usually play. Also kinda off topic jund anvil has been consistently climbing mythic for me currently peaking at ~40 mythic. The deck is super underrated and I'm surprised I've seen literally no one else play it. Tldr: Riveteers charm totally shuts down this whole deck and you can mainboard 4 of them in bo1 and feel good aobut cause it ranges from good to great in every matchup.

Toxarill and terror tide are needed for decks like this!

seeing you mill all your lands made me laugh out loud.

I think explore would be a good mechanic to add to this deck since getting lands sometimes is pretty hard.

Played against this deck yesterday. And it was the easiest game while being fascinating to observe. And Jace just laughs at it.

I've been using a much more aggressive self mill golgari deck with an Olivia and Ghalta / Etali / Ojer as top end revives to maximize damage and amount of cheated creatures and I'm at 58% winrate after 56 matches. Olivia lowers the needed amount of descended permanents to 6 which allows for some crazy T4 plays if everything's going your way.

“Sa mena mena heyyy hey, waka waka hey hey.” CGB 2023

I'm going to try this deck with a blossoming tortoise or two to combat the land issue.

Hello, welcome back

14:19 I've never seen a more obvious pre-sunfall block in my life! They still stopped 4 damage but left one more of your creatures out to beef up the token :)

Judging from the gameplay shown, the weakness in this deck is simply the lack of land recursion if you're too much milling lands and not reanimation target. By that time, you'll have high probability of "drawing reanimation traget such as Atraxa, etc, while having too few lands to cast it normally from your hand" situation. Life from the Loam will work wonders in this deck. Sadly it isn't available.

I feel like a slogurk could do well in this deck, with the amount of lands you were binning.

I was playing bant beanstalk control against this earlier and the only reason I lost was because arena decided I needed a 14th (useless) land insead of a march of other worldly light or boseiju. Opponent had 3 cards had left in library.

I have been doing 4xgaze, 4x founding, 4x prankster and 4x squirming as well... but then I also do 4x ancient one and 4x rigging.

Nice.

I think we need a meme channel called "CovertGoRed" where it's just you playing Mono Red seeing how high you can make it up the ladder

In the last one you should've destroy mite by titan's ability. Shield doesn't do much in that kind of situation

Questions are back on the menu!!

That last game you could have probably pulled it off by using titan artifact blowup on a mite instead of shield counter

Have you tried a Lilliana as your planeswalker? She helps curb early aggro or helps pitch your big cards

Try this, my first adjustment to your fine deck and VERY entertaining video. Appreciate you. It doesn't focus on picking from what you mill, so it lacks that weakness, and it magnifies adventures and two cost milling etc.. Try it. Deck 2 Confounding Riddle (LCI) 50 2 Field of Ruin (MID) 262 2 Dreamroot Cascade (VOW) 262 1 Mirrex (ONE) 254 4 Island (WOE) 263 2 Shipwreck Marsh (MID) 267 2 Deathcap Glade (VOW) 261 2 Colossal Skyturtle (NEO) 216 6 Swamp (WOE) 264 1 Boseiju, Who Endures (NEO) 266 2 Herd Migration (DMU) 165 4 Bitter Triumph (LCI) 91 4 Cruel Somnophage (WOE) 222 2 Liliana of the Veil (DMU) 97 2 Edgewall Inn (WOE) 255 1 The Celestus (MID) 252 4 Founding the Third Path (DMU) 50 2 Atraxa, Grand Unifier (ONE) 196 2 Virtue of Persistence (WOE) 115 2 Portal to Phyrexia (BRO) 240 4 Squirming Emergence (LCI) 241 3 Titan of Industry (SNC) 159 2 Darkslick Shores (ONE) 250 2 Forest (WOE) 266

My squirming emergence deck is 4 color . Blk,blu,green, and wht , so I have more than one card bringing stuff back. So on a perfect hand a turn 3 can be ugly for opponents.

Splash more self mill with Dimir to run it more like how Storm Herald decks run

Thought i was almost free to ask questions

Mulch seems like it could help

This deck gives me hell unless I’m playing mill or Giga Chad Control

Founding works with adventures because it asks for an instant or sorcery spell. Would it say instant or sorcery card it wouldn't work.

are adventure cards also the identity as the adventure is? i thought it was only the creature identity... this changes everything

i feel like this version of the deck isnt nearly greedy enough xD

Hmmm maybe a 1 of or 2 of slogurk might be nice

47:37 that was a throw, the play was portal to third path to portal again

Tough day at the office 😅

Anthony Bourdain went to Iceland and had some aweful food and about froze to death. Hope you had a better time than he did. Did you try the fermented shark?

To be fair I think you were milling slightly to early before hitting your lands so instead tossed em all in the pile and ended up drawing more mill

Why no invasion of fiora I feel like a reanimstable board wipes would be good here.

I heard you are in a trip to the Tibet looking for ancient knowledge to counter monored

Last game you should have portaled and bitter triumphed

Play the turtle to get lands out of the graveyard

no sound in back ground is a setting in MTGA.

Random question for anyone here. I am returning to MtG and I have the new Jace, for the life of me I am finding putting together a mill deck for standard almost impossible. How viable is mill these days?

It just feel like whenever you play these type of deck, your hand often bad...

Looks same like LegenND deck build

This deck is infuriating to play for no other reason than Arena’s algorithms.

i just played against this deck in gold ranked and they had the same issue of getting nothing

Seems to me that some decks just make the shuffler crazy. If you do rhe maths, the deck is legit but when you run it, the shuffler punishes you. There are far too many times you see 5 lands piles in your Atraxa choices or in your milling piles.

Are we allowed to ask questions ?

Wouldn’t somnophage work better than prankster?

But wait, what about my questions?

I tried this strategy several times. And never worked. And everytime I face this deck, I lose. Arena at its finnest...

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Day 6 of asking for Zurgo Helmsmasher Historic Brawl when Khans drops

29:16 Even if you topdecked the réanimation spell, Dennick would have stopped you… Feels bad, man Edit: Why did I write “reanimation” in French?

48:48 "Must be nice to have what you need". Didn't you "need" to grab Portal to Phyrexia killing 3 mites, instead of Titan blocking 2 mites?

How do people afford the mythics to build decks like these?

came for the CGB whine-fest was not disappointed

Having played quite a lot of this; this is just about the worst form of the Squirm deck (albeit one you'll often see on ladder). The single, MOST important card in the entire deck is Founding the third path. It's not even close. It's "free", it mills you, and because of how squirm works, it might as well be Squirm 5-8. The third best card (after 3rd path and Squirm) is Invasion of Tolvada... which somehow isn't even in the deck. Archaeologist? Terrible card because it doesn't work with 3rd path. Bristleback? WORSE card. Taking 2 mana to cycle is a death sentence and your 7 drops need to either (nearly) win the game on the spot or be something that 3rd path can cast on 2. Bitter Triumph? Playable card... barely. Certainly not a 4 of. ~90% of the time you'd rather have drawn VoP. Even Vinewall is probably better, and that's not a constructed card. Tri-lands? Very suboptimal. The better tap lands are fetches, the best tap lands are the ones you find a way to cut.

Day 32 of asking CGB to play The Locust god

I think LVD's version is better.

3rd comment!

you smell like cheese

Not gonna lie CGB. This deck seemed to suck. Still watch you every day.

I know it's mostly a joke, but mono red has really just ruined standard as a format. It's so boring to play against and it's everywhere.

could play better.. but yeah, kinda lottery deck

I've played this deck, and for me it was garbage. You fall against so many things (graveyard hate, most aggro, mill decks, bad luck drawing). It wasn't fun as a combo deck so as you say, if you don't have the cards don't craft it. I had like a 1W 5L, not fun, and the loses weren't even remotely winnable.

Sry CGB but this deck is the most overrated crap I've ever played. I'm 0 and 9 with it.

You'd see less mono red aggro if you didn't self-impose the restriction on yourself that you're the best of one niche guy... which isn't a thing... but then you'd have to give up playing "gotcha" decks.

The racism is strong in these comments. Just like Jesus wanted, right pubs?

not one to shit talk one of my favorite content creators but the meowing is kinda cringe