"I will hold your hand while you mill them out" - CGB on first date probably ❤

Watching control mirrors is like watching a jujitsu match

"There's no honest Magic in this meta!" - CGB with a handful of No More Lies

Whoever gave me this membership thanks!

Appreciate the time you took to cover the tournament I know it was a marathon. ❤

idk why but watching mono red aggro players just crumble and desperately look for that last bit of damage to finish but just cant is satisfying

Three Steps Ahead just makes me miss Sublime Epiphany in standard, though I know Three Steps Ahead is more flexible. I just really love Sublime Epiphany 😂

WU control did amazing! Yuta Takahashi took it all the way to the finals... Aaaand got rolled by pretty much the same domain deck that has been plaguing standard since ONE got printed a year and a half ago 😞

Half of this deck rotates out soon so make sure to spend those wild cards wisely lol

Great video, great list!

I love how you answer some random comments. Please keep that in future videos. It's a great pace breaker.

I’ve been playing azorious control since I started playing arena. A little piece of tech that I’ve recently added that helps me pull infront of either the mirror or against atraxa is a little sorcery called Jetsam. It’s six mana (2 dimir pips and 4 colorless) and here’s what it says “target opponent mills 3 cards, you may play target non land permanent from opponents graveyard without paying its mana cost”. That means I can cast either their Jace (if it’s a mirror) or the opponents big bad. Everytime I resolve that spell, I’ve won that interaction.

Aha I knew the ideal control deck would have 4 copies of Three Steps Ahead! I feel so validated!

56:25 I already did both years ago! Stop yelling at me! *sobs*

Why was no one exited about Three Steps Ahead? I was immediately thinking WTF, but it wasn't paid much attention at all. Every card reviewer was going over the commander cards with walls of texts that they really need to stop putting in standard.

that final game was hilarious i suck at playing control but its still pretty cool to watch it happen well

The amount of rigging that goes on in this game is kinda funny, starting with the Shuffler and finishing with "you gonna play mirror because it's annoying"

Best hour of my day today. Thanks.

I would think Get Lost should replace Destroy Evil. It’s way more versatile, and you can often remove the opponents map tokens with Temporary Lockdown. Also as an alternative win-condition,I’d try Hullbreaker.

That first game was great to watch.

Just about closed the video but paused to hit like at the end. Nice guilt trip, Mr CGB. Well played

3 steps ahead is just cakes on the brain at home

CGB in control. Nice!

Nassif is still playing magic!!! Wow

I always figured I could never play control, but watching you is encouraging me to try to git gud. Obviously, I'm not nearly in your league, let alone top 8 national player league, but it's fun to try to get there some day. ;)

very cool deck Mesa Falcon Guy 👍

Can 3 steps ahead copy a powered up Anchorage and gain you a land?

High Noon is better in bo1 than lockdown imo, add in a couple Crystal Grotto/ Celestus and it can even be a wincon. High Noon turn 2, then if u can land Stoic Sphinx later with counter magic in hand the game is pretty much yours

Great Video

When you use all three modes of Three Steps Ahead, it's a 3 for 1. Very flavorful.

Is it me or does the thunder junction music in arena sound like the terran music from StarCraft?

You do you, Play While and Blue!

How final showdown works vs prowess? Does it reset the stats boost or just remove the ability and they keep the new stats if they activate on response?

Will you be playing the 2nd place Azorious deck, later?

I will say that I prefer your other Azorious from the last week or so with the Sphinx in it. It honestly feels like it also has better matchups against some of the decks that can play the long game as well which is nice.

I support you CGB, control is my favourite archetype. I haven't played arena in years, played a few sets after it came out, should really get back into it! Discovered you through rarran :)

I know we are all here for the same reason but I just want to keep saying I love control and even control vs control. Match 1 was amazing. Master of the Minds.

Really like the "responding to top comment" bit, that's a fun new twist :)

3:53 - Huh, I didn't know that "wrestling" meant "staring" in Michigan.

36:50 there is the convoke instant that deals 4 dmg I've seen it on the ladder

Man, I'd love to play this deck but don't want to spend my precious Wildcards on Wandering Emporer and Deluge if they rotate with the next set anyways :(

25:05 / 57:24 I thought the video was already over with that transition 💀

Wasn't there a Hullbreaker Horror in the side board?

You made a video not too long ago, explaining how Wandering Emp is kinda overrated and how you had better results running 1 copy. What are your thougts on why it's shifted back to being good in outlaws? Great content as always! :D

Wait, do I have to press like to deserve a "you're ccol"?! Deal! Worth it!

this is not a man who brings wincons

I would've put that Mono red player on full control and cast every counter on the play with fire

hell yeah another video to watch soon CGB. here's your comment for the moneysss

The enemy probably didnt have a jace. You were just paranoid perhaps haha

Whirlwind slamming keep on 3 lands with 4 4 mana spells is some degenerate shit

5:24 how many counters you got? A lot. - 21 CGB

CGB had a handful of NOPE in that first game…

This standard is cracked, but i need more snorse combo in my life.

It has to be the most boring and least fun archetype to play against is Azorius or Dimir wrath-control.

Watching the final again, I think Yuta could have won both game 1 and 3 if he had played it right. Should have pressured more G1, should have kept in some sweepers G3 (Mani said he boarded them all out). I don't think he understood the match up well enough. Was an amazing game either way, just sad to not see UW take the trophy.

Maybe I just suck at magic, but watching CGB let the opponent slam every wandering emperor with 6 counter spells in hand is infuriating lol

Yet... Yuta's went to Finals. You werent 3 steps ahead haha

The Setting: It's around Turn 8, both players are at 20 life and have about 6 to seven Cards in Hand and all Land Drops were hit. Counterspells and Card draw were sling like no day before. The, dare i say, ultimate control mirror... Cgb: "let's try to be aggressive"🗿🗿🗿

Can you play with Kellan the Kid, i am offended with how little is the content without him

CGB: Azorius Control Video Game 1: 25 minute Bo1 Azorius Control Mirror man how do you script these videos so easily XD

I've been using Ikawas deck

Raffine was the new Goldspan Dragon. The question is where is the next Raffine?

Hot bant is the new monster just wait and see it will be the reason main deck enchantment hate will become the norm if the deck continues to prove itself 😅

How does anyone get to mythic running control. It's not the best deck in the format for win percentage and the games run so long? I think control is super fun if I'm playing a game or two tops with friends, but damn the patience someone must have to run mythic on control is a level I do not have.

A yellowhat deck that isn't Dimir? Sad day in the Arena 😔

Honest question from the newest of Newbies: In what kind of healthy state is MTGA right now? I saw the red Aggro deck killing in 3-4 turns, then I see this deck and as much as I like to control dominate my opponents and blow their monsters up...this doesn't look very healthy. This green red dinosaur deck I encountered in bronze 5 it dealt 21 damage to me on turn 3 or 4 as well. It doesn't look very healthy that most games seem to be over after 4 turns or last until a player decks out... is this really the current meta? Are you guys fine with this? Is this better than before? Is this worse than before? How long does this state usually last? Is it more likely to become even quicker due to powercreep? If anybody could answer me these questions BEFORE I dump my complete free time into this card game it would be much appreciated because I have lived through years that were the slow death of gwent with the game getting progressively worse for many years I do not need another such experience and would just happily watch these videos instead without tormenting myself.

1st game < watching paint dry

love the read comments!

I mean, if you're not first, your last.

Love to watch simple,honest, masterfull blue-white control =)

at 52 minutes ish, couldn't he Destroy Evil on the Carnosaur while Angelfire is on the stack?

UW no wincon control has been my favorite constructed archetype ever since Ivan Floch won the 2015 pro tour with it. Bless Gabriel Nassif for carrying the torch on this one, and bless you for immediately subjecting the ladder to its glory. Also, thanks for not chickening out and keeping that first game in, in its entirity. Great stuff.

I'm a combo hater. I might not be happy that UW control crushes every creature pile I try to create, but it doesn't make me as salty as a combo deck.

Bro lost to cavern of souls.

Where are the Brawl videos?

38:18 is perhaps the most satisyfing thing I've seen in a long time.

You have no real win conditions...

Wouldn't it be a crime to target the button?

Is half this deck getting rotated out? Me sad

Get out Mono Red.

Three Steps Ahead is like a nerfed yet better Sublime Epiphany in most cases because it’s not a hard 6 mana card and can be utilized in every stage of the game practically.

56:31 All you guys called out!! I was subbed years ago and liked before the video started.

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Wow wandering emporer, memory delughe much different much impressive. 😴

OOF. Get ready for more control mages joining the meta! Everyone's a copycat. LOL

I wish I was super rich. I'd buy WOTC and make it so that every single red creature in the future would have Prowerss, Menace, Trample and Haste. Every single one. If they want to make everyone play red aggro, then let's just get it over with. Haste is so ridiculously broken, it's not even funny. There's a reason why Richarg Garfield put summoning sickness in the game. And back then creatures absolutely sucked.

I'm alright subscribed but like, if you really want me to press the button again

Oh my god, how is this still the blue white archetype Don't let anything resolve, Memory Deluge EOT, Memory Deluge EOT, win with planeswalker. Yaaaaay. Such interact, way fun. So unique.

I have been fully assimilated into UW Control -- resistance is futile!

One counterspell for another. Basically the same UW control we've been seeing for months (years?). Personally I'd rather see some new interesting builds, don't really care if this is what won the pro-tour.

the absolute methodical, slow grinding match that is a control mirror is why i love CGB and Magic in general. No room for soft "im bored after 3 turns" aggro-bois here. Its big brain time!

the rest in peace in the side board is weird, will eat out the memory deluges

30 mins of doing nothing in the first game and empty board.. *smh* what a load of shite

So boring with no win cons... Go play with yourself in the corner

the most boring shit i have watched in a while

I question the motive of anyone watching this channel who hates blue/white control. Maybe monored players hoping to catch some revenge salt on the losses? Okay - I pushed the like button.

pepeW