Unironically won 5 out of 7 of my Metagame matches in Arena from people rage quitting against my mono blue tempo. Felt bad so I went back in with a Grixis deck. Rage quit game 1 against a mono blue tempo deck.

You have to understand that blue players actually LOVE fun. We love it so much that we realized there is only a finite amount of fun to be had in any magic game, and we want to monopolize ALL of the fun for ourselves.

hello, it's me, a dimir player. i can confirm that this video is 100% scientifically true. every single blue card in my deck is a counterspell. thank you for bringing this to public notice. a dimir operative will be with you shortly to give you a congratulations.

“There is a finite amount of fun to be had and I want all of it” -my local blue player

Giving one colour draw and counterspells as it's central themes was definitly a decision

I play blue because I'm illiterate. "Too many words on that card, counter"

I would never just run counter spells. I run a lot of removal too, so if the opponent somehow gets a permanent onto the battlefield, it will be removed immediately!

ive never tapped an island in my life... this video describes my experience in MTG, every deck ive ever build has been forged with a hatred for blue

"I don't care if I lose, I don't care about your fun. I only care about my fun, and my fun is not letting you do shit as much as I can" - As a Yugioh player who naturally become MTG blue card player.

As a blue player this 100% scientifically accurate, i even have a deck named "Go play hearthstone instead."

As a blue player, seeing Noah demonstrate why blue isn't fun whilst going against another player, who isn't having fun and has my exact name (this is not a joke) is really interesting. Noah are you in my walls?

As a blue player I can proudly say my motto is: The less fun the opponent takes, the more fun stays with me.

I like how they made white's theme be the most useless mechanic (lifegain) and made blue's be the two most powerful ones (countering and card advantage)

as the first deck I ever played was a blue/black counter deck where I just laughed at how I countered my opponent's entire turn this is absolutely true now I just spam dragons so even if I lose I get to look at pretty dragons

Yeah, I used to play commander and one of my opponents had a mono blue deck with Talrand, Sky Summoner as his commander. Dude ran only card draw, bounce, and counterspells and it stinking WORKED because his commander attached a 2/2 flyer on every. Stinking. Spell. You couldn't block the minions because, guess what, FLYING! And you couldn't take care of the commander because, guess what, COUNTERSPELL!!! I so wanted to run Niv-Mizzet, Parun against him because, guess what, CAN'T COUNTERSPELL THAT COMMANDER AND I DRAW A CARD EVERY TIME YOU ATTEMPT SOMETHING, FISH BOY!!!!!!!

Waiting for the next blue teferi with “+1 you win the game and the next game after”

Can confirm I am a blue player

The best way to play is to make sure the other person cannot play.

Blue mirror matches feel like a chess game where someone is waiting for the 1st person to play their spell and see if you'll waste your counters on something that might matter or not.

As a Simic and Izzet player, I can confirm every word. I play 1,700 counterspells in every deck and no lands. All you need is counterspell.

Magic is a zero-sum game. There is a limited amount of fun, and I will have all of it.

I currently have six commander decks, one of which is mono-blue (none of the other ones run blue). I built it at a time when I wanted to make a mono-colored deck for each color and the Izzet colors are my least favorite; so I built it with the thought process: "I hate blue, so if it has to exist, I'll make everyone else hate it as much as I do" lol

I have a couple of friends who are quite fond of blue, and I try over and over again to demonstrate that blue takes less skill and planning than other colours, and it simply isn't fun. They kept poking fun at me, countering my glorious green spells that I spend 4 turns building towards. They always reply with that same old stupid blue reply "BuT iM hAvInG fUn..." I got so fed up that I went into arena and tried to make the most obnoxious, spitefull and petty blue mill deck that I could muster. Just to prove a point. That was the first and only time I made it to Mythic rank...

🤓whell akshully magic the gathering is a very complicated game and blue players work very hard🤓 - some blue player

0:24 This actually inspires me to actually play the game instead of just find out stuff about it - and also to feel upset, but that's just because I once actually thought blue was morally acceptable

in my defense I also have a couple red cards that get stronger every time I play a coun- I mean every time I cast a noncreature spell and that could be anything alright, not just counters

Most accurate thing I’ve ever seen. Simic players are even worse (a Simic player)

Blue is my favourite colour, also I play infect in commander and I am 1/4 french. Those things are totally unconnected.

The mind of a blue player: it's only fun for me if you aren't having fun.

False, you played creatures. What are you, an aggro player?

Fun is a finite resource in a game of magic. Mono blue ensures that you hold a monopoly on it. Splash black for targeted discard and it's even more enjoyable.

As a man whose cousin runs an Azorius exile deck EVERY time we play commander, I FEEL this! 🤣

While this video is on the stack, I cast counterspell. Now plz delet

I come from another cardgame-verse, a different universe where Blue players are called "Drytron Herald" players (it's still 2021 in that universe). By the way I don't know how to play Magic, but I can *100% relate with the pain of a negation-spam* (Yu-Gi-Oh! 's meta is fun like Oliver Twist's childhood)

I built an azorius tempo/control deck that uses mirrari conjecture + mythos of Illuna to recur counter spells and board wipes every turn. Every time I win a match with that deck, someone else starts their joker arc.

You made some sick plays there! I would know, I’m a blue player!

Can confirm countering spells is fun cause you take away their fun

I think this had the opposite effect. It's freaking hilarious and it teaches everyone else humility. Screw your killer combo and kneel before my blue balls.

"I wish my parents loved me" me too man, me too

You forgot to wait for 1 minute to read every card in your hand and on the battlefield before countering.

One time I was in a commander pod with a Muldrotha player. I countered Muldrotha every. Single. Goddamn. Time he tried to cast it. At one point he let Muldrotha go to the graveyard, and then tried to Animate Dead. Key word: "tried".

I was going to make a full blown powerpoint presentation around these players, but you made the rant for me. Thanks!

As someone who plays dimir and grixis, I can confirm that we enjoy devouring the souls of children.

As a blue player, I live in constant fear of carnage tyrant. I also love mono U devotion with the merfolk card that shits out like a million tokens.

Do a "in the mind of a discard / mill deck player"

I liked the part when you refused to let opponent play the game

There was a time (2020 i think) that i made a mono blue deck with no win condition...it was just counters and draw cards (and graveyard reshufle) to play till the oponent concedes or deck out.... Yeah i was a bad person back them.

The amount of fun in a game of magic is finite. And I want all of it.

Someday people will realize: You beat blue by stocking up mana and casting multipel cards in successions, EPECIALLY after the blue player uses most or all of their mana. They either have nothing but counterspells, which damns them in the long run and makes them extremely vulnerable to things existing on the field or they categorically do not have enough counterspells to hit everything, especially at once. Green and red naturally kick blue's teeth in when played like this because red has a lot of burst power for cheap and no one card is worth a good counterspell and green can just build up enough mana, or force out bad counterspells on cheap utilities before the really scary shit starts rolling in. This is why they need mill and bounce effects, why they need strong blockers. They struggle to do anything to things already on the field and if they over-invest ine one avenue, then they leave themselves very vulnerable in another. Didn't bring enough blockers? Guess you die to that 1/1 goblin that snuck through. Overcommit on card value to removing a mediocre threat? What are you going to do about the bigger threat later? And what are you going to do about that first card if you *didn't* dump a bunch of value into getting rid of it. I find mono blue to be very feast or famine in that you're being really oppressive or you're absolutely helpless and there is no in between.

Man i hate playing mono blue, I hate blue + one of any other color but once there is blue and two other colors it's suddenly my jam and I love those decks.

I played against a deck that was literally just tarrant as the commander, and then every other card was draw and counter spells.

I'm convinced all mono blue players, on arena, are all playing ironically out of spite. Nobody knows who started it, but it's just a dominos effect now.

I don't even play Magic anymore, but I gotta say that you slapping back everything your opponents tried to do gave me secondhand annoyance.

Accurate af. Honnestly I find it annoying that decks full of counterspells + draw cards actualy work. I mean what the hell, we're not supposed to just look at an empty board the whole game (until there's a Teferi and then you have to concede or get bored to death)

Spell Pierce is my favorite anti planeswalker spell. good work!

I played blue until it wasn't funny for me anymore. Neither player having fun is the ultimate blue achievement!

As a Blue player myself, I do put a bit more thought into my builds. I also bounce your stuff back to your hand so I can counter it and I have graveyard recursion with cards like Clear The Mind and Learn From The Past. Splash in a little green and I have mill protection with Gaea's Blessing. The win-con of most Blue decks is to get your opponent to lose all hope.

I want to ask a question, whats the difference between running a blue counter deck vs mono red burn everything deck. with a good hand, you drop a creature, then just burn all the creatures your opponent drops? or mono black with a ton of murder sacrafice cards?

This is why I love Blue! "Didn't say please" Best card

You know what they say. Blue is the color of your opponents tears.

As a blue player, yeah. This is accurate. But he underestimates the joy I get from not allowing you to play things.

Noah pls make a tier list with all the color combinations and rank how evil they are

It's true, all I do is mill my opponent and counter their spells. It's absolutely hilarious and yes I am a bad person.

i like running blue with red. force half your deck into your hand so you can summon all the things

I play Mono-Blue like i play Red Deck Win, i even build the deck very similarly. Except instead of Burning Life Points like RDW, i burn player's spells. My win-condition is usually a land, or a creature that doubles as a Counterspell. 40 counter spells, 24 lands. Voracious Greatshark is my Waifu Card

i think you actualy fuled my mind with so much love for blue, ima build a commander counterspell deck. See ya soon.

The irl cards being as expensive as they are is enough of a deterrent for me. Good video lol

Oh man after watching this video I love blue even more, even though I'm most of the time a Dimir player, not a monoblue player.

blue more like poo

woah, blue looks really fun! i'm gonna make a blue deck right now

I have progress tyrant as a commander and just gotta say that is is so fun having people ask if it resolves for every spell, and counter once a turn.

awesome video...that felt so good that someone is finally makeing this point so well

as a blue player myself this is true

As a blue player I have to say this is so accurate. Subscribed.

Blue players are like old school Halo players that always sought out the rocket launcher and called it a “skill”

This is why thought distortion is one of my favorite cards of all time

I love that I see this video right after finishing a game of me just using oracle of the alpha to shuffle power nine into my deck and making my turns take 17 days because mystic forge is a very fun card.

as a mill controll player i can only say that everything you just said is absolut true

I'm a blue/green player. I try to restrict my counterspells to actually protecting my fun stuff

I’ve been waiting for this vid since the Red player version.

whoa nice try you weren't a true blue player, you actually used the combo step

I just look at counter spells and removal as the same thing. It's just that one bypasses etb's and one doesn't, one can affect multiple things and one can't. Besides no control deck has ever won a game with counter spells or removal, they have to win the game somehow. I mainly play aggro and control has never bothered me, it's just another obstacle 👍

Two mono-blue players against each other.... There is the solid definition of doing NOTHING at maximum effort.

The fact blue is the color that lets you do the most "4th wall breaking" things like pulling specific cards or stacking the top most cards of your deck.

The look on their face when ‘this spell cannot be countered’ 🤣

God I love blue

You just gave me an idea. You go to a fortune teller for a Tarot card reading and if something bad comes up BOOM Counterspell.

Pretty much how entire yugioh is being played today. A race on who can bring up their "negate your opponent from playing" setup first.

ngl, blue actually looks kind of fun to play. I'm certain the fact that I don't have any friends has no impact on that statement.

*Sweats nervously with my 15 counter spells*

As a mono Red player I have an attention span of roughly 5 turns.

I actively try to avoid putting anything blue to any of my decks. Not one single blue card in any of my decks so far, and no plans to change that anytime soon. Blue is cancer.

As a female, I am offend, but as a blue player and not a white player, I'm able to take a joke.

My very first game of paper Magic was against a mono-blue player. I immediately gave up on the game and started playing Hearthstone instead. Best decision I ever made.

Always funny to see a deck like this in action, from outside the game.

Blue player here. Feel called out but can confirm!

From a Hearthstone player, this us equivalent to play against a secret mage with objection and counterspell all the time, which is casually, Blue.

It's the people not the colour. People have forgotten that you can have fun, while your opponent has fun too. It is the same with aggro decks that kill you turn 2 or lose. Winning is being so insentivised in online formats, that the joy of playing is corrupted.

you should do this but with every color. 'black players just kill every creature' 'red players just rely on rng to win' 'colorless players are just being edgy'

God forbid they pull out the "This spell can't be countered"