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I'm waiting for the inevitable "play sheoldred and cast spells that make the opponent draw cards until they die" meme deck

For the One in Best of One, exiling with the + protects the card from black discard effects.

Less than a week and I'm already sick of seeing Liliana

I haven’t checked all the comments yet, but I realized when watching this video… if you meathook for 1, you had 1 black leftover to cut down braids because her power toughness went to 4 total. The secret Cut Down tech!!!

Impossible to wine about painlands I play fetchlandsb+ shocklands in modern, those are 3 pips a time

I've been having good success with a mono green Shigeki ramp deck that gets 4x invoke the ancients and 4x industry titan on the board ASAP and then using Shigeki to recur them over and over for big value. Can grind indefinitely if they don't exile Shigeki.

Cool that you've got a fanart card! Now my own versions of it float through my head. The ultimate version would probably involve combing through episodes/podcast in search of CGB quotes on what makes a cool planeswalker.

I was the guy in the first match gg, I never drew hook and so many lands

If players today are tilting about pain lands, imagine the reaction if City of Brass was printed as one of the few mana fixers in Standard.

hey man i really enjoyed your dimir Sedgewood Witch with Lier flashback shennanigans from last rotation, i found mixing up Lier and a couple slip out the backs and ronas vortex into the mono black control deck thats dominating atm makes for a well rounded deck, and getting to flashback an invoke to darkness is mighty nice. Id love to see your spin on placing Lier into a new Dimir standard deck if you had the time

A month before rotation I was running a rotation proof mono black deck that is basically everywhere now. I knew black was going to take over I felt it getting stronger with the last few sets and it has really taken off.

The pain lands are why mono red is even a thing anymore. I miss my pathways.

Love your content cgb, keep it up buddy!

Hey cgb I'm curious about your thoughts on tramway station or the other capenna sac2draw lands over gain lands. Is sacking lands too steep? Or is the life too relevant?

One opinion for The One in Best of One {+1}: Can help tuck cards from hand against discard strategies.

CGB! Those pain lands…. I love ‘em! Thanks for the decks/deck ideas! Great videos keep it up sensei!

I really like playing the black curse on this deck. If you also drop Sheoldrer its a 3 drain each turn and you can transform the enchantment into a 4/4 lifelink, attack then sacrifice it to Ob Nixilis and keep draining

There r some very well placed Black/blue cards that help alot as well sloting in not to mention there's a nice way of sifting to agro control by tossing a blue djinn so far haven't lost a match in best of one or best of 2 in ranked since I built it and went from bronze to gold 3 now on it mostly so many ways to build with black/blue thr djinn is nice but I prefer haveing a card or land to always draw from and always removal with 24 sources of removal in different ways and soul transfer is super underrated 2 of perfect getting that one planswalker or creature back late game or in general when your opponents hand and yours is dead from lilly or just a removal

oh man, this deck plays sweet. I've added 2 lands and just meathooked a Silverback Elder. I didn't spend all my wildcards on this, so another great tech for the budget players is the combination of Sheoldred and Vile Stinger targeting the opponent for 6 damage.

As a Rakdos player who hates anvil, thank you, finally

Stayed for the intro and till the end I think the intention with the walker was to form a second hand that couldn't be attacked with hand hate or to ramp. Be heading up to the fingers for those pushups lol

* Gently sobbing in the corner * " but I can't do ANY push-ups. " LOL

Made a version of this with what I had I played a few more copy’s of ob and bloodline culling was a nice fit here In one day I went from silver 2 to plat 4 I think I lost 3 games in total this deck rocks

Absolutely delicious. Show those Black decks who’s the one in best of one!

only good pain-lands are shock lands, ancient tomb and city ^^ .. but very nice to see cards that did work back in ice age standard still do work in todays standard ^^ same with Liliana who's 10 years old by now

I still love the Grixis style deck, it didnt really lose anything with rotation and Corpse Appraiser is still a very strong card

AWESOME VIDEO MUST WATCH IMMEDIATELY especially if you love the triple D draining death and DESPAIRRRR enjoyed every second and that opponent jund deck is interesting and ty CGB for confirming that you will use that Avatar deck that can steal land and stayed till the end even through commercial for more support cool CGB Planeswalker and can't wait to see what you do next and please never forget CGB you're cool 😎🤟🏾❤️

I knew I was going to miss Devistating Mastery. That card swept up these Rackos Avil Decks so nicely.

I think the exile from hand is protection from hand hate, after all, you can cast the cards you exiled.

Would love to see a Simic build around Tatyova. Been playing around with her, Reclamation, Wrenn, and Cultivator. Dumb Jank but hilarious

Hello! That is my kind of deck. However since you like control, if you want to beat the meta i give you a suggestion: Deck 4 Fateful Absence (MID) 18 4 Sunset Revelry (MID) 38 3 Depopulate (SNC) 10 4 The Wandering Emperor (NEO) 42 3 Farewell (NEO) 13 2 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (NEO) 268 5 Island (NEO) 296 3 Make Disappear (SNC) 49 2 Negate (STA) 18 3 Thirst for Discovery (VOW) 85 5 Plains (NEO) 293 2 Memory Deluge (MID) 62 2 Hullbreaker Horror (VOW) 63 1 Otawara, Soaring City (NEO) 271 3 Faithful Mending (MID) 221 4 Deserted Beach (MID) 260 4 Skybridge Towers (SNC) 256 4 Tranquil Cove (M21) 258 2 Karn's Sylex (DMU) 234

Two Rage Against the Machine lyric references in a week! I would not have guess that you're a fan, nice 🤘

Yay! Deck edits at the end are back!

At 38:45 you could've blitzed both underdogs and swung in for lethal. It doesn't play around a 1 mana removal. I know you know, but think of it more of helping other players out who maybe didn't see the line.

Cgb did you notice about soul of windgrace that it doesn't target the land. You if you have mana you can pitch a land in response to the trigger with his ability

yesterday monoblack, learned. put red in it. tomorrow leave despair and liliana behind and get a third color, imo doesnt matter blue white or green. As long as u use 2for1

It would be cool to see your take on the Jund reanimator deck!

Could you please make a mardu sacrifice deck featuring Lagomos, Elas il-Kor, and other cards that fit

In the MTGGoldfish meta breakdown for the first week of this Standard, the top 6 decks are all midrange piles with black as one of the colors.

How's monogreen midrange right now? Better paired with black?

Can't wait to watch you pilot the UW karns sylex deck that got you to mythic.

Needs a one of Shivan Devstator for a small cheeky and sneaky factor.

1:99 beautiful. Just beautiful lmao. Let the pain (lands) set you free.

Honestly, I don't like tenacious underdog here. When for the same two mana I can have Knight of Dusks Shadow which does a few things. 1 it prevents your opponent from gaining life. 2 it can be pumped as a fair enough mana sink when you haven't much else to spend on at the time 3 it has menace which makes it somewhat evasive for damage application 4 and most importantly in many cases it will be a much more tempting target than sheoldred for spot removal allowing Sheoldred to be a bit more sticky on the battlefield and get that turn or two of extra gain-n-drain. TD was nerfed by Cut Down imho he gets slammed with it every time I pull him out against another deck running black, and while KoDS can also succumb to cut down, he allows you to buy him out of it for 2 mana if you have it open.

Agree with your opinion on the pain lands but did the press-ups anyway.

So the best counter to invoke despair decks is an invoke despair deck?

Was there a commander video that I missed? I don’t see one for this week! Last one I see is 9 days old? I like the other formats, but especially enjoy the commander games! What did I miss?

very good list!

Planeswalker card needs to have the word "Then," between "Draw a card," and "You may exile," to work as intended, I believe.

Like everything else in Magic, your life total is a resource--and the only point that matters is the last one.

I love pain lands. In a rakdos deck the sulfurous springs is no different than a city of Brass which is a powerful land

oh wotc....i hope your happy with what you've done... (decided to play a little standard, back to back games of mono black or rakdos...literally nothing else in 8 games)

A Simic ramp build playing a ton of lands with Azusa's Many Journeys and Joint Exploration could slam Titan of Industry two or three turns early and go over the top that way >.>

2:31 i just finished my 10 pushups sensei!!!

Blue/white or Esper was the worst decks during Ravnica Allegiance, with busted Teferi untapping lands and search for Azcanta. Despised this meta. The meta was Mono red Aggro, Mono White Aggro or Control, ... only viable 3 decks 2 of which had to be super fast to beat control otherwise they'd turn tables turn 4 or 5.

There is an extra turn spell still in standard... perhaps a control deck that puts it to use is what will stop the black midrange decks from running this meta

By far one of the best decks I've played in the standard format.

Falls asleep watching cgb... que in the loudest outro in the world

Sheoldred single-handedly stabilizing both the board and your life total in game 1 gives an idea of how underrated this card was when it was revealed. Also it shuts down Mono-red completely if not answered properly.

Fan art is one step away from fan fiction. Can’t wait 🤣

Really missing the exile from soul transfer and 4x trespasser.

Good job!

To be honest. I don't like the idea of spending life to get a single mana either. I was told I should throw pain lands into my Defender deck, but I'm really struggling with the idea of crafting them.

This is the second video where Cut Down could have worked on a creature after playing the meathook, is that how that interaction works?

Anyone ever tried watching CGB's intro in 144p it's like it's underwater

Y'all might want to start running one copy of Pithing Needle in your decks for this meta...

I’d cut the 1 drops for 1 land and 2 more ob nix. He and Sheoldred close out games so fast. Might also consider Braids

I think people forget that pain lands can also just tap for a colorless without loss of life So early on in the game you might take 1 or 2 damage but mid and late game you'll rarely be taking damage from them because you won't need them for colored mana Compare this to shock lands where late game if you need to play it as an untapped land you still have to pay the 2 life regardless if you need the colored mana or not

2:34 should make them go back in time 20 years and play city of brass or ancient tomb.

Most I can stomach is 4-6 pain lands depending on how much life gain is baked into the deck.

Counting your removal, based on what I’ve experienced today in Platinum, you are 10 removal cards short. My Jund Windgrace deck just is getting Slaughtered. I counted the average graveyard, 9-10 removal spells by games end. It’s fucking miserable.

Meathook Meta until next September? This cards wins/looses way to much games alone (in my opinion)

I hated pain lands during the set reviews but they grew on me. They’re really not that bad.

This +1 on your planeswalker card is an anti-discard deck mechanism.

Control deck you say huh. Try bant superfiends. I have been giving people the business with that deck and it's super fun to play

Pain lands have been perfectly fine with me. I run 8 of them. Lol. It’s like you said, the double to triple value cards are what makes the meta scary. Haha. You just can’t overpower a lot of them by conventional means. Therefore I like this idea of 4x Meathooks.

Pls do a grixis Ob and invoke dispair 🤗 I love playing it on paper and I would love an updated decklist 🥰

I've had luck with 3 hooks and a one of burn down just a thought

Ooh... So THIS is the reason I keep running into Rakdos in ranked...

Painlands are nice because they let my control deck win from 1 as often as I want. If you don't play them you're leaving that tilt on the table!

I am in diamond 3 right now w/ Jund+ a skyturtle for the memes. It's been fun thus far but many opponents just scoop when they see Titans on turn 3 or 4. It has lots of overlap with your deck

Fable of the Mirror Breaker is going to be the new siege rhino in this meta, I can already smell it. The free 2 for one is just way too powerful as evidenced by literally every single deck in this video running at least 2 of them

I want to see a dimir sheoldred protection & card draw deck.

Come on cgb, I'm still waiting for the jund windgrace pile for bo1

Thanks CGB

VERY SAd i didnt BUY The meathook card when it was on sale for the cosmetics

I have enough crap luck trying to get enough of one land, every time I try to get more than one kind it is even worse. I can survive with 4-5 mana in play mono - no chance if I'm not.

Yeah at plat 2 at the moment I'm 50% vs Rakdos as mono red but mono black control just owns me lol

Completely agree with how boring Anvil decks are. It was my best deck in the last meta, and I couldn’t bring myself to ladder with it. Saved up for this format instead & glad I did.

Exiling cards from your hand keeps them safe from the duress’s of the world.

It's Obbin' time!

I have steadily become a believer in painlands, two colors is just gravy train

Since rotation everyone is forgetting how much of a beast Esper is. It's weird. Replacing Luminarch ass-pirate for The Benalia card from Dominaria or The Knight of Dusk's Shadow more or less makes the deck just as effective if not better than it was prior to rotation.

Please try and make a deck using the vehicles from neon D and mechtitian core.

You are very cool CGB

What about Orzhov? Lilly, Sorin and the Emperor together?

Love the current meta B01. I'll rather deal with creatures decks than control counter decks.

Arena always flooded me with lands in the mid game playing against this deck which cost me a lot of games 😔

I do love me some Rakdos