For those of you wondering, Covert Go Blue said that one of the moments that made him love magic was watching a tournament be won by a mill deck. That's his villain origin story.

I'm just here in the comments to feed the damn algorithm so KZfaq works for our bestie

as someone who can't stand control I think it's fun and educational to watch you play it. don't know wtf kind of problems some people have. thank you for another great video!

Bant's awesome! Sloth would be proud of you. 🤘🎃

Ash thank you so much for trying to make a control deck even if it’s not your fav, the lurking control mages really appreciate it! :D

I love the decks by request for supporting the channel. That's a win-win for the fans and the content creator.

A Rakdos demon has lost its wings, am enjoying the video tho

42:24 was gonna say it’s funny you mentioned CGB because this deck seems right up his alley. Although he wouldn’t have any win cons in it at all except for like one realm breaker

Man, I forgot how BAD mana was going to be after rotation. We have been very spoiled for a long time. Mono Black looks to be the WAY at the moment.

I love that you took on this challenge! It’s great to see what are the options and struggles for various decks moving forward. I think some people missed the point about this deck. Bant without help won’t make for a good control deck. Which could be a good or a bad thing.

This video explains one of the decks I played against yesterday.

Besstyyy saw you playing some standard at Magicon this afternoon ! Thanks for the video 🙌

Yaaaaaaas 🎉🎉🎉 love taking up the challenge 😊

Idk about the dust animus or the up the bean stalk just because there are so few activator cards. Nice starting point for me to tinker though, thanks!

Wait till ppl realize that aggro enthusiasts know how to pilot control the best bc we get punished by misplays against them more than anyone 😅

Hey Ash, did you consider using Farsight Ritual in place of memory deluge? It's 2UU Instant. Bargain. Look at the top 4 Cards of your library put 2 in hand and 2 bottom the other 2 in a random order, if this spell was bargained look at the top 8 instead. This opens lines like cycling your clue tokens or small incubators post sunfall or use a spare cornicopia to dig. Would also enable lines like curve into temp lockdown turn 3, turn 4 bargain it on opps endstep to dig for a wrath or set up the turn. In this list every card aside from jace, no more lies, and the creatures can pay for the bargain. Oh and the map tokens from anchorage can be used to dig too!

The day Sunfall gets rotated out will be a very good day

It took control a long time to become a thing in this standard. I imagine it won't be a thing until at least another set or two after BLB. Def some cool ideas though!

what does a red aggro deck has as sideboard?

Control decks makes me learn patience. Not my favorite, but won't use those cards otherwise. R+

Many things seem off with this shell and I believe could be improved. First, I would not run any pain lands in a control deck as a baseline. 25 lands is also a tad too few. If you don't want to go overboard I'd settle for 26. Second, there aren't that many spells to trigger Beans, so I'd experiment by cutting that in favor of maybe a package of Spelunking + tapped duals (if we aim to keep things in bant colors). Third, there not enough instant speed spot removal do deal with every BS creature that can solo you and you'll probably die before getting to cast a board wipe. I'd look into adding maybe some Elspets Smites in the main or something similar. This is from someone who played a fair amount of control in current standard and these are the points I see to improve. The rest, we'll see what the next set brings. Cheers and keep doing a good job with the videos!

Is Aven Interrupter playable in standard? I find it can essentially skip an opponent's 3rd or 4th turn and disrupt the tempo of the more aggro decks. Blocks show-off and can re-plot it with the extra 2 mana tax.

I can’t wait for the bloomburrow lizard deck

You were the chosen one! You were supposed to save the meta not lead it into darkness! 😭 Jokes aside, it's a cool deck! Big teferi is one of my favorite Planeswalkers. Give me a vigilant chasm skulker any day!

Cornucopia is great, but it feels like it's made for a different kind of deck. You just don't have enough 2 color spells to make it work. Maybe in Naya, with lighting helix, annie joins up and maybe quintorius? Idk. Right now it seems hard to find a home for it other than domain.

Love control

Ey yo, bestie! Are you going to do a video about MC Amsterdam? I keep seeing images of you and JLK floating around

No 5/3 flash sphinx ? seems good to close the game too

Of the controls for upcoming rotation I think Jeskai might stand a better position

Poor Ash 😭 Good work tho !

The end of white/blue Controll and the Emperor🎉🤣🥳

What have you done to ash?😮

glad to see control's performance take a hit post rotation. Hopefully the midrange decks aren't too degen though since that is also unfun.

Had some good ❄️ snorting a lot 😂

Great video as usual, not sure why people bitch about you playing control... On a separate note, as you're fan of Pearl, I think you may enjoy the short interview with the director, Ti West, that came out on the CineFix YT channel. He talks about his favorite shots across his movies.

Engaging with content baybeeeee

Dino deck

With all the complaining about Ash playing control, think of this as important opposition research for the upcoming meta changes.

I learned to never say I like control, like hot damn the toxic reactions I have gotten... Anyway, I personally think it's more fun in paper and in a friendly environment. On Arena you get spammed "Your go" for anything that takes more than 2 seconds (but then they have the time to rope you anyway like wtf). The only rotation safe deck I currently have is Mono Black Discard and I don't like playing it (and against it) at all, despite having an 80% winrate with it. Yet somehow I mostly read about blue/control hate. Idk, but having to constantly discard (super fun when you had to mulligan..), playing with an open hand (thanks Bat...) and a ton of removal plus super high value creatures, graveyard recursion, deathtouch and lifelink.. I always have the feeling Black is pretty busted, but that's just it: a personal opinion. If people have to insult others for playstyles they don't like, maybe check your priorites in life and do as the kids say: touch some grass. And I think the beauty of Magic is having all those different archetypes. You don't need to like them all, but playing them yourself, can help you tons for when you play against them later. Sorry for the rant, but yay algorithm and stuff. Get well soon Ash and thanks for the videos!

I think it's funny that you say you couldn't be paid to make this deck but you made this because someone technically paid you to make this

Comment for Algorithm go BRR...

I dont understand why you needed to be so condescending to the dude who was just lightly trashing control decks. Its common and generally socially acceptable in magic for everyone to complain about control decks. I rewatched a couple of games maybe there was stream chat that didnt make it to the youtube, but otherwise I found it extremely unkind.

Control Ash era, its over for everyone else