It's also good to mention mono colored decks are more accessible since you don't need to worry about buying expensive dual lands.

My group knows blue decks. I always die first, it's just not worth it anymore.

One of my favorite blue ramp cards is Retraced image, the ability to play an extra land from your hand for only 1 mana is really great

One correct answer exists: mono blue artifact beatdown.

Machine God effigy is a Nice mana rock for Blue also

I built my first mono blue deck today.

U ramp is casting a Redirect on someone elses' Kodama's Reach or making token copies of Thran Dynamo or Gilded Lotus

would've been great to also mention some more ways to close out the game in mono-blue. *personally* lookin for sum stuff that isn't just "if X, you win the game" effects or infinite combos. because in a more casula pod any wincon that wins you the game on the turn you play it, often can't really be dealt with by some upgraded precon level decks. something like talrand or minn do great, but it's still a limited arsenal of choices. alas blue just isn't exactly a color known for a lot of strong/efficient creature potential. most big creatures blue can cast wouldve been 2 generic cheaper if it was any other color

There’s an interesting land ramp option in blue called Mitotic Manipulation. If you’re running enough basics, it’s not as risky as it reads.

Extraplanar lens! Its the best blue ramp spell

I love mono blue, it’s so fun and challenging , there’s nothing like dropping a baral chief of compliance on the table and everyone looking at you differently . 😂

I love the video man! Few pointers try not to sound like you're reading a script. ;) You're adding jokes into the script that don't fly well with the audience be yourself and speak from the heart so it sounds natural but keep your key points on the script so you can know what to talk about and don't get lost. This is one of my many KZfaq accounts for magic haha - Post Malone

I have a Donal deck, its my faerie tribal deck, and it works pretty well 💙✨ Love Mono blue, but I play mostly Dimir/Simic

Conisder using nyx lotus with unwinding clock to mimic seedborn muse and hold up blue mana on everyone's turn

these are some great tips. I am curious as to what people use as a win-con in mono blue - so far I only see infinites and grindy long-term plans that just wear the game out and make people concede.

Set of those cards ain’t cheap, I checked the total price of every card you mentioned and it was well over $350

As a long running Mono-B mage that dabbles in U I gotta say, I like the ability to just spring something on someone but it feels like I am dumping twice the effort into removing things.

Blue was supposed to be the second/third strongest color regarding ramp, but Wizards keeps wanting to fuck with Blue. That Dreamscape Artist is a totally joke.

The only other decks that get shutdown as quick is izzit. Most people don’t even give them breathing room. As a bant player that runs aura shards and countertop I do my duty to ruin any mono blue players day.

I am slowly becoming a blue player…. I love it lol

If only Upheaval was unbanned.

I liked your advice in not overdoing the counters, or being political and offering to use your control to help another player. Solid deck advice all around. Humor me here tho, hot take... I owned a game store. I would watch as people would ostracize the blue players on commander night. There would be a table of 4 where everyone is playing blue or a combo with blue. That game would last 2-4 hours, while other tables did 2-3 games in that same time and switched up players throughout. Generally, I won't even entertain playing against a mono blue commander deck. 99% of the time, the pre-game goes like this "it's mono blue, but it's not that powerful." Then, its just full of counter and card draw spells, and designed to slow the game to an absolute crawl. Everyone has their opinions, and mine is that blue is the most arduous, and least fun, to play against. At the end of the day, commander is not a competitive format. It was created for fun. Blue is the antithesis of fun. Urza, Baral, Gin Gataxis...I'm glad you spent a bunch of money to not allow anybody to play the game but you. Enjoy solitaire too? Just know, if you bring a mono blue deck to a new game store and play with new people. They will either demolish you because of the idea of having all their stuff countered; or, you succeed in your game plan and shutdown the entire table. I hope you are a good winner, because you should probably buy the table a pizza or something after wasting their time, or they probably won't want to play with you again. My point is, if you're making a commander deck purely for YOUR fun, that's pretty messed up, and generally doesn't go over well at the CASUAL commander table. CEDH is a completely different game. Urza belongs in CEDH, there is no casual Urza deck.

Mono blue players are the worst!