#1 MYTHIC | Blue/White YORION Blink Control | MTG Arena Ladder Top 100 Gameplay

[@aliertufekci1993]

40:00 Yorion on the battlefield, in hand, in the graveyard and on top of the deck. Glorious. Or rather: Yorious. I know. I'm sorry. Edit: Looks like I'm not the only one who likes Yorion puns. Well done, my dudes.

[@darkgloomie]

No you're not

[@snugglyhugs8698]

I, for one, approve this pun.

[@raydai3708]

good pun.

[@leiziru9642]

My MTG life is now complete.

[@lonelongboarder27]

GLOOOOOORION! Is also acceptable.

[@jaredjohnson9442]

Man it’s great seeing CGB playing decks he truly loves!

[@drift_ronin2358]

@@Special_Places well, good thing you are here on the youtube comments expressing how much you don't care. Thanks, captain internet, for your service! Can't wait to hear what else you don't care about in an unsolicited comment!

[@maskettaman1488]

@@Special_Places 600 decks in 600 days. You seriously expect a brand new 100% original deck every single day? You're a total moron, Derek.

[@yowitsmarco1893]

Add the fact that he only has 5 sets to work on making the card options limited and still tries to play a somehow different deck on a competitive level Derek. We wouldn't want to a watch a 1 hour video of him getting pummeled now would we?

[@kingfuzzy2]

Absoposilutly concur ( :

[@maskettaman1488]

@@Special_Places If you're so uniformed about MTG, the culture, and the channel, why are you commenting?

[@polhusay]

Saw your tweet about this yesterday and ran the list. Was undefeated in 2 standard events and got to #230 in mythic. Awesome deck for B01.

[@perezo27]

GOD I love this meta man Abzan (counters) is viable, midrange Rakdos is really fucking good, Dimir Rogues is really good, Mono Green is viable, Mono Red is viable, Azorious Control is viable, Cycling is viable, Mono White aggro is viable Sure, some of these decks are better than others, but so many things are viable enough to be played, I love this

[@niklibe1312]

Agreed, pity most of the people in Diamond and above play what the streamers play, kind of narrows the meta again

[@Jorg05111980]

Yeah agree, I'm playing a lot of different decks & there is a lot of battlefield interaction (which is a sigh of relief). I would still indeed like people to play a bit more original (not-netdecked) decks. I personally like Bant Party etc for example. Who cares right, it's just a game...

[@perezo27]

@@Jorg05111980 Bant Party, it sounds very interesting, I'd love to play it, gonna look up the list later. Personally, I've been playing a Blueish Tempo-Aggro I've made. I say blueish cause it's techincally Azorious, but it only has 1 white card (4 copies of the uncommon flyer from M21). The deck is basically get flyers on board, attack as many times as possible, and don't let them play anything (Into The Roil, Brazen Borrower, Unsummon, Pouncing Shoreshark and Counterspells). It's really fucking fun, and while it's not amazing against mono red, if your draws are decent, you can win basically anything as long as the match doesn't stretch for too long.

[@subzoronltd7779]

Yep it's actually so much healthier now. I managed to grind to mythic with monogreen now that omnath is banned, which is something I couldnt do before because it would always lose to omnath as soon as it met it.

[@RafitoOoO]

all it took was 15 bans in 6 months.

[@nickbalmes6640]

CovertGoBlue-White 👌

[@Drewski1234]

"How dare you violate the sanctity of my graveyard." Pretty BA, sounds like a Lilliana quote

[@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH]

I could easily see that being a thing

[@kerrytrites3903]

Sounded like a "Diablo" quote from when you first get into the dungeon: "The sanctity of this place has been FOULED!"

[@alexjewett5633]

22:45 opponent forgot to fabled passage but yet plays the Elspeths nightmare. I fail to see how. They conceded the game but I still have no idea how they did that

[@RoyHeaven]

Probably a visual bug because he tried to play it and inmediatly conceded. Arena have a lot of those, one of the most common is when you are going recieve damage and you concede at the same time the damage animation starts, sometimes your life goes to zero, even if you would have more life after the damage.

[@rubencp93]

@@RoyHeaven Late, I know, but the damage/conceive bug you mentioned also happened in this video, the match before the tapped land/Elspeth bug. I thought it was some black magic, but your explanation makes more sense... c:

[@simonrobinson8065]

Since you asked, CGB, I've been playing a 60 card version of this, it's one of my absolute favourite decks. It wins waaaay more than it loses, and there's usually that moment where they've seen the loop a few times and decide the only sensible choice is to pack it in.

[@catchasmurf762]

Coming back here a year later. Back when lockdown raged cgb was a light! As was the SkyNoodle, Yorion is so strong

[@akumamatataaa]

always great to come back and enjoy the nonsense all over again😁

[@nickbalmes6640]

CGB: Welcome to the box! Scavenging Ooze: 😢

[@johnhowe8424]

I loved your explanation of how the meta changed. It was very easy to follow and I’ve been out of the standard mtg loop for a long time

[@keystonerecords4541]

I think this is what we've all been waiting for since the bans!!!

[@alechendrickson4992]

THE ONE IN BEST OF ONE

[@Mortonbmx]

@@antoniomendes7171 congrats on winning once. You need to be a lot more consistent to de-throne the king.

[@perlundgren7797]

​@@antoniomendes7171 ​It's just a catch phrase. A first time player could beat CGB (or anyone else) with the right match-up and draws, so you wouldn't be proving anything.

[@perlundgren7797]

@@antoniomendes7171 Generally speaking, I agree, but I don't think it's meant to be taken that seriously. As he says around 24:10 in this video, the point is to be entertaining (not saying you have to like his sense of humour, of course). 🙂

[@Mortonbmx]

@@antoniomendes7171 the fact you can't see hes joking is slightly worrying. Obviously the number one has rank one in mythic...

[@BeastlyNerd]

ALL HAIL CGB!

[@Kilawpilath]

CGB plays Control Deck.. CGB To opponent: "Look at me! I am the captain now!"

[@snakeplissken5740]

CGB, in case you didnt know. At 30:36 you could also bounce a 1/1 to draw a card. It actually works since the token goes to your hand and "dies" there.

[@k0y9l8e7]

The channel trailer was AMAZING!

[@arnauroig4928]

This is a dream for any Azorious fan out here. I've been lately adding 2-3 copies of Flicker of Fate to my Yorion deck and it's the most versatile card and always takes them by surprise. Would love to see you play it! I'm sure you find even more uses for the card than I have (stonecoil serpents, using yorion on the opponent's turn to "hide" all the stuff before an extinction event/shatter/Ugin, untapping my yorion to block, avoiding removal spells, un-equipping Embercleaves, Skyclave apparition something at instant speed for 2 mana... I didn't think that little card would do so much! Thanks for the good content cgb!

[@thevigilantexan]

Congrats Bro so happy to see you do it and with your favorite type of deck what a sweet moment and accomplishment, I tip my hat to you sir!

[@_Encie]

This deck feels like a wall that slowly moves towards the opponent

[@calvinbarboza]

20:31 Happy Hedron is OP. It single handedly beat the opponent while going down 0 cards, plus is a recursive threat. At least Uro cost mana.

[@jamesparochetti5279]

Yorion is my favorite, happy to see the blue white build is so powerful!

[@dandiaz19934]

does anyone else second the motion of CGB playing 1 hour worth of pure games with the additional 5 minute intro/outro? I want to see more!

[@thomasbrauer5538]

The 1 hour time limit probably has more to do with the youtube algorithm then what his viewers actually want to see.

[@andrewmarinelly5838]

I used Elspeth's nightmare to get to mythic last season in my Yorion exile deck. It costs3 mana and is awkward but almost always represents value. I was surprised it wasn't played more in the age of escape.

[@joanmoriarity8738]

“Shuffler is fine.” In University-level mathematics classes that cover probability, professors will do an exercise where the class is divided into two groups. Each member of group 1 has to flip a coin one hundred times and record the results on a sheet of paper. Each member of group 2 gets a copy of the same sheet, but they just fill it in at random without flipping an actual coin. Then the sheets are shuffled and taped up to the board at the front of the classroom. Then the professor has to guess which sheets came from group one and which from group two. And because the professor understands probability, the professor is almost always correct. Here’s the trick: the ones that are actually random (because they came from actual coin flips) always have several long streaks of the same result. The “random” ones filled in by students trying to make them look random... they don’t have those. CGB, I love you. I love you so much that I am dedicating my energy to correcting your understanding of how probability works. From now on, whenever I hear you complain about “shuffler is fine” because several copies of the same card got clumped together in your deck, I am going to post this in the comments. TL;DR: The shuffler is actually fine. Human brains are bad at understanding probability.

[@Caelreth15]

That's really interesting, i didn't know that.

[@snugglyhugs8698]

I think CGB's favorite card is the Skynoodle Serpent Dragon... Yorion. but I could be mistaken. (My favorite is Thassa, but she's so rare.)

[@leiziru9642]

Same here, Thassa is

[@stefanvanwyk4733]

One can see when you're really enjoying yourself. Very good. Keep strong.

[@covertgoblue]

Thank you!

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

If you're looking for more Yorion decks, there's also 4c Yorion Enigmatic Incarnation, it hit top 10 Mythic this week, it's kind of crazy value but can also pack removal/sweepers from W and B. Plus the lategame lock: Neutralize + Shipwreck Dowser + Thassa, all of which can be tutored out through various means.

[@lordfifth4520]

Do you have a decklist for that? Sounds interesting

[@user-et3xn2jm1u]

@@lordfifth4520 There was a reddit post by u/JuniperusCommunis in MagicArena, just a few days ago. I think they posted to the competitive sub too.

[@lordfifth4520]

Okay i'll check it out, thanks

[@KrommFarenborn]

I adopted the Yorion plan the moment I drew him when Ikoria went live. I have been A YORION follower ever since,,

[@digitalscribbler68]

Yorion brings so much joy to the game of Magic.

[@nunodasilva5449]

no, it makes it trash actually

[@vorlostzurab7653]

Congrats! Nice to see the Reward of so much work!

[@DustyRh0d3s]

Damnit this is what I've been playing for a long time and now all your fan boys will be playing it until your next video.

[@YOSEPHALLEN92]

Oh noes, don't cry

[@josonic]

You mean until tomorrow...I think you'll survive

[@MrLadou7]

Hey CGB, I just reached mythic for the first time. Thank you for your videos and for your awesome advices! I used your Dance deck that I adjusted for BO3

[@covertgoblue]

That's awesome! Congrats on reaching Mythic!

[@burkemercer-theinvestmentp1821]

When did CGB start looking like ‘the guy she tells you not to worry about’? 🔥

[@jabendeacon]

Once she notices his noodle...

[@TeabagDeluxe]

@@jabendeacon well, it is a large noodle. That flies.

[@vincentcudet5607]

Always super excited about a UW Control list, specially YOOOORION !!! Defo gonna try this one. I'm playing more of a Dream Trawler/Gadwick/Fae/quick countermagic list. it does quiet well against mono red. Rogues is such a tough match up I find. I just panick and make bad plays.

[@TheGaryDaniel]

Changed this deck to mono white and it’s still amazing. Add Banishing light, Golden Egg, 1x legion angel and 2x Baneslayer Angel. I also added Castle Ardenvale and Crawling Barrens.

[@kingfuzzy2]

Great creative work

[@christmas6666]

the one in best of 1!

[@jaymzhat5610]

Best MTGA as ever. I would love to see you performing Macho Man Randy Savage as a new intro style :D

[@Gabriel_Golagroz]

As a Dimir player, it's always fun to watch the plays of an Azorius player~ Ooh, control

[@simonrobinson8065]

Surely there's no need to choose, both Dimir and Azorius are great.

[@corenbinbatin2257]

Hi ! A little tip, you can bounce your own token with Barrin and still draw a card ;)

[@deathwraith2318]

Well look at that! I was concocting a similar brew just because I love Skyclave apparition and wanted to use it as many times as possible. Had Niambi, Brazen Borrower and Fae of wishes though.

[@TheVacuumOfCleaner]

Too bad that these yorion decks have so many rares, i will never have enough wildcards to craft this

[@seraphx26]

That's exactly where I was when I saw the list on Aetherhub yesterday, I don't have 42 rare wild cards to burn, sad feels man.

[@HalTuberman]

You can get creative and swap out some rares for uncommons. The Sad Robots can go down to two (or even zero). Maybe replace them with Birth of Meletis. You could throw in a couple Neutralize. If you have Brazen Borrowers laying around they could slot in. Going up to 4 Omen of the Sun isn't horrible. Negates to handle Ugins maybe? It might not be as good. But I could see a Frankenstein version of this deck doing work. I like this deck, but I'd personally want to spice it up to the control side. And that (as a fringe benefit) makes it cheaper.

[@agentblue4310]

my collection will never financially recover from this

[@acedobleace]

next update 2 of the cards will be banned and boom your you wasted your wildcards

[@kallit7279]

Try Rare Drafting. Its pretty easy to get all Rares from one set

[@DarkCloud7]

Like watching a fish in the water. Great to see you enjoy the games this much.

[@fulltimehustlin3663]

Love your control decks!! Keep up the streak CGB

[@catchasmurf762]

Back at it again with the Yorion my G

[@beooooooasp]

Loving the retro bullet club sweater

[@Clouded-Logic]

Literally threw a single Chainweb fellow in my GW +1/+1 counter deck, and it singlehandedly stomped two rogue decks today.

[@dougcarey2233]

So, regarding the Embercleave commentary and the beginning of the video, I built a mono red midrange with a ton of cheap removal, Embercleave, Purphoros (spelling?) and Furious Rise, and I've had a ton of success with it. It's much, much more robust than red aggro.

[@McFangsworth]

CGB screaming YORION gives me life

[@dcnole]

Is it weird that I hate playing decks like this, hate playing against decks like this, yet love watching CGB pilot a deck like this?

[@CloudsFPV]

With the release of AFR and Moon-Blessed cleric, you can fetch Elspeth or any other enchantment! I Love it.

[@sebaxxxtian]

love that deck, gonna play it soon

[@blurglebox]

unrelated to this, but i tried thinking up a fun selesnya control deck, and came up against one in arena that looked similar to my rough idea. calix and yorion and wicked wolves and some other fun enchants, seems maybe fun to play but not quite as beefy as this one for sure

[@blurglebox]

i am an idiot and just now saw you do this sorta deck a day ago

[@horsecop2372]

Locally sourced, cruelty free, organic mana.

[@andrewgarcia3761]

I miss when CGB called him “Yo-Ryan”

[@kingfuzzy2]

: D that's so great

[@KingSeagal]

How much salt can a single CGB video have? Yes!

[@kirakreep]

Keep the good contento flow CGB :) Cool kids club in da' house yo!

[@demonicell]

Sky Noodle is and has been my fave card for a while now.

[@nerp__]

Finally more uw control

[@Kanoog]

49:36 Bless You! 😇

[@lakewilliams5652]

The trailer was epic

[@vikashv1]

Thumbs up for the Galvanise cover and a control deck.

[@WalterCrumbcake]

23:04 Steady Craftin With CGB

[@Kanoog]

Is it bad that I LIKE the video before I watch it? Haha I've never been let down yet .

[@NamathCB]

White/ Blue/Art is my all time fav since 95..

[@cortezmonaro2714]

Need to ask, is Black Devotion list is from this standart and if it is, are we gonna see a video about it?

[@mcbescheiden725]

Yes, evil CGB is back! The kind CGB was boring, I do need some evilnes in my life.

[@marcgomes4193]

CGB playing UW Control? Yes please!

[@andrew8337]

You’ve heard of elf ona shelf, but what about kroxa in a boxa?

[@camcongab765]

U/W is always a good video

[@evanamon1287]

Does uw stand for something? I know it mean blue white but. Help

[@camcongab765]

@@evanamon1287 it means blue/white, as in the colors of the deck

[@camcongab765]

@@evanamon1287 Every color in magic is appreciated with its first letter, but blue and black have a problem because they’re both B. Blue gets replaced with U (because it’s the main vowel sound). I can’t say why this was the case instead of changing black to something besides B.

[@evanamon1287]

@@camcongab765 becuase "u" and blue sound alike. But that makes sense thanks

[@HalTuberman]

No mention of Dev's challenge (SBMtG)? He left you a message in the trailer video.

[@gustavoaffonso8942]

Finally we got to the promised format

[@kyleg5950]

Great now I get to play against nothing but this for next week

[@alechendrickson4992]

Lmao right. I love the different competitive and cancerous value decks, but hate them at the same time because everyone plays them afterwards. I’m just trying to out value them with a nasty temur brew

[@theghostwing1]

I would like to play this deck in arena. What formats would it be allowed in?

[@PaulMFDouglas]

What are you singing at the end? "World. Time has come to..." I don't know what this is.

[@Climbatyze]

Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers

[@mikew5042]

Congrats on #1

[@randomrandom7208]

0 rogue / dimir control, why can't my vastly superior UW control have the same matches?

[@randomrandom7208]

@@goreobsessed2308 it was rhetorical question

[@activityenjoyer]

trailer is fire gg

[@egs2478]

Pretty sure the red Hadron is the angry Hadron, not the happy dance one lol

[@simonrobinson8065]

I had the exact same thought.

[@bruno73421]

22:43 why Show the card if they don't have mana to cast that?

[@avee1210]

CovertGoYorion let’s gooooooooooo

[@neilryanagosila6546]

Praise be the Sky Noodle!

[@jabendeacon]

Sky Ramen is my favorite

[@akumamatataaa]

yorionnnn 😎

[@OsvaldoChannel1]

and then people figure out that these decks for some reason run no counters and no boardclears, so Embercleave started to creep up again, and the cycle begins again. And then there is Monogreen, the Evergreen strategy (pun intended)

[@alexmaragh7766]

someone did this to me on the ladder, skyclave apparition good card

[@Fregnolento]

We love your ego don’t worry Cgb!

[@veznait02]

Oath of Kaya is the reason I play historic Esper Yorion

[@elnatanbitensky8314]

I think the dual faced lands are very deck dependent and also color dependent. The blue ones are underwhelming, and the mimic only fits in specific decks. The only white one worth playing I think is the protection one. (Excluding mythics). But other colors have really good ones. Especially red.

[@clrl936]

I am surprise to not see any board wipe

[@dedhart]

Think 13 rares and 9 mythics is going to be enough to craft a decent deck?

[@SphinxMTN]

You are such a nerd. :D I loved the close. Nice deck, giving it a whirl tonight.

[@MyBesso]

-1 prince, -2 barrin, -1 dispute, -2 thassa, +2 essence scatter, +1 negate, +3 shatter the sky. Much better tuned for the current Bo1 meta.

[@jacksunn3095]

No dream trawler?

[@fordesgol7947]

But how do you cope with rogues

[@activityenjoyer]

board in the brazen B!!! nice streak cgb good work out there big fan

[@simonrobinson8065]

It's a great card but, without an ETB trigger, it's not as good as Barrin in this specific deck.

[@jemrossi]

Chem brothers reference? Noice

[@josonic]

Can anyone explain why he got to keep his 0/4 wall against the shatter the skys? Clearly I missed something or don't understand something about one of these cards.

[@lordfifth4520]

Emeria's Call makes it indestructable until next turn

[@RAUL-kk1vm]

Jaaank Week! Jaaank Week! Jaaank Week!

[@sebastiang.5032]

Looks like a furious decknoodle

[@hermeticmoon8448]

Pretty sure you could bounce the omen