A new combo hits #1 Mythic in Standard

Username November hit #1 Mythic on May 3rd, 2024 with this Blue/White Reanimator Combo Deck
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[@MoipaZ]

You can also kill them without breaking the loop by restacking triggers so the reanimate resolves last. This is how the dragonstorm, bladewing combo won, I played a lot of that in historic.

[@monopoman]

@@Vyctor__ This way works pretty damn well, you just choose not to copy and there ya go.

[@U.N474]

Hello, Covert Go Blue. I'm November. Thank you for introducing me to my deck. I saw your improved deck and thought the idea of including the Grand Abolitionist was great. I'll try to imitate it. I look forward to seeing more videos from you.

[@jacobwilkinson6112]

Awesome deck brother! Too bad it will be in the meta now that this video is out, so graveyard hate will be a must. Still though, very cool deck man!

[@Hanmacx]

What do you think of my Nearly MonoBlack version? 13 Swamp 4 Haunted Ridge 2 Pointed Discussion 4 Lively Dirge 2 Hulking Metamorph 4 Shattered Sanctum 4 Raucous Theater 3 Rakdos Joins Up 2 Fanatical Offering 4 Abuelo's Awakening 4 Scrapwork Mutt 4 Insatiable Avarice 2 The Cruelty of Gix 4 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 4 Beseech the Mirror

[@henrygandelman]

I'm really enjoying the new editing, specially the intro, showing the combo actually working. This is a complicated one to just listen, first time I saw this I had to pause the video and read each card a couple times, but seeing the stack pilling up on the client screen helps a lot.

[@mrshadelock]

Great video. Loving the KZbin comment reads. I think it makes the videos more interactive and I hope it keeps going. Great job as always CGB.

[@jeremypiles1787]

Upvote

[@SlothMtg]

Hey, I have video of me playing vs November when he was 2# Mythic and I was 5# Mythic :D He played exactly this version of the deck, checked every card with Deadly-Cover up so I remember it well🦥 So cool to see this on CGB's Channel!❤

[@RafaelAAMerlo]

Congrats! :D

[@SlothMtg]

@@RafaelAAMerlo Ty!:D

[@michaelrichards5253]

🦥

[@fantastulon7265]

Is it in one of your videaos, mate?

[@alaingamache3908]

Funny that CGB snarks about opp not having Three Steps Ahead when it would be perfect for that deck to counter AND to pitch stuff from hand to graveyard.

[@yorkieandthechihuahua]

Thanks for playing this one, CGB. I had this played against me once and I was half asleep at the time so didn't take in what the combo was. Now I've seen it it looks sweet. Thanks again.

[@Hanmacx]

Check out my Nearly MonoBlack version 13 Swamp 4 Haunted Ridge 2 Pointed Discussion 4 Lively Dirge 2 Hulking Metamorph 4 Shattered Sanctum 4 Raucous Theater 3 Rakdos Joins Up 2 Fanatical Offering 4 Abuelo's Awakening 4 Scrapwork Mutt 4 Insatiable Avarice 2 The Cruelty of Gix 4 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 4 Beseech the Mirror

[@pixel9785]

"Did I learn that, or did I get unlucky?" describes so much of MTG

[@jeremypiles1787]

The new editing is cool

[@brakalanga7667]

I definitely don't think Rest in Peace and Unlicensed Hearse should be staples in standard decks. The Cauldron, on the other hand, is just a versatile, strong card that does 10 things at the same time and I'm surprised it's played so little tbh. If you look at all graveyard combos with the exception of Nissa landfall, they have one thing in common: they target cards in graveyards, be it Abuelo or Reenact the Crime. Cauldron solves that issue, at instant speed and WHILE BEING PROACTIVE, which is the important part that makes a difference. Can't speak for Flanker because I don't own it and I don't know its actual power level, but I'm always been surprised at the complete lack of interaction Boros Convoke has, so it may be a good addition there. That said, I think it's still worth mentioning that Aven Interrupter + Cavern of Souls IS a viable possibility imho: as shown in this videos, these kind of combo decks are usually played with a "tempo player" mentality, and those 2 extra mana matter a lot. Finally, as I said, things are a bit different for Nissa landfall. However, the average number of lands resurrected with an Analyst activation is usually between 2 and 3, which means it still curves out almost perfectly with the Cauldron. And both Virtue and the turtle / Shigeki target, so it's all about being smart and timing the Cauldron correctly.

[@BDrumev001]

Balance Team Monkey will get that promotion now for sure!

[@daniduc]

First several times I encountered this combo I stopped it even without understanding or realising that was a combo. I just saw the 1/1 Rakdos enters and killed it immediately, without even reading what it does, like, knee jerk reflex haha Bad plays sometimes pay off lol (since then I learned how it works and also lost to it because I just couldn't stop it).

[@LashlayDS9]

killing everything that enters the battlefield at any point is most likely a good idea these days... too many strange decks out there thanks to the extra year of no rotation...

[@joshreed316]

This is good content and good to know a new combo is out there.... With the prevalence of convoke, control, Show-Off, Analyst and combo, I can't best of 1 anymore. Feels like the matchmaker/ coin flip is all that matters in the current Bo1 meta. Started playing best of 3 again for the first time in years and have enjoyed it so much more because I can actually answer decks like this after game 1.

[@danbecker9805]

I love the theme of decks that "cruised to high mythic". The "Latest Untapped Mythic Players" on the Meta tab also has a path to fun decks to try!

[@TriNerdNick]

I love this, I was trying to make Threefold Thunderhulk work in a Abuelo's Jeskau shell, but the "Azorius Rakdos Combo" hits harder, haha

[@breakingthewall2112]

Same. I love the Threefold hulk as is so fun but this jots Combos to the moon

[@kevinsines6140]

Played against this deck last night with discover dinosaurs. I got my one of Elesh Norn, Mother of machines in play and squashed their portal and combo.

[@breakingthewall2112]

Yah that bat that that stops etb also hoses it

[@jaredplaudis4825]

Great editing showing the combo! I really loved it

[@carstenneuhaus6090]

[@justinthomas4731]

I'M JUST HERE FOR THE "NO QUESTIONS" ~ i cant get enough of it/still laugh every time/thanx cgb🔥

[@AndersNordberg]

Props to the editor!

[@darrennelson-hall8730]

Great shout out to the howling salt mine!!! Love those guys and glad you will be on. Hope that most are caused by Blake!

[@broinlol]

i played a cheap version of this (plains and islands instead of rare lands, and almost no control stuff in it) and i still got to mythic before vid release. it was under the radar, lucky me i made it before you released the vid, cause i'm a poor bastard who can't buy mtg-cards but i'm grinding the gold-quests.. great vid, like always keep it up

[@robertahearne423]

I've been playing this combo on Arena in B01 with a slightly different list. Trying your list, I really miss Founding the Third Path -- it's a "read-ahead" saga whose second chapter mills four cards and whose third chapter lets you cast an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. It's an excellent way to cast Abuelo's Awakening again if it was milled or countered or discarded.

[@uzeyirismaylov8611]

That "No questions" never gets old. It brings smile to my face every time. Have a great day cgb.

[@CheshireCad]

I understand that some people are really liking the intro clip and combo-explanation clip. But I'm gonna go ahead and say that I **really** hate it. It immediately spoils one of the games, removing all of the tension once I figure out which game it's from. I literally don't have the chance to pause the video or look away before seeing it. And, like... why do y'all need it? *You're already watching the video.* You're gonna see it anyway.

[@CheshireCad]

On the other hand, showing the cards on-screen during the explanation was a really great touch. It's particularly nice being able to see the flavor text.

[@dutssz]

that 21:50 game was the most western shootout game I've seen, just waiting to see who pulls the trigger first!

[@jacobwilkinson6112]

This feels like the strongest combo deck in a while. I’ve just made the deck and played 4 games and won 3/4 of them. Feels very consistent with all of the surveiling and life gain from faithful mending. Super fun deck

[@Hanmacx]

Try my Nearly MonoBlack version 13 Swamp 4 Haunted Ridge 2 Pointed Discussion 4 Lively Dirge 2 Hulking Metamorph 4 Shattered Sanctum 4 Raucous Theater 3 Rakdos Joins Up 2 Fanatical Offering 4 Abuelo's Awakening 4 Scrapwork Mutt 4 Insatiable Avarice 2 The Cruelty of Gix 4 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 4 Beseech the Mirror

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

3:00 just want to clarify that you do t sacrifice to the legend rule, it just goes to the graveyard

[@Lukas-rv4lc]

Ok until now every deck has rest in peace in it

[@alexcsere]

When i play this deck, its either combo in bottom 20, or brick city. 24 lands? Shuffler gives you 2 in 13. you've hit full mill and now you need Abjelos? Yeah you wish friend, first ones card #28. Start 2 mill cards? THOSE WILL BE YOUR TOP 25, and its all bricks and no way to remove them from hand. Ever wanna go first? It's against control, and every match against second is Mono red or teched out white black/Dimir/black green with soul lantern AND dino. Oh you started with a great hand? Here's every brick in order to dodge your gazes/archelogists. You got 3 Rakdos in grave? LOL gl finding Hulking anytime soon. You face mono red, heres 2 Abolisher, you face white/blue or atraxa, abolisher is a dream. It's fucking painful.

[@dittmar104]

Looks like the end is now main deck able in best of 1. RJU becomes a creature so is target able and then it’ll remove all the other copies. You do need to find a way to deal with the metamorph since that’ll still come back unless you tidebinder rakdos. Nothing a nissa or frillback can’t do. Or kallen is another option. Is it the age of sulti?

[@alancruz1405]

Abuelo'$ beatdown (for the opponents) Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance! But not for me.

[@unamedperson1115]

title "new combo" every mtg content creator for the past month... am I a joke to you?

[@fordesgol7947]

I had to learn this too in my greasefang deck, even if you have the combo in hand there is no use if you can't find the discard spells

[@CoffeePlz77]

Really upped the editing on this video and it's really appreciated!

[@canis39]

So many 'solitaire' combo decks out there. Is that good for Magic in general? Does it bring in new players? If it does, I guess it's good. But it's not fun to play against, that's for sure.

[@anthonyellison5998]

Oh yeah, here we go again

[@xMattOxi]

I ran into CGB playing this deck & was able to get the W with Yuta’s list, it was a great game

[@affcordeiro]

Usualy i don't use emotes... But i needed to give an " your go" to the one in best of one. heheh

[@DiscardatRandom]

I would too

[@MrDankDro]

You can break the combo simply by choosing not to pick something to copy with metamorph. Then you end the combo with a 9/9 artifact creature

[@XaeroGames]

Love it!

[@DavidSchulz-fe5mh]

do u have a nice favorite deck for upcoming metachallenge?

[@Hanmacx]

I did an almost MonoBlack version Filling the Graveyard with Lively Dirge Then using Beseech the Mirror into Abuelo's Awakening 13 Swamp 4 Haunted Ridge 2 Pointed Discussion 4 Lively Dirge 2 Hulking Metamorph 4 Shattered Sanctum 4 Raucous Theater 3 Rakdos Joins Up 2 Fanatical Offering 4 Abuelo's Awakening 4 Scrapwork Mutt 4 Insatiable Avarice 2 The Cruelty of Gix 4 Case of the Stashed Skeleton 4 Beseech the Mirror

[@devosb85]

It's a pity, I don't mind combo decks, but standard takes so long, decks like this start to pop up. Every game is over at turn4, exactly why I didnt like historic

[@kalorhuberdeau3094]

Give it up for the editor. Making a great channel even better 👏👏

[@thomasstoehr5981]

Really like the new improvements on the videos. ❤

[@qmarkus2836]

Just added Rest in Peace to my Boros Angel's BO1

[@Meowmeow.age.6]

It is not actually that hard to have black and red in the mana base anymore... why not have it?

[@jomarlynx]

Because the combo doesn't work if you just cast rakdos, metamorph copies an artifact or a creature.

[@grantcroshaw5789]

CGB your new intro is so clean. I love it.

[@tripleS88]

39:14 what’s the “clever” version of the deck then? I think CGB built/posted the same version some time ago…

[@MELEROXGAMES]

No questions Abuelo!!!!

[@Mephistofred]

Damn Nice! The Meta's really Waking-Up now! ... get it.. cause.... cause it's... You get it.

[@talonarayan]

Great games! Loved the video!

[@Surya-uj7re]

I remember running into this deck on ladder quite a few times. Fortunately, I was running Jeskai control, which has multiple answers - counterspells, instant speed enchantment removal, Kutzil's Flanker - so it went pretty well for me.

[@Red_Mag3]

Same, I was running Boros control, and they didn't have counterspells so I just kept using Return the Favor to mess up Abuelo's

[@alaingamache3908]

Are you running Jeskai High Noon ? I’m still trying to make it work.

[@Surya-uj7re]

@@alaingamache3908 Nah, traditional control. Only new tech is replacing the Dissipates with Three Steps Ahead. With so much aggro in the meta, a full set of No More Lies, Lightning Helix, and Lockdown gets you ranking up pretty quick. I'm already in Diamond.

[@WitnessedOne]

@@Surya-uj7re no more lies is trash vs aggro lol

[@Surya-uj7re]

@@WitnessedOne Then it must be some other decks that are left looking like idiots when their Squees and Knight-Errants get exiled. It actually works better when you're on the draw. The play pattern is tried and tested - turn 2 No More Lies to counter their 3-mana play, then on your 3rd turn Lockdown to wipe the board they build in the first 2 turns. Done, dusted, I've had players scoop after being hit with that one-two punch.

[@user-pf2ic1ph2e]

24:09 they probably already know what your deck is trying to do and trying to thin their deck to be more likely to draw anwsers to it

[@thisispotatos9957]

Is it better than the turn 4 mill from reenact? I am not sure. Both decks telegraph pretty easy. If you hold up the removal you have a pretty good chance. I have only been beaten by it once in Bo1 once I have seen it before. I just didint have the third removal for the third time they pulled the combo.

[@WitnessedOne]

ive actually had serious problems with the 9/9 that comes out if you stop the combo

[@gottinrod]

Tishanas tidebinder sends his regards!

[@alexwoodbury8484]

Love the editing especially when explaining what can be a confusing combo. More of that!

[@lonelongboarder27]

First time I played this I never got to abuelos through 30+ cards. You play it and you have abuelo's as soon as it was possible to win twice in a row.

[@dotdotdot2k6]

I have gotten quite a few kills from people not knowing how to interact with the combo. Doing so after lethal is on the stack. Pretty fun.

[@RollingCalf]

Lol love the FF8 Dollet theme

[@BuddyKristoff]

i hit decline during the re animation part too stop the combo and it keeps hulk on the field

[@dmojica2000]

Moderator is killing it.

[@powertokanon]

I think running "The Celestus" would be good for 1) Drawing and discarding combo. 2) Minor life gain against aggro. and 3) The very slim chance you need to put more counters on the returned copy to get out of range of "Play with Fire" or "Cutdown" (extra ramp for the X)

[@ronnyweinreich9425]

I've got to Mythic last month with this combo. It's pretty consistent 👌

[@binbhrf]

a deck that i can see struggling to even get 30% in bo3. Cool combo tho

[@DiscardatRandom]

Yeah all decks run graveyard hate in the sideboard because of temur

[@PlaneswalkerChris-ms9iq]

Oh so that’s why this was all over ladder yesterday

[@dchapa1308]

I would love to see a very competitive deck with Artifacts Simulacrum Syntheseizer.

[@jacknelson8640]

New intro looks awesome 😁 at least it’s new to me haha !

[@Dragon_Fyre]

It’s always nice to see the Nissa deck lose. Biggest waste of time ever to have to play versus that deck.

[@madgodloki]

Am I just missing the link to the deck?

[@Michael-ib6ky]

good evening mr/ms editor

[@RenanTheBoss21]

One of the aspects i like the most about CGB videos is when he gets a deck that is making waves in the game or something like that and give his own spin, changing or not the deck

[@lonelongboarder27]

Tried this version of the deck and ran into every deck running counters to this deck specifically.

[@No1ofConsequence]

Remember, the matchmaker hates you.

[@LashlayDS9]

mtga in a nutshell.. this game is doing that to me regardless what i play.. its like the devs of this game hate fun..

[@keikapanen5555]

Seeing a few KZbinrs post this deck kills my soul. Funny enough, the deck you used before this last set has helped me flash in removal to exile all the important pieces.

[@WrightJustice1991]

Oh that's what people were trying to do against me!

[@joshualuster1972]

Let’s gooo ❤

[@redarndiculous]

Aha so you do have a new editor!

[@trixlee5102]

Interesting, but in my testing this is worse than the original version that is all in on the combo. In my testing, for every game the extra control might help you, you will lose more games to not finding the combo as quickly as the original version because you have more spots devoted to control. And, frankly, with many problematic decks running Cavern of Souls, I think this deck overvalues the counterspells. But, I'm grinding out these subpar decks in the lower ranks for fun and testing, so maybe at Mythic the meta is more friendly to this build.

[@guysutton2717]

Great editing to actually show the combo at the start of the vid. Epic times as always! Cheers! 🎉

[@alane3985]

You're late, you should see this insane basic land 1 damage combo 😢

[@kaapekkaapek6600]

This deck is dam op and fun :D

[@paulocampino5045]

This list is way more resilient than the stock version. 34:25 fake ctrl player spending two counters when combo was non existent haha

[@Swellington_]

That’s nasty and I love it

[@dexterkairaiuak2955]

If this is Standard, wtf is Extended like?

[@a.velderrain8849]

I have played against this deck 5 times and they have never got the combo off before I Farewelled their GY

[@spaceout829]

I love how excited you get about new UW decks to play, glad the meta seems to be keeping standard interesting for you

[@adamkampia]

Thanks. I hate it. I was actually hoping CGB would not feature this deck.

[@marty_mcfly_jr]

I would have shut this deck down. I run Calamity's wake and rest in piece. you never would have had a graveyard.

[@SilverHawkStrategies]

This combo is gonna annoy a lot of folks 😆

[@mountainoise]

Long Goodbye is your friend against this deck, zap that token as soon as it gets on the board

[@Shinnizle]

18:30 CGB calls OP a clown for actually playing around a counterspell, yet never misses an opportunity to call aggro players idiots. The hypocrisy is unreal.

[@Demios101]

Ran into this deck twice yesterday and slapped it silly both times. Kept wondering what they were trying to do with such an off-mera deck. Now that I've seen what it does, I know I got lucky.

[@ChrisLongPhoneRepair]

Blue Control. WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED.... Blue is so OP and they continue to boost it.

[@Rucarlos]

Great... another T4-5 insta kill combo, and with access to plentiful conterspells and board wipes no less. This Standard is getting degenerate af

[@coreyyates3385]

That's the problem with 3 year standards. 3300 cards right now

[@No1ofConsequence]

This is so easily countered if you see it coming. Holding removal or counters makes me laugh as I trash this flavor of the week deck into the ground.

[@markd9318]

This is way lamer than bloodletter/dread. If you cant kill them in time or disrupt the graveyard, there is nothing you can do.

[@hellcat7528]

Oh my god this deck can be so hard to go against 😂😂 My Control deck doesn't have any graveyard hate due to lack of wildcards, so this deck is a tough matchup

[@Red_Mag3]

What colors?

[@eleiaandsteven]

This is broken. The spree that takes half of an opponent's life is broken.

[@TDMStyle]

Ayyy early crew WYA