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[@covertgoblue]

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[@grixiscontrol]

did i miss something or CGB shows one deck and plays another one, counted like 4 cards different from intro

[@edgarguzman4187]

Noticed the same thing too

[@underdog43]

You mentioned 20 lands in that game, so assuming that's true, the odds of the land-only draw given a 2-land starting hand are (18/53)*(17/52)*...*(12/47).= ~.02%, so you're likely to see this again if you just play another 5000 games 🙃

[@vanikkan872]

Good that i had 3 games like that in row.😅

[@expchrist]

True

[@Dragon_Fyre]

You are thinking of it in paper magic terms and forgetting about algorithms built in to Arena to skew those numbers heavily.

[@DevilRiku48]

It could be less than that IRL considering the way we shuffle.

[@funkydiscogod]

@@vanikkan872 you need to buy a lottery ticket

[@thisispotatos9957]

CGB: I will mulligan this 1 land hand. Arena: Oh, you wanted more lands? Here, draw 8 in a row.

[@gamedaiv9168]

First Game: "How flooded so you wanna be?" CGB: "Yes"

[@tasteoftacos]

Second Game: Wanna see me do it again?

[@anthonycolbert6774]

That game is totally me whenever I try to play an aggro deck like Mono Red or Boros

[@A3TH3R-dj3hj]

thats the mono red draw experience

[@richardmenz3257]

Had 12 lands drawn in a 17 land deck in mtg arena. Something is def broken.

[@RenanTheBoss21]

oh no, CovertGoRed is real and it can hurt us

[@AnonymousAnonymous-ht4cm]

CovertGoRed only draws mountains. You do not need to be afraid.

[@Jerrysaurus]

DANIEL WAGNER YOUR IN TIME OUT no no no bad CGB

[@OldIronJohnson]

Now meet his next iteration, OvertGoRed.

[@argentfang]

Nah, he’s MesaFalconGuy now.

[@lonelongboarder27]

The amount of nongames from land is silly.

[@SpeakerWiggin49]

Just as much luck based as a game like Phase 10, no?

[@jokojabo]

AcHTuaLly, FoRcEd loSsEs aRe PArT oF ThE GamE

[@PiNoYeBoy85]

You gotta know that wizards is actively watching him play red and trolling his draws on purpose. The math of this happening so much- you get better odds playing the lotto...

[@Lordidude]

It's still higher odds than winning the lotto by a factor of a few thousand lol

[@thisispotatos9957]

CGB...you were the chosen one, you were supposed to defeat the monored, not become them.

[@Liliana_the_ghost_cat]

Too late. He's "CGR" now

[@Wolfeson28]

Bring balance to the color wheel, not leave it in redness!

[@Vitor4321321]

CGB infiltrated the enemy to steal their secrets

[@jsl209]

im intentionally leaving the upvote at #66

[@lucianomcardoso]

35:03 What the heck! My favorite creator in english and portuguese! Who do I root for? 😅🤔 Love you both CGB and Umotivo!!!

[@sr.duarte9438]

MINHA NOSSA CENOURA, O EMPREGADO O CHESS ESTÁ DECENDO O CACETE NOS GRINGUITOS 😎

[@rodrigoreguera8577]

Vibrei aqui quando apareceu e comecei a torcer por ele, jogasso que ele conseguiu virar!!

[@Kalenz1234]

CGB playing mono red aggro is like a Paladin betraying his oath. The 8 lands in a row was the punishment.

[@TvStatik]

That "20 land deck by the way" hit close to home

[@zeusalternative1270]

52:04 Yoooooo that is me, I'm so happy to be in one of your videos I would say I'm sorry for playing mono red but you're playing it too so no questions.

[@zeusalternative1270]

53:45 Ps: I had game by pointing face instead of the creature, this is what mono red does to a magic player.

[@JavierA121]

So sad he didn’t add my match with him 😢 I was playing boros convoke, so it’s understandable 😂

[@exyle6167]

Watched your videos for years. Got to play against you and this deck last night. Thanks for for the honor!! 😉 You're the best.

[@gremin3392]

for the first game It is roughly a 1/25000 or .00004% chance that you flood that hard, shufflers fine.

[@zlkanglwrth2776]

forced losses are part of the game

[@anubislee36]

@@zlkanglwrth2776 you're probably a lot of fun at parties

[@bastokrepublic]

@@zlkanglwrth2776 you'll have trouble becoming a better player with attitudes like that

[@tylerj3855]

It’s kind of hard to not see that it is. I wish it was truly randomized but it’s not, especially when matchmaking. The first time I made a mill deck I faced two decks with 80 cards and the 3rd deck had 250 cards. Never seen that from previous games one single time.

[@ajaxender12]

I believe it tries to emulate a 'lazy' riffle shuffle. To do this, it sorts the list in various ways; sometimes mana value, sometimes colors, I think sometimes alphabetized or other ways. Then it separates that list into clumps of cards that *don't get shuffled*, which is the big problem, although I do believe there is a little weaving of the clumps sometimes (particularly with lands). This is why if you see one card in a game, you'll almost always see another copy of it - even if it's a 2 of. It's why you might only have a few expensive cards but you'll still regularly get hands with all of them at once. It's why if you keep a 2-lander, you're gonna get screwed, and if you keep a 4-lander, you'll often get flooded. It means filtering/card selection and shuffle effects are even more important than in paper (or B03, possibly).

[@yancumani6884]

35:03 WOW! My two favourite mtg content creators in a epic match just made my day! Sorry CGB, but I got to confess that I, as brazilian, was cheering for Umotivo on this one heheh Man, and he was using a deck that is not yet posted on his channel. Probably recording for it! What an amazing spoiler! And all that with the final boss kinda music from the Urza stage! I'm so happy right now 🥹 Btw, I think that was a world record for land draws in monored on the other match. 😮

[@andrecruz04]

35:02 Yep, umotivo, might be the most known brazilian MTG content creator. Great player and really nice guy.

[@ZelkovaSensei]

True that

[@vermora356]

Shuffler, you're not fine

[@felixp535]

That first game was incredible. 0.005% that this happens to you in a game. That's about 10% chance that this happens to you every 2100 games you play, roughly about 50% chance that this happens to you every 14000 games...

[@RajamQED]

That new mountain art is so beautiful that the developers made sure you reeeaaally could appreciate it

[@AzazelReborn81]

6:20 there’s something seriously wrong with the shuffler these days. I’m playing mardu angels and in most of the games I’m like drawing 8 lands in the first 5 turns.

[@Calophon]

If you do a Slickshot Showoff deck again you should try adding highway robbery. The extra plot card goes hard with a plotted showoff and it lets you sacrifice a land or pitch a land if you’re flooding out.

[@alaingamache3908]

I think if you look at the VOD (OutLaws! Let's Go), at the beginning he shows what that deck had become (basically a red combo deck). I will look into it for sure. Question is, what do you cut?

[@Calophon]

@@alaingamache3908 I would cut the ancestral anger or the Godrick. The deck has plenty of 1 mana pumps, and plotting highway robbery just lets you pop off much harder the turn you do play slickshot show off. Cutting Godrick is also an option, I don’t think we really saw him in gameplay and he seems like an unnecessary top end if the payoff is a stormy pump turn.

[@Ev1lHaX0r]

Two hours of CovertGoRed! I'm here for it.

[@rivertongirlsfootball]

It's interesting to hear a professed Red Aggro hater say, "I'm going to take this deck all the way to Mythic!" I think it's indicative of how much of a grind this game is. The reason why Mono-Red is so popular is because it's an easy way to level up. In nearly all cases the game is over in 3-5 minutes. When your grinding that's pretty appealing. I wish they'd come up with a way to make the game more appealing to players who want to choose more diverse options instead of just win, win, win. Must win! ~ Thanks CGB for the great content!

[@WitnessedOne]

Not only that, but aggro decks are consistently winning in that time frame as well, meanwhile when you play a control deck, you can legit still lose after 10+ minutes to bad draws even if you were winning in the beginning, sometimes you just never stabilize and end up losing after playing a7+min match

[@tigerpunch3402]

So true, its either aggro right now or decks that go over the top that take 15-20 59:30 minutes to win a game​, you can also play the 2 card combo but that gets old and boring fast. @WitnessedOne

[@yuanchernlee687]

"It is mono red, they play mono red". That silly song kept echoing in my head while I was watching this. Nice😂

[@aljoschabeuse425]

I'm fine with this. I enjoy to see the whole variety of the standard meta on this channel.

[@psychomagi]

8 straight lands in a 20 land deck there is an VERY normal day in arena. But hey, the shufflers fine. Then another game with tons of lands make it even better!

[@whatcodeSV]

playing control so often the shuffler thinks you must want lands

[@alrkc4594]

And people still claim the shuffler isn't rigged...

[@CromCruachTheElderK]

Why is Foretell face down and Plot face up. Doesn't make any sense 😂

[@dominegem]

“8 straight lands” my experience with aggro 😢

[@KodasGarden]

Why are the mono red decks always such long videos😂 Edit: Dear lord that first game was painful omg

[@faceoctopus4571]

But was it longer than the average blue control deck game?

[@KodasGarden]

@@faceoctopus4571 there hasn't been a 1:45:00 control deck video in a loooong time my guy

[@nickna7387]

Arena is like the wwe. you know the outcome is predetermined but still are shocked by how well the plan plays out for the game

[@adventthragg]

You either die a hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

[@brent0034]

That first game is what you get for converting to the Mono Red side. 😂😂😂

[@Grimmboom]

I was almost thinking of playing some arena again since it's been awhile, then the first two games reminded me why I quit

[@christophwhiteyz9787]

Yep the scripted loses where a huge reason I quit.

[@ao_qd]

I'm really close to quitting, too. Which game(s) have you switched to if any?

[@alaingamache3908]

@@ao_qd I went back to HS, it was fine until its not anymore ... (as of yesterday)

[@shadowsmirk]

great job keeping your composure. Nothing tilts me quite like getting mana flooded.

[@loam4187]

The flood game: the math is so incredibly unlikely that I can only assume that as a dedicated control player, CGB accidentally put 27 or 28 lands in his deck forgetting it was a low curve

[@kylekonop4801]

8:00 - Remember, MtG's lead designer thinks the mana system is one of the BEST things about magic.

[@merlinsdragon31]

someone at wizards is purposly trying to destroy arena by manipulating the shuffler maybe there purposly pushing everyone back to paper

[@jmoney9494]

I dont think sometimes it is even real people you are playing, just some scripted hand and draw for a bot that you can't beat. Sometimes I will have a opponent play something like duress or bats and INSTANTLY pick, even a good player takes a couple seconds to look at board state to decide. Or an opponent I played ranked who had a 240 card deck completely on curve vampire tribal with mana fixing for all their crazy huge spells they drew after a few turns. I could go 30 cards deep into my 60 card deck looking for 1 of 4 of a card

[@Tinil0]

That first game man. Holy crap, if I hadn't seen it happen on video...When your flood becomes so bad it cycles back around to being hilarious instead of devastating...

[@ericaschner3283]

Did you forget to renew your Shuffler Premium subscription with the new set?

[@johns4834]

I never see cgb happier than when he plays brawl. congrats on 200k and it makes me happy too

[@TheArcNgeL]

8:05 surreal ^^ mono-red deck is getting vengeance on you Covert ;)

[@zacdredge3859]

CGB forgot to tell the guy he bribed at Wizards programming department that he wants an aggro amount of lands now.

[@spyjockey8298]

Fblthp studied the sacred arts of "Big Enough"

[@Cinetyk]

This is the kind of thing that made me stop playing Arena altogether after the LOTR set. Complete with the 8 straight lands off the top. I'm born in 1984, played some Magic as a teen, even got to Grand Prix Lisboa 1998. I was Blue White from the start (before "Azorius" was ever a thing). I had a great time learning the game and learning statistics alongside it, but then real life caught up to me I was in University, I couldn't afford spending time with the game. After a few years I occasionally got back into the game, first or MTGO, then Arena. A big part of this was the Innistrad sets, the first Innistrad set was awesome not only on cards and mechanics but also the lore and all the work WotC did showing off the different locales on the Plane, what a dream time that was. More "recently" I got back to Magic with Arena after the longest of hiatus, because of Midnight Hunt. I was greeted to a wondrous new world with Arena. Things looked great, nice set, awesome new client with graphics up the wazoo, ease of use, etc etc. Going back to limited was a blast, even when I was poor I thought it the best way to play the game, levelled field and all. Then of course you get to accrue a collection of cards and craft the ones you lack and you get into Standard. Bo1 is the easiest to get into, so sure. But then mono-red is your day to day and then they cancelled the rotation and it got super downhill from there. I stopped having fun with Magic. There's no space for deckbuilding, it's as cutthroat and as fast as you can imagine. Either you are onboard with that or you are way over the top smart the likes of CGB here to survive. I'm not that smart, I'm slightly above average if I'm feeling confident, so there is no space for me here when I'm trying to explore different ways to play Magic. CGB, I appreciate your work very much, I was a Patron for months, I forget how many, but I'm not sure I can go back to Magic anytime soon. Maybe call me when there's an actual rotation, but I'm so traumatized by mono-red I can only take Magic on YT these days. My all time favourite moment in Magic is the Pro Tour Avacyn Restored - that Miracle deck sure was something original and exciting. Definitively not turn 1 Kumano....

[@henrygandelman]

If anyone is curious, Umotivo is brazilian, gonna look for the mounts video in his channel as soon as this is over, to watch it from the other side

[@stigmaoftherose]

My favorite RDW was RNA pre WAR release. Runaway steam kiln with 4x wizard lighting, 4x scewer the critics, 4x light up the stage, and 4x Ghitu Lavarunner. My deck had 18 lands and only ever needed 3 lands to win on turn 3.

[@pokemaniac333]

Fblthp's emote appears to be a shoutout (no pun intended) to the song "Big Enough" (I forget the artist's name but it'll be first result if you search it). This song has been memed to hell and back because it features almost a minute of ethereal-looking cowboys in the sky just screaming. Enjoy!

[@Candyapplebone]

19:47 “It’s so much damage! They’re just lil’ shocks!” Haha

[@lockes5156]

Watching that first game reminded me of a game I played two days ago where I had the opposite problem. I was playing mono blue artifact/aggro with 20 lands, kept a two land hand, and didn't see another land until i had 38 cards left in the deck. I didn't even draw the land. I got milled by restless reef and the bottom two of the four cards milled were lands. Then i drew another non-land card and it was over.

[@TC-cq7oc]

33:38 - This would be one of those "Mono red always has it" moments from the opponent's perspective.

[@jonmartin299]

I only can say that the shuffler is not broken... it's non-existent.

[@hermesthenerd]

a shuffler's fine moment if ive ever seen one

[@victorianchan8638]

Two lands in hand, then seven land draws in a row out of sixteen remaining lands, is probability of 0.00007. Meaning that 99.993% of games will not be like that. *Edited

[@canis39]

The flood was real! I've had pretty good luck running 18 lands in my mono-red decks.

[@devansestito8458]

Blue did have a simple solution to the standard red deck, but slickshot is absolutely disgusting lol

[@TheRealTommyBear33]

got to love the stats on those land draws that would never happen back to back in any probability meter lol but cant ever blame the shuffler lol

[@TheTrueSnod]

The Fblthp emote is from a song called "Big enough", where a dude in a cowboy hat belts at the top of his lungs, recommend giving it a listen, on stream ofc.

[@SteelYoda]

Your reaction to the 5th straight land on 6:15. lol. That's usually where I lose my shit. 8 lands in a row! BWHHAAAA!

[@Drawfill]

Looks like you broke the shuffler on that first game lmao. LANDS EVERYWHERE!!!

[@KinevW]

Epic Flood! Noah would be jealous.

[@LiangHuBBB]

only 18 lands?hm

[@fablerh2476]

That first game was pure comedy.

[@Sachora]

I was excited when my game said I was against CovertGoBlue, but then I was disappointed to see mono-red.

[@an0mndr]

I truly think plot should allow you to exile them face down so u can actually hide what you're plotting

[@TheStrRacer]

I think the Fblthp emote is a reference to the music video of Big Enough for those who are still wondering :D

[@pokemaniac333]

That ending ❤ he said the line!

[@DerbyPorcelain]

Watching this, it's hard not to believe the shuffler is biased against mono red

[@Jerrysaurus]

Slick shot and DRC would be a killer duo

[@Keowolf83]

The level of bad luck you have with land flood/screw is impressive.

[@LukeTaylor007]

It seems he has turned his faith to the dark side, or I guess the red side.

[@doctrinedark81]

why does the decklist in the link and in the intro show no squee, but you're playing with squee?

[@nikoboivin]

The first set of official Lorcana tournaments are this weekend and I decided to sleeve all the fam’s decks in Ultimate Guards instead of Dragon Shields this time around to reward the sponsors! They help the content, I’m happy to help them! Now they better make me win!

[@valnira1147]

RED GOES FASTA! Either you torch your opponent super fast or you burn in a blaze of glory. Either way RED has always been my favorite color since I started all the way back in the mid-late 90s

[@ambientengine2287]

@CovertGoBlue The probability of drawing a land card in each of the next 8 consecutive draws from your deck, after already drawing 2 lands out of the first 7 cards, is approximately 99/ 2005255 or about 0.00494%...

[@arjunheart5859]

This is mono-red! We play Mono-red!

[@andrecruz04]

Just when I built boros convoke, this bird shows up and crushes me

[@Mattball82]

CGB, you think the game has forgotten all the things you’ve said about mono red through the years? The flooding is their revenge 😎

[@joancanario6377]

Question, I'm new to magic and I'm wondering if an enemy has a lot of removal or is it a blue player and its counter, how can I proceed with this deck?

[@nicolasraffaele2489]

that first game flooding thou

[@SingleLupus]

Always fun to see an appearance by OvertGoRed.

[@Soharta]

First 2 game said "you can't run out of gas if you never had any in the tank!"

[@OdinHerjan]

The odds of drawing 10 lands in your deck after drawing 14 cards is 0.0304%. However if we calculate from your starting hand and out (54 cards in deck, 15 lands left), the odds of drawing 8 lands in a row is... 0.000618% !! Note, you kept saying 20 land, but the intro showed 18 lands. I'm assuming you misremembered or adjusted post plays.

[@ao_qd]

It's common for mono red decks to run 20 lands, but I think he eventually cut it down to 18 lands because of what we saw.

[@somuchtosay]

Honest question - why isn't twinferno played in more mono red decks?

[@TheKnudie]

The first game was punishment for turning to the cursed mono red aggro... pushing the land in your face every turn as a rite of passage to the dark side

[@Jcserti]

Why not lightning bolt instead of lightning strike? Am I missing something?

[@James-tk2yl]

That Naya anti-monoR gamer is a man after my own heart

[@420neoclash420]

"That's you. That is how you sound" 🤣😂

[@marcusluukkonen4167]

Hmm where is the decklist for this deck? The one in the start of this video isnt right! :S

[@18nightc322]

I cannot believe this man is playing mono red. I have lost my faith in the universe.

[@cole3823]

I didn't see "highway robbery" anywhere. definitely don't sleep on that card with the showoff. being able to plot it and then sac a land next turnto draw 2 is amazing. you can even play a few things then sac one of the tapped lands

[@RollingCalf]

Ferocification is really good. Won some drafts with it.

[@Grombrindal]

The bad news is I pulled Slickshot Showoff in my first ever TJ pack and I have accepted the sign

[@aderoninone3244]

You'll either win, lose, or get Shuffler memed but at least it's quick. For your UW control games that can take 20+ minutes with mirrors, I'll take this experience.

[@maxwelltabb6387]

Feature length mono red w CGB

[@t3nryu31]

oof I felt that first land flood game, that's a big feels bad.

[@durial8748]

Hello everyone. The Deck in the Video is not the same on the Link from Moxfield. How can I get the Deck from the Video :-) ?

[@paddyspub7225]

I think that if I got the member shoutout on CGB's mono red video, id probably quit magic for ever

[@justinjordan7352]

I think there is a bug, all night I have been getting either no lands or all lands. It is driving me batty.