GOLDSPAN GRUUL MONSTERS going for TOP 1200 MYTHIC | Kaldheim Standard

[@snugglyhugs8698]

Beautiful deck. Green + Red reminds me of Christmas! Go Grruuuuul! 0:00 Good part starts 3:21 Dedication 4:16 Let the nonsense begin 6:32 Game 2 13:06 Game 3 14:44 Game 4 (CGB is now officially speedrunning MTGA) 25:51 Game 5 33:50 The face of someone being BM'd. 34:35 Game 6 39:34 Game 7 43:23 Game 8 49:44 Best part starts

[@breckenalejandro3028]

Sorry to be so offtopic but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost my login password. I love any tips you can give me!

[@hughamari9626]

@Brecken Alejandro Instablaster ;)

[@rl-films]

Hey CGB, for "science," I kept track of my entire Mythic run in Bo3 Historic: the TLDR is that on the final day, with an 18-7 record, I was at #1099. At 19-7, I was at #276 to end up at #332 when the timer expired. What I learned was: * I don't think there's an extra credit bonus for playing Bo3 * Being X-0 (perfect record) gives you less benefit than you'd might think, as I fell to #888 while I was 7-0, so while it's probably sorted by kill/death ratio of some sort, it does reward you, it would seem, for playing more * Things are much more competitive than they were last year (in terms of requiring huge streaks to get ahead) and yet players are still clumping in huge plateaus of similar rankings 844 vs 204 2-0 Golgari Company vs. Gruul = 502 511 vs 1257 2-0 Golgari Company vs. Bant Control = 352 362 vs 606 1-0 Golgari Company vs. Rakdos Arcanist = 233 245 vs 474 2-1 Golgari Company vs. Jund Midrange = 167 236 vs 97% 2-0 Golgari Company vs. Rakdos Arcanist = 177 298 vs 155 2-1 Golgari Company vs. Gruul = 177 400 vs 99% 2-0 Golgari Company vs. Gruul = 283 888 vs 98% 0-2 Golgari Company vs. Selesnia Company = 1304 1305 vs 98% 0-2 Golgari Company vs. Gruul = 99% 99% vs 99% 0-2 Golgari Company vs. WB Auras = 98% 98% vs 98% 1-2 Rakdos Sac vs. Grixis Pile = 97% 97% vs 98% 2-1 Rakdos Sac vs. UW Auras = 98% 98% vs 93% 1-2 Rakdos Sac vs. Jund Sac = 96% 96% vs 93% 2-1 Rakdos Sac vs. WB Auras = 97% 97% vs 95% 1-2 Rakdos Sac vs. Selesnia Company = 96% 96% vs 97% 1-2 Goblins vs. Selesnia Company = 95% 95% vs 87% 2-0 Neoform Combo vs. Aetherworks Marvel = 95% 95% vs 971 2-0 WB Auras vs. WB Auras = 97% 97% vs 96% 2-1 WB Auras vs. Selesnia Company = 98% 97% vs 96% 2-0 WB Auras vs. Selesnia Company = 99% 99% vs 94% 2-1 WB Auras vs. RDW (white splash) = 99% 99% vs 91% 2-0 WB Auras vs. 5 Color Niv = 1337 1332 vs 96% 2-1 WB Auras vs. Selesnia Company = 1060 1165 vs 96% 2-1 WB Auras vs. Abzan Counters = 904 923 vs 97% 2-0 WB Auras vs. Sultai = 585 1099 vs 1241 2-0 WB Auras vs. Jund Sac = 276 end at #332

[@rl-films]

That's irrelevant. Plateaus exist because non-streamers tend to sit on their ranks and go off and run events, play Brawl, or switch to limited. This leads to fewer games played as people behaving in similar ways get similar results. It's not surprising and doesn't require a fancy technical explanation or word salad. Matchmaking can only match people against players who exist and are looking for a game -- which is why anyone in Diamond on the third day of a month is probably matched vs. Platinum and Mythic players as often as other Diamonds, especially if they're in a lower volume queue like Bo3 Historic. (Although everyone thinks their favorite format is the lowest volume.) There simply aren't enough Arena players to consistently match people who are close in rank and even if there were, ascribing that much power to a match making algorithm ignores the larger reason people tend to be clumped on the ladder.

[@r.mar.673]

@@rl-films I have the magic assistant app for the game. I played on the last couple days of the month in the regular play queue and everyone I played against were playing top tier decks. When the game is over I can see that they are in rank 1 mythic. These guys are too afraid to play in the comp queue on the last couple of days. And im here in tier 4 bronze in constructed. (limited all the way unless I just need to do a quick daily)

[@jasonblahafitness6349]

High IQ analysis, thumbs up!

[@Sipsie]

I just love the art of goldspan dragon

[@ericlecarde]

Looks like a fckn Salamance

[@Dazulolwarrior]

Smug dragon

[@nickniehaus1763]

Same

[@MarkovChains223]

"The art of the goldspan dragon" sounds like an ancient Chinese text about making money

[@jedpc807]

love the art and the animation once summoned. that makes me want to build a deck around the dragon

[@ryanbolson23]

First game description was perfect for understanding the frustration people have had for months. Only able to play decks that counter rouges because that’s all there is. Hopefully it’s better now that this new set is out but I finished my master pass and haven’t touched the game in weeks. I’d play upwards of 15 match ups a day and I’d be lucky if I saw more than 3 NOT be rouges.

[@DualWisdom]

wait im lost, why didn't he use inscription of abundance to fight the hushbringer with his embercleaved bonecrusher giant at 25:00? did he fear an indistructable spell in opponent's hand? wouldn't it still be a better play?

[@fleesch]

was looking for this comment, he could also have fought it with the deathtouch questing beast, right?

[@DualWisdom]

@@fleesch thank god, I would've thought I was going crazy xD maybe it's CGB's sleep depravation kicking in

[@fleesch]

@@DualWisdom still, im wondering why no one else saw this, i expected this to be a top comment. maybe we are missing something? or are we the only good players here? :D

[@DualWisdom]

@@fleesch ikr XD... _But that seems really unlikely tho_

[@fleesch]

@@DualWisdom i know what we missed ... the doggy ^^,

[@USERNOTFOUND]

The highlight of my day is cgb telling me I’m cool everyday

[@tacooobelll5899]

kinda sad :/

[@bryantkapono4241]

@@tacooobelll5899 that's not sad They have something to be happy about EVERYDAY #perspective

[@hazadus]

me too bro!

[@SkarGreyfell]

*removes Embercleave* "Do you like to resign now?" Daaamn Dude! Stonecold! And the nod afterwards was so smug!

[@adampopeens2728]

The best part was that they did resign

[@clagen86]

Lol I love holding that priority just to see if they shame scoop when I aquire lethal >:)

[@mercedescolomar1]

Hi CGB! Love your videos. Just got to play against you, playing a Mardu deck! was quite thrilling to see your name on the other side! :) StanTheMan is the MTG name. I hope to see the match in your next video, though you might not deem it an interesting enough battle :) All the best, and keep the good content coming :)

[@Aznos]

I love how at 34:00 your white weenie opponent rage-quitted after you embercleaved him xD

[@amaurycourtois1387]

31:50 you had lethal on the turn. Goldspan + Brush + land attack with 4 = 17. You wanted to much the card draw. We feel your control love behind that ;) Nice games GG

[@rodrigueboudry3923]

Huge thanks CGB for this deck, i'm in love. He is a bit tricky sometimes, but all theses hastes creature get the better from yorion's decks. Especially since i just enter top 100 mythic with it. I was gold 4 just 2 days agos. The ability to have turn 4 embercleave or Great henge playable is a huge thing. I'm 41 win for 14 losses (74%) with - oddly - a better winrate on the draw. I have 3 dragons instead of 4. I added 1 snakeskin (great combo with the dragon), 1 embercleave, 1 questing beast and 1 primal might. I removed fire prophecy, scorching dragon and 1 inscription. Maybe the primal might can be removed too and have the new troll saga or grimrock knight instead ; to have more way to draw with inkeeper.

[@jeremygeorge6241]

Getting the cosmetic for a Dragon fits me so well, as Dragons are the best! Love your work CGB, I watch your videos everyday. Happy to support you even if it's just a little.

[@Fierysaint1]

Dedicating the cosmetics was genius! Sold me!

[@hazadus]

These matches are so intense!.. Can’t stop watching you, CGB!.. Thanks for great content, you’re clearly making my life a bit better every evening )) Take care of yourself and yours!

[@mattkramer8426]

At 30:35 shoulda used the inscription to fight the hollow blade. They discard to protect. No cards left. You’re turn use shatter skull and kill both

[@danlewis7707]

CGB. You are getting better at aggro man! Haste, fliers, tricks and card draw. The aggro nuts!

[@reggiev1733]

I felt that CGB was annoyed and tired of playing against dimir mill/control when he made that embercleave play and gave the opponent some time to realize they done messed up.... felt like a message and I loved it lmao

[@oifusmcsapper8774]

CGB keep up the great work!! Thanks a bunch!

[@this19suffering]

Most of the time, when I play this type of deck it looks like your second match where you draw no land. It just doesn't work for me. Meanwhile my opponents are playing double brushfire with passage and dealing 10 dmg turn 3.

[@adamkampia]

What player in mythic would not know about the equipment control rule? Maybe mono-red, I guess.

[@jameslacy7236]

‘Cleave Gruul (or Cruul) still kickin ass and takin names. Looking forward to trying out the additions! Keep up the great work man, CKC

[@ВолодимирМайко-п7р]

great video! Despite playing for long, you looked great!

[@deboozombie23]

3:45 Jeremy Dragon is a catchy name

[@olesrensen1863]

Find myself cheering for the mono white guy. Its an ongoing uphill battle against the gruul onslaught. A doomscar would have been lovely :)

[@Sp3ich3rr4tt3]

So this video is out for 20 mins and I already ran into this deck on ladder Oo

[@clagen86]

You mean the goto top tier aggro deck? Ya don't say....

[@samuelnewton1312]

Inscription is a great add. Thanks CVG.

[@henrycampopiano5425]

Covert Very Green

[@TBeanAndTheSundanceQ]

@covertgoblue congrats on 2 years of daily uploads!!! 👏 #730

[@nyancat5448]

the speed at which you won your first three games gave me whiplash

[@jackpabich763]

I read the description and saw all the Q&A's. One question I have is if you would consider making Arena budget friendly decks. I've loved so many of the videos, but crafting is intimidating with the amount of wildcards it demands. The best budget deck I've noticed for Bo1 is Cycling, but I was wondering if there are options outside of that. Keep of the great content!

[@laurentlb]

24:00 What about doing a fight with the Questing Beast (deathtouch) to kill the Hushbringer, using Inscription of Abundance?

[@foolish137]

indestructible doggie to the rescue

[@frigidblaze1]

CGB : I'm starting to lose my faith in the great henge Me:...wot ..the great henge is starting to lose its faith in you

[@Bellachump]

What about heroic intervention? Seems better than snakeskin veil if the point is to protect the dragon, blanks sweepers

[@nickritchie2154]

Man, goldspan dragon seems real good, with that second-to-last game. Swing with 4/4 flier, get enough mana to cast cleave? Sick.

[@neverragequit5648]

CGB I can’t believe you’ve not done a Kroxa, Tergrid deck yet! My wildcards are waiting...

[@1hiyo]

CGB would you please consider doing the Izzet Flash deck with the goldspan? I’d love to hear your thoughts on it!

[@scannerdarkly]

Why not fight hushbringer with questing beast?

[@freyamiles3718]

20:6 it's the same glitch Finn the fang-bearer has

[@dandiaz19934]

How many days behind are all these videos from the day they were posted?

[@odashogunate1978]

15:56 weird text glitch with edgewall innkeeper.

[@WrightJustice1991]

The poison guy has a similar glitch that says rules text for dying to poison instead of the ability text.

[@ferdinandyusaklistianto]

25:07 May i know why CGB don't fight the hushbringer with the questing beast? Just for analysis and improvement for my mindset...

[@reachingvalhalla5096]

Because the enemy could have just activated the selfless saviour to give it indestructible

[@ferdinandyusaklistianto]

@@reachingvalhalla5096 i see... Thx for the clearence... I dont see that coming...

[@dylanwalsh4719]

CGB's face when he almost got the turn four win playing aggro had my dying lol

[@simondg42]

This dragon is a phenomenal card... Very good job from magic 💯👍🏼

[@vonsai3]

Has anyone tried the deck and how has it worked for you

[@Fer8aTV]

Dude, I swear. There is something about gruul and land drops, even with those mammoths. I play a bunch of different decks and I always feel like I get mana screwed with gruul half of the time, just gruul T___T

[@clagen86]

I'm starting to wonder if the shuffler gets confused by MDFCs. When viewing a deck, it doesn't add these to your land count. I'm sure the shuffler is 100% legit and fine though....

[@sebastiana2035]

Last time I was this early, arena had kaladesh unremastered

[@khaldago]

Hey big C. Would you mind making a green black deck ? Thanks 🤘

[@joedettloff5466]

24:58 why didn't he fight the hushbringer with the questing beast? Gaining the life there only temporarily solved the problem.

[@dumplingdepinto]

Opponent had a selfless savior in play. Hushbringer doesn't cancel that effect, in case that's what you were thinking.

[@joedettloff5466]

@@dumplingdepinto I just totally missed the savior. Thanks though!

[@verstek09]

CGB, you don't seem to be having fun. Feel free to take a break or do something more enjoyable so that you can re-energize yourself. We'll understand, Magic can wait.

[@Murmaider4]

This was filmed all together, I can't blame him. These are almost a week old now. I bet grinding to top Mythic is the least fun you can have

[@michaelhartwig4117]

I'm pretty sure you don't do requests but I'm going to ask anyway, I built a no creature Esper control deck for best of three, I would like to know if I can send you the list and you and you make changes and play it for best of one and give you the opinion on the deck. If not it's all good but if you don't ask you will never know. Keep up the good content CGB. YORION!!!!

[@Jaysankos]

Might be able to take the Dragon out of the Ember, but you can't take the Cleave out of the Goldspan

[@OsvaldoChannel1]

Goldspan Dragon is a 10/10 card solely for the animation. Also in my experience playing Selensya Counters, the green inscription is one of the best cards from Zendikar. I have used it to save a creature from a Bonecrusher or a Trade, sneak lethal, or gain something like 10 hp to survive a Cleave (I have done that, felt amazing) Day 35 of asking CGB to play 5c yorion

[@zabdielsantiago2237]

Love the content! I’ve been laddering with Grixis Control lately and I would love to see your point of you on it!❤️

[@pst5345]

how about turning it into temur and using disdainful strokes for ee or other 4 mana bombs. I mean, you have a solid chance for a t4 kill on the play anyways so you are probably just concerned about ee in bo3 I suppose?

[@dittmar104]

I feel like this deck could use a couple harbingers but feels good

[@noardon1]

Love seeing the salty rope!

[@stefanvanwyk4733]

Now for my 2 cents. CGB is the best.

[@Flum666]

playing grull in historic, ahn-crop crasher is the new tech Kappa

[@klypoz4664]

Edgewall innkeeper looks like Kevin malone from the office

[@lucasgreco84]

es increible , todos tus oponentes con mazos viejos o sin saberlo jugar , el ranked mithic es verdaderamente facil, en el servidor BR un ranked Gold te parte con los nuevos mazos, todo muy desbalanceado para los que si pueden gastar dinero y los que no . CGB espero que sigas subiendo videos pero con oponentes realmente que te propongan un desafio y no estos que parecen que aprendieron a jugar mtg hace 2 semanas.

[@pedrobrandao3958]

Let's craft! Wish you play a deck around new Tibalt.

[@danielrivera5291]

12:40 hey cgb the client lights up the cards that are capable of being cast; just trying to save time for future games :)

[@Jay-ch6hs]

CGB has the snappin'est keeps in the West

[@talgoldstein2692]

The discord link in your channel's bio is invalid, you gotta update it

[@thorgrimr9093]

Hey it would be cool seeing an Alrunds deck.

[@CidCidCid]

This deck craft worthy?

[@pantelisfan7144]

"All that and I have no mana" ...despair

[@sin1735]

Love me some Gruul..👍

[@martinpalazzo9703]

Comment for the algorithm. Gruul smashing. If the sword is lit, is legit!!

[@HunterBelkiran]

CBG playing Gruul? What sorcery is this?

[@robertchmielecki2580]

Don't forget to report the roper CGB!

[@skillfulmtg503]

When you said there were lots of odds it makes me want to run it with obosh. #coolkidsclub

[@williambradshaw1874]

Good deck!!!

[@Blacturne859]

This deck has a lot of haste

[@sebastiang.5032]

Gruul smash!

[@emyron1843]

39:30 No "Nice" for rank 1369? I'm disappointed in your Sensei

[@Jero1020]

1 clothys wouldn't hurt at all

[@Wolf21973]

CGB needs a vacation

[@FilmColossus]

Crokeyz hates the dragon so much and it bothers me.

[@estebansassa3991]

tought lesson

[@sebastiankocz7925]

mono white anti-aggression

[@ngpaintersgames7193]

i heard that being tired makes doing anything harder...#sleep helps.

[@herkheimer1453]

Love it

[@danielrivera5291]

Watching cgb play like trash is such a relief :o

[@ryanbolson23]

I can not believe how much of a sore loser that guy was! Time out stalling because he lost a fair close game. Not like he got steam rolled, it was a 1-2 turn difference in wins

[@DudeMcAwesome]

Twilight Sparkle sleeves with an Owl pet...I see what chen did there.

[@The_raggedyman]

No Toski :(

[@kvh911]

For whateevr reason me and Gruul do not get along, the draws nevevr work I can't see the lines etc. So watching someone who is a far superior player to me kind of have the same struggles makes me realise that its ok that Gruul is not for you even if you do consider yourself an aggro player.

[@Amphok]

it's better to start forget about the old cards because in another two set they will be historic anyway

[@Amphok]

@@fastydave which is only two set away

[@Amphok]

@@fastydave there are only 3 set between the the "set of the years" we have alreadytwo zendikar and khaldeim so one left then the 2022 set and below zendikar will be historic at that point

[@Amphok]

@@fastydave so there are 4 sets between 2021 and 2022? if you look at the past, there were always just 3, between 2021 and 2020, between 2020 and 2019, o i see on google there is no core set anymorte...

[@Amphok]

@@fastydave it's not about being easy or hard to understand i didn't know about all these new sets also i thought they were historiking other set when the core come out not after that one

[@mynzelah6883]

8th?

[@richbutnotfamous1158]

Goldspan? Gold spank more like.

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

2 days in a row a salty roper burning the timeout. At least, the silver lining is that they didnt do that all game...?

[@Orogenesis]

I know whitelisting isn't actually a thing....but when you've piloted Gruul successfully to Diamond many times and can't even get out of Silver with this deck in 2 hours because of UNLIMITED god draws/perfect matchups from your various opponents. It FEELS like a thing. Feels bad man?

[@Orogenesis]

An additional 2 hours sunk in today and we're finally sweeping through Gold with relative ease. Sometimes the matchmaker just wants you to go on a losing streak. Would be awesome if that wasn't the case!

[@cheeboopop]

Damn

[@mattkramer8426]

They always have it because it’s BO1.

[@andreasmuller2018]

Hey CGB i love your content, but against mono white hushbringer you made pretty bad decisions. I watched it without volume so i don't know what your reasons where for playing embercleave instead of henge and i don't mean to judge. Nevertheless keep going man!

[@marcusscaff00]

it meeeeeee

[@bklynpotter]

you are cool

[@jeffkosko5815]

CKC!

[@lonelongboarder27]

5 different removal spells lol

[@mikejensen233]

Algorithm juice