💀Black/Blue Control 💧Forgotten Realms Standard 2022

[@fumioshwartz7114]

Most magic players: magic is at its best when combat math matters Control mages: I'm only happy when you're sad

[@azarisLP]

Apparently the answer to the question "who let the dogs out?" was: 'Mordenkainen'. Who knew.

[@AzafTazarden]

I kind of like that other murder spells are getting some use, like Poison the Cup. I half agree with CGB that this is not the best removal spell, but Heartless Act left such a power vacuum in the new rotation that an unconditional murder instant is just good even for 3 mana.

[@elnatanbitensky8314]

With upside of scry and paying in installments, while allowing you to get around the double black pips.

[@fultonboys]

I've been climbing quickly with a similar deck, but it runs snows lands for blood on the snow so I can get my planswalkers back, and also runs graven lore. Win cons are planswalkers and hall of the storm giants. No creatures just a ton of removal and counters.

[@piercetan9112]

do you have kaheera in there? could be good.

[@andesmountain9178]

That’s the move. I like it

[@olafthemoose9413]

@@piercetan9112 kaheera. In 2022 standard.

[@zhangersmash3042]

How successful are you with the deck out of curiosity?

[@gabrielmoreno6434]

List?

[@AzafTazarden]

"That's how you win with this deck, you just frustrate them to death" ain't that the truth for dimir control? If you ever get the the chance to stabilize with your wincons, you most likely already won anyway. The wincons are a formality.

[@negativevariance1363]

CGB: “An exiled troll is a good troll.” Now *that’s* something every parent should teach their children. 😂

[@Halifax9]

“He countered his first spell before he spoke his first words”. I believe it.🤣

[@thomasbrauer5538]

Other hobbies: “what are those?”

[@Halifax9]

@@thomasbrauer5538 Magic is love, Magic is life.

[@leiziru9642]

In "You go first" we trust!

[@steve8992]

lets go new ad intro!! hope you're getting your coin, king!

[@ricardoagarzajr2230]

Thanks for putting this out. Its nice to see that my list isnt too far fetched

[@chiknsmack]

I was just working on Dimir or mono B Control to counter all the W and G aggro. For now I've settled on Sedgemoor Witch as the main wincon. Feed the Swarm to hit creatures or classes is great (losing life isn't a big deal when you have pests running around everywhere), and if you want more creatures to block with early/have a clock late, Mardu Outrider is a 3-mana 5/5 that is legal in Standard 2022 even though it's not from any of the legal paper sets.

[@kyzer42]

Awesome, I love Dimir control! Also, I was wondering if you could build a deck around the Vecna combo (Eye of Vecna + Hand of Vecna + Book of Vile Darkness)? Keep up the great videos!

[@tobias97erdt]

Vecna is an absolute meme. If you invest 3 cards to create a token that dies to pretty much every played removal in this format you are doing something very wrong...

[@kyzer42]

@@tobias97erdt You're right. I just think it's fun.

[@LordKaiju_2]

OH baby, I got excited at the New CoolStuff ad at the beginning! Way to get me hyped for an ad!

[@HalTuberman]

Why not card X though? It would have been way better than that one card CGB put in the deck. I think we can all agree on that...

[@barney3444]

It's not on 2022 standard you silly sausage

[@overshare7]

7:26 see what he did there, there is a mark of a grown-up man, he was generalizing something and immediately said "doesn't mean it's always true" "in my experience" u don't see this often in 2021.

[@mikedermensch22]

CGB's pop culture references narrate the OPP's plays so well

[@joshuaandreas4133]

16:38 the enemy didn't have enough snow mana is why he didn't power up the haven

[@Losky999]

He actually did: 2 from the Snow Mountains and 1 from the same Faceless Haven.

[@richards.2073]

Some alternatives for you to shoot down: Baleful Mastery over Poison the Cup, because sometimes you need something to just go away, permanently, and the 2 mana cost is handy in a pinch. More mana efficient, at the cost of your opponent drawing a possible replacement. Or a land. Umbral Juke over Soul Shatter- when it's a dead draw you can create a token to chump and protect with. Xanathar- Untap with him and you have control of what your opponent can draw and play. Makes for a powerful finisher.

[@Chaotic444]

Love the new Shark Token ad lmao

[@TheLoneRider_]

CGB, so ive been playing brawl with Gretchen Titchwillow as commander, its a pretty fun control deck that lets you use your extra mana at the end of opponents turn, surprisingly good when you can drop your extra lands down on end of their turn, hope you give it a whirl some time.

[@bread9574]

I feel like blood on the snow is such a must have against agro it totally shifts the advantage in the game

[@bobert555555]

Am I the only one getting nervous with the massive amount of land creature cards in the format now? Most of the time you can’t get rid of them without land destruction or instants, and they are getting stronger and stronger with each format. Makes me worry a little…

[@raphaelpinson7031]

19:34 plays crippling fear and doesn't name crab, unwatchable

[@RandomPerson-mv8bn]

lvd would be ashamed

[@riddo9759]

Shadows Birdict!

[@robertneal4244]

Seagate Restoration? It allows the draw and unlimited hand size while Mordenkainen merely draws and makes multiple hounds. They can end up being VERY big hounds.

[@jjprs3062]

His voice is always so soothing. Keep it up!

[@adamkampia]

Heckin' CGB! I "brewed" this deck yesterday, won a ton with it, and now he makes it better - and I'm going to see it every other game! 😆

[@jacobrichards3728]

Those cgb shark tokens are so bad ass, love it!

[@adamkampia]

The mono green loss didn't necessarily have to happen. I find in this format that using sweepers early and often is the best plan rather than getting greedy (especially if you have two in hand). Make them rebuild, so they can't use the creature land (or that it's all they can do). Make them have to focus on crewing the chariot. Limit their options.

[@dervincheco1758]

I love this deck, I would love to see Xanathar guild kingpin @CGB added to the deck

[@braydenknudsen7977]

Yet another banger almost 900 days in a row. Keep up the amazing work CGB. Thank you for inspiring and empowering the magic community day in and day out. You are cool.

[@dallinjones8312]

Maybe you could slot Behold the Multiverse since it synergizes well with the other foretell cards by making your plays more ambiguous. I think it might help bring up the consistency of the deck as well, and it could also outperform Hagra Mauling and the 4x Jwari Disruption :).

[@olafthemoose9413]

Problem is those are lands too and lands are important.

[@filomatheia2604]

As an Italian who doesn't play aggro, I feel hurt :(

[@kingfuzzy2]

[@MasterOfMonoBlack]

Last Video: "I'm not a Dogwalker" Oh, but walking Birds is alright now?! :P

[@joshuasmithhart1871]

I've been running a similar deck. I have 2 copies of true polymorph to turn anything terrible on the opponents end into something like a pest. Or to ruin their vecna combo or bag of holding. It's almost more fun to destroy their combo with it than to copy something for yourself. XD I let someone work their bag of holding then turned it into a bird. They added full plate to the bird and I mind flayered it. XD 2022 has some fun matches for control decks. Throwing a wrench in aggro has been fun since ice age though.

[@LuisRodriguez-sy5rs]

YES I've been waiting a decent dimir deck for 2022, this will do!!!

[@Peinfull87]

At 16:34 you say oponent is trying really hard not to power up haven, but he couldn't, he didn't have 3 snowed lands apart from the haven, that's why he wasn't using it yet xD

[@kuzuma4523]

Perhaps I am in the wrong, but at 25:07, couldn't you Divide by Zero in combat phase, instead of in response to the trigger, so that Chariot would have tapped 2 tokens for 4 damage, thus having 8 damage and avoiding lethal 2 turns later? I keep reading Divide by Zero and I don't see what could have stopped you from blinking Chariot as it is a permanent with mana value 1 or greater.

[@olafthemoose9413]

The chariot got crewed by the lair of the hydra so there was no reason to bounce it later

[@kuzuma4523]

@@olafthemoose9413 Oh you are right! I completely missed it🤭.

[@jillyjimbo8220]

nah he should have just played shadow's verdict the turn before and let the opponent get 4 damage with the chariot instead of like 13.. It was an oversight and misplay imo. But oh well thus is the game of magic, we all do it.

[@keithbarbee438]

Thanks for the content again.

[@martinpalazzo9703]

Surfing bird🎵. I love the punk version by The Ramones

[@plaxy100]

Like another previous poster played this deck in a snow shell with blood spell for a more powerfull board wipe. Kind of curious how you feel about Xanathar as a creature Bomb in the end game possibly a sideboard when opponent switches out there creature removal for planeswalker removal

[@kingfuzzy2]

Love me some friendly local totally not evil librarians ( :

[@EdLee1234]

Love. It. Bird is the Word!!!

[@intheinaka]

I don't know how good it is, but I've been really enjoying Wizard Class in my dimir control deck. I'm surprised how often paying the three mana for two cards on turn three is the right play, and with Mordenkainen and Iymrith the first and third levels are relevant. Probably not better than what is in this deck, but when you're drawing a bunch of cards and growing your dragon that draws you cards, what could be more fun than that?

[@keithbarbee438]

Btw Jorn in the mono green ranger deck is amazing, Broken wings is turning dreams into nightmares in best of one.

[@Blulken]

What's your opinion on Xanathar?

[@henryreinhold9097]

All monogreen needs is cowbran, bane of green dell, and we have ourselves the new monored.

[@danlewis7707]

Congrats on the streak. This deck seems evil indeed. C'mon Grixis!

[@calebkershisnik1008]

I built a deck with all answers and no wincons, that just relies on people rage scooping, and you would be SURPRISED how many people rage quit after 5 turns topdecking, and getting everything countered

[@bread9574]

What about the 2 mana black sorcery that destroys target creature or enchantment? Seems really good to deal with ranger class

[@Gnilson5]

I cant find a comment about it so here goes: That monogreen match was INFURIATING. I cant remember when I had a perfect 1-2-3-4 curve like that. A year ago? For aggro decks it seems to happen WAY more often like Its nothing

[@noardon1]

Notifications Gang 💪

[@Chaotic444]

Yessir! Haha

[@jorgamund07]

Agree, when rebuilding my usual decks for the 2022 queue, Ashiok was the main thing I missed. (Dimir and Grixis super friends decks) Other than Ashiok and Slitherwisp, I'm glad the rest of the cards are gone.

[@krisdodd2937]

What are your thoughts on sphere of annihilation?

[@Asian_Caleb]

What’s the community’s opinion on baleful mastery as removal?

[@krisdodd2937]

Good sideboard for bo3 when you need target exile

[@MrXerios]

YES DIMIR !!

[@siegfriedleher4662]

"We can take a bump" -CovertGoSesh

[@JohnSmith-ly2yq]

Facelass Haven > Crawling barrens imo. Also helps justify the 4x tapped lands

[@Xgya2000]

I don't know much about deck building, but I know I'll miss Shelly. Poor Dragon Turtle to the backline...

[@bumpy1031]

Imagine if they got stranger things in on this set like they did with Godzilla. I’d love a fancy demigorgon or a hopper walker.

[@reneasma3540]

Why not eyetwitch instead of hunt for specimens? You don’t get to learn immediately, but it flies and it’s cheaper.

[@camcongab765]

Probably because when you need to learn, you want it right away.

[@olafthemoose9413]

The 1 life can be relevant too

[@joep5454]

6:43

[@reneasma3540]

I did not mean to question his choices. I love it when in the games he gives us the reasoning for the choices he makes. Would love it when he would do an extended deck tech on his choices of cards included and numbers picked.

[@AutkastKain]

Baleful mastery is my favorite removal in 2022. Sure they often draw a card, but not always, especially late game, and it exiles at instant speed, so to me it's worth it

[@pablonunez8334]

I like it better than poisoned cup for this deck, will made the swap after I finish quickdrafting and opening packs to try to take a shot a completing the collection of this set.

[@DarkRuler2500]

Planeswalkers now have time to breath without Questing Beast. :)

[@Venzynt]

Birdwalkers? more like Turnwalkers XD

[@edde2429]

I think you missed the opportunity to run Prismari Snarl. It can come in untapped and then you coud run the red one damage lesson.

[@StripedJacket]

I just wish power word kill was as useful as heartless act. It can’t kill the most prevalent cards in 2022 format.

[@tobias97erdt]

Why can't you just pay 3 mana for the kill?

[@conce9530]

With Alrund's Epiphany being the "Top End" of the meta, I would expect more people to run at least 1 test of talents. Getting a saw it coming or epiphany most likely is closer to GG than not.

[@MetalHeadedNoah]

It's a dead card in 90% of your matchups though. Doesn't even hit planeswalkers in the control mirrors, so it's a hard pass

[@maximemalejacq8313]

I am trying a UB contrôl with demilich as There is Mostly instant And sorcery. But à tech i really lire is ray of enfeeblement. As most of the fast créature got 1 thoughtness or are white. ;-)

[@michaelwolejszo6445]

I love playing against decks with all removal and counterspells. Take this deck one level further. Since there aren't any land destruction cards just make a deck with all removal and kill them with creature lands.

[@xThemadpoet]

The only real downside to CGB being in mythic - is we don't get to see how to handle the rest of the crazy meta - it's just the same 4-5 decks

[@colinwilliams3459]

Hello! I haven't been active in MTG since 2020 back when the meta was mono-red and dimirrogues. Sort of time frame when Omnath, Locus of Creation was busted. Can someone catch me up on what's happened since? It seems like 2 new sets have been released which is dope but otherwise, I feel a little lost. Thanks!

[@inkantuj]

Kaldheim and Strixhaven provided lots of respectable, playable cards (Alrund, Goldspan Dragon, Elite Spellbinder, Expressive Iteration, Onyx, Faceless Haven, and few dozens more), but meta was still dominated by old Eldraine archetypes. Adventures, Yorion piles, Rogues. Mono White has been on the rise constantly, Jeskai Cycling won some, ofc Red Aggro and Rakdos Sacrifice played a big part. New decks from STX? Golgari (or Witherbloom, same thing) Sacrifice and Izzet Dragons. The latter has been really strong. But rotation comes soon, and AFR release flipped the table on 2021 meta. Now plenty of players lost interest on Eldraine-Strix standard and are already brewing decks for 2022 Standard which is (thankfully) playable on MTGA. On this 2022 meta Mono Green is leading the charge so far. And old archetypes, especially Adventures and Rogues, will lose top cards very soon, so it's a major turnaround.

[@antivalidisme5669]

Flunk on that freaking Tosky

[@Wolf21973]

When he tried to give hexproof to his dragon and you played crippling fear. Would the hexproof protect it since you aren't actively targeting the dragon but all creatures? I'm a noob

[@blurglebox]

no, but it also gave +3 toughness which would have saved it if not for the counter

[@ConfusedGeriatric]

Please CGB, we need a competitive control decklist updated for strixhaven 😭

[@discopotato4089]

Hey cgb are you gonna do a venture deck anytime soon?

[@discobiscuits4251]

i thought sphere of annihilation might be decent for sweeping the board, havent play tested it or seen it much on the ladder, is it just too slow and bad?

[@grizzwald15]

From my experience board wipes that are reliant on a trigger generally are bad. Sphere of Annihilation isn’t the worst but most decks can destroy it if they are in green, because they can use learn effects to pull them out of the board.

[@MetalModelMaster]

I already use your shark token in my Jalira EDH deck

[@Th3os7]

NO..NO NO NO.......

[@alexanderforbes1452]

Mordenkainen brawl deck when? I brewed one up thur other day, kind of thought it would be a meme, it's actually a total killer. Just play control until you can ultimate your planeswalker and then win with Thassa's Oracle, which ends up being super easy. As good as my build turned it to be I'm sure CGB can figure out something even more painfull.

[@atrope]

So cool!

[@albelblackdragon]

The only thing is maybe baleful mastery but ya I don't know

[@Spenver]

I think Mono Green is the new Mono Red in this meta. They need it? They get it. Easy. Three land would even be enough.

[@atomskpk997]

So that first deck you played against was doing it wrong! The simic sac land copies goldspans consistently with an additional +1+1 and I've been enjoying the hell out of it. Please cgb, playtest the littjara copy land on sweet non legendary creatures

[@germagla]

For the -pope- content!

[@r0m988]

You can post Dimir decks every day, I'll never complain.

[@AdamFireEyes]

Your lands are so damn pretty

[@jeffkosko5815]

CKC! Mordenkainen and Professor Onyx!

[@Archerillian]

☀️💧💀🔥🌳

[@sebastiang.5032]

Dimir is love!

[@BudaFZ]

The shuffle is absolutely broken. That's what I think...

[@fredericodargel9919]

Can we have a goblin deck?

[@xser4321]

You only have 2.650 Gold and ZERO mythic wildcards. Same, man... same...

[@jarednobles3056]

Control feels so awkward in this format, hopefully Innistrad gives it some better pieces

[@tobias97erdt]

I mean I am running one of this "filthy" creature decks and you can't tell me that control is in a bad spot. If it is so bad why are over 50% of ladder games in S2022 dimir/esper control? I mean I started to run sword of the realms with toski/cragplate baloth (which should be an overkill) to send control a message and they still get to remove those. Control might be a little to difficult for some who are used to press the emergent ultimatum in standard I win button but no one can tell me control is so bad because it is not...

[@TJE.13]

@@tobias97erdt I think as far as creature removal it has decent pieces (nothing amazing) but as far as counter spells, they arent in a good spot in this meta. Alot of decks have turns with nothing but activations into mana sinks with these new classes, that even happened a few times in this vid.. The deck is being carried by Alrunds Epiphany, without that one card this whole ship sinks 🤣

[@seanwood3033]

@@tobias97erdt Maybe you don't play counter spell/removal decks a ton but it's definitely in a mediocre spot compared to what creature decks can do right now. A good portion of the pieces for control are narrowly conditional or if they are broad, a bit too slow and 'overcosted'. Heartless Act was too good and glad to see it gone but there is a wide gap between it and the best options in 2022. I don't see the incentive to play a control deck when there is just superior value in the 1-3 CMC creatures in green, white, and a few choices in black/red. It's easier to go wide in the creature decks and just rebuild right now versus hoping for the perfect curve when playing control.

[@tobias97erdt]

@@TJE.13 for a 4 set format the creature removal is very solid. I mean sure it is not on the level of standard/histroic but that would be quite degenerate if it was. That classes incentivise less counterspell heavy builds is an improvement imo because it encurages proactive play patterns, something that stands for interesting games and something that can exist in a format with only a very small numbers of semi game winning plays. However: the format lacks of viable noncreature builds and if only 1 build (monogreen aggro) is capable of reliably fighting against control we proably end up with a 2-3 deck format that is also quite meh. Can't t there be more value engines than ranger class to counter creature removal spamming control? I don't want those to be as strong as ranger class but good enough that there is more than 1 actual counter to the archetype.

[@olafthemoose9413]

Petitionen to call mordenkainen's dogs "ultra mega dog's of death and destruction" (day 2)

[@stevanvieira3665]

Yesterday I said that Alrunds Epiphany should be banned. Look how many games that card turned around on today's video. Unfair card

[@germagla]

-Deus- Content vult!

[@FilmColossus]

Epiphany needs banned in S22. Way more annoying than Exalted Deeds

[@micahellett9683]

"But it's content" - It's actually racism!!!!! (kidding)

[@cerealpowder1486]

pog

[@correnegadagaming8417]

First game you didn't realized the opponent was missing one snow land for heaven. Weird on you...