💀💀💀💀 DEADLY DESPAIR | MTG Arena Mono Black Control

[@covertgoblue]

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[@libsoric6693]

The most despair I feel isn't from this deck, it's when I click on my most anticipated video of the day only to be greeted by a "NFT Masterclass" pyramid scheme ad. Great video and fun deck though !

[@lassydlassy508]

I use it in my black red control

[@ebruno2492]

@@libsoric6693 Are you referring to something different than the Likewise TV thing, or if you are referring to that, can you explain what you mean about "NFT Masterclass" pyramid scheme?

[@libsoric6693]

@@ebruno2492 I'm referring to something different. Likewise is completely fine, I just happened to get an ad about some paid seminar to "understand all you need to know to make money from NFT's" on the video

[@ebruno2492]

@@libsoric6693 Ah, ok, I appreciate your explanation!

[@ashtonstorey3405]

When lunch time needed him most. He delivered a video

[@sirhamalot8651]

15:50 I'm not sure why players haven't traded out Snakeskin Veils for Tamiyo's Safekeeping yet. Both give hexproof for G at instant speed, but instead of a +1/+1 counter, you get indestructible and life gain. Your best creature can survive Doomskar, Blood on the Snow, and any targeted removal.

[@silasfox5075]

Tamiyo is 'permanent' not 'creature'. So your man-land or binding or creature can be protected... a player uses a field of ruin, boom, Tamiyo. Downside is no +1/+1, but its not much of one

[@sirhamalot8651]

@@oscarguzman3017 Yeah, it doesn't dodge all removal, but it does dodge more than Snakeskin Veil does. It's just a strict upgrade (other than a modified creature deck or something specific).

[@silasfox5075]

@@nutmegdonkey 100% agree. The hook is possibly THE card to be working around atm

[@andrewscherzinger6585]

@@silasfox5075 worth noting it can save your chariot...

[@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself]

If I have the mana for it, I put more mana into Meathook than necessary, in case it actually is necessary.

[@AaronRotenberg]

15:52 Why? Why are lifegain players still running Snakeskin Veil over Tamiyo's Safekeeping when the latter would do so much more in their deck? Who can fathom the mind of a lifegain player? Not I.

[@PhreakShowe199]

Simple, lifegain players do not possess minds.

[@AaronRotenberg]

@@PhreakShowe199 "Eventually, the lifegain player stopped thinking."

[@ExplosiveFetus]

Gained so much life he outlived the death of his brain.

[@brandonjacobs1614]

"Lifeline" is one of the starter decks for new players. They didn't pick the cards.

[@headsman9836]

It may be hard to fathom for people deep enough into the game to follow streamers. But they were probably thinking "these are the cards I have" or they don't know what the new hotness is.

[@GodlordBazi]

I ran almost the same deck idea for a quiet a while some time ago, just with 3 Professor Onyx instead of the Lolths, 4 Tergrids and 2 Mirror Boxes along with a lot more discard/sacrifice in the early game (Inscription, etc.). The constant mass removal keeps you safe for long enough so that your opponent runs out of steam and you start to push him even more with those Invoke Despairs. Mirror Box allows you to put multiple Meathooks on the board, which really helps you getting back to a healthy state after "surviving" the early game. It's really a race against time when playing against decks of that type and they typically eat other control decks up as if they were a snack before breakfast. Aggro decks on the other hand can really fuck you up if the deck shuffler thinks you've already meathooked enough creatures for the day. I might use that deck again in the near future, but I've rebuilt it to a historic deck lately. Still awesome, I'm currently at a 85% win ratio and the losses were mostly due to me being greedy enough to keep a hand with no more than 2 lands in it.

[@justinbeck2899]

I like Life of Toshiro Umezawa in MBC, can buff your 1CCs for extra damage early on, remove dorks, gain life, and it ramps on Curve for your big Sorcs.

[@danielquest8644]

Game 2 was absolutely epic! Never give up, never surrender!

[@mistermitch1614]

I really like Learn, it seems like a really powerful mechanic, especially how you showed it off in this deck.

[@JosephCunnington]

CGB: "blood on the snow." Carmine Laguzio: "I don't even wanna be around anymore."

[@Korrekteur]

And these lucky mana pulls…

[@sovietgreen9328]

Wow, this might be the first paid promotion I've seen on MTG content. That's moving on up for the whole game; way to go.

[@lifeofasalesman01]

That second-to-last person was definitely just mono white with showdown of the skalds.

[@CanuckMonkey13]

Personally, I think they had mountains in their deck because they were running Brutal Cathar, and that's a red card on the back, so they MUST need to run red mana, right? ;-)

[@Xwodsarecool]

Bro this deck is insane!!! I copied it to the T and no joke went from no bars filled diamond 4 to straight mythic losing only two games!!

[@pokemaniac333]

CGB raging at (not-mono-)white taxes while playing a self-described trashpile of muck gives me strength

[@ao_qd]

LOL, I know, right? Play an annoying deck and then get matched with a deck that perfectly counters you-that's Arena, baby! HAHAHA.

[@NotCollectedNorCalm]

i like the card flicking its kinda soothing ngl

[@austintierney8492]

So happy we got a video every day from CGB even when he was in Vegas. Really look forward to my daily dose

[@unitedstatesotaku7597]

Just made the deck and played a few games with it. Honestly one of my favorite decks now!

[@belzeberunknown6234]

you crack me up with the virtual card flicking!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@riddivalion]

That callback to Settle the Wreckage was hilarious, playing around that card in old Standard was so annoying...

[@yuggothproductions]

Hope your editors are doing ok in the Ukraine! We need invoke some despair on Putin!

[@Javier-rm6ql]

10:00 It is like quoting Sephirot in the fight with cloud from FF7 the movie.

[@orcadian00]

Why no Junji? That card has won me so many games up till and including mythic. Comment if you want the decklist, it's so satisfying to play xD

[@Damnmeplease]

Sure, sounds interesting

[@toof987]

he played junji on a stream and wasn't too happy with it. later he said that none of the new dragons were worth it. not sure if he's changed his mind since then.

[@annahamilton2664]

And this is why mono black control is my favorite deck. Question though. Why not have at least one copy of Professor Onyx? I've found her to be an amazing game ender. I've won so many matches because of her specifically. I don't know what you'd drop, but I really like her. At any rate, an amazing deck, and I've definitely tweaked mine to look more like this.

[@agentofashcroft]

Yeah I agree, the Professor puts your opponent on a 4 turn clock, is hard to remove, and has ended up being my win condition on multiple occasions vs. control decks. CGB makes some great decks but I like Sonio's mono black builds a little better. CGBs spidey-sense for knowing what the opponents are going to play is top notch though, and has helped me with my play immensely.

[@Rhapsodies_In_Red]

Professor+Invoke Despair= Evil goodness!

[@hcgtrplaya92986]

That game against mono white tax shows how important single target / instant speed removal is for control in this meta.

[@TraxDaMax]

That was the coolest deck in this video!

[@vivarevo1105]

CGB! You are back! I was worried you hated me or died or something :) (JK. It's a throwback to an early video)

[@nerdity275]

So resilient

[@The_Duck_Is_Angry]

Mastery tree can be purchased with gems if you need to complete it faster.

[@travisandsports]

CGB's favorite crop is mono white. He is always farming them

[@treizeepyon5799]

I just love mono black. So much fun

[@Knoxmortis187]

Love your content, especially the black deck content, disparaging is the word. 😆

[@therealcamallu]

The amount of times "despair" was said in this video gave me Danganronpa flashbacks

[@ZeRedSpy]

Haven’t heard this much about despair since Danganronpa

[@michaelcote7414]

Does it get better than CGBs cackles of joy when his opponents misplay from obviously not knowing their cards and probably just learning the game?

[@jeremiemordor7821]

Yes, whenever he destroys a goddamned disgusting Selesnya lifegain deck. Fuck those bastards.

[@jonasnow]

Obligatory Junko reference

[@hewhoborks]

Come on, that Kaito avatar mono-red player was already dead! I want to believe they had a daily quest of playing red spells and not that they enjoy going through all that *despair*

[@ryan2849]

Junko has joined the arena...

[@newhampshirenate]

Dockside Shemp. Actually looks more like Moe to me, though.

[@matttaylor9993]

Banishing light effect?! (Oblivion Ring sobs in corner)

[@condemned70]

Thank you for the long video!

[@DrJAFox]

The "They Need a Therapist" deck.

[@JChen7]

I'm no English major, but desperate does sound like the right word.

[@wildcat8797]

Should have meat hooked with all your tokens on the board. Would have dropped him to 2 life. Then you just attack with with hive or block with 2 creatures next turn & win with the death triggers.

[@NotCollectedNorCalm]

yessss mono black, i love it, meathook massacre is one of my favorite cards as its a sweeper and a timer kind of

[@matthewcrowther890]

Invoke despair: aka dangenrompa the deck

[@Kanoog]

"Be careful for what you wish for" If people don't like card flickering that isn't what they wish for just saying haha.

[@KallousKiwi]

God I cannot believe how bad your first 2 opponents were

[@Korrekteur]

How lucky your pulls and starterhands are everytime….

[@remy1934]

Please, feed this editor ! xD

[@jacobpollock8785]

15:50 Opponent decides to demonstrate why Tamiyo's is better

[@yoav.kats6328]

22:00 Alexa tried to announce a wedding to help against the despair

[@Sleepy12ftPanda]

29:49 That misplay was painful. Guy could've blown up your board and swung in for 10 but animated his Frost Dragon instead. Misclick?

[@chernoalpha3445]

Drag them through the muck Slog through this disgusting pile Lord help me I do love some mono black

[@benjaminreynolds3659]

This is it.

[@cannonball_Z]

hey CGB.....thoughts on adding chapters instead of timestamping in the description?

[@TC-rw1kf]

There's more things to do than just sit there and keep streaming TV being a couch potato.

[@yannpoupard4059]

Gush ! so much roping and card flicking ^^

[@Poweranimal84]

How to beat all these green white enchantment decks? It’s all I run into these days

[@kaipohl6929]

Please no card flicking 😵‍💫😅 But happy you kept up with your daily videos 👌🏼

[@TonyDeanEmbley]

I was wondering when you’d run this. Do you think it’s a scam after running it?

[@joshuarawlins7793]

you and HGG set it up so you would match today? you both wore black to the ball.

[@voltcorp]

why the heck would a GW lifegain run snakeskin veil and not tamiyo's safekeeping

[@gustavoandrade2643]

38:52, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mactoeter]

ok, the first game the sound was good, from the second game the crackling began. Had to leave the vid again

[@ao_qd]

These mono black and Orzhov control decks are so much more annoying than mono white. At least the games are quick vs. mono white!

[@leonidburdinov3895]

Feed the damn editor!!!

[@MrSirbra]

This whole video seems like a suicide hotline ad...

[@lomantaslawrencepatrick3574]

Wait is this standard or traditional standard? I cant seem to find soul transfer in standard

[@HairEEck]

Last two games was pain incarnate but the deck seems fun otherwise

[@blargety]

Am I the only one that's losing their mind over the sound glitches throughout the video?

[@Mrdre007]

I swear all W/G life gain players are the same.

[@SikkiNixx1989]

Feed the swarm?

[@gusfoxfeuer5548]

MONO BLACK

[@mikejensen233]

Algorithm juice

[@VzKeViiNzV]

Can someone pls explain hoy a -3 Hook kills 5/5 and 6/6 spirits?!

[@agoodhumoredwalrus2626]

It’s because the power/toughness of the spirits are dependent on how many spirits. So when he had swung in combat, 2 spirits took 2 damage, so were then 5/3’s. When he hooked, the 2 5/3 spirits died which would make the other 5/5 spirits 3/3, and since they all had -3 they then died as well. Hope that made sense, I’m not sure I’m the best at explaining 😅

[@agoodhumoredwalrus2626]

There’s also a comment thread further down that probably explains it better, if you haven’t seen it already

[@jakubdzejkob9989]

56:50 why all tokens died to -3 meathook?

[@jakubdzejkob9989]

@@daniduc ok i get it, thanks a lot!

[@zsoltnagy3991]

Because they pump each other. When the spiders weakened some of them, than the -3 hook killed those weak ones their demise weakened up their comrades. That together with the -3 hook was enough to destroy them.

[@dannyyankushev]

Please play a game with black without the meathook massacre. It is a $30, pay to win card (on paper)...

[@markjohnson406]

Be a man and play galvanic iteration and invoke despair in the same deck.

[@benquilter113]

TYCGB

[@jakubstalski3814]

I have always had Magic in mind and I have always wanted to learn to play it. I remember when in high school one of my friends brought cards to school and I was delighted with the extensive mechanics of the card game. After many years, I decided to join Magic and finally learn to play and get a taste of the atmosphere, although it turned out that the community in this game is totally fucked up, in no other game I have not noticed such merciless abuse of new players. Well as a new player I try to do 15 wins daily tasks with very little card collection, so I go into unranked BO1 standard matches and find out that all the motherfuckers are sitting there and farm gold there. After checking the meta decks on one of the pages with the magician, it turns out that every third my opponent played with a full completed meta deck, like a soft cunt sitting on unranked battles instead of doing it at events, ranked games. This is so obvious in other games, such as hearthstone, gwent, or just any other game, that players with a larger collection of cards do not enter unranked matches to harass weaker players in an unequal fight, but to do it with an equal opponent. Due to the players' mentality in this game, I don't see my future in this game, it's a pity, because magic turned out to be a nice game and finally I had the opportunity to try it, but for God's sake this community is pussies. I do not recommend this game due to the broken mentality of the gaming community 👎

[@rafaelramos1408]

All the problems you described are in Arena though, and I agree with you, that's why I'd recommend playing with friends with physical cards, that has been the best experience for me definitely

[@jakubstalski3814]

@@rafaelramos1408 after what I saw and experienced here, I have reason to think that this is a group of losers who in other card games have not achieved anything and here they can finally outrun others. And showing new players how amazing he is, the god of the game. The problem that is visible in the magic is that gold can be obtained for ranked matches, so a noob who sits a year in the rank of silver, gold and who cannot get to his dream platinum has the opportunity to demonstrate his mind power. I don't know what kind of people it makes fun of, and you can see that there are so many in this game. for me this game has been deleted from my list of interests I wish this community to grow up as soon as possible

[@captaindc]

Yo

[@colonelgork]

#LiberateTheEditor

[@livingonabudget1890]

This is disgusting.. I love you and the content but losing to meathook, lolth, blood on the snow and getting lolth back… it’s just a depressing defeat

[@josephlck]

I just love watching CGB lose, especially to decks that I like to play 🤣

[@TitansTalkGuy]

Please stop the card flicking.

[@ProudLikaAGod]

this card flicking is giving me motion sickness 🤢 pls stop

[@jigglefloyd]

I love the videos as usual CGB, but why aren't you playing ranked? These opponents you've been playing lately are total trash tier. You're even playing beginner decks.

[@jigglefloyd]

@@daniduc thanks - he has good points, but some these standard event players seem way worse. I mean, there seem to be massive misplays nearly every match.

[@jacquesfall8117]

Please turn off your Alexa, if that even is possible.

[@beandip9824]

Imagine playing monoblack board wipe tribal talking down on boros going as far to say they shouldn't breed? Lmao talk about salt hes a clown

[@EvenFlow406]

Watching you stomp obviously new players is not entertaining.

[@lautarogandolfo4680]

First ;:V