💧💀🌳 Sultai Storm the Festival Ramp | Innistrad Midnight Hunt Standard | MTG Arena

[@SBMTG]

A perfect, super-sneaky Blues Traveler reference at about 17:40. Good job

[@braydenknudsen7977]

There was one in yesterdays video too lmao.

[@craiglovell9795]

Dev the man.

[@z1X2c3V47]

I've never spotted a Dev in the wild before! 😄 Good call on the movie, I had nothing 😆

[@MarkWomack11]

Dev is dope

[@Leo90009]

It doesnt matta what i sayeee as long is sounds niiiiceeeeee. Cuz da hooooook brings u baaak

[@Marjoss1]

I recently tore and had surgery on my Achilles’ tendon so these daily uploads are an absolute blessing. Thank you so much for all that you do, you honestly have no idea how much watching your videos have helped me through this whole recovery process.

[@d9_1056]

Bro. That hit for 14 was highway robbery. Took me back to the "I should dump all of these lands right?"

[@MrCytree]

"If you see Shambling Ghast you should pump your arms". Proceeds to get trounced.

[@theflood24]

I’ve become a better magic player because of CGB. He’s been able to put us in the head of a skilled player every day for a long time. This guy is a rockstar as far as I’m concerned. No other streamer is on his level. The closest would be Jim Davis. He’s pretty good at talking out his logic. But CGB is still levels above him. If you wrote a book on how to be a better player, I’d buy it.

[@PsychedelicCheeseburgers]

In game 2, after opponent dropped the unexpected Meathook Massacre, I said to myself that only a god could pull of a victory from your position now. And you did it. Amazing! You are a god.

[@RickBrennan]

“I’m a terrible KZbinr” that’s why we watch you CGB is to see the train wreck in action. 😎🔥🔥

[@somecleverthing]

The salt train, running off the tracks and spilling salt all over the countryside.

[@melrakan]

To be fair, all KZbinrs are terrible. :P

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You have every right to ask for people to subscribe. You've put in the hard work, it doesn't cost us anything to press a button and enjoy your content everyday! Stay cool man!

[@actionjackson6943]

Your videos have helped me a lot in MTGA. I used to fail in competitive play, now I win more than I lose. Thanks CGB!

[@slonski]

For these massive land-counting game-deciding moments the Untapped overlay has a nice little function - it shows exactly how many lands you control (and how many are untapped at the moment), looks like 11/15. Hope it helps someone next time!

[@JamesTaylor-je6es]

Amazing, thank you

[@racvets1]

He used it in the past (like year+), and ran into issues. Like it doesn't consider stuff like creatures that tap (like elves), or lands like Castle Garenbrig or Nissa Planeswalker, or treasures. It's tough to actually accurately estimate how much mana you have.

[@slonski]

@@racvets1 true, when the board is complicated it might lead to a misplay, but when the board state is quite straightforward like in this game, it's very handy

[@JakkersCom]

Loving the initial discussion and end of video analysis - keep up the good work.

[@dazzace]

Dojos don't need to weather the storm when they bring it. Gogogo CGB!

[@EricMcL216]

"This whole place! Everything you see is GONE! You're the one living in a dream Silverman! Cuz I know it happens! IT HAPPENS!" Absolutely love the classic references you sneak into these videos. T2: JD btw.... Nice!

[@freefoodftw]

Good morning, Dr. Silverman. How's the knee?

[@casualenjoyer5420]

Some cool tech with Divide by Zero and Meathook Massacre I hadn't thought of till today when I finally used it - if you're in a pinch, return the Meathook to hand to drop it again. The fact that Massacre is a permanent makes it so much more flexible than I anticipated

[@andrewmarinelly5838]

I've had 1 match up that it was useful but that whole tech idea seems win more to me. In most match ups besides mono white (which a meat hook either saves you or your chasing mana as the gain life and kill you) the real match up that you want that for is blue-black/mono black and if your life total is low and so is there's removing it allows them to kill a permanent and not lose life or sacrifice and not have you gain. My point is if you're at that point of the game which I have multiple times the only time it worked as intended was against a vanishing verse to kill the kaya tokens as a bonus replay. Divide to me belongs as the stall life gain/ stall card draw is great but deluge is a must too.

[@casualenjoyer5420]

​@@andrewmarinelly5838 Yeah, it's definitely niche, but I wouldn't say it's "win more". Sometimes you're in desperate need of a second sweeper without one in hand, Mono White can rebuild incredibly quickly and it's the most popular deck in Standard at the moment. Scrambling to find another sweeper is generally done when you're behind on board and need a reset. My point is that Divide is so great because it's the most flexible spell in the format right now, you can even use it to manipulate stack triggers to get around snakeskin veil when using kill spells (personal favorite).

[@andrewmarinelly5838]

@@casualenjoyer5420 I love divide too, just not sure with this deck. This deck is sustained value unless answered for several turns. Usually a tempered version wins out in mirrors and overtime and i agree i was wrong in what i was trying to say when i said win more but I'm just not sure about divide in this deck. it does have so many uses and three mana isn't hard to come by mid game. i can't honestly think of a better card in best of one but when i look at it it seems like there should be a better card in that slot.

[@casualenjoyer5420]

@@andrewmarinelly5838 I'd agree that at 3 mana, it definitely feels like it's power level is just not that strong for the rest of the insanely good cards that it's surrounded by. I'd love to have another value engine at the 3 drop slot but until I craft Briarbridge Tracker, I think I'm gonna be playing Divide still. At the moment, its a highly flexible bounce spell that tides you over until you hit end-game. The learn is nice though, and to be honest, I love having access to my Lesson board. Even if they're mediocre cards at best, fetching up specific answers for certain scenarios just feels very blue mage to me.

[@WoRMaSTeR64]

I grinded to Mythic last season with UB control. Have 2 Meathooks and 3 DIvide by zero. Played over 300 games and knew about the interaction from the beginning. It has never been the right play/come up/win any game. It is beyond niche interaction. Mono W you wipe their board once they are done since you have spot removal and counters for the rest of it. I have never seen a comeback from their side at least against my deck.

[@stonkmessiah9000]

"I swear I will not kill anyone." (Shoots guard in knees) "He'll live."

[@nicholasf98]

"Did you just call moi, a dipshit?"

[@zombieninjapitbull3856]

"It's blue, it's green, it's black." It's the emergent ultimatum we have at home.

[@joshoa90210]

I subbed a few weeks ago after watching you get flooded. It felt oddly comforting seeing someone else get dealt cards in an identical fashion like myself.

[@gramtash9411]

You know... Arjuna is going to watch that last game and say "I told you so CGB, Festival is trash. I called it"

[@jimbrehm8618]

Appreciated the Blues Traveler drop at 17:42

[@jondorsey2043]

Haha nice catch!

[@Lucat27]

Me: sees gruul storm as a deck name Also me: Is this historic? I completely forgot that was the name of he card

[@one_bad_mofo8658]

"You're dead already, everybody is already dead!" Terminator 2: Judgement Day! I gotchu homie!

[@davidds445]

You don't need to start asking for likes and subscribes CGB you are already getting tons of each and we like you even more for NOT doing it. Simic storm is quite good but lacks removal so I guess the sultai version should be better and also gives you some interesting sb choices (for Bo3)

[@dcnole]

I really, really expect to see some of the top level pros running UW at World's. That deck is so good, and I still want to see a Lier version of UW!

[@Strongforce88]

There is a Lier version

[@HidemiChan]

He posted it

[@TednacityGaming]

Awesome effort! The 2nd win with the 14/14 hydra was amazing. The last Storm was so unlucky tho 😂

[@toof987]

just watched terminator 2 again the other day so that quote was fresh in my memory!

[@jpfister85]

Wow, this deck is in dire need of at least half a dozen more basic lands in the mana base.

[@jaredgarden2455]

NO!

[@valentinegodek4681]

Can you explain why?

[@kionashi]

@@valentinegodek4681 not ramping with Binding because lack of forest is painful

[@jpfister85]

@@valentinegodek4681 It's simple. The decklist has exactly 3 basic lands in it. Meanwhile it runs 4 Binding the Old Gods (did you see the match where he played only 2 of those things and the 2nd one didn't even hit when he was only even playing them for the ramp in the first place?). It also runs Field of Ruin, which fetches basic lands, it also runs 3 man lands that are vulnerable to being killed with enemy Field of Ruins (which also fetches basic lands). Then as if that wasn't bad enough the sideboard has TWO COPIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES! When will those ever find a land? Answer. Never. It's even funnier when you remember all the times CGB has himself made fun of his opponent for not running enough basics and leaving them vulnerable to Field of Ruin as a land destruction. And don't forget, this is a control deck so it's already much more likely to expend fetch cards. Were I adjusting this mana base I would cut the Pathways down to one-ofs each and crank up the basic lands by a lot and use a full set of FoR as color-fixing. Just watch the matches, that mana base caused a lot of trouble.

[@jaredrichmond1822]

“Hey dude, your Mom’s a psycho…Didn’t you know?”

[@JunkM4le]

What’s wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking

[@jondorsey2043]

@@JunkM4le Your fosta parents are dead :D

[@robinsonvs.parkinsons4090]

To this day, "Chill out, dickwad" is still in my regular lingo.

[@chernoalpha3445]

Why the hell did you do that? Because you told me to.

[@CanuckMonkey13]

@@JunkM4le I'm the type of person who remembers visuals from movies much more easily than lines, but somehow I still got this one from what CGB said in the video. I wasn't sure of it until I saw this comment though. :-)

[@FroztXplicitZ]

@ 25:25 you had another option, if you wanted to be safe, and trusting your instinct they won’t draw another creature or Wrenn, and also they don’t have creature lands. You coulda Divide By Zero onto either Wrenn or Binding, and replay those cards making/ destroying either the tree folk or making a treefolk, the safest one would be to recast binding, and destroy the treefolk, and using the learn to get Mascot Exibition and i believe you have enough mana to either play it as well, but if not you woulda been able to continue on for 2 more turns and survive while having blockers and the land creatures to closed the game. But what you did was good too.

[@ianragnar0k]

When you have three Epiphany's and one Meathook, you use the Epiphany's all three times, get in for as much damage as all the 1/1 birds give you in the air, then Meathook last to finish them off with 1 damage for each bird afterwards. Classic CGB.

[@PsychedelicCheeseburgers]

Nice use of the Terminator 2 quote, great movie!

[@alexstoltz1520]

I come for the magic content, I stay for the spontaneous movie references.

[@francescoiacono250]

I was Nkonoz in the mirror, I was playing from the iPad and mis counted the land ! I didn’t even noticed that was you ! Happy to have played again you PS. YOUR OPENING WAS ILLEGAL

[@Chillmvster]

Even money dance 😎 at 40:42

[@empirate100]

Alright, you got me. I actually subscribed. Love your content, best MtG on YT!

[@dylancampbell9631]

Fist of the North Star ... “You’re already dead”. It’s a classic.

[@paidhima654]

It's Terminator 2. The "Him, you, you're already dead" part clinches it. I'm pretty sure it's during the psych session with Sarah in the hospital. She's talking to the doctor and the orderly(?).

[@vivarevo1105]

Hey CGB! Thank you so much for the content and high level gameplay!

[@craigejacobs]

Came for the salty scoops, left satisfied.

[@Phoeenixx]

He recovered the second game so well!!!!

[@gonhdez]

Best MTG Arena channel out there

[@daltooinewestwood6380]

That mirror was legendary

[@jeffkosko5815]

CKC! Now I want to see the discussion on ArenaCraft about this deck and what Arjuna has done with Sultai in the last week

[@MxODraconis]

You never mention the streak anymore, it's still appreciated!

[@Jaxtor1]

Dear CGB, I want you to know I've become a blue-white control player. After smacking my face into the multiple turn Alrund deck 4 times in a row I've converted. I'm a monster now. Thank you.

[@Moose00019]

CGB I'm glad you now know how I felt when you bodied my Sultai storm q.q I'm all seriousness, I think Storm needs U, but the trip color is either Temur or Bant. Temur has goldspan, which single handedly get you more storm castings. And Bant because GW works, but we need some interaction. Probably Bant tho. The 4cmc pig shuts down the ever popular sacrifice decks, fetches two lands, 4/4, and because so many lands are removed then you should get more Strom hits

[@JSpinrad]

Those were some brutal Wrenn mills in game 2.

[@chaosmastermind]

"The hook will not bring us back." I see what you did there. "It's breaking so badly" I also see what you did THERE. lol

[@Michael.032]

Btw Wrenn and Seven's 0 loyalty ability puts lands down tapped, so make sure to play an untapped land for turn before using the 0 loyalty ability.

[@ubume]

Didn't realize I wasn't subscribed. There you go!

[@JöDER-f9k]

Yes! More standard events!

[@gabrielgarza4471]

Love your content man. You’ve taught me a lot!

[@brianarsuaga5008]

Hahaha for five minutes I was like "Doesn't that deck run two tests? Didn't you have two?"

[@mikeyj.philly]

I wish Arena would implement a queue where decks submitted had to have at least 8 cards different from the most popular net decks in those colors.

[@williamvannoy3211]

When CGB was deciding to foretell epiphany or slam meathook in the 1st game I saw his mouse start to gravitate towards the massacre and I was saying “Do it” in a palpatine voice, turns out I was right 😂

[@kingjade]

"Wet Sultai" back in the day splashing blue for the hydra, until the control mages started throwing in things like Thought Erasure and the "kidnapping pirate" (i forget card names). Sultai mid has always been the closest i can get to aggro without feeling dirty.

[@ygivens21]

Do u think it would be worth it to play some other planeswalkers for storm the festival to hit? A big dog would be great in this 👌

[@Wags229]

Conceding to your own awesome blue white control is kinda a win… it proves you’re like owning the meta ya know

[@NickBOTTUBE]

37:31 T2 Judgment Day

[@karusuman]

Hello! Please consider enabling captions for your videos. Thanks!

[@oskargehrke9461]

Is it not possible to crew up chariot w/o summoning sickness with another chariot that youve juat cast?

[@armandorosa7475]

Hey Mate, this deck is awesome and an Esper control would be nice too. Keep up the good work!

[@alexguilmant6519]

"Paging Dr Frankenblue, Dr Frankenblue, would you **kindly** take care of your Plague Spitters, they're eating the shrubs!!" >8=

[@mrblondecpa]

Love the standard events!

[@Amphok]

i have a version of this with koma and double major (i love to put two on the battlefield which is basically gg lol) and without the triad storm wrenn chariot, but with 3 test of talents and 3 massacre of course

[@Amphok]

i believe it's also the only one that can easily beat the white blue control, they can't do anything to koma, devastating don't work, all counter are useless, the rest of the things will be exiled by test of talents

[@DiegoFagundesss]

that sounds like a cool decklist, you should post it somewhere

[@Amphok]

@@DiegoFagundesss i have two version one that ramp more(cultivator inkeeper) but draw less(4 deluge) and one with 4 deluge, 4 dispute + ghast + merchant and inkeeper, i'm still not sure what should be used as the core package of the deck, still testing

[@Tebsteren]

Quote is from Terminator 2: Judgement Day

[@beezyboom44]

the standard event videos are so entertaining keep it going CGB !

[@troysweere2417]

This is super similar to my golgari build but just adds divide, alrund and creeper in the place of jaspera, auger and the investigate green creature... I also have a similar sultai build but haven't seen as much consistency from it as my gulgari deck.

[@troysweere2417]

My curiosity with this deck is if it gets stuck on the lower half of the mana base too much?

[@Asian_Caleb]

Sultai is absolutely my favorite combo

[@robotetanus]

I think this deck is much better in theory than it is in practice. I think Sonio's version has a bit more flexibility without giving up on the high end If you want to give it another go.

[@tcmatias]

Sultai is Always the same: Put some ramp and all the powerful cards 🤣

[@Whitesummer3]

The creeper returns wow!

[@pixelpanic]

sick Terminator 2 reference

[@Shrekky7]

T2 : Judgement Day 🔥🔥🔥

[@MarcoTsubaki]

It works , I just remember to give a like cuz you remind me.

[@Lucat27]

Same

[@carlitosbro]

54:15 well well well, beat by your own deck

[@jollyjoker6340]

I was confused with the rank stuff until I realized this was two days old. I generally drop from platinum to gold without paying much attention but I was pretty certain that had happened a while ago

[@thenerdcatfish]

You fought GoldenCowboy. Not sure if it were a play of CGB to be GCB, but it's a funny thought. 😂

[@dopeaking7055]

For blue white control, Callous Bloodmage will counter the Lier; and probably just using test of talents on the Mastery an Deluge is the best counter.

[@PistolReport]

I’m picturing CGB in pampers now…

[@benjaminboyle7329]

You should try out skeletal swarming with storm the festival. Probably not the best card to run but its a lot of fun against other midrange decks and sometimes control.

[@clrl936]

Swarming is a terrible card... if you want to do that go for Lolth. Its much more reliable, can block even goldspan and then will start drawing you cards.

[@benjaminboyle7329]

@@clrl936 Didnt say it was good. I said it was fun. Also loth is a terrible card.

[@J-Martijn]

I've been playing a very similar Sultai deck by Andrea Mengucci in best of 3 with huge success

[@matthewbrown3082]

Man, I started the video up and thought I was about to see a Yorion deck

[@jaimeruiz3471]

how do we feel about harness infinty in the wren&7 deck to get back those discarded boombooms?

[@zombieninjapitbull3856]

Maybe a 1 of as a late game bomb, or in the side board in bo3, but really you either won't need it, or if it could save you (like some a heavy aggro)you won't have enough mana to capitalize.

[@BoringAaron]

Is there a good replacement for meethook massacre?

[@DaveMoongazer]

Just finished watching game 1 and was like xD CGB: meathook Op: K bye

[@rurounikreep]

Love your content cgb, keep it up

[@zerobrine5226]

I didn't know subscribing was free or I would've done it a long time ago.

[@MexicanDre]

Thousand year Epiphany!!!

[@Ninjamonkey9812]

You don’t have to ask us to subscribe because we are already subscribed 😂

[@freyamiles3718]

blue white just has so many more tools against every different match-up and also has cheep hand fixing cards for the few matchups where a couple of their cards are obsolete .

[@dunkindognuts3345]

And yet still it doesn't win nearly as much as mono white weird

[@dunkindognuts3345]

@@ayan.rodrigo blue white control has about a 54% win rate meaning just about any other meta deck wins more if that makes things clearer

[@inbanewetrust]

That second game holy shit

[@moyrebo4765]

Zombies has been giving the newest azorius some issues. It could be my play error but I've been dying turn 4 or 5.

[@CloudsFPV]

"Him you, you're dead already" - Terminator 2?

[@getcountered1318]

spooktober has begun

[@Stickyrolls123]

Just not sold on storm the festival. When it hits, it hits good, but the card can flop pretty hard for that much mana as well. I feel like you also have to build your deck around it which is limiting. I know that a lot of the really good cards in the meta are 4-5 mana but still.

[@monodescarado]

I take it all back: I just ran this deck for 10 games and got a 25% win-rate... As a blue-white Mage, I’m really happy this deck lost to it. This deck is so strong, but the blue-white control deck handles it really well. The only thing I will say about the blue-white deck CGB posted: it really lacks win-cons. I think it had one Hall and that was it. I ended up adding another Hall and a Summoner. I also switched out one Mastery for another Doomskar to handle the aggro decks better.

[@helleboye]

Doesn't it have 2 devious-cover ups for decking your opponent?

[@monodescarado]

@@helleboye I didn't say it didn't have any. But as far as win-cons go, waiting for your opponent to deck yourself isn't a great one.

[@monodescarado]

@@helleboye Coincidentally, just as I wrote that last message, I went up against the CGB version on the ladder and beat it. I'd made an extra few changes which got me past it: I dropped two lands because I'm sick of the deck flooding; I added in another Test of Talents because there are so many control match-ups on the ladder;. and I'd added one copy of Paladin class for the same reason. Those changes (as well as the additional Hall) took apart CGB's version and made me a very happy chappy.

[@helleboye]

@@monodescarado cool tweaks! I don't know how much adding 1 man land is improving the win-cons that much when the main win strategy is decking your opponent, but if you're beating opponents down i guess it works - guess the level 3 paladin can also come in handy situationally.

[@monodescarado]

@@helleboye the problem is, you have only two ways to win, which can be solved fairly easily: 1. Field of ruin the one Hall 2. Counter the second Devious cover-up, or exile the one in the graveyard with something that hits graveyards. There just needs to be a tiny bit more as back-up

[@danielgoldberg2129]

I’m lovin the Meathooks too, but I’ll never get to play one at $50+ in paper.

[@xxRxIxKxSxx]

that second match was so hard to watch lol

[@The_Duck_Is_Angry]

quote is from T2

[@thereturnofecho413]

I skipped ahead to :45 and was immediately told "I'm a terrible KZbinr." 🤣

[@AldousDurden]

Terminator 2!!!!! Woot woot!!!!!