☀️🌳GREEN/WHITE MAGECRAFT AGGRO | Standard 2022 Deck

[@covertgoblue]

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[@ibra9049]

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[@PurifiedSmith]

Is the name CovertGoBleucheese available 👀 🤔

[@PurifiedSmith]

Also I made this deck and tanked 0 and 6. Thanks once again for barring me from mythic. Oh and I want some gems as compensation for the 20 some wildcards I used.

[@matthewkea3476]

@@PurifiedSmith … at least this deck isn’t too full of rares and mythics. Also the pack leader has a lot of other homes. But seriously … I have enjoyed this magecraft mechanic ever since Crokeyz tried many magecraft decks in STX and ultimately found it not competitive enough. The wild shape card turned everything around giving another hexproof and trample effect. I have more success with this deck than mono green mainly because my opponent under estimates it. Recently powered through a treasure deck that dropped a mascot exhibition when he already had ghast and merchant on the battle field with a light scribe and luminance for lethal. Very explosive deck that is fun to play.

[@PurifiedSmith]

@@matthewkea3476 hey,do you see my name i am jk

[@jim5343]

“I’m sincerely unsure how much damage I am doing” is essentially this deck in a nutshell

[@mathewhill5556]

The quantity of damage was exactly equal to "uhh looks dead?"

[@jimmycarlson4871]

I think it was 26 lol

[@CarlonchoArt]

37:25, giving trample to mavinda does win you the game on the spot. at that time she was a 1/3 turtle (+2counters)(+3 triggers), playing another wild shape makes it to leonin scribe 7/7 mavinda 3/3 elephant (+2 counters)(+4 triggers) = 9 power 7+9-5= 11 damages.

[@MrTouchstone86]

He plays too much control lol. Can't math :) Still better than me 99% of the time!

[@ianunderwood1678]

He also could have just fetched Probation and made it so the dragon couldn't block for an easy win.

[@RandomHammy]

@@ianunderwood1678 He couldn't afford the ward mana :)

[@krimhorn]

Was coming to say this but with less elegant backing maths. :)

[@tom4465]

His use of turtle mode against dragon fire's 3 damage whilst having a leonin lightscribe (buffing the team for an additional 1/1, thus making elephant mode do 2 more damage over turtle mode) was happening multiple times before that moment. With a deck like this, it's very easy to miss out on damage

[@Psychochild9]

One of the biggest reasons I watch you besides you being entertaining is that I learn a lot from you. I absolutely love when you give some of that hidden knowledge/skill to us viewers. My game has gotten a lot better because of you and @LegenVd

[@Kazamaxful]

Wild shape is such an improvement for this deck, choosing between Trample and Hexproof is massive

[@riddivalion]

In the past five years of Magic I've noticed a lot more cards that give options, and I love them. It's one of the reasons why despite hating Strixhaven, I love the learn and lesson mechanic because of the options it provides, regardless of deck.

[@Kazamaxful]

@@riddivalion Exactly, especially the Strixhaven commands, I love all of them. I'm just sad the learn mechanic is only viable in Best of 1

[@supwititproductionz3738]

@@riddivalion how did you hate strixhaven! Every colour was playable, you could go 4-5 colour, aggro, control, and even off-school!

[@riddivalion]

@@supwititproductionz3738 What I hated about it wasn't necessarily the cards, but the setting, art, and flavor text. The knock off hogwarts and the other two things I described just didn't do it for me. I'm sure other people enjoyed it, but I didn't, that's all.

[@supwititproductionz3738]

@@riddivalion i see haha. I'm the kind of player that doesn't care about flavor at all. There could be no art or flavor text on cards, and it wouldn't matter to me, and they could all hav egeneric names :P

[@Rheinguard]

Love how your match against Yoona14's Mono-Black they chose Elder on Crippling Fear. That's some respect for CGB right there!

[@ChaoticNeutralAnimation]

It's so crazy seeing you play top deck. I'm used to you having like 5 cards in your hand at any given time.

[@olafthemoose9413]

I'll surely learn a lot from your guiding voice

[@patrickoconnell9387]

He shall teach you much

[@danplows8298]

Helps you Charge Through those ranks on ladder amirite?

[@scottcorbeil5737]

".. and there's nothing that produces white and green here" Arctic Treeline: "am I a joke to you?"

[@herbert164]

i think he meant untapped. because he was talking about turn 1 into turn 2 plays.

[@andrewscherzinger6585]

Been having a lot of fun with this deck on ranked ladder -- making some tweaks that improved my consistency and made the deck more budget-friendly. Cut one Mavinda and two pack leaders for 3 Clarion Spirits. You will get much more value from the light-scribes this way, and honestly your card draw/value cards are irrelevant as soon as opponent plays a chunky creature, so you want to play wide/fast. Academic Probation naming the expected board wipe is pretty huge, as you usually only need 4-5 turns to win. Thanks for the video as always! I love this one.

[@242sighting]

I've been calling my lesson sideboard my Syllabus, and I want it to catch on.

[@axodys]

"Monk of the Open Fist!"🤔🤣 Got to hand it to you CGB, another fun aggro build, and a great demo of Wild Shape's utility!

[@michaelgunter6520]

Stayed to the end. I have played against the monk version mostly. The Mavinda add actually makes me want to play this. Petosky Michigan is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited. Keep up the good work. I learn alot from each video. Been playing since first Mirrodin set.

[@_Nope___]

Everytime I See a Deck more often than usual, it’s the Deck cgb will show in his new video 😅

[@ShineThatLight]

I stayed 'til the end yadda yadda monk + bahamut sounds fine, i've also found that in similar decks two copies of Kaya's Onslaught goes a long ways especially if you shave 1 Mavinda for it since mythics. other cut is harder but i'd probably go with a one of the blizzard brawls. foretell as curve filler in hands where you only have two-drops + spells is pretty clutch because playing stuff unprotected is not pimpin'. Also probably two show of confidence. cuts are probably sorcery speed things or the wolf. the double green is hard when all your protections spells are green, easier if not 2022 standard because we still have Fight As One.

[@jessietibbs5371]

I've learned SO much from watching you through the years. Love your channel - keep it up!!

[@somekindadragon3414]

Hey thanks, I’m not playing Arena at the moment, and your videos do teach me about what is happening in the game as Paper is almost nonexistent, and I do learn from watching you what works and what doesn’t. Thanks for being informative and entertaining.

[@facebreakr]

I stayed till the end of the video. I don’t really have any notes as I am not and Agro player, I am more of control. Keep up the great content, I love every minute of it.

[@findogul1386]

stayed till the end, even though i recognize pack leader as the better card, because of the mana issues i think maybe ranger class or clarion spirit may be the better choice in the deck.

[@taylorrkenneth]

I replaced Pack Leader with Show of Confidence. The mana works better and in the off chance you get make it your third spell in a turn, you can EXPLODE damage.

[@taylorrkenneth]

@@sobrique8883 Really? I find pairing it just with a trample effect early game is still good. Getting +2/+2 and Vigilance on one of your fragile critters (like Lumimancer) is great for getting it out of range of non-black removal.

[@kawikapful]

No card? Stayed till the end, thanks for all the hard work that goes into these videos.

[@davidbusch7644]

5:25 We love that Monk of the open Fist! :D

[@cmfrtbly_nmb]

Been waiting for a good Magecraft deck. Love the content!

[@RaffN1]

Him hating the plains is hilarious and made my day

[@m.bmcginnis9733]

I like hearing your thought process it gives you different insight into the deck

[@FullMetalMexican2025]

Show of confidence, it’s a killer

[@doormatt72]

i'm also very surprised it's not in the list. it's a 3 of in my version, and it seems criminal to have any less than 2. lol.

[@olafthemoose9413]

The card is good if your engine is running but bad in most other spots

[@jamesw2855]

I’m going to try 2x in the deck. It’s a great closer for sure

[@fernandodeabreu]

"Close your eyes, this animation sucks" 😂 THANK YOU!!!!

[@silasstuebs6441]

As a player that’s only been playing for about a year your education bits are so valuable to me!

[@RustalWolf]

45:32 Best CGB laugh to date

[@The_Duck_Is_Angry]

the only thing i might change is the ratio of white and green lands if anything. you seemed to need green more and I see nothing with double white in it's casting cost.

[@MasterOfMonoBlack]

thank god i decided against doing this as a video today :D

[@jtmotley8848]

Your videos are great, too!

[@CovertGoLive]

Pro tip, doing the same deck as a larger creator gets you closer to their YT algo recommendations

[@getlooky736]

@@CovertGoLive why are all your videos a year old

[@jamesw2855]

I don’t like double green casting cost for pack leader. I alway seem to not be able to cast it or need green for protection spells . I will try clarion spirit or monk of the open hand as you said. Also maybe sneak in 2 of show of convenience. Thank you for the deck idea.

[@johnkotzki2138]

53:20 screaming at my phone double Blizzard the Mavinda its lethal ,CGB honors what he told us in the intro guys you ll learn something I ll missplay this deck Well seconds after the misplay you caught it as expected I am playing a 16 Land no Snow Version of this deck with 8 Mdfc spells and the Monk Sejiri Shelter is an Allstar ignored so many Bird Armies with protection from blue and casually swing in for lethal

[@SuperstarBR]

I got to say I'm loving the 2022 Que and playing only the 2022 Que, but today I decided to bounce back over to the ranked best of one que and ran mono Black enchantments. Had fantastic success because currently in Platinum everyone's running aggro-ish creature decks and the mono black enchantment deck just farms them, so far 7:0 tonight, lol mono red, lol white life, lol clerics...

[@robotcunning508]

There's nothing I love more than seeing a load of magecraft triggers, time to spend wildcards!

[@Helmkat]

Reflective Golem is also fun in this kind of deck

[@KrypptikkSoulslayer]

41:38 I cannot, will not lose...Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, Neutron Blast!!! Yami Yugi: Wrong show.

[@andrewroy888]

Fave mtg teacher + Fave mtg colour combo = joy :) thanks CGB

[@kylejohnson150]

So what im hearin CGB is... you got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em , know when to walk away, know when to run...

[@holdenorme7570]

find a spot for show of confidence. you can get 3 cast triggers at least and you can cast it again with mavin.

[@saphired02]

At 37:50 before they scoop doesn't the trample spell also give one more power so the creature would become a 8/x and plus the 7 from the other creature that's 10 exactly.

[@madrox1989]

I love Clever Lumimancer, it's such a fun card! I was playing around with a Bant version that runs Orvar for some silly cloning shenanigans and Archmage Emeritus to help with card draw (don't clone the Archmage too much, you will deck yourself lol).

[@TomTom-xm3id]

I'm always learning from these. And the daily videos are a welcome distraction before work every day.

[@ВалентинТерентьев-п4р]

37:47 you'd actually win, take to account additional +2, because your 1/3 'turtle' becomes 3/3 'elephant'

[@Markos2007]

Appreciate that last shirt flash :]. Was wondering if a go wide abzan strategy would work, splashing in sedgemoor witch over werewolf pack leader, and possibly fitting in some deadly disputes to answer removal with card advantage. Hope it helps, and loved the video, the fact the green/white has so many different archetypes in this meta is exciting!

[@Markos2007]

Also possibly hunt for specimens but probably only a 2 of.

[@Godonstilts]

You should explore Skeletal Swarming next... i'm sure that card can pull all kinds of jank wonders!

[@RafaelAAMerlo]

Till the end \o I think you nailed the decklist. In a budget version, possibly replace Mavinda for 3 Clarion Spirit in a go wide move, or possbibly some Guardian of Faith to be more consistent against Blood on the Snow / Doomskar. MonoGreen would still be a pain, that's why I believe you're right in the Mavinda choice =)

[@matthewkea3476]

I agree that Mavinda is the right choice here. With some tough draws that lacked creatures there has been at least a few times I soloed with the Owl. Last one I got the owl to an 8/9 at the end beating out a mono white deck with 2 life to spare …

[@christianolsson2898]

Intro looking tight. 36:07 *when in doubt, rope them for a while and see if you get the win that way* .I was really surprise to see him scoop.

[@macromiak]

He was dead anyway, he didn't see Wild Shape yet, but it would seal his fate if CGB would have seen it :)

[@keiclera6596]

The 1/5 side of the Wild Form can even save you from Crippling Fear and the Izzet board sweep saga lol, it's pretty good

[@Asian_Caleb]

Thank you for making a deck everyday cgb this content keeps me sane

[@RomanGutierrez77]

CGB's face with the mavinda animation is priceless

[@gee3161]

Surely the only card needing to add is 'Deck of many things'.. even if it has to be 61/60 cards

[@DavidDoncheck]

As good as wolf is, I think double green kills it in this particular deck. Monk is probably preferable. Also considered going other way with so many good white 3 drops, but I think that’s too slow. Don’t forget Charging Badger is Bo1 legal! :)

[@elerai1496]

I tried brewing a White-Green Magecraft deck recently, but ran Clarion Spirits and Jaspera Sentinels instead; didn't perform as well as I'd like. Kinda curious to try out this version, as soon as I get enough rares for Pack Leaders. Honestly didn't think of putting Pack Leaders here, especially with the GG cost, but it makes a lot of sense, since there's only 1 cantrip in the deck (Guiding Voice is a pseudo-cantrip though), and this decks needs a lot of green anyways. No idea if the Dragonguards are better than Clarion Spirits, guess only experimenting will tell. Love the vid!

[@chrisdempsey3170]

I stayed till the end, I think that an improvement for the deck could be to take out pack leader for something like ranger class. You don't get the draws from pack tactics, but it's way easier to cast and gives you "advantage" by giving other ways to spend mana. Alternatively, clarion spirit, but topdecking a clarion spirit is a real feels bad. Topdecking ranger class at least gives you ways to spend Mana and let's you play your other creatures from the top.

[@ruudvanlaarhoven5776]

@37:22 you do win with trample if you use Wild Shape there

[@ArranVidalhallArran247]

I love the spontaneous T-shirt advert.... Go you.....

[@mrshadelock]

Stayed to the end and I was going to suggest an indestructible instant such as heroic intervention as sweeper insurance against control as a one of but we lost that is S22 and got no Indestructible instants but Blizzard brawl so I think the deck works for what it was built for.

[@jaycalou]

White magecraft creatures suck because you have to do all the job again every turn to boost them. But I agree that there’s no serious alternative if you want to build a 2022 standard deck. Fingers crossed to see Conclave Mentor in Magic 22!

[@doublethick5752]

I promise that equipment that drains two is solid playable, provided you have enough peckers to throw away or a first striker

[@moralnexus]

yeah, I just started playing a black-green agro deck featuring that equipment, a bunch of mance/lifelink creatures, and learn cards to buff it and ramp to Skeleton Swarm on turn 4. It has a similar win rate to this but puts a lot more diverse threats out there for many decks and makes chump-blocking a non-strategy.

[@moralnexus]

menace+lifelink+drain 2

[@keiclera6596]

Also good to see STX seeing more play

[@hotrodderrecycler3202]

Marvinda is one those reward cards that comes up often. Shuffler makes the reward system dumb also.

[@mitchell9959]

I’d add another expanded anatomy and an inkling to the sideboard

[@corradoalamanni179]

Instead of?

[@JDNWolverine77]

Love when you play Aggro decks! Keep up the great work my brotha!

[@benpalmer1583]

37:50 Trample there actually would give the win due to the 3/3 base stat change

[@NiamorH]

Didn't realize "Simon Says" song from 1999 sampled Godzilla ost

[@matthewvanrensburg3824]

With the heavy reliance of treasures and whatnot in Standard 2022... I'm just sitting here, patiently waiting for a GW Yashan deck video tbh.

[@charlievu353]

Subtle Jurassic Park reference my guy

[@inkantuj]

Been playing selesnya deck lately, although w/ Show of Confidence 2-3x. Gotta say it's veeeery swingy.. but good enough to smash Plat in no time Draw and land drops are big IFs, def wolves > monks here because we're running out of gas often. Also tried clarions but way too slow Low floor but sky high ceiling, one game plays like homebrew, and next time it's Modern good

[@fulltimehustlin3663]

Stayed to the end! Love the vids CGB. I wonder if selfless glyphweaver as a 3 drop. Maybe one or two copies. To protect against blood in the snow.

[@JaceDarkstar]

Crazy thought. Replace 3 plains for world trees. This fixes the plains problem hopefully

[@LaurentCassaro]

World Tree comes into play tapped, and only produce non-green mana if you have at least 6 lands in play, if I remember correctly. This is a 21 lands deck...

[@umberto.mucelli]

Stayed until the end :D Go CGB!

[@BiCuriousGeorge1]

I was just rewatching the world tree video and you played BaconSlayer then too lol. If you’re out there, your name rules.

[@thomaspetersen526]

Have'nt stayed to the end yet, but I'd add zombies and golems to my 'thinking creatures' deck XD

[@FullMetalMexican2025]

Time for some bad ass nonsense woohoo!

[@Malacite]

Oh wow I've been waiting for someone to do this (or Azorious magecraft/tempo which also looks spicy)

[@AyameSama]

Tbh cgb has improved alot at creature decks

[@stuart7978]

Clarion Spirit would be a good option if you want to go wider

[@Blacturne859]

Mavinda is the reason i lost. I was playing a jund kroxa deck against an opponent running a similar deck to this and i wouldve won if my opponent wasnt able to cast all the cards i made them discard. My opponent won at 2 life with 0 cards in hand

[@WebSpyder777]

Stayed till the end. Am curious as to why no basic conjuration in your sideboard to help get you out of those instances where you run out of bodies?

[@olafthemoose9413]

If you spend 3 mana and a learn to get another creature chances bare you'll lose anyways

[@martinpalazzo9703]

Completely budget friendly deck but for mavinda, I don't think it can be replaced though.

[@julianquinonez6965]

Professor of symbology, show of confidence, and study break might make the cut

[@Darkeep12]

What do you think about Clarion Spirit in this list?

[@anthonyferguson2708]

I'm on the fence about packleader in this deck, jusr bc I think Ranger's class does everything that it does but it allows you to keep going even if it is killed

[@Mortonbmx]

Tough call, the counters are really good but it doesn't give the card draw...

[@matthewkea3476]

I found the card draw and potential trample on its own can get the job done. I do agree the double green can be challenging … but I find this deck in general has to be careful in the early game playing your creatures at the right time based on your opponents colours. Sometimes the pack leader can eat removal before your opponent realizes you are MC and light scribe and lumimancer are the real win cons.

[@a5h1y]

i wanted to say this for a while but you know, those countless advices on internet, i hate them. but! black backdrop and black clothes is not a good choice. black backdrop is usually used to "push" the person in front of it forward, to make the picture more "readable" when in small size, but black shirt really kills that effect. the t-shirt itself is very nice though :) if only it could be in any other colour ) thanks for the videos man. i will watch it anyway, with any shirt and any backdrop, because you making awesome content.

[@craigejacobs]

With all the counter stuff going on Vorinclex could be funny as a one of. If you drop a Grand Master of Flowers with a Vorinclex on the field you can immediately +1 it and it becomes a 7/7 Dragon God.

[@LaurentCassaro]

With only 21 lands in the deck, Vorinclex will be sitting in your hand most of the time. Not to mention the fact that you will probably never have both at the same time in play.

[@roycehill8389]

bro you gotta make your pose from 1:10 a thumbnail. a meme, something lmao

[@quarterknight3572]

"Wait, I didn't consider if they just die!" I don't think anybody considered it, especially the opponent lol

[@Darkeep12]

Well, I've been fooled by value trades before, so I've been there.

[@reneasma3540]

I use the luminarch aspirant because I don’t have any lightscribes. Can the deck work without them?

[@johnkotzki2138]

You need those magecraft triggers to pull off those None games for opponent when you are on the play,Just killing them AS early as t3

[@brunolevaggitapia4573]

no wonder i fought this 4 times in a row

[@Sir_Basil]

Am I correct in reading the deck title that this is your 22nd version of this deck? Or your 22nd deck?

[@csarmii]

22 lands would be my guess. Yeah I know it's 21 now. Maybe he cut one.

[@moakus]

Is there a viable historic version of this with better mana?

[@dogeholdr]

Please make a deck with prosper tome bound preferably a 100 brawl deck

This silly owl is pretty good

[@funmaker77]

"Monk of the open fist" xD

[@kevincanady1512]

Maybe the white sources heard me talking trash about them 🤔🤣🤣😂 47:38

[@SamaJama]

I stayed till the end and I think I’d take out like two or three plains. They really hurt you as you can see from the gameplay lol

[@Apollo-is7gu]

Hate playing against this with primarily dragons

[@WilliamSouza-cs7ge]

Selesnya since 2000' Since then losing games doing aggro.

[@prismatiger3692]

you might be fine with switching 2 plains with forests

[@zaubermaus8190]

hey cgb, normally i wouldn't be the guy to correct false cardnames, but in the case of "monk of the open fist" (it's open hand)... please explain to me how an "open fist" is supposed to work. ^_^°

[@volkfidde4269]

It's called a slap [legal in sumo for example where a fist is not and at that size the effect can be similar].

[@zaubermaus8190]

@@volkfidde4269 that would be the case for the real name of the card, yes - "monk of the open hand". that's the "slap"- form you described... the very definition of a "fist" is a clenched/closed hand, "open fist" just doesn't work, it's a contradiction :P

[@uncdave3930]

An open fist is a thing though, when the thumb is beside of the forefinger, that is considered an open fist, when the thumb is over your middle fingers it is a closed fist. Several martial arts and even boxing uses this distinction.