I never thought Otters could work, but then...

[@jameyfarmer5294]

Theres a 1 drop blue spell that turns your 1/1 otter into a 4/3 dino that still has prowess i really think it fits well in the deck

[@Nixo66]

What card is that ?

[@colinmckhann9363]

@@Nixo66Relic’s Roar from LCI

[@Babs42]

Behind the mask too

[@TheDerpyDeed]

[Relic's Roar], [Behind The Mask], and other [Ensoul Artifact] type spells that work on creatures (they all tend to make base P/T around 4/3) HOWEVER, the effect is basically +3/+2 on a 1/1, in which case [Monstrous rage] (+3/+1 with a lasting +1/+1 afterwards) might be better value. So then [Symmetry Sage] is better value for 1 mana too, except I don't believe it's standard legal.

[@colinwilliams3459]

6:55 is such a wonderful combination of sounds

[@Dot_Eleven]

43:00 You see 3 there because the Floodcaller trampeled over for 2. So you had 12 from the unblocked, 2 from trample making 14. So definitely no missed lethal as if you had put the Rage on one of your unblocked creatures it would've done 15 total, still not enough to kill.

[@JusticeJanitor]

I was trying to make Izzet Otters work in standard since Bloomburrow hit. Yeah, Lightning Strike over Shock, Wrenn's Resolve and Witchstalker Frenzy was what I was missing. Now I'm crushing it on the ladder. Thanks Mesa Falcon Guy!

[@MoipaZ]

I did see a line to keep you alive against the bats at 40:00. If you play the talent pre combat and level it to level 2, you can get back lightning strike, which costs 1 less because of the mentor. Then you kill whatever he puts the counters on with the trigger on the stack. Maybe lethal next turn?

[@Dot_Eleven]

Not quite because how does he kill the Essence Channeler in the first place? 1 mana to play the talent. 4 to level it up. This leaves 1 mana left to cast the Lightning Strike but the Floodcaller is still only at 3 power which isn't high enough to kill the Essence Channeler which had 5 toughtness at the time.

[@noobknights]

If he had one more mana he could have just done a pre-combat monstrous rage, fetched it back, then used it on whichever creature was blocked. Alas, he didn't.

[@MoipaZ]

@@Dot_Eleven Ah yeah, still a mana short. Dang

[@asgarzigel]

What's fun about Otters is that there are many ways to play it. I'm playing a pretty unoptimized build with Otterball Antics and Frolicking Familiar and even that works pretty well.

[@bobibrews]

But.... but... Ral isn't in the deck. Why is it in the thumbnail?!

[@ender4101]

Did my boy dirty.

[@breakthecode4634]

To trigger you

[@NummyBonechomp]

No questions!

[@spiderseatbaby3692]

That is CGBs ID picture.

[@bobibrews]

Hey, I love CGB and use him as inspiration, but my video with Ral in the thumbnail, guess what, has Ral! It's a storm deck, not an otter deck

[@christopherpeacock4520]

It has been great to find your channel, Used to play magic in the late 90s seeing how it is now does get the brain juices flowing 😀

[@sp697]

Appreciate the content CGB! Been watching since the pandemic, and your videos helped ignite my love and passion for magic. Thank you!

[@seanmorrison6062]

I'm impressed with your dedication to your fitness journey. Keep it up CGB!

[@horatio_]

Thanks for the video, I’ve been slowly adding otters to my Izzet deck so learned a few things here

[@t.hayward1260]

This deck is holding its own in historic. Made a couple tweaks. Temur battle rage rocks! Lots of turn three wins.

[@JushakF]

Regarding training and "when does it get better" - depends. The pain doesn't really FULLY go away in the sense that you SHOULD feel a bit of "burn" the day after if you do a hard workout, but actual pain does mostly go away in month or so in my experience as your muscles get used to exercise. Worth noting that it if you have a long break from doing specific muscle group(s), they'll likely hurt a bit if you suddenly do a heavy set on them, even if you keep training other muscles every day. So if you do the exact same set every day for a month and then switch it up, you're likely to feel it the day after. I would recommend varying the moves you do through the week so you spread the strain. It's also worth remembering to not overdo it right out of the gate. When I started going to gym actively with friends who had been gym rats for years I kept reminding myself to start it slow, yet I would regularly go for way too heavy sets to compete with my friends, ending up with some muscle pains, including days I felt I couldn't lift my hands over my shoulders. As for when does it get fun? Depends. At one point in life I was in such a bad shape that I couldn't jog even for 2 full minutes. Started slowly introducing more jogging to walks, eventually going from intervals of run 2 minutes / walk 10 minutes to jogging for an hour. Not going to lie, first 2-3 months felt like hell and it wasn't until 6 months or so before I started enjoying jogging and getting restless if I didn't go for one in a while.

[@thesummersoldier787]

I enjoy your content. Thanks for playing like a normal person. I have watched other guys playing and they are dragging it out to make the video longer. Keep up the good work.

[@imaginarymatter]

Otters have to win. For Lutri's sake. RIP, sweet prince.

[@expchrist]

41:50 Oh no, you missed lethal. Next time put it on some other creature.

[@Dot_Eleven]

No missed lethal. The Valley Floodcaller trampled over for 2 so if he put the Rage on one of the others it would've only done 1 more damage than before leaving the opponent at 2 instead of 3.

[@DragonRider-007]

My guy…AMAZING DECK! I have a genuine question: any reason to not include Bria or the Ral planeswalker? Just curious. Thanks for the deck idea

[@jashinsamael]

PSA: Kitsa can be farmed through Jump In Threshold pack, 20% chance. Not the cheapest solution, but may save you some mythic wild cards.

[@MrNbkelly]

Takes about 3 months before working out starts to feel really good. You got this bro

[@jonathanharwood1255]

Depends on the person. Could be sooner. But yeah, roughly 2-3 months is where you feel better and see results.

[@imdatdudefrfr4225]

@42:00 you monstrous raged on the blocked creature, killing the blocker and trampling for two, your math wasn’t wrong, you could have had 3 more damage if you put it on one of the unblocked creatures, but then the blocked one wouldn’t have trampled over for two

[@mattirachminov6461]

I was zoning out and suddenly CGB is calling all of my childhood nicknames at me I was so confused

[@PTNLemay]

21:30 This is what blue players truly believe.

[@adamkampia]

I think that CGB's recent commitment to tracking his own salty rage (or lack thereof) moments, combined with experience in the past year doing color commentary for competitive matches, is creating a pretty fun vibe as he plays, wins, and loses. Sometimes he sounds like he's calling his own match from a spectator's viewpoint. I like it.

[@kevradlm]

I play Otters since a long time, and it is absolutely funny to blast your opponent and win turn 3 with a 18/18 trample otter 😂

[@kuzmychmaksym3843]

42:00 You didn't missed the lethal. You've got 2 extra damage from the trample, but It wouldn't make any difference if you cast the rage on different otter. In fact if you cast it that way you would've dealt 2 damage less.

[@jeffbezos1411]

WOW! Incredible Video! Great work hahahaha!! :)

[@thomasblakecharikar6778]

Hi

[@Candyapplebone]

Jesus Christ, the power creep on kitsa, otterball elite compared to the traditional two man Merfolk that only has the tap ability is just insane

[@joev1083]

Even compared to baby jace

[@joev1083]

It's just an insane card, I wouldn't be surprised if it was one of the most eternal played cards from the set

[@SSDriscool]

Currently my favorite deck in standard rn. Though I've been pinging everyone to death with Coruscation Mage instead.

[@clarencebray8681]

No stoke the flames when you have floodcaller?

[@Casemister36]

6:25 - Opponent is playing the "Brennan Lee Mulligan deck".

[@Ottamus_Prime]

Just hit plat today haven’t played arena much till recently and have a slightly shittier version of the golgari big butts deck and it’s so fun! Once I finish that deck I’ll work on this one!

[@RetroMTG]

There’s something odder about these Otters 😂

[@newjerseydamo]

Your opponent getting got by Arena was way too funny. Your reaction in real time was just priceless. I laughed out loud. Also, another year of mono red city keeps me away from standard.

[@rustyxof]

Mono red has been op for the whole life of MTG

[@jarnopiispanen3483]

Pest Control is your answer.

[@ForeverLaxx]

Just stop playing Bo1. The format caters to decks like RDW which has existed almost as long as MTG has existed.

[@oia]

55:09 I gotta remember to clip that 😂

[@Professor_Smoak]

This is the tribe I was most excited for.

[@JonathanPetzold-u4r]

Ok, right off the bat, if you're splashing green, you're doing otters wrong.

[@lonelysenpai1182]

Wooo lets go he actually did the otters I wanted woo thnks dude love your vids a lot

[@charlieday7731]

Otterly ridiculous!

[@samv697]

54:43 To be completely honest they could be lagging, however, I know that it isn’t lag 100% of the time

[@TheBigPenguu]

Is it just me, or did the format speed up significantly starting around Wilds of Eldraine?

[@darthader3507]

Monstrous rage is a gross card

[@FluxxAvatar]

WoE basically started the Boros convoke we know and love today

[@Echoes0fTime]

I have never seen you so happy before.

[@ashleyhamilton5064]

Love mono red. The basic plot deck doesn't have the resources for a long game. But mono red players will still spend burn removing creatures instead of trying to win as soon as possible. If they get drawn into a value game, they'll be ground out.

[@BobbyRunout_EverydayWorld]

"The blue mage is always the hero" - CGB 😅

[@drreaper1342]

Otters were the tribe I was most excited for, because I love Izzet, but I made a deck and hated it. And yours did even better than mine and you still hated it, so this video confirms my suspicion that I shouldn't really keep pursuing it :/

[@JoeYee32]

As far as working out, I've boxed, lifted weights, ran, swam, etc, for ten years straight. It never got easier. Destroy yourself in there, my boy!

[@dmacpher]

Lol I run a very similar deck now. Oh boy does it really need a good start though.

[@dmacpher]

I also run 2 tectonic hazards and only 2 kit balls.

[@Aaaaaagnes]

Would you recommend shoving a Ral or two into this deck?

[@spenceravila4385]

Man. Ledger shredder should have been here. So much draw opportunities

[@joaosimoes1551]

The vid that i was waiting for

[@emti29]

which is better lizard deck or otter prowess?

[@PeterKring-y1h]

Hey, how do I import decks into magical Arena?

[@jackhorkheimer]

I wish the mana cost fit better with the deck, but Wandering Throne for double every prowess trigger is pretty nice.

[@lol-hy4mk]

Wouldn't Bria be better? To give everything additional prowess + make something unblockable

[@JupiterExileYT]

Trying to figure out if rats can work, seems like the stats are low for this meta. I feel like Mindwhisker could be helpful against wide boards in the meta and Drag the Canal helps fill the grave. I'd love to be able to kill shot with Sewer Witch because she's neat, but she's pricey and living is hard enough in this meta. Persistent Marshstalker seems... okay-ish? Maybe the Snarling Gorehound can help fill the grave? Having trouble finding the right parts to make this a good engine. I get the feeling this needs to use a lot of non-rats to work, maybe using squirrels to self-mill or adding lizard aggro tools and using the Eldraine BR rats support.

[@PlaneswalkerChris-ms9iq]

Typal [Tribal] decks have been c-tier for so long but this is what you get when they’re properly supported. Time to return to Slivers Standard.

[@dittmar104]

UB Rogues was awesome but that was like 4 years ago

[@celestialTangle]

You think Otter cards could work in modern or legacy, considering that most of the prowess creatures typically used there are white? I think Stormchaser's could be really good

[@Erictraiven]

42:55 if you leveled up the talent and take lstrike and kill the 3 mana bat would have been better

[@erikdawson4020]

He could’ve just went for face with the l strike for game

[@lucidiously]

@@erikdawson4020 No, because he wouldn't have been able to cast both the Rage and the Lightning Strike.

[@hastat7322]

love red/blue

[@dittmar104]

Floodcaller works with slickshot show off… that’s a worry. Best version of this deck probably just takes out the green lands and elusive otter for slick shot showoff and man lands and calls it a day

[@minabasejderha5972]

If I had to guess, the person quoting your frog video just thought your comment was funny out of context.

[@bilbo100989]

since you've played prowess otters, what do you think of the storm otter in standard. basically a combo kill.

[@Joseph125]

I think if you’re trying to storm off and combo kill you’re better off playing slickshot showoff with twinferno. You can plot it then cast for 0 mana to make it easy to combo off the same turn, and you can get the combo kill before turn 5. I think the scute storm otter is great fun, but I don’t think it’s the right way to build the deck.

[@funnehbunneh5415]

No March of Otterworldly Light?

[@corybishop3084]

I asked, and you delivered!

[@Bossbabyfan2023]

Ral goes kinda crazy in a grindier 3c build tbh. I bet Jeskai or Temur could really get there.

[@Esparza512]

I thought pearl of wisdom only cost 1 less for controlling an otter. Or is it 1 less for each otter? Arena made it look like it was for each

[@thisispotatos9957]

You have to make Otter Control. For the pun. Not because it will be good.

[@PapiCito]

This man is ottercontrol lol

[@dahbagels]

Being a Matt sure felt weird while he used just about every nickname I’ve ever had. But I guess it has been otter.

[@Bradley-b1h]

Thought about civilian work?

[@CidZAER]

Fun to share some belly laughs at those comments you were reading off at the end :D

[@questionyourself718]

Otter deck without the 1 dmg ping otter? 😢 and without the two top end otters?

[@lol-hy4mk]

Imagine if this came before ravnica and izzet was called otter

[@DiamondzFinder_]

You know, I think I have discovered the answer to a great mystery! It seems that CGB, in apparently the same way as many others, has less fun against decks when losing to them! I feel this is truly an advance in scientific knowledge...

[@LeHerpDerps]

What if I say I'm not like the otters?

[@adamfiliatreault3393]

Am I morally against playing blue because control is oppressively strong? Yes Do I think otters are the cutest animals in the world? Also, yes Will I be playing otters on arena? Begrudgingly, yes

[@colinwilliams3459]

Control? Oppressively strong? In THIS standard?

[@thorsguardofficial]

Otters are crushing me, so is 90% of bloomborrow decks. Maybe it’s time to give up on the venerated rot priest

[@The13rannon]

Did we make diamond?!

[@json218]

Keep pushing in the gym man. Keep a solid diet and that soreness is just the old you leaving!

[@ncsuwulf]

OtterGoBlueRed

[@sandervanderleest7520]

It will be fun it will be

[@Helldragon789]

I feel betrayed. Where Ral?

[@oDMACo]

I otter be more excited

[@this19suffering]

I will have Otter

[@ryutipscows9712]

Otterly impossible not to click this one

[@bananabeam5602]

Izzet otters? I think it is

[@woahjackkaminski9468]

next do otter control pls

[@MoipaZ]

Sorry to break it to you..... it never gets fun, it's always just pain.

[@aznpholyfe6693]

but cgb

[@jeffkosko5815]

No Ral?? BUt OtteRal

[@TheBwinfrey]

Pump enchantment get lightning to face win game

[@amandaclinton1344]

I did it. I did what no fan would think to do. After watching all CBG’s videos. Tho it was not easy. I have picked up my hand to click the like button! HOWEVER! I had misclicked. Leading to a secondary corrective clicking of the like button. You could say i did it twice. Thank you, I know. Im amazing 😎

[@marskalkblixten]

I just watched a mono red player shoot himself for 7 damage with 3 Cacophony Scamp most intelligent mono red play

[@TrophyGuide101]

I think that was me, I was a bit distracted between eating crayons and sniffing glue.

[@danbecker9805]

The shuffler is fine :rofl:

[@Skinnypig711]

Day 2 asking for a CGB Helga, Skittish Seer deck.

[@lekto6827]

Expansion about creatures - releases. I - day 1 craft creatureless izzet control deck with "artist talent", "simulacrum sintesiser" and "wishing whell".(and with 8 "3mana deal 2 to all creatures" cards) And by the way, Ral, despite having passivly "+1 loyality whenever you cast noncreature spell", not even good in my creatureless deck. Instead as plansewalker of choise i use a dude from firexia expansion with "+2 loyality draw a mountain".

[@correnegadagaming8417]

Lately, in all your videos, it seems like you have some lack of attention to what you're doing. That line where you can't notice the card isn't glowing meaning you can't cast it... It's like you're all the time with tunnel vision and don't pay attention to little important things. I don't know, you used to be more expert, now you're doing a lot of newbie moves.

[@LoreCollectibles]

Working out gets better when people quit playing mono red to stop trying to race to mythic and actually try making fun decks

[@MColeyA]

I will say, while this definitely seems more fun than mono red, does it have an advantage over it?

[@LoreCollectibles]

@MColeyA working out has many advantages over mono red . Otters no but working out yes.

[@josephcantales5120]

It's just otter nonsense 😂

[@alaingamache3908]

Not my style but as a subscriber I think it’s ok to voice my opinion. Can you work on something else than tribal decks? We’ve seen them 12 times already… can we have previous format good decks and update them ? Thank you!

[@gareyysenpaaiii]

Basically the entire new set is tribal decks, he’s workin with what he’s got lol

[@somethingsomething9006]

The new set is literally tribal dude, and we are all going to be fighting the new decks as time goes forward. These videos serve to educate what kinds of things we will run into, and help us discover how they work without needing to spend wildcards and play them ourselves. In due time the new and weird stuff will be filtered out for the more efficient stuff, but if you don't see old decks featured often...that's a hint to observe.

[@dwainavance]

It's never fun. Been hurting for years. All in the name of good health

[@LogicalKip]

A little too aggro-y for me. Otters are cute though.