💧STANDARD THOUGHTSEIZE💀 MYTHIC 413 💧 Dimir Discard

[@danzoingo]

Oh lord and savior CovertGoShoe👞 we long for prismatic bridge and Jin-Gitaxias nonsense!

[@johncreatescontent346]

CovertGoShoe 😂 y dis?

[@victoryudoh4626]

Feet pics ?

[@chrissirensong6816]

I was going to like, but would have been the 70th

[@doomkingraye7692]

Jin gitaxias prismatic bridge reminder

[@nolopalo6158]

I usually forget to like and comment. I did not forget this time. Thanks for giving dimir an honest shot and making this work. Your hard work is recognized and appreciated!

[@Ellie-Angela]

36:07 Opponent basically Invoking Despair upon themselves.

[@exile_the_13th]

Baby, wake up, new CGB vid just dropped.

[@Cazamalos]

Years without playing MTG, months without watching your channel, but CGB trying to make U/B Discard work? I'm in.

[@maxszeto7030]

I guess I always reach the end of the video, subbed cos you said so CGB. Thank you for your content.

[@machinemadechris4944]

That was some grindage! Hope you keep the videos coming and stay cool!

[@loganhallett2589]

Thank you CGB! ❤

[@Michael-ib6ky]

maybe Ertai? if you're popping stuff back into your hand, could see Ertai being valuable

[@Ephsy]

This tbh

[@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412]

I have a Kaito Dimir deck that uses Ertai, the only issue is that it lets them draw. I usually want to pair him with Beetle to make sure they don't get card advantage even if I throw them off a turn with his Counter/Kill

[@ClocksTickin]

Love that you push to make colors work even against meta. If Land had shown up I bet those close games would have been shorter in your favor. Way to make it work!

[@dergreif9236]

I am no longer playing Magic and manage to keep up the abstinence, but always watching your videos. And this was the most suspenseful and gripping for a long time. I loved the deck and the plays with it and it almost made reinstall mtg arena.

[@ericriveraisme2692]

Always love it sir. Great video. I wish Dimir was powerful in the meta too.

[@jamesmccollom7246]

I might use this value idea, I was happy with leeching them with the drone. We could use more, leaves the battlefield effect cards.

[@simply.skyler]

I think your land count just wasn't enough for the deck to shine properly. There definitely seems to be something great hiding in there because it was keeping up even when you were behind near constantly, there were a lot of very close games in this video.

[@piercearora7681]

I have a deck like this that's a banger, I cut all the weird aggro cards, I don't play Lilli bc I don't own Lilli, same with Tresspasser. It's more of a tempo deck, wincons are Haughty Djinn, Ledger Shredder (vs aggro) and Shelly. I actually cut K3ito because it wasn't having an impact vs aggro or midrange, I'm playing Te5eri now instead. I should play bankbuster, but I don't. The deck is a clunky mess, but plays like a Pioneer deck if it works.

[@ryanburks937]

Nah, 24 lands for a deck that curves out at 4 is reasonable asf. Arena is just broken and people are quick to judge a deck off of “simulated performance” knowing good and well arena’s shuffler is on the toilet bowl

[@simply.skyler]

@@ryanburks937 All the more reason to stack it a bit more in your favor then, really.

[@kolokolomlici]

Comment as the sacrifice to the algorithm. Thank you, CGB.

[@ephrahimadedewu1533]

Love it CGB

[@FrankDTank16]

@19:06, you punted, if you crew with trespaser, and block with eye and buster, you have at least eye or buster left. Instead you lost your entire board. Only reason to take the play you did, is if you think your opponent is to scared to go for lethal when they are ahead.

[@findlaytulloch1801]

Its incredible how well that ending speech worked on me

[@alexandermalskaer8369]

LOL @ ties the room together reference... If you know, you know, dude...

[@koo-hip9406]

The Dude abides

[@wwvvww573]

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY BANKBUSTER

[@beatriztneves]

Nice deck. I was really missing some Dimir action.

[@wingnut2292]

Just to ask, what would be your Orzov deck of choice. Lots of graveyard interaction, Twilight of the White Sun, (splash green - Awaken the Woods?), Vat of Rebirth, Norn's Wellspring, Aron, Benalia's Ruin, (splash red - Urbrask's Forge?) all seem interesting. Make mites and or control the board with Twilight. Sac mites or other tokens to Aron to grow our value creatures. Every sac or board wipe adds more oil, so you can resurrect big scary creatures or scry/draw cards.

[@t-dogn6171]

Thanks CGB

[@hcgtrplaya92986]

The issue I see with decks like this is that while they have powerful cards, they don’t specialize enough to make sufficient impact when compared to things like fleshgorger and invoke despair. You might gain some extra value with things like kaito, but kaito doesn’t go over the top - it’s small incremental value that doesn’t get you ahead for the first few turns. It takes too long to get you ahead that you just die in the meantime. I think it’s mostly a meta problem though - the meta is just to fast and too aggressive to try and play the small value game.

[@lukemartineau490]

Yeah, but to be fair, when has the meta ever been slow? I only got in during Neon Dynasty though so I actually do not know

[@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412]

Agreed. In fact, it makes playing MTG incredibly boring when I feel like there are very few decks I can play because it seems like over half the decks I play against aim to win by turn 4.

[@piercearora7681]

@@lukemartineau490 It hasn't been slow since 2018-ish iirc, 2019-2020 was utter chaos, and since then the meta has been blistering fast. I could be wrong, I'm pretty new too.

[@OytunYay]

@@piercearora7681 before that it was still fast but in a different manner. I started at 2010 and it was fast but now fast is even faster.

[@sidneybranch5070]

I use a similar deck with kito being the bread and butter to bring out big creatures. I use a lot of proliferate cards. It usually only take me until turn 4 to get to 7 loyalty counters.

[@zxslipperz007]

BLAST ZONE BOOM🔥

[@josha8737]

Dimir built properly will demolish aggro and midrange but gets completely btfo by control and the matchmaking always gives control when playing smth that counters the others.

[@beyond2261]

I’m a simple man, I see CGB, I click.

[@kwilcox417]

This deck provided some sweet matches!

[@edoardopasquini4036]

Always the best

[@edgarpettijohn8215]

Getaway car plus the beetle is pretty fun

[@odststalker5117]

dimir is my favorite color combination, its just rarely stong enough on its own

[@KodasGarden]

Yeah I guess it's been since Rogues that it was good on its own, huh?

[@blakesvehlakbryanrogeres3242]

This is perhaps a true statement, but there is nothing sexier about dimir, and we must believe there is a shell that is strong enough to compete in standard

[@lordbunbury]

CovertGoKungFu

[@Hitzel]

I was at Magic Philly but sadly didn't end up running into you. One of these days!

[@nottsfhj]

Really enjoyed this video, standard is so stale right now it's fun to see something slightly different do ok!

[@CesarHuerta89]

At 35ish minutes, the blast zone could've taken out the evolved sleeper right?

[@barney3444]

Nice to see dimir

[@grimmlook7314]

One with the Multivers 🤣

[@debigcraz1]

Would you consider making ninjas and poison counters?😅 I am new and wouldn’t know how to make it

[@Craigums4]

@35:10 why not use the blastzone to kill the sleeper?

[@Kazz1187]

The u-b deck that we deserve

[@kaemonbonet4931]

I think it's tough to use counters in bt1 rn . It you can side into counters and duress and bigger threats in bo3 so it's probably fine if we can't get that win rn

[@jrossbaby141]

Good shit I love jank

[@frinbar]

That last game felt sooooo bad being one card shy each draw

[@stefanhovels]

Nice Video

[@francoisdumont8291]

All this time I thought the Legend rule applied to the name of a planeswalker so that you couldn't have two different versions of the same person in play. Well then....

[@sidneybranch5070]

I use a similar deck. With kito being the bread and butter because it soo easy to get him to 7 loyalty counter by turn 4 because of all the proliferate cards and then just bring out your big creatures.

[@Fenix31799]

Would Painful Quandary maybe help close games? With discards hitting their hand up to that point, it can punish playing the cards they manage to keep

[@olafthemoose9413]

Casting a 5 mana card that does nothing unless the opponent is almost dead does not sound like something you want to do in bo1 standard.

[@marcowefers6990]

THis is the exact kind of deck where it doesn't matter how bad i lose because when i win its just so gratifying :)

[@shadostruct]

Would kotose maybe be a better pick up than shelly? It'd allow you to not only deny your opponent their invokes, but if she sticks you can cast them yourself. As well as being versatile enough to work in quite a few matchups. She would struggle against aggro, though, sadly.

[@MetalHev]

"She would struggle against aggro" I mean, you kinda answered your own question.

[@the_r4ts]

He knows not what this number invokes 🏠

[@Turtleshellon]

It’s good to know I’m not the only one getting this crap draw… what did they do to this game…

[@henricocampos]

It's sad that i can't encounter you on conventions. ;-;

[@alexandermalskaer8369]

Nice to see some other games than Vs Mono Red!

[@VeryVVell]

nice

[@damo9961]

How about some explorer decks for the new explorer play in? I got to 700 mythic so I'm ticking down the clock lol

[@arturovargas3847]

8:51 What's that?? 🤫. yes she is

[@artofstorytelling9406]

Damn I’ve been looking for a ninja build for a while , can this work without bankbusters? I don’t wanna craft it if it’s rotating in a few months

[@comedyman4896]

If you need some more Kaito bounce creatures, wandering mind is pretty amazing

[@thegreatbald2728]

Nice idea but wandering mind is kind of slow with all the aggro imo

[@mibbzx1493]

Wandering mind is izzet colors

[@mikesapanero8572]

Blue/Black decks are a Dimir a dozen.

[@jimbo_slice18]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@forrestbarnes6035]

I want hear you give a talk about designing decks around the shuffler/matchmaker meta vs. what should be the real meta.

[@OmNommSnom]

I really enjoy Dimir right now... I just wish it were stronger.

[@AtrociousNightmare]

Really liked this. I'm sure there's room for improvement too.

[@briansturner]

Seems you never really got to use Kaito to bounce your etb triggers, I sort of feel like you have a good deck here, but we didn't get to see it do its thing... Half the games were lacking 1 land to pop off... maybe this just needs some ramp ... Like more card draw in Experimental Augery or something

[@marcusgaming7114]

Now I know why I just played against this deck.

[@orrkeret]

Interaction

[@nejanercan2346]

Staying till the end! Play some urabrask nonsense pls

[@grimmlook7314]

🤣 Are you sure you have put more than 3 Lands into your Deck ? 🤣7:15

[@mandraak7621]

😀

[@addisoninman3672]

I would love to play against this deck all day with my UW mind splice lol

[@danjames5223]

Love how MTG brag about having 20 thousand different cards but it's all the same cards so much that GCB can pretty much call what people will draw and play haha

[@SanFranGiants25]

I've been playing this shell with essentially the same 3+4 mana cards but different 1 and 2 drops to get the ninja in easier. Very fun to play.

[@mattdold6060]

comments help the algorithm

[@Yoshimo_]

Half way through the vid and already missed soooooooo many early land drops in 3 games. Maybe the deck would perform better with 25 or 26?

[@Yoshimo_]

Andddd looks like the land issues never let up

[@simcosports2584]

I feel like the shuffler is brutal if you’re not a meta deck. You never go first, and you either hit 2 lands or 20.

[@damo9961]

3 drop Kaito is nearly as good as Fable.

[@mibbzx1493]

He’s not even playing red 🤨 everyone knows how good fable is because you see it every game that plays red

[@Grundlesweat]

not esper or some other gandalf garbage Pog

[@jasonavina8135]

I like that u/b isn’t the strongest to play. It makes blue players actually think and strategize which they are supposed to be good at😂

[@rjamesstephens]

first?

[@CasualLoLAddict]

🥷 GO NINJA GO, GO NINJA GO! 🥷