😈💀😼 TOP 10 MYTHIC Mono Black DESTROYS WINOTA ⚫⚫⚫ standard mtg arena

[@andro6670]

Kasrataa here. Thank you CGB for the fun times. I was not really serious about dethroning you ;) I know that you are the real #1 in Best of One. I'm just a Timmy having the fun of my life playing you and other great players. I'm looking forward to future games :)

[@accousticjett]

What Reddit did you post to?

[@victorabreu13]

​@@accousticjett r/MagicArena

[@ZinoDavidoffXIII]

Man it's been a week of CGB of defending the upper echelons of Mythic with mostly off-meta and I'm all for it.

[@leiziru9642]

That was mono red. They played mono red. Mono red. Mono red. Can't hit face. Now they're dead.

[@julienpontus3225]

Monodead

[@steveradtke1308]

oh god, the emotes in the title are giving me flash backs of Facebook

[@The_Duck_Is_Angry]

"All part of my evil plot to play more Yorion"

[@TimeWalk936]

Match Making: Oh, this deck has Black, lets match with Yorion Ultimatum

[@jlj-92]

Man, in historic, my vamp deck always go against rogues. I'd the brillant idea to build a self mill deck... The Lurrus matches are changed for Lurrus Spirit Dancer. I never play against rogues anymore 😓

[@brandonrussell518]

I’m so tired of mirror matches I just want it to be random man

[@timeslowingdown]

The matching algorithm is the most frustrating part of Arena to me. I was going against a lot of annoying aggro decks, so I built a dimir control deck specifically designed to beat the decks I was getting matched against. When I queued with the dimir control deck, I got almost EXCLUSIVELY matched against other dimir control decks and even mono-blue decks that I NEVER see in the matchmaking queue with my other decks. Almost every match was a mirror, despite dimir control being under 10% of the meta, WTF? And of course I had a poor winrate because the deck was designed to beat something else. It always goes like this: Me: Queue with a control deck designed to beat aggro. Arena: Here's a mono blue deck with 24 counterspells, 4 shark typhoons, 1 fae of wishes, and land, have fun! Me: Ok, you got me, I'll play mono-white aggro instead Arena: Here's mono-red and winota, have fun It's really obnoxious because you can't really "play the meta" correctly if this is how it works. You have to "play the algorithm" instead.. Fucking annoying. If I quit Arena permanently at some point, this will probably be the #1 reason.

[@NStripleseven]

S e e m s f a i r

[@miscalaneous]

@@jlj-92 I'm running an azorius deck with dance of the manse and have a pretty fun time when rogues start popping up again. Nothing like pulling out a couple shark typhoons and all your removal enchantments, while also filling up the board. They just help me lol.

[@nice.try.garrett8264]

Some feel good matches, rad content as always bro. It was cool seeing you and HGG face off the other day, you two are my top MTGboiz, hope to see that again

[@Ktwitch88]

It's been quite a while since I've seen CGBlack!

[@holf99]

Once you go black you always come back

[@Fiskie666]

That big black swinging 😳

[@0tempora]

Favorite deck in this meta. I've really enjoyed withercrowns, mirror shields for lurrus companion and some treasure shenanigans to ramp for vorpal sword which has won fairly often with a lil eyetwitch

[@KL-lt8rc]

"These favors aren't doing us many.....favors" LOL

[@DD-qw4fz]

Made a version of this enchantment deck and got to 80 % win ratio in one day, but then the rigged matchmaker basically said "yeah you win too much" matched me 95 % of the time with ugin, yorion, and late game ramp decks with gazzilion of removals...until I dropped under 50 % win ratio...

[@aidankenealy2231]

Yeah this happens to me except it's against rogue's, my winrate against rogue's is pathetic, I absolutely cannot stand that deck, everytime they manage to mill all my land and removal spells, and the matchmaking algorithm seems to know this.

[@donaldtrump9545]

The aura player you kept facing was Jason Dennis and you were lucky to escape unharmed with your collection intact

[@rubencp93]

That last match was something else; holy crap!

[@Xebind]

Hey!! I am currently running a similar list, a bit more on the aggro side to have a slight higher chance against control, running scorpions, disciples and bloodsky berserkers to lower the curve, and testing callous bloodmage as it replaces itself, and can exile graveyards when needed. In some control matchups you can chip enough dmg so that a topdecked rankle can finish the job

[@moralnexus]

I play a variant of this deck that uses Underworld Dreams and Peer into the Abyss (plus foretell / lotus to cheat them) and it seems to be able to adjust style against both agro and slow decks.

[@charlesschlaepfer5534]

Glad to see Aggro crumble under the weight of black. I still play Eidolon/Auras in Historic, so it's nice to see that it's still relevant. I might toss in a Malakir's Rebirth with this and definitely have some fun with it! BTW, I joined cool kids club finally after watching for years! Keep it up!

[@L_Jefe]

@CGB I worked in 2x Necromentia for the control matchups/Ultimatum's, taking out 1 [either Mogis or Mire's idk which is better] and an Aphemia. You don't sacrifice much vs. Aggro & you don't need to autoscoop vs. Control

[@martinpalazzo9703]

Poet's quill was a nice addition to the deck!

[@jollyjoker6340]

I'm looking at my old version of this. +4 Archfiend's Vessel, +4 Call of the Death Dweller, -1 Favor, Grasp, Quill, -2 Rider, Rankle. -4 Faceless, +2 Hagra Mauling, +2 Agadeem's. +1 Castle, -2 Swamp. I like the extra synergies in mine. Rankle is good but not part of the plan and raises the curve unnecessarily.

[@joshandrews464]

Catching a CGB vid early in the day always makes my day better!

[@FullMetalMexican2025]

Let the destroying rogues shenanigans begin!

[@Blacturne859]

Hopefully mono white will also get rekt

[@FullMetalMexican2025]

@@Blacturne859 ikr?!

[@oDMACo]

I love the smile CGB has on his face when playing monored with this deck 😆

[@Chaoslorden]

I play a version of this that uses other creatures and can beat Ultimatum pretty often. I basically slides in some of the Aura package into an existing flash/Haste/lifelink monoblack deck that already ran 4 demonic embraces. This way i have game against both Aggro and control. So far so good.

[@tehol1]

Love lurrus decks. Using a mono Lurrus right now thats doing pretty good. I dont have enough Demic embraces for it just yet though.

[@rtcarrol]

Yay! You played a version of my favorite standard deck. I run it a little different but basically the same thing. Hateful Eidolon is amazing!

[@mattdawgpro]

I love your evil plot. Doom Foretold is doing work right now against aggro and holding its own again Sultai :)

[@gabrielfuksrodrigues6776]

28:00 Nice Four-celess Havens

[@miscalaneous]

DemonChild played a lot yesterday. Also you were my first game after reaching mythic yesterday. I felt bad because I didn't intend to keep playing monowhite lmao, but forgot to switch decks between queue's.

[@quantumaffected9925]

My climb to mythic will be playing the most difficult match up for the deck in the video for the day. Lol Without fail I always face multiple opponents running them. It's kind of a surreal experience when your playing against the deck while watching the video. I'm glad I ran with Mardu Sac today.

[@dodny]

Thanks a lot man. I had to switch to Saltimatum after I kept running into these non-stop today.

[@grimtopia4804]

I have a very similar version of this deck mine is Jund involving making big trampling creatures, removing the competition and hasting them out

[@grimtopia4804]

I dont think its ladder worthy but it has almost gotten me from silver to diamond

[@DocTwisted]

I've been wanting an "answer" to all the Winota I'm seeing now that I'm back down in Platinum. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@ShooterSF]

Started playing during Theros Beyond Death (mostly draft) in my LGS and a hateful embrace build was the deck I won my only FNM playing. I love all incarnations of this deck even if even best of 3 it folds hard to control :/ Hopefully I get to play it again before rotation if the stores reopen.

[@RobinDavey-ge8vn]

Aw the merchant reference, miss his vids. Watching CGB religiously has definitely helped my merchant withdrawl

[@loganness8148]

Whatever happened to him? I don’t know the story

[@captRhay]

what happened to merchant? did he stop making vids?

[@LMGF89]

@@captRhay he still makes videos, but mostly videogame reviews. he said no more mtg for a while, still interesting to watch tho

[@iAutodidact]

I've been running your mono-white deck since I don't have a lot of time to play and either want to win quickly or lose quickly. I've been encountering *so much* mono-black and it has been absolutely dumping on me. Also I'm not sure why nearly every game I'm either mana-starved or flooding, but shuffler's fine I guess.

[@atomskpk997]

I've been thinking of a 4 color wipe tribal, with heroic intervention x devastating mastery x shark typhoon

[@roberto1524]

Thank you CGB with this deck, this times and meta need this pain in the #%!

[@adrienlingua3507]

i played variations of this deck since theros, almost Always faced control decks lol

[@guessthatsitthen4982]

Dramatic finale isn't terrible in a deck like this, anthems the zombie tokens and makes evasive threats when they kill your eidolon or you could even do that yourself to draw cards with a lurrus out etc ensuring a finale trigger during your turn drawing a card and if the opponent follows with removal for one of your non token creatures you get another token. It can quickly spiral out of the opponents control and lead to some really aggressive draws.

[@sebastianmeisenbach4957]

would be cool to have a making of episode to see whats behind an episode of cgb

[@novacain5967]

Aggro decks conceding when they see the eidolon. PRICELESS!

[@MatataMcCleskey]

This is my deck mostly. You can beat ultimatum. Add 3 or 4 demon's embrace, add that one 2 mana priest that has kicker to rez a creature. You can kill in turn 4 if you get mogus, embrace, and a hateful idion

[@VaeDesigns]

Hateful Eidolon is such a powerhouse! a great inkeeper for voltron! love this guy in Killian, the Ink Duelist edh

[@MWBowen403]

What about a dimir version with some control?

[@jensalgebra1]

As always I love ur content ;) It's my daily routine before i go to sleep. Thx for ur work. Love it...

[@martinkarban1971]

I have to say it is amazing deck, even able to defeat yorion with 2 shark typhoon on the board. Thx CGB

[@emmanuelhernandez3200]

I made similar deck when Ikoria dropped. I actually have like 3 different version. It did well. I haven’t played arena in a while though

[@jasonwaltman3566]

I don't really play ranked, I spend most of my time in draft or historic casual. I wanted to ask how's Witherbloom, or Golgari in general, look on the Std ladder?

[@vaettra1589]

how would an updated version look?

[@AnjinSan1966]

Love black so i love this deck n and seeing CGB piloting it makes it even better :D

[@ryanrodgers3099]

There are few things I love more in magic than seeing mono red get stomped.

[@franksmith8298]

Kicking mono red's guts out =😁 Referencing Sammy Hagar's "The right way to rock" = 😩🤌

[@TtDeathCloudtT]

I love the intro I just wish it was true and the whole world wanted to run creatures! Sad truth is more than 50% of everyone’s cards are some sort of removal

[@youfail1274]

tried this a few games, all vs genesis decks and control lol

[@ryanhenderson225]

I've been playing a Golgari version of this since Theros released and while the matchup is better against control than just mono black, you still hate it when you see the Yorion

[@ryanhenderson225]

As sacrilegious as hating Yorion is

[@ferhatplus5186]

Just today I was thinking about making a mono black deck just to crush all my agro playing friends at battles. Lucky me!

[@strongside4565]

I thank you for playing this. I've been climbing with Golgari Control and Yorian Ultimatum, the lower ranks were littered with this deck. So many free wins as they ran out of threats pretty much immediately.

[@kratix0469]

Can you play big red with leyline tyrant, ugin, crackle with power and ironcrag feet?

[@timeslowingdown]

He played a big red deck like that a few weeks ago, the video is called "YOU'RE JUST DEAD | MYTHIC Top 500 big red"

[@arielbrent67]

Necromentia for those Ultimatums, etc.

[@MisterWretham]

Nice shoutout to Merchant.

[@jacknelson8640]

YAY Aphemia ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you CGB 😁

[@nathanmccoy325]

Where you going mono red?

[@thea9192]

so i can’t be the first one to say this but you gotta do a video with the azorious blink deck autumn is playing at the strixhaven championship

[@asdasvedas1]

I was wondering why so many people were playing this deck for the last 2 days. Apperantly CGB made a video about it thats why xD

[@guywitastache451]

CGB i have to admit its a very good deck and now everyone's playing it in diamond trying to push, but they're just not good enough to use the deck. 6-1 against it playing Winota. People don't understand how easy it is to counter winota and thats why it's so good rn

[@guywitastache451]

Commented on the wrong vid before

[@keithmpire]

I run a very similar deck, except it runs Thoughtlashes and Giant Oysters

[@genkimichael7329]

That intro gave me goosebumps

[@sovietphoenixgaming2130]

"They have found the gatekeeper...its me...its CGB" -CGB 😅

[@abochavez]

I mean i love this game but the shuffler is just absolutely fine 👍👍👍

[@drewkirkhouse]

Black auras is my favorite deck I just love it

[@kchapdaily]

how did you not play against sultai or temur once with this deck? even in ranked does arena try to put you against similar decks?

[@dcnole]

CGB straight up bullied Mono Red in this video, and didn't feel bad about it.

[@sebastiang.5032]

Love this deck!

[@simonstark2948]

Hey, that's my deck! Love it 😃

[@simonstark2948]

To be exact: those one and two drops, Lurrus as companion, omen of the dead, malakir rebirth etc. Called "Lurrus hates Aggro" With omen of the dead and malakir rebirth even mid range decks can be defeated. Still dies to control though....

[@casperionx]

Why not swap out tymaret for elspeths nightmare, which would give you some protection from ultimatum decks...

[@cjsurber]

Cool deck bro

[@LeMuzi]

this is great, but i think your version with Tibalt has alot more versatility

[@NamathCB]

Funny, i don't LIKE to play Black because it's so annoying to me as a Green White player usually. But had to kill creatures as my daily today so used my heavily tweaked Black color challenge freebie deck and literally lost ONCE due to killing instead of doing the correct play. MOST times they quit and usually just as my home brew was running out of gas. Pretty funny. But yeah went 9/10. That NEVER happens to me

[@marcgomes4193]

Really well played games.

[@BrotherBlack3]

I really appreciate that you build and share decks with an eye toward shaping the Arena meta.

[@EchoZeero]

Priest of the Haunted Edge is literally broken in this deck, you should consider taking out something to make space for 3 of them.

[@ericlaufer5804]

Who wants to make a whole grain toast with a CGB toenail crud spread????

[@conce9530]

Every time I play Mono Green. The only aggro deck I face is this deck. Never mono red, rarely white, always this or the magecraft aggro. Hate this deck xD Funny thing is I have it as well. Destroys any deck with low mana cost creatures.

[@fodemhousegaming]

Still waiting for the day where I will be able to use monoblack as a main deck ! Missing some cards.... In the meantime I am having fun with my Black/White control deck...

[@xiricada7121]

Matchmaking REALLY trying to make you lose against mono-white by not giving you enchantments.

[@Charles-yq8vv]

I always stay till the end!

[@КошкаКатя-е3ф]

Nice opponents, comfortable.

[@playersinexile72]

I stayed to the end lol

[@Sentient.A.I.]

You should have modded the deck so it can beat control xD

[@pich10]

Idk you guys, but I am feeling so good wathing winota and monored getting demolished

[@EneruM]

So satisfying to watch Winota get clapped.

[@jagorarut347]

Of course this deck is good, it was played by Jason Dennis

[@duane6386]

Didn’t expect to hear about him here.

[@brunolevaggitapia4573]

into the story is 7 cards in graveyard btw

[@stephendack]

Life is hard, magic is easy

[@God-ch8lq]

I miss ur historic content

[@gooblinslayer5702]

welcome back to the dark side my brother. 😈

[@l.p.7585]

I'm not skipping your intro because i don't want to watch it, I'm spilling cause theres no captions generated for it yet :p

[@OUSTET]

I could easily see this being a PH title

[@ravgni4]

Fatality!! NO! Humbletality!!

[@JynnTheFox]

I always watch every video to the end because I need to know if I'm cool or not.

[@javiervina63]

I staied till the end : )