UNDEFEATED on LADDER | Green/White Midrange beats ROGUES, RED, & WHITE

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A: If you watch the entire video, I always give my honest opinion about the deck at the end. As always, you are welcome to draw your own conclusions. My goal is to show off a variety of decks that can get a player with skill and conviction into Mythic, and I want them to have fun doing it. I almost never show a video of a deck that I don’t believe in, and if I don’t like a deck after playing it, I guarantee you will know about it if you watch the whole video and listen to what I have to say.
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[@covertgoblue]

Never forget cool kids, win rates are a scam. Watch the video, watch the matches, and judge for yourself

[@backslashthe3rd]

gosh with HelloGoodGame would take this hint lol

[@matheusesteves3585]

@@backslashthe3rd *wins 1 game* HelloGoodGame: 100% WIN RATE DECK

[@cheer90099]

@Todd Packer that happens in irl magic too it's a card game

[@covertgoblue]

@Todd Packer delivered in a Cobra Kai way - meant to motivate and challenge - STOP BEING A WIMP

[@cheer90099]

@Todd Packer fair

[@comokazijeff]

I've been needing a new ranking deck. Definitely trying this out!

[@malding1]

Oh hi jeff

[@demonicell]

I need one too. I might give it a whirl. Hi, Jeff.

[@shervinnaimi3028]

Played you on ladder with my own anti-meta monoblack with colorless Yorion deck. I thought you could have had me but I was able to stabilize and go all out with the barrens.

[@mtggaming5656]

oh yes

[@matthewpayette1128]

Hi Jeff, my other fav streamer lol

[@colinjones5379]

"Card draw is mana fixing on a long enough timeline" -a blue wizard

[@Pardu84]

I was hoping for a fight club pun right there.

[@gottinrod]

"Card draw is a wincon" ,"card draw os the best offense" , "card draw is the plan", "math is for those without card draw" - blue wizard

[@leiziru9642]

@Todd Packer *Dawn of Hope says hello

[@leiziru9642]

@Todd Packer Probably not something you will see in a competitive match but might pop up in a casual game of Historic. I tend to like it in my Angels deck - might be a card draw, token creator or just a bait for the opponent to use removal on it before some fancier stuff hits the board.

[@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH]

@@Pardu84 wasn't a pun but he basically quoted it right out

[@augustoceccopieri]

Hey user delaqueiroz here, I was so happy when I saw your username on the match, sadly my newborn baby has begun to cry just when the game started! I hope that I can play against you again someday! Huge fan here!

[@augustoceccopieri]

That's why I had to hit the concede button that fast, I'm ashamed actually lol

[@covertgoblue]

Bummer, thanks for letting us know

[@augustoceccopieri]

@@covertgoblue I had a pretty solid hand too 😭😩

[@JDPetersonFLA]

Chainweb was created for rogues. It's such a hard counter to them.

[@lifeisawesome1391]

37:00 ouch! They even said "good game" and "oops" to you on the turn before.

[@promanev01]

CGB, I really love how the theoretical framework for the deck that you lay out in the intro (and heuristics in the end) is juxtaposed against the actual gameplay (connected by your brilliant segway "let the nonsense begin"). It's like being in a MTG 510 class: you read the book and then conduct the experiment! I really miss this after grad school is over!

[@golbez1583]

Me: "Cool deck; but how does it beat rogues?" CGB: 39:00 Me: "Oh wow; ok."

[@pashasghost9252]

Typical rogues. No honor. (Or their mom asked them to take out the trash or something)

[@OogaB0oga]

Geez, that one Mono White player really screwed up.. poor dude. That large amount of massive missplays cost him the game

[@csgonovac6400]

Oh yeah that Mono White dude could've won the game for sure if he didn't make all those huge mistakes. The Gruul player runs his Rimrock Knight into a 5/5 with 0 mana open and two guys just scooped in the first few rounds for no reason. Guess that's how you go 6-0. Why can't my opponents be like this?

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

@@csgonovac6400 It is pretty uncommon in europe for diamond and above but in mid or lower plat it is super common for opponents not to play against your outs. Rogues players tapping out against a boros cycling player when I had 4 mana up and a potentially lethal zenith flair happened pretty much constantly below plat 1 or players forgetting about keywords like reach.

[@ryanbolson23]

I don’t feel bad for him, he didn’t understand how lots of cards worked which makes me think he just looked up a deck with a high win ratio rather than researching and building one himself, and he was BMing with the good game spams and “your go”s.

[@danielgoldberg2129]

“What a wimp!” 😂

[@kiernanoh]

Lmao the good game from a player who doesn't sideboard the legion angels

[@markucla]

I think I did that the 1st time I played them.

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

They also tapped out with alseid leaving them vunerable to skyclave or chop down and blocked with Lurrus when they could have used him to give two things pro green with Alseid. Easy win for opponent if they took some time to think about what CGB could draw.

[@AkiraEverheart]

One day, perhaps even this year, there could be....Selesnya Squirrels!

[@leiziru9642]

Rogues player: Hello (there)! Chainweb: General Millobi! Rogues player: Your go. Chainweb: You fool! I've been trained in your milling arts by Count GooBlue! [The catch is it doesn't go the way it did in the movie]

[@MartinPHellwig]

I don't understand how someone with such a pleasant personality, great showmanship and excellent teaching skills likes being a blue mage, he must be an alien.

[@matthewshadburn8594]

I just need it noted that at 44:30 I was saying to myself “the next draw is another innkeeper”. Just had to give you all the opportunity to congratulate me on my newfound clairvoyance

[@jdr4674]

'Just exile the war' - Embassador CGB, 2031

[@AlexRodigue]

I don't really like beating Rogues...I FREAKING LIVE FOR IT!

[@jobu03]

UNDEFEATED! 1-0!

[@Amphok]

lmao people need to understand the sample of the game you played, if it is below 100 it has no value

[@edwardfreda3335]

He went 5-0 and had a really hard mono white.

[@krieger8238]

Yeah a sample of 50 would be completely worthless bro

[@marlowcowan5343]

@@edwardfreda3335 Monowhite that he only beat because they screwed up and didnt put legion angels in the sideboard. (Also didnt use pro-green from the alseid when it would have been lethal. And 2 rogues wins, 1 where they scooped on 2 and 1 where they scooped when they were way ahead.

[@edwardfreda3335]

@@marlowcowan5343 win's a win. No one says, "I'm mythic but should be diamond because I won this game and that game and this game I shouldn't have won. Seahawks and falcon's should have beat the Patriots in the Superbowl too

[@thejray422]

Nice one CGB! I tried a similar deck, but in the spirit of the dojo, its a Yorion deck. 1st time plat tier 4 to diamond 4 climb with a home brew! Thanks for all the analysis in your game play. I feel that is what contributed the most to my recent success.

[@paulgrant8144]

Nice fight club reference at 42:45

[@travis6992]

A Fight Club MTG mindset would be at least better than Walking Dead

[@paulgrant8144]

@@travis6992 42:39 my bad

[@nickoslekkas3336]

decks is out for an hour and i played against it XD Damn you cgb :P

[@AKASyx]

This deck definitely worked for me:)

[@covertgoblue]

Very nice!

[@SilverwolfCommander]

''I think the Henge is just great because... The Great Henge.''

[@Linky609]

Appreciate your thoughtful deck building approach. Being that you're typically a control player I like how well you can play different styles

[@AleBresca]

Chainweb: the most underrated card in standard, a staple in my green decks. Good job 👌🏻

[@KayleJudicator]

I don't see how it's underrated, every deck playing green has it in his sideboard and bring it in against Rogue, the card is just super good against this mashup, not particularly good against others decks, so no it's not underrated, in what world do you live in.

[@arongiann6070]

I love when you drop in some amazing pop culture references, must say "dead or alive your coming with me" when you take something with the spirit plz, will make my day.

[@joshualevimusic]

I’ve been playing a RAKDOS krona deck recently with 4 akroan wars! They help with tymeret calls the dead and the deck seems to also beat rogues, gruel, and mono red!

[@Wylli]

Men, you are amazing, all your plays are so tight and well explained. Amazing

[@vitopatrico1470]

Good deck man, been digging your content. You do a great job at explaining decisions to be made and the out come of those decisions. Keep the good work up, God bless man.

[@Reggendo]

Although one wonders if War and Peace would have been as highly acclaimed as it was, had it been published under its original title War, What Is It Good For.

[@jjjjjjj238]

+1 For Seinfeld

[@lifeisawesome1391]

Hi CGB. I am glad you are being nice. Your games are viewed by tens of thousands of people every day. You get to influence the gaming culture for the better. There are toxic users that use emotes to taunt. But there are also nice people that say hello and good game out of sportsmanship. Even at the most competitive level, athletes usually shake hands at the end of the match.

[@raymondchen89]

I dont normally write in youtube but I had to for this one. 80% WIN RATE IN GOLD TIER. This deck rocks, I could see that from your nicely mad video. It has nice commentaries to let you understand what this deck can do! Good Job CBG

[@sebastiana2035]

This is practically the deck I made earlier last year! Just with a few less rares

[@TheDanHK]

Hi CGB, congrats on the 100K! Also, thanks for doing the daily videos. They distract me while doing my boring rehab exercises for a back injury.

[@oncrn4673]

Took this deck out to the ladder yesterday because I had all the cards and got Arena’d. 5 control decks on the draw for 4 Ls. Changed decks for 3 rogues... closed the game for the day.

[@Ducovandongen]

Man I know how you feel. Sometimes it seems deliberate from MTGA 😅

[@blurglebox]

also relatable, play like 15-20 games with a deck, then when i get matched with nothing but counters, i switch to another archetype, and find all the counters to it. i made someone at wizards angy it would seem

[@juancruzpinero1294]

I'd try a little variation taking out possibly a copy of mammoth and an ooze may be even a giant killer, to add 2 or 3 shepherd of the flocks, against control decks (and monogreen creatures fighting your inkeeper), also helps replaying apparitions, angels, beasts, or Yasharn, even little spiders getting extra value (yeah, it's conditional, but there are many conditions where it'd be fine), and extra drawing cards with the innkeeper and the henge. I'd bet stability loss gets compensated by those sinergies, deffinetely looks great!

[@benjaminandersen3805]

I like beating rogues!

[@Lukas-rv4lc]

Or Black White Lifegain is actually pretty good against rogues.

[@ProudLikaAGod]

Never stop, CGB.

[@dynamicmechanix9397]

I enjoy the rogue humiliations.

[@fullmetalmexican]

Me too

[@ひろゆき二十一]

Few things in the Arena provides better satisfaction than Rogues dying

[@jamesw2855]

Thank CGB I love green white deck. I love beating rogues and grul and mono white!

[@tiredtraveler4536]

Beating rogues is my speciality

[@FullMetalMexican2025]

Master....Teach me

[@TheStanishStudios]

Something tells me that monowhite player didn’t understand how protection from color would let them ignore blockers... took me a year to learn that one

[@Charles-yq8vv]

As someone who loves Selesnya more than any other color combination -- thank you! GW usually sucks, but you've brought a temporary honor to our little corner of nerd-dom.

[@rojaq_art]

I had a tough game with this deck against Mono Green Food. I managed to grind it out until the opponent decked themselves off their own Great Henge.

[@andrewspurley7908]

I love beating ROGUES!!! Great job on this deck it's awesome!!!

[@mrzerian11]

Omg this game has changed, have not played it for over a year, still as fun and intense though! Amazing that you hit the 100k mark man!

[@ty_sylicus]

Glad to see someone else using the tiny Spider!

[@dabossman3133]

Wow, this really works. Different card are made for different match ups, kind of like best-of-one-boarding. Unlike enigmatic etrata, which beats creature decks, not creature decks, and decks that forgot interaction.

[@spysong1324]

The game against the mono white player with the preemptive gg was satisfying to watch to say at least. GG :D

[@TheFyresnake]

Tried this deck. Went 8 and 0 in ranked. I am going to play this a lot more. Thanks CBG.

[@redwins8840]

Hey CGB! I just wanted to point out how big your impact on the meta is - even on the EU server. I was laddering somewhere in the middle of platinum when every second of my opponents was suddlenly playing this green/white deck. After the third or fourth of them I decided to look up if I missed something. And there it was. Three hours ago - your video. Of course it could be that it was just me who queued up against lots of CGB viewers, but I'm quite sure there are other people noticing this too.

[@Blacturne859]

Cgb is truly a man of the people

[@TheMrDrProfeseR]

The scoop at 13 was so satisfying to watch

[@adogawa1974]

I LOVE beating rogues!

[@hectorcordero6026]

You have a big influence in magic metagame. You posted this video yesterday, didn't you? Last night, I played three games against this deck and I have never seen it before. Great job, I really like your videos and the way you play

[@joeregan.]

I have been getting a lot of doom foretold yorion in plat! Maybe more than mono red.

[@stevenshelton4807]

I know you can feel me, You’re never gonna mill me! So bring on your rogue’s, bring your embercleave, You want to own the board? YOU CAN’T CONTROL ME!!

[@coopergw3463]

After playing this deck myself I've had a ton of success with it so far.

[@Ephsy]

I love when rogues scoop when they can't counter your silver bullet spider

[@godzillaburger9690]

I've built a similar deck with yorion. I'll incorporate some of your ideas into mine. Thanks for the video.

[@clagen86]

Glad to see something new-ish

[@phillipharmon2887]

I love stomping on rogue decks my guy nice deck

[@NamathCB]

No no, CGB YOU'RE THE COOL ONE. Those last couple were so fun

[@antroz9181]

Today is the day I became a net decker, I see Yasharn, I click like. Today I decided to go further and actually make the deck. Sadly I only had one Legion Angel and two Scavenging Oozes so I swapped them out for two ECDs and a Turntimber and I've been loving the deck. My mana base is also a lot more scuffed but I'm slowly perfecting the deck one wildcard at a time. Been really enjoying this deck and hoping to push for Diamond once again with it.

[@dudeofvalor9294]

Look forward to playing this. Will have to tweak some of the lands as have only 2 GW pathways.

[@dapuddingcooper7899]

Love beating rogues!

[@dukvader8759]

loved the game against mono W! forcing the opposition to make the mistake to pull out the win ! Very Nice

[@elichamas]

I like beat rogues so much!

[@fogo.dentro]

Man, the match against Mono White was freaking amazing! 🖤

[@cesarsotillo784]

Now that you mention it, I do like beating rogues.

[@NarutoGeek411]

Has CGB done one of those fancy mono-white or mono-black colorless (edit: I guess it's better to call them tron) decks? The ones that control their opponents while ramping out to a fast Forsaken Monument and Ugin. I'd love to see his take on the deck. I've been experimenting with a couple for the last day, but it's hard not having any Solemn Simulacrums

[@charlescady1669]

I like beating rouges and this looks like a cool new deck for me to try

[@KChaos005]

21:51 Wait did they change fabled passge? It cracked like instantly!

[@jameslacy7236]

Rogues are not special. Monored is not a beautiful and unique snowflake. They are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world. Love the music/movie references. Keep up the great work man! CKC

[@Ultoriel]

Love the deck. Got matched against all the green decks that went both wider and taller than this and drew a total of 3 apparitions over the course of 4 of those games. Arena knows how to make you not win.

[@promanev01]

Every time I get to "...And we are back" moment of the video I become sad, I feel the shadow of withdrawals looming over me. I guess I'm off to Twitch now!

[@bear_6875]

Same!

[@sheaandrus-oak6546]

Would not cut anything from the list but want recommedations on better removal thanks i'm really think white is the way to go but not sure

[@AkiraEverheart]

I haven't yet seen the video, but it should be noted yasharn turns off fabled passage. Good against brushfire and crab, but just be aware you dont screw yourself. Maybe it comes up in the video haha

[@sheaandrus-oak6546]

Plus stone coil has many other hose capabilitys.

[@kathic6402]

I'm so happy with how that mono white game ended.

[@Bleach213monster]

greaty video thanks for all the play advice im trying to improve and your videos help

[@Ggollly]

Controversial opinion here: Rogues are not actually that bad from a meta standpoint. They are not too overpowering. They just have a few things going for them. 1) They are relatively cheap deck to make, which means even budget players can make a good Rogues deck pretty quickly which makes them widespread and very common to see and play against. 2) They feel bad to play against because they have good aggro, good control, and a decent back up strategy of mill. They are not the best at any of these strategies, but the fact that they have all 3 available at the same time means they will have something that will annoy you and your deck.

[@borissecretin190]

I love your daily content even though i try to build my own lists. Maybe this one i will make a copy of with 1 crawling, 2 forests, 1 Emeria's call.

[@daemeonp]

Cool kids club gets to see cgb quote Bill Murray from ghost busters. Nicely done!

[@gpbeato837]

I build all my decks specifically to beat rogues. I'm also Silver 4.

[@chrisw8681]

I have the darnest time getting out of Silver with any CGB deck but no problem with Gold. Odd that.

[@sharethepudding]

why did the rogue player at 39:51 scoop?

[@ohwowlookout]

DAILY Meta Breaker: Counter whatever CGB played today! 😂😂😂

[@backslashthe3rd]

no elspeth or banishing light? that would solve the ugin issue pretty well

[@this19suffering]

Really nice Deck. Could not think of a smart or funny comment but I still want to Support you. Also I am already beating Rouges and I will continue to do so.

[@ericz2389]

15:38 Beware of the Hendercleave!

[@Thickolas]

I like beating rogues! I mean, in theory I would

[@treybooher9608]

I saved this deck and it's name is now "ty cgb" cause wow i love it

[@DevTheo1]

I like beating rogues which is why when I play my Rogues deck, I play with a sideboard and Fae of Wishes.. :-)

[@FooBRaP]

Hey CGB! I wonder where I could send you a decklist for a monored deck I crafted after I saw your non aggro monored deck with Chandra. It is KINDA JANK (and you are pretty much out for blood these days) but when the win condition works... IT IS SATISFYING.

[@stevenshelton4807]

Sub on patreon is the only way to get him to check out your deck unless you win a tournament with it or get listed on esports for winning 6 matches straight without any changes made. It is a narrow field sadly but when he is not original he is showcasing something proven. Keeping it competitive... no more jank week, next jank day at 125k

[@jacobb1611]

LOLed at "land of shame"

[@foolish137]

Beautiful

[@MrSandalz]

Not the biggest fan of GW, but if it beats rogues it’s an awesome deck in my book :D

[@jackpabich763]

Thoughts on Vivien, Questing Beast, or Elder Gargaroth? I definitely like at least 1 Vivian in green creature decks

[@Moderndaycowboy74]

Why do I never get people to scoop like you do CGB? They always stick it out till the end

[@ИванСкворцов-п7о]

I like Uroing rogues, thoughtseizeing them, and I like previewed simic mythic, it's so broken