Zoraline Midrange makes Standard easy

[@covertgoblue]

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[@michaelsilk275]

I use Requisition Raid in my bat deck. Giving lifelinkers an extra damage and being able to destroy an artifact or enchantment is very handy.

[@nuclear_catnip]

The bloomburrow board music goes harder each time I hear it. That flute solo!!

[@jdgarrison9913]

Uggh. Convoke. "I haven't yet taken my second turn, or played more than a land, and my opponent already has 8 permanents, six of which will soon be smacking me in the face."

[@samuraicupcake289]

That first game was such an tight game, that's some Magic The Gathering right there. 👌

[@ricardoolivo5244]

agreed, although they both played painfully slow...I understand not a simple game but cmon

[@dittmar104]

Bro I honestly don’t trust bronco it never feels like it does anything for me. I’ll maybe get it to go off once. I feel like it’s extremely vulnerable to removal and too slow against aggro.

[@Benji_The_Ghoul]

it was only good with one 15 cost card that rotated out

[@txflood2519]

Dude, same. If youre not running monoblack there are better 2 drop creatures for sure. I swapped mine out for 2x tiny bones and a kaervick.

[@kaerustation]

Bronco is trash

[@kharnthebetrayer1575]

And with meta being 95% aggro …..

[@Vonderbraffle]

I always laugh when I see someone play bronco, if its not saddled i just let it hit, if they saddle it I kill it before it attacks, hate that card.

[@gramatikal8145]

Honestly, that would be a really cool series: Analyzing the thoughts & play of players at different levels.

[@MateoByrd-kg9rf]

3:57 CGB: my build 4:11 also CGB: bad build

[@Bman6464]

Always take the sell sword in that red match up. The potential for losing out of nowhere is through the roof...as you found out lol

[@Tin_Suit]

Just noticed the larger portrait of CGB during the games instead of the landscape, nice change.

[@RenanTheBoss21]

And also i miss the recording sessions streams they were really fun!

[@grimtopia4804]

This is honestly inspiring me to attempt some form of Mono-Red Midrange, maybe in standard, probably in commander.

[@Sjablue1990]

Thank you for the amazing drip stream CGB, hopefully I can attend again!

[@Hanmacx]

Use Delney with Bats T2 Lifecreed Duo T3 Delney T5 Starscape Cleric (with Offspring) = get 32 lose 1 life trigger

[@circolodellinconcludenza4369]

Neat idea but I think you'd have to build bats very differently considering that you core trigger abilities often buff the bats (anti-synergy) or draw you cards at the cost of life (which could just end up killing you) or gain you life or rip cards from your opponent's hand (both cool, but sometimes just win more), or don't come from 2 power creatures (zoraline). The only real synergy is the one you mentioned and it's not really needed: when you offspring the cleric you deal a ton of damage anyways. And considering you chip away your opponent's health quite easily with bats, you don't need that much damage to really make cleric a win con. Plus, Cleric's offspring ability comes on turn 5. I feel like it just requires too much setup and you don't really edge your winrate against your tuff matchups

[@Hanmacx]

@@circolodellinconcludenza4369 you can build your deck around it Like Wispdrinker Vampire, for more life Drain

[@IqmasterDaNinja]

How is it 32 life 1 life triggers? My math is: Starscape Cleric + it offspring token ETBs Lifecreed Duo sees 2 creatures, triggers twice -> 4 triggers due to Delney Stack now has gain 1 life four times. Each 1 life gain triggers both clerics once -> 2 opp. loses 1 triggers -> 4 triggers due to Delney So your 4 you gain 1 triggers causes 4 opp. lose 1 triggers each, 4*4 = 16. Did I do bad math or did you?

[@Hanmacx]

@@IqmasterDaNinja you forgot that Offspring gets copied too, but it is in sequence when Starscape Cleric enters, you get two Lifegain trigger and two Offspring trigger stack them so offspring resolves first now for the first offspring token, you get 2 lifegain trigger which result in 2x2x2 = 8 lose 1 life trigger for the second offspring token, you get 2 lifegain trigger again, which result in 2x2x3 = 12 lose 1 life trigger then the two lifegain trigger from the original resolves, which are again 2x2x3 = 12 lose 1 life trigger total = 32 life lost in one turn

[@LanaDelGayyylmao]

Having an Amalia or two would help with the iffy land drops. I've been playing a lotta bats and vamps along with Iridescent Vinelasher, and it's so much fun.

[@Benji_The_Ghoul]

i'm working on a 250 card bat deck just because of all the cards I can't use in a 60 card deck. I think having tons of control cards adds a lot of potential.

[@Moop321]

​@@Benji_The_Ghoul there isnt enough bats for a 250 card deck haha. You would never find them

[@Benji_The_Ghoul]

@@Moop321 that's why I started adding cards to kill creatures and other control cards. it's hard to fit all the bats I want and all the other cards I want in a 60 card deck.

[@Moop321]

@@Benji_The_Ghoul having 250 cards is just too much

[@Benji_The_Ghoul]

@@Moop321 not against mill decks

[@xVoydx]

Starscape is my favorite card in the set

[@Turnbeutelvergesser]

That first game is what you want in MTG😍

[@carlossaez3362]

Very interesting deck, exploiting the new card Zoraline on an alternative way 👌

[@RenanTheBoss21]

The first game was something else

[@obadijahparks]

Almost mono black is the best multicolor.

[@caperlamb1930]

This showing up in my recommended feels like a personal attack. This deck makes me so salty haha

[@adrianschmidt8322]

CGB makes a bat deck: Deck has 8 bats in it. Just call it Orzhov Midrange Potpourri.

[@d.m.3552]

A fucking joke

[@lancelee338]

23:43 I didn’t know scrying was tied to a certain color. I know my friend played an azorius scry commander deck one time but all colors scry, right? I’m still pretty new to the game

[@Trevbot789]

Scrying in the past is generally a blue thing. But over the years, the color pie has become a mud pie and all colors can pretty much do all the things. Like green being able to draw cards nowadays

[@lancelee338]

@@Trevbot789 See, I thought all colors got card draw, it’s just how they go about it that’s different White has the worst card draw. It may come bundled with another thing they do like tokens or enchantments or healing Blue has all the card draw in the world Black has card draw at the cost of life or sacrificing creatures Red has impulse card draw, where it’s exiled and you can only play them until end of turn Green has card draw tied to having big creatures or casting big spells, usually on enchantments or at sorcery speed Is that just modern magic design (not the format) and I haven’t seen where it all comes from?

[@burningpapersun1]

Modern magic also pushes creatures do a lot of the heavy lifting. White getting good land ramp is a new development the past 2 or 3 years.

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

@@lancelee338 Magic's color pie used to be stricter with what each color can do. The problem with that is some mechanics, like card draw, are too powerful and result in game-warping effects when they are locked out of any of the colors. For card draw specifically the designers came up with ways to give everyone access to the mechanic in a way that fits the feeling of each color, like impulse draw for red. The color pie has evolved a lot over the history of the game. It used to be that rituals (spells that gain you more mana than they cost) were strictly part of black's color identity, but now they are solidly red. Creatures used to be garbage until Wizards realized that people actually like playing with creatures and have continually pushed their power level higher and higher over the last decade while other card types remain roughly the same. For the most part that's proven to be the right call. It's more fun to play with a board full of creatures rather than everyone slamming planeswalkers and holding a full grip of instants and sorceries. Or worse yet, artifact shenanigans. With all that being said, scrying is still mostly a blue thing. White and black get it a little bit, while red and green not so much with the exception of Theros. On Theros, everyone scrys all the time.

[@speedlemur]

I would throw in 1-2 Bezas and 1-2 temporary lockdowns for bo1, also the bronco is not great against aggro so I wouldn't run 4 copies, unfortunately there's not many great 2 drops to replace it, dust animus is sometimes fine, 2/3 flier that can block slickshot s***-off. I'm running 2 copies of each in bo3 atm and seems a good balance

[@speedlemur]

I also ended up cutting all virtue of loyalty, too slow vs aggro and most other people have enchantment removal atm. Good to have 1-2 copies of legions to ashes to deal with urbrasks forge and/or a single season of the burrow.

[@tykabot5520]

I don’t understand what the Mesa falcon title for members thing means and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

[@Rucarlos]

I've been watching CGB for years and somehow just realized that's a thing now

[@dittmar104]

@@tykabot5520 he did a video with a hearthstone KZbinr and showed him mesa falcon and had him guess if it was a tournament acclaimed card. (Control used to be able to win with just a weak flier). The other KZbinrs fans started referring to him as mesa falcon guy and it stuck.

[@leibnizlaw]

@@dittmar104To be more specific: CGB was the one using the card. Hence his new nickname.

[@H4licarnassus]

Because he used it in the first tournament he went to and when he told the story recently people started calling him the mesa falcon guy.

[@uNaratta]

It goes down like oil when Mr Know-It-All gets his ass full 😂 Delicious 

[@michaelsilk275]

Now I’m wondering if a Cleric deck will work well. I’ll have to do a count of them.

[@MTGBlockConstructed]

Bat tribal deck with Zoraline would be awesome :D

[@l0uisss]

You jinxed yourself into drawing no lands in game 1

[@ocha-time]

Question. What 2/3 does Disfigure not reliably kill that requires everyone to run Cut Down instead? It just seems worse. All the time. Wiffs a lot. Has no surprise element. Loses to indestructible after-effects. Loss to normal attack stat buffs.

[@kunimitsune177]

Disfigure gives -2/-2? It doesn't kill anything with 3, 4 or 5 toughness... Cut down is better

[@jake4179]

Only thing it doesn’t hit in this meta that cut down is swiftspear with role or prowess. I run disfigure anyway because reducing damage from heartfire or scamp is way more important.

[@Jordan-dg8tp]

I just did a quick Goldfish search for standard. Disfigure would not kill, but cut down would: Warden of Inner sky with 1 +1 counter on it. Dust animus without counters Swiftspear with 1 prowess trigger (can be done in response after the first pump so you can be reactive quicker and get more value) Some amount of 1/2s in the warleader's call deck. Honestly, it isn't a whole lot more, but sometimes it can be enough to care (also, many people copy of off other's lists, so sometimes similar, but different cards get overlooked.)

[@ocha-time]

@@kunimitsune177 If it's got 4 or 5 toughness what are the odds that it dies to Cut Down anyways? It feels like 9/10 of your targets for Cut Down are not only killable with Disfigure, but Disfigure CAN be cast on anything that's even outside Cutdown range, as a combat trick, saving your blocker and killing the attacker. And most of the arguments about things pumping monsters above Disfigure range ALSO generally put it outside Cut Down range. I'd rather have the flexibility to make the attempt, or kill something that's indestructible, and have a dead card very, very occasionally than have a card that's dead more than occasionally. Disfigure has options long after Cut Down is trash.

[@shizukajonouchi2562]

@@ocha-time Remeber its not just 2/3 that gets hit that disfigure doesn't. 1/3 is a target, too. A lot of 1/3's are etb iirc, so it might not matter at that point, but killing a 1/3 defender could be vital. I also dont run into indestructible as much as I run into hexproof. Which stops both. I'm also a bronze scrub so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[@the_stoic8878]

Oh hey, that's me!

[@ashleyhamilton5064]

I am always here for mono red 404ing all over Arena.

[@powerplay1939]

You should never lose the first game.

[@abiectik1269]

sideboard for this?

[@domodoz]

Not on my watch is a fitting response 😂

[@natewaters344]

I hate forge so much I put DE's or any kind of artifact removal in all decks (probably to my detriment)

[@Zave85]

"i have one gix's command i've never drawn before" it's almost as if playing 1x cards is not conducive to having them in your hand when you need...

[@Linkmaster2010]

46:30 Bro, you MADE this deck (minus hexproof). What do you mean you don't know what it is lmao

[@arturovargas3847]

Meta calls for artifact removal. IDK.

[@leviathabplaysmagic4495]

Good news is I kicked this decks but earlier with Cgbs token control deck 😎

[@j.r.morrison89]

Maha deck soon??

[@richardthomas9529]

Bussin…..I used that right, right?

[@samsimmons8370]

I almost bought 10 copies pf zoraline when it was 75 cents a copy... Almost.

[@vioussy]

maybe a single copy of season of the burrow for forge?

[@elliottkozel3789]

I mean, I understand the monored hate but it’s the best deck I can afford the wildcards are just too much.

[@ryanjamescruz2289]

Getting stsrted to magic, hope to win those booster pack 😂

[@RenanTheBoss21]

The tittle got me with boosters and bats, lets go

[@thenerdcatfish]

You don't like BAT things happening to you... AH-HA-HA-HA-HA...

[@gillgillgillgillgill]

the bots are hilarious man

[@josephbilling3886]

The mono red fling deck is so cringe. I thought mono reds domination would get better with no kumano but it’s honestly worse now

[@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412]

Urabrasks Forge is such an annoying card.

[@thosewhoslaytogetherstayto3412]

Switched to Abzan just to run Tear Asunder.

[@Oxygen1004]

At least there is tons of good artifact hate right now. Plus I think talent is the better part of that combo tbh

[@leibnizlaw]

@@Oxygen1004 I played the deck a lot the past few days and you are right. Forge can sometimes sneak in a win, but the reason the deck can go on forever is talent.

[@kayezpz]

Who's Caroline?

[@TuffLP]

I call this "cringe" Orzhov, compared to my deck, Lifegain bats, which is "based" Orzhov :)

[@Moop321]

Bat deck with only 1 bat god 😢

[@dfpelino]

I can't freaking stand Urabrask's Forge

[@burningpapersun1]

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[@AdrianaWilliams-q4r]

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[@GrizzGaming38]

"Good Game."

[@NummyBonechomp]

The moment you are watching a KZbin video and a 4:20 reference happens while you are outside smoking it up! 😅

[@obadijahparks]

5:57 my thoughts exactly. She's into academic development, she's willing to change, her goth phase outlasted her pagan/emo childhood.

[@NickTemperistic]

I don't know why people continue to play mono red after they get into mythic like what is the actual point?

[@Mdash37]

Feel like the optimal mono red player is right around diamond. Anything more is just a sweaty no life that just grinds for hrs a day. And any less doesnt understand go face

[@drippydrrizzttv2320]

Day 176 begging for a Grolnok, the Omnivore deck 💚💚

[@pepper7880]

bat gaming

[@S8NWinter]

№420

[@adamgreen6051]

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[@NessOnett8]

Definitely not "bats" at all. This is just generic BW Midrange. Actually the most stock standard BW Midrange deck actually has more bats than this because they run 2 Aclazotz'. Though if you're that worried about aggro, where's the Beza? As for not having answers to the forge. There's 3. Legions to Ashes is the standard. Season of the Burrow can also get there in a pinch. But the other smart option, even though you've shit on it in the past, is Loran. Who on top of other things, is a permanent you can get back with Zoraline.

[@bobbyray5165]

Well, no where did he indicate “bats.” If we’re going to be technical, the graphic says “busted bat.”

[@Tinil0]

It's kinda weird how CGB despises the "Hello" emote. I always thought it was polite. I'll always hello back.

[@CoL_Drake]

I just don't like bronco

[@davidschneid4]

Accuses game one opp of bad deck building because they don’t draw lands, proceeds to not draw land and lose himself 🤔 Interesting…