Can't Let You Do That! - Mono Black Waste Not - Pioneer Deck Tech & Primer 

Thank you so much! Glad you're enjoying them, I was hoping they would hit a sweet spot for intro to format and a bit of advanced learning!

My in depth videos like this go over the archetype as a whole, so I don't base it off a specific list. I think if you add up all the cards I go over here, you end up with 70 Maindeck ones 😅 My hope is that by understanding all the options you can have in your deck, Players can find a list that works for them, and people who want to play against the deck understand what to anticipate in a closed deck list event. However, I can offer a sample list if you want to know what I would look to build like: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6400811#paper

Glad you like them! They're a personal fav of mine too!

Whoohoo thank you! Welcome to the Channel and I hope to deliver more content you'll enjoy!

Yup! That's the main way you're going to be flipping it in this deck. It's relevant that if YOU also have one of fewer cards it can flip since when you get to top deck mode people will hold cards to prevent the flip

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Glad it was helpful to you! Hope you're able to win an RCQ with the deck :)

Thank you!

I have only seen one list (the 9-1 one) with The Wandering Emperor in the deck and I feel like that is not how Spirits should be building their deck at the moment. I don't think Emperor gives them anything against decks they have issues with (like Amalia) and seeing them go bigger is better for Waste Not pilots tbh. Losing Geistlight Snare for 1 mana is also a huge blow I don't like seeing. I've also not seen lists with a ton of Cryptic Coats recently, although I know they exist. Tishana's Tidebinder seems to be taking that slot now. Waste Not is in essence a Control deck, and Azorius Spirits as a Tempo deck is naturally advantages. Spirits is a deck with impactful spells, but mostly Creatures. It actually has more Creatures than decks like Mono Red, Gruul, or Heroic - which means Waste Not loses effectiveness on cards like Duress and really needs Thoughtseize. It also has Rattlechains, which is effectively Counterspells our removal and turns all the spirits into Flash creatures, making Mausoleum Wanderer extremely potent against our deck full of Instants and Sorceries. The cards Spirits uses to deal with Waste Not are cheap and efficient. If the deck stalls Waste Not enough, there isn't much the Black deck can do with a hand full of the wrong answers for the state of the game. Going bigger with 3+ mana cards means the cards Waste Not is holding become more effective. If Spirits can't double spell because they need to hold up 4 mana, or can't activate Creature lands or abilities because they need to hold up 3-4 mana, Waste Not becomes much better at its spells not being dead. It also means Spirits is going up the curve and applying less pressure early and less ways to generate their own cars advantage to keep tempo on games, allowing decks like Waste Not to claw back in after 1-3 turns of being stalled. You kinda mentioned it on your question - when the deck gets bigger and turns into more of a midrange deck, it loses the ability to control tempo the way the cheaper, low to the ground deck can. I have a deck tech on a Mono Blue Spirits list that explains the concept of tempo decks a little bit more which will shine even more light onto why they're better versus Control decks!

That all really depends on what your specific sideboard is! Since this overviews the entire archetype, I don't have one specific deck list I can point to and say "These 5 cards go in, these 5 cards come out." I'm working off data from multiple lists so that you can build a list with options for a matchup that may be more or less prevalent in your local metagame. It also depends on the flavor of Aggro matchup - as my advice for sideboarding against Convoke, Heroic, Mono Red, and Gruul is going to be different. I gave some general tips as to what archetypes cards in the maindeck/sideboard are good against, so in general I would take out the Control cards and put in the anti-Creature cards (unless it's Prowess or Heroic, in which case keeping Duress makes more sense as they have so many spells for example).

@@optimustomtvThis is helpful, thank you! By control cards, do you mean stuff like Duress and Thoughtseize, or would you always keep Thoughtseize in the deck? I would think against red deck, the -2 life is very important.

@@suh1120 It honestly depends on how you think the matchup will go. For example, Thoughtseizing a Slickshot Show-Off represents more than 2 life loss if they cast ANY spells. But if your opponent is using Tokens and Venerated Loxodon, it doesn't make sense to snag a 1 damage creature for 2 life.

I don't use a single list for these, I use a combination of decks in the archetype! However, if you want a sample list of something close to what I'd run, try this one: www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/6400811#paper

@@optimustomtv thank you!!

The background of the video is the showcase artwork for Braids, Arisen Nightmare from DMU! I zoomed it in and swapped the colors around a bit. It looks like Ultra Pro used to sell it as a mat, but no more. I see some listings on eBay: ultrapro.com/products/dominaria-united-braids-arisen-nightmare-standard-gaming-playmat-for-magic-the-gathering

@@optimustomtv thank you!, i thought it might be braids but i couldn't find it in the color of your video. that makes sense.

I'm the opposite in that I like it hahaha. I don't know if those cards are specific to Commander, although the wording would allude to it. I think the wording is specific to make sure those cards don't hate out entire archetypes, similar to how they've shied away from "Protection from (Color)" in favor of "Hexproof from (Color)" now.