CovertGoBlue Coaches Me in Bo1 Magic Arena 

It's such a breath of fresh air from the videos of other creators "trying" TCG's, there's effort and enjoyment rather than "idk what's happening lololol what is happening, so silly"

CGB's advice is revealing the true secret to Rarran. That BO1 is just is a mess of randomness and matchup checks, and ranking up is mostly about bashing your head against it for enough time.

I love the CGB collabs. You guys have great chemistry.

This is one long stream of "one of the games of Magic of all time" over and over again, man has unlocked access to a secret meta I've never seen

1:03:46 Rarran getting real confused because the meteorite tokens are for some god forsaken reason writing "Roxanne, Starfall Savant" in the [Card_name] slot despite clearly being meteorite tokens must be a real fun gameplay experience. Arena is a functional piece of software.

First, want to say that it’s really nice to see you enjoying magic and getting better at it. Second, and I know it’s a bit of a meme, but I would genuinely recommend you to try playing BO3, maybe when you get to diamond, if you are worried about loosing ranks. And I’m not saying that because “it’s how it is supposed to be played” or whatever, but because it might just address some of the gripes you have with the game: 1. You like control more and control decks benefit heavily from sideboarding, more so than any other archetype. 2. You said that you would rather win games consistently, instead of minimising the time spent on each game. And BO3 is much better suited for that than BO1. 3. You also said that you don’t like not knowing what you are going against, again, BO3 helps with that, you know exactly what to mulligan for in games 2 and 3. 4. It would also help with specific matchups a lot, just from this stream, having access to sideboard would massively increase your chances against those off-meta combo decks you faced at the beginning of the stream, 4 leylines of sanctity would be really good against discard and you can have those lockdowns in sideboard to hate the monored without having a card in the main deck that’s a bit awkward in some situations, because it hits your stuff like beanstalks and tokens.

"borderline true" is such a funny thing for CGB to say

I feel like its worth pointing out that ranking up in best of 3 can be a lot easier if you know how to sideboard. Best of 1 can be very do or die, and youre way more prone to losing from a brick or something. In best of 3 you have second chances, and on top of that you can swap out your cards so you can better deal with whatever deck youre up against. Wins in individual games count toward your rankups as well. So if you win a match you get two points worth for example.

I hate that white suns does the board wipe animation regardless of whether it's destroying all creatures

Actually, there is a turn-2 kill in standard. Turn 1: Leyline of guidepact + land + heartfire hero Turn 2: Land + Gaea's Might(domain pump spell) + fling adventure spell. That's 7 from combat 7 from the mouse die trigger and 7 from fling =21

Lol, Rarran lost focus during his first really long game. That tokens game was tough on the guy. A true MTG Grind Game

That was awesome ! Best stream ever, do it again please :)

Man, I did NOT know what to expect with this video. I thought I might get to listen to CGB's thought process regarding more the core concepts of Magic than his normal videos where he just shortcuts everything because we're used to the BS. Instead I got to cringe at every misplay and every small bit of missed value Rarran let go. CGB was audibly holding back. You could hear the words he wasn't saying. It was painful. I love you guys together.

Wait till warranty finds out that alot of professional magic players also play poker. They're both card games about hidden information and reading your opponent.

the non standard legal cards in the bonus sheet are for draft in case anyone was curious that doesnt play personally

Rarran with the brain of a Mono Red Player, Soul of a "Control" player, and Heart of a Mono Black Player

If you do the Midweek Magic - events, you can get two free rare cards.

as a person who started and stuck with mono black midrange (began playing in Brother's War hit mythic first in ALL WILL BE ONE), suffered through domain ramp, suffered through atraxa Whenever I run into a deck like rarran's I make them earn the win in the full best of three. I love the content Rarran you've got mythic in the bag.

The hate on frogs :(. Give the Hippy d Hops some love . They hopped me to mythic

Hold up. A fellow Abzan Control gamer? Rarran, you're a rare breed!

You guys have such good chemistry. Always a blast when you make content together!

Turn 2 Win in Current Standard (Since @Covertgoblue asked in the video): (And it is not very consistent. Buut..) On the Play, Opponent plays: Turn 1: 1: Free Leyline of the Guild Pact (Gives Opponent "Domain 5") 2: Mountain + Heartfire Hero Turn 2: 1: Mountain or Forest 2: Attacks with Heartfire Hero 3: Casts Gaea's Might (+5/+5 because of Domain 5 from Leyline of the Guild Pact) on Heartfire Hero Making the Hero a 7/7 for 7 Damage 4: 2nd Main Phase Casts Burn Together from Callous Sell-Sword's Adventure mode sacrificing the Heartfire Hero for another +14 Damage Total damage: 21 on Turn 2.

When Rarran actually gets into it and starts learning the intracacies, it gets really really enjoyable to watch (Easily the best content). I love this Rarran and good luck hitting mythic!

Missed the stream because of work but I'm glad you and cgb are doing this

Such a wonderful and fun collaboration, you two have a great chemistry! We want more!

The meteorite actually has a bug. The paper token says "When Meteorite enters the battlefield, it deals 2 damage to any target." but in arena it says Roxanne, instead of Meteorite for some reason.

Now THIS is podracing…

Hey Rarran, new sub here, sent by CGB. Good job learning the game. With a teacher like cgb you will get to mythic with ease

3:14:56 there are two types of starting Magic players, the all in hit with everything and Rarran

Rar's favorite catch phrase:

Rarran insisting on using the tear asunder on the treasure token to prevent the 3 1/1s with 3 board wipes in hand was so painful that is such a horrendous play lol

Someone needs to tell him that patience is a wincon....

Cant believe CGB let this man play a 25 land control deck, and he kept getting punished for it the entire stream lol

So I'm a long time magic player who was introduced to your content by your collaborative stuff with snuey in runeterra I wanna let ya know I've greatly enjoyed watching you play MTG it's a good time watching you learn as you go Keep on trucking brother and play some runeterra as well sometimes 😂 As a suggestion for you based on you being a control player coming from hearthstone I think you should look at the boros token control deck It plays very much like a hearthstone control shell and it's very very very good ATM

I like to toilet game to some standard land destruction

I'm honestly confused by the stream. One of the first things said was that the deck needed more land. The majority of the losses especially was due to not drawing land. And they never added more land.

This vid inspired me to make and play mono red, I got plat in the time it took Rarran like 4 games with this deck

As mono red player (well, any combo of jund) player, I can understand your pain, and revel in it :)

I was saying how psyched I was for this stream in the comments on the last few, it was so good, it was so nice seeing Rarran go from the depths of below YGO to "I love life right now need one more" I mean he's going to need a second mortgage but that's small potatoes. Edit: Rarran did surprisingly well in his first ever draft going like 2/3 or 3/3 or something like that after his 10th game ish. It would be nice to see CGB and Rarran do this same type of stream and draft, draft is a way better way of building a collection, getting mythic in limited is near unpossible unless you're playing a ridiculous amount but it might rival this grind so that could be a cool new arc. Unfortunately standard rotation is 3 years and soon a random 5 year or something foundation set and for Rarran to play around on Arena like he does on Hearthstone he's going to need to build up his collection and wildcards significantly so next set release it might be a good time to start drafting to get that collection in the bank. Also Rarran is playing for the enjoyment of the game but every win and loss feels stagnating, should be playing constructed events maybe or limited events that way you get small rewards for your time so you always get that dopamine hit of making progress. If Rarran plays at this same level he'll go 50% or better I'd imagine. Imagine Rarran got 20 play points through 20 7 win finishes, won the qualifier weekend and paid his mortgage off.

I missed the stream, but I’m excited to watch this. Welcome to the dojo ❤

great stream today Rarran! I know you like to collab with voxy and CGB for magic but I hope in the future you can get other mtg creators. I would personally like to see you get coached by Jim Davis, fun guy, pro tour level player, and I feel that his humor can mix with yours.

Watching this makes me feel very confident that I can get to platinum

Is it bad I now want to see the Blake squared Worst Possible Commander game? The amount of counterspells going at The One in Best of One would be glorious. (Extra points if the cast teach Rarran the Jin Gitaxias prismatic bridge deck.)

11:25 Don't ask for any deck, he'll throw Domain Ramp at ya xD 14:11 maybe cut 2 of each of the 5 mana wipes and a white sun, add 2 temps and 2 of the 4 mana wipe and a cut down

Great stream! Hope you guys do more of this

This is so funny lmao!

Great to watch but frustrating to watch as well. 😂

i smiled so much during this vid. hehe. keep it up

It's amazing, wich deck you played against. Great process :)

This was awesome, do more please

This was a great video! The deck looks pretty solid but imo you are playing against meme decks / opponents. Where is mono red?

This was so fun to watch, listening to you and CGB yap it up is such comfort content that when I finished I restarted the video and watched it through again :)

Cut Down is just soooo much worse than Disfigure at this point, wish my control friends would all realize this.

This was a lot of fun. 😊

Damn, someone teach rarran to QQ and Z to count lands

I dont get the mental acrobatics that somehow playing nothing but removal is any less brain dead than mono red

Nooo I missed it

5h of cgb makes me happy

of course the moment you do a collab you get paired up against the goofiest and most insane decks people could ever cook... great stream nevertheless

this is great

A L G O R I T H M G A N G

Epic stream

I love how rarran started out hating mono red and developed into wishing to run into mono red to avoid 40 min games. That's why i can't be mad at mono red. They have the decency to end me quickly. Bring the hate, red haters.

I would love to see rarran play brawl

OK wait: rarran cgb and voxy played phasmaphobia together? Someone link it

I love CGB❤❤ 4:14:20

Do it again, I think is how you learn the most

How do you ask someone to coach you and then do the opposite of everything he tells you and be very uncoachable? That being said I watched the whole thing, just to see cgb squirm.😂

This video gave me anxiety

i feel like rarran got stream sniped a lot here like a good half of the games

He doesn't listen

Why was this guy bullying BrianZ?

Hovering in Diamond 2 and I too would like to be tutored by Sensei Dan Here for some secondhand pearls of wisdom

Play red deck = win

BO1 was always easy to get mythic with - just follow the meta. Unless you are a god and can find some shit nobody plays (I used to do that when the game was released with Nicol Bolas, the Reveger :D )

Rarran not taking CGB's advice triggers me to no end.

Deck needs more lands. Cards like Demolition Field should be considered spells. You saw the problem a lot where Rarran needed 3 colors on turn 3 while trying to cast cards with multiple colored mana in their cost.

!

LegendVD did a video on Temur doppelgang (different from this), so it might be slightly more common now.

Has anyone got the decklist by any chance ? thx

The match maker and shuffler really like newer players. Players don't spend $ if they lose or games are bad.

You don't need CGB, just play monored. Stronger than anything he can offer you 😂😂😂