Seeing so many Lilliana activations reminds me of the time someone ulted her against me, and put my virtue of persistence in one pile, and all of my other permanents in the other. I chose the virtue and still won lol.
Everytime I watch CGB pilot these multiple-moving-parts decks for an hour I honestly I feel like I'm learning more about this game and find more ways to improve than when I spend 4 hours playing. You're cool, sensei, you're cool.
Absolutely! I have an esper version where I have this town ain't big enough and geistwave for extra bounce synergy and the temporary lockdown interaction is awesome. Also makes the deck much more resilient to monored and boros convoke.
I like how this is basically standards version of boros synthesizer in concept. The fairy is just modal glinthawk and youre flickering control/tempo stuff instead of draw.
Came across a version that ran Temporary Lockdowns. Is what I use in the version I play. Helps a lot with Boros, Synth Decks, and Mono Red. Can always bounce it with your pixie or other effects to have Nightmares, Tithing Blades, Inspectors, etc bounce back in and trigger on the spot.
It's really nice to see Nurturing Pixie shenanigans. I got myself a playset of that card when it came out ... exactly for interation with Blade and Nightmare. I didn't, however, try to build a deck around it.
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I've played against this deck a few times. Some with a Gruul Counters deck, with Teething Wurmlet, Soul Cauldron, Inti, etc, and some with Golgari Midrange. Gruul Counters hates this deck. Golgari Midrange so far hasn't lost to it. Edit: I imagine you have to run Pest Control and Path of Peril in the sideboard for Bo3 to have a chance vs Boros.
@covertgoblue This deck reminds me of an older invasion/odyssey block. I played the BW braids deck at an Indy pto and did well piloting it. I still remember the deck list it had the old better unfair braids and vindicates and sapped them of lands real quick. It had mesmeric fiends, duress' and similar effects. It's beat stick was nantuko shade and spectral lynx. While it also used removal in forms of vindicate and chainers edict.
Fun thing you can do with 2 Guardians and a Hostile Investigator, if they have no cards in hand The Guardian targets the other, at end of turn that returns and you target the Hostile Investigator then it enters at their end step and keeps them from holding the card they draw. Down side is that it eliminates one of your blockers. But it's pretty sweet against blue decks that are in top deck mode, prevents them from holding counter spells
I've only played this deck three times just now. Three scoop wins, including one where the opponent didn't understand "under owner's control" after stealing and playing three of my cards. I haven't won three in a row since I came back to MTGA about two months ago. :D And props to CGB for his decks (the only ones, bar one, that I've used by any CC) and his nonsense. \o/
Ghirapour/Tithing Blade would also work good with Glorious Protector, Witness the Future and Deadly Dispute and some Kaya the Inexorable and some Consuming Tides and Teleportation Circles.
As always, great choice of games. Riveting until the very end, back and forth with both players getting resources and a trickle of value trying to outdo each other... Great watch
From your match at 21:38. I use a couple stone brains in a few decks to rip apart combo decks. Steal someone's world souls rage or recruiter and suddenly they're a lot easier to deal with lol
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This deck reminds me of back in the old days of liliana and demons disciple, you play the disciple to sack a creature or itself and the opponent has to sack a creature or a planeswalker. +1 liliana to bring back demons disciple repeat
This seems like a deck for Pest Control, since Boros Convoke's a real bad matchup. The deck's curve is kinda low, but not REALLY low that you get hurt worse - and Pest Control can handle the parts that get out of hand, and be cycled away if you don't need it. (Really, Pest Control in general seems invented like an answer to Boros Convoke.)
At 5:31 why does braid’s effect conclude before nightmare’s scry? Shouldn’t your sacrifice happen first, causing scry to activate, then the rest of braid activates asking the opponent to sacrifice, causing draw?
@@yoyoguy1st yeah, it is great. But I added the baloths just without green color support to face the discard deck and have a fun surprise. So against a mono red didn't work ahahaha
6:54 i played against this deck with UW control (naturally lol) and was totally laughing at the idea... and them when they scooped. But anything that outdoes mono red is good in my book
Man in that last match you played when you attacked with 2 hostile investigator's and your guardian and they took it you missed lethal with your Restless Fortress seeing if you would have attacked with that they would have taken the 2 from the attack trigger and would have had to block something to live. seeing as even after you cast all of your other lily's and your one tithing blade.
i think ashlizzle had some pixie decks she tried a while back and amaz came up with this deck seperately. and ashlizzle's newest version came after this one with some of her own card choices iirc
The vid is cool but god I wanted this to be Rarran saying a card is the best thing ever, you trying it because he was just persuasive enough to get you to give it a go, then it's an hour of you getting rused and suffering