How Pro Tour CHAMPIONS ramp in Standard 

ok thank god I thought I was going to have to eat lunch without my CGB fix

I think it is important to note that this took place relatively shortly after the release of OTJ. The pros had to both plan and work on a bunch of decks while also trying to fly to this big event and prepare for that. Had this taken place further out, there's a decent chance we might have seen some other decks which used more OTJ cards in them. Moreover, OTJ is clearly very powerful and has a lot of good cards in it, so even if the pros aren't using them, they are clearly useful in standard. Hell, people bitched about MKM and then after like amonth or so the Temur Analyst decks started popping up. So yeah. No reason to be all doom and gloom about things.

199k!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS GO DAN. When will you reach 200k? NO QUESTIONS!

It was really great to watch the pro tour, and I would not have seen it if it wasn't for the watch party you set up, so thanks And I know I should get my face in a card before seriously questioning Yuta's card choices, but I would love to have seen how a Jace would have changed the final

I watched most of the pro tour, thinking, "Yup. This is what happens when you delay Standard rotation." If only someone could have warned Wizards...oh, wait. We tried.

I'm surprised the fast aggro decks didn't do better at the pro tour tbh

Decks with every color are always a handful. I salute you!!!

I didn't watch the pro tour, but this certainly explains why domain ramp is all I played against today in BO3...

I played mtg for almost a decade as a kid growing up. I stepped away for a number of years and just came back literally 3 days ago. I have been loving the content to learn all the new mechanics.

I really enjoy seeing you pilot the pro decks. Guaranteed to be full of actually good cards, with you as a teacher on how to use them most effectively. It's like taking a MTG class or something

I've had so much fun playing this deck, I never thought it would work as well as it did at BO1

I watched both of those matches thanks to you. The game against analyst was crazy

Good content as always CGB.

Nice to see the champions decks in arena!

Really enjoyed the watch along over the weekend. I hope you do it again. Who knew that top magic players make good decks? Control can still win worlds there's hope but good showing to the top 8 all around. 💚

You should play the round 6 decks, they both looked cool!

I get why there wasn’t a lot of tech from OTJ - especially with a relatively short window to properly test a lot of the pieces. Considering how much countermagic is flying around right now, Long Goodbye is a really clean answer to not only Raffine, but great in the Azorius Control match to tell their man lands to go away.

I mean. If someone has scooped during their turn on Commander and players didn't get their phase triggers, everyone misplayed. If a player leaves the game during his turn, their phases still progress. Triggered abilities still hit the stack.

I kinda don't understand the mindset of people not liking a magic video because is not a diferent deck, is literaly the pro tour champ and CGB piloting it its a wombo combo of entertainment!

That last game was nuts!!!

personally i dont watch for the deck, i watch for the person playing and if i happen to like the deck then that’s a great bonus. i think it’s a shame that u get so many complaints when u deliver entertaining content every single day. please don’t let the negativity get to u, ur doing amazing👍🏽

The final was a brilliant match.

I enjoyed the rap up and the comment of the day is cool too.

Really want to see you play some version of Mono black. It was so long since I saw one and want some examples of what you would build.

Thanks CGB.

Some epic draws on CBGs part in this video

It’s almost like forcing sets to stay in the rotations makes it so decks are just the same as last year’s 😂 how fun. Props to Kibbler for actually playing something fun tho.

These match ups remind me why I stopped playing best of one years ago, too many dead draws vs aggro in most of the ramp decks.

My favorite deck. I've been playing it for well over a year. And despite the hate I get, I still love playing the deck.

nice to see ikawa advance vs sean (termur analyst) and win it all. i definitely tuned out after game 3 vs sean because no way he would win game 4 on the draw while already down by 2. glad i was wrong, because that was such a masterclass display vs a heavily unfavorable matchup.

Are you going to play timeless when mh3 comes out? From what was spoiled it looks like the format will be very cool after the release of mh3

CGB could play the same deck every upload and I would still be spending my evenings watching. Unless it’s mono red of course

Why is Jace not run in bo3? Is it that easy to sideboard anti-mill cards?

I love how God you are at destroying mono red. Of course, they do get lucky here and there 😆

No social f’s to give. Good video here and there.

CGB, given how winning decks are rarely changing with new sets. Would you do a theoretical, what would the meta look like given they didn't extend it a year. Like a What If Video.

I'm clicking the stats link, but it tells me it's a private profile and I can't see it. Is it just an issue with me?

Needs more Haakon

FYI the stats link doesn’t work, says your profile is private.

“Red-ed” all over the place lol

No wonder that out of 4 games i played today two of them were against this deck

Does it Bo1 though? Maybe at Mythic where it seems that the meta isn't as aggro as the lower tiers. I ran this as it is on ladder (Platinum, coz I don't have the time to grind) and it gets mowed by the Bo1 aggro meta. Tapped lands are slow. I'd sub the Sunfalls for the lockdowns and it might be more consistent in Bo1.

Love you commenting on the comment! Please continue adding that to your videos!

Cheers for covering the PT decks. Sadly your stats link is broken. Getting this message: " No games have been played with this deck in the selected time frame "

Just have a "misplayed commander rematch" at some point! Wait until you get to 4. It will happen and some of us won't be bothered.

I think the pros prefer the tested and true and will not use many cards from a new set unless they are really super sure they're great, specially in a standard with that many cards in it....

I'm genuinely very happy for Ikawa, and will watch the finals matchup for sure. But man I hate playing against this deck. It's not impossible to beat and the joy of beating it is much like beating a UW control deck (get f-ked blue). It just has this inevitability to it and feels like it just has answers to everything. I played this version in the wild last night and I'm pretty certain they are using the land spell to find the Cavern. Needless to say, I lost when I thought I was being smart by blowing up the Triome to basic check for a Mountain and he had a Cavern two plays later.

Luke was here

23:32 Why did you play cavern of souls and then spelunking into the triome you drew rather than spelunking into placing the cavern of souls down? It's a cave and would've got you 4 free health.

Watched a different youtuber that gave me an idea for Standard as they play Historic, they were using Rakdos joins up with Yargle and Multani, was quite funny to watch. Though I wonder often why janky fun decks like that are never Pro Tour worthy

Hey cgb, maybe it’s just me, but your untapped profile is private, so no checking stats possible :)

I like the comment reading segment. Hopefully the top comments continue to be positive.

So funny /sad, that nowadays a turn one 1/1 on the draw means a defeat in three turns lol

Day 7 of respectfully requesting CGB to make a standard magda, the hoardmaster deck

Maybe it's something wrong with me, but I almost like seeing misplays really good Magic players make. I figure if you all can misplay, then it's okay when I do it.

I pushed the subscribe button a couple of times. Hope it helps. 🙏

this deck was made for bo3 wtf

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Can you do Eldrazi deck. With new support when it comes out????

No jace on yuta sideboard no wonder lose against ramp😢

Wizards should require 7 new cards including five in the main deck for the pro tour from the named set. The issue was the set wasn't out long enough for new decks to emerge and prove themselves and be refined for the pro tour versus highly proven and perfectly refined existing decks. Brian Kibler said his new deck was 24-3 online or something like that but it did very poorly. The issue I think is that he wasn't playing perfectly refined versions of the best card and one card can make the difference in a win or loss. Versus he only played his deck 27 times. If he had a couple more weeks to play with it he would almost certainly have refined his card list for how many copies of his legends should be two versus three versus four offs and refined his sideboard for some matchups.

Someone needs to make an AI judge for RL Commander

Meow

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Nah man .. I'm extremely anal about rules ..and I was interested in the powerlvl of kemba for my cube.. so I kept count as good as it was possible through cuts .. it was only around 5dmg per person that shouldn't have happened and the combo at the end is all individual triggers so kemba would see each instance of a token entering the battlefield ... and both of you went like 7+ into the negative (and that was the highest margin of error)

Cavern shouldnt exist in standard.

I'm glad the standard meta is more diverse than it has been, but all of the top decks are just so boring to watch and play. 1.5 hour matches of people just ramping endlessly and gaining 25 life every game was putting me to sleep, I could barely watch the PT.

He shouldn't be the champ. Goddard threw his match big time. Some of his plays were questionable.

Go back to brawl please

Blah, honestly I find this and yesterday's videos really boring. I mean, I like the IDEA of trying out pro tour decks, but when they are literally just the most obvious, boring, solved versions of decks you see in game constantly, it just feels kinda pointless. Like, we all seen both domain ramp and azorius control constantly, unendingly. We know every single card. We know exactly how they play. It IS worthwhile to see how you personally play them and in given situations and I appreciate your experience and wisdom on that, but man it's committing an hour to watch reruns basically. Not that I have any solution, I know you need tons of ideas to keep up daily videos and thus some of them are going to be stinkers just statistically. But just wanted to offer viewer feedback of, personally, "unchanged popular ladder decks aren't as enjoyable to watch". I'm still watching obviously, and even commenting for engagement, but it's not my favorite.

what is even the point anymore

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