attention cool kids cool stuff inc is partnering with me cgb on a special limited edition all metal shark token this is a one time only production run with each token individually numbered and totally unique pre-orders are only open from august NUMBER_TOKENrd through september NUMBER_TOKENth after that they'll never be offered again don't miss your chance to get one of these unique tokens by going to URL_TOKEN cgb URL_TOKEN cool stuff in stock hello and welcome back to another day in the arena it's me it's cgb today in the arena we're gonna dust off our little treasure makers but we're gonna try to make blue black control work in NUMBER_TOKEN. again uh there have been versions of it here and there that showed little inklings of success uh most notably in my opinion the mind flayer version of blood money and we're gonna try to bring it full circle and play it with one of my favorite cards kazuma kazuma the god of the voyage making an appearance in a blood money style of shell along with some other sweet cards in that really fill a role for this mono black kind of build and that would be tester talents in mind flare so you know about the black cards by now professor onyx blood on the snow lolth skullport merchant deadly dispute shambling gas eye twitch you've seen it i know uh but we also have uh blue filling in very important roles so let's talk about it first of all the mind flare mindflayer when it enters the battlefield gains control of target creature for as long as you control mind flayer we do get to do a lot of that good old rakdos stealing sack with this card because we have a lot of ways to sacrifice creatures we have four deadly disputes and four skull port merchants so we mind flay their thing we take it and then we sacrifice it and draw some cards nice and then we bring back mind flayer every now and then with blood in the snow to grab like an indestructible threat or we blow up our opponent's planeswalker with the blood in the snow and bring back the mind flare to steal their creature so that's a pretty good reusable way to get around those pesky indestructible type effects that come up when you play this deck mind flayer does the job very nicely another glue card that we're filling in is test of talents one thing that the blood money style uh treasure black treasure decks have struggled with all runs epiphany when the opponent when you're not putting enough pressure on your opponent and they can take two or three turns in a row that's often enough to end the game i think we've all figured that out but test of talents is a unique card that you can kind of hide in your deck that they don't really expect so you'll often see them slam their all runs epiphany thinking they've got this made they've played against these kinds of decks before they don't counter anything and then boom test of talents now you have no epiphanies in your deck thank you come again it's it's a feels good man it really is and uh even though the card is narrow and not helpful in any way whatsoever against mono white i think it deserves the spot in the deck because you're so like you're just base on a
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN attention cool kids cool stuff inc is partnering with me cgb on a special limited edition all metal shark token this is a one time only production run with each token individually numbered and totally unique pre-orders are only open from august NUMBER_TOKENrd through september NUMBER_TOKENth after that they'll never be offered again don't miss your chance to get one of these unique tokens by going to URL_TOKEN cgb URL_TOKEN cool stuff in stock END_SPONSOR_TOKEN