@@GermanMetalreview haha sometimes it just happens, sometimes it happens to you and sometimes it happens with you. It's just a game at the end of the day and there's no stakes. It's not like he's losing out on a top 8 or prizes.
I like that LSV posts even lost drafts, cose you can see what went wrong/unlucky, And the fact that he explains almost everysthing makes this channel awsome. I've learned a lot over last months by watching. Thanks a lot Luis.
Nooo Not Flash, I crave the Ws! Something I reluctantly accepted in my cube design is that if a combo doesn't have redundancy, it gets a ton of Ls just through inconsistency. Flash and Opposition are like the posterboys of that. I think if you don't have redundancy in some of these powerful buildaround effects (including tutors, or strategic parallels as broad as Academy:Tinker), those buildarounds become traps, however powerful they might be. That's a big part of why I love reanimate, and prefer Sneak to Show. If it's just the one copy of the effect cycling the draft, you're basically following up the draft to tutor or die.
Don't really understand the decision to not Flash in the Worldspine Wurm and threaten lethal in game 1 and choose Atraxa over it. I mean he just cast a sweeper in Toxic Deluge. I think that's a pretty big mistake.
I was thinking the same. I guess the assumption is that the opp has a counter, and if you main phase wurm Archon can beat it. Idk it's probably close, I'm sure LSV just does all these decision trees in his head in 3 seconds lmao
Remember, at the time LSV was expecting his opponent to follow up by reanimating an Archon of Cruelty. The Archon would have forced the sacrifice of one Wurm token (plus a discard), gained 3 life to push the opponent out of danger, and profitably blocked one of the remaining Wurm tokens... and since a 6/6 Archon survives after blocking a 5/5 token, it even gets to munch the last token when it attacks next turn. (Sure, in the actual game, the opponent's reanimation spell was Persist, which made the Archon a 5/5... but LSV didn't know that when making this decision. For all he knew, it could have just as easily been Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Necromancy. Also, even a 5/5 Archon makes the Worldspine play worse than the Atraxa play, IMO.) Flashing in Atraxa made a lot more sense in that situation, IMO: it refilled LSV's hand while keeping his board empty, so he had plenty of cards in hand to ditch to an Archon's discard trigger, and no creatures at all to sac to its sac trigger.
Kind of tragic that you never drew Channel early as well. Your deck had many possibilities for "oops, I win" starts and even a tutor to help assemble them. No power, but definitely felt like you could expect a 2-1.
Hey, do you manipulate packs? in the sense of having at least x cards with property z in a pack (colors for exmpl)? Or is the card pool just shuffled and go? Cheers
In MTGO drafts, the packs are built so that you never get the all white pack for example. But since LSV team drafts on an outside app, they might be completely random there.
Variance, man. 😂 I got passed a Time Walk second pick in pack 3 recently and was over the moon because I already had Snapcaster, Eternal Witness, then I never saw it during my games!
I had a thought about the drafting and deck building for cube, do you think it would be doable and fun to draft as a team, no comms as usual, and build 3 decks with the collective pile afterwards? Or 4 in the case of 8 man draft. I was thinking this might spice up the team draft aspect in an interesting and punishing way and possibly force some unique choices and decks. So as an example, if you took flash and a teammate took a bunch of fatties for show and tell or something, you could have more potential to draft the 'perfect' version of a draft archetype. This would allow an extra chance for those unused bombs and spec picks in the side to find their partners for the combos and pop off. It would also make land picks more valuable because even if you can't use it, a teammate probably can. Again, no comms so you can only work off of signals and what you know about the players or have strategized beforehand. To make it extra spicy I think keeping the same time for deck building would force good team communication and cooperation. Anyway, just a thought. It sounds kinda fun and definitely fun to watch! 😁
This just sounds like team sealed with extra steps. If you get a big pile at the end, you'll pretty much just pick the best card out of each pack ignoring colors and strategies.
@@turbobrew Yeah, you kind of need an eldrazi in hand right when you get the combo in play, otherwise you either don't have enough colored mana to cast something else, or they destroy one of the combo pieces before your next turn.
Man, I just had a gross mono red deck and got picked apart by Urza's Saga getting Shadowspear, plus a companion Lurrus. In the right situation it’s pretty nice.
Because there are far more scenarios where drawing a marginal equipment over a real card will cost you the game. Healing salve can sometimes win you the game, too, doesn't mean you should run it.
Wow that round1 game 3 was the most insane comeback i've seen in a while. Chaining together the perfect sequence of answers. That was incredible.
Wait till you see round 2 lmao
I don't know how LSV can be so calm in the face of that mutch luck of the opponents, I would freak out if that happens to me😅
@@GermanMetalreview haha sometimes it just happens, sometimes it happens to you and sometimes it happens with you. It's just a game at the end of the day and there's no stakes. It's not like he's losing out on a top 8 or prizes.
@@thedoctorbob7 he litterally said that these cubes are high stakes
This video would be so satisfying if we were sitting on opponents' side of the table the whole time lol
I like that LSV posts even lost drafts, cose you can see what went wrong/unlucky, And the fact that he explains almost everysthing makes this channel awsome. I've learned a lot over last months by watching. Thanks a lot Luis.
Worldspine wurm not being in the thumbnail of the flash deck while trying to wheel it adds to the suspense.
Thank you for the spoiler 😑
Yea your comment ruined any suspense tbh
@@thorcerchi5341 it's incredibly easy to not read comments if you don't want to be spoiled about the draft.
@@bricelory9534 was the first one when I opened the video. My eyes couldn't not watch it
Nooo Not Flash, I crave the Ws!
Something I reluctantly accepted in my cube design is that if a combo doesn't have redundancy, it gets a ton of Ls just through inconsistency.
Flash and Opposition are like the posterboys of that. I think if you don't have redundancy in some of these powerful buildaround effects (including tutors, or strategic parallels as broad as Academy:Tinker), those buildarounds become traps, however powerful they might be. That's a big part of why I love reanimate, and prefer Sneak to Show. If it's just the one copy of the effect cycling the draft, you're basically following up the draft to tutor or die.
Matt Greiner shed a joyful tear at 26:24. I've become Endurance-pilled now
An absolute masterclass in playing to your outs! 🤯👏🏻 If somebody from this cube crew doesn’t win this year’s CubeCon I’ll be shocked.
Are the teams random? How do LSV and Sandy end up on opposing teams 90% of the time haha
I think he mention before that there are 2 captains/leader that choose from pool of players. I usually dont see him on team with SandyDog or Slax.
41:43 “pump, pump, pass”😂😂😂
Opponents drew like gods in those games haha and I’d love to see CalebD piloting this deck, it’s very much his style
LSV: "Let's not get too greedy"
*UA-cam: "Who are you what have you done with Luis?!"*
Gotta love the packs that have no picks into packs that have 6 picks you want.
Don't really understand the decision to not Flash in the Worldspine Wurm and threaten lethal in game 1 and choose Atraxa over it. I mean he just cast a sweeper in Toxic Deluge. I think that's a pretty big mistake.
I was thinking the same. I guess the assumption is that the opp has a counter, and if you main phase wurm Archon can beat it. Idk it's probably close, I'm sure LSV just does all these decision trees in his head in 3 seconds lmao
Remember, at the time LSV was expecting his opponent to follow up by reanimating an Archon of Cruelty. The Archon would have forced the sacrifice of one Wurm token (plus a discard), gained 3 life to push the opponent out of danger, and profitably blocked one of the remaining Wurm tokens... and since a 6/6 Archon survives after blocking a 5/5 token, it even gets to munch the last token when it attacks next turn. (Sure, in the actual game, the opponent's reanimation spell was Persist, which made the Archon a 5/5... but LSV didn't know that when making this decision. For all he knew, it could have just as easily been Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Necromancy. Also, even a 5/5 Archon makes the Worldspine play worse than the Atraxa play, IMO.)
Flashing in Atraxa made a lot more sense in that situation, IMO: it refilled LSV's hand while keeping his board empty, so he had plenty of cards in hand to ditch to an Archon's discard trigger, and no creatures at all to sac to its sac trigger.
Kind of tragic that you never drew Channel early as well. Your deck had many possibilities for "oops, I win" starts and even a tutor to help assemble them. No power, but definitely felt like you could expect a 2-1.
Hey, do you manipulate packs? in the sense of having at least x cards with property z in a pack (colors for exmpl)? Or is the card pool just shuffled and go? Cheers
The packs are completely random.
In MTGO drafts, the packs are built so that you never get the all white pack for example. But since LSV team drafts on an outside app, they might be completely random there.
I drafted a channel deck yesterday and proceeded to go 0-3 never once drawing it 🙃
Variance, man. 😂 I got passed a Time Walk second pick in pack 3 recently and was over the moon because I already had Snapcaster, Eternal Witness, then I never saw it during my games!
Hey Luis you've been enjoying some of the domain cards, how do you feel Evasive Action would fare in vintage cube? Thanks for the vids
I had a thought about the drafting and deck building for cube, do you think it would be doable and fun to draft as a team, no comms as usual, and build 3 decks with the collective pile afterwards? Or 4 in the case of 8 man draft. I was thinking this might spice up the team draft aspect in an interesting and punishing way and possibly force some unique choices and decks.
So as an example, if you took flash and a teammate took a bunch of fatties for show and tell or something, you could have more potential to draft the 'perfect' version of a draft archetype. This would allow an extra chance for those unused bombs and spec picks in the side to find their partners for the combos and pop off. It would also make land picks more valuable because even if you can't use it, a teammate probably can. Again, no comms so you can only work off of signals and what you know about the players or have strategized beforehand.
To make it extra spicy I think keeping the same time for deck building would force good team communication and cooperation.
Anyway, just a thought. It sounds kinda fun and definitely fun to watch! 😁
This just sounds like team sealed with extra steps. If you get a big pile at the end, you'll pretty much just pick the best card out of each pack ignoring colors and strategies.
This man low-key throws shade on Sandydogs Mono white style every draft 😂😂💀💀💀
Oh god a Flash start? Here we go.. Thanks LSV!
I think it's good to side out Garrenbrig in most match ups when you're on the draw.
Really great gameplay on this one. I love cube.
Sometimes you eat the bar, sometimes the bar eats you.
LSV, do you have a cube list I can see? On cube cobra or something?
I'm surprised he didn't go along with Urza + Mystic Forge + Brain Freeze. He had the top and everything just flowed unto and by him.
wow, big tim. that was smooth
Sometimes you lose, at least it wasn't because of a bunch of wild punts!
Got out powered and out lucked, rough draft.
Also, I have never seen Kinan and Basalt Monolith win a game. That combo kind of seems like a trap.
@@turbobrew Yeah, you kind of need an eldrazi in hand right when you get the combo in play, otherwise you either don't have enough colored mana to cast something else, or they destroy one of the combo pieces before your next turn.
@LSVargas This draft makes me want to see a top five video of you getting lucky to win.
Those were some impressive losses I’ll say that
Am I the only one confused by the halfling pick over sneak attack?
I just do not understand the logic of flashing in atraxa vs reanimator when you have them at 13 vs worldspine.
Quicken seems like a fun cube card
No consideration for the sneak attack at all? Even though you didn’t have any red fixing at the time I thought you would’ve at least talked about it
And passing it and it not wheeling was another reason to grab the Emrakul when you did
I didn't get that either. He already just picked ignoble for the red mana. Sneak should have been amazing.
A single repeatable lifegain effect besides Atraxa lifelink would have saved LSV from so many losses, why does NOBODY play shadowspear?
Man, I just had a gross mono red deck and got picked apart by Urza's Saga getting Shadowspear, plus a companion Lurrus. In the right situation it’s pretty nice.
Because there are far more scenarios where drawing a marginal equipment over a real card will cost you the game. Healing salve can sometimes win you the game, too, doesn't mean you should run it.
Its been a long time since LSV drafted a 3-0 deck....i thought this one could do it but sadly no
I 3-0ed like three days ago lol
@@LSVargas I just expect you to 3-0 nearly every day. You're that good in my mind.
This was so unsatisfying to watch 😢
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Im gay
That caught me off guard 😭
Hi gay, I'm Thomas
@@Catalyst2812 i got here a minute after it was uplosded and knew i had to say something
i find the 3v3 drafts are so uninteresting.