You have an impressive ability to keep the narration going despite incredibly long waits between packs. It is a sign of long practice and professionalism. You're doing an excellent job at being an entertainer.
I remember watching him doing drafts on UA-cam almost 15 years ago now, damn I’m getting old! His skill level as not only a drafter but as an entertainer has improved drastically over that time….unfortunately Magic Online as a program has not lol.
LSV just reminding us why he's in the MTG hall of fame by using his monored deck to beat 2x attacks with annhilator 4, and t1 sol ring, t2 batterskull, and t3 metamorph batterskull. What a champion.
I love how you explain the sideboarding out of Goblin Guide. Most people wouldn't really think about the card draw aspect being really bad in a removal heavy matchup.
Crazy games. This video made me realize how much I have been liking the team drafts though since you play all the games in the pod. Something extra about not playing against cards you have in your deck.
I believe at 58:04 if you set it to draw the Mountain the next turn you have lethal off flashback Firebolt + Lavamancer activation. Love the videos by the way, thanks so much for all the amazing drafts.
Bro managed to lose a match with 2x annihilator 4 hits and 4 active Batterskulls. Against mono red. Luis of course did all the right things, but still...
It’s wild to see how much the cube power level has increased since this in just 9 months. I’m barely in to the recording and Squee, hellrider, and char already stand out as really bad compared to stuff now like gut, carnage interpreter, ghostfire slice, and the 4 mana 3/3 haste opponent can’t block
Kind of shocked to see Squee not make the cut. I've rode Squee/Laelia/Rabbelmaster to a lot of speedy wins and p1p1'ed him a few times (usually ending up in R/W aggro or mono R aggro). Lots of bodies out of nowhere.
23:00 after draft before games I'm going to guess that Squee would have been better than Jitte in the main. I think that if you're playing Rabblemaster another goblin generator is actually kind of strong.
I always have a moment of confusion when an opponent plays the same card you have. It's like "wait how did they get grim lavamancer and dismember when we also have grim lavamancer and dismember???" Then I remember it's not a real draft and modo is weird.
Hey, question - where can I find people to regularly cube with? Xmage has been kind of abandoned of late, and I'd love to find a draft pod like this to play with. :)
I'm somewhat surprised that LSV chose not to run Squee in the main deck, as it seems on par with Rabblemaster in power level and works especially well with Jitte and Hellrider. To be honest, I don't know what the cut would be.
squee is not even remotely close to rabble in power level. also, it doesn’t make jitte much better other than the fact that it’s another creature you can equip.
Hey sir, Im confused why they dont use Sigarda Host of Herons instead. Much better than current Sigarda and actually quite playable as a sb option. Its good against Liliana, good against Archon. Decent vs annihilator stuff (vs sneak etc.) and is a good GW card in general. Really would like to know your opinion on that!
It was gone from MTGO. It comes around a few times a year, interspersed with other cubes. Recently there was cartographer’s cube if I recall. Anyway, it hasn’t been gone from this channel. LSV and his friends have been doing non stop team drafts posted on this channel, which you probably already knew.
I wonder if it's worth it to try to force artifact/combo decks a bit more in pub games compared with the team drafts. It feels like whenever one of these decks comes up in pub drafts, it's absurdly strong, I assume due to lower drafting skill and less hate.
I'm at the point where I think DRC is just bad in cube and should be dropped. Way too hard to achieve delirium consistently enough and a 1/1 with surveil is not a playable magic card. I feel like there's a dozen red one drops that would be a better fit for the cube and fill out that crucial place in the curve. Only deck where it seems easy enough to enable and hence roughly playable is UR tempo/spells and even then DRC is absolutely below the average for card quality in it.
Makes me laugh when Luis say, “We are flexible” meanwhile takes all cards of the same color unless there aren’t any. Guess I should wait till the end to see if another color joins the fray.
I kinda of dislike the Mtgo cube pairings, it'd be better if you played people who you drafted with, rather than against people who have half the cards you drafted
You have an impressive ability to keep the narration going despite incredibly long waits between packs. It is a sign of long practice and professionalism. You're doing an excellent job at being an entertainer.
True, it’s so much better than the people who just pick a card quick and sit there in silence waiting for next pack. Ty LSV!
@@jonathanhh3728 I love Reid Duke but this is why I can't really sit through his vids. So much awkward silence.
LSV has been doing drafts for youtube since 2009, when Conflux was the current set. You can tell he has had quite a bit of practice doing this 😀
I remember watching him doing drafts on UA-cam almost 15 years ago now, damn I’m getting old! His skill level as not only a drafter but as an entertainer has improved drastically over that time….unfortunately Magic Online as a program has not lol.
I still can't believe he hasn't got some random spare HP mouse in his household though...
On a side note Bonecrusher Giant can Stomp your own face, to allow your creatures to attack into The One Ring.
this content has become a daily ritual
Needs to be at a set time 😢
I don't remember what I used to do on my lunch breaks.
LSV just reminding us why he's in the MTG hall of fame by using his monored deck to beat 2x attacks with annhilator 4, and t1 sol ring, t2 batterskull, and t3 metamorph batterskull. What a champion.
Whoever told LSV to upload his own videos on his own channel is an absolute genius of the highest order. Thank you!
Sometimes when drafting you have to fight for a lane, sometimes you're the only person on an 8-lane monoRed highway
that 1st matchup had so much removal, shows how crazy this deck was for standing up to it and pushing through, surviving that Ulamog was even crazier
Yeah so many of these games were absolutely nuts
Game 2, not strip mining the Workshop went from “EXTREMELY punished” to “MASSIVELY rewarded” real quick
This games vs big mana deck was realy epic
Absolutely wild that you won against two Batterskulls with mono red.
30 life on turn 5 i think? And he won? That's insane. Even more so than against Ulamog even lol.
Even despite the SUPER lazy Robber of the Rich missing out on 4 damage
Opponent made poor decisions while LSV made great ones. GGs
@@anosmianAcrimony yeah, but with opponent missing gaining 4 with Batterskull its kinda a wash.
Wasn't it more like five or six batterskulls?
LSV: I hope they dont start with Workshop in game 3
Monkey Paw curls and they start with Sol Ring
Yep!
Winning against hard cast ulamog and then double batterskulls that kept coming back. That was an incredible match!! Amazing content LSV!
My favorite thing is when blue mage LSV drafts red and green creature decks. He’s given me faith in hexdrinker
I suck at cube, but whenever I draft hexdrinker I go 2-1 lol.
LSV was known for his Monored Cube decks back in time.
Hexdrinker is terrifying. You have a small window to bolt/dismember it and then it becomes unblockable and can only be removed by a sweeper.
This red deck poured gasoline on the fire and never burnt out - what a draft!
I love how you explain the sideboarding out of Goblin Guide. Most people wouldn't really think about the card draw aspect being really bad in a removal heavy matchup.
Crazy games. This video made me realize how much I have been liking the team drafts though since you play all the games in the pod. Something extra about not playing against cards you have in your deck.
Hopefully this goes better than yesterdays speedrun.
Oof.
lol
I believe at 58:04 if you set it to draw the Mountain the next turn you have lethal off flashback Firebolt + Lavamancer activation. Love the videos by the way, thanks so much for all the amazing drafts.
@44:15 Insane, bonkers, nutty. Great game😂
That match 2 was a thing of beauty
Sweet, that was an awesome mono red beatdown, always love to see a red deck wins action thrown in there.
Watching your content has given me the sublime delusion that I, also, can do well in vintage cube.
Alas, reality is ever present, unlike my wins.
Bro managed to lose a match with 2x annihilator 4 hits and 4 active Batterskulls. Against mono red. Luis of course did all the right things, but still...
That entire match felt like an “Oh my god I’m playing against LSV.”
The number of called shots in this draft almost had me thinking you were narrating a previous draft 😂😂
It’s wild to see how much the cube power level has increased since this in just 9 months. I’m barely in to the recording and Squee, hellrider, and char already stand out as really bad compared to stuff now like gut, carnage interpreter, ghostfire slice, and the 4 mana 3/3 haste opponent can’t block
Forget urza's saga, we have Luis's Mouse Saga
Mice you control have double strike
55:38 never realized before how an opponent's Sensei's Divining Top combos with ragavan to draw a card from your own deck every turn
Love the videos Luis. Watch one every day!
Round 2 vs ulamog was a thing if beauty. WP
Who’s the biggest villain on the channel? The Sandiest of Dogs or the mouse?
My vote is Tom Martell coaching people how to hate draft against LSV
The Mean Bean.
@@Luckingsworth Dude. That made me the saltiest of dogs when I heard that info. Let our hero cook with Tolarian Academy.
Round 2 is one for the ages - wow
Another nice part about glimmer lens is that it makes a rebel to return othari with
Both the games he won in round 2, I would have GIVEN UP
"Turn 1 Ragavan, turn 2 strip mine"
*Oppo vomits in the background*
Putting Firebolt back with 4 Lands on MonoR was wild
27:22 that turn was crazy!!
If anyone tells you that ‘mono red is easy to play,’ send them round 2 of this draft. Not many people could pull of that W
Kind of shocked to see Squee not make the cut. I've rode Squee/Laelia/Rabbelmaster to a lot of speedy wins and p1p1'ed him a few times (usually ending up in R/W aggro or mono R aggro). Lots of bodies out of nowhere.
watching this in 2x speed so it's like "a cube speedrun" speedrun
23:00 after draft before games I'm going to guess that Squee would have been better than Jitte in the main. I think that if you're playing Rabblemaster another goblin generator is actually kind of strong.
good point
After getting used to the team drafts, seeing Sigarda is kinda jarring. It's maybe modern cube level.
This was a blast
I like to see the diversity of decks.
Holy heck, a game where lsv runs interaction instead of combo?!
trophying vintage cube is a funny idea for a speed run category
LSV, your mouse has been broken for weeks. Right click>attack all. You have undone an attack like 6 times.
he should get one that makes a really loud and annoying scrolling sound
Two RDW in a row?? Blink twice if you're being held hostage by Sandydog!
Mono red FTW! Epic resilience from this deck.
I always have a moment of confusion when an opponent plays the same card you have.
It's like "wait how did they get grim lavamancer and dismember when we also have grim lavamancer and dismember???"
Then I remember it's not a real draft and modo is weird.
3:25 Poor jackal pup.
I thought for sure you were going to lavamancer whatever the batterskull blocked so that they didnt get the life.
You should make a top 10 cube comeback moments
Double misplay game 2, you gotta strip mine the blue red land, and opponent picking up wrong batter skull cost them big time
You can tap top to draw and then hit it again guaranteed off of robber or ragavan
match 2... my dude... match 2...
That was a hell of a deck :)
Great games. Love cube
That was a lot of fun
If ragavan had haste he’d be absolutely INSANE ⛽️
That hand last game could be a Twitter post
Hey, question - where can I find people to regularly cube with? Xmage has been kind of abandoned of late, and I'd love to find a draft pod like this to play with. :)
I'm somewhat surprised that LSV chose not to run Squee in the main deck, as it seems on par with Rabblemaster in power level and works especially well with Jitte and Hellrider. To be honest, I don't know what the cut would be.
squee is not even remotely close to rabble in power level. also, it doesn’t make jitte much better other than the fact that it’s another creature you can equip.
@@empzxz It makes additional creatures for Jitte even if it dies.
I would argue it might have been better than hell rider. Just getting it down a turn earlier feels like that matters more now.
Yay, MTGO Vintags Cube is back!
I feel for all the people who keep playing on mtgo and arena.
There’s aFREE option with every single format and any cube you upload. You poor things
@@RFlairPCYeah but then you’re playing against absolute dogshit competition.
That Ulamog game…
Great video! What mouse did you get?
incredible match 2 against the busted artifact deck
love me some sligh action!
What a game there!
Wonder if it was worth siding in inspiring vantage that last match to help you cast white cards off of ragavan
turn one last game, wow!
If there’s no Shelldock, is it even vintage cube???
Hey sir, Im confused why they dont use Sigarda Host of Herons instead. Much better than current Sigarda and actually quite playable as a sb option. Its good against Liliana, good against Archon. Decent vs annihilator stuff (vs sneak etc.) and is a good GW card in general. Really would like to know your opinion on that!
LSV uploadeds. I click
I watched this in 2 times speed because it felt right
Vintage cube is back?
Where did it go?
Not complaining
It's my favorite format
It was gone from MTGO. It comes around a few times a year, interspersed with other cubes. Recently there was cartographer’s cube if I recall.
Anyway, it hasn’t been gone from this channel. LSV and his friends have been doing non stop team drafts posted on this channel, which you probably already knew.
You can play any cube any time on Xmage. Mtgo sucks and buying digital cards is downs
Bro you beat 2 batterskull with monored, what the hell
In case any other Kenji viewers were missing the background music: ua-cam.com/video/-DJTnIhOmEs/v-deo.html
that was awesome
Every👏day👏
fun police strikes again
I feel like that match vs. the workshop deck was totally stolen
Gabba gabba.
I hope your new mouse arrived today
I wonder if it's worth it to try to force artifact/combo decks a bit more in pub games compared with the team drafts. It feels like whenever one of these decks comes up in pub drafts, it's absurdly strong, I assume due to lower drafting skill and less hate.
Still bashing goblin guide some lol
Do we need to start a gofundme for a new mouse?
How can the opponent have grim if LSV drafted grim?
This is the MTGO vintage cube, you don't necessarily play against your pod.
I'm at the point where I think DRC is just bad in cube and should be dropped. Way too hard to achieve delirium consistently enough and a 1/1 with surveil is not a playable magic card. I feel like there's a dozen red one drops that would be a better fit for the cube and fill out that crucial place in the curve.
Only deck where it seems easy enough to enable and hence roughly playable is UR tempo/spells and even then DRC is absolutely below the average for card quality in it.
What happened to the good og art in the drafting phase? =( Honestly, beta card art just hits different when the packs pop.
He's drafting the mtgo cube in this vid
mono red rarely beats batterskull. I have DEFINITELY never seen mono red beat 4 batterskulls.
Makes me laugh when Luis say, “We are flexible” meanwhile takes all cards of the same color unless there aren’t any. Guess I should wait till the end to see if another color joins the fray.
Didn't even see the better first turn second turn...
Just curious, why does LSV show us his wood at the end of each video?
I kinda of dislike the Mtgo cube pairings, it'd be better if you played people who you drafted with, rather than against people who have half the cards you drafted
They should replace most of these bad burn spells with multiple copies of lightning bolt, IMO.
boop
“Is Ring better than Chandra? I don’t know” LSV 2023 😂😂😂😂
In mono red specifically. Chandra fits the game plan better. It's like what's better, Dismember or Swords? For this deck, dismember. Not in general.
Uh oh!😮 Another repeat of yesterday??
Nope:)
@@asch220Totally made up for the previous draft! Haha.
Bro, I can hear you swallowing... might look at fixing that, it's kinda gross.
Have you ever cast a 1 Ring? 😂