Honestly I used to spend most of my watch time on his channel just watching drafts and modern brews. Even the standard brews on Wacky Wednesday didn't do it for me normally. I'm not saying he's doing things wrong now or that his viewers are somehow a problem because they appear to want mostly constructed decks any more. However I can't say I don't feel a little wistful when I see LSV, Kenji, Caleb G and Caleb D, Ethan, Ben... they're all drafting all the time, and obviously LVD is still drafting on stream but very little of it ends up over here.
Unstoppable drafter. You can call it luck, but really he plans so well that he's open to outrageous opportunities. Definitely trying to learn from this
@@lukecash3500 to be honest his recent wave of Historic Brawl content has been amazing. Draft content usually peaks in the beginning of a format, and declines once the format has been solved or become stale.
I love that you didn't trash your opponent after the "shame concede" in the first match. I wish I could be as composed and conciliatory as you when I play this game. You ARE a Legend.
I feel like I could hear just a slight note of disappointment in his voice as he enjoined the commenters to resist the urge to perform the inevitable roasting over the shame concede 😄
25:45 small correction, the card draw on mender triggers on leaving the battlefield so exiling will still geve the opponent the card. (As will bouncing it or using it to ninjutsu something in)
Yup, I've had opponents use the blue spell which makes me put it on top or bottom of my deck because they wanted to deny me the card draw. They bamboozled themselves.
@@SirMcAwesome The question is, did you put it on bottom to draw something else, or put it on top to turn the world into a pretzel when it draws itself?
@@jerodast I put it bottom but would it draw itself? As it leaves the battlefield wouldn't it's trigger ability go on the stack and draw first? Not sure.
@@SirMcAwesome As it leaves the battlefield "it triggers", but the trigger doesn't go onto the stack until the current action is completed (resolving the put-on-top spell), so it would be on top of the library by the time the card is drawn.
I really appreciate watching you draft. Seeing your thought process makes me feel like I can make better decisions drafting early in a set I'm still unfamiliar with.
the deck worked so well together it practically felt like i was watching constructed, awesome to say the least. i must say this limited environment is feeling a bit confusing and maybe a bit harder to assess compared to other recent ones with all the dual card types and channels and synergies but overall there's a lot of nice interaction and interesting effects and with LVD and his consistent piloting and card picks it's always a pleasure to watch drafts, can't wait for more!
In the pack one pick one segment, you said you've never seen the spirit-sister's call in action. Well, I have, and it's so scary! The opponent who used it against me in limited had the white shrine and kept sacrificing the tokens it generated to bring back all their threats. Luckily, the game became a stalemate and I was able to draw my goro-goro and create 2 dragons every turn, but it was cool to see none the less!
I wish my sealed prerelease from yesterday had a more decent pool of enchantments to make use of the single Brilliant Restoration I found (ended up going gruul instead). It's pretty great to see a deck where it could shine today! Draft content is always lovely from you LVD.
I just drafted a nice Rakdos Artifacts deck with some life drain and plenty of synergy, 16 lands because light mana curve, ready to go. Went 0-3 loss, flooding 5 straight lands every time when it mattered... sigh. This was excellent to watch, thanks!
@@kris834 Most frustrating thing about Arena drafts IMO, you draft a cool deck and just want to play it and not have it dead draw, but sometimes it happens. And unlike in a card shop, you can't just hold onto it and ask if someone else around wants to play some matches for fun afterward. I mean you could save it and bring it into unranked queue, but that's not gonna go well...
Dang passing the white 5 drop that land cycles for the black white guy with only the one artifact made me sad, that samurai dude seemed exactly the thing you wanted here
1:41 Gonna share my two cents since you mentioned none of the white cards seemed exciting here. From experience with this set, the Mothrider Patrol is pretty amazing in the Red/White Samurai & Warrior decks, where you take advantage of the 'attack with a single creature' synergies since it's a warrior with flying. And since it's a 1 drop, you can get it out turn 1, then on subsequent turns you can potentially curve out into some nice samurai cards that will buff your Mothrider Patrol's attacks while your other samurais can hang back and act as effective blockers to slow down any counterattack aggression from your opponent. With Mothrider Patrol having flying, it makes the samurai synergies easy to take advantage of since it's much easier to attack alone with a flying creature.
Great draft! In the first game, wouldn't the bamboo grove archer channel ability worked as fine insurance against the mechtitan (since the titan flies)?
I opened brilliant restoration in my sealed pool, along with a bunch of green and white rares, a tonne of ramp and fixing. I had the green and blue mythic dragons as well, splashed the blue. Another card which is amazing with restoration which I had was the 2 mana green rare creature which you can tap and pay 2 mana to return to hand in order to look at top 4 and put a land into play and rest into your graveyard. It fixes and ramps your mana while filling the graveyard for restoration. And if I milled the restoration the bug can channel to return cards from graveyard to your hand. It was a smooth 7 wins
Awesome! It would have been even more interesting if you highlighted the one loss in the end next time to see where the deck fails . But amazing cooking skills. Hats off to you sir
I would have taken the 2nd copy of the basic plains cicling 5 drop over Naomi you ended up cutting anyway. And the most shrines are playable on its own. Besides that a great draft!
Hahaha, now THAT is an interesting Draft!! So far, anything green or anything black has proven to be quite successful to me. EDIT: I'm hoarding the packs, since I'll be drafting quite a bit. So thanks for the opening xD
So i had subtitles on as im watching this early in the morning and cant find my head phones and nezumi prowler is now "zoomy prowler" and honestly im all for the change
If you allow me.. Since Sealed is even more random, and the payout is quite harsh when it comes to returns (I believe 6 wins to get even?).. it's certainly not preferable over Premier Draft, where you have more control over what you end up playing. But it certainly has it's fun side! And you could end up playing all 6 rares.. but as it is, it quite heavily dependent on what you get.
@@Big_Dai Does anyone really play Sealed for the value though? Most players rarely get their gems back so the only reason to play Sealed is it's fun. There are some really cool things about Sealed vs Limited. You can't just settle into a lane and build off your archetype, and as everyone knows it's normally an even grinder format than Limited. That has a lot of appeal, especially for players who are into Commander and love long grindy games.
@@lukecash3500 Good tips - and I love long grindy games :) Although Sealed is Limited - aka you have a limited pool of cards. Sealed vs Draft is the issue.
I wonder if it would actually play similar to this/have some other recursion/reanimator stuff going on. I was really impressed how much synergy there was with all the Channel creatures and Restoration.
okay so need help. got back into mtga after a break from the crimson vow set and when i came back they changed the ui a bit mainly select match and deck. i got decks set up, set it as standard but it isnt showing up in deck select when i pick a standard match. so is there an additonal step now to enable a deck im not seeing here?
LVD having just 7-1'd a draft where he casually ran double 3WWWW spells "Yeah invoke is good but 1BBBB is hard to cast so idk" (Yes I'm aware the pay off is very different)
[44:49] I literally said "aw, they exiled it" after you predicted the kill on the turtle. Then saw I was wrong. Who the hell printed "destroy" on a card titled "Banishing"??
That pick 1 pack 1 Restoration had me wondering for a second there if Luca was the one who brought like a billion cards back against Kenji (Numotthenummy) yesterday. Also it's kinda hard to tell yet which color archetype is best? Haven't seen anyone try to force anything from the start unless they got some gold card they really liked. Black might be the place to be though, there are too many commons in black that are as good or better than most rares.
@@Big_Dai The more I look at green the better it looks, too. But it doesn't stand out as much as black, black is stuffed to the gills with two for ones.
Man, it depresses me how incredibly unlikely it is that I would ever end up drafting this deck. I'd be the guy throwing his hands up in frustration over getting yet ANOTHER Brilliant Restoration in pack 3, not the guy going and building a 7-1 deck using both copies and three goddamn colors.
Don't really see an issue with two copies of Fade into Antiquity, as in this set more often than not it's the equivalent of casting Murder, except the mana requirements are easier.
well if you think eiganjo uprising is good but not great, you think much more highly of it than my draft pod today I passed it p1p1 and p2p1, and it wheeled so I could satisfy my greedy rare-drafter tendencies anyway
Really need to muck with my schedule a little one of these days because I miss seeing LVD on YT uploading these 3-5 times per set, doing sealed, etc. and I know he streams that kind of stuff plenty it's my fault not his, hahaha. 10, 20 years ago I would follow the pro tour and check out all the constructed decks, play a lot of constructed and so on. Somewhere along the way I got tired of playing wallet warriors and began only coming into the shop for a draft or a sealed event. It's simply a better format.
Honestly.. what a waste of digital space on the UA-cam servers.. Just post once and be done with it, or just don't at all. It's not like you are actually achieving something, or being useful.
So thankful LVD is doing some limited. Immeasurable amount of enjoyment (and education) over the years. Thank you Luca!
Honestly I used to spend most of my watch time on his channel just watching drafts and modern brews. Even the standard brews on Wacky Wednesday didn't do it for me normally.
I'm not saying he's doing things wrong now or that his viewers are somehow a problem because they appear to want mostly constructed decks any more. However I can't say I don't feel a little wistful when I see LSV, Kenji, Caleb G and Caleb D, Ethan, Ben... they're all drafting all the time, and obviously LVD is still drafting on stream but very little of it ends up over here.
Unstoppable drafter. You can call it luck, but really he plans so well that he's open to outrageous opportunities. Definitely trying to learn from this
@@lukecash3500 to be honest his recent wave of Historic Brawl content has been amazing. Draft content usually peaks in the beginning of a format, and declines once the format has been solved or become stale.
Nothing beats LVD Draft ASMR.
But seriously, I really missed the limited content, even though your Brawl vids are really good as well
Two brilliant restorations?! Thats a sick draft
I love that you didn't trash your opponent after the "shame concede" in the first match. I wish I could be as composed and conciliatory as you when I play this game. You ARE a Legend.
I feel like I could hear just a slight note of disappointment in his voice as he enjoined the commenters to resist the urge to perform the inevitable roasting over the shame concede 😄
I love a cheeky shame conceed.
Your draft content is what made me follow you and I appreciate any scraps we are given. I will always ask you to post more of this content.
Ahhhhh yes! I miss your draft videos soo much. So excited!
You broke that last opponent's heart with the double restoration.
I was praying he could cast it twice in a game as soon as he opened pack 3 haha.
I love all your videos, but limited content have a special place in my heart. I’m very happy to see it making a comeback.
Thank you Luca!
Draft is my favorite format, awesome video!
Liked the video as soon as the second Restoration popped on the screen, this is gonna be a fun one!
58:40 "Quite the danger noodle" I spit my drink. Your delivery is second to none, now let me clean up real quick
25:45 small correction, the card draw on mender triggers on leaving the battlefield so exiling will still geve the opponent the card.
(As will bouncing it or using it to ninjutsu something in)
Yup, I've had opponents use the blue spell which makes me put it on top or bottom of my deck because they wanted to deny me the card draw. They bamboozled themselves.
@@SirMcAwesome The question is, did you put it on bottom to draw something else, or put it on top to turn the world into a pretzel when it draws itself?
@@jerodast I put it bottom but would it draw itself? As it leaves the battlefield wouldn't it's trigger ability go on the stack and draw first? Not sure.
@@SirMcAwesome As it leaves the battlefield "it triggers", but the trigger doesn't go onto the stack until the current action is completed (resolving the put-on-top spell), so it would be on top of the library by the time the card is drawn.
So glad to see you drafting again. Its my favorite format to play :)
25:45 worth mentioning, the Mender triggers on "leaving the battlefield", not on death. So bouncing it or exiling it will not prevent the card draw
Good point!
I really appreciate watching you draft. Seeing your thought process makes me feel like I can make better decisions drafting early in a set I'm still unfamiliar with.
Glad to hear it!
Can't wait to watch this, your draft videos are a highlight on an already great channel. 👍
Hello! I had an awesome draft last night!
excellante spaghetti.
the deck worked so well together it practically felt like i was watching constructed, awesome to say the least. i must say this limited environment is feeling a bit confusing and maybe a bit harder to assess compared to other recent ones with all the dual card types and channels and synergies but overall there's a lot of nice interaction and interesting effects and with LVD and his consistent piloting and card picks it's always a pleasure to watch drafts, can't wait for more!
10:28 Kami can return companion and replay it for value. It shines in this deck.
Great draft!
That's a good point, would want one after picking up the second Companion.
So happy to see more draft videos!
God, I love how casually Luca just plays a 7 -1 deck making it seeem so easy!
Breath of fresh air after all that gothic. I like it.
I enjoyed the last match alot. Thanks for the great content!😀
Glad you enjoyed!
watched this, fell in love with the idea, built myself a standard deck around it and named it "brilliant jank."
In the pack one pick one segment, you said you've never seen the spirit-sister's call in action. Well, I have, and it's so scary! The opponent who used it against me in limited had the white shrine and kept sacrificing the tokens it generated to bring back all their threats. Luckily, the game became a stalemate and I was able to draw my goro-goro and create 2 dragons every turn, but it was cool to see none the less!
Seems great with those tokens!
My hyped up feeling when Legenvd drops new set draft content = Kyle - YES
I only recently got to actually play my first draft, now I respect how good you do it even more 😅
This is the video I was hoping to see. Watching you draft is always a treat.
What are your thoughts on this set so far as limited is concerned?
I wish my sealed prerelease from yesterday had a more decent pool of enchantments to make use of the single Brilliant Restoration I found (ended up going gruul instead). It's pretty great to see a deck where it could shine today! Draft content is always lovely from you LVD.
Great video thanks for making it 😀
Ahhh draft, the perfect format for some bedtime LVD-smr. The combo decks do the trick too.
That’s some serious throw from Durdly.
Love the draft vids!
LVD is a draft king
Keep the draft coming!!
i would have paid to see the face of the last opponent when LVD resolved the big spell a second time lol
I just drafted a nice Rakdos Artifacts deck with some life drain and plenty of synergy, 16 lands because light mana curve, ready to go. Went 0-3 loss, flooding 5 straight lands every time when it mattered... sigh. This was excellent to watch, thanks!
It happens more often than not, hence I like Dragonspark reactor, reconfigure equipments and Experimental Synthesizer to make use of the flood.
Yeah same, got a sweet uw vechicles deck, 0/3 as well, now I'm gonna look for tips online
@@kris834 Most frustrating thing about Arena drafts IMO, you draft a cool deck and just want to play it and not have it dead draw, but sometimes it happens. And unlike in a card shop, you can't just hold onto it and ask if someone else around wants to play some matches for fun afterward.
I mean you could save it and bring it into unranked queue, but that's not gonna go well...
Dang passing the white 5 drop that land cycles for the black white guy with only the one artifact made me sad, that samurai dude seemed exactly the thing you wanted here
Last booster: "oh, boy!". Hahahahaha
1:41 Gonna share my two cents since you mentioned none of the white cards seemed exciting here. From experience with this set, the Mothrider Patrol is pretty amazing in the Red/White Samurai & Warrior decks, where you take advantage of the 'attack with a single creature' synergies since it's a warrior with flying. And since it's a 1 drop, you can get it out turn 1, then on subsequent turns you can potentially curve out into some nice samurai cards that will buff your Mothrider Patrol's attacks while your other samurais can hang back and act as effective blockers to slow down any counterattack aggression from your opponent. With Mothrider Patrol having flying, it makes the samurai synergies easy to take advantage of since it's much easier to attack alone with a flying creature.
Finally draft video
Really miss your limited content. Always 5* thank you 👍
Can always catch more unedited footage on Twitch!
Big miss on harmonious emergence at 14:45 ?
Great draft! In the first game, wouldn't the bamboo grove archer channel ability worked as fine insurance against the mechtitan (since the titan flies)?
My faaaavorite format to see you play in n_n
Yes! More drafts!!
I was in your draft. Wish I could of gone against you.
Awesome run, happy to see you back in the saddle.
I opened brilliant restoration in my sealed pool, along with a bunch of green and white rares, a tonne of ramp and fixing. I had the green and blue mythic dragons as well, splashed the blue. Another card which is amazing with restoration which I had was the 2 mana green rare creature which you can tap and pay 2 mana to return to hand in order to look at top 4 and put a land into play and rest into your graveyard. It fixes and ramps your mana while filling the graveyard for restoration. And if I milled the restoration the bug can channel to return cards from graveyard to your hand. It was a smooth 7 wins
Awesome! It would have been even more interesting if you highlighted the one loss in the end next time to see where the deck fails . But amazing cooking skills. Hats off to you sir
I would have taken the 2nd copy of the basic plains cicling 5 drop over Naomi you ended up cutting anyway. And the most shrines are playable on its own. Besides that a great draft!
I wonder if we should pick 1 Fade to Antiquity in some weaker packs.
the art on Brilliant Restoration looks like Pac-Man in a golden robe eating a bale of rice
Hahaha, now THAT is an interesting Draft!! So far, anything green or anything black has proven to be quite successful to me.
EDIT: I'm hoarding the packs, since I'll be drafting quite a bit. So thanks for the opening xD
I can only imagine the feel of the last opponent in the end...
So i had subtitles on as im watching this early in the morning and cant find my head phones and nezumi prowler is now "zoomy prowler" and honestly im all for the change
what did it say for "bang bus"?
updated Sythis for historic brawl looking absurd.
100k subs special! Will we finally have a crab tribal?
Hey LVD could you do a sealed event too? I could use your knowledge because I'm not that good at sealed. Thank you for all that you do!
If you allow me.. Since Sealed is even more random, and the payout is quite harsh when it comes to returns (I believe 6 wins to get even?).. it's certainly not preferable over Premier Draft, where you have more control over what you end up playing. But it certainly has it's fun side! And you could end up playing all 6 rares.. but as it is, it quite heavily dependent on what you get.
@@Big_Dai Thank you for the response I have the free sealed token from the pre order but I'm always lost when it comes to deck building
@@Big_Dai Does anyone really play Sealed for the value though? Most players rarely get their gems back so the only reason to play Sealed is it's fun.
There are some really cool things about Sealed vs Limited. You can't just settle into a lane and build off your archetype, and as everyone knows it's normally an even grinder format than Limited. That has a lot of appeal, especially for players who are into Commander and love long grindy games.
@@lukecash3500 Good tips - and I love long grindy games :)
Although Sealed is Limited - aka you have a limited pool of cards. Sealed vs Draft is the issue.
kinda wonder what kind of constructed deck you can make with the Skyturtle. He looks too fun to ignore.
I wonder if it would actually play similar to this/have some other recursion/reanimator stuff going on. I was really impressed how much synergy there was with all the Channel creatures and Restoration.
okay so need help. got back into mtga after a break from the crimson vow set and when i came back they changed the ui a bit mainly select match and deck. i got decks set up, set it as standard but it isnt showing up in deck select when i pick a standard match. so is there an additonal step now to enable a deck im not seeing here?
Yup, that's been my experience so far.
Tajniki might be the best Greatmaw in a long time
Even with winning you can't convince me that brilliant restoration is playable in limited
Wish you did Morén draft vids 👌🏾
LVD having just 7-1'd a draft where he casually ran double 3WWWW spells "Yeah invoke is good but 1BBBB is hard to cast so idk"
(Yes I'm aware the pay off is very different)
Not only the payoff but the place in the curve. More likely to have managed 4 of a color if you've reached 7 mana total, rather than 5.
[44:49] I literally said "aw, they exiled it" after you predicted the kill on the turtle. Then saw I was wrong. Who the hell printed "destroy" on a card titled "Banishing"??
skyturtle is gas - used it's regrowth abilty while Junji was being targeted for removal and watched my opponent scoop in prerelease LMAO
That pick 1 pack 1 Restoration had me wondering for a second there if Luca was the one who brought like a billion cards back against Kenji (Numotthenummy) yesterday.
Also it's kinda hard to tell yet which color archetype is best? Haven't seen anyone try to force anything from the start unless they got some gold card they really liked. Black might be the place to be though, there are too many commons in black that are as good or better than most rares.
I can tell you right now that Samurai are REALLY hard to do right, and to win with them.
And I agree. Either Black or Green.
@@Big_Dai The more I look at green the better it looks, too. But it doesn't stand out as much as black, black is stuffed to the gills with two for ones.
In game 2 why does he keep talking about bouncing Tezzeret with Skyturtle channel, is Tezzert a creature in this set?
Was thinking Turtle could bounce any nonland permanent.
Just in time! I was about to have dinner!
Man, it depresses me how incredibly unlikely it is that I would ever end up drafting this deck.
I'd be the guy throwing his hands up in frustration over getting yet ANOTHER Brilliant Restoration in pack 3, not the guy going and building a 7-1 deck using both copies and three goddamn colors.
T U R T L E P O W E R
turtle turtle!
tee you are tee el ee power!
When you stand for what you believe in
have the strength to draft what's right
that's...turtle power
Please do more limited.
Got absolutely destroyed with the sealed and all 5 drafts I did
when a cute girl says hello to you
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Don't really see an issue with two copies of Fade into Antiquity, as in this set more often than not it's the equivalent of casting Murder, except the mana requirements are easier.
Yup, that's been my experience so far.
@@LegenVD How many copies is too much? I get the sense that if I kept a whole playset in I'd still be able to find targets easy.
@@lukecash3500 Depends on the rest of your removal, could see four copies being reasonable in some decks.
@@LegenVD Looking at black I can realistically see myself doing this because often black removal is unconditional, of course.
well if you think eiganjo uprising is good but not great, you think much more highly of it than my draft pod today
I passed it p1p1 and p2p1, and it wheeled so I could satisfy my greedy rare-drafter tendencies anyway
Really need to muck with my schedule a little one of these days because I miss seeing LVD on YT uploading these 3-5 times per set, doing sealed, etc. and I know he streams that kind of stuff plenty it's my fault not his, hahaha.
10, 20 years ago I would follow the pro tour and check out all the constructed decks, play a lot of constructed and so on. Somewhere along the way I got tired of playing wallet warriors and began only coming into the shop for a draft or a sealed event. It's simply a better format.
Spirited companion... rapid liquid hein frens????
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Honestly.. what a waste of digital space on the UA-cam servers.. Just post once and be done with it, or just don't at all. It's not like you are actually achieving something, or being useful.
Do you have a discord or a twitch channel?
Both! Link to Twitch is below the video, Discord is for Patreon supporters and Twitch subscribers.
I love all your videos, but limited content have a special place in my heart. I’m very happy to see it making a comeback.
Thank you Luca!
I appreciate that!