Can LSV Master the Lord of the Rings Arena Open Draft? 

1:10:45 one of the best plays of all time. Thinking with two lands in hand what to discard and activating all the stops to get priority to bluff something.

I've had success with blue in stopping Fear, Fire, Foes - smeagol bounce your own targeting creature to fizzle the spell

1:09:00 going first and second in MTG amounts to having 20 life or 2 after a couple of rounds :)

That pack 3 open was brutal.

We passed multiple pelegrir surviors in the first draft, seemed like those might have been really good in the final build as are trying to splash all these foray of orcs

15:00 " There is no text, literally nothing" is as genuine as that disappointment gets.

this thumnail is something i didn't know i needed until now. Luis the Grey is a fantastic image

He didn't draft Mount Doom after taking The One Ring. My heart is broken.

all my games feel like the last one. always the perfect answer for everything haha. insane deck, insane draws from OP

So exciteddddd! Good luck

I've been turn 3 aragorned by an opp on the play in this format and nothing beats that for salt inducement

Great content! And slick haircut btw.

I’ve found this happens often in this format with green being so bad. You get this solid pack 1 and then more and more people end up in the other colors and you start seeing diminishing returns.

Great vid!

Hey great job making it to the second day!

1:19:46 I think I would have cast Ambush on the Spirt. Keeps the ring bearer, and might not get a better chance to play it.

More vintage cube plz. No disrespect to your other content, just been loving the vintage stuff

Thought it was Spiteful Banditry in that P3 at first, aww.

For the 4 match, when you were considering gandalf and uruk play. Before conceding why not play the gandalf anyway? You would block with bilbo and it would die. Dying would trigger the tempting. Because you were the non active player your triggers would resolve first and you would draw before taking the ping from gimli. Messenger would still save you. Or did I miss something?

2:00:55 brutal, there was hobbit’s sting + club on Smaug sac’ing a food, but then they get 14 +1/+1 counters 🤢

Maybe a silly question here, but how do you know the rarity of the card picked by the person passing the pack to you? I know to look for open colors/mechanics in drafts, and know/think(?) that the higher rarities start in th top row of the pack, but am not sure how to tell what was picked by the person before you. Thanks.

[[Gandalf, Friend of the Shire]] is just insane. Just today I cast it to eat their [[Uruk-Hai Beserker]] just as the implicit 2 for 1 right there. And honestly, after I cast [[Torment of Gollum]] on their following draw step, I was shocked to find out that they didn't concede the game. How absurd is that?

Thumbnails are slaying me

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I seriously do not know how I can watch as much LSV as I do as still absolutely suck at drafting.....sad times

two new LSV drafts in one day?!

1:14:00 was it lethal? They didnt had a ring bareer

Gee whiz, these black and red cards seem pretty good

Love your content man. Can someone help me understand why rally is good? Two mana for two 1/1s doesn't seem great to me. I'm sure I'm wrong I mean LSV is legend.

Great Hall is actually better than an island in this scenario, I think, because it can also provide red mana for the two legendaries if you have only Swamp/Island out.

Greatest thumbnail ever

Wow that was an amazing pivot. I would've been stuck

1:02:20 - LSV was dead on board (bats + the army leaving is exactly 3). Luckily opponent didn’t realize and attacked with bats only. It is funny how misplays sometimes cause you to win from an impossible spot.

Good wreckage. And Aragorn is the king you know...

I've opened hew so many times it's weird... there must be some bug

@1:14:00 why can't you trade gandalf for gimli, take 1 trample and not have gimli trigger because it also dies?

ggs!

That thumbnail is f**cking hilarious. Do you have an editor for this stuff or are you doing it yourself?

Come on! That's the most frustrating second draft ever.

dog didnt want to go out, just wanted your attention and got it even for just a moment :)

LSV returns for day two looking “moisturized.”

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Couldn't you sting and then club the smaug to kill it, saccing a food for the club?

Could have full sent the 5 color legend deck. :(

LSV always drafts good decks but that second-day draft was the worst deck I've seen he draft this entire season. How unlucky. 😢

The one ring not tempting is a huge flavor miss lol

If I won the lottery I would pay LSV to be my mentor

I saw Crokzey play Mr Beef aswell and iv never seen such a lucksack in all my life. The algorithms were deep in his favor for this event

Can't you sacrifice the ring to Mount Doom? Total loss in flavor if you can't.....

Engagement

1:42:17 ??????????????????

Imagine not dodging that last Fear, Fire, Foes by sacrificing your dude to Improved Club yourself.

MTG, Wizards and the Tolkien Estate are dead to me 👌👌

Ugg, more LoTR Limited content.... Can you please work on a Standard article now? There hasn't been a PRO standard article on CFB in over a month. Personally, I purchased a monthly subscription for the Standard format and it's disappointing that you've apparently abandoned that for LoTR content. I would comment on CFB but you guys changed the website and posting is no longer an option. Thanks.

It’s nice to see how not being pro in magic is no longer an issue, cause it’s all about being lucky and taking obvious pick…