Draft the greatest cards in Magic history alongside LSV in this Vintage Cube Draft! Match 1: 14:39 Match 2: 25:45 Match 3: 42:53 For more great Magic: The Gathering strategy content head to ChannelFireball.com
I'm a simple man. I see LSV and vintage cube in the same title - i binge watch it. Thank you for adding timemarks in the description when the different matches start! very comfortable to watch it this way.
It's always great to watch a master at work! Having drafted the cube yesterday, even though I make Cube content here on youtube, it goes to show that I still have a long way to go! Keep up the great work!
30:00 "I could bounce the beast and attack" That was the best play. Bounce the beast token and animate Fumarole. Attack with everything. Opponent blocks Fumarole and you get in for 4 putting your opponent to 2. Sack Ballista and ping opponent for 2. GG
Wheeling Shrine of Burning Rage, Sulfuric Vortex, Goblin Guide and Eidolon of the Great Revel just in pack 2. Man, the mono red deck would have been bonkers.
I'm new to the vintage cube draft. Can someone tell me why he doesn't pick the sword of fire and ice/femine and feast? They seems pretty good in the draft.
Im sure this is reckless but there was potential lethal in game 2 of match 3. If the walking balista was pumped twice when the opponate was at 11 and your board was ballista snap and 3 gobs, the attack would of been for 8 with 3 shots left to finish them off. This line is interesting that if they have removal in response to one of the ballista pumps you could still get one pump in on the stack and ping down for 2, this leaves your opponate at 4 and your board state the same minus ballista if all goes wrong, but if not interrupted is lethal.
The only thing I prefer about multiple videos is there tends to be more discussion on each game in the comments. In this video, we're basically just seeing all the "YAY LSV VINTAGE CUBE!!!!" comments that would usually be in the drafting video, and nothing on the matches/games themselves. Aside from that though, a single video is far more convenient.
Upsetting that you had an opponent with almost no mana, and a Sphinx + Ancestral that you didn't live the dream by targeting the opponent and drawing 6.
Game one match one you won anyways, but would it have been best to pithing needle the mox then incinerate the phantasmal image to persist another woodfall primus ? I would think it just significantly lowers the number of outs opponent could have
At 30:55 why did you dig? you could of pumped balista up to 2, untap pump twice up to 4 untap pump to 6=lethal. Edit: terrastadon is a factor nvm its a valid line.
Can somebody explain to me why he would choose island over volcanic island so many times? That play doesn't really make sense to me as volcanic island is better than island in almost every situation. For instance at 43:41 he plays an island over vol island, even though they knew that card was in his hand?
Timetwister is fucking disgusting though. It's not as good in Cube, where you can't set it up right, but in a constructed game the typical first turns when it's allowed go "play first six cards in hand (multiple moxen and whatever else included), Timetwister, get dual effect of refreshing hand and completely invalidating every mulligan the opponent took."
In the right deck, even lacking the Moxen doesn't change how dumb Timetwister can be. People really underestimate the opponent draw as an upside. It might not seem like it, but when people are willing to mull down to rather low numbers to get at least some of their combo pieces at the start, completely invalidating their mulligans can be a massive play. Also, it helps that any deck that uses it you're going to have ways to reuse or grab anything it dumps anyway. Taken with that it's a big play. (It's not that it's good in 100% of decks, it's that in 100% of the decks that want it, it's stupidly overpowered. Given how the game was back then, that's a massive play. Does that mean it's not as powerful as some of the other cards in the Power Nine? Yeah, but the best card in the game was in Alpha and isn't considered Power Nine anyway, so the name's not exactly perfect.)
i dont get the terrastodon situation at 28:53. how is lsv going to kill him? a 9/9 plus 3 3/3 for the forests. opponent has still 6 mana next turn. can someone explain this please?
I think countering channel would have been the actual play (not just in hindsight). They had so many cards in hand that not countering was way too greedy.
Missed lethal at 1:00:30? spend 8 mana to pump ballista after no blockers are declared for +2 dmg, then drop 3 counters to ping them down for the rest of their 3 life
I there any time it would be a decent move to recall opp so you get to draw 6? You get the same CA and opp is likely to need to discard. Will give him mana though.
at 18:27, would it have been better to Ancestral your opponent because you had sphinx out? You would have been able to draw six as opposed to three right?
I fully fail to understand why the round 2 opponent didn't just off 3 of their own lands with terastodon and go on the beatdown. Upheaval is relatively uncommon, as are wildfire effects.
i disagree wholeheartedly. its hard to pull off sometimes and you get can punished easily but mostly it tends to lean towards dull matches. If the storm player goes off he spends the game goldfishing, and this usually takes a long time, lots of thinking. If he doesnt, he land-gos the whole game his opponent wins by tapping his creatures sideways a couple times with no interaction. interactionless magic is bad enough in constructed, but at least those games can be fun post-sideboard. i like cube because you get to battle with all the sweetest cards ever but storm, either playing with or against, just doesnt feel like magic.
When highlighting cards with presumably your middle mouse button you accidentally scroll the picks down a lot of the time. This scrolling is highly annoying to me. Can you please try to do that less? Love the vintage cube though, hope to see more!
I'm not actually. I've been watching LSV draft since about the time they started doing the videos on channelfireball. This just is the first time I bothered commenting about it because the scrolling was especially egregious in this one.
Just colorless ramp. When he drafted it there was a slight chance he'd play green or black; but when he put it in his deck it was just "1, tap: add 2 colorless mana to your mana pool". He would've played a card with that exact text.
