Double Mox Boros Is The Best Kind Of Boros | Vintage Cube Draft 

There is an old tweet from him showing the top 50 cards for the MTGO Vintage cube from a year ago, you can find it easily. Following his content for some time now, based on his comments, I'd say probably about 10 cards have changed in this top 50 list since then ? Like Blue based control has lost some steam since (cards like Jace and Dack Fayden are probably out), whereas White weenie and wheel based decks have grown stronger, with stuff like Initiative cards, Reprieve, Comet, Hullbreacher, and Orcish Bowmasters making their way in the list ?

Watch enough videos and you'll get a sense for it anyway

Wasn't there an episode of LR that was basically this? When he talked about his Cube?

@@victorm.3279 I actually feel like the list has changed QUITE a bit since the last one he posted (which I'm pretty sure was more than a year ago) Last list I saw didn't have academy anywhere on it

@@victorm.3279I mean I’ve seen him take bow masters over Oko p1p1 which probably means that he thinks it’s power 9 (minus timetwiser, plus mana crypt/sol ring) and then bow masters now

For sure. I knew it was good, but I was still surprised to hear him describe it as the best non-power card in the cube. You sure do see why when it gets played, though.

By that logic, shouldn't the next person do the same?

@@danplath1 Potentially, but if that "nice card for your deck" doesn't exist, then you will just take a mox. The obvious example would be 2 moxes, a minsc and boo, and a bunch of weaker cards. If you are red green, you should take boo, since you can make great use of it without going out of your way, while your teammate 2 seats down may not be able to. At some point though, there is nothing that exciting for you in the pack, and taking the mox allows your teammate the chance to get a card for his deck rather than be 'forced" to take a mox, which is the generically good card. Moxes are better in some decks than others, so sometimes it will be correct to take the mox for that reason. Also having the mox match your colors is a nice bonus. tldr: in a double mox pack, sometimes the mox really matches your deck. If so, take it. But if there is another card that slots in nicely or you just don't need a mox as much as your teammates are likely to, then you are better off passing it.

You aren’t wrong, and I look for spots to do this

Sure am

good luck!!!!!!!!@@LSVargas

He had it in the cube for like one video and then it got cut.

then g2 vs beine, i kind of thought the line i preferred was flickerwisp to mox, since you dont't know when you are going to see the 2nd white anyway, play spellbomb t1, which leaves you t2 you can draw off bomb/or kill mana dork, then samwise, replay bomb, with an eye to eorlingas t3 instead, for 3 instead of the 2 on t2. obv the mana vault draw made your line better, but i do think in the dark about drawing vault i like this line a little better, as with any land drop, 2 eorlingas tokens on t2 does 16 by t5, and 3 on t3 does 18 by turn 5, and you could have used spellbomb and nothing else to close at that point.

how could this be good with shelldock when there are 0 blue cards?

​@@AlexCuevas91it's a joke because LSV says that about any deck that can remotely play shelldock

Access to more cards, better decks as a result

True

There will be no shortage of cube content

City of Brass deals damage when it is tapped even if by an opponents card effect, so Mana Confluence is ever so slightly stronger.

Mostly for Urborg/Dryad effects that provide other mana abilities

I imagine it’s also a bit more time consuming for the clock with the triggers.

also, the effects that make City of Brass a little better are mostly absent in the cube I think? like, City of Brass is fractionally better than Mana Confluence if you have damage prevention or Worship effects, but if there's nothing like that, then it's really just worse