LSV has insane historical, conceptual, interaction and state of the draft knowledge in the game. If he got perfect draws in every game he's winning 99% of his games.
The classy gentleman way to cube. Sit down, load client, get yourself a glass of some nice pinot, play big mana and decide what the opponent gets or doesn't get to play. Trophy.
In the last game, opponent presumably took a turn off so they didn't get their fatty immediately bounced by the riftwing. Should have played voidwalker certainly, but it seems reasonable enough.
I was going to make a post like this. I have done way over 100 of these drafts and I think 2 times I had a mono blue deck. Probably high tide but I don’t remember. I find it amazing when I can grab 2 counters but w/e. Lsv is a god and rules don’t apply to gods.
59:00 "Actually I think I'll discard Mana Leak..." WTF you're crazy lol You're already winning on the board, the only thing that'd lose it for you is something like Inferno Titan, spoiler
Anyone else think the second opponent was a likely stream sniper? His do-nothing turns made less than zero sense unless he knew LSV's hand, and his immensely slow reaction times on obvious decisions were equally suspicious imo....
LSV very rarely reads any of the cards, so he might not consider that they are too small to read. When I first started watching vintage cube videos I kept another tab open to look up almost every card, scryfall or gatherer.
Honestly unless you're drafting storm, I don't think black lotus is even in the top 5 for cards in the format. If I planned to stay open i'd take sol ring and most moxen over lotus P1P1, and I think there's a good argument to be made for ancestral and time walk over lotus as well. I think there's just a lot of mystique surrounding the card which lends people to slightly overrate it in vintage cube
Passing bauble was wrong imo, it would've made Emry an auto pick which would've turned out to be super correct given you got relic too. Passing Teferi twice was definitely wrong. You took a blue white duel, you have a signet that makes white, and you have golos to find the white source and timeless lotus casts Teferi by itself. You are a blue ramp deck you have no business passing Teferi there, especially when you were thinking about cutting dig. Where is your card draw going to come from? You'll spit out a bunch of artifacts and then have nothing in hand. Teferi was for sure the pick when it wheeled. Love you anyways LSV but I would've taken the Teferi. Though I haven't watch the matches yet and I'm sure you'll win out regardless lol.
Its LSV bruv, i think he just wanted to play mono U, my only concern is not playing ugin with the existing deck he had... it was obviously easy to cast and would kinda be good in every situation he was at :)
LSV, I hope you see this. I can't tell you what a joy these Vintage Cube drafts are to kick back and enjoy in the midst of all the difficult realties of life. They take me back to my childhood with my first experience with MTG in '94-'95, and through all the experiences with MTG over the nearly 30 years since. Love the drafts. Love the gameplay. Love the conversation. Keep up the good work, my man.
When you bounced the land tax, you could also have bounced one of your own lands instead. You already had infinite mana at that point, and this play would prevent them from ever taxing regardless of whether you countered it on the way back down.
The cards are not remotely similar and share literally zero functions. Ugin only hits nonlands, Titan only hits lands. Ugin wipes the board of little things, Titan prevents them from playing big things. Ugin gets attacked, Titan is difficult to attack into. If they remove Ugin he stops impacting the game, removing Titan devastates their mana again. They share zero types, supertypes, or subtypes. Literally the only thing they have in common is their mana cost. What are you talking about?
