First Picking Tolarian Academy And Swinging For The Fences | Vintage Cube Draft 

Find someone that looks at you like LSV looks at Urza.

"It's nice to have a construct in play so I can see how many artifacts I have"😂😂😂

Scholars have long debated what the most beautiful sentence in the English language is. I am of the opinion that it was uttered at 1:10:05 "End of turn, tap Academy for 19 mana."

This is an all time great deck. The phrase kid in a candy shop was invented for LSV this draft

I was getting nervous

Academy has the highest ceiling for a reason, it's a marvel to watch it pop off like it's 1998.

This is why we draft Vintage Cube. Really taught the other team a Tolarian lesson with this one, Luis!

That was the best showing of Academy I've ever seen.

30 seconds in and I can tell this will be an all-timer

I just built your Vintage Cube list with my playgroup, of course power 9 and such are proxies, but can't wait to play it next week! Thanks for the daily content Lucho!

That first game: wow. It was simultaneously horrifying and a thing of beauty. Sitting down across from LSV when he drafts like this has got to be nerve wracking 😂

R1 G3, Trinket Maging for Ballista could have gotten rid of the Hexdrinker. It doesn't leave you with much gas afterward, but it does remove the potentially gamebreaking card. EDIT: That being said... yikes, what an end to the game.

The most lsv vintage cube deck ecer. I was here. I witness perfection. His unbridled joy is so life afirming

I think the one card to that would improve the deck the most (besides power) would have been urza's saga. Besides that workshops, kappa cannoneer and better fixing for third path, but really close to being completely perfect.

great furnace would be amazing in the cube, I already find myself playing seat in UR decks with gut and/or bombadiers just to have an extra artifact to sacrifice

At 1:17:20, there was actually still one more chance to find Cryptic Command, since Urza's ability can be activated at instant speed.

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!!!!!!

I can't wait to watch this draft 3 more times during your end of year top 5 extravaganza

Finally. Lsv picking academy

I can't believe there was no mention of the flavor of drafting might and weakstone with the urza hehe ;)

that last game looked ok

Better late than never!!

Typical LSV, not opening power :(

God dang that first match game 3 was insaneee I love tolarian decks so much. wish mtgo cube hadnt gotten rid of artifact this time around edit: this deck was absolutely wild. Every game freaking crazy. That last turn i thought u were going to copy the candelabra and keep going off like wild just for show

So fun to see a busted academy deck. Also, Sol Ring seems pretty good when it starts in your opening hand every game.

Finnally the LSV has come pack to tolarian

Falkoneye using echo against the academy deck, I said out loud, queue yakety Sax.

Lsv letting us know this is a scripted show when everytime he says "I just need to draw some spells to make this a good keep" 8 of the top 10 cards are lands.

Love the cube content as always. Was looking at building your cube in paper and found an article with the link to your 548 card cube on cube cobra, I was wondering if you have a smaller list like 180 cards for a smaller group, we usually only have 4 people and the larger cube is a lot to carry around to game nights.

When you guys tie in a 4v4 you should play the 4th person you haven't played against yet so it's an overtime match winner takes all!

Absolutely insane.

Not LSV laughing like a YuGiOh villain when he saw that opening hand

Luis, this is why nobody passes you Academy

Luis, Goblin Engineer + Ichor Wellspring + Mycosynth Wellspring = Draw a card and fetch a basic for just tapping?! Sign me up!

17:45 BRUHHHHHHHHH

In match 3 why didn’t the opponent have to discard down to 7 after turn 1 recall?

Oh baby strap in kids, we’re going fast.

My one concern with these decks is they're built so much around academy but if you're not playing ways to search up academy, it really makes you dependent on drawing your 1-of. I have the same concern with a lot of fastbond builds. They're amazing when they draw the 1-of and pretty underwhelming when they don't. That being said, at least this deck has sol ring and Urza as other ways to get some busted mana generation going. Note that I'm writing this before watching the games. Will be interesting to see how it does when academy isn't drawn. Post-view wrap-up: Well, academy and sol ring were drawn early and often, leading to some pretty busted stuff, but also making it difficult to answer how the deck performs if it doesn't draw those things. It was fun to see a 3-0 with academy again. I do think this was one of the stronger versions he's had because of having Urza, Sol Ring, and Academy as busted mana generation. I suppose I've learned to be more skeptical of academy decks because there's been a lot of vids on this channel where LSV is excited but then doesn't draw academy very often and goes 1-2.

All time draft. What a showing :). You made those decks that had moxen and ancestral look like pauper decks.

I've seen lethal Walking Ballistas before but I've never seen a Walking Ballista that's lethal because it has two Nettlecysts equipped (and no +1/+1 counters!)

incredible. Attacking with a 35/35 ballista on turn 3 is honestly so much more impressive than winning with a turn 1/2/3 infinite combo. Just wild.

I'm surprised how skeptical LSV is of Mightstone and Weakstone during deck building. It seems like a second Coveted Jewel with optional removal.

LSV drafting the nut Academy deck is why we are here. Chef's kiss.

TNN seems like it would have been a pretty good SB card against your first opp, a ton of low toughness creatures that can also get clamped for value if req'd

⚙️💧 Tolarian Academy is my most favorite magic card of all time, and this brings joy to my heart seeing it go broke like the Stroke days of old.

The thing about LSV drafting Academy decks, He always opens on Academy!

I wanted Fiery Islet over Savannah, and the way the packs broke that pick would have been nice, so I'll pat myself on the back for that one

worth considering Trickster Mage for cube? Discard Echo, untap academy seems awesome

Someone once asked me why Academy was banned but Cradle is legal in that one format. Much laughter.

What English word in a card name across all the cards it appears on is the winningest lifetime for lsv? I think it might be “nettle.”

55:55 retrofitter is so good against ub control because it's so hard to interact with. Opponent immediately interacts with it.

already a contender for the 'best Academy deck' playlist for 2024

At 1:17:00 could you take a gamble and spin urza on opponent's turn and pray for cryptic?

Ah, I love to see the first pick Academy, no matter what!

I've been working on my own vintage cube, would it be possible to get your list?

This draft was awesome and all but you lost a lot of complaint equity with those draws.

Great, it’ll be another 2 years before I see an Academy in vintage cube.

I played standard in the time avedemy was legal . God that format was gross

day one of asking LSV to add tireless provisioner to the cube

Tolarian just puts a smile on your face when it comes together.

What a fantastic video. Reminded me how fun a good cube draft can be.

Mind Stone is the reciprocal of Sol Ring, hahaha - Cost 2, Make 1 / Cost 1 Make 2

I felt like taking another shower after that academy draw on m1g1

i feel for this specific deck mana crypt is better than sol ring

It's a pity that the new vintage cube got rid of the artifact theme

Disgusting deck. Totally sick. Love it 😂

loving the content. reminds me of my urza edh deck

What the (Sandy) dog doin? 🐕

does galvanic blast make it into the cube at this point?

well if you keep forcing workshop\academy decks, eventually you'll spike one. This one was sweet. GGs big guy.

Attack for 35. That made me laugh hard.

I've been getting about 90 fewer minutes of sleep every night since you started uploading these drafts. My wife is starting to get jealous of the amount of time I spend with you.

Always a good day for Academy.

Welder and recurring nightmare feel like theyre facing similar issues of their recursion value being a little too slow, while also being the more difficult way of cheating game pieces into play

What a draft, what an all time academy deck! This really is the reason to play Vintage Cube. Thanks for the content LSV!

Missed infinite card draw + infinite tapped 1/1 tokens, with forensic gadgeteer, third past iconoclast, sensei’s divining top, and urza

if u opened pick 1 pack 1 ancestral vs academy im thinking ud probably take ancestral over academy?

Sick deck. Very nice.

The drafts like this one when LSV gets to pick not only a strong card but a strong build around card are just the best!🎉

I bet the video was a bit late because you rescheduled other videos and waited for this video to process so you could get it out as soon as possible :) This was awesome thanks for the daily content.

R2G1 interaction sheeeeeesh

Oh this about to be a banger of a draft!

no time walk in this deck what a shame

Holy crap, that last game was insane. Academy is absolutely nuts

Gadgeteer has earned its spot

This was absolute perfection. Last game was the cherry on top.

fuck LSV is so good at magic

Look, it's like ½ a sol ring

Here you can already draw your entire deck and make that many tapped soldiers. Seems pretty good.

I have never seen such an acadamy deck and I have never sweat so much from the games.

Academy was an all-star, but, man, Sol Ring is something else

Take a shot every time he calls the initiative the monarch

Still had all of these

This has to be the most insane Academy deck LSV has drafted..

that echo of eons...

Sir 3-0? Normal.

LSV: "I'm not going to play coveted jewel here it costs too much" Coveted jewel: costs 6, generates 5

With as much mana as the deck can generate, I don't understand the UR dual over Colossus 40th pick.

I’m visiting family in Spain and it’s messing with my routine

what a banger