How Many Fallen Shinobi Hits Does It Take To Win A Game?? | Vintage Cube Draft 

They probably forgot about spell jacker and remembered too late and felt like they couldn't win

i would say his first opponent definitely didn't put up much of a fight lol

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They felt like there's no way they can win against almighty lsv, so they scooped.

I've played against pros before on these platforms and can sometimes suddenly become EXTREMELY self conscious (especially if it's a known streamer) and scoop prematurely simply because I find it too stressful and uncomfortable.

They might not have played things as slow if he did that, because they likely only played as slow as they did because it looked like he was leaving up Miscalc from that turn on. Taking the shields down just once can change how an opponent plays dramatically.

Actually no, the first turn he had access to double blue, he had to use one to Phantasmal Image, no double blue for sphinx. Then it was Baleful Strix into Unearth Image to copy Strix, still leaving only 1 blue available. He was always 1 blue short of being able to cast Sphinx, because he was playing either necessary things or had better plays, like the double Strix to get 2 bodies on board, draw 2 cards, etc.

@@LucianDevine On the turn Saga is on 2 - Tap swamp cast dark ritual, tap tower cast strix, use remaining 2 black mana to make a saga construct

@@wizardlah But that leaves Mentor in play for another turn, which is a potentially very risky move. That's also not even counting that it doesn't incidentally represent Miscalc on Forth. So in that scenario, the opponent will 100% cast Name Sticker Goblin into Forth for full mana and double prowess. If the opponent swings out with a 3/3 and 5 2/2's, maybe even the Spellseeker, what's your plan then?

@@LucianDevine This is LSV's turn 3. He has no way to remove the mentor that turn and spellseeker hasn't even been cast yet so forth is not in opps hand

@@wizardlah Because he waits until EoT to make the token and makes his decision then when he has more information, like good players do. Nobody makes that play in their main phase without the power of hindsight, and even with the power of hindsight, it's still prolly not the right play.

idk i think shores is better for a dimir deck than blood crypt

​@daytimerocker3808 blood crypt would make the fetch land into blue or black. Still worse than an actual dimir land though.

@@mtgcubetubeor you can just take the u/b land instead…

@@lucasmccord5147 yeah I agree, that's what I said :) Edit: it's what I meant anyway, I can see how that could be unclear from my phrasing: Shores definitely the pick.

This was my gut feeling as well, just get rid of the Forth Eorlingas.. their deck didn't seem to be particularly well set-up for Mentor to go too insane.

It was a no-brainer. I'm surprised Luis didn't mention it, but it was one of those things where he had his plan set and didn't take time to think. He's obviously one of the GOATs, but I think his fast play can be a detriment in spots like this. His hand can't beat Forth. He literally says it like 30 seconds later. He has to know he loses to that card. Whereas he can in theory beat the mentor.

@@tepidgoose I think he was also concerned with getting a threat off the board, since it was a fairly assertive draw against his passive draw. He also might have been able to beat Forth if Goblin hadn't accelerated it out, but that's why OP fetched it, because they had Goblin.

Just play it turn 2 lol :P it took over the game

Yes

you stole my line

If he takes the shields down that turn, his opponent might not have played as slow as he did respecting Miscalc. He likely only took things as slow as he did because LSV had Miscalc mana up from that turn onward.

@@LucianDevine I think an extra construct is solidly better than a counterspell bluff

@@nickk6556 I'm not saying that he was consciously doing it, because he might not have been, but his opponent clearly thought he was, hence shorting the Forth by 2 mana to play around it.

*Chomp!*

As someone who does some cubing (no where near what Luis does) I do like drafting reanimator, buuut the all in reanimator decks often go 1- 2 or 2 -1, if I don't get the chance for any sort of tutor - it is sadly a 3 card combo (fatty, discard, reanimation spell). With tutors the deck has an insane ceiling I feel like, so I might spec on it too often. Though I understand his logic that he would prefer to use sneak or breach to cheat them into play - I do like having those card in my reanimator decks as backup plans (reanimator allowing me to go faster with the right draw, while sneak allows me to sometimes win when stuff didn't work out early). What I personally really like about reanimator in cube is how it still offers a pretty wide range of decks: all in reanimator (don't try this without tutors - lim dul's vault helpsa ton by being one more tutor you can pick up late in drafts); RB aggro or mid with a reanimator package; UB or UBr control with an reanimator package (the aggro/control deck with a combo plan B can often do very good even without tutors, since their plan A doesn't require them). Honestly in this iteration RB aggro with reanimator has become my most common flavour of reanimator drafted... Inti, the RB 3/2 that makes a blood token, seasoned pyro, of course fable of the mirrorbreaker can al help pressuring your opponent while being a combo piece themself thanks to discarding. Of course you want the discarding removal spells (bone shards and the 2 mana one - sorry blanking on card names apparently) they are great to clear the way for your small beaters and again are also combo pieces. And stuff like reanimate and anmimate dead are still completely fine reanimating a powerful beater like inti to continue the agression, so they also kind of work in the aggro plan. The only cards that do NOT add to the aggro plan are the fatties and those can be awkward, but if they are the good ones like atraxa and archon the upside of reanimating them outweights the downside of sometimes being a dead card (in my opinion). And then you round out the deck with your standard red aggro cards - laelia, bombadiers, gut, carnage interpretor, the 4 mana haster that draws an extra card each turn; maybe a dragon etc.

I reckon LSV just doesn't particularly like playing reanimator (compared to other types of decks anyway, plus his mentioned reasons contribute). If so I understand as I don't find it very interesting either.

First, most of the guys on this server queue too, so it's not like the competition is that bad. Second, in mtg variance such that a 70% win rate is insane, so nobody is going to just win all time even if they're better. Third, the online queues have lower stakes, so LSV is more likely to force something fun like storm instead of trying to win (you'll hear him say things like "is this we're the pro tour the pick would be X") on mtgo vs. the server queues. Fourth, queues are much more unpredictable, and sometimes cards that are 95% to wheel don't, while you end up a bomb pick 13. While this more likely to be beneficial, it can really screw over a deck if you pass something you "know" will wheel that you needed for your deck (something like doomsday) to take a better card. It can also mean the signals you thought you read were just bad play and something wide open in pack one is now totally cut off from both sides because of card evaluations.

There is still a lot of luck in magic, and in draft. Good players increase their percentages, but everyone loses sometimes.

Sometimes boros aggro is open and you get paired against someone who drops a fastbond t1, wheels a few times, and you are dead. I do agree that the cube is getting harder. I think a lot more casuals went to arena and also since cube is on more often I think there are less causuals than when it was only once or twice a year.