How Many Times Can I Play Turn One Library of Alexandria?? | Vintage Cube Draft 

Next year?

I think you meant next week.

I'm currently buying all the Mind Twist stock I can while LSV says it's bad.

I’ve been drafting a decent amount of late and Mind Twist has definitely gotten worse than I remember it being just a year ago.

@@treycuretit’s a good long term investment. i’ve been a long time tamiyo holder and things just keep getting better

Oath is a high-variance Animate Dead - it's obviously worse, but I could never name it the worst card in the cube.

Agree, the "I'm an oath deck" so I'll pass all the good cards and hope to get lucky is such a disaster of a plan.

​@@399pi I dunno, one of the bottom cards, seeing how much it can warp the draft and your deck. Unlike Flash, which can essentially be splashed into any deck you want (whether or not it's a good idea really depends), but Oath is one of the most demanding cards for building around, and the payoff, even if you get the cards you need, requires you to play Oath early, and the longer it goes, the worse it gets. Meaning you twisted your deck around for a one-of combo piece. As a Plan-B for a reanimator deck, I can see how it would add value. But even in this draft, seeing a lot of potentially viable cards be passed for the sake of the Oath suggests that it was a negative value in LSV's draft.

Card needs Forbidden Orchard and something like Hermit Druid added to the cube. Oath is also a trap for combo because Oath is control win condition. Sure, you can Oath out a big hasty dude, but it's better as "I can play a threat for two mana and spend the rest of my mana on removal and countermagic." It's like a Delver of Secrets on steroids with a little crack cocaine sprinkled on. I also think Yawgmoth's Will is underrated right now in the cube. It's not the powerhouse it once was where it ended the game on the spot, but it's arguably better than Regrowth or Eternal Witness because you can play a land into a spell. Milling a bunch of cards with Oath of Druids and then using Yawgmoth's Will to get your best land and non-creature threat is good enough of a play. I don't get playing Tamiyo but then brushing off Will as unplayable lol.

@@399pi I could. It has a middling payoff that is usually done better by other cards in the cube, and it forces you to draft some very awkward decks. You miss out on efficient creatures, which are a huge part of the current cube. It's a card that not only is often not good to cast, but it also is not even good to draft. Hard to imagine a more narrow and replaceable card with more downsides.

Moving in on Oath right after passing Through the Breach was risky. I'm guessing there was a second "cheat in fatties" drafter at the table (commenting before I see matches to verify)

17:07 i see The same, not taking caryated and hafling only because The stupid oath was soo bad...

Prime example of getting lost in the sauce

The amount of times a mid-draft LSV has cited a single talisman in his pool as a reason Workshop could be good... Workshop into Talisman just leaves you with the same amount of usable mana as you would've had with a regular land, but down a card! I think he's chasing the high of the Academy decks he was getting a few months back. (Hard to blame him.) Workshop, Saga, and Urza are the cards that most frequently derail his drafts for the worse.

Never been this late

never been this on time