LSV Takes on Vintage Cube Supreme Draft (Busted!) 

Good strategy

@@savagedragn It must be nice to be that smart and good at MTG!

Not to tell you what to do too much, but when you play the steam events, if you want to play Academy sac the black Lotus for blue play, the mox play the soul ring, play the manifold key. You could a time warped.

Same. It's fun to see busted broken stuff sometimes, as long as it's in small doses. This format isn't horrible by any means, but it's pretty much exclusively just broken blue stuff with fast mana, now with a spattering of black, because Grief and Bowmasters. Nothing else is even remotely competitive, and it gets old fast when everybody is drafting the same stuff.

@@LucianDevine I hear that white taxes can also be good in this format, but the people who draft this tend to do so for broken things because that's more fun :)

@@monogreen I guess if you open Thalia and then manage to dodge all the good blue cards while getting the good white cards. The downside to just opening Thalia is that you could still get Hullbreacher and the other broken blue cards and either not end up playing her or just splashing her, like LSV was intending to do with Teferi here. Plus white taxes is even more play/draw dependent than broken blue stuff, because of lack of Forces.

@@LucianDevine I heard about the deck during the last lot of supreme drafts when you weren't limited to 1 of each card, I don't know what's changed since then, but I'm guessing if you want to do it now it needs to be U/W. Still all the power and forces and such but with tax effects instead of the combo cards.

@@monogreen Yeah, you'd likely need the Forces to protect you for when you are on the draw when taxes can't help you, and a Hullbreacher wouldn't hurt either, kind of making it half broken blue stuff now. As you said, less fun than normal cube, but is has it's niche in small doses imo.

po?

Paradoxical Outcome@@bevrosity

for sure, wow as if his deck didn't already generate enough fast mana and card draw, PO would have jammed a lot more of both in with just the one card, so silly

i can see why he didn't see it. probably not used to seeing that in cube and he was most likely too excited about the deck lol

but yeah, it would have been perfect.

It was supposed to come back. Search the daybreak forums. An employee confirmed two weeks ago that they were intending it to be that way.

I think it was for information. It was only game 1, and he only conceded once there was going to be lethal on board and LSV wasn't going to be showing him any more cards.

This format is bonkers, drafted a deck with 7/9 of the P9(only missing time walk and mox ruby), tinker + blightsteel, monastery mentor, bowmasters, narset and hullbreacher to go with timetwister, paradoxical outcome with 4 moxen, Mishras bauble, senseis top, brainstorm + 2 fetches, preordain, samwise to recur bauble, black lotus and fetches, tolarian academy, library of Alexandria, thoughtseize, vamp tutor, the one ring, force of negation. Like I legitimately drafted a vintage constructed deck.

pretty easy when youre just sitting at the computer doing what youd be doing anyway lol

In one swell foop.

Only seeing 30 cards makes it a bit harder. It's prolly possible, but it's likely better to just go with broken blue stuff.

Difficult and tedious, namely because you can only do it for 1 player at a time unless you have duplicates of cards, which is less likely in a powered cube, but more likely if you are bringing 8 people together. As for logistics, you have to shuffle the entire cube together and deal out 15 cards so that the player can pick their 2 cards, write them down, then repeat that process 18 times per player.

t2 is basically the late game, im just lolling all day here

I kinda prefer it like this. It's obviously less broken, but it feels like more in the spirit of cube, imo.

@@Spaccaspecchi And it makes it more likely that you can complete 2-card combos instead of getting duplicate Worldspine Wurm, Etali, and Atarkas, but no Flashes, making you even less incentivized to do anything except just go pure broken blue, making the format even more stale and boring than it already is.