Reanimator Was OPEN | Vintage Cube Draft 

When were the deck techs of the teammates’ decks?

@@stevenashley27 54:18

54:12, after round 2. @@stevenashley27

between matches 2 and 3

@@stevenashley27 54:15

This would have been my play as well. Also had 4 spare lands in hand at that point to cover all the discards.

ahhhh yes! I know I'd forgotten a card and it was definitely this one - going right in now

​@@LSVargasyou've pacified the stifle stans

@@LSVargasI like that addition. I’m curious if draw 7s have gotten strong enough to consider a card like Commit / Memory.

​@@ryanmatthews7405 I would think so? Being it gets around uncounterable effects on the front end is pretty big upside but I don't know if the draw 7 being one sided is good or bad?

Lsv is against mulligan in almost any situation, i have never seen him mulligan a hand that has one land or more

@@renanrochapacanarotrinca3812 Don't try too hard now, there's at least one example of him doing just that in this very video.

He screwed up the original upload. Match one was after the third match. Seems like he decided to stay with quality uploads and edit it properly.

There were so many good reanimate cards that I think he couldn't afford his usual amazing mana base.

I've noticed that his Sneak builds have been very lackluster in this series. I don't know if it's because Sneak isn't as good as it seems, or how he over stretches his deck to fit it. He was saying he felt the deck was really good, but he lacked speed, had little card draw, and as you point out, bad mana. Its reanimator. It gets quick wins. It also dies in a fiery wreck from variance.

Agreed. I don't think Etali is that great, especially when you're playing counterspells in your deck or playing against someone who is. Obviously the ceiling is incredibly high, but its fail rate is just a lot higher than you would think. Landing a good Etali is such a rush (and it's just fun to have enter the battlefield) that I suspect people value it more than it deserves.

@@brianh5844 yeah i think the top 3 are clearly definied in archon griselbrand and atraxa but i think etali is a lot further down that list these days than he was a month ago

Etali does play well with all the archetypes though, flash, sneak, reanimator, and it supports non black decks trying to cheat it into play or even hard cast it. Etali needs to stay definitely. High variance like comet, and it wins games.

that would be a good card for the dreadknight style midrange decks

Yeah, Glissa's a card that does a whole lot, but isn't quite strong enough to be good in constructed. I do think she could be playable in a cube environment though.

Nice comment, I agree there's a lot of overlap in the appeal of watching drafts and randomizers.

I watch them each evening so I always have something waiting 😅

Your consistency comes from the ability to more aggressively mulligan. If you dont have 2/3 of discard, fatty, reanimate you can send it back down to 5 cards.

Your consistency comes from the ability to more aggressively mulligan. If you dont have 2/3 of discard, fatty, reanimate you can send it back down to 5 cards.

Your consistency comes from the ability to more aggressively mulligan. If you dont have 2/3 of discard, fatty, reanimate you can send it back down to 5 cards.

Your consistency comes from the ability to more aggressively mulligan. If you dont have 2/3 of discard, fatty, reanimate you can send it back down to 5 cards.

​@@turbobrew What does your consistency come from?

Yeah, that turn was confusing. Playing a land to ritual out archon on next turn would have also been an option. If archon gets countered he can spell seek an animate the next turn. Playing the spell seeker to have it be countered would have been terrible so maybe that's why he just passed?

Sorry, archon is 8 drop so that wouldn't have worked

Probably for the annihilator theme to go with the Sneak stuff? Ceaseless Hunger is backbreaking with Sneak in cube though, for sure.

If you aren't able to actually cast them, putting the OGs into play is much stronger because they affect the board.

Would require a little more support, right? We barely saw use of winter orb as it was. I love stasis, though.

rounds were out of order

think about the lost likes on my comment though@@LSVargas

I'm glad to know it wasn't just me.

@@LSVargas Haha, that's fair. Might not be the best place for a remix of the games.

@@LSVargas But seriously, thanks for all the work you put into these videos. It is definitely appreciated.

Oh I see, the match order was incorrect in the previous upload. I finally saw the game I stopped on.

Savaii Triome - WRB (Mardu) Zagoth Triome - BUG (Sultai) Ketria Triome - RUG (Temur) Raugrin Triome - WUR (Jeskai) Indatha Triome - WGB (Abzan) Raffine's Tower - UWB (Esper) Jetmir's Garden - WGR (Naya) Ziatora's Proving Ground - RGB (Jund) Xander's Lounge - URB (Grixis) Spara's Headquarters - WUG (Bant) Screenshot this if you need it

& these aren't just any drafts btw just to explain why he can't do what you're asking. They're team drafts. You cant ask him to choose to go one way or another he has to draft whatever is open, building the best deck he can on aggregate while passing the worst decks he can to his opponents. It's extremely restrictive & there are genuine stakes & his team to consider so its not like he can just say "okay im drafting white today" and then force white and pass all the top tier blue or black cards giving his opponents both a vastly superior deck & hurting his own team. Its super competitive and its really not the "draft white because it would be fun" kind of format.

Also, ultimately there are 10 triomes, just like 10 fetches, 10 duals. At some point you just have to learn them, surely you wouldn't expect him to also remind you the colors of the original dual lands for instance. Also, I think I have heard him mention which colors a triome has before.