Stoneforge Mystic Just Got a Power Boost | Vintage Cube Draft 

honestly kinda sucks. i don't mind the give aways of the title/thumbnail most of the time. but if it's the question in the very first 20seconds, it takes away a lot of it.

​@@NINtastischthe important part of that bit is the explanation instead of the guessing game, at least to me

While I get what you are saying here, it's not like people don't play cars like mana leak to get you to tap out, and this would be a tempo play, so it's not non zero. But yeah 3 mana open to 'cast interruptor' yadayada

Seems like a card that pairs with Vial, so might happen to tap for something and then vial in this for the mana leak

Why? People do tap out quite a bit in vintage Cube. I've seen many games where holding up a counterspell rather than accelerate mana is the wrong play.

@@philosopherhobbs he is talking about the fact that you don't spend 3 mana to cast interruptor on a mana leak, you just pay the mana leak

@@manfredire8370 , then that's even dumber. That assumes you've got 5, 6 or 7 mana for 2, 3, or 4 mana cards.

I came to say this. Especially against a RG deck that can't do anything about kaldra. And you aren't worried about wraths either, so it's not like waiting a turn on mother mattered that much.

No need to wonder. That was an absolute punt.

@@kristopherhergenrather9578 Captain hindsight gets in with the obvious punt line fresh from not having gotten dicked 2 matches in a row.

​@@dylanm.4875 ​Dicked or not OP is correct. Ephemerate on Stoneforge gets Aegis in hand if a removal spell is played. It guarantees the Kaldra in play next turn barring two removal effects. The decision to play Mother of Runes lost LSV the game. LSV had a more optimal line of play to almost guarantee the result he desired of getting Kaldra in play next turn, but chose not to take it. That's a punt.

@@kristopherhergenrather9578 Oh of course, I am not arguing that it's a punt, I'm arguing that it's extremely easy for you to call it a punt after watching the results of the punt play happen then pausing the video and thinking about alternative lines while not being tilted at all and then dropping into the comments section like a righteous crusader and telling everyone how obvious it was. OP probably knew it was a guaranteed punt and was simply using tactful wording because it was pretty obvious that by match 3 LSV might have been "slightly tilted" after losing to not drawing an island 17 turns in a row in a game where his opponent gave him a free card for 4 life.

Solid mech.

Cutting it really nerfs aggro though, especially ww as we saw.

Agreed

@@stephenglaeser7830 I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from these games. LSV drew poorly, opponents drew really well.

Initiative is a pretty cool (and skill-testing) minigame when it comes down on a relatively even board state and both players have to manage battling for initiative with their board presence and life total. Unfortunately a lot of the time Initiative creatures seem to be best used as a free win when ramped into. Less interesting back and forth, more "play an initiative creature before the opponent has had a chance to develop their board, instantly win", which doesn't create the most interactive games of magic. This is most obvious with White Plume Adventurer, and why I think LSV was smart to leave it out of his cube for a while even with the other initiative creatures in there. Games with turn 2 White Plumes are simply not actual games of magic, even compared to other 3 drops being ramped into on turn 2.

I never saw Stoneforge shine in this video. Lol

Did you comment before watching?

Oh. They can double block and still eat food with their chumpers as mana source.

My team did carry me, including you 🙏

This is an attack i make less than 2% of the time. But if i do make this absurb looking attack there is a thought process behind it and some alarm bells should go off. I considere this Elf an excess resource with it's biggest utility being that it is able to hit for 1 this turn before he plays something that can block it. I essentially decided to get in for 1 damage, and if it dies i get 4 damage. My deck's manacap was 5 and it has no ability to draw cards. I also have land drops for the next few turns. I am essentially a bit flooded and my deck was about as aggressive as a burn deck. You can think of the play as a mono red deck deciding to chain lightning you for 3 on turn 1. That's how confident i felt in this deck's ability to deal damage. But yeah, i would almost never make this attack. This was just an extremely rare case where i valued 1 dmg or 4 life over the utility of the Elf.

I make this attack less than 2% of the time because it's an absurd looking attack. I answered another guy in greater detail. This was just an extremely rare case where i valued the dmg of the elf over the utility it could offer me.

@@Stokkeland23 idk why everyone freaked over this attack. Is it impossible to imagine a scenario where Vexing Devil is better than Llanowar Elf? I feel like 5-7ish% of the time it probably is. Not that controversial

@@nickk6556 It'a a decision that is out of the norm or against the consensus. Just because something is the correct play 99% of the time does not mean it's always correct. I also think Lsv was abit frustrated in this video towards the end. This attack might be wrong aswell. I think it was the correct decision and i'd do it again. I don't care if it looks crazy and absurd hehe. If i think a play is good i'll make it regardless of how crazy it looks.

Bro ... I literally switch out my senheisers for generic Bluetooth because I can hear... Way to much... Lol. There is a whole saga from like 6mos ago regarding mic comments so I leave him alone. He tried. :) try a really cheap POS pair of headphones. Helps me. :)

@1:00:00 flicker the aegis to get a questing beast?