LSV’s consistent banter and composure in these videos always impresses me. There are so many streamers and draft videos that struggle to keep the monologue going, or tilt off about flood/screw, and that can ruin the viewing experience in a lot of cases. I don’t even play vintage cube but these videos are a highlight every day for the past year for me, and seeing LSV’s “performance” chops continue to improve is something I don’t think many people notice, but makes all the difference. LSV was ribbing on Paul’s new channel on LR this week, how he just started his own channel and the views and sponsors started flooding in with little effort on his part, but he was really just being humble. The daily grind is one thing but these videos really have gotten miles better as they’ve gone on, and it certainly isn’t because Magic Online’s UI got any more appealing. Mad credit to LSV for the pacing and vibe of these videos.
"Urborg helps your opponent". Nah, everytime my opponent has played Urborg against me I've been incredibly annoyed at how suddenly it's much more annoying to tap my basic lands for mana.
The competitive pod structure of team drafts is obviously great. However, being a long term denizen of LSV vintage cube drafts makes me a sucker for the modo leagues.
Every time LSV starts a sentence with “Look…” it’s like we the viewers have some realistic counter argument to his line of play. But most of us don’t 😂
It's always weird to me to see Fire Covenant in the vintage cube. I remember when it was new, and absolutely no one cared about it. In retrospect it probably would have been just as good back then as it is now.
Yeah haha we forget creatures used to be smol and clunker if you could have paid life to destroy or counter non creature spells or something then peeps woulda jumped on FC.
Watching LSV go from winning to losing in 4 turns of drawing land even in vintage cube reminds me why I'd rather watch this game than play it these days since that's how every game goes now. They removed cheap and free interaction, powered creatures up a million times and made all the new cantrips woeful with the end result being that you're just at the mercy of the top of your deck in a way you never have been before. You just throw haymakers at each other, most of which get 2 to 3 cards worth of value as soon as you cast them while adding to your board if you actually resolve them and if anyone stumbles they lose. Result is that most games are actually nongames (almost 70% of my games in the last draft format I played were decided by either my opponent or myself getting screwed or flooded, where 'screwed' can be as little as someone missing their fourth land drop for 1 turn). They took a great game and drove it into the dirt, eternal formats are the only ones that are at all interesting. Why would anyone care about modern 'competitive' magic when the odds of even getting to play a game that isn't decided by mana issues are
I’m kinda down for this, I would love to see a buncha pros draft somebody’s janky powered cube with like meluko still chilling in the cube for some reason.
In the Robber/Liliana game, is there a reason not to block the copy of the 6/6 attacking Liliana, pyrokenisis to kill it, and then minus Liliana to kill the original copy?
LSV with blue red tempo start and one splashable black card getting slapped in the face with green abundance - being handed a temur delver style deck on a silver platter solution? blinders: on grixis: gaming Wouldn't be an LSV video without it, the goof has long since become the brand.
@LethalPigeon This is the power of fire covenant bro you just got one sided wrath-ed! Your obviously a paid actor for green, everyone knows green is there as a goofy trap!
Cube has lost it's luster for me. Too many "good card" piles instead of focused combo or whatever it used to be. First overall fire covenant 5-6 years ago is insane now it's like... Yeah of course it's great. I want broken stuff!
