LSV's ability of drawing precisely what he needs three turns too late will never cease to amaze me
@jeffreyculbert2093
8 ай бұрын
Luckless, Skill, Victory.
@yO-xe3ny
8 ай бұрын
When I played him, he had everything every turn. It's crazy to see how much he whiffs lol.
@andrewjames4786
8 ай бұрын
“As an exercise to the reader, what do you think I’m gonna pick?” Little does he know I’m trying to guess what he’s going to take on every pick 😂
@jamesgreenwood1703
8 ай бұрын
Lmao same… my safe guess is probably lothlorien revealed, but it could be borrower bc it hides a card in exile for balance plus gains a tempo with the bounce that can then be used to make them discard even more
@jamesgreenwood1703
8 ай бұрын
Yeah it was the safe guess
@jamesgreenwood1703
8 ай бұрын
HA HE TOOK THE BORROWER ON THE WHEEL
@roarmalf
8 ай бұрын
Definitely half the fun
@mattdrahos2662
8 ай бұрын
This is my favorite game- what would LSV do? I got it right:)
@armanesteghamat589
8 ай бұрын
8:50 is this a spot where heart of Kiran would be great? It’s a creature that dodges balance and is really good with the three planeswalkers we already have. Not sure if it was overlooked or purposely passed on.
@ltmaid
6 ай бұрын
4/4 flyer that doesn't do anything else is not an LSV cube card. Only reason he might play it is as an artifact for Tolarian Acadamy too. Still it would be the worst artifact in that deck
@siniahlberg8295
8 ай бұрын
Re: bouncelands I trophied with fastbond + bounceland + lotus cobra (+courser) for infinite mana, it was pretty sweet. I guess you could replace cobra with spelunking as well, though I’m not sure these cards are worth their slots tbh
@didntwantmyrealnameanymore
7 ай бұрын
reid duke has a video recently on channel fireball where he went infinite with exactly this
@Wuzseen
7 ай бұрын
That craterhoof M3G2 was such an anti climax for what was otherwise an insane game.
@LucianDevine
8 ай бұрын
Oracle was the best card your round 1 opponent didn't play. It gave them so much information and did worse than nothing for you both times you played it. Man that was tough to watch.
@mtgbast
8 ай бұрын
1:18:22 the moment opponent simply threw the match lol
@johnhoge
8 ай бұрын
Rare deckbuilding miss from LSV. This deck would have been so much better if it hadn't had the Crucible, Fastbond, Zuran Orb, Oracle, Sail into the West package gumming up its draws every game. The whole point of UW control is that you don't need to dedicate card slots to dedicated win conditions or combo pieces. You just kill them with whatever you have lying around once you've run them out of resources.
@jeffreyculbert2093
8 ай бұрын
I definitely don’t think that Crucible, Fastbond, Zuran Orb are generically poor fits for Bant control. It’s not really a bant control play pattern that those cards help with, but they offer a victory button when assembled and that upside is more than enough for me to feel good about them in this type of general shell when Balance + Zuran Orb is another victory button (and truly the primary one). The real awkward fit to me is the Oracle. I’m just not a fan of this card in cube decks that run less than 18 lands and we see exactly why in game 1: Oracle is a card that underperforms in the hands of the historically unlucky. The rest of that package makes great sense for this deck I think, it leverages Balance to great effect both as an independent play and as a parity breaker after a Balance down to no resources line, though Sail feels a little on the weaker side compared to the decks where it really shines.
@Waghabond
8 ай бұрын
Yeah i think its more about how zuran orb makes a lot of sense in a balance deck. And if youre adding zuran orb you may as well add fastbond and crucible.
@johnhoge
8 ай бұрын
@@WaghabondI guess I disagree with the foundational premise that Zuran Orb is a must-include once you have Balance. Balance is already extremely good in a planeswalker control UWx deck. Running a card that makes our good card even better but is a blank otherwise doesn't strike me as definitively correct. Like, we don't typically consider including Armageddon for our control decks. Making it cost 0 mana rather than 4 certainly helps, but Armageddon's mana cost wasn't the main reason not to run it, but rather that if your UWx planeswalker control deck is in a spot where casting Armageddon is good, then the difficult part of the control deck gameplan (getting ahead on board) has already been executed, and you don't need to also blow up all the lands to be heavily favored to win from there.
@LSVargas
8 ай бұрын
Orb Balance is super strong, and my mana supported Fastbond, so I’m afraid I disagree
@Blyf
7 ай бұрын
This was surprisingly civil
@randomeldenringclips3998
8 ай бұрын
delighted halfing is nice in planeswalker deck, bit weak in this specific one, but turn 2 uncounterable oko/teferi is a strong play.
@jonathanmontgomery5178
7 ай бұрын
That last turn 😂
@agiruda8380
8 ай бұрын
I just Bant get enough of the title puns
@didntwantmyrealnameanymore
7 ай бұрын
oh my god i love this archetype i've never seen anyone good draft it. oko+balance is basically gg always and it's just fun to play
@05xpeter
8 ай бұрын
Bring to Light would have been great in the deck not even considering it was criminal. Bring to light for balance or a missing combo piece or a wath is game changing in the right moment.
@jeffreyculbert2093
8 ай бұрын
The more I think about Mul Daya, the more I think it’s just more narrow than it looks for cube power level. Thinking back on the last couple months of games it just feels at its best more when it can consistently pair with top deck manipulation to serve as both ramp and card advantage. Kinda feels like fetch plus Crucible effect plus Oracle plus Sylvan or Sensei’s effect is required to get it to pop off right.
@amisanthropicman
7 ай бұрын
Oracle reveals a zuran orb followed by a Force of will was bad enough the first time, lol.
@HOCScott
7 ай бұрын
LSV is so quick to concede any game that falls out of his favor. Some of my favorite videos from Numot and other good drafters are how they pull themselves out of "unwinnable" situations.
@treycuret
7 ай бұрын
I feel 50/50. Most games it's fair, other games it can seem premature. I think he's more prone to playing out certain matchups rather than certain theoretical win percentage.
@DiscardatRandom
7 ай бұрын
Hes just experienced enough to know when he can’t play to his outs
@NightOfCrystals
7 ай бұрын
I somewhat agree with you, I do think he generally reads the game right though. Caleb Gannon is a king of playing out apparently unwinnable matches, and ekes out wins on them here and there.
@HOCScott
7 ай бұрын
@@NightOfCrystals Yeah, LSV is obviously a great player. He's a pro after all but it's frustrating watching him get an opponent that is up like +3 on him and him being like, whelp that's it for this game.
@GibsTduHandy
8 ай бұрын
i found it pretty amazing how fast you found a lane in this draft, yep fp balance yep oko and bam ok bant control superfriends, realy cool draft great vids!
@rafacires
8 ай бұрын
love me a fresh out of the oven bant cake
@TheFracturedMind
7 ай бұрын
G3 has one of the coolest control finishes I've ever seen! The hopelessness of facing Jace in that situation was fantastic.
@alext.1244
8 ай бұрын
hope you had a good xmas LSV!
@th3giv3r
8 ай бұрын
You need some Modal Depeche-Faced Cards in this cube
@peewee0224
8 ай бұрын
lsv playing my favorite architype
@mattdrahos2662
8 ай бұрын
For serious LSV followers, what is you best record on LSV (expected) cube picks? I think I have gotten 39 of 45 before, it could be fun to self report. It could show when LSV goes rogue, and when he runs LSV goes rails... Just for fun of course...
@LimeGreenAdventures
7 ай бұрын
39/45 is crazy good. I’m usually 50/50 but I pick stuff I know he would never pick
@DPharos
7 ай бұрын
Wrath was really good, I feel you undervalue wraths a bit in cube
@bricelory9534
8 ай бұрын
I feel like its been a while for me watching you draft Oracle that I've felt it seems a bit underwhelming. I get what it's supposed to do, but its floor is just underwhelming.
@nottoday9098
7 ай бұрын
oko thief of crayons
@vzl3ntin
7 ай бұрын
Blood LSV confirmed ??
@lurro9963
7 ай бұрын
I saw intuition doing stuff with savinnes reclemation and brainfreeze, breach combo🤷♂️
@jeffreyculbert2093
7 ай бұрын
More of a cEDH line of play and play pattern than vintage cube. The typical package of Intuition, Sevinne’s Rec, Brain Freeze, Underworld Breach, LED, (plus Thoracle for EDH that isn’t really needed in vintage cube) is a pretty card slot inefficient package when your deck is only 40 cards and 23 spells. Devoting nearly a quarter of the deck’s spell slots to a single line of play is a rather fragile set up that’s weak to the majority of play patterns opposing decks are liable to be capable of. Intuition is probably pretty playable in a reanimator shell that also includes Breach Freeze combo, but it seems like a sub par inclusion to the cube overall to me.
@Crimmando
7 ай бұрын
@44 why not Elk Atraxa and turtle behind TNN?
@alixcoulter6824
8 ай бұрын
I was surprised that Ancient Tomb wasn't worth more consideration over Prism. It looks like Tomb would have ended up being very good in this deck (while Prism didn't even make the cut).
@thekilla1234
8 ай бұрын
Ancient Tomb was a pretty bad pick at that point. He's already splashing a third colour which generally already makes Ancient Tomb a lot worse, but on top of that most of his castables can't even use the 2 colorless making it often tap for 1 mana. Prism on the other hand banks 2 coloured mana which would do way more for the deck at that point than Ancient Tomb. Horizon Canopy would even be a better pick since it helps cast Hexdrinker and Oko. I don't even think it would have been great in the final deck. There are way too many coloured pips in the casting costs and more than half of the playables have 0 or 1 colourless pips. The issue with this is that in order to cast one of the 4 drops, you must be stuck on 1 colour unless you have dual lands. For example if you turn 3 Palace Jailor, you must play only Plains or Ancient Tomb on turns 1 and 2, which means all your green/blue cards are dead cards until turn 4. And all of your double blue cards are dead until turn 5. Of course it would win some games with the right draw, but that can be said about any card. I just think it would be more of a liability in most games in this deck because it stretches the mana requirements a bit too far. It's also not right to say "Prism didn't make the cut" because this is hindsight analysis. It doesn't matter if Prism made the deck or not because that wasn't a factor at pack 2 pick 4. Either Ancient Tomb was better pack 2 pick 4 or it wasn't, and in this case it definitely wasn't.
@alixcoulter6824
7 ай бұрын
It came up early in pack 2 when he had a UW deck splashing Oko with Jace, Wrath, Solitude and Lorien Revealed to accelerate with Tomb. You're right that a colorless land isn't free, but his deck was nearly 2 color and already had several UW fixers, but no acceleration. I'm sure you're correct, though (and LSV would presumably agree). Maybe I'm focusing too much on the high end of the curve when the deck at that point was more defined by the 3-drop planeswalkers. In any case, thanks for the in-depth reply.
@jonathanmontgomery5178
7 ай бұрын
Can we get some more Khans before it leaves Arena?
@MrSkeens96
7 ай бұрын
think horizon canopy over pentad prism in retrospect?
@vanwright7821
8 ай бұрын
Love the content
@vzl3ntin
7 ай бұрын
Bontrol
@cesarramon4636
8 ай бұрын
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@KellyUnekis
7 ай бұрын
@32:00 You could have "flipped" the Incubator token into a 7/7 the next turn with Oko if you had opted to steal with Skydiver. :)
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