64 Cubers Enter, One Cuber Leaves

[@kpatterson14206]

I like the chaos orb strategy of waving your spells around to dodge counter spells

[@JBH2989]

that Balance play in the 2nd match was so good

[@luka2784]

That play against the balance was incredible!

[@ryanwondertroll]

It was on the board. We can thank the opponent for having played his spells in the wrong order :)

[@andrewhyer4422]

@@ryanwondertroll It was indeed on the board but I would never have seen that.

[@corbenmurphy1807]

"Cant force it if its flying around the screen, ill tell you tham much". Instant daze of the top. Made me chuckle pretty hard

[@karlsarap911]

How times have changed, there is a 5th pick Yawg Will and it doesn't even get mentioned anymore 😭

[@Stokkeland23]

You need some juice like Black Lotus or Dark Ritual to go with it. If you have that it's still worthy to be picked over almost anything.

[@varietygamer7859]

Underworld breach is the new yawgswill

[@Anusien]

Yawgmoth’s Will was never fantastic. It was always the kind of card you’d try to wheel.

[@yamchadragonball6983]

Used to be a format defining bomb in vintage

[@NightOfCrystals]

Yeah, it used to be an absolute must-include in grixis and dimir storm builds. It was also playable as a value card in graveyard-focused decks.

[@seraphinagames]

45:45 Plays like this is why you are in the HoF. That was such a good answer to Balance that I think a lot of people would have missed

[@TheJohRetter]

Even on christmas eve LSV blesses us with our daily cube content ❤

[@alext.1244]

"Ho Ho Ho Hold on is that a p1p1 Ancestral? Dont mind if I do" -LSV probably

[@KnowArt]

playing magic at a high level is all about how much RAM you have. Just like, what amount of information on the cards can you concurrently hold in your head and accurately asses at the same time. This balance play at 45:50 is a good example. It wasn't a super smart or intricate play. It was literally on board. But thinking about it is the trick

[@fpejanovic]

15:30 stomping ground was in pack 2, thought you might consider it because of the fetch but looks like you just missed it.

[@LunaLasceria]

Man, if this Eorlingas is so good, imagine how busted the first three must be.

[@SoulOrchid1]

You asked for a plateau and you got it!

[@djeemy]

The best LSV cube draft is when he can't play blue

[@pyromusicman21]

The end boss himself. Awesome

[@karlahmed5573]

LSV is one of he few plaers I'd ake over Reid.

[@GibsTduHandy]

i love games where i cast a 1 mana 2/1 and my oppo draws 10 cards takes 3 turns spends 20 mana in 1 turn :D

[@markkelso871]

As the resident white weenie expert, i prefer the 2/1 that makes a token sometimes to porceline legionnaire most of the time. Legionnaire can go in other decks and is better in general but in white weenie i like the 1 drop, you always have 2s.

[@tianruixiao9239]

Oof rough match against Reid, I honestly didn't feel like his deck was that busted but more so that your draws were below average. Being able to reach the finals with this deck is definitely a great showing of skill with a little bit of mana crypt luck

[@nicholashinderer9896]

"I dont see any reason to crack heath here." Famous last words lmao

[@tonyontilt3522]

Almost didn't take Othari, I was screaming at my phone like a maniac

[@Jetsetdreams_]

Plateau coming through last pack was so hype!

[@mtgbast]

Court of Garbage over Jitte was blasphemy

[@bigdongstudios4882]

Just found about these videos and im addicted

[@turbobrew]

Discarding your memory jar hand into a balance was brutal. Your opponent probably had you otherwise.

[@trevorbarratt]

Amazing play with balance on the stack, discarding your hand. 2 things, I don't see every play, which is why I love watchin high level players, but I do see most plays and that was awesome. 2nd thing, I would've been really tempted to keep samwise to get value. Again such a good play, you knew that with more mana, there was more that could hurt you than you could gain off the extra value. And sure enough the one ring gets binned. Brilliant!

[@UCKSpree]

Samwise didn't actually do anything, because it dies to balance, and the card you get back from your graveyard gets discarded to Memory Jar. Really, the only play, other than do nothing, is what LSV did. Easy to miss it, though.

[@trevorbarratt]

@@UCKSpree couldn't he have kept Sam wise as his last card and he could have cast it after balance resolved and brought back one of the creatures that balance forced him to sacrifice?. I mean that was an alternate line.

[@UCKSpree]

@@trevorbarratt Anything that Samwise returns to your hand gets discarded at the end of your opponents turn, because of the Memory Jar.

[@MasterworkLeathercraft]

I like how in the article about the latest version of the cube, the cube maker kept referring to Najeela as a super important core of an archetype 😂

[@LSVargas]

I’ve yet to see anyone cast it or come close to having a deck where it’s playable

[@Sivarias]

@@LSVargas I haven't seen every card in the cube, but it goes infinite with druid's repository/derevi empyrial tactician, and a few other cards in cEDH. I assumed they had put a couple of the combo pieces in the cube when I saw her.

[@alttiseppanen]

​@@LSVargasit's a lot faster of a clock than something like adeline or any other 3 drop for that matter. But having an empty board and dodging removal is asking a lot.

[@Anusien]

Love putting a bunch of ETB tapped lands into my aggro deck so my 3 drop can finally do something on turn 5.

[@ZeroIsEven]

Last game was brutal

[@micah3030]

Gut has really overperformed for me. Very strong card

[@andrewclark8689]

It’s crazy watching this and seeing you cut Gut and never reconsider it

[@danl9030]

I can tell LSV isn't a commander player by how he reacts to Najeela lol

[@Josh-zn5uk]

Thank you for the consistent uploads, LSV. You rock! Merry Christmas!

[@DeepNerf]

LSV is the sandydog now.

[@chadmaule7371]

Najeela reactions were funny, 7:14, 11:05. This play was sick, 45:15. Reid is a beast.

[@NerdGlassGamingPA]

People used to go crazy about Lingering Souls ... what happened did it get nerfed or something ? Why Thraben inspector is better ?

[@benmyu9277]

Ahh my daily dose of lsv vintage cube

[@michaeldegrave5905]

He kept expecting Spell Pierce, but the first opponent revealed it to PV. Luckily never really in a position to play around it anyway. All the switching between pods and leagues can get you.

[@ahrenstarr6273]

Just clicked that Gut is in BG3.

[@Charles-mz7rm]

That discard play was ridiculous, not many people would have thought of that.

[@mtgpackrat7945]

Watching both sides of the match with Reid was epic. You both were calling your shots with amazing accuracy.

[@skyguy____2835]

Hey I've 3-0'd with this style of deck. Love me some Forth Eorlingas

[@ryanwondertroll]

23:00 how come you're not interested in seeing half of their deck for free before G2? xmmmm

[@morlock8936]

End bosses are hard😢😢😢

[@arpacoo]

I think after Inti, you take bitter triumph and treat Sneak as a reanimator card too

[@SantaCatcher9000]

Love me some Boros Agro

[@wpease7]

LSV + Red White + Unlucky draws = 2-1 every time

[@gragrim]

58:57 "You cant force it if its flyin around that screen" *fwshhhoo* 🤣

[@Not_Based]

64 player draft on Cubesmas? HUGE

[@Floodle9358]

Gut is way better than you think. He puts so much power on board so fast

[@OracleoftheAlpha]

In your opinion, what are the “bad cards” that were added on this latest iteration?

[@marcoreyes582]

the duration of the direct elim videos usually give the results away

[@sjake8308]

...Which is unfortunate, but I don't think there's much to be done about it. Leaving blank space at the end of the video would actually be really bad for the channel.

[@jonathanrfisher]

Try your best to ignore it. On Mobile I’m able to not look

[@dementievatz]

This time I don’t think it gave it away.

[@dav5694]

on desktop, you can also use a plugin or javascript bookmark to hide the timer. then you can still navigate with arrow keys and avoid spoilers

[@LSVargas]

This time it didn’t - if I won the last round the t8 draft would be tomorrow, so either way round 3 was the end of

[@milesdouglas3443]

Would of second picked knight of the relicwary

[@Evvins]

Nice draft, always nice to see boros fair cards do well in the face of nonsense decks (and I certainly mean no disrespect to nonsense). I'm also not very convinced by the latest additions to the cube, the whole domain and scapeshift strats have looked like duds and things like Najeela are just shoe horning edh staples into vintage cube where they clearly do not belong. However, I'll say that gut has played nicely for me, you might be underestimating it a touch. edit: also I just checked and there are not even 10 playable aggro warriors in the cube with most of them being very mediocre.

[@BarginsGalore]

i love the scapeshift addition. the other day i had my first undefeated run with a scapeshift deck but i didn’t even play the domain cards i got so i have to agree with you there

[@alttiseppanen]

Najeela seems bad but it scales by itself in a way that makes it okay

[@whiterose9854]

He went from cheery commentary to get me hell out in that game 1 turn 2 lol

[@jesselove3715]

@0:33 - I cheered aloud. Pro moves. Ty!!!

[@ryanwondertroll]

Hi DJ Khaled, what's up?

[@el6487]

Match 2 That balance play was *Chef's Kiss*

[@bbouncy12]

spiking that last pack plateau was so great

[@nthnthms1212]

I wish he would spam aggro.

[@mvdplas8145]

Loved it. Thanks Lsv

[@tylerpaul7039]

Spelunking is infinite mana 1 (1 life each time) with fast bond and bounce land. It is a fine inclusion.

[@subtleknife1]

At least it was Reid

[@cesarramon4636]

happy holidays

[@kungfupandaluver6919]

mary chrsmas

[@leebosley5984]

Some of the new Cube additions are garbage. Who TF is running the MTGO cube? Such bad choices!

[@shwift8789]

Imagine losing to powerless boros when you have channel, mox, time twister, and hull breacher.

[@sjake8308]

Well Mana Crypt is effectively power.

[@goldcobraarima9819]

This deck looks sick!

[@Jmblinn13]

Nth

[@karmajarrule]

15:45 love the reaction 😁

[@elesh.n]

P1p1 was interesting. Heath over palantir? Hindsight 20/20 too but would be awesome with sneak

[@Elezshar]

Gut is very strong.

[@dementievatz]

I’ve been unsure about Gut. Do you feel like you have to draft around it some, or does it just work in a normal aggressive creature deck?

[@Spaccaspecchi]

For these single elim videos, I would really love to see a return of the old CFB spoiler-hiding tech, where there's just 30 min of endcard added to the last game. Otherwise, there's really not much tension to it at all.

[@LSVargas]

Can’t do that or the YT algorithm really penalizes you unfortunately

[@Spaccaspecchi]

@@LSVargas Ah, does it also account for time watched as a percentage? That's a shame. But thanks for the info and all the vids. I've been enjoying every single one!

[@sjake8308]

@@Spaccaspecchi I believe it's more that the algorithm would punish the channel because the percentage of people would watch to the end would be low if there's 30 minutes of endcard (whereas I presume that almost everybody watches the current videos to the end).

[@justineells7518]

Bro reads Najeela and doesnt understand how busted it is lol. Man the difference between cube players and commander players is funny

[@nathanielholland4623]

I don't know if you understood Najeela, but she is another one of those army in a can creatures. She counts herself and the tokens she makes for her trigger and her wubrg ability usually just wins the game, thats why its in the cube imo. It is a little slow but has a higher ceiling than some of the creatures like goblin rabblemaster.

[@douglaspintor]

amazing how lsv is always dealt a bad hand (deck) on the ones that if you lose you are automatically out. still nets some wins, but it´s an uphill battle

[@willyd1578]

people trying harder comboed with some general luck in finding whats open for your seat makes the rate of great single elim decks more difficult

[@paulhermann5445]

Third

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

Watching the first opponent blunder so catastrophically in game 3 reminds me why I so much prefer the regular crew of teammates and opponents as opposed to online randoms. Honestly the professional or near professional caliber of play that has been a standard for the last couple months of cube vids has made the most difference in terms of my watching LSV cube vids. The skill gap between even strong amateurs and actual PT level players is just so massive it spoils watching casual level players and because the never ending string of blunders are hard to watch and the only wins they seem to post are of the ridiculous “I played 3 pieces of power/power adjacent by turn 3 because my pod couldn’t draft” variety. The competitive players are really where it’s at, watching randos play this badly just hurts my eyes too much.

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

Oh second opponent I guess. The epic Memory Jar top deck Balance dodged like your name was Neo in the matrix play.

[@SymmetricalDocking]

You are dramatically overvaluing pro's and undervaluing the MODO randoms. This isn't arena.

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

If you say so. I don’t recall MODO randos being much opposition, but it’s been a good 15-20 years since I grinded MODO a ton. I do recall the real pros trouncing the crap out of me when I managed to qualify for PT events or day 2 a GP. The competition level always felt more like a bell curve to me and going from top 1% play to top 0.1% always felt like truly massive gulfs. And not just with MtG but just competition in general, sports, gaming of any sort. In any case casting a Balance as the first card after a draw 7 is simply not the caliber of magic I want to see watch. Plain and simple. Beating that level of opponent means very little to me, it’s just a ridiculously obvious blunder for any level of competitive play and it’s painful to watch.

[@alexsmith2677]

Third

[@connorhowe9786]

second

[@manhattanblockade8544]

Najeela herself is a warrior AND she makes warrior tokens. So she starts to snowball each attack with herself

[@setharoth114]

She's still not really playable. Compare her to something like Adaline. Adaline has 4 toughness, triggers off any attack, and has more power. Najeela can't trigger the turn she comes down unless you already have a warrior, and by turn 4 a 2 toughness creature can't really attack without dying. So on turn 4 you suicide your 3 drop to make a 1/1 token? In vintage cube that is just not good enough. The ability is good but 5 color isn't really an archetype.

[@sjake8308]

@@setharoth114 I believe they were joking! 😆

[@itamarafshari8787]

First

[@Stokkeland23]

I think your evaluation of Inti is too high. It's an ok card, i mean i would grade it as a B-. 2 Mana and hits for two. It's abilites aren't that amazing. If Ragavan is an A+ card (imo it's the best red card ever made). Then Inti isn't more than a B-. I'm just not that impressed with the card and i don't pick it that highly. I would rather take a burn spell over it. Even that rogue robber card i consider better. I just don't really agree Inti is so good. Don't really get why you're so impressed with this card specifically. I love your content though and i like watching you. First place i go after i have taken a year or two break from Magic which i normally do lol.

[@Evvins]

Man, inti is so much better than robber of the rich, it's really not close. Think of it as a luminarch aspirant that's base 2/2 and gives you free card selection as a baseline, and then add discard synergies with things like smuggler's copter or faithless looting and you got yourself a very potent aggro card.

[@Stokkeland23]

@@Evvins I don't agree, i think robber is better. It has haste and reach and exiles opponents cards. I'm not saying Inti is a bad card. It's a good card but i don't consider it as strong as LSV does. For me it's just a good two drop. Similar in strength to like a luminarch aspirant. That's a good comparison of the power level i consider the card at.

[@Stokkeland23]

@@Evvins Oh lol you mentioned the Lumi yourself hahaha. I honestly didn't see that. That's hilarious 😅

[@johnclikeman5041]

It's like Luminarch, except it gives card selection, grants trample, and combos with other cards. Those are extremely relevant.

[@Stokkeland23]

@@johnclikeman5041 Granted you have cards in hand you want to discard. Granted you exile something relevant. I just think it's abit of a meh card. A good legacy strength kind of card.

[@StarksCards]

Let's gooooooo