A Cube Speedrun for the History Books

Someone call Summoning Salt, we've got a speedrun situation on our hands.
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[@PopeGoliath]

You have an impressive ability to keep the narration going despite incredibly long waits between packs. It is a sign of long practice and professionalism. You're doing an excellent job at being an entertainer.

[@jonathanhh3728]

True, it’s so much better than the people who just pick a card quick and sit there in silence waiting for next pack. Ty LSV!

[@mattwilliamsonguitar]

​@@jonathanhh3728 I love Reid Duke but this is why I can't really sit through his vids. So much awkward silence.

[@Sicktoid]

LSV has been doing drafts for youtube since 2009, when Conflux was the current set. You can tell he has had quite a bit of practice doing this 😀

[@bruisermoore]

I remember watching him doing drafts on KZbin almost 15 years ago now, damn I’m getting old! His skill level as not only a drafter but as an entertainer has improved drastically over that time….unfortunately Magic Online as a program has not lol.

[@Blackadder75]

I still can't believe he hasn't got some random spare HP mouse in his household though...

[@54321eclipse12345]

On a side note Bonecrusher Giant can Stomp your own face, to allow your creatures to attack into The One Ring.

[@el_maoo]

this content has become a daily ritual

[@ftcb2023]

Needs to be at a set time 😢

[@Marksmaan]

I don't remember what I used to do on my lunch breaks.

[@untala1237]

Game 2, not strip mining the Workshop went from “EXTREMELY punished” to “MASSIVELY rewarded” real quick

[@atranimecs]

that 1st matchup had so much removal, shows how crazy this deck was for standing up to it and pushing through, surviving that Ulamog was even crazier

[@NightOfCrystals]

Yeah so many of these games were absolutely nuts

[@Waghabond]

LSV just reminding us why he's in the MTG hall of fame by using his monored deck to beat 2x attacks with annhilator 4, and t1 sol ring, t2 batterskull, and t3 metamorph batterskull. What a champion.

[@MasterworkLeathercraft]

Sometimes when drafting you have to fight for a lane, sometimes you're the only person on an 8-lane monoRed highway

[@Jermo484]

Absolutely wild that you won against two Batterskulls with mono red.

[@Marksmaan]

30 life on turn 5 i think? And he won? That's insane. Even more so than against Ulamog even lol.

[@anosmianAcrimony]

Even despite the SUPER lazy Robber of the Rich missing out on 4 damage

[@jairomy]

Opponent made poor decisions while LSV made great ones. GGs

[@Marksmaan]

@@anosmianAcrimony yeah, but with opponent missing gaining 4 with Batterskull its kinda a wash.

[@pascal6871]

Wasn't it more like five or six batterskulls?

[@makidiaz3894]

Whoever told LSV to upload his own videos on his own channel is an absolute genius of the highest order. Thank you!

[@MatthewForsytheHi]

LSV: I hope they dont start with Workshop in game 3 Monkey Paw curls and they start with Sol Ring

[@EmperorNapoleon1815]

Yep!

[@randomrandom7208]

This games vs big mana deck was realy epic

[@j.m.3600]

My favorite thing is when blue mage LSV drafts red and green creature decks. He’s given me faith in hexdrinker

[@danpickett2279]

I suck at cube, but whenever I draft hexdrinker I go 2-1 lol.

[@privatevendetta]

LSV was known for his Monored Cube decks back in time.

[@hitmangfx7162]

Hexdrinker is terrifying. You have a small window to bolt/dismember it and then it becomes unblockable and can only be removed by a sweeper.

[@monorady]

Winning against hard cast ulamog and then double batterskulls that kept coming back. That was an incredible match!! Amazing content LSV!

[@ericgasper6135]

I love how you explain the sideboarding out of Goblin Guide. Most people wouldn't really think about the card draw aspect being really bad in a removal heavy matchup.

[@matthewwhiteside4619]

Hopefully this goes better than yesterdays speedrun.

[@PopeGoliath]

Oof.

[@kungfupandaluver6919]

lol

[@EmperorNapoleon1815]

This red deck poured gasoline on the fire and never burnt out - what a draft!

[@JordanChristensen]

The number of called shots in this draft almost had me thinking you were narrating a previous draft 😂😂

[@gaivscaesar]

That match 2 was a thing of beauty

[@akistrat]

Bro managed to lose a match with 2x annihilator 4 hits and 4 active Batterskulls. Against mono red. Luis of course did all the right things, but still...

[@dementievatz]

That entire match felt like an “Oh my god I’m playing against LSV.”

[@danpickett2279]

Who’s the biggest villain on the channel? The Sandiest of Dogs or the mouse?

[@Luckingsworth]

My vote is Tom Martell coaching people how to hate draft against LSV

[@kurowasanabe]

The Mean Bean.

[@danpickett2279]

@@Luckingsworth Dude. That made me the saltiest of dogs when I heard that info. Let our hero cook with Tolarian Academy.

[@JacksonParodi]

Forget urza's saga, we have Luis's Mouse Saga Mice you control have double strike

[@emcquaid888]

Crazy games. This video made me realize how much I have been liking the team drafts though since you play all the games in the pod. Something extra about not playing against cards you have in your deck.

[@Urros]

Watching your content has given me the sublime delusion that I, also, can do well in vintage cube. Alas, reality is ever present, unlike my wins.

[@Jaryism]

Sweet, that was an awesome mono red beatdown, always love to see a red deck wins action thrown in there.

[@jccusell]

"Turn 1 Ragavan, turn 2 strip mine" *Oppo vomits in the background*

[@Venoseth]

Love the videos Luis. Watch one every day!

[@siegeryno8272]

If anyone tells you that ‘mono red is easy to play,’ send them round 2 of this draft. Not many people could pull of that W

[@Quicknick777]

Round 2 vs ulamog was a thing if beauty. WP

[@Julian-gk8gf]

I believe at 58:04 if you set it to draw the Mountain the next turn you have lethal off flashback Firebolt + Lavamancer activation. Love the videos by the way, thanks so much for all the amazing drafts.

[@TheArcbound]

Round 2 is one for the ages - wow

[@SessionalSalmon]

LSV, your mouse has been broken for weeks. Right click>attack all. You have undone an attack like 6 times.

[@jackcphelps]

he should get one that makes a really loud and annoying scrolling sound

[@anosmianAcrimony]

Both the games he won in round 2, I would have GIVEN UP

[@basiliaspice]

55:38 never realized before how an opponent's Sensei's Divining Top combos with ragavan to draw a card from your own deck every turn

[@hitmangfx7162]

Kind of shocked to see Squee not make the cut. I've rode Squee/Laelia/Rabbelmaster to a lot of speedy wins and p1p1'ed him a few times (usually ending up in R/W aggro or mono R aggro). Lots of bodies out of nowhere.

[@nicholashinderer9896]

@44:15 Insane, bonkers, nutty. Great game😂

[@andrewwatts6974]

Another nice part about glimmer lens is that it makes a rebel to return othari with

[@Knowasi]

Two RDW in a row?? Blink twice if you're being held hostage by Sandydog!

[@AkatsukiTim]

watching this in 2x speed so it's like "a cube speedrun" speedrun

[@bigwig8657]

After getting used to the team drafts, seeing Sigarda is kinda jarring. It's maybe modern cube level.

[@SymmetricalDocking]

Holy heck, a game where lsv runs interaction instead of combo?!

[@Mitch_Feral]

I thought for sure you were going to lavamancer whatever the batterskull blocked so that they didnt get the life.

[@hamishfox]

I always have a moment of confusion when an opponent plays the same card you have. It's like "wait how did they get grim lavamancer and dismember when we also have grim lavamancer and dismember???" Then I remember it's not a real draft and modo is weird.

[@Slamstarproductions]

This was a blast

[@randyrobbins2664]

27:22 that turn was crazy!!

[@jeffbriem]

That was a lot of fun

[@akoras3222]

That was a hell of a deck :)

[@danielnadeau1752]

match 2... my dude... match 2...

[@willomalley7619]

Double misplay game 2, you gotta strip mine the blue red land, and opponent picking up wrong batter skull cost them big time

[@mvdplas8145]

Great games. Love cube

[@wpease7]

Mono red FTW! Epic resilience from this deck.

[@leanderthal1138]

That hand last game could be a Twitter post

[@BetaJim22]

23:00 after draft before games I'm going to guess that Squee would have been better than Jitte in the main. I think that if you're playing Rabblemaster another goblin generator is actually kind of strong.

[@MiauZi69]

good point

[@BarginsGalore]

trophying vintage cube is a funny idea for a speed run category

[@sanninrips]

If ragavan had haste he’d be absolutely INSANE ⛽️

[@garagavia]

I like to see the diversity of decks.

[@romantheflash]

What a game there!

[@MarkAvo]

That Ulamog game…

[@alexfriedrichsen2288]

You can tap top to draw and then hit it again guaranteed off of robber or ragavan

[@LoganardoDVinci]

If there’s no Shelldock, is it even vintage cube???

[@xZuunes]

Great video! What mouse did you get?

[@bdellovibrioo5242]

I'm somewhat surprised that LSV chose not to run Squee in the main deck, as it seems on par with Rabblemaster in power level and works especially well with Jitte and Hellrider. To be honest, I don't know what the cut would be.

[@empzxz]

squee is not even remotely close to rabble in power level. also, it doesn’t make jitte much better other than the fact that it’s another creature you can equip.

[@bdellovibrioo5242]

@@empzxz It makes additional creatures for Jitte even if it dies.

[@Mox_Normandy]

I would argue it might have been better than hell rider. Just getting it down a turn earlier feels like that matters more now.

[@quarkraven]

incredible match 2 against the busted artifact deck

[@vicdark8807]

love me some sligh action!

[@richards_256]

that was awesome

[@kiwidave8930]

3:25 Poor jackal pup.

[@ThinkingReality]

Hey, question - where can I find people to regularly cube with? Xmage has been kind of abandoned of late, and I'd love to find a draft pod like this to play with. :)

[@PGMR30]

Yay, MTGO Vintags Cube is back!

[@RFlairMusic]

I feel for all the people who keep playing on mtgo and arena. There’s aFREE option with every single format and any cube you upload. You poor things

[@funkalunk]

@@RFlairMusicYeah but then you’re playing against absolute dogshit competition.

[@ddoug1004]

turn one last game, wow!

[@paulhermann5445]

I watched this in 2 times speed because it felt right

[@Benjamin-ol4jx]

Vintage cube is back? Where did it go? Not complaining It's my favorite format

[@jacksonletts3724]

It was gone from MTGO. It comes around a few times a year, interspersed with other cubes. Recently there was cartographer’s cube if I recall. Anyway, it hasn’t been gone from this channel. LSV and his friends have been doing non stop team drafts posted on this channel, which you probably already knew.

[@RFlairMusic]

You can play any cube any time on Xmage. Mtgo sucks and buying digital cards is downs

[@StarksCards]

LSV uploadeds. I click

[@lucasazevedo3210]

Bro you beat 2 batterskull with monored, what the hell

[@TheJenShow]

Every👏day👏

[@cassesvultus43]

Gabba gabba.

[@sanctuarygaming4984]

fun police strikes again

[@eyluldenizgur2884]

Hey sir, Im confused why they dont use Sigarda Host of Herons instead. Much better than current Sigarda and actually quite playable as a sb option. Its good against Liliana, good against Archon. Decent vs annihilator stuff (vs sneak etc.) and is a good GW card in general. Really would like to know your opinion on that!

[@davidwindsor2579]

I feel like that match vs. the workshop deck was totally stolen

[@benjamincarter6095]

I hope your new mouse arrived today

[@markchaney4469]

Still bashing goblin guide some lol

[@stevenbenniman]

Do we need to start a gofundme for a new mouse?

[@roarmalf]

In case any other Kenji viewers were missing the background music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3WthaF_nbSge9U

[@Falnky]

I wonder if it's worth it to try to force artifact/combo decks a bit more in pub games compared with the team drafts. It feels like whenever one of these decks comes up in pub drafts, it's absurdly strong, I assume due to lower drafting skill and less hate.

[@WhereIsTheIntruder]

I'm at the point where I think DRC is just bad in cube and should be dropped. Way too hard to achieve delirium consistently enough and a 1/1 with surveil is not a playable magic card. I feel like there's a dozen red one drops that would be a better fit for the cube and fill out that crucial place in the curve. Only deck where it seems easy enough to enable and hence roughly playable is UR tempo/spells and even then DRC is absolutely below the average for card quality in it.

[@harroldshnifer2667]

How can the opponent have grim if LSV drafted grim?

[@Sidnv]

This is the MTGO vintage cube, you don't necessarily play against your pod.

[@kylealejandro2022]

Wonder if it was worth siding in inspiring vantage that last match to help you cast white cards off of ragavan

[@Chris-eh8mi]

What happened to the good og art in the drafting phase? =( Honestly, beta card art just hits different when the packs pop.

[@Cthuski]

He's drafting the mtgo cube in this vid

[@joshuaallen6450]

Makes me laugh when Luis say, “We are flexible” meanwhile takes all cards of the same color unless there aren’t any. Guess I should wait till the end to see if another color joins the fray.

[@justinth963]

They should replace most of these bad burn spells with multiple copies of lightning bolt, IMO.

[@gregorykelly8000]

Didn't even see the better first turn second turn...

[@caolanoreilly9486]

boop

[@googleplusisterrible4837]

“Is Ring better than Chandra? I don’t know” LSV 2023 😂😂😂😂

[@Marksmaan]

In mono red specifically. Chandra fits the game plan better. It's like what's better, Dismember or Swords? For this deck, dismember. Not in general.

[@Luckingsworth]

Uh oh!😮 Another repeat of yesterday??

[@asch220]

Nope:)

[@Luckingsworth]

​@@asch220Totally made up for the previous draft! Haha.

[@sqrlmonger]

Just curious, why does LSV show us his wood at the end of each video?

[@HazmanFTW]

I kinda of dislike the Mtgo cube pairings, it'd be better if you played people who you drafted with, rather than against people who have half the cards you drafted

[@cyphernujabee7016]

Bro, I can hear you swallowing... might look at fixing that, it's kinda gross.

[@gagewoodcock2479]

Have you ever cast a 1 Ring? 😂

[@TheJohRetter]

Luis, please stop triggering us with non original artworks in your thumbnail

[@Devore1984]

Normal catcholic supremacy. Shame

[@NapoleonSoares]

mono red rarely beats batterskull. I have DEFINITELY never seen mono red beat 4 batterskulls.