Flashing My Opponents (In Magic: the Gathering)

[@billy73ify]

I swear LSV opens Minsc and Boo + Power like every other draft. He always has to pass the hamster. Justice for Gruul.

[@TheoryTechDotDek]

8:39 "pillage is basically demonic tutor" i feel like we need BK on these videos, otherwise LSV just says things like this with nobody to question him

[@tpo3768]

“Let’s just draw…smart. Really good plan.” 😂😂

[@andrewjh]

The end of the Mack match made my day 😂

[@jdkemsley7628]

In case you're looking for ways to improve your already-great vids, something higher than 1080p would make the cards and effects much more readable when the screen capture is this big. As always, sick draft!

[@anthonyjs8048]

That first match against sandy was masterful

[@mesalikes]

I really like the nexus pick as a fork to see what's open. Felt like a really slick move in case that workshop somehow got back.

[@VSerotonin]

A small observation. I've noticed you overlooking Rumble in some recent drafts, especially in spots where you are speculating on Breach/LED combo. It's comparable, and in some spots superior to Brain Freeze (especially since it helps dig for the Breach too). I'm not sure you've been wrong not to pick it, but it wasn't even a card you were mentioning in spots where it at least merited serious consideration, and potentially could've had a transformative effect on some decks. The card is really really good, and it seems like it's coming around the table a lot in your team drafts lately.

[@JapanischErfahren]

Flashing your opps IRL is even more of a win condition though.

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

Super Troopers certainly proved this to be the case.

[@WordSonFoRealz]

If you even look at me, im calling the judge 😂

[@jairomy]

Lmao don't you dare!

[@wacco4932]

And a great way to get added to a registry

[@daytimerocker3808]

they almost always concede

[@robertfuson2253]

It's so interesting how much better inquisition has gotten since this channel started. Most improved card?

[@dementievatz]

Yeah, I remember LSV used to talk about how bad it was. Definitely a shift.

[@omegagaming609]

Considering I have seen LSV say something along the lines of "Seems about where that belongs" about a 15th pick academy, it feels pretty hard to beat that in a most improved card competition lol.

[@joeltucci1916]

57:20 the casual “he’s got 17 cards in hand”

[@mkwilson1394]

This was a very fun deck to watch!

[@halfdanfiskerangen9025]

Wow, first time I have seen Karakas and Sneak Attack go off. Truly utterly disgusting

[@brothertobias]

Sneak a Legendary fatty with Karakas is amazing, damn what a great deck.

[@jedimasternoob]

Damn LSV ripped a MEAN fart at around 51:18 I couldn't stop laughing

[@Dave_D1ce]

Gotta love beating Sandy on that mull to 5.

[@rissolepower]

Round 2 any reason you didn't consider using Talon Gates on upkeep to fade the tamiyo for a turn and bash it with your 1/1s? It still doesn't quite get it off the board but it delays the ult and doesn't just run into counterspells *Edit - Oh, it only targets creatures. I guess reading the card explains the card

[@andrewwatts6974]

Wishclaw seems slightly more enticing when you're running Dack. Not enough I'd assume, but it does have some play there

[@SinisterRaiden]

Dack and Woodfall Primus, definitely worth!

[@2mfer]

These games were super fun to watch, and a great recovery from the recent seriously bad beats with the time walk deck. I was shocked to see Oath of Druids finally put up a W.

[@totallyrandomnosity]

Oh we love to see lsv with flash. Def gonna be a good video🎉

[@barkerm9]

Fable just does everything

[@ggpt9641]

10:38. I agree, I like decks that can win.

[@Alambrah1]

@50.38 Just wondering if Dress Down removed the "Sacrify at the end of turn" condition on Torsten, MTGO's UI certainly suggests so

[@nicolobelmonte5219]

I think it's a delayed trigger from Sneak, not belonging to the creature itself

[@Marksmaan]

​@@nicolobelmonte5219You're correct. Its Sneak that causes the sac. Not the creature. Though bouncing with Karakas works.

[@SindarinElealar]

at 1:02:16, why not just flash in Talon Gates and phase out Brazen Borrower? Being at 11 seems much safer than being at 8 and your mana is likely to be spoken for on the upcoming turns if you draw literally anything.

[@jonfarmer7914]

But you always said you weren''t a fan of 'Show and Tell'?

[@Marksmaan]

Its bad most of the time. In another video, LSV's opponent played it. LSV bounced their thing, got a turn 1 Initiative centered and won easily. But it can be good in dedicated combo. Like this one. Combo is our only plan. Still gets boarded out in bad mus

[@sjake8308]

Show and Tell is generally bad unless you're planning to win the game the turn you play it (or if you're putting Portal to Phyrexia into play).

[@bufels]

post twins winrate is fully back baby

[@noetheb]

at 1:03:28 couldn't you activate Talon Gates to phase out subtlety on their turn?

[@justinvamp15]

Yeah but True-Name, Brazen Borrower, and Creeping Tar Pit is unblockable 9

[@noetheb]

@@justinvamp15 I was missing the tar pit. I thought there was something. Thanks!

[@justinvamp15]

@noetheb Yeah me too for a sec. I always forget it can't be blocked lol. Has sunk me in a few games myself

[@KirillCapote]

1:03:23 - lsv could pass turn, put in talon gates when opp attacks, phase out 3 dmg, take 6 and win on clapback.

[@cornholio2934]

Tar Pit is also attacking next turn, so it's lethal

[@marcelobernardi8361]

No consideration for malevolent rumble over dack?

[@kasperhalkjrjensen6098]

Sandy NEVER drafts domain

[@sjake8308]

Yeah, I thought passing the Kavu was a bit loose given the early Minsc LSV passed.

[@dementievatz]

I’ve been valuing Dark Ritual a lot higher recently. It seems like it just randomly casts stuff when I need it to.

[@joelgazaway807]

Casting Flash and putting Flashing into motion will stop even the most dedicated of Hurloon Wranglers

[@parkcollie-zd6jo]

R1G1 was awesome

[@jakelink1482]

I feel like stern scolding and other 1 mana interaction is being pretty undervalued. Obviously he values sword, path etc properly, but i think with so many games starting mox 2 drop into 3 drop and with so many 2/3 drops being scoldable... It's one of the few picks that can save you from an instant loss. Through play, he has been saved by oust multiple times, so i think he realizes he's undervaluing it. The black 1 cmc removal is nuts too, especially against initiative and monarch, and he got absolutely owned by exactly that yesterday. His "curves" are almost always a mountain of 2 drops, which is obviously significantly worse than having a turn 1 play or pairing a turn 3 2 drop with a 1 drop if turn 1 was a tapped land. I simply fail to understand how a power max cube doesn't encourage having lots of 1 drops. How many games does he lose with 6 cards in hand? How many games are over or effectively over on turn 3-4-5? How often is stern scolding effectively time walk when you scold their mana dork, Magda, ragavan, malcolm etc etc By no means am i asserting these are good enough to pick 1-4, but after that? They should at a minimum be considered and it feels like speculating on a combo piece or taking a generic value card is significantly worse than having the stone cold nuts in some percentage of your games.

[@Marksmaan]

Scolding is good in blue decks because it can stop early creatures. But its worse than removal most of the time. Its too narrow to be anything more than a sideboard card that's borderline main deck. Which is still good. Obviously Thoughtseize, Spell Pierce, Swords, Lightning Bolt and the similar cards are awesome. Cut Down, Fatal Push, Pick Your Poison and Scolding are the next tier down.

[@jakelink1482]

@Marksmaan I'm inclined to agree with most of what you said and I think it's probably spot on for his usual cube. I think the addition of initiative and monarch creatures makes it necessary to be playing to the board in some way early. On top of that, fast mana and therefore dorks are even better when the combos are "power maxxed". The last iteration of his cube was also heavily boros favored and some of those deck building habits have clearly bled into this cube and probably for good reason. All of those reasons and more are why you're seeing a lot more early scary creatures, which makes the card far less narrow than usual. Just look at his last video, I'm fairly certain he boarded in stern scolding every single match. It's not just stern scolding though, his decks just lack 1 drops in a fast mana cube. That simply can't be right. Cards like Dak and other 3+ mana value pieces are inherently much worse when the games end faster. He treats dak like an auto include if the mana base allows it, but stealing their mox/mana vault/crypt etc is worthless if they've already tripled your mana by turn 3 and then you're going to waste 3 more snatching it? No chance that's better than 1 mana anything.

[@Marksmaan]

@@jakelink1482 Dack's main reason for being in the deck is to churn through the deck, find combo pieces and discard for reanimation. Stealing artifacts is only a bonus. What other 1 drops would you have taken in this draft and over what?

[@hwago123]

No love for the Boots with the Spurs that carried you a few videos back :(, it’s good in reanimator and can even potentially play Nadu in an oath deck

[@matteofabiani7230]

Love when the dog gets smashed

[@hwago123]

Match 2 game 1 if you didn’t play your land you could have gotten Talon Gates with Bog, played it and phased out the bat and then sneak in Grisel for lethal. Oh i see you noticed it now.

[@nomukun1138]

Unset ruling: Taking off your pants is a special action that goes into effect faster than any response.

[@MasterworkLeathercraft]

Except conceding!

[@LucianDevine]

@@MasterworkLeathercraft At which point it's a race, can you drop your pants faster than they can concede?

[@el6487]

I would have definitely picked the sheldock 10th pick over ouat.

[@mattwecrazy3236]

THE three o!

[@leanderthal1138]

Disappointed after seeing the title and not seeing BK 😢

[@andrewstephan7700]

1:02:49 couldn't you have cast sneak here, put the Primus into play off sneak, attach is whatever at that point, but with both Primus triggers you could get rid of 2 of his creatures and possibly won?

[@Dave_D1ce]

Woodall Primus doesn’t blow up creatures.

[@andrewstephan7700]

Ok, so blow up tarpit, but attack with everyone and I think he just loses. Opp at 6 and and even with subtlety takes 8 with trample?

[@LucianDevine]

@@andrewstephan7700 I think he was trying to make a play that wasn't straight up dead to a counterspell, but let's be honest, with 15 cards in hand, there's prolly a counter or bounce in there somewhere. Fable likely resolved, because Opp didn't care about it. Sneak likely wouldn't have.

[@andrewstephan7700]

@@LucianDevine still though, if you're dead to it, might as well run it out. Also, a different counter might not have allowed him to cast subtlety killing lsv basically on the spot

[@LucianDevine]

@@andrewstephan7700 Which would be true if Creeping Tar Pit didn't give his Opp 8 points of unblockable damage. LSV was only winning the race until Tar Pit came down. If he taps out for Sneak+Primus, he's dead to a counter or bounce, because he doesn't have Talon Gates up. If he leaves up Talon Gates, he can't go for lethal. So it's kind of a this or that situation. A LOT of cards can kill him, regardless of which line he goes for. It's just a calculated risk either way.

[@sanninrips]

Sweet deck fosho!

[@philwinters4527]

Phenomenal

[@wacco4932]

Sweet as hell

[@Billyofcourse]

it's almost like when combo is drafted with a metric ton of redundancy and ways to churn through your deck to find pieces it works well. GG, really fun deck. Nice to see some winning

[@LucianDevine]

We've seen combo decks with tons of redundancy just lose to agro decks too though. It's always a tossup, especially if they can disrupt you even a little bit while putting on pressure.

[@jah3635]

I think at 50:37, the line was to still flash in Griselbrand and Karakas it instead, because they had to sack the dress down before Torsten would be sacrificed. This way you do an extra 7 damage and get 7 1/1s at the cost of discarding Torsten.

[@mangolemongrass7572]

39:18 what are the rules here, would the equipment fall off when selecting the tonken

[@nagobcnik]

No, it stays attached. Same as auras.

[@LucianDevine]

@@nagobcnik Same with Control Magic effects too as it were. The equipment stays on the creature until the owner of the equipment pays to equip it back to a creature they control.

[@hwago123]

Luckiest draft in a while, those Oath flips and top decks in some of those games were hilarious

[@sjake8308]

Yeah, this deck definitely overperformed, unlike the Time Walk/Mox Sapphire deck from the other day! 😆

[@dementievatz]

Atraxa always top card. 😊

[@eitansoussan8158]

I dream of an oath of druid thassa s oracle deck

[@abrahamthayer4059]

Have you thought about adding Forbidden Orchard to the cube for oath combos? It could be an alright piece of fixing in multi-color combo or control decks and is obviously great when you assemble the combo. Seems less narrow than other two-card combos like thopter-sword, but maybe a bit less powerful

[@zoninkspl6597]

I was about to say...

[@nnutth0wze1]

Is it me or is there an insane amount of ads on this video?

[@cmorinster]

I feel like i havent seen sandy play boros in like 6 months, the read is no longer good.

[@Mrfrenzy1]

I love watching lsv, but my god, the amount of mouth noises he makes

[@vanwright7821]

Late lunch

[@macksmith9715]

So lucky.

[@gregorykelly8000]

All the fixing

[@VAB0L0]

(in Minecraft)

[@nicoschofield8295]

Another draft, another please-put-dance-of-the-dead-in-the-cube request :)

[@banditkeithkingofduelmonsters]

You may be able to call that stack flashing too.

[@tonyfrontiero288]

Gonna get cancelled

[@JamesWhiley]

Masterful click bait!

[@newscoulomb3705]

Such a clickbait title....

[@danpetrelli935]

Man when are we gonna get a "no fake cards" Cube No initiative/monarch No cards printed straight to Commander Cube is a draft format, it should only be cards designed for (normal 1v1) draft)

[@Cthuski]

When they stop being more interesting than "real" cards

[@kinginthenorth1437]

When they play lower powered draft formats I guess. All the cards that make Vintage what it is instead of Modern also weren't designed for draft. The Power 9, Sol Rings, Mana Crypts, Force of Will, Mana Drain, original duels, ect were all not designed for draft.

[@Marksmaan]

Its meant to be the strongest cards ever made. Its a spiky format. Spikes play the best. That's what a max power cube is.

[@danpetrelli935]

@@kinginthenorth1437 Sure. We can grandfather in cards that preceded the concept of drafting.

[@turbobrew]

Black lotus is a fake card too