Mono-Blue Workshop, Just The Way Garfield Intended

[@bricelory9534]

One thing about the retro Cube is that because midrange is so much less dominating, you have space to play these more specialized, kinda whacky decks. It's just hard to compete with things designed to have an impact in a 4-player Commander game like Minsc & Boo, Canonneer, Bombadiers, etc. Right now, I don't miss them.

[@brianh5844]

This format definitely gives LSV more room to cook and have it work out. You can't really do that when your opponent's 1-4 drops win the game on their own and you lose if you don't have removal or your own game-winning snowball threat.

[@artemi7]

This honestly feels like a better cube overall.

[@8628416]

The lack of broken answer-or-lose-threats is really a blessing. Love this cube list.

[@gippygames]

LMAO that "carnage" mindgame at the end was fantastic

[@marcogoncalves3207]

Carnage into instant concession. Absolute cinema!

[@dementievatz]

I had to explain to my kid why I was laughing at my phone. 😂

[@cyclopentadien2221]

Gaby was right about coercive portal.

[@BlowntoBytes]

Shoutouts to the MVPs of this deck: The enemy Urza and the enemy Retrofitter.

[@coolerdaniel9899]

I liked the deck so much in this video, I ended up sharing two separate moments from it with my friend; when you tricked the opp. with Coercive Portal, and the T1 smokestack game. Both of those wouldn't have happened in a generically powerful vintage cube.

[@gavinblue3534]

mulldrifter in various retro cube decks is the greatest content there is

[@ZeroIsEven]

T1: Black Lotus, Mulldrifter, win

[@jasonbelleisle7572]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊00000

[@servantofdiscord3586]

Wanted to thank you for all the vintage cube videos throughout the years, but especially over the last couple months. I only really play magic when I'm drafting cube now, and had a really bad cube season the last time it was out. Almost decided to stop drafting cube altogether. Watched your videos and your months long losing streak and actually found a lot of solace in it. Gave retro cube another shot and won 9 trophies! Now convinced it was just a bad cube iteration and I look forward to future iterations!

[@matthewbell4897]

One of my fav videos in the last couple months, SUPER FUN draft

[@TheGregoryodd]

Happy we got to see the nut smokestack draw… was one of my fav vintage cube decks for awhile and good to see it in action again 😊

[@turbobrew]

That smokestack game was sick. The original stax.

[@asdfjajsjajsj9410]

This is the cube content I love! I wish you'd use a cube like this on the server drafts, but IDK if its what everyone prefers to play.

[@coreylemoine4920]

Big same!

[@parkcollie-zd6jo]

I’d love if retro or old order cubes got more play in the divination

[@jaceee4154]

The nostaligia in these retro cubes have been 10/10 i would NOT mind more of these

[@milanfillipi5656]

If this episode isn’t a sign that retro cube needs more airtime to mix up the cube vibes, I don’t know what is. Many blessings to your new twins and can’t wait to see the new retro cube draftmancer list in the rotation one day!

[@tepidgoose]

This is an awesome cube. I also love that I know the vast majority of cards, instead of recent cube iterations where I don't recognise a lot of what's going on

[@mikeweeks694]

Passive effect artifacts were Continuous Artifacts back then.

[@bufels]

this is such an improvement over the regular vintage cube, wow- i liked the idea of this cube but the games play out even better than i would have imagined

[@dylanm9071]

I don’t frequently comment but I just have to say how much I’m loving the classic vintage cube videos!

[@wtsnoot]

I am really enjoying seeing consecrated sphinx back on top

[@Dr.Detractor.Steffie]

The most excited i have been in your videos in weeks xD was to see if tangle wire came back..

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

I was very much looking forward to it wheeling too. So sad, not to be today.

[@jrjamesson]

carnage! this video saved my life. thank you LSV!

[@monogreen]

This is the sweetest Academy deck I've seen in a while.

[@philosopherhobbs]

I'm not sure I like this Cube overall but I like having fewer I win cards. Overall I want a Cube with powerful enablers+engines and less I win combos. Caleb Gannon's came close.

[@TheHeterolifemates]

“Hangerback Walker Texas Ranger” 😂

[@thenormiedave]

That shamequit on coercive portal was gold

[@simonemengozzi6778]

Smokestack is the card i most miss of the old ones in the cube, so much fun playing with it

[@CuriousShrimp]

52:30 I love the fact that Coercive Portal is one of the few cards that get much better online, cos of stuff like that 😂

[@anthonyjs8048]

Loved this deck and video!

[@anosmianAcrimony]

This is exactly the kind of deck I've missed for all the years since the cube pivoted away from this kind of thing!

[@lucasmohallem8136]

I’ve been really enjoying this cube!

[@wouterleten1982]

Love this draft. There was a near perfect storm deck in here as well with that pack one

[@hamishfox]

M2g2 was sweet. It brings back all the glorious memories.

[@jewpcabra666]

I love mono u artifacts ans love the stax - g1 I was praying for the metamorphic + or combo and I was so happy to see it. edit: t1 smokestack is my dream m I love this ggs!

[@EnzoGarabatos]

I'm looking forward to your own retro cube! Retro except for Noise Marine, that is.

[@LizEllwood]

You know. I'm 38 seconds in and I gotta be honest, you know how absolutely insane it must feel to get passed a lotus

[@Kumagoro42]

That player must have thought LSV's connection went down.

[@paulallison3974]

stacks, remember when mtg players embraced their sadist and massochist sides... i approve :)

[@paulallison3974]

and hail to 90s magic

[@vinni522]

Winter Orb was originally printed as a “Continuous Artifact”you didn’t need to tap it to have an effect but it the effect shuts off when it’s tapped somehow.

[@mjm2235]

Regarding the Carnage on the Coercive Portal: You said that's not going to happen again. Not that match, no, but that was the 2nd time I have seen that work for you!

[@georgea4124]

This cube is great. I felt some of the normal cube decks devolved into who got the better opening hand (I feel this way about a lot of more recent magic TBH). You still get fun broken stuff like metalworker for 8 though. It also seems like there's more variety in general. The normal cube list has bombs and cards that never see play.

[@TheSamzidat]

Few people can get as giddy as LSV over smokestack retrofitter battles

[@bettorup_]

He can't keep getting away with that portal play!

[@eggu1828]

LSV is once again playing EDH at this point. Sol Ring, Sphinx, Winter Orb

[@Gussyboii]

Before watching the games this deck looks like a dream...

[@j33w22]

You were right the first time LSV. It was Mono Artifact

[@WhiteNameVibes]

The carnage click was the best

[@christopherlundgren1700]

Winter Orb and its ilk were "Continuous Artifacts", artifacts that have a global effect that is always on unless the artifact is tapped. Mono Artifacts are the ones that tap to do something (implying once per turn), and Poly Artifacts have activations that don't require tapping.

[@mattcook7757]

I have been enjoying the cube power level where consecrated sphinx is playable again!

[@85mcarnold]

16:35 Continuous Artifact

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

Excited for this smoke stack. Gonna be a fun one.

[@jeffreyculbert2093]

Oh yeah… that was a sick smokestack game. Copy opponent retrofitter too, heck yes. Blast from the past right there. Made my day.

[@BarginsGalore]

LSV getting his pick order from Stephen smith

[@jonesdarryn1]

no regrets on lotus brainfreeze. i agree with ur choice of sol ring over lotus. ive seen u pick lotus first pick pack 1 twice and lose. 1 of those times u had lotus, 2 moxes and mox diamond. also, u have beaten ppl who had lotus + ancestral

[@Zii_Vii]

On my phone it looks like you got that Zorg haircut from the movie 5th element lol

[@artemi7]

What the heck do you think your opponent thought when they load into a Cube Draft, sees LSV is passing to them, and then the GET THE LOTUS lol. They have to be wondering what you could have opened lol.

[@christopherjohns772]

The Sol Ring is better in this kind of deck. You wouldn't want to lotus into a mana rock or some draw a few cards spell, and the payoff cards are generally past 4 mana. However, unless you just plan to force this deck or some variant, the lotus should always be the 1.1 pick.

[@Vermilio893]

Just wrong, 5-10 years ago it was extremely common cube knowledge that sol ring was the best p1p1, bar none. Most of the impactful cards cost 4 or more mana

[@nomukun1138]

Is there any rhyme or reason to the inconsistent Signet frames?

[@Gummiebearzz]

will you do a foundations cube?

[@coreylemoine4920]

Brown town? Retro cube is the best!

[@MarkChaney-b8k]

You all should put this cube list in your draft server it might be crazy team games

[@petersan9633]

I was curious at around 34:40 attacking the daretti, if you were going to upheaval wouldn’t it have made more sense to attack the player? Was wondering what was the rationale with the attack towards the planeswalker

[@LSVargas]

It was definitely an error hah

[@Grimestep]

lsv will you sign my birds of paradise

[@Seldomheardabout]

Screw that, I want him to sign my Bible.

[@ruudvanlaarhoven5776]

See? You open power and you pass it, no more complaining😂

[@garagavia]

Where can I find this cube list?

[@HazmanFTW]

16:42 if I remember it was continuos artifact

[@Stokkeland23]

That vamp and play a Yawghmoth knowing an Upheaval is coming was really something. Yeah, let's pay 2 life and cast a completely useless spell. Bizarre

[@modernmcfly5411]

Casually cast 18 mana worth of spells on turn 4, no big deal.

[@dementievatz]

I loved when he had the option to not use Ancient Tomb when hard casting the Portal to Phyrexia.

[@benlittle5543]

*squints at face cam on my cell phone New hair cut? Stylish

[@BloodMoonGo]

What a game 1

[@godaska]

maybe black lotus will wheel?

[@mitchhak2]

Hot take on the first pick but I agree.

[@maclowe1254]

You should adjust your cube to be more like the retro cube, it's so much more fun than the current vintage cube, so much more variety not just a midrange slugfest.

[@Nalianna]

16:40 Continuous Artifact.

[@RW77777777]

this is the cube deck from 20 years ago

[@Rasgael01]

The instant regret

[@newscoulomb3705]

16:19 The term was "Continuous Artifact".

[@Kumagoro42]

What a time was that to be alive. Mono Artifact, Poly Artifact, Continuous Artifact. Why was it that this one card type needed to have not one, not two, but three separate declinations? Only Garfield knows.

[@Marksmaan]

Cube 4-5 years ago, this and storm were the strongest decks imo. (Other than red but low to the ground red aggro isn't possible in retro cube since no Goblin Guide etc). But I never played storm. Its a fun deck to watch, but I don't have enough experience to do it well. So this artifact deck was always my favorite to play.

[@Slimpster520]

LSV, what's up with that hair...?

[@drackan2582]

Carnage value

[@danpickett2279]

These drafts are almost unwatchable without the sorting.

[@mitchhak2]

What do you know when the cube is more about synergy and good decision-making Luis is back to stomping fools. Just goes to show the new cards are taking away from the game we (used to) love.

[@kakafluf]

I really miss the team/more modern cube, this retro one really is really not for me xD

[@thebudguy12]

Going to give myself an aneurysm. Can't stop screaming out loud "and then HeEeEEeEre."

[@randlechris]

poly artifact

[@Sodmaster111]

Continuous artifact actually

[@TheDasErdinger]

MTGA is broken every 2nd update so I guess it could be worse

[@koopk1]

I think i kinda prefer this cube to the commander cards

[@googleplusisterrible4837]

P1P1 was wrong. Absolutely unacceptable.

[@cesarramon4636]

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