The Busted Grixis Deck Everyone Was Waiting For

[@trentjones5881]

With all the bad beats and down vibes watching the miracles of game one really shows how nutty things can be. I hope Lsv never stops cubing on KZbin.

[@TheJimmyloader]

Even with everyone complaining, I’m glad LSV posts the good and the bad. The man is only human. Appreciate the daily posts

[@stefasaurus2476]

The Etali sequence in game 1 has me laughing loudly by myself

[@jasonnug]

That Woodfall Primus pick was scary good. That was so prescient it was so fun to be like... "what is that pick" to "oh that was a brilliant pick".

[@stephentownsend4352]

lol at all the haters and doubters crawling thru the comments yesterday and then today we get a banger deck.

[@CupOYerba]

Honestly the videos where he complains are so relatable because as an MTG player my favorite thing to do is complain.

[@Marksmaan]

I didn't read any yesterday, but can imagine. Most people don't realize the people in the draft server are head and shoulders above the average player. All these people acting like they're better players cuz their inflated ego from MTGO leagues lol. Obviously good players are in the queue too. Just there are plenty of people who have never played cube or just suck. I'm not excluding myself there. I'm pretty good in constructed but for some reason I'm not good at draft.

[@sqrlmonger]

@@CupOYerba I love his "I can't complain....who am I kidding...of course I can!"

[@SlurGames]

On the last turn vs the Griselbrand I kinda like using Jace to go for flash pyrogoyf, even if troll didnt use griselbrand you could use the gofy to kill it with the first ETB and using corpse dance for 2nd, since he did use it you could just go face twice.

[@janismtgsmiles]

Love the vibe of you. I am so excited for every single draft you upload, thank you very very much. I'd love to hear more of you breakdown or just draft the current cube on Arena. I am really enjoying it. Thanks again and greetings from Hameln

[@dementievatz]

This deck was awesome, and tons of tough lines to work through. Thanks as always for walking us through them!

[@Aedkb]

Haven’t watched the games yet but already this is one of my favorite drafts you’ve done in a while. Looking for a powerful archetype and taking cards for that strategy is what I came to see! Was getting a little tired of picking “good cards” and ending up in 4 color mopers.

[@ΧρήστοςΠαπαδημοπουλος-δ6ο]

Yep, just finished the draft and this looks like a very focused and powerful deck!

[@LucianDevine]

42:35 I was glad to see that ninja attack bite them in the butt. You said it was a bad attack, and that was why.

[@traviswichtendahl5648]

"Okay, you can have a Retrofitter token" really got me

[@LucianDevine]

He is a benevolent god.

[@dementievatz]

That was kind of the karmic balance for the game a day or two ago where LSV activated Currency Converter and got Flash Wurmed.

[@scorpeanc1990]

Just wanted to say that was sick so so happy to see a reanimate deck thank you LSV for the awesome content.

[@ModernArtery]

This was a sweet deck, and the matches were even better. I don't *need* a crushing 3-0 LSV victory to enjoy one of these videos, but it never hurts

[@BranarLaire]

The ups and downs of channel LSV is second to none. As @TheJimmyloader says, it's a great feature of the channel that we get the low lows and the high highs.

[@MasterworkLeathercraft]

Etali is making up for several draft's worth of bad luck all at once

[@wacco4932]

"I just don't want to end up Red Black idiots again." This is the best news I've heard so far this year!

[@draconocor]

That final turn M2G2 was great. What a line. I probably would have recast Time Walk through Jace and then died to the ring.

[@andrewjennings236]

It’s not just the deck we were waiting for, but the excellent gameplay we were waiting for.

[@brianh5844]

12:55 I would probably play Ertai main. It's such a great catch-all answer and it would be your only way of removing a creature or planeswalker besides Pyrogoyf. In terms of what to cut, I'd probably go with corpse dance or seasoned pyro. Corpse dance is ok, but your targets aren't the best to corpse dance anyway, and your plan A is flash. Seasoned pyro is slightly awkward on the mana. Plus, you have three tutors so I think you can afford to cut either a discard or reanimate spell (still have shallow grave, emperor, and reanimate). I might be off base here, but it seems like you highly deprioritize removal when you play combo and I think this made sense in 5-10 years back but nowadays there are so many insane threats that having 1 catch-all answer does a lot of work. There will definitely be times where doing your own thing isn't as good as stopping their thing. Maybe having pyrogoyf is good enough but there are things goyf can't answer.

[@dementievatz]

In a bad spot you can even Flash Ertai to counter/kill practically anything for 2 mana.

[@Bobal27]

22:32 I’m sure there are dozens of lines here, but here’s the one I’d do (after only two seconds of thought): Vamp time walk, reanimate Etali, it hits time walk and something else, opp scoops, because two turns of grizzy b and an etali on the second turn is just game at that point.

[@AMLigtvoet]

Match 3 the way to get rid of grisselbrand is using jace to recur flash and not timewalk. Then you can flash in pyrogoyf and corpse dance it.

[@crawdaddy1234]

17:25 That was one of the funniest things I've seen in a while. lol

[@TheFewLimited]

When LSV went "Storm count of seven" I just starting laughing so hard. What a ridiculous turn of hits.

[@RyanSandorRichards]

God, it was so awesome 😂

[@dyonisus2234]

That last turn of M2G2 was absolutely insane, I never would've seen that line. LSV showing us again why he's a pro🏆

[@ToggetMistborn]

That was certainly a sweet line, although I was screaming at the screen that Ertai can counter the One Ring's triggered ability. He could have just time walked.

[@chrisellis7892]

@@ToggetMistborn I was just thinking of killing the ring with the Woodfall primus, but all of these lines worked

[@owenjam]

Deck looks great. If you have time, bring back a quick peak at your teammate's decks. It's fun to see how the table turned out compared to your reads on how you think the downdrafting was going during the draft.

[@jairomy]

Incredible deck, incredibly fun interactions and games. GG

[@Stokkeland23]

Hahaha that Etali hit into another Etali. Made me smirk

[@andrewclark8689]

We need an update! Did you take the oracle from Jessie?

[@LSVargas]

No! It worked out, she wasn’t doing that

[@Zii_Vii]

Couldn't have drawn up a better etali flip LOL! You were out here thinking about getting 1 bonus flip and the shuffler said hold my beer. Seriously man. These etali flips may be 1/10000, but they're the reason we keep playing that big dumb idiot and loving it haha!

[@RyTLessard]

Awesome draft, thanks LSV!

[@Athrolaxle]

In the game where Griselbrand got Fractured Identity'd, you could have Jace'd back Flash and use that to Pyrogoyf, then animated the Pyrogoyf to kill Griselbrand. Pretty rough spot regardless though.

[@hiSoraaa]

The final two games against troll were amazing to watch

[@Anusien]

M1G2 I’m really confused by activating Griselbrand the second time. You’ve got Imperial Seal already, so you can just Seal and activate Griselbrand on your turn to draw Time Walk that way.

[@TheJMFG]

LSV: *sees Fastbond* - Balance!

[@flashjack711]

Sweet deck! Only problem was I couldnt see the sideboard cards during sideboarding, could definitely use them being a little bit bigger (slider clearly not maxed out)

[@LSVargas]

jakub…

[@Luke_Powers]

LSV do you have an idea of when your cube changes you mentioned are coming? I am really excited to see what you do as what I do with my personal cube is greatly influenced by yours.

[@LSVargas]

Next day or two

[@heyho4488]

I read the describtion mid draft and thought we were in for a disaster somehow

[@rissolepower]

At least there was some justice against the good old domain force of will never punished greed pile..

[@zivkobabz]

What a banger of a deck it was awesome

[@Billyofcourse]

once again drafting a fast combo deck with ton of redundancy, card draw, and tutors absolutely smokes. LSV actually mulliganing for better hands for once leads to games where he actually does things. This cube is built for this kinda thing.

[@bpalm93]

sick draft

[@voldemortqwe]

Can someone explain why at the end of M3G1 the line wasn't to just discard Woodfall and shallow grave it? It's not the most efficient use but it clears griselbrand and gives him a 6/6 hasted trample. I think it's lethal on board unless the opponent has Solitude, in which case he would gain enough life for reanimate to come back online.

[@Damzified]

Read what Woodfall Primus does :)

[@voldemortqwe]

@Damzified oh wow this whole time I've completely glossed over the "noncreature" rule... ty!

[@anthonyjs8048]

"Should we go somewhere else?" Haha yes, the retro vintage cube! (This deck feels retro enough as it is)

[@perseusz10]

57:50 You actually can do it, not sure how good it would be. You can have Jace flashback Flash, put in Goyf, then Corpse Dance it back.

[@ZeroIsEven]

Etali turns out is a top tier flash target

[@realbadtech]

You love *checks notes* to see it

[@jonesdarryn1]

not the BEST super turns deck u had, but u were slayin those guys with the jace time walk. 3 turns in a row, is very strong when u can reanimate bombs like u were doin

[@Firemind39]

Are we gonna get an Arena Chromatic Cube video? 🙏🏼

[@LSVargas]

Def - next week early

[@quarkraven]

sweet mulligans bruh

[@karl_boss]

Is there a link to this Cube on Cubecobra? Would love to comb through it

[@Damzified]

Yeah it's PMax without bad cards (ID PowerMack)

[@kujabuja]

M2G2 - Opp ripping force and being able to pitch Mastermind because of ninjutsu was absurd.

[@spencerb6291]

i want you to put the word out that we back up

[@bettorup_]

Game 1 is EXACTLY why forcing combo has the highest upside of any draft strategy. Haters and doubters love to point out when it doesn't come together, citing the mediocre midrange deck they would have drafted instead.

[@mitchhak2]

He opened so well for combo. Didn’t have to force it

[@jakelink1482]

Clearly, this is a difficult concept for people to understand. Lsv spec picking over taking a mid card is the issue. The best players should take the mid card and let their play get them wins. It'd be like the best football team in the league running 12 hail Mary's. Why? You're the best team, run your normal plays and win? Given your relationship with grass, I doubt my sport's analogy made it any easier to understand, but I don't know how to make it any clearer.

[@bettorup_]

@ true but that’s why you can speculate combo so often. There’s plenty of powerful card to combine throughout the draft. You risk a crappy combo deck but no guts no glory.

[@bettorup_]

@@jakelink1482 one strategy is awesome to witness and or play and the other is just meh. Also the best players in the world often lose to combo with no recourse in spite of their safe mid good play strategy. This is all fine, just don’t expect Leopard Scott Vargas to change his spots.

[@seangerrity9217]

LSV mentioned it when he mulled "2 functional hands" and hit flash both times.

[@sqrlmonger]

When are the other drafters going to kick LSV out of the group for playing constructed decks in the draft?

[@otisheavenrich8137]

Woodfall primus belches ice storms not stone rains

[@vanwright7821]

Late lunch

[@ericdaniello5659]

Unmarked grave around 30:00 could have grabbed faithless looting… just saying

[@cesarramon4636]

Sire 3-0? Normal.

[@versacebroccoli7238]

Tossing Faithless Looting on your mulligan in a reanimator deck was an insane blunder.

[@Nightwishmaster]

I bet you felt the need to race so hard to comment this that you didn't even keep watching long enough to hear him say he should have put a land back instead like 10 seconds later lmao.

[@WobegonEffect]

Day 1 of requesting Stifle in the cube

[@udhh2619]

I was here

[@goyo379]

Anyone who hates on lsv in the chat gets 7 years of bad luck 🍀

[@Matthew19Vexthem]

******spoiler blocker

[@brendoncahill7096]

uh oh "busted" in the title means 0 match wins for sure

[@DevinRiley-i8c]

First!