Lurrus And Its Nine Lives Strike Again | Vintage Cube Draft

[@clownbabydragon]

27:22 "that portico is lushhh" ty lsv we were all waiting for it 😜

[@piercearora7681]

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[@claytortise154]

thanks

[@rasmustang9217]

Not killing Pyromancer with Spellbomb T12 killed me

[@subtleknife1]

Ya that was tough. I think playing the strix after knowingly drawing it off the previous subtlety tricked his brain into thinking he lurrus’d the strix

[@LSVargas]

Yeah that was a brain fart

[@roarmalf]

@30:25 I think it's better to play mom and Bauble specifically so that if you need to sac bodyguard on OP's next turn you have mom up on your upkeep. That was the line I would have taken, but I wasn't sure. Obviously in hindsight it would have worked better, but there was certainly value in having the spellbomb up to kill something if you needed to.

[@kujabuja]

M1G1 was pretty nuts, and the most important card of that whole slog was probably Gitaxian Probe funnily enough. Always love a good lurrus control deck. Also... Not that I'm tracking it or anything, but I think we continue to have never passed remand except for power

[@giancarlocafaro6734]

Probe is my favorite magic card. Such a subtle effect yet it pretty much defines every game it’s played in.

[@LSVargas]

Probe is absurd, adds 2-3% to your win % easy

[@Anusien]

It seems like it’s always been incredible in games, but you rarely picked it. Do you think you’re picking it higher now, or just the packs broke in the right way?

[@victorkasianovich608]

54:00 Passing a turn without playing something with Lurrus (like spellbomb) hurts my soul.

[@Snarkeroid]

Yeah surprised he forgot, although it felt like this draft he made a bunch of small errors that mostly didn't matter.

[@NatePrawdzik]

Yeah, that spellbomb to kill the 2/1 and swing (not happening) had me stressed.

[@LSVargas]

Ya that was my bad

[@NatePrawdzik]

@@LSVargas I know why it happened; multitasking gets the best of us. At least it's a rare error for you. I struggle to talk and play, and don't fare so well.

[@Anusien]

I don’t even think it’s multitasking. I think he clearly was thinking about the Strix having been played by Lurrus and forgot that it was hit by Subtlety. He doesn’t forget on the next turn.

[@bumpasaurus487]

30:11 after remanding your own lurrus to avoid countering from memory lapse, you drew mother of runes. Wouldn’t a good line then be to play the MOM instead of the lurrus now? If MOM survives the pyro with help from bodyguard, like the plan was with lurrus, it will then protect lurrus the following turn. But there’s the added bonus of if he gets lucky enough to kill both, then you can just play lurrus after and possibly ride it to victory without help since his last few removals were used on the 2 protector 1/1s.

[@christopherbarna7957]

Connor not drawing Ancestral G1 is even funnier because he saw every card in his deck and it was guaranteed to deck you…if not for the Narset he had to play before it 😂

[@fjordojustice]

Pretty funny how differently Lurrus decks have to play when they have zero ways to recur Lurrus from the graveyard vs having even one such effect. Unearth in the deck would have drastically changed M1G1, that's for sure (though the need to protect Lurrus made it a sick game).

[@LSVargas]

I really wanted an unearth 😅

[@MeoMix]

Just completely skipping using Lurrus on Turn 12?!?! Nooooo!!

[@trentjones5881]

Match 1 was the way Garfield intended it. Such a back and fourth battle. It was anyones game at any point they could plow through. Lurrus is just busted in your value low curve decks!

[@juhalinnanen3062]

Enjoyed these games a lot and realized that part of it was that the games were tight, with no one running away with the game due to having initiate/monarch. I think initiate is my least favorite thing for 1v1, the otherwise interesting game is over and becomes all about initiative. That sub game is rarely even and snow balls out of control. Monarch is kind of the same, but at least that is simple mechanic and dont need to remember bunch of dungeon rooms etc!

[@jyanasensei]

List of cards to not pass to Luis: - Academy - Lurrus

[@franzbiberkopf8282]

- Underworld Breach - Brain Freeze (I understand him though)

[@dizzzzy6]

24:47 I wonder if Luis thought about attacking with strix here to try and bait a hullbreacher attack to kill it in combat with commando Or force the pyrokinesis out of hand

[@thebudguy12]

9:47 "What a bad first pick, I think I'm going to take Preordain, it's just a busted card." When you call something a "busted card" sir, that implies it is either A) not a bad first pick or B) it is in fact, not a "busted card."

[@LSVargas]

Cube has tons of busted cards

[@leanderthal1138]

Imagine printing lurrus with original companion rules

[@kujabuja]

OG companion rules were absolutely insane/an obvious mistake. Of course, it was from the same R&D crew that brought us the Oko/Uro/OuaT standard, & Embercleave, sooooo... ... Yeah

[@Sidnv]

@@kujabuja At least it leads to more fun cards for vintage cube, even if it temporarily ruins other formats.

[@bumpasaurus487]

While the original rules make companions much better, it’s funny that it’s not always a strict upgrade. The new rule of it going into hand, even with the 3 mana cost, allows for the play of using your mediocre companion (with light deck restrictions that you may already be meeting) as fodder for free spells like fury/solitude/force/etc.

[@LSVargas]

Truly baffling how they thought it was even close to being reasonable

[@makidiaz3894]

That intro is something else. ❤

[@andrewwatts6974]

I weirdly remember the exact moment Arid Mesa got spoiled and my brother had to explain why it was a big deal. It is crazy how long ago that was 😅

[@jamesgreenwood1703]

That’s kinda insane

[@roippi3985]

word of the day is “slobberknocker.” 😂

[@hugovallssabater4998]

Love the content , i was wondering why didnt you play lurrus on game 3 of the first oponent arround turn 6 while having mother of runes and benevolent BG . I love watching you play but i get a bit lost on your decision making somethimes and i think there is something i missed :)

[@williamraber3103]

Does your draft community run cube drafts without the powered 9 and/or fast mana? If so, any in particular you liked?

[@EnricoPascolo]

Min 54.20, did you forget to play something from graveyard with Lurrus or am I tripping?

[@markkelso871]

I still think its crazy how high you have swords. Over p1p1 atraxa!?

[@Falnky]

I agree with him! It's an absurd removal spell, and it goes into any deck, instead of asking you to commit to reanimator/breach right away.

[@mclark347]

There are other powerful cards to reanimate/otherwise cheat into play. Absolutely nothing replaces Swords to Plowshares.

[@markkelso871]

​@@mclark347path to exile?? They're more comparable in flexibility than you'd think.

[@markkelso871]

​@@Falnkyit definitely goes into any deck but atraxa is the center piece to one of the best archetypes, is good in other ones, can be actually cast unlike most fatties and he also passed a solitude. Idk i think it's kinda close but not really?

[@mclark347]

@@markkelso871 I mean, Path does come close but it's really not the same thing. They're equally good late game, but StP is just so much better early.

[@IzzRei]

Viewers, Did you pick along? How many you get right?

[@RickertUrgen]

always try to guess the pick for the minimal chance I get to draft vintage cube

[@andrewwatts6974]

I stopped after getting p1p1 wrong 😅

[@jmdamas]

The deck didn't have power? True, the power was in the companion slot ;)

[@rezzytheskyguy]

The Companian mechanic strikes again

[@jasonnug]

Where's the SUPREME drafts? :p

[@LSVargas]

Today!

[@teliots]

Big oof forgetting to use Lurrus.

[@TimeWalk936]

I miss the unfair decks

[@kipp14]

Portico was the best non basic plains this draft.

[@tordox1607]

Anyone else noticed that lsv his breathing stops like every sentence? It makes me gasp for air myself

[@traycarrot]

Yeah, it always seems like he's struggling to breathe. I can't figure out if it's just the microphone or not...

[@bumpasaurus487]

That and the constant burping can be distracting. LSV is the Rick Sanchez of MTG😂🤣

[@LSVargas]

Sorry 😅

[@cowgirlqueen2636]

I think jitte is the absolute nuts

[@kaiseremotion854]

control lurrus is always funny to me

[@matteofabiani7230]

I was wondering for having a better card quality: every team at the end of the draft could do 3 trades and the opponent team gets to know which cards and which player got a certain card

[@duncanwalla7014]

I’ve thought about this a lot and think it would be super fun for us the viewers at the least.

[@mattwilliamsonguitar]

Would add a level of interesting dynamics to the draft, for sure. Would encourage aggressive hate drafting.

[@LSVargas]

Could be but that’s a wildly different format

[@Anusien]

The more you allow players to trade, the less important you make the draft.

[@StepanZhulin]

Why not to consider Fastbond p2p1 ?

[@LSVargas]

I’ve found fastbond is a bit of a trap

[@g.n.s.]

I run a single Ragavan in my Izzet Ensoul Artifact/Shrapnel Blast deck for that reason as well. (If it’s in your opening hand and you’re on the play you might just win the game flat out.) Otherwise I’ll usually swap it out for a Mountain or fourth Memnite or something.

[@cesarramon4636]

Sire 3-0? Normal.

[@jstuckless]

Far be it from me to criticize the one of the best players of magic of all time, but I'm pretty sure 17 lands was too many for this deck.

[@LSVargas]

Companions change things - I will almost never play 16 when I have one

[@movcar]

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