Strixhaven Draft with Luis Scott-Vargas

[@lucasmohallem8136]

Watching LSV drafts is always a great delight, and I barely miss on any of them, but to be honest, at this point on the format, I wished we could get some of his most recent drafts. Specially considering how complex of a format it is, and how much his on opinions have seemingly changed since day 1

[@Ssalamanderr]

I just got back into magic after not playing since around original time spiral. Really loved the Kaldheim drafts I had a chance to try, and Strixhaven has been fun as well. Thanks for all the great videos.

[@ChannelFireball]

Glad you’re enjoying them!

[@rekenner]

Oh, it's Lightning Helix. Oh my god.

[@roccotoscano859]

You can tell it's one of the earlier drafts when Luis goes "I don't think expanded anatomy is that interesting."

[@MrOrangecrush12345]

At around 49 minutes he mentions Prismari possibly being the worst, so must've been VERY early

[@roccotoscano859]

@Travis Combs strongly disagree

[@ToonLinksDair]

@@roccotoscano859 What's the tier list for bo1 and bo3?

[@mrknarf4438]

@@Nick-128 is that choice so clear-cut? Mascot goes into any deck and can be tutored by Learn, so it's like having multiple copies of it in the deck, although 7 mana is a bit hefty of a price. Onyx on the other hand is a planeswalker and a good one at that 🤔 Yeah, probably Exhibition is slightly better on average

[@anonofyesterday4650]

@@mrknarf4438 It is. Onyx is a better card on the battlefield (one of the best in the set even) but Mascot Exhibition's ability to always have a great 7-drop the moment you get to 7 mana is worth more. I've only had it once so far but the card is just insane.

[@bitsambobs8364]

Seeing LSV draft is always fun, but putting out a video of his third draft of the format this far in seems odd. The meta has changed so much.

[@bigwig8657]

Stapling 2 pieces of the boon cycle is safe as long as they are the naya pieces. Lightning helix works but could you imagine Ancestral Ritual ub instant to draw 3 and make bbb.

[@Nalianna]

Snapcaster Mage, cast it again, storm you out.

[@mtgsquirrelarena5625]

Radiant Scrollwielder is always a lot of fun.

[@derickdykeman6432]

Like the old logo. Great content Thanks.

[@johannesvanderhorst9778]

11:10 This shows that draft videos from those first days lose their value when watched two weeks later. Even when LSV is drafting.

[@scottmcallister6583]

pack 1 pick 6 seemed like a good signal for prismari being open

[@budrothefox3666]

My draft card pools just never look like this.

[@ChannelFireball]

Gotta get whitelisted.

[@jeffe2267]

Oh wow, the Cincinnati Reds acquired CFB?

[@ChannelFireball]

It’s a joint venture.

[@Nightknight1992]

i just memed in traditional draft with blue white flyers (got a ton of flying frost lynxes and the 3/1 ward flyer) and went 2-1 sooo ye. but god did it feel awful to draft xD

[@Lightmane]

I'm shocked he kept that hand in the last game and even more shocked that he said he would've kept it even in a serious tournament. I wouldn't think that's right, but he's one of the best players in the world, so I must be wrong.

[@kilpta4746]

Well, don’t give him too much credit, pros can totally make mistakes, especially early on in a format. With that said, this seems like a hand I could see LSV keeping. A lot of high level limited players are big advocates of keeping risky hands like this even if the mana is rough just because of how resource-intensive limited is- mulliganing hurts much more in limited than constructed. With that said, I think it’s a very iffy hand, but I think his reasoning mostly boiled down to the fail % of not drawing a plains being lower than the fail % of having bad mulligans.

[@Lightmane]

@@kilpta4746 Yes, anyone can make a mistake, but he said he'd keep it in a tournament, so there's no mistake here. He knows the game far better than most, but I'm not keeping a 2 mountain hand with just 1 playable card in my opening hand. Then again, I could mulligan into a worse hand, so maybe it's the best option and thus a risk worth taking.

[@mtgsquirrelarena5625]

LSV is of the school of thought that the average mtg player mulligans too much, if a hand has the potential to be quite bad, but if the % of times that hand is bad is not that high he will keep. Might screw you up here and there but if you apply that to big numbers of games it pays off. Off course sometimes you just have to take a mulligan, but it doesn't happen that often if you know how to build a draft deck.

[@muchograndeyolatengo]

I think LSV is the outlier of pros when it comes to being loose. It's basically his trademark. If you've watched some of the banter with his friends it's one of the things they make fun of. In any group there's always outliers. In a scenario where a group of 1000 pros were to decide what to do with that hand I'm pretty sure that the average result would be to mulligan.

[@alfyb4512]

THa is for the video! If I may, I wished sometimes you left your cursor a bit longer on the more complicated cards during the draft. If hard to follow at times when one does not know all the cards by heart.

[@Arghore]

While anyone should just draft the deck they want to, i do think R/U were the colors to be in this draft...

[@daodude5515]

I'm a simple man. I see an LSV draft video, I click it.

[@AB-gn1ey]

You are a simple man! Congratulations!

[@chakstandsup]

Man, why can't my lanes be this open after I first pick Helix...

[@ckfnpku]

It wasn't, he should have picked the black removal picks 2-4.

[@anonofyesterday4650]

@@ckfnpku Pick 2 is probably Bury with a slight consideration for Explosive Welcome. The 4 mana removal is good but Bury is just a better card. Pick 4 I'd still probably go with Flunk.

[@mrknarf4438]

@@ckfnpku looking at pack two, he clearly shouldn't have :p

[@TMOFApollios]

"Missing on turn 4 is pretty unlucky" , says the man that drew 3 on colour, above average rares In the first 3...

[@davidds445]

Not true, prismari makes treasures with a 2/2 guy for 3R magecraft and also with the 1R instant that gives a creature +2/+0 and first strike. Which makes prismari decent enough to splash white or green

[@nolanfranklin431]

Luis should do a draft where his dog picks cards

[@AB-gn1ey]

You should make a comment, but offline

[@cspeeds96]

Wooooo

[@elliotcram5452]

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