A Cube Speedrun for the History Books

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
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Комментарии • 142

  • @PopeGoliath
    @PopeGoliath Год назад +316

    You have an impressive ability to keep the narration going despite incredibly long waits between packs. It is a sign of long practice and professionalism. You're doing an excellent job at being an entertainer.

    • @jonathanhh3728
      @jonathanhh3728 Год назад +11

      True, it’s so much better than the people who just pick a card quick and sit there in silence waiting for next pack. Ty LSV!

    • @mattwilliamsonguitar
      @mattwilliamsonguitar Год назад +13

      ​@@jonathanhh3728 I love Reid Duke but this is why I can't really sit through his vids. So much awkward silence.

    • @Sicktoid
      @Sicktoid Год назад +9

      LSV has been doing drafts for youtube since 2009, when Conflux was the current set. You can tell he has had quite a bit of practice doing this 😀

    • @bruisermoore
      @bruisermoore Год назад +9

      I remember watching him doing drafts on RUclips almost 15 years ago now, damn I’m getting old! His skill level as not only a drafter but as an entertainer has improved drastically over that time….unfortunately Magic Online as a program has not lol.

    • @Blackadder75
      @Blackadder75 Год назад +4

      I still can't believe he hasn't got some random spare HP mouse in his household though...

  • @54321eclipse12345
    @54321eclipse12345 Год назад +108

    On a side note Bonecrusher Giant can Stomp your own face, to allow your creatures to attack into The One Ring.

  • @el_maoo
    @el_maoo Год назад +49

    this content has become a daily ritual

    • @ftcb2023
      @ftcb2023 Год назад

      Needs to be at a set time 😢

    • @Marksmaan
      @Marksmaan Год назад +2

      I don't remember what I used to do on my lunch breaks.

  • @Waghabond
    @Waghabond Год назад +10

    LSV just reminding us why he's in the MTG hall of fame by using his monored deck to beat 2x attacks with annhilator 4, and t1 sol ring, t2 batterskull, and t3 metamorph batterskull. What a champion.

  • @atranimecs
    @atranimecs Год назад +46

    that 1st matchup had so much removal, shows how crazy this deck was for standing up to it and pushing through, surviving that Ulamog was even crazier

    • @NightOfCrystals
      @NightOfCrystals Год назад +1

      Yeah so many of these games were absolutely nuts

  • @untala1237
    @untala1237 Год назад +16

    Game 2, not strip mining the Workshop went from “EXTREMELY punished” to “MASSIVELY rewarded” real quick

  • @makidiaz3894
    @makidiaz3894 Год назад +3

    Whoever told LSV to upload his own videos on his own channel is an absolute genius of the highest order. Thank you!

  • @Jermo484
    @Jermo484 Год назад +33

    Absolutely wild that you won against two Batterskulls with mono red.

    • @Marksmaan
      @Marksmaan Год назад +8

      30 life on turn 5 i think? And he won? That's insane. Even more so than against Ulamog even lol.

    • @anosmianAcrimony
      @anosmianAcrimony Год назад +11

      Even despite the SUPER lazy Robber of the Rich missing out on 4 damage

    • @jairomy
      @jairomy Год назад +2

      Opponent made poor decisions while LSV made great ones. GGs

    • @Marksmaan
      @Marksmaan Год назад

      @@anosmianAcrimony yeah, but with opponent missing gaining 4 with Batterskull its kinda a wash.

    • @pascal6871
      @pascal6871 Год назад +2

      Wasn't it more like five or six batterskulls?

  • @MasterworkLeathercraft
    @MasterworkLeathercraft Год назад +18

    Sometimes when drafting you have to fight for a lane, sometimes you're the only person on an 8-lane monoRed highway

  • @MatthewForsytheHi
    @MatthewForsytheHi Год назад +26

    LSV: I hope they dont start with Workshop in game 3
    Monkey Paw curls and they start with Sol Ring

  • @randomrandom7208
    @randomrandom7208 Год назад +21

    This games vs big mana deck was realy epic

  • @j.m.3600
    @j.m.3600 Год назад +28

    My favorite thing is when blue mage LSV drafts red and green creature decks. He’s given me faith in hexdrinker

    • @danpickett2279
      @danpickett2279 Год назад +2

      I suck at cube, but whenever I draft hexdrinker I go 2-1 lol.

    • @privatevendetta
      @privatevendetta Год назад +1

      LSV was known for his Monored Cube decks back in time.

    • @hitmangfx7162
      @hitmangfx7162 Год назад

      Hexdrinker is terrifying. You have a small window to bolt/dismember it and then it becomes unblockable and can only be removed by a sweeper.

  • @EmperorNapoleon1815
    @EmperorNapoleon1815 Год назад +3

    This red deck poured gasoline on the fire and never burnt out - what a draft!

  • @ericgasper6135
    @ericgasper6135 Год назад +3

    I love how you explain the sideboarding out of Goblin Guide. Most people wouldn't really think about the card draw aspect being really bad in a removal heavy matchup.

  • @monorady
    @monorady 11 месяцев назад +1

    Winning against hard cast ulamog and then double batterskulls that kept coming back. That was an incredible match!! Amazing content LSV!

  • @matthewwhiteside4619
    @matthewwhiteside4619 Год назад +33

    Hopefully this goes better than yesterdays speedrun.

  • @JordanChristensen
    @JordanChristensen Год назад +3

    The number of called shots in this draft almost had me thinking you were narrating a previous draft 😂😂

  • @emcquaid888
    @emcquaid888 Год назад +2

    Crazy games. This video made me realize how much I have been liking the team drafts though since you play all the games in the pod. Something extra about not playing against cards you have in your deck.

  • @nicholashinderer9896
    @nicholashinderer9896 10 месяцев назад +1

    @44:15 Insane, bonkers, nutty. Great game😂

  • @gaivscaesar
    @gaivscaesar Год назад +5

    That match 2 was a thing of beauty

  • @Jaryism
    @Jaryism Год назад +2

    Sweet, that was an awesome mono red beatdown, always love to see a red deck wins action thrown in there.

  • @akistrat
    @akistrat Год назад +9

    Bro managed to lose a match with 2x annihilator 4 hits and 4 active Batterskulls. Against mono red. Luis of course did all the right things, but still...

    • @dementievatz
      @dementievatz Год назад

      That entire match felt like an “Oh my god I’m playing against LSV.”

  • @Julian-gk8gf
    @Julian-gk8gf Год назад

    I believe at 58:04 if you set it to draw the Mountain the next turn you have lethal off flashback Firebolt + Lavamancer activation. Love the videos by the way, thanks so much for all the amazing drafts.

  • @Urros
    @Urros Год назад +1

    Watching your content has given me the sublime delusion that I, also, can do well in vintage cube.
    Alas, reality is ever present, unlike my wins.

  • @jccusell
    @jccusell 6 месяцев назад

    "Turn 1 Ragavan, turn 2 strip mine"
    *Oppo vomits in the background*

  • @JacksonParodi
    @JacksonParodi Год назад +2

    Forget urza's saga, we have Luis's Mouse Saga
    Mice you control have double strike

  • @danpickett2279
    @danpickett2279 Год назад +5

    Who’s the biggest villain on the channel? The Sandiest of Dogs or the mouse?

    • @Luckingsworth
      @Luckingsworth Год назад +3

      My vote is Tom Martell coaching people how to hate draft against LSV

    • @kurowasanabe
      @kurowasanabe Год назад +1

      The Mean Bean.

    • @danpickett2279
      @danpickett2279 Год назад +2

      @@Luckingsworth Dude. That made me the saltiest of dogs when I heard that info. Let our hero cook with Tolarian Academy.

  • @Quicknick777
    @Quicknick777 Год назад +1

    Round 2 vs ulamog was a thing if beauty. WP

  • @anosmianAcrimony
    @anosmianAcrimony Год назад +2

    Both the games he won in round 2, I would have GIVEN UP

  • @zacharyadler4071
    @zacharyadler4071 3 месяца назад

    It’s wild to see how much the cube power level has increased since this in just 9 months. I’m barely in to the recording and Squee, hellrider, and char already stand out as really bad compared to stuff now like gut, carnage interpreter, ghostfire slice, and the 4 mana 3/3 haste opponent can’t block

  • @andrewwatts6974
    @andrewwatts6974 Год назад +1

    Another nice part about glimmer lens is that it makes a rebel to return othari with

  • @basiliaspice
    @basiliaspice Год назад

    55:38 never realized before how an opponent's Sensei's Divining Top combos with ragavan to draw a card from your own deck every turn

  • @SessionalSalmon
    @SessionalSalmon Год назад +3

    LSV, your mouse has been broken for weeks. Right click>attack all. You have undone an attack like 6 times.

    • @jackcphelps
      @jackcphelps 11 месяцев назад

      he should get one that makes a really loud and annoying scrolling sound

  • @TheArcbound
    @TheArcbound Год назад +1

    Round 2 is one for the ages - wow

  • @SymmetricalDocking
    @SymmetricalDocking Год назад

    Holy heck, a game where lsv runs interaction instead of combo?!

  • @Venoseth
    @Venoseth Год назад +1

    Love the videos Luis. Watch one every day!

  • @Knowasi
    @Knowasi Год назад +1

    Two RDW in a row?? Blink twice if you're being held hostage by Sandydog!

  • @siegeryno8272
    @siegeryno8272 Год назад +1

    If anyone tells you that ‘mono red is easy to play,’ send them round 2 of this draft. Not many people could pull of that W

  • @hitmangfx7162
    @hitmangfx7162 Год назад

    Kind of shocked to see Squee not make the cut. I've rode Squee/Laelia/Rabbelmaster to a lot of speedy wins and p1p1'ed him a few times (usually ending up in R/W aggro or mono R aggro). Lots of bodies out of nowhere.

  • @bigwig8657
    @bigwig8657 Год назад +2

    After getting used to the team drafts, seeing Sigarda is kinda jarring. It's maybe modern cube level.

  • @AkatsukiTim
    @AkatsukiTim Год назад +1

    watching this in 2x speed so it's like "a cube speedrun" speedrun

  • @BarginsGalore
    @BarginsGalore Год назад

    trophying vintage cube is a funny idea for a speed run category

  • @wpease7
    @wpease7 Год назад

    Mono red FTW! Epic resilience from this deck.

  • @BetaJim22
    @BetaJim22 Год назад +2

    23:00 after draft before games I'm going to guess that Squee would have been better than Jitte in the main. I think that if you're playing Rabblemaster another goblin generator is actually kind of strong.

  • @randyrobbins2664
    @randyrobbins2664 Год назад +1

    27:22 that turn was crazy!!

  • @garagavia
    @garagavia Год назад

    I like to see the diversity of decks.

  • @xZuunes
    @xZuunes Год назад

    Great video! What mouse did you get?

  • @hamishfox
    @hamishfox Год назад +1

    I always have a moment of confusion when an opponent plays the same card you have.
    It's like "wait how did they get grim lavamancer and dismember when we also have grim lavamancer and dismember???"
    Then I remember it's not a real draft and modo is weird.

  • @Mitch_Feral
    @Mitch_Feral 4 месяца назад

    I thought for sure you were going to lavamancer whatever the batterskull blocked so that they didnt get the life.

  • @Slamstarproductions
    @Slamstarproductions Год назад +2

    This was a blast

  • @ThinkingReality
    @ThinkingReality Год назад

    Hey, question - where can I find people to regularly cube with? Xmage has been kind of abandoned of late, and I'd love to find a draft pod like this to play with. :)

  • @willomalley7619
    @willomalley7619 Год назад

    Double misplay game 2, you gotta strip mine the blue red land, and opponent picking up wrong batter skull cost them big time

  • @bdellovibrioo5242
    @bdellovibrioo5242 Год назад +1

    I'm somewhat surprised that LSV chose not to run Squee in the main deck, as it seems on par with Rabblemaster in power level and works especially well with Jitte and Hellrider. To be honest, I don't know what the cut would be.

    • @empzxz
      @empzxz Год назад

      squee is not even remotely close to rabble in power level. also, it doesn’t make jitte much better other than the fact that it’s another creature you can equip.

    • @bdellovibrioo5242
      @bdellovibrioo5242 Год назад

      @@empzxz It makes additional creatures for Jitte even if it dies.

    • @Mox_Normandy
      @Mox_Normandy Год назад

      I would argue it might have been better than hell rider. Just getting it down a turn earlier feels like that matters more now.

  • @eyluldenizgur2884
    @eyluldenizgur2884 Год назад

    Hey sir, Im confused why they dont use Sigarda Host of Herons instead. Much better than current Sigarda and actually quite playable as a sb option. Its good against Liliana, good against Archon. Decent vs annihilator stuff (vs sneak etc.) and is a good GW card in general. Really would like to know your opinion on that!

  • @sanninrips
    @sanninrips Год назад

    If ragavan had haste he’d be absolutely INSANE ⛽️

  • @PGMR30
    @PGMR30 Год назад

    Yay, MTGO Vintags Cube is back!

    • @RFlairPC
      @RFlairPC Год назад

      I feel for all the people who keep playing on mtgo and arena.
      There’s aFREE option with every single format and any cube you upload. You poor things

    • @funkalunk
      @funkalunk Год назад

      @@RFlairPCYeah but then you’re playing against absolute dogshit competition.

  • @quarkraven
    @quarkraven Год назад

    incredible match 2 against the busted artifact deck

  • @akoras3222
    @akoras3222 Год назад

    That was a hell of a deck :)

  • @leanderthal1138
    @leanderthal1138 Год назад

    That hand last game could be a Twitter post

  • @el6487
    @el6487 Месяц назад

    You should make a top 10 cube comeback moments

  • @MarkAvo
    @MarkAvo Год назад

    That Ulamog game…

  • @alexfriedrichsen2288
    @alexfriedrichsen2288 Год назад

    You can tap top to draw and then hit it again guaranteed off of robber or ragavan

  • @Benjamin-ol4jx
    @Benjamin-ol4jx Год назад +1

    Vintage cube is back?
    Where did it go?
    Not complaining
    It's my favorite format

    • @jacksonletts3724
      @jacksonletts3724 Год назад +4

      It was gone from MTGO. It comes around a few times a year, interspersed with other cubes. Recently there was cartographer’s cube if I recall.
      Anyway, it hasn’t been gone from this channel. LSV and his friends have been doing non stop team drafts posted on this channel, which you probably already knew.

    • @RFlairPC
      @RFlairPC Год назад

      You can play any cube any time on Xmage. Mtgo sucks and buying digital cards is downs

  • @danielnadeau1752
    @danielnadeau1752 Год назад +1

    match 2... my dude... match 2...

  • @kiwidave8930
    @kiwidave8930 Год назад

    3:25 Poor jackal pup.

  • @jeffbriem
    @jeffbriem Год назад +1

    That was a lot of fun

  • @mvdplas8145
    @mvdplas8145 Год назад

    Great games. Love cube

  • @LoganardoDVinci
    @LoganardoDVinci Год назад +1

    If there’s no Shelldock, is it even vintage cube???

  • @vicdark8807
    @vicdark8807 Год назад

    love me some sligh action!

  • @ddoug1004
    @ddoug1004 Год назад

    turn one last game, wow!

  • @paulhermann5445
    @paulhermann5445 Год назад

    I watched this in 2 times speed because it felt right

  • @romantheflash
    @romantheflash 9 месяцев назад

    What a game there!

  • @StarksCards
    @StarksCards Год назад +1

    LSV uploadeds. I click

  • @kylealejandro2022
    @kylealejandro2022 Год назад +1

    Wonder if it was worth siding in inspiring vantage that last match to help you cast white cards off of ragavan

  • @Falnky
    @Falnky Год назад

    I wonder if it's worth it to try to force artifact/combo decks a bit more in pub games compared with the team drafts. It feels like whenever one of these decks comes up in pub drafts, it's absurdly strong, I assume due to lower drafting skill and less hate.

  • @lucasazevedo3210
    @lucasazevedo3210 Год назад

    Bro you beat 2 batterskull with monored, what the hell

  • @davidwindsor2579
    @davidwindsor2579 Год назад +1

    I feel like that match vs. the workshop deck was totally stolen

  • @joshuaallen6450
    @joshuaallen6450 Год назад

    Makes me laugh when Luis say, “We are flexible” meanwhile takes all cards of the same color unless there aren’t any. Guess I should wait till the end to see if another color joins the fray.

  • @sanctuarygaming4984
    @sanctuarygaming4984 Год назад

    fun police strikes again

  • @richards_256
    @richards_256 Год назад

    that was awesome

  • @WhereIsTheIntruder
    @WhereIsTheIntruder Год назад +1

    I'm at the point where I think DRC is just bad in cube and should be dropped. Way too hard to achieve delirium consistently enough and a 1/1 with surveil is not a playable magic card. I feel like there's a dozen red one drops that would be a better fit for the cube and fill out that crucial place in the curve.
    Only deck where it seems easy enough to enable and hence roughly playable is UR tempo/spells and even then DRC is absolutely below the average for card quality in it.

  • @roarmalf
    @roarmalf Год назад

    In case any other Kenji viewers were missing the background music: ruclips.net/video/-DJTnIhOmEs/видео.html

  • @benjamincarter6095
    @benjamincarter6095 Год назад

    I hope your new mouse arrived today

  • @stevenbenniman
    @stevenbenniman Год назад

    Do we need to start a gofundme for a new mouse?

  • @TheJenShow
    @TheJenShow Год назад

    Every👏day👏

  • @cassesvultus43
    @cassesvultus43 Год назад

    Gabba gabba.

  • @markchaney4469
    @markchaney4469 Год назад +1

    Still bashing goblin guide some lol

  • @Chris-eh8mi
    @Chris-eh8mi Год назад +1

    What happened to the good og art in the drafting phase? =( Honestly, beta card art just hits different when the packs pop.

    • @Cthuski
      @Cthuski Год назад

      He's drafting the mtgo cube in this vid

  • @harroldshnifer2667
    @harroldshnifer2667 Год назад

    How can the opponent have grim if LSV drafted grim?

    • @Sidnv
      @Sidnv Год назад +5

      This is the MTGO vintage cube, you don't necessarily play against your pod.

  • @NapoleonSoares
    @NapoleonSoares Год назад

    mono red rarely beats batterskull. I have DEFINITELY never seen mono red beat 4 batterskulls.

  • @googleplusisterrible4837
    @googleplusisterrible4837 Год назад

    “Is Ring better than Chandra? I don’t know” LSV 2023 😂😂😂😂

    • @Marksmaan
      @Marksmaan Год назад +5

      In mono red specifically. Chandra fits the game plan better. It's like what's better, Dismember or Swords? For this deck, dismember. Not in general.

  • @justinth963
    @justinth963 Год назад

    They should replace most of these bad burn spells with multiple copies of lightning bolt, IMO.

  • @gregorykelly8000
    @gregorykelly8000 Год назад

    Didn't even see the better first turn second turn...

  • @HazmanFTW
    @HazmanFTW Год назад

    I kinda of dislike the Mtgo cube pairings, it'd be better if you played people who you drafted with, rather than against people who have half the cards you drafted

  • @Luckingsworth
    @Luckingsworth Год назад

    Uh oh!😮 Another repeat of yesterday??

    • @asch220
      @asch220 Год назад +2

      Nope:)

    • @Luckingsworth
      @Luckingsworth Год назад +1

      ​@@asch220Totally made up for the previous draft! Haha.

  • @sqrlmonger
    @sqrlmonger Год назад +1

    Just curious, why does LSV show us his wood at the end of each video?

  • @caolanoreilly9486
    @caolanoreilly9486 Год назад +1

    boop

  • @cyphernujabee7016
    @cyphernujabee7016 Год назад

    Bro, I can hear you swallowing... might look at fixing that, it's kinda gross.

  • @gagewoodcock2479
    @gagewoodcock2479 Год назад

    Have you ever cast a 1 Ring? 😂

  • @Devore1984
    @Devore1984 Год назад

    Normal catcholic supremacy. Shame