Find someone that looks at you like LSV looks at Urza.

@linjohn6159

3 ай бұрын

12:00

"It's nice to have a construct in play so I can see how many artifacts I have"😂😂😂

Scholars have long debated what the most beautiful sentence in the English language is. I am of the opinion that it was uttered at 1:10:05 "End of turn, tap Academy for 19 mana."

@mattwecrazy3236

3 ай бұрын

Lol yes but I'm going with "Turn 3 attack for 34!"

This is an all time great deck. The phrase kid in a candy shop was invented for LSV this draft

Academy has the highest ceiling for a reason, it's a marvel to watch it pop off like it's 1998.

@cowboybob5301

3 ай бұрын

he passed a fire reanimate deck, which is higher ceiling (way more turn 1/turn 2 wins). but thats vintage cube. there's always a few busted decks you could have gotten

@jairomy

3 ай бұрын

@@cowboybob5301 Wasn't anywhere close to being as powerful as what he ended up with.

@cowboybob5301

3 ай бұрын

@@jairomy the draft would have played out differently if he cut reanimate early pack 1, but thats not what vintage cube is about so it doesnt matter

That was the best showing of Academy I've ever seen.

30 seconds in and I can tell this will be an all-timer

This is why we draft Vintage Cube. Really taught the other team a Tolarian lesson with this one, Luis!

That first game: wow. It was simultaneously horrifying and a thing of beauty. Sitting down across from LSV when he drafts like this has got to be nerve wracking 😂

I was getting nervous

@andyony2

3 ай бұрын

Me, too!

@JackD1615

3 ай бұрын

I was getting ready for bed and getting ready to do my stretches and was like what the heck!

@Catalyst2812

3 ай бұрын

Same. Thought something might’ve happened

@g.n.s.

3 ай бұрын

Had to eat an orange real quick 😊

@Mrweltan

3 ай бұрын

😂 I was warring about

The most lsv vintage cube deck ecer. I was here. I witness perfection. His unbridled joy is so life afirming

I just built your Vintage Cube list with my playgroup, of course power 9 and such are proxies, but can't wait to play it next week! Thanks for the daily content Lucho!

I can't wait to watch this draft 3 more times during your end of year top 5 extravaganza

At 1:17:20, there was actually still one more chance to find Cryptic Command, since Urza's ability can be activated at instant speed.

Tolarian just puts a smile on your face when it comes together.

great furnace would be amazing in the cube, I already find myself playing seat in UR decks with gut and/or bombadiers just to have an extra artifact to sacrifice

@cyruslyday9112

3 ай бұрын

I just have to think that the untapped artifact lands are better than the tapped ones. They all make blue off academy and urza anyway lol

Not LSV laughing like a YuGiOh villain when he saw that opening hand

⚙️💧 Tolarian Academy is my most favorite magic card of all time, and this brings joy to my heart seeing it go broke like the Stroke days of old.

I think the one card to that would improve the deck the most (besides power) would have been urza's saga. Besides that workshops, kappa cannoneer and better fixing for third path, but really close to being completely perfect.

I can't believe there was no mention of the flavor of drafting might and weakstone with the urza hehe ;)

R1 G3, Trinket Maging for Ballista could have gotten rid of the Hexdrinker. It doesn't leave you with much gas afterward, but it does remove the potentially gamebreaking card. EDIT: That being said... yikes, what an end to the game.

All time draft. What a showing :). You made those decks that had moxen and ancestral look like pauper decks.

HE CAN’T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!!!!!!

So fun to see a busted academy deck. Also, Sol Ring seems pretty good when it starts in your opening hand every game.

@lasselindkvist2051

3 ай бұрын

Yeah really. It might something to pick when bothing much else is in the pack

What a draft, what an all time academy deck! This really is the reason to play Vintage Cube. Thanks for the content LSV!

Finnally the LSV has come pack to tolarian

LSV drafting the nut Academy deck is why we are here. Chef's kiss.

God dang that first match game 3 was insaneee I love tolarian decks so much. wish mtgo cube hadnt gotten rid of artifact this time around edit: this deck was absolutely wild. Every game freaking crazy. That last turn i thought u were going to copy the candelabra and keep going off like wild just for show

incredible. Attacking with a 35/35 ballista on turn 3 is honestly so much more impressive than winning with a turn 1/2/3 infinite combo. Just wild.

I've been getting about 90 fewer minutes of sleep every night since you started uploading these drafts. My wife is starting to get jealous of the amount of time I spend with you.

When you guys tie in a 4v4 you should play the 4th person you haven't played against yet so it's an overtime match winner takes all!

What a fantastic video. Reminded me how fun a good cube draft can be.

Finally. Lsv picking academy

The drafts like this one when LSV gets to pick not only a strong card but a strong build around card are just the best!🎉

already a contender for the 'best Academy deck' playlist for 2024

Absolutely insane.

Love the cube content as always. Was looking at building your cube in paper and found an article with the link to your 548 card cube on cube cobra, I was wondering if you have a smaller list like 180 cards for a smaller group, we usually only have 4 people and the larger cube is a lot to carry around to game nights.

The thing about LSV drafting Academy decks, He always opens on Academy!

that last game looked ok

Luis, Goblin Engineer + Ichor Wellspring + Mycosynth Wellspring = Draw a card and fetch a basic for just tapping?! Sign me up!

loving the content. reminds me of my urza edh deck

This was absolute perfection. Last game was the cherry on top.

My one concern with these decks is they're built so much around academy but if you're not playing ways to search up academy, it really makes you dependent on drawing your 1-of. I have the same concern with a lot of fastbond builds. They're amazing when they draw the 1-of and pretty underwhelming when they don't. That being said, at least this deck has sol ring and Urza as other ways to get some busted mana generation going. Note that I'm writing this before watching the games. Will be interesting to see how it does when academy isn't drawn. Post-view wrap-up: Well, academy and sol ring were drawn early and often, leading to some pretty busted stuff, but also making it difficult to answer how the deck performs if it doesn't draw those things. It was fun to see a 3-0 with academy again. I do think this was one of the stronger versions he's had because of having Urza, Sol Ring, and Academy as busted mana generation. I suppose I've learned to be more skeptical of academy decks because there's been a lot of vids on this channel where LSV is excited but then doesn't draw academy very often and goes 1-2.

@jonathanellwood2093

3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately without ways to search the 1-of, your success comes down to: "Did you draw the busted card", which sucks when you don't draw it, but realistically the only way you can search the broken cards was splashing green (which usually hurts more than helps) or just drawing it early. When it gets going, the engine roars and when it doesn't, well, we all saw that one game where he got controlled out Source: I play Yugioh, "draw the busted card" is what you're supposed to do

@mattie3875

3 ай бұрын

It's not just a broken 1-of, the whole deck is built around it. We have Academy, Urza, Karn, Sol Ring, Nettle, Mystic Forge, Top, Retro, Gadgeteer, Skull Clamp, Saheeli, Ballista, Iconaclast-- if you don't get Academy you get things that synergize with artifacts or draw to the other things that synergize. He got it so often because of clamp/forge/top and mulligans. He was even able to side in another color to answer decks. Think you're just justifying your pregame comment, but his entire deck was good, not just academy. Academy is like Lurris, it can make your deck just overall more efficient and better without drawing it

@brianh5844

3 ай бұрын

@@mattie3875 I understand the synergies. It's just the artifact synergies are generally not powerful enough without busted mana generation. He did have Urza, Sol Ring, and Academy for that which I acknowledged. In retrospect though, that is 3 different busted mana engines that make this deck more consistent than some of his other academy decks. Still, it does feel like academy and sol ring were drawn a bit above expectation for how early they were often drawn.

@jonathanellwood2093

3 ай бұрын

@@mattie3875 I mean yeah, if you look at the plays being made before academy is played, the deck still went off in a few cases, but once academy hit the field, it was usually locked up. Now I think that was also due to the fact that approximately 60% of the deck was busted, you said it yourself, he sided in another color. That's not exactly easy for most cube decks to do, and a big part of that was because the card quality in the artifacts theme is, imo, really good, Setessian Infiltrator, skullclamp, trinket mage, the deck runs.

@LucianDevine

3 ай бұрын

@@brianh5844 That's one of the advantages of playing mono blue. He didn't have to splash another color that wasn't also generating artifact tokens, and thus burn picks mana fixing that additional color while looking for very specific cards to search for Academy. He could invest in the niche cards that basically nobody else was looking for packs 1 and 3.

Holy crap, that last game was insane. Academy is absolutely nuts

Oh this about to be a banger of a draft!

Here you can already draw your entire deck and make that many tapped soldiers. Seems pretty good.

Sick deck. Very nice.

55:55 retrofitter is so good against ub control because it's so hard to interact with. Opponent immediately interacts with it.

Ah, I love to see the first pick Academy, no matter what!

I bet the video was a bit late because you rescheduled other videos and waited for this video to process so you could get it out as soon as possible :) This was awesome thanks for the daily content.

Better late than never!!

I've seen lethal Walking Ballistas before but I've never seen a Walking Ballista that's lethal because it has two Nettlecysts equipped (and no +1/+1 counters!)

This has to be the most insane Academy deck LSV has drafted..

Always a good day for Academy.

Oh baby strap in kids, we’re going fast.

Now THIS is cubing.

Lsv letting us know this is a scripted show when everytime he says "I just need to draw some spells to make this a good keep" 8 of the top 10 cards are lands.

3 picks in and this is looking like a sick academy deck

Someone once asked me why Academy was banned but Cradle is legal in that one format. Much laughter.

I'm surprised how skeptical LSV is of Mightstone and Weakstone during deck building. It seems like a second Coveted Jewel with optional removal.

Gadgeteer has earned its spot

worth considering Trickster Mage for cube? Discard Echo, untap academy seems awesome

17:45 BRUHHHHHHHHH

@MatthewForsytheHi

3 ай бұрын

¡¡¡IT GOT EVEN MORE INSANE!!!

Attack for 35. That made me laugh hard.

Falkoneye using echo against the academy deck, I said out loud, queue yakety Sax.

TNN seems like it would have been a pretty good SB card against your first opp, a ton of low toughness creatures that can also get clamped for value if req'd

Insane deck

Banger!

“We are in the karn zone” 😂😂😂

does galvanic blast make it into the cube at this point?

R2G1 interaction sheeeeeesh

I felt like taking another shower after that academy draw on m1g1

I wanted Fiery Islet over Savannah, and the way the packs broke that pick would have been nice, so I'll pat myself on the back for that one

I've been working on my own vintage cube, would it be possible to get your list?

this title bodes well

@travelingtango

3 ай бұрын

yep - that was a homerun indeed

At 1:17:00 could you take a gamble and spin urza on opponent's turn and pray for cryptic?

if u opened pick 1 pack 1 ancestral vs academy im thinking ud probably take ancestral over academy?

I have never seen such an acadamy deck and I have never sweat so much from the games.

Great, it’ll be another 2 years before I see an Academy in vintage cube.

What the (Sandy) dog doin? 🐕

what a banger

What English word in a card name across all the cards it appears on is the winningest lifetime for lsv? I think it might be “nettle.”

well if you keep forcing workshop\academy decks, eventually you'll spike one. This one was sweet. GGs big guy.

Disgusting deck. Totally sick. Love it 😂

Still had all of these

Academy was an all-star, but, man, Sol Ring is something else

Mind Stone is the reciprocal of Sol Ring, hahaha - Cost 2, Make 1 / Cost 1 Make 2

fuck LSV is so good at magic

Missed infinite card draw + infinite tapped 1/1 tokens, with forensic gadgeteer, third past iconoclast, sensei’s divining top, and urza

In match 3 why didn’t the opponent have to discard down to 7 after turn 1 recall?

@josedelavega4706

3 ай бұрын

Opp played it on LSV's upkeep

@drokhalis3338

3 ай бұрын

@@josedelavega4706 thanks I knew I must’ve been an idiot.

LSV: "I'm not going to play coveted jewel here it costs too much" Coveted jewel: costs 6, generates 5

@mauriciorossi8477

3 ай бұрын

cost becomes relative when instead of -1 the other option is +2. that's a 133% decrease.

With as much mana as the deck can generate, I don't understand the UR dual over Colossus 40th pick.

@andrewwatts6974

3 ай бұрын

It's just not a good enough payoff when you can cast it to balance out it being a dead card 95% of the time

Take a shot every time he calls the initiative the monarch

i feel for this specific deck mana crypt is better than sol ring

1:22:20 What was that?

This draft was awesome and all but you lost a lot of complaint equity with those draws.

I’m visiting family in Spain and it’s messing with my routine

Welder and recurring nightmare feel like theyre facing similar issues of their recursion value being a little too slow, while also being the more difficult way of cheating game pieces into play

Typical LSV, not opening power :(

day one of asking LSV to add tireless provisioner to the cube