A (Mana) Draining Control Deck Takes the Stage | Vintage Cube Draft

These daily videos should be more classified as instructional MTG videos instead of just draft videos. The way LSV talks through and explains all of his choices is extremely educational.

The way Luis takes extra care to pronounce 4Beine incorrectly in the intro ❤ I love this amount of sass. Edit: Ok, looks like it for once was not sass, haha. It's pronounced "fear by-nuh".

“Counterspell, memory lapse and solitude.. oof” truer words have never been spoken.

like 6 hours ago I was watching an older video of vintage cube where in the beginning of the video LSV also mentioned the guy being in the same high school as him. And I thought I was having an aneurysm or something because I thought I was watching the same video again. And somehow only an hour had passed.

4beine: Fear - Buy - Nugh

42:09 that’s a funny play since if they cast necromancy off spell queller the creature dies on the next end step since it was cast at instant speed

At 41:09 that's such an oof moment for his opponent. "Oh yeah, I've got a removal spell for you 7/7 beater. I just don't care"

I love watching those little engines like Skullclamp, Iconoclast, Sensei's Top come together.

Damn some of those alternate art cards (The One Ring, Palantir) look awful. I mean I'd love to have that art as a poster on my wall.. but on a card? Nah.

Thanks for uploading an hour early!

Not that it made any difference but at 42:36 there was no need to memory lapse the necromancy during your opponent's end step. Necromancy sacrifices itself at the beginning of the cleanup step if cast at non-sorcery speed, so the Griselbrand would have immediately gone away. If Necromancy sacrificed itself at the beginning of the end step like a normal card it would be different, but that's Necromancy for you - absolutely absurd templating. Still, that's a really funny interaction between Kiki-jiki, spell queller, and necromancy that I've never seen before.

That was a pity, I would have loved to see round 3 too 😂 but great draft and deck 🎉

LSV opening power? I don’t believe it, packs are rigged.

59:52 Small edge, but there's a precise ordering for using Parallax Wave to play around Cryptic Command. Exiling his Endurance, holding priority, and exiling your Spell Queller is the only way to guarantee that Spell Queller can't be permanently exiled without having the same happen to Endurance. Mostly just found it interesting, because it's the only time I've ever seen holding be useful as a means of preventing counterplay.

Hearing you mention Bishop O' Dowd is crazy because i had to go there a few times for basketball tournaments

I don't know why but the art on that one ring triggers me. It feels like an affront to magic.

The most counterspell deck that ever counterspelled lol

I was thinking the young pyromancer with skullclamp and third path? Kitesail is nice though

Wondering why you didn't let channel resolve and then just using lapse on whatever they tried to cast off it?

Love the deck! But one question, why pick Kitesail over Young Pyromancer? Wouldn't the redundancy with Third Path Iconoclast be better?