Limited Resources: Winter 2012 Cube Draft #3

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Limited Resources




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  2. Loved the video, great to see the LR team drafting cube.

    Just wondering if a better line at the end of M3G3 would’ve been holding Vindicate, letting the 4 spirits attack, and then Shelldocking in Frost Titan at EoT. Using Vindicate on Moat would allow you to attack for the win, even if he top decked another creature, since Jackal Pup can’t usefully chump.

    As it turned out, this line still loses to Lightning Helix (and any other bolt/shock) which is a strong argument against it. But it just flat out wins against most of your opponent’s possible draws, which has got to count for something.

  3. Great deck and great videos, guys! Independent of the Mystical Tutor, you can beat Lingering Souls by tapping his Taurean Mauler and any blocker he might play with an end-of-turn Frost Titan off Shelldock Ilse, then Vindicate your own Moat and attack for lethal. Jackal Pup can be ignored because of its drawback.

  4. Cube should be boycotted due to their awful prize stucture. this was bad and you should feel bad.

  5. Awesome draft! The deck was absolutely sick. So many unfair cards. You’ve made a lot of little mistakes along the way, but the deck’s sheer power and consistency (3 tutors + will) helped mitigate that.

    I love having Jons perspective on things and the two of you are extra entertaining when recording together, so yeah – get Jon to do more of these with you, Marshall.

  6. I am pretty sure that Yawgmoth’s Will would have let you replay your boilerworks from your graveyard in addition to the Thoughtseize and tutor in M2.

  7. When he played lingering souls last match, the correct play was to pass the turn and let him attack with his tokens. Then at end of turn you’d get your titan, tap his only valid blocker (the changeling, pup cant block titan and not kill him on 1 life), on your turn vindicate your moat and attack for the win. That plays around another topdecked blocker too (titan triggers on attack). You’d of course lose as well, cause he topdecked that helix that gets you to -1 life with firebolt flashback, but at least you’d be playing for a next turn kill that would’ve been thwarted by a lucky topdeck :)

  10. “Or we could grab Frost Titan, but we don’t have another blue. So, yeah, we just grab Sphinx’s Revelation.”

  11. This will actually be watchable because someone good is there to advise your draft/ play!

  17. It’s worth noting that you guys missed out on the Lion’s Eye Diamond/ Yawgmoth’s Will synergy and the Basalt Monolith/Wake Thrasher combo (twice!) in the draft. Missing on LED is probably more significant than the thrasher combo for this deck, but it didn’t end up breaking the deck.

  18. I really enjoy the videos with both of you. I’ve been a big fan of LR since podcast #1 and being able to hear the conversation and discussion about in-game/building decisions is great.

    I was a little disappointed that you didn’t really consider your signets’ impact on your colors–it seemed you only gave them a cursory thought (due to time?)

    I think Basalt Monolith did not belong in the deck, as your colors, not the sheer quantity of mana, was the limiting factor for most of your spells. While it is great with Sphinx’s Revelation, it is only marginally useful in casting Bolas, Angel, Titan, Terminus or Chandra, as you were not very likely to have the right colors when the mana from Monolith would still count as acceleration.

    For the card to replace the Basalt Monolith, I think I would have used the Palinchron or another land–Volrath’s Stronghold, and include a third Plains, cutting the Swamp. I would have probably built it with the Palinchron and Stronghold, I think the Stronghold and Plains would have been best.

    While I appreciate Dudeguy’s enthusiasm for LED/Will and Basalt/Thrasher in the preceding post, I don’t think they fit with the deck’s strategy, and had the LED or Thrasher been drafted, it would probably been correct to leave them in the sideboard. It would have been reasonable to comment on during the draft. Regardless, I enjoy the pick discussions.

  19. I think it was correct to play around leak when you went for s. revelation m1g1, it would have been as easy as not tapping the monolith. You would end up with 6 cards in hand, +1 for your draw step next turn, and you would have +3 additional mana available from monolith.