1. Great content, easily one of my two favourite limited columns (LSV obv being the other). You have a thoughtful and personalized approach, it feels like your reasoning is your own, and not necessarily a parroting of the general consensus. For example spire tracer/burst of strength in 3xGTC. As for single elimination vs swiss I’d personally prefer single elimination all the way. Your style suits the most competetive play possible, harder decisions provide better insight.

  2. Do not play Cube. It should be boycotted due to its awful prize structure. I thought you would have learned by now.

  3. Thanks for the content, solid deck, tight play all through. I didn’t think this sort of straight-creature-beatdown deck can win in this format but you proved that to be wrong.

  4. Can’t watch the video right now since I’m at work, but I sure will. Also I really hope you’re going to do some Modern Masters and I’d incredibly like to see you do one of the upcoming Phantom Sealed Events with the 11 different Sets.

    Weiter so!

  6. Hey Simon!
    Great stuff as always, although I’ve only watched round 1 yet :)
    I think you should have gone for the ooze in M1G1 instead of the Wurmcoil. That way you could have shrunk the goyf and get your board through. I think, I would have also abandoned the white postboard completely. What are your thoughts on that?

  7. @Kezzerdrix: Because nobody plays Magic for fun. You’re right. What is he thinking?

  8. Darn, sorry for the double-post, but I can’t edit my first.
    Why did you board in that sphere so often? Each time you played it, it seemed like it hindered you more than anything. Maybe I’m missing something, but it just doesn’t seem like a good card unless your board is already dominating and you want to help keep it that way.
    Very entertaining draft in any case. Always enjoy watching your vids. Keep up the good work!

  9. The winter orb absolutely won him one game in round 2. If you’re on the creature beatdown plan like Simon was, winter orb and gaddock teeg are symmetrical effects that happen to hose control and 3-4 color decks. And yeah, m1g1 you should have realized several turns earlier that tarmogoyf was the only thing holding up your board and gone ooze with fauna shaman to let you ramp up the pressure. But hey, impossible to see every play.

  10. great stuff, your deck had a lot of sweet synergies. I think one advantage is that you weren’t greedy with your mana base – unlike those 4 color decks you played in round 1 and 2

  11. Great content as usual. Personally I would have first picked the balance and gone a different direction but that’s whats so great about cube. A lot of people think midrange creature based strategies are underpowered in cube which might be true in irl cubes but I actually think those strategies can be well positioned in the wizards cube if you have a good post wrath plan be it vengevine, reanimation spells, or something like cloudgoat ranger.

  12. Hey, thanks for your vids, great content !
    About the single elimination/swiss question, I would say that both are interesting. But could you post 3 videos even if you played only one round (the other two being empty of course)? It was killing the suspense to know that you were going to win round 1 and round 2…

  13. Always do swiss for cube. Or, do single eliminations until you hit the third round. Uploading games where you get knocked out m1 or 2 is really annoying regardless of whether it’s realistic. EG ochoa or martell’s draft videos. That joke got old very quickly.

  14. Thanks for your comments and feedback, everyone! I was very happy how the deck and the matches turned out, even beating one of my personal end-bosses in the finals :).

    @Galemathias: This is on of the reasons I do single elimination expert set drafts (the others being that it’s what I play exclusively when not recording and enjoy the most). I was wondering if people felt differently about cube, though.

    @Alex: Thanks!

    @Simon: I’ll try to record a Modern Masters draft, don’t know about the 11-set sealed though.

    @cricketHunter: It’s great to see that so many people like the European coverage, especially given English is our 2nd language.

    @schmuelle: Going for the Ooze rather than Wurmcoil sounds reasonable. Though to be fair, getting to keep either of them would have helped a lot :).

    @Daracaex: The comment by crosswell below yours basically answers the question. If Winter Orb sufficiently hinders my opponent more than me, it is worth the inclusion. The game against Recurring Nightmare was won solely because of Winter Orb and is a beautiful example of many small decisions mattering in the end.

    @crosswell: When should I have gotten the Ooze? From the point that Tarmogoyf was stolen I didn’t draw a creature until Taurean Mauler was bounced. I agree that getting the Ooze then might have been better than the Wurmcoil, but I don’t see an earlier point in time to do so.

    @Broc: I like to be conservative when it comes to mana bases :).

    @dave c: Very nice analysis :).

    @Gulfoss: I don’t know the details, but MTGOAcademy always shows the link buttons for each round, whether I won or not. So in theory there should be no spoilers.

    @Always swiss: I strongly disagree with only showing drafts that worked out. I know that it offers longer entertainment, but losing is a natural part of Magic. Some losses are not worth watching (I won’t upload a draft video with disconnects during drafting or in which I time out round 1), but some are more insightful than 3-0 drafts.
    Recording drafts and matches until I make the finals sounds awful. Even with a high match win percentage, that would force me to let a significant portion of my work go to waste :/.

  15. I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me. I love Cube online. Everybody should play it as often as they can.