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889s	hello everybody and welcome to day
890s	number two of the Hearthstone Masters
892s	Tour spring championship for 2024 my
894s	name is TJ and joining me to kick off
896s	the show today is the one the only Neil
899s	the rinda one how you doing today Neil
901s	I'm doing great TJ as always I love
904s	these tournaments uh day one was it was
906s	nice it was nice to have some Friday
908s	Masters Tour action but this one I think
910s	most regular viewers will agree is a
913s	bigger day same level it's like same
915s	round one group stage stuff but the
917s	players we have on the show today is
919s	going to be rather a treat I think for
921s	regular viewers of Masters Tour
923s	shows oh absolutely um some very top
926s	level players that have been dominant in
928s	hearstone comped seen for years now uh
932s	big household names in modern uh top
936s	level Hearthstone so um before we get
938s	into the action just want to give
940s	everybody a little bit overview of
941s	what's going on this weekend what's
943s	going on this year for those of you who
944s	didn't tune in yesterday uh the
946s	culmination of 2024 will be the
948s	hearstone world championship with a
950s	prize pool of
952s	$350,000 this year we have two seasonal
954s	championships the first one being right
956s	now which is spring uh and then of
958s	course in the Sumer summer will have the
960s	summer Championship each with a $50,000
962s	prize pool um we have 16 total
965s	competitors which we have shows over 3
967s	days uh dual tournament groups uh and
971s	the winner and runner up of each of
973s	these seasonal championships will
974s	automatically qualify to compete at the
977s	world championship so on top of the
978s	prize pool that $50,000 the players this
980s	weekend are competing for those two
982s	World spots which is a huge uh deal big
985s	step up and obviously the prestige that
987s	comes with it and we're playing Conquest
990s	TJ I think we played Conquest almost
992s	exclusively in Master's tours for some
993s	time now but if you're new to the
995s	competitive scene you get four decks uh
997s	for Unique classes um each player bans
1000s	one of those usually the best one uh you
1002s	can't win the same deck twice so your
1004s	worst deck can get targeted sometimes or
1006s	your best deck can get targeted a deck
1007s	can get targeted anyway uh it's best of
1009s	five so youve got to win with all three
1011s	of your decks which means if one of your
1013s	decks doesn't win because it's rubbish
1014s	you won't win the
1017s	match and of course of
1020s	course the new expansion that we're
1023s	seeing featured in many of the decks
1024s	here whizbangs workshop and I said it
1028s	yesterday and Neil I couldn't find
1030s	anything better to say at this very
1032s	moment for this particular graphic so
1033s	I'm going to say it again
1035s	thematically probably my favorite
1036s	expansion of all times actually
1038s	yesterday I said one of my favorite did
1040s	a little thinking and I think it is my
1042s	favorite thematically of all time um and
1046s	keyword miniaturize I think uh
1049s	fantastic the I feel like it it's got to
1052s	be hard to come up with new keywords cuz
1054s	we've exhausted a lot of the potential
1056s	Mechanics for farstone so I like to see
1058s	the limits pushed I think miniatur has
1060s	been uh fantastic and many of the the
1063s	top cards uh that we're seeing in in the
1066s	uh the metag game currently uh feature
1069s	that most notably uh in the The Demon
1071s	Hunter with window shopper I think has
1074s	uh made that deck top tier just to
1075s	clarify it makes um it's going to be
1077s	hard to come up with sensible new I'm
1079s	sure you and I could sit here and make
1080s	up loads of keywords and things they
1083s	do but they wouldn't be good they would
1086s	be absolutely rubbish so yeah uh doing a
1088s	good job of keeping the keywords coming
1090s	miniaturize makes sense it's not too
1092s	sort of oppressive it's very strong but
1095s	it's not too ridiculous um again if TJ
1098s	and I sat here and made keywords all day
1100s	people might watch that but they
1102s	probably not actually make any of the
1103s	cards it wouldn't be really worth doing
1106s	all right I'll run through the schedule
1107s	real quick so I can give you my idea for
1108s	a keyword that I just start off right
1109s	off the top of my head that's very
1110s	thematic for our casting Duo
1112s	specifically days one and two is the
1114s	group stage dual elimination groups uh
1116s	which means we send two players from
1118s	each group out into the top eight uh
1121s	single elimination bracket which will
1122s	happen tomorrow yesterday's we yesterday
1124s	we did groups z and b today we're going
1126s	to uh settle Group C and D and there's
1129s	what happened yesterday we saw Pat nit
1131s	and Wu uh moving on uh from group a I
1135s	think both impressed me uh incredibly
1139s	and had to defeat some great players
1141s	like yla in order to get there and then
1143s	of course Group B molar fantastic
1145s	control lineup uh refuses to die
1148s	definitely breakout star from yesterday
1151s	and then gamer
1153s	rvg America's representative um the the
1157s	the the hopes the America's region for
1159s	the past couple years is also moving on
1161s	to that top eight and as we look at this
1162s	top eight bracket while we wait for the
1164s	other four spots to fi here's my keyword
1165s	idea Neil okay go the keyword Boat Boat
1171s	here's what it does yeah here's what it
1173s	does boat uh very similar to death
1175s	rattle okay you you play a a a card with
1179s	the keyword boat when it dies instead of
1182s	dying it gets on a boat and it sails to
1185s	an island okay which is on a separate
1188s	part of the screen right think of it as
1190s	like a map there's an island okay uhhuh
1193s	uh once
1196s	enough boat cards die and go to the
1200s	island yeah let's say six arbit number
1204s	six boat six six boat carts yeah Boat
1207s	Six okay they have a party on the island
1209s	and then they Shuffle back into your
1211s	deck that's amazing see
1216s	Bo developers take
1219s	notes just got dead pan group se you I'm
1222s	don't mind yeah just like all right
1225s	that's enough boat talk talk about talk
1228s	about Group C please quick
1229s	all right um uh the big lineup of
1232s	players today um a lot of huge names
1235s	specifically from the the European
1237s	region um with I'd say the top in the
1241s	past two years of competitive
1243s	Hearthstone like the three best
1246s	performing players in Hab gabu bunny
1248s	Hopper and fury Hunter and then
1249s	obviously honorable mention to Demetri
1251s	gof who's uh been fantastic uh and I'm
1254s	I'm guessing that that's what you meant
1256s	by we have sort of an All-Star lineup uh
1258s	here today in group C and D Neil yeah
1260s	absolutely um Fury Hunter again I don't
1264s	know how he didn't get to the world
1265s	championships in 20122 uh he felt like
1269s	he won everything he just kept missing
1270s	out on qualification one way or another
1273s	um he won two masters tours for sure and
1275s	then obviously former world champion and
1277s	yeah like you say Dimitri
1279s	Kazo interesting to see what's in his
1282s	background of his room or which room
1283s	he's even in for the americ region
1287s	representative yeah it's
1290s	uh my only dream is that we'll have two
1293s	America's players obviously representing
1295s	uh separate regions um or regions within
1299s	the region if you know what I mean I
1301s	don't North versus South I see um they
1304s	play each one would get to the
1306s	semi-final and that would be that's like
1308s	an America's region player winning as
1309s	far as we're concerned right as as as
1312s	far as we're concerned commentators yeah
1314s	even just two in the top eight is
1316s	already a success right um uh
1319s	but we'll we'll we'll see about that
1321s	those are the two that really stand out
1323s	of my mind as ones that we saw compe in
1325s	uh Grand Masters for a while and have
1327s	had uh a lot of success um we are
1330s	entering uh Group C uh in progress uh
1334s	the initial matches have taken place
1336s	we're now going to be jumping into I
1337s	believe this is the uh winners match um
1341s	for Group C which is going to be insane
1343s	versus
1343s	toeka
1347s	and so the players submit their own
1350s	cards right U this is not on me these
1353s	days and in saying all he does in other
1355s	people's streams all day long is
1357s	complain and complain about how unlucky
1358s	he is and he's submitted known in the
1360s	community as the luckiest player
1362s	alive it's
1364s	just great sort of selfawareness these
1367s	are some very weird favorite cards and
1369s	favorite decks usually we see some
1371s	Classics you know but threads of Despair
1373s	and plague death knight as favorite card
1376s	favorite deck respectively that's
1378s	threads of
1379s	spare I don't
1382s	know more lies I feel like all three of
1384s	those things were lies yeah they they
1387s	just may be I don't know if that's on
1389s	the top of anybody's favorite list but
1391s	insane um featuring the nature Shaman
1393s	there got to take a quick look at it uh
1395s	not the Jive Shaman that we saw a little
1397s	bit of yesterday but the pure like spell
1400s	damage nature Shaman and then TOA all
1402s	right here we go this is more while
1405s	polarizing this makes more sense
1407s	favorite card minor Ender Lucio favorite
1409s	deck control priest um I would not say
1411s	that I agree but I
1414s	understand Shadow priest was better for
1416s	Lucio that wasn't
1419s	it
1421s	um yes yes sure yes sure uh and then the
1426s	shuffle Rogue um I think many refer to
1430s	as Miracle Rogue um this one is a fair
1433s	clean L all two ofs straight through uh
1437s	utilizing the speaker Stomper there's
1439s	some players that opt to use speaker
1441s	sers some that opt to use uh col neoy um
1444s	it's just depending on what you want
1446s	speaker somper you have the value of
1447s	tradable cold neight can be good if you
1449s	need to like Shadow step bit to block
1451s	out a very specific piece of removal and
1453s	also uh notably no mimon uh in the deck
1457s	uh for that extra uh sort of Mech energy
1462s	yeah yeah um getting the spare parts uh
1465s	to try and like cheese out winds or you
1469s	know having that little bit of extra
1470s	push uh if you need it sometimes like
1472s	that stealth can come in handy or
1474s	reducing the cost of the next card uh
1475s	the one that I like the most in that
1477s	deck is um the uh swap stats because it
1482s	lets you if you have like a let's say a
1485s	Celestial protectionist on the board and
1486s	a giant you can attack with the giant
1489s	first swap stats with Celestial
1490s	protectionist and then get sort of
1492s	double damage in in in that regard so um
1496s	but not playing it in the deck so very
1498s	clean it's going to do one thing
1500s	Everything Must Go and Giants that's it
1502s	that's what it wants to do yeah I'm
1504s	still not sold on it but um to played
1507s	against Fury hunter in the first round
1509s	and fury Hunter has the same lineup as
1511s	insane it's not the same 120 but it's
1513s	the same four archetypes the same four
1514s	deck basically with some personal
1516s	preference changes and in that one Fury
1519s	hunter lost twice with the shaman
1521s	couldn't get the shaman out of the
1522s	series lost 3-1 so to be could just got
1526s	to sort of run it back uh what he just
1528s	done
1529s	in in the off stream match and do the
1532s	same to insane so must be feeling good
1534s	to be playing against the other player
1536s	in the tournament who hasn't got warrior
1537s	in their
1543s	lineup it's all the fact there too uh
1546s	TOA not using zelc in any
1550s	deck um which
1553s	is I suppose if you look at the
1555s	breakdown of the decks zelc is a
1559s	relatively easy cut in all of them
1563s	um sure but but zil is also a flexible
1567s	card that you can kind of put it
1569s	anywhere
1571s	uh uh with the right modules you know
1574s	all right but let's get into it game
1575s	number one winners match for Group C
1577s	insane versus
1580s	TOA always a interesting decision these
1583s	days I know I know the old Shan had
1584s	enough Minions that this was like a
1585s	no-brainer just to throw out your spell
1587s	damage on turn one but
1589s	you you do only have three spell damage
1590s	minions now four cuz you play thos and a
1592s	Ganer I guess so the Temptation not to
1597s	get Tempo on the board on turn one is
1600s	huge but with the spirit claw with the
1603s	zapper then yeah get get some stuff on
1605s	the board start getting that damage in
1606s	early I mean Rogue really doesn't have a
1609s	single way to deal with this on turn one
1612s	uh they have a way uh which is coin
1617s	dagger prep fan of knives
1620s	like okay sure count yes yeah then you
1625s	worth right and with the spe claws to
1627s	follow it up this is going to be a lot
1630s	of early damage so it'll more than make
1633s	up for missing that spell damage later
1635s	on you'll need less of it in order to
1637s	get there like right now to is already
1639s	on the ropes um and does have the uh
1644s	like everything must go in the hand but
1646s	that's not really where you want it uh
1648s	often times you want to be able to have
1651s	the the gas side
1654s	gatekeeper shuffle your deck and then
1656s	draw the Everything Must Go uh uh from
1659s	the redraw I guess it doesn't really
1660s	matter if it's in your hand or not um
1663s	but it's not a welcome site you'd rather
1664s	have that be draw itself yeah and this
1666s	was a mess like getting me to speaker
1668s	stom just to draw the other one uh not
1670s	how you want to start your day when
1671s	you're facing another six damage in the
1673s	face straight
1675s	away need Rock 12 is a lot it's
1683s	to just going to die still no way to
1685s	deal with this yeah to be honest can
1687s	dagger up uh uh prep mic drop um which
1692s	may have to be the play in this scenario
1694s	or else that Nava zapper is just still
1696s	not going to die um it does keep drawing
1700s	cards right yeah
1702s	um can I interest you in a speaker
1706s	stomper it's the third one he's drawn
1708s	over
1710s	yeah I mean you could also go like coin
1713s	speaker stomper I mean it's not the
1716s	worst I I think you've got to take the
1718s	hint at some point haven't
1719s	you yeah is going to dig for the
1722s	gatekeeper I
1725s	guess yeah it's a good guess I think
1728s	that's that's the card does something
1730s	but ditch the the prep with the gear
1733s	shift H I'm not
1735s	sure with two in the deck and 23 cards
1738s	that
1739s	was um I guess it wouldn't have been 23
1742s	cards it would have been 21 cards cuz
1744s	the two was shuffled back
1746s	but now we might drop him without a
1749s	weapon oh it's all kicking off okay prep
1753s	everything must go at least um is able
1755s	to get whoa hello say
1762s	what okay well well well well yeah this
1768s	way wishes he hadn't built himself as
1770s	the luckiest player in
1773s	everything that's a big that
1777s	is uh brutal yeah
1781s	yeah so could be looking at like a start
1785s	with maybe a swing into one of these and
1787s	then amphibious
1789s	Elixir um just to get the value back
1794s	yep I see what you pick up
1799s	insta
1800s	[Music]
1804s	bolt no way of clear no sensible way of
1807s	clearing the board here I don't think
1810s	because you want the damage to go 18
1814s	right yeah it's close you could
1816s	lightning bolt 68 and then overdraft
1821s	the uh 42 but then the 68 would be at
1824s	one Health after even if you were to
1826s	trade in your uh zapper look like just
1829s	GNA clear
1831s	off uh the Drake here leave the 68 up uh
1835s	for now yeah he's fully on assemble
1838s	damage and try and win turn six turn
1840s	seven mode here um it may have to be
1842s	turn
1846s	five yeah cuz these uh playground Giants
1849s	I believe
1850s	are um free now cuz they were six before
1852s	the shuffle uh if they're picked
1856s	up everything must go as fine
1859s	two three not
1861s	fantastic um but still decent everything
1864s	must go after that first one really just
1867s	needed decent didn't need didn't need
1870s	overwhelmingly great yeah but does need
1874s	to get on with it happy with the spot
1876s	there are still ways here that insane
1878s	can definitely win this that that 12
1879s	early damage has made such a huge
1882s	difference um that if you get a bit of
1885s	spell damage he needs he's going to need
1886s	four spells he he urges L urgently
1889s	obviously needs the flash which he
1890s	hasn't got so this turn's probably going
1892s	to be about trying to draw that play
1894s	Flash on six and not be
1901s	dead you
1904s	hit picked up more damage
1908s	though that's 10 damage for next turn
1910s	already
1915s	available 12 if you trade in your sales
1920s	man that's not a b that's a reflexes my
1931s	bad yeah I was thinking that was
1940s	um it's a tumble weed which might be
1943s	necessary a little bit of
1945s	ways away and
1949s	it won't hit the
1952s	Giants or or fully deal with the
1955s	Giants and toa's got double uh speaker
1960s	stomper in
1961s	hand so can find a giant and be able to
1965s	stick a speaker stomper that could
1967s	really
1968s	ruin uh insane's game plan coming up but
1971s	we got Titan next turn and that doesn't
1976s	need any SP SP discount or whatever so
1979s	speaker ster won't really do anything
1981s	against that still reasonably
1984s	healthy um do you think that
1987s	the to wait for the Flash before you
1990s	speaker stomp or are we getting to the
1992s	point now where you're just going to
1993s	have to play anyway because you might be
1996s	dead never mind here's a load of
1998s	giants yeah I I I think next turn is
2002s	probably going to be
2004s	giant uh projectionist and then speaker
2009s	supper set up the
2011s	lethal yeah yeah
2015s	sure
2017s	yep inane with that incredible start
2019s	getting that 12 damage it looked like it
2021s	was over and then just those four drop
2024s	rolls were with the taunts were so huge
2026s	if I think if TOA takes another six that
2028s	turn this game turns out very very
2033s	differently if he just rolls some four
2035s	fours like you normally do with four
2037s	drops
2041s	yeah say probably has to go Titan here
2044s	and then yeah
2052s	[Music]
2053s	Elixir
2061s	okay not it should be the death push
2069s	Titan is
2071s	problematic well you can go
2074s	projectionist play another Giant and
2075s	speaker
2076s	stomper um you can even draw first with
2080s	the the pick maybe pick up another
2083s	giant yeah you've got to decide what
2085s	you're going to do to not die haven't
2088s	you from
2090s	12 12 scary with speaker stomper in play
2095s	yeah oh you think about trading off the
2099s	Titan um can you die seven Mana the
2103s	speaker something in
2105s	play um so the there was no overload
2109s	last
2111s	turn I mean I
2115s	don't I don't think so cuz what are you
2118s	going to draw that's like an overload
2120s	that's going to help you know yeah sure
2123s	okay but Titan's gone anyway no I just
2126s	mean with the reduction of U the first
2127s	spell but
2131s	yeah oh yeah if you yeah true CU you you
2134s	overrule it for one spell which means
2136s	you can get a zero Mana spell and you
2138s	know two two threes that might just have
2140s	been enough with a a zapper so did have
2142s	to kill the Titan for that
2145s	reason yeah it also would have dealt
2148s	with one of the Giants on the board
2149s	which may have prevented
2151s	lethal all right
2156s	now good luck with your t Buble
2161s	weed yeah dead on board with just feral
2172s	Spirits what about with cactus cutter as
2174s	well Spirits into Cactus
2177s	cutter well you'd have to be able to
2180s	play the
2182s	spell from Cactus cutter for Taun good
2186s	point which is not possible which is
2188s	actually completely imposs need ta needs
2190s	taon totem to survive on board yep
2193s	didn't get taon totem and feral Spirits
2195s	is not enough just the two Giants plus
2197s	the dagger uh is enough to kill with the
2199s	two trade overs of the smaller minion so
2201s	that is going to be game one going to
2205s	TOA yeah and nicely done and that's
2207s	despite insane dealing a ton of damage
2210s	early on with just spear claws plus the
2212s	zapper was that everything must go that
2215s	really uh to there was no or even just
2218s	one taunt in that scenario um and a
2221s	little bit more damage was pushed uh
2224s	like four four more damage is what was
2226s	needed at the end there I believe um uh
2229s	for saane because did have enough man to
2231s	go zapper lightning bolt lightning bolt
2232s	even with the speaker stomper which is
2233s	just a straight up eight so it was clo
2236s	close uh even though it may not have
2239s	looked close at the end because of just
2241s	what that board and tail not really
2242s	seeing a way out uh for insane uh that
2246s	everything must go really bail to out
2249s	yeah I was surprised that Fury hunter
2250s	lost twice with Shaman against TOA but
2252s	there's five speaker Stompers I think
2254s	I've counted across toa's decks so
2257s	looking at that I'm a lot less surprised
2259s	now like Shaman winning on turn five or
2261s	six sure that's um that's going to kill
2262s	a lot of people winning on turn eight
2265s	nine not so much when you're busy
2267s	hitting them so TOA does seem to have
2270s	shut down the Sharman so far three and 0
2272s	against it already
2274s	today
2275s	and very interesting if he's got this
2278s	Tech right for the for the
2282s	tournament yeah we've seen this across a
2285s	few different players lineups as a way
2287s	to uh kind of combat the the shaman so I
2291s	think that might be a tough deck for
2293s	insane to get across we'll have to see
2295s	does have Demon Hunter priest also in
2298s	the lineup but I would
2302s	say uh maybe get a lot of heat for this
2304s	I think those are the two best decks in
2306s	The Meta game I know a lot of are going
2308s	to say priest you kidding me I priest is
2310s	the best deck in The Meta game so I'm
2312s	with you I thought the Demon Hunter was
2315s	warri man uh Demon Hunter Warrior
2318s	they're okay but I don't think they're
2319s	the best decks priest is better I think
2322s	unfortunately I would say priest and
2324s	Demon Hunter that's my opinion I'm not
2326s	going to argue too strongly with Demon
2327s	Hunter Demon Hunter is powerful but I
2329s	think that it's pretty
2332s	fragile
2333s	um priest is just good it's also fragile
2336s	but it's only fragile 40% of the time
2338s	60% of the time it just murders people
2341s	so best de um Shaman's pretty good
2345s	although we are seeing this tournament
2346s	it's very easily hated out I think we
2349s	say this every it feels like every
2350s	tournament TJ nature Shaman best deck
2353s	there we see it being played and people
2355s	put in a tech card and suddenly they
2356s	can't win with
2360s	it and when you say Demon Hunter is the
2362s	best do you mean just the straight
2363s	Shoppers or this version with the the
2365s	nagers and stuff going on
2368s	I would say the street
2369s	Shoppers feel like it had more
2372s	success um Shoppers or
2377s	sharers the the the
2380s	Shoppers this one
2382s	who W reim
2386s	reim yeah and it looked pretty
2391s	good uh but obviously not good enough
2394s	cuz ream didn't move on that was the
2398s	we've seen to be win with but
2402s	yeah uh no he had the Demon Hunter re
2405s	from had this version of Demon Hunter am
2407s	I wrong he did a lot of damage he did
2408s	win a game with it
2410s	right yeah I think the Demon Hunter did
2413s	have success it might have been the
2414s	Rogue that was the downfall yeah that's
2415s	sorry yeah that's that's the cost lines
2417s	that's what I was trying to say I think
2417s	it was the Rogue that ream couldn't get
2419s	out of the out of the match yeah know
2421s	you're right was okay so maybe this is
2424s	good I think all the variations of Demon
2425s	Hunter did quite well yesterday let's
2428s	just put it that way so it's hard to see
2430s	which one's the best for this field
2431s	because everybody's having success with
2433s	the deck seems to be a couple weak
2435s	points across all
2437s	lineups um yeah on did the stats for the
2441s	whole of the tournament yesterday on CR
2443s	um yeah streamer of his own right does
2445s	regular top 25 top 50s and yeah it
2448s	looked like um priest and Demon Hunter
2451s	were the best two decks yesterday so you
2452s	nailed it well done you
2460s	all right toas Warrior on the other hand
2464s	is playing the sort of Highlander
2466s	Warrior but a lot of duplicates uh in
2469s	this deck um how many did you count
2472s	earlier 11 cards was it 10 or 11 I think
2475s	it was 10 cuz I remember saying it's
2476s	exactly in the zone the um ah 10 10 yeah
2480s	right in the middle 10 two ups
2483s	yeah um now many have been drawn already
2486s	safety goggles acet pain
2490s	slam um Shield block all two
2494s	ofs but this brand in
2497s	hand yeah this brand is going to be dead
2500s	for a little
2501s	bit uh and by a little bit I mean quite
2505s	a while but we'll see if that's enough
2509s	time if the if the for insane to
2512s	actually deal some damage before the
2515s	effect from Brand would even matter
2517s	which it may not because there's I was
2520s	going to say like ziliax can be a
2522s	bounceback with the brand
2524s	effect
2527s	um but there's no zelc right this is the
2530s	player who's playing no zil in the whole
2533s	of their lineup there's none yeah
2538s	yeah so noil so yeah maybe just the
2541s	extra removal is actually going to be
2543s	helpful here you just have to say that
2545s	okay my brain's going to be dead
2552s	players faces moments before playing
2554s	dirty
2557s	rats I
2561s	wonder haven't really seen much that
2563s	indicates that dirty rat would even pull
2565s	anything at this
2567s	point it's just a 26 that stops this
2570s	wall of stuff though like it's really
2572s	tempting just to wedge it on the board
2574s	and close your eyes
2578s	but let's say there's like an Argus in
2581s	hand like what are you going to do
2585s	yeah yeah Sharpshooter would be
2589s	unpleasant H yeah Sharpshooter as well
2592s	like I think I you you this dirty rat
2595s	you either have to have some type of
2596s	read that there's something high
2598s	priority in hand
2600s	or
2603s	um you have to have removal to deal with
2605s	whatever comes yeah comes out if it's
2607s	it's not something that you were
2609s	expecting you are right it just look
2611s	like a great way of stopping that board
2612s	especially as I can see the hand like
2614s	you know that makes it
2616s	easier
2621s	yeah okay taking quite a bit of damage
2624s	and this
2625s	turn probably just going to be acolet of
2627s	pain armor up and that's exactly what
2629s	it's going to be trying oh no acolet of
2631s	pain blade storm okay just to take the
2633s	two damage off the board and draw a car
2635s	that's not too bad uh what is let's see
2637s	the ETC has in it ignis dirty rat hearth
2640s	stone Brew that's what the ETC
2642s	has oh don't want any of
2646s	those not particularly well I don't know
2649s	I never turned out an opportunity for a
2650s	good old hearth stone
2652s	Brew you turn out the opportunity for
2654s	good old one Mana
2659s	mcadon three Mana M on yeah we going to
2663s	you turn the opportunity for a one Mana
2664s	one it's there the chance is there a one
2667s	Mana one
2671s	he just going to spend the man on the
2672s	instrument Tech this might be uh a an
2675s	opportunity for a dirty rat but
2679s	again no way to kind of deal with it on
2682s	the other side true yeah you might hit
2685s	the 65 which would be
2689s	terrifying worked out quite nicely
2690s	though for this blad
2692s	storm
2695s	yep the deck that just keeps hitting you
2697s	reverse of the deck that just keeps
2698s	killing your stuff it's it's no wonder
2700s	it's about a 50/50 in a lot of people's
2702s	eyes I
2703s	think
2706s	yeah like sometimes it feels I mean this
2709s	is this is half a nutshell but sometimes
2711s	it feels like it's really easy to beat
2713s	the Demon Hunter you just kill their
2714s	four six fives and the game ends and
2717s	some sometimes they just keep coming
2718s	back at you and I think that's where the
2720s	Sharpshooter build has become a bit
2721s	stronger like it gives them one last
2724s	push for a bit more damage when they've
2726s	lost their their early 65 action if they
2729s	lose it if that 65 stuff doesn't just
2730s	kill your opponent of course which it
2733s	does quite often surprisingly
2742s	often my instinct play was just M
2745s	theodon plus uh second weapon uh and
2749s	start pushing a little bit can't really
2752s	remove this board can't really do much
2754s	against it does give toeka an
2756s	opportunity for kind of a proactive play
2758s	like a setup play
2760s	but not really that much roaring app PLS
2763s	okay yeah three Mana muradon that
2765s	doesn't going to actually hit your
2766s	opponent in the face outside of it you
2767s	know its explosive damage is not so
2770s	great against Warrior right it's really
2772s	nice don't get me wrong
2774s	but it is only ever doing six damage
2777s	most likely and you don't have a board
2779s	to attack with for a couple of turns
2781s	again you don't need one cuz you're
2782s	doing three damage for nothing
2784s	but definitely worth just taking your
2787s	time to make make sure there's not a
2788s	better play in that
2789s	situation
2793s	yeah oh this
2796s	is
2798s	cards yeah is that nine nine or or yeah
2802s	nine cards eight cards does draw okay
2804s	glacial Shard fantastic pickup that's
2807s	one of the duplicates and it also shuts
2809s	off uh the Umpire grass for
2812s	turn make sure the demon can't come out
2814s	yeah
2818s	but this board will get cleared away so
2821s	you know but buy some time at the very
2823s	least play you one see what you get I
2825s	would say so secrets you might want to I
2827s	want to trade first okay yeah I want to
2828s	trade first well I don't know if you
2831s	trade then you risk the uh chance of uh
2835s	picking up the second Window Shopper um
2838s	but I think just wants to try and spend
2841s	the Mana and uh take that risk ooh um
2845s	it's got to be tough crowd yeah where
2847s	what your tough Crow you having a reack
2849s	you trying again yeah yep I was thinking
2853s	you you could hold on to the gar but
2856s	you're Frozen this turn and this would
2857s	be the ideal turn to play it or else
2859s	it's going to get moved from Outcast
2860s	position so you got to play tough
2862s	crowd secret
2865s	Guy what's it going to
2867s	be counter spell and 66 W there you go
2874s	easy be very weird if those were the the
2878s	like actual two Secrets it's always
2880s	those two secrets you feel
2883s	good it's always open the
2888s	cages see this open the cages I had it
2891s	happen but I don't remember if it was in
2893s	Arena or not right cuz I know they have
2895s	different list I don't know if open the
2897s	cages a
2899s	standard has a right
2901s	vein I don't think it
2904s	is right
2908s	that's the bummer of playing a lot of
2910s	Arena alongside constructed as I never
2912s	remember which cards in which format oh
2928s	God ah bit and switch come on Neil yeah
2931s	we could have had another
2933s	65 gosh I'm not thrown away
2938s	shot my blood yeah the opponent having
2941s	to play around all that is now going to
2943s	have so much
2946s	um pain coming at them the other
2952s	way four Mana well
2955s	spent it's a lot of damage really
2960s	is it's another
2965s	two got the other play desper and then
2968s	momentum that's it's never it's never
2971s	ever not leth when you got both we've
2973s	done this one yesterday yeah yeah yep
2976s	all right and insane very good chewing
2979s	from the Demon Hunter exactly how it's
2981s	supposed to operate Best of Both Worlds
2983s	right uh you got the uh the weapon and
2986s	the window Shoppers get the demon keep
2989s	pushing that chip damage in the early
2990s	game and then you finish the game off uh
2994s	with the Sharpshooters uh nicely uh
2999s	navigated even the the two of
3004s	Highlander uh Warrior from Tia just
3006s	didn't have enough removal and it did
3010s	have removal but it didn't fit the right
3013s	uh that you needed in in that instance
3015s	because the chip damage was still being
3016s	pushed it's very hard to block that
3018s	damage from thereon from weapon um just
3022s	a bunch of two one attack two attack
3024s	minions the game and the recurring
3028s	damage from M to try and get through so
3031s	all tied up yep the Shar Sho stuff
3033s	finishing off like as you said like it
3034s	should be done and I imagine insane is
3037s	pretty popular in this tournament he's
3039s	been streaming all of his you know
3041s	practice all the way through the week a
3042s	lot of people I think we're tuning in to
3044s	cheer him on so be a popular winner of
3047s	this week I suspect insane obviously
3050s	been around HearthStone for a very long
3052s	time one all kinds of sort of lower
3054s	level events but looking for that big
3056s	one it's slowly but surely got into more
3059s	and more important tournaments over the
3060s	last couple of years looking forward to
3062s	seeing him do well but yeah he's he's
3064s	been the the streamer this year who who
3067s	has shown us what he's got live whereas
3070s	last year there were quite a few of
3071s	those with mey bace pocket train
3074s	insane's been the big one this time
3077s	around yeah and looking pretty good in
3080s	that game and now we're effectively down
3081s	to a best of three we got shaman on both
3083s	sides uh it's a a mirror match up in
3086s	archetype but m match up in terms of the
3088s	card inclusions in the deck so that one
3090s	should be interesting and then we have
3092s	priest on uh the side of insane um
3096s	which uh against the warrior might be a
3099s	little bit more
3101s	difficult um taking a look at in the
3104s	build from insane for the
3108s	priest yeah I just like the priest into
3111s	the
3112s	warrior it could definitely L it's
3115s	decent I I I actually prefer the priest
3118s	against the warrior
3120s	personally the trouble is with this
3122s	death yeah I think it's just defe
3124s	[Music]
3126s	go I was just going to say it's just a
3128s	feeling that I get when I play priest
3130s	Warriors like the one of the more
3133s	stressful match
3134s	matchups yeah it's it's a hard deck to
3136s	evaluate right because you either just
3138s	lose or you just win there's not many
3141s	there are some but there's not many
3142s	games where you just fight against the
3143s	warrior and slowly Chip Away you're
3145s	either done or you move heard of them
3148s	there's a couple of decks like that the
3149s	warlocks kind similar as
3151s	well
3153s	yeah I think that's a good evaluation
3156s	because there are some matchups where
3157s	you can just kind of wait around and
3159s	eventually you might piece together like
3161s	this combo uh with Zari to deal enough
3165s	damage if you're chipping away a little
3167s	bits here and there with Warrior that
3169s	that kind of wind condition doesn't
3171s	really exist because if they have the
3173s	answers to your stuff you're get them
3175s	because they enough game to survive any
3178s	type of zeri combo you would make later
3179s	on in the
3180s	game um uh in the and insane doesn't
3184s	have outside of alenu doesn't have kind
3187s	of that uh X Factor in the deck that may
3192s	allow him to pull a win out of
3194s	nowhere uh there's no sharp shoo
3196s	equivalent yeah where you can just
3198s	suddenly do 20 damage if you're done
3200s	you're done
3202s	yeah like
3204s	um uh I want a game with hearstone where
3207s	it gave me the like secret uh the hunter
3210s	secret hand with d rexar and I could
3213s	just build a beast and there's a ton of
3217s	insane cheap
3218s	beasts format that kind of nuts with the
3222s	Hearthstone through that just allowed me
3224s	to grind them out um the one Mana rabbit
3228s	thing that gives your Beast Rush right a
3231s	lot of really powerful death rattles
3232s	like the Chimera those types of things
3234s	that give you so much sticking power on
3236s	the the board uh that insane does not
3238s	have the hearstone Brew to to uh get to
3241s	that point but does have that more
3242s	consistent early game because of it
3244s	doesn't really cut anything out in order
3246s	to make that happen and a a very good
3248s	opening start with early minions to play
3251s	Early Tempo to be had and a magatha to
3253s	reload yeah the magatha to reload and
3255s	also to look toi because already Three
3257s	Dragons will be played oh sorry two
3259s	dragons played two in hand so four
3261s	dragons have been available double power
3263s	C synchronized to get another one and if
3265s	mag finds a rem there will be setup
3267s	options uh insane is playing Leroy in
3270s	the deck as well so that's like an extra
3273s	six damage on your Zer sometimes
3275s	sometimes nextra 12 if you go with a
3277s	projectionist or something so definite
3280s	burst options if you can keep the chip
3282s	damage coming over around for another
3283s	couple of turns while setting it up and
3285s	if the Maga
3287s	hits yeah double speaker
3289s	stomper as
3293s	well yeah which will be a big deal
3295s	they're like min ofi
3300s	ah wow yeah this yeah your opponent gets
3303s	half a turn yeah right you take one you
3307s	take one half of an extra
3309s	turn yeah if you're playing against a
3312s	spell heavy deck yeah all right tough
3314s	turn
3316s	here my original Instinct was just the
3322s	churan uh with a power power cord
3325s	synchronize seems good to me um no r no
3329s	R use for the funnel cake full Mana
3331s	expenditure decent Siz minion in
3334s	hand okay this works as well this pushes
3336s	more damage and
3339s	honestly oh no it pushes the same amount
3341s	of damage but it it protects the 44
3346s	from something I don't know stormy stuff
3350s	whatever yeah what well the truran would
3353s	have done it as well but I guess the
3354s	Turan has higher upside than the W
3358s	whereas you can use that to when you
3360s	make a little bit of a bigger board to
3362s	go uh further
3364s	in okay so we can completely dump the
3367s	hand here if we want outside of magatha
3369s	maybe not completely dump the hand but
3371s	go
3372s	like truran uh the gift wrap well funnel
3378s	cake if you want to just you can play
3381s	the whole
3382s	hand yeah but then what are you using
3385s	the projectionist on
3387s	another happy well just a 32 on the
3390s	board and hope your opponent doesn't
3391s	clear that's that's
3397s	terrifying yeah maybe I'm
3399s	I'm thinking too hard I think you might
3402s	be um I certainly think too hard or too
3405s	soft one or the other with this deck and
3407s	it doesn't work out for me just watching
3409s	SLE play just turns off his brain and
3411s	just puts all the things on the board
3412s	and he kills his opponent I'm sure
3414s	that's what he actually does not
3416s	actually really think he really hard
3417s	about how to get
3423s	10 yeah I think you can wait till post
3425s	magatha for the funnel cake just in case
3428s	you pick
3431s	up
3432s	um
3434s	the I always want to call it Northshire
3436s	cleric the clergy uh yeah the
3440s	Crimson clergy Crimson clergy yep red
3445s	yeah over heal draw thing overheal draw
3449s	thing see they that's why they should
3450s	let us name the cards and have boat
3457s	mechanics imagine if uh Crimson clergy
3460s	had the boat
3461s	keyword so they just go back into where
3464s	did the island go does it stay there for
3465s	and wait for another party or does the
3466s	island like sink or
3469s	something no it just Waits there waits
3471s	for another party oh that magatha might
3474s	look like it's um
3477s	I good for insane but I don't think it
3479s	is he needed that reload right unless he
3481s	ripped something great off the top
3483s	now he need the reload
3486s	yeah um how much is
3488s	this oh not enough yeah he's in
3491s	trouble he can wait wait projectionist
3495s	funnel cake yeah magatha yeah let's do
3498s	that I want to do
3501s	that
3503s	analy and you get the Super Value from
3506s	okay cuz this has two two attack
3510s	uh-huh so you you get to heal him back
3513s	up and you still get to overheal
3515s	beautiful oh it's fantastic minion
3518s	that's a five
3521s	minion there's actually not even that
3523s	many spells Ohi as welli double Drifter
3528s	that's dble Drifter with
3530s	Leroy that's a million
3533s	damage okay well it's um
3537s	18
3538s	damage if nothing's on board
3542s	okay if you wait until seven Mana or
3546s	projectionist no you get projectionist
3547s	on seven anyway you play it on six next
3549s	turn and then on seven you play Levoy I
3552s	see what you mean no no no you need the
3554s	projectionist on the first on the first
3556s	turn to get the extra on The Drifters to
3559s	get the extra 40 damage yeah that's if
3562s	this board is um dealt with which I
3565s	think he going to be double dealt with
3568s	yeah
3572s	yeah 18 isn't oh you can fit in
3575s	a it's 20
3579s	20 20 and a Mana Crystal just to be
3584s	clear uh wait wait wait wait no no no um
3587s	if the if the uh gift WAP WEP hits the
3589s	uh Zari uh then you have uh uh eight
3594s	plus eight
3597s	it's 22 Max oh
3601s	no 22
3603s	Max you have to take
3609s	it so if you don't pay levo what are you
3611s	taking
3619s	instead you can't give Warrior the extra
3621s	turn right you just
3623s	can't starting the operation
3630s	sful okay it's just going to go for sort
3632s	of a halfway
3633s	play and then um but make the board
3638s	bigger with the travion so with both
3640s	blad storms gone you you uh give the
3642s	extra
3643s	Health uh scale replica is there any
3645s	dragons left there might not be
3651s	any there are
3653s	none the deck only plays Five dragons
3656s	which is really weird in a deck that
3657s	needs to draw five dragons obviously you
3658s	can generate them and copy them which is
3660s	why it works but it is very
3664s	odd oh there is one oh there's one H GI
3667s	WP well yeah cuz the other two were uh
3674s	synchronized might as well just get it
3676s	out of your deck what about whether you
3678s	want to leave or now while you can or
3680s	whether you want to have different
3681s	shapes out there but blad storms have
3683s	both gone so different shapes arguments
3685s	not as strong is
3687s	normal well I feel like you'll always be
3690s	able to right there's not really
3692s	anything
3693s	that uh TOA has that will block block it
3699s	from doing six exact yeah so you want to
3701s	get the sales but out there cuz you need
3703s	the card draw if you're going that rout
3704s	and you might want another salesman for
3706s	even more card draw you might want a
3708s	projectionist of
3712s	salesman one those
3717s	just to get the the double cycle option
3718s	but he decides to hold on to it
3720s	for next turn is there is there a funnel
3723s	kick in the
3726s	uh that's just
3728s	game right yeah I mean the sanitize
3731s	isn't getting there with aftershocks
3734s	yeah it's too much Mana what uh what can
3737s	be picked up you can armor up Stone skin
3739s	armor and then what's the
3742s	uh what's the pickup that could bail oh
3745s	the old three man of brawl I remember
3747s	it's called Cho
3751s	y insane's one game away from reaching
3755s	Sunday which is tomorrow now so I don't
3757s	have to say Sunday anymore but you
3762s	know yeah but it's Championship
3765s	Sunday uh fantastic uh performance on
3768s	the priest the dirty ride on the magatha
3770s	but then spotting the funnel cick
3771s	projectionist uh play to still get the
3774s	reload a fantastic spot and um one of
3779s	the many reasons why funnel Kake is just
3781s	the best Hearthstone card
3784s	ever it really is pretty power so very
3787s	flexible in a deck like
3789s	this yeah it did so much um for
3793s	additional tempo for doing for for
3796s	fitting in things in a turn that you
3798s	would not otherwise be able to fit in
3800s	even if it comes down to just like extra
3802s	combo Shenanigans with Seri and then of
3805s	course paired with the Crimson clergy as
3808s	just a way to uh cycle through your deck
3811s	and have the extra Mana to be able to
3812s	play the cards you draw which is
3815s	uh such a powerful powerful effect
3818s	anything that lets you cheat mana and if
3819s	you get to cheat mana and draw cards
3822s	just a bonus absolute bonus so just the
3825s	shaman left for insane well and has a
3829s	warrior but also has a shaman Mir
3831s	matchup on the other side uh which if
3834s	you really break down all the matchups
3836s	across this uh um this match like would
3841s	you have it any other way other than a
3844s	shaman mirror match up for game five I
3846s	don't think so I mean TOA beat Fury
3849s	hunter in a shaman mirror match already
3851s	today so the stats we have available to
3853s	us say that he always wins that match up
3856s	so he must be feeling really confident
3857s	right
3859s	now yep
3861s	100% uh always
3863s	wins excuse me yeah exactly but
3867s	um here's the list the insane list is a
3870s	fizzle the shutter blocks have long
3871s	since been removed from this um I think
3875s	people realizing that by the time you
3877s	try to play three um snapshots you just
3880s	ran out of time so stick we want fizzle
3884s	um but we we were looking beforehand as
3885s	well there is
3887s	the no location in this one the location
3891s	in um toa's deck right
3896s	yeah fairy tale bit of a different
3899s	lineup
3900s	yeah yeah so TOA is not playing uh the
3905s	Titan but instead playing inza and uh
3908s	fairy tale Forest uh two copies of fairy
3911s	tale forest for the double
3913s	location um to be able to pick up flow
3916s	Riders Cactus Cutters uh and being able
3919s	to go
3920s	like and then an on curve Ina with the
3924s	discount has got to be pretty fa right
3927s	allows you to do things much quicker in
3929s	theory uh than your opponent but other
3932s	than that the decks don't really differ
3934s	um just those those what three cards
3938s	three card
3939s	difference um so you're still trying to
3941s	do the same for TOA he's playing Joy
3944s	scale Deputy
3949s	instead yeah no
3954s	salesman okay so five card difference
3956s	Five Card difference we have Needle Rock
3958s	totems uh Needle Rock totems for insane
3963s	um and the Titan and no location and
3968s	then TOA is playing inza fairy tale
3970s	forest and dry scale Deputy uh with no
3973s	salesman in that spot so uh I guess a
3976s	little bit different but the game plan
3977s	is still the same right yeah I mean I
3980s	was it just feels like toa's trying to
3983s	accelerate yeah
3987s	okay well we
3988s	got fizzle
3991s	with just a Tempo fizzle yep you do I
3996s	guess the Flash and the zapper cool in
3999s	popup book sure
4001s	but I don't know if that's ever going to
4003s	be picked up um but we're looking uh for
4007s	TOA really wants to go for just that
4009s	this on curve enza which is likely to
4011s	happen fairly easily with how things are
4013s	going for insane there really not much
4015s	to do
4017s	do
4018s	uh just going to unload the amphibious
4021s	Elixir try and find something good
4022s	there's a
4024s	crash lot of damage loaded up
4027s	already not enough Mana look at to's
4030s	damage like with the on curve inzone the
4032s	double spell damage to turn after with
4034s	well two turns after the flash I think
4036s	that might just get there with two more
4038s	draws to come between now and then and a
4039s	flow R in hand
4041s	but okay so this is good this this game
4045s	is gonna get real spicy real quick yeah
4048s	they both got so much damage and we saw
4050s	a match yesterday uh where gameer rvg
4052s	looked like he was going to lose so he
4053s	just coined out Flash and got there
4055s	before his opponent could don't think we
4058s	see that here because we need to get
4059s	this um Ina down but now insane's got to
4062s	decide
4063s	whether know stick or twist is that it
4065s	do you want to do you want to go one
4066s	more turn and take your chance or do you
4068s	want to just go okay well I haven't got
4069s	it all by a long shot now but I might be
4072s	dead if I don't do it now
4078s	he just hasn't got enough has
4080s	he he knows it's the turn where he sort
4083s	of wants to go for it but he just hasn't
4085s	got enough I don't
4094s	think just needle Rock
4099s	flash let's just do it yeah that's what
4102s	he I think he knows his heart of hearts
4104s	like there's a very good chance next
4107s	turn TOA plays flash does some things
4109s	and then insane loses yeah this is a
4113s	really good professional play for
4115s	me he knows this doesn't always win he
4119s	knows it quite often doesn't win but he
4121s	also knows that he might just lose if he
4125s	doesn't well first flash is often used
4128s	for uh just man expenditure and cycle MH
4132s	and against uh like board decks or Tempo
4134s	decks it's used to allow you to remove
4137s	an incoming
4139s	board on the follow-up turn
4142s	so um if insane really wants to look for
4146s	a win absolutely needs a lightning
4148s	reflex to be one of the next
4150s	two oh my goodness I was going to say
4152s	without the reflexes you the whole Tempo
4154s	argument does fall apart but hey just be
4157s	good at Hearthstone it's
4159s	fine
4163s	oh here we go
4166s	oh my
4167s	goodness Mama
4173s	Mia he working out the best way to spend
4175s	his
4177s	one do you want to swing for one with
4180s	the spirit claws now is the one going to
4181s	matter or you want to just save it and
4183s	do oh you swing you 100% swing
4190s	yeah all right time to go what was the
4192s	next is that a lightning bolt oh another
4195s	C crash oh no oh no oh no oh he's he's
4201s	whiff so hard here uh so Aftershock is
4210s	two
4212s	yes so would need a one cost nature
4217s	spell off off the a off the Aftershock
4220s	in order to have enough Mana to fit and
4221s	all spell damage right yeah okay oh
4225s	going to go ahead okay he's a one cost
4227s	nature
4228s	spell no oh my he's just missed on both
4232s	and this is where this tough right
4233s	anyone could do the turn six blow you up
4235s	if you hit all the Spells this is where
4236s	you've got to make good
4238s	decisions
4244s	yeah
4246s	is yeah this is this is rough actually
4250s	needed damage too
4253s	right uh yeah
4257s	yes yes yes he
4261s	did not a lot
4268s	either okay well does the best he can I
4271s	think two terrible rolls there for him
4275s	though and now it's toa's turn to get it
4278s	done going to put him down a seven it
4281s	shows how close he was right two of the
4282s	worst rolls you could get and this is
4284s	still
4286s	he still down to on to held on to a
4290s	crash this has to be
4292s	it do
4294s	no it depends what you hit if you hit
4297s	you got to hit reflexes from the Flow
4301s	Rider no what's in the
4306s	snapshot uh flash
4308s	surely flash double zapper is Flash
4311s	double zapper pop-up
4313s	book okay
4319s	odds that he knows I mean he'll have a
4321s	good idea but yeah here we go he
4324s	instantly grab that's enough that's
4326s	enough that's enough that's enough three
4329s	pop-up books in a crash
4333s	yeah Tia levels it up why wouldn't he
4336s	and takes his fourth win of the day
4337s	against Sharman his second miror and he
4340s	just got his Warrior left to take his
4341s	fifth win of the day against Sharman
4355s	wow not a lot to say there TJ other than
4357s	Tia is just the shaman Master today so
4361s	far in the first match of the
4363s	day yeah I mean that game looks a lot
4366s	differently if um insane finds any
4371s	damage um or a a cheap spell for the
4374s	first one on that
4376s	reflexes um cuz it would have been
4380s	needed yeah needed any damage right cuz
4383s	would if there was extra damage or cheap
4386s	spell from the first one and then damage
4389s	it would have been able to fit in an
4392s	extra uh spell damage minion cuz held
4395s	back on a zapper and then the next crash
4398s	and then would have needed four
4400s	additional damage um which is any damage
4403s	card right pop-up book uh lightning bolt
4406s	um crash so there were a few outs I
4408s	wouldn't say it was like high chance but
4411s	there's really not that many expensive
4412s	nature spells uh to be able to cycle the
4415s	first one and ended up getting all three
4417s	Coster above on the first one which
4420s	meant that the crashes weren't
4421s	discounted even if damage was picked up
4423s	enough to like keep going right so or
4426s	fit in that extra spell damage minion
4428s	with an extra nature spell to be able to
4430s	still uh play the first crash for
4433s	Discount uh but it was close it was
4435s	close a very accelerated Shaman game
4437s	both players having uh good opening
4439s	hands or decent opening hands so now it
4441s	comes down to the shaman versus The
4445s	Warrior indeed um and this was the
4449s	matchup that originally this is why the
4451s	shaman has changed so many times right
4454s	uh the original Shaman had like a 0% win
4457s	rate there was there was some number
4458s	that wasn't zero but it might as well
4460s	have been zero against Warrior and
4462s	because of that had to mess around with
4464s	fizzle and and shutter block came in for
4467s	a short time so you could have three
4469s	Fizzles and then people realized you
4470s	couldn't really do the three Fizzles cuz
4472s	you ran out of time anyway because the
4474s	animations are kind of
4476s	clunky and so now we've got insane with
4478s	with one fizzle no shutter block um no
4482s	forest and just take your chance with
4485s	your fizzle to get the extra damage done
4486s	because you can't beat the warrior in a
4489s	fair
4493s	fight well you can but it's hard sure
4497s	it's very difficult let let me
4500s	generalize come on no tell the truth I
4503s	guess I guess the truth
4504s	matters generalize your heart
4507s	out um will say as well you highlighted
4511s	excellently how good in on four was
4513s	that's absolutely what won to pick of
4514s	that previous game ins on four then
4516s	suddenly all your zappers are costing
4518s	zero for the rest of the game yeah it's
4519s	fine except I highlighted it in a
4522s	different way if he was on curve and
4523s	played the fairy tale for us which I was
4525s	trying highlight the different cards but
4526s	you know
4527s	what let's generalize again yeah oh yeah
4531s	Needle Rock totem beautiful pickup
4536s	fantastic so
4539s	annoying yeah you just don't want to
4541s	have to kill this stupid n 2 thing that
4544s	is going to lose you the game if it's
4546s	just left unchecked
4559s	you also don't want to play a zapper
4561s	just to deal with it you want to kill it
4563s	over two turns though and lose two
4566s	charges on your
4571s	weapon all right just zapper just do it
4574s	yeah zapper zapper salesman Yeah Yeah by
4579s	elimination right nothing else is a play
4582s	or you can take the one in four and just
4583s	roll spell damage totem there you
4587s	go just do
4589s	it
4592s	Neo just just get spicy and press the
4595s	button one time feel lucky today huh
4599s	yeah unfavored match up just hit the
4601s	button and
4609s	hope all right all right this is secret
4612s	option number
4614s	three makes sense actually if you work
4616s	out how much damage the Zapp is worth
4617s	it's probably more than three okay being
4619s	a 3-2 has some Merit but not a huge
4622s	amount
4624s	so I
4626s	understand
4633s	tit
4640s	Titan just in case you're not familiar
4642s	with what um Reno Lone Ranger does where
4645s	have you been
4655s	in is that us are we doing
4658s	that I think I think we're doing that
4663s	yeah just give me people time to read
4665s	the
4666s	battlecry there we go there we
4669s	go if you didn't read it you'll get
4671s	another chance on the VOD if you um
4673s	after we finish the broadcast just just
4674s	go back watch the VOD you'll see see all
4676s	again yeah or just Bo a paron go into
4678s	your collection mous over there yeah
4681s	better
4682s	yet load up one of the comp's deck codes
4685s	put it in your deck and play it exactly
4688s	then and then read it in game and then
4691s	cool all these players much luckier than
4692s	you because they keep winning and you
4694s	don't oh sorry that's my job it's what
4697s	happens to me that that is your
4701s	job
4704s	right well say's made no
4707s	progress hasn't even hit a lot of card
4709s	draw to get going does have the Titan
4711s	which will give him some of that if he
4712s	needs it but Warrior to beer very happy
4716s	here just strolling along headed towards
4719s	drawing cards and making Renos
4722s	happen
4723s	yep Shield block
4727s	here and some armor double armor looking
4731s	good once again a reminder for Tia for
4734s	the see there's a ignis a dirty rat and
4738s	a hearth stone
4742s	Brew interesting
4745s	okay oh Stone Brew where would you use
4750s	that it's between ignis and dirty R in
4752s	this match up if he wants to go for it I
4753s	might even lean towards
4757s	ignis y see that pick a defensive option
4760s	for a
4762s	weapon um there's a natural dirty rat in
4764s	the deck unless he absolutely feels like
4765s	he needs
4767s	it okay um Cactus cutter picks up the
4772s	flash I don't think he really care about
4773s	the
4776s	taunt no I don't think so either
4779s	especially as next turn you've got um if
4780s	you want to a lot of the time it's just
4782s	Titan Flash and see where you end
4786s	up the flash being free at that point
4789s	and you can draw loads of
4791s	cards um if your opponent isn't too out
4793s	of sight on Armor which the B isn't too
4795s	out of s armor right now to be
4802s	fair no Fizzles making this you know
4804s	awkward for insane to decide what to
4816s	do how much damage would you get
4820s	look
4824s	sorry I was saying how's hand space
4826s	looking
4828s	fine perfect in
4836s	fact that's so
4839s	tempting what a flash
4850s	yeah what he's got to way up is how much
4853s	armor can TOA gain and still kill the
4856s	Titan
4857s	right well Shield
4860s	slam yeah
4863s	yeah a lot even if it's just like Shield
4866s	block armor up right that's still uh 42
4870s	Health that you got to get through next
4873s	turn and only damage showing here
4875s	guaranteed damage is double zapper
4878s	lightning bolt crash I guess there's
4879s	popup book as
4881s	well uh will'll burn a card uh going to
4884s	the next turn I think fizzle is the only
4886s	one that insane really doesn't want to
4888s	see um yeah but also lightning
4893s	reflexes and any damage so like crash of
4896s	Thunder popup
4897s	book uh would be tough to lose as well
4901s	yeah he'd like to draw into the um the
4903s	reflexes obviously not overdraw
4906s	it
4908s	yeah he doesn't have next turn but you
4911s	the options there with the
4913s	ancestral yeah
4916s	um okay Shield slam armor of glacial
4920s	Shard oh no going to draw cards and then
4923s	GL sh yeah so 40 is the number okay
4928s	that's a big number double spell damage
4930s	in
4936s	hand so it have to be reflexes into
4940s	double damage and ancestral knowledge
4943s	into into double damage
4946s	yeah oh God and you can't ancestral
4949s	knowledge to see if that's the play
4952s	unless
4954s	you um dump a card first so he
4957s	reflexes can't turn turn the ti it's not
4960s	damage the other problem now though if
4962s	you don't go off here then next turn
4964s	your opponent's not on 40 they're on 48
4967s	or 50 or some other ridiculous number
4970s	so yeah okay there's popup book
4983s	he's got to go as well if he's actually
4984s	going to do it which I don't think he is
4986s	he's got to go yeah he's decided to he's
4989s	not
4989s	going knows he's not going to get there
4992s	makes a very again professional decision
4994s	to say no this doesn't get there I'm not
4995s	going to just lose the game
4999s	here yeah calm Choice try to top deck
5002s	fizzle setting up his hand for amazing
5005s	looking fizzle by the way as long as he
5006s	dumps something out his hand so he
5007s	doesn't overdraw
5009s	it yeah used all the Elixir
5013s	though
5017s	um and picked
5023s	conductivity not sure how I feel about
5025s	that cuz conductivity with Elixir you
5029s	could just like use your own like your
5031s	spell damage minions and get yes
5034s	additional spells
5036s	discovered
5038s	yeah um cuz of the
5042s	adjacency to find extra damage or
5045s	something he decided that's his rout to
5046s	do another 24
5048s	damage that's also
5052s	possibility just turn your deck into the
5054s	Jive insect deck we'll be
5055s	okay yeah one thing to keep in mind also
5058s	as we approach the end of this match is
5061s	that um now of these players are
5064s	eliminated if they lose they go down to
5065s	the decider match of the
5067s	group um but if they win they move into
5070s	the top eight and don't have to play any
5072s	more harstone today they can rest up and
5074s	prep for tomorrow for that single
5076s	elimination braacket so even though
5078s	eliminations on the line this is still a
5079s	big match both these players oh
5082s	absolutely you really you just so much
5084s	want to get into that top eight you're
5086s	two matches away from going to the World
5087s	Championship three matches away from
5089s	being the spring Champion yeah you
5093s	absolutely don't want to go through
5095s	through um potentially Fury Hunter
5098s	waiting for you at the bottom of this
5104s	bracket okay we're just going to dump
5106s	the KTIV
5108s	now yeah so about you could have drawn
5110s	lots of cards but he's got a pretty
5112s	cheap hand for the for the
5119s	fizzle if he can find it ever
5126s	he is trying to curate that fizzle hand
5129s	to a large amount of
5138s	damage basically where he's at now yeah
5141s	I needs to dump the snake
5147s	W I want to attack with the weapon I
5150s	think I did this time the other times I
5153s	understand but does the game really go
5155s	four more turns which is how long it
5157s	need to go before your weapon becomes
5159s	you know zero charges I don't
5163s	know all right Shield block speaker
5169s	stomper
5172s	yeah down that that's the second Flash
5176s	the flashes are gone yeah all all so
5180s	they still going to cost that's fizzle
5190s	right it's time to
5192s	cook I don't photographers cook but they
5195s	probably do have to eat something
5207s	right yeah so you Needle Rock totem
5212s	fizzle y yep everybody with a
5220s	camera blood Mage
5223s	swing
5226s	uh do you need the blood Mage for the
5228s	spell damage in the world where you win
5229s	the game though I think you might
5231s	probably yeah it's just without a flash
5233s	it becomes expensive so like right off
5236s	the bat you're spending four mana on
5237s	spell
5238s	damage has you got any generation left
5241s	to generator
5242s	flash uh there is one
5245s	reflexes I believe
5249s	okay so I think he might need to do
5253s	that yeah that doesn't sound hopeful
5256s	does
5257s	it last six cards
5262s	are uh
5265s	overdraft Miracle
5268s	salesman okay reflexes
5272s	snapshot double Flow Rider
5275s	I okay so the flow rides are handy
5277s	obviously but really needs to generate a
5279s	flash I just don't think he can get
5280s	there otherwise he'll have the the stuff
5283s	to do it he just won't have the Mana to
5284s	do
5286s	it
5287s	yeah cuz he's going to need to play
5290s	eight Spells at six let's say that's 48
5293s	that's not enough but that's exactly
5296s	enough and eight spells costing one yeah
5299s	what you doing with the other two Mana
5300s	you're not making them do six damage so
5303s	absolutely needs another flash with that
5305s	math in Mind Storm is or do it over two
5308s	turns
5311s	somehow which might be the other option
5312s	just do it all twice
5320s	the yes this is the choice do you want
5322s	to take the reflexes look for another
5323s	flash or do you want to take the
5324s	snapshot unload your hand this turn do
5327s	the damage you can do and then repeat
5329s	that next turn and hope it gets yeah
5331s	snapshot yeah snapshot unload
5336s	um so you're playing if you play Blood
5339s	Mage that's two
5344s	Mana lightning bolt lightning bolt pop a
5347s	book that's five Mana crash will cost
5350s	two you can only fit in one crash if you
5351s	do
5353s	that that's fine you can play the other
5355s	one next turn you've got space in the
5356s	fizzle I
5357s	think
5362s	yeah so you're unloading twice that's
5366s	all he's got that's like maximum damage
5369s	for the
5370s	deck and then you have a a miniature
5373s	third
5375s	unload in the form of whatever spell
5377s	damage minions left and the lightning
5380s	reflexes sure yeah that might be
5386s	relevant uh you can reeno here which
5389s	stops your opponent playing more than
5390s	one spell damage next turn if you think
5391s	that's enough
5395s	with safety goggles first as
5402s	well yeah this is going to be hard for
5404s	insane I
5405s	feel even with the
5409s	snapshot only hope is for lightning
5412s	reflexes to hit flash into
5415s	damage and then you fit in everything
5417s	the following turn with all of your
5419s	spell damage minions meanwhile to is
5421s	trying to make sure there isn't a
5422s	following turn he's got almost perfect
5424s	here with two cards left in
5426s	deck
5432s	yeah funnily enough the two
5435s	cards uh left in deck
5438s	are um Thoren right
5442s	okay
5447s	and okay well noo
5454s	I need
5462s	yeah
5467s	okay there's a fatigue damage lined up
5470s	as well there is
5476s	yeah maybe there's just maybe you just
5478s	can't play that much spell damage but I
5480s	maybe um to be know a snapshot better
5482s	than I do I thought there were two
5483s	zappers in the snapshot
5488s	there are two zappers in the
5493s	snapshot you have to reflexes into into
5495s	flash into
5498s	damage and second second pick up
5504s	damage
5506s	Elixir
5511s	yeah you don't have Mana for the
5513s	geomancer anyway
5516s	overdrive to unlock then what are we
5518s	looking
5521s	at it was an eight card snapshot
5524s	right um I believe so I wouldn't yeah it
5527s	wasn't
5530s	nine soles sure it wasn't problem yeah
5534s	eight good
5537s	call okay insane set it up ah
5544s	card in deck is a Flow Rider which is
5545s	dead anyway I'm pretty
5549s	sure oh the double
5552s	battlecry okay well
5554s	that's that should be game
5557s	right uh for TOA I don't know if this is
5560s	enough damage the nor more generation I
5562s	don't
5563s	think with the The Elixir amphibious
5567s	Elixir thanks for making the hand go
5569s	impossibly dark yeah the Elixir is it I
5572s	think
5575s	three from
5577s	it all right so we
5581s	got
5583s	8
5584s	11 +
5589s	12
5593s	three
5599s	treasure it's very
5601s	close five damage off yeah see seems it
5604s	seems close to me I am struggling to
5605s	read the entire hand because of the the
5607s	wait wait wait the treasure the the the
5609s	rock uh-huh when you say me has he got
5614s	it oh discover two cost
5617s	card oh no nothing
5620s	works I just throw everything at him and
5623s	hope it might get there you don't know
5626s	but I think he knows there're still
5629s	fatigue as
5630s	well and there might be a swing as well
5633s	depending on the Crush
5644s	no way that's two damage one damage off
5651s	right oh it's so
5654s	close three damage off it was any
5659s	damage right but now
5665s	how do you close it out I'm
5669s	curious hard Stone
5673s	Brew look for a
5677s	stand it's against me reeno in the thing
5680s	closes it out takes
5685s	three can't boom boss it cuz we'll take
5688s	a fatigue that way
5699s	Stone Brew yes no ignis ignis
5704s	ignis
5708s	yeah yeah oh he knows the last card is
5711s	Needle Rock totem so he can dirty r at
5712s	the Needle Rock
5714s	totem that speeds it up accelerating
5717s	fatigue he's got to just not die himself
5720s	first he's dead next turn
5724s	needs one the uh one Mana weapon yeah
5727s	and it's got to gain him not it's got to
5729s	be not
5731s	die life seals
5734s	two
5740s	armor life
5744s	steel G was
5746s	there yeah there life steal endgame
5748s	armor so got the two got the exact exact
5752s	ones oh my good goodness and then next
5755s	turn he just yeah wait no no didn't have
5758s	didn't have space for the second weapon
5761s	four didn't have space for the one with
5763s	the armor on
5767s	it oh oh my goodness this is five right
5772s	or four then
5773s	five yeah so needs two turns I still
5776s	think toeka has it because insane's not
5778s	doing anything we'll need a Taun totem
5779s	roll at some point there's also another
5781s	Reno in the snapshot if if there's
5783s	enough space to be made can dirty R the
5786s	dirty rat the Needle Rock totem to
5788s	accelerate fatigue yeah I like the dirty
5790s	you got you've got to count so carefully
5792s	here now
5796s	though I mean what else are you going to
5799s	do you just got a kill insane over two
5801s	turns right you're taking five then six
5803s	which is going to kill you so that's
5805s	your that's your clock
5817s	so set this this is a this should be
5819s	enough yes uh for
5825s	TOA I trusted to have counted it and get
5827s	it right yeah there's four for Te next
5829s	on insane side that's 14 there's more
5831s	than 14 here and nothing even a taon
5835s	totem roll does nothing because the TNT
5837s	will destroy everything on the other
5838s	side of the
5839s	board so by the narrowest of margins
5845s	to is going to take
5847s	it yeah and he didn't have two goes of
5850s	the weapon either cuz the the hand was
5851s	full so if he doesn't hit that life
5852s	steal armor on that
5854s	weapon insane would have got there with
5856s	his really cool play of um using the
5859s	fizzle over two
5860s	turns um yeah Cate the hand get it right
5862s	do it again uh TOA also with good play
5866s	sort of spacing Alo into the right place
5868s	but that didn't P out quite how I
5871s	expected it I've got to admit
5874s	oh not at
5876s	all
5878s	oh TOA and you got to look back at every
5883s	decision in that game being so close to
5885s	lethal
5886s	damage
5889s	um like what could have been done you
5892s	know if there was any like small
5895s	margins uh that could have been changed
5899s	from uh the side of insane to make that
5902s	happen uh to uh to finish that game
5905s	that's very very difficult uh to
5908s	navigate that game of par Stone and I
5911s	think it was very difficult from TOA
5913s	side too but did incredibly well held on
5915s	to the dirty rat for as long as humanly
5918s	possible to try and get that second
5919s	fizzle the brand down to pull both spell
5922s	damage mins out of the hand uh having
5924s	full information at the end of the game
5927s	uh to just be able to know what what
5929s	amounts of armor what cards need to be
5931s	played uh to get the job done very
5933s	nicely
5934s	navigated and it still comes down to can
5936s	you hit the weapon which you're favored
5938s	to do don't get me wrong but even
5940s	so my goodness that was a game what a
5943s	match and insane's got yeah with the
5945s	weight another one to do
5950s	now yeah again nobody's eliminated uh
5954s	but that means toeka is moving on to the
5955s	top eight tomorrow uh and insane does
5958s	have to play another very stressful game
5960s	farstone uh later on to determine who's
5964s	going to be the second player moving on
5965s	from Group C uh making it into that top
5968s	eight so you would have absolutely love
5972s	to just win that one get it out of the
5974s	way you look at the other side of that
5976s	prer you're like oh
5978s	jeez oh I have to face off against
5980s	another player yeah toig is just there
5984s	chilling probably going to shake for
5986s	about 20 minutes if it was me and then
5988s	actually go and chill rather than just
5989s	immediately chilling but um getting it
5992s	done five and oh against Shaman today
5994s	TOA as well so that's that's that's
5997s	what's got him through um but yeah but
5999s	that is the first match that we're
6001s	showing at least covered still five more
6003s	matches for you
6005s	today yeah and I actually wanted to kick
6008s	things off I've had this both days in a
6009s	row uh to start off the show uh a couple
6013s	yesterday this one was very back and
6014s	forth all the way to game five yesterday
6016s	was a 3 0 but it was about the same
6019s	length as this which is uh pretty
6022s	impressive cuz this was a five game set
6024s	and the games were not short either
6026s	there were a couple that were relatively
6028s	short notably the shaman Mir but outside
6031s	of that not short so um yesterday we had
6035s	some some some Barn burners of matches
6038s	I'm hoping we get the same today cuz it
6039s	was some high quality
6044s	Hearthstone yep and hope plent more high
6047s	quality Hearthstone to come here today
6049s	so with that in mind we'll take a short
6051s	break and get some more high quality
6053s	Hearthstone set up for you see you in
6055s	just about a couple of minutes
6064s	[Music]
6094s	[Music]
6121s	for
6150s	[Music]
6177s	[Music]
6206s	[Music]
6233s	[Music]
6255s	hello everyone welcome back to today's
6259s	uh Master tour spring championship and I
6264s	am Dragon Rider joined This Time by
6267s	Raven how you doing today Raven I'm
6269s	doing great now that people can actually
6271s	see me and I'm not just a static
6272s	photograph uh so yeah I apologize for
6274s	well people even think I need an apology
6277s	here maybe people are happy about
6278s	yesterday but yeah I had some issues
6280s	yesterday so I could not be on camera
6281s	but that seems to be uh resolved today
6283s	so that's good but honestly I'm I'm
6285s	recovering from that last game I was sat
6287s	just staring and staring and you know
6289s	even heard the casters like wait but
6290s	what if they do this what if they get
6292s	that and it was so close and I think for
6294s	the players especially that last game
6296s	being game five is just you feel for the
6299s	players sometimes when you know how much
6300s	that takes out of you even if you won or
6302s	lost you got both players going to be
6304s	exhausted after that one so uh yeah
6307s	really cool game so far on stream and
6309s	it's just the first match of the day
6311s	yeah yeah that's right we've uh been
6313s	live for quite a little while but that
6315s	was just the first match so let's talk
6317s	about who we have coming up for our
6319s	second match here we have Fury Hunter
6322s	versus mem MF now if you have been
6325s	around I think any sort of uh
6328s	competitive Hearthstone events you are
6330s	probably already familiar with the name
6333s	Fury Hunter uh look at this 22 Master's
6336s	tour appearances he's definitely no
6338s	stranger to these events 100% And you
6341s	know I'm I'm friends with fiori I've
6342s	known him a while now and uh he is
6345s	honestly just one of the best
6347s	Hearthstone players that I've ever seen
6350s	and yeah you know players can have ups
6351s	and downs some players can go on really
6353s	really strong runs you know the likes of
6355s	you know Gabby in the past for example
6358s	um and that that's fantastic but Fury
6361s	Hunter is just good all of the time it's
6364s	super impressive and I'm looking forward
6365s	to seeing what he's got this time around
6367s	since it's been a been a while since we
6369s	got to cast him last check out one of
6371s	the list of we've got this Naga shoer
6373s	Demon Hunter and what do you make of
6375s	this because it's a fairly uh sort of
6378s	I'll say new version of The shoer Demon
6381s	Hunter I think was you know everywhere
6383s	in the first few weeks of the expansion
6384s	and rotation but what do you make of the
6386s	uh the Sharpshooter
6389s	Edition I I don't know how to feel about
6392s	it honestly I don't feel like it's as
6395s	good overall but uh a lot of these
6397s	players do seem to like it I think it
6400s	can have uh a little bit more uh game-
6403s	ending potential after a lot of the the
6406s	Shoppers and Demon stuff have kind of
6408s	been removed and dealt with which I
6410s	think a lot of the decks are are trying
6411s	to do right now um
6414s	but it it's going to be interesting a
6416s	lot of the players though that did bring
6417s	Demon Hunter did opt for this
6420s	Sharpshooter Naga version of this deck
6423s	as we see MMF also bringing that on the
6427s	other side here uh however I believe
6430s	that that is actually the deck that has
6432s	been banned from MMF side so we aren't
6436s	going to see that one from him I think
6438s	most importantly look at these stats we
6440s	talk about Fury Hunters you know skills
6442s	in H one but I apparently got a
6445s	girlfriend through playing Hearthstone
6447s	there you go who's the real winner at
6449s	this point that's the uh the real
6451s	question but we are going to take a look
6452s	at this Highlander Warrior and all of
6455s	the joys this brings I forgive me if I'm
6458s	wrong but I feel like this is the sort
6459s	of deck you would
6461s	like that I you know I I do like some of
6465s	the Highlander decks I think one of my
6467s	my personal favorites was definitely
6468s	like Highlander Hunter uh this a little
6471s	bit more bursty kind of hit your
6473s	opponent in the face this one does have
6475s	a little bit more control style stuff
6478s	but this list is just very interesting
6480s	to me I think because there are kind of
6483s	a couple different routes you can go
6485s	with it in terms of how it plays and I
6488s	think that's one thing that maybe for
6490s	Highlander overall just because you
6492s	don't always draw the the same cards but
6496s	uh there are some decent like tech cards
6498s	in here we see with things like the
6500s	Viper the dirty rat um but it also kind
6503s	of has that uh the brand boom boss or uh
6507s	the like you know brand ignis type of
6510s	things to actually close out game so
6512s	there's a little bit more uh options I
6515s	think that you can you can have with
6517s	things like this over maybe some of the
6519s	Highlander Decks that we've seen in the
6521s	past yeah it feels like the everpresent
6523s	problem for Highlander is you think oh
6526s	well you just have more tools well a
6528s	wider variety of tools available let's
6530s	say because you're not running two ofs H
6532s	but also you can run into that problem
6535s	of well against this Demon Hunter for
6537s	example if Fury gets off to a good start
6539s	it's just are there enough defensive
6541s	tools to be able to deal with this kind
6543s	of deck whereas uh obviously if you're
6546s	playing the a slightly more standard uh
6548s	Warrior say standard you know sort of
6550s	the Odin Warrior um it has a little bit
6552s	more of consistent defense options here
6555s	but with this opening here from MMF it's
6557s	not looking too bad honestly Needler
6559s	Rock totem does have Bellin as well and
6561s	safety goggles so it's not too bad got a
6564s	pretty solid opening already and on the
6568s	side of the Demon Hunter for Fury uh
6569s	Fury Hunter that's I forgot how awkward
6572s	that can be sometimes um with the Demon
6575s	Hunter for Fury I'll leave you like that
6577s	um it's a slightly slow at list
6580s	potentially because it does have those
6581s	that extra combo potential a little bit
6583s	later on if FY wants to go for that so
6585s	maybe that's going to give MMF enough
6588s	time yeah this is also kind of
6591s	interesting uh I I think with the
6595s	slightly slower DH that you mentioned
6598s	but this lineup overall I will say uh
6601s	one thing that I did want to mention
6603s	about the lineups MMF uh on his side has
6606s	very much built a lineup that seems to
6609s	be targeting Warrior and fury Hunter one
6612s	of the four players that did not bring
6615s	Warrior at all uh so I'm very curious to
6618s	see how these do line up into these
6620s	other decks and if there is going to be
6622s	a struggle but we did see uh it wasn't
6627s	quite the same list I don't think I'd
6629s	have to double check if it if it's the
6630s	same uh exact cards but the matchup that
6634s	we did just see on broadcast that
6636s	Warrior really kind of squeaked it
6637s	through even in those longer game so
6640s	we'll see if it can actually pull it off
6643s	here I if this dirty rat can pull uh one
6646s	of these Sharpshooters early maybe that
6649s	will help or is there anything that MMF
6652s	can do
6653s	uh to actually try to get one of the key
6656s	cards or or what would he be looking for
6658s	with this dirty rat well It's Tricky I
6661s	mean genuinely you you want to just take
6664s	a shoer out of the conversation right
6666s	like just have that ability not happen
6668s	uh but I think the interesting thing for
6670s	now is MMF just had to use a blade storm
6672s	to kill two 22s and that's because
6675s	there's no other you know Great Removal
6677s	available for him right now uh but that
6679s	kind of just shows a bit of the problem
6681s	it's like well there's a blade stop
6683s	already gone on two two twos and that's
6686s	it so it's a definitely a big ask this
6687s	is a nice pickup though going glacial
6689s	Shard to be able to freeze out the um
6692s	the weapon from Fury meaning that he
6693s	won't be able to get hold of that shoer
6695s	as quickly as he would
6697s	like yeah definitely an incredible
6700s	pickup and there is the uh Russ rot
6702s	Viper which I think we also mentioned
6705s	this quite a bit yesterday but there
6709s	there is weapons in this meta as we're
6711s	seeing but this is not the case where
6713s	you want to use something like Viper
6715s	because then you're actually just giving
6716s	the Demon Hunter what they are looking
6719s	for anyways they're they're getting what
6721s	they want with the demon so you have to
6724s	kind of go for more freezes and the
6727s	Viper I think just ends up being
6729s	something you can use in very specific
6731s	matchups or just as a tradable u but now
6735s	for Fury Hunter getting a discover
6737s	option here you just want to take the
6740s	other Sharpshooter looks like it yeah
6742s	can potentially generate like waves of
6744s	extra damage instead of going all in at
6746s	once but yeah I agree I think like Viper
6748s	of course not the best against a weapon
6750s	who death rattle wants to go off but
6753s	when you look at the rest of the meta
6754s	right and you mentioned it you know
6756s	Warrior for example the mirror matches
6758s	you know um it can help out with some of
6760s	the more Awkward weapons uh death knight
6762s	as well can be a pain to deal with if
6764s	they can get the freeze weapon out or
6766s	honestly even the plagues so Viper is a
6768s	decent tool but yeah not really in this
6771s	matchup but again m f has just it's just
6775s	the hand's just not great is it you know
6777s	can we blame this on the bill do we just
6779s	say high Lander haha this is the way it
6781s	goes but it's not looking too great does
6784s	have the tuning fork but I think it
6786s	might have to start with a trade unless
6789s	he values cuz at the end of the day
6791s	right the weapons death rattle going off
6794s	sure that happens but you also still do
6796s	save taking three damage so it is
6799s	something even though it's not exactly
6800s	what you're looking for
6803s	yeah it's uh sometimes even more damage
6806s	that was saved as we saw the previous
6807s	turn uh Fury Hunter just actually
6809s	playing a Burning Heart there to remove
6812s	the glacial off of the board but
6814s	ultimately because it did Kill the
6816s	minion that meant no additional damage
6818s	to use later maybe Fury Hunter can be
6821s	able to just make up for that with some
6823s	of the other damage in hand from
6824s	Sharpshooters um just another like kind
6827s	of interesting interaction where that
6829s	did cost a little bit of uh potential
6832s	damage
6833s	but okay wow okay MMF going down down to
6839s	the uh the wire here with this turn of
6840s	course but again this is the thing right
6843s	like the weapon swing now doesn't happen
6845s	MMF has gained a certain amount of tempo
6847s	is this Tempo now going to be lost
6849s	because of the Window Shopper sure but
6851s	it was going to be lost anyway right cuz
6853s	that without another
6855s	freeze the weapon was going to come into
6857s	play
6859s	regardless yeah hit the best though I do
6862s	like the secret up is
6865s	your I think also uh the decision there
6868s	not only speaks to what you said about
6871s	not taking that extra damage kind of
6872s	just getting that out anyways but also
6875s	just the I feel like slightly dire state
6878s	of mf's hand like you said right just
6880s	not looking very good at this point so
6883s	yeah just going for the Viper getting
6885s	that out saying okay that's kind of an
6887s	inevitable thing at this point I'm just
6889s	going to do this and maybe it actually
6892s	works out well for me on the other side
6894s	because I'm able to now use this body on
6896s	the board uh but going to get to use
6899s	that uh
6901s	forged and clear up the board yeah yeah
6905s	the because that's the thing if you look
6906s	at the hand on that Viper turn it was
6908s	either what MMF did or Shield block and
6912s	hope to draw something but probably
6916s	don't draw something good and then he
6918s	kind of just doing the tuning fork
6919s	without the Viper and then suddenly
6921s	you're getting snowballed a little bit
6923s	another Observer Mysteries available um
6925s	this is just the mini though so the the
6928s	one amalgam it can be okay if you can
6930s	get like poisonous stealth Divine Shield
6932s	whatever but oh yeah okay it's going to
6934s	go for it I I guess it it also does
6937s	count as just a one Mana Naga later to
6940s	go with the the Sharpshooters so it's
6943s	not the worst pick I I think in this
6946s	situation
6948s	um one thing too here is that MMF does
6951s	have this Reno hand and we are seeing
6954s	with this list it is that full one copy
6958s	only list so it will be active on turn
6962s	eight here coming up next whereas some
6963s	of the other Warrior lists that we've
6965s	seen uh between yesterday and even a
6967s	little bit earlier uh were not just the
6971s	Highlander only version so there is
6974s	definitely no doubt that the Reno will
6977s	be active as soon as MMF wants to use
6979s	that that's it isn't it I mean that's
6981s	we've talked about the draw backs of a
6983s	list like this for MMF but the positives
6985s	are you never have to worry about
6987s	whether stuff's active or not because it
6988s	just
6989s	is
6991s	yeah Fury though is starting to acquire
6994s	a quite the hand right now so I'm I'm
6998s	wondering oh it's so tricky I'm so I I
7001s	think I was saying this yesterday I
7002s	think I might have been uh casting with
7003s	lenda but the um the maths that were
7006s	involved in these Demon Hunter turns
7008s	when we're looking at a hand like this
7010s	he's like right so we can do damage I
7013s	never want to commit to a number cuz
7014s	when you staring at this sort of hand
7016s	it's like right very difficult to
7022s	calculate some of the key cards though
7024s	there is the going down swinging in
7026s	there there is two of the Sharpshooters
7028s	I
7030s	believe it's hard when all the cards are
7032s	just green
7034s	people
7041s	yes another thing here for Fury Hunter
7044s	is that uh Fury Hunter has now seen what
7047s	I feel like is quite a bit of removal
7050s	for the fact that this is a Highlander
7052s	Warrior uh quite early in the
7056s	game I think what's going to be tricky
7058s	here for Fury is if I mean I guess we'll
7063s	see how MMF does it but if MMF can land
7065s	yeah so it's it's likely going to be
7067s	Reno now that's gone tightened out with
7070s	whatever then bran next turn because you
7072s	would imagine that Fury can't really put
7075s	on too much of a threat this turn
7077s	because of the one space restriction um
7079s	and after bran Fury's probably going to
7082s	think all right I'm going to have to
7083s	pull the trigger here because if the uh
7085s	if the TNT starts being played and and
7088s	sort of comes into play then that's
7090s	going to be very very scary indeed and
7092s	it could actually just end the game off
7093s	the
7095s	bat yeah I I think there's quite a few
7098s	things that could start to end it as
7099s	well uh if this brand comes down as you
7102s	said there's the potential for uh ignis
7105s	as well to potentially get a lot of
7108s	additional bodies on the board or wind
7110s	Fury and just start pushing damage the
7114s	the Demon Hunter really doesn't have
7115s	anything to answer that for themselves
7118s	uh even though a lot of the other decks
7119s	in The Meta are kind of teching against
7120s	that for Demon Hunter but the Demon
7122s	Hunter isn't apping any sort of freeze
7124s	or weapon removal uh so going to have to
7127s	really kind of lean into his own game
7130s	plan and how long can he do that
7133s	I'm really surprised this brand doesn't
7135s	go
7137s	down and not because MMF needs the
7141s	effect from bran right now but it Bran's
7145s	kind of a six do nothing right like to
7147s	an extent so it's like do you not want
7149s	to get that down when you're as safe as
7151s	possible you know against a sort of low
7152s	Tempo opponent here but here's double
7154s	Sharpshooter F saying yep Now's the
7158s	Time yeah I was kind of liking deep
7161s	minor brand
7163s	yeah when when stuff just gets locked in
7165s	by a player you know is very good at the
7167s	game and it's a turn like this I take
7169s	the approach of I'm just going to sit
7171s	back and watch and just see what see
7173s	what happens because Fury probably knows
7175s	how much damage he's going to be able to
7176s	do at least on average it's like I can't
7178s	work that out that fast it's also trying
7180s	to look at MMF
7183s	hand CU this is
7185s	endless actually overdrawn at this
7189s	point is this really
7193s	how many was that three overdrawn cards
7195s	though I think
7203s	so still
7205s	four but I
7208s	think is he just going to go for a
7210s	weapon okay that was a big turn from
7213s	Fury cuz yes like is otk no is it a
7218s	million damage and taking off all of
7220s	that armor from MMF yes and now suddenly
7223s	he's in a little bit more trouble there
7225s	is sanitized there of course to help out
7227s	but it's going to feel at least a little
7228s	bit scary right now for
7232s	mmaf yeah the the really tough thing I
7236s	think here with the sanitize as well and
7238s	not going for something like trial by
7240s	fire maybe you'd have to trade
7241s	everything with the trial but there is
7244s	the option of leaving something on board
7246s	to hope to soak up some of those hits
7248s	from these uh this like next
7251s	Sharpshooter board
7253s	but I don't I don't know if that was
7256s	quite enough either if MMF had uh tried
7259s	to go for that so it it really feels
7261s	like just kind of a really awkward
7264s	situation here for MMF at this point
7266s	yeah very much going for the safe clear
7267s	but now Fury I he does still have the
7269s	second Shopper in the deck right am I I
7272s	don't recall yeah it is yeah I thought
7273s	so bottom two Shopper uh good that that
7276s	didn't go away in those
7277s	overdraws but yeah really huge just
7279s	getting more value there's Inquisitor as
7282s	well
7284s	that's a much smaller Inquisitor as well
7286s	I mean you know it is what it is yeah
7290s	how many times in your career have you
7292s	been oneoff lethal you may as well take
7294s	it
7295s	right perfe yeah this is setting up I
7298s	really like this Fury just cashed in on
7300s	all of the uh combo damage let's say and
7303s	then said well actually with everything
7305s	that's left they're still going down
7307s	swinging for a little bit of extra push
7309s	there's still The Shopper in the deck
7311s	which he knew he was going to be able to
7312s	with that second swing so it was a
7314s	really good sort of onew punch I think
7316s	Fury Hunter set up here and I think
7318s	looking from this like yeah you can
7320s	clear the board but is that going to be
7326s	enough yeah and one downside I guess to
7330s	playing Reno uh a bit earlier in the
7332s	game is interactions like the ston skin
7336s	armor but does have the weapon to gain
7338s	armor so can at least swing um but
7341s	sometimes you might want to get a little
7343s	bit of armor from the hero power and
7345s	that's not always an option once you uh
7347s	put Reno out but also picking up the
7350s	armor vendor is this going to be enough
7352s	uh additional armor to stem this
7355s	bleeding
7357s	here might
7359s	be it's very close there's what there's
7362s	the two inquisitors which is U what
7366s	seven additional damage to fa if we're
7368s	just talking face damage of course
7370s	there's the hero power for one
7372s	there's going down for a bit
7375s	more that can all be done next turn but
7377s	that's kind of it isn't it I really
7379s	can't recall that last is
7383s	yeah was it weapon
7385s	Tech yeah instrument Tech nothing
7390s	relevant
7392s	I oh yeah wait the arender wasn't played
7397s	though oh opted for uh the oscillator
7400s	instead
7418s	going to get the face damage and the
7419s	tradeoff
7422s	after I see the one one coming in clutch
7425s	there it is tickle him with the one
7426s	damage and then get the little trade off
7429s	I Like It Here Comes bran and then bran
7432s	vender is going to be
7434s	a a thing and has the uh hero power now
7439s	from Reno to get even more armor at the
7442s	same time plus still one more swing from
7444s	the
7448s	hammer and that's probably just
7451s	a is that just a concede here is there
7455s	any way that Fury can even remotely come
7458s	close now to this much
7459s	armor I'm not thrown away my
7463s	shot I guess you can always rely on
7467s	uh on the hero
7470s	Powers right yeah I'm not going crazy
7473s	right this isn't enough no okay what you
7476s	said doing I was like hang on a minute
7478s	yeah yeah it's not cuz the Minions on
7480s	board definitely soaked up a lot as well
7483s	yeah oh well that's just going
7485s	to to solidify it and especially with
7488s	the Boom in hand as well right it's just
7490s	like yeah that's just GG wow really
7493s	close game one there uh MMF taking the
7496s	victory but just about I think I'll say
7499s	on that one because he just had enough
7502s	tools to hang on I think the Reno being
7505s	available basically on curve did just
7508s	about get hold of you know like the Bell
7510s	flames and so on to just clear the board
7512s	and just stay safe because Fury Hunter
7514s	was so close to actually just cleaning
7516s	that up with that one two sort of turn
7518s	plan of the inquisitors uh with the
7520s	combo beforehand uh yeah they there you
7522s	go oh no this late turns but yeah really
7524s	close game one tough one for furri but a
7526s	really good way to kick it off for MMF
7528s	cuz that could have easily been
7531s	lost yeah that really kind of felt like
7534s	it did flip back and forth a little bit
7537s	just based on those draws but I I feel
7539s	like the draws really started coming a
7541s	bit more later uh mid to later game for
7544s	MMF where as we were talking about the
7545s	kind of initial hand I guess outside of
7547s	Reno wasn't really looking super great
7551s	uh but you know once it kind of got into
7553s	that stall tactic uh point of the game
7557s	excuse me uh that's where Warrior really
7559s	starts to to shine I think especially
7561s	and as you mentioned having that Reno
7563s	right on curve uh definitely helped and
7565s	then soon as your top deck the uh
7569s	brand uh ziliax yeah y there's there's
7573s	no chance there even if uh yeah I think
7577s	you saw the timing right where hunt uh
7580s	Fury Hunter sorry went for the big push
7583s	before bran was seen right before
7585s	anything truly problematic was hitting
7587s	the board and then obviously it just
7589s	kind just slowed down a little bit too
7591s	much but we are going into next game and
7593s	now furi and has jumped over to the
7594s	priest
7597s	now yeah and on the other side I don't
7600s	think we really touched on it much here
7603s	but mmfs lineup this wheel warlock
7606s	you're in for a ride that yeah uh the
7610s	only player in the tournament weekend to
7612s	bring this wheel version of warlock uh
7616s	so does have a bit of removal does have
7619s	some big bodies and things like uh the
7622s	forge of whales to be able to create uh
7625s	some rushing Minions on the board that
7629s	may actually be able to help clear up a
7631s	lot of these Minions that we're going to
7632s	see come out from priest uh it's just
7634s	going to be I think a matter of how
7637s	quickly uh the Warlock is able to
7640s	actually find those resources and play
7643s	those things because sometimes the wheel
7645s	warlock just will end up with some of
7647s	that later game stuff stuck in hand or
7651s	have to spend the whole turn playing the
7653s	forge of wells and not really doing much
7656s	else so uh what do you think of this
7658s	matchup overall yeah I think it's a a
7661s	tricky one honestly because a lot of my
7663s	time playing against wheel loock is have
7665s	been playing slower decks so I'm I'm
7667s	more naturally biased of being in more
7670s	trouble potentially from that we
7672s	happening uh but I think uh with some of
7674s	these faster decks from Fury Hunter like
7676s	you probably aren't going to be too
7679s	afraid of a deck that goes this slow
7682s	generally speaking and especially when
7684s	you are on that priest because again I
7686s	I've mentioned this before but uh priest
7688s	has not been going well for me
7690s	personally I for some reason I just I
7691s	just don't win with the deck but I
7693s	appreciate it is strong and I think when
7695s	you look at openings like this and
7697s	knowing how aggressive you can be H it
7699s	definitely causes problems for some
7701s	Decks that are a little bit slower I
7702s	would say probably similar if uh we were
7704s	talking about the priest versus like MMF
7706s	Warrior as well right it's definitely
7708s	opening that window to get
7711s	through yeah and now here as well this
7715s	kind of uh Stronger start I would say
7717s	from Fury Hunter has now uh buffed the
7720s	board outside of five health so this
7723s	Mortal eradication is not going to be
7726s	able to clear both the minions uh
7729s	there's a chance it could clear one if
7731s	MMF wants
7733s	there's CH just kind ofits between the
7737s	two minions leav anyways tricky isn't it
7740s	it's like that going for it or I think
7743s	this is the play that feels better for
7745s	MMF which is get forged down because
7748s	once this when this location is on board
7751s	you feel like anything's possible right
7753s	because all you need is to draw one
7755s	playable minion and suddenly you can
7757s	start making things work uh so yeah I
7759s	definitely like going for the forge the
7760s	removals there is a potential backup or
7762s	even maybe Reverb if something's
7765s	available but yeah this is very very
7767s	slow to the extent where there's a world
7769s	where we just see like I don't know like
7771s	see Leroy trade or something come down
7773s	soon because uh MMF might already be in
7777s	that kind of
7779s	position oh my even even just the
7782s	thoughts of Leroy trade is just like it
7786s	hurts my soul so much and of course like
7790s	there is the table flips but
7792s	Fury as you kind of mentioned as well
7794s	like Fury knows what he's doing he's
7796s	going to do his best to not make a wide
7800s	low Health Board right and he's going to
7802s	try and beef these up as big as possible
7804s	because that's when the wallet's going
7805s	to struggle a little bit
7808s	here yeah yeah just adding more
7812s	Health yeah and more dragons as well uh
7815s	to keep playing Dragons for that Zari uh
7819s	which not going to need a lot of Minions
7822s	on the board against the Warlock if
7824s	they're not gaining any health or
7826s	putting up large Minions that have taunt
7828s	so uh might be able to get there a
7830s	little bit quicker with that Zari in
7832s	this kind of game that we're seeing
7834s	currently yeah and just look at the
7835s	difference like Forge of Wills just
7837s	makes anything possible because suddenly
7840s	there's actually options now with the
7841s	help of the Reverb of course uh but
7844s	whether this Dragon for MMF dies to one
7847s	damage or a million I feel like it
7849s	doesn't overly matter right it's going
7850s	to do its job at this
7858s	point all right well Fury Hunter just
7860s	going to start with this scale replica
7863s	see what there is and another GIF wraped
7867s	welp I guess even if Fury Hunter goes
7871s	for both GI rafted welps right now the
7875s	uh thirsty Drifter still going to cost
7877s	one and there won't be any Mana left to
7879s	play here so now this is just say how
7882s	wide or how big of a board can Fury
7885s	Hunter hope to stick that's actually
7887s	going to still be around for next
7899s	turn F now going to make the tough
7901s	choices here like is trading worth is
7904s	this just an Allin face option looks
7907s	like his face is in fact the
7910s	place which I do like right because he
7913s	has to have the assumption that MMF is
7915s	going to trade with him it's not like
7917s	it's not like mf's like I'll actually go
7920s	face as well right in this scenario very
7922s	unlikely to happen and even if you look
7925s	at AOE as an option well that means that
7928s	a lot of those times mf's own Reverb
7931s	Dragon also dies right so the actual
7934s	value of trading even if you really want
7936s	to like cope and say like oh well
7938s	actually if you traded as PRI it you'd
7940s	be able to do this this and this later
7942s	but I think it really is the right
7943s	decision just push the damage to the
7944s	face and just make MMF have answers
7947s	especially cuz the dragons have been
7949s	ticked right for
7951s	Zari yep so Fury basically just what
7955s	wants a dragon to live and it's just
7957s	game right
7961s	yeah ah and for MMF on the other side
7964s	there's also not been enough card draw
7967s	to make these table flips cheap enough
7969s	to be able to uh kind of fit these in so
7972s	yeah having to uh fit in these trades
7975s	here now can play this Mortal
7977s	eradication uh to kill off the one well
7980s	plus the one that had been reverbed
7981s	that's going to die in one hit but also
7984s	this only puts MMF up to eight
7987s	health but how much damage can Fury
7991s	Hunter put out with this with this
7994s	zi yeah going be able to push for the
7998s	six but the heal was important there for
8000s	MMF right like able to go up cuz he did
8002s	tap as well trying to look for
8006s	something and also found the F string
8009s	harp uh as well from that so if Fury
8013s	Hunter isn't able to close out the game
8015s	here we might start to see
8018s	MMF come back a little bit but look at
8021s	this board though yeah again just so
8024s	much actual raw Health right
8027s	yeah uh o well symphony's not good
8031s	enough is
8032s	it oh well there is uh if if MMF hits
8037s	the
8039s	uh the
8041s	taunt and then forges to trade
8046s	one is that no Pro probably not I don't
8050s	think maybe it
8053s	is well it's not those I'll tell you
8056s	that for free yeah that none of those
8059s	are enough 100%
8062s	no just like that Fury Hunter is going
8064s	to take the Victory and that that one's
8065s	going to feel good with how close game
8067s	one was and MMF taking it the way you do
8071s	want to respond to that a lot of the
8072s	time is just a quick return win right
8074s	okay back to even done and then uh and
8077s	then go from there so a good win there
8079s	for Fury Hunter to get back on track but
8082s	I think this is the story we're going to
8083s	see throughout this whole series is Fury
8086s	Hunter racing and MMF just trying to
8089s	hold them off as much as possible to be
8091s	able to hang on to then just win in that
8093s	long game because these as you mentioned
8095s	earlier these two players have a quite
8097s	different
8099s	lineups yeah and you know what the the
8101s	struggle I think for MMF is facing all
8105s	of that damage that you mentioned from
8106s	these decks because uh Fury Hunter did
8109s	bring I would say a little bit more of
8110s	that aggressive style uh lineup overall
8113s	a lot of burst damage um but the lineup
8117s	that's trying to Target Warrior not
8119s	going to do it here but even if if MMF
8122s	does get to uh get to win this match
8126s	against Fury Hunter then we'll move into
8130s	a rematch against insane who is also one
8132s	of the four players that did not bring
8135s	Warrior and that MMF lost to already
8138s	previously uh before the broadcast so
8141s	even if he gets the point of getting
8143s	through this he's going to have another
8145s	quite uphill battle I would say after
8147s	that yeah 100% but as always very very
8150s	doable um at this point
8154s	uh from regardless of actually uh being
8158s	what's statistically favored or not who
8160s	would you rather be in this scenario do
8162s	you want to play the more aggro or do
8165s	you want to play the
8166s	control I you know I I've said it a
8169s	couple times I like hitting my opponents
8171s	in the face so I want to beable Choice
8174s	match here you don't think just hit them
8178s	in the face um maybe a little thought
8180s	here and there but you just got to hit
8182s	them in the face uh but here is a look
8185s	at the Zari priest which has definitely
8188s	been a huge Focus uh for the meta and
8192s	these players over the whole course of
8194s	this
8196s	weekend yeah this is um again proably
8199s	like the aggro deck I guess from from uh
8202s	MMF uh if there ever was one for him but
8205s	yeah that's definitely it's definitely a
8207s	surprise deck in terms of just how
8208s	popular I thought people were going to
8210s	play it but I'm surprised at just how
8212s	many of the players have actually just
8213s	said oh yeah priest well you know that I
8216s	feel like that's one of the Decks that
8217s	was locked in early for a lot of players
8220s	uh whereas I think some of these other
8221s	choices and maybe when you look at the
8223s	Warlock maybe even the type of Demon
8225s	Hunter for example uh I think those were
8228s	the the harder choices whereas I feel
8230s	like so many players are just like yeah
8231s	priest let's get it done H so yeah we'll
8234s	see how it performs in there slightly
8236s	more closer matchup in terms of the
8238s	aggression side of
8240s	it yeah
8241s	and I do like potentially starting out
8245s	with just getting a body on the board
8246s	for Fury Hunter but there's definitely
8248s	also Arguments for just completely
8251s	mulliganing as hard as you can for
8254s	instrument Tech or the umpire's grasp uh
8258s	how do you feel about either keeping a w
8260s	up especially going first or do you just
8262s	want to see Fury Hunter completely
8264s	Mulligan these away oh it's really tough
8267s	I think versus priest again I I promised
8269s	I was going to say this before the can
8271s	happen but I think because it's priest
8274s	Slither spear is just the right stat
8276s	line isn't it it can B it can basically
8278s	challenge any of the early plays um and
8283s	and be competitive here so we are going
8284s	to see the GIF RP well but with this
8287s	spear has the potential to help out with
8288s	this right and just kill it off get it
8290s	off the board whether Fury uses a spell
8292s	or not so I'm not sure about the keeps
8295s	overall but slyther spear I would 100%
8297s	hold on to going first in this match
8299s	up I'm going to see if is going to pay
8301s	off
8304s	uh the studies here for Fury a crimson
8308s	sigil Runner Workshop mishap or a
8311s	wayward Sage yeah I guess you just go
8314s	for the sage uh for some potential later
8318s	or just go for it now I guess a little
8321s	bit of uh discounts and just getting
8324s	another body on the
8326s	board yeah 100% I think this is going to
8330s	be a very uh Zoo Style game matchup
8333s	where it's just do everything to push
8335s	your opponent off oh oh okay or not
8339s	actually going to fur's going to Value
8340s	the face again I guess just assuming
8342s	that MMF is going to do the trading for
8344s	him I thought there was a trade going to
8346s	go down there from the slyther spare and
8347s	fury would have been you know like happy
8349s	to be that one minion
8352s	ahead yeah this is tough because now oh
8356s	yeah yeah this is it this is what I want
8359s	to see both players ignore each other's
8362s	board and just punch face until one
8364s	Falls over this is
8367s	Hearthstone yep full race just
8371s	go uh I I love it especially I mean I
8374s	think they both have relatively decent
8377s	hands uh that kind of support the like
8380s	I'm just going to push damage right
8382s	there's kind of a lot of board potential
8384s	here for MMF over these coming turns
8387s	there's a lot of One Drops here oh the
8391s	broken Fury one MMF blinked did the
8395s	trade I'm upset I wanted that to go at
8397s	least two more turns where they're just
8399s	hitting each other yeah MF I don't know
8402s	though I go on go on oh I think the the
8405s	interesting thing that I'm looking at
8406s	for MMF is that was also turn three you
8409s	haven't seen an instrument Tech you
8410s	haven't seen the umpire's grasp come
8412s	down there's multiple one drops in hand
8415s	and a thirsty Drifter I'm wondering how
8417s	hard MMF wants to push for getting these
8420s	uh One Drops Out on board and just kind
8422s	of going wide there is uh the maybe
8426s	threat once you do see some of those
8428s	demons start coming down of Mag theodon
8430s	kind of clearing some of these but if he
8432s	can go in on these a little bit sooner
8435s	get this thirsty Drifter and just keep
8438s	that on board it's goingon to be a
8440s	little bit more difficult for Fury
8441s	Hunter to push through all of that yeah
8444s	100% because even if you look at this
8446s	there's still got to be a weapon
8447s	equipped there's still got to be two
8450s	swings arguably one if you do the whole
8452s	requip whatever but realistically two
8454s	turns of that then Fury would have to
8456s	hit mag thurd on right like that's a lot
8458s	of then which means that in that time if
8461s	M MMF like you said just spams minions
8463s	out gets the drifted down like copies it
8466s	plays it again whatever uh and then just
8468s	hard pushes I'm completely with you here
8469s	I think the second you don't see that
8471s	weapon equipped on one or two sorry on
8474s	turn three or two depending on the coin
8476s	H then you are extremely happy and you
8478s	say this is the game I win now because
8481s	whenever you do see the weapon you say
8483s	Okay uphill battle as it is most of the
8485s	time when you see that weapon on curve
8487s	but yeah I like this a lot just go push
8490s	hard now and this again you could see
8492s	MMF thinking about the trades already
8495s	thinking about 10 times longer than I
8497s	would I don't see a taunt on the board
8499s	therefore you can put the damage to the
8503s	face uh it's one of those math equations
8506s	no taunt uh therefore face
8513s	I mean it sounds good to me
8523s	I what what is the trade if he wants to
8526s	make it
8528s	I I'm not sure I'm convinced that
8530s	trading into the salesman
8533s	is the route I would go there but well I
8537s	think the so let's think about this
8539s	right potentially he's expecting the
8542s	weapon the umpires right so if the trade
8546s	goes into the one two then the double
8549s	snake oil weapon hero power kills the
8552s	Thirsty I
8556s	guess maybe yeah maybe that was what the
8559s	debate was for so long on on the trade
8562s	or
8566s	not I guess it's a little uh important
8569s	to recognize as well going into uh the
8571s	turn five the five Mana turn there for
8574s	Fury Hunter as well because uh one kind
8577s	of consistency with the Demon Hunter
8580s	deck is again as we've mentioned both
8582s	the instrument Tech and the weapon um
8585s	with 30 cards the chances that one or
8587s	both of those had been found already uh
8590s	pretty high so going into turn five
8593s	there was enough Mana for uh the
8596s	instrument Tech to come down and still
8598s	play the weapon so definitely uh could
8601s	have seen that as a potential to yeah
8603s	this is probably going to get cleared
8605s	but it got cleared
8611s	anyways it's a pretty hefty board here
8614s	from
8614s	MMF
8616s	and are we getting to the point where it
8619s	has to be
8620s	like potentially double mag thuron or
8624s	something here to help this out maybe
8625s	one's enough it's a lot of damage coming
8628s	on board now
8636s	yeah I mean at at this point MMF just
8639s	wants to draw
8659s	Zari second Drifter picked up so does
8663s	make another trade at that point to be
8664s	able to clear some board space to get a
8667s	47 taunt on the board oh the way Fury
8670s	Hunter reacted there I was like oh no
8672s	did he just draw the other window
8674s	shopper but no did not draw
8678s	it yeah the thing you don't want to see
8681s	is drawing your good card in this deck
8683s	however weird that
8685s	sounds it's got to be straight off the
8687s	weapon
8691s	but here we go f hun is kind of all in
8694s	on just something coming out of this
8698s	yeah mythical looks pretty good it's not
8702s	the best but it's definitely not the
8705s	worst yeah what was the order yeah the
8707s	ORD oh okay it was just two okay I
8709s	didn't know if there was three Minions
8710s	that were going to make the attacks or
8711s	not still though going up to 22
8726s	uh we're going to see another trade yeah
8728s	another trade here to create another
8730s	board space get double zelc the board
8732s	yeah that's just way too much damage you
8735s	don't even need to count it there just
8736s	never count that's my advice that's how
8738s	I play the game and yeah a really good
8741s	win and a really you can see what that
8743s	match Up's like in this instance right
8745s	both players have that big Scramble for
8747s	the early board control h but as soon as
8749s	one gets that extra step ahead it's a
8752s	real problem and I think one of the
8754s	issues that we or at least one one of
8756s	the outcomes we didn't see was more of
8759s	the I say combo opening but more just
8762s	having those minions to play on curve
8764s	like as you can see at this point in the
8765s	game Fury Hunter had a great start but
8767s	the follow-up wasn't that great and he
8769s	ended up going for Sigil of time which
8771s	is a huge amount of card draw of course
8774s	but that card draw basically soaked a
8776s	whole turns worth of play whereas MMF
8779s	was just going minions minions minions
8781s	minions minions minions go and then you
8783s	can see the sort of outcome obviously
8785s	not helped for Fury by just not getting
8787s	that weapon on curve which definitely uh
8789s	UPS the win percentage on this deck by a
8792s	little bit let's
8793s	say yeah and I feel like as well the not
8797s	only kind of losing out on being able to
8800s	play other things having to go for just
8802s	getting the uh sigil out and hope for
8804s	some draw the next turn uh that would
8806s	actually do something uh you also end up
8809s	giving your opponent kind of that uh
8812s	dictation of how any trades might go you
8815s	allow them to do whatever they want and
8817s	then at the same time uh that just keeps
8820s	that kind of off the board really slow
8823s	uh progression going and as you
8825s	mentioned in those Zoo style games where
8828s	you're both kind of fighting for that
8830s	board presence if you fall behind on
8832s	board and your opponent gets to stay on
8834s	board it's not looking good for you
8836s	right and MMF just got the Warlock left
8838s	over now and I I do I think this is at
8841s	least for me the the shakier of the
8844s	three decks out of the three that are
8846s	playable for MMF obviously Demon Hunter
8848s	was banned as you can see so I think
8850s	this will be the one as we always talk
8852s	about in Conquest you like the one that
8854s	needs to get over the line right the one
8856s	that you probably going to struggle with
8857s	a little bit and again looking at this
8859s	matchup
8861s	uh the Wall's going to have to go pretty
8863s	quick I think here because uh fuun if
8866s	allowed a reasonable set of time let's
8868s	say what five turns or so later on this
8871s	game could end very quickly
8874s	indeed yeah and even though there is a
8877s	bit of healing this is not uh this
8880s	Warlock deck is not a deck that is uh
8883s	running any kind of armor things like
8885s	we've seen with the warrior matchup so
8888s	uh as well there is
8890s	the uh potential I guess for Fury Hunter
8893s	to as you said just close it out really
8895s	quickly on turn like five or six uh
8899s	without really having to
8901s	piece together additional amounts of
8906s	damage MF taking his time to think there
8909s	I'm guessing thinking about just whether
8911s	there's like Areno keep there or
8913s	something but surely not right like
8915s	there needs to be something a little bit
8917s	faster going on here and o yeah not the
8924s	best also
8926s	notably go
8928s	on both games that we've seen MMF uh so
8931s	far not been on coin which when you are
8934s	looking for discounts on things like the
8936s	table flips having that additional card
8939s	can be quite
8952s	helpful well oh there is Forge though
8955s	and honestly with Forge anything's
8957s	possible probably the best dra that was
8959s	going to happen
8961s	and there is a dark alley pack uh to
8963s	follow up for next turn as well so can
8966s	start getting a little bit on board
8968s	there there is the potential as well for
8970s	this uh warlock to create very large
8973s	Minions that Fury Hunter might have a
8975s	difficult time dealing with as the
8977s	shaman uh and in that case Fury Hunter
8980s	either has to find more damage to add to
8984s	those minions use multiple damage spells
8987s	or actually start picking things like
8990s	hex off of some of those discover
8992s	options which just kind of uh delays
8996s	what Fury Hunter wants to be doing for
8998s	his own game
9006s	plan yeah 66 coming down with that Forge
9009s	again being very very powerful overall
9012s	and uh that's basically going to be the
9014s	backbone of the plan here for MMF just
9016s	try and put some pressure on because
9018s	right now the hand is I mean there's
9020s	Reverb there's fracking as well to try
9022s	and help out but there's
9025s	no again I I'm not a wheel loock
9028s	specialist by any means but it's
9030s	difficult to see The Natural end game
9032s	come into play here on the Warlock side
9034s	against Shaman right
9037s	now it's going to start with tracking go
9039s	di
9041s	in
9045s	yeah another Forge of Wills an end game
9049s	and a doom kin
9051s	the the Doom Kim could come down next
9053s	turn uh stealing some uh Mana keeping
9056s	Fury Hunter a little bit delayed uh
9059s	especially I think from playing out the
9062s	Titan could be kind of interesting but
9065s	also with these bodies on board Forge of
9067s	whs or the end game look pretty good I
9070s	think I like Forge of whals because it's
9072s	Forge of whals I I think that's the only
9074s	explanation it's required because it's
9076s	like it's another 66 right now right
9079s	which is such a big
9085s	deal and then there's also like the
9087s	alternating locations then if M MMF
9090s	wants that you know where you can every
9092s	turn you can basically generate a minion
9094s	as long as you have something on board
9096s	right so yeah I really like this it's
9099s	just more stuff more damage to face I
9101s	mean these two six sixes could just go
9103s	face here and just put on the pressure
9105s	oh was that a trade someone called the
9108s	face police
9110s	Oh I thought we were racing in these
9112s	games I don't know I don't know where
9114s	we've gone
9117s	wrong well that lightning bolt is some
9120s	extra damage here another lightning bolt
9123s	or a
9132s	crash okay Fury Hunter can just answer
9135s	these six attack minions from the board
9139s	here uh uh MMF looks pretty out right
9144s	now unless there's a fantastic draw
9146s	that's
9159s	crash you just lock it in right
9171s	I I'm going for the okay I was he
9174s	thinking whether to play Flash or not
9176s	and and or because he could have just
9177s	gone crash crash right as opposed to
9179s	flash crash
9181s	crash yeah shake of the head there from
9183s	MMF and that is rough like I again I
9185s	think building the big board 100% like
9188s	correct right I think that was the the
9190s	pure good aggro play but that much AOE
9193s	with the spell damage with that great
9195s	timing from Fury Hunter was nice MMF
9197s	does however clear the board but Fury
9199s	Hunter
9201s	that was not Fury Hunter going all in I
9203s	don't think there right like he still
9204s	got plenty of game available
9207s	so can MMF hold on
9212s	though yeah down to Seven health syphony
9216s	though yeah Symphony and the uh harp is
9222s	equipped so if there's not enough damage
9224s	here to close it out well there is
9227s	enough damage to close it out picking up
9230s	another lightning bolt plus the crash
9233s	yeah that's just going to be it uh so we
9236s	are going to see a game number five as
9239s	fairy Hunter ties the series up two to
9242s	two yeah we've seen a lot of this right
9244s	like some slightly more drawn out games
9246s	responded to by just quick snap wins
9249s	from from either player furiant again
9251s	getting some really good discovers there
9253s	I think there was an extra crash and
9254s	then that lining ball as well definitely
9255s	helped out being able to just push and
9257s	clear that off but again I do think MMF
9259s	you know understood the assignment right
9261s	like this game isn't going to wheel
9263s	right it's not going to happen or very
9265s	unlikely let's say so yeah get those
9267s	minions down and push with Forge of
9269s	wheels and if there just wasn't the big
9270s	AOE H the game would have probably
9272s	wrapped up on the other side but crash
9275s	is just such a strong card that there
9278s	yeah Fury Hunter getting hold of that
9279s	second one there made this turn a lot
9281s	more simple or the turn before sorry
9284s	that was that was 106 wasn't it yeah um
9286s	but yeah really strong there and I think
9288s	now we're going to see the the Warlock
9290s	have to struggle again uh what What's
9292s	Fury Hunter's last deck I've forgotten
9295s	already uh
9298s	look see did he win with the priest or
9301s	the Demon Hunter one of those two the uh
9304s	Demon Hunter the Demon Hunter yes he's
9307s	going to have Demon Hunter versus
9308s	Warlock and again I just I just feel
9310s	like the warlock's going to really
9312s	struggle here things are going to have
9313s	to go very very well and if we see this
9316s	time from Fury the umpire's grasp on
9318s	curve then things are going to start
9320s	getting really bad H for MMF so it's
9323s	going to be a tricky one but I will say
9325s	MMF even though may have been looking to
9328s	bully Warrior has uh surely not gone
9331s	into this tournament thinking H my
9332s	lineup's going to lose to everything
9334s	else I I I'll just beat Warrior because
9336s	although that's part of what Conquest is
9338s	it's definitely not the whole thing
9340s	we've seen very few times in
9341s	hearthstone's history where people have
9343s	gone so all in on like a very singular
9345s	strategy so I assume mmfs you know had
9348s	some games with warlock versus demon h
9350s	done some practice but I do think it's
9352s	going to be a bit of a tough
9354s	one yeah I I have played a lot of the
9357s	Wheelock myself uh and I do think that
9360s	there are a couple different uh
9362s	potentials for the deck and it
9365s	definitely is very draw dependent if uh
9368s	and maybe we'll see this even in the
9370s	Mulligan as well depending on what's
9372s	offered here oh my go well yeah there it
9375s	is with coin as well again third game
9379s	for the warlock I I really feel like the
9381s	coin is so helpful for the Warlock but
9386s	as good as Fury Hunters Mulligan is mmfs
9388s	was as
9390s	bad
9391s	sarus end game end game H does have dark
9396s	alley which oh okay and Forge okay the
9399s	recovery is on as I said with Forge of
9401s	Wills things are
9403s	possible it it is but also this start on
9407s	the other side for Fury Hunter being
9409s	able to coin into this umpire's grasp
9411s	now already has a Salesman on board uh
9414s	going to be able to start getting those
9416s	demons out uh MMF is really going to be
9420s	looking for this dark alley pack and the
9422s	double end game in hand uh to kind of
9425s	carry this game
9431s	mhm
9433s	tricky probably
9437s	amalgam if this was the other Warlock
9440s	than 100% mythical Terror but uh it is
9444s	not so I think it's amalgam here
9447s	although you know I I could see
9449s	Arguments for mythical the good thing
9451s	here as well and I'm not sure if you
9452s	agree or not but this second Window
9454s	Shopper sort of manually being picked up
9457s	uh by Fury Hunter uh because there's no
9460s	access to Second weapon or anything I
9462s	think that's actually not really a bad
9463s	thing normally don't really want to draw
9465s	The Shopper but I think in this instance
9467s	with having the first one cheap and then
9469s	having the one to very quickly follow up
9472s	could potentially be very
9474s	powerful I I agree and I know we just
9478s	said probably what 10 minutes ago it's
9480s	like you don't want to draw that window
9481s	shopper and now we're like actually it's
9483s	fine and and this is one of those times
9485s	where you just it it does depend on kind
9488s	of what's going on in the game what's
9490s	going on in the hand already I feel like
9492s	we saw a lot of that in the matches
9494s	yesterday and this is kind of another
9496s	case for that here because what this
9498s	does is it fills in Fury Hunters curve
9501s	quite a bit he can finish up with this
9503s	first window shopper we're seeing a gla
9506s	Smith Observer of Miss or mystical
9507s	Terror or mythical Terror here for the
9511s	uh mini one one option but then yeah
9514s	next turn maybe you can just roll into
9516s	that five Mana Window Shopper kind of
9518s	keep playing things Force MMF to answer
9521s	these bodies on the board and then be
9523s	able to okay if they've answered
9525s	everything now I just keep getting to do
9528s	these other things that I want to do
9529s	with this sharpshooter in hand uh or I
9533s	mean again I I feel like the coin makes
9536s	such a difference with things like this
9538s	uh these Forge of wills and these demons
9541s	that are getting created and having a 66
9544s	versus a 7 seven
9547s	is kind of impactful when there's also
9550s	additional things like this damage here
9552s	that Burning Heart even the uh
9556s	additional plus one plus one if you can
9558s	finale out uh through felon Flames yeah
9562s	it it's super important because I mean
9564s	look at this right the difference
9565s	between a six Health thing and a seven
9566s	Health thing when your opponent's best
9568s	card on curve is a six attack minion
9571s	yeah the difference is huge like for
9573s	sure so we'll have to see if that's
9576s	going to come into play does get the
9577s	extra power this turn to make this uh
9580s	quite a bit of a
9583s	wall yeah I I feel like it ideally MMF
9587s	wanted to uh use that buff at a time
9591s	where you could also Forge wills and get
9594s	those added stats that would kind of
9595s	stick around more permanently but yeah
9598s	he also didn't want to die so yeah not
9601s	not dying is good I think option again
9604s	because this is game five the loser of
9606s	this they're out there's no more second
9608s	chances for these players right now so
9610s	if they lose they're done we're down to
9612s	game five everything on the line so yeah
9614s	not saying that that sort of scenario
9617s	should impact your play but just sort of
9620s	reiterating what's on the line for these
9622s	players yeah just get to go
9625s	with oh fury on oh there it is yeah the
9631s	Phantom Fort Wills is active getting to
9634s	put out of
9637s	155 that amalgam has to uh perform is
9641s	there even anything that's going to get
9642s	there at this point it's brutal it's
9645s	brutal and this is what I was talking
9646s	about where the game isn't going to be
9648s	one with the wheel there are other ways
9651s	such as 25 15s on board on turn six it's
9655s	pretty
9658s	good yeah all right going for the mini
9661s	oh these discover options are terrible
9664s	Fury Hunter just head in hands eye of
9667s	Shadow deceptor and a battle I I guess
9671s	you could give your hero some life steal
9673s	sure that'll surely do
9677s	something h no rush no poison no nothing
9682s	it's just it isn't
9683s	it another amalgam but nowhere near
9686s	enough
9688s	Mana Fury just going through the motions
9691s	but that's just it's just you just can't
9694s	hit for 15 I think that's just the way
9696s	it is and anyone who's played against
9698s	this deck knows that when this happens
9700s	you need an answer very very quickly
9703s	indeed and unfortunately for Fury Hunter
9705s	there isn't one there but fortunately
9707s	for
9708s	MMF he takes the vi
9710s	absolutely huge win moving on with with
9712s	such a strange lineup and I don't even
9714s	mean that to sound negative but just a
9716s	lineup I was not expecting to be going
9719s	in I was expecting at least you know the
9722s	uh the sort of priest Demon Hunter like
9724s	a lot of these aggro sort of decks or
9727s	the likes of specifically Odin Warrior
9729s	whereas some of these decks the Warlock
9730s	and the warrior of course from MMF are
9733s	true surprises for me I didn't think
9734s	wheel loock was going to make it but MMF
9737s	is hanging on
9739s	yes well as I said I love this uh this
9743s	wheel deck so I am a fan of it I I don't
9748s	know how much of a fan of it I am in
9750s	Conquest overall but I'm glad to see it
9752s	at least perform in one of what the
9757s	three it won one out of three it got
9759s	there yeah not a win percentage you want
9761s	to overly brag about if that's the
9763s	percentage you're going for but in
9765s	Conquest if you can win with all three
9767s	decks you won the match and that's the
9771s	matters yeah uh I said this earlier
9774s	though I think for MMF now uh even
9778s	though he was able to win this match
9781s	against Fury hunter that does mean now
9783s	he has to play that decider match and
9786s	we'll show that uh bracket in just a
9789s	second here to kind of get you up to
9790s	speed as well but that decider match now
9793s	that is going to be against insane who
9797s	MMF already faced earlier and lost
9799s	against uh and again insane is one of
9802s	the other four players outside of Fury
9803s	hunter that did not bring warrior in the
9806s	lineup so I'm curious to see how a
9808s	rematch is going to go uh it's always
9810s	interesting to me to see if the players
9812s	kind of stick with the same bands if
9815s	they stick with it the same strategies
9816s	if they had any sort of you know kind of
9818s	initial strategy going into uh certain
9821s	lineups and then if they change that
9823s	plan uh when they have to face off
9826s	against it again yeah I mean MMF got to
9829s	be just thinking as he saw the group and
9830s	the lineups why me at this point just
9833s	not getting any of those Warriors to
9834s	mess around with but as you said there's
9836s	there a bit of a refresher for Group C
9839s	um we saw our win a little bit earlier
9840s	on take down insane H and now because of
9843s	that we are going to see that decid a
9844s	match insane versus MMF coming up next
9847s	so uh looking forward to uh sitting back
9849s	and watching that one cuz it was if it
9851s	was anything like this series I am well
9852s	both Series today actually I am very
9855s	happy yes yes the same and uh I know we
9859s	weren't on the desk earlier but I will
9862s	say I am a fan of Tia as well uh for me
9865s	I would say molar and TOA are kind of
9868s	two of my uh favorites for this
9870s	tournament uh I think I mentioned this
9873s	quite a bit in the worlds where I was
9875s	saying kind of pocket train is like the
9877s	champion of the people like the people's
9879s	champ and uh I feel like both uh molar
9882s	and tiaba for me are kind of the like
9885s	Grassroots Community type players that
9889s	um may not be like household names in
9891s	competitive Hearthstone but you you have
9894s	somebody that's there and you're like I
9895s	need to root for them so I am really
9898s	happy to see both of them move through
9899s	and we'll get to see them again tomorrow
9901s	in the top eight but before we get to
9904s	that top eight tomorrow we have so much
9906s	more Hearthstone action still to come
9908s	for today to see what else happens in
9911s	this group C and later Group D so don't
9914s	go anywhere we will be right back with
9916s	our group C decider match
9925s	[Music]
9945s	[Music]
9974s	[Music]
10001s	[Music]
10030s	[Music]
10057s	[Music]
10086s	[Music]
10116s	hello everybody and welcome back to the
10117s	Hearthstone Master tour spring
10118s	championship for 2024 my name is TJ and
10121s	I'm joined by sdle my best friend for
10125s	this next match hey s how you doing I'm
10128s	so I didn't know we were official like
10130s	that TJ I'm so excited I was doing good
10133s	but now I'm doing extra good um just
10136s	looking forward to getting in costom h i
10137s	feel like I've been sat around doing
10139s	nothing for the past like four hours or
10141s	so because I kind of have while those
10143s	first two long series uh went on I know
10145s	you got to be involved in the opener
10147s	which was kind of a marathon but then
10148s	the the second one turned into a bit of
10150s	a grimefest as well with that Shaman
10152s	game going all the way down to fatigue
10154s	uh but the results of those games means
10156s	that we are going to be looking at MMF
10158s	versus insane
10160s	uh and honestly TJ I'll kick this
10161s	straight off um if I if someone had
10165s	asked me prior to the expansion being
10168s	released when the cards were revealed
10169s	but the expansion wasn't out whether I
10171s	would have been casting wheel of death
10173s	warlock in a Masters Tour uh I would
10177s	have lost a lot of money I would have
10178s	given them basically any odds they
10180s	wanted that we would not be seeing that
10182s	card in the Master's tour and yet here
10184s	we are wheel of death
10190s	that's it that's my
10191s	analysis I'm done yeah um it's been nuts
10196s	and uh I think that MMF has got to be
10200s	feeling pretty good coming into this
10202s	match specifically not only because
10204s	there's wheel of death in the Warlock
10206s	but also because just came off a beaten
10208s	Fury Hunter I don't know if this was
10210s	shown prior to the previous series but
10213s	if it was I didn't see it but sorry what
10215s	are we even playing this tournament for
10217s	MMF has already won clearly if you found
10219s	yourself a partner by playing
10220s	Hearthstone then honestly any amount of
10222s	money is kind of irrelevant at that
10223s	point like you are far more talented
10225s	than anyone else in this tournament
10227s	surely I mean I met my wife playing
10230s	World of Warcraft which Hearthstone
10231s	stems
10234s	from does that count I guess can I win
10237s	the tournament yeah sure yeah yeah okay
10239s	fine Crown TJ TJ's
10243s	done can I have $10,000 doll hairs
10247s	[Music]
10250s	go to the
10252s	manager this is the one I've been
10254s	waiting for
10255s	sdle I haven't got to cast it so yet
10258s	this weekend but now I do the true
10262s	Highlander Warrior none of this two of's
10264s	business a full
10268s	entirely deck to the teeth on the
10271s	deckless graphic uh one of's Highlander
10275s	Warrior
10280s	it's I mean it's it's legal right it
10282s	passes it passes the vibe check as long
10284s	as you don't have like 8 to 10 two ofs
10286s	in your Reno deck that's fine you're
10288s	allowed to play it the subtle police
10289s	aren't going to come around or arrest
10291s	you so I guess that pass is check one
10293s	personally I favor like the faster
10295s	warriors with basically all two ofs and
10297s	then just the Reno for the end of the
10298s	game when you're basically decked out um
10300s	but I think that is a perfectly
10302s	reasonable way to go as well and we have
10304s	seen uh MMF piloting it very
10307s	effectively um in a couple of games so
10310s	far that game with the Sharman I think
10312s	the end game got a little bit messy on
10315s	both sides but it is very very hard to
10318s	keep a calm head and uh it's it's weird
10321s	because when you get to the end of games
10322s	like that technically the game gets
10324s	easier right because both players have
10326s	perfect information but what happens
10328s	then is this this mental trick you play
10330s	on yourself where actually playing the
10332s	game gets harder because you convince
10333s	yourself then that Perfection is
10335s	possible and so you then seek Perfection
10337s	which makes you overthink things and
10339s	play badly I think I think that kind of
10341s	happened a little bit with both players
10344s	on both sides of that previous match up
10345s	but uh looking forward to MMF dive back
10347s	in with the warrior
10350s	again yeah funny you put it that way the
10354s	more you think about Hearthstone the
10356s	harder it
10357s	becomes
10359s	yeah so what you're saying is you should
10361s	just not think about it that much and
10363s	just follow your instincts and play your
10364s	cards and then heartstone's easy it's
10366s	easy game yeah yeah yeah right it's like
10368s	so you know I've spent like eight or
10369s	nine years of professional Hearthstone
10371s	casting trying to seek Perfection and
10373s	improving my craft and getting better
10375s	and gaining more knowledge and becoming
10377s	a better broadcaster whereas for example
10380s	you and Neil just start talking about
10382s	boats and basically we've reached the
10384s	same point in our career so who's the
10385s	real idiot
10390s	here
10393s	Fair am I no longer your best
10396s	friend no still my best friend no
10404s	nice now this is a this is a Highlander
10408s	Warrior hand right here this is what I
10409s	like to see got ourselves a gold Panter
10413s	a tuning
10414s	fork okay Needle Rock totem makes
10418s	[Music]
10427s	sense be bot face right right kind of
10430s	the hand that you want to see as a
10432s	Highlander player because most of these
10434s	cards are of sufficient quality to make
10435s	it into the deck anyway the weapon that
10437s	you're currently playing is the only
10439s	really sketchy card that you're playing
10456s	[Music]
10469s	sorry saw the feed is Frozen for me if
10472s	you could oh unlucky I'm trying to I'm
10475s	trying to work it out I'm trying to
10477s	think of something to talk about but
10478s	it's just the same thing over and over
10480s	again I still see bot face and I know
10482s	he's picked by now he has and he even
10485s	then he hasn't picked bot face
10490s	insane here probably just an Elixir
10492s	[Music]
10495s	turn is off an incredible value he
10497s	offered thr's gift as well which uh some
10499s	time ago you would be incredibly pleased
10501s	to see if you'll discover here and snap
10502s	it right up but no lightning bolt
10505s	available
10506s	anymore does have a flash a ton of burn
10508s	and a fizzle in hand already though
10511s	probably just needs a little bit of
10513s	spell damage to go along with that it's
10516s	looking like this is a game that's going
10517s	to progress
10520s	faster than the game that we saw in the
10522s	previous series with Fury
10535s	Hunter and right on time novice Zappa
10538s	does show up so this is
10541s	already a pretty exemplary fizzle
10545s	hand slight issue is that the board is
10548s	very annoying right now totem and gold
10551s	Panner probably both want to get cleared
10552s	up you can do that with gift into storm
10554s	if you want to yeah that's what insane
10556s	is going to end up going for
10558s	here which I don't mind that was
10560s	probably the weakest card in your
10563s	hand in terms of getting caught in the
10567s	photograph for the fizzle so getting rid
10569s	of that now replaced with a blood Mage
10572s	thos once again a very very nice looking
10575s	fizzle turn yeah and without any mus
10576s	kill Minions on the board insane is
10578s	going to take this moment just to uh
10581s	drop down the fizzle get that photograph
10583s	taken of course you do have that one
10584s	dirty rat that you're looking to try and
10587s	Dodge in mf's deck as well which
10590s	absolutely you do not want that hitting
10591s	your
10596s	fizzle yeah caught up slly
10600s	com it's fantastic are you are you
10603s	keeping a handle on everything that's
10605s	happened so
10606s	far yeah I apologies I'm almost entirely
10609s	sure it's on my end but um I'm I'm
10611s	seeing this as if it's like a PowerPoint
10614s	presentation if someone was doing a
10616s	presentation on this the stages of uh
10620s	Highlander Warrior versus nature
10623s	Shaman I saw the the Viper come down I
10626s	saw the
10627s	fizzle uh which it is a decent fizzle
10630s	now if I stay frozen here the whole game
10632s	I will have a perfect uh answer to
10635s	what's in the snapshot for you to uh
10638s	refer back to
10640s	later is actually phenomenal so
10645s	uh maybe we'll just leave it here and uh
10648s	you can just refer back to
10651s	me uh I love uh TJ lightning b double
10655s	crash lightning flasher lightning
10657s	lightning
10658s	reflexes after all of your years I have
10660s	the best memory you've achieved a level
10663s	of usefulness that is equal to Windows
10666s	clipping tool well done congratulations
10668s	you've made
10671s	it all right it's caught up a caught up
10673s	a little bit more wow BR is in play
10676s	amazing
10678s	incredible
10681s	uh all right it's so much armor already
10684s	though the fact that bran has come down
10686s	now we're seeing armor vendor the the
10689s	damage is stacking up 48 is already a
10691s	pretty high Target and dirty rat ripped
10695s	off the top which means insane could
10697s	lose double spell down damage okay
10699s	misses one misses the Flow Rider as well
10702s	that sorry hits the Flow Rider which
10704s	could have been used to go fishing for
10705s	that
10711s	photograph yeah and we we've seen even
10713s	just today that every point of damage
10715s	matters right all that spell damage
10716s	matters you kind of need both both
10719s	iterations you need the before snapshot
10723s	and after snapshot everything that you
10725s	can muster up so uh losing the the
10729s	zapper is a a pretty big deal and
10732s	there's already 48 health and plenty
10733s	more to be
10736s	gained yeah that zapper is of course in
10739s	the snapshot but by getting the Flow
10742s	Rider rage you lost easy access to that
10744s	snapshot as well I think with seven Mana
10748s	available this turn if you could just
10750s	quickly overload and then go uh Flow
10753s	Rider into the snapshot you would have
10755s	an ability to play an awful lot of your
10758s	hand this turn as long as the lightning
10760s	reflexes was kind which in general
10762s	lightning reflexes have not been
10764s	particularly kind today to the shaman
10766s	players that we've seen but it can
10767s	happen it has been
10770s	known especially to insane in the the
10773s	the previous match they played right at
10775s	the end against this exact matchup y
10778s	whed on both cheap spell to cycle and
10780s	burn on both
10782s	ends
10785s	so just getting anything playable at
10787s	this point is
10790s	oh my gosh he's popping off TJ he's
10793s	popping
10794s	off I think I'm caught up a little bit
10797s	it's looks like it's stabilized so I'm
10798s	good I got to see the pop off live I was
10807s	there yeah this is kind of hard to beat
10809s	from here uh when you know there is a
10812s	pretty good chance that you're not
10814s	actually going to see your snapshot now
10816s	because MMF can just start hard cycling
10819s	for those
10820s	TNTs start eating burn out of your hands
10823s	start eating burn out of your deck if
10824s	you can hit that snapshot that is
10826s	basically GG you are not going to be
10828s	pushing 50 plus damage without access to
10830s	that
10838s	snapshot what about snake
10843s	oil snake oil get there what about popup
10846s	book popup hook get there
10849s	no that's a tiny bit of irony it's
10852s	pop-up book is very popped up oh nope
10855s	not anymore there we go let's pop back
10870s	up you imagine how disgusting this deck
10872s	would be if uh popup book and
10874s	bioluminesence just existed at the same
10877s	time
10878s	it'd be very unpleasant I think I mean
10881s	it'd be the most broken deck in the game
10886s	yeah like the amount of spell damage
10889s	that you'd be able to generate from
10890s	absolutely nowhere yep like the only
10894s	downside I can possibly think of is you
10896s	actually have to use one of your damage
10897s	spells to to generate the minions for
10901s	the
10903s	bioluminescence but small price to pay
10909s	only one TNT so far and the photo has so
10913s	far
10918s	survived we are sending these cards
10920s	around in circles though okay settle in
10922s	we are some way behind on these
10924s	animations I'm
10925s	sure more burn
10931s	gone it looks like we're
10934s	done okay we are indeed
10958s	oh I'm guessing insane I'm guessing
10961s	insane just got eaten by the animations
10963s	there should be able to reconnect fairly
10964s	quickly I would suspect uh it looked
10967s	like towards the end that uh MMF was
10970s	just going Giant and then the uh the 21
10972s	Mech Swinging with the weapon I was
10973s	wondering why we didn't see that it
10975s	looked like he picked up the cards and
10976s	then put them back down again right
10977s	which seemed strange but I guess we were
10978s	just viewing From insane's perspective
10981s	and therefore didn't see the animations
10982s	resolve I guess insane just got got
10984s	backlogged on animations a little bit
10986s	there like I was saying with like 20
10987s	something cards being drawn that turn
10989s	but a lot of burn did get eaten but
10992s	crucially there you go okay the snapshot
10994s	did survive which is the big win if is
10998s	such a thing for insane in this game
11000s	that was the thing that was going to
11002s	need to happen the snapshot needs to
11004s	survive long enough to be drawn and get
11010s	played yeah snapshot by itself's not
11014s	good
11023s	enough well I don't know I guess the
11025s	armor gain is pretty limited uh from
11027s	here out but at least looking at the
11030s	hand that's a lot of damage that needs
11032s	to be done a lot of damage racked up
11035s	though kind of depends on this lightning
11037s	reflexes at this point I feel oh
11039s	actually last turn little hard to
11041s	evaluate because we were watching the
11042s	the animations in a weird way but I
11043s	think MMF was did make a deliberate
11045s	choice to hold back a zero Mana 88 right
11048s	which sounds absurd yes but I think
11050s	because the uh the gas like gatekeeper
11053s	was redrawn anyway mf's just like well
11055s	actually my minions in play don't really
11057s	achieve that much this game let me just
11059s	hold on to this card and have one more
11061s	card to cycle to keep looking for more
11063s	bombs which I think is actually pretty
11064s	smart
11067s	honestly yeah you don't the win
11070s	condition of this matchup is almost
11072s	never kill them at a certain point sure
11075s	once they reach fatigue and if you're
11078s	both in fatigue to to try and race right
11080s	play Big minions but at this stage in
11082s	the game it's kind of just living long
11084s	enough and getting enough bombs out to
11088s	run your opponent out of resources
11090s	That's What It ultimately comes down
11092s	to feral Spirits caught the Stray off
11095s	the first TNT which was probably the
11098s	most irrelevant card in insane's entire
11100s	hand actually like the literal best
11103s	outcome that's not bad
11106s	honestly and that's not terrible either
11110s	like I'm not saying this is a winnable
11111s	game but it insane is getting very close
11113s	to living in the world where it is with
11115s	some of these outcomes
11123s	but still good luck doing
11133s	46 you have the Mana for like turn the
11136s	tides I guess so yeah you're spend on
11139s	the next spell Mana this turn but I
11142s	think it has to be Elixir I think turn
11145s	the tides gets there
11149s	those definitely don't get
11154s	there
11158s	oh
11161s	conductivity I think you were looking
11162s	for some sort of
11164s	conductivity weirdly enough you were
11166s	looking for the The Jive insect scam in
11168s	the version of the deck that doesn't
11169s	play it right if you could try and put
11170s	that together somehow but I don't know
11172s	how that even
11173s	happens you need to find some way of
11176s	generating a board I think so I don't
11177s	think you ever going to discover enough
11179s	raw damage to get over the
11181s	line so I guess pack the house becomes
11184s	as good an outcome as you can
11186s	realistically expect at that
11198s	point
11200s	a
11201s	okay what can packed house give
11210s	you want to pick just like perfect
11212s	minion for each
11214s	spot yeah but is there anything like
11218s	wild wild and
11220s	wacky no no standard cards only
11228s	[Music]
11232s	TJ I'm Shadow so funny all right well
11236s	that's me nothing nothing good
11239s	MMF taking game number one with the
11241s	Highlander Warrior and uh that was just
11245s	solid disruption curve right off the bat
11248s	and even though insane that game had
11250s	gone a long time uh if the TNT had had
11254s	not been there and come out like to
11255s	super late in the game that was a lot of
11257s	recurring damage that could have
11258s	happened uh with that snapshot we saw
11261s	the choices weren't that great but extra
11264s	extra um spell spell damage um extra
11268s	spell discover maybe a little bit
11269s	earlier could have gotten there but
11271s	fortunately did not in MMF now one game
11274s	up wheel of death still
11277s	remaining yeah I think honestly uh when
11280s	you're playing against a pure Highlander
11282s	version of warrior a lot of the game is
11284s	going to come down to how many of the
11286s	good cards they get to slam on curve
11288s	right and MMF got to play Brown on six
11291s	he then got to follow that up with dirty
11293s	rat which is one of the most insane
11295s	cards in the matchup after Brown has hit
11297s	and then he got to slam TNT on curve
11298s	which if you're not already responding
11301s	on that turn where they spend eight mana
11303s	on the boom boss with lethal you're
11306s	probably not winning that game from that
11307s	point right it's just too disruptive to
11309s	have you potentially 18 cards eaten uh
11313s	by TNTs even though that's unlikely to
11315s	happen because you probably won't have
11317s	the board space but losing six from hand
11318s	six from deck like I was Haring on about
11321s	it right up until like up until that
11323s	point obviously MMF was hitting the nuts
11325s	but once the TNT started to go off in
11327s	insane probably got as lucky as it was
11330s	possible to get from that point onwards
11332s	and he was still like 25 damage away
11334s	from winning the game right and he might
11335s	have been had some absurd outcome from
11337s	pack the house like I guess I could
11339s	think a little bit more earnestly about
11341s	your question so like Leroy is a five
11343s	drop like ccg as a four drop maybe just
11346s	for a ton of extra value to hand and
11349s	then I don't know what the six drop
11350s	would be but like that's still not going
11352s	to get there against that Warrior right
11354s	there was just with Reno in hand as well
11357s	that any B that was going to be made was
11359s	just going to get deleted straight away
11360s	so pretty easy game one with how it
11363s	lined up for
11364s	M yep it's a matter of doting the eyes
11368s	and crossing the
11370s	te's and now we have MMF going to be
11373s	playing the Zari priest and the best
11377s	deck in Hearthstone TJ I would say so so
11381s	many options for Tech inclusion and
11385s	mmfs uh choice is going to be the
11389s	iic uh in that slot and sure I like
11395s	it it's a great temp of minion that
11397s	gives your board some resiliency when
11399s	it's played on curb
11400s	so uh I'll I'll take it it's no hear
11405s	Stone Brew but
11406s	it's still solid it fits in with what
11410s	the deck wants to do and
11414s	then uh oh this is Fury Hunter but I I
11418s	think we're at the
11420s	same po point
11423s	taken yeah insane is also playing n a
11425s	Demon Hunter yes that is a
11428s	yeah yeah and the same one uh actually
11431s	no not the same
11434s	one um no sigils uh for
11444s	insane and I'm trying to look at that
11447s	other differences but well while you're
11450s	doing that I did want to talk a little
11451s	bit about this uh priest list from MMF
11454s	because I do find it quite interesting
11455s	right normally the there's like hearth
11457s	stone Brew Leroy and posic and those
11460s	three all kind of fight for one spot
11462s	near the the top end of the deck is what
11464s	you want that like extra finisher Tech
11467s	card to be um MMF is actually managing
11470s	to play two of them he's playing Leroy
11473s	and posic then he's also playing a
11474s	Starlight welp um I guess what's going
11477s	on here is that you're making room uh by
11480s	not having uh glacial shards in your
11482s	deck which some people do and then I
11484s	would expect that if you're doing that
11486s	you're then on a ban Demon Hunter
11489s	strategy a lot of the time but you can
11490s	see right here below us MMF is Banning
11492s	warlock in this one and it's insane
11494s	that's Banning Demon Hunter so it's
11495s	interesting cuz when you break down the
11497s	lists the people who have glacial shards
11500s	still in their list tend to be leaving
11501s	Demon Hunter up because that's a decent
11503s	Advantage for that matchup and but it's
11505s	interesting to see a list that has found
11507s	room for for extra things like Star
11509s	Starlight well and posic by cutting
11510s	glacial shards then going no no no I'm
11512s	Banning warlock um and it's not like the
11514s	Warlock is a super unusual out of left
11516s	field deck for insane to have here right
11518s	like tons of people uh have that warlock
11521s	in this tournament so I just thought
11522s	that was kind of an interesting Quirk of
11524s	the way the uh the lineup is built and
11525s	the band
11528s	strategy yeah it's kind of reminds me of
11533s	um the different ways well I was going
11536s	to say the different ways players are
11537s	building Warrior but Warrior kind of has
11539s	polar polarized
11541s	matchups uh
11543s	regardless um specifically the
11545s	Highlander Warrior whether or not you're
11546s	including two ofs or not uh but we see a
11549s	lot of players with uh sort of like this
11551s	target Shaman strategy that would be
11553s	playing speaker Stoppers in that in that
11555s	spot uh instead so a lot of different
11557s	tech cards that are kind of viable
11559s	depending on what what you're trying to
11561s	Target or what you're expecting to be
11563s	Decks that are left up in lineups that
11565s	you're fighting against in the field
11567s	um
11568s	so let's get into the next game here it
11571s	is going to be priest first demon h of
11572s	the deck you saw slightly different uh
11574s	from the one inane is uh uh is going to
11578s	be playing in this game but close
11595s	enough that's pip right it's got yeah
11598s	it's got to be pip that is PIP I don't
11600s	think I've ever I don't think I've ever
11601s	seen the the signature pip
11612s	before nice Tempo clergy I respect it
11617s	actually a little awkward for uh insane
11620s	to deal with as you can see insane could
11623s	technically have dealt with it but uh
11625s	chose to get on with his primary game
11627s	playay plan
11628s	instead which I absolutely
11633s	respect yeah just burning Harding burn
11636s	burning hearts and not getting that
11639s	weapon
11641s	drawn um weapon could be for not though
11645s	uh just because already one window
11648s	shopper picked
11654s	up that's actually kind of a sick draw
11660s	allows you to take full control of the
11662s	board this turn if you would like
11664s	to of course of course when you're
11666s	playing the Naga version using a felon
11669s	Flames as a little bit more of a debate
11672s	than it is in the pure shoer version
11675s	just because it does have so much extra
11676s	utility on those uh Sharpshooter turns
11679s	not just from being a zero Mana spell
11682s	that keeps the cycle going but also
11684s	because you get to rush one of your
11685s	minions into their minions which takes
11687s	health off the board with damage that
11689s	couldn't go face otherwise therefore
11691s	maximizing face damage from the actual
11693s	shots from the nagas that's really
11694s	really important when you're going for
11695s	lethal
11697s	sometimes
11702s	yeah it's Dragon time
11706s	MMF start jamming them
11717s	got to think about the correct
11723s	order uh to me I want to go uh churin
11727s	first and then the gift wraps because I
11729s	want as many of the gift WP Buffs to
11731s	land on Zari as possible I don't think
11735s	you're winning board by playing Max
11737s	stats I think you're trying to set up
11740s	Turbo otk with as big as Ary as possible
11743s	with this hand I think when with this
11745s	hand if you're not facing down weapon
11747s	then go ahead and play some gift R welps
11749s	early and then play the buffed minions
11750s	out to just try and make a bigger board
11752s	right now but I don't think you're going
11754s	to win board uh against the the weapon
11756s	draw from insane so I would just try and
11759s	get as many Buffs as possible on that
11761s	Zari because Zari has functional charge
11764s	right so just make it as big as
11766s	possible
11768s	yep and this play is exactly playing
11770s	into that so very wise
11774s	MMF all right Dodge the um second patch
11778s	of draw was able to get this out and uh
11781s	a nice little basis for Tempo and
11784s	exactly as you said you're not going to
11786s	win board forget about it Forget About
11789s	It by the way no one is hitting mag
11791s	theodon today have we seen a single one
11794s	in like yeah we saw one in first series
11797s	okay yeah we saw one in the first series
11799s	but only
11801s	one uh in that series and it wasn't red
11804s	carded or any shenan games like that it
11805s	was just a nice solid
11808s	couple turns of three
11810s	[Music]
11811s	damage good old magedon I'm for you give
11816s	me a MAG mag he we did it
11822s	yeah yeah MF already knows just saw how
11825s	quickly that was taken already knows the
11827s	answer yep drop in the
11833s	nod want to just Burning Heart a couple
11836s	of things
11843s	yeah ignore Burning Heart ignore the
11845s	rest I grow
11848s	impatient maybe just like Burning Heart
11850s	the 4 five play Desperado just for Mana
11854s	[Music]
11859s	efficiency like suddenly the is just to
11862s	do this as possible this is my first
11865s	instinct as well but and my Mana alarm
11868s	went off in my head I guess you could
11869s	technically
11872s	sleep the last Mana sure all
11876s	right yeah that's actually more
11881s	efficient yeah back in the like 2014
11883s	Face Hunter days yeah yeah yeah that's
11885s	maximum efficiency
11887s	certainly yeah you just got to count to
11890s	30 in the most efficient way possible
11893s	yep back then
11905s	wow all
11907s	right just going to get on out of
11912s	there so is
11916s	insane mf's like I'm out insane's like
11921s	same all right all tied up honestly the
11925s	I think the Abyssal basist of the first
11926s	role from the window Chopper actually
11929s	maybe even ended up being better than
11931s	mag theodon in that sense because it
11933s	just represented so much more pressure
11936s	so quickly right like the mag theodon
11938s	starts to overtake a 65 with damage
11940s	quite quickly but because the game was
11942s	so fast accelerated so quickly by the
11945s	PIP on a full hand of one drop dragons
11947s	uh just an extra one Mana 65 was uh was
11950s	kind of disgusting in the end Isn't it
11952s	nice by the way how Window Shopper Works
11955s	entirely in the way that you want want
11957s	it to as a Player No Matter What like
11960s	the Buffs on the window shopper retain
11962s	on the Minions that you get but then
11963s	anything like Abyssal basis then applies
11965s	the discount even after the discount
11968s	that you've got from the window shopper
11969s	as well so it always works out in the
11971s	best possible way for the player it's
11973s	very rare that Hearthstone rules line up
11975s	in that way where it's just always what
11977s	you want it to do every single
11979s	time not as fun if you're the opponent
11981s	of course but
11983s	hey that's why it's such an insane card
11986s	yep
11988s	[Music]
11990s	and it's was also insane's
11993s	card
11995s	yep not sure if you're going anywhere
11998s	with this CJ or okay no that was it that
11999s	was the punch line okay I didn't know
12002s	like maybe Ru of three there was
12004s	something actually funny coming at the
12006s	end of that but I guess I had lofty
12008s	expectations that's my
12011s	bad yeah no that was it you should have
12014s	known at that point that that was going
12015s	to be all
12018s	um but down to a best of three now
12020s	priest on both
12022s	sides still the wheel of death
12026s	warlock for MMF and then Shaman for
12029s	insane which has been the struggle
12033s	Point yeah and priest in general has
12036s	done I mean I know we've both flown the
12038s	flag for Zari priest in this tournament
12041s	but it's done incredibly well overall um
12044s	I think it had like 70% plus win rate on
12047s	uh on day one uh while not really
12050s	getting banned at all very rarely I
12053s	think it was banned once maybe on on day
12055s	one in total um so it's actually one of
12058s	the strongest decks in the tournament
12059s	right now with um actually like if you
12062s	look at that uh first match that we just
12064s	had the uh the Naga Shopper Demon Hunter
12066s	is actually wildly under performed which
12068s	I I didn't expect either um so what the
12072s	the second game there was one of the
12074s	lowest win rate decks in the tournament
12075s	with Naga Shopper and beating one of the
12077s	highest win rate decks in the tournament
12079s	with the Zari
12083s	priest yeah not a huge SLE size
12088s	yet uh but I guess big enough for us to
12090s	make some um initial
12094s	conclusions if you're you're just
12096s	referring to to the tournament stats
12098s	this far correct yep yeah just from
12099s	yesterday yeah
12104s	yeah this storm is
12108s	oh
12109s	yeah one Mana
12112s	32 get
12119s	him I love this start I love players who
12121s	do this start I think particularly with
12123s	pop-up book as a followup this is pretty
12126s	much mandatory this zapper is probably
12129s	going to push six damage minimum this
12131s	game just by being on board on turn one
12133s	so I I fully respect this line minion
12137s	come down to challenge it most of the
12138s	time you shoot it with popup book you
12140s	keep
12142s	going or or or TJ you draw the one thing
12148s	in your deck that's even better than
12151s	that yeah which is hard to even
12154s	imagine and it's just a one
12159s	of this is that's kind of
12162s	dead yeah yeah oh not even an extra turn
12167s	can save you
12171s	now it's like the one glaring weakness
12174s	with uh priest is just if you have any
12177s	type of snowball card or snowball
12179s	opening there's just no way for them to
12181s	get past it except for just raw stats
12184s	yeah and trying to fight it out um we do
12188s	have however habo
12192s	gabo um who is uh coming up in in group
12196s	d
12197s	who has the the Euro worms the glowstone
12200s	Euro
12202s	worms in the deck which does give you
12206s	that I really need to remove this but
12208s	all I have is stats
12211s	line Y
12214s	um so look looking forward to that oh
12221s	yippee TJ is there such a thing as he
12223s	Stone visual ASMR cuz I'm pretty sure
12226s	that's what this turn is is your
12228s	opponent Buffs a minion to full health
12230s	and goes I can't remove this and you
12232s	just have spell damage popup book Spirit
12234s	claws hit you in the face with a 3-2
12236s	that is as visually satisfying a turn as
12239s	I think it is possible to have in he
12243s	Stone
12252s	poetic yeah I mean what else you can if
12255s	your MMF what else you going to do say
12257s	just play your
12258s	stuff
12260s	yep small debate here whether insane
12263s	wants to trade a blood Mage to try and
12265s	be more Mana efficient with the turn I
12267s	think it is a small debate though and I
12269s	think the answer is no just keep
12270s	shipping which he
12272s	does the Zappa has now pushed nine that
12275s	was played on turn
12280s	one okay finnal cake is huge though
12282s	finnal cake is huge I was going to make
12284s	this point when you were saying like if
12285s	your opponent has their best possible
12287s	Tempo start you're you can pretty rarely
12289s	respond to it this is what you need in
12292s	this build of the deck right is you need
12293s	to have funnel cake so that you can just
12295s	cheat and just basically overload your
12298s	opponent's stats going back the other
12299s	way it's the Druid Strat essentially
12301s	right no removal can't actually kill
12303s	minions but what I can do is just play
12306s	way more stats than you
12310s	can
12312s	oh no oh raw five Mana cra crash of
12317s	Thunder off the top with double spell
12320s	damage just nukes the entire board
12323s	novice zapper pushes points of damage
12326s	numbers 10 11 and 12 for the game and
12329s	MMF is just entirely out of
12339s	stuff this is riveting cuz I'm in slido
12341s	again so I'm just enjoying your
12343s	commentary I was like what is he going
12344s	to do to deal with this board
12347s	still a turn away from
12350s	Titan yeah will do it MMF Drew
12354s	absolutely nothing insane now gets to
12356s	drop the free Titan and I would not be
12359s	surprised if MMF is just going to scoop
12362s	on this one cuz it is tough to imagine a
12365s	way back from
12369s	here insane draws
12372s	three trying to debate what to use the
12375s	free spell on him
12377s	yeah it's very uh it's very Chill Vibes
12381s	but it is one of the hardest times to
12382s	play Hearthstone is when you're
12385s	99.99% favored and you need to work out
12387s	how to add another nine to that
12389s	probability which is what insane is
12391s	currently
12392s	doing like this game is over but insane
12395s	is is doing the thing that you
12396s	absolutely should do when playing the
12397s	game at this level and still making
12400s	sure that you get everything right
12409s	yeah I've caught
12410s	up and this is the the perfect way to
12414s	end your point you got to make sure you
12416s	do everything white right you got to
12417s	push the
12418s	one oh
12421s	yeah all right extra turn ziliax with a
12425s	clergy to try and get an extra Mana
12430s	zilia is the best possible card you
12432s	could probably have in your hand at this
12434s	point but you're probably going to need
12435s	funnel cake anig of some variety on top
12438s	of that oh ooh okay that worked out
12442s	incredibly well it is a very cool turn
12445s	at the very
12447s	least riding
12449s	zelc just to exactly one cost and then
12453s	duping it with Pip and then getting to
12455s	play both of them where one uh discounts
12457s	the other very very cool at least you've
12460s	got uh a fun story to uh to tell your
12463s	kids about how you lost this game I mean
12467s	if you could have picked like almost the
12469s	perfect sequence of cards for that
12471s	situation that'd be close to it um in
12474s	order for EF to even have a chance but
12476s	insane had
12477s	enough uh damage there at the end to
12479s	close it out and takes a lead in the
12483s	series one step closer just the the uh
12485s	priest deck uh remains for insane to uh
12489s	make it out of this group and and move
12492s	on to the to the top eight so yeah
12496s	looking pretty
12498s	worth noting though that you were
12499s	talking earlier a lot of people have
12501s	just been jamming speaker Stompers and
12502s	things uh there you go there's the
12504s	moment you can see the contrast in tions
12507s	since you missed it first time around TJ
12510s	yeah um insane does have double speaker
12512s	stomper in the priest which if he then
12515s	had to play this match up in Reverse he
12517s	would uh feel pretty good about I'm sure
12520s	but MMF has not fallen into any of oce
12522s	shananigans he's not bringing Sharman at
12524s	all which means there are are some
12527s	opportunities for some somewhat clunky
12529s	draws uh from insane's priest that maybe
12532s	might give MMF a route out of this
12534s	series but like I said Zari priest yes
12537s	small sample but Zari priest is
12538s	performing very very well uh for
12541s	everyone not called MMF in this in this
12543s	tournament so you would uh expect insane
12546s	to be able to pick up a win at the very
12548s	least he's uh he's got a mirror where
12550s	probably MMF is a tiny bit favored
12553s	because of those uh the lack of speaker
12555s	Stompers in MMF version of the de making
12556s	it a little bit more streamlined uh but
12558s	insane has to have a huge Edge from
12567s	here all right final cake in the open a
12570s	te it's there looking good that's a
12573s	that's an
12574s	opener I love
12577s	it but also Raven's favorite card Forge
12580s	of wheels in the opener for MMF on the
12582s	other side I think I've figured it out
12584s	okay MMF has has brought this deck to
12587s	the tournament and is such a big
12588s	believer because yeah it just draws
12590s	Forge of Wills dark alley pack every
12592s	single game and if you end up doing that
12594s	it doesn't really matter what the other
12596s	26 cards in your deck are because that
12598s	is such a powerful start against so many
12602s	decks yeah just put wheel of death in
12605s	there just so you can say this is Wheel
12607s	of death warlock yeah yeah yeah
12610s	exactly but genu genuinely though right
12614s	like genuine self-reflection here the
12617s	part that I got wrong about why I
12620s	thought this deck was completely
12622s	unplayable aside from Mostly unplayable
12625s	is that by putting wheel of death in
12627s	your deck you're then allowed to do
12628s	other things which lets you scam games
12630s	in different ways right like by having
12632s	wheel of death in your deck you're then
12634s	allowed to play Phantom and by having
12636s	Phantom in your deck you can scam games
12639s	with the six Mana guy and Forge of
12640s	Wheels like we've seen previously right
12642s	like you do have these other ways of
12644s	blowing out games that don't particular
12646s	involve wheel of death uh wheel of death
12648s	as a wi condition which is something
12650s	that I did not really evaluate uh when
12652s	the card was revealed properly let's SLE
12659s	wait I'm waiting look at this
12664s	curve uh-huh I'm
12666s	looking depending on the order
12669s	of mf's next
12672s	turn this could just be a complete
12674s	blowout
12676s	because of the speaker stomper because
12678s	of the speaker stomper yeah very very
12682s	possible MMF would have to realize and
12684s	get the dark alley packed out first just
12686s	to deal with the
12689s	board H I guess this
12694s	is do you I don't think you want a
12696s	funnel kick just to get a onew on the
12698s	board do you no I guess if you do the
12700s	math
12703s	yeah well you could be able to get the
12705s	one two on the board regard l so the
12707s	funnel kick would be
12709s	completely
12723s	Superfluous if you just play for of
12725s	souls right now you take
12728s	nine if you just play for yourselves
12730s	right now you take nine they play
12732s	speaker stomper you kind of explode on
12735s	the spot and that's the end of your
12738s	tournament but if you play dark alley
12741s	packed but players don't get to play the
12744s	game based on the perfect information of
12746s	what the opponent has in their hand they
12748s	have to do the much trickier task of
12750s	working out what wins the game the most
12752s	on average and everything except Forge
12754s	of Wills is catastrophically low Tempo
12758s	here against a lot of other hands right
12760s	yeah that's very
12765s	true okay
12767s	all
12768s	right we're clearing
12773s	up cheap Minion Okay I mean that is
12776s	stats it's not a cheap minion but it
12778s	technically adds so any cheap minion
12780s	that you if you drew another one drop
12781s	here right you could go one drop one
12783s	drop funnel cake speaker stomper and
12785s	that probably ends the game regardless
12786s	from that point that draw is a little
12789s	bit more Awkward
12796s	yeah there's no way to put 11 on
12810s	board the question becomes whether you
12812s	need to put 11 on board if you're
12814s	playing the speaker St like I get it two
12816s	turn lethal would be fantastic so you
12818s	could win the game immediately when you
12819s	lock out their ter with the speaker
12822s	stomper but since they then can't clear
12824s	your board anyway
12827s	I guess it's still two more turns then
12828s	to like dupe dragons play dragons play
12831s	zeri at the very least okay just speaker
12834s	stomper in the end
12843s	fine holding on oh I was going to say
12846s	holding on to the heart because not
12847s	damaging and wants the extra dark alley
12849s	pack
12851s	but we just stomp her again right
12858s	synchronized funnel oh no you can't oh
12862s	no the three the three On's two injured
12864s	right it has full health well you only
12866s	you only have two minions
12873s	also right but as long as you get double
12875s	over you'd power cord synchronize you'd
12876s	have three Mana you'd play funnel cake
12878s	if you got two Mana back oh you four
12881s	yeah yeah yeah
12886s	but I think that thing has full Max
12888s	health does
12890s	it uh oh yeah I mean it would never be
12894s	even
12907s	right oh what if insane just wins the
12910s	series by playing a Tempo Zari that's
12913s	what you want to see
12920s	use the second synchronizer as a buff to
12922s	push some damage yeah this makes sense I
12924s	think yeah and needs the uh extra
12927s	dragons for the zi I think we're
12930s	at just one left
12934s	right uh yeah it be either one or two I
12937s	haven't kept perfect track this game but
12938s	certainly with the uh the funnel Kake
12940s	you'll be fine either way to at least
12942s	get the uh the active turn
12961s	starting the operation was just one
12964s	starting the operation never doubt the
12971s	teach clap clap
12979s	how does this work actually I assume it
12981s	stays 1111 it does yeah I've never
12982s	actually done this before so I've never
12984s	seen it with my own eyes but yeah makes
12986s	sense that it's still an
12993s	11-11 which uh means weirdly you do not
12997s	have lethal right now
13002s	nope um h
13019s	Wonder did to one and 18 for the
13032s	Leroy there's not really anything else
13034s	from your deck you'd want at this point
13036s	maybe alul just for like next
13039s	turn I think the speaker stomer just
13041s	being on the board is more
13052s	valuable actually doesn't trade either
13056s	okay yeah with the speaker stomper
13059s	you're kind of protected and with the
13061s	health totals of everything
13063s	right yep just arguing that you can uh
13067s	cash that into three extra damage that
13069s	you don't have to do to the taunt next
13071s	turn of course MF does now get to start
13074s	tapping for
13075s	free but this is a seriously bricked
13078s	hand when you can't play
13085s	[Music]
13091s	spells I guess it makes sense right cuz
13093s	even with um even with stomper in play
13097s	right if you trade off your entire board
13098s	into that 1111 and then they just spend
13100s	their entire turn resummoning it you
13102s	still kind of lose to that right so I
13103s	think leaving it up is absolutely the
13105s	right
13112s	decision now you only have to deal with
13115s	it once and you have your full board to
13117s	be able to do uh do that
13121s	with yep
13130s	and that is going to be that easy as you
13134s	like the damage goes through insane with
13136s	a huge pop off this time that's what
13139s	that looks like that's what his chair
13140s	looks like insane is over the moon to
13144s	get out of that one you can see all of
13146s	that emotion seeping out of him he
13149s	looked so calm and in control for most
13152s	of that series which if you've watched
13154s	his stream by the way you will know is
13156s	kind of a rare occurrence for insane to
13158s	be playing the the game that calmly but
13161s	I think you can see right at the end
13164s	what was going on inside him that entire
13166s	time he wanted to be animated he wanted
13168s	to let it all out but managed to stay
13170s	focused for that entire series and just
13172s	about drag himself over the line in the
13174s	end against that warlock very very
13176s	nicely
13180s	done yeah definitely a tough match up
13183s	but I think correct decisions made
13185s	throughout the the whole game um when
13187s	you're looking at a game that's that on
13189s	a nice Edge there's not that many
13191s	decisions to be made in everyone is so
13194s	impactful uh every single Minion every
13196s	single point of damage uh the thinnest
13198s	of margins so uh very nicely done and
13201s	insane will uh move on now uh to that
13204s	top eight single elimination tomorrow
13207s	and with that we have three
13209s	groups uh that are settled uh six
13212s	players currently in that top eight only
13214s	Group D left to go
13217s	yeah and uh Group D is going to be a
13220s	real heavy hitter as well um but of
13222s	course shout out to MMF I'm sure there
13224s	are a lot of people sad to see MMF go
13227s	because there are a lot of people out
13229s	there who are big fans of the wheel of
13231s	death warlock who would have been
13233s	throwing rotten fruit at their own
13235s	monitors and TV screens with every bad
13237s	word I said about the deck because it
13239s	does have a lot of fans a lot of
13240s	boosters out there um but yeah I was I
13242s	was surprised that it even made it here
13244s	I was surprised someone who brought it
13246s	here did not go 02 um but I would have
13249s	been even more surprised if we saw it in
13251s	top eight so yeah MMF well done you put
13254s	up a showing you brought the stuff you
13255s	believed in I respect you for that but
13258s	insane is the one that's going to make
13259s	it through and this is a top eight they
13262s	shaping up very very nicely
13264s	indeed and honestly whoever qualifies to
13268s	this op eight from Group
13270s	D at at the very least is going to
13273s	improve it uh Group D with bunny Hopper
13276s	habo gabo Hemlock and Dimitri kazav all
13280s	names that if you've been following uh
13283s	competitive harstone even somewhat
13285s	closely uh for the past few years uh
13288s	should be familiar names uh very
13291s	standout group and
13294s	honestly uh maybe just Hab gabu alone
13298s	makes Group D the most creative group in
13300s	terms of deck list I will say that uh
13303s	there's a couple of spicy Tech
13304s	inclusions um and a couple of small
13308s	differences in in uh lineups even
13311s	amongst popular archetypes that make it
13313s	great so I'm looking forward to that one
13316s	um anything any final thoughts on this
13318s	series or looking forward to Group D
13320s	before we uh head on out of here so no I
13323s	think we will uh we'll talk a little bit
13325s	more about uh what we've seen and what's
13326s	coming up uh after the break but I think
13329s	just ch to group C you know I really
13330s	hyped this up I thought this would be a
13332s	very very high level uh day of
13334s	hearthstone with the players that were
13335s	entering we're about halfway through it
13337s	and so far is living up to expectations
13339s	so get comfy in your seat we've got
13341s	another fantastic group coming up pretty
13343s	soon yeah and uh with that that means we
13347s	got to go to a break we're halfway point
13349s	through the day which means we're
13350s	halfway point through the weekend so
13352s	don't go anywhere plenty more
13353s	Hearthstone action to come here at the
13354s	Hearthstone Master tour spring
13356s	Championship don't go anywhere
13369s	[Music]
13389s	[Music]
13416s	[Music]
13445s	[Music]
13472s	[Music]
13501s	[Music]
13528s	[Music]
13557s	[Music]
13566s	hello everyone welcome back we are
13568s	getting ready to move into our group D
13571s	but before we do that let's talk with
13574s	all of the casters here uh outside of
13576s	Raven uh about kind of what we saw
13579s	already today and what we have still
13582s	coming up so lenda let's start with you
13585s	how you feeling about what we've seen
13587s	and what we have coming up next yeah
13589s	great to see um insane doing well after
13592s	he's been kind of to show us his
13593s	qualification process on stream really
13595s	like to see it when people succeed like
13596s	that and yeah looking forward to seeing
13598s	the 20194
13608s	enter MMF uh not making it through in
13613s	group C but we still have the group D
13616s	still to come uh let let's move on to
13620s	sdle how I know you guys both just kind
13623s	of closed out that group C so you
13626s	already
13634s	did on what we have for Group
13649s	[Music]
13658s	D well I have done that both times that
13661s	we have done these little group chats
13662s	hello I am here bunny Hopper as I was
13665s	just saying is a uh is the most recent
13668s	world champion aside from pocket train
13670s	as uh Neil was alluding to as well with
13673s	the fourth place in a previous world
13674s	championship before that Habu gabu is
13677s	one of the most creative deck builders
13678s	that we've have in the game and kind of
13681s	intermittently dips his toes in and out
13683s	of just wanting to be one of the very
13685s	very best players in the game and right
13687s	now is choosing to do that it seems by
13690s	uh by qualifying for this Masters Tour
13692s	and stamping his mark But even the
13694s	players who are get less coverage in
13696s	this Hemlock and Demitri Kazo are both
13699s	excellent players in their own right
13701s	basically more or less everpresent
13703s	players in Masters tours Demitri Kazo
13705s	was a player who managed to look
13707s	impressively solid in America's Grand
13709s	Masters which is a thing that is nearly
13711s	impossible to do because you tend to get
13713s	dragged down to the level of all the
13714s	others America's players but Demitri
13717s	just continued to rise above it so I am
13720s	I'm very pleased for at least the start
13721s	of this group I just get to sit back and
13723s	watch some what I'm hoping is some EX
13725s	three
13726s	hosting all right TJ how about for you
13729s	you got any rebuttal to that uh those
13732s	remarks
13735s	byle no uh no completely accurate
13738s	analysis uh you do tend to get dragged
13740s	down and funnily enough that actually
13743s	does get passed down to the casters uh
13746s	as well uh where you know Neo Neil came
13750s	brigh eyed bushy tailed I'm going to
13752s	cast some America's Grand Masters and
13754s	then you know a couple months later the
13756s	the only thing he could talk about is
13758s	boats um so you know that's just what
13761s	happens uh but yeah I think uh Group D I
13764s	mentioned it before the break incredibly
13766s	stacked um the one the one question I
13769s	have for habo gabo uh based on sdle
13772s	common one of the most creative deck
13773s	builders is this a meta game where you
13775s	can get creative right that's a big
13778s	question is this a metag game where it's
13779s	correct to take existing archetypes and
13783s	put your own flare on them and I think
13785s	that's going to be the big question and
13786s	you saw that habo gabu already finds
13788s	himself in the in the lower bracket um
13791s	is it too fancy uh compared to the other
13794s	players who have uh these tried and true
13797s	directly taken from plad maybe with one
13798s	or two tich cards in them um that's what
13800s	I'm going to be looking forward to uh as
13802s	we head into Group D gameplay and just
13805s	to quickly jump in on that point the one
13807s	player that so far has been brave enough
13808s	to do something really outside of the
13810s	box i. bring wheel warlock to the
13812s	tournament has not made it through to
13814s	the top eight right like there's a lot
13816s	of quite similar lineups across the rest
13818s	of the players so I do think TJ raises
13820s	an excellent question about Haru G's
13823s	lineup as
13825s	well well thank you so much for joining
13827s	us we will see how these lineups go as
13830s	we progress through these matches now
13833s	for Group D but for now we're going to
13835s	say goodbye to sdle and TJ and Linda you
13839s	and I it's time to get into our first
13842s	match for Group D here how you feeling
13844s	as we get go into uh this first pairing
13847s	here with bunny Hopper versus
13850s	Hemlock yeah I mean this is always going
13852s	to this group whatever match we cast
13854s	first was always going to be an
13855s	incredibly strong match it is the I know
13859s	the the group of death let's call it cuz
13860s	we haven't called it that for some time
13862s	I'm sure we tried not to call it up for
13863s	several years but it really is um bunny
13866s	Hopper Hemlock bunny Hopper again I
13868s	wanted to highlight as much as anything
13870s	while was being sarcastic at the start
13871s	his top four in the world championships
13873s	in 2029 in 2019 uh time traveling there
13876s	for a second because obviously we we
13878s	know he is the world champion for
13880s	2022 uh really really tough year that
13883s	was as well he had to hang in there to
13885s	the very end to get to the world
13886s	championships and he can just do it
13890s	anytime he needs to apparently um not
13893s	playing quite as much now because family
13895s	and things uh but still able to qualify
13897s	for this and still able to win his first
13900s	[Music]
13901s	match yeah it's uh definitely really
13904s	cool to see him still competing at this
13906s	level as both a previous World Champ and
13909s	as you mentioned uh now being a dad and
13912s	kind of having that that family uh
13915s	balance that he has to maintain so uh
13918s	really interesting we'll see how it goes
13920s	for his competitiveness here but uh then
13924s	jumping over to Hemlock uh what do you
13927s	think of our player Hemlock here oh
13930s	Hemlock is one of the best players in
13932s	the world at the moment um last year
13935s	year just to put this into context it
13936s	was the same system but there were three
13937s	Masters tours of 16 players he reached
13940s	the top four in one of them top eight in
13942s	the other two and also U made top six at
13946s	the World Championships so he is good
13949s	and I think he might have the matchup
13951s	Advantage here as well if I'm honest
13953s	because I think he's got the Decks that
13955s	hurt bunny Hopper's priest uh bunny
13959s	Hopper might be looking for the mirror
13960s	in this one to to get himself out
13962s	otherwise he's got to beat the warlock
13963s	or the Demon Hunter and the pest isn't
13965s	too fond of those two
13967s	decks yeah well we are getting to see a
13972s	couple of those decks there we saw the
13973s	warrior we saw uh the custom warlock
13977s	there which is really interesting we are
13979s	going to be jumping into the first game
13981s	here which will be those Decks that we
13984s	did get to see on screen so bunny Hopper
13987s	on the warrior here this is not that
13990s	Highlander version that we've kind of
13991s	already seen today this is that more uh
13994s	duplicate Odin focused variant and
13997s	Hemlock here with this custom warlock
13999s	now I mentioned in one of the previous
14001s	series that I I am a fan of the wheel
14004s	warlock but really maybe not so much in
14007s	some of these uh tournament formats I
14009s	guess if you're kind of bringing it for
14011s	something very specific I think it's
14013s	just a fun deck uh but this custom
14015s	warlock to me is even more fun and it
14018s	has that thing that I said earlier that
14020s	I like to do which is put things on
14022s	board and hit your opponent in the face
14024s	so after in the
14026s	face put hit yourself in the face then
14029s	hit your just to be clear I mean well
14032s	then you're getting to hit two faces so
14034s	it's even it's two times the fun is
14037s	really what's happening here it really
14039s	is and this is going to be a lot of fun
14040s	for hemlock fans I think uh this opening
14043s	hand the The Rook in your opener the
14045s	trient as well the geode that is a lot
14047s	of hitting yourself in the face but also
14049s	it's a lot of cycle the geode does a lot
14052s	of very sneaky work he doesn't feel feel
14055s	like it's doing a lot but drawing two
14056s	extra cards by turn three turn four uh
14059s	when you're looking for your Mountain
14060s	Giants when you're looking for your
14062s	Horrors that's going to find them off
14065s	than not with a projectionist in hand as
14066s	well he is looking to make a really big
14069s	board at least twice and maybe even
14072s	three times in the next four or five
14075s	turns yeah yeah uh the geode as you
14078s	mentioned too it it does feel a little
14080s	sneaky sometimes being able to get that
14082s	card drop but some of these more just
14084s	kind aggressive Focus decks uh can
14087s	sometimes really struggle with card draw
14090s	the Warlock does have the hero power for
14093s	card drop but oddly enough in this deck
14096s	it feels almost bad to just be hero
14100s	powering yeah uh even though you do get
14101s	that draw because you want to be dealing
14104s	damage to yourself and even though the
14106s	hero power does do that it that that all
14109s	it does uh but this you can deal damage
14112s	and draw cards and get a minion on the
14114s	work there will be many exceptions to
14117s	this but I think in modern Hearthstone
14119s	if you're hero powering generally
14121s	something bad has happened on your turn
14123s	yeah um Demon Hunter I guess for one
14125s	Mana sometimes you're just filling out
14126s	your curve but in general maybe death
14131s	knight occasionally uses the um the hero
14133s	power to you know get a poisonous Undead
14135s	or something or just to set up some
14138s	corpse stuff but yeah if you're hero
14140s	powering you're you're in trouble in
14141s	modern Hearthstone and this geode stops
14142s	you from having to do that it's a really
14144s	good point
14145s	um decisions here quite often on turn
14147s	three for the Warlock the forge you
14149s	really want to get going but you know
14151s	what else you really want to get going
14152s	is your 56 especially on this board
14154s	because early on this can't be blad
14156s	stormed the geode is in the
14159s	way yes it is and there's not
14163s	necessarily a lot of ways to answer that
14167s	uh as easily here for bunny Hopper with
14170s	this Warrior we just saw the first
14173s	Needle Rock totem come down from bunny
14175s	Hopper there is the second one in hand
14177s	but it does get removed pretty easily uh
14180s	but does bunny Hopper just want to go
14182s	for something like Needle Rock for a
14185s	little bit of extra armor and kind of
14188s	that little speed bump in the way or
14190s	does it just end up being something like
14192s	the uh gash's gift and get more armor
14195s	and draw that
14196s	way there's the answer that's what he
14198s	wants to do uh now we got questions for
14201s	hemlock does he want to make another 56
14203s	and nothing else with it oh he play
14205s	Triant if he wants or does he want to
14206s	play near fight geode um probably if
14209s	bunny Hopper couldn't do anything last
14210s	turn then with near fight down he
14212s	probably can't do anything next turn is
14214s	usually how it goes but he's missing a
14217s	whole turn of
14219s	56 that said if he plays the forge now
14222s	and gets the 56 he wastes an entire mana
14224s	and you're hoping to only have 21 or 28
14227s	Mana in the whole game so wasting one is
14230s	a huge amount of wastage
14234s	yeah and this is one of those
14237s	interesting uh kind of general concepts
14240s	for Hearthstone right of looking at that
14241s	Mana
14242s	efficiency and you kind of have to go
14246s	back in that debate of what are you
14248s	getting which one is actually getting
14250s	you more in the long term and I do agree
14254s	with you yeah I I I agree with you there
14257s	I like just going forward this we
14258s	already talked about the first geode and
14260s	how good that is how about a second one
14262s	and now on top of that finding
14264s	additional large body this is a lot of
14268s	uh stats on the board as well that are
14269s	going to make it difficult for bunny
14270s	Hopper to deal with sure is and he's for
14273s	gone the neight here is like needs to be
14276s	Coen brawl and I doubt brawl is even in
14279s	bunny Hoppers Le let me just quickly
14280s	check it is
14282s	not um and this board is absolutely
14286s	ridiculous next turn is near fight and
14288s	if there's space which there probably
14289s	will be player Forge of wheels and
14291s	hemlocks only 13 Health behind
14295s	it's so dumb I love it so much it's just
14299s	my favorite
14300s	deck this deck is wonderful uh yeah and
14304s	the thing with this deck too is that
14306s	even though these like five fives and
14308s	five sixes may not seem like there is
14311s	threatening I think a lot of the other
14312s	decks uh we're looking at or that we've
14314s	seen put out large bodies like oh those
14317s	are giants you got eight eights but
14319s	these five uh attack minions actually
14323s	still do put in a lot of work and
14325s	against some of these decks and in this
14327s	case that we're seeing here as well for
14328s	bunny Hopper the removal options are
14331s	still pretty awkward for answering these
14334s	bodies yeah I mean it's turn four a lot
14336s	of the time the Giants you're talking
14338s	about don't come down till say turn six
14340s	which is a lot different in in current
14342s	Hearthstone terms you know you've got um
14345s	gift into brawl that sort of option this
14347s	is just I have a lot of things and I'm
14349s	going to hit you with them and now I'm
14350s	going to slow you down with a near fight
14352s	and is this two turn lethal 15
14355s	yeah it's it's two turn lethal for sure
14357s	if U this board isn't
14361s	cleared well there's a malt giant that
14363s	we talked about but that
14366s	ziliax it's not quite as useful here
14370s	because this is the uh taunt life steel
14373s	Rush variant that costs less still going
14376s	to go for it but uh if this were the
14378s	variant that I think we're seeing in a
14380s	lot of the priest Decks that gives all
14383s	of your other minions plus one plus one
14385s	that would just be so many more stats
14389s	here on this gigantic board that we're
14391s	seeing yeah but he's going to go for the
14394s	I was going to ask if he thought he
14395s	might do this uh this is okay clear my
14397s	board or you are dead and I'm going to
14400s	make it difficult for you uh with the
14402s	zelc it's kind of the same clears
14405s	basically um but you have more Mana to
14407s	work with but with this near fight the
14409s	coin has been negated which is huge here
14412s	um it's effectively killed two Mana
14415s	before bunny Hopper even starts this
14416s	turn and if bunny Hopper can't either
14419s	kill Hemlock here and I say that because
14421s	he's got three in the weapon and four
14422s	from the geodes that is seven damage
14425s	available I don't know where he would
14427s	get six more from but if he can't kill
14428s	Hemlock and he can't clear most of this
14430s	he has
14434s	lost yeah there hasn't been
14439s	anything uh there hasn't been anything
14441s	that's even been forged either I believe
14443s	so even trying to go for like an ignis
14446s	and finding a one cost weapon that
14449s	potentially could have like poisonous
14452s	and and dealing some damage isn't enough
14454s	either uh so bunny Hopper just going to
14457s	opt for gaining some armor here uh
14460s	getting 17 armor and hoping that this
14462s	is enough to stay alive for one more
14465s	turn yeah two but um I think with
14469s	the how do you kill off one of your
14471s	minions basically you need to kill them
14473s	with pop guard here I think you have to
14475s	trade your two two ones into the the
14477s	Rockstar and then pop guys exact or very
14479s	close to it I think that works out might
14481s	be two over you got to trade them both
14484s	in to make sure that the first ooze
14487s	doesn't go into the there's there's
14490s	enough Mana to just play both right yeah
14493s	oh he's going to do it this way this way
14495s	works as well but yeah my ways two more
14497s	damage so it's
14500s	def either way it results in a uh
14505s	very quick win ending the game actually
14508s	that that might even be what feels like
14510s	slow for that deck but the turn six
14514s	lethal there for hemlock going to uh get
14517s	himself that first point in this
14521s	match and the only sad thing about that
14523s	is we don't get to see that deck again
14524s	in this match so I I can watch that deck
14527s	all day I just have so much fun watching
14528s	it it's just it just shouldn't work it's
14531s	like somebody got all the cards together
14533s	went oh these they work well with
14534s	damaging self let's put them in a deck
14535s	and see what happens spoilers I've done
14537s	that it didn't work um but somehow the
14540s	build is exactly right to get such a
14542s	good advantage against so many decks in
14544s	this field and we see it working once
14547s	again yeah well if you if you are a fan
14550s	of the deck like you are Linda here you
14552s	go here's your last harra seeing it as
14554s	we watch the replay there of Hemlock
14557s	closing out the game so yes say goodbye
14560s	to the custom Warlock deck for now but
14563s	that does mean as we said that Hemlock
14566s	is up one point uh going to have to get
14569s	a win with the priest and the Demon
14571s	Hunter now uh and as a lot of the
14574s	casters have talked about today how good
14577s	this priest deck is and how well it's
14579s	performing in the tournament this
14581s	weekend so I feel like that is a maybe
14585s	not guaranteed but pretty uh High odds
14589s	that the priest is going to get a win
14591s	here which uh just leaves that Demon
14593s	Hunter but how do you feel going into
14595s	the rest of the lineup for uh bunny
14597s	Hopper as well yeah I'm still looking at
14599s	bunny Hopper's priest um obviously one
14601s	of the downsides was that it's not that
14603s	great against the the Warlock because
14605s	what ends up happening is the Warlock
14607s	plays Five attack minions the priest
14608s	ends up playing three attack minions and
14610s	you do a lot of Trades and suddenly the
14612s	Warlock has a massive board obviously
14614s	Zari and stuff have their part to play
14616s	but the warlock's quite nicely favor so
14618s	that being gone it's attempting to say
14621s	that's better for bunny Hopper because
14622s	the priest no that's that's one less for
14624s	the priest to win um bunny Hopper's
14626s	priest is still going to be awkward it
14627s	might have to win the mirror to get out
14628s	of here but on the shaman first uh
14631s	different story I think I think the
14632s	Shaman's going to be
14634s	fine and it is going into the priest
14637s	which for me is basically a 5050 um Can
14640s	the priest do the early things or can it
14642s	not if it does the early things then the
14644s	shaman has to use all its resources to
14646s	not die um but if the priest lets the
14648s	shaman go and check the shaman just
14650s	kills
14652s	you yeah there are some really
14654s	interesting uh card choices I feel like
14657s	in both of these lists here as well uh
14660s	we're definitely used to seeing things
14661s	in this um priest like the funnel cake
14664s	Zari but the shaman I feel like we've
14668s	seen slight variations in all of the
14670s	shaman uh I'm looking at bunny Hopper
14673s	Shaman there also is a dry scale Deputy
14677s	which I don't feel like uh we've seen
14681s	consistently and actually there there it
14683s	is in the opening hand as
14685s	well yeah so the deputies being played
14688s	in the PE in the lists of the people who
14690s	brought the forest we saw somebody
14692s	earlier with double Deputy double Forest
14695s	um the forest just I assume adding a bit
14697s	little bit of consistency to your card
14699s	draw um it almost feels like a leftover
14702s	to me I don't know if it's been readded
14704s	uh when shut block was in the deck the
14706s	forest fetched all your battlecry things
14708s	that you wanted to do with fizzle and
14710s	such like um but maybe people have said
14713s	well the for kind of good it it does
14716s	draw two cards saves you two mana and
14720s	only costs three and you've got the time
14722s	to let it do its thing so what can we
14725s	play and so you don't run out of too
14728s	much stuff I think I think the Dy go
14730s	Deputy is just run because of that I
14732s	could be wrong
14734s	here that makes sense it's just
14737s	something that I noticed with bunny
14739s	Hopper's list and there is only one uh
14741s	copy of that fairy tale Forest as you
14743s	mentioned there's also Al a fizzle so
14746s	those could also just be kind of
14747s	inclusions that might be uh for some of
14750s	those slower matchups uh but not
14754s	necessarily for a matchup like this
14756s	priest as we did see bunny Hopper
14758s	actually just toss back that dry skill
14760s	Deputy did keep the zapper here and I
14763s	think this was uh talked about as well
14765s	in the previous match uh where keeping
14770s	uh this 3-2 on board was pretty good
14774s	into the priest here being able to get
14776s	something on board contest but then the
14779s	amazing top deck of spirit claw to just
14781s	be able to uh answer something but uh a
14786s	Salesman not a bad pickup when you're
14788s	overloaded and only have one Mana to use
14790s	if you want to continue putting things
14793s	out on board yeah and look look what
14795s	it's done uh just by playing that 32
14798s	meant that Hemlock couldn't do sort of
14799s	some natural development obviously
14802s	keeping back the the C Ury anyway but
14806s	wasn't allowed to put the surgeon down
14807s	because that would just get eaten there
14810s	was no point doing it and having a 3-2
14812s	down has really hampered hemlocks
14814s	development uh he's obviously got a
14816s	great hand he is going to be able to pop
14818s	off at some point and draw a lot of
14819s	cards and do a lot of things because he
14821s	has the funnel cakes and the
14822s	clergy but it's so annoying facing down
14826s	to 3-2 when you're playing a deck that
14827s	basically has no removal apart from your
14829s	own sort of minions to do it with
14833s	[Music]
14834s	yeah and this is an interesting uh I
14838s	guess event uh for hemlock with seeing
14843s	that 3-2 saying I can't really commit a
14846s	a minion onto the board but also having
14849s	coin and having this kind of sequence of
14853s	what one drops do I want to use how do I
14855s	want to use this uh power cord
14857s	synchronized which we are going to see
14859s	that Crimson clergy and the coin
14861s	synchronized uh but yeah I guess this
14864s	puts a bigger minion on the board it
14866s	sets up there could have been other
14868s	paths to go but now on the other side
14870s	bunny Hopper has to has to answer this
14873s	right like has to respect this clergy oh
14876s	absolutely if he doesn't remove this
14877s	clergy he is going to he knows there's
14879s	another one um and this is a strange
14882s	looking play in a way so yeah you've got
14885s	to get rid of it um obviously Hemlock on
14888s	the other side done his job if he
14890s	removes these anyway except there's
14892s	another zapper and G man have some
14894s	minions in your face young man um and
14899s	now it's up to him loock can he get this
14900s	dream boat to stick because this is just
14901s	going to do a lot of damage this bhob
14903s	has generated a lot of tempo here
14906s	against a deck that's going to struggle
14908s	to to deal with it
14910s	all yeah Raven and I were talking about
14914s	this in uh the previous match as well
14918s	with this priest where you can kind of
14921s	come into some of these matchups where
14923s	it does feel almost like that Zoo style
14926s	of back and forth uh I don't think that
14929s	the nature Shaman or Shaman in general
14933s	is particularly like that in every case
14936s	but in this game that we're seeing here
14938s	we are kind of seeing that just fight
14940s	for board early um which also does mean
14944s	if Hemlock is actually able to kind of
14947s	keep up a little bit or have a huge
14949s	swing turn and fight these off uh also
14952s	bunny Hopper has used all of these early
14954s	minions and importantly the spell damage
14957s	minions so that means potentially less
14961s	damage for some of those uh nature
14964s	spells later could be impactful if it
14967s	also means less damage that is going
14969s	into a board clear like crash of thunder
14972s	and not clearing a large board from
14975s	hemlock yep makes sense to me um bunny
14978s	Hopper here using the the location
14980s	though to keep that minion pressure
14982s	coming so uh will lower the amount of
14984s	damage he needs to do with his spells
14987s	anyway um he is just going to have a
14989s	supply of minions and yeah this is what
14991s	he thinks of your silly cards take
14996s	three yeah this is what he thinks of
14998s	your board it was much easier to play
15000s	Shaman in the bioluminesence version
15002s	when you had feral Spirits when you had
15003s	um piranhas to be able to put some
15006s	things on the board and generate that
15008s	Tempo you could even flash very easily
15011s	there to uh turn the tides that sort of
15013s	stuff and more ferals to generate
15015s	minions with
15017s	the the other one card whose name I
15019s	always forget Under Pressure the
15022s	reflexes yeah um and it's a lot harder
15025s	to do that now but bunny Hopper still
15028s	just happy to do it with with limited
15030s	minions and again the location is going
15032s	to help keep those minions flowing a
15034s	little
15035s	bit water
15039s	sweet speaking of the minions flowing h
15043s	now has gotten on board going a bit
15046s	wider here and also with that uh ship
15049s	surgeon that you mentioned earlier a
15052s	couple of High Health bodies on the
15054s	board now with a 47 thirsty Drifter a 57
15060s	uh
15061s	dreamboats no removal in hand uh for
15065s	bunny Hopper yeah so this might be more
15069s	of just a a kind of passive look for
15072s	something else that you want to do for
15074s	the following
15076s	turn yeah I mean you can play the totem
15078s	and Flash and just hope it does
15080s	something um but you're not killing
15083s	anything you're taking so much yeah but
15086s	really what's your other options you put
15087s	the 32 into the one three that's all
15089s	you've got flid just sits
15092s	there um you taking how
15095s	much 5 7 9 13 at least
15099s	13 and then more the turn after do you
15102s	think you've got another turn turn after
15104s	that maybe not so you might have to do
15106s	the flash of the totem just to give
15108s	yourself any sort of hearthstone play at
15110s	all uh but you know that this is
15112s	um pretty unlikely to pay
15116s	off yeah and uh how many dragons have
15120s	been played do we know is uh is bunny
15122s	Hopper even worried about the Zari on
15126s	curve threats be worried about it but
15128s	even even if it was five dragons which I
15130s	don't believe it is I think it's I think
15131s	two or three um but what can he about it
15134s	it's like you just got to just doesn't
15135s	exist in his head anyway right so these
15138s	things are killing him even without a
15140s	zimi in two or three turns yes so he did
15145s	have to hit the panic button there and
15147s	just go for it I I know that the flash
15150s	is it technically a cycle and it's
15152s	technically sort of setting up the
15153s	second flash but these days a lot of the
15157s	time the first flash kind of has to get
15159s	it done because the games are pretty
15162s	brutal in the early
15164s	game we've created a temporal anomaly
15170s	yeah pretty
15177s	brutal oh yeah now Hemlock has this
15180s	board this projectionist creating
15182s	another dream boat uh going to make even
15185s	larger Eng draws into a thirsty Drifter
15189s	I I don't think necessarily needs to
15192s	commit this one maybe just just leave a
15193s	board space open for uh a couple of top
15197s	decks something like uh zils or that
15201s	zimi potential uh but again that's
15204s	probably not active um yeah he had 21
15208s	adding it would have made it to 25 so
15210s	still not lethal so yeah hold it back
15212s	keep board space available for something
15213s	else
15215s	sure but and even if you suspect as
15219s	Hemlock if that bunny Hopper has
15222s	something to clear again these Seven
15224s	health things are still quite a lot
15227s	after bunny Hopper has already committed
15229s	uh essentially all of the or most of the
15233s	the spell damage minions here um the
15235s	ganth is helpful and will do a little
15238s	bit here clearing up potentially a
15239s	couple minions uh and I guess healing
15242s	bunny Hopper back up to 30 instead of 27
15245s	uh but I like this option here from
15248s	bunny Hopper to actually just go for
15250s	drawing some overload cards see what
15252s	else he can find as we've talked about
15254s	that yeah there wasn't really anything
15256s	in hand to actually do
15260s	anything yeah the the the taunts are
15263s	really annoying for priest by the way um
15265s	there's no real way to remove them I me
15267s	there is amthor on seven but again
15268s	Seven's a long way off um the these
15271s	frogs really like do their job well they
15274s	just save you from so much damage yeah
15278s	although I it does feel a little bad I
15280s	think bunny Hopper just kind of threw up
15282s	his hand they're like okay I guess here
15284s	we go like just play this and get a
15287s	couple frogs out yeah it's only six Mana
15291s	here for hemlock so not going to be able
15293s	to play that alond thul as you mentioned
15295s	uh
15297s	but this is the draws have just not done
15301s	bunny Hopper um much favors here and
15304s	there's still just so much damage and so
15307s	much health stacked on the board for
15309s	hemlock I SC effect here yeah he he gave
15314s	it the maximum chance to draw dragon
15316s	first
15317s	but if he plays the Wrangler here he
15319s	have surgeon and
15322s	the the welp next turn into zi I think
15325s	he probably only needs two if I counted
15327s	correctly I think he only needs two more
15329s	maybe he
15330s	doesn't yeah the fact he's playing this
15332s	to me means he I've got inviting there's
15334s	only two more needed for Zi
15344s	with that in mind he makes the board
15345s	space he clears up the Titan and says
15347s	kill me now or you are going to lose
15349s	again assuming I've counted
15359s	[Music]
15363s	correctly I'm seeing what 21 on board
15366s	currently mhm yeah that's kind of the
15369s	point as well um bunny needs to um
15373s	sorry bunny um Hemlock I think needs the
15376s	broad space again if I've counted
15377s	correctly which I may be wrong um so
15379s	he's going to need to kill off one of
15380s	his own minions but because he's
15381s	representing lethal Bunny's going to
15382s	have to either kill one or put things in
15383s	the way
15389s	anyway trying to work out what he can do
15391s	with a flash here if he flashes can he
15393s	not die in the
15395s	process which would be kind of
15401s	helpful yeah I I think this has been
15404s	brought up a couple of times before
15406s	though this is uh how much can you play
15410s	into the I just need to stay alive and
15413s	and not die rather than are there any
15416s	options you can actually go for to help
15419s	you win instead of just playing to not
15421s	die uh
15423s	but it's it's a really kind of tough
15426s	situation in in this case for for bunny
15429s	Hopper yeah the FL The Flash is the can
15432s	I win option and then you've got to not
15434s	die so your flash gives you a chance to
15435s	win and then next turn you've just got
15437s	to hope you can get there
15444s	somehow power
15447s	cord no way of killing off his own
15451s	things
15453s	here can the Arman Thor clear off I
15456s	think he can but then you can't yeah I
15458s	was thinking that but then you can't
15460s	actually have enough Mana for me anyway
15463s	right
15464s	he did choose not to play the 47 the Zer
15466s	manard hand last turn the can buff
15469s	something but it's not
15474s	[Music]
15483s	enough for any way he can get the damage
15485s	just
15487s	searching oh he's going to to get um the
15491s	totem just so he's got more Health knows
15493s	wins next turn so he just make it as
15495s	hard as possible for bunny Hopper to
15496s	kill him um he did choose not to play
15499s	The Drifter last
15501s	turn yeah I I love both of these last
15505s	turns though bunny Hopper just yeah kind
15508s	of opting for uh picking things that
15512s	would hopefully help with discovering in
15514s	the next turn as we see with these
15516s	lightning reflexes there is a crash of
15518s	Thunder being picked up um yeah cheap
15522s	nature spells the blood MOS this yeah
15525s	there's so much I love all these cheap
15527s	spells here but also the recognition of
15532s	not committing any type of minion on the
15534s	board that had attack that Hemlock could
15537s	trade into and be able to play other
15539s	things as well um really helped enable
15542s	this play by Von Hopper to actually be
15545s	able to now play all of these nature
15546s	spells and find these things that he's
15549s	looking
15550s	for yeah that was definitely the key to
15552s	this one not letting the trade
15554s	happen he he knows that Z is in hand
15557s	last turn so he was able to Cate to some
15561s	degree and takes it to one
15566s	one fantastic G for bunny Hopper there
15568s	really looked like he was never going to
15569s	get there um and Hemlock opted not to
15573s	put things on the board in that that 47
15575s	a couple of times easy in hindsight I'm
15578s	not saying it was even wrong uh leaving
15580s	up a board space for this this deck is
15582s	quite often important but you know not
15585s	playing the 47 is a lot of Mis damage
15587s	over the two turns if your opponent
15588s	doesn't have a clear and how often does
15590s	a sham and clear
15592s	47 not that often and have anything left
15596s	to deal with so interesting on that but
15598s	bunny Hopper getting hit
15600s	done yeah and I think that the uh the
15602s	turns that the shaman is clearing those
15604s	4 sevs uh you're probably dying anyway
15609s	so uh I I feel like maybe I would have
15611s	committed it but yeah maybe just hoping
15613s	for some uh better draws there or as you
15617s	talked about being able to get that Zari
15619s	down and end it for himself uh but yeah
15623s	really interesting game I don't think
15625s	that uh especially the early game was
15628s	quite what we would expect of either of
15631s	these uh decks but it was really
15634s	interesting to uh walk walk through that
15637s	match and see how these players actually
15640s	uh manage that so as you mentioned bunny
15642s	Hopper getting it done with that Shaman
15645s	one to one in this match now uh what do
15649s	you expect that uh the rest of this
15652s	match is going to look like now that the
15655s	uh aggressive warlock with that custom
15657s	warlock is out of the way and the shaman
15659s	that I know you were you were talking
15660s	about a little bit earlier um I feel
15663s	like it'll come down to the priest
15664s	mirror um it's not setting Stone
15667s	obviously order is a thing in
15669s	Conquest uh the priest might just beat
15672s	the Demon Hunter and get out of there
15673s	all that sort of thing is possible but I
15674s	think we like to come down to the priest
15676s	mirror here um I think Hemlock has a
15678s	very slight Advantage because he does
15682s	get to play the priest against the
15683s	warrior sometimes and just win and then
15686s	the priests aren't there anymore whereas
15688s	bun hop as option to priest into the
15690s	Demon Hunter is a lot less good if that
15692s	comes up um so slight advantage to
15695s	Hemlock um but not a big one at
15699s	all yeah and the uh the Demon Hunter
15703s	checklist for hemlock is this more just
15706s	Allin on the umpire's grasp and uh
15711s	Window Shopper like just just the
15712s	Shoppers damage getting out a lot of
15716s	that minion and burst damage this is not
15719s	a list that is running the nagas and uh
15723s	the additional kind of end game
15726s	potential like we have seen already
15729s	today and here you go here is this list
15731s	but it does top out with this hearth
15733s	stone Brew which I know has been uh
15735s	another point of discussion for a lot of
15738s	these matches um the thing that I find
15740s	really interesting in this deck list is
15743s	also these uh frequency oscillators plus
15747s	the addition of the Drone deconstructors
15750s	I think the Drone deconstructors we
15752s	don't necessarily always see in the
15755s	Shopper
15757s	lists yeah they were in for a longest TI
15760s	if they're still in now they were
15763s	a sort of a leftto not a leftto an
15766s	improvement because you wanted to play
15767s	the oscillator and you're only playing
15769s	it for a discovered mcadon which sort of
15772s	felt like a little
15773s	bit um not ambitious it definitely
15776s	happened a lot but a little bit
15778s	frivolous so the deconstructor got added
15781s	I think for just some other use for your
15783s	oscillator so you weren't just playing
15784s	this 2-1 and hoping that it did its job
15787s	later on um just give it a little bit
15789s	more consistency but I with you I think
15791s	that um
15794s	sometimes the whole frequency oscillator
15796s	deconstructor stuff it can get you very
15797s	powerful start which against things like
15799s	priest is really important uh but also
15803s	it means you then end up with a hearth
15804s	stone bre in your deck because you use
15806s	all your cards early against Warrior so
15808s	I don't know I don't want tnd with a
15809s	Hearthstone Brew in my deck if I can
15811s	help
15813s	it yeah well we'll see if the game even
15815s	gets that point because I see an
15817s	umpire's grasp in this uh opening hand
15820s	for hemlock now but but going first
15824s	which means no coin so not going to be
15826s	able to coin into that grasp and get
15829s	that out even earlier um but bunny
15831s	Hopper on this priest has multiple One
15835s	Drops including that all-important
15838s	glacial Shard to keep uh at least one
15841s	additional turn of the Demon Hunter kind
15844s	of at Bay with keeping the face Frozen
15847s	when that grasp comes down yeah and I'm
15850s	interested to see when he plays the
15851s	glacial shot he he SE the keep of the
15853s	grasp right he he knows it's there does
15855s	he play on three I'm I'm a big fan of
15857s	playing it on four obviously he may have
15859s	other things he can be doing on three or
15860s	four himself so um but I like to make my
15863s	opponent commit to the weapon and then
15865s	freeze their face so that they can't you
15868s	don't s preemptive Freeze and stop them
15870s	playing CU they can spend their three
15871s	man on something else that
15872s	turn um but pic's also here posic might
15876s	be quite um tricky for bunny Hopper to
15878s	deal with
15879s	weirdly it's a lot of stuff
15885s	yeah and uh bunny Hopper starting off
15888s	with this salesman uh Hemlock just
15891s	stable to hero power and taste of chaos
15894s	uh does look like unfortunately we're
15895s	not able to see the Discover options
15898s	coming off of this uh Taste of chaos
15901s	here but maybe some interesting choices
15903s	this Hemlock is taking a little bit of
15905s	of time to decide what he wants to take
15908s	yeah that' be great I'm sure they will
15909s	fantastic I'll take the middle
15911s	one the middle one hm I I might go for
15914s	the left card um you know just go for
15916s	that number one that's usually left to
15919s	right is how how we read things you got
15921s	to go for the number one I
15923s	say
15925s	sure we have no idea what these cards
15927s	are very useful just I just go through
15929s	the whole pool to make sure I don't mess
15931s	up here honestly but yeah F the hammer
15938s	yeah pretty good way to end the game
15940s	pretty good removal I've seen it play in
15943s	the deck like as a native to the deck it
15945s	just gets put in there
15952s	sometimes I'm not sure where we are at
15954s	with that
15959s	completely guess I beam would be kind of
15961s	interesting as well but no way of
15962s	getting it to the left if that was one
15964s	of the
15965s	options yeah I I think maybe you could
15968s	make a case for something like that if
15970s	uh you kind of just had the paic over on
15973s	the left but having both going down
15974s	swinging and paic that are kind of
15976s	blocking uh you don't really want to
15978s	commit a going down swinging just to be
15979s	able to move something into the outcast
15981s	position it feels uh pretty bad
15985s	so right I'm curious to see how this
15987s	goes down now bunny Hopper can freeze
15989s	for two turns and is likely to do so and
15993s	I want to know if playing the glacial
15996s	Shard for the sake of the freeze effect
15999s	is worth it against Demon Hunter uh I
16002s	think it's worth it because it's a one
16003s	drop which lowers the costs of your
16007s	Drifter so it's all okay there but the
16010s	actual freeze effect is going to get the
16012s	absolute maximum value here in terms of
16015s	Freez and let's see how much that
16017s	disruption really matters starting the
16020s	oper yeah I also wonder if uh now after
16023s	seeing the scale replica come out from
16025s	bunny Hopper the previous turn uh just
16028s	how much he wants to kind of fit in
16031s	these glacial shards mix in with playing
16034s	Dragons now that that Z's in hand there
16037s	also still is this ziliax which is going
16040s	to buff everything on board and coin so
16043s	it does feel like bunny Hopper will have
16044s	a lot to work with uh might still just
16046s	need a little bit more of the dragons to
16049s	get the uh Zari active uh I guess the
16053s	the kind of downside here is yeah if you
16056s	freeze does hemlock have the other
16059s	weapon to just play on top of this and
16062s	and Tri that death rattle get swinging
16065s	anyway so he can use the swinging to
16066s	trigger the death
16069s	rattle was that
16072s	posic looks like he's going to
16080s	posic POS it can through F flame and
16083s	then tell your opponent deal with
16085s	something but swinging to get yourself
16088s	the the 65 if I'm not going crazy I
16091s	think you get the swing with swinging
16092s	pretty sure you
16094s	do um but hosit gets things on the board
16097s	right now and your opponent has things
16099s	on the board right now oh my
16101s	goodness fan the hammer
16108s	okay so many options
16111s	there and they all looked
16114s	mediocre
16117s	yes this is another thing where it's I
16120s	think it's been brought up a couple of
16122s	times already before even today on
16124s	broadcast uh but we're we're really kind
16127s	of seeing these really interesting
16128s	choices
16130s	where you can really get punished a
16132s	little bit these players are getting
16134s	punished for uh a slight mistake if they
16137s	play it um but they have so many options
16140s	they just really have to find these
16143s	lines
16145s	I I don't know if I would have gone for
16148s	that uh fan the hammer myself but yeah
16152s	we'll see
16153s	uh how that turns
16155s	out I think he okay I think it's okay he
16157s	was likely to leave two Health up he's
16158s	got the taste of chaos posit and three
16161s	fell Flames I think it's okay he's got
16162s	the swing he's got the weapon he doesn't
16163s	expect to get Frozen again that's going
16165s	to be a bit of a shame for him like we
16167s	can see the second
16169s	freeze um but going back to what you
16171s	said this is one of my favorite metas
16172s	for for that aspect of things excuse
16175s	me um
16177s	where I want to play six or seven turns
16179s	of hearthstone if I make a mistake I
16181s	want to lose get get punished for it try
16183s	again and learn more um y yeah I don't I
16187s	don't want to make a mistake on turn
16188s	four and lose on turn 27 because I made
16190s	a mistake on turn four I just want look
16192s	you made a mistake on turn four you die
16193s	on turn six unlucky serves you
16196s	right um and then you get another go at
16198s	it and then you maybe your opponent's
16199s	the one who makes a mistake in seven
16200s	turns and you know after an hour you
16202s	played five or six games you made some
16204s	mistakes you won some games you lost
16205s	some games and a lot of them feel like
16208s	they were your own fault and that's my
16210s	sort of heart stone
16212s	I I'm with you I enjoy it as
16219s	well and that's not to say just to be
16221s	clear that's just not to say that's how
16223s	Hearthstone always should be just CU I
16225s	like it Hearthstone should you know
16227s	cycle through things that other people
16229s	like as well but at the moment it's in a
16231s	phase that I happen to really
16234s	like well now here is a hero power going
16238s	down swinging you were talking about the
16240s	uh potential for going down swinging
16242s	last turn but it's coming down this turn
16245s	instead I don't know if Hemlock had a
16247s	read that bunny Hopper had uh the second
16250s	glacial and maybe was just waiting for
16252s	that or maybe he was just waiting to see
16255s	if bunny Hopper would kind of commit a a
16258s	bigger board but that feels a little bit
16260s	risky against this uh this zi that kind
16263s	of can go really wide and have some
16267s	pretty big health things as we saw uh in
16270s	the previous game yeah I think he needed
16273s	the extra Mana so that everything cuz a
16274s	lot of the priest stuff has three Health
16276s	not two especially with the Buffs he was
16277s	getting so he kind of decided that two
16280s	damage wasn't enough cuz the weapon
16281s	breaks after the first swing and that it
16285s	if he was going to do that last turn I
16287s	think that's what led to him to do the
16289s	hammer in the end because it does the
16290s	same damage uh but preserve The Swinging
16293s	for a better swing the next turn so I
16295s	think he just hated the turn before and
16299s	decided that he was going to have a good
16300s	turn five
16304s	Hopper going for this coin magatha fill
16307s	up the hand finding oh trifty thirsty
16313s	Drifters oh no passes three spells over
16316s	to Hemlock though uh I sdle was just
16321s	saying it you know you got you got to
16322s	trust it never draws spells and what did
16325s	we just
16326s	see everything there's funnel cakes
16330s	there's power cords on your One Drop
16331s	Shop
16333s	um there's so many things going here
16335s	he's got 75 seconds to pick this and I
16338s	think I'd already have a shopper on the
16339s	board see what my three drop is and be
16341s	making choices from there not because
16343s	that's necessarily right but because I
16345s	don't think you ever play this turn
16346s	perfectly I think you've got to go and
16348s	do some
16351s	things
16354s	yeah okay starting with the frequency
16357s	oscillator now going to go for that
16359s	Shopper and again uh does look like
16362s	likely for this uh entirety of this game
16365s	here we'll probably not be able to see
16367s	these discover options so this point we
16369s	kind of just have to wait and see what
16371s	is picked we can speculate what there is
16373s	or isn't um yeah I would have lost my
16377s	one drop by the way um but probably
16379s	should have snake oiled first but there
16380s	you go rather frequency oated you should
16382s	try to make the space in your
16384s	hand I just wouldn't have the Discover
16387s	option I've had 10 cards in my hand
16395s	all right the second uh Taste of chaos
16399s	offering a
16402s	workshop
16404s	okay through Fon Flames clears up the
16408s	board sure Hemlock has something on
16411s	board
16413s	now bun he must have two turn lethal if
16415s	he scales here right scale setup zi zi 0
16420s	0 the turn after
16423s	you have three um Drifters a turn after
16426s	he just got to make sure he's got enough
16427s	dragons played this turn
16437s	yeah yeah I think I think this makes
16438s	sure he gets this dragons for the
16441s	Zari then next turn Zari 46
16445s	46 synchronize 46 play 46 or whatever it
16448s	becomes 58 or
16451s	something if there's enough dragons oh
16453s	he hasn't got enough dragons maybe it
16455s	only fetches
16459s	one so he has to synchronize a dragon
16461s	yeah
16464s	okay then he only gets two
16467s	46ers and Zi which is only 12 with the
16471s	zelc yeah he's got a count and that's
16473s	what he's doing while I'm talking I
16484s	Mone Hopper just goes for
16487s	nothing I mean I guess if you can't if
16489s	you can't really go in on all of it it
16492s	does feel bad with the board that
16494s	Hemlock put out to kind of commit things
16496s	like these thirsty Drifters just to be
16498s	able to die and not actually get any use
16500s	out of them because and then you're not
16503s	really going for your own game plan if
16505s	you do that
16506s	so 12 twice doesn't kill him that's the
16509s	problem here I thought there was 15
16511s	anyway um but 15 twice does so I think
16513s	that's why he held back but I'm not sure
16515s	how many dragons it is I thought it was
16516s	two but the way he played that felt like
16518s	it might be
16524s	more I'm the perfect toy for
16527s	you I think I
16533s	again so many things to count all at
16536s	once notice that Hemlock by the way last
16539s	turn just kept on the funnel cake kept
16541s	hold of a load of stuff
16542s	feel like he had a more powerful turn
16544s	available but he is very good I'll Trust
16546s	his view over
16548s	mine
16551s	oh stom even required actually probably
16553s	not you've got all the
16557s	Spells yeah just a lot of Mana being
16560s	used there before that really came into
16562s	hand too I think but sure a basist isn't
16566s	great as a one one but it does provide a
16570s	taunt yeah
16574s	yep tauns are really annoying for the
16576s	priest deck yes it was only the two
16579s	which is why he held back cuz this sets
16581s	up two turn
16585s	lethal and that zil just always
16592s	free so yeah maybe he could
16595s	have either way it's fine
16610s	bunny Hopper taking roping to a new
16613s	level here by the way yes gets a whole
16616s	turn to think about his next
16620s	turn um teasing a little bit here but he
16623s	is he is known for you using his time in
16626s	tournament situations not so much on
16628s	ladder to be
16629s	fair uh so yeah he's got a additional
16632s	dose of time and he intends to use
16638s	it yeah I mean might as well think about
16642s	it there um oh okay the the
16646s	projectionist drawn here can get you
16648s	another copy of zelc uh but you start to
16650s	run into board space
16654s	problems
16655s	so does bunny Hopper have to just look
16659s	at a potential trade or two I mean even
16664s	uh trading in with the zelc um into the
16668s	basist there's only what 23 damage got
16674s	29
16676s	but or 28 I mean only if it's played for
16680s	finale
16681s	though well I mean the other zilia is
16683s	plus six oh right yeah um but still yeah
16692s	11
16701s	22 just one
16705s	shot think
16712s	so okay so kind of doing
16717s	a mostly commit uh just try off into the
16723s	largest thing uh that could I guess
16726s	become a problem
16729s	but
16731s	yeah this this what I of trying to say
16733s	when when he held back that turn I don't
16735s	I still don't know if it was right or
16736s	not when he held back that turn I was
16737s	saying he needed sort of two lots of 15
16739s	damage to win the game uh he's gone for
16742s	a 28 and a and a 40 or something which
16744s	is a lot more but I think that's what he
16746s	was looking for at the time
16756s	this uh this priest board really creates
16758s	a problem for the Demon Hunter here this
16761s	is there's so much health this Demon
16764s	Hunter is not running removal uh I guess
16767s	there's this Mythic uh mythical Terror
16770s	in hand that can get a little bit of
16771s	healing potentially clear something up
16774s	but I don't see how that's even going to
16778s	be enough to
16782s	survive through another turn afterwards
16785s	no it looks like bunny Hopper has got
16787s	the priest out of here and that's a
16788s	massive deal if he has I can't see
16790s	anything Hemlock can't see anything
16792s	bunny Hopper takes a two on lead the
16795s	potential problem deck is out of there
16798s	and Bunny hopper in a fantastic spot now
16801s	with just his one deck
16803s	remaining yeah and I that was such an
16807s	interesting game too I think uh some
16809s	people might look at those decks and say
16811s	oh these are so like straightforward but
16813s	some of those turns were very difficult
16816s	and you see even just they spent so much
16819s	time thinking through those decisions
16821s	because as we mentioned as well even if
16823s	there is potentially one little slip up
16825s	that could cost them the entire game so
16828s	really taking the time to think through
16830s	those decisions capitalize as much as
16833s	they could uh just kind of eek as much
16836s	of that percentage in their favor as
16840s	possible yeah and Hemlock died with a
16842s	lot of mana and a lot of cards in hand
16844s	again I'm not going to say that he
16845s	played it right or wrong well um cuz
16848s	he's significantly better player than me
16850s	but that funnel cake could have been
16851s	used the ter before to put a lot more
16852s	stuff on the board and I feel like had
16855s	he done that he' been exerting a lot
16858s	more pressure on bunny Hopper and Bunny
16859s	Hopper would not have been able to just
16860s	take that turn where he didn't do a
16862s	lot um but maybe it wasn't enough
16865s	pressure we'll see it did all come into
16867s	his hand all at once like what do I do
16869s	do I shop he missed on the shopper as
16871s	well that never
16873s	helps but the funnel cake I feel should
16875s	have been used that
16876s	turn yeah funnel cake is really
16878s	interesting uh it's definitely one
16880s	that's talked about a lot in the priest
16882s	but uh we don't often see how Demon
16884s	Hunter would get to use it so uh um but
16889s	this does mean that going into this
16891s	fourth game that bunny Hopper just has
16893s	to get a win with that Warrior which as
16894s	we mentioned is this um really kind of
16897s	duplicate heavy just Odin Warrior so
16900s	it's really not um running the deep
16902s	Miner brand any of the kind of uh added
16905s	things that you might see in those like
16907s	Highlander variants or the hybrid
16909s	versions so here it is focused on Odin
16913s	it does still run the Reno if uh the
16915s	game gets a little bit later but there's
16917s	also a ton of draw in this deck as well
16920s	so even without being terribly late into
16924s	the game there is still potential for
16926s	the Reno to become active uh just
16928s	because of all of the draw here uh how
16930s	do you feel going into this for bunny
16933s	Hopper up against uh what we see is the
16936s	Demon Hunter queued up again for hemlock
16939s	yeah I think the warrior has um I think
16941s	this is a 50/50 matchup I think coming
16943s	into this tournament these are the two
16945s	Decks that people were pondering what to
16947s	do about that doesn't necessarily mean
16949s	they were the best decks I think that
16950s	Shaman and priest were showing the best
16952s	form coming in but these are the two
16955s	Decks that you knew were going to be
16956s	everywhere and I think that's the the
16958s	reason for that is they're on ladder a
16960s	lot and the reason for they're on ladder
16961s	a lot is they're they're close against
16963s	each other uh you can look at Stats
16966s	stats will tell you that what will they
16967s	say today they say different things that
16969s	Warriors kind of favored probably is a
16972s	touch but you know pH says that these
16974s	two decks are both surviving on ladder
16976s	because they do okay against each
16984s	other one or two cards different makes
16986s	such a big difference um it does hemlock
16989s	has the Heth for the reload for instance
16993s	uh which you wouldn't normally have on
16994s	ladder
16999s	necessarily any
17007s	problem and I'm trying to
17010s	see uh I guess the the fizzle in the
17014s	Warrior mhm uh F bunny Hopper might be
17017s	the kind of add a card there but I I
17021s	don't think this is the maybe
17024s	necessarily the uh matchup where fizzle
17027s	is going to be quite as important uh for
17029s	bunny double stomper which I'd forgotten
17031s	completely I'm sorry
17033s	yeah double stomper is pretty
17039s	good it's actually a really just good
17042s	looking curve already for hemlock the
17044s	umpire's grasp uh was able to start off
17047s	with the salesman play the spirit on
17050s	turn two get a little bit of attack in
17052s	can follow up with umpire's grasp and
17054s	then after that might be able to just go
17058s	for uh some window shopping and find
17061s	some demons could play speaker stomper
17064s	if uh he chooses to I believe uh oh well
17068s	you know I was going to say there's also
17070s	the posic in there but yeah you just
17072s	draw that too so it does feel like
17074s	Hemlock is going to just have so many
17076s	options uh just going to be a matter of
17079s	how bunny Hopper is able to respond to
17081s	it
17082s	yeah we talked about it a couple of
17083s	times yesterday like what do you do in
17085s	this deck if you don't draw the weapon
17087s	well the answer quite often is you go 1
17088s	2 3 you're dead LOL
17091s	like there's there's plenty of attacking
17094s	going on without the weapon in this deck
17096s	as well when you get the weapon
17097s	obviously that's why it feels so
17105s	brutal I think this turn four is going
17107s	to be really interesting for for hemlock
17110s	uh I know in talking about the Demon
17113s	Hunter there was a lot of discussion
17115s	yesterday about uh whether you kind of
17117s	start with the The Shopper and maybe
17120s	play the mini uh on that turn four or if
17124s	you kind of just wait so that you're
17126s	able to play the mini and whatever other
17129s	one Mana one one you get with the mini
17132s	discover on the turn five but I I don't
17136s	know uh if it's going to matter here
17138s	much for hlog whichever way he goes uh
17141s	but we've also mentioned how much some
17144s	of those decisions do matter
17147s	so bunny Hopper removing some of that uh
17151s	damage potential there is still the
17153s	attack from the weapon but uh the added
17156s	armor I think from that hammer for bunny
17158s	Hopper is going to probably start to go
17161s	a long
17163s	way yeah it gets even more complicated
17165s	with a frequency oscillator picked up
17168s	um of course you can go for your
17173s	zero Mana magon later but he's gone
17174s	straight for the Shopper I actually
17176s	thought he wouldn't I thought he'd
17177s	probably go for potentially posic into
17179s	stomper and wa wait on the shopper
17181s	because it's so much
17188s	damage and again unfortunately we're not
17191s	able to see those uh discover options
17194s	there but the Abyssal basist uh picked
17200s	up off of the uh first window shopper
17203s	discover so that will be a six Mana or
17207s	it'll be a 65 that was discounted to
17211s	three and then gets an additional
17213s	discount because of that first weapon
17214s	that's played so the 65 for only one
17217s	Mana uh very good value there and also
17219s	puts a taunt up that now bunny Hopper if
17222s	uh bunny Hopper chooses to attack going
17224s	to have to hit into that and also keeps
17227s	the salesman on the board so blad storms
17229s	become a little bit more Awkward here as
17234s	well yeah it would have to be a double
17236s	blade storm or um obviously bash blade
17238s	storm whatever I've got benefit I can
17240s	see things B blad doesn't work but other
17243s	thing blad
17246s	storm yeah I don't think bash is even in
17251s	hand at the moment no it's double plac
17253s	on but from from hemlocks point of view
17256s	it's it's hit the two two and blad storm
17258s	say I'm sort of cheating cuz I can see
17260s	the two blad storms but world where he
17261s	hadn't got
17263s	that um you're making bunny HPP use a
17265s	lot of
17266s	resources
17268s	yeah and that is what bunny Hopper uh
17271s	goes for
17280s	here feel like if you don't posic now
17283s	you kind of never do
17286s	yeah it's also kind of the just the the
17289s	biggest threat at the moment unless
17292s	Hemlock wants to play the speaker
17294s	stomper
17296s	but what is he trying to
17299s	uh to kind of prevent if he goes for
17302s	that um exactly
17305s	yeah so starting with the
17310s	mini I guess definitely mag theodon
17313s	would be the the best here off of this
17316s	one
17317s	one yeah it's kind of the only good one
17320s	uh then you're looking for ones that
17321s	give you attack or Secrets yeah as the
17324s	the backup plan but they are very much
17326s	the backup plan and then there's a lot
17327s	of
17329s	rubbish yeah the uh the Gar glaive Smith
17334s	could add some attack it's going to be
17336s	another
17338s	basist mini green rag sounds like
17340s	something you clean your kitchen with
17341s	like there's just rubbish stuff in there
17345s	yeah hey wa you know Raven and I did get
17349s	to see a little one one uh Inquisitor
17352s	that uh did answer and it was against a
17355s	warrior so I guess it could happen it
17358s	cleaned up the board against the uh the
17361s	trial by fire minion so fair enough your
17364s	your analogy fits yeah it cleans up good
17367s	cool yeah thank you making me look good
17370s	that's right appreciate that so that's
17372s	my job make every look
17377s	good oh the top deck sanitized here to
17380s	clean this up oh
17382s	no bny Hopper's reaction oh he was not
17386s	happy with
17388s	that
17391s	[Music]
17392s	ordering you know he's telling yourself
17394s	it doesn't matter just carry on with
17395s	what you can do
17399s	yeah we mentioned bunny HPP has
17401s	mentioned it himself he's not quite as
17403s	sharp as you would expect from bunny
17405s	Hopper but he's fine he's he's still
17406s	bunny Hopper he's still got a lot of
17409s	hearthstone miles in that in that brain
17410s	of his but
17414s	yeah he sort of qualified by
17417s	accident we I could qualify by accident
17420s	casually qualifies accidentally
17427s	yeah uh any mistakes that bunny Hopper
17430s	makes that uh can we just say Dad brain
17433s	maybe he's a little sleep
17434s	deprived accept that I know that he
17437s	won't accept any excuses on his behalf
17439s	i' I've played casual games with bunny
17441s	Hopper and yeah he's he's not going to
17444s	accept anything as um an excuse for his
17446s	own mistakes well so I won't that's why
17449s	he's the World Champ exactly yeah I I
17452s	won't do him the the disservice of
17454s	making excuses for him but yes Dad
17458s	[Music]
17466s	PR one downside we do see sometimes with
17470s	this I guess just more all-in Shopper
17473s	list rather than the more uh Naga
17476s	focused one is in these cases where the
17480s	opponent is able to clear up a lot of
17482s	these threats it can start to feel like
17484s	the Demon Hunter is just starting to run
17486s	out of gas a little bit and it does
17488s	almost feel like we're seeing that a
17489s	little bit here from hemlock uh but does
17492s	have this uh second grasp that did come
17496s	uh was able to find an instrument tack
17499s	to uh draw that
17501s	so there still should be the second
17503s	Shopper in the deck still that can be
17506s	pulled from this
17509s	grasp going to be able to put a little
17512s	bit more out on
17513s	board I mean he's got to but I don't
17517s	know we got a stomper and a posix in our
17519s	hand we got a Hearthstone Brew in the
17521s	deck and that's kind of our offense
17523s	after this round of things a MAG
17528s	theodon for that is only like the second
17531s	mag theodon we have seen in all of the
17533s	games so far for our day number
17537s	[Music]
17539s	two
17541s	yeah Fair
17546s	Point the answer is to put it in your
17548s	deck No One Believes Me it's probably
17551s	because I'm wrong but that's the answer
17553s	if you want mcons just put them in your
17555s	deck what could go wrong
17564s	I feel like that is uh the is the
17567s	question that I don't I don't want to
17570s	answer because every time every time I
17572s	say what could go wrong I am always
17574s	given the answer of what could go wrong
17577s	and I I don't want to ask that
17580s	question
17582s	fair this posic is irritating for bunny
17585s	Hopper here he is taking a lot of damage
17587s	and there is a speaker stomper in hand
17591s	and he probably has an idea that that
17592s	left card might be a speaker but it's
17594s	sat there for a long time doing nothing
17596s	and it's that or half in hand I think at
17598s	this
17598s	point
17601s	yeah so this is irritating for
17608s	him yeah there's me saying about the
17609s	posic speaker stomper sitting in hand
17611s	not doing a lot this turn
17615s	now with speaker stomper mcadon hit you
17619s	for 11
17621s	um hit you for more if if he wants
17623s	to hit it with
17626s	[Music]
17627s	burning I don't think he will
17631s	but also Burning Heart only says half
17633s	the word
17637s	there y here's the
17642s	push again going to uh discover
17646s	something that uh unfortunately we can't
17648s	see we'll find out what that is I'm
17650s	going to make
17651s	up that's
17654s	right um metamorphosis that'd be good
17660s	ooh that would be good chaos
17664s	strike fan the
17669s	hammer another F the
17672s	hammer yeah F the Hammer's good here
17674s	right like it was weird against the
17676s	priest a little bit we both sort of
17678s	thought okay that's interesting but this
17679s	is just damage that go face
17684s	yeah and also uh on the kind of
17687s	beginning of that turn there was the red
17689s	card picked up as well uh so now we see
17692s	hemlocks kind of demon board here with a
17694s	couple of these uh Minions that you've
17697s	mentioned a couple times right the posic
17699s	has been out now and the stomper comes
17702s	down so it's even harder for bunny
17705s	Hopper to clear all of this up and then
17708s	as soon as that mag theodon wakes up if
17710s	it gets that that point where the game
17711s	is still not over after that mag theodon
17714s	uh wakes up then that red card can put
17717s	it right back to uh right back to sleep
17720s	if uh Hemlock needs it to do a little
17722s	bit more
17724s	damage yeah same as last time he was um
17727s	stomped bunny Hopper really just try to
17729s	do what you can with your minions
17732s	yeah and tidy it all up any more
17738s	mcons apparently not
17743s	one thing I haven't noticed for three or
17745s	roll or get MC on or yeah Hemlock has
17751s	been uh really taking time thinking
17754s	about these decisions now obviously uh
17756s	on our end you know we haven't been able
17758s	to see those so I don't know if they're
17760s	just maybe uh decisions between several
17763s	things that are really good or if it's
17765s	just kind of a a pile
17767s	of terrible terrible options that you
17769s	don't want any of
17771s	uh for hemlock but just again noticing
17774s	that kind of really taking his time to
17776s	think through those decisions uh and
17779s	this this match is kind of exciting too
17783s	uh because this is the uh winners match
17787s	right this is the upper uh part of Group
17790s	C so even if Hemlock ends up losing this
17794s	whole match still not out of the
17796s	tournament uh but I still like the kind
17799s	of just uh
17802s	that dedication and just the okay I'm
17806s	going to I'm going to take this slow I'm
17807s	really going to think through my plays
17809s	uh because also if he wins this match
17813s	doesn't have to play again today and
17815s	goes to that top eight tomorrow so
17818s	that's the kind of a really important
17819s	thing as well again by the way that
17821s	would be his fourth top eight from the
17823s	four Masters tours in this Cent system
17826s	um which would be absolutely incredible
17827s	in the fields that he's had taken part
17829s	in
17835s	he has generated a lot of damage and a
17836s	lot of offense from apparently nothing
17838s	left here again the posic and the
17840s	stomper felt like they were a little bit
17842s	late but he used them together nicely to
17845s	to generate a bit of a problem for bunny
17846s	Hopper ni just sticker 65 the posic
17849s	alongside it was representing so much
17851s	damage the bunny couldn't get rid of the
17852s	three threes and that snowboard into
17856s	what has given Hemlock a
17858s	chance and no
17863s	do you hit the button it's a randomly
17865s	generated seet there's not many options
17867s	left really don't want to give your
17868s	opponent a charge minion here yeah
17873s	yeah uh oh it's the hidden meaning
17876s	though still gets a minion but it's not
17877s	a 66 rat guess it's only a four but
17881s	still this is the charge minion this so
17883s	much damage right now yeah yeah and
17886s	drawing the going down swinging has the
17889s	red card
17893s	[Music]
17894s	Burning Heart Is it
17899s	enough Burn yeah okay I was going to say
17902s	I guess you had Burning Heart the uh mag
17904s	theodon before you use the red card on
17906s	it but going for the four three works
17909s	too I I saw the 43 but you are right you
17912s	got to do it on the um like third one
17914s	yeah and that's
17918s	lethal two two
17922s	and the warrior not getting it done is
17924s	going to have to get it done against
17927s	the priest the warlock's out of here
17929s	right so suddenly back to Advantage
17932s	Hemlock I thought that bunny hopp would
17934s	got the advantage by getting his priest
17935s	out of there as well as the obvious 2-1
17937s	lead but now I think the priest is
17939s	favored against the warrior it just puts
17941s	down so much stuff the warrior trying to
17943s	do a lot of one for one removal a lot of
17945s	the time as long as your blad Storm's
17947s	dodged and the priest go okay well one
17949s	for one this lot
17951s	there's things everywhere and yeah
17952s	suddenly you haven't got enough damage
17954s	to do six to all of
17957s	them I won't do that sound
17962s	effect yeah I wasn't going to say
17964s	anything but since you brought it
17968s	up oh yeah just uh rewatching this know
17972s	yeah yeah I made the point about the
17974s	Burning Heart I I think in in exactly
17977s	that situation it was really just a mute
17979s	point anyways because uh there was just
17982s	lethal there anyways for hemlock as we
17984s	see uh again the replay of him closing
17987s	out that game which is taking us to game
17991s	number five uh anything you feel like
17994s	you want to mention specifically about
17998s	their lists here for this priest going
18000s	into this Warrior have a quick look at
18003s	hemlocks priest um got a hearth stone
18006s	Brew again he's obviously a fan of the
18008s	card maybe he knows something we don't
18010s	in of the stats of it but maybe he just
18013s	is very good at getting his priest hand
18015s	emptied I find with priest emptying my
18016s	hand is quite difficult and if I do I
18019s	win that's why I don't particularly want
18021s	to halfth but again he's leaving Warrior
18023s	up in this tournament and he's Banning
18025s	Demon Hunter and maybe just a nod to
18028s	leaving Warrior up here as well I might
18030s	need some more cards sometimes let's
18031s	play a halfth uh he also has two speaker
18035s	Stompers we've already seen how powerful
18037s	that is in his hands against a warrior
18039s	expect to see see him set up something
18041s	like
18042s	that uh meanwhile Bunny's list it's a
18045s	fairly consistent looking list it's just
18047s	warrior with two ofs and don't worry
18050s	about your voo until
18052s	later
18056s	yeah and I think one thing that's
18059s	interesting that I want to talk about
18060s	for the warrior is the inclusion of the
18064s	two verse Rifts I think it was probably
18066s	you and I that talked about this
18068s	yesterday right where you were
18069s	mentioning uh that it's just such an odd
18072s	spot that we're in in the meta and these
18076s	deck lists that you're not running any
18078s	of the other verse Rift uh bunny Hopper
18080s	only has uh or the right it's just the
18083s	verse Rift no other Rifts nothing just
18087s	those for the damage um but one thing
18090s	that we've talked about a lot with the
18092s	priest is the potential for some like
18094s	higher Health minions so if there is a
18098s	riff uh that bunny Hopper can maybe
18101s	squeeze in on a turn in addition to some
18103s	other board removal that can certainly
18105s	help and things like the uh sanitize or
18110s	the blad storms can certainly remove
18112s	some of those higher Health Minions that
18114s	the priest can get down as
18116s	well yeah absolutely and so much going
18119s	on already towards setting that up um
18121s	Hemlock on turn one just throughout the
18123s	clergy knowing that you know that's
18125s	dangerous and terrifying uh but also
18127s	knowing he could generate a lot of
18129s	minions if B
18131s	Hopper
18133s	um chose to dealt with the clergy it's
18135s	unlikely bunny Hopper could deal with
18136s	two things Hemlock is going to get
18139s	dragons online incredibly early because
18141s	of that play bunny Hopper is down a coin
18144s	he's also getting some Tempo damage in
18146s	the face and you know we're in Zari Zone
18150s	here already um these things are
18152s	generating so many welps this is um it's
18155s	going to be interesting to
18157s	see yeah well with this kind of start it
18159s	just matter now of getting to that point
18162s	of finding Zari a uh scale replica would
18165s	be fantastic for I picking that up but
18169s	could just play out two well prankers
18173s	and fill the hand with more one drops
18175s	and Dragons if Hemlock chooses to this
18177s	turn um I wonder if you'll see a speaker
18179s	stomper and just take the damage while
18181s	he's
18182s	there yeah he's playing two of them
18184s	there's a zelc to turn after
18194s	okay yeah he's going for the the more
18196s	straightforward looking player I like
18197s	kind of like speaker stomp for myself
18199s	and just do four and then play zelc and
18201s	then do whatever eight plus three is it
18204s	sounds like about 11 or something I I
18207s	wonder if the the choice to maybe just
18210s	go for the Wranglers here which it does
18212s	okay I was like it does look like
18213s	Hemlock is going to do uh just seeing
18216s	the
18217s	forge a couple turns ago um know bunny
18222s	Hopper as you mentioned is down that
18224s	coin only going into four Mana next turn
18227s	uh so the I guess maybe threat of
18231s	sanitize is still not there next turn
18233s	whereas the stomper could uh keep that
18237s	sanitize further away if he waits one
18241s	more turn to play it that makes sense
18243s	and also uh my play fails to they just
18245s	play the weapon which isn't affected by
18247s	the stomper kill your one to and then
18248s	you can't play your zelc
18250s	so he may have thought of that as well
18252s	but I like it he's waiting for that
18253s	Forge sanitizer I that's a good
18260s	call the the really difficult thing as
18263s	well I think for bunny hopper in this
18265s	situation is now that there is a decent
18268s	amount of damage on
18270s	board this kind of becomes a struggle of
18273s	how do I remove things and gain armor
18276s	and keep armor to be able to use things
18279s	like the s Iz to clear those bigger
18281s	boards uh I guess something like the
18284s	safety goggles if that's picked up for
18286s	bunny Hopper could be really good
18288s	because uh in a matchup like this
18291s	there's essentially not going to be
18293s	armor uh until bunny Hopper actively
18297s	gives himself armor uh so the safety
18300s	goggles will be zero which can help with
18302s	that sanitize but currently there is no
18304s	safety goggles in hand for bunny Hopper
18306s	so it does feel like Hemlock uh really
18309s	kind of gets to control this a little
18311s	bit
18312s	here I want to see some stomping now
18315s	though it's so much damage over the two
18317s	turns that you likely
18320s	get easy for me to say I'm not playing
18322s	for chance to reach another top eight in
18325s	a master's tour yeah but I think if
18327s	Hemlock goes stomper and um just the one
18330s	drop here and then plays a zilia behind
18332s	it that's so much damage while he's
18334s	waiting for his card draw part of his
18338s	deck and so whicher which one drop do
18341s	you like the salesman or just a happy
18343s	welp I'll just play happy we I'm just
18345s	going to keep playing Happy wels at this
18346s	point um to try and push on looks like
18348s	he's going
18349s	for he's going the same place he plays
18351s	both zc that works
18354s	sure yeah just going for uh damage going
18359s	for damage creating thus awkward
18368s	board sanitized
18373s	would how much is the max I guess bunny
18375s	Hopper would have to attack first which
18378s	uh we know in that previous game we saw
18381s	uh him kind of do that a little bit
18382s	backwards and and uh show some
18384s	frustration
18387s	there
18395s	yeah it's not enough to full clear it's
18400s	not right I think even attacking into
18402s	the welp first uh and then the sanitize
18406s	would only max out the armor at
18409s	five before it uh does any damage so not
18413s	clearing off these double four six well
18422s	Wranglers yeah
18431s	okay yeah just chilling for a turn just
18435s	now yeah look the speaker St is almost
18437s	on the board
18439s	already I wouldn't have done it this way
18441s	around cuz I was expecting my board to
18442s	get cleared if I didn't play it but
18444s	Hemlock sort of read the situation there
18447s	and knew that he had a very good chance
18449s	of doing it cuz bunny would hold on for
18451s	a
18452s	turn and that's it's not over but it's
18458s	so much
18461s	yeah and I know that uh We've mentioned
18464s	quite a bit how these speaker Stompers
18467s	uh can be good against Shaman and it is
18471s	very interesting that I feel like we
18473s	just never really got to see that case
18476s	that we brought up of the speaker
18477s	Stompers actually being played against
18479s	Shaman uh but it is it is doing wonders
18484s	here for hemlock uh and I I feel
18487s	obligated to just mention that there is
18489s	10 cards in hand for hemlock uh you know
18492s	bur a card yeah fine make sure we say it
18496s	yeah good mention yeah next turn um
18498s	there is projectionist and stomper again
18500s	in some World here by the
18506s	way which might close things
18511s	out
18514s	you okay
18522s	the sanitize does exist next turn but
18526s	yeah okay bunny Hopper doing the thing
18529s	where he locks it down we've seen this
18530s	once before already
18535s	today say no you're not playing anything
18537s	more dangerous you're not playing your
18538s	second stomper no matter what here
18540s	because you can't play anything on the
18542s	board
18547s	unluck 24
18550s	I'm not going to uh trade into that
18555s	Rockstar not allow bunny Hopper to get
18558s	uh anything
18560s	else for armor or guess extra armor uh
18564s	the next turn
18565s	but okay now
18573s	mhm him's hand is rubbish by the way he
18576s	does need this Lo to get
18578s	there hemlocks hand is pretty much
18582s	entirely filled with just happy welps
18584s	who I guess are maybe happy chilling
18588s	together in hand but yeah they're
18590s	they're not doing a whole lot at the
18591s	moment yeah the boat's going to have to
18593s	get
18595s	there power quart synchronize
18601s	burned this is this is
18608s	ludicrous uh so there is the question
18609s	whether you want to play um welp welp
18613s	Boat projectionist Boat or just a whole
18615s	bunch of welps and one massive
18618s	boat pretty sure that TJ would pick the
18621s	massive boat
18622s	that
18629s	yeah I mean it's a
18633s	boat what's in the box could be a boat
18637s	could be a boat
18640s	buly star prize it's always a
18643s	boat get that it doesn't
18646s	matter right I think that's just half of
18649s	uh our broadcast is just making
18651s	references that we either don't
18654s	understand from each other or that the
18656s	audience won't get it's fine that's
18658s	that's that's what we're here for
18661s	yeah I'm just and the discipline from
18665s	bunny Hopper I think on the other side
18666s	too just kind of recognizing and being
18669s	what felt like so incredibly patient
18674s	just saying okay I'm gonna basically
18675s	spend three turns in a row just gaining
18678s	some armor chilling and this is not a
18683s	matchup that I necessarily need all of
18685s	that armor gain after Odin uh and if I
18688s	get to that point like look I've got
18691s	this Reno I've got fizzle but he really
18695s	just needs to answer all of these
18697s	minions and not let the priest get on
18700s	board and just spending multiple
18703s	multiple turns just gaining armor and
18705s	then just watching your opponent's board
18707s	hit you in the face over and over like
18709s	the the discipline that he had to do
18711s	that is just so incredible and why we
18714s	see these players at this level just
18717s	doing so incredibly well over multiple
18720s	years yeah
18723s	absolutely sort
18726s	of now has to yeah calculate can Zari
18730s	kill me he knows what this hand is aart
18732s	projectionist
18734s	right uh yes should yeah uh there is no
18739s	Leroy in this deck for anyone wondering
18742s	as
18744s	well oh decision time for hemlock I
18747s	think it's not a decision I think you
18748s	just play The Drifter projection you
18749s	just go all in and say
18751s	okay one final board and you kill me and
18755s	if you if you kill that board I'll draw
18757s	a Hearthstone bre off the top and it'll
18758s	be fine
18760s	must consider I don't know what there is
18763s	to gain from sitting here for another
18764s	turn other than your opponent gains 14
18767s	armor draw seven cards and
18775s	unchallenged oh Hemlock really just
18777s	thinking through this again this is game
18780s	number five in this winners match
18783s	whoever wins this uh gets out of groups
18786s	moves to the top eight day tomorrow uh
18790s	but I whoever even loses still has to
18794s	play one more match after this yes these
18798s	matches today have been grueling in
18802s	their like length these are much longer
18806s	matches than I think we had yesterday
18809s	and to have to play a third match at the
18813s	uh the rate that these matches have been
18817s	taking uh
18821s	I mean I I know they can do get there he
18823s	thinks he needs to be
18832s	me right armor for bunny HPP we going to
18835s	draw a couple more cards Needle Rock
18839s	totem another Craftsman uh the safety
18844s	goggles there is armor now at this point
18847s	I know I mentioned safety goggles
18848s	earlier uh
18850s	but guess bunny Hopper could go for that
18852s	now just for added armor yeah just just
18856s	don't die you won mhm double Needle Rock
18859s	totem even better
18862s	sure and toino land and you'll
18865s	fine and if he plays both Needler Rock
18869s	totems could also squeeze in the uh riff
18873s	if he wants to to clear one of these
18876s	welps
18878s	but I think he's trying to work out his
18880s	danger where he might just burn a card
18883s	and that would be awkward cuz he hasn't
18885s	got I mean he should win anyway but he
18886s	hasn't got his Odin yet for for
18888s	reference I guess but he has got
18890s	um IGN so he should be
18895s	fine all
18901s	right didn't even clear off a welp but
18904s	that was so much additional armor gain
18906s	uh from the essentially double verse
18909s	Rift effect because of the finale plus
18911s	double Needle Rock totem 16 armor now
18915s	and nine Health still no
18920s	Ari no he it was goes back to turn one
18924s	where he played out the clergy and Bunny
18925s	coined out bash and then Hemlock got a
18928s	little bit of Advantage this where all
18930s	these welps came from was the fact that
18933s	he was just able
18935s	to to stick the Wrangler on the board
18938s	for so so so so
18940s	long um but that was at the cost and
18943s	that's um the decision you making this
18945s	deck that was the cost of the card draw
18947s	um gamble that he took it worked well
18949s	for him it got him a lot of big boards
18951s	it's not like it was a bad choice or
18954s	anything um but this is kind of the
18956s	price you pay for that when it goes
18957s	wrong is still 17 cards left in your
18968s	deck okay there is
18970s	now a rock star there's a shield block
18976s	there's double safety goggles there's an
18979s	active ignis there's an active
18982s	Reno oh he has got Odin yeah it was just
18985s	hiding in there yeah yeah Odin's just
18987s	been been hanging out in hand just uh
18990s	not doing
18991s	anything at this point matter yeah I was
18994s	I wasn't think you play it anytime soon
18996s	wasn't really keen on burning it just in
18998s	case but yeah
19000s	that's that uh that signature art it
19003s	throws you off
19005s	sometimes and there was a large hand so
19008s	bit more difficult to see cards it was
19010s	there I'm not going to make excuses I'm
19011s	just I'm just very bad at seeing
19015s	things funnel
19018s	cake not helpful right
19026s	now is it helpful if he draws Heth off
19028s	the top
19031s	probably I'm going to go with probably
19033s	you get a whole new hand and some more
19035s	Mana I'm going to go with probably
19036s	helpful if you draw halfth off the top
19039s	yeah funny little smile just go across
19042s	hemlocks face I think he may have worked
19043s	out there's one half hand which I won't
19045s	know what it is but something like that
19048s	that can like it's just a cheeky little
19049s	I wonder smile right maybe there's one
19052s	half hand that actually gets him out of
19054s	this here I don't know what the Heth
19055s	decks are particularly well but yeah
19057s	amuse me with your T of Victory oh now
19062s	it's go time on the Odin bunny Hopper so
19065s	much armor now oh my
19070s	gosh so much armor has this large
19073s	board to be able to push lethal next
19076s	turn okay here we go
19079s	clergy go go go go go go go Y no idea
19084s	going to work I'm going to say go a lot
19085s	of times
19087s	anyway draw the thing
19091s	there's a thing okay
19093s	stomper that's it two things that
19097s	was
19098s	thing okay
19101s	replica yeah five five Mana left to play
19104s	the
19105s	Zari now we're hitting you for three
19108s	we're hitting for three and a 41 Armor
19111s	All right it's a bit more than three but
19114s	it
19115s	is but it feels like three somehow
19124s	now we're hitting for like
19131s	18 okay I'm in
19140s	THL want to uh to go for here just
19142s	removing a couple of minions from bunny
19144s	Hopper side yeah the Odin and
19147s	uh and now High roll like you've never
19150s	High rolled
19155s	before okay not not going to do it there
19159s	was some interesting cards that popped
19162s	up we finally got to see a discover uh
19164s	but uh nope not going to do it closing
19167s	out the game bunny Hopper wins the match
19170s	in that game number five is going to be
19173s	the first of the players from Group D to
19177s	move into that top eight so very
19180s	exciting for bunny Hopper fantastic
19183s	performance that was really exciting to
19186s	get to see him play that Warrior I know
19188s	unfortunately it didn't uh didn't go as
19190s	well for a couple of the games but this
19192s	last game I feel like absolutely made up
19194s	for all of that yeah in the year of
19196s	nostalgia for Hearthstone watching bunny
19199s	Hopper grind out a 32 in 17 hours and 12
19202s	minutes I think we turned it up um after
19205s	going two1 down yeah absolutely
19207s	Nostalgia at the top but also bunny
19210s	Hopper still absolutely still got it we
19213s	can
19214s	see um how patient he was in those last
19217s	two games both of which looked very
19219s	terrifying for him at times but he went
19222s	he was fine and Hemlock who is no mean
19227s	bad player
19229s	himself um show what he had there
19231s	managed to get set up lots of damage in
19233s	both those games and just didn't quite
19235s	get over the line uh he'll get another
19237s	go later in the day
19239s	yeah that's right we still will have
19242s	that other match so let's take a look at
19244s	that bracket and see what uh potential
19248s	matches we're going to have next up
19250s	because we have uh the elimination match
19254s	of Dimitri kazab versus habo gabo and
19257s	then whoever wins that will face into
19260s	Hemlock so at least Hemlock will get a
19263s	little bit of a break after that
19264s	incredibly long match there uh but it's
19268s	going to be interesting to to see uh
19270s	what happens with that uh other match
19274s	beforehand absolutely yeah um it's just
19277s	going to be bangers all the way until
19278s	the end of the broadcast with this group
19280s	in particular uh so with that in mind
19282s	let's just take a short break set them
19284s	up for you and we'll back in just two or
19285s	three minutes with the elimination match
19288s	from Group D
19297s	[Music]
19328s	for e
19357s	[Music]
19384s	[Music]
19413s	[Music]
19440s	[Music]
19469s	[Music]
19488s	hello everyone and welcome back we have
19490s	our next match coming up very very soon
19492s	indeed I'm Raven and joining me for this
19494s	one is TJ and we've got a really good
19496s	match no doubt coming up we've got Habu
19499s	gabu versus Dimitri kazav and TJ we've
19503s	got a two very different lineups here H
19505s	we have Dimitri Kazo bringing what I
19507s	would say more the standard lineup of
19511s	the Naga Shopper Demon Hunter nature
19513s	Shaman Odin Warrior and pain loock but
19516s	then we have Habu who who's always up to
19518s	something bringing sludge warlock a
19521s	slightly different variation on nature
19522s	Shaman the Demon Hunter and then uh
19526s	zamari priest with one interesting card
19528s	in it what do you
19531s	think you talk about the Euro worm well
19533s	there's a couple interesting cards in
19535s	the priest I I guess a couple of
19536s	interesting ones yeah sure sure yeah
19538s	there's a gold Panner uh there's a razor
19542s	scale uh there's a couple of Euro worms
19545s	the glowstone G worms um there's some
19548s	spice all the way across the board every
19550s	every single uh deck's got like one card
19553s	that you're just like huh cool that's
19556s	Habu signature though really isn't it I
19558s	feel like if you go into a tournament
19559s	and Habu is there if there isn't
19561s	anything spicy we
19563s	disappointed yeah ignis is another card
19566s	because you play the glowstone Euro
19570s	worms um you could you can play ignis uh
19574s	which adds like an extra layer of late
19577s	game potential to the deck uh which is
19580s	very interesting especially when we look
19582s	at how that match up versus bunny just
19584s	went right with the sort of how late
19586s	that priest can weirdly go even against
19589s	yeah imagine if you imagine if you just
19591s	had an Ignus on top of that to just be
19593s	able to say clearly the problem missing
19596s	an IGN oh we're going to see the same
19597s	matchup
19599s	oh that's great okay yeah I was going to
19602s	say this is the uh the Odin Warrior
19603s	again a lot of two ofs not some of the
19605s	Highlander variants we've been seen a
19607s	little bit earlier on in the day uh but
19609s	yeah I'm just excited for this cuz we
19611s	get to see the weird Tech and see if it
19614s	actually pays off but no he knows we'll
19616s	probably just see I don't know Habu go
19618s	for like 1 two 3 four five drop double
19620s	turn game ends we don't see any of the
19622s	different
19625s	cards yeah well I mean
19629s	I think those the cards that Habu does
19631s	have in this priest are really just
19633s	there for that situation they're just
19635s	back they're just backup
19636s	plans um I I
19639s	said what okay de's got got everything
19643s	loaded up I'm sure Linda's watching very
19645s	closely um as to what's in the
19648s	background got the guy in the top hat
19651s	the
19652s	elephant got the Hat got a pillow in the
19656s	Hat um got the light right is
19660s	on the light is on there's a bun the
19664s	bunk bed has that always been there is
19666s	gamer RPG under
19668s	there a
19673s	whole
19674s	impressive that would be impressive yeah
19677s	all right kick and Hab gabu has
19682s	plants
19686s	yeah wait what oh know it's a little
19689s	I just looked then at haru's background
19691s	I was like I'm sure Fury had the same
19693s	background earlier today like looked
19695s	very
19700s	similar oh let's get the Aman
19704s	tool Habu already prepared for the late
19707s	game does have the gift rack uh welp to
19709s	be able to just put something out early
19711s	but again this pretty good opening in
19714s	terms of at least the defensive tools
19716s	for Demetri G of right like yeah has the
19719s	Bellin there's Bladestorm there's a
19720s	totem now also just having access to
19722s	coin trial by fire is going to be pretty
19725s	useful against a lot of the early boards
19727s	Habu is going to be able to
19730s	make yeah there's going to be some chip
19733s	damage uh being
19735s	dealt um depending on how Habu gabu
19738s	decides to go about this I
19740s	imagine
19743s	um yeah we're just going to see Power
19745s	synchronize here that makes next turn uh
19749s	pretty clean uh in terms of uh your play
19752s	order you also
19753s	have um going to be able to change the
19756s	stats around a little
19758s	bit in terms of how uh you want to how
19762s	defensive you want to be against
19764s	Bladestorm uh because of
19766s	the
19769s	churan now mhm it's interesting isn't it
19773s	because I do wonder
19776s	how how sort of free dimetri needs to be
19780s	with this blad storm because priest as
19783s	you said like has the ability to really
19785s	make like a lot of weird numbered or
19787s	different numbered Minions on board in
19789s	terms of health so does Demitri just
19792s	instead of waiting for like the god
19794s	blade storm just use it to clear up if
19796s	you can kill like a couple of minions or
19798s	maybe even this one is it just two Mana
19800s	killer 44 here because if it's just like
19803s	the totem is that actually good enough
19805s	okay going to go for
19807s	Forge yeah I think getting the forge out
19809s	of the way on the Belling Flames is
19811s	important um okay now hababa really has
19814s	to
19815s	decide um one you want to have uneven
19819s	Health totals to play around Bladestorm
19821s	two it's
19824s	um either bellowing Flames or uh
19827s	sanitized there's only one of sanitized
19829s	oh there's one of bellowing flames as
19830s	well out of all the so many two ofs in
19833s	the
19835s	deck there's a lot except for the those
19841s	[Music]
19845s	yeah I think Habu really just trying to
19847s	think through all these potential
19849s	removal options because it it might
19851s	sound stupid to start planning for like
19853s	what could be potentially turn four or
19855s	turn five plays depending on the coin
19857s	from Dimitri kov but that's the sort of
19859s	thing you do have to plan for right
19861s	because if you make your board resilient
19863s	enough early you push through that early
19865s	damage and it will give Habu the highest
19868s	chance of getting that double turn for
19871s	the win right and not actually just
19872s	saying okay I'll get the double turn and
19874s	like push a lot of damage if the damage
19876s	has already been pushed early it could
19878s	work out pretty well
19882s	yeah it's going to end on what yeah
19885s	exactly look at that 3 four five
19887s	already okay two fours now but still
19890s	pretty resilient board to uh a blade
19892s	storm there is now the sanitized pickup
19895s	so there's options but again like how is
19898s	Demitri stacking the armor I feel like
19900s	this coin is at least for now saved for
19903s	a trial by
19906s	fire yeah this may have to be like uh
19910s	blad storm into Belling Flames but if
19912s	you do
19916s	that would it be better to bellowing
19919s	first cuz it's a bit smoother on the
19923s	Mana and it could open up options of
19926s	like something blad storm that
19929s	yeah you just get uneven Health totals
19931s	may may not want to do that at all
19933s	because of the risk of funnel
19935s	cake um yeah there's
19938s	a this could just be Rockstar plus um a
19942s	needle Rock totem and just take it's not
19945s	the worst right draw a card gain a good
19946s	chunk of armor and put cards on the
19949s	board that Habu is likely to trade into
19951s	to them buy you some time it's not the
19954s	worst idea yeah the problem is the the
19957s	turn fours a little bit rough as well
19960s	right well you you can you do Bladestorm
19963s	Belling flames in the same turn next
19965s	turn true yeah yeah that would help
19969s	yeah okay it doesn't go with the rockar
19972s	sure use the
19977s	co potentially a bit of a slower
19980s	turn yeah
19995s	yeah Bladestorm plus Belling will clear
19997s	next turn no matter
20000s	what and I think Habu realizes this and
20003s	might just ship everything
20007s	face feels weird to leave the totem
20009s	alive doesn't it even if you think
20011s	everything's going to be cleared or die
20013s	or whatever it's just like but what if
20015s	it isn't and you're just giving them the
20017s	totem
20022s	I think it's correct to leave it
20025s	up so does Habu let see if it pays
20029s	off that's a good followup yeah cuz
20032s	blades uh wait blad yeah cuz leaving it
20035s	up actually makes Bladestorm even
20036s	awkward so if you Bladestorm now you're
20038s	still left with two 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 oh
20044s	it's exactly perfect for blad Storm from
20047s	Plus bellowing oh no it's not you have
20050s	to Belling first and then hope the
20051s	health works out I was going to say it
20053s	depends where the damage goes
20055s	right it's it's exactly perfect damage
20058s	but only if there's a perfect outcome
20060s	and Abu actually has a buffed Z Zari
20064s	active in hand so if even one minion
20069s	survives if it's a minion with the
20071s	higher attack could be death be looking
20073s	at a very quick
20075s	game yeah and like just again just one
20078s	turn away from trying to do anything
20080s	with that uh that trial by fire as
20085s	well like the other options of like
20088s	razor fence Shield
20090s	block just don't are they going to get
20093s	there I don't
20099s	know okay coin
20102s	into just hero power Corin armor up to
20105s	gain the additional two and that's
20107s	that's game
20108s	right I think so yeah I mean that looks
20111s	like Demetri should have known that that
20114s	that was game I think Demetri had to go
20116s	for a
20117s	desperation oh yeah cuz he saw the uh
20119s	the dragon draw right like he he knew it
20121s	wasn't just uh drawn like from the deck
20124s	naturally so yeah that was a a tough one
20127s	there for Demitri kazav Habu gabu off to
20129s	a great start with a win on that priest
20132s	nice and clean nice and quick nice and
20133s	easy so uh not doing too bad there and
20136s	guess what he just killed him without
20138s	any of the cool cards right we like I
20140s	said we didn't see any of the uh the
20142s	tech cards so to
20143s	speak yeah that was just textbook
20146s	opening for the Seri priest just so much
20148s	stats just chaining together those gift
20151s	WAP welps right into an on curve Zari
20154s	for the kill um and Demetri's plan you
20158s	could see it trying to come together but
20159s	it was just made awkward uh by Habu and
20162s	Habu not
20163s	killing um the Needle Rock totem made it
20166s	even tougher because that me the blad
20170s	at and just to beage from the combo of
20175s	Bladestorm to to make it work I think
20179s	Bladestorm may have had to come out
20180s	right on two to kill the 44 uh to stop
20183s	the snowball and prevent some of the
20184s	damage and then fly by the seat of your
20186s	pants from there I think that had the
20188s	biggest impact right cuz we saw what was
20190s	it turn turn three I think it was maybe
20193s	turn four sorry I can't quite remember
20195s	but Habu took his time in working out
20197s	exactly to split Health across all the
20200s	Minions right and just make a potential
20202s	blad storm as awkward as possible and it
20204s	worked and it paid off so yeah good
20207s	start there for Habu but can he keep it
20208s	up with this sludge warlock TJ what are
20211s	you thoughts on
20212s	this a this deck is
20215s	awesome I think this deck is like almost
20218s	too in sometimes too inconsistent that's
20220s	why we're not seeing a lot of
20222s	it um there are some hands that just
20225s	feel like they're not really doing much
20228s	um oh that's I think that's that's not
20232s	the right list the list didn't change
20234s	for some reason even Demitri's name's
20237s	changed so apologies about that Demitri
20238s	is playing the uh the pain lock I
20241s	believe
20243s	yeah
20245s	okay but still yeah the sludge warlock I
20247s	feel like if you don't draw sludges you
20249s	need Forge of whels and something as is
20251s	often the case with every warlock
20253s	archetype if you don't draw the thing
20254s	you really want to do draw Forge of
20256s	wills and something thing then you'll be
20258s	fine yeah
20260s	but Forge of Wheels there's not like the
20264s	easy access to huge
20266s	things
20270s	um they youd find
20273s	in uh some of the other warlock decks
20276s	yeah 5 Seven's okay it'll be fine 5 s's
20279s	decent yeah but you can't get like that
20281s	turn four
20284s	8899 yeah though is going to be the wall
20287s	up mirin although we get to see it h
20288s	Dimitri is playing the the pain lock
20291s	we've been seen from a lot of players
20293s	over the weekend if you've managed to uh
20294s	tune in for some of the other matches so
20296s	basically thei wants to excessively
20298s	damage himself Splurge out tons of
20301s	minions and say that's good enough to
20303s	win cuz if not I'm
20309s	dead for of Wills Is
20314s	there oh jeez game's instantly winnable
20317s	for of Wheels is available I know but
20320s	the blood just double blood tree double
20322s	flame imp opening you've got to play
20324s	them both yeah I think this is this uh
20327s	the trient trien flame imp coin flame
20329s	imp just just dump it yeah next turn
20333s	next turn life
20335s	tap yep it's got to be done you cannot
20339s	put trient in your deck and not play
20341s	them them's the rules I'm afraid no coin
20344s	though
20348s	my
20349s	play for taking this much damage may
20352s	feel obligated to coin the forge of
20355s	Wills to oh jeez oh no oh no coin Forge
20361s	of Wheels makeer 2 too
20365s	quick as weird okay not going to go for
20368s	it it's the worst play I've ever
20370s	suggested is it oh God this deck is
20373s	so the word that came out of mind was
20375s	dumb but you're not wrong it like if you
20379s	don't draw any of the self damage payoff
20382s	cards it's it's it looks real dumb
20386s	imagine someone tuning in right oh wait
20388s	there is a hone tournament this weekend
20390s	I've not played for a while let me have
20391s	a look and then they see this game of
20393s	hone they're just like what is going
20399s	on for of Worlds now coming down for ab
20401s	gabu Dimitri Kazo has uh to draw
20406s	something that's kind of
20417s	something so that's
20420s	a okay just speaker stomper all right
20424s	that was going to be the gem toss I
20425s	guess that doesn't make sense just two
20427s	four force on board spear bomb cost
20429s	three
20432s	Mana oh that that would have been so
20435s	perfect could have spear bombed
20438s	trolley and then well you'd have to coin
20441s	too I guess for the
20445s	trolley toit is gonna just dead that's a
20449s	lot of
20451s	damage it's close to
20455s	death how much of has it been done by
20463s	hu only oh yeah he's just getting them
20467s	throwing those rocks it's just at
20470s	two all right flame imp
20474s	unplayable Spirit Bomb
20477s	on oh no it's just dead like
20483s	trolley you can't even D the Spirit Bomb
20486s	there's no Taun oh no wait wait wait
20488s	wait wait F furnace is okay isn't it
20491s	furnace into draw the good cards and
20494s	then double Forge does that ever get
20496s	there if you draw them
20499s	sure yeah but there's three minions as
20501s	well isn't there so that's a
20503s	problem
20506s	yeah Habu chuckle into himself you to be
20509s	honest you can't even blame Habu there
20511s	for the for the chuckle because that was
20513s	just a funny game of hearthstone from
20515s	his point of view
20519s	anyway Dimitri just punched himself in
20522s	the
20523s	face what a game what a deck oh my gosh
20528s	I hope we see it again TJ I really
20532s	do just turn one all right I'm 17 Health
20535s	your
20537s	[Music]
20539s	turn maybe the flame imp was needed
20541s	that's all I'm
20543s	saying maybe the coin imp was the
20548s	play I love that this is the whole
20551s	replay as the whole replay is like just
20555s	it's just looking at Dimitri just going
20558s	I guess I'm
20564s	dead oh it's the best replay we've ever
20566s	had I think I love that that's
20571s	great you okay TJ hu just Habu just
20574s	played
20576s	like four neutral cards and then a a and
20581s	then one class kind of just one
20584s	yeah I love it it's great does mean I
20587s	though has got his uh his nature Shaman
20590s	left to be able to take this Victory
20591s	with and I cannot even imagine what
20594s	Dimitri sort of state is right now
20598s	after feeling no doubt a little bit help
20600s	us in the Warrior versus priest but
20602s	that's you know sometimes happens right
20604s	priest pops off they get a double turn
20606s	and then they're done uh but then having
20608s	that happen in the Warlock as well is is
20610s	really
20611s	rough yeah yeah it's a pretty brutal
20614s	series thus far feel like Demitri
20618s	has a game plan but doesn't get to do it
20620s	because just dies taking a look at
20622s	abuabu Shaman is the Jive
20624s	Shaman which um funly enough still runs
20627s	a lot of the good stuff that we've seen
20629s	across like the normal nature Shaman and
20632s	a lot of the nature Shaman games I've
20633s	seen have come down to situations where
20635s	the nature Shaman tries to discover the
20638s	conductivity Plus dve insect combo to
20641s	have even a chance to
20643s	win um
20646s	and uh so feels like maybe JB Shaman
20649s	just putting it in your deck from the
20651s	get-go was to play it's basically four
20654s	cards that you need it's the Jive the
20656s	two Jazz bases and the natural
20659s	conductivity and so the cuts you make
20661s	are often times spell damage yeah
20663s	exactly yeah uh but you still play um at
20667s	least multiple form spell damage in Nava
20670s	zapper plus the one blood Mage Thanos
20672s	you're still playing all the burn spells
20674s	um you still got fizzle of course as
20677s	well still got fizzle but you're not
20679s	playing Spirit claws you're not playing
20680s	the Cobalt
20681s	gancer uh you don't have room for um the
20686s	[Music]
20690s	deputy something Deputy
20693s	Deputy uh
20697s	Deputy I'm just going to keep getting
20698s	closer deput I can't remember so that's
20700s	my bad I can't even help you a TJ
20702s	although we're getting a great shot of
20703s	your head Yep this is what TJ looks like
20708s	position he sits here when he plays
20709s	Hearthstone full focused dry scale
20711s	deputy there it is all right okay I had
20714s	to look at my notes and they're super
20716s	tiny on my
20717s	desk just are you just cuz you're
20720s	writing them small is that yep whenever
20723s	something happens I'm like I'm going to
20724s	need to remember this card I write it in
20726s	tiny tiny B of my desk
20729s	TJ we're back with
20732s	warlock all right we go again got an
20735s	imprisoned horror
20737s	that is a massive upgrade on everything
20741s	that Demitri did in the previous game
20743s	the imprison horror improves this
20746s	dramatically this matchup is still it's
20750s	horrendous
20753s	yeah you you're you're on a fine line
20756s	you have one chance your first push has
20759s	to end the game basically exactly uh and
20761s	the problem is as we saw previously like
20765s	even in the previous game right let's
20766s	live in the world where Demitri got a
20768s	payoff um you still need to damage
20772s	yourself right so that opening is still
20775s	you still do deal a ton of damage to be
20777s	able to get the payoff and then the
20779s	second that damage is just a bit too
20781s	much Habu just goes okay A bit of spell
20785s	damage and some lightning bolts she dead
20787s	GG right and that's how dice SE is cuz
20789s	already look the flame imp plus the aen
20792s	down to 22 already Habu is like wait is
20795s	this lethal just just already looking
20799s	it's like wait a minute let me just
20800s	count just a couple of jazz Bas swings
20802s	to the face and uh yeah this this a
20805s	lightning bolt and a Zapp and you done
20808s	yeah I mean this might be as simple as
20810s	like jazz based swing next turn flash of
20813s	lightning yeah and then next turn dead
20817s	that like just like two burn
20821s	spells I I don't
20823s	even H I don't even know if I want a
20825s	life tap
20829s	what if this is just coin trolley
20833s	problem yeah that might be
20835s	it like it's not great but also it it
20839s	slightly Hedges versus what we're
20841s	talking about where it's like oh just
20843s	keep dealing damage to yourself I'm sure
20846s	the shaman won't burst you right so like
20848s	this is I think as good as it gets
20854s	honestly yeah it it's basically got
20856s	quick draw cuz cuz there's no spell
20859s	exactly yeah yeah no real loss if use
20861s	the coin leaves the totem up as well um
20865s	cuz that healing totem do not really do
20868s	much and wants to be able to
20869s	have the opportunity for the
20876s	zelc now we get to see where hu's mind
20880s	is at for this matchup is the Jazz base
20882s	just going to face ah I now with this
20886s	turn I don't know because there's 11
20888s	damage on board so if you're just
20892s	swinging that jazz base at face and
20894s	Demitri just doesn't damage himself for
20897s	the rest of for the next couple turns
20899s	mhm you're on a very short clock yeah
20901s	the tricky thing here is no way to
20903s	reduce that crash down as of yet right
20906s	like if that crash was playable next
20909s	turn you'd feel fine Flash and then it's
20912s	and then it's playable you could Flash
20914s	and it's playable next turn true yeah
20916s	it's probably I don't know it feels kind
20918s	of Worth right yeah Flash and played
20921s	like a miracle salesman oh
20924s	no go look at Habu as well he knows it
20928s	he
20930s	knows
20932s	oh yeah I don't know I might have liked
20934s	the
20936s	Flash oh you can still flash next turn
20939s	you can still do it cuz the Jazz base
20940s	has a natural
20942s	discount oh for sure with the second
20945s	swing yeah yeah okay yeah
20949s	but that gives you a good idea of where
20950s	hu's mind is at he's just going to swing
20952s	crash
20959s	here and then Demetri is down to 13 with
20962s	no board okay hear me
20965s	out Demitri kovs only got
20971s	11 what do you want to
20974s	do what if there's a way to just try and
20977s	set up is there is is there a way to any
20979s	draws or anything to try and set up for
20981s	lethal I don't I guess there isn't but
20983s	just just got to look just got to check
20987s	I mean sure you can and you can Flash
20991s	knowled
20996s	yeah you you need four damage spells
20999s	with one spell damage which is a lot
21001s	considering you have none yeah just
21003s	because there's no way that I can think
21006s	of that
21007s	can actually push extra damage next turn
21010s	that's all I was thinking but it's
21013s	probably a bit too much of an
21016s	ask but now double molon giant available
21019s	well not double molten giant but you
21021s	know what I
21024s	mean yeah I think you do that you lock
21026s	in do you lock in the
21028s	tap
21030s	no it's tempting though isn't
21033s	it no
21037s	it's
21039s	not oh you want to Spirit Bomb the totem
21042s	instead
21044s	nope okay only five Mana howy might be
21047s	struggling here yeah and again hold uh
21052s	does not kill the totem to make sure
21053s	that zelc would be a possibility of say
21055s	like pop-up book came down to kind to um
21059s	block
21060s	the attacks from the Giants
21067s	oh there we
21069s	go not
21071s	playable
21073s	yeah and that'll do it with the Spirit
21075s	Bomb he got there oh my
21078s	gosh actually worked okay well Demitri
21082s	fights back has a bit of a uh redeeming
21085s	game with the Warlock this is much more
21088s	what you expect from this Warlock deck
21090s	than what we saw in the previous game
21092s	right as you saw get your health down
21094s	low put out some pressure and then end
21097s	game off the back there if there was if
21098s	that was any slower I think Habu gabu
21101s	would have been okay there but uh yeah a
21103s	bit of recovery there for Demetri not
21105s	going to be swept H and redeem the
21107s	Warlock just a little
21109s	bit yeah still up uphill batt a little
21113s	bit but nature Shaman has been the deck
21115s	that we've seen
21116s	struggle um I feel like the most over
21119s	the course of the weekend thus far it
21122s	just feels like every time it comes down
21124s	to all right just needs to find a win
21126s	with the shaman
21128s	it doesn't get there I think Hab gabu as
21129s	the series progresses the variation of
21132s	the deck alone is going to help a lot um
21135s	with the Jive
21136s	insect a combo specifically against the
21138s	warrior to just have that extra bit of
21140s	damage um yeah and I do but I do like
21143s	that approach of like if you're leaving
21145s	Warrior up I do like the additions SAU
21148s	has put into the shaman right with the
21150s	Jive and with the conductivity as well
21152s	just to say well if I'm leaving Warrior
21154s	up you know I need to have a above
21157s	decent chance right I want to really
21159s	Tech the the deck for that cuz I do
21161s	think the warrior is the deck that
21163s	rightly or wrongly a lot of players have
21165s	gone into this tournament preparing for
21168s	right they are either Banning it which
21169s	is fine or if they're leaving it up
21171s	there's a lot of preparation going in
21172s	for that Warrior whereas it's a little
21174s	bit more difficult to say oh I've got
21176s	some tech built in for the dragon priest
21179s	right or something like that we've seen
21181s	a lot of warrior Focus
21183s	Tech
21185s	yeah um
21187s	uh we seen a lot of Tech against a lot
21189s	of different
21192s	things are you talking about Hab gaba's
21194s	lineup
21195s	specifically uh well overall but in habo
21198s	yeah there is a I mean it's Habu so
21200s	there's always more stuff isn't there
21202s	Habu there's just tech for everything
21204s	like a a tech card here couple speaker
21206s	Stompers here a little bit of Jive
21208s	insect there little bit of little bit of
21210s	Euro worm over here I don't even know
21213s	what that's a tech for but um it's just
21216s	a tech I'm guessing just searched Forge
21219s	to try and slam ignis to the deck I was
21221s	like necessary evil yeah that one could
21224s	be good um and that's it all right so
21228s	now we're going to
21230s	see uh Shaman mirror match up though
21233s	it's not a true
21235s	mirror um there's
21239s	aive yeah it's a there's a card
21242s	difference uh two conductivity and one
21245s	Cactus cutter for Demetri Caza versus is
21247s	two Cactus cutter one conductivity
21249s	for uh for habo gabu yeah there's also
21253s	an overdraft in Habu list as well and a
21262s	fizzle was we move through the T oh it's
21264s	the amphibious Elixir that's why he's
21266s	playing the double conductivity that's
21267s	the difference Demitri also has the uh
21270s	the amphibious elixir
21278s	yeah though pretty solid opening uh
21279s	totems obviously for both players but
21281s	the double Miracle salesman into jazz
21283s	base is actually quite nice decent board
21286s	presence whilst also progressing the
21288s	game plan right I think Miracle salesman
21291s	just ticks all the boxes in The Meta
21292s	right
21294s	now oh
21300s	no well this is certainly a hand
21320s	what to
21321s	be do here like is this just hero power
21325s	pass scenario right
21333s	now I honestly think it has to be Flash
21339s	and just go
21345s	like
21349s	yeah you got to find a way to deal with
21351s	the these Miracle salesman at some point
21362s	right cuz if you don't flash his turn
21364s	what's his turn look like next turn he's
21365s	going to take free damage from the
21368s	miracle salesman he's still going to be
21370s	setting
21371s	up yeah um the conductivities are still
21374s	going to be dead if you flash at least
21376s	you have a little bit of extra Mana to
21378s	work with next turn you can expend one
21379s	of the lightning
21381s	reflexes um and maybe even and use one
21384s	of these conductivities for like
21386s	amphibious Elixir uh on the board to
21389s	just try and discover some additional
21391s	spells maybe even get the flash back
21397s	I cuz this seems very slow maybe it's
21400s	plan is just to wait until
21402s	Titan um so is going to go Titan to
21405s	clear up the board on six and Flash for
21407s	the free spell and then try to kill on
21418s	seven meanwhile hu's like do I just go
21421s	drive insect right now
21430s	I like
21445s	that I think
21448s	that it forces demry to have an
21453s	answer to a rag
21457s	I'm pretty sure that's what hu's facial
21458s	expression is at the
21465s	moment nope bailing out yep in the shake
21468s	of the
21471s	head almost positive that was the
21473s	thought process
21475s	though but maybe worried about uh just
21478s	some discovered
21481s	spells uh who really knows at this point
21484s	and based on Demetri's hand I'm pretty
21486s	pretty
21487s	sure it's just got to be wait for Titan
21490s	for The
21494s	Flash and try and go on seven and react
21498s	but this is a scary situation to be
21501s	in cuz if that's the plan you don't want
21503s	to expend the lightning reflexes cuz you
21505s	want to have those in your back pocket
21506s	for the turn with
21508s	flash um so this turn is like Miracle
21512s	salesman hero power yeah it's not the
21515s	best is it
21519s	Miracle salesman dump a conductivity FL
21521s	I don't know just for hand space but I
21524s	don't know okay going to go with
21525s	lightning
21528s	reflexes
21533s	ah maybe was hoping
21535s	for I don't know honestly at this
21541s	point all these are
21545s	overload what which
21547s	is the opposite of what to Bei want cuz
21550s	next turn with the way this game is
21552s	going
21554s	almost had to be Titan and it's still
21558s	yeah I I
21560s	don't I don't know I probably would have
21562s	just done this play without the
21563s	lightning reflexes but Demitri had
21565s	something in
21572s	mind it had to have been like exactly
21574s	amphibious elixir
21578s	he was looking forward for conductivity
21580s	to just discover a bunch of
21583s	spells uh but that's all I can really
21585s	think
21595s	of all
21601s	right yeah conductivity here with the
21603s	dve insect in hand and a bunch of
21605s	overload all ready for this Jazz
21609s	base this game's going to come to a head
21613s	here very
21615s	quickly as both players have had
21618s	essentially infinite amounts of time to
21620s	just kind of set
21625s	up dump in the snake oil and this nether
21629s	rock totem has been alive since turn two
21631s	so Habu has gained a ton of
21634s	armor uh just from not
21647s	alone
21650s	okay my is too
21655s	full that's a big
21658s	[Music]
21663s	burn okay so we have
21667s	uh popup
21668s	book yeah sorry about that TJ something
21671s	came
21672s	up that's
21674s	okay uh Habu is fist pumping so I'm
21678s	imagining this is lethal so we go totem
21681s	yeah popup book
21684s	swing Jive
21689s	insect lightning bolt crash overdraft
21693s	whatever well you got to fit the
21694s	connectivity in there as well
21698s	so it's connectivity then swing then
21710s	Jive then overdrive then crash and yeah
21714s	I think that'll do it oh that's even
21717s	doesn't even need the crash of Thunder
21719s	at the end didn't have enough Mana for
21720s	it but that'll do it hu the decision to
21724s	not be preemptive with the Jive insect
21727s	has paid off gets the combo right on
21730s	time Demetri kof had a setup there was a
21733s	small chance that could could have piece
21735s	together something the following turn
21737s	but alas it's not enough slightly too
21740s	slow and that's basically the name of
21742s	the game for Dimitri in this series uh
21746s	Habu just was going a little bit too
21748s	fast and Dimitri could really catch up
21751s	Habu is going to take the Series 31
21752s	Demitri unfortunately that me spells
21755s	elimination
21757s	uh in group D and will not move on Hab
21759s	gabu does get a chance to redeem himself
21762s	for that first game and is going to go
21763s	on to the CER match to see if he can
21765s	move on to the top eight hi TJ it's
21768s	Linda to say
21771s	hi wow Raven you sound different yeah
21774s	right been working on that elixir of
21776s	Youth all this time and finally cracked
21778s	the
21779s	Cod
21781s	finally yeah Raven uh was having some
21785s	side issues so L's going to jump in just
21787s	for the uh tail end of the discussion
21790s	about this series uh but we did get to
21793s	see some some Jive insect Shenanigans to
21796s	end that one for habo gabo and uh think
21799s	he played that one well I could see in
21801s	his face that he really wanted to play
21802s	the driive insect on four on one of
21804s	those Miracle salesmen he was battling
21807s	with his instincts for a the the entire
21810s	turn until he bailed out at the end and
21812s	decided to draw a c instead he's not
21815s	scared he to just bring whatever he
21817s	wants to bring to tournaments like he
21819s	stays within the framework he doesn't
21820s	sort of go outside the box he just sort
21823s	of stays in the Box in his own part of
21825s	it the no one no is allowed him
21828s	somehow like Yeah The The J deck is not
21830s	a new deck or anything but he's just not
21832s	scared to go I like playing that version
21834s	of the deck I have more fun he's always
21836s	having fun when he plays Hearthstone
21837s	that's why he does well I
21840s	think yeah I mean at this stage in
21842s	competitive Hearthstone I think uh a
21845s	Love of the Game game is required to
21848s	progress
21850s	um because you know the the the
21853s	tournaments are few and far between and
21855s	so when they happen they're more
21857s	important um and you have to play a lot
21860s	and be good at the right times if you're
21862s	not having fun while doing that you're
21864s	just going to be banging your head again
21866s	against the wall and a lot of players I
21869s	think um like Fury Hunter is one of them
21873s	who like obviously it be tame a goal
21876s	quickly but it wasn't the primary focus
21878s	you know um and I love those players who
21881s	can just kind of be accidentally great
21885s	yeah at hearstone where uh you know what
21887s	I'm not really going to
21889s	try um or like actively try like put in
21892s	all my focus and attention into
21893s	qualifying for these championships and
21895s	trying to win Worlds but I'm going to
21897s	play some Hearthstone I'm going to have
21898s	some fun and then oops accidentally
21902s	qualified oops accidentally started
21904s	winning matches
21906s	um that's bunny Hopper and fury and Habu
21909s	I think this time around just all
21911s	accidentally
21912s	qualified yeah just fantastic love it
21916s	just shows how good they are uh at the
21919s	game uh that they're uh some of the
21921s	greats um but unfortunate for Demetri
21923s	Koff that is going to mean
21926s	elimination uh sad that we only got to
21928s	watch him play once um
21931s	because even though like he it may not
21933s	look like it with his facial expressions
21935s	you have to watch him a lot to really
21937s	understand dimetri kof's personality and
21940s	the the personality is baked into the
21942s	environment that he's in each and every
21945s	time it's great he he provides us with
21948s	um gigantic amounts of much needed
21951s	entertainment I think when we did
21952s	Americas as well as you know some very
21954s	good Hearthstone as well he never quite
21956s	got the results I think he
21958s	deserved I agree but good to see him up
21961s	there competing again hopefully we get
21963s	to see him again in summer U because he
21965s	wasn't that far away last year he didn't
21967s	sort of go 100% at it but so most
21970s	seasons last year Dimitri was oh he's
21972s	got some points will he go for it and
21974s	sort of 45th on ladder that sort of
21977s	finish it's like didn't quite push on um
21980s	but it looks like this year he's taking
21982s	that a little bit further and really
21983s	racking up those points so hopefully we
21985s	get to see him again in
21987s	summer I wouldn't be surprised uh if we
21991s	did Demetri is also one of those players
21993s	when he when he turns it on he can
21996s	really turn it on and it seems like this
21998s	year is one of those years but uh once
22000s	again hope to see Demitri Kaz off again
22002s	but Hab gabu is moving on we'll play in
22004s	the decider match against headlock uh
22006s	coming up to determine our eighth and
22008s	final player uh moving on to tomorrow in
22011s	the top eight single elimination bracket
22013s	uh before we jump into that last match
22015s	of the group stage we are going to have
22016s	to go to a quick break but don't go
22018s	anywhere more hearstone action right
22020s	here from the master tour spring
22022s	Championship right after this
22030s	[Music]
22053s	[Music]
22080s	[Music]
22109s	[Music]
22136s	[Music]
22165s	[Music]
22192s	[Music]
22222s	welcome back everybody to the spring
22224s	Championship Masters Tour I'm Linda and
22226s	I am with sttle and we are going to do
22228s	the last match of the second day still
22231s	plenty more matches tomorrow but this is
22233s	an important one it decides our final
22236s	Grand finalist it's not the grand
22238s	finalist it's whatever you call the last
22239s	day Championship Sunday is that what TJ
22241s	calls
22242s	itest see I've been through so many
22245s	arguments with Hearthstone Esports
22247s	people about what a finals is or what a
22249s	grand final is but yeah I don't even
22251s	want to get into it I'm deeply triggered
22253s	by this entire discussion let's move on
22255s	instead talking about Habu gabu and
22257s	Hemlock and Neil I reckon that you are
22260s	probably quite pleased that you're
22261s	getting to cast some habo gaboo and it's
22262s	to do with one particular word that I
22265s	see
22266s	on this little player card here it's
22268s	down the bottom it's next to a kind of a
22270s	purple hand that's creeping out some you
22273s	see the sludge I didn't understand why
22275s	sludge wasn't just better than
22277s	customized warlock um having played both
22280s	this season I sort of feel the custom
22282s	warlock for ladder is just a little
22284s	better but I've enjoyed myself with
22286s	sludge and I'm looking forward to seeing
22287s	some more sludge come out of habo and
22291s	the uh the listeners will be looking
22292s	forward to more sludge coming out of our
22294s	mouths during the car as well uh yeah
22297s	it's it's obviously a deck that was the
22300s	best deck in the game at a couple of
22302s	different points over the last few meta
22304s	games um has received a couple of
22307s	adjustments like that waist remover that
22309s	you're looking at right there that used
22310s	to be significantly bigger that chaos
22313s	creation that you're looking at right
22314s	there that used to do more damage that
22316s	sludge on wheels that you're looking at
22318s	right there that used to be bigger as
22319s	well um but yeah as we were going into
22322s	this new metag game cycle this was a
22323s	deck that kind of got preemptively
22324s	slapped around a little little bit
22326s	because it wasn't really losing any of
22327s	its uh key cards with the rotation has
22330s	been replaced on ladder these days by uh
22332s	by more uh more efficient aggressive
22335s	tools um and as Neil was saying kind of
22337s	directly usurped by the uh the custom
22340s	Warlock the pain warlock as well so very
22342s	very interesting of course we've uh
22344s	We've mentioned Habu marching by the
22346s	beat of his own drum for quite some time
22347s	but that sludge warlock is very much
22348s	flying that flag what do we make a
22350s	Hemlock stuff though Hemlock stuff um
22353s	just solid stuff I don't think he did
22355s	anything particularly um ridiculous in
22358s	his lineup brought I'm just double
22360s	checking to make sure I've got this
22361s	right having just jumped in and out of
22362s	some matches yeah he's brought just the
22364s	four good decks I think in my opinion
22367s	which is Warrior Demon Hunter priest and
22371s	custom warlock I think they are the four
22372s	best decks in the game um Sharman might
22376s	have an argument with you on that one I
22377s	guess so pick four from five don't care
22380s	which one you throw out I guess but he's
22382s	gone with a four that I think he
22384s	regarded as the best and he's doing fine
22386s	with them yeah I have some questions on
22390s	the warrior it's that kind of like eight
22392s	jupes version of warrior that I don't
22394s	particularly like i' like some people
22396s	will see it as Best of Both Worlds I see
22397s	it as worst of Both Worlds right you
22399s	have sometimes inactive Reno and you
22401s	have some level of inconsistency due to
22403s	the number number of one ofs that you're
22405s	playing um I also do want to keep going
22408s	back to this uh this band strategy thing
22409s	that I've been picking up on throughout
22411s	the day where this is a double Demon
22412s	Hunter band series but still like a
22415s	glaci Shard makes the cuts a one of in
22417s	the Warrior for example I do um I I have
22420s	found it strange how many glacial shards
22422s	I've seen lying around in in various
22425s	Decks that are uh have been Banning
22426s	Demon Hunter specifically but regardless
22429s	that is a small detail which we can get
22430s	with in time because if uh the Habu
22434s	gaboo versus custom warlock story that
22436s	we've seen developed so far is anything
22437s	to go by this one might develop quite
22441s	quickly yeah it's absolutely silly right
22443s	um the custom warlock just doesn't mind
22448s	getting hit for a while but not too much
22451s	please uh like those memes that you see
22453s	it's like hey hit me hard no not like
22455s	that like mhm and that's where Hemlock
22458s	is going to be here looks like he's
22459s	going for the coin here there's also
22462s	there's so many there's so many meme
22463s	formats that you could apply accurately
22465s	to custom warlock though right like
22466s	there's like kid riding bike one where
22469s	like put spoke it own wheels so it falls
22471s	over there's the the guy shooting the
22474s	other guy with the gun and then saying
22475s	oh how could my opponent do this when
22477s	you've actually done like 25 damage to
22479s	yourself there's there's all sorts call
22480s	the ambulance yeah yeah call an
22483s	ambulance but not no call an ambulance
22485s	but not for you is the the appropriate
22488s	format yeah ah they're all there yeah we
22493s	need D back DK could have them all
22495s	covered
22496s	already he absolutely would uh no time
22499s	for Forge in this matchup um something
22502s	that I learned the hard way over time
22503s	it's like yeah Forge is so much value
22505s	such a load of stuff and it's actually
22506s	quite good Tempo too it's too slow
22509s	sometimes you just have to get on there
22510s	and hit
22511s	him yeah I think in inut in general
22514s	right if you're going to play Forge and
22517s	a large minion uh if that large minion
22520s	isn't going to die you should probably
22521s	just play the large minion first right
22523s	now you can just play the forge the only
22525s	reason to do it the other way around is
22527s	if you're scared the large minion that
22528s	you're going to play first will die and
22530s	I don't think there was any real threat
22532s	of that happening in this position so
22533s	you might as well just essentially have
22535s	a fight six with charge here by playing
22536s	it first yep seems reasonable to
22540s	me um Habu has got all of those cards by
22543s	the way just all of the sludge
22546s	cards so Hemlock is going to have to be
22549s	on watch
22551s	here and the popka which is massive
22554s	right um means H going to have to do it
22556s	all twice a lot of the time yeah so many
22560s	Poss and certainly uh the way sludges
22562s	interact with this in general like I
22564s	know you you played a lot of sludge
22566s	warlock you have to keep an eye out for
22567s	a thing like you know Warrior being at
22569s	one Health with 15 armor but they're
22571s	still the target for sludges it's a lot
22573s	easier to calculate with uh with this
22576s	warlock because a lot of the time you
22579s	will just have like six Health on your
22581s	hero and all of your minions will be
22583s	eights you know like that's a real
22585s	situation that can come up fairly often
22586s	and it might be that the sludge warlock
22588s	can just straight up blast you in the
22592s	face difficult decision here uh for
22595s	hemlock really wants to get the horror
22597s	down next turn obviously the Triant well
22600s	we know the Triant does not interact
22601s	with the horror you are paying that
22603s	Health
22605s	um uh but neight and geode just doesn't
22609s	look like a Hearthstone
22611s	turn trolley problem draw two kind of
22614s	looks like a Hearthstone turn though it
22615s	does float Mana which is extremely
22617s	illegal as we know I think I prefer mine
22620s	I think I prefer the J one okay let draw
22623s	three cards isn't it or draw two cards
22625s	but also get zero amount of horror if
22627s	you do hit another horror you're you got
22630s	three 55s next turn almost out
22639s	of take the three tap is something to
22642s	consider here as
22647s	well yeah I think you always tap makes
22649s	sense to
22651s	me yeah you just got to work out go near
22653s	fights like got any things to work about
22655s	there's not many spells in Habu deck at
22657s	this stage at least until you start
22658s	getting pop guard so you're okay yeah
22661s	not particularly spells that you
22663s	necessarily want to play from hand right
22665s	weirdly the scariest thing for you to
22667s	get hit by here is like monstrous form
22670s	with Forge and they could do that
22672s	through a near fight anyway
22679s	so stomper so many Stompers about I
22682s	think that's the biggest surprise of
22684s	this tournament for me I don't think any
22686s	of the decks particularly shocked me
22688s	apart from seeing a wheel warlock which
22690s	I just didn't think would happen yeah
22692s	yeah yeah yeah um but the number of
22694s	speaker Stompers has been surprising and
22696s	makes sense right with Shaman and
22698s	Warrior being so prevalent yeah I so
22701s	that didn't surprise me that much that
22703s	was something that I thought about
22705s	coming into and like even talked about
22707s	with a few people that I was talking to
22709s	of like uh you guys are like practicing
22712s	your Shaman matchups against like eight
22714s	speaker Stompers right cuz you
22716s	definitely should be doing that I'm
22717s	pretty sure it's going to happen I was
22719s	like yeah yeah yeah yeah every everyone
22720s	knows we're seeing speaker Stompers so I
22722s	think everyone was like fully prepared
22724s	coming into this
22727s	one well 8 10 from the monstrous form
22732s	putting a little tiny bit of pressure on
22734s	here as in Lethal next turn amounts of
22736s	pressure that is just a little bit of
22739s	pressure yeah no molten giant off the
22741s	fracking either which makes this a
22745s	little
22747s	nightmarish no manner to play anything
22749s	with popar will have to be the
22750s	imprisoned horror here because it's the
22752s	best Hemlock can really
22755s	do uh but is it
22762s	enough just does he have the trolley
22764s	problem he can't now he's picked up the
22766s	Spirit Bomb I see
22772s	lethal so yeah Spirit Bomb then trol
22774s	problem to draw into the giant right
22776s	that is
22788s	out and it's gone yeah I mean still has
22792s	the clear this way right even with just
22793s	the uh the imprisoned Horror in hand it
22795s	is fine still he's dead to the known
22798s	sludge in hand can't make precisely yeah
22801s	he has to be able to take value trades
22803s	with something and leave some Minions on
22804s	board can't do it respects the hand uh
22808s	respects Habu gab's time respects
22810s	everyone's time respects your time you
22812s	people at home hemlocks looking out for
22814s	you doesn't make Habu gabu play the
22816s	extra turn to hit the lethal and uh yeah
22819s	I think honestly um you know maybe we'll
22821s	get a a opportunity to speak to Habig
22824s	gabu at some point and get the uh the
22826s	words from the horse's mouth but I would
22827s	not be surprised if this matchup is one
22830s	of the reasons Habu gabu is rocking the
22833s	sludge warlock specifically right
22834s	because it is so much damage so quickly
22837s	and that interaction with you know where
22839s	the sludges end up going is just so
22841s	powerful in a lot of spots like I talked
22844s	about it before right I'm a Believer in
22847s	hemlocks
22848s	warlock but I do find it incredibly
22850s	strange that you can go down to like 8
22853s	HP 10 HP you play extremely limited
22856s	healing in your deck you don't play taor
22857s	you don't really play removal either and
22860s	somehow you don't die and a deck that
22862s	can just go chaos creation you in the
22865s	face will punish you for that right like
22867s	that is a that is a point where you are
22868s	going to die so I certainly you know
22871s	respect the thinking of of bringing this
22873s	deck to a tournament where you're
22874s	expecting to see lots of custom
22876s	warock as we see the The Jive Shaman
22879s	coming up I just want to point out
22881s	following off what you said though like
22884s	for a
22885s	really a meta where there are not many
22887s	turns I want to call it a fast meta but
22889s	most of the turns are quite slow because
22890s	there's a lot to think about um there
22893s	isn't much reach is there outside of the
22894s	shaman a little bit of Demon Hunter
22896s	reach if if you've got a minion that you
22898s	can get burning hearted and stuff like
22900s	that a little bit of weapon damage but
22901s	there really isn't much reach that's why
22903s	you can just go down to 10 and say
22905s	you're not going to kill me I'll be
22907s	fine yeah obviously the um the evolution
22910s	of the Naga Demon Hunter is more bursty
22912s	but because of the Nerf to uh to
22914s	Sharpshooter that comes later on in the
22916s	game now you can't really get those like
22918s	huge double momentum turns come early
22920s	they normally come down in that sort of
22922s	turn eight range after the the shoppers
22925s	and the weapons have been exhausted as a
22926s	plan B so you look at Warlock and sort
22929s	of say okay by turn five turn six they
22931s	want to have done massive amounts of
22933s	damage to themselves and have huge
22934s	minions in play there's very few Decks
22937s	that can then fire 10 plus damage at
22938s	your face from hand if you're able to do
22940s	that so as long as you've been hitting
22942s	that Forge as well and able to rush your
22944s	minions into Theirs to effectively keep
22947s	them off board at the same time you're
22948s	so much safer than you uh could be in
22951s	some meta games but yeah like Point
22953s	chaos creation at the face point a
22955s	couple of spell damage lightning bolts
22956s	at the face and you're in business and
22958s	haru's lineup is extremely well equipped
22961s	to be doing that kind of thing I am
22963s	fascinated by this Hemlock Mulligan I
22966s	want to keep all four of those cards but
22968s	not together against Shaman but real
22970s	quick look at the Habu gabu migan he's
22973s	just kept he's just kept flash of
22975s	lightning he's just saying you know what
22978s	like you're going to do a bunch of
22979s	damage to yourself I'm going to do a
22980s	little bit of Chip damage to you I'm
22982s	going to flash incredibly early and then
22984s	I'm going to burn you out the game from
22985s	like 15 yep seems reasonable to me seems
22990s	absolutely reasonable to me um then
22993s	draws The Jive obviously off the top to
22994s	make everything look ridiculous
22999s	um so the real interest here for me now
23002s	um is what you do with this near fight
23004s	you just don't want to do it on two but
23006s	I'm kind of hoping that Hemlock doesn't
23008s	draw anything to do next turn to see if
23010s	he forces himself to play the near fight
23011s	if he just hard
23013s	passes and by hard has I mean tap and
23015s	make the H cheaper and all that stuff
23017s	obviously yeah with horror giant already
23019s	in hand I think it's quite difficult not
23022s	to tap on this
23025s	turn yeah this makes sense to
23028s	me uh speaker stomper near fight might
23031s	put paid to Hab his plans a little bit
23033s	though by a little bit I mean a lot yeah
23036s	quite
23039s	significantly I was talking yesterday
23041s	about how Habu did quite well in the
23043s	year that he did well and what stuff I
23045s	looked up his stats he played 16 Masters
23048s	tours which is not many compared to most
23050s	people it's still a lot most people
23052s	compared to most people it's a lot but
23053s	compared to the very top players cuz he
23055s	he kept taking time off and out those 60
23057s	mus he made the top eight in four of
23059s	them yeah just ridiculous it's weird
23062s	isn't it I'm I'm glad you you brought
23064s	that one home because the uh the start
23066s	of that um the start of that paragraph
23069s	was in the year that Habu gabu did quite
23071s	well he did quite well which you know
23073s	that didn't it wasn't off to a strong
23075s	start but you brought it around I'm
23076s	quite a fan of the point in the end
23078s	because I was talking about it earlier
23079s	as well right I I think I use the
23080s	Expression like Habu gabu just
23082s	occasionally decides to dip his toes
23083s	into being the best competitive player
23085s	in the world right like he just feels he
23087s	just seems like he disappears and then
23089s	you know every 12 months or so he's like
23091s	oh actually yeah you lot getting a bit
23092s	complacent out here I'm back like
23094s	remember put some respect on Haru gab's
23097s	name yeah he never seems to look
23100s	particularly under stress either because
23102s	he chooses when to play I think yeah
23104s	yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's great like
23106s	he's he he does just seem like a you
23109s	know pretty well adjusted mentally
23111s	healthy person who's doing this every
23113s	now and again because he enjoys it when
23114s	he has you know time and effort and
23116s	resources to put towards doing this he's
23118s	like yeah this seems fun to do for a
23119s	while and he just does it and he's
23121s	incredibly good at it I was oh I need
23124s	another 10 grand what should I do I
23127s	every
23128s	week last year T GRS run out he's just
23132s	paying rent up front a year at a time
23134s	and oh no the bills are coming through
23136s	again better play some more
23140s	Hearthstone
23141s	well we can uh get our entire hand in
23145s	play this turn if we wanted to that'd be
23147s	a great way to die on turn
23150s	five
23152s	well the thing is though yeah you do
23157s	have a neight and a speaker stomper
23158s	already which does make it quite
23161s	difficult for you to die while throwing
23165s	all this stuff out just do it but you
23167s	don't you don't get the imprisoned
23169s	horror though that's the that's the
23171s	counter counter point do it it cuz
23173s	neither of these treants are getting the
23176s	horror in play but you do get the mol
23178s	giant yeah it's okay yeah you can go
23181s	molon copy Molton speak yeah so you see
23183s	what you see what I'm getting at like
23185s	it's it's pretty hard to die this is a
23188s	call and ambulance but not for me
23190s	situation if I've ever seen one really
23193s	is
23196s	oh look at it look at it what a gorgeous
23199s	[Laughter]
23203s	deck oh the story of the ugly ducklings
23206s	Springs to mind look at it it's it is
23208s	such a tough call though because you
23210s	like you don't have lethal setup right
23212s	now so you also have to survive another
23215s	turn and the next turn is only a near
23218s	fight it's not a speaker stomper I did
23220s	wonder if you should play the near fight
23222s	first but the near fights are 32 and The
23223s	Stompers are 4 probably swings it yeah
23226s	you just don't have anything to do with
23228s	the excess Mana otherwise and you might
23231s	draw another stomper as well which is a
23233s	big deal I
23240s	think oh no the coin's gone oh the coin
23244s	is
23246s	gone which means yeah har gabu by the
23249s	way will gloss past it but that two one
23250s	went face Habu gabu understands the
23253s	assignment does not trade that into a 22
23255s	that means even through near fight here
23257s	he's able to go spell damage double
23260s	bolt
23262s	yeah
23264s	yeah but not through stomper he's
23266s	expecting stomper you can tell by hu's
23268s	face he's like oh no I'm getting stomped
23270s	I'm accepted
23272s	[Music]
23275s	it we've created aoral
23278s	anomaly yeah just to be clear I think I
23280s	think you're on the same page as me we
23282s	we were screaming about the coin having
23283s	gone because we wanted to copy that near
23284s	fight not the giant just to be
23286s	absolutely clear
23289s	here oh no M so the coin it would have
23292s	let you copy the speaker stomper as well
23294s	right if you still had coin you had to
23295s	you had to use the coin in the first
23297s	place to even get the stomper in play
23299s	yeah we weren't looking at the giant
23301s	though yeah it's like here we go how's
23305s	got
23308s	lethal all of the
23313s	damage I no that was that was a
23316s	Hearthstone game that happened and I
23318s	think both players did it correctly
23319s	weirdly it's just very strange
23321s	Hearthstone
23322s	game yeah I'd love I'd love to go back
23325s	and stare at that fracking turn from
23327s	hemlock for half an hour and just try
23329s	and find some kind of alternate line I
23331s	don't think there was one as soon as
23332s	that molten giant appear no sorry it was
23334s	the blood Triant that appeared off the
23336s	fracking right and then suddenly you
23337s	could play two of them but that's the
23340s	line you end up in this spot here and
23342s	you're not threatening to turn lethal uh
23345s	whether the argument then is just feel
23348s	ugly and Float the Mana by playing
23350s	neight and hope that you can stay alive
23352s	through near fight but I don't think
23353s	that was really doing enough anyway
23354s	because of the
23356s	flash um there's a lots of if buts and
23358s	maybe but I think in the end Hemlock
23360s	played pretty close to to maximizing his
23363s	win percentage but it honestly looked
23365s	like his maximum win percentage was
23367s	pretty close to zero for uh for most of
23369s	that game yeah I think it's I think it's
23371s	tough I think the matchup is a is a
23374s	tough one even at the top level lower
23376s	down at my level Shaman just wins that
23379s	match up because you've got to tread
23380s	this very very fine line as the as the
23384s	Allin lock just to not die um it's
23387s	definitely treible by the top players
23388s	but I think Shaman is still favored even
23390s	higher up do you think so it's cuz I
23392s	like my perception obviously never
23394s	falling to the depths of of your level
23396s	of hearthstone would be that um down
23399s	there in the depths of misery that the
23401s	shamans wouldn't be as efficient with
23403s	like pushing early damage and maybe the
23405s	warlocks will be able to to build boards
23407s	a little bit um not quicker but you know
23409s	when they get stuff in play they've got
23410s	a little bit more Health to play with
23412s	because the shans haven't been shipping
23413s	them down I don't know but also they're
23415s	scared they they're not making 88s and
23418s	stuff quite so readily yeah yeah this is
23420s	a very very old school debate right
23422s	because there's kind of like that bell
23424s	curve all the way back in the day of um
23427s	of like Handlock like playing against
23429s	Handlock it'd be like you know
23431s	completely oblivious at the start don't
23433s	play around molten Giant ship everything
23435s	face and then there's the huge bell
23436s	curve in the middle of most players are
23438s	like oh I'm supposed to play around
23439s	Molton GI and then there's like the top
23441s	eight players in the world who just
23442s	aren't playing around Molton Giant and
23443s	shipping everything face at all times
23445s	you know like it's a very very hard
23447s	debate to have as to whether it's more
23449s	difficult to play against a deck like
23451s	that or play with a deck like that where
23454s	you have to R up weigh up all those like
23456s	risk reward distributions yeah I
23458s	remember watching Chuy Arcane shot
23460s	somebody in the face on turn one as
23462s	Hunter before like yeah that's that's
23464s	the bell curve absolutely the one person
23467s	who's ever going to do
23469s	that at the time obviously people have
23471s	evolved since I've learned how to
23473s	maximize
23479s	things well
23481s	then funnel cakes for
23489s	everybody but since we've been talking
23492s	exclusively in meme formats for this
23494s	cast so far this is a proper Spider-Man
23497s	pointing at each other pair of opening
23499s	hands because they've both gone they've
23501s	both gone GF wrapped on one they've both
23503s	got cherians they've both got the uh the
23505s	funnel cakes
23508s	yeah there can't be many more memes left
23510s	stle surely oh no we've done them all
23514s	we'll have to start getting into the
23515s	Mayes
23517s	soon talking about plays that you know
23520s	only good players make there we go just
23522s	burn our projectionist
23525s	mhm and our funnel cake just to make a 3
23528s	three and a two
23530s	three yeah I like it yeah what do I what
23533s	do I tell you NE what do I tell what's
23534s	the golden rule of this deck put all the
23536s	numbers on the board and turn your back
23538s	off
23540s	yeah I got to turn your brain off bit
23542s	right I'm good at that
23544s	b look at your hand work out what the
23546s	max stats you can play every single turn
23548s	and just do
23550s	that yeah it sounds so easy when you say
23554s	that that
23559s	no that is what Habu just did absolutely
23562s	I mean you can't argue with it it's what
23565s	happened it is at the very least
23572s	commentary it's got a lot of damage on
23574s	the board to be
23582s	fair um yeah time to start making your
23585s	own board or you are going to get moaned
23586s	down by these three
23594s	threes consider not got enough dragons
23597s	for the dream by by five
23602s	so yeah and only three available right
23605s	now even if you do use the synchronize
23607s	which you will do
23613s	him at least allows you to allegedly two
23617s	for one over this board okay you're
23619s	going to drop second wel yeah I think
23622s	this is fair because I don't think
23623s	there's any world in which Haru is
23624s	trading into this stuff it's very
23626s	similar to playing The Rook before the
23628s	forge in the previous turn right like
23630s	ideally you would really like to have
23632s	three minions to play the funnel cake
23635s	this turn but I don't think there is any
23637s	Universe in which Habu gabu starts
23639s	double trading wind Fury trading into
23641s	these two 44 welps so uh I reckon
23644s	there's an excellent chance Hemlock gets
23645s	to get full funnel kick value this turn
23648s	yeah he was pretending to think about it
23651s	I promise you that was never actually a
23653s	legal thing that he was going to do but
23655s	he pretended to think about trading yeah
23657s	I mean there's a one three so you've got
23658s	to think well is my 1 three really worth
23660s	it because 33 gets the trade and just
23662s	ignore ignore one of them but yeah
23665s	that's the pretend you're never putting
23666s	your whole board into that cuz you have
23668s	one card and they have six at the end of
23670s	the day that matters
23672s	eventually oh gabu really just wants to
23675s	get there with his minions he's so he's
23678s	so eager this game to have just gone one
23680s	drop two drop win the game in his time
23684s	next turn oh 100% yeah if there if there
23687s	is not another like Drifter size thing
23690s	drawn off the top which there really
23692s	aren't that many there's like ziliax and
23694s	the other Drifter and a power cord
23696s	synchronized like those are the options
23698s	that might lead you not to play the Zari
23700s	otherwise this is getting slammed 100%
23709s	and he knows we're talking about
23711s	him I mean I would hope so yeah
23721s	yeah just Straight Up Tempo
23725s	down yeah going to final cake the
23727s	opposing minions to get the triple to
23730s	get the full
23732s	value I was talking about the three
23734s	minions last turn that was with the
23736s	caveat that there wasn't a 48 in the way
23738s	so you could have taken some uh some two
23740s	attack value trades on the opposing
23742s	minions then healed yours back up for a
23744s	bit of extra
23746s	Tempo oh I forgot those were in the deck
23748s	that's two more cards y two more two
23751s	more cards that will stop you from doing
23753s	the cool thing do the cool thing anyway
23756s	it's so much cooler a
23759s	unlucky there's only one person who ever
23761s	remembers that card exists and it's
23763s	neither of us
23764s	no it's just TJ it is
23767s	TJ oh the cool thing was so much cooler
23770s	though it really
23774s	was well this needs to be good doesn't
23776s	it it does need to be powerful and that
23779s	does not look
23784s	powerful how have you found hearth stone
23786s	Brew this tournament I think it's
23787s	setting everyone's hand every single
23789s	time you are correct I do I think I
23793s	think philosophically it wasn't a bad
23796s	decision um it just hasn't it hasn't
23799s	done anything in any of the games at
23801s	least they have not Banning Warrior
23803s	right that's the starting point correct
23805s	I was just about to say there have been
23806s	games of priest against Warrior where if
23808s	the Heth had been drawn it would have
23811s	made the game a lot more straightforward
23812s	we have seen those games exist it's just
23814s	the Heth hasn't been drawn in the right
23815s	positions which is not the fault of the
23818s	card or the people who put it in their
23819s	deck right it's that that did increase
23821s	their odds it but from what what we have
23824s	seen purely commentating on the results
23826s	of what we have looked at it has looked
23829s	utterly tragic as a conclusion but at
23831s	the same time in this Ser like the two
23833s	speaker Stompers that Hemlock had in his
23835s	hand this entire game have also looked
23837s	completely tragic in this game right
23839s	like it's a big big
23843s	problem I guess he got
23845s	Leal he drew the other gorm are you
23850s	joking what is it like to be hug Gab
23854s	where you can just put any card in your
23857s	deck and it just works it's
23861s	incredible he's just went with sludges
23863s	and Gia worms or whatever they're called
23865s	heavy
23867s	worms um yeah everything everything
23869s	wormed Hab was just I don't know
23873s	somebody Poli or
23875s	something what a what a finish to the
23877s	day Habu goes to another top eight after
23881s	not playing Hearthstone that much for a
23883s	year
23884s	pops up have some more points probably
23887s	go to the World
23888s	Championships could well win them yeah
23891s	I'm I'm still a little heated that he
23894s	didn't win the game by playing
23895s	unactivated Tempo Zari that would I like
23898s	that was 100% sweet ending to the game
23902s	but I think backto back guia worm when
23904s	he's the only player in the tournament
23905s	playing that card in the deck that does
23908s	reach at least like 95% as sweet as that
23911s	way of winning the game so I'll I'll let
23913s	him get away with it I suppose but only
23915s	because he's habo gabu and he's given us
23917s	a lot of great memories over the years
23919s	already yeah we did let him get away
23920s	with just getting a 48 off the top when
23922s	his board was about to get decimated as
23924s	well to be fair but you know nobody
23928s	noticed it's fine let's have a look at
23932s	it again because that was one very silly
23934s	game of
23938s	hearthstone Hemlock doing his absolute
23940s	best here and it goes to show right like
23942s	imagine if Haru did not have lethal here
23945s	he's unironically kind of in trouble
23948s	this game right like if he doesn't draw
23951s	lethal this is something that you have
23953s	to get to grips with when playing Zari
23956s	priest is that you will play a lot of
23958s	games where like turn one will happen
23960s	and you'll go oh god I've lost turn two
23962s	will happen you be like there is
23963s	literally no way I'm winning this game
23965s	turn three goes past like I am going to
23967s	concede but I'll stay in the game turn
23969s	four happens you're like yeah I mean I'm
23970s	literally one turn away from dying and
23973s	then you take two turns in a row and
23975s	that's such an illegal thing to be able
23977s	to do that you're then somehow winning
23979s	the game again afterwards right you
23980s	really do have to stick it out there is
23983s	very few games that it's worth conceding
23985s	with this deck and you can see that
23986s	there from
23987s	hemlock as miserable as that situation
23990s	looked it was 46 off the top into gorm
23994s	into gorm right that was one of the few
23997s	situations that would have got him out
23998s	of it um if any of those draws have been
24000s	different then suddenly we're having a
24002s	conversation about Hemlock being able to
24004s	uh to squeeze his way back into the game
24006s	so very very well done in the end from
24009s	hemlock to to fire out get the turns
24011s	right but uh Habu gabo the the tech card
24014s	King what more can you say just put
24016s	cards in your deck and they work that's
24017s	the lesson well we are going to get to
24019s	speak to the man himself given the a
24022s	little bit of extra time um so yeah habo
24026s	gabo how are you doing after that 10
24028s	minutes of Hearthstone
24036s	I'm afraid I don't hear how yeah we are
24038s	not getting audio from from how we go oh
24041s	Haru I think you're muted on your end
24047s	possibly though you still
24053s	are it's fine technology is the vehicle
24056s	of Esports of
24058s	course he only does this once every sort
24060s	of 18th or so can you hear me now there
24062s	we go hey hey what's it how's it going
24065s	would you want to ask that question
24066s	again Neil should we should we start
24068s	from scratch yeah let's let's no one
24070s	noticed that right okay yeah I just
24071s	asking how it feels to be playing Haron
24073s	again and how how it feels after those
24074s	that 10 minutes of guw
24077s	worms it feels fantastic I mean it was
24080s	it was sweet revenge after going 03 with
24083s	the sludge warl like against Hemlock in
24085s	my initial match and uh honestly I I
24088s	wasn't as sad about losing the match as
24092s	uh as of the fact that uh I knew that
24095s	people would would flame me like
24097s	everywhere for picking sludge warlock
24098s	because I went 03 with it of course but
24101s	I don't think it's a bad deck now and
24102s	I'm glad I got to prove it well I mean I
24104s	haven't proved it yet of course I'm
24106s	going to win tomorrow of course you are
24108s	yeah we we know this with the sludge
24110s	warlock with the guy worms in the priest
24112s	did you specifically want extra reach in
24114s	your lineup um to take advantage of the
24117s	the custom warlock or you just want
24119s	reach for any other reason yeah and also
24123s	I I think the ignis was pretty helpful
24125s	in the in the pain warlock mirror or the
24128s	pain warlock matchup as well because if
24130s	if you just get a one man poisonous
24132s	Weapon It's suddenly a lot easier to
24133s	handle the
24135s	boards yeah yeah I think
24139s	um go ahead yeah the ignis is just a
24142s	strong finisher against the Warriors as
24143s	well so I just think that that three
24147s	card package is good overall in my
24149s	opinion so talk to me about that last
24152s	game in particular because you when
24154s	absolute Tempo King from the start like
24156s	Celestial projectionist just to have an
24158s	extra three3 on the board um and then I
24161s	think it's fair to say you got a couple
24162s	of good top decks in a row but like do
24164s	you enjoy playing that match up heavily
24166s	for Tempo in general was that something
24168s	you were trying to do from the
24169s	start yeah absolutely whoever controls
24173s	the board is always winning in that
24175s	priest match up I think like I I got
24178s	lucky that I didn't have a dead turn at
24182s	all uh if I I had one dead turn I most
24184s	likely would have lost that but also
24187s	with with the razor scale in my deck
24189s	that's a really strong card in the
24191s	priest match up if you do things like
24192s	this because when you're ahead on board
24194s	and play Razer scale the other priest
24196s	can't do anything at that point because
24198s	most of the cards are like one or zero
24200s	in the priest uh or the the the cards
24203s	that can swing the board very well
24206s	anyway that's a good point we are being
24208s	told to wrap up but I'm going rogue cuz
24210s	you've just mentioned a thing that I
24211s	find very interesting that that raises
24213s	scale in particular is like you've
24215s	mentioned it for the priest matchup is
24217s	that what it's there for are there other
24219s	matchups that it's in there for like I
24221s	saw you tweet the you know the classic
24223s	Hearthstone player tweet the image of a
24224s	card thing as well like are you putting
24226s	a lot of stock in razor scale for this
24229s	tournament I mean honestly I don't know
24232s	how good it actually is but it does
24234s	serve some purpose against the pain
24236s	warlock as well because they can't play
24238s	their zero Mana big big minions and then
24242s	uh shaman of course that's a big one cuz
24246s	they can't play the zero Mana nature
24247s	spells and then also against Warrior uh
24252s	it's surprisingly good at stopping like
24254s	coin big removal or gash gash's gift
24258s	into brawl because it makes it cost
24260s	seven Mana suddenly instead of
24261s	six so I'm I I like the razor scale at
24265s	least one of them in the deck because
24266s	you also draw it very often with the uh
24269s	the Dragon toor
24278s	all right well thank you Haru sorry
24280s	we're very awkwardly waiting for each
24282s	other to wrap up the interview there I
24284s	I'm I insist that it is Neil's job and
24286s	I'm not a fault here but thank you Haru
24288s	thanks for hanging out with us thanks
24289s	for explaining why you're so much
24290s	smarter than both of us and we will uh
24292s	we'll let you go and prepare for
24293s	tomorrow thanks all
24297s	right that makes me 0 for two on
24299s	wrapping up interviews the last few
24301s	days you're on that side it's defin no
24304s	that side no no I ruined everything yeah
24307s	it's it's definitely your job oh this is
24309s	the this is the person that always Digs
24311s	at us for not knowing which way to point
24312s	on canas well is yeah yeah actually is
24315s	yeah that's me wow and a bit of a wrap
24317s	up of the day there's the end of Group D
24319s	bunny Hopper and habo gabo um I think a
24322s	lot of people would have picked those
24323s	two out of that group but that was not
24326s	an easy group to pick um but the the two
24330s	more experienced players coming through
24331s	although again Hemlock far in experience
24334s	and same toet kov yeah I mean you know
24337s	this cuz you looked it up but I was
24339s	tweeting about this this morning and
24340s	there was what like 70 something total
24342s	Master tours uh appearances in that
24344s	group combined like no one no one was
24348s	letting that group down in terms of you
24350s	know high level competitive Hearthstone
24351s	experience so that was the one that I
24354s	was certainly looking forward to it kind
24355s	of flew by which is Weir it flew by with
24358s	a bunny Hopper epic in it as well which
24361s	is absurd that that actually managed to
24363s	happen
24364s	um but that top eight that we have is
24365s	looking absolutely incredible as we look
24370s	take one last look at the schedule and
24371s	if you are following through you are
24374s	here on the Saturday where we are just
24376s	finished uh narrowing down our field of
24378s	players to top eight and now we'll be
24380s	taking you all the way through that top
24382s	eight on day three Sunday make sure you
24385s	are here because we are going to be
24386s	sending some players to the world
24388s	championships and you are not going to
24389s	want to miss it because there is some
24391s	fantastic players some fantastic
24393s	matchups in that top eight what do you
24395s	what do you think of that top eight Neil
24396s	we've just had a look at the bracket any
24398s	particular matchup any particular player
24399s	that stands out in there for you I think
24401s	we're both interested in watching molar
24403s	play see how that control lineup goes
24406s	and also I I'm not going to mention the
24408s	obvious players but also insane who has
24410s	been somebody who's been streaming the
24412s	whole time all of his qualifications all
24414s	of his prep and everything for us I
24416s	think they're two players I really
24417s	looking forward to seeing
24419s	tomorrow but that is tomorrow we are
24422s	done for to day that is two of the three
24425s	days in the books but we have that
24426s	cracking top eight tomorrow we start at
24428s	the same time so you don't want to miss
24430s	it see you then
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2024 Hearthstone Masters Tour Spring – Day 2

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