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| 10s | there's |
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| 15s | [Applause] |
| 38s | so |
| 41s | [Music] |
| 68s | he |
| 70s | [Music] |
| 84s | [Music] |
| 98s | [Music] |
| 147s | welcome back everyone to master talk |
| 148s | ruins of alterac all done with the |
| 151s | quartz finals now and moving on to the |
| 153s | semi finals and gia a very important |
| 156s | semi-final it is going to be for this |
| 158s | first one because not only is it the |
| 160s | players livelihoods in this tournament |
| 162s | on the line or lives i suppose would be |
| 164s | a more appropriate way of saying it um |
| 167s | it is the the final chance here for |
| 169s | europe to keep up its perfect streak |
| 171s | alongside china in only winning uh in |
| 175s | only europe and china winning masters |
| 176s | tours for the last two years since |
| 179s | bucharest was the last time a |
| 181s | non-european or chinese player won a |
| 183s | master's tour and with gabby being the |
| 185s | lone european left in no chinese players |
| 187s | in the top four it is uh so much on the |
| 190s | line in terms of the history of |
| 192s | hearthstone esports |
| 193s | that's right the last winner outside of |
| 196s | eu or cn was eddie and he even dropped |
| 199s | the trophy to does that even count |
| 201s | derrick i don't know i have to tell you |
| 203s | i think i have hit rock bottom because |
| 205s | not only am i a 26 year old woman |
| 209s | beefing with a 16 year old on twitter i |
| 211s | have also lost the beef derek because |
| 214s | gabby's through the top four and aloo |
| 215s | tamo isn't i'm in shambles |
| 218s | no no no it's not about winning ali |
| 221s | tempe doesn't need to win a master tour |
| 222s | it's just about letting people know who |
| 224s | you stand for sending the message do i |
| 227s | sound convincing at all i don't believe |
| 230s | myself in what i'm saying right now but |
| 232s | whatever i i'm gonna still root for the |
| 234s | apac players here but i am of course |
| 236s | incredibly excited for gabby in his own |
| 239s | right i mean his uh bravado and his uh |
| 244s | uh you know inflating his own ego on |
| 246s | twitter at this point he's obviously |
| 248s | very deserved like he is just still |
| 250s | probably the best player in the world |
| 252s | right now after his performance last |
| 253s | year through to another top four here in |
| 256s | a masters toy it's truly uh an |
| 259s | unbelievable streak like he is right up |
| 261s | there now with uh just saiyans miracle |
| 264s | performance in 2018 hunter race getting |
| 266s | that victory that year as well alongside |
| 268s | some of the real legendary moments uh in |
| 270s | hearthstone esports uh and he's looking |
| 273s | like he's got a very good selection of |
| 275s | uh decks to go the distance i think once |
| 277s | again gabby just defines what the |
| 280s | standard lineup in a metagame is he |
| 282s | doesn't try to go too fancy there's |
| 284s | nothing crazy out there he's not going |
| 286s | full aggro full control or these wacky |
| 288s | alternate decks that we've seen from of |
| 290s | some other players like adriano he just |
| 293s | brings what ultimately ends up to be the |
| 295s | best decks and he plays them better than |
| 297s | anyone else |
| 298s | deserves the hype undoubtedly so and |
| 301s | that rally priest is sort of the banner |
| 303s | deck of what is the best lineup here |
| 306s | because it is simply the highest win |
| 308s | rate archetype in the master store as a |
| 310s | whole so far and i'm glad that we got to |
| 312s | see it run up against its counterpart of |
| 315s | the malygos miracle priest of course |
| 317s | both decks with access to huge combo pop |
| 320s | off turns but that rally version with |
| 322s | the sethik in particular has sort of |
| 323s | separated itself because of its |
| 325s | resilience i would say against demon |
| 327s | hunter like saddle did throw out a stat |
| 330s | that miracle priest based version with |
| 331s | just malygos was actually running |
| 333s | positive against demon hunter i'm not |
| 335s | actually sure if that's how most people |
| 337s | would evaluate the matchup but imagine |
| 339s | that rally does even better here and |
| 341s | when we're faced up with the mirror here |
| 343s | even though holy water absolutely proved |
| 345s | that he is a top-notch miracle priest |
| 347s | player i would say it struggles against |
| 349s | rally priests because there's just so |
| 351s | much more opportunity for rally to get |
| 353s | on board early just playing sethik |
| 355s | nasmani straight up and they can |
| 357s | continue to refill with raised deads and |
| 358s | rallies and they have more value in the |
| 360s | long run |
| 361s | that's exactly right uh i find that in |
| 364s | this matchup where the miracle priest |
| 366s | that holy water is playing is a lot more |
| 368s | explosive a lot of the time you're going |
| 369s | to be making these huge pushes onto the |
| 371s | board where you're making uh you know |
| 373s | two |
| 374s | uh 12 15 health nazamani's on a single |
| 377s | turn thanks to psych split and all the |
| 379s | buffs as well but because of the one |
| 382s | very very important factor in this |
| 383s | match-up of shard of the naaru that can |
| 386s | all count for naught it's much more |
| 388s | about efficiency of stats on board and |
| 390s | repetitive value one push onto the board |
| 393s | is often not enough and those septic |
| 395s | veil weavers gives you so much more |
| 397s | potential to keep putting down threat |
| 399s | after threat after threat and not only |
| 401s | does gabby have consistent value |
| 403s | available here he's just got a lot of |
| 405s | tempo this hand is really fast yeah he's |
| 408s | hit the minions and he can resurrect |
| 410s | them with rally you can already see the |
| 412s | difference here of the two versions |
| 413s | gabby has the absolute liberty to just |
| 415s | play down on us money because if it gets |
| 417s | cleared he can resurrect it many |
| 418s | different ways holy water has a pretty |
| 420s | good hand for himself with the palm |
| 422s | reading and he picked up inside with |
| 424s | that thrive in the shadow so he can |
| 425s | corrupt it right away obviously doesn't |
| 427s | have an option to remove the nas money |
| 429s | on the other side so the next best thing |
| 430s | to do is probably prepare for the best |
| 433s | possible counter push and that's getting |
| 435s | enough money of his own and absolutely |
| 437s | popping off but he still lacks i would |
| 439s | say one of those big um mana sinks that |
| 442s | you really want to benefit from the big |
| 444s | copy turn on the nas manis best he has a |
| 446s | psyche split and that's not necessarily |
| 448s | going to be enough against uh his |
| 451s | opponent who also has access to shard of |
| 453s | the naru |
| 454s | well step one he has to actually hit the |
| 456s | masmani and not the malagos which has |
| 458s | now been accomplished so like you said a |
| 461s | very good start to the game but i |
| 462s | imagine that unless gabby is able to |
| 465s | uh bolster it up to the point where he |
| 466s | is pushing huge amounts of damage he's |
| 469s | not actually going to attack anymore and |
| 470s | so gift of the naaru is not going to be |
| 472s | drawing any extra cards for holy water |
| 474s | but instead he's not waiting an extra |
| 477s | turn he's just going in right now and i |
| 479s | think quite correctly coming to the |
| 481s | conclusion that he will be able to play |
| 483s | the psych split we can see he absolutely |
| 485s | will and then just hoping that a massive |
| 487s | board right out the gate is enough to |
| 489s | just |
| 490s | brute force this matchup without even |
| 492s | dealing with any of the value that gabby |
| 494s | can generate |
| 495s | you know what i |
| 497s | can get behind this it's just like how |
| 499s | i've said when you're faced against |
| 500s | control warrior as miracle priest |
| 502s | sometimes it's so bad that you just have |
| 504s | to say have the thing and if you don't |
| 506s | have it i choose a victory and it so |
| 508s | happens that gabby doesn't have shard of |
| 509s | the naru and he's only running one copy |
| 511s | to begin with however he has his own |
| 513s | train of spells and he generates shadow |
| 516s | word ruin right out the gate if that's |
| 518s | playable he gets to clear both the eight |
| 520s | nines |
| 523s | looking like he's jamming lasting |
| 527s | as well totally disgusting to devour is |
| 530s | the nuts the shadowed ruin insane horn |
| 533s | apotheosis every single one of these |
| 536s | cards is just absolute pure fire |
| 540s | all right he has to actually hit the |
| 542s | discount on the shadow we're doing okay |
| 544s | he hits it at the last point but he did |
| 546s | silence the other nos money so it looks |
| 547s | like he wasn't planning to ruin here at |
| 549s | all which does make some sense since his |
| 551s | own nasmani would get caught by the |
| 553s | shadow word ruin at this point he is |
| 555s | just going to remove the vast majority |
| 557s | of the threats and you know what it's |
| 558s | fine because if there's no septic on the |
| 560s | other side there's not much payout for |
| 562s | holy water managing to get even more |
| 564s | discounts and he doesn't because all the |
| 567s | relevant threats have just been value |
| 569s | traded the last remaining money is |
| 571s | silenced and that i want to say is just |
| 573s | the game |
| 574s | holy water is getting cyber bullied by a |
| 576s | 16 year old right now this has gone |
| 578s | outside of hearthstone this is |
| 581s | absolutely disgusting holy water i |
| 584s | relate it's okay i'm here |
| 587s | we're on the same boat here |
| 591s | uh hysteria |
| 595s | is not enough to clear but at least it |
| 598s | kills us ethics |
| 604s | [Applause] |
| 607s | okay so if he gets |
| 609s | i think you probably wait a turn right |
| 611s | because your opponent has a huge hand |
| 614s | anyways you want them to slip up and |
| 616s | maybe go a little bit too all in is your |
| 619s | only avenue back into the game and like |
| 620s | because they have so many cards in hand |
| 622s | they probably can't get that much more |
| 624s | value from these ethics anyway |
| 626s | and so you clear the board next turn |
| 628s | hope that they have 10 cards in hand |
| 630s | that are all complete trash by some |
| 633s | miracle |
| 634s | and then you top deck |
| 637s | alagos |
| 638s | is too expensive but like maybe draconic |
| 641s | studies into a stall into malagas can |
| 643s | get there |
| 645s | i mean it's possible |
| 647s | now |
| 648s | okay so if the 27 goes in the 813 and |
| 651s | there's hysteria it actually is a clear |
| 655s | right |
| 656s | because double hit into both divine |
| 658s | shields and the minions is |
| 661s | 12 points of damage so he can clear the |
| 664s | board yes he still has to contend with a |
| 667s | full hand of value from gabby but you |
| 669s | worry about that later |
| 671s | proto-drake next turn okay you know if |
| 674s | your opponent doesn't have a refill next |
| 676s | turn say they just got all buffs or all |
| 678s | removal and no actual uh meat to apply |
| 681s | those buffs to you know |
| 683s | there's something |
| 685s | wait |
| 686s | not a |
| 687s | oh it's a little bit off okay oh |
| 691s | oh yeah the other set had too much |
| 692s | health on it |
| 695s | and so |
| 696s | abby gets |
| 698s | to go again |
| 699s | yeah and holy water has a proto drake |
| 705s | yeah he's got a really nice balance of |
| 706s | two and two like i feel like the the |
| 708s | golden ratio with this deck is three |
| 710s | nasmani's two cethix is like the perfect |
| 713s | distribution to be able to always play |
| 715s | everything you generate and at that |
| 716s | point you really just become unstoppable |
| 718s | but in this matchup i think this will do |
| 721s | just fine |
| 723s | yeah no need for the golden ratio here |
| 725s | this is enough |
| 729s | tell you who is taking a ratio though |
| 730s | and an l |
| 733s | holy water you oh no okay |
| 736s | but also |
| 736s | [Laughter] |
| 741s | oh yeah what a first game here gabby on |
| 743s | this priest man he just looks like he's |
| 746s | on another planet with this deck it |
| 747s | feels like he's hit some kind of secret |
| 749s | formula here that no one else is privy |
| 751s | to because even though we've seen other |
| 753s | people play this deck in this metal |
| 754s | we've seen other people play this deck |
| 755s | in other matters right when like xanan |
| 758s | was streaming away with this deck back |
| 759s | in the day consistently hitting rank one |
| 761s | letter a huge uh proponent of this deck |
| 764s | as well over an eugm |
| 766s | it's always had strong counters or |
| 768s | people have been aware of it in the line |
| 770s | in the metagame whereas here i think |
| 772s | players were more so concerned with uh |
| 775s | if anything miracle priest the version |
| 776s | with malagos the uh holy water is |
| 778s | playing whereas this version is just |
| 780s | catching people off guard and uh truly |
| 783s | looking unstoppable |
| 785s | it honestly feels like a deck that has |
| 787s | been on everybody's radar for a while |
| 789s | the rally priest but has maybe taken |
| 791s | time to first of all hit the perfect |
| 792s | spot in the meta where it's viable but |
| 794s | also get people to keep up with the |
| 796s | learning curve on it because it is an |
| 798s | extremely complicated deck in terms of |
| 800s | timing and then mastering how to |
| 802s | actually navigate those million variable |
| 805s | sethic turns is also extremely difficult |
| 808s | but leave it to a player of gabby's |
| 809s | caliber of course to make sure that the |
| 811s | deck can shine at its brightest that is |
| 814s | the rally priest out the way though and |
| 816s | now he has quest rogue lined up which if |
| 818s | holy water wants to run it back with the |
| 820s | miracle priest is going to have a hard |
| 823s | time again because quest rogue is a |
| 825s | great matchup into miracle priest uh |
| 827s | with its access to si7 assassins fizz |
| 831s | flash distractors and also just constant |
| 834s | pressure the cult neophytes in there |
| 836s | also adding to the list of headaches for |
| 838s | the miracle priest |
| 840s | very true uh however i think if holy |
| 842s | water can get himself off to the kind of |
| 844s | start that we saw |
| 846s | in the previous game |
| 848s | well against quest rogue i could see |
| 849s | that getting there you know two huge uh |
| 851s | nazmanis on turn four i think it was for |
| 854s | him the turn after he played uh the palm |
| 857s | readings at that point the |
| 859s | assassin is probably not online scabs is |
| 862s | certainly not online at that point so |
| 864s | it's fairly unlikely that they'll even |
| 865s | be a uh |
| 867s | a fizz flash distractor in the first |
| 868s | place |
| 870s | but holy water needs to get there first |
| 872s | which pretty much necessitates a palm |
| 875s | readings to get off to that fast of a |
| 877s | start and that's why we see him keep the |
| 879s | thrive it's just another chance that |
| 881s | having palm reading and |
| 883s | because thrive costs two you never |
| 884s | really disrupt the curve of being able |
| 886s | to play palm readings on three if you |
| 888s | find it and there it is |
| 891s | on stuff |
| 892s | yeah yeah don't even think about that |
| 894s | one in this hand with insight plus horn |
| 898s | it's doing stuff |
| 900s | definitely is meanwhile for gabby he did |
| 902s | go get off to a pretty good start with |
| 904s | the foxy swindle always nice to see |
| 906s | those together because individually foxy |
| 909s | doesn't get that much value oftentimes |
| 911s | can still be paired with assassin or |
| 913s | agent as we see here gabby piling on |
| 915s | maximum pressure which is something you |
| 917s | can do |
| 918s | relatively comfortably because there is |
| 921s | no zyrella for miracle priests these |
| 923s | days holy water here incidentally |
| 925s | wouldn't have been sad to hit malygos i |
| 927s | think so you could get the two one |
| 928s | rushes from the horn uh but he ends up |
| 931s | with nasmani which is not from the |
| 933s | inside so it's actually still gonna take |
| 935s | a while to put together a um big combo |
| 938s | here so gabi can take the window to pile |
| 940s | on even more pressure but does that come |
| 942s | in the form of operative or uh going |
| 945s | skulker swindle the operative would also |
| 948s | get him a gizmo to work with so he could |
| 949s | still potentially spend all his mana |
| 952s | a little awkward because if you hit one |
| 954s | of the bad gizmos like |
| 956s | fizz flash i suppose would be fine but |
| 958s | one of the ones you can't use |
| 959s | immediately basically you don't really |
| 961s | want to trade extortion i want to say |
| 964s | because that would actually be quite |
| 965s | good to use to take out some extra |
| 966s | nasmanis once they come down and the pop |
| 968s | off does occur uh and by hitting the |
| 971s | mole it's the best of both worlds for |
| 972s | gabby max pressure keeps the extortion |
| 974s | so he has removal as well as development |
| 977s | and uh now for holy water with how much |
| 980s | damage on board 11 13 right now |
| 984s | i think he just needs to be very brave |
| 986s | here and go palm readings probably |
| 988s | desperate prayer so he's not just dead |
| 990s | to a wicked stab |
| 991s | yeah |
| 992s | uh if this had a condemn in it then we |
| 995s | could talk i think we've already seen |
| 997s | that in a previous series but no big aoe |
| 1001s | provided to him by the |
| 1003s | par meeting so it will have to be the |
| 1005s | desperate prayer to stabilize i agree |
| 1007s | not just die to wicked stop but that |
| 1009s | insight missed the 50 50 on nasmani here |
| 1011s | and that means that holy waters next |
| 1013s | turn is significantly lower power level |
| 1016s | than it could be could have been still |
| 1018s | has second insight though so he can |
| 1020s | still do things with nasmani but it's |
| 1022s | not a big stabilization unless something |
| 1025s | big is hit off the thrive |
| 1029s | i do think he has to because he's not |
| 1030s | just dead to uh wikistaff i think he's |
| 1033s | just dead to shadowstep would get it up |
| 1035s | to 15 with the the si |
| 1038s | agent sorry and then dagger for 16. so i |
| 1040s | think even though it uses up a key spell |
| 1042s | for the nasmani turn it's very very |
| 1043s | clever to do so here just to buy |
| 1045s | yourself likely one extra turn uh gabby |
| 1049s | i don't think could be looking at any |
| 1051s | lethal outs given his mana restrictions |
| 1054s | uh in which case |
| 1057s | maybe it's just skulker plus swindle i |
| 1059s | was gonna say informant but digging for |
| 1061s | those lethal outs next turn is worth |
| 1063s | quite a lot still |
| 1064s | yeah just having them in hand because |
| 1067s | you once again ask holy water to clear |
| 1069s | the board and heal enough and asking |
| 1071s | multiple questions is always the best |
| 1073s | way to set up a two-turn lethal |
| 1076s | holy water here like you said the |
| 1078s | desperate prayer was a heavy expenditure |
| 1080s | because it's precious fuel for the |
| 1082s | nasmani turn that's about to follow |
| 1083s | because right now he doesn't have any |
| 1085s | copy effects he'll be working with one |
| 1087s | natural three kos nasmani and as long as |
| 1090s | he doesn't top that the other nasmani |
| 1092s | one mana from the inside and then he has |
| 1095s | coin and shard as zero cost spells but |
| 1098s | that might not be enough to necessarily |
| 1100s | stabilize um he'll have to get down the |
| 1103s | maligos as well for that to all work |
| 1105s | okay here's the turn he's gotta go right |
| 1108s | now |
| 1109s | it's gotta be the miracle of miracle |
| 1111s | priest here for holy water to have any |
| 1113s | chance whatsoever |
| 1115s | and there it is nasmani double coming |
| 1117s | down we wanna see gift of uh luminance |
| 1119s | here i think for there to be a chance to |
| 1121s | get malagos playable which kind of feels |
| 1123s | necessary because you're going to need |
| 1125s | to hit malagos and then probably also |
| 1129s | the mount as well |
| 1131s | oh it's prayer that's huge |
| 1133s | that is no chance of it eating the |
| 1136s | discounts here so he can get bala goes |
| 1138s | down |
| 1139s | if he hits double shadower devour this |
| 1142s | could be a board stabilization comes off |
| 1144s | both foxes |
| 1146s | oh go go |
| 1149s | oh go |
| 1150s | water 100 can get all the actions done |
| 1152s | here we've seen him do it before holy |
| 1154s | smite helps him clear a bit more but |
| 1156s | that's zero devours picked up |
| 1159s | renew can help heal a little bit but can |
| 1162s | he get the elec mount down that's the |
| 1163s | big question can you put a wall in the |
| 1165s | way psyche split is green alec mount is |
| 1168s | not green but the turn is not over yet |
| 1170s | however studies are the only term the |
| 1172s | train oh condemn and that is green he's |
| 1175s | doing it he's stabilizing he's actually |
| 1178s | getting there i don't think he got elec |
| 1180s | mount and psych split in that exact |
| 1182s | order but who cares this is still |
| 1184s | absolute |
| 1185s | mountains of pressure coming through |
| 1188s | easily lethal represented back the other |
| 1190s | way and gabby's near clean 100 victory |
| 1194s | has just crumbled before him this was |
| 1196s | one of the biggest pop-offs i have ever |
| 1199s | seen with a miracle priest holy water |
| 1201s | just always does this he can play all |
| 1204s | the cards post malygos he can get it |
| 1206s | done he's just an absolute god on this |
| 1208s | deck no exaggerations gabby passages to |
| 1211s | find assassin i have to assume doesn't |
| 1213s | find it throws down the conceit and both |
| 1215s | the priests are out of the way |
| 1217s | and there it is the bully has become the |
| 1220s | bully |
| 1221s | uh at this point as uh holy water |
| 1224s | getting the win here uh in truly |
| 1226s | impressive fashion the priest obviously |
| 1228s | a big win for both players here but i |
| 1230s | kind of felt more so uh for holy water |
| 1232s | that was you know that's not a good |
| 1233s | match up most of the time the rogue with |
| 1235s | a hand like that should be able to get |
| 1237s | there uh but through some fantastic high |
| 1240s | apm play holy wards he keeps his dreams |
| 1243s | alive and is shown to be truly |
| 1244s | unflappable even against the player of |
| 1247s | gabby's caliber gabby cueing up the |
| 1249s | rogue again and now gia is the paladin |
| 1252s | and the demon hunter on the other side |
| 1254s | with the rogue and the demon hunter left |
| 1256s | for gabby and so with the only |
| 1258s | difference being uh the librarian |
| 1260s | paladin for holy water versus the quest |
| 1262s | rogue for gabby how are we feeling about |
| 1264s | our players chances heading into game |
| 1266s | three |
| 1267s | well we do have to look at the |
| 1268s | head-to-head between questrog and |
| 1269s | paladin which funny enough has something |
| 1271s | that we've been discussing since the |
| 1272s | past couple weeks in apac grandmasters |
| 1274s | as on paper we feel like it's favored |
| 1277s | for the quest rogue and i still sort of |
| 1279s | feel that way but not heavily um either |
| 1282s | remaining deck though that is not the |
| 1284s | demon hunter is good and two the demon |
| 1286s | hunter on the other side so i feel like |
| 1288s | it could come down to a demon hunter |
| 1289s | mirror holy water is going to start off |
| 1292s | with his demon hunter though and we'll |
| 1294s | see uh whether or not he's able to sneak |
| 1297s | in a win and be unfavorable because |
| 1299s | gabby on the quest road here i'm sure it |
| 1301s | will be feeling confident in the matchup |
| 1312s | certainly feels like we got some of the |
| 1313s | heavy fireworks done at the beginning of |
| 1316s | the series with the two super high apm |
| 1318s | decks and two super high apm players |
| 1320s | getting their wins uh nyan unstoppable |
| 1323s | on the other side but make no mistake |
| 1325s | there is still lots of high level |
| 1326s | hearthstone to be had here maybe not in |
| 1329s | terms of the actions that need to be |
| 1330s | done within a single turn but the timing |
| 1332s | of your threats here i feel is the most |
| 1334s | important thing for the rogue can they |
| 1337s | build a board that is not able to be |
| 1339s | cleared by the demon hunter every single |
| 1341s | turn because it's all about finding that |
| 1342s | one window as a demon hunter where you |
| 1345s | have a low pressure turn on the other |
| 1347s | side and suddenly you can turn the |
| 1348s | tables with a curtrus maybe a big |
| 1350s | lifesteal turn with aldrachi warblades |
| 1352s | and from there run the rogue out of |
| 1354s | threats |
| 1356s | a bit of an unfortunate mulligan for |
| 1358s | holy water keeping the quest in the |
| 1360s | spectral site and i believe the card |
| 1362s | that was in the expendable performers |
| 1364s | position was actually the other half of |
| 1366s | the combo is the dead eye which i have |
| 1369s | to be honest i was actually considering |
| 1371s | holding on to even if it meant |
| 1372s | dismantling the combo just because a 2-3 |
| 1376s | on turn 2 with a hero power is not bad |
| 1379s | and just guarantees that spectral sight |
| 1381s | to be able to come down on turn three or |
| 1384s | four |
| 1385s | definitely a consideration but i think |
| 1387s | holy water was just hoping for pretty |
| 1389s | much anything but performers uh in that |
| 1392s | position and it still would have been |
| 1394s | better without having to get rid of that |
| 1396s | dead eye as a potential burst |
| 1399s | later on but gabby on the other side |
| 1401s | also didn't end up with the greatest |
| 1402s | hand post mulligan but has sort of been |
| 1404s | bailed out by his top decks here the |
| 1406s | smite and assassin that early you |
| 1407s | certainly don't want to see but now he's |
| 1409s | had other options with si cards and the |
| 1411s | shadow step now on the skulker means he |
| 1413s | can make great pace with the quest |
| 1415s | progression we'll see what the second |
| 1418s | gizmo is it's a distract sorry noggin |
| 1421s | fog generator that's a pretty good one |
| 1423s | honestly if you just hit si7 smuggler |
| 1425s | even outside of stealthing |
| 1428s | scabs itself it can be a lot of pressure |
| 1430s | represented for demon hunter to deal |
| 1432s | with holy water now has this crossroads |
| 1435s | of whether he wants to just play magthon |
| 1437s | he doesn't have the guaranteed wake up |
| 1439s | for it and obviously it's scary against |
| 1441s | the deck that has access to shadow stuff |
| 1443s | but he did technically see a shadow step |
| 1445s | used already |
| 1447s | yes yes in two now |
| 1450s | um |
| 1451s | a weird play though for holy water i've |
| 1453s | got to say letting rip with the double |
| 1455s | jump when it was two out of three to see |
| 1457s | an unplayable glide |
| 1459s | and then just playing the spectral sight |
| 1461s | as well afterwards it felt like he was |
| 1463s | really all in on hitting the one out of |
| 1465s | three for spectral sight whereas i |
| 1468s | kind of just preferred the idea of |
| 1469s | chilling for a turn and then outcasting |
| 1471s | the glide next turn |
| 1474s | true |
| 1475s | maybe holy water was going for the super |
| 1478s | optimistic outcome because he felt like |
| 1479s | he was that far behind |
| 1481s | reasonable but now he's in that position |
| 1484s | where like you said the glide is not out |
| 1486s | castable and he's drawn cards that |
| 1489s | would be shuffled back anyway if he does |
| 1491s | go for glide i'm sure gabby will still |
| 1493s | have glide on his mind though |
| 1495s | so trimming the hand down would be |
| 1498s | high on the priority list |
| 1500s | in terms of dumpable things though you |
| 1504s | don't really wanna just play noggin fog |
| 1506s | for two attack immediately when it can |
| 1508s | have such a big upside later on and i |
| 1510s | think it's still not a disaster if a |
| 1512s | five card hand gets glided back here |
| 1517s | all righty so obviously a glide is |
| 1518s | available for holy water but it looks to |
| 1521s | me like he's still trying to dig for a |
| 1523s | way to activate this |
| 1525s | agatheridon |
| 1526s | would be the main reason because uh |
| 1528s | honestly outside of that |
| 1530s | i would be pretty happy to lose this |
| 1532s | hand he's got right now it is doing |
| 1533s | absolutely nothing |
| 1535s | true and the magtheridon activation |
| 1538s | would come in the form of fel scream |
| 1540s | blast which even if he taps top decks at |
| 1542s | next turn still doesn't have the mana to |
| 1544s | play all three together with talented |
| 1546s | arcanist uh however i guess he's just |
| 1548s | hoping that he can survive and gabby |
| 1550s | doesn't have scabs playable this turn |
| 1553s | which to be fair would only come in the |
| 1555s | form of si7 extortion on gabi's own |
| 1558s | minion into coin scabs |
| 1560s | uh |
| 1561s | it's not scabs but it's still a very |
| 1563s | threatening minion on the other side |
| 1564s | which already requires a mag paradigm to |
| 1566s | deal with so holy water is still in a |
| 1568s | whole load of trouble here and it looks |
| 1570s | like |
| 1571s | the match-up is just going to end in a |
| 1573s | very one-sided fashion |
| 1575s | yeah |
| 1578s | a live on board |
| 1580s | yeah |
| 1581s | it |
| 1583s | does need to do something here right |
| 1585s | um i just kind of a fairly apathetic |
| 1588s | effort like with an emphasis on the a at |
| 1590s | the front there for holy water where |
| 1593s | it it felt like |
| 1595s | nothing he was trying to do really felt |
| 1597s | like it was going for an attempt to |
| 1599s | actually win the game |
| 1601s | like maybe there was some kind of an out |
| 1602s | that i was missing consistently along |
| 1604s | the way here um but at all points he was |
| 1607s | just in a situation where his gabby |
| 1608s | didn't have to do much he just played |
| 1610s | cards and it looked like it's getting |
| 1612s | there |
| 1613s | well with the i-beam and mo there's not |
| 1616s | lethal just yet for gabby this might |
| 1619s | present 16 plus the 10 attack uh |
| 1622s | smuggler here |
| 1623s | sorry not smuggler informant i always |
| 1625s | confuse those |
| 1627s | me too |
| 1628s | oh i am |
| 1630s | informant and operative that's my blind |
| 1632s | spot |
| 1635s | they're all just named some sort of |
| 1636s | sketchy occupation |
| 1640s | yeah i can't wait for si7 caster next |
| 1643s | again |
| 1645s | even scabs a butter cutter that's not a |
| 1648s | real occupation something sketchy about |
| 1650s | that |
| 1652s | oh |
| 1653s | you think it's like scabs esquire it's |
| 1655s | like scabs cutter of butter |
| 1661s | am i wrong though |
| 1663s | maybe not i kind of thought of it as a |
| 1665s | an actual name not a description |
| 1670s | well uh gyroblade to push more damage or |
| 1674s | mole to generate |
| 1676s | even more pressure here both of them |
| 1677s | seem like very winning lines for gabby |
| 1680s | he could stealth something up but at |
| 1682s | this point what is he even really scared |
| 1684s | of i guess exactly the hand being mag |
| 1686s | theradon fell scream blast and arcanist |
| 1689s | which it could be from his perspective |
| 1692s | and in that case if he were to play the |
| 1694s | gyroblade healing for nine he would not |
| 1696s | set up lethal next turn and so i think |
| 1699s | just playing around stealth in the |
| 1700s | middle and making it so fel screen blast |
| 1702s | plus a uh arcanist is not good enough is |
| 1705s | the way to go |
| 1706s | uh we do see glides generated off the |
| 1709s | top though for holy water and this is |
| 1711s | still only quest level two so anything |
| 1713s | he gets will be discounted so there are |
| 1715s | still some weird little outs i want to |
| 1718s | say here for him to maybe get a clear |
| 1720s | here and stay in the game it's arcanist |
| 1723s | ammo he did play the foul scream blast |
| 1725s | before the glide so he could get the |
| 1727s | scabs down to the breakpoint point where |
| 1729s | arcanist ammo could get the job done but |
| 1731s | he doesn't find the immolation there's |
| 1734s | just no out from this spot i think |
| 1736s | gabby like ah |
| 1739s | oh i'm alive great |
| 1741s | she ate the effort from holy water to |
| 1743s | see gabby's reaction |
| 1744s | [Music] |
| 1746s | was like okay i'm gonna play the ammo |
| 1748s | and oh just kidding i don't have the |
| 1751s | ammo yeah i think having a little heart |
| 1754s | attack there towards the end but |
| 1755s | realizing okay i got the win rogue down |
| 1758s | priest down just the demon hunter left |
| 1761s | over and the more i see it gia the more |
| 1763s | i think this very back and forth series |
| 1764s | may come down to a demon hunter mirror |
| 1767s | of all things to decide it because up |
| 1769s | next for holy water is either the demon |
| 1771s | hunter mirror if he just wants to rip |
| 1773s | off the band-aid right now |
| 1775s | or a paladin which as we've seen time |
| 1776s | and again just feels like a gorgeous |
| 1778s | matchup for the dinner |
| 1780s | yeah it just has such consistent |
| 1782s | throughout potential not impossible for |
| 1784s | demon hunter to get there we did see it |
| 1786s | earlier today but certainly a tall order |
| 1789s | gabby of course on the |
| 1791s | fel quest demon hunter that has |
| 1793s | kazakhstan at the top end so there is |
| 1796s | some inevitability in the mirror if we |
| 1798s | do see that later on uh because |
| 1800s | generally in the mirror i feel that once |
| 1802s | players have both gotten their quest |
| 1804s | through they're going to be very |
| 1805s | cognizant of playing around the |
| 1807s | expendable performers combo if it is |
| 1809s | there on the other side and then it sort |
| 1811s | of gets into a weird position where okay |
| 1813s | if they've had enough healing uh with |
| 1816s | their jace to counteract my js |
| 1819s | then it can get into more of a fatigue |
| 1821s | scenario it's not often that that |
| 1823s | happens because there's so many |
| 1825s | different things that can um occur in |
| 1827s | the middle of the matchup like a |
| 1828s | magtheridon or gliding back their quest |
| 1830s | reward that pulls one demon hunter |
| 1833s | player too far in the lead but in the |
| 1835s | case where it does reach a stalemate in |
| 1837s | the end game then the kazakhstan could |
| 1838s | be a big deal we are still waiting |
| 1841s | though on whether it will be the mirror |
| 1843s | okay i see it now holy water is queueing |
| 1845s | up paladin first so he is taking the |
| 1847s | more |
| 1849s | favorable is indeed and i think there's |
| 1852s | uh you know no shame in doing that he's |
| 1854s | got to win them both anyway but taking |
| 1855s | the free win first |
| 1857s | and then |
| 1859s | sorry the the more likely win first |
| 1861s | you're right i'm getting ahead of myself |
| 1862s | um i mean you know uh this is speaking |
| 1865s | from experience again the last few days |
| 1866s | i've been playing a lot of this library |
| 1868s | paladin tinkering with a lot of the |
| 1869s | different lists whether it's trog barrel |
| 1872s | viper um |
| 1874s | butternuts mr smite so many different |
| 1876s | ways that it can go |
| 1877s | i just feel that consistently no matter |
| 1878s | what you do |
| 1880s | sorry the demon hunter just really |
| 1883s | struggles and they're gonna have to get |
| 1884s | off to a a nice big uh mag theradon |
| 1887s | start to the game or some kind of an |
| 1889s | early cheese with uh discounting both |
| 1892s | dead eye and the performers and trying |
| 1894s | to get there that way |
| 1896s | but most likely all of those uh routes |
| 1898s | to get a cheeky win come in the form of |
| 1900s | uh efficient quest progression first and |
| 1903s | foremost |
| 1904s | i do agree with you on a random ladder |
| 1906s | game if i were paladin and i queued into |
| 1908s | a demon hunter i'd feel like yeah free |
| 1910s | win seems nice but unfortunately for |
| 1913s | holy water this is gabby we're talking |
| 1914s | about on the other side and he will |
| 1916s | absolutely be looking for all of those |
| 1919s | cheeky alternate win conditions you were |
| 1921s | talking about and he actually keeps |
| 1923s | curtris in the opening hand that's not |
| 1925s | something we see very often but can be a |
| 1927s | way to stabilize in the mid game and |
| 1930s | also sort of lends itself to the removal |
| 1932s | game plan you were talking about |
| 1935s | yeah it's a really nice way to bridge |
| 1936s | the gap in the mid game with the bats |
| 1938s | obviously to clear the board and make it |
| 1940s | so that at any point in the game holy |
| 1942s | water does have to bear in mind that |
| 1944s | combo that we talk about |
| 1946s | with the uh oh no sorry not the uh the |
| 1948s | dead eye and the |
| 1950s | the performance because gabby is not |
| 1951s | playing that my apologies uh so instead |
| 1954s | yeah it's just to clear off the board |
| 1955s | and make the uh the chip damage start |
| 1957s | coming through with that upgraded hero |
| 1959s | power |
| 1961s | and just a few matches ago we saw uchiha |
| 1963s | sasuke with a very similar hand as holy |
| 1965s | water here with double bannermen coining |
| 1967s | them out back-to-back excellent but a |
| 1969s | lot of the rest of the hand is support |
| 1972s | cards slash things that are too |
| 1974s | expensive not the ideal place versus |
| 1976s | paladin however that has been salvaged |
| 1978s | somewhat by the top deck of aldor truth |
| 1981s | seeker which means that holy water at |
| 1983s | worst could go for bannermen into |
| 1985s | bannerman into samurai which by then you |
| 1987s | know it's gonna be a 3 8 that's still |
| 1990s | pretty threatening even though it's not |
| 1992s | generally an aggressive minion or nor |
| 1994s | useful in this matchup and then just |
| 1996s | curve into truth seeker by which point |
| 1998s | your librium of hope is going to be |
| 2000s | pretty cheap not to the point where it |
| 2002s | follows up on turn six but i'm sure holy |
| 2004s | water will have found something better |
| 2006s | to do by then leading up into the lib |
| 2007s | room of hope turn and it's just a very |
| 2009s | solid game plan |
| 2011s | i i agree but with a slight amendment |
| 2014s | because like you say the fact that libra |
| 2015s | of hope is not playable on turn six is a |
| 2018s | really big downside and so by going with |
| 2020s | this way of going bannerman on three |
| 2023s | bannerman on four with a reasonable shot |
| 2025s | of having found outdoor attendant to |
| 2026s | fill up that one remaining manner then |
| 2028s | you can just go truth seeker and then |
| 2030s | either coin hope or just hope if you |
| 2033s | manage to find the outdoor attendant and |
| 2035s | i think it just makes your |
| 2037s | makes it so that even though you're a |
| 2038s | little bit slower to get off the |
| 2040s | starting line you're much more |
| 2041s | consistently putting down threats every |
| 2043s | single turn which is i think a really |
| 2045s | good understanding of the match-up |
| 2047s | i will defer to you and holy water here |
| 2049s | with a slight footnote that glide is |
| 2052s | very scary the longer you hold on to |
| 2054s | resources but we do see that holy water |
| 2057s | is |
| 2058s | somewhat hedging around glide he |
| 2059s | actually coined out the night of |
| 2060s | anointment here after it's gotten the |
| 2062s | buff from the alliance bannermen so it |
| 2064s | doesn't have the maximum amount of cards |
| 2066s | in hand and especially leaving the coin |
| 2068s | in hand would make your average top |
| 2070s | decks after glide quite bad indeed i'm |
| 2073s | gonna be happy to see that there's no |
| 2074s | glide here so he gets to maintain this |
| 2076s | amount of resources and the buff from |
| 2078s | the bannermen um we'll see how he |
| 2080s | chooses to proceed with the turn though |
| 2082s | is it just gonna be another bannerman or |
| 2084s | does he want to be more mana efficient |
| 2087s | now that he's seen that glide does not |
| 2088s | appear to be a uh |
| 2090s | a consideration |
| 2092s | uh or uh wasn't in an outcast position |
| 2095s | on that turn at least i suppose i should |
| 2096s | say um i was gonna say i like playing |
| 2099s | one of the three drops instead just |
| 2101s | because filling up your hand more is |
| 2102s | fine uh if there's no glide but uh |
| 2105s | clearly here just going for i guess |
| 2107s | maximum |
| 2108s | mana efficiency is reasonable and does |
| 2111s | again play around glide quite nicely |
| 2113s | that's magthon for gabby though and he |
| 2116s | does have |
| 2117s | a |
| 2118s | pretty likely way of waking it up i want |
| 2120s | to say of just immolation rfl barrage |
| 2123s | hero power on the next turn that is |
| 2125s | stopped if there is a taunt minion here |
| 2128s | uh coming down from holy water but |
| 2131s | gabby's still going to take the risk and |
| 2133s | i think it's absolutely fine oh and of |
| 2134s | course you can weave in a hero power |
| 2136s | this turn already |
| 2138s | yeah it's nice |
| 2139s | um i i hate my brain so much i was just |
| 2142s | thinking oh wait he can go hero power |
| 2145s | down the samurai which will kill off a |
| 2147s | lot of the health on the acolytes and |
| 2148s | then realize quickly that |
| 2150s | how anything works and i'm just an |
| 2152s | absolute fool |
| 2153s | but this i think the line that you and |
| 2155s | gabby were going for here on planet |
| 2157s | earth does make a lot more sense and |
| 2160s | all the onus is now on the holy water to |
| 2162s | find some way to protect these acolytes |
| 2164s | and keep that magtheridon dormant for as |
| 2167s | long as possible excellent positioning |
| 2169s | of course that we see to split up these |
| 2171s | minions in the case of another |
| 2173s | fel screen blast and most importantly |
| 2176s | noble mount the divine shield and the |
| 2178s | plus one plus one makes this so much |
| 2180s | tougher for gabby to clear |
| 2183s | yeah it's honestly a bit confusing for |
| 2185s | holy water as to how he's supposed to um |
| 2188s | mete out the buff effects do you split |
| 2190s | them up on two minions as he's done here |
| 2192s | or stack them all on one what's the |
| 2193s | hardest way for gabby to clear |
| 2195s | everything and honestly it's really |
| 2197s | difficult to figure out given the many |
| 2198s | different break points available to |
| 2200s | demon hunter we saw holy water going for |
| 2203s | split up buff effects which makes just |
| 2205s | false scream blast i think harder to use |
| 2207s | for gabby but with immolation aura he's |
| 2210s | still able to sweep up the majority of |
| 2212s | this and even that last hero power to |
| 2214s | get the magtheridon all woken up and now |
| 2218s | holy water is on the back foot but he |
| 2220s | has thankfully for him drawn barrow so |
| 2222s | if he finds a broom or a way to just |
| 2225s | damage the barrow he can kill the mag |
| 2227s | fair not very easily and there's a broom |
| 2229s | wow okay i mean i was going to start |
| 2231s | bringing up the point that the fact that |
| 2233s | the horse lives is quite nice because |
| 2234s | you can go just aldor liberum and start |
| 2236s | punching them in the face |
| 2238s | but now that's not even all too much of |
| 2240s | a concern and you can just clear off the |
| 2241s | board and uh keep this damage chugging |
| 2244s | along leading up into a gorgeous mid to |
| 2247s | late game from holy water this outdoor |
| 2249s | truth seeker makes it all so much |
| 2251s | cleaner and you can go aldor devout |
| 2253s | pupil shortly after |
| 2255s | and then lady liadrin will probably |
| 2258s | deliver lethal sometime in the next four |
| 2260s | or five turns |
| 2261s | true i also forgot about the horse and |
| 2263s | that's why i got very excited about a |
| 2265s | broom uh when it's not necessary here |
| 2268s | the barrow can simply take the maxeradon |
| 2270s | down to the point where the horse is |
| 2272s | able to fell the mighty demon on the |
| 2274s | other side and gabby |
| 2276s | is now left to scramble for a different |
| 2279s | way of approaching this the glide |
| 2281s | however |
| 2282s | is not being played this time gonna go |
| 2284s | for the churches okay um this is what he |
| 2287s | kept it for right just to get that big |
| 2288s | board presence force holy water to be on |
| 2291s | the answering side of things and then |
| 2294s | maybe go for the glide to disrupt |
| 2298s | off the top i think given that |
| 2300s | magtheridon has already been played |
| 2302s | there's no real |
| 2303s | juicy snipes outside of jace uh i guess |
| 2307s | would be |
| 2308s | the one outsider but not good enough to |
| 2310s | distract you from your more standard |
| 2311s | game plan and so i'm fully on board here |
| 2313s | with the |
| 2316s | aldor |
| 2317s | i guess trogg plus broom and then you |
| 2320s | can use both of the smaller minions to |
| 2322s | take out one of the bats |
| 2324s | right and then the truth seeker to deal |
| 2326s | with the other |
| 2328s | you can fit in quite a few librarians of |
| 2329s | wisdoms with that as well and end with a |
| 2332s | wisdom on the truth seeker so it doesn't |
| 2334s | die as it trades into an eight four bat |
| 2336s | i think holy water was just trying to |
| 2337s | figure out if he could fit a devout |
| 2339s | pupil into the turn as well which i |
| 2341s | don't think was possible if he was |
| 2343s | aiming to get the full clear uh just a |
| 2345s | little bit awkward that he hadn't played |
| 2347s | enough uh spells on friendly characters |
| 2349s | to get it cheap enough by that point but |
| 2351s | this is still a very effective turn and |
| 2354s | it leaves gabby |
| 2355s | with |
| 2356s | um |
| 2357s | i want to say not the worst position |
| 2359s | ever obviously his first two game plans |
| 2362s | of trying to get kirch's down early and |
| 2364s | magtheridon to cheese the to cheese the |
| 2367s | matchup didn't work out but he's still |
| 2369s | in a position where glide can be pretty |
| 2371s | disruptive here if he picks up something |
| 2372s | cheap enough to outcast it but ends up |
| 2375s | with need for greed instead so it's |
| 2376s | gonna be a while before he outcasts |
| 2378s | glide |
| 2380s | are we looking at potential double quest |
| 2383s | completion on this turn though right |
| 2384s | with glide and double jump it's |
| 2385s | definitely available uh on this turn |
| 2388s | it's just whether he wants to uh |
| 2391s | take that opportunity |
| 2393s | okay that's close because if he had gone |
| 2396s | for the |
| 2397s | chaos strike glide he would have to face |
| 2399s | tank the seven in order to actually |
| 2401s | clear it and progress the quest so i |
| 2403s | think this is reasonable to delay quest |
| 2405s | progression make sure he doesn't take |
| 2407s | any additional damage uh and move on |
| 2410s | from there but for holy water here wow |
| 2412s | so many powerful options which one does |
| 2415s | he go for hope plus pupil plus wisdom is |
| 2418s | the biggest guaranteed board he could |
| 2420s | get of course you could look at mutanus |
| 2422s | but um jace's i i suppose kazakhstan |
| 2425s | also a pretty big hit at this point uh |
| 2427s | but magneride not in the pool anymore um |
| 2431s | so |
| 2432s | it is risky i want to say to go mutinous |
| 2434s | and just taking the guaranteed double |
| 2436s | divine shield big stats board is |
| 2438s | certainly uh a very effective way of |
| 2441s | pressuring gabby still |
| 2443s | yeah i want to uh i think i like just |
| 2445s | leaving the mutinous |
| 2446s | in a nebulous place from gabby's |
| 2448s | perspective as well because it means |
| 2450s | that he can't or he's much more |
| 2451s | reluctant to just get curtris in hand |
| 2454s | and leave it there he would obviously |
| 2456s | much rather |
| 2457s | play it on the same turn which uh limits |
| 2459s | his options in terms of how to complete |
| 2461s | the quest a little bit |
| 2463s | uh in the meanwhile though he is just |
| 2465s | focusing as we expected on that quest |
| 2467s | completion and he is therefore going to |
| 2469s | be tanking a |
| 2471s | lot of damage right now |
| 2473s | right the fel scream blast doesn't get |
| 2475s | any healing because it's only shaving |
| 2476s | off divine shields here he gets fury at |
| 2479s | least to buff the lifesteal and make |
| 2481s | sure that he takes |
| 2483s | uh |
| 2484s | honestly net plus one hp as he gets rid |
| 2488s | of the eight eight |
| 2492s | and he is setting up for a very very big |
| 2494s | chase once that is drawn potentially big |
| 2496s | enough to clear off uh another full |
| 2498s | board |
| 2499s | um but holy water saying all right |
| 2501s | enough is enough let's start really |
| 2504s | ratcheting up the pressure no messing |
| 2505s | around with more lib rooms doesn't want |
| 2507s | maximum value just wants value as quick |
| 2510s | as possible and damage as quick as |
| 2512s | possible as well and so with liberty |
| 2514s | liverpool from liberty liberum 11 damage |
| 2517s | very very clearly representing lethal on |
| 2519s | the following turn and with no |
| 2520s | magtheridon left to gabby he needs |
| 2522s | something truly miraculous to pull |
| 2524s | himself out of this one |
| 2526s | yeah i love the line from holy water not |
| 2528s | going hand of a doll before liadrin uh |
| 2530s | he really doesn't need the additional |
| 2532s | card draw and the most important part is |
| 2534s | he left himself the mana to play holy |
| 2535s | mount and having the divine shield |
| 2537s | tagged onto that big minion just as a |
| 2539s | final nail in the coffin for gabby he |
| 2541s | throws it down a divine shield means |
| 2543s | that for gabby to get lifesteal he has |
| 2545s | to jump through additional hoops to get |
| 2547s | rid of that shield it's just the perfect |
| 2549s | storm of threat after threat chained |
| 2551s | very very effectively by holy water |
| 2554s | clearly knows the match up well and just |
| 2555s | as we predicted derek it all comes down |
| 2558s | to a demon hunter mirror |
| 2561s | it's going to be a tense one a match up |
| 2562s | that we've seen a good amount of times |
| 2564s | both in grand masters obviously a good |
| 2567s | amount on ladder as well if you've been |
| 2568s | playing any demon hunter yourself and uh |
| 2571s | the subtle differences could make all |
| 2573s | the difference in the world as once |
| 2575s | again holy water is playing the uh i |
| 2578s | suppose you could call it more |
| 2579s | traditional build in this meta game with |
| 2581s | expendable performers plus the fel fire |
| 2584s | deadeye whereas gabby is going for |
| 2587s | instead the kazakhstan variant and i |
| 2589s | believe gia you or people close to you |
| 2591s | perhaps have very very strong opinions |
| 2593s | on this matchup |
| 2595s | um |
| 2596s | well on the match-up in particular i'm |
| 2599s | honestly not sure but like reason for |
| 2601s | running kazakhstan yes people close to |
| 2604s | me have strong reasons for it they're |
| 2605s | also very big fans of sigil of alacrity |
| 2608s | which is the other card that's thought |
| 2609s | in in there because of course you free |
| 2611s | up two spaces by cutting the dead eye |
| 2613s | and the performers and the sigil can be |
| 2615s | very clutch to set up faster quest |
| 2617s | progression which is actually one of the |
| 2619s | most important parts of the matchup |
| 2620s | being the first to hit kirchhoffs |
| 2622s | whether or not you're first to have |
| 2624s | access to your big combo it of course |
| 2626s | helps to have the rest of your deck cost |
| 2628s | very cheap so you can get a timelier |
| 2630s | jace for example which can be the lethal |
| 2632s | blow there's also of course still |
| 2634s | magtheridon on either side which we've |
| 2636s | seen many times in grand masters |
| 2639s | proved to be um a way that the match-up |
| 2642s | can end before any of those high-end |
| 2644s | tech inclusions matter so we'll see if |
| 2647s | that first check for mag theradon is met |
| 2649s | by either player if not we're gonna be |
| 2651s | expecting to see a lot of glides back |
| 2653s | and forth we're gonna expect to see um |
| 2656s | on gabby's side playing around |
| 2658s | expandable performance combo as a |
| 2660s | priority and of course trying to land a |
| 2662s | big chase um throwing out foul barrages |
| 2665s | early making sure that it's truly loaded |
| 2667s | up to the point where your opponent |
| 2669s | can't necessarily get the safest break |
| 2671s | point on their health total to play |
| 2673s | around jace is a big deal indeed |
| 2676s | well so much to play for at this point |
| 2678s | so much to think about as the winner of |
| 2680s | this single game of hearthstone will be |
| 2682s | headed to the grand finals obviously the |
| 2685s | uh the first for holy water uh but not |
| 2687s | so for gabby as he will be able to get |
| 2690s | one step closer to that double masters |
| 2693s | tour victory the second player to ever |
| 2695s | do so and uh well also the second french |
| 2698s | player to ever do so which would be |
| 2699s | something very impressive indeed |
| 2702s | but holy water could be the first eight |
| 2704s | pack winner that would be yes |
| 2709s | well gabby top deck spectral side but |
| 2711s | unfortunately didn't have a tradable |
| 2713s | card or double jump to guarantee quest |
| 2715s | progression on turn two so he settles |
| 2717s | for a chaos strike that spectral now |
| 2719s | kind of lodged in an awkward position |
| 2721s | where it's hard to outcast but not a |
| 2724s | disaster just yet holy water with glide |
| 2727s | but it's a turn too early to be played |
| 2729s | here still pick it up though because |
| 2731s | it's just one of the best cards in the |
| 2732s | matchup he can get it to outcast over a |
| 2735s | couple of turns at worst and |
| 2738s | in the case where gabby glides first at |
| 2740s | least you've stacked your deck with an |
| 2742s | additional glide that you can draw after |
| 2744s | you get glitten |
| 2746s | yeah in this instance i don't hate holy |
| 2748s | water going for a what looked like an |
| 2750s | early uh illidari studies because if he |
| 2752s | hit exactly spectral site it was just |
| 2754s | very clean to go spectral site trade the |
| 2756s | need for greed and get a nice easy quest |
| 2758s | completion uh whereas now he can just go |
| 2761s | uh |
| 2762s | chaos strike immolation or next turn |
| 2764s | trade the need for greed and glide on |
| 2766s | turn five whereas gabby here drawing |
| 2768s | need for greed off the top he knows that |
| 2770s | he is leaving himself very vulnerable to |
| 2772s | a glide on the other side but what |
| 2774s | choice do you have you are handed quest |
| 2776s | completion on a silver platter you have |
| 2778s | to take it |
| 2780s | question is whether he still wants to |
| 2781s | hedge around glide a little bit by |
| 2783s | coining out fury for example he does not |
| 2786s | take the bait here which honestly if i |
| 2788s | were in his position i would chicken out |
| 2790s | and play around glide because he just |
| 2792s | saw an illidari studies right played |
| 2795s | and not the card from it played that |
| 2797s | same turn so in my mind i'd be thinking |
| 2799s | oh they're setting up for you know |
| 2801s | playing a one cost card from the left |
| 2803s | which would then move the glide to |
| 2804s | outcast position and would cost three |
| 2806s | still because of that illidari studies |
| 2808s | uh not the case here though holy water |
| 2811s | going to have a tough time to actually |
| 2813s | punish gabby for keeping so many cards |
| 2815s | in hand but he still has a pretty good |
| 2817s | play of trimming his hand down of |
| 2820s | resources setting up for glide one way |
| 2822s | or another even if it's just a self |
| 2823s | glide the next turn |
| 2826s | yeah i mean there were three really big |
| 2827s | plays i saw there on that turn of just |
| 2829s | going chaos strike immo to set up for |
| 2831s | the cleanest glide with a trade the need |
| 2833s | for greed glide next turn he could have |
| 2835s | gone trade need for greed and hope to |
| 2837s | hit glide off the top for three mana |
| 2839s | thanks to the discount which is i think |
| 2841s | where i would have ended up but this way |
| 2843s | he gets the damaged face which is very |
| 2845s | very relevant make no mistake even in a |
| 2847s | matchup with so much heal and he also |
| 2849s | gives himself a chance to top deck fury |
| 2851s | or immolation aura or fel barrage a lot |
| 2854s | of cards that with which he can just |
| 2855s | outcast this glide from the right hand |
| 2858s | side next turn anyway which i hadn't |
| 2860s | really considered as a possibility |
| 2862s | true and gabby himself is in a weird |
| 2865s | position where his own glide feels very |
| 2867s | awkward to play because it's shuffling |
| 2868s | back so many of his resources but if you |
| 2871s | have so many cards in hand how do you go |
| 2873s | about quest progression without the hand |
| 2874s | space so he ends up having to take a |
| 2876s | turn off of glide as well just to dump |
| 2878s | some resources to make sure he can |
| 2880s | progress quest without burning any cards |
| 2882s | on the next turn and holy water has |
| 2884s | initiative on how he wants to approach |
| 2887s | this is it a dumpable card for glide |
| 2888s | nope a little bit too expensive |
| 2891s | but |
| 2892s | he can set up for it next turn wow he |
| 2894s | actually just straight up plays the need |
| 2896s | for greed all right |
| 2898s | it is just |
| 2900s | he had a couple different avenues to be |
| 2902s | able to play glide on this turn uh quite |
| 2904s | clearly he could have set up for playing |
| 2906s | glide next turn but he's just so much |
| 2908s | more focused on his own quest |
| 2909s | progression uh i guess maybe just making |
| 2911s | the read that gabby does not have a |
| 2913s | glide of his own so he doesn't need to |
| 2914s | be afraid of filling up his car hand |
| 2917s | with cards |
| 2918s | i get the suspicion that whether or not |
| 2920s | you think this is correct a lot of |
| 2921s | players would have played this in |
| 2922s | multiple very different ways |
| 2925s | as gabby lets rip with the first glide |
| 2927s | of the game getting himself up to quest |
| 2929s | level three and in the race towards |
| 2931s | kurtris he is currently in the lead |
| 2934s | definitely so but as we know in this |
| 2936s | matchup first to get kircher's in hand |
| 2938s | is not necessarily the one in the |
| 2940s | driver's seat because it can just be |
| 2942s | immediately glidden back on the other |
| 2943s | side and maybe that's what holy water is |
| 2945s | posturing himself for maybe he looked at |
| 2947s | his hand and thought that okay i'm |
| 2949s | probably not going to be the first to |
| 2950s | complete quest here but i can make sure |
| 2952s | that this glide is in outcast position |
| 2954s | by the time gabby has his purchase in |
| 2957s | hand and that's going to be the way that |
| 2958s | he sort of hits parity with the quest |
| 2961s | progression um for this turn though he's |
| 2964s | looking to progress quest without using |
| 2966s | glide spectral sight still two draws |
| 2969s | short but he has one more chance with |
| 2970s | illidari studies |
| 2972s | oh the skull |
| 2974s | too expensive by one mana |
| 2978s | just rip the glide |
| 2981s | i guess he's just all in on denying that |
| 2983s | uh kirchhoff's next turn right if gabby |
| 2985s | completes the quest without a curtreus |
| 2987s | of his own holy water needs that to send |
| 2989s | the curtis back into the deck and so i |
| 2991s | think this is very smart deviation from |
| 2994s | just the standard quest progression |
| 2995s | route |
| 2997s | right he also makes sure that when he |
| 3000s | does glide he stacks his deck with more |
| 3002s | card draw with the pickup of the skull |
| 3004s | whether or not um he was looking to play |
| 3006s | it immediately double jump for gabby |
| 3008s | into spectral sight that is curtress in |
| 3012s | hand |
| 3016s | man that was such a big 50 50 for either |
| 3018s | spectral sight or glide there for gabby |
| 3021s | and uh by missing the glide it means |
| 3023s | that holy waters glide is not glidden |
| 3025s | back into his own deck so he can glide |
| 3026s | the curtains away from gabby instead the |
| 3029s | rippling effects we get to see very very |
| 3031s | quickly here and uh |
| 3033s | for holy water as good as this is |
| 3035s | it's still not curtress of his own in |
| 3038s | hand right so he needs a full extra turn |
| 3041s | before uh |
| 3042s | he's able to get his own quest completed |
| 3044s | and the kirchhoff's played so gabby |
| 3046s | despite being very upset i would have to |
| 3048s | imagine at this glide still has a very |
| 3051s | real uh avenue back to being the first |
| 3053s | player to play kurchus |
| 3055s | right it could just come off of the four |
| 3056s | cards we'll see but holy water also with |
| 3059s | that spare mana because of all the |
| 3060s | discounts dumping more and more of the |
| 3063s | cards that are not quest progression |
| 3064s | stacking his deck to be as condensed as |
| 3067s | possible with either quest progression |
| 3070s | cards or just win conditions right |
| 3071s | kurchus demon render um jace maxeradon |
| 3075s | and with that reaction from gabby i |
| 3076s | think he drew the curtras |
| 3080s | did he |
| 3083s | oh my god |
| 3086s | all right no way |
| 3089s | oh man he's so sick |
| 3091s | glide off the top is just a micro second |
| 3095s | too late here for holy water he has to |
| 3097s | rely on |
| 3099s | curtris glide okay he does get his own |
| 3101s | in hand of course he can kill off the |
| 3103s | opposing curtris but he's just now so |
| 3105s | far behind in the race to uh get your |
| 3108s | win condition online |
| 3109s | crew he does have the first purchase |
| 3112s | though and that's more relevant for him |
| 3114s | than it is than to gabby because he does |
| 3115s | run the performers combo of course gabby |
| 3118s | will probably not leave enough health on |
| 3120s | the other side for rushing minions have |
| 3121s | enough also this break point on the bats |
| 3124s | is really annoying that holy water has |
| 3125s | to sink them both in maybe to the point |
| 3128s | where he could just leave the curtains |
| 3130s | up and say to gabby okay either you deal |
| 3133s | with my bats or you leave up the |
| 3136s | curtains and then give a target for the |
| 3138s | performers combo which is a concern for |
| 3140s | gabby now even though holy water hasn't |
| 3143s | played his church's quest reward |
| 3144s | performers plus that i would be playable |
| 3146s | for holy water |
| 3148s | yeah i really like it setting up for |
| 3150s | potential lethal if gabby ignores this |
| 3152s | next term with just the hero powers but |
| 3154s | gabby ripping skull off of the illidari |
| 3157s | studies now presented with a glide of |
| 3159s | his own to send the kirchhoffs back to |
| 3162s | his opponent's deck but he doesn't even |
| 3163s | want to take it |
| 3165s | wow |
| 3169s | more concerned i suppose with |
| 3172s | i wanna say |
| 3173s | juicing up the jace for the next turn |
| 3176s | right |
| 3177s | does get the clear here with the fel |
| 3179s | barrage sure |
| 3181s | but |
| 3183s | and he |
| 3185s | with the heel he would still be |
| 3189s | alive to performers combo here right at |
| 3191s | like 2 |
| 3193s | hp |
| 3194s | yes unless there was another fury or uh |
| 3198s | to go alongside it right |
| 3200s | uh but actually they would all cost full |
| 3201s | cost so yeah he was alive yeah all right |
| 3205s | hey big deal |
| 3206s | but gabby has eight on board and a jace |
| 3209s | in hand is this lethal i'm not sure i |
| 3213s | don't think so even with double fell |
| 3214s | virage loaded yeah i want to say no |
| 3217s | because even here with the arcanist to |
| 3219s | potentially activate off of the uh to |
| 3222s | activate the fell barrage off of the |
| 3224s | jace if that were to happen that would |
| 3225s | mean it's the first card played so it |
| 3227s | would just go double into the churches |
| 3228s | anyway |
| 3229s | um |
| 3230s | but i do think gabby has to keep digging |
| 3232s | on this turn |
| 3234s | or the kazakhstan which is active |
| 3238s | or the kurdras which gives him armor to |
| 3241s | potentially survive a jace on the other |
| 3244s | side |
| 3246s | constantly got to be thinking about that |
| 3248s | combo as well obviously |
| 3249s | this opponent will have access to so |
| 3251s | this puts him up to 30 oh sorry 25 |
| 3254s | health in this 10 apologies with |
| 3256s | potential for a little bit more heal |
| 3258s | like three extra with the arcanist fel |
| 3260s | screen blast which i don't think is an |
| 3262s | absurd way to go and then at that point |
| 3264s | i |
| 3265s | think even if he's not guaranteed out of |
| 3267s | range it's incredibly specific hands |
| 3269s | that holy water would need to have to |
| 3271s | get there |
| 3272s | i mean it's still kind of performers no |
| 3274s | matter what break point gabby's able to |
| 3276s | heal to here right because the |
| 3278s | performer's maximum if there's this much |
| 3280s | health on board for gabby is 28. uh he |
| 3283s | does take himself up to 34 by taking the |
| 3285s | full heal on his own minions here which |
| 3286s | i think is very clever because that does |
| 3289s | get out of the performers break point um |
| 3293s | fell barrage into jace for holy water |
| 3296s | going for a heel of his own very |
| 3297s | relevant that gabby managed to weave in |
| 3299s | the viper on that turn because holy |
| 3301s | water doesn't get maximum healing from |
| 3303s | the j's here but gabby is feeling some |
| 3306s | type of way here i honestly cannot read |
| 3308s | what this expression is |
| 3310s | i mean i want to say he's figured out |
| 3312s | that it's lethal with the jace on this |
| 3314s | turn i |
| 3316s | could not tell you if it is with what's |
| 3318s | been played i couldn't really see it |
| 3320s | myself but uh |
| 3322s | oh |
| 3324s | with the staying alive it's almost |
| 3327s | certainly lethal right because holy |
| 3329s | water has to tank the seven or like on |
| 3331s | this turn or next turn i think gabby |
| 3333s | just has it that's four with hero powers |
| 3336s | plus the seven eleven he just needs nine |
| 3339s | damage |
| 3341s | it's gotta be there from the chase |
| 3343s | surely it's there |
| 3344s | i mean with that pop and the fel scream |
| 3346s | yeah one hundred percent this gets there |
| 3349s | gabby is our first finalist through |
| 3352s | to masters tour ruins of alterac |
| 3356s | all right showing off his guns now let's |
| 3357s | see what jace has got |
| 3359s | before we send him through let's |
| 3362s | dispense with the formalities this has |
| 3364s | got to be lethal |
| 3365s | yes |
| 3367s | i mean i already called it derrick you |
| 3368s | said let's dispense with the formalities |
| 3373s | oh yes let's just enjoy the gap jams |
| 3378s | i am out of cards |
| 3381s | there we go okay that's lethal 100 the |
| 3385s | fury the uh the fell barrage as well |
| 3387s | gabby was well over lethal there thanks |
| 3389s | to the draws in his deck as well and |
| 3390s | like you said sorry to steal your |
| 3392s | thunderjia gabby is our first player |
| 3394s | through to the finals they're very very |
| 3396s | impressively done and uh commiserations |
| 3398s | of course the holy water i hope that he |
| 3400s | is incredibly proud of himself with a uh |
| 3403s | a top four at a masters tour after uh |
| 3406s | being relatively unknown to be honest up |
| 3408s | until this point he definitely has made |
| 3410s | a real name for himself as one of the uh |
| 3413s | already the top apac performers in |
| 3416s | masters tours there have been few that |
| 3417s | can boast a better performance than a |
| 3419s | top four and uh holy water i think for |
| 3422s | the most part especially on that priest |
| 3424s | was playing some very strong hearthstone |
| 3426s | and i hope to see more from him in the |
| 3429s | future as i hope to see more from gabby |
| 3431s | very shortly in the future in the finals |
| 3434s | true i mean for holy water full stop i |
| 3437s | would call him the best uh miracle |
| 3439s | priest player i've ever had the |
| 3440s | privilege to cast straight up i just |
| 3442s | don't see that many people consistently |
| 3444s | get through all the necessary actions to |
| 3446s | have the most |
| 3448s | um effective possible turn like miracle |
| 3451s | priest is a deck that's you know a |
| 3452s | little bit forgiving somewhat in that |
| 3454s | even if you don't get the full turn |
| 3456s | through you can still build a powerful |
| 3458s | enough board that your opponent can't |
| 3459s | deal with it but holy water follows |
| 3461s | through and does the maximum amount of |
| 3464s | possibilities very impressive stuff but |
| 3466s | of course it is gabby's day right now |
| 3468s | and soon we will see who will be joining |
| 3470s | him in the finals between hachikuji and |
| 3472s | teen show such a sick one we already get |
| 3476s | uh sorry i guaranteed one european |
| 3478s | finalist and still there is the |
| 3480s | potential for europe and china to |
| 3482s | gatekeep both the americas and asia |
| 3484s | pacific from making there but with one |
| 3486s | apac player and one america's player |
| 3488s | left in there is of course the chance |
| 3490s | for the huge upset and to send gabby |
| 3492s | home in second place with uh a potential |
| 3495s | uh victor from another region cannot |
| 3498s | wait to see how that one is gonna go so |
| 3500s | when we come back from this break it's |
| 3502s | going to be hachikuji versus tincho for |
| 3505s | semi-final number two |
| 3510s | [Music] |
| 3535s | oh |
| 3536s | [Music] |
| 3553s | [Music] |
| 3567s | i |
| 3577s | oh |
| 3583s | [Applause] |
| 3608s | [Music] |
| 3625s | messiah |
| 3635s | [Music] |
| 3652s | [Music] |
| 3661s | so |
| 3663s | [Music] |
| 3694s | [Music] |
| 3703s | hello everybody welcome back to master |
| 3704s | tour ruins of alterac we're nearing the |
| 3707s | end of the masters tour here neil and |
| 3709s | i'm already excited as you can tell |
| 3712s | we're about to jump into our second |
| 3714s | semi-final |
| 3715s | between tincho and hachikuji and uh |
| 3719s | pretty similar lineups across the board |
| 3721s | a couple of key differences however but |
| 3723s | neil i think we started to see the power |
| 3726s | decks emerge |
| 3729s | power decks are emerging i'm not sure |
| 3731s | these are this might be a power lineup |
| 3733s | from hachikuchi we've seen that he has |
| 3735s | actually just been leaving drew it up |
| 3738s | and not because he's targeting it or |
| 3740s | even soft targeting it it's more like |
| 3742s | he's just ignoring it and just letting |
| 3744s | it win |
| 3745s | and getting on with beating the other |
| 3746s | two decks he's won a lot of three twos |
| 3748s | in the swiss but again that's not just |
| 3751s | luck that is by design that is a a very |
| 3754s | valid strategy in this format he's |
| 3756s | playing the the owl warlock he's playing |
| 3759s | the kazakhstan warrior he's playing his |
| 3761s | own spell druid and he's playing the |
| 3763s | demon hunter and what that means is his |
| 3765s | warrior a little bit weak but he's |
| 3768s | beating up on other people playing |
| 3770s | things like warrior themselves |
| 3773s | yeah and a key |
| 3774s | thing to note here is uh his actual |
| 3777s | druid deck is the glow for the spell |
| 3779s | version like you said with glowfly swarm |
| 3781s | and arbor up |
| 3783s | which i think when you're looking at |
| 3784s | kazakhstan druid mirrors that gets the |
| 3787s | edge in a lot of them because you just |
| 3789s | keep presenting boards you never have to |
| 3790s | worry about |
| 3792s | kazakhstan and then eventually you're |
| 3793s | gonna solar auburn win the game |
| 3795s | um so |
| 3797s | uh i i like that variation the fact that |
| 3799s | he's been leaving up druid has worked |
| 3801s | out for him |
| 3802s | we'll see if he does it in this match-up |
| 3804s | and he does okay bans way the uh demon |
| 3807s | hunter instead |
| 3809s | which makes a lot of sense because |
| 3811s | outside of his own demon hunter |
| 3814s | both the warrior and the the warlock are |
| 3817s | very susceptible to glide |
| 3819s | just incredibly weak |
| 3821s | to the card glide |
| 3824s | and so uh |
| 3825s | we'll see if the strategy is going to |
| 3827s | pay off for him once again looking to |
| 3828s | find the spot in the finals versus gabby |
| 3832s | once again |
| 3833s | making it there |
| 3835s | yeah gabby that was absolutely monstrous |
| 3838s | so many times during that match i |
| 3840s | thought maybe this is the time that |
| 3841s | gabby doesn't find a way of course he |
| 3843s | gets out of it every time |
| 3846s | and be amazing to see gabby just go |
| 3848s | straight through to championships once |
| 3849s | more and he was very disappointed that |
| 3851s | he didn't get through in gm but hey |
| 3853s | he's back already five minutes later |
| 3856s | it's incredible |
| 3859s | yep |
| 3861s | but i think we have another match on him |
| 3863s | and i picked tico |
| 3867s | i picked him to stop subtle from being |
| 3869s | the only winner |
| 3871s | ah gotcha that's a good strategy then a |
| 3873s | pack with other than apac then americans |
| 3875s | just win the whole thing in terms of |
| 3876s | predictions |
| 3878s | but if gabby wins we still win and we |
| 3881s | block sottle that's the most important |
| 3883s | thing |
| 3884s | yep and if hachikuji wins then nobody |
| 3887s | wins and when nobody wins america's wins |
| 3891s | because we're used to nobody winning um |
| 3895s | so |
| 3896s | that's how that works so you neil you |
| 3898s | picked a win-win-win situation uh i |
| 3901s | applaud you for that one well done |
| 3904s | on your prediction nothing to do with |
| 3905s | the fact that gabby's just |
| 3907s | incredible |
| 3908s | no uh just for the fact that |
| 3911s | you don't want saddle to feel incredible |
| 3914s | got it that's the most important thing |
| 3916s | tincho with the liberal paladin this is |
| 3918s | a very important first game |
| 3920s | this is a |
| 3922s | pretty much a 50 50 |
| 3924s | and can |
| 3926s | when there's not many 50 50s in this |
| 3927s | there's a lot of one-sided match-ups in |
| 3929s | these two lineups the way it pans out so |
| 3933s | the 50-50s are going to be where it is |
| 3935s | at antinto very much could do with |
| 3937s | winning this one |
| 3939s | yeah very contested uh match up um |
| 3943s | regardless of which way you which way |
| 3945s | you look at it |
| 3946s | there's obviously power cards on both |
| 3947s | sides in the particular |
| 3950s | um |
| 3951s | with you know the brood methyl rod and |
| 3954s | treadlitch thampson for hachikuji and |
| 3956s | then for teamshow it's |
| 3960s | good early starts trogg being one of |
| 3962s | them right and then you roll that into a |
| 3965s | lightboard carrier or a bunch of stats |
| 3967s | on the board one thing i do want to note |
| 3969s | is a lot of the stats that we can look |
| 3971s | at um let's take the standard like hs |
| 3975s | replay version of uh owl warlock um does |
| 3979s | not run viper |
| 3980s | um whereas hachikuji does run viper |
| 3983s | so that actually even though it's only a |
| 3985s | single card |
| 3986s | it does increase your increase your win |
| 3988s | rate because you don't have to worry |
| 3991s | about the break points of damage you |
| 3992s | only have to worry about one thing right |
| 3994s | you only have to worry about large stats |
| 3995s | on board you don't necessarily have to |
| 3997s | worry about the half damage being taken |
| 3999s | plus large stats on board and large |
| 4002s | stats on board effectively don't mean |
| 4004s | anything for our warlock because if they |
| 4006s | have enough time |
| 4009s | the damage is incredible |
| 4010s | 112 damage |
| 4013s | that they can deal which is |
| 4016s | you have to have the biggest board |
| 4017s | imaginable |
| 4019s | sometimes you can even get through a big |
| 4021s | board and |
| 4024s | the oh man the immovable object is that |
| 4026s | what this one's called yeah |
| 4027s | yeah a movable object uh which |
| 4030s | it takes a little bit of uh |
| 4032s | you know you need a little bit of wiggle |
| 4033s | room to be able to do that but the start |
| 4035s | from hot chocolate actually is giving |
| 4036s | him that |
| 4037s | was able to deal with the trog before it |
| 4039s | gets buffed has an armor vendor down to |
| 4040s | contest hysteria is going to be a pretty |
| 4043s | good card in this matchup just missing |
| 4045s | the ruined missile rod and he's good to |
| 4047s | go just missing though it's a big just |
| 4050s | that's the card you look for |
| 4053s | you get everything rolling so if that |
| 4055s | happens to be buried things can go |
| 4057s | horribly wrong but |
| 4059s | so far he's gonna have a lot of time on |
| 4061s | his side so looking decent for him |
| 4067s | okay |
| 4069s | another turn where he just still |
| 4076s | hand space |
| 4078s | could become an issue |
| 4081s | just because of the situational cards |
| 4083s | ideas have in his hand yeah so i do like |
| 4086s | the knoll here |
| 4087s | uh moark hysteria |
| 4090s | and owl hard to play |
| 4092s | in uh in these early game situations |
| 4094s | most of the time |
| 4096s | so just actually having you know see a |
| 4098s | card kill a card |
| 4100s | not drawing anything is actually a good |
| 4101s | thing for dreadlich thampson because you |
| 4103s | do want to keep the hand space open to |
| 4105s | be able to play that on curve |
| 4108s | yes one of the most terrifying things is |
| 4109s | someone who doesn't play a lot of our |
| 4111s | lock watching people play it is like |
| 4113s | they're going to overdraw they're going |
| 4114s | to overdraw abort abort but they always |
| 4116s | find a way to get their hand sized down |
| 4118s | the good players so that they don't |
| 4119s | actually have to do that |
| 4121s | but i'm terrified he's tapping what's |
| 4122s | happening you know but yeah they they |
| 4124s | find a way to just dump things |
| 4128s | there we go |
| 4131s | has happened |
| 4136s | a lot of stats being placed |
| 4141s | gently placed onto the board |
| 4143s | ever so ever so slight placing of stats |
| 4147s | how do you gently place a five seven |
| 4150s | also exactly how teacher just did it and |
| 4153s | now he's going to gently |
| 4157s | pet his cat |
| 4159s | the cat is amazing really like tinches |
| 4161s | cat |
| 4162s | 13 or 14 out of 10 cat for sure |
| 4174s | okay so we're not going for dreadless |
| 4176s | damson now |
| 4177s | juggling to dump some of these with a |
| 4178s | double owl right that's a bit cluttery |
| 4180s | for him |
| 4182s | yeah |
| 4184s | um it just keeps coming back |
| 4189s | could go blood mage downnose nope can't |
| 4192s | anymore |
| 4193s | i was going to say bloodmage down that |
| 4195s | was |
| 4196s | more |
| 4196s | uh grimoire on the blood mixed down |
| 4198s | let's trade in the |
| 4199s | uh tour |
| 4201s | okay that guide |
| 4202s | have been a clear |
| 4204s | cool |
| 4206s | but this also makes uh hand space in a |
| 4209s | way |
| 4209s | and a lot of times like turn seven |
| 4213s | is a good turn to play dreadlitch tamsen |
| 4215s | because it leaves you a mana to dump a |
| 4217s | one mana card of which you have many |
| 4219s | uh touch |
| 4221s | uh armor vendor tour guide |
| 4223s | um |
| 4224s | so you can kind of play it with a |
| 4226s | quote-unquote full hand right the three |
| 4227s | cards put your full hand but then dump |
| 4229s | one of the one mana cards |
| 4231s | and it does allow you to react a little |
| 4232s | bit better if your opponent plays more |
| 4233s | stats than treadlitz tamsen can deal |
| 4235s | with |
| 4236s | so i think this is a a solid |
| 4238s | um |
| 4240s | uh audible for hashiki sorry i was |
| 4243s | trying to find a sports reference in my |
| 4245s | brain |
| 4246s | i just keep watching chincho |
| 4248s | talking to the cats presumably he's |
| 4250s | talking to a family member or something |
| 4251s | who's trying to |
| 4253s | ask if he's playing hearthstone right |
| 4255s | now it's like yeah yeah |
| 4258s | 14 000 on the line |
| 4260s | take the cat away that'd be great |
| 4266s | he had the option to play the devout |
| 4269s | pupil there he wouldn't have killed off |
| 4272s | the blood mage stylenose |
| 4275s | um |
| 4277s | oh wow |
| 4280s | this is |
| 4281s | very interesting |
| 4283s | i like that was a pretty clean dredlich |
| 4286s | thampson turn |
| 4288s | however |
| 4289s | tincho really didn't develop that much |
| 4291s | power |
| 4292s | right |
| 4293s | and so i think hachikujis realized that |
| 4296s | i can just play an owl here and it can |
| 4298s | test this board pretty well i'm taking |
| 4301s | like maximum 10. |
| 4303s | um |
| 4307s | again a a deviation from kind of the |
| 4311s | norm of uh curving out plays from the |
| 4314s | out warlock and i'm i'm all for it i'm |
| 4316s | on board |
| 4319s | there'll be a lot of stuff on the board |
| 4320s | into this turn though obviously there is |
| 4322s | the hysteria amongst other things to |
| 4323s | clear with |
| 4328s | yeah i still think that's right samson |
| 4329s | cleans this up really nicely with the uh |
| 4332s | touch of the nathrezim as well |
| 4334s | um six one you're talking about okay |
| 4336s | there's an extra one now but sure |
| 4339s | yeah it goes six one one |
| 4341s | um would have eight cards at the start |
| 4343s | of the turn uh which is perfect because |
| 4346s | they dread the championship you're |
| 4347s | spending one you're drawing three |
| 4349s | they could end the turn with tour guide |
| 4352s | tap into |
| 4353s | a touch on |
| 4354s | one of these minions doesn't clear it so |
| 4357s | nicely now though |
| 4362s | okay |
| 4365s | some sensible buffing and placing |
| 4367s | nothing |
| 4379s | [Music] |
| 4384s | oh coil touch |
| 4386s | all right he's quite good as well |
| 4391s | well this isn't coming in for |
| 4397s | 21. just kidding only these 20. |
| 4408s | all right |
| 4410s | it is a good amount of librums however |
| 4413s | um |
| 4414s | so it's he's going to pressure and what |
| 4416s | this also does is create large minions |
| 4418s | that hopskuji |
| 4419s | needs to deal with i'm looking for |
| 4421s | tincho to play around hysteria here |
| 4423s | because he obviously knows that this is |
| 4425s | a possibility |
| 4426s | um |
| 4429s | and |
| 4433s | i don't even know the best way to do |
| 4435s | this |
| 4436s | right it's all keep it right because |
| 4440s | um |
| 4443s | you do it on the seven seven |
| 4448s | worst case scenario it attacks the |
| 4454s | there's not really a worst case scenario |
| 4455s | is there it attacks the lady liadrin |
| 4458s | twice |
| 4460s | then it'd still have one more attack |
| 4462s | liadrin pupil trogg and then you hit um |
| 4466s | the liadrim with something else out your |
| 4468s | hand good |
| 4470s | okay |
| 4471s | yeah that was the bad one |
| 4475s | yeah |
| 4477s | you wanted to hit the trog |
| 4479s | last i i don't know lately the engine |
| 4483s | twice leave the frog up but then there'd |
| 4484s | be two troggs in play |
| 4509s | that big of a deal against al warlock |
| 4511s | because they have a bunch of redundancy |
| 4512s | worst case scenario is obviously tamps |
| 4514s | in rome because it limits like the |
| 4516s | maximum damage that you can deal |
| 4518s | in most matchups you can still get there |
| 4520s | even without tamson uh this is one of |
| 4521s | the ones where |
| 4524s | you |
| 4525s | sometimes can't |
| 4528s | because there's often a lot of stats on |
| 4530s | board |
| 4534s | you'd have an option here to play |
| 4536s | a library more two before playing the |
| 4538s | varian which would have given him a |
| 4540s | pupil in hand for zero |
| 4544s | uh how |
| 4547s | because you'd heard he'd have had space |
| 4553s | what would he have played it on |
| 4555s | um |
| 4558s | it's an opposing mingle any sort |
| 4560s | yeah that's just yeah it's a little |
| 4562s | awkward though |
| 4564s | sure yes it's not necessarily correct |
| 4565s | just pointing out there's a thought |
| 4567s | there |
| 4572s | could make things weird for hachikuji |
| 4574s | though like fill up his hand with |
| 4575s | labrums i don't know |
| 4579s | like you put a bunch of lemurs on your |
| 4580s | opponent's minion then you attack into |
| 4582s | it with varian |
| 4583s | and he |
| 4585s | funny |
| 4587s | yeah |
| 4590s | he's got the lethal anyway so he did it |
| 4592s | right and he takes a 1-0 lead in a |
| 4594s | really important game at the start of |
| 4596s | this match because that paladin |
| 4598s | is out of there and the owl lock now |
| 4601s | um still has a game to win |
| 4604s | so |
| 4605s | big deal it could still come down to a |
| 4607s | warrior mirror if it does tincher has a |
| 4608s | slight edge because he has the charge |
| 4610s | warrior but that was one of the bigger |
| 4612s | ones when i was doing my little circles |
| 4614s | of games to watch for that was one of |
| 4616s | the circled games at the start yeah |
| 4620s | yeah a couple things uh hachikuji |
| 4622s | uh not able to find the rods early on in |
| 4625s | the game for the draw |
| 4627s | i do like the way he played it he got |
| 4628s | down the owl uh when he knew that there |
| 4631s | was probably the least amount of |
| 4632s | pressure he was gonna be under for the |
| 4633s | rest of the game |
| 4635s | um hysteria coming in pretty clutch able |
| 4637s | to remove the big board |
| 4639s | but i think what tincho did here one of |
| 4641s | the struggles for |
| 4643s | uh al warlock is just dealing with one |
| 4645s | single very large minion |
| 4647s | right they deal with wide boards of |
| 4649s | medium-sized minions quite well with |
| 4652s | moark's school spirits grimoire um but |
| 4654s | one giant minion |
| 4656s | it's very difficult um |
| 4659s | especially since the drain sole was used |
| 4660s | it's some it's like a and blood mage |
| 4662s | down-nose it's like mo arg |
| 4664s | like drain soul drain soul touch it's |
| 4666s | got to be a very specific uh removal |
| 4668s | combination uh in order to in order to |
| 4671s | get it um and uh |
| 4673s | so uh tincho i think you know played |
| 4676s | that matchup well and also hachikuji |
| 4679s | didn't find the room with a rod which is |
| 4680s | just such a massive deal in those |
| 4682s | matchups where you are having to |
| 4684s | progress to your combo while also |
| 4687s | dealing with uh big boards just so you |
| 4689s | can fit in multiple things in a turn you |
| 4690s | can draw and remove in a turn instead of |
| 4692s | having to choose one or the other |
| 4693s | um but |
| 4694s | now we move over to the |
| 4697s | uh charge warrior from tincho |
| 4700s | and |
| 4701s | um this is a race it's just a |
| 4704s | straight-up race |
| 4705s | this is the bogey deck 14 show the the |
| 4707s | warrior this is the same thing we saw |
| 4709s | against alutima the warrior being very |
| 4711s | weak against hachikuji's lineup but |
| 4713s | because it is the charge not the control |
| 4715s | warrior |
| 4716s | it's not quite as disastrous as it was |
| 4719s | for alatema because like you say this |
| 4722s | one can race you it's got a decent |
| 4724s | chance then in the mirror it's got |
| 4725s | another decent chance and against the |
| 4727s | demon hunter |
| 4728s | well not so much |
| 4730s | yeah |
| 4731s | i think this one is uh a slight favorite |
| 4734s | for owl warlock i don't think it's a |
| 4736s | crazy favorite um |
| 4739s | you still need to |
| 4741s | you know blast through your combo pretty |
| 4743s | quickly and |
| 4745s | charge warrior |
| 4747s | can make it awkward with you know they |
| 4750s | can delay with bulwark uh they can gain |
| 4752s | enough armor to make you have to have |
| 4754s | the tamson combo instead of just a |
| 4756s | normal combo right um it's not super |
| 4759s | straightforward |
| 4760s | um but |
| 4761s | they you |
| 4763s | aren't always floating at high health |
| 4765s | total so oftentimes it doesn't take the |
| 4767s | full combo to kill the owl warlock |
| 4770s | um and tincho does have the rush rot |
| 4772s | viper so when a rune metal rod comes |
| 4774s | down probably next turn it is going to |
| 4777s | be able to just be dealt with uh quite |
| 4779s | easily |
| 4781s | yep also the mutants hanging around in |
| 4783s | this deck not usually a thing as you've |
| 4785s | said before the arm gets down in time |
| 4787s | but it's there |
| 4789s | there's also two owls so you have |
| 4791s | redundancy |
| 4792s | i think yeah the thing is you if you if |
| 4794s | you somehow do eat the first one then |
| 4797s | you're kind of in trouble right |
| 4799s | because the warrior this this is the |
| 4801s | charge wow it's got a chance of actually |
| 4802s | just beating you to winning the game |
| 4804s | although your combos yeah guards or |
| 4806s | something so maybe not |
| 4808s | as warrior be a |
| 4810s | big mutinous that's for sure |
| 4812s | be at 12 80. |
| 4815s | um |
| 4816s | you might is doable |
| 4821s | yeah yeah we talked yesterday actually |
| 4823s | about the the damage that |
| 4825s | decks can do and demon hunters in the |
| 4826s | same |
| 4827s | boat sort of you get to sort of nine or |
| 4829s | ten and things start getting a bit |
| 4830s | awkward in the current matter yeah |
| 4832s | there's a health to remove if you're |
| 4834s | playing a class that just kills things |
| 4839s | all right |
| 4841s | ginger was uh |
| 4843s | prey hunting for uh no second rod um saw |
| 4847s | the backfire and was like all right |
| 4848s | that's |
| 4849s | fine right that's better um he just |
| 4852s | really wants to delay as much time as |
| 4854s | possible |
| 4856s | hachikuji actually does pick up the |
| 4858s | second rune methyl rod and dredlich |
| 4860s | thampson now the problem becomes all |
| 4863s | right need to get cards out of my hand |
| 4865s | um |
| 4867s | though |
| 4869s | he's thinking about whether or not to |
| 4870s | play the armor vendor like |
| 4873s | in this situation it still gives |
| 4875s | teenshow a a draw |
| 4877s | right but he would already have a draw |
| 4880s | this draw just |
| 4881s | makes him be able to take less damage |
| 4883s | and i think he's just kind of thinking |
| 4885s | about all right well if he leaves us on |
| 4888s | the board that's fine i'm gonna have to |
| 4889s | get it out of my hand next turn anyway |
| 4891s | so |
| 4894s | he's just racing |
| 4896s | yep gotta get to it still a long ways |
| 4898s | away for tincho and wisely not going to |
| 4901s | remove this |
| 4903s | armor vendor just to make sure that he |
| 4904s | has another minion to attack into |
| 4909s | uh |
| 4910s | gets the news |
| 4912s | what's coming twos |
| 4927s | please keep an eye though on mr smite |
| 4929s | faces obviously |
| 4930s | we always look at the |
| 4932s | obvious combo the the giant combo but |
| 4934s | you don't always have to deal with that |
| 4936s | size 18 is just enough |
| 4945s | he only plays one faceless |
| 4947s | because he does have the maxeradon in |
| 4949s | there |
| 4951s | and no to the front |
| 4954s | right now and no real way to fetch |
| 4957s | anything either |
| 4959s | i'm curious if |
| 4962s | he wants to sit down magthon here |
| 4964s | because he does have |
| 4966s | um |
| 4967s | you know very likely |
| 4969s | shield shatter next turn |
| 4971s | yeah |
| 4973s | and even if he doesn't there's |
| 4975s | probably a way to like rancor minefield |
| 4978s | if he really has to some sort of |
| 4979s | nonsense like that |
| 4981s | yep |
| 4983s | and this also |
| 4984s | doesn't prevent hachikuji from playing |
| 4987s | the dread that's damsen but certainly |
| 4989s | discourages him |
| 4991s | because then the magtheridon would |
| 4993s | emerge on his turn which means ticho |
| 4995s | could attack with it next yes it's kind |
| 4997s | of a double whammy um and so yeah i like |
| 5001s | again just uh getting the owl down he's |
| 5003s | this is probably the best opportunity |
| 5005s | for it |
| 5006s | um |
| 5010s | there's a to the front now we have to |
| 5011s | start counting every turn |
| 5015s | of mine field |
| 5017s | of vancouver better |
| 5018s | mana usage if he's doing nothing else |
| 5020s | this term |
| 5031s | oh hit the mag there don |
| 5034s | ouch |
| 5039s | yeah one swing with that thing although |
| 5041s | he i think um |
| 5043s | he could have just cleared that up |
| 5044s | anyway with |
| 5046s | a lot of combo we have really set him |
| 5049s | back in terms of his |
| 5050s | his building up |
| 5052s | yeah his own win |
| 5056s | i think he really wants the dreadlitch |
| 5058s | champs in here and he does needs a card |
| 5061s | to dump |
| 5066s | doesn't find one unless he trades wicked |
| 5069s | shipment picks up a fel rift and then |
| 5071s | could uh mortal coil it um but really |
| 5074s | the only thing he doesn't want to |
| 5075s | discard here would be uh tamson |
| 5078s | um just because it would limit his |
| 5079s | damage |
| 5080s | he still has plenty you know it would |
| 5082s | have to be a lot more armor gain for him |
| 5085s | not to be able to have lethal even |
| 5086s | without tamson |
| 5088s | from that point on |
| 5089s | um |
| 5090s | but uh 57 and he's only on 41. |
| 5095s | yep |
| 5098s | oh |
| 5099s | okay |
| 5101s | that |
| 5103s | still probably doesn't matter um |
| 5106s | well it's relevant right it's not that |
| 5108s | it doesn't it's not that it matters |
| 5109s | hugely but it's certainly a relevance |
| 5111s | because now that's gone obviously |
| 5113s | the bulwark is a card that actually does |
| 5116s | something now prevents |
| 5118s | 32 or 40. |
| 5120s | [Applause] |
| 5121s | i don't think it's paid up for corsair |
| 5122s | cash though |
| 5127s | it would be 32. |
| 5134s | wants to kill this moark off |
| 5137s | has he used the school spirits yet |
| 5141s | i don't know there's once in his hand |
| 5143s | obviously but |
| 5144s | i don't think he has i think he was in |
| 5146s | the previous matchup |
| 5148s | you do want to make sure they oh yeah |
| 5149s | he's both in his hand sorry he was |
| 5150s | tucked all the way over to the far left |
| 5152s | oh there it is |
| 5153s | yeah he could dump a uh school spirit if |
| 5155s | you want to but finds a different way to |
| 5157s | get it done |
| 5158s | still presents minions though for t joe |
| 5162s | not real much of a choice in the |
| 5167s | matter right that's enough minions |
| 5171s | but yeah i wanted to see a minion but |
| 5172s | hey |
| 5177s | oh yes |
| 5179s | if it hits tamson and viper's gone |
| 5183s | then we're |
| 5185s | then we're in business |
| 5188s | there's four minions in the hand so it'd |
| 5189s | be a one and four the other ones |
| 5192s | uh more could be somewhat of an issue |
| 5195s | up blood mage okay |
| 5206s | that was a big chance |
| 5208s | yeah and tincho really |
| 5210s | is thinking about you know |
| 5213s | bulwark here |
| 5216s | but it wouldn't even stop the tamson |
| 5217s | combo um it would stop no tim's non |
| 5220s | thampson combo if he played bulwark |
| 5223s | because then he would uh |
| 5226s | essentially have each one would deal 32 |
| 5230s | right or he'd have 32 plus his his 40 so |
| 5233s | you'd have 72 |
| 5242s | [Applause] |
| 5251s | the owl |
| 5255s | what do you eat |
| 5269s | um |
| 5272s | thank you for your service |
| 5275s | yeah a lot of ways to do that too |
| 5277s | like being able to |
| 5279s | uh he could have like gone |
| 5280s | um |
| 5281s | tamson school spirits |
| 5284s | then moark |
| 5287s | and then |
| 5288s | do the factory combo and then school |
| 5289s | spirits again just like any way to kill |
| 5291s | off the muteness right |
| 5294s | because i think the mutinous was |
| 5295s | blocking it oh no he had he had four he |
| 5297s | had 37 plus five that was exactly 42. he |
| 5301s | i don't think he even needed the mutants |
| 5302s | to die |
| 5304s | since he had 48 points of damage |
| 5306s | right because he was at 25 plus 12 armor |
| 5309s | so uh and he had 48 points of damage so |
| 5312s | yeah he didn't even need the mutants to |
| 5313s | die |
| 5314s | it looks cool though |
| 5316s | yep it certainly did look cool yep and |
| 5319s | uh |
| 5320s | that's the out warlock out of the way |
| 5322s | that tends to be |
| 5325s | most of the time from my experience how |
| 5327s | the matchup goes |
| 5328s | but there's so much opportunity for for |
| 5331s | charge warrior to like buy additional |
| 5332s | time and |
| 5334s | um |
| 5335s | hachikuji being able to have to follow |
| 5337s | abroad just allow him to do that combo |
| 5339s | much faster |
| 5340s | um |
| 5341s | and uh tincho just |
| 5344s | he was able to draw a decent amount of |
| 5345s | cards but didn't hit cutting class |
| 5348s | didn't have really all that much of a of |
| 5350s | the combo pieces in his hand right he |
| 5352s | had what like double to the front faces |
| 5354s | and mr smite at the end which is |
| 5356s | certainly |
| 5357s | not enough |
| 5358s | uh card draw available though with a |
| 5360s | weapon so he could have gone runner |
| 5361s | runner off the top i was calculating |
| 5363s | that while you're doing the proper |
| 5364s | numbers so |
| 5366s | a second to the and |
| 5368s | battlemaster would have probably done it |
| 5371s | no he still needed galvinger at that |
| 5373s | point |
| 5375s | um |
| 5376s | because every time yeah hachikuji was |
| 5379s | still at uh 30 plus i think with the |
| 5381s | army yeah he was |
| 5382s | so smite faceless plus battle master is |
| 5387s | uh only 24 so even with the weapon swing |
| 5389s | he still would have been off he needed |
| 5391s | he needed like |
| 5392s | a chain of really good draws in order to |
| 5395s | make that happen he did have the armor |
| 5396s | necessary because he played the frozen |
| 5398s | buckle early on in the game |
| 5399s | um |
| 5400s | but uh just wasn't able to get there but |
| 5402s | now we move over to hachikuchi's |
| 5404s | kazakhstan warrior |
| 5406s | versus um |
| 5407s | maybe charged word from tincho he |
| 5408s | doesn't have to cue the same deck if he |
| 5410s | doesn't want to |
| 5412s | and however this one |
| 5414s | okay what's the caveat here the however |
| 5416s | is chincho's druid and i said this at |
| 5418s | the start it's basically a free win it's |
| 5420s | not it's sort of 60 70 |
| 5422s | each time |
| 5424s | um but this is the deck the warrior is |
| 5426s | the deck so whatever you're going to |
| 5427s | analyze analyzing is good go for it |
| 5432s | yeah |
| 5435s | cool |
| 5437s | there's my analysis i can't it's great |
| 5439s | it's not speak on demand tj just say |
| 5441s | something right now say something witty |
| 5443s | entertain the crowd |
| 5446s | never tell |
| 5451s | [Music] |
| 5454s | are you not entertained cloud |
| 5456s | all right here is the aforementioned |
| 5458s | free win which will of course now just |
| 5460s | get pummeled into oblivion but seriously |
| 5463s | um the way this lineup has been built |
| 5465s | has been just letting the druid do its |
| 5467s | thing and banning out the demon hunters |
| 5469s | saying i'm gonna beat the other decks |
| 5470s | and it's worked so well for him but this |
| 5472s | is tinches druid |
| 5474s | it is |
| 5475s | the oh what is it |
| 5478s | the normal exactly normal kazakus |
| 5481s | i think funky is there a normal |
| 5483s | kazakhstan druid does that exist |
| 5486s | yeah if i say that every time it's not |
| 5488s | actually the normal one is it because it |
| 5490s | has no it really is so it's not dragon |
| 5493s | it's not spell |
| 5495s | it's not |
| 5498s | all the other things this isn't this is |
| 5500s | just the most normal build in my opinion |
| 5505s | well we shall see um i think this is the |
| 5508s | version that kazakhstan warrior has the |
| 5511s | best chance against |
| 5513s | okay |
| 5514s | um |
| 5515s | but no because it's |
| 5517s | it's less threat dense |
| 5520s | if that makes sense yes um |
| 5523s | and there's a lot of cards that don't do |
| 5526s | as much it does have higher burst |
| 5528s | potential |
| 5531s | um with the uh moon touch amulet feral |
| 5533s | rage solar eclipse |
| 5535s | guff stuff |
| 5536s | he's got all the things he's got married |
| 5538s | it's a freak whatever man |
| 5542s | as long as the kaz person doesn't get |
| 5544s | eaten that's just the end |
| 5547s | yeah i was gonna say |
| 5549s | like this isn't even like the best |
| 5551s | matchup for the kazakhstan druid it's |
| 5554s | about i'd say it's about 60 40. it's |
| 5556s | actually a pretty big sample size since |
| 5558s | both these decks are pretty popular like |
| 5559s | higher ends of legend |
| 5561s | um |
| 5562s | you can play a war of attrition right it |
| 5564s | does come down to like you know |
| 5567s | uh |
| 5568s | treasure rng in in a sense where if the |
| 5571s | druid just kind of gasses on treasures |
| 5574s | uh you can outlast them as the warrior |
| 5577s | and then drop your own kazakhstan for an |
| 5578s | actual win condition |
| 5580s | um |
| 5581s | mutinous exists but rarely means |
| 5583s | anything in a deck that runs capture |
| 5585s | cold tooth mine because if they have |
| 5587s | ramp they can guarantee that they're |
| 5589s | getting that pretty quickly |
| 5591s | um |
| 5592s | and most treasures as warrior uh it's |
| 5595s | very difficult |
| 5597s | to deal with uh |
| 5599s | they have to hit like |
| 5601s | minions plus minion buffs and not like |
| 5603s | straight up burst or wax rager i don't |
| 5606s | know like |
| 5608s | wax ranger just kills you |
| 5610s | you can't do anything |
| 5612s | yeah and then you make more wax rages |
| 5614s | just in case one wasn't imitating enough |
| 5617s | and then it kills you faster the |
| 5619s | interesting part of this next couple of |
| 5620s | turns is going to be |
| 5622s | how tincho decides or when tincher |
| 5624s | decides to play the kazakhstan he does |
| 5627s | have a turn or two before mutinous can |
| 5629s | come down and i'm just curious whether |
| 5632s | he will want to |
| 5634s | get an extra card or two in his hand |
| 5635s | before playing it or whether he'll just |
| 5636s | go straight in |
| 5638s | yeah that's a |
| 5640s | a good question um because the faster |
| 5642s | you play it the less likely your warrior |
| 5645s | opponent is going to be able to find |
| 5647s | answers to whatever treasures you choose |
| 5650s | um but the longer you wait to play the |
| 5651s | more support cards you can get |
| 5654s | for |
| 5655s | your treasures |
| 5657s | um |
| 5658s | uh like solar eclipse solar eclipse with |
| 5660s | embers is insane |
| 5663s | uh when you have when you have guff |
| 5666s | and |
| 5667s | i i think that |
| 5668s | this might just be enough |
| 5672s | or tincho like resizing pouch can |
| 5675s | be pretty flexible uh with guff played |
| 5678s | you can opt to get a 10 or if you're in |
| 5680s | a desperate situation you can look for |
| 5682s | something else like maybe a second |
| 5683s | kazakhstan if your first was terrible |
| 5685s | um all right moon touch amulet that's |
| 5688s | some additional burst damage to go along |
| 5690s | with some of these treasures and now we |
| 5691s | get to see what's in the box |
| 5695s | uh not that box |
| 5697s | um |
| 5698s | assistant |
| 5703s | horn |
| 5705s | boom box |
| 5707s | probably unless you're feeling lucky you |
| 5709s | take oh wait answer works |
| 5711s | no no he |
| 5712s | he hit a clock if he went oh yeah yeah |
| 5715s | intro reflections actually just summons |
| 5717s | a massive board of clockwork assistants |
| 5720s | um |
| 5722s | banana split |
| 5725s | this is not ideal |
| 5727s | it's okay |
| 5729s | probably enough but it's it's not |
| 5731s | perfect |
| 5733s | okay |
| 5744s | step one |
| 5745s | get rid of the kazakhstan |
| 5748s | step two get rid of whatever comes next |
| 5749s | step three do that again |
| 5751s | step two play your kazakhstan |
| 5760s | all right bubs how you doing |
| 5768s | don't keep them in your hand going into |
| 5769s | the seven mana turn |
| 5772s | things could go wrong |
| 5775s | well he does have the holy book as a |
| 5777s | response but then he'd lose a bubba |
| 5779s | which is uh |
| 5781s | would be unfortunate |
| 5783s | yeah |
| 5787s | okay |
| 5788s | he was looking for what second shield |
| 5790s | shatter would have been uh |
| 5793s | uh ideal in that scenario |
| 5795s | um but it said he's just gonna take a |
| 5797s | million it's not a big deal |
| 5798s | yeah |
| 5799s | if he clears up this million damage the |
| 5801s | good news are there survival |
| 5804s | okay all right didn't hit survival |
| 5806s | survival wasn't lethal was it |
| 5809s | uh |
| 5811s | 14 plus four times seven |
| 5814s | 28 42 |
| 5817s | no solar |
| 5820s | i hate it when i don't get to solo my |
| 5822s | survival on my full board |
| 5824s | i mean just really he would have put him |
| 5828s | to 10. |
| 5829s | so i i think it would have been fine |
| 5835s | he picks la callard the ice lord the |
| 5839s | other two were worse because you'd never |
| 5840s | get a minion the other the other two |
| 5842s | were rabbit and |
| 5845s | deathwing i mean yeah i feel like |
| 5848s | deathwing would have been |
| 5850s | fine |
| 5852s | right like |
| 5853s | okay |
| 5855s | i don't know |
| 5856s | yeah i'm wrong |
| 5858s | i mean maybe yeah he hated it didn't |
| 5860s | want to see it all ever again |
| 5862s | yeah |
| 5863s | all right ashikushi does have a brawl to |
| 5865s | be able to answer this |
| 5867s | unless he there's eighteen eighty twenty |
| 5870s | twenty twenty twenty three ah he kind of |
| 5872s | kazakhstan |
| 5875s | it's fine |
| 5878s | he doesn't know what the rest of the |
| 5878s | treasures are |
| 5880s | so i don't think he uh |
| 5882s | is really willing to take the risk uh |
| 5884s | good outcome oh provoke |
| 5889s | ray boss enough to provoke available in |
| 5891s | uh very soon okay |
| 5893s | just saw a brawl seems like a perfect |
| 5895s | time for clockwork assistant ancient |
| 5897s | reflection |
| 5898s | seems reasonable well it seems |
| 5900s | unreasonable but it seems like what you |
| 5902s | should do |
| 5903s | yep |
| 5908s | this combo is so silly this whole deck |
| 5910s | is so silly |
| 5912s | i flick between loving it and hating it |
| 5914s | it does happen to be |
| 5917s | incredibly vulnerable to blade storm |
| 5919s | oddly enough |
| 5921s | yep |
| 5924s | you're saying he should luna eclipse one |
| 5926s | of them |
| 5930s | ah |
| 5933s | honestly |
| 5937s | maybe |
| 5940s | what else does he get a lunar eclipse |
| 5942s | and nothing it also it also buffs all |
| 5945s | the other ones |
| 5946s | yes he actually gains attack value on it |
| 5949s | as well |
| 5950s | he's doing it |
| 5951s | i got something right after you got |
| 5953s | something right yeah oh my goodness i |
| 5955s | was like no you don't do it he's |
| 5957s | probably got some removal to be able to |
| 5959s | go along with it |
| 5961s | and um moon touched amulet is important |
| 5964s | here because it also keeps him from |
| 5967s | being able to go shield shatter smack |
| 5970s | then bladestorm right |
| 5975s | got him |
| 5980s | so this has to be |
| 5986s | frozen buckler |
| 5988s | bulwark |
| 5990s | cool |
| 5993s | is that even enough |
| 5997s | uh |
| 5999s | so he's out of ways to damage right |
| 6002s | yep |
| 6004s | you can kill one of them |
| 6009s | and he's i like killing the lower health |
| 6011s | target as odd as that sounds just to |
| 6013s | preserve bladestorm and it is five so |
| 6015s | let's just keep him alive |
| 6031s | would have been terrible here |
| 6033s | just did 13 points of damage |
| 6041s | the worst thing when you see this combo |
| 6043s | other than it often just kills you is |
| 6044s | you know that if you remove it you're |
| 6046s | seeing it again soon |
| 6051s | and |
| 6052s | he is |
| 6054s | not dead can still trade |
| 6059s | wait a second |
| 6064s | they all |
| 6066s | i don't think he takes off enough here |
| 6068s | right |
| 6069s | i think he's going to see me surely let |
| 6071s | me see something obvious |
| 6074s | he takes takeoff |
| 6076s | no he doesn't |
| 6077s | there's still lethal on board |
| 6081s | yeah so the out there would have been |
| 6083s | trade provoke |
| 6085s | [Music] |
| 6087s | um |
| 6088s | into blade storm |
| 6090s | and then he could have rancored hero |
| 6092s | powered the lochilar |
| 6093s | and then have exactly mana enough |
| 6095s | available for bladestorm |
| 6096s | [Music] |
| 6100s | yes |
| 6101s | because he had 10 mana |
| 6102s | um and the la colar was at uh was an 8-4 |
| 6106s | so he could um |
| 6109s | trade |
| 6110s | the provoke hit blade storm rancor hero |
| 6112s | power |
| 6114s | and then bladestorm so it's 10 to 10 |
| 6116s | minutes exact 10. |
| 6118s | yeah so i think that's the out there |
| 6122s | um |
| 6123s | no surprise there though we we did |
| 6125s | figure it could come down to the |
| 6126s | warriors and |
| 6128s | starting to look very much that way the |
| 6131s | druid getting the it's not a free pass |
| 6133s | you could definitely see worlds where |
| 6135s | you know different treasures it goes |
| 6136s | wrong etc but |
| 6137s | realistically when you're trying to |
| 6139s | simplify the matchup we're at where we |
| 6141s | expect it to be at |
| 6143s | uh with the warrior mirror and also the |
| 6145s | the really bad warrior matchup against |
| 6147s | the demon understood to come |
| 6150s | yep |
| 6151s | he had not used the bladestorm up until |
| 6153s | that point right just to make sure i |
| 6155s | don't think so because i thought there |
| 6156s | were two there |
| 6158s | uh he only plays one so there was only |
| 6160s | one left and he definitely hadn't yeah |
| 6162s | yeah so i mean it's a one in 12 to hit |
| 6165s | the blade storm but that's better than |
| 6167s | being dead |
| 6168s | um |
| 6170s | because the assistant's only attacked |
| 6171s | once even though that's a clear against |
| 6173s | a lot of things it's not a clear against |
| 6175s | uh that that many stats um it was close |
| 6179s | right he was at 30 life for 31 life and |
| 6182s | uh |
| 6183s | he left |
| 6185s | what |
| 6186s | 30 39 damage on board it was probably |
| 6188s | more than 39 damage because every time |
| 6190s | you play spell buffs |
| 6191s | um but whatever |
| 6193s | druid out of the way for teen show and |
| 6196s | now hachikuji is going to move over to |
| 6197s | the |
| 6199s | um questsville demon hunter which this |
| 6201s | is a |
| 6202s | great matchup |
| 6204s | yep |
| 6206s | yep his lineup just does this look at |
| 6208s | what i said about that paladin versus |
| 6210s | owl lock that's why i thought it was |
| 6211s | important because it's just what this |
| 6213s | lineup does is |
| 6214s | um it almost plays like a last hero |
| 6216s | standing lineup except we're playing |
| 6218s | conquest |
| 6222s | it lets the druid win and picks on your |
| 6224s | other decks |
| 6230s | so that involves a good metacall and as |
| 6232s | he's in the semi-finals i'm going to say |
| 6234s | he got it right |
| 6236s | yeah |
| 6239s | i already glide an outcast position um |
| 6242s | and that's |
| 6244s | feels like all you need a lot of the |
| 6246s | times right uh like yep this deck just |
| 6250s | wants to collect combo pieces i'm |
| 6251s | talking about the warrior charge work |
| 6253s | just collect combo pieces and then kill |
| 6256s | it's hard to dump anything from your |
| 6258s | hand |
| 6259s | uh and |
| 6261s | a glide completely resets you |
| 6264s | it can get brutal honestly |
| 6266s | a bulwark |
| 6268s | just playing it on curve seems to be the |
| 6271s | play that works out |
| 6273s | the best from what we've seen yeah |
| 6275s | because the if you play it later in the |
| 6277s | game to try and block damage it's just |
| 6279s | going to get vipered |
| 6281s | um and playing it now blocks that |
| 6283s | incremental damage right |
| 6285s | um but tincture gonna hold |
| 6287s | so i do agree i think maybe on this |
| 6289s | particular instance because he has the |
| 6291s | axe in hand he can play that next turn |
| 6293s | it's not going to get vipered because |
| 6295s | bulwark exists |
| 6297s | and that's some glide recovery for him |
| 6302s | play the axe out there have a chance to |
| 6305s | you know pick off an arcanist or |
| 6306s | something as you go if there ever such a |
| 6308s | thing shows its face |
| 6310s | yep i think this is why he didn't do it |
| 6312s | this time but unlucky it's all getting |
| 6313s | glided away |
| 6315s | turn three |
| 6316s | yep and aft |
| 6318s | like even though it's only six cards to |
| 6320s | four right you saw a course hair cash |
| 6322s | played which is very likely outriders |
| 6324s | axe which is really the only way |
| 6328s | that teacher generates like any type of |
| 6331s | quick card draw there's not that many |
| 6332s | minions to attack into against demon |
| 6334s | hunter anyway but like cutting class |
| 6336s | becomes cheaper you can roll that into |
| 6338s | more things you can start getting |
| 6339s | incremental damage |
| 6343s | you're the viper that'll teach you |
| 6348s | he's about to play his bullwork you're |
| 6349s | gonna vipered it |
| 6353s | well yeah post glide i like hatred holds |
| 6356s | a chaos strike here because now he has |
| 6357s | chaos strike plus need for greed for |
| 6359s | second quest completion next turn wise |
| 6363s | and now unfavored matchup you've seen |
| 6365s | one glide you can't mess around playing |
| 6368s | around the other one you just sort of go |
| 6370s | for it |
| 6371s | right i know there's ways of fetching it |
| 6373s | and so on but at some point you just |
| 6375s | gotta draw the line in the sand and say |
| 6377s | i'm gonna try and win this game of |
| 6378s | hearthstone and if my opponent stops me |
| 6380s | well i was expecting to lose it anyway |
| 6383s | yep |
| 6385s | he's collecting the pieces |
| 6390s | two down quest |
| 6393s | about a million to go |
| 6398s | drop the minions |
| 6400s | and then by the time |
| 6401s | he gets close he's just gonna get glit |
| 6404s | again and he might be getting it right |
| 6406s | now oh nope |
| 6407s | that is a skull however but he |
| 6410s | uh he does have hand space he could dump |
| 6412s | the fury first |
| 6414s | oh no wait |
| 6416s | no he couldn't do that he doesn't have |
| 6418s | hand space for skull |
| 6420s | because this is curtrick so his |
| 6421s | cartridges will get burned if he did |
| 6422s | that |
| 6425s | oh |
| 6428s | yeah this is the hardest deck in |
| 6429s | hearthstone to just dump your cards |
| 6431s | right |
| 6432s | yeah it's gonna see if this is glide it |
| 6434s | is a glide |
| 6436s | it was a 50 50 i believe |
| 6438s | get rid of outriders x target |
| 6441s | don't get dumped the blast along the way |
| 6443s | because that's doing very little this |
| 6444s | game |
| 6445s | yep and rotate the card |
| 6448s | just says this matchup just feels so bad |
| 6451s | to play |
| 6452s | it's like you just try so hard |
| 6455s | he's just trying his hardest |
| 6458s | but in the end it doesn't really matter |
| 6460s | have you noticed that tincho's cat only |
| 6462s | turns up when he's winning the game by |
| 6464s | the way |
| 6465s | game one |
| 6467s | okay |
| 6468s | didn't want to know that match up game |
| 6470s | three cat is back game four nowhere to |
| 6473s | be seen the cat knows |
| 6487s | cats always know |
| 6488s | they do yeah |
| 6492s | there's a cat the only cat |
| 6494s | who knows where it's at |
| 6498s | is that a story you've had to learn in |
| 6500s | recent times |
| 6502s | that's aristocats man you never seen |
| 6504s | aristocats i actually haven't you |
| 6507s | kidding me |
| 6508s | older than me i think |
| 6510s | get out |
| 6512s | i'm sorry okay see ya all right it's |
| 6515s | only the semi-final you don't need me so |
| 6516s | much longer |
| 6518s | everybody wants to be a cat |
| 6521s | because the cat's the only cat who knows |
| 6523s | where it's at |
| 6539s | i haven't heard any songs so i don't |
| 6540s | really know |
| 6542s | yeah i forgot |
| 6544s | music has eluded you |
| 6547s | yeah |
| 6548s | for your years on this planet |
| 6551s | cards have not alluded hachikuji here |
| 6555s | still getting a lot of them he's |
| 6558s | gonna start making some inroads into |
| 6559s | this damage which he will we've seen it |
| 6561s | many times |
| 6562s | yeah it's most of the damage spells uh |
| 6565s | fell spells played already he's actually |
| 6567s | played a chaos strike if he dumps his |
| 6569s | fury both fury's at rank two |
| 6572s | he's played both fell barrages as well i |
| 6574s | do think |
| 6576s | and uh |
| 6578s | um double fell screenplays so actually |
| 6580s | just gonna get out of the way right now |
| 6582s | um if you can get the extra damage from |
| 6584s | the audra blades and a little bit of |
| 6586s | extra healing he can get out of range of |
| 6587s | certain break points |
| 6589s | it's just like come on give me something |
| 6591s | i don't even know what something is all |
| 6592s | right to the front |
| 6595s | yup |
| 6596s | uh the opposite of dredge |
| 6601s | now has two pieces of the god knows how |
| 6603s | many cards combo |
| 6606s | he's just gonna die |
| 6610s | not dead now but |
| 6612s | in a way he is |
| 6616s | still no uh curtris um |
| 6621s | demon render is that it |
| 6624s | that sounds correct |
| 6627s | all right |
| 6629s | it sounds correct ship it |
| 6631s | if you said something that um i hadn't |
| 6634s | heard |
| 6636s | then it wouldn't sound correct so i'm |
| 6637s | assuming there it is said those words |
| 6639s | i've heard them |
| 6643s | oh curtis demon render oh it is that |
| 6646s | hold you |
| 6647s | rending demon |
| 6649s | rendering demons |
| 6656s | i even mean |
| 6660s | i just realized i have no idea what that |
| 6662s | might mean |
| 6666s | what do you do when you render a demon |
| 6669s | oh rend like |
| 6672s | slash you know |
| 6674s | okay |
| 6676s | you know i'm pretty sure it's like you |
| 6678s | you're cutting something you're dear |
| 6681s | hold on |
| 6683s | you have a quick think you should |
| 6687s | tear something into two or more pieces |
| 6689s | oh |
| 6694s | cause great emotional pain to a person |
| 6697s | or their heart |
| 6699s | or a demon |
| 6703s | so all of those things could work he |
| 6705s | could be tearing demons into two or more |
| 6707s | pieces it could be causing great |
| 6709s | emotional pain |
| 6711s | to |
| 6713s | the demons hearts |
| 6717s | did demons really go through great |
| 6719s | emotional pain |
| 6722s | i imagine getting torn into |
| 6728s | does have a slight issue here that his |
| 6730s | combo costs 11 right now |
| 6735s | uh yeah with no glides left and |
| 6738s | no |
| 6739s | is there studies left |
| 6747s | i've been counting combo pieces |
| 6749s | watching the real deck was your job |
| 6753s | i've just declared this right now tj had |
| 6754s | no idea that was his job |
| 6759s | i'm using counting duty at this you know |
| 6762s | at this point |
| 6763s | in our |
| 6765s | co-caster relationship |
| 6770s | okay he is just going to cash in on the |
| 6772s | extra damage now |
| 6774s | um there's not a studies left |
| 6777s | last six cards are talented arcanist |
| 6779s | chaos strike |
| 6780s | spectral sight |
| 6782s | rush rot viper aldrachi warblades need |
| 6784s | for greed |
| 6786s | though there would be no way for him to |
| 6788s | get off that full combo |
| 6790s | so there's a chance here for tincho |
| 6797s | oh no |
| 6800s | but |
| 6802s | he's essentially drawing air |
| 6805s | for a lot of turns |
| 6807s | yeah because that's how seven card |
| 6809s | combos work |
| 6813s | not always but in this instance kind of |
| 6815s | is |
| 6818s | is that all he had it really is all he |
| 6819s | had isn't it i was trying to work out |
| 6821s | some clever way where you trade in and |
| 6823s | then |
| 6825s | the third one activates now you kill my |
| 6826s | thermadon |
| 6832s | [Laughter] |
| 6835s | cat wants nothing to do with this play |
| 6837s | at all |
| 6839s | it's gone |
| 6843s | what do you do |
| 6846s | what do you do |
| 6861s | you get the four armor |
| 6866s | so hachikuji is actually in a very |
| 6868s | awkward position |
| 6871s | um |
| 6877s | then she just does nothing |
| 6880s | which is basically what his deck does |
| 6883s | yeah but he's he's only gonna take like |
| 6885s | four a turn |
| 6887s | yeah |
| 6889s | all right six but sure |
| 6892s | and he actually |
| 6894s | will have to find a way to just straight |
| 6896s | up deal with expendable performers at |
| 6898s | any point but if he actually he kills |
| 6900s | for the time for the being he actually |
| 6901s | needs to find a way to just deal with |
| 6902s | these minions that are on board like |
| 6907s | and he's oh he could have played that |
| 6911s | i think yeah he could have played the |
| 6912s | viper and gone for the one in three ball |
| 6914s | that's why he's hitting himself on the |
| 6915s | head |
| 6917s | uh i |
| 6919s | don't |
| 6922s | but then he has like no car draw so then |
| 6924s | he'd be drawing a shield slam next to |
| 6926s | him anyway and he's not getting any |
| 6927s | closer to winning the game right yeah |
| 6929s | and the performers would have a target |
| 6930s | then because he's so low on health so |
| 6932s | yeah |
| 6934s | like |
| 6935s | the bet good draws here |
| 6938s | um |
| 6939s | outriders acts um |
| 6944s | anything honestly if he gets rid of |
| 6945s | these two minions this and the next one |
| 6947s | he just wins but he can't get rid of |
| 6949s | them |
| 6955s | yeah i think he's just gonna performers |
| 6957s | here |
| 6958s | he's showing us the number either three |
| 6960s | or four so that's either how many outs |
| 6962s | he has four four outs |
| 6965s | um outriders axe |
| 6967s | um |
| 6973s | i think outrider's axe is there another |
| 6975s | buckler maybe |
| 6978s | there is a buckler |
| 6982s | i don't want to show the cards because |
| 6984s | it shows you just a bunch of cards that |
| 6986s | aren't there what |
| 6992s | he doesn't want to give him armor |
| 6994s | and that'll that's game |
| 7000s | he cleared off the um |
| 7003s | uh rush rot viper because it was giving |
| 7005s | uh tincho in a uh hero power target yeah |
| 7010s | and there it is there wasn't that many |
| 7012s | good draws |
| 7014s | in the deck for tincho to be honest |
| 7017s | he had rancor which would have been |
| 7019s | the |
| 7020s | really the only thing |
| 7023s | uh left that could deal with the |
| 7025s | expendable performers but he only plays |
| 7028s | one brawl |
| 7029s | um |
| 7034s | oh perhaps just telling you something |
| 7036s | he'd had four draws and just not hit one |
| 7039s | perhaps that was the complaint that's |
| 7040s | what the four was |
| 7043s | i don't know maybe just go through the |
| 7044s | number four |
| 7045s | yep well he didn't like game number four |
| 7048s | but game at number five |
| 7050s | as we kind of expected might happen |
| 7053s | is the warrior mirror |
| 7055s | tj's up for it you can tell that and |
| 7058s | the key to this matchup will be if |
| 7059s | tincho's cat turns up at the start or |
| 7061s | not |
| 7064s | i did tj |
| 7066s | not good real blurry over here man can't |
| 7068s | see anything |
| 7073s | that's not a good time to be blurry look |
| 7074s | at this it's two games a piece in the |
| 7076s | semi finals |
| 7079s | apac versus the americas one of them is |
| 7081s | going to get to the final and that |
| 7083s | counts as a win because gabby's in the |
| 7085s | final |
| 7087s | all right i mean his own region we've |
| 7089s | already declared that earlier |
| 7092s | all right so |
| 7093s | um |
| 7095s | a couple big things here |
| 7099s | hachikuchi plays a mutinous |
| 7101s | which uh you play mutinous in this deck |
| 7104s | with an inherent risk of um kazakhstan |
| 7107s | not being active if mutinous is still in |
| 7109s | the deck |
| 7110s | yep um |
| 7112s | but the upside is that you can |
| 7116s | play against |
| 7118s | a deck where they need all of their |
| 7120s | minions in order to kill you |
| 7122s | um there is uh not really much |
| 7125s | redundancy for tincho because he he |
| 7127s | plays the mag there on he only plays one |
| 7129s | faces manipulator |
| 7131s | so if faces manipulator battle master or |
| 7134s | gal wenger gallagher obviously being the |
| 7135s | worst a get mutinist it is very |
| 7138s | difficult to win because there's just |
| 7140s | not enough health left or not enough |
| 7142s | damage left for you to get through the |
| 7144s | health |
| 7145s | um |
| 7149s | you usually can keep their armor in |
| 7151s | check just with weapon swings in the |
| 7152s | early game and like recara |
| 7155s | um uh but i think the mutant assist is |
| 7158s | the big point of contention |
| 7161s | like charge warrior is |
| 7164s | seemingly favorited |
| 7166s | yeah i think so in this matchup |
| 7171s | i would put it |
| 7173s | close to |
| 7175s | 50 50 because their damage is limited |
| 7177s | right but like i said there's ways for |
| 7179s | them to just chip away at the armor and |
| 7181s | sort of keep it in check |
| 7183s | and they don't really have to worry |
| 7184s | about anything |
| 7185s | they can just spend the cards in their |
| 7186s | hand and try and aggressively uh move |
| 7189s | towards their combo right |
| 7191s | um which isn't the case with a lot of |
| 7193s | other matchups it's just about finding |
| 7194s | which cards you want to dump |
| 7198s | yeah your inevitability is slightly |
| 7200s | quicker than your opponent's |
| 7201s | inevitability because |
| 7203s | it's not as easy as just plopping your |
| 7204s | kazakhstan on the table because there's |
| 7206s | other stuff going on |
| 7208s | yeah |
| 7210s | all you've got to do is draw your six or |
| 7212s | seven card combo and you're good so it's |
| 7213s | fine |
| 7215s | yeah well in chincho's case it's only |
| 7217s | five cards |
| 7219s | all right |
| 7221s | double to the front |
| 7223s | goblin girl faceless and |
| 7226s | the battlegrounds battlemaster |
| 7228s | he's hoping to hit something but it's |
| 7230s | just going to be in a nixie and drake |
| 7238s | yeah it and now at any point if |
| 7241s | hachikuji picks up mutinous it's |
| 7247s | essentially game over |
| 7250s | yes sure because the two most key parts |
| 7253s | are there |
| 7257s | oh he cunningly picks up onyxia after |
| 7260s | the mutants was played |
| 7261s | that's good play |
| 7267s | i don't even know if enixia is really |
| 7268s | that big of a deal |
| 7271s | in this case |
| 7272s | yeah yeah because even the stats right |
| 7275s | on the mutants he would have been able |
| 7276s | to deal with with like frozen buckler |
| 7278s | plus iniquity |
| 7282s | now thank you |
| 7284s | go away horrible box |
| 7287s | because max damage even without mutinous |
| 7290s | considered is 36 for tincho |
| 7294s | how about the other one here's the one |
| 7296s | faces how about the kazakhstan he picked |
| 7298s | up how about that how did that go |
| 7303s | um |
| 7309s | again not super relevant it's not even |
| 7312s | active right now yeah another we |
| 7314s | actually for a while either we might |
| 7315s | therma don't steal uh i'm not making it |
| 7317s | i'm with um mutants still to come |
| 7326s | oh he's going through the winger now |
| 7329s | it's like the mutinous waiting room he's |
| 7331s | just like oh no he's he he's got to keep |
| 7334s | viper in hand |
| 7335s | yes essentially like he can't even trade |
| 7337s | it away just because he knows that at |
| 7340s | any point if any of his combo pieces go |
| 7342s | away |
| 7343s | it it it just takes way too much damage |
| 7346s | off the board |
| 7347s | um for him to be able to to win the game |
| 7354s | outriders axe is pretty important just |
| 7356s | to be able to keep chipping away at the |
| 7358s | armor |
| 7361s | absolutely yeah he's he is trying to |
| 7363s | just |
| 7364s | stay in some sort of range |
| 7370s | i feel like |
| 7372s | he's starting to struggle |
| 7374s | yeah once again |
| 7377s | just the mutinous waiting room |
| 7380s | every turn from now until |
| 7383s | it gets mutinous basically |
| 7385s | yep |
| 7388s | and we're starting to approach the |
| 7390s | territory where the combo for tincho |
| 7392s | could be there |
| 7395s | so hachiku actually has some decisions |
| 7396s | ahead of him as well in terms of like |
| 7399s | when to play the bulwark |
| 7403s | who's in buckler just just play that |
| 7405s | card get it out your hand |
| 7408s | yep |
| 7410s | still many combo pieces away |
| 7413s | yep not even close right now but we'll |
| 7415s | start to pick them up pretty quickly now |
| 7417s | but when you play bingo when you when |
| 7419s | you don't get many numbers at the start |
| 7420s | you're kind of guaranteed them later |
| 7422s | because there's so many |
| 7423s | you know that you haven't got you're |
| 7424s | kind of guaranteed to hit one |
| 7427s | it gives the |
| 7428s | the |
| 7429s | image that you're catching up but you're |
| 7431s | not because other people have got a much |
| 7432s | higher percentage chance than you if |
| 7434s | you're behind |
| 7443s | on the other side it's also a mutinous |
| 7444s | waiting room |
| 7446s | because he'd like to do his good card |
| 7450s | he also plays as a smite and he could |
| 7451s | fit in a wind feared smite as well |
| 7460s | and that's ten mana yep yep |
| 7463s | i just look at ginger every turn the cat |
| 7466s | has deserted him which is a bad sign |
| 7469s | let's get to minefield again |
| 7472s | yep |
| 7478s | we've seen the blade storms kinda useful |
| 7484s | in the game where it wasn't drawn |
| 7502s | keep smacking this that looked like a |
| 7503s | mutant |
| 7505s | nope ricara oh you had a seven on it |
| 7510s | ah |
| 7512s | mercara is also tough to play because |
| 7515s | you give up your ability to just |
| 7517s | naturally hero power |
| 7522s | he's treading this line of |
| 7524s | numbers right 36 being one of the break |
| 7526s | points |
| 7530s | yep |
| 7543s | yep decides they're gonna do it 10 is a |
| 7545s | lot of armor |
| 7547s | and the short term is is what he needs |
| 7549s | to survive |
| 7559s | bingo |
| 7561s | part three |
| 7568s | still |
| 7569s | ways off |
| 7571s | still needs two more |
| 7575s | yeah |
| 7577s | you got a 12 it could change quickly |
| 7581s | probably won't but it could |
| 7583s | kind of reminds me of at least so you |
| 7584s | just hoped you drew the things but it |
| 7586s | was always the bottom three cards by the |
| 7587s | way the maths actually worked out |
| 7593s | these minefields just trading blows |
| 7595s | destroying the enemy minions |
| 7598s | this is the |
| 7600s | most bizarre game of hearthstone ever |
| 7602s | they're |
| 7603s | both just hitting each other's weapons |
| 7605s | and dumping cars waiting for cards |
| 7608s | this is very 2016 isn't it |
| 7611s | uh |
| 7612s | it's like |
| 7613s | tincho needs to find his combo before |
| 7615s | hachikuchi finds muteness like yeah |
| 7619s | and now he's down to only two versus one |
| 7621s | cards needed |
| 7625s | he keep that that's a 50 50 now because |
| 7627s | that's another minion |
| 7629s | like at this point he'd also accept |
| 7631s | rakara once again to keep the armor in |
| 7633s | check |
| 7639s | what could he dump he can't he can't bow |
| 7641s | if he's he knows that mutant is |
| 7644s | marching towards the top of that deck |
| 7646s | soon |
| 7650s | rancor is the only card that currently |
| 7652s | allows him to deal with raid boss and |
| 7653s | nyxia |
| 7655s | um |
| 7656s | [Music] |
| 7658s | he could just attack and equip the |
| 7660s | bulwark |
| 7661s | that's what i was looking at i think |
| 7662s | that might be the play |
| 7664s | because he he can buy himself maybe two |
| 7667s | extra turns after assuming he survives |
| 7669s | the mutinous 50 50. |
| 7672s | he does get one or two turns before he |
| 7674s | actually dies to kazakhstan right in |
| 7676s | theory |
| 7684s | because you have to go through the |
| 7684s | process of actually drawing the cards |
| 7686s | and playing them oh |
| 7690s | just decided that so be it |
| 7692s | [Music] |
| 7696s | because this does two cards |
| 7698s | oh |
| 7699s | 10 left oh you can trade the |
| 7702s | heavy plate he's still got the |
| 7704s | protection with the rust rot viper |
| 7707s | um |
| 7713s | oh still no muteness oh my gosh |
| 7716s | this isn't |
| 7719s | and that also means he can't play |
| 7720s | kazakhstan to just try and win the game |
| 7722s | either like |
| 7724s | he's just gotta sit there |
| 7726s | and keep waiting |
| 7730s | still needs two combo pieces |
| 7733s | we can't even play like six degrees of |
| 7735s | mutinous like trying to work out |
| 7738s | he could get a muteness in other ways |
| 7739s | because there's no boxes to open it's |
| 7741s | just wait for the mutants |
| 7743s | yep so mr smite is uh still additional |
| 7746s | protection |
| 7748s | um |
| 7750s | from the uh mutanus |
| 7753s | because i don't think it can be woven |
| 7754s | into the combo and |
| 7756s | um |
| 7759s | i mean |
| 7760s | oshkoji still has enough armor though |
| 7762s | that's that's a problem |
| 7764s | uh like he's tincho still needs to |
| 7768s | uh get some of this armor off and he's |
| 7770s | still two pieces off the combo as well |
| 7773s | [Music] |
| 7780s | oh my |
| 7782s | but what can he do |
| 7784s | what can we do what can we talk about |
| 7786s | other than he needs to draw mutants |
| 7789s | i i mean he |
| 7791s | you yep pure power he's still got a hand |
| 7794s | space left |
| 7796s | all right heavy plates back |
| 7799s | get rid of it worth noting |
| 7802s | you can trade it back he's got two |
| 7803s | provokes he can just keep going goodness |
| 7806s | now it's 50 50 time |
| 7808s | yep |
| 7813s | so restaurant viper |
| 7815s | uh obviously the best target for teen |
| 7817s | show |
| 7819s | second best target for teen show |
| 7824s | battle master oh no |
| 7827s | that's the worst oh geez oh |
| 7831s | all right |
| 7832s | max damage is now |
| 7834s | 24 |
| 7836s | okay |
| 7838s | i can work with 24 |
| 7841s | all right |
| 7845s | so you're just gonna need to add in i |
| 7846s | know seven cards of fatigue and job done |
| 7851s | and not happening with kazakhstan |
| 7853s | [Music] |
| 7855s | ah |
| 7861s | i think he's got to get creative here |
| 7864s | [Laughter] |
| 7865s | you've been waiting for that |
| 7869s | he's definitely got to get creative |
| 7872s | gosh darn better believe it oh he's |
| 7874s | still got |
| 7877s | what has he had neil tell me |
| 7880s | i mean he's still got book there don i |
| 7881s | don't know how you get it to the |
| 7882s | opponent's face but he's he has it |
| 7885s | he's like ross rob i pray you've done |
| 7887s | your job friend |
| 7890s | get on out of here you sly dog |
| 7894s | there's still the chance that |
| 7897s | that design completely misses |
| 7900s | yep there's still the chance that uh |
| 7903s | um tincho can like get rakara and |
| 7907s | unstoppable force into |
| 7910s | large |
| 7911s | minions |
| 7913s | oh yeah that's some more damage yeah |
| 7914s | here we go but |
| 7916s | he's still an incredibly long ways off |
| 7918s | garbage all right that that doesn't help |
| 7921s | nope oh |
| 7923s | that's rubbish it only does 20 damage or |
| 7925s | so annoying horn okay cool only only 20 |
| 7928s | damage or so |
| 7936s | um |
| 7938s | it's a clue coming across the speakers |
| 7944s | bubba |
| 7945s | ah well okay i mean there's no like |
| 7949s | outside of boombox right there's not |
| 7951s | direct damage treasures there's still |
| 7953s | opportunities for tincho here |
| 7956s | um |
| 7958s | like we still got some game left it it's |
| 7961s | not over |
| 7964s | it's gonna be tough but it ain't |
| 7967s | over yeah there's no crazy combos in |
| 7970s | that lot there's a lot of damage there's |
| 7972s | a lot of boards to remove but there's no |
| 7974s | straight up my board's full of 12 12s |
| 7976s | and a 12 9. good luck |
| 7979s | yep |
| 7984s | we'll work cutting class |
| 7989s | he doesn't even want to cut it |
| 7991s | yeah yeah |
| 7993s | because he's got he's got to kind of |
| 7995s | play this fine line between |
| 7997s | um |
| 7999s | like attrition |
| 8001s | plus |
| 8003s | combo |
| 8005s | 51 now |
| 8007s | oh my goodness |
| 8009s | yeah it's not looking good for tincha |
| 8011s | looking very good for hachikuchi though |
| 8025s | oh no |
| 8027s | we'll never hear the last of it tj |
| 8031s | you have the chance to cast both of us |
| 8034s | an america's region player reaching the |
| 8036s | final of a masters tour against gabby |
| 8038s | which is as good as a win because you've |
| 8040s | beaten all the real players in the |
| 8041s | tournament |
| 8043s | yeah hachikuchi is legit though |
| 8046s | he really is yeah absolutely this al |
| 8048s | warlock play has been superb |
| 8053s | yeah this lineup's been a really |
| 8055s | interesting lineup literally just |
| 8058s | giving up a game almost to every |
| 8060s | opponent by choice at the start because |
| 8062s | of the very weak |
| 8064s | that's up to the druid |
| 8071s | oh you can't even play them a third or |
| 8073s | you can but it doesn't do much |
| 8078s | assert dominance |
| 8082s | not going anywhere it's just been |
| 8084s | stapled to the board |
| 8087s | um |
| 8093s | there's some kind of creative things |
| 8096s | going on here right so he knows he has |
| 8098s | to deal with the second um |
| 8101s | uh an oil horn |
| 8104s | um |
| 8106s | no he's just gonna die huh i was |
| 8108s | thinking like you'd like rancor this |
| 8110s | turn |
| 8111s | and then like set up for recaro plus uh |
| 8114s | shield shattered next turn |
| 8117s | like i don't think he can brawl this i |
| 8119s | just don't think he can get away with |
| 8120s | brawling this |
| 8124s | and i thi like this these hero powers |
| 8126s | have to start going |
| 8127s | face |
| 8130s | if only he could feel his opponent's |
| 8132s | hand full up with lib rooms that'll sort |
| 8134s | it out |
| 8140s | uh last six cards for teen show include |
| 8143s | galvingar double heavy plate restaurant |
| 8145s | viper to the front shield |
| 8147s | slam um |
| 8151s | i like the bulwark here from hachikuchi |
| 8153s | knows that teacher has to answer the |
| 8154s | board so uh probably won't be able to |
| 8156s | fit in the viper in that as well to try |
| 8159s | and like push damage with unstoppable |
| 8160s | force into the kazakhstan |
| 8163s | um |
| 8165s | oh |
| 8166s | now what do you think steel is just not |
| 8168s | an option |
| 8170s | if he can gain 19 armor a turn |
| 8173s | he won't be because he's bored locked |
| 8175s | his opponent he'll just never die |
| 8180s | i i i think he won |
| 8182s | oh kazakhstan okay |
| 8184s | yeah |
| 8186s | for a second i was like wait he his face |
| 8189s | his attack actually could go face |
| 8191s | that either means the kazakhstan one or |
| 8194s | he won |
| 8195s | um |
| 8199s | and i think a moral victory i think at |
| 8201s | that point |
| 8203s | yeah |
| 8204s | oh no |
| 8209s | these aren't good treasures |
| 8214s | no but i think they're good enough |
| 8218s | well they don't do anything |
| 8224s | like holy book is just there for mag |
| 8226s | theradon but he has that answer with the |
| 8228s | bladestorm anyway |
| 8230s | um |
| 8232s | i just don't know how tincho is going to |
| 8233s | be able to fit in 30 points of damage |
| 8238s | and then do his combo |
| 8241s | he knows there's another anoya horn in |
| 8243s | there |
| 8252s | doing |
| 8258s | stretching eating |
| 8261s | looking to see if he's got a |
| 8263s | another um battle master in his deck |
| 8265s | that he forgot about maybe under the |
| 8267s | sofa |
| 8270s | is he gonna miss her smile into it |
| 8272s | got it |
| 8273s | four more damage |
| 8278s | he's got to hope that the treasures are |
| 8279s | just complete whiffs yeah |
| 8282s | and apparently they're not |
| 8284s | and that'll do it |
| 8285s | uh unless every single one no even if |
| 8287s | every single one deals one he can still |
| 8289s | hear a power at the end so it's |
| 8290s | guaranteed lethal |
| 8292s | and there it is hachikuji |
| 8298s | all right |
| 8299s | yeah you could hear about the end didn't |
| 8301s | matter hachikuchi moves on to the finals |
| 8304s | to face gabby defeats teen show |
| 8306s | and uh |
| 8308s | i mean |
| 8309s | it was sort of an anti-climactic final |
| 8311s | game right there there were definitely |
| 8313s | moments where it got exciting but it was |
| 8316s | mostly just a mutinous waiting room |
| 8318s | teacher played his muteness on curve |
| 8320s | hoping to hit something big |
| 8321s | uh on the side either |
| 8324s | mutinous itself or uh kazakhstan would |
| 8326s | have been pretty good because then maybe |
| 8328s | he could play that war of attrition go |
| 8329s | into fatigue uh he wouldn't have had an |
| 8331s | actual win condition for himself uh |
| 8333s | hachikuji wouldn't wouldn't |
| 8335s | um so he can buy a ton of time |
| 8337s | and there's the pivotal moment uh |
| 8339s | hitting the battlegrounds battlemaster |
| 8341s | severely limiting tincho's ability |
| 8344s | um |
| 8345s | uh to actually combo |
| 8347s | even if we look at that game though like |
| 8349s | teicho never drew galvingar |
| 8352s | just never drew it |
| 8354s | so like even if mutinous had hit the |
| 8356s | rust rot viper that game still plays out |
| 8359s | nearly exactly the same |
| 8361s | like except |
| 8363s | less to say yeah |
| 8365s | yeah except we have even less to talk |
| 8367s | about |
| 8368s | um he could have drawn more aggressively |
| 8370s | right he was not drawing aggressively at |
| 8372s | the end so he could have hit it but |
| 8373s | hachikuji even had enough armor at the |
| 8375s | end of the game to live through the the |
| 8378s | worst of the combos |
| 8379s | um even if like the battlemaster |
| 8381s | galvingar faceless was uh still |
| 8383s | preserved uh he had enough life so |
| 8386s | uh just rough uh on the get off the get |
| 8389s | go for tincho and actually just |
| 8391s | definitely impressed me |
| 8393s | and uh i know that |
| 8395s | he's at least got a couple of fans |
| 8397s | waiting in the stands |
| 8398s | uh which is gia and derek |
| 8401s | yeah i'm just hoping |
| 8403s | uh that their uh region that they cast |
| 8406s | uh so often asia-pacific grand masters |
| 8408s | can have some validation |
| 8409s | but it's it's the final boss right like |
| 8412s | asia pacific can't win a mattress tour |
| 8414s | unless they defeat gabby that just makes |
| 8416s | sense right |
| 8417s | he's the true final boss uh in a sense |
| 8421s | so i think we have an incredible final |
| 8423s | uh set up for us with decks that i |
| 8425s | honestly wouldn't have expected to be in |
| 8427s | the finals um |
| 8429s | let me purpose this by saying onyxia's |
| 8432s | lair had the decks that i would never |
| 8434s | expect to be in the finals with love |
| 8435s | storm um |
| 8437s | but this one is the second |
| 8440s | least |
| 8441s | dex that i would expect in the final |
| 8443s | there we go another thing a nexus layer |
| 8445s | most of the top 16 have the decks we |
| 8447s | expect this has been all over the place |
| 8449s | even down to the wire like it's not just |
| 8451s | been the final but the semi-finals even |
| 8454s | the quarterfinals just |
| 8456s | obviously druid obviously demon hunter |
| 8457s | but the |
| 8458s | the support crew it's just been |
| 8460s | everything |
| 8462s | yep i was gonna say apart from warlock |
| 8464s | but we've got a warlock in the final |
| 8466s | we do we do we have an owl warlock in |
| 8468s | the final |
| 8469s | sound the out warlock alarm who |
| 8474s | there it is |
| 8478s | i'll do it again just because you told |
| 8479s | me to never do it again it's 100 gonna |
| 8481s | happen now |
| 8482s | um but yeah we have our final set up |
| 8485s | meal which means uh looks like me and |
| 8487s | you are done for the day uh nice to uh |
| 8490s | start things off with the america's |
| 8492s | grandmaster's casting crew and then |
| 8494s | finish things off for us with the |
| 8496s | america's grand masters cast and crew |
| 8497s | right as we get to see the last |
| 8499s | america's player eliminated from the |
| 8500s | tournament it's just fitting in every |
| 8502s | regard uh |
| 8504s | still big shout outs to tincha though |
| 8506s | because um uh top four is |
| 8508s | uh it is a very big deal a very big deal |
| 8512s | so |
| 8513s | um congratulations to him but the bigger |
| 8515s | congratulations here it uh goes to uh |
| 8517s | gabby and hachikuji who will be facing |
| 8519s | off at that in that final however before |
| 8522s | we go to that final we are going to have |
| 8524s | to take uh a little bit of a break uh |
| 8526s | hachikuji needs a break they need to get |
| 8528s | the map set up |
| 8529s | but |
| 8530s | you're not going to want to miss it so |
| 8531s | don't go anywhere the conclusion to |
| 8533s | masters tour ruins of alterac |
| 8535s | right after this |
| 8564s | work |
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| 9152s | welcome everyone to the finals of |
| 9153s | masters tour ruins of alterac a long |
| 9156s | grueling but ultimately very exciting |
| 9158s | road to get here for both of our |
| 9161s | competitors and uh subtle why don't you |
| 9164s | right out the gate break it down for our |
| 9166s | lovely viewers what have we got to look |
| 9167s | forward to |
| 9169s | uh we have an incredible final lined up |
| 9172s | for you we have gabby the inevitable |
| 9175s | gabby making yet another march through |
| 9178s | this tournament looking to pick up a |
| 9179s | second masters tour title after being |
| 9182s | denied his birthright his route through |
| 9186s | grand masters the easy way to the world |
| 9188s | championship he's got right back up on |
| 9190s | the horse and he's trying to make his |
| 9192s | way through the masters tour program |
| 9194s | instead which is a new route to the |
| 9195s | world championships that has been added |
| 9197s | in this year however on the other side |
| 9201s | the pride of aipac hachikuji is coming |
| 9204s | up with a lineup which we just had a |
| 9207s | three-way argument between myself derek |
| 9210s | and larinda for about 10 minutes so the |
| 9212s | entire length of that break is exactly |
| 9214s | what is supposed to be going on with |
| 9216s | this lineup um it seems like if you've |
| 9219s | watched the two rounds before this he's |
| 9221s | preyed on the warriors |
| 9223s | that makes sense he has a lot of good |
| 9225s | decks against warrior and we're like |
| 9226s | that makes sense he's just run into a |
| 9228s | bunch of warriors throughout the |
| 9229s | tournament and that's why he's here so |
| 9231s | we then check his match-up history |
| 9233s | outside of the two matches we've watched |
| 9235s | on stream today he's played one warrior |
| 9237s | in the entire tournament so that's not |
| 9239s | it he's been beating other lineups with |
| 9242s | these decks |
| 9243s | um and we've thrown around the idea of |
| 9245s | like burn shaman is that where he's |
| 9247s | finding his good matchup i think |
| 9248s | regardless of whichever way you break it |
| 9250s | down though uh the fact of the matter is |
| 9252s | he doesn't have that good match up in |
| 9255s | gabby's lineup as far as i can see so |
| 9258s | i think he's got an uphill struggle on |
| 9260s | his hands in this final against gabby |
| 9262s | and not just because it's gab |
| 9264s | yeah i i do have to agree with you there |
| 9266s | i think the real uh secret sauce for |
| 9268s | hachi |
| 9269s | has been just winning unfavorables on |
| 9272s | his warlock he was six and two i think |
| 9274s | heading into uh the semi-finals if not |
| 9277s | the uh the finals and it's just been |
| 9279s | getting the job done like you say the |
| 9281s | overall stats are not favorable to our |
| 9283s | warlock i don't think anyone expected |
| 9285s | them to be favorable towards our lock to |
| 9287s | be perfectly honest it's a deck that |
| 9289s | really felt the uh |
| 9291s | the the nerf to |
| 9293s | the ruined myth or rod made it so much |
| 9295s | harder to consistently get the reduction |
| 9298s | in costs necessary to win games and when |
| 9300s | there's so many vipers knocking around |
| 9301s | as well it's weirdly enough one of the |
| 9303s | uh the harshest matchups uh against |
| 9306s | viper it's so devastating your five mana |
| 9308s | weapon does get destroyed but i think |
| 9310s | the secret sauce on the other side for |
| 9312s | gabby has to be this rally priest i have |
| 9314s | just been absolutely in love with |
| 9316s | watching him play this deck because he's |
| 9319s | showing so many different uh varying |
| 9321s | styles of the deck all the different |
| 9323s | forms that you can take while piloting |
| 9326s | this particularly uh tricky combo slash |
| 9329s | tempo deck and he's known exactly when |
| 9332s | to execute each of them in each of the |
| 9333s | different matchups you may see with the |
| 9335s | deck |
| 9337s | yeah i completely agree with that i |
| 9339s | really wasn't sure which of the two |
| 9341s | variations of the miracle-ish based |
| 9343s | priest we'd see more of coming into this |
| 9346s | uh gabby planted his flag early he was |
| 9349s | uh challenged on twitter by lambie |
| 9351s | series who said yeah grat's good job |
| 9352s | you're crushing it that's expected but |
| 9354s | why are you playing rally priest the |
| 9356s | miracle version's better to which gabby |
| 9358s | responded take a look at the people at |
| 9360s | the top of the rankings and check out |
| 9361s | which priest they have and yeah he's |
| 9363s | absolutely spot on the rally priest has |
| 9365s | been an excellent performer |
| 9368s | throughout it's going to go here |
| 9370s | straight up against the owl warlock here |
| 9372s | and this is interesting because |
| 9373s | something that i've just sort of by |
| 9376s | coincidence run into while i've been |
| 9378s | casting is i've cast a good chunk of our |
| 9380s | lock in this tournament despite there |
| 9381s | not being that much of it about and that |
| 9384s | four mana removal spell slot has had a |
| 9387s | decent impact i think on how successful |
| 9390s | they can be against priests in general |
| 9392s | um if it's not there it sucks if it's |
| 9394s | hysteria they have options but we have |
| 9396s | seen cascading disaster thrown in there |
| 9398s | as well which can be |
| 9400s | incredibly spicy in this matchup so |
| 9403s | hachikuji has the kind of middle ground |
| 9406s | in this spot hysteria can be good but it |
| 9409s | still requires very specific break |
| 9410s | points i think yourself angie was so |
| 9412s | were casting right in an exact series |
| 9414s | where hysteria was sort of okay but not |
| 9417s | quite good enough to finally go over the |
| 9418s | line |
| 9421s | and here it is the first game of the |
| 9423s | finals of masters tour ruins of altar at |
| 9425s | gabby with his signature dirty washing |
| 9428s | in the background or i suppose wet |
| 9429s | watching more appropriate and hachikuji |
| 9432s | i think sipping from a hatsune miku mug |
| 9434s | if i caught him there which is uh all |
| 9437s | right lowering him in my estimations |
| 9438s | quite drastically but i'm still rooting |
| 9440s | for apac let's get it |
| 9445s | tempo sethick has been a staple of the |
| 9449s | curve so far for gabby up until this |
| 9451s | point absolutely no reservations about |
| 9454s | just dumping his minions on board he has |
| 9457s | ray's dead he has rally he has all of |
| 9459s | these extra tools to bring them back it |
| 9460s | is not |
| 9461s | like the miracle version at all where |
| 9463s | once the minions are gone they are gone |
| 9466s | and i think playing out a septic like |
| 9467s | this against a super removal heavy deck |
| 9470s | like our warlock you are kind of just |
| 9473s | sending it out there to die |
| 9476s | and that's something i wanted to bring |
| 9477s | up here actually because |
| 9479s | the real difference between the miracle |
| 9480s | version of priest and the rally version |
| 9482s | of priest is that miracle like you said |
| 9484s | it it's all in but it's usually more |
| 9486s | powerful when it does around turns five |
| 9488s | or six |
| 9489s | the rally priest is less powerful |
| 9492s | immediately but has more consistent |
| 9493s | waves of threats |
| 9495s | uh yeah all this version for hachikuji |
| 9497s | again with the owl warlock do you think |
| 9499s | he's going to be dealing well with that |
| 9501s | kind of slower more consistent approach |
| 9503s | to filling up the board |
| 9506s | uh i would imagine |
| 9509s | it would be worse in this matchup from |
| 9512s | hachikuji's side this isn't really one |
| 9514s | of the matchups i've considered with |
| 9515s | bringing these two |
| 9517s | um but i would imagine just because |
| 9520s | the ability to just clear one board with |
| 9523s | a moar set up or with that hysteria or |
| 9526s | whatever it is if you can do that |
| 9528s | against the one massive board that uh |
| 9530s | miracle priest tends to make against you |
| 9532s | and they then whiff on like actual super |
| 9534s | wing condition dragons off the draconic |
| 9536s | studies you kind of just have infinite |
| 9538s | time from that point to do whatever you |
| 9540s | want |
| 9541s | not to mention they have to line up a |
| 9543s | specific draw into mali to have |
| 9546s | sufficient gas throughout the course of |
| 9547s | the game the fact that this version of |
| 9550s | priest kind of generates its own gas |
| 9552s | throughout the game means that they can |
| 9553s | just consistently ask questions of you |
| 9555s | the whole game and |
| 9557s | as much as people might say you can't |
| 9558s | interact with otk decks that is how you |
| 9561s | interact with them you just pressure |
| 9562s | them as much as you possibly can every |
| 9564s | single turn force them to do things |
| 9567s | other than just spend five mana on |
| 9569s | playing ruined mithral rod for example |
| 9571s | and i do think this uh rally version of |
| 9574s | the deck for gabby is a little better |
| 9577s | very interesting to see the tap there |
| 9579s | instead of the uh the drain sole uh |
| 9582s | obviously holding it back does give him |
| 9583s | the opportunity to go drain soul plus |
| 9585s | touch on the following turn to kill off |
| 9587s | the nasmani but i think we both know |
| 9589s | that's very unlikely to happen or all |
| 9592s | three of us i'll invite hachikuji into |
| 9593s | the discussion uh |
| 9596s | with the pickup of moab artifacts so |
| 9597s | that does make things a little bit more |
| 9599s | likely to actually keep the board clear |
| 9601s | which is of course his uh prime |
| 9602s | directive in these interim turns before |
| 9605s | the combo's online |
| 9618s | oh okay we'll take that as a first |
| 9621s | discount |
| 9624s | yeah it's incredibly can now potentially |
| 9627s | get a nice chain going here |
| 9629s | right but he is opting to use a lot of |
| 9631s | these spells that would be very good |
| 9633s | with a sethik on board before he gets |
| 9635s | the guaranteed sethik off of this |
| 9637s | insight as the one remaining card in his |
| 9639s | deck |
| 9641s | but again it's that exact interaction i |
| 9643s | was talking about before right how much |
| 9644s | mana is your opponent about to have on |
| 9646s | the other side five all right just make |
| 9648s | big annoying minions if they spend the |
| 9651s | turn clearing this that's a term where |
| 9652s | they don't play rod they spend a turn |
| 9654s | playing rod well my board is looking |
| 9656s | very big and murdery right now and there |
| 9658s | is |
| 9659s | a very real chance that this could just |
| 9662s | be game from this setup 2v2 not quite |
| 9666s | the golden ratio that you were talking |
| 9668s | about derek but very very close |
| 9672s | fortitude oh |
| 9674s | okay oh know he goes to the devourer |
| 9676s | instead i don't think this ever oh no |
| 9678s | wait with the bless that's just lethal |
| 9680s | right |
| 9681s | blair's apotheosis like he's still going |
| 9684s | i can't imagine this doesn't end up |
| 9685s | being lethal at some point but yeah i |
| 9688s | think just the devour combined with the |
| 9690s | bless will end up getting there right |
| 9692s | oh man gabby almost can't believe it |
| 9695s | himself he just looks absolutely |
| 9698s | unbeatable on this deck i i can't |
| 9700s | remember i've ever seen a deck look |
| 9702s | quite this dominant |
| 9705s | he's just dead on turn five |
| 9708s | he just played a rod and then fell over |
| 9712s | this entire game |
| 9715s | oh |
| 9717s | again honestly just feels like |
| 9718s | cyberbullying from gabby but |
| 9721s | you've earned it and he goes up one game |
| 9723s | to zero in the finals of the masters |
| 9725s | tour the priest i don't know how you |
| 9726s | would rank this in terms of uh auto wins |
| 9729s | because i would generally say like i |
| 9731s | said this priest is looking very strong |
| 9733s | for him overall so i would expect it to |
| 9735s | get a win at some point in the series |
| 9737s | but that does bring me on to the next |
| 9738s | point of hachikuji's unusual band |
| 9741s | strategy to where it almost feels like |
| 9743s | he's just allowing druid to win a game |
| 9746s | by not banning it at the start and |
| 9748s | that's exactly what gabby's gonna be |
| 9749s | queuing up next |
| 9751s | this so this is why and again like i'm |
| 9754s | criticizing the lineup that's made it to |
| 9756s | the finals i understand that i |
| 9758s | understand that's inherently silly and |
| 9760s | you're sort of operating from a very |
| 9762s | weird place to begin with but it's why i |
| 9764s | don't like this lineup very much because |
| 9767s | you've made a lineup that wants to ban |
| 9769s | both demon hunter and druid |
| 9771s | theoretically which are going to be two |
| 9773s | of the most common decks in the |
| 9774s | tournament and you can't really do that |
| 9776s | so yeah as you say you're kind of |
| 9778s | letting one of those through and trying |
| 9780s | to have enough good matchups elsewhere |
| 9782s | um and if you are gonna have enough good |
| 9784s | matchups elsewhere you are gonna rely on |
| 9786s | a little bit of q order rng right like |
| 9788s | you know if the warrior had come out |
| 9790s | first against that priest and maybe |
| 9791s | picked up a win then suddenly he's in a |
| 9793s | much better position but now even the |
| 9795s | warrior has some questions to answer |
| 9797s | like yeah it can be quest stroke sure |
| 9799s | but |
| 9799s | um now we're asking questions about the |
| 9801s | warrior as well and because there's |
| 9802s | still the druid remaining like you start |
| 9804s | going down very strange rabbit holes uh |
| 9807s | in terms of what can be done in this |
| 9808s | position so yeah certainly a contentious |
| 9812s | lineup for hachikuji in my mind but |
| 9815s | still i would love nothing more than to |
| 9817s | see him prove me wrong because we can go |
| 9819s | back to the last masters tour i probably |
| 9822s | would have said very similar things if |
| 9823s | you just shown me love storms line up in |
| 9825s | like round four or five of swiss i |
| 9828s | probably would have talked down to that |
| 9829s | as well and been made to look like an |
| 9831s | absolute idiot so pachikuji wants to |
| 9833s | oblige doing the same thing here he is |
| 9835s | more than welcome |
| 9837s | and speaking of against this uh |
| 9840s | druid um |
| 9843s | obviously this particular build of druid |
| 9845s | with the kazakhstan at the top end as |
| 9847s | your main wind condition is a little bit |
| 9849s | slow to get online compared to you know |
| 9851s | the glowfly variant or some other ways |
| 9854s | that you can build it like ramping up |
| 9855s | into a a perfect huge version in the |
| 9857s | ramp build |
| 9859s | does this ever give the warlock enough |
| 9861s | time to get its uh combo set up and then |
| 9864s | played as well and provide enough damage |
| 9866s | to get through all the armor that's |
| 9868s | theoretically been gained |
| 9871s | sometimes |
| 9872s | yes and this is a good start with uh |
| 9875s | ruined myth or rob because |
| 9877s | almost the the clauses in sentences |
| 9879s | without warlock don't really matter |
| 9882s | right you can kind of end at do you have |
| 9884s | enough time to do your combo because if |
| 9886s | the answer to that is yes |
| 9887s | basically anything any deck in the game |
| 9890s | can do to try and play around that |
| 9891s | doesn't exist right it doesn't really |
| 9893s | matter how much armor you gain how many |
| 9896s | minions you put in play if they get full |
| 9898s | discounted tamzin double phylactery with |
| 9901s | a seven minion board you die it just |
| 9904s | doesn't matter um so |
| 9907s | it can be done for sure however just |
| 9910s | again looking at the stats one final |
| 9912s | shout out to wicked good and off curve |
| 9914s | whose work i have been relying on |
| 9915s | heavily throughout this tournament 67 |
| 9918s | win rate for the druid in this |
| 9919s | particular matchup over the course of |
| 9921s | this tournament so it's not great to say |
| 9924s | the least |
| 9925s | and i think we might be seeing why a |
| 9928s | turn four kazakhstan here very nicely |
| 9930s | maneuvered with uh by gabby taking the |
| 9932s | uh the one mana pouch at the end for a |
| 9935s | uh a zero mana uh |
| 9937s | bloom |
| 9938s | offered embers of ragnaros here i feel |
| 9941s | like even with having no hard ramp |
| 9944s | whatsoever you just take that and you |
| 9946s | just kind of kill them |
| 9948s | right you have four mana are you serious |
| 9951s | like the game is not lasting five more |
| 9954s | turns from here surely |
| 9958s | right like come on |
| 9960s | i i it's a card that you can play as |
| 9962s | opposed to a card that you can't that |
| 9964s | has to be better doesn't it |
| 9969s | nah you just need to believe |
| 9971s | all right |
| 9977s | okay |
| 9980s | robert a nice way to just start uh |
| 9983s | applying some of that pressure |
| 9987s | goes very nicely obviously with double |
| 9989s | feral rage in hand means that gabby is |
| 9991s | uh closer to lethal than it might |
| 9993s | initially appear |
| 9995s | yes very true does mean that the |
| 9998s | complete whiff here means that hachikuji |
| 10001s | does have the absolute free turn this |
| 10003s | turn to be able to jam down that mithral |
| 10006s | rod |
| 10010s | the bubba can obviously set up for a |
| 10012s | fairly likely gnomish army knife on the |
| 10014s | following turn |
| 10016s | um |
| 10017s | but |
| 10018s | that'd be |
| 10020s | interesting i i don't think there was |
| 10022s | anything he could have played on that |
| 10023s | turn because the only option that wasn't |
| 10025s | represented there was i believe |
| 10027s | embers right |
| 10028s | um and so it means that by picking |
| 10031s | canopic |
| 10032s | or beastly beauty thank you very much |
| 10034s | all the beauty okay sorry that he may |
| 10036s | have picked even though i'm pretty sure |
| 10037s | i saw the embers being clicked on |
| 10039s | okay okay |
| 10042s | but i mean this play would honestly make |
| 10044s | me think that it probably was beastly |
| 10046s | beauty picked because otherwise i don't |
| 10047s | know i just feel like |
| 10049s | jamming down bubba like there's a good |
| 10050s | chance you get another one before turn a |
| 10053s | anyway where you want it to go alongside |
| 10054s | the canopy |
| 10056s | well unless this is literally the plan |
| 10058s | right like he cast moonlight guidance |
| 10060s | there to get a canopic jars and he's |
| 10062s | just going to go bubba canopic jars on |
| 10064s | turn eight and play nothing up until |
| 10066s | that point or play scale of enyxia up |
| 10067s | until that point |
| 10070s | theoretically possible you can see that |
| 10072s | being a line and i honestly i think that |
| 10074s | line supports the idea of embers better |
| 10076s | right because you do the bubba's canopic |
| 10078s | jar to buy time and then by the time |
| 10081s | that's been dealt with or hasn't then |
| 10083s | you have your embers of ragnaros play |
| 10084s | instead |
| 10086s | and it does look like for the moment |
| 10088s | that his work that plan is working out |
| 10091s | reasonably well for gabby hachikuji has |
| 10093s | an owl in hand that he can play and then |
| 10095s | sacrifice with the grimoire |
| 10098s | amazing in hand as well |
| 10100s | so just needs to find himself with the |
| 10102s | phylactery |
| 10103s | and uh of course the |
| 10106s | the shipment most likely i won't say |
| 10108s | necessarily needs shipment because we've |
| 10110s | already seen in this uh |
| 10111s | tournament get with some pretty |
| 10114s | uh funky lethals with just the other |
| 10116s | tertiary minions in the deck that's |
| 10117s | right |
| 10118s | but still a little ways off here |
| 10121s | but i imagine since we are barreling |
| 10123s | towards a barber canopic jars situation |
| 10127s | that my theory of it doesn't matter it's |
| 10130s | always lethal is going to be very much |
| 10132s | put to the test here |
| 10134s | with 41 health already plus potentially |
| 10136s | seven death rattle minions in play also |
| 10138s | so yes i would imagine |
| 10140s | that uh hachikuji is going to need the |
| 10142s | full juice here in order to deal with |
| 10145s | this board state if it can be done |
| 10148s | all right there's the embers |
| 10151s | there's the embers and there's the uh |
| 10153s | the bubba canopic the play that gabby |
| 10155s | was clearly |
| 10156s | setting up |
| 10158s | bubba canopic really sounds like a uh a |
| 10160s | really lame star wars character doesn't |
| 10163s | it |
| 10166s | why does it have to be lame i think that |
| 10167s | sounds like a really cool star wars |
| 10169s | character thank you daryl |
| 10171s | coming soon |
| 10173s | the book of bubba canopic |
| 10175s | [Laughter] |
| 10184s | getting the owl killed is the important |
| 10185s | part but this is obviously going to |
| 10187s | unleash the uh |
| 10189s | the full army of legendary minions here |
| 10192s | on the other side and he is going to |
| 10193s | have to pray in some way |
| 10198s | okay good hit it attacks the grom |
| 10203s | oh it's so good |
| 10205s | just auto enrages the grom |
| 10213s | oh man this isn't even lethal is it no |
| 10215s | no no not quite |
| 10221s | uh if the school spirits was one mana |
| 10224s | cheaper it was |
| 10225s | actually kind of yes |
| 10228s | yes |
| 10229s | agreed |
| 10231s | oh i |
| 10233s | think he's just dead |
| 10238s | okay you can kill off a little bit |
| 10242s | but then bubba wind fury plus the 8 24. |
| 10248s | yeah that's going to do it mutating |
| 10249s | injection enough to get gabby up two |
| 10251s | games to zero almost as quick as it |
| 10254s | started it finishes with hachikuji |
| 10256s | taking a loss now two games in a row |
| 10258s | with the owl warlock the deck that |
| 10259s | miraculously seems to have been picking |
| 10261s | up win after win |
| 10263s | off camera and up until this point but |
| 10265s | with gabby now bringing out both the |
| 10268s | priests and the druids getting |
| 10270s | very easy and very characteristically |
| 10272s | gabby wins jamming away two games to |
| 10275s | zero |
| 10276s | yes and uh now it is deck number two in |
| 10281s | the story of redemption for me in recent |
| 10283s | weeks it is quest road for gabby a deck |
| 10286s | that has gone up miles in my estimation |
| 10288s | it hasn't risen up the tier list for me |
| 10290s | as fast as libra paladin is which i am |
| 10292s | now fully convinced is a real deck |
| 10295s | finally uh having us all shamed it for |
| 10298s | so long throughout grand masters despite |
| 10300s | its insane ladder win rate now it |
| 10303s | doesn't really have that great of a |
| 10304s | ladder win rate but it's absolutely |
| 10306s | farming in tournaments so you can only |
| 10307s | have one or the other apparently with |
| 10309s | libra paladin and this time around it's |
| 10311s | the one we're interested in but quest |
| 10312s | rogue has been making some |
| 10315s | real waves as well and particularly in |
| 10319s | anti-demon hunter kind of uh situation |
| 10323s | but in this case i do think this might |
| 10326s | just be a by a small factor the |
| 10328s | trickiest deck in gabby's lineup for him |
| 10330s | to get a win with in this series |
| 10332s | agreed yeah they almost felt like by uh |
| 10336s | on purpose that hachikuji was giving |
| 10338s | himself a bad matchup against the druid |
| 10340s | or at least that he was aware of it uh |
| 10342s | when he came in the priest as we've seen |
| 10344s | he's just been an absolute uh |
| 10347s | demolisher throughout gabby's run it's |
| 10349s | just been taken winona to win rogue |
| 10351s | against warrior which i believe is going |
| 10353s | to be the first match up is just a |
| 10355s | pretty horrendous matchup to take |
| 10357s | especially against the kazakhstan varian |
| 10359s | i believe hachikuji is piloting as there |
| 10362s | are just very very few of these dead |
| 10365s | draws that you get in the early game |
| 10367s | whereby rogue can sneak through a little |
| 10369s | bit of minion chip damage stealth up a |
| 10371s | big informant in the mid game and then |
| 10373s | hope to squeeze out a lethal with bgbm |
| 10375s | in the mid game uh that's just not |
| 10377s | really going to happen that much with |
| 10379s | the kazakhstan variant but from there it |
| 10381s | starts to look up a little bit demon |
| 10383s | hunter good matchup warlock |
| 10386s | i kind of want to say |
| 10388s | maybe slightly favored for the owl |
| 10390s | warlock because they just have such |
| 10391s | consistent clears but man they do |
| 10393s | struggle very often from the same |
| 10395s | problems as demon hunter where they |
| 10397s | would much rather have wide boards than |
| 10399s | toolboards to be up against |
| 10402s | yeah no i think that's very fair um and |
| 10404s | also i think just with the ability now |
| 10406s | for quest rogue to keep going just that |
| 10410s | little bit longer even now in this sort |
| 10412s | of match-up that we're seeing against |
| 10414s | the control warrior you used to just |
| 10417s | have the gas where if you got past the |
| 10420s | point of scabs stealth and the other |
| 10422s | four gizmos and you beat that hand |
| 10424s | there's a very good chance you are |
| 10426s | winning the game |
| 10427s | now because of the addition of smuggler |
| 10429s | you actually have additional power plays |
| 10431s | over the course of the game if you get |
| 10433s | to that point you haven't played |
| 10434s | smugglers you still have secret passage |
| 10436s | or swindle into smuggler step smuggler |
| 10438s | you can still make these massive |
| 10440s | scrapyard colossus boards out of nowhere |
| 10442s | with quest rogue and it really increases |
| 10445s | your longevity in matches like this one |
| 10447s | against control warriors so i do think |
| 10449s | it's picked up some little tricks here |
| 10450s | and there in these uh kind of control |
| 10452s | match-ups that it's gonna have to face |
| 10454s | down on the other side |
| 10456s | well he's gonna need all the tricks he |
| 10457s | can get his hands on and uh one such |
| 10460s | trick is |
| 10461s | maybe just pretty straightforward it's a |
| 10463s | good starting hand si7 skulker into a |
| 10465s | second skulker as well is a really nice |
| 10468s | way to get this curve rolling especially |
| 10470s | if you can find himself uh spiomatic |
| 10473s | mole maybe even uh the uh gyromatic |
| 10478s | aromatic gyro gear whirling gyro |
| 10483s | the uh the euro blade as tj would yellow |
| 10485s | blade yeah there we go |
| 10489s | never did now i really think i'm gonna |
| 10490s | have to pass this mantle of not knowing |
| 10492s | card names over to you soon derek i am i |
| 10495s | i do i do feel like i know them |
| 10497s | i just forget them you never know them |
| 10499s | in the first place |
| 10500s | you're lazy i'm just an idiot okay it's |
| 10503s | a very clear definition whoa very clear |
| 10506s | distinction whoa i'm kidding i joke |
| 10512s | meanwhile |
| 10514s | si cards are flinging for gabby that is |
| 10516s | extortion to face and two smugglers now |
| 10519s | played hit with the ranker on the other |
| 10521s | side but still this is a flying start |
| 10523s | for gabby who still has uh secret |
| 10525s | passage to go on the other side |
| 10527s | yeah just a quick noggin fog generator |
| 10530s | makes sense it was obviously up against |
| 10533s | secret passage on this term which i |
| 10535s | don't think would have been ridiculous |
| 10536s | at all |
| 10537s | because coin passage could have led into |
| 10539s | uh informant |
| 10541s | but i do agree that having five mana or |
| 10543s | even six mana if he wants to wait |
| 10545s | another turn depending on his draw does |
| 10547s | just open you up like ideally you'd love |
| 10549s | to be able to go double three mana si |
| 10551s | cards which is uh definitely the most |
| 10554s | common slot of mana cost |
| 10563s | hold up distortion that can still go |
| 10565s | face |
| 10566s | okay |
| 10579s | is the passage coming down this turn or |
| 10580s | is he going to hold on to it even longer |
| 10582s | he is yeah |
| 10586s | looks like he is trying to hold on to |
| 10587s | this secret passage for that longevity i |
| 10589s | was talking about before just kind of |
| 10590s | trusting that he's going to keep picking |
| 10592s | up some si cards off the top over the |
| 10594s | next few turns |
| 10595s | if not i'm sure as he as soon as he hits |
| 10597s | an incredibly dry turn he will just rip |
| 10599s | that secret passage i think a turn where |
| 10601s | he does just otherwise pass is a recipe |
| 10604s | for disaster |
| 10605s | um but i think even next turn he might |
| 10607s | be weighing up the relative merits of |
| 10608s | just jamming mr smite on curve as |
| 10610s | opposed to playing a secret passage |
| 10615s | how do we feel about his choice to |
| 10616s | prioritize card draw over life total in |
| 10619s | this matchup because just minefield hero |
| 10621s | power was something you could very much |
| 10623s | have considered or minefield corsair |
| 10625s | cash even |
| 10627s | instead of tanking the damage to draw an |
| 10629s | extra card because you know i feel like |
| 10631s | you do have to be cognizant of your life |
| 10633s | total still in this matchup |
| 10637s | that is true but he does already have uh |
| 10639s | bulwark in hand which uh gabby is not |
| 10642s | going to be able to deal with there is |
| 10643s | not a viper or anything of the like in |
| 10646s | gabby's deck so i think as long as |
| 10648s | hachikuji finds himself a good amount of |
| 10650s | removal and a win condition he probably |
| 10653s | feels relatively secure with surviving |
| 10654s | until that point so i don't personally |
| 10657s | mind the uh the card draw plan and |
| 10659s | honestly i think that's kind of what |
| 10660s | gabby's been playing around on the other |
| 10662s | side particularly with that first |
| 10663s | stealth on the cultnere fight he just |
| 10666s | didn't really want axe to be equipped |
| 10667s | and swung into he's just really trying |
| 10669s | to limit some of that card draw on the |
| 10671s | other side |
| 10673s | well there is the scabs ready to go |
| 10677s | kuji is the mutinous gamer right yeah he |
| 10679s | is which that kind of incentivizes the |
| 10681s | card draw as well right to get yourself |
| 10683s | into this position where you are |
| 10686s | actually able to now jam mutinous on |
| 10688s | curve and theoretically just win the |
| 10690s | game on the spot |
| 10695s | let's see |
| 10697s | the rancor does however make things a |
| 10699s | little bit tougher because outside of |
| 10701s | that i would say yeah you know just let |
| 10703s | rip with swing the weapon hope to hit |
| 10705s | mutinous and then play it if you do and |
| 10707s | if not you can then try to mop up with |
| 10709s | some kind of |
| 10710s | minefield shield slam play something |
| 10713s | like that |
| 10714s | uh but the rancor instead is |
| 10715s | disincentivizing him from that saying |
| 10717s | okay you know what mutinis is a very |
| 10719s | slim chance anyway so let's just clear |
| 10722s | off the board as much as possible and |
| 10724s | set up |
| 10725s | for |
| 10726s | i mean not very likely a kill on scabs |
| 10730s | it's got to be said next turn |
| 10733s | oh he's just battle master the exact |
| 10736s | turn i suppose one turn early |
| 10739s | technically if you want to get picky |
| 10741s | about it but that does set him up so |
| 10743s | perfectly for massive chunks of damage |
| 10745s | next turn hachikuji is gonna have the |
| 10748s | bulwark available and speaking of timing |
| 10751s | that arguably the worst possible timing |
| 10755s | one in four i suppose 50 50. either of |
| 10757s | the six drops here would be a big win |
| 10759s | not that one not that one at all |
| 10763s | the important thing is though that it |
| 10765s | dies to a uh |
| 10768s | it gets the seven attack right so that |
| 10769s | the scabs is not able to go phase and i |
| 10772s | think he realized quite correctly that |
| 10774s | every card in the deck apart from |
| 10776s | smuggler would have done it there um |
| 10779s | with both skulkers having been used as |
| 10781s | the spiomatic would also give enough |
| 10783s | attack |
| 10784s | for the scabs to die off so i do |
| 10786s | actually like that from hachikuji even |
| 10788s | if it felt quite quick |
| 10792s | that is entirely true yes yeah only the |
| 10796s | si7 smugglers would have been too small |
| 10798s | for the provoke to happen |
| 10802s | smells like |
| 10804s | breakfast |
| 10809s | what |
| 10813s | just close your eyes |
| 10816s | take a deep breath and just indulge me |
| 10819s | imagine but actually do it unironically |
| 10823s | imagine being gabby |
| 10826s | are you doing it |
| 10828s | i'm trying i'm trying i'm just i'm |
| 10831s | basking in the glory of casting gabby is |
| 10833s | this what you guys do all day over in |
| 10835s | europe because this is |
| 10838s | yes it is |
| 10843s | it's just gabby and blize all day every |
| 10845s | day it's the best |
| 10850s | all right well kazakhstan obviously |
| 10852s | active now for hachikuji which i |
| 10855s | do think is a little bit too scary even |
| 10857s | if you might technically be able to |
| 10858s | survive um and so setting up the recara |
| 10861s | first uh |
| 10863s | obviously |
| 10864s | very clean the hero power was available |
| 10867s | but that is the absolute juice to clear |
| 10869s | off this board and get himself back |
| 10871s | where he belongs in this matchup which |
| 10873s | is once again to say a big favorite |
| 10877s | yes |
| 10878s | absolutely |
| 10879s | finding himself cutting class number two |
| 10881s | and shield shatter is |
| 10884s | unbelievably good off that first cutting |
| 10887s | class and now gabby is going to have to |
| 10889s | sit back and redevelop |
| 10891s | does still have another smuggler does |
| 10893s | still have another secret passage does |
| 10894s | still have uh shadow steps available |
| 10898s | which could be very useful in this spot |
| 10900s | uh but gabby is gonna need to put |
| 10902s | together some pressure very cleanly here |
| 10904s | and he has not done that on this term |
| 10906s | which means if hachikuchi wants this is |
| 10910s | a free turn of either kazakhstan or just |
| 10912s | a straight up raid boss onyxia for |
| 10914s | counter pressure if he wants to |
| 10916s | that is not easy for rogue to deal with |
| 10919s | once again |
| 10920s | immune as an effect stops you from even |
| 10923s | targeting the minions so if there's fizz |
| 10925s | flash assassin whatever it may be you |
| 10927s | simply cannot get rid of it in any form |
| 10930s | until you deal with the whelps as a |
| 10932s | rogue specifically |
| 10933s | and so were he to do that |
| 10935s | i do think that just sets up hachikuchi |
| 10938s | to most likely win the game in a couple |
| 10940s | turns time uh it's just about |
| 10943s | considering what are my opponents slim |
| 10945s | avenues to victory at this point what if |
| 10947s | they must be away |
| 10950s | actually i was even gonna say what if |
| 10951s | they go for uh informant plus stealth |
| 10953s | and they get like a 13 attack minions |
| 10956s | something like that you just know |
| 10957s | there's no stealth even left available |
| 10959s | right because fizz flash i think is the |
| 10960s | one off the scabs so you just |
| 10964s | know there's no threat from that either |
| 10967s | yep |
| 10968s | i think that's correct |
| 10984s | [Music] |
| 10986s | yeah well there it is that's the big |
| 10988s | minion even if it's not stealth |
| 10990s | it's still mighty scary and the |
| 10993s | poncho raider not getting its effect but |
| 10996s | still just an annoyance |
| 10999s | continuing to push the damage here |
| 11002s | he is still if he can chew through this |
| 11004s | bulwark on the other side he is still in |
| 11006s | range where that battle master in hand |
| 11009s | could still ruin hachikuji's day if it |
| 11011s | comes down to it so he does need to |
| 11013s | continue to be a little bit careful here |
| 11015s | and he didn't seize the opportunity |
| 11017s | uh to play either kazakhstan or raid |
| 11020s | boss on the previous term which means he |
| 11022s | might now get stuck in a little bit of a |
| 11024s | removal loop where he's forced to react |
| 11026s | to the bridge |
| 11028s | i think he breaks that very nicely |
| 11030s | though just by going for a nixia like |
| 11032s | i definitely didn't hate the idea of |
| 11034s | just going buckler shield shatter and |
| 11036s | nixie and drake you clear the board get |
| 11037s | a four or five most likely can just play |
| 11040s | kazakhstan next time okay but this one |
| 11042s | sticks the onixia gabby's saying all |
| 11044s | right enough is enough if there was any |
| 11046s | slim possibility of an out off of the |
| 11049s | smuggler i cannot think of it which |
| 11051s | means uh |
| 11052s | gabby |
| 11054s | if gabby can't think of it either then |
| 11055s | it's definitely just not there so uh we |
| 11058s | do see it going down the one win coming |
| 11059s | through for hachikuchi in the finals |
| 11062s | thus far but probably |
| 11064s | well i want to say definitely the |
| 11065s | easiest of the three left against the |
| 11067s | rogue |
| 11071s | so i was just watching gabby's reaction |
| 11073s | to that it was immediately like almost |
| 11075s | mocking his opponent for having hit the |
| 11077s | 3-2 then was like all right do you have |
| 11079s | provoked you better have provoked okay |
| 11080s | he has provoked fair enough |
| 11082s | um but that is |
| 11085s | it was about as close as it was gonna |
| 11087s | get gabby got kind of everything that he |
| 11089s | would have needed to put something |
| 11091s | together there but i think honestly |
| 11093s | because |
| 11094s | uh hachikuji went deeper with the card |
| 11097s | drawer and focused on those resources |
| 11099s | right that is what pushed him towards |
| 11101s | let's say that clutch shield shatter |
| 11103s | that happened at the exact time he was |
| 11105s | going to need it or else he would have |
| 11106s | been in absolute uh deep deep water |
| 11109s | without um finding the recaro the |
| 11111s | cutting classes and then the shield |
| 11113s | shatter that he ended up needing to |
| 11114s | clear the board |
| 11116s | all right moving on over to the demon |
| 11118s | hunter now is hachikuji the expendable |
| 11121s | performers dead eye variant as well |
| 11125s | um which against the weapon rogue i |
| 11127s | don't think makes an especially oh sorry |
| 11129s | the quest rogue i don't think makes an |
| 11130s | especially big difference but it does |
| 11132s | just give you a little bit of an extra |
| 11134s | chance to |
| 11135s | uh find a win you shouldn't be getting |
| 11138s | there have been a couple times in gm |
| 11140s | where i've seen a surprise combo with uh |
| 11143s | curtris on curve the hero card and then |
| 11146s | you just get uh discounted deadeye plus |
| 11149s | performers and finish them off that way |
| 11151s | which is the kind of thing i think |
| 11152s | generally needs to happen |
| 11154s | for the demon hunter to take a |
| 11155s | convincing win in this matchup |
| 11166s | cult neophyte being one of the more |
| 11169s | interesting additions to this deck from |
| 11171s | gabby and i would imagine |
| 11173s | it is a useful card to have exactly in |
| 11175s | this match-up |
| 11177s | a little bit awkward i don't think turn |
| 11179s | two is the ideal turn that you want to |
| 11181s | actually be using the colt neophyte |
| 11183s | effect but still better than developing |
| 11185s | zero pressure on this turn i imagine |
| 11190s | i don't think it's considered |
| 11192s | i want to say a bit of an underwhelming |
| 11194s | hand actually for hachikuji i've talked |
| 11196s | to jira a little bit about this in gm |
| 11198s | about the importance of keeping removal |
| 11201s | versus quest rogue because |
| 11202s | it's nice sure he's going to survive |
| 11204s | this early game quite happily but is |
| 11206s | that actually what you want to do |
| 11208s | against rogue as the demon hunter is |
| 11210s | that winning the game or just delaying |
| 11212s | the inevitable |
| 11214s | yeah that's the problem right is that if |
| 11217s | you don't go fast you kind of run into |
| 11219s | that problem i was talking about before |
| 11221s | where you might be able to save up |
| 11223s | removal beat the first board then beat |
| 11225s | the scabs board but then you just get |
| 11227s | hit with smuggler afterwards and then |
| 11229s | you know |
| 11230s | scrapyard colossus literally ends the |
| 11232s | game against demon hunter if they manage |
| 11234s | to get that far because you've been |
| 11235s | going slowly i think that used to be the |
| 11237s | case where if you could just save up |
| 11238s | some removal like arcanist immolation |
| 11241s | aura and |
| 11242s | fel barrage or fel screen blast or |
| 11244s | something to be able to clear the scabs |
| 11246s | that was just kind of gg and good enough |
| 11247s | at that point um but now i do think you |
| 11250s | need to kind of focus on a real hybrid |
| 11253s | strategy of just enough removal to stay |
| 11256s | alive but really focusing on kind of |
| 11258s | turbo quest and actually setting up a |
| 11259s | win condition for yourself |
| 11265s | well for the meanwhile i think until |
| 11266s | some uh real form of card draw is picked |
| 11269s | up i don't really count the rust rock |
| 11270s | viper |
| 11272s | just clearing off the board every turn |
| 11274s | makes the most sense to me |
| 11276s | um |
| 11277s | i think we need to go over uh overkill |
| 11279s | with the talented arcanist i'd much |
| 11281s | rather save that for |
| 11282s | a bigger board that needs to be cleared |
| 11284s | off um |
| 11285s | or as a nice activator for magtheridon |
| 11289s | if that were to come down as another |
| 11290s | potential alternate win condition even |
| 11293s | though against weapon uh quest rogue we |
| 11295s | of course know how uh flimsy singular |
| 11298s | big |
| 11303s | just straight up assassin on the board |
| 11307s | doesn't want to go for the small |
| 11308s | smuggler plus swindle there and assassin |
| 11311s | is of course one of the cards that you |
| 11313s | can use to avoid the disaster scenario |
| 11317s | of uh randomly losing the game to a |
| 11319s | big mac theradon it's rare in this |
| 11321s | matchup but it is one of those niche |
| 11323s | scenarios where you get in trouble it's |
| 11325s | very rare because you have so many |
| 11326s | answers but currently gabby's hand would |
| 11328s | not be able to answer that kind of spot |
| 11332s | very weird end up oh end of the turn |
| 11335s | here with hachikuchi having completed |
| 11337s | the quest very nicely with the top deck |
| 11339s | of spectral site it's exactly what we |
| 11341s | were talking about the kind of card he |
| 11342s | needs to hit |
| 11344s | but outside of that it's a little bit |
| 11345s | awkward now his hand is not as smooth uh |
| 11348s | as you would expect it to be |
| 11350s | after a nice quest completion here with |
| 11352s | only double glide having been discounted |
| 11354s | and |
| 11355s | neither really being wanted uh sorry |
| 11357s | wanting to be played in the outcast |
| 11360s | position |
| 11362s | i guess just quite happily dumping one |
| 11364s | of them to uh |
| 11366s | get quest progression done even if it |
| 11368s | means getting back a smaller hand |
| 11371s | [Music] |
| 11373s | bog generator okay not the |
| 11384s | i worst think i've ever seen the |
| 11385s | interaction of uh stepping in the core |
| 11387s | to repeat the battle cry of the smuggler |
| 11390s | from which it came |
| 11393s | true just strictly better actually in |
| 11396s | this situation right |
| 11404s | yeah i think this makes sense continues |
| 11406s | to play around glide a little bit better |
| 11407s | right than just using a trade on the si7 |
| 11410s | extortion |
| 11412s | makes sense to me |
| 11417s | would you |
| 11418s | ever consider coin expendables just to |
| 11421s | get a full board |
| 11428s | hmm |
| 11430s | maybe i mean i consider it for sure i |
| 11433s | think |
| 11434s | at 14 with a five attack stealth minion |
| 11436s | you are a little scared of battle master |
| 11439s | but um i think you feel relatively |
| 11442s | comfortable still because to make room |
| 11444s | for those cult neophytes gabby's playing |
| 11446s | he's cut the wicked stabs right and even |
| 11447s | then |
| 11448s | uh wicked stab battlemaster wouldn't fit |
| 11450s | on this turn so as long as you clear the |
| 11452s | one three hard to imagine a lethal setup |
| 11456s | that you get punished for |
| 11457s | right but maybe 10 damage here with |
| 11460s | very limited healing in hand with just |
| 11463s | that wall blades for now |
| 11465s | maybe 10 damage is just too much to |
| 11467s | allow yourself to take in that spot |
| 11468s | anyway maybe you do just have to over |
| 11471s | respect the five three here |
| 11473s | oh the ultimate is what he's gonna do |
| 11476s | it just feels so grim though i'm not |
| 11478s | saying expendables is necessarily the |
| 11479s | play but i'm just trying to find |
| 11480s | anything that doesn't involve spending |
| 11482s | your entire turn again just on clearing |
| 11485s | drawing zero cards not getting the glide |
| 11488s | down |
| 11489s | um |
| 11490s | i mean even at the end there it could |
| 11492s | have been coin |
| 11493s | glide to finish it out but i |
| 11496s | guess actually has his heart set on jace |
| 11498s | potentially |
| 11500s | oh that's just an eight eight |
| 11503s | eight eights are big derek |
| 11506s | an eight eighths with windfury deal more |
| 11509s | than 14. |
| 11511s | they do indeed which forces hachikuji |
| 11514s | onto a clear here i would have to guess |
| 11517s | in the form in the form of now finally |
| 11520s | the expendable performers right you rush |
| 11522s | them all in get a full board back six on |
| 11524s | board it's |
| 11526s | however kind of a threatening presence |
| 11530s | counter argument though |
| 11532s | if you do that |
| 11534s | your response from your opponent |
| 11536s | is to play a seven seven and then |
| 11538s | stealth it at which point you're still |
| 11541s | dead |
| 11542s | right because you're giving them credit |
| 11545s | for having battlemaster in their hand if |
| 11546s | you're saying dead here and then at that |
| 11548s | point they just play up their spymaster |
| 11550s | scabs and then you die to that same |
| 11552s | battle master the next turn anyway |
| 11555s | is the long-term wing condition |
| 11557s | defines i mean you can't even do it this |
| 11559s | hypothetical plan that i'm laying out is |
| 11561s | nonsense because it doesn't even work |
| 11563s | you can't get an outcast glide to get |
| 11565s | rid of that scabs anyway so what's the |
| 11567s | alternative there just isn't one |
| 11570s | and the problem is you're not even |
| 11571s | saying you don't have battle master by |
| 11573s | leaving this a it on board with noggin |
| 11575s | fog and the uh the gyro blade that's |
| 11578s | just lethal as it is that's true yeah |
| 11581s | yeah you're absolutely right |
| 11583s | so hachikuji i |
| 11585s | think here is making the only play that |
| 11586s | gives him any kind of a chance and then |
| 11589s | basically just going for next turn glide |
| 11591s | magtheridon |
| 11593s | arcanist and uh either immolation aura |
| 11597s | or the fel screen blast to have any |
| 11599s | chance of digging himself out |
| 11602s | which i mean even then he doesn't have |
| 11603s | board space to do that actually right |
| 11605s | because these one ones are sabotaging it |
| 11609s | yeah as long as gabby doesn't play uh |
| 11612s | the spiomatic here |
| 11613s | right and the one ones won't have |
| 11615s | targets to trade into |
| 11621s | undercover mole is fine |
| 11622s | euroblade is fine |
| 11628s | yep gabby throws up his hands and says |
| 11630s | that's it that's my game |
| 11632s | deal with it or don't |
| 11637s | fel screen blast allows him to clear up |
| 11639s | those board spaces i was talking about |
| 11642s | so he could go |
| 11644s | attack face fell swim blast some of your |
| 11646s | board away |
| 11648s | coin glide and hope to as i said hit |
| 11651s | that perfect magtheridon hand maybe |
| 11669s | that's a magthon but there's no way to |
| 11672s | clear off these minions he was hoping |
| 11674s | for some kind of attack buff to buff up |
| 11676s | this aldrachi warblades hoping to heal |
| 11678s | outside of range of these scabs but as |
| 11680s | we can see it's not just scabs it's mr |
| 11683s | smite it's battle master it's whatever |
| 11685s | gabby needs |
| 11687s | and there is just no way for hachikuji |
| 11689s | to stabilize here |
| 11700s | just not seeing it hachikuji gives it up |
| 11704s | gabby |
| 11705s | way way worse at putting on sunglasses |
| 11708s | than he is hearthstone you've ruined a |
| 11710s | very very good thing there gabby |
| 11716s | [Music] |
| 11719s | i mean i'm sure in his head that went a |
| 11721s | lot better bless him but still i'm sure |
| 11724s | in his head that final would not have |
| 11726s | gone nearly as well as that because that |
| 11729s | honestly |
| 11730s | felt like a cake walk from gabby's |
| 11732s | perspective the one match of the quest |
| 11733s | rogue against the control warrior kind |
| 11735s | of expected big uphill battle but |
| 11737s | otherwise like i said at the beginning i |
| 11740s | just didn't see the lineups interacting |
| 11742s | particularly well for hachikuji in that |
| 11744s | spot |
| 11745s | no i agree it i mean it says a lot that |
| 11747s | he made it through to the finals right |
| 11748s | he was doing something right his play on |
| 11750s | the warlock i think was absolutely |
| 11752s | phenomenal and was a huge part of uh his |
| 11755s | success heading up into this tournament |
| 11757s | i think he can hold his head high as a |
| 11759s | relative newcomer just coming out of |
| 11761s | absolutely nowhere right his first |
| 11763s | masters tour i believe and ending up in |
| 11766s | the finals up against gabby who uh like |
| 11769s | you said even though he may suck at |
| 11771s | putting on sunglasses can take some |
| 11772s | amount of solace in potentially being |
| 11774s | the best player to ever grace this game |
| 11777s | with his second masters tour victory |
| 11779s | he's now alongside belize in terms of |
| 11782s | overall wins and also |
| 11785s | just giving china a real run for their |
| 11787s | money in terms of best individual |
| 11789s | country uh in grand sorry in masters |
| 11792s | tour history with uh france just being |
| 11794s | on an unbelievable dominant streak |
| 11798s | across the last couple years in masters |
| 11799s | tours |
| 11801s | yeah even before gabby implies obviously |
| 11803s | we had that incredible uh french masters |
| 11806s | tour um with phil kane zim and uh a |
| 11809s | third member of the top four whose name |
| 11811s | is going to escape me right now i |
| 11812s | apologize that's the one thank you very |
| 11814s | much derek i knew that's why there was a |
| 11816s | reason we paid you the medium bucks um |
| 11819s | it's it's |
| 11820s | been |
| 11821s | an incredible |
| 11823s | rise to dominance really um throughout |
| 11825s | the grand master system i would say in |
| 11827s | europe for france as a country and in |
| 11831s | asia pacific for japan as a country as |
| 11833s | well i think those are the two that have |
| 11834s | really um |
| 11835s | put up big numbers alongside china of |
| 11838s | course just demonstrating utter |
| 11839s | dominance in masters tours but as an |
| 11841s | individual there's no one that's |
| 11843s | dominated more dominance than gabby over |
| 11845s | recent years that is true and i think we |
| 11848s | can uh stop saying our words which are |
| 11850s | quite rapidly running out in terms of uh |
| 11852s | the dominance of gabby's dominance and |
| 11855s | hear it from the words uh hear it from |
| 11856s | him himself as i believe he's standing |
| 11858s | by to give a couple of words to sottle |
| 11864s | your thing gabby can you hear me sir |
| 11868s | oh sorry uh yeah can you hear me |
| 11872s | yes i hear you loud and clear |
| 11874s | first off congratulations uh very well |
| 11878s | played just generic question to uh to |
| 11881s | begin with obviously not the best run in |
| 11883s | the short season of grand masters that |
| 11885s | we just had how did that make you feel |
| 11888s | coming into this was it like refocusing |
| 11891s | was there like anger to be taken out |
| 11893s | like how much did this mean to you to |
| 11895s | have a good performance now in this |
| 11896s | masters tour |
| 11898s | so i kind of performed uh pretty bad at |
| 11900s | the two first grandmasters weeks |
| 11903s | so i was really disappointed |
| 11905s | disappointed of myself |
| 11907s | and uh i felt like i had a shot in the |
| 11910s | in the third week like the the final one |
| 11913s | and then i lost i don't know i was too |
| 11915s | stressed and stuff like that |
| 11918s | uh so yeah i just felt like i was the |
| 11920s | worst player in the world |
| 11922s | but um |
| 11924s | i just want to master taurus |
| 11926s | apparently not |
| 11929s | it's weird because like two weeks ago i |
| 11930s | felt like i was the worst player ever |
| 11932s | now i feel like i'm the best player |
| 11934s | right now |
| 11935s | it's pretty weird |
| 11938s | i can say for sure that you are better |
| 11940s | at playing hearthstone than you are at |
| 11941s | putting on sunglasses i can oh come on |
| 11944s | lady it's so hard with the beanie and |
| 11946s | that's it |
| 11947s | what do you mean |
| 11949s | i did i didn't make you try and do it |
| 11950s | with a beanie on that's not my fault um |
| 11953s | i want to talk to you about the lineup |
| 11955s | in general that both of you had and that |
| 11958s | hachikuchi had in the finals because |
| 11960s | we were a little bit surprised to see |
| 11962s | the lineup from hachikuji working as |
| 11964s | well as it did and getting to the finals |
| 11966s | like how did you feel matchup wise going |
| 11968s | into the final |
| 11971s | i felt pretty confident because um |
| 11973s | i don't know i felt like |
| 11975s | every |
| 11977s | fourth deck in uh in line up |
| 11979s | pretty much stuck |
| 11981s | so i think confident when i saw like |
| 11982s | warlock and noir |
| 11986s | don't know i just bought a question |
| 11988s | because it was pretty much doing okay |
| 11991s | against the monitor and i was like soft |
| 11993s | targeting it because ready priest is |
| 11995s | like very good match up against th |
| 11996s | actually |
| 11998s | i don't know i just felt confident uh i |
| 12000s | just had like a doubt about the the q |
| 12002s | order if i go jude or priest first |
| 12006s | because like if he goes warrior first |
| 12007s | and i agree priests i can lose but |
| 12010s | yeah it turned out pretty well little |
| 12012s | then five |
| 12015s | that was funny |
| 12018s | abby don't don't talk to me about |
| 12019s | conquest queue order you'll bring my |
| 12021s | whole world crashing down um i do want |
| 12023s | to ask you about a |
| 12024s | rally priest in particular though |
| 12027s | i saw you get into a little bit of a |
| 12028s | conversation with lambie on twitter |
| 12031s | about rally priest i don't know if you |
| 12032s | saw but rally priest ended up being the |
| 12034s | highest win rate deck in the entire |
| 12036s | tournament um why rally priest over |
| 12038s | miracle priests specifically in in this |
| 12040s | lineup |
| 12042s | i don't know i was playing america |
| 12043s | priest for like weeks and weeks and then |
| 12045s | uh i watched like jyoti and he was |
| 12048s | playing america priest uh like roddy |
| 12050s | priest |
| 12051s | and i was like damn that's pretty strong |
| 12053s | and then i i started playing it and i |
| 12055s | was like oh my god this is the deck like |
| 12058s | it beats the edge |
| 12059s | um |
| 12061s | like my backup is really |
| 12063s | and it's pretty much hard |
| 12065s | so |
| 12066s | i don't know like very priest issues the |
| 12067s | best game is the best deck in the game |
| 12069s | right now after druid i would say |
| 12074s | oh |
| 12075s | all right good to hear uh before i let |
| 12077s | you go i do have a uh a phoning question |
| 12080s | from nymch which is to ask you about the |
| 12083s | katana the sword that you said that |
| 12084s | you're gonna buy with your your world's |
| 12086s | money has that has that happened did you |
| 12088s | buy a sword |
| 12089s | no i didn't still saving my money |
| 12094s | sorry |
| 12095s | if i win was this yeah alright |
| 12099s | all right fair enough we'll take that |
| 12100s | deal uh before i let you go any final |
| 12102s | words any thank yous shout outs practice |
| 12104s | partners friends family anyone you want |
| 12105s | to talk to |
| 12108s | uh yes and sorry for my english first it |
| 12110s | was pretty bad uh thanks to my practice |
| 12113s | partners uh kalax with this demon and uh |
| 12116s | jyoti |
| 12118s | i don't know i'm |
| 12119s | pretty proud of the winning master tour |
| 12121s | we'll see if i can make it to to last |
| 12123s | call i have to do like another great |
| 12125s | performance in the next manchester |
| 12127s | and uh thanks anyone for cheering for me |
| 12130s | much love |
| 12133s | thank you gabby make sure you message |
| 12135s | blize and tell him that you're neck and |
| 12137s | neck now in masters tours with coming |
| 12139s | again make sure you tell him |
| 12142s | all right thanks gabby |
| 12144s | thank you |
| 12145s | [Music] |
| 12149s | well there it is thank you gabby |
| 12152s | and uh thank you subtle as well for uh |
| 12154s | getting those fantastic answers |
| 12157s | i have to say |
| 12158s | as much as we all love to to meme on |
| 12161s | gabby a little bit for being you know |
| 12163s | having |
| 12164s | such a |
| 12165s | braggadocious personality if there |
| 12168s | really was anyone to take the win from |
| 12170s | uh aipac getting their first masters |
| 12172s | tour win i'm so happy it was gabby he is |
| 12174s | just so deserving of this win |
| 12177s | and uh as we see the the speed with |
| 12179s | which he picks up these decks coming in |
| 12181s | really clutch it because i saw so many |
| 12183s | players in the different practice groups |
| 12185s | wanting to bring rally priest but just |
| 12187s | not feeling comfortable with it and so |
| 12189s | as uh he shows his uh |
| 12192s | you know just flexibility rapidity with |
| 12194s | which he learns all these new decks |
| 12195s | really coming in clutch and i think |
| 12197s | that's going to be a huge part of not |
| 12199s | only his win here but potential future |
| 12201s | wins in other masters tours and of |
| 12203s | course in the seasonal championship |
| 12205s | where we will see him next |
| 12208s | yeah and you know obviously we do want |
| 12209s | to focus gabby on gabby but you know |
| 12211s | gabby if we give him any more focus |
| 12213s | honestly his his ego might actually just |
| 12215s | explode out his ears at this point so i |
| 12218s | just want to highlight a name mentioned |
| 12220s | in there that you hear mentioned very |
| 12221s | often and that is joao t that is xiaoti |
| 12224s | is your favorite hearthstone player's |
| 12226s | favorite hearthstone player like this is |
| 12228s | beyond dispute all of the top players in |
| 12230s | the world give xiaoti a lot of credit |
| 12232s | and for how good he is at the game you |
| 12234s | know for being part of practice groups |
| 12236s | we've heard this from bunnyhopper in the |
| 12237s | past we're now hearing it from gabby um |
| 12239s | you know i think it is only a matter of |
| 12241s | time before xiaoti really starts to sit |
| 12243s | on that absolute echelon the uh the hall |
| 12246s | of kings and queens when it comes to |
| 12248s | hearthstone um i think he will be right |
| 12251s | right up there when it's all said and |
| 12253s | done but of course one final |
| 12255s | congratulations to gabby gabby exists |
| 12258s | never forget it that's all that matters |
| 12260s | when it comes to a tournament like this |
| 12262s | i may one day learn my lesson as long as |
| 12265s | alu temu stops almost winning masters |
| 12268s | tours if he stops doing that then i'll |
| 12269s | finally start believing in gabby winning |
| 12271s | masters tours uh but i believe that does |
| 12273s | wrap us all up here thank you everyone |
| 12276s | so much for watching this here master |
| 12278s | tour ruins of alterac we are going to be |
| 12281s | back |
| 12282s | next week i believe with the uh the |
| 12284s | playoffs for hearthstone grand masters |
| 12286s | to find out who our first batch of |
| 12288s | players through the world championships |
| 12290s | will be and then the week after i |
| 12292s | believe is the first lobby legend for |
| 12294s | those of you interested in battlegrounds |
| 12296s | with g and slicer taking you through all |
| 12297s | the action which is going to be great |
| 12299s | fun to get to see the inaugural event |
| 12302s | for battlegrounds esports |
| 12304s | so again thank you very much everyone |
| 12306s | for watching and from all the casters |
| 12308s | production and myself we will see you |
| 12310s | next time with more hearthstone esports |
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| 12360s | so much |
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| 12376s | let's strike harder |
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| 12521s | it's enough to let him live this turn |
| 12523s | for a swing |
| 12525s | it's not going to be enough to win the |
| 12526s | game and that's it love storm |
| 12529s | 3-1 victory over judgment |
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| 12538s | wait that's the of the dead |
| 12542s | wait wait wait wait we should just play |
| 12544s | luna's he made stream we found another |
| 12546s | deck in the meta i can't believe this |
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