[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour: Murder at Castle Nathria | Day 3 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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939s	okay i can rest this problem now i'm
942s	much happier having seen this happen pew
944s	pew pew pew
954s	the cleric is still alive the pyro ready
957s	to whirlwind the amulet of the undying
959s	coming down the boar is getting it done
961s	drovo can see and pocket train is the
965s	winner of masters tour vashir sheer
968s	water performance
969s	[Music]
982s	hello everybody and welcome to day
985s	number three of master's tour murder at
987s	castle nathria
989s	uh my name is tj and i'm joined by neil
991s	lorinda bond uh to kick off the show
993s	today
994s	and uh neil how you doing buddy
996s	doing absolutely great not as good as
998s	you i assume it's your birthday casting
1000s	on your birthday is the best thing i've
1002s	done it a couple of times and i was
1003s	great both times so expecting big things
1006s	from you today as well as the players tj
1011s	yeah it's uh
1013s	i don't know it feels like it's been a
1015s	million years in a row that i've had to
1017s	work on my birthday but i'm excited neil
1019s	because we have a fantastic top 16 final
1022s	day of broadcast to get through for
1024s	murder at castle nathria we've seen
1026s	which decks have risen to the top in
1029s	terms of uh not only win rate but in
1031s	terms of popularity in the top 16. it's
1033s	going to be a good time
1035s	it really is and it's obviously this new
1037s	meta we're playing conquest i should
1039s	address the bracket in front of me i
1040s	guess the screen in front of me um yeah
1043s	four decks you ban one you play best of
1045s	five for the other three you win with
1046s	your decks you go through and we haven't
1048s	seen a huge versatility in archetypes of
1052s	decks in this tournament with those four
1053s	decks being brought but the cards within
1056s	them as we're going to see in this first
1057s	match today
1059s	people have still got their own takes on
1060s	a lot of these decks
1072s	okay so uh just carry on for a moment on
1074s	my own um yeah so we are going to be
1076s	going through this top 16 in just a
1079s	moment uh here is the prize they're
1081s	playing for let's go for this there's 2
1083s	000 today just for getting to this point
1087s	uh you double that if you get to the top
1089s	eight top eight saw what we talk about
1090s	in card games to a large extent that
1092s	seems to be a good cut off for how you
1094s	did well so you get more money you get
1095s	four thousand dollars and then it goes
1097s	up slowly but surely up to fourteen
1100s	thousand dollars first place
1103s	not only that but you get a load of
1105s	points for each win a point for each win
1107s	the people with the most points in this
1109s	tournament the one before it and the one
1111s	after it will go towards the
1113s	championship event and the winner of
1114s	that will go to the world championships
1118s	um which obviously is a big deal and
1121s	talking to the world championships when
1123s	we get to the bracket in a moment you'll
1125s	see that we have the two previous world
1127s	champions both in this top 16. uh what
1130s	if we get another glory versus
1131s	possessive showdown at some point
1137s	so i have a read through the standings
1141s	love storm went eight and zero there you
1143s	go the number one seed at the top left
1145s	corner last time he went eight and zero
1148s	he ended up just winning the event
1151s	um
1152s	there's ceo some other notable players
1155s	going on here there's kansoku one of the
1157s	original
1159s	japanese players who did well possessee
1161s	the current world champion gamer rvg
1165s	running for
1167s	the americas region donkey of donkey
1170s	website fame provides a large number of
1173s	the stats that people use for these
1174s	events and often is somebody that i use
1177s	to check my own stats to make sure that
1180s	nine times out of ten if there's a
1181s	discrepancy it's at my end and one time
1183s	out of ten it's not a discrepancy i just
1185s	read it wrong it's donkey's always right
1187s	let's face it um stone versus matty
1189s	stone really close to the world
1191s	championships a couple of times came
1193s	third recently in the gold championship
1195s	as well where first would have qualified
1197s	him for worlds somebody we could see at
1199s	the world championships if he gets it
1200s	done later in the year
1201s	mati one of the players who came really
1204s	strong at the end of 2018 start sorry
1207s	2021 and start of 2022
1210s	um making it his first top 16 in a while
1213s	really good to see matty back glory
1216s	world champion semi-final finalist last
1218s	time world champion actual the time
1220s	before
1221s	and several players i'm not so familiar
1223s	with and also chewie who
1226s	is a player who's been around for a long
1227s	time and slowly but surely got better
1230s	and better streams as well these days uh
1232s	we're keeping an eye on chewie as well
1234s	throughout the broadcast
1240s	i i don't even know why i'm here neil uh
1241s	because you don't even need me oh you're
1243s	here okay hi
1245s	i didn't know you were here i thought
1246s	you were celebrating your birthday as
1248s	soon as like the broadcast starts my
1251s	uh internet decided to
1253s	just
1254s	give out and it looks like it's
1256s	still doing it to some extent i can hear
1259s	you i just can't see anything that's
1260s	happening which makes it difficult to uh
1263s	awesome
1264s	at the moment but we've got you
1265s	frantically rubbing your hands on camera
1267s	and we have the decks on the screen um
1270s	both the shamans are banned
1272s	and we have glory who therefore has the
1275s	rogue the priest which is a wic priest
1278s	and the imp lock and smoke who has the
1280s	beast hunter
1282s	uh
1283s	a mage with lots of cards in it
1285s	and
1286s	his own take on the wig piece as well i
1290s	think you had quite a bit to say about
1291s	smoke's decks
1293s	and you're good we haven't got smoke
1294s	decks on screen so you can talk about
1295s	whichever one you want to
1298s	okay
1299s	great um so the the coolest thing i
1302s	think is in the shaman deck
1305s	smoke is actually playing a demolition
1307s	renovator yes that's right demolition
1308s	renovator the card that destroys
1310s	battleground destroy
1312s	uh in enemies uh looks in your
1313s	opponent's location which i think is
1315s	really cool a lot of decks right now
1316s	rely on uh locations um you know there's
1320s	shaman with muck pools
1322s	uh there's the rogue uh the the new
1325s	lamby rogue the temple road with the
1326s	sinstone graveyard
1328s	great against mage and talking about uh
1331s	the nightclub sanctum
1333s	um and you know you have a couple other
1335s	targets right there's eight warlocks the
1337s	priest is not that big of a deal right
1339s	destroying spending four mana to destroy
1341s	a cathedral against wheat priest may not
1343s	be like the biggest appeal
1346s	but it's still good and then there's the
1347s	hunter just playing like a
1350s	the the classic like big beast hunter
1353s	with some of the new tools thrown in uh
1356s	with uh wild spirits stag charge spirit
1359s	poacher um and aralan right so just
1362s	playing sort of that wild spirit package
1363s	so
1364s	i like the list it's a creative take and
1366s	it's made to top 16 so it's obviously
1368s	working
1369s	yeah that package is really interesting
1371s	because it doesn't actually mess with
1373s	your beasts right two of those are
1375s	spells and one of them's just a
1376s	legendary thing so
1379s	no messing around with the beast so you
1381s	just get to put them in your deck have a
1382s	better
1383s	overall package but you don't actually
1386s	mess with the sort of the key combos in
1388s	the deck which is really nice addition
1390s	to the deck and
1392s	the price he's got this far because it
1393s	wasn't a deck that was
1395s	really on the radar we knew it existed
1398s	obviously but it's doing all right
1400s	obviously there we see glories stats i
1402s	talked about it a moment ago two times
1404s	world championship finalist one times
1406s	those he won and
1408s	very steady 60 win rate
1410s	and now we're going to see his first
1412s	deck which is the tempo vogue the lambie
1414s	rogue the miracle rogue call it what you
1416s	want it's rogue that makes big things
1418s	really quickly and kills you
1423s	yeah and uh no it's
1426s	it doesn't have that many like strict
1429s	weaknesses right
1433s	i think that the deck is still not at
1435s	its final
1437s	stage um
1440s	one of the things that it really
1441s	struggles with is any type of large
1444s	taunt
1446s	or multiple large taunts i've been
1449s	having a lot of success beating temple
1450s	rogue with mine rogue and instead of
1453s	going for mines as your as your like
1456s	death rattle primary death rattle
1457s	strategy you go with the burning blade
1459s	acolytes
1460s	like a
1462s	a series of five eights that you can
1464s	place on the board just absolutely
1465s	destroys it some players have gotten
1467s	ahead of that
1468s	and i actually did see a player in the
1470s	top 16. apologies i don't actually
1472s	remember who it was
1473s	ran the starfish
1475s	uh in the list and i think starfish is
1477s	great because one of the other things
1478s	that it's weak to is
1480s	freeze right because you're
1482s	even though
1483s	draca is is
1485s	not
1486s	um susceptible to freeze right it's
1488s	really just amplified snowflaring the
1490s	meta that can free space
1491s	uh your big minions are and so when you
1494s	summon those big minions from
1497s	the uh censored graveyard
1500s	when you silence them they still their
1502s	stats right uh they would lose stealth
1505s	or
1506s	or the frozen
1508s	um
1509s	but uh i i like that tech in the deck
1512s	and i think we're gonna move to see more
1514s	techs within the deck to try and make it
1516s	more well-rounded because it is very new
1518s	right
1520s	there's not a lot of players that have a
1521s	ton of practice with it coming into the
1522s	master store lambie only made it a few
1524s	days before the master store decimation
1526s	even took
1527s	place and if you look at the stats for
1529s	the day
1531s	if you look at the stats for rogue it
1533s	doesn't beat anything that's because
1535s	first of all half the stats are sort of
1536s	old builds or different builds and
1538s	secondly like you just said people
1540s	haven't really had a chance to play with
1541s	it yet but
1542s	it is a lot better than it looks if you
1545s	filter stats by recent times
1548s	so you might be forgiven for thinking
1549s	that the rogue would be in trouble if
1550s	you sort of just wrote down the stats
1552s	for this matchup but actually rogue
1553s	should be fine smoke going with a mage
1556s	is pretty standard as standard as a 40
1558s	card collection of cards can be
1560s	does have a snow blind harpy thrown in
1563s	there um so if you're holding your frost
1565s	spell game five armor why wouldn't you
1566s	have that in your deck i guess
1569s	um but yeah it's just it's just 40 cards
1571s	of spooky mageness
1574s	okay we're into the game can you see tj
1575s	i need to ask if you can see that's
1577s	right yeah
1579s	i can see a little laggy
1581s	um i can
1583s	see generally what's happening so
1586s	i just will see it a few seconds later
1589s	than you it seems
1591s	um i hope i'm not coming across
1593s	those robots
1596s	but
1597s	i'm okay to me but you always sound okay
1598s	to me tj and i wouldn't criticize you on
1600s	your birthday anyway that would be mean
1602s	and horrible of me and i'm not a mean
1603s	and horrible person and subtle's not
1605s	here this week
1606s	[Music]
1608s	well just here just cast the first few
1610s	turns you can do it and then i'm gonna
1612s	see if i can okay see you in just a
1614s	moment okay so these first few turns of
1616s	casting or what would glory possibly do
1618s	here with double knoll in hand i know
1621s	how about just wait until they cost very
1623s	little
1624s	um and just make a
1625s	massive thing
1627s	one problem with that though is glory
1629s	doesn't have a massive thing to generate
1631s	at the time being i'm sure he'll people
1633s	will be fine on the other side smoke
1636s	um
1638s	not a whole lot going on but not a whole
1639s	lot goes on with this deck early on so
1642s	just take your time
1644s	build up with the mage
1646s	and when you get to turn five turn six
1648s	things start kicking off
1650s	but occupying the board
1652s	where glory until this pickup could not
1655s	but now
1656s	picking up nekola draco
1658s	i can't even speak
1660s	um should be able to
1661s	get going pretty aggressively
1665s	if it doesn't get stolen
1669s	which it doesn't the crap gets stolen
1671s	which is irritating but does not
1673s	interfere with yeah glory relief there
1676s	only losing karate that's how good this
1678s	next turn is going to turn out look at
1680s	this nonsense it's about to happen oh
1683s	weapon's going to be sort of in the
1684s	region of six
1685s	seven i'm only estimating i can't be
1687s	bothered to count it's way too complex
1688s	to do that but
1690s	prep
1692s	bone spike
1693s	play
1695s	something on drucker get a load of stuff
1698s	this is going to be a gigantic weapon
1700s	should he want it and i imagine he does
1702s	because the mage has very few ways of
1704s	dealing with that other than a couple of
1705s	freezes at the face eventually
1708s	dj is here so he can save me from having
1711s	to cast which is the thing i'm worse
1713s	than the whole world apart from
1714s	everything else
1716s	yeah um
1718s	there was a
1721s	small argument to wait one more turn
1725s	in that situation
1726s	but with the double knoll start and how
1729s	much tempo
1730s	glory would actually get on the board in
1732s	this
1733s	just goes for it floats a mana that i
1735s	was talking about like wait an extra
1736s	turn you get one like what 1x two extra
1740s	charges on the weapon potentially
1742s	depending on the draw off the top
1744s	um but edwin to sort of reload the hand
1748s	gone fishing is a great draw in this
1751s	situation allows the edwan to keep
1753s	growing
1755s	and
1756s	can't get the sin stone graveyard out
1759s	but
1760s	can
1762s	prep something out and knowing that a uh
1764s	the sin stone graveyard at least one of
1765s	them is in the bottom i think you can
1767s	just continue growing this edwin uh
1769s	knowing that you didn't see like night
1770s	cloak sanctum there's not okay well
1772s	there was another graveyard right on the
1774s	top
1776s	that's fine but this is
1779s	gonna be very cold for smoke
1781s	find a way out of this one though we've
1783s	seen miracle plays before
1786s	from these
1787s	40 card oh not even 40 card from the
1791s	like c8 yesterday
1793s	versus the big freeze consistently
1795s	producing donkey over and over again
1797s	from turn four to turn ten donkey had um
1801s	the whole wig piece set up a whole bunch
1802s	of six sixes and ten tens and they just
1804s	repeatedly got
1806s	flowied and frozen and then eventually
1808s	got more dressed and you know it's just
1810s	been it was just absolutely nutty so we
1812s	mustn't count it out but it is looking
1814s	incredibly good here for glory in game
1816s	one
1817s	um there is the flurry available there
1819s	is the death ball after that there is
1821s	the more dress so
1822s	absolutely not counting any chickens yet
1825s	but starting to look already like
1828s	laurie's going to get this done um
1830s	danathis obviously with a lifesteal
1831s	could come into play for smoke if he
1833s	could somehow weedle his way to 10 mana
1836s	or just pick up another minion right
1840s	that's quite cheap right with kalethos
1843s	yeah um
1844s	at this point i feel
1846s	uh
1847s	dinatrius is already quite large
1849s	especially
1851s	and the few early game minions that have
1854s	already died
1855s	ah just mouse over and i didn't see it
1857s	quick look at that
1861s	he's gonna be able to get um some
1863s	stealth in the mix now though as well
1865s	and because this weapon is doing so much
1867s	damage it doesn't need to be a very big
1869s	stealth ghost
1871s	to get this one done it will set up
1872s	lethal for next turn
1876s	yep there are no one-handed minions in
1878s	the deck except for sir friendly which
1880s	wouldn't work so couldn't
1882s	didn't have the opportunity to say pick
1884s	up but one made a minion play kale those
1886s	and then sire to nathrius
1888s	um
1889s	[Music]
1891s	no lethal available for smoke i guess we
1893s	should check but there's not
1895s	one
1896s	and that
1898s	there's one shot at this it would be to
1900s	trade the tutu over the edwin and it hit
1903s	the stealth four four then you could
1905s	deathborn
1907s	i think that's the only out
1909s	yeah
1910s	uh oh no he's gonna do it this way give
1912s	yourself more chances right
1914s	uh it's it's not more chances it's the
1916s	same amount of chances it's still one
1918s	chance
1919s	this just pushes more damage
1926s	yep and didn't hit it oh yeah that was
1928s	more chances because you get to trade
1930s	you get to isolate the board so yeah it
1932s	made it from a 33
1935s	chance to a 50-50 to hit the 4-4 to get
1937s	the deathborn um but like you know
1941s	it wasn't a game-winning play because
1943s	glory would still hit face smoke would
1945s	have been down to four health
1947s	though there were still like wicked outs
1950s	um there were still like uh
1953s	uh i i guess oh crap toe out because
1955s	crappy toe was stolen uh fellaini
1957s	fighter plus um
1960s	plus a tooth right yeah there's plenty
1962s	of ways out i feel that that game ending
1964s	damage
1966s	um
1967s	but i i'm a little darker i had to turn
1968s	two of my lights off too
1971s	oh yes the old tj turn off your lights
1973s	your internet gets better stuff it's
1975s	it's the weirdest me every time
1978s	um
1980s	yeah
1981s	uh that was a solid display of the lamby
1985s	rogue temple road whatever you want to
1986s	call it
1987s	uh it's power level just
1990s	big weapon early on in the game
1992s	consistently large minions that are
1994s	difficult to deal with uh with the sin
1996s	stone graveyard and the edwin vancleave
1998s	uh immense amounts of cycle as well
2001s	um which is you know one thing that the
2003s	deck does quite well and you know you
2005s	just these decks that take a little bit
2007s	of time to ramp up and get their power
2009s	going
2009s	[Music]
2011s	they feel like just never get a foothold
2013s	so gloria's gonna take a nice smooth
2017s	quick game one
2019s	yep getting the the right numbers as
2021s	well right is we there's the thing
2023s	that's going to be hard with this deck
2024s	going forward is to
2026s	to know exactly when to take
2028s	what you've got so you were talking
2029s	there in terms which may still have one
2031s	but in terms of maybe making an even
2032s	bigger weapon and so on but he decided
2034s	that seven was big enough and just
2036s	getting a feel for that it's going to
2037s	take everybody a lot of time as again
2040s	lambie kept this pretty quiet until the
2042s	day before the tournament so
2045s	it's it's been a pretty good one to get
2047s	hold off for this tournament
2048s	um now smoke on this uh wig priest
2052s	which is the one deck you highlighted
2054s	before we cast is the one that looks
2057s	normal the one that's just got the cards
2058s	we know and love in it yep
2061s	um this is one of the most popular
2063s	variations
2064s	of the wig priests you still run shard
2067s	you still want nacho hexane
2069s	the most popular variation at least on
2070s	ladder is the one with partner in crime
2073s	um but edelweiss showed me uh
2076s	showed us some stats from uh wicked
2078s	goods uh site uh the off curve um
2082s	which has a ton of data literally all of
2085s	the data
2087s	um for the masters thus far and which
2090s	which uh
2092s	decks were performing well as is
2095s	and alongside that cards in each
2098s	individual archetype performs well
2100s	versus the other cards in the deck
2102s	and it seems like these teacher and
2104s	crush claw enforcer
2106s	overall across the master tour
2108s	performing better than versions with
2110s	partner and crime in it
2112s	uh to make you very happy because you
2114s	called that on day one
2117s	uh yes
2119s	and uh i i also said shout out to impact
2121s	who was one of the first people to tell
2123s	me what after i played against him on
2124s	ladder that crushed call enforcer was
2126s	just the nuts
2128s	um and that was what made me try it in
2131s	this place
2132s	um so
2134s	it does just seem good sometimes you
2136s	just want that extra naga and just like
2138s	a three cos naga that isn't handmaiden
2140s	that you can just play on curve
2143s	is ah good
2146s	there's actually a glory on the priest
2147s	for this game though um sorry about that
2151s	um pelegos and
2153s	wig in hand but
2155s	already facing an irritating board and
2157s	this against the mage if you're facing
2159s	irritating boards we saw what happened
2161s	yesterday you might just never get an
2163s	attacking a bit of freeze bit of damage
2165s	in smoke's hand so in a pretty good
2168s	place at the moment for smoke to
2171s	just lock this piece deck down for as
2173s	long as it's required
2179s	yeah and and
2181s	one of the things that you sort of need
2182s	to do here with the weak priests is sort
2184s	of uh once you get to the point where
2186s	you have the mana to be able to do it is
2187s	try and spread out your threats right
2189s	don't go all in on a single minion
2191s	because then you're gonna get wrecked by
2193s	by nightclub sanctum um
2196s	and
2196s	you know and make it so that flurry is
2199s	not as easy of a card to just play and
2202s	completely ruin your game plan
2205s	you also kind of rely on your head uh
2208s	in a lot of points in the game being a
2209s	head on tempo if you're behind on tempo
2211s	by the time you get tempo back it's too
2213s	late right the mage has already
2216s	you know started ramping up their game
2218s	plan ramping up the hero power
2221s	um ramping up like the car draw on the
2223s	freezes and then it becomes too late so
2226s	uh
2227s	like getting on board here with uh a
2230s	pelagos early i think is pretty
2232s	important
2233s	yeah and smoke has a choice here um i
2235s	have to progress but
2237s	it's going to likely just float a mana
2239s	to play the sanctum begin the freezing
2240s	process just chip another four damage
2242s	into the face
2243s	uh flowy's gonna get bigger the vardan
2246s	exists just these bits and pieces pieces
2249s	of damage whilst you're keeping your
2250s	opponent frozen down has every chance of
2252s	just getting this one done
2254s	but glory does have a decent hand
2257s	so by no means actually over especially
2260s	having to get through
2262s	a very irritating taunt here
2264s	but it's already got that feel that we
2266s	saw in that game with donkey yesterday
2267s	where
2268s	donkey just had a huge board against the
2270s	mage and the mage managed to lock it
2271s	down for a turn after turn
2275s	ah flowy dawn grasp
2281s	by my calculations you need to chill out
2284s	glory's big out here i think is probably
2286s	the boon just get a taunt in the way of
2288s	all these little things slow him down
2290s	for a turn or two
2302s	yeah down to 18. from behind it's tough
2305s	it really is with wick priests it is
2307s	okay
2309s	all right well there's a i mean it helps
2311s	i'm a kind of comeback mechanic in the
2314s	blade master chamro it helps but i don't
2315s	know if this is the time for it
2319s	um just because word can get wider than
2322s	this
2323s	but it when it gets wider it might be
2326s	with skeletons which
2328s	after you play back for samurai you
2330s	usually want to be able to stick
2334s	a large stamero so that you have like
2336s	that swing potential right then you can
2337s	buff it up the next turn and if you're
2338s	sweeping up a bunch of skeletons with it
2340s	then it's likely to get damaged and then
2342s	you don't have that ability to swing the
2343s	game
2344s	uh on up subsequent turns
2347s	smoke is going to be able to start
2349s	outputting damage because glory is quite
2352s	low
2354s	double frozen touch in the deck wildfire
2356s	and reckless apprentice in the hand
2359s	and multicast pick up some more stuff
2363s	i still feel like smoke's just going to
2364s	get there with
2365s	low
2366s	incremental burn if that even is a thing
2369s	that exists in hearthstone
2373s	all right that's what this deck is
2375s	yeah mental burn chip away with the
2378s	damage from the skeletons and
2380s	um like upgraded hero power
2383s	and then you have these big finishers
2391s	no real way for glory to gain health
2393s	outside of the hero power which is just
2395s	so expensive um in terms of what this
2397s	deck's trying to do
2400s	other reckless
2407s	you can have a big turn the wildfire
2408s	played as well so
2415s	probably can't keep the blademaster
2416s	another turn unless he's considering
2417s	going for some amalgam
2420s	outs
2426s	i don't even know what they would be
2437s	this is where glory gets the board for
2439s	the rest of the game this turn
2441s	is whether that board ever gets the
2442s	chance to do anything that's the problem
2446s	my place yeah
2447s	it has to be camera you can't leave
2449s	these minions up especially without a
2451s	taunt right yeah um so this is gonna
2454s	have to be
2457s	something pretty big
2459s	i guess just gonna spit
2461s	quickly
2463s	okay no three because this trick sorry i
2464s	miscounted
2469s	the discount from the scribe at the very
2471s	beginning of the turn because glory
2472s	played it but didn't actually play a
2474s	spell to go alongside with it just
2476s	bumped it with the cathedral
2478s	blizzard another freeze cool
2481s	glory's other problems i i wouldn't even
2483s	mind like
2485s	um
2487s	i guess
2488s	the the problem here in playing the mage
2491s	is like
2492s	any minion surviving
2495s	you you could die like it's it's
2498s	it's very difficult but you know that
2499s	there's a serpent wing in hand any means
2501s	surviving that's not frozen with radio
2502s	elemental and priestess
2505s	and serpent wigs and shadow were devours
2508s	it it could with eight mana
2510s	you could die
2512s	yeah and i think he decided this is the
2514s	turn where he probably won't die take
2516s	the chance here yeah this is this is the
2518s	turn where he feels he probably won't
2519s	probably turn
2521s	yes
2523s	yeah
2525s	and then approaching blizzard into
2528s	you know pink face and then reckless
2530s	apprentice pink face nikola sanctum
2532s	solid alibi is a good way to just yeah
2534s	well you're not killing me this turn
2535s	there's like two buttons
2538s	in in silk hand right now that basically
2540s	say all right you can't die
2542s	uh next turn uh which is with glory
2544s	being at 12 health is perfect because
2546s	now it's about body time
2548s	which usually is just
2554s	usually
2555s	though blizzard ping seems good but he's
2558s	going to chance it once again by the way
2559s	by chance i mean he might play something
2562s	he's just using one more turn to set up
2564s	while things are going okay
2566s	again
2568s	realizing that it's unlikely if he dies
2569s	in this spot and he's got to develop
2571s	some stuff so let's just do that
2574s	another two damage in the process
2579s	yep
2580s	challenging glory to get it done with
2582s	whatever you want i can't die buttons
2586s	oh
2587s	um hey this is a lot
2594s	take me pick me
2602s	it's a lot
2612s	it's a lot of damage to get
2614s	but i would have tried for lethal here
2618s	it is too much of a problem here
2621s	i guess you've got to devour if you need
2622s	it to make more space your goal would be
2624s	to your goal would be to pick up
2627s	the second devour right to give yourself
2629s	the board space
2630s	because priestess gets swept with with a
2632s	devourer nagaland gets swept up with the
2634s	devour the school teacher would have
2636s	been swept up with the devourer right
2638s	that's so much health
2643s	this is a lot
2654s	okay
2660s	wait
2675s	you would put if you had put all of the
2678s	serpent wigs
2680s	on the
2681s	three health
2683s	minion
2684s	it would have gone up to on the
2687s	what health no it's only at one health
2689s	right yes
2691s	it could have gotten it up to what 29
2695s	yeah i think sometimes 31.
2699s	i've been really close if second devour
2700s	was picked up at some point in that
2702s	chain of draws um i think that would
2705s	have been a legal potential honestly if
2708s	i was playing i would have gone for it
2709s	but i understand why glory went went for
2711s	this because
2713s	here you're well now he's but
2716s	he wouldn't have been that i would have
2717s	100 gone for in that situation like just
2719s	said okay this handmaiden is going to
2721s	draw me another serpent wig and a
2723s	devourer and would have just tried to
2725s	deal 37. it's very difficult to be fair
2728s	it is very difficult
2730s	to deal 37.
2732s	um it would require from a one health
2734s	beam you need you'd need uh
2737s	you might be able to fit into here i
2738s	don't know with how many resets you get
2740s	with precis
2742s	um
2743s	30
2745s	mix health worth of buffs
2749s	you include boone and bless up to
2753s	32 so that's 16 wigs
2756s	no eight wig resets or seven wig resets
2760s	so you need to play seven nagas
2765s	but then you factor in shadow or devour
2767s	if you have two shadow or devourers and
2769s	you have five let's say your shadow were
2770s	devouring seven
2772s	i don't know i would have gone for it i
2773s	would 100 gone for in that situation
2777s	with with the way he drew he wouldn't
2778s	have hit it but uh i think that's one of
2780s	those situations where you really have
2781s	to like say am i ever winning this game
2784s	if i just go
2785s	you know radiant boone right
2789s	instead of trying to go for it but it is
2791s	what it is and your thought process
2792s	there says why you go for it right you
2794s	haven't got time to work out all the
2796s	plus twos accurately when you're getting
2797s	up to 37 or whatever he requires just do
2800s	it and see if you get there
2801s	but what's your language you have
2803s	radiant handmade seconds
2806s	you have priestess radiant handmade in
2807s	hand your your board space is is fine
2810s	you have a cathedral but you have um
2813s	two minutes on board and one minion in
2815s	hand that died of two devourers or two
2817s	minions in hand that died of two devours
2820s	so that gives you what
2822s	you have two noggery sets plus four
2824s	board space to work with
2825s	after that three board space to work
2827s	with because the cathedral was still in
2828s	play yes um
2831s	yeah i don't know
2832s	it's
2833s	very difficult though it
2835s	if you even had the time and you you
2836s	kind of you can't even count right you
2839s	literally just put everything every buff
2841s	that's in your hand on a single me and
2843s	you try and save a blast for loss right
2845s	you just kind of fly by the
2847s	the seat of your pants so to speak and
2850s	just go for it but he wouldn't he
2851s	wouldn't have got there in that
2852s	situation
2854s	um i think his maximum damage that turn
2857s	would have been i'm gonna say 29
2860s	starting from one health with with with
2861s	what spells he drew and that would have
2863s	been going all in with the final two
2865s	unreset wigs right unactivated wigs
2868s	would have been so he would have been
2869s	one like eight damage short
2871s	but if you pick up a devourer then boom
2873s	that makes up your eight damage because
2874s	there was enough minions on board
2876s	so
2877s	yep i agree i agree with the at least
2879s	two-thirds of that the two-thirds that i
2881s	can follow but there's also the added
2884s	complexity
2885s	of if you go for that play
2889s	and you go double shadow word hour
2891s	the devours the skeletons on the other
2893s	side which has a chance to actually kill
2896s	your radiant elemental
2898s	ruining your your chain because your
2900s	radial mounts would be lower health it
2902s	would only take one skeleton proc you'd
2904s	be paring down your board because you'd
2906s	be devouring away your own board so it'd
2908s	be more likely to hit either your buff
2909s	minion or your radiant which would
2911s	completely ruin your plan
2912s	so it was it would have been a shot in
2914s	the dark it would have been like you
2916s	know maybe five percent chance
2918s	based on what you drew from handmaiden
2920s	it's where the the skeletons uh death
2922s	rattles actually hit
2924s	um
2925s	so we're talking a lot about this i
2927s	think gloria ended up doing the right
2929s	thing because you know no read that the
2930s	blizzard's there but
2932s	i'm saying personally i would have just
2934s	said you know what go for it well i'm
2936s	not i'm also not playing in top 16 for a
2938s	master store that's me in a ladder game
2941s	much different scenario
2943s	i think that um you know the creative
2945s	team will be very pleased with this
2946s	matchup we've got now you know the
2948s	murder of catherine arthur theme
2950s	playing out with smoke and mirrors right
2952s	in front of our eyes
2954s	as smoke is playing in the mirror
2957s	because i have to explain my jokes
2958s	otherwise you don't get them
2961s	uh thank you for explaining that joke um
2964s	and you know what else is a joke
2967s	this stop
2968s	that's three yeah once you fall behind
2972s	in the wig priest uh mirror it is very
2974s	difficult to get back the only thing
2976s	that you can use to get back really is
2978s	like a blade master's hammer that's
2979s	buffed
2980s	sometimes you can boon your opponent's
2983s	minion and then buff the moon
2986s	right to make a big swing
2988s	um
2989s	or you can wait till your opponent
2991s	builds up a wide board and use shard of
2993s	the naru
2994s	to sort of reset them and then set up
2996s	for your own board you absolutely need
2999s	swing cards or else if you're behind
3001s	you're not going to win the game and uh
3003s	right now
3005s	we could even be looking at
3009s	depending on the draw of the top
3011s	uh a lethal to ability for smoke if like
3014s	sharp then i was picked off the top and
3016s	thriving that shadows picks up a blast
3022s	in a cathedral and still have the mana
3024s	all of that
3026s	[Music]
3028s	because nothing costs anything okay
3030s	handmaiden seems like a pretty good pick
3031s	up with what you just said in mind there
3033s	is the shard
3034s	uh boon is pretty fantastic here make
3037s	another giant minion
3042s	yeah he's just gonna count first see if
3043s	he thinks he shard gets there because
3045s	there's a lot of damage
3047s	i don't think it does
3049s	oh you can hand me him but
3055s	well there's does it get there and
3057s	there's does it win
3058s	this is the related topics right
3061s	next team with the second serpent wig
3071s	and not only that you've you've also got
3073s	this board that needs dealing with with
3074s	a deck that doesn't really have any way
3076s	of dealing with it
3078s	yeah
3078s	18 if you just dump this super wig which
3080s	i don't think you ever do
3084s	so
3085s	yeah and smoke knows that not vulnerable
3088s	to a blade master bless
3090s	right now because there's no spell
3092s	discount currently in hand or on board
3094s	only five mana available so even if
3096s	blade master plus was there it wouldn't
3098s	be able to clear the board so
3101s	and there you go wig pretty smeared
3104s	[Music]
3106s	if the player that gets ahead on board
3109s	early has a significant advantage um
3112s	especially number of minions because
3114s	that's the the big deal is just to make
3116s	sure that you always have more minions
3117s	in your opponent because then you can
3119s	bump and trade and whatnot
3121s	um some weak mirrors end up being like
3123s	this weird back and forth war where
3125s	you're both like
3127s	like
3128s	value trading non-spin the early game
3131s	when the board has reached sort of this
3132s	parody
3133s	um but when one player has all of the
3136s	minions and the other player has none of
3138s	the minions
3139s	game ends quite quickly so
3142s	um gloria look into this teacher now two
3144s	one down
3146s	uh to smoke who only has a beast hunter
3149s	left remaining and this is the deck that
3151s	i have the least faith in
3154s	yeah it's good in the lineup for smoke
3158s	and so it's not necessarily because i
3160s	think it's a bad dance just because you
3162s	know we don't we haven't seen much of it
3164s	uh it's
3166s	uh not really a deck that was a popular
3168s	choice the majority of players went for
3169s	the very aggressive hunter or the quest
3171s	hunter
3172s	um but this deco has
3174s	all of the high power cards that hunter
3176s	is known for all of the
3179s	wild seed cards um plus just ways to
3182s	kind of cheat out big beasts super early
3185s	on into the game
3187s	and it's gonna be imp lock uh for glory
3190s	yeah it's a bit of a problem here for
3192s	the hunter that it doesn't have the
3193s	rogue left there we talked earlier about
3195s	putting taunts out in front of rogue and
3197s	the beast hunter just does that
3199s	relentlessly and that's kind of
3202s	probably what he's been preying on
3203s	throughout this tournament would be the
3204s	rogue with the rogue gone
3206s	and just the priest and this implode
3209s	left for glory
3211s	sometimes these decks are just going to
3212s	get ya
3214s	so this match is certainly definitely
3216s	still in the balance here uh glory with
3219s	the
3219s	pretty much the most refined list there
3221s	is for the imps here with the sea giants
3223s	thrown in at the end no messing around
3225s	no tech apart from the one staff is just
3227s	get them
3228s	and then again we've seen the priest
3231s	the beast hunter
3233s	sometimes just isn't going to be able to
3234s	cope with a couple of early huge minions
3236s	from the priests so
3237s	yep absolutely agree with you that this
3239s	is the deck that smokes gonna have some
3241s	trouble with again especially with that
3243s	vogue having escaped already
3246s	yep
3247s	yep yep yep so
3250s	uh still though even if you're looking
3251s	at 240 matchups you know if you have two
3254s	shots at it uh you're you're still
3256s	favorite to win
3257s	um so
3259s	uh there's the beast hunter in all of
3261s	its glory very similar to the beast
3263s	hunter we saw
3265s	towards the end of the last metagame
3268s	uh just with
3269s	these new cards uh from
3272s	murder at castle nathri are thrown in
3275s	uh all of the uh the wild seed cards
3278s	plus you know frenzied fangs huntsman
3280s	altimore
3282s	right a lot of collateral damage as well
3284s	as a finisher
3285s	which is one thing that this has
3288s	uh
3289s	traditionally lacked
3290s	is just like a good way to just
3293s	end the game up outside of you know king
3296s	crush being pulled off the top and
3297s	whittling down with the hero power
3300s	um
3301s	so i i like that inclusion especially
3303s	with the twin bow terracoil thrown in
3306s	there the double collateral damage can
3308s	be uh pretty menacing
3309s	but a good start for smokes uh triple
3312s	three which is a little slow but they're
3314s	very good
3315s	uh threes uh specifically the coin stag
3318s	charge into wild spirits
3320s	is uh
3321s	quite good because you get to
3323s	deal with the minion potentially
3326s	i see and then the next turn
3328s	make uh two more of those spirits and
3330s	and
3332s	quicken
3333s	the first one
3335s	yeah there's no doubt at all this hunter
3336s	deck has improved massively with the
3339s	addition of some
3340s	some mid-range things that aren't
3341s	basically i'm going to call it part of
3343s	the combo that beast beast hunter is it
3346s	is now able to just play a a curve that
3348s	makes more sense without having to force
3350s	the issue the problem is everything in
3353s	hearthstone got a lot better so we're
3355s	still at the question of
3357s	did it get better enough to keep pace
3359s	with the improvements to warlock the
3361s	improvements to rogue the improvements
3363s	to
3363s	mage and shaman or is it is it still
3366s	just not quite good enough you're good
3369s	but maybe not quite good enough and
3371s	smoke's obviously finding so far that it
3373s	is good enough but we haven't seen many
3375s	of them maybe that's a sign that beast
3378s	hunter still needs a little bit of work
3380s	from being
3381s	reasonably linear although obviously
3383s	cheating out an eight eight charges it's
3385s	not that linear
3391s	and for rush
3393s	oh that is uh
3397s	that's unfortunate because now glory
3398s	gets to go imp swarm val library
3402s	and
3403s	uh plenty of reload
3405s	to back this up right
3407s	uh yeah
3408s	so this is yeah this is a clean trade if
3410s	you buy a library one of the imps is
3412s	going to go up to a five five
3414s	because there's three amps plus the base
3416s	plus one plus one which is going away
3419s	um and then you get to uh keep your uh
3422s	librarian uh healthy uh push face with
3425s	it and have a menacing board with plenty
3427s	of reload with double mischievous zip in
3430s	hand if the board
3432s	somehow gets dealt with
3434s	get a good shot to uh
3436s	uh just reload the board and keep going
3438s	from there
3439s	glory just checking the numbers
3441s	obviously he will have seen the play you
3443s	just described he's just making sure
3444s	there's no weirdness with break points
3447s	that might be better with the
3449s	two wild seeds that are coming up
3452s	maybe he wants two five attack minions
3453s	or one huge minion
3458s	one huge minion looks like it's either
3460s	play
3462s	um
3466s	okay
3467s	that's out of range of a quick shot he's
3469s	out of range of the harpoon gun now
3473s	he says downsides to it at all as well
3476s	like the one ones can just get picked
3477s	off at leisure the 2-5 is a
3480s	a dominating taunt suddenly rather than
3482s	just a nuisance
3487s	glory's still thinking about it he's not
3489s	sure which way he
3490s	he should have gone there
3499s	obviously as well he's got double
3501s	mischievous in hand
3506s	so daring your opponent to pick off your
3508s	silly one ones or allowing yourself to
3510s	trade them in to proc that might have
3512s	been on his mind
3528s	yeah
3529s	it must have been um
3533s	but now this board feels
3538s	nearly insurmountable right like
3541s	uh
3542s	it's hard to think of uh of a good
3547s	pickup off the top
3550s	yeah and this is what i mean by
3552s	the saber next
3558s	you turn just playing a little bit too
3559s	fair right
3561s	like hydrolon's fantastic and all the
3563s	seven mana and you haven't cheated manny
3564s	you haven't cheated into play it's just
3566s	there in your hand it's turned five
3574s	why is the next turn things get
3576s	interesting yeah it was the
3580s	yeah it was the solid powerful hunter
3581s	start but against import lock it like
3584s	you said just too fair and especially
3586s	not getting the rush
3588s	early let's say that uh wild spirits had
3591s	um
3592s	actually dumped the uh the rush uh to be
3595s	able to trade over the librarian it
3596s	could have been a different story
3597s	obviously the vile library play still
3600s	would have been there it still wouldn't
3601s	be able to buff the imp and trade over
3602s	the two five but there would have been
3603s	so much less power on board this quick
3605s	shot could have gone somewhere else it
3606s	could have been a snowball effect but
3608s	um
3610s	boards getting out of control has been
3611s	out of control board is out of control
3615s	just about yeah
3616s	from smoke's perspective
3618s	would feel that until this comes down
3620s	maybe there's still some hope with
3622s	survivor turn somehow because we've got
3624s	40 health and hydrologa look at the
3626s	state of this slot now that's coming
3627s	onto the board out of control is
3629s	absolutely the word you're looking for
3632s	and a sneaky grim right just to make
3634s	sure
3641s	no play
3646s	2-2
3648s	there it is
3650s	all right so we'll come down to the
3652s	beast hunter once again from smoke and
3653s	the naga priest from glory who uh both
3657s	of his losses in the series he has
3658s	gained uh with his nogger priests so
3661s	giving it a third shot and in this
3663s	matchup
3664s	usually the naga has a bit more time to
3667s	kind of set up the board's not gonna get
3669s	unless the b center gets sort of that uh
3672s	perfect curve like one drop two drop uh
3674s	three drop
3676s	um which you know the deck is sort of
3678s	designed to do it but at the same time
3680s	it's 40 cards so
3682s	uh
3684s	you can't rely on it right 40 cards
3686s	that's what you get if you want 10 extra
3687s	health
3688s	so it doesn't yeah as off as say like
3691s	the face hunter or the aggressive hunter
3693s	that can really get onto the board
3694s	quickly very consistently
3697s	and the 10x of health didn't even buy
3698s	onex return though i think i think glory
3700s	had 10 in hand as we saw in that replay
3703s	just then that he could have still won
3706s	even with
3707s	yeah you know what i mean so one x
3708s	return who cares you're not buying the
3710s	time
3711s	so
3711s	in that regard it didn't work out well
3714s	and hunter maybe a little bit more
3716s	practice to come but it is going to have
3717s	to go up against the naga priest
3720s	and having just seen how it played out
3721s	against the imps
3723s	on this massive sample size of one in a
3725s	tournament with 350 players
3728s	kind of expect it to go the same way
3730s	glory can stick aim big minion and then
3732s	it doesn't die and then he's got time to
3734s	stick another big minion behind it
3736s	but this time smoke does have canitron
3738s	doggy biscuit coin ramming mount he can
3741s	just make his own one big minion and
3744s	pick off glory's stuff one thing at a
3746s	time
3750s	which seems like a good curve because
3753s	uh unless the naga priest
3755s	gets on the board really early those
3757s	buff cards are great because you
3758s	consistently trade specifically rap
3760s	ramming mountain
3762s	um is fantastic because you're you can
3764s	keep the board clear but keep your
3766s	minion up and healthy and attacking
3768s	himself
3770s	glory though with the the scribe the
3772s	radiant elemental the wig and the devour
3775s	that's a lot of stuff you can work with
3776s	and now it's picked up the priestess as
3778s	well so
3779s	does have pretty much maximum early
3781s	tempo to try and fight this off
3785s	but he's seen the coin caninaton so he
3787s	knows that there's
3789s	trouble ahead trouble brewing one might
3792s	say
3794s	sorry squishy i'm working
3800s	so this guy played with the wig and he's
3803s	going to play the priestess to the wig
3806s	up here playing around that doggie
3808s	biscuit
3810s	[Music]
3815s	so that's scuppered smokes immediate
3817s	plans
3820s	having just take the value trade into
3821s	the one one which means that the k920 is
3824s	going to get removed
3826s	with the biscuit upon it and that is
3828s	going to give
3829s	smoke a position where
3832s	very little board to work with
3839s	and glory choosing to heal up there
3841s	leaving yourself with a 5-4 on the board
3843s	against nothing for smoke
3845s	deal with a wig and a radiant in hand
3858s	does have minions he can put onto the
3860s	board
3861s	but they're so small they're just gonna
3863s	get eaten up and if he doesn't play any
3865s	then he's just gonna get eaten up so
3869s	very awkward spot here for him
3873s	yeah this is the situation that you want
3875s	to be in as the priest though just ahead
3877s	on board and just stay ahead on board
3879s	until you reach that critical mass of
3882s	uh power where you can kind of just
3884s	ignore the board and start pushing face
3886s	damage right keep the board under
3888s	control until you've
3890s	uh amassed enough resources in the hand
3892s	to where you can say all right average
3893s	join me i can boon it
3895s	block my own life total start pushing
3897s	face start getting that damage
3900s	extra precess
3903s	as well as the fact that smoke just has
3904s	no play again next turn apart from a
3906s	harpoon gun
3908s	glory looks like he's going to get his
3911s	sports getting out of control now and as
3913s	long as his next pickups aren't totally
3915s	dead he should be fine
3921s	here i mean it's hard to even think of
3923s	like dead pickups in the in the
3925s	situation right yep
3928s	naga good
3930s	that'll probably be good
3933s	um
3935s	game over yeah maybe but even then
3937s	that's a way to go like push through
3938s	your push through a mountain bear you
3940s	know
3941s	so
3942s	cathedral super good
3944s	it does all the things you talked about
3946s	and it will do them again
3951s	handmaiden
3961s	my blood boils we want to
3964s	yeah
3966s	yeah yeah yep or not why not and why not
3969s	and why not give a leave a ramming mount
3972s	target up board um
3974s	but i really don't want to sink five
3975s	damage into a one one
3978s	uh the ramy man will be able to trade
3980s	over the vicious slither spear and
3982s	that'd be it and there's a potential for
3983s	glory to find
3988s	some bears to get through
3992s	yeah irritated
3994s	but okay there we go treasure guard
3997s	handmaiden with a wig in between seems
3998s	good
4002s	again next turn regard has the added
4005s	benefit of blocking these minions from
4008s	uh being traded into to reduce their
4010s	health slash attack so
4014s	it's all looking up
4017s	the glory fan which many people are it
4020s	is indeed
4023s	looking at where he wants to put this
4033s	i'm choosing to value the heel over the
4035s	card draw because he can do that next
4036s	turn right he's got so much mana next
4038s	turn that he's going to float anyway
4044s	that makes sense yeah
4047s	we're in the how do you throw this game
4049s	sort of
4051s	series of thoughts right you're just
4053s	thinking about what's the worst thing i
4054s	can do here let's not do that
4064s	[Music]
4066s	okay
4067s	well
4068s	push the one
4071s	we're getting in there
4073s	i need to draw something to reset okay
4076s	the thrive i believe will activate the
4078s	the first handmaiden um i think that
4080s	that is the third spell
4083s	um first thing first is bless lethal uh
4086s	potentially with another wig actually
4089s	there's a taunt to get through so you
4090s	have to put it all in one minion so
4092s	we're gonna go with boone
4094s	and then uh you know let's go ahead and
4096s	draw within me and see what's up
4098s	no pelagos
4101s	next turn to look for the killing blow
4103s	yeah i like that better
4105s	oh he likes the other ah let's draw
4107s	cards i like cards
4109s	it's a card game cards are good
4111s	but yeah pelagos is the it's just
4114s	is the bless right pelagos is gonna
4128s	it doesn't matter like
4130s	uh
4131s	now uh thrive just defines shard and
4134s	then
4135s	we just have lethal on board
4139s	uh oh no just draw the shot makes it
4142s	much easier i think
4144s	the thrive wasn't guaranteed because it
4145s	was still
4146s	boon bless
4149s	second wig and uh
4152s	shard in the deck so thrive was not
4153s	guaranteed
4155s	to find the lethal but there was also
4156s	like there was enough trades on board
4160s	with pele ghost in my urban week to be
4161s	able to to push one damage to the base
4163s	even with three attacks
4165s	so
4166s	that was just
4168s	uh all sorts of decided and there you
4171s	have it glory
4172s	wins the top 16 match against smokes on
4174s	to the top eight and
4177s	you know i i like what we saw from from
4179s	smoke he had a an innovative lineup that
4182s	obviously had success you know he made
4184s	it this far with the deck these are just
4186s	not the decks that uh he
4189s	would want to face with this beast on
4190s	the right
4191s	against the rogue perhaps sure
4194s	it could have been good that would have
4195s	been a good match in the series but this
4197s	deck is
4198s	more in uh in tune to line up with some
4200s	of the slower decks like um like druid
4203s	or mage and glory just didn't have those
4206s	uh in his lineup uh so this deck uh
4209s	didn't have enough good matchups
4212s	against glory's lineup to really uh um
4216s	be able to do much once the rogue had
4218s	already gotten the win across the board
4220s	so valiant effort smoke still goes away
4222s	with the top 16 very impressive but
4224s	we'll fall short and uh
4226s	boy one step closer to yeah
4229s	glory
4231s	wow not used that one before we can do
4233s	that again um
4235s	unless there's been a name change or
4236s	something i believe that was smoke's
4237s	first masters tour as well
4239s	so
4240s	it takes a lot of people a long time to
4241s	get to their first top 16 smoke just cut
4244s	all that out let's just get this one
4246s	with the learning process first time out
4247s	let's casually make top 16 and set up
4250s	for
4250s	future events so well done to smoke but
4253s	yeah glory once again moves to a top
4256s	eight in a big tournament and
4259s	he does seem like he's quite good at
4261s	this hearthstone business
4264s	yeah it seems so yeah uh you know what
4266s	and also maybe smoke is dragon man also
4268s	[Laughter]
4271s	this is it's just dragon man's all the
4273s	way down he just can't turn if it's on
4277s	all across the board no i i kid i kid uh
4280s	so
4281s	uh but that's our first match top 16 and
4283s	in many we all the matches for top 16
4286s	are playing simultaneously right
4288s	um so there are a lot of them done but
4290s	there's still a few that have not
4292s	completed
4293s	so um neil and i are well i'm done
4296s	neal's gonna come back and cast um that
4298s	was just our first match we are gonna go
4300s	and jump into some coverage from some of
4302s	the other top 16 matches before we move
4304s	on uh to the actual top eight but we're
4306s	gonna have to go to a break before that
4308s	so uh don't go anywhere when we come
4309s	back top 16 continues here at the final
4313s	day for master's tour murder at castle
4314s	nathria don't go down
4327s	[Music]
4371s	[Applause]
4373s	[Music]
4404s	so
4406s	[Music]
4412s	[Music]
4417s	[Music]
4441s	[Applause]
4449s	[Music]
4513s	welcome back everybody to masters tour
4516s	murder at castlemouthria and we are
4518s	still in the round of the top 16 because
4521s	in this matter some matches are really
4522s	fast and some matches are really slow so
4524s	we're going to fill in the time while
4525s	the slow ones are going on with some
4527s	more live action and i believe that
4529s	derek has been studying studiously what
4532s	is going on in this one between sansoko
4534s	and possessing how's it going uh yeah i
4536s	mean uh somewhat i suppose it's it's my
4539s	two boys right it's uh two
4541s	representatives of the japanese region
4542s	which i am a very uh big fan of
4545s	following it very closely casting apac
4546s	gm and it's lighting that fire beneath
4549s	me neil that happens every single
4551s	masters tour where i start to say
4553s	is this the one are we finally getting
4556s	an apac champion i mean if ever we were
4558s	gonna do it it would be this one right
4560s	we have glory and possessing in the top
4563s	16. two literal world champion players
4566s	glory almost two years in a row only
4568s	losing two possession at the end we've
4570s	got zochi and miro uh from south korea
4574s	as well and
4575s	c8763 representing taiwan as well i
4578s	believe so it's a really really strong
4580s	representation uh for a pack overall
4583s	which of course i'm ecstatic to see uh
4586s	and uh i'm excited to jump in see how
4588s	the players are going whether it's going
4589s	to be one of those days where we get god
4591s	tier possesses or trashed here
4593s	possessive because
4595s	god believe me there is no in between
4597s	some days you get both on the same game
4600s	right oh yeah yeah you do something
4601s	insane and then just forget to attack
4603s	after he's done it or something he's
4604s	absolutely nutty as a player to watch
4606s	it's great sometimes yeah it is it's
4609s	very true but up against hansoku who i
4611s	think uh given that he's the one that we
4613s	of these two players that we've seen so
4614s	far this weekend uh it's looking very
4616s	strong actually in terms of his play
4619s	overall i did have
4621s	one or two questions about his lineup if
4623s	i'm being honest i think there's a
4624s	couple of tech decisions that i would
4625s	have done a little bit differently or
4626s	the uh the kind of the deviation that
4628s	you go in with his archetypes in terms
4630s	of whether you lean aggro or control
4632s	but overall his play has been in my
4635s	opinion pretty much impeccable so far
4637s	and with us jumping in in game
4640s	two here right into the action his mage
4643s	already having taken a win uh that's a
4645s	huge tick because that's the deck that i
4646s	had the biggest doubts of it's this very
4648s	kind of
4649s	slow controlly version of the skeleton
4653s	mage that runs double uh
4655s	uh sorry double solid alibi a blizzard's
4658s	a mos mass polymorph as well not a moss
4661s	polymorph
4663s	and uh it's a list that i really did not
4665s	believe in if i'm honest but so far it
4666s	has been doing fantastically well for
4668s	him yeah and tan soko also one of those
4671s	players that you may not be too familiar
4673s	with but he's been around forever he's
4675s	been getting regular five and six wins
4677s	in masters tours i think you and i
4679s	probably you and i cast him in korea
4681s	versus japan in 2016. he definitely
4684s	played in it
4685s	um he has just been around the scene for
4688s	probably longer than possessing believe
4689s	it or not and competing at the highest
4692s	level so if if he's somebody you're not
4693s	particularly familiar with i know we
4694s	showed him yesterday he has been around
4697s	a long time nerves will not be an issue
4700s	for tonsoko at all
4702s	but yeah the hunter
4704s	what do you make of hunter at the moment
4706s	we've seen many different versions of it
4707s	they all seem to be slightly weaker than
4709s	everything else
4710s	to be honest i think hunter is right now
4713s	where hunter has been for a long time
4715s	like it's
4717s	fine right it's it's not bad it's not
4720s	great you bring it as a fourth deck
4722s	because it has great stats on hs replay
4725s	then you actually play it and you
4726s	realize it's just a noob stomper and
4728s	when you actually bring it to a
4729s	competitive setting it really starts to
4731s	feel a little bit shakier um i just
4734s	think it it lacks a little bit of one or
4736s	the other like its board control tools
4738s	obviously got better with the wild seeds
4741s	but they're not stacking up to the likes
4742s	of zoo right with all the imp strategies
4744s	they have going on there it's probably
4746s	not really stacking up against the mages
4748s	as well and the burn damage they have
4751s	yes it's the best of any class in the
4752s	game right now but with everyone having
4754s	40 health the burn damage needs to be
4756s	really really good if you're going to be
4758s	able to get there and so i think it's
4760s	like both halves of the deck and the
4762s	damage on the board are almost there but
4763s	it kind of needs one or the other to
4765s	really skyrocket up for it to become a
4767s	tier tier one deck yeah i would agree
4769s	with that as well you can't challenge
4771s	like imps by going wide because they'll
4773s	go wider than you and you can't
4775s	challenge peace by going tall because
4777s	they'll go taller than you so you fall
4778s	into this sort of weird black hole of
4781s	how big your board can be that doesn't
4783s	quite challenge other decks on a regular
4786s	basis like it should obviously you can
4787s	you can mix and match those you can
4789s	ignore the big thing with the priests
4790s	and go really wide and hit them but
4792s	overall
4793s	your spells do three damage i mean yeah
4796s	three is a weird number to do right now
4798s	we can see a one three on the board just
4800s	to prove me slightly wrong
4802s	but lots of things have one health and
4804s	lots of things have a million health
4805s	right now and three's kind of wasteful a
4807s	lot of the time
4809s	very very weird start to the game though
4811s	if it's
4812s	whereas possession has just been playing
4814s	stuff right he went coin to drop two
4815s	drop very very happily moving on with
4817s	his standard face hunter game plan here
4819s	again just one one one will do the job
4822s	nicely but tanseoku's had a bit of a
4824s	rough ride he's had to go like
4826s	one drop and then uh sacrifice right
4829s	into another one drop his mischievous
4832s	imp i think is still uninfused going
4834s	into this turn no you're right yeah i
4837s	thought it just infused but it's one
4838s	short you're right one short
4841s	um
4842s	i think you probably still have to play
4844s	it you know it's still a four mana six
4845s	six you get a decent body there uh but
4848s	it starts to beg this question with the
4850s	location on board but inactive for this
4852s	turn how much do we want to play for
4855s	immediate decent tempo play with just
4857s	mischievous imp for setting up for a big
4860s	combo turn or big ish with the
4862s	voidwalker double imp or maybe even play
4864s	the voidwalker this turn and then just
4866s	go imp plus location next turn
4868s	really tough to pass
4870s	yeah and i think the tap was not what i
4873s	would have done it felt a little bit
4874s	brave in that even if you draw good
4876s	stuff then you've got another turn where
4879s	you're not going to have the mana to
4880s	play all this stuff and then you've got
4882s	to wait another turn to actually get the
4884s	payoff and you're against the hunter
4885s	deck that while we put it down slightly
4888s	it's not a bad deck like it will punish
4890s	you if you are um half a turn behind
4892s	which tan soko currently is so let's see
4895s	if you can get that payoff to pay off i
4897s	guess
4901s	the chain is coming together here right
4902s	you've got mischievous impinter almost
4905s	being able to play c giant uh this will
4908s	if everything dies infuse your second
4910s	mischievous imp and then you can get the
4912s	c giant down at the same time or at the
4914s	very least the catastrophe uh it's still
4917s	okay for tan soku even with a bit of a
4919s	rough start
4922s	yes
4923s	it's okay
4925s	um
4926s	and more importantly we can see
4927s	possesses hand which is completely out
4930s	of stuff
4931s	and that's that's the big deal right
4933s	possessing had
4934s	things that he could fight the board
4936s	with maybe some more wild seeds next
4938s	turn tan soko
4940s	would be in a lot of trouble but possess
4942s	he can do basically nothing here yeah he
4945s	can
4946s	tidy up but he's gonna cost him five
4948s	mana to kill two things and launch your
4950s	hero power that is not ideal
4953s	but uh very importantly here the things
4955s	are killable right because the location
4957s	was not used on that previous turn for
4959s	plus four plus four uh tansoku wanted to
4962s	create it even yet further
4964s	uh still kind of unclear whether that
4967s	works out because he can't actually
4968s	sacrifice off this
4970s	imp on board so the imp in hand the
4973s	mischievous imp is left again uninfused
4977s	uh going into this turn but that's uh
4980s	not terrible
4982s	uh you can just go
4985s	yeah i guess impending catastrophe with
4987s	the c giant in hand you really want to
4988s	find some of the cards to activate that
4991s	yeah it's not like there's any bad draws
4993s	like just just get more of the same
4995s	whatever you get give or take i
4996s	understand there's differences
4999s	wow man
5003s	i don't even know what to do with this
5004s	doggy biscuit do you play it and just be
5006s	miserable but kill something
5009s	or do you cycle it they're both just
5011s	miserable options
5012s	all right well if we commit the cardinal
5014s	sin of hearthstone and actually count uh
5016s	if we'd played it there then you have
5019s	five attack on board including the uh
5022s	the buff from
5025s	uh the slither spear hero power as well
5028s	seven takes them down to twelve
5029s	collateral damage in two turns time with
5032s	another one hero power in the middle
5034s	is probably not gonna be lethal like it
5037s	maybe would have got there but you're
5039s	playing a very very risky game because
5040s	as soon as they buff up the board with a
5043s	bartender the health of all the minions
5045s	uh goes up so the damage with collateral
5047s	damage goes down uh and you're really
5049s	nowhere near killing them then yeah he
5051s	did of course get the worst card i think
5053s	probably in the whole deck that he could
5056s	didn't make it look like the best cycle
5058s	ever
5059s	um that was not it was a tough choice
5063s	you gonna play the imp now panzeka has
5066s	decided that he's going to play the imp
5067s	oh no
5069s	i thought he had some clever plan lined
5071s	up but he just forgot to play it
5073s	told you he wouldn't get nervous
5075s	fine i mean
5077s	it's it's one of those mistakes that
5079s	like it's so obvious i can't even get
5080s	mad at it right like whatever just play
5083s	it and don't do it again next time
5085s	it's not like some highly deep
5087s	strategical error that he didn't yeah
5089s	he's just i just didn't play my card
5091s	yeah like it's it's dumb obviously but
5093s	whatever
5095s	uh is it the difference between setting
5097s	up lethal and not setting up lethal
5099s	though apparently no because possessive
5101s	just throws it down and tansoku at 2-0
5104s	again wearing his heart on his sleeve
5106s	right you can just feel from his
5109s	massive face positioned right in front
5111s	of his webcam that he really really
5113s	wants these wins against the
5115s	the current world champion even ignoring
5119s	how he does in the rest of the
5120s	tournament this would be such a huge win
5122s	for him as a competitive hearthstone
5123s	player absolutely it has been a while
5125s	since we've seen him at these really
5127s	late stages of a tournament and that was
5129s	just the most apac thing i've ever seen
5131s	dalek i don't get the chance to rip into
5132s	you and g very often
5134s	one player just plays the bartender
5136s	followed by a name and the other one
5137s	says yep that'll do
5139s	i give up i can't beat that
5142s	there's so much apac going on there
5145s	that's how we do it like honestly i
5147s	think if gm had continued for one or two
5149s	more years apac grand masters would just
5151s	be both players sending each other a
5153s	screenshot of their starting hand and
5154s	one of them just conceding because
5156s	they'd be like okay that's good enough
5157s	for me i i think you've uh you've got me
5158s	there
5160s	i'm joking aside as well i think if gm
5161s	had continued one or two more years apac
5163s	were getting pretty strong like i i meme
5166s	on them of course i do because i cast
5168s	the america's region so there's no
5170s	punching down able for me so i have to
5172s	just punch up the smallest amount
5174s	possible but yeah
5175s	um i think that apac were coming on very
5178s	very strongly towards the end in terms
5180s	of practice groups in terms of research
5182s	in terms of actual play still a few
5185s	untidy moments in the region overall but
5187s	yeah i think i think that we're getting
5188s	very strong and it's showing here in
5190s	this masters tour with so many players
5191s	in this top 16.
5193s	damn right it's showing g are the
5195s	greatest player to ever grace the game
5197s	joining us in the masters tour
5199s	and uh dutifully throwing the game
5202s	versus alu temu to boost his total
5204s	number of wins
5205s	always one to appreciate a good stat is
5208s	gia more so than her own tournament
5210s	results which i respect massively
5213s	finally get over 100 before playing gear
5215s	but just in case just in case exactly
5218s	yeah you've got to get him up to like
5220s	101 or something whatever he's up to now
5222s	uh but for tan okay here on the temperog
5225s	uh a deck that i mean the debate just
5227s	rages on uh i don't know if you've been
5229s	told how lamby series came up with this
5232s	but uh pony of pony dojo told me very
5235s	amusingly apparently uh this deck was
5238s	created purely because lambie's apm is
5241s	too bad and he couldn't play the regular
5243s	version of miracle rogue with all the
5245s	coins so he just made this monstrosity
5248s	and uh
5249s	then realized wait a second this is
5251s	actually not that bad
5253s	uh and everyone else in the practice
5255s	group was like hey wait a second i think
5257s	you're right
5259s	whether or not it's still
5262s	in a ladder setting a top tier deck is i
5264s	think a little bit more up for debate
5265s	because you're going to be seeing a much
5267s	higher percentage of decks like shaman
5269s	and druid and mage as well which i think
5271s	may be where this deck suffers a little
5273s	bit against those three very very common
5274s	archetypes but if you can ban one of
5276s	those away you're going to be facing a
5278s	lot more hunter a lot more zoo those
5280s	kind of decks in tournament and those
5281s	are the decks where i think this rogue
5282s	shines because it's really an
5284s	anti-tempo deck an anti-aggro deck in my
5287s	experience for the most part where even
5289s	though it has a pretty low health total
5291s	the entirety of that early game aside
5294s	from it being miracle support where you
5296s	just want to play a lot of cards in the
5298s	same turn it's just all removal man it
5300s	just deletes any board that your
5301s	opponent can play like knoll is zero
5303s	mana deal three shadow step turns that
5306s	very often into another zero mana deal
5307s	three extortion wicked stab tooth uh
5311s	even the weapon like all these guards
5313s	are just so clean that dealing with any
5314s	board your opponent throws down so
5316s	unless you get
5317s	really really steamrolled by a mega fast
5320s	zoo opening uh i think this temperog is
5323s	a very specific tool uh for a specific
5325s	job but it's certainly the right tool
5327s	when that job does arise yeah and it
5329s	also depends which part of ladder you're
5331s	referring to i know you're talking about
5332s	yeah the good player part but down in
5334s	dredge legend where i live and
5337s	do my work and shamble around doing my
5340s	thing like it beats the decks that it
5342s	shouldn't as well because you're playing
5343s	against people who are less experienced
5345s	at dealing with
5347s	just the sheer damage it can put out and
5349s	things like mage and shaman you just
5351s	stomp through those as well i understand
5353s	the point i understand at tournament
5354s	competitive level it absolutely will
5356s	struggle against those big three but if
5358s	you're thinking of trying this deck out
5360s	don't let derek put you off unless your
5362s	top 500 legend because it will just
5364s	murder your opponents at any
5367s	level right up to the top level uh after
5369s	you've played about 10 games those first
5371s	10 games are gonna be rough trust me you
5373s	are not gonna know what on earth you're
5374s	doing with this deck uh but then it
5376s	starts to settle in a little bit more
5380s	yeah just first of all first thing to
5381s	remember you are not a demon hunter
5383s	right now huh
5385s	yeah i mean
5386s	even with the starting hand there's a
5387s	good lesson right here when i first
5389s	started playing this deck oh philip
5390s	fighter on turn one that sounds good
5392s	let's start killing them that was good
5394s	in the old versions of rogue no you
5396s	cannot play rogue cards until your nulls
5397s	cost like zero or maybe one at the
5400s	absolute least it's what the whole deck
5402s	does you kind of need zero mana knolls
5404s	for the deck to function
5406s	it's weird actually as somebody who
5408s	has always struggled with rogue even
5410s	when i've been at my best of my game and
5412s	done quite well at the game i have
5414s	always struggled with vogue this deck
5416s	actually plays out how i imagine a deck
5418s	should play i don't i don't have any of
5419s	those difficulties because all the
5421s	things i did wrong before with vogue are
5423s	now correct
5424s	though not grabbing early tempo as well
5427s	as i should actually rewards people like
5429s	me now because you don't have to you can
5431s	just collect this
5432s	cheap collection of cards make a giant
5435s	thing and kill them with it and that
5436s	that fits my brain so much better
5440s	oh really tough choice here for tan soku
5443s	because if you play this uh sinstone
5445s	graveyard upside you've played it you've
5448s	banked the mana so the next turn you can
5450s	start popping off with maybe tracker
5452s	plus the graveyard on the same turn uh
5454s	the downside is of course you pop out of
5456s	your disguise so those knolls are gonna
5457s	stay costing one for the rest of the
5459s	game and the break point between zero
5461s	and one is
5463s	astronomical like that's potentially
5465s	plus three plus three or an extra three
5466s	attack on your dagger which is like nine
5469s	attack over the course of the game that
5470s	you can miss out on uh if you play it
5472s	now
5473s	but
5474s	you know you've also banked the matter
5476s	then so the extra two you have to pay
5477s	for the knolls is maybe recouped by it
5479s	it's really tough but i think there's a
5482s	pass here there is the option here
5484s	because he has two of them that that
5485s	makes a difference because that's true
5487s	you can pump out two four fours and to
5489s	have the decision of that will do rather
5491s	than 177 or something so there's a lot
5494s	to think about there with that in mind
5498s	okay tracker is obviously
5501s	if you're trying to chain edward not a
5503s	good card but if you're just trying to
5504s	make a big weapon that's the card to
5506s	find of course
5510s	go time for both players
5513s	getting there isn't it both got both
5515s	knolls
5516s	both got draco obviously tan soku's got
5518s	both locations as well
5522s	it looks like this favors tan soka quite
5524s	strongly from here because he's just got
5526s	so much more stuff and he's got the
5528s	tempo on his side yeah i do like this
5530s	like very often this match-up does come
5532s	down to bigger dracker because it kind
5534s	of like
5535s	gains you one extra turn of tempo in
5537s	terms of the damage like it kind of has
5539s	charge in a way with getting to attack
5541s	face straight away as opposed to the uh
5543s	the simstone graveyards but in this
5545s	instance when your opponent's so far
5547s	away from eight mana scabs
5549s	and they have nothing on board i think
5550s	this is absolutely the way to go for tan
5552s	soku and uh possessi already is looking
5555s	to be in some very hot water
5557s	i this is rapidly becoming an accidental
5560s	catchphrase but it's turn four
5563s	six sixes two three fives what's even
5566s	going on and that's with every deck in
5568s	this meta i just seem to stream that out
5570s	on turn four but it's turn four
5572s	look at it all
5575s	nearly there
5576s	[Music]
5578s	yeah possessing looks kind of dead like
5580s	the out right now is
5583s	prep serrated bone tooth uh or bone
5586s	spike sorry into scabs in the same turn
5591s	kill him
5594s	or do you just 27 next turn somehow with
5596s	your 10 10 in your weapon
5599s	uh
5600s	yeah okay how does that work what are
5602s	the outs that you could get that you
5603s	have double door which could be double
5606s	infused
5607s	uh
5609s	so you know it starts getting pretty
5611s	uh
5612s	difficult to work through but you know
5613s	if you're looking at like double prep
5615s	double bone spike is the two things you
5617s	get off of the double door
5619s	then
5621s	you know i don't think we're dealing 27
5622s	in a single turn then but you're getting
5624s	to the point where possibly you can kill
5626s	them one turn earlier
5629s	but of course tensorflow just dealing
5630s	with enough of the damage on the board
5632s	here to still set up the two-turn lethal
5636s	way
5637s	yeah i'm not mind games aside
5643s	[Applause]
5645s	thank you 14. you're
5646s	probably supposed to kill the knoll here
5649s	i think it's like again it's so so so
5652s	unlikely that you die even from 15 to
5655s	zero uh if you ignore if you factor the
5657s	edwin in
5658s	um but i think it's a lot less likely
5662s	than like 12.
5664s	on the other side of it doing nine is so
5666s	much easier than doing 12 but i think
5668s	you are supposed to kill it as well
5670s	you've got a whole collection of threes
5672s	and sixes so nine is just one of the
5673s	threes but
5675s	you shouldn't be able to get 12 out of
5676s	this lot
5678s	all right this is gonna need to be one
5679s	heck of a turn for possessing starting
5682s	off he needs to make some hand space
5683s	right
5684s	uh so we could see extortion first we
5687s	could see phillip fighter first yeah
5689s	basically anything to free up space for
5690s	these doors
5694s	all right prep
5696s	okay
5698s	there we go that's something
5701s	i don't know what now but let's keep
5703s	going let's keep playing stuff
5705s	just change the the hope setting the
5707s	dream
5708s	uh
5709s	kings is four damage i
5712s	uh it's just noble sacrifices and that
5714s	you you try to
5715s	delete some damage okay that's tan soko
5717s	might make a mistake or something attack
5719s	but that's true thing into it so it
5720s	gives you a chance
5722s	yeah i think clutching at straws
5724s	yeah kings is just too expensive
5727s	and mainly it's too time consuming why
5729s	is this possessed you just click
5730s	something you've got a lot of stuff left
5731s	to do
5733s	oh no not like this hey he takes kings
5737s	does he see a lethal out here
5741s	he may have just decided he doesn't want
5742s	any of the cards and just clicked one of
5744s	you
5745s	right
5747s	yeah okay fair enough he didn't have
5749s	mana for the secret which is i guess
5755s	and so we are a
5758s	single damage spell away from lethal
5759s	honest sorry with the trade my mistake
5761s	it's uh a lot harder now
5763s	wow
5764s	great turn from possession
5770s	but a fish suddenly has ten seconds
5772s	actually got to go fishing for something
5773s	good because
5775s	might actually lose this game
5777s	yeah the question is though what do you
5778s	point this philip fighter out because
5782s	yeah i think it does have to be edwin
5783s	here three is a lot easier to deal than
5785s	four
5785s	[Music]
5787s	okay well turns out obviously that was
5789s	gonna happen yeah
5792s	minus one damage low
5798s	you just do it anyway it's still the
5799s	correct play yeah
5801s	you know they can't kill you from the
5802s	other side of course
5804s	you'd be dead
5811s	somehow the blessing of kings worked out
5812s	possessing worked out how much the board
5814s	could look like and that blessing of
5815s	kings could have been a big deal as it
5816s	happens
5820s	in some worlds
5822s	is the damage spell lethal here it's 11
5825s	15 yeah any damage spell was actually
5827s	just game there because of the blessing
5828s	of king's pick
5832s	that's sick
5833s	tooth or uh
5837s	tooth or wicked stab was lethal yes yeah
5839s	it was oh my god
5841s	he he spotted that so that huge long
5844s	thing he had as tan soko pops off
5846s	that huge long thing that possess he had
5849s	actually came to a really good
5850s	conclusion and very nearly won him the
5852s	game first of all he had to lose a
5854s	minion anyway and then he had to whiff
5855s	on his own draw that was that was
5857s	incredibly close
5858s	really really close and uh a big uh
5862s	well played to uh uh possessing there i
5865s	think that would look like possessee on
5866s	form you know he got very uh
5869s	his opponent got some pretty good draws
5871s	and that mage game was oh sorry that
5873s	rogue mirror was very very close at the
5875s	end uh like we can talk about questions
5877s	as to
5878s	his use of mana leading up into that mid
5881s	game like edwin stepping the edwin but
5883s	to be honest i think i just agree with
5885s	everything he did it was a game where he
5886s	drew neither location his uh drakka was
5889s	fairly small as well for that stage of
5891s	the game uh and he gave himself a real
5894s	out like a solid shot of winning the
5896s	game i don't know what the odds were
5897s	there but i feel like they were pretty
5898s	good
5899s	uh and i think a lot of players wouldn't
5901s	have even got into that position so well
5902s	played to him but congratulations to tan
5906s	soku taking the win over the current
5908s	world champ and uh going through to the
5910s	top eight now just a couple wins away
5914s	from being crowned
5915s	the winner of my feeling murder at
5917s	catholic castle nathria every time derek
5920s	speaks you can feel the excitement
5922s	building it's like apac is going to do
5924s	it we're going it's time this time
5926s	[Music]
5928s	this is the one the round isn't quite
5931s	over yet i believe i'm just double
5933s	checking yeah we've got one more game of
5935s	hearthstone for you and
5937s	it's going to be between gamer rbg and
5940s	donkey
5942s	um so it's i think we're going to join
5944s	it at two all
5948s	uh yes i believe so i think we're
5949s	heading to game five and this is an
5952s	interesting game right because i believe
5954s	gamer rvg is america's last hope
5959s	right that is true i think he's the only
5961s	america's representative like usa or
5963s	otherwise that the region is an entirety
5965s	uh which makes me almost as happy as the
5968s	fact that apac is doing so well is that
5970s	america's is doing so poorly uh but for
5973s	gamer rpg versus donkey you know
5977s	it's a tough one to choose because
5978s	donkey is a player that we're both
5979s	really really big fans of we hope for
5980s	them to do very very well uh but gamer
5982s	rvg his uh
5984s	excitement uh on social media has been
5987s	infectious jokes aside about the
5988s	americas as a region a player who i i
5991s	definitely hope to see a big win for at
5993s	some point uh yeah it would be really
5996s	good to see again i think even as the
5998s	america's representative i cannot help
6000s	but sort of
6002s	unfortunately i'm supposed to be
6003s	unbiased but voting for donkey is just a
6006s	thing i've done since day one when he
6007s	forgot to check in for his first
6009s	tournament they had such a bad run and
6012s	they're so excited when they play
6014s	that i think that a donkey taking down a
6017s	masters tour would just be
6018s	kind of the best thing that could happen
6020s	in the whole world ever
6024s	here we go into that game five it's the
6025s	alignment druid which has lost twice in
6028s	games three and four in this match so
6031s	far from gamer rvg
6033s	anything spectacular stick out there
6035s	it's hard to pick it out in a hurry but
6037s	they all it's pretty much a normal build
6039s	two starfish is interesting i guess yeah
6042s	i'm okay with double starfish the the
6044s	big question is like first of all
6045s	alignment or no alignment i'm fine with
6047s	this and i think very quickly whether or
6049s	not you include tokyo because the big
6051s	problem i had with a lot of the uh the
6053s	french players at the uh solari party
6057s	was they had alignment in their list
6058s	which is you know fine i can understand
6060s	why i'd want to do that in druid but
6062s	they had topia with like no nature
6063s	spells in the tech it was nourish wild
6066s	growth and the earthen scales and i
6067s	guess they innovate as well and there
6069s	just wasn't enough there was
6071s	no planted evidence no natural causes no
6074s	living roots you really need those cards
6076s	and personally i think you want to
6078s	include them full stop in druid i think
6080s	that package is really really powerful
6082s	both against aggro and control but if
6084s	you're going to cut all of those i fully
6085s	agree with cutting topio as well as
6088s	gamer rpg has done here
6090s	however up against the whig priest
6093s	lorinda we've seen it time and again
6095s	this has to be the disaster matchup for
6097s	the druid i think so yeah i mean to it's
6099s	one weakness is getting hit early by big
6101s	minions it's not quite as one weakness
6103s	getting a hit early by lots of small
6104s	minions this is another one but getting
6106s	hit early and hard is definitely what
6108s	druid doesn't like
6110s	and here we go wig priest yeah yeah
6114s	you've got to just get through that
6115s	early bit i guess somehow but
6119s	can you really can you do that you can't
6123s	get through this i mean just look at
6124s	that absolute beast you're not getting
6126s	anywhere against that
6129s	uh obviously an early alignment can
6132s	maybe do something if they don't have a
6135s	radiant to go with it and if some other
6137s	things a starfish can shut down the
6139s	first attack as we see here is a
6142s	possibility
6143s	some early ramp can get you your big
6145s	things on board but they're not even big
6147s	enough by then a lot of the time
6149s	so it is donkey's
6151s	deck or himself to lose at this point
6154s	you can get it done
6155s	that is true but
6158s	getting ravi's hand is really good right
6160s	now yes it is golf and starfish are
6163s	premium cards in the mulligan theater
6166s	not bad either actually to be perfectly
6168s	honest just slamming that down on turn
6170s	probably after guff uh in order to try
6173s	and steal a wig is huge and right now
6176s	and it's really really slow
6180s	yes stealing a wig is obviously a
6181s	massive deal um it's quite hard to
6183s	explain how massive a deal it can be
6186s	because a lot of the time
6187s	it is your only win card you don't
6190s	always get the thrive to find the second
6191s	one you don't always get the second one
6193s	if the first one gets stolen
6195s	you can still do great things with boons
6198s	and so on but
6200s	it slows you down it means you have to
6201s	actually win fair and square on the
6203s	board the druid then just gets out of
6205s	hand
6206s	he hits that it could be
6208s	could be a way through
6210s	that's why it's not a 100 matchup right
6211s	it's 60 or 70 for a reason
6215s	okay take a look at the list again to
6217s	try and uh figure out what the play on
6219s	this turn should be sorry there are very
6221s	few plays that are good off of aquatic
6224s	formulas again no living roots uh no
6227s	natural causes makes it a little bit
6229s	tougher
6230s	and so i've think the play i would be
6233s	leading into is just hero power growth
6235s	guff coin hero power scales right it's
6237s	it's just a pretty clean
6239s	uh curve uh over the next couple turns
6243s	you have starfish as an emergency panic
6245s	button in case anything goes terribly
6247s	wrong but my instinct is to say that
6249s	aquatic form should be saved until you
6250s	have like eight mana or so so that you
6253s	can try and hit uh second scale
6255s	alignment growth uh
6258s	park panther maybe as well as just a
6260s	little bit of extra removal second
6261s	starfish slightly more powerful options
6264s	against wig priest
6267s	donkey's feeling it because he's got a
6269s	lot of the tools for a good game here
6271s	but not necessarily all of them
6275s	yep they're just taking a moment to calm
6277s	themselves down i like this a lot it's
6279s	like okay it's not really important
6281s	i'm in the top 16. sorry squishy
6285s	from here
6286s	i mean
6287s	the
6288s	bad the bow tie in the beard is never
6289s	gonna not be hilarious that is just such
6291s	a great affectation to have
6294s	i love it i love i think it's about
6296s	donkey
6298s	the fact is gone slightly wonky though
6300s	during the course of this match shows
6301s	this match
6303s	two hours or something
6306s	like it's been a real grind i don't know
6308s	how long it is exactly it's something
6309s	like two hours since this match started
6311s	this started before our live
6313s	match started and
6315s	is still going it's nutty
6318s	it's been a long round one
6319s	i need to go put the washing out oh well
6321s	i'll do it in 30 seconds you'll be okay
6324s	that's true actually that's a good point
6326s	uh but a decent draw here right for
6328s	donkey in the form of treasure guard
6331s	just to get yourself a little bit of uh
6333s	sorry a refresh on the wig and a taunted
6336s	five health minion is really annoying
6338s	for the premiere clear for druid at this
6340s	point in the game which is scales like
6343s	an odd number of health whether it be
6344s	five or seven
6346s	uh is very very tricky for your opponent
6347s	to answer
6350s	and is
6351s	what do you do about this theater next
6353s	time like donkey's hand will likely get
6355s	bigger not smaller over the next few
6357s	turns so you've got to go
6360s	but
6361s	yeah
6362s	you've got to find a way to work this in
6363s	soon right otherwise the hand is going
6364s	to get too big to go into your hit
6366s	i i think the way to approach it here
6368s	for gamer rpg is to say
6370s	theater isn't necessary to win this game
6373s	the the core game plan is still
6376s	tempo like he's going he's gained so
6378s	much mana over the course of this game
6380s	that just going miracle growth next turn
6383s	or scale into miracle growth with the
6385s	starfish as well that should win you the
6387s	game and if things go really really
6388s	wrong or really really well for that
6390s	matter if you have a bunch of spare mana
6392s	then you just throw down theater or if
6394s	you really need to steal the wig you can
6395s	go for a desperate theater but for the
6397s	main plan just stay the course play your
6399s	biggest cards on curve and win the game
6401s	that way yeah the aquatic form you
6403s	described obviously is still there going
6405s	into eight mana as well so
6407s	plenty of options there for game plan
6410s	desperate theater sounds like a new hero
6413s	from like 2024 expansion
6417s	level one it's desperate theater that
6419s	just becomes like invincible theater
6424s	wasn't that uh was that an old comic
6425s	desperate dan was that what was that was
6428s	a
6429s	that was a
6430s	strip within the dandy comic oh yeah
6434s	do you remember it well derek yeah i do
6437s	actually i used to read the bina and the
6438s	dandy a little bit when i was small i
6440s	used to have them delivered to my door
6442s	wow
6443s	yeah
6444s	there we go
6447s	ah thanks for that now i feel even older
6452s	all right
6454s	time to organize this term the aquatic
6456s	form first makes sense ooh
6460s	i think i'll just take a druid of the
6461s	reef that's that's good like it's a
6464s	pretty good card here at this point in
6465s	the game honestly even if you play it
6466s	this turn alongside the scale it's an
6469s	odd attack rusher which make things uh
6472s	just makes the numbers a bit cleaner
6474s	to actually clear the board
6477s	degrees
6479s	so if you were to play scale plus uh the
6482s	druid of the reef it's uh reef plus a
6484s	whelp into the one five one two three
6487s	four into the uh the big minion and then
6490s	one two into the smaller one it's a
6492s	pretty easy
6493s	the weight is destroying donkeys like
6495s	what are you gonna do show me your cards
6496s	i wanna see them now
6499s	okay
6500s	back to the grind you've got to set it
6501s	all up again
6508s	i mean the tension for these players it
6510s	must just be absolutely unbearable like
6512s	this is the furthest i think that either
6514s	of them have ever gotten in a masters
6515s	tour it's you know for a lot of players
6518s	getting through to top 16 you hate to
6519s	say but it's very possibly the furthest
6520s	they ever will get if they lose at this
6522s	point this you know when you're at this
6524s	point whether or not it's true you feel
6526s	like this is your shot if you lose it
6528s	now it's over and you're never going to
6530s	get a better chance than this one which
6532s	could just be true for a lot of players
6534s	it's really really difficult to get to
6536s	this point in a
6537s	masters tour given the level of
6539s	competition so for donkey i like what
6542s	he's doing he seems to be keeping the
6543s	stress levels low just playing his best
6545s	cards on curve
6546s	and uh even though things are looking a
6548s	little scary because gamer rpg has
6550s	ramped up he's got a decent hand size
6552s	donkey is still in this one even though
6555s	he didn't get the blowout victory that
6556s	you want with wig priest his hand is
6558s	still pretty premium there's plenty of
6560s	stuff going on for just make a couple of
6562s	big minions to sneak through
6564s	a game of rpg has a collection of nice
6567s	druid cars but no actual
6569s	punch it out of the park
6572s	cards right now
6575s	he says looking at the alignment
6576s	considering how that plays out
6578s	but not great into a radiant
6584s	okay alex drazer we knew was there
6587s	are we happy just slamming it down
6590s	it kills a thing and it is a thing it's
6592s	not too bad
6596s	moonlit's kind of the best card in the
6598s	deck
6600s	yeah you do have an alignment in hand
6602s	though which makes alexstrasza a lot
6604s	more tempting just to have
6607s	uh in hand but i guess your hand isn't
6609s	actually a very good alignment hand
6610s	anyway right you don't have anacondra
6612s	you don't nourish
6614s	um
6615s	don't have board yeah
6617s	it's really close like my instincts
6619s	still say it should just be miracle
6620s	growth on this term to draw a bunch of
6622s	extra cards and still get a good amount
6623s	of pressure and play
6625s	but i mean alexstrasza is clearly not a
6627s	bad option right
6629s	yeah
6630s	and i think that may have been the
6631s	decision in the end it's like well if
6632s	this is wrong it's not very wrong if my
6634s	other choices are wrong they're very
6636s	wrong if that makes any sense when
6638s	you're evaluating in a hobby just take
6640s	the one that looks like it's never a
6641s	disaster
6643s	and now we've got a big turning point in
6645s	the match because that radiant elemental
6647s	has been sat there understandably for
6649s	the entire game so far he drawn like
6651s	turn two
6653s	and you really want to play it now but
6655s	you also really want to save it for post
6657s	alignment to pop off in a much much
6659s	bigger way i think with the draw of
6661s	priestess valish though the decision
6663s	becomes an awful lot easier because this
6665s	is absolutely monstrous and i think that
6669s	was the light it burns as well which is
6671s	just a one mana snap answer to the alex
6674s	drazer on the other side this turn is
6676s	insane yeah donkey recognized it started
6679s	to turn off playing quite slowly and
6681s	then when they drew the presets they
6683s	were just like okay now i've got to go
6685s	and the the apm went up incredibly
6688s	quickly
6689s	oh he's just got to go he's worrying
6690s	about hand space don't worry about that
6692s	man board's face don't even worry about
6694s	it just go go go play switching that
6696s	draws things
6699s	all right they've got a huge number of
6702s	actions cued they've got a huge board
6704s	and no one's gonna ever know if this was
6706s	perfect but it was good enough
6708s	look at this board state they've created
6711s	derek
6712s	that's pretty monstrous uh yeah i think
6714s	there was maybe a subtle improvement
6715s	again i'm pretty sure the light it burns
6717s	was offered which i'm pretty sure i
6719s	would rather have done that than draw
6721s	two cards here
6723s	uh and just dealt 12 to them on this
6725s	turn uh but either way for the most part
6727s	like i'm not going to knock him too hard
6729s	because that's like a
6730s	you know an arguable difference in the
6732s	play the main point is here look at the
6734s	number of stats on board starfish can
6737s	help but starfish does not solve this
6739s	problem on its own you are still going
6741s	to be tanking the 12 from the kirian
6743s	plus everything else in its natural
6745s	stats on the board this is uh defcon 1
6748s	for gamer rvg he is about to lose this
6750s	game
6750s	yeah and all the good cards the theater
6752s	the alignment the even the miracle
6755s	growth they all do nothing suddenly
6758s	yeah all the cars that could have lined
6760s	up okay as you've said already the
6762s	starfish doesn't deal with a 12 22 it
6765s	doesn't deal with much at all
6769s	it's the card draw when you want it
6771s	jerry rig's too slow
6776s	gotta find a play gamer
6779s	got to do something man oh he's such a
6782s	heartbreaker
6784s	you gotta be scared
6786s	is it just miracle growth jerry rig
6788s	first to get plus one plus one alignment
6791s	oh
6795s	[Music]
6799s	i think he's just dead yeah yeah i think
6801s	even without the bless he may have just
6803s	been dead but either way gamer rbg can't
6805s	even bring himself to watch as we can
6807s	see donkey has done it through to the
6810s	top eight lorinda the uh
6813s	the only player i think who can rival
6815s	your love of stats has done it and uh i
6818s	think we're both feeling uh sharing in
6820s	his joy right now yeah well done to
6822s	donkey if we win for donkeys is a win
6825s	for everybody i feel sorry for gamer rpg
6827s	of course uh the last america's
6829s	representative which is our standard
6831s	thing to say in the round of 16. derek
6833s	the enemy of our enemy is our friend or
6835s	something we're friends
6837s	we've got to unite against europe and
6839s	china i am thoroughly an apac person for
6842s	the rest of the day
6844s	um but yeah seeing donkey go through
6846s	you've got to feel happy for them you
6848s	you've already mentioned the love of
6849s	stats and the hard work that they put
6851s	into their site so
6853s	everybody who plays hearthstone at some
6855s	point at any sort of competitive level
6857s	has has encountered donkey's work
6859s	whether deliberately or secondhand so
6862s	yeah great to see um a strong playing
6864s	community member doing incredibly well
6866s	in a masters tour love it
6868s	agreed and i think just playing very
6870s	very solidly overall again as i talked
6872s	about those uh that tough couple of
6875s	plays as to when you play the radian i
6876s	think was perfectly timed in that series
6879s	and uh takes a deserved win uh but with
6881s	that said i think we can take a look at
6884s	our set in stone top eight now here at
6887s	masters tour murder at castle nathria
6890s	let's see how things shook out
6893s	interesting games right who made it
6894s	through who didn't glory winning his
6896s	game we saw that on stream tan soku as
6898s	well and a lot of the chinese players
6901s	taking their wins as well right with
6902s	wood stone and love storm all taking it
6905s	can love storm go 12-0 for the second
6908s	time in a master's tour in the same year
6910s	i believe because that might even shut
6912s	sottles bly's comments up right if love
6914s	storm
6915s	eight owes the swiss and wins the
6917s	tournament twice that would be
6919s	absolutely nutty
6921s	uh 12-0 so hard to do obviously but
6924s	doing it twice that would be crazy and
6927s	this whole lineup
6928s	don't know much about the two bottom
6929s	players i've seen three woods about a
6931s	few times in these masters tours
6933s	but bunch of letters at the bottom i
6935s	don't know anything about i've got to
6936s	admit so i'll have a look into that for
6938s	you before we get to that one but yeah
6940s	strong looking top eight um with no
6943s	america's region competitors
6945s	no america's region and i think actually
6948s	eu in uh
6950s	well third place right in terms of
6952s	representation because i think it's just
6954s	boost your cmd for finland
6956s	and uh donkey right for croatia as well
6958s	uh to to round things out uh with uh
6962s	three uh chinese and three apac
6964s	representatives rounding things out so
6966s	again i'm gonna rally the cry it's a
6968s	fact time lorida i believe yeah i'm on
6971s	your side derek for obvious reasons and
6975s	well let's go and get on with this top
6977s	eight i think we've talked about it for
6979s	so long let's actually get on with it
6980s	let's see if derrick and jia can get
6982s	their wish and get a masters tour
6984s	champion top eight continues right after
6987s	this break
6990s	[Music]
6999s	[Music]
7027s	my
7029s	[Music]
7072s	you
7083s	[Music]
7091s	so
7098s	[Music]
7103s	so
7107s	[Music]
7122s	do
7126s	[Music]
7180s	[Music]
7187s	hello everyone and welcome back to
7189s	masters tour murder at castle nathria we
7191s	are about ready to start that top a i'm
7194s	raven and joining me to kick off that
7196s	top eight it's gonna be edelweiss and uh
7197s	we've got a cool match coming up it's
7199s	gonna be lovestorm versus merrow to
7201s	start here so gonna be a a pretty spicy
7204s	one overall both players bring in some
7206s	uh pretty interesting decks actually
7210s	yeah this curse warlock mixed with imp
7214s	warlock has done a lot better than i
7216s	would have anticipated usually i feel
7218s	like when you're playing a hybrid you
7219s	get sort of the worst of both worlds
7222s	but it seems like it is uh performing
7225s	very well for
7226s	lots of folks and
7228s	merrow on the other side with the pure
7230s	embarloc so we may see a showdown
7232s	between those two
7235s	yeah and we've got a great top eight as
7236s	well before we dive into the first match
7238s	to take a look at what is going to
7239s	happen for the rest of the day we will
7241s	be playing it out all the way to that
7242s	grand final of course where we will
7244s	crown our winner uh but look at some of
7246s	these match-ups they're all looking
7247s	fantastic actually i'm excited for the
7249s	one we're about to cast but then we have
7250s	donkey tonsoku and then w.e stone versus
7254s	glory like these are some pretty intense
7256s	matchups i am very very ready for a
7259s	little bit later on
7262s	yeah lots of familiar names i know i've
7263s	been a glory fan for quite some time tan
7266s	soku you know older name kind of making
7268s	its way back and as we mentioned earlier
7270s	in the weekend love storm another caster
7274s	although in the china region so
7276s	really jam-packed and of course my pick
7279s	donkey still in it you know it's a shame
7280s	it had to be taking down the last
7283s	america's player but donkey has just
7285s	done so much for the community in terms
7287s	of their website that i really really
7290s	have to root for them
7291s	yeah he does a lot of great work
7295s	but
7295s	there's also that chance as well for for
7298s	derek's dream to come true of a uh a
7300s	double japan final uh potentially
7304s	if everything goes right for those
7305s	players but as i said we are going to
7307s	kick things off with love stone versus
7308s	mero you can see the bands there and
7310s	interestingly enough again we we seem to
7313s	keep seeing this where shaymin has had
7315s	the best win rate across the masters
7317s	tour but it's still being left up so
7320s	players just deciding well you know
7322s	they'll just let it through and they
7323s	seem to have uh feel like they have a
7325s	stronger ban elsewhere in some of these
7327s	matchups we see druid banned away from
7329s	love storm and then the priest from mero
7331s	so what would you make of this strategy
7333s	overall of just leaving the shaymin up
7336s	and and letting those other bands go
7338s	through
7340s	so i think what it comes down to is that
7342s	while the shaman is really one of you
7344s	know the best deck i think by most
7346s	people's measure in this meta it doesn't
7349s	tend to have as crazy polarizing
7352s	match-ups so even if you're not great
7355s	into it you usually have still got
7356s	something like a you know 40 45 chance
7359s	or even 50 50s and people are more
7362s	willing to sort of take that than have
7364s	to worry about something that maybe pull
7366s	more polarizing for their lineup overall
7368s	yeah that's fair definitely because at
7370s	least with shaymin you know that because
7372s	the majority of them are 40 cards yes
7374s	we've seen them draw pretty great pretty
7376s	consistently but you do have that window
7379s	right just going against shaymin isn't
7381s	an auto lose right so i can definitely
7383s	see that one play out it does look like
7385s	we have the picks in for the first match
7387s	up and it is going to be the rogue from
7389s	love storm which is going to be that
7391s	mine rogue or you know the death rattle
7393s	smoke screen whatever name you want to
7394s	choose
7395s	and then we have the mage from mero
7398s	which uh is the version i am moving
7401s	further and further away from the more i
7403s	play different types of mage uh it is
7406s	that excel sort of huge you know 40
7408s	cards all the different win conditions
7410s	you could ever want so gonna be
7411s	interesting once we take a look at those
7412s	decklists but as you mentioned love
7414s	storm um as well as winning a previous
7418s	master store nyx's lair a little bit
7419s	earlier on uh also a caster and is
7422s	having that solid record uh as a 2022
7426s	soft competitive overall season you
7428s	could say a 67 win rate uh i would be
7431s	quite happy with that if i was love star
7435s	yeah i mean this is the kind of win rate
7437s	where you say wow that's incredible and
7440s	then you have to remember as well that
7442s	this is a record against some of the
7443s	best players in the world this isn't
7444s	just you know queuing up games on ladder
7447s	right i think right
7449s	when you put it in that perspective it's
7450s	just all the more impressive and uh if i
7453s	recall correctly last
7455s	master's tour the love storm performed
7457s	was it a 12-0 was that or am i confusing
7460s	that with another player
7461s	um he
7462s	oh i cannot remember i'm sure lorinda
7465s	will let us know shortly
7467s	and send us a quick message but i do
7469s	know the the run obviously when he he
7471s	won the masters tour he his run in top
7474s	16 was clearly flawless uh but i can't
7476s	quite remember his swiss score it may
7478s	well have been flawless victory for him
7480s	there so um uh yeah i'm willing to agree
7484s	with you or at least just say that's the
7486s	truth for some reason um on that one so
7488s	yeah very excited to see what he can do
7490s	he's a player who definitely likes to do
7492s	his own thing as well because we've seen
7494s	this it's uh in just his lineup it has
7496s	this mine rogue which again i think is a
7498s	very solid deck it's maybe been
7500s	overshadowed especially by lambie rogue
7502s	that we've been seeing a lot uh but
7504s	there's that and this sort of curse
7506s	warlock as well which i'm very very
7508s	interested seeing more and more games
7510s	get played as you said the stats from a
7512s	masters tour are very interesting
7514s	because they are high level game stats
7517s	right like ladder stats very important
7518s	you can get a lot from them but when you
7520s	have like a long like this many games
7523s	played out over three days you get you
7525s	dive just a little bit deeper into the
7528s	meaning of those but for now let's take
7529s	a look at mero's spooky mage here and
7532s	then
7533s	do you still like this do you still
7534s	think this is the uh the future of mage
7539s	you know i think that for sure the
7541s	skeletons are powerful and they allow
7543s	mage to do a sort of interesting play
7545s	pattern where they're
7547s	being sort of both defensive and
7549s	offensive but this list is
7552s	really i think been unusual there's been
7554s	the most variation in mage um i know
7559s	lots of people have been messing around
7560s	with do you run frozen touch do you run
7562s	solid alibi like are you going more
7564s	offensive more defensive we've seen this
7566s	full
7566s	spectrum
7568s	but
7569s	while it has surprised me to see rune of
7571s	the archmage without ways of cheating it
7573s	out it seems to just be pretty solid a
7576s	lot of the time
7578s	without it having to be the only tool
7580s	you're relying on such as in big spell
7583s	mage you know this
7584s	strange
7586s	mixture spooky mage of kind of the big
7588s	spells and the cheaper spells
7591s	has been putting up numbers and i have
7593s	to say i tried a little bit of not this
7595s	exact exact list but a similar one on
7597s	ladder and i haven't lost yet so there
7600s	must be something there
7601s	in before we read this the fine print
7603s	played one game and
7605s	i'm joking of course and the one thing
7607s	that i do have questions about this list
7609s	on are just the cards such as your
7612s	murloc homes then there's a one-off
7614s	shivering sorceress uh there's the one
7616s	of alibi one of blizzard and i do just
7620s	wonder it's incredible that with 40
7623s	cards to pick there's still just a ton
7625s	of random one-offs in a deck list uh it
7628s	does surprise me just a little bit i'd
7629s	imagine with even more choice you'd be
7631s	able to just fill those out a little bit
7632s	more but i will say i'm quickly becoming
7635s	a
7636s	huge favor of the solid alibi i love
7640s	that card so i'll be happy to run two
7642s	off in every list so we'll see how it
7644s	plays out though again uh different it's
7646s	one of the things with these uh renathol
7648s	decks where
7650s	you've got so many different options how
7651s	you pad those are the ten cards uh then
7654s	you know there's different reasons for
7656s	everything right so there are arguments
7658s	to play any kind of thing it depends on
7659s	what you're trying to counter
7661s	overall so excited to see how this mage
7663s	can do and if it can again be consistent
7666s	enough but to be fair all the players
7668s	have made it to top a have had a very
7670s	consistent tournament with the lineup so
7672s	far
7675s	and love storm the only 8-0 out of the
7677s	swiss with this list and perhaps not
7680s	even the
7682s	most perfect 40 as
7684s	from stats that i've checked out over on
7686s	off curve
7687s	deep water evoker has one of the lowest
7690s	win rates just as a card in the spooky
7693s	mage so that inclusion may not be
7696s	helping love storm out but it hasn't
7698s	seemed to matter for them yeah it is
7700s	mero's list love storm's not playing
7702s	mage uh just a quick
7703s	i'm sorry uh but but your point is
7706s	completely valid overall because i agree
7709s	yeah yeah yeah i i i
7712s	it's an odd choice isn't it when again
7715s	there are certain one-offs in the deck
7717s	and then you look at oh okay deport
7719s	revoker yeah it draws a card i
7721s	completely get that but then there's
7723s	cards like wildfire flurry and you know
7727s	like just all these low-cost cards where
7729s	yes it is the four mana three four draw
7732s	a card really worth that much are there
7734s	not other cards in the deck that you
7736s	could play to help out with that card
7738s	draw or just go a slightly different
7740s	direction in general very very
7741s	interesting i think
7743s	this is something we're gonna see
7745s	probably never settle it wouldn't
7747s	surprise me if there's just never a
7749s	defined 40 card deck of you know any of
7752s	the classes that run it uh because there
7754s	is just so much choice and like space
7756s	for personal preference but we are ready
7759s	to get into game number one and
7761s	as players i want to do with these 40
7763s	cards list say mero looked like a glance
7766s	there he had a heck of an opening
7770s	yeah it's sort of unusual you would
7772s	expect 40 cards less consistency but as
7775s	long as you keep enough low curve cards
7777s	it can still work out and this is as
7780s	strong as ever you know there's only one
7782s	of these shivering sorceresses to get it
7784s	discounting the wildfire uh zero mana
7787s	you don't have to play it right away you
7788s	can leave it for that surprise factor
7790s	although uh get something like the mine
7793s	rogue over from love storm not a ton of
7795s	things you need to ping down anyways
7798s	yeah just useful really isn't it and the
7800s	fact that it might not look like the
7802s	highest impact i think a lot of the time
7804s	people look at cards such as cold case
7806s	because it's um
7808s	it just helps out with your general
7809s	curve so much but hitting wildfire means
7812s	that you know could potentially squeeze
7814s	a penguin on turn two but as he said not
7816s	often the match up there where that's
7818s	gonna come in clutch but coin three into
7819s	three into cold case
7821s	uh it's looking quite strong for mero
7826s	oh just the fact that we are coining out
7828s	effectively a spider tank just to get
7831s	the trades over on the one three just uh
7834s	what a time to live in with these 40
7836s	card decks sometimes coin spider tank is
7838s	now just classic hearthstone isn't it
7840s	that is exactly what you want to see
7842s	just coin three four on turn two perfect
7846s	uh to see him follow up with the
7847s	frostwolf engineer of course and gets
7850s	his freeze which is gonna be pretty nice
7853s	as well um again it's
7855s	you can always argue in different
7856s	matchups how strong the freeze is but at
7858s	the end of the day it's better than not
7860s	having it right so there are very few
7863s	instances where you'd actually want to
7864s	sort of miss the frost spell uh in this
7867s	deck so yeah really good outcome there
7869s	for mera
7871s	yeah i think typically the misses you're
7873s	sort of happy with anyway are wildfire
7875s	because it is so important for uh
7877s	ratcheting up your reckless apprentice
7879s	being able to cast more drift
7881s	potentially on curve that kind of thing
7883s	or arcane intellect for extra cards but
7885s	with the influx of frost spells uh in
7887s	murder and castle nathri expansion it's
7890s	just so easy to get those extra one ones
7892s	and it's uh it's only a couple extra
7894s	damage but when you think about it it's
7895s	a three mana four five worth of stats uh
7898s	which is
7899s	cheaper than your typical yeti and the
7902s	freezes are not insignificant to a good
7904s	amount of the time oh not at all for
7906s	example if you hit that on turn by two
7909s	or three you know depend on coin against
7910s	like a zoo lock yeah you are having a
7913s	great time yeah but here so far love
7916s	storm is just gonna start pumping out
7917s	the damage with the mines he does have
7920s	the uh the the and he said location then
7923s	um but it does have the uh graveyard
7926s	upright
7926s	right now the object yeah words things
7929s	whatever
7931s	this is i think my most frequent mix-up
7933s	objective versus location uh i almost
7936s	wonder if objectives were sort of the
7938s	early concept of locations and then they
7940s	took it one iteration further but yeah
7943s	snowfall graveyard doubling the death
7946s	rattles uh sort of the key
7948s	card in the deck
7951s	whether you want to call it mine rogue
7953s	or smoke screen rogue you know it's a
7954s	death rattle centered deck and
7957s	naval mine plus forsaken lieutenant
7959s	that's another 16 damage with the trades
7961s	in uh
7963s	inching the way closer need i think one
7966s	more
7967s	death rattle to really get over the
7969s	finish line and
7971s	might not have the time one big positive
7973s	about this for mero is these freezes on
7975s	the face do just basically delete a
7978s	potential draw from love storm right in
7980s	the form of the weapon uh if he draws
7982s	counterfeit blade well he can't swing it
7985s	he can still equip it and then just hero
7987s	power to break it potentially of course
7989s	to do that but still normally if the
7991s	weapons equipped with the naval mine at
7993s	death rattle that puts so much damage
7996s	out over the course of the two swings
7998s	it's kind of absurd so emeril giving the
8000s	swift nod there says you know what okay
8002s	there's the damage what else have you
8003s	got this turn and he'll be quite happy
8006s	that it seems to be backstab pass
8011s	yeah and we've got uh quite a bit of
8012s	damage on the side over here just yeah
8014s	just lethal
8016s	one of the
8018s	fun interactions with deathborn is not
8020s	only does it make you more volatile
8021s	skeletons but you can just use it to
8022s	kill a board of them you've already got
8024s	for a little extra burst
8026s	yeah a lot of options there and i will
8027s	say merrow probably extremely happy with
8030s	that win i
8032s	i'll be honest maybe it's just
8034s	my personal uh thoughts on it but i
8036s	never go into a match go against mine
8039s	rogue and think oh this'll be fine i'm
8041s	always terrified because it feels like
8043s	you blink and you're dead and especially
8045s	with this deck right it does have the
8047s	armor game we did see him get double
8049s	cold case which definitely helped made
8050s	him feel a little bit more secure but
8053s	this is a match up where mero could have
8055s	easily in a roundabout way past four
8057s	turns and died right like it could have
8060s	easily happened so no doubt be very very
8063s	happy with that mage winning getting off
8064s	to a very quick 1-0
8069s	yeah you know it it's like you said
8071s	killed case one of the few ways of just
8073s	gaining armor in that deck of 40 cards
8075s	obviously you start with the extra 10
8077s	life but not a lot of healing overall
8079s	and i think that's why something like
8081s	this mine rogue has been able to perform
8084s	potentially even against shamans as well
8087s	the extra ten life but not a ton of
8089s	healing tools even our priests that we
8092s	see are naga priests so not much healing
8095s	going on there there's no sight of
8097s	paladin or any controlling priests
8100s	so
8101s	may just be a really heads-up read from
8104s	love storm in this mine rogue and if
8106s	we're to believe tj it also wins against
8108s	the lambie rook
8109s	and here we go though we've got a match
8111s	up i think we're both looking forward to
8113s	here more of this renathel curse warlock
8116s	and with that sort of imp package uh to
8118s	sort of beef it up a little bit not only
8120s	in the early game but also just that
8122s	impending catastrophe i was watching
8124s	hunt race's stream this morning and i
8126s	think there was a moment where he just
8128s	hovered impending catastrophe and just
8129s	said
8130s	how is this okay
8132s	and then just carried on playing because
8134s	i mean he was playing the warlock but he
8136s	was just saying like look how strong
8138s	this card is and i could not agree more
8140s	but very excited to see how this curse
8142s	does because it is going to be go going
8145s	up against the shaymin and i definitely
8147s	think it's one of the sort of more
8149s	convincing matchups we've seen from this
8151s	warlock
8154s	yeah like i mentioned you'd think that
8156s	the curses would just slow down your
8157s	draws you're not able to get that
8159s	aggression out but somehow it all works
8161s	together and the vile library can
8164s	snowball an early game and once you've
8166s	gotten as much damage as possible in and
8168s	are at risk of getting
8170s	you know frozen out by snowfall
8172s	guardians etc you can then fall back on
8174s	the curses for that little bit of extra
8176s	damage to
8177s	push for lethal
8179s	it's one of the benefits isn't it that
8180s	this match-up or this warlock has
8182s	against this deck is that it can play on
8186s	board aggressively and if you get off at
8187s	that opening yeah you take the imps of
8190s	course but shaymin isn't really a hyper
8193s	aggro deck right it is normally you know
8196s	you're looking at the threats really
8197s	hitting the board from you know turn six
8199s	seven eight depending on how the board
8200s	stay is so it is gonna naturally give
8203s	the warlock a little bit of time to get
8205s	going unless something crazy happens
8207s	where there and book pools evolve for
8208s	example so it is just one of those
8211s	things where it just will give the
8212s	warlock a bit of a window to get through
8214s	but there are just some of those tools
8217s	to help out with mero here so we'll have
8219s	to see how this one goes but if you're
8221s	going to make a bold prediction who do
8223s	you think's the the favored one in this
8225s	one
8227s	i really think imporlock can just be so
8230s	so powerful in terms of snowballing the
8232s	early game that uh i would put my money
8235s	on on the implod in this case
8237s	although uh
8239s	no imps in sight in this hand
8242s	i see no yeah look at the double
8244s	rendezvous that's just the world we live
8245s	in right now isn't it um but but yeah
8248s	and also a big deal here schooling i
8250s	think was off the top there for merrow
8252s	and then he's got the sleep breaker into
8255s	cookie well that's gonna
8257s	pretty much just solve the potential in
8260s	problem right uh that he could expect in
8262s	the opening here
8265s	yeah absolutely i think cookie has got
8267s	to be one of the highest win rate cards
8268s	in the shaman when it comes to
8270s	aggressive matchups just for a little
8272s	extra clearing potential with the weapon
8274s	you gain that life
8275s	the sleep breaker means we're able to
8277s	clean up this 5-3 and
8280s	yeah schooling of course a very nice
8283s	tool for cleaning up some of these early
8285s	imps that otherwise until snowfall
8287s	guardian you aren't necessarily able to
8288s	deal with
8290s	yeah one good positive here though just
8292s	because of the way meryl's choosing to
8293s	play this uh not gonna sort of spam out
8296s	piranhas to clear up the imps is it's
8298s	kind of what you were talking about
8299s	earlier right well lust on push five to
8302s	face good start he gets to push at least
8305s	another four this turn like suddenly the
8308s	imp package has kind of done its job
8310s	right i think if you get 10 to 15 damage
8313s	total out of this opening love storm
8315s	will be quite happy about that
8319s	yeah absolutely if you can then pivot
8320s	just by
8322s	with the impending catastrophe drawing a
8323s	bunch of cards and going on to the
8327s	curse game plan we see lady dark vein
8330s	one of the ways you're able to ramp up
8331s	those verses very quickly and redlich
8333s	champs and of course going to be able to
8335s	uh
8336s	draw some cards as well
8338s	could be able to just make that switch
8340s	obviously no imp king or farm in hand i
8342s	think that's what you really hope to be
8344s	able to kind of move you from the mid
8347s	game into the late game of curses and uh
8350s	finally amero does decide to pull the
8351s	trigger here on clearing with the
8353s	schooling
8354s	yeah and i really like this look at this
8355s	from love storm he could have gone for
8357s	the uh sarah quest to play out but
8359s	instead said you know what i don't
8361s	really have many more imps i'm expecting
8364s	to draw
8365s	you know for the near future i'll just
8367s	take the three cards thank you and um
8370s	and yeah suddenly this hand is really
8372s	starting to come together for that later
8374s	game package can choose whether he wants
8375s	to clear this tutu uh with the grimoire
8378s	uh or whether he wants to just hold on
8380s	to it for now i honestly wouldn't be too
8382s	upset either way just have to consider
8384s	what turn five looks like but yeah i
8386s	actually i love that term from love
8388s	storm just holding on to the curses for
8390s	now
8392s	i think the turn five you're really
8393s	worried about is command of neptulon uh
8396s	and grimar could maybe clean up at least
8398s	one of those a little more threatening
8400s	than the two two currently in play uh
8403s	definitely looking like an awkward turn
8405s	five here for love storm
8407s	and he got it as well
8409s	his eyebrows raised when he's when he
8411s	pressed grimoire and he like you know
8413s	told him it was correct he was like oh
8416s	okay
8419s	you know
8420s	i i really couldn't believe it when i
8423s	when i looked at them but
8425s	offcurve posted the stats for shaman and
8428s	our boy glug was sitting at the bottom
8431s	and somehow
8433s	murloc holmes sitting at the top and i
8436s	don't know if this must be just a skill
8437s	difference that these players are much
8440s	more able to
8441s	uh hit successfully with murloc homes or
8444s	if they're able to do something with
8445s	just the information it gives even when
8447s	they miss but that is not the card that
8450s	i would have expected to be at the top
8452s	of the stats in terms of inclusions for
8455s	uh the shaman i'm choosing to believe uh
8458s	that information's been doctored uh to
8460s	to change that right
8462s	i cannot believe that's true but i am
8464s	not saying you're lying of course uh so
8466s	yeah very very interesting to look at
8468s	those stats a little bit later on and
8470s	for now love storm does have this turn
8472s	five to contend with and his hand didn't
8475s	really get better with the new draw so
8478s	does have to consider exactly where he
8479s	wants to go here a little bit awkward he
8482s	could just throw out the the circus uh
8485s	may well with a lifetime first and just
8487s	throw that out worst case scenario it
8489s	wouldn't be the end of the world
8492s	maybe you don't even want a life tap if
8494s	you're expecting to roll into dredlich's
8495s	thames in here it could just be circus
8497s	and then touch the tutu it's not the
8500s	best board but you have to get these
8502s	curses started at some point and uh if
8504s	you're gonna be tapping for cards i'd
8506s	rather do it maybe rolling an imp and
8508s	rather than losing to life
8511s	yeah that's the thing right like um
8514s	without waiting for any kind of uh
8517s	there's no sort of brand shenanigans
8518s	that are gonna happen in this list so
8521s	the syracuse just does what it does
8523s	right three mana do one curse that's its
8526s	job finished so um
8529s	with that i do think it is worth just
8531s	throwing out there and relying on dark
8533s	vein to pop off with your curses right
8539s	yeah absolutely and i think the one you
8540s	really are looking to get put into dark
8543s	vein is the abyssal wave as that allows
8546s	you to create a chain reaction between
8549s	the two two ones uh can be an extra
8551s	board clear that otherwise this deck
8553s	wouldn't really have access to
8555s	and of course another two curses
8558s	uh
8559s	on your opponent whereas you know your
8562s	uh dragged belows those you more want to
8565s	use with the
8566s	uh thames in rome to get extra casts of
8570s	of the drag below yeah
8574s	romero an absolute ton of car it's fast
8577s	to work out what he wants to do with
8578s	them first he's going to go fishing for
8580s	a murloc
8583s	flower is looking pretty nice
8587s	not necessarily on this board but just
8589s	to have in reserve for later
8598s	i've almost seen this be a play the
8600s	curse turn honestly i guess you could
8602s	just play the syracuse instead as an
8604s	extra minion but it's just like it's
8606s	just odd because mero doesn't really
8607s	have that much to do even though he's
8610s	got so many cards bit of a tricky one
8613s	yeah i could have seen an argument for
8614s	play the curse i like this getting the
8616s	cookie in play though you know it is
8618s	healing but it is we're healing so it
8620s	does need to die in order for you to get
8622s	that weapon and i've seen a couple of
8624s	times players just holding on to it for
8626s	a long time and then once they need it
8627s	that healing hasn't happened
8630s	whereas if you just get it played or get
8632s	it killed at least you're able to gain
8634s	the six over time from the weapon
8635s	attacks used to clean up a little bit of
8637s	board and wow that is a lot of curses
8640s	over in the hand of love star
8643s	and again i really like the lack of
8645s	trade right he could have just traded
8647s	the um
8648s	uh the murloc homes there but instead
8650s	it's like you know what no i'll take
8651s	three extra damage and it means that
8654s	it's salt stop sort of negate some of
8656s	this weapon damage by going face as well
8658s	and just keeping that health total as
8659s	low as possible because very quickly
8662s	we're going to see some verses come into
8663s	play
8665s	oh no not the evolve that mero is
8668s	looking for i think if this isn't killed
8671s	at this very moment then primordial wave
8673s	is probably going to come out just to
8675s	get rid of that death rattle of taking
8677s	five damage uh not really a clean way of
8680s	dealing with both of these seven health
8682s	minions though uh bissell wave doesn't
8684s	do it you'd have to double drag below
8686s	one of them and if you have to pick one
8688s	it's going to be the kale floss yeah
8691s	it's kind of tricky right it's like a
8693s	great uh play a one great minion one
8696s	terrible minion and you run aoe so it's
8698s	like i'm gonna what do i want to do i do
8701s	like the double drag though even without
8702s	the tams in there getting in there for
8704s	extras but these curses are starting to
8706s	stack up
8709s	that in atherius is quite the draw for
8711s	marrow though uh not because it'll get
8714s	you know very heavily uh infused but
8717s	just any amount of healing is something
8719s	that i think you're happy to see
8725s	it's just going to be cursed cursing
8727s	primordially
8732s	maybe primordial wave possibly
8735s	uh you get a couple of the murlocs down
8737s	to clear first you know you could clown
8740s	fish flourigal fleurgal or something
8741s	similar and then your primordial wave
8744s	evolves them the clown fish goes from a
8746s	3-2 to a four-drop which i think is
8749s	pretty reasonable but mostly you just
8751s	want to get rid of that
8753s	deal five damage to yourself death
8754s	rattle
8762s	i think this is
8764s	oh
8766s	okay cultist
8768s	an extra minion on board
8771s	all uh very nicely killable though for
8774s	love stop
8776s	mostly
8780s	i'm a little surprised not to see the
8782s	wave come down but i guess seeing the
8784s	opponent at
8786s	16 makes you more inclined to to go for
8789s	something like this
8790s	although
8792s	now with that 3-3 roll that opens up a
8795s	full clear i think you can grimoire the
8797s	3-3
8798s	into abyssal wave the 3-3 actually huge
8802s	there for being able to take care of the
8803s	5-7
8805s	yeah very important as well the love
8808s	storm orders this correctly
8810s	before people start saying order lull
8812s	and all these things because he will
8814s	want abyss a wave to be the last card he
8816s	plays because he wants to follow up with
8818s	dark vayne and the other grimoire
8823s	yeah of course and with dark vein plus
8826s	the grimoire you can add two more curses
8828s	and they are dealing quite a bit of
8830s	damage at this point in time uh looks
8832s	like it's going to be the glug
8834s	plus
8835s	abyssal curse
8836s	yes that's four so it's going to be
8839s	what five six seven
8842s	so it's
8842s	yeah i don't think it's quite lethal
8845s	though you know the damage is ramping up
8847s	and you are getting to clear the board
8849s	but tenacious is going to be fairly
8851s	primed and
8853s	it is lethal though right because that's
8856s	it
8858s	oh sorry no no no no no no it's not he's
8859s	just off sorry you are completely right
8861s	i forgot he
8862s	i thought he was taking some extra curse
8864s	damage from somewhere and i'm just wrong
8865s	so yeah completely right it's going to
8867s	be the daenerys
8869s	if it were bran dark fan for sure that
8871s	would be it oh yeah
8873s	yeah we'd already be in the next game by
8875s	now
8877s	we we saw just how much damage that that
8880s	can do before
8884s	i can't imagine it's anything else here
8886s	though
8888s	let's see
8892s	definitely kills the glug right because
8894s	i think that might be what he's worrying
8895s	about
8898s	hmm
8899s	let's see the glug would get plus six
8902s	plus six then take two
8906s	not quite right
8910s	right which leaves it with one hp
8912s	remaining
8913s	assuming the problem isn't it it doesn't
8915s	all happen simultaneously
8918s	yeah the glove does grow because the dl2
8921s	would go first right which then kills
8923s	the two two
8925s	and then clock grows
8927s	thank you go with the size
8936s	but all the while infusing that
8938s	tenathious
8939s	it's kind of interesting though right
8940s	because it goes down to two
8942s	but if merrill plays daenerys
8947s	bill has the curses right so he's still
8949s	got takes the damage next turn oh wait
8951s	stop but it's just
8952s	i did not know it was not in hand for
8954s	very long but
8956s	not enough hp on the other side
8959s	i'll tell you something like getting
8962s	casting becomes hard mode when there are
8964s	so many numbers to keep track of like
8966s	tenacious when we don't have anything to
8968s	show us um and then you look at it
8970s	curses as well oh i'm i need to polish
8974s	my skills on this one because i'm not
8975s	good at that but yeah well what a win
8977s	from mero though because that
8979s	looked like love storm was kind of all
8981s	over that game even though he was taking
8983s	a lot of hits early on yeah i thought
8985s	lovestorm was looking great there but it
8987s	just wasn't quite enough with the curses
8991s	but you can see how if any more of that
8994s	early chip damage had gotten in it would
8996s	have been the game you know with no
8998s	schooling or no sleep breaker just a
9000s	little bit of
9002s	sort of
9003s	you know dead curve for the shaman can
9006s	result in the warlock just
9008s	getting more chip damage in and then
9010s	getting over the finish line with those
9011s	curses and again even in the other world
9014s	right where daenerys either just wasn't
9016s	there because then i think that's just
9018s	game uh or just wasn't quite that
9020s	stacked because i think uh lovestone was
9023s	on 13 health right and dinatrius was 14
9026s	damage so like even if it was just a
9027s	little bit less stacked he couldn't kill
9029s	him if he plays dinatrius he heals for
9032s	let's say 10 but then the curse is just
9035s	hitting back again next because he can't
9037s	spend them which is what i was saying
9038s	before i
9039s	realized i was being a and it was
9041s	lethal regardless but yeah very very
9044s	close game indeed mero got away with it
9046s	there with daenerys saving him and it
9049s	does mean now he's on just this pure imp
9051s	warlock no curses
9053s	in this list uh going up against uh
9056s	pretty much the rest of the lineup here
9058s	from love storm that's going to start
9060s	with the rogue
9063s	yeah and we have seen that at least in
9064s	comparison between the pure import luck
9067s	and the ones running the
9069s	denathrius plus sunstrider and gigafin
9072s	shenanigans this seems to have won out
9075s	in terms of performance over the course
9076s	of the tournament just battlegrounds
9078s	battlemaster in particular just ends
9081s	games out of nowhere makes perfect sense
9083s	to me vile library of course makes very
9086s	huge minions
9087s	there is the one sea giant as well and
9089s	even doubling a couple of you know three
9092s	or five attack minions can be fine as
9094s	well and one of you're pretty likely to
9097s	still find with the amount of card draw
9098s	coming out of impending catastrophe
9101s	yeah that's the thing is isn't it as if
9103s	an aggro deck needed to a two minute
9105s	card that draws 100 it's a pretty crazy
9108s	overall and does allow for some of these
9110s	uh more tech cards to actually work out
9112s	well so again gonna be cool to see how
9115s	this one plays out love storm has a lot
9117s	of work to do if you've just joined us
9119s	on the broadcast recently we are in this
9121s	top eight and it does mean that uh
9123s	losers are done for the day you're done
9125s	for the tournament and the winners move
9127s	on simply put it single elimination from
9130s	this point so and we'll have to see how
9132s	this one goes love storm a ton of work
9134s	to do and mero i needed one victory out
9137s	of potentially three games left in the
9139s	series but even looking at this not a
9142s	bad opening uh oh
9145s	do you like the full keep there or would
9147s	you have looked at throwing away a
9148s	mischievous imp
9151s	i might have thrown away one of them
9152s	just because vile library is so powerful
9155s	and you don't have other things already
9158s	in hand to infuse these mystery visions
9160s	they are quite strong in terms of being
9163s	able to put nine power on board for four
9165s	mana but uh yeah i think i might have
9168s	thrown away one of them myself
9170s	yeah or you could just become a god and
9172s	draw fiendish circle off the top right
9174s	like mero that's also a reasonable play
9177s	just gets to just
9179s	infuse them all without many issues
9181s	right now
9183s	it is pretty good odds i suppose but uh
9186s	yeah you know still no library though
9188s	and that's that's really what you're
9189s	looking for
9191s	true
9195s	regardless
9197s	love storm having to get there with this
9199s	mayan rogue against imp warlock i think
9202s	maybe this is the get the hardest match
9204s	up out of the way strategy what do you
9206s	think yeah i can definitely see it it's
9207s	tricky and if uh if love storm actually
9210s	gets to uh get some of the taunts down
9213s	maybe there's a window of opportunity a
9216s	good amount of damage pushed already not
9218s	under massive pressure yet
9220s	but it doesn't like mero's gonna
9222s	uh go for the coin at this turn
9225s	get those imps down again just getting
9227s	the bigger minions down right it's just
9229s	absolutely huge doesn't get the infuse
9232s	but it's just two three threes it's
9233s	better than three one once so yeah i
9235s	like it
9237s	and you know what this may have been a
9239s	nod to the fact that against something
9241s	like mine rogue you do just have to get
9245s	high powered things quickly and even if
9248s	you'd prefer to have something like a
9250s	vial library the three threes are just
9252s	sort of good enough one of them getting
9254s	coined out here is still six damage
9257s	worth of power and it'll infuse the
9259s	other one which then is another nine and
9261s	that quickly gets to be out of the range
9264s	of control for the rogue and i agree it
9266s	starts to make way more sense right
9268s	because think about if you throw one
9270s	away
9270s	and get vile library if that's what
9272s	you're aiming for well with the hand
9274s	mero had he had one drop and then he had
9277s	a flame imprint
9279s	and then blood bound him
9282s	so it's like well are those really
9284s	gonna die if they do die they infuse the
9287s	one mischievous imp kept but if they
9290s	don't then it's kind of feels bad to
9292s	keep those imps anyway and foul library
9294s	was never really gonna pop off so uh
9296s	yeah we'll see how this one plays out
9298s	but that's a ton more imps love storm
9301s	uh
9302s	in trouble right now
9305s	yeah really in the position of having to
9307s	set up some kind of two-turn lethal so
9309s	it may just be graveyard naval mine and
9312s	sort of hope you're able to pull
9314s	something to
9315s	kill that mine off the top
9317s	or now
9319s	what if it's just
9321s	a five drop
9324s	oh i don't know
9327s	we did
9330s	yeah
9332s	it's
9333s	it just seems like uh you're relying a
9336s	little too much on the board there and
9337s	board is really where the warlock wants
9339s	to fight this battle
9341s	you know bloodbound imp hasn't been
9342s	played i think in part because each
9344s	attack is going to deal two damage to
9346s	marrow and that life is not really the
9348s	resource he wants to be spending
9351s	i think we need to get the graveyard
9353s	down to double this counterfeit blade
9355s	well this is what i was looking at
9357s	though that there's an extremely long
9359s	shot where you go burning blade acolyte
9363s	assume that mero isn't not gonna trade
9366s	it because that would be weird
9369s	and then
9370s	get graveyard and then trade it the turn
9372s	after
9377s	yeah it's a long shot i guess i could be
9379s	wrong
9381s	i don't know that five eights are really
9383s	going to get you there even if you are
9384s	getting two of them look at the damage
9386s	here i even might not have spent the
9389s	uh
9390s	the tooth and and just said you know
9392s	what if if he's got it he's got it and
9394s	i'm gonna get this mine down so i have
9396s	maximum mana to work with following turn
9399s	in order to go for lethal because
9401s	that mine if you are able to kill it off
9403s	uh represents another eight damage and
9405s	that's just good enough with the wicked
9406s	stab
9410s	oh this is one of those games where i'd
9412s	love that if we could just pause it on a
9414s	turn and then create an alternate
9416s	timeline
9418s	just to see what happened because i'd
9420s	love to know what two five eights look
9421s	like against this board right now that's
9424s	just it the gone efficient tests for
9426s	spell and there's one mine remaining so
9429s	sketchy information is eight damage and
9431s	wicked stab cleans it up maybe the
9434s	perfect draw there to not have to engage
9436s	with a minion counter at all
9438s	arrow cannot believe it i think he was
9441s	so sure
9442s	right there that there was just nothing
9444s	that was really going to get him based
9446s	on what love's done
9447s	sort of kept in hand for a while right
9449s	you'd probably guess there's like a
9451s	smoke screen in there or something you
9453s	know some of the more awkward cards
9454s	without some of the activators but yeah
9456s	love storm gets a win uh with that rogue
9459s	so a big deal there manages to hang on
9461s	and continue throughout this series with
9463s	his tournament life is still alive here
9465s	but yeah that was an another close one i
9468s	did like the setup and the overall uh uh
9471s	plan from mero though i think he did
9473s	everything right i got to just get all
9475s	those big imps on the board push the
9477s	damage set up lethal even with the okani
9480s	but love storm had just the right tools
9482s	to get the job done
9485s	yeah an okani picking minion there i
9487s	think is the correct line because you
9489s	know they have a naval mine in hand off
9492s	of the sketchy information played
9494s	previously there's also enough cheap
9496s	spells to check as we saw you know love
9499s	storm would have been able to get
9500s	through a spell counter regardless just
9502s	between the uh gone fission to check and
9506s	then going for the sketchy into the
9508s	wicked stab
9509s	really i think that was the only draw in
9511s	the deck for love storm that won the
9512s	game
9513s	yeah absolutely incredible does get to
9515s	stay in the game and that means going to
9517s	be jumping over to the control shaman
9519s	going up against this imp lock again and
9522s	uh i feel like this has been one of the
9525s	the sort of key match ups we've seen
9526s	throughout the whole weekend of their
9528s	shaman versus warlock and i'm still uh
9532s	right down the middle honestly i think
9534s	it's a very very close matchup
9538s	at least from what we've seen in the
9539s	podcast
9541s	i mean again with this shaman it it has
9544s	a shot against anything and usually is
9547s	at least somewhat favored depending on
9549s	what you're up against but
9551s	it's
9552s	definitely can lose you know it's always
9554s	close and that's why i think so many
9557s	players like this deck is because it has
9560s	shot against everything it's not
9561s	particularly polarizing but always
9563s	always close matchups
9566s	let's see how it goes love storm
9568s	needs to win
9570s	survive and try and make it to that top
9572s	four
9573s	mero though it's been doing well
9576s	got a little bit fortunate in some
9577s	positions but that's what you've got to
9579s	do to win tournaments
9581s	i've never won one
9585s	ah yes that's that's it just the bad
9587s	luck you know i actually have one stuff
9589s	before but not strictly just hearthstone
9592s	things it's a long story and i won't
9593s	bore you with it but um romero
9597s	now i want to know are you are you a
9599s	former poker pro or something that i'm
9601s	on oh no it's uh it's still video games
9604s	but i'll tell you when we're not casting
9606s	a match i'll tell the story all right
9607s	even though
9609s	i hate it um but yeah so here though
9612s	does have library does have fiendish
9614s	circle uh does even have sea giants as
9616s	well because a shaman definitely a deck
9619s	that can throw a few minions down to
9620s	help out with that sea giant count and
9622s	maybe even unknowingly but are we going
9624s	to see the insta imp buff
9627s	in it many many times just to be able to
9629s	make a positive trade here
9633s	uh yeah it's all right you know you get
9635s	to have the value with the 3-2 but you
9638s	know a schooling has been played i think
9640s	you're not thrilled about it i i might
9643s	have liked to see it saved just for the
9645s	fiendish circle on the next turn as then
9647s	you can make a truly large minion but i
9650s	do understand wanting to get some of
9652s	these fish out of the way before you do
9654s	throw down something like a fiendish
9656s	circle
9657s	it's tough as well right because if if
9658s	you wait for fiendish then you play that
9661s	but then you make an imp that's only
9664s	slightly bigger
9665s	than the flame imp was and can't attack
9668s	right it's the problem right so like
9670s	it's just a little bit slow and merrell
9672s	now has the option to grimoire this i
9674s	actually really like this setup here
9676s	just get rid of the fish that are
9677s	hanging around and suddenly he's in a
9679s	much better position going forward he
9681s	knows now he's dealt with the whole of
9683s	schooling one
9686s	yeah and i think this was the plan with
9688s	that line of buffing for the value trade
9690s	it makes your opponent put those fish on
9693s	the board and then you can go into the
9695s	finished circle plus the grimoire to
9698s	clean them up
9700s	very well played and thought out and
9702s	you're trying to keep these alive for
9704s	that shady bartender i suspect you know
9706s	we're not going to see a trade of the
9707s	bartender until marrow knows that it's
9710s	not going to be getting value i'm
9711s	actually
9713s	really surprised at the hero power i
9716s	guess it's fine
9718s	because it was exactly taunt but if that
9720s	was like heel
9722s	the healing totem i think that might
9724s	have been actually pretty rough
9728s	yeah malcolm isn't really necessary for
9731s	a ton of value in this match-up you
9733s	you'd think you'd just play the 2-3 for
9735s	a body
9736s	yeah it's just purely because as well
9737s	it's
9738s	if it wasn't taunt although the attack
9741s	totem amero could just leave it on board
9743s	and be like okay thanks for the cheaper
9745s	sea giant at some point right you could
9746s	just leave it there and kind of ignore
9748s	it would maybe even like require and
9750s	evolve to get value from it so yeah
9752s	definitely an interesting choice there
9754s	from love storm valuing holding on to
9756s	the amalgam but oh oh my god oh goodness
9759s	hey
9761s	that is quite the six drop to roll into
9767s	shady bartender as much value as you can
9770s	possibly get
9773s	this is a good idea i think trading one
9775s	of the one ones which is as much damage
9777s	as you need in the first place just to
9778s	get through this taunt uh leaves you not
9781s	board locked into something like a
9783s	snowfall guardian as well
9785s	and
9786s	that's definitely i think why love storm
9789s	felt comfortable
9790s	just
9791s	taking a step back and maybe just
9793s	toteming there is knowing that the
9794s	guardian is coming down on six and you
9797s	know drawing cards on five to maybe find
9800s	a macaw
9801s	yeah this is nice as well now meryl's
9804s	gonna answer with okani into minion i
9806s	imagine to stop either another snowfall
9809s	uh or maybe a parrot but
9813s	i don't think you really rely on
9815s	stopping the parrot right because the
9818s	i'll ask you a question now because i've
9819s	gone blank on the answer
9822s	if
9823s	love storm plays a minion then plays
9826s	parrot parrots still copies guardian
9828s	right because that minion didn't really
9829s	exist
9831s	i believe so it is just right it means
9834s	that it never happened yes yeah okay i
9835s	just wanted the second opinion oh god
9840s	no way
9843s	i mean
9849s	was not born to win this particular game
9852s	of hearthstone
9854s	what of all the seven drops you know on
9858s	average seven drops are pretty terrible
9860s	but if you're devolving your opponent's
9862s	board into ones baron gedden is about as
9865s	good as it gets
9872s	i i am in awe
9874s	yeah i mean
9876s	if there's going to be any lie at the
9877s	end of the tunnel here at least him king
9879s	reform sir infused
9883s	i guess yeah i mean
9885s	i think in merrell's spot he has to tell
9887s	himself these things because
9889s	he would become a broken man i think uh
9891s	if not
9895s	are we are we really not going for the
9897s	imp king reform that's
9899s	i guess the thought here is to set up as
9902s	much of a board as possible beforehand
9905s	i think merrow
9907s	wants to kill the geddon before he plays
9909s	reform right
9911s	as well oh
9913s	library
9915s	in some respects yeah yeah yeah
9918s	it does have this little fish
9920s	it's not quite enough though it's six
9922s	six
9923s	it's not but none of this board okay not
9925s	none the impetus the flame in but the
9927s	majority of the board doesn't strictly
9928s	die together anymore so now mero set up
9931s	a turn which looks a little bit rough on
9933s	surface but
9935s	what's better
9937s	but um
9938s	but but again you can see the sort of
9940s	two-turn set set-up something i think
9942s	mero's been doing very well that we've
9944s	seen him on stream all weekend like
9947s	setting up already having plans multiple
9950s	turns ahead even based on what his
9951s	opponent's gonna do
9955s	yeah and these at three health at least
9957s	makes it on a
9959s	you know face
9961s	level view that
9962s	something else has to be done to clean
9964s	them up
9965s	yeah
9966s	oh this is disgusting
9968s	okay
9969s	yep
9970s	using the floor goal for the one
9972s	chip
9974s	picking elemental even don't need
9976s	another murloc just the one damage is
9978s	gonna allow the gun to clean up canal
9980s	slogger probably one of the better
9982s	elementals you can discover in this
9984s	position
9985s	yeah yeah mel's like you know what
9987s	i've had enough i'm sick of this i'm out
9990s	that was very
9992s	very rough there for mero it was just
9995s	layers
9996s	and layers of disaster wasn't it like
9999s	the opening i think merrell set up very
10001s	well i think he was looking good
10003s	he dealt with the schooling really well
10005s	early on i thought i think everything he
10007s	was doing was great then he got
10009s	primordled into
10011s	a getting on his opponent's side a board
10015s	of two or less health minions against
10018s	that geddon and it was just extra slaps
10020s	in the face like his four drop was a
10022s	twilight drake
10024s	you know even them oh is that three drop
10027s	the three two with the death rattle into
10028s	fish
10029s	the three drop it is yeah but even you
10032s	know very we talk about spider tanks all
10034s	the time a three drop could have easily
10036s	also not died to the get in so just so
10039s	many layers of awkwardness there for
10041s	mero and i think at the end there was
10043s	just like yeah get me out of this game
10045s	and very very quickly we're moving on to
10048s	game five something i did not think we
10050s	were going to see in this series with
10052s	how the beginning looked and it's going
10053s	to be the warlock mirror but definitely
10056s	not a mirror in how the decks are going
10058s	to play out
10060s	yeah we get to see the curse import lock
10063s	versus the pure imp warlock with the
10065s	battle master
10067s	there's been no comparison as far as
10069s	i've seen in terms of how these have
10071s	performed uh between one another as the
10075s	curse has sort of fallen in with the
10076s	other curses and this has fallen in with
10078s	sort of the imps that have denaturius
10080s	etc uh so it'll be interesting to see
10083s	the head-to-head you know love storm
10085s	obviously unaffected by the the zero two
10088s	has that mental game on luck and
10091s	that should be an exciting one i think
10093s	imp warlock mirrors have some of the
10095s	most interesting back and forth between
10097s	the boards
10098s	yeah i i think um
10101s	for me
10102s	uh
10102s	okay imp warlock
10105s	does well versus curse warlock in
10107s	general it's a favored match up but
10110s	there's always that chance right that
10111s	we've seen before that love storm draws
10113s	his imp opening
10115s	and and then suddenly it is that imp
10117s	mirror at least to begin with and he
10119s	could run away with the game at that
10121s	point so a lot of this i feel is gonna
10124s	rely on which portion of love storms
10127s	deck he draws in the early game does
10129s	have fiendish circle and it importantly
10131s	does have grimoire chooses to throw
10133s	grimoire away which is definitely oh
10136s	gets it back i'll get another one back
10138s	even
10139s	because it's one card i would definitely
10140s	at least sit and think about keeping
10142s	because he had fiendish and it's a good
10144s	counter play right it's a good board
10146s	swing
10148s	yeah absolutely
10150s	but i think the the main thing here is
10152s	that imp king reform which can present
10155s	such a such a huge board swing in the
10158s	mid game particularly on coin where you
10160s	get to play it on five i mean i think
10163s	i'm on point i'm keeping him kinder farm
10165s	every time is actually with a feeder
10167s	circle that you know is going to be able
10169s	to infuse it i mean this is really just
10171s	the curve right fiendish circle
10173s	mischievous imp uh yeah a little awkward
10176s	you don't have library but the opponent
10178s	some kind of has to respect
10180s	the imps uh one way or another
10183s	yeah this is pretty good though for mero
10186s	does get to play imp gang boss
10188s	and he plays it on the turn that's uh
10191s	you never really want your location on
10193s	cool down but
10195s	it's as good a turn as any because this
10197s	is currently two imps but with the gang
10198s	boss you can sort of naturally make that
10200s	count larger
10202s	if you want to trade to help out with
10203s	the location so i'll have to see how
10205s	that one pans out there's a very solid
10207s	set of turns coming up but it's love
10208s	storm
10209s	gonna
10211s	hold well triple
10213s	oh no you can double trade touch and
10216s	then grandma right
10218s	yeah yeah and i think that's the line uh
10220s	doesn't leave you with much but knowing
10222s	the opponent's vile library is coming
10225s	back on you really don't want the gang
10227s	boss to stick around and able to receive
10230s	those buffs
10231s	and also there's mischievous imp in hand
10234s	which is going to be infused very
10235s	quickly and there's in king rafam as you
10237s	said so love storm has plenty to do even
10241s	though he does sort of end this turn on
10243s	an even foot in with his opponent
10245s	slightly behind of course because he's
10247s	like that half turn behind
10250s	yeah and we'll have to see if im king
10252s	rafan is just too slow as may be the
10255s	case uh with the mystery zimp on the
10257s	side of merrow plus the library uh into
10260s	shady bartender shady bartender uh this
10263s	could end very very quickly
10266s	it's gonna be very very difficult and
10268s	this is the moment for love storm where
10271s	he i think really could do with not
10273s	drawing his uh cursed stuff right
10276s	because it's not gonna cut it
10280s	oh i understand going upstairs with nine
10283s	so quickly like that but
10286s	don't you don't you think about maybe
10288s	taking some of the value trades that's
10289s	not with a nine think about the fives
10291s	never with the nine
10294s	last for me put that nine to a three
10296s	three
10299s	there's the starfish though i think
10301s	that's the best pickup here to be able
10303s	to contest i suppose still in a pretty
10306s	good position for mero with the 4-4
10308s	remaining that was the only car that was
10311s	going to be able to swing it back
10314s	there is a bit of wave now though for
10316s	love storm next turn if merrow refills
10321s	definitely going to be a tricky one i
10324s	mean
10324s	it's very difficult for mero not to play
10326s	circle void walker here at least
10331s	oh yeah and i'm just thinking you know
10333s	as much as you hate it if you take those
10335s	value trades then you still have some
10337s	minions left at the end of the starfish
10339s	the game maybe lasts a little longer
10341s	because you weren't able to push but
10343s	yeah as you say
10344s	still pushing everything upstairs uh
10348s	this blood-borne imp isn't quite enough
10350s	to get there on its own so the abyssal
10352s	wave comes down clears up most of it
10354s	taunt doing a lot of work to keep the
10356s	blood-borne amp alive through this wave
10358s	though yeah
10360s	it's a tricky one right because also on
10362s	the on the flip side of those trade
10364s	discussions if love some just didn't
10366s	have starfish romero just wins right
10368s	like you just sort of there is a one so
10371s	to speak
10372s	okay
10373s	so flaming bartender
10377s	yeah and it has to be second wave here
10380s	which again
10381s	you know
10383s	camaro committing to the line just all
10385s	face not even thinking uh willing to
10387s	take all this damage and you know if
10390s	there's another clear that's it but now
10392s	love storm no tap available being on two
10395s	life that is another argument for
10397s	pressuring warlocks is just keeping them
10400s	from looking for extra resources
10402s	grimoire not quite enough with no
10405s	tams in rome in hand and it looks like
10407s	this 8-0 run is going to be put at an
10410s	end
10411s	yeah there's just nothing at all right
10414s	there's nowhere taunt imps they're gonna
10417s	help out and love storm here so that
10419s	should just be game i think mero
10422s	uh should be feeling quite confident
10424s	right now because if there was a another
10427s	abyssal wave it would have already been
10428s	played like 100
10430s	so got to be feeling quite good meryl's
10432s	definitely had a roller coaster of a
10434s	series looking fantastic in the first
10436s	couple of games looking like we were
10438s	going to be done in about 15 minutes but
10440s	love storm great job of fighting back
10443s	keeping it close with some incredibly
10445s	close games but i don't see a way out of
10448s	him for this one it looks like
10450s	romero is gonna get him
10453s	something
10455s	i don't know yeah no time there we go
10457s	able to come out of that it's oh
10463s	you love to see the emotions just look
10466s	at that smile mero very very pleased
10468s	with that win uh i think
10471s	facing the opponent that would edo and
10472s	swiss and then you know another win up
10474s	in top 16. uh got to be a lot of nerves
10477s	puts out the hand for a well played uh
10480s	of course not in person can't give the
10482s	handshakes but you love to see the
10483s	sportsmanship there
10485s	fantastic honestly i i didn't know too
10488s	much about mero before you know seeing
10489s	him a lot on stream this weekend of
10491s	course but he's quickly becoming my
10493s	favorite player of the tournament
10495s	because not only is he just fun to watch
10498s	as a player especially due to pop-offs
10500s	like that
10501s	obviously making it to his top four now
10503s	but also i think he plays very well i
10505s	i'm struggling to pick apart
10508s	any sort of issues i can even see i
10510s	think a lot of his setup play is
10511s	fantastic and uh again unfortunate for
10514s	love storm of course he would have loved
10515s	to make it you know sort of go for that
10517s	second masters tall win on his resume so
10520s	to speak but i do think merrow well
10522s	deserved victory there really close game
10525s	yet again if mero was pushed off the
10527s	board there i think things would have
10529s	looked pretty grim uh overall but just
10532s	not gonna quite be enough there for love
10534s	storm so it's gonna be merrow who moves
10536s	on to top for uh what a series i'm i'm
10538s	very happy with the first cast of the
10540s	day for us
10542s	yeah absolutely keeping us all in
10544s	suspense and really giving a solid match
10547s	for the first quarter final there can't
10549s	ask for anything more
10551s	i just i just want that as a repeat clip
10554s	going on there of mirrors pop off you
10556s	love to see it yeah that does put him
10558s	through in to top four so really really
10560s	happy to see it and then we'll see how
10562s	his lineup continues to do going forward
10565s	but that was just one of the quarter
10567s	finals we've got plenty more coming up
10569s	for you i believe the next one is going
10571s	to be donkey versus tonsoku a matchup i
10574s	know at least derek will be very split
10577s	on watching the outcome of because of
10579s	course uh
10580s	japanese player very long time
10582s	hearthstone player going up against
10584s	donkey a beloved community member who's
10586s	definitely done a lot for us here but we
10589s	are going to go to a break while we set
10591s	that one up so don't go anywhere and
10592s	we'll be right back
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10626s	um
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10790s	welcome back once again to masters tour
10792s	murder at castle nathria and i'm with a
10795s	device for this second
10796s	quarter final of the day and it looks
10799s	like it's going to be an emotional one
10801s	from both sides i think it's going to be
10803s	great
10805s	yeah absolutely
10807s	just kind of has that teddy bear energy
10809s	that makes them so lovable and donkey of
10811s	course beloved by the community uh with
10814s	the fantastic website they have donkey
10816s	dot cop just makes it so much easier to
10819s	find stats and and different players and
10822s	deck lists and so many things that
10823s	people just love to use so we can see
10826s	and chat people spamming uh let's go
10829s	website guy with the emoji of a
10833s	horse donkey you know we'll call it a
10835s	donkey and a crown so just lots of love
10837s	out there for donkey today
10839s	yeah a huge amount of support in chat
10840s	and we thank you for the um engagement
10843s	you're giving us
10844s	hopefully donkey will appreciate it when
10846s	they get to check the
10847s	vods later as well um the match we have
10850s	in hand though to see who does play memo
10853s	in that top four
10855s	is going to be a difficult one for
10857s	donkey i think the big spell mage
10859s	just a little bit weaker in this
10862s	match-up with the
10864s	the rogue and the mage and the what the
10866s	interlock on the other side
10870s	yeah big spell mage versus the spooky
10873s	mage has been sort of the question and i
10875s	think
10876s	big spell mage is supposed to have a bit
10878s	of a better match against shaman or at
10880s	least that was my understanding although
10883s	it
10884s	has been banned from both players no
10886s	shamans it it finally happened lorinda
10889s	we have a shaman free match
10891s	yeah i for one welcome our new shaman
10894s	bands um it's not a deck i dislike in
10897s	particular or anything like that which
10898s	is weird for me it's just
10901s	it's quite hard to cast because there's
10904s	always
10905s	so many different ways the deck can play
10907s	out until you actually see the cards
10908s	they've drawn you can't make a plan
10910s	necessarily it's not it's not like some
10911s	others are a bit more formulaic the
10913s	shaman deck
10914s	you really are making it up as you go
10916s	along within certain parameters um but
10919s	the decks we're going to get to see
10920s	played we've got a bit more of an idea
10921s	of how they will play out against each
10923s	other so
10924s	do you agree that donkey's slightly
10926s	unfavored in this overall
10930s	uh you know i think it's it's kind of a
10932s	toss up like
10933s	two
10934s	similar decks if not uh or similar
10937s	classes not archetypes um
10940s	you know the wig priest
10942s	can struggle against mage sometimes just
10944s	because it gets frozen out but then is
10947s	usually pretty good into warlock there
10949s	could be a lot of back and forth just
10951s	between these uh these two lineups in
10954s	terms of
10955s	you know certain polarized one way
10957s	certain polarized the other way
10961s	yeah we see donkey stats there it is
10962s	four masters two appearances and i think
10964s	it's actually five if you count the one
10966s	where they didn't check it which i keep
10968s	bringing up because now the story has
10969s	changed the other way and we've got the
10971s	progression the redemption story of top
10973s	eight player doesn't check in in their
10975s	first master store that's on me i think
10976s	i forgot to type the four three used to
10978s	be um the 5 3 record was their best
10981s	result to date but again the progression
10983s	has gone from sort of one win at the
10984s	first one they actually managed to check
10986s	into into
10987s	three wins into five wins and now into a
10990s	top eight it has been a meteoric
10992s	competitive rise for donkey of course
10994s	donkey's rise in the scene has been very
10997s	much around for a long long time and
11000s	cueing up the imp lock in the first
11004s	game
11005s	not a huge amount of weirdness in this
11006s	although the gigafin we don't see every
11008s	time there's a starfish in there uh
11011s	that's about it though for weirdness in
11012s	this couple of grimoires maybe
11015s	yeah i think starfish has been important
11017s	just to be able to deal through things
11018s	like snowfall guardian you know
11020s	sometimes that guardian doesn't come
11022s	down until
11023s	they've already taken a lot of damage
11025s	again
11026s	no shamans in this so it's just kind of
11028s	solid against other things as well like
11030s	wig priest i think silence is very
11031s	flexible in this meta
11033s	donkey going for this uh more recent
11036s	iteration on the emperor lock in terms
11038s	of including gigafin although uh not
11041s	going the full distance in terms of
11044s	murlocula and
11045s	kale those and stenathias so
11048s	maybe not losing too much certainly
11051s	against another import lock if things do
11054s	run later something like gigafin can be
11056s	a great way to turn things around
11058s	although i think that tonsoku has sort
11060s	of a more straightforward plan with just
11063s	you know double sea giants lots of imp
11065s	synergies double starfish uh you know
11068s	the shady bartenders etc uh no
11070s	battlemaster though so there's not going
11072s	to be any surprise wind fury lethals
11074s	tan soku you see there recapturing
11077s	people's attention i think over this
11079s	tournament has been a very very popular
11081s	part of this tournament we've been
11082s	watching um has been around for a very
11084s	long time that top 16 in both
11087s	championships in 2018
11089s	was he he was experienced then he's been
11092s	around forever uh decent masters tour
11094s	record and the reason that there's five
11096s	wins at master's tour bashir is relevant
11098s	is because you had vashir you had this
11100s	tournament and you had the next
11101s	tournament that's your point for summer
11103s	champs so a five wins and a top eight
11105s	puts him in a great spot to be in the
11108s	hunt for that championship event if he
11110s	doesn't win the tournament today of
11111s	course
11114s	yeah definitely one of those players
11116s	that i remember and then sort of lost
11118s	track of and you wondered have they been
11120s	playing this whole time or is he just
11122s	making a comeback decided or uh you know
11125s	who knows but i think this tempo rogue
11127s	is one that we saw him pilot very well
11130s	in that top 16 match and looking forward
11132s	to
11133s	watch him on this once again
11136s	yeah i think this is undoubtedly at this
11138s	point thanks to lambie series just the
11139s	deck of the tournament uh it seems to be
11144s	just very very hard to
11147s	let's say you've got a 2-0 an opponent's
11149s	deck to get a lead because one one just
11150s	puts you level i you just don't see
11153s	people lose twice with this deck in a
11154s	match i don't think we've seen it once
11156s	where someone's rogue has been the
11157s	problem deck
11160s	and of course it's very much the
11162s	uh
11164s	high level hearthstone players rogue
11166s	right because
11168s	rogue is one of those classes that you
11170s	just always see it
11172s	at high level events
11174s	it's it's a class that people love
11176s	there's all kinds of uh different lines
11179s	and tons of stuff to do in a single turn
11181s	you know miracle rogue has been around
11183s	all the time i think folks get a little
11185s	sad when the best rogue deck is
11187s	something like kelliseth or odd rogue
11189s	which uh i'm not much of a rogue player
11191s	those are my favorite rogues over
11193s	hearthstone's history i know that there
11195s	might be a little sacrilegious for some
11197s	but
11198s	this once it was found i think people
11200s	were so happy that they were able to
11201s	bring rogue and it not be something like
11204s	the sort of strange snowfall graveyard
11207s	shark get a bunch of coins gadgets in
11209s	auctioneer which just wasn't really
11211s	putting up numbers your rockville was my
11213s	favorite by an absolute mile i loved
11215s	that deck it's so much fun but i'm just
11217s	the enemy of the people when it comes to
11219s	my deck choices i was a big d6 fan as
11222s	well so
11223s	yeah oh no
11225s	i like all the exciting things
11228s	why are we letting people know all these
11231s	why are we letting everyone know all
11233s	these horrible takes oh geez
11235s	i can't hide it like i i play those
11237s	decks on ladder people will hunt me down
11239s	and find me but i did play ball priests
11240s	a lot on ladder and i paid the price
11242s	massively as he's well documented in his
11244s	cast by going
11246s	23 and 51 or something when i learned
11248s	blood priest
11250s	we've got a lot of three mmr at my
11251s	expectations a lot would say i deserved
11254s	it fair play i don't deny this yeah
11257s	right tansoku opening start here
11260s	it's a little bit clunky because has
11262s	none of the big thing makers yet but
11264s	shroud will help sort that out in a
11266s	moment
11268s	yeah and i guess the question here is
11270s	whether to use the coin just a coin
11272s	shroud i don't think yeah we didn't see
11275s	any tradable so null still won't be you
11278s	know too cheap it's not as though a coin
11280s	shroud will get you a free null right
11282s	away
11283s	and
11285s	no way to kill this one three you see
11287s	the vile library you're definitely gonna
11289s	be sad once the fiendish circle comes
11291s	down so you might just have to hope it's
11293s	not there maybe you take a little bit of
11295s	chip damage on the one three i i don't
11297s	know
11299s	agreement
11300s	associated question obviously this deck
11301s	list was uh kind of thrown together by
11304s	lambie series and it just works do you
11306s	think philip fighter will survive once
11308s	this deck gets refined it seems it's a
11309s	good card i understand why it's there
11311s	but do you think there'll be a better
11312s	option
11318s	so i think it's a question of you know
11321s	do you cut it entirely on the one hand
11324s	it can be a little bit clunky uh in
11326s	terms of it's not one of your main combo
11329s	things but it is a very cheap minion
11331s	and i think against stuff like imp
11333s	warlock can be great to have just as a
11335s	shadow step target because it's free it
11337s	cleans up some of these one ones that
11338s	can otherwise be a bit challenging and
11342s	when you do pull it off shroud of
11343s	concealment you get to leave it
11345s	stealthed as a three one i think that's
11346s	pretty nice you don't really want to run
11348s	two because then it messes with your
11350s	shroud of concealment too much but i
11352s	have found that it is a nice combo tool
11355s	unfortunately though just a library onto
11359s	into circle is is not really a thing
11361s	that this deck
11362s	does well against yeah it's one of the
11364s	reasons i asked about the philip fighter
11366s	actually again obviously it has those
11368s	upsides but something i've it doesn't
11370s	seem to have the impact it had in the
11372s	old um boat rogue type decks because
11376s	minions are so big it's not just implox
11378s	that does this like you can kill off a
11379s	couple of one ones or three two or
11381s	something but
11382s	against all decks you seem to run into
11384s	this problem i do wonder if the main
11386s	part of the philippe fight obviously is
11387s	a bit of damage but it's a good removal
11389s	tool i wonder if it might just end up
11391s	being a little tiny bit slow once all
11393s	the refinements are made i think that's
11394s	something to keep an eye on something
11396s	else to keep an eye on though is how tan
11397s	soku tries to stay alive this term
11399s	because he's in a real troublesome spot
11401s	right now
11405s	yeah just not really seeing the lines i
11408s	mean
11409s	you're not going into uh
11412s	bartender turns sorry i blanked for a
11414s	moment there
11415s	so i i understand wanting to save a bit
11418s	and we saw how it paid off sort of
11420s	earlier in the top 16 deciding to
11424s	wait a little bit but here under
11426s	much more pressure you're not able to
11428s	use necro-lord drakka to tank this 10-7
11432s	after it's been around for one turn and
11434s	i don't know how you clean up the entire
11437s	board going into the library becoming
11439s	active again
11442s	and then you've got to as well clear the
11444s	board and develop some tempo of your own
11446s	other as the as the meme goes otherwise
11449s	you are just going to lose this game to
11452s	something
11456s	yeah you know if it were a location in
11459s	hand you know the the simstone graveyard
11462s	rather than draca maybe you'd be in some
11464s	kind of business if you are able to pull
11466s	out a full clear onto this board
11468s	although wicked stab hasn't even
11470s	upgraded yet so that's not dealing the
11472s	four damage that he might need
11474s	to deal with the 1070 here no prep
11476s	either and no
11479s	sorry bone spike so
11481s	i think there's just not enough mana to
11483s	work with to go for the clear
11486s	with that he is going to door to
11490s	attempt to find something to clear with
11492s	presumably a prep would have
11494s	helped a little bit in the turn but
11498s	i've got to kill every single one of
11499s	these
11500s	about two so can probably survive one
11502s	more turn the bartender's obviously
11503s	going to be irritating next turn but
11506s	where to go is gonna deal with what he
11507s	can see right now despite
11510s	this makes sense to me going for the
11512s	tooth discovery you just you need a
11513s	miracle maybe you get a grimoire of
11515s	sacrifice
11517s	devouring plague if we had a prep would
11519s	be enough but just
11522s	not the mana to work with here
11524s	[Music]
11528s	spending time on it anyway i think
11529s	that's it time earlier picking the right
11531s	thing and then ended up missing the
11532s	lethal that he made from it but yeah tan
11534s	soko gives that one up donkey up to a
11535s	1-0 lead
11538s	in a matchup i thought overall three on
11540s	three he might be slightly unfavorable
11543s	but yeah they've got that 1-0 lead
11546s	looking pretty calm now donkey i think
11548s	it's a combination of my work here is
11550s	done and everything else is a bonus so
11552s	it helps calm you down when you get this
11553s	far as long as you don't start thinking
11555s	you're going to win the title
11558s	yeah and you know in pluck it's designed
11560s	to do just this and i think it's one of
11563s	the decks that the rogue can just take a
11564s	quick loss to if you don't have the
11566s	right tools and they have such an
11568s	aggressive start i think this is the
11570s	best import lock curve you can hope for
11572s	is this one three into location in
11575s	defender circle let's go
11577s	there was no early tooth or anything
11580s	from tonsoku to deal with the one three
11582s	so it's just a little too much pressure
11584s	too quickly i think the combo turn tends
11586s	to be that turn four and if there's
11588s	already a ten seven in play it's just so
11590s	hard to manage
11593s	yeah absolutely be interesting there's
11594s	quite a lot of bounce and sort of
11596s	removal effects for though much higher
11598s	up the
11600s	uh spectrum at some point i wonder if
11601s	they're going to have to use those with
11602s	the size of early minions but there's no
11604s	doubt that rogue is
11606s	in my mind at least the best deck at the
11608s	moment just a little bit of refinement
11610s	can make it an absolute monster to deal
11613s	with now we are just waiting for the
11615s	pick from tansoku and then we'll get
11616s	into game number two
11618s	um
11619s	which of the two decks of donkeys would
11621s	you
11622s	fear most if you were donkey at this
11624s	point which one is the one that you
11625s	think will let him down if any
11629s	uh you know i have to say
11632s	mage has been sort of awkward at least
11636s	at times and uh you know this being the
11639s	big spell mage sometimes
11641s	if you're not picking up your belinda or
11643s	your barbaric sorceress it can just
11647s	look like what are you doing you know
11648s	far watch post pelican diver mailbox
11651s	dancer like these aren't
11653s	real cards really they're just cards
11656s	that you run to buy time until your
11658s	power turn and with a
11660s	turn six as your sort of a swing point i
11664s	i just feel like it
11666s	it's got to be something that i would be
11668s	worried about getting through but
11670s	clearly it has gotten donkey this far
11672s	over the course of the tournament so i
11674s	will have to see how that plays out
11675s	night cloak sanctum definitely a huge
11677s	addition for slowing things down to get
11679s	to that turn six
11681s	yeah it's really filled in that gap
11683s	nicely between turn three and six that
11685s	this deck required uh donkey obviously
11688s	has been going well with it they've got
11689s	this far but
11691s	they have had a couple of really bad
11693s	draws on stream and that's not a
11695s	surprise this deck is sometimes just
11697s	going to
11697s	[Music]
11698s	not only it has to draw one of those six
11700s	drops but it has to draw something to go
11701s	with it and
11703s	on a reasonable percentage of the time
11705s	it just whiffs entirely but again with
11708s	all that stall now it's a little bit
11709s	better positions than it used to be
11713s	yeah absolutely and going up against the
11715s	imp warlock for tonsoku and
11720s	this one i think again you know it's
11722s	just about are you able to slow down the
11724s	emperor lock
11726s	enough to get to your your big swing
11728s	turns uh they don't have a ton of spells
11731s	for you to swap with something like a
11732s	barbaric sorceress so that can be a
11735s	weakness as well um
11737s	people don't tend to just hold on to a
11739s	coin from a mailbox dancer for you to
11741s	swap with so
11745s	not likely to be able to get a barbaric
11747s	sorceress running really going to come
11749s	down to
11750s	some of the early game tools like
11752s	pelican diver like far watch post to
11754s	slow it down
11756s	and then
11758s	being able to
11759s	i guess get belinda to reduce a rune of
11762s	the archmage you know it's kind of
11763s	strange to rely on
11766s	something like a rune to get you over
11768s	the finish line but it just has been so
11770s	consistent
11771s	most of the time in terms of clearing
11773s	the board at the very least it's very
11775s	hard for a roon not to clear an implod
11777s	board um it's just got too much removal
11779s	even blizzards and stuff will help
11782s	and that's another thing i was going to
11783s	touch on with this deck even though
11785s	the mage early minions are all i'm going
11788s	to call them garbage because i'm nice
11789s	like that but they're all kind of
11790s	rubbishy things that you put in there to
11792s	stall but there are a lot of them like
11794s	there's a good chance even if you don't
11796s	draw
11797s	the exact stuff you want to combo with
11799s	that you can at least occupy the ball
11801s	like even a brand it's a 2-4 it's
11803s	annoying for imps to deal with and
11806s	starfish it's just another minion it
11808s	also gets rid of the buffs so
11811s	you can just plop things down that don't
11813s	really have an amazing impact on the
11815s	game and hope it all goes away snow
11817s	flowy again pretty good card for slowing
11819s	your opponents big things down
11821s	yeah absolutely and the armor from deep
11823s	water evoker because this is the big
11825s	spell mage and not the hybrid always
11827s	going to give you nine or ten which is
11830s	pretty huge uh honestly
11833s	as as early curves go for this mage this
11836s	is shaping up pretty well for donkey
11839s	yeah given that it hasn't got the main
11842s	stuff of the deck yeah this is this is
11843s	the sort of hand i was thinking of
11845s	that's just stuff that will keep you
11847s	alive by jumping in front of imps
11850s	and tanzoko's not going to mess around
11851s	with any of that just going to get the
11853s	board built
11854s	you can't stop this
11857s	another snow flurry just freeze down
11860s	that librarian i think probably the
11863s	other card that you would really want to
11865s	see if your donkey is the nightclub
11867s	sanctum
11868s	but
11869s	plenty of resources here for tonsoku and
11872s	you know there's not early aoe to clear
11875s	these imps so i suspect
11877s	we will see a a pretty full impending
11879s	catastrophe in the near future
11881s	potentially on turn four after a fetish
11884s	circle
11885s	yeah the race is on now can donkey pick
11888s	up the reckless apprentice before the
11890s	libraries picked up from tansoku but
11891s	tanzook is gonna have so much card draw
11893s	coming up that the answer is probably no
11896s	but this is why we play hearthstone of
11897s	course who knows what might happen in
11899s	the actual draw steps sorry we don't
11902s	have any and even if there were to be
11904s	something like a reckless apprentice
11905s	clear on the fiendish circle tansoku has
11908s	the mischievous imp follow-up so it's
11910s	it's really not letting up the pressure
11912s	even though there isn't a library sorry
11915s	a vile library currently there is the
11917s	reckless apprentice
11919s	yeah
11919s	just like
11921s	here
11922s	oh wow
11925s	that's given donkey plenty more to think
11927s	about now regarding this term
11929s	because uh they can set up
11932s	the pings to clear with the apprentice
11934s	but that might be
11935s	i'll go with too obvious not that the
11937s	imps can play around it that much so
11941s	there's a lot more
11944s	i wonder if you you play the
11948s	other snow blind and then just hold the
11952s	free ping
11953s	you play it with the pelican diver and
11955s	then know you've got the clear with the
11957s	reckless apprentice that might also be
11959s	signaling a little bit too much but uh
11962s	sort of an in-between space right
11966s	i don't like it i i don't think it
11967s	signals much maybe
11969s	garbage
11970s	you're scared of a library i think
11972s	that's a valid excuse to not ping here
11978s	you know if he's going to get buffed to
11979s	a
11980s	five or six attack minion next turn
11982s	you'd much rather freeze that i think
11983s	that's
11984s	hidden enough
11987s	yeah and here we see the catastrophe
11989s	coming down draw five
11991s	not really what donkey wants to see that
11993s	is
11994s	quite a lot of card draw you know if you
11996s	thought you were going to be running the
11998s	warlock out of resources any time soon
12000s	not so much
12003s	ah true but apprentice into avoca into
12006s	sorceress is there for donkey still on
12009s	28 health got a couple of things on
12011s	board
12012s	it's not gonna be fun because you're
12013s	gonna get a sea giant in the face
12015s	sometime soon but they can definitely at
12017s	least get into this game they might need
12019s	a bit of help from the top over the next
12021s	two or three turns
12024s	and the pelican is very important for
12026s	being able to clear the 2-5 here
12028s	something that would otherwise be a
12029s	little bit challenging obviously no
12031s	wildfires in the deck
12033s	wow
12034s	okay
12036s	so we've got
12038s	reckless you can save the ping once
12040s	again
12041s	and then you've got deep water evoker
12044s	the following turn to gain armor
12047s	maybe then you use the ping to freeze
12050s	going into barbaric sorceress i think
12052s	what'll be interesting to see is how
12054s	aggressively tonsoku wants to play
12056s	around something like a barbaric
12058s	sorceress maybe trying to dump the
12060s	spells in hand
12062s	dumping the spells might not get tan
12065s	as far as he needs to be because he's
12068s	behind on board as well temporarily i
12070s	know that's going to get fixed but
12072s	this is all just time that donkey is
12074s	gaining here
12075s	and still managing to heat up threes
12077s	available of course is going to be a big
12079s	deal too so library still sort of
12083s	slightly negated
12087s	at least
12089s	hunted
12092s	yeah honestly the apprentice here
12094s	pretty nice just in terms of being a 3-5
12097s	to trade into this mischievous imp
12099s	i do wonder
12100s	whether the freezing ping will be saved
12103s	one more turn or if it'll just be used
12104s	to clear up one of the three threes
12108s	i think because you're stuck with a 2-3
12110s	personally i would clear one up
12112s	especially with my board now starting
12114s	quite
12115s	good
12117s	let's see what donkey chooses
12121s	yeah i think there's sort of
12123s	by a library to worry about one way or
12125s	the other either you say well because of
12127s	vial library i want to reduce the number
12129s	of imps in play or you could say because
12131s	of via library i want to have a freezing
12133s	ping up for whatever they target with it
12136s	yeah and again with a couple of minions
12139s	onboard donkey did take the latter
12140s	option and now moment of truth for both
12143s	players tan soku
12145s	does he want to start to dump the spells
12147s	like a device suggested a couple of
12148s	turns ago he might and also you know
12151s	donkey when he dumps the barbaric
12154s	sources what will he hit based on the
12155s	back of that decision from tonsoko and
12157s	that that will define this game one way
12160s	or the other
12162s	yeah fiendus circle grimoire you know
12165s	only those two spells so it wouldn't be
12167s	hard and you do get to clear the board
12169s	for your trouble there's not a ton of
12170s	utility in the grimoire
12172s	i gotta imagine you have to avoid the
12175s	chance of a sorceress you know there's a
12177s	car that's been on the left there since
12179s	the beginning of the game you can still
12181s	play a flame emperor voidwalker on the
12183s	other side of it um
12186s	you know not thrilled to trade the 3-3
12188s	in but it's just got to be the line you
12191s	take going into turn six against this
12193s	big spell mage
12196s	and i think donkey on the other side of
12198s	this
12199s	is going to have a long thing you've
12201s	seen tan soko dumped two spells here
12203s	or you could just draw this and make
12205s	your turn really interesting
12207s	uh yeah you've seen you've seen uh
12208s	tanzania jump two spells you've got to
12210s	imagine that turn was worked around
12212s	emptying all the spells but that's easy
12214s	for us because we can see it donkey is
12217s	living in a world where a lot of cards
12218s	were drawn for tantoko two turns ago and
12221s	maybe tennessee didn't get rid of
12222s	everything so decision to be made for
12224s	donkey here
12226s	can you miss the party yeah and i think
12230s	another thing with the barbaric soros
12232s	race is that
12233s	you can if you know your opponent has no
12235s	spells or even if you're not sure just
12238s	run it out and it's a three seven taunt
12240s	that's not the most amazing thing but
12242s	then you have the information and
12244s	there's no downside uh the only issue is
12247s	you need more of a swing in a matchup
12249s	like this to come back donkey is just
12251s	gonna go for it get the bad news the
12253s	punish here would be something like a
12255s	fully infused in king rafam
12258s	or a shady bartender yeah bartender
12261s	exactly
12263s	but neither here for tonsoku and you
12266s	can't even tap to get a bartender
12269s	you draw the farm though while we're
12271s	having that discussion i wonder
12276s	so
12277s	over time that will be irritating it's a
12279s	long time to go yet well it feels a long
12281s	time it's probably two turns away from
12282s	being infused
12286s	yeah absolutely it's i mean it infuses
12289s	fairly quickly in this deck i think you
12292s	know whatever is played here you know if
12294s	the board gets cleared we'll infuse the
12296s	sim king rafam uh
12298s	honestly a bit unlucky you know only 14
12302s	cards remaining no vile library no shady
12306s	bartenders it's really a bit of a rough
12310s	draw for tonsoku you know he's had the
12312s	early curve minions but nothing to
12314s	really take advantage of them barring
12316s	this sea giant
12319s	oh my donkey may have just turned the
12321s	corner picking up the sanctum there
12326s	now can control the sea giant can
12329s	drop the um the reckless
12332s	and pick off some bit yeah take a little
12333s	bit of damage but also start making some
12335s	skeletons to start
12337s	really
12338s	just getting towards that turn nine
12340s	where he'll hard cast the moon and then
12341s	off he goes
12345s	now there is always the possibility that
12346s	roon will betray donkey and not be able
12349s	to do quite enough you know sometimes
12351s	people do end up needing
12353s	multiples to really get there
12356s	i can understand wanting to go for the
12358s	armor here no you would have expected
12360s	some buffs to be used already if they
12362s	were present you can still freeze your
12364s	opponent's most threatening minion
12369s	okay
12371s	there it is
12374s	huh
12375s	circa was getting ready to just jam that
12377s	with a farm and now has to stop and
12378s	rethink the entire turn
12384s	yeah there's no way to kill the starfish
12387s	what is it two minions that need to die
12390s	to infuse and it only buffs imps so
12393s	maybe you just wait on their farm and go
12395s	for the library this turn i think so
12399s	are you out of necessity could get
12405s	could get tap in as well if you like
12409s	yeah i'll just replace the two things
12411s	you've got on the board with a blood
12412s	bound and leave a space just to have a
12414s	stuff
12416s	yep yep
12419s	i don't think tanzaka particularly needs
12421s	the tap i might be wrong there but i
12423s	think he has all the value he's going to
12425s	be able to play mana wise
12429s	right
12430s	looks like it is three
12433s	needed to infuse the reform
12435s	and i guess that's what soku is going
12438s	for here a little bit surprised but it
12440s	is just a ton of stats
12443s	yep
12449s	yeah even getting two of the three
12451s	threes into five fives there so
12454s	quite a good outcome and again no
12457s	wildfires or anything so this reckless
12458s	apprentice is just doing one until the
12461s	barton hero is played
12463s	not necessarily staring down lethal here
12466s	but
12470s	you know the mailbox dancer just to turn
12471s	late if you were wanting to cheese out
12473s	the ruin a little bit earlier
12475s	i think the best defensive play is
12477s	probably just to trade into a 3-3 play
12479s	the barbaric sorceress once again
12481s	and
12484s	i don't even know if you play the dancer
12486s	just for the body seems better than a
12488s	ping at this point
12491s	i guess you have to work out the
12492s	downsides of it dying but if it dies
12494s	then that damage didn't go into your
12496s	face so it's probably fine because
12497s	you're playing a room next turn you take
12499s	your chance against the imps
12502s	like you said a couple of times the moon
12504s	is going to have to hit but it should
12505s	although these are big enough now that
12507s	maybe something ends up living
12508s	afterwards
12509s	we'll have an open
12511s	sanctum so it should be okay
12514s	going for the trade does pick up a gray
12517s	sage parrot for the trouble so
12520s	if this rune is able to do enough work
12522s	we can follow up with another one uh i
12525s	think something
12526s	that you're really looking for out of
12528s	roon is basically a board clear at least
12531s	one secret just to mess with the
12533s	opponent and maybe a bit of card draw or
12536s	generation when you are low like this
12538s	the big spell mage does frequently find
12540s	itself a bit low on cards by the time
12543s	you get to this point so you do need
12546s	something to come off of the room just
12547s	to
12548s	give you a little extra oomph
12550s	you're so greedy you just listed all of
12552s	the things that mage does you just want
12554s	just some of this some of that some of
12555s	that i just want everything to die
12557s	you're right some cardboard stuff would
12559s	be beautiful as well but in this
12561s	position as long as it clears the board
12563s	because of the pickup of the parrot
12565s	the the second rune should be the game
12568s	winner if the first one does its job
12572s	but there's a lot of ifs in that
12573s	statement and this is hearthstone
12575s	yep
12576s	tantoku just trying to figure out the
12578s	optimal
12580s	uh buff here to not waste any damage
12583s	making another eight eight to clear up
12585s	the taunt and then pushing through with
12586s	everything else so you see the fingers
12588s	crossed from donkey uh there's nothing
12591s	else for it just gotta play the rune and
12593s	see what happens let's have the sanctum
12595s	available one thing survives somehow
12598s	then oh no that's that's nine men on
12602s	just oasis allies although the flame
12605s	strike does does
12606s	do a bit polymorph
12609s	sort of the wrong target
12612s	everything's finished three is the big
12613s	minion
12614s	okay
12615s	all things considered that's pretty good
12618s	do you want to freeze the jellyfish or
12621s	do you want to just leave it there so
12622s	you've got to freeze for next turn
12626s	i think
12627s	uh
12628s	you know it's tough i mean the library
12630s	is not active
12631s	there's no real burst from this deck
12633s	right no battle master
12635s	no curses any of that stuff
12638s	it is just sort of safe although there's
12640s	an argument maybe for leaving it up uh
12643s	so that the attack nets you one of your
12645s	own
12646s	um
12647s	and it is a minion that just dies to a
12649s	ping so easily uh but then you're you're
12652s	working with seven life uh
12655s	honestly i could go either way
12657s	okay well in that case i
12660s	oh wow
12662s	lethal the second starfish i think it is
12665s	it is
12667s	oh no
12668s	as long as it's not barrier and this is
12672s	the
12672s	the hesitation from tonsoku random
12675s	secrets you just don't know he should
12677s	know that one of them is the oasis ally
12680s	because it uh it gets revealed after the
12683s	second and in this case third iteration
12686s	of it being played from the root of the
12687s	archmage um but the last secret if it's
12690s	not
12691s	or sorry if it is ice barrier this would
12693s	not be lethal
12695s	sorry
12697s	that's why he's playing the imp first
12699s	wants it on the board so might as well
12700s	silence it so he's going to go for the
12702s	silence play
12704s	i mean i think checking for mirror
12706s	entity although really
12708s	even if it is barrier i i can't imagine
12711s	you just go for it you're looking at
12712s	your chance to to win the game and uh
12715s	just got it on board
12717s	seize the vengeful visage and uh that is
12720s	going to be it with the
12722s	giant able to connect rune of the
12724s	archmage just not quite doing enough
12726s	work he looked at first like it might
12728s	get donkey over the line there but
12730s	starfish off the top is going to seal it
12732s	up for tonsoku
12733s	yeah needed it absolutely then because
12735s	that second rune bowing incredible
12738s	sequence of events was going to get
12740s	donkey into a position to win the game
12742s	he's going to be able to start
12742s	developing minions the parrot was going
12744s	to start doing damage or cleaning up
12746s	um but yeah the starfish for tons of
12748s	getting it done and we're into an
12750s	exciting one now one game a piece with
12752s	both of the influx out
12757s	and i would like to say that tonsoku is
12759s	uh one of you who does have two copies
12761s	of the smothering starfish in his list
12764s	so it was uh higher odds than some of
12766s	these other lists
12768s	no absolutely like your deck building
12770s	decisions sort of give you these
12772s	advantages and disadvantages across the
12773s	course of the day there'll be another
12774s	game where maybe he loses because he
12776s	draws a starfish when he needs an imp so
12779s	you know
12780s	on this occasion it worked out the right
12782s	way and that's why we have four decks
12784s	and why we have lineups rather than just
12786s	a selection of the best cards and best
12788s	decks um because you make a coherent
12790s	lineup and the sum of your decisions
12792s	over many tournaments adds up to you
12794s	doing better or worse
12796s	but yeah that's that's the sort of the
12797s	mirror part of this out of the way and
12799s	now we have different majors and then
12801s	peace versus rogue so
12803s	game is now well and truly down to your
12805s	lineup at this point
12807s	[Music]
12809s	yeah and the wig priest coming out i do
12811s	like here that donkey has double school
12814s	teacher i just think it gives you that
12816s	extra density of nagas to work with over
12819s	partner in crime you know partner in
12821s	crime is a very powerful card and i do
12823s	think it will see play at some point
12826s	down the line but for sort of this
12828s	iteration of a blessed deck in
12830s	particular where you are so heavily
12832s	focused on
12833s	using serpent wig over and over having
12836s	that density of nagas is just so
12838s	important
12839s	yeah i think partnering crime will be a
12841s	different card for a different day and a
12843s	different meta game it's
12845s	it's not doing weirdly it's not doing
12848s	really what this deck wants to do at
12849s	this time
12850s	um but if we ever go to pentagon's bless
12852s	and somehow
12853s	don't have wigs available for some
12855s	reason or somebody decides like what
12856s	happens if i drop wig and just make
12858s	eight eights and don't actually have
12859s	combo winning turns or something
12862s	then sure partnering crime might be a
12863s	deck for a different day but i agree
12866s	with you and i think all of the casters
12869s	um although everyone's divided on which
12870s	cards to substitute in i do agree with
12872s	you that
12874s	partner in crime seems to be the weakest
12876s	card when it's played by a long way
12879s	nice hand over donkey yeah i
12883s	definitely and the one mana hero power
12886s	to just kind of get things going get to
12888s	with the trade there
12889s	uh just play the shroud on two i think
12892s	is fine right that makes your nals free
12894s	immediately
12895s	i'm pretty happy with the way that
12896s	discount turned out i think
12898s	yeah you were looking at i'm looking at
12900s	donkey's hand and trying to work out how
12901s	on earth you play these first two turns
12903s	because i'm sure it's straightforward
12904s	but i can't work it out because it's too
12906s	much nonsense going on up there but yeah
12908s	tanzaka's got his own breed of nonsense
12910s	down here
12912s	really good hands for both players i
12914s	mean
12916s	uh yeah i guess if you coin out the
12918s	scribe then you get to play a wig on it
12920s	immediately
12924s	start getting this handmade and ready
12927s	that's it right so you get these two
12929s	decent minions and then the handmade and
12931s	if it goes wrong and they might just
12932s	wing you the game on the spot like yeah
12936s	and the 4-4 is important here because
12939s	then it requires null plus something
12942s	else to actually be able to clear it you
12944s	know if you look at something like just
12946s	slitherspear wig there
12949s	then it's
12951s	uh you know it's a three five it's it's
12952s	pretty good um but then your next turn
12955s	is scribe wig i don't know it's
12958s	i think you had to use the coin no
12959s	matter which you went with but the worst
12960s	thing you could have done would be to
12962s	just play slither spear and not do
12963s	anything else on it because that gets
12965s	cleaned up by a wild pawn null much too
12968s	easily
12969s	yeah this has put tanzoku in a spot now
12971s	because he didn't hit the second knoll
12973s	which has made the turn a bit easier
12975s	um as derek and others have described
12977s	you really don't want to play your cards
12979s	early in this day you want to have those
12980s	big turns set up those big weapons set
12982s	up those big minions but you can't let
12984s	the priests have this going on so yeah
12986s	tanzoko forced to
12988s	waste inverted commas hard here oh my
12991s	goodness
12993s	oh i don't know about this
12995s	i feel like
12997s	i want to commit one way or the other
12998s	making uh one hit but then
13001s	not playing the wild pawn all you know
13003s	there's a wig already so this isn't
13005s	gonna stay at one
13008s	it is turn two by the way and so much
13011s	has already happened so many cards have
13013s	been played because both of these decks
13014s	just you know don't really
13017s	follow the rules of mana
13020s	and
13021s	this was i guess the reason for the hit
13024s	there so wig means that stab plus fillet
13027s	fighter is able to clean it up
13029s	um
13030s	you know we've won the board
13032s	uh not a ton of follow-up i guess
13034s	there's edwin step if you want to do
13036s	that on four
13038s	step no tracker if you think that's
13040s	enough
13045s	three three weapon it's not terrible
13047s	it's not really what you want
13049s	just to buy yourself some time to get a
13050s	slightly better edwin and try and find a
13052s	location like that that was my thinking
13054s	there not because you want a 3-3 weapon
13056s	obviously that's not going to win the
13057s	game but it might stop you from losing
13058s	it if you lose this board
13061s	yeah i mean one one thing that's nice
13064s	going into
13065s	the wig priest is you don't have to
13067s	worry about something like theotar
13070s	because they just don't have the space
13071s	to fit it in
13073s	so you can do something like an edwin
13075s	shadowstep you take another value trade
13078s	just pray they don't have shadow word
13080s	devour or if you want to play around the
13081s	devour you could trade in the three one
13084s	instead
13085s	um you just sort of need the card draw
13087s	in this position i have to imagine
13092s	or even just yeah
13094s	actually i think i might like this even
13096s	better what are they gonna do right
13097s	they're not not likely to clear the four
13100s	fours you just leave it on board for a
13101s	turn it gets a value trade and then you
13103s	can step it if you like yeah and it's
13105s	important as well i mean okay there's
13107s	the extortion in hand but you don't
13108s	really want to have to play that out of
13110s	sequence but you know with a pelagos in
13112s	donkey's hand pelegos into wig would
13114s	have been
13116s	so destructive if the edwin wasn't left
13118s	on the board
13121s	and even so it does mean that you have
13123s	to choose whether you want to step it or
13125s	not in order to clear this
13129s	do you feel lucky in terms of ripping
13131s	extra removal off the top
13133s	i'm in the top eight of a master's turn
13135s	that's nice you're lucky
13138s	go face for four shadow step because
13140s	otherwise yep
13142s	otherwise how else do you get there yeah
13145s	it's fair
13152s	okay it's a huge deal what he gets from
13153s	this
13156s	oh is it possibly just enough with
13158s	extortion drakka it is it's um
13163s	yeah that's the safest line then
13166s	3-3 dagger i i think is just
13168s	just good enough
13170s	and then just get a million cards with
13171s	edwin and hope that that works
13175s	yeah yeah definitely the the safest line
13180s	and you know we look at something like a
13182s	3-3 dagger and no it's not
13184s	some of the necro blades we've seen over
13186s	this tournament you know not seven
13188s	attack or a ted attack
13190s	but
13191s	it's still really a solid rate you know
13194s	you get a 3 4 and a 3 3 weapon that's
13196s	just kind of good enough in so many
13198s	situations both shadow steps are used
13201s	though so we won't be seeing another
13203s	large necroblade come out of nowhere it
13205s	is going to have to be this little
13207s	game of edges or maybe going all in on a
13210s	large edwin um
13212s	i wonder if maybe it's worth keeping the
13214s	shard just knowing that an edwin has
13216s	been
13218s	anybody
13219s	yeah i think
13220s	that also makes sense
13226s	wondering how much damage the
13228s	the rogue ends up with if the priest can
13231s	just keep killing the rogue stuff that's
13233s	not how you look at any priest matchup
13235s	ever but
13237s	i imagine the vogue's going to burn to
13239s	get it done if the minions are all
13240s	killed but there's not that much left
13244s	well shadowcrafter scabs is a nice reset
13248s	plus um
13250s	a couple of four twos that apart from
13253s	you know blademaster samurai or double
13255s	devour you know a little bit challenging
13257s	for the priest to deal
13259s	with uh this is looking pretty dire
13262s	though for donkey uh
13265s	10 10 edwin
13267s	three four and a four four again not
13269s	massive stealth minion but you don't
13271s	really need it
13272s	so it is just going to have to be all in
13275s	here
13275s	uh hoping for boone of the ascended off
13279s	of thrive in the shadows is my guess
13287s	not enough mana now
13291s	oh
13295s	i needed that extra one mana
13297s	yeah he's annoyed himself i think i
13299s	think they realized that
13303s	now it's going to have to be
13306s	it's going to have to be amalgam into
13310s	the leash
13314s	yes
13317s	quickly
13321s	yup that's what they're going for
13323s	gotta go fast
13325s	uh
13326s	not quite good enough
13328s	and that's over as uh fast as it began
13331s	you know both players pretty optimal
13333s	hands but uh rogue is you know very
13336s	heavy on some of these removal tools and
13339s	tonsoko able to just win that game of
13341s	edges and then snowball into a very
13343s	large edwin and
13345s	you know it's kind of nice to see edwin
13347s	back it's
13349s	we uh we haven't really had
13351s	big edwin's for a little while and uh i
13354s	like that it's making its way back into
13356s	this
13357s	yeah big headwinds huh you're that sort
13360s	of person okay
13362s	i got so much engagement out of just
13363s	retweeting neville's from 2017 every
13366s	time edwin originally did
13368s	i just
13370s	just every single time ah dodged another
13373s	one but yeah eventually and eventually
13375s	he got got
13377s	all right tan soku down to the spooky
13380s	mage the 40 card version with so much
13382s	stuff in it
13384s	uh
13385s	we've seen this deck do pretty well
13387s	actually in the
13389s	in the top of the swiss we've just seen
13391s	them pretty badly in the rest of the
13393s	swiss which sort of makes sense it's
13394s	almost definition
13396s	uh where's your take on where this deck
13398s	stands right now
13401s	so looking at this list and just in
13404s	terms of what donkey has remaining i
13406s	think this mass polymorph
13409s	is actually a pretty great inclusion to
13412s	have because both into big spelmage
13414s	which puts down a bunch of dragons and
13417s	into the wig priest which can get some
13419s	pretty large minions and as long as
13420s	you're able to sort of freeze out the
13422s	game until that point
13424s	just having the mass polymorph is an
13426s	extra out that many decks don't have
13428s	access to again i'm not a fan of the
13431s	deep water evoker when you have such
13432s	misses like wildfire and flurry um
13436s	but
13437s	tan soku is in this top eight so
13441s	i don't know it seems to have been
13442s	working so far
13443s	yeah let's let's argue that the other
13446s	way you're playing a 40 card deck to get
13448s	extra health
13449s	you play a deep walk up to avoca which
13451s	is it's bad it's a three four for four
13453s	your worst cases you hit a flowy you
13456s	only play one flurry in your deck
13458s	and sometimes that will save you a lot
13460s	of health i think it's
13462s	it's weird
13464s	but i get it because you're playing 10
13465s	extra cards so anything that thins your
13467s	deck even if it's sometimes awful i
13470s	don't think it's necessarily a terrible
13471s	card right
13474s	yeah not necessarily you know and there
13476s	is some hyrule potential there when you
13478s	do hit the rune or the mass polymorph i
13480s	just feel like i'd be more comfortable
13481s	with something like a
13483s	famished fool which is the infuse for to
13487s	draw three you know then you're getting
13489s	a lot more cards at once
13491s	the deck already has a decent amount of
13493s	minions or minion generators in the form
13495s	of a cold case another skeleton cards
13499s	i don't know i'm not a fan and it looks
13501s	like the stats overall haven't worked
13503s	but uh but it has gotten tons of this
13506s	far we see the theater keep
13509s	pretty important against something like
13511s	a big spell mage which has so many
13514s	six drop cards that you can sort of
13517s	just play it on five to try and prevent
13519s	yeah and so few important cards like if
13522s	you can rip one of them away from your
13523s	opponent it does so much damage we've
13525s	talked already about how
13528s	big spell mage can just miss right well
13530s	if you've got a theater and even if they
13532s	hit they might miss so yeah seems good
13534s	to me
13544s	i'm not sure how i feel about the
13545s	pelican diver on one here against
13547s	another mage
13554s	just sort of gained one life isn't it
13558s	um your opponent wastes two mana let's
13560s	look at it that way
13563s	i guess you know it's
13565s	i suppose with how it lines up in terms
13567s	of it no longer being dormant it is
13570s	going into tons hoku's turn three
13572s	so you potentially disrupt something
13574s	like an arcane intellect
13576s	yeah or they have to take eight for
13578s	middle four from it at least
13580s	yeah i think it's fine also what else
13582s	are you gonna do with it like when are
13583s	you going to play it
13586s	just get it out your hand maybe when
13588s	like there's something that you want to
13589s	remove but it doesn't have to be dealt
13591s	with right away i don't know it's one
13593s	mana i feel like maybe you can fit it in
13595s	somewhere else but it does end up
13597s	disrupting this arcane and leg and here
13599s	comes another one
13601s	my other argument on a slightly more
13603s	serious note would be if you're hoping
13604s	that your deck makes an early moon or
13606s	something you want some space in your
13608s	hand just have real cards and get these
13609s	things away
13612s	sure no but yeah i get the point looks a
13614s	lot better here
13617s	looks a lot better here going into the
13618s	turn four where you are wanting to get
13621s	down an okani so you can kill whatever
13624s	minion your opponent might play and then
13626s	get okani down
13628s	no
13629s	you make your point as always
13631s	with um
13632s	instructive views from what you can
13634s	actually see in front of you yeah it's
13635s	like yeah lorinda that was stupid of you
13637s	good point well-made
13641s	this is interesting i think tonsoku took
13643s	the sorceress
13647s	okay which is definitely a card you're
13649s	interested in hitting
13651s	but i would have maybe been looking at
13653s	the drake fire amulet and said
13655s	hey if you want to go for a sorceress
13657s	you know i've got this drake fire amulet
13660s	you want to risk having it backfire on
13662s	you
13664s	use the blizzard
13670s	and this is really important that the
13671s	pelican dive was played when it was
13672s	played because look it can trade into
13674s	the 3-3 everybody
13676s	yep try it into the 3-3 play okani yep
13688s	or would you wait a turn knowing your
13690s	opponent has a sorceress on six
13695s	yeah but they don't want to play it do
13696s	they right
13698s	um
13699s	it depends if you play that coin or not
13702s	i guess yeah
13704s	i guess they don't you're right
13707s	you've got to assume you've got a then
13708s	you don't spells you don't know what
13710s	they've seen right maybe they saw okani
13713s	starfish
13714s	barbaric but
13716s	if they saw the drake fire which of
13718s	course we know that tonsoku did
13721s	um i mean that sorceress is being taken
13724s	just to prevent donkey from playing it i
13726s	don't think we're going to see tonsoku
13727s	throwing it down anytime soon
13730s	the eevee is far too low donkey's worked
13733s	out the winning formula just channeling
13735s	blize
13737s	completely dark room with just a head
13740s	and a bow tie
13744s	i'm checking with the solid alibi here
13746s	for spell
13747s	getting the go ahead to just go ahead
13750s	and
13751s	arcane intellect you know not doing a
13753s	ton of work but solid alibi
13755s	having prevented something like an early
13757s	drake fire
13759s	not hugely important so sort of an okay
13761s	spell to throw away there while looking
13763s	for just additional cards
13766s	uh still probably gonna have to throw
13768s	away some kind of minion though
13771s	not a whole lot to work with here in the
13773s	spell realm of things
13779s	yeah this is actually getting annoying
13780s	from donkey's side as well like seven
13782s	damage just from these things that don't
13785s	really do much it's an annoying problem
13787s	you've got to deal with so yeah time to
13789s	get this iconic dealt
13791s	with it's so weird just some of these
13795s	wet noodle fights almost that happen
13797s	between
13799s	the the mages right now you know even
13801s	though it's 30 card mage versus 40 card
13803s	mage they still run the same kind of as
13805s	you say crappy minions in the early game
13807s	you know the there's something they
13809s	might have a little bit on the hp side
13811s	but it's not a ton of damage and uh
13814s	that being said without having them for
13817s	tonsoku it's just hard to defend against
13819s	all this
13820s	want to be picking up you know your own
13822s	nightclub sanctum to slow things down
13824s	something like a deathborn
13826s	gave away the blizzard out of not
13828s	wanting to lose some
13830s	higher end cards so this is just
13834s	pressure from donkey as strange that it
13836s	as it is and then dawn grasp is going to
13839s	really turn things around
13842s	yeah but i feel like tan soko needs more
13845s	than just a door um their own doors
13847s	grasp right it's just going to slow
13848s	things down for one turn on that side
13849s	like you say donkey's dawn grasp it's
13851s	gonna be so much better straight into
13853s	the double room yeah that's that's the
13855s	one i was thinking about you know the
13856s	wildfire is important here just for the
13859s	reckless apprentice but it's still
13862s	still not that much and once those hero
13863s	powers get ramping up i think that's one
13865s	of the main benefits of 30 cards versus
13867s	40 cards is just the increased
13869s	probability of getting magister dawn
13871s	grasp on curve and starting to ratchet
13874s	up that hero power i mean you're seeing
13877s	now
13878s	how about this is just a
13880s	six damage to nathan's
13883s	yeah this is a i think i'm gonna beat
13884s	you if i don't die right now and i think
13886s	i might die right now
13890s	oh
13890s	ah
13892s	i don't know
13894s	the reckless apprentice had to be okay
13896s	right
13898s	i mean not great but it's fine though at
13900s	least working your way
13902s	donkey's got a decision now like jamming
13904s	dorm grasp is where we were both at a
13906s	moment ago but blizzard into roon into
13908s	roon into dorm grasp in that order is
13910s	now on the cards as an option
13915s	i think the argument here for tonsoku's
13917s	line is that
13919s	it's just the most stats he can put in
13922s	play and there is lifesteal on the 1010
13926s	so even though you're
13928s	not expecting these things to connect
13931s	the opponent does have to respect the
13933s	kale thoughts and and sort of just the
13935s	board presence generally and there
13937s	weren't a ton of tools to cleanly deal
13940s	with these early minions as strange as
13942s	that is and there's other wind
13944s	conditions in the deck so as long as
13946s	tensoku can pick up
13948s	some serious card draw here you will be
13951s	able to maybe turn things around and win
13954s	through some other way you know it's not
13955s	like
13956s	some of the other decks where you really
13958s	are relying on denaturius to get very
13960s	high
13961s	but
13963s	just seems like a lot of resources spent
13966s	to
13967s	slow down a
13970s	wave of just
13972s	three fours and two attack minions
13975s	and donkey does go with the sensible
13977s	play in the end again that that blizzard
13978s	into triple roon basically set up was
13981s	very interesting but
13983s	if in doubt do the sensible thing which
13985s	is play sensibly
13989s	yeah and the hero power can just
13991s	upgrade so quickly
13993s	yes
13994s	yes and again next turn can upgrade it
13997s	again most likely
13998s	okay depending how the moon wants to pan
14000s	out and depending what donkey wants to
14001s	do but transloco has nothing doing here
14004s	this is just rubbish stuff
14007s	sporty car deck fillers yeah
14011s	hovered over the starfish for a moment
14012s	there but then of course you do lose the
14014s	lifesteal
14018s	in the downside of stealing a barbaric
14020s	saucers or stealing any card that you
14021s	take for your opponent that
14023s	cuts their deck apart it also quite
14025s	often just does nothing for you we saw
14027s	an alignment that could have been stolen
14028s	the other day and the decision was well
14031s	do i want to steal the alignment to slow
14032s	them down but then i've got an alignment
14034s	in my hand it's like
14036s	one of the cards i want i'm never
14037s	playing
14038s	yeah yeah absolutely
14041s	quite a cool design
14046s	i think every turn here for donkey is
14048s	just can i upgrade my hero power
14051s	if not what do i do
14056s	i just see runes because that's the sort
14057s	of player i am
14061s	i mean you can
14063s	blizzard ping the denathrius and then
14067s	it sets up an honorable kill forces your
14070s	opponent to maybe ping their own minion
14072s	to prevent you from getting it i'd love
14074s	to see that
14077s	i'd really enjoy seeing yourself
14078s	penguins for a while
14081s	you can't stop this snowstorm
14085s	interesting okay
14090s	and there's the rune for tonsoku i sort
14092s	of forgot for a moment that both players
14094s	had access to this card
14100s	our fish will remove the lifesteal but
14103s	also
14104s	allow some damage to be inserted
14108s	yeah it's hard to pass up three mana for
14110s	a pyroblast
14111s	it is yeah
14121s	and now we see you for tonsoku just an
14124s	amalgamation of stuff just dawngrass
14127s	freezing to
14131s	you know eliminate the usefulness of
14132s	these two threes which at face value
14135s	doesn't seem like much but it
14137s	there's the self ping that you were
14138s	looking for right onto the starfish that
14140s	would have been a four so freezing these
14143s	two threes you know prevents something
14145s	like trades into the 3s to get an
14148s	honorable kill for the hero power
14150s	first rune of the game
14152s	jellyfish is back oh no okay
14157s	oh a little bit different ordering and
14159s	that could have been
14161s	killing the siren atherius
14166s	these not quite the number you're
14168s	looking for but yeah it's still pretty
14170s	reasonable
14171s	decision to be made because donkey knows
14173s	that they're probably ruining again next
14175s	turn so no real need to think there's an
14177s	atheist here
14180s	yeah and for this list of tonsoku's only
14182s	one starfish so don't have to worry
14184s	about any more of those to
14186s	uh eliminate freezes
14188s	alibi sorceress try and hit the coin
14192s	i i think that's what it is
14195s	it could just end up being a swap nine
14197s	for nine fifty fifty misses
14202s	which means he now knows what's coming
14205s	donkey donkey probably should have
14206s	dumped that coin in fairness a little
14208s	while ago i know it's easy to say
14210s	yeah they did know about the source of
14212s	us so
14218s	oh now
14220s	he set up is there any way
14223s	i don't think there's a way to set up an
14225s	honorable kill you can just play bran
14227s	and play it though
14230s	it's unfortunate
14232s	i think the reason to save the coin is
14234s	the potential upside of
14236s	getting something like a bran mordrish
14240s	is
14241s	pretty powerful
14245s	but yeah it was always a risk as long as
14247s	you keep it we could just see a second
14249s	rune come out
14251s	just
14252s	because it might be nice here and and
14254s	then you could always coin hero power if
14256s	you do find an honorable kill
14258s	sure
14264s	donkey you're saying okay this is fine
14266s	this isn't beating me so put something
14268s	else out there please i'm just gonna
14269s	wait
14274s	round two
14277s	it's on the other side
14279s	yeah donkey's got a good idea there's
14280s	either a moon or nothing and it wasn't
14282s	played so it's probably a rune so why
14283s	put minions out there it's like okay you
14285s	want to ruin my skeleton
14287s	have it
14292s	you almost have to play it for card draw
14295s	yeah and donkey doesn't have all the
14296s	time in the world as well if tan
14297s	certainly gets a bit of damage go face
14299s	here
14305s	oh
14307s	oh my goodness i mean oh
14311s	pretty uh middling at first there and
14314s	then
14315s	a hale at the end which is okay but no
14318s	card draw no secrets you got rid of your
14320s	ten attack minion
14322s	the amalgam isn't really the second
14324s	dragon that you want there even if the
14325s	hell is nice
14327s	bran
14328s	reckless ping on the 412 now if you want
14331s	it
14333s	that's true
14335s	yeah it clears the board gets you one
14337s	upgrade uh still pretty good amount of
14339s	face damage
14344s	and your opponents on one card having
14346s	just played a rune
14353s	yeah get it while the getting's good
14355s	that's right
14357s	i'll get a million coins as well
14362s	these are just free
14364s	each one gives you two coins which you
14366s	can play immediately just to get the
14368s	apprentice down
14370s	yeah all right you know pressure i guess
14374s	yeah because you haven't got forever if
14375s	you get more dressed probably just lose
14378s	so yeah get that pressure down get this
14380s	down to
14382s	hit
14383s	worst case hit your point in the face
14384s	next turn rune and try and get some face
14386s	damage if it's an emergency and you
14387s	probably just win without even having
14389s	the emergency here
14392s	and if they stick around you can
14394s	starfish to
14396s	uh get rid of the death rattle not that
14398s	it matters that much i think the
14399s	starfish is more gonna play a role in
14401s	terms of getting rid of the freeze
14402s	finally some card draw for tonsoku
14406s	more dress
14407s	that is ready but oh
14412s	flurry
14414s	you can't even sevara it's not filled it
14416s	was just drawn so this would be the
14417s	first spell
14419s	it has to flurry or he loses
14421s	on board absolutely
14429s	is this gonna come down to a box needing
14430s	to do like two damage to face i think it
14433s	might
14437s	oh
14439s	yeah could could be
14444s	i mean you don't have to go for it right
14446s	you don't know that mordres was just
14447s	picked up
14449s	ah you don't but you know it's
14451s	terrifying whatever it is because your
14452s	opponent is going to float a bunch of
14454s	manner and play some garbage cards
14458s	so i see tansoku is
14460s	you know picking up one of the coins
14463s	still would need one more to be able to
14465s	fill the savara
14475s	this is
14483s	starfish double
14485s	coin rune
14488s	do you want to make a skeleton
14491s	before maybe
14493s	so your room's got two more damage in
14495s	the bank
14498s	oh i don't know
14501s	let me remind you who you're dealing
14503s	proactive runes are are always the worst
14506s	in my experience
14509s	wildfire gifts so at least some card
14511s	draw and the counter spell isn't
14513s	insignificant well okay it is a bit when
14514s	you know that there's a coin with the
14516s	opponent
14518s	oh
14519s	yep clears the on board you do get to
14522s	weave one in so that is a two turn setup
14524s	with just the hero power
14526s	rune in this parrot for a cheaper rune
14529s	wait yeah did he even sleep with the
14531s	starfish there i know it's not it's not
14533s	both sides i'm done right
14536s	um
14538s	no
14539s	it is that just lethal with starfish
14541s	pink
14543s	so the ping was six there was
14546s	bran
14547s	reckless
14549s	uh was it a sheep
14552s	yeah is she yeah i can't recall all the
14554s	minions that were in
14555s	there
14557s	one mailbox so donkey needed
14560s	nine
14562s	i'm sort of partly going by the reaction
14564s	as well
14566s	yeah i i i
14569s	sort of assumed from the line that it
14570s	must have been one off or something but
14572s	that may have been
14574s	the thought was just
14576s	oh wait maybe if i was just going to
14579s	get in a ping and put my opponent as low
14581s	as possible maybe i should have just
14583s	starfished instead of going for the rune
14584s	just yet
14588s	much to ponder also look if there's some
14591s	sort of starfish there was only one coin
14593s	right donkey didn't have starfish
14596s	i know i'm going down rabbit holes i
14597s	shouldn't now okay
14599s	i think it wasn't there
14601s	but i was trying to work out
14603s	all right coin counted which is quite a
14606s	big deal because that delays more dress
14625s	coin remaining for the last bit of
14628s	damage coin hero power and that is just
14631s	gonna be it very important to go for
14633s	that first trade and we are gonna see a
14635s	game five once again
14640s	yep and i'm glad this one's ending in a
14642s	game five two players that have
14644s	entertained us greatly over the last two
14647s	days
14648s	and just work out what decks are left
14650s	because my brain is turning to mush
14652s	donkey is on the priest there we go
14654s	thank you yes
14657s	versus mage
14660s	so this one in my experience can really
14663s	go either way uh definitely the mage has
14666s	a
14667s	large quantity of freezes available and
14670s	in particular tonsoku has the blizzards
14674s	in addition to sort of the usual freezes
14677s	for the spooky mage and the mass
14679s	polymorph like i mentioned before could
14682s	play a pivotal role if some of the
14684s	minions start spiraling and becoming
14686s	much too large that could be a global
14688s	reset button
14690s	uh
14691s	gonna need a lot more card draw than he
14693s	saw in this last game though i think in
14694s	order to keep up with the priest
14697s	yeah i'm gonna need to pick up that um
14703s	[Laughter]
14707s	uh you know i think
14709s	what really surprises me is
14712s	in this list there's no multicaster
14714s	which
14715s	is so much of the time i feel like is is
14718s	the better pick you know it is very
14720s	frost centered right the only non-frost
14723s	spells are arcane intellect and wildfire
14727s	but i feel like with the frequency that
14728s	they get picked up it's just worth
14730s	running a multicaster for
14732s	two cards a decent amount of the time
14734s	even if it is that one that's still as
14737s	good as the dungeoneer oh sorry not the
14739s	dungeoneer the uh
14741s	i i agree evoker so i know what's this
14743s	yeah um
14745s	sort of
14746s	i i thought the evoker looked quite
14748s	smooth for the card but yeah just just
14749s	play the thing that always draws you a
14751s	card and it's bigger
14753s	yeah sure
14754s	um
14755s	definitely prefer it
14757s	see how it works out in this final game
14760s	of this second quarter final donkey tan
14763s	soku
14765s	we're gonna have to say goodbye to one
14766s	of them which is a shame but one of us
14768s	goes to the semi-final which is great
14773s	this is
14774s	quite interesting for tonsoku normally
14776s	wildfire sevara two cards you like to
14779s	keep with one another but i think that's
14781s	more against some of the slower matchups
14783s	against something like the wig priest
14786s	just the hero power usually isn't enough
14788s	to keep up i think you're really looking
14789s	for night cloak sanctum
14792s	yeah and absolutely not going to be able
14795s	to keep up at the moment it's going to
14797s	be freeze everything sort of situation
14800s	looking at donkey's hand because donkey
14801s	has got
14803s	whatever donkey wants to keep out of
14804s	that lot is almost perfect
14808s	yeah there is a chance that thrive in
14810s	the shadows will miss on the wig
14813s	so that could be a unfortunate outcome
14816s	for donkey with boone of the ascended
14819s	you know it's such a powerful card you
14820s	have to include it but it does mean that
14823s	you miss somewhat more often on thrive
14825s	in the shadows looking for a wig still
14828s	vicious slithersphere exactly the turn
14830s	one you're looking for
14833s	yeah
14834s	not so much but at least it's one devour
14836s	out of the
14837s	deck
14847s	[Music]
14849s	fairly free and you can
14852s	[Applause]
14853s	the flurry as well to go into sivara and
14857s	already picked up the location from
14858s	throwing back kel'thuzad
14861s	uh once again seems like both players
14862s	pretty good hands
14865s	yeah and i'd like to see this um it's
14868s	depending on the matchup because
14869s	obviously some decks if they get their
14870s	perfect hand just win
14872s	uh in some matters but not so much in
14874s	this one like imagine a garage rogue
14876s	with a perfect hand okay good luck
14879s	of course enjoyed that kind of
14880s	hearthstone
14882s	but in general two decks that are evenly
14884s	matched getting their perfect hands with
14885s	their very good hands is is nice to see
14890s	there is the wig sort of the unique card
14892s	that you gotta have
14897s	that being said about perfect hands some
14898s	of the most exciting games i've cast
14900s	with tj have been the old um combo demon
14903s	hunter mirror
14904s	where they
14906s	just end up having their curtains
14907s	shuffled in on both sides and they both
14909s	just draw nothing
14911s	so
14917s	and some of those games were really
14918s	intense
14921s	i think similarly aggro match ups where
14924s	they they just
14925s	kind of go very even and have to do a
14927s	lot of trades on board and just get very
14930s	grindy
14931s	sometimes it's funny you'll almost have
14934s	you know the aggro v aggro match up goes
14936s	much longer than an aggro v control
14938s	because aggro v control one player blows
14940s	the other one out half the time and it's
14942s	over in a flash but aggro viagro if
14944s	there's no blowing out it's just lots of
14946s	board tension back and forth you know
14948s	fighting and uh
14952s	yeah
14953s	it's very interesting if you're into it
14955s	old face hunter mirrors where on turn
14957s	seven nobody's got a minion they've both
14959s	got one card one player 28 healthy
14962s	others on 27 you're like how do they
14963s	supposed to win this game now
14966s	back into the present day
14970s	having to organize all this lovely
14972s	freeze that he has available
14976s	yeah going for the hero power last turn
14978s	just to finish up the vicious
14979s	slithersphere conserving resources
14981s	saving the sanctum for when it's
14983s	absolutely necessary which it may be on
14986s	this turn it can set up to you know put
14989s	this flurry in the savara as well as
14991s	solid alibi lots of stall tools
14994s	available but no way to fully get rid of
14997s	this radiant and going into a
14999s	schoolteacher coin noggling potentially
15002s	with an entirely free hand
15005s	quite a sizable minion available for
15007s	donkey
15013s	a lot to think about but again we've
15015s	seen how this is done you just
15017s	donkey can have as many sizeable minions
15019s	as they want if they can't attack they
15021s	can't win the game
15023s	he just done in the eighth round
15025s	yesterday when donkey
15027s	had a win and in that they lost but
15029s	still got in on great tiebreakers
15033s	wow
15035s	very interesting using
15037s	full mana efficiency here getting a ping
15039s	to reduce the health but then playing
15041s	the solid alibi i think you do this sort
15043s	of knowing that you'll get it back from
15045s	savara you don't want to put a flurry in
15048s	there until it's upgraded well although
15050s	i guess it doesn't matter because when
15051s	you get it back it would be
15053s	it would upgrade in your hand so scratch
15056s	that but saving the night cloak sanctum
15059s	for the possibility of
15061s	using that later on you know once
15062s	something has been invested to freezing
15064s	that single minion but having played the
15066s	solid alibi this now leaves
15069s	flurry
15070s	commander savara and another wildfire
15073s	open uh for the potential turn five if
15076s	tonsoku likes
15077s	and we are going to see that that
15079s	strategy have to be employed by tan soko
15081s	because donkey has everything they could
15083s	possibly want now
15085s	they don't have a boon actually they
15086s	have nearly everything they could
15087s	possibly want
15088s	um going forward this this board is
15091s	never getting dealt with in terms of
15092s	removal by the time that tan soko gets
15095s	some more dress that's just not probably
15097s	going to even clear the board
15099s	but
15100s	as you've been describing these
15102s	relentless freezers in the shavara the
15105s	blizzard in the deck
15106s	the and one in the hand the flowy
15109s	there is a lot of
15111s	messing around the donkey's gonna have
15113s	to do if they're going to get one of
15114s	these to connect face at any point
15118s	yeah i wonder if your tonsoku if you
15120s	just
15121s	i like this you play the night cloak
15123s	sanctum you hear a power down the one
15125s	one and then you just play the flurry
15127s	knowing that it freezes both minions
15129s	much safer than going for the commanders
15131s	of our right now you can always just
15132s	play it next turn once it's loaded and
15135s	you know get your flurry back or have
15137s	access to the blizzard this just gives a
15139s	lot more flexibility on the turns going
15140s	forward without putting you at risk on
15143s	this particular turn
15146s	do you need to flowy can you use the
15148s	sanctum just ping off one and just say
15150s	that five times not doing 37 just yet
15154s	maybe
15156s	yeah i guess you use the ping in this
15157s	way to remove some of the health if you
15159s	do
15160s	um
15161s	i might have felt like we have enough
15163s	freezes available that you wouldn't have
15165s	to but i suppose with the mordresch
15168s	you do want to weave the pings in as
15171s	much as possible and saving something
15173s	like a flurry that lets you do that
15174s	means maybe you get to your turn
15177s	eight and you're able to play blizzard
15179s	and hero power or something
15181s	yeah i think it's important because
15183s	again my my sample size of witnessing
15185s	good players play this once
15187s	um it did feel like the the mages on the
15190s	defensive for so long
15192s	uh obviously one slip up and they lose
15194s	as well they're on the defensive for so
15196s	long that they don't get much damage in
15198s	so
15199s	part of this really has to be eked out
15201s	as long as possible so you do have to be
15204s	a little bit greedy with your your
15206s	removal your freeze over that time just
15208s	to make sure you have enough time to win
15210s	the game
15214s	yeah as i think a decision here of do
15216s	you blizzard first or go for the savara
15221s	flurry and it looks like it is
15224s	the blizzard which i believe means
15226s	blizzard is stored in the savara now
15228s	instead of flurry okay
15233s	be feeling that with solid alibi in
15235s	there you know you can buy time to take
15237s	use of that other blizzard
15241s	donkey progresses here with more dress
15244s	in mind because obviously this board
15245s	gets more dressed things go
15247s	bad
15249s	yep that is the drawback of investing in
15252s	multiple minions you know makes it
15254s	harder for your opponent to just flurry
15256s	your board
15257s	but a whole lot easier for them to clean
15259s	up everything in one turn with a
15261s	mordresch
15263s	which i believe tonsoku is just about to
15266s	get online
15268s	yeah i i gotta admit when i'm casting
15271s	these there's so many other things going
15272s	on i tend to just assume it's online on
15274s	eight because they're good players and
15276s	they'll have it set up that doesn't
15277s	necessarily mean it's true
15279s	uh but tennessee has been doing a lot of
15280s	pinging this game to control health
15282s	totals
15284s	though i i think you are right i think
15285s	it must be about close there
15291s	so now
15292s	i think is where you break out the solid
15295s	alibi
15296s	flurry not enough to freeze this board
15299s	so you can play savara
15302s	the only problem is there's not enough
15303s	mana to fit in a ping and the solid
15305s	alibi and i do think we need two more
15308s	for mordredge to be active
15310s	the way tan sanko's looks like he's
15313s	trying to do a particularly difficult
15314s	crossword puzzle i think
15316s	means you're right on the that
15318s	number
15320s	yeah there we go
15322s	you see two left this is what i'm
15324s	thinking
15330s	how do i make four plus two plus two
15333s	less than seven
15340s	oh
15340s	yeah
15344s	still
15345s	what you have to do
15347s	so the answer of course is going to be
15350s	that um you solid alibi this turn then
15352s	you have to blizzard the turn after
15355s	and then more does your turn length
15359s	which all things considered not the
15360s	worst
15362s	it might be because with the
15365s	pelagos in donkey's hand there is a
15367s	chance that donkey can just get some of
15368s	these out of range of the moderation oh
15372s	that's very true yeah i think of them as
15374s	just
15375s	you know being whittled down by these
15377s	blizzards and things but you're right
15378s	pelagos you know so frequently used to
15381s	buff attack with a high health total but
15384s	it does have that extra effect of
15387s	setting
15388s	health equal to attack on the other side
15390s	of things
15391s	so
15392s	could provide just enough healing at
15393s	least for some of these minions to put
15395s	them over the range of mordrish
15399s	i'm sure donkey has also been keeping
15401s	track of
15402s	how much damage has been dealt to load
15405s	mortrage so knowing that it is not yet
15407s	available i think the most important
15409s	minion to keep alive if possible is
15411s	going to be this radiant elemental that
15413s	has been making things so
15415s	free
15417s	right we only need
15419s	maybe two minions maybe three to survive
15421s	because
15422s	then tanzania will have to mess around
15424s	dealing with the ones that survive well
15426s	then donkey will be free to make even
15427s	more and it will start to snowball out
15429s	of control uh you can see tan soko now
15432s	is starting to run low on resources
15434s	there's a blizzard of flowy and the more
15435s	dress left
15436s	the nathrius is installed but it's not
15438s	going to be at all loaded up
15441s	and stall against this naga priest is
15443s	kind of who cares
15452s	yeah i wonder
15453s	if it is just gonna be that pelago's
15455s	heel
15456s	coming up roon
15459s	roon is such a wild card
15464s	in many ways yeah
15471s	opting to keep the radiant low rather
15474s	than going for ping onto something like
15476s	the 2-3 which sansoku knows will just
15479s	get cleaned up by the mordres no matter
15481s	what also means that there's limited
15483s	board space for donkey to work with in
15485s	terms of just playing nagas for more
15487s	wigs
15489s	donkey still hasn't played a felice
15491s	right so
15492s	if they can get a bit of card drawing
15494s	play a million wigs get volition do it
15496s	all again that could be
15500s	could be again board space bit of an
15502s	issue uh i suspect one of these minions
15505s	is going to get the shadow word devour
15507s	yep just to
15508s	clear up that two one free up some board
15510s	space and make a pretty sizable minion
15514s	the goal here being to just get
15515s	everything out of mordrish range and
15517s	ideally have enough of them
15520s	large to uh
15523s	i'm sorry is that pelican so one one
15527s	it is
15528s	did it it came off of a switcheroo from
15530s	school teacher that's the only
15531s	explanation right going with yes yeah it
15533s	actually did
15536s	i was going to guess but i now now
15538s	you've jogged my memory it actually did
15539s	happen that way yes
15548s	oh i don't know that this is enough
15550s	we've only got
15552s	one minion that survives mordress not
15555s	happy with the way that turn turned out
15557s	and you really need to get that 10 10
15559s	just buffs
15564s	in particular yeah
15566s	yeah
15570s	playing around flurries so much there
15573s	did mean that uh with the wigs spread
15575s	out over so many minions it was pretty
15577s	challenging just to get sort of three
15580s	over the top of the mordress um
15583s	and now it's just a much more
15585s	challenging climb uh no longer radiant
15588s	to work with saving all the mana on the
15590s	wigs which i think was sort of the most
15592s	important minion to keep alive if you
15593s	could um pelogo's another one obviously
15597s	you love to keep alive although that's
15599s	pretty challenging when you've got it as
15600s	a 1-1
15601s	and of course when you just have a term
15603s	like that and you're annoyed at yourself
15604s	the first thing that happens to you top
15606s	deck valley is just to really ram it
15608s	home
15612s	and uh i remember after the last one
15614s	when donkey made a mistake on stream uh
15616s	i remember having a little exchange on
15618s	twitter where donkey was like i beat
15620s	myself up and i'm like well sort of
15621s	don't and don't say yes he said but
15623s	that's how i'm built and i agree i find
15626s	it difficult but the more you get into
15628s	these positions in tournaments and i'm
15629s	sure we'll see donkey and tournaments
15630s	again assuming they don't win here which
15632s	is looking
15633s	bleak now
15634s	like the more you get into these
15636s	positions the more and more you get to
15637s	be able to cope with that stuff so we
15639s	talked about that on day one about
15641s	nerves and i think donkey whatever
15643s	happens in this game has done themselves
15647s	and again it's not over yet this rune
15648s	can go wrong and
15650s	freezers are running out
15654s	yeah and i think something to sort of
15657s	keep in mind here is no boon of the
15659s	ascendant picked up for donkey and that
15661s	is one of the ways you are able to make
15664s	multiple large minions at once to kind
15666s	of keep a bunch of things out of range
15668s	of a mordress
15670s	donkey able to pull themselves back
15671s	together a bit here set up that 15-15
15674s	taunt while keeping the
15676s	handmaiden at a reasonable life total to
15678s	not just die to a blizzard or something
15681s	honestly much respect i think that's
15683s	pretty challenging to do
15686s	after a mardress
15687s	they're both players
15689s	blowing up the praying hands going in
15692s	the top moment's damn it thanks oh
15695s	no
15697s	oh good luck to everybody concerned here
15701s	now there is the flurry if enough of
15703s	these are cleaned up it can freeze three
15705s	minions so
15707s	pretty good odds of
15710s	hitting at least one of these large
15712s	attack minions and if you do deal with
15715s	their health total it makes it much less
15717s	likely that they're going to be able to
15720s	connect for anything more than their
15722s	current attack
15723s	everybody close your eyes again oh
15726s	no
15727s	oh
15728s	and that's just kind of it you know you
15731s	know that off of that four mana spell
15732s	from the rune
15734s	twice played by the way
15736s	this is multiple mass polymorphs
15738s	available to tanzoku and i i just don't
15741s	think there's a recovery from that
15744s	no i don't think so either
15748s	ah
15750s	so close
15756s	right i'm trying to find any way to make
15758s	this work now test the secret while
15760s	you're there
15763s	maybe you know location you don't really
15765s	want to commit anything when you know
15767s	there's a mass polymorph and
15769s	multiple runes
15774s	how long have you got obviously you've
15776s	got to force the mass polymorph that
15778s	does waste
15779s	basically in their entire time
15783s	there's also with random secrets just
15785s	the concern of is one of these a counter
15787s	spell you know it really throws a wrench
15790s	in the works um when it comes to random
15792s	secrets
15803s	yeah i'm not even sure if donkey is
15804s	thinking about the mass polymorphs in
15806s	hand or not but already pretty
15808s	demoralizing for the flurry to hit
15811s	you know both of your minions when you
15813s	thought maybe maybe there's a chance
15815s	after the mordrish of coming back uh
15817s	really gave it their best shot but
15820s	um
15822s	yeah i i don't know lots of resources
15825s	still but
15826s	in in the face of double mass poly
15830s	double rune of the archmage
15832s	sire danathrius it's just looking
15834s	pretty grim you could even just go for
15838s	freeze
15840s	thirteen five i mean you can get a
15842s	pretty good death born here don't even
15844s	have to commit that much relaxing yeah
15846s	the key the key to this turn where
15847s	you're a long way in front is just to
15849s	make sure you don't take unnecessary
15851s	risks by accident i'm not saying you do
15852s	on purpose ever but there's risks you
15854s	can take accidentally here by again just
15858s	not clearing everything up etc and
15860s	trying to be
15861s	um overly precise whereas actually the
15864s	way to win this is just to win it
15867s	yep don't do anything
15869s	so many options reckless apprentice full
15871s	clear deathborn uh can be a full clear
15874s	if you run it out with reckless
15877s	apprentice or hero power yeah here we go
15880s	you hear a power the three four
15883s	freeze thirteen five play deathborn
15889s	set up an amplified snow flurry
15894s	i mean the world has done soku's oyster
15896s	here not even happening to you having to
15898s	utilize the mass polymorphs yet
15906s	there's anything oh yeah i didn't
15907s	there's anything going into this term
15908s	but looking at it now i don't think
15909s	there's anything donkey can
15910s	realistically do
15913s	new cars left in deck isn't it
15916s	have to
15917s	like beat
15919s	them yeah i mean this death scale was a
15922s	pretty interesting pickup for donkey off
15924s	of the uh amalgam presumably that will
15928s	clear up these volatile skeletons but
15930s	the health total is getting down there
15931s	this denathrius is getting heavily
15933s	infused
15935s	uh
15936s	oh i mean maybe you just play the
15938s	location only two cards left in the
15940s	library of donkeys so
15942s	actually playing a location draws you
15944s	too many cards
15947s	i don't know if there's even any nagas
15950s	left
15952s	so
15954s	i was gonna try and work it out but
15958s	you see here remaining cards shadow word
15961s	devour and radiant elemental for donkey
15964s	so
15965s	no naga's left to go with these serpent
15967s	wigs you know the best you could do is
15970s	blade master samurai wig wig
15973s	boom boom wig wig i mean there's a blast
15975s	remaining but
15978s	uh it's just
15981s	it's just not quite there
15984s	yep boone on the 10 10 i i like this
15986s	it's kind of
15987s	kind of the best you've got
15994s	[Music]
15999s	multiple times
16003s	yeah even the posture you know donkey is
16005s	just going through the motions but i
16007s	think he he knows the jig is up uh and
16009s	uh i believe it's just lethal here for
16011s	tonsoku with bran apprentice
16021s	donkey waves goodbye predictably been a
16023s	fantastic one for donkey
16026s	oh so close still a very very good run
16029s	you know fan favorite but
16031s	uh looks like
16033s	in a bit of a win-win for for derek i
16035s	suppose getting that potential inching
16039s	closer to an apac finals yeah i don't
16041s	win win for the fans as well i know that
16044s	a lot of people on the side of donkey
16045s	but tan soko also
16047s	uh very popular figure so that's great
16049s	because that we're going to see more of
16050s	tan soku and i think when donkey wakes
16053s	up you know maybe tomorrow maybe the
16054s	next day take the sting out of that
16056s	mistake a little bit and realizes what
16058s	they've achieved this week i think
16060s	they'll be a very happy donkey indeed
16065s	it's always hurt no small feat to make
16068s	it this far one person wins this
16070s	tournament all the others feel
16071s	disappointed for a while but the ones
16073s	who come in the top eight feel
16074s	disappointed for far less and
16077s	that's something you take with you
16078s	forever no matter how your future goes
16080s	like top eight to the masters tour it's
16081s	there it's done if you if you're going
16083s	to
16084s	end up getting beat get beat this late
16086s	because that's pretty
16092s	i think this is one of those situations
16093s	that for your own mental health you
16095s	maybe go
16096s	yeah that rune was really rough but then
16098s	you also need to go back and look at
16100s	that turn how you maybe could have set
16102s	up going into the mordrish that you did
16104s	suspect and i think donkey was trying to
16108s	play around that the whole time we saw
16110s	his disappointment at the end of that
16112s	turn and seeing how it panned out a
16114s	couple of bad beats afterwards in the
16116s	flurry in the rune
16118s	but uh
16119s	yeah very
16120s	nice overall performance i think from
16122s	from both players of incredible series
16125s	yep and that's the top half of our
16128s	quarterfinals finished but we've got
16130s	plenty more for you today and in just a
16133s	moment it is one of the big ones as far
16135s	as i'm concerned stone versus glory two
16139s	of the very best players in the world
16141s	we'll have that for you in just three
16142s	minutes
16146s	[Music]
16152s	[Music]
16166s	do
16185s	[Music]
16196s	[Music]
16212s	bye
16213s	[Music]
16235s	[Music]
16253s	[Music]
16260s	so
16272s	[Music]
16278s	[Music]
16287s	[Music]
16306s	[Music]
16321s	um
16324s	[Music]
16340s	hello everybody and welcome back to
16341s	master's tour murder at castle
16345s	[Laughter]
16352s	i quit
16358s	i'm tj drawed by derrick brown
16361s	any apac fans in the chat
16366s	[Laughter]
16369s	oh derek how you doing you ready to cast
16371s	some hearts down
16373s	good man just the uh
16376s	least handsome apac fan reporting for
16378s	duty
16380s	are you
16383s	able to see you okay over that brow line
16387s	i don't need to see
16388s	[Laughter]
16389s	you just my
16391s	i just need to feel
16392s	my beard acts like whiskers
16394s	to feel as i go
16397s	oh gosh
16399s	[Music]
16401s	i don't even know how to fold that up
16402s	and i'm
16404s	i don't even want to cast armstrong
16405s	anymore
16407s	either bro
16408s	let's go do squats
16411s	let's go to squats dude
16414s	uh here we go bracket we've completed
16416s	two quarter finals thus far
16420s	two asian pacific representatives
16421s	already
16423s	uh in miro and tonsuko
16426s	tonsoku oh we have a another here
16429s	possible with glory going up against
16432s	stone which is the match that we're
16433s	going to be uh casting right now um two
16437s	very storied players
16438s	uh stone uh from china glory from japan
16443s	and uh i i would say glory has a little
16446s	bit more oomph to the resume having two
16450s	world finals appearances one being a win
16452s	yes that's right he is a world champion
16455s	uh but stone has uh has done some things
16458s	in hearthstone some great things marston
16462s	he has yeah i mean again it's it's uh
16464s	it's no secret that i am rooting for my
16466s	boy glory here once again i think he has
16468s	been playing some very very solid
16470s	hearthstone but uh stone is one of the
16472s	uh
16473s	the playingest players in master store
16475s	history he's got a lot of games under
16477s	his belt uh rocking i think before we
16481s	even count this tournament oh maybe it
16483s	is counting this tournament uh 86 and 57
16485s	scoreline which is uh obviously super
16488s	impressive uh of a score line to hit uh
16491s	and he's had two top 16s beforehand but
16494s	uh i think this might be his first top
16497s	eight honest sorry one top eight as well
16498s	at yongshaping uh so he's had a lot of
16500s	uh very good finishes but still looking
16502s	for that win to really uh crown himself
16505s	solidify himself as one of the all-time
16508s	greats of uh competitive hearthstone and
16511s	uh these new guard of uh chinese
16513s	hearthstone players who uh are really
16515s	the only region currently giving europe
16517s	a run for their money
16519s	yeah and uh i feel like stone
16522s	sort of as you mentioned but a little
16524s	bit of a different take on it it's one
16525s	of those players that we have featured a
16527s	lot in masters tours because he always
16529s	seems to be up there once we get to like
16531s	you know round five round six round
16533s	seven
16534s	where he he's at that you know four one
16537s	five one six one score line so we see
16538s	him on stream a lot it feels like we've
16541s	lost watched a lot of stone uh in
16543s	masters tours that's where his is a
16546s	solid win rate comes in uh but needs to
16549s	find that big breakout performance uh
16551s	but you know glory these stats that
16553s	you're seeing on your screen should
16555s	speak for themselves
16557s	i said it earlier runner up in 2021 the
16560s	champion in 2020 nearly went for the
16563s	repeat but was uh defeated by of course
16566s	as we all know uh fellow countryman
16568s	possessee
16569s	um and
16571s	sixty percent in masters tours at the
16573s	start of the day obviously that's
16575s	gotten even better
16576s	uh now that we look if we had looked at
16578s	it including uh today since uh already
16581s	has the uh the uh win under his belt
16584s	probably 60 now i don't know how numbers
16586s	work
16587s	um but talking about the matchups a
16589s	little bit and one thing that i've that
16592s	we've been sort of seeing a trend here
16593s	is
16594s	the druid players seem to be getting
16597s	wrecked
16600s	yeah it does feel that way doesn't it i
16602s	think that the
16604s	maybe players were not expecting so
16606s	aggressive of a metagame because even
16608s	though
16609s	zoo uh the import look was very much
16611s	expected uh there's been a fair amount
16613s	of quests from a mine a fair amount of
16615s	the hybrid as well that i think stone is
16617s	bringing where you bring quest uh sorry
16619s	curse and imps in the same list uh so
16623s	players maybe weren't expecting druid to
16625s	be run over uh quite so consistently uh
16628s	because i do agree right now the uh the
16630s	overall list on druid i think could
16632s	definitely do with a bit of a rework
16634s	personally i'm a big fan of the uh the
16637s	version that uh hunter ace has been
16639s	rocking on ladder on stream the last
16640s	couple days that just runs the full
16642s	nature spell package in that early game
16644s	you have uh planted evidence natural
16647s	causes uh
16649s	you run
16650s	living roots as well as the only other
16651s	choose one spell alongside nourish for
16654s	your jerry rigged carpenters and it just
16656s	gives you such a solid early game to be
16658s	able to uh infuse your infused cards and
16661s	just keep up with the import locks as
16663s	well
16665s	yeah it's um
16667s	been tough for the druids to uh to keep
16670s	up especially it felt like druid was
16673s	doing perfectly fine early on and then
16675s	as we started to get towards
16677s	uh you know the later swiss rounds and
16680s	uh the matches that we saw on stream wig
16682s	priests kept winning
16684s	and those weak priests lineups were like
16686s	band shaman sort of soft target druid
16688s	and those were having a lot of success
16690s	so as the tournament started progress
16692s	at least the top of the swiss standing
16694s	started to be less and less jewish
16695s	players more and more weak
16697s	lineups i say wig priests but you know
16699s	there's a bunch of other
16701s	decks that go with the wig priest when
16703s	you're trying to target like if warlock
16705s	temple rogue
16707s	mine rogue
16708s	um
16710s	which uh
16711s	has fallen the the last remaining one um
16714s	but
16715s	gloria's gonna be queuing up the imp
16717s	warlock against this
16720s	uh
16721s	30 card
16723s	quest hunter
16725s	yeah not something you see very often
16727s	and to be honest i i think with good
16729s	reason actually uh i'm a big fan of the
16732s	40 card list of
16734s	uh the hunter because
16737s	it's not only that you need extra time
16739s	to play tavish against the the burn
16741s	decks right against the likes of uh
16744s	rogue be it mine or the temple rogue
16746s	face hunter opposing quest hunters
16749s	impala as well it's also just a lot of
16751s	the mid-range kind of decks like if
16752s	druid ramps up and plays a big minion uh
16755s	or shaman is able to get down uh you
16757s	know some kind of big mid game burst uh
16760s	with clownfish
16761s	just even against these slightly slower
16763s	decks the 10 extra health gives you a
16764s	lot of extra time to just point
16766s	everything at the face and cheese out a
16768s	win
16770s	so i'm curious to see how this one works
16771s	out for stone who has
16773s	obviously been doing well with it so far
16775s	to have made it through to the top eight
16778s	yeah this is more of a
16779s	find the actual spells that deal damage
16782s	version right your deck isn't clogged up
16785s	with nonsense
16787s	uh like dumbbell dog done baldar bunker
16790s	and secrets uh-huh you're you're just
16792s	hitting arcane shots barb nets boone
16794s	prairie quick shot uh much faster or
16797s	much more consistently
16799s	and uh i guess that's
16803s	it's got some merit to it right um in
16806s	order to you know find the stuff that
16807s	actually completes the quest faster so
16810s	if you're completing the quest faster
16812s	then that means you don't need as much
16814s	health to work with theoretically
16818s	but you know this is not the greatest
16819s	hand to fight against imp warlock
16822s	with
16823s	uh and
16824s	i think stone would probably welcome the
16826s	extra health
16827s	uh in this matchup specifically
16832s	and now some decisions need to be made
16834s	because he is of course against an
16835s	opposing 30 health player
16839s	and he's losing board
16841s	pretty heavily right now it's not the
16843s	kind of board which you can expect to
16844s	clean up in the next one or two turns
16846s	with just a spell you know a single
16848s	spell every turn maybe two spells a turn
16850s	uh once you hit five mana uh because
16853s	right now this is just too much right
16854s	you're gonna kill one off they're gonna
16855s	play two more imps they're soon gonna be
16857s	hitting shady bartender uh
16860s	so we really need to start asking
16862s	questions about whether this is the time
16863s	to just ignore the uh the blood bound
16865s	imp that will self-damage the warlock
16868s	and start shipping damage face
16885s	i will not i think the problem with that
16886s	game plan was
16889s	i doubt stone's going to have time
16891s	unless the board is completely clear to
16893s	just say i'm going to play barraco
16894s	debate on five
16896s	and yeah
16897s	stack charge is the is the only
16900s	actual direct face damage spell uh that
16903s	was in the hand
16904s	so
16905s	maybe that played a role in the uh
16907s	decision making
16909s	um
16910s	but you using the coin there um just to
16914s	effectively take one power off board
16917s	right because it replaces itself with an
16919s	imp so you're not even taking off an imp
16921s	so you know the
16923s	uh
16924s	library is still
16926s	the same strength yeah and pedigree
16929s	still the same strength he only taken
16930s	off one power
16932s	okay now we're going face all right
16935s	yeah i mean this was kind of my thinking
16936s	all the way along is that you know by
16938s	going face you kind of delete the blood
16940s	pound dimp anyway because i mean glory
16942s	didn't attack with it even when no
16944s	damage went face last turn he just left
16946s	it uh on board uh and i think if he just
16948s	spent the last turn going face as well
16951s	maybe it could have been a bit cleaner
16952s	but uh
16954s	either way uh he's gonna be met with a
16957s	lot of pressure coming into the next
16959s	couple turns because just look at all of
16961s	this
16961s	yeah
16963s	and grimoire's picked up i think uh
16965s	stone's thinking there was okay well if
16967s	i get anything but uh well if i get
16970s	if i just go face here
16972s	gloria's board capped so that amount of
16975s	power on board is the maximum amount of
16977s	power that he could have that turn but
16979s	alas uh grimoire serving a different
16981s	purpose here other than a board clear
16983s	it's just a big space for a more
16984s	powerful minion
16986s	and so we're pretty we're uh once spell
16989s	away i believe from uh second quest
16990s	completion so
16992s	uh could
16993s	start trying to clean up something from
16995s	the board but nothing works out cleanly
16998s	like wouldn't pray the rush can't even
17000s	get to one of these other minions
17002s	you kind of need to kill off this
17004s	librarian um
17007s	it does feel like
17009s	uh
17010s	you know actually completing the quest
17012s	is kind of out of the question
17015s	in terms of
17016s	you know spending five minutes on tavish
17019s	though
17021s	stone should have a read there's no vile
17022s	library in hand right mark came out
17024s	there was two mana oh
17029s	get libra
17030s	okay not terrible
17033s	yeah
17033s	you can now just go
17035s	wound prey plus hero power right to take
17038s	out the librarian and an extra input at
17040s	the same time
17041s	yeah that's not bad at all yeah i like
17043s	this play at first i was trying to think
17046s	if you're supposed to go piercing shots
17048s	then you guaranteed clear off the
17049s	librarian
17050s	and you get to save a cheaper spell
17053s	but this clears off the librarian
17054s	guaranteed anyway and it plays around
17056s	the shady bartender is the really big
17058s	one uh it just means they don't kill you
17060s	on the spot
17064s	all right well that was fun yeah i mean
17069s	what do you want us to say
17070s	he got rolled yeah
17073s	it's like
17074s	that
17075s	it's important in a nutshell it's like
17077s	they built this this board sometimes a
17079s	massive board like turn three
17081s	and you you're like working so hard like
17083s	i'm gonna solve this puzzle i'm gonna
17085s	clear this board
17087s	you clear the board you're a genius you
17089s	solved it you use perfect mana
17091s	expenditure you built the board back up
17093s	yourself and then boom mischievous all
17095s	right boards reloaded all right
17096s	solve this puzzle all right let's do
17098s	this go here this goes through this goes
17099s	there all right boom killed the
17101s	mischievous sim then
17102s	all right cool m king from tom
17105s	it's like
17106s	all right well now i'm out of stuff
17108s	and yeah this is an unsolvable puzzle um
17110s	did his best though uh but
17113s	it's tough you really have to
17116s	stay ahead of the board the whole time
17118s	while also continuously pushing face
17120s	damage or
17121s	have all the burn in the world
17123s	completely ignore the board hope your
17124s	opponent doesn't find
17126s	uh their payoff cards and then win just
17128s	from direct damage alone right cut off
17131s	live tab cut off land and cut off about
17133s	nip attacks that kind of thing
17135s	this can be tough matchup
17137s	[Music]
17138s	and to be fair to stone i don't think an
17140s	extra 10 health would have made a
17141s	difference that game
17143s	if i'm being honest tj
17147s	and don't i have the face of someone
17148s	whose opinion you would trust
17150s	no
17151s	the complete opposite in fact if you saw
17153s	me coming towards you in a dark alley
17155s	you'd be like oh boy do i feel safe
17158s	no the complete opposite in fact so
17161s	about the hair color not matching the
17163s	eyebrows of the beard that's off-putting
17166s	number two your normal face is like the
17169s	most approachable face i've ever seen
17172s	you you look like like a fully grown
17175s	baby with a tuft of hair
17177s	um
17178s	i'm just fat and bold that's all that
17180s	means tj
17182s	and you're tall so if there was like a
17184s	crowd of people and i needed to pick one
17187s	person to ask a very important question
17190s	like a a random survey i'd be like i'm
17193s	asking that guy because there's no way
17195s	that
17196s	he wouldn't feel obligated out of
17198s	politeness to say yes i'll take your
17201s	pointless survey
17203s	it'd be you
17207s	whereas uh
17209s	gigadaric you uh you don't think you'd
17212s	take a survey
17219s	all right well warlock out the way for
17221s	glory uh
17223s	as uh you know i knew would happen as
17226s	apac's biggest fan
17227s	we all knew he was gonna take the dub
17229s	here
17230s	uh and
17231s	heading on to game two he's got himself
17233s	the uh the rogue that is i think like
17237s	every japanese player ended up bringing
17239s	this at least the the uh the the top
17241s	three that we saw of possessing
17244s	uh
17245s	glory and uh
17248s	pansoku as well uh and it's a list that
17250s	again i still am unsure of it it's uh i
17255s	think it was uh
17257s	i can't remember who it was uh insane
17259s	maybe who posted a a a very good meme of
17262s	basically this deck you know when you're
17263s	on coin versus off coin and the
17265s	difference is just absolutely night and
17267s	day it's regular derrick versus jawline
17269s	derek when you are
17271s	on coinverse off coin because having
17273s	that extra spell to pop off with these
17275s	combos makes all the difference in the
17277s	world especially verse druid where an
17279s	extra plus one attack on the weapon plus
17281s	one plus one on your minions with the
17283s	graveyard makes all the difference in
17285s	the world
17287s	yeah
17289s	i don't think though that this is the
17292s	end-all be-all list
17294s	um
17295s	i
17296s	i sure said it really early on uh yeah
17299s	it was me right i should be the chef
17302s	giga tj here
17303s	that starfish in this rogue deck is just
17306s	the nuts okay
17309s	um and actually ustia that's how i'm
17311s	gonna say it
17313s	who's going to be competing um against
17316s	uh woods
17317s	in the fourth and final quarterfinal
17320s	does have the starfish okay
17323s	uh in the deck in place of a phillip
17325s	fighter yes i said philip fighter i'm
17327s	being
17328s	respectful too
17329s	to my culture
17331s	to the uk culture
17332s	um
17334s	and i i think that's the tech i think
17336s	that's the ultimate okay it seems like a
17337s	lot of the times we're seeing this deck
17338s	lose it's because one it just beats
17340s	itself which yeah that's similar to this
17343s	needs to have some built-in fail-safe
17345s	right it can't work every single time or
17348s	it gets frozen or there's a big taunt
17350s	i uh
17352s	i think i agree with you on that the one
17354s	thing i will say is that i
17356s	love that this is just the 30 row card
17359s	list right now having the consistency to
17361s	be able to make this play exactly where
17363s	you have a two mana knowledge hand you
17366s	play shroud and you know it's gonna cost
17368s	zero on the following turn there's no
17370s	doubt whatsoever which is why all these
17371s	cards you kind of want to play like
17373s	starfish number one akani i'd love to
17375s	play in this deck maybe theater you know
17378s	these
17379s	maybe not so much but these tech cards
17380s	that you want to put in to uh i think
17382s	make the deck stronger overall
17384s	not being able to guarantee zero amount
17386s	of nulls is a big hint
17393s	but anyway right now glory does not have
17395s	the kind of mega combo pop-off turn that
17397s	we're talking about it's uh just a
17400s	pretty standard play your stats on curve
17402s	kind of hand right now
17406s	ooh
17410s	oh that's got to be lady right
17413s	yeah but then you're doing nothing
17421s	okay
17422s	you're doing nothing all right
17424s	the scales but that's it
17428s	knowing that lady anaconda is on the
17430s	bottom of the right is
17434s	uh
17435s	i just think you can
17437s	i guess with the earthen scales you're
17438s	not really doing anything either like
17440s	they're both
17441s	cards for like post alignment right yeah
17444s	um earthen scales helps you recover but
17446s	ladies and gentlers are so much better
17448s	in that situation
17450s	okay well the stone is probably happy to
17452s	see the edwin because it's the only
17455s	thing that starfish is actually
17457s	against this is nuts all right i mean
17461s	the heck with the starfish like edwin
17463s	just does a four four that treat you an
17464s	extra knoll more than good enough right
17467s	now and it can even get bigger what is
17469s	happening
17472s	yeah cause that's the end one card right
17474s	yep that's the edmond card oh my god
17477s	imagine yep
17478s	edwin's gonna cost three soon
17481s	oh my god it's gonna be so busted
17486s	oh
17488s	that's a top deck man that's why you
17489s	don't pick anacondra to be fair
17496s	how much damage you taking 25
17500s	25
17502s	and then you do what
17505s	lock collar plus raid boss
17509s	i think that's a clear
17514s	yep you have to uh
17516s	if you play miracle growth you die um
17520s	well you don't die but
17522s	you're pretty much dead because you have
17524s	no plays whatsoever
17527s	the following turn
17529s	and starfish doesn't clear enough power
17531s	off the board you're not doing much
17535s	just gotta go
17537s	what's the best play we have access to
17538s	here you could send
17540s	everything face
17543s	[Applause]
17544s	and then maybe it's actually scabs just
17547s	because you re-stealth
17550s	everything you play so it's unanswerable
17552s	you've got like scabs hero power
17555s	you'd get one knoll back as well i think
17557s	right oh no wait because it was shadow
17558s	step so it wasn't the first thing played
17560s	anymore oh man this gets complicated
17563s	i think he just stabbed because okay
17565s	okay stone has to clear the board
17568s	and heal that's true that's a good point
17570s	yeah yeah i think i'm like cost division
17572s	gets me here yeah which is just not
17574s	possible so
17577s	um
17580s	yeah that's just gg
17582s	yeah you know i mean you know that
17584s	anaconda's on the bottom
17586s	though
17587s	[Music]
17589s	you can't even like miracle growth
17591s	is there no it's nothing
17600s	yeah i mean from his perspective he can
17603s	survive i think
17605s	yeah
17606s	there's a yeah you can full clear yeah
17609s	yeah just gear up
17616s	this so far is an absolute slaughter
17620s	like
17621s	glory just hasn't given him any quarter
17623s	whatsoever
17627s	but no quarter slaughter
17629s	the cutlass
17631s	the cutlass dude you suck you summon the
17633s	ghost before
17636s	fun facts that's the uh the only
17637s	implement i can use to shave it's the
17639s	only thing strong enough
17644s	exactly
17645s	i'm never trading that bad boy
17646s	[Music]
17649s	well glory uh a quick 2-0 lead now in
17653s	the series with uh only the shaman left
17655s	remaining um
17657s	i do think shaman might be the deck uh
17660s	that
17661s	could struggle against what stone has
17663s	left
17664s	uh
17665s	yeah okay
17668s	how so
17672s	just get
17673s	aggro down i don't know
17675s	i mean it's it's it's the curse
17678s	imp warlock which i think is
17680s	against shaman is much more difficult
17682s	for them to deal with because it does
17684s	feel like a you know shaman can
17687s	continuously answer boards but they do
17689s	take some damage in the process
17691s	and then once they start going for that
17693s	okay well they
17694s	you know infinite mana cards what have
17696s	you um the curses can go over the top
17700s	uh it's a super aggressive
17704s	quest hunter right
17706s	so you can complete quests really
17708s	quickly
17710s	and i think that could pose a problem um
17713s	diamond
17714s	does have aggro starts
17716s	but
17718s	they take very specific combinations of
17720s	cards in order to get it right like uh
17723s	yeah
17723s	uh schooling into knoll buck pool you
17726s	get a 10-10 right oh yeah very difficult
17728s	to deal with um
17730s	if you can find like you know clownfish
17734s	go wide
17736s	but quest center can oftentimes deal
17738s	with that outside of the 10-10 situation
17740s	they can oftentimes deal with those
17741s	early boards and it just gives them
17742s	quest progress
17744s	um the druid eye the big question mark
17746s	on that one right that's a a tough
17748s	matchup to evaluate shaman's control
17750s	gentleman's a tough deck to evaluate it
17752s	really is matchups because it just feels
17754s	like it's like a slight favorite against
17757s	nearly everything because it has so much
17759s	stuff that it can do
17761s	in the deck it's got disruption it's got
17763s	aggressive potential
17765s	uh it's got you know these
17767s	crazy swing turns available with mukpool
17770s	yeah um and of course snowfall guardian
17774s	macaw that combination
17776s	can ruin any board-based strategy but
17778s	it's about what side of the deck you
17779s	draw right because you rarely get all
17782s	the way to the bottom unless it's like a
17784s	mirror
17785s	um so
17787s	it's a very tough deck to evaluate
17790s	in terms of strength and weaknesses
17791s	because it depends game game
17793s	exactly like against druid the the games
17796s	vary
17797s	so drastically because if you just have
17799s	a you know you can just steamroll them
17801s	with null into mukbal as you said but if
17803s	you go mutinous into bowler star uh
17807s	bowler parrot parrot like you just kind
17808s	of win most of those games because if
17810s	you eat danathrius bran theater
17813s	topiar uh onyxia like even just two or
17817s	three of these big ones can just end the
17818s	game on the spot denaturius alone is
17821s	such a core wind condition especially in
17823s	the non-alignment versions of the deck
17827s	um so i think that'll be a very
17828s	interesting one to see for right now
17830s	though against the uh the quest hunter
17833s	uh i think the
17835s	problem with the 40 card version is that
17837s	little bit
17839s	uh of consistency that you're losing by
17841s	putting 10 extra cards in is very often
17844s	the difference between having huge
17846s	bursts of stats with clownfish bunch of
17849s	murlocs and just playing a couple of
17851s	small threats every turn like one or two
17853s	minions a turn and that is worlds apart
17856s	versus quest hunter because they hate
17858s	seeing loads of stats all at once they
17860s	love seeing one minion every turn that's
17862s	how they win these kinds of matchups
17864s	because just one minion a turn uh you
17866s	know you play the two three wild poor
17868s	cavern a little bit scary because it
17870s	allows you to bank some mana for
17871s	subsequent turns but you just play all
17873s	your removal spells as hunter quest gets
17875s	completed turns six or seven and you're
17877s	just happily moving on with your life
17879s	yep
17887s	okay
17889s	this has the potential to be very rapid
17891s	quest completion for stone but at the
17893s	expense of
17895s	having an empty hand uh can't get quick
17898s	shot value right now but i don't think
17900s	he really needs it
17902s	he could go like uh
17903s	just raj najan uh
17906s	barbed nets
17909s	um and you probably go
17911s	once to the wildpaw cavern once to face
17915s	and then arcane shot face
17920s	and just ignore the two three i like
17922s	that
17923s	yeah because you're not killing it this
17924s	turn anyway i guess if you you could on
17926s	the two three it messes up muck pools
17928s	because they can't value trade over the
17930s	t5 and then musk pulls to beef it up to
17933s	a four
17935s	yeah okay all right i can see it
17938s	got like face there but sure it's it's
17940s	close
17941s	yeah well i guess just
17944s	super acknowledging that muck pools and
17947s	primordial wave
17950s	could exists good
17951s	yeah
17952s	i guess he ignored it he'd have four
17954s	more damage but
17956s	by going about it this way oh okay well
17958s	there's muck balls
17960s	even then though would you actually care
17962s	that much if they just make a four drop
17964s	there like razzmatazz is sticking you
17966s	get to go face for a bunch of damage
17968s	you're getting the the stag soon as well
17971s	close
17973s	yeah
17974s	um
17975s	what to do oh uh
17979s	yeah yeah this is hateful
17981s	the stack's emerging next turn so
17984s	uh you if you don't acknowledge this
17986s	board at all you're just taking what at
17989s	least at least eight at least ten with
17991s	the hero power next turn more
17993s	with the spells that are being played
17995s	the extra damage from raj
17997s	i can uh i can almost hear hunter a
18000s	screaming that totem amalgam into the
18002s	new one mana totem just ended the game
18004s	there as he is uh the biggest sin stone
18007s	totem fan i think i've ever seen in my
18008s	life
18009s	uh but i think in this instance glory
18011s	was probably correct to just take the
18013s	one card draw off the fool
18015s	ooh
18018s	so piercing shot offers um
18022s	a quest reward next turn
18025s	okay piercing shot then next turn the
18027s	quick shot coin
18030s	one out of two
18031s	yeah you wouldn't get the draw bonus
18033s	from quick shot but hey it's a 30 card
18035s	deck
18036s	and guess what you got two furious house
18037s	in there
18040s	yeah obviously yeah
18042s	more bones
18044s	all right here we go
18054s	that is large
18056s	enormous
18063s	all face send it
18065s	whole face everything
18068s	so if you're dealing what
18072s	14 damage to face next turn
18076s	come on or this turn completing tavis
18078s	and then with the stag charge in hand
18083s	ah this is the law isn't it
18086s	yeah
18088s	i think it just always gets there outs
18090s	for glory
18094s	i can't really think of any to be honest
18098s	primordial wave okay what are we
18100s	evolving into the heals
18103s	uh no zilliax
18105s	no santa water bearer
18108s	there's nothing that can that heals
18109s	immediately right are there no rush life
18112s	steals left in the game
18113s	no
18114s	i don't think so
18116s	uh it does not have rush
18119s	yeah
18122s	was the last battle cry fool i think
18125s	it was four yeah
18127s	the new paladin
18129s	minion like snob
18131s	it only gains rush and lifesteal i don't
18134s	think it has it innately i wonder
18140s	yeah i don't see him
18141s	deck either
18147s	man that damage ramped up so fast didn't
18150s	it
18150s	oh yeah
18152s	that was crazy
18154s	yep
18155s	and there you go
18158s	that'll be uh stone putting himself on
18160s	the board 2-1 now in favor of glory so
18163s	uh still a long way to go uh but
18166s	at least didn't get a
18168s	completely swept now has the
18170s	uh curse implod remaining as well as the
18174s	druid that we saw
18175s	absolutely blasted
18178s	in the previous game
18180s	so
18184s	[Music]
18191s	you cold
18200s	oh man
18208s	indeed
18209s	yeah well warlock as you said i think is
18212s	gonna be the next deck that uh stone is
18214s	piloting a deck that to be honest i i
18217s	kind of hate this deck i think it's such
18219s	a troll archetype to bring oh
18222s	production
18226s	yeah have you seen these quads i'm i'm
18228s	like a lightning man
18230s	[Laughter]
18232s	[Music]
18236s	either way uh imp curse warlock you know
18240s	it has even bigger
18243s	power spike ceiling than regular warlock
18245s	right because theoretically you can just
18247s	draw all the impact of your deck and
18249s	then all the curse off of your deck one
18251s	after the other like
18252s	it feels to me like the way you build a
18255s	deck when you first start playing
18257s	hearthstone like when you just learned
18258s	the basics of the game you know learn a
18260s	little bit about deck building and you
18262s	start putting in specific cards for
18264s	every possible situation that could
18266s	occur like every eventuality you throw
18268s	in every tech card you think oh i don't
18270s	have any 10 drops in my aggro deck i
18271s	should probably put one of those in
18272s	anyway and it just it tries to cover
18274s	every scenario and it feels like it ends
18276s	up doing nothing and even though that's
18279s	not the case here i'm over exaggerating
18281s	it that's kind of the the vibe i get
18283s	from the deck it's uh it's almost
18285s	insulting to bring i think just because
18287s	like
18288s	you're bringing half and half just
18290s	choose one right it's two completely
18292s	opposite styles of play
18295s	well the thing is is uh feeder circle
18298s	plus impending catastrophe is a
18301s	a powerful draw engine for every warlock
18303s	deck like even the combo warlock decks
18305s	are playing that
18306s	and then so you put in the curse cards
18308s	and then you're like alright well i have
18309s	10 slots left
18311s	do i put in all removal or do i just put
18313s	in imps
18315s	and right now the imps plus valve
18317s	library are just like too strong to
18320s	ignore like it's it's more powerful than
18322s	the removal that warlock has access to
18324s	like entitled customer
18326s	no thank you six mana you kidding me
18330s	so i think that i think it was uh
18333s	it was like working
18336s	working backwards it wasn't working from
18338s	imp warlock it was working from curse
18340s	warlock and then realizing that i'm
18342s	falling too far behind
18343s	like my curses aren't effective because
18345s	i'm falling too far behind
18347s	and they just certainly start putting in
18348s	more imps in viol library and like wow
18350s	okay well this just makes curse warlock
18352s	better so
18353s	i don't know
18355s	i uh
18359s	maybe i'm completely wrong but maybe i'm
18361s	also completely right
18363s	you can say tj who can see
18365s	uh either way a really nice start for
18368s	glory all things considered right there
18370s	the muck pools are a little dead for now
18374s	but the uh the command the clownfish the
18376s	snowfall all primo cards to have versus
18379s	imp warlock and he's gonna need primo
18381s	cards because look at this you would
18383s	never know that this is curse warlock
18385s	from westone's ad it's like the perfect
18388s	import lock starting hand
18399s	yeah
18400s	that's a nine eight on turn three
18407s	keep up the aggression
18418s	[Music]
18421s	this is illegal
18423s	this is completely illegal
18426s	so the question here is do you trade
18428s	your one ones for three threes
18431s	um because you're not killing
18434s	the was it
18437s	the chandler chandler from friends uh
18440s	could this card be any harder to
18442s	remember
18444s	very forgettable
18448s	so yeah just trading it for power
18451s	pushing another 10.
18453s	there's currently what 19 damage
18455s	represented on board uh-huh glory can
18457s	survive but uh
18462s	i mean it's not looking good
18464s	yeah it's not is it and like coin
18466s	command is just
18469s	oh is it an option you literally die if
18472s	you don't don't you yeah the vile
18473s	libraries
18475s	yeah doors are opening back up next turn
18477s	so
18478s	uh you have to do it
18480s	yeah oh it's so sad one more turn and i
18483s	think this was actually salvageable for
18484s	glory if it was slightly less literally
18486s	card for card perfect hand in a deck
18489s	that runs half completely dead drawers
18492s	uh i think there was a chance
18493s	wait this is 10 plus how many amps would
18496s	be on board
18497s	six ten plus seven oh it's one off
18502s	yes correct
18505s	you tap and find something
18507s	you're
18508s	on a one mana imp no oh that's a good
18510s	true oh that is a very good draw though
18512s	yeah
18514s	spread the love here
18520s	[Applause]
18531s	all right
18532s	game five man these have been so
18535s	one-sided back and forth like
18538s	it's this feels like have you ever seen
18539s	like professional slap championships
18541s	where two people just take turns
18544s	smacking each other in the face until
18546s	one of them says that's enough like this
18548s	is literally what's happening right here
18550s	there's no there's no bobbing no weaving
18552s	it's just taking turns smacking your
18555s	opponent as hard as you can
18560s	and now
18561s	uh
18562s	oh
18567s	unleash the beast what a dweeb
18573s	oh let me do my tie here
18592s	there's mild-mannered
18595s	hogwarts student derek
18597s	[Laughter]
18599s	and then giga chat derrick
18603s	what do you take off the tie in here
18606s	yeah it grows in your eyebrows change
18608s	color
18610s	and i go five years bolder as well
18613s	yep
18615s	yep
18616s	well the uh the this
18619s	air
18620s	growth stimulation has become somewhere
18622s	yeah yeah yeah exactly it's just moving
18625s	down it's like one of those uh like
18626s	magnet uh with iron filings in you just
18629s	move it down from there
18631s	hair growth is a uh it's a zero-sum game
18637s	you gotta come from somewhere all right
18639s	final game and uh this is
18642s	very accurate for your analogy uh there
18645s	was a you know the slap fight analogy
18647s	where now we've reached the end of the
18648s	slap fight where
18651s	uh
18651s	both competitors are incredibly tired
18655s	red laps are gonna take uh quite a bit
18658s	longer to muster
18662s	but that doesn't mean they'll be any
18664s	less potent
18665s	you gotta be scrappy with scraps
18668s	okay all right we stones list i think
18670s	he's just all in on nourish as the only
18673s	choose one card in the deck which is i
18676s	think how pretty much all the uh
18678s	alignment versions are run
18681s	uh but for glory right now this is
18683s	exactly the kind of hand we love to see
18684s	against druid like if it's not the
18686s	mutinous theater destroy their win
18688s	condition game plan
18690s	it's the heck of a lot of murloc's game
18692s	plan that you want to see
18694s	yeah
18696s	oh no
18698s	yeah uh this is a interesting right
18702s	because
18703s	you could just say i want to go all in
18705s	for board and take the mercenary there
18707s	and just play it out but then you
18709s	wouldn't have gorlock ravager for next
18710s	turn i think he
18711s	because the girl like robbie's in his
18713s	hand you want to keep the last discount
18714s	gorlock ravager get the other clown fish
18717s	and then flood the board to turn after
18718s	that
18721s	oh
18722s	um
18724s	oh
18725s	that's
18726s	yeah
18728s	i guess gotta be the evidence because
18729s	you wouldn't draw the no
18732s	cold cold tooth okay i'm gonna get
18736s	oh my gosh there's a vape three ten
18738s	drops left in the deck
18740s	gotta be low right it's gotta be low
18742s	yeah
18743s	there's no yeah getting nourish a turn
18745s	earlier it's actually not a bad hand for
18747s	stone
18750s	like you spend his mana pretty much
18751s	every turn
18752s	yeah only problem is seven right because
18754s	if you're innovating out the nourish
18755s	you're uh that's true
18763s	whoa finds the other clown fish as well
18765s	this is getting spicy man like there's
18768s	clown fish with the potential to get a
18772s	macaw clownfish if you wanted to to try
18774s	and cheat out an even earlier mutinous
18778s	there's a lot going on
18782s	oh okay well this works out quite nicely
18785s	picked up off the top
18791s	okay so if you go
18796s	oh it's not so obvious actually is it
18804s	like
18804s	clownfish
18806s	lush water on this turn and then trade
18808s	in the 2-3 and then next turn the most
18810s	recent battle cry is still the parrot
18812s	maybe i'm hyper fixating a little bit
18814s	too much on the murlocs here
18817s	and you just want to go stats here as
18818s	much as possible
18820s	yeah i mean this is a lot of stats it is
18823s	a 14
18825s	uh this is not usually a turn where
18831s	in a four oh
18833s	that's bad
18834s	he's not so much
18836s	uh
18837s	i mean heart of the wild plus starfish
18840s	synergy
18846s	it's insane
18847s	yeah nice
18849s	yeah just pick innervate for the future
18853s	agreed
18855s	yeah but
18856s	we got miracle growth next turn plus
18858s	earthen scales which i think is uh kind
18861s	of the saving grace of this game
18862s	but corey gets a
18864s	grenade only on five mana gets a full
18866s	turn to kind of
18868s	uh set up something a little bit bigger
18870s	but there's not really much to to be
18872s	done here um lush water scout and
18875s	clownfish uh interesting okay
18878s	this obviously gives the plus one attack
18880s	which is not irrelevant at all uh but
18883s	just preserve some more discounts for
18885s	the future right because you have macor
18887s	plus gorlok or macor plus mutanus uh
18891s	very importantly as well
18893s	yeah
18894s	and uh
18895s	lush water lives which you know
18898s	almost that's big
18899s	yeah the mutinist could eat something
18901s	big
18902s	then get rush and then attack over oh
18905s	that's true into the uh miracle growth
18909s	thing
18911s	oh wow
18914s	now we're talking this is getting really
18916s	spicy
18920s	oh man how did you sequence this because
18922s	now you
18923s	kind of actually want to leave if
18924s	possible of one or zero mana murloc
18927s	available for the next turn with kale
18928s	fast plus denny
18931s	there's none there's
18934s	but you can make all first because it's
18936s	still clownfish right uh oh yeah no
18939s	you're right
18941s	i don't know it's
18942s	yeah maybe it's just
18946s	rushed oh now you trade no word dude the
18951s	script the script is too strong it's
18954s	apex time
18956s	let's go
18962s	can't even alignment
18967s	you just die
18968s	you gotta dust this gail
18971s	yeah
18973s	uh oh could you oh sorry you
18976s	could have gone starfish vape
18979s	alignment i think
18983s	or maybe not actually oh no i think you
18984s	were still dead sorry yeah even though
18986s	it would have been eight
18988s	thirteen
18991s	you're exactly dead 15 17. yep yeah
18996s	yikes
18998s	yikers
18999s	i mean it would have been lethal anyway
19000s	because glory would have had a one mana
19001s	siren atherosclerosis on that empty
19003s	board yeah that's not an empty board
19004s	there would have been a starfish but
19006s	i'm i'm sure it's enough at this point
19008s	pretty sure that would have got the job
19009s	done yeah i mean considering you only
19011s	needed five on the genathious to
19012s	guarantee lethal
19019s	oh man it's getting close there are no
19022s	one mana minions naturally in the deck
19023s	right you can only get schooling so
19025s	there's no chance of a
19027s	uh honestly there is a chance of a
19029s	donation right now you could top deck a
19032s	blurgle or amalgam right for the for the
19036s	donathia straight away uh yeah yep
19038s	there's still uh a murloc
19041s	left
19043s	um
19044s	so this mccaw is he
19047s	mutinous at the moment it is
19050s	but seven mana and a glug seems
19054s	very
19056s	yeah what are the stats on that wicked
19057s	good
19064s	glock
19066s	this that's our glug
19072s	okay so
19074s	seven eight nine ten eleven twelve
19076s	damage on board
19078s	right
19081s	so theoretically you could get away with
19085s	an alignment which is 100 percent what's
19088s	running through stone's mind here is
19091s	it's
19092s	pretty much just da nathrius that you
19095s	instantly lose to right if you do that
19098s	uh yeah or brucon
19101s	uh oh yeah true good point okay
19103s	um
19109s	the problem with alignment is what's the
19111s	follow-up right yeah
19113s	no anacondra in hand
19117s	oh yeah of course that's the
19118s	draw-through part of her nourish isn't
19119s	it not the ramp
19121s	yeah that doesn't feel too good
19123s	okay uh this is a little bit better
19125s	post-alignment hand um
19127s	you could even
19128s	fish with aquatic form first
19130s	most likely
19132s	given this board
19136s	actually i don't know if locolar would
19137s	be active
19139s	uh but at least a product can help you
19142s	find something
19143s	this lush water scout is so busted the
19146s	combo here between scout and glug who
19149s	knew it's the uh
19152s	the body movie we all needed
19154s	there's no way
19156s	wait you get the weapon too the weapon
19158s	too dude plus the extra one damage okay
19161s	this is actually a lot it's a lot a lot
19163s	so this is gonna be an extra four attack
19166s	on glug from these because
19172s	okay it's not enough but
19174s	it's close
19176s	it's really close doesn't mean lock
19178s	hillary is active but i don't know about
19180s	it
19180s	there's a
19182s	seventeen
19183s	it's always glug dude
19186s	okay so you have alignment lock a lot
19189s	plus null now that just doesn't matter
19191s	it's still too big you have starfish
19197s	local or starfish knoll lockhalla
19201s	that's not good enough
19206s	um
19209s	aquatic form for scale and then you
19212s	scale then starfish
19215s	okay nah because nope
19218s	losing attacking the weapon as well yeah
19221s	no no you you trade off first and then
19224s	starfish yeah yeah because yeah the the
19227s	main ones would lose the rush yeah yeah
19231s	ah
19232s	girl
19234s	uh null means you have another zero cost
19237s	minion if you wanted to alignment right
19239s	now like you can go local double knoll
19241s	which is in almost every situation good
19243s	enough to save you but quite clearly
19246s	still not here
19254s	oh man so close at the end on the other
19257s	side of the board exactly well you know
19260s	uh there was the option for siren
19262s	afterwards that turned with kill those
19263s	because there was an amalgam in hand so
19264s	yeah that was lethal in all sorts of
19266s	ways there we go glory moving on to the
19268s	top four our top four currently is all
19271s	apac let's go
19275s	however there's still one quarterfinal
19277s	to be played and that quarterfinal
19279s	does not have a representative
19281s	i don't care about that one
19286s	okay if asia pacific doesn't win this
19289s	masters tour
19291s	with three out of the four
19294s	of the top four being from asia pacific
19296s	i don't know what to say i don't know
19298s	what to say
19301s	i'm not gonna curse it man i'm not gonna
19303s	say anything i'm gonna let the results
19304s	speak for themselves
19307s	uh but regardless this has been one of
19310s	the
19311s	best
19313s	collective performances of asia pacific
19316s	in a master tour in a long time
19319s	uh obviously on the you know bigger
19321s	global stage where we're talking about
19322s	like graham ashley's world championships
19324s	over the past few years
19325s	asian pacific has been
19327s	incredible uh yeah masters tours
19331s	the win has uh eluded them
19333s	as well as america's but
19337s	they suffer all the time
19338s	yeah exactly that's probably the
19340s	tournament
19344s	yeah
19345s	there you have it so final uh spot is
19347s	going to go to woods or ustia
19349s	uh coming into that last quarterfinal
19352s	but miro tonsoku and glory
19355s	is the current top four so very
19359s	uh powerful players
19361s	not as not quite as powerful as
19364s	dweeby derrick
19369s	hey shut up
19372s	my tie's too tight
19374s	it was dude
19377s	pictured slightly off camera here is
19379s	daniel gaskin absolutely wetting himself
19381s	laughing watching me try and be stuffed
19383s	into this massively undersized uh
19387s	suit yeah i'm glad it's just from the
19389s	the chest up because the bottom half was
19390s	not pg-13
19393s	yeah i think it actually looks uh
19395s	looks pretty good looks pretty good
19397s	thanks buddy
19398s	i couldn't fit in that suit that's for
19399s	sure
19400s	i could not fit in that suit now either
19402s	don't worry
19405s	all right well derek
19407s	third quarter final in the books so
19410s	we're we're
19411s	uh creeping along towards the finish we
19414s	have uh the four matches up for me we
19415s	have one quarter final two semifinals
19417s	and then the finals uh before we crown a
19420s	master store champion so
19422s	uh still a lot of hearthstone left to be
19423s	played i'd say we're roughly halfway
19425s	through the day maybe a little bit maybe
19427s	a little bit less maybe a little bit
19428s	more depending on how long i love
19430s	halfway points oh i love them i don't
19432s	know if that's something you do about me
19434s	already but halfway points of anything
19436s	just they really get me going so
19439s	uh super pumped right now that we've
19441s	arrived
19442s	at a sort of
19443s	halfway point but man
19446s	let me tell you when you look back and
19448s	you see exactly the same amount of
19449s	distances when you look forward
19452s	it's it's just the best feeling in the
19454s	world right yeah
19456s	uh but uh we do have to uh go to a quick
19459s	break uh but when we come back we are
19460s	gonna have the fourth and final quarter
19462s	final and then we're going to roll right
19463s	into semifinals from random finals it's
19465s	all going to happen today so uh we'll be
19467s	right back with more master story action
19480s	[Music]
19497s	do
19508s	[Music]
19513s	[Music]
19524s	[Music]
19532s	foreign
19541s	[Music]
19548s	what's up
19563s	[Music]
19567s	so
19568s	[Music]
19583s	so
19600s	[Music]
19605s	[Music]
19608s	do
19614s	[Music]
19622s	so
19634s	[Music]
19665s	hello everyone and welcome back to
19668s	masters tour murder at castle nathri i'm
19670s	raven and joining me is derek and i had
19672s	a really weird dream i think some kind
19674s	of fever dream where derek had a big
19676s	beard so i'm glad we've ever turned to
19678s	novel uh for now but uh i'm sure you're
19681s	feeling good about the rest of
19682s	tournaments so far derek just coming off
19684s	the of the series you just cast i'm
19686s	hyped man uh as a a
19690s	a loyal apac fan one might say who has
19692s	never betrayed his allegiance and no one
19695s	can ever prove otherwise every time apac
19698s	bottoms out of a masters tour
19701s	i'm very excited for apac to finally get
19702s	their chance here three out of the four
19704s	semi-finals spots already locked in uh
19707s	as asia pacific and now it's time for
19709s	the rest of the world to have their
19711s	chance ignoring america's of course
19712s	which uh i mean i didn't even need to
19714s	say it obviously it's got to say of
19715s	course uh we have uh china and europe uh
19719s	woods and
19720s	i think we're going with uh two players
19722s	that i think both of whom actually we
19724s	know pretty little about both from
19727s	ourselves and the you know the kinds of
19729s	people who would know uh about the
19730s	players in their respective regions uh
19733s	both uh yeah kind of up-and-comers i
19735s	suppose you would say in the hearthstone
19737s	esports scene yeah 100 percent it's
19739s	always interesting because uh we i feel
19741s	like the masters tour has done a great
19743s	job of giving us you know players that
19745s	have proven over time right we see them
19747s	make these top 16s you know players like
19749s	fury hunter come to mind right we all
19751s	know he's very good he
19753s	does many deep runs in masters tours
19755s	like that's just what he does but i also
19756s	enjoy seeing some of the uh you know the
19758s	players we don't know too much about and
19760s	seeing what they can do especially uh
19762s	you know you you remember the first time
19764s	you see them and then suddenly you start
19766s	to see the name everywhere is what
19767s	normally happens airplay is normally
19769s	running hot so uh we'll check it out
19770s	what the first matchup is going to be
19772s	here warlock and hunter abandon way so
19775s	we are going to kick it off with woods
19777s	on this shaymin list and uh again
19779s	difficult to ask about lists right now
19781s	specifically because there's about 8 000
19783s	variations of them
19785s	but this one at least to me looks a
19787s	little bit cleaner than some of the 40
19789s	card lists we've seen elsewhere um and
19793s	mainly down to the fact that there's
19794s	just a lot of two offs not really no one
19797s	single here single card over there
19798s	single over here i've seen a lot of
19800s	lists so i'm very excited to see how
19802s	this one specifically uh plays out
19805s	yeah i agree i think the one thing
19806s	that's a little bit clunky is uh double
19809s	famished fool
19810s	i feel a little bit weird even playing
19812s	one of them in this list that already
19813s	has an awful lot of card draw when you
19816s	factor in the ravager the schooling as
19818s	well uh but even then you know me i'm a
19820s	fan of uh two offs in a list as well so
19822s	i agree i think this is gonna be a good
19824s	first deck for
19825s	woods uh over on the other side though
19827s	to kick things off is uh the rogue first
19830s	year we've seen that already no we
19831s	haven't here we go perfect
19834s	it was planned
19836s	exactly
19837s	yeah yeah as if by magic uh pretty
19839s	standard list with one major deviation
19841s	right is the one of starfish which which
19844s	i was talking about with tj
19847s	about how
19848s	i i have my doubts uh about this card
19851s	because
19852s	in a vacuum in this deck it makes so
19854s	much sense it's clearly going to be good
19857s	in a list where the stats of the
19860s	minions that you are summoning with sin
19861s	stone graveyard are locked in they can't
19863s	be silenced away even though you're kind
19865s	of buffing up the stats um and you
19867s	really want to be able to get through
19868s	taunts and it can be quite difficult to
19870s	get through the bigger taunts like off
19871s	of miracle growth uh smothering starfish
19874s	is really really useful to do so but in
19876s	terms of discounting wild porno
19879s	guaranteeing yourself to be able to hit
19881s	rogue minions specifically off of shroud
19884s	in a deck with so few minions is very
19886s	very important to the deck being able to
19888s	know that your plays are predictable if
19890s	you play shroud you will be able to play
19892s	zero mana knoll and i think that could
19894s	be a big hindrance for ooster i
19895s	definitely want to keep an eye on is
19897s	that if he starts drawing these starfish
19899s	in opportune times it could really mess
19901s	with his miracle pop-off turns
19903s	yeah it's true i'm definitely split down
19905s	the middle here because we do have a
19906s	very uh freeze-based meta as well right
19910s	there so starfish can really help out in
19912s	pretty much i think if any deck ran
19914s	starfish i would never be too upset i
19917s	think it's a card that makes a lot of
19918s	sense right now for you know a lot of
19920s	the reasons you broke down
19921s	but i do agree and i think like on top
19924s	of the uh the sort of null interaction i
19927s	do think that every single card in this
19930s	rogue deck needs to do work for it to be
19933s	consistent and get those wins because i
19936s	think the deck's very strong but i do
19938s	think you have to work for it right and
19939s	i do worry that kind of going off the
19941s	back of what you mentioned that
19943s	a top deck of a starfish doesn't really
19946s	progress your own plan a lot of the time
19949s	and i think that the second this rogue
19950s	slips and has a you know a bad turn or
19953s	so or a weaker turn or so uh it can get
19956s	preyed upon by just generally stronger
19958s	more consistent decks so i will have to
19960s	see how it plays out i am interested
19962s	though because it is one of the uh i
19964s	guess one of the
19965s	uh early
19967s	decks in the meta that we had kind of
19969s	locked in which was this 40 card shaman
19972s	going up against the deck that's fairly
19973s	new uh in terms of at least popularity
19976s	to the meta with this rogue so yeah i'm
19978s	pretty interested to see how this one
19980s	goes out and we are as well
19983s	i guess unfortunately going to see the
19985s	warlock from easter band which is a
19988s	shame because it's a deck i'm very
19989s	interested in as well the sort of imp
19992s	curse combo going on there is a deck i
19994s	do want to see a little bit more out of
19996s	and also as well this hunter um going to
19999s	be going away so really the uh
20002s	roughly speaking the the unique decks in
20004s	the lineup actually getting banned out
20006s	here more or less
20007s	yeah that's true we end up with a very
20008s	similar lineup it's only the rogue
20010s	versus the druid that's left over uh but
20012s	i do think even though i'm right there
20014s	with you this rogue is a very new
20016s	relatively untested archetype at least
20018s	on the public stage i think in the
20019s	practice groups pony dojo in particular
20022s	the players have been grinding away
20023s	games and come away with very good
20024s	results which is why we see it
20026s	everywhere um but i think against shaman
20028s	specifically i'm starting to get a
20030s	pretty good idea a good picture of the
20032s	match up and it's not a pretty one
20034s	i think and it sucks it sucks yeah it's
20037s	not that bad like you you have these
20039s	pop-off turns there are these hands with
20041s	this version of rogue that just almost
20043s	can't lose because you have such a big
20045s	weapon with draco you have such big
20047s	minions off of the uh the sinstone
20050s	graveyard but shaman has 40 health
20053s	that's really difficult for the rogue to
20055s	deal that takes a full extra turn almost
20057s	always when compared to 30 health
20059s	versions and they just have so much
20061s	clean removal man they're able to lock
20063s	in these early games with clownfish this
20065s	rogue can be vulnerable to wide boards
20067s	of aggression at the start and then if
20069s	you have the freeze that's huge then if
20072s	you have the uh you know the command of
20074s	neptulon that's really big to lock down
20075s	the board as well i think again as i
20078s	talked about how this smothering
20079s	starfish could be the undoing for us
20081s	yeah on the other hand it could be the
20082s	winning card for him here if he gets
20084s	aboard frozen by
20086s	a huge snowfall guardian that tech alone
20089s	could just see him through to the
20090s	semi-finals it's difficult isn't it
20092s	because it is the exact two things you
20095s	don't really want to go up against
20096s	shaymin with which is a combination of
20098s	an aggro deck that relies heavily on
20101s	minions because
20102s	of course there is the weapon which you
20104s	know i still think that you can't rely
20107s	on that being the win condition right
20109s	because you just cannot reliably get a
20111s	big enough weapon off to really go crazy
20114s	and then the minion sort of focus on a
20117s	large chunk damage requirement is gonna
20119s	be there for the rogue and the shaymin
20121s	kind of excels at locking that down so
20124s	we will have to see how it's gonna play
20126s	out overall i'm guessing there's just a
20128s	slight delay and getting the players
20131s	ready but in general as we pretty much
20133s	nearing the end of the tournament
20135s	actually are there any big surprises any
20137s	uh you know great of eureka moments that
20139s	have come out of the tournament for you
20140s	anything you weren't expecting would
20142s	have been the surprises for me i i will
20144s	say that druid has been pretty heavily
20146s	under
20147s	actually uh compared to what i was
20149s	expecting i've talked to a few different
20151s	people uh based on their ladder results
20153s	over the last couple days and drew has
20154s	been doing very very well um which i
20159s	i will attribute to some lists that i
20160s	think are slightly sub-optimal that
20161s	we're seeing in the tournament i think a
20163s	little bit more testing and they could
20165s	have ended up on slightly better lists
20167s	not saying that i built the better list
20168s	i obviously just stole it from far
20170s	better players than me uh but it's a
20172s	little bit more anti-agro i think is
20173s	crucial these druid lists are a tad too
20175s	greedy uh in terms of their mid-game
20178s	plan
20179s	because losing your win conditions i
20181s	think is less of a concern than just
20182s	being run over by uh warlocks hunters
20185s	rogues as well
20186s	but the main thing aside from the lineup
20188s	is just honestly how well apac has been
20191s	doing
20192s	memes aside
20195s	you shouldn't expect it right based on
20197s	previous results it has not been going
20199s	well for them in the master tours for
20201s	whatever reason they haven't been able
20202s	to get the wins in but i just think uh
20205s	you know aside from having been ragged
20207s	on by a couple of the players myself for
20208s	having saying possesses been playing
20210s	well when he missed lethal in a game i
20212s	think overall the play from the apac
20215s	players has actually just been really
20216s	really strong i think their lineup
20219s	recognition has just been a little
20220s	better than the rest of the field and
20222s	that's why we're seeing such a strong uh
20224s	a strong result from the the whole
20226s	contingency this uh this masters tour
20229s	yeah and it's actually turned out to be
20231s	a nice selection of aipac players right
20234s	because there's glory who you know
20235s	everyone knows about especially you know
20237s	you've probably cast more glory than
20239s	anyone at this point uh and then uh that
20243s	there's uh tonsoku uh one of the sort of
20246s	early japanese players that made a heavy
20248s	impact on hearthstone you know many
20250s	years back now and then we have uh uh
20253s	it's uh oh hang on i've lost my list now
20255s	oh it's mero right
20257s	yes correct uh for apac um who who has
20260s	just been one a joy to watch oh this is
20264s	just an absolute joy to watch and cast
20266s	but also not it's not just a play who's
20269s	like oh yeah it's fun to watch but you
20270s	know does okay but i think he's been
20272s	playing very very well and i think he's
20275s	sort of at least visual mood
20277s	is helping him keep his focus in like
20279s	these late hours uh in the night in
20282s	these long days so looking forward
20283s	seeing what happens a little bit later
20285s	on but again apologies for the delay we
20287s	always like to make sure the players are
20288s	completely ready good to go with such an
20291s	important match as we kick off quarter
20293s	final four er woods versus ooster uh
20297s	kicking off right now and the schooling
20299s	opening is never a bad sight for the
20302s	shamer player here yeah you're always
20304s	ecstatic to see that especially against
20306s	any kind of board-based deck a little
20308s	weirder against rogue obviously because
20310s	most of the minions they're playing
20311s	either like have rush or stealth in this
20314s	starting turn so they're preemptively
20316s	developing very little in terms of stats
20318s	and if you as the shaman player
20320s	preemptively develop the piranhas
20322s	they're probably just going to be met
20324s	with serrated tooth uh
20327s	you know the the teeth as well anything
20329s	to clear them off basically and allow
20331s	the rogue to stay ahead uh but for the
20333s	most part right now pretty even on both
20335s	sides i would say
20336s	yeah and something i love about watching
20338s	players that are way better than me at
20340s	the game and play this rogue is i think
20342s	we might have spoke about this yesterday
20344s	actually uh is exactly
20346s	when and how they decide to pop off
20349s	right because there's the sometimes
20350s	they're forced into sort of not really
20353s	being able to hold for too long but with
20355s	double hero power coming out from wards
20357s	turned two and three i think used to has
20359s	a great opportunity to really
20362s	really greet out this hand
20365s	or maybe would you even call it greed
20367s	because he could actually just go now
20369s	you could go now right you have
20372s	coin
20374s	uh
20375s	coin door and then you actually if you
20377s	get a two mana spell you could go prep
20380s	two man a spell null serrated
20383s	dracker and you can even fit a shadow
20385s	step in there along the way as well i
20386s	think this is actually no it's not the
20388s	turn okay there was the potential to fit
20390s	it in on that turn yeah uh it was doable
20393s	right to basically do
20395s	pretty much everything
20397s	yeah
20399s	in the shadow step as well
20401s	you really wanted
20403s	yeah yeah exactly i think it was up to
20404s	like eight attack maybe even nine on
20406s	that turn uh but you know to be fair to
20409s	us if you do that play you're very all
20411s	in this is like your real push to win
20413s	the game if it was a 30 health opponent
20415s	i think he would have done it without
20416s	even thinking oh yeah but against a 40
20418s	health shaman that has access to a
20420s	little heel as well i fully respect this
20422s	line of just greeting out a couple more
20424s	turns
20426s	well let's see what the uh what you can
20427s	get for extra little bit of greed
20430s	another
20431s	slow ish
20434s	i didn't even see him pick anchor there
20436s	but another slow-ish turn from woods
20438s	means that uh euster can still pretty
20440s	much do the same turn but just with a
20442s	little bit more mana now still has
20443s	plenty of targets for serrated bone
20445s	spike if he wants it and then the list
20448s	goes on at this point
20451s	yeah i think because he's not prepping
20452s	the tooth it means we're reading this
20454s	out yet further
20457s	oh
20458s	spectral sight is so tempting
20463s	it is
20464s	as ever i'm just staring at animal
20466s	companion but uh but yeah special site
20468s	makes a way more sense you've just got
20470s	hunter brain like i don't have like
20473s	a hunter portion of your brain just lit
20475s	up
20478s	and the anchor totem here pretty nuts
20480s	actually this is a lot of pressure all
20482s	of a sudden
20486s	yeah it is isn't it this is actually
20489s	kind of scary now i mean it does have
20492s	removal available in one form or another
20494s	now picked up a tooth again
20497s	this must be the turn right derrick
20499s	official uh rogue master i think so yeah
20502s	i'm just wondering whether you
20502s	deliberately don't unoperably kill the
20505s	tooth so you can draw with the spectral
20507s	uh because he does have a surprising
20509s	amount of mana to work with with a one
20510s	mana bone spike as well uh ends up on
20514s	shadow of death though which is kind of
20515s	playable technically but
20518s	you don't feel good about it
20523s	you're gonna be the rocking shadow step
20525s	here very nice of course with the zero
20526s	man and null able to really maximize
20529s	those trades and basically just remove
20531s	all real threat from this board not the
20534s	woods had to commit too much to make it
20536s	but still right
20539s	oh yeah i guess actually if if he had if
20542s	he had gone for the play i was talking
20543s	about where you don't get the honorable
20545s	kill and then you get two draws off the
20547s	spectral side i think he would have
20548s	actually been one manner of playing
20550s	location and dracker on the same turn uh
20553s	if you'd gotten both of them
20554s	and because of that i i fully respect
20556s	this line and then you can get
20558s	spectrocyte over to the left you still
20560s	have a decent sized board and you
20562s	actually have a chance for a second
20563s	pop-up turn once you do hit the location
20566s	a little bit later
20567s	yeah really interested what do you think
20569s	of the uh no coin
20572s	there i know the coin would would have
20573s	floated the mana
20575s	but it is basically three extra damage
20578s	to play that coin do you think it's
20579s	going to be impactful elsewhere in the
20581s	game it could be i mean it's about that
20584s	potential for second pop-off right
20586s	because very often in this deck you need
20587s	to balance the one mega turn versus two
20591s	good turns uh and i think as i talked
20593s	about you know if you end up with an
20595s	eight or even ten attack dagger that's
20597s	not necessarily winning you the game on
20599s	its own uh whereas if you can save it
20602s	for an extra pop-off turn where you get
20604s	yourself now maybe a five-five or a
20606s	six-six minion off of the uh the
20608s	graveyard then you've got a second wave
20611s	of push which is actually something i
20612s	really like about this line from ustia
20614s	yeah and i love this as well spend the
20616s	mana get the wicked stab face because
20617s	guess what it's not going anywhere else
20619s	the plan is very straightforward for
20621s	easter now
20625s	woods has another freeze but
20630s	yeah he's got
20632s	a little bit i mean yes frieza and macaw
20635s	but right
20640s	the problem is does frieza mccoy even
20642s	particularly win him the race
20646s	it's not bad like the big problem with
20648s	freeze is when you freeze your opponent
20650s	keeps developing the board and then you
20652s	have to deal with the same problem but
20653s	worse on the following turn that's not
20656s	necessarily going to be the case here at
20657s	all because they're pretty much gassed
20659s	out of minions edwin is the only real
20661s	threat now and they have no sign of
20663s	having the location in hand so freezing
20665s	it into wow okay never mind uh freezing
20669s	into going for the command of neptune
20670s	probably would have been it clear but
20672s	woods here just taking out the middleman
20674s	going for the clear first which means he
20676s	gets less stats yes because he doesn't
20678s	have the snowfall guardian down but uh
20681s	he gets it more immediate uh attack on
20683s	board with just taking these value
20685s	trades yeah this is big and has since
20687s	stone and now has starfish from the draw
20690s	even though not a rogue minion didn't
20692s	end up being a terrible thing so far
20693s	this game
20694s	starfish will be massive here and it's
20697s	got to be like
20699s	you know i'll use the phrase all in but
20701s	you understand what i mean right max
20703s	resources use this turn to make the air
20705s	in stone pop
20706s	no this is huge you've got
20708s	sin stone serrated uh spike plus wicked
20712s	stab face
20713s	i think you leave the knoll stealth just
20715s	because you really want it to go face
20717s	and uh face damage towards you doesn't
20719s	really matter to be honest no did choose
20722s	to trade yeah i think i would have been
20724s	with you honestly because it's just
20726s	three more damage to face when you
20727s	starfish the potential freeze right
20730s	exactly exactly
20732s	where's the canal slogger but
20733s	unfortunately
20735s	what looked like a great pickup the
20736s	second big turn from used to it and
20739s	looked just too much doesn't it like i
20742s	thought the canal slugger was really
20744s	gonna make an impact here but
20746s	uh it could still do actually to be fair
20749s	you have wave plus slogger on this turn
20751s	which you could
20754s	i guess trade away the five two into
20756s	their null right
20757s	and then pray for just a couple of small
20759s	minions
20762s	or you could just take the risk of them
20764s	having no starfish with the uh the
20766s	snowfall guardian that's the one
20768s	would you canal slugger do the trade and
20770s	then prime model
20774s	interesting because you then you know
20776s	he's got no health left pretty much but
20778s	then you do you get a five drop it's
20780s	true
20784s	that's not killable
20786s	that's a problem
20789s	he has to play it or he just
20791s	loses yeah does it as soon as he casts
20793s	that right decision made he can't freeze
20795s	now so yes actually sorry i think he
20797s	actually still could because i think
20798s	macau still passed
20799s	guardian uh so he could have frozen
20802s	there
20803s	but i think in this instance this is
20804s	actually still the correct play because
20806s	the outs or lethal are pretty limited uh
20808s	now with the number a few number of
20810s	cards in hand and two of them being
20812s	known entities right he knows one is
20814s	shroud because of the door and one is
20816s	smothering starfish or at least a minion
20818s	sorry
20822s	turn right because
20824s	normally you'd crap a tow a trade to
20826s	swing the weapon yeah well he might
20828s	actually want to trade the 3-1 into the
20830s	thalnos right
20833s	yep
20835s	unless you want to go face though is the
20836s	other thing like
20837s	oh he doesn't have philip fighter i was
20839s	gonna say if he gets philip fighter he
20840s	could trade into the two one uh sorry
20842s	into the uh canal slugger but that would
20844s	that's what he's cut to make room for
20846s	the starfish right
20850s	oh yeah
20851s	could starfish now and just push forward
20854s	and know there's no heal
20855s	but i think i'd like to trade into the
20857s	thalamus and actually just shroud
20860s	great yeah and then hold the crapper
20862s	tower as well in case of a freeze right
20869s	headwinds kind of okay yeah it's pretty
20872s	good
20873s	we could get a cutlass here oh there we
20875s	go fantastic
20878s	okay
20879s	i didn't know it worked like this but
20880s	yeah you're a caster of course you know
20882s	it works like this
20885s	extortion the one three yeah i mean i
20888s	was kind of thinking about it actually
20889s	but
20891s	either way now things getting really
20893s	really interesting because again the
20895s	freeze is available this time though
20897s	were the starfish to be there
20900s	uh
20901s	woods would technically be
20903s	one uh oh no sorry he wouldn't
20905s	technically technically be one damage
20907s	off dying to starfish because he knows
20909s	because only one minion was drawn the
20911s	two cards in hand have to be starfish
20914s	and krapatoa right so he knows he is
20916s	very dead he is just dead if he plays
20919s	snowfall guardian
20920s	yep because silence and then krabatoa
20922s	the claw trades into communion swing
20924s	with the weapon for four vancleave for
20926s	four
20927s	whatever eugene
20929s	one turn away from daenerys as well
20932s	derek
20933s	that's a heartbreaker
20936s	and i think that's just gg uh i
20938s	like murloc homes is there anything you
20940s	could find in there uh
20942s	if you got scabs it would be too
20943s	expensive to play
20945s	yeah same with the draw right with
20947s	famish like if he drew correct well
20949s	there'll be nowhere near enough mana to
20950s	do anything and i don't think there's
20952s	any more draws that would do anything
20954s	better than
20955s	but for three mana that would impact the
20957s	game
20958s	i think it's like dave exactly that he
20961s	could hit
20962s	him
20964s	no you just silence it
20966s	oh yeah of course i mean
20968s	i was like oh well
20970s	when a player continues to play when
20972s	they should know they've lost yes i'm
20973s	always
20975s	wait is there an out i've just not
20977s	thought of but yeah it's just gonna be
20979s	as simple as that and wow
20981s	so close and this is the thing about the
20983s	deck right i think usually played very
20986s	very well everything you know made all
20988s	the right choices there as far as i
20989s	could see but if the game went one more
20992s	turn to nathrius comes down and
20994s	it probably just ends in the other way
20996s	right
20997s	yeah absolutely uh a uh
21001s	a card that as i said at the start i was
21002s	very unconvinced on from ustia but based
21004s	on that performance i mean man it just
21006s	looks absolutely genius for this meta
21008s	game with so much shaman so much mage
21010s	being able to just get through taunts of
21012s	druid as well absolutely love it very
21014s	very clever play uh overall from austria
21017s	and also like that the weird thing you
21019s	learn quickly with this rogue deck is
21021s	you do draw pretty much all of your
21023s	minions most games that you don't die on
21025s	turn three right so you actually have
21027s	that consistency of saying well almost
21030s	all games that go you know past turn
21033s	seven i'm probably going to have
21034s	starfish available so yeah and really
21037s	good call there from usg getting him the
21040s	first win on the table and again yeah
21042s	this is the quarterfinal four so this is
21044s	first place in the top four
21047s	going on here so definitely a lot to
21049s	play for just uh so close to the finals
21052s	i'm sure these players can almost smell
21054s	it
21055s	oh
21055s	so close at this one and for both
21057s	players with them being relative uh
21059s	newcomers to the masters taught system
21061s	uh it could be a huge boon you know all
21063s	of a sudden you're setting your sights
21065s	on the uh the full championships later
21067s	on if you take the win even if you don't
21069s	you're in with a good shot of getting
21070s	there with a strong performance in the
21072s	last masters tour of the year
21075s	uh and that can just propel you into uh
21078s	hearthstone fame which is one good
21080s	result so everything on the line here
21082s	and obviously ustia in a better position
21084s	with having taken that very very clean
21086s	win on the rogue game one now gonna be
21089s	queueing up i believe the shaman of his
21091s	own verse the uh the 40 card spooky mage
21095s	from woods uh which is a uh a bit of an
21099s	interesting build you know he's gone
21101s	with the
21102s	semi big spell mage inclusion in there
21105s	with the parrots the blizzard and the
21106s	rune of the archmage uh which again as
21109s	i've talked about is leaning in the side
21111s	of the deck that uh i haven't had much
21113s	success with in a more controlled style
21115s	of play
21116s	and against shaman i don't know maybe a
21118s	bunch more runes can help you get there
21120s	it's possible
21121s	yeah i'm ah it's hard to say because
21124s	we're casting in the top four right but
21126s	i'm pretty unconvinced with this deck
21128s	for many reasons one i don't know why
21130s	murloc holmes is in like so many decks
21132s	like is it that good am i just bad at
21135s	guessing cards like i don't know maybe
21137s	that's true but also like the times i've
21139s	lost against it at the times i actually
21142s	lost against it in my break not too long
21143s	ago and it was because my opponent
21145s	played roon and then
21147s	brand parrot and the rune the only spell
21151s	that lost me the game was i got one i
21154s	got pyroblast in the face which was like
21156s	a one in four and that's the reason i
21158s	lost other than that it was guaranteed
21159s	wind so i do feel like even with all
21161s	this uh the skeletons and everything i
21163s	do feel like a lot of the deck does rely
21165s	on that rune of the archmage to just
21167s	pull yourself out of trouble that you
21168s	find yourself in quite often so uh yeah
21171s	we'll see if the any more games can
21173s	convince me otherwise uh euster now
21175s	gonna jump over to his shaymin to give
21177s	it a go
21179s	and running through things it's a little
21181s	bit more one of the ish with the juan
21184s	devara the one smothering starfish but i
21186s	think that's fine a double schoolteacher
21188s	is a card that i am a fan of in this
21190s	list i think there's a lot of really
21191s	really premium
21193s	very diverse charming spells at that
21195s	early mana cost you have tempo you have
21196s	removal a little bit of healing as well
21199s	that can be very very clutch to find
21201s	against some of the burn match ups like
21203s	mage for example if they get off to a
21204s	nice heavy ping start
21207s	uh but the kind of hand i think you're
21208s	looking for for us for the most part
21210s	isn't this kind of late game stuff it's
21211s	not so much the munching and uh
21213s	finishing off with dinafears it's just
21216s	early game tempo trying to keep up
21217s	trying to get ahead if you can uh to
21220s	clutch out a victory that way and force
21222s	mage into more defensive plays than they
21223s	would like
21225s	yeah the the one thing i will say is
21227s	that like
21228s	theo talk and really i mean it's weird
21231s	because both players play it right so
21232s	theo talking just happened uh but
21235s	stealing the dawngrass pero is such a
21238s	big deal because it's normally so much
21240s	of the damage available so that's
21242s	definitely something that could kick in
21244s	a little bit later on but you're
21245s	completely right as always with with
21247s	this form of shaming you just want stuff
21249s	to do every turn right i think that's
21251s	generally what you're just looking for
21253s	because the deck just feels like a 40
21255s	card value deck uh most of the time so
21257s	we'll see how it plays out so far sleep
21259s	breaker coming down for easter just
21261s	gonna soak that uh built up ping already
21265s	there's been an uncanny amount of
21267s	wildfires drawn on turn one for these
21269s	decks isn't there
21271s	i mean there's been an uncanny amount of
21272s	apec players in the top eight what can i
21274s	tell you
21275s	that's how we roll uncanny masters tour
21283s	cookie something to throw down at least
21285s	used to imagine wouldn't have wanted to
21287s	particularly parrot and then draw more
21290s	cards
21291s	yeah i think if you're keeping mutinous
21293s	the plan is to just uh repeat that as
21296s	many times as possible yeah chomp chomp
21298s	chomp
21301s	pay homage to her to chewie who was
21302s	unable to make it this far
21306s	bit off more than he could chew
21308s	hey
21311s	i'm sure he's finding that very funny
21312s	through his flood of tears
21314s	yeah
21316s	look as long as i'm amused eric you know
21318s	the rules
21320s	yes sir
21323s	weirdly enough is this like just
21325s	damaged all for one yeah i think it's
21328s	also
21330s	just more stats on the board oh yeah
21332s	like just just play it because you've
21334s	got it and you know gore lock is going
21336s	to be a little bit too crazy to play
21337s	right now
21340s	making another potential two drawers the
21342s	problem with power is if you do hit
21343s	nature spell you're actually
21346s	over drawing oh sorry you're not over
21347s	drawing you're up to nine cards in hand
21349s	okay so parrot is a play
21351s	yeah it's just like
21353s	pirate and then
21355s	hero power or freeze when you could just
21357s	still draw a card and just play on curve
21359s	and save pirate for the mutants i think
21362s	i liked a lot more
21364s	i agree i do think i just like
21366s	playing your minions right play them on
21368s	curve force the mage to make plays they
21370s	don't want to uh i don't even think it
21371s	was that bad into death born right like
21373s	you could even have played it afterwards
21375s	after you've done the trades if you like
21376s	so your minions are more likely to die
21378s	off and also as well opens up potential
21381s	um
21382s	uh primordial for next turn right
21384s	because it's a it's a positive minion to
21386s	hit the point so it just gives give some
21388s	more options honestly
21391s	yeah fully with you there
21396s	i had definitely feeling clunky
21399s	at this point though
21400s	yeah did i have an option for like
21401s	anybody the most average snowfall
21404s	guardian ever
21408s	would give him options with pirate the
21410s	turn after or to go mutinous would have
21412s	been interesting but chose to go for the
21413s	school teacher instead
21415s	good training too because pretty soon
21417s	every uh snowfall guardian is going to
21418s	be the most average snowfall guardian
21420s	ever
21434s	loses a minion but keeps the cookie
21441s	going into dawn grasp here just uh
21444s	we don't think anything too crazy he's
21445s	gonna get wildfire and
21448s	cold case just cold case i think right
21451s	i believe so oh and ai too
21454s	hmm
21457s	not bad
21458s	overdraws one but got the wildfire in
21461s	time which is the big one and uh this is
21463s	the point as mage where you just sigh
21466s	a sigh of relief right because you've
21468s	played your dawn grasp you didn't get
21470s	theotard out of the game because you
21472s	just lost your hero card uh however
21475s	while that card may be safe the rest of
21477s	his hand is very much not safe because
21480s	yeah it is dinner time yeah just like
21482s	your typical zombie film whenever you
21484s	think it's safe it's not and chomping's
21486s	about to happen because mutants go
21489s	nails dinathria's first try
21492s	and oh yes correct play throw the emote
21495s	out um to the the mental warfare has
21497s	begun uh but also here it does mean that
21500s	there's actually just the bran and the
21502s	parrot to follow up with as well like it
21505s	and then just brick on there's also the
21508s	freeze like it does feel like it's going
21511s	to start going downhill from here and we
21513s	might be at that point where woods
21515s	relies on roon of the archmage to dig
21517s	him out of this
21519s	yep you're exactly right because it's
21520s	not just the the munching that's the
21522s	problem it's the stats on board this is
21524s	a 14-14 if you leave that unfrozen for a
21527s	turn that's uh
21529s	well it's only like a fifth of your
21530s	health but it's still a lot that you're
21532s	losing at that point you know what's
21533s	needs mass polymorph
21537s	damn straight
21539s	and in the shape
21542s	does have double sanctum so can delay by
21545s	well delay forever it feels like with
21547s	decent blizzard
21549s	whatever reason that's put in my mind
21551s	the like a sheep swat team jumping
21554s	through the windows
21561s	they're good with the uh bartering grams
21564s	that was a double pun that was oh yeah
21566s	it's good that wouldn't even realize at
21568s	the start did you
21569s	oh i knew i knew you knew okay good job
21571s	good job
21574s	want double points for that someone mark
21576s	them
21578s	do for raven ding ding
21580s	total
21581s	lifetime
21582s	yeah
21584s	he finally got one
21586s	who knows
21587s	yeah we're just going again
21590s	there's no other real play is there
21593s	yeah i guess the only other option if
21596s	we're really gonna stretch would be like
21599s	brakan and then brand parrot but that
21602s	just doesn't do the same stuff does it
21604s	no i'm fully on board with this line not
21606s	finding theater
21608s	dings a little obviously he doesn't know
21611s	it but uh
21613s	that's where things could maybe go a
21614s	little bit wrong like even if they just
21615s	steal a snowfall guardian that starts to
21618s	rebalance the board a little bit more
21620s	closely to even uh but for the most part
21623s	it's a simple game plan for woods you uh
21626s	you stall and then you play roon and you
21628s	uh you cross your fingers
21635s	really
21637s	yeah i like it you get a deathborn
21640s	yeah i'm all surprised isn't the hero
21642s	power at four
21644s	oh is it well he just done two wildfires
21648s	oh it's a five okay my apologies i
21651s	thought it was there only at four i was
21653s	going to say if it wasn't for i would
21654s	have expected the ping on the brand uh
21656s	obviously just to stack it up but that's
21658s	my bad yeah take it back i'm sorry
21660s	forgive me to be fair it's pretty rare
21662s	you see it at odd uh totals most of the
21664s	time
21669s	well let's uh laser this board i guess
21677s	and interestingly enough now actually
21679s	for woods it's
21681s	i may have underestimated here not no no
21683s	with the healing i was going to say not
21685s	necessarily a rune of the archmage board
21687s	because the skeleton could take out most
21688s	of the health but uh yeah with the heel
21690s	factor as well very nicely picked for
21692s	ustia uh this does need to be uh
21695s	at some point i'm gonna say answered
21697s	with a rune sooner or later
21700s	and look how good the locations are even
21702s	if this
21705s	hey
21706s	whoa face
21707s	oh
21708s	i knew it this exactly happened to me
21711s	today oh my god
21713s	dude the sheep swat team dodging bullets
21716s	yeah i had two sheep on the border my
21719s	opponent
21720s	fired face it's uh bringing back
21722s	terrible memories from me
21725s	yeah i was saying before i got
21726s	distracted by the bright uh shiny
21728s	colours um was the the locations just
21731s	sitting there even if that was the worst
21733s	rune of the archmage imaginable you can
21735s	just freeze them both and then there's
21737s	varden then there's blizzard like
21739s	there's so much time uh the only thing i
21742s	think er woods has to focus on whilst
21745s	doing this is at least pressing that
21747s	hero power name in her face every turn
21749s	now
21754s	and it looks like it might be quite
21755s	effective like usually has slowed down a
21758s	lot uh in terms of his overall game plan
21762s	yeah although you know a couple of
21764s	amalgams can change everything
21766s	it's true yeah
21769s	or not
21772s	needed an elemental those are the big
21774s	ones
21776s	yeah that's true actually i mean i guess
21778s	you could go on amalgam numbered like
21780s	amalgamat amalgam here but i think
21782s	that's usually just a little bit too
21784s	much of a gamble
21800s	hey that's a guardian
21803s	oh those are the bad ones
21805s	uh you could give him spindly i think
21812s	because he's just picked up a guardian
21813s	right like i think his hand is pretty
21815s	good with blizzard he can actually
21817s	blizzard varden on the same turn to just
21819s	wipe a board he can uh
21822s	guardian bob
21828s	yeah i guess he just didn't want to let
21830s	him reset his hand and maybe thought he
21831s	wanted to reset his own hand with the
21833s	way it's working out it's not going to
21834s	be a bad idea like
21836s	these are not premium cards he found
21838s	himself with he wanted to nathrius
21840s	obviously mainly and did not hit
21843s	yeah they're not i just
21845s	thought that like
21846s	no fall varden was insane
21850s	it's true it's a lot of stall and damage
21862s	tough one very tough one
21864s	because to be fair he doesn't actually
21866s	have that much uh
21868s	how much to spin lee away right his
21870s	hand's gonna be very slim afterwards
21872s	that was my point right and and my sort
21874s	of weird question was he picked the good
21876s	cards from the show which is fine but
21879s	surely he wants to play command of
21881s	neptulon it's likely he'll want to play
21884s	a snowfall what is he playing spindly
21887s	even the blizzard is is not bad
21890s	i mean i i guess you could just make the
21892s	argument are you going to stall stalls
21894s	then spindly at the end of it all
21896s	uh
21897s	unintentional rhyme uh to try and find
21901s	the
21902s	reckless apprentice for the big clear
21904s	later on well you could even just go
21906s	spindly right out the gate like you know
21908s	slow fall guardian is good neptulon is
21910s	good but the the winning card is is to
21912s	now stop finding more dresh and
21914s	apprentice
21915s	gonna be a uh
21917s	evolved shenanigans going on by the
21919s	looks of things here with those trades
21921s	oh yeah
21923s	oh yeah
21926s	uh
21928s	sunglasses dude is that like next card
21930s	you play it transforms in yes yeah yeah
21934s	wait
21935s	oh next card the dies yeah yeah okay
21938s	sorry yeah the next card you play was my
21940s	idea for a card
21943s	little placeholder
21946s	one day that'll become a card
21948s	for me
21954s	yeah this
21958s	kind of my issue though right like yeah
21960s	it was very expensive the snowfall
21962s	guardian was going to be good because
21964s	woods didn't clear the board
21966s	i
21969s	gonna just spindly now
21973s	yeah but then the question is like do
21974s	you go amplified snow flurry finley on
21977s	the side then the question will be do
21978s	you play blizzard as well yeah yeah
21984s	so it's a five damage now right which uh
21987s	if he does get the apprentice it's
21989s	actually kind of difficult to activate
21991s	is again the problem
21993s	i'm calling it now derek
21995s	this finley will have zero impact on the
21997s	win rate of
21999s	the positive win rate for what's in this
22001s	game
22005s	yeah he's gonna need something a little
22006s	more impressive than spindly to get
22008s	himself out of this one oh there it is
22010s	like that
22011s	another pyro to the face please
22022s	i mean
22025s	gonna go for blizzard first i was trying
22028s	to just work out if there's like wow
22031s	really that much difference between the
22034s	ordering here
22035s	because
22036s	yeah this means that if roone whips
22040s	he doesn't just die
22042s	but if roon whis next turn he dies you
22046s	know what i mean it's kind of difficult
22047s	i guess this gives him one more draw to
22048s	see what's cooking
22051s	yeah also gets like another ping face
22052s	along the way which just means
22054s	creeping closer and closer towards
22056s	cheesing out a win with uh
22058s	more dress apprentice roon as well
22062s	but i agree it's much of a muchness in
22064s	terms of how you order it kind of like
22066s	the look of another evolve honestly
22069s	that's silly just go again
22071s	no not at all these are quite damaged
22073s	minions right yeah
22076s	you'll lose stats on the snowfall but
22078s	that's all you'll probably lose stats on
22081s	on average
22082s	yeah you are sad to lose the health i
22084s	would admit on the
22086s	elemental
22089s	that's true that is true
22091s	yeah it's an argument to varden isn't it
22095s	i mean it could still be both like
22096s	farting into a five truck yeah
22098s	yeah it's just maybe it's vardhan just
22101s	let the elemental maybe get pinged off
22103s	or something and then hit it right it's
22105s	reckless
22108s	huge uh
22110s	there's
22112s	currently no way to upgrade it
22114s	unfortunately because i think it's five
22116s	still
22121s	correct i was looking at some really
22124s	silly things
22125s	like you know come out there's like
22126s	command of neptulon doing any trades
22129s	right but it just doesn't
22131s	uh oh sorry it does actually with the
22134s	heel uh you you trade neptune to the
22136s	light shower and then into the heel
22140s	uh into this uh the guardian but i i
22142s	think that's a little convoluted at that
22144s	point i love it
22148s	oh
22150s	that's bad that's really bad
22154s	it's a wildfire and this is all terrible
22157s	oh let's get the kill
22160s	that's something i guess but he's taking
22162s	a lot of damage freezes right
22165s	okay okay
22166s	solve all problems
22168s	that's great i underestimated their
22170s	power
22170s	yeah
22172s	locations have the high ground i don't
22174s	yeah it works locations are the high
22187s	okay well now that evolve is looking a
22188s	little more tempting right oh yeah
22191s	especially with the null
22197s	yeah i think that's what we're gearing
22199s	up for here you ever throw in the
22201s	clownfish or something as well
22205s	that's the manner right
22207s	yeah i guess you're not really afraid of
22208s	being
22209s	bored locked that much anymore you've
22212s	seen a lot of yeah and it's three mana
22214s	three two like
22216s	just beef it up
22219s	you're trying to go hot streak hero
22221s	power for zero there oh if only
22229s	oh
22230s	hoot
22232s	cheeky lothar as well that's not bad
22235s	i'm coming
22239s	look for the trade on the egg win to get
22241s	the better attack on the low car uh-huh
22244s	hold the load
22251s	oh can roll again on the uh nixia nice
22253s	yeah for sure oh there we go
22260s	um this
22262s	demands a very very big response uh
22266s	apprentice is at six
22268s	uh oh no uh eight now right because he
22270s	got an honorable kill last turn
22273s	um
22274s	i think
22275s	and the order of play
22278s	how does it even work when you are
22280s	evolving i actually don't know when you
22282s	have a full board of evolved minions
22283s	like i'm assuming deathwing is last
22286s	um
22288s	this is just left to right
22290s	uh
22292s	i don't know it's not left to right
22296s	is it the order they were played in
22297s	before they evolved play order
22300s	it's usually play order but if they've
22302s	all been evolved i'm not sure yeah you
22305s	know what let's find out that's that
22307s	played first i don't know
22311s	i think it's just freaking out man
22313s	just doing its stuff
22315s	i guess it is play order before they
22317s	were evolved yeah that makes sense
22319s	either way a very very good uh
22321s	apprentice turn meaning that we get a
22324s	full clear potential but instead now
22326s	we're sending that face 10 damage
22329s	pyroblast for two mana and this time he
22332s	gets to choose where it goes no
22334s	going into vardhan this time plus the
22336s	freeze
22337s	means that things
22339s	there's just nothing i think have come
22341s	to an end for us yeah finally
22348s	yeah i mean question you asked yourself
22351s	straight away can i heal for more than
22353s	the hero power what's that no oh no okay
22359s	oh yeah
22361s	oh you said it we're really early on the
22364s	fact that sorry to interrupt uh that
22366s	woods got dawn grasped down very early
22368s	and very safely
22370s	then all you really have to do is not
22372s	die because eventually you're gonna
22373s	start pyroblasting them for two mana as
22375s	you said and uh it seemed to have paid
22377s	off nicely
22379s	yep absolutely i think just very well
22381s	played uh by woods he realized the uh
22384s	the value of vardhan as soon as possible
22386s	realized the value of upgrading that
22388s	hero power as soon as possible and even
22390s	though i think you and i agreed on uh
22392s	a couple of his plays with uh the
22394s	swapping uh off of theater specifically
22397s	i'm pretty sure that finley uh in hand
22400s	did work
22402s	was definitely integral to winning the
22404s	game 100
22405s	mascots cheering him on that's what
22407s	finley does you be that angry sir
22409s	spindly i don't know
22410s	you cannot
22413s	yeah really really good win there for
22415s	woods because there were moments right
22416s	and it's it's kind of the story of
22418s	shaymin right now is you feel like
22420s	you're never going to beat them in a
22422s	true sort of war of attrition uh there
22425s	because again you saw how many cards uh
22428s	that uh you should had in hand it could
22430s	have gone on for quite a while there but
22433s	it's just the relentless damage from the
22435s	ping and it's why it's so strong where
22437s	running dinathias and dawn grasp means
22440s	that you've got two options unless your
22442s	opponent like brand theo tells you or
22445s	something then you know you're gonna
22447s	have one of those potential win
22448s	conditions at bare minimum
22452s	very very true which means with that all
22454s	squirreled away we're left with uh
22457s	shaman shaman uh and uh mage druid uh on
22461s	both sides respectively are you groaning
22462s	at the potential of a shaman mirror
22464s	perhaps or even not potential anymore
22466s	derek oh it's in there i just speak
22469s	oh potential it's happening
22472s	payment versus shaman coming up next and
22474s	this is
22475s	probably
22477s	going to be a slog um
22481s	realistically though
22482s	what
22483s	if anything
22485s	actually can happen that would like
22487s	propel one player to really just win you
22490s	know what i mean like really get ahead
22492s	and end the game in a timely fashion is
22495s	there anything
22496s	i mean there's there's the ones we
22497s	always talk about with shaman that still
22499s	very much apply if you hit mukbal into
22501s	null you're in a great position if you
22503s	go mutinous uh bolner plus para and you
22507s	eat their dinathius their theater their
22510s	mucinous their kale fast you're probably
22512s	gonna win but for the most part you know
22514s	a lot of times in this matchup that
22516s	doesn't happen right you know you're
22517s	unlikely to know plus mukbal you're not
22519s	necessarily guaranteed to get that many
22521s	mutinous activations
22522s	this match up and this kind of this meta
22524s	in general i think uh
22526s	hunter has put it best when i was
22528s	talking to him recently it's just vibes
22530s	it's just vibes man like you can't
22532s	really pinpoint exactly what you're
22534s	doing with any deck in any specific time
22536s	there's not these very common play
22538s	patterns you want to see especially the
22540s	case with shaman where there's so many
22541s	disparate parts disparate packages with
22544s	the uh the deck at any given time
22547s	just gotta vibe it out
22549s	well i'll try and take that advice into
22551s	my ladder games in the future whenever i
22553s	lose i was like yeah but you know i was
22555s	vibing just vibes man
22558s	not about the games you win it's about
22559s	the games you don't win
22563s	i'm not sure what i tell myself anyway
22566s	all-time great quotes ever but uh
22573s	oh he missed he missed the sin stone
22576s	time
22580s	even pick
22582s	uh
22584s	ana tide i think all the rest are
22586s	pretty bad
22589s	could start getting to work with anchor
22591s	totem wow really okay fair enough what's
22594s	up his turn
22596s	yeah that's true
22600s	end up with a 3-4 after that evolved bit
22602s	of a desperation one
22606s	what's pretty interesting about the
22607s	match up right is that
22610s	you would assume at surface level
22614s	the players don't care if they
22616s	if their opponent just
22618s	picks a 3-2 right but the damage as
22621s	we've seen does stack up and the healing
22624s	is the one
22625s	real weakness for the shaymin outside of
22627s	daenerys so it is something if a couple
22630s	of minions just keep punching you you
22632s	are a detriment versus your opponent
22634s	right so uh yeah there is a reason for
22636s	them to fight and this is why i love the
22638s	elemental amalgam oh this is what we
22640s	sign up for just the big hitters
22644s	nepchillon and alec
22646s	he's a huge man uh is there any way to
22649s	buff alec here right now i don't
22652s	think so right not consistently
22657s	uh but to be honest
22659s	yeah i guess it probably is neptune i
22661s	like my my mind definitely goes towards
22663s	alec here because like most the time
22664s	neptune is just way too slow to be
22666s	picking but you're almost definitely
22668s	going to have the time for it in this
22669s	matchup
22670s	and it's it's actually really good
22672s	against sort of a medium snowfall
22675s	guardian right because you just play it
22676s	and punch the crap out of it basically
22679s	and it just doesn't really matter you've
22681s	not really lost anything to that turn
22688s	one real fear obviously is getting
22690s	mutinous before you can get neptulon
22692s	down but the hand is full of minions you
22694s	don't want to lose so i don't think
22696s	that's really a consideration at all at
22698s	this point
22699s	definitely a potential glass half empty
22701s	is there the hand is full of cards you
22702s	don't want to lose so you're going to
22704s	lose cards you don't want to lose it
22706s	so
22707s	yep it's going to suck no matter what
22709s	yeah fill your boots with neptulon one
22711s	thing to keep an eye on though is woods
22713s	does have kel'thas brand sitting there
22717s	it doesn't really have to pay off for
22719s	that yet but the combo is just sat there
22721s	ready and waiting with 30 cards still
22723s	left in the deck so yeah that's
22725s	something that again could sort of spike
22727s	the game right uh if daenerys is picked
22729s	up in any kind of timely manner
22732s	i mean even before that uh knoll kale
22735s	fast uh neptulon uh on turn six if he
22738s	doesn't play any cards uh up until that
22741s	point he could just pass his next turn
22743s	uh that is a possibility which is a huge
22746s	tempo swing very true because he has a
22749s	mock pools as well for that turn right
22751s	that's true yeah yeah yeah on the null
22753s	in the same turn that would be very
22755s	scary does jesus know now and that's the
22757s	100th raid boss and x you've seen so far
22760s	and he can actually do both i think in
22762s	this instance because he goes null now
22764s	clownfish which makes his
22767s	uh
22768s	cookie cost one so then it's cookie coin
22770s	kale fast neph chill on on the same turn
22773s	next turn that's enormous
22776s	and also no snowfall guardian yet
22788s	oh this is so sick come on he's gotta do
22790s	it right even glug to follow up to munch
22792s	up all those stats cob on man
22797s	i'm now i'm trying to work out if glug's
22800s	just
22801s	better
22803s	oh fair play glug is always better
22806s	any situation hearthstone or not glug is
22808s	the correct answer
22810s	if you asked any question any job
22812s	interview and you don't really know what
22813s	to say just say glug
22815s	but what are some of your weaknesses
22817s	glug
22818s	oh yeah perfect perfect true yeah me too
22821s	he hide on the spot
22832s	really sad considering it there are just
22834s	so many options though as well right
22836s	because
22837s	there is still the brand there's the
22838s	bone as well there's like so many
22841s	different little things you can do with
22844s	this deck and these sort of
22845s	combo cards i think it's key not to
22848s	overthink it and maybe just say well you
22849s	know what what's just really powerful
22851s	this turn let's do that
22855s	i i think the the difference maker for
22858s	me is we're going into turn seven so
22859s	you're expecting mutinous and if you go
22863s	cookie kale
22866s	other way around whatever um
22868s	not only do you dump a lot of your
22869s	powerful cards for net for the mutants
22872s	on the other side but it's kind of just
22873s	too much pressure for them to even be
22875s	able to play mutinous
22877s	yeah
22878s	unless they kell pass it and do the
22880s	things you maybe should have done
22882s	yeah sure i mean look at this you have
22884s	devourer if you want it right instead of
22887s	even mutinous to just chomp up this
22889s	board
22891s	oh is there
22893s	anything better with clownfish no there
22895s	isn't
22896s	gotta be devourer right because he
22897s	traded into the two too i guess this
22899s	gives him involved options as well but i
22900s	like this a lot oh it's insane
22906s	oh yeah the brand costs zero i didn't
22907s	even factor that in because everything
22908s	costs 0.
22911s	and i am very ambitious
22915s	yeah
22916s	i couldn't have got
22917s	anything else in he needed a two mana
22919s	molecule
22920s	yeah they're an amalgam then
22923s	i think that emote was because he forgot
22926s	to evolve the five drop
22929s	that a fair assumption because that was
22930s	the yeah
22932s	right that feels like a mistake yeah
22934s	yeah because i think you do it's not
22935s	involving anything else right usually
22936s	you let kel fast sit there and make your
22938s	opponent kill it
22941s	yeah do you think that was a little bit
22942s	of an oops because
22944s	it just would have had probably so many
22946s	more stats right you get six drop could
22947s	have got a taunt to help protect your
22949s	board as well
22951s	and i
22953s	think there's only really one play now
22955s	for woods right you just have to go for
22956s	the neptune online it does just clear
22959s	the devourer somehow
22964s	he's not even going for it wow okay
22968s	oh man that's risky i kind of like it
22970s	though
22972s	but now
22973s	brand pirate
22977s	oh and just like let that go absolutely
22980s	wild
22982s	just assume it's going to target
22984s	neptulon in their
22985s	cookie like the parrot just starts
22987s	inhaling and then just doesn't stop the
22990s	entire universe starts imploding inside
22992s	it turns around and just says call me
22994s	kirby
22999s	oh it's gotta be right you just
23001s	munch everything
23003s	it's just good because also your
23005s	opponent has four cards in hand what
23007s	they actually got left right yeah
23010s	oh let's go
23013s	it's such a big bird
23017s	oh oh
23020s	oh
23021s	just missed
23024s	yeah it's only 22 23.
23028s	okay you even have brown on the uh the
23030s	school teacher as well so you're looking
23032s	for
23035s	i know did you take bioluminescence
23036s	because you want to hit they got geyser
23038s	to just kill the fortu if you want sure
23041s	yeah just as a simple level
23044s	or if you're feeling really spicy just
23045s	push it push the damaged face
23051s	i hope that went face it definitely
23053s	didn't but i hope it did
23058s	yeah let's put that second from the
23059s	bottom and then let's put a worst card
23061s	directly on the top perfect
23065s	or second from the top sir oh five mana
23068s	over half of the manner available this
23070s	turn spent on drawing a couple of cards
23072s	just get oh
23075s	then again is it even gonna save him
23076s	that's still an eight drop
23078s	or the dude shocker or whatever it's
23080s	called
23083s	i hope that's what it's called
23085s	upset that card needs to be buffed
23087s	because there is no way we're going
23089s	through a whole two years and not seeing
23092s	a card that throws minions at stuff not
23095s	be played yeah it's way too cool
23105s	all righty
23107s	might be the turn to get broken down
23109s	right um
23111s	just to start juicing those hero powers
23113s	i think i'm looking more heavily at
23114s	mutanus i i just kind of want to start
23117s	locking out the outs
23119s	of
23120s	daenerys freezes
23123s	um
23123s	[Music]
23125s	you'd already assume there's no guardian
23127s	right because
23128s	that was clearly about the desperation
23130s	play from woods right here and five
23132s	minutes to draw instead yeah that's a
23134s	good point
23137s	yeah again not by no means saying
23139s	mutants is a bad play here just piles up
23141s	more threats gets to push seven to face
23143s	because i don't imagine
23145s	i'm not gonna trade
23147s	these trades come on man surely that was
23149s	the face
23154s	oh
23155s	comes here to save the day
23158s	yeah
23159s	he starts inspecting what's happened
23161s	here and it's just like i'm out i don't
23162s	know what's going on
23164s	there's just bodies everywhere well
23166s	there's piles of bones and then a little
23168s	parrot sat in the corner it's like what
23171s	happened here i'm out
23175s	what's in europe you've been promoted
23185s	you know i mean
23188s	he's not great to do he's gonna at least
23190s	start with murloc holmes commander
23191s	neptulon is good of course but
23195s	he's
23197s	laid kale fast so you know it's that one
23199s	just pick
23202s	this one's much harder
23206s	probably not primordial wave
23208s	because we would have seen that but
23211s	honestly i don't know i i think it could
23212s	be any of these it's it right okay
23218s	i mean he spent the whole turn on the
23220s	mystery here and he does get it right to
23222s	be fair
23225s	it's time to go i'm just gonna kill the
23226s	seventh
23229s	okay fair enough you solved the mystery
23231s	you don't often see that
23233s	i'm gonna hold the airwave
23236s	okay taking six from the muteness
23238s	obviously me the mutant is not huge
23240s	right it's a big minion in general but
23242s	not threatening enough
23246s	12 damage face available on this turn
23250s	and i think we're always just taking
23252s	that we want to start pressuring them
23254s	threatening to kill them every time fire
23256s	rolls around
23264s	yeah i think i just like i think the
23266s	more hero powers you get to press with
23268s	prakan the happier you are right so i i
23271s	think just getting this down now nothing
23272s	really shines is anything that much
23274s	better
23275s	the only thing to consider
23278s	was a preemptive trade with the mutinous
23280s	and then heal but i think at this stage
23283s	in the game not worth it by any means
23291s	nice clean clear with the piranhas
23295s	also got off at the heel hero power
23297s	right so he was fine passing down
23299s	big time
23301s	no fire though which is obviously what
23302s	you'd like to see to just keep
23304s	threatening threatening threatening uh
23306s	but with all the mutinous effects used
23308s	up uh for this game uh so far as we can
23311s	tell uh woods is pretty happy to find
23314s	the genathrius because he can really
23316s	start juicing that piranhas in hand
23318s	knoll that can sacrifice in
23321s	ever worth
23324s	playing
23337s	10
23344s	it is big i'm not hugely convinced but
23347s	the problem is
23348s	one fire hero power
23351s	and then he's suddenly in a scary zone
23352s	again yeah he gets to heal with the
23354s	swing of the weapon but he has to kill
23356s	this mutinous and one d like six from uh
23359s	the brakan again puts him in a huge
23362s	problem and he doesn't even know what's
23363s	in the nugget
23366s	now this is kind of a heartbreaker of
23367s	the turn he really wanted to slam that
23369s	primordial wave
23371s	or just at least target the knoll
23373s	uh with the muck pool but he has to just
23375s	get himself a six drop here which is a
23377s	good one
23378s	uh just to get a bit of extra culture
23380s	right yeah exactly i think it summons a
23382s	2-4 uh on death rattle now or something
23387s	uh but i mean woods's hand has improved
23389s	a lot now right mutinous donath oh yeah
23392s	getting big
23394s	and every turn he holds off the uh
23399s	the potential damage swing if he wants
23401s	to go for the the bolner denathrius is
23403s	there if not then he can still just go
23406s	like bone and mutinous right and start
23408s	chomping
23410s	many choices
23416s	trying to think what the the primary
23417s	game plan should be here for us because
23420s	his options uh his like his advantages
23422s	are starting to dry up woods is going to
23424s	heal at some point soon he's got a more
23427s	meaty hand right now
23429s	uh and used i guess just has to try and
23432s	go really wide on the board and hope
23434s	that that gets there maybe there's no
23436s	freeze on the other side because uh like
23438s	you said it's a little bit uh he would
23440s	have played it earlier on if he had it
23442s	oh
23443s	yeah i think he's relying on actually
23446s	just getting a surprise six damage his
23448s	opponent not playing dinah threes
23451s	and then having the murlocs to push
23453s	damage right
23454s	with fleurgal yeah okay i'm excited
23458s	what happened
23460s	oh not daenerys it's mutinous here
23463s	these uh this is finger food right now
23465s	this is not a full meal
23468s	this is when you go to a pie that's way
23470s	too fancy and all you want is an actual
23471s	full plate of food
23473s	yeah you get like a deconstructed hotel
23477s	cheese toasty and you're like no i just
23478s	want a real one yeah i don't even know
23481s	what that was
23483s	i was just worried after i saw on that
23484s	one he's one for fancy named food
23487s	i had that i went uh i went with my
23489s	girlfriend's parents to a very fancy
23490s	restaurant in france which was delicious
23492s	but at the start they bring you like a
23494s	little a moose bouche and one of them
23496s	was just like it was good it was like a
23498s	truffle cheese toasty little bite and it
23501s	was nice but it was just a cheese toasty
23504s	yeah you can't really uh dress it up
23506s	that much can you exactly kind of is
23508s	what it is i wasn't gonna tell the
23510s	waiter that in my extremely pigeon
23512s	french but uh yeah i'm on to them
23516s	if you just put a fancy word in front of
23518s	it we could just sell cheese toasties
23520s	for 50 quid a pop yeah wait a second le
23522s	cheese toasty i know what this is
23526s	the cheesy a toasty r
23530s	or the the onstar toast
23533s	to
23535s	take me pick taste
23539s	i ended up being schooling from the
23541s	second nagaland i actually didn't catch
23543s	that till we just saw it now
23545s	yeah prime model again which i think
23548s	you know we used to could be at least
23549s	looking at this turn especially with the
23551s	null being played
23552s	yeah agreed you've got piranha trade in
23555s	no valley trade the taunt
23557s	uh
23558s	even drop the air anchor
23560s	right
23562s	uh yeah i guess through afternoons
23566s	yeah not now if he goes for primordial
23568s	but just before if he didn't want to
23569s	play the piranha instead but i think
23571s	this just works out oh no another knoll
23574s	and the explosive sheep and the
23576s	trickster oh disaster
23580s	oh
23582s	but there's the damage that's what we
23583s	needed to see
23588s	okay so this is just daenerys and then
23592s	parrot them probably
23594s	agreed
23597s	that's the combo that's the real combo
23599s	right that's the game winner
23601s	wait is
23605s	white well woods just wants to guarantee
23608s	as much board clear as possible
23611s	yeah i mean the best way to do that is
23613s	which again with that sheep you've got
23615s	to look at it right
23617s	yeah yeah yeah
23618s	but i think it's fairly juiced at this
23620s	point we're like 10 i think at this
23622s	point around there
23632s	who damaged the donations it's a little
23634s	bit annoying
23640s	and are there even any murlocs left in
23642s	the deck like not many
23644s	yeah
23646s	oh i can check when exactly 15 right
23649s	wait
23650s	can't check
23652s	no good if only i had
23655s	anger in a minute
23659s	oh yeah my things just broke give me a
23660s	second to let me refresh
23662s	as you were derek carrier carry on
23665s	uh yeah i mean well the the headline is
23668s	right this is just really really slowing
23670s	down for osteo whether or not there's
23671s	murlocs left in the deck uh which i
23674s	think is like
23675s	one clownfish
23677s	couple of amalgams
23680s	uh it's like it's okay it's okay but
23683s	it's not as big as what's happening on
23684s	the other side of the board which is
23686s	just not slowing down
23687s	there's just more damage
23689s	of course pirate doesn't have lifesteal
23692s	unfortunately for woods but still good
23695s	amount of damage being pushed catching
23697s	up on the the health difference here
23699s	yeah big time
23700s	getting very close to equalized
23703s	it's not going to be rough as well
23705s	because although woods is on low health
23707s	uh he can't really expect too many more
23710s	ways to actually stop daenerys right
23714s	which means the second in atheists gets
23716s	to hit phase it's probably just over
23718s	yeah if this heals for 10 i think uster
23721s	is in big big trouble
23725s	and uh how do you stop that
23727s	you could get the
23729s	[Music]
23731s	lead
23738s	yeah that's still good well both of
23740s	those stop it
23742s	and you still get to go face for two
23744s	this turn
23746s	and next turn and if you get a five uh
23749s	sorry a six damage hero power next turn
23752s	that's a winning combo perhaps
23756s	makes sense to me
23759s	and it's razor razor thin right now so
23763s	close
23766s	oh
23766s	he got it your final encounter
23770s	oh percondo
23776s	he has to play bakan right he just has
23778s	to
23782s	yes it can't be any other players to
23785s	prakhan and taunt right
23790s	and then just pray that that's enough
23792s	you torn and heal
23795s	oh oh wait a minute
23797s	does the anchor
23799s	and the piranhas get through the
23811s	which means it's
23813s	who off lethal
23815s	but he can't stop the tenacious
23818s	oh my wait wait goodness he does it all
23821s	pushes damage
23822s	and waves right
23825s	golly denies the donathius yeah that's
23828s	the big one you could also i mean if you
23829s	play knoll you get a ten drop as well
23831s	yeah that's what i mean like if dinah
23833s	three swings he's in huge huge trouble
23836s	he has to stop it and so that's gonna be
23839s	what three four five six seven yeah he's
23841s	got enough mana as well
23851s	is it game i mean it doesn't have any oh
23853s	no no i just had much follow-up extra
23854s	damage oh sorry
23856s	yes oh sorry not it's game my bad
23859s	it's me mumbling don't worry about it
23865s	i'm coming
23868s	also does the extra small benefit of
23870s	juicing the denatures a little bit as
23872s	well with the two piranhas
23876s	something
23879s	now what's the nine job gonna be
23882s	whoa
23884s	oh it's on he didn't get the damage
23886s	through oh he did because of elixir i
23888s	was just going to say my world war was
23890s	shouldn't he have attacked first yeah
23892s	yeah yeah
23895s	oh and the parrot what what does
23897s	paraguay is that still
23900s	no it's brakan it's brukan we can't but
23902s	also his nine drop was devourer oh man
23908s	oh it's so close so he can go devour of
23911s	his own which just gets omega big at
23914s	this point with the three minions on the
23915s	other side of the board but he's a two
23918s	blooming health and then your opponent
23920s	like they just dropped to nathrius and
23922s	hope for two lucky missiles
23925s	look
23927s	all in on devourer
23928s	this four four's a sign it's gotta be
23931s	right yeah just devour and go
23934s	whoa
23935s	oh there's a chance he lives
23939s	it's so close man
23944s	this dinathius is up to like 10 yeah
23946s	actually 10. oh my god
23951s	you missed they missed everyone
23955s	oh
23957s	he's still not dead what is this game
23960s	got 20 what 25
23965s	also what gets to heal this turn
23969s	and go above a damage hero power from
23972s	euster that's right oh my god and he
23975s	gets to freeze
23977s	so we can just go macaw munch that eats
23979s	the donathious on the other side
23980s	guaranteed
23982s	oh
23984s	gets the heel the heel's so big
23987s	i cannot believe he's one
23990s	million damage
23993s	what are even the outs now for us does
23995s	he have another guardian maybe or i
23997s	think the outs are in the next game
23999s	derek at this point i think it might be
24002s	even
24003s	like
24004s	even a guardian woods has two guardians
24007s	so you can't win that fight right like
24009s	it's just not gonna
24011s	matter and the problem now is
24014s	users in range of damage hero power
24017s	woods is not and if you assume they they
24020s	get their own hero powers at the same
24021s	rate
24022s	who's just forever going to be in the
24024s	the soft danger zone right yeah
24031s	oh nemo's not going to help this time
24034s	i think that's it
24039s	got nemo gorlok
24043s	and then you can get an amalgam but that
24044s	can't even discover you anything that
24046s	allows you to survive
24048s	oh that's going to be game woods takes
24051s	it and i know we started the series off
24053s	of the game off sorry saying like well
24055s	these shaymin games go long they get
24057s	very grindy but i will say derek this
24060s	one one of the more exciting ones that
24062s	i've had the pleasure to cast wow
24065s	that was just such a sick ending like
24067s	i'm sure there's so many points along
24069s	the way where the players are like oh
24071s	could i have saved one extra health
24072s	could i've healed one extra damage along
24074s	the way because that's the kind of
24076s	margins we were working with there uh to
24078s	potentially be fighting back and forth
24079s	with there was even again we we had the
24082s	discussion in this same game of
24084s	hearthstone way back when uh about
24086s	whether just the instead of the globe
24088s	turn was it just go off with kale fast
24091s	and dinah three years to just land a
24092s	huge board that turn instead of doing
24094s	the glug
24096s	and and you know maybe that would have
24098s	turned out differently maybe it would
24099s	have been way worse who knows but
24101s	regardless such a back and forth game
24104s	and it's not often you see both
24106s	dinatharius played and neither player
24109s	wins off the back of it it was crazy he
24112s	needed two damage to go face and zero
24116s	went face with the help of that 20
24118s	health devourer there it is
24121s	which means that woods a single game
24124s	away from those semi-finals now
24126s	guaranteeing himself the top four spots
24128s	in masters tour murder at castle nathria
24131s	just the druid left over as well having
24133s	one with his mage and shaman now and he
24135s	needs to get one win against either
24138s	shaman or
24140s	mage i think on the other side as the uh
24143s	the only difference is was the the rogue
24145s	on one side
24146s	uh and the druid on the other and uh
24149s	druid versus sharman uh druid versus uh
24152s	mage two very interesting matchups as
24154s	the kind of trifecta i think of three
24155s	most popular ladder decks right now for
24158s	what i'm seeing at least
24159s	um and against shaman
24162s	it it's such a close battle because they
24165s	they are very similar decks in a weird
24167s	way where they have
24169s	fairly slow starts all things considered
24171s	shaman with a little bit more potential
24172s	for explosivity
24174s	uh very disruptive late games with
24176s	theater and mutinous available on either
24179s	side to mess things up uh and the
24181s	devourers for both players to munch
24182s	either side of the board but then they
24184s	have other power spikes along the way
24186s	like the ramp for druid makes an
24188s	absolute world of difference in hitting
24190s	those key turns a little bit faster but
24192s	sharpens disruption is a little bit
24194s	stronger because they have mutinous the
24196s	macaws the bowl of the brand to double
24198s	down on all those disruptive effects so
24200s	it's really really tough to call this
24202s	one at the start of any game it is going
24205s	to be tricky as well because if it's
24206s	against really any of the freeze decks
24208s	so he's going to be going up against the
24210s	sherman from used to um there is the in
24212s	this list the naga giants which again so
24215s	what do we talk about in the rogue
24217s	matchup is well those stats don't get
24219s	reduced if you silence them right so
24221s	there was the starfish and the naga
24223s	giants that could potentially if they're
24225s	on board and get frozen just pop out of
24227s	that freezing and punch them for eight
24229s	to 16 damage anyway so yeah there's a
24231s	lot going on woods not messed around
24234s	saying you know what hello donathious
24236s	you can stay and they're going to keep
24238s	hold of that along with that wild growth
24240s	and go
24241s	taking pretty much all the boxes you
24243s	want in your opening hand here
24245s	very much so yeah it's uh
24248s	very close to the perfect druid hand
24250s	right now a little bit of extra uh card
24252s	draw i guess to round this out would be
24254s	what you want because you'd rather just
24255s	ramp every turn with garth and not have
24257s	to spam the draw on that hero power uh
24259s	but yeah definitely demanding that
24261s	usually gets off to a nice fast start
24263s	here or find some of those key
24264s	disruptive tools that i talked about you
24266s	know tope is nice as well to follow up
24268s	with oh yeah
24270s	because again i think
24271s	a lot of not enough respect was shown to
24274s	this card in reviews i know you were
24276s	part of a review of course derek but i
24278s	thought this card looked insane and i
24280s	think a few people said oh too slow or
24283s	not needed i was like wow and it turned
24286s	out that hey it's pretty good endless
24288s	three threes with rush seem strong who
24290s	would have thought
24292s	yeah i think the one question for me was
24294s	whether or not there'd be enough whether
24295s	or not there'd be enough playable nature
24297s	spells in the right deck
24299s	because obviously we have innovate
24301s	nourish wild growth these are all very
24302s	very powerful but a lot of them were new
24304s	like
24305s	are we gonna play uh
24307s	uh the planted evidence is that good
24309s	enough on average does that discover
24310s	enough nature spells on average uh the
24312s	natural causes and uh in the end i think
24315s	it's just very very clear yes you play
24317s	topiar if you have any amount of nature
24318s	spells in your deck
24321s	even one that'll do
24323s	interest as well woods going for that
24324s	nourish not gonna drop the gurf wants to
24326s	hold on to the coin because i think he
24328s	would have gone
24330s	coin hero power uh likely that turn to
24332s	not miss out so you have to go for the
24334s	nourish instead
24336s	i'm gonna go up to eight man the next
24338s	turn now with the coin if needed doesn't
24339s	mean he gets to play a miracle though
24342s	but uh
24345s	one bloodlist away from a good time
24348s	i mean forget about the bloodlust he's
24349s	just killing him this turn
24352s	this is insane yeah woods is like wait a
24354s	minute this give me time this isn't fair
24356s	chill out one bird just chill out bro
24360s	uh
24362s	yeah what what are we doing here we
24364s	agreed on 15 minutes no rush what's
24366s	going on
24368s	so if you go miracle growth
24370s	you
24372s	die
24374s	goth right now isn't saving you
24378s	bro does he coin first
24381s	no one gets spammy i mean doesn't do
24383s	anything right yeah
24386s	ivers
24388s	oh
24389s	dude
24391s	i mean
24392s	coin ivers
24396s	wait for
24401s	this i don't know
24402s	playing cards yeah i think it is wow oh
24405s	my god like that
24408s	you still decided to go all kinds of
24410s	aggro with the shaymin list there and
24412s	again just a reminder it's a 40 card
24414s	list and i'll tell you right now the
24415s	majority of cards in that deck are not
24417s	aggro cards so yeah used to getting the
24419s	job done with the help of anything can
24421s	happen
24422s	and uh wow just like that derek wind
24424s	druid versus mage is the last game i
24426s	mean very appropriate shows with shaman
24428s	truly anything can happen as that is uh
24431s	not how that usually goes let me tell
24434s	you both on a tournament and ladder
24435s	experience uh shifting us very quickly
24438s	over to just the uh the mage left over
24442s	uh for ustia and the list which i'm sure
24444s	we're gonna take a look at very very
24446s	soon is i think the 30 card list very
24450s	importantly up against druid is
24452s	specifically the uh the 30 card build uh
24454s	with uh some really interesting tech
24457s	decisions in here like a lot of cards i
24459s	would not have thought
24461s	you'd be able to make room for in a list
24464s	that is so tight already like we're
24466s	talking about double suspicious
24467s	alchemist double solid alibi in a list
24470s	that also runs double frozen touch it's
24473s	uh really just this kind of version you
24474s	were talking about i think with uh no
24477s	kel'thuzad that you're really losing out
24479s	here yeah uh not the exact list i've
24482s	been testing and messing around with but
24484s	i love double frozen touch i love double
24486s	sided alibi nothing's quite as perfect
24490s	as getting a third frozen touch from
24492s	dawn grasp and that is a quite magical
24495s	there and but yes a pretty aggressive
24498s	list and you kind of play it more like a
24500s	burn mage i'm not sure really about the
24503s	famished fool not maybe convinced on
24505s	surface level about the alchemist either
24508s	uh but in general a deck i like a lot
24510s	and i've been doing pretty well versus
24511s	druid actually because as long as you
24513s	know you just get that curve which guess
24515s	what the curve kind of stops at four
24517s	anyway with this deck and then you're
24519s	feeling pretty good and the solid alibi
24522s	allows you to have like
24524s	two extra pounds of okay you're probably
24527s	not gonna kill me regardless of how big
24529s	your board is and i get to keep hero
24532s	powering with that dawngrass pair of
24533s	power or maybe you know setting up some
24535s	frozen touch or some uh brand reckless
24537s	apprentice to push extra damage so
24540s	i've been pretty okay in this matchup
24543s	but again i've not really played
24544s	hundreds of games of the matchup right
24546s	but just from my own little experience
24549s	yeah i think i believe in this list uh
24552s	the
24552s	uh solid aloe i think is actually a
24554s	pretty
24556s	useful card even though it may not seem
24557s	that way at first because you're just
24558s	trying to trying to double down on the
24560s	aggro game plan as much as you humanly
24562s	can
24563s	uh but for late game where they do have
24565s	uh devour on board donations on board
24568s	whatever it may be
24569s	it's so crucial i think the easiest way
24572s	i've thought of explaining how good
24573s	alibi is in this style of deck i'm not
24575s	talking about the bigger you know big
24577s	mage in excel and all that is think
24580s	about how many more games you would have
24581s	won if you could have hero powered two
24583s	more times as dawn grasp
24585s	right and then suddenly like oh yeah
24587s	that's probably quite strong
24591s	you know diving straight in keeping the
24593s	snow flurry and the intellect keep their
24596s	card draw going
24598s	it can't go horribly wrong i will say
24599s	that the matchup is a lot harder if your
24601s	opponent theotards your dawn grasp
24603s	though because that's a
24605s	big
24606s	a big problem
24609s	indeed yeah i don't think you're gonna
24610s	be winning that one uh as there is
24613s	magister jawgrass as if by magic just
24615s	when you asked for it uh which makes the
24617s	ai keep look a lot better you know it's
24619s	a card you really only want to play at
24621s	the start because it gets repeated of
24623s	dawn grasp which
24624s	uh bolsters your mid game so heavily
24627s	but like on its own it's not a good turn
24630s	three play
24642s	yeah i really like holding on to the uh
24643s	zero mana ping here as well if at all
24646s	possible i'd like to have that on the
24647s	dawn grasp turn uh so you can upgrade
24650s	immediately
24656s	yeah it looks pretty good against the 40
24657s	health in some matchups it's good to
24659s	just start stacking pings because of um
24661s	modresh of course uh but in this match
24664s	up it it just doesn't do anything right
24666s	40 health druid the druid also runs the
24670s	um scales as well right for the armor so
24673s	it just doesn't really work out that
24674s	well uh what's on the other hand though
24676s	is going to be ramping up fairly quickly
24678s	and can
24680s	go for the dinathrius if he wants
24683s	is this oh yeah that's just two
24687s	yeah we'll definitely take the first one
24689s	even if we're not playing on this turn
24690s	you do not care at all because that dana
24693s	sorry that's in hatred is going to be
24694s	playable very very soon and it's going
24696s	to heal you for a lot when it does
24698s	because we have ramp again this turn a
24701s	nixie other turn after and then hell
24703s	maybe even just another three is the
24704s	turn after that that's already pretty
24706s	dang good
24707s	yeah pingus now as well might look a
24709s	little bit weird but uh he's just
24712s	playing this next amplified anyway so
24714s	just use the hero power up still retains
24716s	the zero mana ping of course but it's
24718s	just an extra minion
24720s	on board and i think wow any form of
24723s	minion damage is
24727s	man is this really ivis on this turn
24729s	instead of nourish number two
24733s	yeah woods just doesn't to take that
24735s	much damage until he's got his dinah
24736s	three secure um
24739s	which i don't hate honestly
24744s	okay
24746s	paulie
24747s	[Music]
24753s	yeah the problem is if you pick polly
24754s	your opponent is also probably going to
24755s	pick the same thing because that's the
24757s	one they'd want the most i think that's
24759s	kind of okay though because again this
24760s	deck doesn't run deathborn right you're
24762s	not trying to make
24764s	uh amounts of skeletons you just run in
24766s	your locations uh which skeletons come
24769s	one by one there so not really
24770s	polymorphable um and also two cold cases
24774s	maybe one off the dawn grasp i think
24775s	polymorph would have been okay i think
24777s	the only drawback of it is um
24780s	is it manner efficient with what you're
24783s	trying to do
24784s	to spend seven mana on the polymorph but
24787s	i probably liked it a little bit more
24789s	than volcano benzene
24792s	and honestly
24793s	sorry with the amount of draw that druid
24795s	has is giving the polymorph actually
24797s	okay are they really going to spend
24798s	seven man on that in the near future
24800s	just let it sit with the hand
24802s	loki the volcano mounts is like kind of
24804s	better for them here as well with your
24805s	yeah your board that you have
24808s	are you ever picking it if you would
24810s	though i can't imagine
24812s	or maybe maybe i'm too focused on like i
24814s	would pick polymorph
24820s	there's just so many levels of mind
24821s	games deep it's so hard to to predict it
24824s	perfectly yeah
24829s	oh okay
24830s	a lot of tokens available for this
24832s	dinatrius with flipper friends inixia
24834s	and scale of enyxia this is going to be
24837s	very happily doing 20 damage by the time
24839s	it comes down if not more
24843s	damn okay turn before magister dawn
24845s	grasp i guess this was his plan all
24847s	along
24848s	and there it is
24850s	no oh
24854s	i'm being rich i don't think it matters
24855s	anymore yeah yeah go for it holly dollar
24858s	by dawn grasp when you run flipper
24860s	friends annixia dinatrius in hand
24865s	and fair play together
24867s	it's not the line i was looking at but
24869s	it's the line that might have just won
24871s	him the game because this hand for use
24874s	uh ustia you take out the dawn grasp and
24877s	it looks
24878s	so much worse oh my goodness
24885s	especially as there's no kel'thuzad
24887s	right there there's none of this
24888s	alternate late game you really have
24890s	access to with the dinathias that some
24892s	people are playing
24894s	yeah the other thing is mo dress right
24896s	for some damage so there is still like
24899s	ways with like
24901s	i think the problem at the moment is
24903s	there's not even any wildfires yet right
24908s	is this really the play
24912s	if there was wildfires you could at
24913s	least say okay were you doing three
24915s	damage pings
24917s	reckless with bran can do six damage you
24919s	know and and more dressed just 10 you
24921s	know and try and add it up like that
24923s	maybe with some frozen touch but it's a
24925s	long shot but it's it's a plan maybe not
24927s	a good plan but a plan but now we're all
24930s	in on frozen touch
24932s	i don't know if i like this line by
24934s	ouster as well i think if he'd gone for
24936s	frozen touch before volcano mancy would
24938s	have put frozen touch in his savara uh
24941s	whereas now savara is giving him another
24943s	near useless volcano mancy
24945s	um when you would obviously much much
24947s	rather be able to just uh ping for a
24949s	bunch more damage because it's real out
24951s	here i think is dinathias and earthen
24954s	scales at the bottom of the deck and
24956s	i don't know you win board for a couple
24958s	turns and then just launch
24959s	uh frozen touches
24961s	yeah i mean it
24963s	really is just hope your opponent
24965s	doesn't have game like insta game
24967s	winning cards and just keep spamming
24969s	right but again with no wildfire your
24972s	pings doing nothing either
24974s	rough
24976s	oh and there's just so many cards you
24978s	have to hope they don't have as well
24983s	yeah and druid and not having cards even
24985s	in the 40 card version doesn't really go
24987s	together that often right so much card
24989s	draw so much mana to use that card drive
24992s	required
24996s	he's digging i do not know what he's
24998s	digging for though
25000s	hey don't you need something if only to
25002s	potentially infuse the frozen touch good
25004s	point
25008s	just dungeon in and
25010s	down
25011s	and with the location
25013s	i think that's the levels of desperation
25015s	you get into yeah god uh maybe just cold
25019s	case more mana efficient
25024s	i mean i i think it should be pretty
25026s	obvious from the tone of our voice we
25028s	don't think any of these players are
25029s	actually game yeah
25033s	but these are the plays you have to come
25034s	up with when you're not on ladder and in
25036s	a very important tournament so yeah
25038s	definitely don't want to stop because i
25040s	guess i should leave this to be fair
25042s	sorry uh one thing i didn't pick up on
25043s	to ooster he was at nine mana and played
25046s	five mana draw here he had a chance to
25048s	hit theater that was the out for him
25049s	there right draw theater before they've
25051s	actually played dawngrass because woods
25053s	is kind of greeting it here by playing
25055s	guff first getting up to 20 mana then
25057s	playing thorn grasp
25059s	but i
25060s	kind of feel like at this point you're
25061s	actually supposed to play it just to
25063s	lock out the outs of theater 100 because
25066s	if theo tar steals dawn grasp this turn
25069s	or you know next time whatever then
25071s	you're back in the game right like you
25073s	know you're not just almost guaranteed a
25075s	win but yep woods no more chances gonna
25077s	play the uh dawn grasp right now and uh
25080s	yeah gets to just guess what two more
25082s	druid things
25085s	oh with their powers combined as well uh
25087s	a dawn grasp that can reach 20 mana is
25090s	so broken
25094s	with this kind of hand as well i mean
25096s	the options are just
25097s	unlimited at this point absolutely
25100s	[Music]
25102s	also he's got the machine he's got the
25104s	kennel just so he can kill the puppies
25110s	that is dark woods yeah
25120s	oh just tossing it all away saying yeah
25122s	this garbage isn't doing anything
25125s	yeah will mean i think he almost
25127s	certainly gets the wildfires here right
25130s	yeah almost guaranteed it's not
25131s	guaranteed
25133s	and theater which to be fair
25135s	could get dinathius i guess at this
25137s	point that's
25139s	the out and he hits both bran and
25141s	theater so let's go
25143s	jamie couldn't get guff then we
25153s	uh counter spell and mass polly yeah
25155s	those seem good
25156s	and then let's hear
25158s	us and alex strazza
25160s	[Music]
25164s	from the counter
25166s	yeah wildfire is just good for them
25169s	and i'll be like no
25170s	i'm giving them the cards they now want
25173s	oh you gotta give him the flip of reds
25174s	back
25176s	all the otters just like yay
25184s	yeah i mean missing to nathalie it's
25186s	like
25187s	maybe i should have spotted a little bit
25188s	earlier that was the outfit year which i
25190s	think he spotted straight away by just
25192s	slamming finley he knew that's what he
25193s	needed to get
25195s	but uh
25197s	as we can see with that avenue now
25199s	closed up we're looking at winning board
25201s	with onyxia your opponent not having an
25204s	answer
25205s	going face for everything and then
25207s	mordress needing to get in and then you
25210s	still need like 10 or more damage on top
25212s	of that
25213s	maybe like 20 more damage on top of that
25215s	actually
25220s	it's just
25221s	so so difficult to make work
25233s	yeah it's just not looking good is it
25236s	it is not i do enjoy trying to find the
25239s	craziest of outs but even i'm struggling
25241s	right now
25243s	racking that crazy little mind of yours
25246s	yeah
25249s	you can just walk straight into a spammy
25250s	clear as well
25252s	that's brutal
25254s	how a spell to god gets to start hero
25256s	powering face it's just so much manner
25261s	you feel the need to hero power he
25262s	doesn't care
25264s	yeah i mean i guess world growth i was
25267s	thinking maybe you're supposed to ping
25268s	away your your three two there your
25269s	widow bloom uh just to upgrade the hero
25272s	power but i i don't think it matters
25278s	uh you do know the secret though uh at
25281s	least you know it's counter spell if
25282s	you're
25287s	i don't know what you can do with that
25288s	information but you have it
25290s	but you own that information yes that's
25292s	yours now
25295s	nice
25309s	and to be fair to him like usual has
25311s	held on for a really long time here like
25314s	if you're on ladder
25316s	i think as soon as you don't hit
25318s	dinathrius off of theater you realize
25320s	it's over you just don't even try
25321s	anymore at that point uh but he is
25323s	soldiering on uh if nothing else he's
25326s	playing to that
25327s	mute out that you could still get uh
25330s	with theater and anixia working in
25332s	tandem uh with more dress sorry anna
25334s	next year working in tandem
25346s	you're not getting in this way
25356s	i'm looking good that's too late to play
25358s	with
25364s	okay of course discovering mage spells
25366s	now uh-huh
25370s	oh yeah okay yeah you should just add
25372s	enough and you know what don't blame him
25374s	it could have gone on maybe for a few
25376s	more turns but it was just never gonna
25378s	happen i think unless you already have
25382s	been ahead and pushed a ton of damage uh
25384s	with you know getting wildfire on turn
25386s	one turn two into cold case into
25388s	reckless push pushing damage like that
25390s	and with then the two frozen touch sort
25393s	of cycling
25395s	you can't do anything without dawn grasp
25396s	and it is a again one of the weaknesses
25399s	of that style of list right if you do
25400s	get caught with dawn grasp and i have it
25402s	stolen away it's humane win condition so
25405s	tough one there for us here but it does
25407s	mean a win for three words and uh it's
25410s	gonna be a huge win at that because that
25412s	was by no means
25416s	yeah that was a really tough one uh for
25417s	woods to be fighting through i think
25419s	ustia played very very well that road
25420s	game in particular for me yeah uh all
25423s	five hours ago uh was a a very very well
25426s	played game i think and uh the key tech
25428s	of starfish i think was absolutely
25430s	inspired and uh i fully accept that that
25433s	is probably just the best built to go
25435s	for uh of rogue even just based on that
25437s	one game sample size uh but with that
25439s	all said and done it means europe is out
25441s	of the running for this master story
25443s	it's all apac and china down at the
25445s	bottom uh with woods to round it out
25448s	which means we're uh
25450s	you know we're breaking new ground if
25452s	nothing else because europe has been on
25453s	top for the last few masters tours it's
25455s	felt like and uh we're in with a
25458s	a very good shot still mr raven of that
25462s	first apac victory oh yeah and like i
25464s	said for europe you've got to take a
25466s	weekend off now and again right
25468s	you have to reset and relax so
25470s	completely understandable from the
25472s	european players but i am very excited
25475s	for this top four like i said the three
25477s	players representing apac at three
25480s	completely different reasons why i'm
25482s	excited for them which is great and then
25484s	woods a player we've honestly not heard
25486s	too much about uh looking to maybe upset
25489s	derek's dreams which is also something i
25491s	can get behind sometimes um but yeah
25494s	really good top four coming right up we
25495s	are going to go to a break while we set
25497s	up the next match though and i'm just
25499s	gonna triple check but yeah we are going
25501s	in normal order here so it is going to
25502s	be meru versus tonsoku coming up next
25505s	don't go anywhere
25508s	[Music]
25515s	[Music]
25529s	[Music]
25560s	[Applause]
25562s	[Music]
25600s	[Music]
25606s	[Music]
25629s	[Applause]
25638s	[Music]
25670s	so
25672s	[Music]
25703s	welcome back everybody to masters tour
25705s	murder at castle nathria and we have
25708s	finally reached the semi-finals of this
25710s	tournament and we have got four
25713s	incredible players left here um
25716s	edelweiss uh we have got this semi-final
25718s	member versus tan soku anything stand
25721s	out to you in the lineups that could
25722s	give anybody an edge
25725s	you know honestly they're they're fairly
25727s	similar it's it's just again that uh
25731s	oh actually i suppose we do have
25733s	we have mass polly versus priests again
25736s	uh tennessee's mass polly in the
25739s	um
25740s	wherever it is sure my brains melt at
25742s	this point in the mage versus the priest
25745s	again uh which got him through the
25746s	previous round yeah i think we're all
25749s	recovering from that shaman mirror from
25751s	earlier even even us not having to cast
25754s	it just kind of keeping eyes on it uh
25756s	yeah it's three classes the same uh the
25759s	difference of rogue and priest as you
25762s	say that polymorph could come into play
25765s	i do
25766s	actually like this mage after playing
25769s	even a little bit more of it just
25772s	minus the deep water evoker plus
25774s	multicaster would be the only change
25776s	that i would make but
25778s	all the lineups are so similar it's
25782s	it's tough to say who has any
25784s	any given edge
25786s	here is that decklist with the
25790s	fronted deepwater evoker in it is it um
25793s	a general dislike for the card or a
25794s	dislike for the card in this meta like
25797s	obviously starting with 40 health for
25798s	reason getting
25800s	some more health some of the time is a
25801s	good reason drawing a card but you just
25803s	want the consistency of just another
25805s	card in your deck
25807s	yeah i just think that multicaster is
25810s	really what you need to keep the hand
25812s	full you are still running arcane
25813s	intellect and wildfire frostweave
25816s	dungeoneer sort of an always keep that's
25818s	pretty decently likely to find you a
25820s	frost spell and if it doesn't well
25822s	frostbell is the most prevalent in your
25824s	deck so then there's two free
25825s	multicaster i think you don't mind
25827s	drawing two off of it and and deep water
25830s	the upside just isn't there when your
25832s	spells are not only big spells
25835s	yeah obviously you mentioned earlier the
25837s	flurries being a major setback um i was
25840s	trying to make the point that well maybe
25841s	you want a flowy but yeah the way you're
25842s	going to do it with the multicaster well
25844s	you just get another card anyway which
25846s	you always want more cards and you're
25848s	digging closer to the cards that you
25849s	need whatever they may be so i think i'm
25851s	in agreement with you i think that makes
25853s	some sense uh i guess
25856s	one reason for this these decks were
25858s	submitted three days ago now or two and
25860s	a half days ago the meta was only
25861s	actually a week or so old so
25864s	this weekend has been sort of twenty
25866s	percent of the meta so plenty of time to
25869s	see that change maybe for grand masters
25871s	next week as we look at tan soko's list
25873s	which is almost identical but does have
25875s	that mass polymorph which we we've
25877s	mentioned briefly
25880s	yeah even you know couple weeks after
25882s	expansion release meta can still develop
25884s	very quickly we're going to have some
25886s	balance coming up but that aside
25889s	you know i've seen
25890s	mage develop a little more rapidly such
25892s	that there's maybe a different
25894s	settled upon list of course we saw the
25896s	rogue making its debut this weekend and
25899s	i don't know about you but i've run into
25901s	a couple of druids now including some of
25903s	the the nature spell buffs like the
25907s	three mana three three if you have a
25908s	nature spell give your board plus one
25910s	plus two i guess trying to have a little
25912s	more aggressive early game leading into
25915s	late game danathrius plays it's
25918s	always a bit of a struggle to keep up
25920s	yeah you also need some of those naked
25922s	spells just for topia right like that
25923s	card's so good but a lot of the bills
25926s	don't have many nature spells in them to
25928s	feed it the the shrubberies that it
25929s	needs so
25932s	that is the deck you're talking about at
25934s	least are you talking about more
25935s	aggressive deck yeah no no absolutely i
25937s	mean it's it's it just seems like
25939s	they've added a little more to the low
25941s	end of the curve in
25943s	sort of our regular renaissance renithol
25945s	druid
25946s	i mean we've seen so few druids make it
25948s	through to the late stages of this
25950s	tournament something had to change right
25952s	all of the decks were
25953s	looking strong even the decks that
25955s	weren't built to beat druid seem to be
25956s	able to get enough stuff on the board
25957s	down to give it a good go
25959s	so something had to change
25962s	yeah i think druid has sort of been the
25964s	main target for a lot of folks in this
25967s	tournament since shaman isn't exactly
25970s	targetable you know you can get a game
25972s	off it you don't necessarily ban it but
25974s	i think other players have sort of taken
25975s	the approach of okay maybe band druid or
25978s	target druid and you've got stuff like
25980s	the naga priest and the imp warlock to
25982s	do that even the mage has a decent shot
25986s	and
25988s	yeah i don't know it's we saw it just
25990s	now
25991s	getting run over by a shaman
25995s	yeah
25996s	which it shouldn't really be doing but
25998s	there we go it did get absolutely
26001s	destroyed there uh we've regards this
26003s	mage mirror obviously we've just come
26005s	off the sharma mirror which
26007s	apparently you just vibe and that's the
26009s	way to play that deck um is there any
26011s	deeper strategy than vibing while
26013s	playing mage mirrors
26015s	well i think the uh most important piece
26018s	of it is to have magister dawn grasp
26021s	available so unless it gets stolen by
26024s	your opponent's theater magister don
26025s	grass being the first one getting that
26027s	online it can sort of seal up the match
26030s	for you in the early turns i would say
26033s	you're kind of navigating
26035s	volatile skeletons trying to avoid
26038s	giving either player too strong of a
26040s	deathborn if that's present
26043s	but a lot of times it comes down to who
26045s	can scale the hero power fastest
26047s	okay so i can um go along with that that
26050s	means that tan soko is winning right now
26053s	of course he has more magister dawngrass
26055s	in hand
26063s	you know there's something to be said
26065s	about the main thing your deck does in
26067s	terms of making volatile skeletons being
26070s	fairly lethal
26072s	the shamans are
26073s	very much about stalling the board and
26075s	sometimes making a big minion here there
26078s	you know with the evolves
26080s	mage definitely has that stall but the
26082s	skeletons you know time and again you'll
26084s	see
26085s	a board of volatile skeletons they kill
26087s	their own board with a deathborn to
26090s	trigger the death rattles and then
26091s	refresh it and the numbers just start
26094s	adding up in terms of two damage pings
26097s	even with the 40 health totals it it can
26100s	really uh stack up quickly
26104s	oh
26104s	close there
26106s	could have gotten the dawn grass
26109s	i think the two of three on murloc homes
26111s	is always a little bit tragic
26114s	wow yeah that was unfortunate to say the
26118s	least but yeah
26119s	um yeah the dawn glass between hand
26120s	white so it was the intellect that was
26122s	the card they would have got but ah yes
26124s	yes yes but even so it was still looking
26127s	good for a lot of cards especially when
26128s	it's in a mirror match you're stealing
26130s	cards
26133s	but yeah that was a toughie
26137s	and something i have to say about murloc
26139s	homes is
26141s	there may be a bit of a tunnel vision on
26144s	getting the cards
26146s	but it gives you information if you are
26148s	able to get to
26150s	three cards deep there you know just in
26152s	terms of what's in their hand what's in
26153s	their deck etc
26155s	and
26156s	that may be a lot more useful than i
26158s	give credit for it's one of the cards
26160s	that at least in
26162s	shaman like put up serious stats which i
26165s	i just
26166s	i don't understand that's the only
26167s	explanation i can come up with is that
26169s	the information is so valuable
26172s	for decks like shaman and potentially
26174s	the mage as well i don't know what the
26175s	numbers look like there
26177s	in terms of you know when to theater or
26180s	go for disruption or just how your game
26182s	planning since the games do go on fairly
26185s	long
26186s	i'd be very interested actually i was
26188s	listening to somebody earlier saying
26190s	that they don't hit very often on murloc
26191s	homes but i
26193s	hit reasonably like reasonably often
26195s	like over half the time i'll get the
26196s	three cards i feel and i feel like
26197s	that's you should get that over half the
26199s	time maybe i've just been on an
26200s	incredible hot streak
26202s	but
26203s	you can usually get the first one right
26206s	by the time you play it
26208s	and then okay the second and third ones
26209s	are kind of guessy but you can work out
26212s	a lot of it
26213s	oh wow sorry this is just classic mage
26217s	mirror one deathborn deserves another
26219s	and this second one is going to be even
26221s	better uh full board
26224s	this is where if
26226s	you do have those parrots come up i
26229s	think you can get the volatile skeleton
26231s	count just super super high um
26235s	from playing these versions i think
26238s	that's the main reason for the parrot
26240s	not even to recast roon although that is
26242s	an option but just recasting deathborn
26244s	can be so so powerful i gotta imagine
26247s	that's what this finley is looking for
26249s	yeah yeah
26251s	absolutely uh tan soko is worrying about
26253s	it is it gonna turn up no it's not i was
26256s	just looking at this curve for tan soko
26257s	here being sort of more of a big spell
26260s	fan
26260s	and just dawn grasped into box into box
26263s	into donathious by that time where you'd
26265s	have lost a load of skeletons that just
26266s	looks like it's game-winning from this
26268s	position to me i'm sure it's not but it
26270s	looks insane
26273s	pretty heavy snowball yeah the early
26275s	game was kind of going in mero's favor
26277s	in terms of you see the life total
26279s	differential but just all the way swung
26281s	over to sansoku for now
26283s	may come down to the rune for marrow in
26286s	terms of cleaning up this maybe
26288s	presenting a little bit disruption
26291s	if tonsoku is just going for the dawn
26293s	grasp here maybe that rune presents at
26296s	least the threat of a
26298s	counter spell although coin in hand
26302s	i suppose it just delays the opposing
26303s	rune it never counters it
26309s	the recast is just brutal
26312s	yeah it's just ridiculous at this point
26314s	already
26316s	and what's mirror's supposed to do well
26317s	he's supposed to high roll this room
26319s	like he's never high rolled before i
26320s	think
26322s	see and this is how mirrors should go
26324s	right just
26325s	none of this waiting around go back and
26328s	forth freezing the board just make
26330s	skeletons go face
26332s	sharmon are you listening
26337s	okay
26340s	[Music]
26350s	two or three or four that's really
26352s	helpful i know
26354s	eight four four play yeah
26357s	no way around this done soku
26359s	knew before we did yeah just pretty
26362s	clean uh while the deathborn from the
26365s	ruin was pretty solid for merrow life
26368s	total just not high enough
26371s	yeah there's a ping on the turn that he
26373s	had a zero motor ping turned he played
26375s	the dawn grasp which buffed
26380s	yeah very very quick for a mage mirror
26382s	to be honest uh lots of times you get
26384s	solid alibis back and forth you know
26386s	some players gain a bunch of armor but
26389s	when it comes down to deathborn after
26391s	deathborn like that there's just so many
26393s	explosions back and forth
26395s	yeah and very quickly again in the
26398s	mirror very nicely in conquest currently
26400s	where there's a lot of sort of 50
26402s	ish matchups hanging around to get that
26404s	1-0 lead and tensoku just left with
26408s	the
26409s	rogue and the warlock so this might end
26411s	up being quick if tonsoku takes it my
26414s	goodness
26417s	could be but still quite a few decks to
26419s	get through you know
26421s	in poor luck remaining you
26423s	i at least tend to expect it to take one
26426s	match a few people tried to target it in
26428s	this tournament but the early game of
26430s	that deck can just be so explosive
26433s	yeah i mean there's some unbeatable
26435s	hands right um unless there's a wave on
26437s	the other side or sometimes a starfish i
26440s	guess um pretty much unbeatable waves
26443s	great because sometimes just removes
26445s	burns
26446s	yeah this
26448s	it's going to be tough to to get through
26450s	three times
26451s	or to not get through three times but
26453s	nowhere with the wig priest first up
26457s	i think this is the deck that we just
26458s	have seen almost no variation in you you
26461s	talk about the
26464s	school teacher and that's about it
26468s	yeah i mean we do see here a school
26470s	teacher and no
26473s	partner in crime i think that was the
26475s	main thing was we saw the partner in
26477s	crime versions not really making it
26480s	through and as far as i can see only
26483s	weak
26484s	you know schoolteacher versions or at
26486s	least not running partner in crime that
26488s	are in this
26490s	top cut
26491s	i like the pick here from mero going
26493s	with the wig priest next now that you
26495s	know okay they won with their mage i'm
26496s	not going to have to deal with all these
26498s	freezes which i think honestly just even
26500s	from a mental game perspective can be
26501s	very frustrating to play into as the wig
26503s	priest not that you don't have a chance
26505s	but
26506s	it's really
26508s	rough knowing like oh i just want to
26510s	attack and i keep not being able to
26512s	attack so
26513s	this could be another fast one with just
26516s	how much mana these two decks both tend
26518s	to cheat honestly
26520s	fairly similar
26521s	decks in terms of snowballing an early
26524s	game but
26526s	you know of course priests first rogue
26528s	witcher which do you prefer usually if
26531s	you like one you don't like the other
26533s	um i'm weird in that
26536s	in general like if you gave me in keeper
26539s	decks and told me to play sort of the
26541s	classes as written i wouldn't like
26543s	either but a lot of my favorite decks
26546s	have been from rogue and priests
26549s	um the old versace piece was fantastic i
26553s	enjoyed garot vogue so when they really
26556s	break the class completely apart i
26558s	really enjoy it and they are the two two
26560s	of the most breakable classes when they
26562s	get
26562s	slightly overpowered combinations of
26564s	cards uh but the whole sort of
26567s	sit there and heal thing nah it's not
26569s	for me but also
26571s	my brain just can't process the way that
26574s	tempo and rogues work i understand it i
26576s	can watch players do it i can understand
26577s	why they're doing things but
26579s	you know i play all these things and
26580s	they're all two twos and they kill your
26582s	board and i hit you with some two twos
26584s	and you take 10 damage that just doesn't
26586s	function in my brain properly as a
26588s	player
26591s	yeah it'll all just you know looks like
26592s	a
26593s	pile of uh whatever kind of stuff
26595s	sometimes it's not even that big just
26597s	four-four
26598s	and uh maybe a you know 4-3 weapon or
26601s	something but it gets over the finish
26603s	line you know the chip damage adds up
26605s	i do enjoy this particular rogue deck i
26607s	must admit um
26610s	it just has that nice feel of yeah i
26611s	understand it's got traditional rogue
26613s	sort of stuff going on but also she's
26615s	got an extra little bit of brokenness
26617s	and decision making that you don't
26619s	necessarily always get i i do really
26621s	enjoy playing this like now
26623s	what do you want to do you've got such a
26624s	nonsense hand do you want to
26626s	get your sinstone down now into a shroud
26628s	and try and go crazy next turn or do you
26630s	want to just play some sensible
26632s	hearthstone
26633s	um
26634s	not get your nose
26636s	unreduced
26637s	just cycle your si7 right the extortion
26640s	like yeah it's just lots of fun
26643s	decisions
26645s	yeah i think that is always a tricky
26647s	term for me where it's sort of like well
26649s	i could coin shroud and maybe i get a
26651s	zero mana null
26652s	but
26654s	then there's not a ton of follow-up the
26655s	coin is such a useful tool in the deck
26658s	for some of your pop-off turns even if
26660s	you do just expend it for an extra plus
26662s	one plus one or uh
26665s	charge on the weapon
26667s	rather attack on the weapon so
26669s	and of course if you just play the
26670s	sinstone cemetery there well then your
26672s	nulls haven't been discounted quite
26673s	enough
26675s	but here we are
26677s	this is the term that could go
26678s	absolutely ridiculous
26681s	oh my
26683s	not going to be able to get that drakka
26685s	out bought this sin stones uh graveyard
26688s	sorry i keep saying cemetery is going to
26690s	be rather large particularly with the
26692s	coin
26693s	i wonder
26695s	maybe you take the door of shadows here
26696s	you could take an si7 extortion if
26698s	you're expecting just to have to deal
26700s	with you know some large minion on the
26701s	priests side how about taking the crown
26705s	like the next two down
26708s	really big stuff and then the crab just
26710s	tidies up at the back
26711s	you see it makes your big self less big
26718s	yeah i can see it it's just you know
26720s	you're having to spend the coin right
26721s	here going to four mana the crab is kind
26723s	of a long way off i think you may even
26726s	be hoping to just close out the game
26728s	before you even hit turn six
26730s	yeah that is definitely the reason we're
26733s	on this path now next term will be
26735s	as blessing
26736s	a little clunky relative to rogue it's
26738s	gonna be absolutely fine of course and
26740s	then the turn after things should happen
26742s	again
26743s	again if
26744s	cancer hasn't just got game-winning
26746s	tempo at that point
26753s	shadow where devour is able to clean up
26755s	the one but i mean this just dies to the
26757s	board if tonsoku wants to deal with it
26759s	like that
26761s	no value trades though it's a little bit
26764s	awkward
26767s	yeah
26770s	dab doesn't really fix it's only
26772s	just doing two so you would have to
26774s	trade your whole board in and then
26776s	you've got no redevelopment
26778s	well no this is where
26781s	i kind of wondered if maybe the si7
26783s	extortion was the pick class turn
26785s	because you expect them to try and
26787s	answer this with some kind of large
26788s	minion and
26790s	stab as you say not being upgraded maybe
26792s	that three damage with the 76
26795s	lets you clear the big development
26797s	they've made and get on to your necklaw
26799s	drakka turn the following i'm gonna make
26801s	a 3-3 weapon i think
26805s	yep you know respectable that uh you can
26808s	use just take the ten
26810s	keep the three four and a three five
26814s	and nothing just nothing else looked
26815s	like he was going to proceed quickly
26816s	enough you're still stuck with a dragon
26818s	next turn that hasn't done anything so
26820s	i might as well just get on with you
26821s	made the point earlier that a 3-3 weapon
26823s	is fine just we're so used to seeing
26825s	these massive weapons that it doesn't
26827s	feel fine and you think well actually
26829s	that's a lot of stats on turn four
26832s	for doing not much
26835s	yeah and the trade does give you the
26836s	infuse on the door of shadows one of the
26838s	ways this deck can go from very few cars
26841s	back up to quite a few
26843s	extra door all right sure
26845s	not interested in trying to infuse that
26850s	gone fishing see if you can hit the
26851s	other
26852s	graveyard
26856s	yeah i mean you can go in a little bit
26857s	here right just for the graveyard
26862s	you'd be playing a double bone spike
26866s	that's not bad oh okay yep now take care
26869s	of it
26871s	yeah
26873s	i mean it makes sense you you have a
26875s	smaller draco weapon
26877s	it is you know reaching the end of its
26879s	durability
26880s	um pretty big body on its own without
26882s	having to do a bunch of comboy stuff
26886s	i think that's one of the strengths of
26888s	this deck is being able to switch back
26890s	and forth between okay turn where i do a
26892s	bunch of stuff turn where i try and make
26894s	the most of not very many things and
26896s	crabatory is great for sort of filling
26898s	that in
26900s	yeah this is just gonna be a whole
26903s	big minion
26906s	no can't believe it feels personal to
26908s	the out is of course the samurai
26914s	uh it is but neither handmaiden is
26918s	upgraded
26920s	no spells in sight oh summer with the
26923s	location is pretty good can't deal with
26925s	the 66.
26927s	sort of forgot the location was active
26929s	this turn does need to deal with the 66
26932s	as well
26934s	because the crabs gonna
26935s	punch little bits of damage through at
26937s	the end here no taunt on the other side
26940s	might be considering thrive for
26943s	something like a bless maybe thinking do
26946s	i play the radiant first if you go
26949s	radiant thrive
26951s	the leash although thrive would just be
26952s	the first spell
26955s	and if at least she needs to get on with
26956s	it really awkward yep
26961s	tell me oh you hate to turn down a wig
26964s	when it's offered but this is i think
26967s	the best you can do handmaiden will be
26969s	able to start drawing so
26971s	yeah i like this you've got to clear up
26973s	that six six and having a nine six left
26975s	over is
26976s	um
26976s	not knowing there's a crabatoa in hand
26979s	seems pretty good for controlling the
26981s	board
26982s	yeah and
26984s	tan soko is out of stuff now
26986s	purely defensive for the next couple of
26988s	turns
26990s	you're never out of stuff like all this
26991s	card drawn card generation but you know
26993s	what i mean
26995s	you know every once in a while you dwarf
26997s	shadows for a cloak and suddenly you've
26999s	got a full hand and don't know what to
27000s	do with it all
27002s	there absolutely
27012s	knowing that both claws are gonna have
27014s	to go into the samurai i'm not sure it
27016s	matters which weapon you use here kind
27019s	of whatever feels right but you're gonna
27020s	be wasting one claw no matter what
27031s	the maidens on the other side
27033s	are the key to this
27036s	they're not they weren't active but they
27037s	played two spells last time
27044s	i think the best draw would have been
27047s	nadjak to be able to steal that krabatoa
27050s	[Music]
27052s	maybe it's just
27053s	the old boon the opponent's minion get a
27055s	taunt by a little bit of time
27058s	possibly is any
27061s	shenanigans with the wigs that will just
27063s	work better though
27072s	it's 10 damage
27077s	i don't know it's it's fairly close you
27079s	may be right maybe you just have to risk
27080s	it
27081s	see that your opponent's on
27083s	just a few cards but if door of shadows
27085s	pulls stab or tooth i think you're just
27087s	dead
27093s	okay
27096s	what's in the box
27100s	what's behind the door
27102s	i can't yes i think it's damaged wicked
27105s	stab
27106s	oh my goodness that'll do it door of
27109s	shadows
27111s	only has to be infused twice and woof of
27113s	power when you get that extra card uh
27116s	like you say you know it doesn't look
27118s	like much for a bit but then suddenly it
27120s	it all comes together and tonsoku has
27122s	got to be very happy going up to a 2-0
27125s	lead here
27127s	yeah and that decision from is an
27129s	interesting one we're going to have to
27131s	wait for twitter to comment on that one
27132s	i think on whether to do anything there
27134s	or whether it's not
27137s	but maybe
27138s	just felt that the only chance to win
27139s	this was to get into the game that turn
27142s	and get going but i don't know we can
27143s	see both hands that is a tough one
27147s	yeah absolutely and i think sometimes
27148s	people focus on oh well this was the
27150s	line that lost and don't really consider
27152s	that maybe the other lion would have
27154s	lost two just would have lost slower and
27157s	sometimes you just need to risk it for
27159s	the biscuit as it were right to say okay
27162s	i'm gonna say they don't have it and try
27164s	and set my up set myself up for a better
27167s	position later on to be able to really
27170s	swing things around you know i want to
27172s	go for a bigger boon and not just use it
27174s	totally defensively here um i can
27177s	respect it but just didn't work out this
27179s	time
27180s	yeah and tansoku they made several
27182s	decisions along the way to make that run
27184s	as smoothly as possible just just enough
27187s	to get over the finishing line uh
27188s	settling for that turn four three three
27191s	weapon was a big deal
27193s	i think it was kind of forced when you
27195s	looked at it long enough but even so
27197s	uh didn't get too greedy with a hand and
27201s	just got 30 damage which is the idea of
27203s	the game in this game
27205s	yeah it's really been educational for me
27207s	to watch tonsoku play this deck uh just
27210s	taking those little bits of value
27212s	getting a three attack weapon to keep
27214s	the knoll alive etc i
27216s	really really respect his play
27219s	now we see just the imp warlock to get
27222s	through and i said it before this
27224s	all in imp warlock it's not the deck i'd
27227s	want to be facing down if i know i have
27229s	to beat it three times
27231s	and one of those is a mirror anyway um
27234s	so
27234s	yeah that's 50 50 before you start and
27237s	then
27238s	there's the mage there's the priest yes
27240s	they're favored against the warlock but
27242s	we have this discussion every single
27243s	time or i make this comment every single
27245s	time you've got to do it twice and it's
27247s	just really hard to 2-0
27250s	warlock with a slight favorite agent
27252s	it's just
27256s	opening hands vile library frosted
27259s	librarian it seems to be coming up tan
27262s	soku we'll see what's on the hand of
27264s	marrow but uh i've gotta be feeling
27267s	pretty good with these
27272s	wicked shipment as well
27276s	it seems to have a lot of good stuff
27278s	going on there looking at tamsid for
27279s	later as well if it does come down to a
27281s	mirror that feels like a good thing to
27283s	have in your deck if it starts if
27285s	everything starts getting neutralized
27291s	i wonder
27293s	do you make a coin play here
27296s	yes
27298s	because i want a load of things to die
27299s	before i get to my important four
27306s	you can kind of take it slow i recognize
27308s	that the ping on two is pretty common
27311s	anyway
27312s	oh
27313s	wow
27314s	okay
27315s	this is just the juice
27318s	flame imp fluster librarian you could
27320s	still hold back the one ones
27323s	and then next turn library shipment make
27325s	sure they don't get shot down and off
27326s	you go
27328s	yeah exactly and then you get enough
27330s	infuses for that mischievous imp i don't
27333s	know that mero can keep up with this
27338s	this is difficult i'm looking at uh
27340s	mero's hand as well there's nothing
27342s	there that's going to be able to
27344s	currently deal with yet he'll be able to
27345s	deal with the big minion with the
27348s	nightclub once but
27352s	he's just playing
27355s	barring a turn one wildfire into you
27358s	know hero powering for two something
27359s	down the mage really doesn't activate
27362s	until turn three at the earliest you see
27365s	with nightclub sanctum being one of the
27366s	best cards you can have in the matchup
27368s	but it's just not that fast
27371s	going even for for this to get the one
27373s	ones a little bit more board presence
27375s	but
27376s	file library gonna come down
27379s	yeah and i mean looking at reckless
27381s	apprentice it should be the the game
27383s	changing card and
27386s	it might be the car that buys some more
27387s	time and it might be the game changing
27389s	card if you live in the world where memo
27391s	won this game then perhaps it is the
27392s	game changing card but right now it's
27394s	looking really tough
27397s	yeah you can do the buff make the
27399s	attacks with your librarians then
27401s	do trades down the line the other way if
27403s	you like at least get rid of the 1-1
27405s	freezes
27407s	fully infused mischievous imp into shady
27410s	bartender on curve
27413s	after the library wakes up
27426s	wildfire is finally picked up so that
27429s	does make this reckless apprentice
27431s	a lot more appealing but uh it doesn't
27434s	do three damage
27437s	[Laughter]
27440s	all right good luck with everything oh
27442s	nutter butters what do you even do
27448s	you die
27453s	well i've had four turns now you can
27454s	have your fifth surely you have an
27456s	advantage over me sir
27463s	reckless apprentice best
27465s	thing available i suppose
27468s	uh you have to get very lucky with this
27471s	skeleton
27475s	lucky
27477s	no you're gonna go for oh not that
27480s	justly
27482s	oh is it just lethal yes it is
27484s	oh there's no way it isn't
27487s	million damage
27489s	that's punching yeah it just shakes the
27492s	head is like well okay
27493s	hearthstone and tan soku watch the
27496s	fourth quarter final four for like seven
27498s	weeks as long as that went on and
27500s	decides didn't want any of that wins 3-0
27503s	in about 15 minutes absolute demolition
27509s	main character energy coming from
27511s	tonsoku here we'll have to see if on the
27513s	other side of the bracket we get glory
27515s	as well for that uh japan finals that
27518s	derek kind of predicted a while earlier
27521s	he maybe just wrote the script for this
27523s	tournament i don't know what's going on
27525s	yeah and spare a thought for wg
27528s	g three woods who's just played an
27530s	absolutely grueling series gone to get
27533s	something to eat and chill out a little
27535s	bit and just you know rest ready for the
27537s	next 75 and he's back up in like five
27539s	minutes from now
27542s	oh yeah i speak from it's period saying
27544s	that that is not a good feeling when you
27547s	expect to have okay you know i just had
27549s	a pretty long series they'll probably
27551s	have at least a reasonably long series
27553s	let me get back in here oh wait it's my
27555s	turn now i just like i had a bathroom
27557s	break
27558s	what do you mean the mage mirrors what
27559s	do you mean the match is over where you
27561s	hang on the mage move is supposed to
27563s	still be going
27564s	and yeah absolutely crazy semi-final and
27569s	derek who will probably be casting the
27571s	final i believe as well
27573s	might get his wish which is good for
27576s	everybody because a happy david is a
27578s	happy everybody let's have a look at
27580s	that
27581s	up now see how it's gone down so far
27583s	today those who haven't been here all
27585s	the time
27586s	and yeah tan soku storming through that
27588s	top eight donkey
27590s	took him very very close but merlot did
27593s	not
27596s	gonna be up to three woods to determine
27599s	whether or not this is an apac victory
27602s	uh otherwise
27603s	guaranteed based on the results of this
27605s	other semi-final i honestly i feel like
27608s	for the rest of us casters it's kind of
27610s	a win-win either we get to feed off that
27613s	positive energy from derek from aipac
27615s	taking it or just to kind of laugh about
27618s	it if china does end up pulling through
27620s	absolutely no jia curse available this
27624s	tournament that's what it's all come
27625s	down to i think
27627s	everyone who jia roots for just ends up
27629s	doing something horrible happens this
27631s	time around she even got to the point
27632s	where she wouldn't make predictions at
27634s	one point until we forced her because
27636s	she was scared of cursing people so the
27638s	deer playing in this masters tour of
27640s	course so not able to cast and therefore
27643s	we get eight-pack plays in the final
27645s	i'm sure that's how all sensible people
27648s	work right that's just pure logic of
27649s	course of course
27651s	that's just science
27653s	yes it's all rubbish it's unlucky to be
27655s	superstitious we all know that
27657s	okay enough of me prattling on i think
27660s	everyone will probably want to see this
27662s	second semi-final so we'll take a short
27664s	break back to you with more hearthstone
27666s	action right after this
27669s	[Music]
27675s	[Music]
27708s	[Music]
27713s	so
27719s	[Music]
27735s	that's foreign
27738s	[Music]
27758s	[Music]
27776s	[Music]
27795s	[Music]
27810s	[Music]
27829s	[Music]
27858s	welcome back everyone with just a blink
27860s	of an eye from that first semi-final we
27863s	are in semi-final number two and tj of
27865s	course is doing a bit of a jig for both
27867s	of us right now as we are ready to see
27869s	who's going to join tonsoku in the
27872s	finals and uh we all know who derek's
27874s	going to be cheering for uh with glory
27876s	on one side of this match of course uh
27878s	but who are you uh do you feel like it's
27880s	got the best chance tj look at the
27882s	lineups the bands the players
27885s	uh this lineup from uh glory just kind
27888s	of seems unstoppable right um it's the
27891s	it's
27892s	a lot of the highest one right dax decks
27894s	that people may not have been have
27896s	expected to be that good in the
27898s	tournament
27899s	uh you know shaman excluded because
27901s	everybody thought shaman was going to be
27902s	good but talking about the the lambie
27904s	rogue uh wig priest and then import lock
27908s	to an extent but nobody could decide
27910s	like agree on which in warlock was
27912s	actually right
27913s	um it just seems like gloria's hit
27915s	the mark with
27917s	what lineup to bring as well as the text
27919s	within the lineup whereas woods brought
27922s	sort of the expected
27924s	uh
27925s	decks i would say like these are the
27926s	decks that have like the most games
27929s	played
27930s	just base level good right base level
27932s	good decks it's quest hunter it's
27934s	control shaman it's the the skeleton
27936s	mage and it's the druid right these are
27938s	the
27939s	if you go play on ladder right now like
27941s	yeah outside of imp block those are kind
27943s	of the
27944s	the decks that you're to see uh the most
27947s	of
27947s	um so i i sort of went with that base
27950s	level strategy and glory kind of went a
27952s	step further so i know a lot of people
27954s	are rooting for glory because
27956s	uh he's probably a more known name to a
27958s	lot of people there's the story of aipac
27961s	finally winning
27962s	and glory winning this would guarantee
27964s	an apac winner even if he loses to tons
27966s	of lucas thompson is also japanese so
27969s	uh
27970s	but i also think that he's favorite
27972s	based off of uh lineup as well he should
27975s	be able to beat up on at least a couple
27977s	of the decks from woods
27978s	yeah as we take a look at glory's rogue
27980s	one last thing i'll just say is uh one
27982s	thing i'm really happy about is out of
27984s	the in the top four players two of them
27986s	were playing wig priest which was a deck
27988s	i thought felt really good going into
27991s	this weekend so happy to see that at
27993s	least one of my air hunches was correct
27995s	for once uh always a positive there but
27997s	yeah it's gonna be this road coming out
28000s	from glory to kick things off i believe
28002s	it is going to be going up against the
28003s	druid from the woods so how do you feel
28006s	about that do you think uh glory has a a
28009s	good match up here has got a good one
28010s	with the rogue
28011s	i do yeah um usually you know
28015s	you have the ability to just kind of
28017s	await and make a giant weapon giant
28020s	ghost
28021s	uh because jewett takes a little bit of
28023s	time to get rolling so
28024s	um there's no rush you can you know
28027s	really juice up the stats and then it's
28029s	hard for drew to be able to answer that
28030s	if you time it properly so uh one thing
28033s	about this deck from woods is
28036s	it's got a lot of like
28038s	x factor to it um there's a bunch of
28041s	stuff thrown in here there's an ibis
28043s	there's an oracle balloon a path maker
28047s	starfish can be good sometimes but then
28050s	you know other times uh uh it
28054s	like if there's no edwin if you're just
28055s	facing ghosts it doesn't get rid of any
28057s	of the stacks
28058s	on the ghost it gets rid of the stealth
28059s	sure but then you have something to
28061s	actually reach it uh the flipper friends
28063s	is interesting too uh just because you
28066s	know it it's able to answer a board
28069s	maybe a little bit earlier on
28071s	uh than scale of enyxia so you might be
28073s	able to
28074s	take some damage off the board by using
28076s	flipper friends
28077s	uh instead of having to wait all the way
28079s	till you have scale of nyxia so it's got
28081s	some interesting stuff but like naga
28084s	giants gonna be too slow uh everything
28087s	else in the deck
28088s	again probably too slow but the the
28091s	early curve and the ability to do
28093s	creative stuff
28095s	might make a difference
28096s	but i still think it's i definitely
28098s	favor for the rogue yeah i i think
28101s	the early sort of it's very minion based
28104s	antiago this deck isn't it because
28106s	there's the druid of the reef of course
28108s	uh there's that even the jerry rigs in
28110s	there have to be answered the one oracle
28112s	of a loon and also interestingly enough
28114s	the ivis might be pretty clutch yeah
28117s	depending on whether it hits the board
28119s	right because if it gets that point
28121s	where it's too big to just be say like
28123s	wicked stab plus tooth down or something
28126s	then a divine shield taunt with a lot of
28128s	stats is
28129s	exactly what the rogue doesn't want to
28132s	play against right and that's like the
28134s	most awkward minion and they're just
28136s	triple checking yeah uh unlike
28139s	um
28140s	oh who was it yeah unlike uh used to
28142s	that i casted just
28144s	minutes ago it feels like uh glory is
28147s	not running a starfish in his rogue so
28150s	it doesn't have the option to just be
28151s	like actually nope freezes don't matter
28153s	taunts don't matter i'm still to hit you
28155s	in the face so that is one card that
28157s	could uh come into a
28159s	play a little bit here but i generally i
28162s	do agree i think as long as the rogue
28164s	can just start doing their good turns
28166s	which again i think is very difficult at
28169s	least for me to to really decide when
28172s	from i've seen a trend from a lot of
28173s	players so far this weekend that they've
28176s	always been like a turn
28179s	ish more greedy than i would be when
28181s	playing the deck and that's probably me
28182s	playing it wrong don't you know i'm not
28184s	saying i'm right but it's just they're
28185s	very interesting to see like how much
28188s	people push this roguelist to really get
28190s	like instead of having two okay turns or
28193s	two good turns they have maybe even a
28195s	bad turn but then like an incredible
28197s	turn and that's enough to carry the game
28199s	yeah it's one of those decks where the
28201s	basis of the deck is pretty simple right
28204s	uh you don't have that many threats
28207s	um and the way you get those threats is
28210s	you know relatively easy you know it's
28212s	doing some math to how much mana and how
28213s	big the things are going to be the
28215s	difficulty comes in knowing
28217s	how greedy to get in certain yeah
28220s	right like if you're playing against a
28221s	30 health deck that's not not gaining
28223s	life right
28225s	sure you know
28226s	get a six a six attack dagger
28229s	uh from drakka like you know make a five
28232s	five early on in the game because those
28234s	things are gonna go a long way
28235s	when you're talking about 40 health deck
28237s	that does have ways to gain life and
28239s	wants to ramp up you know timing it
28241s	properly maybe wait till you get you can
28242s	get an eight or nine attack deck maybe
28244s	wait till you get a seven or an eight
28246s	attack goes right uh yeah because those
28248s	things are gonna compound on each other
28250s	it's a big deal isn't it because uh this
28251s	druid is running that double earthen
28253s	scales so if at almost any point glory
28257s	gets to land a bigger than scales unless
28259s	he's a mega far behind then that's gonna
28262s	have a huge impact on whether glory can
28265s	even win the game or not because a lot
28267s	of the times this rogue
28269s	just about gets there right there's not
28271s	that many games where you hit them for
28273s	like
28274s	15 uh when you only needed three damage
28277s	or something right like a lot of the
28278s	time it feels like it's got just enough
28280s	threats to do the job yeah yep
28285s	so far nulls in hand tick that box as a
28288s	uh
28289s	a tradable in the form of the blackwater
28292s	cutlass as well to help out with the
28294s	null but nothing nothing else and
28296s	honestly one null
28298s	isn't really going to cut it against
28299s	true
28306s	living roots for saplings
28310s	kind of works against you in a sense
28313s	because it gives the rogue targets to
28315s	kill
28317s	uh with the
28319s	uh serrated bone spike um
28323s	sort of a french case scenario but yeah
28324s	i like the whole you you're not really
28326s	wasting much because it's only a one
28328s	mana spell right the discount right in
28329s	the planet evidence
28331s	and there's times where just two damage
28333s	actually could be more valuable right
28335s	than just two one ones sitting around so
28337s	yeah i uh i like the pick but i also
28339s	like the hold there and glory
28342s	already hitting those turns where you
28345s	know what does he play door of shadows
28347s	is going to be played now with the null
28349s	so definitely the complete opposite of
28352s	what i was describing
28353s	as opposed to being greedy trying to
28355s	hold off for the big pop off turns glory
28358s	said looked at his hand and said you
28359s	know what it's probably not going to
28361s	happen for a while i'm going to play
28362s	tempo but by making that decision now he
28366s	already
28366s	can't really do a pop-off term for quite
28369s	a while now right
28370s	yeah the scabs being in the hand
28374s	pretty awful and now
28376s	it's blood
28377s	the jerry carpenter and the two damage
28381s	comes in
28382s	nice and handy here gets to take out the
28384s	maestro which means that that's a ton of
28386s	damage that's not coming at the base
28388s	because
28389s	otherwise uh that probably would attack
28391s	what three times
28393s	so nine damage just from taking that
28395s	living roots and holding on to it not
28396s	playing the sapling so
28398s	gory is incredibly far behind three
28400s	woods is gonna start ramping up has
28402s	gotten hand uh miracle growth to not
28404s	only put a big taut in the way but also
28406s	just to refill the hand after all this
28408s	ramp is used
28409s	so uh i think three woods is looking
28412s	pretty good right about now glory just
28413s	not able to get anything going no uh
28416s	location no draca and even if those were
28419s	picked up there's just nothing in hand
28421s	that could be used that's it right like
28423s	no shroud even to just plan something to
28426s	happen right like just try and work it
28429s	out and again as soon as that first door
28431s	of shadows was played
28433s	glory almost certainly did just give up
28436s	on the main plan of the deck and that is
28438s	very very scary indeed the knoll's
28440s	getting some damage in but
28443s	i think woods
28444s	doesn't really care at this moment in
28447s	time like he's got all the time in the
28448s	world now just hitting 30 health has
28451s	options there's scale of a nixia he
28454s	could just play that trade three in and
28456s	have plenty of uh aggression on board if
28459s	he wants to uh he could hold off on it
28462s	instead like draw it or play something
28464s	else which i think is a little bit
28465s	better obviously
28466s	yeah gabe scale is reaction starting to
28469s	ramp
28470s	uh all this feels uh fantastic wouldn't
28473s	the guidance
28475s	once has plenty of things to do with
28476s	mana so i don't think it's that big of a
28478s	deal to
28479s	i guess you could
28484s	the innervate does nothing uh if you
28486s	like innovate twice
28489s	uh you could pick innervate and just
28491s	innovate to draw and innervate from your
28493s	deck right
28494s	you could also aquatic form to like
28497s	choose your next draw
28499s	and then you also get the next aquatic
28501s	form
28503s	and if you don't like it you get two
28504s	goes at it right if you really want to
28507s	uh but yeah basically even those were
28509s	not great from woods
28511s	it doesn't really yeah he's got great
28513s	plays for the next like what five turns
28516s	or so so he's gone to the game yeah yeah
28520s	i'm just saying based on what his hand
28521s	looks like at this exact moment but yes
28524s	he'll out he's got plenty of card draw
28526s	plenty of board control in the form of
28528s	scale or raid bossa nixia even got
28531s	theotop if he really feels the need to
28534s	just like
28535s	oh well if i can just take krabatoa then
28538s	glory or um or necro lord there then
28541s	glory's got no chance like literally
28543s	zero chance to win the game but yeah
28545s	woods can do whatever he wants right now
28551s	i like the raid boss though right it's
28552s	just a huge threat it's a way to
28554s	actually accelerate the game now
28560s	okay
28561s	so the question is here do you want to
28563s	just use the anixia and keep the whelps
28566s	or just more power going the next turn
28568s	one trade is fine like if you waste one
28570s	trade because that leaves you board
28571s	space open in case you have nothing to
28572s	trade into
28575s	um
28576s	maybe you want
28578s	places
28579s	it's interesting right because like i
28580s	get playing around bone spike but i feel
28584s	like that's all you're playing around
28586s	and
28588s	what's glory's hand got to be right like
28592s	exactly bone spike bone spike i don't
28595s	know
28596s	wicked stab something something
28599s	dagger you know what i mean like it
28600s	would have to be so specific to get
28602s	punished by the worlds yeah
28605s	and uh i mean this play right here
28608s	it
28609s	dagger up pass which is probably the
28611s	place
28613s	it's an opportunity for woods to just go
28616s	okay i'm just gonna brand theater and
28619s	take these caps yeah
28623s	cut off the only gameplay oh yeah make a
28624s	2-2
28628s	who knows what scene
28632s	this was just not a game of hearthstone
28634s	was it
28636s	yeah there it goes
28637s	to the universe that's why he picked
28639s	innovate and there's just just gonna be
28641s	a swift conceit there from glory and
28645s	yeah that was abysmal honestly uh very
28647s	unfun game i imagine for glory in game
28650s	one but that's what can happen right
28652s	with this rogue deck and uh as soon as
28655s	glory decided to play the knull out then
28658s	again he decided to play just like a
28660s	clean tempo rogue game without really
28663s	the tools for it and it was a tough call
28665s	to make i'm not saying glory you know
28667s	messed up or should have done this
28668s	should have done that but i think he was
28670s	just pinned into it because he pretty
28672s	much only had the null when two of his
28675s	cards in his hand in the early game uh
28677s	scabs and uh maestro like what is he
28680s	really supposed to do right like and
28682s	shadow step like gary do anything else
28685s	so just a rough one there for him
28687s	really rough yeah that's kind of a one
28689s	where you got to say all right shake it
28691s	off
28693s	however
28694s	um this lineup does seem like it's uh
28697s	not tailor-made but you know pretty in
28699s	the line of
28700s	i want to kind of beat up on druid um
28704s	good matches across the board against
28705s	druid maybe with the exception of
28707s	control shaman which is a complete
28708s	toss-up
28710s	um
28712s	i want to call it a skill match-up but
28714s	with like the guitar muteness yeah brand
28717s	tinnitus very chumpy matchup yeah
28721s	it's choppy for sure and you know you
28723s	can't really call much of anything so
28725s	the druid getting across the line for uh
28728s	through it's this
28730s	like the first try against one of its
28732s	worst matchups
28733s	uh in the lineup is a pretty big deal
28736s	for how the rest of the matchup plays
28737s	out gloria's gonna have to do some
28739s	uh playing from behind here so now we're
28741s	gonna get to see the control shaman in
28743s	action this is i mean
28745s	as standard as it gets the wild paw
28747s	cavern is the one inclusion where it's
28749s	not in everybody's list but it's just
28751s	such a good card like it's hard to
28752s	believe any shaman in like the current
28755s	metagame or in any minute game like that
28757s	wouldn't play wild park cameras
28760s	yeah the only way you would be confused
28763s	with someone playing wild paw is if the
28765s	game really accelerates in power creep
28768s	right and like they release like four
28770s	mana summon two three fours a turn you
28772s	know that sounds stupid like that um
28775s	he's gonna be going up against the
28776s	hunter though
28778s	and again i think this is actually a
28780s	pretty solid matchup um for woods uh
28784s	because yes and the quest hunter is
28788s	playing a few more minions than it has
28790s	done in previous iterations but it's
28792s	still not a lot and i do feel like
28794s	shaymin really benefits from their
28795s	opponent playing stuff and relentless
28798s	damage is not something that shaymin
28800s	really handles too well honestly
28803s	uh
28804s	not
28805s	not really reliable ways to gain life
28807s	right right con comes to mind cookie a
28810s	little bit
28811s	and sounds like don't tell me you're
28813s	relying on me for this yeah i'm just a
28815s	murloc
28817s	sometimes the incremental life game can
28818s	be can can matter but it's really only
28820s	in those like
28822s	those razor thin marginal matchups right
28824s	you actually need two extra health like
28826s	and mine rogue or something like that
28828s	but
28829s	it's uh
28831s	not known for gaining health unless
28832s	you're playing dinathius and if you get
28834s	a good denatures off against quest
28836s	hunter you're you're winning the game
28838s	like
28839s	it's it's either
28841s	you know never in your hand or you play
28844s	it and you win that's kind of how yeah
28846s	and and those kind of you know close
28848s	matchups health-wise uh is kind of like
28851s	you know a fencing match whereas
28854s	hunter just brings a bazooka to that
28855s	kind of game right because they just win
28858s	by so much when they do when they've got
28860s	so much damage almost endless
28862s	with the card draw they gain by playing
28864s	that 40 card list and they're being able
28866s	to just run pretty much every card draw
28868s	tool that's available to them and we
28870s	even see that woods is running like a
28872s	conscious call as well which is you know
28874s	not something everyone's choosing to run
28876s	but still just more and more card draw
28880s	this is a slow start for glory as well
28885s	and something oh okay sleep breaker
28887s	helps a lot but something you also don't
28889s	want to do is just give hunter five
28891s	turns to just do what it wants and then
28893s	it's like all right well now i've got
28894s	the quest let's start the game and then
28896s	you did
28897s	yep
28900s	okay
28901s	so
28902s	i just want to start chucking spells but
28906s	what's this
28906s	there's no reason to i'm just going to
28908s	hero power take it slow
28911s	yeah i think um
28913s	what's going to be important here is
28916s	because of all the uh
28918s	shenanigans that can happen with
28919s	stealing or eating cards from your
28921s	opponent's hand i think woods will and
28924s	should be conscious of the fact that can
28926s	he get
28928s	a turn
28930s	six or seven
28932s	uh tavish and if so to do it he needs a
28936s	cheap spell right to be able to activate
28939s	this final quest proc and play in the
28941s	same turn
28943s	so i do think even though i would have
28945s	probably just ended up playing the womb
28946s	prey there but i do think the arcane
28948s	shot should be held or one of them
28950s	should be held at a bare minimum to be
28952s	able to just get tavish uh
28955s	proct and played at the the right time
28958s	yeah that's a very good point
28960s	uh that we need to keep track of in in
28962s	in
28964s	in a against a chompy deck
28966s	yeah
28967s	she put it well this is an interesting
28968s	turn because confidence is not posing
28970s	too much of a threat and coin barrick
28974s	seems reasonable but
28975s	i just like pace
28977s	yeah like piercing shots are very
28978s	difficult to use
28980s	it's expensive
28981s	you know a lot of times when shaman
28983s	plays minions they like to plug the
28984s	board and then piercing shot against the
28986s	flooded board is just too much
28988s	and uh too much mana to be able to
28990s	explain oh gorlock ravager off the top
28992s	right after the clown fish that is
28995s	a breath of fresh air for
28997s	just kind of playing a mediocre minion
29000s	uh turn after turn
29003s	oh he's gonna uh yeah get the other
29005s	clown fish so now mutinus is still
29007s	playable next turn of course um and yeah
29010s	i also like the coin hold because once
29012s	again it can help out with the tavis
29014s	turn but also if you don't need it after
29016s	tavish it's just gain a mana and deal
29018s	two to your opponent right which is
29020s	again just insane levels of extra damage
29024s	yep
29026s	okay so
29028s	three was just saw glory draw murlocs
29031s	only play a clown fish
29033s	could signal that mutinous is in hand
29035s	obviously there's a lot more murlocs in
29036s	the deck
29037s	maybe there's some merit to uh
29039s	uh playing out the barricode bane here
29041s	but um
29043s	a clean name shot that takes all the
29045s	power off board you're not gonna take
29046s	any damage
29048s	um
29048s	if mutinous does come out on the
29050s	barricode bay maybe you're not worried
29051s	about it but i think through it's just
29056s	yeah i i like this as well because
29059s	doesn't he run the um urchin spines uh
29061s	he didn't draw it he drew the tracking
29063s	instead but the spines would have been
29065s	very interesting right because then he
29066s	can just laugh at any board that's
29068s	played afterwards even if it is mutinous
29073s	oh yeah
29075s	okay
29077s	i actually um i really like the barrack
29079s	for that it forces a smaller mutinous if
29082s	it's there because it will eat the
29084s	kraken bin but then you do have the
29086s	chance of just saying well okay
29088s	if they go big
29089s	and you know don't play mutants play
29091s	something else you can just potentially
29092s	just obliterate the board
29099s	okay
29100s	well this is about as good of a use for
29102s	snowfall guardian as you could possibly
29104s	get yeah
29105s	um
29106s	and
29108s	there are ways
29110s	uh for this to be dealt with clean one
29112s	would just be aim shot plus a hero power
29115s	um
29117s	dag charge name shot here power
29120s	uh second question
29123s	seems to work out just perfectly so a
29126s	nice dismantling of every board from
29128s	three woods
29129s	and this is what's so cool about quest
29131s	until now because of renovo because of
29133s	some of the new cards they've got is you
29136s	can afford to play this game and still
29138s	have a million damage to end it right
29141s	whereas
29142s	uh previous subversions in previous
29144s	metas you could control the ball to an
29147s	extent but when you start throwing like
29149s	aim shots and the hero power at minions
29152s	you start to get a little bit worried
29154s	about your damage output just a little
29156s	bit
29157s	yeah
29158s	now there's crack and bane live right so
29160s	we can just kill the glug now drop down
29162s	explosive and still have two mana to
29164s	play with
29168s	is
29168s	that we'll put him i'll do that yeah
29171s	that'll put him at one tick right
29173s	yeah he would the explosive would put
29175s	him at one tick because the kraken bin
29178s	wouldn't do anything yes and then he
29180s	could just pop off with tavis next turn
29182s	yeah well he's not tavish this turn if
29185s	you really wanted to
29186s	aim shot won't pray tavish
29189s	yeah you could even
29191s	play the tavish
29194s	coin hero power tracking hero power
29199s	to clean up even more of the board
29205s	yeah
29207s	yeah this is still pretty good yeah i
29210s	think i was a little bit tunneled on
29212s	explosive
29213s	honestly just because if
29215s	this is the kind of turn from glory
29218s	where all attacks go face and then
29220s	another snowfall it's just something to
29222s	be wary of uh but yeah this is still
29224s	pretty nice gets rid of the majority of
29227s	the board anyway and and then does
29230s	finally find that urchin spines as well
29232s	so that's gonna offer woods a lot of
29234s	freedom to
29236s	not really care about any of the big
29237s	threats
29239s	yeah and most importantly tavis is on
29241s	the board it cannot get chomped
29248s	okay
29249s	so
29255s	i actually
29257s	like wild paw schooling in the fish
29261s	wow what about is that dumb play play
29263s	one
29264s	go face no fall guardian
29272s	yeah that's okay
29275s	i don't know why but i just really like
29277s	getting the wild poor right what about
29278s	brucon
29284s	and trade all the minions into cabbage
29287s	because i don't think you can brew khan
29288s	and let that tavis just live right
29293s	i would
29294s	assume not but
29297s	that's heal six health
29305s	[Music]
29311s	and try and
29313s	because this isn't even going to infuse
29314s	like insatiable devour that was his game
29317s	plan to try and deal with tavish right
29318s	um because it would only be four
29321s	uh uh minions dead
29324s	um
29326s	i guess they would yeah there'd still be
29328s	two minions i don't know
29329s	it's just with this tavish gets to hit
29331s	face
29336s	um
29337s	but it is like a uh
29339s	like that's a lot of healing that turn
29341s	he picked gained health he gained five
29342s	armor from the pecan and just having the
29344s	taunts in the way still heals for six
29347s	because you have to put six damage into
29349s	it at least for six right
29351s	um it forces a lot of resources like
29353s	three woods his hand is actually not
29354s	that good
29356s	uh there is some damage there but like
29358s	urgent spines do anything because
29359s	glory's not making a big minion and if
29362s	if woods is using these spells to deal
29365s	with the small talks that are on the
29366s	board there's not going to be many so
29369s	yeah it's interesting right urchin
29370s	spines could do something it would just
29373s	be a small something right because it
29375s	could be like hero power urchin hero
29376s	power and then just arcane shot the
29378s	other two three uh to save a hero power
29381s	to go face uh a little bit over the top
29384s	i think of course this turn there are
29385s	better targets for it but i do like this
29388s	from woods just chuck out all the
29390s	minions uh try and get the spirit
29392s	poacher number two out okay full board
29395s	and the great part about this is if a
29397s	snowfall comes down who cares it won't
29400s	be that big because of the two dormant
29402s	but also there's just urchin spines
29404s	to just kill it anyway so i i really
29407s	like this get all the minions out
29411s	and these two bows are gonna
29413s	start to add up tj once they start
29415s	procking
29417s	or i guess like one and a half bows or
29419s	so if you wanted
29420s	a bit more specific
29423s	yep
29431s	yeah this is starting to stack up so
29432s	much damage now though
29435s	the 1010 just gets batted away piercing
29437s	shot now all the fish
29446s	i mean weirdly enough
29448s	i even wonder whether woods has to play
29450s	each in this turn
29453s	you do right like do you maybe something
29456s	bigger than that
29457s	there could be a wider board right what
29459s	if there's an insatiable devourer comes
29461s	down that's way scarier than a 1010
29463s	because glory can't
29466s	okay you would imagine
29468s	glory is unlikely to kill the taunt
29472s	with only having a 10-10 on the board
29475s	and go face for 10
29478s	without killing the tavish right that
29481s	feels unlikely
29486s	just always just looking into draw a
29487s	card
29489s	yeah why not it's gonna kill it okay so
29492s	much damage pushed this turn as well
29493s	like
29498s	wild spirits i mean if the board is
29500s	dealt with which it kind of needs to be
29501s	from glory
29502s	it also has come out yeah it procs the
29504s	bow right like you take it
29507s	oh my car
29511s	oh
29515s	i think woods is kind of okay if the
29517s	core comes down this turn
29520s	also
29521s	great placements there from the uh
29524s	dormant minions isolating the tavish
29526s	against an insatiable
29529s	i mean this is a massive macaw
29548s	it does get the uh
29550s	oven down as well which is pretty nice
29552s	yeah
29554s	oh no double wild spirits
29557s	oh that was
29559s	not
29560s	what he wanted to see
29562s	ah
29563s	so here though you could use one for a
29565s	reset to get the ball but it's not doing
29567s	anything because you're just attacking
29568s	into a taunt
29570s	and rolled heel
29574s	yeah the taunts are frozen
29576s	can you get rid of the non-frozen
29579s	minions right
29588s	we can wild spirits hero power the three
29590s	two we can still kill taunt with a bow
29595s	and then there's just the uh the two
29597s	piranhas
29598s	which technically don't just get through
29600s	the taunt that woods has on its own
29603s	yeah
29604s	however
29605s	now insatiable devour is juiced oh it's
29609s	a lot better now yeah oh yeah the
29612s	problem is getting through the rest of
29615s	the stuff
29617s	uh and you don't get to hero power but
29620s	to be quite honest
29623s	that's the best play
29624s	that gory has unless it's famished fool
29627s	into like knoll
29631s	buck pools or something along those
29632s	lines yeah two cards left in the deck
29634s	like i'm taking a guaranteed giant
29637s	insatiable devourer the only problem is
29640s	you take off the the far right minions
29643s	you're trading over the two five and
29645s	then you're killing one two two so
29646s	you're leaving ten damage up on board
29649s	and you're also running lethal the other
29651s	way right
29652s	yeah but you're also not pushing 12 to
29655s	face which hurts a little bit but yeah
29657s	there is a 19 attack minion on the other
29659s	side here
29661s	lockpool's gonna be played just to play
29663s	it
29665s	no need for the evolved
29669s	woods needs oh
29672s	wow these were like the three worst
29675s	back-to-back draws i think
29677s	for woods he could get some rush uh he
29680s	could get the three one right which
29682s	would help out a lot yup
29690s	oh
29691s	still just lethal though
29693s	and way around it
29698s	there is right
29701s	explosive so wild spirits into rush put
29704s	the minions into the parrot and hero
29706s	power
29707s	yeah yeah so you hear a power of the
29708s	macaw first
29712s	then wild spirits that's right
29716s	and then you have to get rushed to
29718s	survive
29720s	you always get rushed
29722s	oh no no rush wait
29725s	wait
29726s	you can face tank
29728s	the two three okay right
29731s	yeah
29732s	that puts him to 26 is 19 22 23.
29737s	oh yeah and puts this to yep yep yeah
29740s	yeah it's fine
29745s	but wait the elemental
29748s	oh wait a minute
29749s	isn't that heel hero power
29751s	no that's the deal 2 damage oh it's the
29754s	deal 2 isn't it yeah they should have
29756s	changed the colors do you not agree
29758s	like there should not be so many of them
29759s	that are blue
29761s	this one has like a lightning
29762s	the other one's got like water
29766s	blue lightning orb blue water at a
29768s	distance
29773s	although gloria's going to just draw a
29775s	million cards before he decides to do it
29777s	easy
29796s	surely not
29799s	oh my
29801s	the non-attack hurts no chance for
29803s	lethal right no chance for lethal
29811s	23 though tj is that even possible
29817s	23
29819s	would have been 21 to be fair so let's
29821s	see
29823s	ah
29824s	well wait a minute
29827s	ah tavis is just
29830s	your hero park costs two like
29833s	imagine
29836s	i'm just thinking of what impact the
29837s	secrets could possibly make and how
29839s	desperate woods is
29842s	because is a marked shot really gonna
29844s	save the day here
29846s	because if it doesn't then he's dead
29848s	either way
29860s	right this huff is going to be huge oh
29864s	this is
29865s	it's going to be over
29869s	because there's a lot there's two
29870s	lifesteal minions on board
29873s	i got two shots neither of them died to
29875s	explosive trap
29883s	um
29893s	324 25 26 because you could just play
29895s	the elemental pilot elemental the card
29898s	will be drawn and being able to turn
29899s	yeah
29900s	yep la lethal ashton elemental i can't
29903s	actually think super cool
29905s	but not really seen play coming into
29907s	play for this game and he's gonna end it
29909s	and um
29910s	really rough one i think there for words
29912s	i think he
29914s	got himself in a very strong position
29916s	early on but then had honestly three
29920s	terrible back-to-back draws
29923s	which really gave glory the wiggle room
29926s	to get back into the game and start
29927s	aggressively pushing and it worked and
29929s	there's something 1-1 feel a little bit
29931s	bad for woods there but glad that
29933s	gloria's fighting back
29935s	yeah i mean
29938s	i feel like this is just my experience
29939s	with croix hunter like
29942s	you're playing a lot of cards in your
29943s	deck that in a lot of situations don't
29945s	do that much
29946s	um
29947s	like spirit poacher in in this matchup
29950s	specifically
29952s	kind of works against you in a lot of
29953s	ways yeah it's not a spell it's not
29955s	progressing your quest it's not
29956s	resetting your hero power when you do
29958s	have quest complete
29959s	and a lot of the time the shaman kind of
29961s	wants you to play minions at a certain
29963s	stage of the game
29964s	uh so they can
29966s	like do their little tricks and interact
29967s	with them right get bigger snowfall
29970s	guardians uh
29971s	have a better excuse to primordial waves
29973s	right
29974s	uh
29975s	so it's
29977s	you know it's
29978s	40 card quest hunter is just a different
29981s	beast altogether i feel like it's really
29983s	inconsistent but obviously woods has
29985s	made it to the semifinals with the quest
29987s	hunter the quest hunter was a deck that
29988s	had a pretty high win rate across the
29989s	tournament it wasn't an important deck
29991s	by any means
29993s	um we it just seems like you know
29995s	outside of that one game on broadcast uh
29997s	with uh
30001s	i don't remember
30002s	who
30003s	that we saw that was very impressive
30005s	like it felt like the quest hunter could
30007s	never be counted out
30008s	um
30009s	i feel like this is kind of the the
30011s	level of consistency
30013s	yeah i will say though as well like
30014s	there are some additional choices in
30016s	this list because i think you could
30017s	definitely
30018s	i don't think you have to run the um
30021s	uh the spirit poachers uh there's also
30024s	the sort of extra naga with the conch
30027s	call and the kraken bane as well uh so
30029s	that's again it's a good card it deals a
30031s	lot of damage but not necessarily cards
30032s	you have to run so yeah interesting
30034s	build up hunter there but woods is going
30036s	to jump over to his mage and again
30039s	this deck still feels like roon of the
30043s	arc mage the deck to me tj um and
30046s	honestly every single game i see it i
30050s	always have to say the words while i'm
30051s	casting oh well he needs a really good
30053s	rune to stay in the game like every time
30055s	i feel like a and yeah that's because
30058s	i'm not really up on this list i'm more
30060s	down for the lower curve 30 card version
30063s	but uh but yeah it does feel like ruin
30065s	of the archmage and i guess to an extent
30067s	pirate does a lot of the heavy lifting
30069s	with this list
30070s	deck has like
30072s	40 win conditions
30075s	and they're all not good enough
30077s	you have like the spooky win condition
30079s	of just amassing a ton of skeletons
30083s	uh you have the hero power wing
30084s	condition with wildfire and uh dawn
30087s	grasp um
30089s	then you have i guess that still fits
30091s	into the spooky condition
30093s	then you have bruins and siren atheists
30095s	like it right
30097s	uh yeah but they have to come together
30099s	like you
30100s	it's you can't just like
30103s	it's a 40-card deck it's feel like we
30105s	say this a lot you can't just like
30107s	settle on one thing and be like this is
30108s	what i'm gonna do this game because you
30110s	have to do what the game tells you to do
30112s	yeah i do feel like as well though that
30115s	kel'thuzad was the sort of payoff card
30117s	that on paper should be very powerful
30120s	and just wasn't
30121s	um because i still think like that's
30123s	easily cuttable i've still not seen a
30125s	kel'thuzad actually do good work yeah
30128s	yeah it's
30129s	and usually in the mirror and like
30131s	really slow matchups but
30133s	um i mean glory's already down in 24 but
30135s	this hand is
30137s	popping
30138s	uh yeah
30140s	as location plus draca plus prep now uh
30144s	serrated bones by like
30147s	um
30149s	hand space is an issue i guess so you
30151s	just play out the location here since
30153s	you're
30153s	uh your knoll is free i guess you can
30156s	fit in a door of shadows just because
30158s	whatever you get from it's probably just
30159s	going to be able to be
30161s	uh replacing the
30163s	massive card sequence the same way it's
30165s	okay though tj
30166s	woods has his wing condition already in
30169s	hand
30170s	rune of the archmage bran parrot rune of
30173s	the archmage twice
30175s	this is getting to the point where like
30176s	glory has to win the game before turn
30178s	eight because
30181s	like look at these this here power it
30184s	because the life tap gore's already
30185s	taken eight damage
30187s	and that adds up the rogue doesn't have
30189s	any way to defend themselves there's
30190s	also the amplified snow flurry which
30192s	could be used to block a a drakka attack
30194s	at any point so
30196s	yeah or just a vanclee for you know just
30199s	any minion right as well yeah and never
30201s	mind the dagger so depending on what's
30203s	more of a priority of course
30205s	yep
30208s	the awkward thing here is bone spikes
30210s	can't actually happen right
30213s	uh oh
30214s	well you can but it's it's
30217s	too late
30218s	um to fit in like all the stuff but this
30220s	is enough right this is gonna be a seven
30221s	attack day
30223s	i'll take your word for it
30240s	and also just having the like wicked
30242s	stabs and damage in hand uh glory's got
30245s	plenty of good things to spend his
30247s	manner on in the next turn as well
30250s	wait there's 26 damage
30255s	17 20 26.
30258s	it's actually just lethal unless
30260s	what's uh amplified snow flurries and
30263s	freezes something
30265s	i mean
30267s	it's no good reason not to just snow
30269s	flurry and freeze face right
30272s	yeah you're not going to stall more
30274s	damage
30277s	live in the moment tj i'm sick of this
30280s	trying to think about the future take
30281s	every day as it comes um but my point
30284s	being is the snow flurries not really
30287s	gonna stop much more damage than eight
30290s	right
30290s	i know there's a nine-nine on the board
30292s	but you know what i mean is there any
30294s	real good reason to not play it and do
30297s	it
30301s	is stopping nine next turn that much
30303s	better than stopping eight this turn i
30305s	don't think so
30307s	you can't stop
30314s	this is still a problem
30317s	yeah i would
30319s	happily categorize this as a problem tj
30322s	forever words i will completely agree
30324s	with you on that one we'll file that one
30325s	of the way in the uh the problem cabinet
30330s	now has targets for bone spike yeah
30333s	uh
30334s	tooth uh
30339s	what
30341s	i guess miracle growth like it draws
30344s	cards tj yeah
30346s	you can get crappy toe
30348s	yep so lethal is still represented for
30350s	the next turn this has to be
30352s	oh i told you i told you the worst card
30355s	in the deck
30358s	you win
30360s	yeah
30361s	that'll do it that was uh
30365s	one game
30367s	that's those are the types of brokens
30369s	that you know got me attached to that
30371s	deck in the first place right
30373s	like the first time that happened to me
30375s	and i saw knolls i was like okay i'm you
30377s	know playing against some type of thief
30379s	rogue
30379s	whatever you know uh
30381s	expecting like a jackpot this was like
30383s	five days ago
30385s	and then
30386s	drakka comes down like i just see all
30389s	these cards flying out of hand i'm like
30390s	what is happening and then chocolate
30392s	comes down for like a 10 attack weapon
30393s	like oh
30394s	okay this deck is cool
30397s	yeah it's like when we first started
30399s	looking at things like this on sort of
30402s	expansion day and maybe the day after it
30404s	was like oh wow it's like you see all
30406s	the screenshots million attack dagger
30408s	because they're popped off with shark
30410s	coins and death rattles you're like wow
30412s	that looks sick you cue it get
30413s	dumpstered eight times in a row and go
30415s	this deck sucks and then you play this
30418s	and then your eyes are opened because
30420s	this is actually a hearthstone deck that
30422s	works very difficult i think but you do
30424s	have those games where it feels like the
30427s	hearthstone gods are just handing you a
30429s	win because
30430s	what was what's supposed to do right
30432s	like you cannot keep up with that much
30435s	damage and that much pressure not only
30436s	on board but with the weapon as well and
30439s	it does mean now that glory just has his
30442s	priest to get a win with it's going to
30444s	be priest versus hunter
30446s	i'll tell you now you know this tj i'm
30449s	uh pretty happy with this priest deck
30451s	oh yeah uh this is a good one um
30455s	[Music]
30458s	i only change i would make is yes one
30460s	school teacher plus one for crush call
30462s	enforcer that's the only change that i
30464s	would make um i like the no naughty hex
30466s	it feels like too clunky of a car in the
30468s	deck that you really don't want to have
30469s	clunky cards
30471s	like you already have enough um
30473s	so you know those the hands where you
30475s	have like
30478s	samuro boone
30480s	what do i even do right
30483s	but if you have like samurai boone and a
30485s	crush call enforcer then all of a sudden
30488s	things start to look a little bit better
30489s	so
30491s	but school teachers have been performing
30492s	very well
30493s	and uh just having the ability to
30497s	not only have one naga but two nagas
30500s	crush calling fortune sort of serves the
30502s	same purpose
30504s	and have the potential to hit a spell
30506s	that could be really impactful for the
30508s	game state like a third shadow would
30509s	devour or store back aid station
30512s	even like just a holy smite sometimes oh
30515s	it'd be good to kind of go for a swing
30516s	back on the board honestly the amount of
30518s	times where you just think oh if only
30519s	i'd drawn bless
30521s	right it's like a a big deal with the
30524s	deck as well so uh we'll see how this
30526s	one plays out though glory already done
30528s	with his ball again there got keeps hold
30530s	off that slither spare er woods on the
30532s	other hand though seemingly happy with
30534s	his got a couple of spells to juice up
30535s	the crack and bane and does have that
30537s	shell shot which is clutch in these kind
30540s	of matchups right
30542s	for three mana you actually deal so much
30544s	damage to the board
30546s	yeah like
30547s	quest hunter is probably my least
30550s	favorite matchup yep uh could that she
30552s	kill stuff
30553s	yeah like
30555s	the worst matchup is control shaman for
30558s	the anonymous that is
30560s	from my experience and from the day
30562s	that's the worst match very difficult
30563s	they freeze a lot you don't have voice
30565s	to really answer things they can flood
30566s	the board which is a problem for you
30568s	um
30569s	it's a it's tough but questioner is the
30571s	most annoying to play against because at
30573s	least with control shaman like
30575s	you can kind of expect what's gonna
30577s	happen
30578s	um and you know you actually get to do
30581s	things
30582s	it's just they stop you from doing
30584s	things against quest center it just
30585s	feels like you you can't do anything you
30587s	play minion you buff it and then they
30588s	kill it and then
30590s	if you're playing against the dumbbell
30591s	dog bunker one which to be fair through
30593s	woods is not playing the secrets are so
30595s	hard to navigate around yes uh yeah it's
30597s	it it just makes it a a pain almost to
30601s	the extent where
30603s	you
30604s	again you'll understand what i mean but
30606s	there's almost no point trying too hard
30609s	to play around them because even if you
30611s	try and play around them it puts you so
30614s	far behind anyway it may as well have
30616s	been the secret you were playing around
30618s	so it gets really really awkward i
30621s	completely agree um and although there's
30623s	no secrets or not not the dumbbell down
30625s	package uh there is that urchin spines
30628s	again there in woods hand which again
30630s	could cause havoc was shell shot later
30633s	on
30633s	i i'd rather have my minions frozen than
30636s	killed let's just
30637s	yeah let's put it that way that's what
30639s	it uh
30640s	breaks down to but oh interesting wow
30643s	okay so i guess with urchin spines in
30646s	hand not really worried about i uh i
30649s	think my surprise was more just not
30652s	playing a kraken bang out
30656s	anybody why not just chuck one out there
30658s	right i know it's not like gonna use its
30660s	ability but it's a minion that kind of
30664s	uh contests this board right
30666s	i suppose yeah
30668s	it was just plays this deck
30670s	like very patiently right very slow
30673s	um and i guess you you're afforded that
30675s	luxury with urchin spines um yeah do you
30677s	see the pickup for the mongolian i i did
30679s	not see it
30680s	uh nope
30682s	i'll be honest i was looking at that
30685s	pelagos and bless though again really
30688s	nice bonus you have for not having to
30690s	worry about the likes of ice trap
30693s	freezing trap potential is you can just
30695s	commit to this and not really be that
30697s	worried right there is the urchin spines
30700s	of course that we've talked about but
30702s	you're not like oh well if they have a
30703s	freezing trap or even on that turn if
30705s	there's a trap well now i've got to
30707s	think about if it's eyes trap can i just
30708s	play a 1 6 pely ghost and then with the
30710s	spell blah blah blah all that's out your
30712s	mind right now for air for glory
30715s	yeah
30717s	but through it doesn't have to use the
30718s	urchin being here i think you can like
30720s	start with a
30722s	uh can he start with like a shell shot
30725s	shell shots guaranteed to make the
30727s	pillow ghosts killable by from coin
30730s	ancient kraken right um the cleanest way
30733s	would just be it
30735s	kills the vicious slutish beer and then
30738s	it
30740s	deals two than one pellet ghost
30742s	[Music]
30744s	but
30745s	i guess you'll take it if it deals the
30747s	other way around or now if it kills oh
30749s	that's the worst distribution
30751s	oh that's the absolute worst distraction
30755s	oh no that's good because now you can
30756s	hear a power that cracks yeah that's the
30758s	medium medium option
30763s	wait no that's not up to zero
30766s	okay yeah this is why it's the medium
30768s	option because he doesn't get to play
30769s	the kraken bay in this turn yeah
30778s	okay
30779s	get the wig played first it's active and
30781s	then go
30785s	first you're not gonna start with the
30787s	handmaiden
30789s	uh so i like playing for tempo first and
30792s	then handmaiden later
30795s	it also entirely depends on like what's
30798s	in this monogamy okay i don't know what
30800s	he could be like playing towards but
30801s	like going a little bit wider on board
30802s	and then following up with him maiden
30805s	uh okay that's the if you've cast a holy
30808s	spell heal
30810s	things yeah i think so yeah
30812s	you'll kill your hero for six something
30814s	for six
30815s	i choose to believe it's just to heal
30817s	everyone for six okay even the people
30820s	who aren't in the game
30821s	yeah but it's got to be a holy spell
30830s	i'm pretty sure
30831s	i'll just preface with that
30834s	yes okay
30837s	okay so tough turn here
30840s	um cracking bean would activate the
30843s	barbed nets but then you're not really
30845s	doing anything you could crack it being
30848s	urgent
30849s	darkness but that seems bad because
30851s	there's a spine you want to save for
30852s	those big big minions
30854s	later on in the game yeah slither spit
30857s	is kind of a big big minion though
30860s	yeah and we're approaching the stage of
30862s	the game where quickly
30865s	like a raiding elemental in hand plus a
30867s	place you could just die
30870s	don't expect this was the the last play
30873s	i was looking at just let them have the
30875s	board
30878s	okay
30880s	um
30882s	playing around devour
30886s	there it is
30888s	oh my ah no radiant though
30894s	and it's like the
30897s	treasure god this turn
30904s	or just play devourer and say just make
30906s	them have urchin
30908s	right
30911s	because
30912s	glory can't forever play around urchin
30914s	unless he literally otk's words
30919s	plague
30921s	okay
30928s	i don't know i don't think i want to use
30930s	devour
30931s	i like it
30934s	wig
30935s	yeah
30937s	okay because devourer is like okay you
30939s	pick up a raven elemental then you can
30941s	go
30942s	bunch a bunch of stuff then devour boon
30944s	right
30945s	um
30947s	so
30948s	and this is for sure threatening legal
30950s	like
30951s	woods has to respond to this board
30953s	and there's not that much mana to work
30955s	with and there's not i guess urgent
30957s	spines and barb dance is just
30961s	yeah that's a clear
30968s	i think though that
30970s	i won this is fine right i think for me
30973s	one way or another i think glory had to
30976s	test for urchin spines because if he
30978s	doesn't do enough to test for that
30980s	and then the hunter will be able to
30982s	clear up the minions right if they're
30984s	not big enough to warrant urchin spines
30986s	they're probably clearable in a more
30988s	natural way so i think as long as urgent
30990s	spine comes out now you see the nod
30991s	there from glory's like okay he doesn't
30993s	look overly upset obviously he'd rather
30995s	not have his board cleared but he's just
30997s	like right okay fine but now it's gone
31000s	now he still has the devour he has
31003s	treasure guard devour uh with boone as
31005s	well maybe not for this exact turn but
31008s	those are the kind of plays that gonna
31010s	open up the rest of the game for him now
31012s	that he doesn't have to worry about a
31013s	potential like
31015s	you know
31016s	urchin spines in the other shell shot
31018s	that just kills three of his minions
31020s	right yeah
31022s	i think regardless of how he played the
31024s	previous turn he had to go at least a
31026s	little bit earlier
31033s	anybody
31034s	[Music]
31036s	that looks like call of duty but i know
31038s	that i'm crazy like
31041s	it was a smite and a blast like we're
31043s	all crazy down here tj's yeah okay
31047s	this is probably bless um but it could
31049s	have been a holy smite in that situation
31051s	right to just uh respond to this board
31053s	that you know is happening
31055s	this
31056s	is very clean right
31059s	gets to crack crack and bane
31061s	the two seven hero power it and then
31064s	swing into the uh
31067s	swing into the naga with the weapon yep
31070s	oh wait
31074s	isn't shot
31078s	i thought
31080s	he wants a piercing shot the school
31081s	teacher then weapon and
31084s	trade minion over
31086s	okay
31088s	i start cracking bane hero power was
31090s	very clean
31104s	laurie's run out of health this needs to
31106s	be like raiding elemental off the top
31108s	right
31109s	yeah does that boon remember as well so
31112s	yeah yeah and
31114s	there's not enough mana
31116s	for boom right now
31118s	um
31120s	like that not enough mana to make
31121s	something big and then boom
31130s	[Music]
31136s	did he get blessed from the nargling
31139s	uh
31140s	no it's called the grave
31142s	oh wait i wasn't crazy
31145s	we're actually not mad
31154s	you're gonna have to use the cathedral
31155s	it's one thing that glory's definitely
31157s	missed this game right is an early
31158s	cathedral that's a turn nine first
31161s	cathedral of the game
31163s	yeah not really what you're after
31166s	all right so he's setting up before
31168s	quest completion a big minion saying all
31170s	right
31172s	kill this or i kill you
31176s	wow there's a chance that he can just
31178s	lethal him this turn right uh so quest
31181s	is
31182s	at
31184s	you're out of two
31185s	yeah without question without quest
31189s	well there's nine from the weapon in
31191s	kraken bane
31193s	11 with hero power 12 with wound prey
31197s	14
31200s	with arcane shot
31202s	yeah but if you throw all that face
31205s	yeah and leave display master samurai
31208s	it's simple just draw a quick shot off
31210s	the furious howl that you have what
31212s	three draws for and win the game
31215s	yeah i think this is just quest
31217s	completion
31219s	kill the samurai
31225s	not true hunter playing didn't go for
31226s	the
31227s	play tavish
31234s	your power furious towel here
31237s	and uh
31239s	wait that was just
31241s	that was just
31243s	oh no
31244s	oh that was correct yeah there was
31246s	nobody
31247s	no he wait did he hear a power face
31249s	before or did he hear a power with the
31251s	blind master as the second time the
31252s	blade master oh okay sorry i thought you
31255s	faced time to instead of hearing the
31256s	turn
31257s	of power on the blade right right right
31258s	right
31259s	all the grave there it is tj
31262s	plated beetle
31263s	behavior of us all
31266s	oh okay
31270s	a bit of a cheeky yeah
31273s	wait a second i play the beatles the
31275s	nuts
31276s	i'm i'm crazy and also crazy
31279s	i'm double crazy and he gets herald of
31281s	light too because
31283s	the holy spell
31285s	oh my gosh
31286s	all coming together
31289s	this is so weird we just didn't see the
31292s	plan tj we just didn't i know
31294s	now he's got a million minions
31297s	an active handmaiden in hand with only
31299s	10 cards left there's a priestess
31300s	celestial uh floating around on the
31302s	bottom of the deck that it's somewhere
31304s	so even if this whole board gets dealt
31306s	with
31307s	the problem is as well if this mark shot
31309s	isn't card draw
31311s	what's he's gonna run just a little bit
31313s	dry with his card draw i wonder if he
31316s	got shell shot instead
31318s	uh she'll shout my be
31320s	better to try and clean up other stuff
31322s	on the board because you don't really
31324s	want to leave anything up because again
31325s	at any point
31327s	you leave a single minion up
31329s	there is only 11.
31331s	um let me quickly check though there
31333s	glory's also running what the one shard
31336s	of the naru as well
31337s	so woods can't just say i have a taunt
31340s	and there's only one minion alive right
31342s	yeah because that is not any form of
31344s	safety
31347s	okay ready it's good
31349s	put that thing whatever it's called fine
31353s	then kill this and you get to push the
31354s	rest face so
31357s	every minion
31360s	the weight game
31361s	it is
31365s	it's a little control hunter but a big
31367s	turn is possible right
31369s	hand made it
31370s	drawn a lot
31374s	even has the cathedral to come online
31378s	oh got the silence now for next turn if
31380s	something sticks
31382s	ah boom but no radiant
31385s	okay just boom the tavish again
31387s	easy ah no radiant again second one's in
31390s	the bottom five
31403s	and no priestess either like that was
31406s	i'm sure that's what the zola was picked
31407s	up for earlier was just the priestess so
31409s	you can go yeah
31411s	and to be honest i i don't know if
31412s	there's a good shot to win from here
31415s	[Music]
31417s	because this needed to be like the the
31419s	board to end all boards right force your
31421s	opponent to have lethal or you will kill
31422s	them and this board is just not that
31424s	bored right right
31426s	um 15 though
31428s	bear in mind woods uh does not have any
31431s	spells in hand
31432s	yet okay doesn't it
31435s	it's gonna be enough right
31438s	um let's see
31440s	your power stag charge hero power is
31442s	seven
31445s	yes that's enough because you can use
31446s	your weapon
31448s	yeah he's got weapon he's got kraken
31450s	bane and the spells and hero powers to
31452s	get through the majority of the um the
31454s	kirian and then just has tabish and
31457s	other stuff on board to end the game it
31458s	looks like tj we're going to game number
31461s	five that's right yep and you know what
31466s	that was a very interesting game in how
31468s	kind of both players approached it um
31471s	woods played it very patiently
31474s	but at the end of the day it worked out
31476s	quite well uh because holding on to a
31479s	lot of those cheap spells gave more
31480s	flexibility later on right he was just
31482s	kind of using the expensive stuff early
31484s	on just kind of getting out of his hand
31486s	right the piercing shot uh holding onto
31488s	these cracking veins holding pressure as
31490s	long as possible
31491s	and then glory
31494s	like
31495s	just pushing just enough to force things
31496s	out and its game plan was to use that
31499s	the first boon turn to stabilize right
31502s	in the armor from the plated beetle
31504s	uh gain the health for whatever that
31506s	knock is called
31507s	and then
31508s	use the hand maintenance to try and find
31510s	priestess to try and find brave
31512s	elemental with the second boom to make
31514s	that okay you kill me or i win um that
31518s	type of board right and just didn't hit
31521s	enough good stuff off the handmaiden oh
31523s	priestess and the second radio mental
31525s	were in the the uh bottom five cards in
31528s	the deck so the game plan didn't work
31530s	out but i don't think any other game
31532s	plan would have worked out i think he
31533s	gave himself the best outstanding yeah
31534s	he just didn't get one of like the uh
31537s	uh wig priest turns right where instead
31540s	of making a 12 health making you make
31542s	like a 20 health minion or something
31544s	right and and you really pop off or make
31546s	two huge boon minions
31549s	as opposed to having to use boone on an
31551s	enemy minion use it on your own so yeah
31553s	uh glory got close but just not quite
31556s	there it does mean we're going to go all
31558s	the way back to priest versus mage to
31561s	decide the series and to decide who is
31563s	going to be going up against hansoku in
31565s	the finals
31567s	this matchup is
31572s	like
31575s	you got to build a big board really fast
31578s	as the uh as the priest because if you
31581s	like buy your time and wait
31584s	you're gonna get blizzarded and then
31586s	you're gonna get parroted and then
31588s	you're gonna get sanctumed
31590s	and then if all else fails you're gonna
31592s	get ruined
31593s	and then if that fails you're gonna get
31595s	more dressed and all along the way
31598s	you got flurries and snow flurries
31601s	yeah and more flurries from the
31602s	commander savara that got two rank two
31605s	furies
31606s	flurries
31608s	oh yeah by the way there's a theater
31610s	that can steal your wig and a barton
31612s	dawn grasp
31613s	all right that can freeze your board
31615s	even more
31617s	uh
31618s	so it's like you like get out of hey
31621s	that is an opening though right
31623s	cathedral slythers spare school teacher
31625s	like okay that's that's okay you can
31627s	work with that scribe as well for turn
31629s	two
31631s	all right
31632s	one wig away
31635s	yeah
31636s	um
31639s	yeah what this hand is
31641s	weird but i feel like every 40 card
31645s	and is weird and then it comes together
31648s	you know yeah oh boom as well
31652s	cathedral next turn
31655s	and then there's
31656s	even a chance that you don't
31659s	play the ball you probably do
31663s	depends what the board looks like
31673s	is there's options right it could be
31675s	cathedral
31677s	double trade
31678s	which looks bad maybe even just go face
31681s	and then next turn
31683s	there's a like
31686s	potential
31687s	like
31688s	either school teacher use the cathedral
31690s	on the school teacher or if you go face
31693s	and only one minion there dies and you
31695s	get to just boon on that as well but it
31697s	looks like glory's just gonna say nope i
31699s	want the renaissance gone clear that one
31701s	off and i'm gonna at least try and make
31703s	sure i slow the space it sticks around
31706s	yeah
31707s	this is not bad right next turn should
31709s	be a
31710s	thrive
31712s	other spear weak oh when another wig
31715s	picked up hazel can spell
31717s	okay you're just gonna play the
31719s	strongest thing though yeah
31721s	this makes sense right because he's just
31723s	saving everything for um being able to
31727s	use the location and boon on the same
31729s	turn to just get absolute max value it
31731s	does make sense
31735s	yeah only a cold case to try and slow
31738s	glory down and
31745s	oh
31749s	what
31751s	okay i thought he was going to just go
31754s	cathedral on the slyther spear
31757s	um
31757s	[Music]
31758s	and then just go like
31760s	devour boone
31763s	uh you want the boon to be much bigger
31765s	usually happens much later but this is
31767s	interesting too because this is a blast
31769s	that was picked up
31771s	oh no it hit the slow spear oh jeez
31775s	unfortunate that's
31778s	four extra damage it keeps the the
31780s	school teacher alive though which is
31781s	interesting
31783s	because what doesn't really have a play
31786s	uh
31788s	any yeah
31790s	even though i agree about the boon you
31791s	normally want it a bit later i think in
31793s	this matchup with all the freezes i
31795s	think you want just two minions that can
31797s	punch every turn
31798s	and it is the slither spare that's
31800s	gaining attack anyway so when you boom
31802s	it does hold the attack right
31804s	yeah
31807s	tricky one surely though surely
31812s	[Music]
31818s	like just don't have anything like
31821s	ah blizzard parrot
31835s	disgusting
31838s	to be fair while woods is doing all this
31841s	if that's what he goes for he isn't
31843s	actually killing glory and glory could
31845s	just spend it just keep going serpent
31847s	wig keep buffing up the hell to use hero
31850s	power to just heal minions because
31852s	blizzard doesn't do a lot of damage
31854s	oh there's another boon
31856s	another boon but hey ah yeah i guess you
31859s	just go for it i like it you just put
31860s	too much health on the board
31862s	this is one of the um
31864s	i seem to be alone here but one of the
31865s	reasons i think the priest versus
31868s	shaymin and mage matchup doesn't feel as
31871s	bad as at least some people think it
31872s	does because they still have to kill the
31874s	minions and when you do something like
31876s	this like okay they can keep freezing
31878s	them but how do they actually deal this
31880s	much damage i know
31883s	like there's
31884s	still so many turns of freeze right um
31888s	there's
31890s	another grace age period
31891s	yeah two more times
31899s	then rune okay that's a board freeze
31902s	come on
31902s	uh then savara which has a blizzard in
31905s	it
31906s	it would be cold case blizzard and rune
31908s	at that point
31908s	and then bartend
31910s	okay
31911s	i mean let's be honest as well there's
31913s	probable
31914s	oh man
31916s	there's probably just finley as well
31917s	right which will then draw locations and
31920s	things like that location flurry yeah
31923s	but still look
31924s	oh there's one um but look how does he
31927s	get through he actually just needs
31930s	they all together mass polymorph
31935s	yep
31937s	not in the deck
31939s	ruin of the arc
31943s	and shock horror tj the decks come down
31946s	to oh well i guess he needs room of the
31948s	art mates to do something
31951s	oh jeez
31953s	yeah because glory is not all in right
31957s	but oh
31958s	effectively
31959s	because there's no boons left he can
31962s	make like one big minion a turn
31965s	uh yeah and i think if this board is
31967s	mass polymorphed from a rune yeah but
31970s	one thing to bear in mind as well is he
31971s	can make one big million a turn but that
31973s	probably needs one attack to go through
31975s	to win right um and there's a lot of
31979s	freezes being used right now to to stop
31981s	this happening
31982s	[Music]
31986s	i still have no faith that an attack
31988s	ever gets through like
31991s	i have
31998s	amalgam something that gets him out of
32001s	this
32002s	uh there's no b if you amalgam another
32005s	amalgam um you can get a a starfish
32011s	uh and the oh
32014s	don't oh wayne ashara
32018s	okay i like it did that even do
32021s	uh well you have the spells for the
32023s	weapon
32024s	right
32025s	with wig you could just roll the
32028s	colossal you could just roll the spells
32031s	and try and get stuff
32033s	like i think there's enough options you
32035s	could just have a third wig with the
32037s	ring
32038s	oh the weapon would be so close though
32040s	right like yeah no that's that's right
32043s	i actually do i actually think ashara is
32045s	just a really solid pick up there
32047s	when you consider the things he could
32049s	have been offered
32050s	yeah
32053s	and now woods is the weapon deals 10 max
32056s	right it's still two damage after i
32058s	spell with five durability
32069s	this is ridiculous wait does he have
32071s	another amalgam
32073s	uh
32074s	no
32075s	uh he could have amalgamed another naga
32078s	to get another queen ashar maybe i think
32080s	that might have been last game
32081s	hey
32084s	the glory's just like come on please
32087s	let me play the game yeah now there's
32090s	only the rune and the freeze now right
32093s	like a single target freeze you
32095s	if you're desperate you could play
32097s	master dog grass might go for their 55
32099s	oh
32099s	glory's a little bit not massive
32102s	yes that's two i hope it's another
32105s	pleasant
32107s	runes that's five rune orb that's seven
32113s	that freak oh no okay oh eight
32116s	kind of a freeze but not really 10 11.
32120s	okay there's no mass polymorph
32123s	no
32125s	no
32128s	oh i had a funny feeling that there'd be
32130s	a blizzard in there
32131s	oh my gosh
32133s	oh glory i feel sorry for you my friend
32136s	still though so much health and that
32138s	rune did not have mass polymorph in and
32141s	shattering blast
32142s	and the pirates have been used
32145s	not a shattering blast
32148s	you like the savara has a blizzard in it
32157s	oh the shattered paws with all the oh
32170s	insane
32172s	what's
32173s	trolling what
32176s	you're doing
32178s	yeah congrats for blizzards right you're
32180s	supposed to don grass first yeah for
32182s	blizzard yeah
32186s	i have an idea oh total case anyway
32190s	still but he still gets the trade-off
32192s	rory is going to lose it
32197s	yeah
32198s	and the problem now is
32201s	wait if one minion sticks he can win
32205s	and one minion's gonna stick
32208s	oh wait yeah that's true for some reason
32210s	i thought he had the clay
32213s	he doesn't have to clear one minion
32214s	sticks
32216s	and there's enough stuff in hand
32219s	to do it
32220s	there's no devourers left
32224s	oh damn
32227s	okay explosive runes yes second radiant
32233s	yeah when you only really need one
32237s	and you have
32239s	priestess oh
32241s	zola for the priestess oh but you can't
32243s	clear your board he's limited on board
32245s	space
32248s	uh he can trade away the nargling right
32251s	that's something he can trade that away
32253s	no problem
32261s	he's got to think though
32264s	ever worthwhile at this point
32267s	for him to try and samurai this
32270s	just think very quickly if he actually
32271s	has lethal or not
32274s	let's have bless that's nine health
32276s	already
32279s	i'll lock this in quick
32282s	it's to zola
32284s	the
32285s	priestess 13 14 15 16 17's one off
32289s	[Music]
32298s	wait that was
32302s	that just wasn't a full turn though was
32304s	it
32306s	right
32309s	he could have traded the 1-3 away
32313s	played a a real wig and not a one that
32315s	disappears zola the priestess have room
32319s	play another wig have room to play the
32321s	priestess yeah i think he can then do
32323s	exactly what he did at the end anyway
32326s	okay
32327s	oh okay
32330s	how much damage now there's five taunt
32331s	uh health to go through these two twos
32334s	could kind of
32335s	go anywhere at this point okay
32338s	doesn't really cut it
32340s	he does have flurry
32342s	one thing to note
32344s	there's still
32348s	oh he wins queen ashara into ring into
32351s	shard
32357s	is there any way to gain case is the
32358s	cold case in the deck
32360s	he used the cool case last lap
32363s	is there oh there's a cool case in the
32365s	commander
32366s	wait deep water volca
32368s	in hand
32371s	his board is full
32373s	he can ping
32374s	it's fine he pinged face
32378s	wait
32379s	it would ring pushyard that's it wait
32381s	what
32382s	we have
32385s	whoever expects direct damage true from
32387s	wig priest can't argue whoever expects
32390s	it that's it
32391s	zalataf plus a spell grabs the win
32396s	from the clutches of defeat there for
32398s	glory and it does mean we are having
32401s	that all aipac final that derrick has
32404s	dreamed of he was a made boy
32407s	congratulations to glory but that
32412s	someone will sit and work out that
32414s	priest i'm too tired right now but some
32416s	will work someone will work out that
32418s	last turn or second last turn from glory
32420s	because he he missed a lot of stuff
32424s	yeah i think you're you're right i think
32426s	instead of the uh
32429s	you go
32430s	priestess zola the priestess
32433s	yeah and you can still do the heal and
32434s	blessing everything you should get more
32436s	wigs in right and it must be lethal get
32438s	more wigs in yeah but he was running out
32440s	of time and i think he he counted that
32442s	and he's like okay i have a shara plus
32445s	uh ring next turn plus a spell still two
32448s	spells left in the deck and he knew he
32449s	was doing drawing a card right
32451s	um he had a wig plus uh the shard um so
32455s	but i i
32456s	you know just being slightly off
32459s	uh
32459s	didn't end up mattering and three woods
32461s	you can't blame him for that right like
32463s	no it's all direct damage increased
32465s	it just it doesn't exist that's like one
32468s	of the only ways that you can get it so
32470s	very impressive and there you go all
32472s	apac finals and i like he said he's been
32475s	dreaming about it since he was a boy i
32476s	can just imagine derek as a little boy
32478s	thinking you know what
32480s	one day
32482s	one day i'm gonna be
32483s	one of the star casters yeah for a very
32486s	fringe esport
32488s	yeah
32489s	for some reason i'm going to be rooting
32491s	for players in this french esport from
32494s	the pacific region
32496s	and for some other reason these asian
32499s	pacific players are going to struggle in
32501s	a very specific tournament structure
32504s	within this frenzy sport
32506s	and i'm going to root for them
32508s	yeah he said all of that verbatim uh
32512s	while he was in his garden seen the
32513s	shooting star pass one night and then he
32516s	wished for exactly this outcome and uh
32519s	yeah fair enough he got it it worked
32520s	seems to seems to be good to me but like
32522s	i said doesn't mean it's going to be ton
32524s	soku versus glory for that final and if
32528s	any of the final is anything like the
32530s	last 10 minutes of that series uh i'm
32532s	gonna stay up this is normally past my
32535s	bedtime tj i'll let you know but i'm
32537s	staying up for this because this is
32539s	going to be exciting no doubts about it
32542s	but from us we're going to be done for
32543s	now we're going to go to a quick break
32545s	while we set up those finals so don't go
32547s	anywhere we'll be back with the final
32548s	match of masters tour murder at castle
32551s	nathria
32554s	[Music]
32561s	[Music]
32576s	um
32580s	[Music]
32605s	[Applause]
32608s	[Music]
32626s	so
32632s	[Music]
32640s	so
32646s	[Music]
32651s	[Music]
32656s	so
32659s	[Music]
32675s	[Applause]
32683s	[Music]
32814s	hmm
32830s	[Music]
32838s	do
32846s	[Music]
32926s	[Music]
32959s	[Music]
32970s	[Music]
32975s	so
32986s	foreign
32988s	[Music]
33008s	[Music]
33026s	[Music]
33045s	[Music]
33051s	[Music]
33060s	[Music]
33079s	[Music]
33117s	so
33119s	[Music]
33167s	welcome back everyone to masters tour
33169s	murder at castle nathria where we still
33172s	don't necessarily know who the killer
33174s	was yet but we know who the victim was
33176s	it was everyone who's not from asia
33179s	pacific because edelweiss finally after
33181s	so much heartbreak masters tour after
33184s	masters tour
33185s	we're getting an apac champion it's
33187s	guaranteed baby
33189s	well i think there's really just no
33191s	other explanation except that gia is not
33194s	here on the desk
33195s	nothing else can really explain it we've
33198s	had a apac filled top 16 and then top
33202s	eight and now to have glory versus
33205s	tonsoku in the finals you couldn't ask
33207s	for more as an apac fan right i know
33209s	you're just uh filled with a glee here
33211s	particularly with how that last series
33213s	ended
33214s	oh yeah that was uh an insane end to
33217s	that semi-finals there and you know as i
33219s	was saying uh in the chat exactly how i
33221s	wanted apac to be guaranteed a uh
33224s	masters tour champion with just some
33226s	pretty gosh dang bad hearthstone play uh
33228s	at the end there and that's what we
33230s	expect from apac you know they play the
33232s	absolute best of hearthstone and the
33234s	absolute worst of hearthstone and just
33236s	nothing in between uh and that's i'm
33238s	sure what we're going to get to see here
33240s	with uh glory with a world championship
33243s	title to his name already looking to be
33246s	a pioneer in another sense and as i said
33249s	get asian pacific that first uh win in a
33252s	master's tour but tansoku on the other
33254s	side a player who in today's hearthstone
33257s	today's apac cast only uh just looking
33260s	at uh japanese hearthstone
33262s	honestly kind of forgotten or at least
33265s	not given the credit that i think he
33266s	deserves because we talk endlessly about
33269s	alu temu glory and possessing because of
33271s	their long-standing grand masters status
33273s	pretty much from the start for all of
33274s	them almost so for possessing all the
33277s	way through to the end of grand master
33278s	has been very very impressive and glory
33280s	and possessive being world championship
33282s	victors in two consecutive years but
33284s	tanzoku's been here from the start like
33287s	lorinda was posting vods of these two
33289s	players playing against each other in
33290s	2018 tanzoku's been there since even
33293s	before that and now we're getting to see
33295s	a a real big tournament victory to get
33298s	him back up to the top of players uh
33301s	notoriety in terms of apac players
33304s	well so you're calling it right here
33306s	tournament victory for tonsoku is that
33308s	what you're saying maybe maybe we'll see
33310s	[Laughter]
33312s	you know i think either of these players
33314s	taking it would be just fabulous and
33316s	they are so expressive which is
33318s	something we love to see on the casting
33320s	desk uh very very similar lineups just
33323s	the mage versus the wig priest
33326s	difference between the two of them their
33328s	warlocks are almost identical just a
33331s	couple of cards different i believe
33332s	tonsoku with the double starfish and a
33336s	dredlich thampson whereas glory has
33339s	favored a couple of the
33341s	imp ranked spell and just one starfish
33345s	here though we see that mage from
33347s	tonsoku differentiating from glory's
33349s	weak priest
33351s	it can be such a crazy match
33354s	between those two if we do end up seeing
33356s	it because of all the freezes i mean we
33359s	saw there hardly ever the opportunity to
33362s	attack but if they do get the chance to
33364s	punch through it can be spectacular
33366s	it can indeed yeah and uh for this uh
33370s	slightly odd version of mage that we
33372s	have here for tan soku uh as you were
33374s	saying with all these extra defensive
33377s	tools that you have in there blizzard
33379s	mass polymorph as well uh root of the
33381s	archmage to round it out let's not
33383s	forget uh up against the rogue that
33385s	glory is going to be bringing which is
33386s	just that full-on 30-card standard
33388s	lambie rogue now that we've seen it
33390s	quite a few times over the course of the
33392s	tournament especially as the top 16 top
33395s	eight has gone on how are you feeling
33397s	about this deck going into mage
33399s	specifically
33401s	you know i think it can be a little
33404s	close if the mage does get the
33406s	opportunity to
33407s	get those blizzards rolling you know
33409s	there's just so many freezes in these
33412s	lists that we've seen towards the end
33414s	here the 40 cards so you've got the two
33416s	of blizzard you've got the
33419s	s
33420s	parrot sorry the gray sage parrot to
33422s	repeat it a varden of course so so many
33425s	freezes but the rogue can get under that
33428s	with turn four usually being the pop off
33431s	a lot of times all it takes is a couple
33434s	of swings either from a necro or draca
33436s	weapon or from a sin stone graveyard
33439s	minion i think you're probably looking
33442s	for the draka overall just because
33444s	there's far fewer cards the mage has
33446s	access to in order to keep that from
33448s	connecting and a couple of hits from an
33450s	eight attack weapon
33452s	down the line lots of burn some chip
33454s	damage early on from nulls can just be
33457s	enough
33459s	all right well let's jump into it first
33461s	game of the finals hearthstone history
33464s	just waiting to be written for both of
33466s	these players as we see glory keeping
33468s	that card that you were just talking
33469s	about necro lord dracker such a key card
33472s	against a deck that has a lot of board
33475s	freeze but very very limited face freeze
33478s	which is a huge distinction
33481s	yeah just the two of amplified snow
33484s	flurries so with the 40 card deck you
33486s	figure that's the lower odds option in
33490s	terms of getting frozen out so i do like
33492s	the keep here even if normally i think
33494s	you're looking for you know tradables
33497s	wild pawn knolls etc glory might just
33499s	feel that he needs a really big
33502s	necro-lord draco weapon to get over the
33504s	finish line in this matchup
33507s	okay on the other side bit of an
33509s	underwhelming hand i think even if we're
33511s	considering a 40 card list here no
33513s	spells to activate that savara snow
33516s	flurry which as you mentioned uh you
33519s	really want to save until you're being
33521s	able to freeze the draka weapon a little
33524s	bit later on and with the pickup of roon
33526s	as well
33527s	it's going to be a rough mid game for
33528s	tan soku
33530s	yeah i mean not big spell mage as well
33533s	so no barbaric sorceress to cheat this
33535s	into play and make something expensive
33537s	on the side of glory you are just going
33539s	to be floating the freeze there
33541s	a solid alibi can be a good stall tool
33544s	but just nothing doing in terms of the
33546s	early game here
33549s	yep fully agree with just the full pass
33550s	i don't want to try and chip in uh ping
33553s	damage here i'm much more
33554s	interested in preserving my health once
33557s	the tracker does come down
33559s	because you know tan so i think can
33561s	start to get a pretty good read on this
33562s	being
33564s	dracker right like maybe null you would
33567s	keep and then hold on to for a big pop
33569s	off turn but the tradables you would
33571s	have seen the uh
33573s	shroud you would have seen at this point
33576s	already i think it's pretty rapidly
33578s	becoming either
33579s	knoll or draca as the only two options
33583s	yeah i think that makes perfect sense
33585s	exactly
33586s	all of those would have been played
33588s	besides and necro-lord draca is sort of
33589s	the unique card that you would keep i
33591s	don't think you would even keep edwin
33593s	just because you can't really play it
33595s	until later on unless you step it to
33598s	really get it up there and it's a minion
33600s	so you can always freeze that out
33605s	tempo brand perhaps right
33608s	well tempo sevara like
33611s	there's no way you're getting this
33612s	activated anytime soon
33614s	especially because you don't want to
33615s	play the solid alibi until much much
33617s	later in the game
33619s	and so even though it's a lot more
33621s	immediately
33623s	uh
33624s	you know a lot more tempo oriented than
33626s	full-on value
33627s	uh it's definitely something i was
33628s	considering there
33631s	i wonder if glory wants to wait one more
33634s	turn because of that sin stone graveyard
33638s	nope
33639s	just gonna go for it
33641s	i mean if he can get a bone spike here
33644s	oh
33646s	now we're talking that is oh that is
33649s	filthy
33650s	absolute nut straw now we're talking
33652s	location and dracker because the bone
33655s	spike allows you to discount not just
33657s	spells but also minions locations
33660s	whatever you want and it means that tan
33662s	soku is gonna be tanking a lot of damage
33665s	now this uh this very slow early game is
33668s	transitioning into a lightning fast mid
33671s	game for glory
33673s	still some tools available for tonsoku
33676s	here the solid alibi i have to imagine
33679s	he's hoping to be able to put inside
33681s	this commander savara and use once again
33683s	no other frost spells have been played i
33685s	believe so it will be able to come up
33687s	again
33688s	on the magister dawn grasp draw on this
33690s	turn
33691s	uh the freeze available to stop the
33694s	weapon for a bit
33695s	so lots of tools available although
33699s	oh hi i don't know it still may not be
33702s	enough i think that's sort of the
33705s	frustrating thing playing against this
33707s	mage is so many ways of just
33710s	stalling and stalling installing that
33712s	until you've gotten your way through a
33714s	chunk of the stall tools you'd never
33716s	quite know where you're at
33720s	and i do fully agree that it's a solid
33722s	alibi turn here we can save the ping for
33725s	next turn i suppose if nothing else
33727s	better comes along to stop that six
33729s	damage coming through
33730s	but meanwhile glory with just probably
33732s	the best top tech in his deck of shroud
33735s	to keep the draw coming but that is no
33738s	crabatoa and no edwin two very very low
33741s	value draws
33744s	yeah they will be helpful on the
33746s	following turn if you want to go in on
33747s	another
33748s	cemetery charge could even see
33750s	[Music]
33752s	maybe a shadow step on the draka if
33755s	you're feeling like you're that out of
33756s	resources
33759s	it's always a bummer though to just have
33761s	to i don't know do you make the swing
33763s	here
33764s	[Music]
33768s	we could just go in right that's two
33771s	minions in play that had stealth
33775s	it was very tempting i i think because
33777s	you just have one more charge on the
33779s	location
33780s	you're supposed to hold off one term
33783s	maybe the shadow on the tracker that's
33785s	the part i was considering but
33791s	can always shadow step the dragon next
33793s	turn though
33795s	with the attack i mean going to see here
33796s	that there's just nothing on the side of
33799s	tonsil who
33801s	could honestly just be kale those
33803s	for life gain right not something that
33806s	glory is going to want to leave in play
33809s	like it
33810s	you need to threaten something
33820s	i i don't even see light
33822s	say you hold it for the top deck of
33823s	daenerys to go
33825s	chao that's brands and atheists on turn
33827s	uh nine
33829s	uh first of all you have to draw it
33830s	which is very unlikely in a 31 card deck
33833s	uh and you're also going to be tanking a
33835s	lot of damage on like turn eight before
33837s	that happens which is kind of a dead
33838s	turn right now
33839s	so i do fully agree we just want to
33842s	feel some extra health off of it this
33843s	way
33847s	yeah and of course we can see both hands
33850s	but i wonder
33852s	how much glory is going to commit here
33853s	if he is gonna go for a refresh on the
33856s	weapon you know going into this mass
33858s	polymorph turn
33859s	uh gonna be pretty bad news if we just
33863s	go in on the minion and don't get the
33865s	opportunity to bring back drakka but you
33869s	know the opponents had a slow hand that
33871s	doesn't necessarily mean mass polymorph
33874s	well this was a tough one like you
33875s	didn't even necessarily have to play the
33877s	the philip fighter it could have just
33878s	been step the null replay the knoll and
33881s	then all your two mass spells in hand uh
33884s	after rushing in to go bone spike and
33886s	then stab stab tooth face
33888s	uh that would have been like 12 plus 9
33891s	21
33892s	take them down to eight health not
33894s	necessarily threatening lethal next turn
33897s	really really close break points no
33899s	matter how you slice it
33906s	yep loads of damage here
33909s	i guess the question is do you go for
33910s	the polymorph for the dawn grasp i think
33913s	you just need more spells to be able to
33915s	play savara get another solid alibi back
33925s	still five damage though
33928s	he even polymorphed
33931s	yeah with your polymorphing or
33934s	dawn grasp it's all very scary
33936s	there you go dawngrass as well
33939s	yeah yeah
33940s	oh
33941s	if you go dawn grasp and like you'd have
33943s	to top deck exactly fireball or flurry
33947s	oh sorry wildfire or flurry uh and then
33949s	you'd be able to go savara
33951s	this uh on turn eight
33953s	plus another alibi uh
33956s	is like probably the best
33958s	uh
33960s	way to bridge the gap uh until turn nine
33963s	with the rune of the archmage
33965s	but that's a big if
33967s	and even then you're still just preying
33969s	on root of the archmage i think the
33971s	armor does kind of put you over the edge
33973s	in terms of having to go for this
33977s	but uh gonna be reliant on a lot of
33980s	factors to come through here for don
33981s	soku both top decks and rune of the
33984s	archmage rules
33988s	obviously first things first everything
33990s	goes to the dome
33995s	interesting okay
34000s	wow doesn't even swing
34003s	thinking if you're stepping directly
34004s	even though it's a six wep six damage
34006s	weapon just for one damage
34008s	it's still one damage if you're going to
34009s	override the weapon
34011s	it might be worth it
34014s	yeah a little bit odd there i understand
34016s	it is the best step target if you are
34019s	assuming that something like a polymorph
34021s	is going to come out um or that they're
34023s	just going to freeze your minions
34027s	but i have to agree you want to end this
34029s	as quickly as possible if you're going
34031s	to step the draka you figure you've got
34034s	a door of shadows that's gonna get
34035s	infused if these minions die two of them
34038s	being at one health
34040s	and then
34041s	wicked stab wicked stab it's a pretty
34043s	good size weapon
34045s	you're not gonna use all of those
34047s	charges yeah
34051s	it was a close call and tan soko on the
34053s	other side with his own very close call
34055s	because bran into
34056s	[Music]
34058s	baden is where my head would be at first
34061s	of all but then i start to think
34063s	do i actually want to kill these minions
34065s	there's no silence in the deck so
34067s	freezing them for the moment is kind of
34069s	good enough i don't want to activate any
34070s	door of shadows that are in the hand
34074s	perhaps there's just a better way to
34075s	spend your mana
34076s	like self pinging your pardon all right
34079s	thanks for your service yeah you don't
34080s	see this too often the odd scaling so it
34083s	goes from three to five another upgrade
34086s	available on either of the ghosts so
34088s	something like a reckless apprentice
34090s	pickup could really start swinging
34092s	things the other way in terms of just
34094s	loads of damage
34100s	i wonder
34102s	all right so what are outs that we have
34103s	available there is eight 14 available
34108s	right now so tooth off of the door
34111s	uh offers you instant lethal you have
34114s	two shots right because you had a door
34116s	and then gone fishing as well
34122s	yeah i'm trying to think if you really
34124s	need to play anything here right your
34126s	opponent still has to deal with the
34128s	board
34131s	and then you can always go in next turn
34134s	i mean
34136s	and if you don't kill them like well
34138s	your wicked stabs could always become
34140s	six damage if you do get 10 mana but i
34142s	guess we're
34145s	oh wow
34146s	i'm confused by the half measure to be
34149s	honest
34151s	i guess just having enough mana to keep
34153s	digging and digging no matter what but
34155s	uh here tan soku begging for a miracle
34158s	and he's clearly happy with whatever he
34160s	got so far
34163s	or maybe just cheering for this is what
34165s	it comes down to both players just
34167s	watching the rolls here
34169s	uh fleury does freeze one there's the
34171s	flame strike to clean up the rest but uh
34173s	no healing or secrets so i think that's
34176s	just going to be it
34178s	you baited me tan soaker that was
34179s	pre-emptive celebration you can't beat
34181s	it
34182s	uh as yeah glory instantly spots the
34185s	line for lethal very very easy with the
34187s	stepped tracker earlier on uh a very
34190s	interesting game uh mainly from glory's
34192s	perspective i will be honest because tan
34193s	soku really didn't have much he could do
34195s	for the entire game uh but it was one of
34197s	those weird instances where you clearly
34199s	are in a really good spot as glory for
34201s	that entire game your opponent is doing
34203s	nothing you're miles in the lead but how
34205s	do you lock out these final extra
34208s	percentage points take it from like 80
34209s	to 90 or 90 to 95
34212s	uh to win that game of hearthstone and i
34214s	think you and i both would have probably
34216s	gone about it in a slightly different
34217s	way but i'm not sure which is better
34220s	even having seen it uh unfurl
34224s	yeah i think
34225s	i like where your head was at in terms
34227s	of just pushing the damage right then
34229s	because then you're able to play around
34231s	stuff like solid alibi which while very
34234s	good defensively does still allow one
34236s	damage to get through so if you can put
34238s	the opponent on a very low life title
34241s	life total then even just your regular
34243s	hero power daggers are a bit of a threat
34246s	so a little confused by the half measure
34249s	there of using one wicked stab and not
34251s	the other not playing any of these other
34252s	things you could have just preemptively
34255s	made another big weapon from necrolor
34257s	drakka
34259s	at least had a minion in play that your
34260s	opponent has to ping
34262s	but uh you know in the end it's good
34265s	enough
34267s	it is good enough indeed and it's
34268s	meaning that uh
34271s	you can say strangely in that sentence
34272s	uh glory uh is all done with his rogue
34275s	and tanzatoku switching onto the rogue
34277s	of his own same 30 card for 30 card list
34280s	i don't know if that necessarily means
34282s	that they were collaborating on their
34284s	lineup like they have ended up with a
34285s	very similar
34286s	uh set of decks which is minor
34288s	differences between the mage and the
34290s	priest uh mainly just because everyone
34292s	who brought this uh version of rogue i
34294s	think apart from
34296s	uh
34298s	uh who was it uh
34300s	sorry uh who brought the the one of
34302s	starfish in there pretty much everyone
34304s	else just has this list uh with the one
34306s	phillip fighter is the slightly awkward
34309s	30th card but everything else just being
34311s	very very clean standard all road cards
34314s	all damage all combo that you're very
34316s	happy to see
34317s	but it's against the warlock uh the
34319s	full-on
34320s	uh classic imp zoo warlock for glory
34323s	which is still a match up that i can't
34326s	make my mind up on it's so hard to judge
34329s	because i feel like rogue should be good
34331s	in this kind of matchup where it's very
34333s	dense very board based fighting for that
34335s	early board control
34337s	but very often it doesn't seem to go
34339s	that way
34341s	i think what it comes down to is so
34343s	frequently the rogue is looking to sort
34345s	of bide their time in the first three
34346s	turns in order to get their nulls
34348s	discounted i think it can really help
34351s	them out if they do have a couple
34352s	tradables especially the cutlass but if
34356s	you're looking to cast a shroud of
34358s	concealment as the first thing you play
34360s	in the game
34361s	can be really tough to sort of follow
34364s	that line in the face of the
34366s	overwhelming pressure import lock is
34368s	able to put out and these being the very
34370s	pure imp warlock versions that we're
34372s	seeing from both players i think they
34374s	represent a pretty significant threat to
34376s	the rogues
34378s	all right well let's take a look at
34379s	these hands that's really often the uh
34381s	the difference maker for both our
34383s	players glory has to full mull because
34385s	it's a load of trash and tansoku is very
34387s	happily holding on to almost this entire
34389s	hand because that is the nose yeah
34393s	i think you're pretty happy with that
34395s	one
34396s	oh
34397s	you've got a trade right
34400s	you have to yeah
34401s	there's no choice
34404s	because you just don't do anything
34406s	without discounted nulls it's tempting
34408s	as it is to just run out a cutlass
34413s	this deck does not have reconnaissance
34415s	so it really would be just the
34417s	tooth of nefarians in order to discount
34420s	a null further
34424s	yeah uh the thing you have to remember
34426s	in my opinion this matchup is it's not
34428s	just a scrabble for
34431s	turns like one through three uh the deck
34434s	has a lot of staying power
34437s	did gloria think he was against a mage
34441s	no right i'm trying to think what would
34444s	garner that reaction
34447s	of your opponent trading cutlass on one
34449s	because that's a very expected play
34451s	against rogue that's nothing to react to
34454s	and if i know glory
34456s	despite being one of the best players of
34458s	the last couple years i feel like he
34460s	could very easily forget that his
34462s	opponent isn't actually playing
34464s	absolutely absolutely
34466s	there is an option now here to just go
34469s	tooth and that will discount them all
34470s	the last bit
34473s	you're a little sad that your null isn't
34475s	healthy running it into the flame imp
34477s	but i think you're
34479s	kind of fine with some extra card here
34482s	we do see since it is the de-cloaking
34485s	card a rogue option offered in
34488s	um
34490s	gone fission but of course that would
34491s	not end up discounting the null
34493s	yeah do not pick that
34497s	but uh a very decent starting hand i
34499s	like that tan soku is kind of tempoing
34501s	out the knoll here if you want to call
34503s	it that because the rest of his hand
34505s	does not really support a combo game
34507s	plan right now it's much more just
34509s	trying to fight for the early board uh
34512s	and deny an impending
34514s	catastrophe right that's the big one i
34516s	think in these starting turns because
34518s	even though i just mentioned how
34520s	this version of zoo the import like has
34522s	a lot of staying power
34524s	if you do uh it doesn't necessarily
34527s	always pan out that way in some
34528s	instances they're just very all in at
34530s	the start and if you deny their imps
34531s	they don't get a lot of card draw and
34534s	sometimes the deck just delivers as well
34536s	because that is a gorgeous top deck
34540s	yeah since stone cemetery exactly we're
34543s	in stone graveyard sorry exactly what
34545s	you're looking for here uh i'm a little
34548s	uh i guess not too confused but just a
34550s	little bit confused about not going for
34553s	the bone spike to play the cement or the
34556s	i did it again
34557s	the graveyard uh i would imagine you do
34560s	want to play
34561s	the lay fighter and the si7 extortion
34564s	this term although you could always
34567s	bone spike get the taunt out and
34569s	the extortion is still free
34572s	i don't think i'm a fan of this line
34575s	go extortion and trade into the one one
34577s	if you want you could just not play the
34579s	extortion on this term which allows you
34581s	to either trade or kill off like a
34584s	mischievous sim per flustered librarian
34586s	whatever you're expecting in the next
34587s	couple turns
34589s	yeah this is fine 4-4 again totally
34592s	reasonable i think you're a little bit
34594s	sad about this imp gang boss and having
34596s	no way to
34598s	kill it cleanly without giving your
34600s	opponent some imps fiend a circle pretty
34603s	great refill here for glory
34605s	fillet fighter can clean this up a bit
34607s	in terms of if you were to step it or
34609s	something but i imagine it's just going
34610s	to be
34611s	dagger
34613s	filet fighter
34615s	i don't know this is kind of tough maybe
34618s	it's even just si7 extortion necrolor
34620s	draka for a higher durability weapon
34623s	that's kind of where i got my eye out
34624s	like it's a 3-4 at this point in the
34627s	game that's not to be sniffed at and i
34630s	know it's very all in because you can't
34632s	trade the si you've got draco down you
34634s	have a second uh
34636s	location activation next turn which you
34638s	would like to have active
34640s	uh
34641s	and maybe i'm just letting cast division
34643s	gets me a little bit too much but i
34645s	don't know i felt like that was pushing
34646s	a lot of damage against a player who is
34648s	rapidly losing health
34653s	definitely one thing to consider is the
34655s	sea giant possibilities so wanting to
34658s	perhaps remove as many of these hints as
34660s	possible
34662s	maybe you don't even address the imp
34664s	gang boss for that reason
34665s	just trade into the one ones instead
34670s	yeah you could even trade away your two
34672s	on taunt into an imp even though that's
34674s	a pretty bad trade down
34676s	uh just because it makes it a little
34677s	more expensive to play the sea giant
34681s	who am i kidding just all face
34684s	they'd never have anything right
34688s	beauty bartender
34691s	that's a lot of stats
34693s	oh my
34695s	goodness you can fit in a
34697s	tap as well right you go librarian or i
34701s	guess tap first and then librarian
34703s	double giant so many possible you could
34705s	although considering the all face line
34707s	from tonsoku maybe you're a little bit
34709s	concerned that there's
34711s	a couple of wicked stabs sitting in hand
34716s	a little bit late there bartender
34719s	it's fashionably so
34723s	oh man it's so close isn't it like
34726s	uh glory can clear off some of the
34728s	damage here but there's still
34730s	uh seven eight like no individual top
34733s	deck is lethal here i don't think but
34735s	tooth gets you a lot closer right
34738s	uh
34739s	oh
34740s	one off
34742s	it's so awkward the the cutlass isn't
34745s	really the thing you want to combo with
34747s	the draca since it doesn't do anything
34748s	but get replaced by another weapon i
34751s	think at this point you're just trying
34752s	to play two things so that you can get a
34755s	stealth minion
34759s	but it's got to be all face
34761s	commit to the line
34763s	so if you tooth the librarian
34766s	and send everything else face i'm just
34768s	wondering if you can still set up lethal
34770s	because of the stealth and because of
34771s	like the extra damage from cutlass but
34774s	lower their outs on the other side
34777s	oh and ruined orb looking pretty juicy
34781s	to that end
34783s	ruined orb into
34784s	potentially cutless and then you get a
34786s	pretty hefty stealth you still get to
34789s	send two damaged face off the orb
34791s	another
34793s	seven from the minions two from the
34794s	cutlass seems to be adding up well to me
34797s	then it's the strike for lethal
34802s	oh no the tooth good additional tooth
34804s	still pretty good
34806s	is it just like still in the game even i
34808s	don't even know anymore
34810s	i believe it is yes yeah
34815s	another four four
34817s	nothing to do about the stealth and i
34819s	think that may just be good enough
34822s	i think so too
34825s	eight sixteen
34826s	eighteen another two from the bartender
34828s	could we tap into anything here
34831s	no singular taunt the location isn't
34834s	going to be enough extra damage
34837s	oh man sansoku trying to keep his cool
34840s	here but i think he's got it
34843s	ah
34845s	yeah i mean anything you find to deal
34847s	with the stealth you still end up dying
34850s	to the damage from hand
34858s	even if you got second grimoire there it
34860s	uh it still wasn't enough
34864s	library not enough imps for that to be a
34867s	ton of damage just plus four
34869s	concede comes out for glory and we are
34871s	one in one
34872s	huge win for tan soku you can see again
34875s	with his uh you know
34877s	praying cheering and then just being
34879s	like okay tensoku get your head back in
34881s	the game don't let it get to you it's
34882s	just one game you still got two more
34884s	left to go uh and i love the way that he
34887s	is approaching it uh because overall
34888s	that was such a difficult game to pass
34892s	there uh for tan soku those those last
34894s	couple turns i think you know you asked
34896s	10 different hearthstone players what
34897s	the best line was you're going to get 10
34899s	different pan outs because the branching
34900s	parts start happening so quickly whether
34903s	you trade the uh
34905s	extortion or whether you just play it
34907s	whether you go for the line that you
34909s	were talking about with philip fighter
34910s	plus extortion that turn instead of the
34912s	guard the city which is i think a very
34914s	very valid way to think about the turn
34916s	uh whether glory doesn't get one extra
34918s	tap in like i don't know maybe that
34920s	makes the difference between being able
34922s	to clear the board if he top decks
34923s	another grimoire of sacrifice i don't
34925s	know so many different ways to go about
34927s	it uh and i think tan soku did
34930s	play really well actually for the most
34932s	part
34933s	yeah absolutely this rogue just
34935s	demonstrating its power uh really happy
34938s	to see both of these in the finals kind
34940s	of have the presence of lambie with us
34942s	here
34944s	but
34945s	it's just so huge that that location
34947s	produces stealth minions i think that's
34950s	one of the main reasons this deck is
34952s	able to exist is because even if you
34955s	don't get a huge minion to connect more
34957s	than once so frequently it's just that
34959s	one swing that you're looking for
34962s	that's right the one swing is all that's
34964s	needed as we are right now at one game
34967s	at peace both the rogues ticked off
34969s	which means uh the imp warlock for both
34971s	players mage for tan soku that one we've
34974s	already seen so far this uh series and
34977s	we'll now see again
34978s	uh
34980s	and the priest for glory which is gonna
34982s	be fascinating when we do get to see
34984s	that
34986s	yeah you know fascinating it always
34989s	stresses me out seeing the priest and
34990s	mage face off
34992s	just
34994s	you know i think a representation
34997s	is the
34998s	immovable object and the unstoppable
35000s	force right i know those are both in
35002s	completely different classes
35004s	that's what it feels like right you just
35006s	got freeze after freeze and multiple
35009s	solid alibis uh potentially extra off of
35012s	sevara or
35014s	don graspiro it's just you know i'm
35016s	going to keep keep stopping you until
35019s	eventually maybe i'll get the clear and
35021s	the priest is just i'm going to keep
35022s	piling on stats and making a minion that
35025s	you cannot clear so could end up coming
35028s	down to that mass polymorph which is a
35030s	differentiator for this mage list
35033s	uh but for this match up right now i'm
35035s	really curious to see how
35038s	uh tansoku's very unique list will stack
35041s	up against the warlock because i think
35043s	uh traditional if we can call it that
35046s	considering it's existed for like two
35048s	weeks maybe uh traditional version of
35051s	this skeleton mage is quite good against
35053s	the import look you're able to get these
35055s	very powerful pings very powerful board
35057s	clears with a reckless apprentice a lot
35059s	of board control options as well in
35061s	addition to just all the freezes that
35062s	you've mentioned this one is a lot more
35065s	diluted with top end
35066s	that makes your early game plays a lot
35068s	less consistent uh to be hitting but
35071s	right now for tan soku and uh
35074s	i think his smug grin betrays this quite
35076s	well he's actually hitting a good enough
35078s	starting hand he's keeping up on board
35080s	discounted a deathborn uh and he's just
35083s	spending his mana efficiently turn off
35084s	the turn
35087s	yeah oddly enough maybe a little unlucky
35089s	to have the 2-2 to play there giving
35092s	glory the option of just trading in the
35095s	1-1 amp and getting these 3-3s in play
35099s	probably better overall but now it does
35101s	give access to a five card draw if you
35105s	wanted to get the bloodborne imp down
35107s	i think we'll just stick with four hope
35109s	for the location i think it's worth it
35111s	for the uh the potential to get an extra
35114s	uh even if it looks like he just missed
35116s	a card drawing this instance i'm pretty
35117s	sure it was the correct way
35121s	now could be a deathborn here you do
35124s	only get two hits i think seeing the two
35127s	mana left open and nothing done you can
35130s	recognize there is no vile library in
35132s	hand so maybe you buy a little more time
35134s	with the cold case
35139s	man i'm just sat here thinking i'm so
35141s	sad that uh tanzoku didn't get the one
35143s	ones off of the uh the dungeoneer it
35145s	would have made
35146s	a big difference here
35149s	absolutely it would have been very clean
35151s	you just make the three trades into the
35153s	three threes and just get a whole ton of
35155s	skeletons
35159s	and it's just gonna chill here for a
35160s	turn or well i suppose not because it's
35162s	not the deathborn but uh drawing cards
35164s	here instead
35166s	uh and get some pretty good outcomes a
35168s	freeze on the snow flurry varden to slow
35170s	things down some more solid alibi if he
35173s	needs it again it's just the uh the mage
35175s	special from tatsuku right he just
35177s	stalls the stall
35179s	and no deck can break through this uh
35182s	iron strong defense
35185s	yeah i do wonder where the attacks are
35188s	gonna go i feel like going face might be
35191s	a signal of death form
35194s	but you know it's always hard to say
35196s	there is the grimoire of sacrifice
35198s	available for glory
35200s	maybe
35201s	you know you don't know it was
35203s	discounted necessarily
35205s	if it was just picked up now so you
35207s	could be thinking about deathborn going
35209s	into this turn six which would be the
35211s	natural turn to play it
35214s	yeah i mean the main thing i'm
35214s	definitely thinking about here is uh sea
35217s	giant but then as you say you can clear
35219s	up deathborn so cleanly here this is
35221s	definitely the first line i was looking
35223s	at from glory
35224s	i was then wondering if you're supposed
35226s	to fit in a flame imp as well
35228s	uh but glory actually just says enough
35230s	is enough like he's got him king rafam
35232s	for next turn if this is cleared if not
35234s	he can go
35236s	i don't know tap imp gang boss tap
35239s	mischievous imp if it's frozen maybe you
35241s	just go for a starfish
35243s	everything looking up uh really good for
35246s	glory
35247s	yeah one of the better freezes to
35250s	starfish as well given that they're all
35252s	three threes and an eight eight nothing
35254s	has been buffed artificially in size by
35257s	vile library so in terms of damage value
35260s	for using your silence i think this is
35262s	pretty much as good as it gets
35267s	speaking of that freeze even if the
35270s	whether or not there is a starfish in
35271s	your opponent's hand you still need to
35272s	very heavily consider
35274s	the vardan uh because it's clearly good
35277s	here right no one is denying that in
35279s	terms of just stalling yourself out a
35281s	little bit longer more time to draw uh
35284s	archmage uh grasp itself
35286s	but
35287s	do you need to save it for something
35289s	even bigger is this just a turn where
35291s	you go
35292s	solid alibi plus cold case uh in order
35295s	to buy yourself some health get some
35297s	more tutus to try and set up that
35298s	deathborn as well and save the vardhan
35300s	for a bigger board
35303s	yeah i think i like the solid alibi here
35305s	i don't know between cold case and the
35307s	dungeoneer which is better you know
35309s	dungeoneer has the potential to draw you
35311s	a better out such as that mass polymorph
35314s	or one of your blizzards or something
35316s	but
35317s	definitely i like this over the dawn
35319s	grasp and it works well with the curve
35321s	right you then have dawn grasp into
35324s	dungeoneer next turn so
35325s	that's probably why the cold case
35333s	one mana off getting the shady bartender
35336s	which i think even if there is the
35338s	solid alibi on the other side you'd
35340s	happily throw down just to bolster up
35342s	those stats a little bit start playing
35343s	around deathborn more heavily
35348s	but considering that's not an option
35352s	uh the main thing you just want to
35353s	consider is i think not
35355s	weakening the
35357s	pool for imp king reform too heavily
35360s	which quite clearly mischievous imp does
35363s	not
35365s	do yeah even uninfused you know i was a
35368s	little bit surprised when i first
35369s	realized that this card always summons
35371s	another three threes so it's just four
35373s	mana six six right stats um and then of
35377s	course infused three format nine nine
35379s	but as you say we've gotten pretty good
35381s	imps in the death pool for rafam already
35384s	may as well keep that going by just
35386s	doing another set of three threes rather
35389s	than diluting it with any three twos
35400s	reckless clears up a couple of these
35403s	three hero power
35408s	so reckless doesn't really clear up very
35410s	well right now
35411s	but
35412s	when will it becomes the question like
35414s	if you've vardin this turn
35417s	what are the outs that allow you to
35418s	actually clear next turn bran
35421s	is okay sure
35423s	uh but it's not necessarily good enough
35425s	still on its own right you need like
35427s	bran and wildfire to be fully clearing
35429s	this
35430s	uh so i i do think this has to be barden
35433s	uh on this turn because it's too much
35435s	damage the apprentice isn't clearing
35436s	enough
35437s	uh but i'm still just kind of scratching
35439s	my head as to what the out needs to be
35441s	for tansoku to stay in the game next
35443s	turn
35444s	well the frost spell roll this time
35446s	around you know looks pretty significant
35448s	right being able to use one of the one
35451s	ones to freeze the giant and then
35454s	setting up a nice deathborn turn finally
35457s	i think tensoku has been hoping to do
35459s	that this whole time
35460s	and just praise that there's not
35463s	something to keep that from happening
35465s	for glory you gotta feel for just
35468s	okay here's another freeze all right
35471s	when am i gonna get to swing with these
35472s	minions they're you know i can make them
35474s	huge with this bartender is that good
35476s	enough uh do have the starfish turn
35480s	though and and that's what i'm looking
35481s	at you can always grim more on the end
35483s	of it to get rid of these pesky one ones
35487s	yeah i think the real problem here is
35488s	that he was looking for
35492s	uh the location there which would have
35493s	offered him
35495s	uh i think actually one off lethal in
35498s	that instance but he looked very sad
35499s	when he didn't have mana anymore for
35501s	location plus starfish after training a
35503s	couple times uh but either way uh it's a
35507s	i think very opportune time to go for
35509s	the starfish of course launch all this
35511s	damage to the dome and force your
35513s	opponent to have the answer which again
35516s	right now
35517s	is not there
35522s	yeah like it's a juicy deathborn but
35524s	it's just not good enough and of course
35526s	the starfish silencing away the freeze
35528s	ability from these one ones
35530s	it might just be time to play this
35533s	finley and hope for something better
35537s	what does the apprentice actually do
35539s	clears off the two smaller imps
35542s	obviously damages the void walker and he
35545s	got one one trade in and then two health
35548s	for health one health one health on the
35550s	remaining minions
35552s	uh
35556s	it's just it's so you have to leave
35557s	something up anything up
35560s	i think you can make that play and only
35562s	leave starfish up at the end of it
35567s	sure yeah that would be the one you want
35569s	to leave right doesn't get buffed by
35571s	reform exactly i haven't seen library
35573s	this whole time
35575s	oh deathcore okay that that does the the
35577s	same thing pretty much right
35580s	does it though you leave up an x
35583s	an extra million right
35587s	unless you find exactly flurry off the
35590s	finley
35593s	i guess yeah
35594s	[Music]
35596s	wow well gg man
35600s	oh my goodness
35601s	maybe i just missed plus two just enough
35605s	yeah that's going to get the job done
35606s	reform taking the win for glory goody uh
35610s	getting him to just one game away
35613s	from winning the masters tour now only
35615s	needing a win with his priest what has
35617s	been undeniably the uh the standout deck
35620s	for him i don't know whether to call it
35622s	famous or infamous uh over the course of
35624s	this tournament because he's had some
35626s	incredible plays on it and he has had
35628s	some disastrous plays on it as well
35632s	yeah definitely another snowbally deck
35636s	and i think you're pretty happy just to
35639s	have prevented that
35642s	sorry no we just saw one important get
35644s	through you're pretty happy to see an
35645s	import warlock for your opponent which
35646s	is
35647s	one of the better matches for the priest
35649s	assuming you're able to keep them from
35650s	snowballing too heavily although there
35652s	is no nadja kexen in the deck list for
35655s	glory there is a pair of
35659s	school teachers
35661s	and of course no partner in crime
35663s	schoolteacher has honestly performed
35665s	pretty well though in terms of just
35667s	finding some niche cards we've seen
35669s	devouring swarm pretty good loads of
35672s	switcheroos or other just draw minions
35676s	which is frequently what you're looking
35678s	for
35679s	additionally there was that location not
35681s	something you really see people run
35683s	naturally but did just give tons of
35685s	health to the minions in that earlier
35688s	game we saw
35690s	all right edelweiss i get it partnering
35693s	crime sucks and i was putting my name on
35695s	the line saying that
35696s	[Laughter]
35698s	you don't need to rub it in okay i'm a
35699s	noob i get it
35702s	it's fine it's fine we all make mistakes
35706s	not partnering crime my perfect prince
35708s	uh but yeah i i'm willing to concede
35710s	that i think this is just the list of
35711s	the the the list of priests you want for
35714s	this tournament uh the only other thing
35716s	i would consider is like going all in on
35718s	the spell version of the deck which is
35720s	pretty much an entirely different
35721s	archetype at that point just cutting all
35723s	the nagas
35724s	and going in with the uh
35727s	powered fortitude and school teachers uh
35729s	but for this one i'm right there with
35731s	you i think the school teacher has been
35733s	absolutely fantastic giving you more
35735s	activations with the serpent wig
35738s	and just these get out of jail free
35739s	cards like there's a wide array of
35741s	priest cards or pre-spells for three or
35743s	less mana that give you a whole bunch of
35746s	different tools for whatever the
35747s	situation should arise uh but you were
35750s	just talking about how uh
35752s	the match-up for this deck into imp
35755s	warlock uh how are we feeling about it
35758s	uh in terms of just fighting for that
35760s	early board scrapping in those first
35762s	couple turns who's coming out
35764s	on top most of the time
35767s	i mean you can really get a sense just
35769s	from the opening hands most of the time
35771s	you know if the priest does have one
35773s	drop in wig they're feeling pretty good
35775s	sometimes even just on coin
35778s	although i imagine
35780s	most of the time you just want to be on
35782s	the play in general in this match up
35785s	because
35786s	being first on board is just so
35788s	important this is the kind of match-up
35790s	where if you've got an amalgam you just
35792s	run it out onto because you need need to
35795s	have something into play
35798s	and speaking of tansoku's found plenty
35801s	to get into play himself we could be
35803s	looking at
35804s	shipment library just to give yourself a
35806s	four four uh on turn two which you would
35810s	have to imagine is going to trade very
35812s	favorably into almost any
35815s	uh
35816s	wig priest minion that's coming down uh
35819s	but merc water scribe if nothing else
35821s	it's just a two mana four four of its
35823s	own right uh with the wig on top of it
35826s	which means this could get really
35827s	interesting
35829s	a strong openers from both players here
35832s	being able to go coin merc water serpent
35834s	wig four four four of his own but again
35838s	tonsoku on the play does have that you
35842s	know first to field advantage and
35846s	with the location able to wake up and
35848s	effectively be free on turn four
35853s	it's going to be an uphill battle
35859s	double cathedral as well you know nice
35862s	for the draw and especially if you find
35864s	a top deck samurai for glory but
35866s	only one minion currently
35869s	are you a little surprised to see the
35872s	flame imp over the wicked shipment with
35873s	the vile library coming up i don't think
35876s	so especially when you get the blood
35878s	bounded but i think there's a really
35879s	good shot that you're just not
35881s	playing the vile library uh on turn two
35884s	like uh
35886s	wow okay uh even if they had uh gone for
35891s	uh something less impressive than this i
35893s	think you're still often very happy to
35895s	just play the blood-bound imp now that
35897s	there is a 4 4 and a guaranteed wig in
35900s	hand things get
35902s	very complicated
35907s	well there aren't too many minions that
35909s	the priest has quite this early in the
35912s	game you know it is just slitherspear in
35914s	the one spot
35916s	amalgam
35918s	radiant and merkwaterscribe are the twos
35920s	and you've just seen one scribe so you
35923s	know you might expect all right this was
35925s	just to get on board quickly but maybe
35927s	there is no follow-up except for the
35929s	heel it might just be a location take
35931s	the trade and figure you're coming out
35933s	the better for it
35935s	oh man he really couldn't make up his
35937s	mind like
35940s	i think honestly i was leaning towards
35941s	like vile library
35945s	pass or maybe that's too bad like the
35947s	value trade they get on the imp is
35949s	heartbreaking but
35950s	uh like you say the the main benefit of
35953s	this line is they're unlikely to be able
35955s	to play another naga and the wig
35957s	afterwards to take a value trade on the
35958s	2-5
35961s	scribe again i suppose at the very least
35963s	the 2-5
35964s	very large now you can shipment plus one
35967s	of the libraries you know it's pretty
35969s	dangerous to do something like fiendish
35971s	circle where there is the possibility
35973s	for just shadow word devour and that's
35975s	the game over agreed
35978s	yeah i think if there was no devour you
35979s	would just go fiendish circled because
35981s	they don't have the answers they need to
35983s	kill it and then you just go double
35985s	library gg next turn this is obviously
35987s	much more awkward in terms of mana
35989s	expenditure uh with the circle or the
35992s	library both floating manner at the end
35993s	of your turn
35994s	but it just doesn't matter i think
35996s	you're pulling so far into the lead now
35998s	just in terms of raw strategy
36001s	um the additional library you know it
36003s	doesn't really float meta if you do need
36005s	to tap not exactly what you're maybe
36008s	looking to do and i think this mystery
36010s	of his imp
36011s	certainly shores things up right you
36013s	play the imp and now you've got circle
36015s	library on the following turn if there
36017s	is a shadow word devour
36019s	that's true but i think i just want to
36021s	get this sixth one out of devour range
36024s	it's a little too scary for me
36028s	yeah that's fair enough just preserve
36029s	the stats you've already got it is 10
36031s	damage coming in
36035s	glory hoping for a miracle right now
36037s	which oh
36039s	doesn't look like it i i think he was
36041s	hoping for either devour or shard in
36044s	order to
36045s	radiate and thrive for the other one
36049s	we can go radiant wig
36053s	yeah merge water thrive then you can fit
36055s	in the devour as well or the sorry uh
36058s	the other shard as well in order to
36060s	silence all of this away
36061s	finds the shard
36064s	it's a tough choice between shard and
36066s	devour wow really oh is that really the
36069s	pick
36070s	i don't know
36073s	you are always dead with this line right
36077s	how many amps do they need no way
36081s	with library activating again
36085s	i guess you're not technically always
36087s	dead like 3 amps is not a guarantee
36092s	fair enough fahrenheit
36094s	most of the time i don't know
36096s	it is most of the time but you're losing
36098s	the game most of the time here uh
36100s	anything you do i think probably lose uh
36103s	leads to a loss
36104s	so i can respect here for glory it's not
36106s	going to work out as we can see tan soku
36108s	will take us all the way to game five
36112s	yet again today
36113s	uh as it's just gonna be
36115s	the uh
36117s	what the mage versus the warlock to
36118s	close this one out is the two
36120s	differences between both players lineups
36122s	rogues and warlocks are all that have
36124s	won so far it's the fourth deck for both
36127s	player
36128s	for both players that it's coming down
36129s	to now
36131s	you know very fitting that that is what
36134s	it comes down to i think that's often
36136s	sort of the bragging rights you know
36137s	people can agree on a certain three
36140s	decks for the tournament and then it's
36142s	the fourth deck that differentiates them
36144s	so clearly whoever wins this game you
36147s	know they just had the better lineup and
36149s	that's what they'll get to rob in their
36151s	uh practice partners face well i guess i
36153s	don't know that they're practice
36154s	partners but you know same region i
36156s	imagine there's some respect there
36159s	yeah absolutely i think the the japanese
36161s	hearthstone scene is very tight-knit
36163s	often sharing the
36164s	strategies and the happiness for other
36166s	players successes which is why it was
36167s	you know so heartwarming to see
36169s	possessing glory at the world
36170s	championship last year no matter who won
36172s	i think both players were going to be
36173s	very very happy with the result and i
36175s	hope it's the same here for tanzoku and
36177s	glory uh hoping for each other's uh
36179s	happiness no matter what even if they of
36181s	course want to win the tournament
36182s	themselves uh to take the victory for
36185s	them uh for themselves uh but for now
36188s	mage vs priest final game as we were
36190s	talking about and i think this ended up
36191s	being the final game of the last series
36194s	right between glory and woods and that
36196s	one just descended into sheer anarchy
36199s	absolute chaos
36202s	oh truly truly i think the priest
36205s	objective just piling on the stats there
36207s	we saw
36209s	massive massive minions for glory and uh
36213s	tons and tons of freezes for the mage it
36215s	really can be quite endless and already
36218s	we see amplified snow flurry dungeoneer
36220s	if it draws a frost spell that's a
36222s	couple of freezes there's not a ton of
36224s	early curve for the mage but this is a
36226s	good part of it
36228s	it is uh but this is a pretty nice early
36231s	curve for glory as well um
36235s	manor expenditure is looking to be a
36237s	little strange unless he gets another
36239s	one drop to smooth things out or just a
36242s	murk water scribe to get a 4-4 on turn
36245s	two two games in a row
36248s	no problem easy easy easy
36251s	oh that's so sick
36257s	and the amalgam to refresh as well i
36259s	wonder if we'll see another spicy naga
36261s	pickup like a queen azshara like last
36264s	game oh yeah for the zalatath win that
36267s	was so cool
36269s	uh but it's only really for tan soku
36270s	here the uh the powerful start that's
36274s	keeping him in
36275s	the game because even though this is
36276s	very strong for glory uh he's going to
36278s	be winning this early game most likely
36281s	tansoku doesn't need to win he just
36283s	needs to stall
36284s	and i think this hand stalls pretty well
36289s	i'm also looking at that theater which
36291s	coming down on curve knowing your
36293s	opponent has a wig stealing that wig can
36296s	leave a priest just in the lurch no ways
36300s	to start building up stats and i think
36303s	should tensoku see it that's gotta be
36305s	the pick
36307s	i'd still let rip with the freeze now
36309s	which
36310s	you know ensures a minion left in on
36313s	board most likely
36315s	which is a big deal uh you know to fight
36317s	back against any subsequent players that
36319s	came down on this next turn a ping in
36322s	addition allows you to take out most two
36323s	drops if there was another merc describe
36325s	something like that uh you're looking to
36327s	be able to trade off a little bit more
36328s	effectively
36330s	but in this instance a 2-3 does not
36332s	trade very well because you have to
36334s	frost we've dungenette here
36338s	and wildfire is good but not what you're
36340s	hoping for in this instance
36342s	even though there is the risk of shadow
36344s	word devour i think you still prefer to
36346s	have the freezes rather than not
36348s	and
36350s	well maybe it works out in this
36352s	particular case
36353s	you're a wizard
36355s	[Laughter]
36363s	so you have either trade in the amalgam
36366s	first into the dungeoneer and then super
36368s	buff up the
36372s	uh
36377s	diligent note taker for some reason
36379s	they're writing down yes apologies uh
36381s	the scribe uh or uh you could make one
36384s	massive minion uh and i do like here
36386s	that glory is going a little bit wider
36388s	rather than all in on one minion just so
36390s	freeze is a slightly less devastating
36393s	outcome
36395s	yep and i think this is going to be
36397s	swapping wildfire for wig here
36400s	even though
36401s	dawn grasp and polymorph not great for
36403s	the priest i think you're still looking
36407s	at those as tools you want to hold on to
36409s	more than wildfire in this particular
36411s	instance
36413s	does wildfire mean you already heal for
36415s	one you play it
36418s	no
36419s	i think it does i don't think it does
36420s	anything more damage right yeah i don't
36422s	think it does anything yeah yeah nothing
36425s	wonky like that
36426s	that would be cool though
36430s	if there was a way to
36431s	discover
36433s	the uh zyrella hero card
36436s	oh yeah
36437s	six damage on the void although if it
36440s	swaps i don't know would it be six again
36441s	when it swaps back i don't actually well
36444s	wildfire is just an aura now right
36446s	that's why it works with the uh
36449s	dawn grasp hero card so yeah i think it
36451s	would stick you found the uh the stupid
36453s	interaction i was looking for thank you
36455s	so much
36458s	i don't think there's any chance of
36460s	seeing something like that
36462s	there is i suppose a possibility here
36465s	and this is this is a stretch but
36467s	possible school teacher a couple of
36469s	times has offered
36472s	identity theft
36474s	and if you pull the magister dawn grasp
36477s	from the opponent
36479s	you get to
36481s	have wildfire on that hero power
36485s	now we're talking
36487s	this is the level of uh irrelevance and
36489s	stupidity i crave in casting
36492s	[Laughter]
36494s	that's the good stuff
36500s	oof handmaiden not feeling great without
36502s	a wig to fuel it at this point
36505s	locations are able to keep the draw
36507s	rolling
36509s	shard might just be something you have
36510s	to play to juice things up yeah i think
36514s	for now i'm happy with amalgam to get a
36516s	bit more stats on board trade the other
36518s	one into the theater the leash is
36520s	something you're very very happy to find
36523s	especially with a radiant in hand and as
36525s	you said plenty of card draw with
36527s	the location sorry rotating back and
36529s	forth one and then the other drawing a
36532s	card every single turn
36536s	well it may take something unorthodox to
36538s	pull this one over for glory because
36541s	we can see that mass polymorph is
36543s	present still a couple of freezes
36546s	as long as tonsoka is able to pick up
36548s	additional card draw down the line
36550s	things are looking pretty good having
36553s	denied the opponent wig that is an extra
36555s	piece of card draw right there
36561s	cleaning up the board very very
36563s	effectively though to be fair to tan
36564s	soku without having used any of his real
36567s	uh
36568s	big game enders right or any of the the
36570s	really hardcore stall cards like vardhan
36572s	mass polymorph even the apprentice
36575s	hasn't had to be used yet uh so the onus
36577s	the owner sorry is very much on glory
36579s	here to find some way back into this
36582s	game
36583s	and storm pike eight station
36586s	uh maybe that little bit of extra juice
36589s	he needs to swing this one back
36592s	yeah it works so well for him in the
36594s	previous version of this matchup so
36596s	could do so once again in his mind we do
36599s	see the mass polymorph available but
36602s	you know that's just not something i
36604s	feel like you can play around as the
36606s	priest
36607s	you try and commit not too much i think
36610s	very happy to see the second wig come up
36612s	off of that thrive in the shadows
36614s	otherwise still kind of sitting dead in
36616s	the water without that recursive buffing
36619s	kind of the engine that knits the whole
36621s	deck together are going to activate the
36622s	handmade and keep the cards
36625s	flowing
36626s	still behind on board for now though
36630s	four boone is a spicy top deck as well
36633s	obviously this is all just kind of
36635s	paling against the mass polymorph that
36637s	we know is in the other hand plus role
36639s	players glory for the moment right now
36641s	we're feeling good
36643s	so so tragic in the end but i think
36646s	you've got to say it's not there and
36648s	just go in on this board uh pelagos
36651s	picked up that's another pretty solid
36653s	one of course with the extra
36655s	valeesh means you could still find the
36657s	other valeesh um
36660s	do you you don't quite have board space
36662s	to play both boon of the ascended if you
36665s	do go for
36667s	the leash true uh but i suppose one kind
36670s	of holds another in reserve maybe this
36672s	is just the sort of
36675s	you know as all in as you can go in a
36677s	single turn and uh if this gets
36680s	polymorphed
36682s	so be it but there's with the handmaiden
36685s	pretty good number of cards remaining
36688s	even with the sort of
36690s	massive investment on this term
36692s	that's right there's there's follow-up
36694s	there's major follow-up actually with
36695s	just like uh you know
36698s	say there is a mass polymorph and
36700s	there's a board
36701s	full of sheep left on both sides that
36704s	shadow of devour is going to be
36706s	absolutely
36707s	monstrous pelagos devour to just suck up
36711s	all the sheep
36712s	that's huge and then a boon as well if
36714s	you like
36717s	yeah i kind of feel like knowing you
36719s	have access to this mass polymorph and
36722s	seeing that the opponent's board is
36724s	pretty full maybe you just go for the
36726s	dawn grasp draw a couple more cards with
36728s	the arcane intellect so you can find
36731s	something to do after the poly because
36733s	as you say it's too dangerous even to
36735s	leave a bunch of one ones in play
36738s	a mass polymorph is a spell school right
36742s	it's arcane uh
36745s	and one of few it would be a 50 50 with
36748s	the arcane intellect to be replayed off
36750s	of magister dawngrass
36752s	which is a huge flip in this matchup
36759s	i would say the major downside to the
36762s	mass poly is that with the boon of the
36765s	ascendant making that taunt there's no
36767s	way to sort of make some trades with
36769s	your minions before you go in for it to
36772s	kind of
36773s	reduce the number of sheep in play
36776s	since it will just turn your own minions
36778s	into sheep as well
36780s	that shadower devour probably a tool
36783s	that's gonna be held on to for uh quite
36785s	a while here yeah i do love that he's
36787s	holding on to it for now he doesn't
36788s	really need to do anything uh just
36790s	playing the treasure guard to free up a
36792s	bit of hand space
36793s	and draw a card if it ends up dying
36795s	whilst also protecting himself from all
36798s	this pressure on the other side
36805s	i believe no
36808s	blizzards or anything have been played
36810s	right that was the first mass freeze and
36812s	from a minion so there's no way that
36814s	dawn grasped can
36817s	replay poly and a blizzard
36821s	yeah i mean currently it's doing a whole
36823s	lot of nothing even though you really
36825s	really want to play dawn grasp on this
36828s	turn because you want to get it you want
36830s	to start upgrading hero power brand plus
36832s	apprentice can clear even the biggest
36834s	boards it's astonishing how much damage
36836s	that does on its own
36838s	but i think as we can see it pretty much
36840s	just has to be
36842s	the polymorph on this term
36846s	and i think this is really heads up play
36849s	removing your own minions from the board
36851s	just to minimize the amount that can be
36854s	shadowed devoured so you don't just die
36857s	from a 1-1
36858s	and that's the kind of thing that
36860s	many players would do but when you do
36863s	have access to
36864s	you know well shadow word devour is
36866s	always in the list so i guess that's not
36868s	really something you have to worry about
36869s	in terms of whether it's there or not
36872s	but
36873s	yeah really heads up play there and i
36875s	think very much a difference
36877s	maker how big can this sheep get first
36880s	step it devours all the other sheep uh
36883s	to consume their power
36885s	then we're seeing
36887s	wig
36889s	another one wig it doesn't have both
36891s	wigs in hand which is such a big
36893s	difference i don't think it's getting up
36894s	to lethal sizes but it's absolutely
36897s	enormous
36900s	pretty massive and you you don't even
36902s	have to invest the pelagos right you
36904s	just go in on as many wigs as possible
36908s	another wig and boon
36910s	very important just for setting up
36912s	multiple high health minions going into
36914s	the following turn
36916s	this is as large as it could possibly be
36920s	not quite a lethal one off
36924s	very tragic and going on 10 mana there's
36927s	an opportunity here to bran dawn grasp
36932s	oh my goodness you're right so how does
36935s	this work if you get sheep you're
36936s	obviously
36937s	honestly you're alive at one because of
36939s	the armor right five sheep on board five
36942s	armor gained as well
36944s	yeah
36946s	uh you could with both wigs used right
36950s	there's
36951s	there's no wig in hand
36953s	oh my god
36956s	okay so we just need one mass polymorph
36959s	here two shots at it
36962s	there it is there it is
36964s	oh my goodness
36968s	oh the cold case as well yeah it just
36969s	makes it even tougher to kill er to kill
36973s	is there a shadow devour left in the
36976s	deck oh
36977s	it was perfect uh let me double check
36979s	but i don't think so
36983s	oh it's so close not gonna do it
36990s	there's no more spells left
36992s	that's the only one
36994s	oh
36995s	it's tragic
36997s	i will find the truth with one more
37000s	shadow word devour you could actually
37002s	get there with one of these cheap i
37003s	think and it's just
37006s	not quite good enough
37009s	i think that's
37011s	making all the difference there
37013s	yeah no
37016s	i mean at this point just enough
37024s	what a series to be within
37027s	one
37028s	health of winning
37030s	you know oh maybe you're just supposed
37033s	to save the wig there right if you're
37035s	not getting lethal
37037s	maybe the math hadn't been done and
37039s	gloria was just like ah it's it's enough
37042s	right it's got to be enough
37044s	but you know if you save a wig are you
37046s	able to get there with the pelicans
37048s	maybe not even just because of the mass
37050s	polly nothing has high enough help
37054s	full board of skellingtons and glory
37058s	i mean the best jordan's deck is school
37059s	teacher because
37062s	maybe that does maybe
37064s	i don't know what there is that can win
37066s	you the game
37067s	call it the grave grave or like owl
37069s	dexter or something
37073s	uh
37075s	no no
37077s	wrong hero i think that means we're
37079s	getting the conceit
37081s	oh my goodness you know
37085s	well played by both here really really
37088s	keeping us in uh loads of tension till
37091s	the end couldn't ask for a better series
37093s	go into a full five games and you know i
37096s	think this just means that mage is the
37098s	better fourth deck right
37100s	100
37101s	definitively said so uh right there as
37104s	tan soku oh man you can just feel the
37106s	excitement from there he doesn't even
37107s	know what to do with his body he's
37109s	celebrating he's slumping in his chair
37111s	it's uh it's all too much all at once
37113s	but i'm so happy for him as i'm sure
37115s	glory is as well because glory he's got
37118s	a second place here a remarkable feat in
37121s	his own right uh but he's already had
37123s	the world championship now it is
37125s	tansoku's time to shine a win at the
37128s	masters tour a spot at the uh the full
37131s	championship to be played later on this
37133s	year as well and just a phenomenally
37136s	weak uh played weekend of hearthstone
37138s	overall i think his lineup was
37141s	uh not what i expected to win the
37143s	tournament in terms of the uh the builds
37146s	that he has but if we want to talk about
37148s	the four overall best decks i think
37150s	there's a very very good argument that
37153s	tan soku just has them in shaman mage
37156s	rogue and the warlock as well
37160s	and the mass polymorph you know i wasn't
37162s	sure at first but it does seem like with
37165s	the number of wig priests brought by
37167s	players in order to feed on the druids
37170s	it has been a really great inclusion
37172s	just to be able to have those extra
37174s	percentage points in the match up
37176s	against the wig priests so really well
37178s	thought out there and you know also some
37181s	uses maybe against big spell mage some
37184s	of these other things there's a decent
37185s	number of large minions so just with
37188s	enough stall in the mage
37190s	you can get a pretty good polymorph at
37191s	some point
37193s	you can indeed and there it is his run
37195s	all the way through man he took down
37196s	some names donkey miro who really warmed
37200s	himself i think to the entire casting
37202s	desk and i'm sure uh much of the
37204s	hearthstone community as well and then
37206s	glory to round it out to take the win
37208s	i'm so happy for tan soku so happy for
37211s	asia pacific of course i feel a little
37214s	bad like stealing g has thunder here as
37216s	someone who is not actually from asia
37219s	pacific just coming over and colonizing
37221s	all the hype uh but i'm uh i'm happy in
37224s	proxy for her uh and uh hopefully when
37227s	she's back with me in gm next week she
37229s	can help me lose my mind a little bit
37231s	less uh like happened in this particular
37233s	masters tour uh but yeah huge win for
37235s	tansoku huge win for the japanese
37238s	community as well i saw a little bit on
37240s	twitter just before this game started uh
37242s	that everyone was cheering for him or
37245s	glory just the whole community coming
37247s	together so excited to have a japan vs
37249s	japan final
37250s	and i couldn't have asked for anything
37252s	better full game five and i think tan
37255s	soku playing out of his mind really good
37257s	stuff
37259s	yeah i'm sure gia has been paying full
37261s	attention to these games as well and
37265s	sharing in your enthusiasm excited to
37267s	catch that on the gm cast next week but
37271s	you know you wouldn't be a proper brit
37273s	if you didn't sort of steal that thunder
37275s	there of course exactly
37277s	her qualifying and not being on the desk
37279s	that allowed this to happen so you can
37282s	you can thank her for that
37284s	yeah and i will certainly do so but i
37286s	believe that means we are all wrapped up
37289s	for masters tour murder at castle
37291s	nathria i've had an absolutely fantastic
37294s	time i think this meta is turning out to
37296s	be a really really interesting one can't
37298s	wait to see how the nerfs will affect
37300s	things in the weeks to come which of the
37302s	decks will uh float to the top of the
37305s	metagame uh and of course
37307s	congratulations to all of our players
37308s	and tansoku in particular uh for his
37312s	victory in the masters tour uh any other
37315s	closing words edelweiss uh after having
37317s	cast that final
37319s	yeah i just have to say you know so many
37322s	five game series in this
37325s	top eight
37326s	top 16 in general you know even though
37329s	lorinda and i did cast a quick 3-0 i
37331s	think that was
37332s	the rarity for these playoffs and
37337s	you know as long as it ran it was just
37339s	non-stop action i couldn't stop watching
37342s	all right well thank you so much for
37344s	joining us it's been an absolute
37345s	pleasure to uh to cast together and of
37347s	course thank you so much everyone at
37349s	home for watching we'll be back next
37351s	week when hearthstone grand masters
37353s	resumes for those of weeks three and
37356s	four it's last call once again so we're
37358s	fighting for that one's final spot at
37360s	the world championship with all the
37361s	regions clashing against each other uh
37364s	europe americas and uh asia pacific as
37368s	uh jira and i will be gloating the
37370s	entire time i'm sure you won't want to
37372s	miss it uh and then uh
37374s	shortly after that we're gonna be having
37376s	another lobby legends as well so plenty
37377s	of hearthstone both standard and
37379s	battlegrounds to come soon to
37382s	hearthstone esports here on the
37383s	hearthstone youtube channel so thank you
37386s	so much for watching once again
37387s	congratulations to tan soku and we'll
37389s	see you next week
37394s	[Music]
37401s	[Music]
37407s	your purpose
37410s	[Music]
37426s	many things
37429s	[Music]
37441s	[Music]
37450s	me
37460s	[Music]
37470s	[Music]
37483s	[Music]
37492s	this must be the way
37495s	[Music]
37502s	[Music]
37516s	uh
37520s	[Music]
37523s	uh
37533s	[Music]
37536s	well
37540s	wonderful
37544s	[Music]
37561s	okay i can rest this problem now i'm
37563s	much happier having seen this happen
37569s	[Music]
37576s	the cleric is still alive the pyro ready
37578s	to whirlwind the amulet of the undying
37581s	coming down the boar is getting it done
37583s	dravo can see and pocket train is the
37587s	winner of masters tour for sheer water
37590s	performance
37591s	[Music]
37601s	[Music]
37634s	foreign

[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour: Murder at Castle Nathria | Day 3

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