[2022] Hearthstone Legends - Ep.5 - Tom60229 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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3s	foreign
13s	Legends where we look back at some of
16s	the most iconic moments and matches that
18s	make the players we know today Legends
21s	today we take a look at Tom 60229 a play
26s	whose continued hard work and skill took
28s	him all the way to the world
30s	championship the first match we'll see
32s	is between Tom and powder in 2015 the
36s	Asus Rog summer tournament saw Tom take
39s	wins over Vortex and Osaka to make it to
42s	the finals and face powder
44s	this match really shows off some of the
46s	classic decks from 2015. patriar combo
50s	Druid and of course Face Hunter welcome
53s	back ladies and gentlemen this is the
55s	finals of the Asus Rog Summer 2015
57s	Hearthstone tournament I am monk savit
60s	as always is here with me and finally
62s	for our final match we have Gara how are
65s	you doing guys
69s	I have a really nice crowd here it's the
71s	finals of the assembly 2015 I'm very
73s	excited those people went to three very
75s	very tough days to to get here where
78s	there are I'm very excited for the
80s	upcoming best of seven match oh yeah we
82s	started with 32 players and now we're
83s	down to two both of these players
84s	definitely deserve their place in the
86s	finals playing for that grand prize of
88s	ten thousand dollars and 100 World
89s	Championship points
91s	I'm pretty excited yeah not only the
94s	money but the world championship points
95s	are so important to both players Tom
97s	last year was at BlizzCon and currently
99s	he is ranked three in terms of
101s	hearthstone World Championship points in
103s	the Taiwan region the only two players
105s	ahead of him are uh Spider Roger and
109s	Frozen ice if he wins second place in
111s	this torrent he'll advance to number two
113s	and Hearthstone World Championship
114s	points but if he wins this tournament
116s	and gets 100 points he'll Advance all
119s	the way to the top to number one that's
121s	insane and there's like only very little
123s	time left to collect points so he would
125s	basically guarantee top eight in the
127s	tavern region so this really means a lot
129s	to him oh yeah exactly there's only one
131s	ladder season left there's quite a few
133s	more open tournaments but there's only
134s	one or two big lands left so this is
137s	exactly the final chance meanwhile
139s	powder he has around like 40 50 points
142s	and if he wins this tournament with
144s	getting a hundred points he'll Advance
146s	really high in the rankings as well yeah
148s	he'll go straight after the top eight I
149s	don't know the 50 points for the second
151s	place probably not going to do it but
152s	with 100 points definitely he'll be up
154s	there and competing
156s	but I'm not probably not guaranteed but
158s	at least like having a very good chance
160s	at getting that top eight yeah not only
162s	is the points really important of course
164s	the money is always nice right I mean
166s	ten thousand wow ten thousand for first
169s	place five thousand first second place
171s	now we have slight change of rules for
173s	the finals instead of best of five we're
175s	gonna extend it all the way to a best of
177s	seven both players will again ban one
179s	deck but each player will also have a
181s	Revival
183s	so like maybe if one deck is banned um
186s	like Warrior is a very common band for
188s	example but if one player bans Warrior
190s	then Hunter might be able to be played
192s	twice yeah if you're new to the Revival
194s	thing and basically what that means is
195s	that uh one of the Decks that you
197s	already won with you can bring it back
198s	so if you think that your Druid is
200s	amazing against everything that your
201s	opponent has you can play it again and
203s	try to get to the second win maybe
205s	easily or uh at least be a little bit uh
208s	favorite going into the remaining
210s	matches yeah we're seeing the lineups
211s	right now powder his Warriors band his
213s	Warrior is actually a control Warrior
215s	and it actually makes sense for Tom to
216s	ban that since he's bringing Rogue
219s	um I like that the two most common
221s	strategies for throughout the tournament
223s	are like
224s	um in the finals the hunter band
226s	strategy uh from from Powder And The
229s	Warrior bands the patron Warrior band
232s	strategy from Tom and that they face
233s	like one of each types that they face in
236s	the finals yeah it's pretty hilarious
238s	the powder specifically designed that
240s	this anti-hand locking strategy to beat
242s	life coach at a round of eight and there
244s	has been no Handlock to be found but
246s	he's still here and it's not only that
247s	but he won his semi-final 3-0
250s	so uh seems like that lineup is doing
252s	just fine against other stuff too
254s	yeah for sure the malygous Warlock also
257s	from powders a really strange pick I
260s	think he's like one of the only players
261s	to bring that deck to this tournament
263s	melon ghost warlock did really well at
266s	the last big land at dreamhack but ever
268s	since then it's kind of like died down a
270s	bit in favor of the more popular zoo and
272s	hamlock said the strange thing about
274s	maligo's lock I talked to Mr yagut about
276s	it a lot because he's kind of known for
278s	playing maligo's look on leather he like
280s	re-shrink one let me fit and he said
282s	like the thing about maligo's look it
283s	isn't favored against anything but it
286s	isn't like too bad against anything so
289s	it's kind of always alright like it's a
292s	very weird deck when you think about it
293s	yeah it sure is
296s	um I believe we're about ready to get
298s	into the first match
301s	arms 60229 versus powder it's very
305s	reminiscent of the dreamhack finals uh
307s	just that just happened last month Tom
309s	kind of representing tiddler Celestial
311s	both Asian players and powder kind of
313s	representing dog
315s	The Foreigner player yeah is it about
317s	time like is Hearthstone going the way
320s	of other Esports where the Asian
322s	countries start dominating it's so funny
324s	because Reynard said that at some point
325s	that in Esports it takes like 1.5 years
328s	around that the Asians take over the
331s	game like it happens like in in Dota in
333s	League of Legends and stuff like that
334s	and around now it would be the time for
337s	Hearthstone and as we can see like
339s	tiddler and all the Asian players are
341s	winning more tournaments like Roger
342s	becoming more and more popular it might
344s	actually happen
346s	all right here we go
348s	game one of the best of
350s	seven series
355s	the patron Warrior against mid-range
357s	Druid and you know it's not just any
359s	Druid but it's powder Druid what's
362s	what's so special about powder Druid you
364s	may ask powder Druid has either one or
366s	two strangle Thorn tigers in it kind of
369s	like
370s	and also done mind control text
372s	double Shades that is excellent against
376s	the basement Warrior he can coin out one
378s	of those on turn two he can play the
379s	second one and turn three if they grow
381s	just a little bit like uh a couple of
383s	turns there before the whirlwinds happen
385s	they're gonna be Out Of Reach and
386s	without the brawl in the patrons there's
388s	no real good way to deal with them and
391s	and he just um how about our cards to
394s	symbolize his opponent that he has like
395s	options to clean out the white girl for
398s	save it or use some innovates what you
400s	just did
401s	but this is going to be a shade into
403s	shade for sure
406s	just amazing the best start you can have
407s	without innervate without wild growth
409s	yeah powder is in a pretty great
411s	position right yeah he's gonna even
412s	after the shades this could be coming
413s	out so nicely with that pile of the
415s	sweater into a pipe drop
417s	I'm playing unusually fast at this
419s	moment wow just going for the motion
422s	command yeah this is really interesting
423s	this is a very common strategy from good
425s	patreon players because you you just
427s	force your opponent like you have to
429s	deal with the awesome commanders and
431s	they want to like disrupt the curve from
433s	the Druid like he might have some
435s	innovate place or some bike roof or
437s	whatever and just to bait out rafts that
440s	they don't have that available for later
441s	for the patron turns because usually you
443s	need like a spell power swipe or like
445s	double wrap or ref plus wipe to to clear
447s	the patrons yeah seems like it's to be
450s	working out quite well getting in charge
452s	with that minion and then Warson
454s	Commander it might still be there in uh
455s	in a couple of times we'll see both
458s	players putting quite a bit of pressure
459s	on each other but later is able to
461s	really interact too much with their
462s	opponent's side of the board now this is
464s	actually a full clear it does require
465s	him to unstop both of his sheds well I
467s	think he'll be just fine with that
471s	um on the other hand both of those hits
472s	would be down to one HP if he was to do
474s	it then after that he knows that there's
476s	a lot of Whirlwind defects in there
479s	in the Warrior so he might just play the
481s	shredder or maybe maybe even Rod the
483s	Watson Commander he's like the main card
486s	you play around in the early game is
488s	better rage and now he's I think this is
490s	like the main concern he has right now
492s	if you place the shredder would he play
494s	too much into it like the warrior hasn't
496s	taken any damage yet so he wouldn't draw
498s	too many cards
499s	yeah he doesn't want to race the battle
501s	right here
502s	it looks like a fine board for him yeah
505s	but I mean he's playing against the
506s	patron Warrior baton Warrior always runs
508s	two wall wins and uh actually both of
511s	those are in Tom's hand right now and we
513s	are for sure gonna see at least one of
514s	them come down here arm's hand looks
516s	pretty close to amazing um all he needs
518s	is one green paper Grim Patron plus
521s	inner rage plus Whirlwind unturned what
524s	are the games oh that's a nice meeting
525s	to get it's really sticky I don't I
528s	don't know like is that really a good
529s	hand it's like he has the Spells but he
532s	it did something a little bit more he
534s	needs that Patron if he doesn't enjoy
535s	the patrons or the battle raids I I
538s	think it's a very bad hand because yeah
540s	because yeah there's so many dead top
542s	decks he could get like if he draws
544s	better rage now it's basically a dead
545s	card but like even if he gets an emperor
547s	or something like the value of that he
548s	has no card draw he really wanted to see
550s	more Carter in his hand it's one of
552s	those hands that has the potential yes
554s	exactly yeah
556s	potential is there but right now it
558s	doesn't do anything
560s	you know what there's very interesting
562s	thing very interestingly there's a Braum
565s	in his hand as well pretty much in the
567s	western scene Grom is completely extinct
568s	it used to be a thing when patrons first
571s	came out it seemed like almost everybody
573s	was playing it but then in this recent
575s	months in this past few months almost
577s	everybody ended up guarding it I think
579s	in this particular game the ground was
581s	actually hurting him because when you
582s	cut Grom you want to put cards like
584s	cycling cards like slam like Shield
586s	block and he really needs those cards
589s	instead of just like this dead Grom in
591s	his hand
592s	and but if you put ground back into your
594s	patreon deck it kind of changes the
596s	playstyle of the entire deck for example
598s	as we see here he plays the frothing
599s	just as a threat on board but if you
601s	play the just uh cycle version of Patron
604s	Warrior like you basically have to hold
607s	every card in your hands like even the
608s	frothings because you need the damage
610s	for the otk but when you have Grom it
612s	just like allows you to to play those
614s	minions as just Minions on board because
616s	you have the additional damage from Grom
617s	I believe throughout this round of eight
620s	and uh and the semifinals also uh that
623s	Chrome has been hit and I Tom's Warrior
625s	has been banned so powder does not know
627s	that it's in there so he might end up
629s	playing the big game under before the
630s	Chrome comes down that would really hurt
633s	him
636s	outer could also be setting up a board
638s	in which he can use the big game hunter
639s	drawing Berserker as well it's actually
641s	very possible that that might happen
643s	he's good especially with the unstable
645s	goal being drawn that's more likely than
647s	not I'd say he will play that yeah that
650s	is so clunky it's just
653s	oh feels so bad not throwing a single
655s	weapon here yeah kind of actually
657s	strange because I think most lists that
659s	have double unstable goal have a lot of
660s	cycle in their deck oh yeah I know
663s	what's the cycle we've seen so far we
665s	saw saw one uh
667s	one enormous Mentor but that's like no
670s	slams to be found
675s	that's then the face and he has 12 more
677s	in his hand I was I was thinking if he
679s	could have dealt 12 somehow to set up
681s	this Grom if he would have damaged
683s	Dunstable ghoul as well
686s	and if he would have hit face with the
688s	Taskmaster
691s	so much damage where does he find that
694s	remaining a few points of damage I guess
696s	he could have got back a weapon he needs
698s	to get a weapon if he finds a weapon or
700s	it's gonna be a forced to heal then and
702s	like like I mentioned earlier voter does
704s	not have the knowledge that the Chrome
705s	is in there so he might end up drawing
707s	cars with the with the lore
713s	how driven does he feel like at 15.
716s	oh there's the weapon
720s	um
721s	you hit first with the weapon so like
723s	just to hide the information that he has
725s	grown right uh he would be one off in
727s	that case because the treaty can can you
730s	still use the armor up to go up to 16
732s	and then even with a 12 from the Chrome
734s	and three from the weapon he would be
735s	one arm so he's kind of forced to go
737s	face here
739s	yeah no I mean attack with the weapon
741s	face but not play the groom of course oh
743s	yeah
744s	so now
745s	he has to heal
747s	but does he know that he's like he's
749s	only dead to Grandpa's enabler you know
753s	he has only two cards in his head
756s	yeah and I mean it's pretty interesting
759s	you see that the warrior is going for
761s	face with the weapon instead of clearing
762s	the the tiger I I mean
765s	you can kind of figure out this there's
767s	quite a bit of burst coming so that's it
769s	right he lost
771s	yeah I don't I don't yes
779s	he's like yeah I made a good play last
782s	turn I'm proud of myself double Savage
787s	already had enough so he didn't need
791s	that top deck in order to win that one
792s	very nicely played by powder taking a
795s	read of this situation playing it safe
798s	and he basically locked out the game
800s	entirely from Tom
802s	yeah such a weird hand from uh from them
805s	there didn't work out this time
809s	again it just seemed like the Grom hurt
811s	him quite a bit if he was able to
813s	um switch that gromm out with a slam
815s	perhaps or even a shield block maybe he
818s	would have gotten the car draw
819s	eventually to maybe eventually even draw
821s	into a battle rage there yeah I think
823s	slams might be what he got for that and
825s	maybe some other things too as we didn't
827s	see slams it's pink it's been uh getting
829s	more popular with those slams at least
831s	to play one most in mostly steps also to
836s	yeah quite strange choices from the
839s	remainders of the decks
841s	we have powder now with Hunter
844s	and it's actually quite an interesting
846s	matchup hybrid Hunter versus Patron
848s	Warrior oh yeah
850s	I would say like I think most people
852s	would say these are the two dominant
853s	decks in the format this is what you'll
855s	see on ladder if you play at Legend yeah
857s	we made a point yesterday we had a road
859s	of computers in the lounge yesterday and
862s	pretty much there were around eight or
864s	so players oh yeah flattering um and
866s	just grinding ranks and in all those
868s	computers we saw Warrior versus Hunter
870s	Hunter versus Warrior Warrior versus
872s	Warrior we saw one interesting Warrior
875s	versus priests but besides that who
877s	plays Prius I know some guy on the
878s	European so weird I mean the funny thing
881s	is it's even on all three regions like
884s	the top 10 legends on all three regions
886s	are patreon players or like Patron
888s	counter players
892s	like this this matchup is like from the
895s	hunter perspective so difficult to play
897s	because I feel like Devore is so fair
899s	oh animal companion
901s	I think uh because it's a hybrid Hunter
903s	it's more favored than if it was a
905s	mid-range Hunter I feel like the
906s	mid-range Hunter the problem with that
908s	deck is it develops like good minions
910s	and but it's just sometimes the warrior
913s	can stabilize and then the mid-range
914s	Hunter doesn't have enough bursts
916s	meanwhile as the hybrid Hunter you have
918s	those arcan Golems of course you have
919s	kill commands and you have Wolf Riders
921s	as well just to finish off the game for
923s	example he was kind of Lucky with his
925s	animal's opinion yeah because he would
928s	have gotten if he would have gotten half
930s	of that would be really bad yeah and
932s	also also Misha would have just died to
933s	the weapon and the unstable code would
935s	soon be around yeah we were talking
937s	yesterday like the really main response
940s	on turn four to the Animal Companions is
942s	the death Spite and what animal
944s	companion you get is so important Misha
946s	is like four damage to your face mioc is
948s	two damage but Huffer is usually eight
950s	damage in the face such a huge
952s	difference
953s	I believe that's also part of the reason
955s	why we we've been seeing so many slams
958s	because that's one of the gods that
959s	deals with the hopper without taking the
961s	texture for
967s	with those two no Mission vendors he
969s	really wants to get one of them played
970s	right now or they're gonna just stick to
972s	this hand out to the end of the game wow
974s	that's a great pickup there
975s	playing those armors with simultaneously
978s	with the Whirlwind defects it's gonna
979s	give him a an insane amount of armor
985s	um he's like nodding in agreement with
986s	his hand yeah I like this hand I think
988s	this is pretty good
990s	this looks like a similar deck to what
993s	she operate in the Arkham league with
995s	the hymens and the Wolf Riders does he
997s	have tigers in that as well
999s	probably not it's not a very common
1001s	choice in hybrid Hunter but it's become
1003s	much more popular powder though we saw
1006s	tigers in his drawing so maybe you could
1009s	put in my tigers in Hunter as well
1013s	yeah quite possible
1017s	you can only play the leopard now he
1019s	figures that though it's it's really
1020s	liked it out there that's bite is gonna
1022s	go off next time
1023s	so that LeBron would kind of only be too
1025s	damaged but if he doesn't play is there
1027s	a way that uh Tom can save the weapon
1029s	maybe but it feels so bad to just like
1032s	sacrifice it it's true
1034s	and he got like an additional damage
1036s	with knife juggling just because he
1038s	decided to not attack with the weapon
1040s	and if that's the case then he can just
1042s	get more hits in
1046s	he wait here a little bit more it's just
1048s	uh do you maybe
1050s	just take the armor
1052s	this is an interesting turn he needs to
1054s	prepare for the high man he knows that
1055s	Tom plays few not not just one I mean
1057s	sorry that he knows that powder plays
1059s	High men's so uh
1061s	when when the hunter is about to get to
1063s	turn six you always and you're playing
1065s	against Hunter you always have to take
1067s	it into consideration what if the high
1069s	man is going to get played next and what
1070s	is them what is the play here it allows
1072s	me to deal with it if most efficient way
1076s	looks like he has a really good way he
1078s	can maybe set up the frothing but then
1081s	he can't deal with the two twos
1085s	all right
1086s	he has uh one of the armor switches down
1088s	now and uh next turn he can he can play
1090s	the other one and yeah he's deciding to
1093s	play the acolytics too yeah get to
1096s	execute just yeah he needs an Executor
1098s	battle rage that would also be
1099s	incredible
1105s	it's effectively a Sprint for Humanity
1108s	and impossible for parents to deny as
1110s	well yes
1113s	okay let's see what he draws inner rage
1116s	do you stop with the inner rage on the
1118s	acolyte Maybe
1120s	seems like he's he's gonna just trigger
1122s	that uh freezing first
1126s	um just to be 100 sure what it is
1131s	here we go
1132s	going for the patreon
1136s	it's quite a bit of armor while doing it
1140s	without the execute them there wasn't a
1142s	good way to deal with the hymen so he
1144s	chooses just to ignore it and make the
1146s	strongest possible play for himself
1148s	to improve his own board State instead
1150s	of responding to the hunters this is
1152s	really the worst board for a hunter
1155s	player because you have to deal with the
1157s	armor Smith and he got so much armor
1160s	already with it that you can't just go
1162s	for face so
1164s	so
1167s	everybody knows space is the place
1171s	yeah let's it up
1175s	lovely audience going crazy over that
1177s	place I think
1179s	that's the wall of Friday yeah gotta
1181s	deal with Dharma Smith it's gonna like
1183s	they're going for phase everything we'll
1184s	Friday it would have been three damage
1186s	but leaving the armor Smith up that
1187s	would have been even more healing than
1189s	that stream
1192s	the good news for Tom is that he does
1194s	have the second one so he will be
1196s	healing up quite a bit more
1205s	is exactly oh of course you had that
1208s	yeah this is
1209s	stupid the country want to see the
1211s	leaves like that almost moved out of all
1213s	the cards absolutely
1219s	how do we even get this water yeah he's
1220s	like thinking about the next game
1221s	already
1223s	so what does he have left after this
1230s	okay the board is full so there's not
1232s	gonna be anything more getting played
1235s	that's almost certainly lethal
1237s	yeah I mean
1240s	how does
1242s	yeah he used to deal with both he has to
1244s	deal with diamonds with and the frothing
1246s	it's just impossible yeah so you are
1250s	King Golem into the fraud in the
1251s	character
1253s	seems like a winning play yeah congrats
1256s	the time tying up the series wonder gun
1258s	one to one and we definitely have a
1260s	series on our hands right now I'm
1262s	curious how the old Buzzard unleash
1264s	combo would work against Patron it would
1266s	be probably like an even match up then
1267s	oh you want to fight in balance with
1269s	imbalance you need a couple Hunters
1270s	marks to deal with that board
1272s	for free
1277s	a little bit of mind game is going in
1279s	because both of these players now have
1280s	the option to to revive the Decks that
1283s	they already won with so they might like
1285s	if they expect their opponent to play
1287s	something that uh that would be good
1290s	against the remaining decks they just
1291s	might
1293s	use the revive straight away to kind of
1295s	take the opponent by by surprise
1298s	but uh if it were to use the revive
1300s	right now then they won't have the
1302s	option to revive something else later on
1306s	wait do they have to wait till the
1308s	series finishes and then revive because
1310s	that's like another tournaments the case
1312s	you have to first win with your free
1313s	decks and then you can revive or can
1315s	they revive at any point at their time
1316s	well if they can revive at any point
1318s	yeah I think most tournaments uh have it
1320s	where you can revive at any point
1323s	Tom switching it up to his own Hunter oh
1326s	yeah some father bringing out the Druid
1328s	with those tigers that actually makes it
1330s	very difficult to pick because you never
1332s	know when your opponent is going to
1333s	revive a deck
1335s	oh yeah absolutely
1338s	yeah so right now even though it's 1-1
1340s	it's like both players have all their
1342s	decks available
1345s	yep I do think maybe like the strategy
1348s	though is to wait until the end see what
1350s	your opponent has and then pick a deck
1352s	or pick out the revive that's
1354s	appropriate because if you commit too
1356s	early and you lose that match you're
1358s	left with three decks meanwhile you can
1359s	if you pick later on you have maybe two
1362s	of a deck that's guaranteed to be strong
1364s	against your opponents I think it's just
1366s	all Minecraft if you predict that for
1368s	example one game before that if you if
1370s	your opponent has one uh deck remaining
1373s	without the revive and you know that
1374s	they're gonna pick it then you just
1375s	revive whatever beats it so it's um it's
1379s	a lot it's a bit of a guessing game
1381s	wow it's always tougher but in this
1383s	situation actually from uh from Tom's
1386s	point of view as a druid it's not too
1388s	bad because he does have the coin keeper
1390s	yeah he had every answer though white
1392s	coin swipe coin keeper anything would
1394s	have been okay yeah in in this scenario
1398s	um he does take the four damage which he
1399s	would not if it was a different animal
1401s	companion but he also develops a 2-4 on
1403s	the board
1412s	all right still no inner weights to be
1414s	found
1421s	for powder
1428s	curving out pretty excellent here oh
1430s	yeah another Shredder
1431s	if I could I guess would have been
1433s	assign a bit better but still oh
1435s	interesting trade there
1437s	yeah it's fine you you keep the boards
1439s	clear it's just every little bit of
1442s	damage uh on face is so valuable and
1445s	face a stone
1447s	foreign
1452s	whatever
1453s	probably where he's gonna use his owl
1456s	and just smoke it up yeah I think so too
1461s	the question is if he goes through the
1464s	freezing or for the mad scientist and
1465s	then hero power
1468s	I want to give him the turn back which
1470s	you just silenced it's gonna be seven
1472s	Mana though it's seven Mana yes yeah
1474s	that's but you like you're definitely
1476s	considering yeah Savita gets your right
1478s	space does have time yep not the dude
1480s	attack law what were you talking about
1482s	oh man what was I cheating
1489s	okay well this is where the second swipe
1491s	probably comes in
1494s	I mean
1496s	that's not really anything else taking
1499s	for snakes for being careful
1502s	or not
1504s	oh Beast
1506s	nice it's nice right if he gets like a
1509s	kill command here yep
1513s	or a haunt Master yeah that would be
1515s	sweet yeah they're very brutal
1523s	I think you do yeah just play your
1525s	entire hand it's not that big of a
1526s	difference if the dude has seven or
1528s	eight Mana it's actually no difference
1529s	because she will most likely go for the
1531s	seven dollars yeah what can I even do
1535s	here
1537s	guess his best bet is
1539s	some kind of time I don't know region of
1542s	War perhaps yeah
1544s	but that is nothing I believe that's
1546s	gonna be game right there I mean he can
1548s	get this tone back
1550s	is that yeah but that's not enough that
1552s	treat of the claw is not going to be
1555s	killing any means we got a freezing trap
1557s	he can't he doesn't have another thong
1559s	there's just no way
1562s	I can't even draw at this point
1565s	the answer is nothing yes
1568s	there we go
1573s	so powder taking that one with his
1575s	Hunter
1581s	foreign
1588s	I speak fluid finish oh yeah sure you do
1592s	you learned quite I basically said
1594s	powder boys
1595s	about her boys
1597s	yeah
1599s	that's exactly there's only one meaning
1601s	to that basically powder boys powder
1604s	boys
1610s	well powder uh he needs some boys right
1612s	now because he's in kind of a desperate
1614s	situation
1616s	one two right now
1618s	the Asian player once again in uh big
1621s	finals in Europe has a lead over no no
1623s	it's baller with the lead oh powder has
1625s	yeah powder won the last game
1627s	like have you ever asked like what is
1629s	60229 stands for yes I have actually I
1632s	was actually very curious about this and
1634s	I personally asked him it's basically
1636s	the ZIP code or like some kind of code
1638s	of the elementary school that he grew up
1640s	in or he went to like as a kid wow
1645s	I felt like maybe his battle Tech but
1646s	it's too long yeah like some Asian
1648s	battle tank I don't know I mean there's
1650s	quite a bit of Asian players who knows
1652s	but I mean how do you know your battle
1655s	like when you're creating the account
1656s	yeah that's cheating just like tones
1662s	here we see the Rogue again all right
1666s	I always love it when we have broken uh
1668s	in the combatic games but still it's so
1671s	easy to just drop the ball prep the
1674s	wrong spell at wrong time and losing
1676s	again because of it but usually the
1677s	players who bring it are the ones who
1679s	who know exactly what they're doing and
1681s	again monk men of all statistics what is
1684s	the statistic between like the opinions
1686s	of pro players in this matchups specific
1689s	specifically so biased yeah yeah agar
1692s	you're one of those players that thinks
1694s	that drude his favorite but I think it's
1696s	even you think it's even but there's
1697s	people that are like oh my God rope is
1699s	heavily pretty much all the the players
1701s	who main Rogue fire bat like dog even
1704s	hyped they think that Rogue is favorite
1706s	but in the actual stats it actually says
1708s	that drude is pretty vastly favored with
1711s	a percentage of 62 percent
1713s	wow that's like two to one basically
1715s	yeah
1717s	so what's the play here you could coin
1719s	out the shade it's kind of it's
1721s	obviously better the earlier you get it
1722s	out there
1723s	but he could also maybe just get a five
1725s	job out there the shredder is my least
1729s	favorite thing I don't know I don't know
1731s	I mean it's pretty sticky well but it
1732s	does light it like deadly poison yeah
1734s	each player I guess is vulnerable to
1736s	different things this is vulnerable to
1738s	deadly poison maybe the um the Drake is
1741s	vulnerable to some kind of this this
1742s	replay oh yeah and whoa
1745s	what is going on MLG tactics right there
1749s	well played yeah well I know nyria is in
1752s	the audience right now he's pretty
1753s	experienced with these lore Walker chill
1755s	players this look quite for him but
1758s	I think the benefits the rogue way more
1762s	I mean because he has so many minions in
1764s	his head yeah like this fan sucks yeah
1767s	give give the Rook some Bible come on
1769s	man be fair
1771s	well you might just have to give the
1772s	Rogue a coin now you have to give him
1775s	something you have to you have to play a
1777s	five drop right but man he's a violent
1779s	teacher on both here so swipe do you
1781s	really want to give him a coin I don't
1783s	know
1785s	that's so tricky now we have ourselves a
1787s	very nice match
1789s	yeah this is getting interesting
1792s	how do you even do I'm without that Joe
1794s	on the board he would have like an okay
1795s	turn in coining out one of the five
1797s	drops or maybe just a broad wild trout
1799s	or so many things
1802s	there goes the coin to the road
1807s	players always want the coin and when
1810s	this game started he didn't have it but
1812s	I mean I guess that'll do
1814s	could theoretically kill the two
1818s	does he want to yeah do you even want to
1820s	get just play like a drake or whatever
1823s	like that's always the question like who
1824s	who's like pecking out first yeah
1826s	exactly it's uh basically because the
1828s	Cho has zero attacks yeah the person the
1831s	player with the choke can't even kill it
1833s	off it's in the power of powder or in
1836s	the power of uh Tom right now oh wow
1839s	coin heaviest right going into the druid
1843s	accomplished with this is so amazing it
1846s	almost feels like the treaty will have
1847s	to keep that stuff back to the rug
1853s	he's like did you really just give me
1855s	the coin back there with him right
1857s	that's a good card
1864s	yeah okay so hello and then what low
1868s	temp is usually good here uh-huh
1873s	what type on 5 is usually never wrong
1875s	against Rogue
1877s	oh man
1879s	I guess you just do it what can go wrong
1883s	famous last words of it
1887s	so now with that kind of Border um Tom
1890s	60229 can kill the Joe if he wants to
1894s	quite easily also like the way like how
1897s	fast Tom played this looks like his
1898s	experienced with the situation facing
1900s	your choice Rogue
1906s	like in in a very important matches in
1908s	tournaments I've seen way too many
1910s	chosen feathers yeah it's no coincidence
1915s	well Tom is one of the most experienced
1917s	players in Hearthstone playing every
1919s	single over tournament that there is so
1921s	it wouldn't surprise me that
1923s	he over anyone else has experiences more
1925s	often still keeping the show up
1929s	I mean he knows already how difficult it
1932s	is to remove this board and without
1934s	using spells I mean that's close to
1937s	Impossible swipe in particular powder
1939s	does play an MC attack but he hasn't
1941s	drawn it
1942s	so that's what I've been maybe one of
1944s	those swing cards that he needed but
1945s	just nowhere to be found right now
1949s	how does facial expression is like are
1952s	you freaking kidding me
1955s	oh man
1958s	I was thinking about coining doctor boom
1960s	here I've never seen so many coins in
1962s	one game
1963s	actually the the most coins I've seen in
1965s	one game was in your game oh yeah
1969s	those aren't real coins though
1976s	if you're not sure about to play on you
1979s	you have the option to play boom just go
1980s	for it it can do a ridiculous thing
1983s	sometimes
1984s	afraid of this pepper more than the
1986s	Wilder teaches yeah seems so
1989s	no one
1992s	okay taking it out
1994s	that
1997s	I don't think you actually mind giving
1998s	your opponent a sap too much oh I mean
2001s	because you get it back yeah
2006s	you are like this seems to be a good fan
2008s	of knives board but you kind of don't
2010s	want to give your opponent a fan of
2011s	knives
2012s	yeah that's so weird
2016s	I mean maybe he's he feels like okay
2018s	we're done with Joe and just kills it
2020s	first
2027s	it was quite enjoyable while it lasted
2035s	gonna give him a friend uh I don't know
2038s	if giving a fan was worth one damage on
2040s	face
2042s	yeah I have to have to agree with that I
2045s	mean fan seems pretty good here yeah
2047s	it's quite all right he wants to
2049s	increase also the chance of bombs
2051s	hitting the the new one ones then he had
2054s	like one
2061s	yeah I was trying to figure out why he
2064s	gave him a phantom knives it's like it
2065s	seems like a bad car to give the
2067s	opponent especially if on a zoo drink
2068s	left I mean I understood he could have
2071s	like filled the hand or something but
2073s	no
2075s	so because now with like something like
2077s	the fan into Avis rate
2079s	the rod he can clear most of this stuff
2081s	everything but one teacher actually
2085s	so
2087s	wait did he want him to kill the one
2090s	once because he has oil in his hand
2093s	but that also like makes sense right
2094s	because
2096s	I'm trying to figure out like a
2098s	reasoning I mean he has like there has
2100s	to be I mean he decided to give him the
2102s	fan right yeah like one damage Facebook
2104s	was not the reason I'm just trying to
2106s	find why maybe he felt like okay that's
2108s	probably a swipe anyway so it doesn't
2110s	matter
2111s	I don't know
2114s	quite a bit of misplay yeah that Occam's
2116s	razor says it's probably a misplay
2118s	though yeah
2121s	the teacher would be the dream but it's
2123s	only one out of four
2124s	smelly boys
2128s	so what can you do here
2133s	not much
2134s	top Decker swipe Maybe
2136s	but this is even enough
2140s	well that should be it I I don't I don't
2143s	see a way out for powder here
2146s	no it's over
2149s	he really needed swipes earlier
2153s	I can see it's bad then what a game
2157s	let's go
2159s	and it feels like once again in this
2162s	tournament more rocker Cho has decided a
2164s	game we saw in the last semi finals
2166s	explosive sheep dropped out of a
2168s	shredder and I was just like saying it
2170s	was insane it completely turned around
2172s	the game yeah and both times it was in
2173s	Tom's favor
2175s	he's been really praying to Orange Jesus
2177s	before these matches he's the uh pilot
2179s	Shredder Whisperer I would say
2183s	okay could be
2186s	so now once again we are at the at the
2189s	tight situation two and two this time
2190s	around both players still with the
2192s	revive option
2193s	yeah the revive actually makes the
2195s	situation like really difficult I think
2197s	this is around the time when you start
2199s	thinking about yeah
2202s	we're gonna save the revive or because
2205s	if you think that the other player will
2207s	not use the revive just yet then you
2208s	know the class they will be playing and
2210s	then you just revive your own deck that
2212s	matches up the best against the one that
2214s	your opponent has left
2216s	so Tom has Druid Andrew revive
2220s	um but that actually doesn't match up
2222s	against oh actually the war warlock from
2224s	Powder is the malagos Warlock yeah it is
2227s	I would have to guess that I think
2229s	that's like the weakest deck in his
2230s	entire lineup so maybe he doesn't want
2232s	to revive that later on and we're gonna
2234s	see a druid mirror I think powder is the
2237s	one to revive his Druid yeah
2239s	or no Powder powder uh powder actually
2244s	did he revive his Druid before
2247s	um he lost with this through it last
2249s	game so yeah well what did power win
2251s	with no Powder didn't like the tone
2254s	revive
2256s	this is a bit confusing oh I think
2259s	maybe the graphics are wrong yeah the
2261s	graphics have to be wrong I mean yeah
2264s	has anybody wanted to do it yeah Jude
2267s	doesn't seem to be doing well um at
2269s	least in his finals yeah
2272s	but of course Druid versus Druid my
2274s	favorite matchup in the entire game your
2277s	favorite Kappa yeah
2280s	it's uh
2282s	not many players really enjoy it that
2284s	much simply because how often it at
2287s	least looks like it would come down to
2288s	the drawers instead of the instead of
2290s	the moves that players are making
2292s	foreign
2294s	ER here then the next one he has the
2297s	option to just go with the shade and the
2299s	rod
2299s	because it's a little much nicer on the
2301s	curve than the shade will be here
2306s	now even though this is a druid mirror I
2308s	don't think it's exactly a mirror powder
2310s	is known for choices like empty Tech and
2312s	stranglehorn tiger meanwhile Tom he's
2314s	probably playing a much more standard
2316s	Druid although I haven't seen ancient of
2318s	war from him yet
2321s	yeah
2338s	if Tom ever gets some combination of
2342s	Keeper of the Grove plus savage or that
2344s	could be lethal with this board that's
2346s	just ridiculous but yeah could happen
2351s	it's not like you
2353s	won't silence bad because there's
2354s	usually something in silence even in
2356s	your opponent's deck
2357s	but uh
2359s	it's not bad I mean without the silence
2361s	it's completely useless so it's like the
2363s	keeper is effectively too far Battle Cry
2365s	Summoner four five with charge that's
2368s	pretty sweet
2371s	there's no way to keep it toned or
2372s	anything with this list
2375s	and we have to go all the way back to
2377s	the days when there was ancient Watcher
2379s	plus Sun free protector druid
2385s	powder might have them say that I think
2387s	he's making that Trader maybe a little
2389s	bit because of them see that potential
2391s	I definitely think so
2397s	this is an another awkward turn though
2399s	he has some options he could just boss
2401s	of nature into that to get that far in
2402s	the face or he could also save its
2404s	drawer and just trade the trade the
2406s	shredder into them through the Clone and
2408s	get the shade on the board
2410s	I think you're slightly more likely to
2412s	force of nature just because you have
2414s	the ancient of War already in your hand
2416s	you can refill your hand on turn seven
2418s	possibly get a second force of nature
2420s	but also getting the shade out right now
2422s	it seems quite good yeah usually I don't
2424s	know like it's it's it's not an easy
2426s	decision yeah
2427s	and and also just generally Savage Roar
2430s	is the part of the combo that is harder
2432s	to get out of your hands
2441s	I'm just waiting on the keyboard of the
2443s	crow at this point to bring that four or
2445s	five oh whoa and there we go you can go
2448s	for the Azure next turn
2450s	yeah it's still gonna be good later
2453s	oh here's Dr swag this is more money
2456s	that's nice it would be together there's
2459s	anything Watcher activated as fast as
2460s	you can this is so much better with the
2462s	Mana because if he went for the keeper
2464s	he couldn't have done anything else
2468s	life looks like too too good here yeah I
2471s	don't know if you can pass it up
2473s	but whoever like removes gives the
2476s	opponent like always like the
2478s	the first to act to develop yeah because
2481s	you really want to not only play the aov
2483s	but you're gonna play something some
2484s	Minion of your own on the same turn
2488s	what if you just uh shoot off the
2490s	clothes on maybe and use the hero power
2492s	on the shade
2494s	how dangerous is to leave a spell power
2496s	up
2498s	that might actually even be the best
2499s	play
2500s	because if it's just wipes he's so
2502s	vulnerable to any minion that he plays
2504s	yeah that's true spells flower swipe
2507s	doesn't actually match up that well
2508s	against the sport but his wife is a
2511s	little bit easier though to play later
2512s	on too
2514s	because one less Mana
2520s	Emperor tourism
2522s	foreign
2532s	has green borders how do you say now it
2536s	should be like a like a tool tip for new
2538s	players yeah every time like like if you
2541s	have this card you need to have the
2542s	yellow borders like activators like when
2545s	was it I'm gonna Battle Cry is available
2547s	just like dude this card is available
2550s	it's like worth mentioning
2553s	really a bad play yeah I mean how can
2555s	you go wrong with it
2558s	I mean I guess it's pretty bad if your
2561s	opponent has little after you play it
2562s	but that's like the only time if you
2564s	swipes it can go horribly wrong for
2566s	powder oh yeah the boom Oh man if they
2569s	take out the shade or something
2571s	the swipe doesn't feel that great but on
2575s	the other hand like what else can he do
2576s	it's so dangerous to leave those boom
2578s	Bots up
2579s	one drawer has to be played by Tom so he
2582s	doesn't have to be all that worried
2583s	about the second one
2587s	all right
2590s	till the zoo Drake now he tries to find
2593s	a BGA another while or MC Tech wouldn't
2595s	even be too bad now for next turn yeah
2598s	it would have been amazing
2601s	oh he's even considering just training
2602s	both minions into the dark room I don't
2604s	think that's a quite a winning play
2606s	but the other issue is because don't
2610s	face with the shade I think yeah because
2612s	the Boombox might easily just kill the
2614s	shade you might be missing four damage
2615s	here uh
2618s	yeah
2619s	okay pretty good
2623s	only one damage on that that could be
2625s	much worse yeah that would have hit for
2626s	four
2628s	deeper silence on The Watcher to trade
2631s	Maybe
2633s	also like when you run an empty tag
2636s	watch is a really good Dominion for you
2638s	no time like because you just leave it
2639s	on board and
2641s	they don't even give you values but now
2643s	it's really dangerous I think uh oh is
2647s	that correct like he knows he runs empty
2649s	Tech right yeah he does and not only
2651s	that I think
2654s	um it might be premature to just throw
2655s	the Sylvanas out there the emperor seems
2658s	to be a little bit better perhaps
2659s	because the shade will might just
2661s	directly trade into the Sylvanas a crazy
2663s	MC Tech would be on this board that's
2665s	pretty crazy
2669s	um
2671s	what can I really do here the the doctor
2673s	boom you can't really play it because
2675s	then your shade gets stolen should you
2677s	just he's missing uh yeah like all the
2681s	places seem a bit of he could consider
2683s	just trading the shade for the Sylvanas
2685s	and fight for the board because he does
2687s	have more cards than his opponent
2689s	so maybe trade the shade for the
2693s	ah it's a tough turn that's for sure
2696s	what if he trades in the force of nature
2698s	hero powers to kill the Watcher he's
2700s	only left with a keeper with two cards
2702s	in hand yeah like nothing is perfect
2704s	there's things that he can do but
2706s	nothing seems perfect
2709s	with this play he's going to to do one
2712s	he's gonna keep her the uh yeah boom I
2716s	think so yeah yeah it's not perfect but
2718s	oh he wait he's not coming nice
2722s	oh man what if there's a rod from The
2725s	Dominoes yeah I was like how many houses
2727s	played I'm not sure
2729s	did Tom play too rods it's so hard to
2731s	keep track of course but both of the
2734s	players are playing the same class well
2735s	it's dangerous
2738s	yep
2741s	innovate Shredder
2744s	take out the
2746s	keeper just hope that there's no combo
2748s	let none survive I mean the empty deck
2750s	was obviously not there because it would
2752s	have come down last time oh yeah
2756s	with the roar in hand this is just set
2759s	up the little it feels like this game is
2761s	going to end so if you how that draw
2763s	Savage throw he wins yeah the game is
2764s	over if he does that that was his set of
2767s	like you're not gonna do it how many
2770s	customers you have left
2771s	like that was his play to find a second
2774s	seven drone win yeah but powder still
2777s	has both remaining he probably has a
2779s	round Tom played one but dark powder has
2780s	both he's gonna be forced to do like
2782s	force of nature here
2784s	um okay
2788s	so this is a walk over now with the 668
2790s	because um silvanas might steal it he
2792s	needs to also kill his own own shade
2795s	because for the clear it feels like with
2796s	this play um like not unself in the
2799s	shade last turn it seems like powder was
2802s	trying to or rather Tom was wait it's
2804s	powder right now right yeah
2811s	yeah powder was trying to basically win
2814s	the game with a force of nature Savage
2815s	right here but I felt like if he just
2817s	went for like the board clear and the
2819s	more stable play he could might be able
2821s	to out value his opponent instead maybe
2823s	yeah because he he did have more cards
2825s	but it's still a bit bit weird because
2826s	when you call for the clear the roar is
2829s	no longer lethal and your opponent is
2830s	the one who gets to play their minions
2832s	first
2834s	oh man going for the shredder
2838s	foreign
2854s	com60229 is almost available to repeat
2858s	the performance of tiddler celestial
2860s	once again heralding the domination of
2863s	the Asian countries in Hearthstone
2867s	that's like pretty scary for the future
2868s	I mean I'm not Asian I might not even
2871s	going to win a tournament again
2874s	so he's gonna revive a techno right yeah
2878s	which one will he go with
2881s	The Druids seemed to do pretty well for
2883s	him in the last game though but I think
2885s	I think just in general people rate
2887s	Hunter as like the best class out of all
2890s	the remaining classes and participation
2891s	the situation is the powder has a revive
2894s	left and he has to do it so from Tom's
2896s	perspective I think it's like the
2897s	smartest thing is just to pick the deck
2899s	that does best against Jewett because he
2900s	knows Hunter was bent oh yeah he has
2902s	pizza yeah he's gonna go page for sure
2905s	almost certainly Patron yeah should be
2907s	that he's probably feeling confident
2909s	playing that against the Droid
2911s	also if like powder decides to decide to
2914s	revive now Patron should be fine against
2916s	whatever
2918s	but there's no real reason for about her
2920s	to revive right now because he's still
2922s	gonna have to win with his street
2923s	against whatever deck gets revived so by
2925s	playing the Druid first he will look at
2927s	the information which one is the revive
2928s	deck yeah to uh revive more accordingly
2931s	so it is and uh it's actually Druid from
2934s	Powder that's been arrived um
2936s	right Druid Druid beat the patron
2939s	warrior in the very first game yeah
2940s	exactly now we know both revive decks
2943s	yeah oh it was revived yeah and he still
2945s	has to play the maligos like it was
2947s	still waiting the whole time right
2951s	yeah that's right
2953s	that's why it was so confusing yeah it
2954s	was a bit confusing the powder I have
2957s	the Druid and his malaga's warlock this
2960s	pant has the potential to be good but
2962s	there is a keeper here oh yeah it's so
2965s	funny whenever you see a patron you're
2967s	like this hand is the potential to be
2969s	good
2975s	that time it didn't work out so well but
2978s	I'm really liking powder's hand here he
2980s	can clean out the tiger follow it up
2981s	with a lot of how does the how does the
2984s	warrior deal with those tiger is gonna
2985s	be going to face twice would you
2988s	immediately coin out the tiger though I
2990s	don't know I mean keep it on curve
2991s	that's pretty sweet too
2993s	that's pretty cool
2995s	if he would have had an inner rage he
2996s	would have played it immediately and he
2999s	plays only one Taskmaster like the deck
3002s	usually just runs one Taskmaster so what
3004s	else would he do to just get like a card
3006s	yeah you could see it uh why would you
3008s	play the loader first what's the
3009s	reasoning behind that Whirlwind stopping
3012s	Roland right okay now he might know he
3016s	has to silence these acolytes that's
3018s	like he will keep a one and kill off one
3021s	with the
3024s	yeah he kind of has to otherwise the
3026s	battle right oh charge into one yeah
3028s	you're gonna kill both by charging him
3030s	dude what is the silence I don't know
3033s	because the silence is not always oh no
3036s	no oh no man that's really bad yeah Tom
3039s	is gonna be getting quite a bit of God
3040s	he has double well he's gonna fill up
3042s	his entire hand if you drink the battle
3044s	rage here it could be like yeah oh it's
3046s	amazing
3048s	oh my God this is over
3051s	oh my god he has some first ball
3053s	problems right now he's how do I not
3055s	draw too many cards
3059s	that's just incredible it doesn't even
3062s	need the battle rating you probably want
3064s	to save the Whirlwind though that's the
3065s	last World win so yeah
3067s	it does allow him or would allow him to
3069s	deal with that uh low Temple he can just
3071s	trade one of the acolytes for it too
3077s	pretty dominating position here now Tom
3080s	he doesn't have that problem where he's
3081s	run out of cards and he won't have it
3083s	for the rest of the game oh yeah this is
3085s	going so bad about it right now just
3087s	missing that Emperor yeah but I mean if
3089s	he plays the tiger here top decks the
3091s	the force of nature that's it he can
3093s	play the turn seven combo actually down
3095s	six because he had a wild growth
3097s	probably his best bet at this point even
3099s	if he doesn't find the combo right now
3101s	he can dig for it next and we tension
3102s	the floor
3104s	no way that's good
3106s	it's too late yeah it's too late man you
3108s	had your chance
3110s	that tiger
3115s	how different the game would have went
3117s	if he would have went for the keeper
3118s	play and yeah just save there there
3120s	would be about five or six viewer cards
3122s	in Tom's hand right now
3124s	and he get even more
3129s	you do real
3130s	so many options missing an inner rage
3133s	for an amazing
3134s	for getting an amazing turn later
3139s	but yeah even though he has so many
3141s	cards having something like two patients
3143s	in his hand it doesn't really count yeah
3146s	pressure boys both players are going
3149s	full-on aggressive now powder drawing
3151s	for little here he has two forces of
3153s	nature in his deck
3155s	gonna get one of those
3157s	not yet but he will get another
3159s	opportunity he will actually get three
3160s	more opportunities with that with the
3162s	attention of lore
3164s	but leaving a horse in your life yeah I
3167s	mean he might just lose the game
3168s	straight away he has a full hand and he
3171s	has a war song already developed yeah he
3173s	could just like brought hero power
3177s	internet keeper go face for five I think
3180s	that at this point you kind of want to
3182s	get that fight in there
3186s	Tom is only gonna have seven Mana next
3188s	turn so uh they won't be two crazy
3190s	combos happening
3192s	since uh no Emperor has been played yet
3196s	I think powder is seriously seriously
3198s	considering saving his innervate since
3202s	if he draws force in nature next turn
3204s	and he doesn't have innervation but all
3206s	you need is that with those Minions on
3208s	the forward maybe he can throw another
3209s	drawer
3210s	with them with two Minions on the body
3211s	thinner it's a hero bogus it's so weird
3214s	leaving I don't know
3218s	yeah I like this
3221s	still not too great but it
3223s	seems like they're
3225s	best one out of the bad options
3231s	now now with that second drawer seven
3234s	power on the board a swipe would also do
3236s	it
3237s	chew it off the claw that would also do
3238s	it if there's no way executes like
3240s	coming it's a big
3241s	deals have to execute the tone hasn't
3244s	played uh got in the emperor so it is
3246s	not that scary yet but yeah but I mean
3249s	this is pretty bad yeah but this is yeah
3251s	it's over next turn yeah even if he gets
3254s	the force of nature now he will only
3255s	have eight Mana he won't be able to do
3258s	the combo doesn't have an enabler for
3260s	garmage
3262s	while a dead Shredder
3266s	oh man
3268s	ah this is such a bad situation because
3271s	oh God I don't want to be in his shoes
3276s	to draw but if he draws he's dead he has
3278s	to go face with the keeper he really
3280s	needs the damage because 15 life is like
3282s	barely Out Of Reach so even if he finds
3285s	the combo
3286s	but he has to deal with the board or
3288s	he's dead
3290s	so everything he does here yeah I don't
3293s	see a winning play here even if you take
3295s	a big risk there's
3297s	no rewarding any of this place really
3299s	well here's the thing
3301s	um there's only 11 damage on board and
3304s	you've already seen one Warsaw Commander
3306s	so maybe Tom doesn't have like a charger
3309s	to go along with it although we do know
3311s	that he has grommet yeah
3314s	but if he doesn't hero power right yeah
3316s	if he doesn't go face in hero power
3318s	phase just armoring up is Out Of Reach
3321s	even if you find and that's like the
3322s	only way he wins he has to hero power
3324s	like if you hear a armor stop and kills
3326s	the boss is a 15 life that is going to
3329s	enjoy it oh but he has the Innovation
3331s	yeah I mean
3332s	suggest quite little already he has 14
3334s	power on the board he did not even need
3336s	that yeah there was no way oh yeah no he
3339s	has 11 power on the board uh oh no oh
3342s	yeah oh yeah oh he just missed little
3344s	yeah that was
3347s	what we did here
3349s	maybe he didn't how much was that take a
3351s	look it's 14 plus four right yeah he had
3353s	it he had it he had lasers over to this
3355s	fight let's take a look at twitch said
3356s	if that was the first three power
3358s	patrons and uh one five let's leave him
3360s	yep okay twitch it now
3363s	I mean he's still gonna win not a big
3365s	deal but uh
3367s	that's uh
3370s	what time our champion Tom is your Asus
3374s	round Summer 2015 Champion
3377s	two times in a row and Asian has won the
3381s	championship Asia is taking over
3384s	great performance
3387s	all the way from Taiwan it's really paid
3390s	off big time
3392s	Tom congrats your first big tournament
3395s	wins
3397s	okay really really heavy yeah
3401s	how did it feel basically like those
3403s	Patron games were pretty amazing overall
3406s	um like he got like a pretty good
3407s	opening start in that final game but you
3409s	just were able to take it with those
3411s	amazing acolytes Whirlwind into battle
3413s	rage even
3415s	um I'm pretty happy I can use the
3419s	patreon warrior because it's my first
3421s	time for this tournament yeah and I
3424s	really confident with this desk yeah
3428s	so I choose to revise
3431s	I think
3433s	I think patreon just like
3436s	if you have a normal lucky
3440s	I think you just pay any desk yeah
3446s	cool
3447s	uh I have to ask was it all just BM I
3450s	mean you had little one turn earlier in
3452s	the little very last game you were 14
3454s	power on the party you had a dead spot
3455s	in your hand
3456s	you could have entered this one time
3458s	earlier did you notice that
3460s	uh the very last turn yeah
3464s	yeah
3468s	it's all right okay it's okay
3472s	yeah probably doesn't feel too bad right
3474s	now still now I have to ask you tiddler
3477s	won the last big tournament in the west
3478s	and you won this tournament is Asia
3481s	going to take over
3483s	uh take hot take over take over the
3486s	Hearthstone World Championships take
3488s	over the Hearthstone world no I think I
3490s	have really really good luck today yeah
3493s	okay
3497s	okay I think uh we're ready for like the
3499s	prize ceremony right now so let's walk
3502s	over to the trophy
3504s	okay
3505s	oh second player first let's go
3519s	well
3521s	powder congrats you uh got second place
3524s	five thousand dollars in at least 50
3526s	World Championship points how do you
3528s	feel
3529s	um it feels a little bit bad right now
3531s	just losing but I mean I'm happy getting
3533s	second place uh I'll have to rewatch The
3536s	Final and see if I made any mistakes I
3538s	probably did so
3540s	um but I'm happy I'm satisfied yeah um
3542s	there are like some pretty interesting
3543s	games in that finals especially with
3545s	that Lord Walker Cho in the finals like
3548s	how did you feel about that did you feel
3549s	that was like one of the worst drops you
3551s	could have gotten
3553s	um when I first got it I didn't think it
3555s	was that bad but when he dropped Violet
3557s	teacher into valid teacher
3560s	um I mean it's like the worst thing I
3561s	ever could have gotten so it kind of
3562s	screwed me up
3564s	it's all right well at least you got
3567s	into the finals and you represented your
3569s	team pretty well proud of you got five
3571s	thousand dollars 50 World Championship
3573s	points congratulations thank you
3583s	Tom can you please come up
3588s	Tom you also did pretty well in fact you
3590s	probably did a little bit better than
3592s	powder winning the entire tournament
3593s	congrats to you congrats to your team
3595s	and for your efforts you win 1 000
3597s	Hearthstone World Championship points
3599s	you are now the highest ranked player in
3601s	Taiwan but that was fine 100. all right
3605s	and you also win ten thousand dollars
3606s	congratulations Tom
3609s	thanks it's really really heavy yeah
3626s	well what an amazing three days of games
3629s	we had two group stages it's also
3631s	exciting games and it all come down to
3633s	this Tom
3634s	60229 from Taiwan taking home the trophy
3638s	ready win
3640s	amazing
3654s	once again Chromecast versus The Tom and
3656s	uh I think that's all for us Rock 2015.
3661s	summer
3662s	tournament thanks for everyone for
3665s	watching and uh see you next time
3666s	everyone and see you next time
3672s	continuing his success in 2015 we saw
3675s	Tom make it through the group phase of
3677s	the onog summer circuit finals along
3679s	with kalento who would then go on to
3681s	face once again in the finals with
3684s	kalento being the favor after his
3686s	dominant performance in 2014 let's see
3689s	how Tom managed to snatch the victory in
3691s	this rapid fire best of seven
3694s	welcome back everybody to the one nation
3696s	of gamer Summers Circa 2015. that has an
3699s	excellent mustache sir keep doing your
3702s	thing you're beautiful
3703s	and you keep doing your thing everybody
3705s	thanks so much for joining us as well
3706s	we've had a lot of fun it's time for the
3709s	grand finals between kalento from Cloud9
3711s	and Tom 60229 from y flash wolves I'm
3715s	frodan and here's Monk and we're going
3717s	to bring you guys the action monk what
3719s	are you expecting for this series
3720s	testing some really great games I was uh
3723s	in the bathroom with Tom right before
3724s	the break and uh he's basically talking
3726s	about not in that sense don't have way
3730s	too dirty thoughts but Tommy we were
3732s	talking about the classes and like
3734s	Hearthstone and like normal things
3736s	basically yeah okay you're gonna go
3738s	there well he was saying tell me more I
3741s	want to know I am trying to tell you you
3742s	keep interrupting me Dan but basically
3745s	Tom was saying that he thought Clinton
3747s	was a more difficult opponent not
3749s	because of the skill level of the
3751s	players but also because uh the deck
3753s	lineups match up better in kalento's
3755s	favor compared to what Trump was
3757s	bringing
3758s	so he feels like clinto has an advantage
3761s	over it yes definitely I think a large
3763s	part of it comes down to
3764s	um his malago swirl log and how it
3766s	definitely it doesn't deal as well with
3768s	kalento's lineup compared to let's say
3770s	Trump's hand lock and Trump's control
3772s	Warrior it seemed like the malagos were
3774s	like almost got a free win off of
3776s	Trump's lineup having two matchups that
3778s	are 80 or more
3780s	man you get a lot done when you go to
3781s	the bathroom I just kind of do my thing
3783s	and leave as soon as I can but you know
3785s	it seems like you had a really good
3787s	bonding experience with Tom and and
3788s	maybe that'll be the the motivation that
3790s	he needs to win this tournament and win
3793s	a lot of money what did they get for
3795s	first place here monk first place you
3797s	get not only ten thousand dollars but
3799s	also 100 Hearthstone World Championship
3801s	points second place not too shabby as
3804s	well five thousand dollars and fifty
3806s	World Championship points
3808s	and thus the stage is set here who will
3811s	win the 10 000 who will get those 100
3812s	points and well I guess it's basically
3815s	fighting for top one in their region in
3817s	terms of the the regional points the way
3819s	BlizzCon will happen down uh or go down
3821s	excuse me
3822s	four players from four different regions
3824s	will qualified uh Tom is on top of his
3827s	region over in the Asia Pacific region
3829s	that includes Taiwan Korea Etc and then
3832s	you have kolento on top of Europe we
3834s	have China as well as North America
3836s	where players like Trump will be
3838s	fighting for their spot in the upcoming
3840s	weeks so that's why it's important to
3841s	win these points that's why it's
3842s	important to win this money and that's
3843s	why it's important for you to try to get
3846s	a chance to win this TSM PC let's have
3848s	everybody win here the way you can do it
3850s	is to hashtag Geico gaming and tweet at
3851s	onog underscore Esports take a look at
3854s	the lineups one last time before we go
3855s	into game number one here I have to
3857s	agree I think the kalento's hunter here
3859s	preside up her provides a pretty big
3862s	problem to deal with
3864s	um and I like that kalento brought a
3865s	very well-rounded lineup
3867s	seems very Dynamic and there's all kinds
3869s	of styles that you can't really prepare
3870s	for yeah collectos lineup it's it's uh
3874s	the hunter in addition uh might be
3876s	really the Doom for Tom a lot of his
3878s	decks aren't really as well equipped to
3880s	deal with the hunter uh the Paladin
3882s	might be a little weak to it the battle
3883s	ghost warlock certainly is probably
3885s	going to be a bit weak to it and I think
3886s	the actually the worst deck against the
3888s	hunter might just be the tempo Mage
3890s	since it doesn't have too many defensive
3892s	options it's about getting Tempo but
3895s	when you're facing off against the deck
3896s	that just goes for phase the tempo might
3898s	actually not matter as much
3900s	you know what's also interesting too is
3902s	that these guys have similar group stage
3904s	classes but they all have different
3906s	styles so for example the kalento has
3908s	the more aggressive Secrets Paladin Tom
3911s	has the mid-range Paladin polento has
3914s	the you know the his demon hand lock and
3917s	then Tom has his own Malik goes Warlock
3918s	and then there's Patron versus dragon so
3921s	that's a lot of cool stuff oh yeah
3922s	actually it's not warlock it's kalento
3924s	he's playing actually has priests
3926s	I was confused for a second there
3929s	you know what I'm I'm AFK you catch the
3932s	fire so far that was embarrassing no
3934s	problem well we'll start off with uh
3936s	kalento uh I believe it's actually
3941s	is that caliento's deck yes it is
3943s	clintus deck kalento is the one that's
3945s	the face hunter-ish but he actually has
3947s	a snake trap in his deck that's what
3949s	really confused me at first but it's not
3951s	that uncommon to have snake trap in a
3953s	facehunter-ish type of Decor if we don't
3955s	know it might be hybrid instead
3958s	well explosive trap does imply that it's
3961s	Face Hunter and it's another aggressive
3963s	deck coming at kalento and that is a
3966s	good draw from Tom the cool Taskmaster
3968s	will be very helpful to deal with this
3970s	leopard gnome
3974s	perhaps kalento will consider otherwise
3976s	though because now that he has knife
3978s	juggler he can maximize his damage
3979s	potential by playing abusive Sergeant
3981s	lepernoma turkey and getting those
3983s	juggles out so Tom needs a fiery War ax
3986s	and he doesn't get it clinto just
3988s	happens to play the right creature
3991s	um that the answer is not in Tom's hand
3994s	he either had the cruel task he could
3995s	either have the tool Taskmaster a Naka
3998s	light or the stable goal or the
3999s	fireworks and he did exactly fireworks
4002s	to deal with this yeah and this is
4004s	something that people have to pay more
4006s	attention to than rather dismiss the
4008s	fact that you have multiple options on
4010s	turn one that could determine the
4012s	outcome of the game if you play the
4014s	leper gnome and your crew Taskmaster
4016s	gets the value of sniping it and then
4017s	you challenge the knife juggler that's
4020s	so much damage you avoid
4022s	um and that's why a lot of times you
4024s	have to go for the assumption that your
4026s	opponent doesn't have the optimal
4028s	response because if you don't you can
4029s	sneak in so much more damage to your
4031s	opponent not only that but the answers
4035s	to knife juggler there's only two of
4036s	them in Tom's deck uh the two Fire War
4039s	axes whereas the answers to the leper
4041s	gnomes for example there's a lot of them
4043s	there's the unstable goals there's
4045s	armorsmiths and there's cool task
4046s	Masters so maybe clinto is just playing
4048s	for the play that gets punished
4051s	um uh a less percentage of the time
4054s	yeah
4056s	there's a lot of damage with the uh
4057s	abusive Sergeant coming in to play here
4060s	I think abusive and leper gnomes still
4063s	serve the same purpose they're all going
4064s	to get the damage in
4066s	um abusive Sergeant is still too damaged
4068s	whether you play it from the hand on a
4070s	charger or an existing Minion or you
4072s	play it just as a naked body so
4075s	I think it's okay just to play Leopard
4077s	over here actually
4080s	well also abusive Sergeant is even more
4083s	useful generally when you want to get
4084s	past the talk for example it's true
4087s	no taunts really exist though this is
4089s	the page Warrior unstable ghoul comes to
4091s	the hand
4093s	but he wanted to see that will stop a
4096s	lot of the damage here four damage will
4098s	go into this unstable goal and clinto
4101s	will just go right back charging at it
4107s	so maximize your damage every turn
4108s	that's the goal of this aggressive
4110s	Hunter
4112s	horse rider is definitely a possibility
4114s	he wants to maximize the damage he goes
4117s	for abusive Sergeant as well
4120s	also you just want the Mad scientists as
4122s	early on the board as possible mad
4124s	scientists not only does it not have
4126s	charge but also the effect it needs to
4128s	die before the effect actually goes off
4130s	so just that he's putting all the power
4132s	as possible into like two turns later
4135s	for example definitely
4137s	and so Tom has the inner rage that helps
4141s	buys him a little bit of life
4143s	a cool task master in a rage
4145s	does give him uh some options here but
4148s	he also could try to be a little greedy
4151s	and go for death's bite and inner rage
4153s	instead I don't know if that's worth it
4155s	it's almost to the point where you have
4156s	to just avoid dying as opposed to
4158s	figuring out a way to win right now
4159s	because the priority is that he might
4161s	kill you the next two turns
4164s	I'm a pretty big fan of the death Spike
4167s	you really want to set up those
4168s	Whirlwind effects early on and also you
4171s	want to set up the acolyte of paint this
4173s	is way more of a defensive play though
4175s	yeah he's uh taking less damage from it
4178s	overall
4180s	all right well now clanto is going to
4183s	rely on whatever he draws to see if he
4186s	can fill out the Curve
4188s	it's a knife juggler
4190s	he saw his opponent didn't have a fiery
4191s	War ax
4193s	and he knows his opponent is playing
4195s	Patron what would he do on turn five if
4197s	he already burned his inner rage
4201s	he certainly wouldn't play just a patron
4204s	on board
4205s	so it might be in Clinton's money might
4208s	be safe to play the knife juggler
4210s	and either hero power or explosive trap
4212s	either way he's gonna be using four Mana
4213s	this turn he's definitely gonna try to
4215s	avoid using the horse rider
4217s	another thing that I another thing that
4220s	Tom has to consider is that he doesn't
4223s	know what traps are in Clinton's deck he
4225s	mostly assumes that they're going to be
4226s	explosive traps but if there's snake
4228s	shops on the field it definitely would
4230s	have been better to uh equip the desk
4232s	bike earlier on in order to possibly
4234s	deal with them oh really okay this I'm
4236s	very surprised by it I was anticipating
4238s	him going for a man efficient play but
4241s	he's saying that uh you know you don't
4244s	have a way to deal with this right now
4245s	you've burned a lot of your one damage
4247s	so I'm gonna go really aggressive with
4249s	this charger yeah it's just the uh the
4251s	effect of having a Divine Shield
4254s	compared to just having a three one
4256s	minion in terms of the wolf Rider I
4257s	believe in this face under deck the
4260s	horsemen has really replaced the wolf
4262s	Rider because the horsemen even though
4263s	it does less damage overall it has its
4266s	worst burst it's just a more consistent
4268s	threat we've seen a lot of face
4269s	launchers even add in piloted shredders
4272s	for like the very same reason it doesn't
4274s	deal as a much initial face damage in
4277s	fact zero but it does get a lot of
4279s	damage over time usually a warrior for
4281s	example they have to hit the minions
4283s	with the dust bite in order to kill it
4285s	off yeah so I I like that kalento takes
4288s	this line where he realizes that the Mad
4291s	scientists could get damage in as well
4293s	and if you want to really set up a knife
4296s	juggler he would have to trade in the
4298s	scientists otherwise the jungle doesn't
4299s	do anything and he says you know what
4301s	I'm just gonna try to maximize damage on
4302s	both ends present an opportunity for him
4305s	to try to deal with the Divine shield
4308s	and Tom could have but it would have
4310s	also been inefficient for him so he
4312s	chose to set up this Accolade instead
4314s	plento has drawn the eaglehorn bow which
4316s	is six damage and he can continue to
4318s	push a little bit more me if this Eagle
4320s	horn bow can get a charge from the
4322s	explosive trap
4323s	that's very optimistic to say that that
4326s	will happen very time soon so he's just
4328s	gonna go ahead and charge for as much
4330s	damage as possible yeah we also have to
4331s	keep in mind that most likely there's
4333s	also a snake trap on the field to see
4335s	the mad scientist died oh you're right
4338s	so this knife juggler again will get a
4341s	lot of value off
4343s	um or will it I mean it realistically
4346s	could also just juggle straight onto the
4349s	acolyte once and then you know twice on
4352s	the armors yeah I mean that uh armor
4355s	Smith was certainly or it can let the
4358s	the knife trucker survive the juggles
4359s	twice in the acting like no that's not
4361s	what he wanted
4365s	oh this this is slower than Matrix
4368s	bullet dodging
4371s	oh
4374s	I can't I can't tell if that's what he
4377s	wanted oh I guess after he sees the
4380s	unstables yeah
4387s	even a leopard this is just what happens
4390s	when Patron just has all these defensive
4393s	features in the early game not only did
4396s	Tom have both unstable goals he had like
4397s	a whirlwind full Taskmaster
4400s	and even some weapons that he could have
4403s	used early on in the game even though he
4405s	has the grommish hell stream in his hand
4407s	which is not really useful and he also
4408s	had the emperor in his opening hand just
4410s	all of Tom's top decks were just
4411s	carrying him through the game is still
4414s	not over uh facehunter can certainly
4416s	take a win still from here quick shots
4418s	quick shot yeah quick shot into
4421s	something else
4426s	so if Tom feels like he has to play
4428s	defensive he has to just play the slam
4431s	and armor up he doesn't want to take any
4433s	more damage than possible Hunter will
4435s	have guaranteed five damage next turn
4440s	and if you take four you're gonna be
4442s	playing with two Health that's really
4444s	scary what's also really scary is that
4447s	Tom doesn't really have a good immediate
4450s	way to close close out the game soon
4452s	he'll have to take at least three turns
4454s	I'd say uh meanwhile clento that means
4456s	kalento has about three draws in order
4458s	to finish off the game the hero Powers
4460s	will kind of cancel each other out but
4462s	not bad yeah not bad I think quanta
4465s	would have preferred more damage but the
4467s	rmp gal certainly isn't useless do you
4470s	think he might even hold on to it to try
4472s	and get kill command synergy
4475s	I think he is I think that's the goal
4477s	and he also wants to bait his opponent
4479s	into attack and so he could get uh more
4480s	damage not only that but most of Tom's
4484s	inner Rage or rolling effects are gone
4486s	right now so it's less likely for the
4488s	acolyte to be able to activate without a
4490s	minion on board
4493s	so
4495s	polento can make a decision if he wants
4498s	to just start hitting with the weapon
4499s	because this glazed zuka also represents
4500s	4 damage
4502s	so next turn he'll have
4505s	uh four damage and the following four
4507s	damage
4508s	it's still going to be multiple turns
4509s	working wheels and down but then if he
4511s	draws another Point damage through kill
4513s	commands then you would have it you can
4515s	hold on to uh gladezuka in case he picks
4517s	up a charger and get the extra damages
4520s	it's not like coletto won't be able to
4523s	use all his Mana or he will be able to
4525s	use all his Mana in the very next turn
4527s	another danger here is that Tom might be
4531s	in danger of dying to unleash the hounds
4532s	if he loads up the board way too much
4535s	so let's take a look at this if Tom uses
4538s	a death Spike right now he can get in
4539s	eight damage with death spite he can get
4542s	in uh 12 damage with two turns of
4545s	attacking from the Acolyte and the
4547s	emperor Thorazine so that's 20 damage
4549s	and Grom on top of that will be lethal
4556s	so he can actually set up lethal uh for
4558s	the next turn but he has to he has to um
4562s	he has to attack into an explosive trap
4565s	yes so he also makes himself weaker
4574s	so they uh essentially Clinton has to
4577s	draw two points of damage or else in
4578s	this game
4580s	oh he can see the silence and stay alive
4582s	this seems like an equivalent play
4584s	except you get a Grom onto the field
4587s	which might be slightly worse since it
4589s	gives more unleash The Hound's value
4591s	there's so many cards that kill you like
4594s	Huffer
4596s	ah Hunter's pretty good right now oh
4606s	see the audience new expansion same
4608s	result yeah really clapping for that
4610s	Huffer people love it
4614s	for sure man that sound more like a
4615s	groan of disdain than a sigh of relief
4618s	unless you're calenzo
4619s	but you know what uh that was a really
4622s	close game and I mean it's one of those
4625s	things where you can always go back and
4627s	forth on the small micro decisions but
4629s	in the end I felt like Tom really played
4631s	the best he could have and he played so
4632s	defensive too and still had opportunity
4634s	to flip it around if he had a little bit
4636s	more Health yeah just a little bit more
4638s	it's this matchup often comes to comes
4641s	to like that kind of perspective where
4642s	it's just a little bit more and it's one
4645s	player just getting the win over the
4646s	other player one turn before lethal from
4649s	the first player
4650s	all right well that wraps up the first
4652s	game of the series very explosive
4656s	the Best Yet to Come uh again we have
4658s	those differences in the classes even
4660s	though
4661s	um they both have Paladin Warrior
4663s	they're different archetypes and one
4664s	more correction uh kalento does have
4666s	that dragon priest not a Warlock deck
4669s	yeah and I want to see how that Tempo
4672s	major leads to everything because I want
4673s	to see more uh spellslinger action I
4676s	want to see more unstable portal because
4677s	it's fun stuff yeah I want to see more
4679s	combinations of Alex Strazza and
4681s	preparation and lots of more laws
4684s	that was also a key part of that game
4686s	you know what's insane is like imagine
4688s	if he got those cards reduced to the
4691s	point where he could Alex Strazza like
4693s	Fireball prep Fireball frostball because
4695s	he had all those cards and that's
4697s	literally like an otk yeah and Trump
4699s	basically he had to not hero power he
4702s	had to have not right well you get what
4704s	I'm saying yeah 30 damage in one turn
4705s	assuming it's like you're playing it's a
4707s	priest or something
4708s	crazy
4710s	crazy so we're gonna have a priest
4713s	versus Paladin match up
4715s	traditionally the slow priest had an
4718s	advantage over the Paladin because you
4719s	could out value them cards like Tyrion
4722s	never truly would be a threat if you had
4725s	mind control
4726s	um anything that uh was weak like
4729s	minibot could get stolen by the cabal
4732s	shadow priests and then you just can't
4734s	really out pressure them if they have
4735s	AOE
4737s	however things have changed a lot in
4739s	this priest deck they don't really run
4740s	those big AOE wipes like circle of
4743s	healing they don't have mind control
4744s	they've even stopped using as much
4746s	removal they said they placed it with
4748s	mid-range threads so I want to see how
4750s	this uh or regular mid-range Paladin
4753s	airs against
4756s	the uh the dragon priest yeah not only
4759s	that but there have been quite a few
4760s	changes in the Paladin deck as well I
4763s	think the key change being a lot of
4766s	mid-range paladins these days they run
4768s	just like her true heart and Jessica
4769s	Trueheart seems to be the one minion the
4772s	best minion you can have as Paladin
4774s	against priest not only do you summon
4776s	one dude but you second a second dude
4777s	and priest only has about two aoes
4780s	generally in their priest decks
4785s	Tom drops the true silver Champion so
4789s	it's quartermaster plan has been foiled
4790s	but that wasn't really going to work out
4792s	anyways
4793s	lenzo going to just drop another dragon
4797s	do you like Twilight guardian or do you
4799s	like
4802s	they're I guess fairly equivalent um the
4806s	dragons can sorcerer what that does is
4808s	gives you more mullen's chosen value
4811s	but it might feel a bit more all in the
4815s	one reason I like the Twilight Guardian
4816s	though is because it gives more
4818s	flexibility the Twilight Guardian only
4820s	works if there's a dragon on the field
4822s	and if you play The Dragon King sorcerer
4824s	then you might not be able to play this
4825s	Twilight Guardian later on to the game
4827s	good point
4829s	Tom has to deal with the giant Twilight
4832s	Guardian now that's a five nine with
4834s	taunt no way he's getting past that
4836s	without uh
4838s	in this case he's gonna try to use
4840s	Sylvanas to try and get ahead of it and
4844s	that is
4846s	a interesting draw a ball Shadow priest
4849s	you can steal the one too but then the
4851s	true silver Plus
4853s	the Sylvanas guarantees a high value
4856s	steal
4859s	very tenuous situation
4863s	I think I think as priests this is the
4865s	card you fear the most
4868s	he's gonna try to let the Savannah steal
4869s	the one two which would be a pretty big
4871s	deal
4872s	oh
4873s	what's mine is yours is mine she's now
4878s	yours yeah something like that just
4881s	generally Sylvanas like what when you're
4883s	winning bit by that much the salon is
4886s	the only thing that can ruin your day
4890s	I mean at its core this worse murloc
4893s	still puts out 12 stats uh equivalent to
4896s	if you combine it all at six six so
4898s	that's why the murloc Knight for you
4900s	know is pretty good it just spreads it
4902s	out so it's complicated
4904s	although spreading it out doesn't
4906s	exactly guarantee you anything a
4908s	Blackwing corrupter here can shut down
4910s	the one two and you kill the murloc
4911s	Knight and you're gonna have to do the
4913s	10 dependent on the true silver Champion
4915s	to once again climb back in value here
4919s	really back and forth game and yeah I
4922s	think it's a lot about how TGT has
4925s	really influenced a lot of the decks
4927s	into more board-centric decks
4930s	foreign
4932s	because he doesn't really want it to get
4934s	healed doesn't want any uh extra
4936s	Northshire cleric value
4938s	yeah and we also can see another
4940s	Blackman corrupt they're going to be
4941s	jumping out here most likely
4944s	although maybe he can draw something
4946s	else that's nice too
4951s	it's also a pretty good draw
4953s	yeah the worm rest agent does challenge
4956s	this is the weaker means of board but it
4957s	does die to the choose over Champion so
4968s	so everyone talks about donations
4970s	aspirin as his Fringe scenario as a Nerf
4973s	to the pilot Shredder because you don't
4975s	get the Mana Crystal effects uh from
4977s	playing it but you get it from losing it
4979s	so instead Tom has only eight Mana
4982s	crystals next turn but Tom you know what
4984s	he's it's really late into the game
4986s	we'll see pretty much
4988s	like how much it matters I guess he now
4992s	can't play the tusker jouster plus the
4994s	piloted shredder but would that have
4996s	been the best play even
5000s	um depends because the test guard jobs
5002s	are just challenged by one of the
5005s	the Blackwing corrupters it also means
5008s	that you're less likely to play
5009s	quartermaster and I think quartermaster
5011s	would have been a great play as well
5012s	still is
5017s	true Silvers have been exhausted
5023s	I think when it comes down to these kind
5025s	of positions
5026s	Paladin might have an advantage because
5028s	it's really hard for kalento actually to
5031s	deal with this kind of board without
5033s	those holy novas that he necessarily
5034s	needs to draw in addition Tyrion is
5037s	something that coletto I don't think he
5039s	can deal with really with no mind
5040s	controls he has to shadow where death is
5042s	and then he'll get then Tom will get a
5045s	5-3 ashbringer which Clinton we haven't
5047s	seen any Harrison Jones from him either
5049s	well he doesn't have sylvanus I think he
5052s	might be tempted to the drops of honest
5053s	now to to try to complicate boards
5058s	um assuming he doesn't want to go for
5059s	shenanigans like dark Bane plus I must
5062s	consider his power word Shield that that
5064s	could also be something he would like to
5067s	experiment with but it depends there's a
5069s	lot of options that cleanser's disposal
5071s	I generally like dropping Sylvanas on a
5073s	board that feels like it's getting a
5075s	little bit too big
5076s	but at the same time whatever this dark
5079s	page shoots okay
5085s	oh all right and the thing is he can
5088s	protect it too with the warm rest agents
5090s	so it's not even that bad of a situation
5092s	even though it's shot the weakness in
5095s	some senses uh this dark vein is kind of
5099s	like the uh the murloc Knight of the
5102s	Paladin it's like something that kind of
5104s	has taunt because if you don't kill it
5106s	right away it's gonna get way too much
5107s	value on the other hand though there's
5109s	not really too many buff cards in
5111s	kalento's deck we theorize that there's
5113s	only about five or six of them at most
5115s	and you've already seen two of them so
5117s	it's less likely for clanto to draw one
5120s	of the remaining ones in his deck
5122s	yes and no I mean it's kind of like the
5124s	same idea of Dragons how many dragons
5127s	does he have probably like seven dragons
5128s	you have the Twilight whelps the oh
5131s	maybe actually nine because Twilight
5132s	Wolves add another additional because
5133s	you have things like Dragon kid sorcerer
5135s	and Drake's
5137s	but in other Dragon decks for example
5138s	like Dragon Warrior where you have a
5139s	limited amount it still is it's decent
5142s	likelihood that it can happen
5147s	very fast man uh fast math here from Tom
5150s	to be able to figure this out and as a
5152s	result has a board of one once
5154s	this is kind of the strength of Paladin
5156s	that we're seeing post TGT they just
5158s	have such an ability to refill the board
5160s	after every single turn with a
5162s	combination of monster for battle murloc
5164s	Knights uh even the quartermaster does a
5167s	lot here
5169s	well the threat of a quartermaster is
5171s	pretty big I wonder clinto would love to
5175s	pick up some way to clear the board and
5178s	he has
5179s	it does technically have it but um it
5182s	doesn't want to do it that way the
5183s	pyromancer effect only gets triggered
5185s	through the shadow work death yeah is
5187s	this a time where you just drop your
5188s	Sarah and hope that you can pick up
5189s	something nice and force your opponent
5190s	to trade into it not really too many
5193s	other options and again it kind of comes
5196s	down to
5198s	kind of comes down to how few buff
5200s	effects are in this deck and so how so
5202s	many you've oh my goodness another top
5205s	deck from Tom
5206s	uh how much damage is this five
5210s	plus twelve Seventeen Knight eighteen
5212s	eighteen eighteen damage
5215s	unfortunately it's barely not enough to
5218s	kill kolento it's enough to trade into
5220s	everything here
5225s	so I'll see first if he can possibly
5228s	survive something like oh yes sir
5229s	awakens yeah I think he wins that jazz
5232s	by a big margin Twilight wipe sort of
5235s	got stopped there
5238s	and he says you know what uh if you have
5242s	if you have the yesera awakens God Bless
5246s	but there's really nothing I can do
5247s	about that and he doesn't have it and
5250s	kalento is in a position once again
5252s	where he needs to get a holy Nova
5254s	to survive
5256s	um oh although death Lord does that help
5258s	him enough with the death Lord he
5261s	essentially has 16 effective HP in
5265s	addition to the heel and then you can
5267s	Shadow her death the five five
5270s	kill off the 5-3 so I think that's
5272s	that's gonna be enough
5274s	assuming his opponent doesn't pick up a
5276s	quality
5277s	actually he can put two taunts as well
5279s	right he can put the worm rest and the
5282s	death Lord
5288s	and so what are you thinking my
5290s	apartment is going to soften things up
5294s	uh so that way everything crashed into
5296s	the death Lord it makes it uh weaker and
5299s	more vulnerable yeah quickly now also
5302s	the agent as well so that's actually the
5305s	biggest wall that cliento could put up
5307s	yeah I like it very nice
5312s	oh
5315s	is that lethal it looks like it is
5318s	exactly
5321s	I believe so yeah so you can be able to
5324s	push through
5325s	um and you have the four damage so the
5327s	pressure from the Paladin was just too
5329s	much
5329s	and Quanto not able to stabilize that
5332s	second quartermaster draw from Tom was
5334s	nuts
5336s	just so much pressure by Tom putting on
5339s	to kalento every single turn uh kalachia
5342s	tried to deal with all the Minions as
5344s	best as he could but he eventually ran
5346s	out of like the key resources and he had
5348s	all the Minions in his hand that weren't
5350s	necessarily that useful against those
5352s	kind of minions The Dragon King sorcerer
5354s	being one of the main ones yeah and so I
5357s	think
5358s	um you know he didn't really I think
5360s	it's a really good example of how the
5362s	priest traditionally needs those aoes in
5364s	order to stop the Paladin from building
5366s	the mountain pressure and maybe the
5369s	dragon priest wasn't supposed to win
5370s	that game however the dragon priest does
5373s	stand a chance against some of these
5374s	other classes so we'll see if clinto can
5376s	whip it out and make it effective it has
5378s	been one of his Decks that we had the
5380s	biggest question mark over because no
5382s	one else has brought priests to this
5384s	tournament except for him
5386s	just the number of aoes in that dragon
5388s	priest is kind of strange it's only two
5391s	of them with the two holy novas we have
5393s	yet to see a chill mall and the chill
5394s	mall would have been just absolutely
5396s	amazing in that particular game
5397s	essentially stopping all the
5399s	quartermaster minions of all together
5401s	it's kind of like a both an anti-silver
5404s	hand
5405s	an anti-patron card
5407s	Arcane blast interesting yeah new shiny
5410s	tools
5412s	not the most shiny because it's not
5413s	golden but shiny nonetheless
5416s	and he's got the coin
5418s	and he's got the flame Waker so there's
5420s	a lot of good synergies and things going
5423s	in advantage of Tom here however how
5426s	does it relate to Dragon Warrior I'm not
5428s	entirely sure I think this hand would
5430s	have been just really amazing against
5432s	something like the mysterious Challenger
5435s	crazy and this matchup though I think
5438s	you want just more solid minions mirror
5440s	image is also a good option as long as
5441s	you can get a minion behind that so the
5443s	fireworks can't touch it oh
5447s	arcade blast is an interesting one
5449s	because it it might even replace an
5451s	Arcane missiles in this deck I'm
5452s	actually sure which one is better
5454s	overall
5455s	keep in mind there's two Azure Drakes in
5457s	this deck so you could potentially do
5459s	something like add your Drake into
5460s	Arcane blast and it sort of acts like a
5462s	misery play for six Mana
5466s	what the Nexus Champion so Rod gets
5469s	spells that's that's amazing that could
5472s	just be game winning that's ridiculous
5476s	that is ridiculous like the fact that
5479s	your Tempo deck that benefits off of
5481s	spell Synergy with your cards
5483s	because he's going to have cards like
5485s	Sorcerer's Apprentice and Flame Waker to
5487s	benefit off of it yeah Nexus Champions
5489s	around also uh what's really good about
5491s	it is that it's also at two Mana so you
5494s	can use even use it at turn five or
5496s	maybe on turn six to get just an amazing
5499s	number of spells
5501s	it's like a mini arcmage antonitis
5503s	for two Mana not a bad deal I would say
5506s	it's a four five two so the stats aren't
5509s	nothing to scoff at
5511s	Tom really evaluating if he can get away
5515s	with doing something I I would just be
5517s	thinking here huh I would just be way
5519s	too greedy here yeah unstable cool
5522s	our stable portal
5524s	that's also an amazing one
5527s	so basically he's just getting more
5529s	infinite cards that's essentially what
5531s	he's doing
5535s	oh cool
5536s	thing not to discover
5539s	what unstable portal has just done to
5541s	you two legendary cards
5545s	that have that potentially have big
5547s	impact because I mean this Gazo can draw
5549s	some really devastating mechs
5553s	like if it draws snow chugger that's
5557s	really hard for war to deal with
5560s	um if it draws like really big ones you
5562s	forget about like huge mechs that can
5565s	actually be threatening like the faux
5567s	Reaper
5570s	in addition by Hero empowering Tom has
5573s	the opportunity to gain even more one
5575s	Mana spells
5579s	my goodness
5581s	oh my goodness how do I fit in all the
5584s	synergy
5586s	like first world unstable portal
5588s	problems
5589s	my hand is too epic
5593s	yeah it's epic it's my hand is too
5595s	legendary because you have all these
5597s	legendaries yeah good point good point
5599s	good point two chaser
5602s	okay okay I mean this is where like I
5605s	this is where casts way better than
5608s	I do because he knows he's weird
5610s	very easily
5613s	I think he was hoping to hit the
5615s	Twilight Guardian once so that way you
5617s	can hero power it down yeah the problem
5619s	is you you really want to hear a power
5621s	of this turn to get some value out of
5623s	this uh Nexus Champion to Rod yeah you
5625s	you
5627s	do that
5631s	and he gets uh spell zero minute
5635s	yeah all right that's okay that's not a
5638s	bad card I think I'll take that not a
5640s	bad car to get against a deck full of
5642s	mid-range minions like Azure Drakes and
5643s	Blackwing corrupters yeah not bad yes
5646s	imagine if this were an arena deck how
5648s	good would this be
5651s	now that is literally a video that
5653s	I would watch
5654s	well he clears the board and um he loses
5659s	it Champions to Rod which he ends up
5661s	picking up lame Shrek not bad oh stop it
5664s	there's just way too many shenanigans
5668s	Spell slinger oh geez we've seen that
5671s	before but just forgetting about what it
5673s	can do
5675s	the problem here with Tom is that he
5677s	hasn't been able to use too much Synergy
5679s	with a lot of his unstable portals
5681s	minions which is quite unfortunate yeah
5683s	it was like good on paper just it didn't
5685s	fit in because he didn't have enough
5686s	crystals to use everything we were kind
5688s	of like I don't know about you but I've
5690s	been kind of watching the bottom half of
5691s	the screen the entire game haven't
5693s	actually been paying attention to what
5694s	uh kalanto has been drawing but he's
5696s	just been getting so many Temple memes
5698s	yeah did drop his black Wing corrupter
5702s	right at the moment he needed to that
5704s	was a very powerful moment
5706s	um and uh you know Tom doesn't get the
5708s	flame strike just yet so whatever he
5710s	puts out we'll get challenged
5711s	immediately and that allows polento to
5714s	make sure he gets some value what I will
5717s	say though is that flame strike seems to
5718s	be really good against this type of
5720s	Dragon Warrior because all the Minions
5723s	are quite mid-rangey if you just look at
5725s	the board right now they're all around
5727s	the same Mana cost or around the same
5729s	house yeah but now he's starting to fall
5731s	he's just too far behind on board time
5733s	bro what's a card that could help him
5736s	but
5740s	um
5741s	it's not even the fact that he's flame
5743s	strike he's dealing with minions is that
5744s	there's more minions coming where that
5745s	or there's more minions where that came
5747s	from
5748s	Shield maiden or Blackwing technician
5751s	Shield like you can Shield block and
5753s	then Blackwing technician Alex Josh was
5755s	charged
5756s	these are all possibilities here
5759s	what all of them still present a
5761s	reasonable amount of damage
5763s	I wonder if kalento was paying attention
5765s	as to whether that was actually a spell
5768s	in Tom's deck or if he got it from some
5771s	sort of shenanigans Nexus Champion's Rod
5774s	you can hover over and see though it
5776s	still tells you no okay so if you don't
5778s	change
5782s	thanks to Blizzard for always improving
5784s	our game yeah
5786s	yeah nice little plug there
5788s	um so the the Blackwing technician and
5791s	the Australia charge is more damage so
5793s	if Pluto wants to be aggressive he
5794s	considers opposed to 10 potentially like
5796s	below 10 Health the following turn I
5798s	don't think he has a two turn lethal
5800s	and in order to do so he has you can do
5802s	a blocked first just for sequencing
5804s	purposes
5807s	for the life finder a lot of pressure
5811s	here yeah it's not quite lethal but if
5814s	he draws weapons it is and his opponent
5816s	doesn't deal with it uh he's gonna Force
5818s	two Mana out of the opponent anyways
5819s	through the thing
5821s	Tommy immediately knows that he has to
5823s	do that
5827s	he needs up the board quite a bit and
5830s	Plato he really wishes he had some
5832s	weapons right now although his current
5834s	hand isn't too shabby
5836s	yeah he still has some cycle
5838s	opportunities slam execute and then the
5841s	shield Maiden
5843s	allows him to clear the board and have a
5846s	pretty dominating presence
5848s	his opponent still has enough cards
5851s	where it's like well am I using this xq2
5853s	soon what if he drops antoninus and I
5855s	can't answer it
5856s	but if he's dropped Dr boom and I can't
5858s	answer it am I better off slamming
5860s	trading into the flame Waker and just
5862s	playing something else instead depends
5865s	all on his truck and next brawl here
5870s	some kind of weapon would be really nice
5873s	I'm okay with
5874s	playing sludge Belcher and then hero
5876s	powering as well because you can kill
5878s	the flame Waker you're not you're
5880s	outside the Ping range at least from
5882s	what you think we know that there's a
5884s	Fallen Hero but you're outside the the
5886s	hero power range for the Mage we kill
5889s	the flame Waker let the Mana woman run
5890s	into the sludge Belcher just pick up the
5892s	pieces afterwards I can take the hit
5896s	he doesn't trust the Manowar I don't
5898s	neither I hate words
5900s	what has a worm ever done to you it made
5903s	me slightly uncomfortable while I was
5905s	camping once
5907s	I can see why you might hate worms then
5910s	there's uh wanted quite a bit of options
5914s	charge Divine Spirit that's the wrong
5918s	thing
5919s	whoa that's interesting now that is a
5923s	huge sludge Belcher it's gonna be a 310
5926s	yeah and not even any silences in Tom's
5928s	deck no he's gonna have to get through
5930s	the hard way
5937s	is this a board that you need to brawl
5939s	on
5941s	you don't need to necessarily Brawl on
5943s	it but no it might be an option
5951s	Shield block for an answer first
5953s	picked up another Drake yeah and then
5955s	just go with the Divine Spirit Divine
5957s	Spirit you created this spellslinger
5960s	and I think it's time it was finally
5962s	time for polenta to get uh his own
5964s	really ridiculous scenario
5967s	Tom's just chuckling it's like well I
5969s	can't really do much about that pushes
5971s	for damage realizing that this could be
5973s	a lethal opportunity
5976s	now that's a combination that I wasn't
5979s	thinking about when I was getting ready
5980s	to cast this game
5982s	it's kind of like the warrior otk all
5985s	over again
5986s	if Tom had gotten uh alexstrasza off the
5989s	unstable portal and then charge off of
5993s	the spouselinger this could have been an
5995s	amazing game
5997s	this this is already kind of a
5999s	ridiculous game
6000s	much more you could want
6006s	fortunately Tom doesn't have enough to
6008s	pick up every minion on board so the
6010s	shield Maiden Still represents lethal if
6013s	you can just get one weapon here any
6016s	weapon will do
6020s	Azure Drake perhaps or you might feel
6022s	like he might need some brawl
6025s	we'll see he's at way too high lifetime
6027s	oh there it goes there's the weapon
6029s	polento will end it face to face
6032s	man-to-man kill him with his own hands
6036s	really back and forth series we have at
6039s	the moment with kalento taking a 2-1
6041s	lead but Thomas certainly uh really
6043s	fighting for that spot he's had a lot of
6045s	great plays he's had a lot of great uh
6047s	Spell slinger cards and maybe some not
6050s	so great ones that he's given to kalento
6052s	well the uh that that's posting your
6055s	card wasn't entirely too useful it was
6058s	um it acted just kind of like burn
6060s	damage in a way uh and it just ended up
6063s	him being a little bit short those
6065s	unstable ports were so ridiculous but he
6067s	never got the benefit off of it at all
6069s	it just looked very flashy so for one
6072s	thing you need those unstable portals to
6074s	grab early game board control so that
6075s	way you have big powerful minions get
6077s	momentum later but Sharad
6080s	it did draw a flame strike yeah but the
6083s	flame strike caused his entire turn and
6084s	then Dragon Warrior took the initiative
6086s	yeah I felt like if Tom had potentially
6089s	let's say gotten those unstable portals
6091s	later in the game and he had a handful
6092s	full of spells and he had the board
6094s	presence with which to hero power
6096s	consistently with it would have gotten a
6098s	lot more value but like you said board
6100s	control is what's most important in
6102s	Temple Mage
6104s	way different spells to do that
6108s	all right so the secret Paladin makes
6111s	another appearance here Tom gonna go
6113s	over to the patron looks like he's
6115s	trying to keep himself awake as well
6118s	it's been a long journey over from
6120s	Taiwan as he has to adjust the jet lag
6123s	but it's his third day so hopefully he's
6125s	been able to get some good rest yeah not
6127s	only that but Tom is quite a frequent
6129s	flyer he's been to tournaments all over
6130s	the world BlizzCon last year G finity
6133s	twice assembly just earlier this month
6135s	the tournament which he won so Tom is uh
6138s	kind of using Hearthstone as a way to
6141s	travel around the world
6145s	has a lot of experience at lands and I
6148s	think it's gonna pay off he's never
6150s	really too nervous even though he does
6152s	get some reactions or we get some
6153s	reactions from him when he plays the
6155s	game
6156s	pretty good hand from Tom I would say
6158s	that's excellent it allows him to
6160s	effectively deal with all the small
6162s	stuff all right War ax that's bite
6167s	one thing to note as well is that
6171s	um
6172s	a lot of these small little minions
6175s	don't do well in the face of patrons
6177s	just because they don't trade very well
6180s	and I'm really I I don't really know
6182s	exactly how good this secret deck is
6185s	changing I can't imagine
6187s	well if you remember to the very first
6190s	match of our tournament it was actually
6192s	kalento versus Tom a series which
6194s	kalento defeated Tom with a 3-0 score
6197s	unfortunately we had a few uh internet
6199s	issues during that time and we actually
6201s	played around three games of this
6204s	particular matchup Patron versus
6205s	mysterious Challenger Paladin and I
6207s	think in all three games kalento was
6209s	kind of sort of in a lead
6211s	this game is going to be slightly
6212s	different though reporting for Duty
6217s	all right well clinto has a second
6220s	secret we know that I wanted the most
6223s	pulled off mad scientists I think it
6225s	might have been avenge
6227s	yeah I have to see though
6233s	all right and then uh this will prompt
6235s	Tom to probably drop back
6240s	unlike in the previous games kalento
6242s	isn't really getting any of his board
6243s	control that he needs
6246s	and he's destroying such small cards
6248s	even letters of letting his opponent
6251s	draw everything that he needs
6253s	well the fiery War ax is the Difference
6255s	Maker here just allows him to stabilize
6257s	early on imagine if that second that
6260s	Secret Keeper was able to run
6262s	unchallenged with all these secrets
6264s	coming out
6266s	I think in the previous games where Tom
6269s	played Kanto in this matchup I got to
6271s	talk with some of the players who are
6272s	here at this event and they mostly
6274s	agreed that Tom might have been using
6276s	his resources uh too fast basically not
6279s	saving them in order to combo off later
6281s	in the game being way too defensive
6283s	early on and not greedy enough this game
6285s	again it's going to be a little
6287s	different since Tom definitely has a
6288s	huge card advantage and it's going to
6290s	take kolento either a Divine Spirit draw
6292s	or mysterious Challenger draw in the
6294s	very next few turns in order to turn
6296s	this back game back around
6300s	Tom has several options here if he's
6302s	willing to take more damage he can set
6303s	up death's bite he has two of them so
6305s	they get clunkier the longer he waits
6309s	by playing Acolyte and Whirlwind it's
6311s	just a little bit too weak I think onto
6313s	the board
6317s	it's technically like one of the
6319s	strongest plays you could make this turn
6321s	but also that Whirlwind is just one of
6323s	the most valuable cards you have your in
6324s	your deck anyway so
6327s	playing to that effect Tom again he's
6330s	not he's being a little greedy here
6331s	which he should be he can afford to take
6333s	that for extra damage
6335s	let me think I'm so not very happy to
6339s	see a second competitive Spirit come
6340s	into the hand that makes the first one
6342s	redundant
6345s	he has enough Mana to put a Secret
6347s	Keeper to a 3-4 but
6350s	that also makes it so that way the Dust
6352s	by just directly attacks into it that
6354s	enough damage to him he'd do
6356s	seven total and that that's not really
6359s	that significant right now
6362s	kalanta are just really out of options
6365s	here
6367s	this is one of the drawbacks of playing
6369s	this deck it feels like there are games
6372s	where you just draw very awkwardly
6374s	because you're bound to hit some secret
6377s	overlap and
6379s	the the curve is not always going to be
6382s	there you won't have your maintenance to
6384s	play uh you won't have the mysterious
6386s	counter and you're gonna have to play
6388s	secrets of hands it feels very weak yeah
6391s	to me this seems like a very high risk
6393s	High reward version of the typical aggro
6395s	Paladin the aggro Paladin again it does
6398s	depend on
6399s	uh trying to find favor eventually
6401s	against these kind of more either comboy
6404s	or mid-ranging decks
6406s	but the problem is if you don't get the
6409s	Divine favor this deck is even worse
6411s	than the typical aggro Paladin because
6412s	you have all these secrets which are
6414s	generally useless on their own or even
6416s	in combination with the Secret Keeper
6417s	they're just quite weak cards
6421s	yeah these are these are really weak
6423s	oh well
6425s	he's already played a handful of his
6427s	Secrets already
6430s	I'm not sure if his mysterious
6432s	Challenger is as effective as it
6434s	normally is well you have to make
6435s	something happen here you may think yeah
6438s	now the challenge is that um his
6441s	opponent if he has opponent has execute
6442s	you have to kill this unstable ghoul but
6444s	then you make the
6446s	frothing Berserker naturally more
6448s	powerful through it
6451s	the alternative
6453s	is there an alternative to just place
6455s	you can keep her I don't think so yeah I
6457s	don't think you win that way as a
6460s	mysterious Challenger is kind of a new
6462s	car it's kind of an unknown card so it
6464s	definitely has the potential at least to
6466s	pull off some Shenanigans that's exactly
6469s	what kalento needs right now some
6470s	shenanigans
6471s	yep oh boy that's still a lot of Secrets
6474s	Noble sacrifice can at least absorb the
6476s	blow from the weapon if he was going to
6478s	have one
6479s	challenges the uh probably preserver
6482s	correctly
6485s	get down it's gonna get revived but a
6488s	whirlwind executable handle all of this
6491s	pretty easily
6497s	so another thing to consider is that
6500s	Tom's been dumping the hand very
6501s	effectively
6503s	oh man imagine if one of those is eye
6505s	for an eye how awesome would that be I
6508s	don't think uh kalento has certainly
6510s	tucked in that yet if and if he had we
6512s	probably would have seen it from one of
6514s	the other mysterious Challengers he's
6515s	played throughout this tournament
6517s	yeah but I think this is kind of how I
6520s	imagine Patron to normally go against uh
6522s	this deck Divine favor is not even that
6523s	good uh considering that his opponent's
6526s	been dumping the hand so uh he would
6528s	have to have Divine favorite pickup like
6530s	consecration yeah not only that but
6532s	there's also a competitive Spirit on the
6534s	field so it's kind of like the situation
6536s	in Hunter where you want to use Quick
6538s	shot but you already have a fusing trap
6540s	on the field and you have one in your
6541s	hand so you don't get the full effect
6542s	out
6547s	probably does have a consecrate or two
6549s	in his deck but he won't it won't be
6552s	enough because if he plays he has to
6554s	play at least one card for divine here
6555s	to draw a card does he have one more I
6557s	see Noble sacrifice wouldn't be enough
6558s	either
6560s	so he needs the the golden and neutron
6564s	oh he has an annoyage on the deck I
6566s	don't know probably
6567s	or actually I think in this deck you
6569s	probably want haunted creepers so
6570s	clauncher's just going through all the
6571s	options and he realizes that no there's
6573s	no way he can take that game whatsoever
6575s	yep uh I think he searched for his outs
6577s	and there were zero outs um as far as we
6580s	know so that's gonna wrap up game four
6581s	to tight series Once Again
6583s	and the patron Warrior got a quick win
6585s	so we don't have to deal with a lot of a
6587s	lot of the counting Shenanigans either
6590s	um so that brings it down to Paladin and
6593s	priest
6594s	up against the Warlock and the Mage
6597s	that's an exciting Clash of decks
6601s	I want to see that Mage deck more
6605s	that's those attacks are fun oh yeah
6607s	certainly and it seems to be it would do
6610s	pretty good against the mysterious
6612s	Challenger deck as long as there are no
6614s	again mysterious Challengers shenanigans
6616s	that kind of pop up that uh that word
6619s	monk Shenanigans is a great word I know
6620s	it's amazing the temple Mage has a lot
6623s	of like somewhat AOE spells like the
6625s	Arcane missiles it has a flame maker
6628s	which can deal with a lot of the early
6629s	threats that kalento might bring out
6632s	uh in addition something like flame
6634s	Cannon could be good or not so good
6636s	against the lone secret keyboard you
6639s	asked for it all right well this time
6642s	Tom does not get graced with the coin
6646s	but he has the flame Waker one of the
6647s	key cards potentially in distracting
6650s	this deck although it's still pretty new
6653s	and I I gotta admit I'm pretty lost
6655s	sometimes if uh in terms of predicting
6658s	these matchups
6659s	just based off ethereum monk so is there
6662s	a favorite you think or do you think
6664s	it's 50 50 or are you taking more of a
6666s	scientific weight into you I would love
6668s	to give you some stats on this matchup
6670s	but I don't think any really exists at
6672s	this point
6674s	um I believe this might be even the
6675s	first mysterious Challenger Paladin
6678s	versus Tempo Mage matchup we've ever
6679s	seen in competitive play
6682s	speaking of first time being able to be
6684s	seeing the the gormach and paler
6686s	whenever that has a huge impact like it
6691s	can snipe the flame wakers and whatnot
6693s	Mana worms very powerful what also is
6698s	going to be very powerful is this
6700s	combination of matter worm plus possible
6702s	flame cannon into a knife juggler
6709s	the interesting thing about the knife
6712s	juggler though is that if you pointed
6713s	out he can just ping it and then nullify
6715s	your turn
6717s	he knows there's too many ways to get
6718s	punished
6720s	it's almost oh all right okay so that's
6724s	uh three for three for unstable portals
6727s	into legendary minions legendary Minions
6730s	that have synergies with his deck
6732s	exactly
6734s	it's slightly ridiculous stop it Tom
6737s	where stop are we gonna see the
6739s	legendary malagos plus arcade missile
6742s	security
6743s	what about Mali goes into Arcane blast
6746s	now that card is ridiculous it'll snipe
6749s	the uh mysterious Challenger and and
6752s	then some yeah and send him back to
6754s	Blackrock mode you could even kill off
6756s	your own malygos with the arcane
6758s	blast because it does 12 damage oh
6761s	you're right it does double uh I'll
6764s	never only you can force your phone to
6766s	have wrath guard than just Arcane
6768s	Blaster face this might be however one
6771s	of those games where we never see use of
6774s	the of the unstable portal minion it's
6777s	just that you lose so much tempo for
6779s	playing on a stable portal on turn two
6781s	right that you don't just run you over
6786s	would you
6788s	play things like noble sacrifice and
6790s	avenge to buff and then
6792s	let Secret Keeper be a 3-4 as opposed to
6795s	gormach I mean gormach does provide the
6798s	biggest minion though
6801s	worth evaluating but I think now that he
6803s	drew Divine favor that's a perfect five
6805s	Mana uses next turn
6809s	oh oh oh oh oh
6813s	no well it actually it doesn't matter
6816s	you have to click on the gourmock four
6818s	times in order to get the flame cannon
6821s	on it just how it works I I don't think
6823s	it mattered that much though since um he
6826s	definitely would have wanted to kill
6827s	both the bigger creatures but the spell
6830s	The Secret Keeper is about as equivalent
6832s	to this score much I mean yes you're
6836s	right but I think he would have loved
6837s	the killer Secret Keeper and the gormach
6839s	it was uh out of all those scenarios
6842s	that would happen this was definitely
6844s	one of the worst because he would still
6845s	have to be forced to play this or Play
6847s	Secrets
6850s	done
6851s	I think I might have just played the
6854s	balicos there get up just straight up
6856s	Mali ghost 412 on the field what if he
6858s	had repentance though
6859s	good point if he had repentance
6862s	how much would you cry on the spot I
6865s	would weep I think you're
6869s	you're so behind though at this point
6871s	your opponent has initiative he has a
6872s	bunch of secrets on the field as well he
6874s	had a huge defined favorite draw yeah
6876s	and it's a head of spirit can also be
6879s	problematic too because you could fight
6881s	Dr boom but then he just gets a huge
6882s	buff please draw Arcane missiles here
6885s	just make my day
6888s	oh no so he plays Boom he's still not
6892s	playing around for pensions but uh
6894s	not repent to this competitive spirit
6898s	lento will still go for The Rush
6900s	strategy because he knows his board's
6901s	very resilient mad scientists can also
6903s	come down here second Divine favor oh my
6906s	goodness
6907s	that's a lot of cars being drawn so more
6911s	like a standard Agro Paladin now
6914s	this is kind of the wave onto intended
6917s	this deck to go
6919s	wow good Lord
6923s	yeah competitive spear is pretty good
6925s	with a lot of sticky means with Divine
6927s	Shields
6930s	who knew this deck can even be good
6933s	without the mysterious Challenger it's
6935s	just good when you get a lot of the cars
6937s	roll that's what mysterious challenge
6938s	does
6942s	oh and those boom Bots are terrible too
6945s	not going Tom's way at all oh
6949s	whoa what is is it too late though
6951s	because I mean there's a lot more than
6953s	eight health on the board and you do
6955s	know that a noble sacrifice does exist
6957s	right off the secrets
6962s	okay
6964s	that was a little disappointing I have
6966s	to be honest with you that was so
6968s	anti-climatic we are building that up
6971s	like the entire game but Tom doesn't
6973s	even reward us for it yeah you can't use
6976s	Fallen Hero and yeah I understand he's
6979s	trying to win
6980s	I don't blame him yeah
6983s	that's a lot of money on the line well
6985s	Noble sacrifice is gonna stop him here
6987s	like if he couldn't make that conclusion
6989s	he knew that this was doomed from the
6991s	start because
6994s	is there anything on stable before I can
6996s	get how about like unstable cool
6999s	that's hilarious yeah that's even more
7001s	like hypothetical Synergy exactly
7005s	he's getting so lucky with getting these
7007s	minions yet so unlucky at the same time
7009s	having be able to force to use unstable
7011s	portal when he really needs type of
7013s	plays instead
7016s	that's very close to lethal one more
7019s	damage
7021s	one damage of lethal I say you go for it
7024s	but um and you can also play mysterious
7026s	challenge or just stay clear of the
7029s	board
7030s	I wonder how many Secrets exactly even
7033s	pole at this point it might just be a
7035s	vanilla six six hmm no it'll definitely
7037s	pull into the repentance
7040s	so it'll pull at least one Secret
7046s	I I just want him to play it right now
7048s	just to see how many secrets are left in
7049s	the deck I would assume too I was seeing
7051s	my repentance as well as a
7055s	uh who am I Redemption of your business
7060s	is that
7062s	there's one secret I'm guessing yeah it
7064s	was one secret remaining those two and
7067s	he just played one from his hand though
7069s	Oh no just one secret oh interesting
7076s	well this is it uh there's nothing you
7078s	can do there's nothing he can draw I
7080s	think he just wanted to kill that
7081s	mysterious Challenger off one wait time
7082s	he draws with his arcade intellect maybe
7085s	he has an opportunity there
7087s	maybe the Spell slinger can get oh wait
7091s	wait wait oh
7094s	all right no wait oh wait Frost Nova was
7097s	a chance he was a two HP yeah at that
7099s	point though if you frost now but it's
7100s	probably still not a great option you
7102s	can't heal the next turn you can't
7103s	really taunt probably doesn't have that
7105s	many taunts in his deck anyway but sure
7107s	sure someone very very low percentage
7109s	chance to win yet again that deck had a
7111s	lot of uh opportunity to give us such a
7113s	great game but Tom just chooses to you
7116s	know win instead of going for the
7117s	malagos uh the Malibu's avenging wrath I
7120s	wonder if the uh Mallory ghost turned
7122s	six would have ended up being the better
7123s	play overall um it withstands a lot of
7125s	the board it doesn't
7127s	you you every spell you get like the
7129s	Arcane missiles would have been really
7131s	effective from that point on
7133s	um and then it sets up Dr boom yeah I
7135s	don't know it's hard to say because if
7136s	the repentance came out that would have
7137s	been a huge huge mistake but it's so
7141s	easy to say from our position that we
7142s	know that information yeah you I don't
7144s	know if you can even call it a mistake
7146s	even if it's repentance in that position
7148s	that Tom was in he was really really far
7150s	behind so
7152s	um he needed to take that kind of risk
7154s	all over again we're gonna come down to
7156s	possibly the match point the final game
7158s	of our entire entire onog summer circuit
7161s	clinto with the priest not a warlock
7163s	facing off against malagos Warlock and
7167s	the tempo mage
7169s	I have to imagine the malagos Warlock
7171s	comes out here for Tom that seems to be
7173s	the better choice overall against the
7175s	the priest they give you all the time in
7176s	the world to gather your combo
7178s	they don't have the burst generally
7181s	speaking although if you take Michelle
7183s	brings out the holy smites
7185s	I mean I'm not sure if kalento has a lot
7188s	of birds but he could with like holy
7190s	smites and Blackman corrupters it gives
7191s	them a little bit extra
7194s	I think overall as we've seen kalento's
7197s	priest deck so many times over this
7199s	weekend just some of the cards have been
7201s	a bit underwhelming specifically the
7203s	dragonkin sorcerers we've seen two of
7206s	them in his deck so far and I've
7208s	actually never seen them like get a huge
7210s	effect off
7212s	uh the dragon can Sorcerers they they
7216s	just function as a dragon itself most of
7218s	the time it gives you an option to play
7220s	on curve or they just serve as uh the
7224s	dragon you draw so that way Blackman
7226s	corrupter can get its Jimmy's off yeah
7230s	well uh
7231s	here's another reason that I feel the
7234s	malagos were like has the advantage in
7236s	the matchup and it's the Twilight Drake
7238s	most of the Minions that kalento can
7240s	play are really quote unquote Fair
7242s	Minions that are maybe under costed by
7245s	about half a Mana or so but the Charlie
7247s	Drake allows Tom and option to tap every
7249s	turn and then on turn four tea just
7251s	plays or even turn three because a
7253s	minion that's way way on your costume
7256s	out
7257s	that Divine spirit
7260s	has a lot of interesting opportunities
7264s	very curious to see how that will be
7266s	worked in meanwhile Twilight Garden a
7269s	great draw
7271s	which clientele will start to win some
7273s	light pressure with this death Lord
7274s	although I've been in those games where
7276s	death Lord has pulled Mali ghosts or
7278s	Emperor Thorson
7279s	very sad
7283s	picks up a second Black Wing uh
7286s	technician but he's evaluating if he can
7288s	play the Twilight Drake safely this turn
7292s	get in there and fight maggot instead
7295s	he's going for a dark bomb play and
7297s	tries to even pull out something useful
7299s	it's the opposite of useful there if he
7302s	pulled out a malagos the game might have
7304s	just ended right there there's not
7305s	really many options for a clunto to
7307s	clear off amalgos in fact it's like
7308s	there's not really many options at all
7310s	throughout his entire deck
7313s	then mortal coil becomes amazing
7315s	implosion becomes amazing
7318s	speaking of amazing this is a really
7320s	good opportunity for kalonto to
7322s	commandingly seize the board shoot down
7323s	the three threes uh trade down and then
7327s	have a dominant board position
7331s	goes instead for a Divine Spirit taking
7334s	the opportunity to try and buff this
7335s	Drake and then grab some cards while
7337s	doing it but that will get silenced
7341s	punished even though this was a cool
7343s	opportunity
7345s	if there was no silence in
7349s	Tom's hand right now I think this would
7351s	just be a blowout another blowout so
7353s	these guys were just going for
7354s	back-to-back blowout plays
7359s	he still has the Blackwing corrupter on
7361s	standby though because of the Twilight
7363s	whelp so that's what another good
7364s	function is of that card
7368s	Azure Drakes comes up to help along
7373s	yeah so Blackwing corrupter and uh and
7376s	Twilight well can be played now because
7377s	of the Azure you must consider that's
7379s	actually pretty relevant um normally the
7381s	Twilight Drake would trade into the
7383s	Twilight welp but then you also have a
7385s	black wing corrupter on the field so
7387s	there's just a few too many targets that
7389s	Tom has to deal with
7391s	we actually saw this match up earlier in
7393s	the tournament in the first series
7394s	between kalento and Tom and in that
7397s	particular game I like this game very
7399s	back and forth a lot of Minion trading
7401s	which I like a lot in these dragon
7403s	versus dragon Decks that we're getting
7405s	in TGT in the end though one player kind
7408s	of uh dominated when
7409s	Tom I believe he couldn't get the aoes
7412s	to finish off the board and quickly with
7414s	his hero power it snowballed out of
7416s	control we're going to have to see where
7418s	that Tipping Point is in this game
7420s	though
7423s	burn him down
7424s	play the dragons let him deal with it
7427s	sure you'll lose the Blackwing
7429s	corruption Twilight break but I used to
7432s	have a decent way to fight on Ford
7435s	Guardian not gonna be the ones that are
7438s	coming down here if you do have that
7440s	Blackman corrupter very quickly going
7442s	through everything soulfire even
7445s	no heels lost all his healing yeah I
7449s	don't think Tom is uh too disappointed
7451s	about that in this matchup I don't think
7453s	healing is really important at all you
7455s	oh great job
7457s	fantastic pickup here the Sylvanas will
7459s	complicate and everything now that the
7461s	sounds used and I don't think there's
7463s	more than one owl's defects right
7467s	um there can be but with the addition of
7469s	Zombie Chow and the
7472s	use of Sergeant and the acidic swamp
7474s	Boos it's probably not
7477s	usually one of those spots is the flex
7479s	spot for the second owl
7483s	holy Nova is drawn here
7487s	um holy Nova and velons chosen oh
7489s	ambulance chosen you're right but does
7491s	that I don't think the valence chosen
7493s	changes anything other than killing the
7494s	Twilight Guardian hmm
7502s	his opponent is fronting
7506s	14 damage if he kills out the Twilight
7508s	Guardian
7511s	legitimate might be better served by
7513s	playing valence chosen on the Sylvanas
7516s	and then healing to try to get a worm
7518s	rest agent
7523s	two cards remain Tom's hand none of them
7526s	are direct damage but they could draw
7528s	into direct damage
7529s	Tom has a lot more chances to draw into
7532s	that dark damage if he runs a second
7534s	Soul fire for example then he has his
7536s	initial draw he has a life tap draw and
7538s	he could also just get one more draw off
7540s	the island thing
7546s	and he gets the worst agent that's a
7548s	pretty good draw right now
7550s	oh he decides to heal instead he just
7553s	goes for a really safe play he doesn't
7554s	want to die to a couple of other burn
7556s	opportunities
7558s	let's see uh in addition he the Sylvanas
7563s	is already doing so much work so he
7565s	doesn't necessarily need too many more
7566s	defensive options right he doesn't
7568s	actually want his opponent to trade into
7570s	stuff as easily so that way Sylvanas
7572s	might steal something
7576s	foreign
7578s	again kalento is in danger of dying at
7581s	least he has a taunt and he has a
7583s	balance chosen to buff up that taunt
7584s	which is actually going to be pretty key
7586s	that also might be a reason why he saved
7588s	this card even a power word Shield so
7590s	now that cliento has seen the the first
7593s	Iron B gal he can kind of assume there's
7596s	no second silence and he can go for this
7598s	type of play which just gives you a huge
7602s	yeah he's gonna have at least a 310.
7605s	well
7608s	you can gain four more points of taunt
7611s	or you can uh gain more through the
7613s	Twilight Guardian but first he might be
7616s	even uh looking to see if he can make a
7618s	play with Sylvanas
7623s	the powerful thing about Savannah's
7624s	right now is that you could try to keep
7626s	and preserve her sure or you have the
7628s	opportunity to try and steal something
7630s	and reduce even more damage on board
7633s	I think you depending on your read as to
7635s	whether Tom has a second silence I think
7638s	you can be greedy enough to just
7641s	preserve the Sylvanas what about uh if
7643s	you if you end up playing Twilight
7646s	Guardian you're weaker
7648s	um because of things like Shadow Flame
7651s	Village chosen is actually slightly
7654s	better this year yeah I actually have to
7657s	agree with you
7660s	and that is very close to lethal
7667s	no but you can Shadow flame this and
7669s	clear the board
7671s	and I think uh because polento didn't go
7674s	for a valence chosen that ends up being
7676s	the the nail in the coffin here
7678s	just too much pressure
7683s	let's see if kalento he can a light Bane
7687s	then villain's chosen he gets a Divine
7689s	shield on that I don't think that's a
7692s	winning play there
7694s	no that's it what the world pass here
7697s	and that's going to be a 3-3 tie
7702s	and that means we're going to game seven
7704s	monk the winner of this will be the
7707s	summer circuit Champion to determine it
7709s	all yeah we've had thousands of players
7711s	play in our summer circuit and it all
7713s	comes down to this it kind of reminds me
7715s	of how in the EU versus CN tournament uh
7718s	there were so many players playing in
7720s	that tournament in the end kalento
7721s	managed to uh take it out against his
7723s	opponent and again we're having kolento
7725s	3-3 against Tom in the final match and
7729s	it's gonna be a deck that Tom has kind
7731s	of failed with a lot of the time his
7733s	Tempo Mage what a time for it to work
7735s	though against the dragon priest which
7736s	has also been failing kalento in this
7738s	series as well it's lost a fair share of
7740s	games
7743s	and if you think about the the way the
7746s	head-to-head works it might be pretty
7748s	good against the priest yeah we've seen
7751s	Tom fail a lot though in the sense that
7754s	he hasn't gotten Tempo early on and he's
7756s	had he's been forced to do plays like uh
7759s	unstable portals early on the game and I
7761s	feel like if he tries to do that against
7762s	kalento's priest and kalento's priest
7764s	does curve out fairly well which it
7766s	usually does then he'll be at a unique
7768s	disadvantage the hero power from the
7770s	priest is just often too much
7775s	clinto picks up Sylvanas coming through
7777s	the way death Lord early on is great
7780s	against cards like Mana worm let it
7783s	run its head uselessly as the wall of
7785s	taunts wants to pick up his early game
7787s	and he picks up Northshire cleric
7788s	meanwhile Tom gets the Mana worm early
7791s	on turn one that's huge considering that
7793s	he has a world of uh options with that
7796s	unstable Pearl that might open up for
7797s	him yeah it's gonna be a game guys both
7799s	these players hands are pretty good
7802s	is someone injured
7804s	that's good for Tom to go ahead and
7806s	blame canvas down too he doesn't have to
7809s	use unstable portal although flame
7811s	cannon on this means that the next
7813s	Target that comes out will be stronger
7815s	against it so obstacle for that instead
7820s	okay so this
7824s	hurts them both
7826s	all right I don't mind uh
7830s	kind of interesting see how the new Uber
7832s	weblar will interact this gives clinto
7835s	the opportunity to
7836s	uh play the death Lord here
7842s	Thomas is not too worried about the
7844s	healing potential or the draw Potential
7846s	from the Northshire cleric he knows this
7848s	matchup is mostly about Tempo instead of
7851s	card Advantage it's just that both these
7853s	decks they don't really have ways to get
7855s	back in the game only two holy novas
7858s	from polento nothing like akonized
7860s	Circle combo for instance
7862s	we want it very nice oh
7867s	oh
7869s	that's bad news
7872s	and kolenso does not have a way to
7874s	answer it at least not yet
7880s	he needs to pick up his one Shadow or
7882s	death which is unlikely to say the least
7884s	he's gonna try to draw frantically
7886s	but that is ridiculous not to mention
7888s	that Anthony is just a five-man or five
7890s	attack minion five seven
7893s	this is Bad News Bears Fireball comes
7897s	into the hand
7900s	is a 7-4 minion that he puts even more
7903s	pressure on kolento in the final game of
7906s	the onoch summer circus he can't play uh
7908s	the four cost minion because of the
7910s	naruba web Lord and he still can't even
7911s	kill it he has to use the Avalanche
7913s	chosen in order to try to do something
7916s	and that's still not going to be very
7918s	impactful kalento can't even draw for
7920s	anything because if he tries to draw you
7922s	only have two more Mana to try and
7924s	address the board so now it just looks
7927s	like Tom may have death Lord his way
7930s	into a victory because kalento is almost
7934s	out of options
7936s	he tries to go for a draw he needs to
7938s	get a worm rest agent right here right
7939s	now in order to buy some time he can't
7941s	in fact uh
7943s	he's just he's just dead I think
7947s	the fireball your draw is almost
7949s	certainty here because now he just can
7950s	get direct damage to burn to finish off
7952s	the game I can't imagine a single card
7954s	in collector's deck that could help him
7956s	win this series
7958s	and collector gives up Tom is your own
7961s	summer circuit champion
7966s	Tom fought his way through the Open
7967s	Bracket he fought in pretty much every
7970s	open tournament that we hosted almost
7972s	all 16 of them and he's really really
7974s	well rewarded for his performance yeah
7976s	well done to Tom the Mage there was
7978s	definitely his most interesting deck a
7980s	very complicated one to see if he can
7983s	introduce to it there's some risky picks
7985s	but in the end I really like it I like
7987s	it introduced some really fun moments
7989s	and we saw some good draws we saw some
7991s	bad draws from the John stable portals
7993s	with spellslingers fun tournament
7995s	overall monk yeah really enjoyed that
7997s	last deck the unstable portals and all
8000s	the uh the new RNG involved the death
8002s	order of those kind of sealed the deal
8004s	the arc manage Antonius I just couldn't
8006s	believe what happened there you can uh
8008s	you can go ahead and just you know be
8010s	mad about what like ah I can't believe
8012s	he got that on tinnitus but at the same
8014s	time that's the wrist that you always
8015s	run with death Lord because we've all
8017s	been there when we first started running
8018s	with death Lord all those risks are a
8020s	possibility
8021s	um and I really like that Tom went for
8023s	that opportunity as soon as he saw it
8025s	seems to be his time of style Tom is
8027s	your champion and he wins ten thousand
8029s	dollars a hundred World Championship
8030s	points firmly securing his place into
8033s	the Taiwan regionals you can definitely
8036s	expect to see Tom back in a future
8037s	tournament I anticipate that we might
8039s	even see him at BlizzCon if you can
8041s	continue this hot streak that's a second
8042s	tournament in a row but he's taken down
8044s	yeah I believe the next tournament the
8046s	next big individual tournament might
8048s	just be BlizzCon there's not really too
8050s	much after that and three in a row that
8052s	would cement him almost in the lineup of
8055s	like tiddler Celestial who's he hasn't
8057s	won three in a row but he's played so
8058s	highly in so many tournaments right uh
8061s	that kind of consistency is unparalleled
8063s	you have fire bat and tiddler in a very
8066s	exclusive group uh maybe kolendo because
8068s	clinto's also won a lot of those
8069s	tournaments replaced well in and Tom is
8072s	another fearsome Titan that's continuing
8074s	his chapter now we fast forward to 2018
8077s	when Tom made it to the world
8079s	championship and qualified past the
8082s	group stage to the final eight his first
8085s	opponent was Samuel Zao a fairly new
8087s	face when compared with the experience
8089s	of Tom and was quickly shown his place
8091s	as Tom won in convincing fashion let's
8094s	take a look
8098s	versus Tom six or two tonight
8106s	I spent a tremendous amount of time on
8109s	Hearthstone playing on ladder and other
8111s	tournaments it's a huge time commitment
8113s	trying to improve my ranking
8116s	so Tom and I practiced together he gives
8118s	me a lot of insights into the game
8121s	what has helped me the most are the
8122s	tournaments I have played recently I
8124s	have matured a lot and gained much
8126s	experience which is why I am here now
8129s	I've learned a lot from Tom he has given
8131s	me a lot of advice and helped make me a
8133s	better player
8134s	Samuel
8138s	602 tonight let's see what you got
8145s	Hello everybody welcome back to the
8147s	Hearthstone 2017 World Championship
8151s	second quarterfinal of the day about to
8154s	get underway between you know this is
8156s	sort of an age-old story admirable the
8159s	teacher versus the student oh yeah Tom
8162s	and Sam connected after Bahamas uh Tom
8165s	and during the interview said he
8166s	actually didn't know who Samuel Zao was
8167s	yeah both of them being from Taiwan
8169s	obviously he makes some pretty good
8170s	practice Partners if that's the case he
8172s	mentioned that he thought that Samuel
8174s	Sal's aggressive play was exceptional
8176s	and that he wanted to practice him to
8177s	learn more about that yeah and uh Tom
8179s	was the one who approached Samuel Sal to
8181s	to practice with him which is a pretty
8184s	big you know gesture when you consider
8187s	it and Samuel Sal mentioned that he he
8189s	felt you know really good about the fact
8191s	that Tom was the one to reach out to him
8193s	but take a look at the lineups uh slight
8195s	differences here as we've seen
8196s	throughout the entire tournament Samuel
8198s	Sal being on aggro Druid
8200s	tom60229 being on the Jade Druid and
8203s	jadroid has had I feel like a lot more
8205s	success almost all of the players with J
8207s	Druid had qualified for the for the
8208s	quarterfinals that brought in their
8209s	lineup yeah I think one of the big
8211s	things that we've been seeing is that
8212s	Oaken summons is proving a lot of worth
8214s	in the Jade Druid package you know how
8216s	much do you really need jade spirit if
8217s	you can make up that advantage in other
8219s	ways you think about some of your
8220s	matchups against priests you're trying
8221s	to win via the armor count uh against
8223s	the aggregate you're trying to win
8225s	simply by stopping their push jade
8226s	spirit doesn't really do those things
8227s	and the open summons provides you two
8229s	waves of Defense oftentimes the fact
8232s	that the Jay Drews have come prepared
8233s	with that specific package I think has
8234s	been a big benefit to them this weekend
8235s	yeah for sure
8237s	and we're going to start off with the
8239s	matchup right away it's going to be
8240s	aggro Druid versus Jay Drew to start
8242s	things off and uh Tom's got a one key
8246s	card in that opening hand
8248s	that has Aggregates all across the world
8251s	sweating and that's spreading plague Oh
8253s	I thought Sarah came time yeah Arcane
8255s	Tire too
8257s	um that is definitely somewhat of a
8259s	problem more for Samuel tauzek I'd say
8261s	than it would be for some of the other
8262s	Aggregates that we've seen Simon cells
8264s	tops out uh with living Mana Cobalt
8267s	scale Bane and Corridor creeper top out
8269s	with quarter creeper yeah um only one
8271s	skill Bane as well no bitter tide height
8273s	that's right and that's been a big
8274s	performer I think versus uh Jay drew it
8279s	throughout the weekend it's just such a
8280s	large threat that it constantly has
8281s	pressure on the Jadu player to to mount
8285s	the defense then also be able to kill it
8287s	afterwards now while we've seen that
8288s	happen it's quite unusual that's the
8290s	case but he also has one of the more
8292s	important starts here with an opening an
8293s	enchanted Raven and the buff with the
8295s	card draw right afterwards that's a lot
8297s	of pressure on Tom Harley that's right
8301s	but we've seen time and time again these
8303s	aggraduates have been blistering starts
8305s	but if they can't make a couple of big
8309s	threats
8311s	that they just keep buffing up and they
8313s	are forced to go wide on the board at
8314s	some point spreading plague has been a
8317s	massive punish for these types of
8319s	strategies uh throughout the entire
8321s	weekend here at the world championship
8322s	and
8324s	Tom no one of his turn yeah feels like
8327s	something's up here like you can tell
8329s	he's already working on sequencing out
8330s	these turns in case Samuel Zao has one
8332s	of those blue string starts how does he
8334s	want to react if that's the case that's
8336s	a lot of planning that goes into a hand
8338s	like this when you have spreading plague
8339s	you have a couple of removal spells and
8341s	you have a jade Behemoth you need to
8343s	figure out at what points do those
8345s	inflections really hit and you have to
8347s	take advantage of them that time window
8348s	is going to close because Sam's out has
8351s	much pressure as well so Tom he's got to
8353s	get going about as quickly as possible
8355s	here
8356s	yep it does have Jade Blossom that's
8358s	going to be a little bit of ramp but
8359s	we're still a few turns away from
8360s	spreading playing in savings actually
8362s	picks up Saucy Captain so let's patches
8364s	it's the very next draw he's gonna have
8366s	a pretty powerful turn and this is this
8368s	is one of the pan outs I think that
8370s	actually really benefits Solomon one of
8371s	the reasons why I think Samuel Tao might
8373s	not find the easiest win in this matchup
8374s	is that even though he's got this much
8376s	pressure his his top end right now is
8378s	living Mana so into a card like
8379s	spreading plate that card is quite
8381s	ineffective Tom having swipe and having
8384s	wrath looks like he is going to get
8385s	through this early push and it's a
8387s	matter of how Sam can attack afterwards
8388s	so this is quite a concerning situation
8391s	if you're Samuel Sal
8393s	also sort of the order of things kalaka
8396s	crawling has been a tech and aggro Druid
8397s	because players were expecting a lot of
8400s	aggressive mirrors Tempo Rogue uh was a
8402s	deck that almost everybody brought to
8404s	the tournament and almost everybody
8405s	expected everybody else to bring to the
8407s	tournament that coupled with agritude
8409s	being a popular choice uh made golaka
8411s	crawler uh a good inclusion for agritude
8414s	it also coupled with the fact that you
8415s	know it's got the Beast energy with Mark
8417s	of yasharaj that it's just an early
8419s	curved minion that Cinder drives us a
8420s	lot with the deck but if you play your
8423s	Pirates before you get the glocker
8425s	crawler and your opponent is not playing
8426s	any parts in their deck you can get into
8428s	these awkward situations where
8430s	you can't play your glocker crawler
8432s	because your your Pirates are on your
8434s	board and this this is one of the
8436s	reasons why you see Samsung trade with
8437s	the generated rather than uh that
8440s	patches instead swipe would have just
8442s	been an abysmal turn for him if he chose
8443s	to trade with patches yeah keep a 2-1
8445s	around and then the 4-4 around uh those
8447s	little things matter a lot and he's also
8450s	expecting uh Oaken summons quite often
8453s	now Tom drew that Fresh Off The Top but
8455s	now suddenly Savage Roar is prepared to
8457s	fight through this and continue pushing
8459s	that little bit of damage yeah in Savage
8461s	roll we've talked about it a couple
8462s	times over the past couple matchups that
8464s	we've cast but getting the value earlier
8466s	with Savage Roar can oftentimes be a
8468s	good Boon for the aggregated player
8470s	because they may not have an opportunity
8472s	to get good die out of it later on yeah
8475s	um maybe it can help you get over
8477s	spreading plague but a lot of times
8478s	sprinting play comes after a living mana
8480s	and you don't have an opportunity to
8481s	even cast it because you don't have to
8483s	Mana for it right the turn post living
8485s	Mana so he didn't really have any other
8487s	options here but even if he did savager
8489s	will be in a Tyson excuse my trade of
8492s	the of the uh 4-3 he obviously will be
8494s	using his health total in that spot yeah
8495s	his life total is largely Irrelevant for
8498s	the large portion of this game by the
8499s	time Tom starts delivering damage it's
8501s	likely he's locked in the game at that
8503s	stated at that spot anyway
8504s	um but this turn from Tom is really
8507s	going to be an important one here uh it
8509s	really boils down to how much he removes
8510s	from board and then if samsow has a big
8512s	follow-up the fact that he's missing
8514s	again bitter tight Hydra is such an
8516s	important measure almost any way you
8517s	slice this Tom lands a good spreading
8518s	plague now I I wanna
8522s	talk a minute about Samuel sao's next
8524s	turn
8525s	he's got double living Mana in hand but
8527s	that will be going right into turn six
8529s	for Tom
8530s	he saw a card kept on the Mulligan that
8532s	card has not been played yet
8534s	what choices do you ever just not living
8537s	Mana well the problem then is that is
8539s	what happens for Tom's range that same
8541s	style loses to at that yeah and those
8543s	are really big questions uh maybe samsao
8546s	looks at and goes if his only defense is
8548s	spreading plague maybe I can get him to
8549s	absorb just a little bit and then living
8551s	meta afterwards to push so that is
8553s	likely something that he's going to
8554s	think about and is very dependent on his
8556s	draw but if he doesn't play living Mana
8558s	then the Jade Behemoth can start
8559s	punishing cotton I'm sorry Sam as well
8561s	so that's sort of the point of you know
8563s	sometimes you just have to take the risk
8565s	and hope they don't have it yeah when
8566s	you're playing aggressive decks and
8567s	that's a good lesson
8569s	uh when you are uh you know even online
8571s	at playing aggressive decks sometimes
8572s	the the right play to make is just to
8576s	make your strongest play each turn and
8578s	force your opponent to have the answers
8579s	now Cobalt scale Bane that changes
8581s	things that will change Sam's play that
8583s	is that is the minions deck that's
8585s	designed to fight against spreading
8586s	plague in an efficient manner and you
8588s	can see his posture change uh right when
8590s	he draws that card like oh my gosh I
8591s	thought I was gonna have to take a huge
8592s	risk and now I don't yeah that's also a
8595s	card that's been good for inclusions
8597s	against Highlander priest because it
8599s	doesn't I get killed by Dragonfire
8601s	motion because that Dragon tag
8604s	and
8605s	I think this is an easy trade here first
8608s	times out not necessarily easy
8610s	um I think it is quite a painful trait
8612s	to have to make but you would much
8613s	rather keep as much help in your scaling
8615s	as possible
8616s	then set yourself up and
8618s	that is a quite a poor result I think
8621s	overall because now Tom has the option
8622s	for swiping and clearing off the scale
8623s	Bane but I don't really know if he has
8624s	the life to afford that right now
8626s	or maybe he does that was a pretty quick
8628s	decision from Tom
8631s	well he might have a good read on what
8633s	those cards are in the far left and that
8634s	that could be part of the case too you
8636s	know what would sansao have not played
8637s	by this point yeah that could still be
8640s	there yeah I'm thinking like Mark of the
8641s	lotus maybe power in the wild there's no
8643s	opportunities to use those two
8644s	particular cards
8648s	same town once again faced with a
8650s	decision how to load up at this stage
8653s	Jay Behemoth malfurion those start
8655s	becoming quite scary cards
8658s	but since he stuck to his uh
8661s	guns on the Cobalt scale Bane he might
8663s	just follow up with the captain here as
8664s	well but the thing that I'm fearing is
8667s	still doesn't really have a strong way
8669s	to figure out whether or not Tom has
8670s	spreading click or not the Cobalt scale
8672s	Bean has decided to play you know yeah
8675s	that's when he built his deck he decided
8676s	to do that on turn five if he just plays
8678s	South Street Captain Tom wouldn't pull
8680s	the trigger on sprinting plague in
8681s	almost any scenario so it's not it's not
8683s	a check for it right
8685s	and uh he doesn't have a way to sequence
8687s	that Glock crawler and that's exactly it
8689s	comes to the conclusion that he's just
8690s	gotta hope he doesn't have it he can't
8692s	make a weak play again
8704s	is going to attack in
8707s	with these living Mana tokens and put
8709s	them at one Health and just make it easy
8711s	it's like this animation is just like
8712s	haunting every single time too it's like
8714s	one by one
8725s	that's a pretty darn good draw though
8731s	now the fact that same salads has the
8733s	second living man in power in the wild
8734s	to go with it
8735s	you know suddenly that changes a lot of
8737s	this game dynamic as well it's not it's
8739s	not as easy as Tom just sitting behind
8741s	the board and setting this up the thing
8742s	about it is it's hard for Sam to trade
8744s	off the board in a really efficient
8745s	manner so if this goes into stalemate
8748s	what ends up happening is Tom just chips
8749s	away at Sam's total until he gets to a
8751s	dangerous spot yeah Sam needs multiple
8753s	turns to be able to set up living man
8755s	into above yeah I like power of the wild
8757s	because next turn he's not doing
8758s	anything
8760s	that's gonna give Tom a lot of time to
8762s	put stuff together yeah now he is only a
8765s	tent so you know that is quite dangerous
8768s	live photo
8770s	so if I'm in common spot here it looks
8772s	to me like you trade off the portion of
8774s	the board and maybe go with Jade
8775s	Behemoth to start uh accelerating that
8777s	that clock on on Samuel's out his hand
8780s	isn't super secure so it makes a lot of
8782s	sense to uh
8783s	to maybe sacrifice these scarabs and
8785s	start pressuring stand back yeah that's
8787s	that's the big decision point for Tom
8788s	this looks like the juiciest swipe of
8791s	his life but is it really
8795s	foreign
8797s	build up a minion start that Jade
8800s	counter going get an expensive card like
8801s	Jade Behemoth out of your hand is even
8803s	better to clean up the board chipping
8804s	away his life total now and just force
8806s	Sam to make to play and power the wild
8808s	maybe or Mark Lotus on a board that's
8810s	already been partially weakened that's
8812s	yeah
8813s	that's kind of a risk because at this
8815s	point he's had two draws since the last
8816s	time he would have played above
8819s	I like this colorful um yeah because the
8821s	thing about it is now if he's his power
8822s	of the wild he's still stunting same
8824s	LaSalle's development because all of his
8826s	man is tied up in those living Mana
8828s	tokens so if Sam uses power of the wild
8830s	here and starts running back over these
8832s	scarabs then Tom gets to use Swipe as a
8834s	Tempo play to really deliver that clock
8836s	back to Samuel Sao I think this is a
8838s	brilliant uh move from Tom
8841s	I think a lot of players swipe in that
8844s	scenario
8846s	I would have untapped and swiped
8848s	said go
8849s	in about two and a half seconds
8852s	I probably lost
8857s	because we look at the scenario what it
8859s	would have been like if he did swipe he
8861s	would have had no developments besides
8862s	maybe a jade Idol
8865s	Samuels I would have played a Fresh
8866s	Living Mana with more tokens
8868s	and then potentially followed that up
8870s	with power of the Wild and the board
8871s	wouldn't have been as strong as it was
8873s	now and Tom would be down a swipe so he
8875s	wouldn't have that to clean up the board
8876s	afterwards and the thing about it is
8877s	from Sam's perspective it really looks
8879s	like Tom doesn't have that second swipe
8881s	that that is a check for swipe in a lot
8884s	of scenarios and so the fact that Tom
8886s	has made This brilliant move it means
8887s	that Sam is going to keep trading into
8889s	these tokens and leaking up the board a
8891s	little bit further and give combat
8892s	opening to to press back
8904s	so Tom might be doing the math here of
8909s	swipe a minion versus swipe the face
8912s	uh if he swipes face he pushes 12 damage
8916s	if he goes all face with that he
8918s	develops right yeah I'll go in man I
8921s	think this is a very winning scenario
8923s	for him there is no way really for
8925s	Samsung to push back through this and
8927s	that's head represented on board with
8930s	nothing that affects the board state in
8931s	Sam's hand that's basically a Checkmate
8933s	scenario or in his deck except for that
8935s	that is the only card that can provide
8937s	any defensive measure but even then
8941s	any type of armor gain or damage to all
8944s	at that stage would be able to allow him
8945s	to push through because Samuel Sal would
8947s	have to Drew the Swarm for taunt and he
8950s	would also have to hero power they're
8951s	bringing up to 11 with five with uh five
8953s	Health worth of taunts on the board
8955s	Tom just
8957s	straight up has 12.
8960s	so he would need an armor upgrade plus a
8962s	hero power that would allow him push
8963s	through with the Jasper spellstone
8966s	Tom's got a lot of drama
8968s	ultimate infestation would allow him to
8971s	push through because he'll be on 10 Mana
8972s	next turn
8976s	so we're looking at branching paths
8978s	we're looking at Oaken summons we're
8979s	looking at second lesser Jasper spell so
8981s	we're looking at ultimate infestation
8983s	all these characters in the game next
8984s	turn
8988s	wow like giant defensive measures yeah
8991s	uh in the same vein pretty much do the
8993s	job
8994s	you know open summons upgrades the
8995s	spellstone uh to Forest there's so much
8999s	that Samsung has to have go right at the
9001s	stage
9006s	but that is quite an awkward draw yeah
9008s	now if he draws into Oak and summons
9011s	it's not enough uh branching paths would
9013s	still be enough I don't know open
9014s	summons would still be enough uh he
9016s	would lesser Jasper spellstone attacking
9018s	yeah right yeah uh because of the I
9020s	believe it doesn't get it in fact he
9021s	doesn't really draw anything of much
9023s	value Here and Now Tom's got to worry
9025s	about offensive pressure from Samuels
9028s	out and that's what I wanted to talk
9029s	about before Tom and cast that nourishes
9031s	what happens if he fails the draw
9035s	you mean would it better be have just
9037s	played Jade Behemoth and played it saved
9038s	that turn because I'm not sure I don't
9041s	really know I mean he does get to break
9042s	through here so if he has enough to fend
9044s	off against say Savage Roar and Mark of
9047s	the lotus here the ultimate infestation
9049s	will end the game but Thomas and now do
9051s	a bunch of math on
9053s	where does he lose
9054s	weight
9062s	he's got to clear out these tokens
9064s	because of the threat of savage or he
9066s	can no longer go with that aggressive
9067s	game plan
9069s	would have plenty of Nana
9072s	in order to do that
9081s	I think that's finally locked it up so
9083s	yeah that was
9084s	no offensive pressure left yeah even
9086s	though Savage was wrong would have not
9088s	allowed to push through and that means
9089s	Tom
9091s	takes game number one in this
9093s	quarterfinal again Jade Druid having a
9097s	lot of success here at the world
9098s	championship it's again the Oaken
9100s	summons Tom drew it right on turn four
9102s	after an aggressive Mulligan and that
9103s	card was a major impact to him winning
9105s	that game I do believe that before Tom
9107s	nursed he had thought about that turn
9109s	and thought I have enough to clear off
9111s	the board but just wanted to take his
9112s	time and figure out the best way to
9113s	fight back against it so yeah I I
9115s	believe Tom had that calculated and
9117s	tight play from him so far yeah
9119s	that's right
9121s	same as Alan the back foot now
9123s	but also another thing we want to
9125s	highlight to you guys is there's
9126s	actually
9128s	um a line building up
9130s	to uh have uh stuff signed by me and
9133s	admirable but for now the Lesser casters
9137s	of Freudian and kipler are standing in
9139s	for us so thanks everybody we'll be over
9142s	there in a few moments once this match
9143s	is done
9144s	and thanks Kibler and Dan for filling in
9146s	for us but for now we'll see if Samuel
9148s	Sao can bring it back in the next game
9149s	right after this
9153s	foreign
9189s	foreign
9220s	foreign
9252s	foreign
9289s	foreign
9346s	foreign
9354s	I'm coming from Chinese Taipei when I'm
9358s	not studying I'll play Hearthstone all
9360s	day long but on school days studying is
9362s	my first priority
9365s	my favorite food is a bowl of
9366s	traditional Taiwanese beef noodles
9369s	I'm a Christian so I always pray before
9371s	tournaments it brings me peace
9378s	everybody the Hearthstone World
9379s	Championship
9381s	we're about to jump into game number two
9383s	of Samuel Sal versus Tom 60229
9388s	60
9389s	229 enemies vanquished is Samuel Sal the
9393s	next one
9395s	he's gonna change the whole name after
9397s	that
9398s	if only
9400s	but now we're gonna get into uh another
9402s	mirror well sort of a mirror class
9404s	mirror
9405s	with priest versus priest
9409s	well you say classmere but it's it's
9412s	pretty much a mirror match there's very
9414s	little difference between these two
9416s	lists one of the major ones to look at
9417s	is that Tom has come a little extra
9420s	prepared for uh this particular matchup
9423s	warlock has been a big band of most
9426s	players in the tournament in fact of the
9427s	top eight players remaining I believe
9428s	there's only been two non-warlock bands
9431s	um and that Trend stays True to this
9434s	match Tom has a copy of Lyra the
9435s	sunshard and gadgets and Auctioneer yeah
9438s	in his deck where Samuel's out only has
9441s	a copy of Lyra and if you remember back
9443s	to the summer championships that was
9444s	really the first appearance of Gatson
9446s	Auctioneer in the tournament uh
9447s	Highlander priest lists that extra card
9449s	draw that you get can really fuel you to
9452s	a rasa hand it would draw very quickly
9454s	however Tom already has Raza and into it
9457s	so a very different battle that that St
9460s	Louis gonna have to fight this game yeah
9461s	the difference being you know Gadget
9462s	Auctioneer is there for match-ups where
9465s	you want to just draw through your deck
9467s	as quickly as possible when the opponent
9469s	has a finite amount of Health where
9470s	there's no real X Factor you're just
9473s	trying to kill him from 30 as quickly as
9475s	possible uh Lyra's there when you're
9477s	playing those matchups where you need a
9478s	little bit of extra oomph you need a
9480s	couple cards that aren't in your deck
9481s	and we're talking about those matchups
9483s	where your opponents may be able to gain
9485s	some additional Health let's say Jade
9487s	Druid or big Mage Myra also has the
9490s	added benefit of sometimes just you know
9492s	catching your opponent off guard and
9493s	giving you that that extra ability and
9496s	match-up set you may not have been
9497s	favorited from the gecko it's also just
9499s	a body that comes out earlier yeah and
9500s	we've seen it sort of split up until the
9502s	World Championship where some players
9504s	brought just gas and Auctioneer and some
9506s	players brought just Lyra depending on
9508s	their feel and what matchups they they
9510s	thought they were going to run into the
9511s	most yeah yeah so Tom basically has just
9514s	big Advantage because he's got both of
9516s	those well the one thing that is kind of
9517s	curious to me is Tom's cut for the
9520s	captain Auctioneer or the library
9521s	depending on how you look at it and it's
9522s	not this engine here
9525s	and novice engineer is actually one of
9526s	one of the I'd say better cards in this
9529s	deck to end up having just because of
9531s	its its card draw potential is so
9533s	important early on you know you want to
9534s	be spending the Mana early to draw cards
9536s	in these styles of matchups not
9537s	necessarily later
9539s	so it is quite an interesting choice
9540s	that Tom made and I'd be curious to to
9543s	know exactly why that choice is made and
9544s	at exchange one a two cost draw for a
9546s	six plus cost draw
9549s	I don't know about that teach well it's
9551s	multiple draws theoretically
9554s	most of the time it is so just playing a
9557s	little bit greedy for that late game
9563s	but I'm liking the way Tom's hand looks
9565s	right now I mean I mean anytime you have
9567s	Brasa and chattery brand with your hand
9568s	especially in the mirror you're feeling
9570s	pretty good yeah especially if you have
9571s	ways to fight off a little bit of early
9573s	pressure uh that does matter sometimes
9576s	this matchup where you just get Minions
9577s	on board and start shipping on my life
9578s	total sometimes it can boil down to a
9581s	race of that damage you're not always
9583s	putting together this giant amount of
9585s	combo damage and killing your opponent
9587s	from 30. sometimes you both end up
9589s	throwing your resources Into The Fray
9590s	trying to fight for that board position
9591s	and it ends up being uh just two damage
9594s	after two damage over and over again
9595s	sometimes you're killing me you know 15
9597s	18 life or whatever
9602s	wow oh my gosh Tom is just this is one
9606s	of the best draws imaginable for for
9608s	this matchup I imagine I think this is
9611s	the Highlander pre-started kid
9621s	Sam Sal's facing That Awkward pressure
9623s	right now where
9624s	he doesn't have an effective way to
9626s	really fight back against his board
9629s	foreign
9634s	you can play a circle of healing to just
9636s	get one card off Lyra and pour some
9639s	attention to it but it would get eaten
9640s	up pretty easily by just
9642s	the hero power and the ocanized Soul
9645s	priest hit and so he's just gonna go
9646s	ahead and heal his face and pass
9649s	and that he's only missing Pine blast at
9653s	this point everything's there
9656s	maybe holy Smite to complete the the
9658s	elemental package and you notice it
9661s	seems out didn't play the Accolade pain
9662s	he's trying to fend off against potion
9665s	of Madness being a big liability to him
9667s	but I'm not sure he's actually at
9669s	Liberty of making those styles of plays
9671s	this game it's just that there's so much
9673s	pressure here so maybe he gets the
9674s	benefit of knowing that he has this
9676s	Dragonfire potion on this turn yeah
9677s	follows up with Acolyte and like Spirit
9679s	lash in a certain way but I would I
9681s	think I would have liked to see him play
9683s	that Accolade paint and just try to get
9685s	a drop maybe even just soak up a hit
9686s	from the archives that spot
9689s	yeah this really is a race to assemble
9692s	the Raza anduin combo in a lot of
9695s	situations even if you are fighting for
9696s	board in the meantime yeah it's true and
9698s	you do want to protect your life total
9699s	but maybe he's pretty confident that
9701s	he'll get multiple draws later so you
9702s	draw Spirit lash so he draws wild
9704s	pyromancer those are cards where you can
9706s	immediately get a value out of Accolade
9708s	pain without having to worry about
9709s	potion of Madness too much so true story
9711s	but right now I mean Tom's probably
9714s	gonna Jam because aka's next turn fish
9716s	for a good one-man a potion that has
9717s	damage attached to it well I I think
9720s	that that could depend here as well I
9722s	mean dragon fire go does give Tom the
9724s	option of looking for say like a big
9726s	resurrect potion
9728s	in this spot maybe he favors the five
9729s	it's just with his hand being this good
9731s	I do believe he'll go for one yeah
9736s	I mean that that maybe there's like
9738s	Auctioneer coin power word Shield at
9740s	this stage yeah but you know that one
9742s	Mana potion if you get three damage the
9744s	fact that becomes 10 damage later on the
9747s	game with with uh the villain this is a
9749s	big question though I mean how would
9750s	Samsung fight off a 4-6 Gadsden auction
9752s	here in this spot he would have to
9754s	psychic scream basically or just use a
9756s	silence a natural silence and I think
9759s	that's what's going through Tom's mind
9760s	but it's so valuable yeah coin is very
9763s	valuable it's four damage later on with
9765s	Ellen and it allows you to open up that
9766s	Mana slide with one Mana potion
9772s	I don't think there's any way you slice
9774s	it that potion is pretty darn weak for
9776s	Tom at the end of the day
9781s	some of the friendly minion and add a
9782s	random demon to your hand now there's a
9785s	lot of cheap demons
9786s	view over the fire
9788s	that's right
9791s	Tom just sort of picking the only
9793s	options that really have an effect in
9795s	this matchup because other options were
9796s	freeze a minion to damage the board
9805s	I don't even know what you do in this
9807s	scenario I mean if I'm in Sam's I'm
9809s	feeling quite desperate so yeah I do
9810s	like the spirit lash in this instance
9813s	and I think there is some consideration
9815s	just holy smoking your own Accolade pain
9818s	and see if you if you could pick up the
9819s	right draws yeah you just got a power
9821s	cycle
9827s	looking for Raza looking for car draw
9829s	looking for kazakis that's about it I
9830s	guess curious glimmer root could you
9832s	know find one of those pieces
9834s	Thomas he's really wanting to play this
9837s	auctioneer
9839s	definitely rightfully so I mean this is
9841s	a lot of gas that he's gonna get
9848s	I mean he's at risk of over drawing with
9849s	the loop order but at this point he
9850s	doesn't even care and we got everything
9853s	he needs already basically except for
9854s	maybe the Mind blast and that's the
9855s	thing when you risk the overdraw here
9857s	and your opponent sees that you're just
9858s	going
9859s	oh no
9861s	I guess they have it like why would why
9863s	else would Tom risk this unless it's
9864s	just a blunder
9866s	at that point Samuel Sal probably isn't
9868s	even worried about that he's worried
9869s	about his own game plan so he probably
9870s	he's probably just gonna even push the
9871s	madness his loot hoarder to take the
9873s	draw for himself
9874s	I think he'd rather have the draw of it
9875s	go for an overdraw here is there ever a
9877s	merit to going for Fire Plus radio
9880s	Elemental and then potion of Madness and
9882s	try and keep that chain of spells going
9887s	ah mind blast he's got into it these
9890s	razza the radiant Elemental mind blast
9893s	could be key for him in this game
9895s	and staring down the auctioneer with Tom
9897s	having
9898s	uh you know nine cards in hand going ten
9900s	cards maybe there is some Merit to not
9902s	Sonic extremely but
9904s	that is terrifying
9906s	it's not a very good side experiment you
9908s	just put a kazakus back in Tom stack
9912s	the light has betrayed me Sam knows this
9916s	is the beginning of the end for him
9917s	because he does not have his own anduin
9919s	active he doesn't have Raza active this
9921s	is as bad as it gets I think this is
9923s	this is quite bad
9925s	for him to even have a hope this would
9927s	have to be almost exactly Raza where the
9929s	next draw would have to be almost
9930s	exactly Raza uh now what if he glimmer
9932s	roots are awesome
9935s	that that looks like the direction to go
9936s	right now
9940s	in that case I think if that's your hope
9942s	you want to shatter it for everyone
9943s	first so that way you stick aboard
9945s	afterwards ah
9947s	getting it out of the way and then
9948s	hoping that either your next Charles
9950s	Raza or curious glimmer who gets Raza
9954s	well hold on Tom is uh
9957s	he's got to put on a show here
9966s	to be 18 Max
9970s	foreign
9983s	news if you're Samuel's out yep
9987s	Lord
9990s	that can't be right you play bit Lord he
9993s	does not need armor anymore
9995s	there's no Raza on board you might as
9997s	well just make a five six so
10001s	but we can now say that pit Lord was
10003s	played in the quarterfinals of the world
10005s	championship
10011s	priest mind you
10014s	and yeah it looks like it's just too
10016s	late for Samuel Sao unless he picks up
10018s	healing
10020s	from Lyra that's the only way he can
10023s	survive even just past this turn
10025s	and then he would he has to worry about
10027s	the board and clear that but he's got to
10029s	go for Lyra plus radio Elemental and
10031s	hope for a miracle chain of smites a
10033s	chain of smites and then
10035s	a chain of binding heels afterwards no
10039s	just 15 smites in a row okay or a
10041s	mixture of the two it's only trillions
10043s	to one probably
10044s	if that
10046s	all right looking for a holy smite
10050s	didn't get it
10054s	looking for a holy smite
10059s	oh this could
10061s	oh almost
10069s	oh
10073s	not going to be a naughty that's it
10077s	Tom has plenty of damage so much
10082s	Tom's gonna take a pretty quick 2-0 lead
10085s	here over Sam Sao
10088s	and that hand was just gas sometimes you
10091s	got the goods and you're just not
10092s	beating it
10096s	Raza priest time and time again players
10098s	consider to be one of the strongest X in
10100s	the game but when they get pitted up
10101s	against each other
10104s	sometimes the stars align for one player
10106s	and they don't for the other Samuel Sao
10108s	is now one game away from elimination
10115s	two very important decks to get win on I
10117s	think Jay Drew can't struggle over Sam's
10119s	house lineup I think the Highlander
10120s	priest is a bit more greedy against the
10121s	aggressive lineup from Sam
10123s	Bo Rogue is what's left
10126s	Tom has shown some pretty impressive
10128s	play on temper Oak so we're gonna see if
10130s	he can close it out and complete the
10132s	sweep in game number three World
10134s	Championship
10136s	you can see on your screen now some of
10138s	the fun that's been happening all across
10140s	the tavern and this is what these
10142s	players are fighting for the chance to
10144s	become a world champion and put cards on
10146s	their heads
10148s	there's a lot happening around the
10149s	tavern there's a small tournaments that
10151s	are happening alongside these side games
10153s	you can win prizes with exclusive HCT
10156s	gear uh and I believe that does conclude
10158s	today as well but really fun environment
10161s	here at the world championship
10164s	definitely but all that fun going on but
10168s	probably stressful for these guys on
10170s	stage they might be having a little bit
10172s	of fun but their eyes are set on the
10173s	prize Tom currently has a 2-0 lead
10177s	against Samuel Sao the winner of this
10179s	match moves on to the semi-finals
10182s	and the loser goes home disappointed now
10184s	my new copy finish that poem was just up
10186s	two games to zero and you heard killer
10189s	say it they walked over to the analyst
10190s	desk they thought he had it locked up
10191s	and things turned around Jason Joe won
10193s	that series three games of two
10195s	don't count Samuel Sal out yet because
10197s	aggressive decks can put together some
10199s	pretty crazy starts and things can
10202s	change awfully quick and what deck was
10203s	it that docpone got reverse swept with
10206s	it was Temple Rogue
10209s	tom60229 that's his last remaining deck
10213s	to find a win with it she wants a spot
10214s	there but Samuel Sal's first challenge
10217s	is going to be with the aggro druid
10219s	at his opening start
10222s	reasonable outside the Savage Roar does
10224s	need some minions to couple with those
10226s	Buffs
10228s	this I mean that's what the whole deck
10230s	is though it's yeah Buffs and minions
10232s	yeah this one's a little bit different
10233s	unlike Jay drew that we talked about
10235s	earlier where having a few Minions that
10237s	you continuously buff go tall on the
10239s	board is not really as good of a
10241s	strategy against Tempo road because they
10243s	have good single Target removal with
10245s	biospine Slayer backstab SI things like
10247s	that it's about going wide on the board
10249s	and making too many threats for the
10250s	Temple Road to be able to deal with
10253s	I'm gonna go with the swashburger right
10254s	away and try to soften up Sam Sal's
10256s	board it's quite wise I think to be
10259s	doing that for the most part and this is
10261s	becoming an interesting situation for
10263s	Samuel Tao which we're having this many
10264s	Buffs drawing the fireflies are some of
10267s	the better draws in the deck it allows
10268s	him to use the first one fairly
10270s	liberally if you'd like and the second
10271s	one the timing of that pressure can be a
10274s	lot for Tom to handle all at once Tempo
10277s	rope does a decent job at fighting for
10278s	board but not against a lot of things
10280s	all at once most of its time it wants to
10283s	backstab an si7 agent or a place
10285s	starting a chain gang soften up the
10287s	board for combat on the backside even
10289s	just coin biospice layer it's when
10291s	there's a lot of threats presented all
10292s	at once that it really struggles and so
10294s	that's really Sam's house job right now
10296s	how to partition these resources to
10298s	maximize his Edge versus Tom's next turn
10300s	or two yeah and it's interesting because
10302s	just a firefly plus a hero power
10306s	there's actually a play that I would
10308s	consider despite having this much stuff
10309s	in my hand
10311s	now he does have Buffs on the back side
10312s	but like he mentioned maybe it's better
10314s	to try and save these things and then
10316s	make buff them up in one turn but the
10318s	risk of that is that if Tom has a board
10320s	to follow it up then all of a sudden he
10322s	falls behind he has to you know sort of
10324s	make a tough read that Tom doesn't have
10327s	reload to make that play So he actually
10329s	just does go with the Firefly but Tom's
10332s	got a way to clear up almost the whole
10333s	board here
10337s	decides to go with just the power of the
10339s	Wild for the uh the panther token though
10341s	so this is where the first big turn I
10344s	think Sam style comes in that draw
10346s	changes a lot of that Dynamic that is
10348s	quite a powerful draw right now
10350s	um
10351s	I'm gonna be curious to see if Sam goes
10353s	with two minions here or if he wants to
10354s	play the uh the one five in taunt mode
10356s	uh and then just buff up the board from
10358s	there looking to use the second buff
10360s	immediately afterwards because if you
10361s	look at his next uh two or three turns
10363s	it would be plus one plus one of the
10366s	entire board so two six top two two
10367s	threes
10368s	next turn he Buffs those again and the
10370s	next 30 Savage drawers so Tom did have
10372s	to have quite a bit to fight that off
10373s	yeah
10377s	Samuel Sal assuming the uh
10380s	thinking position
10382s	I wonder
10385s	there it is hands off the keyboard you
10387s	can't play fast then
10389s	and that's that's been a big uh talking
10391s	point I think for Samuel Zhao I have
10394s	been quite a fan at this mechanical play
10396s	in a lot of spots he's been very patient
10398s	and you can see where his thinking is on
10400s	these turns even when things seem quite
10402s	obvious he wants to take his time and
10403s	dig very deep to see if he can find it
10405s	alternative yeah he does take his time
10407s	and play quite slowly with these faster
10408s	decks and we take back to Winter we're
10410s	saving us how qualified back then it was
10412s	best of seven and he had some you know
10415s	three four hour long best of seven
10417s	matches when it was a control meta but
10419s	uh I saw your face kind of light up with
10421s	that trade I I don't like that trade
10423s	really one bit at all I think that if
10425s	same town makes that trade there uh it's
10427s	what is the main thing he's playing
10428s	around like a like a salsi decking and
10431s	si7 agent or South cedician plus a uh a
10433s	dagger up I think in that position he
10436s	gets some extra damage and also it ends
10439s	up in a very similar situation uh the
10441s	fact that he's traded that off there
10443s	curious what it really means in the long
10444s	term maybe he's done the math on how the
10446s	next three or four turns pan out and
10447s	that two damage just isn't relevant
10454s	now he's kind of in on that boat of buff
10457s	up his stuff and then hope savager gets
10458s	there but by trading off the minion that
10460s	makes it weaker
10462s	and instead of forcing Tom to have it
10465s	he now puts him put himself in a
10467s	position where he played safe and
10469s	potentially a little bit too safe and
10470s	now I'm curious does he buff up his
10472s	minions or does he make a 3-2 token with
10474s	the Savage or being in hand this this
10476s	really is the interesting play to me I
10477s	think there is some argument for just
10478s	Savage right now
10482s	possible if he plays the power of the
10484s	wild right away there's just never a
10486s	world where Tom plays our next chain
10488s	game and that's actually I think one of
10489s	the better minions the same South than C
10491s	played against him right now that just
10493s	plays directly into his power in that
10496s	case
10497s	that's exactly what he does a great spot
10499s	by sanville South
10501s	foreign
10507s	that's tough
10511s	I mean if you play it now it is a three
10512s	four you're taking the first four turns
10515s	of the game is really I think where you
10517s	could justify fighting for board with
10518s	aggro druid
10519s	and he's done that he's won
10521s	so I think you add this three four
10523s	pressure to it and put Tom on a clock
10525s	and say if you got it you got me or
10528s	you sacrifice this one too
10532s	in order to play power of the Wilds kill
10534s	over his two minions and then get
10535s	quarter creeper online
10540s	bold call teach
10545s	or
10546s	no there's no other or that those are
10548s	really the two things for him to think
10550s	about in the spot and
10552s	there's no reason not to take his time
10554s	at this point he needs to be picture
10555s	perfect to make this a real comeback
10557s	Corridor creeper
10559s	it's gonna get cheaper as the game goes
10561s	on
10563s	foreign
10595s	has trimmed a lot of the defensive
10598s	measures out of his deck there are no
10600s	copies of tar creeper there's one copy
10602s	of elephant Minstrel and there's two
10603s	copies of cobalt scale band
10606s	another power of the wild drawing wow
10609s	Corridor creeper plus power of the wild
10610s	he could
10612s	push 11. this is really his turn put Tom
10615s	at six this is really the turn where
10617s	he's got to think about how his game
10618s	plan looks versus file spikes layer and
10621s	with another power of the wild it looks
10622s	quite strong Cobalt scaling doesn't
10624s	punch through uh his taunt minion yeah
10626s	and he's pushing 12 11 damage this turn
10630s	I mean that sets Tom up for lethal so
10631s	even through uh a bile spine Slayer this
10634s	turn Samuel looks like that he's got the
10636s	pressure to end this yeah and that's got
10638s	to be what he's thinking about here
10639s	making sure he does the math and
10640s	understanding that this is going to be
10642s	the best chance for him to win
10645s	goes in puts Tom down to just six Health
10647s	even battle spine Slayer doesn't save
10649s	him is there a world where he needs to
10651s	find something from swashburgler
10654s	and find
10656s	I can't think of it I do believe that's
10658s	where he pretty much has to go with this
10663s	branching pads
10667s	it's not there
10677s	swipe's not enough
10680s	I can almost see the numbers going on
10682s	Tom's head
10684s	well let's go again
10692s	fate spinner
10696s	you backstabbing okay backstab the board
10701s	that would be a pretty sick
10705s	if it dealt six damage six damage to
10708s	everything but Tom concedes
10710s	Samuel Sal puts himself on the board
10713s	with a win with aggro through it and is
10715s	this gonna be a repeat
10717s	quarterfinal one
10720s	well samsao does have a little bit of
10722s	tech in his lineup to uh to fight off
10724s	against this style of matchup he does
10725s	have highlighter priests with Glock a
10727s	crawler in it and that reverse sweep has
10729s	begun and every single time it inches
10731s	closer top is going to be more and more
10733s	nervous about it this one
10735s	this one could be getting close but
10737s	Samuel Sal still has a big hill to climb
10740s	will he be able
10741s	to reverse sweep this Tempo Rogue we'll
10745s	find out after this we still have some
10747s	business left here with Tom versus
10750s	Samuel Sal Tom saw is a 2-1 lead
10754s	but it's with Tempo Rogue as his final
10756s	deck remaining and we've seen this deck
10757s	show weaknesses earlier today it
10760s	certainly has
10761s	um and Samuel Sao practicing with Tom
10764s	for this event it's not really much of a
10765s	surprise that he has an identical list
10767s	to what Tom has uh but there is one
10771s	distinct difference that sets out in
10774s	this matchup number one is who has the
10776s	coin coin offers you a lot of tempo
10779s	mechanisms that you do not have without
10780s	it and then number two is what are the
10784s	cards that really impact the match up a
10785s	lot of times you think to it you go oh
10787s	kellisafe obviously a big one Shadow
10788s	step and call us that can be Game ending
10791s	but when it comes down to it it's the
10793s	it's the south sea captains it's the si7
10795s	agents it's the vilespine Slayers those
10797s	are the cards that really make the
10798s	biggest impact in the match yeah we saw
10799s	it and I believe it was ant versus
10801s	stanudachi where uh ant was able to get
10805s	kelset coin or Kelsey shadowstep kelset
10811s	three kill sets if you've been counting
10813s	and he still fell
10815s	to shenandashi who just template him out
10817s	with those exact cards that you
10818s	mentioned so you heard it mentioned even
10820s	uh this morning when he when he was
10822s	speaking with Dan Kibler he feels like
10824s	that he didn't play that matchup
10825s	entirely optimally made a misplay with
10828s	his coin and how different things would
10829s	have been had he been more patient uh
10831s	quarter Creeper's another one of those
10832s	Tempo plays that really impacts things
10834s	but Samsung did pick up quite an
10836s	interesting uh card from the
10837s	swashburgler uh with Sonia I've known a
10839s	lot of players to include this and I
10841s	personally like Sonya in the main deck
10843s	myself but the fact that it's come off a
10844s	swash burglar that is something that Tom
10846s	cannot really be prepared for that's
10847s	very true there's a couple players in
10849s	this very tournament who include that
10851s	Muzzy uh notably has a Sonia in his
10854s	Temple Road and so that's just a little
10857s	bit of extra benefit but you mentioned
10859s	the coin and
10860s	players are putting counterfeit coin in
10862s	their list naturally
10865s	notably a player named rage hit rank one
10867s	uh on the America's ladder just about a
10870s	week ago with a list that had a
10872s	counterfeit coin so if you have the coin
10875s	you're automatically had a favorite in
10877s	this matchup
10881s	is determined that he will
10883s	at least not be trading the swash
10886s	burglar here uh swashburger I think the
10889s	more beneficial of the two when it comes
10890s	to things like Shadow staff the Sony
10892s	Scott and I like the push of the damage
10894s	here I think a lot of players would take
10895s	this trade straight up but Tom doesn't
10897s	have a way to take advantage of it get
10899s	your free point of damage and set the
10900s	initiative on time to trade
10902s	every little Point here counts yeah
10905s	and Tom taking it slow that coin is
10907s	incredibly valuable so he wants to make
10909s	sure that whenever he uses it it's for
10911s	the best of reasons
10913s	next to it has a possibility to play
10914s	Elemental coin Edwin and then the
10916s	following turn he could coin files by
10917s	Slayer so two great opportunities I'm
10920s	now officially worried for Samuel Sao
10921s	because he doesn't have a way to
10922s	actually take advantage of this Sonia I
10925s	I think he may be forced into playing it
10927s	here and really trying to operate on a
10929s	curve sarneck chain gangs is only turned
10931s	four play he has no other Temple plays
10933s	lined up Cobalt scale band card that
10935s	just does not operate that well in this
10938s	matchup he has to try to get something
10940s	going and Tom is going to punish this
10943s	very hard
10948s	and with quarter creeper in hand oh
10951s	another Cobalt skill being picked up
10953s	this is I think probably one of the
10955s	worst pan outs that same sound could
10957s	have seen both scale bands the Lich King
10959s	opening can no uh Synergy of a shadow
10961s	step and a bone marrow this early
10969s	early on in the game and none of these
10972s	cards are to do are are doing that
10974s	they're all sort of that those support
10976s	cards and that's the thing is Cobalt
10977s	scale beans included in this deck
10978s	because uh these players anticipated
10981s	having to ban warlock so much they
10982s	wanted the extra strength against the
10985s	deck like Island
10987s	how much does it cost them when they
10989s	don't get that going Samsung not
10990s	attacking with his dagger last turn
10992s	means that this the captain is now
10993s	protected behind a saronite chain gang
10996s	that trade would have been
10998s	much better for for Samsung had he
11000s	preemptively attacked with that dagger
11002s	he's
11003s	he's pretty lined up to use
11006s	a Cobalt scale bait in this spot I mean
11007s	maybe the shadow step to try to buy time
11010s	but look at how much worse that is when
11011s	that Captain lives at one Health yeah
11013s	and because of Samuel Sal's slow start
11015s	Tom has not been forced to use any of
11018s	these tools which means he's going to be
11019s	able to as we talked about earlier make
11021s	a lot of stuff in one turn which is what
11024s	Rogue struggle with he's got quarter
11025s	creeper now for free
11027s	that's just going to be more fodder to
11029s	combo with Edwin Van Cleef
11033s	and it's desperate when players use
11035s	Shadow step
11037s	on a Saturday night chain gang
11050s	how long can it go on I don't know I
11052s	apologize for for the feed uh in this
11055s	instance we'll try to get this resolved
11056s	as quickly as we can
11058s	just like that you're welcome
11061s	and this is Edward Vancleave territory
11063s	yep Tom is pulling way ahead yep Sam Sal
11067s	I think needs to draw exactly biospine
11069s	Slayer or he is going to die quickly and
11072s	even then he's got two big threats on
11074s	the board that he needs to deal with
11076s	bone marrow still stranded Lich King's
11078s	still a few turns away oh
11082s	Shadow step does absolutely nothing
11085s	in the scenario the only thing it does
11087s	is
11089s	maybe he can Shadow step the Firefly to
11091s	make sure that he has a bone marrow
11093s	Target next turn but then he'd be doing
11094s	nothing else and he would be thoroughly
11096s	dead
11099s	I think Samsung knows
11103s	the end is near
11105s	this is this was a huge turn from Tom
11118s	and he will have that guaranteed Target
11120s	for bone mayor next turn but that's too
11123s	much it just seems like too little too
11124s	late
11126s	board clear
11128s	take 15 go
11132s	Tom knocking at the door
11136s	four
11137s	it's a 2017 World Championships his
11140s	first world championships was an early
11141s	exit he went zero and two in that
11144s	tournament and since then Tom has never
11147s	given up he's had a wealth of
11149s	performances across that career
11151s	and add another one to that because Tom
11154s	is moving on to the top four with a 3-1
11157s	victory over Samuel South
11163s	and gave the stat earlier there hasn't
11166s	been a world champion that didn't lose
11168s	once in the group stage
11170s	so far the players that have had success
11172s	in the ones falling first in the
11174s	quarterfinals as Tom
11177s	comes our second semi-finalist both
11180s	players at 2-1 yeah if it pass through
11182s	and there you can see the camaraderie
11185s	and the friendship has developed over
11187s	the last year a lot of respect for each
11188s	other yeah practice Partners Tom sort of
11191s	acting as a mentor but Samuel Sao Tom
11194s	admitted taught him a lot about how to
11196s	play those faster decks and there you
11198s	can see our first semi-final is set
11201s	it will be Jason Joe Versus
11203s	tom60229 two players that have been to
11206s	the world championship before so I'm
11208s	looking forward to that one but for now
11209s	let's go ahead and hear from Tom and Tom
11212s	on the stage
11215s	thank you very much I'm Tom joined by
11217s	Tom talk to me about what your feelings
11219s	are now that you've qualified for the
11221s	top four of the World Championships
11229s	I want to win it all oh all right he
11232s	definitely wants to keep moving on of
11234s	course but um you know the thing I want
11235s	to talk about and highlight is the fact
11237s	that you and Samuel Tau practice with
11240s	each other you're both from Taiwan and
11242s	you both kind of consider each other as
11243s	part of your group that came here to the
11245s	world championship so I want to ask what
11247s	were you guys talking about before the
11249s	match going into the semi are you going
11250s	to the quarterfinals
11252s	um
11263s	sorry
11279s	so one thing that's worth noting is that
11281s	when uh he practiced for the tournament
11284s	he didn't practice uh oranges lineup so
11287s	you just presume that uh Tom's gonna win
11290s	against uh as orange so and uh they
11292s	practice against each other so it's all
11295s	good
11295s	gotcha gotcha well the last question I
11297s	want to ask is that you said that you
11299s	were looking forward to coming to
11300s	Amsterdam how have you been enjoying uh
11302s	not only the crowd but also the local
11303s	city
11305s	um
11320s	so uh in the first two days when we
11323s	arrived here so we did some sightseeing
11325s	but Simon saw was still under a so she
11328s	he can go to the casinos
11330s	ah
11332s	yeah I picked a bad year for Sam's other
11334s	qualify because he's underage but uh Tom
11336s	being the responsible doll and he's
11337s	going to the semifinals please give a
11339s	round of applause for Tom 602-9
11344s	Tom's next match was against one of the
11346s	greats who could easily be called a
11348s	legend in his own right surrender
11351s	with his opponent currently running on a
11353s	15-match win streak in HCT Tom knew this
11356s	was going to be his toughest opponent so
11358s	far in the world championship let's see
11361s	how it went
11363s	2 Tom
11366s	60229 versus surrender
11374s	since Tom was in a different group for
11376s	me I haven't been able to watch him play
11378s	but I know he has a very similar lineup
11380s	to stanudachi
11384s	surrender is a very consistent player he
11387s	has performed very well
11389s	because we are in the same region we
11391s	have met a number of times in
11393s	competitive play
11394s	I am looking forward to facing him
11396s	because I really like his lineup he's
11399s	from the Asia Pacific region and he is a
11401s	very good player
11403s	his play is top-notch but I'm hoping
11405s	that because my decks are more favorable
11407s	to his I should have a better chance to
11409s	win it should be a good show for
11411s	everyone
11413s	Tom 602 tonight
11419s	do what you got
11422s	and it's time semi-final number two
11426s	who's gonna join Frozen in the grand
11428s	finals at the 2017 World Championship
11432s	we'll take a step back and look at their
11435s	lineups and only difference really being
11437s	the aggregorith versus the Jay Druid and
11440s	another interesting thing is surrender
11442s	bans the Highlander priest away from Tom
11445s	it leaves up that Cube warlock why is
11447s	that adorable well a lot of times when
11448s	you're playing these aggressive lineups
11450s	warlock is a class you're looking to
11451s	dodge it traditionally a step full of
11453s	ways to Simply remove the board and then
11455s	defend yourself with Tom's Cube warlock
11457s	he has copies of doomguard in the deck
11460s	and what that means is a card uh
11462s	possessed Lackey won't guarantee to pull
11464s	a boardlord when it dies sometimes it
11466s	will pull a doom guard that little bit
11468s	of advantage that surrender can get from
11471s	that outcome means that sometimes he
11472s	will have the aggression to Simply push
11474s	through if this was a traditional
11476s	control warlock he would be banning it I
11478s	believe
11479s	um but since that Cube lorlock he gets
11481s	that little bit of extra Edge but
11482s	already right away this is the one I
11484s	want to talk about the major difference
11485s	in the lineup uh Tom is bringing Jade
11488s	Druid and surrender has brought aggro
11490s	Drew to the table Jay Druid in my
11492s	opinion has been the deck of the
11494s	tournament that's so important to
11495s	people's lineups it needs to get a win
11497s	and against aggressive decks it
11499s	definitely can struggle on that spot
11500s	however Tom has brought the open summons
11502s	Ironwood gold yeah which is slightly
11504s	better against the aggro versions but
11506s	Jeju is still floating underneath a 50
11508s	win rate throughout the event so uh it
11511s	still is going to be a tough matchup and
11513s	like you said it's going to be crucial
11514s	that Tom finds a win and for his sake he
11517s	wants to find a win early because that
11518s	makes the rest of this match easier for
11521s	him but starting off patches drawn for
11523s	surrender not what he wants to see but
11525s	he does have some good stuff to scale up
11527s	the early curve coin plus Elven Minstrel
11529s	allows surrender to sort of get that
11532s	resource advantage that you sort of need
11534s	once this game starts to go on but a lot
11536s	of times you can shade through it rather
11538s	have early pressure yeah and that's
11540s	something that I don't think he's going
11542s	to have enough of at the beginning of
11544s	this game especially with Tom's uh troll
11546s	which seems quite strong it definitely
11548s	is the early ramp I think is is quite
11550s	important to this matchup to be
11551s	unlocking card draw prior to having to
11552s	defend yourself is a very important deal
11555s	and surrender at lacking that little bit
11557s	of early pressure uh sometimes you could
11559s	be possibly seeing a coin south sea
11562s	captain on the spot and then surrender
11563s	starting to push the damage instead
11565s	because he's got both Elven minstrels in
11567s	hand and he's got the Cobalt scale Bane
11569s	he's going to Simply look to fortify his
11571s	position and start to wear Tom out of
11573s	cards surrender's goal will mainly in
11575s	this game due to his hand context be
11577s	about being strong against spreading
11579s	plague
11581s	yeah you just saw on your screen
11582s	surrenders a path to get to this point
11585s	in the tournament he defeated Omega zero
11587s	one of the best players from China he
11589s	defeated shanudachi one of the best
11591s	players from Europe he defeated Frozen
11592s	one of the best players from the
11595s	Americas the only region left is Asia
11597s	Pacific so this is sort of his final
11598s	test and the cool thing about it is both
11601s	of these players have been touted as the
11603s	best in Asia Pacific for a very long
11605s	time so it's really fitting that these
11607s	guys meet in the semifinal this really
11609s	is I think like the the file test for
11612s	surrender uh so to speak where he he has
11614s	been beating all the other regions and
11616s	that has been something that's
11617s	consistent to him throughout this year's
11619s	HCT he's just had such brilliant
11621s	performances and every single time you
11623s	see him play it feels like he's getting
11625s	better and better and Tom certainly has
11627s	his work cut out for him because that's
11628s	what he's been doing his entire career
11629s	what
11631s	that's right these already has that
11633s	world championship experience under his
11635s	belt all the way back from 2014 and he
11638s	said in a lot of his interviews that he
11639s	he felt like he disappointed himself and
11642s	uh everybody from his region when he had
11644s	a pretty rough performance but now he's
11647s	back having a good performance here and
11649s	Tom's gonna go with double card draw
11651s	yeah his name is quite lacking uh in
11655s	substance after the spreading plague and
11657s	so he's got his eye on that nourish for
11659s	a couple Mana crystals he wants to pull
11660s	far ahead get a substantial defense down
11663s	and then look to unlock the time to use
11665s	ultimate infestation and the cards
11667s	afterwards the key to that is and the
11669s	cards afterwards that's where surrender
11670s	is going to look to try and punish Tom
11672s	before that
11678s	looking like it could do that but that
11680s	is a big draw for Tom right now
11683s	a lot of times the sacrifice you make by
11686s	playing nurse for crystals uh like this
11688s	is you get behind on Tempo and that's
11691s	why Arcane Tyrant has sort of made its
11693s	way into this place because these cards
11694s	that get you behind on Tempo there's uh
11697s	you know even ultimate infestation at
11698s	times oh look at this
11703s	I I'm very curious about that that
11705s	pressure seems like it could benefit Tom
11707s	a lot
11708s	um
11709s	maybe he's looking to see coin in a play
11712s	from surrender and then opt for it later
11714s	on like behind the spreading play if he
11716s	plays it right now the minions do just
11718s	kind of run in sometimes backstab just
11719s	gets to kill it with the swashburger and
11721s	so his goal is to spread and play load
11723s	the Tyrant behind it and then use it to
11724s	trade off something big yeah I think
11726s	that's definitely his plan uh he
11727s	realizes that it could just die to coin
11729s	file spine Slayer spreading plays and
11730s	then throwing the Arkansas out behind it
11732s	that is a brilliant play from Tom and he
11734s	gets to wipe out his captain
11736s	see his own surrender space like yep
11739s	that's what I was hoping would not
11741s	happen wow that is a brilliant display
11744s	of timing from Tom where it's not just
11746s	the most pressure you could put on the
11747s	board but the timing of that pressure
11748s	that is Paramount deviations from the
11751s	norm that's what we've been seeing so
11752s	far in these first uh these couple
11754s	semi-finals
11756s	definitely high levels of play and uh
11758s	Tom
11759s	almost to that ultimate infestation turn
11761s	already as we come into like turn five
11764s	so he's got a reasonable uh turn nine
11767s	lined up which is something that you
11768s	definitely want when ultimate
11770s	infestation is on your mind is coming
11771s	soon
11772s	and now surrender the coin is gone he's
11774s	got backstabbed a couple with uh Elven
11776s	Minstrel but
11778s	it is a loss of tempo when you go with
11780s	Elven Minstrel you're getting more
11781s	resources but you're giving up a
11784s	potentially a stronger board position
11785s	yeah surrender right now he's just
11787s	looking for a way to solidify something
11789s	that is difficult for Tomah handle you
11791s	know seeing the Wrath and seeing
11792s	spreading Blake is a bit of information
11794s	for him uh he knows that Tom's gonna
11796s	come correct with something powerful on
11798s	this coming turn and so because of that
11799s	he just plays another five five and says
11801s	all right deal with this
11806s	foreign
11812s	to get these Shades up
11816s	but there's still a lot to be thought
11817s	about in this play I have black Paul
11818s	while I guess so Shades ramps it's one
11820s	of the most powerful cards also one of
11822s	the highest win rates in Mulligan which
11824s	is weird for a six drop
11826s	card yeah he thought about for a second
11829s	maybe Iowa downtown to support
11830s	differently but it doesn't
11832s	is definitely better in that case
11835s	Tom's gonna realize that yeah Tommy even
11837s	gonna just trade off his character says
11839s	the job's done I have forward position I
11841s	ultimate station I think I can win from
11843s	here great use of uh his life total and
11845s	to recognize it he no longer needs that
11847s	defense
11848s	because that suited just in his sale
11850s	aggressive position well if there's any
11853s	car you want a combo for Elven Mitchell
11854s	it's probably Prince skull sets since
11856s	you bought the cards that you're gonna
11857s	draw
11858s	but a little late in the game we
11860s	actually ran the numbers earlier on this
11861s	week and the win rate of Prince kelset
11863s	plummets when it's not played on curve
11866s	uh by you know over 10 percent uh when
11870s	you talk about it in that regard so
11871s	while it's good but the benefit of it
11873s	comes from you playing those bigger
11874s	minions early on in the game yeah shout
11876s	out to our friends over at HS replay
11877s	that's right
11880s	and now Tom has solidified
11883s	a fantastic lead in this game and
11886s	surrender is going to need to come with
11887s	something
11889s	creative to get him out of this one I
11891s	just don't see a way it's gonna have to
11892s	be insane Tom is coming correct with up
11894s	to three more Jade's next turn
11898s	he's got malfurion in hand if he needs
11900s	extra life total once he dumps his whole
11901s	hand he's got already got the second
11902s	ultimate infestation yep even that uh
11905s	he can be free also to utilize you know
11909s	if you draw a second J Daddo he can
11911s	probably just play it because most of
11912s	the time
11913s	you don't go to a scenario where you
11916s	need to shuffle Jades in this matchup oh
11917s	not a fatigue scenario this is uh this
11919s	is a counter pressure matchup sure
11921s	relax it's also rather talk to himself
11923s	he's trying to find a way out of this
11925s	well we we saw this uh a little bit
11929s	yesterday when since the law had stolen
11931s	uh jaina away from Frozen and the combo
11935s	uh dragon priest versus big Mage matchup
11940s	and for the second time we see
11943s	a death knight hero enter the opposing
11946s	player's hand
11950s	the question is is that enough to sort
11952s	of Swing the tide in his favor because
11955s	he may have control of the board for now
11956s	but the longer this game goes on I feel
11958s	the more Tom
11960s	will have opportunities to just get
11963s	these Shades out of control and
11966s	control the overall state of the game
11967s	and I I totally agree with you I think
11969s	this is still an uphill battle for
11970s	surrender but
11972s	cards that Tom can't really account for
11974s	could definitely change that
11976s	circumstance
11978s	I wonder
11981s	and he's got to be precise here
11983s	malfurion is very valuable when you get
11985s	it online
11986s	because then you start to benefit from
11988s	what Tom realizes that he just sort of
11991s	needs to play a smart game
11994s	where you can test the board and
11996s	malfurion may be too much of a loss of
11998s	tempo
11999s	for him to be able to do that yeah for
12001s	now that that is appearing to be the
12003s	case
12012s	my first instinct is bone marrow just
12015s	because because you have a bone marrow
12016s	because the seven or more
12023s	you know we said the longer this game
12025s	goes on the better it is for Tom uh but
12027s	surrender I mean he has that kill us
12028s	buff cranking now so
12031s	Corridor creeper certainly an awkward
12033s	size for Tom to deal with uh when you
12035s	get to a certain point yeah it's not
12036s	running over uh a one five and then
12039s	getting swiped away it's not getting hit
12040s	by opening stations correctly
12046s	and surrender wisely cutting down the
12050s	size of his board
12051s	you'd rather have multiple big minions
12054s	than a bunch of small or damaged minions
12056s	yeah at this stage it's so likely for
12058s	Tom to
12059s	to you know like hap swipe and extra
12061s	ways to deal damage that surrender would
12063s	just rather get the most use out of
12064s	those cards possible which is helping
12065s	protect his big cards
12074s	ultimate infestation
12077s	not really too much of an option here
12079s	considering he would have to you know
12081s	discard a card this is looking like one
12083s	of the opportunities where Tom can try
12085s	and set up as strong as possible and
12087s	look for landing that malfurion as soon
12089s	as he's able to land down on a fairly
12091s	clean board he really gets out of the
12093s	game much cleaner after that so setting
12096s	up another Jade here clearing off the
12098s	board with the aggressive use of swipe
12100s	this tries to set it up for that
12102s	malfurion and surrender is going to try
12105s	as hard as possible to disrupt that at
12106s	every stage and binds a second bile
12108s	spine to help
12110s	foreign
12114s	comes from always playing for Tempo from
12117s	a board where he looks pretty far behind
12119s	still so much defense left to Tommy's
12121s	because he's got the Arcane Tyrant he
12123s	does a 10 in hand he can still play a
12124s	card as well so another big swing but
12126s	now Double Oak and summon still left in
12128s	the deck for Tom and he's drawn all of
12131s	his four drops that card later on in the
12132s	game is going to be just game six armor
12136s	that may not matter we I mean we might
12138s	be in a shuffle Jade I'll game as well I
12141s	mean it's not really happens but when
12143s	you draw this many cards and the board
12144s	is back and forth this much
12148s	then it happens sometimes it's a
12150s	necessity yeah and this turn for here
12151s	for surrender this allows him to get the
12154s	malfurion on the line I believe I mean
12155s	that was his first instinct and I would
12157s	want him to go that direction and I want
12159s	to keep an eye on Tom's reaction here
12160s	when he sees malfurion because if he's
12162s	been hand tracking he knows that the
12164s	card that surrendered just moused over
12165s	is the random card that came from
12167s	swashburgler and he hasn't played it
12169s	thus far
12170s	so Tom might be fearing that this is a
12172s	high impact card but it's not feared
12174s	enough to
12175s	uh to to chop through because right now
12178s	surrender the sand is decent but Leroy
12180s	has very limited use Firefly wallet is
12183s	buffed by Cal says there's a 2-3 it's
12185s	more of a combo activator later on in
12187s	the game so his hand really just doesn't
12189s	have much big stuff left it it doesn't
12191s	have as much substance I'm looking at
12193s	I'm looking at Clear Alpha 33 and I'm
12195s	curious if surrender's making poisons
12197s	here or if he wants to try and protect
12198s	border people
12199s	pressure at all I imagine he's likely
12202s	still in the business of uh trying to
12204s	fight for board and this is how he's
12206s	going to fight for boards with
12207s	aggression yeah poison spiders that's
12210s	sort of in the go-to choice for a lot of
12212s	players here that's a really awkward
12214s	card to deal with with one swipe gone
12216s	and you mentioned it that card is just
12218s	plainly six armor right now gain six
12220s	armor buff your Jasper spellstone that's
12223s	effectively what that card reads uh at
12225s	the moment
12228s	oh you have malfurion do you
12230s	so do I
12233s	so that's gonna buff up the spellstone
12235s	too
12237s	so that clears off the corridor creeper
12239s	surrender loses that value hero power
12242s	clears off one of the poisonous spiders
12244s	Tom's weakest minion kills another
12246s	poisonous spider
12248s	and it looks like he's going to be left
12249s	with nothing and surrender needs
12252s	something big
12253s	as a draw but one thing about
12256s	surrender's list is that he doesn't have
12257s	quite as much top end as some of the
12259s	players we've seen in the field he
12260s	doesn't have Lich King
12262s	Edwin Van Cleef though that's quite
12263s	large but
12265s	he needs to deal with these poison
12267s	spiders so we would have to hide it
12268s	behind the serenade Chain Gang backstab
12270s	one of them
12272s	that's I mean that's exactly where he's
12273s	going this is the
12275s	oh he doesn't he has the now if you're
12277s	in here power that's right not often
12280s	a variable that we're used to have to
12282s	worry about in Temple Run
12290s	well this is a daunting task surrender's
12293s	looking at Tom's Health total and then
12295s	looking back at his hand and probably
12297s	thinking how in the world do I deal 27
12299s	points of damage
12301s	plus however much armaged he still has
12304s	left without his mouth
12308s	Josie's still got the two Ironwood
12310s	Golems somewhere in that deck as well
12311s	and that dread is setting in
12314s	surrender as you see you just sort of
12316s	take a step back
12319s	what's my best shot at winning this game
12320s	and that's building as big of a Van
12323s	Cleef as possible hoping it lives
12330s	and more defense for Tom
12336s	foreign
12341s	Minstrel gone
12343s	not much stuff in surrender's hand as a
12345s	while Smite God yeah is the board likely
12347s	to get bigger than this
12349s	but banjo you get the best of both
12350s	worlds uh nourish effectively costs
12352s	three Mana because you get the Mana
12354s	Crystal back if you draw some more Jade
12355s	Idols he just keeps shuffling them and
12357s	building bigger stuff
12358s	well there's one make that two
12362s	seven seven eight eight
12366s	nine nine
12371s	yeah that's uh that's 28 power Tom just
12374s	added to the board
12382s	and now without
12384s	the dags are up hero power
12387s	oh that doesn't have charges have charge
12392s	malfurion's claws do not count as
12394s	Weapons my thoughts are plagued
12399s	we saw him do that yesterday when he was
12400s	in another spot like this where his nose
12403s	is open and he's just hoping his
12404s	opponent doesn't have the right
12405s	combination to kill him because this
12406s	spot wait wait I think he
12408s	the little boy Shadow step here power
12410s	would have been lethal and I think that
12412s	Tom forgot about the last three games
12415s	because there's 12 damage on board the
12417s	hero power would be 15 the Leroy's
12420s	wow
12423s	fakes game one
12428s	Tom did leave his nose open there
12430s	the Leroy Shadow step
12433s	goodness if that last draw was Shadow
12436s	step if that draw off the top four
12437s	surrender with Shadow step that was game
12441s	that would have been a brutal way for
12443s	Tom to lose and you could see it get to
12445s	him there was a chance for him to play
12446s	around he could have put taunts in the
12448s	way he could have done a number of
12449s	things that turn in order to play around
12451s	that but in the end he takes the win now
12454s	the question is will surrender answer
12455s	back and continue his win streak we'll
12457s	find out
12458s	right after this welcome back everybody
12461s	to the Hearthstone World Championship
12463s	you're looking at footage from Frozen
12465s	he's waiting upstairs
12468s	to find out who he'll be facing in the
12471s	grand finals later today will it be
12473s	surrendered or will it be Tom
12477s	and Tom Tom is hoping to find success
12481s	here that eluded him at the world
12482s	championship in 2014 and win a
12485s	championship for himself and for the
12487s	Asia Pacific region
12492s	I think the Asia Pacific region was
12494s	underestimated Samuel surrender I'm
12497s	60229 Francis to the top eight it was
12500s	after this one APAC will get some
12502s	respect Tom 60229 has sent yet another
12505s	European player home anyway
12508s	both Europe and North America have won a
12511s	World Championship I want this one to be
12513s	from the Asia Pacific region we still
12515s	have some business left here Tom and Sam
12517s	both of them being from Taiwan
12519s	it was sad to eliminate my countrymen
12522s	and there you can see the camaraderie
12523s	and the friendship that's developed over
12525s	the last year a lot of respect for each
12527s	other
12527s	one of us had to continue to carry the
12530s	flag keep going and try to realize the
12532s	dreams we both had Tom is moving on to
12535s	the top four
12536s	if I win more people in the region will
12539s	start playing hard stuff and following
12541s	the game
12543s	I want to win it all since I I try not
12546s	to think too much about being the first
12548s	asia-pacific player to win a title it's
12550s	too much pressure I just need to focus
12552s	on the game
12557s	and one thing's for sure we're
12558s	guaranteed a player from Asia Pacific
12561s	in the grand finals
12564s	yeah I'm your cause and surrender
12567s	you have to lay my cards down what if I
12569s	just what if I Just Surrender
12570s	you got enough you got to give him up
12572s	okay fair enough shout out to the guy
12574s	holding up that sign as well those blue
12576s	Bama shirts means that he had some
12577s	success at the side tournaments so give
12579s	him a pat on the back
12580s	unless he stole it
12583s	then don't but congratulations but now
12586s	it's time to get back into this match
12588s	Tom currently has a 1-0 lead over
12591s	surrender we're moving into
12593s	Cube warlock versus aggro Druid and this
12596s	is a tense matchup we saw this in the
12598s	first semi-final
12599s	with Frozen versus Jason Joe and Frozen
12601s	was able to get the better of it but
12604s	it took the year perfect play in order
12607s	to do so there was many moments in that
12609s	Series where if he made a different line
12611s	than what he did he would have been dead
12612s	the following turns yeah you have to
12615s	walk on eggshells in this matchup and
12616s	make sure you're thinking about
12617s	everything if you're in Tom's shoes now
12620s	that same goes for surrender in this
12621s	spot as well it came down to the end at
12624s	where Jason Joe if he would have traded
12626s	off the second Mistress of mixtures
12628s	it wouldn't have been able to attack
12630s	into Jason Jones one two and set up a
12633s	big defile play
12635s	even that one little moment could have
12636s	changed the way that looked every single
12639s	thing in this matchup is Paramount
12640s	because the edge is just that close
12642s	that's right
12644s	on surrender's perspective he has to
12646s	worry about playing around the various
12647s	removal spells that Tom hacks that
12650s	defiles the hellfires he has to worry
12652s	about maximizing his damage because one
12654s	point of his damage can can mean the
12656s	difference that's a that's a good
12657s	looking hand from Todd two kobolds to
12660s	upgrade that spellstone the full way uh
12662s	after both of those that'll be a seven
12664s	point drain for poor Mana it's got
12666s	defile in hand help clear the board
12667s	already he's got mortal coil to pick off
12670s	weak minions and draw extra cards from
12671s	that this is about the ideal hand for
12674s	Tom in this spot he's got the tools he
12676s	needs to fight off surrender's pressure
12677s	early
12679s	still needs to to find some of those
12680s	pieces later on in the game though he
12682s	needs to find something to solidify that
12684s	Victory possess Lackey into a dark pact
12687s	or a way to trade it off avoid Lords
12690s	with a skull of the minari but the one
12693s	thing we talked about in Tom's deck and
12695s	this is why surrender chose to not ban
12696s	the Warlock despite it being by far the
12699s	most popular ban choice in this
12700s	tournament and that's that Tom is
12701s	playing the greedier version he's
12702s	playing the versions that have doomgarth
12704s	which means possess likely plus dark
12707s	pact all of a sudden only has a 50
12709s	chance in those cases to pull a void
12711s	Lord and if you pull a doomguard
12712s	oftentimes while it can fight for the
12714s	board it doesn't block enough damage uh
12717s	to be able to win you the game yeah not
12718s	only does he have the Doom guards in
12720s	there but he's also got the mountain
12721s	Giants as well his goal was to be
12723s	stronger versus Barista when it comes to
12726s	pressure in the match-up and all of
12728s	those cards combined together means that
12729s	surrender has a window of opportunity to
12731s	push the aggression and end the game
12733s	it's a very small window of opportunity
12736s	and it's not always there but sometimes
12738s	it is and so surrender uh when he sets
12740s	up right here he's pretty much strong to
12743s	anything the top it could come with on
12745s	this turn and that Mark of the asharaj
12747s	set up to give him uh well draw into the
12750s	deck find a Savage Roar and try to end
12752s	that game as soon as possible and Tom
12753s	drunk two mountain Giants here is a big
12755s	hurt for him that is not what he wants
12757s	to see those cards are in a lot of
12760s	situations unplayable against fast
12761s	matchups because you have to tap across
12764s	so many cards early on
12765s	surrender sets up the dire mole here and
12768s	that gives Tom the kobold into defile
12771s	now there's a one Health two Health
12772s	three health and four Health minion and
12774s	they're all gone
12776s	ah
12780s	that's a big swing
12783s	but that's a big reload yeah maybe
12785s	that's what surrender was thinking maybe
12786s	he was also thinking that while he
12788s	played the first Cobalt librarian and
12789s	that's the only card that activates that
12791s	in the rest of his deck I can dodge the
12793s	second one here on the board
12796s	I mean he board the mountain Giant in
12798s	this
12800s	facing down
12803s	Savage Roar will kill him outright
12806s	Mark of yasharaj plus any board buff
12809s	will kill him outright
12813s	after he plays the mountain giant what
12814s	does he do from there yeah and the thing
12816s	is not only
12817s	does he go
12819s	it's a it's a matter of will he ever
12821s	have time to stabilize if he takes that
12823s	much damage even if he's not looking at
12825s	lethal damage if he takes that much
12827s	damage even if surrender doesn't have
12828s	Savage Roar he's probably in a bad spot
12831s	anyway so uh
12832s	watch Voice by him and get that
12834s	spellstone out of the way but now he
12835s	needs
12837s	what Hellfire exactly
12843s	it's 15 points of damage being
12845s	represented nothing defensive in hand
12846s	this is
12849s	this is the nightmare for Tom is you
12851s	draw all of your clunky cards and you
12854s	never have an opportunity to to wipe out
12856s	the second wave of pressure
12858s	Mountain giant mixtures mixture seems
12860s	like the pla the only play that he could
12862s	really make and then he has to hope for
12864s	a miracle draw and surrender is still on
12866s	Mark of the lotus
12868s	as an out to win the game moving into
12870s	the next turn he's got two copies left
12872s	in this deck that's why I look at this
12873s	hand and I wonder how does Tom win if he
12875s	actually just plays the big boys I can't
12877s	I think that this is possibly a lifetap
12880s	scenario and hope for the best the Oh
12882s	Hell Fire gets found
12886s	but Tom's not out of it yet so that's
12889s	all that Mana that surrenders invested
12891s	now goes back into surrender's pool so
12893s	the second living Mana good to come out
12895s	in this spot he gets to add another
12897s	Minion to that if he wants
12899s	and then it's wave of pressure number
12900s	two can Tom handle both of them
12903s	for number three rapper excuse me
12907s	surrender gonna throw out the
12913s	SE extra minion it's an extra minion
12916s	oh dark packed
12920s	13 points as well
12923s	does he have to tap again that's the
12926s	another
12929s	he could also draw a Divine that spot
12931s	because he has Mortal coil in his hand
12933s	to activate it six percent for one drop
12937s	for one draw six percent chance
12940s	file
12942s	so he is two hours and it's it's six and
12945s	change percent so it's about 13 you get
12948s	a second one here
12949s	because he can mortal coil down one of
12951s	the minions and then defile
12953s	s side effects no this keeps him alive
12956s	for an extra turn though that's a clever
12958s	use from Tom we actually saw Frozen do
12960s	that exact same thing yep uh to try to
12962s	gain life further down the road
12964s	and so surrender he looks nervous about
12966s	this but he does not have an option it's
12968s	forward March yeah that's just sort of a
12970s	battle of odds with two draws for Mark
12973s	of the lotus that's an 11 chance to win
12976s	for surrender if Tom Taps he has a 13
12978s	chance to draw so now he's given himself
12980s	the extra turn of draw plus a life tap
12983s	bro after that but that lifetime draw
12985s	will cut
12986s	the file
12989s	the file would not be an out in that
12990s	situation
12993s	so in this spot he also gets stuff like
12995s	dark Pact
12997s	can potentially bring it back into it
13006s	wasn't the four
13010s	Prince Telegram
13016s	I think I'll be right back again
13020s	backpack it's drawn but he'd have the
13022s	Mana to possess slacky and dark Pact
13026s	Kent dark pack the cube
13028s	can he wipe enough damage off board to
13032s	to win in that spot so he takes two off
13034s	from one of the tree ends that leaves 11
13037s	for surrender plus the Euro power at 12.
13039s	dark pact only brings him to tan one
13045s	doesn't look like enough
13049s	he needed that dark pact off the top and
13051s	then he needed
13053s	to take that 50 chance to get void Lord
13055s	instead of doomguard
13057s	Ed people surrender ties It Up all In
13062s	pressure is the name of the game for his
13064s	aggro Druid back
13066s	just barely gets there every single turn
13070s	on the brink of disaster but he ties the
13073s	series
13076s	and again that's a good call from
13078s	surrender leaving that deck up because
13080s	he knows that it's way more vulnerable
13082s	to the aggressive decks because of the
13084s	fact that it's greedier with mountain
13086s	Giants greedier with doomguards and he
13088s	capitalizes it and ties up the series at
13091s	one a piece a curly surrender on a
13094s	15-match win streak
13096s	fact nobody's been on more of a hot
13098s	streak than surrender lately but his
13100s	2017 didn't start out that way
13107s	last spring I decided to change my
13110s	approach to the pro-harstone scene I
13113s	used to think that I didn't have to play
13114s	in all the tournaments because I was
13116s	making money by streaming and I thought
13118s	that was good enough
13124s	then my good friend Roy won the spring
13126s	championship
13128s	and I thought I'm not going to be
13130s	remembered if I'm just a mediocre player
13133s	I decided that I wanted that too and my
13136s	attitude changed we have a champion
13139s	surrender from South Korea is your
13142s	Hearthstone Championship tour summer
13143s	winner
13148s	I have a win streak that's been going on
13150s	since the summer Championship surrender
13153s	advances are the top eight it's
13155s	definitely increased my focus
13158s	I want to see how long I can extend the
13160s	streak
13169s	lots of regrets
13176s	TJ surrender may never lose again
13181s	I didn't like it this way he has won 15
13184s	HCT matches in a row the last time he
13187s	lost was back in round three of the
13190s	summer playoffs and that just gives you
13191s	context right there the next player in
13193s	line is Pavel with 12.
13196s	and surrender's not done if he wins this
13198s	he just continues if he wins the world
13200s	championship that record is going to
13201s	hold
13202s	until we start up again with the 2018
13204s	HCG season which isn't for a few months
13206s	if you saw purple and Muzzy down there
13208s	as well all three of those players that
13210s	he has longer winning streaks then had
13211s	10-0 playoff finishes yeah
13216s	he went through the playoffs after round
13217s	three then went through the summer
13219s	championship winning the whole thing and
13220s	now will that continue here will Tom put
13223s	a stop to it it's tied up one to one
13224s	currently and we're moving into warlock
13227s	versus Rogue surrender you know I've
13230s	seen a lot of facial expressions from
13232s	surrender over the course of these last
13234s	few tournaments
13235s	I don't recall him quite talking to
13237s	himself during that point though I mean
13240s	these guys are playing not only for that
13242s	world title but there is a ton of money
13244s	at stake
13245s	and that is the worst draw in
13247s	surrender's deck that is gonna that's
13249s	gonna put a big hurt on his aggressive
13250s	potential I mean imagine what goes
13252s	through Players heads when they're on
13253s	this big of a stage in the semi-finals
13255s	tied up
13257s	and they draw just about the worst card
13258s	in their deck you just have to sort of
13260s	forget about that and make the best
13261s	views of what you have that's the risk
13263s	You Take by playing patches is sometimes
13266s	you're gonna draw it and it seems like
13268s	we've seen it happen a lot over the
13270s	course of the world championship you
13271s	know these these are very crucial
13272s	matches and it's something that I look
13274s	at when I think about that scenario is
13276s	actually Frozen's lineup you know he
13278s	didn't bring Corridor creeper he can't
13280s	draw patches if it's not in any of his
13282s	decks he's playing solid builds that
13284s	Target the metagame almost every other
13286s	player in the tournament settled on one
13288s	of the more standard looking lineups uh
13291s	and at this point this is the absolute
13293s	worst time it can happen too soon but it
13295s	happens it happens
13298s	and as we take a look at how these hands
13300s	look Tom uh spirit singer Umbra is
13303s	another card that we haven't really got
13304s	to touch on very much because it's not
13306s	in a lot of the lists and spirit singer
13308s	Umbra in carnivorous Cube can make for
13310s	something
13311s	pretty big swings in a game and a lot of
13314s	times spear singer ombre if you just
13316s	play it on turn four it's like a musko
13318s	breath that that's really to me the big
13320s	benefit of the card is it's a form of
13321s	disruption it offers you so much value
13324s	if it's left up that your opponent often
13326s	doesn't have the uh ability to just
13328s	leave it unchecked they have to put
13330s	something into it but if you're gonna
13332s	draw patches I would I would guess that
13334s	this is also a pretty decent one to pick
13335s	up alongside with it
13338s	Prince kalicef is pretty darn important
13340s	to this matchup yeah but again we talked
13343s	about it earlier even just turned three
13344s	if Kelis has not played on curve
13347s	the win rate plummets yeah but for all
13350s	the Decks that run in a large part of
13352s	that is because of the Synergy that it
13354s	does have with patches yeah what some
13356s	one of my questions uh to that though is
13358s	is surrender fighting the early
13359s	aggressive bullish in this matchup uh
13361s	his minions are going to fight directly
13363s	against uh the kobold librarian it's
13367s	going to fight directly against measures
13368s	and mixtures it's hellfires it defiles
13370s	is that the timing of that pressure
13371s	that's more important for surrender or
13373s	is it the early outright aggression the
13376s	early regression certain matters
13378s	but I think it's the timing of pressure
13379s	that matters more yeah I mean they're
13381s	both paths to win the game at the end of
13382s	the day and you're happy to see it
13386s	drawn on turn three then drawn on turn
13389s	15 right uh but still uh now the big
13392s	thing here for surrender is pacing out
13394s	these threats yeah
13395s	what are you doing after that it just
13398s	gets challenged he needs to put
13399s	something on the board starting to
13400s	realize this and goes with a pretty
13403s	small Edwin but an Edwin that's not
13404s	being challenged at that and
13406s	so that's hurt Tom's ability to just
13408s	point out that Spirit Stinger Umbra if
13409s	that was ever on his mind though yeah um
13411s	so he's looking like surrender is
13412s	actually gonna get quite rewarded for uh
13415s	this play and I like this too again the
13417s	early aggression matters but it depends
13419s	on what form of it stacking up Minions
13421s	that are large works better against
13423s	these control warlock decks because they
13425s	have so many tools to pick apart small
13426s	boards
13430s	and now Tom trying to think through this
13432s	one he could Tap Play Mistress of
13434s	mixtures that stone lines him up or a
13436s	mountain giant play on next turn
13444s	we can play the Cobalt maybe try to look
13446s	for another option look for uh
13447s	additional removal but Cobalt is also a
13449s	great tool in coupling with the fighter
13452s	well I mean right now it just sort of
13454s	gets eaten up well this is I think a
13456s	brilliant play from Tom and the reason
13458s	why isn't because I think the mistress
13459s	gets enough it's because knowing that
13462s	surrender has that Forefront board means
13464s	it's very difficult for him to play a
13465s	three Health minion right now Tom could
13467s	play the Cobalt and the Mistress of
13469s	mixtures and then rip the defile with it
13471s	he's saving both of those tools to start
13473s	that chain of defiles
13475s	it's a great Spot Great point
13477s	this is exactly what Tom did in game
13479s	number one with the Arcane Tyrant as
13481s	well he hid it behind the taunts rather
13483s	than playing it for free immediately and
13485s	that timing of that pressure I think
13486s	gave him a big lead in that game
13493s	that is going to set it up
13498s	it's fine surrender now though likely to
13499s	play
13500s	uh seems like patches plus Mutual next
13503s	turn so this is the time we want to get
13504s	shell sets rolling we're about to start
13505s	generating those resources attack on the
13507s	previous turn with the dagger actually
13509s	alluded to this play as well oftentimes
13511s	you'll see
13513s	surrender save his dagger in that spot
13515s	just to try to get more value and Tom
13517s	holding on to that mistress to make sure
13518s	that is exactly the direction he's
13519s	headed with uh that kobold that mistress
13521s	and that defile yeah in hand and it's
13523s	very difficult for surrender to
13525s	anticipate a three card combination when
13526s	Thomas had two opportunities to play one
13529s	of those he's basically using as three
13530s	cards draw a card game two and clear
13533s	your opponent's board that's the
13535s	combination that he's uh that he's got
13536s	his eye on but the thing is Tom doesn't
13539s	have a way to stifle pressure beyond
13540s	that currently he's picked up more
13542s	mountain Giants which will naturally uh
13544s	get there but
13552s	something really big look at here is
13554s	that mountain Giants often a card
13556s	surrenders not at all worried about uh
13558s	but because he didn't have that early
13559s	pressure it gave Tom time to Simply
13561s	build his hand size and make those a lot
13563s	cheaper and Karen in in surrender's list
13566s	is a card that can be quite difficult
13567s	for Tom to fend off in terms of pressure
13569s	it just gives him something
13571s	yeah it's a card that fell out of favor
13574s	because uh largely because of quarter
13576s	creeper a six-man a four five was
13578s	directly challenged by
13580s	sometimes a zero Mana seven or five five
13583s	which uh you know sort of pushed it out
13585s	but surrender Optics go for it and it is
13587s	better in this type of matchup because
13589s	the Warlock doesn't have great removal
13591s	to deal with Karen and of course Tom
13593s	doesn't have a spell break in his deck
13595s	so it doesn't have a way to sort of
13596s	immediately uh get rid of it well Tom's
13598s	hand is starting to shape up pretty
13600s	nicely but he is under a lot of pressure
13601s	so now the the thing he's got to worry
13603s	about is Leroy Jenkins uh from surrender
13607s	he knows what cards are in the deck so
13609s	he doesn't have to worry about Cold
13610s	Blood shenanigans
13612s	but at 16 life
13614s	if he just starts trading this mountain
13616s	giant onto the board that pressure is
13617s	going to continue to mount on surrender
13619s	side at some point Tom is going to have
13621s	to swing the board yeah Leroy Jenkins
13623s	currently seven attack because of the
13625s	prince Gallos Ethan again we talk about
13627s	Tom's list and sort of the risks that he
13629s	took with building his lineup and uh of
13632s	course with the doomguard package and
13635s	Mountain Giants who leave less room for
13636s	removal that's right no twisting nether
13638s	uh in Tom's list he's got the two copies
13641s	of the file the two copies of Hellfire
13644s	and the amethyst spells that's about it
13647s	that's that's his removal package he's
13648s	he relies on the the combos that piece
13651s	this deck together
13652s	to get through these parts movies the
13655s	other benefit to uh hanging on that
13656s	mission is to make sure you get the time
13658s	mistress represents eight points of Life
13661s	gain rather than just four yeah and some
13663s	of it's immediate
13666s	that's an interesting draw
13674s	you can combo that this turn alongside
13677s	two Corridor creepers as well
13680s	that seems like a pretty powerful play
13682s	to me so there's the first Dream there's
13685s	the second Tom's getting more life total
13687s	but now this is that timing of pressure
13689s	that surrender was looking for
13694s	and because of the Puffs on the minions
13698s	Tom's clear is gonna be tougher
13702s	this is looking really tough for Tom at
13705s	this stage he still can do it Hellfire
13707s	kobold librarian coin defile
13711s	I hope that sets the court the first
13713s	quarter over here to two that's right
13716s	wow so it is a clear but it's a lot of
13718s	resources look at how important that
13720s	teleseth buff one turn earlier could
13722s	have been for surrender now say that
13724s	quarter creeper was drawn at some point
13725s	with a kill set buff that board doesn't
13728s	happen I don't believe
13730s	oh it does with the file spine never
13731s	mind I'm an idiot
13735s	it's looking like Karen time
13737s	notice though that Tom is approaching
13738s	that nine minute spot where void Lord
13740s	hits
13741s	surrender seize a void Lord hit this
13743s	stage he is gonna be in big trouble yeah
13746s	a lot of times as Rogue you're looking
13747s	to kill the Warlock on turning and Dodge
13750s	all these demons but Karen out of five
13753s	six is quite a big deal
13755s	but as soon as that first forward Lord
13757s	drops especially with only one file
13758s	spine Slayer left for surrender
13761s	you need to get through it immediately
13762s	because as soon as you don't you open up
13765s	your opponent to be able to cube it you
13766s	open up your opponent to be able to
13767s	trade
13769s	in making some of these combos that they
13770s	have in their deck
13772s	they're gonna attack
13774s	because that's Lackey gets drawn for Tom
13776s	still the two Doom guards left in his
13779s	deck though he's got one void Lord two
13780s	Doom guards so if he goes for possessed
13782s	Lackey plus dark Pact
13784s	it's actually more likely that he draws
13786s	a doom guard instead and out outside of
13788s	that he doesn't have a way to guarantee
13789s	that Duke guard lives the following turn
13791s	to be able to cube it
13796s	is there a chance that he just plays
13798s	possessed Lackey is there a chance that
13799s	he just plays Mountain Jive
13803s	could if it stays on the board of
13805s	returning doesn't die then he's got the
13807s	cube uh for that chance at it
13811s	would be the dark pack immediately
13813s	I think
13818s	spot for top
13819s	all of his plays are risks at this point
13821s	no matter what he does he will be
13824s	vulnerable to something without a
13825s	favorable yeah
13829s	it just plays the possess Lackey onto
13831s	the board that's a seven point Leroy
13834s	right now so seven plus the five on
13835s	board
13837s	plus two from that
13839s	is surrender one damage off lethal one
13842s	damage off people if he had a dagger
13843s	equipped he would end the game right now
13849s	and now the big question is
13853s	do you deal that damage
13856s	with the dagger hit in Leroy he puts Tom
13858s	at two
13860s	with si7 agent in hand this puts us
13862s	lucky on board Tom or Surrender does not
13864s	have insight into what's in Tom's hand I
13866s	can't believe I I can't imagine here
13868s	that surrender thinks that Tom has a
13870s	dark pact in hand already Tom chose to
13872s	life tap and play because that's Lackey
13874s	taking a risk on his life total where he
13876s	could just outright die before that yeah
13878s	why wouldn't Tom have dark pacted this
13880s	possessed lack immediately I think is
13883s	what surrender's thinking right now
13885s	because he puts him at two he's got the
13886s	combo activator Tom would lead healing
13889s	even possessed slacky wouldn't be able
13891s	to fight back on the board long enough
13894s	no he's just gonna build up a bigger
13896s	board
13899s	and I think this is quite wise as well
13901s	actually with this particular play
13903s	surrender now has an opportunity to even
13905s	bust through voidlord with the vile
13908s	spine Slayer so he would push through
13910s	void Lord and then pressure Tom on the
13914s	swing after that so this one's important
13916s	void Lord gets the boy Lord
13918s	and here's the thing that Leroy in hand
13921s	now is not getting through for a long
13923s	time because Tom has an insane amount of
13926s	combination of the cards here the prince
13928s	tal Durant to copy the void Lord get an
13930s	extra death rattle there the carnivorous
13932s	Cube get the the void Walkers right away
13934s	and then use the dark pack to heal up
13937s	and make two more void Lords I think Tom
13939s	might have stabilized this turn he can't
13940s	do it all this turn though and the
13941s	question is which one does he go with
13943s	foreign
13954s	but this is going to be the way that he
13956s	disciples the most pressure where does
13958s	surrenders break through in this spot
13959s	it's just a lot of attacking he's gonna
13962s	have to do
13964s	and mind you there is a void Lord
13966s	underneath that carnivorous Cube
13969s	he can actually even eat the carnivorous
13973s	key
13974s	with a carnivorous with a carnivorous
13976s	Cube now I don't think he's gonna do
13978s	that but
13980s	I don't know where surrender breaks
13982s	through again this is going to be a
13984s	giant wall of defense that Tom sets turn
13986s	after turn
13991s	I don't know admirable
13993s	four void Lords seems pretty good to me
13999s	it's about as good as it gets
14002s	it's hard to beat one void Lord
14005s	that's why a lot of players opted to not
14008s	bring uh the doomguard package in the
14010s	greedy warlock that's the tournament is
14012s	because against most decks the boys just
14014s	get there you don't need the Doom guard
14016s	stand the game
14026s	and this combat gets
14030s	feely
14031s	complex yeah your question might be why
14034s	is it surrender trading off one of these
14035s	minions but I imagine that the file is
14038s	somewhere on his mind how does that math
14039s	change when he has a two a natural two
14041s	Health minion
14044s	I'm not thinking about that
14050s	Tom's thinking about how he's about to
14052s	get two more boardlords yep
14057s	yep
14059s	up to 15. and a giant board for Tom
14064s	on Earth does surrender breakthrough
14070s	he's still got a lot of power on board
14071s	wash burglar defile Maybe
14074s	I'm sorry swashburger uh twisting nether
14077s	something insane is gonna have to happen
14079s	for surrender to win and he's not even
14081s	gonna play that one out
14083s	2-1 lead for Tom he is on Match Point
14094s	now the pressure's on
14096s	surrender one game away from his hopes
14098s	at a world champion title
14102s	will end
14104s	Tom now he's just one game away and it
14106s	comes down to Rogue
14112s	I'm glad I'm not surrender spot I am
14114s	glad I'm not neither does spot but
14117s	we had so many people show up to the
14119s	World Championship today we opened
14121s	another room you're looking at the
14122s	theater which is broadcasting the
14125s	matches to all the folks that came by
14127s	and couldn't even make it in the main
14129s	room
14132s	it's an insane atmosphere it really is I
14135s	mean the energy in the crowd has been
14136s	insane surrender I'm sorry Frozen
14139s	waiting for the winner of surrender
14141s	versus Tom that match is coming up next
14143s	he's already through to the Grand finals
14145s	and that smile you can tell he's
14147s	enjoying himself but I'll tell you who
14148s	might be feeling it a little bit more
14150s	than a smile right now yeah it's that
14153s	guy oh there's a little smile yeah you
14155s	gotta be happy but
14157s	Tom has just been so calm this match
14160s	aside from the one moment where he felt
14161s	maybe he had made that mistake yeah in
14164s	game number one Tom has looked super
14166s	focused
14170s	we've seen players
14173s	be up in series and then not be able to
14176s	get it done with Temple Road we've seen
14177s	it time and time again I think the dog
14180s	pound match versus Jason Joe that's
14181s	right.com is on Match Point two games to
14183s	zero three losses with Tempo road right
14186s	now
14187s	and you know who has a similar lineup to
14189s	Jason Joe it's surrender
14193s	so that's a lineup That Could Be Tempo
14195s	Road and right off the bat surrender
14197s	even Justice Mulligan
14199s	great options to start kazaki's Shadow
14202s	beeper anduin the piece he's missing is
14204s	Raza it's a it's a pretty darn good
14205s	opening hand for surrender I'll say that
14207s	um I do want to talk about Tom's uh
14210s	Tempo Rogue list for a little bit here
14212s	though he's included one copy of Elven
14214s	Minstrel which is traditionally pretty
14217s	good in this matchup but he has two
14219s	copies of cobalt scaling that's a card
14221s	that's included in this deck too uh
14224s	pressure through dragon fire potion five
14227s	damage the whole board wipes everything
14228s	away but not to dragons Cobalt scale
14231s	Bane is the one card I think that can
14232s	really pressure through that and Tom's
14234s	opening hand
14236s	oh my
14240s	God that is gas
14243s	that is a huge opening hand for Tom
14247s	surrender the shake of the head
14250s	that is not the start you wanted to see
14255s	oh
14262s	when you put two Titans
14265s	of players and of decks in this instance
14268s	and of cards
14270s	with kazaka Shadow Reaper anduin versus
14273s	Kelsey's shadowstep kelsa
14277s	buckling Buckle in
14281s	oh my
14283s	that that I think that's the best draw
14285s	on Tom's deck right now yep
14287s	this Captain might be a little bit
14289s	better
14295s	the look on surrender's face
14305s	but Tom he's not autopiling this he's
14307s	probably been in this situation
14309s	maybe hundreds of times think back to
14312s	ant uh in in his in his rounds during uh
14315s	the World Championships he opened up
14317s	with calice Shadow step kellaseth Shadow
14320s	step kellaseth and didn't win that game
14322s	he did not and he said he felt like he
14324s	could have played it better
14326s	he felt like he was you know kind of on
14327s	autopilot and you know trying to ride
14329s	the momentum of the good early draw in
14332s	order to win the game but he did it
14337s	so Tom making sure that he's just doing
14339s	everything correctly the patches trade
14341s	into the Accolade pain
14343s	it's the obvious one but he thinks about
14345s	everything is
14346s	maybe this trade is weaker to bloody
14348s	Spirit lash who know look at how
14350s	desperate surrender is healing opposing
14352s	patches to draw cards he needs to find
14355s	something to answer this board
14358s	that this guy's toast
14361s	Tom you want to waste time drawing cards
14364s	go ahead damage incoming
14367s	12 damage on board 13 with the dagger
14370s	hit any point of damage to lock a
14372s	crawler
14374s	is there any hope here now yeah but the
14376s	thing about the Glock a crawler is
14378s	if he does that what else does he do
14381s	he delays kazakis
14383s	play a wild Power answer yeah galaka
14385s	crawler healer player while power answer
14387s	anything to try to fight for board right
14388s	now I mean he's got psychic scream in
14390s	hand I think there is a chance he could
14393s	get back into this but it's going to
14395s	require
14395s	it's going to require some picture
14397s	perfect draws
14400s	start you know he can kazakus for the
14402s	one cost potion next turn as well and
14404s	Tom draws a second bone mare to go with
14407s	it so the pressure really alleviates
14409s	here for surrender and this is exactly
14411s	what he needed he needed time to stumble
14413s	for one turn to try to get back in
14416s	I mean his next few turns are laid out
14418s	next turn he can go kazakis for a one
14419s	Mana potion it's six is going to be the
14421s	weak point so many that's going to be
14423s	the turn where Tom is going to need to
14425s	take advantage of something but then
14426s	he's got psychics seven you have to end
14428s	one on eight
14430s	that's the that's the solution Tom comes
14432s	up with play a big seven
14434s	can you deal with that
14440s	and a one minute potion unless it's
14442s	perfect it's not gonna be enough to deal
14444s	with the majority of the sport he needs
14445s	Steel
14446s	two damage to all and deal three damage
14450s	he could get Co2 damage to all and
14452s	screams of minions he does get free some
14454s	minions but is that better than game 4
14457s	armor
14458s	if you need the perfect potion it just
14460s	might surrender look at him in the tank
14462s	right now yeah how do I win this game if
14464s	he picks freeze and then gets deal two
14466s	damage to all he can kill everything and
14468s	then freeze the quarto creeper no two
14471s	damage oh those are
14473s	those are not good
14475s	not good
14489s	I wonder
14498s	quickly
14501s	straw car I don't know I really don't I
14504s	think uh they make a 2-2 probably has to
14506s	be the best option to popping up the
14507s	board for Dragonfire the healing's gone
14509s	from from surrender stack as well
14511s	he's gotta hope he freezes that Corridor
14514s	creeper and he freezes it surrender at
14517s	14 facing nine points for a five six
14521s	points of pressure Cobalt scale Bane
14523s	gets drawn for Tom
14525s	just when you think surrender is out of
14528s	the woods at least for one more turn
14531s	it's a 7-7 not only does it not get hit
14533s	by Dragonfire potion but
14535s	it doesn't get hit by about anything
14539s	except
14543s	does surrender have that one more turn
14544s	though Tom's got bone marrow coming next
14547s	turn surrender has to survive with as
14549s	much life as possible
14551s	I'm looking at Wild pyromancer with a
14554s	silence and a shadow where death he can
14556s	isolate Tom's board to just five damage
14558s	but it will require a lot of resources
14562s	but then the question is if bone marrow
14565s	comes out next turn he goes to one
14567s	psychic screams he's dead to a dagger
14569s	head no he can silence to put the damage
14571s	down to nine total he can peel two more
14575s	that's the only way wild pyromancer
14577s	silenced on the corridor creeper
14581s	so you wanna you want the the wild
14582s	pyromancer there I think so Shadow her
14584s	death wild parliaments or silence that's
14586s	right or silence while apartments are
14588s	Shadow or death either of those
14589s	combinations puts him in in range to
14591s	live for a turn if Tom doesn't draw
14593s	damage
14595s	and this also puts an extra minion on
14598s	the board to be able to contest the
14599s	following turn
14607s	Ross burglar
14610s	bone mare will drop surrender down to
14613s	just three Health remaining it is such
14616s	an awful battle for surrender bomb after
14620s	bomb being played at three Health he
14622s	picks up the Raza so that's gonna be
14625s	great post anduin but
14627s	he's got a lot to worry about until then
14630s	he can actually get away with using the
14633s	dragon fire potion
14636s	this turn if he feels like that's not
14638s	going to get any better that's that's
14640s	exactly what he's going to do that gives
14642s	him an extra couple points of Health to
14643s	work with and it gives him the security
14644s	of psychic scream needing to wipe the
14646s	board in case Tom's got another Cobalt
14648s	scale Bane or just tons of pressure he's
14651s	also been on a LeRoy draw for the last
14653s	couple turns just end the game and this
14656s	is playing into shadowy Brandon Oh I
14658s	thought he was going with the bone Mare
14661s	foreign
14670s	do you wait for a better position we've
14673s	seen players get punished so many times
14675s	this tournament for delaying shadowy
14676s	brand away
14677s	because they think they're going to find
14678s	a better spot it's gonna go for it now
14680s	he's got to do it
14682s	this is so tough for surrender and again
14686s	Thomas the second bone marrow in hand
14688s	and now surrender does not have a
14690s	further way to heal remaining in the
14694s	deck outside of priest of the Beast so
14696s	here's the push surrender
14699s	drops to two points of life
14703s	saucy deckhand
14705s	si7 agent Leroy Jenkins
14709s	a couple of a Minstrel that could draw
14711s	those a Minstrel that can draw those
14712s	cards all of those things are outs for
14715s	Tom going to the next turn
14722s	he's got one
14724s	si7 agent One South Sea deckhand so
14727s	shadowy thoughts
14731s	if he draws one card that's a
14735s	12 chance yeah he's looking over at
14738s	surrender occasionally
14740s	he knows he's right on the verge of
14741s	winning surrender has been in this
14742s	position so many times this weekend on
14745s	where it looks like he's on the brink of
14746s	disaster somehow manages to find a way
14749s	out to me and psychic scream has to be
14751s	on the menu here but the question is
14753s	does he play the novice engineer first
14754s	in second screw net back into Tom's deck
14759s	to try to get a second card draw yeah
14762s	with novice engineer next to her
14770s	Tom finds the damage
14773s	and he's gonna move on to the Grand
14776s	finals eliminating surrender three games
14779s	to one
14781s	ending his match streak at 15.
14785s	cementing himself
14787s	as the king of Asia Pacific
14790s	what a series between these two it was
14793s	Heavy hitting hands back and forth but
14796s	at the end of the day the overwhelming
14798s	pressure from Tom and the double
14801s	keleseth opener was just too much for
14803s	surrender to fight against and now the
14805s	grand finals are set it's going to be
14807s	Frozen from the Americas versus Tom
14810s	60229
14812s	from Taiwan but for now let's head on
14815s	stage with brodan
14818s	Tom that was a pretty intense series uh
14821s	tell me about how you're feeling right
14822s	now going into the series and now that
14824s	you've won
14825s	foreign
14845s	having Rogue is really important I guess
14847s	just historically
14849s	um you said that in 2014 you weren't
14851s	really happy with your play when you
14853s	came to the World Championship uh and
14855s	you've been commenting about how you've
14856s	been playing in every series before this
14858s	how do you feel like your play is today
14860s	so far
14870s	um
14884s	so he
14886s	um
14888s	I don't think I'd play particular that
14890s	well I think in a matchup when I play
14891s	Druid I shouldn't be aware of that my
14894s	opponent might have uh Leroy Jenkins but
14897s	I didn't really uh kind of kind of be
14900s	caught off guard on that so it should be
14902s	put better
14903s	all right always looking to improve my
14905s	next question is how do you feel going
14908s	up against Frozen in the grand finals
14910s	people are talking about his lineup and
14913s	saying that he is going to be the
14914s	hardest opponent for any lineup to beat
14917s	foreign
14942s	all right it's gonna be a great match
14943s	please give a round of applause for Tom
14945s	60229 from Taiwan
14947s	all right
14949s	Frozen gave Tom the hardest challenge in
14953s	his whole world championship run with
14955s	only one match win between him and the
14958s	title Tom was quickly put in a terrible
14960s	spot going zero two down and knowing
14963s	that a single game loss would end his
14965s	dreams how did Tom turn it around
14968s	the help of one of the most ambitious
14970s	Mulligans in Hearthstone history let's
14972s	take a look
14974s	Frozen versus Tom 602 tonight
14983s	I think Tom
14986s	probably been playing the best out of
14989s	almost everyone here
14992s	Frozen's lineup is another tough one to
14994s	face
14995s	so I'll just leave it at that
14997s	tom60229 has the same lineup as Jason
14999s	Zoe except he has a jade which
15002s	you can't tell if it's worse for me or
15004s	better the North America region has won
15007s	the worlds before
15008s	so this one has to go to Asia Pacific I
15011s	think I'll do my best to carry on a I
15015s	just hope the best man wins
15018s	Frozen versus Tom 602 tonight
15023s	let's see what you got
15030s	in the air as we get underway with the
15033s	grand finals of the world championship
15036s	we've talked about how their paths have
15039s	converged to this very moment Gibbler
15041s	both these players for many years have
15044s	been on the verge of even coming to the
15045s	world championship multiple times Tom
15047s	602-9 2014 exit out in the group stages
15050s	in 2016. he was second in his region for
15053s	points and stopped at the last call
15055s	Invitational this year first in points
15058s	is he deserving of the world champion
15060s	versus Frozen who took the risk of
15061s	building a unique lineup both of these
15063s	players last year made it all the way to
15065s	the last call both of them knocking on
15068s	the door were denied but now there is
15070s	only one player in their way between
15073s	them and that title and Frozen already
15075s	got frost Lich jaina in his opening hand
15078s	we see a nine drop kept if you open it
15081s	that's how important that card is to his
15083s	death that's right the name of the game
15084s	for Frozen is to survive against the
15087s	Jade Onslaught until he's able to
15089s	stabilize either by control on the board
15091s	so commandingly or by using skulking
15093s	guys and destroying the infinite combos
15096s	or the infinite board president that's
15098s	made for the Druid and we see it Tom off
15100s	to a strong start with Jade idle into
15103s	wild growth with nourish Aya still in
15105s	his hands oh that is not what Frozen
15107s	wants to see one of the few cheap spells
15111s	in his deck ends up running into a
15112s	branching path from Tom so no draw off
15114s	they're even familiar
15117s	Tom does have this branching paths and
15120s	unlike those other control matchups not
15123s	necessarily as imperative to get your
15124s	life count up versus killing the man if
15128s	you look at how a lot of the control
15130s	Mages that aren't burn focused they care
15133s	so much about how tall and wide the
15135s	board is Jay Drew is very good at both
15137s	Frozen does pick up a dragon's Fury off
15140s	of this second Raven familiar not nearly
15143s	as powerful is against perhaps the
15145s	aggressive Druid decks but still a
15147s	strong card to sweep off the Jades if
15149s	they do get out of control
15152s	now many times we look at nourish and we
15154s	think it is a card that we want to ramp
15156s	with but that then Tom doesn't have any
15158s	more draw so this is a position kiddler
15160s	what do you think Tom needs to do it's
15162s	definitely a tough spot to return here
15164s	because this is a matchup that is very
15166s	much about uh pressure and attrition Tom
15169s	needs to keep enough pressure on Frozen
15171s	so he can't just sit back and ultimately
15173s	get to stalking guys then jaina and
15175s	really shut everything down turn things
15177s	around on it so without the ultimate
15179s	infestation already in his hand if he
15181s	does nourish for Mana to ramp up he does
15184s	run the risk of just running out of
15185s	breath but it will be card draw for Tom
15188s	who would have drawn opening position
15189s	immediately so I'm sure uh a little sad
15192s	about that choice at this point but it
15194s	would be a big risk if you were simply
15195s	ramp his man yeah of course had you
15198s	known completely different scenarios he
15200s	would have been able to ramp
15203s	but uh we'll see if the the Mana
15205s	Crystals at the beach
15209s	as this J train continues with eye of
15211s	Blackboard
15213s	Frozen with the medies valet off of ice
15216s	barrier speaking down Ayah but that does
15218s	leave Jade behind and uh
15221s	a bit of a main advantage still thanks
15222s	for the wild growth is able to uh to
15224s	keep the pressure on here
15226s	and I wonder if that car draws Frozen
15229s	ends up being one of those factors that
15231s	allows Tom to build even more J's before
15233s	Frozen can get to that skulking ghost
15236s	you look at uh Frozen's AOE and it's
15238s	fantastic Dragon Story of meteor flame
15240s	strike all very powerful tools
15242s	eventually the Jays will get out of rink
15244s	and you know one of the things about it
15246s	too was the fact that Frozen plays cars
15248s	like ice barrier right it increases the
15250s	chances compared to the normal control
15252s	lists that have bigger steps yeah well
15254s	dragon's Fury here hits a four so he
15257s	does not kill the Jade Behemoth this is
15259s	a big part of why Tom chose to take that
15261s	attack with his three Three Shades it
15263s	allows a small hit off the dragon's free
15265s	he knew it was in Frozen's hand to not
15268s	clear his board guaranteed
15269s	and at the same time Frozen knows that
15271s	there's a chance that he hits a second
15273s	ice block uh or uh you know it's Arcane
15275s	intellects with the dragon's Fury so
15278s	he's willing to take that hit even if it
15280s	didn't work out
15281s	now Tom does have a wild growth in uh
15287s	get to all the infestation much sooner
15290s	though he does have a hand that is oh
15291s	you can actually look at this I was
15293s	gonna say he has a hand that is a little
15294s	bit uh too full from the infestation but
15297s	Tom recognizes that he wants to cast
15299s	infestation next turn and not run the
15301s	risk of potentially burning cars so it
15303s	just damages his own minions with the
15305s	spellstone which does leave it
15307s	vulnerable to the fire length portal
15309s	Frozen but this will be infestation
15311s	kindness um deals five draws five games
15314s	five armor rates five Reddit threads
15316s	yeah and it'll be key for him to not
15319s	burn some of those really valuable cards
15321s	Arcane tyrants
15324s	straw here Frozen of course
15326s	small little acknowledgment that he
15328s	wished that Tom burnt a car it would
15329s	have made his life a little bit easier
15330s	and the positioning from Tom here with
15333s	his smallest minion in the middle does
15334s	make the meteor in Frozen pan much less
15337s	impactful but what is impactful is Frost
15340s	Village
15341s	is going to start to allow Frozen to uh
15345s	ping down damage minions for comps out
15347s	of the board and allow him to convert
15349s	these removal spells into threats as
15351s	well
15354s	from Tom's side now he needs to try to
15357s	make minions that are are frankly out of
15359s	range of most of the damage based
15361s	removal in Frozen's deck he is of course
15363s	afraid of polymorphs that can take down
15365s	anything individually large so
15367s	thankfully for him Jade's do tend to go
15369s	both tall and wide very well yeah it's
15372s	difficult because at three health and
15374s	above there's so many ways for mage to
15376s	manipulate things with blizzard the
15378s	three damage adjacent from the meteors
15381s	and the flame checks at four so there's
15382s	so many break points and of course like
15384s	you said you know the polymers just make
15386s	a little one-one cheese
15388s	that can also get tricky Tom's is going
15391s	to try and extend uh to the board while
15394s	producing the low Health minion town
15398s	we'll see if Frozen
15400s	will opt to go for an immediate Wireless
15402s	mental or perhaps play a little bit
15404s	slower meteor on the 5-5 does give him a
15407s	pink parade of water Elemental on the
15409s	Arctic Tyrant so able to convert some
15411s	removal and give himself a water
15414s	Elemental malfurion is a big draw for
15417s	Tom though because that allows him to
15419s	generate significant threat out of his
15421s	hero power as he can do uh meaningful
15423s	damage rather than just one turn
15429s	the spellstone in his hand is also
15431s	interesting because if he plays
15432s	malfurion then hero powers for armor you
15434s	can use actually the Spells is already
15435s	upgraded once so he actually wouldn't
15437s	even have the hero power if he plays
15438s	malfurion he can play the spellstone
15440s	straight up for six damage to kill the
15441s	water Elemental and get that threat off
15443s	the board there is some risk of creating
15445s	uh small Minions that can potentially be
15448s	uh whittled down by Frozen but he does
15451s	have the opportunity to potentially
15452s	create the spiders which can mitigate
15455s	future possible water Elementals
15458s	preemptively Frozen if he doesn't AOE
15459s	them away and look how deep Tom is into
15462s	his deck that's so crucial for Tom to be
15465s	able to get so far ahead of the major
15467s	all of that even if the skeleton guys
15469s	comes maybe the Jays are too big for the
15471s	major even overcome yeah they are
15473s	spiders for Tom here recognizing that
15475s	the one fives are not relevant and that
15477s	having a preemptive solution to those
15479s	water Elementals is very valuable and
15482s	the plague Lord punched the face it does
15486s	put Frozen in a bit of a precarious
15488s	situation from a life total perspective
15491s	yes and one thing too for Frozen is to
15494s	consider the threat of multiple angles
15497s	you know we talk about branching past
15498s	how it could be used to reverse that's
15499s	eight damage that's staring at him if he
15501s	let it go so he's gonna utilize blizzard
15503s	even though the board is not terribly
15505s	imposing by itself
15507s	not have the most comfortable life
15517s	allows Tom to draw the Jade Idol
15520s	potentially and then Shuffle it in and
15522s	there's that J that'll Frozen still does
15524s	not have skulking ghosts so the threat
15526s	of these recurrent Jades that's a very
15529s	big deal already at six six yeah but he
15533s	needs to kill off this Blood Mitch
15534s	Thanos
15535s	deny the easy ping here bro we know that
15539s	Frozen has multiple ways to get that as
15541s	well
15545s	I also could just uh Collide to the 5-3
15547s	but now uh Frozen has multiple removal
15549s	options yet again
15553s	nothing's super clean to deal with most
15556s	of the board the the FanDuel is actually
15558s	a pretty big problem for Frozen because
15559s	it does mean that uh those Jade Idols uh
15563s	can just continually create those
15566s	threats and the future possibility of
15568s	additional Jades
15570s	it doesn't allow him to to skip the turn
15574s	usually when you have the Jade Idol
15575s	infinites and assuming you're going Toe
15578s	to Toe with resources Druid one turn has
15581s	to skip on their final jado to shuffle
15582s	it into their deck but I don't even know
15584s	if they came more Progressive that point
15585s	because Frozen will try to get to the
15587s	Scorpion guys or Tom's gonna blow him
15589s	out of the water
15596s	this potentially allows dragon's Fury uh
15599s	better chance of hitting high he does
15600s	have both of his Arcane intellects
15602s	remaining in his deck so there could be
15604s	a low damage Fury if he goes
15608s	he does generate a uh
15615s	bedroom left up so a wrap
15619s	and the plague Lord ability from Tom
15622s	both have both abilities branching paths
15626s	is going to dig I believe yeah just
15628s	wants to draw mind to find more Jade
15630s	idols and just keep the uh massive
15632s	minion train
15634s	and there's two of them so gigantic
15637s	larger and larger man after a larger and
15640s	larger hands
15643s	Frozen's also crucially drawn a lot of
15645s	this cheaper cells so dragons Fury can
15647s	hit the seven on the flame strike but
15649s	that's his final spell
15651s	in fact uh most of Frozen's deck is just
15654s	minions
15655s	thank you
15657s	so after Tom is done setting up his
15659s	pressure here
15660s	that's another Jade if he wants it
15663s	the nine Health Jade does get out of
15666s	range of even dragon dragon fury if he
15670s	hits the highest cost spell in his deck
15672s	oh
15675s	that is skulking guys that is something
15677s	Frozen that crucially needs but is it in
15680s	time Tom has already created so many
15683s	large Jades that Frozen now needs to
15686s	ensure he can deal with what's already
15687s	on the board he has ice blocks we can
15690s	buy time
15692s	that was the last possible turn I think
15694s	frozen could have drawn sculkin guys to
15696s	still have a chance in this game well
15697s	here's another thing too you know Frozen
15699s	has staring at 24 damage just on the
15703s	board let alone the hero power and any
15705s	kind of burst coming out here so he's
15708s	gonna try to see if you can stall over
15710s	the course of multiple turns
15712s	yeah this does mean that uh Tom has I
15716s	believe just a jade Blossom left in his
15718s	deck so he is working with everything
15720s	that he will have for the rest of the
15723s	game
15724s	Toms has 22 damage and even pop the ice
15727s	block this turn that is so crucial and
15730s	the second branching pass being used
15732s	confirmed that for Frozen that Tom
15733s	wouldn't have the damage
15737s	Frozen has the water Elemental because
15739s	since the light totally has to rougher
15742s	the fire of gold is actually pretty big
15744s	here because it does mean that Frozen
15747s	can't preemptively damage any of these
15749s	minions with his minions on board to
15751s	then get dragon's Furious to damage them
15755s	and there's two Arcane intellects a
15758s	polymorph and a single copy of flame
15761s	strike it is one in four to hit the
15764s	ideal dragon's Fury
15770s	arcade and like only three damage that
15774s	is not enough to clear up
15776s	almost any of these minions it does set
15778s	the Ireland goal of the range and allow
15781s	the medes ballet to kill off several of
15784s	these butts there's still two big
15786s	minions left oh my gosh the sequencing
15788s	from Frozen was also to account for the
15791s	low uh outcome of Arcane intellect and
15794s	polymorph so that's why he traded as a
15796s	little small minion first so even Frozen
15798s	and Counting for the bad possibilities
15800s	now Tom uh you know the ultimate station
15803s	is always kind of a liability here so
15805s	that card seems kind of weak and then
15806s	this double open summons is purely just
15808s	life gain at this point that Jade
15810s	Blossom is his last Minion or minion of
15813s	substance remaining
15815s	if frozen can deal with these minions
15818s	and importantly
15820s	sustain himself against the malfurion
15822s	hero power because even if true he can
15825s	kill all of Tom's minions if he doesn't
15827s	make water Elementals it's impossible
15829s	for Tom to to just punch him in the face
15831s	and break his ice block and then kill
15833s	him the following turn
15834s	so here Tom's looking to mitigate this
15838s	water level which opens up the
15840s	possibility of uh continuing to punch
15843s	mate and that's exactly what he'll do he
15845s	will punch the face with spider fangs
15848s	and great Crosby's ice block with still
15851s	a gigantic minion left up yes and also
15854s	making it more complicated for Frozen to
15856s	get the one damage
15858s	icy Touch and converted to Waterloo
15860s	Frozen picking up polymorph here would
15862s	be pretty huge
15866s	flame strike is too small to kill any of
15869s	these kids
15871s	he would have to he has to ice block
15873s	because there is still the ultimate
15875s	infestation remaining in Tom's hand
15877s	Frozen knows Tom has drawn his entire
15879s	deck so the threat of the five direct
15882s	damage even if it will send Tom deep
15884s	into fatigue would kill Frozen if he
15886s	doesn't put up the ice block this turn
15900s	what will you do Frozen
15902s	to you ice block how are you going to
15904s	ensure safety melts away
15908s	I guess also set up to deal with the
15910s	follow-up board too even if it's just a
15913s	survival spreading toys he will die
15915s	because he's at one life
15917s	he does have dirty rat which can get in
15919s	the way of smaller minions but yeah
15921s	meteor plus ice blocks
15927s	he knows that no reason to uh
15931s	she bothered to attack this minion Tom
15933s	is he fatigue but he can break the ice
15936s	block
15938s	foreign
15941s	plague
15946s	just that Scarab alone
15954s	Frozen Wafers next draw in anticipation
15957s	oh my goodness he picked up an arcade
15959s	officer sir this sets him this is the
15962s	perfect draw wow this from Frozen sets
15965s	him to eight lives he's out of range of
15967s	infestation and he pings it down the
15969s	Scarab to create a water Elemental I
15973s	think all of a sudden Tom is is he
15976s	locked out of this game
15979s	he has to kill the Arcane artificer but
15982s	then he's not dealing the damage
15983s	necessary for the ultimate infestation
15985s	the water Elemental is going to be able
15986s	to gain damage
15988s	perhaps that fist pump was more than
15990s	just happiness to see the draw but it
15992s	could be the happiness that he has
15994s	sealed this game
15996s	Tom had Frozen at one life both ice
15999s	blocks broken malfurion hero power at
16002s	the ready
16003s	but Arcane artificer brings Frozen back
16006s	into the game and I think it is Tom
16007s	who's without a way out of this
16010s	all right
16015s	he's thinking about maybe Frozen just
16017s	has only minions
16021s	Frozen with the enormous comeback take
16025s	game one
16026s	what a turnaround by USA's Frozen to
16031s	barely survive the onslaught Tom was
16034s	barely unable to finish that game that
16037s	was that was close it gets frozen drew
16040s	the skalkin guys at the last possible
16042s	moment
16043s	to stop the Jade Idols from just making
16045s	larger and larger men and then the
16049s	Arcane artificer when he was at the
16050s	brink of death
16052s	absolutely got him back into that game
16054s	he had to deal with a lot of bad
16056s	outcomes that early draw from The Raven
16059s	familiar really messed up his hand
16061s	economy then he had to deal with Dragons
16063s	Fury not hitting the optimal damage and
16065s	taking way more pressure than he needed
16067s	to but Frozen was able to roll with the
16070s	punches and just barely able to get over
16073s	game number one's obstacle and look at
16075s	the relief on his face he was clearly
16079s	feeling very stressed about that
16081s	particular game his back was against the
16083s	wall but now it is Tom who is looking to
16086s	find a reset here he was so far ahead
16089s	and to have that Victory snatched from
16091s	his hands that's got to be tough on you
16093s	mentally here in the finals of the world
16095s	championship that's right because Frozen
16097s	said he wasn't exactly sure how to even
16099s	approach Tom's Daydream he said in the
16101s	very beginning uh before the series he
16103s	doesn't even know that makes him better
16105s	or worse than the traditional lineup
16106s	because Jay drew it against Highlander
16108s	Breeze can be very volatile depending on
16109s	how the priest draws and then he has the
16111s	Jade ruined mirror so that was a big win
16113s	for Frozen speaking of volatile here we
16116s	are in the tempo Rogue versus Highlander
16119s	priest matchup we have seen some
16121s	powerful starts featuring Telesis Shadow
16125s	step throughout the weekend as well as
16127s	some clearly very powerful Highlander
16129s	priest games but Frozen is playing a bit
16130s	different uh version of Highlander
16132s	priest as we see from another spite
16134s	historian in his hand his version has
16136s	some dragons
16138s	whereas the chain the opening hand the
16141s	most important card off the Mulligan uh
16143s	so you have early gameplay shadowy brand
16145s	new in the second most the cleric is
16147s	very good here too against Tempo Rogue
16149s	it can give you a tool that can help
16151s	deny your opponent's early game
16152s	aggression wow and give you the ability
16155s	to potentially cross extra cards and
16158s	Frozen Frozen to plan turn one
16160s	I guess I'm looking for Tom he keeps
16162s	Cobalt scale bait and by find Slayer two
16165s	cars that are very powerful for big game
16167s	Tempo but it almost conceives the fact
16169s	that he has a very low chance of getting
16171s	any kind of board dominance early on and
16173s	we see here speaking of more dominance
16175s	early on the North Shire cleric is
16177s	really preventing Tom from being able to
16179s	safely play the swashburger you'd love
16181s	to play swashburger get patches out of
16182s	his deck and go on the offense but if he
16184s	does that cleric will just start feeding
16186s	Frozen cards as he heals them
16190s	that's right patch is a liability no
16192s	dragon drawn for frozen so the historian
16194s	is uh waiting for uh some new history to
16198s	make be made that's right
16200s	Tom of course waiting for some way to
16201s	snipe that Northshire cleric very easily
16205s	but at the same time we've seen Temple
16207s	Rogues take it very slow against the
16209s	Highlander priest primarily because if
16211s	they're so happy to take the board early
16213s	and they overextend it priest clears it
16215s	once or twice then Rogue has no more
16217s	cards that's where a card's like Evel
16220s	Minstrel where they go to play I
16221s	actually had a chance to talk to Frozen
16222s	before the match and he mentioned that
16224s	Tom's version of tempo rope felt would
16226s	be easier for him to be because there is
16228s	only a single copy of that element wow
16232s	and here Frozen uh with a kind of a
16234s	amusing Place fighting his own clerics
16237s	right he decides okay well this Smite is
16239s	less important than the possibility to
16241s	find the more powerful cards in my deck
16243s	decides just cash it in for a card here
16246s	yeah it's essentially just one Mana draw
16248s	card it's okay with that because holy
16251s	Smite doesn't seem like it'll do much
16252s	right now
16257s	Tom has uh gone a bit wider here he's
16261s	setting he looks like he's setting up
16262s	for a very powerful football scale being
16264s	had multiple targets not only is it a
16266s	dragon and a lot of stats but it'll set
16269s	a minions attacked to four assuming all
16271s	these one won't survive
16273s	this also means that even if frozen
16275s	attacks into one of these minions and
16277s	heals up his cleric he will still have
16279s	three points of power attacking the
16281s	board between the two Pirates and the
16283s	weapon that he has set up it's true he
16284s	does have the flexibility of even
16286s	playing Saturday JK uh but look at what
16288s	Frozen has been able to pick up oh dear
16291s	the power work Shield gets the cleric
16293s	out of here and potion of Madness can
16295s	allow him to clear off both of these
16297s	minions which makes even a touty captain
16300s	draw for Tom not allow him to present
16303s	any meaningful threat and now he's able
16305s	to hold on to Circle Healing in case he
16307s	needs to use that for later and again
16309s	emphasizing how important it is to be
16311s	one card deeper into your deck because
16314s	now losing that always might doesn't
16315s	seem that bad of an idea whatsoever not
16317s	at all and Tom here we see it kind of
16320s	exasperation perhaps across ever his
16322s	face he has the ability to coin out
16325s	either the vile spline or the Cobalt
16326s	scale
16328s	the scale bait is very powerful uh
16331s	against Frozen's deck there's only real
16333s	really the kind of her death they could
16335s	take it down easily but uh Tom decides
16338s	that he wants to make sure no more car
16340s	draw for Frozen uh perhaps a good
16342s	decision to be the circle while
16344s	pyromancer waiting for us man but it's
16347s	brought the time
16354s	wow the temple miles fine or sorry the
16358s	spouse finds Tempo is not very good uh
16360s	but he has double Shadow step which
16362s	makes
16363s	biosphine's ability to get crazy value
16368s	very strong against priests but here's
16371s	the thing I'm not really shoving that
16372s	much damage a lot of time when you're
16374s	playing biospire in this position you
16375s	want to hit with a second minion so you
16378s	can pressure your opponent and continue
16379s	to stack advantage on the board
16381s	that's a great move but Tom doesn't have
16383s	much to follow up for us pump could have
16385s	played Noble scale being that turn and
16387s	attacked the face which would have
16389s	buffed his file spine up such that there
16391s	was no trade option available for Frozen
16393s	that could potentially run into a
16396s	silence but it could be a problem but
16397s	throws in here with kazakis
16400s	icker of undeath as a one here has to be
16403s	kind of a attractive since he does have
16405s	Raza as well as clerican is cool though
16407s	the fact that he did potion of Madness
16409s	the patches does add another small
16410s	minion that could potentially be
16412s	resurrected and not work out for quite
16414s	as well
16417s	it is worth noting that that is why you
16419s	want to take patches if you are a priest
16421s	and push an event because if you do
16423s	resurrect it at least it's a one damage
16425s	charge supposed to a one damage do
16427s	nothing
16431s	all right well Tom takes my bone mare
16434s	but only Sixth Man of this turn
16437s	he does have some potential trades on
16439s	either either of these minions and uh
16443s	a number of options I gotta imagine that
16446s	pyromancer is very threat
16455s	I love these preemptive attacks
16458s	yeah this is something we see a number
16460s	of the players do with over the course
16461s	of Worlds this weekend gives them the
16465s	ability to ensure that even if frozen
16466s	heals it it'll be down uh if it attacks
16468s	into something it'll be down to one life
16470s	ooh because potion time with a
16473s	Auctioneer gonna draw quite a bit of
16475s	Frozen oh my goodness here he finds the
16477s	cleric
16478s	draws two cards up the circle one card
16481s	at the auctioneer Rosen is drawing yet
16484s	another here with the Raza hero power
16485s	he's just drawing his deck
16487s	that is the key for Frozen to unlock his
16490s	deck's potential his car draw and there
16492s	was actually multiple options there but
16494s	given how the circumstances played out
16496s	and because Frozen is able to keep that
16498s	Circle of healing by drawing with that
16499s	Holy Smite he now has opened up a world
16502s	of possibilities Frozen has nine cards
16505s	in his hands still has not found
16506s	shadowraper anduin but he has a wealth
16509s	of options available to him and frankly
16511s	Tom needs to deal with his board
16513s	so many options the auctioneer from
16516s	Frozen here has to die there's no way
16518s	Tom can possibly allow that to live and
16519s	hope to win the game
16521s	and the auctioneer Tech is paying off
16524s	dividends a lot of people choose to fly
16526s	with the sunshard but Frozen even set up
16528s	that path too remember kazakis often
16530s	choose the five-man opposion uh so you
16533s	can get draw two and a lot of value but
16535s	he took the one-man potion knowing that
16537s	he has gadgets hand auction here in the
16538s	hand he's gonna go for a big attack
16551s	I think he's he's afraid of anduin
16553s	afraid of dragon fire potion I would be
16556s	my opponent just drew five cars last
16557s	third
16558s	here
16563s	these are all pretty attractive too
16566s	yeah the uh malikos are certainly
16569s	interesting but I think it's a little
16571s	bit too much Manner and then a dragon is
16573s	the most uh Tempo in value
16576s	The Bookworm here allows you to take
16578s	down the vile spine which gives him the
16579s	most immediate impact on the board
16581s	that's true uh you know trying to limit
16584s	your opponent's bone marrow opportunity
16586s	also pretty valuable
16589s	fire does come down
16592s	Frozen can clear the chain the buff
16594s	Chain Gang with his board if he chooses
16596s	he also has silence he's allowed him to
16598s	keep the kazakis around
16600s	just a lot of options
16604s	draw opportunities here either through
16607s	his novice or his acolyte looks like
16608s	he's thinking about acolyte plus Spirit
16610s	lash I wonder
16616s	Spirit lash allows him to clear the
16618s	minion with his kazakis but then I'm
16619s	wondering what he's gonna do with his
16620s	other remaining four Mana
16623s	probably Possibly play the Twilight
16625s	Drake at that moment
16629s	the sort of hand where you just have so
16631s	many possibilities that right it's a lot
16634s	to calculate Frozen uh
16636s	been doing a lot of calculating all
16637s	weekend you see that uh Tom's holding on
16640s	to one card from the very beginning of
16641s	the game for a long time so I wonder
16644s	what he's also reading you can
16645s	established
16646s	that Frozen is a big hand reader
16651s	SI agent so that can continue to help
16654s	with his Tempo plan I hope you like my
16657s	invention
16658s	needs to figure out exactly the rest of
16661s	his turn and it will just be adding
16663s	straight to the board and taking down
16667s	Twilight Drake is the only dragon
16669s	remaining but Rosen has a 412 on the
16672s	board and uh the vile spine
16675s	already got double Shadow steps so I
16678s	think uh Frozen mind's like well does he
16679s	have another bio spy in his hand I'm
16682s	like that he does though yeah he's gonna
16684s	get some bad news this is a big swing
16687s	turn here from Tom
16692s	but thanks to all that car draw froze it
16695s	does have that dragon fire Pokemon so he
16698s	will be able to clear this off quite
16701s	easily
16702s	very big difference of whether or not
16704s	this Dragonfire potion lands
16707s	Frozen gonna hesitate don't immediately
16709s	snap call if you don't have to think if
16711s	you can even conserve your resources it
16714s	does have even Bell and spear last we
16716s	wanted to go for that but that wouldn't
16717s	clear up everything and it is just such
16719s	a clean uh clear with the dragon card
16721s	potion most people even go on offense
16723s	with the Sia
16727s	and crucially the more damage you can
16729s	get onto Tom the more he can reduce his
16731s	life pedal before he even gets to the
16733s	stage of the game where he plays anduin
16735s	you have to let less hero Powers he has
16736s	to do to burn him down
16738s	Thomas is playing very conservative this
16741s	resources trying to extend the length of
16743s	this game now he's starting to sense
16745s	that Frozen doesn't have the end to win
16747s	because he would have had multiple
16748s	chances to do only eight cars left in
16750s	the deck and there's the shadow Reaper
16754s	right on time to take care of bone
16756s	marrow the crowd loves it
16758s	and Tom does not he concedes Frozen is
16763s	up two games to zero
16765s	one more win is all that separates
16767s	Frozen and immortality
16772s	as we will find out what will happen in
16775s	game three the USA fans are chanting
16779s	fans and friends have flown across
16782s	thousands of miles and kilometers cheer
16786s	on their favorite player Tom right now
16789s	on the other end you gotta wonder what
16792s	can he do right now is he's down in the
16794s	dumps it is tough and you know I believe
16796s	he knew coming in that Frozen's lineup
16798s	was a tough one for him but I think that
16801s	he hopes to be doing better than this
16802s	down zero two he cannot stand to lose
16805s	one more game here's the thing those
16807s	were two matchups that are very favorite
16809s	for Frozen on paper look at the big
16810s	spell Mage with the sculpted guys Tech
16812s	great against Jade Druid if it's able to
16814s	line up his game plan Highlander priest
16816s	with all of its removals against Temple
16817s	Rogue especially because Tom's
16820s	temporarok only has one Elven Minstrel
16821s	so he's definitely on the less greedier
16823s	side
16824s	or greedier depending on how you want to
16826s	look at it and that even favors Frozen
16828s	so now we come to Frozen's last
16831s	remaining deck can you win with this day
16834s	truth
16835s	Rosa does have a uh
16848s	we are perhaps one game away from seeing
16852s	a new Hearthstone world champion Frozen
16854s	only needs to win with his Jade Druid
16856s	and uh
16858s	as we've said
16861s	for
16862s	as we said Frozen has a very unusual
16865s	lineup in general even his Jade Drew
16867s	deck is a bit different than most his
16869s	Jade druidek is focused around violent
16872s	teacher which allows him to take a much
16874s	more aggressive stance in uh matchups
16876s	against control decks it also allows him
16879s	to to go wide with minions against Tempo
16882s	Rogue and that's one of the crucial
16883s	differences I feel like it's much
16884s	stronger in that matchup that's right
16886s	if I already painting the cube warlock
16888s	Jay Drew doesn't have that many
16890s	weaknesses
16892s	Apple Rogue is one of them
16894s	but he has a j Druid mirror and he has a
16897s	Highlander priest matchup and if Tom
16900s	wants to reverse sweep he's going to
16901s	beat the Jay Druid three times just one
16905s	expansion to go and Knights of the
16907s	Frozen Throne Jay Drew was the Public
16909s	Enemy Number One
16910s	and Tom could play a hero to all the
16912s	time travelers out there
16914s	if he can take it down three times but
16916s	he's gonna turn to his Highlander police
16918s	for answers
16919s	I think frozen might be the hero of B
16921s	just beats this Highlander priest here
16922s	though
16925s	but a cleric is available for Thomas
16926s	first one which we have seen uh played
16929s	very often in this matchup to prevent
16931s	the Jades from coming down without the
16933s	risk of card drop from the priest
16935s	roses does not have I was gonna say he
16937s	didn't have ramp but he just drew a jade
16939s	Blossom and Tom with the Glock problem
16941s	he's going offense he needs to get
16943s	damage in rather than just wait for the
16946s	combo and burst damage because there is
16948s	a lot of Armor Games available
16952s	yep that Northshire cleric is a problem
16954s	for Frozen because playing J Blossom
16957s	means that Tom has a guaranteed weighted
16959s	car draw
16961s	to it and heal but Frozen kept the
16963s	nourish that's something that I remember
16965s	he was one of the first players to talk
16966s	about guys like you always keep nerves
16967s	in any kind of uh slow Druid Deck back
16970s	when Maui goes through it was popular
16972s	and then the winter championships where
16974s	he qualified for the world
16977s	see Tom 3-0 with this Highlander priest
16980s	deck so far this weekend gonna have to
16982s	make it 4-0 he wants to keep
16985s	his dream of a world championship alive
16992s	this is not the first time Tom has been
16995s	down zero two in this tournament before
16996s	though he swept against doc poon after
17000s	he was at a deficit he came back and had
17002s	that reverse sweep can he do it again
17005s	yeah the difference between back then
17007s	and now is that the stakes have never
17009s	been higher
17011s	Frozen coins out Aya black Paul has a
17013s	lot of J trains going leading into
17014s	malfur in the pestilent Tom picks up
17016s	shadowy Brandon so the death Knights
17018s	have been located
17021s	and Tom is drawing more and more with
17023s	this Northshire cleric he's gonna Even
17025s	Silence and remove the eye of this is
17028s	starting to get out of control in the
17029s	car draw for the priest Frozen does have
17032s	the option to drop a behemoth or nourish
17035s	this turn I think he is likely thinking
17037s	of nourishing to avoid that uh hard
17039s	drive to do but no
17041s	to get on this board here and defend
17043s	himself that damage even just from the
17045s	small minions does add up
17050s	circle of healing does offer quite a bit
17052s	of potential card draw for Tom if he
17054s	wants to
17055s	cash it in
17058s	but those Jades are starting to get
17059s	bigger here so he's gonna have to figure
17062s	out how to deal with Frozen's offense as
17064s	well
17066s	hit Circle draws two cards for Tom
17070s	Shadow vision's gonna give us more
17071s	options shadow of pain is a great way to
17073s	deal with that behemoth
17074s	thank you
17075s	blessed be this be this funnel cake in
17079s	the march of the tiny minions continues
17081s	yeah and this little chip damage
17084s	it's starting to be relevant in my
17085s	opinion like 22 is significant just from
17088s	the Northside cleric and a Glock crawler
17091s	and still frozen doesn't have a way to
17094s	stop the car draw
17096s	this Northern cleric is single-handedly
17097s	drawing half of Tom's deck
17101s	Frozen
17102s	debating malfurion
17105s	one of the more important cards of the
17106s	matchup just in terms of getting that
17107s	armored total up
17111s	I have said many times throughout the
17114s	weekend that I always feel so smart and
17116s	I feel like players are so smart
17118s	whenever they make spiders here I think
17119s	spiders maybe what Frozen is looking for
17122s	he certainly does not want to just make
17124s	comedians that jump back into and they
17127s	are at the poisonous spiders
17130s	no potion of Madness
17132s	but there is a shadow Vision if Tom
17134s	wants to dig for one
17139s	I found six bells in the free slice
17142s	Arsenal
17144s	that cuts one down
17147s	Shadow Visions fine
17149s	no spiders are done for
17152s	and Tom with the proper draw we don't
17155s	know if that horse might end up being a
17157s	Difference Maker there but it certainly
17158s	improved his probability
17161s	Tom is firing on all can is not rattled
17164s	whatsoever being down 0-2
17170s	Frozens Jades are getting bigger though
17174s	cleric final hard drop may be dealt with
17178s	but it has done a lot of damage so far
17181s	already available the shadowy Brandon
17184s	foreign
17192s	does recognize the next chains that
17195s	Frozen will be making will be five five
17196s	so once they get the removal effect of
17198s	it in addition
17199s	to turning into the new hero power
17213s	the march of the Minions going
17215s	connecting with the priest of the feast
17217s	Frozen with no armor
17221s	and as of now no ultimate infestation
17224s	but he does have fandrel and nourish who
17228s	wants to get that Jade train to continue
17230s	rolling
17238s	stereotype he's been holding for so long
17240s	will finally
17242s	be able to be of use
17245s	and right now
17247s	Tom's Temple early on has started to pay
17250s	off huge dividends
17256s	oh he's near the draw for Tom
17261s	and win still available would kill one
17263s	Jade but
17265s	will Tom wait try to get more
17273s	and he has some powerful removal in the
17274s	form of the Android and psychics those
17277s	are his premium cars to deal with a big
17279s	fat Jade board
17283s	Auctioneer to draw more cars to find
17284s	raws that has to at least be somewhat
17286s	appetizing here but his follow-up is not
17288s	exactly great because the AOE has mine
17290s	blast's cheap spell
17292s	oh wow
17296s	psych extreme
17298s	I wasn't anticipating music this early
17300s	here Gibbler I think part of the thought
17303s	process behind the psychic scream is
17305s	getting some cards that are not located
17310s	in an awkward position
17315s	all right well it could be
17318s	and win time no no
17322s	he wants more off that shot every brand
17325s	because for in Frozen's hand he could
17327s	potentially have multiple Jades because
17329s	got shuffled and he just drew with
17331s	nourish
17332s	well with with the psychic scream Gone
17335s	Frozen has a lot of ways to just go wide
17338s	in this board talking about the Violet
17340s	teacher build of the deck which you
17341s	probably just picked up yes that can
17343s	create significant significant threats
17345s	thanks to branching paths if you see two
17347s	copies of already in Frozen's hand and
17349s	also Shadow Visions has been used so
17352s	sometimes you think about the second
17354s	possibility
17355s	of a psychic scream that's discovered
17357s	with Shadow Visions but Frozen has seen
17359s	that possibility and can eliminate them
17364s	trying to figure out how best
17368s	create threats protect himself and get
17371s	the pressure on Tom
17377s	so the final teacher and the spellstone
17379s	was originally what I was looking
17381s	I think the skeletons are only upgraded
17383s	one time actually one of them also got
17386s	upgrade so he does have available he
17387s	does have it available for this
17389s	this is interesting though he's choosing
17391s	to play even slower doesn't want to
17392s	extend too much onto the board
17394s	and that could be one of the reasons why
17395s	Tom just picked up dragon fire potion
17397s	there's Raza
17399s	Tom has all the pieces now Raza anduin
17404s	even radiant Lyra
17406s	so many tools
17418s	yeah we mentioned that Frozen has Gadget
17421s	Sam but no Lyra Tom choosing both and it
17424s	could be a huge real trade how he's
17426s	gonna win this game here it is advent
17428s	time takes down the one big Jade and
17433s	starts the hero powers and throws his
17435s	face could be probably was counting his
17437s	damage he has Raza for the following
17440s	turn and I mean we've seen even people
17441s	the games end just solely off of that
17447s	Frozen now trying to figure out
17450s	much more crucially how to defend
17452s	himself I'm gonna go ahead and spreading
17455s	plague
17456s	now Frozen thinks that the best of this
17459s	game he's gonna be ahead on board so the
17461s	most he's going to be able to ever get
17462s	from spreading plague is just a single
17464s	scare of anyways zakis another big
17466s	powerful card for Tom yeah
17468s	Tom has uh in the Teens worth of damage
17472s	right now
17473s	we'll see if he's able to generate even
17475s	more and then look for that very crucial
17478s	it looks pretty ten Mana potion he wants
17480s	big Power here so fast I didn't even see
17483s	what he'd picked I didn't even see the
17484s	options were deal six to all seven eight
17486s	eight okay so Tom is looking to wipe the
17489s	board that throws and generates and push
17492s	with another big minion
17493s	Frozen shades are at 7-7 so that could
17496s	clear all the Jades up to eight eight
17502s	Frozen actually has 20 points of burst
17504s	damage right now
17505s	each of those branching paths represents
17508s	plus six
17511s	it looks like he's going for armor but
17513s	he is
17516s	being able to go wide with frozen SEC he
17518s	is able to threaten these
17519s	counter-lethals but uh he recognizes now
17522s	okay I'm the one who's under pressure
17523s	and branching paths is gonna have to be
17525s	used for its primary focus in this
17527s	matchup which is armoring up
17530s	just make you wonder though what if
17532s	frozen had the ability to stand on the
17534s	board and even pressure with more about
17536s	a teacher tokens I I think
17538s	a little bit optimistic given that Tom
17540s	had removal but that's the kind of
17542s	delicate balance you have to weigh do I
17543s	go aggressive or am I just gonna play
17544s	very defensive and all of a sudden Rosen
17547s	was
17548s	kind of a critical danger zone now he's
17550s	at 47. yeah and we've talked about how
17552s	powerful the armor gain can be in this
17554s	matchup specifically getting above 20
17557s	even 30 armor as we've seen Frozen
17559s	getting now
17561s	the chances of the Druid winning when a
17565s	priest gets that much armor is very very
17567s	low but Frozen has no ultimate
17569s	infestation
17570s	he and he has all those cards that were
17572s	shuffled into his deck by the psychic
17574s	scream that are keeping him from drawing
17576s	ultimate infestation he doesn't find one
17579s	despite all this armor games they just
17581s	run out of resources
17585s	might be just an exhaustion gameplay
17588s	forget trying to just kill your
17590s	opponents
17593s	he has no cards and ghost shake his head
17597s	because he knows the Dragonfire potion
17598s	clears everything and Tom if he can even
17601s	stick the Lyra on board that ski bending
17603s	himself
17608s	Frozen needs a big draw but remember
17611s	that psychic scream also complicates his
17613s	draw process
17616s	the teacher
17618s	without any other spells though teacher
17621s	does not do much
17627s	and it is Lyra radiant time
17632s	Tom immediately going recognizing that
17635s	he doesn't have to think very much about
17636s	the early stages he needs as much time
17639s	to adapt to any cars that he draws off
17641s	of this
17642s	some players not recognize quite how
17645s	fast they have to go but Tom all
17647s	cylinders firing
17649s	power mind even more resources Frozen
17651s	with no cards Tom's is generating more
17654s	and more
17671s	yeah
17671s	serious glimmer route
17673s	that that could have been an ultimate
17675s	infestation if that had not been shoved
17676s	into effect and Frozen sees the right in
17679s	the wall
17679s	we're going to game number four
17682s	Tom's showing some life
17684s	used to get swept like so many
17686s	beforehand we've had multiple sweeps
17689s	the grand finals of the world
17691s	championship before but he will not join
17693s	them at least not for now and protect
17694s	perhaps
17696s	if it becomes a champion himself that is
17699s	just one step on a long road
17701s	to try and reverse sweep Frozen yeah
17704s	Frozen's Jade drew a deck is All That
17706s	Remains for him to need to win to claim
17709s	that Championship Tom with his own Druid
17711s	and Tempo Rogue
17714s	these baskets can still go either way
17716s	right and remember Tom has a more
17717s	traditional it's more of a new age but
17720s	the standard build of the Jade Druid
17722s	that you come to expect versus Frozen
17724s	has to buy the teachers which is quite
17726s	the Gambit but will it be able to be
17728s	enough to get Tempo it's happened before
17731s	we have seen the pilot teacher plan from
17734s	Frozen end up being enough aggression
17737s	even with the spreading fight the
17738s	opponents you remember the J Druid
17741s	mirror that Frozen head against Central
17742s	law he was heavily unfavored and he had
17744s	such a greedy version of Druid but
17746s	because the file teacher generated just
17748s	enough tokens
17749s	that helped him get enough more presents
17752s	for a win
17752s	Tom would be Edwin Van Cleef in his
17755s	opening hand that is a very powerful
17757s	Tool uh against Druid can very quickly
17760s	make a giant minion
17763s	this is a great cue by Tom as well
17765s	recognizing that oh an interview it
17768s	could help make a huge Van Cleef
17773s	not this turn but the next turn
17776s	we could be in for some fireworks
17779s	and Frozen doesn't have removal he's got
17781s	a ramp
17788s	nothing though unless he wants to pack
17791s	his backs up now Southie is it worth
17794s	doing that at that point because you're
17795s	all in on one card
17799s	Tom could also take it a little bit
17800s	slower he could try and get the hero
17802s	power this turn fire off the Edwin the
17804s	next
17806s	maybe there's a jade boss he saw two
17808s	cards being kept you saw the Jade will
17810s	be played and then his opponent didn't
17811s	play Wild growth
17813s	and then he also knows that Frozen likes
17814s	to keep nourish but it might be too go
17816s	time
17819s	he's going for the biggest fan Cliff he
17822s	can make we saw that backstab Mouse over
17826s	when Frozen sees this he knows what's
17829s	coming yeah
17832s	that is a 10-10 Vancleave
17835s	Frozen does not have a way to deal with
17837s	it right now we have seen Frozen face
17840s	down huge fan cleats early before in
17842s	fact I believe he beat a 10-10 bank
17844s	leads on turn two in the winter
17845s	Championship to qualify him here he has
17847s	two turns left to survive
17850s	thank you
17855s	by the teachers is interesting
17858s	you can play mark of the Lewis and by a
17860s	teacher that was summoned a decent
17862s	amount of stats and you can swipe it
17863s	down
17865s	and this is the power of the violent
17867s	teacher giving him this board that
17869s	threatens
17871s	the Van Cleef that threatened huh
17879s	slash 30 picks up by a black ball but
17881s	the damage Patel Banks leave did 20. and
17883s	Leroy is in the hand
17886s	unless Frozen gains armor and kills the
17889s	entire board he is dead next turn
17900s	he can swipe
17902s	trade his board and hero power but he
17904s	has to hero power this turn or else
17907s	Leroy what's the dagger will be lethal
17911s	damage oh no failed broke seals at
17914s	Frozen is going to take lethal damage
17917s	from Leroy next turn and we are going to
17920s	a game number five just as fast as it
17923s	can it has ended Frozen can't believe it
17928s	Tom has equalized and we are going to
17931s	one last final game to determine who
17934s	will go home with the trophy
17937s	almost down zero two
17941s	now in in the blink of an eye he has
17944s	brought the match back to even
17947s	we're down to a best of one for the
17949s	world championship
17952s	it's gonna be a Jay Druid mirror to end
17954s	it all Frozen was looking comfortable
17956s	before
17959s	but now he's looking as nervous as ever
17961s	the stress his piling
17964s	Frozen has been a player we have seen
17967s	look incredibly confident
17970s	incredibly stressed
17972s	right now he looks stressed the pressure
17973s	is back on him he was up 2-0 there was
17976s	even the the confetti kind of coming
17977s	down as a moment of laughter did he was
17979s	kind of smiling and shake it off but Tom
17982s	kept his resilience
17984s	look at the body language of these
17985s	players how it is shifted over the past
17987s	two games Frozen was sitting confidently
17989s	Tom was sort of slumped in his seat as
17991s	he was down zero two but now it is
17994s	frozen who looks like he has the
17995s	pressure on him and Tom he's just
17997s	staring confidently at the screen
18003s	Temple Road got the win it was supposed
18005s	to his favorite net match of the
18007s	Highlander priest of Jade Druid end up
18009s	going Tom's away with two games in a row
18011s	he is one game away from sweeping the
18013s	Jade Druid which we alluded to
18015s	not too long ago as we get ready for
18019s	game five Jay Drew and mirrors can be
18021s	very volatile based off of those opening
18023s	hands
18024s	and these are very different builds of
18026s	the deck they are voted to stay through
18028s	it but Rosen is playing oh gosh Violet
18031s	teacher build neither player wants to
18033s	look at this oh wow oh interesting that
18037s	is not something I expected to see Tom
18040s	keeps ultimate infestation he finds wild
18043s	guard he finds Jade blossom
18045s	would that pay off I mean Frozen had two
18048s	ultimate infestations but he opted to go
18049s	for the early game ramp opportunities
18051s	well Tom has that ramp wild growth
18055s	gets the engines churning
18059s	Rosen finds Interfaith yeah he could
18061s	coin out the Jade Blossom and then next
18064s	turn he could innervate out nourish
18066s	Frozen's build includes one copy of
18068s	interface yes
18071s	that early game Tempo does matter
18073s	as being able to get your Jade count
18075s	ahead of your opponent often will tilt
18076s	the battles in your favor the early game
18078s	minions it used to be James Spears from
18080s	the past but now that Jay behemoths
18081s	won't matter as much attention class but
18083s	a teacher comes down and Tom does not
18086s	have an easy way to deal with this he
18087s	does not have any armor gain to let that
18089s	iron with golem attack unless he decides
18091s	to fire up Ranch to pass Jade Blossom
18094s	wow
18096s	Tom already
18098s	a seven Mana next turn
18100s	with the invitation in and
18106s	crucial moment in this game here since
18109s	Frozen has two forms of Car drop with
18111s	two forms of alternative uses as well
18112s	any Mana crystals can help him jump
18114s	ahead of Tom's ramp
18116s	one of the really powerful things about
18118s	branching paths is it does allow you to
18120s	more aggressively use nourish for
18122s	crystals so Frozen can use his nourish
18124s	and still have the branching pass to
18126s	fall back on if he can't immediately
18128s	find an ultimate infestation
18132s	and he goes for it he's ramping up
18135s	we are going to be finding some Heavy
18137s	Hitters very soon in this game he knows
18140s	that Tom still doesn't have the armor
18141s	gain he would have to generate it
18143s	through malfurion and even dance doesn't
18144s	have a way to answer the by the teacher
18146s	fandral plus wrath here allows him to
18148s	answer yes his Jade gold
18154s	now Tom is firmly ahead of the board
18169s	foreign
18170s	has that inner faith if he does find an
18172s	ultimate fish next turn he will be able
18175s	to cast it but this turn it looks like
18176s	it's time to be a death knight
18179s	is it spider time
18184s	it's always spider town it's always
18186s	spider time and uh you know now we're
18189s	starting to beach the climax of what
18190s	these early game decisions have will
18192s	lead to Frozen chose to throw away the
18194s	ultimate vestations and that's looking a
18196s	little week on the card draw outside the
18198s	branching pads and then Tom
18201s	is gonna have plenty of resources
18206s	here finds Jade Idol and a wild growth
18210s	and her next turn
18212s	Jade Idol plus spellstone lets him empty
18216s	his hand
18218s	take down one of these spiders
18223s	next turn he will have infestation plus
18226s	Arcane tyrant
18230s	Frozen does not find Ultimate
18232s	infestation of his own
18236s	class
18237s	Violet teacher branching paths does let
18240s	him go quite wide here I am ready if it
18242s	has potential to mark up the look of the
18245s	well
18248s	and this ability to go wide is much
18251s	stronger against the threat of an
18252s	individual ultimate infestation
18255s	but he's still
18257s	doesn't quite have the tools to take
18259s	down both fandral and the Golem
18262s	decides to even hold on to his
18264s	innervation
18269s	control
18270s	and now going to stay onto the board
18272s	which allows Tom
18273s	to kill that bar the teacher
18279s	ultimate infestation
18281s	like so many times before draws Tom a
18285s	huge hand
18287s	another infestation
18291s	Tom is just firing in all cylinders here
18297s	the I guess the Solace is that Frozen
18301s	is uh still kind of keeping up in the
18304s	Jade count right now
18307s	but still looking but kind of dicey here
18310s	he is not keeping up in cards he does
18313s	have the board Tempo though
18319s	that is a lot of change and Frozen's
18322s	almost out of cards
18326s	bruh right now he's shaking his head he
18329s	did not find it
18336s	ranching paths let's dig once again
18342s	oh
18343s	I have black Paul just get strong go on
18346s	our girl's best friend
18348s	that's pretty big for frozen it is but
18350s	his Jades are still smaller than Tom
18352s	he's still behind
18361s	Tom has the opportunity to take lots of
18364s	advantageous trains here
18366s	with the Arcane tire at his hand
18368s	infestation number two yeah
18371s	so the builds of the decks are really
18374s	starting to show Frozen doesn't have
18375s	these Arcane tyrants for the swings and
18377s	Tom with the early Gambit of ultimate
18380s	infestation is paying off in spades
18383s	another Shake of the head spreading
18384s	plague is not it we'll buy him some time
18389s	Tom with a fist full of cards
18392s	will not give him too much longer
18400s	Frozen choosing not to remove a minion
18403s	instead play open summons on no minions
18405s	just for the Armor Games
18411s	Thomas pair of swipes here you can pick
18413s	apart these scarabs and start pushing
18415s	for damage you can also just build more
18417s	Jades he has a behemoth
18419s	he's a jade Idol
18429s	where Jade swipes the face lets all
18431s	these four attack minions take down the
18432s	scarabs
18439s	Tom has an army
18442s	Rosen finds wild growth
18449s	car drops too late
18451s	where are his ultimate infestations he
18453s	chose not to keep them
18457s	and now Tom has all the Time in the
18460s	World to establish his board president
18461s	things are looking dire for our USA
18464s	player
18468s	Tom finds an Aya of his own he has so
18471s	much pressure
18483s	even with such a sharp Advantage Tom is
18486s	still looking to make zero mistakes here
18497s	Jade Golem's Victory this might be too
18501s	much Gibbler this is so much damage 15
18505s	25 30 31 34 plus person to hand
18510s	ultimately infestation's finally drawn
18513s	if it gets too late Frozen picks up a
18516s	hand of cards but Tom has a board full
18518s	of giant minions
18524s	he has 28 on board
18527s	the branching pass allows him to get an
18529s	additional 10 that's 38
18532s	swipe is 42.
18535s	43 he'd still be short even if he could
18537s	go All Phase with everything but they
18539s	can't kill him this turn this board is
18542s	almost inevitable
18544s	Frozen look at his hand he has swipes
18547s	can pick apart a few minions but not all
18550s	of these giant monsters
18555s	this is looking like it's gonna be over
18558s	soon
18559s	Frozen takes off the headset Tom's
18562s	Victory is his Tom
18564s	602-9 it's a 2017 Hearthstone world
18569s	champion
18571s	we have a new member in the Hall of
18573s	Champions Tom 60229 from Taiwan takes
18577s	the Hearthstone World Championship his
18579s	first appearance he's in the first world
18581s	championship in 2014. we had an early
18584s	exit here there but he will not be
18586s	denied
18587s	in 2014
18590s	he fell in the group stage of the world
18592s	championship 2015 went on a rampage
18595s	qualifying for almost every big
18597s	Invitational across the globe winning in
18600s	three continents then in 2016 second
18603s	place losing in the last call but
18606s	finally get that cover to World
18607s	Championship he's the first asia-pacific
18609s	player to claim the world championship
18611s	trophy
18613s	all the way for the last call
18616s	cementing his place above the world's
18618s	best and can you say APAC will no longer
18621s	be underestimated
18623s	not anymore not anymore all the
18626s	contestants coming out to congratulate
18627s	him we have a winner TJ is waiting with
18629s	Tom
18631s	thanks very much guys I'm standing on
18634s	stage with the current world champion
18636s	Tom 60229
18642s	and I guess the first question to ask is
18644s	how does it feel
18649s	uh
18652s	we're not on the stage I'll probably
18653s	start crying right now
18655s	it's okay man I'll try and keep it short
18657s	it's okay uh you know another question
18659s	you're the first representative from
18661s	Asia Pacific to ever win a world
18663s	championship does this mean something
18665s	special to you
18668s	um
18679s	it's definitely important that you know
18681s	I won for the APAC but the most
18683s	important thing is that I won as a
18684s	champion that's right man all for
18686s	yourself you did it and next one
18689s	so looking back to 2014
18693s	when you said yourself that you had a
18695s	disappointing performance did you ever
18696s	think that you'd make it back to have
18698s	another chance
18700s	um
18722s	I think ever since I lost in 2014 the
18725s	last few years also all I've been trying
18727s	to do is just give on get back to the
18729s	stage and trying to play good and uh to
18732s	be able to win this uh two news
18734s	Championship means so much to me and I
18735s	feel so lucky
18737s	last question I just want to ask if
18739s	there's anybody out there that you want
18740s	to give a special thanks to anybody that
18743s	you want to give a shout out to the
18745s	floor is yours
18754s	foreign
18766s	I really want to thank to my fans my
18769s	families and also Samuel although I
18771s	don't expect a lot of emotions in the
18774s	past but uh I really grateful for all
18776s	your support
18777s	all right well now to present the trophy
18779s	I'd like to welcome to the stage
18782s	executive producer for Hearthstone
18784s	Hamilton 2
18798s	thank you
18800s	wow uh what a match
18802s	it's been an incredible year for the
18804s	Hearthstone Championship tour over 50
18807s	000 players from 76 countries competed
18810s	for the right to be here today
18812s	only 16 made it but only one made it to
18815s	the very end let's hear it for our new
18818s	world champion
18830s	thank you
18856s	and before we go we wanted to give a
18859s	special thanks to anybody who's tuned in
18861s	whether it be the attendees here the
18863s	viewers at home or the entire
18864s	Hearthstone Community it's been a great
18866s	year for Hearthstone we hope you all
18868s	enjoyed it as much as we did presenting
18870s	it as we look forward we want to give
18873s	one more shout out to
18875s	tom60229 for the champion
18878s	we hope to meet you all around the heart
18880s	once more until then Gigi and well met
18913s	after becoming world champion Tom went
18916s	on to perform well in the new
18918s	competitive system Grand Masters making
18921s	it to the playoffs of the 2019 season 2
18923s	he faced chonsu in the finals this
18927s	series could have gone either way but
18929s	Tom managed to assert dominance and
18931s	joined surrender as the season winners
18933s	of 2019.
18935s	we're back and ready to go with the
18936s	final match of the day and it is the
18938s	finals of course of the playoffs we have
18941s	at Tom 60229 versus chonsu and the
18944s	players are just about ready to go I
18945s	believe it's a double Shaman shield and
18947s	a double priest band so both players on
18949s	the same wavelength yeah it makes sense
18951s	to me even with them having the
18953s	different Shaman decks Tom with the
18955s	slightly newer token Shaman and chonsu
18957s	with the tried true and tested Quest
18959s	German on his own side they're very very
18961s	devastatingly powerful decks in most of
18963s	the matchups and I think while I started
18966s	off the the weekend thinking the token
18968s	Shaman would be able to if not dominate
18970s	The Quest Germans at least have a
18972s	favorable matchup I'm moving towards 50
18974s	50 if not favored for the question
18976s	honestly I'm thinking at this point it's
18979s	they do I I underestimate how similar
18982s	the early game is for both decks really
18983s	because with hair and evolve for both
18985s	decks and of course the MoGo and mutate
18987s	as well all the kind of Mana cheating
18989s	broken evolve stuff is the same for both
18991s	decks exactly whereas a lot of the extra
18994s	stuff goes in the favor of the quest
18996s	German as the game progresses it's
18998s	really only in the first three or four
19000s	turns that the token Shaman can really
19002s	pull ahead right
19003s	um and I need to stop going off my own
19005s	experience where I'm just winning
19006s	endlessly with the token charm I need to
19008s	remember not everyone's quite so as
19010s	amazing as me and therefore can't take
19011s	the wins and so therefore in a
19014s	conclusion I think it's a fine shield on
19016s	both sides oh Casper reminded me uh to
19018s	tell you to send him send him the cash
19021s	for those lessons
19023s	private tutoring from one of the best
19025s	players in the world Casper the Caster
19027s	yeah
19028s	if if Andres ends up with a casting
19031s	career he has to change his name to that
19033s	I mean we've been there's been rumors
19035s	floating around of GS vs casters so much
19038s	I'm just saying if that happens we get
19040s	Hunter racer right that's just gonna
19041s	happen well now I realize why I've not
19044s	heard these rumors I know who Andres is
19046s	replacing on this team
19048s	is it going to game number one of the
19051s	final Series in the playoffs at the Asia
19054s	Pacific Grand Masters season two Tom
19056s	60229 on the top on the holy wrath
19059s	pardon chonsu on the bottom on that
19063s	Highlander Hunter and again so that once
19065s	today I'll say it again I think Hunter's
19067s	pretty good here
19069s	I agree I think it's a very very fine
19070s	matchup the consistent damage which only
19074s	really got better to be perfectly honest
19076s	with the uh the addition of Call of the
19078s	Wild and Thor Ragnarok Senor del Fuego
19082s	cheeky one drop star oh
19085s	into zephyrus into animal
19087s	comes imagine if it was back there
19093s	honestly I'd love it I love it so much I
19096s	wouldn't even care that it was bad I
19098s	would just be like yes sephorus you look
19100s	at zephyrus and he's making just a memer
19101s	all along a different hand gesture
19105s	a very different one yeah
19108s	Garcia
19110s	can go hitting the board
19114s	obviously part of me wondered if that's
19115s	just deadly shot
19120s	huh
19122s	deadly shot deadly shot's not good in
19124s	the matchup at all push four yeah he's
19126s	good versus exactly Emperor author call
19130s	or an acolyte acolyte is
19133s	acolyte is often a one-off everyone of
19137s	course and Emperor so I was just
19138s	wondering whether you just deadly shot
19139s	and feel forward to face I think that
19141s	was a lot closer than he looks I think
19142s	if Tom was damaged more than he was it
19145s	would have been pretty easy but given
19147s	that you're only me healing him for a
19150s	small amount sure you're obviously
19152s	missing damage to face
19154s	but it does now present instead a pretty
19156s	good deadly short here
19158s	but now
19159s	because he wrote exactly Misha maybe he
19162s	just goes double secret or even secret
19164s	hero power oh just push face yeah yeah
19166s	okay yeah I like this yeah but like how
19168s	does the call kill the Misha it's got to
19170s	be pyro X
19181s	didn't even see it come into the hand
19183s	before Thomas slammed it down
19185s	first
19186s	how do you not know if you play it fast
19188s	enough it's Battleground deals too
19194s	it's a new expansion tombs of APM
19199s	it's been a bunch of stuff like that if
19200s	you play them quickly enough it does it
19202s	in a different order
19205s	it was all the way back to the the
19206s	chicken so I can find the early data
19210s	slash Alpha if like there were cards if
19212s	you're harbored over them without damage
19214s	to you and stuff like that which
19216s	honestly there's jokes that get thrown
19218s	around now about Hearthstone being a
19220s	very difficult esport to exist because
19222s	of RNG rules the game imagine if that I
19226s	slipped in my mouth just went over the
19227s	minion lethal I'm dead sorry everyone
19229s	was playing on their phones like ah
19231s	strictly better don't have a mouse
19234s	I Mouse over the wrong thing if you
19236s	don't use one
19241s	for a few years in the future and mice
19243s	just don't exist anymore it's because
19244s	it's just eye trackers
19246s	and they just make really funny art on
19248s	one of the cards but if you look at it
19249s	it deals damage to yourself
19252s	yeah imagine that whoa
19254s	that game's coming out soon 2030. what's
19257s	happening now Ray there's a lot of
19259s	damage going to Tom 60229's face which
19262s	is normally the case yeah
19265s	you're a hunter and as I said everything
19267s	or the big removal that Paladin has is
19271s	not built to be used this early in the
19273s	game
19274s	whilst under this much pressure
19277s	kangar already gone by the way so this
19279s	flash of light whilst not bad is not
19281s	mind-blowing while pyromancer is there
19284s	maybe wild Power answer holy wrath yeah
19290s	it's still the the bow though
19297s	hurts me that I can't see what manner
19299s	that Cheval is on
19301s	I mean probably like oh yeah
19304s	but uh just for just I don't wonder
19314s	it's Lydia's coins came out yeah okay
19322s	he can actually try and deal with it
19325s	next turn he has pyromancer into shrink
19327s	ray so that rat trap is uh dealt with
19331s	effectively guitar and it does also mean
19333s	for Tom that going into turn seven which
19335s	is pretty classically the power turn for
19337s	a Highlander Hunter means they really
19340s	can't develop if he has dino table brown
19342s	or cmat here chonsu just will not play
19347s	unless I'm very much mistaken what if
19349s	trying to expect it has the Giga read
19351s	like a snipe he can snipe the Pyro
19354s	because he can't play another Minion
19356s	yeah
19357s	with the the shrink ray I will amend
19361s	that sorry cmat does of course have
19362s	Divine Shield which means
19365s	quality or if it's reduced yes or pyro
19369s	equality even doesn't then clear off the
19372s	board
19373s	so you can play CM out here first night
19376s	Lord
19377s	that is pretty good God
19380s	I think he probably will go for it I
19382s	mean I mean he's smelling a board if
19384s	you're a playing Hunter pack then
19386s	oh
19387s	when Tom knows that it is a rat trap
19390s	sets it up
19393s	oh
19395s	sorry I'll just stop talking shall I
19399s	raise him it's a cool card in the hand
19401s	it is a cool card and it is because it
19403s	pulls stuff
19405s	and gets to hit it so the Cheval if the
19408s	Cheval is cleaned up this game is all to
19410s	one but bear in mind this is not a long
19412s	shot chonsu is very much still winning
19414s	the game right now sorry stop talking
19416s	Raven okay don't pyromancer just got
19419s	sniped
19421s	what's good
19425s	you don't have to wait for your
19426s	permission to carry this is like when
19427s	you jinx someone
19428s	like my invention
19431s	what was the the longest form of jinx at
19433s	your school because you always added on
19434s	like 50 addendums right for like you
19437s	know only I can say you're okay to add
19439s	it on every time you say your name you
19441s	have to pay me 10p yeah all those happen
19443s	but no one about to buy them in any way
19445s	shape or form it was just like when we
19447s	were trading cards it was the trade
19450s	facts that happened yeah was obscene I'm
19452s	gonna tell but we agree I've changed my
19455s	mind so it's not how the world Works
19457s	Derek
19459s	foreign
19464s	no honor among the teachers in my school
19467s	and I was like just because I scammed
19469s	him into giving me a shiny Gyarados
19470s	doesn't mean I should be forced to give
19472s	it back
19473s	the first thing I should be rewarded for
19475s	some great businesses
19478s	I got taught how the world really works
19482s	see Matt now he's available to come down
19484s	the rat was subdued which means they're
19487s	the one damage of damage is away but
19492s	and there's no choice really for chances
19495s	I'm not even saying it in a bad way but
19496s	he's just gonna keep on cracking
19502s	and I think oh I think
19507s	oh
19509s	power is so good
19512s	it is good but what you're probably not
19516s	and what this does is just uh removes a
19520s	huge chunk of that issue right exactly
19522s	if they don't if they don't remove it's
19524s	not good enough and again you know I
19525s	said it last game as well uh shrink ray
19528s	CMA still deals to a turn even if it's
19531s	shrink raids so it's still not a bad
19533s	amount of damage especially when you're
19535s	staring at your opponent on five health
19537s	and I just think it's all too much at
19539s	the same time it is that classic
19540s	double-pronged attack from Hunter where
19542s	you don't clear the board they'll burst
19544s	you from hand and if you heal they'll
19545s	kill you with their stuff on board and
19547s	honestly this happens with such
19548s	consistency it's weird because versus
19551s	Highlander Hunter maybe on the surface
19554s	you if you're not experiencing the
19555s	matchup you'd be like oh they don't go
19557s	so fast it's kind of okay but it's not
19559s	about the speed it's about the
19560s	consistency of damage like damage every
19562s	single turn for the whole game they can
19564s	just curve out so well it's crazy
19569s	going for the time out here
19571s	doesn't hit it game two the Highlander
19574s	Hunter taking the win there could be a
19577s	pretty big deal finding that good
19578s	matchup right there at the start because
19580s	I would have to say up against the
19582s	shaman and the uh the zoo as well I feel
19584s	like that might be definitely hard to
19586s	match up it's not terrible far from
19588s	unwinnable but the Paladin is definitely
19590s	the one he was looking for there and is
19591s	a very big win yeah I think the zoo is
19594s	okay to close for Hunter maybe the zoo's
19597s	favorite a little bit I think the shame
19599s	is a really unfun matchup because
19600s	everything you do they just do way
19602s	better and more often so it just feels
19604s	very hard to come back in that one it's
19605s	doable but quite difficult but yeah I
19607s	agree just getting the hunter win
19609s	against the mat the exact matchup you
19611s	want it to in game one great start and
19613s	just a reminder in case you just tuned
19614s	in for the finals this is best of five
19616s	so there are no floating decks anymore
19617s	for these players they have to win with
19619s	every single one of the submitted decks
19621s	apart from the one that was banned out
19623s	so as we're saying this win on the
19625s	hunter is important just remember if you
19627s	watch you know Conquest old school where
19629s	they had to win with every single one of
19630s	the decks it's the same here it is and
19632s	once again if you have just tuned in for
19634s	as Raven said the finals this is the
19636s	finals the winner will be going to
19638s	BlizzCon to be joining surrender as the
19641s	other Asia Pacific representative will
19643s	be finding out these other two
19644s	representatives from Europe and America
19646s	later on today I think there's going to
19648s	be a little bit of a break between Asia
19650s	Pacific and Europe the days aren't quite
19652s	as long in the previous couple of days
19653s	exactly but but it's still a very very
19656s	exciting day of hearthstone and not only
19658s	that next week we're of course looking
19659s	to head over to Bucharest to find out
19661s	who will be joining us in season three
19663s	of hearthstone Grand Masters yeah it's
19665s	going to be a pretty big deal on this
19666s	and then not long after that
19669s	BlizzCon happens
19671s	which tattoo is going to be the global
19673s	uh Champion but for this one
19675s	specifically I think there's an extra
19677s	interesting level of importance
19679s	in the if chonsu wins and goes to Global
19682s	finals then two South Korean players go
19685s	through from the Asia Pacific region and
19686s	honestly they can you know South Korea
19690s	continue to dominate in Hearthstone out
19692s	of the Asia Pacific regions and I think
19693s	that's been the case probably since the
19696s	beginning honestly you know we've had
19698s	players along the lines of cranage we've
19700s	had surrender for the longest time now
19702s	we've got chanceu as well so I I think
19705s	that is going to continue and it's going
19707s	to be a very good showing for uh South
19709s	Korea as a whole if there's the two
19711s	players that get sent from the Asia
19713s	Pacific region and the two of them and
19716s	you can tell how much it means to
19718s	chonsu as a South Korean and as just a
19721s	Hearthstone competitor he picks up the
19723s	desert hair he is ready he was on
19726s	another level of elation that was almost
19728s	inappropriate how happy he was at seeing
19730s	that desert here because this is surgery
19733s	the absolute
19743s	dream very middling isn't it yeah the
19747s	the Tigers
19749s	I'd say that's just about that because
19751s	the worst thing is that you're expecting
19753s	here even though we can see he's gonna
19755s	be safe on it three three is a perfect
19757s	mogu targets not just value trades and
19759s	Buffs back up easily
19761s	thankfully however yeah
19765s	it's got to deal with a couple of
19766s	lackeys though and he can only clear off
19768s	one of these evil totems for the moment
19772s	have a trade and then slosh
19779s	you could bounce the hag it could bounce
19780s	even the uh the spirit
19785s	yeah yeah definitely would agree
19788s	obviously if you can evolve it just have
19790s	it on board right now
19793s	foreign
19822s	ones to keep it alive or he could go for
19825s	that after torn up a big minion yeah I
19827s	think he evolves first okay just like go
19831s	face with a one one I think just doing
19833s	that's fine probably hero power first as
19836s	well to take a two drop uh but you could
19839s	fall we're Mana tied well that's a good
19842s	point yeah yeah I think I like Mana tide
19843s	fair enough yeah
19856s	ready to ride
19859s	oh wait soundtrack yeah okay
19865s	okay
19867s	I'm just like would you not just traded
19870s	in the wolf Rider I just left the doctor
19873s	on full health but how does it ever die
19875s	on full health whereas he could die now
19877s	example hey
19881s	no but you know what I mean right yeah a
19883s	wolf Rider like that just dies to an
19884s	elemental like that right
19887s	I think that was a bit
19889s	I don't know a bit weird
19894s	please welcome to mind control Tech it
19896s	doesn't play more into Minecraft I'll
19897s	take that right because there were still
19898s	four Minions on board and now there's
19900s	there's no one giga good to Target right
19903s	they're all just acceptable if they
19904s	steal it right but like you have the
19906s	wolf Rider which has charge which means
19908s	it can attack on that turn as well like
19910s	if it's my control text right it's like
19913s	it's kind of the same against Minecraft
19914s	I agree it's closer
19916s	done
19919s	the upshot of all of this though is that
19922s	as you can see Chancey looking slightly
19924s	less happy than he did a few turns ago
19926s	it looks like Tom may have slightly just
19928s	got the better of this um he is ahead
19930s	but
19932s	without a damage buff
19934s	chunsu has time
19936s	and honestly he's one elemental away
19938s	from clearing this board more or less
19940s	fair enough right yeah yeah and then if
19942s	he clears it then buys maybe one more
19944s	turn gets the shoulder Wok
19946s	you know he's I think he's not out of it
19948s	yet but if there is one you know one
19952s	versina one bloodlust one even just some
19955s	damage from hand at all it's probably
19957s	gonna spell dude
19960s	because of the fact that an element
19961s	would clear up most of their scores does
19963s	Tom ever just play the plague of murlocs
19965s	I would not be upset in any way yeah
19968s	because it like on average he will get
19970s	like what half of his board have higher
19972s	than one house yeah
19975s	and sometimes you get something like
19976s	this yeah
19982s	even Sandstorm Elemental just does not
19984s	do it anymore yep good play from Tom
19986s	there at the end there just closing it
19988s	out I like that a lot
19991s	no way to fight back unless he evolves
19994s	into a minion is just Exodia
19996s	yeah there's no three drops here that
19997s	can win in the game
20000s	gonna go for it anyway don't blame him
20007s	I like it just get the train and be like
20010s	you Wally died
20013s	sir dominance before
20015s	they have won the wall but I won this
20016s	one battle I won the ball leader aha
20021s	so funny but that is going to even
20024s	direct serious face is really weird he
20027s	never actually has one until it
20029s	surprises you out of nowhere so it kind
20031s	of scares me a little bit that's better
20032s	that's the usual grinning yeah exactly
20034s	yeah that's usual grinning I'm not sure
20037s	if he's laughing at you with you you can
20039s	never decide but that's gonna be even it
20041s	up thank you and um the the shaming deck
20044s	looking a little bit better there yeah
20046s	looking much more on form it was uh
20048s	pretty much just the case of doing uh
20050s	like I was saying it's more important
20053s	for the token Shaman to pull ahead but
20055s	it just has slightly more tools to do so
20057s	the Thunderhead being able to get a
20058s	little bit extra that was needed to pull
20060s	things over there because if you're both
20062s	doing evenly powerful stuff in the early
20064s	game it's who has that little bit of
20065s	extra spice that can pull things in the
20067s	lead sometimes that's the Mind Control
20069s	Tech or the sandstorm Elemental from the
20070s	quest sometimes it's the sea Giants or
20073s	the uh thunderheads from the token
20075s	Shaman and that's the thing I feel like
20076s	the match up whether it gets decided
20079s	that Quest is slightly better or the
20080s	tokens slightly better I feel like it
20082s	does hinge on certain cards from both
20084s	sides right a soul of the murlocs versus
20086s	a sandstorm Elemental for example makes
20088s	all the difference either way so I think
20091s	it just hinged very very closely
20093s	early on but let's move swiftly on we
20097s	have the Holy wrath Paladin for chance
20098s	on the bottom and Tom 60229 on his uh
20102s	specialization of the zoo deck
20105s	double consecration in the starting hand
20107s	if we think back like
20110s	way way back to Old School zoo in uh
20113s	like naxxramas or classic even double
20115s	consecration in Paladin was like the
20117s	dream it's what you always wanted to
20119s	just clear up their boards
20120s	now I'm not so sure if double
20122s	consecration is the way to go doesn't
20124s	even kill a vulture yeah exactly why I
20126s	like chance of going because we're
20127s	looking at scarabags evil recruiters to
20130s	five fives nefer set Thrashers
20132s	just doesn't get the job done enough
20133s	back in those days the three drops
20136s	didn't have five health
20139s	simpler times
20144s	Johnson
20145s	probably pretty happy this Scarab egg to
20147s	be honest
20148s	he um
20149s	as long as he's not getting flame imped
20151s	into you know continual chains of the
20153s	worst and well I say worst most
20155s	aggressive minions then it's probably
20157s	looking pretty good
20158s	I I'm guessing that's sweet our
20162s	spectator he's hovering over that Scarab
20164s	egg so if we could get that moved any
20166s	point that would be great I wonder if
20167s	they're just really hungry thank you oh
20170s	okay that wasn't actually moving thanks
20172s	Tom still didn't work though mate I
20174s	think we're gonna get Scarab now yeah
20175s	there we go in case we already have a
20177s	life cycle of a Scarab box first you get
20179s	the egg and you get an evil recruiter
20181s	knock at his door
20183s	job done the circle of life evil
20187s	recruited holds up a scattered
20190s	I'd watch that let's say him
20195s	your face looks like it's gonna be the
20197s	follow-up pair interview
20200s	and if we could get this mouse
20202s	positioning moved I would love it
20211s	there is something hiding behind that
20213s	evil demon I promise
20214s	this is Tom's strategy all along you
20218s	can't see it he won't play around it
20224s	but for Chon suit it is a case I think
20225s	correctly so of just keeping on with the
20227s	draw you know time out here even though
20229s	it saved uh what was that 12 Health
20232s	there or something it's just not worth
20233s	going for it quite yet because you need
20235s	to get the card drop first
20247s	apart from the best equality in the
20249s	world but honestly it's pretty good it's
20252s	pretty good it might not win in the game
20254s	but it sure made sure he didn't lose it
20257s	because he was looking at age which
20259s	problem is
20261s	our good friend Mr flamewaker
20266s	spells to really make use of it like
20268s	plague of flames I honestly think the
20269s	most important thing is it's just a too
20272s	far it's pretty tanky overall
20275s	all right
20278s	John's who've taken a second to think
20279s	here he was just going to snap peel off
20281s	the flame Waker in the 3-1 but now he's
20282s	thinking
20284s	yeah he's got no wide board AOE so every
20288s	three that comes down is eight a
20291s	nightmare
20300s	before
20302s	Doom in the Tomb this was not the
20304s	breaking point that made Tom go for Zoo
20306s	he's been playing this for weeks but it
20308s	definitely helps
20310s	in gang boss what did I say the new
20312s	edition the void Walker Oh I was like
20315s	Wow wait void walk has been out of the
20316s	game thing yeah just because it was on
20319s	screen yeah yeah yeah I did sorry even
20321s	like gang boss
20325s	I'm a Wrath
20329s	didn't Hammer at the one three void
20332s	Walker and then swung at the flame Waker
20333s	yeah
20335s	but now one of the age age-old
20337s	interactions of imp gang Boss versus
20339s	wild pyromancers no I'm being serious
20342s	right like it will generate tokens every
20344s	time it takes damage so it's not quite
20346s	as strong as it used to be
20348s	control two keeping up with the draw
20350s	though in honestly fashion
20354s	also the quickly draws the quick Recon
20356s	zephyrus into twisting nether shortly
20358s	that's just two damage straight up right
20360s	there in addition to the four damage it
20361s	already gives which means we're now at 8
20365s	14 is that one damage of lethal well
20367s	it's exactly lethal
20377s	flame wicker my friend oh you've got a
20380s	lot to answer for as Tom takes the zoo
20384s	game and that's oh wow that was just
20387s	impressive I didn't really see that
20388s	coming but he got there Grim Valley
20390s	wanted a few spells in the deck that
20393s	would have actually triggered the
20394s	framework in a positive manner obviously
20396s	plague of flames as you mentioned plays
20398s	his own boards he would never have
20399s	played that but wow exactly just
20403s	couldn't hold on did you see how quickly
20405s	Tom added that up I was still counting
20407s	up the initial damage on board and he'd
20409s	already blooming finished the turn he
20411s	was making that was like that it's
20413s	impressive honestly Tom throughout the
20415s	whole season we've talked about how um
20417s	how laid back he looks when he plays
20418s	compared to many of the other players in
20420s	Asia Pacific but for me it's um it's
20423s	more that he looks laid back and as I've
20425s	said to you before it's it's relaxed sit
20428s	forward make the turn sit back done
20430s	there's no you know um during the turn
20433s	happening unless there's outcomes that
20435s	happen obviously that you can't predict
20437s	you have to think about but overall what
20438s	impresses me is he just does the turn he
20440s	just plays it it's done it's a solid
20442s	turn nine times out of ten he gets it
20444s	just in time he doesn't really over rope
20446s	or anything so impresses me a lot and
20449s	him just like clicking on that so
20451s	quickly he's pretty sick actually it is
20453s	his APM off the charts though his mental
20456s	APM and it does mean now that he's left
20459s	with only his Paladin to take a win with
20461s	which I think is a deck for Tommy's more
20463s	than equipped to work with it's I think
20465s	the deck
20466s	maybe aside from priests that we've seen
20468s	misplayed the most across Grand Masters
20470s	Asian Pacific season two there have been
20472s	many instances of players not realizing
20474s	the best lines you know when you just
20475s	have to go for a straight up one in
20477s	three or one in four to be winning the
20479s	game rather than playing out to the
20480s	usual win condition uh but Tom I feel
20482s	like as we saw there his ability to you
20485s	know pretty much figure out what his
20487s	turn is going to be entirely on his
20488s	opponent's turn leaves him the perfect
20491s	style of play to be piloting this deck
20494s	and funnily enough uh
20497s	Tom's 2-0 with Zoo
20500s	pretty impressive also he got here with
20504s	Zoo overall yeah
20505s	so yeah maybe Tom just sees things that
20507s	we do not let's go into it maybe the
20510s	last game with the series the last game
20512s	of the day and the last game of Asia
20514s	Pacific Grand Masters as a whole if Tom
20517s	takes his win he's gonna be going to
20519s	BlizzCon into the global finals if
20521s	chanceu takes the win he holds on
20523s	continues to fight for his chance and as
20526s	I was saying at the start of the weekend
20527s	if you take out of these 16 fantastic
20530s	competitors and it ends up with
20532s	surrender and Tom 60229 that really just
20535s	cements the level that these two players
20537s	are around and the thing is
20539s	now Tom was playing and competing at
20542s	decent and like decent to high level in
20544s	2014 and I'll say and I'll obviously
20546s	back then I was not aware of all the
20549s	tournaments that were happening in the
20550s	Asian region as well I was a very new
20552s	Hearthstone player so it's not like I
20553s	had in-depth knowledge of what was going
20554s	on say over here
20556s	um and surrender also been very
20558s	prominent and successful in the past few
20560s	years so these players aren't just you
20561s	know flashing the pan they've been doing
20563s	it almost from day one and they're still
20565s	doing it now
20568s	thank you
20572s	the Love on this turn is not amazing to
20576s	be perfectly honest for chonsu
20579s	um but you need to be thinking of course
20580s	about the clears that could come down
20581s	primarily consecration but also just
20583s	pyromancer with a coin is a little bit
20586s	difficult a little bit awkward what if
20588s	you just made a trade of the two two
20589s	into the one one and played novice sure
20592s	he keeps the 2-3 up through conk
20597s	Paramount to coins and do anything well
20599s	okay he doesn't do nothing he keeps him
20601s	in through that as well I wouldn't mind
20603s	evolve though honestly
20605s	there's still three drops like most of
20609s	everything
20610s	that's fine pretty good outcome that's
20612s	one of the tighter evolves I've seen
20614s	actually she needs to bounce out
20615s	zephyrus
20620s	coin drink cray means that you can still
20621s	push four I think you're pretty happy
20623s	chappy to see that as John suit
20632s	knows what he's gonna do
20634s	don't get any mind-bending turns right
20636s	now look how this sets up as well if
20638s	Trump's you can find a cohort Lackey he
20640s	is looking at stupid amounts of damage
20643s	even next time it could just be Lackey
20645s	hero power water six directly to face
20648s	good pickup though
20649s	and honestly that was really good
20652s	because if not Tom would have had to
20654s	have time out yeah and that is a very
20656s	early timeout especially when you
20657s	realize this isn't token Shaman Tom
20660s	isn't going to clear the board once and
20661s	be safe true
20665s	I can't draw him
20670s	the hero power changes after you play it
20673s	so you'll never talk to me first I don't
20675s	think your man is too tight here
20678s	so yeah I'm finally starting with the
20680s	novice engineer unless you want to go
20681s	lucky here about wasp which doesn't seem
20683s	great
20686s	right and and for me
20688s	the reason that there wasps extra damage
20691s	makes no impact to what you actually
20693s	want to do yeah means that you may as
20695s	well just not miss first yeah see what
20697s	you draw because it might change
20709s	and also honestly he ruined the one mom
20711s	was actually pretty sick
20716s	the next turn he wants hero power double
20718s	novice potentially which again don't get
20720s	me wrong four cards do you need that
20722s	much though is my question would you not
20724s	rather draw a card immediately to get
20727s	more pressure next turn because here are
20728s	power double novice is zero in terms of
20731s	development it is but when you think
20733s	he's got like lucky generators like
20735s	drinkers that you can play out it
20737s	doesn't need to end this game in like
20739s	the next 60 seconds right he is playing
20741s	Quest Shaman which means he has a lot of
20743s	reach especially when you include the
20745s	barista
20747s	what am I thinking though as to how many
20749s	generators he has is he can afford to
20751s	just play out one of the novice
20753s	Engineers first to like and still have
20755s	enough Mana to spend it this is
20757s	yeah yeah this works out very nicely
20762s	even the Army he's gaining could maybe
20765s	come into play in terms of denying
20767s	lethal from Tom 602 tonight
20779s	even though the kangar is a little bit
20781s	annoying in terms of the health
20782s	generation the Pyro can just clear your
20784s	board so I do appreciate that overall
20789s	wash of Light number two coming down wow
20791s	Tom has been quite fortunate in when
20793s	he's drawing these flash of Lights
20794s	they're coming in the clutch times
20798s	one to help with the clay and the other
20800s	one when kangol's still alive on the
20802s	board
20805s	doesn't mean the rest of his turns a
20807s	little bit lackluster now though
20811s	oh
20813s	25. close
20818s	I wonder if you should have just played
20820s	that guy I'm wondering if he should have
20821s	traded that he's getting a pretty big
20824s	punish from Barista Lynch and now
20825s	whereas he could have just traded into
20826s	the two one
20828s	I guess that had to have been better
20830s	right I guess one of the problems is
20832s	like in this
20834s	in this world tomsdale a tiny bit of
20837s	damage chip in his armor and also his
20839s	kangor always gets traded in two and
20842s	basically like Hearthstone rules dictate
20844s	if you know your minions always going to
20845s	be traded into okay then you take the
20847s	face damage right it as a as a general
20850s	rule because John 2 is not going to be
20852s	like oh yeah yeah you keep you can't go
20853s	he always trains I don't like this term
20856s	from Johnson either I think that should
20857s	have just been barista mogu
20860s	all right trade in the mogu for like a
20862s	value trade with a rush and then upgrade
20864s	it with the witchy lucky
20866s	I feel like he missed a huge amount of
20868s	development on this term for Extra Value
20871s	in hand if he doesn't need to be scared
20873s	of over commenting but
20876s	just like you've created that out of
20878s	nowhere I think
20879s	it's maybe he thinks that he needs the
20882s	mogu as a backup I don't I'm just trying
20885s	to yeah because if he does that if he's
20887s	got Barista on the board he's got an
20888s	evolved Moco on the board and then the
20890s	clear comes down and then his answers
20892s	are like one drops more or less right
20896s	maybe that's what he's thinking I'm not
20898s	saying it's right yeah maybe that's what
20899s	he's thinking if that was what he was
20901s	thinking my response to chance it would
20903s	be all right make congratulations on
20905s	making the finals uh however I think
20908s	having an a drop on board there is way
20910s	more important that would have just shut
20911s	out this play if you told me you cannot
20913s	play thoracan against that much pressure
20918s	and now look at the hand for chonsu he
20920s	could be at six cards as opposed to ten
20922s	cards and have dealt eight more damage
20925s	this term
20934s	I demand the best though it's the finals
20941s	play a good Madness yeah I honestly
20943s	forgot existed what does that do
20946s	it's obviously weapon destruction
20947s	potentially later on if you wanted
20949s	another consideration
20951s	diaphrency on live Drinker oh that's
20955s	what I'm talking yeah yeah no matter
20957s	what class I play I always want to play
20960s	it's not the worst suggestion I've ever
20962s	given yeah because I've gave some real
20964s	bad ones oh he's back sorry what
20970s	okay the missile launch is probably
20972s	pretty bad but the rest are fine I'm
20976s	pretty sure a cheeky legendary on the
20978s	right has 100 win range yeah just saying
20983s	foreign
20985s	has to do something and I'm pretty sure
20988s	it's going to be a timeout
20990s	because this represents so much damage
20993s	um
20997s	spend as much matters yeah and this is
21001s	what the the kind of style of what I was
21003s	moaning on about earlier of the no
21005s	consecrate that turn in the previous
21007s	match okay because Tom's equality but
21010s	there could be like random evolve comes
21012s	down but he spent his manner which means
21014s	he has more money to spend the turn
21015s	after and it doesn't always work out but
21018s	it's just an example of the theory
21021s	oh
21024s	slosh his missile launcher
21026s	plan because now next turn
21029s	if the mech lives he can attach it and
21031s	it's buffed by tons of hell so it's
21033s	burst
21035s	galvanizer lives that's insane yeah he
21037s	just wins
21040s	and then if Tom plays a Meg he can then
21042s	bounce his EMP operative kill it it's
21045s	all it's all hell this is planned years
21047s	ago you're down to to the basement in
21051s	his house and it's just like like those
21052s	little red string wall strings
21054s	everywhere linking to all these Minions
21056s	that he knew would be made
21060s	I just like I'll give you a poison
21062s	weapon me you wanna turn that fight back
21064s	feel some damage to yourself
21066s	it's like uh the diagram in stormline
21069s	and just you could see everything for
21071s	years to come up
21072s	are you on the walls yeah yeah yeah our
21076s	reference is only that's too old
21085s	reporting for Duty
21088s	really
21093s	still not great is it not really
21096s	zero power life Drinker Lackey
21100s	we're looking at a lot of damage now it
21101s	says 23 so three and four
21105s	he has to clear something off the board
21106s	so he loses one damage
21111s	keep one off
21112s	I want to say he's one off I want to say
21114s	he's got 21 damage
21116s	wait but the galvanized is alive
21119s	oh the missile launcher has like a
21122s	million Health right he doesn't have
21124s	Mana though
21125s	we got double bogged isn't that just
21127s	more damage than a live Drinker right
21129s	you're right it's it's like 80.
21132s	wait so four four normally did it get
21134s	did was the hero I think it got doubled
21137s	I think so chancy hover over that
21139s	missile launcher quick
21143s	I need deals one at the end of turn
21146s	that's also true
21148s	and he could then also go hero power
21150s	level as well
21155s	launcher I need to check for my sanity
21159s	I
21166s	need to see it
21170s	it's gonna clear
21174s	did he get time to do everything he
21175s	needed to though probably not
21179s	oh
21182s	that's the wrong trade
21185s	I think that might have been lethal
21187s	did you forget it has magnetic
21190s	and it's buffed from bog
21192s	and it wouldn't have taken up a board
21194s	space as long you know he makes one
21196s	trade but he can play two minions whilst
21198s	trading away one one one so it pluses up
21201s	right he doesn't have to double trade
21203s	yes which is the key to open up more
21205s	damage and I'm thinking like
21207s	even if it was a 60s I think that might
21209s	still have been leaflight there was too
21211s	much going on I couldn't quite count but
21212s	what because it would have plused up
21215s	seven damage by playing the the
21218s	missile launcher minimum yes and there's
21221s	also you can fit in hero power and the
21222s	cobbled Lackey yeah
21224s	so it's minus one from the board and
21226s	then Plus
21228s	what
21229s	seven
21234s	or plus eight actually because the
21235s	cobbled and the one damage at the end
21238s	so if John sorry if Tom just plays
21240s	consecration here
21243s	he's alive on board
21245s	he knows the missile launched his hand
21247s	so he knows that he's dead 100 yeah
21251s	so you could go shivala Shuffle
21254s	consecrations
21257s	this makes sense yeah oh okay huh
21262s	and frosting over might have actually
21264s	been better probably not
21267s	yeah that might be true you know what I
21268s	mean now Johnson can play things whereas
21270s	Frost no but he never dies right
21273s	it's so tense I need him to hover over
21276s	that missile launcher please I just need
21279s	to see for my own sanity
21280s	more laughing small lackeys he can just
21283s	look for lethal here
21285s	no Cobalt he can make one really big
21288s	minion can you discover it in a fire
21295s	foreign
21300s	burglar now unless he's okay with camera
21303s	drawing well wait will they overdraw we
21305s	generate two spells oh he's hero power
21308s	sorry sorry I'm not used to the chairman
21311s	apologies yeah I was thinking like it's
21312s	one for one it's online that sounds
21314s	great to me though but yeah you were
21315s	completely right of course
21318s	all right more damage deal three that is
21321s	a fantastic consecrate this
21325s	well yes
21329s	you can time out consecrate
21333s	just needs to find the holy Earth
21335s	this game's tense and I still need
21338s	transit to hover the missiles
21344s	nothing he can do
21347s	oh it's time
21350s	I can't watch race it's coming down to
21352s	this I can't watch
21354s	still doesn't win that right
21357s	foreign
21363s	s it up two and two we're going to a
21366s	game three but for me someone rewind the
21369s	tape to check that missile launcher
21371s	because I really want to know because
21372s	that felt like enough damage itself
21375s	wrong because it was strictly better
21378s	than a we were adding a live Drinker and
21381s	it was strictly better because you have
21382s	to trade one less minion and also even
21385s	if it's just six it had six to the board
21387s	then one at the end of the turn so
21389s	that's seven so it's strictly just more
21391s	damage than a live Drinker and he could
21393s	still go and hear a power Lackey and he
21395s	could still trade one one one off which
21397s	he always had to do anyway with a life
21398s	Drinker play and then play an additional
21400s	four damage from the Cobalt so very
21403s	interested in that one because honestly
21404s	as soon as I saw the galvanizer and then
21406s	the bounce I was like
21408s	um that's pretty good like that's a Mac
21410s	so we'll have to see on that one there
21412s	maybe a little bit later on after the
21413s	match but there is one more game to go
21416s	and I'm glad it's going down to uh you
21418s	know 2-2 last game of the series to
21420s	decide who goes to the global finals in
21422s	a couple of weeks at BlizzCon I am
21423s	pumped because and honestly
21426s	everyone has favorites and stuff
21427s	obviously and my favorite players but I
21430s	will be genuinely happy regardless of
21432s	who goes through here I think Tom as a
21434s	previous world champion Global finals
21436s	and then chantoo I think with his
21438s	performance this season and the fact
21440s	that I think he's quite underrated as a
21442s	player in general I agree I think it
21443s	would be uh just as cool to see him
21445s	there it just could not be more fitting
21447s	the two players who finished first in
21450s	their division through end up in the
21452s	finals here and of course you could say
21453s	Chon Soo the best performing player in
21455s	season two of grand Masters overall all
21458s	regions and Tom 60229 the uh one of the
21462s	best performing players full stop just
21464s	in Hearthstone overall
21467s	and it's coming down
21471s	this matchup is weird man this matchup
21474s	is very very weird it often comes down
21477s	to at the end uh timeout tennis where
21481s	you just end up going time out time out
21482s	time out time out and the player runs
21484s	out first and therefore the player who
21486s	played the first one kind of just ends
21489s	up losing
21491s	me but of course the decisions you're
21492s	making along the way that dictate how
21494s	that works at the end is where the real
21496s	Artistry of the matchup shines through
21498s	to add an additional sprinkle of spice I
21501s	think Emperor will form heavily on the
21503s	matchup too because if one player gets
21505s	to play Emperor say on curb or you know
21507s	even in a reasonable time frame and the
21509s	other player does not
21511s	we could be having another doctor boom
21513s	situation on our hands now
21519s	bless you
21522s	hope I don't know I don't think there is
21524s	anything you can say
21525s	stopping yeah
21541s	that seemed like quite an easy swing
21543s	into the acolyte there
21550s	ready
21551s	Tom obviously smells from the fact that
21553s	the cruso was equipped but didn't kill
21555s	the acolyte that chanceu is gearing up
21557s	for an overdraw
21558s	so he act he just equalities his own
21562s	board partially to get a card out of his
21564s	hand and also of course just to make
21566s	sure he cannot be overdrawn but that
21569s	kind of also helped chunsuke because now
21571s	he has a practice turns it Loose into
21572s	more Manic and Tom draws less cards
21575s	honestly I don't know where you stand on
21578s	this darling
21579s	but also since Tyler the other day and I
21582s	think he was with Fino at the time and
21584s	he was saying anyone who tries to make
21586s	Paladin overdraw is silly because it
21589s	never works all it does is draw the deck
21591s	faster right
21592s	um obviously there's certain caveats if
21595s	you can overdraw them for eight cards
21597s	the next turn fine yeah but you know the
21600s	one to two cards honestly I can see his
21603s	point uh most of the time it doesn't do
21605s	what you need it to do
21607s	um so therefore you're just making them
21609s	draw faster which often makes you lose
21611s	faster but where do you lie on this I
21613s	think there's very specific scenarios
21614s	where you can do it like say there are
21616s	eight cards and you draw them three
21618s	cards with that acolyte you're drawing
21620s	them two cards kill them one that's a
21624s	bad outcome for you you're on average
21626s	making yourself more likely to die
21628s	because you're speeding up the game if
21629s	there are nine cards and you kill their
21632s	act like they're gonna draw up to ten
21633s	anyway so you're just kind of over
21635s	drawing them Accord from their deck at
21637s	that point then I get I think it gets a
21639s	little bit more or blurred as to whether
21641s	or not you're supposed to because in
21643s	this matchup if you're hitting any of
21645s	the five cards in shavala two Bell for
21647s	bankers and two holy rats you can that
21650s	can make the difference between winning
21652s	let's see how it plays out so far we're
21654s	gonna see another holy at Holy rap
21656s	shrink rate sorry gonna come down and
21658s	clear up chances acolyte now with them
21660s	much not to do
21663s	but either way oh big deal oh
21667s	oh
21668s	man imagine if it's playable this turn
21672s	filthy filthy
21675s	I honestly hadn't really even considered
21677s	until seeing it this weekend the emperor
21679s	off of Prismatic lens effect it's nuts
21686s	so this is Chevalier but honestly that
21689s	flash of light is a little bit
21690s	unfortunate
21691s	having the playable heel is actually way
21694s	important in this matchup yeah and even
21696s	just the troll to make a big old
21698s	difference to get there quicker because
21700s	at the moment Tom is pretty clearly
21701s	ahead on the card draw for the moment at
21703s	least guess what chance who's playing
21705s	this turned Aaron yeah I think oh it's
21709s	so crazy double totally rats it one
21711s	Banker here
21724s	I wonder if I don't see a chance you
21727s	just let rip with a holy rat mixed
21730s	it's so ridiculous that's what I mean
21732s	it's not crazy is it
21735s	because of course you're pretty much
21736s	just looking at 100
21737s	uh lethal especially once he finds his
21740s	zephyrus of course as well so one
21743s	activation through space will just win
21744s	the game
21750s	I won
21754s	oh okay wow 17 Mana
21758s	it's a lot of Mana can you dump enough
21760s	cards here in order to play your
21763s	Prismatic lens how important is baleful
21766s	Banker
21767s	I think I like holy wrath yeah look at
21770s	the holy wrath before I bail for Banker
21771s	oh does he have no minions left in depth
21773s	no he does he's got another bank yeah so
21775s	he would be over drawing if he went for
21776s	them he may say fine I like Wrath
21780s	because it might make Tom a timeout
21783s	okay right makes you think you have
21786s	shivala left in deck yeah or it might
21789s	just make him think well if he's wrath
21790s	and it means he's setting up to just go
21792s	because rap draws him a card which gets
21793s	him closer to zero cards right
21795s	I think I like it drawing more cards and
21798s	he needs to reduce the shivales Mana
21800s	down pretty quick yeah there's no point
21802s	being at zero cards if you Cheval is
21803s	like you're 15 Mana six cards left in
21806s	deck 17 that's actually exactly he needs
21808s	to do something now okay he went for a
21810s	quality Prismatic lens because he's
21812s	gonna overdraw
21814s	which is fine yeah worst case like
21817s	Banker as long as you've got the
21818s	zephyrus here I think he's happy
21820s	and I think if we got either Banker or
21823s	zephyrus he would have been fine yeah
21825s	and if he's only overdrawing one card
21826s	he'll only ever burn one of those do you
21829s	know what I mean so if he has one or the
21831s	other he can make a decent turn or at
21833s	least a setup and I think probably only
21834s	one Banker is necessary I think that
21836s	should agreed agreed it should be enough
21837s	but if you if worst case he burned
21839s	Zeppelin had to it's good because it's
21841s	it's fine it's fun and I think Tom has
21843s	very limited options here I think there
21846s	was a question whether he was going to
21847s	go time out with this Emperor or not he
21849s	has not gone for it but that means he
21851s	could just be dead
21853s	well from this point onwards just
21856s	looking at ripping the lethal at pretty
21859s	much any point for these players
21865s	and chance you have to be thinking now
21868s	all right
21869s	is this a timeout term do I finally have
21872s	to Blink if you will I think it's a
21874s	shrink right turn
21876s	what about shrink ray consecrate
21879s	swing phase
21885s	maybe instead of that he has to string
21887s	Creek consecrate timeout
21893s	well he needs the Cheval right yeah he
21895s	needs it down so he has to start using
21897s	his spells
21898s	it's gonna hold so chance you could die
21901s	this time he's not even swinging either
21904s	yeah well that's the problem if he
21906s	swings and then Tom heals yeah yeah he
21908s	might just he's in more trouble right
21910s	because he's not necessarily going to
21912s	have active zephyrus or even hit the
21914s	Cheval next year so chanceu taking a
21917s	risk right now he might just die what
21921s	and because Tom's already used a holy
21924s	wrath he can't guarantee it
21927s	I guess that wasn't a swing my thinking
21929s	was if he goes for the swing there he
21931s	can still just go uh for the lethal out
21933s	of his own and then go zephyrus plus
21935s	lava burst for the win
21940s	Tom do you actually just go
21942s	shivala Shuffle Shuffle take a one in
21944s	three to win the game are your chances
21946s	of winning better than a 50 50 here
21947s	because from this point chonsu can just
21949s	start time outing but it's more than 50
21951s	50. can Shuffle two chevellas in okay
21953s	good point she's a two out of three
21954s	chance to just go to the finals
21957s	Tom's a better player than I am but if I
21960s	had a two out of three chance I would
21962s	lock that in every day of the week
21966s	but now on the other side because the
21968s	emperor reduction here chonsu has a
21970s	chance for legal right now
21972s	because he can just go for Banker holy
21976s	wrath zephyrus lava burst and I think
21979s	he's just going for it chances locking
21981s	it in Tom took him more measured
21983s	approach is he gonna suffer fruit we're
21985s	about to find out
21987s	laughs
21988s	foreign
21992s	still in the hand It's Not Over
21997s	but the problem is if you are the first
21999s	player to time out you are probably the
22001s	player who's going to lose and now for
22003s	chonsu if he doesn't do it
22006s	I think it's just game over
22011s	should you have started the term with
22012s	hammer of Wrath face no that wasn't
22014s	lethal he needed the Manifest
22018s	yeah because the holy rap song didn't
22020s	damage yeah
22022s	oh
22026s	I'm still mind blown
22030s	that Tom didn't go for lethal left turn
22032s	I think that might just be a lock in
22034s	Tom's favor to be honest I'm not yeah
22035s	yeah don't get me wrong I'm not saying
22037s	yeah I'm right Tom messed up but I just
22039s	have it so in my mind that if I had a
22041s	two out of three shot
22043s	to just done game over finish done
22045s	finish for the day
22047s	weirdly enough though Tom had a two out
22050s	of three chance to win the game and if
22051s	he misses then he pretty much just lost
22053s	chance who took a one out of three
22055s	chance to win the game and if he misses
22057s	he pretty much just lost which means it
22059s	was kind of worked out the same way
22060s	either way for Thomas and he had a two
22062s	out three to win
22063s	guess obviously he couldn't have known
22065s	that yeah yeah but it's just interesting
22067s	okay so the first time I was played yep
22070s	which means chansu on paper is behind
22073s	big time Big Big Time
22078s	okay yeah yeah sure this is fine he
22080s	still has shavara
22089s	push him further out of range this is
22091s	actually a sick play is this a look
22095s	I think so Tom
22098s	Tom does not necessarily have 30 damage
22100s	he can deliver from hands so I'm
22102s	wondering if there's any way
22104s	and destroy the weapon
22107s	I'm gonna go ahead and say probably not
22108s	yeah I'm gonna say hard no and most
22110s	importantly
22112s	anytime soon I think ladies and
22115s	gentlemen we're going to be seeing Tom
22116s	join surrender because I love that play
22119s	the Chevella they're called trade boom
22123s	35 health
22131s	um
22132s	sipping from the murloc mug of victory
22135s	to get me one of those
22144s	zephyrus is not clever enough to win
22146s	this game
22147s	so what happens if he goes zephyrus
22149s	twist together
22151s	look he just loses on the spot dies yeah
22153s	he loses on the spot
22164s	quickly
22174s	what
22175s	mind control the next turn it's just
22178s	it's too much Mana you can't do that
22183s	okay so if he goes for mind control on
22187s	the opposing Chevella and then goes
22190s	steals it so he doesn't die
22192s	because he's at 30 health is there any
22194s	way he can clear the board with
22195s	Justified
22198s	right
22210s	one dies
22212s	but one doesn't
22215s	he has to what he has to clear the board
22217s	on this turn a 1-1 in play means he
22220s	loses the game although he takes a
22221s	fatigue anyway so it's the 29 damage
22224s	from the 25 holy wrath the swing of the
22226s	weapon means chonsu just dies loses
22229s	there's nothing
22231s	wow what a way to end the series here
22233s	and to end the finals
22235s	unless he
22237s	it's time
22239s	he could go hammer across the shabbalah
22242s	then Shuffle and then attack in to clear
22246s	off the board and technically survive
22247s	the turn
22249s	that's losing the game yeah his chance
22252s	to just do it as much as he can right
22253s	now and
22255s	maybe Tom just doesn't see him honestly
22258s	you know what I mean I doubt that's
22260s	going to be the case but maybe Tom just
22262s	doesn't see it but I would be shocked
22265s	for it and I believe
22267s	as soon as he locks
22269s	can't not want to make it I would say
22271s	silly mistakes in Hearthstone with his
22274s	years upon years of experiences gonna
22277s	lock this up and I'm happy to say that
22280s	Tom
22281s	60229 is gonna be your season to Asia
22284s	Pacific Grand Masters champion and he is
22287s	going to be moving on to the global
22289s	finals
22290s	due to the most flashiest of finishes
22293s	one fatigue damage yeah even attacking
22297s	him with the Shabbat almost gave me a
22298s	heart attack there in a Divine Shields
22300s	he's all right he's still winning the
22302s	game and what a continuation of the
22305s	Legacy for Thomas sow he's already won a
22307s	World Championships and now going on to
22309s	BlizzCon in just a couple of weeks time
22312s	he has a pretty good shot of making a
22314s	Repeat Performance there's only eight
22315s	players tonight at five there eight
22317s	players who are going to be represented
22319s	at the BlizzCon Global finals so even
22322s	though the competition is steep because
22324s	at the very least he's looking at uh
22326s	surrender from Asia specific and then of
22328s	course PNC and Fino from the European
22330s	and America's regions it's still a very
22333s	very tough challenge it definitely is
22335s	but honestly if you're a fan of the Asia
22337s	Pacific region in general you've got to
22339s	be happy with the overall outcome you
22341s	know this region is sending surrender
22343s	and Tom 60229 to the global finals
22346s	honestly I think this might be one of
22348s	the first times that the other region
22350s	should be a little bit afraid of who
22352s	aipac is sending because Asia Pacific
22354s	normally has had historically a I guess
22357s	a history of the other regions not
22359s	really respecting them as much but when
22361s	you literally send arguably just the two
22363s	best players in the region anywhere
22364s	formidable outside of their region as
22366s	well I think it's going to be an
22368s	impressive showing when we get to those
22369s	global finals let's take a look at
22371s	today's results and uh wrap it up for
22373s	you guys we kicked off with Tyler losing
22375s	of course to Tom 60229 bit of a rough
22378s	series honestly I think Tyler nothing
22379s	too much to take away from him there the
22381s	games he lost most of them at least felt
22383s	very one-sided where they wouldn't even
22385s	have much urgency in them then we had at
22387s	dawn take a loss to chonsu in the second
22390s	semi-final today Tom of course taking
22392s	the victory at the end there and if you
22393s	look at the way that both seasons of
22395s	Asia Pacific have shaken out in Grand
22397s	Masters so far I don't think you could
22398s	have written it to be more perfect when
22400s	you consider surrender and Tom 60229
22403s	have been two of these standout players
22404s	undeniably playing very strong
22406s	Hearthstone week after week but in the
22408s	two runner-ups in Aloo Timo and chonsu I
22410s	would say have been the other two
22411s	players I would call out for their
22412s	consistently very very strong play
22414s	across both the seasons and at the right
22416s	time as well I think Alo team was
22417s	playing better season one Champs who
22419s	better season two so even though we do
22421s	unfortunately have to say goodbye to
22422s	chansu for season two at least he'll
22424s	still have a chance to fight one in
22425s	season three uh he can hold his head
22428s	high for a very very strong performance
22429s	yeah I couldn't agree more but I will
22431s	just reiterate very happy with the two
22432s	players that are going to be going to
22433s	the global finals excited to see how
22435s	that one plays out as surrender and Tom
22437s	60229 will be heading to BlizzCon in
22440s	just a few short weeks in the meantime
22442s	though we have Bucharest coming up next
22443s	weekend where we're going to see a ton
22445s	of players and a ton of hearthstone get
22446s	played out and along with of course
22448s	finding out who is is going to be sent
22450s	by the European region and the Americas
22452s	region as today progresses so stay tuned
22455s	stick around in a couple of hours time
22456s	where Europe's going to kick it off and
22457s	then America's to follow as usual but
22459s	it's done for us we're done with season
22461s	two it's over it's finished it's been a
22463s	lot of fun there's been ups there's been
22465s	downs but I wouldn't have given it up
22467s	for there anything exactly and I
22468s	couldn't agree more it's been a pleasure
22470s	Derek to cast with you as always but for
22472s	us and for season two we are done we
22474s	hope you enjoyed the show and we'll see
22476s	you next time
22481s	foreign

[2022] Hearthstone Legends - Ep.5 - Tom60229

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