[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Grandmasters | Last Call | Week 2 | Day 1 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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912s	it's a blast off the top pesco a 2-0 up
917s	in the finals
919s	it looked rough for him for a moment the
921s	shard of the naaru was so clutch
926s	ah
927s	who says he tried so hard he set up a
929s	lethal himself with the void chart and
932s	shadow form on the next turn even if his
934s	ethic got cleared it was as good a plan
936s	as any
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945s	there it is the bowel master off the top
948s	for yala
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962s	welcome everyone to hearthstone grand
963s	masters last call the ultimate season of
966s	grand masters where all players from all
969s	over the globe get to battle it out for
971s	one final spot at the world championship
974s	glory is on the line here but uh he's
977s	not gonna be playing in this tournament
978s	because we're shaking things up a little
980s	bit uh in this season of grand masters
983s	and we're shaking things up on the
985s	casting desk as well as you may have
987s	noticed i'm not joined by my usual
988s	partner of gia i'm joined by a player
991s	who was almost playing in this
994s	tournament but just narrowly missed out
995s	on it but instead he gets the far
997s	greater prize of joining me here on the
998s	desk it's lambie series how are you
1000s	doing bro hey derek what's up hello
1002s	everyone um i'm lambie series if you
1004s	guys uh know me you might have seen me
1005s	on this broadcast like a few times here
1007s	and then during the last year but now
1009s	i'm actually behind the desk um it's a
1011s	very refreshing experience i might have
1013s	been too good to be playing that so i'm
1014s	here that's why you know um but uh i
1017s	just want to say uh thank you so much
1018s	for this opportunity to be here to cast
1020s	this last call gm a lot of exciting
1022s	players in the tournament a lot of
1024s	players that i personally respect i'm so
1026s	excited to be doing this with derek of
1028s	course and uh can't wait to see how the
1030s	rest of the week will pan out
1032s	we need a lot on the line here and a lot
1034s	of very exciting decks because the
1036s	format of playing here is going to be a
1037s	little bit different this week but we'll
1039s	get into that very shortly first of all
1041s	we're going to take you through a
1041s	rundown of how uh last call works
1044s	overall over this season it's going to
1046s	be four weeks of play uh we have a
1048s	little bit of a break in the middle so
1049s	it's these two first weeks a couple
1051s	weeks off and then week three and the
1053s	playoffs in a couple weeks time uh it's
1055s	kind of like uh what uh stranger things
1057s	on netflix we do a first half of the
1059s	second half later on as well just to
1061s	keep the tension high and each week is a
1064s	an individual tournament where you're
1066s	just trying to
1067s	finish as best as you can and the better
1070s	you finish each week the more points you
1072s	get and then the top half of players
1073s	will go through two
1075s	layoffs at the uh during week four
1078s	and it's also a rotating format as i was
1080s	hinting to just a moment ago last week
1082s	it was conquest but this week lambie
1084s	series we are shaking things up
1087s	right so this week we are going to be
1089s	having trio format if you guys watched
1091s	the previous season of gm the latest one
1093s	we did have one season of trio it's the
1094s	it was the first ever trio format but
1096s	i'm gonna explain a bit about what trio
1098s	is exactly so trio is effectively
1100s	conquest but with two big differences
1102s	all right so firstly it's still best of
1105s	five okay conquest but the thing is
1107s	there is no ban and secondly the classes
1110s	you bring to this week are sort of
1112s	predetermined like if you would like to
1114s	bring demon hunter to this tournament
1116s	this week you can only pair demon hunter
1118s	with a priest and a rogue it's just how
1120s	the format is and like if you want to
1121s	bring like maybe druid you got to pair
1123s	it with a mage and a paladin these
1125s	predetermined classes actually uh make
1127s	it so that the players have to build
1128s	their lineups in a specific way it
1130s	doesn't mean that there's like one class
1132s	that's way worse or like way better but
1134s	obviously like we have not seen warrior
1137s	in such a long time so this thought this
1139s	this week will showcase some warrior
1140s	gameplay because the players have no
1142s	choice but to bring warrior if they want
1144s	to bring some of these other classes so
1145s	there's a lot of other like
1147s	specific interplay and like combinations
1150s	that players may not be used to um they
1152s	have to do it for this week in order to
1154s	get the precious points that they need
1155s	so i'm very excited to see what players
1158s	have come up with what uh archetypes of
1160s	each class that they've they've delved
1162s	into and see if it works out for them in
1164s	the end of the week
1165s	yeah that's what's so fun about this is
1167s	the when you when you're picking your
1169s	one of your buckets effectively you get
1171s	five groups of three classes to choose
1173s	from uh they're all hand curated these
1175s	are not randomly selected classes so
1178s	it's basically all put together so that
1180s	you can uh have maybe one really strong
1183s	class at the moment which is arguably
1184s	you know rogue maybe shaman a lot of the
1186s	players like a lot uh but you have to
1188s	maybe one of the weaker classes to go
1190s	alongside that warrior in a bit of a
1192s	tough spot right now demon hunter
1195s	players are maybe not quite so fond of
1197s	or you can just go for one of the more
1199s	even strategies where you go for one of
1201s	the buckets where it's just three decent
1203s	classes with no real standouts or no
1205s	real duds in there as well a lot of room
1207s	for experimentation and i hope our
1209s	players have come with some uh spicy
1211s	lists for us uh because the
1214s	uh the diversity is pretty high we're
1215s	seeing a lot of different ways that our
1217s	players are going here uh in terms of
1219s	the different buckets that are being
1221s	chosen which we'll jump into later on in
1224s	the day first of all though the prize
1226s	pool that our players are fighting for
1228s	over the course of last call first place
1230s	walking away with 22 and a half thousand
1234s	dollars and even for our players who are
1236s	unable to get above 13th to 16th place
1239s	still six thousand dollars uh just for
1242s	having qualified through to last call
1244s	which is very impressive in its own
1245s	right but i think i'm fair in saying
1247s	here that for grand masters uh lambie
1249s	series the most important thing is
1251s	getting those points
1252s	yes indeed i mean when it comes to
1254s	points we have to always remember that
1256s	in order to get to playoffs you need to
1257s	be in like the top eight of the point
1258s	standing and also remember that this uh
1261s	this last call is only three weeks of
1263s	qualifying for playoffs what does this
1264s	mean this means that like for example
1266s	last week bunny hopper got like a win
1268s	with five points that totally
1270s	skyrocketed him into like first place
1272s	and from my experience the playoff
1274s	cutoff it's not like set in stone it's
1275s	just theory but like it's about six
1277s	points so every single point is super
1280s	duper crucial i cannot stress how
1282s	important it is to make sure that you
1284s	get out of the groups make it to sunday
1287s	win sunday i mean like it only gets
1288s	better the more you win definitely and
1290s	it literally is so important that you
1292s	cannot even afford to take one loss
1295s	lightly so that's a lot of pressure a
1296s	lot of stress on these players i felt it
1298s	like multiple times now i'm just gonna
1300s	watch these guys feel it
1302s	yeah yeah it it when we get down to the
1305s	end of the season you know me and g are
1306s	often like working through the exact
1308s	permutations right it's okay so if
1309s	okchinscape wins and then lambie series
1312s	loses but mighty points and then all
1314s	this stuff
1316s	yeah yeah yeah that never happened of
1318s	course uh but it gets very very
1319s	stressful you can avoid all of that
1321s	though if you just keep winning then you
1323s	don't have to worry about the
1325s	tie breakers just do that uh jumping
1327s	into group a though this is what uh
1329s	lambie series and i are going to be
1331s	focusing on for today oka shinsuke and
1333s	possessie of course from the apac region
1336s	but then judgment and levic uh here from
1339s	eu and uh interestingly enough i mean i
1341s	think it's often the case that for the
1343s	you know the english-speaking
1344s	hearthstone community the european
1346s	players are a little bit more well-known
1348s	but i'd argue that okachinsky and
1349s	obviously possessi in particular are
1351s	kind of the stars of this group
1353s	yeah i mean possessive is
1355s	i mean he's the world champion right i
1357s	mean come on everybody knows possessive
1359s	and of
1360s	even though he's like a bit more new to
1361s	the scene he's also been breaking it
1363s	into into his own like groove recently
1365s	he's been making good plays um he's
1367s	doing well he's doing well but having
1369s	said that though i look at this point
1370s	standing and like i see oka shinsuke at
1373s	the bottom this time still with zero
1375s	points i really hope he gets out of the
1377s	groups and starts making a mark on this
1379s	season because like there's no there's
1381s	no more room for error i did say that
1383s	he's coming to his own but he really
1385s	needs to show his stuff this week as
1386s	well
1387s	yeah absolutely okachinsky and levick
1389s	both on zero points heading into this
1392s	week which is gonna make both of their
1394s	matches absolutely crucial two zero two
1396s	weeks in a row and you're pretty much
1398s	just out of the running you can try your
1400s	best just to try and scrape a bit more
1402s	prize money at the end but your chances
1403s	of the world championship are pretty
1405s	much shot uh but players who have been
1408s	doing a little bit better overall i
1410s	think it's fair to say are the players
1412s	in group b super fake in with a second
1414s	place finished last week pascoa in with
1417s	a third fourth as well and then to round
1420s	out pun and zloy gruzin uh it's uh a bit
1424s	of a stranger group i think it's fair to
1426s	say not the uh
1428s	i would argue the biggest powerhouse
1430s	group overall but based on some of their
1432s	play last week they're clearly doing uh
1434s	some good stuff
1436s	yeah i'm i'm personally not like uh
1438s	hugely familiar with everyone in this
1440s	group but uh super fake clear clearly
1443s	been uh
1445s	entertaining force on the web camera for
1447s	all of us to see um doing very well over
1449s	the last uh season and this season as
1451s	well so excited to see him play excited
1454s	see him react like a thousand emotions
1455s	in one second so stuff like that uh i
1458s	i'm really uh interested to see uh how
1460s	things pan out for this group not not my
1462s	not like my pick as the favorite group
1464s	but i think everyone here still has like
1466s	uh something interesting to show and uh
1468s	coming to see that as well
1470s	yeah that's right i mean the fact that
1471s	super fake has a more traditional lineup
1473s	is pretty surprising in its own right
1475s	because i mean it brings the weirdest
1477s	stuff
1478s	yeah i mean him and flat never bring
1480s	anything that's too too normal right but
1482s	this week it's really really normal
1484s	looking yeah but anyway group c okay
1486s	girls group c has mighty and uh shionsu
1489s	two of my favorite apec players and
1490s	actually close friends of mine um want
1492s	to see them play very uh intently i'm
1494s	really excited to see them play but this
1496s	group also features bunny hopper the
1498s	front runner the guy that just wants to
1500s	get one or two more points and can chill
1501s	for next week i mean the following week
1503s	of grand master so um bunny will
1505s	definitely be vying for that one or two
1507s	points or even another win who knows
1509s	right mighty really needs to carry his
1512s	weight this week
1513s	he's been self-professed to haven't been
1515s	uh playing a lot of herv stone but i do
1517s	believe that his fundamentals are super
1519s	solid so there's a very good chance that
1520s	he will do well this week and i can't
1522s	wait to see that happen
1524s	yeah i mean what an apec gm not having
1526s	played much recently that can't go wrong
1528s	right
1528s	tyler can go wrong indeed
1531s	i mean
1532s	naming no names but yeah i think this is
1534s	going to be a super super spicy group
1535s	bunny hopper and chonsu in particular
1538s	have gone with some uh pretty spicy
1540s	decklists i think it's fair to say uh
1542s	with bunny giving uh the paladin druid
1545s	uh bucket there that not a lot of
1546s	players have gone for
1548s	um the has some real merit i think just
1550s	kind of standard good decks nothing
1552s	really too fancy for him there uh
1554s	finally though moving on to
1557s	d uh to round things out here uh we have
1560s	some of the players who have uh
1562s	struggled a little bit uh over the
1564s	course of this first week a lot of these
1566s	names down towards the bottom uh with
1568s	you know habugabu on one point fury on
1571s	two points uh fled down on one point as
1574s	well you know they really need to start
1575s	picking this up basically but even
1577s	though it wasn't the best first week for
1579s	these uh players it's undeniable the
1581s	amount of skill that is in this group
1584s	yeah of course i have personally
1585s	practiced with fairy hunter up to my run
1587s	in the playoffs last season and i can
1588s	say for sure this guy knows his stuff
1590s	he's an insanely good hearthstone player
1592s	and i have no doubt that he has a chance
1593s	to do well amongst this entire field but
1595s	of course i also want to mention that
1596s	firstly i'm a bit surprised i was
1598s	prepared to say that uh flat's gonna
1599s	bring something uh insane this week but
1601s	it's actually a very normal lineup like
1602s	super fake so that's a bit of a bit of a
1604s	downer for me but maybe it's actually
1606s	correct who knows also last but not
1608s	least
1610s	wow you guys are in for a treat with
1611s	this one hubbu gabu has quest warrior
1614s	guys it's not charge it's not control
1616s	it's not kazakhstan it is quest warrior
1619s	and it's xl quest for you guys 40
1621s	pirates i wouldn't say 40 pirates but
1623s	like majority of the deck is pirates
1624s	right you guys really need to know how
1625s	to play your cards on curve to keep up
1627s	with this one
1628s	this deck is a disaster man it's just
1630s	the most happy deck ever like no one
1632s	else in the world is winning a single
1634s	game with this deck like he's just been
1635s	going around to different chats being
1638s	like play my deck it's good i promise
1640s	and just everyone's like no no no it's
1642s	garbage i'm not gonna play that but it's
1644s	been doing well for him climbing right
1645s	to the top of legend and uh
1648s	we'll see if it can hold its own in
1650s	grand masters last call but here's the
1652s	standings lambie bunny hopper as we
1653s	mentioned right towards the top uh
1656s	basically everyone on the right side of
1658s	that board is in pretty big trouble this
1660s	week they need to be getting through uh
1663s	to uh
1664s	uh through to those quarterfinals i
1666s	think to have any real chance here yeah
1669s	i personally believe that as much as we
1671s	have like um people on the right side of
1672s	the bracket looking a little bit sad
1674s	right now but this is this is one of
1676s	those like seasons whereby one good week
1678s	will propel you to startup like you just
1680s	need one good week like dimitri lavik
1683s	mighty oh gosh insurgent any of them win
1685s	this week they are literally bunny
1687s	hopper from last week right they just
1688s	need to get like one or two more points
1690s	the following week and yeah that's it so
1692s	um it's really very close no one is
1694s	actually safe i mean when i say no one i
1696s	don't mean no one but like most of them
1698s	are not safe you know so i'm really i'm
1700s	really curious to see who will be the
1702s	ones to pull out on top this week and
1704s	like give everyone a run for their money
1707s	well it's going to be very interesting
1708s	to see one of those players down at the
1710s	bottom i think right at the bottom in
1712s	16th place there uh was oka shinsuke who
1714s	is going to be in our first match of the
1717s	day so talking about how important it is
1719s	for him to get these wins in obviously
1721s	these groups that we're playing are
1722s	double elimination so he can't afford
1725s	one loss here but it kind of feels like
1727s	he might be heading towards that loss in
1730s	this matchup that he's got against
1731s	judgement right
1733s	right so i did analyze the lineups a
1735s	little bit so i'm just gonna give it a
1736s	quick breakdown judgement has failed
1738s	demon hunter wick priest and main rope
1740s	but oga shinsegae has big spell mage
1742s	moist shaman and xl curse warlock just
1745s	on paper right judgement has the
1747s	slightly favored lineup because he's
1749s	demon hunter's favorite against the big
1750s	spell mage demon hunter mine rogue and
1753s	wig priest are all favored versus the
1755s	warlock which is i think his intended
1758s	soft target so i mean oka shinsuke does
1760s	have the moist shaman which kinda is
1762s	okay into all of judgement stacks but
1764s	that's just it right it's just that one
1765s	match up i feel like the biggest kicker
1767s	in this matchup is if oka shinsuke can
1769s	get out early and win with the warlock
1771s	that might give him a chance in this
1773s	series
1774s	yeah i mean as you explained it so well
1776s	at the start this is effectively like a
1778s	uh a warped version of conquest you
1780s	still have to win with all three of your
1781s	decks uh so the weak deck is always the
1784s	uh the deciding point in this series and
1786s	like you said that feels like the one
1788s	for okchinskay on the warlock uh i hope
1792s	that he can get it out over at some
1793s	point along the way because
1795s	against the rest of those decks
1798s	it's just so difficult to take a win
1799s	with if you're getting a good drawn
1800s	rogue it feels like nothing can beat it
1803s	but something we were looking at
1804s	yesterday which is pretty surprising
1805s	actually for oka shinsuke at this point
1807s	in terms of his stats is he is just
1810s	mr consistency like right down the
1812s	middle 50 50 both in grand masters and
1815s	in masters tours this is literally the
1817s	definition of average
1819s	all right so currently his record i
1821s	don't think it includes last week but
1823s	it's currently 20 and 20 in grand
1825s	masters i feel like if he really wants
1827s	to dwell um this season right he's got
1829s	to change that percentage just a little
1831s	bit make it a 55 55 might put you in the
1834s	playoffs who knows man you never know i
1837s	mean we were talking about this as well
1838s	right one single point can just make all
1840s	the difference in the world totally
1843s	every win is so so crucially important
1846s	uh which is why it's uh so interesting
1849s	to see what our players have put all
1850s	that pressure on or the importance of
1853s	every single match which buckets they
1855s	have decided oka shinsuke as we can see
1857s	here going with mage shaman and warlock
1860s	uh which is pretty surprising in its own
1862s	right because there were a lot a couple
1863s	of other pretty similar lineups um that
1866s	could have been gone for uh are you a
1868s	believer in the power of shaman right
1870s	now do you think it's a top tier deck
1872s	right now that you would be actively
1873s	looking to pick in uh the trio format or
1876s	is it just kind of a decent one that you
1878s	you end up taking just because it's
1879s	there
1880s	right so based on last week i do believe
1882s	that uh the shaman is one of the more
1885s	targetable like top tier decks like
1886s	warlock beats it mage beats it but the
1889s	thing is shaman in the hands of a good
1890s	player i've seen it on ladders so many
1892s	times good players playing shaman
1893s	actually do have an edge because the
1895s	deck is that that requires quite a bit
1896s	of technical play timing your your clown
1899s	fishes your mutants and when to play
1901s	this and play that the deck has little
1902s	room for error i would say very little
1904s	room for error but in the hands of a
1905s	skilled player this is a deck that
1907s	actually can do very very well and i
1909s	personally would bring this deck as well
1911s	to the tournament if i had a chance
1914s	judgment here on at the other side has
1916s	had a meteoric rise to fame and a very
1918s	impressive win rate in masters tours as
1920s	well to boot he's got a second place and
1922s	a top four uh in marston stores as of
1925s	late and although at the start his
1927s	master's tour win rate was pretty
1928s	artificially inflated because he'd only
1930s	been in one maybe two when he got the
1933s	runner-up spot at nixia's lair since
1935s	then it started to even out he's got an
1937s	above 50-game sample size now and still
1940s	a very impressive score line uh which is
1943s	all the good things i can say about
1944s	judgement some of the more negative
1946s	things is man what a troll lineup he's
1948s	bringing here this week like it is just
1951s	so bm to your opponent like mine rogue
1954s	wig priest as well the demon hunter you
1956s	know a little bit more standard but
1957s	these are like you know some of the most
1960s	hated decks i think it's fair to say in
1961s	the metagame like if anyone's moaning
1963s	about their ladder experience it feels
1965s	like it's about mine rogue or getting
1966s	nutted by wig priest
1968s	yeah i'm pretty sure uh i've been i've
1970s	had my fair share of games where i've
1972s	like just opened the nuts with mine
1973s	rogue and my opponent just couldn't do
1975s	anything at all my rock is just one of
1976s	those decks that if you like the lottery
1978s	you were like mine rogue because it's
1980s	even more high rolly than big spell
1981s	managed to be up to be honest because if
1983s	you hit like the smoke screen with the
1985s	trickster early and spawn like two eco
1987s	lights right i mean it's over how many
1989s	people deal with two five eights on turn
1991s	four
1992s	and derrick's pointing at himself so
1994s	i'll tell you who doesn't deal with that
1995s	many five eights on turn four language
1997s	hacker he got wrecked uh by mickey on
1999s	the mind right yeah other nuts man
2005s	yeah
2006s	i mean i mean i i just want to see how
2008s	high rolly this mine rolls can get
2010s	because i feel like the deck is one of
2012s	those decks that it it falls so flat and
2015s	so hard if you don't get the good
2017s	openings right and there's so many
2018s	clunky cards and so many moving pieces
2020s	that have to work together before they
2022s	even do anything but if it works it is
2024s	unbeatable even if you have 40 health i
2027s	promise you
2029s	100 which is i think one of the reasons
2031s	why i levick on the other side we are
2033s	going to be seeing it later on today uh
2035s	did end up going with the xl shaman
2037s	because this is a match up that i faced
2039s	quite a lot i've played a fair bit of
2041s	this mid-range style of shaman
2043s	and it does feel like it kind of
2044s	struggles against the rogue the mine rug
2047s	if i'm being honest you have very
2049s	limited healing cookie the cook and uh
2051s	brookhan the hero card really all you
2054s	have to work with and your ability to
2056s	actually pile a lot of pressure in the
2058s	early turns
2059s	are kind of limited like unless you're
2061s	hitting the clownfish maybe bolner plus
2064s	clownfish opening hands you're kind of
2066s	slow before you hit uh
2069s	coin wild pork cavern or
2072s	coin into command of neptulon like these
2074s	turns one through three are pretty slow
2076s	most of the time
2078s	yeah i mean uh as you can see with the
2079s	the opening hands right now oga shinsuke
2082s	is uh seriously considering his mulligan
2083s	and he keeps the okani which i'm totally
2085s	down for because in this matchup okani
2087s	on turn 4 denies a lot of things you
2090s	could call it on turn three to deny
2091s	something you could deny um deny the
2093s	trickster deny the smoke screen deny any
2096s	minion the deck has so little minions
2097s	and every single minion contributes to a
2099s	lot of damage so having the okani in
2101s	hand is actually one step towards his
2102s	victory here judgement on the other hand
2105s	um keeping the graveyard i think it's
2106s	always a keep in this in this deck
2108s	because it snowballs your victory so
2109s	quickly also keeping the trickster
2111s	because like i said this deck is
2113s	practically lottery you need two pieces
2115s	to work together so trickster plus
2117s	smokescreen is one of your hyrules and
2118s	i'm all down for keeping these two
2120s	pieces of the combo
2122s	wow triple red piranha off of the uh
2125s	that's gotta be good that's right that's
2127s	also lottery man like
2130s	i mean the the the the effect of having
2132s	whatever color of piranha doesn't make a
2133s	difference but it's just nice to see
2135s	triple red
2137s	uh well judgement here with the kind of
2139s	hand that
2140s	ah is so shall i
2143s	it's torturous to look at this hand
2145s	right because it's
2146s	almost there there's so many of the
2147s	pieces you're looking for like you said
2149s	trickster you almost always keep in the
2150s	mulligan graveyard same deal
2153s	but without the mine without the sketchy
2155s	information to draw the mine ideally or
2158s	of course the smoke screen is the
2159s	absolute ideal card uh this hand is just
2162s	kind of slow to be honest he doesn't
2164s	have the synergies that he needs to
2166s	really make it pop
2168s	yeah i mean the fact that i keep talking
2170s	about this being a lottery that it just
2172s	means that like nick's turn judgement
2174s	has like since he has double graveyard
2175s	right he has the complete like like
2177s	freedom to just play one down and
2179s	potentially waste the the ticks of the
2182s	graveyard but if he place it down on
2183s	turn three and he top next to smoke
2184s	screen i think the game could be over if
2186s	hits the right card so so so i be
2188s	because he has two graveyards i'm
2190s	totally down for just playing like one
2192s	of the graveyards and see if you just
2193s	like roll the nuts down the following
2194s	turn but for okay the decision is really
2196s	difficult because you always want to go
2198s	coin like coin like kevin's coin okay so
2201s	so this time he's thinking probably poll
2203s	on some stats on the board oh wow he's
2205s	reaching for a coin this is something
2207s	that i did not expect
2209s	oh
2212s	wow that is so easy to me i mean clearly
2215s	he's got a very different read on this
2216s	hand uh yeah than what i think most
2218s	players would have because obviously
2220s	this can save you a good amount of
2222s	damage but this decimates his mid-game
2225s	plan right yeah we clearly see that
2227s	because we have caster vision judgment
2228s	has like really nothing going on now and
2230s	yep he makes the play
2232s	of just throwing out the graveyard
2233s	because he knows that this game he needs
2235s	to roll some really good cuts to like
2237s	get back into this game so dropping the
2239s	first graveyard here in case he draws a
2241s	smoke screen or like a sketchy
2243s	information so that he can get it
2244s	rolling i think it's perfectly fine here
2246s	i love that you instantly spotted just
2248s	like play graveyard with no death
2249s	rattles in
2250s	in hand as well that feels like such an
2252s	apac gm play
2254s	we'll just play it it'll work out trust
2256s	me it's called it's called playing to
2258s	your outstanding oh
2261s	and in hearthstone alts means top decks
2266s	i'm learning so much already yeah
2268s	all right so okay since again loading up
2270s	on the board here i think i think the
2271s	reason why he went for the coin starfish
2273s	was he knew that he knew that he had
2274s	this play in mind because it still
2276s	curves sort of nicely into turn four
2278s	where he has the option to go um okani
2280s	or the or the cabin so i think it's
2283s	actually okay now that i think about it
2288s	yeah i mean all that's missing now is
2290s	like like a bloodlust to make this hand
2292s	super popping but
2294s	oh man uh no activator for the
2297s	for the acolyte feels bad but yeah he
2299s	missed he missed everything judgement he
2301s	missed the trickster the smokescreen he
2303s	didn't have like a pre-loaded uh shatter
2306s	shambler to trigger the acolyte as well
2308s	so this hand is looking
2310s	very very horrible might have to
2312s	actually wicked step to reduce some
2314s	damage off the boat because he knows
2315s	that um he's not getting there anytime
2317s	soon but i think he's his his opinion is
2319s	that okay i'm gonna save this a step for
2321s	face in case i draw like a sketchy
2323s	information i'm fine with that as well
2325s	but now ogashinsuke has the
2328s	option to go either okani or walpole
2332s	kevin
2333s	i personally think we see how judgment's
2336s	hand was like not smokescreen on turn
2338s	four so i think it's okay to go for the
2341s	kevin here just um to set it up and
2343s	okani when he's more sure like what he
2346s	needs to counter in this spot
2349s	i mean to be fair though they've
2350s	they set up the uh the graveyard right
2353s	so if they don't have the mind synergy
2355s	quite clearly is there any chance
2356s	they're setting up for something like
2358s	acolyte plus backstab on the following
2360s	turn to give themselves double uh 5 8 in
2362s	which case akane could be a very very
2364s	strong counter if you pick minion
2367s	i i do agree that that's actually a
2369s	possibility as well so it really depends
2370s	on what okash insurgents read is but i
2373s	i'm pretty sure that oka shinsuke smells
2375s	something fishy because you don't just
2377s	waste two ticks of the graveyard right i
2378s	mean you waste the first one because you
2380s	don't have a choice but the second one
2381s	no man you don't waste that if you have
2383s	a choice i'm pretty sure but ogashinsuke
2385s	i guess goes with the ring i'm pretty
2386s	sure he calls minion here i i didn't see
2388s	what he picked but i think it's minion
2390s	because it's the one that has
2392s	oh it's limited on resources but
2395s	the pickup of the smokescreen
2398s	okashinsuke reading into the future and
2400s	the top decks like a true apec player
2402s	now
2403s	now judgment has uh well i mean he's
2406s	gonna prep
2407s	he might prep and then
2410s	it's just never spell though right he's
2412s	just sat there saying
2413s	please let my opponent be an idiot but
2416s	yeah
2418s	yeah judgement knows it's never spell
2419s	the way i see him play this there i know
2421s	he's been playing this for a long time
2422s	he knows it's never spell
2424s	yeah he still has the test anyway
2426s	so
2428s	if you just bite the bullet here and
2429s	just dump your echo like because you
2430s	need to get this um trickster off right
2433s	like like how are you not winning if you
2435s	don't draw five cards here
2436s	i mean he dumps
2438s	you could go for his like wicked stab
2440s	and dagger into the akani and then
2443s	pass
2444s	and finish it off next turn but i don't
2447s	know i i don't think having the acolyte
2449s	in hand is worth all that yeah i feel
2451s	like if if judgment was at like 30
2453s	health i would be very willing to take
2455s	like double hits on the okani but the
2457s	thing is he's not he was like at 22 and
2460s	it does snowball a lot quicker yeah he's
2462s	you see he's dumping even the wicked
2463s	step now into the minion because he
2465s	knows that he needs to set up for a new
2467s	game plan right he's not gonna win
2468s	anytime soon he needs to set up for like
2470s	probably smoke screening into his like
2472s	second acolyte and the weapon stuff like
2474s	that yeah i think that's where this is
2476s	going right now
2479s	ah is there any chance we play gorlok
2482s	ravager here just because he's top
2484s	decked bloodlust and say you draw like
2487s	double clownfish or clownfish uh
2489s	clownfish plus amalgam that's the
2491s	ability to go very very wide next turn
2493s	and set up for a turn seven bloodlust
2496s	yeah that's true but if you look at it
2497s	another way if you play the kevin's now
2499s	you're effectively having three free
2500s	minions over the next like few turns
2502s	which also kinda sets up for bloodlust
2505s	right i mean it's a bit like not mana
2507s	efficient but you could go like a grave
2508s	sorry not grave at a kevin's distance
2510s	and then just go like a gorlok on the
2512s	following turn and then if you by then
2515s	maybe you have a ball that's big enough
2516s	for blah blah if not that la la still
2517s	comes down before turn eight i think i
2519s	think it's perfectly fine
2521s	whichever way you go about doing it but
2522s	i personally like going for the cabins
2524s	first just because you set up the freeze
2526s	on the face which negates the weapon to
2528s	a certain extent as well good point yeah
2530s	there is of course the the counterfeit
2532s	blade as well as just the hero power so
2533s	the damage is very relevant to negate
2536s	over the following turns but now the
2538s	problem is for judgement even though he
2540s	has the good play right he has trickster
2543s	into smokescreen because he's already
2544s	played the prep on the last term which
2547s	was a again a bit of a questionable play
2549s	he can't get down the graveyard as well
2551s	which means this mine he's picking up is
2552s	only procking once like this is eight
2554s	damage that just flew by the wayside
2556s	with double he hit double mine yeah so
2559s	so it's very realistic that he actually
2562s	wins next time actually
2563s	let me count this
2565s	yeah i think he can win next time if he
2567s	picks up a shatter shambler right now
2570s	um because he knows his face is never
2572s	gonna swing into a minion ever i'll
2573s	swing into anything ever so he's not
2576s	gonna get this four damage in from the
2577s	weapon i think the play here is you try
2579s	and use the um gone fishing to try and
2581s	find yourself uh a shatter shambler
2584s	right now so you can set up for like a
2585s	little next turn
2587s	lethal next turn the what if the hour is
2589s	you play mine on this turn and then you
2591s	play for top deck backstab as an out
2594s	because then you can go
2596s	uh
2596s	graveyard lieutenant mine
2599s	backstab backstab to kill both yes next
2601s	turn
2602s	okay that works as well that works as
2604s	well i mean i mean the other other line
2606s	is so you can just play the yeah like
2608s	this play the lieutenant distant because
2609s	it does it does technically in theory
2612s	sink two damage into the face if it
2614s	doesn't get frozen so yeah that's two
2616s	damage you're not getting any time if
2618s	you don't play that so
2619s	i think i think this is fine as well um
2621s	the weapon is effectively a non-card in
2623s	the hand right now i'm yeah it's too
2625s	slow you're never gonna go like weaponry
2626s	dagger here so um the weapon is like not
2629s	a cut in the hand uh any kind of little
2632s	next thing would result in playing the
2634s	graveyard first and like hopefully like
2637s	just simply top decking i don't know
2639s	like a like a back step to to to close
2641s	this out would be perfect um
2643s	we'll see we'll see if judgment has the
2645s	the apec luck
2648s	yeah here
2648s	mean oka shinsuke certainly does not
2650s	right now he's one mana off lethal right
2652s	because he has six on board plus nine
2654s	from bloodlust the frostbite would be
2656s	able to get there snowfall guardian you
2658s	know it freezes a stealth minion but
2660s	it's obviously a lot less good than it
2662s	seems because a mind will just transform
2664s	it and give it rush again
2666s	uh
2667s	i mean you do save you do save two
2669s	health if you go for the freeze instead
2671s	true yeah yeah something
2674s	throughout this whole conversation i was
2675s	trying to see if there was a self frost
2677s	bite line but i couldn't find it yeah
2679s	there wasn't a frostbite line yeah so
2682s	like to get the the plus two on the
2684s	spell cost but yeah he's going for this
2685s	play just cause to save himself like two
2688s	health i think i think it makes sense oh
2690s	wow that's dead most
2692s	dead cut outside of the weapon
2694s	in this situation um
2697s	let's see is there a little here
2700s	if he finds a shatter shambler on the
2701s	bottom
2702s	[Music]
2703s	e2
2704s	no no there isn't there's a little oh no
2706s	he doesn't know yeah enough mana
2709s	yeah you kind of can't fit it all in
2710s	it's quite tragic um yeah yeah um when
2712s	you mentioned earlier about the prep i
2714s	think i think the prep was potentially
2716s	not a required like a grade like like
2719s	you know it's always minion right you
2721s	don't have to use the prep there imagine
2723s	having the prep here plus like the gone
2725s	fishing to dig i think having the prep
2727s	here would have potentially given him
2729s	little i don't know what's on the bottom
2730s	of the deck but like the prep year would
2731s	have like solved a lot of problems for
2733s	sure
2734s	it's such a difficult uh thing to
2737s	to properly analyze because yes you're
2739s	absolutely right like prep gave him much
2740s	more outs for lethal here but he
2742s	probably would have just been dead the
2743s	previous turn right because bloodlust
2745s	was sitting in hand that was an extra
2746s	two damage each turn plus an extra three
2748s	from the bloodlust like
2750s	i i
2751s	think with the way it panned out he
2752s	would have been just dead but i still
2754s	think it was actually the correct play
2756s	to hold back the prep there
2758s	overall
2759s	yeah i mean he he definitely definitely
2762s	had to had to take some risks there
2764s	because like one thing i learned about
2765s	this deck is that if you don't um
2767s	if you don't like take like risk of just
2769s	of yourself dying you don't you don't
2771s	actually win often enough because half
2773s	the time the spells that you use to
2774s	clear your opponent's spot could
2775s	actually have gone face which is like
2778s	little most of the time i mean sometimes
2780s	but here we just see ogan suzuki close
2782s	out the game with the bloodlust don't
2783s	even need the frostbite aura or whatever
2785s	just big minion go face simple impulse
2789s	stuff and a very well played game by
2791s	okoshinski i mean most of that mid game
2793s	i think was fairly self-explanatory but
2796s	there were a couple of plays that were
2797s	very very interesting to see the akani
2799s	keep i think was inspired that i think
2801s	was absolutely just good uh
2803s	understanding of the match-up that akani
2805s	is just so powerful in this matchup and
2808s	clever to play it on turn for as well
2809s	instead of the caverns but that coin
2811s	starfish i still can't decide whether i
2814s	like it or not it was such a weird play
2817s	yeah i i personally did not like it
2819s	because the thing is the okani was gonna
2821s	be good on turn four like on the actual
2823s	turn four right so i was gonna i was
2824s	thinking of saving my uh my coin for the
2826s	coin cabins into the okani i think that
2828s	would have closed closed out the game a
2830s	lot faster because like this okani was
2832s	always going to be calling minion and
2833s	always going to get some value here and
2835s	there so um getting the kevin's out for
2837s	like
2838s	three three fours worth of stats as
2841s	early as possible i think it's better
2842s	than going for the coin starfish i mean
2843s	the starfish could come down anytime as
2845s	well right so
2846s	so just value trade a 2-2 lieutenant
2849s	something
2850s	yeah absolutely it's a powerful tech
2852s	card but still oka shinsuke gets the win
2854s	a big one you know it's nice to get the
2855s	win but arguably the most likely of his
2858s	decks to get away right shaman is very
2860s	aggressive in the early game whereas the
2862s	mage and the warlock i think you were
2863s	leading up to are a lot flimsier in
2866s	these early game turns yeah we were
2868s	saying about uh yesterday we were
2870s	discussing about conquest queue order
2871s	people either queue their worst match up
2873s	three times or they kill their worst
2874s	matchup blast and clearly ogashin is
2876s	clear cueing his warlock which he knows
2878s	is the worst matchup last she's going
2880s	with the big spell mage first um also
2882s	only one starfish here uh personally i'm
2884s	a big fan of like a double starfish in
2887s	big spell mage because big smallmouth
2888s	doesn't really do much in the early game
2890s	it just kind of survives and gets to
2892s	turn six so and i think i think double
2894s	starfish would be very uh beneficial in
2896s	helping you survive one card that i'm
2898s	not a huge fan of which people are it's
2900s	just me i guess um i don't really like
2902s	mordress i think mordress is dead very
2905s	very often in in in this deck uh it's
2907s	just a 8-8 that sits in hand outside of
2909s	like the long grindy match up so i would
2911s	prefer definitely two starfish but
2913s	okashinsuke knows what he's doing so
2915s	we'll see if he can bring out a victory
2917s	in this matchup
2918s	i know i wasn't crazy man last masters
2920s	tour i was just pooing all over modric
2922s	the entire time saying it's garbage but
2924s	salt was trying to justify it say it's
2927s	not that bad nah none of that why is an
2929s	eight-minute a8 doing your deck that
2930s	just doesn't know half the time way too
2933s	slow uh but speaking of weird lists uh
2936s	when we were going through pr uh play
2937s	testing yesterday uh
2940s	we were just left kind of confused by
2942s	judgment's deck building position or
2944s	really i was kind of left wondering how
2946s	is this a 30 card deck and not a 40 card
2948s	deck he's got so many weird tech cards
2950s	in here
2952s	right the thing is um demon hunter
2954s	usually gravitates towards either double
2956s	need for greed or double spectral side
2959s	but this guy uh judgement he has a bit
2961s	of both he also has a viper in there and
2963s	one to me very random herald of chaos uh
2966s	i don't really understand
2968s	the decision for these one-offs okay one
2970s	of viper i do understand right there's
2972s	paladin in this so-called meta right now
2974s	like in the trio meta but like but like
2976s	one-off herald of chaos one-off need for
2978s	great with the double spectrum it's not
2980s	something you see very common um i i'm
2983s	questioning it but i also have faith
2985s	that judgment knows what he's doing so
2987s	let's see if it pans out the way he
2989s	wants it to pan out
2991s	i have faith judgment knows what he's
2992s	doing as well because that is a fel
2994s	barrage keep which to me looks like it's
2996s	going to be going straight to the dome
2998s	with a vicious slithersphere as well
3000s	getting that damage in at the start i
3002s	mean that is the match up right you are
3004s	just trying to race to get damage in as
3006s	soon as possible
3008s	we were also discussing yesterday that
3010s	um if you are ever playing fossil
3011s	fanatic and it's not dying um there's a
3014s	very good chance you are eventually
3015s	going to get hit by a barbaric sorceress
3016s	so um the fact that he's going about it
3018s	this way i'm not saying that you
3019s	shouldn't keep fnatic i think keeping
3020s	fnatic is 100 correct but with the fel
3022s	barrage keep in a one drop as well he's
3024s	literally trying to just turbo through
3026s	his deck kill very good chance
3028s	potentially to kill oka shizuke on the
3031s	turn that he even actually plays
3032s	barbaric sorceress this hand is
3034s	something that can actually do that
3035s	oh look oh whoa
3040s	i mean if there are no early game
3041s	players foreign
3044s	uh but that's clearly not the case he's
3046s	got some ways to fight back
3047s	yeah he's also got an 88 that doesn't do
3049s	anything there yeah that sucks that does
3051s	not help
3052s	yeah
3054s	oh wow oh my god okay so um
3057s	um judgment is just about to draw the
3058s	entirety of his deck and deal like a
3060s	thousand damage so um i foresee um if
3064s	oga shinsuke never gets a barbaric
3066s	sorceress anytime soon he is like he got
3068s	dead that's my prediction i don't think
3070s	it's very difficult to say otherwise
3074s	yeah
3075s	how would we work this through this turn
3077s	because you you have an extra coin to
3078s	work with right if you can kill off the
3080s	the mailbox dancer yeah um
3084s	okay yeah you could do it like this and
3086s	then even coin out the sigil for maximum
3089s	damage on the
3090s	right
3091s	yeah i mean i was maximum is using
3093s	double coin but that's like a bit much i
3095s	think you go one coin here and then you
3097s	push because next turn um your your
3099s	intended your intention is to just go uh
3101s	phonetic hero power and search for like
3102s	more spells
3104s	so
3105s	i i can see where judgment's hit is that
3107s	um
3108s	i don't see any faults in this gameplay
3109s	i think he just wants to get it over
3110s	with asap he knows his favorite uh but
3113s	he but the the longer this game directs
3115s	the more favored it gets towards the
3117s	mage side so yeah uh yeah he really
3119s	wants to get this out of the way asap i
3122s	mean that's kind of slow down
3123s	that's kind of why i wanted to go double
3125s	coin fossil fanatic because you get the
3127s	same amount of damage face on this turn
3130s	and again they're only playing one
3132s	starfish in their deck right it's really
3134s	unlikely that they can actually kill it
3135s	off uh in these early turns and then you
3138s	could have gone second fanatic plus hero
3140s	power on turn three you're starting to
3142s	push a good amount of damage uh and it
3144s	just gets an extra tutu on board right
3146s	it starts pushing more damage yeah
3148s	actually the more i think about it like
3150s	like when you're speaking there i think
3151s	your line seems to make a bit more sense
3153s	because this 2-2 is like very unlikely
3155s	in fact it doesn't die right like an
3157s	image has no way to kill this two two
3158s	one curve and even if it gets like
3160s	silence or like in this case there's a
3162s	torn on the board the extra two two one
3164s	but actually carries more weight than
3166s	like
3166s	a random cut from the sigil so i think
3168s	this makes a lot of sense yeah going for
3170s	the the the
3171s	fanatic on the previous turn would have
3173s	been pretty good as well but now
3175s	judgment has like okay this thing might
3177s	look simple but i don't think it's
3178s	actually that simple he has so many
3180s	options this time right um he can go for
3183s	a line where he actually does not kill
3186s	off the one five and just goes for a
3187s	simple um phonetic plus hit but i think
3190s	it's a bit too
3192s	slow i feel like you have to
3195s	um i think you get the phonetic down as
3196s	a body but you could even consider not
3199s	using your hero power just cashing in a
3201s	fair brush and killing off the um the
3203s	one five ton but leaving two minutes on
3205s	board i think i think that's possible as
3206s	well but judgement completely deviates
3209s	he goes for drawing cards i'm not too
3211s	sure about this line because it takes
3213s	away tempo
3214s	from your own turn and
3217s	i mean he did pick up the one to become
3219s	a 3-4 here so
3221s	that's okay but if he didn't pick that
3223s	up i feel like his turn was
3224s	rather lackluster just going for draw in
3226s	this spot
3228s	like the draw will always be good right
3229s	because it shifts to the left for
3230s	outcast but the minion damage only piles
3233s	up if you play it early enough
3236s	gorgeous top deck focusing with the
3238s	ability to just gain a bunch of armor uh
3241s	on this turn uh the only thing is really
3243s	missing now it's just one of the ways to
3245s	cheapen these big spells right he needs
3247s	the blender he needs the barbara
3248s	and i think it's fair to say that
3250s	against demon hunter barbarous uh
3251s	sorcerer is almost always going to get
3253s	you some good amount of value
3255s	especially once these
3257s	fossil fanatics come down
3259s	um
3261s	yeah half the deck of the demon hunter
3262s	is like it's like spells right and it's
3265s	all cheap spell so barbara always gets
3267s	always gets failure but over here on
3268s	this turn i think there is some uh merit
3270s	to actually playing down the silence
3272s	here you
3273s	kind of reduce a lot of damage um you
3275s	already have the big spell in the hand
3277s	so if you do top like the barbara it's
3279s	already live and ready to go uh i mean
3281s	obviously it plays a bit off curve but
3283s	like there is some consideration to
3285s	actually just like getting rid of some
3287s	damage up front of the silence right now
3293s	yeah so really considering what you
3295s	should do here
3296s	i i'm down for the silence um
3299s	but
3300s	we shall see
3302s	oh it's so tough like
3304s	it just hurts so much to play off curfew
3306s	because if you play on curve next turn
3308s	you can go silence plus mailbox dancer
3310s	which gives you another coin which means
3312s	you're a little bit closer to just like
3314s	playing at the rune of the arc mage you
3316s	don't even have to cheapen it you could
3317s	just go coin coin rune uh on turn seven
3320s	um and so even though you're very
3321s	possibly going to tank a lot of damage
3324s	here i still think this is probably the
3326s	correct way to go for okushin's game
3329s	yeah i think i think that's fine as well
3331s	judgement is really very big on drawing
3332s	the cards here doesn't really
3335s	is he actually wait the more i look at
3337s	this is he actually actively trying to
3339s	play around barbara like i think sir
3341s	yeah it looks like he's actually
3343s	actively trying to play around i i can
3345s	respect it i can respect it um i'm just
3347s	surprised that he went for this game
3348s	plan so early on which the more i look
3350s	at it might actually be
3352s	something that could have been
3353s	considered i mean he's been she's gonna
3355s	be drawing tons of cards with um um
3357s	spectral so there's a very good chance
3358s	he hit spells but he actually didn't so
3361s	i don't know if this is because like in
3363s	hindsight he didn't hit spell so i think
3365s	it's good but
3366s	i don't know when i i would have never
3368s	done this personally because there was a
3370s	good chance that you draw many spells
3371s	off the top
3373s	all right so like you said he goes for
3375s	the playoff mailbox and to silence uh
3377s	probably that was his intention from the
3378s	start
3380s	but yeah now that he hits oh my gosh
3384s	wow
3385s	yeah i mean
3386s	you're probably not going to play both
3387s	distant um i saw judgment sit up in his
3390s	chair i think he was a bit excited about
3391s	that draw as well
3393s	but yeah i think you would likely just
3395s	go for one uh multi-strike here thin out
3398s	your deck a bit uh
3399s	i think he could assume maybe there is
3402s	no barbaric sorceress intent because it
3404s	could have come down on the previous
3405s	turn
3406s	get some honorable kills in draw some
3408s	spells set up for the big j's i think it
3410s	looks very clean very nice at this point
3413s	how does it work out you go dread prison
3414s	glaive hero power into the mailbox
3417s	dancer and then multi oh no sorry
3420s	glaive hero power fossil fanatic then
3422s	kill off the mailbox dancer yep one mana
3425s	multi-strike to
3426s	into the starfish yeah it looks very
3429s	clean
3430s	another way of looking at this is you
3431s	completely ignore the mailbox and go
3432s	like you you can do eight distance right
3435s	instead
3436s	yeah but he's not ignoring it i think
3438s	it's fine i think it's fine i haven't
3439s	worked out the exact damage breakpoints
3441s	or whatever but this is fine as well you
3443s	do two less distance but you you save a
3445s	weapon charge uh you kill up one extra
3447s	million i think it's perfectly fine i
3448s	think it's perfectly fine
3451s	it doesn't mean that there is now a
3452s	clear available to
3454s	ocean in the form of a spammy arcanist
3457s	but then we start branching into what is
3460s	the wider game plan here because if he
3462s	uses a coin here he then doesn't have
3465s	access to coin coin rune right which
3467s	feels to me or maybe even coin coin
3469s	drake fire amulet one of those big
3471s	spells feels like his way to actually
3473s	swing the game and properly pull back
3475s	into the lead
3476s	right so before this top deck of the
3478s	vardant uh i i would say uh spammy was a
3481s	consideration but okay so even if he
3483s	didn't top that this father i still
3485s	agree that the better player was to go
3487s	for like the coin coin rune because
3489s	that's how you actually win the game
3490s	right your coin coin ruined into like a
3492s	clear plus ice barrier you restabilize
3495s	and then any other parrot you top deck
3496s	after that is like sort of good right so
3499s	i think the correct line was to
3501s	actually not use these coins but
3503s	obviously his decision is made a lot
3504s	easier because he drew this garden i
3506s	think the fact that he drew this button
3507s	um he's uh very likely going to go for
3510s	the line of what we mentioned of the
3511s	coin coin rune um another thing that i
3513s	was looking at is also you could go for
3515s	something like coin brand plus vardan
3518s	which actually clears off the board yeah
3521s	so is he doing it this oh oh he's whoa
3524s	wow okay okay
3527s	okay i can see where he's like thinking
3528s	is right now he does this distance into
3531s	bran
3532s	vardhan to clear off a board into coin
3534s	rune i think
3536s	that is his current
3537s	outlook on things i think it's fine i
3539s	think it's fine
3541s	okay fair enough fair enough and again
3543s	you know you do have to remember that
3544s	like ruins so often doesn't actually
3547s	make you a board that wins the game
3549s	right it's much more often uh a clear uh
3552s	that draws you some cards as well
3555s	uh yeah i mean but if you're there if
3557s	you're derek brown you're going to hit
3558s	like what uh
3559s	amulet barrier flame strike right the
3562s	perfect 20.
3563s	oh obviously
3564s	i'm i'm role playing as okay here right
3567s	right right right
3569s	okay so uh i mean i mean the turn is
3571s	fairly simple for for judgement uh it's
3573s	just about setting up the big chase he's
3575s	he's like this close uh nixon
3578s	uh looks like a turn where he just
3579s	offloads all the spells
3581s	and then big j's on it very simple
3583s	gameplan
3585s	they recently changed the way the uh
3588s	uh multi-strike works right now you can
3590s	attack into a minion play multi-strike
3592s	and go face again which i always thought
3594s	was intended but actually yeah he said
3596s	it was a bug which i didn't even realize
3598s	but now basically you can just kind of
3600s	do anything with multi-strike right you
3602s	can't attack face but uh a face twice
3604s	sorry but everything else is fair game
3606s	yeah i i i'm also on the plane that i
3608s	think that that's how i was supposed to
3609s	work but anyway uh judgement decides
3612s	that he might not have the mana to cash
3613s	in on all his spells nixon cashes in on
3616s	one of the um the
3618s	of the furious distant i think it's fine
3620s	as well losing out on the board presence
3621s	which i think he
3623s	knows that it's not that significant
3624s	anymore he's gonna win on turn eight
3626s	in theory but uh oka shinsuke here now
3630s	has
3631s	well i mean he has
3633s	i mean he needs to he need he needs to
3635s	get this ruined out right like i don't
3637s	see him getting back
3639s	into this game without the rune
3641s	um
3643s	is it ever a brand
3646s	uh okanian accepting this two damage
3649s	it could be yeah it could be just a
3651s	brand yup and he's going for it brandon
3652s	wow
3654s	okay
3655s	i mean the thing is the thing is you
3656s	know okay i mean so you know judgement's
3658s	hand is like majority spell so it's
3661s	whether he has enough spells to waste in
3663s	this situation and wow oh my god he just
3665s	won right wait let me see
3667s	i haven't counted this yet you play on
3668s	the one two negated you play out the
3672s	does he have enough mana to play all the
3673s	spells oh he does he does it's lethal
3674s	right it's little yeah it's literal yeah
3676s	because the three cost becomes zero
3677s	costs he just dumps the chaos strike
3679s	just needs about one second more to
3682s	figure this out and yep uh judgement
3683s	figures out on the spot
3685s	playing the nagala
3688s	and then dumping clear strike and then
3690s	with the hero power and the two two
3691s	onboard it's exactly though
3694s	uh i mean i would say it's an expected
3696s	pan out because oka shinsuke is firstly
3698s	unfavored secondly he didn't hit the um
3702s	barbaric sorceress yeah so
3704s	in this in this kind of scenarios i feel
3706s	like it's a very easy steam roll for the
3708s	demon hunter so currently playing out as
3710s	intended i would say
3713s	and it was just such an interesting game
3714s	from judgment because the way i see it
3716s	there were two real approaches you have
3718s	there right there was play around
3720s	barbara sorcerer or don't play around
3722s	barbara saucer it's the two main avenues
3724s	that you have there i was pretty much
3726s	down the road of it's gonna happen no
3727s	matter what just don't bother playing
3729s	around it and just put as much aggro on
3731s	the board before it happens as you can
3734s	uh
3734s	but the more i think about it judgment's
3736s	game plan
3738s	really didn't sacrifice that much tempo
3740s	right to play around the barbara saucer
3742s	as well he lost out on a fossil fanatic
3744s	towards the start of the game which is
3745s	definitely what i would have preferred
3748s	at the time and i still think maybe i
3749s	slightly preferred
3751s	but it wasn't a ridiculous game plan to
3753s	go for at all was it he still got a lot
3755s	of damage with the the metamorphin as
3757s	well yeah i think i think if his game
3759s	plan was to always try and like dumb
3761s	spells from his hand right actually
3762s	having the fossil financing on the board
3764s	like i mentioned before it's like a
3766s	detriment because you are guaranteed to
3768s	have spells in your hand that you cannot
3769s	get rid of every single time if you play
3771s	the first phonetic but
3773s	me personally i would have gone with
3775s	like something similar to your line
3776s	because i think the value of having all
3778s	these early chip damage cannot be
3779s	understated right like but what if he
3782s	didn't have the barbaric sorceress and
3783s	you did not play your two tools that
3785s	dealt like two damage everything you
3786s	know like this kind of things i feel
3788s	like it's not about right or wrong it's
3790s	about committing to one line committing
3792s	to one line and seeing it through right
3793s	so like i wouldn't say judgment was
3795s	right or wrong i would say that he made
3796s	the line that he thought was like
3798s	correct in his spot and it got paid off
3801s	yeah it did he did have a little bit of
3803s	help along the way you know the fact
3805s	that he drew no extra spells yeah
3807s	discounted by barbarous off of the uh
3809s	the spectral sites and that he got
3811s	exactly the metamorphin but again we
3813s	call that playing to our outs right here
3815s	in april
3816s	i mean i mean or getting lucky
3818s	he stopped he stuck to what he wanted to
3820s	do and i guess i can respect it not
3822s	something i would have done but he did
3823s	it and it worked so yeah what are we to
3825s	say it's wrong right so all right moving
3827s	on now to mage vs rogue the mage i would
3831s	argue kind of a similar spot right
3833s	against uh mine rogue as against demon
3835s	hunter it's just against the deck that
3837s	does a lot of burst damage very quickly
3840s	and it feels like there's not much
3842s	defense against that as the big spell
3843s	mage yeah there practically isn't any
3846s	because you're only live game i would
3847s	even count like like the hero card as
3849s	live can it's too late versus my return
3850s	seven it's like then turn seven doesn't
3852s	exist versus mine in this matchup but
3854s	like your only health gain is like the
3856s	the the armor girl i forgot her name
3859s	they went against ten or nine armor but
3860s	yeah um it's a very difficult match up
3863s	overall for oga shinsuke i would say
3864s	though that because the mind rogue has
3867s	like
3867s	a higher chance to break than a demon
3869s	hunter breaking against um
3871s	big spell mage giving them that one
3873s	extra turn to find the belinda to coin
3875s	out the
3876s	barbara stuff like that i think i think
3878s	it's it's
3879s	not as bad as versus demon handing demon
3882s	hunters like way more favored versus big
3883s	spell mage but my road is still favored
3885s	but i think if myron ever breaks uh big
3887s	bombage has a greater chance of getting
3889s	back into the game
3892s	well both players kind of have their
3894s	their power cards in hand right now in
3896s	belinda and the swift scale trickster
3898s	obviously belinda needs a little bit
3900s	less help her to get going uh but i
3902s	would argue that like finding a
3905s	uh
3906s	a mailbox dancer is kind of the
3908s	equivalent of finding a support card
3910s	because without that turn five feels a
3912s	little bit slow to be going for belinda
3915s	against mine rogue uh but for judgement
3917s	right now it is quite clearly just a
3919s	race to find the uh the smoke screen
3922s	yeah honestly honestly i feel like uh
3924s	for judgement he he knows that he
3927s	i mean i i don't believe it's possible
3929s	to win this match up with uh with the
3931s	aco light burning bladed echolite game
3932s	plan but half the time you just want to
3934s	get it over with asap with uh minds to
3937s	the face weapon to the face graveyard
3938s	active and just like kill him before he
3941s	turns six or seven even matters i mean
3943s	uh for minor it's very possible with the
3945s	right draws this is so very interesting
3947s	he does not trade away the
3949s	extortion uh
3951s	i wouldn't want to say this is right or
3953s	wrong but the thing is i play this
3954s	matchup quite a bit and you really get
3956s	uh
3957s	like destroyed by watch posts okay this
3959s	match up you really really get destroyed
3960s	by watchpost so i think he's literally
3963s	keeping this just so he can like easily
3965s	blast off one of the watch posts uh i
3967s	can respect that because uh it's really
3969s	very difficult to
3970s	to like win with mind roll if all your
3972s	cuts cost like one more because every
3974s	point of mana is super crucial in
3975s	mineral
3976s	i mean it demonstrates perfectly how
3978s	important it is right because the only
3980s	thing he cares about now is finding that
3982s	smoke screen but he didn't trade a way
3984s	to find it we should just tell you
3985s	pretty much everything you need to know
3987s	as a pained smile there comes through
3990s	from judgement he's again just not
3993s	getting what he needs on the mine rogue
3995s	it's close it's so so close but it's
3998s	still not there
4000s	yeah so for this particular game unlike
4001s	the previous mineral game he didn't go
4003s	with the temple i would say temple
4005s	graveyard because uh he he doesn't have
4007s	any way of like like he can't afford to
4009s	waste the graveyard around at this point
4010s	i mean there are still argument
4011s	arguments to just literally slamming it
4013s	as you can see as you can see okay so
4016s	this happens more often than not i'm not
4018s	saying he was supposed to slam it but
4021s	playing mine wrong you kind of just have
4023s	to buy the bullet sometimes and just
4024s	slam it like the graveyard and just
4026s	waste like one or two things so
4027s	obviously he got the immediate payoff um
4030s	i mean if he had played the graveyard
4032s	and then once again in hindsight he
4034s	didn't draw death rental so you could
4035s	say it's no payoff but like
4037s	it's just the nature of the deck right
4039s	you wouldn't know
4040s	what you're gonna draw off the top so
4042s	sometimes you just close your eyes and
4043s	hope for the best
4046s	uh but his hand is now looking very
4048s	beautiful um one mana graveyard wow he
4052s	could literally go one mana graveyard
4053s	into sketchy prep sketchy for like 16
4056s	damage
4058s	that's this yeah interesting and it's
4060s	not just
4061s	yeah already played the shambler as well
4063s	so it could be like
4064s	snowfall prep sketchy play the mind like
4067s	the possibilities are just endless here
4069s	yeah he wins he wins like
4072s	i think the moment the belinda comes
4074s	down he doesn't even care he's just like
4076s	just let me kill you next time yeah he
4078s	knows he knows what's up he's just gonna
4079s	do this like he she just cheats like
4081s	what what for mana distant and then deal
4084s	16 damage like like come on man like
4088s	this is mine rock at its nuttiest
4091s	more or less yeah so
4092s	[Music]
4094s	the thing about prepping out the
4095s	graveyard here i like it things two
4096s	cards as well i think i think you're in
4097s	a spot where but you don't really want
4099s	to afford risking drawing the other mine
4101s	yeah because like like there's like so
4103s	many other good draws if you just did
4104s	this mine out of your deck
4105s	um and then like like trade away your
4107s	colors or play gone fishing next turn
4109s	you could find um the other ship the
4111s	other chamber is lethal anyway like the
4113s	other channeler is instalito it's just
4115s	lethal next turn because he has backstab
4117s	right you just oh that's true that's
4118s	true yeah mine backstab uh mine mine
4120s	backstab it's yeah as long as he doesn't
4122s	eye here uh i think yeah i think he can
4125s	lose
4126s	oh sorry
4127s	yeah yeah but the one thing is dumping
4129s	backstab because of sources
4132s	but the thing is if you dump the back
4133s	step you don't have a thing to proc your
4135s	second mind so uh this is one of those
4138s	spots whereby
4140s	we thought okay without caster vision i
4142s	am definitely not dumping this this back
4144s	step because i want to win i want to win
4145s	next time i want to win so badly and
4147s	like like i don't think it's worth it
4149s	like i mean it's still a 50 50 to hit
4150s	whether the back step or gone fishing
4153s	and it also has to be that you hit um
4156s	the back step and it's a rune and not uh
4159s	what's that called and it's not a amulet
4161s	right because roon is the one that yeah
4162s	yeah so so it's a lot of fifty fifties
4164s	that okay has to win and i if i'm in
4167s	judgement spot i also would not play the
4168s	backstab here
4170s	yeah agree completely i'm just not
4172s	taking that risk
4174s	but then once again we look at okay into
4175s	case and these two players are both
4177s	drawing the exact cards they need off
4178s	the top
4179s	um
4181s	i
4182s	believe it's an easy four drop here like
4185s	like you know that you're dead so many
4186s	times to so many different hands in this
4188s	spot with against mineral especially if
4190s	he has already played a shambler so i i
4192s	do believe that yeah yeah i do believe
4194s	that it's a very easy four drop here
4197s	even without the cluster vision
4200s	yeah i like the fact that you know that
4201s	there's both vines in hand one of them
4204s	like there are so many outs here to win
4206s	the game it's extortion backstab wicked
4209s	stab lieutenant uh it's just too much i
4212s	also want to say that the crazy thing
4214s	about this is that even if he gains 10
4215s	health here he'll be at 20 oh my god
4217s	okay wait but he'll be at 24. so 24 is
4219s	the perfect break break point for
4221s	mineral with uh with the graveyard
4223s	upright it's like yeah
4225s	oh
4228s	okay it is not lethal because um the
4231s	thing is even if you find the
4233s	what's that called the the lieutenant
4235s	the one tree is kind of like in the way
4237s	you can rush it into
4239s	but i'm pretty sure he cashes in like
4241s	like omega damage distant
4243s	uh yeah
4245s	so goes for gone fishing tries to find
4248s	oh my god oh he actually got the
4250s	lieutenant it was actually lethal right
4252s	yeah it was lethal if there wasn't for
4253s	the one tree taunt in the way
4255s	so
4256s	kind of unfortunate it is lethal you go
4259s	shutter speed oh right right right right
4260s	right right right backstab yo ah you're
4262s	right i missed that i missed that yeah i
4264s	missed the back step on the
4265s	okay yeah it's still three minutes nice
4267s	nice nice thing nice spot
4270s	but yeah i mean look in okay into this
4272s	position i feel like he really needed um
4276s	to not die distant he could have
4278s	actually actually stabilized um next
4280s	turn yeah yeah actually
4283s	yeah if you actually uh manage to play
4284s	on the second
4286s	armor gaming card um
4288s	i mean i mean judgment just shows that
4290s	he really understands this match-up
4292s	right like that backstab hold i mean in
4294s	a lot of situations you'll be like oh no
4295s	i'm gonna lose the barbaric sorceress if
4296s	i don't play this backstab but if you're
4298s	not
4299s	trying to win what are you doing right
4301s	like like this backstab was so crucial
4303s	to him winning this game like whether or
4305s	whether whether or whether or not
4306s	bokassian skin drew the um
4309s	the girl that gained the armor so
4311s	um
4313s	yeah i think very well played from
4314s	judgement side um i think i think it was
4316s	near flawless uh in hindsight probably
4318s	should have fit the graveyard on turn
4320s	three but you would never know for sure
4322s	right we would never know for sure other
4324s	than that i think it was pretty flawed
4325s	pretty flawless and i'm very impressed
4328s	yeah expected win yeah yeah i mean a
4331s	very clean game from judgement a pretty
4333s	easy game to play for the most part like
4335s	he just drew the nuts on turn four and
4336s	then played the rest of his hand from
4338s	there the lethal tones were a little bit
4339s	puzzly but uh he got through very nicely
4342s	kind of expected as you were saying uh
4344s	but it does mean now just the uh the wig
4346s	priest left over uh for
4350s	uh for judgment which is really the
4352s	outlier in terms of his lineup right
4353s	because you've got the uh the mine rogue
4356s	just about burst damage the demon hunter
4358s	kind of a big very very big part of it's
4361s	just about burst damage as well but wig
4363s	priest is just the purest board deck
4365s	there is right it cannot win without
4367s	board control
4368s	yeah it kind of
4369s	board control it is kind of horrible
4371s	playing from behind as well um so this
4373s	deck is one of those decks that really
4375s	benefits from your opponent passing turn
4377s	one and two which is effectively the
4379s	warlock right the warlock does
4381s	practically nothing on turn one and two
4382s	um but i also would like to stress that
4384s	this match-up is extremely important for
4387s	both players firstly because if olga
4388s	shinsuke loses this well he just loses
4390s	right but if judgment loses this one the
4393s	big spell match versus the weak priest
4394s	is a lot closer because barbaric saucer
4397s	sorcerer heating
4398s	barbaric sorcerer hitting a wick is like
4401s	so detrimental to the game plan of the
4403s	weak priest and i think that both
4404s	players know this and uh this this this
4407s	might be the turning point in the match
4408s	if okashinsuke somehow gets out of the
4412s	of this predicament that he's in right
4414s	now
4415s	but i i mean take us through this match
4416s	up a little bit right because even
4418s	though the warlock doesn't do much in
4419s	the early turns in terms of immediate
4421s	development it has a good amount of
4423s	removal right so can it not just like
4425s	delete everything the wig priest plays
4427s	and right it goes for the curse plan
4429s	the thing is the warlock's most
4431s	efficient removal is unlocked on turn
4433s	six with like entitled customer um
4436s	abyssal wave coin uh a gigafin
4438s	eventually but i think it's the early
4440s	removal i mean i don't i don't i don't
4442s	think he runs full blown evil which is
4444s	one of the better removals in the early
4445s	game one of okay one off but like the
4448s	other removals are really just too
4451s	little damage like drain so was three
4452s	damage for two mana drag below is like
4456s	four damage for three mana i think for
4458s	weak priests as long as they do open up
4460s	the weak it is like super possible to
4462s	make a minion that is like what eight
4464s	nine health by like turn four it is it
4466s	is very very possible so i think uh it
4469s	really depends on whether um judgment
4471s	opens with the wick because if he has
4473s	the wick all the early removal break
4475s	points for warlock is quite
4477s	uh insufficient yeah
4480s	i mean judgment here from the look of
4482s	his mulligan is really all about the wig
4484s	part of wig priest right because yeah
4486s	double crush claw enforcer with both of
4488s	them being activated on turn two and
4490s	three looked pretty decent to me as a
4492s	just a reasonable curve at the start but
4495s	none of that's even good enough for him
4497s	yeah i i do agree with this mulligan
4499s	though um there was even some
4500s	consideration of throwing back the one
4503s	drop simply because the wig is really
4504s	the most important card in the deck like
4506s	without the wig all your minions are
4508s	like potentially even worse arena
4509s	minions than actual arena minions so
4512s	yeah yeah so i do i do think that the
4515s	wick is like the most important card in
4517s	the deck and i with judges mulligan he
4519s	was heavily rewarded even if he didn't
4521s	top that in the week he has the trife
4522s	which is essentially almost always awake
4525s	so um good on judgement for noticing
4527s	this i'm very impressed so far um
4529s	mulligans uh game plan everything for
4531s	like the last few games have all been
4532s	pretty solid uh i'm uh
4535s	thinking that ogashinsuke is in a bit of
4539s	okay you know a bit different
4540s	understatement he's in a lot of trouble
4541s	right now
4542s	yeah he's in a lot of trouble we do not
4543s	see the one-off stuff is it a one-off
4545s	starfish i think it's a one-off stuff
4546s	one of starfish yeah one of unstable
4549s	shadow blast as well like in his 40-card
4551s	deck he's found the one card that keeps
4552s	him in the game
4555s	because if he didn't kill this it would
4556s	kind of just be gg on the spot yeah my
4559s	personal opinion about cat cards in 40
4561s	card decks is not that you play one offs
4562s	you kind of should play two offs because
4564s	like it's very unlikely that you see
4565s	them anyway because it's an extra 10
4567s	cards so why not play more so you have
4568s	the higher chance to see it but back to
4570s	the actual game at hand i think
4572s	judgements well nixon is kind of blank
4575s	but not like that bad anyway it's a it's
4577s	a 4-4 here that
4579s	can only be answered by some very
4581s	specific cards and we can clearly see
4583s	that oga shinsuke has none of it he does
4585s	have a tempo three drop which
4588s	arguably might be good enough but at the
4590s	same time you might have to start
4591s	tapping to dig for your silence for your
4594s	note while pornos i mean i mean if you
4596s	play a three drop here your pawns
4598s	effectively get worse every time you
4599s	draw them right so i think in oka
4601s	shinsuke's spot he doesn't have the
4603s	luxury to
4604s	play this three drop i'm pretty sure he
4606s	has to tap yep for like i said um notes
4609s	just get worse if you play cards so but
4611s	those are both swings so i think you
4612s	kind of want to look for your nose if
4614s	it's not nose it's the silence um
4616s	yeah this tree drop just doesn't cut it
4618s	right now it doesn't do anything
4622s	obviously he's thinking about setting up
4624s	for like both potential draws on the
4626s	following turn and like potential plays
4628s	from his opponent because if he plays
4630s	the cultist obviously yes it's a
4633s	horrible stat size against this 4-4 but
4636s	it at least forces him to trade maybe it
4638s	allows him to clear the board with a
4640s	drain sole off the top
4642s	um so i don't think it's ridiculous but
4645s	like you say it just means the rest of
4646s	his drawers are just getting worse and
4648s	worse and worse
4649s	yeah also i like i like what jasmine
4651s	judgment did here because like like i
4653s	said it's a one-off starfish um you
4655s	completely don't mind seeing the
4657s	starfish right now so he's just saying
4658s	that like okay i'm gonna keep hitting
4660s	you in the face i'm gonna like clock you
4661s	if you have the starfish just play it
4663s	but i don't care that's what he's trying
4665s	to say
4665s	yeah just just let me keep hitting you
4667s	in the face you can keep trying to find
4668s	your starfish if you don't get it i'm
4670s	just gonna win that's what judgment is
4671s	saying right now
4673s	i totally didn't have to read what a
4675s	desecrated graveyard with because i did
4678s	because i've definitely seen that play
4679s	out a whole bunch of times
4681s	um probably just the touch yeah it
4683s	always sucks to pick a one mana card
4686s	for your nargling but it's just the only
4688s	one that really does anything yeah
4690s	i think i think off off the of the
4692s	knuckling it's always premium to get
4693s	dragged below because it does damage it
4696s	like helps your game plan and everything
4697s	but yeah that's probably the best one
4699s	over here judgment has actually uh i
4701s	would say not an easy turn because he
4704s	could he could go like semi all in now
4706s	if he feels that his um his uh what's
4708s	that called his radiant elemental will
4709s	not die or doesn't get silenced which
4711s	effectively leads to like insane
4713s	snowballs right if your radiant sticks
4715s	on the board so i i do think there's a
4717s	potential for a radiant line um i think
4719s	if you just play the school teacher it's
4721s	like two little stats on board
4722s	considering your opponent has two
4723s	minions and also okani is probably
4725s	better into turn six so i think he
4727s	should take a risk here with the with
4729s	the radiant then like
4730s	buff some stats on the board um possibly
4733s	even fitting a heel without like um
4736s	i play yeah i mean like you could like
4738s	just buff the rate and trade something
4739s	and heal
4740s	but he's clearly going for
4742s	more than that i think he's looking for
4743s	a devourer or bless to make the bot
4746s	super huge i think i can respect that
4751s	i kind of want to just take the wig to
4753s	like have another wig in hand like it's
4755s	just such a powerful card but
4757s	okay i guess it would be a little bit
4758s	weak on this tone because you can't
4759s	really play it
4762s	i i i wouldn't say i love this but i i
4764s	can respect this because he doesn't even
4766s	value the health on the radiant he just
4769s	wants um like the taunt to not get
4772s	traded over
4773s	i am not too sure
4776s	if this is correct because
4778s	like like the radiant sticking is like a
4780s	gateway to just like playing like 1000
4783s	spells on the following turn so like
4785s	i don't know but uh oka shinsuke
4788s	rewarded for playing minions on curve
4789s	draws the no at the exact mana cost that
4791s	he can still play it so
4794s	this is pretty good because it allows
4796s	for the trade over the two eight a kill
4799s	on the acolyte ah sorry a kill on the
4801s	radiant and leading up to all his turn
4803s	six power plays so i think oh gosh in
4805s	the game might be coming back in this
4806s	one
4807s	i think this is the only play he has
4808s	available and i do agree you have to
4810s	kill the rating element you just don't
4811s	know your opponent's hand they could
4813s	just like win the game next time
4815s	yeah but but this is one of those panels
4818s	that i feel like
4819s	um
4820s	oh wait wait whoa whoa whoa whoa this is
4822s	not what i expected
4825s	maybe he gets this cue because he
4827s	he acts whoa whoa okay but i don't know
4830s	i don't get it i don't really get it
4831s	because like how how important is fall
4834s	attack compared to the
4836s	effect of the radiant right like anybody
4839s	right it's not like your entitled
4841s	customer is huge um and every other aoe
4843s	or 106 doesn't really deal that much or
4845s	i didn't see the pick of the nagaling
4847s	though i think it was an amulet right
4849s	which oh wow wow wow
4851s	yeah yeah yeah
4853s	i always forgot that like amulet
4854s	actually does something in this deck
4856s	right right
4857s	it's so counter-intuitive like you don't
4859s	think of it like it's quest priests or
4860s	it's like ball but naga priest actually
4862s	can make use of the amulet as well
4865s	so
4867s	i mean
4868s	if you're going to get entitled
4870s	customers customer is like a five aoe so
4873s	maybe you just at this point give up on
4875s	the radiant and buff something else
4877s	like right you play down your amulet and
4879s	then
4881s	he's playing around tamzin i would
4883s	imagine as much as possible here right
4886s	the buff on the the buff on this on the
4888s	naga is whoa the buff on the um school
4891s	teacher is simply because he doesn't get
4893s	blown out by um entitled customer right
4895s	now and i think it's
4896s	respectable
4898s	yeah i agree the other option was to
4900s	like
4900s	either go this way you trade away the
4902s	radiant elemental or you could go for a
4905s	more even buff where you trade the rate
4907s	sorry you buff up the rating elemental
4909s	and go face with it allow the null to
4911s	trade into the one five but keep the
4913s	rest of your board alive against
4914s	dredlich tamzin
4916s	but there's also a bissell wave there's
4917s	also titled in customer there's a little
4919s	bit too much on that break point so i do
4921s	like these instead just making one big
4923s	minion yeah
4924s	i think i think at this point uh ogashin
4927s	suke is just thinking how how greedy can
4929s	he get because i think the best player
4930s	like he is he's hovering over it right
4932s	now is he he wants to get the tempo out
4934s	of the way because it draws three cards
4936s	um drops the health of the minions on
4938s	board which means you don't die out of
4940s	nowhere more often than not yeah so i
4942s	think i think that's very valuable also
4944s	getting the
4945s	yeah getting the fel riffs uh like three
4947s	minions to contest whoa wow
4949s	that's quite a that's called an apec
4951s	cairo right there
4953s	six mana deal three to everything
4955s	spawned a six six well i'm pretty sure
4958s	that's like above average stats on a
4960s	card
4962s	right by the way yeah for the card deck
4964s	by the way uh only only so many uh riffs
4967s	you can try at one time but yeah so i i
4969s	did think judgment's planned distant was
4970s	to bait out some aoe and then play the
4972s	okani to counter the other aoe but the
4975s	problem is right now he he can do that
4977s	but there's there's three three times
4979s	two on the board so
4980s	um
4981s	his okani plan is a bit worse right now
4984s	um that he initially wanted it to be
4988s	also also if you have yeah also if he
4989s	counters minion right like there's like
4991s	so much cheap minions in oh gosh insert
4993s	his hand to like bait out the
4995s	um
4996s	the beta beta the okani indication so
4999s	this might go very south for judgment
5000s	very soon uh
5003s	yeah i think it's he's in danger zone
5005s	right now
5006s	yeah i think the play for akane has to
5007s	be now to try and play around
5009s	gigafin i suppose is like the next break
5012s	point that actually does anything
5014s	because
5014s	uh you know you know there's a nargling
5016s	in hand so you're not playing around the
5018s	entitled customer with this uh okani
5021s	and so maybe he can get that set up for
5023s	next turn with a decent draw as well to
5024s	turn up the pressure because right now
5027s	oka shinsuke is just absolutely fine
5029s	yeah personally personally i'm not even
5031s	in gigafin territory i'm like i'm like
5032s	thinking like if he has gigafin i'm just
5034s	dead at this point like okay like
5036s	because because he's really so far
5037s	behind alright like he doesn't have any
5039s	follow-up um even if he draws two cuts
5041s	off this uh he draws a cut off the
5043s	treasure guard and a natural draw he's
5045s	not able to activate his handmaiden
5047s	which is like the main refill at this
5048s	point so like um
5051s	he sees like out of stuff right at this
5052s	point a weak priest is really like
5054s	gassed out um
5055s	i don't even think oka shinseki needs to
5057s	really respect and okay now because he's
5059s	like relatively healthy he just clears
5060s	off like like most of the the other
5062s	threatening minions on board um
5065s	judgement is like guessed out he only
5066s	can play like one or two minions a turn
5068s	and they have to be nagas if not you
5070s	don't get the wig buff like he's really
5071s	limited in terms of what he can do
5073s	so i think for ogashinsuke he knows that
5076s	he's in a commanding position now just
5078s	trying out his best not to um
5080s	let go of the pressure like we can even
5082s	see like temple zola on the nagaling
5084s	just to um get more minions on the board
5087s	i wouldn't even think that's a bad play
5090s	run picked up as well i mean that just
5092s	means yeah no board is ever sticking
5094s	right yeah yeah nothing is sticking
5095s	right now
5097s	uh okay values the solar a little bit
5099s	more but i i think i think i know what
5100s	this is for this zola is probably solar
5102s	for the entire customer if anything
5104s	right like dub two waves of aoe is too
5106s	much for the
5108s	well um the priests to deal with
5110s	this does now mean i don't know if it's
5112s	going to be relevant on this term but
5113s	that was the last minion he played in
5114s	his hand that cost two or less so now
5117s	akane can counter uh the entitled
5120s	customer uh as it currently stands
5122s	obviously akani needs to survive for
5124s	that to happen which i think judgement
5125s	has quickly made the decision that's not
5127s	going to happen
5129s	uh
5131s	it didn't even end up mattering anyway
5132s	judgement just still unlikely to be able
5134s	to stick this board yeah i mean we do
5137s	see there was a possibility to go
5139s	somewhere into the tutu and then play
5141s	okani that was actually something right
5143s	like if you think about it one man off
5146s	oh right right he's on seven right right
5148s	in my bed yeah so he can't he can't do
5149s	that yeah so this okani play was never
5151s	um it's never gonna go anywhere because
5153s	it's just going to get killed by the
5154s	board
5156s	right so
5157s	i mean i mean augustine doesn't really
5159s	really have a way to kill judgment at
5161s	any point
5163s	soon but i guess i guess you just don't
5165s	let you don't you don't release under
5166s	pressure here you probably can go for a
5168s	tap first and if it's really nothing
5170s	clear off something and play like a
5171s	bread baker
5172s	yeah i would like something like that i
5174s	think better you can go brand zola on
5176s	the nargling and then each of those
5177s	narglings stealing four damage with the
5180s	uh
5181s	uh the touch of the naturalisms oh yeah
5183s	actually that's it that's way better i
5184s	didn't spot that first yeah
5186s	yeah then literally that literally uh
5188s	puts the ball in the corner of the of
5190s	the warlock like uh the warlock actually
5192s	has bought compared to the priests right
5194s	like yeah
5196s	like how often do you see that happening
5198s	yeah i mean this is where you start
5199s	turning the tide right this is where you
5201s	start really pulling into the lead the
5203s	one problem here is that there are a lot
5205s	of minions with like one or two health
5207s	on board which means uh
5211s	becomes very very powerful here is a
5213s	potential swing mechanism uh for
5216s	judgment which is i think why okacinski
5218s	is actually very cleverly deliberately
5220s	trading away more of his board here just
5222s	so that can't happen yeah i think i
5225s	think he knows he loses if there's like
5227s	one huge minion and he doesn't have a
5229s	silence and we also see that he does not
5231s	have a gigafin in hand so i think i
5233s	think he knows that the way he really
5234s	loses is like one huge minion that he
5236s	cannot clear so very good uh spot by
5238s	ogashi insecure to trade off his little
5240s	minions because he knows that he's not
5241s	winning this race by like poking with
5243s	little guys anyway
5246s	what can you do with a
5249s	bran
5251s	oh
5261s	i keep thinking
5262s	accents and naga because they used to do
5263s	this with against naga mage they will
5265s	use naja hexane to steal the oh yeah
5268s	yeah
5268s	the the siren and then pop off and do
5270s	many many many things but yeah that's in
5272s	the past
5273s	um currently i think
5276s	uh well he even has a problem killing
5278s	this brand actually
5279s	i mean he can but he
5282s	uses a lot of valuable resources uh okay
5285s	this is one of the outs i think going
5287s	for the bless here is pretty good one
5289s	big minion
5290s	uh leaving eight seven on board is
5292s	actually from the hand that we can see
5294s	uh kind of difficult for oka shinsuke to
5296s	deal with efficiently
5298s	i mean he can go custom oh and it's it's
5300s	horrible clear customer plus uh
5303s	customer plus like uh the nagaling
5305s	whether it's like well problem solved
5307s	right
5309s	problem solved yeah that'll do it just
5311s	fine fit in the tap as well i mean tap
5314s	first right just to see what yeah of
5315s	course tab first yeah regardless you can
5317s	you can save the customer um
5319s	and the missile wave yeah
5323s	i guess he also is considering
5325s	how
5327s	uh well whatever he can tap into uh i
5329s	mean right it's 26 card deck you don't
5330s	really you don't really know what you're
5332s	going to type into fine but
5334s	so
5335s	here it's quite simple right you just go
5337s	for
5338s	the
5338s	the no plus
5340s	the nagaling
5342s	clear of this eight seven
5345s	i'm a bit concerned though because uh
5347s	oga shinsuke has like two entitled
5349s	customers in hand but his hand is
5351s	relatively small
5352s	like
5353s	even with the tap
5355s	on the following turn he's only going up
5357s	to
5358s	six cards in hand
5360s	so
5362s	if this man if his minions get a bit
5364s	bigger like judgment's minutes get a bit
5365s	bigger oh gosh it's gonna struggle as
5368s	you can see it's very easily gonna go up
5369s	to like nine health right now
5371s	yeah especially is this uh oh that's a
5374s	nice generation there's a nice um
5376s	this akane has gone from looking like it
5378s	was going to be really good to being
5380s	basically useless to going kind of good
5382s	again now uh in this later stage of the
5384s	game like if you have to play another
5386s	minion and then the customer it means
5388s	you can't tap most likely your hands
5390s	going to be smaller there's a real
5391s	chance the judgment can stick something
5394s	here yep
5395s	because like we see the hands it's
5397s	really
5398s	okay really does not have a way to clear
5400s	this tree right now like like even with
5402s	the top deck of another aoe the problem
5404s	with uh with warlock is that they are
5406s	the idea
5406s	their clears are like
5408s	damage uh based right so it's like
5411s	like if if you can't clear it means you
5413s	can't carry it's not like there's no
5414s	twisting nether in this list oh but the
5415s	pickup of the starfish just means that
5417s	he has some breathing room i i don't
5420s	mean you play the starfish this turn but
5421s	like it means that like you know that
5423s	there's always a reset button like
5425s	a two card combo with the customer to
5427s	clear like everything
5429s	uh insane pick up insane pickup i feel
5431s	like okay shinsuke has been drawing the
5432s	better half of his deck for this matchup
5434s	like he's not drawing the clunky um like
5437s	like like i would say drag pillow is
5439s	quite clunky in this matchup because
5441s	it's not very efficient removal but um
5443s	he's been drawing the
5445s	the removals the silencers and like you
5448s	mentioned like you mentioned earlier the
5450s	one-off unstable shadow blast on turn 2
5452s	was i think
5453s	extremely defining so far because if you
5456s	didn't have that that um
5458s	that naga was going to go out of control
5464s	let's keep playing noggis and uh wigs as
5466s	well
5467s	oh another amulet or is it a blast wait
5470s	less like so
5472s	i mean it's difficult right yeah bless
5474s	is very tempting because it's like the
5475s	third bless and you already expended one
5478s	bless
5479s	so
5480s	what if you go
5481s	if you pick bless you can go wig
5484s	nargling for the bless as well and then
5486s	a carny to end the turn
5490s	is it ever pulling everything on the
5492s	okani i can see that as well like you
5494s	lose
5494s	some
5495s	yeah you lose some damage now but your
5497s	okani is nigh unkillable outside of
5499s	silence right now that's good
5502s	yeah
5503s	i wouldn't be playing around the silence
5504s	at this point at all because
5506s	yeah it's a one-off and it's a 40 card
5508s	deck so
5509s	but he decides to cash in on the damage
5511s	now uh respectable completely fine i say
5513s	um okani i would say minion is the call
5516s	we haven't seen a customer we haven't
5517s	seen a gigafin
5520s	perfect call here and it's actually
5521s	quite perfect right like because if
5524s	if he plays either the starfish or the
5526s	customer um
5528s	it's never a full clear at this point
5530s	because of how the customer works like
5532s	if you play this the starfish and it
5533s	gets negated the okani um the the
5536s	customer cannot clear off the 88 and
5538s	yeah yeah so
5540s	this is quite good yeah this is quite
5541s	good as well
5545s	okay so if you go
5549s	bread baker plus inc plus customer you
5551s	do a five damage aoe which is
5554s	really good enough is it
5556s	it's not
5557s	um
5559s	i'm trying to figure out what's the best
5561s	like
5563s	okay so i yeah i feel like oka shinsuke
5566s	also thinks that the the call for okani
5569s	is minion
5570s	and
5571s	there is no way he just lets the
5575s	starfish go right so
5577s	i think this turn is not a full clear
5579s	thing this thing is just like a port
5580s	softening turn like he could go like
5582s	play a baker get negated and maybe play
5584s	like a bissell wave
5586s	or
5587s	something but i guess he's just trying
5589s	to find additional outs um playing the
5591s	baker
5593s	very
5595s	knowing full well that it could get
5596s	negated i'm going for the staff fish now
5599s	i guess
5601s	i want to go starfish plus customer next
5603s	turn
5604s	yeah yeah exactly so i i'm not too down
5606s	for this one like
5608s	i mean there are worlds that you die but
5612s	but now that you're only taking risk yup
5614s	yup i definitely agree that he had to
5615s	take that risk so now that judgment has
5617s	seen the starfish uh also seen the zola
5620s	if i'm not wrong so
5622s	he can just
5623s	just dump stats right um outside crazy
5626s	i personally wouldn't play around
5628s	gigafin in this spot because like i mean
5630s	you can bear on everything so
5632s	i i was just gonna go i'm going all in
5634s	here like i'm not even thinking of not
5636s	going all in at all i'm like just
5638s	dumping everything
5639s	uh
5640s	might consider trading or using the
5643s	silence because it's a spell for the
5645s	handmaiden
5649s	i don't think if you trade
5651s	i mean if you trade there's double
5652s	devour in the deck and a blast right but
5654s	are you really using a blast if it's not
5656s	lethal so i mean you're not trading it
5658s	to get a spell you're trading it to get
5660s	a naga right to play another one ah
5662s	right right right but is it is it uh
5665s	likely i'm not too sure what how many
5667s	nagas are left i think it's not many
5668s	anyway okay fair enough yeah
5671s	yeah
5672s	there there is some merit to just
5674s	playing out the
5675s	oh there's there's some handmade uh
5678s	handmade and school teacher queens guard
5680s	amalgam village i think that was enough
5682s	to consider it
5683s	yeah he just goes all in and plays the
5686s	silence and even plays the wig without
5687s	the buff uh
5689s	this
5690s	line just tells me that he's not
5691s	planning for this game to last very long
5693s	i mean yes he does have the other wick
5694s	but losing one wick is actually quite a
5697s	big deal like permanently losing one
5699s	wing is quite a big deal but judgment
5701s	just says that okay if you have gigafin
5703s	i lose anyway if you don't have it i
5704s	don't want this game to last more than
5705s	the next two turns so i'm just going to
5707s	finish it right now i think it's
5708s	respectable i think it's very okay
5711s	so you have tap trade into the economy
5714s	in uh entitled customer which deals
5717s	seven aoe
5719s	which means with the coil you're one off
5721s	from clearing the economy yeah
5723s	but i personally think you just do it
5726s	right you just do it because at the end
5728s	of the day making the okani not stay at
5730s	12 health is like super crucial because
5733s	that's like less territory you just you
5735s	just want to drop the health as much as
5736s	possible
5737s	also not even going for the tap first
5739s	because he really wants to
5741s	play a million okay find this fight this
5742s	fight as well two minutes oh full blown
5745s	evil is the nuts here man
5747s	full blown evil off the nagalang is like
5749s	four ticks of fubron evil that's 20
5751s	damage
5752s	yeah that's 20 damage wow yeah that's
5754s	literally always clear right at this
5756s	yeah it clears
5758s	everything
5759s	and i think okay it's not even playing
5761s	like the curse warlock deck anymore he's
5763s	playing the control warlock
5765s	at this point
5767s	yeah it's not it's not a swallow you
5769s	just just clear everything and then you
5770s	win because judgement is clearly running
5772s	out of stuff
5774s	there is the wig though which is a
5776s	pretty good draw he's still got one
5778s	final push in him i think yeah i'm
5781s	trying to figure out what this nugget
5782s	can get to give you the most
5784s	uh these these are not it these are not
5786s	it
5787s	was it an amulet was amulet like the
5790s	best because it's a big minion uh i
5792s	can't even think of like the best tree
5795s	tree yeah it was like that or stormpike
5797s	aids station maybe
5799s	yeah yeah
5801s	maybe another blast something
5803s	yeah i think stormpike might have been
5805s	arguably one of the better ones
5808s	oh he picked the horn of raytheon i
5810s	think yeah
5811s	so hello
5813s	a little bit too slow you can go
5815s	radiant wig queens guard wig but it will
5819s	only be a 4-5 then
5822s	i mean it everything points towards
5824s	ogashinsky just playing the full-blown
5826s	evil and then like ending the game right
5827s	like i don't think that's a break point
5828s	where you can get out of like 20 health
5830s	at this point
5833s	like like maybe you can but then
5834s	opponent had the okash insurgency still
5836s	has like two minions on the board to
5838s	trade into things and then full-blown
5840s	evil so like
5841s	doesn't look optimistic for judgement at
5843s	all
5845s	but yeah well he's gonna try
5847s	he's gonna play out everything
5849s	go face
5850s	the way this trade yeah just do it all i
5854s	don't think based on this expression he
5856s	was very happy if that turn oh no he
5858s	missed the attack
5859s	oh
5860s	no wonder he wasn't happy in the turn
5862s	okay okay okay oh i'm thinking
5865s	okay maybe he would have optimized it
5866s	with the different kind of buffs but he
5868s	missed eight man oh man
5870s	that is a disaster this has to be over
5873s	now right yeah i mean even if he did hit
5876s	him with eight it was probably still
5878s	over like
5880s	uh
5881s	yeah you could just go it's a very
5884s	simple clear here abyssal wave plus
5886s	model coil so clean uh
5889s	and knowing that uh oka shins against
5891s	from apec he will definitely spawn some
5892s	riffs here
5894s	yeah okay let's spawn some roofs
5897s	so
5899s	okay
5899s	judgement has an amalgam left in the
5902s	deck
5904s	are we in like light oh no we can't lie
5906s	around right we can't even lie can't get
5908s	that i'm thinking i don't think there's
5910s	any nagas that can save for me either
5912s	i'm wondering if there's like if his
5913s	opponent plays a demon and he steals it
5915s	with nadjak and then gets a demon off
5917s	the amalgam is there anything that can
5918s	save him there
5920s	like uh
5921s	jaraxxus level something stupid i mean
5923s	that's warlock
5924s	jaraxxus is not actually a minion
5927s	anymore right it's uh it's not yeah
5929s	and the oppo it's not even a priest card
5931s	like there's not many neutral demons
5933s	that can win the game but i don't know
5934s	i'm trying to think of anything man that
5936s	can uh yeah okay so
5938s	i i do like a not so far out like out
5942s	it's like because i noticed the
5943s	aquinashara in uh okay into ten so i'm
5945s	thinking that maybe you can discover a
5946s	queen ashara like like just with his
5949s	other naga and like that's true yeah
5951s	yeah some things going but it's it's we
5953s	we are really just pulling it uh
5955s	grasping at every straw that we can
5957s	grasp there right i think it's like
5958s	quite over at this point
5960s	i think it's completely over i yeah i do
5963s	not know what judgment has in his mind
5965s	here i think it's more just the never
5967s	concede mindset yeah yeah yeah it's it's
5969s	my mindset the one you just play until
5971s	you plan to the last card in your deck
5973s	and then you just like make your
5974s	opponent work for it
5975s	yeah but but clearly oka shinsuke
5977s	doesn't really have to work very hard at
5978s	this point he's just presenting little
5980s	on the board next turn um
5983s	just dump the zaku i think nothing too
5985s	horrible just playing that down it's a
5987s	five six six five so
5990s	yeah i just played a zaku i guess
5992s	i'm gonna heal
5995s	yeah
5996s	probably not the mistress
5999s	yeah just this should be enough right
6002s	like in what world does this amalgam
6005s	save him i'm just trying to think of
6007s	i mean i mean
6008s	you can't even get spell coiler this
6010s	isn't mage like oh you can get that um
6013s	into um
6015s	what is that into um into nothing oh
6018s	well so this was quite an upset i would
6020s	i would say it's quite an upset and the
6022s	series might be swinging in
6023s	ogashinzuki's favor right now because
6024s	big spell mage versus wig priest is a
6027s	lot closer than yeah it's a lot closer
6029s	than how warlock and
6031s	priests are supposed to go so i think if
6033s	uh oga shinsuke can get off a very nice
6036s	early belinda early barbara wow this
6039s	game is gonna be flipping on its head
6040s	and we might see ogashinsige as the
6042s	victor
6044s	yeah that's very true and as well the
6046s	mage
6047s	while against rogue and demon hunter a
6049s	lot of its defensive tools are pretty
6050s	much useless because it's you know it's
6052s	difficult to freeze the face taunts
6054s	don't do all too much in those matchups
6056s	either a lot of the time uh against
6058s	priests the defensive tools that mage
6060s	has are fantastic right you have silence
6062s	uh only as a one-off admittedly pokemon
6064s	escape is still very important and the
6066s	freeze as well freezing boards is so
6069s	powerful against uh wig priest where you
6072s	could just basically buy yourself a turd
6073s	100
6075s	uh with a uh
6078s	uh with a dawn grasp sorry in the mid
6080s	game yup uh
6082s	since you mentioned the dawn graphs the
6084s	dawn grass is not actually a a la
6086s	mandatory inclusion in a lot of the 30
6088s	card majors nowadays so i think the fact
6090s	that i included it in this list is
6092s	actually kind of important so there's
6093s	like one extra freeze to tide you
6095s	through the difficult turns and maybe
6097s	even let you cast a natural rune of the
6099s	art mage which for like like maybe you
6101s	can go like one seven coin coin runed
6103s	you know it's a it's a swing versus a
6105s	potential swing versus a naga priest so
6108s	i i'm feeling optimistic for okay
6110s	shinsuke right now uh as a fellow apec
6112s	homeboy um i think it is time to
6115s	try my best to root for him i guess like
6117s	now it's looking optimistic right now
6119s	especially because we see the silence in
6121s	the hand as well um
6124s	i would think that's definitely a keep
6125s	especially in this matchup
6127s	yeah i think the starfish has to be
6130s	we were just talking about varden like
6132s	it's a very important card in the mid
6134s	game to buy you an extra turn but is it
6136s	worth not getting belinder or barbarous
6139s	or barbara i'm sorry
6141s	yeah i'm pretty sure uh vader and donald
6143s	grubbs is not a keep in it like like now
6146s	i mean i don't think you keep it even if
6148s	you didn't have the starfish right it's
6149s	one of those cards that you would like
6151s	to have but wouldn't mind not having
6153s	because there are better cards in the
6154s	deck
6158s	yeah so i think i think for oga shinsuke
6161s	he's debating very heavily more on the
6163s	mailbox dancer keep like thinking if he
6165s	wants to like give his opponent a coin i
6167s	think i think it's perfectly fine though
6169s	because you yourself get a coin that um
6171s	uh scales you towards your your main
6173s	game plan of like the big spells and
6174s	stuff like that so i think i think i
6176s	think yeah i think this keep is
6178s	completely fine um
6180s	judgment
6182s	does not have the wick but he has a way
6185s	to get it so i think he's also in a
6188s	decent position treasure guard premium
6190s	minion in this matchup and like i said
6192s	the week just appears again i mean this
6194s	is exactly like the previous game he
6195s	didn't have the wig and he drew it off
6197s	the top so
6198s	uh
6199s	good on you judgement good on you but uh
6202s	we also we also see that ogre shinsuke
6204s	has the barbara one of the most
6206s	important cards in the matchup now he
6207s	just needs to draw one of his four big
6208s	spells and uh we are going we're getting
6211s	the business
6213s	okay a lot of options available for uh
6217s	the judgment already uh
6220s	treasure card is the most obvious one
6222s	right but
6224s	not actually that good against this
6227s	board and doesn't necessarily set up for
6228s	such a strong play next turn
6231s	i'm thinking coin treasure guard is fine
6234s	because it it
6236s	oh okay once it never dies but yeah
6238s	actually it never dies if you think
6239s	about it there's no way the photographer
6241s	is going to do two points of damage to
6242s	this treasure cut distance so
6244s	judgement probably knows this and uh if
6246s	he goes coin treasure cut yup like he's
6247s	doing right now i'm pretty sure he gets
6249s	a guaranteed buff target uh
6251s	might even commit the radiant next turn
6254s	to drop two minions on the board which
6255s	are both threatening uh i'm very excited
6257s	and interested to see what um
6259s	he's gonna do next turn if anything he
6262s	definitely carries guarantees above
6263s	target for the following turn so
6265s	i think this play was correct
6268s	though on ogre shinsuke's side um
6271s	nothing much he could do here
6273s	i think
6274s	you do not trade off the amulet here
6277s	because you really want that spell for
6280s	barbaric sorceress to go crazy with i
6282s	mean arguably you what you would want to
6284s	ruin but i mean a one mana amulet is
6287s	never bad right like come on
6290s	and even though
6292s	you have a bad death rattle to silence
6294s	on your side and a good death threat out
6295s	of silence on your opponent's side you'd
6297s	still never consider starfish here even
6299s	for the tempo
6300s	yeah i i don't think it's worth the
6303s	silence here
6304s	i mean wait i'm trying to think of
6306s	worlds that you actually do silence here
6308s	but
6309s	pretty sure pretty sure that doesn't
6310s	happen because like uh we know that we
6312s	know that judgment is probably gonna be
6313s	buffing it next time anyway silence
6316s	could come down on turn four i would
6317s	hate that because it's curving into the
6319s	barbaric sorcerer's turn so i think
6321s	that's fine
6322s	but i don't think now is the right time
6325s	you're just paying pause
6327s	yeah yeah i kind of kind of down for
6329s	that one and you don't make the trade
6331s	here as well because if he does not have
6332s	the wick it might not die
6335s	the mailbox might not die but uh
6337s	judgment i think he's gonna go semi all
6339s	in here he's gonna like
6341s	play
6342s	the serpent shrine wait let me think
6345s	he's gonna
6346s	he's gonna play i think he's gonna play
6348s	um the wick trade and then coin out
6351s	another treasure guard i think that's
6352s	perfect oh okay
6354s	yeah yeah you don't have to play the
6357s	the
6357s	radiant distance
6359s	because it's not really doing much yet
6363s	alternatively are there blessed lines
6365s	here i mean you could literally go
6367s	radiant
6368s	buff and then bless go face i'm not i'm
6371s	not opposed to that at all
6373s	it's really just the one silence that
6375s	would make it difficult for you and i
6376s	think judgment might be considering that
6379s	right now
6382s	i know this might sound crazy but is
6384s	there a line where you play around
6385s	barbaric as wig priest where you just go
6387s	like radiant wig wig bless face if they
6391s	have the starfish they're in the game if
6393s	not they kind of just lose and then next
6395s	turn you can go like thrive plus bless
6397s	again or thrive plus wig again and all
6400s	of a sudden one of their main outs is
6401s	kind of just deleted
6403s	i think i think your play makes sense
6405s	but you could actually do that on the
6406s	next turn like um go for the like just
6409s	yeah just dumping the wing on the next
6411s	into the barbaric turn if you get what
6413s	i'm trying to say yeah i think i think
6414s	that is that is okay as well but but of
6417s	course i think every line uh every line
6419s	that we've suggested so far involves
6421s	judgment taking a certain level of risk
6422s	uh yeah i think it's kind of necessary i
6425s	don't think this game benefits judgment
6427s	at all if it goes long so
6429s	some risk has to be taken and i do like
6432s	uh what we've suggested so far i mean i
6434s	mean we suggested it so i definitely
6435s	like it so
6436s	so it's definitely the best play
6438s	it sounds good and it looks actually
6440s	good i mean like like if you just delete
6442s	the starfish from ogashinsuke's hand it
6444s	looks really good yeah yeah but
6447s	ogre shinzo clay
6448s	is very clearly thinking how he can tie
6451s	distant true into um
6453s	into his barbaric sorcerers i know he's
6456s	very
6457s	he's one of those players that like if
6459s	you don't if he doesn't have to use this
6460s	removal he will not use this removal
6462s	from what i've
6463s	seen of him like he's like it's so
6465s	difficult for him to make him use the
6466s	point of piece of removal but i think
6468s	over here he's seriously considering the
6470s	starfish just because it's
6471s	like this this radiant is going out of
6473s	control and like if you you're not
6474s	silencing distant you are gonna silence
6476s	next turn which means you're not playing
6477s	barbaric sorcerers which is not winning
6480s	the game so
6482s	but clearly okay says that
6485s	he clearly believes
6487s	that i need this silence
6490s	um
6491s	there are worlds that you can get away
6493s	with just
6494s	oh wow
6495s	oh wow okay um i'm not the math like god
6498s	here but i'm pretty sure judgement needs
6500s	to do some serious math right now
6502s	uh
6504s	if you are fino you are saying i don't
6506s	count this i just
6508s	i just do it right i just do it like if
6510s	you know if you're watching i i guess
6512s	you're going to tell me that you just do
6513s	it i'm down for that man we just do it
6516s	yeah we just do it yeah i mean if it was
6518s	fino this play would have happened been
6520s	clipped and posted on twitter already
6522s	something like you never count guys you
6524s	never count
6527s	and uh
6528s	i i was counting sally and i think you
6531s	still do it because that's like so much
6533s	uh
6534s	if you are ever gonna all in right now
6536s	and dumping your wig this is like the d
6539s	turn right yes
6542s	it's the turn to do it
6544s	i i'm down i'm so down you get to draw
6545s	two cards all right now if you get
6546s	silence you can you don't get the draw
6548s	cuts but i'm i'm just i'm so down i'm
6550s	just like
6551s	push let's go
6553s	okay so he's buffing the
6555s	radiant because then he gets picked up
6556s	alive if he trades
6560s	if this wins the game for judgement i'm
6562s	just gonna like clap like like positive
6564s	clap positive claps because i think this
6566s	is strictly correct i like i'm doing
6569s	this every single time um
6570s	firstly one starfish list yeah i'm doing
6572s	this every single time but uh it looks
6574s	like he's not gonna get paid off um
6576s	because oka shinsuke head off on the
6577s	silence but
6579s	i
6580s	am completely not faulting him for
6582s	making this play i think it's uh it's
6584s	pretty much correct in my opinion
6587s	100
6588s	yeah he will also get to actually attack
6591s	with the watch post right which is kind
6592s	of interesting and then yeah yeah
6595s	the radiant which is pretty sick
6597s	i mean it's it's leaving judgment with
6598s	two yeah judgment's face says it all he
6600s	did not want to see that he actually
6602s	wanted to see a barbaric sorceress here
6604s	oh yeah he's like he's like show me the
6605s	barbara man
6607s	not the fish
6608s	not the fish but uh so judgment is
6611s	not out of it because they are good top
6613s	decks and uh naja can steal a big dragon
6615s	oh wait no um there's no spells okay
6618s	there's no spells
6619s	right right right all right so what's
6622s	the best one here uh another treasure
6623s	card is pretty good i would take that
6629s	priestess valish arguably one of the
6631s	better picks in many scenarios but not
6633s	this one so
6635s	yuck's indeed not even a playable one i
6637s	mean valish is playable but you never
6638s	pick that one right
6640s	um not even a playable good gnarling
6642s	would you do you take seven mana five
6644s	nine because it's stats i'm actually
6646s	thinking about that but
6648s	that's still two turns off man
6650s	so like
6651s	oh man that's just so arena i can't
6654s	bring myself to play a seven mana five
6656s	nine dude yeah i can't bring myself to
6657s	bring a five night as well um but on
6660s	that note uh
6662s	so we can expect
6664s	okay i wouldn't say we can expect but
6666s	okashinsuke is probably still gonna play
6669s	this babara next turn right barbaric
6671s	sorceress like
6673s	um
6675s	maybe not okay maybe not maybe no
6676s	actually right like
6679s	yeah
6681s	which is just reasonable
6683s	yeah
6684s	right that's the name evoker i keep
6686s	forgetting the name um
6688s	yeah but i think i think he can also
6690s	make the read that there's no spells
6691s	because the judgment was literally
6693s	dumping every spell the previous turn
6696s	um like like if you're dumping a wig you
6698s	probably dumped every other spell
6699s	alongside the wig right so that's a
6701s	decent read to make i mean he can
6702s	probably get away with like just uh
6704s	evoker trade and ping on the two three
6706s	uh i think that's fine as well
6709s	um
6710s	on the flip side you can actually get
6713s	away with not
6714s	pinging and going for a double trade
6716s	this cover just to draw to like cycle
6719s	through your leg but i think he just
6720s	wants to play safe here i think it's
6721s	fine uh me personally i would trade both
6723s	of the
6725s	the the amulets try and find like some
6727s	better cards at this point
6729s	but on judgement side oh man this hand
6732s	is like
6733s	it's like one spell away from a good
6735s	time kind of yeah i mean
6738s	it's only nadjak this turn right you you
6740s	have to do it or you're just losing
6741s	board forever surely
6744s	so the place you now check the tree for
6746s	double trade and heal or double trade
6748s	plus tempo that the radiant i mean it's
6752s	both plays are okay i would say
6755s	i think you kind of have to keep going
6756s	all in right because there's no good
6759s	raw in the deck like handmade and
6761s	inactive crush claw inactive school only
6764s	good draw left in the deck really and
6767s	drive drive is okay travis and hello
6770s	yeah wait let me think if there's any
6771s	spammy against break points if you don't
6773s	heal up your minions um
6776s	four four three three no no there isn't
6778s	really yeah there isn't a spammy break
6779s	point yeah you can you can afford the
6780s	tempo the
6783s	the radiant as well without healing
6786s	oh wow
6787s	wow okay okay
6790s	i
6791s	don't know where this is going
6794s	is he thinking the lender
6797s	is he thinking that maybe
6799s	only one million dies on this board and
6802s	in theory yes only one million dice on
6804s	this board right now because only one
6806s	trades cleanly into the
6808s	into the radiance but i haven't seen it
6811s	yet but there's probably a spammy
6812s	somewhere here
6814s	um wait let's see
6816s	trade two
6817s	[Music]
6819s	i don't think that's a clean spammy but
6821s	you could spam me just to reduce like
6822s	the stats on the board and clear some
6824s	stuff
6826s	alternatively
6827s	oh yeah he's trying to find a spammy
6829s	line i think
6830s	wait there is well there has to be yeah
6832s	yeah yeah there is there is yeah yeah
6834s	it's it's a clean spammy my bad yeah
6836s	it's a clean spammy you can
6839s	i don't think you coin out the he did
6842s	he's in the territory where he actually
6843s	coins out the amulet for real
6845s	so i don't think he actually needs to
6847s	use the coin here it trades away one of
6849s	the emulators pretty sure um
6851s	can i actually just literally coin out
6853s	an amulet on turn nine to close out the
6855s	game how often do you actually see that
6858s	um not often enough i feel oh my gosh
6860s	the worst draws in the world
6861s	um
6863s	i mean this is effectively weak priest
6864s	without the wick right that's what
6866s	happens to the deck
6867s	yeah and you know it's obviously a very
6870s	very sad end game for judgement here but
6873s	what this all comes down to is his
6874s	all-in push basically saying you don't
6876s	have one of starfish in your hand i
6879s	think it was a very reasonable play to
6881s	make it just didn't work out for him
6883s	this game he called his opponents bluff
6885s	and oka shinsuke had it
6887s	yeah i mean i mean judgment if you ever
6888s	watch this vod back i i'm in full
6890s	support of whatever you just did so uh i
6892s	feel for you but i don't think you were
6894s	wrong so tough luck there buddy tough
6895s	luck i don't think it was bad i don't
6897s	think it was bad at all it's one of
6899s	those place where you make and then you
6900s	go back to your practice group and then
6901s	you're like guys i wasn't bad right that
6903s	was correct right
6905s	and then they were like yeah man you
6906s	should have gone all in and then you're
6907s	like oh yeah i'm not a horrible player
6909s	yeah okay
6910s	yeah i i i fully support that that play
6913s	so anyway back to the current state of
6915s	the game oka shinsuke is just figuring
6917s	out how to not throw at this point
6919s	because i'm pretty sure he knows that
6921s	it's almost there it's almost over
6924s	uh whoa
6925s	this could have gone really wrong
6927s	couldn't it like okay i mean how wrong
6929s	could it go like
6930s	he could have given me cost two yeah
6934s	yeah i think okay fine fine fine yeah in
6936s	most worlds this can't really go that
6938s	wrong at all so this is fine
6940s	i think his main purpose was to not use
6942s	the coin here regardless um
6944s	but i i could i could actually think of
6946s	it as like why not just play two
6947s	treasure cards and ping right like you
6949s	don't have to take this race
6950s	yeah i mean i think the main thing here
6952s	is you just have to play around now jack
6954s	hexson right i think that's the one way
6956s	that you lose this game is if you make
6957s	one massive minion and you can't get
6959s	along jack um and i think this does that
6963s	fine right you know yes they can steal
6965s	the three seven but you're still winning
6966s	the game with a coin drake fight last
6968s	turn
6969s	judgment is probably just thinking about
6971s	what he's gonna queue up in his next
6973s	match right now pretty much you ordered
6975s	it yeah because like he knows he can't
6978s	really win this outside of like
6979s	miraculous straws or disconnect which
6981s	isn't even really uh
6984s	isn't really an out anymore nowadays but
6986s	yeah so i don't i don't think uh i don't
6988s	think he really has anything that he can
6990s	really do
6991s	you're giving us a great insight into
6993s	the mindset of a gm player right now
6995s	just hoping yeah
6996s	like you'll take any scammy win you can
6998s	get yeah i mean but but it's not
7000s	possible anymore because there's like
7001s	the in-game timer for whatever it's
7003s	supposed to be uh
7005s	okay so
7006s	[Music]
7007s	now we just
7011s	trade off the yeah yeah
7013s	just straight up this one phone because
7015s	you can and just chill
7019s	yup
7020s	wow
7022s	i mean i mean at this point at this
7023s	point i would i wouldn't even take this
7025s	hand if i was playing arena man like
7027s	like
7028s	i would not even take this hand if i was
7029s	playing arena mercenaries or dwells and
7031s	i haven't even ever played mercenaries
7033s	as well so
7034s	um i would think this is too bad for any
7036s	this is this hand is bad for any more
7038s	person
7039s	yeah so
7040s	all right uh judgement uh
7044s	well
7045s	it's not often that i run out of things
7047s	to say in a game of thrones but i'm
7049s	pretty much yeah as judgment is a spell
7051s	out of the game out of the match
7053s	congratulations to ogashitsuke
7055s	a huge win for koshinsky as well right
7058s	coming into this with zero points having
7060s	gone over into last week he needed to
7063s	get at least through to sunday i think
7065s	it's fair to say and with win here he
7067s	hasn't done that yet he still has to
7069s	play against the winner of uh levick
7071s	versus possessing but he's off to a much
7073s	better start especially in a series that
7075s	we were thinking he was uh off to a
7078s	pretty bad start kind of unlikely to get
7079s	the win but i think overall just through
7081s	some uh some very solid play some things
7084s	that we would disagree on for both
7085s	players here uh but it was uh that's the
7088s	kind of series i like right there
7089s	weren't too many
7091s	uh there were like very few strict
7092s	misplays i think that we could it was
7094s	really just difference in philosophy uh
7096s	as to how you approach it
7098s	yeah i personally think uh there were
7100s	some lines that ogre shinseki made with
7103s	the warlock versus the priest game that
7104s	i i found were very good i cannot
7106s	remember exactly what they were i'm
7107s	gonna look back and like check it out
7109s	again but i think i think he piloted
7110s	that warlock game very well um
7112s	it's like it's like you know you're
7114s	already unfavored like oh okay probably
7116s	came into this match a bit demoralized
7118s	like he's on zero points unfavored
7120s	matchups but he he kept his cool he
7123s	played it out well i think he has really
7125s	uh he's his demeanor he's he's calm and
7127s	everything it's like way more than like
7129s	the previous season right like so i i
7131s	really truly respect a player that has
7133s	grown and uh in unfavored circumstances
7136s	pulled out uh some miraculous win and a
7139s	props to him for that so i'm really
7140s	impressed and very happy for him
7142s	it props to him i hope the rest of his
7144s	lineup can continue to do
7146s	well uh he will be facing against a
7149s	couple of very different lineups
7150s	guaranteed uh from judgement because uh
7153s	both levick and possessee have uh
7156s	themselves pretty unique lineups
7158s	possessing one of the few players
7160s	bringing ball priest levick with this uh
7163s	charge warrior that we were trying to
7164s	make heads or tails of he's got a an
7166s	excel shaman and quest hunter as well
7169s	one of the most unique lineups of the
7171s	weekend it's definitely fair to say um
7173s	and it's going to be very exciting to
7175s	see how that lines up against possessing
7177s	yeah i'm very excited to cast the next
7179s	match uh usually i'm in support of the
7181s	apec player but this time i really want
7183s	to see what levick's going to do with
7184s	his lineup because it is so out there
7186s	it's like it's like you pick a good
7188s	bucket okay you don't sorry you pick a
7189s	bucket that is a bit weird because of
7191s	warrior and then you make it even
7193s	weirder with your shaman being like
7196s	life if you guys don't know what i'm
7197s	talking about you can check it out later
7198s	but i'm just gonna call it live drinker
7199s	shaman for now and then you can see what
7201s	it is eventually in the next match to
7203s	come
7204s	all right well then uh we won't keep you
7206s	waiting any longer lambie we'll jump
7208s	right into it after this short break
7210s	possessi versus levick for game two of
7212s	the day
7217s	[Music]
7231s	[Music]
7237s	[Music]
7245s	so
7246s	[Music]
7273s	so
7274s	[Music]
7289s	so
7290s	[Music]
7312s	so
7315s	[Music]
7412s	welcome back to hearthstone grand
7414s	masters last call where we are jumping
7417s	right into possessi versus levick pretty
7419s	undeniably the pride of apac at this
7422s	point right possessing he has got
7423s	himself an unbelievable run over the
7425s	last year culminating in a world
7427s	championship victory going up against
7429s	glory who was the uh the winner in the
7432s	year previous i think pretty firmly
7434s	cementing aipac as the best region of
7436s	all time
7437s	undoubtedly definitely the best region
7439s	of all time yeah but this match is also
7441s	interesting for different reasons like i
7443s	mentioned in uh before the break um levi
7445s	has some decks that are
7447s	questionable but i think not without
7450s	reason so i think we're gonna look at
7451s	that very very soon
7454s	indeed yeah possesses got himself a
7456s	pretty standard lineup by comparison the
7458s	rogue just jackpot rogue the demon
7460s	hunter just fell demon hunter the ball
7462s	priest is a little bit out there
7463s	considering most players just don't even
7465s	want to touch it with a 10-foot pole
7467s	even if they think it's good it's just
7469s	not worth playing because it's so
7470s	difficult to get absolutely correct so
7472s	many players just profess to not being
7474s	comfortable enough with the deck but
7476s	like you said levick on the other side
7478s	has some weird old decks man like the
7481s	charge warrior
7482s	i i just cannot make heads or tails off
7484s	like obviously it's just charge warrior
7486s	right it's doing the combo with galvan
7488s	guard faceless uh battlemaster and then
7490s	the to the front as well but the deck
7493s	has changed so much since it was at its
7495s	peak power level
7497s	yeah i mean the the main difference with
7499s	warrior falling off super hard is
7500s	obviously because of the nerfs to from
7502s	the depths and um shield shatter i would
7504s	like to argue that shield chatter is the
7506s	main
7507s	difference when it comes to warrior
7508s	being enough because the fact that the
7510s	break points from four from five to four
7513s	uh is it's so big like for example
7515s	versus rogue you don't kill nose anymore
7517s	you don't kill crevator and like versus
7520s	a lot of decks like having like less
7522s	damage on your on on the shoe shutter
7524s	aoe is like um a lot of their minions
7526s	get out of range of the clears and the
7528s	thing is warrior itself also lost like
7530s	uh
7531s	especially for charge warrior right it
7532s	lost one more finisher in like mr smite
7535s	because uh there's nailed the nelly
7537s	nerve mr smite got more expensive so the
7540s	deck has took severe hits and like i
7542s	feel like now at this point the deck
7544s	really just loses to one time well-timed
7546s	mutants so i'm very interested to see
7548s	how this will pan out for this matchup
7550s	but of course firstly we are going to
7551s	look at lavix xl mid-range shaman which
7554s	i mentioned was actually called life
7556s	drinker shaman in the
7557s	the before the break because he runs two
7560s	life drinkers in his text i i can't
7562s	remember when was the last time a life
7564s	drinker was a meta like pig so um derek
7567s	what do you think he is trying to do
7570s	here i'm a bit confused
7573s	yeah i mean
7574s	this is i think for the most part i
7576s	would not recommend playing this deck on
7578s	ladder i would recommend a regular
7580s	mid-range moist charm with 30 cards it's
7582s	a much more streamlined deck it's going
7584s	to do what you want to do most of the
7586s	time this i feel like is a pretty heavy
7588s	tech against the decks that do a
7590s	specific amount of burst damage right
7592s	which in this meta game is mine rogue
7595s	number one demon hunter number two which
7597s	to be fair there's a fair amount of
7599s	demon hunters we've seen so far already
7601s	and then quest hunter kind of falls
7603s	under that umbrella as well but a little
7605s	bit less so and it's really just to give
7607s	you that 10 extra health which makes a
7609s	world of difference against these very
7611s	specific burn decks that really try to
7613s	do exactly 30
7615s	a lot of the time is how they're built
7618s	i think specifically for this tournament
7619s	i absolutely see what he's doing i don't
7622s	know if i necessarily still agree with
7623s	it because i feel like the deck overall
7625s	becomes a lot worse with those 10 extra
7627s	cards that you have to put in there but
7630s	i like where what he's thinking and that
7632s	he's uh getting a little bit creative
7633s	with the trio format
7636s	yeah i think i think there's some merit
7637s	to whatever he's doing i just find it a
7639s	bit difficult to accept the fact that
7640s	your deck is already slightly more
7642s	inconsistent and you're playing cards
7643s	that are a bit situational but i think i
7646s	think well
7647s	um he probably did test and some of the
7649s	results in his testing were probably
7650s	good so we we are going to wait and see
7652s	how it turns out but for now jumping to
7654s	possessive with the jackpot rope uh
7657s	looks like a very standard jackpot rope
7659s	to me right now with
7661s	the okani inclusion some lists do not
7662s	include it but kanye's such a powerful
7664s	force in the meta right now so i think
7665s	it's definitely justified uh jackpot
7668s	rock is one of those decks that to me
7669s	feels like uh like it's a necessity in
7672s	the current meta because uh just pure
7674s	damage doesn't really get there anymore
7676s	with the old boat rogue and mr smite
7678s	filet fighters and everything so um
7680s	jackpot road just gives you an extra
7682s	element of hyrule potential which i
7684s	think it's uh
7685s	necessary in the current meta so yeah
7688s	jumping into the first game straight
7689s	away
7691s	all right levitt got himself you know
7693s	again for a 40 card deck not a bad
7695s	starting hand schooling is definitely
7698s	one of the better things you want to see
7699s	in a 40 card deck he got like one of the
7701s	highest win rate cuts in the deck which
7702s	is the clownfish schooling as well like
7705s	one of the only one drops in the deck
7707s	let me check it i think it's one of the
7709s	only one drops in the deck like that and
7711s	finley i think that he has access to
7713s	finley's not a one drop man i mean
7716s	technically
7717s	yeah it is but you never play on one i
7719s	mean
7720s	almost never played on one i wouldn't
7721s	say never but almost maybe you don't
7724s	yeah i don't
7725s	i definitely don't play it on one
7727s	especially without the coin but yeah
7728s	possessive is also pretty good uh post
7730s	mulligan has uh has a tradable made it
7732s	no cheaper has the reconnaissance to
7734s	make a no cheaper as well but this
7735s	matchup reconnaissance uh picking the
7738s	right death rattles for the matchup is
7740s	like super
7741s	key in this matchup because you have
7742s	like three additional ways um to revive
7744s	that death rattle with contraband stash
7746s	and uh test as well so
7749s	right so
7752s	levick here
7754s	draws the life drinker um
7757s	doesn't
7759s	get to do anything with it i guess um
7761s	i i think i think he just goes for
7763s	double piranha here oh okay or he goes
7764s	for hero power as well that's fine
7767s	um
7769s	possesses join the no on command best
7772s	know ever
7774s	you could considering
7776s	coin right coin shroud is that something
7778s	yeah
7780s	i think the gamble
7782s	i think it's worth it because the only
7785s	bad draw if i'm not wrong it's the queen
7786s	ashara it's the only thing that stops
7788s	your no from
7789s	becoming zero because the okani is
7791s	already in hand so i think this play is
7794s	calculated and we see the note is still
7796s	green
7798s	and he gets the second one like a world
7800s	champion
7803s	look at that yeah
7805s	look at it's a fantastic start he's got
7807s	reconnaissance uh into the golden fish
7809s	in next turn good chance of finding
7811s	himself uh jackpot blood in the water
7813s	one of these cards to combo with the
7814s	swift scale trickster if he gets a good
7816s	death rattle he's got the contraband
7818s	stash to start doubling down on that as
7819s	well already levick is uh going to be
7822s	feeling the pressure and his hand right
7824s	now
7826s	does not stand up against that
7827s	particularly well like if we're calling
7829s	this life drinker shaman the life
7831s	drinker is not the card you wanted to
7833s	see despite that yeah yeah this is live
7835s	drinker shaman when it when it
7837s	it's it's only good versus the matchups
7839s	that actually have like like you said
7840s	finite damage or like um yeah okay wow
7843s	so these are some really good picks i
7845s	feel um
7847s	also jayla's the kind of thing that i
7848s	would pick if i'm just like on ladder
7850s	and i want to meme but i think
7852s	light shower elemental is probably the
7855s	better choice here
7858s	because it it it's the best card to get
7860s	off like
7861s	um tess and uh controversy right yeah
7865s	you never pick rhodeness in this matchup
7866s	because that's like potentially throwing
7868s	the game into snowfall guardian so i
7870s	think rodeness is never the pick yeah so
7872s	yeah very simple
7874s	wow
7874s	actually just wants to preserve the
7876s	health on his uh
7877s	nose i think it's okay
7879s	considering he saw a schooling
7882s	yeah
7883s	yeah i think it's okay i think it's okay
7884s	i was trying to think of a line whereby
7886s	you don't do that but i think it makes
7887s	perfect sense considering you have plays
7889s	for the like the next three turns so
7891s	yeah i mean i i was heavily considering
7894s	on that previous turn just going for
7896s	the felsoul jailer if there weren't
7899s	piranhas in hand i think i would have
7900s	considered it a lot more because you
7902s	know deleting one key card from your
7903s	opponent if you hit uh bran or the uh
7908s	you know the guardian uh bolner uh
7911s	mutinous like there's a lot of really
7912s	key cards or okani could be huge as well
7914s	but with the piranhas there as well it
7916s	was maybe a little bit too janky to go
7919s	for and like you say the curve works
7921s	really nicely here with a light shower
7922s	you could even potentially just go like
7924s	contraband again next turn to get
7925s	another one like you're just playing big
7928s	stats turn after turn now yeah i think i
7930s	think with jackpot row what i realized
7931s	is that uh if you have good death
7933s	rattles in the pool you are less reliant
7935s	on drawing the actual jackpot card
7936s	because contraband stash could just be
7938s	like a five bana spawner light shower
7940s	which is not fair right so
7942s	um possessing here not even going for
7945s	the trade uh doesn't want to get
7946s	frostbite that uh doesn't see the need
7948s	to play around oh wow lavik just
7950s	literally dropped like i think i think
7952s	it might have been the best draw on his
7953s	deck at this point um
7955s	yeah
7956s	alongside command of neptulon but this
7959s	one this deck um
7960s	doesn't have many cards that draw it's
7962s	really just the gorlok and
7965s	sleep breaker if i'm not wrong i need to
7967s	see if he plays light shot out if he
7969s	plays uh wind chills but yeah the deck
7971s	doesn't really have much draw so getting
7973s	the golok off the top there into like
7975s	potentially more cycle was like super
7977s	important
7978s	got himself potentially some pretty big
7981s	plays coming up as well with like bran
7983s	clownfish mutinous to start eating a lot
7985s	of that hand like
7986s	if levitt can just survive on board he
7989s	has the place to start swinging this
7990s	around
7991s	yep i think i think like you mentioned
7993s	the whole brand clownfish mutants plus
7995s	the amalgam thing to keep spamming stuff
7997s	on but i think it's like super important
7998s	because at the end of the day i don't
8000s	think he can afford to wait for like a
8003s	like a brand
8004s	like i mean i don't think he can afford
8006s	to wait any much longer
8008s	in terms of like holding off his combo
8010s	right because possesses only just gonna
8011s	keep piling on the pressure
8013s	yeah so uh really really very insane top
8016s	deck in the
8017s	in the gorlok ravager right there
8019s	so opposite i think he wants to start
8023s	digging for more power cuts more things
8025s	to fuel his stash um
8027s	starts with dulcani counter the minion
8029s	um annie malok would be good here
8031s	dicks for
8032s	reconnaissance i believe because he
8034s	wants to fuel the stash bloody in the
8036s	water is temple as well so i don't see
8038s	that as being a bad pick too
8042s	goes for the reconnaissance because
8043s	what's the fuel the stash i can respect
8045s	that um
8046s	trade
8048s	does not even trade i think it's fine
8050s	because like shower heals up the no
8053s	well i mean if that's the case you could
8054s	have probably traded the tree too right
8056s	but i think he thinks it's unnecessary
8059s	there are enough minions to consider
8061s	a bloodlust here just like to clear some
8065s	more of the board the numbers do work
8066s	out quite well right yeah
8069s	i'm just thinking that he probably
8070s	should have traded into the sleep
8072s	breaker because like the light shower
8073s	just like heals it up anyway yeah
8076s	oh just prep wicked stuff to take out
8078s	the the yeah
8081s	also for most people i think they didn't
8082s	realize that if okani negates a malloc
8084s	it's considered as played so the oh yeah
8086s	yeah yeah i i didn't realize this until
8088s	actually very recently because it yeah
8090s	but eventually i did and
8092s	kind of important
8094s	all right um
8096s	i think it's simply just a kill off this
8098s	and then play your own okani
8100s	no way it's the life drink
8102s	oh no
8103s	no it's electric
8105s	all right are we calling million right
8107s	yeah there's only so many minions in the
8109s	deck
8110s	so
8112s	right um
8114s	but we do see the very clean wicket step
8116s	you could even go for some like
8118s	dagger and two flying um yeah
8121s	not absurd is it
8123s	yeah i mean i mean you can toof into
8125s	anything expensive and you have the
8126s	trickster to clear it to like
8128s	play it on the following turn
8130s	you can actually play it distant i can
8131s	do it this time right yeah
8133s	now and yeah i think it's worth it for
8135s	the potential high roll
8137s	i mean the the the pool of spells you
8138s	get from tooth is like so huge um
8142s	i don't know if it's worth oh
8144s	gigafin in the house i think it's a snap
8146s	here with the light shower already in
8147s	the pool like but for what it's worth
8149s	right i think gigafin even if it doesn't
8152s	have like the full effect of like eating
8155s	everything else it's still like a ton of
8156s	stats it's like six mana
8159s	what how many stats it's a lot of steps
8161s	like like for shaman it's really
8163s	difficult for them yeah
8165s	ooh
8166s	uh okay so gotta be a bit careful with
8167s	blessing of kings because it could go
8169s	wrong uh eventually with the dash
8172s	uh i like this pick of the the need for
8174s	greed because like he's kind of running
8176s	out of gas
8177s	not even trading it because he might
8180s	just cast it for straight up draw
8182s	mutants now i think every chomp is good
8184s	here but gigafin is huge oh
8186s	the slightly worse one
8189s	it's quite a lot more so i'd say oh
8190s	actually you're right it's quite a lot
8191s	worse yeah it's never slightly worse um
8194s	if if i'm in possessive's position i'm
8195s	just like slamming this gig off in
8197s	because like it's just stats man just
8199s	stats
8200s	yeah it's just that
8203s	and gigafin eating mutinis that's like a
8205s	disgusting combo
8207s	yeah it's like
8209s	yeah it's
8210s	it's so weird it's like the eater
8212s	getting eaten yeah yeah yeah
8214s	yeah
8216s	or he could i i don't think i don't
8217s	think he want to take a turn off here
8219s	and just play um need for green and i
8221s	think you just chomp
8222s	chomp and chill you know just chomp and
8224s	chill jump and chill
8226s	yeah just chomp your nose
8228s	yes my new food changes chomp and chill
8231s	and i mean i mean
8233s	firstly you don't mind this getting
8234s	frozen it's not that big of a board
8236s	secondly even if it gets frozen how
8238s	likely are they having the parrot in
8239s	this
8240s	body card deck right so
8244s	so bran is coming down
8246s	double
8248s	for the double freeze
8250s	um we know that possessing is not
8252s	running a
8253s	starfish in uh like most jacquard zone
8255s	run the starfish so
8257s	it's it's relatively safe
8260s	no freeze okay
8262s	three oh is he dead on the back swing is
8264s	this dead wait four seven eight nine ten
8267s	oh it's dead right
8268s	ten on board with
8270s	seven showing in hand it's just little
8274s	yup it's little it's little there's nine
8277s	plus the dagger step and our champion
8279s	definitely spots this right away
8282s	but but but i i i i wait
8285s	i thought yeah he pointed at a minion
8287s	but but if he pointed i mean i'm not
8289s	even surprised it's possessing it
8290s	happens sometimes right
8292s	all right so uh yeah easy game from
8294s	possession i think he was like a hit the
8297s	entire game um
8299s	i mean we we did see two dead life
8301s	drinkers in the hand and um levick did
8303s	get the perfect top leg off the gorlok
8305s	but possessing's pressure was just too
8307s	much it goes to show that if jackpot
8309s	road gets out running with the double
8310s	nose into like death rattles and stuff
8312s	like that it's it's quite unstoppable i
8314s	mean he didn't even have to play the
8316s	stash in hand which was like yeah they
8318s	didn't have to play his best card in
8319s	hand
8320s	so uh easy game of possessi uh la vic
8322s	really needs to
8324s	try and find his footing in this matchup
8326s	i really think the shaman will keep
8327s	struggling um i hope he
8329s	finally gets a win with it somehow then
8331s	we'll be having more of a series yeah
8334s	yeah i mean you know what to me that
8336s	felt like it was going up against the
8338s	shaman with two life drinkers and a
8339s	bloodlust in their cards like you don't
8341s	really want to be running uh bloodlust
8343s	maybe but you know you really felt the
8346s	fact that it was a 40 card list there
8347s	that made a huge difference uh in terms
8350s	of the game overall because if those
8351s	were snowfall guardians or a bowler or
8354s	if he'd drawn the uh fireman's a
8356s	fleurgal right a little bit earlier to
8358s	be able to clear off the board with the
8360s	clownfish like there were outs that he
8362s	could have hit a little bit more often
8363s	uh but he did not do so which means
8365s	possessing flying off to a 1-0 lead
8367s	levick going off to one of
8369s	uh
8370s	the more unique decks overall because
8372s	not a lot of players brought quest
8374s	hunter but you know i want to say maybe
8376s	underrepresented because this is not
8378s	like a totally wacky deck that he's
8380s	bringing here
8381s	and that it does have a lot going for it
8383s	in this meta i think
8384s	yeah it's actually a very very valid
8387s	bring because this this deck is uh it's
8389s	good versus warlock for for obvious
8390s	reasons right because the curses
8392s	complete the quest um it's quite good
8394s	versus aggro firstly 10 extra health don
8397s	bowder
8398s	bunker to find explosive trap um and
8401s	then there is like
8402s	they got they got way more removal
8404s	pieces like um versus aggressive decks
8406s	um shell shot is actually an amazing
8409s	card right which it allows quest hunter
8411s	to do something which he previously
8413s	couldn't do which is clear of multiple
8414s	threats before it got to its like second
8416s	take of the quest which
8418s	is usually when it starts like doing
8420s	very effective uh clears on like minions
8422s	on the board but before that it
8424s	sometimes struggles to deal with like
8425s	white bots or like tall minions early on
8428s	so shell shot is one of those cards that
8430s	has greatly boasted the arsenal of
8432s	quest hunter and i would think this is
8433s	one of the decks that um if levick or to
8436s	have to play this into a possessive's uh
8438s	demon hunter i think it's one of the
8439s	matchups that he would really want i
8441s	don't think he really wants to play this
8442s	against ball priest probably wins every
8445s	single one of leaving stacks but as i
8446s	mentioned yeah he gets it in the
8448s	possesses demon hunter probably the one
8450s	matchup that he really wanted to see out
8452s	of all his remaining decks
8455s	so you are you uh liking the look of the
8457s	the hunter against the the fel demon
8459s	hunter
8460s	yeah i i think i think the quest hunter
8462s	is like slightly favored into this one
8464s	right now because um there is uh 10
8467s	extra health you can search on your
8469s	explosive traps there's more removal
8471s	in the quest hunter now for board-based
8473s	uh minions abort bins ball-based game
8476s	plans so i think uh the hunter is uh
8478s	favored in this one uh i mean it's
8481s	definitely not favored into ball priest
8482s	so we we definitely need helping to get
8485s	out and win this match up if possible
8489s	all right possess he got himself dread
8491s	prison glaive in the starting hand it
8493s	does feel like it's definitely a keep
8495s	because of the battle worn vanguard but
8497s	that's you know arguably one of the
8499s	things that works in hunter's favor in
8501s	this matchup is that it doesn't actually
8503s	play many minions uh in the mid game
8505s	right so there's not that much for the
8508s	uh the dread prison to activate on
8512s	yeah um i feel like i feel like at the
8514s	end of the day you keep this weapon in
8516s	most situations just because there's
8517s	like a lot of activators there's a lot
8519s	of cards that benefit from this
8521s	like the phonetic
8522s	and this guy obviously this vanguard um
8527s	does not want to take the risk with the
8528s	bunker here just goes for the win
8530s	freight i think it's fine
8535s	yeah
8536s	they're coining it out but i guess with
8539s	tavis in hand that's probably a bit too
8541s	good to get coined out on five
8544s	yeah you also close out the option of
8546s	coining out your um
8548s	your what's that called spring the trap
8549s	yeah it's also an option to be coined
8551s	out
8552s	if you need to
8554s	but with the second wenger i think
8558s	levick
8559s	has to go with his uh
8561s	tavish game plan right now because if
8563s	he's using the coin here and he
8566s	doesn't hit an explosive trap eventually
8568s	he's really slowing down his like
8570s	potential almost guaranteed explosive
8572s	trap from the from the tevish
8575s	that is a miss on the explosive trap on
8577s	the first hit
8579s	yeah i can bluff it of course but yeah i
8582s	definitely can bluff it
8583s	wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind bluffing
8585s	it though like
8586s	like
8587s	i think possessing still swings
8589s	eventually but like it's a worthy it's a
8591s	worthy try it's worth the try
8593s	over here i think it's quite interesting
8594s	because uh
8596s	there are some merits to play now the
8597s	steno here just so you can cash in some
8599s	damage
8600s	like right now
8602s	yup he's doing it i like this player i
8605s	like this play a lot because
8606s	it's the shape of board that is so
8608s	difficult for 100 deal with at this
8610s	stage of the game like um there's
8612s	explosive there there might be a
8614s	piercing shot or a muff shot but like
8616s	that means you leave the rest of the
8618s	board right so
8619s	i think if levick hit explosive on the
8622s	previous turn he was in a decent shape
8624s	but the fact that he didn't he couldn't
8626s	even go like mugshot coin um
8628s	explosive in this spot
8631s	you have wounded obviously to be able to
8633s	go like uh
8635s	2-1 and a 1-1 and then coin out the
8637s	marked shot but it looks like he's
8639s	actually considering the honorable kill
8642s	on spring the trap here which makes
8645s	a good amount of sense right given that
8646s	you have a very good shot at finding
8648s	explosives
8649s	yeah i think it's i think it's the it's
8651s	the better player here it's it's super
8653s	likely i mean seeing as how many secrets
8655s	you already have drawn and
8657s	like
8658s	yeah it's quite likely that you get your
8660s	explosive trap in this situation
8663s	it would be funny if you missed it
8664s	though
8665s	it's possible
8666s	yeah okay but he gets it he got it
8669s	but if he hit if he hit freezing first i
8672s	mean we wouldn't know which order the
8673s	traps proc right i think i think it's
8675s	random
8676s	uh yeah true
8678s	i think it's random but yeah i guess
8679s	that's why he just kills off the vector
8681s	for good measure anyway
8684s	all right so testing first um
8687s	explosive products first that's nice uh
8690s	processing really enough kind of guessed
8692s	out right now
8694s	uh needs like a need for greed or
8697s	spectral weight does he run yeah but he
8698s	needs a draw cut he needs a control cut
8701s	off the top right now
8702s	testing for ice it's not the ice um
8706s	and this is really the difference
8708s	between the xl and the regular version
8710s	right now like if levick was at 10
8712s	health possession would be very much in
8714s	range of just top decking damage cards
8716s	like chaos strike multi-strike a couple
8718s	of those you just won the game 20 health
8721s	it's just miles away you have to hit
8723s	card draw to stabilize this game
8726s	yeah i think i think out of all the
8727s	decks that get hurt by this 40 health
8730s	break point the most i think it's
8731s	actually demon hunter because they
8733s	really do have a fine finite source of
8735s	damage finite source of draw and
8737s	they don't really
8739s	their pressure their pressure also only
8741s	goes so far right like if they get
8743s	cleared one time on their board and they
8745s	actually don't have little from hand yet
8746s	they often usually just guess out
8754s	levy contemplating playing
8757s	the
8758s	oh i did doesn't play it
8760s	i think if you wanted the player to like
8762s	complete his quest a bit faster oh
8765s	oh wow
8767s	these draws are just well i mean it's
8769s	just the nature of the deck right you
8770s	pack your deck with so many cheap cards
8772s	you're bound to hit this
8773s	kind of
8775s	horrible draw
8776s	eventually
8778s	yeah i mean anything right need for
8779s	greed
8780s	churches demon hunters they're like like
8783s	there's quite a few decent cards here to
8786s	bring him back in the game
8787s	but he needs to hit them now because
8789s	levick is gonna start turning up the
8791s	pressure with tavis
8792s	yeah his deck has two off need for greed
8794s	right if i'm not wrong yup
8796s	yup so okay it's a real possibility but
8798s	now the ice trap kind of denies it once
8800s	again
8801s	um
8802s	wow oh no
8804s	[Music]
8805s	yeah you're just jamming that right you
8807s	got to get the ice trap out of the way
8808s	so you can eventually play your draw
8810s	cards
8811s	and he's gonna play this fellow barrage
8813s	so many times yes he's gonna be playing
8816s	it and it's oh he's gonna do it now okay
8818s	okay okay
8819s	i mean
8821s	you kind of do expect a second eye strap
8824s	right there's two if you've been hand
8825s	tracking there still is two uh yeah this
8828s	yeah drawn secrets from the deck so
8831s	i don't know i'm too convinced on that
8833s	one on that second
8835s	fail barrage
8838s	i i probably think i think possession is
8840s	just like zoned out from this game like
8843s	in the classic possessive fashion it's
8845s	just like i'm done
8847s	playing my cards
8850s	okay he gets it active the chaos draws
8852s	an extra card
8854s	misses again with metamorphing like if
8856s	he got the need for greed he could have
8857s	played it exactly for three
8859s	uh here it's not gonna happen still i
8862s	would argue like one more turn where if
8864s	he top decks a good card this game is
8866s	still winnable
8867s	i think it has to be like in the
8869s	territory of need for greed into hero
8872s	card cultural hero card right that kind
8874s	of right yeah yeah
8877s	yeah it's getting there because
8878s	at this point he he does need things to
8880s	proc the traps anyway like the like the
8883s	freezing so i think cultures into
8885s	cultures into like i mean any forgiving
8887s	the culture is like the optimal
8890s	draw
8891s	even pulling out so much stats on the
8894s	board oh this is not it man this is not
8896s	it and possessing sees it as well and
8898s	concedes straight away easy quite an
8900s	easy victory for levitt going up to 1-1
8902s	in the series
8904s	i think this is the victory that he
8905s	sorely needed over the demon hunter
8908s	because if possessed he got down to his
8909s	ball priest um i think the ball priest
8911s	is just favored into everything else
8912s	that loving has
8914s	yeah i agreed the ball priest if played
8917s	correctly which i do think possess he
8918s	will be able to do for the most part he
8920s	has been playing it uh pretty well on
8922s	stream even if it is one of the hardest
8923s	decks to play right now it should be in
8925s	a very good position uh but for levick
8927s	it was you know whether it's 40 card or
8929s	30 card i feel like with
8931s	quest hunter it doesn't make too much
8934s	difference like the deck gets worse
8936s	undeniably when you're putting in those
8938s	10 extra cards but most of the cards
8940s	you're putting in are still removal
8943s	cards right in the early game like you
8945s	have to play six secrets which feels a
8948s	little bit bad because secrets are quite
8949s	weak overall but getting to play the
8951s	double done builder uh the double spring
8954s	the trap as well and all these extra
8956s	damage cards that you're playing double
8958s	shell shot double mark shot and still
8960s	all the sweet of the usual ones in the
8962s	early game it's still going to do the
8964s	same thing it's going to remove minions
8966s	in the early game and then if you don't
8967s	have follow-up you are not going to beat
8969s	it and uh possession didn't have
8971s	follow-up quite simply so the hunter
8973s	takes the win which leads possessi over
8976s	onto his ball priest which even against
8979s	30 karacha
8981s	shaman feels like it's in a good spot
8983s	against 40 card shaman this has to be a
8986s	dos
8987s	yeah okay so the match up how it usually
8989s	goes um like if the priest ever loses
8992s	this it's because the
8994s	shaman gets something like an early
8995s	boner into a clown fish into like a
8998s	super early mutants that just snowballs
9000s	out of control like it's very rare that
9002s	the shaman wins this if they don't have
9003s	like the the early curve with the
9005s	murlocs into the mutanus right so um i i
9008s	don't think i don't think it's
9010s	even it's it's not going to be any
9011s	easier right because like you mentioned
9012s	it's a 40 card deck um your typical
9016s	shaman combos don't happen as often and
9018s	no amount of health is like enough
9020s	versus ball priests right they just do
9022s	their own thing they don't really
9023s	interact with you if they don't have to
9024s	and then they just draw cards and then
9026s	they just kill you with the weapon
9028s	so i think lavick's really
9030s	gonna have an uphill climb for this
9032s	particular match but i think he also
9034s	knows that this is not the
9036s	the target for his lineup like i would
9038s	say target but like this is not the deck
9039s	that he has to win against in his lineup
9042s	as long as the demon hunter doesn't win
9043s	i think he feels like decently
9045s	comfortable
9047s	okay illuminate into
9050s	amulet is a fantastic start to any game
9052s	just to be able to trade that back in
9054s	opens up turn seven lethals a little bit
9056s	more consistently right because you just
9058s	have a bit more mana to work with but
9060s	aside from that this is very very
9062s	lacking here at the start he has no real
9064s	way to draw any extra cards he has a
9067s	board clear sure with the xyrella and
9069s	the desperate prayer but that's not
9071s	quite good enough on its own
9073s	i like how lavik is playing this as well
9074s	he insta slams the amalgam onto the
9077s	totem just to get any sort of pressure i
9079s	i did consider because the thing is for
9081s	totems it's like there's only three i
9083s	think so you're like guaranteed to get
9085s	mana tight if i'm not wrong yeah so i
9088s	think he was uh i think i think he's
9090s	going for the game plan of like i cannot
9091s	win this the conventional way i need to
9092s	like really just draw and draw and draw
9094s	and hope to hit my muteness combo maybe
9097s	i get to eat a ball maybe i don't but
9099s	maybe i got to eat a pyromancer or
9101s	something like that i don't i don't see
9102s	how this is gonna get done without like
9104s	the the mutants game plan i mean
9106s	sometimes it gets done if you get like
9108s	early while pork heaven into bloodlust
9109s	but
9110s	it's clearly not here right and this is
9111s	a 40 card deck so we can't count on top
9114s	decking the exact specific outs yeah
9116s	exactly you need the mutinous or
9118s	occasionally akane if they've played a
9120s	bit weird like if they've played one of
9122s	their pyros already and they have to
9124s	dump the other pyro to do the combo or
9126s	something like that akani can
9128s	screw up maybe a weaker poor priest
9131s	opponent but for the most part right now
9133s	i agree it's gorlok ravager you're
9134s	looking for maybe clownfish some way to
9137s	just get these cards in hand chomped up
9140s	yeah i'm looking at lavik's hand right
9142s	now and
9143s	at the end of the day like you could
9144s	like delete half of this hand and it's
9146s	still fine you really just want to see
9148s	like like you mentioned the golock um
9150s	the mutanus um arguably if he's not dead
9153s	by then he kind of does want to see the
9155s	brucan as well to do the final points of
9157s	damage uh to to possessively close out
9159s	the game um command of neptune here is
9161s	decent because um it presents like 10 8
9164s	of extra stats on the board
9166s	which
9167s	possibly knows there's a bloodlust in
9169s	the deck so
9170s	i think if he has the ability to play
9172s	around it he would um the cool thing
9174s	here i would say the interesting here is
9176s	that xyrella isn't even a clear because
9178s	there's not even there's not even enough
9180s	health on the board to to heal up right
9183s	for possessing to do anything crazy if
9184s	the cyrella might have to gravitate
9186s	towards a scuffed pyro clear without
9190s	without like serious draw potential from
9192s	the
9192s	from the cleric because normally you
9194s	would pair that with gifts right that's
9195s	like the perfect scenario but i think
9197s	possessi has countered it up and
9200s	decided that um wait is this not
9202s	bloodlust with five ten twelve
9205s	oh it's not oh there's no bloodlust
9206s	little here i think possessee counted it
9208s	up and realized that there wasn't that
9210s	last little here so he just like chilled
9211s	here
9214s	yeah
9215s	there with the gore look found the
9217s	problem is with this mana tide levick
9218s	doesn't even have hand space to play it
9220s	here he literally can't get rid of cards
9223s	quickly enough because
9224s	if they are in his hand most of them
9226s	draw anyway and he's running out of
9228s	board space so he doesn't have much room
9229s	to actually dump onto the board
9232s	uh it's a very very tough position to be
9234s	and maybe even like leading into
9236s	firemancer flergle for tempo just to
9238s	shed hand space
9240s	yeah i mean at this point the golok
9242s	might not even ever see play because the
9244s	the mana tide totem is like working
9246s	overtime here oh there we go multanis in
9248s	the hand very big pickup i would say
9250s	it's like one of the most important
9251s	cards in this matchup right now
9255s	so now possess he still doesn't have
9258s	access to the gift of the naaru which is
9260s	obviously the card you really really
9261s	want to see to be able to get a clear
9263s	with the pyro cleric turn but it's just
9266s	too scary at this point he
9268s	is instead i guess just gearing up for
9271s	a handmaiden draw on this turn instead
9275s	yeah i don't think he's committing the
9278s	the cleric
9280s	he
9281s	going for going for a huge uh devour
9283s	here it's also quite insane because like
9286s	how often does shaman actually
9289s	like
9290s	kill minions right and a 311 at that it
9293s	doesn't happen that often
9295s	that's true
9296s	yeah so so so i mean we do once again
9299s	see
9300s	the starfish but
9302s	you don't play around that plus if this
9304s	313 sticks right you effectively any any
9307s	healing spell drawn is like your combo
9309s	your cycle combo to draw like your
9311s	entire deck so i like this play a lot
9313s	but of course we do see levick having
9315s	the starfish
9317s	i'm just very curious to see how he sets
9319s	up this mutanus combo because we
9321s	actually have not seen a single ball
9322s	played um
9323s	so there is a good chance that uh
9326s	lavig thinks that he can chomp some
9329s	balls or at least chomp some other key
9331s	pieces we've seen one role play so oh
9334s	right we've seen one ball played my bad
9336s	yeah um
9337s	i think levick's key to victory here is
9339s	he needs to set up this uh
9342s	yeah what's that called yeah this
9343s	mutants asap
9345s	i think it could involve playing the
9347s	mutants now into bran parrot
9350s	that's true yeah definitely something to
9352s	consider
9353s	the main thing here for
9355s	possession though is that he's not
9357s	really setting up for a turn eight
9359s	weapon swing is he which is
9361s	generally what you want to be looking
9363s	for
9364s	uh instead it's like
9366s	looking like turn nine or honestly like
9368s	maybe even turn 10
9370s	with the way this is currently going
9371s	like he's had a very slow game
9374s	yeah
9374s	for football priests like usually um
9377s	by turn it it's it's over if they get
9379s	like the regular draw and like nothing
9381s	goes too wrong
9383s	but while that draw that draw is huge
9386s	for levick
9387s	okay so if you go bolner
9391s	clownfish that's five mana used up your
9393s	mutinous costs three
9395s	um so you can do that but that only gets
9398s	you one mutinous activation right yeah
9401s	and if you're going to do that distance
9402s	i think it's fine because you get stats
9404s	on the board as well but you always want
9406s	to end on the mutants right so you can
9407s	finish off with parrot next turn for
9409s	sure yeah
9410s	so he's going for this um
9414s	oh i can see whoa whoa
9416s	oh okay okay yeah this one yeah yeah
9418s	yeah yeah yeah all right this works i
9419s	forgot right that works
9421s	you can do this as long as you end on
9423s	the mutedness i'm cool like as long as
9424s	he doesn't like make a mistake and like
9426s	plays an extra um
9428s	like what's that called plays an extra
9431s	murloc eats up the discount and
9433s	i'm cool with it
9435s	that is what happens here right if he
9437s	plays amalgam he won't be able to play
9439s	mutants
9440s	yeah
9442s	did he forget
9445s	oh he can do this yeah he can play
9447s	another clown and get it live okay yeah
9449s	yeah that works that works perfectly
9450s	fine yeah that get that
9452s	most stats on the board like i mean
9454s	and and and the crazy thing is
9456s	i don't even think that's a very nice
9458s	zarella here anyway
9460s	let's see no three yeah that's true
9462s	so levi actually playing this pretty
9464s	well not gonna lie i think this is
9466s	pretty well played on leviticus but okay
9468s	gives the opponent and easy okay well we
9471s	are missing a gift of the naru
9474s	we could try and find it get that oh
9476s	crazy thrive yeah and you have a lot of
9479s	planner to work with because the priest
9480s	is released so you start thrive
9483s	yeah i think oh there we go
9484s	there we go
9486s	there we go
9489s	some hand size management concerns as
9491s	well because opponent has like quite a
9493s	bit of it's on board you kind of want to
9495s	draw like maximum but not too much and
9498s	looking at possessing's face i don't
9500s	think he has it yet
9503s	um
9504s	but if he doesn't have it yet he has to
9506s	clear right there's no way you leave
9508s	everything here
9510s	is it shard like shard doesn't even do
9512s	that much yeah it has to be gift yeah it
9515s	has to be gift uh
9518s	wow okay he he's got to do it's got to
9520s	do something oh my god
9523s	possess this this is just one of those
9524s	something yeah he's gonna do something
9526s	or is he just leaving the board full
9528s	because then you can't play like a macaw
9530s	and then hoping to win the game next
9532s	turn
9533s	i i really think if he had a bit more
9536s	time and started this a bit earlier he
9538s	could
9540s	wow
9543s	this is the line he gravitates to
9544s	because he couldn't find it out right
9545s	like i i don't think this is i think
9547s	this is not the best play but this is
9549s	the best play given the fact that you
9550s	couldn't find the line i
9553s	i don't think it's correct but i think
9554s	it's it's like
9556s	second
9557s	second fiddle it's like since i couldn't
9559s	find the line i'm just gonna like try to
9561s	not die to a bloodlust and how much
9564s	damage
9565s	all right let's see so it's
9567s	here it's 10 12 16 19 21 22.
9571s	so blah blah insta did overkill um but
9574s	other than that he never dies so
9578s	frostbite one of your own guys and play
9581s	live drinker i mean oh my god so close
9585s	so close but i think the play ends up
9587s	being frostbite your own guy and yup yup
9589s	yup yeah and parrot yes because that
9592s	gets you yeah
9594s	if it if this insta eats the pyro it's
9596s	huge right it's like super huge
9598s	kind of just gg then i think if that
9600s	happens yeah
9603s	okay a bit inconsequential
9607s	and the chomp is awfulish okay i mean
9611s	okay but it did he did dodge the pyro
9613s	though he did dodge the pyro it dodged
9615s	the pyro i mean he doesn't have much
9617s	mana to work with at all now though is
9620s	the problem
9622s	uh is it has the clear though he can
9623s	just clear on his turn
9626s	[Music]
9628s	is there a way to fit more things in let
9630s	me see oh my god
9632s	i mean i mean like i mean like there's
9633s	only it's only so slow you can go so
9636s	slow right like yeah yeah
9638s	i i i wouldn't say like you're supposed
9640s	to play around second parrot but
9643s	yeah okay possessive clearly going with
9644s	the i'm just gonna clear and chill
9646s	it's fine it's fine if they have another
9648s	parrot i think you're losing anyway
9651s	yeah i mean no you're not losing if you
9653s	manage to play all of the stuff though
9654s	but i don't think if there was a way to
9656s	play all the stuff the previous turn
9657s	yeah
9658s	yeah oh okay pick up party that's pretty
9661s	big yeah yeah
9663s	uh you just
9665s	good luck i'm trying to figure out where
9666s	to clock here
9669s	no do we not clock
9672s	look look here right
9674s	yeah he's still getting glock yeah
9675s	uh wait does he want the full glock oh
9677s	yeah cause there's silence right you
9679s	kind of do won the full
9681s	three spawns yeah
9682s	if there wasn't silence i would just
9683s	give up one of the tokens
9686s	for a bigger club right here
9688s	okay okay
9691s	all right
9692s	showtime possession time yeah it's go
9694s	time
9696s	is it have any amulets been discounted
9699s	like i can't recall one has yeah one
9701s	course there
9703s	so it is possible for the weapon
9704s	distance right
9708s	i'm not green there's still another ball
9709s	that needs to be played though right
9712s	yeah but the thing is
9714s	but the total mana spent on amulets is
9716s	three right because yeah one is zero one
9718s	is so it's actually possible i guess the
9720s	ball comes down yeah it's possible i
9722s	think he draws everything i think he
9723s	draws everything yeah yeah yeah
9725s	it's doable right you
9727s	my hand is it not made over to the
9730s	amulet oh my gosh what this is level
9734s	stuff
9737s	he lets the priest drop
9739s	oh my gosh wow that was huge that's huge
9741s	um levitt wasn't technically supposed to
9744s	get a win oh my gosh oh
9747s	a bit lost for words right now but
9748s	levitt wasn't technically supposed to
9750s	get a win off the priest at all right it
9752s	wasn't supposed to happen but it did so
9755s	now he gets like one more free pass with
9757s	the warrior over
9759s	like like the warrior now has two
9760s	chances right the word has two chances
9762s	and i think uh if anything i would i
9764s	wouldn't mind warrior into um ball
9766s	priest because if you just hiro from the
9768s	depths uh you could get out a very very
9770s	early otk it's actually possible it's
9773s	all it's possible but man
9775s	possessing burning the ambulance
9779s	oh
9780s	bit lost for words there there
9781s	that's my world champ right there who
9783s	else is doing that like last year plays
9786s	like one of the best years of
9787s	hearthstone that any competitive player
9789s	has ever done and then he just like
9791s	forgets to count in situations like this
9793s	as well yeah
9795s	oh i think there was a ball play ball
9797s	priest mistake from possessing last week
9799s	as well right like if i'm not wrong yep
9801s	so world champion clearly not one with
9804s	the balls this season i mean with the
9807s	balls the thing is like obviously over
9809s	drawing it was a problem but unless i'm
9810s	mistaken it was an even bigger problem
9813s	than that anyway because
9815s	both amulets were only at two and two
9817s	right okay didn't have one at three and
9820s	therefore therefore if you draw your
9821s	entire deck you uh you can't trade
9824s	anymore right so even if he hadn't
9825s	overdrawn the amulet he still wouldn't
9828s	have been able to do the combo i don't
9829s	think because
9832s	he wouldn't have been able to get enough
9833s	balls so i think even if we ignored the
9835s	fact that he got unlucky at overtrew it
9836s	was still kind of a throw because he had
9839s	to draw less cards than that to still
9841s	have one in deck to still be able to
9842s	trade yep i think the biggest defining
9844s	factor in that match was um
9846s	the turn where he just passed with that
9848s	full board i was pretty sure there was
9849s	like a multitude of things that could be
9852s	done
9853s	which we definitely need to go reveal
9854s	but that's 100 i'll be left for another
9857s	day now we're gonna go into warrior
9859s	versus uh demon hunter in our testing
9861s	derek um
9862s	it's kind of weird but warrior used to
9864s	win this matchup more often but when we
9866s	were testing this i somehow was not able
9869s	to get over the line even though i had
9870s	like shield shatters i think maybe
9872s	because uh from the depths it's uh it's
9874s	like more expensive now i get my combo
9876s	pieces a bit slower uh and yeah i think
9880s	demon hunter just has too consistent of
9881s	a damage flow now so i would still want
9883s	to say that it's favored for the demon
9885s	hunter even though it's like ever so
9887s	slightly
9889s	yeah it kind of feels that way right
9891s	like the thing that really surprised me
9893s	in these early turns is how flimsy
9896s	warrior felt in terms of its removal
9898s	like it really doesn't have that much
9900s	good board clear in the starting turns
9903s	unless you hit exactly shield shatter
9905s	plus an activator
9906s	uh or like maybe one of brawl that's in
9909s	there as well you just take a lot of
9911s	damage in these starting turns and even
9914s	though yes the combo is always going to
9915s	beat demon hunter later on a lot of the
9917s	time you just didn't get there uh
9919s	because you're taking too much damage
9920s	and you can't clear off the board and
9922s	that's exactly what's looking to happen
9924s	here right there's no way for levick to
9926s	clear off the board very effectively and
9928s	so possessing's just going to push a lot
9930s	of damage every turn
9931s	yeah according to me if i'm wrong i
9933s	think i think from what i saw i think
9934s	levick does not even run rancor i don't
9936s	think he runs for the rank yeah renko
9938s	was in the other warrior that which
9940s	we'll see later tomorrow but yeah
9943s	so um possessee i think also just is
9946s	trying to say that right you only have
9948s	one good player in this spot your whole
9950s	deck only has like like shield shatter
9952s	in this spot and you don't have rancor
9954s	so if you have it fine i'm just going to
9955s	rebuild my board but if you don't i'm in
9957s	such a commanding position and we can
9959s	clearly see levick does not have it i
9961s	think he's going to take a turn off here
9963s	um getting rid of
9965s	just yep the phonetic because that's the
9966s	one that gets him more damage spells um
9970s	we could see something like uh
9972s	a frozen buckler into spindly next turn
9975s	just to try and dig up the
9977s	um the shield chatter if it comes down
9979s	to it that's true
9980s	it's a very common play very common play
9983s	last time as well but the problem now is
9985s	that warrior um doesn't really have
9987s	anything right you can't you can you can
9989s	scam a game with a nelly because nelly
9991s	is just not that great anymore um
9993s	yeah and there's one less like charger
9996s	in the smite for you to yeah to get a
9999s	good roll from from from the depths as
10001s	well so
10002s	possessing just carrying on charging
10004s	along pulling on the pressure
10006s	nothing too special going on more like
10009s	just just hoping the warrior does not
10010s	have the clears and levic as you can see
10014s	does not have it at this point of time
10017s	i mean it really just made you realize
10018s	that
10019s	charge warrior wasn't a combo deck it
10021s	was a scam deck with a combo in case you
10023s	missed it
10024s	in there just to back up whereas now
10026s	that it's actually a combo deck without
10028s	the scan potential of smite and nelly uh
10030s	it feels a lot lot worse overall relying
10032s	entirely on the combo uh but he does get
10034s	the brawl he has the board clear
10036s	available here um
10038s	leaves the two one which is a little bit
10040s	scary uh but basically that was a
10043s	crucial draw for levick because now
10045s	there is a chance for him to stabilize
10047s	even if it is on a very low health total
10050s	yeah i think i think that um the brawl
10053s	was definitely warranted because it just
10054s	even if even if this wasn't the best
10056s	outcome it reduced quite a lot of damage
10058s	on the board yeah and what warrior
10060s	usually i feel i feel like warrior at
10062s	the current state it's in usually
10064s	survives with like minimal health and
10066s	then it just like pumps up all its armor
10068s	and then somehow gets over the line like
10070s	like you see lavik has like i think
10072s	living is holding about 30 health in
10073s	hand okay 25 health and then but uh
10076s	he's just waiting for the right time to
10077s	play it like he still has to clear the
10079s	board um
10080s	yeah uh i think i think this turn is
10082s	very crucial for possessive because he
10083s	decides to not go for another board game
10085s	plan decides to like uh deal damage
10087s	phase in state um this might give
10090s	leverage the opportunity to use his
10091s	armor cards to like um give him some
10094s	breathing room
10095s	yeah give it a little bit of breathing
10097s	room
10098s	yeah big time
10100s	not necessarily obvious how you're
10102s	supposed to play it like buckler buckler
10104s	hero power is the most obvious way to go
10106s	about it but you know you could hear out
10108s	the argument for like uh fitting a
10110s	shield block in there instead and maybe
10112s	trading to increase your card draw yeah
10114s	i kind of like deleting the weapon here
10117s	because it's five damage right like if
10119s	you delete the weapon you don't have to
10120s	play the other
10122s	yeah like we have no read that
10124s	possessive has another weapon in hand
10126s	but based on this we delete the weapon
10128s	and uh
10129s	can't even consider shield slamming to
10131s	reduce one but i think it's not
10132s	necessary yeah i think it's not
10134s	necessary next time it's pretty cool for
10136s	levick you can finally go for from the
10137s	depths finley the fabled combo that we
10140s	used to always love to do
10142s	severely enough but still
10144s	so this is
10146s	four
10148s	eight
10149s	well enough 14 i think that's lethal oh
10151s	shoot
10153s	i think i missed it oh right right eight
10154s	nine ten
10155s	barrage off the top yeah yo
10158s	getting over the line
10160s	uh
10161s	based on our practice i did think that
10162s	this could have been an expected pan out
10164s	so
10165s	not super surprised considering the word
10167s	never hit the shatter
10169s	yeah um
10171s	yeah so simple game uh nothing too
10174s	special going on possessively bringing
10175s	it up to 2-2
10177s	yeah and now we go down to the final
10179s	matchup or if i'm not wrong it's uh
10182s	charge warrior versus the ball priest
10184s	right correct yeah and it was a weird
10187s	end to the game there right because when
10189s	you said it uh that you used the rust
10191s	drop viper to destroy the bone glove at
10193s	the time it made absolute sense right
10194s	you're using three mana to destroy five
10196s	damage but it does unlock the potential
10199s	for bone glaive right oh sorry for the
10201s	uh the dread prison glaze honorable kill
10203s	yeah yeah yeah which is a little bit
10205s	scary especially when you're playing a
10207s	minion like one of the few times you're
10209s	actually going to do it over the course
10210s	of the game and so multi-strike became a
10212s	lot scarier admittedly one multi-strike
10215s	had already been played so i think for
10216s	levick it was probably a reasonable risk
10218s	to take but the uh
10220s	the viper wasn't necessarily so obvious
10222s	to the players like though though it was
10224s	at first
10225s	yeah i think in lavik's mind it probably
10227s	was because he wanted something to
10228s	contest the board as well and he
10230s	uh i think he just wanted to he wanted
10232s	to greet out his
10233s	armor game cards which i think was okay
10235s	but he ended up biting him in the back
10237s	because of the honorable kill
10240s	yeah i think he might be right uh but
10243s	anyway with that said and done it means
10244s	we are down to the warrior versus the
10246s	boar priest it's a classic uh archetypal
10249s	up in hearthstone right it's combo verse
10251s	combo and generally when you have two
10253s	combo decks one against the other you
10255s	lead to pretty polarized match ups
10257s	because they follow very expected play
10259s	patterns and one just kind of does that
10262s	a little bit quicker and i think that
10264s	might be kind of presenting itself again
10265s	in this matchup
10267s	right uh can i be honest i think uh as
10269s	much as i said that the charge warrior
10270s	has a chance versus the priest it is
10274s	more unlikely that it gets the win
10276s	because the priest combo is actually
10278s	kind of really consistent especially
10280s	when you don't have to be dealing with
10281s	minions on the board right like if you
10282s	don't have to be worrying about dying
10284s	when i need to play zyrella you're just
10286s	going to slowly keep farming and farming
10288s	and drawing cards and just pop off with
10289s	a huge draw turn and the charge warrior
10292s	doesn't
10293s	do anything about that right charge
10295s	warrior doesn't play any minions on
10296s	board to apply pressure in the early
10298s	game or ever the only time they actually
10300s	play minions that matter they win the
10301s	game on the spot so i think possesses in
10304s	like a super great position the one way
10307s	i see levi gets out of this is his hand
10308s	has like two of the blue card um the
10311s	the what's that called from the tabs
10313s	yeah i call it blue card yeah but from
10315s	the devs he has two of the two of the
10316s	from the depth and then like scans out
10318s	like a zero mana bgbm or kelvanga other
10321s	than that i think it's it's too tough
10324s	but but i i have faith that this game
10326s	would be interesting maybe lavik's going
10328s	to show us um like the the power of
10330s	drawing the blue card at the right time
10331s	like how majors used to do it
10341s	activations instead of the one that was
10343s	on one activation which i don't agree
10345s	with because you want to be trading away
10347s	them like evenly right
10350s	so that it's less likely that one is at
10352s	four and one is at one uh but apart from
10354s	that it's a good start yeah because you
10356s	don't want like a one and three emulator
10357s	you want like a two entry like you don't
10359s	know one and four you want a two and
10360s	three right exactly yeah all right so
10363s	possessing just taking a chill pill here
10365s	like he really does know that he doesn't
10367s	need to do anything
10369s	uh until he's ready to do something
10371s	because it's very unlikely that the
10372s	charge warrior is gonna like pressure
10374s	him like what are you gonna do hit him
10376s	with x three times like that doesn't do
10378s	anything
10380s	so yeah oh like i said lavic showing us
10381s	the skill top decking the blue card um
10384s	okay not bad
10386s	yeah i think those are decent ones
10388s	because it keeps the card draw going um
10390s	yeah he picked
10391s	the forged i think he picked the forge
10392s	yeah
10398s	all right
10399s	card draw train incoming
10401s	we hit well i think i think possessi's
10403s	head is just lined up perfectly to do
10405s	everything he needs to do um
10407s	double while pyro uh one for the cleric
10409s	one for later in the game um just using
10411s	the silence to deny a draw i like this a
10413s	lot and clearing the hand size as well
10416s	like this a lot from possessing good
10417s	recognition
10422s	oh next journey
10424s	is to draw some cards right i'm pretty
10425s	sure you just go in next then um
10428s	i go through like most of the tech
10434s	considering if he wants to use the forge
10435s	here because that one mana could be a
10437s	finley which could use but i think um
10439s	now that he's drawn the bgbm he never
10441s	wants to put it at the bottom of the
10442s	deck so
10443s	yeah yep holding on to that
10445s	i mean arguably you could still hit
10446s	tradable but i guess he wants to go for
10448s	the swing potentially draw by killing a
10450s	minion
10452s	uh world champion let's show us what you
10454s	got
10456s	the tools are all there right yeah it's
10458s	like staring him in the face
10461s	it really is it really is like this game
10462s	is i think it's only lost if possessive
10465s	makes a mistake at this point like
10466s	there's very few outcomes that
10469s	yeah i'm not trying to be like
10470s	pressuring him or anything surely not
10472s	surely not surely not but it really
10475s	feels like it can only be lost if
10476s	possessing makes a mistake
10478s	wow derek now that i'm behind the
10480s	custard they're saying all these kind of
10481s	things feels quite um
10482s	doesn't feel it feels easy to say these
10484s	kind of things like if i was a player i
10486s	would be more empathetic but
10488s	now that i'm a custer
10490s	a little toxic
10491s	yeah
10492s	i i feel like i feel like my empathy
10494s	just went out the window at the moment
10496s	[Laughter]
10497s	like i do feel it i really do feel it so
10500s	all right it's an interesting new world
10502s	whole new world for me
10503s	well
10504s	something nice we can say here is that
10506s	by possessing
10507s	not damaging the cleric for the first
10509s	activation of gift and then damaging it
10512s	for the second one means he drew the
10513s	exact perfect number of cards to go to
10515s	nine so this was a very well executed
10518s	draw turn white uh right yep yep
10521s	i'm i'm i'm trying to think if it it was
10523s	like the optimal way to do it but it
10524s	looks it looks kind of clean yeah it
10526s	looks kind of clean so uh no faults
10527s	there it didn't look kind of clean
10530s	all right so
10532s	lavix still on six mana just drew a
10533s	bunch you do four cards for six for like
10535s	three so this is getting really close um
10538s	the only thing you can really do is just
10539s	keep drawing um
10543s	i mean the wow second to the front as
10545s	well the problem is that even if he
10547s	draws all the combo pieces he needs like
10550s	nine mana minimum to be able to pull it
10553s	off right unless he discounts
10555s	uh galvanga with the other uh from the
10559s	depths which means it would have to be
10560s	like exactly the 26th card in his deck
10564s	uh because it would have to shift to the
10565s	bottom
10566s	uh
10567s	after he's already played one from the
10569s	depth so it's like very unlikely he'll
10571s	be able to do this combo anytime before
10573s	turn nine for this to be done on turn
10575s	eight his next exact top deck well it
10578s	has to be like what um from the depths
10580s	into like the the discounted galvan guy
10582s	right yeah exactly it has to be exactly
10584s	that card to be done tonight there's no
10586s	school teachers in the deck there's no
10587s	igneous elementals there's no like
10590s	whatever else cycle
10591s	yep so even in the best case scenario
10593s	now
10594s	okay no let's see his top deck and then
10596s	we can determine the best case scenario
10598s	because maybe he actually draws the
10599s	depths all right
10601s	it's like loaded up both amulets costing
10604s	zero as well now oh yeah yeah yeah and i
10607s	think both of them fully juiced up as
10609s	well because he drew the other one that
10610s	cost one oh sorry that was resin one
10614s	traded it this one he's already traded
10615s	twice
10616s	uh so i think this is
10619s	possibly a swing this turn and unless he
10623s	messes up 100 on turn eight right like
10626s	it has to be there
10627s	i mean i mean if you if you wait if i'm
10629s	not wrong if you hit the valish distant
10631s	it's definitely doable
10633s	i think if you hit the ballish
10635s	i'm not sure how how juiced up the
10636s	handmaiden is right now but i think
10638s	if you it's very unlikely you die this
10640s	turn so wait is it just done
10644s	has has two boss died i suddenly lost
10645s	count has two balls tied don't think so
10647s	i think there's still a ball that needs
10648s	to die oh okay okay it's just done
10650s	that'll be crazy
10652s	yeah so i mean
10655s	if you draw with
10658s	the handmaiden and hit like
10660s	valish
10662s	the ball
10663s	i think it's done right
10665s	i think it can be done
10667s	yeah very tight though yes the like very
10669s	very tight
10671s	dump some cards as well not much mana to
10673s	work with now
10674s	yeah
10676s	i mean it could be done but it's not
10677s	guaranteed and you don't have to do it
10679s	so
10680s	uh if i'm possessing i'm like not gonna
10682s	do it right now i think it's reasonable
10685s	i think it's it's
10687s	it's like
10688s	so close to zero percent that you die on
10690s	this following turn right yeah what's
10692s	the what's the previous from the depth
10694s	cut revealed already it was right it was
10696s	the forge right yeah yeah so so possibly
10698s	knows that like there's like zero where
10700s	he's dead he knows that he could down
10702s	nine but eight is like nine impossible
10705s	right so
10708s	the d will be done next turn i'm pretty
10710s	sure and we'll be
10714s	seeing our victor in this series very
10715s	very uh oh actually sorry there was a
10718s	way he died here actually right if all
10720s	the combo pieces were there it could
10721s	have been to the front to the front four
10723s	mana galvan guard two mana faceless
10725s	faceless which is 27 plus the weapon
10728s	swing
10729s	oh you're right you're right it was
10731s	possible he died there so i think there
10732s	was maybe
10734s	a better way to go about it for
10736s	possessing there
10738s	but honestly i think like
10739s	there's a higher chance that you mess up
10741s	trying to do it even if it was there
10743s	then your opponent has exactly that four
10746s	card combo in hand
10748s	yeah i'll be completely honest i i'm not
10750s	too sure what the right line was there
10752s	because i'm no ball priest expert but i
10754s	mean there's very few fall priest
10755s	experts out there but like yeah i think
10757s	i think you are right i miss i missed
10759s	the the line with the triple the double
10762s	faceless and the gayawanga and the
10763s	weapon so there was a chance you could
10764s	die but it was like super low
10766s	possibility right so
10768s	i think i think it was fine per se i
10770s	mean we are saying it's fine because he
10771s	didn't have it but if he had it
10772s	possessed he would probably be quite sad
10774s	but
10775s	yeah we're just saying it's fine because
10776s	he didn't have it but yeah
10778s	all right so
10780s	okay
10781s	let's go this is oh mega lethal now
10784s	right like he has like what
10787s	i think he has half his mana to spare
10789s	yeah literally yeah he literally has
10791s	half his mother to spare to even play
10794s	devour yeah there it is he's got it play
10797s	the two first then play the three yeah
10799s	yeah
10800s	he's got it
10802s	it was the expected result right like i
10803s	mean oh yeah for sure yeah it was kind
10806s	of the expected reason
10808s	and it's like
10809s	expected pan out right turn eight weapon
10811s	swing is generally what you uh plan for
10814s	against four priests yeah he hit it and
10817s	uh
10817s	with the
10819s	tyrell hero card to follow up there's no
10821s	way that levitt can possibly out armor
10823s	all this damage either it's uh 100 over
10827s	it's done um
10829s	no reason to keep the cleric out of the
10831s	power life but i think it doesn't make a
10832s	difference anyway but it's data alive
10834s	i mean
10836s	you can hit thinly but
10837s	you can't play anything else even if you
10839s	swap the deck so livik just concedes
10842s	uh
10844s	yeah
10845s	quite a long series actually
10848s	when the when when the priest took a
10850s	loss versus the shaman i was sweating a
10851s	bit for possessing but uh world champion
10853s	knows how to finish a match
10856s	[Music]
10857s	like you can see like oh yeah you know
10860s	just uh another win for the uh world
10862s	champion he's going back to worlds
10864s	yeah i can't wait to go uh stream summer
10866s	apex after this as well that sounds fun
10870s	uh yeah well i mean you say that he's
10871s	done for now he's actually not done for
10873s	the day because he's going to be playing
10874s	in our next match right because he won
10876s	he has to play right away uh but this is
10879s	equi equal to losing to the smallest
10882s	number of games he has to play today so
10884s	in his next match against okoshinski
10886s	we're going to find out whether he'll be
10887s	going through to the uh the
10888s	quarter-finals to be played out on
10890s	sunday or whether he has to fight in the
10892s	spider match of group group a later on
10896s	today but overall you know just a very
10898s	possessive style series right for the
10900s	most part very very good play good
10902s	matchup understanding and then
10904s	forgetting how to count halfway through
10906s	that's our world champ
10908s	that's the apex special i remember
10910s	surrender did this once before as well
10912s	he had like perfect play throughout the
10913s	whole game and he couldn't count to 16
10914s	with otk demon hunter yeah this is this
10916s	classic apec things um
10918s	i even had like a few misleaders with
10920s	like the most simple bgbm ever but like
10922s	yeah this kind of thing happens it's
10923s	just apec right but we still put in our
10925s	work and we still win that's what when
10927s	it counts damn right yeah and uh here on
10930s	the casting desk we never ever make
10932s	mistakes though as you're now aware uh
10935s	yeah never miss lethal uh but there it
10937s	is okay verse possess the apac coming
10940s	out on top so far in group a uh
10943s	obviously for okachinsky it's a much
10945s	more important win uh than for
10947s	possession in a couple ways right
10948s	because obviously possession had a
10949s	better start
10950s	getting through to the top four in week
10952s	one of gm last call whereas okazinski
10955s	got zero wins uh but also because
10957s	possession is already through to the
10958s	world champs again right after his run
10960s	in the summer championship uh so oka
10963s	shinsuke again if he wants to get
10964s	through to the world champs this is by
10966s	far his most likely way of doing so
10969s	rather than roughing out in the masters
10970s	tours through to the full championship
10973s	so we'll see if he can get it done after
10974s	this break i think maybe a little bit
10976s	longer to allow possess you some time to
10978s	sort out his pick uh well not his picks
10980s	and bands but just to get everything set
10982s	up and prepare himself for his next
10984s	series of the day so when we come back
10985s	the winners bracket match of group a
10992s	[Music]
11003s	[Applause]
11003s	[Music]
11008s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
11011s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
11015s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
11020s	with such ruthlessness
11022s	so
11023s	deep and profound
11026s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
11034s	uncover the truth
11036s	of murder most foul
11040s	the anima drifts across the floor
11043s	highlighting the creatures who walked
11045s	through my door
11047s	the motives are as black as night
11051s	avarice power revenge and blight
11057s	we watch the hero
11059s	uncover the clues
11061s	that lead to the truth
11064s	behind this dark rooms
11068s	join us here with the grimm and empires
11073s	choose your powers without heavenly bias
11077s	for at the end
11079s	they will burn in the fire
11082s	when it is known whose slave
11085s	tenacious the sire
11088s	[Music]
11103s	[Music]
11111s	[Music]
11115s	[Applause]
11118s	my
11119s	[Music]
11145s	[Music]
11176s	now
11179s	[Music]
11214s	[Music]
11229s	[Music]
11314s	so
11321s	[Music]
11345s	so
11346s	[Music]
11363s	so
11370s	[Music]
11375s	[Music]
11383s	[Music]
11410s	[Music]
11419s	oh
11423s	[Music]
11450s	[Music]
11458s	[Music]
11473s	do
11476s	[Music]
11484s	[Music]
11494s	[Music]
11503s	do
11508s	[Music]
11524s	[Music]
11530s	so
11532s	[Music]
11539s	[Music]
11545s	do
11547s	[Music]
11554s	so
11565s	[Music]
11574s	[Music]
11586s	so
11587s	[Music]
11603s	[Music]
11610s	welcome back to hearthstone grand
11612s	masters it's the final series of the day
11614s	for lambie series and myself and it's
11617s	the final series of the day for one of
11619s	these two players okachinsky or
11622s	possessee fighting for that spot in the
11624s	quarter finals on sunday and as i was
11626s	saying just beforehand before we went to
11628s	the break for oka shinsuke this feels
11629s	like a crucial match for him to win
11633s	yeah um ogashinsky like last week he
11636s	didn't do too well um zero points at
11638s	least he got one point now um but he
11640s	does need to keep getting these points
11642s	like we mentioned in
11644s	the intro um every single point counts
11646s	and also possibly already has like the
11648s	world championship slot so all the
11650s	marbles all the sticks are actually all
11652s	towards oka shinseki's side um lineups
11655s	wise i would say possessi is like
11657s	slightly favored simply because ball
11659s	priest um i would say has like a good
11661s	matchup into the warlock good matchup
11663s	into the mage okay match up into the
11665s	shaman
11667s	yeah and the failed h beats up the
11668s	shaman and beats up the mage as we saw
11671s	previously uh defrock is a bit more on
11673s	the neutral side for possessive versus
11677s	decks but i think overall possessing has
11680s	like a bit of an age just a little bit
11683s	right so oka shinsuke opening with the
11685s	big spell mage which we already saw just
11687s	now um
11688s	i can't say too much yet before i know
11690s	what um possesses queuing up but i think
11693s	this uh
11694s	deck
11695s	has the highest scan potential out of
11698s	all of uh
11699s	opposite of all of okay stacks so
11703s	i i think that if you were to get a win
11704s	with this stack
11706s	it's probably the one with the easiest
11707s	chance because um yeah
11709s	you can just scam
11710s	i think there was a slight uh mistake
11712s	there just before i let you carry on it
11713s	is actually the shaman he's going
11715s	forward first not the mage uh yeah not
11718s	your fault don't worry um instead up
11720s	against the demon hunter on the other
11721s	side and this is a deck that i mean i
11723s	truly believe can just win any match up
11726s	like it really is a jack-of-all-trades
11728s	kind of deck it can do so much it's got
11730s	aggressive starts with schooling bolner
11733s	uh clownfish or the murloc synergy it's
11736s	got an incredibly robust mid game with
11738s	wild poor caverns command of neptulon
11741s	being uh two of the most powerful
11743s	mid-range cards i think in the game
11745s	right now uh and then snowfall guardian
11747s	right can just solo any board-based
11749s	match-ups and in addition to that you
11751s	have some kind of counter combo
11752s	potential with akane and mutinus in
11755s	particular so i think shaman has the
11757s	potential to win any of these matchups
11759s	for sure
11760s	but it does still potentially not find
11764s	every tool for every situation right
11766s	like against the ball priest you might
11767s	not find enough pressure or you might
11769s	not find the uh the mutinous in time to
11771s	munch up a boar or a wild pyro and
11774s	against demon hunter you know yes
11776s	there's a very good chance that you win
11777s	the board in the mid game but there's
11779s	not that much healing so by the time
11781s	you've won the board the game might
11782s	already be starting to end
11784s	yup i think this is one of the matchups
11786s	whereby the the early war park heaven
11789s	for the first shaman is like super
11791s	crucial because out of all the matchups
11792s	left in the game freezing the face is
11794s	like the most crucial versus demon
11797s	hunter right like all their damage
11798s	output out of outside of the board is
11801s	the face like they just smack you so
11802s	many times with their hero power their
11804s	weapon and everything like that so the
11806s	early warport kevin is super crutch in
11808s	this matchup and also um
11811s	the
11812s	shaman does struggle a bit if like
11814s	possessing gets the curve whereby he has
11816s	like all the little little one drops in
11818s	the one and two drops in the early game
11819s	and they don't actually have very
11821s	efficient removal outside of like
11822s	schooling and frostbite for like the
11824s	early minions so it's a few things it's
11826s	really the wild pork heaven and whether
11828s	possessing can also snowball his like
11830s	early damage advantage because the
11832s	shaman has very little healing
11834s	and i think for me the reliance on
11836s	wildpool cabin is
11838s	high enough to the point where i'm not
11840s	keeping frostbite uh there are a couple
11843s	of situations where it's good obviously
11845s	mainly uh against just the
11848s	uh vicious slither spear you can just
11850s	play it against on turn two uh but i'd
11852s	just rather be more proactive i want to
11853s	find schooling i want to find clownfish
11855s	i want to find in particular as you said
11857s	the wild poor cabin so i think this is a
11859s	full mole for me with
11861s	maybe some consideration paid to
11863s	starfish just because of the power of
11865s	all these ongoing effects on these
11867s	minions early on
11869s	right um i think okay shinsuke
11872s	doesn't really agree he keeps the
11873s	frostbite i think because he wants to
11875s	have a guaranteed clear it's not so much
11876s	about the frostbite aura here on the
11878s	like the slyther spear it's more like he
11880s	wants to have a clear for the two drops
11882s	right the two drops are the one that
11884s	snowballs the game out of control like
11885s	the fanatic and the early whiteboard
11888s	before you can play um snowfall guardian
11890s	with the with the vanguard and stuff
11892s	like that so um i think i think this is
11894s	fine um schooling was obviously the best
11897s	like thing he could be looking for here
11898s	but i think keeping the keeping a
11900s	frostbite is perfectly fine here he does
11902s	have a very clunky hand outside of the
11904s	frostbite though like none of these
11905s	other cards really do any other thing in
11907s	the early game whereas for possessive
11909s	he's actually faced with a difficult
11911s	decision of either going sigil distant
11914s	or weapon distant because if he goes for
11915s	the weapon he unlocks the phonetic next
11917s	then without using the coin and this is
11919s	i think what he would be going for right
11922s	now yep
11924s	so goes for the weapon
11926s	was there ever any consideration of coin
11927s	fossil fanatic given that you didn't see
11930s	schooling on turn one
11932s	uh yeah i think i think that makes a lot
11934s	of sense as well but i think um he's his
11936s	head is where like he has the coin he
11938s	has uh
11939s	he has the what's the god here's steno
11941s	he could
11942s	pair the coin the steno for more damage
11944s	but obviously now that okay has played a
11947s	two drop uh this is just too clean right
11949s	like you play you play the phonetic you
11951s	coin you kill it you get a cut you deal
11953s	two damage yeah i think it's too clean
11955s	um
11956s	you still gonna build steno if you get
11958s	predations and this is a very predation
11960s	abusable hand
11963s	and here foreign like the
11966s	i'm doing quotation marks here payoff
11968s	for keeping the uh the first bite is he
11970s	gets to kill off this fossil fanatic
11972s	here which just feels so bad like you
11976s	you kind of have to do it because it's
11978s	just going to keep drawing cards every
11980s	turn i don't think brilliant macaw is
11981s	strong enough given you're just giving
11983s	them another target to attack into
11985s	with the dread prison glaive but it's
11988s	just such a slow start he's going to be
11990s	taking so much damage while his opponent
11991s	just keeps developing board after board
11994s	yeah i mean there is some saving grace
11996s	so there is a swing coming on turn five
11997s	with the um
11999s	with the with the neptune on because uh
12001s	possessing used the coin so we wouldn't
12003s	have to worry about like an early
12004s	curtras also i like this um display of
12007s	the windshield because even though it
12008s	does block damage in the future cycling
12010s	to your welfare cabins or like your
12012s	clown fishes is i think way more
12014s	important than staving off a bit of
12015s	damage with the freeze here
12019s	wow look at all this damage that's
12021s	available in hand like if you can find a
12023s	predation to go alongside this this is
12025s	just like infinity damage yeah do you
12028s	remember like oh
12030s	yeah oh wow okay i love this one so much
12032s	i like i like giga love this play
12034s	because the only way okay well that
12037s	right
12039s	but like i was gonna say like the only
12040s	way that this actually like physically
12042s	dies is the one it's the double
12044s	schooling if not that's the way it
12045s	actually physically dies at this stage
12047s	of the game so this is one of the
12048s	explosive exploitable points of shaman
12051s	because as much as it can control it can
12053s	freeze it can eat your hand it can burn
12055s	you for broken damage it doesn't
12057s	actually efficiently clear minions if
12059s	you think about it like it's true like
12061s	com common of neptulon or maybe floogum
12064s	fireman's logo
12066s	frostbite but that's it right it doesn't
12068s	effectively kill even the littlest of
12070s	minions like i've played shaman games
12072s	whereby i couldn't kill a 10 one or like
12074s	an eight one minion and then the one
12077s	health eight attack minion just soloed
12079s	me for a bit yeah so that's one of the
12082s	biggest problems of shaman but i think
12083s	because oga shinsuke drew the starfish
12085s	he can consider playing it down now
12087s	alternatively he also can consider
12089s	playing just the um what's that called
12091s	the cookie because the weapon eventually
12093s	gets to like swing three times right
12095s	which is quite a bit of healing and he
12097s	knows that he has the command of neptune
12098s	next time to sweep up any like residual
12100s	board that process he has
12105s	but in state goes for the
12108s	wow
12109s	wow wait hold up are we are we seeing
12111s	the freeze here uh not seeing the freeze
12113s	interesting interesting
12115s	i guess he thinks that
12118s	there will never be a board
12120s	worth double freezing in the future but
12122s	this just means possessing goes crazy
12125s	here
12125s	with like um with this like satano and
12129s	everything else i'm quite surprised they
12130s	didn't play the slytherspear first i'm
12133s	not sure if he was looking for a
12134s	specific card
12135s	by not playing this oh maybe predation
12137s	right maybe that's why he didn't play
12139s	like the spear first yeah maybe maybe
12141s	that
12142s	it's unlikely it makes a difference
12143s	right i mean i guess one extra damage on
12145s	command of neptulon but that's fine yeah
12149s	oh schooling one turn late uh well not
12151s	too late still still decent i guess but
12153s	i think coleman is very clean here um
12155s	does lose a bit to a fair barrage uh
12158s	you don't have a read if he has or does
12160s	not have it i think command is very
12161s	clean here because if he does not have
12163s	uh
12164s	exactly fair barrage uh poses he
12165s	clearing this off means potentially
12167s	taking 10 damage on his own side so
12169s	i like this play
12171s	but we do see the follow up on turn six
12173s	with a super powerful characters here um
12175s	man that's a disgusting dragon
12178s	here comes the fell barrage off the top
12180s	right on q doesn't even have to take 10
12182s	damage i would i would say you just not
12184s	take 10 damage here right um
12187s	just cash in maybe
12188s	fury's instead of going for multi-strike
12192s	i mean you could play multi-strike and
12196s	okay okay one two
12198s	yeah you can just leave one of them up
12200s	right or
12202s	yeah i mean i mean this is fine right
12203s	like you you push like quite a bit of
12205s	damage like you let one of the barrages
12207s	go face oh wow
12209s	okay okay does not even want to
12212s	save on his health just just decides to
12215s	um full tank the 10 damage here
12218s	i mean it's fine because um shaman
12220s	doesn't have burst from hand and you
12223s	have curtros to like clear anything
12225s	so i guess it's fine but i i kind of did
12227s	value like some of my health there
12229s	because eventually you're gonna
12231s	you're gonna probably swing into some
12233s	big minions like maybe a snowfall
12235s	but i guess possessing things that
12237s	he just wants all the burn to face so
12240s	it's fine i guess it's fine and again
12242s	okachinsky is just left with such an
12244s	uh an awkward hand right like if you go
12246s	schooling uh
12248s	plus piranha then you can't actually
12250s	kill it unless you play two in which
12252s	case you can't play the cookie as well
12254s	okay uh
12256s	so is it just
12258s	darfish or is it like schooling triple
12261s	piranha with maybe a wind chill thrown
12263s	in
12264s	um can i just say i think i think this
12266s	game is starting to spiral out of
12268s	control because he did not play the
12270s	cookie on the previous like turns
12272s	imagine having a cookie weapon here like
12275s	like yeah it's like six healing and it
12276s	kills like possibly three things so i'm
12279s	not too sure where his head was with him
12281s	a core
12282s	but yeah i guess i guess now he
12284s	he just bites the bullet and says okay
12286s	fine i need to get this healing down
12288s	asap i'm just gonna let you draw some
12289s	cards
12290s	but if we do see him go for the curtains
12293s	he's not actually drawing cards so i
12294s	guess
12295s	worthy gamble let's possess he decide do
12298s	you do i want to draw draw more um fail
12300s	spells or do i want to just go curtris
12302s	my my head is at curtis right now
12304s	because uh like getting the curtains out
12307s	of the way means every other minion that
12308s	sticks is like a way more damage right
12311s	yeah he's still got a couple good fell
12313s	spells right with uh what chaos strike
12316s	multi-strike predation
12318s	left in the deck so it's definitely
12319s	worth something but for me it's churches
12323s	right like it's just so important to get
12325s	that down as soon as possible yeah
12328s	i think i think kircher's as a card is
12330s	the value of curtis is the value of the
12332s	hero power stacking up it's uh it cannot
12334s	be underestimated because effectively
12337s	it's one mana deal two and any minion
12340s	surviving it's like another additional
12341s	one mana deal two with for that like
12343s	shaman that can't really actually heal
12346s	much um
12347s	it's it's it kind of really does stack
12349s	up and his hand is like giga damage like
12351s	like kirchhoff's distant into like spam
12354s	your spells nixon plus an okani it's
12356s	kind of op right now yeah i do think
12359s	this is probably still the correct play
12361s	but when i look at it like
12364s	one thing you always have to ask
12365s	yourself against shaman is like if i
12366s	make this play what happens if they just
12368s	play snowfall guardian
12370s	and it's actually kind of bad for
12372s	possessing if you see one or maybe like
12374s	one snowfall guardian i think he can
12376s	deal with but two
12378s	starts to become a little bit
12379s	problematic actually with no real way to
12381s	effectively answer them without just
12383s	tanking it
12384s	yeah that that is true that is true i
12385s	mean but we did see orgasms okay just
12387s	drop them a call for like nothing much
12389s	right so
12391s	sorry so i think um
12393s	uh possesses just thinking all right i
12395s	can see a snowfall i'm cool um i i
12397s	likely will not see a second macaw so
12399s	does he actually have the second
12400s	snowfall i mean now we do see that he
12403s	has it into a perfect curve brukhan
12405s	which is
12406s	possibly backbreaking for possessing
12408s	at this point i feel like um
12410s	if if things go out of control he just
12412s	has to hope for like a jay's top deck
12415s	after spamming all his spells i mean
12416s	with all these fel barrages in hand plus
12418s	the predation i'm pretty sure he gets to
12419s	clear up everything he clears up most
12422s	minions um but then after that what's
12424s	the what's the follow-up right there
12426s	isn't really a follow-up if all this
12427s	damage doesn't equal too little yet so
12430s	i'm quite curious to see how pozzazzi
12432s	navigates this
12434s	after this snowfall guardian turn um
12437s	kills off the 2-2 i think fine um
12440s	so he doesn't get to draw more damage
12442s	spells
12443s	need for greed off the top
12446s	it's it's difficult right like i'm not
12448s	sure you just straight up slam this uh
12450s	but possess he does
12451s	probably trying to look for slaves
12454s	glaive yup yup yup the glaive is so huge
12457s	it's
12459s	is that no the problem is double fury
12463s	yeah i guess he has to do that right
12466s	let's get the double fury into
12468s	[Music]
12469s	okay me personally i'm going for the
12471s	sigil here and not the taunt because i
12472s	really want to do my yeah yeah because
12475s	because the thing is he's like
12476s	he said he has only 11 cards left in his
12478s	deck uh there's quite a few good hits
12480s	there is uh
12481s	there is this js which is like the omega
12483s	nuts the chase um you could hit z
12485s	because they lag might not be that great
12487s	if you expect snow fall but if there's
12489s	no snow falls the lag is insane here so
12491s	i
12492s	kind of wanted to play
12495s	the sigil just so i got the highest
12496s	chance to hit my chase next turn i mean
12498s	the thing is if there's no snowfall this
12500s	is kind of insane by itself though right
12503s	because you're just doubling down on
12504s	board and it's actually kind of tough
12506s	for them to clear
12508s	yeah
12509s	i'm just trying to think if there is
12510s	there is ever a time whereby i can play
12512s	this to joe like if if let's say
12515s	okay so sigil has to be played next turn
12517s	for the highest chance to draw um
12519s	uh
12520s	yeah to draw jace but i'm just thinking
12522s	is there a world where i don't get to
12524s	play this sigil comfortably next time
12526s	because i still have to offload my
12528s	offload my fel barrages and the
12529s	predation right so all these mana that
12531s	has to be spent uh
12532s	i'm just thinking that it might not be
12535s	yeah but i mean i mean we we
12536s	never know what questions you guys gonna
12537s	do so we'll just see
12540s	uh brookhan seems okay here but we do
12543s	leave something alive
12546s	it could be another snowfall into a
12548s	brucan
12550s	like maybe you play out some of your
12552s	your piranhas then you play the snowfall
12554s	get it big maybe the piranhas survive
12557s	and those can chip away at some of the
12559s	stuff before you play bulkani i think
12561s	that's fine
12563s	yep this is okay
12566s	just going as big as possible which
12568s	means that
12571s	okay so this
12573s	select i mean if you are if you're if
12575s	you're the world champion the zelek
12577s	always kills the piranhas right
12579s	yeah i mean in theory in theory it kills
12580s	the piranhas and you don't die to a
12582s	bloodlust but
12584s	is that the worth the risk
12588s	you could actually just go like
12593s	okay so i'm thinking something along the
12595s	lines of like you just play out okani to
12597s	bait nine damage and then you
12599s	play barrage either double barrage or
12602s	barrage plus like sigil
12605s	to like to like try and draw yeah like i
12607s	feel like okani here is not bad because
12609s	it it
12609s	it might beat
12611s	nine damage into it which is like
12613s	perfectly okay
12615s	yeah so
12617s	i
12618s	it's really how lucky possibly feels
12620s	right if he feels like his next draw is
12622s	exactly js then you dump the double
12623s	barrage but if you don't then
12627s	i think the more safe and logical line
12629s	is you go one barrage okani and then
12631s	just play out the sizzle to have max
12633s	outs for
12634s	for for four chase
12636s	oh okay but he's the world champion guys
12638s	they're like oh my goodness only gets
12641s	three of them here right instead of the
12642s	yeah exactly for the one world champion
12645s	in the house let's go
12647s	that's one that's two that's oh god
12650s	the world champion guys possessing
12652s	the house
12653s	showing you that there is no such thing
12655s	as the impossible
12657s	still gets the decision down anyway
12659s	he's actually just the best player of
12660s	all time there's just actually the best
12662s	player that cannot really count but
12663s	still is the best player
12667s	all right um
12668s	brookhand guys i mean
12670s	yeah
12671s	line i'm pretty sure there is no better
12673s	line yeah you swing in here
12676s	get yourself uh is it is it healing
12679s	or taunts i mean it's for sure aoe right
12682s	but uh is it healing or taunts here i
12683s	think it's torns
12685s	wait what is it just lethal wait what we
12688s	were we just tunneling on
12694s	oh
12695s	wait wait wait
12697s	i guess that was just lethal right wait
12699s	wasn't he at 16
12702s	okay so nine to
12705s	nine to the face plus the hero power the
12707s	fire hero power is 15 right was he not
12709s	at 16
12711s	i i can't remember guys um honestly i
12714s	wait let's check that i want to get a
12716s	playback on that i'm going to get the
12718s	the yeah eat it up there
12720s	yeah okay yeah yeah i guess it was it
12722s	was just lethal it was 15
12725s	yeah yeah okay fair enough oh shoot oh
12728s	he was at 14. okay not four oh oh crap
12731s	yeah not 16. he was at 14. okay okay
12733s	okay thank you for confirmation not bad
12736s	yeah castles actually sometimes makes
12738s	mistakes right just sometimes
12741s	just sometimes oh yes sometimes
12745s	all right well there we go yeah so if
12747s	that's the case i think the okani line
12748s	was actually just better because
12751s	wait no he will still play brukhan
12752s	anyway it makes no difference yeah yeah
12754s	such a split broken for a little
12758s	the other out was you could have gone
12760s	for
12762s	a play that actually cleared it like the
12764s	one other line was predation
12767s	uh fel barrage fell barrage hero power
12769s	which alongside the weapon i think
12771s	maybe cleared everything off and most
12773s	apparently like
12776s	i guess you're actually still just dead
12777s	to brucan right because you're not
12778s	healing up at that point and the the six
12780s	damage
12781s	from the battlecry just kills you off
12783s	right i mean i learned something today i
12785s	learned that casters actually sometimes
12786s	make mistakes um
12788s	it's a rarity i guess
12790s	it's quite a rarity um but it's alright
12792s	i guess i guess let's forgive ourselves
12794s	there all right moving on um oka
12796s	shinsuke with the xl curse warlock um
12801s	well this is this is this one really
12802s	really interesting swallow i mean we see
12805s	the demon seat in there it's it's just
12807s	for the mirror match right like if
12808s	you're putting this in your deck it's
12809s	really just because you want to play
12810s	them you want to be have an age in the
12812s	mirror match um
12813s	i think everything else is pretty much
12816s	standard uh one of full blown evil i
12818s	kind of like that card in this deck a
12819s	lot
12820s	yeah uh
12822s	i i'm not i'm not so such a big fan of
12825s	the xl curse warlock in general i kind
12826s	of prefer the 30 card version because
12829s	like like pascal brought it last week
12830s	the 30 card version actually has a very
12832s	consistent game plan of like killing the
12834s	opponent with cursors the xl version has
12836s	a bit of like too much random things
12838s	going on so i'm not too sure if uh it's
12842s	it's the right bring for for this week
12845s	yeah uh i think i can agree with you
12847s	there like
12849s	curse well like it's weird because it
12851s	feels like one of the decks that should
12852s	be best in its xl version because you
12854s	have a lot of redundancy with the
12856s	removal the cards you're putting in are
12858s	not that bad just because warlock has so
12860s	many decent removal spells but by the
12862s	same merit you're still diluting what
12864s	the deck actually wants to do right
12866s	which is you clear for a bit and then
12867s	you pop off with the weapon reducing
12869s	your curses and then you just do a bunch
12871s	of burst damage to kill them off whilst
12872s	healing for a million and so
12875s	all that extra removal yes it can buy
12877s	you time but the problem is that there's
12878s	a lot of decks in the game right now for
12880s	which removal is really hard to find the
12882s	right shapes for like belinda is you
12884s	know coming down as like a 10 10 or a 9
12886s	10 wig priest makes these huge minions
12889s	shaman can make these huge minions with
12891s	uh the snowfall guardians or with
12894s	bolner in some mutants and these kind of
12896s	silly plays to the point where warlock
12898s	can't really answer that
12900s	and i think that for me is why warlock
12902s	does struggle right now because their
12904s	removal is plentiful but it's just a
12907s	little bit too fair it's not got no
12909s	really broken board clears yeah one more
12911s	thing i wanna i wanna stress about uh
12913s	warlock in general is that um i think i
12915s	think i mentioned this once in practice
12917s	or something like that but warlock is
12918s	one of those decks that it like you said
12920s	it has tons of removal and this one has
12922s	40 health but warlock cannot do what
12924s	warrior used to do which is wario used
12925s	to be very good because he could clear
12927s	and gain health at the same time which
12929s	is very important versus aggro decks
12931s	because they can't effectively switch to
12932s	the all-phase game plan versus warrior
12934s	but for warlock the thing is most of
12937s	their clears are like kind of expensive
12938s	like you play six mana for like a
12940s	abyssal wave and then um your your bread
12943s	baker is four mana it's like not until
12945s	like turn nine or ten where you can like
12947s	heal and clear at the same time so if
12949s	you push enough damage to the face early
12951s	enough and
12952s	you your board requires a clear
12954s	sometimes the wallet just cannot clear
12956s	and heal at the same time which is a big
12957s	flaw i feel in warlock right now
12961s	oh my god
12964s	we
12965s	skipped like the first turn of this game
12967s	but it doesn't matter right is this not
12969s	the second possessive double no yep okay
12971s	it is right and one even instead of wait
12974s	and it's like
12975s	it's like perfect shape he put the cell
12976s	phone on the right side this time as
12977s	well so
12979s	possibly showing artistry even as the
12981s	world champion
12982s	very nice um august shinsuke arguably
12985s	drew potentially might be the worst card
12986s	in the deck for this matchup um the
12988s	curse
12990s	the the quest doesn't really do anything
12992s	um
12993s	normally i would say you could play a
12995s	three four here but the nose just like
12997s	tempting to be discounted so i think you
12998s	take a free pass here and just tap
13001s	agree um yeah don't
13004s	think you play the quest right that's
13005s	what we were going for right well no i
13006s	was gonna say i don't think you go drain
13008s	soul touch right because that's the
13009s	other oh special place you can actually
13011s	clear one of the knolls
13012s	which i mean like health is not your
13014s	concern right now i think you're very
13016s	happy to tank some extra damage it's
13017s	more like mana efficiency that if you
13020s	don't clear it right now you might not
13022s	have mana to be able to clear on
13023s	following turns but i think specifically
13025s	because of the null in hand you do
13027s	actually just have to tap here take the
13029s	damage and then use that cheapened knoll
13031s	to recoup some of that manner you lost
13033s	later on yeah because the the nose the
13035s	one card that gets worse the more cards
13037s	you play and also we see that there's a
13039s	tension in hand so i feel like i feel
13041s	like if we really if we were really
13042s	intending to offload any of these like
13044s	cards in hand we could do it on turn
13046s	five uh get some health back and still
13048s	uh play the temps in on on six without
13051s	over drawing and for like some clear
13053s	so yeah but um ogre shinsuke decides
13055s	that this is fine he's not intending to
13057s	tap next turn he just wants to get some
13059s	temple play a four mana no which is fine
13062s	and uh probably just curve a bit like
13065s	he can curve into the thames in still
13067s	without tapping just by like like
13069s	playing out his like removal cards so i
13071s	think this is fine as well
13073s	i really like the possession is going
13075s	prep
13076s	tooth here rather than coin cheap tooth
13078s	uh that he discounted just because uh
13080s	it's much much more important to get
13082s	coin
13083s	crabatoa
13085s	uh as for the options presented here
13087s	they're not amazing but
13089s	i don't know ajar in gardens is
13093s	i'm thinking i'm i'm thinking very far
13095s	ahead here um
13097s	i think silence is not it but i think
13098s	against all odds is one way you don't
13100s	lose to high roll off like the the riffs
13102s	right because they are all three attack
13104s	uh
13106s	i'm just thinking i guess
13108s	could be a pick which you might never
13110s	play yes but it's not like the other
13111s	options are great right like
13114s	i i can see some argument for buffing
13116s	some of your minions out of range of aoe
13118s	so
13118s	it's either the gardens or the odds i
13120s	don't think the shard is it unless you
13122s	trade it but yeah
13123s	he goes for the gardens um
13126s	to to like potentially get his okani a
13128s	little bit bigger for like eventually
13130s	when he needs it yeah but also there's a
13133s	chance that you dredge it up later on
13135s	right it's it's not impossible
13140s	okay yeah the more i think about it i
13141s	think the against odds is a bit too
13142s	reactive yeah i think you're right i
13143s	think the guard i think the guardians is
13144s	yeah yeah this makes more sense so um
13148s	okani best played on going into six i
13151s	believe but going into six you kind of
13153s	wanna you could potentially coin crab as
13155s	well oh yeah i'm sure
13158s	so
13159s	i mean if we are not okaying this then
13160s	we could go for a buff plus maestra
13163s	but
13165s	yeah actually that might make sense
13166s	right you just go buff maestra um okani
13169s	at seven health going into
13172s	okay but but um jose decides that he
13174s	might want to coincrap so cause minion
13176s	um
13178s	really not valuing his health using it
13180s	as a resource i think that uh this is
13182s	fine uh yeah i'll use the board pressure
13185s	calling my minion here
13188s	okay
13189s	i think going for anything other than
13190s	akane here is just kind of a little bit
13192s	of fancy play syndrome like just play
13194s	your cards on curve like yeah it's
13196s	really good going into turn six but
13199s	they might just not have the entitled
13201s	customer going into turn six anyway
13202s	right and they might not have a minion
13204s	that they can proc it here they might
13205s	have to lose a really good minion uh to
13207s	proc it along the way here uh i think
13209s	this is fine
13210s	fair enough fair enough i'm just i'm
13212s	just thinking like um
13213s	what
13214s	like how bad is it to just go like
13216s	gardens plus uh four tree maestra
13219s	alongside this no i think it's okay okay
13222s	and then you can just give them the mind
13224s	games on turn six
13225s	you're going into turn six though yeah
13227s	but but i guess i guess now now okay
13229s	it's a huge dilemma because like tamsin
13232s	plus drain sole looks really amazing but
13234s	if not for the okani yeah not okay makes
13236s	him so they can't really do anything
13239s	um
13240s	i guess you just test with the quest
13245s	and oh it hurts so much but it's just
13248s	it's always minion right it's just never
13250s	swell
13252s	and now you can't clear next unless you
13254s	play tamzin as well
13256s	yeah
13259s	i mean he could go for the most obvious
13262s	the most obvious um
13264s	tempsin ever by using the drain so on
13266s	the on the no but
13267s	i guess i guess that's a bit too much
13269s	like like you can combo with temps in
13271s	for future like the
13273s	tamsin legendary card
13276s	the threes yeah yeah the tree drop yeah
13278s	yeah tencent thames in rome yeah good
13281s	correct
13282s	for the future
13284s	yeah card names men card names yeah tell
13287s	me about it uh so with this play coming
13289s	down it feels like a setup for dreadlich
13292s	tamzin right on turn six or maybe
13294s	abyssal wave uh as the most likely play
13298s	uh in which case if either were to come
13300s	down krabatoa is kind of fine right
13303s	because the crab sticks around
13306s	and you're then able to uh swing with
13308s	four damage weapons as well so i think
13310s	i'm still just all aboard the crab train
13314s	yeah and then he knows that he's not
13315s	really weak to entitle a customer
13316s	because the okani is still alive exactly
13323s	and again maybe they don't have any of
13324s	that and you just get to kill them next
13326s	turn
13329s	goes for the line which i thought would
13331s	have been done in the opposite order
13333s	like i was i was thinking this is quite
13335s	weak right going into this turn
13336s	personally really weak yeah yeah like
13339s	like like i'm fine with the okani on on
13342s	four but if you are doing that i think
13344s	coin crap is better than this
13347s	now if you're gonna do this you probably
13348s	did you should have done this in the
13349s	reverse order like the one we stated
13350s	previously
13352s	yeah like okay understand instead and
13354s	buff previous turn but
13356s	oh well um
13359s	see how it goes
13360s	so now it's kind of meh because
13364s	still no crap man
13367s	there's just so much stats with not
13369s	playing this game
13371s	okay the thing is i feel like i feel
13372s	like the crap doesn't really get to do
13374s	its usual thing like that right thing
13376s	with crap is like you you trade hit
13378s	phase trade but this is not that kind of
13380s	match up right how often you get to do
13381s	that in like the warlock matchup so
13384s	processing just kind of stuck with a
13386s	bunch of
13387s	tempo match up things but the opponent
13390s	doesn't really
13391s	do temple things so
13394s	um
13395s	now oka shinsuke has a mirror of options
13399s	i would like to see somehow he fit an
13403s	okani in here um
13405s	oh yeah
13406s	just to call minion because like like
13408s	the only minions left in the deck are
13410s	the impactful ones right like the crab
13412s	trickster
13414s	the test i mean test is not great right
13415s	now but it's only the impactful ones
13417s	left so
13418s	i don't think we need to overvalue um
13420s	thamsyn plus um
13422s	the
13423s	the the touch i think we can just go
13424s	like
13425s	we can touch tap and then just
13427s	okani right
13430s	and then we can
13432s	set up for maybe a brand sakura
13435s	something like that because we know
13436s	pozasi's hand is largely dead at this
13437s	point
13440s	i don't know the fact that you can't fit
13442s	in
13443s	you're only playing the icarny on that
13445s	turn kind of turns me off from that play
13447s	but
13448s	i guess there's not that much more that
13450s	you can efficiently spend on like you're
13451s	not going starfish brand you're not
13453s	going bran tamson so
13455s	when you get down to it i guess that
13457s	does actually just make the most sense
13459s	yeah he's got to go now though
13461s	oh yeah yeah
13462s	all right so minion pretty damn sure yep
13465s	minion
13467s	okay so
13469s	he's just a bunch of just okay yeah he
13471s	can he can do the tooth thing right yeah
13474s	[Music]
13476s	always infestation right i mean i mean
13479s	it does get it into the pool
13481s	oh my god
13483s	six mana for a three six mana three
13487s	three three one
13489s	yeah i mean it gets into the pool for
13491s	whenever it's needed okay so what is
13493s	this options uh seaweed strike oh can
13496s	you go face oh we can go faze oh these
13498s	are terrible yeah it's kind of terrible
13500s	but i mean the one time you play ashara
13502s	you can like go face
13505s	with this
13507s	so
13509s	i mean spring the trap is just as bad
13510s	but i would just take the seam strike
13512s	yeah like seaweed strike just says to a
13514s	minion as well right it doesn't say
13517s	damage to an enemy minion so it might
13518s	just delete your own board when you play
13520s	the yeah or contraband
13524s	it's not like at least it's not like um
13526s	like some like multi-sided aoe that's
13528s	probably worse in this matchup
13531s	all right so what do we do here i think
13533s	we can start stacking up
13536s	well okay there's a few ways of looking
13538s	at this
13541s	what i like to do here personally is i
13543s	like to go like brand solar on the brand
13545s	so you gotta double brand and have
13546s	flexibility you can go like brand school
13549s	teacher brands are cool for like future
13551s	because i don't think you're dying
13552s	anytime soon so i think i think brand
13554s	school a brand zola is one of those
13555s	lines that lets you load up on multiple
13557s	brands for future situations be it 10
13560s	cards then they're right and you have no
13561s	way to dump any lower yeah yeah just
13564s	accept the overdraw okay i guess you
13567s	could
13567s	would you ever consider like a cool
13570s	xyrella just to give yourself another
13571s	zakul instead of another brand what do
13573s	you mean it's a cool zola zola sorry
13575s	yeah not zero it's a cool solo yeah i i
13577s	can but i can i can live with that i'm
13579s	just thinking because brand is like more
13580s	flexible because the cool is a bit stiff
13583s	yeah but uh he's gonna go for this i
13584s	think it's okay it's okay
13586s	it's not definitely fine i i just like
13588s	the flexibility that brand gives the
13590s	school teacher and like the burst
13591s	healing with the the baker it's a lot in
13593s	this deck
13594s	i mean this just gets quite a bit more
13595s	stats down as well which is i think
13597s	worth a fair amount yeah at this point
13598s	in the game like it's still a wrestle
13600s	for board right now
13601s	can i just say that possessing finally
13603s	has a good crap
13605s	it's like the best crap you'll ever get
13607s	well outside of brand shenanigans but
13609s	but this is one of the better ones
13611s	already
13613s	yeah okay so
13615s	uh how would you be going about that
13617s	like three one into the cool and then
13619s	just trade away the claws while going
13621s	face i guess yeah yeah i'm not face
13623s	tanking anything else because it's it's
13625s	not worth it at this point
13626s	face tanking here is
13628s	it's just like adding an additional
13629s	curse to your hand for your opponent for
13631s	yourself
13632s	yeah
13633s	i'm not gonna face tank anything here
13635s	all right so this is the best crap of
13636s	his life that's crap seven six crab
13641s	yeah
13642s	all right he i think he knows as well he
13643s	can't face tank
13644s	he has to trade
13646s	but i'm just seeing how he wins from
13647s	here because like now
13649s	the warlocks in its zone right it's in
13651s	the comfortable zone like oh yeah it has
13654s	the mana it has all the healing in the
13656s	world and it has damage potential so
13660s	i think as long as oka shinsuke
13663s	doesn't get too liberal with his health
13666s	like doesn't tank too much random face
13667s	damage he's he's gonna come off this
13669s	like winning so
13672s	i'm trying to think if
13674s	okay honestly i think you can just just
13676s	go temps in double double like um
13679s	wave distance start clocking him for
13682s	little very soon yeah like a lot of
13684s	damage yeah because you have no shortage
13686s	of aoe you have the customer which is
13688s	enough you have full blown which kills
13690s	stealth things so
13692s	just just go for the damage and
13695s	there's a wall that you could win in the
13696s	next few turns as well
13700s	yeah i agree like the last one did two
13702s	right so this is then doing three and
13704s	four plus
13706s	two like that's nine damage in the next
13707s	turn you do another two uh ticks as well
13710s	yeah that's just always before it's just
13712s	game right and the beauty of the curse
13714s	warlock
13715s	is that
13717s	when you have to remove the cursors it
13720s	actually costs mana and it's like mana
13722s	efficiency
13723s	that hurts it hurts opponents efficiency
13726s	okay well this works as well um you
13727s	never die right it's not like it's not
13730s	like a boat road you never die from this
13731s	spot and you heal to like
13733s	you heal to like above above the average
13735s	standard 30 health which is yeah so
13738s	um they never die from here
13740s	mana efficiency i mean if you dump two
13743s	you have five mana left to
13745s	to play your stash which recast the
13747s	cursors which is not optimal
13750s	it's just over uh i don't think that's
13752s	anything yeah yeah it's it's done i'm
13754s	just trying to find ways that possibly
13755s	can like not lose yet but i think it's
13758s	done
13759s	pretty sure it's done right now
13761s	go scabs to bounce cards back to your
13764s	hand and then try and like keep your
13766s	hand full
13767s	um
13769s	but it's just never a winning line right
13771s	yeah i mean if you if you go scraps you
13773s	still have to
13774s	play only maximum you can only play one
13776s	curse right so yeah the other one still
13778s	clocks you for three
13779s	and then oh yeah well if you go steps
13781s	you're not dead wait are you three four
13783s	five six yeah yeah yeah they did it yeah
13785s	get it it's exactly fourteen three five
13787s	and six on the following turn even if
13789s	you go scraps
13790s	yup it's three damage and then five and
13792s	then six from the other two yeah abyssal
13794s	wave and them sitting
13796s	so like he's dead every scenario
13798s	every time spot yeah good spot from okay
13801s	and uh yeah my pick off against our odds
13803s	wouldn't even have made a difference in
13805s	in this scenario
13807s	just be dead
13808s	to the curses
13812s	i wouldn't say unfavorable or favorable
13814s	i think it's kind of even it really
13816s	depends on how high roley the jackpot
13818s	rope is right so
13819s	yes i mean to possess his credit the
13822s	options he got off both jackpot and the
13824s	tooth were absolutely terrible yeah
13827s	hiding that you know those those are the
13829s	massive low roll on the spells options
13832s	but i do still pretty heavily disagree
13834s	with his mid-game plays right like
13835s	holding off from krabatoa two turns in a
13837s	row it was just way too slow like i
13840s	don't know what he was waiting for and
13841s	like why jack flop sorry jackpot plus
13844s	hero power was better than like a six
13846s	five or even a seven six at that point
13848s	with two five ones like uh
13851s	it was just so difficult for your
13852s	opponent to clear especially because the
13854s	carney was still in play i think that
13856s	was just way too slow yeah i think that
13858s	like uh if he was if he thought maybe he
13860s	played a bit fast if he thought about it
13862s	for me five seconds more i think he
13863s	would have done a crap play because like
13864s	the only thing i could think of him
13866s	going for the jackpot plus the hero
13867s	powers that he was thinking that i think
13869s	he had coin in hand then he was thinking
13870s	like he could find some five-course
13871s	spell that was worth playing at a point
13873s	in time
13874s	um with the with the with the coins
13876s	still in his hand but i couldn't think
13877s	of anything that was better than a crab
13878s	though so
13880s	yeah i think i think crab was definitely
13881s	better but all right jumping into the
13883s	next game okay shinsuke on the big spell
13885s	mage um correctly this time i think yeah
13888s	uh the big filmage filmmaker
13891s	it's it's it's like it's like the same
13893s	list that we've seen again uh not a fan
13895s	of more trash um one starfish one spammy
13898s	i i kind of like doubling down on either
13900s	the starfish and the spammy so um
13902s	yeah not too much to say about this
13904s	particular list we've seen it a few
13905s	times already
13907s	yep it's pretty much the standard list
13908s	going up against the rest of possesses
13911s	decks i think he's got himself
13913s	uh a decent enough spread right it's
13916s	probably the weaker deck i think for
13918s	okachinsky but given that he has three
13919s	chances to take a win with it should
13921s	still be in a good spot because up
13922s	against the the demon hunter as we've
13924s	said a few times bit of a rough matchup
13926s	right like you're taking too much damage
13928s	any minions you played just get
13929s	destroyed by the dread prison glaive
13931s	priest generally i think you're a little
13933s	bit too slow once belinda or the
13935s	barbaric sorceress comes down to win the
13937s	game and then rogue you know it's just
13939s	rogue like the two decks are trying to
13940s	scam the opponent whoever scams better
13942s	wins the game yeah in my opinion i think
13944s	that mage actually scams better than the
13946s	rogue but it's kind of close um mage vs
13949s	demon hunter definitely we do not want
13951s	to
13952s	i mean i mean i mean we really don't
13953s	want to play that match but we don't
13954s	really have a choice right now um so
13955s	mage versus currently the ball priest um
13958s	like you mentioned earlier i think i
13960s	think barbaric sorceress is like super
13961s	key like the super most clutch cut in
13963s	this in this uh matchup you always get
13966s	to discount uh
13967s	like you always get to increase the cost
13968s	of something and sometimes if you're
13970s	lucky you get to hit the amulet which is
13971s	like gg on the spot right
13975s	yeah it's one of those matches where you
13976s	do this of course have the insta win
13978s	condition uh is there any amount of
13981s	playing around that that you have access
13982s	to as the boar priest
13984s	i think i think um
13986s	the the least the most you can really do
13988s	is like not end with amulets in your
13989s	hand you can trade it away okay there is
13991s	obviously the disastrous scenario of
13993s	trading an amulet into another amulet
13995s	and then getting hit with the but i mean
13998s	you get i'm trying to say it's really
13999s	kind of niche at that point in time but
14001s	but barbaric sorceress always gets a
14002s	target in this matchup uh
14004s	arguably even if you do hit any random
14006s	one cost spell you could hit like um a
14009s	gift which makes your opponent not able
14011s	to do a zarella clear which is huge
14014s	right it's really huge
14015s	so i think i think it really boils down
14018s	to whether okashinsuke can get his
14020s	barbaric sorceress but on the flip side
14022s	he gets everything right home
14025s	you could even delete
14027s	the vardhan from this hand and play with
14029s	a three-card hand and it's still a good
14030s	hand versus ball priest
14032s	yeah because you have the watch post
14035s	now you have the ramp yep you have the
14036s	ramp
14037s	into barbara or into possibly better
14040s	than that it's just belinda like
14042s	like like belinda's just better here and
14045s	then you can even like
14047s	i don't know swap over a five-course
14050s	fail it's not even bad
14052s	because yeah it's more expensive than
14054s	everything in the deck
14055s	for for ball priest so i think okay
14058s	kind of drew like almost the turbo nuts
14060s	i think arguably if i could swap one
14063s	card i would swap the button for the for
14065s	the elementor that freezes the face and
14066s	it's about a second yeah yeah it's a
14068s	giga perfect can
14070s	um
14074s	i mean if we go if we go watch post here
14076s	we are going mailbox next time it's
14077s	either it's just which one you want to
14078s	go first right so
14081s	being that's how yeah i think this is
14083s	fine this is fine this gets more like
14085s	this is into the switcheroo then it's
14087s	quite perfect
14088s	also four cost amulet very big deal
14090s	that's huge
14092s	very very big deal uh like the only out
14094s	to this at this early point in the game
14096s	is like what the smite
14097s	yeah the holy smite one of holy
14100s	all right so we
14101s	we can play a three drop but that's no
14103s	way it's better than playing a mailbox
14105s	here right so i don't think so
14107s	yeah we're gonna go mailbox straight up
14109s	into the belinda
14110s	uh not diamond but still always in the
14112s	opening hand good enough yeah still good
14115s	enough
14117s	yeah so i i cannot see a wall where you
14119s	do not play yeah okay sees it as well
14125s	possessing is just getting
14127s	right
14128s	this series dumpstered so hard like like
14132s	you've mentioned something about apex
14133s	right i think it's really loading up the
14134s	the loading screen for apex on its other
14136s	screen
14137s	right now
14139s	all right all right so all right one
14140s	course amulet
14142s	no i think he picked the cleric there
14143s	right right yup yup yup all right i saw
14145s	it cleric was like one of the few things
14148s	that could get him going here but
14150s	lo and behold the snapcoin coin belinda
14153s	couldn't have played it any faster and
14155s	okay it's not even that fast of a player
14157s	oh he's actually thinking
14159s	there is no thinking to be done there is
14161s	no thinking man i'm offended that he's
14164s	thinking i'm offended i just said that
14166s	he's not he wasn't gonna think and he
14168s	think
14169s	man i mean if we had blight on the panel
14171s	right now i think he would have
14172s	ragequitted
14174s	yeah he would have raged quit that he
14175s	was like what is this
14178s	bless for me
14180s	is a monster belinder onstar belinda
14186s	all right but anyway um there's merit
14188s	they're not swinging here i believe but
14189s	uh i mean okay actually not really it
14192s	doesn't give him any special
14195s	break points right it's still tree
14196s	health you don't get an extra draw from
14198s	gift so i think you could just swing
14199s	yeah yeah just stop killing them
14201s	yeah
14203s	all right
14204s	um
14206s	what you gonna do
14210s	wait what
14212s	that was quite fast um i think he's just
14214s	setting up for a bigger um
14216s	pyro turn right yeah he's waiting for
14218s	devour i think yeah yeah because he
14220s	needs to kill off the watch post before
14222s	he can pop off all right okay so is it
14224s	ever drag fired not attack i mean it
14226s	really depends on what dragons you spawn
14228s	right like
14229s	oh it's strike fire right like it's yeah
14232s	i do believe it's always drake fire but
14233s	is it ever trick fire not attack oh
14235s	sorry sorry uh
14237s	it depends yeah um
14241s	oh
14242s	it's so tempting to attack though like
14247s	let's merit to
14248s	kazakus and the sleepy here um i'm
14251s	leaning towards kazakhstan yeah yeah me
14253s	too because if you don't attack then
14255s	which is still valid you know i'm not
14257s	decided one way or the other but if you
14258s	pick the higher attack dragons not
14260s	attacking becomes better right because
14262s	you're more likely to set up a lethal
14264s	yeah
14265s	oh not it's not straightforward actually
14269s	um i'm i'm just going to alex yeah i'm
14272s	just going for alex here because
14273s	there's not much benefit from the kelly
14275s	at this point right yeah
14278s	i guess if you can box for zero mana you
14280s	can ping but
14283s	yeah
14285s	i like this
14286s	okay he's gonna attack with just wow
14289s	okay okay
14290s	okay okay yeah yeah absolutely
14293s	yeah yeah it's enough because even if
14295s	there's like a gift at this point
14298s	wait
14300s	if that's if there's a gift it's still a
14302s	zarella clear though because you would
14303s	damage everything first oh no you would
14305s	have to call it a pyro and then give
14306s	dancer it's a bit off there's a bit too
14308s	much
14309s	it's like too many stuff to consider
14311s	yeah like it had to be exactly devour
14313s	that you were
14315s	going into it it had to be a lot yeah i
14317s	had to be a lot of things yeah i don't
14318s	know man uh yeah i tend to be a lot of
14321s	things going right
14322s	so i think this is okay
14325s	oh and insta pop off insta conceit uh
14328s	didn't get anywhere to clear the board
14330s	nice
14331s	uh i i don't know i just want to comment
14333s	about ogashinsuke's reaction to that win
14335s	i think he knows he knows how important
14337s	that win was you see he popped off i i
14340s	think i've never seen him like so happy
14343s	before in like previous seasons of gm
14345s	and this is only like week two right but
14346s	he knows the importance of each win each
14348s	match up and getting out of the groups
14350s	with the two points actually puts him in
14351s	the middle of the leaderboard right now
14353s	um before all the other matches are
14354s	played so i'm very happy for him uh very
14356s	very glad that he got out of the group
14357s	so it wasn't actually easy matchups by
14359s	the way um especially his first series
14361s	yeah it wasn't easy at all so props to
14363s	him congratulations uh what a way to end
14365s	up quick three zero a congratulations
14368s	okay
14369s	yeah i mean we're starting pop off at
14370s	the end we kind of saw him pop off at
14371s	the start as well throughout the flex
14374s	when he drew the uh what was it the
14376s	belinda and the watch post as well and
14378s	then getting the barbaric and the uh
14381s	the mailbox dancer as well it was
14382s	literally the perfect hand and while
14384s	possessing i'm sure will be sad he's not
14387s	out of the running for this week quite
14388s	yet no one has been eliminated yet for
14390s	the remaining uh sorry for the two
14391s	subsequent matches of the day i believe
14393s	we're gonna play the elimination and
14394s	then decide a match from group a to find
14397s	out who out of uh levick uh
14400s	possessi and
14402s	uh judgment is gonna be going through in
14404s	that one remaining slot and of course
14407s	for possessing there's always a little
14409s	bit less of a sting right he's literally
14410s	currently the world champion and already
14412s	has a sport in the world championships
14415s	next year as well and so while i think
14416s	you know possess he does want to get the
14418s	win start boosting up that prize money
14420s	it's got to sting a little bit less when
14421s	he takes that loss yeah he's probably
14424s	he's probably also just playing to
14425s	improve his overall statistics right i
14426s	mean aloo timo's statistics is insane
14429s	in like masterclass and everything so he
14431s	probably wants more flex amongst his
14433s	japanese compatriots as well
14436s	so yeah
14436s	um that was a pretty interesting series
14438s	to cast it was fast but uh it was it
14440s	wasn't an easy game for oka shinsuke at
14442s	all right a lot of good decision making
14444s	um impressive play um some definite high
14448s	rolls i would say but um still overall
14451s	still overall well done uh impressive
14453s	and couldn't ask for better i would say
14456s	i would like to see the dream still
14457s	alive for okashinsuke through to the
14459s	semi-final oh sorry through to the
14460s	quarterfinals on sunday where he's just
14463s	clawing up game after game to try and
14465s	get some more points through that is us
14468s	all done for lambie and myself but the
14470s	group does carry on right after this
14473s	break when we come back the rest of the
14475s	day will continue so thank you lambie
14477s	for joining me on the casting desk here
14479s	for today we'll be back tomorrow with
14481s	more apac oh sorry well with more uh
14483s	grand masters last call action sorry i'm
14485s	still in the uh the old mode here of
14487s	apac but for now we're gonna carry on
14489s	with the rest of the day's action with
14491s	subtle and uh
14493s	and raven right yeah it's the two of
14495s	them we've got a language hacker is the
14496s	other guest caster so we'll be right
14498s	back with that after this
14504s	[Music]
14522s	[Music]
14526s	[Applause]
14527s	[Music]
14530s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
14533s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
14536s	horrific reasons
14539s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
14543s	with such ruthlessness
14546s	so deep and profound
14550s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
14557s	to uncover the truth
14559s	of murder most foul
14563s	the anima drifts across the floor
14566s	highlighting the creatures who walked
14568s	through my door
14570s	the motives are as black as night
14574s	avarice power revenge and blight
14580s	we watch the hero
14582s	uncover the clues
14585s	that lead to the truth
14588s	behind this dark bruise
14592s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
14596s	choose your power without heavenly bias
14600s	for at the end
14602s	they will burn in the fire
14605s	when it is known who slayed
14608s	tenacious
14610s	[Music]
14629s	[Music]
14637s	[Music]
14643s	[Music]
14677s	so
14680s	[Music]
14700s	hello everyone and welcome back to grand
14702s	masters we're in week two now this has
14705s	just come off the back of three matches
14706s	that have already been played uh it's
14708s	gonna be me and suttle taking you
14710s	through the next three so welcome uh
14712s	we've got trio on the menu for today um
14715s	how have you been feeling about it based
14717s	on what we've seen so far
14719s	yeah it's interesting this time around
14722s	um looking through the buckets that were
14724s	offered
14725s	i predicted a couple of these lineups um
14729s	like the aggro-ish lineup that judgement
14731s	has for example mine rogue demon hunter
14734s	wig priest that fits very nicely into
14736s	that bucket that he's chosen that does
14738s	kind of look like the aggro bucket that
14740s	looks like the strategy that you go to
14741s	but then you juxtapose that with some of
14743s	the other stuff we're seeing
14744s	uh for example on the other side of this
14747s	matchup what is going on in levick's
14749s	absolute pile of nonsense and this is
14752s	something i absolutely wouldn't have
14753s	predicted
14754s	even picking up the warrior bucket in
14758s	and of itself is kind of unusual to me
14760s	because
14762s	a lot of the way the buckets are
14763s	sometimes designed in trio is it's like
14765s	okay if you want this strong class you
14767s	also have to have this weak class right
14768s	and they kind of introduce that risk
14770s	reward and because trio is a conquest
14774s	derivative format you end up playing
14776s	conquest style in the actual match up
14778s	that doesn't usually make sense because
14780s	often your lineup is defined by your
14782s	weakest deck rather than your strong
14784s	which is a little bit unusual to see so
14786s	seeing a charge warrior come out like
14789s	way after the fact here after the
14791s	warrior nerfs after warrior has been
14793s	pretty much deleted as a competitive
14795s	class is very surprising to me on
14797s	lubbock's side yeah i will say rightly
14798s	or wrongly i do really like picking
14801s	hunter because i think it's good it's
14803s	unfortunate in the bucket that it's in
14805s	of course but i think i prefer what habu
14807s	has done with his lineup that we'll see
14809s	you know i think tomorrow at this point
14811s	i'm not 100 sure actually i think it's
14812s	tomorrow so i'm excited to see how that
14814s	one pays off but for now of course we
14815s	are going into judgement vs levick two
14819s	players who lost their initial matches
14821s	which means this is going to be an
14822s	elimination match between these two
14824s	players uh but you are completely right
14826s	when you talk about judgements line up
14828s	and is his choice of that pre-stroke
14831s	demon hunter
14832s	it's uh not the most uh big brain choice
14835s	in the world it's just
14837s	three decent no kind of this this isn't
14840s	a bad thing i'm saying but these are
14841s	three at worst decent classes
14845s	and you can make a very solid strategy
14847s	out of all three which is i think where
14850s	some of the other buckets fall down with
14852s	what's been offered to them class wise
14855s	you can't necessarily build something
14857s	that feels like an actual cohesive
14858s	strategy whereas this lineup from
14861s	judgement i think at worst does just do
14864s	one thing very very well so uh honestly
14866s	i would if i was playing i'd definitely
14868s	just pick the hunters i'd want to play
14870s	the quest hunter which i think is very
14871s	good but you know someone who's taking a
14873s	bit more seriously i can definitely see
14875s	why demon hunter priest rogue at least
14877s	seems appealing and popular right now
14880s	yeah definitely i mean so yeah here is
14882s	the star of the show for sure i think
14884s	um the 40 card quest hunter that we have
14888s	seen coming out has been
14890s	generally seen as a very very powerful
14892s	deck recently uh both on ladder to the
14894s	extent but especially i think in
14896s	competitive play from what we've seen so
14898s	far so
14899s	this being in there is very attractive
14902s	indeed it's just you need to make the
14903s	argument of whether it's worth picking
14906s	up warrior to go alongside this now
14909s	obviously levick has a plan he's a very
14911s	good very experienced player there's a
14912s	good chance we get to follow him through
14915s	two matches here if he's able to pick up
14917s	a win which i know we will both enjoy
14919s	because we have both enjoyed casting and
14921s	watching his matches in the past
14923s	um but the warrior does not seem to be
14926s	doing anything
14927s	particularly unusual right if you are
14929s	going to put together a nerfed version
14932s	um of the charge warrior based on what
14934s	you can play now it would look fairly
14936s	similar to what levick seems to be doing
14938s	which is a little bit strange to me
14939s	overall that he has gone with that
14941s	strategy so far not working out for him
14942s	but also also so far not working out for
14944s	judgement who's the player that we both
14946s	seem to agree has done something uh
14948s	fairly standard and understandable so
14950s	cannot really judge anything based on
14952s	the results right now uh the two lineups
14955s	are just gonna have to go head to head
14956s	and i i would personally favor judgement
14958s	a little bit here but we'll see how it
14960s	goes
14961s	yeah that's all we can really do at this
14963s	point so let's see what happens here hey
14965s	are kicking it off there is the
14966s	dumbledore bunker for levick which is
14969s	exactly the start you want i think
14972s	what's important to know a lot of the
14974s	time here with this hunter is you don't
14976s	necessarily or or mostly need to like
14979s	race out quest completion right uh what
14982s	you generally have is time so the turn
14985s	to dumbledore i i think is the the best
14988s	drop to actually pick up ready to go on
14990s	that turn two because it just it filters
14993s	the the secrets out of your deck which
14995s	can then buy you even more time and it
14997s	is a deck that feels like the more time
14998s	you have the more just winnable the game
15001s	becomes right
15005s	and also
15006s	very useful against this priest
15008s	yeah i think so i think more so the
15011s	actual utility of the secrets against
15013s	priest because
15014s	it's very hard for or rather the threat
15018s	of freezing trap forces priests to
15020s	spread their buffs in such a strange way
15023s	to prevent individual minions from being
15026s	isolated you can't leave anything too
15028s	small because they'll get mopped up by
15029s	explosive trap but if you go all in on
15031s	one big minion then that's going to get
15032s	mopped up by freezing traps so you're
15033s	kind of forced to do this very unusual
15035s	little dance we play everything outside
15038s	of the range of free of explosive trap
15040s	but not too all in on any individual
15042s	union and that can be
15044s	quite hard to navigate through the mid
15046s	game unless you have the perfect hand
15049s	with you know radiant elemental sticking
15051s	to the board multiple nagas and the wig
15053s	very very early
15057s	judgment just gonna take it slow get the
15058s	scribe down of course does not have
15061s	access to a wig yet i will say
15064s	the kraken bane for levick from turn one
15067s	he's huge right he got one uh one spell
15070s	cast on one one spell cast on two one
15072s	more spell which he has plenty of choice
15074s	from here
15076s	and then he has three mana deal five
15078s	which again is huge against priests
15080s	specifically right can actually very
15082s	easily either help deal damage to
15085s	something that's buffed or just kill a
15087s	relatively high health minion whilst
15089s	only committing a single card to it
15098s	would you like this song actually uh
15099s	going for this of big overkill uh and
15102s	the reward for this is getting the 3-3
15104s	just on board right now i kind of think
15106s	this is worth it
15108s	i actually do respect this a lot as well
15111s	as a player i was looking at this is
15114s	a very
15115s	polarized match up not in the sense that
15117s	it's super one-sided one way or the
15119s	other although people might have their
15121s	arguments about that but just generally
15123s	wig priest as a deck is super polarizing
15126s	it can either keep board and it wins or
15128s	it can't and it loses so if you have a
15130s	swing card
15132s	something like
15134s	knolls for example you know either of
15136s	the rushing knowledge sure come out uh
15139s	or in this instance you know killer
15140s	thing be a thing those are the kind of
15142s	swing cards that really help you just
15144s	take board in one go from the wig priest
15146s	and now boom not only are you clearing
15148s	the board but your clearing board while
15150s	being a minion ahead as levick which is
15152s	so much more beneficial to your game
15155s	and this is what levick will want to do
15157s	here progress towards quest completion
15159s	of course
15161s	but do so whilst keeping judgement off
15163s	board and as you said with the selection
15165s	of secrets whether it's ice or freezing
15167s	trap both of those can actually help
15169s	achieve that goal as well as just using
15171s	cars like mark shot and the removal that
15174s	can't necessarily go face along with
15176s	that shell shot as well it's going to be
15178s	huge because it's just going to push
15179s	judgment off the next real question sol
15182s	is does judgement at this point now
15185s	definitely being behind in knowing that
15187s	there's two secrets minimum in levick's
15189s	hand does judgment try and go for the
15192s	the sort of other way priests can play
15194s	which is sort of wait a little bit and
15196s	then fill up the board all in one go
15198s	with some buffs
15200s	yeah generally though when you fall
15202s	behind like this your key card to being
15205s	able to do that is devour
15208s	right even though levic's board will be
15210s	relatively narrow there's not going to
15212s	be too many extra minions coming out
15213s	alongside this maybe a multicaster or so
15216s	but i think levick will be aware of the
15218s	threat of playing additional minions
15220s	building one individual minion from
15222s	scratch that is massive enough to
15224s	survive aboard while being behind
15227s	is very very difficult without that card
15228s	i would say so i do like this a little
15230s	bit more for now for judgment just be
15232s	able to fight for this board a little
15234s	bit more honestly i think judgment will
15236s	expect that this 2-6 can probably be
15239s	killed
15240s	at some point in the near future but
15242s	with an explosive trap in play
15244s	it might not necessarily always be
15247s	giving back the 3-3
15251s	yeah not looking too bad for levick
15253s	still has an option of doing the um
15256s	the shell shot if he wants to sort of
15258s	see what happens there
15261s	try and at least kill off something
15262s	because again i don't i don't think
15264s	lerock's particularly bothered about
15266s	getting the 3-3 back i think he'd prefer
15268s	to just have the 3-3 die right if that's
15271s	gonna if it's going to be one or the
15272s	other because if he just gets everything
15274s	killed off um or at least something it
15277s	means that they're freezing trap again
15278s	that continues to do work but he's just
15280s	gonna go for the value there get that
15281s	ice trap and then just draw more cards
15285s	yeah no great surprise to me to be
15287s	seeing the multicaster come down
15290s	obviously this is the benefit this is
15291s	one of the spots where quest hunter can
15294s	break if you don't really get any of the
15296s	secrets if you don't get the bunker or
15298s	if you have to pay too much for the
15299s	secrets it's very much the secrets that
15302s	pay off that multicaster in general
15304s	right that's usually the way you're
15305s	getting those spell skulls juiced so if
15307s	you do get the curve of the dumbledore
15310s	into the secrets into the multicaster
15312s	you can see just the absurd amount of
15314s	resources more than levick will ever
15316s	need to be able to pay off this quest
15318s	over time
15319s	now judgment will have a very good read
15322s	on the fact that that is ice trap
15324s	already done the attack explosive went
15326s	off didn't get freezing back into the
15328s	hand so he'll know what's up right about
15331s	now but it can be a little bit of a
15332s	problem with only bless and wig in hand
15335s	i mean it's fine because he could still
15338s	just play the the slyther spirit still
15340s	go for wig knows it'll get bounced back
15343s	but it just reduces down that power
15345s	level of the turn overall
15347s	yep for sure ice trap not one of the
15349s	ones i was mentioning at the start but
15351s	really you know serpent wig and bless so
15354s	crucial to the wing condition of the
15356s	deck in general
15357s	and the really outside of that will say
15359s	like one shard of the naaru that you can
15361s	use to throw out there to proc it the
15363s	shadowhead devours as well which as
15365s	discussed previously are very very
15367s	useful there's not many spells that you
15370s	are super happy throwing away just to
15373s	proc a nice trap in this deck so can be
15375s	very very powerful as well judgement
15377s	there navigating it as best he could
15379s	just making sure he got the refresh back
15381s	into the hand uh come hello hi water
15384s	at levick still able to clean this up
15386s	quite nicely and does in the end uh get
15388s	his three three back as well yeah this
15390s	should proc the zero manner right
15393s	we should be able to hero power down the
15394s	slither spear which i can imagine is
15396s	gonna be the play here again just don't
15399s	leave a minion alive if you don't have
15401s	to simple as that and you can already
15403s	see with just two more procs away from
15405s	quest completion uh that levick is very
15408s	comfortably getting to that completion
15410s	uh sort of time will be able to drop
15412s	down uh tavish no problem and then
15414s	things start to accelerate massively
15417s	with this deck
15418s	yeah there have been a few instances
15420s	over time with you know minions that
15422s	allow you to target your hero power or
15424s	other minions that sort of thing where
15426s	people have flirted with the idea of
15427s	control hunter which is never truly a
15430s	thing even though a lot of the cards
15432s	that say shot on them can very much be
15434s	interpreted as control cards
15437s	um but quest hunter i think is or this
15439s	version of quest hunter is now the
15441s	closest to being able to make that
15443s	possible it's just in most matchups you
15445s	are still better being played as a
15447s	modified face hunter but in this
15449s	situation when your opponent's board
15451s	presence is so dangerous and when you
15453s	have this many resources in hand you can
15456s	absolutely afford to play control hunter
15459s	for quite some time in this and just
15460s	start uh starved judgment out of this
15463s	game yeah 100 that's the current
15465s	difference with this version is that
15467s	yeah you would prefer to just hit them
15468s	in the face and they die really quick
15470s	but you the ability to go control is
15473s	there and it's not bad right which is
15475s	historically been the issue with hunter
15477s	their words you said control cards but
15479s	they weren't even close to good enough
15481s	to realistically get you there so we'll
15483s	see now as judgment makes another
15485s	attempt on the board with the school
15487s	teacher being buffed up to a reasonable
15489s	amount of health but again
15491s	yeah the naga just still being alive
15493s	somehow from levick is actually still
15495s	gonna help this clear so much if levick
15499s	wants to kill it could isolate him go
15502s	freezing trap if he really wanted
15504s	it's weird just following on from that
15506s	conversation because a lot of the
15507s	original set kind of suggests that this
15509s	was kind of the design intention of
15511s	hunter in the first place because they
15513s	had a ton of removal cards in their
15515s	original base set
15516s	and then like maybe the idea was just
15518s	kill minions kill minions kill minions
15519s	hero power eventually gets there if you
15521s	just keep pressing it over and over and
15523s	over while killing everything that your
15524s	opponent can play and it's interesting
15527s	that now we've got to this point and
15528s	that is basically i have just described
15530s	quest hunt essentially it just what it
15533s	took to actually make that a reality is
15535s	that your hero power just refreshed
15537s	every time you played a spell
15540s	yeah that's the power level we had to
15542s	get to
15543s	to make it work
15547s	dutchman is again keeping the draw
15549s	pretty decent keeping the hand size big
15552s	and he's
15554s	slowly moving towards a potential like
15557s	go wide play with double radiant as well
15560s	and that's definitely important along
15561s	with that other school teacher means
15563s	that at worst there's going to be a one
15565s	mana naga to actually proc the wigs
15567s	again so it's again judgment's still
15570s	just holding on but levick's just been
15573s	able to put his feet up this game right
15575s	and again i think it's come all the way
15577s	come down to the dumbbell door bunker
15579s	and the nice play of the naga on three
15581s	to just make the board awkward as
15583s	possible for church yeah still hanging
15585s	around still contesting boards still
15587s	pushing damage to face like it's more
15589s	than paid back the uh five damage that
15592s	it would have been able to be used for
15593s	in terms of face damage by being on the
15595s	board for this long even though it's
15597s	played half of the game for the other
15598s	team at this point
15600s	yeah you can't trust it but you can
15602s	trust it'll do a good job one way or the
15604s	other
15606s	yeah tavis coming down now shell shot as
15608s	well just making the perfect turn mana
15611s	wise very cleanly
15614s	making away the board from judgment once
15616s	again and then naga gets to just push a
15618s	casual three and this is where it's all
15619s	going to start slipping away because as
15621s	soon as tavis comes down levick still
15624s	has this ice sorry freezing trapper
15627s	and there's a barracodobane so any
15629s	worries of not having the spells to
15632s	quickly in the game are going to
15633s	disappear very quickly with not only
15635s	barrack but also the multicaster as well
15637s	which i think really pushed this deck
15639s	over the edge and if he did have any
15641s	concerns about running out of damage
15643s	because of the amount of spells that he
15644s	has used for board control and aim shots
15647s	and so on being used to kill minions
15649s	well he's picked up face naga now so we
15651s	uh we should be kind of chilling just in
15653s	terms of damage as long as levick is
15655s	able to navigate this final board state
15657s	but this is very very well timed from
15659s	judgement right if you look at the
15661s	long-term game plan the judgements
15662s	mapped out he had that nargling with the
15664s	shadow word death uh so he was planning
15667s	for the swing turn he knew if he just
15670s	did the strongest thing he could do on
15671s	any individual turn the quest hunter
15673s	would pick it out so he's done
15675s	underpowered turns for the last turn or
15677s	two and now using that shadow word death
15679s	as a swing turn he is going in as hard
15682s	as he physically can this turn to try
15685s	and disrupt levick trying to turn the
15687s	corner and be aggressive himself i think
15688s	this is really nicely timed from
15690s	judgment are you still in this one
15692s	completely agree it's exactly what he
15694s	had to do and now levick the problem is
15696s	we've we could see tons of card draw
15698s	fantastic but he actually needs the
15700s	spells for removal right now because
15702s	goal number one
15704s	will almost certainly be
15706s	isolate that elemental because the
15709s	freezing trap still live make judgment
15711s	have to make a judgment call on whether
15714s	he wants to attack or not
15716s	but on that note look at the spread as i
15718s	was describing in the very very early
15720s	turns of the game it's not just all in
15722s	on one minion six eleven one one three
15725s	five three nine it's about as
15727s	abstract a spread of stats as you could
15730s	have possibly gotten at this point from
15732s	judgement really just making it as
15734s	awkward as possible for levick to be
15736s	able to isolate anything either using
15738s	multiple spells to kill off smaller
15740s	minions or using explosive trap to clear
15742s	up smaller minions as well
15743s	really nicely done turn and nicely
15746s	turned nicely done long-term game plan
15748s	from judgment here as well
15750s	there is a way to kill the three nine
15752s	and i think
15755s	okay okay he's doing a slightly
15757s	different thing here i thought he was
15759s	gonna kill the three nine but what he's
15760s	doing is isolating the two big minions
15763s	and then trying to do it that way can
15764s	whipping a nice trap if he wants but
15768s	goes for explosive instead
15770s	definitely eyeing up the potential
15772s	lethal next turn right if he doesn't die
15774s	yeah i think explosive makes the most
15776s	sense because i don't think limiting one
15778s	wig
15779s	for one turn is really going to be part
15781s	of the win condition from this point the
15782s	race is very much on here
15785s	uh judgement knows the race is on so
15787s	judgment will have to attack this turn
15789s	and if judgment attacks this turn then
15790s	that's two extra damage that you get
15792s	from the explosive trap and then you
15793s	just go in with uh face naga and all of
15796s	these remaining spells that you have in
15797s	your hand should be good as long as
15800s	judgement cannot find the straight up
15802s	lethal here
15805s	how much is this actually yeah i am i'm
15807s	trying to count it because there's the
15809s	uh the priestess as well right
15811s	there is the princess as well yeah
15815s	it's
15816s	huge for another reset
15818s	20 22 24 26
15821s	and from the bless i think it's short
15823s	yeah
15826s	he's locking this in pretty quick though
15828s	i'm scared
15830s	i mean there's nothing else he can do
15831s	right he like there's
15833s	like truly phenom memes aside there is
15836s	no point in counting this this turn
15838s	right like you just kind of have to make
15839s	the play
15845s	yeah i guess i was more thinking on
15846s	whether the uh
15849s	uh whether the buffs were ever going to
15851s	be spread anywhere else right
15855s	yeah judgment saying you know what i can
15857s	deal
15858s	32
15861s	and my opponent has 34
15863s	brutal
15866s	angelic already going for it
15868s	is there not a way with the treasure
15871s	guards to proc the freezing trap
15874s	first
15878s	and then you get wigs again you would of
15881s	course that does of course proc an
15882s	explosive trap which deals two damage to
15884s	the minion that you're trying to deal
15885s	with but you have a healing hero power
15887s	as well
15890s	uh
15891s	huh
15896s	i don't know
15897s	is my answer to that one so but what i
15899s	do know is this looks like lethal to me
15901s	from levick's side very
15903s	very close game well played from
15905s	judgement and well played from levick as
15907s	well and this one so it's a bit spicy
15909s	wasn't it subtle i'm sure there will be
15912s	people going to be working out exactly
15913s	if that turn could have gone any other
15915s	way whether the attack should have just
15917s	gone in first because also
15919s	if that oh i guess if the attack goes in
15922s	first because you'd want to dodge the
15924s	other radiant elemental die in then
15926s	devour gets one less health as well
15929s	that's if there's one less minion on the
15930s	board so maybe
15932s	you can't you can never quite get to 34
15935s	but very interesting because we saw how
15937s	close it actually was but levitt gets a
15940s	win with the hunter which
15942s	he's great for levick of course but i do
15944s	think he took the easiest first step on
15947s	the road for this series because i think
15950s	when we start to look at the other decks
15951s	things should get much much more
15953s	difficult for it
15956s	yeah just looking at this final turn
15958s	again obviously that the the turn was
15960s	ended with five mana spare right even
15962s	after the heal goes off in this position
15965s	um and you only need the one radiant
15966s	elemental for the discount on the wigs
15969s	to get them down to zero so yeah pretty
15971s	awkward spot i think in the end i said
15974s	initially from judgement is the kind of
15976s	position where there's no real point in
15978s	counting because you just kind of do it
15979s	and it's either lethal or it isn't
15982s	but maybe there was a plan there that
15983s	could have been formulated that dug out
15985s	the lethal but certainly without it that
15987s	was more than enough with the selection
15990s	of spells the refreshing hero power face
15992s	nagar on the other side as well from
15993s	levick so levi goes up to a quick 1-0 in
15996s	the end
15997s	yeah and we're looking at this next
15999s	match up i believe it's going to be the
16000s	demon hunter from judgement going up
16002s	against the shaman on levick's side and
16005s	i'll be honest subtle uh the series with
16008s	lubbock versus possessing uh and and the
16011s	shaman versus priest game was an
16013s	interesting one at best i think uh for a
16015s	specific word choice there so i don't
16018s	really have much faith in this shaman
16020s	overall even though levick did win with
16022s	it against the poor priest
16026s	yeah
16026s	for sure i mean the
16029s	the the
16030s	it's a tough match-up for sure
16033s	um in general it's levick's lineup has a
16036s	lot of questions about it just overall
16039s	again we've talked about it extensively
16040s	with the buckets that he's gone for um
16043s	even outside of the
16046s	warrior which we have questions about
16047s	the shaman as well has some interesting
16049s	decisions in there with the um
16051s	life drinkers the lambie series was
16053s	alluding to so there is definitely a lot
16056s	of difficulties going throughout this
16057s	series particularly the you know his
16059s	control deck i suppose in warrior has
16062s	had so many of his control tools damaged
16064s	and it scan potential damage where it is
16066s	still i would say fairly weak to this
16068s	aggro strategy overall that judgment is
16070s	going with so yeah i think it could be a
16072s	tricky series here for levick in general
16074s	yeah on the other side though this demon
16076s	hunter again it's demon hunters maybe
16078s	not the strongest deck at the moment
16081s	especially because there are so many 40
16083s	card decks 40 health decks and knocking
16085s	around that seem to be good demon hunter
16087s	does just struggle a little bit but
16089s	again i think for judgement it just
16091s	makes sense because he clearly wanted to
16093s	play priest rogue two strong classes in
16095s	the game right now demon hunter isn't
16098s	terrible it's just not great and if your
16100s	worst deck is a kind of okay-ish style
16103s	deck then you probably feel like you've
16105s	made the right choice in general so
16107s	we'll see how it does and this is
16109s	levic's xl mid-range shaming so yeah
16112s	live drinkers we spoke about uh just a
16114s	little bit earlier there's a far sights
16116s	in there again just to help with that
16118s	card draw um but it does it it's one of
16121s	those weird decks where it's a renauthol
16123s	deck where i don't even
16126s	really notice the extra 10 cards to what
16129s	they bring to the table right because in
16132s	other decks you can see that for example
16133s	in cursed warlock you get to run more
16135s	removal and more heal right and like
16137s	you're like well that's what the deck
16139s	needs so great but in this one it's like
16141s	oh what do we really gain for this so
16143s	we'll have to see if it can pay off for
16145s	levick in this game judgment off to a
16148s	not terrible start here oh okay better
16150s	start here with sigil and slither spare
16153s	as well as a weapon and multi strike
16155s	it's in there it's not looking too but
16157s	good now it's a buff sol not too bad at
16159s	all
16162s	yeah a reasonable opening hand for sure
16165s	i think anything that has slither spear
16166s	sigil in it you will feel like you are
16168s	doing okay in most matchups as demon
16170s	hunter
16171s	stalling is not really the draw that you
16174s	want to see on the other side though as
16176s	the demon hunter player because
16177s	otherwise you feel like you have a
16179s	pretty good chance of sticking early
16181s	minions to the board and you do have
16184s	a couple of early minions that are
16186s	fantastic to stick to that board uh with
16188s	the slitherspear and the fossil fanatic
16191s	in particular but whenever you see those
16193s	piranhas come into the hand on term one
16195s	you know that's gonna make your life
16196s	just that little bit more difficult in
16198s	terms of making anything happen so it
16199s	might even now just be a sigil on one
16203s	knowing that the minion presence is not
16205s	going to have a huge impact
16206s	oh that's still pretty interesting right
16208s	i was wondering whether the slowest
16209s	spare was going to be
16210s	played anyway
16212s	because
16213s	at worst two piranhas come down to kill
16215s	it so you've soaked up two piranhas for
16218s	your one drop like it seems okay but
16221s	yeah judgment i'd rather take the extra
16227s	card i do think it's something that is
16229s	missed with this demon hunter deck some
16231s	of the time is that you don't just have
16233s	to play it as a curve out get on board
16236s	hit your opponent aggro deck you can
16238s	play it as just card draw a mass
16241s	resources combo your opponent down in
16243s	one or two turns in the late game that's
16245s	obviously slightly more difficult when
16246s	your opponent has 40 health when your
16248s	opponent has 40 health you do usually
16250s	want to see your minions sticking an
16252s	attacking face to help you out in
16253s	getting to that number
16255s	but i do think the way this is panned
16257s	out so far
16258s	with the minions being played out on
16260s	board and judgment getting to react to
16261s	them how he would like to
16264s	this is probably slightly more
16265s	beneficial for judgment i'm not saying
16267s	it's good he's behind on board against a
16270s	much slower deck than him
16272s	however he does have now have options to
16275s	be able to clean a lot of this stuff up
16277s	with uh multi-strike fell barrage
16279s	multiple options this time
16281s	what demon hunters wouldn't give for
16282s	immolation aura back
16284s	i know
16285s	[Music]
16286s	it's clearly the real card that was
16288s	carrying the the uh the class
16290s	i mean
16291s	genuinely
16292s	yeah really freaking nutty card
16298s	all right so essentially we've reset to
16300s	zero on turn four here uh the problem is
16303s	uh levick despite having 40 cards in his
16306s	deck has curved out better than the
16307s	aggro deck and now has the nuts draw on
16310s	for i don't know why this happens every
16312s	game in grand masters but i am getting
16315s	tilted by it you might be able to hear
16317s	it in my voice
16322s	judgment is going to be able to at least
16324s	kill off the first one and start to push
16326s	some damage
16328s	yup the majority of that damage is
16330s	completely counted by the life drinker
16335s	true villain of the story
16337s	absolutely
16340s	it's so bizarre
16342s	watching shaman with a life drinker in
16344s	hand and not having said the word
16346s	shudderwock yeah yeah that that just
16348s	doesn't make any sense to me
16353s	richmond does get the old icebreaker
16356s	with the curtis hero
16358s	to drop out the minions and be able to
16359s	trade some of this away and at least
16361s	keep the board even for now
16364s	yeah i mean crucially this ends up being
16367s	the best possible scenario to the on
16369s	curve wildport caverns this is generally
16371s	what you want to have
16373s	um is a way to kill the first one into
16376s	curtris because then what that means the
16377s	unfreeze on the hero genuinely doesn't
16380s	do anything when you play this curve but
16382s	it means you kill the first one with
16383s	your weapon or chaos strike or fury or
16385s	whatever it is you end up using then the
16387s	second one is killed by your rush
16389s	minions and then because you haven't
16390s	been attacked by the second one you're
16392s	then unfrozen to be able to deal with
16394s	the third one in whatever way you see
16397s	fit so this is in general the best
16399s	answer that you can have
16400s	to wild poor cabin on curve from shaman
16403s	when playing demon hunter
16407s	although i think levick
16409s	i don't mean to tilt your morse subtle
16411s	but levick's hand kind of ticks all the
16413s	boxes right there's a selection of card
16416s	well okay there's a card draw card but
16419s	again school teacher can you know
16421s	potentially help out with that there's
16422s	spot removal there's damage there's
16424s	control tools there's silence if needed
16427s	and then there's mutinous if levick
16429s	feels comfortable to just say you know
16430s	what i'm not falling behind i'll just
16433s	use this tone to just slam mutinous um
16436s	so
16437s	levick does seem to have all the answers
16439s	for now but judgment needs to find a way
16442s	to
16443s	get out of this mess at least for this
16444s	turn in some positive fashion
16448s	a little bit awkward because now the
16451s	hero power plus glaive makes numbers a
16454s	little bit strange
16455s	it does indeed yeah so just gonna use
16458s	the chaos strike in order to push a
16460s	little bit of damage for going the hero
16462s	power and then gonna use the rest of
16463s	viper to clean up you know it's kind of
16466s	a one problem at a time kind of deal
16468s	obviously the stag is a huge problem
16470s	representing the freeze
16472s	but the life steal as well on both
16473s	fronts was a significant problem there
16475s	and kind of both need to be dealt with
16477s	does pick up zilag which is one of the
16479s	ways that he can fight back from before
16481s	board while being frozen
16483s	uh but still these hits are absolutely
16485s	going to keep on coming here for levick
16487s	i think this is the turn i was talking
16489s	about i think frostbite on the four one
16491s	and just slammed newtonis looks very
16493s	good honestly
16498s	go for the freeze instead and just trade
16500s	off the bat i suppose
16505s	[Music]
16507s	no reaction from levick but a
16509s	significant one from judgment just
16512s	another day at the office it seems
16515s	for our shaman player
16517s	the unfortunate thing here for judgment
16519s	is because he is frozen at least for now
16522s	like one legitimate fear of playing a
16524s	mutantness that ends up like this is you
16526s	could get hit for 20 in one turn right
16529s	that is very scary indeed with the dread
16531s	prison glaive but because of the freeze
16533s	it at least gives levick a little bit of
16535s	time to do something about that uh
16538s	whether it's just saying well i can take
16539s	20 because if he does that i'll set up
16541s	lethal next turn anyway
16543s	or just try and do you know torn or play
16546s	around it basically but
16547s	you know still looking tough for
16548s	judgment levick does have his school
16550s	teacher choice here
16553s	what you liking the look of here subtle
16554s	i think the
16557s	dl2 dredge looks quite good
16560s	yeah scolding or overdraft i can see
16562s	merits for either
16566s	um
16567s	dredge probably somewhat more useful
16571s	there's not going to be a significant
16572s	amount of uh overload coming in the near
16575s	future no
16576s	no depths coming out so i think the
16578s	dredge does make the most sense here
16582s	i see the line song
16584s	is it life drinker mccoy
16586s	no it's live drinker live drink kamakura
16589s	ah that makes sense
16591s	still frostbite as well i mean that is
16593s	quickly adding up to lethal isn't it
16595s	with double life drinker next turn
16597s	mccord the turn after yep no it really
16600s	is and honestly i think this is part of
16602s	the plan like
16604s	i obviously i don't necessarily agree
16607s	that what levick has gone for here is a
16609s	good overall strategy um but i do think
16612s	it's at least coherent and logical
16614s	because you know for example the
16616s	addition of the life drinker into shaman
16619s	does give you the opportunity to
16621s	starting at 40 health go bowler life
16625s	drinker small minions repeat life drink
16627s	a whole bunch of times brand life
16629s	drinker para all of these various things
16631s	that you can do
16632s	um so if you are expecting as i was
16635s	coming into this tournament
16637s	the uh priest rogue demon hunter bucket
16639s	to be fairly popular and just people to
16642s	play aggro
16643s	then maybe this is exactly levick's plan
16645s	coming to fruition right now right it's
16647s	just all of this extra stability in
16649s	these kind of control decks that he is
16651s	running and just stopping decks like
16652s	demon hunter from being able to pick up
16654s	wins against him yeah and on the flip
16656s	side of that and i think we agree in
16658s	general right it's actually just reach
16660s	for the shaymin which they don't really
16663s	have in these forms and again i think
16665s	the thing we do definitely agree on is
16667s	it's just how consistent is this choice
16670s	as opposed to does this choice make
16672s	sense right
16674s	i've seen a ton of damage get pushed out
16675s	by judgment though and judgments just
16677s	saying you know what
16678s	i've had enough
16680s	i mean you don't have perfect curve into
16682s	caverns and have
16684s	drinkers right like you can't it's not
16686s	possible you have 40 cards in your deck
16688s	yeah ridiculous
16696s	all right the ocarina here right has the
16697s	mana spare to do live drinker macau
16700s	anyway next turn can't fit all three in
16702s	so why bother and look at these trades
16704s	from the mutinous to saying you know
16706s	what you're getting nothing judgment you
16708s	have very limited choices that's twice
16711s	levick's giving up damage on mutinous
16713s	but also again helps with that dread
16715s	prison glove problem
16721s	yeah i mean
16722s	there's one big brain argument right if
16724s	i trade all the health away on my own
16727s	minions then it can't be turned into
16728s	face down
16731s	genius
16739s	judgement especially with the ocarina
16740s	now like oh
16744s	i don't
16746s	it would just have to be slither spear
16748s	nation predation
16750s	and then not die so the predation would
16753s	have to go off and him not die in the
16755s	end
16756s	and he's already
16758s	he's played the sigil already so he's
16760s	already tested spell on the economy yeah
16762s	i'm just saying like everything has to
16764s	go well here to kill stuff off and not
16767s	die andy would have to draw jace off the
16769s	top right to have any realistic chance
16771s	so it's a long shot
16784s	[Music]
16787s	worth drawing first on the naga
16792s	trying to work out if there is a draw
16794s	that ends the game i'm really not sure
16796s	that there is in which case probably not
16799s	it's better to just have a zero mana
16800s	wind chill to be able to freeze a minion
16802s	on the other side if you need to
16804s	that's jace
16809s	the plan has now come together for
16811s	judgment
16812s	live the spear to break the
16816s	and ocarina is the mean that was needed
16817s	only eight cards remaining in the deck
16819s	at that point so very clearly this plow
16821s	fairly likely at least this plan was
16822s	gonna work out
16826s	what are the chances part of the problem
16831s	yeah there's only cow strikes that get
16833s	recasted yeah that's interesting
16838s	the big problem that judgement has had
16840s	this game though that ladies thano way
16842s	too deep in the deck to be uh mopping up
16844s	these huge damage combos late in the
16846s	game
16847s	yeah and with no actual way to clear
16850s	these minions guess what judgment's
16852s	gonna be on one health and that's
16855s	going to be game number two going to
16858s	levick live doing really well again i
16861s	think fairly to to an extent we have
16863s	questions about the lineup of course
16865s	this is an elimination match so both
16867s	these players have already lost so far
16869s	today just a little bit earlier on today
16871s	uh but levitt seems to be doing all
16873s	right so far great draw on the shaymin
16875s	to just be able to curve out if you tell
16877s	me that deck's going to do that often
16879s	then yeah i'll start building it and
16880s	playing it now uh but the third deck
16882s	sold we're still in that danger zone
16884s	because i think you probably have
16886s	noticed in the in the time we've cast
16888s	together but i have pretty much and have
16891s	always had zero faith in charge warrior
16894s	it's one of the decks i've complained
16895s	the most about uh in this overall matter
16898s	of while that decks existed and my lack
16901s	of faith continues to this day
16903s	yeah i mean
16904s	derek kind of alluded to this earlier
16906s	but i will do much more than allude to
16908s	it and just state it outright
16910s	charge warrant when charge warrior and
16913s	quote incorrectly named misnomer control
16916s	warrior were around
16917s	the idea that one of those is a combo
16919s	deck and the other was a control deck
16921s	was both complete nonsense they were
16923s	both dredge scam decks that's all they
16926s	did that's why they won games it's just
16928s	one of them had some charge minions in
16930s	it and one of them had a few extra
16931s	control cards in it but the way that you
16933s	won your games was by scamming people
16937s	with nelly and with dredge mechanics and
16940s	discounted dredge mechanics
16942s	without being able to do that it remains
16944s	to be seen how this deck wins games of
16947s	hearthstone on a consistent basis but
16949s	one of the things it may still be able
16951s	to do is outlast demon hunter for a
16954s	significant amount of time i
16957s	personally would still like to see it
16959s	over a large sample um but if levick has
16962s	a plan maybe he's just operating on an
16965s	ethereal prayer a plane far above my
16967s	head right yeah definitely possible and
16970s	again it's something i would like to see
16972s	because levick one of the players has
16973s	definitely gone a different direction uh
16975s	this week in trio for grand masters but
16978s	we'll see how it pays off as we jump
16980s	into game number two uh good to know as
16982s	well levick one of the players who
16985s	definitely could do with a better run
16987s	than last week currently sitting on zero
16989s	points so far
16992s	yeah something that does need to be
16993s	reiterated throughout uh it can feel a
16997s	little strange sort of giving everyone
16998s	the lay of the land because we don't get
17000s	to do a pre-show which is kind of the
17002s	the place where you talk about that kind
17004s	of stuff but this is a real short format
17006s	and players who did badly in the early
17009s	weeks
17010s	are going to need to pick up points very
17012s	quickly we see that with oka shinsuke in
17013s	this group as well on top of levick
17016s	players that were were not finding
17017s	themselves in the final four in week one
17020s	need to start doing that now in week two
17022s	or week three because this is such a
17024s	short format you're going to see your
17025s	chances melting away very very rapidly
17028s	if you stumble for too long out of the
17030s	blocks
17031s	yeah just to cover the other side of
17032s	that judgement obviously finished in a
17034s	top four position last week so he's
17036s	definitely do being a little bit more
17037s	comfortable so far than levick but would
17040s	still of course still want to bank some
17042s	points uh this week to start to add on
17044s	to that currently sitting on three but
17046s	judgment at it again with the demon
17048s	hunter and got a uh
17050s	pretty aggressive start actually he's
17052s	got this i know a little bit there now
17054s	too early i would say with a lack of
17056s	spells so far but the rest of the uh the
17059s	hand looks okay to at least pile some
17061s	pressure onto levick for now
17066s	i really like this from levick as well
17068s	this might seem like omega overkill here
17070s	but i just like because because he has
17073s	from the depths and he has
17075s	card draw to an extent with the trader
17077s	balls i just like it just don't die
17079s	don't take unnecessary damage in the
17081s	early game and then get the power
17083s	players out
17085s	and just point of clarification before
17086s	we move on i think judgment's three
17088s	points includes the one he's got for the
17090s	one win he's already had today right or
17093s	no he's currently on two because he's
17096s	he didn't make top four last week the
17097s	top four was bunny super fake possession
17099s	pasqua right or am i am i losing him
17105s	i don't trust the stats anymore
17108s	i don't know it's you know maybe i'm
17110s	wrong all right maybe i'm remembering
17113s	either way judgment has got some points
17115s	levick does not there we go that's
17117s	definitely true i i can agree on that
17123s	blood yeah for war
17127s	now though judgment managed to build up
17130s	a bit of a board
17140s	oh
17140s	yeah
17142s	this
17144s	is gonna quit okay he's gonna trade
17154s	i always find it interesting and and the
17156s	decision making we did this in testing a
17157s	little bit yesterday where lambie was
17159s	playing this deck actually um where
17163s	decision making on when to pull the
17165s	trigger on finley when you have like a
17168s	couple of okay cards in your hand as
17170s	warrior against demon hunter it's very
17172s	tricky isn't it um because it's like
17175s	well he did have the armor the heavy
17177s	plate and aoe but that was it
17180s	he could draw some way better if he does
17182s	it and it looks to me at least like he
17184s	did draw something a lot better and it's
17186s	just very difficult to make that
17188s	decision and actually go for it with
17189s	finley
17199s	yeah slight apologies just said
17200s	confirmation judgments on two points not
17202s	three my mistake
17204s	yeah thank you thank you for production
17206s	for confirming that you always trust me
17208s	over our official stats purse that makes
17211s	sense
17212s	hey look i was trying to take the blind
17214s	for that song
17217s	no the person whose fault it is should
17219s	take the blame
17220s	that's how the universe works
17223s	is it
17224s	no actually absolutely not okay ideally
17228s	that's how the universe should work
17229s	there we go that's better
17232s	big question now though subtle
17234s	galvan
17236s	is active
17238s	asus manipulator is playable with
17241s	galvanga
17242s	yes does levick just jam these next turn
17246s	is this uh if affordable as a tempo play
17249s	or do you think he would still want to
17251s	hold on for some kind of combo
17254s	i would imagine just based on the level
17256s	of board output that has come on the
17258s	other side he'll be looking at the board
17259s	clear instead but i think it was very
17261s	flexible based on what was going to come
17263s	out in this spot
17267s	yeah he's actually
17269s	can he still do both
17272s	he can right
17274s	oh with i wasn't even looking at the
17275s	zero mana heavy yeah looking at frozen
17281s	if you're telling me i can tempo out two
17283s	gal angers on turns
17284s	oh yeah i want to do that
17289s	oh roll of the eyes from judgment and i
17291s	get it like that was a huge dredge to
17293s	hit both of them with the finley of
17296s	course and now now he's just dead it's
17298s	just a lethal setup and g-line can't
17301s	do anything about that it's not going to
17303s	kill them
17304s	like nice sip of water to end this the
17307s	series i imagine
17310s	unless you see something i don't subtle
17312s	for judgment
17314s	though it would be steno lines right
17317s	which is throwing away a lot of damage
17319s	but it might be what you need to do you
17321s	would get a zero mana production you
17323s	would get the fel barrage thrown in
17325s	there as well you'd have two mana left
17326s	to play with so you could play
17327s	multi-strike or spectral alongside that
17331s	so you'd be getting six damage from
17333s	steno into the lowest cost uh lowest
17335s	health which you can set up initially
17337s	with the predation yeah exactly like
17339s	this
17339s	he can live because now this fell
17341s	barrage perfectly clears up the
17342s	remainder he gets to make a couple of
17344s	attacks into the other one but he has
17347s	five health to play with for the rest of
17349s	this game that's a problem oh
17352s	gonna be slightly less than five
17354s	potentially as well because levick
17357s	even with slitheno up could choose to
17360s	just outride her ex go face yep
17363s	i think there's a point to two
17365s	and again judgment's already played
17367s	curtrice right so he knows there's no
17369s	armor available
17370s	oh is he gonna draw
17374s	couldn't he just armor up and hold off
17375s	for this turn
17377s	i would have thought so personally yes
17380s	oh well whatever this works too
17386s	that was surprising you're at 37 okay i
17389s	thought there was an indication of
17390s	trading there for a second i was about
17392s	to lose my mind oh we just saw levick
17393s	trading mutinous okay twice yes
17396s	indeed
17398s	no but i think that was sensible i think
17399s	that was a very well played game from
17401s	levick i think trading in this instance
17403s	is
17404s	yeah i do agree i do agree but i'm just
17406s	surprised he rolled the dice on the axe
17408s	like you you made this attack like gal
17411s	wenger dies so what what stops you just
17413s	axing them a question next turn in the
17416s	face like
17419s	yeah and it's interesting as well
17420s	because not playing the forged in flames
17423s	allows you to play the frozen buckler
17426s	which does give you in case you ever
17428s	thought you needed insurance yes against
17430s	because you are getting the refreshing
17432s	hero power from the curtris every time
17433s	the spell gets played for example so
17436s	just in case you were scared of anything
17437s	happening in this instance you did get
17439s	that additional insurance of the extra
17440s	armor but yeah i don't think it's a big
17442s	deal overall no weapon option for
17444s	ocarina
17452s	that my friend is going to just be the
17454s	game
17455s	and not only the game but the series
17457s	levick gets out knocks judgment out for
17459s	this week and levick at least on air on
17462s	the plan to get out of groups so far has
17465s	managed to survive uh with this lineup
17467s	and a pretty impressive series of games
17470s	honestly again i think at least for me
17472s	i'm expecting hunter to get a win
17474s	somewhere along the line if it's played
17475s	because i just think deck's really good
17477s	but then when we look at the shaymin and
17478s	the warrior i think levick regardless of
17481s	what we think of the decks had the right
17483s	in-game approach which honestly i expect
17485s	from him because i've seen him play the
17487s	game before yeah the shaman the shaman
17489s	game i think was really nicely played
17491s	obviously helped out by just drawing the
17494s	perfect 12 cards that you need at the
17495s	top of your 40 card deck like every 40
17497s	card deck player does in every single
17499s	game
17500s	um however the the warrior game i think
17503s	we can go back to actually that last
17504s	moment we're cut we're kind of leaving
17506s	out the fact that he actually knew what
17508s	the middle of his deck looked like at
17511s	that point right because he'd already
17512s	played finley he had like 14 16 14 cards
17515s	remaining somewhere around that mark so
17517s	the bottom five or six cards he knew so
17519s	the middle of his deck he actually had a
17521s	good idea of the cards he was going to
17523s	draw from outriders acts so maybe that
17525s	influenced his decision um to use the
17527s	forged in flame just because he had a
17528s	very high level of consistency of
17530s	knowing what he was going to draw in
17532s	that spot
17533s	either way um very very crucial series
17537s	for levick and certainly the outcome of
17539s	this group so far is looking to make our
17542s	overall standings very interesting
17543s	because the two players we are talking
17545s	about uh okay and levick who needed to
17548s	pick big wins together having had
17550s	miserable weak ones are both doing so
17553s	now and this decider possessive versus
17556s	levick that we did see in the opener if
17557s	levitt can reverse the fortunes and pick
17560s	up the win pick up the revenge in the
17562s	double jeopardy match that will mean
17564s	that the two players who picked up
17566s	points in the first week would have had
17568s	the early exit and the two players that
17570s	really needed the points who did not
17572s	pick them up in week one in group a
17574s	would be the ones progressing through
17576s	and out of the group so
17578s	that's kind of the recipe for an
17580s	incredibly tight league table as we go
17583s	into group three so honestly kind of the
17585s	scenario i'm rooting for going into this
17587s	next match yeah we've seen it before in
17589s	grand masters in previous seasons where
17592s	you sort of blink and suddenly the last
17594s	week for points it's like
17595s	well whoever does well probably makes it
17598s	through in this one week because a lot
17600s	of the middle gets sort of crushed
17601s	together so it can be potentially some
17604s	really exciting stuff for next week but
17606s	of course we've got plenty more
17607s	hearthstone coming up not only today but
17609s	all weekend we are going to go to a
17610s	quick break while we set up the next
17612s	match which is going to be possessi
17614s	versus levick we'll be right back
17620s	[Music]
17631s	[Applause]
17631s	[Music]
17634s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
17637s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
17641s	horrific reasons
17643s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
17648s	with such ruthlessness
17650s	so deep and profound
17654s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
17662s	to uncover the truth
17664s	of murder most foul
17668s	the anima drifts across the floor
17671s	highlighting the creatures who walked
17673s	through my door
17675s	the motives are as black as night
17679s	avarice power revenge and blight
17685s	we watch the hero
17687s	uncover the clues
17689s	that lead to the truth
17692s	behind this dark rooms
17697s	join us here with the grimm and empires
17701s	choose your power without heavenly bias
17705s	for at the end
17707s	they will burn in the fire
17710s	when it is known who slayed
17713s	tenacious
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17740s	[Music]
17743s	[Applause]
17745s	[Music]
17770s	so
17773s	[Music]
17786s	so
17790s	[Music]
17804s	so
17807s	[Music]
17832s	do
17842s	[Music]
17848s	do
17849s	[Music]
17857s	[Music]
17893s	foreign
17897s	[Music]
17998s	[Music]
18000s	do
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18011s	[Music]
18038s	[Music]
18047s	oh
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18066s	[Music]
18078s	[Music]
18080s	so
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18105s	[Music]
18112s	[Music]
18122s	[Music]
18130s	hmm
18136s	[Music]
18150s	so
18152s	[Music]
18167s	so
18175s	[Music]
18179s	so
18182s	[Music]
18193s	so
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18202s	[Music]
18215s	[Music]
18229s	[Music]
18235s	welcome back everyone we are getting
18236s	ready to get into our next match which
18238s	is going to be the final match out of
18240s	group a it is going to be of course
18242s	levick versus possessing it's gonna be a
18245s	rematch from earlier on uh possessing
18247s	did take the victory over levick this
18249s	morning uh but they're gonna go again
18251s	and what's pretty interesting about this
18253s	trio format subtle is there's no bands
18256s	to talk about because the players get
18258s	offered groups of three classes they
18260s	pick one of the groups of those three
18263s	classes and they're the ones they play
18265s	it's those three decks and that's it so
18267s	levick has a is in a weird spot where he
18270s	lost against the possessi earlier but he
18272s	doesn't really get the opportunity to
18274s	say oh well maybe if i ban this instead
18276s	maybe that helps my matchup after
18278s	playing through it once uh so it is just
18280s	purely going to be same again let's see
18282s	what happens and we do see seoul that
18285s	levicks actually cued his warrior
18286s	first which was the deck that that he
18288s	took the majority of the losses on and
18290s	end up losing the series on so maybe
18292s	he's just said you know what this is the
18294s	weak link i've got to get this through
18297s	yeah and i think that is fair um
18300s	although this is the same bucket that's
18302s	being dealt with on side for possession
18305s	it is a different lineup primarily
18307s	because of this deck that you see here
18310s	the boar priest uh coming out on the
18312s	other side from possessing which is
18314s	really shaking things up quite
18316s	significantly overall um
18319s	showing that
18320s	uh possessing i suppose showing that
18322s	he's a ball priest enthusiast but at the
18324s	same time i think perhaps letting team
18328s	bore priests down in a couple of crucial
18330s	spots um both last week and this week i
18333s	believe overall very very solid but i
18335s	think there's a couple of those like
18338s	banner poster billboard boar priest
18340s	moments that possess he has missed out
18342s	on that maybe a pocket train would have
18344s	found in a couple of situations so i'm
18346s	hoping uh that possessi can put on a bit
18349s	more of a clinic for us in this series
18351s	with the boar priest yeah it's one of
18353s	those decks that it becomes
18355s	very clear when you are really strong
18358s	with it or if you've got a few
18359s	weaknesses or even if your attention's
18361s	just lapsed a little bit right which can
18362s	happen in a high-pressure game it
18364s	happens to absolutely everyone but it's
18366s	a deck that when played in like a
18368s	clinical way uh it looks incredible
18371s	right there are plays so many times it's
18373s	happened where they go oh how they're
18374s	going to get out of this oh wait they
18376s	can get out of this and then these sort
18378s	of big brain plays come out to play and
18381s	when you can't do that you do lessen
18383s	your win percentage quite dramatically i
18385s	feel at least but levick on the other
18387s	side of this is going to be on that
18389s	charge warrior and my question for you
18391s	subtle is does levick pretty much have
18394s	to do the game he just did versus the
18396s	demon hunter and get the gal wenger out
18398s	super early and sort of cheese it out to
18401s	actually beat this ball priest
18403s	that is precisely what he needs to do
18406s	yeah he needs two depths on four he
18408s	needs to get down to the bottom of that
18409s	deck by any means necessary and have
18413s	particular crucial cards down there as
18415s	well um to help him out
18418s	however even then in this matchup that's
18420s	a lot more fragile like the two nine
18422s	nines with charge play the levick made
18424s	that won the game straight up against
18426s	demon hunter in the previous series if
18428s	you do that against priest they might
18430s	quite happily heal 10 of that damage
18432s	straight back and blow up your two nine
18433s	nines immediately in response you know
18435s	they are very capable of doing that if
18437s	they have the right hand on the other
18438s	side so i do think this matchup is going
18440s	to be a little bit trickier i think this
18442s	is arguably the best matchup available
18444s	in the overall series for possesses ball
18447s	priest to have against the charge
18448s	warrior so if levick finds a way to scam
18452s	this match up with a deck that is
18453s	significantly worse at scamming people
18456s	than it used to be uh that could be
18459s	series breaking implications but here is
18462s	step one raven double from the depths
18466s	available
18467s	yeah slight unfortunate that galvanga
18469s	and faceless are in the hand right now
18473s	which is a bit of a shame here for
18475s	levick he knows he won't be able to hit
18477s	it
18478s	and it's not like he can finley first
18480s	because that'll just cause the similar
18482s	issue from the depths being at the
18483s	bottom
18484s	those are
18486s	not it
18493s	i don't even know which one to pick here
18495s	it's not brawl arguments can be made for
18497s	the other two
18500s	yeah thanks to our uh unique hearthstone
18503s	esports website technology i was just
18506s	checking out on the the deck list trying
18508s	to see what the big hits on the bottom
18509s	of the deck would be
18511s	of course have to click on the shaman
18512s	icon to take a look at levick's warrior
18514s	deck as you would expect
18516s	um but
18518s	yeah with the galvan gar and the
18520s	faceless in hand already
18522s	it's ricara right like that's the big
18524s	hit at the bottom of the deck like
18525s	without the nelly scam it's just not the
18528s	same animal anymore is it in terms of
18530s	just being able to get out on board
18533s	super quickly and win the game and even
18535s	then
18535s	that classically was not super powerful
18538s	against priest in general uh because of
18540s	the silence potential that they do have
18542s	in the deck as well yeah
18544s	love it just gonna take it slow equip
18546s	the outrider x and just uh sit and see
18548s	what happens possessi
18550s	again it's the the benefit of matchup
18552s	like this where you enjoy playing ball
18555s	priest because you know every single
18558s	turn you're more or less going to be
18560s	just doing whatever you want and not
18562s	really have to look at the other side of
18563s	the board right you kind of just sit and
18566s	very much laser focus on your own hand
18568s	and say okay how do i progress this game
18571s	plan and there's nothing really piling
18573s	on the pressure
18579s	tempo galvanga let's go
18589s	one of those times kind of see on
18591s	levick's face just looking at his hand
18592s	like well
18594s	this takes me like five more turns
18596s	before i do anything relevant with any
18598s	of these cards i'm super dead this game
18604s	what now
18607s	yeah because there's not even anything
18609s	that's like
18610s	no maybe generates him a colossal right
18613s	and there's some kind of cheese there or
18615s	anything like that right he's just well
18617s	these are the cards i've got i've got to
18619s	try and make them work
18624s	what now
18628s	honestly like
18630s	okay that was ricara i think
18632s	um
18633s	i do wonder if levitt can get armor and
18637s	genuinely the plan would be just play a
18639s	galvanger out
18641s	and if it lives then you get to play the
18643s	faceless on it and you know just sort of
18645s	drip feed stuff like that and then hope
18648s	for that as again it's a long shot but
18651s	it's something
18659s	is the galvinger in hand right now
18660s	actually active how much armor is just
18663s	sure
18667s	yeah i can see if you get it to the nine
18669s	nine point i can see just slamming it
18671s	one by one for sure because
18674s	i think either your best chance is just
18676s	to go aggro try and get a nine nine
18678s	that's not able to be answered because
18680s	the xyrella isn't there or whatever and
18682s	then you get the faceless and you push
18683s	18 more
18685s	go from there or the only other way i
18687s	can realistically see this working is
18690s	you wait for the key turn right where
18693s	you get the read which is usually quite
18695s	easy to do this is the turn where
18697s	they're going to go for weapon
18699s	and then on that turn specifically
18702s	you play like 18 points of charge into
18704s	your opponent's face because then they
18706s	can't do it right because they won't
18708s	clear two nine nines with their pyro
18710s	ball combo unless they set up for
18711s	something very specific to do so and
18714s	then if they do try and go for it you'll
18716s	be able to jam 18 more into their face
18718s	on the following turn and theoretically
18720s	end the game but yeah a little bit
18723s	ambitious for sure
18726s	the queen's trouble
18731s	i'll have it going to accelerate his
18732s	game plan a little bit go for the draw
18734s	really looking for as early as possible
18736s	to the front as you can possibly get
18738s	let's have one ordean hand of course
18740s	next up faceless but we'll want the
18742s	second one because there's also
18744s	a sort of other play where it's just
18747s	well what if i do just get the combo
18750s	like on curve
18753s	and
18754s	just hope that's faster than my opponent
18757s	doing their combo right again it's not a
18760s	great plan but it's a plan and i think
18762s	levick very much just has to be flexible
18764s	as you said whether it's playing to the
18766s	weapon turn uh drop them out one by one
18769s	if he feels it i think he just has to
18772s	you know rule out plans when they go
18773s	away like the from the depths issue we
18775s	had earlier and then just at some point
18778s	just say you know what okay if by the
18780s	next two turns i don't have the full
18783s	combo as an option i'm just gonna play
18786s	one
18787s	yeah playing matchups like this in
18788s	tournament um where you're the slower
18791s	combo deck
18793s	is pretty exhausting because when you
18795s	play a match up like this on ladder when
18797s	you're a slower combo deck and you lose
18799s	with a very high percentage you
18800s	generally kind of tune out and if you
18802s	don't concede it straight away you just
18804s	sort of go through the motions until
18805s	they show you whatever they need to show
18806s	you and then you scoot right
18808s	in tournament you feel like you are
18810s	working so much harder than your
18813s	opponent paying so much attention
18815s	looking for any weird little window that
18817s	might be able to get you out of trouble
18819s	making sure all your timings and your
18821s	checklist is all sorted out making sure
18823s	if there's any slight gap that you feel
18826s	like you might be able to exploit that
18827s	you're jumping on it whereas your
18828s	opponent is just happily merrily playing
18831s	the same game of ball priest they've
18833s	played 300 times already up until this
18835s	point you know unless you oblige
18837s	which he would have seen a pig and then
18839s	gone no i'm out next game
18841s	can't beat that my opponent's got pigs
18842s	in their dick
18844s	too rich for my blood yeah my boat
18846s	played the 1-1 i'm done let's get it
18859s	what does levick even do is gonna gain
18862s	some armor
18866s	again i think even if we talk about the
18868s	potential silliness of out armoring this
18872s	it doesn't really work does it
18879s	it is rare that it happens once the
18882s	zarella hero card was introduced into
18884s	the deck for the guaranteed second
18886s	weapon yes
18887s	there were ways to go for a second
18889s	weapon before zyrella came along but it
18891s	involved sort of over completing your
18893s	quest even i call it a quest it's not
18895s	really a quest is it
18896s	um but over completing so you actually
18898s	got to keep one vanilla ball in your
18900s	hand for the second weapon then people
18902s	realize that just playing as xyrella was
18904s	a lot easier than that so it became
18905s	fairly standard
18907s	yeah and of course like with the hero
18909s	powers from zyrella as well sort of
18911s	actually help out so much more in if you
18913s	do get to that kind of weird fatigue uh
18916s	point of the game
18924s	he gets to push the three
18926s	pigs getting in extra work pay those
18929s	overtime
18947s	now love it's got to decide right
18949s	is this the turn
18953s	he's walk
18955s	one man off here i think
18958s	i'm just having straight up lethal
18960s	immediately
18961s	he'd pay two for to the front
18963s	and then it would be four three and
18965s	three
18966s	the 12 mana in total and he has a coin
18968s	available
18971s	he's only on nine men actually so he's
18973s	actually two mana off this turn
18978s	i think with five cards left in the deck
18981s	you might just think possesses about to
18982s	weapon
18985s	yep like you were saying right if that's
18987s	what you feel like and there's no
18989s	clear goal in sight it probably is just
18992s	committing but again the big problem
18994s	here is
18995s	five cards left in the deck when your
18997s	opponent hasn't played zyrella yet
18999s	exactly yeah problem
19005s	i love it doing the best he can
19011s	but it's enough pressure it's enough
19013s	difficulty level that it can force
19014s	possession to make a mistake which
19017s	is an option and a vulnerability that
19019s	possesses has shown himself to be weak
19021s	to
19022s	a little bit in this tournament when put
19023s	in these tricky spots
19026s	and with only one amulet currently in
19028s	hand that increases the difficulty level
19030s	significantly as well because
19033s	the only card draw source in hand
19035s	currently is the north shore cleric
19037s	which means this also then has to be a
19039s	cleric turn if possesses going to go for
19041s	clear plus weapon this turn
19045s	i think with all that in mind possessing
19048s	just says no and he's gonna go
19050s	straight up for the clear forget about
19052s	the boars for now right
19068s	had some time between now and his
19070s	previous match but
19071s	that sort of thing gets in your head a
19073s	little bit as well doesn't it where it's
19074s	like just don't mess up
19076s	[Music]
19079s	it's going to guarantee the clear though
19083s	overdraw precisely
19089s	he's one card remaining in the deck
19090s	which is the other amulet at this point
19095s	and that other amulet had better be
19096s	juiced or else he's in a no-trade
19098s	situation with no cards left in his deck
19125s	i was thinking does love it just play
19127s	out the minions
19134s	forever help
19148s	probably not i think with the spells you
19151s	you basically you know the entire
19152s	contents of your opponent's hand right
19154s	now right
19155s	so without the holy smite being used
19157s	without the shadow word devour being
19158s	used a five five never sticks to the
19160s	ball
19161s	anyway
19166s	all right that's a two i really hope
19168s	that other amulet is juiced normally
19171s	normally i have check marks on my pad in
19173s	front of me and i actually don't in this
19174s	situation yeah
19189s	go swing them one of the weapon
19192s	and they're gonna shoot all the way down
19193s	to one there for levick i mean the
19195s	majority of his hand does cost
19197s	a total of three right now
19201s	one thing i i was very interested in
19203s	subtle was the fact that levick does
19206s	have a coin still in the deck
19209s	yes oh um you know
19212s	that ever made a difference i mean it
19214s	doesn't because the viper's three not
19216s	two
19216s	but that we we could have spoken about
19219s	at that point also if we want to talk
19221s	about other things we can factor in that
19223s	viper might cost zero for as far as
19225s	possessing knows because he hasn't seen
19227s	it yet as well right so he has to keep
19229s	that in mind because that could end up
19230s	being one of the depths discounted cards
19232s	that's currently in lubbock's hand
19239s	but yeah i do really like this two-turn
19240s	set up here from levick right
19242s	saying okay with the pyromancer the
19244s	five-five always dies as soon as the
19246s	pyromancer is played and the shadow word
19247s	devour is not a factor anymore well then
19250s	all of a sudden this 5-5 sticks because
19253s	the only source of removal then is a
19255s	holy smite and i get to start attacking
19257s	every single term which is a really
19259s	really big deal that's super nicely
19261s	spaced out over the course of two turns
19263s	from levick there to be able to maximize
19265s	damage even though it gets silenced it
19267s	is still a massive chunk of damage that
19269s	has been thrown through now
19271s	[Applause]
19276s	now does possession equip cyril or not
19292s	it's awkward isn't it because uh either
19294s	way these minions don't die
19296s	they do not
19299s	you always do it though
19302s	i was actually gonna hold on to it for
19303s	another time okay fine
19305s	i guess this makes sense right because
19306s	this does play around a zero mana rust
19309s	drop viper right and then you can just
19310s	play it next turn get the weapon attack
19312s	face is probably the right way to do it
19314s	if there was a zero mana rust draw viper
19316s	it's almost certainly in the hand at
19319s	that point after the finley has come out
19321s	and then you would have probably seen it
19323s	played anyway arguably but that doesn't
19326s	make it any less correct to play around
19328s	something that doesn't hurt you by doing
19330s	it the other way around which i think is
19332s	what possess he did there so
19333s	yeah that was kind of how that matchup
19336s	goes
19337s	early game kind of a formality not
19339s	really a lot going on but then the late
19341s	game interactions are super interesting
19343s	right like i think levick did a couple
19345s	of really smart things uh digging
19347s	specifically for outs like zero mana
19350s	viper his sequencing of his threats in
19352s	the late game pushing this into a term
19354s	which slowed possession down by one
19356s	entire turn um because possessing kind
19359s	of turned down the option if it was
19361s	there to do the complicated play with uh
19363s	drawing and boring and clearing at the
19366s	same time but then the play i really
19368s	liked was not playing the five five into
19371s	the weapon term because it then got
19372s	levick so close with essentially this
19374s	immortal board right which then never
19377s	dies on the following turn
19378s	actually gave him some realistic outs
19382s	maybe of being able to race possessi if
19385s	the zero mana cards would have been
19386s	slightly kinder to him perhaps and one
19388s	thing as well right exactly uh one thing
19390s	we did see was possessed possessing
19392s	sorry levick was you know in a slightly
19395s	alternate universe getting close with
19397s	that combo right we said just a few more
19399s	mana being available if something had
19401s	been some piece had been hit by uh from
19404s	the depths and maybe got hold of that in
19406s	a sort of quick fashion and we
19408s	definitely talked about him actually
19410s	just lethaling him with the combo so got
19413s	a lot closer than i thought he would uh
19414s	possess he of course is going to be
19416s	jumping over to the jackpot rogue and
19418s	levick will be switching to the hunter
19421s	taking a break from the old warrior
19423s	yeah and why not i don't particularly
19426s	blame him
19427s	uh but yeah i'm talking before about how
19429s	similar bucket different lineup
19431s	obviously it's boar priest instead of
19432s	the wig priest that we saw from
19434s	judgement and it is jackpot rogue
19436s	instead of the mine rogue that we saw
19439s	from judgment i certainly looked at this
19441s	bucket and saw something fairly similar
19444s	to what judgment saw
19445s	just looking as a punishing fast dex
19449s	aggro lineup um because looking at a lot
19451s	of the other buckets there's one class
19454s	in there where you're just like
19456s	that's clunky there's no way you can
19458s	build that class that isn't really slow
19460s	and awkward so i'm just going to be able
19462s	to run over that with three quick decks
19464s	i think that was a very realistic
19466s	possibility with the way the buckets
19467s	panned out
19468s	if you are unfamiliar entirely with what
19470s	we're talking about right now we are
19472s	playing trio format this week which
19474s	means
19475s	basically buckets are created of three
19477s	predetermined hearthstone classes every
19480s	player in the tournament knows what all
19482s	of those buckets are but no one knows
19485s	which bucket anyone else has picked
19487s	until they themselves have picked and so
19490s	you're trying to kind of build build a
19491s	lineup based on an existing amount of
19493s	information that uh builds well against
19496s	the field
19497s	and i did look at this bucket again that
19499s	possesses packing and expect it to be
19501s	played a little more aggressively than
19503s	possessing is going with here so i'm
19504s	interested seeing how
19507s	taking this bucket and essentially just
19509s	playing it as the good decks bucket is
19511s	actually going to work out for percy
19513s	because he is just playing very close to
19515s	what some people consider to be the good
19517s	decks lineup last week aside from the
19519s	fact that demon hunter is in there which
19521s	i think got quite quickly exposed as not
19525s	one of the good decks as we got into
19527s	saturday and sunday of last week
19529s	yep and we're going to jump into
19531s	game number two there are two weaknesses
19534s	i found whilst playing quest hunter this
19536s	past week uh one watch posts they're
19539s	really annoying and the other one is
19542s	randomly jet one well yeah randomly
19544s	generated big cards in the early game uh
19547s	which can be difficult to deal with as
19549s	well erlavic does have the freezing trap
19552s	up so that's kind of half of a problem
19554s	solved
19556s	but still just got to be wary and that's
19558s	the ever-present problem with this deck
19559s	i find that the rogue really hard to
19562s	judge because it relies so heavily on
19564s	what you can generate it can either
19567s	skyrocket the deck power or just
19569s	dumpster it
19580s	i wouldn't hate a tempo viper here you
19581s	know
19582s	yeah i was thinking about it
19585s	it's a
19586s	little bit of an awkward early curve
19588s	because that multicaster is there and
19590s	you are in that slightly awkward spot
19592s	that you are in sometimes
19595s	uh where filling out the spell skulls
19597s	for that multicaster is not as easy as
19599s	you would like it to be so maybe that
19602s	incentivize going trading with the viper
19605s	instead
19606s	try and find some of those options okay
19608s	there's some secure card draw for you in
19610s	the future i think you're happy to see
19611s	that
19613s	yep not looking too bad that's the only
19617s	worry where
19618s	we were talking earlier about hunter
19620s	being able to sort of control the early
19622s	game
19623s	yeah
19623s	and again with this hand oh it looks
19625s	great look at all those control tools
19627s	right spring the trap shell shot there's
19629s	the code obeying in the multicaster to
19631s	refill but rogue can just accelerate
19634s	past that if it just gets the right sort
19636s	of collection of draws right and that's
19638s	the fear we can see that that cut like
19640s	your collection of draws isn't really
19641s	there to possess you right now
19644s	it very nearly is though yeah it's close
19646s	this is the hand that is one single
19648s	jackpot away from a fantastic time which
19651s	honestly sounds like everyone's
19653s	experience in vegas to be fair now that
19655s	i say it but
19656s	this hand in particular really would
19658s	start popping off if it was just to find
19660s	one super high value or high tempo spell
19673s	also possessing has the bonus option now
19675s	of having a good idea while knowing that
19677s	that is our freezing track we can proc
19679s	it for one mana let's muddy the waters
19692s	back to the hand make sure the shark can
19694s	go through
19696s	oh will be fairly cheap yeah only back
19698s	to three after the discounts are
19700s	reapplied so that's very playable still
19702s	in the near future
19703s	nice patient turn from possession
19705s	obviously taking advantage of the
19707s	oft-forgotten fact that you can just uh
19709s	blast face with the shark
19712s	wait you can use that on minions
19714s	[Laughter]
19720s	although shell shot cleaning that up
19722s	nicely does have another freezing trap
19724s	active
19727s	now and as in vegas raven the jackpot
19730s	continues to prove to be elusive yeah
19734s	at least for possessing and i do like
19737s	this right just spend your mana on stuff
19739s	then deal with some damage agreed it
19741s	used and he still has the null so we can
19743s	see it's second their freezing trap but
19745s	the null still just gonna be cheap ish
19749s	right spend three mana proc the freezing
19751s	trap then move on with your day
19758s	oh what is this hand
19762s	we actually just talk about this
19764s	possessing hand it's like the worst
19766s	possible combination of cards
19769s	only one car that way though it's all
19772s	it is
19780s	bob nets
19783s	we picked up there does have crack and
19785s	paint as well so
19787s	levick suddenly starting to pick up a
19789s	ton of damage to just actually go for
19791s	that sort of face hunt to play right of
19793s	just saying you know what there's not
19795s	enough pressure on the board let's just
19796s	spam damage to face and already with
19798s	what at least eight damage just from
19800s	hand at this point for leaving never
19802s	mind hero powers
19803s	there he is
19804s	ah
19806s	it's not a jackpot but it's something
19809s	even better
19811s	a crab
19815s	we've uh we stopped gambling and we've
19817s	headed straight to the buffet always a
19819s	responsible decision i think
19828s	now the question here
19831s	is it worth using the kraken bane for
19833s	example on the crab
19837s	well you do have a wound prey right
19839s	which clears up both of the claws and
19843s	then the crab would be potentially
19845s	isolated to the freezing trap instead i
19847s	like this because of uh it gets
19849s	explosive right as well okay here's the
19851s	deck a little bit against an excessive
19852s	ice trap i think that's just a nice
19854s	combo especially with how slow possesses
19857s	been going with the actual
19858s	general game plan of doing jackpot
19860s	things
19861s	yep i'm on board
19875s	oh
19883s	oh
19884s	oh yeah yeah i mean fair honestly yeah
19887s	fair enough possess he has said quite
19889s	honestly coming into this tournament
19891s	he's the existing world champion he's
19893s	already re-qualified he's just kind of
19895s	vibing with this event you know like
19897s	it's not like he's phoning it in but
19899s	it's not as high stakes for him as it is
19901s	for other people and honestly that hand
19903s	is just not playable then like dodge the
19906s	mental damage get out and play an
19908s	entirely different game of hearthstone
19910s	and i'm fully on board with that
19911s	philosophy yeah that one thing you want
19914s	your deck to do when it doesn't it hurts
19917s	but again it's not even a big deal i
19919s	would say overall for the series for
19921s	possessing anyway because yet again
19924s	levick one with hunter i'm shocked it's
19926s	good but it's the other decks that are
19929s	the the problem for levick so i think i
19931s	think that the combination of the rogue
19933s	bad draw with it being against hunter i
19936s	think possesses probably like you know
19938s	what you're right take it fine we'll
19940s	we'll carry on and i'll still be feeling
19942s	confident in this series and so he
19944s	should as he's going to be going for the
19946s	rogue once again but this time going up
19949s	against the shame and subtle and my only
19951s	question is
19952s	is it going to be a god curve from
19954s	levick once more
19956s	i've never seen this shot like not just
19958s	from levick like it seems to be this
19960s	shaman in particular xl shaman
19963s	of any variety whether or not you have
19965s	life drinkers in it or not
19967s	it just seems to hit still every game
19971s	i'm just looking at people like why
19972s	isn't your opening hand just you know
19975s	bloodlust gorlok ravinger akane glug or
19978s	something like why does that never
19979s	happen to you like that seems like it
19981s	should be able to happen
19983s	um but i will say in the defense if you
19985s	actually break down the curve as like a
19987s	percentage of 40
19989s	a massive percentage of the curve is one
19992s	to four right which means that your
19994s	ability to curve out into a four
19998s	is reasonable if you're on coin
20001s	um then that can either be uh curving
20004s	out into command of neptulon or curving
20007s	out into wild poor cavern on for using
20009s	the coin or not
20011s	you can do that fairly consistently just
20013s	because of the amount of redundancy that
20014s	you have overall but it just seems
20016s	specifically
20018s	level of curve into wild poor cavern on
20021s	four which is a two of in a 40 card deck
20024s	just seems to be
20026s	rather anomalous right here go somewhere
20029s	you got your wish look at that hand from
20031s	loving i didn't actually see it where we
20032s	go i'll wait and see
20034s	be a surprise
20037s	okay yeah i mean this is this is some
20039s	relatively not hot garbage but tepid
20042s	garbage at the very least lukewarm
20045s	indeed
20051s	[Music]
20056s	good good to go we're back in the game
20060s	they can't keep getting away with this
20069s	as he does have his null available very
20072s	clean kill on the two three if he wants
20074s	it
20075s	used to just chill
20077s	yeah takes the shroud
20080s	uh possessing in this series in the
20082s	opener when it was cast by derek and
20084s	lambie was hitting double knoll in every
20087s	single game with rogue i believe so
20090s	no great surprise he continues to
20092s	demonstrate the confidence of a world
20094s	champion
20095s	knowing that he's going to hit that
20096s	double zero mana knoll like a world
20098s	championship
20099s	you get 12 months of good luck
20103s	that's not how it works or i think so
20105s	yeah i was kind of just back in what you
20106s	were saying okay right
20111s	which goes to show of course why every
20113s	hearthstone world champion has such a
20116s	fantastic follow-up year to becoming the
20118s	world champion right every single one
20130s	not having much else to do here so just
20132s	gonna go for the far side and continues
20135s	not have much else to do but the joy of
20136s	the cavern
20138s	is that it will keep just spawning those
20139s	minions for you for the near future so
20141s	at least he can stay competitive on
20143s	board but now does possess he just press
20145s	the button subtle
20154s	you want to spin some triple sevens this
20156s	turn
20157s	yeah i think if possessee this is a
20160s	really stupid thing to say but if he
20161s	could have actually wicked stab and play
20163s	oh kanye i would have liked that a lot
20166s	but because he can't
20168s	i can't play tess as well um
20173s	some of the things that you consider
20174s	worth saying
20176s	it's phenomenal
20178s	thank you
20179s	yeah i mean
20180s	if he could play ocarina and just play
20182s	blood on the water face you know just on
20184s	top of that as well that would be a
20186s	better turn than what he's doing yeah
20192s	got to be contraband right
20197s	i would expect so then just as usual all
20202s	in on this jackpot it's either good or
20204s	it's not because your hand is contraband
20206s	smashing tests
20208s	i could see the argument for prep yeah
20210s	okay interesting does take prep because
20213s	prep would allow you to go off with a
20215s	jackpot spell a
20217s	little bit quicker
20218s	which would then activate things like
20220s	tests and future contraband stashes a
20222s	little bit quicker otherwise you're a
20224s	little bit stuck doing those kind of
20225s	things also sort of gives him the option
20227s	of jackpot assess the situation and
20230s	still prep blizzard
20233s	yeah
20233s	as well
20235s	i don't think uh blizzard being in the
20238s	the pool is
20239s	never bad right it's it's always
20241s	absolutely okay whereas i made the
20243s	mistake this morning when i played not
20245s	long after waking up of getting really
20247s	good cards generated and then for my
20249s	last one deciding to play mass polymorph
20252s	that sounds believe it or not didn't go
20254s	well
20255s	yep don't do that
20268s	really sticking out here for levick he
20270s	does have schooling if he wants to just
20272s	throw that into the okani
20276s	we could just play more minions wait and
20279s	try and just kill the ocarina but it
20281s	really looks too great right now
20285s	yeah probably just a tempo turns
20287s	throughout the clownfish you have the
20288s	goal of ravager in hand it's really hard
20291s	to turn down clownfish when you have uh
20293s	when you have the gorlok in hand already
20296s	jackpot time song
20302s	yeah the jackpot prep blizzard line is
20304s	interesting you could also just go raw
20306s	blizzard now not worry about the jackpot
20310s	uh tooth being found does open up some
20314s	fairly interesting options though
20317s	honestly just shark hidden away on the
20319s	far left has now
20321s	what you're saying is any of possesses
20323s	cards are good this time
20326s	if only you play them all
20329s	he could play every play that i'd listed
20332s	so far with his six mana that would be a
20334s	really good hearthstone turn
20338s	is that's exciting to take it slow
20345s	yeah i was going to say i think like
20346s	having assessed the hand in full the
20348s	only card i don't really see being
20350s	played this turn under any circumstances
20352s	is maestra but i could see reasonable
20354s	lines with jackpot and the prep i could
20356s	see reasonable lines with the tooth
20357s	definitely the shark play jumped out to
20359s	me because it's just
20361s	so much tempo and honestly
20363s	this shaman even though it is kind of
20366s	described as a very swiss army knife
20368s	type of deck
20369s	it is really only the snowfall guardian
20374s	that responds to being behind on board
20375s	particularly well right like outside of
20378s	that there is not a lot the deck does to
20380s	be able to respond to losing tempo
20384s	and once again 40 card deck
20387s	just a 12 snowfall guardian do you not
20389s	see that twin fin fin twin that was a
20392s	great response
20396s	that just gets there
20403s	while call is the best card to be
20406s	universally just recast over and over
20407s	again can't can't do anything wrong
20409s	right just eats up a bit of board space
20411s	makes you some tutus
20413s	uh frostbite and bash obviously being
20415s	omnidirectional could end up doing bad
20418s	things to your own board if you end up
20420s	putting them in your pool yep drawback
20422s	is without playing the jackpot you don't
20424s	know if you want your board full because
20426s	of stuff balls right so i think
20428s	personally i like the bash uh possessing
20430s	deciding to go for frostbite
20433s	just have an immediate target for that
20435s	which actually will you know immediately
20437s	impact levick's turn
20439s	well
20440s	those are cards twisting
20443s	nether control rogue incoming
20449s	and contraband stash and tess always
20451s	play them in played order right
20454s	i
20455s	believe so
20458s	i think test does i'm not so sure about
20459s	contraband
20461s	yeah it was
20463s	aoe polymorphing might last every time
20465s	and i did play it last so
20467s	my experience with it this morning at
20469s	least
20477s	i was just thinking see if it holds
20478s	order like this didn't ever
20480s	doesn't seem
20482s	a horrendous card if it goes early right
20498s	can definitely get very very silly
20500s	indeed
20503s	yeah currently
20505s	not a huge payoff you know your
20507s	generated spells don't benefit massively
20510s	from spell damage apart from that uh
20512s	frostbite that you took and put into the
20514s	pool
20516s	there's still a wicked stab and a yes
20519s	blood in the water in the deck which
20520s	would help that is true yeah and
20523s	arguably to an extent the blizzard is
20525s	played right
20526s	goes from less of a freezer more sure
20529s	yeah
20533s	how is it chomp time
20549s	certainly looking that way with the way
20551s	this turn is starting and possessing's
20553s	about to get some very bad news because
20555s	that test is going bye-bye and that is a
20558s	large chunk
20559s	of the potential long-term value that
20561s	possessi has in hand
20565s	but this is a huge
20566s	huge level of commitment from levick on
20569s	this turn as well
20570s	there's that's a huge blizzard from
20572s	possessing as well right we know
20574s	especially in this matchup blizzard is
20577s	just going to be useful it's not even a
20580s	question
20581s	let's find the trickster now again not
20584s	the highest payoff spells to be
20586s	beated out by a trickster because
20588s	they're kind of all anti-tempo anyway
20591s	late enough in the game now where
20592s	obviously they can just be cast straight
20594s	up if need be
20596s	okay yep levick even sits up in his
20598s	chair after seeing brakan that's
20599s	definitely a card you want in this stage
20601s	of the game right just try and
20604s	help control the board push some damage
20606s	as well you've got some heel available
20608s	it's kind of just everything you do want
20610s	to do to close out the late game looks
20612s	like it's not going to play right now
20614s	and he can't press the hero power button
20616s	anyway so i think this is fine but just
20618s	having access to it is going to be
20620s	pretty big i think
20621s	yeah but i think just responding to this
20623s	board state yeah is pretty crucial and
20627s	i mean the problem is khan doesn't
20629s	really do that immediately anyway levick
20631s	has been quite desperate to get some of
20633s	these spells cast for quite some time
20635s	but there's been the brukhan and the
20637s	frostbite preventing him from doing so
20639s	sorry not the brucan the um
20641s	why is my brain gone blank on the name
20643s	of the card
20644s	okay
20645s	thank you the okani and the frostbite i
20648s	say thank you as if you helped me at all
20650s	what i got right he didn't say anything
20653s	did you said o'connie oh did you i
20655s	didn't he
20656s	i'll let you i'll believe you
20661s	a jackpot number two available
20665s	possessing looks like he's not gonna
20666s	risk it
20668s	and get the blizzard played again at
20670s	worst
20671s	yeah
20679s	[Music]
20696s	[Music]
20699s	and we're able to deal two damage to the
20701s	board in the face of course if he wants
20702s	clear up the majority of their minions
20704s	with that and then what do you think
20707s	once or six damage to the face
20711s	or heal i'm just gonna name them all
20713s	yeah i was gonna say like even healing
20715s	is the one that you didn't present is
20716s	not necessarily out of the question here
20721s	um without the
20723s	bioluminescence combo really being a
20725s	factor in the deck you would think that
20727s	the six damage is kind of out
20729s	immediately but remember this is the
20731s	deck with all the life drinkers packed
20733s	into it which might mean
20735s	burst damage win condition
20737s	is more back on the table kind of ends
20739s	up with the best of both worlds with the
20741s	healing being picked but then the hero
20744s	power being the damage hero power being
20746s	rolled
20747s	um which is the way it works i believe
20749s	you always get an option you always get
20750s	an option off your first hero power that
20752s	you did not pick from the initial battle
20754s	prize and high chance of it working out
20756s	that way i'm slightly disgusted that it
20758s	wasn't pressed though um
20761s	i would have given up the freeze under
20762s	here
20778s	i was gonna say previously on the turn
20779s	possess he choosing to go with the
20781s	contraband stash without putting the
20783s	twisting nether into the pool kind of
20785s	showed a commitment to wanting to be
20787s	ahead on tempo using the cards and
20788s	obviously blizzard is a much higher
20790s	tempo tool than twisting nether is to
20791s	have it thrown in there so creating the
20793s	argument of like why am i bothered about
20795s	clearing my opponent's board if i can
20796s	just freeze it over and over again with
20798s	these cards but i think having lost the
20801s	test to the mutinous is such a huge
20803s	drawback
20804s	to that idea because tess in itself is
20807s	generally a lot more higher tempo than
20809s	playing contraband because you get the
20811s	additional body in significant body of
20813s	the test being thrown into that as well
20816s	so if you can continue doing that while
20817s	freezing board you might just be able to
20819s	get there on raw tempo but without that
20821s	test available with that
20824s	okay
20825s	those are the ones you would have liked
20826s	first time around with this the way this
20828s	plan has worked out i think
20840s	there it is
20843s	the plan live drink arrived
20852s	there's neptulon available for levic or
20854s	command of neptune should i say
20856s	to just clear up these minions to forget
20857s	about them anybody
20862s	uh interestingly now is a
20865s	bioluminescence presented
20868s	i'm just wondering if it's weird i was
20870s	looking at feral spirits
20877s	i find it very hard to resist a
20879s	bioluminescence being offered a
20881s	finagling
20882s	even if my deck does not support it in
20884s	any way and literally no spells left and
20886s	you think you know what it could still
20888s	be
20889s	good there's a chance
20897s	i have to imagine possesses gonna go for
20899s	the taunts
20903s	even need to use the naga i don't think
20905s	so the trickster
20910s	i'm just trying to formulate a long-term
20912s	game plan here for possession obviously
20913s	first off there's not much long term
20915s	left there is another contraband stash
20917s	there is that wicked stab rank three so
20920s	if the tempo plan has succeeded a bit
20922s	more uh we could have seen that queen
20925s	ashara into ring into wicked stab for
20928s	six finisher that we have seen a few
20930s	times i do think people
20932s	tend to tunnel on the horn a little bit
20934s	with this deck overall
20936s	um and that wicked stab finisher can
20938s	actually be very very useful but
20940s	opponent at 34 right now that does not
20943s	really seem like a plan that's going to
20944s	work out realistically so i think
20946s	possessing has to be hyper focused
20949s	on playing these board development cards
20951s	and then repeating them hopefully with
20953s	the other contraband stash and trying to
20954s	get somewhere
20960s	especially with the threat the life
20962s	drinker heals
20970s	there is the boner
20977s	is starting to really build up this last
20979s	contraband stash though right got the
20981s	statues in now does have the option of
20984s	doing flipper friends
20986s	or a colossal if you want to go that way
20994s	oh could he actually go ring anyway but
20996s	go ring contraband
20998s	that's definitely a possibility yeah
21000s	because with blizzard and suddenly
21002s	actual board generation
21004s	yes definitely talk
21010s	problem is how much time he actually has
21012s	to be able to do that
21014s	the other contraband of course still in
21016s	these four cards remaining might be a
21017s	couple of turns until it's found this
21019s	board needs to be answered on the other
21020s	side
21025s	it looks like it is going to be crap
21027s	craps it's going to be crabs
21029s	shadowcrafter crabs to buy some time
21032s	here
21039s	i'm gonna go for crash
21041s	holding on to the uh the otters in case
21043s	of emergency
21045s	i don't want to give the cosmetics
21047s	department any idea but come on
21049s	shadowcraft the crab skin make it happen
21052s	a red hoodie
21071s	life drinker combo
21075s	yeah it's kind of real right like i
21077s	brought it up as a vague meme in the
21079s	past in the last game but you know as i
21081s	said it i'm thinking about it like if
21083s	you just get schooling and hold the fish
21085s	in your hand if you get school teacher
21086s	hold the nargling in your hand whatever
21088s	else like you can repeat a lot of life
21091s	drinker battle cries like it it can
21093s	happen
21097s	and there is that wicked stab
21099s	five life drinkers and you can play next
21101s	turn
21106s	right the crash
21108s	golly
21118s	uh
21119s	well you can't play five right cause
21121s	you'd have to spend one mana on the
21123s	schooling to get the additional minions
21126s	oh sorry
21127s	yeah sorry sorry i was counting boners
21129s	if it do it boner would proc like
21132s	by itself which is incorrect sorry it's
21134s	for you yes
21138s	yeah i took into account the schooling
21139s	cost but did just assume boner was just
21142s	going to pop off with the life drinker
21143s	ability himself anyway just going to
21145s	join in the fun
21148s	no schooling and now snowfall guardian
21151s	potentially
21152s	yep
21153s	looks good
21155s	it does look extremely strong yes
21161s	also negates the crash factor as well
21164s	right
21175s	looks like you might be thinking about
21177s	like okani snowfall guardian but to me
21179s	that seems like it leaves him in exactly
21180s	the same position
21182s	next turn that he's in right now
21185s	i would find a little bit strange
21188s	or is at least getting the mana spent on
21190s	the schooling seems to progress his win
21192s	conditioning a little bit more
21194s	also this way round makes the snowfall
21197s	bigger
21199s	but now he can't potentially punch
21201s	through the taunt and put deal two with
21203s	the okanagan
21205s	predictable
21209s	we have to block that
21210s	we have plotted
21224s	oh he's got the spell damage i
21226s	completely forgot about the spell damage
21228s	the ashara has the spell damage
21231s	i was sat staring outside hank on the
21233s	trickster got counted
21235s	yeah that doesn't have it but i realized
21237s	that ashara has it
21239s	i was staring i was like just crash have
21241s	it and i'm blind but no we're well
21243s	played there that was good there from
21244s	possessing i just did not even look at
21246s	the ashara at the end yeah so i did
21248s	exactly the same thing so i was keeping
21250s	track of like every time the minion
21251s	appeared i was like okay let's remember
21253s	when it comes out but there's been two
21255s	of them because it got replayed it got
21257s	played and then replayed and that
21258s	azshara was the initial recipient from
21261s	the first aegwynn that ended up dying
21263s	before the replayed one came out from
21265s	contraband stash has been sitting there
21266s	chilling with spell damage the entire
21269s	time just hiding away in hand which
21272s	means that double wicked stab combo that
21274s	i've been talking about which uh when
21276s	you get into these high level games does
21278s	seem to finish games more often than not
21280s	when you get to this level we've seen it
21281s	a few times from bunny hopper already
21283s	and now from possessing took us by
21286s	surprise but still resulted in a very
21288s	very exciting ending to the game and
21290s	puts possessi on the hill of being able
21292s	to make our groups for the second time
21294s	in two weeks yeah looking really good
21298s	overall i'm just uh winding time back
21301s	and i did
21303s	did levick have to heal that turn i
21306s	wonder if that would have made any
21308s	difference i guess knocks then there
21309s	would have been double spell damage on
21311s	there so it probably would have added up
21314s	inc and don't quote me but i think it
21316s	was taunts um but that's a very very
21320s	vague recollection of what the turn was
21322s	that is just guessing
21325s	it's not like my brain did say no it's
21327s	torns but if there's anything that's
21330s	been taught by my memory as i get older
21332s	and also don't sleep is do not trust any
21335s	memory of anything that happened more
21337s	than five seconds ago you're probably
21339s	wrong i also didn't sleep much last
21340s	night only had about seven hours i'm
21342s	saying oh get out
21344s	uh
21345s	is going to i am being serious though
21348s	that is not a lot
21349s	um but uh possessing is going to be on
21352s	demon hunter as potentially
21354s	his last game of this series if we can
21357s	get it through if levick wins possess he
21358s	does get one more go at it with the dh
21361s	of course but levick gonna be jumping
21363s	back on the warrior hoping
21366s	to get a win with it we did see so far
21369s	today the only win with warrior that
21372s	levick has had was off the back of that
21375s	kind of super high speed generating the
21377s	galvano and the faceless against the
21378s	demon hunter so uh we'll see if he can
21381s	replicate that success because outside
21382s	of that he's won one game with warrior
21386s	and lost three so far so not really the
21389s	best results from today
21393s	and really strong opening curve here
21396s	from possessing especially when backed
21398s	up with the refill of the need for greed
21401s	if and when he will want it just minion
21403s	minion minion all demanding early
21406s	removal from levick which is very
21408s	unlikely to be the case
21410s	with this version of warrior now really
21412s	up until a shield shatter combo is
21415s	available or until outrider's axe can
21417s	come down there's very little removal
21420s	that actually interacts with the early
21422s	game minions that you play against
21423s	warrior yeah it can potentially be very
21425s	nice as well with this curve if
21427s	possessive goes for vanguard here he
21429s	does have the uh chaos strike coin and
21432s	then a murloc taunt right which can
21435s	cause a bit of a problem with the
21436s	outrider axon curve
21439s	true yeah i could see that indeed
21444s	just thrown out here with the hero power
21446s	immediately makes sense and then yeah as
21448s	mentioned chaos strike and metamorph in
21449s	the following turn it's kind of this
21451s	debate because you're deciding whether
21454s	to play a round outrider act
21455s	specifically or the shield chatter combo
21458s	it's all made irrelevant by the fact
21459s	that the shield shutter combo just comes
21461s	out on curve anyway
21463s	so now possess he has to rebuild
21471s	i think that rebuild will
21473s	take the form of a fossil fanatic here
21476s	if i had to guess dumping the kale
21479s	strike into the uh frozen buckler armor
21482s	is a bit scary okay that's about now off
21485s	the top actually
21487s	i like that more because you're not
21489s	playing directly into the outriders acts
21492s	and i think your opponent will equip
21493s	their outriders axe on for whether or
21495s	not you play a minion so you kind of get
21497s	the information as to whether this is
21499s	going to be an axe game or not before
21501s	you have to commit to it and also in
21502s	this matchup it's not like possessing
21504s	has to play a minion every turn to have
21506s	a chance right like it he can easily
21509s	just build up the board it looks like
21510s	he's going metamorphing with that kale
21512s	strike it still kind of does play around
21515s	the outrider acts anyway but it does
21517s	forgo a lot of card draw
21525s	i thought that was going to be an equip
21527s	then don't you try and play around my
21529s	axe i've got a hammer that does the job
21533s	yeah i like this though i think both
21535s	players recognizing how much of a
21537s	problem that card can be for outriders
21539s	act specifically you called it out a
21541s	couple of turns ago as well
21543s	so possessee choosing to divert quite
21545s	heavily from what was a ton of card draw
21547s	being available to get that three-four
21550s	torn in play block any potential
21551s	outriders acts and then levick on the
21553s	other side very rapidly going nope not
21555s	having any of that thank you very much
21560s	i imagine this is to be a spell choice
21562s	here from possession not too much of a
21565s	surprise not really any minions on curve
21567s	that you're overly worried about
21569s	hello
21573s	get back in there
21575s	have to be a double swing here from
21577s	lavick over the course of two turns
21580s	yeah it looks that way
21593s	okay curt has found that's a big deal
21595s	zolag found that's a big deal those are
21597s	very much the cards that possess you
21599s	will be looking for the game having
21601s	reached this portion of proceedings
21604s	those are the cards you absolutely want
21605s	you can run over control warrior early
21608s	just by them not drawing shield chatter
21610s	combo in their first five cards and then
21612s	you just run away with the board early
21614s	deal 15-ish damage with that and push
21616s	from there but once it resets to this
21618s	point curtris in particular is the go-to
21622s	card and that curtris sotheno combo can
21625s	really come into play in the late game
21627s	against warrior if you get there because
21628s	of the raw amount of damage that can
21630s	output with those refreshing hero powers
21634s	yeah again it's not like you against
21636s	endless waves of aoe against this
21638s	warrior right there is just a couple
21640s	available so now that one's already done
21642s	with possess he can try and start the
21645s	slightly slower game does have curtris
21647s	to punch through this battlegrounds
21648s	battlemaster i do like the play from
21650s	levick though just try and land
21652s	something so he has like some kind of
21653s	edge to gain on board
21656s	looks like possessing might be
21657s	responding with the dread prison glaive
21659s	here glay fury hero power
21662s	will enable the damage push
21665s	i like it sir a lot of additional damage
21667s	instead take the turn off but still
21669s	stacking the curtains hero power
21676s	right now
21686s	the problem right the
21688s	levick's done a good job of clearing up
21690s	problems so far but the deck just as you
21694s	can see just doesn't consistently do it
21697s	right
21700s	i think possessee is taking it nice and
21702s	slow to keep the pressure high
21705s	that to the front is a very big deal
21707s	though
21708s	it does allow now at least some kind of
21711s	counter aggro potential from levick
21714s	we'd like to go for it you like the
21716s	zhilang this turn
21724s	just to draw out any more aoe
21729s	yeah it's interesting right because
21730s	curtrice kind of does the same thing
21733s	there's kind of then just an argument of
21734s	like which of those two cards is really
21736s	setting up for your long-term game plan
21738s	better like if i play one of these two
21740s	cards and they don't have the aoe what
21742s	happens if i play one of these two cards
21743s	and they do have the aoe
21745s	what happens
21746s	um gillag obviously pushes the damage
21749s	immediately a small amount of damage
21750s	immediately but if they don't have
21752s	clears for uh the kirchhoff's minions
21754s	and they stick around that can certainly
21756s	represent a huge chunk of damage next
21758s	turn as well because you have played
21760s	curtris and are then able to fully
21762s	refresh the hero power with every minion
21764s	that survives which is a really really
21766s	big deal in terms of damage
21768s	yeah i think i liked you like
21770s	more because it's less ignorable by
21773s	levick right like there's to an extent
21775s	an argument where levitt could kill one
21777s	of these four fours
21779s	and then armor up
21781s	and then you know just buy time whereas
21784s	i feel like if she like got played it
21786s	has to be cleared
21789s	well if you kill one four four here
21791s	you're still pushing what 12 minimum the
21794s	next turn with the two minions being
21796s	alive
21797s	i guess like more susceptible to double
21799s	shield slam you know like you're just
21801s	like different ways to remove it as
21803s	opposed to aoe
21805s	yeah it was definitely close
21808s	yeah
21810s	he'd get the second shield chat and he
21812s	is going to commit to it as you said
21813s	still a relevant amount of damage even
21815s	if just one of those minions lived and
21817s	now here comes july and suddenly this
21819s	lady slaughterno a predation still the
21821s	need for greed in there if possessing
21823s	needs it a lot of pressure coming out
21825s	here
21826s	and here's my argument for doing it this
21827s	way around right at some point you have
21830s	to invest the mana into
21832s	the kurdra's hero to be able to just
21835s	massively up the output from your hero
21837s	power right if you do that first you
21840s	threaten the massive hero power damage
21842s	on the immediate turn afterwards right
21843s	that has to be a board clear and then
21845s	when you place your lug you also
21847s	threaten the massive amount of hero
21848s	power damage whereas if you did this
21850s	first the next turn even if this board
21852s	gets left alive you still have to spend
21855s	six mana first on curtres before you can
21858s	start pressing the refreshing hero
21859s	powers so you're kind of threatening
21862s	lethal consistently with every board you
21865s	make by doing it this way i do kind of
21867s	like it a lot more hey
21870s	right
21871s	you like to see it
21874s	the shield slammed one of the stalks not
21876s	quite enough armor to kill the g-lag
21878s	itself
21880s	oh don't go face oh that's not good
21885s	ooh
21887s	oh
21888s	well slotheno now
21890s	gets very interesting doesn't it because
21892s	with the um
21894s	with the fel branch that just instantly
21895s	kills two stalks for one card then
21898s	slateno attacks another one
21900s	and then we can talk about predation
21902s	clearing up the last one
21911s	this is really close if it's not lethal
21915s	like yes taking it down your line
21918s	cleaning up the stalks one by one with
21920s	uh satheno and the fel barrage you're
21922s	also refreshing your hero powers every
21924s	time you're able to do that you have the
21926s	three attacks from the existing minions
21928s	that you have on board right now that
21929s	also refresh hero power
21932s	you can still just play station face
21933s	right not necessarily exactly yeah which
21935s	is a zero mana throw in there as well i
21937s	think if you fossil fanatic and draw
21940s	exactly predation maybe you have it but
21942s	every other draw is not lethal that is a
21945s	very very rough count in this situation
21947s	it's very hard to do
21949s	because of all the tentacle damage
21950s	coming in after the starks are doing
21952s	three right
21953s	yep
21962s	hopefully this all got through there's a
21964s	real scramble at the end for possessor
21965s	who i think was doing an awful lot of
21967s	similar counting to what i was doing
21974s	yeah one damage from a stark i think was
21976s	missed
21977s	oh really i don't think oh i might be
21979s	wrong but i don't think the stalk on the
21980s	right attacked but i could be wrong like
21983s	i'm not going to push it
21989s	there's still that need for greed in
21991s	possessing his hand as well so it's not
21993s	like you know he's actually starving for
21995s	resources he does have to commit a
21997s	little bit of manner but still there's a
21999s	lot going right for him right now and
22001s	levick only just getting to the two from
22004s	the depths
22006s	ah looks like a bit of a dream
22009s	they did both attack according to our to
22011s	our match log by the way did they that's
22013s	my bad thing yeah apologist damage
22019s	that heavy play is such a big deal as
22020s	well and levick says this time for sure
22024s	oh
22025s	no
22030s	got to be lethal right
22037s	yes
22040s	six nine ten twelve showing purely from
22043s	the refreshing attacks that you can see
22045s	the chaos strike gets you another attack
22047s	refresh
22048s	yeah it has to be
22051s	yeah
22056s	all right i'll wait till it happens but
22058s	at this moment in time looks good for
22061s	possessing we have seen players make
22063s	slight mistakes before that would cause
22065s	him to lose certain situations but i'm
22067s	convinced the possession is all over
22069s	this it's so much damage output and
22072s	generally i think as long as he's
22074s	pressing hero power between every attack
22076s	he's gonna be looking pretty good here
22078s	yeah plenty of damage going to the face
22081s	and possessing takes the victory over
22084s	levick and moves on out of the group a
22086s	huge win for him there because as we
22088s	said just a little bit earlier
22090s	possessing currently has points next to
22092s	his name from week one and he's going to
22094s	continue to gain points in week two
22097s	which puts him in a very solid position
22099s	even just at this point in time so
22102s	even if he doesn't win it top two
22104s	whatever he's just gaining points every
22107s	week which i think from our experience
22109s	has seen like the most consistent way to
22111s	just put yourself in the mix right yes
22113s	you can win one week but then you can
22115s	struggle the next two and you're still
22116s	in trouble so a really good performance
22118s	there from possessive and levick
22120s	unfortunately i think did get let down
22123s	by the lineup he chose to bring i think
22125s	after the games we've seen today um it
22128s	never looked easy did it settle apart
22130s	from the hunter
22132s	no and it really was just a matter of
22134s	this warrior more so than anything else
22136s	you know it
22137s	it it seems like we are just harping on
22140s	it and just really being a dead horse at
22142s	this point but you know when you come
22144s	into looking at the deck list when you
22146s	know you're practicing the decks when
22148s	you open the broadcast you're like
22151s	this warrior doesn't look very good and
22152s	then it has a bad win rate over the
22154s	course of the day you can't really do
22156s	anything else but come back to that
22158s	point um so yeah line up questions for
22160s	sure you know i tried to illustrate that
22163s	there was at least some logical thought
22164s	process that i could see in the lineup
22166s	building from levick um but i think the
22168s	bigger picture right now is that yes
22171s	possessing
22172s	is having a great couple of weeks and is
22174s	looking to be very high in the point
22175s	standings does not mean a whole lot to
22178s	possessi whereas this means quite
22180s	literally the worlds to levitt he needs
22183s	to make it out of
22185s	not only groups next week he probably
22188s	needs to go deep make it to the final
22190s	possibly win the whole week um after and
22193s	also i should say in the third week of
22195s	qualifying play for hearthstone grand
22197s	masters last call which is not next week
22200s	nor the week after thanks to how
22202s	wonderful
22203s	wonderful scheduling um but yeah in our
22206s	final week he's gonna need to do magical
22208s	things because that's two disappointing
22210s	early weeks for levick who honestly was
22213s	a player i think we both had pretty high
22214s	hopes for going into grand master last
22216s	school
22217s	100 again i still think overall he
22220s	played well i just think the lineup did
22222s	just let him down a little bit when
22224s	compared to what he was up against but
22226s	uh for me sol we have one more match to
22230s	bring you guys for the rest of the day
22231s	and we'll be followed by the um team
22233s	america's casters to round out the day
22235s	but we've got the next group coming up
22237s	it's going to be super fake versus pun
22239s	but we are going to go to a quick break
22241s	while we set that one up so we'll be
22242s	right back
22250s	[Music]
22256s	so
22259s	[Applause]
22260s	[Music]
22264s	in the darkest of seasons
22267s	where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific
22270s	reasons
22272s	for a hidden hand has struck me
22275s	down with such ruthlessness
22279s	so deep and profound
22283s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
22290s	to uncover the truth
22292s	of murder most foul
22296s	the anima drifts across the floor
22299s	highlighting the creatures who walked
22301s	through my door
22303s	the motives are as black as night
22307s	avarice power revenge and blight
22313s	we watch the hero
22315s	uncover the clues
22318s	that lead to the truth
22321s	behind this dark bruise
22325s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
22329s	choose your powers without heavenly bias
22333s	for at the end
22335s	they will burn in the fire
22338s	when it is known whose slave
22341s	tenathious
22343s	the sire
22344s	[Music]
22360s	[Music]
22367s	[Music]
22374s	[Music]
22401s	now
22403s	[Music]
22442s	welcome back everyone we are ready to
22445s	kick off group b now for the first match
22447s	which is going to be super fake versus
22450s	pun and this is where subtle we enter
22453s	the dreaded quest priest zone the ones i
22456s	feel we've already had more than enough
22458s	experience in after last week and we'll
22460s	see if super fake and pun can uh have a
22462s	bit of a smoother draw than what we saw
22464s	for the majority like last weekend
22467s	yeah i don't know who in the scheduling
22469s	department we've specifically annoyed
22471s	right now but
22473s	whoever it is i apologize wholeheartedly
22476s	i did not mean to cause whatever offense
22479s	i have caused please stop giving us the
22482s	quest priest series that is all
22484s	yeah we do see though uh both players
22486s	although they both have quest priests
22489s	and they have gone for the slightly
22491s	different uh bucket picks right like pun
22493s	has the warlock with the curses and
22496s	super fake has gone for the ever present
22498s	demon hunter comp that we've already
22500s	seen a lot of on stream so far today but
22502s	again i think this was the the law of
22504s	this comp for a lot of these players was
22506s	that rogue and priest give you options
22510s	right how do you want to build based on
22512s	uh what lineups you're expecting people
22514s	to bring
22515s	whereas a lot of the other buckets feel
22517s	like it's more well these three classes
22519s	mean i play these three decks very
22521s	generally speaking of course so i do
22524s	think that's why we see a lot of this
22525s	priest rogue choice from the players but
22528s	we'll see which one's stronger the demon
22530s	hunter going there for the more
22531s	aggressive approach or the warlock to
22534s	maybe uh sort of beat up on the players
22536s	who have chosen the slower options out
22538s	of the group
22540s	yeah for sure i do think looking at this
22542s	in particular was kind of interesting to
22544s	see
22545s	um
22546s	priest rogue with two different kind of
22548s	third classes thrown in with that it's
22550s	like the okay here are two good classes
22552s	that give you options and then you have
22554s	to choose your jank right it's a choose
22556s	your own adventure on janky third deck
22558s	that you have to throw in there because
22560s	demon hunter has kind of shown itself to
22562s	be that even though it can have some
22564s	success on ladder as you know generic
22566s	strong curve aggro decks can do it has
22568s	not had that level of success in grand
22571s	masters so far
22573s	and then certainly warlock yes there are
22576s	things that it can do yes curse warlock
22578s	has good matchups yes we have seen curse
22581s	warlock both perform very well and very
22582s	badly but it's not curse warlock is not
22585s	a deck that i would put in just the
22586s	generic good decks lineup right it's
22589s	kind of a
22590s	a tech lineup a target lineup kind of
22593s	deck that would have to be fit into this
22595s	as a final slot so i do find it very
22597s	interesting that these two pairs of
22599s	buckets were offered alongside each
22601s	other with such glaring similarities but
22603s	still
22604s	even if both players pick the same
22607s	lineups they both pick the same bucket
22608s	as we saw with um judgement and
22611s	possessive for example you can still go
22613s	in two massively different directions
22616s	with one of these rogue priest buckets
22618s	which is very interesting to see
22620s	yeah and just looking at this as well
22622s	from pun he's actually playing a
22624s	different rogue than the jackpot or the
22627s	mine rogue he's actually still playing
22628s	the boat rogue uh so a bit more sort of
22630s	straightforward tempo style here from
22633s	pun and that is going to be going up
22635s	against the quest priest and
22637s	where would you put this rogue
22640s	in terms of power level of going against
22642s	quest priests specifically subtle
22644s	because we know jackpot it's a bit of a
22646s	loose cannon right uh we we know mine
22649s	rogue is a kind of aggro agar aggro but
22652s	where does this deck slot in when going
22654s	against the quest
22657s	it's i
22658s	personally feel like i would rather have
22660s	the jackpot variation going into this
22662s	matchup um mine rogue if you want to
22665s	throw that in there is probably the one
22668s	because that can just set up so quickly
22670s	and blast the request pretty so quickly
22673s	uh that even if it is that excel quest
22675s	breeze with 40 health you can generally
22676s	just get there before they do anything
22678s	right if super fake had anything like
22680s	one of his draws that we saw in the
22683s	first series when he played the date
22685s	multiple times without really ever
22687s	completing quest step one let alone
22690s	getting anywhere else then mine rogue
22692s	would just absolutely delete them um
22695s	however this straight-up aggro deck boat
22697s	rogue does not have that same consistent
22699s	level of damage output that quickly they
22702s	kind of have to get to the point where
22704s	they're interacting with the big mid
22706s	game power plays which is super powerful
22708s	the light shower and the five mana
22710s	taunts that are available that can
22711s	really disrupt you
22712s	so it does feel like you run out of
22715s	steam with the boat rogue quite often
22718s	when you go up against this and that's
22720s	where you know jackpot test contraband
22723s	style stuff could
22724s	just come in and be helpful to keep you
22726s	in the game
22727s	we are seeing already super fake has
22729s	access to the tusk so he has the two
22732s	drops sorted out gets to dredge in okay
22735s	not gonna hit a three drop a little bit
22737s	unfortunate for him there is again i
22739s	think we talked about this last weekend
22740s	right where uh a lot of the weight of
22743s	the deck is around three and four uh
22745s	generally speaking so uh we'll see if he
22748s	can get hold of one in the near future
22750s	but again i guess it's fair to say that
22754s	it's not a match up where the quest is
22756s	to be on end all for super fake right
22758s	it's more useful for just drawing cards
22761s	than anything else
22762s	right
22781s	fake deep what
22784s	a lot of options this turned for him
22785s	though it's either attack or don't
22794s	and this is the awkward spot we've seen
22796s	him in on multiple occasions with this
22798s	deck and i do me now specifically just
22801s	missing that key piece to the early
22803s	curve of the step one of the quest line
22806s	and when you do get stuck into this
22807s	position in this case i believe just
22809s	looking for a three drop from super fake
22811s	the problem then comes is if you start
22813s	drawing those five drops and six drops
22815s	do you feel like you can play them
22817s	because every one of those you play
22819s	before you've completed quest step one
22821s	is suddenly holding you back from quest
22823s	step two
22825s	yeah definitely tricky and there's a
22828s	five drop as well so super fake
22830s	uh missing here he can actually attack
22833s	face and draw this turn right
22837s	yes it's something he can do and
22839s	honestly i think it's better than
22841s	playing hexane
22853s	i mean you're gonna need to either find
22855s	a three drop to complete this stage one
22858s	quest
22859s	or
22860s	some more solid anti-aggro cards than
22862s	you currently have in your hand in order
22864s	to last any significant extra amount of
22867s	time in this match-up i've got plenty of
22870s	mojo to pour out okay can i play the
22873s	accent go for the steel on the three one
22884s	it's not a bad pickup at all actually
22888s	would cost pun a
22891s	dagger though if he wants to make it
22893s	clean
22895s	yeah
22896s	it has
22898s	confused things a little bit
22902s	up until now this did look like a fairly
22904s	promising
22907s	uh just straight up akani on the board
22909s	potentially because it is going into
22910s	that turn five turn five is one of the
22913s	turns where big powerful minions can
22914s	start to come down however i would argue
22917s	that would be
22918s	more tempting if your opponent had
22920s	completed step one of the quest because
22922s	they were far more likely just to be
22924s	jamming big idiots on curve if they've
22926s	done that because that's generally how
22928s	they find their way through five six
22929s	seven there's also a question about how
22931s	pun's feeling of whether he can go edwin
22934s	he has a prep available and then could
22936s	always fall back onto shadow step if he
22938s	really wanted to
22946s	just prep two for three one okay you
22948s	know what hexson you win this round it
22950s	does mean the okani almost certainly
22953s	survives this turn
22964s	they're in a blood feather looking over
22966s	at that juicy six health
22968s	and i want some of that
22970s	yeah superficial noise making counter
22972s	though right it's never spell counter
22974s	it is almost never spell counting
22984s	so with both players not really getting
22987s	much done
22988s	i'm still leaning towards even though
22991s	super fake's turns look rough that super
22993s	fake still getting the better end of
22995s	this stick
22996s	right
23001s	girlfriend get the news
23003s	[Music]
23006s	yep
23007s	a little northern acknowledgement from
23009s	super fake i don't think anything
23010s	unexpected happened just then
23013s	just sacrificing the serena considering
23016s	it to be the use uh the least useful
23018s	card in the hand
23021s	well now there are options
23028s	i like the look of boat purely because
23030s	there is gun fishing available next turn
23033s	so many options
23036s	there's also the shadow step on the uh
23038s	okani right if if pun really wants to
23041s	give
23042s	some headaches which is quite
23044s	interesting for sure
23046s	because you can always go obviously your
23048s	downside by doing this is that you play
23050s	two three threes a turn later
23052s	um but you can always just go boat gone
23054s	fishing on the same turn right on six
23056s	that's a fairly common thing to see with
23059s	the curve of this deck
23061s	so then makes the argument like this
23062s	turn do you want to be doing an edwin
23064s	shadow step kind of thing not have much
23066s	mana available is it worth shadow
23068s	stepping akani for maybe more disruption
23070s	on say
23071s	a light shower elemental or undying
23073s	disciple kind of turn
23075s	but i think in the end
23077s	uh you have five mana player five mana
23079s	card is a hard argument to defeat
23084s	and also there's a reasonable reason to
23086s	just not get them all a weed so
23092s	if coming out now super fake just
23094s	digging for just anything
23101s	i think super fake might actually sign
23103s	the petition that we're handing around
23105s	to have us stop casting quest
23107s	based at this point because it feels
23109s	like we're cursing his stage one quests
23111s	at this point yeah super fake and pasco
23114s	had the same
23115s	that's fair
23117s	yeah the drake's available now though
23119s	seems reasonable to me
23123s	i don't know if super fake wants to like
23125s	d i don't think you assume like oh
23126s	they're gonna go fishing next turn and
23128s	then get three and then all four of them
23131s	live and then drake's good it did decide
23133s	to go for tailin instead but i
23135s	definitely would have had a strong look
23137s	at that near the drake
23140s	phillip fighter now being a
23142s	pretty sick pickup honestly
23145s	in terms of dealing with the divine
23147s	shield efficiently
23149s	i wonder
23152s	still staring at these shadow steps as
23154s	well
23157s	could look at a bit of a well a full
23160s	clear with
23161s	philip
23162s	raider 3-3
23165s	double trade into the
23167s	hexane and just step the obcarni and go
23170s	fishing
23171s	maybe not in that exact or dry outline
23173s	then but you get the gist
23175s	yeah i mean the step has to happen for
23177s	sure just to activate the combo on the
23178s	gone fishing is certainly the first
23180s	thing that happens and since you're
23182s	wanting to spend five this turn on the
23185s	uh
23187s	maybe edwin philip fighter this does
23189s	make sense no okay he's going to go
23191s	replay the okani just to play around the
23192s	clear this this is fine yeah it just
23194s	defends the board so well right he just
23197s	does really he's even going to use the
23199s	kidstab which i do like here killing off
23202s	the tailing which means he gets to
23203s	retain an additional 3-3 and honestly
23205s	there aren't that many ways in which
23208s	this board gets cleared with the okani
23210s	active
23215s	okay thrive now foul never minion here
23218s	play the colossal go
23222s	thrive is now found which is not a three
23225s	mana spell but can at least go digging
23227s	for uh what two copies of devouring
23229s	plague which are still remaining in the
23231s	deck the majority of the three cost
23232s	cards in the deck are minions however
23234s	and trap sorceress uh renethal itself
23237s	and venomous scorpid of course
23242s	but otherwise
23244s	you're feeling like you're in trouble
23246s	because you have two relatively decent
23248s	feeling plays into this board state
23251s	and you know that neither of them are
23253s	going to work
23256s	oh okay
23258s	does hit the devouring plague at the
23259s	very least
23267s	popsicle
23269s	yep makes sense
23275s	play it right
23279s	ever worth looking in the other cool
23281s	first just before you spend the three
23283s	mana yeah he's going to do so does not
23285s	get anything that activates however
23292s	no quest progression right yep
23297s	okay
23299s	is this a smart shadow step actually or
23301s	is it edwin's step
23303s	it could be an edwin step yeah
23306s	i mean it could also be an edwin leave
23308s	depending on what happens because
23316s	let's count some damage you're pushing
23319s	12 this turn smite would be 18 so
23321s	opponent goes down to 19 you then step
23324s	it back to your hand
23325s	and then let's say whirlpool happens
23327s	right because that's the fear you're
23329s	currently minion blocking so if
23330s	whirlpool is in the hand there's very
23332s	little that you can do to play around
23334s	that
23335s	you are then spending
23337s	five mana on smite on the following turn
23339s	it still doesn't get you very far does
23341s	it alongside the uh the edwin what if
23343s	there isn't whirlpool
23345s	well then we're kind of winning anyway
23347s	can we just turn our brains off and go
23349s	face if that's the case
23350s	exactly with smite
23354s	oh nice shadow step on the oconee puns
23357s	saying you know what i'm gonna continue
23359s	making your life difficult
23363s	interesting so this is now essentially a
23365s	switch because that was an unprocessed
23367s	minion thing on the oh no no no the
23369s	popsicle was played right yeah yeah the
23371s	popsicle was dealt with yeah yeah okay
23373s	that's fine it's gone spell this time
23374s	saw ready for the whirlpool yeah that's
23377s	what i was about to say is if it feels
23378s	like you're just swapping minion to
23380s	spell at that point but forgetting that
23381s	the popsicle had been played to proc the
23383s	minion but yeah switching to spell this
23385s	time to play around the whirlpool
23387s	it is one of the punished one of the
23389s	reasons why quest priest is just not a
23391s	particularly good deck is the fact that
23394s	well their quest literally tells them to
23396s	play one card on curve for the entire
23399s	game
23400s	and since they are sometimes unable to
23402s	do that because of counter play that you
23403s	have available it can really limit their
23405s	options on some occasions
23419s	i think pun has to go fishing with edwin
23422s	right this colossal is a bit of a
23424s	problem
23426s	it is
23427s	and this is the fear right with the
23430s	spell with the spell block instead of
23432s	the minion block because
23434s	you know a couple of times ago you
23436s	killed a tail and four drink
23438s	which either draws your opponent black
23440s	water behemoth or mutinous one of those
23442s	two is guaranteed you didn't really have
23445s	a plan to deal with behemoth right based
23448s	on what i can see because the plan to
23450s	deal with it now is not particularly
23452s	good
23454s	uh and mutinous it has to be said like
23456s	munching on your smite could have been
23457s	potentially dangerous here as well
23460s	so i'm not sure like obviously whirlpool
23462s	is significantly more devastating than
23464s	this is but you knew that there was a 50
23468s	percent chance that behemoth was in hand
23470s	based on the taylor on the previous turn
23472s	so questions to be asked here for sure i
23474s	think like puns gonna kill the behemoth
23476s	now
23477s	just say you know what it healed you for
23479s	eight obviously eight beforehand as well
23482s	but
23483s	if i kill you now with five minions it
23485s	still heals you for eight total so get
23487s	that dealt with get it gone refocus up
23490s	because now there's still the vancleaf
23492s	on board
23496s	i'm now just praying for no whirlpool
23498s	principally i would imagine there is a
23501s	moa forge fiend that can put a slight
23502s	wall in the way there's a light shower
23504s	that can put a slight wall in the way
23505s	there's still
23506s	no proc on the three mana card
23521s	oh yeah there's still no three brockers
23530s	oh fiends coming down here about as much
23532s	as super fake can do
23534s	as the crab
23539s	pun wants the option to play ocarina
23542s	again in the future
23544s	without the scaps
23553s	realistically though
23554s	125
23557s	i think
23557s	[Music]
23558s	is not really close to enough because
23560s	the forge fiend is going off
23563s	rabbit tower still feels very clean
23565s	though doesn't it it does yeah
23569s	interesting question though would you
23570s	actually double trade the claws or would
23572s	you take the damage
23576s	think i'm okay taking eight it seems
23578s	fairly irrelevant honestly
23583s	you know that there are um desperate
23585s	prayers in your opponent's deck as well
23588s	to mitigate
23590s	he's bumbling a different way here's he
23592s	going for a vessel instead
23595s	double trades the threes and then puts
23597s	okay in for a clean kill or the weapon i
23600s	guess
23601s	we have to make a space to get the two
23603s	crowds in anyway right oh sure to make
23605s	one trade happen or else you miss out on
23607s	a floor
23609s	there isn't really one way to do this
23612s	exactly yeah i like this i mean still
23614s	answering your question i think you
23615s	still take the damage even though it's
23617s	not really that clean make sure you
23619s	maximize the weapon juice where you can
23621s	as long as you have this edwin trucking
23623s	along every turn
23626s	you really don't have too much to worry
23627s	about
23629s	unlike super fake who has chosen to play
23631s	quest priest yeah a bit of a big problem
23634s	earlier as well uh the turn if you
23636s	remember when super fake played both of
23638s	the death rattle spells
23640s	it meant that the nether drake's not
23642s	active anymore and he's not gotten to
23644s	another shadow spell which means these
23646s	three threes have just sat there all
23649s	game uh so maybe if you know the old
23652s	rewind time trick uh holding on to one
23655s	of those is the only shadow spell was
23656s	actually worthwhile for super fake
23659s	easy to say that at this point in the
23661s	game obviously but it did kick him
23663s	pretty quickly afterwards when he used
23664s	them both
23665s	right
23668s	yeah that was very fair and something at
23669s	the time i wasn't even considering like
23672s	i shouted out like maybe it's worth
23673s	playing the second quarter of the grave
23675s	to try and fish for something
23677s	uh when you had three mana as opposed to
23678s	just playing out the popsy cooler but
23680s	yes certainly turning off these nether
23683s	drakes has been a big deal not that
23684s	these nether drakes would have solved
23685s	the edwin problem that he's of course
23688s	right now but it would have been for
23690s	example on any of these turns right the
23692s	three threes go away and then you can
23694s	and you can play it with something else
23696s	for super fake to actually gain some
23698s	level of board but yeah really really
23700s	tough decisions here uh from super fake
23702s	trying to hold on and being completely
23704s	neutered in the uh in the quest
23706s	department
23711s	one has the option to just wicked stab
23713s	this away because i think he has a very
23715s	fair read that there's no good aoe here
23717s	for super fake so why not keep the
23719s	minions
23720s	yeah no good aoe in hand he's seen one
23723s	thrive get used and obviously not take a
23725s	whirlpool because his minions still
23727s	exist um and 20 24 cards still remaining
23731s	in deck which makes it incredibly low
23733s	odds to be drawing it out so yep i fully
23735s	respect this get that mr smite down get
23737s	that damage jammed in because you just
23740s	have the uh straight up boat damage to
23742s	be thrown in the following time
23745s	it yeah i didn't even count
23747s	when pun started queuing outside he's
23749s	queuing this very quickly and very
23751s	confidently is this lethal that i looked
23753s	i was like oh yeah it is lethal we're
23754s	idiots congratulations to pun winning
23757s	game one there and honestly
23759s	i think that yes of course super fake
23762s	got a little bit unlucky couldn't get
23764s	the three drop down so i couldn't really
23766s	start ramping up the plan of the quest
23768s	but i do like pun's use of okani and
23771s	puns saying you know what this matchup
23773s	could actually be very difficult so i'm
23775s	going to do something a little bit
23776s	different uh you know non-standard
23779s	player i would say to like
23780s	cause issues for super fake and that the
23783s	problems pun presented him with along
23786s	with super fake getting a bit unlucky
23787s	with his draws in general just added up
23790s	to a fairly smooth game from pun and i
23792s	think it was a very well played indeed
23795s	yeah i'm a big fan of the way that pun
23797s	tried to play this game being as
23799s	disruptive as humanly possible um
23802s	obviously super fake had the bad start
23804s	which meant he got stalled on that
23805s	initial step of quest which is what
23807s	always happens the only question i have
23810s	is
23810s	whether with however many cards would
23813s	have been remaining at that point 28
23815s	something in the region of that
23816s	um whether using the said the second
23818s	shadow step to play around the whirlpool
23820s	was worth but i think it probably was in
23824s	that position um and then the debate is
23826s	even if you're using the shadow step do
23828s	you play around the whirlpool or do you
23829s	play around the lifestyle minion that
23832s	they know they have um i guess pun
23834s	answers that question with flying colors
23836s	however because in the world in which we
23838s	currently exist
23839s	the lifestyle minion came down and he
23841s	beat it comfortably so kind of
23843s	illustrating the point that didn't
23844s	really matter that much in that scenario
23847s	um so i think the whirlpool play on
23849s	reflection is probably fair enough in
23851s	that position and super fake now gonna
23854s	take a brief vacation from quest priest
23856s	at the very least yeah just to found no
23858s	i just like it because it's very easy
23860s	display right where he beat the colossal
23864s	and retained board he wouldn't have done
23866s	the same versus whirlpool because that's
23868s	literally what it does is delete the
23869s	board so yeah really cool game there uh
23872s	from pun super fake as you said is
23873s	jumping over to demon hunter but let's
23876s	not be ridiculous over here in our
23879s	pairing we love casting quest priests so
23881s	guess what we're gonna do it again as
23883s	that is gonna be uh from puns side this
23885s	time so let's see if we can get a little
23887s	bit more fortunate and make that quest
23889s	progression just that little bit more
23890s	smooth
23892s	yeah and i'm realizing now of course
23894s	we're supposed to be hard rooting for
23896s	every game of quest priest in this
23897s	series uh so that we can avoid the
23900s	inevitable
23901s	the looming sense of doom that is on the
23904s	horizon the quest priest mirror that
23908s	awaits us all
23911s	i feel like that you've joked about it
23913s	now it's actually going to happen i this
23916s	is no bias i love super fake but oh i
23918s	wish i hope pum wins this game
23921s	just to get quest priests out of the way
23922s	for one of the players at least but yes
23925s	we'll see how it goes and again
23927s	it's not even i think what's key here is
23930s	the the quest progression isn't solely
23933s	to win the game with the end point right
23936s	it's actually to discover more cards and
23939s	keep your hand size in a good position
23941s	and keep your options open because when
23943s	you have access to a lot of options in
23946s	priest it's very difficult for you to
23948s	lose because you normally do have our
23950s	answers to any particular board state
23952s	it's also like it's just a general
23955s	indicator of how good your draw is right
23958s	like
23959s	the more steps of quest you complete in
23961s	a deck that is built to play individual
23964s	cards for the amount of mana they cost
23965s	on that turn if you don't play a two on
23968s	two or a three on three or a four on
23970s	four or a five on five or whatever then
23972s	you're drawing badly because that's what
23974s	your deck is designed to do so it just
23976s	like the the quest not being completed
23979s	is an indicator that you are drawing
23981s	badly to begin with and then because
23983s	you're missing out on quest procs which
23985s	let you draw more cards from your deck
23987s	it then causes you to draw even worse
23989s	compounding itself on top of that so
23992s	it's kind of a disaster overall
23999s	hey though super fake getting off to a
24001s	pretty solid start still has that need
24003s	for greed which may well get cycled away
24005s	soon
24006s	one though has his choice
24008s	of two drops a uh
24011s	oh
24014s	coin
24016s	oh no this is probably okay right
24018s	condemn into devouring plague it looks
24020s	fine
24024s	don't play a condemn this time you could
24025s	play far watch post and it kind of does
24027s	two damage to the board anyway do you
24030s	know if it doesn't simply have to trade
24032s	chomped by a weapon right sure yeah
24035s	that's the slight worry and then you
24037s	certainly started taking a lot of damage
24040s	but i do think condemn is a two damage
24041s	aoe that you're not just throwing away
24043s	right now or maybe saving for turn 5106
24046s	or something um could be useful later on
24049s	against like a zillah
24052s	you know whatever else can come out like
24054s	very the token summony deck is a demon
24057s	hunter which condemn can be quite useful
24059s	against in general
24068s	interesting choices i'm trying to think
24070s	about how good deliverance is versus
24073s	demon hunter right now i don't think
24076s	it's that good
24083s	just devour those options of death be if
24086s	you're expecting you know the curtis
24087s	turn to be able to just two mana and
24089s	tell one of the bats to go away at least
24093s	what is elune's will i think it's devour
24096s	deliverance for me not entirely sure
24099s	which one again deliverance
24102s	probably the only super appealing target
24105s	i can think of is the gelark
24109s	again that might be a good enough
24111s	argument
24118s	low turn here for super fake the sigil
24120s	two mana is quite the commitment he
24123s	wants to get extra card next turn but
24124s	also
24126s	need for greed trade cuts into what
24128s	you're even allowed to do this turn
24130s	anyway
24131s	very tricky
24135s	actually facing down this scorpion on
24137s	the other side right it only really dies
24139s	to the metamorphing which isn't really
24142s	the trade you want to make
24144s	yeah sculpt it's so annoying
24147s	you do have the hero power to weave in
24148s	here if you're not going to trade the
24150s	need for greed which i do agree with i
24151s	think this hand is so gassed out already
24154s	you probably do you just need to hard
24155s	cast need for greed on the following
24157s	turn
24157s	uh so that means
24162s	answer
24164s	fake if you need some lessons on how to
24166s	draw up until turn four with quest
24168s	priests
24169s	oh
24170s	it's how you do it
24173s	on just pick another nether drake here
24175s	obviously didn't get off at the five
24176s	drop which would have just been a
24178s	priority
24179s	let's go for the xyrella i was actually
24181s	just staring at the other drake
24184s	my instinct was the xyrella
24187s	hard to explain why other than eight
24190s	drops are very rare in the deck overall
24193s	legendary i mean there is also that but
24196s	you're still somewhere away like if
24197s	you're staring at a hand that has a
24199s	light shower elemental and an undying
24201s	disciple in it
24202s	then obviously you'd snap yeah because
24204s	that feels like you're just running the
24206s	game out at that point but there's no
24208s	guarantee you're going to draw any of
24209s	these cards from that point but still
24210s	for some reason my instinct was to uh to
24212s	pick up the xyrella it just feels like
24214s	the security card you're going to need
24218s	right now on a hand that is actually
24221s	still under threat of getting out valued
24223s	by demon hunter even though they have
24224s	zero cards in their hands you know
24227s	yeah
24229s	how do you like condemn coin oh carney
24232s	here
24235s	my only counter argument to that would
24238s	be
24239s	curtrous on curve
24241s	kind of the perfect play into that your
24244s	opponent is very low on resources and is
24246s	unlikely to have that play however
24255s	i guess the question after that then is
24257s	if
24258s	pun is afraid of curtris
24261s	yup what is the play right well because
24264s	so i have a further question i'm
24266s	actually fine with the condem okani play
24270s	for the reason where if kurtris does
24272s	then come through and trades into the
24274s	blademaster
24276s	you have uh deliverance or um whatever
24280s	else uh devouring plague to be able to
24282s	clean up the leftover of the bats quite
24284s	efficiently with whatever trades and
24286s	rushing of the new copy you need so you
24288s	would be able to answer the best case
24289s	scenario anyway uh so i certainly
24291s	wouldn't rule it out
24293s	but it is still a really really juicy
24296s	trade for the opponent if you go with
24297s	that route superfaint now
24300s	it has some burn but the problem is burn
24302s	just doesn't work when it's so little
24305s	against this priest it's got access to
24307s	tons of healing we can see the desperate
24309s	prayer in puns hand
24312s	just looking rough is this gonna be a
24314s	deliverance just to kill it off
24317s	i think so i think you want it dead
24319s	right as a pun because you don't want
24321s	them uh super fake to have more card
24323s	draw
24324s	agreed yeah i did just check by the way
24326s	zero foul spells that i can see in the
24328s	deck for uh for punch
24334s	you know sometimes you just get a cheeky
24335s	one snuck into the wrong class it
24337s	wouldn't end up being an honorable kill
24339s	anyway
24340s	just in case you could manipulate that
24342s	from happening i thought i'd take a look
24344s	through
24345s	well paul of course is nature is kind of
24346s	the weird one that's uh sticking out but
24348s	other than that fairly standard holy and
24350s	shadow stuff
24356s	tested the uh
24358s	khani
24362s	if it gets to clear it up but at what
24365s	cost like
24366s	what's even the draws at this point just
24368s	just the big boys curtis you like like
24371s	anything like that because right now i
24373s	guess the other need for greed would be
24375s	okay for super fake but
24378s	hun even though pun isn't really hitting
24380s	his five drops he's also not even
24382s	remotely close to losing this game
24391s	this is the only downside for pun right
24393s	now is he has a hand that contains
24396s	close to literally zero value
24400s	but he will never die
24410s	a strike not a bad pick up literally
24412s	anything that can draw cards one man
24414s	okay
24415s	like the the abyss active for this turn
24417s	so super fake's gonna have to wait
24420s	it is at the very least something though
24423s	not literally nothing
24426s	and probably means you have to allocate
24429s	clearing up this venomous scorpion with
24431s	the predation this time
24433s	uh other hero power ring
24435s	oh sorry i've totally blanked in the
24437s	fact you already had to attack yeah no
24438s	this is absolutely fine
24444s	a card
24445s	a card
24447s	realistically
24449s	with light shower the heels the aoe the
24452s	xyrella
24453s	i don't like calling games early sort of
24455s	but what does super fake possibly have
24457s	to do to win this game
24461s	raven flexing what we call in the
24463s	business host privilege of never having
24466s	to come up with the answers in
24467s	situations like this just goes to say
24469s	yeah okay you ask me you ask me okay
24472s	okay okay so i don't like calling games
24474s	over raven but from this position what
24477s	does super fake possibly need to do to
24479s	get back into this game the thing's
24481s	probably lost
24482s	yeah fair enough
24484s	sorry i asked it was a dumb question you
24486s	should never have asked it in the first
24487s	place
24490s	upon taking the victory with the priest
24493s	our prayers have been answered a priest
24496s	has won
24498s	goes up to zero and again even though
24500s	pun had the okay opening for the quest
24503s	didn't get to progress either but just
24505s	had enough to hold on and uh super fake
24508s	once again just not getting what he
24510s	needed right not keeping up the pressure
24512s	not getting the high card draw count and
24514s	not really putting their uh pun in any
24517s	real danger and that's kind of what i
24518s	was sort of alluding to in the way
24520s	southside is laughing before is that um
24523s	that there was so even though there
24524s	wasn't quest progression or game ending
24526s	potential from pun he had double
24528s	condemned double desperate prayer he had
24531s	the light shower on board obviously he
24532s	just got the colossal at that point as
24534s	you can see there but even before that
24537s	with what um what super fake could have
24539s	even drawn there was just nothing that
24542s	was realistically gonna put pun in any
24544s	real danger so he goes 2-0 up and now
24547s	subtle it's down to the curse warlock
24549s	with a a cheeky emulate in there
24553s	a cheeky immolate indeed i do love this
24556s	card whether it's good or not i love it
24559s	yeah i remember when we were first
24561s	messing with the expansion this was the
24563s	first thing that you uh you threw out at
24565s	me with the emulate coming out yeah
24567s	uh big deal i think potentially for you
24570s	know the slow grindy up that may or may
24573s	not be presented uh with the quest
24575s	priest coming up right which if super
24578s	fake is going to win the series that's
24579s	certainly a matchup that needs to happen
24581s	um and honestly might be the match up
24583s	that pun is looking towards with the
24585s	curse warlock here overall because you
24587s	know aggro demon hunter might just be
24589s	operating a little bit too quickly
24590s	although that is a pretty fantastic
24592s	looking opening hand to be able to deal
24594s	with uh with aggro demon hunter on the
24596s	other side but certainly i can see emily
24599s	doing some uh some real damage to some
24601s	quest priest hands if they are able to
24603s	find the right one even take that away
24604s	right think about pun going into this
24606s	week if he's expecting people to go
24608s	rogue priest whatever
24610s	and well it's pretty good versus ball
24613s	priest as well right yes you know like
24615s	there's a lot of good cards dating board
24616s	priests and and and i think that just
24619s	the inclusion of just a one-off yes 40
24621s	card deck one of zaha and all that but
24624s	if you're gonna include extra cards i
24626s	think there was a very good reason for
24628s	that from pun so we'll see if it makes
24630s	an impact at least in this series but
24632s	now you are right super fake has a much
24635s	better opening than what we've seen from
24637s	him basically all series across all
24639s	classes
24640s	yeah i would say be careful with the
24643s	assessment of immolate against boar
24644s	priests because i have actually you know
24646s	gone through that interaction a few
24648s	times like if you hit balls they can
24650s	just be played out on board most of the
24651s	time that's fine if you hit amulets
24654s	it's any still in hand yeah they're
24656s	destroyed so you can just trade them
24658s	back into the deck at key moments right
24660s	before the the bomb goes off so there's
24662s	very few like
24663s	game ending snipes that you can really
24666s	hit with the mla but it is a
24668s	extra layer of complexity that you can
24670s	heap upon the board priest and that's
24672s	kind of how we've been seeing bull
24674s	priests lose games right just disrupt
24676s	them enough that they get confused and
24678s	throw that generally seems to be like i
24680s	mean those match-ups it would work
24682s	against me but yeah even just like using
24685s	up heels or maybe having to like deal
24687s	with a pyromancer getting hit right like
24689s	those are hurdles you don't where is the
24691s	one deal with yeah that's ball priest so
24694s	uh anyway we'll cross that bridge if we
24695s	come to it for now
24697s	uh pun is getting there taking some hits
24699s	here but again with double baker drain
24702s	soul torch
24704s	all looking at least comfortable for now
24706s	even demonic assault very solid uh if
24709s	you sort of discount the glaive turns
24712s	from demon hunter
24715s	i just this draw is just gross it's just
24718s	every anti-agro card in the deck so far
24721s	like this is absolutely disgusting up
24723s	until this point yeah like i said even
24725s	demonic assault big deal uh apart from
24728s	the glaive turns right so
24730s	uh plenty of throwaway cards than once
24734s	that's kind of it does the same job no
24736s	matter what
24737s	yeah exactly
24739s	oh the one two still has taunts slight
24742s	discrepancy
24748s	well and there's not two four on the
24750s	board i guess yeah i mean i guess that's
24752s	true
24754s	probably a more crucial detail now that
24756s	you like
24757s	interesting enough here though subtle
24759s	when we look at puns potential next turn
24762s	even though he's got all this anti-aggro
24764s	got this heal do you feel he's safe
24766s	enough
24767s	play the rod
24769s	i think super fake needs to do
24771s	everything in his power to prevent that
24773s	from happening which is what he's trying
24775s	to do right now with this slitherspear
24777s	but
24778s	he has not been taken below starting
24780s	health yet in this game so if you were
24783s	to phrase the question as
24785s	would you put would you put prince
24787s	renethal in your deck if instead of
24788s	putting 40 cards in your deck and giving
24790s	you 10 extra health you just started the
24792s	game with a rod equipped
24794s	i probably take that yeah
24797s	[Music]
24802s	i think the only
24804s	worry pun is having right now is
24808s	if
24809s	he plays rod and his follow-up is baker
24813s	drain soul
24814s	it weirdly might not be good enough
24816s	right because it doesn't actually clear
24818s	a board it kills a minion can kill the
24820s	slither spear but super fake gets a
24823s	whole potentially a curtrous worth of
24825s	turn next turn
24827s	i think curtrice is the big fear because
24830s	there's no wave there's no tams in to be
24832s	able to follow this up with wave would
24835s	be great because you'd quite happily you
24836s	could yeah
24837s	customer as well if you could go rod
24839s	into aoe
24840s	and then from there re-establish and
24842s	just start going like tap baker and then
24844s	tap something drain soul based off the
24847s	starting point of an empty board i think
24849s	you have all the time in the world to be
24850s	able to do that if you're able to go rod
24852s	into tamzin or rod into customer and
24854s	just be able to clear everything up
24856s	straight away i think you have all the
24857s	time in the world to do that
24859s	play this get smacked for 10 or so plus
24861s	an additional board still not have an
24863s	aoe available that starts to get really
24865s	scary so i think pun that's one of the
24868s	longest turns we've seen him play so far
24870s	this series and i think rightly so just
24872s	based on the the difficulty of the
24874s	position but i think he's reached the
24876s	right assessment in the end
24878s	and super
24879s	fake dark contrast to the previous game
24882s	actually has cards to play this turn yes
24885s	always helpful
24887s	in your card game
24889s	of cards
24891s	oh man she's outside
24894s	he agrees though
24896s	big fan of cards famous for it even
24899s	stoked
24900s	strike now
24911s	any of the aoe tools would be clutch for
24913s	pun now oh well there's one
24917s	problem is we we're staring at you next
24919s	turn which is a little bit frustrating
24922s	yes
24925s	okay
24927s	are you gonna come if he doesn't play
24930s	not that much damage so i looked at it i
24933s	looked at it i don't think it's the most
24935s	ridiculous question you've asked me
24936s	today i look to just like tap respite
24938s	today on the end didn't you
24940s	emphasize the fact that i've already
24942s	asked dumb stuff today there's no need
24944s	for that soul you could have left that
24945s	word off but it would have been okay
24949s	wait this is a new twist for raven
24951s	calling out the the subtle disses that
24953s	are thrown into of random sentences
24956s	successfully you just let them go and
24958s	just cry yourself to sleep at night and
24960s	just internalize how do you know you
24962s	know
24968s	not too bad at all again priority number
24971s	one is killing the colossal itself
24973s	i think the grimoire might be
24977s	more of the portal call here though you
24979s	can use it on the mystery guess with the
24981s	mistress yeah yeah
24982s	oh super fake cannot believe it
24985s	yeah grandma sacrificed huge pick up
24987s	there there's your luck could hang
24988s	around that's no problem whatsoever just
24990s	make sure you are dealing with those
24991s	tentacles
24993s	clean up that damage and now we're
24994s	starting to get into bran bread baker
24996s	territory as well which is gonna be
24998s	absolutely massive yeah but what's also
25001s	massive is bone clay if like that thing
25003s	hits like a truck
25011s	should i say
25013s	super fake still got a lot of damage
25015s	disgusting levels of damage actually
25020s	feels like the closest game we've had
25022s	all their match here
25023s	so far
25025s	both players actually allowed to play
25043s	exclusively to a minion there i was just
25046s	counting like the total damage from hand
25048s	if you went all face opponent was at 18
25051s	you had another five damage plus two
25053s	furys
25054s	at rank two which is eleven you had
25056s	predation which is 14 and then if you
25058s	got the fel barrage to go face as well
25061s	you'd be looking at the 18 that you need
25062s	but in that world you haven't dealt with
25065s	any of those pesky minions that's on the
25067s	board at the time so it was a little bit
25069s	awkward i actually really love brand
25071s	spice right here
25072s	i'm just gonna go away from that feeling
25074s	a little bit more confident i'm just
25076s	thinking if
25077s	if pun goes bran spice bread
25080s	he heals for a million
25082s	there's also a bran on board that super
25083s	fake simply has to kill
25086s	yes doesn't that just give him like
25087s	three more turns or something in the
25090s	game at least
25092s	that was definitely my plan at the start
25094s	of the turn once the knoll was drawn
25097s	though i think this line with tap null
25100s	bread baker yes looks really really
25102s	strong as well
25103s	excellent value trade for the knoll you
25105s	still get enough healing that you're you
25107s	know close to 100 confident that you're
25109s	alive for one turn and then you can just
25111s	put them into that horrible brand
25113s	position next time oh he's not even
25115s	gonna go bread baker
25117s	and go with the okani instead okay i
25119s	respect it what's the call though gonna
25122s	go spell okay
25132s	can super fake afford to play a spell
25134s	into this
25137s	precious resource in super fake's hand
25140s	right now are cheap spells
25143s	but what he would like is every single
25146s	point of damage from these spells
25150s	preferably stacked up upon a lady's
25152s	thano as well yeah
25154s	i think super fake in this scenario
25157s	starts with fel barrage right because
25159s	it's the card that does the least damage
25160s	to face
25165s	however
25166s	it is also the card that solves the
25168s	problem of the five one which is quite
25170s	annoying you do kind of want that thing
25172s	dead right sooner rather than later
25176s	in this scenario as demon hunter i lose
25178s	all foot like attention span for the
25180s	board and just go but how much damage
25182s	can i deal to face sure you just uh you
25185s	just break out the old face hunter
25186s	blinder that you built six years ago and
25189s	just pop it back over the screen yeah
25198s	yeah i think that five one has to die
25201s	okay pun
25203s	push six he's going to lock an
25204s	application so he's going to lock in the
25206s	second one right if you play in the
25207s	first one you play in the second one i
25209s	guess use the mana while you've got it
25210s	oh or not i thought you cued him
25215s	because i'm guessing that was because of
25217s	a j straw right
25219s	yes i think so exactly jace it's
25221s	pre-locked in can't play them both in
25222s	the same turn because they're not zero
25224s	mana and still
25226s	exactly you can play fury hero power
25228s	jace if you draw jace but you can't put
25230s	any predations in so it's technically
25232s	max damage if you're going down that
25233s	route super fake did tweet after week
25236s	one that you know he was happy with the
25237s	lineup happy with the performance but he
25239s	could not be making that level of dumb
25241s	mistake that he did during his games
25243s	which he did admittedly like no one is
25245s	hiding from that he made some very very
25247s	silly mistakes during his games so just
25249s	kind of roping out in that position
25252s	he'll be kicking himself for it
25254s	jorly looking at gotta be tired
25257s	please yeah don't keep us waiting it's
25260s	just so strong because bran has to be
25262s	answered because there could be a second
25264s	spice bread that can be the curses that
25266s	can be the um
25267s	the legendary i always forget the name
25270s	of uh zakil
25274s	like there's so many problems that bran
25276s	provides that it simply
25278s	has to die
25283s	super fake dread prison glaive
25287s	doesn't get in there especially because
25289s	now fury's rank three he can't clean
25292s	kill anything with it
25301s	you can lock in the predation this turn
25302s	for jay's next turn
25305s	awesome
25308s	doesn't seem smart actually should
25309s	probably spend our mana on predation
25311s	while we have it in case we draw in draw
25313s	yeah that's very smart raven yeah he's
25315s	gonna push the one kill the brand he
25317s	simply has to save the fury again same
25319s	result as previous turn right if jace is
25321s	drawn fiora is still double castable if
25324s	you lock it first but
25327s	hello
25332s	you ever just tempo that this turn as a
25334s	five-five
25336s	i wouldn't hate it because a weird
25339s	situation is that curses can prox athena
25342s	right
25346s	sure yeah okay i don't even want to just
25348s	throw the odd random curse out
25351s	i mean it probably doesn't oh well you
25353s	might throw that odd random curtain well
25355s	he might now we can change maybe not now
25358s	but play the other one right just to
25360s	beef up the curses
25367s	pretty reasonable to just jam them both
25369s	out in the same turn
25371s	he'll for three be at 22.
25375s	uh you if you are actually playing this
25377s	game you have to be a lot less lazy than
25379s	i am right now and count jace damage and
25381s	consider what 22 actually looks like i
25384s	like this a lot because this it's just
25385s	good heel right just play safe just get
25388s	loads of help again
25389s	you still get the curse option next turn
25392s	anyway
25395s	straight into cythena with the curse
25398s	terrible
25400s	yeah curse but no curtris which you know
25403s	you draws to thano you haven't found
25405s	jace you haven't found curtris yeah you
25407s	get to juice a couple of spells off this
25409s	but it's just
25412s	it's not really doing anything without
25414s	the hero power juice from the curtris
25416s	it's not getting you closer to your wing
25418s	condition it's just taking a bit of
25420s	damage off the board
25423s	where people's in stunned silence
25425s	thinking wait so then i didn't just win
25427s	the game
25428s	right what's going on
25430s	oh
25432s	big draw
25434s	[Laughter]
25436s	nice tech card dummy
25442s	pond if you don't acknowledge that
25444s	that's funny please can you acknowledge
25446s	the fact that you've just drawn emily
25447s	and that's very funny might in
25449s	approximately 30 odd minutes
25453s	okay maybe a bit longer actually
25458s	one could definitely afford to play the
25460s	mithril rod now not that it
25463s	particularly gets him anywhere it just
25465s	depends on how he wants to spend his
25466s	mana he could go for an aggressive
25468s	approach right and just go zakul and
25470s	queen ashara
25472s	just double trade into the city and just
25474s	build a huge board does so potential em
25477s	from uh
25478s	uh
25481s	case as well right for the fel barrages
25483s	and predations so if you have those big
25485s	minions on board
25487s	yes and while we were busy laughing at
25489s	the immolate draw i think pun was doing
25492s	what should have perhaps been done the
25495s	previous so what i was saying could have
25496s	been done the previous turn making sure
25498s	that jace maths was on point and so that
25500s	there was no possible world he died to
25503s	max damage jace this term which i think
25505s	is why you are seeing the uh voice come
25508s	out for the tournament in this scenario
25511s	okay the signs of life
25512s	the super fake as he gets exactly
25514s	curtras into jace can kill off at least
25517s	two uh three sorry of these minions gets
25519s	the three damage to face as well there
25521s	is still a game of hearthstone being
25523s	played here song
25536s	you're faking a value trade
25539s	i mean he's considering it obviously but
25543s	exactly uh sitting pretty on a lot of
25545s	health right now
25547s	no but the bran is gone and curses are
25551s	only on one currently right so there is
25553s	there'll be two now right yeah the next
25556s	one will be on two exactly um but they
25558s	still pretty minimal damage output
25561s	overall has to be sent
25564s	these renathel decks i went to click
25566s	remaining cards so we can see what he's
25568s	got left 17 cards 17. we need this
25571s	illegal maneuver
25573s	so many
25574s	possibilities uh there's actually trade
25577s	coil into mutinous or tap into mutinous
25580s	dreadlich tamzin's still available of
25582s	course for pun2 in the deck
25585s	uh zola to get double zakul potentially
25591s	much mistress of mixtures just shouting
25593s	out cards that may be impactful exactly
25595s	this turn
25599s	because of the trade with the o'carney
25602s	could just get that without having to
25603s	spend mana still less targets for his
25605s	own drain soul if he really feels like
25607s	he needs it
25613s	having just looked myself the guaranteed
25617s	face attack damage off the jace is only
25619s	10 at the moment
25621s	because two of those remaining five
25623s	cards are the second chaos strike and
25624s	the second fury which is obviously rank
25626s	three and represents a phenomenal amount
25628s	of damage if you pick that up here the
25631s	rest of the damage is obviously rng with
25632s	predations and fell barrages and so on
25635s	and that's a minion draw which is the
25637s	worst draw in the deck
25640s	oh no at least he's got the manner to
25642s	play the curse please
25646s	[Music]
25647s	see what happens is gonna lock in that
25649s	hero power of course in one goes face
25653s	there is no measure too much
25655s	extra the chaos strike although kind of
25657s	unimportant because it's hero power
25659s	anyway
25660s	big heels from the mistress of mixtures
25662s	that dying is huge
25663s	yeah
25666s	i can't see it again there oh it stopped
25668s	already oh that's it
25671s	oh no
25673s	um
25684s	vicky the zuckerle's dead so the curse
25686s	won't actually heal pun
25689s	oh there is
25690s	an element of shadow so at least press
25692s	the hero power and play the slither
25694s	speed maybe
25699s	i think very suddenly super fakes on he
25702s	wins next turn or he loses the series
25711s	yeah i think this has to be the play at
25713s	the end of it
25714s	it's tough but that's just what's going
25716s	to happen
25717s	there is the 10 damage that was
25719s	accounted for guaranteed
25721s	the spells and the hero power
25723s	and now we have to see if pardon can
25726s	resist this situation i mean he has full
25729s	blown right so he can get something
25731s	like if he wants to that's definitely
25733s	available
25735s	yes and super fake with a normal sized
25738s	deck
25739s	can be engineered into seeing here so
25741s	you can see now that the fury is
25743s	remaining which will be four damage
25745s	counter strike is six hero power is
25747s	eight if you get the dread prison glaive
25748s	on top of that as well that would be
25750s	nine damage in total that is available
25753s	in a single turn unfortunately fossil
25755s	fanatic does nothing right because the
25757s	only cards he has left are cards that
25759s	require add on to an attack
25761s	yes
25772s	i believe if pun clears balls
25777s	surely clean board's just correct right
25783s	i think there's certainly step one
25786s	yes then i'm gone of course obviously so
25788s	there is very little downside to doing
25789s	this this is the best way to clock your
25791s	opponent in this position
25792s	you proc two plus three
25802s	yeah it's nine with fiore right off the
25804s	chaos strike and that's it
25806s	yep
25807s	and the problem is again because they're
25809s	all attack based
25812s	x3 and then
25814s	oh okay doesn't take three anymore
25821s	it's prison now the drug prison globe
25823s	does get to go face if super fake can
25825s	find one more term without dying here
25827s	that is a huge deal
25831s	guards the curse as well
25833s	which plays around basically anything
25835s	being a removal card for the 3-4
25839s	and currently
25842s	on his dying next turn
25846s	wait wait
25848s	what can pun get does pun ever go
25850s	colossal ashara colossal into
25853s	taunt or priest on mage
25868s	and if there was some cheaper spells we
25870s	could even talk about the weapon here
25872s	right
25876s	ashley's so tense how is this still a
25878s	game oh
25879s	oh
25880s	no
25882s	[Music]
25884s	simply dead
25890s	it couldn't have been a worse colossal
25905s	gonna show him
25913s	one unbelievable
25916s	pun takes the last super fake still in
25919s	the series and gets out of this
25921s	with the demon hunter which let's be
25923s	honest surely means subtle we're in for
25925s	a priest game again soon
25929s	but yeah congratulations to super fake
25931s	there he held on just about and it paid
25934s	off but oddly enough it felt like there
25936s	were so many cards that just get um
25940s	get pun out of that situation
25942s	and they just weren't there right it was
25944s	a definitely a tough one didn't quite
25946s	have enough heal and again the curtis
25949s	into jace as those exact back-to-back
25951s	cards and really helped him pull himself
25954s	back into that game because it looked
25956s	like it was going to be a distant idea
25959s	to be able to actually be in this series
25961s	at this point yeah but i would say more
25963s	than entitled to have those cards at
25965s	that oh yeah yeah yeah he's so deep into
25968s	the deck though honestly the reason why
25970s	pun was able to hang in for so long was
25973s	purely a factor of super fake just not
25975s	really hitting any of the high value
25976s	cards in the top 15. and even without
25979s	that super fake was able to do probably
25982s	somewhere in the region of 80 damage
25985s	that game like something in that
25987s	neighborhood right starting at 40
25990s	touches and drain cells were thrown out
25991s	early and then there was bread baker
25993s	bran bread baker played at some point
25996s	during the game as well
25997s	yeah mistress of mixtures coming out but
25999s	still on top of that there was you know
26001s	missed there was second drain sole left
26003s	remaining in the deck there was tams in
26005s	hero left remaining in the deck all of
26007s	these
26008s	options to potentially keep them alive
26010s	as well as the lethal outs that could
26011s	have come from curses and removal
26013s	combinations various two-card
26015s	combinations that would have offered
26016s	lethal and then of course even when you
26018s	have to go for the panic horn there's at
26020s	least three examples that we thought of
26023s	immediately that probably win the game
26024s	immediately off the horn in that
26026s	position ozimat being thrown into that
26028s	horn pool i'm pretty sure has trolled
26030s	everyone on all occasions um whether
26033s	you're looking for you know a class card
26035s	in jackpot rogue it's a disaster when
26037s	you get the neutral option um and
26039s	generally it just is a little bit slow
26042s	overall even if you are paying one mana
26045s	for it even if that sounds weird with
26047s	all the rest of the investment that
26048s	you've thrown in to get to that point so
26050s	it's one of those games where both
26052s	people could have a very compelling
26054s	argument about how each of them got
26056s	unlucky during that game right and you'd
26058s	be compelled to listen to either of them
26061s	make their case because the the good
26064s	fortunes and the bad fortunes really
26065s	swung back and forth quite aggressively
26068s	throughout the game but it's one of
26069s	those games we'd have to really go
26070s	digging for those tiny little lines
26073s	where maybe things could have been done
26075s	differently one way or the other to
26076s	affect the outcome
26078s	well here we are and as i said and i
26080s	called this before i even saw what the
26082s	matchup was going to be but it is going
26084s	to be priest here for super fake does
26086s	have two three four locked in subtle so
26088s	maybe just maybe we see the ever rare
26091s	smooth pre-straw
26097s	definitely though a match up where this
26098s	uh rune metal rod can come into play
26101s	right uh unlike the demon until when we
26103s	saw it it's definitely more difficult
26105s	for punt to feel safe
26106s	yeah absolutely i would suspect this is
26109s	this rod is being slammed on curve or
26112s	before curve with the coin under almost
26115s	any and all circumstances here
26124s	we just dump a touch to prevent overdraw
26127s	yeah this all makes sense
26135s	and plays the fortitude for four of
26137s	course being it's live cost for the
26139s	quest priest so whatever cost you
26140s	actually spend on the spell so you see
26143s	super fake there crossing his fingers
26145s	did not want to draw a spell on that
26146s	term because he wanted to play the
26147s	fortitude for exactly four to both make
26150s	the huge minion uh and complete the
26152s	quest on the same term
26154s	well it's called fortitude so it makes
26156s	sense
26159s	thanks raven
26160s	no problem i'm here all weekend
26162s	literally
26164s	going on to the roon myth apart from the
26166s	times where we don't and the other
26168s	people can't you know i'm still kind of
26170s	around i see okay i've watched most of
26172s	the shows so yeah i'm kind of here i
26174s	suppose for the purpose like if you
26176s	weren't casting but let's say derrick
26179s	and lamby lambie series were like i
26180s	really need to make a dumb joke right
26182s	now like you'd be there you'd have their
26184s	back oh yeah
26185s	yeah yeah that makes sense
26189s	let's see what side of the band i woke
26192s	up on
26194s	[Music]
26205s	time song
26209s	you want to emulate this hand oh yeah
26218s	a little bit unfortunate can't come out
26219s	with the null but is the knoll even that
26221s	good this turn i guess null into the
26223s	scorpion with coil
26228s	okay bran is
26231s	brand's a real key card to pick up
26233s	though i would say for this matchup
26235s	because you are gonna have to start
26236s	getting some uh curses going sooner
26239s	rather than later and bran is really the
26241s	the best tool to be making that happen
26243s	really important as well that it's going
26244s	to get discounted by both of these rod
26247s	procs now which oh yeah
26255s	adding up numbers very well here one two
26257s	three four five
26263s	uh
26264s	raven revealing like the the frustration
26266s	with casting quest priest games right
26268s	it's not just like that they're really
26269s	long a lot of the time it's like what do
26271s	you even talk about
26274s	i'm talking about great important things
26275s	of letting the audience know that super
26277s	face
26278s	counted to
26281s	they drew the card with the right number
26283s	on it they're going to play it or nope
26285s	they did not do that they're going to
26287s	lose all right nice
26291s	i just want to see emily get
26293s	played probably not going to then again
26296s	a lot a lot of the options here
26298s	in hand are good with bran
26302s	does get played i can definitely see the
26305s	demonic assault rocking the shield
26312s	it does
26313s	make super fakes draw better though
26315s	right or faster at least
26321s	oh
26336s	fake doing the quick check for six
26338s	oh yep it's there
26341s	card says six on it better play that one
26344s	we did it i'm the best
26355s	zyrella pick up purely because super
26357s	fake might end up burning whirlpool as
26360s	well
26361s	yeah and it's also like this is that
26363s	exact situation right where you do
26365s	actually have some death rattles already
26367s	played in this game which just kind of
26368s	makes xyrella nutty
26372s	[Music]
26384s	eight cards in hand here for super fake
26387s	just if we're thinking about curse
26389s	potential
26391s	problem here is there's nothing too
26393s	great to do i'm even wondering whether
26396s	if pun
26399s	work trying to look if you can actually
26401s	just empty his hand a little bit because
26402s	it's getting awfully full
26405s	it is yeah and if a
26408s	tamzin or similar comes off the top you
26410s	are going to be want to be able to jam
26412s	that as soon as possible
26416s	let's just go with the gigafin in the
26418s	end i was wondering whether it was just
26419s	an abyssal wave just to get the curses
26421s	juiced um
26422s	using a non-battle cry
26427s	you could just throw out there just to
26428s	take it up to one immediately
26430s	well paul of course yup being used here
26433s	make sure you get to use it before the
26434s	car burns
26437s	side factory of emulate that i was
26438s	thinking about by the way is
26440s	so in a lot of matchups like for this
26442s	kind of matchup exactly the very obvious
26445s	counter play against warlock is to just
26446s	keep your hand really full so that they
26448s	can't actually die this is into your
26450s	hand so the the side effect of himalay
26453s	is that you either you know sell those
26454s	cards on fire or you force them to use
26456s	their cards more liberally by just
26458s	throwing them out of hand so you create
26460s	that hand space on these crucial turns
26462s	where you can actually then start to
26463s	fill up again which is yeah and that's
26465s	not a bad idea
26466s	ran one mana
26468s	the cultist two mana zola one manner
26472s	right
26473s	we we might see some curses oh we
26475s	haven't even started teaching schools
26477s	yet raven
26481s	there is a whole school teacher there
26483s	that could have curses inside the
26485s	nuggling as well this could get very
26487s	messy very quickly
26489s	now there's the turn gap
26491s	my zyrella needs just that little
26493s	time to get there
26502s	all right it's go
26510s	those do not say curse
26514s	rock bottom just for the dredge
26523s	[Music]
26530s	that's not where this game is at because
26532s	that is where this game is at and we all
26534s	know yeah thank you with bran
26538s	oh grimoire of sacrifice okay
26543s	so do you zola the altar at this point
26547s	are we that all in now we're talking
26549s	obviously you're not doing it this turn
26551s	right you're waiting for the thing to be
26552s	shuffled in
26557s	it would mean
26558s	not do no you have to do the zodiac
26561s	curses this turn right wait do you have
26564s	zola the bran
26566s	i don't think so
26576s	i don't think this was the game-winning
26578s	turn somehow
26579s	i don't know if this was a turn
26582s	it's fine because you the grandma goes
26584s	off twice so you end up you do clear the
26587s	uh the the orca at the very least which
26590s	means
26592s	this eight three lifesteal is just an
26593s	eight three life steal
26596s	but yeah it's not the extreme level of
26599s	impact you would like your brand to have
26601s	on the game at this point i think you
26602s	can see from the reaction from pun
26604s	not entirely happy with the way it
26606s	panned out
26607s	yeah definitely wanted to see dragged
26609s	below on the nagalings right oh of
26611s	course that that's definitely because it
26612s	would have ticked every box that turn
26615s	yep
26625s	is the bran out here living oh wow
26630s	well suddenly
26632s	through bran once again all things are
26635s	possible
26637s	zola alter let's go
26640s	how much is that 12 cards burnt
26643s	me pick me uh well the zola goes off
26645s	twice as well so you get two copies of
26647s	the nagaland oh just burn the whole deck
26654s	that's even right i don't know
26656s	i don't know
26661s	that's a card
26662s	again just do i want to see if this wins
26666s	super fake can't believe now you get two
26668s	copies of this right
26678s	this is what i signed up for
26681s	what do you mean what if it's just in
26683s	the very bottom i'm gonna lose my actual
26685s	mind this is ridiculous
26688s	this is not what i signed up for
26693s	wait it has to be bottom card right
26698s	oh
26701s	five
26703s	what do you mean
26709s	i have no words saul i have no words
26714s	got a top deck it's got i can feel it i
26716s	can feel it this is how this day ends or
26718s	game ends
26721s	oh
26722s	come on
26736s	i don't know how we're supposed to keep
26737s	talking about this game song together
26741s	oh uh two cards remaining for fun
26744s	we have a mistress of mixtures and a
26746s	smothering starfish
26748s	and now we're supposed to win the game
26750s	with those two cards somehow that
26752s	doesn't seem possible
26754s	game five
26756s	wrapped up
26759s	at least priest has seemingly won subtle
26762s	there's a small shining light at the end
26764s	of this tunnel
26766s	i'm trying to see if i can do this
26770s	but for pun and i can't unfortunately
26773s	which is really annoying
26777s	wait can you do it the other way around
26782s	well you can't highlight the card from
26785s	yeah sure but it's not the look just
26787s	bringing it up everywhere yeah that's
26788s	all i want to see yeah yeah that's fine
26791s	good enough
26795s	we have a look at some remaining cards
26797s	for super fake raven oh there they are
26799s	there's the two cards remaining in the
26800s	deck those seem useful no way is the
26802s	other one whirlpool as well
26804s	it is
26808s	the shara is not even active
26813s	oh yeah that's that's the mitigating
26814s	factor here
26816s	puns losing this game because this
26817s	ashara's not even acting
26820s	yeah there's the concede
26825s	the worst part was as super fakes just
26827s	dancing away
26829s	is
26830s	what pun did may have visibly looked
26833s	very silly
26835s	but it was a valid game plan right burn
26838s	the shard and say you know what i have
26839s	twisted nether i have a bissell wave i
26841s	have aoe so then i kill all this stuff
26845s	and that's it right the curses sort of
26847s	make up the damage was the overall plan
26849s	and maybe something good gets left in
26851s	puns deck as well uh and he just missed
26854s	i mean how many cards was that 18
26857s	more
26858s	like he just missed it completely
26862s	ridiculous there as super fake dances
26864s	his way to victory somehow and we are
26866s	gonna go to game number five
26869s	yeah
26870s	um
26871s	obviously a very strange ending to the
26873s	game i think it was correct once you get
26876s	to that route the initial brand term
26878s	wasn't what you wanted it to be
26880s	it's a little weird because your
26881s	expectation is that you don't actually
26884s	get to do that with bran at that point
26886s	right because you have to wait the one
26888s	turn assuming it died zarella to come
26890s	down you assume that the brand then dies
26892s	or is silenced or some there's some
26894s	solution to the problem that happens so
26896s	to then be able to do with the brand
26898s	you'd be like okay and you kind of look
26899s	at your hand and like does this hand
26901s	just be a random quest priest hand
26905s	because you're blowing up your entire
26906s	deck guaranteed at that point i think
26908s	you were
26909s	two to four cards deeper than super fake
26911s	at that point so you were losing your
26912s	entire deck and leaving four cards in
26915s	super fake's deck if i remember it
26916s	correctly so
26917s	it's an out to go for but then you still
26920s	have to be in the position where your
26922s	hand wins which isn't necessarily a
26924s	given because the hand wasn't really
26926s	like stacked full of curse generation or
26928s	anything like that so
26930s	either way
26931s	serious analysis aside i'm glad we saw
26934s	it because it made that quest priest
26936s	game infinitely more interesting than
26938s	any of the other ones that we've seen so
26940s	far
26941s	yeah it's definitely an odd one uh but
26944s	doesn't mean it's going to come down to
26946s	the whole series to the warlock once
26948s	again for pun and then the uh
26950s	the jackpot rogue for super fake so
26953s	still believe it or not plenty of time
26956s	for shenanigans in this series before uh
26958s	means i'll leave for the day
26962s	[Music]
26965s	jackpot
26966s	contraband
26968s	on fishing
26969s	super fake
26971s	already got hold of a fairly solid
26973s	opening as usual though it will rely on
26976s	what is being offered
26980s	bit of a tricky choice is this fang
26983s	bound
26987s	i don't think grunt looks great and
26989s	disciples surely will hurt super fake
26992s	more than it will hurt pun
26993s	yeah agreed
26995s	not great options but that's probably
26997s	the best of a bad bunch but okay
27002s	crap being dredged suddenly makes it a
27004s	lot more appealing
27009s	was on the lookout for that rogue beast
27011s	synergy best beast deck in the game
27014s	sauce one beast broke
27018s	sliver forth my brethren
27025s	then not too crazy yeah but pun does
27028s	have the null if he wants to get rid of
27030s	the fang bound instantly uh
27033s	could also just lean towards drain soul
27036s	tap and also has the coin demonic
27038s	assault which honestly i wouldn't hate
27040s	just to get some stuff on the board it
27042s	just utilized the coin a little bit
27044s	early
27045s	but there's no weapon in hand yet anyway
27047s	and i think that's the key target for
27049s	the coin
27063s	you never expect this energy
27065s	never mind burning 18 cards and missing
27067s	the quest reward playing krabator on
27070s	four that's the real hype moment of the
27072s	day this is what we want to see
27075s	is a clear the right fold
27080s	full-blown coin drain soul does the job
27082s	i believe
27084s	so many possibilities
27087s	and again as we've learned a long time
27089s	ago now you respect the crab you
27096s	treat it with dignity
27098s	or it'll mess you up
27104s	i
27105s	wonder
27108s	it looks like pun is going to go for it
27112s	only leave super fake with a two attack
27115s	weapon
27122s	oh sorry weirdly enough just blanked on
27124s	the jackpot rewards pretty bad
27126s	yeah very bad
27129s	not great
27134s	fake have to just juice the ashara at
27137s	this point and just get that out as
27139s	quickly as possible
27140s	because these two spells just aren't hit
27145s	yeah i would think so unfortunately
27147s	juicing the ashara is not exactly
27149s	straightforward either that involves
27151s	playing a contraband stash for what a
27154s	fang bound druid solo
27156s	wouldn't super fake just play trickster
27158s	and
27160s	a spell
27161s	against daw yeah
27163s	prep
27164s	i think i mean that's that's a if you're
27166s	doing it that way it's a waste of your
27167s	trick so you just play against all odds
27169s	on an empty board sure sure yeah i was
27172s	looking at shield shatter or whatever
27173s	but
27174s	time's ticking
27182s	but again i think against this warlock
27183s	just throwing away contrabands probably
27186s	isn't the way to go because resources
27188s	will be a major issue right yep
27192s	oh connie now available
27197s	yeah connie block's spell probably feels
27200s	pretty solid at this point
27205s	because there's two mystery spells that
27207s	haven't been played yet
27209s	yes there's two jackpot spells that have
27211s	come out and also you've seen the
27212s	krabatoa right which is a big deal
27214s	you're going into six so normally you
27216s	would be looking at minion maybe to
27218s	block the crab but you saw the crab on
27219s	four
27220s	gives you a lot more luxury to
27222s	potentially go for a spell if you want
27223s	to
27228s	little does pun know that these spells
27230s	are absolute garbage for super fake
27233s	right now that one's not predictable
27244s	you can't always trust what you see oh
27247s	such a slow hand yeah
27250s	and still
27251s	really nothing to do right for uh for
27254s	super fake
27255s	nope
27257s	very similar hands to one we saw earlier
27260s	where it's just all the payoff cards but
27262s	until you can find one or two really
27264s	powerful things to drop inside those
27266s	boxes it's no fun to open them
27269s	even the fang bound right is very low
27271s	power level even though it was a cute
27273s	play with the colossus with their
27274s	krabatoa and to just generate them out
27277s	of contraband it's just not really good
27279s	enough right
27284s	yeah opening uh
27286s	empty boxes just not nearly as fun
27292s	friend of mine loves telling a story
27294s	about how he was a sneak down in the
27296s	night and take a peek inside the
27298s	christmas presents under the tree kind
27300s	of kids
27301s	um so yeah one christmas parents just
27304s	literally put a bunch of like balled up
27306s	tissue paper and newspaper in all of the
27308s	boxes and left them under there and then
27310s	he
27311s	woke them up crying in the middle of the
27313s	night asking why he'd been so bad that
27316s	he didn't deserve christmas presents
27318s	i find that story hilarious i'm sure
27321s	other people might have other reactions
27325s	ah a good life lesson taught though i
27328s	mean absolutely yeah
27331s	a plus parenting as far as i'm concerned
27338s	more
27339s	bones done
27348s	i'm just uh getting cards out of the
27349s	hand more than anything else here i feel
27351s	like uh just getting the hand a little
27353s	bit more open give more options for
27355s	those curses for those brands get hold
27357s	of the aoe or any heel
27359s	super fake though
27360s	still even though his cards uh in
27363s	isolation are good there's nothing that
27367s	ties them together
27368s	right
27369s	keep your enemies close these are very
27371s	good scabs though yeah
27373s	throws the hand kills one minion
27375s	overdraws the next card as well
27377s	and
27378s	pun is still looking at like needing a
27380s	rod or a tams in something just uh to
27384s	make this team pop off
27386s	make this hand pop off because right now
27387s	it's just a little bit slow and clunky
27389s	itself obviously both players having
27391s	slow clunky draws you would expect to
27393s	favor pun a little bit
27394s	um but still he has to find some kind of
27397s	win condition plan in the near future or
27399s	eventually super fake is going to find
27401s	something to do with this hand
27405s	right could be starting
27407s	now
27408s	if this is another aussie map no my god
27412s	oh no
27416s	ah never mind one one more krabatoa is
27418s	better than like four more of any other
27420s	class colossal yeah i was gonna say how
27422s	dare you say no
27424s	at crabatoast i'm sorry i i apologize to
27428s	my crab overlords i'm sorry i've let you
27430s	down
27431s	you're not invited to the next rave i
27433s	will repent oh no are you kidding me
27436s	i've got my tickets already
27438s	well you've been transferred to security
27440s	instead of a guest
27441s	glow sticks body paint everything got it
27444s	all going
27445s	little foam
27446s	claws
27447s	yep
27449s	i'm practicing my sideways walking
27465s	and now does have
27468s	a lot of options here actually the extra
27469s	drag below here from tamsin along with
27471s	that coil is very nicely going to clean
27473s	up this board looks like he's going to
27475s	commit the drain sole instead uh just to
27478s	get extra value out of the times in
27479s	looks quite good to me
27482s	and starting to actually stack those
27484s	curses
27485s	yep big deal
27487s	one of the many things that has been
27489s	missing we haven't really seen the big
27490s	brand curse pop-ups even though we saw a
27492s	heavily discounted hand in the previous
27494s	game it kind of bricked when it got to
27496s	the brown pop-off turn but if you don't
27498s	get the brand and the big discounts
27499s	tamzin is of course the other way that
27501s	you can very heavily juice up those
27503s	curses something that pun has been
27505s	missing in the majority of the game so
27507s	far it's even just dragged below itself
27510s	is often the activator that gets you
27513s	through the one and two damage curses
27515s	right um and we've already seen that uh
27518s	all series so far because it's the easy
27520s	throwaway card because you can't brand
27522s	it anyway uh it's removal in itself so
27525s	that's normally the one that gets the
27527s	ball rolling
27529s	i've definitely done it in this game
27530s	with the help of times and you are right
27532s	there it's just brands are cool in the
27534s	hand too that's really going to start
27535s	hitting hard
27540s	super fake have to spend two mana on
27543s	getting these curses away
27551s	stick to the shadows
27563s	write home about
27568s	let's throw the one
27571s	and get rid of the two
27573s	still the next curse at three with the
27575s	brand that's three and four and will
27577s	heal
27580s	yeah aoe is somewhat more pressing issue
27583s	right this moment though
27585s	tap and twisting though
27587s	yes sounds like a what 660s dense move
27590s	or something but you know whether
27594s	doesn't find better aoe here can just
27597s	press that twist in nether
27599s	a hard pass
27603s	must know he's struggling right the
27604s	super fake's struggling he knows the
27605s	colossal was rogue so that isn't a
27607s	problem yep he knows the spells were bad
27610s	because he's seen one of them and hasn't
27612s	seen the other one therefore they were
27614s	bad
27615s	yes
27619s	right now all pun really has to do is
27621s	not die
27623s	is doing quite successfully at the
27626s	moment
27630s	with two spice bread bakers in hand as
27632s	well does have the brand but i think on
27634s	this occasion the brand will be used for
27636s	offensive purposes rather than pure
27639s	defense like it was against the demon
27640s	hunter
27641s	yeah i mean it's a bit of both to be
27643s	fair with that zakul but yeah the
27645s	biggest negative for pun is because
27648s	super fake's hand is so bad he has the
27650s	mana spare to get rid of the curses
27653s	yeah true actually and that my friends
27656s	was a 10 mana pass
27659s	[Music]
27662s	a little bit awkward without the weapon
27665s	it is yeah i never really squeeze in
27668s	double brand value unless you've started
27669s	hitting some discounts
27673s	just commit one way or the other right
27675s	you play a curse this turn whether it's
27677s	with bran and you follow up with a
27678s	normal curse after a friend lives or
27680s	without bran but again there's a there's
27683s	an outcome for puns world where bran
27685s	actually lives because super fate just
27687s	passed his whole turn
27690s	owning down to
27693s	ten prep
27695s	with the next curse dealing six
27698s	hey yes he has to face tank and tooth
27700s	right
27706s	uh nodding yes please yes please pun ex
27710s	completely playing around against all
27712s	odds
27716s	there you go prep tooth yeah i mean two
27718s	men are saved as two men are saved it's
27720s	never gonna get any better than this if
27721s	you're committing to doing everything
27723s	this turn
27727s	it's a good card but it's not good
27729s	enough is it
27731s	yeah it does not heal unfortunately
27734s	yeah let's buff it give him lifesteal
27736s	super fake is dead
27739s	and i think super fake knows it we've
27740s	seen this happen a couple of times i
27742s	think today right where the this uh
27745s	version of rogue just if it doesn't hit
27748s	you are left floundering to an extent
27750s	also like no sharks really for super
27752s	fake or anything like that to try and do
27754s	something against just no pressure
27756s	whatsoever
27760s	get rid of these curses but even there
27762s	with that
27764s	plenty more where that came from and
27765s	look at pun
27767s	he is there very happy now after that
27770s	one and fair play this was a series that
27773s	could have been over a lot quicker but
27776s	he's gonna be pretty happy with just
27777s	taking control of this game now because
27783s	even throughout the touch to get the
27785s	perfect 40 back at the end like my hero
27788s	finishes this game green okay that's the
27791s	rules that's how this works
27793s	and uh yeah game five turning out to be
27796s	an absolute stomp after what has been a
27800s	pretty incredible series after this
27802s	point it
27803s	i mean it it's very obvious we don't
27805s	really need to hide this at this point
27806s	but raven and myself come into a quest
27808s	priests mirror series with a great deal
27810s	of trepidation but actually this series
27813s	has turned out to be an absolute banger
27816s	from nearly start to finish uh was it
27818s	game three in game four was the demon
27820s	hunter game and then the the the well i
27823s	mean like no one really played a class
27825s	in the game after that
27826s	yeah everyone yeah the ultra fire game
27828s	exactly where everyone lost all of their
27830s	decks so
27831s	after that i think this one a little bit
27833s	of an anti-climax because it was so
27835s	one-sided with super fake not really
27836s	putting anything together but oh my
27839s	goodness what a series up until this
27842s	point if you are just joining in now
27845s	because you are just a massive lurinda
27847s	stan don't worry i understand but please
27850s	do go back you can put us on mute just
27852s	watch the series because it was well
27854s	worth it even watch it double time if
27856s	you really want to when uh whenever the
27858s	vod appears but yeah a great sounding
27860s	chipmunk voice at that point as well i
27861s	mean it's just value a lot of people
27863s	think that's probably an improvement on
27864s	my
27865s	voice or accent we'll have to find out
27867s	but pun does go through into that
27869s	winner's portion of group b again that
27871s	was the first initial match there we do
27873s	have zloigruzin and pascoa
27875s	following up with the next initial match
27877s	and uh super fake gonna wait an
27878s	elimination definitely a rough series i
27881s	think super fake did get the rough end
27882s	of the stick a couple of times there
27884s	which is nothing much he could do um
27886s	but i do think it's a pun again overall
27889s	played very very well uh had to
27892s	get creative in certain games there
27895s	especially that warlock versus priest
27897s	game and it definitely did not pay off
27898s	for him but you can see there the
27900s	struggle for both players throughout
27902s	that series and the relief from pun that
27904s	he actually did get the win so he's
27906s	going to sit in winners and wait to see
27908s	who he's going to face a little bit
27909s	later on we do have zlo gruzin versus
27912s	pascoa coming up next but it's not going
27914s	to be me and seoul we're going to be
27915s	done for the day and it's going to be a
27917s	lorinda bringing you the action with
27919s	special guest a friend of ours of course
27921s	a language hacker he's going to be
27923s	joining him on the broadcast so yeah
27925s	language clapper if you know her those
27928s	memes but make sure to stay tuned we're
27930s	going to go to a break of course while
27931s	those two and the other two casters get
27933s	ready to go but there'll be plenty more
27934s	grand masters for the rest of the day
27936s	we'll be right back
27942s	[Music]
27947s	[Applause]
27953s	[Music]
27955s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
27958s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
27962s	horrific reasons
27964s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
27969s	with such ruthlessness
27971s	so deep and profound
27975s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
27983s	to uncover the truth
27985s	of murder most foul
27989s	the anima drifts across the floor
27992s	highlighting the creatures who walked
27994s	through my door
27996s	the motives are as black as night
28000s	avarice
28002s	revenge and blight
28006s	we watch the hero
28008s	uncover the clues
28010s	that lead to the truth
28013s	behind this dark bruise
28018s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
28022s	choose your power without heavenly bias
28026s	for at the end
28028s	they will burn in the fire
28031s	when it is known who slayed
28034s	daenerys
28035s	[Music]
28053s	[Music]
28061s	[Music]
28065s	[Applause]
28067s	[Music]
28084s	this
28085s	[Music]
28090s	so
28095s	[Music]
28113s	um
28123s	[Music]
28136s	[Music]
28142s	welcome back everybody to continued
28144s	coverage of the hearthstone grand
28145s	masters and with me today we've got
28148s	somebody who cast gm before i ever did
28150s	he played gm before i ever did
28152s	incredibly he played the world
28153s	championships before i ever did as well
28155s	it is of course language hacker who has
28157s	had to listen to me be nasty to him week
28159s	after week and now gets a chance to get
28161s	his revenge how are you doing today
28163s	i'm doing great lauren it's it's great
28165s	to be back on the behind the desk and
28167s	i'm excited for some hearthstone i've
28168s	been watching all the matches so far
28170s	today and i'm hoping that we have as
28171s	much fun as the previous casters did
28173s	with some of these wacky games we've
28174s	seen
28175s	yeah that first match we were ready to
28176s	go about an hour ago it's like yeah
28178s	that's that's just some rubbish it's
28179s	gonna be 3-0 it's all over and then that
28181s	happens and the chances are we will get
28183s	some wacky stuff because we are going to
28184s	cover the rest of this group so we're
28186s	going to see both those two players
28187s	again but first of all we have this one
28190s	zoe cuisine versus pasqua
28193s	they've got mirrored
28194s	lineups in terms of the classes but they
28196s	have got different decks i think
28198s	language hacker
28199s	yeah they do interestingly between the
28201s	demon hunter and the priest they both
28203s	decided on fel demon hunter and naga
28205s	priest they are actually 29 cards
28207s	identical for each of those decks so
28208s	they disagreed slightly on the exact
28210s	list to bring but they were still on
28212s	board with the class now however or the
28214s	archetype rather however on the rogue
28216s	side pasco decided to bring um what
28218s	appears to be boat rogue a rogue that's
28221s	kind of proven itself for quite a long
28223s	time at this point in the meta despite
28224s	some changes and nerfs and buffs and
28226s	whatnot however ms legrin decided to
28228s	bring
28229s	mine rogue which has been a bit more
28231s	recent in terms of its um
28235s	coming on the scene but it is quite as
28237s	strong as boat rug as we can probably
28239s	see from some of the games we've seen
28241s	earlier and hopefully some games we'll
28242s	see today
28243s	yeah this makes me happy because thief
28246s	rogue whenever i play it it just does
28248s	what we saw happen to pun a minute ago
28250s	it just draws garbage you sit there with
28252s	a handful of five cost cards they don't
28253s	do anything all your cards are class
28255s	cards i don't draw my jackpots it makes
28257s	me sad so
28258s	i've been playing minevog i've been
28259s	playing boat vogue and yeah thief rogue
28262s	can do one as far as i'm concerned we
28263s	will see it again later though
28265s	but we are going to see a lot of this
28266s	fell demon hunter in the rest of this
28268s	group which
28269s	is the necessary evil i would say if you
28271s	took this bucket of cards
28273s	yeah you could say that rogan priests
28275s	are very powerful as classes right now
28277s	in the meta for a couple of reasons one
28279s	they just have multiple archetypes which
28280s	you can play that have their own
28281s	strengths but to you you also give
28283s	yourself a few options based on whether
28284s	you want to bring one one archetype or
28286s	the other demon hunty on the other hand
28288s	is pretty straightforward you can bring
28290s	the fel demon hunter you can choose some
28292s	tech cards here and there but otherwise
28294s	it has to be that one archetype
28297s	yeah and as you can see this mine vogue
28299s	is going to go up first it's been
28301s	adjusted in recent weeks to make sure
28303s	that it can actually do 40 damage so
28305s	those burning blade acolytes have been
28307s	added into the deck to
28309s	be able to beat especially 40 card mage
28312s	i think was the big deal you just
28313s	couldn't beat mage with this deck um
28315s	very well after it went to 40 damage but
28318s	yeah decks adjust and here we are with
28320s	pretty much the standard lineup for mine
28323s	rogue these days yeah absolutely the
28325s	addition of smoke screens and tricksters
28326s	has made the deck a bit more consistent
28327s	in terms of drawing towards all the
28329s	cards that they need snowfall graveyard
28331s	mines etc and because of the extra draw
28333s	package burning blade accolade has been
28334s	included to add some tempo options that
28336s	can help push damage early and also to
28339s	benefit the fact that you want to drop
28341s	off a smoke screen and that gives you
28342s	another way to get a payoff right you
28345s	get a
28346s	you go trickster smoke screen draw five
28348s	cards maybe do some bomb damage maybe
28350s	spawn some five eight taunts and that's
28351s	kind of how the deck operates right now
28353s	very explosive um
28355s	metaphorically but also quite literally
28357s	with the damage that comes out yeah it
28359s	has a reputation as we look at pascua's
28361s	load of achievements there one the first
28362s	time he played grandmasters
28364s	convincingly as well i think he did
28365s	pretty well every week he sort of faded
28367s	to win it
28368s	um but yeah the other thing with the the
28370s	mine rogue is it's got a reputation for
28373s	being easy to play i would say that's
28374s	not true i say it's got a it's easy to
28376s	win with it's easy to play well enough
28378s	to do well with but at this level
28380s	there's a lot of calculation involved in
28382s	your top decks there's a lot of
28383s	calculations involved in do i have one
28386s	more turn to make sure i get my
28387s	graveyard down before playing my smoke
28389s	screen that sort of thing so
28391s	i'm looking forward to see how it plays
28392s	out and here's pascua on the boat rogue
28394s	choosing not to go with a thief
28396s	for me i don't know if you agree this is
28398s	just a more consistent version of the
28400s	folk
28402s	yep i i think i would agree thiefer has
28404s	some hyrule potential with jackpots and
28407s	queen ashara but this boat rogue is kind
28409s	of tried and true you do some stuff you
28411s	hit your opponent in the head and you
28412s	try to close the game out with some
28413s	pirates with mr smite maybe
28416s	instant decision here for gujan
28419s	with the smoke screen the stats say
28421s	it's one of the highest win rate cars to
28423s	keep in the mulligan um but when you
28425s	play the deck
28427s	it's great obviously if you hit your
28429s	trickster to go with it if you don't
28431s	well then you're gonna need a prep and a
28432s	coin or something and off the coin i'm
28434s	curious to see if he does keep it or not
28436s	yeah absolutely it's a very strong card
28438s	when kep pesco also has some
28440s	options here as well a lot of these
28442s	aren't super great at developing early
28444s	board um reconnaissance is perhaps the
28446s	only one he can consider keeping if he
28448s	wants to spend man on turn two but i
28450s	think he'll probably be tossing
28452s	everything uh in favor of finding
28453s	cutlasses and oh sorry a sharon vessel i
28456s	forgot that that's a good card
28458s	that's looking for cut cutlasses wild
28460s	panels and traffic concealments to get
28462s	the the ball rolling on pressure region
28465s	actually keeping the lieutenant here
28466s	i'll say the american way all day just
28468s	to keep everybody happy
28470s	um
28471s	which is an interesting key means he's
28473s	looking to be able to trade into some
28474s	early boards obviously you can just do
28476s	that explosive damage with it but
28479s	i think sometimes you're looking for
28480s	other stuff personally early on so
28482s	curious to see how this pans out for him
28484s	this is actually a very interesting um
28486s	information battle that grujin kind of
28488s	thought about here he knows the passcode
28490s	did not bring mage they are aware of
28492s	each other's lineup lineups so there is
28494s	the knowledge that mage doesn't exist
28495s	which means that pesco must be playing
28497s	rogue against rogue rogue doesn't have a
28499s	lot of ease removal tools i know there's
28501s	assassinate in the core set but it's not
28503s	in this stack and there's no really
28504s	great way to generate it so keeping uh
28507s	the first second lieutenant in this case
28509s	is giving region the option of drawing
28510s	into the
28512s	i know exactly what this five mana card
28513s	is called i'm not looking it up right
28515s	now it is called the burning accolade
28517s	that's the one excellent that gives him
28518s	some early tempo and some pressure as
28520s	well this matchup is a little favor for
28522s	the mine rogue and grujin could have
28524s	kept something like a smokescreen but it
28526s	is a high high variance sort of decision
28528s	to keep that whereas the lieutenant is a
28530s	little bit safer because you can still
28531s	play for tempo even if you don't find
28533s	the accolade
28535s	pascal though with early boats always a
28537s	very good spot to be in no no current
28540s	way of dredging them up but that will
28541s	turn up
28542s	so
28543s	the race is on to do this huge amount of
28545s	damage and talk of huge amounts of
28547s	damage is all set up if you can find the
28549s	graveyard here which he does
28551s	oh my god
28552s	that's that's insane this is it this is
28555s	one of the fastest ways that a mineral
28557s	can actually pop off without having
28559s	sketch information or smoke screen just
28561s	having the lieutenants the mine and the
28562s	snowflake graveyard this is already
28564s	upwards of about 24 damage yeah and
28566s	that's that's not even including the
28567s	lieutenant attack so the lieutenants can
28569s	attack face and then when you play the
28570s	mine they transform into rush minions so
28573s	you can still this is actually just
28574s	lethal next turn it is a turn for lethal
28576s	if pascoa
28578s	importantly if pascoa um unstealths
28580s	these pirates because the the first
28581s	second lieutenants after they transform
28583s	still need something to rush into and uh
28585s	destroy themselves
28587s	this is it's gonna be so wacky unstealth
28589s	them at some point unless you can find a
28591s	way to
28592s	do damage to devouring plague
28595s	and not attack and hope your opponent
28597s	doesn't play that bomb
28598s	perhaps yeah the thing is you're not
28600s	supposed to play around this because you
28603s	don't expect your opponent's hand to be
28605s	exactly lieutenant lieutenant discounted
28607s	mind from the uh the shadow and the
28609s	graveyard that this is it's completely
28611s	unreasonable to pray around because you
28612s	actually have to progress your own game
28613s	plan develop tempo and try to press your
28615s	opponent so they don't have time to do
28617s	what they just did now in in the course
28619s	of four turns
28620s	however you know with the um the shutter
28622s	shambler being played on one next turn
28624s	is dangerous for multiple reasons anyway
28627s	so yeah he does
28629s	get that part of the equation done now
28631s	does he attack like you say
28633s	he's dead to exactly graveyard mine but
28635s	you've got to do damage at some point
28637s	and yeah he's going to walk into it
28639s	because in celebrates oh my god this is
28642s	this is a quite obscene quite frankly
28644s	from pasco's perspective with the hand
28646s	like double shadow step you can't you
28648s	have to try to pressure the mine rogue
28649s	is favored in this matchup and given the
28651s	time they will just win because rogue
28652s	doesn't have healing and doesn't have
28654s	waste interact with the combo that the
28656s	mineral can do so
28658s	it's exactly 22 perfect damage with
28660s	everything
28661s	because
28663s	of it it's not like he didn't see that
28664s	was a possibility he just went through
28666s	the thought process you went through of
28668s	well you know if he's got that then he
28671s	wins on turn four well played and you
28673s	know it's only going to get worse for
28674s	you he did take some defensive measures
28677s	in case there wasn't the full combo in
28678s	hand there taking the plague for next
28680s	turn and that was it really not a lot
28682s	more to say other than it is 1-0 already
28684s	i don't know what scotland raven went
28685s	messing around at to be honest
28687s	yeah absolutely not we got a timer going
28689s	right
28689s	yeah exactly
28690s	[Music]
28692s	the
28692s	so the thing is even if uh pascal held
28695s	his attacks and did not allow the
28697s	forsaken lieutenants after being
28698s	transformed to attack into something
28700s	that doesn't fix the problem the
28701s	lieutenants are still there and they
28702s	will transform
28704s	shortly after anyways within the course
28706s	of two turns for the snowplow graveyard
28707s	so the best choice of action the next
28709s	course of action is to just play your
28710s	cards and try to pressure them which is
28712s	exactly what he did so despite you know
28714s	that being a loss pesco did give it the
28716s	best chart he had with the cards he had
28717s	available
28718s	and the aggro does not stop well half
28722s	the time depending which half of your
28723s	fell demon hunter deck you draw
28726s	cushioned straight back in
28728s	with more aggressive stuff with the
28730s	demon hunter but this time
28732s	anything can happen because somebody's
28733s	just draw your spell sometimes you just
28734s	curve out and kill your opponent
28737s	yeah absolutely it's
28738s	these matchups especially in aggro
28740s	mirrors um i would characterize most of
28742s	the decks that both of these players are
28743s	bringing as aggressive between the wig
28745s	priest the feldman hunter and the two
28746s	types of rogues these decks get off the
28748s	ground very quickly and get to the win
28750s	conditions relatively fast demon hunter
28751s	can be a bit slower with uh heavy
28753s	hitters later on such as gillag kurtris
28755s	and jace but there are absolutely hands
28757s	where they come out the gates running
28759s	and just try to close the game up very
28760s	quickly so these matchups are very very
28763s	explosive one way or the other and it
28765s	all depends on how the uh the two
28766s	players interact with their opening
28767s	hands
28769s	and pascal with a wealth of decisions to
28771s	make here i wonder if he would keep the
28772s	extortion here just as a actual removal
28774s	spell not as a cycle of any sort
28777s	um just to be able to get rid of any
28779s	early accidents that might turn up
28781s	yeah exactly generally you want to be
28782s	keeping these extortions to trade to
28784s	discount the nulls but against an
28786s	aggressive deck where you need to fight
28788s	progressively for board extortion does
28790s	clear up exactly this minion
28791s	slitherspear and preventing it from
28793s	getting extra damage in however trading
28795s	it does
28796s	give pesco the chance to get a wild pawn
28798s	knoll down faster which then means that
28800s	the wapanol kills the slither spear and
28802s	then remains as a body to further begin
28805s	with
28806s	what is happening for guzzin here look
28808s	at this hand he's got going on
28811s	a lot of tempo angrujian kept dread
28813s	prison glaive which is very good at
28815s	pushing damage it's a good early way to
28817s	spend mana and it's particularly good at
28819s	again demon dealing with the demon
28821s	hunter mirror if that's what he believes
28822s	it is or even with rogue if it does
28824s	happen to be a rogue disguise
28827s	yeah i think i think they know i think
28828s	there's rules saying you have to say
28830s	when you're playing rogue i may be
28831s	incorrect there
28832s	um there's a variety of rule changes but
28835s	i think they they used to have to use
28837s	the basic card back if playing rogue
28840s	with um
28842s	changing person in it but
28844s	i think now they just have to tell their
28845s	opponent they're playing vogue i think
28847s	that's okay
28848s	we see grudging going for the dread
28849s	prison glade equip because there is a
28851s	clear turn for blade master khan to try
28853s	and block out either spell or mini next
28854s	turn um and shortly after that a
28856s	spectral sight gruzian has all of his
28858s	man accounted for this turn next turn so
28859s	he wants to make sure the glove is
28860s	equipped so he has flexibility one two
28863s	uh one to two turns from now
28865s	meanwhile though pasqua is you know
28868s	going to be ahead in the race if he
28870s	wants to be he's a little bit clunky
28872s	this turn
28873s	but you know boat into boat into crab
28876s	potential or just boat into crab with
28878s	coin
28879s	uh depends how he wants to go about it
28881s	with this coin but
28883s	loads of comeback mechanisms here that
28885s	would put him a lot of damage on that
28886s	board immediately after he
28888s	his first one basically yeah there's
28890s	sort of a question mark about this turn
28892s	on next turn for pasco because uh the
28894s	strongest player would be to go to coin
28896s	the asharon vessel however the next turn
28898s	his his turn is a little
28900s	strugglish he can play reconnaissance
28902s	and try to find the minion that cost for
28903s	less and he can play shroud of concealed
28904s	extreme as well
28907s	but getting on the board now does allow
28908s	him to contest something like a blade
28909s	master connie which i i do like very
28912s	much and even if there's not an economy
28913s	there it helps them deal with either a
28915s	furious metamorphic next turn or even
28918s	just the slither spear that's already on
28919s	board so i do like taking a proactive
28921s	stance here and starting to get on board
28923s	faster
28924s	so eugene cannot believe his bad luck
28927s	that his opponent played a card there
28929s	it's the first time that really pascal's
28930s	had a chance to play a card so he took
28932s	it
28934s	yeah i mean that's that's hearthstone
28935s	you play cards sometimes they're good
28936s	sometimes they interact well sometimes
28938s	they don't
28939s	uh
28941s	we're just amused that no matter this is
28942s	just how we all are me included like
28945s	game one turn four win with minor game
28948s	two your opponent dares to challenge
28949s	your two six and you just can't kill
28951s	them in two turns again
28953s	we've all been there yeah absolutely
28955s	uh the edwards interesting draw here it
28957s	does allow pascoa development here and
28959s	because of the vessel last turn he's
28960s	able to clean the connie and actually
28962s	get the m1 development now the edwin
28963s	draws a card here and it kind of fills
28965s	in the gap and it's much less risky than
28967s	playing a shroud of reconnaissance
28969s	shrouding to exactly the second all i
28971s	believe is playable at one mana which
28973s	would be excellent but if he misses on
28974s	that this turns a little bit of a
28976s	disaster so i really like just taking
28977s	the the solid edwin playing it for board
28979s	because your opponent had two cards in
28982s	hand at the start of this turn or at the
28983s	end of your turn i guess so there's just
28985s	not that much pressure that can be
28988s	redeveloped from glucan side and then
28990s	pesco understands that
28992s	yeah you see the result of that now all
28994s	this damage that you know cuisine was
28995s	expecting to be inserting into the face
28997s	now on
28998s	defensive duty
29000s	um he knows the three ones have to trade
29002s	so he does take that four to the face
29003s	but
29004s	um pasqua has really forced the demon
29007s	hunter to slow down here and by slow
29008s	down i mean he is still down to 17 but
29011s	now he's getting control of the board
29013s	and it looks like this board will stay
29014s	around if he doesn't die
29016s	absolutely it's impossible to stop all
29018s	of the demon hunter damage damage is
29019s	going to get through that's how the
29021s	class kind of works but pascoa's
29023s	aggressive fight for board has stopped
29026s	the bleeding now because illusion is not
29028s	pushing anymore meaning damage at this
29029s	point it has to be all weapon or hero or
29031s	like hero attack damage or some spells
29033s	predation or fail barrage so the
29035s	bleeding is not that now pascal can try
29037s	to take the front foot start pushing
29038s	into the crap turn and counter
29040s	pressuring the demon hunter
29043s	yeah
29044s	just look at the difference in body
29045s	language here obviously pascal already
29047s	you know locked in well for
29049s	the worlds anyway going forward so
29052s	a little bit less pressure on him plus
29053s	just a lot of experience right grujin
29055s	has played well over several tournaments
29058s	recently but those years of experience
29060s	you'll know yourself they add up right
29062s	they help you in these spots to just
29064s	take it more casually yeah they do add
29066s	up the first game of the day is still
29067s	kind of stressful but after that you
29069s	kind of ease into it and pesco has
29070s	shrugged off the the turn for last game
29072s	one straight into a turn to confidence
29074s	sort of a stance here
29077s	he's um very sort of numbers oriented
29080s	sort of person he he does all the
29082s	spreadsheets and stuff pocket training
29083s	credited pascal with a lot of the help
29085s	for the the lineup picks for the masters
29086s	tour
29087s	and i think that helps i think when you
29089s	know that hey this was a 57 chance to
29092s	happen or whatever you can just go okay
29093s	well it doesn't matter how it happened
29095s	it just happened so let's move on to the
29096s	next one
29098s	yeah now gruzian is kind of out of
29100s	resources he does have into some damage
29101s	here but because the bleeding snapped he
29103s	does not quite have lethal with a
29104s	multi-strike predation he can push i
29106s	believe three six nine damage
29108s	which is for those you know people who
29110s	don't like math out there that's nine is
29112s	less than 13 which is not legal so he
29114s	has to find something else to do and i
29115s	believe anything but gelag
29118s	is just death so i think he has to play
29120s	it and hope that it cleans up enough of
29122s	the board which is not easy to do i
29124s	believe it has to kill krabatoa
29128s	which means all these odd numbers are
29130s	unpleasant
29131s	oh yeah and you don't want to face i
29132s	mean you can swing at the krabatoa to
29135s	make it more convenient but
29136s	it at the same time inconveniently
29138s	reduces your health total to
29140s	very dangerous amounts
29144s	all right well there it is
29148s	neat
29149s	now despite being in a crazy difficult
29152s	situation
29154s	has set himself up for the high roll
29156s	right even when you're down and almost
29158s	out you still have to find ways to win
29160s	and he did set up the board um to to
29162s	give himself that out to if the uh this
29164s	is like cleared up both the crevator and
29166s	the pirate he may have found a way to
29167s	win um but yeah even up a piece one and
29170s	one these games are going very quickly
29171s	much faster than the
29173s	quest priests and uh cursed warlocks
29175s	we've seen earlier today
29176s	and we will see them again later today
29178s	don't you worry they're still lurking
29180s	one in each side of the bracket so we
29182s	have them in the next two matches
29184s	um i know quest piece gets a bit of a
29186s	raw deal uh i don't think it's necessary
29188s	i think soto made the point it's not so
29190s	much that it's slow it's not quick but
29192s	it's not that slow it's that there's not
29194s	lots to say about it it's like yeah
29195s	numbers on curve great
29198s	there there are some interesting
29199s	decisions to make there and they won't
29201s	show up in this match but when we when
29203s	we get there i'll give you some insight
29204s	more than just one two three four five
29207s	six
29208s	and then maybe
29209s	yeah
29210s	save eight for me i wanna sound clever
29212s	yeah
29212s	okay setting you up
29214s	so zloe going for the wig priest now uh
29219s	this is an interesting deck to play in
29220s	some ways it's
29222s	a single tempo mistake and you lose the
29224s	ball and you've lost is how i see it yes
29227s	uh there are a couple of ways to come
29228s	back blademaster samurai notably and
29229s	naja sometimes can swing the board back
29231s	especially in aggressive mirrors because
29234s	some control decks can you know remove
29235s	your nash rock after you've stolen their
29237s	minion but in in tempo matchups
29239s	particularly against rogue as well you
29240s	could steal something like a wild pawn
29241s	oil and suddenly you have a huge board
29243s	swing because it has rush as well but
29245s	the deck does rely heavily on getting on
29246s	the board early and and having those
29248s	serpent wigs i want to point out that
29250s	russian has two queens guard
29252s	and one mark water scribe whereas uh
29255s	pascoa decided to bring two mark water
29257s	scribes and one queen's guard so
29258s	gershwin really
29259s	appreciates uh the queen's garden what
29261s	the what they bring to this deck having
29264s	uh multiple cheap spells well the
29266s	serpent wigs being the multiple cheap
29268s	spells you can get a very big queens
29269s	guard without actually having to spend
29271s	serpent wigs on that minion and buffing
29273s	other minions which lets you develop
29274s	more of a wider board that are the same
29276s	size
29278s	yeah and i'm glad you said that because
29279s	i did the key cards i put the samurai on
29281s	one and the nijak on the other as the
29283s	third card so that makes me happy it's a
29285s	good start to the day but pascal going
29287s	to go with the demon hunter and this
29291s	will just be a straight battle for well
29293s	for the board or for the face depending
29294s	exactly how it works out when you lose
29296s	the board you start hitting face which
29298s	you're the deck you've got
29300s	yeah this is it's really interesting in
29301s	our mirrors because because we call them
29303s	aggressive decks however
29304s	they're both very reliant on board
29307s	control in their first few turns because
29308s	whoever comes out a little bit ahead
29310s	tends to win this match up now demonizer
29312s	can have some um interesting dread
29314s	person glaive sort of mid game turns
29317s	that allow them to swing back even if
29318s	the priest does stick aboard but it's
29320s	really dependent on who gets an early
29322s	board here because that dictates either
29324s	the ship damage from the demon hunter or
29326s	the uh the follow-up pressure from the
29327s	priest
29329s	cruz celebrating because he gets the
29330s	early wig but he's going to need stuff
29332s	to go with that and pasqua
29334s	interesting decision this fel barrage
29336s	could definitely be helpful as the keep
29338s	alongside the other two yeah and he
29339s	keeps it all
29340s	oh my goodness
29342s	the glaive very good in this matchup and
29344s	because you have the glaive already
29346s	pascal likes to keep or has opted to
29348s	keep rather i don't know if he likes or
29349s	not he has opted to keep the vanguard
29351s	it's a very early board and if the
29352s	priest does not have something like a
29353s	shadow exactly shadow or devour that's
29356s	how you can snowball a game as the demon
29357s	hunter just start pushing a lot damage
29359s	and the one ones you spawn from the
29360s	vanguard lets you control the rest of
29361s	the minions that uh the priest gets down
29365s	pascal just shakes his head though this
29366s	star
29368s	like did everything he could and he is
29369s	still able to get rid of it
29371s	yeah and this is a nod to keeping fell
29373s	barrage uh already having development
29375s	pesco also decided to keep the fel
29377s	barrage in case something like this
29378s	happens and wouldn't you believe it
29379s	something like this did happen
29382s	yeah nice when that works out isn't it
29384s	and obviously with the fury and the
29386s	vanguard still in hand he is going to be
29388s	able to
29389s	remove minions obviously the advantage
29391s	or the the equalization of the coin for
29393s	gujan has gone
29395s	so now the efficient cards of demon
29397s	hunter for the time being at least
29398s	should be able to keep this all under
29400s	control yeah and we see we've talked
29402s	about how good dread prison glaive is
29404s	you can see exactly in this matchup how
29406s	important it is at board control
29407s	spending that one manner early to equip
29409s	it has allowed pasco to deal with the
29411s	turn to threat and now can he can also
29413s	deal if he chooses uh with this
29415s	follow-up threat with fury while
29417s	developing his own board either with a
29418s	fossil fanatic or the vanguard so he has
29420s	to choose if he wants more resources
29421s	here through drawing off of the fossil
29423s	fanatic or if he wants to develop a
29425s	board of the vanguard
29427s	i like the choice of resources because
29429s	he can still remove this
29431s	he should be able to remove the next
29432s	thing and
29434s	yeah the priest is going to play
29435s	relentlessly five six health minions so
29439s	just having those cards having those
29441s	spells to help him move i think is the
29442s	better choice it's a very close call i
29444s	understand why he thought so long but
29445s	yeah this makes sense to me
29447s	absolutely the vanguard has a risk
29449s	associated with it whereas the false
29450s	fanatic will just draw the cards and
29452s	can't be removed by a shadow or devourer
29455s	a treasure guard just comes down from
29456s	grujen three mana needs to develop
29458s	something on board to set up for the
29459s	wigs there's a hand made in hand as well
29461s	and there haven't been i believe three
29463s	spells played just yet so that might not
29465s	be playable next turn if version does
29467s	miss on one extra card next turn that
29469s	prevents them from playing a wig and by
29471s	that i mean some sort of cheap naga
29473s	he might be in trouble pascoa having
29476s	chosen to go for the cardinal last turn
29478s	is rewarded with the multi-strike that
29480s	he drew allowing him to clean up this
29481s	board he's debating now if he wants to
29483s	double swing into the treasure guard
29484s	um or if he wants to keep uh the false
29487s	fanatic uh at one health and i believe
29490s	reducing it to one health is really
29492s	going all in and then could spell death
29495s	if he does
29496s	choose not to play around shadow or
29497s	devour
29499s	yeah this is why i enjoy watching pascal
29501s	he has um
29504s	very long thinks about things that first
29507s	glance don't make that much difference
29508s	or are obvious but you know he tears
29510s	himself apart trying to get the exact
29512s	right line as do all of you of course
29513s	the top level but even so
29516s	it's good to see
29518s	every player's consequences whether or
29520s	not we see them you know there's a
29522s	different story but yeah
29524s	okay crush club off the top allows
29526s	grujian to save the handmaiden for card
29527s	draw and the shadow devour while is
29529s	while very punishing
29531s	does still allow pascoa to keep the
29533s	fanatic alive and and draw off of it a
29535s	bit more and it is very difficult to
29537s	come back against the 10 health minion
29539s	but if there's a class that can do it
29540s	while also developing board it's it's
29542s	demon hunter
29544s	i'm just trying to add up now does he
29546s	have the remove with the barrage the
29548s	fury and the multi-strike
29551s	it is there it's a lot of resources
29553s	now it is worth noting that because of
29554s	the multi-strike if pasco swings twice
29557s	fury plus multi-strike brings the demon
29559s	hunter up to five attack and swinging
29562s	twice five times two is ten spoiler the
29564s	crash call dies pasco draws two more
29566s	cards and he can also develop the
29568s	vicious slither spear if he wants to it
29570s	before playing the two spells
29571s	or he can hope to draw chaos strike as
29574s	an example off of the fossil fanatic
29576s	which lets him spend more mana drawing
29578s	instead of developing but i would like
29579s	to see this leather spear played before
29581s	the two spells it can still be played
29583s	after priest doesn't really have rush
29584s	minions except for samurai which
29586s	wouldn't be that powerful into this
29587s	board
29592s	yeah you know what pesco is actually
29593s	probably right here the attack on the
29595s	dispute doesn't matter so he can gain
29596s	information draw twice first and then
29598s	decide if this little sphere is going to
29600s	be the best way to spend mana
29605s	okay and he has drawn enough stuff to be
29607s	able to do it all again next turn
29611s	absolutely and we can see how important
29613s	the decision that pasco made on turn on
29615s	turn two of which two mana card to play
29618s	the fossil fanatic or the the vanguard
29620s	has paid off in
29622s	in
29623s	droves i'd say
29625s	yep yeah i mean it's just kept him in
29628s	this game he would have lost if he'd
29629s	done it the other way round i think from
29630s	how this has gone he'd be a card or two
29632s	down probably would have had less cards
29634s	than that because he wouldn't have had
29635s	the multi strike to draw the two cards
29637s	et cetera et cetera so
29639s	that spiraled out of control
29640s	in his favor not over yet but just
29642s	looking now like he is going to get
29644s	control of this one
29645s	yeah grujian's despite having a really
29648s	good early hand with multiple wigs and
29649s	the vicious slither spear has not drawn
29651s	enough to
29652s	nagas to be able to get the wigs off
29655s	efficiently the serpent wigs and he is
29657s	still valuing the handmaiden highly
29658s	playing the zola for tempo instead to
29660s	have something to keep playing wigs on
29662s	to set up for the handmaiden but it is
29663s	not the most efficient way to spend mana
29665s	or the most efficient way to develop
29667s	research i mean based on his hand that's
29669s	what he has to do but it's definitely
29671s	not what he wants to do we saw him a
29672s	little
29673s	exasperated that he's drawing something
29675s	cheaper that allows him to weave in the
29677s	wigs and the handmaiden at the same time
29680s	yeah we can see that akane for minion
29682s	could be absolutely killer here it's a
29684s	bit hard to play because it would cost
29685s	you
29686s	one of your board minions if you went
29687s	that way
29689s	absolutely it might be worth it however
29691s	pasco does have a read that the minions
29694s	in grueson's hand if he has any are not
29696s	very useful because rujin's been playing
29697s	stuff like crush claw without being it
29699s	without it being active zola without
29701s	getting value off of it so i think
29702s	there's a pretty big read that there
29703s	aren't enough good meetings in hand
29705s	however the benefit of keeping both of
29707s	these minions up means that pesco has
29709s	put it pushing so much damage and this
29711s	into a zillag he decides is a bit
29713s	stronger than sitting at the economy
29715s	this term
29717s	yeah causing gonna have to
29719s	hope this sticks now does have an extra
29721s	choice now with the slitherspear so
29723s	maybe wants to spread it around but
29725s	radiant was really big here grujin
29728s	really needed a way to pop off and this
29730s	does allow him to do that he starts
29731s	setting his big board up now pesco on
29734s	the demon hunter doesn't run a
29735s	smothering starfish because that's just
29737s	kind of not what the list runs you don't
29738s	really have space protect cards like
29740s	that so because of that gujin going on
29741s	the straight elemental could close out
29743s	the game despite pasco clearing the
29745s	board every turn he has also been taking
29747s	face damage by clearing those minions
29749s	because he's been swinging with his face
29750s	so it doesn't take much for the wig
29752s	priest to counter back and kill the
29754s	demon hunter
29756s	yeah incredible
29759s	okay
29761s	pascoa basically needs lethal this turn
29763s	or to reduce the radiant elemental
29766s	health's the radiant elemental's health
29768s	low enough that a blessed does not kill
29769s	him or he could decide that bless isn't
29771s	worth playing around there's one card in
29772s	hand that gruesome has that is not a wig
29774s	um and if pasco has been hand reading
29776s	that's been there for a few turns it
29778s	could still be something a bit more
29779s	expensive maybe like a najak or a
29781s	samurai um
29782s	but
29783s	he's got to be thinking maybe that's a
29785s	bless it feels like a blessed i know we
29787s	can see it's blessed so that helps but
29788s	yeah it's sat there grazing's been
29790s	playing
29791s	fairly dodgy minions playing off the top
29795s	um he knows the double wigs there so
29798s	he may come to the conclusion that he
29799s	can't beat a blessing just have to play
29801s	other things anyway of course that's
29803s	true i mean this rain elemental is
29805s	i don't even quite see a way to
29807s	efficiently bring it low enough
29808s	health-wise that it does not represent
29809s	lethal the bless so the best play might
29812s	just be to hope that
29813s	you know they don't have the bless which
29815s	could just be the correct play if
29816s	there's no way to set yourself up to win
29818s	against a specific card you have to
29820s	throw out the window and say i'm not
29821s	going to beat that card and i have to
29822s	accept that so i have to set myself up
29824s	in a way where i beat basically
29826s	everything else and pascoa is trying to
29828s	make that decision right now he's going
29829s	to trade off the slitherspear and he
29831s	says bless can't be beat right now so
29833s	let's go for the zitlag which is exactly
29835s	what he does persian
29836s	pops off a little bit um the stocks
29839s	don't do enough damage to the elemental
29840s	and the bless will take game three in
29842s	gersian's favor
29844s	yeah absolutely no surprise on pascal's
29845s	face there exactly what you said is that
29848s	you know the glass is there i think it's
29850s	there i'm smart i worked out it's there
29852s	can't beat it anyway so it doesn't
29854s	matter so let's let's
29855s	hope i'm wrong with my read and beat it
29857s	another time but it doesn't and guzzin
29860s	2-1 ahead in double quick time and down
29863s	to just his own demon hunter now
29866s	yeah absolutely the games despite being
29868s	over so quickly have been very very
29870s	close and i think decisions on both
29871s	sides have mattered quite a bit the
29873s	decision of gurujin to hold on to that
29875s	handmaiden despite
29876s	it not being active for so long allowed
29878s	him to get to the point where he drew
29880s	exactly into radiant and gave himself
29882s	that pop off one turn before pasco would
29884s	likely have closed out the game with the
29885s	development zelec and pascoe's decisions
29887s	to fight so aggressively early for the
29890s	board and prioritize resource generation
29892s	and card draw help them stay in the game
29894s	long enough to defeat or to try to
29896s	defeat what gruzian's early um serpent
29898s	wing and slither spear gave him in terms
29900s	of board advantage so very close game
29902s	but gruzian is ahead two to one right
29904s	now you'd have the choice to play that
29905s	akani which would have eaten up a lot of
29907s	mana amongst other things so
29909s	yeah that's the point i was saying the
29910s	play was right or was wrong i'm just
29911s	pointing out the alternate route where
29913s	if the okani's played for minion
29915s	um pasco i may have been able to get
29917s	over the finishing line there with the
29918s	extra damage
29919s	yep that was definitely a pivot point in
29921s	the match and i'm sure pasco will go
29922s	back and review that after the set looks
29924s	like pasco is going to queue up the wig
29926s	priest next and like you mentioned
29927s	groudon only has demon hunter left so
29928s	pasco hoping to do the exact same thing
29931s	that gruzian just did to him uh in this
29933s	game four
29935s	again noting that the merk water scribe
29937s	is a two up here in pascoe's list uh and
29939s	only one queens guard for pescoam so
29941s	what would you prefer um two scribes or
29943s	two queens guards
29945s	i've played quite a bit of this deck
29947s	with both and uh
29949s	embarrassingly i actually forgot to
29951s	include another card but i i think i
29952s	like the scribes a bit better because
29954s	it's just better on curve with the wig
29956s	you can play it on turn two and
29957s	immediately make it a four four with the
29958s	serpent wig where the queens guard is
29960s	better on coin
29962s	but
29963s	without the wig you know you're kind of
29965s	in trouble either way so
29966s	i think i prefer the scribe
29971s	let's go ahead tossing everything back
29972s	not happy with those cards looking for a
29974s	wig looking for a slither spear on turn
29976s	one on the play
29978s	and grazing with decisions because these
29981s	are all good cards but
29983s	not hasn't got the one drop that pascal
29985s	had the advantage of having last time so
29987s	a lot more risky to keep it this way
29989s	around a lot less board is going to
29991s	happen
29992s	uh 40 picks up some damage yeah it was a
29994s	four key which i'm surprised by
29996s	personally
29997s	yeah i think okay
30000s	having the
30002s	flexibility of choosing vanguard or
30004s	fnatic is nice but i think keeping both
30006s	of them limits your options to find
30008s	other cards that you want namely dread
30009s	person glaive now we also saw gerund
30011s	here keep fell barrage like pesco at the
30013s	last game which is probably very good at
30014s	dealing with an early minion that the
30016s	priest develops
30020s	however it can also be used to get a 3-4
30024s	so this allows version to get on the
30025s	board which contests uh either treasure
30028s	guard or crush claw which is the
30029s	expected turn three play from pasco on
30031s	the priest
30033s	against crush claw hero power with the
30036s	uh metamorphic will clean that up nicely
30038s	but against the treasure guard there's
30039s	not quite enough damage to get through
30040s	it pasco does opt for the treasure guard
30042s	for that exact reason
30046s	okay so crucial now we're in the similar
30048s	position that he was facing last game
30051s	with a massive difference though that
30053s	this time he's gonna have to spend one
30055s	mana every single turn because there's
30057s	no glaive in place so that's gonna
30059s	limit how much he can get done each and
30060s	every time for now
30062s	yeah and he does opt here they're with
30064s	the dread prison glaive at the draw at
30065s	the start of the turn he was able to
30067s	clear up this treasure card but decided
30068s	that it's better to get the fanatic on
30069s	the board and start drawing cards off of
30071s	that it's very hard to get through the
30072s	fanatic um from the priest side pasco
30075s	will have difficulty killing at this
30076s	turn without something like um a shot of
30078s	the naaru to neutralize it but there's
30080s	only one of those in the deck and it's
30081s	not a card that the priest is looking
30082s	for in the early game so despite leaving
30085s	a minion up i do like the fact that this
30087s	location is uh prioritizing cardron
30089s	generation just like pascoa did in the
30091s	previous game when the roles were
30093s	reversed
30094s	yeah we saw how important it was for
30095s	pasco i know he lost the game so
30097s	somebody out there is going but he lost
30099s	the game yes he did because he had to
30100s	waste a lot of resources killing off a
30102s	310
30103s	um but this time around
30106s	yeah it's the same thing you've got to
30107s	keep yourself alive any way you can keep
30109s	that damage coming and lawyers doing
30111s	exactly the same thing
30113s	yeah school teacher being the player for
30115s	and noah's serpent went just yet so he
30116s	does have he has to find a way to spend
30118s	mana until that wig gets picked up and
30120s	it looks like he did go over the holy
30121s	smite something that the priest deck
30123s	doesn't have a lot of is a single target
30125s	removal and that's might will help esco
30128s	ideally clean up something like the
30129s	fanatic if that's still left up at the
30131s	end of uh persian's turn here
30134s	who's in taking that opportunity to get
30136s	the glaive equipped now
30138s	and
30140s	we've seen this before somewhere
30141s	uh the priest out of stuff can it turn
30144s	it around well
30145s	not a lot of things to do that with
30147s	right now hasn't got that key bless for
30149s	the strike back
30151s	um but now has picked up the radiant
30152s	elemental which gives him options yeah
30154s	you see him sit upright and start
30155s	thinking what's going on here now so
30157s	that's very big raiding elemental lets
30159s	uh priest cheat out a lot of mana with
30161s	the wigs you can play nagas and then not
30162s	have to worry about how much men you're
30164s	spending on the wigs especially with
30165s	something like a priestess vollish in
30167s	hand a lot of mana can be cheated and
30169s	then brought back again
30171s	regenerated with avalash allowing you to
30173s	continue playing stuff however there
30175s	might not be just enough mana this turn
30177s	so pascal is doing some math on whether
30178s	or not there are enough cheap nagas with
30180s	the volish um getting mana back to allow
30183s	him to clean up this board and develop a
30184s	big one but he does decide that there is
30186s	enough here and this is where something
30188s	like a queens guard can can really
30190s	uh highlight its strength because of how
30192s	many wigs are going to be played this
30193s	turn and then pasco can end the turn on
30195s	a big queens guard
30196s	you saw how quickly he suddenly started
30198s	playing here that 30 40 second think and
30201s	then suddenly he'd made the decision and
30202s	all the cards started flying all over
30204s	the board because he made the choice
30205s	this does take a bit of time so
30208s	yeah
30209s	made the choice we are going to see that
30210s	queen's guard oh we're not going to see
30211s	it we're actually going to see
30213s	the handmaiden okay
30215s	okay i like this as well actually there
30217s	there's enough pressure on board
30218s	actually from pasco's side but he will
30220s	need to find a way back he did see that
30222s	grousing kept four cards so he should be
30223s	expecting uh within the next you know a
30226s	couple turns a coaches coming down and
30228s	despite having a big board already a
30230s	kurtris
30231s	plus the battlecry that spawns the two
30233s	of bats will clean up a lot of this
30235s	board so pasco realizes that this game
30236s	is not going in the next one or two
30238s	turns but he'll need more resources to
30240s	be able to overwhelm the demon hunter
30243s	yeah and one thing that modern demon
30245s	hunters don't do in their current form
30247s	is kill wide boards particularly easily
30249s	they have to sort of mess around whereas
30251s	obviously before they used to just kill
30252s	them all very easily with spell damage
30256s	yeah that's true uh losing access to
30258s	inflation aura did hurt uh the demon
30260s	hunters arsenal
30262s	which is why we've seen feldman hunter
30264s	switch to a more of a
30266s	get you a game plan where they try to
30267s	kill you instead of your minions
30270s	in some cases both actually like this
30272s	case example exactly in this case the uh
30275s	god the strength of multi-strike is just
30277s	so powerful being able to clean such a
30279s	large minion at the same time push 16
30281s	damage
30282s	it it's crazy now brujin
30285s	is
30286s	oh no he's not taking a risk i believe
30287s	he's going to clean up this little
30288s	spirit at the end of this turn as well
30289s	because of the second multi-strike
30292s	oh no the multistroke was played after i
30293s	see to be able to swing face okay
30297s	yeah okay it's not actually quite over
30301s	incredibly five six seven eight nine ten
30306s	eleven twelve thirteen fourteen it's
30308s	always scary leaving a slither spear up
30310s	because then the wigs uh power kind of
30312s	gets doubled because each wig adds one
30315s	attack but it also buffs the slither
30316s	spirit because it's a spell
30318s	which is why grujin i think was a little
30321s	concerned near the end of his turn that
30322s	he's leaving the slyther spear up but
30323s	with run radian elemental already gone
30325s	even with the knowledge that there are
30327s	that there is a serpent wig in hand
30329s	it's not very likely that there will be
30331s	lethal damage coming out from pasco at
30333s	this turn because of that sending him to
30334s	two is very very important because this
30337s	priest deck uh doesn't have healing
30340s	there's a hero power but it's not an
30341s	efficient use of mana
30343s	and this just sets the priest up
30345s	to die quite frankly well there is the
30347s	treasure guard so
30349s	that will eat up one of the minions at
30351s	least so if you can set up a two turn
30352s	lethal here somehow
30356s	it is possible even with the curtrics
30358s	that the bats don't have charge they
30360s	have rush so if enough damage can be
30362s	pushed or enough of a board developed
30364s	pasco might be able to set up two turn
30366s	lethal here just like you said
30368s	use this little spear for the extra plus
30370s	one to make sure that he's still got
30371s	stuff on the board for next turn he
30373s	knows that
30374s	the curtains is very likely next turn
30376s	because it was the kept card including
30378s	his hand that hasn't been played
30382s	the cartridges is coming down
30384s	no argument here vanguard and predation
30387s	aren't quite gonna get the job done this
30388s	gets rid of the taunt and can also kill
30390s	the slither spear now there's a little
30392s	bit of damage missing if pascal does
30394s	clean up the two foul bats grujin has
30396s	two damage from the hero power plus
30397s	predation which is five and if pascal
30398s	does heal up to six that is a break
30400s	point so we'll see what pescoa does
30402s	uh i don't think lethal is an option
30404s	here unless a raiden elemental
30406s	presents itself but even then i don't
30408s	think there's enough nagas uh to proc
30410s	enough wigs
30411s	fresco has to find a defensive play here
30413s	while making sure he cleans up the fall
30414s	bats
30415s	while also setting up lethal probably
30418s	yeah and trying not to die yeah
30421s	it's simple it really
30422s	sounds very easy yeah absolutely look at
30425s	elementary
30428s	is there any play where he can win with
30430s	a bless from a thrive i don't think so
30432s	just checking
30434s	without the second radiant no and
30436s	there's currently no way to draw radial
30437s	mental um both treasure girls are gone
30440s	so a taunt can't be put in the way
30442s	anymore
30442s	we can see that at the moment which i
30445s	don't expect him to do akane for spell
30447s	would actually keep him alive
30450s	it also comes down to whether or not he
30451s	chooses to heal his face this term
30454s	because healing space does take him
30455s	outside of uh quite a few
30457s	uh damage ranges actually
30460s	well predation being the big one but a
30462s	lot a lot of damage i think both
30464s	barrages have been played too so barrage
30466s	isn't an out either
30468s	i do like setting up the slither screw
30469s	this turn for the reason we talked about
30470s	earlier it double dips in damage when
30472s	you when you are playing wigs i think he
30474s	chose minion if i read it correctly
30477s	if that's the case
30490s	can't believe that that spell wasn't
30492s	picked here now
30494s	it's possible that pesco had to read on
30495s	something like maybe a lady satheno in
30497s	hand because i believe that fourth car
30499s	the vanguard was also kept in grueson's
30501s	opening hand um and pasco did have the
30503s	read correct that that was a minion but
30506s	that didn't account for spells that
30507s	would have been lethal yeah to be fair
30509s	there weren't too many spells left that
30511s	were lethal in the deck it basically had
30512s	to be predation
30514s	or this or a fury and that wasn't
30517s	extremely likely with how many cards
30518s	were left uh in grueson's deck but
30521s	groudin does take the series three to
30523s	one there
30525s	yeah zhilag would have been a lethal the
30527s	other way so it's just one of those
30528s	where you take your choice and hope it
30530s	works it's easy for us we can see it but
30531s	yeah very rapid win
30534s	seemed pretty tight as well um took his
30536s	chance in the comeback game in game
30538s	three that would seem to be the turning
30540s	point of the match
30541s	and yeah goes through to that winners
30543s	bracket and leaving pascua a little bit
30546s	stunned there i think that went very
30547s	very fast
30549s	yeah it was quite quick a lot of fast
30550s	decisions and i think the main pivoting
30553s	factor for this game maybe compared to
30555s	the last one is both demon hunters had a
30557s	lot of resources but i think the curtris
30559s	pushed uh grujin's demon hunter over the
30561s	edge there because he was able to
30562s	actually clean up a board and develop
30564s	that hero power line to push a bit of
30566s	extra damage uh for the lethal at the
30567s	end
30569s	pascal already you're in thinking mode
30570s	it's like well should i have picked some
30571s	spell or did i do the right thing very
30573s	hard to judge until you get back to your
30575s	play test group later and have a chat
30577s	with them but there we see it um
30579s	picking up another point he got two
30581s	points last week so that's um a fairly
30583s	tidy total you've played in these you
30586s	know you know every single one of these
30588s	points especially in these three weeks
30589s	is monstrous and so yeah job almost done
30592s	for the week for those two players
30594s	yeah absolutely and we're winners i
30596s	think coming up after this and uh we'll
30598s	see if grudging can keep that momentum
30600s	going like you said every point matters
30602s	and getting yourself farther ahead in
30604s	the first couple weeks means you have a
30605s	bit more breathing room in the final
30607s	week uh in terms of you know your mental
30609s	state
30611s	well that was a lot quicker than
30613s	whatever it was that permanent super
30615s	fake battled out in the
30617s	early part of the group but let's see if
30618s	it carries on straight after this break
30626s	[Music]
30636s	[Applause]
30636s	[Music]
30641s	in the darkest of seasons
30643s	where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific
30647s	reasons for a hidden hand has struck me
30651s	down
30652s	with such ruthlessness
30655s	so deep and profound
30659s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
30667s	to uncover the truth
30669s	of murder most foul
30672s	the anima drifts across the floor
30675s	highlighting the creatures who walked
30678s	through my door
30680s	the motives are as black as night
30683s	avarice power revenge
30687s	and blight
30689s	we watch the hero
30692s	uncover the clues
30694s	that lead to the truth
30697s	behind this dark blues
30701s	join us here with the grim and in pious
30706s	choose your power without heavenly bias
30710s	for at the end
30711s	they will burn in the fire
30715s	when it is known whose slave
30718s	danathrius
30719s	the sire
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30764s	so
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30854s	so
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30900s	foreign
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30919s	so
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30935s	so
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30948s	so
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30987s	so
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31012s	foreign
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31142s	so
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31185s	so
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31239s	welcome back to hearthstone grand
31241s	masters and we're about halfway through
31243s	group number b right now and we've seen
31246s	the slow match and the fast match and
31248s	now the world's going to collide
31250s	we're going to find out whether the
31252s	aggro or the sort of more controlling
31254s	lineups are going to get through this
31255s	group what do you reckon language hacker
31257s	how's it going to go
31258s	uh it's kind of hard to say um
31261s	depending on which aggressive matchups
31263s	you're talking about so mine rogue that
31265s	uh brought which we'll be seeing next is
31268s	actually quite a bit better against some
31269s	of these slow decks i believe than some
31271s	of the rogue decks that other people are
31273s	bringing the either the jackpot variant
31275s	or the boat rogue variant but against
31276s	particularly warlock and priests
31278s	minoring has
31280s	a bit of an advantage um even though
31282s	these classes do have 40 health the
31284s	inclusion of stuff like burning blood
31285s	acolyte and the smoke screens have
31287s	helped it match up quite a bit
31288s	and in the hands of an expert the deck
31290s	is very dangerous so i'm leaning a bit
31292s	towards the aggressive uh matchups but
31295s	we'll see
31296s	yeah i found the mine rogue to be very
31298s	good against warlock in my own testing
31300s	but not so much against the priest
31302s	because the priest has just start
31303s	i know it can make it so you have to win
31305s	with a 5 8 you can put things in the way
31307s	of the 5 8 it can slow you down and it
31309s	can actually just run you out of
31310s	resources
31312s	you tend not to even have to get to the
31313s	point where they they quest you to death
31315s	they just
31316s	you just have nothing left as the rogue
31317s	it's almost a fatigue battle against the
31319s	warlock it's kind of the opposite
31321s	problem they're hurting themselves even
31322s	if they're starting from 40 and you're
31324s	just constantly hitting them with damage
31326s	so very interesting to see
31328s	why i'm wrong about the priest match-up
31330s	but
31331s	the warlock one in particular i do
31333s	definitely agree with you that one that
31335s	one is quite a bit closer and we see uh
31336s	punts quest priest on screen here there
31338s	are a couple of interesting things to
31339s	note spammy arcanist is included which
31341s	isn't always in the deck
31342s	but it is good if you're expecting more
31344s	aggressive field and based on some of
31346s	the groupings we've seen because this
31347s	week is uh because of the trio format um
31350s	there was probably a nod that aggressive
31352s	decks will be brought and as a result
31353s	bringing spammy arcanist is actually
31355s	pretty good we've also seen that meda
31357s	the sixth man a legendary for priest is
31359s	not included in the quest priest for
31361s	similar purposes it's a nice greedy card
31363s	but it's not particularly good against
31364s	aggressive decks
31366s	we are however going to see the wig
31368s	priest on the side of grujin and
31371s	i don't know what more we can say about
31373s	this you get stuff on the board you try
31375s	and keep stuff on the board if you don't
31376s	have stuff on the board play a lot of
31378s	stuff and hope it sticks and if that
31379s	doesn't stick you've lost the game
31381s	yeah um this is an interesting match-up
31383s	generally when you're playing wig priest
31385s	against another priest that's either the
31386s	mirror or its boar priest
31388s	which is a 50 50 match up or against
31389s	four priests you're favored against
31391s	quest priests it can be a little weird
31394s	uh the quest priest is running one shot
31395s	of the naaru and in this case uh you
31397s	also have najak hexane which is a good
31398s	way to steal the wig priest's stuff um
31401s	but other than that it's not that easy
31403s	to deal with a big all-in minion so
31405s	we'll see if version does come into that
31407s	at some point during the game and try to
31409s	set up lethal
31410s	on board or try to keep it in hand and
31413s	use it as more of a combo as soon as the
31414s	minion sticks there's a couple ways you
31415s	can play this yeah i was going to ask
31417s	you which one would he like to go with
31418s	if it's wait and see then we'll wait and
31420s	see
31421s	um yeah i guess it's all about whether
31423s	you can read your opponent and exactly
31425s	which situations come up how strong your
31427s	hand is so
31429s	see how it works out for him
31431s	yeah i mean one of the things about
31432s	these 48 card decks is that on average
31435s	they're slightly less consistent right
31437s	you have more cards in your deck you're
31438s	less likely to have any one given card
31440s	especially when that card has a one of
31442s	for example shorter than aru or exactly
31444s	nashok and you don't have to worry about
31445s	those cards you just make them have it
31447s	most of the time they won't and a lot of
31449s	the time you're going to kill them as a
31450s	result
31451s	good result yeah grizzly i thought
31453s	that's why he did this and he got the
31454s	result he wanted he saw the keep didn't
31456s	like it
31457s	and instantly
31459s	just gets going here with the chance to
31463s	take this out take down the watch post
31464s	and get the board set up
31466s	importantly it's worth noting the
31467s	inclusion also is running two queens
31469s	guards instead of mark water scrabs we
31470s	brought attention to that and this is
31472s	one of the
31473s	spots where it does shine coining out of
31474s	queens garden turn two is a three four
31476s	and it can test a lot of two mana plays
31478s	that most if not all decks have access
31479s	to that early
31483s	no three mana plays from pun
31485s	so he's trying to set up for something
31487s	build on his future turns uh he's
31489s	keeping the amulet here which is uh
31491s	actually it's not that interesting
31492s	there's a light on another drake in hand
31494s	and that requires both a whole unit and
31496s	a shadow spell and lo and behold emily
31498s	11 dying is a shadow spell which means
31499s	that pun is
31501s	gearing up for a turn forward another
31502s	drake even if it doesn't clear the board
31504s	does some damage progresses quest and uh
31508s	at least damages the the bigger minions
31510s	if it doesn't actually clear them
31512s	and he's not messing around you you pose
31514s	the question or the the situation that
31516s	you know we're not quite sure he's going
31517s	to do he is just going at it from the
31519s	start here
31521s	even you know using the presets just to
31523s	get that extra
31524s	wig on early
31526s	absolutely nothing but a knock rock
31528s	answer this board kind actually a short
31530s	of an hour answers this board najak
31531s	steals it for a turn but grousing has
31533s	resources on board already that could
31535s	deal with the nausea so going in this
31536s	really just
31537s	has
31538s	a good payout for ferguson because
31540s	there's no way to deal with it except
31542s	for shard and if your opponent displays
31543s	shard you're just going to put on some
31545s	more wigs the following turn so it
31547s	this early with wigs and multiple
31549s	minions
31550s	the pre the quest priest can definitely
31552s	get pressured out of the game
31554s	yeah nothing doing here for punt
31558s	again he can soften up the queen's guard
31560s	trade off another drake play the second
31562s	one doesn't progress the quest but the
31563s	quest in this matchup is slightly less
31565s	important than not dying
31567s	it's very important to stay alive when
31568s	you play the purified shard later on
31572s	staying alive seems really important
31576s	okay no lack of minions here ferguson
31578s	keeps playing
31580s	nagas so that he can play more wigs so
31582s	that he can play more nagas which then
31584s	followed up by some more wigs there's a
31586s	pattern forming i can't quite put my
31587s	finger on it
31589s	pattern recognition uh has been very
31591s	good today
31592s	it has indeed
31595s	amazing okay two another drinks out of
31597s	the way there's not a lot of ways the
31599s	quest breeze can deal
31601s	small tidbits of damage condemn is
31602s	exactly one of the ways that can do
31605s	can
31606s	make up for the damage that you need and
31608s	pun does have that condemn
31610s	so gerudian probably will lose the
31611s	queens guard this turn and will finally
31613s	start losing the the grasp that he's had
31616s	on this game so far but he's pushed a
31618s	lot of damage and at this point you
31619s	don't need uh from guzman's perspective
31621s	that much damage to push through one
31623s	raiden elemental
31624s	and any minion sticking can spell lethal
31627s	if a bus is found and if a radiant
31629s	elemental is found
31630s	we're getting to the point now that
31631s	where pun is going to be able to start
31632s	playing these big things turn after turn
31635s	obviously
31636s	it's a case of whether they're big
31637s	enough especially with samovo are
31639s	lurking in the handful
31641s	but pun can clear here if he wants to
31644s	spend that smite so even though it's not
31646s	a particularly
31648s	good value to do it for one damage and
31649s	he's gonna have to drop some six drops
31651s	so next turn from gujjin really needs to
31653s	be
31654s	fairly powerful
31655s	yeah after turns seven and basically
31658s	what i'm saying is tornado onwards
31660s	whirlpool is available to the quest
31661s	price and suddenly any board that is
31663s	developed no longer looks scary so
31665s	persian has been trying to push very
31667s	aggressively this early to get in under
31669s	that whirlpool after pun you know cleans
31671s	a few boards and gets to turn eight the
31673s	match-up is a little more dancing
31675s	because at that point grisham doesn't
31676s	want to all in on a minion he wants to
31678s	stick a small minion and then surprise
31680s	lethal from hand uh so that the matchup
31682s	becomes like a game of chicken after
31684s	turn eight but before that
31686s	you know getting as much damage and
31688s	lethal if you can from uh
31690s	from the wig priest side and that's
31692s	exactly what grisham tried to do
31694s	yeah was forced to slow down here then
31696s	spend two mana on the thrive which is a
31697s	great card but on turn six when your
31699s	opponent's gonna start making big things
31702s	a little clunky he he won't be happy
31705s	with how to be but still has plenty of
31707s	resources left so it's definitely not
31708s	over yet by a long way
31710s	yeah
31711s	one of the things about this matchup as
31712s	well is after the quest priest kind of
31714s	stabilizes which is exactly what pun did
31716s	uh because of his
31717s	early decisions off of the thrive of
31720s	shadows and keeping the amyloid undying
31722s	to set up for the nether drakes he's
31723s	able to stabilize
31725s	but now he's reached a point where he
31727s	basically has to play a big idiot and
31729s	big idiots are very bad if your opponent
31731s	steals them with no rock and when we can
31732s	see that version does not have najak um
31735s	and even if he did or doesn't it it
31736s	doesn't really affect the situation pun
31738s	has to play this card passing is not
31739s	acceptable um
31741s	which opens him up to
31743s	najrak stealing this and potentially
31744s	losing the game
31747s	yeah
31749s	he'll be relieved that he there is no
31750s	nurse there's going to be quite a lot of
31752s	stuff
31753s	arrived but nothing's scary nothing the
31755s	pun really will be too terrified of yet
31760s	yeah gordon doesn't have quite a way to
31761s	get through this undying disciple
31763s	um without committing a bless which i
31765s	don't think he wants to do at this point
31767s	when he's this close to just having
31768s	enough damage with a radial mental he
31770s	wants to just focus on cleaning up the
31771s	minion on board even if it doesn't
31773s	happen this turn could be next string
31774s	could be the turn after his job right
31776s	now is not to full clear every turn
31778s	because if if board is lost from this
31780s	point samuel can come back and clean it
31782s	up you can find a najak and also you're
31784s	not dying quest priest is not known for
31786s	their uh non-ending pressure so if you
31789s	do lose the board at this point play it
31791s	slow gather some resources and that's
31792s	exactly what gershwin's doing trying to
31794s	set up for
31795s	a kill maybe three turns from now
31798s	pun doesn't have a five how important is
31799s	that
31800s	not particularly important right he's
31803s	it's amusing but it's not it doesn't
31804s	seem that relevant so in terms of quest
31806s	progression yes it's quite unfortunate
31809s	that there's no five here um but
31811s	that actually the more important thing
31813s	of not having a five is not to get the
31815s	purified shard but to discover card from
31816s	your deck because this is a resource
31818s	battle grudging's trying to amass
31820s	resources and develop a board turn after
31822s	turn and pun doesn't necessarily have to
31824s	clean up every single board but when
31827s	minions are left up there is the risk
31829s	upon dying so he does have to
31831s	squeeze out value
31833s	from the resources that he does have
31834s	available until
31836s	you know the quest gets rolling he
31838s	discovers some more cards and he and
31839s	he's much happier about committing a
31840s	whirlpool right now for example if he
31842s	commits a whirlpool which he wouldn't
31843s	want to do on the sport when he's ahead
31846s	suddenly he's open to any board kind of
31848s	closing the game out
31850s	yeah and
31851s	that's going to be
31853s	the next few turns right is trying to
31856s	like you say looking after his resources
31858s	to make sure he doesn't have to use that
31860s	whirlpool because when it's gone yes
31861s	there is another one but
31864s	how many cards he's going to have to
31865s	remove he wants to get a three or four
31867s	for one he wants a force though he'd
31868s	have to go all in before he has to
31869s	commit that
31870s	at the moment
31872s	brazilian has got just relentless
31874s	pressure keeping those out of range as
31876s	well
31878s	and once again i i've talked about this
31879s	queen's garden a few times and it's
31881s	shown up a few a few times here earlier
31883s	on i was able to contest an early minion
31884s	and here without
31886s	you know having to put wigs on it it's a
31888s	third big mini biggish minion that
31890s	gerund has presented and only one needs
31892s	to stick for you know a blast to punch
31894s	through and actually be lethal so being
31896s	able to develop multiple threats like
31897s	this while saving mana i.e not having to
31899s	commit more serpent wigs
31902s	can be very good
31904s	as composed to a second work water
31905s	scribe
31907s	okay feels like this is a time that's
31909s	louie's got to do at least some of the
31911s	stuff going on here trying to save some
31913s	resources we talked about but i believe
31915s	this is lethal
31916s	yeah so with both wigs in hand shard is
31918s	guaranteed to be in the deck so the
31920s	thrive in the shadows for two mana does
31921s	get him the shard shark can come down
31923s	sons these two minions with a slither
31924s	spear on the board and the queen's guard
31926s	uh the queen's gets buffed by a bunch of
31928s	serpent wigs which
31929s	in time also adds damage to this leather
31932s	spear because it's an extra spell
31934s	and after these wig has been played a
31936s	many-headed queens guard with a slither
31938s	spear as its best friend is going to
31939s	push through these taunts instead of
31940s	lethal
31942s	24 damage
31944s	with the guaranteed silence there nicely
31946s	done
31948s	good spot as well for my co-caster
31951s	yeah and after you you could ask
31953s	yourself well you know why didn't uh
31956s	when pun decided to play the whirlpool
31957s	there would have fallen the board and
31958s	then there wouldn't have been a way to
31959s	punch through that turn
31961s	and the key thing is that that's what
31962s	would have happened that turn the
31963s	following turn grousing would have
31964s	developed a couple more minions and put
31966s	put himself in the same spot where all
31968s	he needs is one opportunity to get
31969s	through which is why this matchup gets a
31971s	little dancy at times you can't really
31973s	remove every single thing from the quest
31975s	priesthood so you have to try to not
31977s	take a bunch of damage early
31978s	because when you do take a bunch of chip
31980s	damage uh whether you can allow it or
31982s	not it just
31983s	leads to games like this where
31985s	even though this looked like
31986s	overwhelming lethal it was kind of close
31988s	there wasn't a raiding elemental so a
31989s	bit of damage was lacked but grug piling
31991s	that excellently keeping a constant
31994s	stream of threats while not over
31995s	committing to something like a whirlpool
31998s	yeah and as a result of which takes that
32000s	1-0 lead and buys himself some extra
32002s	chances with the other two decks and
32005s	we've talked about those extensively it
32006s	is going to be this mine rogue
32008s	and
32010s	i'd like to see this go against the
32011s	priest just so we can see a master class
32013s	in
32014s	a more sensible mine road game we didn't
32016s	learn much from the one in the previous
32018s	match because he won on turn four well
32020s	we did we learned it can win on turn
32021s	four yeah exactly we learned and we
32023s	learned how to do that so if people want
32025s	to play this on ladder keep an eye out
32027s	we'll see if we can get another one um
32029s	yeah mine rose is a solid deck into some
32030s	of these slower matchups and like you
32032s	mentioned quest priest isn't quite a
32034s	free matchup for mine rogue as uh some
32036s	people might think the curse warlock is
32038s	um
32038s	but the mineral can play it a bit slower
32041s	and it looks like we are going to be
32042s	seeing that matchup right here so we can
32043s	talk about this quite a bit
32046s	first decision do you want to keep the
32047s	acolyte here you've got the graveyard
32049s	already you've got lieutenant acolyte
32051s	you can get some five eights early on
32055s	it's a little more complicated than just
32057s	keeping that one card so keeping a card
32059s	like that is a bit of a slower game plan
32061s	which you do want to do as the mine
32063s	rogue in this in this matchup because
32065s	against other decks you can just start
32067s	pushing damage over and over but priests
32069s	can heal and priests can remove some
32070s	stuff so the mine rogue grunge has to
32073s	decide if he wants to go for an actual
32075s	otk game plan where he tries to do 40
32078s	from hand or if he wants to spread out
32080s	threats over a few turns generate some
32082s	acolytes uh kill them off summon some 5
32085s	8 apply a bit of pressure and then and
32087s	then do something like a half combo
32088s	where he only deals 20 damage from hand
32091s	and if he wants to go for that super
32093s	slow otk game plan i don't think he's
32095s	going to be keeping the acolyte he's
32096s	going to be looking for a smoke screen
32097s	to try and draw extra cards
32100s	and it looks like that's what he's going
32101s	to do just keep the graveyard and look
32102s	for the cards that give him more
32103s	resources because this is a matchup
32105s	that's not going to end on turn four or
32107s	five six like we saw in the in the
32108s	previous set
32111s	one mistake i always make in this
32112s	matchup is i always draw my mind before
32114s	my sketches that's definitely not good
32115s	play in this match
32117s	true
32119s	there and that can benefit to the ot
32120s	game plan if you have enough mana you
32122s	can
32123s	do something like a prep sketch
32124s	information when you already have a
32126s	snowball graveyard up which draws the
32127s	mind procs it and then you can play it
32129s	and get an extra bit of eight damage
32130s	from there
32132s	so having this the bombs in the deck the
32134s	mines rather in the deck
32135s	can be useful
32139s	made a mistake many times here not too
32142s	many times of playing the lieutenant
32143s	early against the priest and getting it
32145s	silenced that's not a thing you want to
32147s	have in a game playing for that
32148s	potential otk option
32150s	or a chance to get some five eights
32151s	later on depending how it all goes
32154s	yeah now one of the ways that this sort
32156s	of otk game plan can be disrupted
32158s	is mute and that's very very slow and
32160s	that very really happens because it's
32162s	only in the cases where the minor wants
32164s	to take it incredibly painstakingly slow
32167s	uh grujin with the burning blood acolyte
32169s	might decide that he can switch gears
32171s	and try to be a bit more aggressive he
32173s	has a graveyard in hand and playing that
32175s	this turn can lead him to a burning
32177s	blade accolade on turn four which will
32178s	die because of the uh shatter shambler
32181s	spawning two five eights so he does have
32182s	the option to try and speed things up a
32184s	bit however if that game plan doesn't
32185s	work he will be down a snowfall
32186s	graveyard and uh he currently doesn't
32189s	have mines to proc so it
32191s	it will lose some damage or at least
32193s	slow him down until he finds a second
32194s	graveyard
32195s	in the case that uh the acolytes don't
32197s	get through so we'll see what he goes
32199s	for
32200s	going there looking for the smoke screen
32201s	right so then he could play the easy
32202s	game or just play the graveyard play
32204s	your smoke screen see what happens off
32205s	you go but
32207s	yeah um excellent ordering here in case
32209s	something else needed to
32211s	needed to happen
32214s	the queen's
32217s	now there's not a lot of wiggle room you
32218s	have in quest crease but pun is finding
32220s	one of the ways where you can get some
32221s	glue room and even though this extra
32223s	three-mounted card doesn't progress the
32224s	quest it can slow down something like
32227s	exactly this or burning blood acolytes
32228s	now a five isn't going to kill a five
32230s	eight but at least slows it down a
32232s	little bit until you can find taunts uh
32234s	light show elemental spirit guide uh
32236s	blackwater behemoth later on as well can
32238s	help deal with this so slowing the game
32239s	down
32240s	is kind of what gerund wants to do
32242s	generally but in this spot he's trying
32244s	to be making it make a bit of a push and
32245s	pundits recognize that and because of
32247s	that uses a big resource like a call the
32249s	grave just to throw something in the way
32250s	slow the game down because now resources
32252s	have been expended from grueson's side
32255s	yeah and this is the um
32257s	sort of the gamble you were talking
32258s	about a moment ago with the the
32260s	graveyard yeah he's got the two five
32262s	eights but now
32263s	because the follow-up didn't arrive it's
32265s	a little bit messy um in terms of value
32270s	yeah and importantly getting the
32272s	acolytes
32274s	uh the acolyte down early and procking
32276s	it does get you on board
32278s	however in the scenario where this
32279s	damage doesn't ship through now the the
32282s	average counterfeit blade is gonna be
32283s	worse as well because it can uh gain the
32285s	death rattle of the acolyte instead of
32286s	the mine which might not be good if
32288s	you're trying to just kill your pawn
32289s	instead of developing board
32292s	and there goes the graveyard obviously
32295s	we know the other one's not in the
32296s	bottom two but apart from that we don't
32297s	know where it is so could be a long long
32300s	wait for guzy in here
32302s	and the priest does just kind of tick
32303s	along while you're looking for your
32305s	stuff as the rogue you don't have
32306s	infinite time it is doing the two three
32308s	four five six seven eight things slowly
32310s	but surely
32311s	yeah
32312s	and and to be fair some chip damage is
32314s	getting through that sketch information
32315s	when the graveyard has been active to
32317s	draw the mind still push some damage and
32319s	board isn't quite clear yet actually no
32321s	it is
32323s	we blinked and the blood feathered
32324s	serene blood feather together with the
32325s	light mount another drake was able to
32327s	clean this up
32328s	and the treasure guard earlier on made
32329s	sure that that 5 8 does not did not
32331s	connect face so upon doing an excellent
32333s	job of at least staying the uh the early
32336s	pressure uh from grusian
32338s	[Music]
32340s	doesn't take the spammy obviously um
32342s	yeah lovely it's a five but bigger
32344s	things to worry about like winning the
32346s	hearthstone game because you can just
32347s	run the if you don't die the rogue only
32349s	has limited damage
32350s	if you can deal with that limited damage
32352s	and it's a lot of limited damage then no
32354s	hurry to complete your quest
32357s	and grazing is playing the waiting game
32358s	here
32360s	interestingly here
32362s	okay so this was a decision point pun
32364s	could have gone blackwater behemoth to
32365s	start lifestealing immediately or he
32367s	could have developed this lecture
32368s	elemental and he decided to play the
32370s	light or he decided to go towards the
32371s	light shower uh for two reasons i think
32373s	one it gives him the opportunity to play
32375s	call the grave which can give him an
32377s	extra death rattle for example exactly
32378s	another light share elemental
32380s	but it could also apply some pressure on
32382s	board while developing light shower and
32384s	then actually pressuring the road
32385s	because clearly gruzian passed
32387s	effectively on six mana which means that
32389s	persian has a hand that doesn't do
32391s	anything yet he needs to wait to find
32392s	smoke screen get more car draw and get
32394s	those resources let them do damage and
32396s	pun recognizing that is trying to
32397s	pressure a bit instead of going for the
32399s	blackwater behemoth to lifesteal up he
32401s	realizes the game's gonna go on a bit
32402s	longer than one or two turns and this is
32404s	a good opportunity to actually apply
32405s	some pressure which quest priest rarely
32407s	does
32409s	yeah and a stab used there as well to
32410s	clean up the six six that's another
32413s	piece of damage later in the game that
32414s	no longer belongs to gurujin so
32417s	another little victory there for the pun
32421s	i'm okay aiming on dying even being used
32423s	to bring one minion back it's good for
32425s	pressure three mana six six why not
32428s	akani coming down as well regina is
32430s	slowly getting locked into this game um
32433s	even if a smoke screen is drawn at this
32434s	point it might be a little bit too slow
32436s	to get everything he needs
32441s	yeah
32442s	he's really hard to deal with as the
32444s	mind move as well you do have to
32445s	sacrifice something important every time
32448s	you can see gujjin is just setting up
32449s	for the lieutenant lieutenant mine
32452s	graveyard
32453s	win i would need a sketchy in there and
32456s	a weapon to make that a full 40. i think
32458s	with that mind being eaten
32460s	an otk is no longer possible i agree i
32463s	believe the two lieutenants
32466s	a theoretical mine off of sketchy with a
32468s	graveyard
32469s	is not going to be 40 damage and because
32471s	of that gruesome says you know i can't
32472s	kill your 40. i'm gonna die in two turns
32474s	um and that that's kind of how the
32476s	matchup
32477s	goes without a smoke screen and to be
32480s	fair grujin did give it a good attempt
32482s	he realized that his hand wasn't going
32483s	to be a super long term game plan hand
32485s	and because that he went in for the
32487s	early burning light acolytes but pun was
32489s	able to deal with that effectively
32490s	staving off some of that damage with a
32492s	treasure guard and developing a temple
32493s	game plan that pressured grousing out of
32495s	the game ultimately
32496s	yep just cut down the time again the
32499s	akani is just really hard to get around
32502s	anyway
32503s	and
32504s	made sure that kuzin couldn't just do
32505s	the thing and wait and even then even if
32508s	he waits and even if he gets away with
32509s	it um
32511s	he's still got to hit the things in the
32512s	right order he really wants to get the
32513s	sketchy before the mine
32515s	otherwise things get a little bit
32516s	awkward as well so it was going to be
32518s	difficult after this board got
32519s	established and like you said the second
32521s	the mine was eaten that was it that was
32523s	ggg
32524s	yeah and it made me
32526s	it may not have looked like the mine
32528s	rogue
32529s	performed that well in that game but if
32530s	you have to consider against another
32532s	deck that didn't have 40 health there
32534s	the two uh burning blade acolyte spawns
32536s	into double lieutenant mine even without
32539s	a second graveyard would have won that
32540s	game but because it's against a slower
32542s	matchup because it's against the 40
32543s	health deck
32544s	the the mine road needs a bit more oomph
32546s	and smoke springs are exactly in there
32549s	for that purpose to try and make the
32550s	games a bit more explosive against 40
32552s	health decks
32554s	yep again double five eight um against
32556s	demon hunter for instance that's almost
32558s	the game over if you just get two five
32560s	eight steven hunter uses a load of
32561s	resources
32563s	um you continue the pressure the demon
32565s	hunters actually take face damage to
32566s	deal with those a lot of the time and it
32568s	all comes to an end okay pun boats rogue
32572s	uh we saw boat rogue struggle a little
32574s	bit
32575s	earlier but that's because he got killed
32576s	on turn four in one of the games which
32580s	what do you do
32581s	but i like this deck i think it's just
32583s	an incredibly straightforward solid deck
32586s	that
32587s	rarely misses is it just everything sort
32589s	of works towards one cause which is do
32591s	damage in a fairly good manner yeah i
32594s	like it it's very consistent it the
32596s	spread against a lot of the meta decks
32597s	are
32598s	relatively similar it's favorite against
32600s	some it's not really unfavored against
32601s	too many it just kind of does the same
32603s	thing every game
32605s	so a little more consistent something
32606s	like a mine rogue but at the same time
32608s	it won't be winning games on turn four
32609s	very often
32613s	not just punching the air i think he
32615s	likes what he's drawn we haven't seen it
32616s	yet but i think this lawyer might have
32618s	yeah it looks like we are having a rogue
32620s	versus rogue match here and mine rogue
32622s	is favored in this matchup a little bit
32624s	the boat rogues and jackpot rogues can
32626s	get some pressure down but not enough
32628s	pressure to the point where the mineral
32630s	dies on turn four or five probably even
32632s	six
32633s	um and because of that the mineral tends
32635s	to have a bit of time to get stuff going
32637s	not a lot of time like the quest priest
32638s	game but generally enough time to get 30
32640s	damage through
32642s	yeah what i find as well with the mine
32643s	rogue or what i've seen um
32645s	is both of your cards are pulling
32647s	towards you either kill them early not
32649s	necessarily turn four early but early
32651s	with mines but the five eights just get
32653s	in the way for so long as well and
32655s	they're often just winning the game on
32657s	their own
32658s	oh yeah but neither of those things
32659s	currently set up but double graveyard is
32661s	a decent spot to be
32664s	okay i believe pawn kept the preparation
32666s	this game
32667s	generally keeping a card like that isn't
32669s	super convenient however uh
32673s	knowing that he is in
32675s	a warlock disguise as the thief rogue or
32678s	rather the boat rogue story
32680s	it's okay to keep a temple card like
32681s	that because you can tap on turn two get
32683s	more resources and get yourself to a
32684s	point where that preparation does
32685s	something so i don't mind that it can
32687s	also get you on the board a lot faster
32688s	if you draw something like a recon or a
32690s	shroud of concealment and i should
32692s	correct myself as well it was pointed
32693s	out to me by a grand master that um you
32697s	don't have to declare your rogue deck
32701s	though
32701s	puns are the deck looks quite amusing
32704s	and you if you want to hey i'm a rogue
32707s	i mean you could try it right hey i'm a
32709s	vogue just play your warlock but yeah
32711s	you don't have to anymore that that rule
32712s	is long since gone so
32716s	yeah interesting that pun has rolled
32718s	warlock on this
32719s	yeah it's some mind games can happen
32721s	it's definitely in the uh the flavor of
32723s	mice for the
32725s	the masquerade um to have some sort of
32729s	weird interactions like this
32734s	to get on the board there's nakani next
32736s	turn so a bit of pressure now can set up
32738s	to
32739s	akane disrupting while also pushing
32741s	damage
32744s	i'm fishing looking for that smoke
32746s	screen which just about win the game on
32747s	the spot if you hit it weirdly with the
32749s	trickster and the graveyard in play but
32751s	it doesn't hit it
32753s	one fishing a card i've had a lot of
32754s	conversations about actually because
32758s	it feels that with one half of the
32760s	tricks to smoke screen combo that gone
32762s	fishing in your opening hand would be
32764s	really good but it's actually one of the
32765s	lowest kept mulligan cards the the plan
32767s	is to draw it like on turn three or four
32770s	and then cast it
32771s	um because you don't tend to want to use
32774s	it until you know what you're looking
32775s	for yeah that's true
32777s	now this economy is going to cause some
32778s	problems here version does test with
32780s	coin first just in case both could be
32782s	equally disruptive right blocking a
32784s	minion is obvious because hey they're
32786s	going to play one minion to interact
32788s	with something but at the same time if
32790s	you expect your opponent to expect you
32792s	to play minion you could take the spell
32793s	and then cause some havoc that way
32795s	good lesson there from christian you've
32797s	got a weapon that does four damage you
32799s	don't have to have the death metal
32801s	attached just just play it sometimes if
32803s	you lose the board if you're losing the
32804s	game because of it yeah you've got a
32806s	powerful deck in front of you don't
32807s	don't just um hold on to that infinitely
32809s	for the death battle to go off that's a
32812s	very easy mistake to make when you first
32813s	pick up this deck
32816s	absolutely use your resources even if
32818s	they're not optimized you do what you
32821s	have to do to clean stuff up and get
32823s	yourself
32824s	to a point where you cannot die
32827s	in which though he's taking a chunky
32829s	amount of damage now could really do
32831s	with picking up a shatter shambler very
32833s	quickly
32834s	to activate this acolyte but no such
32837s	draw there for him
32842s	yeah the acolyte's so close to being
32845s	good here even with something like a
32846s	backstab
32848s	it could present enough of a board that
32849s	slows down pun and this isn't normally
32852s	how the matchup goes but pun did you
32854s	know a pretty good job of developing
32855s	when he needed to to start pressuring
32857s	the the mine rogue before grueson could
32859s	get his his game plan online and we're
32862s	seeing the fruits of of his labor here
32864s	it's not quite over yet but a lot of
32865s	damage is being pushed and he's really
32867s	pressing version off of this um off of
32870s	the snowfall graveyard i don't believe
32871s	this graveyard did anything right zero
32873s	absolutely nothing and now next turn
32876s	you know grazing had the opportunity to
32877s	backstab his own acolyte but because the
32879s	graveyard was going there was no need to
32881s	concentrate on clearing the board
32883s	instead and now
32884s	is everybody's favorite card it's the
32886s	crab and now he draws the smoke screen
32888s	now the graveyard is expired ouch
32891s	yeah he he still had the option to play
32893s	an acolyte here if he so
32896s	chose to
32897s	um but i think he needs something a bit
32899s	bigger than just playing the acolyte i
32900s	think he needs to hit uh the burning
32901s	blade outline off of the smoke screen to
32903s	actually get enough momentum going i
32905s	don't think he can play five-man at this
32907s	turn float amana and the next string
32909s	over the smoke screen so i do like that
32910s	he went for this
32912s	yeah guzzin
32913s	can not be dead on board um
32918s	but yeah
32922s	there's a lot of damage staring him down
32924s	here you can clean up some of it with
32925s	the extortion and the forsaken
32926s	lieutenant but again resources that need
32929s	to be kind of used to develop minions or
32931s	damage
32932s	are being used
32933s	solely to remove things and keep him
32935s	alive so he's
32936s	kind of running out of stuff he's not
32938s	dead yet but
32940s	he's heading that direction with a mr
32942s	smite in hand for pun a tooth some
32944s	shadow steps
32947s	yeah
32948s	and cuzin's looking for a way to trigger
32950s	this acolyte or lieutenant next turn
32951s	otherwise it's probably over no chance
32953s	of doing
32954s	the crazy amounts of damage he saw last
32956s	game i don't think actually double
32958s	sketchy
32959s	2016.
32961s	and
32962s	oh the shadow step on the claw it can be
32964s	replayed because it costs two mana hits
32966s	the trickster and the final two damage
32968s	from pawn good spot i forgot that you
32969s	could step the uh the crab claws usually
32971s	they just kind of die
32974s	yeah it's quite nice little lethal there
32977s	i don't think it's gonna matter but nice
32978s	to see pun at the top of his game
32980s	and yeah two one but and it's a big but
32984s	this warlock deck is remaining the the
32987s	reason to swerve this bucket for
32990s	half of over half of the field i think
32992s	is this warlock
32995s	yeah we we've seen struggle in some of
32997s	the earlier matches as well i believe
32999s	pun was up 2-0
33001s	in his first set of the day and managed
33002s	to uh
33004s	pull it through finally in game five but
33005s	it took him three tries to get the
33006s	warlock through
33008s	he does not have three tries in this
33009s	match to get it through but hopefully uh
33012s	he'll only need one or two and groujin's
33013s	looking just
33015s	stop that at any means possible and to
33018s	be fair mine rogue is a very good
33019s	match-up uh against that warlock and
33022s	hopefully he can also get his third deck
33024s	through after that
33026s	yep it's gonna be in it like i'd imagine
33028s	he'll drew that do the mind rogue thing
33030s	now it's a fantastic match up all the
33032s	removal just triggers your minds if you
33033s	set them up with graveyards you're in a
33035s	great spot and then we will come down to
33038s	that
33039s	um rogue match which will be quite tight
33041s	i think yeah we see the warlock uh deck
33044s	on the uh up on the on the screen here
33046s	there is a starfish in the in the deck
33048s	which can help the warlock deal with
33050s	something like an early forsaken
33051s	lieutenant sometimes the rogues do play
33053s	it out early um if they need to because
33055s	their hand is kind of dry and they want
33056s	to close up the game quickly there are a
33058s	couple of ways to block that as well
33060s	demonic assault spawns one three void
33061s	walkers which
33063s	doesn't deal with lieutenants but it
33065s	prevents them from dying after they
33066s	transform
33068s	importantly you can
33070s	disrupt them by not playing things
33072s	because then it prevents them from
33073s	actually killing off the transformed
33074s	minions so there are ways to be sneaky
33077s	and kind of delay it a little bit
33079s	but it's definitely a difficult matchup
33080s	for the warlock
33083s	yes i see you've brought again eugene
33086s	does not pick up the
33087s	graveyard in the opener
33090s	yes he does there it is i can't see so
33092s	he's in a good spot
33094s	okay i think he drew it this turn and
33096s	then trade off the cutlass so you were
33098s	correct it wasn't in the mulligan but he
33099s	didn't turn off
33101s	that is okay this is a lot of damage
33104s	very quickly it's not enough to just
33106s	close out the game but importantly
33108s	because this isn't something like a
33109s	quest priest he goes for the counterfeit
33110s	blade here he can do damage
33112s	whenever he wants to and expect that
33114s	it's not all going to get healed back up
33116s	with desperate pairs against the narrows
33117s	now warlocks do have healing as well but
33119s	it's
33120s	i would say a bit harder there's a
33122s	conditional applied to it you have to
33123s	use your drain souls and touch of the
33125s	nazims on something and uh that's not
33128s	always there so the the damage is not
33130s	quite permanent but more permanent than
33132s	some other matchups
33134s	version not getting greedy with that
33136s	sketchy there making sure he draws the
33137s	second mine off it and gets the damage
33140s	in rather than trying to be greedy with
33141s	maybe a graveyard into the mine because
33143s	when you draw that mine and just your
33145s	sketch it becomes a dead card that is
33146s	when things can go pretty horribly for
33148s	you sometimes yeah pun recognizing the
33151s	matchup playing for tempo trying to
33153s	pressure the rogue as much as possible
33154s	which isn't easy to do as curse warlock
33156s	generally chris warlock's game plan is
33157s	much slower but he is pushing some
33160s	damage getting some curses in which can
33161s	help if something like as a cool is
33163s	drawn later gershwin going for a turn
33164s	for comfort blade waiting on the
33166s	graveyard setting up the weapon first
33168s	and then going in next turn perhaps for
33170s	a graveyard one of the mine the one of
33172s	the mines the mine dies off second one
33174s	with an extortion deals a crazy amount
33176s	of damage next turn
33177s	28 damage next turn from the three mine
33180s	triggers um if he wants to extortion his
33182s	own
33182s	plus the fall from the weapon
33186s	so that's
33187s	is that 28 including the weapon
33189s	including the wbs 3 3 8 24 and then four
33191s	more for the weapon i think okay so what
33193s	you're telling me but he's got the stab
33194s	as well in hand ready for the turn after
33197s	so you're telling me if pun taps here
33200s	he dies yep
33202s	huh
33203s	and
33204s	if he doesn't sort something else out he
33207s	dies to the stab to turn after anyway
33210s	not a great spot to be in and then this
33212s	is where mind wrote we've talked about
33213s	this a little bit minor can be a little
33215s	more
33216s	variance heavy you sometimes have games
33218s	where you don't draw what you need and
33219s	the game looks kind of weird
33220s	but there are games like this where you
33222s	optimize your card draw you optimize
33224s	your mulligans and you have these crazy
33226s	explosive turns where you're opponent
33227s	even though they're not dead pun isn't
33229s	dead just yet but grudging's dealt so
33231s	much wait
33232s	yeah he's not dead yet but gruesome
33234s	dealt so much damage that is relatively
33237s	permanent pun has to kind of hit the the
33239s	red button here and just say okay how do
33241s	i heal as much as possible i just don't
33243s	want to die
33244s	so the touch on the mistress
33247s	is healing
33250s	gets him back up to 13 which is
33252s	conveniently outside of one mine range
33255s	by
33256s	five
33257s	yep the sketchy won't go off just a
33259s	reminder there's no thing that will do
33263s	this yeah so
33265s	the the burning blood acolyte is not
33268s	four or less mana so it will not be
33269s	drawn off sketchy both minds have been
33271s	drawn now grousing does have lethal outs
33273s	if pun does go for the touch of the
33275s	naphthism and believe pun will do that i
33276s	don't think
33277s	um
33279s	staying within one mine range is is
33281s	exactly what he wants to do now he does
33283s	want to pressure grousing as well and
33284s	and killing off the mistress does heal
33286s	gurjen but i think with how many cards
33288s	russian has left in hand i i think pun's
33290s	happy just to say okay you're not going
33291s	to kill me most of the time so i'm just
33293s	going to heal back up and these two
33294s	cultists will close up the game over the
33295s	next two or three turns agreement does
33297s	have some lethal outs
33300s	but that is not one of them the second
33301s	graveyard is a little redundant um
33303s	exactly forsaken lieutenant number two
33305s	or number one i think would have been
33306s	lethal here yeah either of them
33310s	not like one
33311s	or the stab as well maybe no that would
33313s	have been one off so stab would have
33314s	been one off yeah i do also one man off
33320s	the the thing is if the extortion is
33323s	traded the mind can't be killed off
33325s	but
33327s	okay yes it still can but still not
33329s	exactly what griezmann wants to see
33331s	okay dagger up don't play the sketchy
33333s	don't give a pun any
33335s	information um with the second snowfall
33338s	graveyard in hand forsaken lieutenant is
33339s	still lethal extern there's enough mana
33341s	to go graveyard mine lieutenant and stab
33344s	so grushan still set himself up for
33346s	lethal outs and pun has to figure out if
33348s	that's disruptable or not
33350s	the drain sole applies a bit of healing
33352s	but does not play around the 16 damage
33354s	break point
33355s	right yeah
33358s	so planets to decide is it just
33360s	drain soul and and hang out because the
33362s	two cultists still are showing lethal on
33365s	board
33367s	there's a change you're scared right you
33369s	are scared because that weird stab to
33371s	the face that grujin did on turn three
33373s	or four turn four
33375s	was a very strange play you know that
33377s	there's more damage in hand you just
33378s	don't know how much
33380s	yeah the drain soul does play around a
33382s	break point so exactly
33384s	um
33386s	naval mine forsaken lieutenant
33389s	there's still a graveyard up actually
33390s	hold on
33391s	so with a graveyard up
33394s	mine a way to kill off the mine and a
33396s	stat the second stab would be lethal
33398s	here so pun does go for the drain sole
33400s	it does change a break point and he
33402s	decides that healing and playing around
33404s	the break point is more important than
33405s	developing a null and i'm inclined to
33406s	agree
33408s	i can't see a way out now
33413s	i see yeah your way out is your opponent
33415s	consonants
33416s	yes
33418s	na'vi style
33419s	lady outs
33421s	yeah no concede
33423s	dancing around break points has managed
33425s	to put the warlock through this is a
33426s	difficult matchup and there was a chance
33429s	there that the warlock would have just
33431s	been dead on turn five or six
33433s	um but pun played excellently there
33435s	keeping himself alive and grueson did
33436s	play those outs every turn try to set up
33438s	lethal in as many ways as possible but
33440s	unfortunately the uh smokescreen didn't
33442s	show up the second the lieutenants
33444s	hadn't shown up either and the explosive
33445s	start did taper out giving pun the win
33448s	there and just like that pun is out of
33450s	the group
33451s	and into sunday's top eight
33454s	uh just sort of happened
33456s	really quickly this time it nearly
33458s	happened really quickly earlier on but
33460s	it took him a long time in the end but
33461s	yeah it took him a moment to react there
33463s	as if he sort of wasn't actually sure
33464s	what was happening and then yeah through
33466s	i put her feet up for two days and that
33468s	must be a great feeling when you get
33469s	through that quickly
33470s	oh absolutely getting these points is
33472s	exactly what you want and
33474s	having interesting deck choices like
33476s	this compared to people who brought uh
33478s	substantially different things i don't
33479s	think too many people brought curse
33480s	warlock or warlock in general but
33483s	it probably makes him feel pretty good
33484s	that the decisions he made in terms of
33486s	lineup
33487s	lineup uh building brought him to this
33489s	point
33491s	so zoyujin not out yet as you can see he
33494s	drops down into that decider match we'll
33495s	get one more chance at it and he will
33498s	have to play the winner of a super fake
33500s	and pascal so
33502s	um super fake with the other quest
33505s	priest in the group and pascal with the
33508s	i know there's a standard lineup fell
33510s	demon hunter naga priest boat rogue for
33512s	this week week basically just fairly
33514s	aggressive
33516s	lineup from what is it bucket two
33519s	correct the super fake is his own demon
33521s	hunter and uh
33523s	a jackpot rogue so it's not quite the
33525s	same on those two archetypes but still
33527s	pretty similar the main uh difference is
33529s	the quest piece like you mentioned so
33530s	i'm curious to see if the quest priest
33531s	over the wig priest will lend itself
33534s	well to super fake um or if pesco will
33536s	take it with the wig priest and the uh
33539s	the boat rogue
33540s	well both those players have had a rest
33542s	while this match was taking place so we
33544s	will have just a very short break a
33546s	three minute break to set them up and
33547s	then we'll be straight in to find out
33549s	who goes through to that decider match
33556s	[Music]
33566s	[Applause]
33566s	[Music]
33571s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
33574s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
33578s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
33583s	with such ruthlessness
33585s	so deep and profound
33589s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
33597s	to uncover the truth
33599s	of murder most foul
33603s	the anima drifts across the floor
33606s	highlighting the creatures who walked
33608s	through my door
33610s	the motives are as black as night
33614s	avarice power
33617s	[Music]
33624s	that lead to the truth
33627s	behind this
33629s	dark bruise
33632s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
33636s	choose your power without heavenly bias
33640s	for at the end
33642s	they will burn in the fire
33645s	when it is known who slayed
33648s	danathrius
33649s	the sire
33651s	[Music]
33666s	[Music]
33674s	[Music]
33680s	[Music]
33749s	well we had a slow start to this group
33751s	but it has sped up a lot in the last two
33754s	matches so it's time to start kicking
33756s	some players out of the group super fake
33758s	and pasco are going to fight for the
33760s	right to be still in the group at the
33762s	end of this match and once again we've
33764s	seen the lineups now it is going to be
33766s	um pretty much mirrors except with the
33768s	quest piece on one side and the naga
33770s	priest on the other and some variations
33772s	in the rogue too
33774s	yeah i'm kind of interested to see how
33776s	these uh
33777s	choices on line of building affect the
33779s	outcomes of this match
33780s	a lot of players have decided that demon
33782s	hunter pre-stroke is kind of the go-to
33784s	or the the standard pick this week so
33786s	some variations between the actual
33788s	archetypes are very much welcomed in
33790s	terms of from an analysis breakpoint
33793s	standpoint because we actually get to
33794s	see how these different choices and even
33797s	within the archetypes you choose there
33798s	are tech cards we see that aren't
33799s	normally in the decks that might help in
33801s	this exact scenario
33803s	are you surprised at the buckets like
33804s	that eight people brought this demon
33806s	hunter lineup or is this how you'd have
33809s	ended up do you think i know it's very
33810s	hard it's very much trying to guess what
33812s	other levels are going to happen but
33813s	curious what you think
33815s	um it varies i think this matters a lot
33818s	on personality i know some players
33819s	really like playing
33821s	the good decks that they think are just
33822s	good and try to play them better than
33824s	their opponents and i know some people
33825s	like going for line up advantages where
33827s	they try to not necessarily bring the
33829s	most standard decks but they bring decks
33830s	that thing can be good and to what other
33832s	people
33833s	are bringing so i'm not super surprised
33835s	i think people generally like to play
33837s	good decks well and because of that we
33839s	do see a lot of demon hunter priest
33840s	rogue looks like super fake with the
33842s	thief rogue the jackpot rug is gonna be
33844s	uh his first cue
33846s	does indeed we've seen quite a lot of
33848s	this um
33849s	again not my favorite road but yeah
33851s	hopefully super fake can show me why i
33853s	am wrong and back to that point you were
33855s	making about the personalities um
33857s	abu gabu tomorrow is the player bringing
33861s	um hunter and sharman and the punishment
33863s	for that is you have to bring warrior so
33865s	he just put together 40 card quest
33868s	warrior and said well
33869s	this will beat somebody somehow and then
33871s	i get to play the two best decks so
33873s	looking forward to seeing how that pans
33874s	out for him tomorrow
33876s	i'll have some words on that when we get
33878s	there we will be there we are on the um
33880s	that group tomorrow so yeah excellent
33882s	i'm happy to i'm happy to hear that it
33883s	looks like pascal also queuing up rogue
33886s	uh thief frog versus boat rogue it's
33888s	kind of a close match up it can rely
33891s	pretty heavily on what you get out of
33893s	jackpot which is i imagine why you don't
33895s	dis why you don't like thief rogue over
33898s	boat road because of the fact that it's
33899s	it's kind of hinged on what
33902s	five plus mana spells you get from the
33903s	jackpot i don't mind the part like this
33906s	is my personal thing which doesn't
33907s	really matter when i'm talking about gun
33908s	masters but i'm going to anyway because
33910s	we've got a few moments of field before
33911s	the game starts um
33913s	i don't mind the the rng of what comes
33916s	out of a jackpot it's more about if you
33917s	don't draw the jackpot at all i find
33920s	it's really frustrating
33922s	if you get the jackpot and you get two
33924s	bad cards sure you can usually make them
33925s	work that's what good players are
33926s	supposed to do right fiddle around make
33928s	it work but if you don't actually get
33929s	the jackpot i mean super fake's a good
33931s	player so he does
33932s	um
33933s	that's when i find the decks are very
33934s	hard to play and almost folds in on
33936s	itself i think
33938s	fair enough i know some players have
33940s	opted to put in blood in the water as an
33941s	extra expensive card so when you don't
33943s	draw the jackpot you still have a bit of
33945s	staying power and your tricksters aren't
33946s	completely useless but super fake is not
33948s	running blood in the waters from what we
33949s	can see um he is running asharon vessels
33952s	instead opting for the the three through
33953s	pirates so there's still some way to use
33955s	the trickster but playing a format
33956s	trickster for a five minute spell isn't
33958s	quite as useful as you might think with
33960s	a jackpot card something like a garden's
33963s	grace or an immortalizing stone
33965s	so i totally i will admit this hand is
33968s	super super fake here brightest glitches
33970s	oh yeah
33972s	trade cutlass on one there's a jackpot
33974s	on two a very discounted null is gonna
33976s	happen a bit of tempo and the
33978s	reconnaissance draw as well
33980s	there are options now too getting uh
33982s	getting an early medium-sized death
33984s	rattle into contraband stash can just
33986s	blow people out of the water
33988s	um not to make a joke about the blood in
33990s	the water but
33991s	there's one there
33992s	yeah you should have just taken a second
33995s	for that one and you know worked it out
33996s	i think tj would be disappointed that
33998s	that joke didn't land
34001s	that's okay that was the point i can see
34002s	tj yelling at the screenwriter no you
34004s	have to make the joke
34006s	take the time make it good
34007s	anything to torment tj while he's
34009s	watching from home rather than casting
34012s	now pascal's like a not got a bad hat
34014s	himself bad hand himself my my goodness
34017s	words are hard um while upon noel
34020s	very discounted but opts to hold on to
34022s	it and use it as a reactionary tool
34024s	instead of a uh a proactive tool this
34026s	also means that next turn shroud can be
34028s	the play for best koa hopefully drawing
34030s	a second all and making them both one
34031s	mana oh sorry zero man or rather
34034s	but the cards he gets a turn three
34037s	oh it's all just getting nutty
34040s	turn through super yeah super fake has a
34042s	plethora of options here the prep draw
34045s	makes it so that he can play a null for
34047s	zero man in this turn which could have
34048s	done anyways with the jackpot but he has
34050s	the option now to go for multiple
34051s	reconnaissances instead or even just one
34053s	if he wants to
34054s	and these are also very good options for
34056s	the matchup a rat king being able to
34058s	deal with wild pawn knolls as a
34059s	reactionary tool or mountain bear was
34061s	the other option to be able to
34063s	put taunts in the way of the
34064s	boats
34067s	yeah just look at this
34070s	normally taking something like a
34071s	squirrel isn't very good but with this
34074s	much pressure coming out from super fake
34075s	racking extra into coin contraband stash
34078s	the squirrel is actually very powerful
34080s	because it it applies some pressure now
34081s	into the board which is not that easy
34083s	for ropes to deal with occasionally and
34085s	i know you can dagger it but daggers
34086s	aren't that efficient um
34089s	from the rogue side right you want to be
34090s	spending man on prep vessel you want to
34092s	be spending man on shroud so the
34093s	squirrel can actually push damage and
34095s	it's it doubles up because of the fact
34097s	that there's a contraband stash so super
34098s	fake going for a very tempo heavy game
34100s	plan which is what you want to do in a
34102s	rogue mirror
34104s	yeah he's going to have a lot of ways to
34107s	to just keep the board the rat king will
34108s	probably come back at some point as well
34110s	when the the squirrels in the deck start
34112s	getting drawn as well obviously he'll
34114s	make another one with a stash that
34115s	you've just described
34117s	and the only decision he really has to
34119s	make going forward is
34121s	like do you want to jackpot before you
34122s	stash that will depend on what he draws
34124s	i should imagine or do you just want to
34126s	stash and just get some more stuff going
34128s	on
34130s	it'll depend pesco's got a difficult
34132s	turn too he's behind on board right now
34134s	he doesn't know about the rat king or
34135s	the contraband stash so he still has to
34137s	make some good tempo decisions make sure
34138s	he doesn't fall behind on board because
34140s	he wants to be the aggression of the
34141s	aggressor in this matchup
34146s	yeah doesn't have great ways to use his
34148s	mana here
34149s	not i mean they're good but as rogue
34152s	goes they're not great
34154s	okay use the shadow step here trip step
34156s	can be a harder card to use when you
34157s	don't have knowledge but with a knoll it
34159s	can be used as a
34160s	heel and and a redevelopment which is
34163s	good in this case gets him on the board
34164s	uh it's manification as well uh it does
34166s	not give him the shroud draw but that's
34168s	fine he doesn't need a play next trend
34169s	he doesn't and the important thing is
34171s	that the wah pandol in his deck is still
34172s	zero mana so he can still shroud an
34174s	extreme for that
34177s	this test looks good
34178s	just yes it does it all looks good
34182s	a little bit slower but
34184s	still pretty good
34186s	okay
34187s	now there's some options here
34189s	so shroud hitting a wild panel isn't
34191s	exactly that crispy now because the
34194s	weapon oil going to the racking is kind
34195s	of sad so i think pesco is going to go
34196s	for a prep reconnaissance here and try
34198s	to find something a bit more impactful
34200s	these
34201s	are impactful okay the shattered spirit
34203s	not so much but media is playable this
34205s	turn divine shields are very annoying to
34207s	get through and this means that because
34208s	this can offset some of the pressure
34210s	because of the healing but pasco decides
34212s	to go for the tyrion forge ring here
34214s	i'm a little surprised by this
34217s	i think i would have liked mita
34219s	with shroud and gone fishing there's a
34221s	pretty decent chance that mita can
34223s	probably pop up in the future in the
34224s	next couple turns and this matchup is
34227s	tempo heavy but it can also be resource
34229s	management um and you get ahead by
34231s	having a bit more resources and while
34233s	tyrion is useful
34235s	going for the shroud of this turn which
34236s	is not super likely to get into krabatoa
34238s	but
34239s	it has some anti-synergy with krabato as
34241s	well
34242s	and it looks a little results-oriented
34244s	because that's what was drawn but yeah
34245s	i'm kind of surprised to see the turning
34247s	here i think this might be a little too
34248s	slow for the matchup
34249s	i have had that exact combo a couple of
34251s	times myself and it's like yeah it's one
34253s	that you probably watch out for without
34256s	necessarily having to to be results or
34258s	into that i think is something that you
34259s	know you're aware happens
34262s	super fade going for the vessel here
34263s	instead of the coin contraband slash the
34265s	stash has a vibrant squirrel and a
34267s	racking inside which is similar tempo
34270s	this is slightly less power but it
34272s	doesn't die to something like a dagger
34274s	and this is also
34276s	uninteractable against the krabatoa
34278s	which he thinks pascal might have after
34280s	the shroud
34281s	or it's something to consider at least
34282s	whether or not he it is there it's
34284s	something to consider because the
34285s	information is that it is there that
34287s	that is a minion that was drawn
34289s	okay well probably gonna stash but it is
34291s	decision time he's made the decision
34293s	already
34294s	off we go
34296s	mm-hmm
34297s	rankin can clean up the spirit guide
34298s	very nicely and even though this valet
34301s	fighter contests the pirates
34303s	i think super fake's still happy pushing
34305s	damage face he is considering whether or
34306s	not he wants to trade um but with the
34309s	pressure he has
34310s	and a wicked stab in hand i really want
34312s	to see this go face excellent he
34314s	probably just checked some break points
34315s	in his head for various scenarios there
34317s	but yeah
34318s	yeah
34319s	while upon an important drive for pascoa
34322s	crevator is the strongest thing you can
34323s	do this turn and while panel
34325s	goes with that very nicely it turns out
34326s	a zero mana three five with rush and
34328s	energizes well with a lot of stuff
34332s	yep um
34334s	especially on this board as well the
34335s	shape of the board that he's facing
34337s	three five is just tidy but doesn't even
34339s	need it i don't think he's gonna be able
34340s	to hang on to it if he wants to yeah
34342s	importantly the the first racking that
34343s	was played also does not spawn uh after
34346s	the squirrel dies and the two pirates
34348s	die i believe it would be a four out of
34349s	five so this is a very important swing
34351s	turn from pascoa and kind of why i
34353s	didn't want him to take the tyrion
34355s	because i feel like this is generally a
34357s	better play and if you're playing
34358s	towards this then the tyrion becomes a
34360s	little redundant however now that he's
34362s	stabilized next turn tyrion can come
34363s	down and protect him a little bit
34364s	against the rat kings so we'll see if it
34366s	works out
34367s	these rat kings are just about ready to
34369s	go see if they can find any way to
34372s	activate them here
34375s	hmm should be alive to activate them
34377s	though yeah here's the choice here you
34379s	can use jackpot to activate the gun
34380s	fishing but jackpot
34381s	will not allow him to play the jackpot
34383s	of cars his turn so i like the wicked
34384s	stab instead here actually removing
34386s	stuff it commits a stab but i think this
34388s	was the correct play
34392s	there's a hit this knoll is huge now
34394s	because that gets a rat back in the game
34397s	it does
34399s	if he wants to kill it off because if he
34401s	is going to run to the crevator the null
34403s	dies and the rat king dies as well
34406s	which is
34407s	overkill but it stops a lot of damage
34410s	which is important again when resource
34412s	generation is a concern and importantly
34414s	the second racking is only one take
34415s	behind which means that this is a full
34417s	clear so even though this was a little
34418s	awkward damage-wise it's a full clear
34421s	and i think super fake's very happy to
34422s	see that yeah now he's a position where
34424s	he can play towards the test in
34426s	whichever way he wants to do it
34429s	yep
34431s	it's tyrion he's pretty hefty here
34434s	pesco has to decide if he wants to take
34436s	five on the noggin to clean up the
34437s	racking and i think that's fine scabs
34439s	isn't coming down soon anyway so this
34440s	turn is going to stick at least for a
34442s	turn um you know barring some some tooth
34445s	interference shenanigans but even with
34446s	the tooth in the fair and i don't think
34447s	there's any way to actually get discover
34449s	off of it
34455s	making lots of things ready to
34458s	reactivate your rats does seem very
34459s	tempting yeah this is true so the one
34462s	downside to playing tests is that
34463s	something like a a scabs could come out
34465s	from pascal which would be a little
34466s	awkward and there's not a lot of
34469s	reads that fake super fake has on
34470s	pesco's hand because these cards are
34472s	drawn over the last couple turns
34475s	okay
34479s	interesting
34481s	very interesting now
34485s	so
34486s	uh scabs does put pesco in a good spot
34488s	but it's a bad spot if he plays scabs
34491s	into super fakes
34493s	uh shadowcrafters cabs because then
34494s	super fake gets to bounce back the
34496s	shadows so there is a chance your pesco
34498s	does
34499s	forego shadowcraft or scabs and just
34502s	says you know what i'm on board with the
34503s	tyrion
34504s	they're not going to kill me that often
34505s	uh we've seen a stab already from super
34508s	fake so
34509s	superface lethality right now not super
34511s	high
34512s	yeah this this tyrion seem to be causing
34513s	a problem so
34515s	don't
34516s	don't remove it let your opponent remove
34517s	it
34519s	excellent people might be
34521s	baited into playing a scab is there
34522s	because oh it's eight man it would just
34523s	true it looks amazing but it actually
34525s	doesn't put you that far ahead on board
34527s	than you already are so i like doing
34529s	different things here and saving scabs
34530s	as a comeback mechanic if things start
34532s	going south i do like playing this
34534s	cutlass though i might be completely
34535s	crazy we're just killing off one of
34536s	these two take your tyrion
34538s	yeah
34539s	could even go face
34541s	but i yeah i think killing the tutu is
34543s	probably the better
34544s	it's kind of close though
34546s	it sets up lethal both
34548s	ways yeah
34552s	oh my goodness
34556s	okay
34557s	well
34559s	i don't even
34560s	huh
34564s	they're on zero right well one's on one
34566s	and one's on zero the vat kings
34568s	yeah
34570s	so trading off these trains is not going
34572s	to proc either of them
34575s	can go for like an infestation but that
34577s	doesn't actually clean up the edwin
34579s	which causes some problems i think super
34582s	fake is going to go for the scabs but
34583s	he's opting to trade off the trance or
34585s	at least one treatment
34586s	i think two because then that that's
34588s	that's the timer at the time of the the
34589s	ticker for the rat kings i think he does
34591s	have the scabs here uh because he can't
34593s	accept the stealth damage from edwin
34595s	considering how low he is
34598s	but he's opting to kill these off um
34601s	and this is actually
34602s	this exact scenario is what pesco is
34604s	playing around
34606s	and we we talked about the last turn
34607s	he's ahead on tempo it doesn't make too
34609s	much sense to scabs it's much better to
34610s	use scabs as a reactionary tool
34612s	and because pascoe held that scabs super
34614s	fake is forced into using his own scabs
34616s	here which is pascoa
34619s	the swing turn that he wanted from his
34621s	own scabs
34622s	but super fake next turn can activate
34624s	both rats and player tests to get
34626s	another there's a lot going on there in
34628s	terms of clearing up her material
34632s	and getting through
34633s	true
34635s	true
34636s	um interestingly as well infestation
34639s	spawns minions that will act so if scabs
34641s	comes down here from pascoa super fake
34643s	won't have any minions on board but the
34644s	infestation spawns imps that run into
34646s	the shadows that pascal will have
34647s	developed from the shadowcrafters cabs
34649s	activating the rat kings which will let
34650s	him clean up anything else that's pesco
34652s	develops with the scabs if if that
34655s	is indeed pasco as play and i think it
34656s	is probably the best play
34661s	trades of cutlass first
34663s	just in case something is drawn that
34665s	changes his mind
34667s	i don't think there's any lethal outs or
34669s	anything so i think the clear play is to
34671s	heal back up gain some armor spawn some
34673s	fortunes
34674s	get rid of super fake sport yep
34681s	i really like the way pasco navigated
34683s	this game so far i think i like the way
34685s	super played as well though with the
34688s	the way that the imps has been kept back
34689s	for this
34690s	that's true as well yeah he could have
34692s	developed a test or something but taking
34694s	a bit slower in case that there was a
34696s	scabs and ultimately having plays on
34698s	scabs because of the tyrion
34701s	also means the rat kings are going to be
34703s	online and representing not lethal but
34706s	it will actually represent lethal with
34707s	the stab in hand yeah at that point
34709s	it'll be up to uh to six damage there's
34711s	a tooth as well
34717s	oh it's so close but this is huge this
34720s	is just this is this has been so close
34723s	now
34724s	pasco is not out of the game just yet
34726s	there is a six damage stab in hand
34728s	there's two tooth of nefarians that's
34730s	already 12 damage and super fake's on
34732s	15.
34735s	so he's not far off i don't believe he's
34737s	played his first wicked stab
34740s	which means that there are lethal draws
34742s	here
34745s	like that
34748s	yeah pascal gives a nod six plus six
34750s	plus three is indeed 15.
34752s	and
34753s	this game has been so incredibly close
34755s	between the two archetypes and this just
34757s	goes to show even though they're doing
34758s	slightly different things the game plan
34760s	is ultimately tempo and
34762s	back and forth the tempo has been very
34764s	very close for pascoa sets himself up to
34766s	win with a wicked stab number two which
34768s	he does indeed draw and he pulls ahead
34769s	in the first game of the set
34771s	yeah that feels important as well um
34774s	effectively a mirror in this lineup
34777s	um with the deck that you know it's a
34778s	good deck it's good on both sides but
34781s	getting it out of the way winning that
34782s	mirror not all conquest games are
34784s	created equally and that's that seems
34786s	like a big win for pascua to me
34788s	yeah definitely not only in terms of
34790s	like what deck was actually just used to
34792s	get there winning the mirror but it also
34793s	sets a nice little momentum um and i
34795s	don't think pesco is much of an
34796s	emotional player at this point like he
34798s	said he's very calm cool collected
34801s	calculated but still a win is a win and
34803s	that's got to feel good starting the set
34807s	right so again i feel like we're going
34810s	to say this a lot in the next or we have
34812s	said this a lot already but the decks
34813s	are remaining for pascua
34815s	ah obviously the
34817s	priest and the demon hunter just like
34819s	they have been for basically everybody
34821s	in this group it is the naga priest and
34824s	the fel demon hunter
34826s	the only demon hunter the demon hunter
34828s	that exists
34830s	the the demon hunter yeah we don't even
34832s	have to specify it um we can talk about
34834s	deck choice uh sorry tech choices uh the
34837s	notable difference between pasco sdh and
34839s	super fake th is that super fake opted
34841s	for one bone glaive whereas pesco has a
34843s	need for great it's a bit more card draw
34846s	it's interesting actually that's um
34848s	something that has been going on for a
34850s	long time as well
34852s	and i think he tends to fall down the
34854s	side of need for greed these days
34856s	yeah the 30th card has been a bit of a
34859s	mystery and people haven't really
34860s	decided on what is optimal or at least
34862s	agreed to decide
34864s	um regardless super fake is going to
34866s	keep the
34867s	the quest priest here didn't quite get
34868s	the rogue through but uh deciding that
34870s	priest is exactly what he wants us to
34872s	cast and that's exactly what we're gonna
34873s	do thanks super fake appreciate you
34878s	watching this i'm excited
34880s	i'm excited to watch this the the
34881s	matchups we talked about this one two
34883s	three four five but there are
34885s	interesting decisions you have to make
34887s	even though you're only playing one or
34888s	two cards a turn often one card if it's
34890s	a minion but deciding whether you want
34893s	to go for quest completion or uh more of
34895s	a tempo game plan is very important
34897s	against something like a rogue which is
34898s	not what pasco is queueing up but it has
34900s	a similar effect here on wig priest as
34901s	well the the the purified shard while it
34904s	does redestroy the enemy hero can't be
34906s	played if you yourself are dead so a lot
34908s	of the time quest progression is for
34909s	gone to try and
34911s	fight for board keep your opponent off
34913s	the board and just try to win with
34914s	taunts and stuff yeah we saw this in the
34916s	previous match this matchup where
34918s	zloijkujin
34919s	just made a point of not putting too
34921s	much down there did some early damage
34924s	chipped away set it up kept card
34926s	advantage in hand
34927s	and prayed on the quest priests issue of
34930s	having to sort of only play one card a
34932s	turn not even to do with the quest just
34933s	kind of that's your curve right you've
34936s	kind of got one card a turn a lot of the
34938s	time
34939s	yeah
34940s	pasco i'm sure is also familiar with
34942s	this matchup so we'll see if a similar
34944s	game plan presents itself a serpent wig
34947s	is in the opening hand for pescoa and
34949s	would you believe it super fake also has
34950s	his one minute card
34955s	yeah that also feels like a quest when
34957s	you play against this deck
34958s	yeah open wig quest
34961s	opening hand first
34963s	they've always got it
34965s	yeah the payoff's a little bit different
34967s	but ultimately it's the same thing
34968s	destroy the enemy hero
34970s	yeah indeed
34971s	interesting to see though what he does
34973s	with the rest of the cards here because
34975s	he does have those high health minions
34977s	in samurai and the enforcer
34980s	um
34981s	obviously a little bit slow but they're
34983s	chunky enough you might want to keep
34984s	them just keeps the one
34986s	i do like the crush clock keep not so
34987s	much the other two um
34989s	as the as a wig priest if you start off
34991s	with a vicious leather spear great you
34993s	have it but
34994s	it's not a consistent game plan to try
34996s	and get every single game and on the
34998s	coin already with a serpent wig it's
35000s	probably okay to go past on turn one and
35001s	then coin a crush claw it gives you more
35003s	resources gets the body on the board it
35005s	just seems pretty good
35006s	so i like that mulligan keeping the
35008s	crush claw and then tossing the rest to
35009s	look for something but better
35011s	just end up picking up the treasure
35013s	guard as well which is probably quite
35015s	nice for him it's gonna allow him to get
35016s	this handmade and activated the whole
35018s	hand is coming together for
35020s	not anything turbo not anything massive
35022s	but he's not gonna have a bad game of
35024s	hearthstone here most likely yeah stuff
35026s	to do
35027s	to perfect one for a thrive in the
35028s	shadows try to find something else to do
35030s	but instead found another threat in the
35032s	shadows to find something else to do
35033s	later
35035s	guy picked off the top makes pascal's
35037s	life a lot easier he was going to start
35038s	messing around with coin into three into
35041s	well now i've got do i wig or do i play
35043s	another three but this is tidying
35045s	everything up very nicely for him gets
35046s	to hold on to his coin and gets to exert
35049s	some pressure
35050s	yeah
35051s	very very nice superfight has to make
35052s	some decisions here there is only one
35055s	shot of the naru that quest priest
35057s	generally runs and that is not that is
35059s	not an exception here in super fake
35060s	stack so this shorter than our well it
35062s	is a trade a balloon can give him other
35064s	plays
35065s	he might consider just keeping it
35066s	because it's a one-off he's probably not
35068s	going to find it most of the time if he
35070s	shuffles it back in his deck and it's
35071s	important if pascoed does decide to go
35073s	for an early all-in
35075s	because it can at least limit how much
35077s	damage is on board i can remove a bunch
35078s	of hats
35080s	or wigs and
35081s	reduce the impact of what pasco develops
35084s	and so i do like that he's keeping it
35085s	even though he does need to find other
35087s	stuff to do i believe the chart is an
35088s	important tool that he's holding on to
35090s	i like the idea of a serpent hat
35093s	maybe try and talk people putting that
35095s	in the store for us that'd be great
35097s	yeah i'd wear
35099s	one okay this is where we start having
35102s	options uh if you play wig priest so
35104s	pesco has a few different plays here
35107s	uh just the standard crush claw
35108s	enforcers enforcer is fine the queens
35110s	guard gives him a way to go queensguard
35112s	serpent wig
35113s	if he wants to be a bit more aggressive
35115s	and again priest isn't running stuff
35117s	like shadow or death there's one shard
35118s	of the naru which also doesn't clear
35120s	board so there is merit to just pushing
35122s	a bit more damage with the wigs but
35124s	there is also merit in using resources
35126s	efficiently and getting more stuff onto
35128s	the board so even though a coin is used
35129s	here i do like this play a bit more than
35131s	queens guard it sets up for handmaiden
35133s	next turn into a
35135s	a third wig i don't think we need to
35137s	keep track of that but yeah that is the
35139s	third wig um so two wigs and a coin
35141s	means the handmaiden is active so he has
35143s	a clear plane next turn oh
35146s	okay
35149s	that's a good one as uh yeah i might say
35152s	that poisonous is a poisonous it's just
35154s	good call the grave being used to find a
35156s	three-man play i like it you need to
35157s	play for early tempo you can't just rely
35159s	on a whirlpool four turns out that you
35161s	don't even have in your hand yet so i do
35162s	like super fake playing the call the
35164s	grave does find an ectoplasm and
35166s	conveniently the death roll off of that
35168s	summons a an adventurer and these can
35170s	have a variety of effects but one of the
35172s	best ones in a matchup like this is
35174s	poisonous because wouldn't you believe
35176s	it poisonous is poisonous to minions and
35178s	it will kill anything it hits
35180s	that has to be left up this turn
35183s	weirdly yeah
35185s	three two obviously not the poison
35186s	because that's bad yes
35189s	uh one will probably be removed
35192s	and that gives pascal a lot of
35193s	difficulties and obviously he wants to
35196s	just get his hand made and played and
35197s	get the cards but
35199s	does have other choices because of the
35202s	khan you have to just slow things down
35203s	for super fake i think he'll play like
35206s	going into six but he might play going
35207s	to five
35210s	one of the best ways for quest priests
35212s	to
35213s	get the ball rolling on resources is
35215s	playing spirit guide in turn five so
35217s	blademaster connie and this turn i
35218s	actually would really like being a quest
35220s	priest uh enthusiast because i know that
35222s	i'm gonna be very frustrated there's not
35224s	a lot of ways to deal with anchony other
35225s	than just playing a minion and accepting
35227s	that it gets countered so i don't like
35229s	the passcode didn't akani here
35231s	but the treasure guard is pretty good as
35233s	well because it protects the uh the
35235s	merkwater scribe and like you said i i
35237s	think it's okay to forgo the handmade in
35239s	this turn to go either kanye treasure
35240s	guard and pasco did decide on the
35242s	treasure garden
35245s	how he proceeds this turn now he's in
35249s	that spot
35250s	and you can see the problem that you
35252s	know you were talking about that this
35254s	just isn't a nice spot
35256s	yeah five five taunt for five isn't that
35258s	crazy but the fact that it draws a
35260s	holiness shadow spell is very important
35262s	because it just gets the card draw going
35264s	it allows the quest piece to have a bit
35265s	more flexibility um as well if there's
35268s	something like a zyrell in hand you're
35269s	guaranteed to draw a holy spell which a
35271s	lot of the time is a desperate prayer or
35272s	a gift of the narrow which does activate
35274s	it one of the ways to actually wipe um
35277s	a wig priest board as quest priest would
35279s	would be if super fake had a zyrillo
35281s	which he doesn't currently have but
35283s	something that pasco needs to consider
35284s	how much he wants to play into or
35287s	not into
35288s	and he's constantly um making sure you
35291s	know he's got enough this is exactly how
35292s	we saw it played previously as well so
35294s	it goes in
35296s	um a head on board
35298s	keeping enough in hand that you've got a
35299s	reload obviously with that handmade and
35300s	this hand is bigger than it looks as
35302s	well right now
35304s	um doing the little things protecting
35305s	that treasure guard from the three one
35307s	for instance just to make it a little
35308s	bit annoying for super fake over and
35310s	over again because the priest doesn't
35312s	have that much wiggle room right it
35313s	doesn't have the manner to oh look i've
35315s	got to find an extra damage it just
35316s	doesn't really have that ability
35319s	yeah it can't wig all around as much as
35322s	the
35326s	[Laughter]
35327s	um notably i also want to point out
35329s	pascoa valuing the merc water scrubber
35332s	the treasure guard giving the merkwater
35333s	scrub the final wig to play around
35335s	something like a
35337s	a light mod nether drake which is
35339s	something that would be active now
35340s	because the spirit guide drew super fake
35342s	both the holiness shadow spell so
35344s	keeping the merc water scrub on the left
35345s	protected and able to keep fighting is
35347s	very good recognition from pascoa based
35350s	on what he needs to play around
35352s	mothership often a very good pick up
35354s	here for the priest um allows so much
35357s	extra resources
35359s	a little bit of tempo game the priest is
35361s	sometimes lacking as well with the the
35363s	instant rush
35364s	yeah so perfect has to decide if he
35366s	wants to use this rod here it does not
35368s	clear the board but it removes a lot of
35370s	annoying stuff and i do like using it
35372s	here it is your panic button until you
35375s	have whirlpool or something later on um
35377s	but i think this was a good time to to
35379s	do that because it reduces a lot of the
35381s	damage from the mercado scribe and it
35383s	just gets rid of a the taunt so you can
35385s	kill something else with the ectoplasm
35386s	you head on board and b it also denies a
35388s	bit of card draw which is relevant
35391s	talking of card draw
35400s	okay the tools are coming together
35402s	a radiant elemental will uh
35405s	get things moving very quickly now
35407s	importantly compare this sort of uh
35410s	matchup
35411s	this board state to the previous board
35413s	state we had in our previous match uh
35415s	where grujin was also piloting wig
35418s	priest against quest priest but the
35419s	quest priest was 15 or so health lower
35422s	and because of that there was much less
35424s	of a pop-off that was needed
35426s	to get him over the uh the finish line
35428s	pasco has a bit more to work with here
35429s	and neither of them had a rating
35431s	elemental um at this point in the game
35434s	and you can kind of see how important
35435s	that ship damage is
35437s	absolutely it allowed super fake to make
35439s	the play he just made which was you know
35441s	i don't know waste his shard if you like
35444s	but he didn't waste it obviously he did
35445s	a lot of good work with it but because
35446s	he wasn't in imminent danger of just
35448s	dying on the v-swing he was able to make
35450s	that play which was never an option for
35452s	pun in the other match
35456s	and pascoa drawing through his deck once
35458s	again recognizing that i'm not going to
35460s	kill
35460s	uh
35461s	my opponent here just by hitting him in
35463s	the face two or three times in a row
35464s	it's not like demon hunter where the
35465s	damage
35466s	can kind of just add up and you don't
35467s	have to worry about ford pesco is
35469s	setting up for a longer term game plan
35470s	get to that rating on until get some
35472s	extra cardroll going keep developing
35473s	threats and eventually go for that big
35476s	elemental wig wig wig
35481s	you see those the
35482s	the hand size for super fake is starting
35485s	to get whittled away but on the other
35486s	side of that
35488s	uh this mother ship is is hanging around
35491s	you've only got the one charge you can't
35493s	just shard a mothership away
35495s	i think he's wrestling with that but he
35497s	can't i don't think
35499s	i don't think so either i think he
35501s	i think pasco does know that one of the
35502s	cards left in super fake's hand is a
35503s	holy spell because i believe there's one
35505s	left off of the spirit unless the
35507s	condemn was that card
35509s	um
35510s	man this is a lot easier with deck
35511s	tracker
35514s	i believe there's one holy spell left
35515s	from the uh the spirit guide so he does
35518s	know that at least four of those cards
35520s	could or could not be minions um but i
35522s	think the shot's important to use it on
35523s	another ship here uh the thing is having
35525s	opponent minions on the board isn't
35527s	necessarily a bad thing with cards like
35528s	shadow or devour you can actually take
35530s	advantage of that and gain more health
35531s	on the minion that you're blessing um if
35533s	your opponent has more minions left on
35534s	the board so i don't think it's super
35536s	imperative to get rid of this mother
35537s	ship
35538s	he could consider trading the shard to
35540s	find something else but honestly i don't
35541s	mind holding on to it at this point um
35544s	if pasco does drive raiding elemental
35545s	having that short already ready to go is
35548s	going to probably be lethal based off of
35550s	uh
35560s	okay
35562s	i mean we're in whirlpool territory but
35563s	i don't think super fake wants to commit
35564s	that here
35568s	oh
35571s	these are all very
35573s	awkward
35575s	yeah the mount looks good until you
35576s	realize that it doesn't really do much
35579s	against the shard right so
35581s	that's true better than the other
35583s	options it's also a settlement i guess
35585s	light bulb
35587s	the other two are also kind of weird
35588s	they're removable and superfic wants
35590s	removal but if there's a minion that you
35591s	can shadow or death
35593s	it's a menu that's probably already
35594s	gonna be hitting you in the head at that
35596s	point it probably has already hit you
35597s	for that much damage yes and light bomb
35599s	is kind of nice as well but a lot of the
35601s	nagas are defensively static so it won't
35603s	actually clean up a board by itself and
35605s	because that i think i do like the
35606s	shadow or death over the other two
35609s	but
35610s	it's still slightly awkward
35612s	which is that difference in health total
35614s	as well this time around where
35616s	if you get hit by one massive thing you
35618s	might still be alive whereas last time
35620s	you wouldn't have been with 16 health in
35621s	the pun game
35626s	[Music]
35628s	not a radiant
35630s	how do you like najak into how do we
35632s	trigger this october
35634s	oh my goodness
35636s	i don't think there's a way to do i
35638s	think there is either
35640s	oh that would be so
35642s	maybe i mean you can't do it now but if
35644s	you if there was a school teacher for
35645s	pascoa he could find something like a
35646s	smite to activate it unfortunately
35649s	that's not the case right now
35653s	now one of the issues for pasco is here
35655s	is that he doesn't have that many nagas
35657s	left to uh to chain serpent wigs off of
35659s	so each minion that he has right now is
35662s	actually kind of important because
35664s	the serpent wigs aren't infinite
35666s	eventually you won't have any more nagas
35668s	left to make them so he does need to be
35670s	aware of how many wigs he has at his
35671s	disposal for when he does draw the
35673s	braiding element on
35676s	yeah that's why he's deep in the tank
35678s	um
35679s	there's there's
35681s	a lot going on here and his opponent is
35683s	still on 32. he's gonna obviously have a
35685s	massive turn at some point but time
35687s	isn't ticking
35689s	i like this getting rid of the poisonous
35691s	with the najak still keeping himself on
35693s	the board
35694s	making sure the octobot doesn't get a
35695s	draw sorry a discount and a treasure
35697s	guard
35698s	this wasn't a super fancy play but i
35700s	think this was just the correct play
35702s	hold on to the important resources make
35703s	sure you're still a little bit ahead on
35705s	board to give himself the uh the radial
35708s	mental draw
35715s	we've talked about pascal is playing
35716s	quite a lot here how does super fake
35718s	actually win this it just feels at the
35719s	moment like everything he's doing is
35721s	don't lose and
35723s	progression is so slow is it literally
35725s	run pascal out of the
35727s	ways to win millions yeah it's it's
35731s	survived long enough that the minions uh
35733s	no longer
35734s	are no longer there
35735s	like like i talked about last turn
35737s	eventually
35738s	there are not infinite wigs so if enough
35740s	boards can be removed super fake can
35742s	um maybe not run pesco a completely out
35744s	of resources but bring pasco down to the
35748s	point where the wigs available are not
35750s	lethal because eventually pasco still
35752s	has to commit even if it's not lethal he
35753s	will have to eventually try to push
35755s	damage and at that point something like
35756s	a shadow or death can just remove the
35758s	threat and make sure that
35759s	no damage gets pushed anymore after that
35762s	this is really super fake is really torn
35764s	here on this whirlpool but i think if
35765s	this board gets left up he dies very
35766s	often
35768s	and i was kind of sad because the
35769s	treasure guard is going to draw a card
35770s	there there's going to be redevelopments
35777s	he does go for the spirit guide instead
35778s	uh the gift of the narrow drew him
35780s	towards that there is a chance he's not
35781s	dead here that there are awkward things
35784s	that you know are vibing from pasco's
35786s	hand and he he has that read and there
35787s	still is not a radial mental so
35790s	if he wasn't dead last turn maybe he's
35792s	not dead this turn yeah and the radiant
35794s	not drawn so
35796s	he gets to hang on one more turn
35801s	i think this might be one of the last
35803s	turns that super fake can actually
35805s	be greedy with the whirlpool i think
35806s	after this turn it it'll have to be
35808s	committed
35809s	um
35811s	and this game is
35819s	and this is one of the downsides of uh
35821s	quest priest against a matchup like this
35823s	that has constant board pressure and
35825s	redevelopment uh when you're running 40
35826s	cards you're not gonna have everything
35828s	you need at every single time that you
35830s	need them
35832s	which is why this matchup i think is a
35834s	slightly wig priest favored it might
35836s	even be more than slightly actually
35839s	it feels it feels very weak please with
35841s	just from the two games we've seen so
35842s	far plus obviously bits and pieces i've
35844s	played before but
35846s	it doesn't mean that it is my level
35849s	very skewed meta reads indeed
35853s	if he kind of comes down
35857s	with it with two blouses in hand pesco i
35858s	can go for one bless this turn up apply
35860s	a bit of pressure and force super fake
35862s	to use something like a whirlpool
35864s	and then still have the second bless
35866s	leftover oh sorry did he not bless
35868s	actually this is fine as well i guess
35869s	you don't have to commit the bus
35871s	yeah he didn't feel the need to get his
35872s	minions into death range which is
35874s	interesting
35879s	interesting indeed
35882s	now i think
35884s	the thing is if super fake actually does
35885s	clear this board here pascoa might not
35887s	have enough stuff left over
35889s	in terms of minions to develop together
35891s	i actually kind of wanted to see a
35892s	whirlpool here
35895s	i think not going for whirlpool here is
35896s	a little bit greedy with with 10 cards
35899s	left in deck for pascoa
35901s	there's not that many nagas and and
35903s	super fake knows this
35905s	i believe they're both going to be using
35906s	something like a deck tracker so
35908s	super fake is
35909s	extremely aware of how many minions are
35910s	left
35915s	yeah not many at all
35918s	school teacher would be pretty good
35919s	refill but i think pascal would have
35920s	played a school teacher by now the path
35922s	is clear
35925s	believe this is lethal the raiding
35926s	element it might be lethal without a
35928s	radiant lentil oh the second shadow will
35929s	devour as well those wigs aren't active
35933s	so at most pasco can go queens guard wig
35936s	wig wig wig that's four wigs there's a
35938s	sound that has to be committed as well i
35940s	believe this is lethal
35944s	okay i'm going to trust you
35947s	it looks unlocked that's right there's a
35948s	slither spirit yeah this looks good
35951s	but double shadow or devour is also
35953s	locked each one of these adds about six
35955s	damage
35957s	it's a one minute fireball in this case
35965s	so he adds two four six eight health
35967s	that goes with the 26 this is indeed
35968s	lethal
35970s	one two three four yep the four wigs on
35971s	the bus is lethal i think pascal might
35973s	have
35974s	thought that he made a slight
35976s	misordering but no he got it he got it
35978s	i think he might have been considering
35979s	playing a queens guard to get two extra
35981s	damage from the shadow of the power but
35982s	he doesn't need the extra health from
35984s	that
35984s	this is perfect mana
35986s	um
35987s	and not
35988s	it's not an honorable kill but hey you
35990s	don't you don't have to kill with this
35991s	deck you just kind of
35993s	do 30 40 whatever yeah
35996s	it's over the finish line yeah
35998s	takes a 2-0 lead did that
36002s	again remarkably easily considering that
36005s	he hadn't picked up the radiant for the
36006s	whole game um
36008s	just held on to resources we saw it
36010s	again take your time don't panic force
36012s	super fake to have to start playing this
36014s	stuff
36015s	and slowly but surely you saw the hand
36017s	size discrepancy like once that one's
36019s	getting bigger and one's getting smaller
36020s	and that's always a sign that the
36021s	control deck is starting to struggle
36023s	yeah we are seeing the decision to bring
36025s	quest priests
36026s	be not exactly perfect for super fake
36028s	here i believe quest priest is an
36030s	acceptable deck to bring against some of
36032s	the other aggressive decks that you're
36033s	expecting something like a demon hunter
36034s	or specifically a jackpot rogue it can
36036s	still struggle against boat rogue and
36038s	even against jackpot rogue it can be a
36039s	bit difficult to uh to stabilize against
36041s	some of the outcomes but specifically
36043s	against wig priests it looks like it's
36044s	not a matchup that you want to be seeing
36046s	so if if super fake expected some wig
36048s	priest quest priest might not have been
36049s	the deck he wanted to bring this week
36051s	well the deck that everybody seems to
36053s	want to bring this week i'm sure it's
36055s	because they wanted to bring the bucket
36056s	not the deck
36057s	is this fell a demon hunter
36059s	um very
36061s	little to say again we talked about or
36063s	you talked about the uh the need for
36065s	greed being picked over the glaive uh
36067s	the bone glaive
36069s	um and it's just one of those things
36071s	that it's almost a feel decision right
36073s	you play a thousand games of this and
36074s	you think i prefer that one
36076s	yeah i think that's fair that's why it's
36078s	the 30th card people have trouble
36079s	deciding on them because they're very
36081s	similar in win rates or they feel
36082s	similar in terms of what they bring to
36084s	the table um even though need for greed
36086s	draws cards and one glaive deals damage
36088s	one little thing to push over the edge
36090s	one or the other
36092s	is kind of preference based at this
36093s	point i think it's it's hard to say just
36095s	from stats like you mentioned after a
36097s	thousand games
36098s	as the player you can kind of decide
36100s	yeah i think i like this one a bit more
36102s	the three cards is damage englave is
36104s	damaged yeah when do when do you want
36106s	the damage how quickly do you want the
36107s	damage how do you feel it plays out for
36109s	you
36110s	and i know that
36112s	yeah the argument has about is there a
36113s	best play or his play style of thing
36115s	that exists play style is the thing that
36117s	exists whether it's the best play or not
36118s	it definitely exists some people will
36120s	play slightly more aggressively some
36121s	will play slightly more defensively it
36123s	may well be that the right card is
36125s	different for different people based on
36127s	how they interpret match-ups
36129s	yeah and pascal's got demon hunter left
36132s	over super fake needs to go 3-0 if he
36134s	wants to reverse sweep and not get
36136s	eliminated this week and it's doable i
36140s	think rogue and quest priest against
36141s	demon hunter are okay match-ups and it
36144s	might ultimately come down to a mirror
36146s	if we get that far uh and pasco just
36148s	needs to get the demon hunter over the
36150s	over the finish line which is not that
36151s	hard to do demon hunter generally wins
36154s	at least one in three games
36156s	yeah i think this is the
36159s	how people eventually came to this
36160s	conclusion this week is the demon hunter
36163s	is not a good deck right now it's not a
36164s	thing you would really want to play on
36166s	ladder right now but
36168s	it's not a terrible deck against
36170s	anything it's sort of always over 40
36172s	percent at least so if you get into this
36174s	spot where you're 2-0 up
36176s	well you should get the third one
36177s	somewhere you just don't know where it's
36178s	coming from
36179s	yeah makes sense looks like squirt fakes
36181s	starting up with a rogue first and you
36183s	just have a pretty solid hand why pal
36185s	noah you're always happy to see as the
36187s	rogue in the starting hand especially
36189s	against the deck where you want to kill
36190s	the early minions tosses the rest though
36192s	pasco has a bit of a decision glaive can
36195s	be good
36196s	um but you don't always have uh enough
36199s	minions to remove but regardless it
36200s	synergizes well with all of your two
36202s	mana plays and it's it's a pretty good
36204s	card so i like him keeping that and i
36205s	also like the sigil keep
36207s	yep especially we're going to hit this
36208s	little spear because that really helps
36211s	absolutely why talk us through the sig
36212s	you'll keep though that that feels
36214s	slightly more alien to me
36216s	um so
36217s	it just draws your deck it's one mana
36220s	draw card which pays itself back as well
36222s	and can be useful at hitting your
36224s	expensive tools but it just
36226s	it's basically the amount of draw card
36228s	sure that makes sense and you're not in
36229s	a particular hurry because you don't get
36232s	there in a particular hurry so that
36234s	makes sense exactly it might not be the
36235s	best card to keep but when you already
36237s	have drippers and glaive
36238s	i think pasco is okay keeping a bit of
36240s	card draw as well
36244s	slither spray on one over trade person
36246s	glaive and sigil because it develops a
36248s	minion which can pressure face
36250s	it sets up
36251s	nicely to develop into something like a
36254s	sigil or a glaive follow-up but getting
36256s	the minion down first is generally
36257s	better because tempo good
36260s	tempo is indeed good probably at the
36262s	moment more than it has been and it's
36265s	always been good but more than any time
36266s	in hearthstone for a long long time
36269s	i really like this from pasco super fake
36271s	believe it or not believe it or not is
36272s	not actually playing paladin pasco is
36274s	astutely aware of that so trying to
36276s	block something like a wild panel which
36278s	most of the time can come down this turn
36280s	anyways but this is just an obscene
36282s	amount of pressure coming out very
36284s	quickly from pescoa and he's a little
36287s	all in but honestly demon hunter loves
36289s	being all in if you kill your point on
36291s	turn five it doesn't matter if you have
36292s	one or two or zero cards in hand the
36294s	point is their hero blew up so i like
36296s	getting this online protects the slither
36298s	spear and he still has sigil drippers
36299s	and glade good ways to spend mountain
36300s	extern so the fury wasn't used optimally
36303s	in terms of damage output but it allowed
36304s	the metamorphin to uh to come down and
36307s	and just apply more pressure yeah it
36309s	also plays well off the top right like
36310s	those last few points of damage just you
36312s	can get the first 20 in the rest just
36314s	sort of turns up somewhere along the way
36316s	we saw that in that incredible game
36318s	earlier against the warlock where
36319s	somehow it just found enough damage to
36321s	get over the finishing line
36324s	okay kurtros is a bit slow here but
36326s	still not the worst card for pescoa he's
36329s	not exactly happy to see that
36331s	but you know with enough chip damage
36334s	pesco can transition to a more mid to
36336s	late game sort of scenario
36338s	um another important thing about getting
36340s	online fast as the demon hunter is that
36342s	you force the rogue out of the disguise
36344s	because
36345s	if super fake isn't uh under pressure he
36347s	can trade some cards he can wait and
36348s	discount knolls a bit more but suddenly
36350s	when he's facing five damage return
36352s	every turn he he has to get the ball
36354s	rolling he has to spend mana find cards
36355s	which ultimately takes some other skies
36357s	and makes his wap on rolls more
36358s	expensive and harder to use as removal
36362s	yeah and this damage is accumulating
36364s	like
36366s	you're going down to 20
36369s	um obviously he's going to be able to
36371s	probably set this up with the curtis for
36373s	lethal the way things are going but yeah
36374s	he's forcing super fake now to
36378s	do anything it's just
36380s	looking a bit slow krabato is three
36382s	turns away here
36386s	i mean it's it's it's looking very rough
36388s	and pascal held the the dread person
36390s	wave understanding that this game could
36391s	end very quickly but at the same time
36393s	i think he values having at least a
36395s	mid-game game plan because his last card
36397s	right now is kurtris so i do like
36398s	holding the weapon even if you could say
36400s	oh well you know he pushed one less
36401s	damage um oh wait he actually no no he
36404s	didn't push one less damage he's still
36405s	here powered and then equipped the
36406s	glaive yeah so he's still optimal in
36408s	terms of attacks but
36409s	lets his dread person glave kind of stay
36410s	alive a bit longer which i think is
36412s	relevant because the only way super fake
36414s	comes back right now is some crazy
36416s	double knoll play which is not very easy
36418s	to do when the knolls don't cause zero
36420s	mana
36421s	times ticking yeah it's come down to
36423s	this
36424s	this turn one player
36426s	how he did it is just getting the
36428s	murloc down because this 3-4 is just
36430s	really irritating like you said at the
36432s	time and it's been played out in front
36433s	of us ever since
36435s	absolutely what's that image already
36437s	yeah a welcome addition to this deck it
36439s	wasn't initially run when philadelphia
36441s	started getting a bit more popular
36443s	this expansion but people realize that
36445s	hey one man of three fours is pretty
36446s	good and it does taunt it protects the
36448s	other goods cards
36450s	oh my goodness there's two great pickups
36452s	for pasqua
36453s	more board development and car draw and
36456s	the cardra also buffs his vicious
36458s	leather spear
36463s	barrage is an option
36467s	i don't think i like it more than
36468s	vanguard and hero power
36470s	because
36472s	rogues don't really deal with laurens
36473s	very well there's no shadow or devour
36475s	yeah
36476s	and the ones that mattering right the
36478s	the it feels like pascal's just going to
36480s	have an overwhelming board if he does
36482s	the vanguard to me
36484s	yeah i think i agree it leaves them open
36486s	to something like a tooth of deferring
36487s	into some aoe but i mean you're kind of
36490s	okay with that because at that point
36491s	pesco's already pushed what five six
36493s	seven damage
36495s	super fake would be at 13. there's a
36497s	curtris coming up soon there's a need
36498s	for greed if you really need card draw
36500s	and felt barrage can still help clean up
36502s	anything that super fake develops and
36503s	let's not forget super fake doesn't have
36504s	great development at this point either
36506s	there is a swift scale trickster in his
36507s	hand but jackpot has not been played
36509s	swift scale trickster into vessel does
36511s	not
36512s	it generates tempo but it's not a
36514s	reactionary card it's a proactive card
36516s	i mean it's turned four
36519s	yeah you know this
36520s	you're giving out some situations that
36522s	you know definitely supervise could get
36524s	back into but it's turn four
36526s	a lot of those
36527s	need absolutely pinpoint like hits from
36530s	the tooth or whatever and
36532s	it's just too much stuff
36535s	also your one ones can help your fell
36536s	barrage hit the right things if you
36538s	really do need to defend this pascal
36540s	here
36543s	i mean there's
36544s	there's no death rattles that really
36547s	so there is undying disciple but the
36549s	problem is that cost six mana and
36550s	superfic does not have six man available
36552s	with a preparation maybe
36554s	but there isn't a preparation here super
36556s	fake has to figure out how not to die
36558s	and honestly the way not to die here
36559s	might be something convoluted like
36561s	trading cutlass hoping it discounts the
36563s	reconnaissance hitting prep and then
36565s	going preparation reconnaissance giving
36567s	himself an extra two mana to actually
36569s	play something like an undying disciple
36570s	actually that wouldn't even work because
36572s	you only save one mana there all right
36574s	never mind i'm grasping at stuff that
36576s	doesn't exist i'm starting to count
36578s	lethals here another fel barrage is a
36579s	lethal or existing
36581s	okay that's good two turns from now
36583s	after super fake dies the the gigafin
36587s	saber
36588s	it does stop some damage but
36591s	there's just still so much
36593s	facing him down
36594s	this is a rough rough opening for super
36596s	fake not having a tradable early on
36598s	really made the wild bundles a bit too
36600s	expensive but also pesco recognizing the
36601s	the metamorphic being that annoying
36605s	um and playing it
36606s	put him in this position where he's just
36608s	super far ahead the chaos strike off the
36609s	top
36610s	car draw damage
36614s	two four six
36616s	nine plus not lethal five
36618s	uh he's working out whether it's a
36619s	barrage now because one damage off
36622s	lethal if he doesn't barrage now when
36623s	does he do it
36625s	um what i mean by that is his next
36626s	couple of turns in the world where this
36629s	game is still continuing
36631s	the next couple of turns are filled with
36632s	quite big things to do
36636s	true
36639s	if he's barraging he can also consider
36641s	hero power and here powering sets super
36642s	fake down to one health
36644s	but alternatively he could trade the
36645s	need for greed and
36647s	find exactly fury which still doesn't
36650s	set up lethal i mean it does set up
36651s	lethal uh with the fel barrage but
36654s	strike no because there's nothing to
36656s	multi on not quite not quite
36658s	excitable so close
36661s	i think he's deciding that the setting
36663s	super fake to one versus two is
36664s	basically the same here so he decided to
36666s	trade the new for great instead of hero
36668s	powering which i think is fine and it's
36670s	kind of important because if
36671s	somehow pasco doesn't have lethal next
36673s	turn kurchus is the play and he wants to
36675s	make sure he has an optimal card for
36676s	either turn six or seven if he needs it
36678s	so training here is fine
36680s	that
36681s	quick game i mean we talked about games
36683s	taking a bit longer because of decks
36684s	like quest priests but
36686s	these aggressive decks are really
36688s	showcasing their strength right now and
36689s	quest priest seems a little too slow to
36692s	be able to keep up
36694s	that game from pascual was a real
36697s	example of how to play hearthstone i
36699s	think that there'll be a lot of people
36700s	watching say i could have done that that
36702s	was easy that wasn't easy right from
36704s	turn one you had to make decisions that
36707s	a lot of players would not have made
36710s	in terms of how you want to do this like
36711s	just burn a fury to to get the murloc
36714s	out on turn one etc etc like
36716s	that was well planned everything was
36718s	everything had a place everything did
36719s	what it was meant to do
36721s	and it resulted in this very easy
36723s	looking turn five victory but a lot of
36724s	people could actually lose that game i
36726s	think
36727s	i definitely absolutely i'm one of them
36729s	i agree my my instinct at the start of
36732s	the game after this little spirit was to
36733s	go for either hero power sigil or weapon
36736s	sigil but being able to see these
36738s	alternate lines
36739s	with the flexibility of all these cheap
36741s	cards as well you do have multiple
36742s	options on a turn even if it looks like
36743s	you don't and pasco did find the optimal
36745s	lines to push as much damage as possible
36747s	but not only develop as much disrupt his
36749s	opponent too
36751s	yeah and he he still won the game in the
36753s	world where he he wasn't let's say it
36756s	wasn't such a breeze and
36758s	somehow super fake cleared up the board
36760s	he's still got courteous left the next
36762s	turn he still got the
36764s	multi-strike for the turn after that for
36766s	a lot of damage as well
36768s	so he he meeted his resources out for
36770s	that turn five lethal but also managed
36772s	to do it in a way that left himself open
36774s	in case something went wrong so very
36776s	nice game of hearthstone very nice
36778s	series passport picks up another point
36780s	and a chance to get into sunday
36783s	yeah it's just looking very strong
36786s	i guess we'll um let's put his feet up
36788s	for a few minutes and get into that
36790s	deciding match in just a few minutes
36791s	obviously let him take a breather he's
36793s	been playing a lot of hearthstone and
36794s	we'll find out who's joining
36797s	pun on sunday in just a moment
36803s	[Music]
36809s	[Applause]
36814s	[Music]
36819s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
36822s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
36826s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
36830s	with such ruthlessness
36833s	so deep and profound
36837s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
36845s	to uncover the truth
36847s	of murder most
36849s	foul
36850s	the anima drifts across the floor
36854s	highlighting the creatures who walked
36856s	through my door
36858s	the motives are as black as night
36862s	avarice power revenge
36865s	and blight
36867s	we watch the hero
36870s	uncover the clues
36872s	that lead to the truth
36875s	behind this dark rooms
36879s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
36884s	choose your power without heavenly bias
36888s	for at the end
36890s	they will burn in the fire
36893s	when it is known who slayed
36896s	daenerys
36897s	[Music]
36928s	[Music]
36933s	[Music]
36941s	[Music]
36952s	so
36968s	[Music]
36981s	[Music]
36996s	[Music]
37008s	[Music]
37023s	[Music]
37034s	[Music]
37042s	[Music]
37052s	[Music]
37059s	[Music]
37066s	[Music]
37081s	do
37082s	[Music]
37094s	so
37097s	[Music]
37105s	[Music]
37112s	[Music]
37119s	so
37123s	[Music]
37131s	so
37145s	[Music]
37157s	[Music]
37163s	[Music]
37234s	do
37235s	[Music]
37279s	so
37281s	[Music]
37373s	so
37374s	[Music]
37387s	so
37388s	[Music]
37392s	[Applause]
37394s	[Music]
37418s	we are rattling through group b here at
37421s	hearthstone grand masters with just one
37423s	match left for the day but it's a big
37425s	one it's going to decide the fourth
37426s	competitor to go through to the
37428s	quarterfinals on sunday and it's going
37430s	to be either pascoa or zloisin
37433s	lloyd won the first one at 3-1 but do
37436s	you think i was representative language
37437s	hacker or is that just some games of
37439s	hearthstone that happened
37441s	it's hard to say um like we've talked
37443s	about in the previous match they've both
37444s	brought the rogue demon hunter priest
37446s	grouping
37447s	and they both agreed that fell demon
37449s	hunter and wig priest is the way to go
37451s	but they've differed slightly on their
37453s	rogues i think
37455s	zlatan is going to be slightly favored
37456s	with a mine rogue but that's
37458s	could be biased because mine rogue's
37460s	kind of cool and fun and fresh and boat
37462s	rogue is
37463s	uh you know it's boat rogue it's been
37465s	there you know been there done that
37466s	well last time around zlatan killed
37468s	pascal in the rogue mirror on turn four
37471s	i think that's unlikely to happen again
37473s	we probably actually have a game of
37474s	hearthstone this time around if he does
37476s	it again i don't know what i'll do i'm
37477s	not going to say anything on air that i
37479s	will do blah blah blah i've seen you end
37481s	up in cat costumes and all sorts of
37482s	things for making that mistake so oh um
37485s	i told you the confidence deal
37488s	i told you that in confidence i'm so
37490s	sorry i shouldn't pull that up
37492s	i'm expecting a turn five mine rogue
37495s	lethal i'll be a little spicy wow turn
37498s	five mine vote i'm definitely doing mine
37500s	vogue wrong i don't kill people until at
37501s	least turn that's six okay
37504s	so here is the aforementioned mine rogue
37506s	and again that trickster smokescreen
37510s	combo do you keep the trickster on its
37512s	own let's say in a vacuum like not
37514s	against any particular matchup because
37515s	that makes it too complicated
37517s	i think it's easier to support keeping
37519s	it if you're on the coin as the mine rug
37521s	because you have a few more cards to see
37523s	you're more likely to get that smoke
37524s	screen and if you don't need the smoke
37525s	stream you have more cards that still do
37526s	stuff on the play it's kind of scary to
37530s	keep and i probably wouldn't keep it
37532s	over some other stuff
37533s	but you know it all depends on how you
37536s	feel about the specific match-up if it's
37538s	a match if you don't feel favored in you
37539s	might be inclined to keep and say you
37540s	know what i i really need a trickster
37543s	smoke screen to get me through this
37544s	matchup so that's what i'm going to play
37545s	towards and then keep it but if it's a
37546s	matchup that's a bit more
37549s	standard you kind of know how it plays
37550s	out you think you're favored uh you
37552s	might not keep these highly cards and go
37553s	for a more consistent game plan which
37555s	did in fact lead to grujin's turn four
37557s	lethal in our last match
37560s	and he's going to be up against the wig
37562s	priest so it is basically a race
37564s	obviously there are some interactions
37566s	because you have five eight minions that
37567s	can get in the way but the short version
37569s	is it's a race um be interesting to see
37571s	how the rogue uses their limited amounts
37574s	of removal
37575s	in this rather than going face with
37576s	their stabs but that's about the only
37578s	interaction really backstab can be
37579s	interesting too i guess
37581s	yeah because this is a very aggressive
37583s	race and rogue can't deal with something
37585s	like an early blessed minion without
37586s	having um
37588s	the
37590s	burning blade
37591s	acolytes it is worth noting that
37593s	sometimes the mineral has to play the
37595s	forsaken lieutenants for tempo the two
37596s	minute two two stealth and as a result
37599s	of that the priest can occasionally
37601s	sneak in short of the nerve and silence
37602s	them before they can get the death
37603s	throttle off so if the mine run feels
37605s	pressured and the priest does have a
37606s	shard in hand they could try to
37608s	you know bait the forsaken lieutenant
37610s	out and force them to go in by playing
37612s	let's say an early blast when it's not
37613s	lethal for example and just getting some
37615s	pressure on
37616s	we are getting right into it pascua
37619s	played pretty quickly today by his
37620s	standards lawyer seems to always play
37622s	quickly it's something i've noticed
37623s	about aggro players over the years
37625s	there's no necessarily
37627s	reason behind it but people who play
37629s	aggressive decks tend to play faster and
37630s	that's not
37633s	just because of the deck but if you see
37634s	a slow player forced to play an
37636s	aggressive deck like y'all or someone
37637s	they still take a long time
37639s	um but there seems to be a choice of
37640s	people who play quickly tend to prefer
37641s	aggro i've noticed
37643s	it's interesting uh correlation we do
37646s	see grudging keeping trickster on the
37648s	coin we talked about that a little bit
37649s	this isn't a free matchup by any means
37652s	the the rogue can absolutely get
37653s	pressured so i like keeping the
37654s	trickster here giving grudging a way to
37656s	get ahead early
37658s	well early turn three is maybe mid game
37660s	for some of these matchups
37663s	and pascua
37664s	three nice cards but i don't think you
37666s	can keep them all looking for something
37669s	a little bit more i think yeah
37672s	oh interesting opting for so treasure
37674s	guard is interesting for a couple
37675s	reasons one it can stop the weapon from
37677s	pushing through and second of all it can
37680s	stop the uh for second lieutenants after
37682s	they transform to death rattle i've
37684s	talked about this a little bit in
37685s	previous matches
37686s	they are tutus and if a tutu rushes into
37689s	one five it doesn't die and that means
37691s	the priest can kind of figure out how to
37692s	deal with it if they want to so it does
37694s	inhibit a little bit of what grujin can
37696s	do if there's a treasure guard and with
37698s	a thrive to get the strip and wig pascoa
37700s	looks like he's happy going for a turn
37702s	two thrive then a treasure guard and a
37704s	wig which is the thought process behind
37706s	his mulligan
37707s	say he looks happy that's not how i look
37709s	when i'm happy
37710s	he's jamming the heel of his hand into
37712s	his eyeballs so now he's in a difficult
37715s	situation because of the radial mental
37717s	he can opt for a tempo line instead
37719s	which completely throws the treasure
37720s	guard thing out of the window he might
37721s	go for like a radial mental into a
37723s	thrive if he finds another two mana naga
37725s	uh from his next play or you can decide
37727s	to not do that
37728s	go radio elemental treasure guard and
37730s	say you know what i'm not even gonna go
37731s	for wigs we're just gonna try to get
37733s	some minions going
37737s	arena you know play some yeah i mean
37739s	it's very tempting
37742s	i think the wig is a little too
37743s	important i don't think
37745s	pascal with this particular hand anyways
37747s	can
37747s	get under what cruising can do with his
37749s	deck so i believe it's better for pasco
37751s	to go for the wig and he does come to
37752s	the same conclusion um
37754s	if there if his hand was a little bit
37756s	different maybe there's already a bless
37758s	in hand pesco could consider doing that
37760s	or maybe a second radiant to go for the
37762s	second thrive for free but i think his
37764s	hand speaks a little bit slower than
37768s	what a a more aggressive hand could do
37770s	yeah
37772s	now jack hexson obviously a nice card in
37773s	this matchup if your opponent doesn't
37775s	get the graveyard ends up making one
37776s	five eight just to stem the tide a bit
37778s	can do a lot of work
37781s	conversion here we go
37783s	hits the smoke screen
37786s	he pumps his fist into the air which
37787s	means that something happened
37789s	and that something is a turn three
37792s	five eight
37793s	now his hands full he's gonna dump a
37794s	backstab
37796s	this is what the deck does now this
37798s	doesn't mean the game's over not by any
37799s	means especially with pasco having an uh
37801s	a najak
37804s	it's a nice five-eighth i think i will
37806s	take it i believe in the words of
37807s	archville and farm
37809s	yeah and it can't be stabbed next turn
37811s	either to get rid of the the one four
37814s	so that's definitely very tempting
37817s	indeed
37819s	backstab's been used already
37821s	dead right
37822s	that's true
37826s	some interesting thing pesco can do here
37828s	as well he can go regular radiant
37829s	elemental wig devour
37832s	priestess volish
37834s	then najak and then wig the najak and
37836s	that way the the naji is a little
37838s	stronger
37839s	and it doesn't die to a a backstab
37842s	wicked stab yeah and i think that's
37843s	exactly what he's going to be going for
37844s	because the nash truck by himself
37846s	awesome cool
37847s	pascal gets the 5 8 but it can die to
37850s	some stuff
37851s	and this way it it kind of doesn't die
37853s	to that stuff yeah he just dies to a
37855s	stab usually okay there might be a
37856s	backstab another backstab there might be
37860s	um
37861s	another extortion but really you're
37862s	worried about that
37864s	i really really like this this this was
37866s	an excellent spot by pascoa taking his
37868s	time finding the option to do it instead
37870s	of just saying
37871s	that you know i'm gonna take the five
37873s	eight i like this this is a very sturdy
37875s	board it's it's
37876s	first of all the entire board is
37877s	unkillable because mineral does not have
37879s	board clears but on top of that the nash
37881s	rock is is just sturdy enough at this
37884s	point on turn four that it's not gonna
37885s	fall over unless
37888s	extortion prep stab stab
37891s	which is not what myron wants to be
37892s	doing on turn four yeah you lose the
37894s	game if you do that anyway i think right
37896s	so
37899s	all right how is uh slogan gonna take
37901s	himself out of this one at this point
37903s	and this is what i was talking about a
37904s	little bit this wasn't exactly the
37905s	pressure i had in mind but the mineral
37907s	can go in for a double forsaken
37908s	lieutenant now and set up for a
37910s	potential uh
37912s	mine pop off next turn with something
37914s	like a snowfall graveyard being drawn
37916s	prep graveyard play a mine
37919s	double for second trade off that's 16
37921s	damage you can backstab your own mind
37923s	that you're playing as well which is 24
37925s	and suddenly you know that's a bit
37927s	closer to lethal than
37929s	what gershon currently has
37930s	yeah when it also says well to tidy up
37932s	the 570 exactly
37934s	and if the damage doesn't line up
37936s	gruzian can also switch to a burning
37937s	blade accolade game plan just get a
37939s	bunch of taunts next turn and hope that
37940s	that saves off the pressure
37946s	so it gets harder for pascal now the
37947s	stab to go to four damage next turn
37949s	which puts a lot more things in play on
37950s	the nurjack so i think we're going to
37952s	see him
37953s	defend that a little bit more and that's
37955s	what we are going to see take it over
37956s	seven
37958s	make sure it is difficult again
37961s	he could even consider just putting the
37964s	final wig here without it being
37965s	activated and just saying you know what
37968s	this game will end in two turns i don't
37969s	need this wig i need all all i need to
37972s	do pesco is going to say to himself is
37974s	perhaps keep this logic alive
37977s	or he might not
37980s	yeah and the other thing to consider is
37981s	where to put the heel decides that 26 is
37984s	not a break point so off you go
37987s	correct i like all of this and looks
37988s	like he is going to hold onto the wig i
37990s	think this is fine the the likely
37991s	outcome after that oh i mean he
37993s	excuse me he is completely aware of the
37995s	fact that there's a burning blade
37996s	acolyte in grisham's hand because it was
37997s	drawn off of the smoke screen i forgot
37998s	the 5 8 just appeared out of thin air it
38001s	didn't get played because of the the
38003s	initial one so he does know that he
38004s	needs to fight for board and because of
38005s	that i think it's worth holding on to
38006s	the serpent wig for a slightly longer
38008s	game plan if um
38011s	and when he has to deal with three five
38013s	eights or two five eights at least which
38015s	is now
38017s	pretty much going to empty the hand here
38018s	as lawyer is going to go for the
38020s	um
38021s	prep stab but he has he's having to on
38023s	the five seven oh he's got the side
38040s	actually i'm not even sure that would be
38041s	yeah it would be lethal actually
38042s	technically
38044s	yeah however version can consider prep
38046s	stabbing here
38048s	i don't think regina's gonna win with
38049s	just a mind game plan at this point i
38051s	mean the mines might get in there for
38052s	some final damage but i think he has to
38054s	just fight for board and win which isn't
38056s	something mine rogue often does but
38058s	sometimes can do with the addition of
38059s	burning blade accolade to the decklist
38061s	so i really like russian setting up for
38062s	this turn five
38063s	board swing that allows him to actually
38065s	get back into the game
38069s	again we talked earlier but something
38070s	like to ram home to to people who are a
38072s	bit newer to the game like he did have
38074s	the option to save for prep smoke screen
38076s	there like
38078s	it was a thing you could do for all look
38079s	at all these cars i can draw next turn
38081s	no you're going to be dead next turn you
38082s	have to set up now
38084s	you worry about how to play the smoke
38085s	screen when that comes around but for
38086s	now you've got to use your resources or
38088s	you're going to be dead with a handful
38089s	of cards
38092s	schoolteacher comes out from pascoa
38094s	none of these are incredibly useful the
38097s	serpent wig on the left does not
38098s	actually add another serpentine look to
38100s	hands so it doesn't look as quite as
38101s	good as you might think collar grave
38104s	could be interesting
38106s	but probably not this turn it might be
38107s	used later to find a nash rock
38110s	actually no you don't need to you can
38111s	still discover najrak and play nagalang
38113s	this term and then pesco is probably
38115s	gonna do that because it adds an extra
38116s	wig
38117s	uh oh but it's whispers the deep
38119s	actually like this this deals quite a
38120s	bit of damage from the school teacher
38121s	and the school teacher doesn't care if
38122s	it's silenced
38125s	yep
38126s	almost certain allows him to safely kick
38129s	off one of these enemy minions which is
38130s	a big deal
38133s	because
38135s	his legend should be running out of
38137s	stuff about now
38139s	uh-huh
38140s	only uh bringing blood acolytes have
38142s	died so this weapon is guaranteed to get
38144s	a death rattle and zlatan can override
38147s	the weapon with his dagger the hero
38149s	power which immediately procs death
38151s	rattle which i think he might do he
38153s	doesn't want to you know take an extra 4
38155s	damage but
38156s	or deal an extra 4 damage with a weapon
38158s	but i think it's more important to have
38159s	a 58 on board
38161s	as soon as possible because
38163s	given enough time the
38165s	the priest will be able to find the
38167s	silence or punch through this with
38169s	enough serpent wigs so i think getting
38171s	on the board as fast as possible gives
38172s	him the option to just
38174s	limit the amount of time that pesco has
38175s	to find what he needs but it looks like
38177s	he might not do
38179s	that
38181s	because there's there's only 14 cars
38182s	left in deck two of them are graveyards
38186s	i've just been talking about how you
38187s	shouldn't be greedy necessarily as a
38189s	newer player blah blah blah but this
38191s	time i think maybe you need to be a bit
38193s	greedy to get that extra one
38196s	actually you know what that's fair with
38197s	the knowledge that there's
38199s	wigs in hand
38200s	the board itself will trade off even if
38203s	you do take us even if you do
38205s	spawn an extra 5 8 here
38207s	for five especially with two radians on
38208s	the board so you know what actually i
38209s	like this played it more than i'm
38210s	thinking about it
38212s	i just topped a graveyard good luck go
38217s	that
38218s	hopefully or a trickster can also
38220s	accomplish that trickster smokescreen
38222s	into a graveyard there's still enough
38223s	mana left to do that
38226s	this is another important turn for
38228s	pascoa deciding how much to commit onto
38230s	the wigs i don't believe this is lethal
38235s	was not
38238s	just however lethal necks turned through
38240s	a lot of stuff
38242s	once again saving the wigs because he
38243s	knows that the weight for gerson to come
38245s	back right now is a um
38249s	a graveyard and getting multiple taunts
38251s	back and in that scenario pesco wants
38253s	more wigs to be able to fight through
38254s	them
38256s	a graveyard there nothing good there at
38258s	all in fact
38259s	no
38262s	sketchy i think pulls a second mind but
38263s	burning blood act like on board now
38266s	can help survive an extra i don't think
38268s	that's the case though i think regime's
38270s	just dead there's a 5 8 that could spawn
38272s	from this uh counterfeit blade
38275s	but it's not enough especially the
38277s	knowledge that there are two wigs and
38278s	this leather spray on the board i
38279s	believe that's gonna be lethal for
38280s	pescoa yeah it is just the middle two
38282s	minions is eight if you count the two
38284s	wigs and then the outside all the
38285s	outside minions is six seven all right
38287s	see that's eight
38288s	do i miss the damage somewhere
38290s	oh there's queens going to play
38292s	he's fine
38294s	absolutely
38296s	[Music]
38300s	now you just realize shaking his head
38302s	yeah maybe we should play the queens
38303s	guard first it's it's plenty of damage
38306s	anyways i think even without the queen's
38307s	guard it was lethal
38308s	i had that cast a moment that you go
38310s	yeah there's a queen's guard he's fine
38311s	then you go why hasn't this master
38313s	played it is it this is a naga right it
38315s	is yeah right like just does that moment
38318s	where your brain is terrified into
38320s	oblivion you just said something really
38322s	even more stupid than i normally say but
38323s	yeah it is and it was and haskell takes
38326s	that one zero lead and the mine rogue
38329s	has lost four in a row for grazian now
38332s	it's true it's not looking as crispy as
38334s	it was when uh it won the imagine 4. i
38337s	want to point out how
38338s	impactful that turn four play from pasco
38340s	was spotting the fact that he could not
38342s	and buff the nausea outside of any
38344s	damage ranges to keep that 583 stall
38347s	on board and that i think ultimately led
38349s	him to win the game um there was some
38351s	back and forth of course the main road
38353s	still fought hard and gushing had
38355s	a lot of outs to kind of stay back in
38357s	the game like you mentioned the snowfall
38359s	graveyard perhaps the second trickster
38360s	could have kept him in there but that
38362s	impactful turn four i think was the
38363s	decider of the game
38366s	pascal now down to this fell demon
38368s	hunter and his own rogue we've seen a
38371s	lot of this deck today we're going to
38373s	see a lot of it in the rest of the
38374s	tournament because there's eight of them
38375s	in the 16 players
38377s	players again choosing
38378s	the bucket with the rogue the priest and
38381s	the demon hunter thinking that
38383s	as its conquest none of these decks get
38386s	obliterated so that feels like the safe
38388s	choice i feel is how it's come about i'm
38389s	sure there's a lot more than that went
38391s	into it especially pascal with the
38393s	spreadsheets out would probably have
38394s	worked out some things but
38397s	in general
38398s	i think the the short version is in
38399s	conquest you don't want any deck that
38401s	can be played on very
38403s	easily that's true
38406s	keeping um so interestingly grisham had
38409s	the option to keep for second lieutenant
38411s	and burning blade acolyte which against
38412s	something like a demon hunter could be
38414s	pretty good but it's still kind of slow
38416s	and i think keeping cutlass trickster
38418s	might be a bit better i think the miner
38419s	needs to be a bit more explosive and
38421s	that's exactly what he's been looking
38422s	for getting a big advantage not a small
38424s	one
38428s	in theory with that smokestream that's
38430s	going to show up soon
38436s	sorry about that um
38439s	fighting for this board not as easy as
38442s	he's had it in some of the other
38445s	games i mean vanguard looks great on
38448s	turn two until pascoa sees the dagger so
38451s	that's not an option it goes for a chaos
38453s	wreck instead
38454s	cycle samantha deals some damage fell
38455s	barrage was more damage efficient here
38457s	but vasco wants to find some other stuff
38459s	to do and because of that chaos break is
38460s	just better
38465s	hey
38466s	this is one of those minor hands hands
38468s	that does happen that is really annoying
38470s	where you've got a bit of everything and
38472s	no paired cards this is where you really
38473s	need a fishing to sort of tidy up your
38475s	hand because it will pair with something
38477s	in your hand one way or the other you
38479s	either get a graveyard or you get a
38480s	smoke screen or something but for now
38483s	grazing's hand is really really um
38487s	all over the place
38489s	it's a little awkward now importantly he
38491s	does have a bit of time pascal didn't
38493s	have quite as an aggressive start as he
38494s	did in the previous set
38496s	right now and you know while his
38498s	vanguard is on board it is also already
38500s	dying on board to the shutter chamber
38504s	so grisham does have a bit of time here
38505s	cycles the cutlass goes for a dagger
38507s	here instead of sketch information the
38509s	sketching first information he knows
38511s	will draw a mind that i believe was at
38512s	the bottom of his deck and we sell it
38513s	from the gone fishing so he's not in a
38514s	rush to play it he can dagger fight for
38516s	board a bit and wait until a snowfall
38518s	graveyard pops up and that way doubling
38520s	the damage from the sketchy information
38522s	what do we do here need for greed not
38524s	much else to do do you just rip it
38528s	i want to rip it
38529s	i think pesco might have to akani
38533s	doesn't actually stop that much here so
38535s	pasco going for uh let's see a minion
38537s	counter here spell counter is not that
38539s	great there's a coin and pesco also
38541s	knows that there's no trickster
38542s	smokescreen in hand because that would
38544s	have happened on this turn on turn three
38545s	because there was a coin available so
38547s	the economy here could disrupt a little
38549s	bit but it also doesn't develop much
38551s	akane is good in two scenarios one where
38554s	you completely disrupt your opponent or
38556s	two when you disrupt your opponent to to
38558s	protect your existing board so it's it
38561s	even though it looks
38562s	nice here because it's for mana it's not
38564s	as impactful as it could have been if
38566s	pascal did have earlier minions or if we
38568s	were to wait a bit longer and then try
38570s	to disrupt a further turn now that being
38571s	said need for greed also isn't getting
38574s	much done this turn so i i think playing
38577s	gets fine i i think it's kind of close
38579s	between the two
38582s	um but yeah this is um still getting the
38585s	tempo he has been very good at finding
38587s	tempo of the demon hunter and obviously
38589s	we've we've talked about the akani
38591s	how strong it can be
38594s	okay opting to throw in the trickster
38598s	i don't think two smokescreens will be
38599s	played this game so he throws away the
38601s	minion that is redundant not the minion
38602s	that is the cheapest because the cheaper
38603s	minions are kind of important
38610s	choosing not to get the plus on the
38612s	slithersphere instead choosing to see
38613s	what he
38615s	was going to
38617s	draw first absolutely fine no real
38619s	difference in
38620s	what's going to happen for the slither
38622s	spear this turn it's not like
38623s	something's going to trade into it very
38624s	often and actually keeping it small
38626s	stops any lieutenant nonsense that might
38628s	go on
38629s	that's true
38631s	with the counterfeit blade drawn
38633s	and no graveyard in sight i think
38635s	grousing has to start
38636s	putting his foot on the gas which means
38638s	sketchy to draw the mine which activates
38640s	the death rattle which means that the
38641s	counterfeit blade will gain that mind
38643s	death rattle and even without a snowfall
38644s	graveyard is going to try to close out
38646s	the game here because the demon hunter
38648s	was a bit slower um
38650s	in pasco was opening christian has the
38652s	option to kind of just
38653s	win without a snowfall graveyard which
38655s	happens slightly less often now than it
38657s	used to because of diluting the deck
38658s	with acolytes and
38660s	uh
38661s	you know people having 40 health in in
38663s	some other matchups but in this matchup
38665s	with 30 health and no healing
38667s	who needs a graveyard
38669s	yeah pascal knows that he's got at most
38671s	one more turn here
38674s	um if he has got one more turn so
38677s	nice setup so this your lag next turn
38679s	can win the game
38682s	right so right now because if you play
38684s	spells you buff your slither spear and
38686s	give the mind can trade with the two
38687s	sticks anyways you're fine play spells
38689s	go for it knock yourself out
38691s	excellent i'm glad you corrected
38692s	yourself so i didn't have to
38695s	i've been waiting for the correction all
38696s	day and so far i've dodged it but
38698s	there's still two more days i'm sure
38700s	you'll get plenty of chance i'm
38702s	spreading them out over the three days
38703s	don't worry thank you appreciate that
38705s	too just as the steady slow torture
38708s	rather than the sharp shot it's nice
38711s	yeah so pasco needs to do math and
38713s	decide if uh lethal setup is possible
38715s	for two if he dumps all these spells
38717s	sends everything face and there's a lag
38718s	a next turn
38720s	and
38723s	it would have been close
38725s	but he opted for the car draw here the
38727s	metamorphic stops a bit of damage as
38728s	well from the counterfeit blade which
38729s	isn't bad unless exactly two forsaken
38731s	lieutenants pop up the smoke screen off
38734s	the top however ferguson gives him a
38735s	slight deviation here it might be a bit
38739s	too slow but he doesn't have lethal
38740s	anyways so this is probably the option
38741s	trying to hit a burning blade acolyte
38743s	which he doesn't quite hit
38746s	yeah you always feel like you're
38747s	entitled to hit some of the
38749s	death rattles from that but i'd see five
38751s	cards when you've only got the four
38752s	death battles in the deck two in your
38754s	hand
38755s	you're not massively favored to hit them
38757s	every time you know you you feel a bit
38759s	aggrieved but you're you're certainly
38760s	not going to hit them all the time yeah
38762s	okay so
38763s	the smokescreen draws enough cards to
38765s	leg and clean up the scary stuff and
38767s	leaving up a blademaster connie so 10
38769s	damage has to be done from pasco side
38770s	which actually is not that easy because
38772s	the leg at most is eight which is just
38774s	not lethal but lady satheno
38777s	most definitely
38780s	uh
38781s	it has to be two five six seven eight
38786s	do you have to multi-strike at the right
38787s	time to make sure that sterno goes face
38790s	does that work
38791s	well to multi-strike first you lose two
38793s	damage yeah it doesn't matter this i
38795s	think is actually one damage off lethal
38804s	uh three four five six it's uh it's one
38806s	man or one damage off lethal
38809s	oh no 50 50 there is not there is not
38814s	oh my goodness
38817s	it's so close
38821s	so is there a way to
38822s	not die next turn
38825s	i mean pascal
38830s	we can see that pascal might not know
38832s	though so is there a way that he could
38833s	the most he can do is just take the two
38835s	damage off the board which i think is
38836s	going to be the play you can see you can
38839s	still set
38841s	find something different no
38843s	you can go dread person glaive hero
38844s	power hit the minion then place the
38847s	thunder multi strike but then you lose
38848s	one mana left over for the uh fury i
38850s	believe so it's one then off or one
38852s	damage off i believe
38858s	it's very close but it's not quite it
38860s	does have loads of damage coming back
38862s	the other way of course with the
38864s	lieutenant the mines
38866s	stops
38868s	this game came down to the wire
38871s	for second lieutenants the shadow
38872s	shambler activates the mine
38874s	so the mine dies the forsaken lieutenant
38876s	transforms
38877s	it's four eight and then the second
38880s	chandler into the second mine
38883s	is one over lethal plus a dagger
38888s	version takes game two one
38890s	yeah
38890s	one one
38892s	mine rogue got through didn't have to uh
38895s	see another loss there and that was
38896s	quite a close game a lot different what
38898s	i really like about this deck is
38900s	the variety and kind of how the games
38903s	play out obviously there's games where
38904s	you you know you blow up your put on
38906s	turn four or five or six but there is a
38908s	bit more flexibility to that playing to
38910s	car draw out setting up smoke screens
38912s	and trying to win on board giving up
38913s	damage to be able to get extra uh board
38916s	chip damage it's really interesting
38917s	seeing those games play out differently
38920s	yeah i think the deck gets um i mean any
38922s	deck that i play i always say this about
38924s	but i do feel that it gets a bit of a
38925s	bad reputation for how easy it is to
38927s	play because we've seen cuisine now play
38931s	five games of it and they've all panned
38933s	out completely differently
38935s	the ending is the same but how you get
38937s	to that ending has been very different
38938s	each time
38940s	absolutely i'm sure people like
38942s	complaining about those games where
38944s	you know you do die on turn 405 and
38945s	there's not a lot of i mean turn forward
38947s	let's let's let's be clear turn 4 lethal
38949s	does not happen very often with that
38950s	tech but turn five six happens
38952s	relatively often
38953s	yeah those are frustrating and they're
38954s	fairly easy to play for the large part
38956s	too i will i will concede that but like
38958s	you say the the interplay you get when
38960s	you start making five eights and
38962s	you don't hit your graveyard or you have
38963s	to find a different way to do damage or
38965s	you have to survive where do you put
38966s	your wicked stab do you kill a minion
38968s	it's not genius level stuff a lot of the
38970s	time but it's quite intricate and a lot
38972s	of the time involves counting your outs
38974s	very carefully
38976s	and that's where the fun for that deck
38977s	comes in for me but it's gone we're not
38979s	gonna see it again now until at least
38981s	tomorrow so
38982s	on to the next one and metamorphin
38984s	multi-strike
38986s	person glaive in hand
38987s	pascua as luinda just reads out the
38990s	names of the cards it's that time of day
38993s	nice looking opener
38995s	regine going for a full mulligan
38997s	we don't see what he mulligan into just
38999s	yet but pascal has an interesting hand
39001s	glaive is pretty good in the mirror you
39003s	can clean up the minions that your
39005s	opponents develop because they have
39006s	generally low health and you have ways
39007s	to buff your attack and the metamorphism
39009s	is also kind of interesting it might be
39011s	slightly less useful in a matchup like
39013s	this because it will come down as a 3 4
39015s	but your opponent will generally be able
39017s	to deal with it so i think jessica is
39019s	considering whether or not he wants to
39020s	keep that with a multi-strike um
39022s	because i think you would keep them as a
39023s	pair i don't think you're gonna keep one
39025s	or the other pasco tells me i'm
39027s	absolutely wrong which that's fair i
39029s	haven't played a lot of felt human
39030s	hunter
39032s	strange that
39034s	the only people who played fell demon
39036s	hunter the people playing this exact
39037s	tournament on this exact week
39039s	because they have to if they want to
39041s	play the good decks
39044s	unless you make sense in the mirror i i
39046s	can i can see the reasons for keeping it
39048s	it's even if you're not keeping with a
39049s	multi-strike multi-strike needs a bit
39051s	more to be useful because it actually
39053s	you actually have to set up exact break
39054s	points which might not be easy that
39055s	early for two mana maybe when it was one
39057s	man it would have been to keep there but
39059s	for two men i can see tossing it in
39060s	favor of something a bit cheaper or more
39062s	flexible
39064s	just getting the value while he can from
39066s	the fossils
39069s	yeah without a multi-strike in hand it's
39071s	kind of optimistic to think uh
39074s	holding the fanatics good it's good to
39076s	have resource generation in this matchup
39078s	but
39079s	you you also have to spend mana so i
39080s	like pasco just playing it there for uh
39082s	for tempo
39085s	it also might just stick sometimes
39088s	not a pleasant decision now um
39091s	picking up the glade means he can do the
39093s	mesomorphin thing but
39096s	it's getting rid of a charge and a fury
39099s	which could definitely be used to remove
39101s	something important
39103s	and it's a level one fury which is
39105s	horrible to use as well
39108s	it's kind of tough
39110s	because of how aggressive uh feldman
39112s	drunk can be this matchup could be over
39115s	on turn seven for example with pasco
39117s	finishing the game with the zero lag so
39118s	he has to consider if over the next four
39120s	turns he can push enough damage through
39122s	with these extra swings to get to zlatan
39124s	lethal and if that's the case then he
39126s	very well might want to just go fury
39128s	metamorph and hero power this turn next
39129s	turn he can re-equip the second drip
39131s	prison glaive and set up for potentially
39132s	turn seven lethal but if he thinks the
39134s	game's gonna go on a bit longer he might
39136s	want to hold the furys i i think the
39138s	game will be over
39139s	sooner rather than later because of how
39141s	aggressive these two decks are i mean
39143s	it's the same deck but yeah i i do like
39146s	this he's trusting as well that most of
39148s	the stuff left in his deck is actually
39149s	pretty cheap there is a jace of course
39151s	there is um the curtis of course
39154s	and i think he has the bone glaive in
39155s	here no he doesn't so most of the stuff
39157s	in his deck is playable next turn some
39159s	of it not particularly great but you
39161s	know
39162s	okay
39164s	not the best ladies of thanos here but
39166s	it's still pretty good cleans up the
39168s	board
39169s	gruzian just saw fury fewer resources in
39171s	hand slightly less likely this gets
39172s	dealt with and more importantly it
39175s	kills the
39176s	it kills the falcon
39180s	not much trouble i think for pascua
39184s	yep
39185s	i mean you could consider leaving up the
39188s	ladies athena but i think pesco is
39191s	to agree that that is not the play
39193s	yeah when i'm laughing at you know i
39195s	like to consider everything badly but i
39197s	like to consider everything
39199s	and if i'm laughing when you say you
39200s	could consider leaving
39209s	and this is actually very interesting
39210s	because pascal's list is not running the
39212s	uh the five-minute weapon the uh
39215s	the other glitch the bone glave
39216s	so holding this doesn't give him a
39218s	bungle option but he can play basically
39220s	every single card in his deck next turn
39222s	so holding this conceals some
39223s	information which i think i like it also
39225s	means that if he has a slower hand he
39228s	can hear power next turn without
39229s	equipping the glaive and wasting a
39230s	charge if he needs it for like a if his
39233s	next draw is multi-trick for example he
39234s	might be more inclined to keep the
39236s	glaive if he doesn't have to use the
39237s	multi-strike next turn yeah
39239s	which
39240s	might be the situation if he rips it now
39243s	it's good recognition even though there
39245s	is manage to spend it it's not
39246s	necessarily correct too
39250s	that's not exactly what pasco wants to
39253s	see this opens up the window to top deck
39257s	need for greed into double predation
39259s	which is a silver lining but otherwise
39261s	this turn looks very scary
39263s	there's not a lot pasco can do
39267s	can't just jam that on the board it just
39269s	gets eaten right like it didn't look
39271s	right when cuisine did it a minute ago
39273s	and
39274s	it's not going to look right when pascal
39276s	has to do it here
39278s	just any spell next turn has got to be
39280s	worth holding this back yeah also
39282s	spectral sights are our consideration as
39284s	well i i think pesco's best chance of
39286s	coming back into this is drawing exactly
39288s	churches and in that case he needs to
39290s	spend man on cetheno now so that he can
39292s	spend seven man on zlatan uh on zylag on
39295s	turn seven
39296s	so i think he realizes in how bad of a
39298s	spot he is right now and the way out of
39300s	it is drawing curtris so he's setting
39302s	himself up to win in that scenario in
39305s	most of the scenarios he's just that so
39306s	this is good recognition
39308s	did he play the glaive this turn given
39310s	that's the situation he's in
39313s	fair point
39318s	last time i understood the logic
39319s	entirely this term looked a little bit
39320s	more weird because a lot of the time you
39321s	want to spend all of your money here
39323s	yeah i would have i would
39324s	by playing latest athena i would have
39326s	liked to see him play this even without
39327s	the ladies athena i think i would have
39329s	liked to see him play this i don't think
39330s	they're running uh
39332s	no there is no restaurant viper
39334s	inclusions list so i don't think there's
39336s	stuff to play around
39341s	i grew grow just at the time is so short
39343s	as well right
39344s	yeah i'm trying
39346s	and grisham's wasting no time on the
39347s	back swing uh recognizing that pasco's
39350s	hand is
39351s	a whole lot of nothing he's developing
39353s	everything and pressuring pasco out of
39355s	the game so that he doesn't have time to
39356s	draw ways to come back into the game
39361s	there's time
39362s	yeah there's times to be greedy and
39364s	there's times to be aggressive and is
39366s	correctly identifying that
39367s	face is the place and that's exactly
39369s	where he's going
39373s	all right
39374s	okay
39377s	maybe like just obliges and hits all the
39379s	right things somehow i don't know what
39380s	the right things are here to save the
39381s	game
39382s	i think every single outcome here is
39384s	useful for this location
39388s	[Music]
39389s	2-1 soyuz in one
39392s	game away from making it through to
39394s	sunday
39395s	and he's gone through a lot of emotions
39397s	today incredibly quick start then
39399s	destroyed in the second match and now
39401s	here he is 2-1
39402s	up against looking for double 3-1
39404s	victories over pascoa and does have this
39407s	pretty good nagama laga piece left it's
39410s	been looking tasty all day so far
39412s	that's true that being said pascoa has
39415s	rogue left and i believe demon hunter
39418s	and those
39419s	aren't exactly free matchups one's a
39421s	mirror and uh the other one rogue can
39424s	actually put up a really good fight
39425s	against 700 it's one of the only uh
39427s	classes that used to be able to now a
39429s	lot more can actually deal with it but
39431s	the fact that there's very cheap wild
39432s	bundles available makes the matchup
39434s	really nice especially with tooth
39435s	nefarians wicked stabs there's a lot of
39436s	ways to deal with early minions because
39438s	of that
39439s	even though as lord brujin only has to
39442s	win one game
39443s	i think you know he's still gonna have
39445s	to put in a good effort to get through
39446s	the uh the next two decks or to get
39448s	through both uh one of the next two
39450s	decks the only one once so it's gonna
39452s	have to do it we've seen it a lot today
39453s	which this group has been
39457s	everyone came to the same conclusions
39459s	brought the same stuff pretty much
39461s	um variations on our theme obviously but
39464s	here we are again
39466s	it's still anybody's game
39468s	all you need is one mulligan where
39470s	there's no stripping wig
39472s	in the top 20 cards and
39474s	suddenly easy games look a lot harder
39478s	one thing that hasn't been played
39480s	in any of the games we've seen is the
39481s	summer it just hasn't come into play at
39483s	all which is weird because you know i
39485s	thought enough of it i think you
39486s	mentioned it earlier to put it in the
39488s	the key cards as one of the hey this is
39490s	clears boards especially it's boat
39491s	rogues but
39493s	one of the only ways to come back yeah
39494s	it hasn't been relevant the way that the
39496s	priests have cued into the other priests
39498s	a lot of the time
39500s	yeah
39501s	it's
39502s	i mean it's in there for that specific
39503s	purpose a lot of the games we've seen so
39505s	far actually haven't been games where
39507s	priest needs that we've seen it against
39509s	quest priest a bit we've seen it against
39510s	um
39511s	i believe it came out against
39514s	mine that's what it is and
39516s	if you have to samurai bless against the
39518s	mind rogue you're in trouble
39520s	but it might come into play here because
39522s	we are up against the boat rogue which
39525s	has got lots and lots of stealthy 3-3
39528s	things hanging about which is exactly
39530s	the sort of thing that samurai wants to
39531s	destroy
39532s	yeah absolutely i wouldn't be surprised
39534s	if this
39536s	you know samurai shows up to win the
39538s	game at some point it's a matchup where
39539s	it's kind of back and forth the rogue
39541s	doesn't just fall over and die um there
39543s	are tools that the rogue can use to
39544s	fight back and the priest does have
39546s	consistent development if there are um
39548s	if there is an early stripping wig to be
39549s	able to keep training off of nagas so
39551s	the matchup can be a bit back and forth
39553s	until one person pulls the head with a
39555s	swing turn
39556s	can it now i'm sorry just look at his um
39558s	slowly's hand here oh my god
39562s	well with the hand like this maybe not
39563s	but
39565s	so interestingly the the shard being
39567s	drawn there means that uh thriving the
39568s	shadows is guaranteed to give version uh
39571s	a wig which means that
39573s	we're going to see some wigs of this
39574s	game
39575s	shocker i know the deck's called lug
39577s	priest but
39579s	stay with me here we're going to see
39581s	some wigs the logic is going well i like
39583s	it i thought he pointed at his own face
39585s	there for a minute oh my goodness that'd
39586s	be funny
39588s	he was considering it but decided that
39589s	ultimately was probably better to trade
39590s	i like trying the extortion here instead
39592s	of the cutlass uh you don't really want
39594s	to get the cutlass discount on the
39595s	extortion um and it's possible that he
39597s	might just tap next turn as well
39599s	depending on what happens but this is a
39601s	matchup where the rogue can consider not
39604s	being greedy and just playing minions
39605s	for tempo and trying to just immediately
39609s	contest the minions that the wheat
39611s	priests are going to
39612s	develop
39614s	cuisine taking it slightly slower than
39616s	you might expect as well just one
39618s	slither spears plenty thanks i'll have
39619s	that
39621s	so the reason normally you wouldn't
39622s	consider
39624s	what you know why is coin thriving in
39625s	the shadows of the play don't we want to
39626s	play a slither spear well the thing is
39629s	it's possible for rogues
39631s	to play uh well panels on turn two and
39634s	in that case the slither spear dies but
39636s	ordering it this way means that grujin's
39638s	slither spirit does not die to a a
39640s	weapon so this is this makes a sturdier
39643s	minion and gets more value out of the
39644s	minion um foregoing the risk of it dying
39646s	to a wild pandola rush which is a way
39648s	that bro wins these games early while
39651s	panels cleaning up minions without them
39652s	getting value
39654s	and pascal shakes the head because this
39656s	3-5 is he knows he's going to get out of
39658s	sight here as well
39660s	yes he needed that shroud to hit uh
39662s	well two nulls would have been the ideal
39664s	scenario but i believe there are zero
39665s	man at this point with the tap and and
39667s	trade um
39669s	including the shroud consumer drawing
39670s	two cards while still in the disguise uh
39672s	well panels are zero man right now but
39674s	they're not in hand
39678s	trades the shard away
39681s	spare mana why not
39683s	yeah
39684s	can consider developing the second
39685s	slither spear here or can opt for thrive
39687s	in the shadows second
39689s	looks interesting
39691s	i think this is a bit better
39693s	oh because of the
39695s	uh
39696s	because of the fact that there's a
39698s	second wig on the deck and a rating
39699s	elemental i think region wanted to go
39700s	for the second wig here and set up for a
39702s	turn where he can go radiant wig wig so
39704s	the spear wig wig and so on and so forth
39707s	so this develops slightly less but sets
39710s	himself up for a bigger pop off from the
39711s	raiding elemental because rogues don't
39713s	run silence
39714s	yeah that's what was getting me excited
39715s	the prospect this this huge crazy turn
39718s	with the radiance but bless kind of
39720s	second prize at least
39722s	yep
39722s	a blessed is still useful to close out
39724s	the game uh the benefit of this little
39725s	spirit we've talked about a few times
39727s	any spells that could cast also buffs
39729s	attack so you're double dipping with a
39731s	serpent wig but and there's nothing like
39732s	a blast to just add an extra 10 damage
39736s	on top
39737s	yep
39739s	still two turns until the crab turns up
39741s	that just seems too far away
39744s	especially given that by that time
39746s	pascal's not gonna want to put his face
39747s	into whatever's on the board because
39748s	it's going to be giant
39752s	this is true
39753s	i'm
39754s	i want to
39756s	so there was an option here for pasco to
39757s	go cutlass wicked stab filet fighter
39759s	here which cleans up this leather spear
39762s	but instead he opted for trades here i'm
39764s	trying to think of it would have been
39765s	better to develop onto the board and
39767s	keep that cutlass equipped
39769s	and try to delay the game until that
39771s	crap can come down
39772s	this play saves mana by trending cutlass
39775s	and make spells cheaper which means that
39777s	the wicked stab next churn gets upgraded
39778s	before damage but i don't like that it
39781s	sets up for recruiting to just keep
39782s	developing onto the board
39788s	interesting multiple options here for
39791s	pascoa so wicked stab wicket stab fillet
39793s	fighter conveniently clears the board
39796s	another option is vessel into the zero
39797s	mana gun fishing and just getting the
39799s	six of the the the four three threes on
39801s	board immediately
39804s	got to have the feeling that cuisine is
39807s	ready to
39808s	really have a big turn here yeah going
39811s	too slowly there's a thrive that hasn't
39813s	resulted in anything being played you
39815s	know there's a wig in hand what is going
39817s	on a vessel looks tempting to sort of
39820s	hey i'm going to put in a fight but
39821s	there must be that dow to the back of
39823s	his mind that if he does that something
39824s	very nasty might happen
39827s	i think the vessel is better if pesco
39829s	does not expect to die here
39831s	and a lot of the time i don't think you
39834s	do expect to die here two slither spears
39836s	is a bit scarier than one because now
39838s	each wig adds three damage to the board
39841s	and he's one turn away from krabatoa so
39843s	he could consider just cleaning it up
39845s	but this is this sets up a better swing
39847s	turn because
39848s	this develops more than the
39850s	wicked stabs removed technically
39853s	so i think over time if he doesn't die
39854s	this is a slightly better play
39857s	yeah he's been
39858s	not getting the right end of these plays
39860s	today and this time i think he is going
39861s	to get the right end of it where yeah he
39863s	makes oh my goodness he makes the
39865s	judgment call and
39867s	you know knowing that's the logical call
39869s	and to be able to keep doing that after
39870s	a couple of them have gone against you
39872s	is
39873s	a very good skill to have in your
39875s	hearthstone uh
39877s	that is so close to lethal but it's not
39880s	i think one more mana here and and green
39882s	would have lethal
39883s	there is a chance it's still
39886s	no i don't think it is with a shadow
39887s	devour so grisham has access to either
39890s	radian elemental
39891s	wig wig zola wig wig which is not lethal
39893s	that's 12 damage plus 4 on board that's
39895s	16 close but not enough the alternative
39898s	is
39899s	elemental
39901s	wig wig devour bless which i think is 4
39906s	plus
39908s	6 10 plus
39911s	it's still not enough but it's close
39914s	the bless is a bit closer than the uh
39916s	the double the double wig play he's one
39918s	man off lethal here
39921s	i think he still has to go in though
39922s	because his board will evaporate very
39924s	soon if he doesn't make it bigger
39929s	oh we're gonna find out how much it is
39932s	i believe this is like three off or
39933s	something
39941s	one off
39942s	one off yeah
39944s	one three yeah it's fine
39946s	[Music]
39948s	but not for pasco that that was
39950s	very dangerous is there enough to remove
39953s	this actually with a prep pickup maybe
39955s	prep stab krabatoa the thing is he can't
39958s	actually use the krabatoa
39960s	uh claws as damage because he's at one
39961s	health
39962s	pepstab is four krabatoa is just eight
39966s	so many that's 12 15 18.
39970s	he's up a two two the way i'm doing it
39971s	which means there must be a better way
39974s	so there's more damage available than if
39976s	you go wicked stab wicket stab
39980s	oh no it might not be actually it's very
39983s	close though i think he has to go for
39984s	prep shroud to find the wild panels that
39987s	are in his deck because there's just not
39988s	enough damage right now there is one
39989s	noel and the second roll i think he can
39991s	clear now
39994s	so that's six
39996s	plus uh an extra 12 on board 18 let's
39999s	him full clear that and then stab double
40000s	fillet fighter
40002s	actually he doesn't even double flav he
40003s	can make the damage a bit more optimal
40005s	this way yes and this way he keeps bored
40007s	so at one health
40008s	pascoa does stop this and importantly
40011s	being at one health is almost equal to
40014s	being at like 20 or 30 because gerusia
40016s	now has to stick a minion which is not
40019s	easy to do once the rogue's taking the
40021s	board and the wigs are gone
40023s	yeah it's just samurai bless right
40025s	that's kind of it
40029s	and there's only one copy of blessed
40030s	left in the deck
40032s	now samurai still cleans up a lot here
40034s	and
40035s	again it's important to note that once
40036s	again pasco that one held so any minion
40038s	sticking is lethal here wig or no wig
40040s	so greg's gonna fight for about as much
40042s	as he can but i don't think pascal is
40043s	going to let anything stick at this
40044s	point crab a toe will clean up nicely
40046s	the counter pressure is there
40048s	is there some way to find damage off of
40050s	school teacher maybe
40053s	this is notoriously bad acid
40056s	school teacher and to call the grave
40057s	into navel mine that's lethal are you
40059s	good
40061s	an exact manner for it too because you
40063s	need
40064s	five mana to play the school teacher in
40066s	the thing and two men left for the mind
40067s	to be active
40070s	wins this with a naval mine as priests
40073s	after struggling with a mine rogue all
40075s	day
40076s	that'll be a thing it would be kind of
40077s	silly
40079s	but he only has one turn because pasco
40081s	is going to set up lethal's turn
40084s	13 on board both stabs are gone
40087s	for minion with your connie and that's
40089s	the end right
40091s	indeed that's gonna
40093s	oh yeah this actually just they
40095s	completely close up the game and pascal
40096s	knows that the only way to come back
40097s	into this is some weird school teacher
40099s	shenanigans so this absolutely locks
40100s	person out of the game and
40104s	put pascoa up to 2-2 any spell like it's
40107s	drawn here doesn't actually do anything
40111s	oh this is this was trek made from
40112s	pascoa
40114s	what a game now grusian was correct to
40116s	go out all in there i think because if
40117s	he doesn't go on at that point
40119s	[Music]
40120s	he might never have a chance to get that
40121s	damage through
40123s	it's possible he could play a bit more
40124s	reactively and say you know what uh i
40126s	have a samurai in hand i'll let him
40127s	develop and then i'll try to clear after
40130s	that but i think setting him to one
40131s	there is a pretty tall ask at fesco to
40133s	clear that there there has to be so much
40135s	damage from here at that point it
40136s	literally has to be double null double
40138s	stab and the knowledge was there that
40140s	there were no wild panels so i think the
40142s	play to set them to one was a scary one
40145s	but i think it was a good one
40147s	yep looked like a win really and then
40148s	you know oscar found the line which is
40150s	something that he's been very good at
40152s	you know you say oh he's lucky to find
40154s	the exact cards but it's something he
40156s	seems to do a lot he's put himself in
40158s	position where he can find the cards he
40160s	finds the play that can get lucky so
40161s	sometimes you just get lucky
40163s	oh absolutely i mean
40165s	especially we talked about the uh the
40167s	ascharon vessel to gone fishing it was a
40169s	riskier play but it let him come back
40171s	against exactly something like that and
40173s	if he had done that i think he would
40174s	have lost to that
40175s	[Music]
40177s	very nicely done two apiece just the
40179s	demon hunter left against this priest
40182s	and
40183s	again we talked about it earlier it's
40184s	almost a straight base uh to get control
40187s	of the board not to do the damage when
40188s	you get control the board you're going
40189s	to do the damage quickly enough to win
40191s	that game so see how this one goes
40194s	yeah it's it's very interesting i i
40196s	wouldn't quite call it a mirror but it's
40198s	it's pretty close to a mirror for you
40200s	know it not being a mirror um because of
40202s	the fact that it is raced back and forth
40204s	and it's an interesting one at that
40205s	because the priest has a bit of leeway
40207s	in terms of determining
40209s	how much health to leave on its minions
40211s	in terms of uh dread personal aid break
40214s	points because sometimes you don't want
40215s	to give your minion you know let's say
40216s	10 health because suddenly you're taking
40218s	20 from a dread prison glade multi
40220s	strike so this is a very interesting
40222s	match up in terms of health break points
40224s	and fighting for board
40226s	i remember what happened earlier today
40229s	cuisine won this match with the devour
40231s	effectively he's got it again he's got a
40233s	full keep of little things this is
40235s	looking really nice for
40237s	him oh yeah he doesn't have the wig yet
40240s	but he does have a thrive which will get
40241s	him the wig
40243s	uh not it's actually not guaranteed
40245s	because i believe there's still a
40246s	devourer a bless
40249s	or two blesses he does get it here there
40251s	are four spells of the stick runs
40257s	very different to the earlier game it's
40259s	going to be um a can i steno you for a
40261s	million at some point game
40263s	first of all you've got to get this
40264s	thing off the board
40268s	you know there's not many ways to clear
40269s	it
40270s	at this point it has to basically be a
40272s	fel barrage or something like a lady's
40273s	athena predation
40276s	and currently that's not available so
40278s	basco has some options here need for
40280s	greed find cards maybe try to juice up
40283s	with ladies to fennel he could
40284s	preemptively equip the dread person
40286s	glaive he could even preemptively hit
40287s	the slither spear without killing it
40289s	um
40290s	but i think i like this i think he does
40292s	need something like a predation to be
40294s	able to neutralize this effectively
40296s	uh and he also has a bit of time i don't
40298s	think he's expecting to get blessed very
40300s	very very quickly he knows that there's
40301s	a wig in hand and that's going to grow a
40302s	little bit but i think he needs some
40303s	resources because his hand's a little
40305s	too clunky at this point however while
40307s	you are analyzing the second wig was
40309s	picked up
40311s	and that has made this thing a lot more
40313s	terrifying
40316s	this slow disappear is is quite nice at
40319s	pushing damage at this point so much
40320s	health it keeps getting uh attack every
40322s	turn as well with the serpent wig
40325s	again there's no sounds in the demon
40326s	hunter so this
40328s	has to be just punched through and it's
40330s	currently not punch through-able i grow
40334s	it's a little too healthy
40337s	esco with a multi-strike pickup i
40339s	actually so multi-strike plus the fury
40342s	plus the glaive
40343s	gives his hero five attack and with the
40346s	multi-strike effect can hit the slither
40348s	spear twice but it's not an honorable
40350s	kill actually it can be an honorable
40352s	kill he can go multi-strike fury hit and
40355s	then dread person glaive hit for five so
40357s	four and then five
40360s	the scribe's really annoying as well
40362s	because it eats up one of the felbarage
40364s	plops
40367s	yeah i don't think there's any deviation
40370s	i think with a multi-strike that has to
40371s	be used here to clean up the slither
40372s	spear
40373s	and then it has to be used and something
40376s	else will have to happen next turn after
40377s	the merck water scrub gets buffed for
40378s	the wigs as well but step one is getting
40380s	that slow the spray off the board
40381s	yeah don't lose now and work out
40383s	later okay
40387s	oh you know what actually this is kind
40389s	of okay too
40390s	setting up a taunt i mean the silence
40392s	isn't likely to be in hand and also this
40394s	adds damage and sets up for next turn
40396s	for better multi-strike in terms of
40398s	hitting maybe two minions the downside
40400s	is nigerk but
40402s	pasco is in a bit of trouble and i don't
40403s	think it's worth playing around with
40404s	something like najic at this point he
40406s	needs to
40407s	set up some efficient way to deal with
40409s	things and the niger makes things a bit
40411s	more awkward
40415s	okay now he can do some stuff though
40420s	he can
40426s	a way of doing this really well
40429s	i think he just has to go with something
40431s	fairly basic with the multi-strike
40432s	because the other options like involving
40436s	actually getting a card on the board for
40438s	instance seem quite
40440s	difficult
40441s	it's still a little too expensive to
40443s	play the latest athena even with two
40444s	furys so i think the play is fury kill
40447s	off the felf
40449s	the felmer lock
40451s	and then multi-strike your power to
40452s	clean up this little spear and it's
40454s	still a lot of damage and there's still
40456s	a healthy minion progression to put
40458s	serpent wigs on but
40461s	hopefully ladies atheno can deal with
40463s	that next turn yeah he also had
40465s	available the 50 50 on this thinner
40468s	that's true
40470s	fury fury
40471s	uh it's pretty binary flip for the game
40473s	though if it works you might still not
40475s	win but if it doesn't work you
40477s	definitely do not win
40479s	i think he wanted to go for a more uh
40480s	risk-averse line
40487s	yeah i felt if it worked he won a lot of
40489s	the time there but yeah he'll obviously
40490s	fancy he's better than 50 50 for the
40492s	game or he wouldn't do it this way
40497s	break points here are very awkward for
40498s	cetheno
40502s	there's still no predation
40505s	oh this looks lucky
40509s	so if you're in a chaos strike pascoa
40512s	and the ladies athena can clean up uh
40514s	one of the two threes and then honorably
40516s	kill the najak but there's the issue of
40518s	the fact there's a minion still left up
40520s	it might still be the play though
40521s	because it removes the most
40524s	uh alternatively he can chaos strike
40527s	first and try to hit predation
40529s	but then if he misses he leaves more on
40531s	board which is a little
40532s	not good
40534s	so i think he is going to go for just
40535s	the uh the straight kill two minions
40538s	game plan
40540s	[Music]
40542s	it's the cow strike
40544s	and the fury okay
40548s	takes two
40549s	goes down to nine without a blast
40552s	he's still alive
40558s	that is lethal
40560s	with the radial mental discounts and two
40561s	active wigs this is guaranteed to give
40563s	grujin the bless and pasco with the
40565s	awkward hand was not able to pull
40567s	through the aggressive start that
40568s	gruzian had here
40571s	just never quite got that turned cuisine
40574s	celebrates he is delighted to get to
40576s	that top eight an extra point for him
40578s	look at that emotion it's great to see
40580s	it obviously pascal already locked in
40582s	for world so disappointed though he'll
40584s	be because he loves to show how good he
40586s	is at this game it means a lot more to
40588s	cuisine on this occasion and he is
40590s	pumped he's had a long day
40593s	or at least a stressful one um oh yeah
40595s	easy start and then it all went wrong
40597s	then yeah this was a tough tough match
40599s	good for him and we'll see him again on
40601s	sunday
40603s	yeah i mean these games were honestly
40605s	quite a treat to see there wasn't
40606s	outside of that one mineral game we saw
40608s	earlier today that you don't want to
40609s	turn four there were a lot of back and
40611s	forth games here we got to see these
40612s	players make a lot of decisions and
40614s	impact the outcome of the game we saw
40615s	good plays on both sides and ultimately
40617s	gruzian is going to
40619s	take his position later on this weekend
40621s	for more gameplay
40624s	that's um our day almost done how's it
40627s	going for you you enjoyed yourself
40628s	yeah absolutely as always i'm kind of
40630s	nervous getting back on camera
40632s	officially when i uh can't joke around
40634s	but
40635s	you know i'm i'm easing into it nicely
40638s	have you heard me in tj
40640s	i have
40642s	and
40642s	you thought i'll do anything but that
40645s	yeah absolutely absolutely
40648s	don't blame you one bit no thank you so
40650s	much for for today's work so far
40652s	absolutely joy to listen to the analysis
40655s	as it's a joy to watch cuisine popping
40657s	off like that and goes through with pun
40659s	who is similarly excited to get through
40662s	all these points worth so much
40664s	and also group and if we get to see
40666s	group a or not i'm not sure because i
40668s	haven't done my homework but uh
40670s	possessing and okay got through there
40672s	earlier today
40673s	so so far
40676s	one european
40679s	just the one
40680s	yeah there's a lot of jokes that can be
40682s	made there and i'm sure europeans would
40684s	love to take a crack at the
40686s	non-europeans for that but i'll let it
40688s	slide
40689s	i'm american i am american when it comes
40690s	to this broadcast
40692s	i am a fellow north american commentator
40696s	um absolutely
40698s	dear and derek our fellow aipac people
40701s	will be very delighted that group a
40702s	result and then subtle and raven will be
40704s	scratching their heads wondering what
40705s	went wrong
40706s	where are those cocky europeans on day
40709s	one
40710s	just cruising nobody else
40713s	we enjoy it while we can because it'll
40715s	all be back to normal tomorrow
40718s	fair enough and we'll be back with more
40719s	hearthstone too i'm excited to see a lot
40721s	of the other uh decks that we've seen as
40722s	well you mentioned that we're going to
40724s	be seeing i believe a 40 card quest
40727s	warrior tomorrow something to look found
40728s	out for hopefully yep that's habu
40730s	gabba's um
40731s	excuse to play the bucket with quest
40734s	hunter and control murloc is his reward
40736s	for doing that so
40738s	interesting to see how that goes he's
40739s	been baiting on twitter saying how high
40741s	he's climbed but you never know if he
40743s	just played one game but i think he's
40744s	doing all right with that day i think
40746s	it's not terrible
40748s	i can't wait to see that
40750s	curious to see how that pans out i've
40752s	seen some mixed results from other
40753s	people playing it and then sharing their
40755s	results on ladder kind of scratching
40757s	their heads but
40758s	it only has to work here you know
40760s	and then there's a group c which we
40762s	thankfully don't have to cast good luck
40764s	everybody else um with double holy
40767s	paladin in it
40768s	can't wait for that mirror
40770s	that'll be interesting those games tend
40772s	to go longer
40773s	they really do but thank you very much
40775s	for your coming to today look forward to
40776s	casting with you again tomorrow that is
40778s	us done for today back again though the
40781s	same time tomorrow with groups c and d
40783s	with derek and lambie series opening the
40785s	show so can't wait for that see you in a
40787s	few hours
40790s	[Music]
40793s	[Applause]
40804s	you have been
40806s	[Music]
40813s	what's up
40823s	[Music]
40829s	[Music]
40838s	oh
40845s	[Music]
40857s	so
40859s	[Music]
40886s	[Music]
40895s	follow
40904s	[Music]
40906s	dangerous
40916s	[Music]
40921s	uh
40924s	[Music]
40945s	[Music]
40954s	[Music]
40961s	back
40963s	[Music]
40971s	so
40981s	[Music]
40986s	it's a bless off the top pescoa 2-0 up
40990s	in the finals
40992s	it looks rough for him for a moment the
40994s	shard of the naaru was so clutch
40998s	[Music]
41001s	who says he tried so hard he set up a
41003s	lethal himself with the voy chard and
41006s	shadow form on the next string even if
41007s	his ethic got cleared it was as good a
41010s	plan as any
41012s	[Music]
41018s	there it
41021s	top is yala
41025s	[Music]
41034s	[Music]
41040s	so
41046s	[Music]
41046s	[Applause]
41048s	[Music]
41070s	you

[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Grandmasters | Last Call | Week 2 | Day 1

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