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| 12s | welcome to hearthstone legends where we |
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| 15s | look back on the most iconic matches and |
| 18s | moments that made the players we know |
| 20s | today legends |
| 22s | for this episode we remember the story |
| 25s | of how global champion lion made history |
| 29s | we had heard rumors that lion was a top |
| 32s | tier player on the gold series circuit |
| 34s | in china but none of us truly knew what |
| 37s | to expect when she made her first |
| 39s | appearance on the global stage |
| 42s | it's safe to say she was immediately put |
| 45s | to the test being matched up against |
| 47s | defending world champion in tom60229 |
| 51s | to be the best you've got to beat the |
| 53s | best and that's exactly what she did to |
| 56s | kick off the 2019 grand masters global |
| 59s | finals |
| 60s | join me now in reliving what to many of |
| 62s | us was the beginning of her |
| 64s | unforgettable journey please welcome to |
| 67s | the stage vk's lion |
| 89s | and their opponents |
| 91s | the 2017 |
| 93s | world champion making his third |
| 95s | unprecedented world stage appearance the |
| 98s | highest earner in hearthstone history |
| 100s | after this weekend please welcome tom |
| 103s | 60229 |
| 116s | players please shake hands |
| 121s | now let's get group b underway |
| 126s | thank you dan yes i'm back my name is |
| 128s | soto joined by just saying uh we are |
| 131s | switching over to group b as dan |
| 133s | mentioned and i am super excited to get |
| 135s | into this one um because just to add |
| 137s | some clarity to what prodan was saying |
| 138s | there in the intro |
| 140s | lion got here through an incredible |
| 143s | performance in the china region and it's |
| 145s | now mentioned she got second place and |
| 147s | fourth place in the china region |
| 149s | essentially their equivalent of what we |
| 152s | have as masters tour events if you want |
| 153s | to frame it like that and then through |
| 155s | her actual qualification championship |
| 157s | went on a 7-0 undefeated run to go |
| 160s | through so she absolutely crushed season |
| 162s | one to get here |
| 164s | yeah and the stage has never been bigger |
| 166s | than here at blizzcon itself so vk lion |
| 168s | facing up against tom in this match i'm |
| 170s | really looking to play the players and |
| 172s | pit them against each other i mean tom |
| 174s | the quintessential veteran three times |
| 177s | on the world stage already a world |
| 179s | champion he might feel a little relaxed |
| 181s | on stage but that's because he's no |
| 182s | stranger to it but i'm sure he's looking |
| 184s | to be the first repeat champion here |
| 187s | yeah and as frodan mentioned he is |
| 189s | incredibly likely to end this weekend as |
| 193s | the top prize money earner in |
| 195s | hearthstone history we believe as long |
| 198s | as he just does not zero two out of this |
| 200s | group he is going to be in a position |
| 201s | where um surrender who is the only |
| 203s | person who can currently catch him by |
| 205s | picking up two hundred thousand dollars |
| 206s | for first place in this tournament still |
| 209s | will not be able to overtake him and |
| 210s | that would be an incredible achievement |
| 212s | i believe he'd overtake twice at the top |
| 214s | of that list as essentially the |
| 216s | winningest player in hearthstone history |
| 217s | which would be an incredible |
| 219s | accomplishment but as you see lion |
| 222s | getting herself ready there saying how |
| 224s | do the lineups and the decks look in |
| 226s | this series yeah as the lineup pans out |
| 228s | i believe lion has brought more of a |
| 230s | anti-control style lineup of course they |
| 232s | both have the shaman and the priest but |
| 234s | lion has opted to bring the hunter and |
| 237s | the maligo street so a lot of ways to |
| 239s | counter a potential warrior bring from |
| 241s | an opponent tom has pretty much played |
| 243s | it safe throughout thomas brought the |
| 245s | shaman the priest and his third and |
| 246s | fourth are actually the tempo rogue and |
| 248s | the maui goes through it so he's kind of |
| 250s | a |
| 251s | hybrid lineup he's not too committed one |
| 253s | way or the other just kind of bringing |
| 255s | the good decks and every time i've seen |
| 257s | tom play throughout the gm season you |
| 259s | know i'm getting the kolento vibes all |
| 261s | over again where tom is relaxed but at |
| 263s | the same time his autopilot is still a |
| 265s | force to be reckoned with one of the top |
| 267s | pro players even when he seems to be in |
| 270s | his comfort zone |
| 271s | and his comfort zone very often looks |
| 273s | like this like on stream where he's |
| 274s | actually like a lend back actually |
| 276s | chilling in a c i believe both players |
| 279s | here i saw the pick-and-ban graphic come |
| 281s | up at the bottom of the screen there |
| 282s | hopefully both shamans have been |
| 284s | protected yet again we're taking a look |
| 287s | at another version of the token shaman |
| 288s | here from lion this one saiyan does not |
| 292s | include the thunder heads that we were |
| 293s | talking about in the previous series |
| 294s | what do you think the reasoning behind |
| 296s | that is |
| 297s | the shaman deck not including thunder i |
| 299s | believe sorry uh the stormbringer is |
| 301s | what i meant to say yes yes |
| 303s | so |
| 304s | tom and vk line both have some |
| 306s | interesting texts tom going with plague |
| 308s | of murlocs which is kind of an answer if |
| 310s | he gets too far behind on the shopping |
| 312s | board in the mirror match to kind of |
| 314s | just |
| 315s | whisper that all the way and turn them |
| 316s | back into murlocs and vk lion going with |
| 318s | a lightning storm again a nod to the |
| 320s | shaman mirror both of these tech cards |
| 323s | should perform very well in case they |
| 324s | fall too far behind in the mirror |
| 325s | matchup |
| 327s | yeah something i did want to ask about |
| 329s | as well because we've seen uh in the |
| 331s | scramble for the top 16 ladder places |
| 333s | towards the end of the seasons a lot of |
| 336s | shamans have been playing even double |
| 337s | lightning storm in their deck because |
| 339s | those |
| 340s | uh matches at the very top of ladder |
| 342s | because something like 60 shamans right |
| 344s | now so having lightning storm in the |
| 346s | mirror is very very effective since this |
| 348s | was a protect format you'd also still be |
| 350s | expecting to play a ton of shaman |
| 352s | mirrors coming into this tournament |
| 353s | right so |
| 354s | why aren't we seeing as many lightning |
| 356s | storms in this tournament as we are on |
| 358s | ladder i think players have been a |
| 360s | little slow to commit to running the |
| 362s | double frog and the full cycle package |
| 364s | okay but it's definitely been one of the |
| 366s | defining factors of shaman on the ladder |
| 369s | at the moment just the ability to make a |
| 372s | passive turn force your opponent to |
| 373s | react and then go off a little bit later |
| 376s | we actually see that vk lion does not |
| 378s | run spear of the frog in her shaman deck |
| 381s | so |
| 382s | perhaps a little late to the party on |
| 384s | that tech decision |
| 385s | yeah this is an argument that i had with |
| 388s | uh derek brown at bucharest where he was |
| 391s | he's been high legend with shaman for |
| 393s | the majority of the season and during a |
| 395s | period of time at bucharest he was not |
| 397s | playing frog in the deck he was saying |
| 398s | frog was a bait this card was wrong like |
| 400s | you just play a murloc package instead |
| 402s | and you win more matchups which i was |
| 404s | trying very hard to convince him was |
| 406s | nonsense he has since come around to the |
| 408s | idea that frog is in fact the nuts which |
| 410s | is something that i very very much agree |
| 412s | with so i am surprised to see any of |
| 414s | these players um especially one who's |
| 416s | had as much success as lion coming into |
| 418s | this i'm sorry actually lion does have |
| 420s | the spirit of the frog i just happen |
| 424s | they're not fully committing to running |
| 425s | things like double lightning storm there |
| 426s | at least |
| 429s | well that makes me a lot happier at the |
| 431s | very least |
| 433s | so lion now does have |
| 436s | hair evolve available does also have |
| 438s | thunder head available |
| 440s | let's also have soul of the murloc |
| 441s | available so there's kind of three |
| 443s | intersecting ways in which to fight back |
| 445s | against this board state that tom |
| 447s | started to build up here |
| 449s | and tom definitely unhappy with the hand |
| 451s | as of now but he does happen to have the |
| 453s | plague of murlocs which is kind of like |
| 455s | a blessing in disguise in this case uh |
| 457s | right now you're not happy seeing it |
| 458s | early but it is a really good reactive |
| 460s | tool to vk lion's power turn |
| 463s | me up which could potentially just be |
| 464s | the hair evolve |
| 465s | on the next one |
| 469s | tom deciding not to tone them right just |
| 472s | keep the board sides small make sure |
| 473s | that |
| 474s | the mogu doesn't come out too early |
| 482s | flying here just goes ahead and rips it |
| 488s | that is a low roll if i've ever seen one |
| 491s | subtle it is a horrible low roll yeah |
| 494s | you are expecting |
| 496s | three three fours with uh one beneficial |
| 499s | effect on average from your your roll of |
| 501s | desert hair evolve that is zero three |
| 504s | fours that's in fact a four one and two |
| 505s | two threes that is about as low a low |
| 508s | roll as the four drops get honestly in |
| 509s | that position and this desert here |
| 511s | evolve was basically like a half off |
| 513s | deal right like it seems like all these |
| 514s | minions were lacking at least two or |
| 516s | three points of stats right but pk lions |
| 519s | still slightly ahead on the board state |
| 520s | because of the hair evolve might be able |
| 522s | to make it work out |
| 524s | yeah now having this slight advantage |
| 527s | not as big as she would have liked she |
| 528s | does now have the opportunity to |
| 530s | leverage this thunderhead zap curve |
| 533s | then curving that potentially either |
| 535s | into soul of the murloc or into the cena |
| 537s | depending on whether she wants to |
| 538s | prioritize damage or not i unfortunately |
| 540s | not able to get the cgi to come out this |
| 542s | turn but |
| 544s | still it does seem pretty |
| 546s | necessary for vk line to go ahead and go |
| 548s | for the thunder head here and establish |
| 549s | her position on board |
| 552s | c giant will cast two after the zap i |
| 554s | believe as long as one of the death row |
| 556s | minions is targeted |
| 560s | it's not fair way |
| 571s | because she will be overloaded going to |
| 572s | next turn there's no real threat of |
| 574s | bloodlust quite yet but being ahead on |
| 576s | board she might be able to land let's |
| 578s | say a soul of the murlocs and then the |
| 580s | board say becomes a lot more difficult |
| 581s | for tom to fight back on so this is kind |
| 583s | of the go turn for tom where he should |
| 585s | be reacting and at the same time he does |
| 587s | kind of have this unique fail-safe where |
| 589s | he's one of the only shaman players to |
| 591s | be running the plague of murlocs which |
| 593s | coincidentally is quite good versus |
| 594s | these soul of the murloc buff boards yes |
| 596s | that's what sort of immediately occurred |
| 598s | to me when i saw plague of murlocs being |
| 600s | played it's like well |
| 601s | seoul the murloc is one of the most |
| 603s | difficult things to deal with in the |
| 604s | shaman mirror because almost no matter |
| 607s | how many minions they have in play the |
| 609s | shaman on the other side does have game |
| 611s | against that in fact sometimes also if |
| 613s | there's more minions on the other side |
| 614s | of the board but just because you know a |
| 616s | 5 million ball with sold the murlocs on |
| 618s | it takes 10 attacks to completely remove |
| 621s | that's almost impossible for them to do |
| 622s | a lot of the time now this is certainly |
| 624s | interesting tom deciding to go for the |
| 626s | solar murlocs here before the um or the |
| 629s | plague relax here sorry before the soul |
| 632s | of the murlocs has been used from vk |
| 633s | lion's side do you think that's maybe a |
| 635s | little preemptive in this case i do um i |
| 638s | don't necessarily |
| 640s | i mean i guess he didn't have too many |
| 642s | great ways to fight back against the |
| 644s | board here thunderhead first was |
| 646s | reasonable |
| 648s | um but it did seem like an overreaction |
| 650s | to the board today that he was facing |
| 651s | down because there was no like really |
| 653s | crucial must-kill minions on that board |
| 655s | apart from the uh thunderhead itself |
| 657s | i guess that's what he was scared of |
| 659s | right just the amount of damage that the |
| 660s | uh thunderhead could do with summoning |
| 663s | yeah tom actually getting quite a few |
| 665s | wow what a combination of rolls here |
| 667s | actually |
| 669s | the five drop actually has a text uh |
| 671s | that reads give all of your top minions |
| 674s | plus two attack and the two drop slot i |
| 676s | believe it's five percent chance for |
| 678s | something like that to get a uh a two |
| 680s | drop taunt people said roll two percent |
| 683s | load right |
| 684s | so um rolling all three taunts and then |
| 686s | the synergy to go along with it this is |
| 688s | kind of the uh |
| 690s | wow the the |
| 691s | hair evolves have not been very fair |
| 692s | this game |
| 697s | but vk lions speaking of hair evolved |
| 698s | will have the opportunity to go for that |
| 701s | yet again from her side |
| 713s | it's considering what this sea giant |
| 716s | board looks like whether she'd rather |
| 717s | have sold the murloc |
| 719s | whether she'd rather have sea giant soul |
| 721s | the murloc no evolve like there is a |
| 722s | variety of ways i mean what you want to |
| 724s | do is just do all of them and be really |
| 726s | greedy but unfortunately that's not an |
| 728s | option that's available to you |
| 731s | it looks like if that trades happening |
| 732s | then the c giant is not coming down this |
| 734s | time |
| 736s | she does still have the ability to play |
| 737s | the c giant with the evolve |
| 740s | she's definitely considering playing now |
| 741s | and like that |
| 742s | okay and |
| 743s | i definitely like trading in because the |
| 745s | three drop likely it's not gonna be a |
| 747s | contestant four three and now it's a lot |
| 748s | more difficult for tom just to contest |
| 749s | the c giant here with what he has got on |
| 751s | board |
| 753s | and that is a much better looking second |
| 755s | evolve for |
| 758s | now lion it turns out the rng is fairly |
| 760s | evened out here for her |
| 769s | from top side a lot of contemplation |
| 771s | here |
| 772s | uh he does realize that there is not |
| 776s | many outs when the board say has gotten |
| 777s | this out of control right |
| 784s | are there |
| 785s | any important through drops maybe |
| 787s | potentially |
| 790s | like a wolf rider to help clear |
| 791s | something off |
| 793s | but tom can also mutate that up to a |
| 795s | fourth drop or or a six drop here wishes |
| 798s | your presence offends me |
| 802s | seems |
| 803s | more likely to have an impact |
| 807s | get damaged stegotrons can't blow her |
| 810s | all that kind of madness |
| 816s | in disguise potentially so that that |
| 818s | could be helpful but the game doesn't |
| 820s | look fairly over it seems like vk line |
| 822s | is going to wrap up the shaman mirror |
| 823s | here |
| 825s | with the incoming bloodlust from the |
| 827s | other side |
| 831s | there it is shaman mirror in the bank |
| 834s | for lion |
| 836s | pushing the bloodlust damage through tom |
| 838s | is going to have to fight this series |
| 840s | from 1-0 behind pretty much the same |
| 843s | story as we saw in our first series of |
| 844s | the day but i think lyon will feel great |
| 846s | about picking up her first big win on |
| 849s | the global stage and as i mentioned it |
| 851s | does seem like winning is a habit for |
| 853s | her because she got here an incredibly |
| 855s | dominant fashion uh through the first |
| 858s | competitive season of the china region |
| 860s | leading into this global finals and it |
| 862s | looks like she's continuing on that |
| 864s | march up until this point |
| 868s | and looking at the notes that i had for |
| 869s | this matchup i did give tom a few |
| 871s | percents uh in this matchup because vk |
| 874s | lions being anti-control didn't quite |
| 876s | hit what she wanted to from tom's lineup |
| 878s | right um because making it best of three |
| 880s | tom is able to opt to play shaman and |
| 882s | rogue and just omit the druid from his |
| 884s | lineup which means that the rogue is |
| 886s | quite good versus rest of vk line's |
| 888s | lineup and i do expect tom to find a win |
| 890s | with the shaman eventually well we will |
| 892s | have a chance to see if that's the case |
| 894s | in the rest of this series play more |
| 897s | important matches to go do not go anyway |
| 899s | guys we'll be right back after this |
| 900s | break |
| 902s | welcome back to the hearthstone grand |
| 904s | masters global finals here at blizzcon |
| 908s | lion is currently one game up over the |
| 911s | 2017 world champion himself |
| 915s | tom60229 and it was a shaman mirror that |
| 919s | that win was picked up on earlier and we |
| 921s | were talking |
| 922s | just before we went to break about how |
| 924s | that affected the context of the series |
| 925s | as a whole um but now just during the |
| 928s | break we were considering the uh the |
| 929s | band situation just a little bit how do |
| 931s | you think the bands really factor into |
| 933s | this in this series because we didn't |
| 934s | really cover it at the start well sado i |
| 936s | was kind of expecting a very spicy |
| 938s | series between tom and vk lion |
| 941s | what happened was tom had banned away vk |
| 943s | lions hunter and vk lion had banned away |
| 946s | tom's rogue and |
| 948s | i'm not sure how she got the read that |
| 950s | tom might have chosen to go for the |
| 952s | hunter because at this point |
| 954s | we're left which is basically priest and |
| 956s | shaman mirrors and none of the kind of |
| 958s | more interesting decks the third and |
| 959s | fourth picks able to even grace the uh |
| 961s | the playing field as they've both been |
| 963s | banned out |
| 966s | it looks like we're going to get into |
| 967s | this series lion here on the priest |
| 970s | keeps hold of a north shore cleric i |
| 972s | believe throws away pyromancer there as |
| 975s | well which i'm sure |
| 976s | some people uh might be a little bit |
| 978s | surprised at you know basically this |
| 980s | token-based deck soul of the murloc is a |
| 982s | card they play a bunch of one health |
| 983s | minions get played and but i certainly |
| 986s | expect to see pyromancer thrown away |
| 988s | especially going first would you agree |
| 989s | with that |
| 991s | yeah for bk lions she definitely wants |
| 993s | to get control of the board early |
| 994s | because although the uh evolved shaman |
| 998s | is |
| 998s | one of the more aggressive decks on |
| 1000s | ladder it doesn't really start that |
| 1001s | aggression until say turn three or four |
| 1004s | right and in that case it gives the |
| 1005s | priest a little bit of time to board |
| 1007s | that uh to build that board lead with |
| 1008s | north shore cleric 12v or things like |
| 1010s | that and she kind of has the ideal curve |
| 1012s | here where the cleric is hidden behind |
| 1014s | the injured tolvier and things like |
| 1016s | lickham and overload can't really reach |
| 1018s | it |
| 1019s | because lickham is very much like the |
| 1021s | card in this matchup right in terms of |
| 1023s | the shaman win rate going through the |
| 1024s | roof if they can just overload that |
| 1026s | licking two or three turns in a row just |
| 1028s | so effective of being able to take care |
| 1030s | of the early minions from priest oh yeah |
| 1031s | ideally for tom he would have set up to |
| 1033s | lick him here and just bite at his time |
| 1035s | with the frog uh frog uh spirit spirited |
| 1037s | frog definitely a very welcome card as |
| 1039s | well only second to the lickham so not a |
| 1043s | terrible hand for tom either |
| 1045s | see lion furiously taking some notes |
| 1048s | over on her side |
| 1050s | the camera |
| 1053s | yeah lion potentially |
| 1055s | just trying to guess at what that one |
| 1057s | keep from tom might have been could have |
| 1059s | been involved could have been does it |
| 1060s | here but i think she'll be quick to find |
| 1062s | out here that it is actually the spirit |
| 1064s | of the frog and lying wow what an |
| 1065s | aggressive hand |
| 1067s | mounting up from her side here |
| 1071s | and this is where that uh plague murlocs |
| 1073s | tech from tom starts to come into play |
| 1076s | again in a completely different matchup |
| 1078s | this time and not the usage we were |
| 1080s | talking about before in the shaman |
| 1081s | mirror but a |
| 1082s | similar in the sense that if he didn't |
| 1084s | have a transform effect he would be dead |
| 1087s | sooner rather than later in the way this |
| 1089s | game is panning out on a tough turn for |
| 1091s | tom i mean he had options here of either |
| 1092s | going for desert hair coin evolve or |
| 1094s | loading up the spirit of the frog |
| 1096s | um but as a kept card it does seem |
| 1098s | that's exactly what he wants to do vk |
| 1100s | lion actually is spotting potentially |
| 1102s | the two turn here |
| 1105s | yeah immediately went for the divine |
| 1107s | spirit inner fire now tom has no real |
| 1110s | options against this except for the |
| 1112s | faithful tech card of plague of merlot |
| 1115s | yes |
| 1116s | and so even crucially with the spirit of |
| 1118s | the frog in on board |
| 1121s | if that plague of murlocs wasn't in hand |
| 1123s | i don't believe tom can spend enough |
| 1125s | mana to cycle through and get the plague |
| 1126s | of murlocs and then play it right he'd |
| 1128s | have to play a one mana spell to draw |
| 1130s | the soul of the murloc to then draw the |
| 1132s | plague which would cost six so we'd have |
| 1133s | to start the term with at least sold the |
| 1136s | murloc in his hand to be able to cast it |
| 1138s | right exactly you have to coin the soul |
| 1139s | of the murlocs and in this case actually |
| 1140s | getting the one drop spell and having it |
| 1142s | be the second voltai first is a big deal |
| 1144s | as well because prior to playing play |
| 1147s | gamer lux he's actually able to put out |
| 1148s | five minions onto the board right and |
| 1150s | completely reverse the board stay here |
| 1155s | yeah player murloc's coming in clutch |
| 1157s | for tom |
| 1159s | tom actually opting not to use the |
| 1161s | voltaic first i'm a little surprised |
| 1162s | because he did go for the coin he might |
| 1164s | be going for evolve here instead then |
| 1170s | not a bad evolve getting two four drops |
| 1172s | out there |
| 1174s | yeah he is evolving a three four into a |
| 1176s | four drop though which on average is |
| 1178s | just a three four anyway |
| 1181s | and for tom i think maybe he's just |
| 1183s | thinking about the overload for the |
| 1184s | following turn opt's not to play the |
| 1186s | voltaic verse |
| 1188s | seemingly because he wants to go for |
| 1189s | desert hair default but he's gonna go |
| 1190s | for zap this turn that means he doesn't |
| 1192s | have the man to go for desert hair |
| 1193s | involved in the following turn instead |
| 1195s | he's probably |
| 1196s | going to have to reluctantly go for |
| 1198s | another spirit of the frog turn play it |
| 1200s | passively again so i'm a little |
| 1201s | surprised he didn't go for a voltaic |
| 1203s | burst it seemed like he was going to set |
| 1204s | up for desert hair vault but in the end |
| 1206s | decides to go for the zap |
| 1207s | so |
| 1209s | a little back and forth i think on |
| 1211s | tom's game plan overall here |
| 1213s | yeah i would agree i don't know if he |
| 1214s | like gave himself more flexibility to |
| 1217s | react to certain murloc board states |
| 1219s | like to use voltaic burst and zap to |
| 1221s | clear or to evolve the things afterwards |
| 1224s | um that would take a lot of very boring |
| 1228s | maths to break down |
| 1229s | exactly how that situation pans out but |
| 1231s | i certainly agree it looked very very |
| 1233s | strange to me just on the surface to not |
| 1235s | play the second voltaic burst though and |
| 1237s | interesting to note here is that vk |
| 1239s | alliance res pulled now is uh cluttered |
| 1242s | with murlocs the only thing that's died |
| 1244s | so far is the three tumor lock making |
| 1246s | psychopath |
| 1247s | uh pretty much just a mediocre four drop |
| 1249s | but still pretty effective to fight the |
| 1251s | board state if that's what she chooses |
| 1252s | to go for here |
| 1256s | the alternative with blade master in |
| 1257s | hand is to make the big blade master |
| 1258s | this time get that into the psycho pop |
| 1260s | pool |
| 1263s | this makes sense to me |
| 1265s | yeah i'm really liking the play you |
| 1267s | mentioned just because it also heals up |
| 1269s | the amalgam as well right making sure |
| 1271s | that |
| 1272s | the uh amalgam is not very well |
| 1274s | contested on the board as of now either |
| 1284s | now that evil totem draw tom might be a |
| 1287s | little more incentivized to play this |
| 1289s | voltaic burst that he held on to on the |
| 1291s | previous turn |
| 1293s | so he can deal with the big threat of |
| 1294s | the blademaster on the other side |
| 1298s | does he have to just take the turn |
| 1299s | investment in spirit of the frog again |
| 1301s | here |
| 1302s | i think the spirit of the frog does very |
| 1304s | little anymore it's basically fetching |
| 1306s | out the second soul of the murlocs um |
| 1309s | and you're |
| 1311s | i mean mind you you're still at 11 |
| 1313s | health right so the potential for vk |
| 1315s | line to close out the game is still very |
| 1316s | high |
| 1317s | it seems like |
| 1318s | tom is going to have to react at some |
| 1321s | point the next turn will likely be the |
| 1322s | hair evolv turn that we were looking to |
| 1325s | the |
| 1326s | returns right |
| 1336s | so currently in the rest pool is a 50 50 |
| 1338s | between the 3 2 murloc and the injured |
| 1342s | blade master which could have a very |
| 1344s | huge impact on the way this game pans |
| 1346s | out |
| 1347s | and that is an insane draw the second |
| 1349s | zero mana spell allows this pyro to be a |
| 1353s | full board clear and still have four |
| 1354s | mana remaining to drop this psycho |
| 1356s | pop-up |
| 1358s | i think lion might actually hold on to |
| 1360s | that spell in case it is blade master |
| 1362s | which would be very fair nice amount of |
| 1364s | surprise burst damage |
| 1366s | unfortunately low rolls on the flip |
| 1367s | there but still in a very commanding |
| 1370s | lead of the board state actually setting |
| 1371s | up lethal onboard here |
| 1373s | yep |
| 1375s | yeah that's second uh topsy-turvy |
| 1377s | actually only ends up killing a one-one |
| 1378s | in that scenario |
| 1382s | that is nothing that keeps tom alive |
| 1386s | all's rolling into fives no again |
| 1391s | that is just 12 damage on board |
| 1394s | and lion |
| 1395s | out of china has upset the prior world |
| 1399s | champion although i'm reticent to even |
| 1401s | call it an upset based on the success |
| 1404s | and the the power of her record that we |
| 1406s | have been told about so far from the |
| 1407s | chinese region um you know maybe this is |
| 1410s | just a continuation of her form |
| 1412s | throughout season one in the chinese |
| 1413s | region and a |
| 1415s | deep boutique handshake there between |
| 1417s | tom and ryan just seems like she has a |
| 1419s | lot of respect for one of the most |
| 1424s | decorated players in hearthstone and |
| 1426s | overall i mean lion was nothing to scoff |
| 1427s | out there either i think she saw those |
| 1429s | lines very instinctually i liked how she |
| 1431s | basically at the start of turn four just |
| 1433s | knew that this was already two turn |
| 1434s | setup if it wasn't player murloc's the |
| 1436s | game headed here so she spots those |
| 1437s | aggressive lines and the highest |
| 1439s | percenticles of the game i'm liking the |
| 1440s | way she's been playing so far yeah and |
| 1442s | even then i think the execution from |
| 1443s | that point onwards you know taking the |
| 1445s | blademaster turn on the next turn after |
| 1447s | that i think that looked right to me um |
| 1449s | and then just has set up on the |
| 1450s | following turn just saying hey this this |
| 1452s | represents lethal like whether i roll |
| 1453s | the blademaster or not i'm still |
| 1455s | representing lethal with this pyromancer |
| 1457s | clear alongside the psychopomp and so i |
| 1459s | think that was a very very clean series |
| 1462s | for her i do think it was on like the |
| 1463s | simpler side of series to execute in |
| 1466s | terms of what she will play up until |
| 1467s | this point so she may get tested |
| 1469s | more than this as the tournament goes on |
| 1471s | um but she has a win under her belt |
| 1473s | against the world champion which i think |
| 1474s | is a great way to kick off the |
| 1475s | tournament for her yeah and i think tom |
| 1477s | outside of that one turn where um it |
| 1480s | kind of feels like he overloaded he |
| 1481s | wasn't quite sure what he want to do the |
| 1482s | next turn right |
| 1484s | potentially this game uh or the series |
| 1486s | entirely could have panned out |
| 1487s | differently because |
| 1488s | desert herrera of all being on the table |
| 1490s | on turn five could have made a big |
| 1492s | impact there right |
| 1493s | you can see lion is sitting pretty in |
| 1495s | that winners match up and now fino and |
| 1498s | bloody face are gonna play out for the |
| 1500s | right to face against her both of these |
| 1502s | players have a huge amount on the line |
| 1504s | and gallon and hunter ace are standing |
| 1506s | by to talk you through it don't go |
| 1508s | anywhere guys |
| 1509s | after winning her first match lyon had |
| 1511s | the opportunity to get out of the group |
| 1513s | stage with a clean 2-0 score |
| 1517s | this would give her more time to rest |
| 1519s | and prepare for the rest of the |
| 1521s | tournament as she would not have to play |
| 1523s | an additional match |
| 1525s | fino a well-known european region player |
| 1528s | who had great tournament finishes in |
| 1530s | 2018 along with his victory in grand |
| 1533s | masters was standing in her way |
| 1536s | let's take a look at where lion's |
| 1538s | momentum really began |
| 1550s | and their opponents |
| 1551s | representing europe and greece as well |
| 1553s | as t1 please welcome fino |
| 1568s | please shake hands |
| 1572s | and the good lucks have been dropped |
| 1574s | let's get this winners match number two |
| 1576s | underway |
| 1579s | this is going to be really exciting |
| 1580s | casper today or this match we're going |
| 1582s | to determine the second of four players |
| 1584s | to make it to the top four and who is |
| 1586s | going to be sent to the ciders match |
| 1589s | tomorrow |
| 1590s | yes it's a big deal for both players |
| 1591s | here they have the chance now to |
| 1594s | take the winners bracket and just make |
| 1595s | it to the top four also a big factor |
| 1598s | that we haven't really talked too much |
| 1599s | about is that the top four is actually |
| 1600s | best of five and that kind of changes up |
| 1603s | a lot in just four minutes i think what |
| 1604s | do you think oh i agree with you i mean |
| 1606s | sometimes decks that are really weak and |
| 1608s | best of fives get protected in best of |
| 1610s | three because you can just avoid cueing |
| 1611s | them but what i want to talk about is |
| 1613s | actually just lions dominating |
| 1614s | performance all the way up to this point |
| 1616s | and the fact that china is already 3-0 |
| 1619s | at blizzcon at the global finals and |
| 1622s | they show no signs of stopping |
| 1625s | lion got a top four a top two at the |
| 1627s | gold series opens which is equivalent to |
| 1628s | getting a top four in a second at a |
| 1630s | master store which is insane that is so |
| 1632s | cool |
| 1634s | the consistency there |
| 1635s | and going 7-0 in the gold series finals |
| 1637s | to get here that's like one of the most |
| 1639s | dominant tournament runs i've ever seen |
| 1641s | in hearthstone yes that's an incredible |
| 1643s | performance on the other side we still |
| 1645s | have fino though one of the best |
| 1647s | competitors in europe the last couple of |
| 1649s | years now and uh i really don't think |
| 1651s | fino is gonna let it be easy for a lion |
| 1654s | i don't know i i vice versa as well line |
| 1656s | has been playing fantastically yeah it's |
| 1658s | the first time i've actually got to see |
| 1659s | her play but she's been killing it fino |
| 1661s | has also been playing really well uh |
| 1663s | that rogue versus warrior game was a |
| 1665s | sight to behold |
| 1667s | yes both players are extremely powerful |
| 1670s | and uh it's going to be a good one |
| 1672s | gallon i think yeah so it looks like we |
| 1674s | have uh shaman protected from both sides |
| 1677s | uh fino band lions priest and lion band |
| 1681s | finos warrior and it's going to be a |
| 1683s | shaman versus shaman round one which |
| 1685s | we've seen a lot of so far this |
| 1687s | tournament i think this is the fourth |
| 1688s | one |
| 1689s | yeah this is the fourth xiaomi to be an |
| 1691s | opening game actually gallon uh it's all |
| 1694s | in the fourth trauma mirror also but uh |
| 1696s | it's pretty insane and it speaks to the |
| 1698s | power of shaman a lot of people are |
| 1700s | protecting it and a lot of people are |
| 1701s | prioritizing queuing at first i imagine |
| 1703s | because they think that it has a lot of |
| 1705s | favorable matchups and that they wanted |
| 1707s | to start with a safe pick we saw a lot |
| 1708s | of this personally in grand master |
| 1710s | season 2 when the conquest shield phase |
| 1712s | was really brought to light um people |
| 1715s | when priests was the best deck in the |
| 1716s | format people would protect priests and |
| 1719s | cube priests now shaman is considered |
| 1720s | the best and we see pino protecting his |
| 1722s | token shaman playing at round one yes |
| 1724s | and i don't really think that either of |
| 1725s | the player have a really good response |
| 1727s | to this first q shaman either so it just |
| 1730s | makes a lot of sense for both players to |
| 1731s | cue the shaman yeah play your best stack |
| 1733s | try to get the win here makes a lot of |
| 1734s | sense uh small differences in lion |
| 1737s | versus fino's list vino has a |
| 1738s | stormbringer lion does not |
| 1741s | besides that they're pretty similar line |
| 1743s | does have a |
| 1744s | lightning storm in her deck which is |
| 1746s | pretty powerful i would say against |
| 1747s | everything that is not specifically uh |
| 1749s | soul of a robot there's a bit of |
| 1751s | recently pinot's teammate board control |
| 1753s | piloted uh a double lightning storm list |
| 1756s | a pretty high legend finish last season |
| 1758s | yeah a lot of times evolve shaman tries |
| 1760s | to get there with middle sized boards of |
| 1762s | lots of middle sized minions and |
| 1763s | lightning storm |
| 1765s | half of the time is really good versus |
| 1766s | that at the time is really bad for the |
| 1768s | stat because we see a very good |
| 1769s | combination already for lyon with the |
| 1772s | spirit of the frog and morgan yeah both |
| 1774s | of those are really powerful in this |
| 1775s | matchup but she did pick up double |
| 1777s | bloodlust which are like two |
| 1779s | pretty weak cards unless you already |
| 1780s | have a solid four lead |
| 1783s | yeah but fino's hand isn't very much |
| 1786s | doing anything either so far but |
| 1789s | so it explodes really fast in this |
| 1791s | matchup if you manage to pick up the |
| 1792s | right pieces let's talk about this |
| 1793s | matchup and like what it exemplifies |
| 1796s | among pro players because in hearthstone |
| 1798s | it feels like a lot of games like if |
| 1800s | you're playing arena and hearthstone a |
| 1801s | lot of games are just about playing your |
| 1802s | minions on curve you want to spend all |
| 1804s | your mana each turn develop a lot of |
| 1806s | stuff and try to win board that way but |
| 1808s | it seems like among the best players in |
| 1810s | the world the best decks uh there's |
| 1812s | actually like a different mechanic |
| 1814s | involved here where players try to go |
| 1816s | for swing turns what that means is when |
| 1817s | your opponent develops on board you have |
| 1819s | cards that punish that cards like mogu |
| 1821s | flesh shaper where if they play a lot of |
| 1822s | minions you play mogu flesh shaper kill |
| 1824s | one of them evolve it and suddenly |
| 1826s | you're ahead so |
| 1827s | it seems like a lot of games are about |
| 1829s | setting up this position where if you're |
| 1831s | if your opponent tries to extend onto |
| 1833s | the board they'll get really punished |
| 1834s | and if they don't then they're just |
| 1835s | going gonna lose because now they don't |
| 1836s | have any tempo uh |
| 1838s | and there's even a next next level to |
| 1840s | that with stuff like spirit of the frog |
| 1842s | which says hey if you just give me the |
| 1844s | turn i'm gonna play the spirit of frog |
| 1846s | that you can't answer and if you don't |
| 1847s | answer that |
| 1848s | i'm gonna just get a lot of value out of |
| 1850s | extra spells extra minions in play you |
| 1852s | know something like voltaic first which |
| 1853s | summoned two one ones and just sold the |
| 1854s | murlocs so it seems like |
| 1857s | this has the next level and the next |
| 1859s | next level |
| 1860s | all wrapped in one yeah this is |
| 1862s | definitely a very swinging matchup and |
| 1863s | having the powerful temple term often |
| 1866s | after your opponent has a temperament |
| 1867s | also is super important that's why i |
| 1870s | think that the the player on coin is |
| 1872s | very favorable in the matchup because |
| 1873s | playing the spirit of the frog second is |
| 1875s | actually a very positive thing because |
| 1877s | you are able to do the swing turn after |
| 1879s | your opponent already did their power |
| 1880s | turn yeah i mean |
| 1883s | does that lead to a world where fino |
| 1884s | would forgo playing the spirit of the |
| 1886s | frog because we were just talking about |
| 1887s | this where it seems like the person who |
| 1888s | plays spirit of the frog second is at a |
| 1889s | huge advantage |
| 1891s | yes but when the other player does not |
| 1894s | have the spirit of plug you really want |
| 1895s | to get the spirit of the play |
| 1897s | but in this specific scenario pino is it |
| 1899s | not right now the spirit of work doesn't |
| 1900s | really represent anything so it might be |
| 1902s | that he ends up leading to the |
| 1904s | conclusion that he wants to wait with it |
| 1906s | yeah we could easily see fino for going |
| 1908s | a spirit of the frog here |
| 1910s | i'm very interested to see how |
| 1912s | pinot actually pilots his hand because |
| 1913s | it's not really doing it too much right |
| 1915s | now |
| 1916s | it seems like he's still missing a |
| 1917s | couple critical cards stuff like zap who |
| 1919s | seems really good in this hand a desert |
| 1921s | hair would obviously be a great pickup |
| 1922s | with that evolve but right now it seems |
| 1925s | like fino is just on a game plan of |
| 1927s | letting the game progress a bit i i |
| 1928s | think if he tries to win with this |
| 1930s | specific hand it's not going to work out |
| 1932s | very well so he's going to have to rely |
| 1933s | on a bit more cards from his dad yeah we |
| 1936s | see fino here deciding to take it a bit |
| 1938s | slower |
| 1939s | lion though picking up the desert hair |
| 1942s | potentially look at her hand it is one |
| 1944s | evolve away from just |
| 1946s | destroying fino's hopes |
| 1949s | destroying galaxies literally destroying |
| 1952s | we have desert hair double mogu flesh |
| 1953s | shaper if this coin next turn picks up |
| 1956s | an evolve instead of a voltaic burst we |
| 1959s | could just be seeing like |
| 1961s | the best possible trainer so that you |
| 1963s | can imagine on turn four yeah it could |
| 1965s | also pick up a lightning bolt so it's |
| 1967s | not particularly likely to pick up the |
| 1969s | evolve but if she manages to pick up the |
| 1971s | evolve she is so ahead yeah yeah |
| 1974s | we will really get to see the power of |
| 1976s | what this evolved shaman can do and i |
| 1978s | mean there's other cards that you can |
| 1979s | pick up as well that lead to that spot |
| 1981s | stuff like mutate zap both give her |
| 1983s | extra chances at uh getting another |
| 1985s | evolve |
| 1988s | yes and uh pino is still in a very very |
| 1990s | difficult spot harry doesn't he has a |
| 1992s | lot of potentially good cards but they |
| 1994s | don't really interact well with each |
| 1996s | other in the specific hand |
| 1998s | yeah it's all like she's getting he's |
| 2000s | got one piece of one combo and one piece |
| 2002s | of another combo and those two are |
| 2004s | really super powerful but he just |
| 2006s | doesn't have the correct card |
| 2008s | yeah so pino kind of has to figure out |
| 2011s | what he wants to play for more he wants |
| 2013s | to play for the potential of a |
| 2014s | destination or does he want to save that |
| 2016s | thunderhead for more overload type |
| 2018s | subtext yeah i mean i mean this is just |
| 2020s | really hard from phoenix perspective i |
| 2021s | think uh thunderhead just makes sense he |
| 2023s | has four men to play it but |
| 2026s | you have to think about what your |
| 2027s | opponent can do and i mean in pino's |
| 2029s | mind that's always what mohu fleshsaver |
| 2031s | can do and if this coin |
| 2034s | even without the coin honestly double |
| 2036s | mogu fleshshaper clearing up the three |
| 2037s | six is just so powerful |
| 2039s | that's will take worse that is not a |
| 2041s | ball that is not an involve yeah so uh |
| 2043s | but this is you know doesn't have to |
| 2045s | leave the game yet |
| 2049s | um |
| 2050s | what do you think we see here from a |
| 2051s | lion wealth of options right |
| 2054s | thunderhead voltaic burst lets you |
| 2055s | summon five |
| 2057s | one ones you get to |
| 2059s | trade into a 1-1 play a mogu flesh |
| 2061s | shaper trade into the 3-6 play another |
| 2064s | mogu flesh shaper and clear the board |
| 2065s | that way you end up with a full board in |
| 2067s | play |
| 2071s | this also makes a lot of sense you don't |
| 2073s | even need the uh the thunderhead in play |
| 2074s | to go for the soul of the murlocs right |
| 2079s | i do still believe that it is possible |
| 2081s | for fino to swing this back he has the |
| 2083s | evolving hand and he could potentially |
| 2086s | scan the spirit of the frog |
| 2090s | i mean he's got it he's got he's got a |
| 2092s | one-man c giant |
| 2093s | right now |
| 2095s | yeah |
| 2096s | and uh |
| 2098s | ryan also decided to overlap herself |
| 2101s | this turn so uh she can't play the |
| 2102s | littles next time |
| 2105s | i don't think that's a big concern i |
| 2106s | think she has board lead and she will |
| 2108s | continue to have board lead and not |
| 2109s | being able to level this next turn isn't |
| 2111s | that big actually |
| 2112s | i think i said wrong she's not |
| 2114s | overloaded right no she is overloaded by |
| 2115s | one she played a |
| 2118s | voltaic burst oh correct correct voltage |
| 2120s | burst summons two on ones with rush that |
| 2122s | are elementals and has overload one it's |
| 2124s | really powerful in this deck because of |
| 2125s | thunderhead working super well with it |
| 2127s | and just generally the game plan of the |
| 2129s | deck yeah i think as vino here we want |
| 2131s | to try to board lock |
| 2134s | lion |
| 2134s | so she can't do anything more |
| 2136s | potentially play of a cena so are you |
| 2138s | thinking |
| 2139s | lightning bolting one mogu flesh shape |
| 2141s | or killing another mogu flesh shaper and |
| 2143s | then just like leaving out the board |
| 2145s | yeah and hopefully maybe draw the |
| 2147s | dessertaire for next turn with the |
| 2149s | desert hair evolve and the sea giant to |
| 2151s | come back home so it seems like you want |
| 2152s | to play spirit of the frog first |
| 2154s | lightning bolt try to cycle through the |
| 2155s | deck get that desert hair okay makes a |
| 2157s | lot of sense i think that fino doesn't |
| 2159s | have that many ways of winning this game |
| 2160s | from this spot but the line that you |
| 2162s | suggested sounds like one of them |
| 2165s | there is little time |
| 2167s | we'll see what pinot concludes |
| 2180s | disagrees he uh |
| 2181s | thinks that it's possible to still fight |
| 2183s | for the court and uh valley's having to |
| 2185s | eat it on board here |
| 2188s | does he open himself up to any more else |
| 2190s | this way oh mutate is so clutch |
| 2197s | this is a zero mana give like plus we'll |
| 2200s | see what happens but it's like on |
| 2201s | average plus five plus five |
| 2203s | draw a card |
| 2208s | well that's actually not that good right |
| 2209s | now |
| 2209s | killing an 88 you don't really want to |
| 2211s | do that and she didn't get an |
| 2213s | evolve |
| 2214s | that's pretty good but uh |
| 2217s | it's not exactly what he wanted there is |
| 2218s | better things but there's definitely |
| 2220s | also worse |
| 2221s | hey i mean like this is still totally |
| 2223s | fine |
| 2226s | power totems i like this lightning storm |
| 2228s | a lot it just denies if you know any |
| 2230s | chance of getting back that spirit of |
| 2231s | the frog yes she forgoes the bloodlust |
| 2233s | for next turn but she's just locking |
| 2235s | fino out of the game so this is |
| 2236s | something that really good players |
| 2238s | especially with this walking now i just |
| 2240s | think she can like totally control the |
| 2241s | board and uh doing it this way just |
| 2243s | seems like by far the most safe this is |
| 2245s | something that really good players do |
| 2246s | all the time and it's often something |
| 2248s | that a lot of people miss which is that |
| 2250s | if you have a line that 100 of the time |
| 2253s | but takes a lot longer that's better |
| 2254s | than the line that wins 90 of the time |
| 2256s | but wins a lot quicker she could have |
| 2258s | left herself the mana open to play a |
| 2260s | bloodlust but that would mean fino has a |
| 2261s | spirit of frog for next turn any |
| 2263s | iteration where fino wins this game |
| 2265s | involves that spirit of the frog |
| 2266s | sticking right |
| 2267s | so yeah forgo the bloodlust even though |
| 2269s | it's really appetizing like that was an |
| 2271s | insane bloodlust you have six minions in |
| 2273s | play seven with the mini that you traded |
| 2275s | off |
| 2276s | but recognizing hey |
| 2279s | lightning storm here is just way better |
| 2280s | yeah i was i mean that discussion is |
| 2282s | a very interesting topic in general and |
| 2284s | i think lion is on the correct side of |
| 2286s | that discussion this time around and i |
| 2288s | think this is the higher way to win the |
| 2290s | game absolutely |
| 2297s | so lion is struggling a bit hair with |
| 2299s | having the board being kind of looked i |
| 2302s | mean it's struggling in the sense that |
| 2304s | she has a wealth of options and she's so |
| 2306s | far ahead that |
| 2307s | uh |
| 2308s | yeah yeah i'm not feeling too bad for |
| 2309s | her right now |
| 2311s | hunter i'm not feeling too bad for her |
| 2312s | right now |
| 2314s | well she's just still trying to just |
| 2316s | optimize every single yeah |
| 2318s | not letting people get any chance of |
| 2320s | getting back |
| 2322s | i think it's important even games like |
| 2324s | this where there's really not much you |
| 2325s | could do to |
| 2327s | lose yourself the game |
| 2328s | playing as perfectly as she is as she is |
| 2330s | right now is so important |
| 2333s | yes |
| 2334s | don't lose too much focus there's still |
| 2335s | another game and just keep on being |
| 2337s | hundred percent focused |
| 2339s | yeah |
| 2340s | don't relax really important |
| 2346s | vino has the option to evolve a two drop |
| 2348s | but that's not going to do anything for |
| 2349s | him |
| 2352s | yeah so i think that uh funeral will |
| 2353s | probably tap out of this game |
| 2355s | looking at the next possible matchups |
| 2358s | lion still has the reno hunter and the |
| 2360s | maliju which is two decks we haven't |
| 2362s | seen so far she has a very interesting |
| 2364s | lineup yes she has the uh evolved shaman |
| 2366s | and common priest that are pretty much |
| 2367s | staples of this format but |
| 2369s | i'd love to see maui druid we haven't |
| 2370s | really seen that in the format for quite |
| 2372s | a while honestly |
| 2374s | yeah i also think it will be very |
| 2375s | exciting to see uh |
| 2377s | what deck she chooses to play and |
| 2379s | how finna will respond to it well these |
| 2382s | things are not very useful in the |
| 2383s | tournament what's interesting about uh |
| 2385s | fino's lineup is that i i feel like |
| 2386s | druid is really powerful versus some of |
| 2389s | the decks that fino has and then really |
| 2391s | weak versus others so for example i |
| 2393s | think drought versus rogue is very true |
| 2396s | uh drew just has the tools to fight back |
| 2399s | against what the rogue does road doesn't |
| 2400s | really develop on board super early or |
| 2402s | early enough |
| 2404s | to actually contest the druid |
| 2408s | blind's gonna take it without bloodlust |
| 2410s | yes and uh |
| 2412s | china looking really good |
| 2414s | they they could be in a position to go |
| 2416s | 4-0 day one poor no that's super |
| 2418s | impressive really showing a statement |
| 2421s | out there yeah i mean like and this is |
| 2422s | coming off of a dominant tournament |
| 2424s | performance so it just keeps going man |
| 2427s | just keeps going so what do you think |
| 2429s | the matchup is going to be now what do |
| 2430s | you think fino responds to this druid |
| 2432s | hunters well for me i i'm pretty biased |
| 2435s | when it comes to deck selection i |
| 2436s | actually made a tweet earlier about |
| 2438s | liking vendetta rogue so much and |
| 2439s | specifically shark vendetta rogue so |
| 2441s | much that i really want to see as many |
| 2442s | games of that as possible so uh from |
| 2445s | fino's side i hope he cues rogue um |
| 2448s | i'd like to see either hunter or druid |
| 2449s | honestly yeah we also saw a very |
| 2451s | impressive performance by fino on his |
| 2453s | rogue earlier today so maybe we'll just |
| 2455s | keep up and uh he's probably pretty |
| 2457s | confident with the deck at this point so |
| 2459s | absolutely he's i can definitely see him |
| 2460s | queueing rogue he's been playing a |
| 2463s | version of the deck since like season |
| 2464s | one uh let's go to a quick break but |
| 2466s | stick with us we have an exciting match |
| 2468s | coming up game two between lyon and fino |
| 2472s | welcome back to the hearthstone global |
| 2475s | finals the match between |
| 2476s | lion and fino is currently underway lyon |
| 2479s | is up 1-0 versus fino after making quick |
| 2481s | work of him in the evolved shaman mirror |
| 2484s | we will be having lion on the highlander |
| 2487s | hunter versus fino's combo priest which |
| 2490s | is actually a pretty close matchup uh i |
| 2492s | i think that lion is on a deck that is |
| 2494s | much better at being priests than the |
| 2496s | normal highlander hunter we've been |
| 2498s | seeing some secret packages in |
| 2499s | highlander hunter which i think is |
| 2501s | really good against priest and sometimes |
| 2502s | without that but lion hasn't opted to |
| 2504s | include that secret package |
| 2506s | yes isn't this even the first highlander |
| 2508s | appearance we see so far in the town |
| 2510s | yeah that's pretty interesting uh we |
| 2511s | haven't actually had a chance to see a |
| 2513s | highlander deck yet even though they've |
| 2514s | made up a large portion of ladder and a |
| 2516s | large portion of previous metas yeah i |
| 2518s | believe both survender and lee has the |
| 2520s | highlander paladin but neder has |
| 2521s | actually played it yet but uh |
| 2524s | in this specific matchup i think that uh |
| 2525s | the hunter has a lot of great tools all |
| 2527s | the seekers are very annoying for |
| 2529s | priests to deal with and a lot of the |
| 2530s | time you end up in situations where you |
| 2532s | have to choose what you can play around |
| 2534s | and what you can play around at the same |
| 2536s | time you also have that the power of |
| 2538s | cyphers and sephir is always being able |
| 2541s | to give pretty pretty valuable cards |
| 2543s | when it comes to just dealing with the |
| 2544s | previous part other things to talk about |
| 2546s | are deadly shot and spell breaker both |
| 2548s | powerful tools uh she does have a lot of |
| 2551s | late game in the form of ragnaros called |
| 2552s | the wild tuljin but if she finds that |
| 2554s | early game i think priest can struggle |
| 2556s | meanwhile though priest also has a lot |
| 2558s | of ways of fighting back against hunter |
| 2559s | if fino just decides to disrespect his |
| 2562s | secret and it's not a freezing trap or a |
| 2564s | sniper etcetera etcetera |
| 2566s | that could spell really bad news for the |
| 2569s | hunter if pino gets uh the initial read |
| 2572s | on what the secrets are i think it's |
| 2574s | definitely a very close matchup and a |
| 2576s | lot of the time it just depends uh how |
| 2578s | fast the priest can get out in an early |
| 2580s | game and how well the priest manages to |
| 2582s | play around the secrets and also |
| 2585s | manage to make a decision on how favor |
| 2588s | am i in this position and can i play |
| 2589s | around this how hard do you find it to |
| 2591s | be to play around the secrets do you |
| 2593s | like when you're playing against someone |
| 2594s | that you know is also uh good at the |
| 2596s | game like this match happening right now |
| 2597s | and your opponent plays a random secret |
| 2600s | how much do you respect that |
| 2602s | it is usually really hard because a lot |
| 2605s | of the time at least with good players |
| 2607s | they can represent secrets by doing |
| 2610s | something that |
| 2611s | clearly like indicates that you have a |
| 2612s | secret while they don't even have that |
| 2614s | secret so it can get very confusing at |
| 2616s | points and i think it's really hard to |
| 2619s | be able to find a correct play another |
| 2620s | thing i think really good players run |
| 2622s | into with secrets that's a big problem |
| 2623s | for them is that |
| 2625s | when you want to be the best you want to |
| 2626s | win every single game possible that |
| 2628s | means locking out 100 one scenarios as |
| 2631s | soon as possible against secrets a lot |
| 2634s | of times you can't do that you have to |
| 2635s | take edges you can't really play around |
| 2638s | everything and and that actually makes |
| 2640s | people like cringe and |
| 2642s | yeah |
| 2643s | realizing that you can't play around a |
| 2645s | secret is |
| 2646s | a very big loss right like you want to |
| 2648s | beat everything |
| 2650s | and i think a lot of players as you |
| 2652s | mentioned gets into that trap |
| 2655s | thinks that they can't beat everything |
| 2656s | but in reality you just can't beat |
| 2658s | everything yeah |
| 2661s | hey i got you i think we're actually |
| 2663s | going to see this this game align is |
| 2664s | going to play an explosive trap most |
| 2666s | likely uh based on the fact that it lets |
| 2668s | her deal with the one two on board and |
| 2669s | threaten the secrets and that could |
| 2672s | spell disaster for fido if he doesn't |
| 2674s | play around it or if he tries too hard |
| 2676s | to play around it well |
| 2677s | explosive trap is |
| 2679s | the worst secret here for lion |
| 2682s | but fino doesn't know it's explosive |
| 2683s | traps so uh it's gonna be very |
| 2685s | interesting to see how fino decides to |
| 2687s | play around this because there's so many |
| 2689s | secrets that |
| 2690s | once you know to do entirely different |
| 2692s | things now there are a couple of things |
| 2693s | here that are like pretty high level in |
| 2695s | terms of like game sense one of them |
| 2697s | being is that lion did not keep this |
| 2699s | secret it was something that she got |
| 2701s | after the mulligan phase |
| 2702s | so |
| 2703s | that could be any secret in the game you |
| 2705s | know from phoenix perspective it could |
| 2706s | be that line just only has that as your |
| 2708s | club right |
| 2710s | she only has one secret she's gonna play |
| 2711s | that secret kill to one |
| 2715s | yeah all that means is that it's less |
| 2716s | likely to be something like pressure |
| 2717s | plate first so what would you say is a |
| 2719s | secret that finna just can't beat right |
| 2720s | now the secret that fino oh freezing |
| 2723s | trap for sure yeah so i i don't think |
| 2726s | that fino can actually |
| 2727s | make the player to afford to play around |
| 2729s | facing championship seems extremely |
| 2731s | ambitious yeah so |
| 2733s | knowing that we can't beat secret um |
| 2735s | freezing trap what would you do |
| 2738s | it's still really hard right uh there's |
| 2740s | a couple plays here fino could elect to |
| 2742s | try to kill the secret keeper he could |
| 2745s | use his hero power to kill a secret |
| 2746s | backer heal the secret keeper up to a |
| 2749s | two three and then get plus two attack |
| 2751s | on his lightboard trade in |
| 2754s | that is such good news for fino the fact |
| 2756s | that that wasn't a freezing trap yeah |
| 2757s | and fino here recognizing that the same |
| 2760s | that we concluded he can't beat the |
| 2762s | freezing trend that is such a good draw |
| 2763s | for lion that's that's the best three |
| 2765s | drop that she could play right now |
| 2766s | because not only did she threaten a |
| 2768s | secret now fino has to do the exact same |
| 2770s | thing he did last turn which is just two |
| 2772s | secrets |
| 2773s | and you still don't know that it's |
| 2774s | explosive it could easily be a pressure |
| 2777s | plate a pressure could be a snipe it |
| 2778s | could be a pressure plate |
| 2781s | and it could be an explosion |
| 2782s | and now there's another secret that can |
| 2784s | also be the freezing and the snake trap |
| 2786s | yep absolutely pressure plate let's |
| 2787s | break it down real quick is a trap that |
| 2790s | lets you when when your opponent plays a |
| 2792s | spell you kill a random one of their |
| 2793s | minions so that's just important to know |
| 2795s | that's something that fino has to think |
| 2796s | about for these upcoming turns |
| 2799s | yeah and i think that |
| 2800s | right now the hunter secrets are all so |
| 2803s | different and represent uh entirely |
| 2805s | different things one secret we didn't |
| 2806s | even mention is ratchap which lion also |
| 2809s | rents |
| 2810s | and that is a secret that makes it very |
| 2811s | hard for fino in the later game to play |
| 2815s | plus three cards because it's just |
| 2817s | devastating when a six six drops on the |
| 2818s | board it's definitely on fino's mind i |
| 2820s | don't think it's something that he's |
| 2820s | worried about right now rat trap is uh |
| 2822s | it's just gonna be kind of a non-factor |
| 2824s | similar to explosive trap i think for |
| 2826s | the next couple turns yes yeah exactly |
| 2829s | also red tap is also a secret that |
| 2832s | lion could have in the early game that |
| 2833s | pino also factors in that it's less |
| 2836s | likely to be some of the relevant |
| 2837s | secrets it's just so early in the game |
| 2839s | that you play around it |
| 2841s | because you can't really play into it |
| 2845s | being stuck with another |
| 2846s | fairly difficult turn i would say all of |
| 2848s | these are like marginal benefits |
| 2850s | but when when it's marginal things they |
| 2852s | always get so amplified on a stage like |
| 2854s | blizzcon where every single |
| 2857s | minor decision cost you potentially |
| 2859s | hundreds if not thousands if not tens of |
| 2862s | thousands of dollars |
| 2864s | yes and i believe this secret could only |
| 2866s | be |
| 2867s | three different secrets at this point |
| 2868s | right it could only be the rat trap |
| 2870s | explosive trap or the pressure plate |
| 2873s | so |
| 2874s | so i mean from phoenix perspective |
| 2875s | that's really good |
| 2876s | his his game plan right now |
| 2878s | does not play into any of those you know |
| 2880s | maybe he forgoes an attack with the 5-2 |
| 2882s | oh well you lost five damage but you |
| 2883s | managed to keep a light warden around |
| 2885s | extremely big joy from uh lion picking |
| 2888s | up the eagles |
| 2889s | managed to deal with his life |
| 2891s | extremely thick |
| 2894s | i see a dog |
| 2896s | it's the best car that peter could have |
| 2898s | right now his hand is pretty pretty dead |
| 2899s | besides that |
| 2902s | yeah but lion doesn't have a clean acid |
| 2904s | to this ahmet and uh |
| 2907s | might get a bit difficult i think she |
| 2908s | will probably uh end up just trying to |
| 2911s | get the amit lower health total so the |
| 2913s | amit doesn't get too much value |
| 2915s | this turn |
| 2917s | how do you feel about playing two one |
| 2918s | ones here not trading them in just |
| 2920s | playing them as two one ones |
| 2923s | i think it's a very very interesting uh |
| 2925s | decision whether or not you're supposed |
| 2927s | to attack the almond hair and |
| 2929s | in case you attack it how much do you |
| 2931s | attack it |
| 2932s | so you like the one ones but whether you |
| 2934s | attack or not i agree with you i think |
| 2936s | tempo is really what matters in these |
| 2937s | kinds of matchups specifically against |
| 2939s | priest |
| 2940s | board is key so playing the one runs i |
| 2943s | think is is fairly fairly standard um |
| 2946s | but the attack itself is actually really |
| 2947s | hard because stuff like 90 rituals can |
| 2949s | really punish this yeah also pinot |
| 2951s | currently doesn't know |
| 2953s | if this is pressure plate |
| 2955s | correct quickly yes so |
| 2956s | if we if we make the ahmed to health |
| 2959s | pino is going to be terrified of playing |
| 2961s | circle of healing sure so that's kind of |
| 2964s | nothing you also have to factor in i |
| 2965s | think |
| 2968s | and just making the almond two health is |
| 2970s | just so good versus a lot of hands that |
| 2972s | don't include any heal makes phenols |
| 2974s | turn way more awkward |
| 2981s | ifenu knew that this was an explosive |
| 2983s | trap his turn could be explodes |
| 2987s | but he doesn't know that so he has to uh |
| 2988s | he has to play around uh the |
| 2991s | the pressure plate as well as the |
| 2992s | explosive trap right now |
| 2995s | well it depends though fino can reach |
| 2997s | the conclusion here that |
| 2999s | pressure plate to be honest seems pretty |
| 3001s | hard to beat |
| 3002s | maybe the only secret |
| 3004s | we can beat is explosive chaps |
| 3008s | that's fair |
| 3009s | at the same time though uh |
| 3012s | do you ever have any consideration |
| 3014s | towards unleash the piece i'm agreeing |
| 3015s | with you at the same time at least the |
| 3017s | beast is pretty scary |
| 3019s | that was a |
| 3020s | scary one too |
| 3023s | oh this is this is gonna spell bad news |
| 3025s | for fino i think |
| 3027s | does he think he doesn't know about the |
| 3028s | unleashed defeat of course not he's |
| 3030s | already seen the ego so uh |
| 3032s | he kind of has to take risks at this |
| 3034s | point so i can definitely is there a |
| 3036s | better way to take it that's all that's |
| 3037s | all i'm saying was there a better way to |
| 3038s | take it |
| 3039s | if you put an extra arms first gotten it |
| 3041s | up to an extra two health |
| 3043s | go face against the explosive trap then |
| 3045s | never set ritualists it gets it out of |
| 3047s | range of that unleash the base of the |
| 3048s | step step |
| 3050s | yes that would have played better around |
| 3052s | the |
| 3052s | unleashed b specifically but it would |
| 3054s | have still left the |
| 3056s | vulnerable to uh |
| 3057s | spellbreaker or cephas but less |
| 3060s | vulnerable right because it had four |
| 3061s | attack then and you don't really have |
| 3063s | that clean of an answer to that i'm |
| 3064s | really surprised that nina decided to |
| 3066s | make a four five here um |
| 3068s | it seems like he already knows about the |
| 3071s | uh unleash the beast and he doesn't have |
| 3072s | a wild pyromancer in hand maybe he's |
| 3073s | playing towards that out but uh he could |
| 3075s | have just saved it for this next turn to |
| 3077s | do |
| 3079s | next time |
| 3081s | more arms into divine spirit |
| 3083s | for example yeah and uh |
| 3086s | ah this is looking pretty mine looks |
| 3088s | really rough for pinot noir |
| 3089s | lion picked up a huge value engine and |
| 3092s | tempo engine in subject nine she will be |
| 3094s | able to get a freezing trap with that |
| 3096s | and pretty much lock fino's hopes of |
| 3098s | hitting the face |
| 3101s | kinda out |
| 3103s | spellbreaker as well and call of the |
| 3105s | wild these are all powerful tools at |
| 3107s | this stage in the game |
| 3108s | they're not great cards early but it's |
| 3110s | not early so they're just really good |
| 3113s | yeah i see zebra fina having a very very |
| 3116s | hard time coming back from this point |
| 3119s | lion just has to follow up now for |
| 3120s | everything and she also gets to choose |
| 3122s | what secret to play here which is |
| 3123s | incredibly strong |
| 3125s | you can just play the freezing trap and |
| 3126s | look out the board |
| 3128s | into the call of the wild turn she also |
| 3129s | pressure play and knock out the board in |
| 3131s | this exact same way |
| 3133s | i think she will |
| 3134s | go for the freezing chapter because |
| 3137s | it might feel a bit more stable |
| 3139s | at a certain everything yeah you have a |
| 3141s | spell breaker in hand you don't really |
| 3143s | worry about them making a big minion |
| 3144s | with that play so why not just play the |
| 3146s | freaking trap avoid any chance |
| 3149s | i think pressure plate also does the |
| 3150s | same thing i i wouldn't yeah i can't see |
| 3152s | either of them |
| 3154s | pressure plate it's just not gonna |
| 3157s | there's like one very specific hand |
| 3159s | where that works so realistically the |
| 3161s | only way we lose i think is fino |
| 3163s | managing to pick up bom samdi and uh |
| 3166s | generating a lot of value from that |
| 3167s | right so what do you think is the best |
| 3169s | player versus that quickly |
| 3172s | that's interesting |
| 3176s | snake trap i think snake jab had a |
| 3179s | potential to lose |
| 3181s | with a very specific |
| 3184s | amount of cards right power word shield |
| 3186s | into divine spirit into divine spirit |
| 3188s | inner fire there was a four card combo |
| 3190s | and that was the entire four cards in |
| 3192s | his hand but theoretically from lion's |
| 3194s | perspective that could happen |
| 3196s | yeah it's interesting that's really |
| 3197s | unlikely though that's like super |
| 3201s | i think |
| 3203s | i would have probably like to see the |
| 3205s | freezing trap or depression play more |
| 3206s | just to play around super super fast |
| 3210s | it shouldn't matter too much oh zephyrus |
| 3212s | this is just looking |
| 3221s | yeah there's just no way to come back |
| 3223s | from this uh the zephyrus next turn is |
| 3224s | just gonna lock out the game fino does |
| 3226s | not get anything |
| 3229s | lyon is going to be the second player |
| 3231s | and the second chinese player to make it |
| 3233s | to the top four |
| 3235s | correct correct second chinese |
| 3236s | representative in uh |
| 3237s | now and uh china looking great for uh |
| 3241s | for top four they're both first seeds |
| 3243s | out of their group also yeah |
| 3245s | just continuing really impressive |
| 3246s | impeccable streak that she's had ever |
| 3248s | since the gold series final with a 7-0 |
| 3252s | performance |
| 3254s | that's ridiculous |
| 3256s | that game was ridiculous |
| 3259s | i don't know fiona fino on the other |
| 3261s | hand uh he goes down to the cider's |
| 3264s | match he's still in the tournament he'll |
| 3265s | be playing against the winner of i |
| 3267s | believe bloody face and tom60229 yes he |
| 3270s | will playing tomorrow versus the yes yes |
| 3272s | they will be playing tomorrow in uh the |
| 3274s | decider match but we still have the |
| 3276s | elimination match to happen before that |
| 3278s | can happen |
| 3279s | it will be super interesting to see who |
| 3281s | is going to challenge china in the top |
| 3283s | four because uh it's looking really hard |
| 3286s | yeah i mean uh na right now they're both |
| 3288s | 0-1 |
| 3290s | eu just fell by one point |
| 3293s | to the deciders match |
| 3295s | hopefully i'm rooting for na here so |
| 3297s | hopefully pnc and bloody face can make |
| 3300s | it out but you never know yeah we'll see |
| 3302s | uh just like lee said |
| 3304s | i don't know |
| 3305s | yeah we don't know either so we'll |
| 3307s | definitely see there is no script |
| 3309s | believe it or not |
| 3310s | all right let's take a look at that yeah |
| 3312s | tom vs bloody face is gonna face up |
| 3315s | later today i believe that we are also |
| 3317s | casting that one yep and you know |
| 3319s | there's actually an interesting there's |
| 3320s | an interesting thing about tom but we |
| 3322s | can actually get that tomorrow if |
| 3323s | surrender makes it to day two but let's |
| 3325s | uh let's throw it to frodan as he has a |
| 3328s | winner's interview with lyon |
| 3332s | we have our second player through to the |
| 3334s | semi-finals and it is the second member |
| 3337s | of the chinese representatives it's lion |
| 3340s | let's give it up for lyon who's made it |
| 3342s | today number two |
| 3347s | exemplary performance |
| 3348s | not dropping a single game on her way |
| 3351s | through the groups i gotta ask how is |
| 3353s | she feeling right now |
| 3355s | uh |
| 3359s | um |
| 3366s | i'm very excited at the same time it's |
| 3368s | like dreaming about the whole things |
| 3370s | happening yes that today is very uh |
| 3373s | successful day |
| 3375s | absolutely today is a very successful |
| 3377s | day uh every player here is a killer and |
| 3380s | yet china china is the one that's |
| 3383s | undefeated is there a secret eight and |
| 3385s | two in game record today how are they |
| 3388s | doing it |
| 3389s | uh |
| 3410s | so this year the china thing is very |
| 3412s | competitive so we have to practice very |
| 3415s | hard in order to achieve a very good |
| 3416s | result |
| 3418s | great |
| 3418s | practice makes perfect makes sense to me |
| 3421s | the last question that i want to ask you |
| 3423s | is |
| 3424s | you know a lot of people are |
| 3425s | highlighting the fact that it's |
| 3426s | fantastic to have a woman on here on the |
| 3428s | stage at blizzcon competing as we've |
| 3431s | seen in the past with patra as we've |
| 3433s | seen with the past with byza all these |
| 3435s | fans are cheering for you right now what |
| 3437s | do you have to say to them |
| 3439s | um |
| 3469s | so i believe there's more female players |
| 3471s | going to be uh stored up in the scene |
| 3473s | and i hope that all the female half |
| 3476s | stone player be comfortable |
| 3478s | yourself |
| 3479s | that's an amazing message all the women |
| 3481s | out there in the world |
| 3483s | watch what lion's doing it's just the |
| 3486s | beginning and i think that's a great |
| 3487s | message and a note to end on with that |
| 3490s | let's send it back over to our casters |
| 3494s | that that is such a great story um i the |
| 3497s | performance here is just impeccable from |
| 3499s | a lot of these players but especially |
| 3501s | china uh lyon and lee find themselves in |
| 3503s | the top four and |
| 3505s | it's really with good plays man |
| 3507s | yes and i believe the china system is |
| 3509s | very brutal so they have a ton of |
| 3511s | different tournaments that they have to |
| 3512s | go through and also they have the latter |
| 3514s | which is super competitive i mean just |
| 3516s | to get to this spot they have to win |
| 3518s | like double the amount amount of games |
| 3520s | that uh people from the grand masters |
| 3522s | have to which is like it's insane |
| 3525s | that's so many uh |
| 3527s | lion with a |
| 3528s | great performance uh the evolv shaman |
| 3530s | game just locking it out uh knowing |
| 3533s | exactly when to time that bloodlust i i |
| 3535s | think it really just shows patience it |
| 3537s | shows that she's even if she's stressed |
| 3539s | it's not showing on the big stage but um |
| 3543s | it's definitely going to be super |
| 3544s | exciting to see both lee and lyon now in |
| 3546s | the bo5 stage yeah but tomorrow and i'll |
| 3549s | also see who is gonna be up there and |
| 3551s | challenge yeah but uh for now uh the |
| 3552s | next match will be pnc versus casey and |
| 3556s | that will be saddle insane bringing you |
| 3558s | the action so let's go to a quick break |
| 3559s | but stay with us we have two more |
| 3561s | fantastic matches of hearthstone left |
| 3563s | for today |
| 3564s | in this next match lime went up against |
| 3567s | one of the best players in the european |
| 3569s | region |
| 3570s | casey |
| 3571s | she had already shown her dominance on |
| 3573s | the world stage by not dropping a single |
| 3576s | game in the tournament so far |
| 3578s | but the match versus casey did not go as |
| 3581s | smoothly |
| 3583s | with a final spot on the line we get to |
| 3586s | see what happens when things don't go to |
| 3588s | plan and how lion plays under pressure |
| 3592s | no more waiting no more requests |
| 3595s | our first player |
| 3597s | hailing from china looking to continue |
| 3600s | her path making hearthstone esports |
| 3602s | history please welcome vicky's |
| 3618s | and their opponents |
| 3621s | representing germany and team complexity |
| 3623s | keeping that consistency please welcome |
| 3627s | casey |
| 3639s | competitors please shake hands |
| 3645s | and let's get this top four underway |
| 3650s | thank you frodan uh i for one am very |
| 3653s | pleased that our tavern patrons are not |
| 3654s | balancing the game for us that sounds |
| 3656s | like an absolute disaster but of course |
| 3659s | we uh we'll pass their opinions on and |
| 3661s | see what the design team have to say |
| 3662s | about it uh but we have the serious |
| 3664s | matter now of the semi-finals of the |
| 3667s | global championships to be played out |
| 3669s | and several things have now changed |
| 3671s | saying first and foremost we got the |
| 3673s | nice longer format coming into play now |
| 3676s | finally we're moving on to best of fives |
| 3678s | here and it'll be casey versus lyon and |
| 3681s | i do believe kcs kind of ran into a wall |
| 3684s | here you know talking to casey backstage |
| 3686s | he felt okay about the matchup when i |
| 3688s | was asking about how he felt coming into |
| 3690s | the semifinals here but i do have to |
| 3692s | play the devil's avocado on this one i'm |
| 3694s | pretty sure casey bringing the control |
| 3697s | lineup and lyon having the anti-control |
| 3699s | lineup with the reno hunter with the |
| 3702s | malagos druid i would give casey at best |
| 3704s | maybe a 45 50 55 |
| 3706s | 45 55 coming into this |
| 3708s | well he's certainly going to need better |
| 3710s | odds than that if he's going to have a |
| 3711s | chance of taking home huge piles of cash |
| 3714s | going into this one because there is an |
| 3715s | enormous amount of money on the line uh |
| 3717s | but perhaps even more importantly than |
| 3719s | that the uh the title of global champion |
| 3722s | is what these players are playing for |
| 3723s | you know money comes and goes and of |
| 3726s | course 200 000 is life-changing money uh |
| 3729s | to most people but i think that title |
| 3732s | that legacy of being a global champion |
| 3734s | is what these players are looking for |
| 3735s | first and foremost saying would you |
| 3736s | agree with that |
| 3737s | yeah absolutely and nothing goes beyond |
| 3740s | that glory here as well i mean lion and |
| 3743s | lee both looking very strong our cn |
| 3745s | representatives here and i think |
| 3747s | traditionally on the world stage cn has |
| 3749s | been kind of lackluster but here i've |
| 3751s | been seeing some pretty stellar play |
| 3752s | come from lee and lyon not to mention |
| 3755s | casey himself as well yeah certainly |
| 3757s | individually uh throwdown on stage made |
| 3759s | the point earlier that you know this is |
| 3760s | kind of a follow-up to what we saw last |
| 3762s | year where team china took down |
| 3763s | hearthstone global games as a collective |
| 3765s | entity but certainly the individual |
| 3768s | representatives who have made it to |
| 3769s | these big stages have tended to |
| 3771s | underperform and now i make no secrets |
| 3774s | about my enormous bias towards casey |
| 3776s | he's a good friend of mine he's a |
| 3778s | teammate of mine on complexity but |
| 3780s | personally for me i would love to see |
| 3782s | lyon take home this whole tournament i |
| 3784s | think she showed up she's played |
| 3786s | fantastic and of course be an amazing |
| 3788s | thing to have a female representative be |
| 3790s | at the absolute top of the game um so |
| 3793s | personal biases aside if casey can't |
| 3795s | take home the championship i would |
| 3797s | absolutely love to see lyon do it right |
| 3798s | and certainly lion does have the match |
| 3800s | up to uh the lineup to go all the way as |
| 3802s | well |
| 3803s | from casey and lyon i wouldn't be |
| 3805s | surprised if casey sticks on the shaman |
| 3808s | ban or the shaman protect and same with |
| 3810s | lion shaman again be getting the |
| 3812s | favorite in the lineup here |
| 3814s | yeah and it's the quest shaman from |
| 3816s | casey's side which uh we know him and |
| 3818s | his primary practice partner bunny |
| 3819s | hopper are both huge lawyers loyalists |
| 3822s | too sorry huge believers in and they've |
| 3825s | piloted that deck the whole way through |
| 3826s | grand masters they had massively skewed |
| 3829s | opinions on what some of the match-ups |
| 3830s | were compared to some of the other |
| 3831s | players as well but the results of bunny |
| 3834s | and casey in the grand masters regular |
| 3836s | season has seemed to bear out that |
| 3838s | they've been on the right tracks you |
| 3839s | know week after week they've turned up |
| 3841s | with these lists these strategies these |
| 3843s | lineups that the rest of the field has |
| 3845s | looked at and gone damn like casey and |
| 3847s | bunny have just got us this week like |
| 3848s | they just have the bring for this |
| 3850s | tournament and so it seems that if there |
| 3852s | is a differing in opinion casey and |
| 3854s | bunny have the results from the regular |
| 3855s | season to kind of uh bear that out in |
| 3857s | their favor and i think there actually |
| 3859s | is a massive difference in uh opinions |
| 3861s | here lion actually goes for the hunter |
| 3864s | protect |
| 3865s | uh wow which i think is a little bit of |
| 3868s | a bait i understand the hunter is good |
| 3870s | from the aspect that it's an |
| 3871s | anti-control deck going up against |
| 3872s | casey's control lineup but overall it's |
| 3875s | only really great against the warrior |
| 3877s | the priest |
| 3878s | can definitely beat it the druid i think |
| 3880s | is so and so and the shaman of course is |
| 3882s | shaman right it has the higher potential |
| 3883s | to take out hunter as well i think a big |
| 3885s | part of that disagreement will come down |
| 3887s | to that priest match up um i know you |
| 3889s | personally feel like it's a priest |
| 3890s | favored matchup and i very much agree |
| 3892s | with you i've been banging that drum the |
| 3894s | whole way through hearthstone grand |
| 3895s | masters when people were saying that you |
| 3896s | know highlander hunter is potentially |
| 3898s | favored in the match up i think the |
| 3900s | higher level you get the more priest |
| 3902s | finds the edge there because i think a |
| 3903s | lot of the advantage that hunter finds |
| 3905s | is just from people misplaying into |
| 3907s | secrets a lot of the time which doesn't |
| 3909s | happen at the highest level and but lyon |
| 3912s | certainly seems to have some unique |
| 3914s | opinions she is the one player to bring |
| 3916s | highlander hunter to this tournament and |
| 3918s | she clearly believes in it in the way |
| 3920s | that casey believes in his quest shaman |
| 3923s | right absolutely and i think vk lion and |
| 3925s | her practice group actually have praised |
| 3927s | the highlander hunter a lot so i'm not |
| 3930s | terribly surprised that she's sticking |
| 3931s | with the guns on this one |
| 3934s | we talk about how casey has the |
| 3936s | consistency and the results to you know |
| 3938s | back up his opinions and where his |
| 3940s | opinions differ you know we say oh maybe |
| 3942s | casey's the one that has it right |
| 3943s | because he has the results to back it up |
| 3945s | lyon absolutely does as well i was |
| 3947s | talking to some of the esports staff |
| 3948s | backstage who pointed out to me that you |
| 3950s | know if you take just the regular season |
| 3953s | lion probably has the most consistent |
| 3954s | results out of anyone here in their |
| 3957s | respective regular season leading up to |
| 3958s | this she was incredibly dominant through |
| 3961s | the season one qualification phase of |
| 3963s | the chinese region results were like a |
| 3964s | top four a top two and then a first seed |
| 3967s | in gold series as well so very very |
| 3969s | impressive |
| 3970s | zero seven zero record through to |
| 3972s | qualify for this exactly so she has an |
| 3975s | incredible level of performance leading |
| 3977s | into this |
| 3978s | yeah and on the mulligans |
| 3980s | here casey keeping the desert here |
| 3982s | acknowledging that this |
| 3984s | is indeed an unfavored matchup but he |
| 3987s | doesn't really plan on playing fair when |
| 3989s | you have the desert here in the evolve |
| 3990s | combination as well |
| 3991s | yeah you say acknowledging that this is |
| 3993s | an unfavored matchup but did casey not |
| 3995s | say to you that he felt his quest almond |
| 3996s | beat everything in this series |
| 3999s | oh quest shaman has its highs and lows |
| 4001s | and certainly when it hits the highs it |
| 4003s | can beat everything okay so casey |
| 4006s | understands that you know the deck has |
| 4007s | some laurel potential but he's more |
| 4009s | getting in the bad matchups specifically |
| 4011s | for those hyrule |
| 4012s | uh the hyrule cases yeah that makes |
| 4014s | sense |
| 4015s | uh casey has had uh big words on several |
| 4017s | occasions today uh we were talking this |
| 4019s | morning uh about the potential for |
| 4021s | surrender to end this tournament as the |
| 4024s | highest prize money earner in |
| 4025s | hearthstone history we said the words |
| 4027s | you know this can happen for surrender |
| 4029s | you know surrender can end this |
| 4030s | tournament overtaking tyson tom and |
| 4032s | casey just looked up and went no he calm |
| 4035s | like |
| 4035s | what do you mean he's like well because |
| 4037s | i'm gonna beat him which is exactly what |
| 4039s | ended up playing out |
| 4041s | yeah casey backed up that claim indeed |
| 4044s | and here he is facing off against lyon |
| 4046s | here game one looking all right it's not |
| 4049s | the uh ideal hand from casey but |
| 4051s | certainly desert hair and evolving into |
| 4052s | four drop just the contestant board is |
| 4054s | something that casey needs to do at this |
| 4056s | point in the game yeah and getting uh |
| 4058s | three five with upside very limited |
| 4060s | upside when you're a shaman but uh |
| 4061s | upside nonetheless is a very good |
| 4063s | outcome off a four drop you're averaging |
| 4065s | three four |
| 4066s | in that position so above average roll |
| 4068s | to pick up that three five and actually |
| 4070s | a very important break point to get the |
| 4072s | three five in the way that the board is |
| 4073s | currently being uh being contested and a |
| 4076s | bit of a tricky point from vk lion she's |
| 4078s | able to go for something like more arms |
| 4080s | and attack on the beaming sidekick along |
| 4083s | with that to protect her injured |
| 4084s | blademaster or potentially she could go |
| 4086s | for setting up the high priest ahmet |
| 4088s | this turn |
| 4093s | a little bit of indecision coming out |
| 4095s | here |
| 4097s | mousing over the sidekick |
| 4099s | as the rope turns out i believe she has |
| 4100s | to make a decision soon i feel like |
| 4102s | she's gonna commit to the injured faster |
| 4104s | this turn |
| 4105s | or the injured 12 year this turn |
| 4108s | yeah certainly looking that way |
| 4110s | gives himself the value trade over this |
| 4112s | disease vulture on casey's side |
| 4115s | and then just going to flip |
| 4117s | to a three six and pretty solid use of |
| 4120s | resources |
| 4121s | and making sure to play around casey's |
| 4122s | potential sandstorm elemental clearing |
| 4124s | her one big threat here yes |
| 4127s | that she |
| 4128s | in |
| 4129s | doing the full commit is also protecting |
| 4131s | her board state and her follow-up here |
| 4133s | high priest almost |
| 4135s | like warden in theory |
| 4137s | is the perfect pick up here but it does |
| 4139s | would uh indicate the fourth minion on |
| 4141s | board alongside that ahmet uh but lyon |
| 4143s | does have the opportunity to just throw |
| 4144s | away a one-two here to continue to play |
| 4146s | around mind control tech if she would |
| 4148s | choose to |
| 4149s | um but it's always you need to evaluate |
| 4151s | against uh quest sharman about playing |
| 4153s | around mind control tech as priest |
| 4155s | because sometimes you can just take the |
| 4157s | line of like getting the mind control |
| 4158s | tech out of the way in a position where |
| 4160s | it's not necessarily bad for you but i |
| 4161s | think here lion can continue to play |
| 4163s | around mind control tech quite |
| 4165s | effectively for some time still right i |
| 4167s | mean the question is how significant in |
| 4168s | the matchup is this one to running it |
| 4170s | away and then having the light warden be |
| 4172s | an extraterrest on the board seems |
| 4174s | fairly good already lion making the |
| 4176s | trade |
| 4178s | well now the decision point comes up |
| 4179s | again is she willing to play around the |
| 4181s | mic control tech does she feel like this |
| 4183s | board state is enough for the |
| 4188s | i moment like a lot of cases uh players |
| 4190s | tend to rush this matchup |
| 4192s | you actually have a lot of time on the |
| 4194s | priesthood as soon as you land let's say |
| 4196s | a divine spirit and attack that onto the |
| 4198s | omit it's very difficult for the shaman |
| 4200s | to make a comeback without the |
| 4202s | generation of random spells here |
| 4205s | and speaking of generation |
| 4207s | casey finds himself that plague of |
| 4209s | murlocs i believe it's about 1 in 11 for |
| 4211s | any individual shaman spells so uh |
| 4214s | depending on how many outs you feel like |
| 4216s | casey had in that position against that |
| 4217s | board state there is something going on |
| 4220s | today saddle with murloc tasty fin |
| 4223s | appearing on the shaman side of the |
| 4225s | board |
| 4226s | on top of that i believe the sludge |
| 4228s | slurpers are still remaining in the deck |
| 4229s | as well |
| 4233s | i must consider it |
| 4236s | yeah we've seen the uh evolve outcome on |
| 4238s | multiple occasions just hit the four |
| 4240s | drop mile of tasty film with two sludge |
| 4241s | slippers left remaining in the deck uh |
| 4244s | we saw in fino series kind of some |
| 4246s | difficult decisions on whether or not to |
| 4248s | silence allowing that tasty fin to pick |
| 4250s | up those sludge slurpers enormous value |
| 4252s | card in either version of the shaman if |
| 4254s | you can evolve into that and pick up |
| 4256s | both of those murloc draws |
| 4260s | i think diverts from the main point is |
| 4261s | that casey just very much had his bacon |
| 4263s | saved there by that plague of merlot so |
| 4265s | uh murloc's off the spell lackey you |
| 4267s | know considering it won in 11 for an |
| 4269s | individual spell you also then have to |
| 4271s | multiply that by the chance of getting |
| 4272s | the spell lackey of the sludge slurper |
| 4274s | to begin with |
| 4275s | right and for vk lion now |
| 4278s | the plan becomes more and more clear |
| 4280s | where she's going to fight her board for |
| 4282s | the next few turns but eventually she is |
| 4284s | going to find |
| 4285s | she's going to need to find the divine |
| 4287s | spirit the inner fire and just go all in |
| 4289s | on setting up let's say |
| 4290s | yep |
| 4292s | one slurper remaining for casey |
| 4295s | that will complete the quest here that's |
| 4297s | a very big deal as now casey hitting the |
| 4299s | one mana card is able to finish the |
| 4301s | quest hit the hero power button and |
| 4302s | clear the board with the sandstorm |
| 4304s | elemental |
| 4305s | in effect locking out the board state |
| 4307s | from vk lion yeah and with ahmet already |
| 4309s | played that is one of the big recovery |
| 4312s | mechanisms if you want to look at it |
| 4313s | like that gone from the priest because |
| 4315s | once priest loses board they don't have |
| 4318s | any real way to climb back into it apart |
| 4319s | from pyromancer which you know very |
| 4321s | quickly scales out of the game so |
| 4323s | sometimes the only way they can get back |
| 4325s | into in a position like this is just to |
| 4326s | dump ahmed onto the board with every |
| 4328s | minion that they have and just create |
| 4330s | such overwhelming board tension uh that |
| 4332s | the shaman can't fight back against it |
| 4333s | but with ahmed already gone uh it looks |
| 4336s | like lions hopes are becoming quite slim |
| 4338s | in this matchup from here |
| 4340s | right for casey there is just one |
| 4343s | singular threat in case he's taking it |
| 4345s | slow here but i'm sure he'll be trading |
| 4347s | the minions in to make sure that lion |
| 4349s | doesn't automatically have let's say a |
| 4351s | two turn set up with the divine spirit |
| 4353s | in the inner fire right |
| 4357s | so heal here would go to seven divine |
| 4359s | spirit in a fire would still push 14 |
| 4361s | which i guess technically isn't a |
| 4362s | two-turn set up in this position but any |
| 4364s | comeback in this position for lyon was |
| 4366s | going to start with this bonsamdi off |
| 4368s | the top both clerics still in the deck |
| 4370s | now with a circle of healing |
| 4375s | i'm kind of liking taking it slow here |
| 4377s | and potentially setting up a huge circle |
| 4379s | play next turn with double north shore |
| 4381s | cleric |
| 4383s | is value |
| 4385s | always more important than tempo here |
| 4387s | because she could also do the complete |
| 4389s | opposite and take a big tempo turn |
| 4390s | within a fire to kill the five five and |
| 4393s | then circle appealing to re-heal just to |
| 4395s | completely dominate the board again well |
| 4396s | i mean she's been granted the ability to |
| 4399s | take it slow here right because casey |
| 4401s | went for barista lynch that's right yeah |
| 4403s | very funny his turn |
| 4404s | hey i got you friends |
| 4414s | but here she does know that casey has |
| 4416s | the sandstorm elemental so casey will be |
| 4418s | able to clear off the interplay master |
| 4421s | at the very least going to his next turn |
| 4423s | here |
| 4428s | finding a rush lackey as well |
| 4434s | alongside this witchy lackey might be |
| 4436s | able to get a high enough attack minion |
| 4438s | to be able to rush into that seven five |
| 4440s | and take it out seems fairly likely okay |
| 4442s | so gonna make the valley trade and oh |
| 4444s | he's actually gonna evolve here hoping |
| 4446s | for |
| 4448s | what he wants but he does have a second |
| 4449s | lack he says another shot |
| 4455s | this will take it all the way up to a |
| 4456s | five drop now which |
| 4458s | incredibly unlikely this is not able to |
| 4460s | kill the what's under the end of all |
| 4461s | this there you go |
| 4463s | second barista lovely |
| 4470s | oh i was that is a huge draw i didn't |
| 4474s | have the time to get the words out i was |
| 4476s | gonna say lion found the card she needed |
| 4479s | on the previous term with the monsanti |
| 4480s | but now it's a pyromancer draw that's |
| 4482s | required and with two clerics and a |
| 4485s | circle in hand already |
| 4488s | lion just has her entire deck in her |
| 4490s | hand this turn if she wants it |
| 4492s | this is absolutely ideal pyromancer is |
| 4495s | pulling double duty here clearing up the |
| 4497s | board from casey's side drawing vk lion |
| 4500s | the rest of her deck at this point |
| 4506s | cards haven't even started being drawn |
| 4507s | yet in the crowd already love |
| 4509s | it i mean we've we've played a little |
| 4511s | bit of priest in this yeah we know how |
| 4513s | this works so we know how this works |
| 4522s | is there any reason to interfere |
| 4524s | yeah that's actually quite strange |
| 4526s | looking |
| 4531s | in a fire on just any opposing minion |
| 4533s | just seems better in that situation to |
| 4535s | me right |
| 4536s | i certainly look that way or at least i |
| 4538s | mean you could interfere with north |
| 4539s | shore cleric as well oh yeah good point |
| 4548s | he's gonna leave up the two one here |
| 4551s | the second spell with the pyromancer |
| 4552s | doesn't really do anything |
| 4554s | but now yeah double mind control tech |
| 4556s | double sandstorm elemental on the other |
| 4558s | side |
| 4562s | stealing the 11 one as well so it's a |
| 4563s | lot more difficult for a vk line which |
| 4565s | she does have the silence actually |
| 4566s | right so she should be able to set up a |
| 4568s | big minion at some point and |
| 4571s | maybe this one's just another pirate |
| 4572s | clear for her actually it does kind of |
| 4574s | look that way um she does have the |
| 4576s | resources to keep going in this longer |
| 4578s | fight against the um question i've been |
| 4580s | hearing |
| 4585s | do you like to play with fire this is |
| 4589s | approaching critical mass now for lyon |
| 4591s | this is her hand at this point and this |
| 4593s | is what she has left to win the game |
| 4594s | with uh and ahmet from either of these |
| 4597s | psycho pumps could be absolutely |
| 4598s | enormous in this position uh but as |
| 4601s | saying was saying she is just looking |
| 4603s | for a position to just make this one |
| 4604s | huge minion in play that cannot be |
| 4607s | answered from casey and just try and |
| 4608s | friend lethal with it |
| 4613s | didn't even die the didn't even die i'm |
| 4615s | stupid yeah it got transformed |
| 4623s | there are still high health minions and |
| 4625s | she does have the nephrosite ritualist |
| 4626s | right so yep |
| 4629s | what is that remaining card in their |
| 4631s | deck here |
| 4633s | it is going to be it's the second divine |
| 4635s | spirit right |
| 4638s | yeah and |
| 4639s | that means she's basically working with |
| 4641s | what she has on hand here no um |
| 4644s | injured minion to actually put back onto |
| 4646s | the battlefield |
| 4657s | both questing explorers |
| 4667s | another one to |
| 4669s | lion just wanted something with a high |
| 4671s | base health total there off that psycho |
| 4673s | pump so she was able to go in on it this |
| 4674s | turn i think |
| 4678s | yeah something like the injured tolvier |
| 4680s | blademaster potentially exactly bomb |
| 4682s | swampy pretty ideal as well |
| 4685s | just something that she could dump these |
| 4687s | divine spirits on that would create a |
| 4689s | health total that couldn't be contested |
| 4690s | on the following turn from casey and she |
| 4692s | could use to uh to threaten lethal but |
| 4694s | now just getting two health minions out |
| 4696s | both of those psycho pumps has left her |
| 4699s | in a really really difficult position |
| 4703s | and that's how difficult she feels like |
| 4705s | it is and i think you can fairly easily |
| 4708s | solve that game from the position that |
| 4710s | she was in uh you usually can when one |
| 4712s | or both players gets down to fatigue and |
| 4714s | i think that was she just went through |
| 4715s | the motions that turn looked at how that |
| 4717s | board traded down and she could see from |
| 4719s | there that there was just no way she was |
| 4720s | getting over the line right certainly at |
| 4722s | that stage of the game the best case |
| 4723s | scenario was making an 88 and hoping |
| 4725s | that was able to attack three or four |
| 4727s | times um something you could go for and |
| 4729s | the gentleman was kind of low on |
| 4730s | resources potentially just an 8-8 is |
| 4732s | enough aggression in that spot but she |
| 4734s | felt like she was far behind enough |
| 4736s | especially seeing that which would piper |
| 4737s | come out drawing casey with a few more |
| 4739s | resources there she didn't know that |
| 4740s | they were both questing explorers at |
| 4741s | that point that is very true yeah um |
| 4743s | it's a was a roller coaster of a match |
| 4745s | up though she got off to a very strong |
| 4747s | start did lion but then uh casey had his |
| 4750s | big swing turn where he gained control |
| 4751s | of the board and then from that point |
| 4752s | you know i was saying or lion needs to |
| 4754s | pick up the perfect card like a couple |
| 4755s | of times in a row to dig herself out of |
| 4757s | this and she absolutely did with the |
| 4759s | bonsamdi into the pyromancer which gave |
| 4761s | a really real hope of coming back into |
| 4763s | the match-up |
| 4764s | yeah but unfortunately not enough in the |
| 4766s | late game there and like the plague of |
| 4767s | murlocs like what a card coming down to |
| 4769s | stop the uh initial ahmet and then even |
| 4771s | then like ending up affecting the res |
| 4773s | pool so very swingy and it's just quest |
| 4776s | shaman able to pull out some of those uh |
| 4778s | key tools from the lackey as well there |
| 4780s | yeah it was crucial because you know |
| 4781s | something that i forgot about even not |
| 4783s | only did it shut down the army initially |
| 4784s | which he didn't have an answer for it |
| 4786s | also took away the out late in the game |
| 4788s | of psycho pumping the army which would |
| 4790s | have been probably game-winning for lyon |
| 4792s | in that scenario since all the mind |
| 4793s | control texts had been used so if you've |
| 4795s | got an armor off of one of those uh |
| 4797s | psycho pumps you can see why like when |
| 4799s | priest was a much bigger threat in the |
| 4801s | metagame when people were taking four |
| 4803s | priests as opposed to taking for shaman |
| 4805s | you saw more things like ur shock and |
| 4806s | plague of murlocs being played in the |
| 4808s | decks right right absolutely and casey |
| 4810s | getting a win in with his trusted quest |
| 4813s | shaman here i think casey was basically |
| 4815s | fully confident in the stack even going |
| 4817s | for it in the first pick knowing |
| 4818s | potentially has a bad matchup of priests |
| 4820s | proving again why he believes this deck |
| 4822s | is so strong |
| 4823s | yep so far all of uh casey's prophecies |
| 4826s | are coming true but we'll see if that |
| 4828s | continues or whether lyon can fight back |
| 4830s | into this series when we come back right |
| 4832s | after this break |
| 4834s | welcome back everybody to our first |
| 4836s | semi-final here at blizzcon for the |
| 4838s | hearthstone grand masters global finals |
| 4841s | and we have casey going up against lyon |
| 4844s | for you casey went off to the early lead |
| 4846s | perhaps unexpectedly depending on how |
| 4848s | you feel about the match-up picking up |
| 4849s | the win with shaman over priest but |
| 4851s | certainly expectedly if you are casey |
| 4853s | who just feels like quest sharma is the |
| 4855s | absolute nuts in this meta game but now |
| 4858s | lyon has a very very good chance to gain |
| 4860s | a foothold in this series based on the |
| 4862s | matchup that we have coming up right i |
| 4863s | mean i would definitely be a little |
| 4865s | frustrated after the quest shaman took |
| 4866s | the win in the end in game one but vk |
| 4869s | lions sticking on the priest deck and |
| 4870s | absolutely rewarded for that she |
| 4872s | actually gets the cute priest into |
| 4874s | casey's drew deck at this point which i |
| 4876s | think is one of the only matchups on |
| 4878s | this meta where i'm willing to give |
| 4880s | a lot of percentage to the priest i'm |
| 4881s | thinking this is probably around the 70s |
| 4884s | range for priests versus the druid yeah |
| 4886s | uh in grandmasters the stats bear that |
| 4888s | out you know it's not the largest sample |
| 4890s | size it's not the level of sample size |
| 4892s | that we get across all the stat |
| 4893s | aggregators that track all the ladder |
| 4895s | games but at the same time it's one of |
| 4897s | the biggest collections of games being |
| 4898s | played at the highest level that we've |
| 4900s | really ever had in hearthstone and it |
| 4902s | bears out that this is a 70 plus percent |
| 4904s | uh win rate matchup for the priest so uh |
| 4907s | lion definitely in a pretty good |
| 4909s | position here just to be able to square |
| 4910s | this series up and priest you know even |
| 4913s | though shaman is the new boss now priest |
| 4916s | is no slouch and combo priest is just in |
| 4919s | this tournament to remind people why it |
| 4921s | was the deck everyone was afraid of for |
| 4924s | a number of months in the in the |
| 4925s | hearthstone metagame right absolutely |
| 4927s | and it's one of the decks that has of |
| 4928s | course checked druid and kept it at bay |
| 4930s | on the ladder as well so priests here vk |
| 4933s | lion's still looking pretty strong from |
| 4935s | game one i would assume she is |
| 4937s | going to do just fine in this matchup |
| 4939s | here and we'll be shortly moving into |
| 4940s | game three probably a tight score at one |
| 4942s | to one so from the druid side i presume |
| 4944s | you have played it on several occasions |
| 4947s | how do you find that 25 like where is it |
| 4949s | where |
| 4950s | how do you get out of this matchup |
| 4951s | unscathed as a druid okay so from the |
| 4953s | druid side you need to have some early |
| 4955s | removal let's say like wrath to remove |
| 4957s | the north shore cleric and from then on |
| 4959s | you need to have the wardrobe loading |
| 4961s | because at that point they've probably |
| 4962s | already built that big minions that's |
| 4964s | already representing like two to three |
| 4966s | turn lethal at that point so lodi cleans |
| 4968s | up those sport states pretty well and |
| 4970s | sometimes can throw that match up on its |
| 4971s | side casey does have the inclusion of |
| 4974s | mind control tech i imagine that's |
| 4976s | mainly for shaman but still all right in |
| 4978s | the priest matchup |
| 4979s | may deter vk line from overextending a |
| 4981s | little bit in the early game i've seen a |
| 4983s | lot of players who have been successful |
| 4985s | in this matchup well i haven't i haven't |
| 4987s | seen many players be successful in this |
| 4988s | matchup uh to rephrase i have seen |
| 4991s | players who are successful in this |
| 4993s | matchup generally |
| 4994s | skipping a lot of quest turns um in a |
| 4996s | lot of positions like you know using |
| 4998s | wrath on turn two for example just to |
| 4999s | keep control of the board state is that |
| 5001s | something that you ascribe to as well |
| 5002s | right and there's also options to just |
| 5004s | throw out oasis surgery as three threes |
| 5006s | right there enough to contest the board |
| 5007s | so |
| 5008s | definitely there are options for druid |
| 5010s | but they are generally fairly |
| 5012s | unconventional outside of drawing the |
| 5013s | wardrobe loading |
| 5014s | and it looks like we are just about |
| 5016s | ready to get into the game there you see |
| 5018s | it and lion fans love to see that |
| 5020s | opening hand ninja tovia alongside the |
| 5022s | northshire cleric |
| 5024s | pretty powerful opener you do like to |
| 5026s | see some of the more aggressive buffs |
| 5028s | early on against druid i would say |
| 5030s | though just to make sure that your |
| 5031s | minions on board are actually racing the |
| 5033s | druid very effectively as opposed to |
| 5034s | just being annoying and hard to remove |
| 5037s | right and absolutely the druid and |
| 5040s | especially this matchup lives and dies |
| 5042s | by the coin just having the ability to |
| 5044s | see an extra card the ability to get |
| 5046s | another quest activator and throw out a |
| 5048s | waste of surgery on curve can be very |
| 5050s | game deciding but most of the time now |
| 5052s | casey won't be able to finish the quest |
| 5053s | until six and that gives priests just an |
| 5055s | extra turn to get way too far ahead out |
| 5058s | on the board right |
| 5064s | all right there's some uh higher |
| 5066s | aggression for lion with the light |
| 5068s | warden |
| 5070s | of the most aggressive minions in the |
| 5071s | deck if druid is lacking in removal can |
| 5073s | get carried away very very quickly |
| 5078s | and for this hand i |
| 5080s | am a fan of going like light warden and |
| 5083s | baby sidekick |
| 5085s | then curving that out into the 12 year |
| 5087s | north shore heal yes |
| 5091s | i would |
| 5093s | tend to agree with that as well |
| 5095s | well it looks like she's going a |
| 5097s | different way just consolidating this uh |
| 5098s | clerical board as quickly as possible it |
| 5100s | does seem the curve is just more natural |
| 5102s | the other way right like either way you |
| 5103s | play around the wrath on turn two from |
| 5105s | the opponent and but the fact that the |
| 5107s | tolvier is coming down next turn into |
| 5108s | the cleric heel uh does seem to make it |
| 5111s | more appealing just to have the light |
| 5112s | warden in play first |
| 5113s | right so prioritizing the cleric is |
| 5115s | basically prioritizing the cartridge |
| 5118s | is prioritizing the damages sure |
| 5125s | behold |
| 5126s | jewels of the sound |
| 5133s | already already picked up are we |
| 5135s | abandoning the light warden plane at |
| 5137s | this point the downside of playing out |
| 5139s | the light warden in the heel is that you |
| 5140s | play into one of mctech which i'm sure |
| 5142s | it's not that scary at this point |
| 5145s | the upside is you develop some more |
| 5147s | damage you get extra cards you push a |
| 5149s | little bit further |
| 5157s | going to be mindful of the mc tech |
| 5160s | choosing to heal first unlikely to play |
| 5162s | the light warden now as a follow-up |
| 5165s | well she could have still played around |
| 5167s | mind control tech and just made a 10-10 |
| 5169s | this turn right that was an option |
| 5173s | i mean i certainly think the fork in the |
| 5175s | road leads to playing into empty tuck |
| 5177s | and playing the light warden along with |
| 5178s | the heel |
| 5179s | getting the extra buff getting the extra |
| 5181s | draw taking a little bit slower |
| 5183s | or going in now and making the 10-10 |
| 5184s | right |
| 5186s | so this is kind of middle of the road |
| 5187s | here lion |
| 5192s | i suppose the clock is about the same if |
| 5195s | she makes the uh bigger minion next term |
| 5197s | with the divine spurrier in a fire |
| 5199s | because it takes three turns for the uh |
| 5201s | the 1010 to get over the line anyway |
| 5203s | circle being picked up here too |
| 5206s | lion able to draw an extra three cards |
| 5208s | here |
| 5211s | yeah so doing it this way around she can |
| 5212s | now end up with a 16 16 next turn anyway |
| 5215s | which still races the opponent over two |
| 5217s | turns which is the same amount of turns |
| 5219s | that the three turn clock would have |
| 5221s | activated on the previous term with the |
| 5222s | cleric anyway |
| 5223s | i mean looking at this game i really |
| 5225s | don't know where that 25 comes from |
| 5227s | sometimes |
| 5231s | yeah short version casey is looking |
| 5234s | super dead this game |
| 5237s | casey's best hope to detract this would |
| 5239s | have been to play a stealth |
| 5241s | wardrobe loady have that set up to |
| 5243s | prevent the potential two-turn lethal |
| 5245s | but casey seeing the buffs come out |
| 5247s | already conceding here |
| 5250s | uh casey don't have time for this |
| 5252s | nonsense he doesn't want to play druid |
| 5253s | against priests |
| 5256s | let's just get into some other matchups |
| 5258s | all right it's best of five we're |
| 5259s | playing the long game now casey's seen |
| 5261s | this pan out multiple times in grand |
| 5263s | masters understanding it's basically |
| 5265s | zero percent from there on |
| 5267s | yeah the wardrobe is a big point um it's |
| 5270s | something that you know i did play a ton |
| 5272s | of priest in the previous meta i'm not |
| 5274s | ashamed to admit that i like the deck i |
| 5277s | i have fun with it but i understand that |
| 5279s | most people don't have fun being on the |
| 5280s | receiving end of it and certainly when i |
| 5282s | queue into druid that stealth uh poison |
| 5285s | lottie on on turn three or you know turn |
| 5287s | three or turn four is one of the few |
| 5288s | things that you are scared of in the |
| 5290s | early game uh you do even have a game |
| 5292s | against that though with certain |
| 5293s | pyromancer turns that you can just take |
| 5294s | care of it with anyway so whichever way |
| 5297s | you stack the deck yeah priest is 75 and |
| 5300s | beyond in that match up according to our |
| 5301s | grandmaster's data so no great surprise |
| 5304s | to see uh lyon pick up a win there much |
| 5307s | to the uh much to the amusement of our |
| 5309s | crowd here who seem to be a very |
| 5310s | partisan in support of our chinese |
| 5312s | player |
| 5313s | right and now with the priests out of |
| 5315s | the way and with the shaman out of the |
| 5317s | way we're getting more or less to the |
| 5319s | meat of this match where casey has the |
| 5321s | warrior and the druid his control |
| 5323s | aspects of the lineup and vk lion on the |
| 5325s | other hand has the malygos druid and the |
| 5328s | reno hunter the anti-control tools in |
| 5331s | her lineup |
| 5332s | so looking at it now with both of the |
| 5334s | tier one decks gone it seems like lion |
| 5337s | has some pretty favorable matchups for |
| 5338s | her to queue into i wouldn't be |
| 5340s | surprised if she starts uh ripping out |
| 5342s | the hunter from this point on and it is |
| 5344s | the deck that she protected and it is |
| 5345s | the deck i think she has a lot of faith |
| 5346s | in as well yeah it does have to come out |
| 5348s | sooner rather than later right to really |
| 5350s | pay off that idea of it being protected |
| 5352s | it's extremely rare i think i remember |
| 5354s | orange doing it once where he protected |
| 5356s | a deck and then didn't play it during |
| 5358s | the series in hearthstone grandmasters |
| 5360s | which i think was holy wrath paladin at |
| 5362s | the time and he gave us an explanation |
| 5364s | for it in the post-match interview which |
| 5365s | i'm not sure made any sense but it's |
| 5367s | generally you're protecting your deck |
| 5369s | you're signaling your intention that |
| 5370s | that is your go-to deck in the series |
| 5372s | that you're planning to play and pick up |
| 5373s | a free win with right right and i |
| 5375s | believe in the playoffs purple actually |
| 5376s | did that to me as well oh really yeah |
| 5378s | protected the priest never played it so |
| 5380s | one of those high level mind games in |
| 5382s | purple of course one of those players |
| 5383s | who loves going for mind games i didn't |
| 5386s | see it coming at all at that point so |
| 5387s | potentially something like that coming |
| 5388s | out from lion where she saves 100 until |
| 5390s | the very end here well remember we are |
| 5393s | now best of five so there is still |
| 5394s | plenty of meat left in this series for |
| 5396s | you guys we're just going to get a quick |
| 5397s | word from our sponsors and we'll be |
| 5399s | right back with you |
| 5401s | and welcome back i feel weird even |
| 5403s | saying that you you guys weren't gone it |
| 5404s | was like 20 seconds what am i talking |
| 5406s | about um but we still have an awesome |
| 5407s | series of hearthstone laid out in front |
| 5409s | of us um one that i am personally |
| 5411s | invested in because i said it at the the |
| 5413s | top of the the series casey big friend |
| 5415s | of mine if you've watched any of |
| 5417s | european grand masters you probably are |
| 5418s | extremely annoyed at how biased i am |
| 5420s | towards casey in every single series and |
| 5423s | i've also |
| 5424s | based on limited exposure become a huge |
| 5426s | fan of lyon just hearing about the |
| 5427s | record that she had in the chinese |
| 5429s | region how she dominated everyone to get |
| 5431s | to this point and then i've been |
| 5433s | impressed with her play up until this |
| 5434s | point as well so i think it would be |
| 5436s | fantastic for her i think either of |
| 5438s | these two players would make me very |
| 5440s | happy with our with our global champion |
| 5441s | at the end of the event so i will be sad |
| 5444s | to see either one of these players go |
| 5445s | but one of them has to and saying you're |
| 5447s | just talking about how now some of these |
| 5449s | anti-control tools from lion is really |
| 5451s | going to come into play um how do you |
| 5453s | feel about the pick off malagastroid in |
| 5455s | general coming into this tournament |
| 5456s | because we've seen most people just go |
| 5458s | towards um just a regular druid list or |
| 5460s | the barefoot banker kind of infinite |
| 5461s | list where is mali druid positioned is |
| 5464s | just part of the anti-control strategy |
| 5465s | for lion do you think right so i think |
| 5467s | the malagos route gets a little less |
| 5469s | payoff in this meta because of doom and |
| 5471s | the tomb the druid does have the |
| 5473s | additional tool of the forgotten |
| 5475s | king so there's a lot of armor gain in |
| 5477s | the mirror and in the end |
| 5478s | maligo street only deals let's say 40 to |
| 5481s | 56 damage on average which means |
| 5484s | sometimes it sounds hilarious only 40 to |
| 5486s | 56 damage on average sometimes the games |
| 5489s | pan out in a state where the other druid |
| 5490s | has had board control the entire time |
| 5492s | and then with double and a |
| 5494s | ferocious health they can easily stack |
| 5495s | more than 50 |
| 5497s | effective health at that point so the |
| 5499s | big payoff for druid is actually hitting |
| 5501s | into the |
| 5502s | control area from casey's side so i |
| 5504s | think it's a little bit of a riskier |
| 5506s | brain uh but lion's sticking with it and |
| 5508s | i know tom brought it as well so |
| 5510s | certainly they were expecting some meta |
| 5512s | where there would be some res priests |
| 5513s | potentially and that would have been |
| 5515s | another big hit for the maligo street |
| 5516s | but unfortunately all eight players have |
| 5519s | brought combo priests so that kind of |
| 5520s | invalidated some of these picks yeah |
| 5522s | absolutely uh we can table that |
| 5523s | discussion for another day though |
| 5525s | because lion looks like she is gonna |
| 5526s | bring out this highlander hunter it's |
| 5528s | her unique deck in this tournament a |
| 5530s | deck that she clearly has put a ton of |
| 5532s | stock into it's the deck that she |
| 5534s | protected for this series as well which |
| 5536s | was uh not the expected outcome uh based |
| 5539s | on what we theorized backstage before we |
| 5541s | came out here and it's gonna go up |
| 5543s | against the quest druid from casey casey |
| 5546s | himself kind of the innovator if you |
| 5547s | like of this baleful banker list that a |
| 5549s | lot of people are now playing right so |
| 5551s | the battlefield banker druid a lot of |
| 5552s | the times that we've seen it on ladder |
| 5554s | does not run the remaining high end it |
| 5556s | doesn't run things like cenarius or king |
| 5558s | feyoras which actually in turn in this |
| 5560s | matchup are going to be very impactful |
| 5563s | the fact that the balfour baker doesn't |
| 5564s | just |
| 5565s | wait to go infinite and kind of keel |
| 5567s | over to the hunter pressure instead it |
| 5568s | has tools to fight back now so i expect |
| 5570s | the matchup to be a lot more even |
| 5575s | i guess the flip side of that is that |
| 5577s | they are very expensive clunky cards |
| 5580s | that you can be punished for by the more |
| 5581s | aggressive hunter if you draw them early |
| 5583s | uh whereas when the deck is more thinned |
| 5585s | out they're playing potentially more |
| 5586s | removal options like bees which can |
| 5588s | interact favorably in the early game |
| 5590s | and casey certainly has cut a few of the |
| 5593s | anti-aggro tools right he has one mc |
| 5594s | tech but in favor of that card he has |
| 5597s | cut out one swipe as well so his removal |
| 5599s | options are fairly limited going into |
| 5601s | the early game |
| 5606s | pretty strong looking curve here for |
| 5608s | lion as well one drop into secret into |
| 5610s | mask contender |
| 5612s | about as good as it gets earlier as a |
| 5615s | full keep actually i did not say |
| 5616s | actually |
| 5618s | potentially we were only brought in |
| 5619s | after the mulligan but shimmer fly snipe |
| 5622s | mass contender i mean consider being a |
| 5624s | very strong drop as well |
| 5626s | sometimes you don't get to pick what |
| 5628s | secret you want so keeping just one to |
| 5629s | make sure the contender is active one |
| 5631s | that's fairly likely to not be practiced |
| 5633s | good enough i'd say in the spot yeah |
| 5635s | almost certain right because crystal |
| 5637s | merchant is the only card that could |
| 5638s | come down this early and it's |
| 5640s | ridiculously unlikely that casey is |
| 5642s | gonna have the curve where he's able to |
| 5644s | coin his quest on one and then innovate |
| 5646s | his crystal merchant on two which is the |
| 5648s | only thing that would walk into that |
| 5649s | snipe and not get mask intended right |
| 5651s | and now lion another |
| 5653s | uh decision tree here zephyrus has quite |
| 5657s | a few good options uh in this matchup |
| 5659s | hunter versus drew you can play it out |
| 5660s | early on turn two for wild growth if you |
| 5662s | have a very mana heavy hand which she |
| 5664s | certainly does not at this point right |
| 5666s | you could play on turn five to get the |
| 5668s | savannah high main to curve out later on |
| 5670s | or you could hold it for removal |
| 5671s | potentially even quickly go as late as |
| 5674s | finding the tyrion further out |
| 5676s | i believe the 100 curve is already |
| 5678s | pretty good it has the ragnaros all the |
| 5680s | while gin a lot of the times i'm looking |
| 5682s | for a little bit more of an early impact |
| 5685s | and here because her hand is not so mana |
| 5687s | heavy she goes for the animal companion |
| 5689s | instead yeah absolutely makes sense and |
| 5691s | it's worth noting as well you talk about |
| 5692s | all the options that it gives it's worth |
| 5694s | noting that it is also just a blood thin |
| 5695s | raptor which is pretty effective in the |
| 5697s | early game against druid just having |
| 5698s | that extra 3-2 in play uh hitting away i |
| 5701s | think the power level of the mask |
| 5703s | contender versus the animal companion is |
| 5704s | debatable but the difference is that you |
| 5706s | play a 3-2 that turn instead of just |
| 5708s | secret pass which is not something |
| 5710s | that's pressuring the druid right it's |
| 5712s | definitely a world's difference in terms |
| 5713s | of the pressure output coming out from |
| 5715s | the hunter here |
| 5720s | damage gonna start adding up very |
| 5722s | quickly here but casey does have a nice |
| 5724s | looking hand to be able to create uh |
| 5726s | swings and recovery turns in the late |
| 5728s | game the mid game at least hidden oasis |
| 5731s | stuff all nourish all paired alongside |
| 5733s | that anubisath defender to be able to |
| 5735s | redominate the board |
| 5737s | all right if lion goes for something |
| 5739s | like desert spear here she might be |
| 5741s | running in the zephyrus here into the |
| 5744s | crystal merchant or potentially ignoring |
| 5746s | it which i think is a little bit better |
| 5747s | because that way you don't play directly |
| 5748s | into the swipe full clear remember there |
| 5751s | is only one swipe in the deck for casey |
| 5752s | though i was just going to mention that |
| 5753s | as well right like |
| 5755s | the fact that casey has this one of |
| 5756s | mctech one of swipe also makes it a |
| 5758s | little more awkward |
| 5759s | i actually do not mind playing into |
| 5761s | swipe here because a is a one-off as we |
| 5763s | were talking about and b it's it's a |
| 5764s | quest turn skipped i mean we could see |
| 5766s | the innovate so it wouldn't be but you |
| 5767s | know if they have the innovation and the |
| 5769s | the one-off swipe here then i guess just |
| 5771s | well played i think it's a perfectly |
| 5773s | reasonable thing not to play around in |
| 5774s | this position |
| 5777s | casey no swipe in sight again as a one |
| 5780s | of less likely for casey to have the |
| 5781s | correct answer here |
| 5786s | it seems like it will be another pass |
| 5788s | turn from casey's side but to follow |
| 5789s | this up this is going to |
| 5792s | finish up the quest for casey and at |
| 5794s | that point he is able to play things |
| 5795s | like starfall alongside the |
| 5798s | defender so yes that is a lot that he |
| 5800s | can do on the following game |
| 5802s | he is going to take an absolute |
| 5804s | hammering this turn though |
| 5807s | nine more damage absolute minimum coming |
| 5809s | in |
| 5810s | plus the potential for the weapon swing |
| 5811s | and the hero power as well |
| 5814s | does vk lion have to start prioritizing |
| 5816s | damage here or she's gonna keep playing |
| 5818s | to the board with the mask contender |
| 5819s | instead i mean this is very interesting |
| 5821s | right you play around oasis serger by |
| 5823s | playing up the freezing trap but you can |
| 5825s | play around with ubisoft defender and |
| 5826s | star fall if you go for the snipe |
| 5828s | instead right so another |
| 5829s | key decision on what trap to play out |
| 5832s | here |
| 5832s | she got rat trap as the pulled secret |
| 5835s | off the mast contender so freezing and |
| 5838s | rat in play |
| 5840s | which means there are potential worlds |
| 5842s | where casey might have been looking to |
| 5843s | use that innovate this turn alongside |
| 5844s | one of the big spells in the anubisath |
| 5846s | defender that is very much shut down by |
| 5847s | that rap that is in play and but much |
| 5849s | more likely we're just going to be |
| 5850s | seeing this uh stuff or ubersath |
| 5852s | response come out |
| 5856s | lion now needs a turn one turn to bridge |
| 5860s | this gap |
| 5862s | mark trump's absolutely does it yep |
| 5870s | deadly shot not bad tracking to pick up |
| 5874s | potential damage the zephyrus has been |
| 5875s | used so to really only be the kill |
| 5877s | command |
| 5878s | yeah zephyrus already used rag already |
| 5880s | in hand i think another one of the most |
| 5881s | impactful cards in the match up i mean |
| 5883s | see him at as well honestly like if you |
| 5884s | can find a turn to get that down like |
| 5886s | divine shield win fury and just leave it |
| 5887s | there can just be straight up game |
| 5889s | ending so a lot of the high impact cards |
| 5891s | are already in hand which made me value |
| 5893s | the tracking a little bit less um but i |
| 5895s | don't think the other two cards were |
| 5897s | like premium options right so i |
| 5898s | certainly wouldn't argue with the |
| 5899s | tracking in that position potentially |
| 5901s | it's just the deadly shot to play around |
| 5903s | the hidden oasis target but likely if |
| 5906s | that is the case you're going to want to |
| 5907s | be playing simon instead either way sure |
| 5914s | loti i guess is the other argument for a |
| 5916s | deadly shot maybe but that's kind of |
| 5917s | planning for the game to go longer |
| 5918s | because loti is really not something |
| 5920s | that's relevant in the current game |
| 5921s | state so it'd be a long-term pick and i |
| 5924s | don't think lion is too interested in |
| 5925s | long-term picks right now she doesn't |
| 5927s | want to straight into this game at this |
| 5929s | point the lodi would have to reveal |
| 5930s | itself so no real need for the deadly |
| 5932s | shot there |
| 5933s | but lion actually able to set up sema |
| 5935s | and that is another big pickup too if |
| 5937s | you're talking about the long game i |
| 5939s | mean lion does have something like this |
| 5945s | casey closes his eyes in response to |
| 5947s | this cmr did not want to see it coming |
| 5949s | down |
| 5950s | the pressure just keeps on coming |
| 5952s | through and this is curving perfectly |
| 5954s | into the rag next turn |
| 5957s | starfall not a bad hit here though |
| 5961s | in case he can't innovate here though |
| 5962s | innovate will probably round |
| 5965s | so just the one four in play |
| 5968s | oh |
| 5970s | bran sets up the two turn here |
| 5973s | the rag is nice but a guaranteed eight |
| 5976s | seems a little bit nicer to me here it |
| 5977s | sure does |
| 5982s | now for lyon does she choose to go for |
| 5984s | tracking this turn |
| 5989s | it can help her fetch call of the wild |
| 5991s | potentially that's a good point |
| 5993s | i mean out of these i mean it has to be |
| 5997s | one of those cards goes face yeah there |
| 5999s | it is |
| 6005s | there is that loti but casey is gonna |
| 6007s | have a hard time doing anything |
| 6009s | effective this turn uh without playing |
| 6011s | into this rat trap the loti is huge |
| 6013s | because it's his answer to that eight |
| 6015s | eight |
| 6016s | but when he's at eight himself |
| 6018s | he needs to be in a position where rag |
| 6020s | isn't threatening lethal on the other |
| 6021s | side i mean we can see that's the case |
| 6023s | casey might you know very much decide |
| 6025s | that rag is not hard he's beating here |
| 6027s | and i think he might be right in doing |
| 6028s | so |
| 6030s | casey for sure at this point it's more |
| 6032s | or less that there are certain late game |
| 6034s | tools that he's just praying are not nvk |
| 6036s | lion's hand because he really just can't |
| 6038s | afford to be either of them |
| 6040s | but here casey sees a very interesting |
| 6042s | spot where he's able to proc the rat |
| 6043s | trap cycle the wrath to kill the 6-6 |
| 6047s | and still kill off the king brush |
| 6049s | leaving bk line was simply the dino |
| 6051s | tamer brand summoning half on the board |
| 6054s | the problem is the freezing trap that he |
| 6055s | has in play though is going to remove |
| 6057s | that crystal merchant from the board |
| 6059s | which means this turn the board is going |
| 6061s | to end up empty with casey at eight |
| 6064s | health |
| 6067s | has been lined up if you haven't been |
| 6068s | following hearthstone i'm sure you know |
| 6070s | what ragnaros does and that means the |
| 6073s | game is ending |
| 6074s | v k lion is now just one game away from |
| 6079s | finding herself a spot in the global |
| 6082s | finals |
| 6084s | and certainly the hunter deck |
| 6086s | putting out that consistent pressure |
| 6088s | making sure the druid was basically on |
| 6090s | the back for the entire time there were |
| 6091s | some impressive turns from casey |
| 6093s | especially uh rocking the rat and |
| 6095s | getting rid of it but it just was a |
| 6096s | little bit |
| 6098s | too little |
| 6099s | you can see some of the lions pride in |
| 6101s | the crowd there |
| 6102s | huge amount of support and quite rightly |
| 6104s | so for this fantastic player who's been |
| 6106s | on an incredible run i said yesterday it |
| 6108s | was a just saiyan level undefeated |
| 6111s | streak which she is uh currently on as |
| 6113s | the man next to me did something very |
| 6115s | very similar last year as he proceeded |
| 6117s | through multiple tournaments we say |
| 6119s | without losing there is the asterisk |
| 6121s | because there was one double elimination |
| 6123s | tournament that we don't talk about |
| 6124s | right if you win the tournament did you |
| 6126s | really lose at that point and i think |
| 6128s | that is the real question and uh lion to |
| 6131s | continue that streak does of course |
| 6133s | still have the potential to win the |
| 6134s | biggest of tournaments and end up with |
| 6136s | herself as the global champion but |
| 6138s | before we see the conclusion of this |
| 6140s | series we are going to have to take one |
| 6141s | more break i'm sure you guys don't want |
| 6143s | to go anywhere because lion is right on |
| 6145s | the cusp of the global |
| 6147s | finals welcome back ladies and gentlemen |
| 6150s | boys and girls where we find lion a |
| 6154s | single game away from a final spot here |
| 6157s | at blizzcon this is the global finals |
| 6159s | here at blizzcon 2019 and on the other |
| 6162s | side of that coin casey finds himself on |
| 6165s | the precipice of |
| 6167s | another consistent performance right and |
| 6170s | i i don't want to like phrase that as a |
| 6172s | bad thing but it you know it is very |
| 6174s | much the story that casey has been faced |
| 6176s | with for many a year at this point where |
| 6178s | he's a fantastic player we know he's a |
| 6181s | fantastic player he has an overall win |
| 6183s | rate which is unmatched by the vast |
| 6185s | majority of competitive players in |
| 6186s | hearthstone but he is just lacking those |
| 6189s | huge wins that really put him on a |
| 6191s | pedestal given that legacy give him that |
| 6193s | hearthstone level of celebrity that |
| 6195s | people know him as a winner and here |
| 6197s | another top four of the world |
| 6198s | championship would just continue to bear |
| 6200s | that out a little bit right and |
| 6202s | certainly we were framing that going to |
| 6203s | the the final day here is it's a big day |
| 6206s | for casey to break that curse like what |
| 6207s | better way to do it than on the world |
| 6209s | stage here but vk lion continuing to |
| 6212s | crush the competition with her hunter |
| 6213s | deck all that remains now is vk lion on |
| 6217s | the malagos druid its matchups are going |
| 6219s | to be casey's standard baleful bankrupt |
| 6222s | deck and casey does have that edge in |
| 6224s | the druid mirror but in the end casey if |
| 6226s | we get to game five will have to be on |
| 6228s | that warrior which the druid does end up |
| 6231s | slightly favored versus yeah that is bad |
| 6234s | news for casey if he gets there uh casey |
| 6236s | is very confident in his list he's very |
| 6237s | confident in his match up so if you talk |
| 6239s | to casey he will probably say that that |
| 6241s | match up is close to 50 50 from the |
| 6243s | warrior perspective but there is a |
| 6245s | simple fact that the warrior cannot |
| 6247s | outlast the malagas druid in that |
| 6249s | matchup it doesn't happen the one thing |
| 6252s | that they have to do is they have a car |
| 6254s | in the deck casey has a her car in the |
| 6256s | deck which can a put a clock on the |
| 6258s | druid so they're taking huge amounts of |
| 6259s | damage themselves and eventually dying |
| 6261s | but more importantly once more than one |
| 6264s | corrupted blood goes into the deck if |
| 6265s | that happens early enough that switches |
| 6268s | off all of the highlander cards uh for |
| 6270s | that malagus druid from lion which means |
| 6272s | elise won't be able to be used zephyrus |
| 6274s | won't be able to be used et cetera |
| 6276s | is the primary wing condition right in |
| 6278s | this matchup because you're playing |
| 6279s | mountain go straight most |
| 6280s | traditionalists and lions list included |
| 6282s | does not play the zephyrus as well so |
| 6284s | there's no real counterplay to hakar |
| 6286s | once it comes down and gets uh killed |
| 6288s | off the bloods will be shuffled so |
| 6291s | there's no answer in the sense that |
| 6292s | zephyrus would traditionally offer |
| 6294s | something like hex on the car |
| 6297s | yeah it could make a huge huge |
| 6298s | difference is why we saw this matchup |
| 6300s | being played or a similar matchup being |
| 6301s | played by casey yesterday we were |
| 6303s | talking about the importance of shield |
| 6305s | slam for casey to have to guarantee that |
| 6308s | his her car died in certain situations |
| 6310s | to play around those transform outs from |
| 6312s | the zephyrus and you can see here in |
| 6314s | this malagas druid no zephyrus in sight |
| 6316s | for lion uh full greed version of the |
| 6319s | malagostar with all the late game |
| 6321s | potential and unsurprisingly despite the |
| 6323s | fact that we're talking about the |
| 6324s | warrior matchup because we will theorize |
| 6326s | that the warrior match up is what this |
| 6328s | is going to come down to uh casey is |
| 6330s | going to choose to cue out his uh |
| 6331s | regular quest druid first i think that |
| 6333s | is very sensible from casey's side |
| 6336s | getting the coin meaning that she'll be |
| 6338s | a step closer to quest completion |
| 6340s | nourish the hand looking pretty good |
| 6341s | here and druid mirror is still in the |
| 6344s | end a druid mirror and a lot of what |
| 6346s | that comes down to is whoever draws |
| 6348s | nourish first is pretty far ahead but if |
| 6351s | both players draw nourish at roughly the |
| 6353s | same time it ends up being that casey's |
| 6356s | drew deck comes out faker |
| 6358s | and is it is it a pressure plan for |
| 6360s | casey is it an attrition plan does he |
| 6362s | out armor the damage is it a mixture of |
| 6364s | both like how do you approach this from |
| 6366s | the the questra inside the regular |
| 6367s | equestrian side so the mid game kind of |
| 6369s | boils down to the druids removing each |
| 6371s | other's uh oasis surgeries etc but in |
| 6374s | the late game lion needs to take two |
| 6376s | turns to set up the pedal the floors and |
| 6378s | that kind of stuff and casey on those |
| 6380s | turns is putting out king failures he's |
| 6382s | putting out cenarius and getting the |
| 6384s | damage in there so casey's plan will |
| 6387s | definitely out tempo alliance in the |
| 6389s | later in the later stages of the game |
| 6393s | lion here already uh faced with |
| 6395s | decisions and options innovating our |
| 6397s | crystal merchant on turn two to proc |
| 6399s | quest |
| 6400s | uh but potentially having that innovate |
| 6402s | available with the nourish as well can |
| 6404s | be powerful in the later terms chooses |
| 6406s | to just start drawing the cards now |
| 6407s | though |
| 6408s | so an interesting decision lion will be |
| 6411s | able to pick up the extra cards from the |
| 6412s | merchant but the innervate because she |
| 6414s | pointed out on turn one was also going |
| 6416s | to allow her to |
| 6417s | point uh innervate out the nourish on |
| 6419s | turn five after request completion |
| 6421s | exactly definitely values the card draw |
| 6423s | now on top of the nourish later on in |
| 6426s | the game yep |
| 6429s | wardrobe conveniently slides into the |
| 6432s | hand for lyon it does solve a problem |
| 6434s | right now that she doesn't have a way of |
| 6435s | dealing with is it ever a consideration |
| 6437s | this time |
| 6439s | i think you're so far committed to the |
| 6441s | quest and it's all right that both |
| 6442s | players are drawing with crystal |
| 6443s | merchant at this point she's really |
| 6445s | looking for something to do on turn five |
| 6446s | right so sure i like that she's for |
| 6448s | going to lowly the loading this turn and |
| 6451s | digging deeper for the oasis serger |
| 6462s | debating whether to throw this damage |
| 6463s | into the 1-4 or not chooses to do so in |
| 6465s | the end |
| 6467s | sets herself up for uh wrath draw off |
| 6469s | the top potentially next turn |
| 6474s | as you can see from casey's side |
| 6477s | so using the route here has two pretty |
| 6480s | big impacts one is you're making sure |
| 6482s | your opponent doesn't draw cards but at |
| 6483s | the same time that means wrath won't get |
| 6485s | both effects later on the game and draw |
| 6487s | a card for yourself |
| 6488s | casey has to take a lot of consideration |
| 6490s | into that because currently the nourish |
| 6492s | is not sitting in casey's hand |
| 6502s | what to do |
| 6503s | so now lion is going to end up with a |
| 6506s | slightly awkward uh turn four and turn |
| 6508s | five uh because of that innervate usage |
| 6510s | but she is one car deeper in her deck |
| 6512s | than she would be otherwise because of |
| 6513s | it |
| 6517s | casey looking like he might have an |
| 6519s | opportunity to at least pull ahead on |
| 6520s | some tempo over the coming turns |
| 6523s | but saying has been mentioning that |
| 6524s | nourish in hand for lion is still |
| 6526s | currently a massive advantage for her |
| 6530s | all right i like |
| 6531s | lion taking it slow here i think killing |
| 6533s | off the crystal merchant with water |
| 6535s | though loading now would be an |
| 6536s | overreaction and also it hedges |
| 6540s | against the potential of breaking on the |
| 6542s | next draw as well right if you don't |
| 6543s | find the oyster surgery you can at least |
| 6545s | put down the wardrobe loading on turn |
| 6547s | five |
| 6550s | uh the hero power when faced that turn i |
| 6552s | think instead of going into the minion |
| 6554s | after she'd attacked it on the previous |
| 6555s | term was there a reason to attack into |
| 6557s | the crystal merch at that time when |
| 6559s | potentially swipe was something that you |
| 6560s | were using on turn five |
| 6563s | uh there is some merit to setting it |
| 6565s | down but certainly i mean the hero power |
| 6566s | is gone now so we're never going to be |
| 6568s | able to all right |
| 6579s | and lion pain playing this game out |
| 6581s | patiently keeping the loading cell it is |
| 6583s | one of the nicer answers to something |
| 6585s | like oasis surgery here now |
| 6592s | now you can see the way the lion has |
| 6594s | played this out has worked out perfectly |
| 6596s | for her that one attack that did go into |
| 6597s | the crystal merchant and the one attack |
| 6599s | that didn't has left it at that perfect |
| 6601s | residual to health where she has maximum |
| 6603s | options this time and she's just gonna |
| 6605s | choose to rip the nourish immediately |
| 6607s | i definitely like continuing with your |
| 6609s | own game plan understanding the matchup |
| 6611s | is slightly unfavored for you it's |
| 6613s | important to go ahead and cycle towards |
| 6615s | those combo pieces because in the end |
| 6617s | drew's effective health is somewhere in |
| 6619s | the 50s to 60s right so there's 11 power |
| 6621s | on the board but in the end it's |
| 6623s | not going to make that much of a |
| 6624s | difference it's |
| 6626s | the later games plan from feyers or |
| 6628s | cenarius i can kind of end it but here |
| 6630s | are the waste sisters i like that |
| 6633s | i was interested in a point you made |
| 6634s | yesterday though about um the usage of |
| 6636s | the floating mana after the nourish |
| 6638s | whereas again there's a ferocious howl |
| 6640s | in hand this turn for lion that could |
| 6642s | have been used with alongside a turn |
| 6644s | seven or a seven mana nourish as opposed |
| 6646s | to a six-man nourish uh whereas this |
| 6647s | turn she just kind of ended up floating |
| 6649s | those extra crystals that she gained but |
| 6651s | she didn't really have an efficient way |
| 6652s | to spend all that man at that turn |
| 6653s | regardless right right i mean the hand |
| 6655s | gets a little bit clogged this way but |
| 6657s | at the same time uh two very different |
| 6659s | matchups where the druid needs to |
| 6660s | respect the damage from the rogue right |
| 6662s | at this point you don't really need to |
| 6663s | respect the damage coming out from the |
| 6664s | opposing druid |
| 6666s | so six plus three on this uh star fall |
| 6672s | which means potentially a swipe can now |
| 6674s | clean up the board state and push some |
| 6675s | face damage as well |
| 6677s | right certainly using the first swipe is |
| 6679s | not that big of a deal but i'm |
| 6681s | thinking that lion wants to keep hold of |
| 6683s | the second swipe and you see the way |
| 6685s | that she |
| 6686s | instantly grabbed the swipe on the right |
| 6688s | hand side of the hand there it means |
| 6690s | that later on when the elise comes out |
| 6692s | she'll be able to get an extra copy of |
| 6694s | swipe from the left hand side as well |
| 6696s | yep hugely important uh when i was |
| 6698s | learning this deck for the first time it |
| 6700s | was the number one way i found myself |
| 6702s | throwing games was just using the wrong |
| 6704s | copy of a card in my hand in certain |
| 6706s | situations you need to be very very |
| 6708s | careful because particularly in this |
| 6710s | deck you need to be copying perfect |
| 6713s | hands a lot of the time especially |
| 6714s | against armor classes so manipulating |
| 6717s | which cards are on your left that will |
| 6718s | get copied versus which cards are on |
| 6720s | your right that won't get copied is very |
| 6722s | very important and casey putting out a |
| 6724s | decent fight right like he didn't see |
| 6725s | the nourish early on in this game but he |
| 6727s | still got a full hand got both oasis |
| 6729s | surgeries out here and he does have the |
| 6730s | option later on to potentially even flip |
| 6733s | an oasis serger to continue this |
| 6735s | pressure train |
| 6737s | but at that point he might be giving up |
| 6739s | too much potential armor game because |
| 6740s | that floop would have not been a con the |
| 6742s | forgotten king |
| 6747s | bk line on the other side as she is the |
| 6749s | aggressor is willing to throw uh here |
| 6752s | just for a little bit of board pressure |
| 6753s | and a lot of tempo as well |
| 6758s | yeah the question is what she's |
| 6759s | intending to follow this up with |
| 6762s | because the gebetto here is not uh |
| 6764s | guaranteed to hit the juicy minions that |
| 6766s | she wants it to there are still i |
| 6767s | believe both oasis surges left in the |
| 6769s | deck there is a second and ubisoft |
| 6771s | defender left in the deck as well which |
| 6773s | would not be high impact drawers |
| 6776s | right but there's not |
| 6777s | much else she can do to fill out the |
| 6780s | curve here like |
| 6781s | just how you'd have to be looking at a |
| 6782s | secondary nurse or just drawing the |
| 6784s | oyster surgery she gets the one man at |
| 6785s | least not defender not the one she's |
| 6787s | really looking for here nope |
| 6796s | choosing to reveal the loti in this |
| 6797s | situation there is that single copy of |
| 6800s | mind control tech in casey's deck |
| 6802s | therefore if the mind control tech comes |
| 6804s | down and steals the loti you want it to |
| 6806s | be visible so that you're able to take |
| 6808s | care of it on the opposing side |
| 6810s | certainly casey gonna go ahead and let |
| 6811s | the mctuck rip here |
| 6817s | that's a big deal because now the wrath |
| 6819s | can also remove the 6-6 |
| 6821s | yep but it does reward her decision to |
| 6823s | attack with it on the previous turn |
| 6825s | because now she does have control of |
| 6826s | being able to clear it out |
| 6829s | very very big difference from leaving it |
| 6830s | stealth there so it might look like a |
| 6832s | bad outcome for her but it's one that |
| 6833s | she planned for and one that she was |
| 6835s | able to mitigate to uh the best degree |
| 6836s | that she could |
| 6839s | casey here mounting up a decent amount |
| 6842s | before pressure at this point |
| 6845s | looking a little dead we're looking to |
| 6847s | find maybe the second nourish |
| 6848s | potentially wrath is all right here as |
| 6850s | well off the ferocious hal |
| 6852s | starfall playing defensively but not |
| 6853s | really moving towards her final game |
| 6855s | plan too far right |
| 6861s | looking for the uh remaining two offs in |
| 6864s | lions deck that she needs before she can |
| 6866s | really start executing game plans |
| 6867s | without elise uh she certainly has two |
| 6869s | copies of wrath left in the deck at a |
| 6871s | minimum |
| 6872s | that might just be it |
| 6879s | at least being so cheap and the moon |
| 6881s | fires and the swipe ending up on the |
| 6882s | left hand side of her hand i think she's |
| 6884s | able to forego the malagos in some stage |
| 6886s | of this game as well |
| 6890s | she might be able to get one two |
| 6892s | floops that end up being maui so she |
| 6894s | doesn't even need to reduce the mallee |
| 6895s | right she's able to get two maligos and |
| 6898s | four moon fires |
| 6899s | um and that might be enough to kind of |
| 6901s | close out the game and skip |
| 6906s | and then have two flooped malaguses |
| 6908s | alongside four moon fires to follow up |
| 6910s | yeah exactly so the head is definitely |
| 6912s | panning out all right for her |
| 6915s | choosing not to use the mana from the |
| 6917s | starfall here i mean it's not the |
| 6919s | prettiest clear but it's hard to utilize |
| 6921s | that mana and cycle later on in the game |
| 6923s | as well it is |
| 6927s | this does now create a |
| 6929s | huge damage swing from casey coming |
| 6931s | through with all three of these minions |
| 6933s | left alive |
| 6935s | casey choosing to respect the 1-4 though |
| 6939s | so where the expedition giving the lodi |
| 6942s | is able to clear a little bit more |
| 6944s | because you can't have the mana to play |
| 6946s | snuffle and the swipe it's looking very |
| 6948s | dark here it is |
| 6951s | lion looks like she's struggling it |
| 6953s | looks like it might just come down to |
| 6955s | that matchup that we prophesize the drew |
| 6957s | versus the warrior |
| 6959s | she's going to have to make something |
| 6960s | magical happen here to find a way out of |
| 6962s | this one |
| 6964s | cenarius does not look like it |
| 6968s | wrath dealing with the mctech here but |
| 6970s | still |
| 6971s | a little bit too much damage |
| 6973s | while i'm able left here |
| 6974s | both of the seven drops so on board |
| 6975s | there will be 18 damage which is exactly |
| 6978s | the life total that lion is at |
| 6988s | in order for her to continue on this |
| 6990s | game she would have to expend both of |
| 6991s | those moon fires and in essence that |
| 6993s | would be game over already yes exactly |
| 6998s | you need to have at least one copy of |
| 7000s | moonfire remaining that you can start |
| 7002s | duplicating with your release |
| 7004s | using both of them here would |
| 7006s | essentially be a concession |
| 7008s | leaving 18 damage on board is certainly |
| 7010s | a concession the lions gonna make casey |
| 7013s | go through the motions here and make the |
| 7015s | attacks and that is now gonna square |
| 7017s | this series up two games to tuesday |
| 7021s | and it is going to come down to a game |
| 7024s | five in our first best of five series |
| 7025s | here in the semifinals |
| 7027s | casey tying it up |
| 7029s | last match up warrior versus maligo |
| 7032s | street |
| 7033s | yeah and this was a matchup that we saw |
| 7035s | played out in grand masters multiple |
| 7037s | times and was supposedly borderline |
| 7039s | unwinnable for the warrior |
| 7041s | things have changed significantly since |
| 7043s | then uh because essentially masters tour |
| 7046s | bucharest happened and now suddenly her |
| 7048s | car is just the flavor of the month card |
| 7050s | that is coming into all of these decks |
| 7052s | um to be able to fight back against a |
| 7054s | lot of the zoftecs on the other side and |
| 7056s | also the uh the shivala paladins and the |
| 7058s | malagas druid and giving yourself |
| 7060s | certain outs against them that you don't |
| 7061s | have otherwise so that her car really |
| 7064s | does change the equation for casey in |
| 7066s | this matchup right absolutely before the |
| 7068s | car i would give this match up you know |
| 7070s | 80 20 for the druid but the car |
| 7072s | being basically the only moved piece in |
| 7074s | this matchup casey will be full mulling |
| 7077s | mulla getting for car draw and the car |
| 7079s | option he needs to get that out as soon |
| 7080s | as possible and even then vk line could |
| 7082s | have already duplicated a hand of moon |
| 7084s | fires up to that point and that might be |
| 7085s | enough to solidify the game so |
| 7087s | definitely very hard for casey to come |
| 7089s | back in this matchup but we'll be |
| 7091s | bringing you that match very soon we |
| 7093s | certainly will but before we do so we do |
| 7095s | have to have one absolute final |
| 7097s | lightning fast word from our sponsors we |
| 7099s | will be right back |
| 7101s | game number five semi-finals here at |
| 7104s | blizzcon 2019 |
| 7106s | lion from china versus casey from |
| 7110s | germany for a spot in the finals of the |
| 7112s | global finals and for a chance to |
| 7114s | continue the dream of being |
| 7115s | hearthstone's global champion for |
| 7118s | 2019 lion has the edge in the match up |
| 7121s | but by what kind of margin is debatable |
| 7124s | casey will tell you it's very small i'm |
| 7126s | sure lyon will say it's significantly |
| 7129s | bigger as is the bias that people tend |
| 7131s | to have towards their own decks but you |
| 7133s | can see here that key card right in the |
| 7135s | middle is the keyest of key cards in |
| 7138s | this scenario it would be borderline |
| 7140s | hopeless without the availability of |
| 7142s | that her car arguably the only car that |
| 7144s | matters in this matchup because it's |
| 7146s | very unlikely that the druid mounts |
| 7148s | enough pressure to pressure out the |
| 7149s | druid and hakar |
| 7151s | dying |
| 7152s | needs to happen before the lease comes |
| 7154s | out from vk line's side as well so a lot |
| 7156s | of conditions have to be met before her |
| 7158s | car can be even considered the final win |
| 7159s | condition in the match |
| 7162s | yeah whereas from lions side this deck |
| 7164s | the malagos druid i do still feel like |
| 7167s | it has |
| 7168s | some element of failure rate to it uh |
| 7171s | you were talking before about how prior |
| 7172s | to her car coming in you would maybe |
| 7173s | call it an 80 20 matchup i feel like a |
| 7176s | lot of the time that 20 is the druid |
| 7178s | losing to themselves as opposed to |
| 7179s | anything that the warrior is doing |
| 7180s | against them right like right |
| 7182s | dr boom comes out and like there's so |
| 7184s | many seven uh armored games yeah i mean |
| 7186s | a lot of the time but also just like a |
| 7187s | super dry draw from the druid side where |
| 7189s | like you know both your nourishers are |
| 7191s | like bottom five or whatever right you |
| 7192s | just have to end up going through the |
| 7193s | game so slowly that you give the warrior |
| 7196s | all this additional time to pick up |
| 7198s | extra armor in the matchup um if the |
| 7200s | cards are anything like in the right |
| 7202s | order then the pressure is going to be |
| 7203s | on casey to find that her car to execute |
| 7206s | the game plan that plays the disrupter |
| 7209s | to what lion is looking to do here but i |
| 7211s | will call lion a favorite here for a |
| 7213s | spot in the finals and coming into this |
| 7215s | game five lying on the play casey on the |
| 7218s | coin so already |
| 7220s | a little bit of an edge here being taken |
| 7222s | away from lions side |
| 7228s | line does have some cycle available |
| 7229s | though which is important |
| 7231s | to ferocious house able to dig on |
| 7233s | through that deck and find the nourish |
| 7234s | that she will need sooner rather than |
| 7235s | later |
| 7236s | to really uh explode into this matchup |
| 7239s | and but saying set it out for you there |
| 7241s | is one card and one card alone really |
| 7243s | that's gonna matter |
| 7245s | in this match up for casey so just keep |
| 7247s | an eye on that right hand side of |
| 7249s | casey's hand every single turn and see |
| 7251s | if that car makes an appearance |
| 7257s | outside of that he i guess he does at |
| 7259s | least have to pay lip service to some |
| 7261s | kind of pressure plan in the match up |
| 7262s | right like try and magnetize some mechs |
| 7264s | where possible try and build up some |
| 7266s | damage maybe magnetize the snip snap |
| 7268s | down on something and push some damage |
| 7270s | through |
| 7271s | right and certainly the warriors |
| 7272s | pressure plan has been very limited |
| 7274s | given that casey's not running the |
| 7276s | turning rover as well so right zip snap |
| 7278s | coming down is going to be later rather |
| 7280s | than sooner most of the time |
| 7287s | and lion taking slow making sure that |
| 7289s | she's |
| 7290s | getting all the hand reads that she |
| 7291s | needs john down the notes as this is the |
| 7294s | determining game remaining in the |
| 7296s | semi-finals |
| 7301s | now lying can begin to cycle start to |
| 7304s | dig for that nourish that gives her a |
| 7306s | pretty ideal turn four in the scenario |
| 7308s | with the uh where worthy expedition |
| 7310s | filling the one more available manner i |
| 7312s | guess we can phrase it alongside the |
| 7313s | second ferocious how |
| 7315s | all right after we're the expedition we |
| 7317s | can find the nourish that will fill out |
| 7319s | the next turn for her as well yep it's |
| 7320s | actually always the search is not that |
| 7322s | either something i'd |
| 7323s | instantly pick up i think for the |
| 7324s | expedition as well |
| 7343s | perfect timing for lyon finding the |
| 7345s | nourish going into that turn six next |
| 7346s | turn |
| 7348s | so now she can wait potentially on |
| 7351s | playing the where the expedition |
| 7353s | if we don't get the car drive that we |
| 7355s | need off of the first nourish |
| 7356s | potentially the word the expedition |
| 7358s | could act as a second one as well |
| 7360s | so saying play the nourish first gain |
| 7362s | more information about what your hand |
| 7364s | looks like at that point and then play |
| 7365s | the worthy expedition afterwards it's |
| 7367s | certainly something to debate about a |
| 7369s | little bit but i think your ideal pick |
| 7371s | would be nourished anyway in this second |
| 7373s | because it is such a combo heavy uh |
| 7375s | matchup not able to find a secondary |
| 7377s | nourish here but cenarius not too bad to |
| 7379s | fill out the curve later on |
| 7381s | it's also just a very expensive clunky |
| 7384s | card right where if you're if your |
| 7386s | drawer is extremely smooth and you start |
| 7387s | getting towards the bottom of your deck |
| 7388s | very quickly even having a card as good |
| 7391s | as cenarius can be irritating just |
| 7392s | because it's not something that you |
| 7393s | necessarily want to spend night man on |
| 7395s | because it is it's a minion that you |
| 7396s | have to get out of your hand before |
| 7398s | dream pedal florist a lot of the time in |
| 7399s | this matchup right and so i think that |
| 7401s | is something that you do have to keep an |
| 7402s | eye on |
| 7410s | watch casey's reaction |
| 7417s | he's not even looking right now |
| 7419s | perhaps he doesn't want to see it |
| 7424s | lion taking her time though are there |
| 7426s | legitimate other options this time do |
| 7428s | you think |
| 7430s | i i don't think so i mean rath's swipe |
| 7433s | but |
| 7434s | there it is okay |
| 7438s | he made us wait for it but it came |
| 7441s | and potentially this was more or less a |
| 7443s | tactical rope as we call business |
| 7458s | not a better card in the deck this turn |
| 7461s | i think that's what the rope was |
| 7463s | actually about for lion was just the |
| 7465s | implications of what nourish meant for |
| 7466s | her going to 10 cards you know do i have |
| 7468s | to will i end up having to burn a moon |
| 7470s | fire or burn and innovate to not |
| 7471s | overdraw in the situation but finding |
| 7474s | that one extra cycle off the wrap into |
| 7476s | the anubisath defender was the nuts for |
| 7478s | lyon that turned right i absolutely |
| 7480s | agree so he's definitely considering |
| 7481s | hand size issues there casey |
| 7484s | turned five pass basically |
| 7490s | oh that was just two in a row i mean |
| 7491s | what we get so excited about two |
| 7493s | innervates two in ubersoft and duck is |
| 7495s | looking a little stacked |
| 7497s | can we get a reshuffle please |
| 7503s | turn nine cenarius is green |
| 7506s | yeah definitely like just |
| 7507s | dumping some of the higher end cards |
| 7509s | making it easier for her to cycle |
| 7511s | throughout the rest of her deck as well |
| 7513s | as play the least later on |
| 7517s | has the match up changed at all just in |
| 7518s | terms of how the the late game finishing |
| 7521s | combo works because i was told by frozen |
| 7523s | that um against the armor classes you're |
| 7525s | generally looking to go dream pedal |
| 7526s | florist innovate floop in the same turn |
| 7529s | where you have the two of the elise and |
| 7530s | the malagas in hand at the time |
| 7532s | has that changed with the addition of |
| 7534s | kernels that opened up any more like |
| 7536s | late game kill combos |
| 7539s | i think fun can do some things but |
| 7541s | certainly the standard combo of holding |
| 7543s | onto an innervate until the very end |
| 7544s | having the dream pedal innervate the |
| 7547s | flip of the dream pedal yep that's kind |
| 7549s | of always been the case and it's |
| 7552s | not the way he has gained much else in |
| 7553s | terms of armor gain right i finally just |
| 7555s | tend to play the gun for the uh the |
| 7557s | tempo here especially when you've got |
| 7559s | hand size issues as line has at the |
| 7560s | moment yep |
| 7562s | certainly lines up with my understanding |
| 7563s | as well um so if you're not familiar |
| 7565s | like this gets very complicated when we |
| 7567s | get to the late game uh but the |
| 7568s | particular combo that myself and saying |
| 7570s | are talking about dream pal flores will |
| 7572s | discount a minion um by a huge amount in |
| 7574s | hand and then you can use your fluke to |
| 7576s | copy that dream pedal florist so that |
| 7578s | effect happens twice on the same turn if |
| 7581s | you do that with just the two minions |
| 7583s | malagos and elise in your hand |
| 7585s | a zero mana minion cannot be targeted |
| 7588s | which means if the elise gets hit once |
| 7591s | the malagus is guaranteed to get hit by |
| 7593s | the second one so basically you |
| 7594s | guarantee a dream scenario for yourself |
| 7597s | where you have huge damage if you do it |
| 7599s | that way absolutely subtle so both |
| 7601s | scenarios end up to be winning scenarios |
| 7603s | when you have a two-man amalga ghost and |
| 7604s | a zero mana lease or five mana at least |
| 7607s | on zero managers oh this one though |
| 7610s | going to town from casey here |
| 7613s | two in a row |
| 7615s | two innovates in a row two a number |
| 7616s | south defenders in a row two one ones |
| 7618s | winning the brawl in a row as well |
| 7622s | this thing is coming in pairs here lion |
| 7624s | picking up a little more cards right |
| 7625s | here not too bad |
| 7627s | but she can go for |
| 7629s | a further pressure plan here going for a |
| 7631s | waste of serger playing crystal merchant |
| 7633s | as well and then just using an innervate |
| 7635s | to draw cards again she only needs to |
| 7637s | keep one of these innervates in hand |
| 7639s | absolutely yeah make sure she gets the |
| 7641s | right pulse with the string pedal |
| 7643s | crucially though again with malagas left |
| 7645s | remaining in the deck she did kind of |
| 7647s | whiff that turn on the uh the gepetto as |
| 7649s | well right there is a floop of maligos |
| 7652s | and i believe another oyster serger |
| 7654s | remaining in the death sounds right |
| 7657s | behold the jewels of the sounds |
| 7663s | nine cards remaining gotta think you are |
| 7665s | exchanging one of these innovates for a |
| 7667s | random card here |
| 7669s | there is the second copy of nourish |
| 7671s | which is gonna push lion essentially all |
| 7673s | the way down to the bottom of her deck |
| 7674s | here and that is the remainder of the |
| 7676s | deck casey's still about halfway through |
| 7678s | his deck he does have harrison jones in |
| 7680s | hand he does have the weapons project so |
| 7682s | there is a point where he is able to |
| 7684s | draw into a car later on in the stages |
| 7687s | of this game as well |
| 7703s | currently nine cards in hand for lions |
| 7705s | so she does need to do some accounting |
| 7707s | here before she can rip that second |
| 7709s | nourish |
| 7711s | malygos and flu both still in deck so |
| 7712s | she can't afford to be burning cards |
| 7714s | right now |
| 7715s | this could just be a turn to dump the |
| 7717s | two starfalls out of the hand starfall |
| 7719s | being able to be played on an empty |
| 7721s | board |
| 7722s | and then go for car draw later on she is |
| 7724s | delaying it by a turn but it seems like |
| 7726s | it's going to be awkward and she's going |
| 7727s | to reach an awkward conclusion with his |
| 7729s | hand no matter what yep |
| 7731s | strange interaction because you know |
| 7733s | when you cast stuff all in the um |
| 7736s | upgraded druid form you do have to |
| 7738s | target something with it but i think you |
| 7740s | know the idea being they don't want the |
| 7741s | card to have any downsides versus what |
| 7743s | it would be in its natural forms they |
| 7745s | give you the ability to be able to cast |
| 7746s | it on an empty board as well |
| 7748s | casey |
| 7749s | digging deep now for three car as well |
| 7752s | as the shield slam and i i do say the |
| 7755s | shield sign is important here because it |
| 7756s | means he's able to kill it off |
| 7758s | immediately and get one step closer to |
| 7761s | what's being shot into the deck |
| 7764s | 57 total effective health now for casey |
| 7767s | is there a point where he gets out of |
| 7769s | range of the maximum possible damage |
| 7771s | it is looking a little scary on top of |
| 7773s | the doctor boom there |
| 7775s | and |
| 7776s | lyon only has one remaining oasis |
| 7778s | surgery so there is potential i believe |
| 7781s | for casey to make his way out of range |
| 7792s | so for vk lion she would like to make |
| 7795s | the malagos zero mana i believe |
| 7799s | in order to fit in |
| 7803s | is there any way you can get two swipes |
| 7810s | power potentially |
| 7813s | yeah if she's able to create a zero mana |
| 7814s | malagus and then duplicate it uh then |
| 7817s | over multiple turns she could then play |
| 7819s | double maui double swipe four moon fires |
| 7822s | just based off one uh lease duplication |
| 7826s | light diffusers |
| 7835s | yep that is spell damage representing |
| 7836s | extra damage is also just a four damage |
| 7838s | stealth minion that can hit casey in the |
| 7840s | face right there as well which is super |
| 7842s | relevant in the position where casey is |
| 7845s | hovering right around the point where he |
| 7846s | might just be amassing too much health |
| 7848s | to push over the line |
| 7851s | so now for lion we |
| 7854s | are going to see a crucial flip in this |
| 7857s | game |
| 7858s | where if we get to see zero mana malygos |
| 7861s | lion will be able to put out |
| 7863s | two swipes four moon fires on the same |
| 7865s | turn |
| 7866s | in the case that they're |
| 7869s | having twos interfaces oh she has to use |
| 7872s | innervate first right if she's going for |
| 7874s | the floop setup she has to use the |
| 7876s | innovate first off the dream pedal turn |
| 7878s | yes all right so there's no way for her |
| 7879s | to do it but now with the swipe being |
| 7881s | played that's fine because she still |
| 7883s | duplicates the one swipe that she has to |
| 7885s | end up with two swipes so one of those |
| 7886s | is free to be used |
| 7900s | and step one for lyon has been achieved |
| 7902s | because i believe this is now gonna |
| 7904s | potentially be her at least uh her dream |
| 7906s | pedal turn and the car has not been |
| 7909s | found yet for casey which means his |
| 7912s | ability to disrupt her release by |
| 7914s | putting multiple bloods in the deck is |
| 7915s | very very quickly dwindling away there |
| 7918s | you see the double dream petal roll |
| 7920s | we'll see where these go no reduction in |
| 7922s | the hair |
| 7924s | zero mana mali coming out |
| 7929s | so now two mallees two swipes four moon |
| 7932s | fires that's six spells total that each |
| 7935s | have plus 10 spell damage that's 60 |
| 7938s | damage just in spell damage plus the |
| 7941s | cost of the spells that's 72 i believe |
| 7945s | 16 32 44 76 as each of the moon fires is |
| 7949s | going to deal 11. |
| 7950s | six okay i'll take your word for it |
| 7957s | potentially |
| 7958s | if we had played a doctor doom slightly |
| 7960s | earlier but |
| 7961s | now now it doesn't look like it's going |
| 7963s | to be enough here |
| 7968s | but the healing from the |
| 7970s | cartoon defender does that ever come |
| 7972s | into play |
| 7974s | you need a hand uh it does you can |
| 7976s | always swipe last so one swipe is used |
| 7980s | the three happens and then the second |
| 7981s | swipe still so as long as they are |
| 7983s | within three of your boundary of lethal |
| 7986s | then you still have lethal so we want to |
| 7987s | see the first swipe then we want to see |
| 7989s | all the moon fires and then the last |
| 7990s | swipe sure yeah i mean if the first one |
| 7992s | isn't going to heal because it's only |
| 7993s | going to do armor damage then that's all |
| 7995s | the better she does have to wait a turn |
| 7997s | here to fit everything in because she |
| 7998s | needs to play two swipes in the same |
| 8000s | turn to have lethal |
| 8002s | and i believe what is happening on this |
| 8004s | piece of paper in front of lyon is some |
| 8006s | very frantic addition just to make sure |
| 8008s | she is very clear on how much damage she |
| 8010s | has |
| 8011s | 61 total here from casey |
| 8014s | means that doctor boom coming down only |
| 8017s | takes him up to 68. so i believe |
| 8020s | if we have done our addition correctly |
| 8023s | saying that lion just has it this turn |
| 8027s | we will wait and see to be clear she |
| 8030s | does have to map it out correctly |
| 8033s | with the swipe first all the moon fires |
| 8036s | and the final swipe to take the game |
| 8038s | here step one swipe first |
| 8040s | moon fires now have to come in |
| 8044s | well actually |
| 8045s | she'll have arm running actually it |
| 8047s | doesn't quite matter at this point right |
| 8048s | there's too much it doesn't matter |
| 8050s | doesn't matter resequencing she's done |
| 8052s | all the hard work she's got to the point |
| 8055s | lion is gonna be your first finalist and |
| 8059s | you can see the emotion on her face and |
| 8062s | she's gonna go over it could throw out |
| 8064s | the world play to casey who has played |
| 8066s | another phenomenal performance but what |
| 8069s | a huge win for lyon here continuing her |
| 8073s | absolute dominance coming through into |
| 8075s | this point and saying i think an |
| 8077s | incredibly deserving spot in the finals |
| 8079s | the crowd is absolutely going wild as |
| 8081s | well vk lion the first woman to appear |
| 8084s | on the world stage |
| 8086s | right now going straight into the finals |
| 8088s | here and who will she be meeting on the |
| 8089s | other side i mean that's what it's going |
| 8091s | to come down to and it's what we're |
| 8092s | about to find out very soon but for now |
| 8094s | i just want to focus on lion because |
| 8096s | it's an incredible performance that she |
| 8097s | put in um you know not only all the |
| 8100s | plotters that we can give her based on |
| 8101s | what we haven't seen just what's been |
| 8103s | reported about her record essentially in |
| 8105s | the chinese equivalent of masters tours |
| 8107s | picking up a second place and a fourth |
| 8109s | place in the same season which is |
| 8111s | comparable to the very best record we |
| 8113s | have in the other regions combined and |
| 8115s | then on top of that going on a 7-0 |
| 8117s | undefeated record to qualify for this |
| 8119s | point and then continuing to be |
| 8121s | undefeated in this tournament as well |
| 8123s | pushing that up to a 10-0 streak up to |
| 8125s | this point and doing it in style as well |
| 8127s | with malagus druid unconventional decks |
| 8130s | like highlander hunter fantastic |
| 8131s | performance absolutely and it seems like |
| 8134s | when you get that |
| 8135s | energy behind you that momentum and the |
| 8137s | confidence going along vk lion making it |
| 8140s | to the finals and she does it in quite |
| 8142s | the fashion as well she looks |
| 8143s | comfortable on stage she looks like |
| 8144s | she's ready to take it all |
| 8146s | and speaking of energy behind her it |
| 8148s | does seem like she's got the crowd's |
| 8149s | energy behind her can we hear it one |
| 8151s | more time for lion please as we're about |
| 8152s | to go into the second semi-final thank |
| 8154s | you very much um clearly a big crowd |
| 8157s | favorite here but i do of course need to |
| 8160s | send out some commiserations to casey |
| 8162s | who is a personal friend of mine a |
| 8164s | teammate of mine and is a fantastic |
| 8165s | player i don't personally feel like |
| 8168s | there was anything in that series he |
| 8169s | could have done differently to to change |
| 8171s | things did you spot anything that maybe |
| 8172s | could have turned things in his favor he |
| 8174s | maximized health total just wasn't in |
| 8176s | the books when it came down to finding |
| 8178s | the car in the end |
| 8179s | yeah well play from casey but not quite |
| 8181s | enough yeah absolutely not much he could |
| 8183s | have done in that spot i think a very |
| 8184s | high level series between two very high |
| 8186s | level players and we're set up for a |
| 8188s | very high level final but there is one |
| 8190s | more spot to fill and we're gonna find |
| 8192s | out who fills that spot right after this |
| 8194s | break so don't go anywhere |
| 8196s | everything came down to this final match |
| 8200s | on one side we have luna formerly |
| 8202s | bloodyface one of the best players in |
| 8205s | the americas region and had the |
| 8207s | potential to become the first american |
| 8209s | world champion since 2014. |
| 8212s | on the other side lion coming into this |
| 8215s | tournament as a relative unknown player |
| 8218s | to the western audience she quickly |
| 8221s | gained fans with her strong play and |
| 8223s | dominant performance so far this was the |
| 8226s | match where history was made |
| 8229s | lyon not only went on to be victorious |
| 8231s | and become the first woman to win a |
| 8233s | hearthstone world championship as well |
| 8235s | as the first to win a blizzcon |
| 8237s | tournament |
| 8238s | but also inspired many female players to |
| 8241s | continue chasing their dreams |
| 8245s | we are moments away from the grand |
| 8247s | finals here at hearthstone's grand |
| 8249s | masters global finals here at blizzcon |
| 8252s | 2019 and after two days of play after |
| 8256s | months of qualification and years in the |
| 8259s | making history is upon us who will be |
| 8263s | the first ever hearthstone grand master |
| 8266s | global champion the answer begins |
| 8270s | now |
| 8271s | let's go ahead and introduce our two |
| 8273s | players that's going to be duking it out |
| 8275s | for 200 000 |
| 8277s | and the trophy |
| 8279s | the first |
| 8281s | from china |
| 8282s | the first woman to ever make it this far |
| 8285s | please give it up for vk's |
| 8306s | listen to that crowd roar for lion |
| 8311s | and their opponents |
| 8313s | hailing from the united states of |
| 8314s | america |
| 8315s | it's a clash of east versus west he's |
| 8319s | back for more please welcome from |
| 8321s | lazarus gaming bloody face |
| 8341s | and that is it our final two competitors |
| 8346s | hands one more time |
| 8349s | winner takes all let's get this grand |
| 8352s | finals underway |
| 8356s | thank you frodan i am here fully |
| 8359s | equipped with a microphone this time and |
| 8361s | i'm joined once again by just saying |
| 8363s | wait wait wait |
| 8365s | wait gallons here |
| 8366s | how did this happen i don't know i just |
| 8368s | put up here who who let you on the |
| 8370s | finals this this can't fly honestly |
| 8373s | you looking forward to being in your |
| 8374s | more comfortable seat though just being |
| 8376s | so analyzing oh yes uh the last series |
| 8379s | at the very end there i managed to miss |
| 8380s | lethal while also trying to educate |
| 8382s | hunterayus on how to play hearthstone so |
| 8383s | yes i'm very glad that i can now take |
| 8385s | his seat and tell people really how to |
| 8388s | play hearthstone let that be a lesson to |
| 8389s | you gallon always believe the world |
| 8391s | champion |
| 8392s | always believe the global champion as |
| 8395s | this one will be as we're about to crown |
| 8397s | a new one here and what a final we have |
| 8400s | either way one incredible story this is |
| 8402s | going to be of course lion incredible |
| 8403s | achievement trailblazer for her to be |
| 8405s | the first woman to make it to this level |
| 8407s | of a global stage and to have the |
| 8409s | opportunity to go down in history just |
| 8412s | you know across a wide range of esports |
| 8414s | let alone hearthstone you know to be the |
| 8416s | global champion here but also for bloody |
| 8418s | face i see you're probably more in tune |
| 8420s | with the american scene than i am but to |
| 8422s | me kind of felt like bloodyface came out |
| 8424s | of nowhere a little bit last year and |
| 8425s | had this incredible year where he you |
| 8427s | know showed up performed multiple |
| 8429s | championship events made it to worlds |
| 8430s | great showing there and now he's |
| 8432s | following that up again with the chance |
| 8434s | to become the global champion here you |
| 8435s | know i actually had the experience of |
| 8437s | playing against bloodyface quite a lot |
| 8439s | over the last past several years in 2016 |
| 8441s | we played at a spring playoffs in like |
| 8443s | round two |
| 8444s | and just seeing his performance where he |
| 8446s | went from pretty much a name no one |
| 8448s | recognizes to suddenly like one of the |
| 8450s | best in the americas if not in the |
| 8452s | entire world as someone so good at |
| 8454s | hearthstone it's really cool to see 2018 |
| 8456s | was his breakout performance and he is |
| 8458s | capitalizing on that he is showing |
| 8460s | people that he can do it again and again |
| 8462s | and again and that is what the best |
| 8464s | players in the world do they don't have |
| 8465s | one good performance they have great |
| 8468s | performances year after year |
| 8470s | very well per and i think if anything is |
| 8472s | even more impressive to me about |
| 8473s | bloodyface is that he marches to the |
| 8475s | beat of his own drum while doing it he's |
| 8477s | not part of any of like the hive mind |
| 8479s | practice groups he really has his own |
| 8481s | opinion on things he practices mostly |
| 8483s | with himself you know with a little bit |
| 8484s | of outside influence here and there but |
| 8486s | really does have his own opinion and |
| 8488s | he's his own man when it comes to deck |
| 8490s | building lines of play match-up |
| 8492s | decisions everything like that as well |
| 8493s | but i mean lyon is on one of the most |
| 8495s | dominant tournament performances i i |
| 8497s | have ever seen she went seven and zero |
| 8501s | in the gold series finals to get here |
| 8502s | she is currently three and zero i |
| 8504s | believe |
| 8505s | in the finals that is a combined record |
| 8507s | of 10-0 over the last 10 tournament |
| 8509s | games she is undefeated up to this point |
| 8511s | yeah and you know this isn't just like a |
| 8513s | ladder streak you know you go 10-0 on |
| 8515s | ladder you're like okay i'm pretty sick |
| 8517s | at hearthstone like lion has done it |
| 8519s | through the very best players that china |
| 8520s | has to offer and then come on to the |
| 8522s | world stage and done it against the very |
| 8523s | best that the world has to offer she has |
| 8525s | one of the best players in europe casey |
| 8527s | already under her belt she and she's |
| 8529s | knocked off a previous world champion in |
| 8531s | tom 60229 as well like there is an |
| 8533s | incredible trail of bodies piling up |
| 8535s | behind lyon here and i think she is |
| 8537s | played great to get to this position as |
| 8539s | well but the only player to actually |
| 8541s | have beaten a chinese on this stage is |
| 8543s | bloody face uh bloodyface gotta win |
| 8545s | versus lee |
| 8547s | maybe he can do it versus line as well |
| 8548s | he's the only player yeah i mean and |
| 8550s | that's you know a big talking point in |
| 8551s | and of itself is the when we've come to |
| 8553s | this individual global stage china has |
| 8556s | generally underperformed we do have them |
| 8558s | as the current hgg champions but in the |
| 8562s | singles competition the representatives |
| 8564s | that they've sent here just have |
| 8565s | underperformed they haven't lived up to |
| 8567s | expectations so with a semi-finals |
| 8569s | position and now a finals position with |
| 8571s | the chance to go one better this is |
| 8573s | already the strongest performance from |
| 8574s | china that we've seen in a global fun |
| 8576s | and we're gonna see bloody face on druid |
| 8578s | in game one against lions |
| 8580s | uh evolved shaman |
| 8582s | we saw that before last game |
| 8585s | bloodyface took it |
| 8587s | yeah it was just a very dry draw i think |
| 8590s | from uh from lee's kind of side he |
| 8592s | didn't get any of the big power plays he |
| 8595s | didn't have three four drops on the |
| 8596s | board on turn three he didn't get a big |
| 8598s | eight drop to buy out the game it was |
| 8599s | just soul of the forest here a couple of |
| 8601s | tokens there saw the murlocs i do that |
| 8603s | every time one time i'm gonna get the |
| 8605s | name of that card right soul of the |
| 8607s | murlocs um to make a board of sticky one |
| 8610s | ones |
| 8611s | but it's not enough you need that big |
| 8613s | high attack threat to really pressure |
| 8615s | druid out of the game right yeah and i |
| 8616s | mean he just didn't have it but again |
| 8619s | that was a pretty low percentage outcome |
| 8622s | you know spirit of the frog alone can |
| 8623s | get that massive board that we were |
| 8625s | talking about and |
| 8628s | if you just get the desert hair evolve |
| 8630s | if you actually draw the cards they work |
| 8632s | really well together yeah and you know |
| 8634s | obviously people complain probably about |
| 8635s | how much you see desert hair plus evolve |
| 8637s | in the early game or mogu plus evolve in |
| 8639s | the early game but it's a two card |
| 8641s | combination that players hard mulligan |
| 8643s | for essentially like you pretty much |
| 8645s | throw away just about every card in your |
| 8646s | hand that isn't spirit of the frog |
| 8647s | evolve or in some matchups there's a |
| 8649s | hair if you want to keep that so just |
| 8651s | you know mathematically the percentage |
| 8652s | that you do hit that combo by turn three |
| 8655s | turn four turn five is actually |
| 8656s | extremely high you know you you see it |
| 8658s | so often because it is so likely to |
| 8660s | happen when you mulligan correctly for |
| 8662s | it yeah i think that's kind of the mark |
| 8664s | of these really powerful aggressive |
| 8666s | decks is the fact that they have early |
| 8667s | game draw engines we're talking about |
| 8668s | combo priests with north shore cleric |
| 8670s | while pyromancer circle of healing i'm |
| 8672s | talking about evolved shaman with spirit |
| 8674s | of the frog and she's spells like zap |
| 8675s | mutate |
| 8679s | spur of the frog has been found though |
| 8681s | for lyon so she is now able to set our |
| 8684s | game plan has already picked up her |
| 8685s | first copy of evolve doesn't currently |
| 8687s | have any zero mana options to go with |
| 8689s | the frog on the follow-up turns um but |
| 8691s | this is the the beauty of the frog is |
| 8694s | that her hand doesn't look that |
| 8695s | spectacular right now but essentially |
| 8698s | every bad hand you can draw with this |
| 8700s | deck is fixed by spirit of the frog |
| 8702s | that's just how powerful that card can |
| 8703s | be it also feels like a lot of bad hands |
| 8705s | with evolve shaman are just a single |
| 8707s | card away from being really fantastic |
| 8709s | right now lion is one card away |
| 8712s | specifically desert hair away from just |
| 8714s | having this massive tempo swing |
| 8718s | right now bloody face just on two out |
| 8720s | four on the quest progressing through |
| 8723s | as expected but very little to do this |
| 8725s | turn just a hero power whiffing into the |
| 8727s | ether smacking a taunt totem |
| 8730s | lion can find that big draw here it's |
| 8732s | going to be huge punishment for bloody |
| 8734s | face |
| 8742s | who knew lions and bunny rabbits would |
| 8744s | be such good friends gallon |
| 8749s | i think it's up the line i imagine she's |
| 8751s | interested in zapping her spirit of the |
| 8752s | frog first |
| 8755s | getting another evolve |
| 8759s | and you always play the one that you |
| 8761s | just drew |
| 8764s | she throws out the quick prayer |
| 8765s | i'm not even joking it is actually |
| 8767s | important to play the one that you just |
| 8768s | drew in that situation |
| 8770s | that's pretty good pretty good yeah |
| 8772s | three four is average to that line so |
| 8773s | she's above that and she also has um |
| 8775s | potentially i guess you would classify |
| 8778s | those as beneficial effects in the death |
| 8779s | rows even though they are not really |
| 8781s | going to have an impact on the game but |
| 8783s | the spell damage from the ogre magi is a |
| 8784s | real thing with the copy of lightning |
| 8786s | bolt in hand i think the most important |
| 8788s | thing this spot with that second evolve |
| 8789s | is just having enough minions to survive |
| 8792s | that they survive until the next turn |
| 8793s | generally i think |
| 8794s | you're probably casting this next of all |
| 8796s | to just get as much tempo as possible uh |
| 8799s | so as long as the minions survive a |
| 8800s | swipe you're pretty happy |
| 8805s | bloodyface doesn't really have any |
| 8806s | response to this just throws out the |
| 8808s | ferocious howl and passes and now the |
| 8810s | world is lions oyster this turn |
| 8817s | does have that one crystal overloaded so |
| 8819s | c giant is not an option here but as |
| 8821s | gallon was suggesting the second evolve |
| 8823s | can be potentially powerful soul of the |
| 8824s | murloc can come down alongside that as |
| 8826s | well i did it i said murloc i didn't say |
| 8829s | forrest i'm so proud of myself uh sludge |
| 8831s | slurper being able to be added to all of |
| 8833s | that as well |
| 8835s | you don't even have to go for an evolve |
| 8836s | here if you if you really want it's not |
| 8838s | actually a huge upgrade uh four four |
| 8840s | mana minions are three fours on average |
| 8843s | and then five mana minions it's like 3.8 |
| 8845s | 4.7 which is obviously nonsense you |
| 8847s | don't roll a 3.8 4.7 but you can see |
| 8849s | like it's barely pushing that next full |
| 8852s | uh upgrade in terms of stat |
| 8856s | already lion is just so far ahead from |
| 8858s | that second evolve |
| 8861s | bloody fest can play an oasis surgery |
| 8863s | here but it doesn't really accomplish |
| 8865s | anything he gets to clear the five five |
| 8867s | and the four five sick |
| 8869s | that doesn't do anything nope |
| 8872s | doesn't even reduce the board size in |
| 8873s | fact it adds to it |
| 8875s | for this c giant that's in lion's hand |
| 8880s | but i mean do you see an alternate path |
| 8882s | through this game gallon |
| 8884s | i see very few pass through this game so |
| 8887s | okay |
| 8894s | here's the six to instead it does limit |
| 8896s | it forward a little bit |
| 8898s | yeah i mean there's currently 15 damage |
| 8899s | represented on board so i think |
| 8901s | bloodyface did have to respect the idea |
| 8903s | of just taking maximum damage off the |
| 8905s | board here lightning bow in hand from |
| 8906s | lion means that she has 18 total this |
| 8909s | turn uh but that c giant being dropped |
| 8911s | eight health minions are the absolute |
| 8913s | bane of druid's existence in fact i |
| 8916s | believe it was currently one off lethal |
| 8918s | right |
| 8919s | now as well yeah you are absolutely |
| 8921s | right |
| 8926s | that is a long way from being active the |
| 8929s | zephyrus draw from bloodyface |
| 8932s | much better when you're five cards left |
| 8934s | in deck not when you have 19 right |
| 8939s | so hidden oasis here would take him up |
| 8941s | to 17 functional 23 with the uh six six |
| 8945s | taunt on board doesn't look like it's |
| 8946s | ever going to be good enough |
| 8948s | so bloody face does his due diligence |
| 8950s | rips out the nourish does not find any |
| 8953s | magical solutions in his deck because |
| 8955s | there were none to that situation so no |
| 8958s | great surprise and you were talking |
| 8960s | about how the series you just got off |
| 8961s | casting you kind of saw the anomaly of |
| 8964s | the druid like being able to get through |
| 8966s | the uh the power turns from the shaman |
| 8967s | because the power turns didn't really |
| 8969s | happen in that previous series that you |
| 8970s | cast i think what we just watched there |
| 8972s | was a much more prototypical example of |
| 8974s | how that matchup goes yeah i mean druid |
| 8977s | is a deck that is going to struggle |
| 8978s | against any class that gets on board |
| 8980s | early nothing gets on board as early as |
| 8983s | desert hair evolve especially when you |
| 8985s | have those extra four drops in the form |
| 8987s | of spear the frog or an extra evolve |
| 8989s | because of that very |
| 8991s | good use of that zap on the spirit of |
| 8993s | the frog so just |
| 8995s | great example of how to pilot the early |
| 8997s | turns she managed to get to the second |
| 8998s | evolve upgrades first deals a lot of |
| 9000s | damage upgrades again then uh soul of |
| 9002s | the murloc thank you here we go very |
| 9005s | good and uh well done there's really |
| 9007s | nothing equestria can do against that |
| 9008s | right i've always had this question i |
| 9010s | had this question through basically |
| 9012s | every week of grand masters up until |
| 9013s | this point where we kept seeing druid |
| 9015s | get brought by just about every player |
| 9017s | yeah one or two every week would leave |
| 9019s | it out and then you start to look at the |
| 9020s | match-ups like it gets absolutely |
| 9021s | dumpstered by priest which is getting |
| 9023s | protected every series the shaman |
| 9025s | matchup really improved even before |
| 9026s | desert hair came into the deck the |
| 9028s | sharma match was being improved by |
| 9029s | people packing in stormbringer for |
| 9031s | example to improve that match up so it |
| 9032s | felt like druid didn't really have that |
| 9034s | many good matchups left and yet it kept |
| 9036s | being brought week after week after week |
| 9038s | i feel like that's a similar position |
| 9039s | here in this tournament as well why do |
| 9041s | so many people keep bringing druid to |
| 9043s | tournaments like this druid is just very |
| 9045s | powerful against the slower decks in the |
| 9047s | format i believe uh when you have stuff |
| 9049s | like or even decks that just don't fight |
| 9051s | for board early so stuff like rogue |
| 9053s | which could often be brought into this |
| 9055s | tournament rogue is a deck that targets |
| 9056s | priests and shaman druid hard farms |
| 9059s | rogue |
| 9061s | warrior is a deck that has a pretty good |
| 9062s | matchup versus priest and shaman druid |
| 9064s | is a deck that hard farms warrior |
| 9067s | it it hurts my soul gallon hearing the |
| 9069s | words druid farms rogue like that that's |
| 9071s | just not how hearthstone's supposed to |
| 9073s | work in fact i'm so offended by that |
| 9075s | statement that i think we're gonna have |
| 9076s | to take a break while i recover we have |
| 9078s | plenty of this series left to go lion |
| 9081s | currently one zero up grand finals of |
| 9083s | the global finals do not go anywhere |
| 9088s | welcome back everybody this is the |
| 9090s | finals of the global finals of |
| 9092s | hearthstone grand masters here at |
| 9094s | blizzcon 2019 currently lion has the 1-0 |
| 9099s | lead over bloody face with her shaman |
| 9102s | picking up the win in the opener against |
| 9103s | druid uh still a very very long way to |
| 9106s | go if you've only just been tuning into |
| 9108s | day one and you've just joined us worth |
| 9110s | knowing we are now playing best of five |
| 9112s | as we hit this elimination stage there |
| 9113s | is still a long way to go uh in this |
| 9116s | series i don't know about you gallon but |
| 9117s | i think since we hit that switch to best |
| 9120s | of five like we've engaged the noz like |
| 9122s | the the series have got so much more |
| 9123s | intense since we've hit that best of |
| 9125s | five format yeah i mean speaking of |
| 9127s | switches we're actually going to see the |
| 9129s | players switch their decks uh bloody |
| 9131s | face is going to be on shaman and lion |
| 9133s | is going to be on druid this series |
| 9134s | which is the exact opposite of what |
| 9136s | happened last one yeah there is a couple |
| 9138s | of wrinkles in there though because |
| 9139s | bloodyface is playing the quest shaman |
| 9141s | instead of the token shot and lyon is |
| 9143s | playing the malagus druid instead of the |
| 9145s | straight up quest druid so do you think |
| 9147s | those two changes have significant |
| 9148s | impacts on how the matches play out i |
| 9150s | think it has a quite a big impact i |
| 9152s | think malygos druid gets a little even |
| 9154s | worse against decks that fight for board |
| 9156s | early uh the same can be said for shaman |
| 9158s | though shaman is not a deck that really |
| 9160s | fights forward as early as evolv shaman |
| 9162s | shaman is a deck that our quest shaman |
| 9163s | is a deck that focuses on value in the |
| 9165s | late game it still has that desert hair |
| 9167s | mogu flesh shaper evolved that early |
| 9169s | powerhouse but it doesn't have the same |
| 9170s | draw engine in the form of speed of the |
| 9172s | frog |
| 9172s | so the desert hair evolves becomes a |
| 9174s | little bit less consistent due to that |
| 9176s | however in the late game it's just going |
| 9177s | to have another |
| 9179s | huge punch after punch with its shutter |
| 9181s | walks with its light drinkers with these |
| 9183s | wood pipers yeah i think you know the |
| 9185s | the win condition against the two decks |
| 9187s | is very very different right because the |
| 9189s | the token deck you can kind of just run |
| 9190s | out of stuff you can exhaust the hand |
| 9192s | you can beat a couple of waves and then |
| 9193s | they're just left floundering quest |
| 9195s | sharma never runs out of stuff that that |
| 9197s | doesn't happen they are the value deck |
| 9200s | so you do actually have to create swing |
| 9201s | turns and actually get ahead and kill |
| 9203s | them at certain points in the match-up |
| 9206s | from lion's perspective she was able to |
| 9208s | navigate this malagas druid which is a |
| 9210s | very very difficult deck |
| 9211s | extremely well in a matchup that it is |
| 9214s | built for i will say which is the |
| 9216s | control warrior this is now a completely |
| 9218s | different kettle of fish she now has to |
| 9219s | show that she can pilot the deck in an |
| 9221s | uphill battle against a matchup that |
| 9223s | it's not quite so equipped for was not |
| 9225s | the targeted strategy that she had |
| 9227s | coming into this tournament and i think |
| 9228s | both players have pretty powerful hands |
| 9230s | right now bloodyface has what looks to |
| 9232s | be possibly a three keep uh questing |
| 9234s | explorer is pretty much the best thing |
| 9236s | you can do on two and again desert hair |
| 9238s | evolve is just so powerful that keeping |
| 9239s | one part of the combo |
| 9242s | it's still worth it even if you don't |
| 9243s | always hit it the the likelihood that |
| 9245s | you do leads to a lot more one games |
| 9248s | and i want to give you your dues here |
| 9250s | gallon because you have a lot of wacky |
| 9252s | ideas |
| 9253s | your hit rate with these wacky ideas is |
| 9256s | not super high but when you get one |
| 9257s | right i'm gonna give you credit for it |
| 9260s | gallon was the first person i ever heard |
| 9263s | say the words desert hair evolve and he |
| 9266s | did it as soon as the card list was out |
| 9268s | there he just arrived to cast grand |
| 9270s | masters he's like hey you know what |
| 9271s | desert hair evolved before anyone else |
| 9274s | had even said it this man saw the lines |
| 9276s | i remember that i also thought that um |
| 9279s | actual communion would be played in |
| 9280s | quest druid yeah yeah shut up distance |
| 9287s | just take the w so i can keep going i've |
| 9289s | got like six more failed ideas here |
| 9291s | you're sat in the smart chair now |
| 9293s | i'm trying to make you sound smart |
| 9294s | you're really you're really fighting |
| 9295s | back against it right |
| 9297s | now fair enough yeah |
| 9304s | coin quest |
| 9305s | from lion |
| 9307s | shocked to discover no she's coining |
| 9309s | crystal merchant okay i was about to say |
| 9311s | i'm shocked to discover that she's a |
| 9312s | coin quest gamer because no one likes |
| 9314s | those everyone knows it's quest coin |
| 9317s | but coining the crystal merchant here is |
| 9319s | a creative play that we don't often see |
| 9321s | in a lot of matchups how do you feel |
| 9322s | about it |
| 9323s | uh i think for a deck like mali goes |
| 9325s | through just pushing damage early |
| 9327s | when you can get it can matter uh one of |
| 9330s | the things about going coin crystal |
| 9331s | merchant into quest is that if your game |
| 9333s | plan is quest pass into crystal merchant |
| 9336s | coin on turn two you're actually just |
| 9338s | missing one damage if the other person |
| 9340s | can never answer that crystal merchant |
| 9342s | sure by going coin crystal merchant on |
| 9344s | turn one you can play question two draw |
| 9346s | a card complete |
| 9347s | one more one of the four uh |
| 9350s | things that you need to do to complete |
| 9351s | the quest which is the exact same as if |
| 9353s | you quest into crystal mushroom coin on |
| 9354s | turn two but you just get to push one |
| 9356s | more free damage so it's just optimizing |
| 9359s | how to play the game even it's just like |
| 9361s | this super marginal thing which is one |
| 9363s | extra damage in the early game against |
| 9364s | the deck with stuff like life drinker to |
| 9366s | heal it's still free to take so i'm glad |
| 9368s | that she's optimizing even the smallest |
| 9370s | of percentages all right so just so i |
| 9371s | understand what you're saying are you |
| 9373s | arguing that this is like the default |
| 9374s | right way of doing it when you're on the |
| 9376s | coin and you have crystal merchant in |
| 9377s | hand against quest shaman i believe so |
| 9379s | okay |
| 9386s | there are some decks where that's not |
| 9387s | always the case i think if you're |
| 9389s | playing against for example a |
| 9391s | vendetta rogue |
| 9392s | if you go coin uh coin crystal machine |
| 9395s | on turn turn one into like a |
| 9397s | swashburglar you leave yourself |
| 9398s | vulnerable to stuff like vendetta sure |
| 9400s | but against a deck that just can't |
| 9402s | answer it which is pretty much quest |
| 9403s | shaman at this point i think it makes a |
| 9405s | lot of sense |
| 9407s | good to know |
| 9408s | lion now finds herself in a spot where |
| 9410s | raft would seem a little bit wasteful |
| 9412s | hero power pretty much achieves the same |
| 9414s | thing here minus the card draw rap is an |
| 9416s | extremely powerful card against uh |
| 9418s | question even the mid game since they |
| 9420s | have just so many minions that just get |
| 9422s | so |
| 9423s | answered so perfectly for it so many |
| 9425s | three threes and so on in the deck that |
| 9426s | are just great targets for it once quest |
| 9428s | is activated |
| 9431s | even then saving the wrath until after |
| 9433s | your own quest is completed also matters |
| 9435s | a lot you just get to draw an extra card |
| 9436s | so if you can avoid doing it until a |
| 9438s | syrian tier has been completed |
| 9441s | that'll be huge |
| 9443s | gallon with the the quest name knowledge |
| 9446s | you're up the waters because you heart |
| 9448s | over and on |
| 9449s | thank you yeah you wanna do the other |
| 9451s | seven or no okay |
| 9454s | how are they relevant |
| 9455s | wow |
| 9457s | all quests matter okay girl |
| 9460s | you've been talking to frodo too much |
| 9463s | i mean that's always true |
| 9467s | crystal merchant number two coming down |
| 9468s | for lion |
| 9470s | looks like she is gonna spend her |
| 9472s | innovate here |
| 9477s | way too high value at this point now |
| 9479s | she's come into the full manner complete |
| 9480s | the quest and uh draw the extra card of |
| 9483s | the crystal merch |
| 9484s | no way that innovate was not happening |
| 9486s | this time |
| 9490s | from bloody face to side he's still |
| 9491s | looking for that evolve every single |
| 9493s | turn that he doesn't get it is is so big |
| 9495s | against quest druid because it it feels |
| 9497s | like against quest root in the early |
| 9498s | game |
| 9499s | the earlier you get stuff down it |
| 9501s | matters so much more like if you get it |
| 9503s | down on two out of four or three out of |
| 9505s | four suddenly the druid has to wait a |
| 9506s | whole another term before their quest is |
| 9508s | complete to do anything yep so having to |
| 9510s | do it after the request is complete |
| 9512s | suddenly they get access to stuff like |
| 9513s | star fall hidden oasis even nourish or |
| 9516s | oasis surgery |
| 9517s | the earlier you can get that |
| 9520s | the significantly better it |
| 9522s | yeah for sure kenny bloodyface is |
| 9524s | already struggling a little bit here |
| 9525s | because ideally he would have liked to |
| 9527s | have been significantly ahead by this |
| 9529s | portion of the game he'd like to be |
| 9531s | forcing pressure making lion have the |
| 9533s | response uh with the starfall or the |
| 9536s | oasis surgery over the next couple of |
| 9537s | turns and royface has just managed to |
| 9540s | gain control about at the right time but |
| 9542s | he would have loved to have just got a |
| 9544s | little bit more early chip damage in up |
| 9545s | to this point well the one other thing |
| 9547s | to talk about is the fact that desert |
| 9549s | hair with the quest becomes so much more |
| 9550s | powerful when you go hero power desert |
| 9553s | hair you summon five three drops so if |
| 9555s | top decked and evolved this specific |
| 9557s | turn i think he still was very much in |
| 9559s | the game if not actually in the lead yup |
| 9561s | i would agree with that |
| 9566s | as it stands he's just gonna have to |
| 9568s | make do with the uh vanilla quest |
| 9570s | sharman gameplay |
| 9572s | hero power one drops or two lashes |
| 9575s | funny world we live in where that now |
| 9576s | feels underpowered compared to what a |
| 9579s | desert hair evolve can do well this |
| 9580s | ethereal lackey can actually find and |
| 9582s | evolve it's it's not likely to find it |
| 9584s | but it's a pretty high chance yeah i |
| 9586s | believe 1 in 11 for any individual spell |
| 9588s | as if you want to include uh |
| 9591s | mutate in there as well obviously |
| 9592s | they've been doubling your chances but |
| 9594s | also there's all kinds of things like |
| 9595s | soul of the murloc etc that can still |
| 9597s | pay off huge um with big wide board |
| 9599s | states so there's a lot of things that |
| 9600s | you can leverage in that desert hair |
| 9603s | position |
| 9605s | then a newbie seth is pretty important |
| 9606s | for lyon it lets her go nourish this |
| 9608s | turn if she really wanted to |
| 9612s | without overdrawing a card |
| 9616s | yeah starting the term with eight so |
| 9618s | we'll go to exactly 10 off the nourish |
| 9619s | would have the guaranteed new set to |
| 9621s | drop she just wants to take the full |
| 9622s | tempo swing here instead though |
| 9625s | which i can definitely respect i mean |
| 9626s | she didn't really have anything to do |
| 9628s | with the two extra mana if she didn't |
| 9630s | pick something up off the nourish to be |
| 9631s | able to play there so it seems |
| 9633s | reasonable to me i find it a bit |
| 9634s | interesting because um hidden oasis is |
| 9637s | just such a powerful card when you let |
| 9639s | your phone like take a couple turns to |
| 9641s | hitchhike |
| 9642s | yeah yeah |
| 9643s | if i had if i had to choose what to do |
| 9645s | there i feel like nourish is just so |
| 9646s | critical to the quest druid game plan |
| 9648s | you know accelerating your mana base and |
| 9650s | especially in maligo street where you |
| 9651s | have to do so many things to get that |
| 9653s | combo off yep |
| 9656s | and the more i look at it now i mean |
| 9657s | this is results world for sure but |
| 9659s | bloody face has now found an evolve off |
| 9661s | that ethereal lackey as you were talking |
| 9663s | about so with uh lion now a |
| 9666s | star fall down |
| 9668s | she might really struggle to interact |
| 9670s | with this desert hair board that's about |
| 9671s | to be created from bloody face because |
| 9674s | this is the point of the game where lion |
| 9675s | would like to have for example loti plus |
| 9677s | star fall to be able to have a decent |
| 9679s | chance of fighting back against a big |
| 9681s | evolve board but she has nothing of the |
| 9683s | sort |
| 9686s | looks like bloodyface is trying to call |
| 9688s | for some attention here yep it looks |
| 9689s | like he's calling for the admin |
| 9692s | hopefully nothing too serious he does |
| 9693s | seem to be able to continue playing his |
| 9695s | turn at the very least |
| 9698s | there we go |
| 9703s | hopefully we get this sword out whatever |
| 9704s | it is as soon as possible |
| 9711s | from bloody faces perspective i imagine |
| 9713s | that the evolve is always coming out |
| 9714s | here that that's like pretty obvious yep |
| 9720s | with the uh mutate as well he has the |
| 9722s | option to take the rebuy if he gets |
| 9723s | anything particularly unattractive that |
| 9725s | he doesn't want |
| 9727s | for example one of those twilight drakes |
| 9738s | he did get the uh sapper as well which |
| 9740s | is actually a pretty powerful option uh |
| 9741s | particularly in the shaman mirror that |
| 9743s | can be incredibly swingy where both |
| 9744s | players are trying to load up enormous |
| 9746s | amounts of ball tension but is it |
| 9749s | maybe it just allows lion to bounce back |
| 9752s | for the forgotten oh my goodness you are |
| 9755s | so right is this three five able to be |
| 9758s | it's not able to be traded off into |
| 9759s | anything right now though is the problem |
| 9761s | you could take a 50 50. |
| 9766s | that's really interesting i hadn't even |
| 9767s | looked at that |
| 9769s | i would kind of argue that the 77 on the |
| 9771s | board is worth quite a lot in the |
| 9773s | situation |
| 9776s | i think when you look at the way this |
| 9777s | turn is playing out with the oasis |
| 9779s | serger and the swipe |
| 9780s | i think just the full tempo swing here |
| 9782s | makes a lot of sense and honestly |
| 9783s | bouncing one of these surges back to |
| 9785s | hand is perfectly reasonable as well in |
| 9786s | the spot yeah fair enough i mean i think |
| 9788s | this actively benefits lion even if it |
| 9790s | doesn't bounce the back to hand i i |
| 9792s | think as long as it hits the serger or |
| 9794s | the |
| 9795s | she's going to get huge value out of |
| 9797s | that yup |
| 9798s | even if the anubisath gets sent back it |
| 9800s | gets sent back as a three one and will |
| 9802s | then cost zero again at some point in |
| 9804s | the near future there's really no bad |
| 9805s | outcome here for lyon on the rebuy just |
| 9808s | a free oasis surger gets value out of it |
| 9811s | half of it stays on the board and she |
| 9813s | just gets to do it again on a following |
| 9814s | turn |
| 9815s | huge turn for lyon you have to say a |
| 9818s | very unfortunate set of rolls for bloody |
| 9820s | face two twilight drakes one of the |
| 9822s | absolute low rolls in the full mana slot |
| 9824s | and a card that kind of actively |
| 9826s | punished him in that spot even though it |
| 9828s | is used usually quite a high roll off |
| 9830s | the evolve |
| 9832s | this evolved pickup for bloody face is |
| 9833s | gonna be so important he gets to evolve |
| 9835s | this two one into a random five drop |
| 9837s | along with a lot of other minions |
| 9840s | there is a world where bloodyface gets |
| 9842s | something like an earth elemental |
| 9844s | instead of an eager underling yep |
| 9848s | earth elemental the absolute nuts in the |
| 9851s | five mana slot um not allowing for you |
| 9853s | know special conditions where maybe |
| 9855s | zilliax might be superior if you're in |
| 9856s | desperate need of healing or whatever |
| 9857s | but just the cold hard vacuum earth |
| 9860s | elemental is the one you're looking for |
| 9861s | on the five mana slot against quest rude |
| 9863s | stats in play is generally what matters |
| 9866s | yep |
| 9873s | looks like bloody face is fully back and |
| 9874s | raring to go |
| 9876s | but he got whatever that was cleared up |
| 9886s | trying to generate pressure anywhere any |
| 9888s | way he can uh you were saying you were |
| 9890s | expecting the evolve to come down that |
| 9891s | term bloodyface decided differently |
| 9894s | he's possibly saving it for the second |
| 9896s | desert hair maybe this spore just isn't |
| 9897s | enough and he needs to fight back with |
| 9899s | another key card off the top of his deck |
| 9902s | i think that makes a lot of sense |
| 9904s | one thing that would concern me though |
| 9905s | is that slow playing here even a little |
| 9907s | bit you know there's an oasis surgery in |
| 9909s | hand like bare minimum right so that one |
| 9912s | oasis surger that you know your opponent |
| 9914s | has already answers over 50 of your |
| 9916s | board state in this position oh i mean |
| 9918s | the druid is in such a good spot right |
| 9920s | now yeah |
| 9925s | i think bloodyface is afforded one more |
| 9927s | turn here to maybe rip that desert here |
| 9929s | and get something |
| 9930s | very powerful okay |
| 9935s | we will wait and see because we are fast |
| 9937s | approaching the position where druid is |
| 9939s | going to make some pretty unrecoverable |
| 9941s | board states mind control tech is a card |
| 9943s | that would be potentially coming into |
| 9945s | play here |
| 9946s | if available is not the card evil totem |
| 9949s | is absolutely not the card i believe one |
| 9951s | mct has already been played from uh |
| 9953s | bloody faces side but he is playing that |
| 9955s | second copy with four rush minions in |
| 9957s | play my control tech is a pretty |
| 9958s | effective card |
| 9963s | shutter walk was the draw |
| 9964s | desert hair was a draw |
| 9967s | this hand is just dead yep |
| 9970s | outside of that like barista or some |
| 9972s | other value value generator like a |
| 9973s | novice engineer like something just to |
| 9975s | get some some action going in his hands |
| 9977s | even barista wasn't that powerful it was |
| 9979s | read with bloody face going something |
| 9980s | like goblin lackey weaponized wasp |
| 9982s | barista yeah you can't really do much |
| 9984s | with that i i feel like from bloody |
| 9987s | faces perspective he's got one turn to |
| 9989s | deal with as much of the board as |
| 9990s | possible try to get a shutter walk if he |
| 9993s | doesn't get a shutter walk next turn or |
| 9994s | even maybe a desert hair could call him |
| 9996s | back at least one more turn i think it's |
| 9999s | just gonna run away from him fair enough |
| 10002s | finding it very difficult to argue with |
| 10003s | that assessment bloody pace is looking |
| 10006s | very much in trouble right now |
| 10017s | is there any better feeling while |
| 10018s | playing druid than hidden oasising your |
| 10020s | own minion for a value trade gallon |
| 10023s | what about hidden oasising your minion |
| 10025s | to go face that might actually be it |
| 10027s | yeah you might have found it |
| 10030s | i take your point it's a good point well |
| 10033s | made |
| 10037s | i was gonna say there is no way that |
| 10039s | heals space right there was a brief |
| 10041s | arrow being pointed at the face but yeah |
| 10043s | absolutely take the value out of the |
| 10044s | minion yeah there it is lion with the |
| 10047s | disrespect |
| 10049s | playing the alpha |
| 10051s | full damage to face there is that mind |
| 10053s | control tech on exactly the wrong turn |
| 10055s | for bloody face |
| 10058s | bloodyface has one way to stay alive |
| 10060s | here you bloodlust you trade the three |
| 10062s | three into the six six the one one into |
| 10064s | the five one and you just gotta hope |
| 10066s | that the next card is shutter walk |
| 10069s | i wonder shadow walk right now four |
| 10072s | bloody face generates a few lackeys |
| 10074s | plays mind control tech once we'll play |
| 10076s | it twice if he plays the mind control |
| 10077s | tech this turn as well summon some |
| 10079s | desert hairs but outside of that it's |
| 10081s | not really doing a great deal it's not |
| 10083s | like it's building a board for him |
| 10085s | a little bit of healing from the life |
| 10086s | drinker that he's played as well |
| 10089s | i wonder lyon has gotten herself to such |
| 10092s | a favorable position from this point yep |
| 10101s | bloody face gonna stare long and hard at |
| 10103s | the board state but i kind of agree with |
| 10104s | allen's assessment |
| 10106s | that six six has got to go down and |
| 10108s | blowface only has one way to do it his |
| 10110s | hand is just forced yup unless he's |
| 10112s | considering evolve outs and just whether |
| 10114s | you know it's worth saving a bloodlust |
| 10115s | but i think evolve is just a better card |
| 10117s | to have in his hand the bloodlust at |
| 10118s | this point |
| 10124s | play the mct because you're out his top |
| 10125s | decking shutter walk next turn so you |
| 10127s | might as well just play all the battle |
| 10128s | cries you can before you get there |
| 10132s | this worthy expedition can have so many |
| 10134s | blowouts this turn |
| 10137s | attending touring isn't a bad one |
| 10139s | remark of nature just to push extra |
| 10140s | damage |
| 10142s | pretending to warrant is probably the |
| 10144s | play though yeah like with the loti |
| 10145s | curve it's just so nice right well one |
| 10147s | thing to worry about with wardrobe lodi |
| 10149s | tending torn is that you actually give |
| 10151s | your play |
| 10153s | maybe an out with shutter walk you raise |
| 10155s | a good point you raise a very very good |
| 10157s | point so i would not be surprised to see |
| 10159s | this loti attack yes uh lion was very |
| 10162s | clearly aware of this situation the |
| 10164s | previous series as well if there's any |
| 10166s | danger of your loti getting mind control |
| 10167s | tech attack with it that way if it does |
| 10170s | get stolen you're at least able to deal |
| 10171s | with it on your turns because it's |
| 10173s | visible once it gets stolen away |
| 10177s | hey drops are powerful but they ain't |
| 10179s | that powerful bloody face |
| 10180s | lion is going to go up 2-0 with some |
| 10183s | commanding maui goes through and play |
| 10189s | one game away from making history on so |
| 10194s | many levels here for lyon bloodyface |
| 10197s | finds himself right up against it and |
| 10199s | but lion now is just staring history in |
| 10202s | the face you know certainly in |
| 10203s | hearthstone history she would be the |
| 10204s | first woman to |
| 10206s | get an achievement of this magnitude uh |
| 10209s | under her belt and also of course |
| 10211s | carrying the the hopes of the china |
| 10213s | region on her back as well we have not |
| 10215s | had the china representative all three |
| 10216s | of the others america's europe apac they |
| 10219s | all have a world champion to their name |
| 10221s | while china does not so she can be the |
| 10223s | first on multiple different levels to |
| 10225s | make this achievement if she's able to |
| 10227s | pick up the crown and i mean and this |
| 10229s | again i just want to point this out it's |
| 10230s | just so incredible that she is currently |
| 10233s | 10-0 over last 10 tournament games like |
| 10236s | she got 7-0 at the gold series finals to |
| 10239s | get here |
| 10240s | against the best players in china |
| 10242s | every single player that she's fought in |
| 10244s | this tournament has been one of the best |
| 10246s | from their region |
| 10247s | she's currently 3-0 against them |
| 10249s | she's up 2-0 versus bloody face and |
| 10251s | should very easily be 4-0 in this |
| 10254s | tournament we can keep going like even |
| 10256s | before that we can go back in time |
| 10258s | further and she had a second place and a |
| 10260s | fourth place and essentially the china |
| 10261s | equivalence of what we have as masters |
| 10263s | tours which is almost equally as |
| 10265s | ridiculous yeah which is you know as |
| 10267s | good a record as anyone has in their |
| 10268s | respective region on this side of the |
| 10270s | globe anyway so she has had complete |
| 10273s | dominance really you know she might have |
| 10274s | put her feet up for season two because |
| 10276s | her work was already done in season one |
| 10278s | getting here to qualify you know we saw |
| 10280s | that from bunnyhopper for example last |
| 10282s | year who did something very similar uh |
| 10284s | in our system through the european |
| 10285s | region so she is on an incredible streak |
| 10288s | and right now it really doesn't look |
| 10289s | like anyone is able to stop her yeah i |
| 10291s | mean she's about to go 4-0 and you know |
| 10293s | what happens when you go 4-0 at the |
| 10295s | global finals what is that callum you |
| 10297s | become the global finals champion win |
| 10299s | 200 000 |
| 10301s | and mark your name in hearthstone's |
| 10303s | history |
| 10305s | should be exciting she i mean it would |
| 10308s | be more than exciting it would be |
| 10310s | groundbreaking it would be record |
| 10311s | setting it would be an incredible |
| 10313s | achievement for lyon but now she has |
| 10316s | picked up the wins with her druid and |
| 10318s | with her shaman which leaves her i |
| 10320s | believe just with this hunter left to |
| 10322s | win with her her one-off unique deck in |
| 10325s | the lineup she's the only player in this |
| 10327s | tournament i believe to bring highlander |
| 10329s | hunter and so far it looked like it has |
| 10331s | performed pretty well for her yeah i |
| 10332s | mean highlander decks in general are |
| 10334s | just something that we have not seen |
| 10335s | that much in this tournament we've seen |
| 10337s | a lot of shaman we've seen a lot of |
| 10338s | priests we've seen actually a lot of |
| 10339s | druid as well but highlander decks |
| 10342s | highlander paladin and highlander hunter |
| 10343s | have just not appeared that much on the |
| 10345s | big stage i'll be interested to see how |
| 10347s | she pilots it i think we saw a game from |
| 10349s | her uh yesterday and she applied it very |
| 10352s | well against combo priest um just kind |
| 10355s | of like leading the priests into these |
| 10357s | awkward scenarios and then finishing it |
| 10359s | with this huge and powerful swing turn i |
| 10362s | did really enjoy uh that matchup which i |
| 10364s | believe was against fino you're talking |
| 10365s | about yesterday right where her secret |
| 10368s | choices looked unusual but they were |
| 10369s | played in positions where she was gay |
| 10371s | she was being given respect for pressure |
| 10373s | play and rat trap and freezing freezing |
| 10375s | trap which are the good secrets but she |
| 10377s | was getting it by playing the bad |
| 10378s | secrets which meant that she was getting |
| 10380s | multiple values of the same secret out |
| 10383s | of just playing the wrong ones and |
| 10384s | essentially getting bluff equity so i |
| 10386s | think she has played the deck very |
| 10388s | effectively i've got on record |
| 10389s | personally about how weak i think the |
| 10391s | secrets are but lion is teaching us all |
| 10393s | a lesson or two about how to navigate |
| 10395s | through some of these decks we are gonna |
| 10397s | have to take a very quick break before |
| 10399s | we get into the action here but you do |
| 10400s | not want to go anywhere because lion one |
| 10403s | game away from making history |
| 10407s | welcome back to blizzcon |
| 10410s | 2019 we are potentially here on the |
| 10414s | advent of history as a lion is a single |
| 10418s | game of hearthstone away from being the |
| 10421s | first woman to reach the pinnacle of |
| 10423s | competitive hearthstone standing in our |
| 10426s | way is bloodyface one of the strongest |
| 10429s | strongest players sorry from our home |
| 10431s | region here i guess of the americas has |
| 10434s | a lot of local support behind him but he |
| 10436s | is up against it right now because he |
| 10438s | finds himself a 0-2 down and he also |
| 10440s | finds himself in a position where he has |
| 10443s | lost a favorable match up previously in |
| 10445s | the series which now really puts him up |
| 10447s | against it overall now that being said |
| 10450s | lion's last deck remaining is highlander |
| 10452s | hunter and if i had to put a marker on |
| 10454s | this i think that it's unfavored for the |
| 10457s | remaining three decks from bloody face |
| 10458s | bloodyface has evolved shaman which i |
| 10460s | think is a very unfavorite matchup quest |
| 10462s | druid which is actually pretty favorite |
| 10463s | matchup for hunter and then warrior |
| 10465s | which is an unfavored matchup |
| 10467s | so you say on average it's unfavored |
| 10470s | against the decks that it's going to |
| 10471s | come up against his way let me rephrase |
| 10472s | that |
| 10476s | i tried to save it but |
| 10478s | go ahead so one of the things about it |
| 10480s | is that uh she is running the secret |
| 10482s | hunter package |
| 10483s | which means that the secret package is |
| 10484s | very weak versus druid and i think it's |
| 10486s | also very weak versus warrior as well |
| 10487s | she's not running the mech package which |
| 10489s | is something that we've seen do very |
| 10490s | well like aka the lay hunter which was |
| 10493s | established like the last couple of |
| 10494s | weeks of season two of grandma he's out |
| 10496s | there somewhere somewhere in the crowd |
| 10497s | one guy just got super hype and that |
| 10499s | guy's name is zelay the secret package |
| 10501s | works very well versus priest |
| 10503s | and that's what we've seen we've seen it |
| 10505s | been queued into quite a bit in the past |
| 10507s | couple days but otherwise i don't think |
| 10509s | it's really going to accomplish what |
| 10511s | lion wants in druden warrior however she |
| 10513s | still has the power cards like zephyrus |
| 10515s | she still has the power cards like uh |
| 10518s | seomat plus ragnaros plus the dinotama |
| 10521s | brand plus call of the wild plus zuljin |
| 10523s | pretty much a lot of still really good |
| 10524s | stuff |
| 10525s | however that early game i think is gonna |
| 10527s | be a little bit lacking yeah i would |
| 10528s | certainly agree with that it was a point |
| 10530s | i did want to raise because |
| 10532s | she has shown a lot of faith in this |
| 10534s | highlander hunter even protecting it in |
| 10535s | previous series and seemingly quite |
| 10537s | happily cueing it into priest that |
| 10539s | seemed to be one of the reasons why this |
| 10541s | deck was here one of the reasons why as |
| 10542s | you say she was going with the secret |
| 10544s | version |
| 10545s | as opposed to zalay hunter but in this |
| 10548s | series she banned away bloody faces |
| 10551s | priest leaving herself with this hunter |
| 10553s | still available which is super |
| 10555s | interesting to me the the way that |
| 10556s | there's perhaps a little bit of a |
| 10558s | diversion here coming into the finals i |
| 10560s | mean i think from lion's perspective it |
| 10562s | makes a bit of sense she really wants to |
| 10563s | play druid in this series and if she |
| 10565s | leaves the priest up |
| 10566s | that's a really bad matchup for her |
| 10569s | it sure is but she has a very reasonable |
| 10573s | match up ahead of her i don't think she |
| 10574s | could have asked for an awful lot more |
| 10576s | again she is on the doorstep of history |
| 10579s | here one game away from taking home 200 |
| 10582s | 000 in prizing taking home the title of |
| 10585s | the global champion and in the best |
| 10588s | possible position she could possibly be |
| 10590s | in this game i think she has a one drop |
| 10592s | she has zephyrs she is on the play |
| 10594s | versus quest druid all of those things |
| 10596s | are so good |
| 10598s | so let me ask you a question |
| 10600s | is being on the play and therefore being |
| 10603s | the aggressor is that better than |
| 10605s | denying the quest druid the coin by |
| 10608s | having the coin yourself absolutely when |
| 10610s | you are trying to pressure the quest |
| 10611s | through if you can play things as early |
| 10613s | as possible and push damage with them |
| 10614s | that is what matters |
| 10618s | one two curve picks up the animal |
| 10620s | companion i was talking with saiyan |
| 10622s | earlier about certain positions where |
| 10624s | you'll actually take wild growth as the |
| 10625s | hunter because you have like a big |
| 10626s | greedy hand uh see him out i guess he's |
| 10629s | in hand already but this did look like |
| 10630s | more of an animal companion curve to me |
| 10632s | do you agree with that yeah i think so i |
| 10633s | mean lion just has a one two three four |
| 10635s | curve with the spell breaker she could |
| 10637s | elect to just spell breaker one of her |
| 10638s | own minions play a 4-3 that's more than |
| 10640s | enough to pressure bloody faces life |
| 10642s | total right now |
| 10644s | and speaking of pressure the life total |
| 10647s | is indeed getting pressured here and the |
| 10650s | curve keeps going because there is |
| 10652s | secret into mass contender on five if |
| 10654s | nothing superior is picked up and this |
| 10657s | damage is just gonna keep on ramping up |
| 10659s | eight more being pushed this turn |
| 10663s | oh boy this is gonna add up very very |
| 10664s | quickly if bloody face cannot turn the |
| 10666s | corner here |
| 10670s | lions turns are lining up pretty |
| 10672s | perfectly so far she is missing a turn |
| 10674s | five and a turn six but even then she |
| 10676s | still has room to pick up stuff |
| 10679s | how about you this looks like a turn |
| 10681s | five to me it's not a super aggressive |
| 10683s | turn five but it fills the curve a snipe |
| 10685s | pickup i think is also pretty impactful |
| 10687s | yep |
| 10690s | mass contender gonna land here |
| 10695s | pulling out the pressure plate is rapid |
| 10697s | secret that comes out is that 11 |
| 10700s | and his quest isn't even completed yet |
| 10702s | and he is facing down |
| 10705s | nine damage on board plus a hero power |
| 10707s | that deals persistent damage plus a kill |
| 10710s | command in hand |
| 10712s | from lion's side |
| 10714s | and also |
| 10715s | with pressure play in play the hidden |
| 10717s | oasis does not play a six six torn |
| 10721s | it just heals and then the way the |
| 10722s | sequencing works the taunt will be |
| 10724s | removed |
| 10727s | this is getting very very close folks |
| 10734s | unleash the beast off the top is one of |
| 10736s | the best cards you could possibly hope |
| 10738s | for |
| 10739s | does lion ever want to start squeezing |
| 10742s | in these hero powers though |
| 10744s | is there ever merit of doing that is |
| 10746s | there just too much healing in druids to |
| 10747s | start going down those lines i think |
| 10749s | there's a lot of merit to it |
| 10754s | link's kill command hero power sets up |
| 10755s | hero power for next turn is just lethal |
| 10759s | if you play an unleash the beast now |
| 10762s | the minion will get sniped but then the |
| 10764s | five one can trade into the five five |
| 10766s | and the five five can trade over the two |
| 10767s | three |
| 10775s | how much of that is influenced by the |
| 10777s | fact that we are staring at two oasis |
| 10779s | surges though sigh unseen |
| 10782s | do you play around you know you could |
| 10784s | just as easily be looking at hands that |
| 10785s | have a hypnosis in it don't have an |
| 10787s | oasis surgery in which case like having |
| 10789s | the persistent minion damage on board is |
| 10791s | is superior in that position |
| 10800s | incredibly tense moment for bloody face |
| 10807s | right now the secrets are lining up |
| 10808s | pretty good for him though they are yes |
| 10812s | snipe and pressure plate are the two |
| 10814s | secrets in play right now so no freezing |
| 10816s | trap no rat trap that needs to be |
| 10817s | worried about no snake trap that's gonna |
| 10819s | add extra damage to the board as he's |
| 10821s | able to trade over so really the |
| 10823s | relevant secrets in this situation are |
| 10826s | all missing |
| 10837s | potentially series deciding implications |
| 10840s | this turn for bloody face |
| 10842s | it's a it's a hundred thousand dollar |
| 10844s | play let alone with the uh the title of |
| 10847s | global champion on the line |
| 10850s | what are these other options he could go |
| 10852s | ferocious howell wrath try to pick up a |
| 10855s | uh hidden oasis as soon as possible yep |
| 10861s | that looks like bloody face is going |
| 10863s | with him |
| 10867s | you want to play this worthy expedition |
| 10869s | now is the time to do it he does not |
| 10871s | there is that here there is a rat trap |
| 10873s | well there's also a rat trap up he plays |
| 10875s | the worthy expedition |
| 10876s | that that might be from his position |
| 10878s | exactly we can see that it's snipe and |
| 10880s | pressure played so he would get away |
| 10881s | with it but yes bloodyface has to play |
| 10883s | around all unknown scenarios but lion |
| 10886s | here gets to just go divine shield wind |
| 10888s | fury with ciamat which is about the |
| 10891s | scariest thing you can do against druid |
| 10893s | because they have a nightmare dealing |
| 10895s | with that minion a newbie sat defender |
| 10897s | while normally good against these kinds |
| 10899s | of spots doesn't even do anything here |
| 10902s | just gets sniped to unleash the beast |
| 10904s | can just run over it or the links |
| 10906s | exactly yep let's gets sniped gets hit |
| 10908s | by a one one gets hit by desert spear |
| 10910s | the pressure play is going to remove |
| 10912s | this six six torn as i mentioned the |
| 10914s | secrets are about as perfect as possible |
| 10918s | said 17 damage that's 17 damage in play |
| 10922s | right now for lion |
| 10923s | which means if nothing more is added |
| 10926s | kill command and hero power does end the |
| 10928s | game and even if this anubisath defender |
| 10930s | is played it gets sniped which means it |
| 10932s | just dies to the links from hand anyway |
| 10934s | from lion i think we're gonna check my |
| 10936s | position here |
| 10937s | i am not seeing it i will give bloody |
| 10939s | face the credit for being the player |
| 10941s | that he is to invent some kind of |
| 10943s | magical out here but i do not see it |
| 10947s | bloody face has the length of this rope |
| 10950s | to perform a miracle this turn but i do |
| 10953s | not see it gallon |
| 10957s | i knew he said defender is going to get |
| 10958s | sniped |
| 10961s | lion looks up in expectation just |
| 10965s | waiting for this turn to pass to her and |
| 10968s | it does |
| 10970s | 17 damage in play |
| 10972s | desert spear is going to come through |
| 10975s | and lion becomes the first woman to |
| 10979s | reach the pinnacle of competitive |
| 10981s | hearthstone she is your 2019 blizzcon |
| 10985s | champion and your 2019 global champion |
| 10991s | oh |
| 10998s | what a performance gallon |
| 11000s | absolutely just a commanding 3-0 in the |
| 11002s | finals a commanding performance |
| 11004s | throughout the entire tournament a |
| 11006s | commanding performance throughout this |
| 11007s | entire year culminating in one of the |
| 11010s | biggest |
| 11011s | events in hearthstone's history |
| 11014s | and you can see credit to bloody face |
| 11016s | incredibly gracious in defeat |
| 11019s | fantastic sportsmanship from the |
| 11021s | defeated player who of course deserves a |
| 11023s | lot of credit uh in his own right right |
| 11025s | now but look at what it means to lion |
| 11028s | and look at what it means to this |
| 11029s | audience as well i think it's fair to |
| 11031s | say that she has been the crowd favorite |
| 11034s | even though some players like bloodyface |
| 11036s | have had home field advantage from the |
| 11037s | crowd here you can feel the energy of |
| 11039s | the crowd has been behind her the whole |
| 11041s | time and she has so deserved everything |
| 11044s | that's come to her this tournament |
| 11046s | trodan i believe is standing by on stage |
| 11048s | you can hear less from us and more from |
| 11050s | our champion |
| 11054s | a new chapter has begun in hearthstone |
| 11058s | history |
| 11060s | please welcome the newest member |
| 11062s | of the hearthstone hall champion vk's |
| 11079s | here to present the trophy 2019 world |
| 11082s | champion casper hunter race noto |
| 11087s | let's get a couple of words with our |
| 11089s | winner shall we |
| 11092s | first the most generic question in |
| 11094s | esports for a moment like this we have |
| 11097s | to ask it lion you did the impossible |
| 11101s | everyone was watching |
| 11103s | what is going through your head in this |
| 11105s | very moment right now |
| 11108s | um |
| 11115s | soon |
| 11133s | oh |
| 11151s | thank you |
| 11163s | um |
| 11182s | bye |
| 11229s | it never occurred to me that i could i |
| 11231s | have achieved this far |
| 11233s | and |
| 11234s | i want to thank everyone who has |
| 11237s | practiced with me and who has been |
| 11239s | supporting me |
| 11242s | even though they don't even play |
| 11243s | hearthstone they would come watch my |
| 11246s | play |
| 11247s | so i'm really thankful |
| 11249s | thank you everyone |
| 11258s | the first thing that she does when she |
| 11261s | does a historic achievement |
| 11263s | is thank the fans and everyone |
| 11265s | supporting her what a heartwarming |
| 11267s | statement |
| 11268s | another question everyone's talking |
| 11270s | about how this is a landmark moment for |
| 11273s | women everywhere who compete what does |
| 11275s | it mean to you |
| 11277s | to become the champion |
| 11279s | on this stage in this very moment as the |
| 11281s | first woman to do it |
| 11289s | can i tell a story |
| 11291s | i got time does anyone have time here do |
| 11294s | you want to listen to a story |
| 11312s | oh |
| 11326s | oh |
| 11341s | yes |
| 11353s | um |
| 11366s | me |
| 11374s | like two years ago i remember when i was |
| 11377s | competing in a huge tournament |
| 11380s | i was waiting in line for backup signups |
| 11384s | and there is this guy telling me that if |
| 11387s | you're a girl you should not wait in |
| 11390s | line here it's not for you |
| 11393s | and now today i'm here |
| 11396s | with all the support from the fence |
| 11412s | so |
| 11413s | i want to say to all the girls out there |
| 11417s | who have a dream for esports for |
| 11420s | competition for glory |
| 11422s | if |
| 11424s | you want to do it and you believe in |
| 11426s | yourself you should just forget your |
| 11428s | gender and go for it |
| 11438s | absolutely incredible |
| 11443s | hey i bet that guy feels real dumb right |
| 11445s | around now |
| 11448s | let's wrap this up |
| 11450s | lion what would you like to say the |
| 11452s | whole world is watching all of your fans |
| 11454s | and family and friends back at home |
| 11456s | watching what would you like to say to |
| 11458s | everyone else here |
| 11459s | as your final words and the beginning of |
| 11461s | your tenure as a champion |
| 11467s | to a whole |
| 11480s | um |
| 11503s | first of all i want to thank all the |
| 11505s | fans |
| 11506s | who showed up here supporting me no |
| 11509s | matter whether you're |
| 11511s | watching online or here |
| 11514s | thank you very much and i also want to |
| 11516s | thank all the |
| 11518s | hard-working people who made this happen |
| 11521s | it's an epic show |
| 11525s | your hearthstone grand masters global |
| 11528s | finals champion vks |
| 11547s | they said it was unlikely |
| 11550s | they said it was too difficult |
| 11553s | they said you should just give up |
| 11556s | but the woman defying all the odds |
| 11559s | stands before you today |
| 11562s | join me in one last congratulations for |
| 11566s | lion |
| 11577s | it's been a wonderful weekend of |
| 11578s | hearthstone and it's just the beginning |
| 11582s | we've heard the legendary tales of all |
| 11585s | of these car singers that joined us in |
| 11587s | the tavern and the only question is when |
| 11590s | will you join us in the tavern |
| 11593s | qualifiers begin for masters tour in |
| 11596s | 2020 and even further beyond and we |
| 11599s | couldn't be more excited to say |
| 11601s | there's always another seat so come grab |
| 11604s | a table at the tavern thank you for |
| 11606s | watching blizzcon good night and we'll |
| 11609s | see you next time for more hearthstone |
| 11611s | action |
| 11623s | oh |
| 11654s | so |
| 11698s | so |
| 11869s | so |
| 11878s | so |
| 11922s | so |
| 11951s | do |
| 11960s | you |