[2023] 2023 Hearthstone Masters Tour Fall I Day 1

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545s	hello everyone and welcome to the fall
548s	Masters Tour I am Raven and joining me
550s	is sttle and we're going to be kicking
551s	off day one for you guys as we get ready
554s	to Crown our final champion and uh one
557s	of the final qualifiers to the world
559s	championship so I'll welcome uh long
561s	time no see but not really uh different
564s	mode same game H how's it going at least
566s	you get to unpin that Tweet now hey um
568s	yeah it's it's been going oh yeah hang
571s	on give me a sec uh yeah I'm looking
573s	forward to it uh you know constructed of
575s	course it's always we've been doing
576s	Lobby Legends we've done some
577s	Battlegrounds recently it's always nice
578s	to be back in constructed I think this
580s	is uh you know this is home for both of
582s	us I suppose and uh we are going to get
585s	one final step closer or one step closer
587s	to getting the final lineup for the
589s	World Championship of course there will
590s	be still be some places on the line
592s	after this but terms of the direct
594s	qualification from the three tournaments
596s	this is the third of those three so tons
599s	on the the line lots lots of drama
601s	expected and uh a very recent balance
604s	patch That Shook everything up for all
605s	of these players at the last minute as
607s	well yeah we'll get to the matter a
609s	little bit later on but as we mentioned
611s	this is the third and final Master's
612s	tour of the year which means we've had a
615s	couple more beforehand in a couple of
616s	very intense tournaments as well as
619s	finals H and champions as well so we can
621s	take a look at some of those players as
623s	well a one player especially and you'll
625s	know this all but levik with the first
628s	one of the Year taking the victory
630s	was so good and again I just I was so
632s	happy to see this happen just because I
634s	saw levik's potential straight away and
637s	these are the moments right like you see
639s	that buildup of tension and now you see
641s	the release like this is why we do this
643s	for these little moments of tension the
646s	the the glory of Victory the despair of
648s	defeat you're seeing both of those
650s	things on the screen right now for
652s	pocket training you pocket train of
654s	course is back again he is still one of
656s	the Front Runners to be at the world
657s	championship by hook or by crook whether
659s	he wins WIS this tournament or not um
661s	but you can see just how much it means
663s	to each and every one of those players
665s	cuz it is so much work this year to get
668s	to this point they really have invested
670s	a full year of their lives into getting
672s	this done yeah the dedication required
675s	is kind of ridiculous to be completely
677s	honest and it's why we are excuse me
679s	sorry we are seeing a lot of the same
681s	names get here every time as you
683s	mentioned pocket train going to be
684s	looking to make a you know finish what
686s	he started in the previous one so
688s	hopefully he can get that work but
690s	there's a lot of competition going up
692s	against him as we can see what the
694s	players are competing for not only
696s	trying to become Champion um of a
698s	seasonal Championship but that
700s	qualifying guaranteed spot to the world
703s	championship with everything on the
706s	line yeah and the headline there yes yes
708s	there is a nice prize pull here yes that
710s	is a significant amount of money that
712s	you know can give you a decent Wade for
714s	your Year's work if you if you take home
716s	all of it but it's that spot at the
717s	world championship that's what people
719s	really really fting and again nice nice
722s	priz $350,000 on the line in total at
725s	the world chionship but that's like you
727s	don't grind out this entire year in the
729s	way people have done to make money
731s	that's not a good decision that's not
733s	why they've done it they do it because
735s	they love the game they love competition
737s	they want to win and they want to join
739s	that Pantheon of hearthstone world
741s	champions uh most recently occupied by
743s	bunny Hopper that's why they do it
745s	that's what's on the line yeah and and
747s	honestly the the way the formats this
749s	year every single Master's tour we have
752s	truly seen just the best players in the
755s	world and I think that's been shown
757s	every single time every single group and
760s	every single match that we've seen we'll
761s	be able to get to the groups in just a
763s	second but as you said um the Met has
765s	been shaken up with the recent patch I
767s	think W with these players having to
769s	submit a lineup with a very short amount
771s	of time very exciting for us very filled
773s	with pressure for them and it's been
775s	very interesting to see what the players
776s	have jumped to because a lot of them
778s	have had um pretty similar reactions as
781s	we'll get to shortly but let's take a
782s	look at who are in those groups who are
784s	making up the tournament this weekend
786s	and so let me know if you have any
787s	favorites to keep an eye on as we take a
789s	look at group a oh tons I mean just be
793s	like just to lead on from what you were
794s	talking about right the fact that it's a
796s	new meta and it's weird to say that
798s	because it is just a balance patch right
799s	and a balance patch you can't always
801s	describe as a new meta but I think where
804s	we were with the meta beforehand with
806s	Druid being as incredibly dominant as it
808s	was and then Druid kind of having the
810s	soul stripped out of it in the balance
812s	patch it is a new meta right everything
814s	suddenly becomes possible and I think
816s	Casey is perhaps the best player in the
819s	world identifying things that are strong
822s	in new and evolving metas quicker than
823s	anyone else he has a lineup in this
826s	tournament which is markedly different
828s	from everyone else's as well which is
830s	kind of what I would expect coming in so
831s	it's going to be very much sink or swim
833s	for Casey he's backed himself to know
835s	what the good decks are which is what
836s	he's been doing his whole career um so
838s	Casey real want to watch in this I think
841s	yeah and as we know you said we've been
842s	doing this a long time we've seen this
844s	strategy pay off before and we've seen
846s	it crash and burn so casy definitely a
849s	player you want to be keeping your eye
850s	on across the weekend here as we take a
852s	look at Group C we are going to see that
853s	pocket train as well H going to be back
856s	with a vengeance in this one and then of
858s	course Group D uh with Rec firm gamer
860s	rvg just a lot of players we've seen
862s	time and time again but I will say for
864s	me sutle that it the the power feels
868s	like it's shifted towards group A and B
871s	if we're going to start discussing the
873s	groups of death let's
875s	say yeah certainly when you know I
878s	focused on Casey for those first two
880s	groups and then sat right next to Casey
882s	on that graphic was Gabby who I didn't
884s	mention right like we're already in
886s	business in terms of an incredibly
887s	powerful group at that point so I can
889s	get behind it but again I just have to
891s	Echo the sentiment and you know
892s	sometimes this is lip service sometimes
894s	this is just commentators saying what
895s	they're supposed to say to get to this
898s	point you're an absurd Hearthstone
900s	player like there's so much work to even
902s	get to this point that you absolutely
904s	cannot dismiss anyone and I don't say
906s	that kind of stuff sometimes you get to
908s	a field in a tournament I'll happily say
909s	you that person has no chance of winning
911s	this tournament that is absolutely not
913s	the case in this I was just getting
914s	worried because apparently there's stuff
915s	we should say I kind of just make things
917s	up as I go along so don't worry it shows
920s	Raven it's fine everyone knew that
922s	already still here though
924s	soy who's really winning if you think
926s	about let's take a look at what our
928s	first featured match is going to be
929s	though and it is going to be pocket
931s	train versus tonsoku and we spoke a lot
933s	about pocket train sttle but tonsoku
936s	again speaking of how long we've been
938s	doing this I feel like tonsoku is one of
940s	the very early names in our careers at
942s	least absolutely yeah I think um you
945s	know we've been doing this for a very
946s	very long time and pocket train is the
948s	newer of these two names uh even though
951s	he's probably currently burning brighter
954s	um he hasn't been doing it necessarily
955s	as long as tansu has um and I think he's
959s	setting it up for us perfectly there
961s	with that quote fumbled the last Masters
962s	Tour final yeah there was uh he's called
965s	out two particular plays that he wasn't
967s	happy with in that final one of which uh
969s	I was also calling out in the Discord at
972s	the time one of which I didn't catch at
974s	the time but he takes these situations
977s	very very seriously he'll be looking to
979s	put what he considers to be a better
981s	performance in this time um but he does
984s	have a very very very good position in
987s	the race to Worlds because he's been
990s	consistently such a high point earner in
991s	terms of his finishes he kind of has
993s	that double buffer right where even if
995s	he doesn't get one of the automatic
997s	spots of winning the tournament he may
998s	well still get there so pocket train is
1001s	someone to keep an eye on for the long
1002s	term still as we come to the end of this
1004s	competitive and now we're going to
1006s	finally dive into some decks one of the
1007s	key decks here for pocket train and for
1009s	you know a good chunk of players across
1011s	this weekend is going to be that Mech
1014s	Rogue is this a deck you fora being one
1017s	of the most popular H going in after the
1019s	Nerf to Druid it was actually um when
1022s	not that you mentioned it yeah when when
1024s	when we were discussing I think it was
1025s	actually in Linda's stream we were
1028s	talking about stuff and I said uh I was
1030s	just kind of looking through decks and
1032s	trying to imagine what was good cuz
1033s	obviously we as much as the players we
1035s	were trying to scramble and figuring out
1036s	what was what was worth practicing what
1038s	are we going to get our heads around uh
1040s	Mech Rogue was one of the things that I
1041s	did think was a distinct possibility
1043s	that we might be seeing in this
1044s	tournament I believe there are uh six or
1047s	seven in total in this in this lineup so
1049s	a fair few players have decided to go
1051s	with the Mech Rogue it does make yeah I
1052s	think it's rough a more or less even
1054s	split between Mech Rogues and secrets as
1057s	well so it be really interested to see
1058s	sort of which Rogue Reigns Supreme uh by
1062s	by the end of the weekend or maybe even
1063s	by the end of today who knows but his
1065s	opponent is going to be tonsoku and a
1068s	character that's always done his own
1070s	thing and always been very sort of aggro
1073s	based very successful over so many years
1076s	of past it does actually worry me to
1078s	think back at how long you know hone
1080s	Esports has been going around and we've
1082s	been casting and we've been casting
1083s	tonsoku specifically so what do you make
1086s	of this lineup which feels very
1088s	different with that very noticeable lack
1090s	of Mage it does yeah I think tansu and
1095s	Casey probably have the most different
1098s	lineups from the rest of the field uh
1099s	Casey bringing two decks where he's a
1101s	unique player with those two decks uh
1104s	tan soku as well uh with this spell
1106s	Demon Hunter and I know it's something
1108s	that he's kind of faced a little bit of
1110s	criticism from the other players for as
1112s	well pocket trains called it out
1114s	specifically that he doesn't think this
1115s	lineup from tansu is very good um so now
1118s	here you go has to put his money where
1119s	his mouth is guess what you're on stream
1121s	first having said that so good luck
1124s	buddy um so yeah you know it would be
1127s	remiss of me to say hey Casey's got
1129s	these weird Decks that no one else is
1130s	bringing cuz he's a genius and he's
1132s	going to win Tans soku's got these weird
1134s	Decks that no one else is playing
1135s	because he's an idiot and he's going to
1136s	lose like no that's not the situation
1139s	right um various players will have
1141s	decided to just try and do something
1144s	other than just wind the clock back to
1146s	the old decks right which is what some
1148s	people have done Odin Warrior rainbow
1150s	Mage Etc secret Rogue things that we've
1152s	been seeing for a while tansu is pushing
1154s	the boat out he's been doing something
1155s	different I think the main understanding
1158s	coming into this tournament was that we
1159s	would have Decks that played for board
1161s	because uh Y and prism breaker got
1163s	nerfed two of the most anti- board cards
1166s	that existed in the meta overall and
1169s	then conversely Decks that were still
1171s	good at controlling boards without
1174s	having yog or um or prison breaker in
1176s	there so Odin Warrior control priest are
1179s	the first two to come to mind right they
1180s	still have enough removal tools without
1183s	access to those cards and that is kind
1185s	of what we're seeing it's just the exact
1188s	definition of people as to okay exactly
1191s	which minions do I want to put in the
1193s	middle right like is it is it an outcast
1195s	DH is it a spell DH is it Miracle Rogue
1197s	is it secret Rogue is it rainbow Mage
1199s	like what am I doing to get these
1201s	minions in the middle of the board well
1203s	that's it isn't it cuz I was going to
1204s	bring up as well we've seen H I think
1206s	every single players brought Warrior
1207s	whether that's in Rage or Odin uh
1209s	there's 15 Mages there's 14 Rogues but
1213s	then suddenly as is often the case the
1215s	fourth deck question uh very similar to
1218s	the three body problem but that's a very
1220s	different thing um there's like Shaman
1222s	for seven and then uh Demon Hunter
1224s	Hunter priest Druid warlock um or sorry
1228s	yeah sorry Druid warlock all have like 3
1230s	3 3 2 1 so again not only are we seeing
1233s	certain players go a little bit
1235s	different in terms of lineup overall but
1238s	also within that just exactly what
1240s	fourth deck's going to be good are any
1242s	of these going to be prayed upon are we
1244s	going to see any glaring weaknesses
1245s	because time and time again we've seen
1248s	players either win the whole thing
1249s	because of these choices or get
1251s	absolutely obliterated because of them
1254s	but without further Ado let's get on
1256s	with the first match of the day we've
1258s	got pocket train versus tonsoku Rogue
1260s	versus
1267s	Shaman decent looking Mulligan options
1269s	for both players copel Snoop of course a
1273s	fantastic snowball card uh got a little
1275s	bit of a nudging with the the nerfbat a
1278s	couple of patches ago just reducing some
1280s	of that overall power but the effect of
1282s	the card of if this sticks once you get
1285s	more Mana so you can cheat more and make
1288s	it make other plays that make it stick
1291s	again and then all of a sudden maybe it
1292s	gets wind Fury and blah blah blah blah
1293s	blah still very very powerful but I
1296s	think pocket just focusing here on
1298s	actual cards that have effect on the
1300s	board in order to get things as quickly
1303s	and powerfully down as possible yeah
1305s	because going up against Shaman
1306s	especially this is going to be quite the
1309s	scrap I imagine on board both players
1311s	have access to um a lot of that board
1314s	Focus as you mentioned but Shaman has
1317s	the ability to uh play for board as well
1320s	as you know having spells or or just
1322s	removal tools in general that will
1324s	really really help H so a lot of this
1326s	will be pocket train trying to open up a
1328s	gap here and really push through it
1330s	whereas tonsoku even though will be
1333s	battling for that board and is a board
1334s	focused deck will probably become the
1337s	the sort of defender in that sort of
1339s	style at least for the first few
1342s	turns and already this is terrifying
1344s	when I play against Rogue and they open
1346s	like this I'm like I have probably lost
1348s	you know that and that may not be true
1350s	but it's kind of how you feel right
1353s	mhm and honestly like this isn't one of
1356s	the most broken openings that can come
1358s	up with like this is kind of the deck I
1360s	I think it's overstated a little bit
1362s	this idea of like okay you play your
1364s	first four turns and if your opponent
1365s	isn't dead by that point you're probably
1367s	having a bad time but certainly it's one
1370s	of the decks where the first three turns
1372s	are probably the most important in in
1375s	the game right now of you know how how
1377s	fast to start can Metro get and how good
1379s	are the opponent's options to be able to
1381s	deal with it speaking of good options
1383s	schooling is never bad as the shaman
1385s	when you want to play and try and defend
1387s	some kind of board-based attack here so
1389s	tonsoku getting away with this only gets
1391s	to remove one minion with this play but
1393s	gets rid of the Divine Shield I think
1395s	most importantly because that's another
1397s	problem that can occur when not only are
1399s	these magnetic sort of stacking stats
1401s	but when they're shielded it just adds
1402s	that extra layer of frustration but uh
1404s	sule's little Yelp of I don't know Joy
1407s	surprise fa seeing this minion drawn um
1410s	this is going to open up pocket train to
1411s	just have a truly terrifying minion on
1413s	board with that 57 now yeah right choice
1416s	here I think in the end it's one of
1418s	those it's one of those meme curves
1420s	right where when you're a really bad
1422s	player you always do it in this order
1423s	right when you're a new player you're
1424s	like okay more damage attach the stealth
1426s	first damage good go yeah then when
1428s	you're an intermediate player you're
1429s	like okay but it's like I can guarantee
1432s	basically having a minion on board next
1433s	turn for magnetic um so I think you know
1435s	intermediate players tend to lean
1437s	towards attack first and then stealth
1438s	after and then at the top level you
1440s	start to understand well hang on
1442s	sometimes they just can't kill a 5 S
1445s	anyway so this is just three damage at
1447s	this point and just after seeing two of
1450s	the three uh piranhas right that's one
1453s	thing removed uh that's possible like
1455s	pocket will know there's that that one
1456s	damage available from hand for one Mana
1459s	but there's not really anything that
1461s	deals with this 5 S realistically and
1464s	pocket will know because you know this
1466s	deck that tanok is playing is is
1469s	remarkably similar to the deck that
1471s	pocket train was arguably the best
1472s	player in the world with the deck
1474s	unsurprisingly though that he claims to
1476s	have thrown the previous tournament with
1478s	which was uh nature Sharman this is a
1480s	very very similar deck its options you
1482s	know through the early game are
1483s	basically the same as they always have
1485s	been so pocket will have a very clear
1487s	understanding of what those removal
1489s	tools are and tonsoku just saying you
1491s	know what this needs to die and it needs
1494s	to die now so going to put the minion in
1496s	get that down to a 54 and now there's
1498s	options of Zap lightning boltt well not
1500s	anymore H but that was the plan um to go
1503s	for you know zap lightning bolt just
1504s	something to stop the damage because
1506s	right now tonsoku is sitting on 12
1508s	health and with that debuff it's uh it's
1511s	not looking great even the feral
1512s	spirit's not available
1517s	anymore this is easy just roll Taun to
1520s	don't know oh yeah that that's the
1522s	winning play that solves all of our
1525s	problems what what's the issue well they
1529s	are numerous and
1533s	severe so I think he's probably going
1536s	through this this discussion but with
1538s	himself should I press the totem button
1541s	or should I uh I'm probably this is not
1543s	looking great marginally less jovial yes
1547s	just maybe just a
1554s	tad so I don't know if equipping a
1556s	weapon and hitting your opponent in the
1557s	face necessarily solves any of those
1559s	problems either it does make you feel a
1561s	bit better though and that's important
1563s	it makes you think maybe next turn yeah
1566s	maybe next turn things will improve oh
1569s	or
1570s	not and that very quickly looks like
1573s	it's going to be game number one going
1575s	to pocket train mechro doing what it
1576s	wants to do and tonsoku uh not really
1580s	having much involvement in the game
1582s	chucked a few piranhas down but it was
1584s	too little too late by the time it
1586s	really came to uh came to the end there
1588s	pocket train getting enough to a great
1589s	start in game one so yeah so I think um
1592s	you look at pocket's Mulligan I think
1594s	that's the kind of thing he was going
1595s	for right like multiple One Drops um so
1598s	he could create situations where he
1600s	didn't necessarily just get countered by
1601s	piranhas because um say he just gone one
1604s	drop into magnetizing the Snoop um and
1607s	then Tatu had top deck that uh schooling
1609s	that he did on that turn just one minion
1611s	wouldn't have had stealth then suddenly
1613s	the fish would come down board is clear
1614s	you don't have a platform that's what
1616s	Mech Rogue is all about you always want
1617s	to have that platform that you can build
1619s	on quite literally with the the magnetic
1621s	minions um so pocket trains Mulligan
1624s	might look like a a little thing but you
1626s	know copil Snoop is one of the best
1628s	cards in the deck still really with
1630s	after the Nerf so throwing that away to
1631s	look for a a faster smoother curve in
1633s	the early game and then you just saw the
1636s	threat of wind Fury which sometimes
1638s	isn't even real and wasn't particularly
1640s	real in that situation for pocket okay
1642s	he top deck the spider which would have
1644s	made it real but tanoko had to spend
1646s	three mana on both his fish just
1648s	throwing stuff into the 2 two Divine
1650s	Shield minion because it had wind Fury
1652s	and that was so much less efficient than
1654s	other things he could do just because of
1656s	that fear of magnetic coming down and
1658s	ending the game yeah and that's the
1660s	problem like with that even just with
1661s	the Divine Shield itself you're suddenly
1663s	going to fall behind further because of
1664s	those potential future value trades uh
1667s	coming on so really really difficult
1669s	overall pocket's going to get that win
1670s	with the Mech Rogue which means he has
1672s	his own Shaman left and his rainbow Mage
1674s	to choose from as you might have just
1676s	saw there Warrior is banded out for both
1678s	players and correct me if our opinions
1681s	differ here but I can foresee at least
1683s	the Odin Warrior being banned pretty
1686s	regularly this
1687s	weekend I think so yeah I think um
1691s	largely that is again when you're
1693s	building Conquest lineups you kind of
1694s	have to go through these various stages
1696s	of like okay let's start by working out
1698s	what I think are the best and most
1700s	common decks in the game at a high level
1702s	and then put those down on a piece of
1703s	paper and work out whether I want to
1705s	play those or whether I want to beat
1707s	those right like that's generally your
1708s	first choice um and I think Odin Warrior
1711s	is absolutely one of the first Decks
1713s	that make that list and then when you
1715s	get to the question of like do I want to
1717s	try and beat that four
1719s	times no probably not I think people oh
1723s	they played olding whoops it's like yeah
1726s	I I think there are potential ways to do
1728s	that but I think they build a generally
1731s	miserable lineup against a lot of the
1733s	rest of the field that you you kind of
1735s	lose big percentage points elsewhere um
1737s	so yeah I think we'll see a large number
1739s	of warrior bands throughout the
1740s	tournament for sure and we're seeing
1742s	double warrior in our opener so we're
1743s	already off to a good start and on the
1745s	other side of that with Odin Warrior
1747s	feeling so powerful because tonsoku U
1751s	you know typically is bringing in Rage
1753s	Warrior that's been banned um do do you
1756s	think like players who brought in Rage
1758s	Warrior have just even in a more
1760s	aggressive lineup sort of Simply brought
1762s	a worst deck like is Odin Warrior good
1764s	enough to say well no even if you're
1766s	playing say four aggro decks you just
1768s	play the Odin Warrior anyway because it
1771s	it feels like AG GR in the late game
1772s	let's say I think Odin Warrior is a
1775s	fairly generically better deck to play
1777s	on ladder I think for this tournament
1780s	the enrage Warrior STP does make some
1782s	sense I think you will face lineups in
1785s	this tournament where in Rage Warrior
1788s	has neutral or favored matchups against
1790s	all of them um that's good that's not
1793s	necessarily Tournament winning that can
1794s	be Tournament winning if you're playing
1796s	Last Hero standing if you find that deck
1798s	that has positive win rates against
1799s	everything um but you can then use that
1802s	as a building block to create a rest of
1804s	a lineup around that right which can put
1805s	you in a favorite position um yeah in
1808s	terms of like the decks in Tans soku's
1809s	lineup let's put it this way enrage
1811s	Warrior is not the one I have the
1813s	biggest question marks over and will no
1816s	doubt or maybe get to the one that you
1817s	do cuz I think we both agree but we are
1820s	jumping into the next game pocket train
1822s	currently up 1 z h jumping over to that
1825s	rainbow Mage and tonsoku still sticking
1828s	on the shaman rainbow Mage one of I
1831s	would say the most popular decks to run
1833s	into on ladder at the moment not
1835s	massively unchanged in recent history
1837s	apart from it maybe a couple of
1838s	additions here and there H but
1840s	definitely a very very powerful deck
1843s	that can sort of just I don't want to
1845s	say steal wins like the deck shouldn't
1847s	win but more more goes for some surprise
1850s	wins right because some of the damage
1852s	burst that's available can can really
1855s	throw you off if you're not really
1856s	keeping a sort of thought on where cth
1858s	is up to has there been forged cards in
1861s	hand and so on right because if you're
1862s	not keeping like handle on that you can
1864s	just die and actually think you were
1866s	very safe and also some of the not only
1869s	just the random burn but the random
1871s	answers that you can find as well right
1873s	like just if like if an infinitize gets
1875s	cast for example that might mean they
1877s	have another zero Mana Arcane bolt in
1879s	hand that you just fail to account for
1881s	because you culate the break points with
1883s	the with the Mana they can spend U with
1885s	the deck being so discover based over
1887s	all um you know depending on where you
1889s	land on the Discover debate and you know
1891s	how how good how positive it is for the
1894s	game you can have some real strong
1896s	feelings about this deck one way or the
1898s	other because a lot of the cards that do
1900s	get played do come out of boxes there
1902s	are a lot of boxes that get opened over
1907s	the it's not like oh my opponent's
1910s	discovered one or two cards and I've got
1911s	to just try and think what what are the
1913s	worst case scenarios right like no my
1915s	opponent's discovered like 12 cards over
1917s	the course of this game like what do I
1920s	even think about and I think there's
1921s	almost a point to revert back to I won't
1924s	specifically play around anything and
1926s	just try and enact your own game plan
1928s	which is what I think tonsoku will not
1930s	we we'll be trying to focus on at least
1932s	in the immediate
1935s	future CU that has a lot of cards in
1937s	hand for tonsoku and um when Shaman gets
1940s	this point and maybe a little bit more
1941s	Mana down the line they can uh perform
1943s	some Miracles themselves yeah this hand
1946s	is uh is making me feel things back in
1948s	the three Mana bioluminescence days oh
1950s	this this was over look atth I mean it
1953s	kind of is if it cost through yeah yeah
1956s	um so yeah just I guess to do the uh the
1960s	the housework with this deck um if you
1962s	tuned into to the previous Master's tour
1964s	if you've been playing uh Hearthstone at
1966s	a decent level for quite some time you
1967s	would have been familiar with the old
1968s	nature Sharman uh Biol luminescence did
1971s	get a little slap on the wrist going
1972s	from three Mana to four and that made
1975s	the speed and the viability of the
1977s	combos of getting three or three four
1979s	five minions spread across board and
1980s	bioluminesence landing on them a little
1983s	bit prohibitive for the deck so really
1986s	or the only thing that's changed is that
1988s	they've added Jazz base into the deck to
1990s	be able to cheat that extra little bit
1992s	of Mana that you need uh to compensate
1994s	for the the Nerf to BU
1997s	luminescence yeah this might be
1998s	something we're going to have to get
1999s	used to at least for this match of oh
2001s	Ina going burnt to Oblivion there but
2004s	both players having 100 cards in hand
2007s	and and trying to decipher exactly how
2009s	to utilize them cuz I think that's
2011s	something that can be really difficult
2013s	as well uh difficult for a player like
2015s	me not so much pocket training tonsoku
2017s	but hand management with these decks can
2020s	get quite tricky especially when you
2022s	know your opponent's also having to
2023s	manage it at a high level as well
2025s	because all these discovers all the
2027s	timing for tonsoku for example like when
2029s	to pop off with some of these activators
2032s	can get really really hard because you
2033s	can't just sit there with a full hand
2035s	and wait because as we just saw you can
2037s	burn some pretty impactful
2041s	cards oh thank you just received a
2043s	production note based on our earlier
2045s	conversation 11 of the first 16 bands of
2048s	the tournament in the opening round
2049s	matches were Warrior so yeah there you
2055s	go this is tricky though what does
2057s	tonsoku s of it sounds stupid but get
2059s	rid of here because this is what it
2061s	feels like the decision he has to make
2063s	right it's not it's not what's good to
2065s	play it's what can he afford to just
2066s	sort of throw away make space with yeah
2069s	so this is what I wanted to bring up I
2070s	think last turn it may have just been
2074s	worth playing the flash of lightning
2075s	instead of the ancestral knowledge tansu
2077s	went ancestral knowledge which leaves
2079s	him with less Mana this turn and burned
2080s	him aard he had the option to just play
2083s	flash of lightning instead and then go
2085s	with like a lightning reflexes turn this
2087s	turn just to try and grab some tempo
2090s	right and like give himself a little
2091s	buffer get some cards out of the hand
2093s	tansu has gone the other way which is
2095s	valid and said this hand does do kill
2097s	people pretty quickly if I can hold on
2099s	to the majority of these cards that I
2101s	have in my hand it's just that hand size
2104s	option has become real real serious real
2107s	quick yeah and just just look at all the
2110s	burn there was just void scripture into
2112s	um molten Rune then and then obviously
2115s	now that knows there's a molten Rune in
2117s	hand and it all starts to stack up and
2120s	one of the problems is this could easily
2123s	get to the point where this won't be
2125s	some kind of Sith crazy burn this just
2127s	pocket train getting
2128s	him he's already down to
2131s	18 oh that b draw is so huge yeah okay
2134s	so now you open the reflexes for sure if
2136s	this finds damage you're in business it
2138s	did not find damage the three Mana cards
2140s	cost one so we are under double flash
2143s	right now so he can go novice novice
2145s	feral and one bio so I still think he's
2148s	going to be a little bit short yeah he
2151s	was going to need bolt I think off the
2153s	first lightning reflexes to be able to
2155s	make anything happen especially at 42
2158s	for pocket train it's the recognition as
2160s	well pocket train with the shrug is like
2162s	am I dead you know because that's just
2165s	how both both of these ts are kind of
2166s	going to work especially with the setup
2168s	from tonsoku
2169s	y
2173s	it oh
2178s	okay oh there's so much he can do still
2182s	do but is this does tonoka just like I
2187s	mean this is what it looks to be doing
2188s	but just commit a good chunk here and
2190s	just say look here's what I've got if I
2193s	wait any longer I'm just going to lose
2195s	so play everything out see what pocket
2197s	train can do about it even if you have
2199s	to use burn to clear up some of this
2200s	board then fine yeah I mean the the
2202s	great thing about the the combo turns
2204s	with Sharman is that by nature of the
2207s	way the combo works you build a board
2209s	yeah exactly like so you know you you've
2211s	just dealt whatever that was 24 plus a
2213s	bit to your opponent and you've you're
2215s	leaving a board behind that they have to
2217s	deal with you've absolutely swung Tempo
2220s	back the other way the only major issue
2222s	that you have is the infinity overload
2224s	you gave yourself yeah I was going to
2226s	say Tod is not doing too much unleash
2228s	fell going to definitely help out here
2229s	from pocket not only doing a little bit
2231s	of damage but mainly healing some as
2233s	well give some kind of safety does have
2235s	the lunar eclipse as well and this is
2237s	what we were talking about at the start
2238s	right like Mage has the ability to just
2241s	whack out crazy answers at any given
2243s	time that you can't really plan for
2247s	and honestly like tansu I think would
2249s	have been looking at this situation
2251s	going okay if my opponent doesn't have
2252s	inquisitive creation maybe I'm in a game
2255s	winning situation here even though I'm
2256s	essentially passing a turn next turn uh
2259s	pocket train did not have inquisitive
2260s	creation and uh yeah just had four
2263s	removal spells that he could throw at
2265s	the board instead absolutely disgusting
2268s	outcome
2273s	oh rare by the way and I will call it
2275s	out because I am a journalist of great
2277s	repute I hate sunwell I am on the record
2281s	of saying that that like it is never the
2283s	correct pick to take sunwell from
2285s	anything uh that was a very good sunwell
2288s	outcome from pocket train picked it
2289s	early played it early and it's h going
2291s	to end up I think largely winning him
2293s	the game and I think that's the big
2294s	difference as well for me is pocket
2296s	picked some well and got rid of it you
2299s	know just just got it done you know and
2301s	use it CU I think what so many times
2303s	lesser players would pick some well I'm
2305s	definitely including myself here just
2307s	not really use it and then it it just
2310s	keeps getting worse and then you start
2312s	asking yourself why you made this choice
2313s	in the first place so yeah I definitely
2315s	like the way pocket approach
2320s	this still they'll been able to put on a
2323s	ton of
2328s	pressure and tonsoku now has to uh s of
2332s	rebuild a plan right cuz he used so much
2334s	of the power does have bioluminesence
2336s	number two does do have a zapper but
2338s	other than that still needs to acquire a
2340s	lot more damage
2342s	tools oh I mean that is that is a
2344s	miserable amount of damage Left Behind
2346s	after the devolve to be fair two one fs
2348s	and a 08 essentially yeah oh two F let's
2353s	go oh yeah I suppose they yeah yeah yeah
2354s	Fair Point Fair
2362s	Point no g into the cost one yen no true
2365s	surprise there pockets saying let's go
2368s	your whole turn is going to be a lot
2369s	harder now and uh really is tonsoku com
2372s	to pull something out of the
2375s	bag very similar to game one SLE where
2378s	an increased cost turn did not help
2380s	tonsoku in any way and yeah just like
2383s	game one pocket's going to take game
2385s	two and suddenly what a start for pocket
2389s	train again talked about how he lost in
2391s	the previous Master's tour got back to
2393s	this one and uh at least so far this is
2396s	how you want to start your first match
2398s	right you've been featured on stream and
2400s	these are two games that have gone very
2403s	very well taking nothing away from
2404s	tonsoku not saying he's playing bad but
2406s	pocket just getting it done just bang
2408s	bang two games let's
2410s	go and there is a lot of history
2412s	actually in this match up between the
2414s	two players as well I was I was looking
2416s	I was saving this little nugget of
2418s	information for the right moment but
2419s	considering this might be a 30-0 30
2421s	minute series i' got to get it out there
2423s	before we miss the option um they've
2425s	actually played against each other a lot
2427s	many of these players have right because
2428s	they're repeat performers in master tour
2430s	in the previous system of course we're
2432s	seeing a lot of the same players
2433s	repeatedly this year as well and they're
2435s	actually responsible for knocking each
2437s	other out on a couple of occasions I
2439s	think uh full championships last year uh
2441s	tansu knocked pocket train out and then
2444s	spring this year the reverse happened
2446s	pocket knocked out tansu so you can kind
2448s	of in a weird way view this as a rubber
2451s	match between the two of them even
2452s	though it isn't a straight up
2453s	elimination in this situation um and
2455s	with pocket train as well well just kind
2457s	of uh calling out a little bit how how
2459s	weak he felt some of the decks Tans soku
2461s	had brought were um he kind of put a lot
2464s	of pressure on himself to perform and so
2466s	far he's he's doing a very good job of
2467s	it yeah and pocket now as you can see
2470s	only having his Shaman left over and you
2472s	mentioned earlier that pocket train has
2474s	uh played this style of deck more or
2476s	less uh quite often beforehand H do you
2479s	think that is going to just put him at
2481s	such a huge Advantage you know whatever
2483s	tonsoku picks just because he's now in
2486s	that sort of high weirdly pressured
2487s	scenario where you two up and even
2489s	though you're feeling good there's
2490s	always that thought of like just win the
2493s	next one and it's done H but you know
2495s	playing with a deck that's so
2496s	comfortable to him then so Sharman
2499s	scares me in this tournament I think we
2502s	we learned this last time around where
2505s	Shaman had a lot of hype coming in you
2507s	know I was one of the chief proponents
2508s	of that hype um I had a lot of very
2511s	strong things to say about exactly I
2513s	mean I I built the deck after you know
2515s	taking pocket trains deck and changing
2517s	one card and making it better which made
2519s	it mine I made this I did I made the
2523s	list that everyone in that tournament
2524s	was playing that's a fact um yeah it's
2528s	it it underperformed in that tournament
2530s	right and now the deck is weaker
2532s	objectively um you can argue that the
2534s	field is weaker as well right in terms
2536s	of relative power of what the other
2538s	decks are doing arguably um but terms of
2541s	what I was saying before right it feels
2543s	like a lot of people are going to Tunnel
2545s	very hard on aggressive board based
2547s	strategies and sometimes if you can keep
2549s	putting wave after wave after wave of
2551s	threats down against Sharman they don't
2554s	have the recurring resources to be able
2557s	to clear those boards over and over and
2558s	over again they can potentially only do
2560s	it once or twice um so I'm a little
2563s	fearful of Sharman in this tournament um
2565s	I know pocket tweeted and saying he
2567s	wasn't 100% sold on his lineup but it
2569s	felt like this is the lineup that played
2571s	the least bad decks and I think that is
2574s	a mentality of a lot of these players
2576s	that have come into this tournament they
2577s	like okay well the one good deck in The
2580s	Meta got obliterated so we can't play
2582s	that anymore so now we are stuck playing
2584s	all of these things that we've mentally
2587s	categorized as bad decks for the last
2589s	two or three weeks um which makes it a
2591s	little bit difficult to readjust in some
2593s	places um so I think if there is a deck
2595s	that could potentially be swept In
2597s	Pockets lineup it may just be this
2601s	one yeah well he going to be the Demon
2604s	Hunter at last for tonsoku
2606s	so we're going to be able to see what
2607s	this deck's got to offer again H bit of
2609s	an out there choice not one I expected
2611s	people to play coming into this
2613s	tournament but ton so is saying right
2615s	I'm going to take my foot off the uh off
2617s	the shaman pick for now jump over to
2618s	teamon un and see if you can get this
2621s	going yes the uh the out there Choice as
2624s	opposed to the outcast choice right very
2626s	subtle difference when it comes to to
2628s	Demon Hunter yeah the same but
2632s	different and a good amount of pressure
2634s	nice and early though not the best hand
2636s	of overall for tonsoku with double Mark
2638s	of scone
2641s	but still it's that situation right
2644s	where suddenly like there's six Minions
2646s	on board and pocket train has to do deal
2649s	with this and it's less about the size
2651s	of the minions and more about the
2652s	volume y does have the three Mana card
2656s	on three into three Mana card on four
2658s	curve though which is pretty much the
2659s	dream that's what you want to have with
2660s	this deck a lot of the time uh then you
2663s	want to relax on five and then play
2665s	powerful things on six which is what
2667s	pocket really has access to right you
2669s	can see the game plan working out in the
2671s	hand already Survive by all costs until
2674s	that turn six and hope that that can uh
2677s	create a big enough board swing that it
2678s	stabilizes uh and allows pocket to take
2681s	control of the match up a little bit
2682s	Yeah I think Silver Moon archinist
2684s	speaker stomper and Yen the Eternal are
2687s	the cards that are uh so
2695s	B
2704s	see decent decent turn the tides like
2706s	pocket train is is paying with his
2708s	currency right now which is his health
2709s	this uh six power in play in the early
2712s	game from Tans soku has done a massive
2714s	amount of damage
2717s	already but pocket train has just about
2719s	turned the corner like tansu is going to
2721s	have to find some way of generating
2723s	another board this turn and can't really
2726s	do that right it does seem some distance
2728s	away I would say of just being able to
2730s	throw everything at face from here but
2733s	tansu doesn't really have another option
2736s	yeah the opening hand just wasn't
2739s	magnificent was it wasn't that sort of
2740s	board focused card draw heavy hand that
2743s	you kind of want H with this deck so
2746s	he's going to have to pull something out
2747s	the back here and I'm kind of with you
2750s	where like meta just seems like it's
2752s	going to have to be enough and then
2753s	build up for something a little bit
2755s	later on because any other choice
2757s	doesn't do the job either right so he
2759s	may as well just SP you know do the
2761s	expensive thing now but if I'm in this
2764s	position as the shaman player 20 Health
2767s	my opponent just kind of passed
2769s	essentially and I have the goth in hand
2772s	I'm fairly okay with how this game is
2774s	going so far yeah none of the I would
2778s	say like none of the dangerous cards
2780s	have come out for tonsoku right like
2782s	you've as pocket train you've not seen
2784s	any of the danger openings yet and as
2786s	you said with that kind of past turn
2788s	he's got at least a little bit of wiggle
2790s	room he's got card draw he's got
2791s	underand removal in hand and of course
2794s	as you mentioned he's got a Titan so
2796s	it's h not looking too bad at all but
2798s	tonsoku still has some juice it's not
2801s	like he's completely out or anything he
2803s	just didn't quite get the aggressive
2804s	opening he
2813s	[Music]
2815s	wanted
2819s	the one thing I will say is that the
2821s	sorry the the bound Soul speaker stomper
2824s	can still have a massive impact on this
2826s	game if tansu can get it down at the
2828s	right time this doesn't feel like the
2830s	right time and it's why that it's why
2833s	the previous turn was so frustrating
2834s	right like if tanoko was able to build
2836s	another board on the previous turn and
2839s	then this turn was able to go bound Soul
2840s	speaker stomper that was probably lights
2842s	out for pocket tra from that point but
2845s	because he has has really done anything
2847s	on the previous turn he doesn't want to
2849s	allocate five Mana this turn to doing
2851s	that play either which means he's like a
2852s	full turn behind um setting up big
2860s	lethals go just chill on board empty
2864s	nice looking pretty good there for next
2865s	turn as well going to be a relevant
2867s	threat that tonsoku has to at least
2870s	[Music]
2875s	consider
2879s	there's just so many pocket behave
2881s	yourself yeah you can like the whole
2883s	time I sat there like I really want to
2885s	press the draw three B yeah no shot
2888s	right like it was one of those things
2890s	where you try and convince yourself you
2892s	can get away with it but these players
2894s	aren't bad right they
2895s	know still the pocket even though it's
2898s	not like the hands full it's got a lot
2900s	of flexible options going forward like
2902s	tools that can be used to not only
2904s	defend but also in the game in his favor
2906s	as well yeah and you unleash fail like
2910s	tonsu is just just not got much going
2913s	right now yeah I mean suddenly that
2915s	unleash fa is actually a significant
2916s	amount of damage if you want to go that
2918s	way with the boun soul instead right
2920s	instead of going with the the speaker
2922s	stomper like that is one of the upsides
2924s	of holding on to it for this long as you
2925s	do get that that additional
2931s	flexibility yeah definitely just odd
2933s	seeing the in this situation the way the
2935s	game is panned out is that tonsoku is
2937s	like kind of on the defensive cuz he
2939s	needs to just piece together some kind
2941s	of like two turn push really right um
2944s	there's nothing in one turn that's
2946s	really going to win the game he needs to
2947s	just secure board at least for one turn
2950s	to threaten some kind of
2953s	lethal these are not the
2958s	draws no natural copy of altered cord in
2962s	pocket trains deck so he has to go
2963s	fishing for those uh lightning reflex in
2966s	order to find additional healing from
2968s	here
2969s	really and now how much is this on tansu
2972s	side so you'd have to spend four Mana to
2974s	get the plus two spell damage from the
2976s	bound
2978s	soul and then uh three and six with the
2981s	two Unleashed Felts have one Mana
2984s	remaining so yeah still short yeah but
2987s	did pick up security so that's something
2989s	right like something to try and work on
2991s	the board
2993s	with the problem here as well is
2996s	is are the Unleashed FS going to be used
2999s	to burst or are they going to be used to
3001s	sort of win board right and that's a
3003s	tough decision as well especially after
3005s	seeing the um uh the fish go into pocket
3008s	Train's hand he knows that it'll be
3010s	difficult to secure board again but
3011s	that's momentum not
3020s	bad I'm a big fan of just cashing this
3023s	out yeah I think so
3031s	oh predation as well all going to help
3033s	with the reach yeah a lot of damage
3039s	[Music]
3042s	now this an awkward situation where
3045s	pocket trains got a lot of stuff but not
3048s	a lot to do weirdly
3054s	enough
3056s	can of course clear this board no
3058s	problem but I think tonsoku is just
3060s	hoping that there's just no heal come
3062s	out right just no way to get hold of any
3064s	heal or any um anything that's going to
3066s	stop him really pushing next turn yeah
3069s	the first thing that had to be done this
3070s	turn and the reason I was quiet is you
3072s	actually have to check for lethal here
3073s	weirdly enough because of how much Mana
3076s	that jazz base was able to cheat right
3078s	if you can get a zero Mana
3079s	bioluminescence from your Jazz base you
3081s	can get some really surprising lethals
3083s	out of absolutely nowhere yeah because
3085s	tonsoku does have the setup right he has
3088s	just lethal setup next
3091s	turn as long as there's just no
3102s	heal and that should be good enough
3104s	unless I have miscounted somewhere along
3106s	the line we should be able to get the
3109s	archinist right go double foul predation
3112s	well predation can't go face with the
3114s	spell damage oh sorry yeah yeah yeah
3116s	you're right you're
3117s	[Music]
3122s	right so you're sure you would need the
3125s	spell damage to be lethal right yeah so
3127s	it's not still got to be worth the play
3129s	halfway at least right get those
3130s	Unleashed SPS used clear the board
3144s	yes oh okay
3146s	down going go stum instead it's going to
3152s	be and then just Chuck the predation
3154s	instead presumably okay okay this set
3158s	up this doesn't Now set up lethal for
3161s	the following turn though
3162s	right
3170s	uh uh not that I can see I don't know if
3173s	I'm missing I'm looking at the alrai and
3175s	the um
3176s	and they're going down and see I think
3178s	okay well the rap CID ended up helping
3180s	him out I think in the end
3183s	so there's alter cord
3188s	okay and discovers the second one not
3191s	going to be playable this turn but
3199s	still chaos strike's definitely going to
3204s	help yeah so the raps did change at the
3206s	end of that turn to the five
3217s	attack good decision as well to keep the
3219s	board clear now that you saw the
3220s	lightning reflexes get open just uh if
3222s	you want to heal you're going to have to
3223s	play the minions yourself to do it does
3226s	have the Piranhas though he has the
3228s	Piranhas he also has a jazz base
3230s	equipped which I'm not sure what the
3232s	level of discount is and he drew a shot
3236s	as well which gets him a big discount
3238s	across those multiple nature
3241s	spells yeah I think now for pocket
3243s	seeing how many cards are left at
3245s	tonsoku it's just survive survive
3247s	survive
3249s	right well the question I'm asking is is
3252s	it lethal because there's oh
3254s	I okay I didn't think so but again I'm
3258s	again I'm with you I'm not sure what the
3259s	weapons looking
3260s	like so it was only two on the Jazz base
3263s	which gives you yeah you can still play
3266s	double right yeah cuz the first B makes
3269s	the first crash cost one and then the
3271s	first crash makes the second crash cost
3273s	zero you can get double bio yeah
3275s	beautifully calculated from pocket train
3277s	yeah really well done with the first
3279s	point we can see the final crash of
3281s	Thunder is going to end this first match
3283s	on streen of the Masters Tour pocket
3285s	trains going to take the victory
3287s	3 extremely well played and that went
3290s	down to the wire and just shows
3292s	sometimes you just need the mind to be
3294s	open for those kinds of lethals but I
3296s	had no doubt that pocket dra could find
3298s	it really really well played there I
3300s	feel a little bit for tonsoku because he
3303s	did not have the best opener there with
3304s	the Demon Hunter and he still you know
3307s	basically set up lethals multiple turns
3309s	in a row but just couldn't quite get
3311s	there but what a start for pocket train
3315s	and for once like this isn't designed to
3317s	be shade at you specifically Raven but
3319s	like it's fair to say you would have
3321s	missed that lethal but I think it's a
3323s	it's a point that's worth pointing out
3325s	because Not only was that a difficult
3326s	lethal to spot right like I didn't know
3327s	exactly how much the Jazz base was
3329s	discounting but as I was eyeballing it I
3331s	thought the Jazz base had to Discount by
3333s	three to make it happen I think it was
3335s	actually only two that needed in the end
3337s	to make it happen which pocket train saw
3338s	and calculated and had it all mapped out
3340s	and hid it but I think the more
3342s	important point there is it's a
3344s	mentality check as well right because
3346s	you immediately like oh survive we
3347s	discovered an altered cord last turn
3349s	right like shoot that at your own Minion
3350s	gain more Health you can survive if you
3352s	don't pass that mentality check in the
3354s	first place to say well no hang on like
3356s	let me check if I can kill my opponent
3358s	first then you know you miss 100% of the
3360s	shots you don't take Wayne Gretzky
3362s	Michael Scott right like you AB you have
3364s	to be in there in the first place to be
3366s	able to make that happen
3368s	so I would have at most roped the whole
3371s	turn trying to count and probably failed
3374s	and gone just heal right that's like you
3377s	have no time to readjust out of that
3379s	position right like if you come into
3380s	that term with the preconception of okay
3382s	I'm going to heal more with this second
3383s	aled cord by the time you've gone 20
3386s	seconds into the turn and gone oh do I
3388s	actually have lethal then suddenly
3390s	you'll probably rope out counting it
3392s	because it's so close so tight so many
3394s	different Mana discounts and things
3395s	going on so you have to be in that right
3397s	mentality from the start pocket train
3399s	absolutely was and like I said he put a
3401s	lot of pressure on himself in this
3403s	tournament as a whole and to kind of
3406s	expose that lineup I guess as as in
3408s	terms of how he's rating it and great
3410s	job yep uh really good overall H we are
3412s	just going to go to a quick break while
3413s	we set up the next match so don't anyway
3416s	we we'll be right
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3444s	back
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3534s	he
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3564s	Hall
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3594s	hey
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3624s	h
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3636s	[Music]
3652s	welcome back everybody to the master
3654s	tour for World Championships it is still
3656s	day one it is still round one and it is
3658s	still the first games um also welcome
3660s	back to adal Vice I'm rushing this a
3662s	little bit cuz we have got some more
3663s	action for you but ad of ice how's it
3665s	going it's going great lenda good good
3667s	to be back behind the desk with you and
3670s	uh great to see some some fabulous games
3672s	coming up I'm excited we've got Gabby we
3675s	have got Gabby who is up against Hemlock
3677s	at the moment we are going to jump into
3679s	that shortly and fairly soon indeed I
3681s	suspect yeah that's very soon indeed
3683s	it's 212 Gab I believe according to the
3687s	screen um we'll take it as it comes
3689s	again this is like bonus content we're
3691s	not quite sure we're going but it is
3692s	hemlock on the Rogue Gabby on the hunter
3694s	by the look of
3696s	things yeah and still round one for now
3700s	but we've seen in a lot of the deck
3703s	choices people have been kind of
3704s	sticking with old standbys you know the
3707s	recent balance
3709s	patch definitely shook things up in
3711s	terms of eliminating Druid for the most
3713s	part but a lot of people are kind of
3715s	having a return to form here and so that
3718s	means I have a sorry to cut you off I
3720s	have a strong suspicion the players the
3721s	wrong way around cuz I think Gabby's the
3722s	one who's got beat box in the deck and I
3724s	don't think Hemlock
3726s	does ah
3729s	okay sorry to cut you off there uh just
3731s	checking the deck lists while we get
3732s	this
3737s	sorted yeah H does not have a beat box
3739s	so the player name is the wrong way
3740s	around which means I think Hemlock is
3741s	actually leading 21 and Gabby is on the
3743s	Rogue uh we'll get back to you on that
3745s	but here's some action
3747s	anyway definitely would never count
3749s	Gabby out even even with a being two
3752s	down to one but I'm a little surprised
3755s	at the prevalence of some of these
3757s	secret rows you know it's something that
3759s	really picked up as a response to Druids
3763s	because having access to Gastly
3765s	Gravedigger to get rid of some key cards
3767s	you know when the Druid is ramping
3769s	they're kind of reducing the size of
3771s	their hand pretty considerably and so
3773s	you can eliminate El minate uh a nourish
3777s	eliminate you know big big draw whatever
3781s	they were going to try and use to swing
3782s	things around and Gast graer is great
3786s	for taking advantage of that but we see
3788s	quite a few people have brought these
3790s	secret Rogues even still maybe just CU
3793s	it's what they've been playing for a
3794s	while yeah I think Gabby's actually on
3797s	the tempo Rogue or the whatever you want
3799s	to call it Miracle am I wrong I'm wrong
3801s	it is secret no you're right uh with a
3803s	blingtron tech with a boxer that's the
3805s	big the big deal here for the extra
3807s	damage from the beat boxer um again I
3810s	don't know how much Gabby had time to
3811s	test any of
3812s	this um like everybody had one day's
3815s	preparation time obviously you could
3817s	test some things before the Nerfs I
3819s	think the players got a slight advanced
3821s	notice of the
3822s	Nerfs um but yeah no time for the blinkr
3825s	on just building up a board against the
3827s	hunter to try to defend against those
3829s	annoying boards that Hunter can make and
3831s	Hunter outside of star power does
3833s	struggle to deal with these wide board
3835s	to yeah a little bit of unlucky hits
3837s	there I think the Hope was for this beat
3839s	boxer to get rid of that Panther but
3841s	leaving it at one Health means it's
3843s	still available for trades or you know
3846s	going face uh this could just end up
3849s	being a a star power hope for the clear
3852s	and get to push a little more damage as
3853s	the Hunter and really star power is just
3856s	there so that you don't have to worry
3857s	about making pesky trades with your
3860s	minions yeah it's a really weird card in
3863s	the deck until you play against it
3865s	enough times and you realize it just
3866s	just happens to clear often enough in
3868s	these situations with six quite often
3869s	you get to drop a a 4-1 worm behind it
3872s	as well and just get that board back
3875s	it's just cheap enough that it can swing
3876s	the game back in your favor and yeah
3878s	look at the damage it's causing here and
3880s	the the Mayhem that it's causing
3883s	basically krabat in instant play very
3887s	good pick up there able to clear this
3889s	off and and keep keep on the counter
3892s	pressure but 12 as a rogue not really a
3894s	stable life total and still two turns
3897s	away from the aelor fives providing any
3899s	healing yeah that also provided the
3901s	proof we needed that the players the
3903s	wrong way around cuz Hemlock didn't go
3904s	oh no I've just drawn crab a TOA in that
3906s	[Laughter]
3911s	situation quite a bit of damage in hand
3914s	here though for uh Hemlock with the
3917s	celestial shot plus Arcane shot it looks
3920s	like everything has been buffed by one
3922s	spell damage so far so that means we've
3925s	got four damage on the celestial and
3928s	three on the Arcane Celestial of course
3930s	also Buffs the next spell so I think
3933s	it's just shy this turn in terms of
3935s	burst
3937s	damage yeah which then beg is the
3939s	question do you feel lucky that the
3941s	Rogue can't do two from hand with a
3943s	concoction in hand at least one it's a
3945s	mix so at least two unknown concoction
3947s	in hand you've got to clear up haven't
3953s	you explosive is a little bit of extra
3963s	damage and then what do you
3966s	do yeah
3969s	yep so this with the explosive means
3972s	these minions are not going to touch the
3974s	Hunter's face and uh the buff carries
3978s	over to the following turn so it's not
3980s	as though that bit of damage is wasted
3983s	the only thing it it means is that
3985s	you're not able to send that four from
3987s	the celestial shot
3989s	face
3993s	y well I couldn't die last turn and
3996s	they've just used some damage so I can't
3998s	die this turn right
4000s	right that's how it
4004s	works I've used that argument so many
4006s	times and just died immediately it's
4008s	it's
4013s	embarrassing I almost almost wonder if
4015s	you go for that mixed concoction there
4018s	to hope that you get a random source of
4021s	healing yeah that makes some sense to
4024s	me you're only dying to some horrible
4026s	top
4031s	deck so no burn for the hunter means
4034s	that this ever song portal has to be
4036s	used to clear it looks like it hadn't
4038s	received the previous spell damage buff
4041s	on the Arcane shot didn't have a buff
4043s	either so yeah at this point Hunter is
4045s	just all in on the board which is not
4048s	where you want to be in terms of end
4050s	game as a
4051s	hunter no it is not
4060s	um mind you that's a lot of
4070s	damage oh just clearing as much as
4073s	possible hope hoping that these take out
4075s	the four ones and that the five armor is
4079s	enough oh
4082s	no wow well that is going to do it h
4087s	Gabby picks up the
4090s	victory I think it's 22 I think
4093s	everything was
4095s	[Laughter]
4096s	wrong we they both sat there as if they
4099s	haven't won a half Zone match yet and
4100s	there's another game to come that's
4101s	that's my read and I'm notoriously
4103s	terrible at reading anything
4104s	Gabby has
4106s	one yep
4109s	okay I'm sorry for the the lack of um
4112s	exactness about this there we go these
4115s	are you know the little bit of hiccups
4117s	we encounter when we're jumping to a
4119s	match right in the middle right trying
4120s	to pick up on little little things that
4124s	are going on but uh that is going to put
4126s	it to 2 two so there is one game
4128s	remaining uh the decider game for this
4131s	best of five and uh see who can pick up
4134s	that uh one match lead start off the
4137s	tournament
4138s	strong yeah um obviously it's it's cool
4141s	to see Gabby back uh do you think anyone
4144s	was ever better than Gabby at his best
4147s	oh gosh I I would say no I mean I
4151s	remember watching those broadcasts
4153s	seeing Gabby play it was just this
4156s	unbelievable you know young player just
4159s	coming in and and crushing everyone it
4162s	was like he was Unstoppable now I think
4165s	sometimes that kind of
4167s	confidence it can backfire but sometimes
4170s	it really helps you out where you're
4171s	just like there's no hesitation you
4173s	believe in your plays you just go for
4181s	it okay so I think Gabby first reached
4185s	Legend when he was 10 oh Gabby won 31 I
4188s	think we're hearing now so there we go
4191s	Gabby Gabby is through uh my answer my
4193s	my back I guess would be Hunter race at
4195s	his best but uh it does look like we
4198s	threw the round so we'll never get to
4200s	see that one
4204s	sadly it's I mean both of them are are
4208s	players that we we saw come up very
4210s	young I it feels like we've had these
4213s	these eras of of you know strong players
4216s	kind of the first wave was oh God
4220s	amnesiac yeah yeah um you know Then
4223s	followed Hunter as Gabby is sort of the
4226s	the next iteration I kind of wonder if
4228s	we'll see another you know young
4231s	Uprising uh player to to follow but I
4234s	mean Gabby is still quite young as it is
4236s	you know when you when you start young
4238s	you you're still staying young yeah
4240s	that's what happens in this industry
4241s	like Gabby is just 12 forever now like
4244s	it doesn't matter that he's actually 17
4245s	or 18 now he's 12 he's always going to
4247s	be 12 and NC's only 15 he's at College
4250s	might have even come out of college now
4251s	still 15 doesn't matter um but yeah it
4254s	be interesting to see who does come
4256s	through presumably in the future um we
4258s	may never see the like
4263s	again I believe we're going to be
4266s	following Gabby into the next
4273s	match oh we got to go okay find out who
4276s	he's playing again that's
4278s	good just sit here
4281s	um okay we're going to have some more
4284s	Gabby action but first we are going to
4285s	take that break that it looked like we
4287s	were going to take so we'll see you in
4288s	about 3 minutes don't go anywhere we
4290s	have some more Gabby action with
4291s	everything fix see you in a
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4313s	sec
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4402s	yeah
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4432s	he
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4492s	w
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4552s	you
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4582s	yeah
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4612s	d
4630s	[Music]
4637s	[Music]
4642s	he
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4672s	no
4673s	[Music]
4686s	[Music]
4691s	welcome back everybody and we promised
4694s	you some Gabby and we're not going to
4695s	show you Gabby we're going to show you
4696s	CJ Kaka and mey because Gabby is still
4698s	waiting for an opponent we will show you
4699s	Gabby at some point today we promise um
4701s	CJ Kaka and mey
4703s	uh to a piece and AD ice we don't know
4706s	what the game is going to be but CJ Kaka
4708s	is very famous for one particular
4710s	deck I really hope that it is that one
4713s	particular deck that deck is Naga Mage
4715s	which you may ask I thought they killed
4718s	that they did for most players not for
4720s	CJ CJ has thrown in tail and fordring
4723s	and just made on his merry way so I
4726s	really hope we'll get to see some nag
4728s	Mage but maybe he's already won with it
4729s	you never know we will find out yeah he
4732s	tweeted two two iterations of Nerfs AG
4735s	go at least and it might be three I
4737s	don't care what they do I'm bringing n
4740s	Mage to the Masters Tour everyone went
4741s	yeah even CJ KHAK is not going to be
4742s	stupid enough to bring nagam to the
4744s	master tour here it is the deck that he
4746s	has been rank one Legend with multiple
4749s	times and again I'm just hoping we we
4751s	we've got As in much as information as
4752s	you which is quite helpful but we know
4754s	we do what we can um it might be that
4756s	deck otherwise we're going to get to see
4758s	control Warrior hunter or Druid from him
4761s	and mey has got the control Warrior
4763s	the outcast DH the Mage Mage and the
4768s	mech Rogue Mech Rogue so pretty
4771s	aggressive lineups and a pretty
4772s	aggressive looking tournament in general
4774s	I think Al of us yeah absolutely I
4777s	believe half of the Rogues are Mech
4779s	Rogue with then six secret Rogues and
4782s	Casey being the sole Miracle Rogue
4784s	player because it's Casey you know got a
4786s	few of these players with their their
4787s	pet decks but uh largely people have
4791s	gone pretty uh loaded to the ground for
4794s	for these players with the exceptions of
4798s	our you know Odin Warriors and CF Mages
4803s	and it's kind of a a mix of combo and
4806s	aggro decks here things that kill you
4808s	all at once or kill you quickly yeah did
4811s	you play in that famous tournament where
4813s	basically the women had like three
4814s	seconds to prepare a deck I did they
4816s	literally dropped a whole balance patch
4818s	the night
4819s	before yeah yeah rayi actually helped me
4822s	prepare for that event that was WS2 are
4824s	stillone Showdown and was weird format
4827s	Comfort
4828s	PS oh I mean most of us Druid got
4831s	obliterated in that patch and so we just
4834s	brought
4835s	uh it's not really aggro Druid but it
4839s	was
4840s	the there was that six Mana card that
4844s	for your highest cost spells summoned a
4846s	minion right spite spiteful spiteful
4849s	Summoner or something like that that
4851s	sounds familiar yeah I'll go with that
4853s	terrible at the names but yeah I think
4854s	that sounds great so it's Dre a deck
4855s	with like no spells except for you know
4859s	altimate infestation or something and uh
4862s	you would play this six drop that
4864s	summons a 10 drop and that that was like
4866s	the game plan also had
4868s	Kell did you go for like you're talking
4870s	about the players have brought Comfort
4871s	picks did you go for Comfort picks in
4872s	that one where you've got no time you
4873s	just got to bring some decks yeah I mean
4876s	that
4877s	was quite a few of them because you had
4880s	to bring a deck for every class so oh
4883s	yeah that's right in addition to this
4885s	massive balance patch just obliterating
4888s	Druid there was everyone had to bring a
4890s	deck for every class and not all the
4892s	classes felt particularly playable so
4895s	you had a lot of people night de go stop
4898s	play and the other half of it was that
4901s	people had been practicing a whole bunch
4903s	of shutterwalk Shaman and that got
4905s	killed
4906s	too that's right I remember now yeah
4910s	just all your practice wiped out it's
4911s	not funny it's definitely not funny at
4913s	the time but in hindsight the things
4915s	that happen
4917s	yeah nowadays of course the joke is that
4920s	oh uh Masters Tour is coming up that
4921s	means there's a balance patch coming up
4923s	because it always seems like M TCAP goes
4927s	sorry again I think that's semi-
4929s	deliberate right it's um you know get to
4931s	show off all the new cards of the patch
4933s	I don't think the two-day thing is
4934s	deliberate but I think in general
4936s	balance patch something happens Master's
4938s	tour is a way of testing the best
4940s	players with the new patch this one's
4942s	just a little bit super
4944s	sometimes yeah you know you want to be
4946s	able to highlight the new cards I
4949s	imagine worlds will very much be a
4951s	showing of the most recent expansion
4954s	once that's out you know it's not like a
4957s	strict try and line it up but certainly
4960s	I think they want these events to to
4963s	highlight new cards New Balance patches
4967s	Etc yeah and it it seems to have worked
4969s	this time around to be fair um the only
4972s	Druids are the drum circle the aggro the
4974s	Triant Druid what you want to call it
4977s	and you we we we got rid of Druid surely
4980s	that's great surely if you're Druid M
4983s	out there in chat I'm sorry
4985s	but
4988s	no yeah there are only two players who
4991s	have decided to bring Druid CJ actually
4994s	being one of
4998s	them okay and
5000s	CJ apparently had has one so that was
5005s	great hope you enjoyed the
5008s	action um so that's 32 to CJ Kaka
5011s	apparently again waiting for more
5013s	updates on that sorry we didn't get to
5014s	bring you that
5015s	game um but
5021s	[Music]
5024s	we okay so we are learning now that we
5027s	are going to get some Gabby we're going
5028s	to get weu versus Gabby weu the huge
5031s	surprise you talking about who's the up
5033s	and coming player like to come weu is
5035s	one that not many of you would have
5036s	heard of unless You' watched every
5037s	Master's tour um just impossible to stop
5041s	on ladder just regular rank ones in line
5043s	for a world spot already and I think he
5046s	was playing against bface in the first
5048s	game so if he's beating MC bface again U
5051s	MC bface will be cheering weu on because
5053s	weu is a Chinese player who is living in
5056s	Canada so qualifies for North Americas
5059s	and at bface is sort of the second
5060s	highest North Americas player uh
5062s	obviously winning this master tour is
5064s	your ticket to Worlds but for wieku for
5067s	bface if weu gets then he will be the
5069s	highest ranked America's player likely
5071s	going into Worlds which would qualify
5074s	him uh looking at the bracket though it
5078s	would appear that so this is the losers
5082s	match one for group a of wiq versus
5084s	Gabby which means that wiu lost 23 to
5087s	Casey and Gabby lost 31 to Hemlock so uh
5092s	one of these two players is going to be
5095s	eliminated between WQ and Gabby uh
5100s	so little biased but I'm kind of hoping
5103s	that we get to see more Gabby action cuz
5106s	Gabby was not in I think the first uh
5110s	Masters Tour of this year I think he had
5112s	kind of taken a step back for a while
5116s	and so I'm just excited that we finally
5119s	get uh get more more Gabby
5121s	Jam
5123s	yeah absolutely I'm just also checking
5125s	the results cuz I appear to have got the
5127s	wrong thing once again which is going
5132s	well in terms of deck list
5138s	though let's have a look at wi let's
5141s	let's let's get somebody on the screen
5142s	that isn't us there we go oh we tried
5145s	there's wiq he's bringing
5147s	um the the the lineup the Rogue Mage
5151s	Warrior and Sharman we're going to see a
5152s	lot of that that over the last next few
5153s	days y um this is his third Master's
5156s	tour
5157s	appearance um he played in both the
5159s	other two I believe at least he's
5161s	currently highest point Turner out there
5162s	with pocket train as I already said um
5165s	doing well on the America serve in
5166s	particular but also has been number one
5168s	on Europe as well and yeah claims to
5171s	play Hearthstone without a mouse I mean
5174s	that could just be playing on a tablet
5175s	right yeah it definitely could or a
5179s	touchpad or whatever but I think he does
5181s	play on
5184s	in general I think he does play on
5186s	mobile um so let's have a look at the
5189s	the mech Rogue we can that would be
5196s	great a lot
5198s	of a lot of these players have uh
5200s	brought Mech Rogue I believe half of the
5203s	Rogues are Mech
5207s	Rogue and then similarly you know in in
5210s	Warrior we've got half of them are this
5212s	oh and the other half are in Rage uh
5215s	there are 14 Mages in the event I
5219s	believe all of them being rainbow Mage
5223s	but uh yeah
5225s	Rogue has been kind of the the fourth
5228s	deck for for some people uh
5232s	and Shaman some extent as well pocket
5236s	train was saying that Rogue was the
5238s	first deck on his list in in Saints chat
5240s	last night but I think he was being
5242s	sarcastic really hard to tell with Pocky
5243s	train he's got the same level of sarcasm
5245s	that I have where if he says something
5247s	it's either very true or very not true
5250s	so it was difficult to
5252s	tell
5254s	and here is the mech
5256s	[Music]
5259s	Rogue nothing really much has changed
5261s	some Nerfs have happened but that's
5263s	about it yeah there had been some people
5267s	messing around with a package of the the
5270s	new card the Thunder Brer I
5273s	believe
5275s	replacing the kind of death rattle
5278s	package that had been there with the
5280s	Mother Ship right basically they kept
5282s	the the for drop that draws death rattle
5284s	out of your deck instead of Mother
5286s	Mother Ship they had
5288s	thunderbrand uh no one has opted to
5290s	bring that I think people just stuck
5292s	with what's safe and they've added the
5293s	tech of speaker
5295s	Stompers um for decks like this this
5298s	nature Shaman which I'm a little
5301s	surprised to see uh people have gone
5303s	with this build more than the ones that
5307s	uh targeted draw their Minions that cost
5309s	five or more so uh these builds have you
5313s	know few smaller minions like the flow
5315s	Riders like Radiance of bajara thorm
5319s	storm Lord and then the the big change
5322s	since they did Nerf some nature Shaman
5324s	has been people that use Jazz Bas to
5327s	reduce their their
5329s	bioluminescence yeah I'm actually
5330s	surprised to see this deck being so
5332s	popular at all um it just wasn't being
5336s	played much at all and then suddenly
5338s	Druid gets nerfed and you got it BR four
5339s	decks and half the field bring this uh
5341s	still a very powerful deck of course it
5343s	wasn't particularly hurting the Nerfs
5345s	originally with the bioluminesence it's
5346s	a big Nerf it slowed it down a turn but
5349s	now that turn's gone we we seem to have
5351s	this deck back around let's have a look
5353s	at Gabby though let's have a look what
5356s	he can bring there he is Gabby
5360s	himself um second tour appearance Two
5364s	Master's tour wins they were the open
5366s	tournaments back in the day as well they
5368s	were big big fields 3 400 players top
5371s	four finish at 2021 world I mean if you
5375s	sort of watched Gabby and then you
5376s	didn't watch the world he he was the
5378s	champion that year right he won and Ken
5380s	110 kg he has also gone into you know
5383s	streaming Fitness and stuff now as well
5385s	so Gabby he's growing up in front of our
5388s	eyes
5390s	literally yeah and this being being his
5393s	main differentiator for this tournament
5395s	one of two players to bring Druid it is
5397s	this drum Druid uh that's a little bit
5400s	faster you know you have of course the
5403s	big plays of you know disciple of anr
5406s	into a reduced drum circle on you know
5409s	five or six and you get this instant
5411s	Board of big minions but sometimes you
5415s	don't even need that you know with
5416s	Forest seedlings Witchwood Apple some of
5419s	these other things that make early tree
5421s	and sometimes you just Snowball the
5423s	board pretty early on but definitely
5427s	Senter it around that drum circle for
5429s	for the big finish and every once in a
5431s	while you know if you've had to refill a
5432s	bunch you get a solar into cultivation
5435s	and just you know get this plus four to
5437s	plus plus4 to everything on the board
5439s	yeah I was going to ask about that but
5440s	you filled in most of it like how
5442s	consistent is this deck when it does its
5444s	thing and it just goes 1 2 3 4 five six
5446s	on the drum circle you don't beat it
5449s	with almost anything in the game there
5450s	there's ways that Warrior can clear the
5452s	ball obviously there's ways that priest
5453s	can sometimes get rid of it but in you
5455s	don't beat it how consistent is it when
5457s	it doesn't do that oh my goodness the
5460s	world champion Gabby look at
5463s	him I think it it can definitely go the
5465s	distance in terms of refill especially
5467s	these builds that people have with topor
5469s	you're still able to make some some big
5471s	boards in the later game I think it's
5474s	got a much better match up against the
5476s	enrage Warriors than against the Odin
5478s	Warriors but even against Odin Warrior
5480s	if you make that big board and they
5482s	don't have the clear I mean that's just
5483s	it right that's kind of the advantage to
5486s	a deck like that is you make them have
5488s	the answer and and they have this you
5491s	know one turn window to to try and clear
5493s	it and if not that's game all right
5498s	followup question as the best um
5500s	signature card in the game is drawn
5502s	there has Mage ever not had this opening
5504s	hand in the history of he Stone ever I I
5507s	don't think it's allowed I think if
5509s	you're playing this deck you know you
5510s	have to have the key board into coin
5512s	Cold Case maybe coin volume
5515s	up yeah it's usually cool I mean he'll
5518s	draw the volume up on four and then play
5520s	it right that's what you do yeah of
5522s	course I'm very cynical about this deck
5523s	you may have worked
5526s	out not a whole lot different in the
5529s	Mage in terms of highlight cards I would
5531s	say the only new card is void
5534s	scripture out of the mini set which is
5538s	two Mana Shadow spell which you know
5540s	gives you another thing besides
5541s	reverberations to increase your number
5543s	of spell schools for
5545s	CF and you discover a spell if you have
5549s	the Mana to cast it then you cast a copy
5553s	of it that turn so it just adds a little
5555s	bit more redundancy to the
5559s	deck it's incredibly powerful card as
5561s	well like you get to do so much with it
5564s	especially when you like a late game um
5567s	it's death born or grborn but the one
5568s	that does two damage to everything you
5569s	get that and then play it on the same
5571s	turn oh my goodness it's just Game
5572s	ending when you do things like that it's
5574s	so
5576s	disgusting as as opposed to this which
5578s	isn't disgusting at all look at it turn
5579s	three look at this
5581s	board well this is oh 38 by accident as
5584s	well this is what can be so powerful
5587s	about this Mage is like yes it's
5589s	technically a combo deck in the sense
5591s	that you are building up the spell
5593s	damage on cth to to kill in one turn but
5597s	it doesn't have to be that way you can
5599s	get these high early Tempo turns
5602s	where you're just using Cosmic keyboard
5605s	to to build a massive Board of course
5608s	yeah not as though Warrior doesn't have
5610s	its own tricks up its sleeve uh why does
5612s	that card deal
5614s	10 why does that card deal 10 that's
5616s	sut's favorite question the world and
5618s	I'm with him why does that card deal 10
5621s	it's ridiculous uh Gabby has gone for
5624s	the elemental inspiration one of instead
5626s	of the Titan in this build by the way uh
5628s	which is the build I prefer to play when
5630s	I I mean I don't prefer to play Mage but
5632s	when I do play Mage I think it's
5634s	following on for your Tempo discussion
5636s	there sometimes they just deal with all
5638s	your early stuff then you just drop a
5639s	bunch of four FES on them and say okay
5640s	now deal with this and that tends to get
5642s	there as
5646s	well yeah and Gabby unfortunately did
5649s	not pick up that volume up so a little
5651s	bit out of steam in terms of the refill
5654s	here with the keyboard you don't exactly
5655s	want to be playing these smaller spells
5658s	well you've got it up the the coil would
5660s	actually be okay because if stuff Z it
5662s	just doesn't trigger the keyboard at all
5665s	instead of giving you a0 that dies
5671s	immediately
5674s	whoops a little bit of Miss sequence
5676s	there in terms of wanting to get the
5679s	attack in
5681s	first no he he I think he got the
5683s	numbers I think he thought that the
5684s	thing was doing three damage or
5686s	something a two damage yeah yeah
5689s	whatever I think he thought he was doing
5690s	one more cuz he tried to then attack
5691s	face with the minion and there's a taunt
5693s	in the
5695s	way right yeah I think he was
5699s	expecting playing the Frozen touch to
5701s	have been another spell school but of
5702s	course Cold Cold Case is also Frost so
5705s	it didn't increase the amount from the
5708s	inquisitive creation enough and that's a
5710s	really punishing mistake some mistakes
5712s	in Hearthstone just don't matter but
5714s	losing a minion and a card yeah that's
5716s	that's a biggie against the control
5719s	deck so it's going to come down to what
5723s	this discovery of magic pulls for Gabby
5725s	in terms of if he's able to to refill
5728s	because one thing that can happen as the
5730s	Mage is you're you're sitting on you
5732s	know another keyboard and cth who is not
5736s	really relevant until she wins the game
5738s	so you really need to find some
5741s	additional gas here to keep things
5744s	rolling yeah I've attempted to this deck
5746s	multiple times in the first several
5748s	times I worried about the sift too much
5750s	and I just started playing as if CFT
5751s	didn't exist and I just beat everybody
5753s	and hardly ever played cth like the like
5756s	you said it's combo told you volume up
5758s	there you go
5763s	yep
5765s	interesting so just refreshing the
5767s	keyboard to not have to play it again
5770s	later figuring and to get the finale yep
5773s	better than just ping and yeah then
5775s	getting to get some extra copies here
5778s	void scriptures from more fuel and that
5781s	volume up top deck really came right
5786s	when it was needed uh allowing yeah
5788s	Gabby to keep on the pressure with the
5791s	keyboard because what you really don't
5793s	want to do as the Mage is just let the
5795s	opponent play Odin on
5798s	eight yeah absolutely just an indicat of
5801s	how things can snowball there as well if
5803s	he had um still got that extra card it
5805s	would have been the the molten Rune and
5808s	then he'd have had the choice to be able
5809s	to forge that without having to replay
5811s	the weapon if he he wanted to do that
5812s	like you said he might have wanted the
5814s	weapon out there now anyway just to save
5815s	having to play it again but he had the
5817s	option to spend that two Mana in a
5820s	more aggressive fashion if he wanted to
5823s	use the forge instead so yeah that that
5827s	little mistake with the Mortal coil has
5828s	really snowball into him now having to
5831s	lose a charge on his weapon that's
5832s	multiplied a lot through already and
5834s	missing like two damage as well cuz that
5835s	one3 would have actually gone fac a
5837s	couple of
5840s	times terms of weak use plays here
5843s	though that weapon pick up pretty nice
5845s	in terms of getting two defensive
5847s	options life steel and armor uh should
5850s	the Odin come down then that armor uh
5854s	can also translate into attack although
5856s	actually I'm not
5857s	sure when the triggers
5861s	happen so yeah this weapon is whenever
5864s	you attack so it gets the this is is
5867s	this the weapon the the regular weapon
5869s	or is this the created weapon this is
5871s	the IGN weapon so the IGN weapon is
5873s	after you attack right so you need wi
5876s	Fury to benefit yes yeah yeah they are
5879s	different which catches me out every
5881s	time which is how I finally think I've
5883s	got it right actually on
5885s	broadcast all those hours and hours and
5887s	hours of swearing into my computer
5890s	finally paying off and now with the
5892s	weapon gone feels totally fine to play
5895s	discovery of magic you picking up a
5898s	spell school that Gabby has not played
5900s	here yet uh pretty ation just
5907s	fine that's an 111 Odin because it was
5910s	drawn off
5912s	of a riff yeah wi is just saying hey I
5917s	need to be able to counter pressure
5919s	you've you've got nine showing but
5920s	that's
5922s	okay that's okay or rather it's going to
5926s	be even less okay the longer I wait so
5928s	I've got to do it now and this is what
5929s	you were saying pressure the board and
5930s	force this to happen happen and it's
5932s	absolutely transpired yes weu good
5935s	enough to still just play the Odin
5936s	anyway but there's worlds here where
5938s	Gabby just
5939s	wins yeah I mean one thing that you can
5942s	think about is that CFT costs six mana
5944s	and there's nothing that's been played
5946s	yet to put
5949s	reduced spells in hand so it's pretty
5952s	unlikely that Gabby would be able to
5955s	just do a Sif kill right now and when
5960s	players Forge you could to see that
5962s	they've forged so ekq also knows that
5964s	it's not like there's a bunch of forged
5965s	molten runes that are just going to
5966s	Fireball him to death so you can feel
5970s	you know maybe not great but a little
5972s	more safe in in just playing this Odin
5976s	and being able to go for the counter
5978s	pressure because sanitize does gain him
5980s	armor in addition to clearing the board
5983s	so if he can sanitize and be using that
5986s	armor for attack to to go face that's a
5989s	much better position than just clearing
5991s	the board
5992s	yeah and Gabby just going with I'm going
5994s	to kill you next turn then um or at
5996s	least threaten
6000s	to yep there's the
6005s	forge so this will be that sanitized
6009s	turn probably gaining some additional
6011s	armor
6018s	first Gabby's counting how much damage
6020s	he's got with the the forged runee and
6023s	the
6025s	bolt it's a lot I know that
6033s	much and I think the debate here is
6036s	basically whether wiq wants to play the
6039s	heavy plate which looks like is going to
6041s	be response here or to just you know
6043s	hero power plus sanitize but think you
6047s	know once you've got the armor adding
6049s	into your attack no reason to really
6051s	weight on
6053s	it yeah 14 and uh very important as well
6058s	going with that life steal so now
6060s	massive life swing there clearing the
6062s	board going up to a full
6066s	45 yeah he thought long and hard about
6069s	that there's wind Fury in there with the
6070s	life steal several turns ago all the way
6073s	back on I think turn four possibly and
6077s	yeah I was thinking well it's wind Fury
6078s	you always take wind Fury idiot and yeah
6081s	he being slightly better at Hearthstone
6083s	than me decided no actually this is why
6085s	you take the life steal look at what I'm
6087s	doing
6088s	now and now we see exactly why Gabby
6091s	picked the predation here there is a
6094s	naga in lady Nazar to be able to reduce
6098s	predation to zero so that makes the
6100s	damage potential with C uh potentially
6103s	higher like yes you could play the foul
6105s	spell for that extra spell damage or you
6108s	have a zero Mana spell that gets to to
6112s	utilize it even
6116s	better and now we're in the bit of the
6118s	game where okay I'm now definitely a
6120s	combo deck all that stuff that Linda
6122s	said about Tempo we can we can forget
6124s	that we're we're a combo deck again now
6126s	everybody as you were and that lady Nez
6128s	is going to be important right to try
6129s	and get the damage all in in one go but
6131s	Gabby has bigger problems which is not
6134s	dying right
6136s	now and it's going to be tough to do all
6139s	in one turn so we'll I imagine be seeing
6142s	some of these things come down earlier
6144s	The Alibi just to feel you know a little
6147s	bit safer as we're still doing some of
6149s	that prep work forging the molten runes
6151s	that kind of
6153s	stuff but having two forged molten runes
6157s	and a zero Mana predation for the sift
6160s	turn uh put some really high damage
6164s	potential out
6167s	there again reverberation is great if
6169s	you have the time for for um nzar SI
6173s	mess around reduce things but gab's out
6176s	of time he's onto solid Alibis and
6179s	probably hoping that he can roll some
6181s	four or five taunts or something as
6184s	well yeah cuz you know even though WQ
6188s	doesn't have many cards Gabby's looking
6190s	at that hand and if they're still a
6191s	bunch of things that gain armor you know
6193s	like Shield block that's that's a clock
6195s	as well as making it harder for for him
6198s	to to get over the Finish Line that's
6199s	kind of the strength of this
6202s	Odin deck is once Odin hits the field
6204s	your your defense is your
6208s	offense we you they're choosing to get
6210s	the armor this turn even though there's
6211s	an alibi up just to get the extra
6216s	cards terms of counting damage though uh
6220s	we've got CIF at plus six spell damage
6223s	which means each of these molten runes
6226s	is going to be
6228s	18 uh since they are three twice plus
6231s	the six spell damage they get to take
6234s	advantage of that spell damage twice as
6237s	well so that's 36 off the runes and then
6240s	another eight off of the
6244s	predation so it's it's going to be just
6247s	shy for
6249s	now another big draw for Gabby though
6251s	bit more
6252s	armor I'm still giggling about last turn
6255s	we did five damage to a one two and nine
6257s	damage to a face that's got a solid
6260s	alibi
6262s	those don't have taor it was just about
6265s	drawing
6266s	there oh now Wii is in in this awkward
6271s	spot where you know maybe you go for the
6274s	Finley to dig maybe you prison of yron
6278s	and
6279s	prey can start with the
6284s	trade oh we're just gaining the armor
6287s	we's going to hope he can hit lethal
6290s	here is that even
6291s	possible uh he'll know what's there
6294s	right so whatever's there is what he
6297s	needs ah here it is so the
6305s	sanitize 36 damage to
6308s	everything like you
6314s	do oh two Craftsman's Hammer is not
6317s	really what you want to see but it is
6321s	extra
6324s	damage taunt me this time okay okay the
6328s	taunt is a very big
6332s	deal and gab is just throwing every bit
6334s	of burn that he can out
6337s	there uh knowing that he's he's got his
6339s	combo turn spoken for in terms of the
6341s	two molten runes in the
6343s	predation yeah and also depending on
6345s	what is exactly left in the deck there's
6347s	fatigue in play here as well like Gabby
6349s	has got to get that damage in there cuz
6352s	fatigue might be on his side too if he
6354s	can keep getting some taunts and
6362s	defense okay that's a lot of damage left
6364s	on board though
6366s	now I think with that
6369s	16 uh regardless this is sort of that
6372s	point where you know if if you don't
6375s	have it I mean what your other option is
6377s	to try and infinitize for something but
6384s	yeah at this point the number of spell
6386s	scores is increased as well so each of
6389s	these molten runes dealing
6392s	20 and see this often pation going face
6396s	with spell
6397s	[Laughter]
6399s	damage I programmed myself that that's
6401s	not allowed as Gabby takes the one zero
6403s	or goes with one pation spell damage
6406s	isn't the thing you're allowed to do is
6407s	it it is one
6409s	zer
6411s	you you mean because usually that spell
6413s	damage comes from Silver Moon archinist
6415s	correct yeah it's always Silver Moon
6417s	archinist right so in my cast of brain
6420s	you can't do that I knew he could but
6422s	yeah uh nicely worked by The Gabby there
6424s	and nicely worked well by Wu that game
6426s	if that was me playing I would have lost
6428s	on like turn nine because I wouldn't
6429s	have had the life steal weapon to go all
6431s	the way back up to 40 to make that game
6433s	last as long as it did and if I was on
6436s	Gabby's side I wouldn't have drawn solid
6437s	Alibi into taunt minions so yeah I'd
6439s	have lost both ways
6442s	yeah it's a tough call because you know
6444s	if you can find other ways to survive
6446s	there without the life steal then maybe
6449s	you just win faster because you have the
6451s	wind Fury but it's impossible to know if
6454s	if you make it that far without it
6456s	so yeah he made two Swings with it into
6460s	Minions that set him up for things as
6462s	well earlier so he had' already gained
6464s	six more as well so like you say it's
6466s	it's a tough call and he did rope and
6468s	he's not a particularly slow player week
6469s	you obviously um he hangs out a lot of
6472s	chats these days he's regularly ranked
6474s	one he knows what he's doing and he
6475s	plays pretty rapidly so him roping out
6478s	that turn was a real difficult turn but
6481s	in the end Gabby did manage to save up
6483s	the damage to get it done with that zero
6484s	Mana predation so nice and one Z to
6489s	Gabby in this losers match so one of
6490s	these people going home early and it
6493s	amazes me every time I still haven't got
6495s	used to the system in a way where we
6497s	just lose great player after great
6498s	player in the first few hours of the
6500s	broadcast
6501s	yeah well when it is just 16 players
6505s	like this uh you know we haven't seen a
6507s	whole Swiss before now right to follow
6510s	along with everyone it's yeah it's just
6514s	go for the throat right from the
6515s	beginning and you know wiq does have the
6517s	advantage of of all these points so
6520s	could maybe still be in the running even
6522s	if he's he's cut from this particular
6525s	event here but I you know every player
6527s	here wants to just have that that win
6529s	and in and make sure that that they're
6531s	they're in for worlds yes it's a little
6533s	bit less now than it was like the first
6535s	thing levic winning that first just
6537s	sitting back hanging around in chat oh
6539s	you guys are still playing just having a
6541s	bit of a rest playing a bit of casual
6542s	Hearthstone as someone like me is just
6544s	sitting there playing 9,000 games a
6547s	month like crying and wishing it was
6550s	over because he's so close to the World
6552s	Championships he he's he's involved now
6555s	he's got to carry on and it's not sunk
6557s	cost fallacy it's genuine sunk cost
6559s	you've got to keep going because there's
6560s	so much on the
6561s	line yeah well and pocket train
6564s	definitely the the story to watch after
6567s	you know his finals last time that that
6570s	he was feeling you know not so great
6571s	about I think it would be quite quite
6573s	the story arc if he's able to pull it
6576s	through on this one I must protect the
6579s	wild right I have faced this multiple
6582s	times the Druid Deck and I know how it
6583s	works but I'm slightly dubious how good
6586s	it actually is in terms of consistency
6588s	you gave a lot of reasons why it can do
6590s	things other than just curving a six at
6593s	the start but I I want to see it in
6594s	action I want to see how it does things
6597s	when it misses but flower child in hand
6599s	you know already a good
6601s	start yeah summer flower child there's
6603s	not too many things for it to draw it's
6606s	basically your cultivations your drum
6608s	circles and topor now topor in
6612s	particular could be quite powerful in
6614s	this match up against Warrior because it
6616s	does give you some of that staying power
6618s	to keep making board after board that
6620s	the warrior is forced to deal
6624s	with yeah and it is remarkably good at
6627s	creating extra boards just when you
6629s	think it's
6634s	gone nothing doing there for the rest of
6636s	Gabby's hand
6638s	though you're almost unhappy to see drum
6641s	circle picked up early like that because
6643s	you do want to get it
6649s	reduced
6651s	of course this Forest seedling even
6652s	though it's a one Mana card you got to
6654s	wait a couple of turns for it to reach
6656s	its full potential and summon the Triant
6659s	it's important to summon Triant instead
6661s	of seedlings because they reduce the
6662s	cost of your cultivation which is that
6665s	big board wide buff that uh gives
6668s	everything plus two plus two normally
6670s	costs eight but gets reduced for every
6672s	treant you've summon this
6674s	game tough turn like this these are the
6676s	tough turns for Druid for me it's not
6678s	the the pop off turns it's not turns one
6679s	and two it's these turns where you're
6681s	planning your Mana what do you do with
6684s	innovate coin do you want more do you
6686s	want to take your time yeah and Gabby's
6687s	choosing to take his time yeah the rule
6690s	is basically like if you ramp what do
6692s	you do the following turn so if you go
6694s	coin inate Widow BL him there then
6698s	you've got another four Mana turn which
6701s	is enough for the summer child and
6703s	you're just going to play the you know
6706s	Forest Blossom then
6708s	perhaps uh not a whole lot going on
6712s	there so I I respect just kind of saving
6715s	the inate there just figuring it could
6718s	have more use later
6722s	on Gabby agreeing with you I think I
6724s	agree with you too maybe because I saw
6726s	Gabby do it and you say it but no I I
6728s	tend to do it that way but it's always
6730s	interesting you what you think you can
6732s	draw off the top how you think you might
6733s	utilize that Mana next turn and weaky
6736s	with the the Riff start putting pressure
6738s	on the Druid and this particular druid's
6741s	line of defense is I play drum circle
6745s	right or I guess I play topor and yeah
6749s	if you think you
6752s	can I mean so that's an argument as well
6755s	for having saved this inate and it's
6757s	important that it be the innervate and
6759s	not the coin because the coin is not a
6761s	nature spell Gabby now is in a position
6764s	where yes he's fallen behind because of
6767s	this this big riff swing but next turn
6770s	you've got topor into inate
6774s	Forest blossoms and that's going to be a
6777s	couple of three3
6780s	rushes yeah he's going to need them as
6782s	well this is a lot of damage if Wei just
6785s	decid to come
6788s	in oh the bellowing Flames is is rough
6793s	there cuz it would have taken two two
6795s	minions to clear otherwise and now as
6798s	you say a lot of damage getting to push
6799s	all of that
6802s	is that represents lethal on board um
6807s	so or just lethal on board but also
6810s	potential weapon hand and also Wei might
6812s	choose to rip the
6818s	yog prison of yog uh the other yog is no
6822s	longer a thing but yeah that card is no
6824s	longer exists unless I'm playing against
6826s	like priest or Tic Tacs playing or
6828s	something is there anything to be done
6829s	yeah with funnel cake out Gabby just a
6833s	cool customer here you know looking at a
6836s	not great situation and I might manage
6841s	to pull off some kind of clear here he's
6845s	going to get a lot of shrag gazor or
6847s	whatever they're
6851s	called welper gazor I think they
6853s	actually are from men you know it's it's
6856s	tough not
6858s	having just you know something to buff
6861s	the board by one there so just going to
6864s	use the hero power uh clear as much as
6867s	possible still a lot of damage in play
6870s	and I think it might in fact be that
6872s	prison of yron just like hoped for a
6875s	lethal there for weq you're qualified
6878s	for worlds anyway probably just just rip
6880s	it oh got to make the next big
6884s	board this is correct
6887s	obviously but there's one person the
6889s	tournament I thought might rip it it is
6900s	weaky
6906s	O this is the downside of the big board
6909s	week you had last turn obviously Gabby
6910s	had to use so many resources just to
6913s	survive that suddenly doesn't have any
6915s	Mana generation left and everything's
6916s	going a little bit slow well and
6919s	crucially while these welps are great in
6922s	terms of rush for
6924s	clearing they are not Triant and so the
6927s	cultivation has not been reduced at all
6930s	uh it's not as though Gabby can make a
6933s	big board and then go for that solar
6934s	cultivation which is typically how you
6936s	want to use solar eclipse in this deck
6938s	still just forced to go in with the
6940s	welps and now doing Flames
6945s	yeah is it I mean that could go wrong
6948s	can it go wrong it can go wrong okay
6952s	yes you
6954s	almost no armor right for sanitize on
6962s	three any
6965s	weapons any
6968s	that uh still doesn't quite do it
6972s	because you you eliminate one of these
6977s	wolves bellowing Flames only takes out
6979s	one of the others because the damage is
6981s	five and then five randomly you can
6984s	never kill three wolves with it so it is
6986s	just the
6988s	prison he's pointing at face in Hope
6991s	before the animations are
6992s	resolved at least he can point somewhere
6995s	so it's probably still
6996s	alive oh the Shadows well that's going
7000s	to be
7001s	it there's yeah Shadow suffusion means
7005s	this death rattle just kills Gabby uh
7008s	not a card people are necessarily
7010s	familiar with it is three Mana Shadow
7011s	spell for Shaman that gives your minions
7014s	the death rattle of deal three damage to
7017s	a random enemy so I suppose it's
7019s	possible that it would have just hit one
7020s	of the other wolves uh rather than
7022s	hitting face but between uh those death
7025s	rattles and then the six damage off of
7028s	that
7028s	Symphony was uh understandable for Gabby
7031s	to just go ahead and concede
7035s	there okay and it is one game
7038s	all
7041s	[Music]
7043s	yeah I think the Druid is mostly there
7046s	for the enraged Warriors you know like I
7049s	said you can beat the control Warriors
7052s	but it's not as good of a matchup it is
7055s	a very strong matchup into enrage
7057s	Warrior
7059s	because those times where you just build
7063s	a big board your minions are suddenly so
7065s	large that even if the enrage Warrior
7067s	has been snowballing a lot of times they
7069s	have to make unfortunate trades into
7074s	[Music]
7078s	minions right so just a look through it
7080s	again yeah
7081s	Gabby Drew too much of the heavy stuff
7084s	early on wasn't able to get on the board
7087s	um and this is what I fear for the deck
7089s	when it goes wrong but yeah again we'll
7091s	see a lot more of it most likely as he
7093s	does have to win a game with it at some
7095s	point um would' be nice to see him
7097s	actually get an early board but you
7099s	don't have much time to make that early
7101s	board cuz you're ramping or you have
7103s	plenty of early board cuz you haven't
7104s	got your ramp but he sort of got that
7105s	middle range where he was forc into
7108s	ramping he had to face down double riff
7110s	just was unable to recover and even then
7113s	like one fewer ridiculous cards from the
7115s	warrior and Gabby still has drum circle
7117s	coming up very soon there it was still
7119s	reasonably
7120s	[Music]
7121s	close yeah it's not exactly a typical
7125s	hand from the Odin Warrior that they get
7127s	the the double aggressive riff there and
7132s	uh facing down that many minions that
7134s	early as a a drum Druid not what you
7137s	want to see let's have a look at what
7139s	else has been going on because it's a
7140s	bit of a confusing start to the day but
7141s	here we go this is what happened
7143s	elsewhere in group a uh Casey and
7145s	Hemlock advancing obviously we saw
7147s	Hemlock beat Gabby uh Casey beat Wu
7151s	which is why they're playing in this
7151s	elimination match let's have a look at
7153s	Group B mcace CJ Kaka M bface getting
7158s	through that first game against
7160s	who has just qualified by accident this
7162s	time around and so me and leik will have
7164s	an exciting match in that elimination
7166s	later on Group C pocket train again
7169s	advancing through the first portion
7173s	balent to haven't seen that much of
7175s	though leaving tanoko with that weird
7178s	spell DH and me smile to battle it out
7180s	in the elimination and in Group
7183s	B There we go inor and Co whose name
7187s	I'll learn to pronounce by the end of
7188s	this broadcast getting through gamer rvg
7191s	and Rec famam in the elimination adal
7194s	Vice there's some elimination matches
7195s	already that look really tasty coming
7199s	up yeah and uh we want to be sure to
7202s	cover all the elimination matches so
7203s	that everyone gets a chance to be on
7204s	broadcast you know that's the big big
7207s	draw of qualifying as you get your your
7209s	moment in the Sun
7211s	but uh we have our our first
7213s	Heartbreaker of elimination with with
7216s	Gabby and Wu here
7218s	and uh
7220s	yeah it's going to be that secret Rogue
7223s	not with the greatest of secret Rogue
7226s	hands but
7228s	the Gastly grave Dinger assumer assuming
7230s	the secret doesn't get
7232s	proed could wreak some serious havoc on
7235s	this Shaman hand I think that's always
7238s	question like do you proc the secret or
7241s	just risk the
7244s	gravedigger yeah you like it's not
7247s	always double cross anywhere way is part
7250s	of the problem so I think you tend to
7251s	risk it depends what you're playing I've
7253s	definitely played against Rogue with
7255s	decks where you just never proc the
7258s	double cross depending on their hand
7259s	just you just they just never beat you
7261s	but yeah you haven't forced any cars out
7263s	they haven't done early concoction
7265s	Shenanigans they're likely going to have
7267s	big followup and he has got big followup
7269s	so proing it was very
7275s	correct but there's no sstone graveyards
7278s	in in secret deck so while there can be
7281s	some of these big turns in terms of
7284s	playing a whole bunch of stuff with
7286s	serrated bone Spike with you know the
7289s	ghoul and concoctions it's not like
7292s	there's this big payoff apart from you
7295s	got to do a lot of stuff for
7300s	free okay here we go though goes from
7304s	not looking like he's going to do a lot
7306s	like you say
7307s	suddenly still get to do a lot for for
7309s	free
7310s	here oh
7314s	my that's a silly one uh goes very well
7317s	with the Rogue hero power but I believe
7320s	it is a symmetrical effect so that means
7324s	schooling fish are going to be able to
7327s	know kill things for for dealing one
7329s	damage I believe it is yeah cuz it I
7331s	think it's it has the word all written
7333s	on it because it itself dies to it as
7337s	well right so if you go piranha into the
7341s	32 here it'll die and then you can
7345s	piranha into the 34 and I believe will
7348s	also trade we probably using absolutely
7351s	not his Mouse right now to hover over
7355s	things uh this is a discover from the
7358s	deck
7360s	so question is do you go for the flash
7362s	of lightning now uh even though there's
7364s	not a whole lot to go with it it's still
7367s	just nice to have
7378s	bam yeah WQ says I think I can make
7381s	better use out of that 3 four than you
7383s	can so
7388s	mhm yeah and Gabby actually can't get
7391s	rid of it it's
7398s	glorious still uh a lot of hand theft to
7403s	be done here uh in terms of Y you can
7406s	get rid of the inza which was
7408s	potentially about to come down Shadow
7410s	step and go for for that ganth I'm sure
7414s	he wants to get rid of that card draw as
7419s	well misses on the Gogan there are two
7422s	piranhas so that does make it a little
7424s	more awkward when trying to get rid of
7428s	cards if you got to leave your opponent
7430s	with not much take the flash and just
7431s	get rid of all their card
7434s	draw
7438s	and why get rid of one of their cards
7440s	when you get rid of all of their cards
7442s	okay you get rid of all of your own
7443s	cards as well and they die to piranas
7445s	which is you hold we don't talk about
7447s	that that's it's all about the getting
7449s	rid of their
7453s	cards obviously knowing the gravedigger
7455s	is going to die to those uh two piranhas
7457s	because week did set it up really nicely
7458s	that this thing is actually a nuisance
7460s	for
7462s	Gabby but playing those piranhas does
7467s	mean that you're you're getting rid of
7470s	some of the cards that Gabby doesn't
7472s	want to see in in the gravedigger that
7474s	you know is there so it's this awkward
7476s	balance of well the more cards that wiq
7479s	plays the better options Gabby will see
7482s	the higher chance that Gabby gets rid of
7484s	that ganth which is the big refill for
7487s	WQ going into next turn
7492s	it's just going to be this weird matchup
7494s	of no one has any
7495s	resources so overloading into thorm was
7499s	the decision here right I think so I
7501s	mean there's not a whole lot to be done
7504s	like either you get very lucky and ganth
7507s	is not seen in the
7510s	Discover or you say well okay ganth gets
7514s	taken but at least I can play thorum for
7515s	one draw
7518s	yeah
7519s	except they're both going to go
7527s	away and these are the games against
7530s	secret Rogue where you're just like why
7532s	are we doing this no one has any cards
7537s	uh at this point Wu doesn't even have
7539s	enough cards to Croc the double cross
7542s	even if he wanted
7544s	to how much do you have to listen about
7547s	Rogue being a nightmare in your you're
7549s	podcasting and stuff at this point we
7552s	don't even really talk about it we just
7554s	say oh yeah done if if the answer to
7558s	rampid Druid was secret Rogue with Grave
7561s	Digger then we're just we're just not
7563s	going to do that we're gonna op out we
7565s	we've been playing
7566s	[Laughter]
7570s	twist oh great I love it I don't have
7573s	this deep secret hatred for secret Rogue
7576s	that you do that wicked good does in
7578s	particular but um yeah Wicked more than
7580s	I I I I associate Wicked with the the
7584s	dis you the hatred for it but yeah I
7586s	Gravedigger is an incredibly frustrating
7588s	card to play against for sure I think
7590s	that that is something people can
7592s	universally agree on even if they do
7594s	enjoy playing with it themselves the
7596s	feeling of having all your cards stolen
7598s	away from you is is not a good
7600s	one o this is we were yeah this is an
7605s	alternate turn here getting to go
7607s	private eye into
7609s	eat
7614s	boxer and I suppose this is kind of what
7617s	you rely on as the Rogue is that you
7619s	hope that your top decks after you've
7621s	both reduced your hands to nothing that
7622s	your top decks are more likely to be
7624s	better than
7625s	theirs yeah and you do have more cycle
7628s	and you double cross and your secrets
7630s	are reasonably annoying so yeah the the
7633s	downside being obviously that you can
7635s	just draw one twos that don't do
7638s	much
7639s	yeah and it is a rogue deck with not a
7641s	lot of burst damage you know the beat
7643s	boxers
7644s	plus plus the blingtron add a little bit
7648s	of a sort of burst but I think prison of
7651s	yron is also present for that reason
7654s	because it is something where you can
7656s	just Target it at the opponent's face
7658s	and say well if there's any
7660s	damage it's going at their face and if
7663s	not hopefully I get some card
7668s	draw
7675s	well is Big it really is but also
7681s	yeah what are you doing
7689s	here can't even play the base because it
7693s	will activate the double
7694s	cross
7696s	yeah you're in this very weird state now
7699s	where you definitely don't want to
7700s	activate it you're kind of ahead despite
7702s	the fact you've got nothing and they've
7703s	got
7709s	nothing fish yeah yeah objection is
7713s	usually the best thing but knowing
7714s	there's a fish is not great so motion
7717s	denied a hunter secret that will stick
7720s	around for a while because it takes some
7721s	time to figure out what it
7724s	is and the six might end up being
7726s	relevant it's
7729s	interesting targeting
7733s	61 okay see you oh my goodness gab
7738s	behave
7739s	[Laughter]
7743s	yourself oh good job those went in that
7746s	order otherwise these things be
7750s	huge all
7752s	right this motion denied suddenly
7754s	incredibly
7757s	large
7760s	and yeah this
7761s	is the thing about this secret Rogue
7764s	into certain decks like the nature
7767s	Shaman that that just can have such
7768s	delicate hands uh well I shouldn't
7771s	necessarily say that delicate it took
7773s	four grave diggers to reduce it to this
7776s	state but you know taking taking care of
7779s	Ena taking care of the ganth and the
7783s	thorm right just all of the card draw
7785s	taken away from the shaman uh such that
7788s	it's in this awkward top deck mode when
7792s	you really need a lot of cards together
7795s	to do what the shaman needs to do it's
7798s	really hard to miss on this potion belt
7801s	yeah like everything that it can do
7803s	Gabby currently
7805s	needs uh two four n sure trying to work
7809s	out if this could potential lethal yep
7812s	it's not but with a motion Deni setup as
7814s	well it's
7815s	interesting yeah sure draw four cards
7819s	for three Mana seems okay uh we only we
7822s	had six Mana knocking about anyway it's
7827s	okay and you could prep Bel double
7830s	double three I mean that's still not
7832s	lethal but it no there's motion denied
7835s	up oh yeah then how does the shaman ever
7837s	kill you take the three take the other
7839s	three hit him in the face that's
7841s	it beat that oh not even going to do it
7844s	now but yeah me you can wait for the
7846s	motion to deny get to get proed but yeah
7848s	even if crash clears this board in a big
7852s	play like you're saying if the motion
7855s	motion denied gets proed oh there's B
7858s	have done it immediately just in case
7859s	there's some way that Wu can scramble a
7862s	win I don't think there's one Gabby
7863s	knows better than me in that situation
7864s	that's probably why but
7870s	yeah beat me playing two cards a turn
7872s	but there is plenty of healing in the
7874s	Discover pool
7875s	so fair
7877s	enough
7880s	[Music]
7889s	and that
7890s	is definitely not going to do it so
7894s	Gabby is going to pick up this game with
7896s	the secret
7898s	Rogue y takes the two on lead doesn't
7900s	even need to show the
7906s	concoction and the Sharman today so far
7909s	has felt to me a little bit sketchy on
7912s	both you know matches that we've
7915s	seen yeah it's a deck that really can't
7918s	afford for too much to go wrong uh I
7922s	think you know the best players can
7926s	pilot do some some quick wins uh with
7929s	with the right hands
7931s	but yeah when you lose half your hand
7933s	like that there's not a whole lot you
7935s	can do but just pray your top dechs are
7937s	good enough and they most certainly were
7939s	not that game for wiq so it's down to
7942s	talking of a bit sketchy this Druid um
7945s	definitely not the first deck on the
7946s	lineup is it it's yeah you You'
7948s	explained why it can be powerful you
7949s	explained the good things about it but I
7950s	don't I don't think you you woke up on
7951s	the morning of Dex suiss you went can't
7953s	wait to put this Druid Deck in my list
7954s	it's going to be
7956s	great yeah no I think it it must have
7961s	been in in my mind it must have been a
7964s	well people are going to bring a lot of
7965s	enrage Warrior this is pretty good into
7966s	enrage Warrior and
7969s	sometimes it just gets people right
7972s	sometimes you do just make that early
7974s	board and and they don't have the answer
7976s	and that's the end of it yeah when it
7979s	does the whatever the Druid equivalent
7980s	to 1 2 3 4 5 six is it's something like
7983s	1 94 but yeah whatever the d equivalent
7986s	of that is when it does it you don't
7987s	beat it without very specific cards in
7989s	your hand and again when you're
7992s	submitting with 24 hours notice that's
7995s	probably an okay sure I'll throw in my
7997s	lineup bring and Gabby went with that I
8000s	don't think he thinks like that I think
8001s	he just he he was in someone's chat the
8003s	other day they're saying like why did
8004s	you bring your line up and he just says
8005s	I don't want to mess around with all
8006s	this stuff I just want to play good
8007s	decks prot want to play good decks then
8009s	I can win if I've got a good deck in my
8011s	hands I'm Gabby I'll beat
8016s	you and you know to his credit it it
8021s	lines up in in terms of some of the
8023s	clears available to these decks right
8025s	like Mage is not always able to get
8027s	their inquisitive creation to a high
8029s	enough damage to clear uh that board
8032s	when the Druid is able to make it the
8034s	shamans aren't always able to to get
8036s	like a double crash going or whatever
8038s	they need to to clear the Druid board
8041s	but you do have to get that drum circle
8044s	down pretty early and as we saw against
8048s	the warrior it's hard to do that when
8049s	you're having to combat counter pressure
8053s	and Shaman isn't always able to do the
8056s	the the pressure game early on as well
8059s	but Mage certainly can so if you're
8062s	Gabby you're hoping to take it down
8064s	against the shaman here yeah I think so
8066s	too uh Shaman does have very good
8069s	discovers it can get to to get itself
8072s	into it but if Gabby just establishes
8075s	early pressure here it's all coming
8077s	together the disciple off the top there
8079s	if he just get some stuff
8081s	down battle off the fish and then both
8084s	players miss a couple of turns and you
8085s	play drum circle easy right
8088s	you have to have it but hey he'll have
8092s	it I
8094s	wonder yeah I'm brace of nature here one
8097s	of the cards that got nerfed for Druid
8100s	previously one mana and I think a big
8102s	question is whether you are coining out
8104s	the forge to be able to play it next
8110s	turn
8112s	yep oddly enough yeah it's actually a
8116s	tough choice but yeah there we go
8128s	you see actually he's still thinking
8129s	about it now to some degree yep well I
8132s	think knowing that okay the shaman is
8135s	going to just play these fish because
8136s	they want a pressure which means I want
8139s	to use my my removal spell on the
8141s	highest attack
8143s	fish you just want to try and fit
8145s	everything in while still being able to
8147s	defend yourself
8150s	I win so many games of Shaman by just
8152s	playing double sets of fish and my
8154s	opponent whatever they're playing dies
8155s	whether it's priest whether it's warrior
8157s	with a bad draw some you just fish them
8158s	and they just don't deal with it it adds
8161s	up so quickly I it this is one of those
8163s	times but yeah it does mean that Gabby
8166s	has this tax of he has to kill a fish
8168s	every turn has to kill the highest
8169s	attack fish because otherwise they just
8171s	get so big so quickly in these early
8174s	[Music]
8177s	turns okay he's going to pay the fish
8180s	tax yep I mean this is this is going to
8186s	hurt not not killing that it's doing an
8189s	additional two damage here and I think
8192s	the hope is that getting the drum circle
8195s	down earlier will just
8197s	mean that uh oh or we're just playing
8201s	the the Gamble and he seems to have won
8203s	out on the gamble
8206s	there I mean
8208s	behave yourself Gabby you're on
8210s	broadcast
8213s	mate I thought this was going for some
8215s	Mana reduction go for the the drum
8217s	circle next turn create a big wall nope
8220s	just roll in the two nature spells hope
8222s	it gets
8223s	there shakes his head I scorn your
8225s	little fish what do you think you're
8227s	trying to do
8237s	go
8240s	you take the reflexes and then next you
8243s	can Flash with the one in your hand and
8245s	then you can go for double reflex his
8246s	next turn TR and have a crazy
8248s	turn ah yeah take the flash C you want
8252s	to be able to crash of thunder right
8256s	if I suppose the reflexes can give you
8260s	odds of finding like morial wave so I
8264s	think what he's doing is he's flashing
8267s	next turn so he's flashing into a more
8269s	likely drum circle turn right oh and
8272s	then he's going to go double reflexes
8273s	and try and get double
8275s	crash the double Primal wave no I think
8279s	you're right yeah it's it's flash on
8281s	this next turn you've got those reflexes
8283s	reduced to zero and you just find
8286s	whatever to clear the big board yeah you
8288s	figure it's very unlikely that the
8290s	circle was coming down this turn but you
8293s	know it's going to come down the next
8294s	turn turn six is pretty common for the
8296s	drum circle turn and so
8299s	then uh yeah this is just setting up to
8302s	Gabby knows yeah he just like no flash
8305s	is there it's not
8308s	happening a little surprised at these
8310s	very early concedes from Gabby you know
8313s	we saw in the fil match earlier and now
8316s	a lot of times people you know with
8317s	these high stakes are are willing to at
8319s	least let it play out and see how
8322s	how how the cards fall but yeah I mean I
8326s	I play every game to the death just in
8328s	in case my opponent gets a bone Lord
8329s	that dies and then I can kill them or
8331s	something but yeah um Gabby I think for
8335s	him what we've seen him here over the
8337s	years if he can get out of games he's
8339s	not enjoying that he's almost certainly
8341s	going to lose I think that's probably a
8342s	wise move for Gabby personally again you
8344s	know he's a year older than when we last
8346s	saw him but I I do feel that it suits
8350s	his mentality to just get out of games
8352s	where he's miles
8355s	behind yeah and you know if that's going
8358s	to keep your your mental state in better
8361s	shape for a fresh game then you know all
8364s	all power to him and uh it is going to
8367s	be up against the Mage though for this
8370s	final uh of the best of five and
8375s	Mage sometimes has that early pressure
8377s	sometimes doesn't it really comes down
8379s	to whether the Mage is able to pick up
8380s	that Cosmic
8383s	keyboard
8386s	yeah you say that like they're going to
8389s	[Laughter]
8391s	miss uh but yeah the the mage deck to me
8394s	is so different when it has keyboard to
8396s	when it doesn't have keyboard it's
8397s	actually ridiculous um cuz there's so
8400s	many fours if they want coin especially
8402s	keyboard coin four they they always have
8404s	it if they have the keyboard always you
8406s	know but they they can make a two to at
8408s	worst and when they don't have it
8409s	they're scrambling around they can't
8411s	even draw cards or do anything of any
8413s	use apart from ping and mess around and
8416s	make a one three and it's like like it's
8418s	such a massive difference between
8419s	drawing it and not that's why I can't
8421s	help but giggle when you said they need
8423s	the keyboard it's like it's it's so
8424s	nutty youve highlighted it in a nutshell
8428s	that and it it at face value looks like
8431s	a kind of odd card in a deck with all
8434s	these one Mana spells right you've got
8437s	the flame geysers and the discovery of
8440s	magic all these things that you really
8441s	don't want to play while you have the
8443s	keyboard out but it's still just worth
8446s	it because while sometimes times you're
8448s	forced to put out a 1 one or a 2 two or
8449s	something so many times when you can get
8452s	those four fours uh or even the three
8454s	threes from playing a molten Rune it
8457s	just gives you this early pressure that
8460s	makes it so you don't have to be as
8462s	worried about clearing the board because
8464s	or or building up as much spell damage
8466s	because your early pressure does the
8468s	work for you it also makes a card I mean
8470s	it w matter against the Druid so much
8472s	but so good late game against control
8474s	you play your keyboard your second
8476s	keyboard um which of course you've got
8478s	and then you discover like a five drop
8480s	or a six drop or something suddenly
8482s	you've got a six six plus a powerful
8483s	effect for six mana and a board from
8485s	nowhere as well um so if you do miss it
8489s	early in a lot of matchups it's still
8492s	fine when you get it later on whereas a
8494s	lot of two drops like you don't want
8497s	from a lot of decks you don't want your
8498s	tant on turn 19 as Druid or something
8500s	but as Mage a lot of these cards the the
8503s	one three drawing
8505s	cards they they're not just good on
8507s	curve they're good throughout the game
8509s	if you use your Arcane worm on turn
8510s	seven to get a bulk to kill them on turn
8512s	eight with cth it's still a good card
8515s	whereas any other normal Tempo agroy
8518s	deck if you miss on curve suddenly your
8519s	three drop Hunter is a good example you
8522s	play your 4-1 worm on turn nine nobody
8525s	cares doesn't do anything but on in Mage
8529s	nearly every card in your deck does
8530s	something no matter which turn you play
8531s	it on which means you're always getting
8533s	value for your Mana even if it doesn't
8535s	look like a great card at the time yeah
8537s	absolutely abolutely and and it's just
8539s	that incredible versatility I've had
8542s	games where wisdom of norgon which is
8545s	the five Mana card draw spell that
8547s	reduces by one Mana for each spell
8549s	School you've played this game that can
8552s	sometimes turn an otherwise you know
8554s	mediocre hand where you didn't have a
8557s	big spell to go with the keyboard but
8559s	because you've only reduced it by one it
8562s	it's a four Mana spell that draws you
8564s	two cards and makes a four four so you
8565s	feel a little less bad about playing it
8568s	for a higher Mana cost because you still
8570s	get something out of it I I don't see
8572s	the word keyboard on any of those do we
8574s	keep the elemental we don't oh it's a
8575s	one three that do we we keep it's not
8579s	pressure right doesn't say
8582s	keyboard there's a temptation to keep
8584s	the elemental but I feel like it's got
8586s	to be keyboard keyboard or on on the
8589s	flip side of the game plan you know
8591s	inquisitive creation right cuz that is
8594s	your big potential
8595s	clear yeah even worse if you do draw
8598s	your keyboard after throw away the other
8599s	two you're not even playing your
8600s	Elemental on two it just sits in your
8601s	hand until turn three then you wait yeah
8603s	throw it away get rid of it don't want
8604s	it I agree with
8606s	[Music]
8609s	you oh gave no
8612s	okay ah okay just draw one two get a
8615s	three from it you're all right I mean
8617s	it's not as much pressure but it is
8620s	earlier right and the advantage to the
8623s	the artificer pick up artificer I think
8626s	would definitely always be a key is is
8628s	uh you know you could start playing
8629s	infinitize the Maude right and just
8631s	gaining that Armor gets you all that
8633s	extra buffer to get things rolling well
8636s	also now you've drawn a one drop to go
8638s	with your Prismatic the Prismatic
8639s	doesn't look so lonely and useless
8641s	anymore actually now you're representing
8643s	some actual trade I going say damage but
8645s	you're going to trade with it most
8647s	likely yeah but now you're representing
8648s	some actual achievements take some
8650s	silence that's going to be so use in
8652s	some situations later zero Mana silence
8654s	all and it's a holy spell so kind of
8657s	great for everything that the Mage wants
8659s	to be
8660s	doing meanwhile just look at Gabby's
8662s	hand he's got like five trillion mana on
8664s	turn four to start making shrub of gazor
8666s	and things probably won't do it for a
8667s	turn or two after but you know it's it's
8669s	already looking ludicrously uh powerful
8672s	if he wants it to be and this is I think
8674s	the third time we've seen Gabby just
8677s	play that for the two extra nature
8678s	spells I mean in this case his hand was
8681s	not really going to benefit from Mana
8684s	reduction but uh he places a lot of
8687s	value in in the the two random nature
8700s	spells I think that is not actually a
8704s	fell
8706s	spell shell shot going to clear these up
8710s	no more armor for
8712s	weq but it is called case
8714s	time yeah forgot the step of having um a
8718s	keyboard but still a very powerful
8722s	card and that's the thing with Mage um I
8724s	I whine about it a lot but every card
8726s	individually
8728s	powerful he's just doing it I thought he
8730s	might wait a turn so he get some value
8731s	out of the innovates but no he's just
8732s	going to shub a gazor his opponent
8739s	yep and it does pretty much the entire
8742s	rest of his deck way more powerful his
8745s	whole deck is keyboards now who's the
8747s	keyboard
8752s	now who needs keyboard when you got
8754s	shubber gazor on turn four
8757s	reality these are be some weird bitty
8760s	games haven't they
8761s	today yeah one this one you know neither
8764s	player has really had their their best
8768s	foot forward in terms of game plan with
8771s	the ests but they're they're cobbling
8773s	together some interesting
8776s	stuff
8779s	I think it's a choice between snap
8780s	freeze and sunwell
8782s	here oh no one to say sunwell sole's
8786s	somewhere
8787s	lurking he will protest it but I would
8791s	take it here and I don't take it very
8792s	often either mainly because I get
8793s	relentlessly bullied by SLE if I
8797s	do yeah going to go s that's
8803s	fine what's his plan here like just push
8805s	every ounce of damage face and hope it
8807s	gets there cuz I'm he's dead in three or
8808s	four turns cuz you're never going to
8809s	find enough clears for this lot I mean I
8812s	think it's it's push enough damage so
8814s	that you can then clear the boards to
8818s	buy time for a top deck sift to like
8821s	maybe just get there but okay uh I mean
8824s	there's there's a lot of answers here in
8828s	terms of you know Shard of the Naru if
8831s	Gabby ever uh goes for that that drum
8834s	circle buffed board the raps City can
8838s	clear some unbuffed 33s
8842s	right inquisitive creation as well
8845s	another clear so there's a few clears
8847s	there it's just a matter
8849s	of how many boards Gabby is going to end
8852s	up
8853s	making yeah and he is I mean he's got
8855s	some time to go yet but he's slowly
8858s	running out of cards as well
8860s	like by by Druid standards he's running
8863s	out of
8865s	cards well and there are are no
8867s	nourishes in this Druid so it is a
8870s	little bit more susceptible
8873s	to yeah running out of cards your your
8875s	hope is to to make two boards and kill
8877s	them with one of them
8880s	and after that point there's not a whole
8883s	lot left in terms of your top Texs
8885s	there's no spread the words the only
8887s	real card draw are Widow Bloom seedsmen
8891s	and the flower child which specifically
8894s	draws your top end
8896s	cards Gabby is of course going to be
8897s	able to make I mean you saying it's hope
8899s	to make two Gabby's in a lovely position
8900s	here where he's going to be able to make
8901s	three because oh and that's a pretty
8904s	good random effect there the draw three
8908s	for
8909s	weq okay the Si's in hand which is
8911s	probably going to be a card like is
8913s	helpful again we talked about siing too
8916s	early ooh these are all great options I
8921s	I well flash of lightning less so
8922s	there's not a ton of nature spells but
8925s	he SE to innovates but yeah so the pop
8927s	might not go off until 8 that's fine
8931s	right so yeah the pop goes to three next
8933s	turn and then goes to six the turn after
8935s	is that right no it's the other way
8936s	around so it isn't going to tie nicely
8938s	with a drum circle board but it will
8939s	still clear a
8941s	board yeah
8943s	it's going to deal deal six make a three
8946s	three on this next turn
8950s	yeah but also it's it's a holy spell
8953s	played which makes the inquisitive
8956s	Creations better we can tell from the
8958s	wisdom of organon that only three spell
8961s	schools have been
8975s	played it's
8986s	ridiculous
8990s	so yeah I think his mind's where mine
8991s	was at but he's he's got the silence
8993s	anyway but yeah would have like the pop
8995s	to tie him better with drum circle turn
8997s	but it's such a lovely clear now
9004s	anyway yeah I mean with The Shard yeah
9007s	it kind of doesn't matter but you
9011s	maybe would have liked to get the
9015s	66
9025s	I think cabbie is looking a little
9027s	defeated
9029s	here as we're scraping the bottom of the
9031s	barrel and this is kind of the thing
9032s	that can happen with the Mage is it just
9034s	keeps discovering clear after clear now
9037s	Gabby's got to go in with this
9039s	cultivation
9041s	um cuz they're
9043s	just not very big minions without it but
9046s	this is sort of the last last
9049s	gasp
9051s	yeah Mage
9053s	silencing the Druid and just killing
9057s	them actually yeah like you said yeah
9058s	you know that that early damage right
9061s	that you don't need as much out of the
9063s	the burst turn so it's just going to
9066s	be see you Gabby sorry well done weq
9070s	this Gabby waves
9072s	goodbye we talked about next iteration
9076s	of players and and that's what we're
9078s	getting to see I mean he's the rank one
9081s	player in the whole race at the moment
9084s	um and that's a great result from mcface
9086s	who is effectively three wins no losses
9089s	today because he's won his match and
9091s	Wu's won two matches as well so he he's
9094s	got two horses in this race um with the
9096s	America's region literally being weu at
9098s	the top bace next and then there's some
9101s	other America's players somewhere we
9103s	think we're looking for
9105s	them
9109s	yeah ah it's it's so good to to see all
9114s	all of these players competing at their
9116s	their best again but always sad to have
9119s	to say goodbye to one of them so I'm
9120s	sure we'll see more of Gabby in the
9123s	future I'm sure he will yeah he he's
9126s	sort of mixing his life around a bit but
9128s	he's one of those players that can just
9129s	come back to Hearthstone play for three
9132s	months qualify for one tournament to win
9133s	it and then not play for nine months
9134s	again then come back to Worlds and win
9136s	that not this year but you know
9138s	presumably next year that's the sort of
9139s	thing he would look to do uh we'll find
9142s	out at some point what that will be but
9143s	yeah we are going to go to a break and
9146s	get back into another match for you
9147s	shortly as we're progressing through the
9149s	winners bracket now on day one master
9153s	tour full
9165s	championships
9178s	[Music]
9183s	[Music]
9195s	put
9198s	[Music]
9226s	[Music]
9285s	h
9306s	[Applause]
9307s	[Music]
9314s	[Music]
9345s	the
9360s	[Music]
9387s	[Music]
9417s	[Music]
9422s	[Music]
9435s	n
9438s	[Music]
9443s	[Music]
9461s	[Music]
9465s	you
9469s	[Music]
9476s	[Music]
9485s	[Music]
9495s	yeah
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9522s	[Music]
9525s	w
9528s	[Music]
9536s	[Music]
9542s	[Music]
9552s	hello everybody and welcome back to the
9554s	Masters Tour fall championship my name
9556s	is TJ and I'm joined by the one the only
9558s	Neil Linda Bond Neil I've been waiting
9560s	here for like 3 and 1 half hours to cast
9563s	some Hearthstone but you're hugging all
9564s	the spotlight I love it TJ I'm I'm after
9568s	the attention I've got the flamingo um
9570s	bit deflated cuz it's tanu fan but I
9575s	tried what's on its head um it's beak
9581s	there ah the beak it's just deflated
9583s	okay it was looking at it's deflated cuz
9584s	it's it's a tensoku fan so you know you
9586s	T you're probably pretty deflated after
9588s	that first match earlier today I can
9590s	attest that I can definitely but I have
9592s	to fit in with flamingo Friday with
9593s	everybody else that's right flamingo
9595s	Friday otherwise known as Flamingo
9599s	Saturday uh details details yeah
9603s	details details but taking a look at the
9606s	bracket so far um we're actually uh all
9609s	the way nearly done with some of these
9611s	winner winners matches uh Hemlock the
9614s	first player to advance from group a and
9617s	then uh uh Casey down at the bottom
9620s	there and uh we just saw
9623s	weu uh take the victory there so we'll
9626s	get up in a second then we have MC
9627s	banter face
9630s	amcas uh us fellow Americans me and me
9633s	and Neil uh definitely rooting for the
9635s	uh America's players to finally have
9637s	their time in the spotlight then we have
9639s	CJ Kaka and levic down there in the
9641s	decider match waiting to see who's going
9643s	to be the next player to move
9645s	on
9648s	oops pocket train and balance um they
9651s	haven't advanced yet we're actually
9652s	going to show you this match uh or some
9654s	of it at least to see how advances here
9657s	and then tanoka mile also not finished
9660s	yet I don't think so Group C is where
9662s	we'd likely to be concentrating right
9663s	now that's right yeah we uh like Neil
9666s	said we are going to be hopping into
9667s	that match in progress of pocket train
9669s	versus balance here shortly once we wrap
9671s	up these bra brackets but Co moving on
9673s	from Group D and then we have gamer rvg
9676s	and wck from down there in the
9677s	elimination match uh waiting for anuro
9680s	uh to see who's going to move on from
9682s	Group D so a little bit all over the
9684s	place but that's the nature of these
9686s	double elimination groups uh all the
9688s	game plays confined to these groups so
9690s	some of these brackets are way more
9691s	filled out uh than others and it's time
9693s	to fill out just a little bit more Neil
9696s	going to be hopping into pocket train
9697s	versus balance it scores 20 in favor of
9700s	pocket train but it looks like the deck
9702s	remaining for pocket train is that
9704s	Shaman and regardless of how many times
9706s	we see the shaman win I'm I'm not going
9709s	to gain any faith in it I'm not I I
9711s	don't I think it's a reasonable deck I
9715s	don't know if it's like consistent
9717s	enough to get to through these
9720s	tournament lineups but a good amount of
9721s	players brought it pocket Tran on the
9723s	verge of a victory here but I think it's
9725s	the rest of his lineup carrying him Neil
9727s	nobody could convince me otherwise I'm
9729s	with you TJ um so I've been doing a lot
9732s	of play testing on stream and Shaman was
9734s	really not on my radar at all at least
9736s	not this one um and then know seven
9739s	players I think it was brought it I'm
9741s	like okay I was wrong Shaman's Obviously
9742s	good blah blah blah but we've seen
9744s	Sharman today look worse than garbage it
9748s	seems to hold on and then fold and
9749s	doesn't do its thing now I'm sure we're
9751s	going to see it win some spectacular
9752s	games it can definitely do some really
9754s	nice stuff but so far from the massive
9757s	sample size of some matches that we've
9759s	shown um it hasn't look very good at all
9761s	against the top decks in the format at
9763s	all yeah uh I mean we'll see like the
9766s	one thing pocket Train's got going for
9768s	him is that he's giving himself head
9769s	starts in these matchups right saving
9771s	Shaman for a last winning with the other
9773s	two decks if you can continue to do that
9776s	give your Shaman three chances to win
9777s	yeah of course and then other side we
9779s	got balance uh favorite class Rogue
9781s	favorite deck G Rogue I think a lot of
9783s	uh top level players would say grot
9786s	Rogue was is one of their favorites uh
9788s	back in that metag game very fun deck
9790s	lots of skill expression uh which you
9793s	know uh low win rate at low ranks high
9796s	wind rated High ranks that that's a Pros
9799s	bread and butter uh kind of favorite
9801s	deck right there oh no now on to
9804s	everybody's favorite deck
9806s	TJ that's right the control priest uh
9810s	was watching a little bit of our buddy
9813s	here Neil stream the other day uh
9816s	playing some some control priest and
9819s	what were you averaging like I 19 and 10
9824s	no in sorry in terms of game length I
9827s	think he went 9 and 10 over the course
9829s	of like 12 hours it was like a 19 minute
9831s	game L 19 games of hearthstone and yeah
9834s	there were two games over 30 minutes I
9836s	think half of the games were over 13
9838s	minutes and the ones that weren't over
9840s	13 minutes were like
9842s	12 yeah it's slow cuz it hasn't got a
9845s	way to win the Hearthstone game it's got
9847s	many ways not to lose it and it it
9848s	doesn't lose really well until it loses
9852s	like it's really good at really coming
9854s	close to not losing and then losing it's
9857s	it does it fantastically cast's dream TJ
9860s	cast's dream because we can talk about
9861s	boats we can talk about Christmas we can
9863s	talk about anything but priest in fact
9867s	great awesome well this is not one of
9870s	those matchups where you want to try not
9872s	to lose right trying not to lose against
9874s	Shaman is uh is this this nature Shaman
9879s	is a recipe for disaster a recipe for a
9883s	loss you got to try and win the
9884s	hearstone game and there are ways to do
9886s	it there's more big stuff in Priest than
9889s	there once was uh but it can get a
9892s	little bit difficult because uh pocket
9894s	Tran on the shaman will be able to do
9897s	effectively what he wants uh uh against
9900s	the the priest from balance so uh I'm
9902s	curious to see how this one's going to
9904s	go but um balance has got to beat this
9907s	Shaman three times in a row and going to
9911s	start things off with the priest yeah we
9914s	have seen some um try to lose that many
9916s	games in a row so it's possible but
9918s	there's not a player in the world I
9921s	think past or present that I would want
9925s	to give the chance of just comboing
9929s	somebody to death less than than pocket
9931s	train he he's just the master at oh I
9933s	have to do this in this many turns I'll
9935s	I'll do that then and just killing you
9937s	there's more to it obviously there'll be
9938s	board fights at the start in particular
9940s	as we see the Rogue come out for
9942s	balance so that's good um yeah forget it
9946s	all are you sure it's a rogue it's a
9950s	rogue all right going with the Rogue
9951s	first then uh gotcha um but got to win
9956s	with all three does it really matter
9957s	what you pick first no we we discussed
9959s	the priest just because we know that
9960s	people like priest and the one that they
9961s	always want to talk about priest people
9962s	talk about priest a lot I've noticed so
9964s	you
9966s	know yeah all right going with the uh
9969s	the secret Rogue here uh for balance and
9972s	a dick that I've enjoyed uh playing
9975s	quite a bit
9977s	um I uh it's one of those Hit or Miss
9982s	decks right that sometimes the Stars can
9984s	align but the one thing that I I like
9986s	about the Rogue um this is more so pre
9989s	yog change is that it feels like you're
9992s	never out right there's always something
9994s	that can happen that you can claw your
9996s	way back in uh to a game and then
9998s	there's some games where you can just
10000s	have incredible starts and just blow
10001s	your opponent out of the water uh it's
10003s	got Tempo it's got disruption it's it's
10005s	got value it's got random
10008s	Generation Um just about everything you
10010s	could ask for in a deck in a hearthstone
10012s	deck and that's one of the things that I
10014s	love about it yeah we saw this match up
10016s	a minute ago uh where Gabby just played
10018s	three gravediggers on this turn or turn
10021s	four and just removed the entire card
10024s	draw from the shaman and then proceeded
10026s	to win with just
10028s	bits like you do yep mhm yep tends to be
10031s	quite
10034s	good
10036s	s a bit
10037s	different totally different order with
10039s	the the double sticker situation just
10042s	making a
10045s	[Music]
10047s	board zero am of spell seems
10054s	good yeah setting up for a big turn next
10056s	turn right the gravedigger with the the
10058s	secret likely up well guaranteed to be
10060s	up Concor with zero cost concoction in
10064s	there yeah probably hoping for like a
10067s	potion Bel off the top though maybe
10068s	another concoct her Shadow step
10070s	something of those likes unless he hits
10073s	exactly draw from this concoct then it's
10076s	quite all right uh but decent Tempo
10078s	start here and uh pocket Train's taking
10080s	some damage so going to have to go with
10082s	the lightning reflexes just to try and
10084s	move things along zap is a nice way to
10087s	buff up this Jazz base while
10090s	also progressing this lightning
10092s	reflexes um I'm wouldn't even hate a
10096s	flash of lightning right here and just
10097s	rip
10098s	it uh so next turn you would have okay
10103s	sure uh maybe not rip
10106s	it because then you kind of want to play
10109s	into the overload next turn but you
10111s	don't want to Overlay next turn because
10112s	you want to play to the Titan do you
10115s	want to play the Titan on six here
10117s	against a three four I mean you can get
10118s	rid of it obviously I mean it's two it's
10120s	2 turn from now I I don't know I don't
10123s	even know what I'm eating for dinner
10124s	today what do I think what do you think
10125s	I'm going to know what to do in two
10127s	turns pocket train
10131s	knows we're going to find out he's going
10133s	to tell us the answer yeah so he's going
10134s	to not overload in two turns time he's
10137s	going to play the Titan and
10140s	yeah I like overloading this turn to be
10143s	honest with you you think he's going to
10144s	play the Titan in two turns time TJ
10146s	because I
10147s	don't because he's not going to have
10151s	one we'll see about that okay it's a you
10155s	take 40% and run with it
10157s	7 oh no it's it's 75 25 isn't it cuz the
10161s	BIOS can only show Once yeah yep yep yep
10164s	yep
10175s	yep uh
10178s	objection yeah that's what you do you
10180s	think for ages then you take the Mage
10181s	spell that's how you play this this deck
10184s	yeah
10188s	unless you like it's objection and
10191s	you're at like no health and your
10193s	opponent has what like lethal
10196s	showing you can you can think about
10198s	sometimes you pick like wandering
10200s	monster can sometimes save your life
10202s	like that kind of thing big giant minion
10204s	you know in play uhhuh um but yeah think
10207s	for a while big there you go nice o
10210s	prison of yron that's what we're talking
10212s	about I was going to say Hopey threw
10214s	that see um yeah it's off it's gone he's
10216s	got a top deck it he has played this
10218s	turn slowly enough in the Discover phase
10221s	that he's now got to um if he gets draw
10223s	to here or hazy yeah
10228s	he's I think you'd probably hold on to
10230s	it anyway just in case you get like
10231s	private iron next turn or something like
10233s	that easy
10237s	combo he did the right thing not panic
10239s	ripping it though he just played it you
10242s	might oh oh okay
10246s	relax warm you out
10249s	oh um you can zap you can't zap cuz you
10253s	want to play prison next
10254s	turn just
10257s	ju you can't play feral cuz you want to
10260s	play uh prison next
10265s	turn o laging reflex wait a second what
10268s	is the nature spell is there like one is
10270s	there V nature spell yeah there's got to
10274s	be
10277s	how
10283s	there it's got to be you're right
10285s	there's always
10289s	one I I actually don't know I'm pretty
10293s	sure I ripped this before there's been
10294s	one but I might be wrong might have been
10296s	something else might have been priest or
10297s	something who got one there it is deadly
10301s	poison just get another one
10305s	oh good point super
10314s	weapon okay coming up on the prison turn
10317s	which is basically all he's got just
10320s	point point that at the
10323s	face and
10325s	help Pocket Change still just trying to
10327s	cycle through the deck finds the Titan
10329s	once
10330s	again
10333s	um still like a way off of like killing
10336s	but uh it's going to make it a little
10338s	bit easier balance really needs
10341s	to he only needs to do six with the yog
10344s	just do it five all to the face game do
10348s	do you seven seven is the same as six no
10350s	is six yeah you just rip it and kill
10352s	them and they
10354s	die a big question I was like maybe like
10357s	a break dance and then draw another
10359s	spell I don't
10361s	know just five all them in the
10363s	head
10370s	oh
10373s	okay
10374s	oh missed one damage
10379s	oh so
10382s	close
10390s	ah that Divine Shield is actually really
10393s	annoying so is the armor to be honest oh
10396s	dear just messes with the break point so
10399s	much oh I forgot there was an objection
10400s	in play yeah I know
10404s	yeah just pack it up
10409s	yeah
10415s	brutal he's got the Mana to wave this
10417s	into a something
10421s	smaller all right he's just going to
10423s	concede there yeah it's tough you got to
10425s	basically kill in two turns just the
10426s	dagger
10427s	alone uh would uh kill over two turns
10430s	actually had no way to deal with the
10431s	four4 because it had the anti-magic
10433s	shell on it so that would have killed
10435s	him but
10436s	balance uh gets closer in this series
10440s	one down against the shaman two to go in
10443s	order to take this one uh and move on uh
10447s	this is a Winner's match losers not out
10449s	they just have to move to a different
10452s	part of the bracket a different area of
10454s	the screen
10455s	if you would different area of the
10457s	screen is that where we put people these
10460s	days yeah Live Events did you put the
10462s	the losers bracket into like a different
10464s	half of the room and say you're the
10465s	losers half of the room yeah they the
10469s	visual representation of the of the
10472s	bracket that's how they shuffled the
10474s	players around the room all right you're
10475s	going to stand right over here because
10477s	this is
10478s	where in the lower part of the room nope
10481s	not a loser's part of the room the lower
10483s	part nobody's a loser loser everybody's
10485s	just a lower yeah hop in losers we're
10489s	going he Stone in
10494s	yeah but yeah I mean balance got there
10497s	with uh not much the gravedigger like
10501s	that's pushed a bunch of
10504s	damage and yeah that's it and a prison
10508s	that's that was the game effectively
10510s	couple Secrets prison yon couple of
10514s	deadly poison
10515s	boom got yourself a
10518s	win but he needs two more of those wins
10521s	he doesn't have Shaman versus Shaman so
10523s	it will end today at some point cuz I
10524s	imagine if Shaman plays Shaman nobody
10526s	wins way that today's Panic up sit
10530s	there yeah just nothing nothing happens
10533s	yeah you just sit there pressing end
10535s	turn until nothing happens just
10539s	unlucky but I imagine it'll be the
10543s	mage tell us something about Mage TJ to
10546s	stop my sarcasm before it gets into
10548s	massive full effect tell me something
10550s	interesting about
10552s	Mage
10557s	um
10561s	uh I got
10564s	nothing have I said everything already
10566s	that Mak really good you know so I have
10568s	to recap Mage for everybody then because
10570s	TJ can't add to my wonderful analysis so
10572s	far get keyboard game get keyboard wien
10576s	game yep it's uh can Mage can do just
10580s	about everything right the thing they do
10582s	best is damage but they can also gain a
10585s	lot of armor with artificer with Cold
10588s	Case um if you're not temping them out
10591s	early early on in the game is they they
10594s	can get their health uh pretty far up
10596s	there they also have a ton of value
10599s	probably the most in the game um
10601s	especially with that card right there
10602s	infinitize the maxit
10605s	ude not the not the Minit Neil not the
10610s	Minit the
10612s	maxud okay and you infinitize it's not
10615s	just a small Infinity it's one of those
10616s	big Infinities you only getting math
10618s	exams yeah
10620s	exactly they can gain armor with all
10622s	sorts of things like I's say heavy plate
10624s	they can gain armor with that they can
10625s	gain armor with any card in Hearthstone
10626s	basically if it says gain armor on it
10628s	they'll do
10629s	it they
10632s	will choosing to go with the Tian
10634s	variant um and not the elemental
10638s	inspiration variant that's something I'm
10640s	keeping an eye on
10642s	today I feel like the Titan never does
10646s	anything I kind of like the variance
10647s	that taking it out honestly ah no I love
10650s	the Titan reverbing norgan on is just
10655s	Mah he's playing inspiration as well
10657s	actually yeah it it looks great it feels
10660s	great but I always feel like it's
10662s	Surplus to requirements when you're
10664s	messing with it you could just be a good
10665s	another another good card that you're
10666s	playing don't beong powerful but people
10669s	are cutting it and I I agree with those
10671s	people
10673s	okay I agree to
10675s	disagree you're not allowed to this is
10678s	this is my disagreement time yeah every
10681s	deck has to have a Titan and every deck
10683s	prior to the patch on
10685s	Thursday has to have y it's just it's
10688s	the
10689s	rules that's how they should have nerfed
10691s	y they should made nine mana and you
10694s	have to have it in your deck I mean I
10697s	don't know what the anomaly is called
10699s	but you get a different one have we had
10701s	an anomaly have they been
10704s	cut we haven't had one
10707s	I that was a question I has that wasn't
10710s	sure it could just be an anomaly that we
10712s	haven't had an anomaly yeah they won't
10715s	get an anomaly to the final we be
10717s	convinced that they're not playing with
10718s	anomalies on the the server and then
10720s	we'll get like one of the terrible ones
10723s	yeah
10725s	like it' be a control match up versus an
10727s	aggro it be like both players start with
10729s	five extra Health oh
10731s	no
10735s	unfortunate meanwhile balance chipping
10738s	away that Health
10745s	total chipping
10753s	away
10761s	same decision as last turn this is
10762s	something that in Shaman is is a little
10764s	bit awkward is not overloading going
10766s	into your turn where you really want to
10768s	play your six but you really want to
10770s	play your overloads it tends to feel
10771s	like on five that's when you've run out
10773s	of the things you are setting up and now
10776s	you want to start playing your feral
10777s	spirits and your zaps and your three
10779s	twos and that's the turn where you can't
10781s	because you overload yeah Nuance but
10783s	then you get get it all back and more on
10785s	turn
10790s	seven yeah that's a a nothing of a turn
10793s	because next turn's so good and that
10795s	probably tips balance off as well it it
10798s	tips balance they don't overload they
10800s	Flo of Mana they don't really do
10802s	anything on turn five huh yeah wonder
10804s	what happens here wonder what's coming
10806s	next ah slam it Reverb in hand mhm cards
10812s	cost one
10813s	more it's taking 20 yeah it's not taking
10822s	20 just
10824s	dead you can do that with near fight for
10826s	so much less except it does not cares it
10828s	spells it doesn't work you're right and
10829s	this does you you C and you casted one
10832s	of these abilities already just Reverb
10834s	it just
10835s	dead see ultimate setup what are you
10838s	going to
10839s	do yeah okay it was it was almost as if
10843s	this was scripted
10845s	for me to be
10849s	correct but I think pocket train is the
10851s	script writer he he claims to be the
10853s	script writer sometimes so he's winning
10855s	this somehow this
10858s	year I know where he got this idea
10866s	[Music]
10867s	for this storm is in
10873s	me
10880s	uh-huh I mean it has to do it right it's
10882s	a huge expenditure but just he literally
10887s	dead he doesn't
10890s	so he's done in a way it's giving him a
10893s	board too yeah and there's not much to
10897s	do here for balance which
10900s	means fin time flippity flop spin ity
10905s	spin I couldn't match your
10916s	alliteration about of creation here
10918s	that'd be quite nice oh look at this
10919s	opening hand where's the coin there it
10922s	is there it
10926s	is could even set up a
10930s	keyboard alongside this uh Inquisitor
10934s	creation what to do what to do not too
10942s	shabby
10946s	um yeah thinking maybe to draw with
10952s	wisdom of
10954s	norgan
10956s	instead ju if he felt like he was
10959s	looking for something
10961s	specific for next turn but I don't think
10963s	so
10965s	yeah there's probably ways to sort of
10967s	just count how how many lethals do I
10969s	have you know that pocket train is
10970s	gaining six
10972s	here yeah realize there isn't any in
10975s	that situation so off you go as you were
10977s	make some four
10979s	FS yeah oh uh you you leave the Titan up
10987s	but is that really that big of a
10991s	deal pocket draws three yeah it's a big
10994s	deal actually you can just yeah but then
10997s	you have this giant board this Elemental
11000s	inspiration board plus the 77 from the
11002s	keyboard like that's the argument yeah
11005s	sure they draw three cards but are they
11007s	killing you with those three cards this
11008s	turn cuz if not
11011s	then you know there's a lot of overload
11013s	I mean there actually isn't but it feels
11014s	like there's a lot of overload in
11015s	pocket's hand as well I guess you know
11016s	about the fish yeah he knows knows three
11019s	of the cards uh and the other two the
11021s	other schooling and the Jazz Bas have
11023s	been there for quite a while W but it's
11024s	sham that literally tells you nothing
11026s	could be any piece of the combo what a
11030s	absolute garbage
11039s	selection
11044s	o does this bring it up to five got to
11048s	go the flame guys
11050s	are yep actually got it okay nice so did
11054s	feel incredibly threatened the Si's
11057s	going to be on five right so six so
11061s	12 no bolts
11064s	left well they they're in the bottom of
11066s	the deck are working as to how I math
11070s	they're live on
11075s	air see burn in hand it's uh carry the
11080s	two six spell damage zero
11084s	yeah just no burn no burn times six plus
11089s	plus six take away six yeah that's
11091s	nothing whole bunch of
11094s	it we have some four FES now thanks and
11097s	a 7 seven while we're at it cuz why not
11100s	hoping for some Rush
11103s	here oh you you never ever tell these
11106s	things what you want them to be TJ ever
11108s	ta not behave taunt will
11111s	do ah you trapped them
11114s	yeah and the taunt fine as well
11121s	unlucky four green fish TJ that must
11124s	mean something that's
11128s	actually it's a pattern what does it
11131s	mean I don't know but it's got to mean
11136s	something so you want to put the five
11138s	one into the four five right into the
11140s	into the four five into
11142s	the
11144s	it doesn't really matter does it there's
11145s	no life steal who cares he's on 30 no
11149s	one cares just just hit them with
11152s	fish yeah got to do something yeah he
11156s	going to
11157s	play Push face at least a little bit
11159s	realizing that if I just clear this it's
11161s	not going to do
11162s	anything um all right so we're missing
11166s	eight points of damage so literally any
11169s	piece of burn he did know the bols on
11171s	the bottom in the same way that you did
11174s	cuz he put them there yeah and you know
11177s	they've got the bolts cuz they come out
11178s	of the Arcane guys so you
11183s	know he's seen at least one flame
11188s	geyser so this might not be as crazy as
11191s	it first appears in terms of taking a
11202s	chance
11206s	trying to come up with the best odds
11209s	yeah what if you just there must be one
11212s	there's always
11217s	one there's not oh there's not how the
11220s	tides have
11223s	turned oh my God he's still got like 4
11226s	million Mana to spend in two
11232s	seconds feel like this has been a
11234s	suboptimal turn this is like watching
11239s	me going to rip the just for the a
11241s	little bit of extra
11244s	Health
11252s	yeah just a panic there at least he had
11255s	the Savvy to realize that he had sort of
11258s	overdone his time and just spend Mana it
11260s	doesn't matter that it's not optimal by
11261s	the end just just get it spent it's
11263s	better than not getting spent gain four
11265s	armor and a two two skeleton sure there
11266s	probably should be another skeleton
11267s	somewhere that sort of thing just just
11269s	get it done
11273s	yeah I
11276s	mean has the Jazz base swing so can do
11279s	all of
11282s	this it's going to live right that'll be
11286s	fine
11288s	yeah nothing bad ever happens to these
11292s	minions
11294s	oh
11301s	TJ down to
11305s	nine oh
11310s	no ever so slightly
11317s	off yeah just going to gain the armor
11320s	ping it's one card draw plus one spell
11322s	damage on board should be
11325s	good and then just set up for the uh
11329s	guaranteed lethal next turn with the
11331s	Sith plus the forged molten Rune ah
11334s	thorm no overload unfortunate there we
11338s	go ah the Titan coming in clutch nor
11342s	norgon nor Ganan yeah either of those I
11345s	just call them Titan because there's
11347s	only one Titan in every deck so just
11349s	call it Titan everyone knows what you
11350s	mean you'd have to learn 10 names
11354s	yeah yeah tricks of the trade TJ tricks
11358s	of the
11359s	trade
11360s	yeah all right well we we got to a game
11363s	five could be professional just learn
11364s	what they're called but Titan well I
11367s	know what they're called I don't know
11368s	how to pronounce them that's
11370s	problem no
11374s	Ganon don't know anyway as the start the
11377s	broadcast TJ and I were rudely
11379s	interrupted by two games of hearthstone
11380s	this is what we were talking about
11381s	priest versus the Sham
11384s	yeah I know finally we can get back to
11387s	our regularly scheduled
11392s	programming here we are the priest ah so
11395s	I mean this is kind of what I
11398s	predicted uh well I mean this is kind of
11401s	what foreshadowed I think TJ for yeah
11404s	foreshadowed uh most players would
11408s	have agreed with this sentiment also is
11411s	that Shaman probably the weakest deck in
11414s	the lineup I think even some of the
11416s	players coming into this one it is
11417s	definitely that kind of fourth deck
11419s	where uh they couldn't find anything
11422s	else that they thought was better in the
11423s	amount of time that they had to prep um
11426s	which was two days after the balance
11428s	patch right it wasn't that many changes
11430s	but it warped things pretty considerably
11434s	you know the uh an outlier deck brought
11437s	down change changes the metag game um
11440s	trickle down economics you know uh but
11443s	with
11444s	and Bots um as well as the Y change
11448s	right that changed the game plan of of
11451s	some of these decks as well so uh you
11455s	know it it's tough to find the right
11457s	decks and I don't know if Shaman was it
11461s	but there's players that have a ton of
11463s	practice with this Shaman the game plan
11465s	of the deck has not really changed right
11468s	there's some increase in cost that's why
11470s	Jazz bases come in to just try and uh
11473s	let you smooth things out a bit when
11475s	you're going for combo turns let you do
11476s	them a lot lot easier the deck hasn't
11479s	changed so if you put a lot of hours
11480s	into this deck it's still a reasonable
11482s	deck in the metag game still can pray on
11483s	decks that don't pressure you at all
11486s	because you can just you know find the
11488s	time to get your combo and get that
11490s	guaranteed amount of
11492s	damage uh but it's just getting beat up
11495s	by everything oh it
11497s	is I didn't even look at what it was
11499s	both Heroes Have plus one attack which
11501s	is lovely for the PRI cuz it can take
11503s	down the fish that's what I think
11507s	nice I saw anomaly and I immediately
11510s	like went crazy I didn't even see what
11512s	it was before first thing I'm going to
11514s	do there's anomaly on the screen Look
11515s	Away now stop looking I don't know no
11518s	that's basically what I did it's exactly
11520s	what I
11522s	did um this is probably this is not one
11526s	of the crazy fun ones but it is do added
11529s	an extra layer to things suppose I I
11533s	think this one in general and it is a
11534s	very much in general cuz obviously the
11537s	the attacking deck is doing one more
11538s	damage per turn but in general this
11539s	favors the control decks because it's
11541s	such a good removal anomaly like 41
11544s	worms no dead
11554s	unlucky looking to see how he goes about
11557s	getting things on
11562s	board
11569s	boom get
11571s	him 30 turns to go yeah but it's 34
11575s	turns for pocket train to go so you
11578s	know who's laughing now
11582s	TJ Cathedral start drawing those cards
11586s	um interesting that he did wait with the
11587s	clergy so he can get more more cards
11589s	later on as
11591s	well basically he's he's he's into the
11593s	business of drawing more
11594s	[Music]
11598s	cards is what I've deduced from
11603s	that now imagine if you had a zero man a
11605s	holy Nova and a random face attack that
11608s	did one here would you use it cuz you
11611s	can draw a card as
11613s	well yeah that sounds pretty
11617s	[Music]
11622s	good
11623s	but pretty good I mean very
11626s	good
11633s	yeah deciding where this hero power's
11637s	going yeah I'm curious that he didn't
11639s	attack first but I guess he can do it
11641s	this way the the health doesn't matter
11642s	that
11643s	much he'll get it back somehow yeah just
11646s	wants the
11651s	card
11656s	but in a sense this is kind of all just
11658s	a
11659s	distraction
11664s	yes sometimes you can just dump all this
11666s	stuff and win the game for free
11668s	but yeah we're really waiting to see
11670s	those um those legendaries that come
11672s	from legendary creating Titan man which
11675s	is the the official
11679s	name I was always wondering what the
11681s	official name was I'm glad I you finally
11683s	gave me
11684s	confirmation I know you struggle with
11685s	the pronunciations a little bit TJ so I
11687s	thought I'd let you you know let you
11688s	know how to say it yeah no I appreciate
11698s	that well this is one way you can get
11700s	priest this is definitely a way you can
11702s	just win
11703s	sometimes you just hit them with fish we
11706s	talked about this a minute ago there's
11707s	not so many green fish letting the side
11708s	down this time either so he's in a
11710s	better
11711s	spot
11715s	I mean that's actually just an absurd
11718s	amount of damage and there is nothing
11720s	balance can
11722s	do and it's his patch TJ why why isn't
11726s	even winning I
11729s	know you said it was balan's patch a few
11731s	minutes ago
11733s	and surely he'll win the tournament
11736s	unless something's pick picked up from
11738s	this uh uh card draw here it's just
11741s	going to have to be what a cannibalize
11746s	y gain one oh my
11751s	god oh
11757s	no can you close your eyes and hope they
11759s	can't T you you can't can you you've got
11761s	to kill it oh the pain it hurts would
11765s	have been worth it to to draw from the
11768s	fish
11769s	first then cuz then if you have to
11771s	cannibalize then you gain one more okay
11775s	yeah that's actually that and you also
11776s	have one extra one extra Mana to work
11779s	with yeah I don't
11782s	know like it's easy when you see what
11784s	happens but yeah it's yeah it's
11790s	interesting PR decisions are interesting
11792s	but they're really fiddly things like
11794s	that oh do I do this thing that looks a
11796s	bit dumb to save one Mana yeah
11800s	fiddly it is quite fiddly
11806s	H so the pop will be on six right so he
11809s	can't get the the trade in but he can
11812s	hit it with his face take five more that
11814s	doesn't sound
11816s	fun yeah he's just
11823s	dead
11831s	um
11834s	Le what what's your
11839s	plan yeah you got to do it it's the only
11843s	way yeah you got to and then just close
11845s	your eyes and hope that the Shaman deck
11846s	that's full of burn spells doesn't burn
11848s	you out
11850s	yeah sounds like a great plan but yeah
11852s	got to do
11861s	it if everyone get
11866s	counting remember the plus
11870s	[Music]
11873s	one go with
11879s	the this storm is in
11882s	me
11884s	okay oh yeah because this is going to
11887s	unlock the turn the tides yep
11891s	yeah
11894s	he's there pocket train through to day
11896s	two
11898s	again after a very very
11901s	um easy looking final game against the
11904s	priest there we've seen the shaman win a
11905s	game TJ we can we can rest
11908s	now and it it seemed I don't want to say
11912s	easy but with the help of some fish was
11917s	able to just win the game without any
11919s	type of combo at all it was so much
11922s	damage just out from the minions that's
11925s	stuck on the board uh so well done and
11928s	just goes to show you know especially
11930s	when you're playing uh those those 40
11932s	card decks it's tough to find the right
11934s	things and it's tough to uh have enough
11937s	AOE to be able to deal with that big of
11941s	an
11941s	onslaught of tiny
11945s	piranhas sham does win enough games with
11948s	like garbage like that with just a bit
11950s	of burn some fish you know draw some
11952s	cards do and if you just play jazzy Bas
11954s	and some fish and some burn spells and
11956s	just jam it together and try and forget
11958s	about all this ooh look at me I've got
11960s	bioluminescent stuff just just
11963s	hit maybe that would work maybe that
11966s	would
11968s	work um but we are not going to get to
11971s	see much of
11973s	priest maybe a little bit of priest
11977s	later on when we see balance play in the
11979s	de cider match cuz balance is not out
11981s	yet uh um so and we also have a shadow
11985s	PRI I don't know if it's eliminated yet
11988s	but so it might be
11992s	yeah uh yeah yeah was expecting a little
11996s	bit more of the priest I was expecting
11998s	to take that fourth spot more so than
12000s	Shaman as much as I hate to say that uh
12003s	in these lineups but the shaman does
12005s	make sense um but it looks like uh at
12008s	least for now the winners matches are
12010s	done we'll see I think we're going to
12012s	start and uh start moving towards uh
12015s	some of these lower bracket decider
12017s	matches uh to see who else is going to
12019s	be moving off from D after this but in
12021s	the meantime we are going to have to go
12022s	to a a quick break uh but don't worry do
12025s	not go anywhere because we have plenty
12027s	more harstone action on the day to come
12029s	right after
12030s	[Music]
12041s	this
12044s	the storm is in
12071s	me
12072s	[Music]
12112s	[Music]
12134s	[Music]
12140s	[Music]
12151s	[Music]
12156s	[Music]
12161s	f
12187s	[Music]
12192s	[Music]
12203s	[Music]
12209s	[Music]
12221s	he
12245s	[Music]
12251s	hello everyone welcome back we are ready
12253s	to get into to our next match and it is
12255s	going to be a losers decider match so
12257s	unfortunately the loser is going to be
12259s	done for the weekend but the winner does
12262s	get to move on idol Vice um how's it
12264s	been going so far I've not had a real
12266s	chance to speak to on broadcast with our
12267s	first cast of course being now but uh
12270s	how's it been going for you so far it's
12272s	been going well we did unfortunately
12273s	have to say goodbye to Gabby earlier but
12276s	it's it's been great getting a chance to
12278s	you know watch all these players once
12279s	again I'm excited to see Casey because
12282s	case he is our sole Miracle Rogue player
12284s	and so I'm curious to see how that pans
12286s	out for him he's got the the list with
12288s	double neoy double speaker Stoppers so
12291s	very much out to get these spell-based
12293s	decks yeah we are going to be going to
12295s	see Casey versus Wu but we can check out
12297s	what the bracket looks like and how
12299s	everything has progressed because as
12300s	usual unfortunately we do not have the
12302s	time to like flick through every single
12303s	match possible but yeah here you go here
12305s	group a Hemlock making out of the group
12307s	of course and then Casey versus weu in
12310s	that decider so really decited to see
12312s	this one obviously Casey has been a a
12315s	staple of hearthstone Esports for you
12318s	know many many many years at this point
12320s	so it' be great to see if he can go a
12322s	can make it through but of course Wu has
12324s	not been disappointing either managed to
12326s	take that victory over Gabby let's take
12327s	a look at the rest of the groups as well
12329s	to see what's coming up we've got Group
12331s	B where CJ Kaka is going to be facing
12333s	off against levik who's going to be
12334s	joining MC banter face coming out of
12336s	group
12337s	b yeah finally we get some America's
12340s	representation coming out of
12342s	finally an America's player can make
12346s	it and here in group C H we have of
12349s	course pocket train making out and then
12350s	we've got uh tonsoku and be smile in
12353s	that elimination match to face off
12355s	against balance a little bit later on so
12358s	any big surprises for you uh so
12361s	far uh I think the surprise for me has
12364s	really just been pocket you know
12367s	clearing that 3 0 in the first round I
12370s	guess he he had reason to be confident
12372s	going into that matchup but uh yeah
12376s	otherwise really just you know Rec fem
12381s	taking uh early loss and thing he's
12383s	definitely a player I have my eye on uh
12386s	I like to like to see more of uh
12388s	hopefully we'll make it out of that
12391s	cider we'll have to see but all these
12394s	players are just so strong it's tough to
12396s	say like what is predictable or
12398s	unpredictable it's and many of the
12400s	lineups are quite similar as well this
12401s	time
12402s	yeah it's always difficult isn't it I
12403s	think um we especially because we you
12405s	know we've seen so much of these players
12407s	over the years we get sort of pulled
12409s	into oh you know the likes of Gabby
12411s	Casey Pockets or like should make it
12414s	through but of course like the players
12416s	who have made it even some of the
12417s	players that are lesser known uh still
12420s	you know made it here right in the exact
12422s	same way and no doubt they're going to
12424s	be dangerous opponents so yeah next
12426s	match up coming up is going to be K2
12427s	versus weu it looks like we are going to
12429s	see that Demon Hunter going up against
12432s	the Mage and uh what do you think here
12434s	of Casey bringing this Demon Hunter not
12437s	only Casey but what do you think of the
12438s	deck in itself so it's the only Relic DH
12442s	in the event and I think one of the
12445s	biggest interesting decisions he's made
12446s	is he doesn't have yoten in here that's
12448s	the card that makes all your spells your
12450s	cast wind drawn if they're the first
12453s	first one you drew that turn and R DH I
12456s	think is just kind of a sneaky second
12460s	Comfort pick for Casey behind behind
12462s	Miracle Rogue like everyone knows the
12463s	miracle Rogue but but he's also just
12465s	pretty routinely been bringing Relic D
12467s	to things as well so while I don't
12470s	necessarily think much of the the deck
12473s	itself I do feel like Casey has a pretty
12475s	strong handle on it and it can do some
12477s	pretty disgusting things when you get
12478s	those hugely discounted hands off relic
12480s	of
12482s	Dimensions yeah it's um it's pretty
12485s	scary overall we are going to take a
12486s	look at the miracle Rogue as well from
12488s	Casey uh Casey been uh impressive on
12491s	Rogue for many a year now no doubt going
12494s	to be pretty comfortable on this just
12495s	want to mention as well um I believe
12497s	both players uh shock horror having
12500s	Warrior banned out so we're not going to
12502s	see much of the uh the Odin Warrior
12504s	across the board which again I think the
12505s	more this tournament goes on and the
12507s	more we see sort of the the matchups
12509s	develop you can 100% understand why but
12512s	now we can take a look at Wu and their
12514s	lineup uh with the I guess like this
12517s	feels like probably the the go-to
12519s	overall lineup with that mecro
12522s	do you like Mech Rogue over the
12523s	concoction
12525s	Rogue well personally it's a little
12527s	easier for for me to play I often don't
12529s	have the kind of APM to keep up with
12532s	with the likes of Casey in terms of
12533s	Miracle Rogue Mech Rogue it's you know
12536s	straightforward you're you're trying to
12538s	build this Voltron minion just overpower
12542s	the opponent ideally with a big wind
12544s	Fury finish um people have gone for the
12547s	tech Slots of like speaker stomper just
12550s	to go up against spell decks like these
12552s	nature Shaman that a lot of folks have
12554s	brought I it's a solid deck it's like
12558s	not my favorite to play but I think if
12560s	you are on short notice after balance
12562s	changes just trying to come up with a
12563s	lineup I think Mech Rogue is a pretty
12565s	solid pick and we are going to take a
12567s	look another deck that's been featured
12569s	pretty heavily across uh today so far is
12571s	going to be this this Shaman list that
12572s	we've seen um for many of the players
12575s	it's another deck that although you know
12577s	might look pretty straightforward can be
12579s	pretty punishing if you make the the
12581s	wrong decision maybe think or or don't
12583s	think far enough ahead it's something I
12585s	always struggled with with a list like
12587s	this is well I could just play this now
12589s	you know start cycling through or trying
12591s	to set up for it but I think when you
12593s	see the really great players uh play
12595s	shamman at the moment they they're like
12597s	that one two three steps ahead right so
12599s	even if it looks like they've either
12601s	used Too Many resources to defend or not
12603s	enough a lot of the time you start to
12605s	see the plan form just a little bit too
12607s	late sometimes so yeah be excited to see
12610s	how that one goes again double Warrior
12611s	ban we are getting ready to go into the
12613s	match but if if you were going to call
12615s	it one way or the other i' advise who
12617s	would you pick here do you think anyone
12618s	has a particular Advantage lineup wise
12620s	or anything
12622s	else well much as I you know I've said
12625s	how much I like Casey I feel like weq
12628s	kind of has the the momentum you know is
12630s	this top points earner is coming off of
12632s	a a win just now and probably you know
12636s	pretty pretty thirsty for for taking out
12638s	that win I think if you feel like
12642s	yeah I'm I'm I'm the number one on
12643s	points but but also you know I really
12645s	want to have my my victory in the
12647s	tournament setting because it is very
12648s	different to play on ladder Oris to play
12650s	in a tournament uh but sometimes the
12653s	momentum is just what it takes well
12656s	let's see if it's going to be good
12657s	enough we've got Casey on the top on
12658s	this Relic Demon Hunter and Wu on the
12661s	Mage along the bottom and again the Mage
12663s	one of the most popular decks knocking
12665s	around right now especially after those
12667s	Nerfs but Casey going to have to see if
12669s	this Relic DH can get something done oh
12672s	not a bad opening there for Wu having a
12675s	couple of keyboards to choose
12677s	from yeah the second one uh not quite as
12680s	good but you do you know have it there
12683s	in reserve it's it's really a matter of
12685s	after you keyboard and coin Cold Case
12688s	what do you do from there and until some
12691s	card draw is picked up there's not a
12692s	whole lot going on yeah I always assume
12695s	with this Mage de honestly that you'll
12696s	just you'll find something right like
12699s	you know there's so much oh sorry Bagels
12701s	in the
12702s	background contributing if you can hear
12704s	to to the cast apologies um but with
12706s	this mage deck I always feel like you
12708s	you there's so much value packed in it
12711s	as we can see now with these first two
12713s	draws from wiq that you'll always find
12716s	something to you know generate some
12717s	spells generate something to either card
12720s	draw or just put some more pressure on
12721s	in case he giv the the nod and the shake
12723s	of the head this is one heck of an
12725s	opening here from wiq yeah and we'll see
12727s	if there's another Shake of the head
12729s	when the volume up comes down next turn
12730s	is that sort of the ideal sequence and
12734s	no small thing this anomaly here has
12736s	been buffing the health of the uh little
12740s	13 Elemental there now up to A5 uh just
12743s	going to continue gaining armor
12746s	weq speaker stomp for throwing a little
12749s	bit of uh wrench into the plan yeah one
12751s	of the benefits at least for Casey um
12755s	with the artific is still up and sort of
12756s	gaining armor for weq is because it's
12759s	Relic Demon Hunter you aren't Reliant
12762s	particularly on like aggro aggro aggro
12764s	right you can end up putting down some
12765s	really uh a lot a lot of pressure
12768s	throughout the game so it's not like
12770s	you're all in on on just uh you know
12772s	going face uh more like we saw from the
12774s	uh the outcast Demon Hunter earlier
12778s	today the we is just going to keep on
12780s	going yeah the the mounting pressure I
12784s	think it's a matter of whether you just
12786s	go for for
12788s	maximum Mana value here ah
12791s	yeah nothing to
12794s	r one more Mana in the Cold Case feels
12796s	amazing but oh yeah I think it might
12799s	still just be cold case it just looks
12800s	like the better card
12803s	right yeah cuz you already have a Reverb
12806s	so if you do want to play it for for
12808s	that three Mana just for more press draw
12812s	a
12814s	card sure again it's one of those things
12816s	right where I guess Cold Case for me is
12819s	the best overall card but just keep
12822s	drawing into more value right I think
12824s	like as long as you you've got cards in
12826s	hand as as as the Mage right now then
12828s	you're going to be able to do
12831s	something and
12833s	these yeah was I guess you just take the
12836s	good removal just in case right I mean
12838s	already case is down to 12 Health this
12840s	game might not be going on much longer
12842s	yeah and it is a nature spell so it does
12843s	help in terms of those spell schools for
12846s	things down the line uh Casey is gonna
12849s	have to get a little bit lucky on is
12851s	discounted
12852s	cards and that's a good pick up with the
12858s	Vault yeah it's
12861s	something still dangerous though because
12863s	Casey knows it's not like this deck um
12866s	you know runs out of burn right so this
12868s	this could just be the uh the minion
12870s	Damage Done Now for wiq and then the
12872s	focus on just getting some burn damage
12874s	out as well so still pretty scary case
12876s	is going to have to pull something big
12877s	out the bag but it's going to be a tall
12879s	order at this point
12882s	especially having to use both the
12884s	locations there it does mean that the uh
12887s	the dimensions isn't going to be able to
12889s	be sort of you know proed again next
12892s	turn yeah there's going to be an in
12895s	between turn here for Casey I don't
12897s	recall what exactly is in this fizzle I
12900s	think it might be a couple more
12904s	[Music]
12906s	Dimensions weq I think is
12909s	deciding where whether or not to finale
12913s	this volume
12915s	up yeah it's a bit of an off turn as
12917s	well for weq right nothing too crazy
12919s	going on one turn away from Elemental
12923s	inspiration but just going to fill the
12925s	hand wow really fill the
12927s	hand and set up for future
12931s	turns and it could just be Elemental
12934s	inspiration next turn it's not that many
12936s	but you do get the seven seven as
12940s	well
12942s	yeah there is the Unleashed F now for
12944s	Casey does he have that is that going to
12945s	be double spell damage yeah this is a
12947s	nice turn had the arist in the uh in the
12950s	shot so unleash felt going to be able to
12953s	do a lot of work here and basically push
12955s	Casey almost back up to full health but
12958s	very very
12960s	significant and then those have to be
12962s	dealt with as well so means weq can't
12965s	just Jam the elemental inspiration has
12966s	to do something like light storm or
12968s	inquisitive creation uh other stuff
12971s	that's going to end up using these
12972s	keyboard charges so really I mean I
12976s	would say well timed but Casey had to do
12978s	it to not die as well yeah well timed in
12980s	the fact that if he didn't do it he'd be
12984s	dead probably doesn't need the card draw
12987s	so Sigil of time probably not as
12993s	relevant maybe
12995s	emulate I think emulate is the best
12997s	choice because again with I after seeing
13001s	this um the snapshot from Casey like you
13004s	would probably assume there's some high
13006s	costed card like the deck in itself runs
13008s	a significant amount of high cost cards
13010s	it's not like it's overly likely Casey
13013s	can just dump the hand I know it's three
13016s	turns and maybe that's the downside
13017s	maybe you just take the deal four to a
13019s	minion but yeah bit of a tricky one
13022s	honestly when at worst it's a 4 four
13025s	even if the effect doesn't actually do
13026s	anything it's a 44 and a fire
13029s	spell and even if it makes your opponent
13031s	play a little bit let's say uh not
13035s	correct just to try and get stuff out of
13037s	the hand that is is vital then like
13039s	that's some kind of bonus here because
13041s	the choices were just not good for weu
13047s	yeah prop The
13054s	Vault and at this point these are pretty
13057s	much all going to be free all the time
13059s	off of the
13062s	Dimensions not looking too bad bit more
13065s	heal as well with the I beam with the
13066s	blood St no so that's going to push him
13068s	all the way back up to full and
13069s	considering Casey was one turn away from
13071s	a bad time uh he's done well to recover
13074s	and not only just recover but also just
13076s	set up valid Wing conditions now like
13079s	taking control of the board does have
13081s	the two ay lags does have artificer as
13083s	well does have just a lot of options
13085s	going forward for the next few turns
13088s	yeah normally this melanic you know
13090s	something you like to get down when you
13091s	have a big board so that you're making
13093s	it unlikely your opponent will be able
13095s	to clear but sometimes just like this
13098s	it's invalidating this turn out of wiq
13101s	like what what does he do I guess you
13102s	can Reverb plus inquisitive creation
13104s	it's not even a board that really merits
13107s	clearing but the the best play that Wei
13109s	would want to make is unavailable to
13112s	him yeah this is actually it's not the
13116s	best
13119s	um this like going to be thos here yeah
13123s	okay that makes sense does have some
13126s	spell damage at least for this
13129s	flame that is one of the most
13131s	restrictive turns I've seen for a long
13134s	time with that card on because a lot of
13135s	the time it just doesn't do that much
13137s	right or at least I feel like it doesn't
13139s	whereas this is just really put a
13141s	stopper on Wu's
13142s	turn yeah sometimes it's like you're
13145s	trying to stop the board clear but it's
13146s	in the right spot of their hand anyway
13148s	very frequently it doesn't do this much
13151s	but that was seriously almost a turn
13156s	Skip and like I said from what feels
13159s	like a few minutes ago Casey was about
13161s	to die or at least that's what he he
13163s	probably thought he's recovered so well
13165s	and weu now has to piece something
13167s	together cuz there's this card draw
13169s	there's the elemental inspiration of
13170s	course but I feel like when you're not
13174s	ahead inspiration just significantly
13176s	worse and spending turns on drawing
13179s	cards is going to be tough if you don't
13180s	have the ju to deal with this cuz look
13182s	how big this board is this is looking
13184s	scary yeah and I think case's just at
13188s	this point doesn't need the fully
13189s	charged zyx just making the the big old
13192s	seven sevens I think we're going to end
13194s	up letting the gags burn and next turn
13197s	will be another location
13200s	Dimensions yeah I think a lot of it will
13202s	just depend
13203s	on where what the board looks like right
13206s	if wiq clears this board with only 10
13209s	cards left I can kind of see maybe uh as
13212s	you like getting played uh just to you
13214s	know push some damage and to sort of
13215s	rebuild a board but a lot of it will
13217s	depend there's going to be equality
13219s	picked up there for
13222s	weu yeah oh it does have the um the
13225s	inquisitive right yeah yep so if
13228s	inquisitive isn't big enough oh or this
13230s	remorseless winter good combination
13233s	there convoke convoke convoke no don't
13237s	do it it always wins boom lightning bolt
13241s	the much more sensible option so yeah
13244s	that was an interesting choice there
13245s	because this Demon Hunter there is the
13248s	possibility particularly having already
13251s	seen the uh snapshot come out there's a
13255s	possibility of being able to just clear
13257s	every single board that the Demon Hunter
13259s	is able to present and they don't have
13262s	burst damage really to to kill you in in
13265s	way that they sometimes used to so you
13267s	could have uh in one world taken the
13271s	remorseless winter there to combo with
13273s	the equality figured that inquisitive
13275s	creation can clear something on its
13277s	own I guess the B might have been to
13281s	just have the burn available or maybe
13283s	even the lightning bolt with as spot
13285s	removal available and just say well what
13288s	if I clear this board and the second
13290s	that Wu can land a you know fairly safe
13293s	Elemental inspiration then he's probably
13296s	going to be feel pretty confident going
13298s	into this well and any zero mana burn
13302s	spell with CF just is yeah is could just
13305s	be lethal right one extra cheap burn
13308s	spell it it could well be that
13310s	especially at this point in the game I
13311s	think Casey might even be surprised he's
13313s	not been killed yet
13318s	honestly void
13321s	okay it's got to be starting off with
13323s	that
13325s	right maybe we thinking whether to play
13328s	the artificer first like commit it
13331s	now going to be void and you could
13334s	artificer and start drawing to to see if
13337s	you can you know get there with the a SI
13340s	or something uh
13342s	or I don't know
13345s	if there's still potential Alibi okay
13349s	this was this was bad timing because
13351s	it's mid card draw but that's roughly
13353s	what's left in the deck I think that's
13355s	accurate
13356s	actually the Cold Case no gan's going to
13359s	be burnt very surprised to see I I mean
13362s	I guess the thinking with these draws is
13365s	uh maybe had lethal if he got SI but if
13369s	the Mana if the Mana is
13374s	spent and that by two
13377s	turns oh it's it's with inspiration as
13381s	well yeah and just the fact that let's
13383s	be honest it's so likely weu is going to
13385s	draw Sith and there's what lightning
13388s	bolt there's going to be an Arcane
13391s	there's that I mean there's a lot going
13392s	on especially with the time to maybe you
13395s	know Forge and then blizzard and go
13398s	again sort of thing like absolutely huge
13401s	uh discover there from wiq could be
13403s	game-winning and when
13406s	these minions here have you know reborn
13409s	they five Health most of the big stuff
13410s	is gone out of Casey's deck maybe all
13412s	the big stuff so uh even the topple
13415s	doesn't
13417s	clear to those who who were maybe
13419s	confused by the the CW with still there
13423s	I think the the big reason to just draw
13427s	and and let burn is because if the one
13429s	Mana is spent on the
13433s	artificer then WQ never has lethal that
13436s	turn but if he does draw cth with the
13440s	available Mana remaining he would have
13442s	lethal with
13444s	reverberations plus the zero meta
13446s	lightning bolt and the flame geyser
13449s	right
13454s	here has to just respond he's going to
13456s	gain a little bit of armor from the
13457s	asore does get to kill you know a good
13459s	chunk of these Elementals off because of
13461s	the rush
13462s	but still got to be scary for Casey cuz
13465s	35 is not overly safe when you know your
13468s	Mage opponent is basically going to have
13470s	the deck
13472s	drawn yeah but you know with that second
13477s	copy of Blizzard I mean it's just extra
13479s	time the
13482s	yeah can forge the molten Rune or play
13486s	The Cold
13498s	Case yeah I think uh Wu's here just is
13501s	being as safe as possible but I do think
13504s	pretty much does need to draw something
13506s	big next turn right time to out of cuz
13509s	this is this isn't over you know if this
13511s	board doesn't get cleared or if there's
13513s	still something big up it's still a
13514s	little bit scary but Casey does have to
13516s	make the push now does have the aelor
13518s	still in hand maybe for next turn for
13519s	that extra little bit of
13523s	burst oh and the speaker stoer
13530s	yeah so that's going to make it so weq
13534s	cannot go for the otk just yet is going
13537s	to have
13538s	to you know find some some way to clear
13540s	which these having been softened up by
13543s	the blizzard is is definitely
13547s	possible yeah the fact that C is in
13550s	bottom three is is almost a crime at
13552s	this point because this game would have
13554s	looked very very different if WQ could
13556s	have gotten hold of that Sith looks like
13558s	K's going to be able to bounce back the
13560s	stomper as well yeah really nice you
13563s	know he almost bounced that reborn
13565s	minion and then I was like wait a minute
13567s	this can Target myff completely decimate
13570s	my opponent's
13574s	plan oh it can't even Elemental
13576s	inspiration ping right which would like
13580s	be something I guess are there useful
13584s	pickups off of Reverb here like do those
13588s	abilities do anything for weq we're
13591s	about to find
13596s	out there's the Discover a death rattle
13598s	and it's cheaper or what reduce cost of
13601s	minions in your hand by
13603s	[Music]
13604s	two well the good thing here is um oh no
13607s	the summon hadn't been used yeah yeah
13609s	yeah
13611s	right the good thing here as well is
13614s	just the fact that a ping removes 10
13616s	damage off the board right is is massive
13619s	it's just huge so even I mean this is a
13622s	very strong turn in itself but even just
13624s	the fact that 10 damage could be removed
13626s	with two Mana guaranteed really made it
13629s	likely that Wu was going to be able to
13631s	battle back enough to just not
13633s	immediately die without drawing Sith so
13636s	yeah again Wu put himself in a good spot
13637s	let's see if Casey got something to
13639s	break out he does still have aelor to
13641s	clear up this
13642s	board yeah of course that Argus dies to
13645s	a single point of damage so it's not
13646s	going to be sticking around but it has
13648s	done its job yeah Casey's I kind of
13651s	always forget because of the The Relic
13653s	Vault but Casey still just has a
13656s	fantasms in hand right like those are
13658s	not small minions at this point so I
13660s	kind of forgot he still just had one
13662s	available so this is going to be like
13663s	push number 20 from Casey at this point
13666s	Y 12 12 not bad I guess not
13671s	bad there she is that is almost
13675s	certainly game right what is there two
13677s	blast lightning ball and the guys yeah
13679s	plenty and that that was good because I
13681s	think Wu did well there to hold on to
13684s	reverb in case there was that out and
13686s	then as soon as it didn't look likely
13688s	it's okay I'll Reverb this way
13690s	get the benefit very well played held
13693s	off to the very well second to last card
13695s	draw of the game and Wu takes game one
13697s	with the Mage that was a really really
13699s	close game yeah absolutely and I think
13704s	you know Casey wanted to fit the speaker
13706s	stomper in there somehow but just having
13708s	to clear up those those minions off The
13710s	Argus complicated things a little bit
13713s	extra and even buying more time had he
13717s	played it probably wouldn't have had
13718s	enough pressure then
13720s	right and I think that was the the story
13723s	of especially the second half of that
13724s	game was very much back and forth of
13727s	each player on their turn putting
13730s	forward enough pressure and dealing with
13732s	their opponent's board enough to not let
13734s	the other player actually really respond
13736s	so really really close game one you know
13738s	hopefully the rest of the series is like
13739s	that I am very down for a match up like
13742s	this H but Relic Demon Hunter has fallen
13745s	in game number one so far so we'll see
13747s	if Casey manages to uh or decides to
13749s	hold on into that again and go for game
13751s	two or not but Wu on the other hand has
13754s	the mech Rogue and the shaman left and
13757s	uh this is a tricky one I do feel like
13759s	the mech Rogue at least to me feels more
13764s	comfortable to get a win with but again
13766s	the shaman isn't bad but I do feel like
13768s	the Shaman's got more holes in it what
13769s	what do you think yeah we've seen just
13772s	how it can fall to a single Gastly
13775s	Gravedigger hitting ganth or something
13777s	like the the shaman is is pretty
13780s	vulnerable to just certain Small Things
13784s	messing up its game plan whereas the
13786s	Rogue is like built to do one thing and
13790s	do that one thing very very well well
13793s	let's jump into game two the players not
13795s	messing around here Casey is going to be
13797s	jumping over to the Mage and Wu going to
13800s	be on that Shaman we were speaking about
13802s	so we'll have to see now again both
13804s	decks good just overall value but um
13807s	we'll just be I think the hus will be on
13810s	wiq here to just get control of the game
13812s	early and don't give Casey time because
13815s	as we saw I feel like if you give this
13816s	Mage any form of time it will just win
13820s	right because it's just got so much
13821s	value so much burn it will just get
13824s	there so weirdly enough just feel like
13826s	Wu is going to be putting the pressure
13827s	on this
13829s	game yeah I mean between all the
13831s	discovers the inevitability of cth you
13834s	know it's it's the kind of deck that you
13837s	know even if you do something like dirty
13838s	rat there cth you you don't really count
13841s	them out because there's so much other
13843s	stuff that can end up could just be many
13845s	Fireballs in the hand for all you know
13848s	right it's it's pretty
13850s	scary and keyboard snap play onto there
13854s	yeah Casey getting enough to a really
13856s	solid start here just one-onone two on
13857s	two and then just having all the options
13860s	right does have a well potential AOE
13863s	clear um with the creation in hand but
13866s	other than that just has discover after
13869s	discover to really Flex on whatever
13870s	needs to be done in the next couple of
13872s	turns but wiq has options
13878s	themselves and we could be seeing you
13880s	know just some feral Spirits coming down
13882s	uh it's one of those cards where you
13885s	know it it's nice on curve where you can
13888s	start maybe getting some pressure also
13890s	just great uh later on as a nature spell
13893s	does get reduced from flash of lightning
13895s	and so it's often two Mana for two
13897s	bodies for bioluminescence
13901s	yep snap Cold Case coming out from Casey
13904s	again just building up the board this is
13905s	kind of the ABCs of this Mage dech right
13908s	get the keyboard down and then start
13910s	casting spells to able to pile on that
13912s	pressure because any early damage just
13915s	even if it's just one's twoos damage
13917s	here and there suddenly puts your
13919s	opponent in that really dangerous spot
13921s	and even though Shaman does have you
13923s	know a certain level of access to
13925s	potential heals it's really not that
13928s	safe and not that guaranteed so we'll
13930s	have to see how weu deals with this
13932s	whether it's another feral Spirit or
13934s	whether it's going to start using some
13935s	other options here to tidy up this
13938s	board and lendo was poking fun but it
13941s	really does seem like most games you
13943s	know Mage has had this Cosmic keyboard
13946s	into Cold Case into volume up it's just
13949s	like such a given it is just like a I
13952s	mean I feel like this has been a fair
13953s	few of the Decks that we've seen so far
13955s	but it does just feel like oh these
13958s	decks are going to do do what they want
13960s	to do who's going to win right it's like
13962s	we just saw in the previous game because
13964s	Casey was had a double Relic Vault out
13967s	going crazy with the relics so it's like
13969s	you know all of this is definitely
13971s	definitely powerful games going on here
13973s	does manage to clear the board and weu
13975s	is now going to get the weapon equipped
13978s	but already in a bit of a tough spot
13981s	this is where the shaman you know always
13983s	feels like it falls apart is that they
13985s	have
13986s	overload and their opponents do not and
13989s	so
13990s	even though Ina can kind of give you
13991s	some benefit from reducing that was just
13994s	a really awkward turn for wiq there
13996s	being overloaded one not able to play
13998s	inza just throwing out this Jazz base
14001s	can't even clear anything because the
14002s	four health and now how do you deal with
14004s	this board that's it isn't it and this
14007s	is the situation where yes you know
14009s	Gogan can come down and help out
14011s	massively but it feels like you make one
14013s	wrong step now and you've lost right
14016s	because that's the kind of uh power
14018s	level that this Mage is pushing on on
14019s	Casey here cuz look at this there's the
14021s	AOE in the heel but there's still a lot
14024s	of danger going around what's that 89 11
14027s	damage just left on board I mean that's
14030s	just a a forged molten rune for the win
14033s	right
14034s	yeah yeah that that just looks like
14035s	there's all the damage in the world
14037s	available here and just in a blink of an
14039s	eye just like that case's evened it up
14041s	and Mage looking very strong at least in
14044s	this series so far I mean you certainly
14047s	see why it has
14049s	been the number to pick right there's 14
14052s	Mages in the event and they're all
14055s	rainbow R Mage except for the the one
14057s	Naga
14060s	Mage yeah it's it's pretty shocking
14063s	actually yeah there's there's 15 total
14065s	right there's only uh tonsoku that
14067s	hasn't brought Mage but uh yeah 14 of
14070s	them are rainbow and I think it just
14071s	shows that you can see these players
14073s	that when you really got a handle on the
14075s	game and you really got a handle on what
14077s	those discovers are and when to pick up
14079s	certain ones and just know your limits
14081s	with the deck I think you just see how
14083s	powerful it is and it's kind of been the
14085s	story a lot of the time is when you see
14086s	these Decks that are very flexible and
14088s	have like many different paths to go
14090s	down in the form of all these discovers
14093s	when you see a good player really good
14095s	player pilot something like this and
14097s	sort of pick options you wouldn't pick
14099s	for example and by you I I don't mean
14100s	you I mean like
14103s	me that then you really appreciate how
14105s	good they are right because some of
14107s	these choices do not seem super
14108s	intuitive a lot of the time but when you
14110s	see the player execute them you're like
14112s	oh okay that makes way more sense and
14115s	yes job done sort of thing so uh really
14117s	good win there for Casey evening it up
14119s	but now the Mages are gone there Demon
14121s	Hunter Rogue versus Rogue Shaman and all
14124s	these lists are different because even
14125s	the Rogues on the
14127s	same yeah finally getting to see some uh
14131s	differentiation you know I mean I guess
14133s	the Demon Hunter is a big X Factor for
14135s	for Casey but uh yeah Mage it sort of
14138s	feels like as that number two deck in
14139s	the event is kind of like oh we can
14141s	expect that both players are going to
14142s	win with Mage and and then now we kind
14144s	of get on to the real match yeah it's
14147s	it's like Warrior gets banned Mage wins
14150s	right okay like let's play the game
14152s	going forward H but it's going to be
14154s	interesting again I I do I I do think
14157s	the the mech Rogue is the one up for wiq
14161s	but I do worry about this Shaman and
14162s	we've sort of seen this story before
14164s	where Shaman is good on average but it
14167s	does seem to have its weak nesses put on
14170s	display in these sort of high level
14171s	matches so we'll have to see how that
14173s	one pans out as the players get ready
14175s	for the next game H just remember as
14177s	well the loser of this is done they're
14179s	out this is the stage where already in
14182s	the tournament H the winner does move on
14184s	to tomorrow but the losers in like
14186s	massive massive trouble and you know the
14188s	last Mt of the year which means the last
14189s	chance of the year for a lot of these
14191s	players if they don't have those top
14192s	points uh sort of goals uh in in their
14195s	sight so pretty pretty tough match up
14197s	overall a lot of pressure on these
14199s	players so I'm excited to see who can
14201s	make out and also just to see who who's
14203s	picking what because it always interests
14205s	me when for example Casey lost and then
14207s	switched it up Wu lost with Shaman and
14210s	they're going to stick and they're going
14211s	to go again
14213s	o changing and it's going to be a robe
14216s	kind of
14217s	mirror well this is one match where
14220s	Casey's anti- spell tech is not going to
14223s	be terribly useful you know going into
14224s	the shaman it can feel nice having the
14226s	cult neop fites or the speaker Stompers
14228s	but but this Rogue has some spells but
14232s	it's not terribly reliant on
14234s	them yeah I think a lot of the time the
14237s	the Spells are there as small
14239s	enhancements right whereas the real uh
14241s	you know meat of the deck is just
14243s	getting these Mex down fast and that
14246s	furiously what are the key cards you
14249s	think um Wu is going to Mulligan for
14251s	because we've seen uh I think my first
14253s	match today I cast we saw like to me
14256s	what looked like an okay Rogue hand but
14258s	really really you know I think a pocket
14260s	train threw like two or three three of
14262s	the cards away or something uh just to
14264s	get that like you know hyper aggressive
14266s	early game well I mean this is pretty
14270s	hyper aggressive in terms of you got the
14271s	Mana discount from frequency oscillator
14273s	you've got drone deconstructor to give
14275s	you uh you know some spark bot uh from
14278s	the scrap peap you know you're always
14280s	hoping that you find Wind Fury and it's
14282s	really just about find Stealth find Wind
14285s	Fury uh the Divine Shield's not bad
14287s	either with a lot of Rog removal being
14290s	damage based being able to just make it
14292s	that much harder to remove always
14297s	welcome nice pick up of ghostly strike
14299s	there for Casey means he can just get
14301s	rid of that he's going to hold onto the
14303s	coin I was very interested if that just
14305s	wasn't ghostly strike I was really sad
14307s	thinking this going to be like coin or
14310s	something and shield going to be coming
14312s	down
14316s	now Casey already looking at
14319s	disheartened after seeing this opening
14321s	from Wu yeah I mean there's there's no
14324s	potion belt right if you're Miracle
14326s	Rogue you want potion belt and and
14328s	that's really your Ace in the Hole
14330s	whether it's for a couple of destroy
14333s	random enemy minion effects that could
14335s	be a big deal in this matchup uh or you
14338s	know just for the card draw to find you
14339s	more tools to work with but mecro
14343s	capitalizes on giving the opponent as
14345s	little time as possible to to find their
14348s	ANW
14356s	we could does get hold of the spark bots
14358s	of course but I always find turns like
14360s	this super interesting where I think a
14362s	lot of people be like oh you know aggro
14364s	haha just first five turns of the game
14366s	go face whatever but I think these
14368s	decisions really interesting to watch
14370s	cuz you see even different High Lev
14372s	players making different choices here
14374s	and and these early turns are so
14377s	impactful for me Rogue
14379s	well in hyper aggressive decks they
14382s	really just compress the decision making
14384s	so instead of making a ton of decisions
14387s	over the the length of the game you you
14390s	can press all the decision- making into
14392s	the first you know five or six turns
14394s	sure um and and it can be very very
14398s	impactful what you decide in those
14401s	couple of turns you know in terms of
14403s	whether you lose or not whether they
14405s	they get the clear or not
14407s	oh speaking of potion belt yeah I was
14411s	going to say for Casey destroy two
14413s	minions and there are two Minions on the
14415s	board so weq went for like the pure
14417s	value right to using the Divine shield
14419s	first to trade putting Divine Shields
14421s	back on and saying right this will be
14423s	enough unless it's exactly potion B to
14425s	destroy so Casey's gained a bit of a
14427s	breather here but obviously wiq not
14429s	going to let him just uh chill he going
14431s	to keep pound on that pressure even more
14433s	now and the decision to go in last turn
14436s	from from wiu I mean I think was valid
14438s	most of the roval is damage based
14440s	barring the potion belt and you can
14442s	expect that the potion belt might have
14444s	been played already by that point but uh
14447s	that does mean now there's nothing
14449s	really to go with this invento mtic
14451s	those spark Bots are really your best
14454s	right thing to pair so now off that
14457s	discover uh just taking the cheapest
14459s	cheapest thing to to play and protect
14461s	itself with the Divine Shield so that
14463s	you can you know maybe go in for this
14465s	gear shift and now Casey's kind kind of
14469s	in control right being able to get the
14471s	asara down winning on board arguably
14474s	whether we want to discuss the value of
14476s	a Divine Shield or not um but yeah keep
14478s	keeping up on board a healthy amount on
14481s	that 25 as well case he needs like a
14483s	good Colossus or something to just to
14485s	come off here and things can get very
14487s	interesting very very quickly because as
14489s	soon as Casey stabilizes I feel like
14491s	Wu's just gets pushed out and it's just
14493s	going to be a sort of slow ponderous uh
14496s	walk to zero Health yeah I mean that
14499s	destroyed two really just cracked the
14502s	game open for Casey uh and now depending
14505s	on the Colossal you know could could
14507s	really break the back yeah but again
14509s	from Wu right it I think the setup was
14512s	right because it was that was the only
14514s	thing that stopped him right sto the two
14516s	Divine Shields so it's just like just a
14518s	little bit tough but that's the way it
14519s	went does get stealth down onto uh one
14522s	of the mech here so that's going to help
14524s	to an extent at least try and Bank some
14526s	damage there still the gear shift in
14527s	hand as well and I I kind of almost want
14530s	to play the gear shift now yeah it's not
14532s	maximum value but the invent Matic has
14534s	just been sitting there not able to do
14536s	anything and you sort of need other
14538s	stuff yeah I think Wu just needs options
14541s	right we're going to see the horn come
14542s	down now and okay for sure honestly I
14547s	think anything could have been created
14549s	from the horn there and it's like it's
14550s	fine it's a minion right like it's
14552s	something to play cheap that's normally
14554s	quite big so yeah probably not the best
14558s	you know most Earth shattering colossal
14560s	to pick up but it's still a big more
14563s	stats than your opponent right
14568s	yeah that is a rough top tech for
14574s	weq I'm
14577s	even it's a really difficult uh hand to
14581s	to work out any kind of winning line
14583s	from here right snoop's a good card but
14586s	I don't think it's that
14587s	good I mean I
14590s	mean oh God it's a mess you could just
14593s	magnetize both of these and chill like
14597s	just not do anything and and basically
14599s	hope that your top deck is uh from the
14602s	scrap peap into wind
14606s	Fury yeah that's it because if it's
14609s	basically the pass tactic coming out
14611s	from wiq there's already to turn lethal
14614s	just on board right like even if Casey
14617s	played nothing at this point and you
14619s	know just pushed with the minions
14621s	so something dramatic would have to
14623s	happen next turn for week
14625s	here I mean you could go half in right
14627s	you could magnetize one and use the
14629s	dagger to kill the two one sure like
14633s	play just play the gatekeeper or
14634s	something as a thing not going to but I
14637s	mean I think just just magnetizing right
14640s	uh you definitely want to magnetize cuz
14642s	this is your your wind con here this
14645s	minion but uh yeah Casey of course GNA
14647s	look for destroy again will
14652s	be and finds it and that's I mean that's
14655s	just wrap it up yeah get out I
14658s	think and there is nothing that's really
14661s	going to save wiq now there's just too
14663s	much pressure there's the Neil fight
14664s	going down just for good measure
14667s	anyway and this is why Casey likes these
14669s	decks I think you know this miracle
14671s	Rogue the The Relic DH is just the
14673s	possibility of you know coming going
14676s	from nothing to suddenly oh look I have
14679s	all this stuff yeah I think it's just
14681s	the the ability to make something happen
14684s	which sounds like a very broad comment
14686s	but you know what I mean right it's h a
14689s	lot of decks play more honestly if that
14691s	makes sense whereas decks like you know
14694s	these styles of Rogue and and some other
14696s	decks as well you know even the Mage can
14698s	fall into this but even in tough spots
14701s	you the deck has the ability to get you
14703s	out of them whereas some decks like
14705s	mechro to example or say like for
14707s	example Paladin
14708s	there's not a lot of cards that get you
14710s	out of situations right the idea with
14712s	those decks is you cause the problems
14714s	for your opponent um but yeah that was a
14716s	really big win there for Casey and one I
14719s	think after seeing the opening and after
14720s	seeing uh you know the earlier game
14722s	there Casey probably needed to be able
14725s	to just keep the focus here but he is
14727s	going to go up to a 21 lead and that
14729s	means only one game away but iwise it's
14733s	the Demon Hunter that's the last deck
14735s	right that that's that's the worry right
14738s	now
14740s	yeah I mean you know is the Rogue going
14742s	to be able to build a minion too big for
14744s	Demon Hunter to to clear quickly uh
14747s	possibly uh but Shaman also over here
14751s	for weq so you know we may end up
14753s	finding ourselves in the Demon Hunter
14755s	versus Shaman for that game five and uh
14760s	yeah neither of those have so far today
14762s	looked particularly strong yeah it's the
14765s	everpresent problem of uh or problem
14768s	play have in Conquest is sometimes if
14770s	the match Up's fairly even they get down
14773s	to the who's got the slightly better
14777s	fourth deck right so we might well get
14780s	to that we are going to go into game
14782s	number four now weu going to be on the
14783s	mech Rogue Casey on that Demon Hunter
14787s	and as you may have just seen just in
14788s	case you not remind you the anomaly is
14790s	plus five health for the players I think
14793s	that's one that definitely is going to
14794s	benefit Casey much more than weq as he
14798s	was playing the aggressor that is just
14800s	five extra Health that he has to to deal
14802s	with whereas Casey just has to get rid
14804s	of the boards yeah although obviously
14807s	not great for wiq I do think that um
14811s	Mech Rogue has the ability to hit so
14814s	hard that five more Health doesn't
14816s	matter but you would rather if you Casey
14818s	you'd rather have the five Health than
14820s	not right so it's some kind of benefit
14822s	on his end so yeah we'll have to see if
14824s	weq can go against the odds here and
14828s	tough hand for wiq I mean I don't know
14830s	if you trade or just straight up gear
14832s	shift as sort of a second Mulligan here
14836s	yeah gear shift and just say GH can't
14838s	get any worse clocker is going to get
14840s	picked up so that's something but yeah
14843s	if you're not playing at least one uh
14846s	one Mech on one then you're not having a
14848s	good
14855s	day
14857s	o yeah that's not dagger I I was
14862s	thinking about it yeah you dagger I I
14864s	don't think you want to lose out on the
14866s	click clocker right cuz the one one all
14868s	the hero power goes in which you know
14870s	you can't really avoid but this could be
14871s	more value later on weirdly enough right
14874s	I mean if you can on four Play Click
14876s	Cocker and magnetize onto it you get
14878s	more value out of that Divine Shield
14881s	100% but I think now Casey must must be
14884s	feeling a little bit of excitement here
14888s	because you're against Mech Rogue you
14890s	have five extra health and this is the
14893s	first threat they play on board you're
14895s	probably feeling pretty good about life
14897s	right
14900s	now yeah again against Rogue if you just
14903s	uh just chucking A Relic out
14907s	on just this one minion you're probably
14909s	feeling pretty good no uh no Relic Vault
14913s	though so no location for Casey I think
14915s	that'll for him would be the final sort
14917s	of push to feel really confident in this
14920s	match up and this is where we start
14924s	building our Voltron minion
14928s	here and with with eenie coming up as
14931s	well that's a that's a big deal oh
14933s	there's look what was I saying
14936s	yeah and I mean it may just be Casey is
14939s	going to look at next turn and say I'm
14941s	not dead well we've got to go for the
14944s	the coin Relic
14947s	then
14951s	yeah this looks like it's going to be
14952s	what hit and stealth
14955s	again likely at least obviously depends
14957s	what what gets
14959s	discovered yeah potentially or you go
14962s	for the the Snoop I mean at a certain
14965s	point it's it's out of range of what
14969s	Demon Hunter has to offer in terms of
14972s	removal yeah I think so we just like we
14975s	could just saw an extension used and of
14977s	course there is The Relic Vault here now
14979s	so it could be a little bit spicier but
14981s	it is extremely unlikely that this gets
14983s	cleaned up in any nice
14986s	way you could potentially coin out the
14988s	click clocker just to complicate the
14990s	second copy of the
14993s	extinctions yeah true and also it's just
14996s	if it lives then it's another activat
14999s	cuz Casey will want to kill the 98 right
15001s	yeah so if then that means this other
15004s	click clocker gets left it's another
15005s	Target for like active magnetizer
15009s	right yeah but at this
15012s	point H not really having the luxury of
15016s	going for
15019s	the uh relic of Dimensions well I think
15022s	if anything like coin Titan looks more
15026s	possible right I think that's what it
15028s	could be saving the coin for and not
15029s	what what's the point trying more cards
15031s	if you dead yeah exactly so so you make
15033s	a board you play the Titan in such a way
15036s	that you give all of these life steal to
15038s	to make trades right and then you use
15041s	the Ability that makes
15052s	tutos yeah even in the sort of alternate
15054s	universe there's there is double unleash
15057s	fell and
15059s	um
15060s	uh what's the word I'm looking for
15063s	imulation Aura imulation Ora there we go
15065s	don't know why I forgot that that's
15066s	weird one um but yeah there is a lot of
15069s	AOE as well for Casey so he's only um
15072s	like an archinist away from from having
15074s	a large impact with that side of his
15076s	hand as
15079s	well yeah but I think so much value I
15082s	mean yeah specifically in here being
15084s	able to get the two coins and then you
15086s	know coin out stealth onto the wind Fury
15092s	minion it's it's going to take a silver
15094s	moon Arcanist to be able to to do
15097s	anything about this and even then I
15098s	don't think there's a way of clearing
15100s	the yeah the Ste the 13 wind Fury
15106s	there so is shift at the very end y yep
15110s	it is going to come down to the shaman
15113s	versus Demon
15115s	Hunter unless I'm completely missing
15118s	something well
15121s	stos the second one will yeah this
15125s	should clear everything but the wind
15126s	Fury
15128s	that's only
15129s	26 oh only
15131s	26 yes it's only 26 it's ma there we go
15135s	from the scrap peep oh
15138s	okay so each of these adds one and then
15142s	the Drone deconstructor can add another
15144s	one it's already got wind Fury so that's
15146s	not even a particularly big high
15150s	roll uh I guess g giving it four goes up
15154s	to 17 yeah that's just enough yeah it
15156s	should be enough
15158s	I think uh weq just wanted to 100% make
15163s	sure this was you know added up exactly
15165s	not to miss anything to make sure you
15167s	didn't have to gear shift into something
15168s	else but wow mecro get getting it done
15173s	and and in a pretty unlikely fashion i'
15175s	would say Obviously the in had a
15176s	absolutely huge impact there but I think
15179s	those early turns I think Casey really
15181s	would have thought he was ahead of the
15182s	game there and he was basically like
15184s	that is the opening you would want if
15186s	you're facing down met Rogue but you can
15188s	see just the stealth combined with any
15190s	and then obviously as you mentioned the
15192s	wind Fury effect just starts to really
15195s	snowball out of control and just not
15197s	being able to get say you know the Titan
15199s	down to be able to get some taunts or
15200s	just just just get anything to to be in
15202s	the way H because Rogue uh the mech
15205s	Rogue anyway is very onedimensional
15206s	right so like you know what it's going
15208s	to do you know what you want it to what
15210s	it wants to do so yeah really crazy and
15212s	looks like these players wasted about
15215s	zero seconds queuing up what he's there
15217s	guaranteed the last game of this series
15219s	and for one of the players the last game
15221s	of the
15222s	tournament yeah and with the you know
15225s	speaker Stompers in this deck for Casey
15229s	you know those can be very effective up
15231s	against this Shaman uh I kind of when it
15234s	comes down to this last game would maybe
15236s	put my money on KC but both decks have
15240s	the potential to just kind of whiff on
15244s	draws yeah I think it's really difficult
15247s	honestly because because
15248s	the we saw a lot of healing go down from
15251s	Casey in the previous game uh but like
15255s	that is I feel like kind of harder to
15257s	time when you're against the shaman list
15260s	right because the shaman can just like
15261s	hard burst you from kind of nowhere so
15264s	it's um it's going to be a tricky one
15267s	for
15270s	sure we could just going for the uh M
15274s	there I think Casey just kept The Relic
15276s	yep I mean you you really want to look
15279s	for Vault yeah vault is just the number
15282s	one card for escalating your game
15297s	plan H not a bad start with the Piranhas
15301s	available for wiq so can start at least
15303s	having options to either answer some
15305s	minions some early fantasms or not or
15308s	just be able to start building that
15309s	board do want to walk into a a unleash
15312s	fell but I doubt those are coming down
15314s	too early right yeah much safer to just
15317s	you know totem any minion when you get
15320s	to a certain point in the game like you
15322s	can't afford to leave it around when
15324s	Biol luminescence is a threat so totem
15327s	get out these wolves now you can use
15329s	your fish to clear up this uh basically
15332s	just Relic upgrade play from
15336s	Casey
15339s	it be interesting the where weu goes
15341s	with this because going to go for the
15343s	the ancestral knowledge and then maybe
15345s	even okay just dropping a fish keeping
15348s	it
15350s	simple yeah I think you didn't have to
15352s	overly worry about this board I think
15353s	this was plenty especially with the
15355s	healing totem y a healing totem makes
15357s	those trades look a lot
15361s	better oh okay multi strike coming off
15364s	going to help a lot here just dealing
15366s	with the Wolves not too bad at all
15375s	and Casey once again you know able to
15378s	line up the
15380s	coin Relic Vault into relic of
15383s	Dimensions they're going to discount at
15386s	three and
15390s	four yeah it's huge right it's just what
15392s	you want to do with the list and still
15393s	has the um the stomper as a backup if if
15396s	you know the board does build up in some
15398s	respect over the next couple of turns
15400s	because that card you know as you
15402s	mentioned before you sort of saying in
15403s	the opposite way for the Metro but
15405s	against this Shaman you can you kind of
15408s	just say they're not really having a
15409s	turn a lot of the time right like there
15411s	just it's just like yeah you kind of
15413s	have to skip a turn or at least mostly
15415s	skip a turn if that comes down so
15417s	something Casey will be definitely
15418s	looking to time very well yeah and you
15421s	know he could have traded it away on
15424s	that turn one just because it there
15426s	wasn't much going on after the The Relic
15428s	into fantasms he knows he has to look
15431s	for relic of Dimensions but I think it's
15433s	just so powerful in this matchup that
15435s	he's willing to say you know I still
15436s	have time to naturally draw relic of
15438s	Dimensions without trading and I
15440s	definitely want to have this speaker
15441s	stopper
15445s	available yeah so had the little bit of
15447s	back and forth in the early few turns of
15449s	the game but now is when things are
15450s	going to accelerate KY having access to
15453s	that Relic Vault going to proc it into
15454s	the dimensions and then we'll see where
15456s	we land there
15462s	okay here can SP the free school teacher
15465s	coming down as well wow those were some
15468s	big hits in terms of just actual just
15470s	hitting highly costed cards three three
15473s	Mana gag and and five Mana artificial
15476s	zyo pretty solid particularly together
15479s	because the gag will Infuse the
15486s	zyo
15489s	looking like just an Ena turn
15492s	here you know both players are kind of
15494s	in the building up to their their big
15497s	turn kind of
15499s	stage yeah this is one of those cards
15501s	where you just get it down whenever you
15503s	can because the earlier the better gives
15505s	you way more options going forward but
15508s	this is going to start sparing out of
15509s	control here cuz I think Casey just has
15511s	oh okay just has access to so much stuff
15515s	which is often the case after oh there
15517s	relic of fantasms as well was chosen
15519s	from the nagling I didn't even see that
15521s	so yeah just has so much access to stuff
15523s	and and high value cards that weq is
15526s	going to have to really pull something
15528s	out the back to to sort of fend this off
15530s	because the more time that WQ takes sort
15533s	of clearing this board the less time
15535s	he's got to actually set up some kind of
15537s	counter pressure
15538s	himself yeah and I think this is one
15540s	match where you know the typical setup
15543s	card that Shaman uses the flash of
15546s	lightning
15547s	you almost don't want to have to use it
15550s	because it's such a telegraph for your
15552s	opponent to then speaker stoper you
15554s	right that or it's the other way right
15557s	you use it on a turn where you don't
15558s	plan on doing anything just to try and
15560s	bait it out even but it's still like a
15562s	one for one at the end of the day isn't
15564s	it yeah but we is kind of forced to to
15567s	go in to some extent here um the
15571s	radiance of aara reducing nature spells
15573s	by one using that to couple with the
15575s	lightning reflexes
15578s	no bioluminescence is is the big kind of
15581s	you know unfortunate thing here for for
15584s	weq is I think hoping to reduce as much
15588s	as possible without casting spells so
15592s	that if I guess Biol linisin wouldn't be
15596s	reduced anyway yeah it's just all about
15598s	the big big board and clear it's quite a
15600s	bit it's not lethal though is it was it
15603s	like 20 cuz it's 555 and then oh maybe
15606s	it's just enough with the overdraft
15607s	actually yeah I was trying to work out
15609s	what the overdraft was going to end up
15610s	being he was taking some time so I
15612s	assumed it wasn't enough it it is right
15615s	it might be exact with the it is it's
15618s	over yeah I thought so as I started
15619s	looking him locking in and wow just like
15622s	that and this is what I was talking
15623s	about you just sometimes you just can't
15626s	work out when the shame is going to be
15627s	able to pop off and you know weu really
15629s	piece that together and yet again with
15633s	this Demon Hunter looked like it was in
15635s	control Casey had value to Las him
15638s	probably through to the next series if
15640s	he had to keep playing that deck but it
15642s	just didn't matter if the game just ends
15644s	too early so a huge win and again Shaman
15647s	just continues to just have that
15649s	surprise factor of oh yeah he's probably
15651s	not going to have enough oh wait never
15653s	mind I'm dead so yeah what a win for Wu
15656s	and and and what a what a surprising way
15658s	to end that series I think we were both
15659s	taken back with how suddenly that one
15661s	ended yeah well Eno really opens up the
15665s	way there with those reductions on you
15667s	know if you didn't have the second one
15668s	of those zappers that's not enough spell
15670s	damage uh Radiance of bajara is only
15673s	spell damage for your fire spells you're
15675s	you're focusing on nature so uh yeah you
15679s	kind of have to have the surprise Factor
15681s	there because of speaker Stoppers
15684s	potentially coming
15685s	out and I think this is why some people
15687s	have brought it that's just yeah really
15690s	tough one for Casey there it's a it's a
15692s	rough rough way to go out of course when
15694s	you just get burst out of nowhere but
15696s	that is the deck and uh that's just the
15697s	way it works sometimes so huge
15699s	congratulations to wiu we're going to go
15701s	to a break while we set the next match
15703s	we'll be back with some more Hearthstone
15704s	right after
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15996s	well welcome back everyone we are ready
15997s	to dive into our next decider match
16000s	which is going to be levic versus CJ
16002s	Kaka I'm staying here of course from the
16004s	previous one but I'm being joined by
16006s	sttle sole it must have hurt watching
16009s	Casey in that last match there a bit of
16011s	a tough one for you no doubt as a
16012s	longtime friend yeah uh tough one for
16016s	Casey tough one for fans and Friends of
16018s	Casey tough one for uh Relic Demon
16020s	Hunter enjoyers which I'm a member a
16022s	card carrying member of that club as
16024s	well and uh rough way to go out out as
16026s	well because I know there's a little bit
16028s	of a scramble over the lethal at the end
16029s	but I believe that had to be damaged
16032s	twice from lightning reflexes in order
16033s	to make that lethal happen and it was
16035s	found uh in the end so yeah uh rough way
16039s	to go out for sure but of course great
16041s	news for the victors yes of course let's
16043s	take a look at group a it's going to be
16045s	Hemlock and Wu that move on to tomorrow
16048s	and still have that shot being Crown
16051s	Champion so uh really and I'll be honest
16053s	so all um obviously there's a sort of EU
16057s	region bias but I wouldn't have guessed
16059s	that both Casey and Gabby wouldn't have
16062s	made out of this group but it just shows
16064s	how competitive this last Master's tour
16066s	of the year is and uh this is now the
16068s	match we're going to be looking at who's
16069s	going to be joining MCB face the uh The
16072s	Last Hope of the Americas coming out
16075s	with CJ Kaka versus levic to see who's
16078s	going to make out with Banner face there
16081s	so we're going to be looking at those
16083s	two players and for me looking at these
16085s	two lineups as well because CJ Kaka is
16088s	not messing around Trent Druid secret
16090s	Hunter enrage Warrior and Naga Mage so
16093s	definitely an S of off-the-wall lineup
16096s	here yeah I think CJ Kaka is you see
16100s	right there favorite d n Mage like CJ is
16102s	just kind of known as the Naga Mage
16104s	player like it's very much like pocket
16106s	train and bore priest right like just
16109s	because CJ ker is winning with nagam
16110s	Mage does not mean nagam Mage is a deck
16112s	that you should play it was like just
16114s	because pocket was winning with B priest
16115s	did not mean B priest was a deck that
16117s	you should play you have to wait for the
16119s	metas where other people are being
16121s	successful with those decks and then
16122s	that actually establishes that things
16124s	can happen and yes right on Q even with
16127s	five Mana spikelash siren Raven here it
16131s	is Naga Mage is making its way into the
16133s	Masters Tour yes it's really really
16136s	surprising just seeing how much uh sort
16138s	of how brutal that deck was in the very
16141s	uh you know not too long ago past um but
16144s	and even now there are players that are
16145s	going to bring it h so I'm very excited
16148s	to see how this does uh with that
16149s	obviously five cost siren and see what
16151s	CJ Kaka can do I do enjoy seeing
16154s	specialist play the lists uh in High
16156s	Press tournaments and now we're going to
16158s	check out levic and uh bringing in much
16160s	more I would say standard lineup here
16163s	although is going to be having that
16165s	enrage Warrior but I believe to no one's
16168s	surprise both Warriors are band on okay
16172s	yeah I was going to wonder I think we
16173s	got an update on the stats just a little
16175s	while ago so uh 70% ban rate roughly 25
16179s	out of 36 band up until this point have
16181s	been Warrior so that does seem to be the
16182s	deck we uh that the players have been
16184s	targeting largely and we're going to
16186s	take a look at the nature Sharman here
16188s	from leig because I think this has been
16189s	a big talking point of the tournament we
16191s	just saw it uh just kind of stumbling
16193s	over the line in the end or crashing
16194s	over the line I guess in the end in the
16196s	previous game from from weu um but it's
16199s	had a very impressive performance and
16201s	it's weird because I feel like we' we've
16203s	had this perfect cycle of two masters to
16206s	where the last Masters Tour everyone was
16209s	going on about how nature Shaman was
16210s	wildly overtuned and needed to be nerfed
16212s	and was massively overpowered every time
16214s	I play against it I die on turn five no
16216s	you don't shut up um but the but it it
16219s	underperformed in that tournament like
16221s	it really bombed it had I think it had
16222s	sub 50% uh win rate in the end and now
16225s	we come into this tournament with Nate
16226s	Shaman kind of a semi sleeper like
16229s	certainly not a deck everyone is talking
16230s	about um and even though it's
16232s	objectively slower and weaker because of
16234s	the Nerfs to to biolumin Ence it just
16237s	seems to be having a a good performance
16239s	this time around like those Jazz bases
16240s	are sneaking in a couple of lethals uh
16242s	where you wouldn't expect it players I
16244s	think with the extra couple of months of
16246s	experience of handling a very difficult
16249s	archetype have got better at navigating
16251s	their way through those early turns as
16253s	well and it's it's really putting in a
16254s	stint in this tournament yeah and I
16256s	think we see a lot of the you know I
16258s	know that you know that I know sort of
16260s	scenario of playing around like when
16263s	burst should and shouldn't happen and
16265s	you know when to it expect it as we saw
16267s	in the previous match we saw earlier
16268s	today that it's very hard with a lot of
16270s	the decks in The Meta to it sounds
16272s	stupid but to try and work out when you
16274s	should die right because sometimes like
16277s	these decks have the ability to just
16278s	pull things out of the bag and we're
16280s	already jumping in to game number one
16282s	we're going to see Hunter on the top
16284s	which you know makes me an instant fan
16286s	and levic on the Rogue on the bottom so
16288s	even though we've already dove into this
16290s	all what have you made of this Rogue
16292s	because again one of the list where
16294s	there's kind of like two archetypes for
16295s	one class right now and we did just see
16297s	Casey do very well with this
16302s	deck yeah it's I think Rogue in general
16304s	has been a little bit awkward this is a
16307s	slightly different build right Casey is
16308s	actually playing like a pure a more
16310s	all-in location Miracle style Rogue
16313s	whether this is the secret package with
16314s	the disruption with the Gastly
16316s	Gravedigger with the private eye we've
16317s	seen Gastly Gravedigger solo a game or
16319s	two already today um just a slightly
16322s	more disruptive irritating style deck as
16325s	opposed to Miracle Rogue which is you
16327s	know just kind of drop bombs I just see
16329s	potion belt and think me it's Rogue yeah
16331s	like you know if if you want to call
16332s	both of these decks concoction Rogue I'm
16334s	not going to argue with you that hard
16336s	yeah there are differences though one of
16338s	them has a location and combo cards
16339s	thrown around it the other one has
16341s	Secrets thr and disruption thrown around
16342s	it you know like they are they can still
16344s	play out fairly similarly in a lot of
16346s	regards and certainly looking at this
16348s	hand Queen asara prep ghoulish Alchemist
16350s	concoction you would be forgiven for
16352s	thinking this was location
16354s	Rook the other on the other side sorry
16358s	uh CJ getting a decent opening here just
16361s	getting some of the key tools down
16362s	getting some of that board presence and
16363s	also having that star power available to
16366s	just say nope to a board from levic
16368s	basically because that's what the card
16370s	kind of description should say just just
16372s	nope your opponent's board most of the
16374s	time it's so annoying like even at B
16377s	even at base power it's annoying yes it
16379s	just kills it just kills everything for
16381s	some reason get the plus one like forget
16383s	about it your board doesn't exist and
16385s	like it shouldn't work like I'm I'm
16388s	going to explain a thing like I'm going
16390s	to explain it in a way that I like
16391s	almost wholeheartedly disagree with in
16393s	terms of deck building but it is clearly
16395s	a good card in what is a very aggressive
16397s	deck in general but you get in these
16399s	situations against against Hunter where
16401s	like turn one they're in front turn two
16403s	they're in front turn three they're in
16404s	front turn four they're in front right
16405s	cuz they're just a faster deck than you
16407s	and then somewhere around turn five turn
16409s	six you make your swing turn happen
16411s	right and you're like sweet I'm ahead of
16413s	the aggro deck I'm on board I should be
16415s	winning now and then they have star
16417s	power and you have to start the game
16418s	from scratch again and it's incredibly
16419s	annoying apart from you're on like 16
16421s	Health yeah yeah yeah but like it
16424s	shouldn't work it should just be a bad
16427s	dead card in their hand more often than
16429s	it actually ends up being I I really
16432s	haven't quite got a grip on this card
16433s	see it fits perfectly cuz it fits my
16436s	kind of logic where it's like H I'm an
16438s	aggro deck what don't I want my opponent
16440s	to do trade with my minions so for the
16444s	cost of one hard space I can play star
16448s	power in my deck and and it
16451s	works works perfectly uh links going to
16454s	be coming down now and nice triple links
16457s	going to help out keep on the keep the
16459s	pressure on board
16462s	here although the hand even with you
16465s	know we're talking about star power a
16466s	lot but the uh the hand itself does not
16468s	scream finish your opponent off for uh
16471s	CJ at the moment so is is going to have
16473s	to just focus and keep focusing on that
16476s	board presence for
16478s	now almost the perfect krabat TOA board
16482s	as well right being able to swing into
16483s	the two four and and they used the the
16486s	two claws to kill the four four attacks
16489s	yeah the fact it was three four Health
16491s	minions and one of them had low attack
16493s	so you could use your face on it yeah it
16494s	was a very satisfying board to
16497s	crab oh is
16499s	this okay yeah the trade happens right I
16502s	was even honestly for just a second I
16504s	was like oh wow if this crab a TOA
16506s	doesn't get dealt with shadowstep crab a
16508s	TOA is actually horrendous you still end
16511s	up paying more for the second crab than
16512s	you did for the first in that situation
16514s	but oh well still very powerful
16523s	yeah objection obviously pretty enticing
16527s	because you are uh beginning to get into
16529s	Titan territory for the opponent
16532s	now It's Tricky isn't it because on one
16534s	hand you think well what if they just
16536s	have like you know weapons and spell
16538s	burst mhm but on the other hand if they
16540s	do have agar then you're like oh I I
16543s	should have stopped this
16548s	yeah not looking too bad at all now
16551s	there a lot of board pressure here from
16552s	lavic but this is that exact spot right
16554s	you're like okay sweet I've done it
16556s	decent amount of Health ice barrier up
16558s	I'm aead on board nice we got there no
16561s	you haven't cuz star power
16563s	exists it' be interesting to see what
16566s	the followup is probably just a
16571s	41 oh CJ Kaka hopefully that's just a
16575s	minor hiccup uh so CJ's testing face
16577s	first to see if he can get some idea on
16578s	what the new secret is there that's the
16580s	one he's really interested in the one
16582s	that came out last turn he learns that
16583s	the old secret was Ice barrier so
16586s	because of that he actually still has to
16587s	test counter spell on the new secret the
16590s	one that he'd already tested uh as as
16593s	gone being ice barrier so he had to do
16594s	it this way around
16596s	works out pretty perfectly in the end I
16599s	was just going to say if you if you're
16600s	going to get something objected then
16602s	seven six call the police that star
16605s	power was on seven seems a reasonable
16607s	Hunter card to me
16613s	so and there's more where that came from
16615s	the only problem here is again there's
16617s	just none of that big pressure right
16620s	there's not really been any of the card
16622s	draw there's not been Titan Forge traps
16625s	yeah
16626s	that that's the tricky of no trinket
16627s	trackers it's just those cards that you
16631s	like both put something on board whilst
16634s	sort of loading up that end game
16641s	pressure some kind of weird
16643s	Battlegrounds game now with the quality
16644s	of levik's
16647s	hand but what stops just a load of
16651s	41 uh the the hunter Experience One
16655s	eight Mana asore is that the answer to
16657s	your question they might look they might
16659s	all go
16660s	face do you ever take the trade first
16662s	yeah okay he's going yeah I
16665s	think it's not like that five damage to
16668s	face was ever really achieving anything
16670s	anyway right no your plan's just 14 into
16673s	14 from here right so doesn't really
16675s	make too much of a difference by the way
16678s	I haven't really commented on it yet the
16680s	pace this game is being played at is
16681s	kind of ridiculous right
16684s	now
16689s	and this is the part where unfortunately
16691s	I think CJ is going to sliit but again
16694s	just missed so started off with Halon
16696s	which is exactly how you want to start
16698s	but no agramar um no traps which
16701s	normally help sort of like one Titan
16703s	Forge traps normally feels like you've
16705s	played two cards a lot of the time
16706s	obviously because you forge it h and
16708s	just nothing to really get some of that
16710s	card draw going so I I think that
16712s	levik's going to be feeling pretty okay
16714s	about this
16716s	yeah obviously because the damage is
16717s	coming from an asore you can play around
16720s	it just by getting minions in Play to an
16722s	extent so there were worlds where you
16725s	could clear this up with Ricochet shot
16726s	and get minions in play to soak up some
16728s	of the missiles but it's still a long
16731s	way away from stabilizing I think here
16733s	from uh CJ yeah and and slightly off I I
16736s	would have even looked at you know like
16738s	maybe go Kraken Bane bow from CJ's point
16742s	right and just thinking oh maybe that
16743s	could get there but it's just not going
16744s	to right cuz the other asor
16754s	so it's only doing three yeah with the
16758s	double
16763s	buff yeah cuz it's that thing isn't it
16765s	where like the three that you've put
16767s	down is actually zero cuz the three one
16769s	can just go into it anyway
16772s	right yeah I had to get more than three
16774s	Health in play total because of that
16776s	right which did so so levik did need
16779s	extra damage from somewhere but not a
16781s	big deal going to be plenty and levic
16783s	takes game number one CJ I think got off
16786s	to a decent start but couldn't keep hold
16788s	of it but levic with the uh I don't know
16790s	cloned asals infinite aalor um managed
16794s	to get the job done and off to a really
16796s	really good start with that Rogue win
16799s	meaning that he just got his own nature
16800s	Shaman and rainbow Mage left over which
16803s	uh at least for the rainbow Mage all
16805s	would say is one deck you are very
16806s	comfortable having a left over to win
16810s	with yeah it's certainly been a deck
16813s	that's been performing well so far today
16816s	um we've I think you said it earlier in
16817s	the previous series it's been like oh
16819s	hey buddy it's been um it's been a bam
16823s	Warrior and with Mage situation um hey
16827s	hello good boy um yeah so I think
16831s	rainbow Mage was no real doubt for the
16833s	players coming into this one right it
16834s	was always going to be in most people's
16837s	lineup of course we're seeing from CJ
16839s	kako is the nag Mage on the other side
16841s	but you kind of line that up as the same
16844s	kind of deal right like if CJ kaga on
16846s	nagam Mage if he's brought it I'm sure
16848s	he's confident with it um there are very
16850s	few players that transcend to the point
16852s	with a particular deck where I don't
16855s	really offer any analysis or criticism
16857s	of the way they play it because they're
16860s	probably just right and I'm wrong you
16862s	know like my ego doesn't quite get
16864s	defeated that easily but certainly CJ
16866s	Kaka on Naga Mage will will qualify to
16868s	that level so you'd expect the Mages to
16871s	do well in this series overall I would
16873s	imagine uh so levik having now picked up
16876s	a win with a non-mage deck I think puts
16878s	him in a strong driver's seat position
16881s	in the series yeah there is still that X
16883s	Factor though from CJ right where there
16885s	is one of the sort of players that is
16887s	bringing the sort of lesser bra or
16888s	lesser seen Hunter right now there is
16891s	the Naga Mage which I'm just going to
16892s	write off as like I'm sure they'll be WI
16895s	potential just because it's CJ play Naga
16897s	Mage but also this Trent Druid can
16900s	really throw uh the the series off
16903s	balance right because it's just not a
16905s	deck I think that many players were
16907s	expecting to see there's not like tons
16909s	of nods to Trent Dr it going on H in the
16912s	lineups for these players so I think
16914s	it's what we were talking about this
16916s	morning right this morning not this
16918s	morning for us at the start of the show
16920s	um when we were saying we've seen a lot
16922s	of lineups that are very similar but for
16924s	those players who are ining these
16925s	offshoots and this different approach
16927s	yes you might crash and burn but it also
16929s	might just be that X Factor you need to
16931s	to Really Propel yourself towards that
16933s	sort of uh you know top eight top four
16935s	finals whatever you need to get to so
16937s	it's um it's going to be really
16939s	interesting to see how this plays out it
16941s	looks like CJ is going to be sticking on
16943s	the hunter as levic jumps over to the
16947s	Mage yeah this line up from CJ kako is
16950s	kind of almost what I was alluding to uh
16954s	a very very long time time ago at this
16955s	point during our our first cast when I
16957s	was saying there's um there's some
16959s	lineup that you can build with en rage
16961s	Warrior that just kind of aims to get
16963s	under what everyone else is doing right
16965s	which is basically what CJ ker has ended
16967s	up with here you know I personally
16969s	wouldn't have had naram Mage in that
16971s	lineup but I don't have the luxury of
16972s	having nagam Mage in that lineup because
16974s	I'm not CJ ker um so it does seem to be
16978s	that kind of lineup that's just trying
16980s	to to scoot under what everyone else is
16983s	doing in the meta that little bit just
16985s	go that little bit faster hopefully find
16987s	that one deck that you can Target just
16989s	by being too quick
16991s	overall and this is huge actually for CJ
16994s	cuz Adis and myself were talking earlier
16996s	about a lot of the Mages seem to be able
16998s	to go keyboard into coin Cold Case every
17001s	game uh but this opening you
17005s	know even
17009s	better get in the pin oh my I I actually
17013s	looked away from the screen then
17015s	as a as a hunter player myself that one
17017s	hurt to watch I was just about to
17019s	say for CJ that was looking great
17022s	because if your opponent's going to do
17024s	the opening then look at the pressure he
17027s	put on right like that was fantastic but
17029s	the creation
17031s	oh horrendous yeah I I saw the emote
17034s	from levic and I was like I get it like
17036s	weapon into to coin Cold Case is the
17039s	dream but your opponent's played around
17041s	it and like you're in trouble if you
17043s	coin Cold Case here like you're taking
17045s	16 or how much damage it was I thought
17046s	the emote was because of the Yong right
17049s	I thought it was like oh look at that
17051s	opening but it's just like a little bit
17053s	of our you know desync on the The
17055s	Spectator view of just oh the creation
17057s	just came a little bit later for us than
17058s	it did for the players and then yeah we
17060s	knew what was so so the mental Warfare
17064s	coming down with the emote just in
17066s	general right just say emote creation
17068s	unlucky and now this is just the Frozen
17072s	skeleton march to Victory it feels like
17075s	because CJ does have agramar does have
17077s	the bow equipped but levik has all sorts
17080s	of shenanigans and has no Ganon just
17082s	locked and loaded if he wants to just
17083s	keep the next turn simple and has Reverb
17086s	and a weapon equipped that won't work it
17088s	won't work unfortunately cuz uh the
17089s	Reverb will use up the last charge of
17091s	the
17093s	weapon either way I mean it's still just
17099s	good also really tricky turn as well to
17102s	like well I have agar but but I also
17106s	have a massive bow charge so what do you
17108s	do so I think this is kind of a tricky
17110s	Choice here he's going to lock it
17113s	in take the card draw of course the
17116s	amount of players I saw when this card
17118s	first came out just go for the plus two
17120s	like h i kind of respected it but also
17122s	was like but card draw like in Hunter
17126s	pick it and kill
17128s	him speaking of killing them
17131s	though knowledge will be your
17136s	if you just doome yeah I love I love
17138s	this so much just do yeah forget about
17144s	it you just have molten Rune in your
17146s	hand right like this just makes sense
17148s	you're just setting up lethal from hand
17150s	pretty much at this point I mean well
17152s	well what has to happen for these
17154s	skeletons to not cause Havoc I actually
17156s	just don't know yeah it's just it's kind
17158s	of just already done isn't it so the
17161s	immune going to come down here to help
17163s	deal with this but star power's a great
17167s	card we said it it's going to work
17168s	miracles but the
17171s	problem well that that's the answer okay
17174s	wow they literally all need to hit the
17176s	Titan which they so far have one more
17179s	double Arcane shot
17181s	go is the Ricochet shot buffed I don't
17184s	think it is right I do not believe it is
17190s	no I mean there's no way you don't
17192s	double Arcane right
17202s	quickly
17206s	okay sure yeah fair
17211s	enough and uh yeah if that wasn't enough
17214s	more where that came from yeah and I
17216s	think that's the thing right like you
17218s	can play around Bolton Rune by taking
17220s	two more damage off the board and
17221s	winning a
17222s	50/50 you're not winning that game if
17224s	they have mol R in their hand though
17226s	right like they they have to draw any
17228s	other damage spell at any point in the
17230s	game or live two turns yeah EXA like who
17234s	who cares you're probably going to die
17236s	so I think CJ kaker makes the right
17238s	decision there to just say I'm not going
17239s	to play around the lethal I have to set
17240s	up some kind of win condition for myself
17242s	instead and drawing some cards might
17244s	just get there and what a difference one
17248s	AOE makes right because I genuinely
17252s	believe levik was in trouble because it
17254s	it was so much damage set up in response
17257s	to the potential uh keyboard Cold Case
17260s	right like if that happens you just push
17262s	like look at this you just push like a
17263s	million face right but look at this
17266s	locked in emote coin clear and then
17269s	suddenly the game slows down and Cold
17272s	Case into Cold Case keeping all the
17275s	pressure on with the keyboard supporting
17277s	simply too much and I think the
17279s	Highlight honestly for this was the n on
17282s	and face damage because it was just you
17284s	know what let's just end the game five
17286s	five to face
17288s	go yeah it's just good recognition right
17291s	you said who's the hunter now that is
17292s	Hunter thinking right it's old school
17294s	Face Hunter thinking of how do I get
17297s	situational damage through now so the
17299s	next turn I have guaranteed lethal right
17301s	and that's kind of the setup that he was
17302s	going for there gets the big expensive
17305s	card out of the hand does some
17306s	guaranteed damage with it on that turn
17308s	just says all right like worst case
17310s	scenario you clear my entire board and
17313s	none of these skeletons hit you in the
17315s	face which literally happened the worst
17318s	case scenario occurred and he still wins
17320s	the game comfortably so yeah great
17322s	recognition from levic in that Spa I
17324s	think especially when you if you
17325s	actually sit and look at it I think you
17327s	get so used to playing Titans in certain
17329s	ways like oh this is almost always the
17332s	first one I click and then if it lives I
17334s	click this one and then so on so on I
17336s	think there what would plus one cost do
17339s	what would a secret really achieve
17341s	nothing I think it would be tempting to
17342s	say oh well if it costs more then I'm G
17344s	to be a turn ahead later and you know it
17346s	will delay them it's like yeah five
17348s	damage also delays them being alive so
17350s	you know it's G to look pretty good so
17352s	yeah really well played there from levik
17354s	and suddenly sing what feels like a
17356s	blink of an eye there's just Shaman left
17358s	for levik to take a victory with I do
17360s	think though this is probably the the
17363s	tougher deck at least for me maybe I'm
17365s	being a bit too hard on Shaman but
17366s	looking at CJ's lineup I feel like this
17368s	is the one that could fall over at least
17370s	a couple of
17372s	times uh yeah yeah yeah I I think so too
17376s	I think against um minion heavy decks it
17379s	is um I'm not necessarily say worse
17382s	matchups necessarily harder matchups for
17385s	sure though by which I mean like players
17387s	can quite easily make one mistake in
17389s	that kind of match up with Shaman and
17391s	then you just die like immediately
17392s	there's no wiggle room there's no second
17394s	chance you just die if you if you don't
17398s	uh set up a two- turn lethal if you fail
17401s	to find an out to clear a board that
17402s	ends up hitting you in the face for 13
17404s	damage like you are always going to die
17406s	in those situations so I think that
17409s	assessment is correct I think the shaman
17410s	is probably going to be the most awkward
17411s	climb for leic from him yeah I think
17413s	that's the biggest thing I've seen most
17415s	of the time on the other side against
17417s	the shaman is their clears have to be
17420s	very deliberate and very well timed and
17422s	and sort of estimated right because the
17425s	second they overcommit and clear and and
17427s	use too much to clear a board and you
17429s	just remake it and then they're like
17431s	I've got nothing else now it runs out
17433s	they they just get swept but then if
17435s	they don't clear enough then suddenly
17437s	especially you look at Hunter uh as
17439s	probably the main one in this is that if
17442s	you let the minions hit you a bit too
17444s	hard and they they did get hold of some
17447s	card draw suddenly there's a ton of just
17449s	burst damage you look at the bow whether
17451s	it's Starr bow or even agamar um and you
17454s	look at some of that burst damage
17455s	available like you can just fall over if
17457s	you just sort of try to be a bit too
17459s	greedy with the removal and let you know
17461s	maybe a couple of Yas a couple of you
17463s	know summons trap minions actually hit
17465s	you in the face sometimes like just
17467s	Kraken Bane plus a couple of spells and
17469s	you could just be dead so it is that
17472s	sort of tricky step for the shaman where
17474s	they have all of the tools but it feels
17476s	like they've got one of every tool and
17478s	you can only use the tool once right so
17480s	you've got to make sure they use it at
17481s	the right time to be able to clear it up
17484s	yeah and it's where flash of lightning
17485s	lightning reflexes really comes into
17487s	play against aggro decks because I think
17489s	something a lot of people don't do
17490s	enough against very fast decks on the
17492s	other side is like even turn two flash
17495s	if you have a lightning reflexes in hand
17497s	because I don't think people appreciate
17499s	like yeah you're not going to kill your
17501s	opponent with three Mana but you can do
17503s	a lot of stuff potentially with a
17505s	lightning reflexes in your hand and a
17507s	one Mana discount on nature spells uh
17510s	with certain hands right like you can
17512s	quite easily clear your your opponent's
17514s	entire Board of worms and get a feral
17516s	Spirit down and potentially heal for six
17518s	with an alter cord thrown in there right
17520s	like you can make all of that happen um
17523s	someone if you take two two turns
17524s	instead of your opponent's one that's
17527s	good no matter what turn it's on right
17529s	cuz that's what it feels like you get to
17530s	do twice as much stuff so anyway without
17532s	further Ado we're getting into game
17534s	three is this going to be the last game
17535s	of this series personally I hope not I
17538s	want to see more of CJ's lineup but
17540s	levic has proven himself more than
17543s	enough at this point to be more than
17544s	capable to take this series 30
17547s	0 okay very strong minion heavy hand
17552s	going first which is actually quite nice
17554s	in the match up gets to go novice Zapp
17556s	into Flow Rider on curve on the play
17558s	very very nice opener yeah and there's
17560s	something just inherently wrong with a
17562s	hunter having access to a one drop and
17565s	not playing it on one or even if you do
17568s	play it it not being competitive on
17571s	board
17573s	the just looking for a Tempo three
17575s	doesn't find a Tempo three uh feral
17578s	Spirits or turn the tides I think would
17580s	have been the dream pickups there for
17583s	Lev it's going to take ancestral
17585s	knowledge I was looking at just a crash
17586s	just as you know like an insurance
17588s	policy but I guess with the uh with the
17590s	Titan maybe that's just going to be good
17593s	enough yeah I think this makes sense I
17595s	mean so the reason the three Mana cards
17597s	are so good is like firstly this deck
17598s	always wants to play one of the three
17599s	Mana cards on turn three but then
17601s	secondly it sorts you out your perfect
17603s	curve of just playing that into thorum
17605s	the turn after this kind of does that
17607s	like the this ancestral knowledge draws
17609s	three cards essentially right CU you
17611s	then also get the overload into the
17613s	thorum on the following turn as it
17615s	happens picking up second Flow Rider
17616s	meaning it's actually drawn an
17618s	additional card on top of that as well
17620s	because of the overload very
17625s	nice and now the feral Spirits even
17627s	meaning you can go feral into thorm on
17629s	five potentially to unlock the overloads
17632s	to uh go into Gogan on six this is a
17635s	really strong uh Hunter match up hand
17637s	for levic so far yeah I actually It's
17640s	Tricky with agramar but I actually quite
17642s	like just coin um howder
17645s	on here for CJ just get something
17648s	reasonable on board and just just look
17651s	at the hand right you just set up the
17653s	rest of your hand it's a shame not to
17655s	get agat out earlier but I think this is
17658s	way too good to
17661s	avoid yeah I think so too I think like
17663s	big links boards are going to be your
17665s	your best route to Victory here right
17667s	you actually want to make big boards
17668s	that repeat damage because yeah weapons
17671s	and stuff going face and and throwing
17672s	burn spells is nice but
17674s	all it takes is one discovered altered
17676s	cord and suddenly you're that turn
17677s	behind in the race that you weren't
17679s	necessarily expecting to happen so
17681s	having the recursive damage from boards
17682s	I think is a lot more important yeah
17685s	just you want to force the shaman off
17686s	board you you want to make them have to
17689s	build the board and do something in the
17691s	same turn right because that's just that
17693s	much harder to deal with well I think
17696s	first and foremost you want them to like
17698s	waste crashes of Thunder to clear your
17700s	board and not die right like that is
17702s	that's the dream cuz then it gets so
17705s	hard for them to lethal you in the end
17711s	anyway and this now the uh the
17714s	everpresent problem I feel like which is
17716s	you don't want to overload going to turn
17719s	six but so many of your spells are
17721s	needed at this point not to take a
17725s	million there is the overdraft
17728s	though it's like lightning ball
17730s	overdraft kills two of them right
17733s	there's also the Thor to do the same
17735s	thing and draw cards right just go bolt
17737s	Thor draw honestly I'm I just didn't
17740s	even look at that card because it was
17742s	the full art and I was like oh yeah
17743s	what's that yeah it's a good card it's a
17746s	good card I've only been talking about
17748s	it like every turn since turn three
17749s	Raven it's nice to know that you don't
17751s	listen to me these days
17757s	huh still though CJ doing a great job
17760s	here of just being able to uh hold on to
17762s	some of that reoccurring damage but this
17765s	is this is the the negative section of
17768s	of using the coin obviously the payoff
17770s	is fantastic but now it's just like ah
17772s	this turn doesn't look so good you can
17773s	get a couple of four ones down of course
17776s	but you're just looking at that agamar
17778s	thinking oh it could have come down this
17779s	turn the living drop all kinds of
17788s	things oh
17792s	really
17798s	okay going to use the ricochets and the
17799s	hero power not even locking in the cat
17803s	trick uh yeah I think this is smart
17805s	right I think I think this is just a
17807s	straight hand read from CJ Kaka that
17809s	says okay my opponent went through Great
17811s	Lengths to not be overloaded on this
17814s	turn what does that mean should I play
17816s	three minions all with less than three
17818s	Health on this board no probably not uh
17821s	what I should do is protect this four
17823s	Health minion
17824s	with every last fiber of my being and
17826s	just push a bunch of damage no point
17828s	playing a catrick they're not going to
17830s	play spells next turn they're going to
17831s	jam the Titan so I think this is really
17833s	really good recognition from uh from CJ
17835s	kak of what's going on in the
17842s	matchup now I could see this being a uh
17845s	lock uh plus a damage in on the weapon
17848s	just just go but uh especially with the
17852s	uh the Kraken Bane pickup
17855s	yes it's another reason with this deck
17857s	um to weave hero powers in over casting
17859s	spells right is just to uh stall for
17862s	time a little bit until that cracken
17864s	Bane appears M I think it's a is this
17867s	only I think I want say this is a one of
17869s	in the list yeah it is yeah correct I
17872s	think I remember I think it was like was
17874s	it last Mt when Casey brought it and I
17877s	was a bit worried cuz there was two cuz
17879s	I'm personally not a huge fan of Kraken
17881s	ban um I feel like it could be a bit
17883s	Mony sometimes but you also then can't
17887s	refute the oh three Mana deal five to
17890s	face as a very good card in Hunter so
17893s	it's always one that sort of goes in and
17894s	out of my expectations it's a very easy
17897s	card to overhype if you only play
17900s	against Hunter because you only see the
17903s	times where they shoot it from hand and
17905s	deal five against you and you're like
17906s	that is so efficient for damage to Mana
17910s	how is that allowed to exist you
17912s	absolutely don't see all the games where
17914s	they fall over cuz they've got a vanilla
17915s	3 Mana 33 in their hand that's not doing
17919s	anything CJ's face some sums up this uh
17922s	not only this game but also this series
17924s	which is like oh just you know so close
17927s	but everything could go wrong GIC has
17929s	one billion cards in hand has all the
17932s	options in the world just picked up Al
17933s	to cord as
17935s	well and this is where I mean you tell
17938s	me S is it lethal it feels like it could
17942s	be
17944s	and the feeling being Shaman has a lot
17946s	of cards in
17948s	hand yeah no I was trying to evaluate
17951s	those an out off this ReDiscover to hit
17953s	it but I not even sure there was then
17956s	yeah I guess like you look at no crash
17958s	one line in Bolt no other Burn
17962s	Right still though very good turn
17965s	overall good setup board presence Now
17967s	spell damage available threatening
17969s	biolumin Ence on top of this Hunter
17971s	especially after playing double ricochet
17974s	not exactly reliable dealing with this
17976s	board unless the star power comes out of
17978s	nowhere yeah heal for seven deal six to
17981s	face leave a Titan on board that's
17982s	cheating you a bunch of Mana next turn
17984s	as well yeah so many good sounds like
17987s	aent
17990s	yeah I had a realization at one point of
17992s	why I vied with this deck so hard when
17994s	it came out and it's because I the list
17996s	of thing I love doing that I love
17998s	getting to an end of turn and just
18000s	recapping all of the things I did in
18002s	that one turn and this deck gives you
18004s	the Vibes of like old school Patron
18006s	Warrior where you'd be like y so I I
18008s	gained 14 armor I cleared my opponent's
18010s	entire board and I drew six cards like
18013s	that's my turn now it is your turn where
18016s	like my average turn is like ANL eight
18018s	to face yeah yeah full stop and I'm
18022s	still
18027s	happy explosive the the problem is
18031s	I I don't even think CJ is overly
18034s	concerned about dying to being attacked
18036s	by minions with this Bard worried about
18039s	just dying to to
18042s	burn Arcane shot plus a weapon swing
18045s	going into to clear some of this to try
18047s	and reduce down some of the threat going
18048s	to knock another hero power in just to
18050s	push what he
18054s	can but this must be terrifying
18056s	tournament life on the line for these
18060s	players levic what feels like M moment
18063s	away from a victory here but CJ going to
18065s	do everything they can do to try and
18067s	hang on it should be moments yeah and
18070s	okay I I felt like turn the tides first
18072s	was the correct Choice and then you can
18075s	play the schooling get the minions go
18077s	from
18078s	there I guess with no additional
18080s	discounts like no uh no Radiance no in
18083s	are played no flash of lightning played
18085s	either um in my head I was thinking like
18088s	oh you can draw you can get more like
18089s	zero Mana overload cards to cheat you
18091s	more Mana off the Jazz base but that was
18093s	never going to happen because the other
18094s	discounts aren't play yet wondering
18098s	based on what levik's seen How likely he
18101s	thinks is to actually die this turn
18103s	because double Ricochet no spell damage
18106s	uh none of the extra spell damage cards
18109s	you know like Celestial shot have been
18110s	played stuff like that um and Silver
18113s	Moon fast rider and these cards have
18116s	been in hand for a while and Arcane
18118s	shots and Ricochet shots have been used
18120s	and so how much damage is it expecting
18122s	to take obviously there's a flat seven
18124s	on offer here with just the weapon swing
18126s	and the hero power but is there another
18130s	seven it's always worrying you can see I
18132s	think from levik's response that he's
18133s	worried that that swing went straight to
18135s	face
18136s	but it's just
18139s	[Laughter]
18140s	there I think the Kraken ban gets
18142s	activated with a spell I think
18148s	yeah it might be two actually cuz the
18150s	tremas and the catrick were already both
18152s	in hand when the no is one left
18156s	okay that's just my natural Hunter
18159s	instincts kicking in of not actively
18161s	counting and keeping mind but just
18163s	having a feel of what's been
18167s	played it's so close but again I think
18171s	both players as is feels often the case
18173s	in this matter of both players sat there
18175s	thinking I'm probably Dead next turn and
18177s	then they're not and then the other
18178s	players sat there thinking ah cuz I
18180s	could kill him I'm probably dead this
18182s	turn
18183s	yeah there's five but there's Tremors
18186s	and I think seeing that levik has a very
18188s	clear goal of what needs to be done now
18203s	win catrick play altered cord because
18206s	you want to play around emergency
18208s	Maneuvers before you play too many cards
18211s	yeah CJ Kaka with the shake of the head
18214s	he knows exactly what that means you got
18216s	to get out of bed a lot earlier in the
18218s	morning before you're going to trick
18219s	levic yeah and you meant motion right
18223s	what did I say I said emergency
18224s	Maneuvers yeah yeah yeah motion denied
18226s	also of course the healing allows you to
18227s	get through the attack through the
18228s	explosive trap which makes this
18230s	absolutely trivial there you go all
18234s	nicely picked apart from levik now the
18236s	simple matter of just playing all the
18238s	rest of your Hearthstone cards yeah all
18241s	those nice one and zero cost available
18244s	and I think with that crash as usual if
18247s	a lightning Bol goes to face and there
18248s	crash in hand it's almost certainly
18250s	lethal and it is in this case as levic
18252s	beats CJ 3 0 and so close for CJ to
18259s	nearly get that game and nearly be able
18260s	to fight back in this series but I think
18263s	yet again subtle clean controlled play
18268s	from levic Super impressive dissected
18271s	the possibilities of that last turn and
18274s	executed it to ensure he had one Health
18277s	left to continue and win the game Super
18279s	impressive and I'm not even surprised
18281s	coming from levic yeah really sick I
18284s	will say the Shan you know did need a
18286s	couple of favors there you know I spent
18287s	the first three turns talking about what
18289s	a strong anti- Hunter hand that was um
18292s	and then CJ Kaka was still able to
18294s	navigate into a position where with the
18296s	explosive and the uh denied again I was
18302s	I was going say emergency Maneuvers
18304s	again uh with them both up he kind of
18306s	had levic up against a wall but then a
18309s	immediate first card Discover altered
18311s	cord that made the whole thing trivial
18313s	right even if the aled cord was in the
18315s	second instance of the lightning
18317s	reflexes how on Earth are you going to
18320s	get there and cast the altered cord
18322s	quickly enough without attacking without
18324s	proing the other secret and dying it
18326s	would have been a lot lot trickier but
18328s	because it was just right there off the
18329s	first card the turn became pretty
18331s	trivial from from levic to navigate
18333s	through the rest of it but still very
18335s	very well played series from a player
18337s	who is already locked and loaded and
18338s	ready to go to Worlds and that is going
18340s	to be a heart Breer for CJ Kaka who now
18343s	sees his hope hopes dashed for a little
18345s	while at least like levic is just out
18348s	here in this tournament just gatekeeping
18350s	people as hard as humanly possible and
18353s	yeah good on him for it I'm absolutely
18355s	here for it y really great win for levic
18357s	he's going to make it out of the group
18359s	but we still got plenty more Hearthstone
18360s	coming up for you tonight so don't go
18363s	anywhere we on to a quick break we'll be
18364s	back with some more
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18631s	he
18644s	hello everybody and welcome back to the
18645s	Hearthstone Masters Tour fall
18647s	Championship my name is TJ I'm joined by
18649s	the one the only sdle here on Singo
18650s	Saturday sdle how you
18652s	doing I'm doing great it's been a pretty
18655s	awesome day so far I think we've seen a
18658s	good mix of decks a good mix of um you
18660s	know sick matchups High Lev and also a
18663s	couple of mistakes here and there which
18664s	are always at least fun to see in terms
18667s	of things deciding matchups that way and
18668s	I think uh we've got some great players
18671s	going through to tomorrow as well I
18673s	think um banter has really grown into
18677s	his role as one of the absolute premium
18679s	Hearthstone players on the planet these
18681s	days um I I don't know if you remember
18683s	TJ when we did the episode of hot takes
18685s	where uh the hot take was the league
18688s	positions of all players accurately
18690s	represent their skill and like B face
18692s	was like fourth in Americas and I said
18694s	banter face fourth best player in the
18696s	Americas nah not having it and uh banter
18699s	still has not let me forget that he
18701s	brings it up to me every single time I
18703s	talk to him he's not bitter about it at
18704s	all um but no I absolutely take the L on
18707s	that one banter is a phenomenal player
18709s	as his pocket train that we see
18710s	qualifying here out of group C so I
18712s	think we've got a Prett stacked lineup
18713s	going through to tomorrow we have one
18715s	more spot um to be decided between me
18718s	and TJ and then one more to follow after
18720s	that with a player that you're a very
18722s	big fan of
18724s	TJ yeah balance really impressed me mhm
18728s	no I'm talking about tonsoku I a big fan
18730s	of him I'm a big fan of balance as well
18732s	U brought a little bit of a I'll call it
18735s	an interesting lineup but really it's
18737s	just he threw a priest in right through
18738s	a PRI as the fourth deck um that's
18741s	that's about it uh but you know these
18744s	days what can you do right that's that's
18747s	how you make your mark you you just
18748s	bring a fourth deck that not many other
18750s	players are bringing um but yeah uh
18754s	tonsoku on the other side been a big fan
18757s	of tonsoku since the days where we had a
18759s	giant chalkboard that I would stand next
18761s	to for hours on end and write things on
18763s	it and the things I would write would be
18765s	player names and I ended up writing
18768s	tonsoku name next to my name a lot which
18771s	meant that I was predicting him which
18773s	meant that I was a big fan of him that
18774s	dates all the way back to like what 2015
18777s	s yep we're coming up on a decade holy
18781s	moly that is
18786s	crazy I was uh going back and like
18789s	looking at some of the uh the earlier
18791s	cast and like even talking about it with
18792s	like the the head shot that gets used in
18795s	the talent promotions for this thing and
18796s	like my goodness that was surprisingly
18799s	long amount of time ago and I look so
18801s	much younger in that picture where's
18803s	that guy can we have that guy back I was
18805s	a big fan of him uh but yeah Tans soku
18808s	someone who's been around doing this
18810s	just as long as we have you can see
18812s	Global games 2017 that's on his fact
18814s	sheet there um he's dates back way
18817s	before that as well like TJ was saying
18819s	he was very protective of that
18821s	chalkboard was TJ and tans soku's name
18824s	was a a very common site to be out there
18827s	among cast of
18828s	predictions yeah and now he's putting it
18833s	all on spelled even on what can you do
18836s	you know uh sometimes they fall your way
18838s	sometimes they
18839s	don't who can who can control what you
18842s	submit I I mean the idea for the deck is
18844s	there right obviously players have had
18846s	success with this in the past it's just
18849s	is it worthy of being the quotequote
18851s	fourth deck in the tournament lineup Dre
18853s	still out right I think whether or not
18855s	tonsoku is able to uh showcase a good
18858s	game with it in this series could sway
18860s	my opinion on the deck a little bit it
18863s	just feels like it's like a turn behind
18865s	right of where you need to be in in this
18867s	metag game uh to be able to be
18869s	competitive but we we'll see obviously a
18871s	lot of
18872s	um I'm sure there's a lot of practice uh
18875s	it's big Stakes event so uh I mean both
18879s	the they the Decks that we highlighted
18880s	from both players right the control PRI
18882s	on balance's side and the spell Dem on
18883s	tonsoku side who who comes out on top of
18887s	that one no idea I don't know what this
18888s	motion was but this is control priest
18891s	that's even camera not on me anymore
18893s	that's balance that's not me the whole
18896s	thing went perfectly TJ zero notes um
18899s	yeah I actually expected to see a little
18902s	bit more control priest than we ended up
18905s	with um my planning for this tournament
18907s	really kind of felt like a lot of decks
18909s	were going to be trying to play for
18911s	board quite aggressively because I think
18914s	the number one thing that was stopping
18915s	board-based strategies being effective
18917s	well the number one and two things that
18918s	were stopping board base strategies
18920s	being effective were yog just coming
18922s	down for zero mana and removing your
18924s	entire board and leaving a 75 sitting
18926s	behind and uh prison breaker which
18929s	basically was a a neutral inquisitive
18931s	creation for every single class in the
18933s	game to be able to do what we saw levic
18935s	do in the previous series and without
18937s	those two cards being available it felt
18939s	like more enrage warrior style decks
18942s	would become more popular of actually
18944s	trying to build those boards through the
18945s	early game and maybe control priest just
18947s	gets to Nuke those boards really really
18949s	easily without access to those cards but
18951s	that has not really been the case with
18953s	uh not many people putting their faith
18954s	in the light for this
18957s	tournament isn't
18960s	it yeah yeah you're role playing a
18963s	little bit there that's what I get for
18965s	trying to make a World of Warcraft
18966s	reference yeah I made a successful one
18969s	earlier with Raven but only because it
18971s	was in South Park
18973s	so well I mean very accurate depiction
18977s	of uh World of Warcraft and its player
18979s	base yeah not come on sdle all right
18984s	let's get into it um and rage Warrior uh
18988s	have you noticed this I I don't want to
18990s	call it an anomaly because does I don't
18992s	think it is I think this is just uh
18995s	personal bias and well there's no icon
18998s	on the screen so it's certainly not an
19000s	anomaly definitely not an anomaly um
19003s	it's how long has it been months and
19005s	months and months that enrage Warrior
19007s	has been like at the top of win rates
19010s	like at almost every rank uh on ladder
19013s	yeah and one you just rarely see it and
19017s	two when you try you're just going to
19020s	roast me you're going to be like but I
19021s	have a 70% win rate and two when I play
19023s	it I don't win with it I I well like I
19025s	have like a like 50% win rate I don't
19027s	climb I just
19029s	stay um it doesn't feel like it's it's
19034s	it's Justified with that win rate
19036s	especially when you look at the win rate
19037s	of the very obvious very strong classes
19040s	that almost everybody has in their in
19041s	their lineup here with like Mage and
19044s	row can I can I shock you TJ sure yeah
19048s	go ahead I uh actually agree with every
19050s	single word you said that is holy moly
19053s	yeah that is largely my experience with
19055s	it as well of just every now and again
19058s	just you know bring up the the Data
19059s	Tracking sites have a look at what's
19061s	going on I do think as a general Point
19064s	um Data Tracking as a tool for
19068s	evaluating competitive Hearthstone is as
19071s	bad right now as it has ever been in the
19073s	history of hearthstone um combination of
19075s	it being split between multiple
19078s	competitors doing the same thing um and
19080s	large portions of
19082s	leaveing Legend ladder not really being
19085s	involved in the competitive scene right
19086s	like top 100 Legend those are the only
19089s	players that actually are involved in
19090s	comp in in competitive right now and you
19094s	can't filter down that small because you
19095s	end up with tiny sample sizes so I think
19097s	in general the stats are kind of
19099s	misreporting quite a few things in terms
19101s	of what the absolute top level of
19102s	hearthstone looks like but I certainly
19104s	have had that experience as well of like
19106s	oh look at this shiny en rage Warrior
19108s	win rate let's try this out and it's
19110s	just fine like it it wins some wins some
19114s	games it loses some games like it just
19116s	never quite feels like a tier one deck
19118s	to
19121s	me I'm actually very
19123s	[Laughter]
19125s	relieved just throwing that out there um
19128s	but obviously the reason why that
19130s	subject came up is because tonu is
19132s	playing it right this second yes in this
19134s	match to qualifi for the
19137s	quarterfinals of the Fall mat it's the
19139s	casting with sutle experience
19142s	I'm going to throw out an opinion I hope
19144s	he doesn't kill me for it yeah I mean
19148s	even when you throw out facts you're
19149s	like oh man is this like a 90% fact or
19152s	is this 100% fact cuz if it's not 100%
19155s	fact I'm in TR TR hold on let me bring
19158s	up the notepad where I've got all my
19159s	sources reference just in case he calls
19161s	me on
19163s	anything uh look at the footnote sdle
19167s	please before you
19170s	speak all right balance fighting
19172s	aggressively for board you kind of have
19174s	to do that when you're playing against
19176s	enrage
19177s	Warrior um cuz any board that they have
19181s	they can turn into a better board great
19185s	analysis um
19187s	with all the Buffs SE deps that kind of
19191s	thing uh so just making sure that he
19194s	keeps the board clean and wait for a
19196s	weak turn in order to start progressing
19199s	his own game plan yeah right so
19203s	pretty pretty uh
19206s	non I don't want to say entertaining
19208s	because it is entertaining what's the
19209s	word I'm looking
19211s	for so I just think you should go with
19214s	that honestly like yeah this is actually
19216s	not very entertaining you should
19217s	probably just leave and do anything else
19219s	right now that's that's you should be
19221s	doing uneventful okay that's a good word
19227s	yeah thanks
19229s	H saved me on that one woo
19233s	mhm definitely a STK contrast in the
19236s	pace of the matchup to uh the levic
19239s	series that Raven and I just cast
19240s	previously uh Tans soku taking a large
19244s	portion of his available turn in order
19246s	to Play Thor bori on four which was
19249s	almost mandatory in that situation I
19251s	would
19257s	argue every time you say it Thor bori oh
19261s	I don't know like like credit to Neil on
19264s	this one he's the first person I heard
19266s	start saying it like that and I'm like
19268s	well if if they didn't want people to
19270s	say it that way don't spell it like that
19273s	because come on it's clearly even if
19275s	that's wrong saying it like that is more
19277s	fun than whatever the right name is and
19279s	it's a totally valid interpretation of
19281s	it so I'm sticking with it yeah it
19284s	sounds like you know an artisan Sweet
19287s	Shop like the name of a gourmet
19290s	chocolate he I seem to have lost the
19294s	surface with coconut with coconut That's
19299s	essential try our thori
19303s	bori sea salt coconut
19306s	and a rose mist
19313s	spray
19315s	well uh
19318s	that's going to make things pretty
19320s	interesting from here the things that
19322s	you can make happen with this mage deck
19324s	are just kind of gross sometimes like
19326s	from the depths Finley like the old
19328s	Warrior trick of you of t g and now
19332s	balance just has a uh a bunch of
19334s	incredibly cheap cards in hand has like
19336s	zero Mana keyboard with uh with
19338s	Elementals in hand as well kind of gross
19341s	and uh still get the full value from the
19344s	keyboarded elemental inspiration too yep
19348s	got the discounts on the right things
19351s	what's
19352s	no yeah I think Max itude is a bit
19355s	whatever right in terms of hitting it on
19357s	a discount because uh I see I'm pretty
19360s	sure it returns to hand at full cost
19362s	right I was realizing I about say out
19363s	loud I'm not 100% confident yeah
19371s	yeah I must
19374s	choose one thing though you do have to
19377s	worry about actually killing the warrior
19380s	at some point
19381s	um which won't be tooo hard like you
19383s	said the keyboard plus Elemental
19384s	inspiration to make a big board um but
19388s	if you just sit here and let tonsoku
19389s	kind of build things up
19392s	and acquire resources in hand a Kill
19395s	from hand is certainly possible as we
19397s	get further into this game tsoka though
19399s	just going for the a little bit of a
19401s	Tempo play
19402s	here uh copying the thori balori but the
19406s	hand is lackluster obviously anime
19409s	extractor on board which could you know
19411s	know buff the crazy wretched or one of
19412s	these sunfury
19413s	Champions um but not really much going
19416s	for it these sunfury Champions don't
19417s	really have much juice to do anything I
19421s	mean let's say you could get there could
19423s	be a world where anima extractor Buffs
19426s	these Sun Champions up a lot and then he
19428s	just draws fire spell after fire spell
19430s	after fire spell and then you can play
19431s	them on the board and they have enough
19433s	Health to where you can like clear a
19434s	board of Elemental Inspirations with
19436s	just those but very Fringe scenario
19443s	that's what I'm here
19444s	for wow that's five I did not realize
19448s	that was going to be five after the f I
19450s	thought the fou spell made it four so
19452s	the egg wasn't going to get fully dealt
19454s	with but even then like it's not a great
19456s	deal of difference the key factor there
19458s	was one shot the anime extractor right
19460s	make sure that it doesn't live through
19461s	and give a bunch of Buffs to everything
19463s	else at that point so yeah still got the
19466s	Buffs but
19469s	obviously much less than it had the
19471s	potential too with that
19473s	board and I think a lot went on the C
19476s	rch actually I think there were four and
19477s	like three went on the C rch it's it's
19480s	quite large but this hand
19487s	is SN real juice right now um ramonia
19491s	living blade is the choice at the top
19492s	end there is uh one player in this
19494s	tournament that is playing Grom instead
19496s	of the ramonia I believe it's levic I
19500s	wonder
19512s	but no ramonia no olra like nothing
19515s	super premium to be landing these Buffs
19517s	on like yeah crazy wretch is fine but
19520s	it's a long way to go to be uh getting
19523s	through the full health total of a mage
19525s	who's been dominating you on board the
19526s	entire game
19530s	yeah
19532s	just hit and uh and uh do a little bit
19536s	of praying it's probably the
19539s	uh game plan here armor up yep it ain't
19553s	pretty I have to open up some board
19555s	space here want Elemental
19558s	inspiration can't get the keyboard value
19561s	either that's
19564s	uh you do want to start pushing though
19567s	try and make things awkward for tanuku
19568s	not give him time with a incredibly dead
19571s	turn uh like the last
19590s	one
19594s	yeah it's just too clean right you make
19595s	exactly four board spaces and replace
19597s	them with exactly four four FS just
19601s	double wind Fury it is double wind Fury
19604s	yeah I think the only other thing worth
19606s	thinking about and honestly I think it's
19608s	pretty close is just playing the N
19611s	instead for like cards plus one since
19614s	you have the Reverb in hand right you
19615s	you can turn that into massive burst
19617s	with the old Reverb trick uh for the 20
19620s	on the following turn and your opponent
19621s	is not really showing any great sign of
19623s	being able to clear your n from hand but
19625s	all it would take was would be like one
19628s	fire spell off the top right and then
19630s	the uh the Thor bories would do the job
19632s	so I think I like this
19635s	more I
19637s	mean looks like tonsoku is
19639s	dead
19650s	yep
19651s	I mean you could craze wret and trade
19653s	into one of these wind Furies but you're
19656s	still dead on board showing so yeah
19659s	tonsoku going to bow out give up the win
19663s	to the Mage and I like the way that
19665s	balance played the early game just
19666s	keeping the board and check uh if he had
19670s	wasn't able to do that then the animal
19672s	extractor that came in later from
19674s	tonsoku could have been uh a lot bigger
19676s	of a
19677s	deal um and then tonsoku it's happens
19681s	with the rage Warrior right you have a
19682s	lot of these separate pieces of Combos
19686s	and Tempo tools and if you don't draw
19688s	them in the right order then they look
19690s	silly Right double Sun figure champion
19692s	in the hand at the end of that game
19693s	without a fire spell to be seen double
19695s	the thory copied yeah I'm saying it now
19698s	too and no fire spell picked up for
19700s	multiple turns just not able to get
19703s	there so um just the warrior and the
19705s	Rogue left uh for
19708s	balance and tonsoku got to go back to
19710s	square one with this R work yeah and I
19713s	think there are three basic ways to win
19716s	with Mage right the the first one is
19719s	like keyboard into Cold Case into
19722s	Elemental inspiration and you just curve
19724s	out you win on board you're ahead the
19725s	whole game you beat your opponent up the
19727s	second one is just spell schools couple
19730s	of pack Creations to clear the board and
19731s	then you have CF and combo and you win
19733s	the game that way the third one which is
19735s	what we saw there from balance is
19737s	neither of those things are really
19739s	happening super smoothly so just find
19741s	something degenerate to do with your
19743s	discover pools right and then try and
19745s	win the game that way and that's kind of
19746s	what ended up happening with the uh from
19748s	the depth spin Le combo in the end
19752s	yeah and uh I mean even then it wasn't
19754s	like like mind blowingly awesome got a
19757s	couple discounts which led to a little
19759s	bit more temp but element inspiration
19760s	was still played for full cost right
19763s	that was the entire turn and T said
19765s	nothing to combat it so um but yeah if
19771s	is one of those Decks that can
19772s	capitalize on on
19774s	weakness it's like it's like The
19777s	Benchmark um so uh they can do a lot of
19781s	things they have the space and if they
19784s	have space and room to get creative with
19785s	their plays they will and they'll beat
19787s	you up for it so um that's exactly what
19790s	happened uh with
19791s	balance but don't count onsoku out yet
19795s	this is where he likes to be he likes to
19796s	be a one down cuz that's when the nerves
19798s	go away nothing to lose back into a
19802s	corner like a caged Beast ready to be
19809s	Unleashed wow I was prepared for that
19811s	level of of passion I know you've always
19814s	you know been a tansu supporter I didn't
19816s	know you'd Gone full stand over
19818s	herez if you're not ready for that level
19821s	of passion then you're not ready to
19822s	watch tonsoku
19825s	apparently
19827s	not look at him death ooz oozing passion
19832s	with every facial
19835s	expression do you know I'm suddenly
19837s	reminded of do you remember the early
19838s	days of Derk Brown TJ and this is a very
19840s	random Nostalgia trip remember when you
19843s	used to randomly go up to Derk just in
19845s	the green room or backstage or like on
19847s	the stage 20 minutes before we about to
19849s	go live and you tell him you'd never
19851s	heard him exclaim and try and make him
19853s	shout random
19854s	things yes
19857s	yeah I do remember and it was very funny
19861s	because Derrick is very uncomfortable
19863s	when he's put on the spot he's also just
19866s	a naturally awkward human being you
19868s	could have ended that sentence a lot
19869s	earlier yeah Derk is very uncomfortable
19871s	the end end
19873s	sentence the end yes so whenever you say
19877s	Derek why don't you like yell I never
19879s	heard youa why don't you yell more he
19881s	then he'll literally
19883s	refuse if you let it come naturally it
19886s	it he would have done it but if you put
19888s	him on the spot now every time he he's
19890s	going to go to yell for the rest of his
19892s	life he's going to be like what if I
19893s	look like an idiot
19896s	nope and that my
19900s	friends is why Derek Brown has not
19903s	yelled in seven
19905s	years I feel like when you describe it
19907s	like that what you're actually doing is
19909s	bullying that's what you're
19912s	describing so I didn't realize this
19914s	until like you know after Derrick Brown
19917s	had stopped casting like a year ago when
19919s	I was doing it I was legitimately
19921s	like does he does he just not yell like
19924s	can he not does like does he just not
19927s	have the ability to go to a higher
19929s	volume it was more out of curiosity than
19931s	anything
19932s	else okay maybe for the last couple
19934s	months it was bullying but yeah he
19937s	bullied me too that's
19939s	true he bullied my
19941s	country
19947s	wow so his American accent is fantastic
19950s	though all right moving
19951s	on balance taking his turn on the
19955s	warrior did find location which um I
19958s	think is going to be absolutely premium
19959s	in this matchup you can already see how
19961s	it's started to do some work against
19963s	these board States from tan soku he two
19965s	ones coming down any threat of security
19968s	as well but it was something that was
19969s	missing from Tans soku's
19973s	draw and this is the other half of the
19975s	hand like this has some nice minions to
19978s	buff in it but no anime ractor or handu
19981s	tools specifically to go with
19986s	them it's kind of what TJ was alluding
19988s	to earlier like you kind of have these
19989s	pieces that need to line up at the right
19991s	time with this deck uh build of the deck
19994s	has changed over time as well it used to
19996s	be fairly common to see enrage warrior
20000s	with the Riff package thrown in there as
20002s	well so you could like play corus Rift
20005s	to initially buff some of the key
20007s	minions in the deck and dig them out
20008s	that way and actually guarantee them
20010s	your hand for the Animo extractors but
20013s	uh not a popular build of the deck these
20015s	days when you're trying to make room
20016s	with for things uh like battle warn
20019s	faceless and trial by fire the uh sort
20021s	of super premium cards to to make their
20023s	way into the deck
20030s	now I like the tri by fire addition to
20032s	the
20033s	deck Tri by fire is just a card like
20036s	it's it's just good remember scale of
20039s	anix it's just that
20042s	again yeah except better
20046s	because if you do it twice in a row and
20049s	the other ones
20050s	stick you can just win games yeah but
20053s	worse because Warrior doesn't play it on
20055s	turn
20057s	four true
20066s	yeah I mean sometimes they do if they
20069s	played from the depths in a different
20071s	version of the deck
20073s	yeah not this
20075s	version Li did you know that the feeling
20078s	of oh my God I'm about to say something
20079s	is soil going to crucify me for it
20081s	actually extends to me as well I'll
20083s	actually correct myself for saying
20084s	things that are
20089s	done you've ascended
20095s	yep all
20099s	right so I know you were saying you
20101s	didn't necessarily mind this deck this
20103s	deck being spell DH like I am not on
20106s	board with this as a pick to me from
20108s	what little I've seen of this in this
20110s	meta obviously I've seen a ton of this
20111s	deck in general but it's kind of just
20114s	gives me that Meme of like the like the
20116s	poking the dead animal with a stick meme
20118s	you know like the come on when are you
20119s	going to do something Vibe like that's
20121s	what I get with this deck it just seems
20122s	to spend an awful lot of time drawing
20125s	and powering up through its anime Arc
20128s	and it never actually unleashes the SP
20130s	Spirit Bomb like that's been my
20131s	experience of watching this deck try and
20133s	compete with with the like Heavy Hitters
20135s	in The Meta right
20137s	now I think that's a na description um I
20141s	mean the deck can do like a lot of Chip
20145s	damage like very early on especially
20148s	against Decks that like aren't playing
20151s	minions really yeah you can get like
20153s	marker scorn scorn damage basically what
20156s	we saw last turn if all that had just
20157s	been shipped face yeah that's like just
20160s	10 damage that you can do on turn four
20163s	and if you keep kind of weaving that
20165s	level of damage in then sure you
20169s	know like the Ultimate Death By A
20171s	Thousand Cuts that just happens pretty
20173s	quickly but you're right it doesn't have
20175s	it can have explosive turns but
20177s	everything has to just
20178s	align um but they can sneak winds out of
20181s	nowhere uh especially you know dispose
20185s	of evidence like just sneaky little bits
20188s	of damage here and there uh can add up
20193s	quickly it's got a choice of weapons
20196s	here um the double sanguin depths on the
20199s	other side it's a little bit
20201s	scary but I think I want to go for ra
20203s	damage and go for the Scythe instead of
20204s	the alrai war
20207s	blades yeah I
20217s	agree roaring Applause
20220s	let the pain speak to
20236s	me I still uh I don't recognize the raps
20240s	cities
20241s	well that one is draw three cards okay
20247s	thank you s you are welcome
20253s	just a blur of
20255s	color I mean speaking of Chip damage
20258s	still a
20264s	lot coming in from balances side as well
20268s	ooh Taste of
20270s	chaos security nice pick up as well but
20273s	yeah probably worth going for the taste
20275s	just to try and cash out into some more
20276s	direct
20277s	damage uh met
20280s	is that but feels a little bit
20285s	expensive
20287s	yeah you already have an emulation or I
20289s	guess like double emo can clear boards
20291s	and then but I beam I beam you're not
20294s	playing it this turn it could get tucked
20296s	away in a place where you won't want
20300s	it yeah maybe it is still just meta cuz
20304s	yeah double emo could clear boards
20306s	unless that board has Animo extractor on
20308s	it and then you're probably just giving
20310s	your opponent lethal the turn after that
20312s	anyway right if you end up casting
20313s	double imulation or on that board okay
20316s	does go for it
20325s	sure but I think balance will be fairly
20327s	appreciative of the fact he is running
20329s	out of time
20337s	here and this is just the exact opposite
20340s	of what we saw in the previous game
20342s	right like we saw Tans soku just having
20344s	a bunch of Buffs and having getting the
20346s	arrage effects taken over but just no
20348s	premium minion to land them on like
20350s	balance has drawn the alra drawn a bunch
20352s	of card draw to look for other stuff but
20354s	just hasn't really been able to get a
20356s	great deal of the enrage Synergy going
20361s	yeah strengthes
20365s	thees burn away
20368s	the
20371s	this is huge
20372s	though yep and uh even I guess double
20378s	imemo security oh oh never
20381s	mind never
20384s	mind yeah and I'd imagine the the guards
20387s	were exactly what tanoko had in mind
20389s	with the double imulation Aura pickup or
20391s	with the second imulation Aura pickup I
20392s	think that is very good recognition now
20395s	as I look back on it these feral Spirit
20398s	style cards are so in The Meta right now
20401s	we've seen it from Shan so many times
20402s	already in the tournament we've seen it
20404s	from Warrior several times in the
20405s	tournament there are a lot of decks that
20407s	really like direct access to your face
20409s	from hero to
20411s	Hero um and just being able to stack up
20413s	multiple taunts with single cards is a a
20415s	very powerful tool to have in the game
20417s	right
20425s	now we go Mana efficiency here and just
20428s	ah never mind you got to go double
20431s	Lio I was going to say go for the war
20433s	ban
20435s	but you still leave two minions up
20437s	that's a lot of damage to leave up
20439s	leaving seven power on
20441s	board trying to like count damage and
20444s	see if it's even
20448s	worthwhile is not is not it
20458s	wasn't
20463s	just Jam the ogre
20465s	and just APM the sangin dep
20474s	under makes her first attack
20479s	[Music]
20482s	yeah tough to pull off but when you can
20485s	it's just
20486s	incredible unbeatable some i' say
20492s	well more taunts is
20494s	good especially after seeing that much
20497s	AOE
20502s	yeah has a jam session as
20506s	well yeah we're also like starting to
20508s	get to the point where
20510s	like I guess the Crazy R is not buffed I
20513s	still haven't seen the anima extractor
20515s	but any any type of board sticks then
20518s	we're looking at crazy rat
20520s	jam session
20522s	and a swing with the uax and and we're
20532s	cooking okay takes the armor in the end
20535s	uh over any card drawer or even the jam
20542s	session really just trying to stretch
20545s	out this hell total as far as he
20548s	can
20549s	[Music]
20553s	I grow
20558s	impatient is there a way you can fit in
20560s	the sigil and still clear up enough
20562s	stuff to be
20566s	safe I think you're fairly safe overall
20569s	right like you're not feeling good
20571s	because it's a big board but I don't
20572s	think you're too scared of dying this
20575s	turn because you haven't really seen any
20577s	of those buff effects go off right so
20579s	the the reach hand is relatively
20588s	small so I think you can squeeze it down
20590s	this
20601s	turn yep
20603s	okay cute little decision from tansu
20606s	using the uh the two summon from the
20609s	security as opposed to the three summon
20610s	from the security just as to not leave a
20612s	one on board which kind of helps balance
20616s	with what he wants his cards to do in
20617s	terms of one damage on either of those
20620s	minions of his choosing at that
20631s	point how much damage we looking
20635s	at crazy wet jam session
20640s	plus a
20644s	[Music]
20650s	swing so is the craze WR still vanilla
20653s	stats I think it it's vanilla stats I
20655s	don't think any animal tractor has been
20656s	played at all
20660s	right you have 7 10
20665s	12 16 19 is
20670s	uh I thought 21 because you'd also get
20672s	the imbu ax on every minion because the
20674s	jam session would mhm oh no wouldn't be
20677s	year 19 because the Crazy R itself or
20681s	whatever minion you play the jam session
20682s	on itself wouldn't be
20686s	damaged very close
20693s	regardless need see some big draws here
20696s	tonsoku
20699s	yeah momentum Chief among them you would
20711s	imagine
20715s	ah he's kind of
20718s	De yeah the bounce Soul options uh since
20722s	we haven't gone through them Silver Moon
20723s	archinist uh joton and uh speaker
20727s	stomper yeah none of which
20730s	help at all in this
20735s	situation and yeah like I said no no
20738s	momentum to just juice up the war blades
20740s	as much as humanly
20749s	possible yeah I don't think you can heal
20751s	enough at all I mean you could heal and
20753s	remove some stuff off the board throw
20755s	out the like dispos of evidence and the
20758s	security to clean up a little bit more
20759s	stuff
20763s	but balance has a lot of well a good
20766s	amount of damage from hand I should say
20769s	yeah it's actually a big clear though
20771s	since you uh unlock the security on the
20774s	left hand side as
20780s	well that was such a weird sequence to
20783s	attack those minions in
20784s	like surely while you're roping you
20787s	focus on killing the thing that's dying
20789s	first before you queue up the other
20791s	attacks
20802s	okay all right now balance can start
20805s	trying to land some Buffs if he needs
20807s	to did he just has he just picked up a
20810s	pen I think he's
20813s	counting he's literally on pen and paper
20816s	pick trying to count lethal all right
20819s	that's uh I haven't seen that since the
20820s	dream hack
20825s	days I mean it's got to be it within bux
20829s	it's a million damage isn't
20836s	it give or take doesn't even need the
20838s	sanguin depths I'm pretty
20842s	sure y h yeah I mean yeah qualifies as a
20846s	million still didn't use location yeah
20848s	yeah you're right it's way way
20850s	over yeah it's not pen and paper worthy
20853s	it's not that's that that's like one of
20855s	those you get 20 games of a rage Warrior
20857s	under boat you're like yeah that's it
20859s	that's
20861s	enough and yeah Demon Hunter give the
20863s	eyeball test demon hun is just not
20865s	really performing still to to this point
20868s	I don't think we've really seen it have
20870s	a a good showing so far looking at the
20872s	stats of the deck overall 35% all demon
20875s	hunters in this tournament so um the
20878s	demon Hunters are quite thinly spread
20880s	there's like Casey is one Relic Demon
20883s	Hunter in the tournament there's I think
20885s	there's one spell and one Outcast Demon
20887s	Hunter um so it's very very thinly
20889s	spread but Demon Hunter as a class is
20892s	performing very very poorly at 35% win
20894s	rate at the moment so it just doesn't
20897s	feel like Demon Hunter was the bring at
20900s	all uh the players who have chosen to go
20903s	with to go with that have not been
20904s	rewarded to this point and we're just
20906s	seeing another kind of struggle game
20908s	here from tans
20911s	yeah now we're in a Down 2 situation
20916s	and Demon Hunter needs to get a win
20919s	across the
20920s	board and I don't know if it's going to
20922s	be able to do it now Rogue is a deck
20924s	that I feel can beat anything and can be
20927s	beat by anything um but that also like
20932s	it goes both
20933s	ways um
20935s	and having three tries to win a game
20938s	with Rogue there's not that many decks
20941s	that i' put my faith in more uh because
20943s	it's got sort of this Baseline
20945s	consistency with some pretty intense Hy
20948s	roll
20948s	potential um so we'll see but not
20952s	looking good for old buddy tonsoku here
20956s	and you can see the passion is starting
20957s	to uh to wne a little bit in his
20963s	eyes I love this uh this new arc that
20966s	you are so deeply in tuned with tanu's
20969s	emotion that you can you can sense how
20972s	he's feeling through a mere webcam
20975s	always have
20977s	been there was a lot of talk around like
20980s	straight after the Nerfs or when the
20982s	Nerfs were announced even cuz um
20985s	obviously these these players had to
20986s	start planning basically as soon as they
20988s	knew what the Nerfs were because they
20990s	had you so little time between the
20992s	actual uh patch hitting and the the the
20995s	deck submission there was a lot of talk
20997s	early on that secret Rogue was just a
21000s	deck you weren't going to see in the
21002s	tournament uh because of the the neutral
21005s	cards that did take a hit in it with the
21006s	prison breaker and yog and Etc like
21009s	Rogue in general being one of the yog
21011s	classes Rog and Druid being the big two
21014s	in that regard but it's just such a
21016s	robust deck overall and it's such a
21019s	disruptive deck overall um with just the
21022s	amount of secrets that do stay in play
21023s	and just the ability to just delete
21025s	cards from your opponent's hand at will
21028s	with Gastly graved figger and that I
21030s	think players have come back around to
21031s	it quite quickly and just gone you know
21033s	what we can still squeeze a yog effect
21036s	into this deck by uh by going back to
21038s	prison instead and just hoping that that
21040s	bails us out in the situations where we
21042s	were leaning on yog
21044s	before yeah and I feel like that's yog
21047s	was kind of just like a bailout option
21050s	right y but I mean yog is was pretty
21053s	much bail option for every day that ran
21055s	it but more so in Rogue and the amount
21059s	of things that they could do with it so
21060s	prison does kind of I feel obviously
21063s	doesn't fill the whole Gap but fills it
21065s	enough to where de still has its
21070s	strength this one could be a struggle
21072s	one though just
21075s	because if you can't build up enough
21077s	Tempo against the hunter earlier you
21079s	don't really have the the as explosive
21081s	of turns especially as like say Miracle
21084s	Rogue um you do need time to sort of
21087s	build up
21089s	to those power turns and that's time
21091s	that the Hunter's just smacking you in
21093s	the face yeah he did start prep bone
21096s	Spike private eye into Gravedigger
21098s	though
21100s	so things are looking fairly rosy as it
21103s	stands
21106s	yes can actually even
21112s	uh but that's it
21115s	right but that's it that that's all the
21118s	cards
21120s	it's all his cards he has no more
21123s	cards it's got to be brightwing well
21127s	actually contadero you're like well if
21128s	I'm spending all this time and energy
21131s	getting rid of cards I don't want him
21133s	just refill but that's still two turns
21134s	away so so relax it's okay S I know what
21137s	you're thinking but just
21139s	chill it's so hard to chill though when
21142s	the stakes are this High
21146s	TJ I know
21150s	I know living
21164s	all
21168s	weaving
21177s	weave
21184s	yeah you you need to look for
21189s	drop syptoms will be
21195s	y all right it's kind of cod it's the
21197s	next best
21198s	thing it's not going to be yellow it's
21201s	going to be
21204s	blue I think it's going to be
21207s	green it's going to rip
21210s	it yeah defile oh no see I told you
21215s	that's
21216s	it yeah still three secrets in play
21218s	though like tanoko is sitting around
21220s	like very irritatingly floating mana and
21223s	really not doing much on his turns cuz
21224s	he's trying to maintain this uh resource
21227s	Advantage which is kind of the only
21228s	thing he has going for himself right
21230s	now and in the the course of doing that
21233s	he is just kind of slowly Bleeding
21237s	Out
21247s	I think you got to dump a conjured Arrow
21248s	here huh you conjured Arrow then Ric
21251s	Ricochet
21260s	shot no
21262s	okay do you really need two cont
21267s	arrows
21277s	apparently yes you
21278s	do
21281s	yeah oohm no thank
21286s	you no no no I'll I'll pass can we uh
21291s	try again
21292s	please would like to M these
21295s	choices it's it's usually
21299s	well I don't
21303s	know yeah I was going to say just go for
21306s	the Mage secret try and Bluff something
21309s	that's better than vengeful
21311s	V
21313s	yellow ah yes Green Oh that green is
21316s	actually nuts in this situation second
21319s	best to Yellow Actually I don't even
21320s	think so I think it's just
21324s	best I can get behind that
21327s	sure
21330s	if you get a roll a three four off it
21331s	then yeah sign me
21334s	up yeah the Ben for vicious vengful
21338s	vicious
21339s	VI Actually I don't even know if the
21341s	Titan would have been the right call in
21342s	that situation but tonsoku does not want
21346s	to play to objection spend his whole
21348s	turn and then take a bunch of damage so
21350s	yeah and you sort of alluded to it but
21352s	it's why you know we were just kind of
21354s	dunking on the on the secrets themselves
21356s	like the actual choices for player that
21358s	can see them were not good uh but in
21362s	that situation pick the Mage one because
21365s	having a mage Secret in play makes your
21367s	opponent play around the best possible
21370s	cards for you right they have to play
21372s	around counter spell they have to play
21373s	around objection they have to play
21374s	around explosive runes that is massively
21377s	disruptive to their turns especially
21379s	when their best turn involves just
21381s	playing a single six drop minion on
21387s	curve
21389s	what even is this
21394s	card the three4 no I
21396s	did okay it's like can you Shadow step
21399s	this
21400s	thing whatever it may whatever it may
21411s	be just going to continue to try and
21414s	Whittle down tonsoku this is like the
21417s	opposite of what this matchup is usually
21420s	like this is usually what the rogue's
21422s	hand looks like and they're trying to
21424s	scrap to take as little damage as
21429s	possible uh balance has
21434s	nothing uh it does
21436s	dredge blood sent Vin battlecry dredge
21439s	if it's a murloc change its cost to
21441s	health instead of
21445s	Mana
21447s	oh oh no
21451s	no should have Shadow stepped it be gone
21454s	foul witch yeah why didn't you dredge so
21456s	he could have drawn any other card that
21458s	wasn't this
21473s	oneu though just doesn't have
21477s	damage
21479s	[Music]
21481s	well does but three of those damage
21484s	things are the same
21488s	yes you can't do them all and outside of
21491s	that it's just one damage
21495s	card going for
21507s	taunt
21510s	yo
21512s	really that is
21516s	bold the only knowledge you have of your
21519s	opponent's hand is that they have a card
21521s	a randomly generated card that costs
21523s	less than it should that has been
21524s	completely unplayable up until this
21527s	point like the Hearthstone historian in
21530s	you just thinks you're about to get
21531s	pyrro blasted doesn't
21536s	it yeah
21540s	could be looking out a lethal right
21542s	now yep you got to go for it right yep
21547s	damage damage damage game series oh
21552s	let's
21553s	go oh my gosh just from nowhere and
21558s	that's the punish for swinging no no no
21561s	it was 12 to 10 it was 12 to 10 it's the
21563s	same thing okay
21567s	yeah
21569s	to be fair you're
21571s	correct
21574s	regardless balance just pulling that one
21576s	out of nowhere all the chip
21578s	damage all led up to that moment yeah
21582s	tonoko I felt like just spent the whole
21584s	game doing nothing but that's the tempo
21586s	start from the Rogue yep and uh it had
21589s	to be because it was doubled it had to
21591s	be double spell damage into double spell
21594s	damage could have had a mixture right
21595s	could have done like d uh damage into
21599s	draw and then uh drawn into something
21602s	else that may have helped clear up the
21603s	board a little bit but it was a lot of
21605s	damage staring at him from the other
21607s	side it was so much yeah and H like that
21610s	game from the Rogue like I'll recap that
21612s	entire game for you from the Rogue okay
21614s	it was prep bone Spike private eye
21617s	nothing nothing nothing nothing nothing
21620s	nothing nothing lethal that that was the
21623s	game like that was literally all the
21625s	Rogue did the entire game was prep bone
21627s	Spike private eye and then follow up
21628s	with the I guess the Gastly Grave Digger
21629s	afterwards after that nothing happened
21633s	um and it was just that little piece of
21634s	Chip damage here in there and like I
21637s	said just annoyingly having to play
21639s	around those secrets and just make sure
21641s	that you pick them apart appropriately
21643s	just meant that tansu just slowly bled
21646s	out to like a 4-3 and a 34 over the
21648s	course of the game and then yeah balance
21650s	had to get lucky at the end and balance
21652s	did get lucky at the end but that is the
21654s	third series I have cast today TJ and it
21656s	is the third 30 if you want if you want
21658s	quick games get me on stream that seems
21660s	to be the rule
21661s	today yeah not going to happen not going
21664s	to happen cuz you're done for the day so
21667s	it's that's the end of the three three
21670s	O's um but we actually only do have one
21673s	more match left to go uh on the day uh
21677s	which means we only have one more spot
21678s	left in the quarterfinals tomorrow to go
21681s	I'm a little bit sad for tonsoku happy
21683s	for balance don't get me wrong but sad
21685s	for tonsoku um tonsoku been in the
21688s	situation many many many many many times
21690s	qualifies to a big tournament and then
21693s	uh doesn't quite Go the Distance has had
21695s	some big tournament wins but great
21697s	player playing for this long it's bound
21699s	to happen but I feel like this happens
21701s	more often than than the other thing
21703s	happens and uh probably not going to be
21706s	playing Demon Hunter for a while should
21708s	put it that way should put it that way
21710s	but sole thanks for joining me on this
21713s	cast on Flamingo Saturday it's been
21715s	fantastic but we're going to have to go
21717s	to a break
21718s	before we jump into our last match of
21719s	the day so don't go anywhere more action
21721s	here from the Hearthstone Master tour
21723s	fall Championship right after
21737s	[Music]
21746s	this
21749s	[Music]
21756s	[Music]
21764s	[Music]
21842s	[Music]
21952s	[Music]
21956s	hey
21959s	[Applause]
21963s	[Music]
21986s	hallelu
21997s	[Music]
22010s	[Music]
22015s	Hello everybody welcome back to the
22017s	heart Stone Master tour fall
22018s	Championship my name is TJ I'm joined by
22020s	Neil lenda Bond it's time for the last
22022s	game of the day late night Hearthstone
22024s	with Neil and TJ that's what we call it
22025s	here that's what we always called it it
22027s	was always late night Hearthstone with
22028s	Neil and TJ and it still is and it's
22031s	going to be some good Hearthstone we
22033s	think should be because it's going to be
22035s	re V and inor recam bringing that shadow
22038s	priest which I believe is banned which
22041s	like makes it was correct to bring
22044s	it uh you could think that way sure
22048s	or nobody expected it uh so then it
22050s	draws a ban um but I think it gets some
22054s	unnecessary heat it's kind of an All or
22057s	Nothing deck but whatever uh going to
22058s	the brackets here we saw from group a
22060s	Hemlock and weq making it through uh the
22063s	two players that'll make it into uh the
22065s	quarterfinals tomorrow pretty stacked
22066s	group I think most people would have
22068s	said oh Casey and Gabby are making out
22070s	of that one but nope it's not what
22071s	happen this group may be slightly easier
22074s	to predict May Banner face and levic the
22077s	two players uh moving on levik just uh
22079s	you know just playing some Horst for
22081s	funsies you know just chilling kicking
22084s	back slugged some cards levik style I I
22088s	think he's secretly become one of the
22089s	very best players in the world over the
22091s	last two or three years just just crept
22092s	up there pocket train and balance
22094s	secretly okay well Raven spotted him so
22097s	we we pretend we never noticed him Raven
22099s	was the first person go this leit guy
22100s	looks kind of good you know these days
22103s	so we don't talk about we never talk
22104s	about getting anything right
22108s	gotcha gotcha rocket train there getting
22109s	through balance also coming
22112s	through and this group still to be
22117s	decided yeah last spot right there that
22120s	Crown bottom right last spot in the
22122s	quarterfinals will it be inur will it be
22126s	ream find pocket train and MC banter
22129s	face um still in the tournament in this
22131s	final nine and I mentioned those I mean
22134s	mey was also in the event as well um
22137s	those people with their streams have
22139s	really carried this system on their back
22141s	this season they've given us an insight
22143s	for 10 months now until how they're
22145s	qualifying they've streamed pretty much
22147s	every inch of the way you know pocket
22148s	train took a month or two off but we've
22150s	seen a lot of the tournament via those
22152s	players on ladder but quick look at
22154s	inkuru um first Master's tour appearance
22157s	of this year uh but has been playing for
22159s	nine years that's a long time favorite
22162s	class of Rogue favorite card coin of
22165s	course it is if your favorite class is
22166s	Rogue of course of course your favorite
22167s	card is the coin it's the one you show
22169s	your opponents when you die on turn
22172s	six
22173s	yep but here it is TJ the the secret
22176s	Rogue what do you make of this TJ it's
22179s	it's a fun deck I guess a lot of people
22182s	would say um outside of the gravedigger
22184s	which might not be so much fun unless
22185s	it's you're the one doing the the grav
22187s	digging I mean it is so fun to play so
22190s	fun to play um I'm a pretty big fan of
22195s	uh break dance and um there not one in
22199s	here so that makes a little
22202s	sad that's interesting they usually
22205s	is yeah I think uh like one I don't know
22209s	there's not really a standard for this
22211s	list it kind of player by player right
22215s	especially after the changes mhm um I
22217s	think break dance was better with when
22220s	uh the yron was how it was two days ago
22224s	yep um because you were playing so many
22227s	spells Y strong come out for super cheap
22229s	you could break dance it immediately
22231s	have access to another yog also get a
22232s	pretty big Min with with Rush um so but
22236s	I still like the card I think it has a
22238s	lot of uses as like a secondary Shadow
22240s	step uh but it can make for some extra
22244s	uh dead hands um at times if you you're
22247s	tripling up on spells uh but at the same
22250s	time it also makes it so you're you feel
22253s	better to use Shadow steps and break
22255s	dance earlier cuz you know you have a
22256s	lot of them uh left in the deck right
22258s	you can play it for Tempo um you can
22262s	feel more confident in doing Gravedigger
22265s	Shadow step right for ultimate
22267s	disruption but I'm going on and on about
22269s	a card that doesn't even exist in this
22271s	deck so I'll stop now and we can uh take
22273s	a look at ream and ream known for being
22276s	top 100 in Americas of course some time
22278s	ago that was very good but you know
22280s	regularly doing better than that now I
22281s	guess um catbat computer during
22284s	Hearthstone game who hasn't had that
22285s	happen seriously
22288s	uh my cats have never broken my
22291s	computer I have two of them they you
22293s	will learn TJ you will they're very
22296s	doglike cats um they were effectively
22300s	raised by dogs of them when they were
22303s	still like being bottle fed they were
22304s	like 2 weeks old then their mom
22307s	abandoned them and so and we just raised
22310s	them in the rooms with all the dogs
22312s	around okay so they kind of roam around
22314s	in the pack they like go outside with
22316s	the dogs they come in with the dogs they
22318s	play with the
22319s	dogs so to be fair they're not really
22322s	they're not really cats they're just
22323s	dogs that look different okay I think I
22326s	understand but this Warrior deck we've
22328s	put it on the screen because everybody's
22329s	been Banning it it's been banned a huge
22331s	percentage of the time in this
22333s	tournament 85 oh sorry 69% ban
22337s	rate so far um yeah but it's just a nice
22342s	deck right people love to hit people in
22345s	the face for a million on turn
22348s	okay yeah it does
22353s	have I want to say some weaknesses but
22355s	they they're they're pretty small I feel
22357s	like this is powerful decks uh in the
22359s	metag game right now obviously with the
22360s	band rate um sometimes in tournaments
22363s	the Decks that are banned are maybe not
22365s	necessarily the strongest decks but the
22367s	Decks that just match up the best
22369s	against the three particular Decks that
22370s	are left open for you but I really do
22373s	think that this one is uh is very good a
22375s	couple weaknesses being like
22378s	um the like board wide clears uh can be
22382s	lacking at times uh sanitize if you're
22385s	unable to get it forged and you don't
22386s	have armor because you're taking a good
22388s	amount of damage that can sometimes be
22390s	difficult to use and Bladestorm has
22392s	always kind of been sort of this awkward
22394s	removal where um not every board you can
22398s	just blade storm away uh the other
22400s	weakness is doesn't have a way to win
22401s	the game if it can't draw Odin two it
22404s	doesn't have a way to win the game if it
22406s	you're under too much pressure to play
22408s	Odin uh which is another one that if you
22411s	like deck that pressure like right
22412s	around that point where you want to play
22413s	it that turn you always have to think
22416s	can I play Odin here can I get away with
22417s	playing Odin here and if not like when
22421s	able to play but we still that if not
22423s	you play it anyway and try to get
22425s	there pretty much dead on board like by
22429s	the time depending exactly what you're
22431s	up against but in general your
22432s	opponent's probably just going to make
22433s	another board if you clear this one and
22435s	you're still not going to play Odin so a
22437s	lot of the time you look at it and go am
22439s	I actually dead and if you're not dead
22441s	in the realistic world you just play
22443s	Odin and hope it all goes away cuz you
22444s	come back so quickly the next
22447s	turn
22448s	yeah
22451s	yep there's reck
22454s	them there's
22458s	anuro that's preserving their energy
22461s	TJ yeah for the um the battle that is
22465s	about to begin
22468s	yeah what would it be like to be raised
22470s	by
22471s	dogs like you or are you talking yeah
22475s	anybody anybody how would you end
22479s	up I don't know sometimes I I have so
22481s	many dogs sometimes I feel like I'm
22482s	raised by dogs and how did you oh dear
22485s	yeah okay that's um I have six them
22488s	forunate six dogs mhm and they're all
22492s	older than you no no so they didn't ra
22498s	if you factor in dog gears what is dog
22500s	gears is it seven seven
22504s	[Music]
22507s	yeah a average right yeah so your your
22510s	brothers with
22512s	dogs yeah like my my oldest two dogs
22516s	would be older than me if you're taking
22518s	in the rule of dog
22520s	ears and how was that being raised by
22522s	dogs did you great yeah it was
22525s	great
22528s	okay got the keyboard but we haven't got
22531s	the cold case on the bottom here for re
22533s	that's definitely um unusual still some
22536s	time don't worry he'll top deck it yeah
22537s	he's fine yeah still some
22541s	time regam is due a little bit of luck
22544s	in one of these as well he he seems to
22547s	attract the the really horrible bad
22549s	beats as well
22555s	so
22559s	it's got I feel like it's got to be
22562s	knowledge
22564s	here right
22567s	yeah uh scoring's okay but then your
22570s	hand fills up a bit
22574s	rapidly yeah the knowledge is
22578s	better oh my
22585s	goodness yeah we both and then Infiniti
22588s	just to get some stuff on the board and
22589s	just to try and fix our hand
22593s	so
22596s	wowow it's still to to a one onome card
22598s	draw and a repeated card it's not
22600s	exactly a disaster it's just not a
22605s	44 uh instincts go to Frozen touch just
22608s	because it has the frost tag um also
22612s	just probably one of the best in there
22614s	just to get these Wis wisdoms
22617s	a little bit
22623s	down
22625s	and just jam and get his cards reduced
22628s	next
22630s	turn
22632s	true which looks decent right I mean I
22636s	would take it just with the 5 five like
22638s	come on
22643s	yeah you do have to consider you are
22645s	giving up um
22647s	a weapon charge not because the coin
22648s	triggers it but because your your your
22650s	spells are going to cost so
22654s	little yes and the wisdoms are going to
22657s	go down at Cost
22663s	regardless I might just rip a wisdom now
22667s	get a four four off you go oh okay well
22670s	I can still do wisdom after this because
22672s	this is Shadow so wisdom go down to
22674s	three uh sure
22681s	H okay it's going to make things
22687s	tough oh okay never mind going
22690s	infinitize nope wisdom all right
22692s	literally everything did everything
22694s	differently than I said or would have
22697s	done yeah exactly the same as me I would
22699s	have also done everything differently I
22701s	the TJ way uh maybe wanted to end on our
22708s	Kane uhhuh I don't
22713s	know he's going to have a handful of
22716s	very powerful cards but slightly
22720s	slow
22722s	yeah cuz if you infinitize you end on
22725s	Frost
22732s	right yeah cuz he played the Frozen
22734s	touch immediately before that yeah
22739s	yeah you definitely want Arcane
22740s	especially with this hand which is
22741s	slightly clunky if powerful yeah so now
22744s	I can play the lady and then have an
22748s	elemental inspiration next turn which is
22751s	actually quite juice been Arcane
22754s	shadow um Frost
22757s	Frost that do oh the what was the secret
22760s	is a secret fire ah explosive runes yeah
22763s	it's in
22764s	hand well
22766s	on the bottom I know it's got F image
22768s	but sometimes they don't match the
22772s	image and curl's actually doing some
22774s	good stuff over here though this is a
22776s	lot of demage got a flash lined
22781s	up it's going to have the the double
22783s	nature reduction next
22786s	turn with zapper double bolt double
22792s	crash oh style points as
22795s	well
22798s	slow it all down yeah yeah or speed it
22800s	up you look at
22803s	it this is speeding it up this might
22806s	this is a lot ton of damage too because
22808s	his norgon just
22810s	represents effectively lethal thinking
22812s	about whether or not to kill the totem
22814s	thinking about break points here yes
22817s	this is very much do I win next turn do
22818s	I lose next turn
22825s	yeah so he doesn't win next turn so
22827s	might as well kill the totem is I think
22829s	what the conclusion he came to and he
22830s	always wins in two turns that was what
22833s	that
22835s	was yeah in the world where things don't
22837s	go wrong that's what I mean if if the
22838s	damage keeps coming you don't need that
22842s	too yeah and it's not doable here I
22845s	don't think is it I don't think so he's
22849s	going to have a go for
22851s	it okay find the saved yeah
22858s	oh and hits the flash off the second oh
22861s	that's sick so now ream needs to go cuz
22865s	he's in his mind he he can die next
22869s	turn yeah without the radiance
22871s	[Music]
22875s	though is it
22878s	enough no right now but it changes
22885s	fast
22887s	okay it's just going to completely clear
22889s	off the board here yeah with the
22892s	crash so kind of respecting the uh the
22896s	push trying to not die to just like
22898s	single Forge molten
22900s	Rune uh also trying to let this Radiance
22903s	live right that's a big deal um CU then
22906s	we'll have double reduction next turn
22907s	which actually could end up being enough
22909s	damage it's just the crash right now in
22911s	terms of burn but they would be double
22913s	reduced by luminescence the Flow Rider
22915s	as well to be able to
22918s	uh pick up another spell from the deck
22922s	another lightning reflexes
22925s	potentially just to note recr has
22927s	playing all three seven drops like
22929s	double Elemental inspiration and norgon
22931s	which I think it's reasonably rare you
22933s	only play one of those three cards they
22935s	alone all
22936s	three it's Mage you can do whatever you
22938s	want I mean you can all the cards are so
22942s	powerful Arcane bolt very good pickup
22945s	just pie ping together damage damage
22948s	after
22950s	damage only playing the one volume up I
22952s	can get behind that
22955s	actually it does sometimes get a bit
22957s	cluttery
22959s	Yeah so Kur knows this is explosive
22964s	runes so kind of has to play inza in
22967s	this situation uh just to stop taking
22970s	some
22971s	damage I find with in though I mean
22973s	you're saying you have to play and
22974s	you're right but you're looking for an
22976s	excuse to play in so you don't have you
22978s	know anytime you get an excuse to play
22980s	it yeah on it and that's game
22985s	regardless Forge M Rune the radiance
22989s	actually has the plus fire spell damage
22990s	as
22991s	well it's it's never used for
22995s	that literally never except in this
22998s	instance um cuz we're so used to seeing
23001s	it in Shaman that we don't ever think
23003s	about the nature
23004s	discount um it does something for frost
23007s	too doesn't it I don't even
23011s	know yeah we saw Gabby predation face
23014s	earlier with a siing play like you can't
23015s	spell damage predation that's against
23017s	the rules but that's cuz we always see
23020s	it in Demon Hunter where you're not
23021s	allowed to because of the
23024s	arist but that was a quick one for recam
23026s	and should settle him down he's again
23028s	not had a terrific record on stream
23030s	which is just coincidence we've seen
23032s	some of the incredible ways they found
23034s	to beat him over the last year or two
23039s	yeah oh Radiance for sure when we cast
23041s	Frost but plus three
23044s	armor there you
23048s	go okay the replay is regram just
23054s	one it's the whole
23057s	game that's it it looked good here not
23060s	good but it looked like Inu from his
23062s	side might have had a chance there with
23063s	that clear but yeah re had everything
23067s	in didn't need all the four FS who needs
23070s	four Fs in Hearthstone when you can just
23071s	throw things at their
23074s	face yeah I think that would have been
23077s	without the norgan on that would have
23079s	been uh enough from in curl too with the
23081s	radiance so big deal um all right I want
23085s	to see some Warrior I'm waiting all
23090s	day yeah I win all
23094s	day
23097s	what's up te I win all
23101s	day I know as a collective we've seen it
23104s	but I've been waiting all day to cast oh
23106s	I
23107s	see I
23109s	see well let's hope you get to see
23113s	it it's one of those decks that's
23115s	actually quite good fun to watch a bit
23117s	and you don't want to watch it a
23119s	lot fine
23122s	hey apt a bit of spice for the for the
23126s	broadcast it's nice it's it's good it's
23128s	cool but you know if you if you if you
23129s	put all the Warriors in playing each
23132s	other all day which we haven't
23134s	had it becomes a little bit bit
23137s	overspiced two more draw cards loads of
23141s	cards who does that favor here they both
23143s	want
23148s	cards tend to find it favors aggressive
23150s	decks right because the yeah it's got to
23152s	be the Rogue because Shaman's going to
23154s	draw cards regardless
23157s	sometimes they draw too many cards yeah
23159s	they're going to have enough cards don't
23160s	worry don't worry and this this gear
23163s	shift is actually a pretty good spot as
23166s	well
23168s	yeah but what do you want to keep you're
23171s	going to get a handful of cards so do
23172s	you ever need the gear shift probably
23179s	not this sort of situation is what the
23181s	anomalies were made for where recam is
23183s	now having to seriously sort of consider
23184s	how that impacts the this
23187s	Mulligan realizing that you getting two
23190s	cards extra anyway so you can just dump
23192s	yeah dump and find five good
23195s	ones yep that's what he's done that's
23197s	pretty good that's pretty good oh yeah
23201s	that's the good stuff right
23204s	there and curl's got a pretty decent
23206s	start too with the uh zapper on the play
23209s	into Flow
23212s	Rider there it is gift of
23214s	gluttony
23218s	how many anomalies have we seen today
23219s	four about that yeah sounds
23226s	right yeah look at this start and now
23228s	we're snooping all the
23231s	way double
23233s	Snoop
23235s	yeah he's going to Snoop
23238s	him Snoop him real
23244s	good
23250s	mecro with two extra cards is just
23253s	broken oh jeez so silly he's got so many
23258s	options like coin Snoop is just what I
23259s	do here because that's what I do but
23262s	there's so much going on
23265s	here yeah you have seven
23269s	cards I might even just be like click
23271s	locker plus drone it is tempting isn't
23274s	it your board's looking a bit sketchy
23277s	against these um 3 ones two ones it's
23279s	just not a pleasant situation like you
23281s	say just just add some more stuff and
23282s	start snooping next turn get the cards
23284s	out your hands do a bit of a a gear aoo
23287s	to get some more cards to dump when you
23288s	start getting coins every turn and off
23290s	you
23292s	go just get that gear shift shifted but
23295s	he he he goes with the Sens option
23299s	snooping he going to Snoop
23303s	yeah and then replay
23306s	play the
23309s	clock we got to get everything down to
23312s	one
23313s	syllable Snoop clock shift pit drone
23317s	base
23320s	base
23322s	zap
23323s	gilg are you
23325s	okay Gil is Titan that's that's two Sy
23330s	yeah got to Gil it just gilg them up are
23334s	much more fun
23337s	oh my maybe we got a Thor
23343s	here actually to be fair Snoop shouldn't
23346s	be Snoop it should just be squirrel
23347s	squirrel
23349s	yeah we both got to squirrel exactly how
23352s	did you start talking about one syllable
23353s	without saying squirrel first all we
23356s	ever talk about oh we got a ping and a
23359s	tote
23362s	totes play the Heat coule
23369s	Bots that the wave really made a mess of
23373s	this board didn't it that's a stealth
23375s	born bot right
23382s	there all
23384s	right
23386s	in plenty of nothing going on which is
23388s	what this deck does to start with before
23390s	it suddenly leaps into
23392s	life
23394s	yeah
23397s	always going yeah some sometimes you can
23399s	just load up the Jazzy and then play
23401s	your other
23402s	Jazzy and just the Mana carries
23406s	over he just wants more cards cuz why
23408s	wouldn't you look at all these
23413s	cards yeah I needed to
23418s	uh set up the Titan for next turn we
23422s	don't want stom right do we ever want to
23424s	stomper really I mean I want a stomper
23427s	not right now but I want one so many
23431s	options don't you want your good stuff
23433s	for next
23437s	turn we could do some things we can
23439s	serated it into the things that we get
23442s	yeah the penguin
23445s	attack yeah I kind of want to just play
23447s	everything else this turn and then next
23449s	turn stomp stomper into gear shift sure
23452s	I can do that I can buy into
23454s	that
23456s	so you bone Spike Pit
23460s	Stop
23462s	evaluate all right whatever do it this
23465s	way too fine yeah see if I
23471s	care just going to ignore the Min
23475s	completely keep this
23479s	stealth set up for the Dage next
23482s	turn yeah
23485s	so what do we add on this
23489s	base um at least two
23493s	yeah I at least two
23497s	more maybe like can we go for like a
23501s	clear on the spot at least for the big
23503s	part of it like just pop off this turn
23506s	like build like big board clear you
23509s	know EO
23512s	Radiance you don't know what V's hand is
23514s	but you know two of those cards are Bots
23516s	and you know get through the big things
23518s	you've got rid of both snoops yeah you
23521s	don't have enough damage I don't think
23522s	cuz if you go Radiance plus zapper yeah
23525s	there's no other Airway besides the
23527s	crash and you can't get the crash to be
23528s	at
23532s	eight so if you can't
23534s	clear make a load of
23537s	stuff yeah I think I think you and would
23539s	talk about how good taunt is in his
23540s	current
23542s	mattera it's very good
23545s	sneaky good yeah and holding back on the
23549s	bone
23550s	Spike be a pretty big deal here looks
23553s	like we're just going to start with the
23554s	gear
23556s	shift yeah look for the the old Spike
23558s	spike world right it's a thing that you
23560s	can do yeah yep kind of needs it at this
23574s	point
23577s	oh
23581s	inie it's usually so
23593s	good oh the came out right at the same
23596s	time as me
23600s	Jinx yeah must Sho soon
23604s	jinx TJ you are speaking
23607s	words want you to know
23615s	that yeah this is pretty good go
23620s	the
23622s	yeah it's all right I mean it clears off
23626s	the Titan which is important but does
23628s	nothing for re's game plan seemed like
23631s	it's such a great start but inurl just
23632s	kind of dealt with the board in chunk
23635s	and then the taunts just really super
23638s	awkward that had a lot of damage loaded
23641s	up if you get the in on there then
23643s	everything would be pretty nutty but he
23645s	just couldn't quite find a way to get
23646s	there yeah it was very
23649s	awkward yeah and now we're starting to
23651s	get into all right every turn I could
23654s	die
23656s	territory
23658s	um I mean is it worth kind of popping
23663s	off a little bit here
23665s	like getting rid of the one Mech that's
23667s	left on the board nah just going to be
23669s	an inza it's just always inza unless you
23672s	kill them yeah
23675s	crab h i mean it's clean right like it's
23679s	clean you can clear the board and leave
23682s	behind the Krab TOA plus a another
23684s	weapon and push
23686s	four
23689s	yeah is that ideal it doesn't sound
23691s	ideal I mean it doesn't feel like enough
23696s	is there an any play there's an any play
23698s	next turn if you keep your minion
23700s	alive uh yeah ream shakes his head he's
23704s	sort of going through the same thought
23705s	process as we are but probably 10 times
23707s	faster
23709s	like there's plenty of plays that if you
23712s	didn't know your opponent had eight
23713s	cards in their hand and was playing a
23714s	deck that kill you with like five you
23717s	wouldn't mind
23723s	yeah you can't take the eight damage I
23725s	don't think so the crab looks more and
23727s	more
23731s	friendly can you do anything with any no
23734s	you kind of want eight Mana for every
23736s	good play in this
23739s	hand yeah spent the whole turn looking
23742s	for an alternative couldn't find
23744s	one got to be the
23749s	crab cratis me
23752s	Captain yeah
23760s	all right incur it's turn eight you've
23761s	got nine cards start start doing it's
23764s	got it's got to be enough just got got
23766s	to be
23768s	enough Radiance
23772s	zapper Radiance zapper turn the
23776s	tide smack
23780s	bio lightning bolt overdraft at that
23783s	point crash will cost
23786s	not much one zero two two you've got a
23789s	million Mana because there's there's all
23792s	over this is Jazzy as well it's it's so
23794s	much damage there's not there's no
23797s	infinite I got to like 15 when you were
23800s	just counting through it then and I'm
23801s	sure that this is even more than
23804s	15 yeah you may not even need the the
23808s	Jazz you don't do it if you can't count
23812s	it just just have all your cards cost
23813s	zero OB cost like one but you
23816s	know yeah he just played a Million cards
23819s	and hoped that re exploded I think he
23821s	knows it's probably lethal doesn't even
23823s	need the crash I don't
23825s	think villion it's even more than a
23830s	million yeah he's already dead there's
23833s	still a crash well done
23837s	yeah just a million damage all right
23840s	tied up the series we'll play game I
23843s	thought the uh anomaly I mean we both
23845s	talked about it thought that it would
23847s	favor the Rogue a lot and the opening
23848s	looked fantastic yeah uh but I think we
23852s	needed the uh uh spoter earlier like if
23855s	one of those snoops was a
23857s	spoter uh to try and protect it in the
23859s	early game I think ream could have run
23862s	away with it having the double Snoop
23864s	while flashy uh just didn't get enough
23867s	Health didn't have enough protection on
23869s	the minions to really allow them to
23870s	crash enough yeah the sh hit a wave
23873s	which you know
23875s	does things yeah yep that does things as
23879s	well that's one of way just auto wins I
23881s	feel in this is this match up
23885s	yeah but at the same
23887s	time n never
23892s	mind yeah if you have a spoter maybe you
23895s	can go all in with a snoop try and ba a
23898s	wave and then
23902s	spoter poost inko having the extra cards
23905s	meant he was able to play a couple of
23907s	minions very early which just challenged
23908s	a couple of things on the other side
23910s	which made the magnetizing awward which
23911s	made the Snoop award like you say spoo
23913s	none of that happens it just sits there
23916s	spoing yeah that's what they do spoo all
23921s	day yeah um but we got an even Series so
23924s	we got Rogue on both sides and then Muro
23927s	has Mage ream has
23929s	Warrior
23931s	so I'd say we got a pretty uh close
23933s	series I think the
23935s	uh do
23936s	differ
23938s	um yeah I think um inko is
23943s	playing the secret Rue let me just
23945s	double check that cuz I've got it wrong
23947s	every time today yes he is playing no it
23948s	is it's the it's the blink
23950s	Tron Tron secret Road y m see BL Tron so
23956s	sometimes I can struggle against the
23958s	mech road if you if you don't get
23963s	your like temp bow tools early on the
23965s	game if you get like your value
23967s	generation then you can struggle for
23970s	sure I want's
23973s	um bandwagon here because I feel like
23977s	he's won in the band phase by getting to
23979s	play Warrior like inur is playing the
23982s	lineup is the four classes that many
23985s	people have brought or a very big
23986s	combination of those four classes and
23989s	he's had to leave the warrior up there's
23990s	a reason everybody's Banning Warrior is
23992s	it's good against his lineup so
23994s	especially the shaman gone I I kind of
23996s	fancy re's Warrior to be the outstanding
23999s	of the the four remaining
24001s	decks it's not a free win or anything
24004s	but I think he's in the better spot him
24007s	yeah it can certainly falter but very
24010s	powerful deck uh in the Keda game as uh
24015s	shown by the bands across the day we'll
24019s	see if that's going to be the pick for
24021s	reim going into game three here or
24024s	he's going to decide to try and get a
24026s	win across with the uh mecro
24030s	prior this are really matter at the end
24033s	of the day it does take one with all
24035s	them but you know might depend how he
24037s	feels maybe he's got a read
24041s	TJ ah
24043s	yes go down that path NE huh yeah I've
24046s	haven't been down that path for
24048s	years let go down the the re path yeah
24052s	re path of destruction let's go down the
24055s	conquest piw path it's one of my
24057s	favorite
24058s	paths it's a little bit overgrown
24061s	nowadays used to be one of the uh the
24064s	hottest the hottest paths in town the
24066s	hottest Trail walked by hundreds daily
24072s	now only the the true hiking specialist
24075s	can take on The Conquest pick order
24077s	Trail it's those people who have to walk
24079s	down it like in the UK we have public
24081s	foot paths and if they're not walked in
24083s	X years they the person who owns all the
24085s	land around it gets to sort of steal
24087s	that bit of land so what happens is
24089s	people there's a list of all these foot
24091s	paths that people haven't walked on for
24093s	like 20 years and somebody will go oh
24095s	there's the list I'll go down that and I
24097s	it keeps the foot path open it's a
24098s	public foot path that's like a
24101s	legitimate law yeah I I may I may have
24104s	like got it slightly wrong but
24106s	oversimplified it a little bit basically
24109s	the foot paths are just a way through
24111s	somebody else's territory that is right
24112s	of way for the public if they're not
24114s	walked in X years then they vanish but
24118s	there's there's people out there who who
24119s	walk them to make sure that they don't
24122s	get closed there's a list of ones that
24123s	might get closed and people just walk on
24125s	them to stop them from being closed and
24126s	it last another million years or
24128s	whatever it is cuz I could see like a
24130s	world where like a legitimate business
24132s	strategy where you buy land that's next
24134s	to public foot
24136s	paths and then you like scare people on
24139s	the paths they don't want toore I mean
24142s	yeah and then you get then you absorb
24145s	that land yeah sell it at a premium you
24149s	have to maintain it for a foot path I
24150s	think that's how it works but yeah some
24152s	of these foot paths are incredibly
24154s	difficult to walk down where people are
24156s	a bit naughty with their um cutting back
24159s	all their Hedges and stuff you trapes
24161s	around not I've done any of this of
24164s	course it's cuz somebody's probably
24166s	already caught on to the
24167s	strategy but the the amount of years is
24169s	some large number like it might be 20 it
24171s	might be 50 it's it's one of those
24173s	numbers
24175s	it's like 2 years or something
24178s	so long-term completely ruined my
24181s	business plan all right cool all right
24183s	we can move on now you can said it was a
24185s	family business like the foot path steal
24187s	is in or something yeah this takes too
24190s	long to pay off way too long to pay
24193s	off you my yeah all right get the
24198s	Warrior in action here good start for
24200s	anuro though private eye concoct into
24203s	private eye got a stomper waiting in the
24206s	wings ready to go yeah but Ream's got
24209s	Odin in his
24210s	hand yeah but you got to get
24213s	there
24215s	uhhuh true okay he's got bridge and
24218s	trial by Valkyries in his
24228s	hand get you there doesn't
24230s	it it
24232s	should yeah I mean if infinite
24235s	objections and counter spells come out
24236s	that are the correct thing that that can
24238s	be a
24251s	thing this is what you say about blad
24253s	storm earlier sometimes it can just be
24255s	little bit
24261s	undesirable it be a tough removal spell
24263s	to use just really going aggressive with
24266s	the getting these secrets out of the
24269s	deck um yeah so that's got to be sticky
24274s	situation
24276s	us and the one that I always forget the
24279s	name of is double cross sticky situation
24281s	cross there you go double yeah double
24283s	cross cuz both perjuries have been used
24284s	at that point one of the secrets sets up
24285s	is the second perjury secret the first
24287s	one was
24288s	objection there's the Grave Digger ready
24290s	to steal
24292s	Odin
24295s	doesn't steal it it sort of does it
24298s	borrows it or borrows
24306s	it you value trading
24309s	TJ no just removing ah actually there's
24314s	no secrets
24317s	left it's just to takeing more power off
24320s	the board though right mhm and it's not
24323s	like getting rid of the removes the
24324s	ability to Shadow step asor cuz you can
24326s	Shadow step any piece of it along the
24328s	way yeah for the same
24332s	effect ah well it was freezing trap
24334s	anyway so so it didn't matter disregard
24339s	why couldn't it C just have told him it
24340s	was freezing tra and saved us all 20
24342s	seconds
24346s	hey that's a very very valid freezing to
24349s	look at this damage that's coming
24352s	in
24358s	actually is pretty powerful
24369s	um
24371s	that's so annoying I
24376s	know and you see all those fours and you
24378s	think blad storm right you got to try
24380s	and set that up but you can't so you
24382s	don't think that
24384s	oh
24390s	no is it is it yog next turn must be a
24393s	better way there there's valkyrie's next
24395s	turn we're okay valkyrie's next
24398s	turn you
24401s	think I mean blingtron actually is just
24404s	sick here to be quite honest with you
24406s	this just so much damage holy moly
24412s	ouch it's just a 55 battlecry deal five
24416s	effectively you know when I said that
24418s	ream seems to get these draws in
24420s	tournaments it's just not fair like this
24421s	is one well I mean this draw wasn't
24425s	terrible for reim it was just the draw
24428s	from Muro was nuts I mean all the
24429s	secrets came out of the deck by turn
24433s	five and just had like a a great Tempo
24437s	start followed up into MC
24442s	blingtron so you got to work out if the
24445s	Valkyries is
24447s	enough then you've got to work out am I
24449s	jamming a
24451s	yog just the old
24456s	prison Valkyries is not quite
24459s	enough um you can go one into a 3 four
24463s	then the two into the oscill three into
24465s	the one bump from the
24467s	34 but then you leave five damage on the
24469s	board because your last your 44 doesn't
24472s	die
24477s	okay that's that down two more spells to
24480s	go oh no uh this went badly we'll never
24485s	know what the third one was but NOP oh
24489s	dear two1 to Inc nods
24493s	sagely yeah that was just uh a nice
24496s	display of the tempo side of the rogue
24500s	deck in action get in the private eye
24504s	um and showing why blink Tron is strong
24506s	too that was just an extra five damage
24507s	that was pushed for a five5 it's one
24510s	thing that Rogue can struggle with is
24511s	they have too much value but not enough
24513s	way to just straight up close out a
24515s	game um blinkon helps with that also
24519s	Cana as a weapon destruction is the
24522s	second part of that benefit uhhuh um but
24528s	yeah ream now down 21 Warrior did not
24531s	look super fantastic there but I don't
24534s	think it was a terrible draw I just
24536s	think that the RO just got the better of
24537s	it like had OB objection and then
24540s	freezing trap just completely blocked
24543s	what he was trying no 10 Mana spell 10
24545s	damage spell for the war that's always
24547s	makes it a bit tougher you're supposed
24549s	to draw that one which one talking about
24552s	sanitize um no the don't make me know
24555s	what it's actually called bellowing
24557s	Flames there you go oh yeah that would
24560s	have been great but like in terms of
24562s	just things to do
24564s	right not not a terrible opening it was
24568s	fine um had had things to do just the
24570s	things that he wanted to do were getting
24572s	blocked by like the perjury
24576s	Secrets uh from the side of anuro so now
24580s	we're going into potentially the last
24581s	game of series potentially the last game
24583s	of the day uh if inurl can take a win it
24588s	is going to be the warrior versus the
24589s	Mage two shots on Mage against anything
24593s	right now is you know probably where you
24596s	want to be you take this wouldn't you
24597s	you get two shots of Mage at the end of
24598s	the day to get to day
24600s	two it's pretty good pretty good
24603s	situation for
24607s	anuro there you go there's Odin
24611s	mhm so just do nothing six turns coin
24613s	out Odin then play Heavy plate bash and
24615s	you've won right easy essentially
24620s	yeah and your opponent hasn't drawn
24622s	their weapon
24624s	which is a gross oversight as a mage and
24627s	makes it a lot
24630s	harder excuse
24635s	me in my
24639s	radi
24641s	oo holy spell lack luster selection but
24645s	again it's still um yeah just another a
24648s	holy spell that deals damage sign me up
24652s	yep you be please play before you know
24654s	it
24664s	TJ
24666s	wonder I mean it kind of feels bad to
24669s	get rid of this hand after you forge the
24672s	sanitize and have
24674s	Odin yeah but it really does Finley
24679s	looks a little bit
24682s	appealing probably wonder where his hand
24684s	was last
24686s	game this would have been a good hand
24688s	last game kill your thing kill your
24690s	thing clear your board in that order
24692s	like yeah
24696s	yeah yeah he's going to do it yeah you
24699s	can always get the Odin back with the
24701s	the chorus Rifts it's not the biggest
24703s	deal in the world draw into it it's
24706s	third bottom as well so it's in dredge
24709s	range cu the right hand car goes on the
24712s	bottom
24719s	as I understand it I know who to blame
24722s	if that's incorrect sounds right but
24725s	just the tempo start here from uro is
24736s	brutal H this this just okay
24742s	though
24745s	cuz the tempo starts to run out now for
24746s	a turn or two for the Mage they still do
24749s	very powerful things while they're
24750s	waiting
24757s	but the damage has definitely been
24761s	chalked up won't be
24765s	impressed another cold
24768s	Cas yeah just keep it up you've got this
24772s	little momentum just yeah just
24776s	go
24779s	now there's a bellowing Flames clear
24781s	here with a swing and a
24784s	bump swing and a
24787s	bump and then a ton of armor to be
24791s	gained
24793s	post but will it be enough is the
24796s	question because going to need
24799s	yeah all the skeletons are still going
24801s	to deal four and going to have been a
24803s	lot of spell schools played by the time
24805s	we get
24806s	there H still needs a considerable
24808s	amount of setup time but oh oh keyboard
24812s	volume up oh my God that's
24817s	disgusting
24818s	oh make it
24829s	stop all right can go Bridge Rift verse
24834s	riff play that popped out to
24837s	me first
24841s	yeah like what else are you trying to
24843s	achieve what are you trying to achieve
24844s	stop this maybe you do
24848s	opposite yes I could buy into that if
24851s	you just give up on winning the board
24853s	now and try and win with
24854s	Odin
24857s	yeah I just stay alive because you are
24860s	dying pretty rapidly and you expect to
24863s	board clears to be there from the side
24865s	of
24867s	enur um yeah I'm not sure this is tough
24871s	I think you to me into it which is but
24874s	then forcing them to spend mana on board
24876s	clears is also like reasonable it is and
24880s	then there's also just not playing Rifts
24882s	at all and just going like Shield Block
24885s	Stone skin yeah just trying to draw
24887s	through the deck find something a little
24889s	bit
24892s	better
24893s	I know I don't think even ream knows
24895s	what he wants to do right now he's
24896s	running out of
24904s	time it's going to go all the way
24906s	through the deck or attemp
24911s	to try by fire gives him something to
24916s	do yeah it feels like he's way too far
24919s	behind that's three wisdoms that are
24920s	free oh my gosh
24925s	it's just
24928s	horrible now he's just showing off
24934s	TJ gods are just flying
24936s	around oh
24940s	no oh this is going to be so
24944s	disgusting is that like every spell
24947s	School believe so after the the
24950s	nature I'm not actually certain now you
24952s	say that
24955s	[Music]
24966s	checking yep spells in your
24968s	hand just just reducible I thought it
24971s	did I thought I'd done
24975s	that and then draw SI and win the win
24978s	the
24978s	Hearthstone
24981s	yeah
24987s	he's just checking to see if he can draw
24989s	any more spells before reducing 83
24991s	maners worth of stuff doesn't
24996s	matter also has the option to just play
24999s	the um armor G and just put a bunch of
25002s	for fighs on the
25008s	board you want to do something
25010s	terrifying going into the Odin turns
25012s	that's an option
25015s	right yeah but I mean you
25019s	I true yeah we know that Odin couldn't
25022s	have been drawn at this point but incur
25024s	does not
25027s	so I mean I don't think you even really
25029s	need the element Elemental inspiration
25031s	at this point just draw more cards at
25033s	this point just emptying out a card in
25034s	hand so you can draw more with wisdom
25036s	and then get there
25039s	you you cannot play into this so that's
25042s	a great point it is however the cleanest
25044s	blad storm I've ever seen okay another
25048s	reason to have played the artificier
25050s	maybe just the juiciest just the
25053s	Bladestorm to end all blad storms but it
25055s	it accomplished its goal of not allowing
25058s	ream to play
25059s	Odin if he had had it and at this point
25061s	Ram's just kind of got to start hitting
25064s	the armor button like just getting as
25066s	much as
25067s	possible cuz the longer you go without
25069s	them playing Odin the longer you go
25070s	without playing your Alibi with which is
25073s	the longer you get towards your Sith
25075s	with nine cards left in your deck
25080s	yeah also just got a count you haven't
25083s	got 27 at some point here as well I mean
25085s	you haven't but you've got a
25091s	lot oh your keyboard's not so good now
25093s	you reduced all the cards in your hand
25094s	is
25095s	it I don't know clutching at anything
25100s	from re's
25101s	side
25103s	my goodness how much is
25112s	this 13 or
25118s	something it's more than that it's a lot
25120s	more than that I mean it's not enough
25123s	and he can't really do anything so
25131s	yeah
25133s	right there it is third
25141s	bottom good
25143s	luck I want to see a game five oh he has
25148s	Mana oh okay funnel cake ice barrier n
25151s	it doesn't matter pack the house that
25154s	might matter
25156s	can that was sick that was
25161s	amazing you're
25165s	Go's only's AE on health look at this
25169s	yeah but are you really evere as soon as
25172s	a SI draw the game ends yeah I
25174s	understand that's not a
25177s	Sith not
25186s	yet is it plus seven spell
25190s	damage it's so many
25193s	I'm I'm bad sift
25195s	tracker yeah cuz
25198s	the there was eight damage so yes it's
25201s	plus
25201s	seven so the Minions that weren't so
25204s	Ream's got to get to
25206s	60 59 damage I
25217s	believe or he could just kill his
25221s	opponent
25229s	yeah that's not 60 but it's four
25238s	closer but he set up lethal somehow 44
25244s	okay
25246s	uh still a one and eight for Sith
25249s	there's got to be more dra Plus card
25250s	draw like there must be so much draws
25253s	double solid
25254s	Alibi yeah which is basically actually
25257s	solid Alibi is not that great here I
25259s	mean it's good for one turn
25261s	but or two turns he's got two no but
25265s	like they're coming in for seven if you
25267s	count a weapon that he hasn't got yet
25270s	there's a lot of stuff coming in plus a
25272s	yog like that that could just die with
25274s	random missile stuff or
25279s	whatever but only because there's so
25281s	many minions right you see do you still
25283s	take
25284s	damage but the yeah I'm talking more
25286s	about the second one but hey maybe y
25288s	just gets
25291s	there four spell d four four py bars a
25295s	face for four one
25299s	short got I find something
25304s	TJ uh well you could do the uh Moonfire
25307s	it's not Moonfire what's it called moon
25308s	beam four Moon beams is actually lethal
25312s	to
25315s	face deal one damage twice
25318s	oh Jo join zero Mana bash do you have
25323s	this in a bigger
25324s	size it's it's still not enough trying
25329s	so hard F Flames to Face by
25335s	mistake okay he's clearing up the stuff
25338s	SI is still enough I'm pretty sure 48
25342s	here D do you yor I don't know what to
25344s	do no cuz you don't know this second
25347s	Albi
25351s	uh oh is it just dead oh needs one
25355s	instance of damage to get through the
25357s	solid Alibi so IO actually has to spend
25360s	how much of this stuff can he spend on
25361s	clearing
25364s	minions uh none at this point course's
25368s	High Health total reality
25370s	yeah but he gain a million aror and then
25372s	play it okay of his
25375s	own uh to make The Alibi
25380s	work okay that's tutor
25388s	SI The Alibi but now we're down to oh I
25392s	missed didn't dra sift
25395s	what it
25401s	missed
25403s	oh
25405s	no in surely is not going to miss onon
25409s	times any armor gain here with the five
25412s	drop he what when Fury armor light
25417s	of infu armor yeah I got
25424s	it so now we're at
25427s	50 yes and a m Run's gone uh-huh
25433s	he's
25437s	alive oh what a game of
25441s	hearthstone cuz that's 40 in hand and
25444s	now he thinks 39 40 with a ping oh my
25448s	goodness do you press the
25452s	button cuz a little bit of healing will
25454s	go a long way here but blowing up your
25456s	own board will also go a long way you've
25458s	got the
25460s	weapon what do you do TJ I think you
25462s	have to press it but you're going to
25463s	feel so
25471s	horrible he's done
25474s	it good luck
25488s	everybody
25489s	okay okay what's the other one I can
25492s	only tell what the is plagiar eyes it's
25495s	just plagiar eyes okay there's Sith but
25498s	I'm pretty sure it's 40
25503s	damage right CU it' be plus seven
25507s	yep H spell damage uh plus seven nature
25510s	Arcane yeah I think it's
25521s	seven don't
25523s	think open oh my is is there one more
25528s	um mol Rune
25531s	left let me look um I mean you're asking
25534s	me to look so I
25535s	will inor Mage molon Rune one
25541s	times yeah
25545s	no so you lady nashar then Flames lady
25551s	nashar Belling flam double smack armor
25555s	up yeah you gain
25564s	16 oh no he's leaving a minion up
25566s	because it's more armor if it attacks
25569s	face oh my God he's had so much oh jeez
25572s	even if the mol room was there wouldn't
25574s	it be enough damage this is insane this
25577s	is like the most arm I've ever
25579s	seen oh 74
25590s	even oh it's still not enough he's had
25593s	74 oh my
25596s	gosh he's gone through the everything
25599s	how has he done
25605s	this 71 will your um yeah
25613s	cool oh no Inu is just out of
25622s	plan just tal
25625s	five oh just get a random secret and
25627s	hope it's bugged gives you five secrets
25630s	and 20 Health Runs
25635s	Out is this a
25641s	concede
25648s	you are unable to comprehend
25652s	okay what I don't
25656s	know what was
25658s	that
25662s	unclear just happened I don't
25666s	know he's got a plan and I can't work
25668s	out what it is he has a card in mind
25671s	where that was good what
25676s	now cuz otherwise you can seeed it if
25678s	you're just straight up tilted there
25679s	there's a reason for that and I can't
25680s	see
25682s	it oh making I was going to say making
25685s	space in hand for tentacles but we don't
25686s	play yog anymore does he play yog no
25688s	okay just thought got
25690s	check uh what
25696s	now there's another Elemental
25698s	inspiration left right oh sure but why
25702s	would that matter it why would you
25708s	yeah
25711s	um maybe he's got an achievement to
25720s	do like he hasn't conceded so he has an
25722s	idea why that was what he wanted to
25729s	do we'll see in a minute he has
25731s	something in mind that will fill his
25733s	hand full of spells or
25743s	something well sanitized does 49 to
25751s	everything Jam say he clears off the
25753s	Divine
25755s	Shields what about doing it
25760s	twice
25763s	is there a lethal
25765s	here I mean that's
25768s	Y is there a real lethal here
25773s	no what's in the Riff
25776s	wait there's a bridge in the rift that
25778s	doesn't go face no um I want to find a
25783s	lethal TJ s it is a
25786s	verse isn't
25788s	it cuz he bridged and then ended with a
25791s	verse last
25795s	turn
25798s	Okay so
25802s	yeah
25805s	yeah
25813s	sanitize what was all spell oh
25817s	Reverb is it
25820s	73
25824s	so that's why he did them last turn cuz
25825s	he knew about the Reverb and this is how
25826s	much the Mana works
25828s	out but it's not enough and it's not
25833s	enough that explains the play and that
25835s	makes me happy
25839s	[Music]
25841s	okay wow wouldn't that have been better
25845s	to just wait for the Reverb for the
25850s	noron uh
25852s	like unloaded the Sip with all the burn
25854s	spells and then nor Ganon reeverb for
25856s	the extra
25858s	damage I don't know no the Si's doubling
25861s	nines the Si's doubling lots of
25865s	nines whatever they
25868s	were yeah but like for in terms of like
25872s	Max damage over two turns so you get a
25876s	lot of chunky damage
25878s	twice yeah cuz that was no it would have
25881s	been a brown the same right he's also
25884s	dying cuz with all the burn spells in
25886s	hand like every single one it was the
25889s	ones that he dumped the previous turn it
25891s	was like
25893s	49
25895s	um so if you do it this way it ends up
25899s	being 60 plus the extra three that he
25901s	did but you don't get the norgan norgan
25903s	on it works out to be not enough in both
25907s	cases but I think this this way is
25908s	correct yeah the way he did it also
25910s	shows that he was better than us which
25912s	is good cuz he knew how to spend the man
25915s	well he also knows what cards are left
25917s	he does know what's in his deck as well
25918s	which is a big help us
25922s	yeah knew the elemental inspiration was
25925s	there
25926s	yeah it was going to be tough regardless
25929s	uh I mean that was still a ton of damage
25932s	that was what 38 plus uh
25937s	18
25939s	56 yeah
25942s	yeah that was 56
25944s	damage
25946s	and re was able to get out of it
25949s	but uh I mean if C had come even just
25952s	slightly earlier in that game for in
25954s	curl ream had no chance
25957s	so both decks showing off there what
25959s	they could do without Odin without cth I
25961s	know C was used at the end there but the
25964s	it got really close without the SI early
25967s	on and re managed to survive and do
25969s	things without the oak oh here we go yon
25974s	for all the oh
25976s	jeez it's mechro we're not getting to
25978s	that
25979s	point
25982s	uh it's funny that it's the last game of
25985s	the day yeah in horon just like here
25988s	have AR we were joking about what's the
25990s	worst anomaly you could get for the
25992s	final and you know just seeing what
25995s	silly situation yon came up in that
25997s	except obviously not in this match up
25999s	where it just won't matter yeah
26004s	but here we
26006s	go nothing for inkuru at all or was
26010s	there a Reverb actually cuz that's not a
26011s	disaster if there is no it's
26014s	Alibi ah
26017s	keyboard yeah keyboard picked
26021s	up keyboard is
26024s	something re's got
26027s	spers so the play here is to work out
26031s	how to not get reverbed and how to use
26034s	these Spas so that doesn't happen I mean
26036s	coin Spa into Spa is a thing you can do
26039s	just see what
26047s	happens yeah and for spoter definitely
26052s	attack three Mana you get through you
26054s	ain't getting through six heal yeah and
26056s	then the next one you have to consider
26057s	but you probably attack
26060s	again probably oh polymorph
26065s	jellyfish yep you never expect the uh
26069s	the Whirlwind Slamm polymorph
26078s	jellyfish I think you also see what you
26080s	get here too right of course
26083s	yeah
26084s	oh ooh
26090s	okay
26091s	if you hit for four and then stealth
26094s	it's not a two turn is
26096s	it uh 22 plus 8
26100s	16 18 is
26103s	it not
26108s	quite four 5
26111s	6 7 8 9
26114s	10 is it
26117s	not it is it's exactly 22 over
26124s	there ah but he's going to split the
26126s	difference yeah I think the other way
26128s	was
26129s	was exacts but still there cuz there's
26132s	two fours now that's fine yeah if there
26136s	was a cold case that had come out then
26138s	you would have kind of gone all in to
26139s	one
26140s	minion and not had lethal right this way
26145s	it kind of splits it
26150s	up
26153s	so now if you go attack and then
26156s	spoo even if a Cold Case comes out
26159s	you're still good
26162s	yep however it's a solid Alibi in
26166s	hand I wonder if inur would make the
26169s	read in that
26172s	scenario oh it's so awkward is the Rogue
26175s	rogue's really I mean people are going
26177s	to dislike me intensely for saying this
26179s	I think rogue's really interesting for
26180s	the six turns of the game where you do
26182s	this
26187s	stuff just going to look what's in the
26191s	box toys are much more fun
26196s	to oh no wait it wasn't wind
26199s	Fury so it wouldn't have been I thought
26201s	I also thought it the blue one was wind
26204s	Fury did it used to be wind
26207s	fury it's a different color it's like
26210s	darker
26211s	got
26213s	it it's very confusing no my bad so it
26216s	makes a lot more sense now okay yep
26218s	makes ton of
26221s	sense it was reborn it took me forever
26224s	to notice it cuz the green ones and the
26226s	blue ones just kind of meld together for
26230s	me and there's the coal case off the top
26233s	so
26239s	o so can in Kuru I mean ream hasn't
26243s	played many spells and doesn't play many
26245s	spells
26246s	anyway hardly any in fact
26249s	right so the yog's not particularly
26251s	great just wondering if if he can
26253s	actually assuming that ream doesn't get
26255s	there with all this stuff we're looking
26256s	at now which seems unlikely that he
26266s	would that being said there is no Reverb
26269s	in hand at the moment
26272s	stealth
26274s	anyway so Alibi number one oh Alibi
26277s	number two in hand now as
26300s	well
26303s	I the going to go for the armor first
26315s	though
26316s	oh this time oh jeez oh jeez there oh
26322s	there it is it's just a slightly darker
26324s	blue same color don't care what that'll
26327s	do it that'll do
26329s	it enough damage and W from I was scared
26333s	honestly for a second there uh very
26337s	scared just because felt like it was
26339s	slipping out of his hands you you see
26342s	the look his face that that's a look of
26343s	oh my goodness finally not yeah he
26346s	didn't dare believe that he' actually
26348s	got to day
26349s	two here he is finy to get a little bit
26352s	of luck along the way yeah honestly and
26356s	those last two games it was a good
26357s	amount right having Sith be like bottom
26360s	four in the previous game he was dead
26363s	like two three four turns in a row and
26367s	then finally just hit the nuts armor
26369s	gain the plagiarized lady nashar to gain
26373s	eight Armor Plus the wind Fury into
26375s	armor gain axe over the course of two
26378s	turns he ended up gaining like 20 plus
26381s	armor to get out of range of every combo
26383s	that anuro could do because the zp was
26385s	so deep into the deck and then in this
26387s	game looking like it was slipping away
26390s	and Kuro get slightly greedy there but I
26392s	think it was the right choice I think so
26393s	too um with the lady n at the time you
26397s	make the plan exactly or you would have
26399s	been dead previously you know the win is
26401s	not there it has to come off the top um
26404s	and there's no way to magnetize that
26406s	much I don't think you know with the two
26408s	bots in hand the only out maybe yeah
26411s	that wi off the top would have been the
26413s	only out and then he gets a five five on
26415s	the board so if he lives through that
26417s	turn he's smooth sailing cuz he's got
26418s	the double solid Alibi so agree with the
26420s	choice
26421s	but the the scrap bot came off the top
26423s	and was able to hit the wind Fury uh
26425s	right at the end there to take the
26426s	series so well play doing curl I
26427s	definitely think that that was a a a
26430s	nice series agree uh but just didn't
26433s	fall his way uh today didn't fall his
26435s	way ream is going to be taking that last
26436s	spot in the quarterfinals yeah the
26439s	streamers have done done the proud look
26441s	at this pocket train re with banter face
26445s	people we we've seen all year long mey
26448s	not getting through but that's a lineup
26451s	for that reason like we've seen these
26453s	players go all the way to our face if
26457s	you like they've shown as everything
26459s	they've got all the way through the year
26461s	and we're going to get to see them go
26462s	head-to-head pocket train and recam
26464s	there but levik I don't know might be
26466s	the talking point for me despite those
26467s	three being in levik qualifies for
26470s	worlds takes a few months off comes back
26472s	just qualifies again and here he is in
26473s	another top eight he is the last two or
26476s	three years got a claim to be maybe even
26479s	the best player in terms of Tournament
26481s	results yeah I would
26484s	agree and we got a pretty even split in
26487s	terms of uh Regional representation as
26490s	well uh which is always nice to see mhm
26492s	uh when we get to these top eights uh
26495s	all three of the the major regions Asia
26496s	Pacific European americaas all
26499s	represented by multiple players in the
26500s	top eight which is awesome awesome um so
26504s	could be happier also I think uh I felt
26507s	like the level of play kind of leveled
26509s	up throughout the day saw some akes
26510s	early but then that sort of subsided and
26512s	I thought think we saw some quality
26515s	Hearthstone uh towards the end of the
26517s	day obviously it's hearstone you get
26519s	anomalies you get
26521s	craziness uh the cards fall in one
26524s	player's favor more so than the others
26526s	at times but thought we saw some very
26528s	wellplayed hearstone uh highle
26532s	stuff yeah again inco there um I I
26535s	talked about it a lot from RE V's point
26536s	of view but inco there seem to play a
26538s	lot of very good stuff again even that
26539s	counting at the end just showing you he
26541s	knew exactly what Mana he had exactly
26542s	what damage he could do even without
26543s	losing Mage game a good display of
26545s	exactly you know how to maximize your
26548s	damage um but bam did get it done in the
26551s	end there and again you're finally
26553s	getting a little bit of luck in one of
26555s	these big tournaments because he has
26556s	been unlucky but another thing he did
26557s	there was kept his call ream known for
26560s	ah game three's gone badly yeah but he
26564s	managed to not do any of that there was
26565s	very little emotion shown really kept it
26567s	together and sort of earned that bit of
26569s	good luck in some ways by not
26571s	giving up beforehand yeah
26575s	yeah strong mental is the name of the
26577s	game a lot of times Especial strategy
26580s	games where you kind of need to be on
26581s	point at every single turn and that's
26583s	that bottom player bias coming in the
26586s	player at the bottom you always tend to
26588s	root for more because it's from the
26590s	perspective of if you were playing the
26591s	game uh the other player is your
26593s	opponent it's a weird thing it's
26594s	happened since beginning of hearthstone
26597s	I've caught myself doing it all the time
26598s	but uh it happens but a well played
26600s	series of par but that's going to wrap
26602s	it up today we have our quarterfinal set
26604s	foror you just saw uh the bracket should
26606s	be an exciting one and uh tomorrow is
26608s	going to be the final day uh of Master's
26611s	tours uh for the year we're going to
26613s	send a couple more players to World
26615s	Championship we still before we get the
26617s	final roster we still have to wait for
26619s	uh more points to come in uh the next
26621s	two months uh but we will have our
26623s	players that are qualified uh from the
26625s	master tour championships and the only
26626s	thing to look forward from there for the
26627s	rest of the year will be the World
26629s	Championship uh in mid December um so uh
26633s	definitely exciting uh a little bit sad
26636s	cuz I felt like it's been spars and but
26639s	also at the same time it's gone fast
26641s	this year uh but I'm looking forward to
26642s	it Neil I'm looking forward to as I'm
26645s	sure you are too uh and I'm not going to
26646s	let you speak because they're probably
26647s	already like we told you to close out
26649s	the show like 5 minutes ago and you're
26650s	still going on on and on I feel like I
26652s	do this every time and I'm sorry but
26655s	that's just the way it is that's just
26656s	the way it's going to continue to be
26659s	when it's late night Hearthstone
26661s	with Neil and TJ but for real though we
26663s	are done for the day so tomorrow we are
26665s	going to close out uh the master tour
26667s	fall Championship we will return same
26669s	time same place so thanks for watching
26671s	and we'll see you tomorrow for more
26672s	Hearthstone
26689s	action
26719s	he
26739s	[Music]
26776s	[Music]
26789s	[Music]
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