[2022] Masters Tour Ruins of Alterac Day 3 | Top 16 & Top 8 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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142s	you
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245s	so
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451s	it's enough to let him live this turn
453s	for a swing
455s	it's not going to be enough to win the
456s	game and that's it love storm
460s	3-1 victory over judgment
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477s	i can't believe this
489s	welcome everybody to finals day here at
492s	masters tour ruins of alterac and we are
495s	going to show you every match today in
497s	the top eight and some of the top 16s as
499s	well didn't think that very clearly
500s	really anyway with me to sort out all of
502s	these mistakes and things that i'm going
503s	to be making is as always jia jia have
507s	you found the first two days so far
509s	very fun yo we've had such a great
511s	variety of players and decks and there's
514s	a lot of story lines i'm looking forward
516s	to now that we're through to the top 16
518s	this is of course the second masters
520s	tour of the year we do have six total
522s	and the first three are leading up into
524s	the summer championship so already just
527s	with the amount of wins that people have
529s	racked up in swiss it's starting to come
531s	to light who is in contention for that
534s	summer championship spot and for players
536s	in our top 16 in particular there's a
538s	couple that are really hoping to make it
540s	straight through there just by winning
542s	the whole tournament
544s	and i know that you and derek are very
546s	excited why don't tell us why you're
548s	very excited straight away
550s	quickly before the conquest thing comes
552s	up i mean it's here already but i'm
554s	still gonna do it lorenda there are five
555s	apac players in our top 16 five i'm used
559s	to having zero
561s	and one of those players is alutamu who
563s	you have informed me has actually
565s	already won his top 16 match and it's
567s	not the featured one so we're allowed to
568s	spoil that and that means we have a
571s	chance to finally get an apac champion
574s	of the masters tour system it hasn't
575s	happened yet it's been years we've had
578s	two hearthstone world champions from
580s	apac but somehow the masters tour system
582s	has eluded us
583s	yep and a chance for aletimi to get to
585s	those world championships that have
586s	eluded him so much as you can see on the
589s	screen we are going to be playing
590s	conquest you it's the thing we have been
591s	playing all the last two days and if
594s	you've somehow only watched two weeks of
596s	grand masters and then you didn't watch
597s	two days of this and then you're
599s	watching this well it's conquest you get
601s	four decks you have to win with them all
602s	one gets banned you know the score we've
604s	played it for years now and we are at
607s	the bottom of that screen you saw top 16
609s	bracket we've told you that's where we
611s	are in fact some people into the top
612s	eight already so didn't need to talk
614s	about that graphic anyway
618s	mean it never hurts right just reminding
620s	people what kind of format we're playing
621s	because in grand masters we did have the
623s	rotating formats and i'm sure some
625s	people will just be joining us today on
628s	day three um but in case you are new to
631s	the broadcast you can check out some of
633s	the action that happened with our vods
635s	uh in the first two days there were tons
637s	of cool matches there um and we can see
640s	the journey that the players actually
641s	went through in order to make it through
643s	to the top 16 because with eight rounds
645s	of swiss you generally have to get a
647s	seven one score a couple lucky people at
650s	six and two with the right tie breakers
652s	and what they are playing for is of
653s	course the first place prize of fourteen
655s	thousand dollars the qualification
657s	through to the summer championship and a
660s	chance to make it through to worlds
663s	this is the money that they are playing
664s	for although the things that jia just
666s	described are largely
668s	even more money and more important than
670s	this but fourteen thousand dollars for
673s	first place that's even more than five
676s	hundred dollars per win that we normally
677s	explain to you carefully in case you
679s	forget
680s	ten thousand for second place seven
682s	thousand for third to fourth and i'm
683s	sure you can be the rest of yourself
685s	just some loose change just a couple of
686s	grand for getting to today's level
691s	yeah we already have
692s	two thousand dollars for everybody that
694s	will be on stream today minimum and
697s	everybody who makes it uh with one win
699s	after this first stage is already making
701s	4 000 and then the money starts racking
704s	up more and more it is not your usual
706s	500 increments it actually stacks up
708s	lorenda because this is the big leagues
710s	this isn't america's gm
712s	if you finish between 5th and 8th
714s	there's a good chance it does work out
716s	at five hundred dollars per win
718s	but she gets okay thousand and you might
720s	have gone seven and one and then one and
722s	o in the top 16 that's eight wins four
724s	thousand dollars yeah it's possible it
726s	sort of works out me and tj did do some
727s	maths on this you know
729s	it's a way of making them feel
730s	comfortable if they lose in the top
731s	eight so they're not too upset
733s	um there's gabby beating no flame
735s	yesterday he's normal
737s	i am so glad that the player footage is
740s	on now so i don't have to participate in
742s	the 500
743s	conversation we should have gabby taking
745s	a very convincing win against no flame
747s	but no flame did actually still make it
748s	to the top 16. then we had deds versus
751s	adriano uh deds one of the players who
754s	is in contention to make it through to
756s	summer championships based on the number
758s	of wins he's had didn't quite make it to
760s	top 16 this time but just has very good
763s	um consistent performances in the swiss
765s	and then we had chambray versus orange
766s	which was a long and drawn out series
769s	but orange took it in the end with some
771s	very calm and collected play love to see
773s	the focus from him i'm sure jambre a
775s	little bit disappointed with some of his
776s	performance in the middle but still an
778s	amazing player and a lot of the decks
780s	he's invented are defining the meta for
783s	this tournament followed by that we had
784s	satori versus der base and then alutamu
788s	versus aquaman taking a very very
791s	convincing win here even though aquaman
793s	i was really impressed with this play
795s	especially on the libram paladin
797s	building boards that made it awkward for
798s	warrior to deal with aquaman i'm sure
801s	we'll be back to visit to the sunken
803s	city and see how he gets on there seems
805s	to be a more appropriate name for it
807s	um
808s	can we come to the next masters tour i'd
810s	say just a casual 30 on that turn i
813s	remember you and derek calling that turn
814s	is like 28 but he's got the weapon he's
816s	gonna have 30.
818s	yeah that's cool and then pasqual holy
821s	water holy water winning a couple of
824s	these games uh quite a disadvantage
826s	password just not able to get
829s	rolling on that a couple of bad hands
831s	and holy water is in the top 16 on the
833s	back of that one
835s	right you also had hachikuji versus just
837s	in time which did start off with an auto
839s	loss for justin time for not following
841s	the webcam rule but i kind of said that
843s	i still felt like he'd be favored
844s	because he had a lot of good matchups
847s	into the demon hunter and the warlock
849s	from hachikuji but hachikuji with a very
852s	cool play deleting a 16-16 and 15-15
855s	full clear
857s	with a warlock hand was able to get
858s	there against miracle priest and with
860s	that win secured himself a top 16 slot
863s	then we have walder versus small hyun
865s	this one uh was towards the end of the
868s	day lorenda so i have to admit my memory
870s	is a bit fuzzy
872s	i cast it and my memory is a bit fuzzy
874s	but uh smallham did play a very tidy
877s	hearthstone in that one that much i do
879s	remember because i was listening to what
880s	soto had to say about it so i understood
882s	what was going on and yeah he he did
884s	have a very good performance there and
887s	that did put him through into the top 16
889s	as well so a chance of seeing more of
890s	his play later there is that top 16
894s	gabby top left corner alutemu top right
897s	corner i don't want to do a disservice
899s	to any of the other players but they are
901s	going to be the ones that everyone is
902s	keeping their eyes on today
904s	that's right even though they do have
906s	somewhat different performances in the
907s	swiss gabby of course going undefeated
909s	eight and zero in the swiss portion and
912s	alutamu just barely making it in on good
914s	tiebreakers at six and two but once you
916s	make it to top 16 all of that is out the
919s	window your record is wiped clean all
921s	that matters is getting every single win
924s	that you can because it's down to single
925s	elimination and we do have a pretty good
928s	representation of three regions i want
930s	to say apac
932s	china and europe but for americans
935s	surrender for you
937s	yeah if only we had a match that had two
940s	american region players we could show
943s	you so one of them's definitely getting
945s	to the top eight how would that go with
947s	you do you think you can handle that
949s	yeah i definitely can and that is
950s	exactly what we're about to show in our
953s	top 16 feature match it will be between
956s	tinsho and montu onto a player that
959s	admittedly we weren't too familiar with
961s	but we did a little bit of research and
963s	he is from argentina i believe so we do
966s	have two latin american players a very
968s	very proud group of people a great
970s	community and it's for good reason right
972s	they've been fielding some great
973s	hearthstone players recently and great
976s	results as well
977s	yeah montu is the player we did show him
981s	yesterday i think he was might have been
982s	day one uh a veal open cup grinder not
986s	in the
987s	particularly negative sense has got two
989s	three or four masters tours on the back
990s	of those but has played in the region
993s	of 680 open cups and
997s	sotto was jokingly sort of saying well
998s	how do you play that many but then you
1000s	look at his lineup gear and you work out
1002s	how he can play 680 open cups because
1005s	he's got the full aggro lineup or as
1008s	close to it as you're going to get in
1010s	the current matter
1011s	that's right and honestly going into
1013s	this master store i thought that aggro
1015s	would be stocks down a little bit
1016s	compared to the first one because it
1017s	didn't seem to perform quite so well but
1020s	a full aggro lineup never seems to
1022s	completely leave conquest because it
1024s	just seems to be one of the easiest ways
1026s	to build four cohesive decks together
1029s	even though any individual deck might
1031s	not necessarily be so good on ladder or
1034s	in a vacuum once you put a cohesive
1036s	strategy together as long as you hit one
1038s	targetable deck on the side of your
1040s	opponent's lineup then suddenly you
1042s	always have something to prey upon and
1044s	montu and other players such as pai
1047s	in the top 16 have shown success with it
1049s	but we do have matu starting off with
1051s	the buff palette in here not libra he's
1054s	going all in on even king mukla included
1058s	here to have the maximum amount of stats
1060s	in the early game and try and beat up on
1062s	any druids and demon hunters on the
1064s	other side
1065s	yeah i think the reason this lineup is
1066s	doing quite well in this tournament is
1068s	because first of all you're doing the
1069s	thing you're targeting the best deck to
1071s	some degree in the druid and having a
1074s	very good chance against that and the
1075s	reason that strategy doesn't usually
1077s	work or doesn't often work is because
1079s	you just get if you lose one game to
1081s	that deck
1082s	the other decks destroy you but these
1084s	decks have a bit of game against the
1086s	demon hunter as well and just in general
1089s	against a lot of the field the aggro
1090s	decks can still get it done so if the
1092s	druid does
1093s	escape the aggro clutches
1096s	the other decks are still there to be
1098s	shot at whereas in previous times where
1100s	you've gone for the best deck and tried
1101s	to target it when it inevitably finds a
1103s	way to get a win in its series of 30 40
1106s	match ups the other decks just destroy
1108s	your outgrowth not the case today and
1110s	montu has a reasonable chance of going
1113s	all the way in this tournament i think
1115s	yeah i would definitely agree as much
1117s	and we do have the bands in for montu no
1120s	surprise whatsoever that he's just
1121s	decided to get rid of the warrior from
1123s	teen show that is the best anti-aggro
1125s	deck available to him uh and tincho has
1128s	gotten rid of the beast druid from
1130s	montu's side which is you know looking
1133s	at all of the aggro decks it does seem
1135s	to be of a similar power level but i
1137s	feel that the beast druid has the most
1139s	sustain to it compared to priest and
1142s	face hunter for example where
1144s	they do try to get on board with one big
1146s	push and if you clear that then suddenly
1148s	you're so far ahead whereas with the
1150s	beast druid you can get through phase
1152s	one and two of their board states but
1153s	they can keep refilling if they get a
1155s	good enough composting and of course the
1157s	power of oracle of elune alongside
1159s	matriarch and umbral al is nothing to
1162s	scoff at
1163s	and i feel this first game is one of the
1165s	big games for tincho a good chance to
1168s	get one of the decks out of there
1169s	because the buff paladin doesn't line up
1171s	that well into the lib rooms they're
1173s	kind of doing the same thing but the
1174s	librarians just doing it more
1176s	efficiently when it comes to the mirror
1178s	so
1178s	very big game to start off with
1180s	obviously they're all big games but this
1182s	one in particular i feel if the birth
1184s	paladin gets out of here in game one
1186s	then montu is going to be in a fantastic
1188s	spot
1189s	it is true um a lot of this mirror i
1192s	would say comes down to who is able to
1195s	stick the first threat and that usually
1197s	is the player on the play if they do
1199s	have access to a one drop which we can
1200s	see teen show absolutely does have aldor
1202s	attendant that's a huge deal because
1204s	suddenly montu can't just play a trog
1206s	and feel like he's safe with it if
1207s	tinsho gets a buff spell for the outer
1209s	attendant and there's tons in the deck
1211s	then suddenly he can take value trades
1213s	and value trades is the name of the game
1215s	in this mirror right
1216s	the board snowballs really quickly in
1218s	either direction as soon as one player
1220s	is not able to remove something on the
1222s	other side because they're so limited in
1225s	terms of reactive capability it's really
1227s	just the samuro on the side of montu
1229s	that can uh pull back a board state from
1232s	where he's behind but ratings are also
1234s	the samuro and to a certain extent carry
1236s	all the rome and also a light forged
1239s	carrier
1242s	so putting the damage he can into this
1244s	truck and
1245s	already just hoping there's no massive
1247s	turn ahead
1249s	just mean that the truck probably not
1251s	going to survive too long but here we go
1253s	here's the buff that he didn't want to
1255s	see
1256s	yeah i mean
1257s	that's a massive enough turn in that he
1260s	was not guaranteed to be able to get rid
1263s	of the trog
1264s	on board but with the stonehearth
1266s	vindicator he at least picks up a buff
1268s	spell that lets him value trade the
1270s	second frog for teen show it's more
1272s	about just surviving until he can get a
1274s	clean sweep with samurai because from
1276s	this position it's actually tough for
1279s	him to make sure he can take every good
1280s	trade with two minions though it's a big
1283s	advantage because we also know that
1284s	montu has very little reactive
1286s	capability he has a samurai he has a
1288s	carryall but no rush effects in hand
1290s	right now so it's more about figuring
1292s	out how he can protect a trogg even as
1294s	an individual minion unless he wants to
1296s	go for a stone hearth of his own and
1298s	spread out his threats
1303s	okay
1304s	decision time now um plenty
1307s	of options available which isn't always
1309s	the case with paladin on turn three
1312s	but holding some bridges just
1314s	keep on killing the things keep on
1316s	making it difficult and going to go into
1319s	turn five trying to have anything at all
1321s	to put that blessing of authority on get
1323s	it out of some samurai range give
1324s	yourself a chance to be able to start
1326s	piling through
1327s	the taunts that will inevitably start
1329s	showing up on turn five
1333s	wants to play around blessing of
1334s	authority as heavily as possible he can
1336s	commit the samuro just to deal with the
1338s	one one although i do agree that feels
1340s	like such a huge expenditure of cards
1342s	especially when he can take the turn to
1344s	apply a buff on a minion and get that
1346s	discount on devout pupil a little bit
1348s	more but we'll see it might come back to
1349s	bite him because this blessing of
1350s	authority makes things very difficult
1353s	for teenshow indeed he is not running
1355s	lord bharav and of course most liberal
1358s	paladins are not running librium of
1360s	justice so a high health minion is kind
1362s	of a disaster it's more like he has to
1364s	delay it for now with perhaps devout
1366s	pupil and the liberum stacked on top of
1369s	it to try and soak some damage
1371s	yeah monster is going to have follow up
1373s	as well not only is tincho going to be
1375s	scrambling to kill this but montu
1378s	sometimes it is paladin that you kind of
1379s	use all of your minions right to just
1381s	get one to stick but montu has backup
1383s	plans as well and that is going to get
1385s	incredibly annoying for tincho going
1387s	forwards and obviously when there's a
1389s	nine-nine facing you down you die pretty
1391s	quickly on top of that and mr smite is
1393s	there
1394s	ready to try and hit the killer blow as
1396s	well so plenty for tincho to worry about
1398s	here
1400s	although he does feel relatively safe
1403s	behind a divine shield i would say
1404s	because there's not great ways for the
1406s	buff paladin to actually ping off
1408s	shields they don't have access to
1409s	penflinger or um small weapons that can
1412s	easily trade this away and again the
1414s	rush minions are only samaro and caryl
1416s	so still it's tough for montu to
1418s	actually push any relevant damage and
1422s	on top of that he has to take damage on
1425s	his 99 if he wants to clear the five six
1428s	and that doesn't seem like a great
1430s	prospect either because softening up the
1432s	nine-nine means that tinasho can take
1434s	the second trade on the backswing and
1436s	actually clear it so fermansu here um
1438s	that pickup of hold the bridge is very
1440s	interesting because he can create an
1441s	even more tense board state where he
1443s	puts divine shield on his own minion and
1445s	sort of hands the same problem back to
1447s	teen show where he doesn't have a good
1448s	way of removing the shield
1451s	yeah just and not attack you're saying
1453s	right you just play it down there play
1454s	another minion alongside and say yours
1456s	what do you want to do about this
1457s	because i can take the shield off with
1458s	my
1459s	neophyte or similar
1465s	it is very intricate i honestly couldn't
1467s	tell you what the best line is but it
1469s	looks like montu is going to ping off
1471s	the shield and then it's not a ping my
1473s	bad that's an absolute
1475s	thinking of damage into the shield and
1478s	then he applies the shield afterward
1479s	it's still quite a problematic state for
1481s	teen show but you can see the samurai
1484s	can be used here to sweep up the
1485s	neophyte and the shield and he could
1486s	trade into the 11 5 or he can continue
1490s	to create a wall that makes it awkward
1492s	for mantu to actually get value or get
1495s	relevant damage from his 11.5 i should
1497s	say however mr smite for value trade
1500s	here is actually excellent
1502s	yeah these line up just perfectly the
1504s	numbers into what he wants to do
1506s	and once again tincho on the
1509s	on the back foot but not totally dead
1511s	yet
1512s	plenty of options now with the blade
1513s	master that he kept in his opening
1516s	really it's not too heavy it's very
1519s	interesting that teen show while having
1521s	kept the samurai has been very very
1522s	conservative with his usage of it we saw
1524s	two turns where it was potentially a
1527s	play just to get a full clear but tincho
1530s	says that's not good enough he wants a
1532s	samurai that gets a full clear and
1533s	sticks a relevant threat on board it's
1536s	tough to sort of navigate that now that
1538s	there's an eleven five on the other side
1540s	and samurai at two attack is definitely
1543s	a better break point thanks to the
1545s	bannermen but still not quite enough for
1546s	the librarian of wisdom is enough to
1548s	sweep up the 11-5 so
1551s	tincho in a spot where he could just
1553s	accept tanking the 11 and that is always
1556s	a scary prospect when battleground's
1557s	battlemaster is also a card to think
1559s	about and because he cannot clear
1562s	um or sorry he cannot um create a board
1565s	state where he's alive to battlegrounds
1567s	battlemaster currently without
1569s	committing the samurai he might have to
1570s	settle for one that's more lackluster
1572s	than it would have been on a previous
1574s	turn
1575s	excuse me oh my goodness swallowing my
1577s	word even more than usual
1579s	but with varian in hand he does have a
1581s	backup plan for next turn so
1584s	not dying here only taking 22 not a
1587s	total disaster
1589s	you know it sounds like one
1592s	wing squawker
1594s	is going to copy hold the bridge correct
1598s	um yes
1602s	great honestly like montu would love a
1604s	samurai of his own here just to sweep up
1606s	this board and have his 11-2
1608s	unchallenged on the board um
1610s	would be nice for him to get some sort
1612s	of buff on it as well to be out of the
1614s	range of light forged carrial being able
1616s	to sweep everything up with the aoe so
1618s	he is gonna dig first with the knight of
1620s	anointment c which holy spell he gets
1624s	blessing of authority number two
1628s	i mean
1629s	kind of good right if you just go face
1631s	with the eleven two and then turn it
1632s	into an eighteen ten
1635s	oh he's not going face he's taking value
1638s	trades that is some incredible restraint
1640s	nothing could have stopped me from
1641s	taking that 11 damage
1644s	it does look good but also with the
1646s	squawker in hand now going to be another
1649s	large minion
1650s	uh it is going to be pretty helpful
1652s	where he's obviously we can see tincher
1654s	has answers to basically everything now
1656s	going forward or at least roadblocks
1658s	until he gets to heal
1659s	and with all this card advantage
1661s	as long as he stays alive and he hasn't
1663s	taken a point of damage yet so no reason
1665s	to believe he's dying anytime soon as
1667s	long as he does get to stay alive he
1669s	just has infinite medium-sized minions
1672s	to finish this off with most likely
1674s	right tincho has very much turned the
1676s	corner here i think you pointed out that
1678s	the varian last turn was going to help
1679s	them stabilize so taking what looked
1682s	like an awkward play with samuro just to
1684s	make sure he wasn't dead to the one
1685s	thing he could have died to there the
1687s	battlegrounds battlemaster allowed him
1688s	to get the big swing with the varian and
1690s	he is now very solidly in the driver's
1692s	seat with the pickup of light forged
1694s	carryall he is also able to sweep up
1696s	quite a bit of this board um
1699s	yeah he can actually get a full clear
1702s	here if he swings into the tutu and then
1704s	trades both minions into the sunwing
1707s	squawker if he even wants it honestly
1710s	uh given that there's no good way for
1712s	montu to deal with an
1713s	eight eight minion he doesn't even have
1715s	to take the full clear but i don't see a
1717s	downside to taking it either because he
1719s	still ends up ahead on board with the
1721s	devout people down to zero
1724s	and with the blessings having gone now
1726s	as well and tincher having just such a
1727s	large army it looks like he should take
1730s	a good start and he started to look
1732s	relaxed always very um
1735s	vocal with his expressions is that a
1737s	phrase i can have vocal expressions i
1740s	mean if you can hear any audio from teen
1743s	show right now i don't know how you're
1744s	doing it but okay
1747s	there's one of those things you can hear
1748s	it even though there's no sound
1750s	true pictures you can hear yeah that's
1753s	the phrase that's the phrase saving me
1755s	as always thank you
1757s	all right all in for montu now but you
1759s	can see that
1760s	pincho can go about this pretty much any
1763s	which way he would
1765s	like see what he actually does with it
1768s	but putting up some taunts and getting
1769s	things in the way over the next couple
1771s	of turns just in case i don't think it's
1773s	even going to go that far though to be
1774s	honest i think we might see her concede
1776s	next turn
1777s	i agree it's very much a formality right
1779s	now for teenshow because there's just no
1781s	good outs for montu to deal with the
1783s	board when he's this far behind we
1784s	talked about it at the beginning it's a
1786s	very snowbally matchup and it does tend
1788s	to lean in favor of the librium paladin
1790s	because they can sort of go toe to toe
1792s	with the early curves from the buff
1794s	paladin as long as they don't completely
1796s	whiff in the early game the samurai from
1797s	teen shows swept up and then in the late
1799s	game there's just so much more value
1801s	available to the library paladin so a
1803s	very clean victory for teen show to
1805s	begin with and you mentioned that if
1807s	montu had gotten the victory with the
1809s	buff paladin it would have been a big
1810s	deal but now it's looking like it could
1812s	get stuck
1814s	yep and
1815s	that's the deck tincho would have the
1817s	least trouble with but they're worth you
1818s	know potential disasters they're waiting
1821s	especially if you run into one of the
1822s	other two decks so getting that win the
1824s	druid is obviously
1827s	a big question mark it sounds a little
1828s	bit over the top to call it that but the
1830s	aggro into druid is a known weakness for
1832s	the druid uh but i i do mention often
1836s	druid these days isn't
1838s	20 against these aggro decks it's not
1841s	like 30 or 35 against the aggro decks
1843s	just because of how powerful it is at
1844s	the moment
1846s	yeah um there's just access to so much
1849s	scam potential from druid i would say
1851s	with the amount of ramp that they can so
1854s	consistently hit and then on top of that
1856s	the soft ramp cards innervate and
1857s	lightning boom allowing them to get
1859s	early kazakhstan or even more
1861s	importantly i would say against aggro
1863s	early scale of onyxia that's just such a
1865s	powerful board swing because you can
1867s	clear a lot of their minions and
1868s	probably maintain a couple two ones for
1870s	yourself and suddenly from there you're
1872s	able to challenge the next board and buy
1874s	yourself the time to eventually play
1875s	kazakhstan so druid still has the tools
1878s	available to it but of course they need
1879s	to hit a very good hand and against the
1882s	likes of shadow priest and buff paladin
1885s	it's quite difficult if they don't hit
1887s	exactly the early scale to stabilize so
1889s	montu's still in a decent position i
1891s	don't think you should be too much in a
1893s	panic uh having lost to the library
1895s	paladin because that's absolutely not
1897s	what he's targeting it's all about this
1899s	druid and to a certain extent with his
1901s	paladin it's also got into the demon
1903s	hunter
1904s	yeah i suspect that the because there's
1906s	other aggro decks you can play you can
1908s	play quest rogue there's
1910s	uh there's something else that is just
1911s	completely escaping my mind right now
1912s	there's other ways of playing aggro but
1915s	the buff paladin is the one that really
1916s	lies into the demon hunter nicely as
1919s	well as the druid so i suspect that was
1920s	a factor in his deck lineup construction
1924s	and here we go chincho is going to be
1926s	queuing up
1928s	the druid in this case it is the
1931s	turbo version i don't know how to
1933s	version he's not the dragon version
1935s	uh the version that does have a mine and
1937s	it doesn't have
1939s	glow flies so turbo droid
1942s	yeah the interesting part here is it
1944s	actually only runs one fungal fortunes
1946s	um usually the benefit of running the
1949s	turbo version as you put it is to have
1951s	as much card draw as possible
1953s	but tinsho here says maybe he doesn't
1955s	want the risk of discarding kazakhstan
1958s	or he just says there's enough card draw
1960s	overall he does run all of the armor
1962s	gain cards outside of
1964s	cinarion ward so the double moon touched
1966s	amulets and double feral rage may or may
1969s	not help him against aggro it's honestly
1971s	difficult to evaluate those cards
1972s	compared to cenarian ward because in
1974s	some spots they are better to just deal
1976s	with a minion early or gain you armor
1979s	for cheap on one turn before you go for
1981s	a big scale but cenarian ward sometimes
1984s	is better to get you relevant board
1985s	presence as well um it's all about
1988s	evaluating the situations but for the
1991s	opening hand of tinsho lunar eclipse
1993s	looking amazing to stop the first target
1996s	from montu and the scary part about buff
1999s	paladin is any first target can turn
2001s	into a threat once blessing of authority
2004s	becomes available
2006s	one lunar eclipse was good well in this
2008s	instance two is also good
2010s	uh especially because he has the
2011s	overgrowth available
2013s	uh he can expect the deck to draw into
2016s	some good stuff he's shaking his head
2018s	but the buff is not there however
2022s	a near fight is
2024s	yeah pretty much the next best thing
2026s	there um tincho was scared of
2028s	particularly noble mount i want to say
2030s	because um hannah vidal still left the
2033s	truck within range of lunar eclipse
2035s	neophyte means montu gets to bridge the
2037s	gap into the hold the bridge turn and
2040s	now that crucial divine shield has been
2042s	applied to the trog and going to make
2044s	tincha's life very difficult indeed
2046s	because the only way he can remove that
2049s	this turn is by hero powering and then
2051s	coining lunar eclipse or going lunar
2053s	lunar but either of those lines means
2055s	that another trog will be spawning
2058s	yeah
2059s	we'll be a smaller jog but even so just
2062s	taking it off this turn waiting for
2064s	another turn taking another nine because
2067s	the three he takes plus the six on the
2068s	board
2070s	and now there's every chance he's going
2071s	to get another near fight in the face
2074s	what do you gonna see first what the
2075s	holy spell drawn is to whether or not it
2077s	would deter him from the neophyte plan
2079s	or allowed him to go bannerman instead
2081s	but he is just making sure to be as
2083s	disruptive as possible i completely
2085s	agree the batterman at this point is
2087s	more just a cycle card because he's
2089s	played so many minions it's hardly going
2090s	to be useful in terms of the stat bus it
2092s	gets so in that case might as well be as
2094s	aggressive as possible quincho finally
2096s	gets to remove some minions with the
2098s	lunar eclipses but he's down to about
2101s	half his health and has ramp cards and
2104s	draw cards but no big stabilization
2108s	available yet without the scale of
2110s	onixia so it's still going to be a tall
2112s	order to deal with this especially when
2114s	blessing of authority is applied yep and
2117s	it's going to add up to a two-turn
2119s	lethal representation which is going to
2121s	be pretty hard to avoid in a way that
2124s	actually keeps the druids game plan
2125s	moving forward obviously fella rage and
2127s	stuff is going on but
2129s	that's not advancing your game plan or
2131s	even really dealing with a problem
2134s	that's right i mean he could use it to
2136s	delay the turn but the only time that
2138s	gaining that eight armor would be
2139s	relevant is that he actually uses the
2141s	rest of his mana to get to a way to deal
2143s	with the problem that's in front of him
2145s	and scale of enyxia is the way of
2147s	dealing with it
2148s	not available though he can
2151s	use this moonlit to draw himself another
2154s	feral rage but again it's only
2158s	delaying the inevitable
2161s	yep looks that way and he's going to get
2163s	the bad news now as well that monty is
2166s	able to add more
2169s	to this particular fire just
2171s	decent curve
2173s	uh not only is there a massive problem
2174s	in dealing with the 11 10 but he's going
2176s	to be so low on health is tincher that
2178s	dealing even with any chip damage that
2180s	may come out is also going to be
2181s	aggravating for him right
2183s	you want to starting with hand of a doll
2185s	as opposed to the stonehearth vindicator
2187s	i guess there were maybe some cards that
2189s	he would have rather played than the
2191s	stonehearth and he was just gonna see if
2192s	he hit one of them but uh trogg fits in
2195s	with everything else not a problem at
2198s	all and suddenly the board is out of
2199s	range of scale of anexia and tinsho is
2202s	just going to blow up
2205s	yep that neophyte made the big noise the
2208s	15 points of damage
2211s	and so he's gonna try and stay alive a
2212s	bit longer but that's all he's going to
2215s	achieve if he even achieves that
2217s	that definitely is a picture i can hear
2219s	lorendo when a big minion goes face
2223s	any noise of your choosing gear doesn't
2225s	have to be particularly defined just the
2227s	big noise
2230s	all right
2232s	yep throws it down we are up one all
2235s	here both the paladins have gotten a win
2237s	and montu has begun the bullying of the
2240s	druid that's truly sort of the theme of
2243s	this series and i expect others as well
2245s	as we still have some aggro players in
2246s	the top 16 and we have druid players in
2250s	everyone's lineup so that means that we
2253s	have the potential to see
2255s	straight up whether aggro can get there
2257s	consistently so far montu is proving
2260s	that it can and it's only going to get
2262s	tougher from for the druid from here on
2264s	out i want to say because the shadow
2265s	priest can do very similar things even
2268s	more quickly and here it is the shadow
2272s	priest with you know the known
2275s	pirates lineup um everyone knows that
2277s	there's more than one pirate in this
2278s	deck right everybody knows that
2280s	everybody knows that
2282s	everybody everywhere even me and tj know
2284s	that
2287s	which one is it larinda
2289s	um they said
2292s	then you get another mr smite
2294s	ah yes that works hey i knew everything
2298s	and it is going to be the shadow piece
2300s	like you described
2302s	actually brutally efficient at the
2304s	moment i think it might be even the
2306s	weakest of the regular aggro decks but
2309s	when you get this sort of hand
2311s	try telling that to the person who has
2312s	to face it tincho does have guff on his
2315s	side if he wants to try and keep that he
2316s	has the luna eclipse to
2318s	stop an early truck so he has somewhere
2320s	fighting back but then he has no vamp
2322s	keeping two cards that aren't early vamp
2325s	is terrifying
2327s	yeah i mean
2328s	if he's brave he could just keep that
2330s	hand and say this is the wind condition
2332s	i just need to fill in the gaps with
2334s	overgrowth wild growth lightning bloom
2335s	that type of thing but he does just keep
2338s	the lunar eclipse and guff which i think
2339s	is the more reasonable way of
2340s	approaching it i agree with you that
2342s	shadow priest is the weakest of the
2344s	aggro decks in a vacuum but again
2346s	specifically druid i think it is the
2348s	best one because it's got the most heavy
2351s	minion package on uh on the early curve
2354s	and it's minions that punish druid if
2356s	you are able to play a minion every
2358s	single turn um then the lack of burst
2361s	potential in the late game doesn't
2363s	really matter so much compared to face
2365s	hunter for example where they can draw
2367s	into a hand that's all like aim shot
2369s	quick shot in the beginning and druid
2370s	really doesn't care because they have
2372s	access to armor
2373s	the absolute state of this opening hand
2376s	from montu though
2378s	frog void touch tour guide neophyte
2381s	there's gonna be so much damage coming
2383s	in
2385s	oh tincho he's gonna have mana to work
2386s	within cards though if he can just hang
2388s	on in there for a couple of turns but
2390s	already this is looking terrifying
2394s	monty does have a decision though as to
2395s	whether he wants to go neophyte this
2397s	turn or double one drops and i lean
2399s	double one drops here because neophyte
2401s	doesn't shut down lunar eclipse going
2403s	into the three mana turn and montu
2405s	agrees just going to push the maximum
2408s	amount of damage and for tincho if he
2411s	can get his cat in order he actually has
2414s	a pretty good response here lunar
2417s	eclipse okay thank you for the catch
2419s	camera
2422s	you don't have to car solo while
2427s	that's it i'm done now
2428s	my concentration has just been
2430s	distracted there's a cat on the screen
2431s	everything stops
2433s	injuries going to luna eclipse wild
2435s	growth
2439s	yep i am officially distracted as well
2443s	one when can we get fayali versus teen
2445s	show
2446s	um featuring special guest board control
2450s	all the cats in hearthstone
2452s	yeah get my cat on screen at some point
2454s	as well
2456s	oh and that oh she has an amazing cat
2458s	how could i forget
2461s	no
2462s	not taking too much damage there's a
2464s	chance to sneak out of guff here i think
2467s	yup
2469s	he's guffin
2470s	and we see the shake of the head from
2472s	one to honestly teen shows in a pretty
2474s	good spot here even picks up a tradable
2476s	but he doesn't play the best in shell i
2478s	think that's very clever because he can
2479s	just innervate solar best in shell next
2482s	turn and tell the shadow priest deal
2484s	with that and normally that would be a
2486s	very tall order but we actually see this
2488s	najak hexane for montu which i'm sure he
2490s	is sad to see in the opening hand right
2492s	now because it's not doing much but it
2494s	might help against the turtles
2499s	such a cute dude
2501s	it's so cute
2503s	what are you doing again oh yeah
2504s	hearthstone commentary for the masses i
2506s	remember now uh the best in shell play
2508s	looks really good the scale of nyxia is
2510s	now kind of tempting as well though to
2512s	have some board presence actually going
2514s	forward
2515s	i guess he's got to be a little bit
2516s	careful because it currently has no
2520s	armor gain and is down to 14 but yeah
2523s	there's a little bit of um
2525s	burn available to montu so really do
2527s	have to best in shell here
2529s	uh mr smite might get a look in but no
2532s	of course next turn is still only turn
2535s	five
2537s	i do like the scale play over the solar
2539s	best in shell from teen show because of
2540s	the nadjak that we mentioned if you are
2543s	going for counter board development
2545s	that's not immediately removing things
2546s	from your opponent that's more heavily
2548s	punished by a nadjak whereas making sure
2550s	he can clear the board end up and end up
2553s	with a couple two ones after it means
2555s	that he'll be in a good spot almost no
2556s	matter what when he does go for the best
2558s	in shell this turn can even fit in the
2560s	hero power to ramp up and now that he's
2562s	seen the najak there's just no good way
2564s	to answer the turtles
2568s	voice shardping void shard ping ping
2570s	there you go and don't die in the
2572s	meantime
2573s	i don't have any health gain from tincho
2575s	in the meantime
2577s	and you haven't got the other void shard
2578s	yet
2580s	yeah
2581s	that's it that's the game plan
2585s	yeah pretty much
2588s	you could just turn this mr smite into a
2592s	cane
2593s	sun fury just go face
2597s	uh serena that guy
2600s	yes pretty large
2603s	but still three turtles in the way
2607s	even if she steals the stats from one
2609s	someone two just going to take a value
2611s	trade with mr smite here but tincho not
2614s	fussed about this whatsoever he has cold
2616s	tooth mine if he wants to just go for a
2618s	straight up kazakhstan next turn it's
2620s	100
2620s	available because he's not running the
2622s	dragon version um
2625s	and i think that's pretty good
2628s	yeah makes sense to me is um an answer
2630s	to every problem in there usually and
2632s	you know what the problem is you're on
2634s	14 health so you can answer that and
2635s	then win the game
2637s	yep i like that he doesn't uh go for
2639s	ramp with the hero power as well i think
2641s	it's much more relevant here to use the
2643s	innervate to draw a card immediately
2645s	from the kazakhstan i honestly didn't
2647s	see what the first couple of pics were
2649s	but fangs and presents most likely thank
2652s	you
2654s	poison for this one i guess
2657s	oh jars
2661s	wand yes
2664s	uh
2666s	hyper blaster
2668s	he might need a win condition
2671s	i'm not sure if he's gonna win condition
2673s	in the cards he took the first cards he
2675s	took was stabilization cards just to
2676s	make sure he doesn't die
2678s	but i think he would have had to just
2679s	take any minion at the end true i mean
2682s	i think that was world's first grimmer
2684s	patron that i've seen on stream yeah
2687s	i think it makes sense i don't think
2688s	he's got a way to win the game without
2689s	it so this might still be interesting in
2691s	the most weird of ways yeah it's true
2694s	now that you contextualized that the
2696s	first few picks were removed alright he
2698s	took fangs
2699s	he does actually need minion presence on
2701s	the off chance that montu is actually
2703s	able to deal with this board and if he
2706s	raised deads into an ajax it's not you
2708s	know out of the question i did think
2711s	that boombots was maybe better minion
2713s	presence than grimmer patron but
2716s	fair enough on this immediate turn
2717s	especially hiding behind taunts the
2719s	grammar patrons can multiply uh it's a
2722s	trog in a way isn't it
2726s	yeah i guess it is kind of
2730s	this isn't over yet jia by the way
2736s	i mean it's it's very nearly over but
2738s	there's a little bit of repeated damage
2740s	he tincher hasn't yet drawn his arm
2742s	again or health gain that's got a lot of
2744s	it
2746s	that is true he needs to actually hit
2748s	the armor again um in order to survive
2750s	void shard ping and montu can still
2752s	topdeck another void chart as well
2757s	there it is okay now it's over yup
2763s	now the only other thing i guess is if
2765s	there's only grimmer patrons i think his
2768s	montu doesn't know if montu knew the
2770s	deck he could probably still have some
2771s	chance here but he doesn't of course
2773s	he's playing around
2774s	i've got to win this before my opponent
2776s	draws their broken stuff if he knew he
2778s	just had to kill the grimmer patrons he
2779s	might have a chance
2781s	oh darius that's a pretty interesting
2784s	question in our discord of if you go
2786s	grammar patron plus jars do they
2788s	deathrattle the same minion and i'm
2790s	going to theoretically say no because i
2793s	think that the
2795s	spawn of the jars the randomness is
2797s	applied upon the minion actually dying
2800s	it's not like you give it death rattle
2801s	then it already knows what it's going to
2803s	summon i think that's how it works might
2805s	just be
2806s	death rattle where you never know until
2808s	you actually see it
2811s	yeah i suspect that it isn't the same
2813s	but it's an interesting question
2814s	nonetheless but a big deal there tincho
2817s	did get around all the ifs and maybes
2820s	and the druid is out of here jia and now
2823s	it's just a demon hunter left
2825s	yup this is the disaster scenario for
2827s	montu where his prime target has managed
2830s	to escape the clutches of the full aggro
2832s	lineup and it was very convincing as
2834s	well even though montu had a very good
2836s	start with the troggs here tincho had
2838s	the lunar eclipse guff hand and the
2841s	strict efficiency of guff was just too
2843s	much to overcome towards the end there
2845s	and then just took a little bit of
2846s	healing for teenshow to truly stabilize
2849s	however montu still has you know the
2852s	capability of beating up on demon hunter
2855s	which while it is a duck that has
2857s	anti-aggro tools doesn't necessarily hit
2860s	them all the time and in the case of
2862s	face hunter in particular there's a
2865s	point where face hunter can morph from a
2867s	board-based deck to instead a burn-based
2869s	deck which is actually quite effective
2871s	against demon hunter i want to say
2872s	because then they won't necessarily have
2874s	targets for fel screen blasts to get the
2876s	full healing uh the toughest thing for
2878s	hunter to contend with though is the
2879s	altraki warblades where they simply
2881s	don't have a way to prevent that from
2883s	healing the demon hunter for a ton if
2885s	they have furies to go with it
2888s	this is a little bit bigger than your
2889s	normal face hunter though with the mukla
2891s	throne in there so
2893s	can be a little bit faster than your
2895s	common or garden demon hunter attack
2899s	but yeah still the same problem still
2901s	the same analysis but this can just go
2902s	that little bit bigger i quite like the
2904s	much lower in here for this particular
2906s	meta game as well because it really
2908s	messes up with druid too
2911s	yeah for this match up as well
2913s	you can just give them cards that they
2916s	don't have the time to play and if they
2918s	have to glide and put the bananas back
2920s	in the deck it's very awkward uh the
2922s	drew sorry the demon hunter will have
2924s	very few targets for the bananas as well
2926s	although i suspect that glide will not
2928s	really be a big factor in this matchup
2931s	it's a card that is obviously the best
2934s	against slower decks but against face
2935s	hunter you are very very rarely able to
2938s	actually disrupt their hand because
2940s	they're going to keep it so trim all the
2941s	time playing tons of small minions and
2944s	you often won't have time as the demon
2945s	hunter to just progress the quest using
2947s	glide on yourself only because you will
2950s	have to contend with the board so if
2952s	anything the glide will come into play
2954s	towards the late game after tincho has
2956s	stabilized for now it's more about
2958s	finding those early immolation auras
2960s	even
2961s	a curtras timely
2963s	can be huge because it can help him
2965s	swing the board i'm not sure to the
2967s	point that it's a keep but i'm super
2969s	curious
2970s	i'm also curious how much of this you
2972s	keep because
2974s	it looks good but hunter gets out of
2976s	control fast if you keep too much of
2978s	this
2980s	the war blades they're great and all
2982s	that but if if you're waiting till turn
2984s	three because you don't want to coil
2986s	into a truck or something
2988s	that's a while if if the hunter's
2990s	established just some one twos and three
2992s	twos and a buff on the board
2995s	you could be in trouble i think he'll
2996s	throw most of this away even though he
2999s	won't want to he wants to redraw these
3000s	cards quite early
3002s	right it is a question of how much you
3004s	want to respect trog right and that
3005s	interplay is so different when you're
3007s	going second because if it's just frog
3009s	straight up on turn one you can't just
3011s	go quest in order to fully clear it you
3013s	have to like coin emulation aura or coin
3016s	fell barrage to deal with the trog that
3018s	is there and the one that is spawned um
3020s	straight away on the first turn and if
3022s	you don't deal with it on the first turn
3024s	you're suddenly so weak to doggy
3026s	biscuits so we'll see how much teen show
3028s	wants to respect that ends up just
3031s	keeping aldraki which i think is very
3033s	reasonable indeed and he's not met with
3034s	the trog on the other side so it's not a
3036s	disaster quite yet
3039s	not quite yet but montu's hand
3042s	is going to get out of hand pretty
3045s	rapidly here at least in the early
3047s	stages obviously
3048s	now there's a full screen blast into
3050s	has the makings of a way to deal with
3052s	things but still irritating this is a
3056s	very nice and obvious play just stopping
3059s	the divine shield which should be
3060s	absolutely fatal to him if he allowed it
3063s	complete to complete
3065s	allowed it to
3066s	what what was i even wanting there
3068s	allowed it to happen
3070s	dissolves probably the word
3074s	yeah um denying the health on this means
3076s	that montu's you know expected turn two
3079s	of companion plus og merchant doesn't
3081s	quite work so well he does hit not refa
3083s	so at least the guardian augmention
3085s	still has a target builds a board state
3087s	that is a tough routine shot to deal
3089s	with
3092s	and the spellscreen blast however is you
3096s	know
3097s	it's not actually that tough to deal
3099s	with it just is in theory from huntee's
3100s	perspective you know
3102s	yep and this is the exact start you can
3104s	tell by tinch's face you need to watch
3106s	the game to know what's happening here
3108s	even the cat's gone to prepare for the
3110s	next round
3112s	and
3113s	if you deal with those early minions
3114s	against the hunter you're so well set as
3116s	the demon hunter because as the manner
3119s	costs of things go up you just get into
3121s	a better and better relative position
3123s	yep
3125s	um
3126s	in terms of things that are going okay
3128s	for one two he at least has a pretty
3129s	good curve right he hits the wrangler he
3132s	could take
3133s	honestly rhino in this position just to
3136s	have a higher health minion and the
3138s	vulpertanger doesn't really spend his
3139s	mana well on the next turn
3141s	could go mukla but
3143s	wouldn't you rather just have a rhino by
3145s	that point
3146s	okay he goes mukla because he wants to
3148s	even the hero power fair enough yep that
3150s	makes sense to me what do you think
3151s	about keeping the quest by the way i'm
3153s	alerted to that question by the fact
3155s	it's still in hand against hunter
3157s	specifically well he just hasn't really
3159s	had the time to play it and he's not in
3161s	a big deal to play it because none of
3163s	these
3164s	early turns teen show wasn't expecting
3166s	to progress the quest right he wasn't
3167s	playing draw cards he was playing
3169s	removal so now he's actually found a
3171s	window to play it um need for greed sure
3174s	gets the job done the one drawn off the
3176s	top there was a chance to
3179s	go for chaos strikes instead but because
3181s	the quest happened you know after the
3183s	first draw of the turn happened uh this
3185s	is actually the only guaranteed wave
3187s	that he had of progressing the quest
3190s	that's a nice set of discounts here that
3192s	jace could seal the game once turn seven
3194s	rolls around
3197s	yeah with the arcanist in hand as well
3199s	everything's looking really pretty good
3201s	it's easy to say he's got the control
3203s	and everything i guess we should keep a
3204s	look at the health total
3206s	with double chaos strike plus the weapon
3208s	equipped i don't see him be having any
3209s	trouble anytime soon
3211s	i agree
3213s	although he can't quite fit in double
3215s	chaos strike with this turn because i
3216s	assume he's just gonna go arcanist
3218s	emulation aura so it's gonna be
3220s	one chaos strike plus
3222s	euro power
3224s	oh no he's not gonna commit the chaos
3227s	strike at all okay this is clever he's
3228s	never dead from montu being off board
3231s	right at 16. only six mana available the
3233s	burst isn't enough for hunter at this
3235s	point and as long as you know you're not
3237s	dead you can still greet it a little bit
3238s	as a demon hunter get the board presence
3241s	so that um you're able to deal with them
3244s	if they develop a board and if they only
3247s	go face with spells then you let loose
3249s	with the chaos strikes and seal the game
3251s	that way
3253s	yeah plenty of damage available to monto
3255s	but not the time
3258s	to really be able to connect it i don't
3260s	think i guess
3262s	i mean hunter does keep going it's not
3264s	like it used to when you exhausted its
3266s	supplies it just stopped but
3269s	pincha does seem to have a hand not only
3271s	capable of surviving this but also
3273s	finishing the game in two or three turns
3274s	himself just to make sure that
3276s	he doesn't die in the meantime
3280s	yeah not sure if it can quite finish the
3282s	game that quickly the jace will
3284s	definitely help but
3286s	uh without the curtis hero card it might
3289s	still be a ways off before it represents
3291s	lethal so it's a big deal that montu is
3294s	still able to get the four damage
3295s	through tinjo having to clear the
3297s	barracuda vein by actually swinging into
3299s	it right now he has access to over two
3302s	turns 14 damage from the aim shot hero
3305s	powers so theoretically
3308s	he's still in a decent spot
3310s	um
3311s	does end up aim shotting on a minion
3313s	here because he is looking to hybridize
3316s	his game plan back to trying to win
3318s	board and that is definitely not
3320s	unreasonable because he has just seen
3322s	immolation or he has just seen a
3324s	talented arcanist
3326s	weaves in the hero power over doggie
3327s	biscuit though which i like because you
3329s	absolutely need to press a button every
3331s	turn to make sure you get enough damage
3333s	over the course of the game uh huh
3336s	spectral sights
3338s	ammo like you reacted to is absolutely
3341s	huge okay and now with the capability to
3343s	go immo and the fel barrages the jace is
3346s	looking
3347s	very very juicy for the next turn
3349s	yeah i think he was just looking um for
3351s	some extra healing there from the
3353s	studies because there's quite a lot
3354s	available but didn't get it so
3357s	looks like he's going to
3358s	[Music]
3359s	proceed as we've described now he's
3361s	picked up the curtis he's able to get
3362s	that extra five armor which honestly
3364s	despite the fact we've been saying how
3366s	one-sided this is he might require that
3368s	five armor just to be sure going forward
3371s	so
3372s	he is looking to end this he's gonna
3373s	play the fury and maybe even a barrage
3377s	oh it doesn't go for the barrages
3379s	i guess tincho had mapped it out that it
3381s	would not be lethal yet even if he
3383s	committed double fel barrage this turn
3385s	the chase would give him not guaranteed
3388s	all the damage faced right if there were
3389s	minions one barrage uh but if you wanted
3392s	to maximize j's damage he could have
3393s	gone double barrage and then next turn
3395s	fury than jace and then you get back the
3397s	two barrages you get back the fury and
3398s	the double chaos strikes admittedly i
3400s	cannot do the math that quickly i'm not
3402s	sure if it's lethal but even if it were
3404s	it's still foilable by just playing a
3406s	minion from one two rights then they can
3408s	soak the fel barrages so don't fault
3410s	tincho whatsoever here for taking it a
3412s	little bit more safe and now he can just
3415s	take the turn to kirch's and get the
3416s	armor like you were saying and have the
3418s	guaranteed jace lethal
3422s	yep i'm just checking the other side the
3423s	aim shot plus the rhino is nowhere near
3425s	enough
3429s	so from teachers perspective the most
3432s	that mantu can deal from hand is aim
3434s	shot hero power quick shot quick shot
3436s	which is 13 and then the weapon swing
3439s	15. so with kurchus he's actually alive
3442s	against that however he cannot attack
3445s	face
3446s	without
3448s	going into the range of that because
3450s	there's an explosive trap set up of
3452s	course we're looking at worst case
3453s	scenario teen show might not necessarily
3455s	play around the hand being exactly aim
3457s	shot quick shot quick shot in fact it
3459s	would have to be a quick shot drawn off
3461s	the top and this rhino would have to be
3462s	a quick shot because he knows that the
3465s	marsul cub is what it is
3469s	yeah he's just double triple checking
3471s	everything and there is
3473s	it's close right
3475s	like you said i think just on the mat
3477s	it's close
3478s	yeah i mean
3479s	again there's a way that tincho can die
3482s	if he doesn't gain armor
3484s	okay
3485s	decides not to respect shot quick shot
3488s	quick shot but respects the weapon fair
3490s	enough
3493s	and
3494s	he is respecting aim shot plus single
3497s	quick shot which is
3499s	um exactly 10 he'd be alive to that
3502s	montu
3503s	also goes for rhino instead here trying
3506s	to get damage from the board we're
3508s	available because he doesn't have that
3510s	much burn from hand definitely respect
3512s	this
3516s	oh
3518s	wait how much does a jace do now there's
3520s	a rank two fury there can be a rank
3522s	three fury
3523s	that's five plus the fury from right oh
3526s	sorry they're both ranked two uh there's
3528s	a fair barrage in hand there's one in
3530s	the jace i think there's two chaos
3532s	strikes in the chase as well
3534s	yes there is
3536s	so triple fury nine plus
3539s	uh
3541s	plus plus double fell barrage but
3543s	there's a minion in the way so they
3544s	might not all go face
3546s	double chaos strike
3549s	13 damage
3552s	all right if tincha is doing it it
3553s	probably gets there right
3557s	yeah i made this
3558s	uh there might be some ordering things
3562s	um to save the fel barrage until
3564s	afterwards weirdly so they don't hit the
3566s	rhino i don't think that works though
3568s	yeah it's three fell barrages
3569s	effectively because he gets to play one
3572s	before the start of the turn so i think
3573s	this was guaranteed based on his
3575s	reaction it feels like the first spell
3577s	was the good order for him so yes he
3578s	does guarantee that all the foul
3580s	barrages go face so it is going to be
3582s	the lethal here nicely spotted by tincho
3586s	it was a little bit scary at the end
3587s	there because there were some hands that
3589s	he could have potentially died too but
3590s	sometimes against hunter you kind of
3591s	just have to say i can't play around
3593s	everything without giving myself a worse
3596s	spot
3597s	against other hands throughout a longer
3599s	period of time just wanted to end the
3600s	game quickly and that is going to be
3603s	teen show through to the top eight
3606s	yep and looking good on it taking down
3608s	the aggro lineup i suspect he felt that
3611s	he might not be in that top eight when
3612s	he saw this matchup at the end of last
3614s	night but there he goes and we are going
3617s	to have a look at some of the other oh
3619s	we're actually not going to have a look
3620s	at some of the other we have actually
3621s	going to go straight into the top eight
3624s	very quickly let's see who's about
3633s	they're the three people people want to
3635s	hear about there's plenty of others and
3636s	i will respect them more as they turn up
3638s	along the day
3640s	oh you have to earn lorinda's respect
3643s	it's only three people who cares about i
3645s	mean
3646s	it's maybe it's gabby it's
3649s	like it's just what
3651s	at the start of the tournament if you
3653s	picked two players
3654s	and only two players you thought were
3657s	regular winners in this sort of
3660s	environment they're probably just two of
3662s	the names you'd give out of two so
3665s	but there are other people there that
3667s	get accumulating those points ready for
3669s	the championship so there's definitely
3670s	other players i want to talk about later
3672s	right we do have the bracket and i'll
3674s	just read out who's made it through to
3675s	top eight for the first quarter final we
3678s	have gabby versus kiparang and then
3679s	uchiha sasuke versus holy water so still
3682s	some ladam representation there in holy
3684s	water from china i believe and then
3686s	alutamu versus hachikuji apac players up
3690s	against each other so we have one
3692s	guaranteed through to top four
3694s	that's what i'm gonna hold on to and of
3697s	course we do have tincho has just made
3699s	it through facing off against habukabu
3701s	this is completely stacked larinda it
3705s	really is and i believe sasuke got six
3707s	points in the previous masters tour
3709s	check that out to be sure later on but
3711s	he's got a lot of points just by getting
3714s	this far again so that's worth keeping
3716s	an eye on on top of all the other drama
3718s	that could unfold as the day goes on
3723s	very very exciting stuff
3725s	oh i misspoke sorry holy water is also
3727s	an apac player from taiwan and that
3730s	means it's full of aipak is this our
3733s	first top eight that has no players from
3736s	china
3737s	whoa
3738s	what happened did you
3740s	whoa
3741s	am i reading this correctly
3743s	whoa china have been so dominant in the
3746s	masters tour system they have just won
3749s	the most recent one with love storm the
3750s	one before that was xiaoti and many many
3753s	others throughout the entire history
3754s	since we've introduced this system so
3757s	this is historic for sure
3759s	yeah absolutely insane a rider to what i
3762s	was saying a minute ago about picking
3764s	two players if you picked one region of
3766s	who's going to win the masters tour
3767s	these days it's china but not today
3770s	apparently
3772s	so without further ado enough of me
3774s	waffling let's get me out of here and
3777s	get on with the top eight we'll see you
3779s	in three minutes
3785s	do
3807s	oh
3809s	[Music]
3811s	right
3826s	[Music]
3837s	besides
3849s	measure
3855s	[Applause]
3875s	so
3881s	[Music]
3907s	[Music]
3924s	[Music]
3927s	so
3931s	[Music]
3938s	[Music]
3942s	so
3947s	[Music]
3968s	so
3972s	[Music]
3984s	hello everybody and welcome back to
3986s	mattress tour ruins of alterac oh it's
3988s	weird being on the right side neil look
3990s	at this what's happening now i've got a
3991s	point away
3993s	no that way
3994s	no that way
3996s	i i don't know which way to point i
3997s	don't know which way to look
3999s	uh this is bizarre but whatever it's
4001s	time for the quarter finals we've
4003s	reached that point of the masters tour
4005s	not my favorite point uh because we get
4007s	to see uh who's going to emerge as the
4010s	champion first quarterfinal we have
4011s	coming up uh is a pretty good one uh
4014s	it's gabby who's still undefeated now
4017s	nine and zero eight to no up to the
4019s	swiss and then winning the top 16 match
4021s	uh versus kippurang uh a player from
4024s	south korea uh one of the very many asia
4027s	pacific representatives
4029s	in the top eight actually quite insane
4031s	uh half of the top eight uh is from
4033s	asia-pacific um and
4036s	uh it's a little bit of a new feeling
4039s	for me neil i um
4041s	it's been a long time since we've seen
4043s	asia pacific actually do this well
4045s	in a master's tour event
4047s	yep we might have to start rooting for
4049s	asia pacific we've got to stop stottle
4051s	from getting excitable about european
4052s	players we do have some america's region
4055s	players hanging in there as well
4057s	um but also there's gabby
4060s	it's gabby
4061s	scab it's his own region that's how we
4063s	get around this right
4065s	he is so
4067s	big and vibrant that he just
4069s	doesn't need a region he's just gabby
4072s	region just to make it fair
4074s	yeah it's just
4077s	gabby grandmasters right that's the
4079s	that's the next step it's just 16 gabi's
4083s	playing against each other i'd watch
4085s	that every broadcast is like an hour
4087s	long to play 15 matches that's what it
4089s	feels like but uh lineups are actually
4092s	um
4093s	surprisingly similar uh given uh i i
4097s	guess how unique they are once you take
4099s	away the bands um gabby's playing rally
4101s	priest kipperang has miracle priest so
4104s	similar but different uh they both have
4106s	quest rogue
4108s	uh which has uh
4111s	over performed based on my expectation
4114s	and then the one unique deck that they
4117s	uh have in their lineups that uh is not
4120s	a band with both druids being banned
4122s	away gabby has the
4124s	quest fell dh with kazakhstan instead of
4127s	the expendable performers
4129s	and uh kipperang has the libra paladin
4132s	um and even the libra paladin's a little
4134s	different from what we've seen most of
4136s	the players that we've seen that have
4137s	been uh high up in the swiss
4139s	standings or in the top 16 uh have been
4142s	bringing the uh i i guess you could call
4145s	it more aggressive variation of the deck
4147s	with mr smite
4149s	um
4150s	whereas kipperang's opting to run lord
4152s	bharav and mutinous as the two tech
4154s	cards so
4156s	more of a
4157s	a control
4158s	um sort of attrition stop it's still
4161s	libra paladin at the end of the day but
4163s	those few tech conclusions give you a
4165s	good idea of what the players are trying
4166s	to do with the deck
4168s	they're just desperately trying not to
4170s	have his deck called liberal paladin but
4172s	we're still going to call it liberty
4174s	because it's got librarians in it sorry
4175s	keepering you can't fool us that's right
4178s	can't fool us
4180s	a lot of cards that say
4181s	libra or
4183s	discount your league rumps or
4186s	nope that's it another says sleep room
4189s	sort of schedule because there's only
4190s	cards with libra monet
4192s	um
4193s	but yeah this just should be a good one
4195s	uh uh gabby
4197s	it just always feels like he's in the
4199s	conversation you know even when he
4201s	doesn't have the best swiss you're like
4202s	oh gabby started o2 nah he's still gonna
4204s	six two and then get to the top sixteen
4207s	um
4208s	uh trying to get that elusive uh second
4211s	masters tour win which
4213s	is tough uh
4214s	uh not many
4216s	it's it's the french way however
4219s	yeah
4220s	because of blize
4222s	oh just win one you gotta win talk about
4225s	that enough i don't think tj we need to
4226s	talk more about how bly's won
4228s	back-to-back 400 player tournaments
4236s	okay well let's talk about it blyze won
4239s	two back-to-back masters tour events
4242s	boom there we go
4243s	yep talked about it done and done
4246s	now it's time for some hearthstone
4248s	gabby opening up with the rally priest
4249s	kiperang opening up with the libra
4252s	paladin
4254s	curious where kippering decides to go
4256s	with these mulligans um lord bharava
4260s	against rally priest
4262s	you can argue as a keep
4264s	yeah you can also argue that
4267s	it might not do enough so
4270s	i think it's a keep what else do you do
4273s	did you try and occupy the board yeah
4274s	he's got every decision to make here
4276s	truth seekers are keep against so many
4278s	things back in the olden days at least
4279s	not so much anymore
4282s	the choices tj
4284s	yeah keeps the big three
4287s	oh yeah oh and hit a trog
4290s	hello
4292s	hello
4295s	hello hello
4298s	annoy your teach
4299s	all right so now he can actually go for
4303s	a fairly aggressive setup if he wants to
4305s	with the tur one frog attendant into
4308s	hand
4309s	yeah i'm curious if he does want to use
4311s	the coin or if he just wants to go
4313s	turn one trog
4315s	um
4316s	obviously um
4318s	this deck runs natural holy smites
4321s	from gabby the rally priest so that is
4323s	just an answer to it on what
4326s	okay well said
4328s	um
4330s	gabby could also just set that bill
4331s	weaver here because even if uh oh no you
4334s	can't never mind
4335s	um because you're worried you'd be
4336s	worried about hand of a doll he saw
4338s	three keep from kippering as well and
4341s	the trog was
4343s	the one card that wasn't kept
4346s	so that should really tell him something
4348s	um but i like the fact that he's uh just
4351s	going with the uh uh the sethick here
4353s	because it sort of forces kiprang to
4355s	respond to it instead of uh
4358s	trying to guess
4359s	this does allow it to survive against
4361s	noble mount
4363s	um in which case he would just have bump
4364s	holy smite in order to uh
4367s	kill off the the trog doesn't play
4370s	around hand of a doll it will get the
4372s	value trade but he still has the
4373s	opportunity uh to deal with it
4377s	it also has removed yeah yeah it's also
4380s	removed one of the buffs which says hey
4382s	well i could probably just get my
4383s	nasmani to stick now a lot of the time
4386s	and picking up the raised dead obviously
4387s	made that a lot easier decision
4390s	oh for sure
4391s	for sure yeah this deck operates a
4393s	little differently than miracle produce
4394s	miracle priest you have to sort of
4396s	protect your minions um you know like
4399s	sometimes you can fish for your removal
4401s	from your opponent with like the first
4402s	nazmani but you don't play race deads
4404s	you don't play rally so you don't often
4406s	see this just play your minions on curve
4408s	as often
4410s	right you usually want to wait till you
4411s	get like uh get the insights get a
4413s	cheaper dosmani or copy it
4415s	but in this deck because you
4417s	out want those things in the the death
4420s	pool
4421s	um to be able to read some of them with
4424s	rally for cheaper or raised dead you can
4426s	use them to just fight for board in the
4428s	early game and then eventually with all
4429s	those things you're bound to stick and
4431s	then you can go for those crazy turns uh
4433s	we're getting spells back in the hand
4435s	with sethik and
4436s	and uh discounted
4437s	with the money
4439s	yeah it's all it's nowhere near as i say
4441s	it's almost as annoying as resurrect
4442s	priest but it's got the the same feeling
4444s	about it sometimes i've just killed your
4446s	important minions three times stop it
4449s	just behave yourself
4451s	yeah
4453s	but not quite as infuriating as them all
4455s	being seven sevens that heal you i guess
4457s	but yeah
4459s	all right can we gonna do it all again
4463s	yeah
4464s	um there is an opportunity for him to
4466s	say palm reading and then
4468s	next turn could go raise dead play both
4472s	of the
4473s	uh dominion oh okay orders fine rally i
4476s	was gonna say play both of the minions
4478s	next turn with a free holy smite free
4480s	shadow or devour
4482s	which is likely to clear off much of
4484s	what kipran could do
4486s	decides to go a different way looks for
4487s	the rally hits it
4489s	and now options are open once again
4492s	for gabby going into the next turn
4495s	options are open for kippering too
4497s	obviously
4498s	the coin truth seeker is kind of what he
4500s	kept in his opener and has played
4502s	towards
4503s	and that still seems to be pretty valid
4506s	right now would allow him to start work
4508s	on reducing that people to get something
4510s	big on the board
4512s	or the turn after cheaply as well
4514s	because the liebherr's being so cheap
4519s	get some good old buffs and slow it down
4521s	like he's going to wait
4537s	gabby's hand costs like
4540s	none
4541s	play the two minions and anything else
4543s	you want to is available to him now
4546s	yep
4548s	pop off turn uh certainly to come
4551s	um
4558s	i like to start
4561s	i
4561s	you kept the true seeker i think you
4563s	just true seeker and then
4565s	of libra
4569s	it preserves the coin um
4572s	the other the only other option i could
4573s	think of would be stonehearth vindicator
4576s	and then
4577s	you can buff and get out of devout pupil
4580s	right with a coin
4582s	um
4584s	like that's probably the most possible
4585s	power you can fit on the board
4587s	however
4588s	you're
4589s	uh giving up the coin which he's got two
4592s	very powerful sevens in hand that he may
4594s	want to get out next turn
4596s	though
4597s	uh
4599s	i i do just like the uh the the true
4601s	seeker on the board and now he's
4602s	deciding if he even wants to libro
4604s	because assuming there's a pop-up turn
4606s	coming
4607s	from gabby next turn he's just been
4609s	fighting his time maybe he would be
4610s	worried about a possible like shot of
4613s	the naaru yeah uh thrown along but that
4616s	is gonna be a threat regardless uh of
4619s	when you play the libra so i just like
4621s	the fact that he's putting it down
4623s	here we go
4625s	cards more cards draw cards cheap cards
4627s	play cards
4628s	against all odds
4630s	take it one of dj's favorites
4636s	you're a big fan
4638s	big fan
4639s	there's gonna be so many cards oh my
4642s	goodness look at it go
4644s	yeah um so sometimes
4646s	like uh you can whiff if your sethick
4650s	gives you like a high cost spell if you
4652s	only have two of the nasmonies on board
4654s	like it gives you like idol of yashiraj
4657s	against all odds psyche split initiation
4659s	right
4661s	and your discounts could sometimes hit
4663s	the wrong cards in that sense
4666s	um
4667s	it's a shadow word ruin however is able
4670s	to fully clear the board and can just
4672s	stop there no reason to really uh go off
4675s	even more uh the inside in hand there's
4677s	still the direct iron deck and if you do
4679s	hit direct thar with insight you can't
4681s	pull out the remaining minions
4683s	um
4685s	these are just two of the natural
4686s	minions in his deck so he still has a
4689s	natural nazmani and a natural aesthetic
4691s	veil weaver
4692s	in his deck
4695s	so he can hit those as well just to be
4697s	able to pop off even further
4700s	but there's a chance that gabby just
4702s	kills kipperang next turn
4705s	because right now he can lord bharav but
4708s	he has no follow-up to the lord barab
4710s	i'm curious if he does it anyway just to
4713s	give himself a turn
4715s	potentially
4716s	because bringing all the minions health
4718s	to one
4719s	limits a few things like the amount of
4722s	damage that uh gabby could possibly do
4724s	because he can't get the minions buffed
4725s	up for bless
4726s	but it is just going to get the carroll
4728s	out of the way it's kind of necessary
4731s	at some point to get it down just to
4733s	block some of the damage
4734s	um
4736s	and uh i like this play as well
4738s	just do 70. yeah
4742s	here we go
4744s	it's possible all right there's a bless
4746s	oh no he hit the he got this okay get
4749s	the gifted rooms
4751s	it's flying along there's so many cars
4753s	now this is going to be
4755s	a bit more interesting than last time
4757s	this time he's got the double sethik in
4759s	play which gives more chance of what you
4761s	were talking about happening where he
4762s	gets a high cost card that eats all the
4764s	buffs
4765s	uh he was careful not to do that last
4767s	time partly because he didn't want to
4768s	get bored cleared as well
4770s	so this might be a little bit less
4771s	smooth but it's going all right so far
4780s	all right you've done your job
4782s	your silence now
4784s	it could also put you in these awkward
4785s	spots where
4787s	um you need non-targeted spells at a
4789s	certain point to open up room
4792s	in your hand to actually double sethick
4795s	because if you're playing only targeted
4796s	spells you're spending one spell gaining
4798s	two
4800s	but it looks like he has a good amount
4801s	of non-targeted spells uh the aid
4803s	stations which aren't even playable
4804s	actually since he already has one up
4807s	now
4809s	um
4812s	that's how insane this is
4814s	yeah
4815s	but then at a certain point you do have
4817s	to like make it work with weird stuff
4819s	like he doesn't actually have that much
4820s	powerpoint he's not actually getting
4822s	a ton of minion buffs um but what he is
4825s	getting is just more refill and a ton of
4828s	removal like now he has an osmani and a
4832s	sethick in hand uh
4834s	and
4836s	because of the stormpike gate station
4837s	that he's gonna have for the rest of the
4839s	game because he has a free one in hand
4840s	for when this one expires
4843s	um all he needs to do is just keep
4844s	sticking these boards and kippering
4846s	again does have the lord brought but no
4848s	uh no blademaster samuro and or uh
4852s	the broomstick in order to be able to
4854s	sort of critically activate it
4859s	just thinking um duck
4861s	yeah i mean maybe you're just
4864s	mutinous
4868s	inside it so try and limit it but
4870s	there's another rally in the deck
4871s	there's another raised in the deck he
4873s	could have picked up ray's dead or rally
4875s	from the
4876s	you know six spells that he picked up
4879s	last turn that he got uh it just
4882s	doesn't feel great so it looks like he's
4883s	just gonna go for um
4886s	uh
4888s	trying to create a people overboard
4890s	yeah
4891s	i mean gabby could do d6 warlock easily
4894s	inside the time and that last turn he
4896s	was nowhere near complete he had never
4898s	completed the last turn it's almost
4899s	impossible for anybody to do so yeah in
4902s	terms of actually resolve all of the
4904s	things here it goes again tj i think
4906s	this time might be a lot bigger though
4908s	he's got a really big head start on
4910s	everything on the board this time
4912s	yeah um he does
4915s	yes he does is going to go for um i'm
4919s	not a new face instead because he's
4920s	worried about hand space he's got shadow
4922s	or death two shadow decks actually to
4924s	deal with both these minions
4926s	still these minion buffs still needs
4927s	blasts
4930s	take an elec mount at this point
4933s	the word ruin okay gift of luminance
4936s	it's it's playable but it won't summon a
4939s	copy of anything
4940s	um
4942s	is less sort of running low on on
4944s	playable cards given his hand size right
4948s	yeah i guess
4950s	maybe trade a minion in at some point oh
4953s	no he can't now not a relevant one sorry
4955s	not an irrelevant one plenty of relevant
4957s	ones not much just happened here needs
4959s	to go
4963s	i i mean if he can just clear the board
4966s	every turn and keep his hand going
4971s	like he'll he'll still be fine
4976s	this 116 is ludicrous what are you doing
4979s	as a 116
4983s	you just stand there let people hit you
4985s	it's all fine
4996s	to get the horn off okay he got the horn
4998s	off so he kept hand space his hand is
5000s	free essentially this is gonna be three
5002s	more discounts so his hand is gonna cost
5005s	oh never mind the discount in the hand
5007s	happened before we saw it okay
5011s	all right then this will pick up samurai
5014s	or broome
5016s	yep there's broom
5019s	boom
5020s	and carol's lifesteal so now has lord
5023s	bharav for when he needs it i mean
5027s	again gabby's just not picking up
5030s	anything
5032s	that can pressure
5035s	like no blesses no elect mounts
5039s	um no like power word fees no powered
5042s	fortitudes um none of these minions have
5045s	been buffed at all there was one
5046s	apotheosis that he attacked with and
5048s	then immediately silenced and that was
5049s	the only actual like
5052s	minion attack buff that he was able to
5054s	pick up so it's starting to get to an
5056s	awkward situation dragstar costs zero so
5059s	it won't pull any minions out i think he
5060s	only has
5062s	he's even have any minions left
5064s	um
5065s	you might have a sethik
5068s	i don't know i think gabby has explained
5071s	to the client what he requires now
5073s	though through the whole of the last
5075s	minute
5076s	just telling the client look just give
5077s	me a bless you know then you don't have
5079s	to client anymore we can just get on
5080s	with some hearthstone
5082s	just give me a bless i can have a 23 23
5085s	and that'll end the game you know
5087s	just had a good old chat with the client
5088s	there
5090s	i think he's going to be okay he's
5092s	explained the situation
5094s	he's also given himself a board space
5096s	with the against all odds which is uh
5098s	actually pretty good because he can hold
5100s	up another in osmani and keep going
5103s	um
5104s	so if he hits
5106s	it's still
5108s	a small possibility for lethal here um
5112s	but actually just doesn't hit anything
5113s	else uh doesn't want to go for a gift of
5116s	luminance here
5117s	um doesn't really have
5119s	particularly strong reload
5122s	um
5126s	it's
5127s	again kind of awkward he's got one rally
5130s	left in the deck since he thrived um his
5133s	uh first rally he's got one raised dead
5135s	left in the deck
5136s	also he does have plenty of reactive
5139s	cards right he's got shadow of death
5140s	he's got soul mir
5142s	um against all odds
5144s	um so he can deal with
5147s	what kipring's gonna do
5150s	this is it clear if he wants it
5152s	i think he wants it right he can't keep
5153s	riding his luck like this gabby's had
5155s	three or four turns now of getting a
5157s	million cars and not getting what he
5159s	needs but
5161s	you can't keep riding your luck he's
5162s	down to 12 as well so the buffs gabby
5165s	needed were so much lower now
5173s	it's gonna be awkward for gabby now no
5175s	card drop i've lost track of the left
5177s	hand side of the hand
5188s	okay so there's still one minion left in
5190s	the deck okay
5192s	uh because drakthar is not yellow yet
5205s	all right well here we go again then
5208s	he's going to use this to get a shadow
5210s	or death target
5212s	i don't know if he wants to rally he
5214s	probably just wants to keep this board
5216s	as is and uh just just clear off stuff
5219s	maybe end with like uh
5221s	spirits auspicious spirits
5224s	yeah i agree there's no need right to
5226s	rally because you need that next turn to
5228s	fuel your turn
5230s	this turn is just setting up so it
5231s	wasn't a million left
5233s	open to kill with okay
5235s	wait what
5242s	is down to some things he can put in the
5245s	way
5250s	and we can't even do our favorite meme
5251s	no mr smite in the deck so
5255s	no he's just buffing it for a hundred
5257s	turns and not dying and then hitting up
5259s	one swap
5260s	what happened when you ran out of
5262s	minions striker turned yellow
5264s	as it technically is more
5266s	uh every meaning the deck is cheaper
5268s	because there are no
5269s	i'm a terrible person teaching i never
5271s	noticed the color of the borders
5279s	when i
5281s	no i mean in any deck i've always had
5283s	this problem for years not just in
5284s	valley priest i don't notice the the
5286s	border of the card it's too too thin
5289s	yeah
5291s	for my aged eyes
5295s	all right well that's as much as he's
5296s	gonna get in the way it's quite a lot of
5298s	stuff
5300s	but the priest should be able to find a
5301s	way through all this lot with drawing so
5303s	many cards
5305s	they're even numbers too
5308s	but now
5309s	for now
5313s	um
5314s	it's between gift and shadow or death
5316s	but i think like because he could rally
5319s	back one nasmani
5328s	all right well if the game's not going
5330s	to give me some big minions i'm just
5331s	going to steal yours
5335s	this is my um
5338s	yep
5338s	doesn't even need those nice money at
5340s	this point he's just gonna
5343s	build a
5344s	different type of board condemn that is
5346s	a rank three condemned so he's able to
5348s	speak to this with the hero power
5351s	and then keep pushing some damage and uh
5353s	i like the way he's he's uh he's playing
5355s	this
5357s	yeah just making sure he doesn't die
5358s	more than anything he knows that there's
5360s	limited ways for the paladin to remove
5361s	his stuff so
5364s	he's just saying okay i'm just going to
5365s	present you some damage each turn and
5368s	slowly but surely you're going to find
5369s	fewer and fewer ways to deal with it and
5371s	eventually your
5373s	7 000 carryall health will get depleted
5378s	down to 14 cabriol health now
5381s	light guide there's a lever of hope
5383s	still in the deck so one of these nights
5385s	of anointments could pick it up
5389s	but turning it on its head how does
5391s	how does kippurang ever actually do
5393s	damage to gabby here
5396s	uh he kills every minion
5398s	right
5401s	and then hope that gabby's random spell
5403s	generation didn't give him something
5406s	that can summon minions
5409s	from his worldview sure
5413s	from gabby's world view there's a valley
5415s	ready to go there's a handful of removal
5417s	and stuff
5425s	nothing left
5427s	got nothing left
5431s	this is gotta be lethal
5433s	um
5439s	perhaps the side of his head i think
5440s	that means he's found the lethal
5443s	pretty fluent gabby
5451s	against all odds to clear this off
5454s	yeah
5455s	that one was for you tj i think
5458s	i mean
5459s	it's not least
5466s	he's just trying to get creative with
5467s	his clears here that's uh kind of
5470s	got to get creative all right
5473s	but uh has not played enough discounts
5475s	uh to get the lever of hope it does cost
5477s	five at the moment hasn't gotten the
5479s	full array of discounts
5484s	i'll cost four excuse me so close
5491s	yeah he's dead
5493s	quite sure he's counting here if i put
5495s	the liver on it it gets bigger cool i
5497s	put the other lid on it it gets bigger
5498s	cool
5500s	so there's actually
5502s	11 damage
5504s	for gabby
5505s	okay so don't concede just in case
5508s	somehow this priest can't find a damage
5514s	a single point of damage that's still
5516s	not damaged
5520s	you all know bless
5523s	gabby is just taking this into his own
5525s	hands now look you know what
5527s	i'm just gonna do it yeah there's the
5528s	damage from the devourer okay yep well
5531s	there's no damage from devour oh no i
5533s	can't add
5534s	he gets it from the void yard
5536s	yeah
5538s	and that'll do it
5540s	finally thank you gabby
5546s	a very grindy game of rally priests
5550s	and
5552s	games can end a lot quicker than that i
5554s	think gabby did the best with what he
5555s	was given um his random generation
5558s	actually
5559s	was
5560s	like mediocre he was finding a lot of
5563s	removal so it allowed him to react to
5565s	whatever kipperang was doing at any
5567s	given point
5568s	um
5569s	but it did take him a while to close the
5571s	game out just because you know he wasn't
5573s	finding those uh generated fortitudes
5576s	the generated blesses
5578s	um the generated elect mounts right so
5582s	um it did take him longer but i like the
5584s	fact that he was just patient he built
5586s	up a board and said this board is good
5587s	enough i can react to whatever kipperang
5589s	does
5590s	and uh just a slow burn
5593s	from there so well done
5595s	yeah he just got into the point where he
5597s	realized hang on this isn't going to be
5598s	a regular
5600s	the way you win it i'm just going to win
5601s	it a different way now because he was
5603s	even turning down a bless at one point
5605s	towards the end i noticed just to keep
5606s	the
5608s	the lock down on his opponent
5611s	now we get to see him play quest rogue
5612s	which is entirely different sort of deck
5617s	oh yeah
5619s	the only thing you're generating is
5620s	gizmos
5624s	gothamatic
5626s	by guff
5628s	he's got what are the others called are
5630s	you gadgets and gizmo or plenty
5634s	widgets
5636s	this is when you break out in song neil
5640s	you ever heard me break out in song tj
5644s	um
5646s	how do you ask no i don't think so
5649s	no
5650s	no no it's um the sort of thing that i
5653s	don't do often maybe i will at some
5655s	point and surprise everybody but it
5656s	won't be right now
5660s	okay
5661s	fair enough gadgets and gizmos are
5662s	plenty not quite enough not quite my
5665s	wheelhouse
5667s	gotcha
5668s	there are gadgets gizmos and si7 things
5672s	are plenty and that is it really
5676s	play your quest play some si7s play a
5678s	big thing give it stealth hit your
5680s	opponent with it twice gigi
5686s	decides to throw into this one um
5690s	scene what if he just sticks on the
5692s	libra paladin or decides to move yeah oh
5694s	we're going to get a quest rogue mirror
5697s	it's a gizmos tj
5700s	aplenty
5701s	and we do have a card difference here
5705s	card difference alert
5708s	there's actually multiple card
5709s	differences
5710s	um there is only a single cut list
5713s	for gabby
5715s	and he has decided to include scabs
5718s	cutter butter
5721s	he also has cult neophytes
5723s	in place of
5729s	uh wicked stabs
5730s	oh well thank you
5734s	yep yep
5736s	correct this is like the old school
5738s	quest rogue
5745s	early forms
5746s	ran wickets dad
5748s	then quest rogue evolved to not play
5751s	wicket stab once more si7 cards were put
5754s	in
5755s	and then wicked stabs were put back in
5760s	and then now gabby's taking them out
5762s	again so kind of a love-hate
5763s	relationship with wickedstab
5766s	um he's going for the more just like uh
5770s	more likely to curve into playable
5772s	things
5773s	right more likely to have a hand that
5775s	can just
5775s	play a bunch of stats onto the board i
5778s	do think that the colt neo5 variation
5779s	does synergize more with scabs because a
5781s	lot of times on turns where you want to
5783s	gabs just having wicked steps in your
5785s	deck means that you know sometimes you
5787s	have less minions
5789s	uh to go off with
5791s	kiprang's hand looks quite a bit better
5794s	for the time being actually has
5796s	just three turns of playable on curve uh
5799s	si cards whereas
5801s	gabby also does but their
5803s	si7 agents which are not ideal
5806s	um still progress the quest
5808s	but
5809s	a lot of this match up does come down to
5813s	tempo at certain points in the game more
5815s	specifically if you can run away with
5816s	the board early it means that
5818s	um you can close out the game before
5820s	your opponent is able to like get back
5822s	in with more value especially since
5823s	kiparang if he has early tempo he has
5825s	wicked stabs to help close the game
5827s	quicker
5828s	so
5829s	oh okay he's going to go with the coin
5831s	si7 instead of sion format this will
5833s	give him mana to play the
5836s	gizmo
5838s	his most gonna be or dagger
5841s	doesn't hit a good one yep okay
5852s	yep just tempo it up
5855s	and gabby really needs something to
5856s	happen here he can definitely hold on
5858s	for a turn or two but
5861s	he's in danger from gabby's point of
5862s	view just getting out of control
5866s	ooh
5867s	um
5869s	yeah
5874s	yeah i was gonna say i think it's
5875s	between si7 agent and hope you hit a
5877s	good gizmo or secret passage and he
5880s	decided on secret passage hit smuggler
5883s	which is playable
5888s	hoping for
5890s	uh si7 extortion but his second swindle
5893s	i said seven extortion would have been
5895s	nutty there
5897s	um but alas does not hit it
5900s	and now i think gabby's in quite a bit
5902s	of trouble here because kippering has no
5904s	shortage of
5906s	playable options can turbo through the
5908s	crust if he wants to with a shadow step
5913s	on something or other
5915s	not really a great shadow step target to
5916s	be honest this turn because he kind of
5919s	wants to just trade this stalker into
5921s	the foxy fraud
5923s	but maybe he can just hold on to that
5925s	for
5926s	a more opportune moment
5929s	it's weird here but i'm looking at the
5930s	the secret passage as an option as well
5932s	even though he has plenty of other
5934s	options just so we can do two things
5935s	instead of one thing
5938s	big enough and
5939s	criticize that play
5942s	yeah i think he has a big whiff chance
5945s	with uh
5947s	uh the secret passage
5950s	i think such a smuggler in that instance
5952s	like a 5'5 still usually more power than
5954s	a smuggler for two
5967s	gabby's really struggling to hang in
5969s	here
5975s	on 25 i guess so
5977s	maybe he can make some magic happen
5986s	yeah does have a decent play loaded up
5989s	for next turn with uh
5991s	the si7 extortion
5997s	which can activate any number of his
5999s	combo cards he could go extortion plus
6002s	si7 assassin
6004s	oh
6006s	it's the noggin fog generator
6014s	this is just like
6016s	yeah
6017s	gonna be nearly lethal
6020s	trying to get some damage
6022s	[Music]
6031s	just make sure it's definitely lethal
6032s	next turn
6041s	well it won't be
6043s	but like just
6045s	damage permanence is a thing against
6047s	rogue
6049s	so any damage yeah it just means he's
6051s	that much closer with just a stealth
6053s	scabs multiple wicket stabs
6056s	yeah the stabs are a massive deal it
6058s	feels in this mirror
6060s	uh i can understand why you take them
6062s	out in general but
6065s	also see why you would play them in the
6066s	mirror
6067s	yeah all right
6073s	okay now i'm interested in a secret
6074s	passage
6077s	yeah because none of this is really
6080s	doing a huge amount the passage has like
6082s	you said earlier very much less whiff
6084s	potential now
6088s	it's called foxy step foxy si7 just to
6092s	give himself
6093s	one more mana with secret passage
6102s	i mean
6103s	yeah
6104s	ah
6105s	this one this removes it for one mana
6108s	uh i'm going to end the game asap double
6110s	wicket stab is
6112s	lethal
6116s	no
6117s	oh no
6120s	these are terrible
6122s	that
6124s	is an awful passage
6140s	oh my goodness
6143s	i imagine he keeps this 86 stealth nope
6146s	okay cash is in gabby's got a potential
6150s	for a big swing here yep
6154s	could go
6156s	cold neophyte
6159s	oh nope that's good as well it's another
6161s	si card he could go
6163s	operative
6164s	smuggler
6166s	colt neophyte and si7 assassin
6176s	and he's still two turns away from
6178s	lethal that's the problem but
6182s	has nothing in his hand if
6185s	gabby gets
6187s	a bit of a whiff that that's going on
6190s	wow
6193s	okay he's just going to go assassin he's
6194s	not going to go cold if he needs to he
6196s	he realizes he needs to clear the board
6197s	so he doesn't die to a single wicked
6198s	stab
6200s	um and then he could uh play a mole
6202s	alongside this and uh i mean we are
6205s	actually looking at a potential here for
6208s	two turn lethal let's say kiparang
6211s	would just remove the ticketus but
6214s	gibran can actually remove
6216s	nearly the entire board because
6218s	he's got two shadow steps in an si7
6221s	assassin
6223s	uh-huh yeah
6224s	good job for him that he can as well
6226s	because mr smite in hand would have
6228s	been pretty terrifying obviously though
6230s	gabby is in a spot where he might get
6233s	the first scabs on the board which is
6235s	obviously a massive deal
6239s	so
6240s	gabby held on to a board space uh
6243s	purposefully here in order to be able to
6245s	play mr smite
6248s	um
6252s	if the board was left unchecked
6257s	the thing here though even though the
6258s	board is going to get pretty much wiped
6261s	out
6263s	it's not going to get replaced with a
6265s	huge amount on kippurang's side so gabby
6267s	may will get the chance to go again
6270s	yeah
6271s	um
6272s	kippering completes scabs but would need
6274s	a turn to set it up and gabby gets to
6276s	get his scabs down first but then opens
6280s	up opportunity for mr smite to
6282s	potentially be an out the problem
6284s	gabby's going to face next turn is that
6286s	most of his board's getting removed and
6288s	he will have to answer it
6291s	um
6292s	so he'll have three mana for gizmos with
6295s	the way his hand is right now he
6296s	actually won't be able to get
6300s	um was it uh
6303s	knocking fox generator is that the one
6305s	it's that or fizz flash that comes last
6308s	i don't know my orders i've gotta admit
6309s	i stealed it after all this time even
6311s	now i've played it quite a lot i still
6312s	don't know my orders of the cards you
6314s	get i just know you get the good ones
6316s	quite early
6318s	yeah
6319s	usually
6324s	no the good ones come later
6333s	okay he's just gonna play them all out
6334s	first so he gets so he gets all of them
6337s	um this leaves him with uh less man in
6339s	orbit to do it it is the noggin fog
6340s	generator that comes last
6343s	what's wrong okay
6345s	obviously just never got any cards in my
6347s	hand when i do it
6348s	yeah well uh he's gabby's saying all
6351s	right you got to kill me now
6354s	yep and he's not killing him now
6356s	yep gabby knows this is lethal loaded up
6361s	oh my
6362s	how has he done this this was an awful
6364s	hand for gabby are you just keeping
6366s	secret passage turn where it all went
6369s	wrong
6370s	wait is that hold on
6374s	yes
6376s	he has
6377s	11 on board
6379s	17 in the hidden blade yeah okay yep
6385s	wow i am
6387s	[Music]
6388s	very surprised that he was able to get
6391s	that done
6392s	that is uh pretty insane he's going to
6394s	look for the
6396s	the mole card first
6398s	was that a lobotomizer yeah okay
6401s	but yeah nicely done by gabby he was
6403s	very far behind
6405s	uh in the early stage of that game but
6406s	was able to hold on
6408s	and he wasn't overreacting to the board
6410s	right um like he was on like his secret
6414s	passage turn he was prioritizing card
6416s	draw on pretty much every turn he was
6417s	prioritizing card draw there were so
6419s	many opportunities for him to play down
6421s	the cult neophytes but he realized that
6423s	they weren't going to be doing anything
6424s	and so instead he just decided to try
6427s	and get as quick quest completion as
6428s	possible by drawing into more uh cheaper
6431s	si cards
6433s	um
6434s	and uh you know going from there
6437s	um kipperang
6439s	i'm i i don't know if there was really
6442s	anything to be done differently
6445s	maybe no attack on the si7 informant uh
6449s	the turn that he attacked with it right
6451s	uh eight damage would have been a
6452s	possibility much yeah i agree what's the
6455s	possibility yeah so at that point in the
6457s	game it's almost it's almost always
6459s	going to only be dealing eight damage
6461s	and by holding on to the eight damage
6462s	you give yourself like a battle master
6463s	draw
6465s	um uh for for lethal um
6468s	and maybe you need to like trade into a
6470s	meeting to play more of a board it
6472s	wouldn't have changed the outcome i
6473s	don't think
6474s	because he probably just would have
6476s	gotten faced with the next turn he
6477s	didn't end up picking up the battle
6478s	master
6480s	um but that's really like all i can
6481s	think of for optimization his secret
6483s	passage he whiffed hard and that hurt
6485s	him right he really needs to pressure
6487s	his advantage right there
6489s	a five mana and he hit like
6491s	three cards he couldn't play and one he
6493s	didn't want to like it was just awful
6496s	yeah
6498s	all right
6500s	libra paladin once again for kipper rank
6501s	gabby's going to move over to the quest
6503s	fell demon hunter the with a kazakhstan
6506s	feature
6510s	plenty of removal for gabby
6513s	everything costs a million for kippering
6516s	good cards though
6518s	yeah i don't even know if you wanna keep
6520s	that much removal
6522s	um no it's too much i think just keep an
6524s	order
6525s	personally
6529s	it is in the
6531s	like it is a dumpable card that would be
6532s	an outcast position
6535s	um
6538s	there we go so i agree on the quest as
6540s	well sorry i should have should have
6541s	made myself clear for the pedants out
6544s	there
6551s	oh my goodness
6552s	that's not the one he wanted really
6554s	isn't
6558s	i want something to do right now he's
6560s	going to get into trouble
6564s	uh well he's got bannerman into
6565s	bannermen which is uh
6567s	quite good uh because then your mid game
6569s	is incredibly strong and that's kind of
6572s	where you want it to be strong
6573s	um
6575s	against this deck a lot of the early
6576s	game um you can have these aggressive
6579s	starts but at some point it's usually
6581s	going to get swept up by an emulation or
6582s	a bell screen blast
6584s	it's that mid game where you need to
6585s	force big removal out of them and it's
6588s	all of a sudden going to bring like the
6590s	true seeker out of range of
6592s	a talented arcanist immolation aura
6595s	anything he picks up is just going to be
6597s	that much more threatening
6598s	so even though he doesn't
6602s	[Laughter]
6605s	sorry to cut you off by giggling there
6607s	but it's like
6611s	he just pretends he's made a mistake oh
6615s	god he behave
6617s	he he
6618s	he did that because he knows that he's
6620s	immolation ordering next turn he knows
6622s	that he's doing it
6623s	um
6625s	and so he this is just he gets to push
6628s	one extra face damage see iron deep frog
6631s	that's double buffed by bannerman gets
6633s	to roll into true seeker true seeker and
6636s	then mutinous to follow it up
6638s	and these minions are big they are big
6643s	yep can be dealt with though and gabby
6645s	just choosing to chill for now
6647s	uh with weapon and arkansas scream so
6650s	he's okay
6651s	now he's got arcanist and
6655s	um
6656s	elbaraj as well when he wants that so
6658s	he's got loads of options to take care
6660s	of stuff for now
6661s	yep he can actually um
6666s	a little awkward
6668s	goodbye's face is like why are you
6669s	giving me so many drugs this feels like
6671s	it's going to go horribly wrong for me
6687s	um how many can gabby give him
6700s	oh okay
6704s	[Music]
6712s	how far he got out of that but
6717s	the tougher turn to deal with now
6720s	yeah he can deal with it uh-huh
6722s	just go uh talented arcanist
6725s	uh fel scream blast and then a uh fury
6728s	actually chaos strike
6730s	um plus hero power would deal with it by
6732s	itself
6733s	and heals back up much of what he's
6735s	gonna do he's got an oh jeez nice yeah
6738s	he's getting large
6739s	yeah uh he's got illidar studies for
6742s	potential reload but i mean kippering's
6744s	got no shortage of
6746s	playable big things and he's also got a
6748s	muteness
6749s	that could potentially come down on the
6751s	next turn which currently is just jace
6754s	so
6756s	it will just chase
6758s	yep
6759s	and mind if this goes along here
6764s	yeah he's he's going to be scared here
6765s	he's got no glide available maybe he'll
6767s	try and hit one
6768s	um if this goes long there is that
6770s	kazakhstan available for gabby which
6772s	isn't always in this matchup so
6775s	keeping the status quo not as much of a
6776s	disaster as it might seem
6784s	i see
6791s	west the disaster really is what do you
6794s	do about this gigantic fish
6802s	there you go arcanist
6807s	okay
6810s	it's going to be a big one too
6812s	a big 50 50.
6817s	yeah cause that jace is loaded
6831s	which second of the turn should i play
6833s	my mutes he's not gonna play it okay
6836s	yeah
6838s	um
6848s	using to keep the guaranteed tempo
6849s	because this is quite a lot of stuff to
6850s	be fair
6864s	there's a potential that if he knows he
6866s	can grind gabby out right
6869s	he he could
6870s	isolate the
6872s	um curtress if gabby were to
6875s	uh play it here
6877s	which does significantly affect the
6879s	power level of kazakhstan in this deck
6881s	because not only is it more expensive to
6883s	play but because the aura from
6885s	uh the kirchhoff's quest reward is
6888s	permanent
6889s	uh even the treasures that you draw
6891s	are cheaper
6893s	though um and like without expendable
6896s	performers
6897s	gabby has nothing to close it out
6899s	besides that and jace
6901s	and he knows that at almost any point in
6902s	the game he is going to be safe
6905s	from a potential jace because he can
6906s	keep reloading the board
6908s	um
6911s	yeah that does make some sense
6913s	gabby also get picks crimson scissor
6915s	runner and just holds
6917s	it to i'm guessing to play around
6921s	up uh potential muteness in this
6923s	situation
6926s	yep no reason you wouldn't want a 1-1 on
6928s	the board to slow down the opposing
6929s	minion
6934s	if he doesn't mutinous this turn has a
6936s	very mediocre turn for spending his mana
6939s	which may he
6940s	tempt him but he
6942s	the plan you just laid out is obviously
6943s	what's on his mind he wants to keep it
6946s	going to snaffle the curtis
6950s	or even isolate kazakhstan
6954s	i think that's less likely because
6958s	you're going to just windmill slam that
6959s	at the end of your
6961s	deck i think
6963s	oh as long as there's other minions in
6964s	the deck he can keep the mutes back to
6966s	the kazakhstan light
6968s	i guess that's the thing he knows it
6970s	can't be played until the viper for
6972s	instance
6974s	yeah but he may not know when that has
6976s	happened that's a difficult spot right
6979s	the timing of this
6985s	there is always a danger in these spots
6987s	that you out clever yourself i think
6988s	this is fine for now because there's
6990s	he's still making big scary game winning
6994s	boards
6995s	you can certainly sort of out do
6997s	yourself if you're not careful
7000s	yeah he's also just kind of setting up
7002s	lethal he knows that there's a bell
7004s	screen blasts
7006s	um
7007s	left
7017s	yep he just kept the tempo rather than
7018s	one big thing just keep on the pressure
7020s	he's he's just been getting the drawers
7023s	to be able to do that
7024s	yeah
7027s	jace is not really aw
7030s	i guess if yeah
7034s	there's quite a bit in this chase
7036s	yeah it's two furys two chaos strikes
7038s	one fell barrage one immolation or a two
7040s	foul screen blast
7043s	you can get the aura first which is what
7044s	he really needed so the um
7047s	the barrages have just been wasted to
7049s	some degree there needed the orders to
7051s	take out the one health minions not the
7052s	barrage
7053s	that's his own consternation you saw
7055s	there
7056s	yeah
7059s	cario's lethal okay oh munis
7064s	okay talented arcanist
7071s	pretty much stuff
7073s	yeah so it looks like he was trying to
7075s	get specifically kazakus on
7077s	um
7079s	because at that point in the game
7080s	kurchus was not complete
7084s	i guess he really didn't have any other
7086s	plays that turn huh
7088s	like me this is the only play i mean
7090s	we still don't know it is he was either
7092s	saving it for specifically kurchus or
7094s	kazakhstan because he didn't play it
7096s	when
7096s	he knew that jace was a possibility
7098s	obviously gabby was dumping
7100s	um
7101s	most of his hand
7103s	though
7104s	i wonder if kippering is debating on
7107s	he i'm pretty sure his broomstick is
7109s	buffed yeah so
7110s	he's just deciding whether or not he
7112s	actually wants to
7114s	use the broom here to clear off the jace
7117s	i think it makes sense it allows him to
7119s	push eight damage to face he still puts
7120s	gabby on having to find
7123s	the removal necessary to deal with this
7125s	damage he'd be at three life with no
7127s	jace no fel scream blasts smoke
7130s	thermodon really or kill you with my
7132s	combo
7133s	yeah and right now it it hasn't got more
7136s	than mag theradon for gabby because uh
7138s	he doesn't have any removal to actually
7141s	deal with the
7144s	um
7147s	bitchness and the eighth one
7156s	start
7158s	no performers
7159s	i don't think there's a way out of this
7161s	he doesn't get any discounts anymore
7164s	he's conceded it
7165s	yep
7168s	2-1 gabby still with this demon hunter
7172s	the kazakhstan version that
7175s	i don't even know what to make of demon
7176s	hunter anymore there were so many
7178s	different demon hunters brought to this
7179s	event and they've all done well it feels
7182s	like we're seeing boots we've seen
7183s	kazakhstan's we're seeing the old
7184s	version with expendables
7187s	gives you just do what you like as long
7188s	as you put in the basic cards
7191s	yeah
7193s	i like the way that kippering played
7195s	that i do too turned down some potential
7197s	like high power level plays in order to
7199s	just
7200s	um keep as much aggression on the board
7203s	as possible like as much like raw
7206s	stats and divine shields on the board as
7208s	possible
7209s	and also just kept pushing face damage
7212s	right uh which ended up being crucial
7215s	like he left up that sixth one knowing
7217s	that
7218s	um either gabby would have to tank more
7220s	damage in order to trade the sixth one
7222s	into a minion or jace like traded into a
7226s	divine shield anyway
7228s	and then jace because he wouldn't want
7229s	to risk immolation order happening first
7231s	and killing off the sixth one
7232s	um
7233s	uh before like the divine fields were
7235s	taken off so just some nice little spots
7238s	uh everywhere for gibbering to maximize
7240s	damage done and put the pressure on
7241s	gabby and it worked out because
7244s	gabby even had like a relatively solid
7246s	opening was able to keep control of the
7248s	first couple boards was able to get
7249s	those first two quests completed just
7251s	wasn't able to find the removal beyond
7254s	that in order to uh uh
7257s	you know
7258s	finish the the the job so
7262s	uh now kimbering's got the miracle
7265s	priest and quest rogue remaining so
7268s	we're still looking at two
7270s	okay match-ups
7272s	uh for kippering going into the demon
7274s	hunter i think quest rogue is pretty
7275s	good and miracle priest
7277s	entirely depends
7279s	i mean yeah
7281s	miracle priest i think
7283s	i'm not sure anyone has a very good
7285s	handle on its percentages overall
7287s	because it's
7288s	it's so dependent on how you play
7290s	whether you make the right decisions
7292s	what your reads are do you jam your two
7294s	five at the right time and a lot of that
7297s	is gameplay dependent depending what
7298s	your opponent's done get the read on
7300s	what they might have
7301s	it's very very hard to get a handle on
7304s	any given hand any given percentage for
7306s	the priest i think
7308s	especially into demon hunter where
7310s	there's a lot of guessing and second
7311s	guessing going on
7313s	yeah um
7316s	the interest replay with a massive
7318s	sample size has to match up at a pretty
7320s	much exactly 50 percent right that
7322s	doesn't help
7324s	but we're not going to get to that point
7326s	yet uh kiprank's going to queue up the
7328s	uh quest rogue first
7331s	which i think is the better matchup uh
7333s	you have consistent pressure
7335s	um that ramps up throughout the game
7338s	you have a lot of must kill threats that
7342s	again that ramp up throughout the game
7345s	that get bigger and bigger
7346s	and you're not really vulnerable to
7348s	glide at any particular moment
7351s	which is uh uh an another
7355s	a positive about the deck
7360s	so i i would say this is probably
7364s	at least like 60 40 in in favor of quest
7366s	rogue we're seeing cuestro thrown into a
7369s	lot of target demon hunter lineups
7373s	or soft target demon hunter lineups that
7375s	seems to be one of its main purposes it
7376s	also can do quite well against druid at
7379s	times definitely agree i also am looking
7382s	at gabby's hand and every
7385s	part of me is trying to disagree with
7387s	you for this particular game of
7389s	hearthstone i don't think this one's 60
7390s	40. you've got the warblades to take out
7392s	the foxy fraud you've got the barrage
7394s	and the
7396s	um
7396s	arcanist to do some useful damage and
7398s	then you've got the glide to get rid of
7399s	all the cards they've accumulated this
7401s	could actually just be really nice for
7403s	gabby
7406s	well each replay has it at 75.25 in
7409s	favor of the quest road
7412s	what if one player's gabby with a really
7414s	good curve yeah that's the thing quest
7416s	fell demon hunter also does have a much
7418s	higher
7419s	skill ceiling
7421s	than uh then quest rogue equestria can
7424s	still sometimes be difficult right
7425s	maximizing stats because that's
7427s	essentially what it's about
7428s	um
7430s	and like one mistake can throw you off
7433s	significantly with with quest rogue
7436s	i find that you sort of do things out of
7438s	order you feel the the effects of it
7441s	uh for quite some time
7443s	yeah messing up one mana all your stuff
7446s	messing up one mana has a massive ripple
7448s	effect because you are very tight on
7450s	mana in this deck
7452s	yeah and we saw in that last game that
7453s	it wasn't his fault but kiprong's secret
7455s	passage when he just couldn't do
7456s	anything suddenly he's wasted like three
7458s	man on that turn
7460s	again through no fault of his own just
7461s	to be clear and it looked absolutely
7463s	horrible for him from that point onwards
7480s	let's see how gabby proceeds from here
7487s	yep
7488s	yep pointing a coin back in his deck
7495s	i mean that's about as best as you can
7496s	hope for oh
7500s	gabby's hand
7502s	so good
7505s	it's very good that is
7507s	oh yeah
7508s	now kirchhoff doesn't have as much value
7511s	in this deck as it would in the
7512s	expendable expendable performance
7514s	variation because questor has to play
7517s	stats to kill you there's no way around
7520s	it sometimes they can stealth their
7522s	stats
7523s	but they have to play stats
7525s	and so if you get churches early at some
7527s	point explainer performers plus dead
7529s	will win you the game oh yes
7532s	oh
7533s	does mr smite him
7535s	get smited
7541s	and these curtresses are three fours i
7544s	believe
7546s	does he even go that way though the fury
7547s	spectral sight chaos strike is a lot of
7551s	um attack but yeah offers to smite get a
7553s	load of cards
7559s	yep
7560s	i think you're right neil
7563s	nice guy one darkest fell scream blast
7567s	looking solid
7570s	oh jeez
7575s	hello how would you like to clear the
7577s	next three boards gabby here's your
7579s	options everything
7589s	okay
7591s	i was like gabby is like
7594s	really debating on just
7597s	smacking face i was sure of it
7599s	yeah
7600s	there's a lot of damage coming up but
7602s	yeah he tried not to die
7604s	yeah
7605s	i like this uh
7608s	battling on this
7611s	and uh for kid prank play stats
7613s	can uh have a secret passage loaded up
7615s	for next turn
7617s	after these uh stats are played
7619s	but look what's going to happen to these
7621s	stats gabby's going to probably
7624s	take time to heal here
7627s	because it's so clean or pretty clean
7632s	even gets a sneaky need for greed in the
7634s	process if he does that
7636s	there's like so many powerful things
7638s	that he can do
7641s	just like everything is powerful
7645s	i think he'd like to get another glide
7646s	for the turn when kippuring actually
7649s	completes quest that's the thing i think
7651s	maybe gabby's looking for the only thing
7652s	he's missing right now seems to be
7654s	digging quite hard there it
7659s	is yes i'm gonna go with the double fell
7662s	screen blast this turn
7665s	back to 30 we go
7668s	he's a head on board he's a head on
7669s	health
7670s	he's got more cards
7673s	again pressure just will continue to
7675s	ramp up for uh for kippurang
7680s	ooh
7681s	um
7684s	i
7684s	guess it's just smuggler plus ten woo um
7688s	one thing that really makes sense
7690s	obviously you can't replay the smuggler
7692s	but it adds it back to your hand and one
7693s	three's not really doing much on the
7694s	board
7696s	um
7696s	[Music]
7699s	if you really want the one three you
7701s	could tend first
7704s	just to get it out of the deck
7707s	i don't think this gizmo is gonna change
7709s	anything
7714s	no
7715s	change
7717s	and that's another really bad secret
7719s	passage for kippurang for different
7721s	reasons this time the numbers just
7722s	didn't add up to five in a
7724s	helpful way
7727s	and now i think gabby gets the chance to
7730s	finally drop the curtains on the board
7733s	oh yeah can curtis trade into 3-4 fell
7735s	barrage get a little bit damage to face
7737s	as well
7746s	i think they're five fours now
7750s	um
7751s	i'm so bad at remembering every time
7754s	reminding me to do this a million times
7756s	i always forget but five sounds about
7757s	right
7759s	at least four
7768s	he's gonna uh go for more efficient
7769s	damage not unload the fel barrage i was
7771s	thinking about just to uh plan for jay's
7773s	next turn uh if
7775s	it's in an okay spot but
7778s	there's not that many fel spells that
7779s	have been played so
7782s	this just keeps his options open for
7784s	next turn to be able to clear things off
7786s	the board
7789s	um no targets the extortion
7793s	no
7795s	uh he can target like his own smuggler
7798s	if he really wants to
7801s	um
7802s	in order to just go for quest completion
7805s	because i believe this is going to put
7806s	him at one out of two for the final
7808s	portion oh no he would have it with just
7809s	the assassin
7815s	what he could have don has
7817s	done is gone um
7819s	gyroblade assassin and then smuggler if
7823s	he wanted to go for a five drop instead
7824s	of a four drop
7826s	does he even want to complete here
7828s	though
7830s	so many options
7832s	for glide
7839s	that's the question right
7848s	i honestly think that's fine
7851s	if he gets glid
7852s	um
7854s	because he is dumping like a good
7857s	chunk of his hand and even if he can't
7859s	play spymaster's gabs he still has a lot
7862s	of good hits
7864s	right um
7866s	like he would have shadow step for the
7868s	smuggler uh informant you could just get
7871s	scabs back like there's a lot of good
7873s	stuff
7874s	uh that would still be available
7876s	um and he's already seen one glide right
7879s	and it's not like gabby's been playing
7881s	in a way that's
7883s	looks like he's trying to get to glide
7885s	he's just been making really powerful
7886s	plays he hasn't been like making plays
7889s	that look a little bit weird that are
7890s	all from
7891s	one side of the hand
7893s	i think he's fine doesn't hit glide from
7896s	the illidari studies uh none of these
7898s	are actually
7899s	particularly appealing
7903s	uh
7904s	this one is okay but it
7907s	moves everything into the middle of the
7909s	hand the glide etcetera
7911s	bite seems like it doesn't make any
7913s	break points
7915s	and there's a ganache which is
7926s	might just be a face push here
7930s	yeah he's got a chance right because
7932s	with the chase in hand
7935s	oh yeah oh
7939s	all right so that should be game um gap
7942s	jamming
7945s	um
7946s	fury double chaos strike right a f fell
7950s	barrage which the board will be too
7951s	large
7953s	so that won't do anything but then he
7954s	can also fit into hero power so just
7956s	with double chaos strike fury and a hero
7958s	power that's enough
7961s	oh i believe uh
7963s	uh
7964s	gabby's got this one
7966s	look at the most kipper and can do
7968s	spoilers
7969s	it's not 32.
7972s	now
7973s	it's
7974s	a setup for that much damage certainly
7978s	because he's got wicked stab and
7980s	battlemaster in hand yeah yeah he had
7982s	quite a bit available to him he just
7983s	wasn't 32.
7985s	yeah oh yeah you give him kazakhstan for
7987s	sure
8004s	gabby
8006s	is confident that he's into the
8008s	semi-finals tj have another masters tour
8011s	how good is gabby at hearthstone doesn't
8013s	need answering he's good he's bidding he
8016s	is
8017s	very good
8018s	yep and kiprang
8020s	throws out the emote
8023s	i think he played really well honestly
8027s	it was uh
8028s	oh there was two fury sorry was it two
8030s	fingers and a cow strike yeah okay way
8032s	over lethal doesn't even need the hero
8033s	power
8034s	in order to do it i knew it was lethal
8036s	but not not by that much i do think that
8038s	was a well-played match um
8040s	the big turning point was kind of that
8041s	quest rogue mirror match right um if
8044s	kipperang was able to get that one
8046s	i think that series looks a lot
8048s	different he did have the good early
8049s	start um
8051s	he just kind of whipped on the secret
8052s	passage and i'd have to go back and
8053s	watch to see if there was any
8054s	optimization optimizations he could have
8056s	done because it did feel like he had
8057s	that massive lead
8059s	um but it came down to it
8061s	just a well played series but gabby
8063s	comes out on top so uh
8066s	like you said moving on to yet another
8068s	masters tour semi-finals and
8071s	i i said this
8072s	when it happened but
8074s	like the feeling that you get when you
8076s	see gabby in like full focus mode
8080s	when like everything's on the line he is
8082s	just one of the most frightening players
8084s	to go up against
8085s	in the game i would say gabby and fury
8088s	hunter
8089s	when like a hundred percent focused yes
8092s	like they have this mixture of just like
8094s	purely solid mechanical play but also
8097s	the ability to get incredibly creative
8100s	uh with wind conditions
8102s	which is such a a scary combination for
8105s	any hearthstone player to have
8107s	um and
8108s	so i now nine and zero so far this
8112s	tournament gabby's got the lineup he's
8114s	focused he's got the play down
8116s	and uh we'll see who's going to be able
8117s	to challenge him on the way second
8119s	quarter final it's going to be between
8120s	holy water and uchiha sasuke
8123s	um
8126s	i'd be afraid for winning that one to be
8128s	quite hard yeah you've got to play gabby
8131s	like kippung's face at the end of that
8132s	match was one of someone who's just been
8135s	gabbied right he looked like well i
8136s	didn't do anything wrong why have i lost
8137s	what what just happened to me
8139s	like it's just confusion but what you
8142s	said about gabby and his
8145s	his alternate wing conditions we saw in
8146s	that priest game he didn't draw any
8148s	buffs just decided oh you know what i
8150s	can just basically fatigue my opponent
8153s	here i am going to kill them but i'm
8155s	just basically just going to have a
8156s	board of 4 12's every turn
8158s	paladin just can't threaten these he's
8160s	used his clears
8162s	what can he do to me i just i'm just
8164s	going to not lose this game of
8165s	hearthstone dj's getting all excited
8168s	though so we probably shouldn't talk
8169s	about gabby much longer i don't know
8171s	it does
8173s	like i put him in the same conversation
8174s	as fury hunter because fury hunter over
8176s	the past couple months has just
8177s	impressed me so much like i always think
8179s	back to the mazaki mage deck of lunacy
8182s	game
8182s	where he's just like well i'm not gonna
8184s	win this with my dex traditional win
8185s	condition so let me just
8187s	get a deck of lunacy and try and win it
8189s	that way and actually did
8191s	and uh you get those vibes where when
8194s	things don't go their way it's not that
8195s	big of a deal they they find a way to
8198s	overcome and at least give themselves
8199s	those outs right always finding those
8201s	outs
8202s	um oh my gosh i am just so blurry
8205s	look like i don't even know
8209s	billy hunter was laughing at himself
8211s	when he made that place like i can't
8212s	believe i'm just about to do this
8217s	there we go
8218s	that's looking a lot less blurry there
8220s	you go you're calming down calm tj just
8222s	breathe into a bag you'll be fine
8225s	yeah it's actually the stress of just
8228s	all of these soldiers behind me just
8230s	getting
8231s	blasted off the dun baldar bridge
8236s	um into the the
8238s	uh what's called the ravine below
8242s	the icy ravine of alterac valley
8246s	but it still looks like you're bobbing
8248s	along in a barrel to me along the ravine
8252s	yep
8253s	i am maybe you just go
8255s	below the ravine it's it's frozen by the
8257s	way and you have i believe that's
8259s	lockhart the icelord
8262s	behind you neil um who's who you've
8265s	seemed to have befriended because he's
8267s	been behind you the entire tournament
8269s	and has not smashed you with his
8272s	enormous rock fists
8275s	yeah i told him i knew frozen and he was
8276s	just like oh that's cool yeah yeah he
8278s	goes
8279s	he goes cool i'm frozen
8281s	yeah
8283s	that's two of us are your friends with
8284s	frozen you're friends with me
8286s	all right they're uh um getting mad at
8288s	us that were that we haven't thrown
8290s	thrown to a break yet i just heard the
8291s	word break slightly louder so we're
8293s	gonna have to we're gonna have to leave
8294s	as much as this is fun uh
8297s	we gotta go um that was only the first
8299s	quarter final we have three quarter
8301s	finals left plus the seven files plus
8302s	the finals there's a lot of hearthstone
8304s	to come today so you're not going to
8305s	want to miss it more master store ruins
8308s	of alterac
8309s	right after this
8337s	oh
8338s	[Music]
8355s	[Music]
8368s	by
8384s	[Applause]
8406s	[Music]
8427s	messiah
8438s	here
8439s	[Music]
8467s	[Music]
8473s	[Music]
8481s	[Music]
8504s	welcome welcome everyone you join an
8506s	argument in progress about whether gabby
8508s	or alotemu is going to win this
8509s	tournament but before we get to that
8512s	matter a little bit later on we do have
8514s	a second quarter final to take care of
8517s	here in the top a i am sottle joined by
8520s	grg how are you doing today
8522s	doing great saddle we have the
8524s	record-breaking amount of four
8526s	eight-five players in the top eight i
8527s	suppose with the fall of kefarang it's
8529s	down to three but i'm still happy
8532s	because that's three more than i'm used
8533s	to seeing
8535s	yeah i mean if ever if ever there was a
8537s	time for the apac curse to get broken
8540s	this does seem to be here apac having a
8542s	fantastic tournament so far and have
8545s	some excellent representatives but as
8548s	do the americas in this case with the
8550s	holy water going up against
8552s	sasuke representing peru i believe if
8555s	i'm not inaccurate in that um should be
8558s	a fascinating matchup between the two of
8561s	them what do you make of the lineups in
8563s	particular gm
8564s	largely similar in that they both have
8566s	paladin of the librium variant which has
8569s	become you know begrudgingly i've come
8572s	to respect it in this masters tour and
8574s	just overall in the meta it seems to
8576s	have a nice little niche where it's
8578s	pretty good against demon hunter very
8580s	good against warrior and doesn't
8582s	completely fall flat on its face versus
8584s	druid either and those are the classes
8586s	that are also in the mix here druid and
8588s	demon hunter it's just that the warrior
8590s	is only on the side of sasuke and it's a
8593s	priest instead for holy water so looking
8595s	at holy waters lineup as a whole it does
8597s	seem to be uh pretty well oriented to
8600s	deal with demon hunter i would say um
8603s	the priest is not of the rally variant
8605s	so i feel like it loses a little bit of
8607s	percentage against demon hunter but can
8608s	still get there and it also um is a bit
8613s	scary against warrior however
8615s	yeah that is very true i was doing some
8617s	digging since i haven't been on the
8620s	broadcast early on i've been spending
8621s	that time wisely once again digging
8623s	through uh wicked good stats on off
8626s	curve and actually the
8628s	rally variation of priest is the highest
8630s	win rate deck in the tournament right
8631s	now and has a significant advantage over
8634s	the miracle variation uh which there was
8636s	a bit of an argument about i think like
8637s	lambie series and gabby were talking to
8639s	each other on twitter about what the
8640s	right version to bring was it does seem
8642s	like gabby once again has been validated
8644s	with the rally version so far um but
8647s	yeah miracle version instead being
8648s	represented in this series but we are
8651s	going to kick things off uh with that
8653s	libra paladin from holy water which is
8656s	also performing quite well in the
8658s	tournament particularly i think in the
8660s	matches uh in the match up sorry that it
8662s	is aimed at even in the
8664s	uh quest fell demon hunter match up
8667s	which and there was there's a little bit
8669s	of narrative that you can tend to throw
8670s	around like yeah okay paladin beats
8672s	demon hunter on ladder does it do so
8674s	when the very best players are involved
8676s	well yes it has 70 win rate in this
8679s	tournament in that matchup just based on
8681s	the data from this masters tour so it
8683s	does still seem to hold up as a good
8684s	match up against that demon hunter even
8686s	at this level
8688s	yes and it is certainly a good match up
8690s	into warrior as well which is the first
8692s	one we're going to be seeing when the
8693s	bands are factored in on druid on either
8696s	side that's no big surprise so it really
8698s	is a matter of whether this priest or
8700s	this warrior can perform a little bit
8702s	better and i think sasuke is trying to
8704s	get the warrior out of the way sneak in
8705s	a win with it if he could q-snipe the
8707s	priest from holy water that'd be a huge
8709s	deal because otherwise the warrior's in
8711s	trouble however holy water did get the
8713s	better end of the stick here in the
8715s	first match-up the paladin decidedly
8718s	favored i would say into this charge
8720s	variant especially which doesn't have
8722s	access to maybe trying to get down on
8724s	early kazakhstan and scam a victory
8726s	against paladin
8727s	yeah how do you even do this from the
8730s	charge warrior side like we heard tj and
8733s	lorinda talking about how the very best
8734s	players find wind conditions where
8737s	they're not supposed to exist and that's
8738s	something that i absolutely agree with
8741s	but in this particular match up what is
8743s	that is it just very fast combo is it
8745s	mutinous like what's what's the way
8747s	you're actually going to end win this
8748s	matchup from the warrior side
8750s	i would assume it's some combination of
8752s	getting pieces of the combo and maybe an
8754s	early enough recara that you can catch
8756s	the paladin off guard and hit their own
8758s	8-8 into their face and try to get
8760s	easier break points that way but it's
8762s	decidedly difficult because the combo
8765s	from the warrior not only is it
8766s	difficult to get in hand when you're
8768s	busy being slapped in the face by a
8770s	bunch of on-curve minions from the
8772s	paladin it's also stopped by there being
8774s	taunt minions on the other side of which
8776s	paladin has no shortage whatsoever so
8778s	for holy water here i think it's a
8780s	pretty simple matter of just curving out
8782s	as usual and the most important part is
8784s	to not run dry at the top end right
8787s	when you find your lady liadrins
8790s	varian that's sort of the signal that
8792s	says yes i am for sure going to have
8794s	enough threats through to the late game
8795s	but if those are not there maybe sasuke
8797s	can find a window of two to three turns
8799s	to maybe punish holy water running dry
8804s	he will certainly hope so holy water
8807s	taking his time over this mulligan i'm
8809s	sure he's holding on to the trog i think
8811s	this is just a consideration of which if
8813s	any buffs are gonna go alongside it that
8815s	does turn out to be the case with just
8817s	the hand of a doll being kept trogg
8819s	comes down on one and the supporting
8821s	curve that has appeared alongside that
8823s	frog is pretty juicy looking for now
8826s	yeah perfect indeed chia sasuke not
8829s	bothering to coin out minefield for a
8831s	full clear because he knows minefield
8832s	can still work against any board that
8835s	holy water develops on the next turn
8837s	unless it's like what double aldor
8839s	attendant to get more than five health
8840s	here even if a noble mount buff had
8843s	appeared the minefield can deal with the
8845s	divine shield pretty nicely so holy
8847s	water not too fussed by that just going
8849s	to continue chugging along and already
8851s	liadrin has appeared and that's already
8852s	such a relief you don't often say that
8855s	uh as paladin seeing liadrin that early
8857s	it's usually a dead card but in the
8858s	warrior matchup specifically just having
8861s	the insurance that you do have a late
8863s	game package that's supported by just
8864s	one card is a huge deal
8867s	yeah small caveat isis i suppose
8869s	especially now is another huge late game
8871s	minion comes into hand uh your opponent
8874s	is on coin so they have the ability to
8876s	coin mutinous for example before you can
8878s	start playing your big bombs which could
8880s	potentially
8881s	be a problem if we get to that point but
8883s	i think since the early game curve has
8885s	been so smooth for holy water so far
8887s	that as you say drawing some late game
8889s	bombs should give him some
8891s	real security in this situation
8895s	he is giving pause here to just the idea
8897s	i think of going forward noble mountain
8899s	pushing as opposed to just dropping
8901s	carry all on board what do you think
8903s	yeah i kind of like the idea of maybe
8905s	squeezing in a few hero powers here and
8907s	there because he did draw the late end
8909s	of his deck and doesn't necessarily have
8910s	a turn five turn six guaranteed so maybe
8913s	trying to generate additional threats to
8915s	the hero power and these are threats
8918s	against warrior because at any point you
8919s	can draw into more buff spells you can
8921s	repeatedly play liberums of wisdoms that
8923s	also just turn your recruits into
8925s	significant damage i feel that's
8927s	relevant against warrior although the
8929s	problem for holy water is that he has
8931s	drawn neither liberums nor librium
8933s	discounters in the end he actually
8934s	doesn't even hero power up perhaps
8936s	wanting to deny an easy target for the
8938s	outrider's axe which he knows is almost
8940s	certainly in hand two out of three times
8942s	from corsair cash
8944s	yeah the dynamic about warrior removal
8946s	versus making small tokens on board uh
8948s	is very interesting like just going
8950s	through this exact list for example one
8952s	bladestorm making one one good in that
8954s	situation uh one ranker making one one
8957s	bad in that situation one brawl making
8959s	one one bad in that situation uh two
8962s	outriders axes which i think as you said
8964s	is by far the biggest uh impacting
8966s	factor there especially as he'd already
8968s	seen the corsair cash come down just not
8970s	giving that target but the constant
8973s	consideration of how many and what size
8975s	minions you want on board basis uh
8977s	versus all that wide range ranging
8979s	removal that's available for the
8980s	opponent is
8981s	probably the hardest part of playing
8983s	against control warrior i would say
8985s	right and we did see a pretty good
8986s	display of it i think yesterday from
8988s	aquaman versus alutamu just deliberately
8991s	building boards that were awkward into
8993s	as many pieces of removal possible from
8996s	the side of the warrior usually you want
8997s	to have two to three minions and one of
8998s	them significantly bigger than the rest
9000s	this top deck is huge for holy water
9002s	because his turn six was looking very
9004s	bad indeed but now he's able to bridge
9006s	the gap into mutanus and then varian i
9009s	don't think lady liadrin will be coming
9011s	down anytime soon because there's too
9013s	few um spells played on friendly
9016s	characters so far but it's absolutely
9018s	fine because he should be able to thin
9020s	the deck very nicely by using the varian
9026s	yeah quite right we've talked about
9028s	sasuke's mutinous being impactful
9031s	potentially but just a big minion to
9034s	potentially play on curve here is
9036s	obviously huge for holy water
9038s	it's not really going to be massively
9040s	impactful in terms of a combo disruptor
9042s	as people sometimes be mutinous as
9044s	because as geo was talking about right
9046s	at the start
9047s	holy water has so much natural
9049s	protection in his deck from being beaten
9050s	by the charge combo anyway but it's just
9053s	another big minion that he can play on
9055s	curve in this situation and pressure
9057s	sasuke so this is going to be a problem
9059s	two faceless manipulators in hand
9061s	already for sasuke which are doing
9064s	very very little in this situation
9066s	yeah the pieces of the combo truly
9069s	starting to seem like a detriment here
9071s	uchiha sasuke can honestly toy with the
9073s	idea of using that not part of the combo
9077s	at some point let's say a holy water
9078s	plays a librarian of hope and attaches a
9081s	libra of wisdom to it sasuke might get
9083s	in the position where he just has to
9084s	faceless that to stay alive especially
9086s	since he's already had to expend double
9088s	frozen buckler throughout this game and
9090s	one shield chatter which essentially
9092s	only got rid of divine shields a couple
9094s	turns ago it's just testament to how
9096s	awkward it is for warrior to remove a
9098s	lot of the types of boards that paladin
9100s	puts together just mid-range throughout
9101s	on curve every single time holy water
9104s	deciding between second truth seeker and
9106s	the mutinous uh of course midness has no
9108s	guarantee of hitting something relevant
9110s	here but i kind of just favor getting
9111s	the mana spent so i do like this
9114s	yeah i do like it i think it also gives
9116s	you a possible opportunity just to snipe
9118s	an opposing mutinous if it was in your
9120s	opponent's hand which i think would be
9121s	very beneficial for you right now in
9123s	terms of eating combo pieces ah don't
9125s	really care that would have been the one
9126s	you would have liked to have eaten just
9128s	because it is the one that's the most
9129s	flexible and it's the biggest
9131s	um but just getting another big minion
9133s	on board is probably the way to go
9136s	uh and it's not terrible eating a barrav
9138s	either obviously not great stats on the
9140s	mutinous itself but it's minus one big
9143s	board clear that you have to worry about
9144s	as holy water and it's the one that
9147s	activates rancor the easiest so
9149s	potentially even means lost armor for
9151s	sasuke in the long run holy water here
9154s	now face down with a rakara does mean
9156s	that he has to be a little bit careful
9159s	of leaving certain health break points
9161s	on board because at this point the only
9163s	thing that can really go wrong for him
9164s	is giving sasuke too much armor which
9166s	would allow him the time to actually put
9168s	together the combo because holy water
9170s	has tons of resources here the devout
9172s	pupils going down to one mana very
9174s	likely zero on the next turn and then he
9176s	has liadrin to follow up
9179s	yeah the one-off copy of brawl has been
9182s	drawn by sasuke here which will probably
9185s	be nice in the next turn or two be
9187s	interesting to see if holy water does
9190s	choose to break up maybe even hold back
9192s	a zero mana devout people because of the
9194s	threat of that brawl but i imagine there
9196s	will be a brawlable board somewhere in
9198s	the near future
9201s	blade storm plus the swing can clear the
9203s	whole board and deal a chunk of damage
9206s	to holy water largely irrelevant i want
9208s	to say when you haven't seen any living
9210s	rooms of hope yet but to be fair we are
9212s	looking at galvangar faceless in hand
9214s	like a to the front could put together
9216s	some break points here
9219s	true
9222s	all right knight of anointment is a very
9224s	nice draw just for the opportunity to
9226s	try and get hold of a hope here
9228s	i feel like if he can start the hope
9231s	loop going with the lady liadrin then
9234s	it's probably gonna lock out the game
9235s	and yep there it is
9237s	gonna get it down nice and cheap with
9239s	the outdoor truth seeker this makes
9240s	sense he knows he's going to be playing
9242s	probably at least two librium of hopes
9244s	uh if the game even goes that long so
9246s	investing in that discount now does make
9248s	sense
9249s	yeah and the hand is shaped nicely with
9251s	the cheap devout pupils there because
9253s	sometimes the trap you can fall in as
9255s	paladin is to you know oh you want to
9257s	get the maximum amount of lady lyadren
9259s	value so you make sure you play all of
9262s	your librarians of hope before the adjen
9263s	but if that means having one window
9266s	where you don't necessarily put more
9267s	than one big threat on board you're a
9269s	bit too weak to blade storm then the
9271s	warrior can maybe take advantage of that
9273s	but the fact that he has devout pupil
9274s	and holds back on one which i really
9276s	like here means he can bridge the gap to
9278s	the liadrin turn very very nicely
9284s	mix health minion surviving is annoying
9290s	doesn't mean he has to face tank another
9291s	chunk of damage but he does get to throw
9293s	the hero power in to finish it off at
9294s	the very least missing out on honorable
9296s	kill though but now the real pressure is
9300s	going to begin from holy water on the
9301s	other side and it's just timed so
9303s	perfectly the big weapons even gone he
9306s	can't even be made to swing these back
9308s	into his own face he gets to heal up the
9310s	damage done
9312s	it's tough to see a win condition from
9314s	here
9315s	especially since he's already seen the
9316s	one of brawl so he's free to also just
9318s	play the hero power no big punish for
9320s	that even rank or you're not really
9322s	fussed about us holy water uh looks like
9324s	he will hold back on the devout pupil
9326s	fair enough because liadrin on her own
9328s	is not necessarily a big threat she can
9331s	play all of the librarians of wisdom on
9332s	herself but the librarian of hope coming
9334s	back would still be five mana so it's
9336s	still an individual minion if he didn't
9338s	save the devout people to go alongside
9339s	her uh just very clean mechanical um
9343s	distribution of threats by holy water
9346s	yeah and it's also just as a as a basic
9348s	rule right he set up lethal so why do
9351s	more in terms of pressure to make your
9353s	opponent use resources and clear the
9354s	board right you already have the lethal
9356s	being threatened so from that point you
9357s	can just preserve resources we do see
9360s	the bulldog coming down now from sasuke
9362s	to put an end to that hope
9364s	and this is probably the best he can do
9366s	in terms of trying to bait out
9368s	additional resources on the other side
9370s	but still look at this hand it is a
9374s	combo player's
9376s	nightmare right now as it's just really
9378s	clunky awful cards in hand when really
9382s	what he needs is more answers to this
9383s	board state
9385s	right
9385s	holy water also has a shot at getting
9387s	back a hand of a doll i don't think it's
9389s	guaranteed with the amount of hand space
9391s	he has versus the number of librarians
9392s	of wisdom played but any cycle is also
9395s	still pretty useful here uh just to find
9397s	the other librarian of hope to find
9399s	light forged carry which is also just
9401s	some inevitability to the side of holy
9403s	water in the case that uchiha
9405s	has another big clear
9407s	misses on the hope though which is quite
9410s	unfortunate but he still has tons of
9413s	value from this i think this still gets
9414s	there uh we'll see though sasuke with a
9416s	shield shatter in hand maybe with a
9418s	pickup of armor can get a good enough
9420s	clear here to outlast
9425s	holy water just giga juicing the single
9427s	minion uh it does make a lot of sense
9429s	he's seen uh shield slams and he's
9431s	definitely seen the one blade storm
9433s	which would be things that generally
9435s	deal with individual huge minions if you
9436s	can clear up the rest of the board so it
9438s	does make sense to get that one as far
9440s	out of range as possible
9443s	it is approaching the point for sasuke
9445s	though where without a good enough clear
9446s	is it the desperation play of copying
9449s	there 1311 you get back some labyrinths
9451s	of wisdom which are expensive but he
9453s	simply can't survive i mean still three
9457s	charges on the bulwark but
9459s	even if you just look at the three
9460s	minions that are smallest here taking
9462s	off the charges it's still lethal with
9464s	the 1311 being able to go face
9466s	[Music]
9469s	if he trades heavy plate what can he get
9472s	to help out here brawl gone bladestorm
9474s	gone barrow of eden
9476s	there's nothing
9478s	yeah rank are gone as well
9481s	honestly the best defensive tools i see
9483s	in the deck are two faceless
9484s	manipulators that make a like 13
9487s	outdoors i i don't i can't see anything
9490s	else
9492s	and that's yet another downside of
9494s	running the charge package here uh it's
9497s	more cards that you have to delete from
9499s	the base deck in order to give yourself
9501s	a long-term win condition compared to
9503s	kazakhstan of course it still has its
9505s	upsides of you know you don't give
9507s	yourself the risk of having bad
9508s	treasures in certain matchups you don't
9510s	even need a turbo win condition from
9513s	kazakhstan to win the game and just
9515s	having inevitable combo even though it
9517s	takes longer on average is even safer
9519s	but certainly doesn't work out well for
9521s	sasuke here he does copy the librarian
9524s	of hope in order to survive on board
9527s	and holy water here has access to
9531s	clearing this just for the trade of the
9533s	liadrin
9534s	yeah is this like a loki lethal puzzle
9537s	though because
9538s	you could get through the 13 6 with the
9542s	so the aoe from the
9544s	carriage plus the carry or weapon swing
9547s	plus like a broom and a libra but then
9549s	the weapon swing wouldn't be going face
9551s	so you wouldn't be taking one of the
9552s	charges off with your fate no i don't
9553s	think there's any way to get all three
9555s	attacks to go through the face to then
9557s	get the big minion to connect
9559s	move quickly yeah well okay so the aoe
9562s	from carol takes one charge if you go
9564s	like
9564s	samurai buff it and kill the rest of the
9567s	four six that's the way the weapon swing
9568s	can go through and then the carriage oh
9570s	sorry the liaison could go through for
9572s	the last charge of both we've spent 11
9575s	man on yes
9577s	exactly it can't work and even then i
9580s	don't think you'd have enough buffs to
9582s	get on the
9584s	uh librium hope at that point so
9587s	it's gonna settle for the also
9589s	game-winning play of
9591s	remove the bulwark over two turns or get
9594s	the damaged face over two turns i should
9596s	say
9596s	indeed yes
9599s	only that but carry all is now in play
9601s	which means if there was ever to be a
9603s	charge combo from sasuke which you know
9605s	one faceless manipulator already gone
9607s	down at this point it's gonna have to be
9609s	a monstrous charge combo and that's very
9611s	very difficult to do
9613s	uh yeah okay
9614s	just gives it up and even then if he was
9617s	able to stabilize invent some more
9619s	removal that isn't even in his deck list
9621s	at that point because he's used it all
9622s	already it means that the long-term
9624s	value of buffing our minions in hand is
9626s	going to make consistent threats from
9628s	the carrier hero power at that point as
9630s	well so
9632s	uh basically you might have got this
9634s	idea over the course of us talking about
9636s	how heavily holy water was winning
9638s	that's a good match up for the paladin
9640s	that's basically what we were saying the
9642s	entire time
9643s	that's right
9644s	and while we're in the break between
9646s	games i'd like to take the time to talk
9649s	a little bit about our players because
9651s	we have been hyping up the gabby's and
9653s	the aloo tammu's and the tincho if
9655s	you're tj the sole prediction from
9659s	an america's player here because even
9661s	lorinda fellow american to tj has
9663s	abandoned him for predictions this time
9666s	um but we do have some very good talent
9668s	also aside from the players we chose to
9670s	predict here sasuke one of the players
9672s	that i have been seeing grinding ladders
9674s	since time immemorial i've cued into him
9676s	many times on the americas ladder myself
9678s	he just puts in the work and gets the
9680s	reps and i'm really glad that he's
9683s	getting to represent latin america once
9685s	again they have lots of players
9687s	represented in the top eight as well
9689s	just like apac and holy water i want to
9691s	say largely an unknown entity to me but
9693s	just the fact that he has the
9695s	hearthstone blanket
9697s	is already clueing me into he is
9699s	definitely a long-term hearthstone
9701s	player
9703s	i mean yeah if you want good results in
9704s	masters tours just invest in the
9706s	ecosystem that's what we're telling you
9708s	that's the lesson to be learned here uh
9710s	but yeah sasuke is
9712s	a player that has certainly been around
9714s	for some time i i remember
9716s	uh it's like latam players seem to have
9719s	this curse where when they get an event
9720s	where lots of them do well they all just
9722s	immediately um clash into each other
9725s	when you reach the knockout stages um i
9727s	remember i think like hct winter 2018 i
9731s	want to say off the top of my head
9732s	something like that um now guidance
9735s	played against uchiha sasuke uh in the
9737s	very first knockout round in that as
9739s	well i think when they were both doing
9741s	very well um it was
9743s	it's kind of a thing that the latin
9745s	players have had to deal with over time
9747s	but he is has is and has been a player
9750s	that has been uh you know flying that
9752s	flag with great success for quite some
9754s	time and honestly
9756s	if you are
9757s	going to take some pride in the americas
9759s	region you best be putting some respect
9762s	on the name and calling it the americas
9764s	region because if you're one of those
9765s	people that disrespectfully calls it n a
9768s	none of your players are winning
9769s	anything at this point it is all south
9771s	american and latin american players that
9773s	are putting the results in so you had
9776s	better name the region correctly because
9778s	these are the players right now that are
9780s	putting in the results yeah the only
9782s	time it's acceptable to call it n a is
9784s	when you attach a laughing based emote
9787s	next
9791s	all right
9792s	it is the demon hunter up next for holy
9794s	water which is decidedly a worse matchup
9797s	for him this time because sasuke is on
9799s	the paladin himself now tables have
9801s	turned with who has access to all the
9803s	buff spells but the opening mulligan is
9805s	interesting for sasuke because i think
9807s	dark brought this up where in the past
9809s	bannerman was a snap keep just because
9811s	it helps you cycle so nicely and you get
9813s	the buffs but ever since it's been
9815s	nerfed down to 2-1 and also it's a bit
9818s	more of a priority to find one drop in
9819s	two drops i'm not necessarily sure if
9821s	you do it right away
9824s	oh
9825s	if you're gonna draw banana man into
9826s	banana man though i'm still very
9828s	interested
9830s	i do agree that certainly against demon
9832s	hunter the impact of the first one
9835s	uh has been mitigated a little bit just
9837s	because you don't really have to expend
9838s	any resources actually doing dealing
9840s	with the body itself it can just be hero
9842s	power down which is something that demon
9843s	hunter is kind of interested in doing
9845s	anyway in the early game to juice up
9847s	that kurtras um but this is still a lot
9850s	of stats very quickly and a lot of stats
9853s	very quickly
9854s	is the reason why this is again a good
9856s	matchup for paladin which once again i
9859s	feel like i need to provide balance to
9861s	the amount of shade that uh grand
9862s	masters casters as a whole have thrown
9865s	at paladin over the course of the uh the
9867s	last few seasons but i do think libra
9869s	and paladin is a very effective
9871s	competitive deck right now and uh gia
9873s	your favorite thing happened go ahead
9875s	right i've finished just itching to say
9878s	he played quest on one on coin and you
9880s	got the need for greed so you could
9881s	point it out and get the quest
9883s	progression heavily rewarded you love to
9885s	see it but there's also something else i
9887s	wanted to say which is yes sasuke's hand
9890s	has a lot of stats to it because of the
9892s	bannermen but he's actually drawn so
9893s	many of the utility cards broom samuro
9897s	barov those are not what you want to see
9898s	against demon hunter so the curve is not
9901s	necessarily amazing for sasuke and we
9903s	could see a fair amount of this getting
9905s	glid back in the near future depending
9907s	on whether holy water gets easily
9909s	dumpable cards from the right side right
9911s	side of his hand he also has meg
9913s	theradon which opens up an interesting
9916s	route to the matchup but because he
9918s	doesn't really have the guaranteed wake
9919s	up for it on the next turn no talented
9922s	arcanist plus fell scream glass only the
9923s	arcanist it does seem a bit sketchy and
9926s	also even if he had the fel screen blast
9928s	i've seen one too many times players
9929s	just playing a minion between the two
9932s	between two of the three tokens and that
9934s	shuts down the clear
9938s	interesting here you were talking about
9940s	glide of course which does go up in
9942s	value your opponent has just played
9944s	banana man so you know that glide is
9946s	valuable uh with that in mind holy water
9948s	could have chosen to wait one turn on
9950s	that illidari studies to then go for the
9952s	glide the following turn after but i
9954s	think he just decided that he was going
9955s	to go for quest completion again right
9957s	now use the cheaper glide that he had in
9960s	hand that was just in self-glide
9962s	position and based on that he just
9964s	wanted to spend the one mana on that
9966s	illidari studies just to turn it into a
9968s	card draw card in his deck which does
9970s	make sense could very well be that
9972s	spectral site that he has in his hand
9973s	right now that could be we'll see if
9975s	it's created by studies and then that
9977s	would make it the correct play but it is
9979s	very that's how it works julia yep thank
9981s	you yes exactly
9983s	uh it is just very good mechanics from
9986s	holy water to stack the deck full of
9988s	spectral sights because when you play
9990s	glide you are obviously undoing a bit of
9992s	the card draw you had in the early game
9995s	which is forever a sort of
9997s	counter-intuitive seeming interaction
9999s	with demon hunter but the more that
10001s	we've grown with this deck and there's
10003s	been so many iterations of it now subtle
10005s	we realize that it's just become the
10008s	common wisdom to go for quest completion
10011s	and just make it so that you give
10014s	yourself the best outs to continue
10015s	completing the quest even if you shuffle
10017s	cards back uh with the aldrachi horror
10020s	blades he is able to potentially move
10022s	the spectral side to the left on this
10024s	turn but holds back on the fel barrage
10026s	tries to get even more targets with it
10028s	and it looks like holy water could be
10030s	rewarded for that patience
10032s	yeah particularly with arcanist in hand
10034s	he should be able to get a decent double
10037s	clear at the very least obviously divine
10039s	shields are the things that he would not
10041s	want to see but he does at least have
10043s	the wall blades skewed up to be able to
10045s	deal with that situation if it does come
10047s	down so i do respect the greed
10051s	all right
10052s	interesting spot now where he could
10054s	commit the arcanist to get a full clear
10057s	even before having drawn the chaos
10058s	strike but with the chaos strike that
10060s	does seem a lot better right because he
10061s	can even progress quest
10064s	um
10064s	if he hits one more tradable or one cost
10067s	card so this is quest and full clear
10071s	yes with the chaos strike he no longer
10073s	needs the arcane strikes he can just use
10075s	the barrage to
10076s	deal with the divine shield use the
10078s	weapon swing to deal with the minion and
10079s	then he unlocks the spectral sight on
10081s	the left hand side all very nicely done
10084s	[Laughter]
10088s	we lost him for a bit but he's right
10090s	back
10094s	i don't know if he casts in his spare
10096s	time he's got a very green background
10099s	i was thinking that yeah but it looks
10101s	like one of those people like paints the
10103s	whole wall behind their webcam green
10105s	right i don't think it's like actually a
10106s	green screen
10109s	actually since there's two tones of
10111s	green here actually right yeah but i
10113s	feel like that's just like shading in
10114s	shadows as opposed to actually a thing
10117s	hard to tell
10118s	very hard to tell
10121s	oh man now i can't get it out of the
10122s	head is that just one wall painted
10124s	different shades of green or is the
10126s	darker green i think it's an indentation
10128s	yeah i think i think the darker green is
10130s	an indentation where the light's not
10132s	getting in there as much as everything
10133s	else that's how i see it but i could be
10136s	wrong
10137s	there's just something about the latam
10138s	players where they always have way more
10140s	interesting backgrounds for us to
10142s	comment on
10144s	that's better and obviously when you say
10145s	that you mean backgrounds as in player
10147s	history they've all done incredible
10149s	things in the past that we enjoy talking
10151s	about right like that's that's what you
10152s	mean by that statement surely yes but
10155s	also
10156s	what's behind them on the camera
10158s	okay
10160s	man i gave you the get out of jail free
10161s	card you just kept on going dude
10164s	i mean
10165s	i mean i i just want yes and isn't that
10167s	that's true rule of impromptu
10172s	all right back to the game the mutinous
10174s	unfortunately is a bit late to the party
10177s	like kurchus has already been played
10179s	turn six that's quite early for this
10181s	version of demon hunter that's not
10183s	completely oriented towards quest uh
10185s	mutant still comes down though and hits
10187s	an arcanist which is a big deal in terms
10189s	of holy waters clear potential because
10190s	he is just kind of dying to all these
10192s	divine shield minions and then the
10194s	mutanus adds to that problem
10204s	he needs
10206s	a miracle here without a further
10209s	arcanist
10210s	because this is the type of board that
10212s	says it needs arcanist immolation aura
10214s	to sweep up nicely but fell barrage can
10216s	get rid of the 4-3 if he can find a way
10219s	to get rid of the 4-5 from this glide
10222s	and sneak in a bit more damage he can
10224s	get rid of the mutinous but there's just
10226s	not enough mana to make all that happen
10227s	huh
10229s	[Music]
10231s	importantly he is already theoretically
10234s	alive to what he can see right which is
10236s	a big deal so he doesn't need to panic
10238s	super hard this turn he could just try
10239s	and set up for some kind of pop-off turn
10242s	next turn when he has more mana
10244s	available maybe try and do something a
10245s	little more aggressive but
10247s	we can see that uh sasuke has been
10249s	handed the carrier here which will be
10252s	the four extra damage that he currently
10254s	needs
10256s	huge deal and holy water
10258s	simply has no way to play around that
10260s	right with the amount of mana remaining
10261s	oh never mind sorry
10263s	he has the kirchhoff's aura of course so
10265s	he can heal with the fury that's
10268s	absolutely enormous
10270s	oh he actually face tanks it but
10272s	because he actually heals for nut one
10275s	even with face tanking he's alive to
10276s	carry all and maintains a full health
10279s	curtris
10281s	that was such a clutch drawer at the end
10287s	and it changes the whole landscape of
10288s	the game because he's got this need for
10290s	greed churches aura active magtheridon
10293s	pretty likely to be able to be woken up
10296s	on the next turn and maybe help him
10298s	stabilize from there
10300s	for sasuke is it enough of an argument
10305s	away from carryall because the truth
10306s	seekers like they're not really helping
10308s	him with the kirchhoff's 7-7 problem but
10311s	it is just more stats on board and maybe
10313s	makes holy waters life a bit more
10314s	awkward
10320s	still don't mind the carry all like i
10323s	know you're not staying up for
10324s	lethal theoretically because even though
10327s	like holy water goes down to one but
10329s	then goes up to three again bare minimum
10331s	even with no hero power from the weapon
10333s	but there's still a seven eight that
10335s	needs dealing with on the other side of
10336s	the board as well right like this is a
10338s	lot of problems that needs to be solved
10340s	by holy water on this turn so i do still
10342s	respect him
10344s	actually if he doesn't commit the hero
10346s	power right he only heals for one
10348s	because of the interaction of lifesteal
10350s	with cariel isn't that how that works
10352s	oh true yeah as long as the attack does
10354s	go face yeah you're absolutely right
10357s	well that's something to note um because
10359s	now jace has entered the hand and will
10361s	replay furies if holy water wants it but
10364s	it looks like he's more concerned with
10366s	just dealing with the mutinous for now
10371s	which is a big deal because he still
10373s	needs to get enough healing to get out
10374s	of range of just the weapon attack from
10376s	the carriage but this cartridge demon
10379s	render certainly helps bail him out
10381s	it does yeah i mean as long as he can
10384s	kill the mutinous and hero power then he
10387s	attacks for three right which will round
10389s	up to two in terms of healing so he
10391s	would still get out of range of just the
10393s	weapon
10395s	which is fine for now
10399s	all right goes for the clear with his
10401s	seven seven meaning he would rather
10403s	retain multiple minions here because we
10405s	could have seen double four fours into
10408s	the mutanus instead
10411s	i'm not actually sure if i agree with
10413s	two four fours being better than a
10415s	singular seven seven in this situation
10420s	close
10422s	yeah you do get to then
10424s	hero power no i suppose you would either
10426s	way right get to hero power with the
10428s	curtis form instead which
10430s	can or cannot take you over an odd
10432s	number break point to get you one
10434s	additional healing in that spot if it's
10435s	potentially the last healing that you
10437s	can get in that situation see i think i
10440s	agree with you um potentially like just
10442s	double trading and getting to push the
10443s	extra damage face because
10445s	even if the damaged face is halved you
10447s	do still have to race your opponent at
10449s	some point in this game right
10452s	that's a big deal
10453s	it is and sasuke now has picked up
10456s	liadrin so it's got quite a lot of
10459s	refill on his side uh varian able to be
10462s	drawn at any point will be huge as well
10465s	but holy water is going for the big push
10467s	with the jace now that's gonna replay
10469s	albarrage immolation aura fury chaos
10472s	strike there's a lot in it
10476s	but it's a big deal that no aldrachi is
10478s	equipped at the beginning of this turn
10480s	so not much healing got in from the
10487s	low on jace
10489s	oh okay funds the remaining theory oh
10491s	and the viper
10493s	that means that all the damage can go
10495s	face for full value here
10498s	once again you have to ask the question
10500s	about whether this is the right order to
10502s	do these two things in obviously this
10504s	gives you a three four on board that
10505s	doesn't get blown up by your own
10506s	immolation auras and fail screen blasts
10508s	but it does do significantly less damage
10511s	in terms of fel barrages going face in
10513s	that situation right like it could have
10515s	been
10516s	upwards it could have been four extra
10517s	damage with both fell barrages if they'd
10519s	all gone face like if emo had gone first
10521s	cleared the board i guess it doesn't
10523s	matter in the end uchiha sasuke is just
10525s	going to throw that one down that is a
10527s	demon hunter victory and as i said
10529s	earlier even in this tournament at the
10531s	highest level that we really have like
10533s	large sample sizes for matchup data that
10536s	is a 70 win rate match up for paladin
10539s	that uh holy water has just found his
10540s	way out of with the demon hunter which
10542s	is a very very big deal highly
10544s	impressive stuff i want to say
10546s	helped a lot by the fact that sasuke's
10548s	draw was a lot of these sort of
10550s	lackluster utility minions which meant
10552s	that he didn't put forward the biggest
10554s	starts every turn but certainly had
10556s	respectable boards towards the end there
10557s	with the double divine shield minions
10559s	but holy water being able to survive
10562s	against caryl and then find the curtains
10564s	at the opportune moment was huge i'm
10566s	glad we're going back to this viper turn
10568s	because i honestly can't remember if
10569s	that was in his hand at the start
10571s	or it was it absolutely was yeah all
10573s	right yeah so
10575s	he value the board presence more which i
10577s	think still makes quite a lot of sense
10579s	because as long as you're not killing
10581s	them with viper at the beginning
10583s	and you put together a board you still
10585s	end up in the sort of checkmate position
10586s	which sasuke immediately identified
10588s	where sasuke has to play minions to
10590s	remove your minions and him playing
10592s	minions means you then have the
10594s	expendable performers combo so just very
10596s	nicely navigated by holy water at the
10598s	end
10599s	yeah i genuinely don't disagree with it
10601s	i just brought it up as a talking point
10602s	because it does create as you were
10604s	saying that kind of checkmate situation
10606s	where paladin is quite bad when they're
10608s	just behind on board right especially
10610s	when they're behind on board by a factor
10612s	of zero minions versus anything if you
10614s	have a couple of minions in play and
10615s	paladin has nothing you're in really
10617s	really good shape and that's the
10618s	scenario that holy water managed to
10620s	engineer sacrificing a bit of damage to
10622s	do so and i think that's fine
10626s	however he has gotten himself in what i
10628s	want to say is the hardest matchup of
10630s	them all uh the miracle priest into
10633s	control warrior you do as the miracle
10636s	priests have to generate something
10637s	that's not in your deck to win this i'm
10639s	almost certain i mean unless the warrior
10642s	gets like the most awful draw in history
10645s	where they don't hit any of the single
10647s	target removal um which to be fair is
10649s	not an impossibility with sasuke's build
10652s	especially only one brawl one blade
10654s	storm and we could see holy water just
10656s	try and go in with a super early nassani
10658s	and make him have it and it won't
10660s	necessarily be there every single time
10663s	but the vast majority of the pan outs is
10665s	the warrior does have that removal and
10666s	then it's on the priest to find some
10668s	alternate win condition usually from
10670s	draconic studies
10671s	yes some alternate wing condition the
10674s	polite way of saying go fishing for as
10676s	many kazakhstan as you can find
10680s	yes
10681s	my favorite euphemism
10686s	i know we've i know the the uk caster
10688s	crew have educated you quite heavily on
10690s	the ways of the euphemism over the years
10692s	jia you're getting a lot better at it
10694s	thank you
10695s	i'm becoming self-aware
10700s	all right well in terms of going for
10703s	that first big push from holy water this
10705s	is as good of a setup as any right he
10707s	has palm reading nas money number one in
10709s	hand which means the other inside is
10711s	guaranteed to find the other nasmani
10714s	and the malagos is already in hand he
10715s	has gift of luminance for the copy
10717s	effect and the malygos is really the
10718s	only big mana sink in his hand at the
10721s	moment so he can for sure play the
10723s	entire hand maybe even next turn with
10726s	the amount of zero cost spells he has
10728s	and refill with malygos
10736s	yeah i think he's just going in going at
10738s	the earliest possible moment trying to
10740s	make sure
10741s	to ask sasuke whether he has all the
10744s	answers and to be fair when you build a
10745s	board which is triple naswani with one
10748s	copy of luminance plus malagos that
10750s	actually does call for exactly brawl
10752s	right because just bladestorm doesn't
10754s	deal with it and we can see there's only
10757s	one copy of brawl for sasuke so for holy
10760s	water it's as good a chance as any but
10761s	the brawl is in hand
10768s	all right even then there is still a
10770s	great chance with this malagas coming
10772s	down if he can still continue to kick
10774s	off after the fact here
10776s	which it looks like he is going to hold
10778s	on to a renew costing zero to do so this
10780s	is something you can do if you don't
10782s	want to run the risk that you're going
10783s	to find uh prayer altitude to continue
10786s	the chain you can just keep those
10787s	cheaper cards in your hand anyway to
10788s	kick off with he does now have the
10790s	opportunity to use these discounts to
10792s	generate value and play around the brawl
10794s	already but
10798s	yeah the only way to really play around
10801s	brawl with this hand i want to say is
10802s	i'll add alec mount to the edit end of
10804s	it so you have
10806s	a deathrattle minion every other buff
10808s	spell just kind of helps the brawl get
10810s	even more value copy effects as well
10813s	i think this has been very very nicely
10815s	done though the fact that he held on to
10817s	zero mana spells going into this chain
10819s	has allowed him to get so much
10820s	additional mana cheat that he's got elec
10823s	mount down to zero without playing
10825s	psyche split which means he's now able
10827s	to go ellick mount then psyche split
10829s	which is an insane amount of layers
10832s	protection against brawl in this
10834s	situation that
10836s	is a very very good miracle priest turn
10839s	from holy water
10840s	i have to say i've not really seen
10843s	miracle priest get the whole turn
10845s	through where they play the original
10847s	hand they play malygos and then they
10849s	play everything from the maligo so we're
10851s	just so far behind zlatan holy waters
10853s	too fast
10856s	he's just a walking feature he just has
10858s	it he's just built in
10861s	okay
10863s	the studies being held at the end
10865s	i mean if he had any time left i
10867s	obviously probably didn't it's
10869s	questionable i want to say because in
10871s	the world where you lose most of your
10873s	nas moneys and you only have the one
10875s	studies after that you're not actually
10877s	able to play a kazakhstan straight away
10880s	theoretically but he actually still has
10882s	one nas money so if he hits kazakhstan
10885s	and he did hit the discount
10889s	oh my god
10891s	holy water
10895s	the madman
10897s	uh boombox
10900s	i'm trying to get my brain in the right
10902s	place where we're moving on to the next
10904s	phase already i'm sorry there's so much
10906s	whiplash it was such a yeah it was such
10908s	an incredible crash in hype it's just
10910s	like super popping off and then it's uh
10912s	boom boxing
10914s	it's the whiplash
10916s	uh okay he took an army knife i don't
10919s	even know what he took on the first
10920s	couple months book see a book pick a
10922s	book
10924s	and he's just got the board still like
10926s	the brawl is gone there's still two
10927s	elephants a dragon and an asmani they
10930s	all walk into a bar and sasuke kind of
10933s	dies
10937s	i mean that's the brawl gun right like
10940s	that's the card that deals with this
10942s	board it's been used so now what
10947s	no shield chatter either
10949s	okay shield slam deals with the
10952s	kazakhstan minefield can potentially
10956s	engineer a blade storm here but he
10958s	doesn't have the mana for bladestorm
10959s	quite yet so it's more just to ping off
10961s	the nasmani fair enough and then
10963s	bladestorm probably on the next turn but
10965s	now he just has treasures to contend
10967s	with
10968s	and that's insta bubba
10971s	insta bubba one ranker in the deck is
10974s	available but holy water is now all in
10976s	he is just trusting in the top decks
10979s	this is going to be pressure pressure
10981s	pressure from this point on
10984s	oh
10985s	no
10986s	immediately after the first it does have
10988s	the second buckler though still so he
10990s	should be okay that is a pretty
10992s	effective clear in this spot
10994s	the bless did just create a little bit
10997s	of difference between the two large
10998s	minions which is very useful in this
11000s	spot essentially accounting for nine
11003s	extra damage
11006s	and that's just so many resources gone
11008s	from sasuke the whole hand is combo
11009s	pieces i guess now he's drawn into a
11011s	rancor but that's not necessarily good
11013s	against the treasures that holy water
11015s	got it's good against bubba that's a
11017s	whiff though army knife
11019s	completely useless here
11021s	holy water
11023s	taking a minute to drink his coffee
11026s	because everybody in apac needs caffeine
11028s	to keep going right now
11035s	wow okay that's the best draw in the
11037s	deck in this situation for sure
11042s	okay
11043s	suddenly a combo is getting close
11047s	yeah if he hits galvangar
11050s	i mean not quite lethal yet you need the
11052s	double to the fronts
11054s	but it's a lot
11059s	how much
11061s	how much board generation did holy water
11062s	actually pick up here because
11066s	without an annoyatron board
11069s	i think he's just losing from this
11071s	position right it's gonna be a struggle
11073s	it's true i think he only had the bubba
11075s	as the other board generation
11078s	oh no oh he's just gonna get combo'd
11081s	sasuke like from his position he could
11084s	still be worried about embers but if
11085s	there had been embers drawn i'm certain
11087s	that a copy would have been played even
11088s	if it's not lethal here so i think he's
11091s	just kind of chilling and with the
11093s	recaro weapon set up i don't even think
11095s	he needs the second to the front for
11096s	lethal next turn
11101s	because he just goes one to the front
11103s	and then you have galvan gar faceless
11105s	for 18.
11109s	no
11110s	what is this hand that is the worst
11112s	selection of treasures i have ever seen
11115s	in my life
11117s	i know you never pick caldelar uh
11120s	incidentally i think holy water is just
11123s	like too off or too above being dead
11126s	here with the hero power because sasuke
11128s	couldn't fit into the front galvan guard
11129s	faceless and hero power but because it
11131s	takes another turn now the weapon swing
11133s	will close it out but also didn't sasuke
11136s	swing with his three attack weapon
11138s	instead of his five attack weapon on the
11139s	previous turn couldn't he have
11140s	theoretically set that up one turn
11142s	faster anyway and potentially taken out
11145s	away from the opponent right see he
11147s	would have he was exactly two off and he
11149s	pushed two less damage over the course
11150s	of two turns which you know it makes
11152s	sense it's justifiable it's
11154s	significantly more damage over three
11156s	turns but it's just something to point
11157s	out that it was less over two and
11159s	perhaps if that very next draw was then
11161s	annoying horn off the top for example it
11163s	might have been something that he'd been
11165s	ruining over time
11166s	true
11167s	admittedly i kind of want to look back
11169s	on it again because the different break
11171s	points of the mana cost when you have
11173s	one
11174s	to the front versus two i was trying to
11176s	do it in my head quickly um if you had
11179s	to the front
11181s	only one copy you could go galvan for
11183s	four faceless for three
11186s	which is a total of nine mana so yes he
11189s	could not have played the hero power
11191s	on top of that so you're right uh it
11194s	could have been one turn potentially set
11196s	up i don't blame sasuke for not going
11198s	over it but something to think about for
11201s	sure i think he just kind of knew though
11203s	that he was in a good enough position
11204s	that he could wait essentially forever
11206s	he wasn't dead to embers um pure cold
11209s	was maybe something to think about if
11211s	that were drawn to frieza's face but
11213s	the question is the question is he dead
11216s	to annoy a horn if that gets drawn is
11218s	the scary thing in that situation but
11220s	regardless i think instead we should
11222s	look over at the other side of the board
11223s	there because that was an incredible
11225s	turn executed by holy water then hit the
11228s	kazakhstan and it looked as good as over
11230s	at that point but that was not the deck
11234s	we kind of got excitable and glossed
11236s	over the first two picks um however one
11238s	of the first picks that we glossed over
11239s	was the bubba which he ended up with
11241s	which i think was certainly correct i
11243s	think after that point he didn't really
11245s	get offered much board generation
11247s	outside of that boom box that you were
11249s	so enthusiastically advocated for
11252s	um so i don't know whether that was
11254s	picked and was the remaining treasure
11255s	that wasn't drawn or whether it was
11257s	skipped over i'm not sure
11259s	yeah a lot to be um delved into at the
11262s	end game there that last game honestly a
11265s	lot more than we could fit in in the
11267s	course of the game because holy water
11269s	just went at such a blistering pace and
11271s	the best part honestly i think about his
11273s	navigation is that saving of the renew
11275s	at the uh between that first initial
11278s	hand and then the malygos hand not just
11280s	because it's a guaranteed engine but i
11282s	just think it's correct in general
11284s	because if you don't discover a three or
11287s	more cost spell from that renew with
11289s	three nasmanis on board you actually
11290s	waste mana you can look at it as a
11293s	lightning bloom um in that situation but
11296s	we do now have sasuke moving on to the
11299s	demon hunter which i think is decidedly
11302s	also a good match up into the miracle
11305s	priest not rally so they have very few
11308s	threats no capability of just playing on
11310s	curve i mean you can right you can just
11313s	try and play an asmani hope there's no
11314s	foul barrage and then stick a power word
11316s	fortitude but it's a little bit more
11318s	flimsy compared to the rally version and
11320s	when you don't hit that opener you
11322s	almost always leave yourself highly
11324s	vulnerable to glide
11325s	can i surprise you
11327s	51 for miracle priest in this tournament
11330s	whoa versus demon hunter versus fel
11333s	demon hunter
11335s	i'm shocked okay
11338s	so
11339s	there is still ways to get through i
11341s	suppose uh by curving out i want to say
11344s	but man when you see this glide come
11346s	through it really doesn't look like a
11347s	51.
11351s	even holy water knows what's up having a
11353s	bit of a laugh to himself and it's not
11355s	that small a sample either because i'm
11357s	only looking at match-ups with at least
11359s	a 50-game sample size so yeah reasonable
11361s	sample of high-level games yeah
11365s	well i might just be out here pedaling
11366s	fake news again my bad
11369s	i mean i absolutely would have agreed
11371s	with you and supported that as well but
11373s	i've done some digging gear and i'm here
11376s	with cold hard data indisputable facts
11381s	logic and facts
11383s	otto destroys me with logic
11387s	oh no
11391s	pretty funny to look at the chaos strike
11393s	after attacking but he deliberately
11395s	wants to leave holy water at a health
11397s	total where gift of the naaru will not
11400s	actually draw him a card picks up
11402s	draconic studies which now opens up an
11404s	avenue for a curve-based game plan if
11407s	you hit like circus amalgam or crimson
11409s	hot head here i feel like it's as good a
11412s	chance as any to get an actual win
11414s	condition going forward and there's an
11415s	amalgam
11417s	yep love it i think with the double cow
11420s	strike just used as well or four damage
11421s	that didn't go face in that situation i
11424s	think that gives you increased hope that
11426s	this is something that might be able to
11427s	stick to the board and be used as a
11429s	platform to to move on with
11431s	makes sense to me
11434s	platform is it right because you do need
11436s	just one minion to stick and then draw
11439s	into your power word fortitude or
11441s	generate one or a powered feast and then
11443s	suddenly it's at a health total where
11444s	it's highly problematic for demon hunter
11447s	and you try and end it with a couple of
11449s	blesses
11450s	still quite far off from that because
11452s	holy water lost too many resources from
11454s	the glide so for sasuke here i think
11456s	it's fine to just
11457s	i wanted to say progress the quest even
11459s	over complete with need for greed but he
11462s	can go for clear and just not over
11465s	complete right
11467s	just play everything on the left and
11468s	then outcast the spat curl from the left
11472s	yeah he does still need two more right
11474s	he's on three out of five currently so
11475s	he would have to outcast the spectral
11477s	side but yeah that does make sense
11480s	yeah in which case he can get the damage
11482s	to go face cleanly by attacking with the
11485s	fury first yep exactly this
11487s	drop the fel barrage damage we're not
11489s	playing around gift anymore and then get
11491s	that spectral sight outcast for the
11494s	quest completion
11495s	does make sense as someone who sorely
11497s	misses playing around battle rage gear
11499s	i'm quite happy that this is a dynamic
11501s	that's back in the game
11503s	oh that is true
11505s	and i got so many times punished as
11507s	druid pushing the one into the old pain
11510s	warrior
11514s	okay
11518s	what if you take owl and then you
11520s	generate the the amulet
11522s	and then you're playing alba breeze
11526s	what is it oh we don't get to know okay
11528s	lovely
11531s	but holy water knows and it's probably
11534s	correct just to take the card draw here
11536s	because he is mainly trying to
11539s	accumulate resources for a mini pop off
11541s	here so a palm reading at any point
11543s	could help
11545s	maybe even just bridge the gap to
11546s	playing malaga straight up for nine mana
11548s	unheard of in miracle priest but if he
11551s	can do that and uchiha sasuke doesn't
11553s	necessarily have purchase yet by that
11554s	point the malagos can threaten a lot of
11556s	damage just as a natural 412 blessed
11559s	target
11560s	for sure yeah weirdly enough um i do
11563s	think banker was kind of the realistic
11565s	choice but my unrealistic choice was
11566s	actually the other one i was kind of
11568s	eyeing the lr as to whether that just as
11570s	the straight-up stickiest minion might
11573s	just be the best chance to start landing
11575s	buffs on over the course of the game at
11576s	some point but yeah i do still agree
11578s	that
11579s	uh banker was probably the best way to
11581s	go there because the hand was starting
11582s	to run a little dry
11584s	and it did pull him upon reading that is
11586s	an excellent banker right there starts
11588s	with studies
11590s	to
11591s	well i guess if you start with studies
11592s	you're not playing palm reading this
11594s	turn necessarily
11596s	because
11597s	i feel really dirty with the idea of
11599s	praising bankers in general jira
11601s	gloss over that quickly
11606s	i mean outside of their work there can
11609s	be something like you remember jay davey
11612s	he's a banker
11614s	is he ah
11616s	he's gone down in my estimation
11619s	i'm kidding jd i love you i love
11621s	you now back when
11624s	we were casting some apac events what
11627s	was it four years ago already
11630s	wow
11631s	we're old saddle
11633s	but we're not they're into old do not
11635s	confine hey high five not as old as the
11639s	old guy
11640s	hell yeah
11642s	all right curtrous in play for sasuke
11644s	and that means holy water is running out
11647s	of time goes with the shadow word
11649s	devourers just to get enough health on
11652s	the
11653s	nos dormu where it's not really dead on
11655s	board but not necessarily safe either
11657s	because just the cartridges trading in
11658s	plus the j street playing foul barrages
11660s	i think should be good enough
11666s	if it is multiple fell barrages i'm not
11669s	the best with keeping track
11672s	i think it's just one at the moment
11675s	i wouldn't swear to it
11677s	oh my third hundo
11680s	that's a nice way of solving all the
11682s	problems
11688s	yep nice juicy clear heel back up to 30
11692s	deal with the minion holy water still a
11695s	full turn away for from the mallee here
11699s	and suddenly it looks like a series that
11701s	was looking very very over a few minutes
11705s	ago when that uh miracle priest term was
11707s	popping off is suddenly looking like
11708s	it's gonna go to the wire unless holy
11711s	water can find something significant to
11713s	turn this around here
11716s	and on eight mana that's a tall ask the
11718s	malygos just too expensive to really get
11721s	anything done the inside will guaranteed
11723s	paul nasmani but it really doesn't do
11725s	anything here and subtle with this win
11727s	for demon hunter
11729s	is it now
11731s	50.998 percent
11734s	it's a good question it might have
11736s	actually pushed it back because i mean
11738s	still with a small enough sample like a
11740s	one game swing either way could still be
11743s	a swing of a whole percent you never
11744s	know i'll wait for it to be updated and
11746s	then i'll tell you but yeah i mean even
11749s	then you can see why gia and honestly
11751s	myself would have sort of peddled that
11753s	narrative a lot harder of that being a
11755s	very good matchup for the demon hunter
11756s	is there really aren't that many things
11758s	too clear and you just have enough ways
11760s	to clear it in general um but i do we do
11764s	understand that like power word
11765s	fortitude for example can just be so
11767s	brutal if you can land that on just
11769s	about anything and all it takes is one
11772s	threat check to not be passed by the
11774s	demon hunter which can happen right
11776s	especially if they're very focused on
11778s	quest progression in the early game but
11780s	that was just a very threat light hand
11782s	from holy water it has to be said it was
11784s	like one amalgam that was it that was
11786s	the only threat check during the entire
11788s	game pretty much until that panic day at
11790s	the end um where he tried to get the 14
11793s	14 on board with the devourers so here
11795s	we go finally miracle priest coming all
11798s	the way back against the libram paladin
11801s	which is going to be game number five
11803s	the decider in our quarter final series
11807s	and this is a match-up that i'm honestly
11810s	not sure who i'd give the favor to in
11812s	the rally version i feel like riley is
11813s	slightly ahead there but derek fought me
11815s	a little bit on that and it did look
11817s	very close between kippurang and gabi
11819s	where you can just get into a sort of
11821s	weird board state where the paladin
11824s	can't necessarily remove all of your
11826s	stuff but you can't necessarily kill
11828s	them if they have carrial with this
11830s	miracle priest variant though you don't
11832s	have unlimited stuff as the
11834s	rally version seems to have so it's more
11837s	about whether they can get the kill
11839s	immediately and that does help with the
11840s	double blesses in there
11842s	off of this discover i see a palm
11845s	reading i tend to take it but holy smite
11848s	can be something to consider to help
11851s	remove minions and also the inside to
11853s	actually pull on us money because it's
11854s	just not in hand it's not too heavy
11859s	double devout pupil here being double
11862s	hit by banana man as well but no current
11864s	buffs to get that discount rolling does
11867s	have night of anointment which i think
11869s	he'll be hoping to just hit libra wisdom
11872s	at this point
11874s	yeah definitely a decent one
11877s	um there's always the interplay of chart
11879s	of the naruto to think about when facing
11882s	priests where you don't necessarily want
11884s	to play both your librarians of wisdoms
11886s	on one board if you can avoid it but
11888s	with this type of hand with double
11889s	devout pupil you definitely just want to
11891s	get discounts rolling but he hits on the
11893s	one holy spell that's not playable in
11896s	this turn and that makes sasuke's life a
11898s	lot more awkward
11911s	yeah i mean
11912s	probably not good but i was just
11914s	thinking of there's problems with the
11916s	other two of the draconic studies having
11918s	two of them in hand means that when you
11920s	do hit nasmani there's two more sinks in
11922s	the hand where you kind of want the
11923s	malagos to be a sink
11925s	and then the ruin obviously face up not
11928s	good this turn but i can definitely see
11930s	it having utility later on um yeah and
11932s	the holy water takes the studies my
11935s	instinct was definitely towards the ruin
11937s	because you know obviously cast division
11939s	is a factor here but even shutting my
11940s	eyes and just thinking about the way the
11942s	game has gone
11943s	it's a slow-ish curve on the previous
11945s	turn after the the bannerman came down
11948s	um so which kind of leads towards things
11950s	like outdoor truth seeker um and bigger
11953s	seven and eight drops in hand in this
11955s	case devout pupils and any of those
11957s	things buffed by a banner man that
11959s	you've already seen would be shadow word
11961s	ruin bait so there's a little bit
11963s	interest in it but regardless while i've
11965s	been explaining that holy water is off
11967s	to the races again with the big pop off
11970s	turn and it's going just as successfully
11973s	as the previous one once again
11975s	navigating so smoothly getting it down
11978s	to the point where just two zero mana
11980s	draconic studies were left in the hand
11981s	which he did not want to use
11983s	preemptively again for the same reasons
11985s	as we were talking about before but this
11986s	time because it would add a different
11988s	mana sink to his hand that would not be
11990s	the malagos and rule this turn out i
11993s	think holy waters played this deck
11994s	before gia do you get that impression
11996s	for sure i mean i never do the math when
11999s	i think of how many discounts i need to
12001s	play the maligos but the fact that he
12003s	was able to pick studies confidently
12004s	knowing that he didn't need it to be
12006s	fuel and if you use it in the middle of
12008s	the turn it could possibly mess with the
12010s	discounts then absolutely you pick
12012s	studies if you know that if you're just
12013s	me and can't do math you pick flash heal
12015s	because you're scared of having another
12017s	sink
12018s	um
12019s	and now he is so far in the driver's
12022s	seat sasuke has no bear of
12026s	the samurai hardly scratching this board
12028s	the carriage can help him stabilize
12030s	maybe next turn but it doesn't solve the
12032s	long-term issue of he cannot clear the
12035s	nas moneys not both of them
12039s	and this is
12041s	why personally i feel this is a very
12043s	good matchup for the miracle priest is
12045s	at some point this happens you have
12048s	enough health you have enough defense to
12049s	make this happen at some point there's
12051s	one card in your opponent's entire deck
12054s	that solves this problem there's nothing
12056s	else in the deck that gets anywhere
12057s	close to dealing with this and you see
12059s	holy water just in this situation now
12061s	okay fine i'll take this one wait he can
12064s	clear both my bad i forgot that he would
12066s	get a librium back so the samurai does
12068s	hit that five attack break point which
12070s	is so huge here to be able to deal with
12072s	both of the nine nine and ten ten here
12075s	however
12076s	while we were talking about all that
12078s	holy water he absolutely has played this
12080s	deck before because he's an expert at
12082s	discovering kazakhstan as well that's
12084s	just like
12086s	if you were talking about threat checks
12088s	we also have the
12089s	alternative wind condition check here
12092s	absolutely passed by holy water
12094s	and
12095s	you know even with the excellent samurai
12097s	clear that did come down there's still a
12099s	four seven which is still a fantastic
12101s	platform for this deck to use for
12102s	whatever it wants powered fortitude elec
12105s	mount any kind of stuff that you do want
12106s	to go for set up some kind of blessed
12108s	win condition to push a whole bunch of
12109s	damage so
12111s	if it's not a full clear yes killing two
12113s	nasmanis is great and probably ups your
12115s	win rate from zero significantly but
12118s	it's still not solving the problem right
12120s	anytime you leave any kind of minion on
12121s	the other side of the board against
12122s	miracle priests you feel like you're
12124s	going to be in trouble
12126s	and holy water showing that he's
12127s	absolutely comfortable leaving up a 1-4
12130s	even though it can take away the shield
12132s	from the nas money at this point having
12134s	seen samara
12135s	already expand its frenzy the biggest
12138s	thing you're scared of is already out
12139s	the window um
12141s	no barov available to sasuke here and
12144s	even if there were holy waters still has
12146s	the next round of threats with the
12147s	kazakhstan so just pushing the nine here
12149s	setting up for a potential lethal if he
12152s	finds another blessed because he also
12153s	just has alec mount in hand i think is
12156s	perfectly justifiable sasuke can go
12160s	carial
12161s	but
12162s	it doesn't even clear both nasmanis
12167s	spawns a lot of wisdoms back but again
12171s	not clearing both nasmanis
12174s	oh really he is going to go liadrin i
12176s	felt like it was still cario because
12179s	like a taunts anything else in this
12181s	situation doesn't really give you any
12183s	guaranteed defense because of shard of
12185s	the naaru on the other side the only
12186s	thing that gives you real reliable
12188s	defense is that lightforged carrier so i
12191s	was expecting to see it come down here
12194s	as a wall but you can of course get
12196s	these devout pupils down and make the
12198s	aggressive board on the other side which
12201s	you know even if the silence does come
12203s	out here which you're probably expecting
12204s	to see more often and not they you still
12207s	aren't necessarily dead in this
12209s	situation based on the bless already
12211s	being used on the previous turns
12214s	with this shard for holy water i think
12215s	there are lethal outs here if he hits
12217s	another bless or generates one
12220s	um he can
12221s	take one nasvani up to
12225s	well 12 with the alec mount and then 14
12227s	attack with the bless so plus malagos
12230s	would represent
12231s	lethal and the one one uh but no bless
12234s	so going for kazakhstan instead fair
12237s	enough if he hits a minion from
12240s	kazakhstan he could actually incite it
12242s	out
12243s	yes very true
12246s	and corrupted as well so it'd be even
12248s	cheaper bubba for example
12251s	beastly beauty but
12252s	it's not great here is it
12256s	puzzle box okay
12258s	oh crusty majesty's good
12261s	krusty's great
12264s	these are all
12266s	reactive options not quite
12269s	individual threats on their own so if
12270s	sasuke manages to find barrow we could
12273s	still have a game on our hands
12275s	yeah for sure
12277s	i think this is the right amount of
12279s	respect being made towards trades here
12282s	divine shield just taking the juicy
12283s	juicy value trade i think everything
12285s	else has to get ship-faced just use
12287s	crusty to take care of the 4-5 this all
12290s	makes sense to me
12292s	and that is not a barrow
12296s	but there's still hand of a doll a
12298s	chance to pull it 16 cards in deck not
12301s	especially likely but obviously nothing
12303s	else is quite getting the job done here
12304s	if he plays carol can he stay alive
12307s	you're looking at
12309s	five from malagos three from one nasmani
12312s	four from kazakhstan
12315s	uh and then four from krusty four four
12319s	five three sorry my carryall math is so
12321s	slow
12323s	sixteen six years six days here yes he
12326s	could actually stay alive just playing
12327s	carol that's correct
12330s	which is crazy to me there's so much
12332s	damage on porn i was just letting you
12334s	roll with it because i hate when i start
12336s	counting and then like whoever i'm
12337s	casting with also starts counting from a
12339s	different point and you're both just
12341s	saying different numbers and get
12342s	entirely lost but i didn't realize you
12344s	were going to make a huge mess of it
12345s	sorry i would have helped
12347s	sorry
12348s	i i mean almost every other like common
12352s	break point
12353s	of math that we have to think about in
12355s	hearthstone i have some sort of cheat
12357s	for it like just memorizing that two
12360s	arcanists and a moark is gonna deal 36
12362s	that type of thing i'm sorry i even got
12365s	that wrong it was like two more than an
12367s	arcanist um but carol there's just no
12369s	way to do it easily
12374s	you can't even add up everything and
12375s	then have it because it rounds up on the
12377s	odd number breakpoint yes exactly
12383s	uh still smart for sasuke to go with
12385s	this um instead of the librarian of hope
12387s	i think because obviously there's cards
12389s	in hand that could still be natural ways
12390s	of dealing with that uh he's just seen
12392s	crusty as well he knows that there could
12394s	be more ways to draw at the other krusty
12396s	which in fact there is with horne of
12398s	wrathion in uh holy waters hand so
12400s	i think going with the cario as i was
12402s	talking about before it's just more
12403s	security than any taunt would be against
12406s	this deck
12407s	i like the choice but the problem is
12408s	just getting much much worse turn by
12411s	turn
12414s	chooses to commit the holy book which i
12416s	initially thought
12418s	was unnecessary because from holy waters
12420s	perspective the only thing that really
12422s	stops him here is a bear of and so
12424s	committing another thing into a barrow
12426s	maybe is questionable but it does have
12428s	divine shield and there's also still an
12430s	elephant under the nasmani right so i
12432s	think it's enough layers that he's fine
12434s	to commit even more pressure and sasuke
12436s	is still searching for batman
12440s	i saw the three come off the top
12442s	[Laughter]
12445s	and even if he gets vera from this one
12446s	he can't broom it out but the barrow of
12448s	too shy in the bottom 12. no way out of
12452s	this one immovable object is not enough
12455s	and holy water advances through to the
12457s	top four
12459s	yeah i mean very very lean performance
12462s	on the priest in particular holy water a
12465s	real
12466s	unknown entity
12468s	coming into this one had a very uh
12471s	unimpressive record let's say coming
12473s	into this tournament has made a really
12475s	really deep run of it this time and
12477s	sometimes that's just what it takes
12479s	right you just need the worlds to
12480s	collide you need your you need to just
12483s	have things to click in a particular
12485s	tournament you can use that as a
12486s	platform and build from there much as he
12489s	was using these minions as a platform to
12491s	build from in this game
12493s	um and honestly i wish him all the best
12495s	because i think he's uh certainly
12496s	displayed a certain amount of aptitude
12498s	with this deck in particular which was a
12501s	real highlight of this series that's
12503s	right and i will easily remember that
12504s	because holy water holy spells priest
12508s	makes sense right i mean it's just
12510s	really impressive that he's been able to
12512s	get consistently the entire miracle turn
12515s	off and not just stop at um playing the
12517s	malygos that's usually where i stop or
12519s	what my apm allows me to do but he's
12522s	actually able to play the whole post
12523s	malygos hand and that for sure gains him
12526s	some percentage points but he does have
12529s	a giant ahead of him in the next battle
12532s	i think
12534s	larinda was saying that whoever wins
12536s	between holy water and sasuke you don't
12538s	necessarily even want to win because you
12539s	have to face gabby next oh man that's
12542s	gonna be interesting it is indeed yeah
12544s	the impressive thing for me about the
12546s	the miracle priest playing this is
12548s	something that gabby himself has shown
12549s	with like d6 warlock for example like i
12552s	do have high standards straight up apm
12554s	does not impress me i've talked about
12555s	this while casting battlegrounds as well
12557s	but like the best miracle pirates
12559s	players for example it's not that
12560s	they're going fast is that they're
12562s	making all the correct decisions while
12564s	going fast at the same time right so not
12566s	only is the hand speed good but the
12568s	brain speed is good as well and i think
12569s	that's what we're seeing from uh holy
12571s	water on that side and uh just for
12573s	curiosity's sake i lowered the sample
12575s	size on to find miracle priests versus
12578s	liberal paladin which is 83
12580s	in this tournament for the miracle
12582s	priest jia 40 wins out of 48 for miracle
12585s	priests so far in this one so that
12587s	certainly does seem to be an incredibly
12590s	dominant match up overall
12593s	but that is probably going to spell the
12596s	end of quarter final number two we still
12598s	have two more players to move on into
12601s	the semi-final we have gabby versus holy
12603s	water on one side but we do have to see
12606s	who's going to fill out the other side
12607s	of the bracket so take a couple of
12609s	minutes get yourself a drink of water
12610s	get yourself a snack but make sure you
12612s	come back in three minutes or so because
12613s	there is plenty of hearthstone action
12616s	left remaining
12620s	[Music]
12644s	oh cool
12663s	[Music]
12669s	okay
12677s	foreign
12692s	[Applause]
12718s	[Music]
12735s	messiah
12747s	[Music]
12813s	welcome back to quarterfinal number
12815s	three here at words of outdoor and derek
12817s	has entered the fray been watching from
12820s	the sidelines all morning derek what
12822s	have you made of it so far
12823s	i've been having a lot of fun obviously
12825s	the high apac representation is
12827s	something that i'm very very happy to
12828s	see
12829s	but there's been some very exciting
12831s	matches and even looking at the one that
12832s	we have coming up players aside
12835s	uh i think there's some very interesting
12838s	machinations amongst the different
12839s	archetypes left over with two players
12842s	clearly with very different lineups and
12844s	very different uh philosophy in terms of
12846s	their bands as well
12848s	it's a very interesting one to look at
12850s	right you look at it you look at
12851s	alatimu's
12853s	druid and it just gets a free wind
12855s	against this lineup so it looks like
12857s	he's a massive favorite but the more you
12858s	dig into it i don't necessarily think
12860s	that's the case derek
12862s	yeah it's uh a weird bunch all together
12865s	and it does uh beg some questions
12868s	because when i first looked at it i
12869s	didn't agree with you i was thinking
12871s	hachikuji's in some big trouble here
12872s	because he's got himself control warrior
12875s	and owl warlock two of the lowest win
12877s	rate decks in the tournament i think
12879s	coming into today
12880s	uh it was only like mazaki mage and
12883s	weapon rogue which were lower and then
12885s	otk demon hunter that i think it's such
12886s	a small sample size it doesn't really
12888s	count
12889s	um
12890s	and you know mizaki major weaponry sure
12892s	that makes sense there was a lot of
12893s	aggro those are always going to do quite
12894s	poorly but then to have control warrior
12897s	just above them because of that high
12899s	amount of aggro doesn't make much sense
12901s	because if there's a lot of aggro
12902s	control warriors should just be getting
12904s	free wins left right and center it can't
12906s	lose against a lot of these aggro decks
12908s	like shadow priest and face hunter which
12910s	obviously starts to beg questions about
12912s	the efficacy of control warrior how poor
12914s	it is against the likes of uh demon
12916s	hunter and druid but like you say when
12919s	we start breaking it down a little bit
12921s	further after alu temu's win takes the
12923s	uh sorry after ali thames druid takes
12925s	the win which almost certainly will
12927s	his uh own control warrior and even his
12929s	burn shaman are left in a pretty
12932s	precarious spot
12934s	yeah and my first breakdown was similar
12937s	to yours i looked at the warrior mirror
12939s	and thought well that's the match like
12941s	it's just worry is so bad it's just
12943s	going to get stuck on both sides but
12945s	this owl warlock has a chance of just
12947s	getting through
12949s	maybe the warrior of
12952s	hachikoji can just get through against
12953s	the shaman and that could strand
12955s	alotemus warrior i think the whole match
12957s	will be about alotima's warrior when we
12959s	get into the the heart of it but first
12962s	of all he's he's cued at this druid
12964s	we're calling it a free win obviously
12966s	it's not a free win but it's just got
12968s	three incredibly favored matchups and
12970s	it's going to be running into the demon
12972s	hunter first up
12974s	yeah uh this one should just be a you
12977s	know not necessarily a clean win but one
12979s	of the favorable matchups that all put
12981s	together does put ali thomas druid in
12983s	such a strong position uh but i'm right
12985s	there with you on the owl wall look i
12986s	think that is really going to be the uh
12988s	the linchpin that's what makes this not
12990s	necessarily so obvious who is favored
12992s	one way or the other uh because owl like
12994s	again as we've said there's a reason
12996s	it's not so popular overall it's a
12998s	pretty flimsy deck right now it doesn't
13001s	necessarily have the best time ever
13003s	against aggro although i think it's
13005s	probably that's one of its better uh the
13007s	better sides of the deck is the
13009s	anti-aggro package the weapon is
13011s	incredibly expensive there are vipers
13012s	absolutely everywhere in this metagame
13015s	which makes playing the weapon at all
13017s	very very precarious and the the lethal
13019s	combo that you can go for is far from
13021s	necessarily
13022s	lethal against a lot of decks right now
13025s	uh like against druid that can have big
13027s	boards paladins that can have big boards
13029s	quest rogues as well even potentially if
13031s	they get into the later game unless you
13033s	have tamzin slotted in as well
13035s	i don't think it's necessarily a free
13037s	win once you get that owl combo online
13039s	uh but for hachikuji here it's going to
13041s	be very very interesting against the
13043s	likes of shaman uh yeah probably going
13047s	to be a decent matchup because shaman is
13048s	going to struggle to kill you quickly
13050s	enough but if they can get an early
13052s	development on board then maybe not
13053s	warrior again should be a good match up
13056s	i feel like but there are some tricks
13058s	that control warrior has up its sleeve
13060s	that we'll get into a little bit later
13062s	on uh but i'll stop uh
13066s	meandering and get through to this
13068s	matchup right now which is of course the
13069s	druid for ali temu just looking for any
13071s	kind of ramp whatsoever in these early
13073s	turns and that is what he has got
13075s	himself
13076s	get plenty of ramp and some card draw
13078s	exactly what you want a couple of minor
13080s	points of interest or not so minor
13082s	reasonable points of interest uh we talk
13084s	a lot about how good aloo temer is how
13086s	great his master's tour record is uh if
13088s	he wins this match that will be his
13090s	hundredth masters tour match win
13092s	which is quite the landmark but on the
13095s	other side of that his his most recent
13098s	tournament to term enix's lair he only
13100s	picked up four wins
13102s	so his six wins in the swiss plus his
13104s	one in the top 16 here only leaves him
13107s	on 11. and i say only leaves him on 11
13109s	because i personally feel like 12 is
13112s	kind of the benchmark for where you want
13114s	to be at the moment so this could be a
13116s	big point for aletemo meaning he might
13118s	need to win one less match in the swiss
13120s	next time around uh to put that into
13123s	context that 4-4 at nixia's layer
13126s	was the first time he didn't go positive
13129s	since masters tour young shipping
13131s	wow how many years ago that is a long
13135s	time ago at this point good lord
13137s	um
13138s	a cool fact and obviously you are
13140s	referring to the the new seasonal
13141s	championships to which all our players
13143s	in the master tour system are trying to
13145s	get themselves towards as one of the new
13147s	main ways that players can qualify
13149s	through to the world championship
13150s	and uh
13152s	not only will it be ale temu's hundredth
13153s	win he will be the first player ever to
13155s	do so most importantly uh
13158s	just narrowly leaving behind the likes
13160s	of give please dead draw fury hunter all
13162s	narrowly behind him but uh good old aloo
13165s	temu with two second places to his names
13167s	in masters tour is looking to hit that
13169s	century in terms of wins and also get
13172s	his first win overall in i really
13175s	thought you say who's looking for the
13177s	hat trick there to get the third second
13181s	oh my goodness derek's derek's turn
13183s	towards the gabby side uh he's looking
13186s	good here though at the start of this
13187s	obviously the guest await needs to go
13189s	well but combined with the fact that
13192s	hachikuji has a pretty awful starting
13195s	hand okay the double glide the glide is
13197s	great but yeah
13199s	he needs to get on with some other
13200s	things going on he's going to struggle
13202s	here against a druid that is already
13204s	favored
13205s	yeah i mean this was a nice top deck
13207s	though uh and i do like that he is
13209s	completing quest here because
13211s	there was a certain level of
13212s	consideration that he could not complete
13215s	quest here on turn three and therefore
13217s	when he plays his glide he will have
13219s	both a double jump and a spectral sight
13221s	still in his in his deck which
13223s	drastically improves the odds of finding
13226s	a lot of card draw post glide but he'd
13228s	be an entire turn behind on quest
13230s	progression which even if we want to
13232s	factor in the more uh higher likelihood
13234s	of drawing a good hand post glide it's
13236s	just not worth it because you have to
13238s	get jace down on turn six or seven or uh
13241s	sorry curtrice down on turn six or seven
13243s	if you want to be in with any chance
13244s	whatsoever
13246s	and he wasn't to know this at all but i
13248s	don't think alatimo even before we saw
13250s	the hand would particularly have minded
13252s	being glib there his hand wasn't
13254s	particularly great and now it is
13256s	particularly great with guff coming off
13258s	the top and nyxia both off oh my
13261s	goodness
13264s	what are you
13265s	what are you even going for here i guess
13267s	you take wild growth just because with a
13270s	malagos in hand
13272s	um
13273s	yeah well i mean you have the hero power
13274s	so you may as well just hero power on
13276s	this turn right yeah sure to gain a full
13279s	amount of crystal but there may be a
13281s	subsequent term where you might want to
13282s	go hero power plus wild growth in the
13284s	same turn uh living seed
13287s	i don't think does anything and i don't
13290s	think it does anything post
13292s	kazakhstan either right there's no
13293s	beasts
13295s	oh maybe
13296s	but you don't trust it you don't want it
13298s	in this matchup yeah yeah yeah i don't
13300s	think crusty is enough of a reason to go
13302s	for that
13305s	like krusty the clown in this matchup
13309s	okay
13311s	needs
13312s	might need to grade here because there's
13314s	nothing else happening
13317s	uh all in on finding a
13320s	one uh trade effect one way to draw a
13322s	card for one mana is all he needs but he
13324s	misses not completing the quest here
13327s	is just such a difference not only would
13330s	it have uh got him that much closer to
13332s	getting kirchhoffs down but even just
13334s	being able to play and activate
13335s	magtheridon next turn which you know if
13338s	he discounted both of these cards oh no
13340s	sorry the uh the kurchus is the next not
13342s	the discount effect well either way just
13344s	getting the curtis down would be a very
13345s	very big difference
13348s	small decision here for alatima just
13350s	because the malagos is so strong but
13352s	honestly
13353s	no just gonna get some good stuff
13356s	quite like solar eclipse personally for
13359s	the the post kazakhstan world
13365s	okay yeah i mean you could take an eight
13367s	drop here i suppose
13376s	an omen of things to come with a
13379s	humongous owl
13381s	yeah an ominous humongous owl uh
13384s	probably just druid of the planes though
13386s	i want to say because it's really big
13389s	uh and makes it quite hard for hachikuji
13391s	to actually clear it off
13394s	uh i think the interaction would be that
13396s	if you played
13397s	uh arcanist immolation or into that it
13400s	would take three damage transform and
13403s	then
13404s	take the remaining three damage so it
13406s	wouldn't die
13407s	uh but i'll utilize saying here that
13409s	this is in its own a very very
13411s	threatening minion and stops any damage
13412s	going face
13414s	yeah it's even more threatening because
13415s	if he's going to play whelps in some
13417s	form or other next turn
13419s	one of the best ways to get rid of that
13421s	is immolation aura which will then buff
13424s	this thing twice and then it becomes a
13426s	pretty beefy
13430s	no surprise hachikuchi taking care of it
13433s	before it starts to do anything
13434s	ridiculous
13437s	and now ali tommy truly has his pick of
13439s	the litter in terms of plays it could of
13441s	course be raid boss onyxia to try and
13443s	set up for
13444s	pouch plus survival of the fittest which
13447s	is i think the main thing he'll have in
13449s	mind with this pouch in hand
13451s	to try and look for right now
13453s	he does of course need to be wary of
13455s	glide though will always be at the
13457s	forefront of his mind but uh
13460s	you know i think just playing raid boss
13461s	and nyxia you're still going to be
13463s	drawing back probably a pretty good hand
13465s	and you can keep gaining mana all the
13467s	way along
13469s	yeah i think um and doubly so because of
13472s	the glide you mentioned just get your
13473s	big stuff out there leave your car draw
13476s	available and then just draw back into
13478s	kazakhstan if this goes wrong
13480s	and if you're playing this on the board
13482s	your opponent hasn't really got much
13483s	time to glide use for mano at the end of
13485s	the day
13486s	true
13488s	yeah without curtris down that's a lot
13490s	of your turn chewed up
13492s	um i'm trying to think of the most
13493s	efficient way to dump cards out of his
13495s	hand
13496s	obviously adorable infestation does not
13498s	actually
13498s	net him any less cards in hand because
13501s	of the
13502s	little one that you get back uh but just
13504s	a nice iron bark plus uh
13508s	uh i guess just chill is fine here
13512s	yeah it's not a disaster if he gets
13514s	glided when he's got um guffin in half
13517s	oh guff set up and also all the
13519s	cardboard in the deck so
13521s	doesn't need to be particularly
13522s	panicking this seems absolutely
13525s	find a fine
13527s	who does need to be panicking here is
13529s	hachikuchi he has
13532s	just got nothing going on the quest is
13533s	nowhere near good enough at the moment
13543s	okay immolation aura uh can clear off
13546s	the whelps which even more so than
13549s	getting rid of the uh invulnerability of
13551s	enyxia just makes room for magtheridon
13554s	uh which is quite clearly what
13557s	hachikuchi is trying to set up for the
13558s	following turn so is there any way that
13561s	alu temu can play around that quite
13563s	clearly scale i'm looking i was just
13566s	thinking just just wedge the scale out
13568s	there but he still has seven other mana
13570s	to mess around with first if he wants to
13571s	try and find something better to do
13577s	because why not yeah i mean i'm honestly
13580s	wondering if you go like marsul cub
13582s	lunar eclipse it
13585s	and then scale just because you want to
13586s	get rid of anything that isn't
13588s	malagos from your hand where you to
13590s	redraw it with glide
13598s	slowly gliding onto the board himself
13602s	that's amazing
13604s	just creeping onto the board
13607s	[Music]
13612s	well he's obviously set up for
13613s	significantly more powerful plays in
13616s	uh subsequent turns
13619s	uh with this line but at the same time
13621s	left himself a little bit more
13622s	vulnerable to
13624s	a magtheridon clear obviously as we can
13626s	see which uh is fine because if it was
13629s	not exactly magtheridon as we can see it
13630s	would probably be jace for example which
13633s	the immolation or effect inside the jace
13635s	would just clean up all the whelps
13636s	anyway so alutemus deciding to play
13638s	around not this specific hand from his
13641s	opponent but a more general approach he
13643s	may be able to take
13645s	it's so ridiculous when druid gets
13647s	rolling like i'm looking at solar
13649s	scenario and thinking that's pretty good
13650s	and then you realize he's got six more
13652s	mana eight if he uses the bloom to do
13654s	other things on that turn as well ah
13659s	like he can play the the scale of a
13661s	nixia into the back thermodon clear it
13663s	and still have enough mana for solar
13664s	somalia no no wait we're not even there
13667s	yet this isn't even a magtheradon for
13668s	hachikuchi he played that very very
13670s	quickly to go for the uh
13673s	uh the chaos strike it always gave him a
13676s	clear if because he could have just gone
13677s	hero power swing
13679s	uh but i don't know i still gotta say i
13682s	was kind of tempted just getting down
13685s	at 12 12 on this time i wanted 12 12.
13688s	yeah
13689s	even if you can clear a bigger board
13691s	with magtheridon later on like it
13693s	doesn't matter because there's no way to
13695s	actually clear the acolytes now when you
13696s	do play the magtheridon
13699s	yeah and the other problem is that um
13701s	[Music]
13703s	because he hasn't got curtris online his
13705s	combo's miles away i guess it's not
13708s	miles away but it's you know it's a long
13710s	way off
13712s	i'll just clear it and survive for me
13714s	but
13715s	i'm not in the quarterfinals of the
13716s	masters tour so what do i know
13719s	yeah it does get more j spells active
13721s	which is worth something as well because
13724s	you might just be trying to
13726s	get that miracle draw of
13729s	a curtrous hero card off the top and
13732s	then performers plus dead eye we do of
13733s	course have to bear in mind that that is
13735s	just ready to go right now
13736s	without even ever needing to play
13738s	curtris
13740s	uh from the quest i should say as long
13741s	as he finds demon render the hero card
13744s	to get that online and so by going for
13746s	this route it does give him extra draw
13747s	with jace which i guess would be the
13749s	main line of thinking with this play is
13751s	just prioritize card draw find the hero
13753s	card and then you might be able to
13755s	squeeze out a win
13757s	problem now of course is 46
13760s	is not 30. we saw alatima do 30 in the
13762s	previous round but 46 is significantly
13765s	more than 30 when you play this demon
13767s	hunter deck
13771s	well
13771s	this does mean sacrificing quest
13773s	progression by not trading away the
13775s	viper but i do think that at this point
13778s	the kirchhoff's game plan
13780s	or the quest game plan is just too far
13782s	away right say he does trade the viper
13784s	he'd have to like fail scream blast just
13787s	to stay alive basically on the other
13789s	side
13790s	it's way too flimsy it's never going to
13792s	be getting there
13793s	and so with the armor from this route he
13795s	can hope to survive another turn
13797s	and then performers plus dead eye it's
13799s	not going to be lethal but it might
13801s	clear the board and get it in range for
13802s	jace to be lethal
13804s	yeah and like you say the extra five
13806s	armor actually super relevant on top of
13808s	that
13810s	okay
13812s	down to his last three cards already
13814s	he's got 18 mana he's turned nine
13817s	okay
13819s	[Music]
13821s	looking for survival there most
13823s	certainly because i think he could have
13824s	still hit uh the final solar in his deck
13828s	guaranteed of moonlight guidance if
13830s	there is another solar in the deck which
13832s	i think there is um and then he could
13834s	have had lethal
13835s	uh but not to be
13837s	this must be the way
13842s	another soda snowy if he wants it
13845s	yeah and
13847s	i
13849s	i do feel like cenarium would
13851s	i was going to say it's the way to go
13853s	because putting stats on board without
13855s	gaining armor does make you a little bit
13857s	afraid afraid of performers plus dead
13859s	eye but at the same time he's already at
13862s	40 health you're never ever dead in that
13864s	instance so you just need to be able to
13866s	kill them the following turn
13867s	and this does
13869s	this is the most likely way for him to
13870s	do that yeah i he he picked really
13873s	quickly there but i did notice at least
13875s	an embers in the middle of it all
13877s	so not that it's going to matter but you
13879s	know trying to stay awake
13883s	in case
13889s	yep i think this is just game you can go
13894s	okay studies hope to find
13897s	chaos leech is too expensive to go with
13899s	the jace but ibm might was just playable
13902s	to go alongside it to get a double
13904s	i-beam maybe that would have afforded
13906s	you a board clear and some heal
13908s	uh but this chaos leech like i said a
13910s	little bit too expensive and i don't
13912s	think this jace is currently juiced
13914s	enough to actually clear the board
13918s	no i don't think so either there's only
13920s	six cards left in the deck maybe he
13921s	snuck a few more in there than we paid
13923s	attention to but i feel like it wasn't
13925s	that juice as well
13927s	we're gonna find out
13930s	we shall see
13931s	i guess if you get perfect double mo
13933s	double fell barrage in the perfect order
13936s	then it is technically enough to get
13938s	there
13941s	oh that's the wrong order
13943s	okay well i mean he's not dead anymore i
13946s	guess it's the good thing
13948s	not technically dead
13951s	the best kind of not dead
13958s	uh-huh
13966s	definitely dead
13968s	but that was kind of the prologue right
13971s	this is the expected outcome for the
13973s	druid this this has always been a three
13975s	versus two decks match up and that's
13977s	just the one out of the way to
13979s	warm us up for the the hearthstone that
13981s	might take a while that is still to come
13983s	this could be a very close match make no
13986s	bones about that one
13988s	yeah this was like you said uh a nice
13990s	win it was very flashy and hopefully it
13992s	bolsters aloo temu's uh i don't know his
13994s	mojo a little bit makes him feel good
13996s	about himself going into this series uh
13998s	but it was always gonna happen this is
14000s	druid against a lineup that sucks
14002s	against druid it was warrior demon
14004s	hunter and owl warlock left over it was
14006s	always gonna be a win um and so now that
14008s	he's got that one out of the way it's
14009s	the warrior and the shaman left over
14011s	which is where things really start to
14013s	get a little bit stickier uh the control
14016s	warrior is left with an even match up
14018s	quite clearly in just the kazakhstan
14021s	warrior mirror which is anybody's guess
14023s	as to how that one could go and uh
14026s	very arguably two bad matchups in the uh
14029s	the demon hunter and the owl warlock
14032s	uh i've got to be honest i've never seen
14034s	specifically kazakhstan warrior against
14037s	owl warlock uh i've seen some of the
14039s	older builds of control warrior against
14041s	owl warlock uh the alu temu and some of
14043s	the other japanese players were fond of
14045s	last season of grand masters i think
14048s	um but again having said that
14051s	i do still think that al warlock should
14053s	be able to get there unless you get off
14055s	to a very very aggressive start as ali
14057s	temu's warrior yeah this warrior is
14059s	going to
14061s	i mean we've seen the deck a million
14062s	times now it's
14064s	not particularly
14068s	there's not that many changes you can
14069s	make to it overall there's a few we see
14072s	bits and pieces floating in and out so
14074s	there's gonna be no surprises here i
14076s	don't think i can't see a card on there
14078s	that i need to announce is in the deck
14082s	there's no mutinous i guess is a thing
14084s	to observe it's it's a straight clean
14086s	dragon's version
14088s	yeah it's funny you mentioned that
14089s	because i would have
14091s	earlier today i would have said to you
14092s	of course not it's a kazakhstan version
14094s	you can't put in mutinous but literally
14096s	just like an hour ago on ladder i played
14098s	against someone with the mutanus in the
14100s	kazakhstan variant
14103s	which i had not actually seen before
14105s	uh so
14107s	what a fool i was
14110s	all right gotta glide in the opening
14112s	hand in the outcast position
14115s	which is weird because it's right in the
14117s	middle of the hand but just trust me on
14118s	this
14120s	i think i can keep up
14124s	you know without client analysis
14128s	you're
14130s	interesting
14131s	i mean because the the obvious keep
14132s	there was the axe right which i believe
14134s	was on the right hand side
14136s	um
14137s	but ali temu here taking the route of
14141s	i just have to survive just gain as much
14143s	armor as possible which you know to be
14146s	fair if you factor in all the attack
14148s	spells of chaos strike and fury
14150s	replaying them all again with jace and
14152s	even some extra attacks from uh kurtra's
14155s	demon render it's still not enough to
14157s	chew through all the armor that warrior
14158s	can gain
14160s	which could be enough to buy him the
14162s	time to hit kazakhstan that's all he
14164s	really needs
14165s	yeah and something we've talked about in
14168s	previous matches is if you're heavily
14170s	unfavored do things that might work
14173s	because you've got not much to lose
14175s	and i quite like the look of this
14176s	approach
14183s	using the coin to get a heavy plate out
14185s	of the hand ready for the glide
14191s	he's seen the keep he doesn't like it it
14194s	smells funny so just emptying it out and
14196s	getting rid of the coin and the plate in
14198s	one go whilst doing something actually
14200s	worthwhile
14206s	plate number two
14209s	bull crockery set
14212s	even considering the shield shatter just
14214s	to again play around that potential
14216s	glide a card kept in the uh what is now
14219s	the outcast position as you said
14221s	and in this instance he's got four cards
14223s	in hand and he's gonna be shuffling four
14225s	cards back into his hand which is uh
14228s	easy come easy go for hallow temu
14232s	hachiku she was looking for here
14236s	because he needs to glide because his
14240s	that's pretty awful if he never does
14245s	yeah i mean you know the alternatives
14246s	are take it really slow and don't
14248s	prioritize quest progression or like
14250s	play the spectral site in non-outcast
14253s	before you've played glide but that just
14255s	sounds horrible like your opponent is
14257s	never going to burst draw a bunch of
14259s	cards at once uh they're always going to
14261s	be drawing at maximum like three cards
14264s	in a turn with one natural and two from
14267s	a
14268s	cutting class so you're just very
14269s	happily going to be gliding this away
14271s	for the moment
14272s	and uh pray they don't get kazakhstan
14274s	which currently
14276s	ali temu does not have this hand is
14278s	absolutely dead
14280s	yep and that's one of the problems for
14282s	the warrior in this matchup because your
14284s	hand is very often absolutely dead
14286s	only decision really is when to play
14289s	ball walk knowing that your opponent has
14291s	viper in the deck so
14293s	he's facing no damage obviously not yet
14302s	imaginary minions bite the dust
14306s	this is kind of more appropriate right
14308s	for a minefield they're not you're not
14309s	going to shoot them at you like a cannon
14311s	you're not going to know that that's
14312s	kind of a point right so
14314s	it does make sense yeah they just laid
14316s	down there now ready for the minions
14318s	actually
14320s	got it
14322s	cool
14323s	impressed
14327s	any car drawer at all
14329s	not this time okay which means
14332s	hachikuchi still
14333s	can just quite happily keep on drawing
14335s	from his position there's very possibly
14338s	a kazakhstan in hand he has i think
14340s	literally no reads whatsoever uh because
14343s	most of alu temu's hand would be sat
14345s	there doing nothing at all
14347s	yep
14348s	oh he's just got to complete his quest
14352s	wow okay
14355s	really favoring thinning out his decking
14358s	just saying you're never gliding again
14359s	that'll slow your quest down maybe
14362s	yeah do you glide sure
14364s	i've been picking up on more that
14366s	control warrior players have been doing
14367s	which i'd never actually thought of
14369s	before i'd seen it
14371s	because it's always your first instinct
14373s	to say you want to protect your bull
14374s	walk against rust rot viper against
14376s	pretty much any deck that plays it
14378s	because that's your defense that gives
14380s	you a turn to play kazakhstan
14382s	but
14384s	if you can use this as a lightning rod
14386s	to draw out the rust rock viper and then
14389s	get ricara say in the next two turns
14391s	because he's gonna have to get lucky to
14393s	win this game no matter what and he
14395s	could just get 10 damage with ricara
14397s	into a kazakhstan like
14399s	that's a winning route and that's 10
14400s	damage that hachikos you cannot delete
14402s	uh with a rust rot viper now
14404s	uh so i just thought it was something
14406s	interesting i've seen it a couple times
14407s	now this slightly different approach uh
14410s	to playing with uh the bull walk
14413s	yeah something tj mentioned once or
14414s	twice as well in that
14416s	um when they're ready to go off in a
14418s	game where your opponent is just filling
14420s	their hand with cards and they've got a
14421s	viper in the deck it's going to get
14423s	vipered like
14425s	just put it on the board and save some
14427s	damage because if it does get vipered
14429s	later it saves no damage at least this
14431s	way sometimes you'd get it down before
14433s	the viper and save a little bit
14436s	wow not even interested in setting up
14438s	some axe play here just straight up
14441s	killing everything that turns up
14449s	that sounds really funny sometimes when
14451s	glide's involved isn't it just
14453s	everyone's shooting their own minions
14454s	and wasting cards for no reason
14457s	it's very weird it's like those old uh
14459s	freeze mage days right where you just
14461s	play blizzard blizzard blizzard to not
14464s	overdraw cards
14466s	um now unfortunately with alex thames
14468s	decision to go double
14470s	sword and board as opposed to just
14471s	equipping the outriders axe he has
14472s	nothing to actually swing into to draw
14474s	any extra cards so the odds of finding
14476s	kazakhstan
14478s	are that a little bit lower the odds of
14479s	finding rakara also that little bit
14482s	lower and like you said no mutants at
14484s	all to even eat the kurtras if he were
14486s	to even uh if it were to be left in hand
14489s	even
14490s	so quite clearly if i had shikuji it's
14492s	just about finding kurchus demon render
14494s	that is by far his highest priority
14497s	right now and then as soon as he does
14499s	start punching face chip that armor down
14501s	piece by piece he can get there
14504s	yeah
14505s	although it will be a slightly slower
14507s	process like you said right from the
14508s	start alatimo buying time just trying
14513s	to not be dead up to the point where he
14515s	finds something good to do and something
14516s	good to do being precisely kazakhstan
14519s	and
14525s	could still play kurtrus were he to draw
14528s	it
14529s	uh but
14530s	chase is still not a bad draw at all um
14534s	[Music]
14537s	yeah he could afford to be greedy with
14538s	it right get the furies to rank three
14541s	and just take your time get the maximum
14543s	out of everything
14545s	get a huge jace and then a combo
14547s	follow-up
14549s	i mean yes but at the same time for all
14551s	he knows kazakhstan comes down next turn
14553s	right this brawl has been there since
14555s	the glide
14557s	and it could just hit the board next
14558s	turn in which case he doesn't have all
14560s	the time in the world he does need to
14561s	actually start killing his opponent
14563s	um i think given how unlikely that is i
14565s	do
14566s	prefer the route you are prescribing
14568s	which is to agree without these furies
14570s	uh but just worth bearing in mind that
14571s	up until this hero power act hachikuji
14574s	did not know that there was no uh
14576s	kazakhstan available
14578s	good point very good point
14581s	he's also down to six cards in his deck
14589s	the final dump going to need for greed
14591s	by the look of it
14593s	okay yeah it's a little sad to go
14596s	arcanist fell scream instead of alconist
14597s	fel barrage but
14600s	take what you can get that's for sure
14605s	so he gets
14607s	30-ish on the turn where he draws
14611s	matheradon
14613s	and does combo into it and then he's got
14616s	fury hits you into jace that's a lot of
14619s	damage over the three turns
14622s	yeah i mean he obviously gets a little
14624s	bit
14624s	less than 30 right because you get
14627s	nine hits so yeah 18 damage there plus
14630s	the two plus the weapon plus the one you
14631s	can get beforehand anyway
14633s	so i think it ends up about 24 damage uh
14636s	that he can deal in the one turn with
14638s	burst
14641s	which is currently still out of range
14644s	but then with unspecified reasonably
14646s	large amounts of chase damage on top of
14648s	that yes it's going to be a fully jaced
14651s	jace
14654s	yeah no make no mistake like this
14656s	matchup has been mapped out it's it's a
14658s	very
14658s	easily mapped out match up because
14661s	there's very little generation and the
14663s	little generation that there is in the
14665s	form of kazakhstan uh and illidari
14668s	studies is a very small pool of things
14670s	to discover from so there's not that
14672s	much random generation that you need to
14674s	worry about and
14676s	given that very rarely something
14677s	miraculous does happen most of the time
14679s	hachikuchi just has enough damage to get
14682s	there like you said with this jace on
14683s	this turn and bulwark already having
14686s	been used he'll easily get his opponent
14688s	down to the combo range of curtris
14691s	magtheridon performance deadeye and then
14695s	shortly afterwards can just close out
14697s	the game
14703s	he hopes and we hope what we expect yes
14706s	it should be again like i say there's
14708s	never certainties in hearthstone uh but
14711s	current theory tells us hachikuchi
14713s	should just get there
14719s	did not pick up
14721s	kazakhstan in time by the look of this
14728s	that's right for the first time in human
14730s	history he actually had a bad glide not
14733s	on his side of course but on his
14735s	opponent's side still not a good enough
14737s	glide to win the game
14742s	it was this turn won't be quite enough
14744s	monitor full combo and then the next
14746s	turn should be enough
14750s	yep hero power churches hero power
14753s	um
14755s	can't think of any reason to play any
14757s	cards uh like arcanist immolation aura
14761s	i can't think of any reason not to
14762s	either though to be fair yeah just just
14765s	whatever
14767s	eight fours
14770s	that's how many how long this has gone
14772s	how much he's just been patient the fact
14774s	that 84 is they're not ever going to do
14775s	anything of course
14777s	yeah and there we go onyxia obviously
14779s	are clear but if halal tammy were to
14781s	play it he knows he would be dead but by
14782s	the same metric if he doesn't play
14785s	anything
14786s	and just clears this board with
14788s	rank or shield slam shield slam
14790s	shield shadow whatever
14792s	um
14793s	it's still not going to be enough to get
14794s	there
14795s	uh because uh the magthon can be used to
14798s	come in and close out the game i think
14800s	even with this nice uh
14802s	use of the rank or getting all the way
14803s	up to 19 still just very clearly lethal
14807s	nine twos is 18 before you even add
14809s	anything else in there so even i can do
14810s	that one
14813s	mapped out match up and a tapped out
14816s	match up in this one
14818s	one game all
14821s	very well played i'd almost made that
14823s	game of hearthstone worth it lorenzo
14824s	almost
14825s	[Laughter]
14826s	right i tried and then this was
14829s	unsalvageable it was it was just ali
14830s	temp we didn't get the draw you know we
14832s	had to
14833s	sit through seeing him draw the rest of
14834s	his deck uh but if you don't draw
14837s	kazakhstan in a quick enough fashion or
14839s	maybe raid boss elixir there is simply
14841s	nothing to be done and for two games in
14843s	a row the expected outcome the demon
14846s	hunter queued up twice in a row for
14847s	hachikuji losing the druid beating the
14851s	warrior and now again for aloe temu this
14853s	warrior has to continue its grim march
14856s	towards trying to get a victory in this
14858s	series now facing either the mirror
14861s	obviously very doable or the warlock
14864s	which uh
14865s	still going to be a bit of a question
14866s	mark
14867s	like we say
14870s	anticipating an uphill climb for alu
14872s	temu but the uh the tricks that warrior
14874s	has can very much uh disrupt what
14876s	warlock has going on
14878s	yeah what he needs to happen and there's
14879s	no skill in selecting this it's purely
14881s	random there's no mind games or any of
14884s	that nonsense but if he could get the
14886s	shaman into the hour lock and get that
14888s	one done and then get the warrior into
14890s	the mirror and get that one done that's
14892s	his best route to victory here
14894s	this is a little square i had in the
14896s	bottom my grid at the start of the match
14898s	i already had it sort of
14900s	circled squared as this is the part that
14903s	matters those first two games
14905s	sure they can go wrong you can lose them
14907s	but they're likely not to matter but now
14909s	we're into the part where alotimo really
14912s	has his work cut out
14914s	he does yeah i i do still think there is
14918s	some avenue for him to
14920s	to oh the
14922s	warlock the warrior i think he's really
14924s	gonna struggle because shaman against
14926s	control warrior
14927s	is just disastrous like maybe against
14930s	the charge version they have a
14931s	completely removable empty hand because
14934s	they draw all their combo pieces there's
14936s	just not even a draw where that can
14938s	happen against the kazakhstan variant
14939s	because the only bad cards in the early
14942s	game that they have in their deck are
14943s	kazakhstan and nyxia and arguably ricara
14946s	which even if you draw all three you're
14948s	still probably gonna have enough removal
14950s	to clear off anything shaman does in the
14952s	early game uh and so like i said shaman
14954s	vs warlock like you said should be very
14957s	winnable if you get yourself bloom
14958s	caverns at the start build up some kind
14960s	of a crazy combo by getting vash prime
14963s	and power at the vash prime as we've
14964s	seen happen a couple times already in gm
14966s	and the masters tour it's very very
14968s	doable and obviously warrior can get
14971s	down these kind of plays where you set
14972s	up a perfectly timed bull walk they
14974s	don't find the rust rot viper or of
14976s	course you can get yourself plays with
14978s	rakara swinging into humongous owls
14981s	these kinds of things and pressure the
14982s	warlock down uh but it's still going to
14984s	be a tough one for ali temu all over
14988s	yeah and here it is the big hoot warlock
14990s	as tj named it
14992s	and we've kind of got stuck with it so
14995s	sometimes comes up as big warlock on the
14997s	screen as well which is always
14999s	fascinating when it happens
15000s	this is the hoot off and it's not big at
15002s	all it's just got a big owl in it
15005s	and it's the warrior
15008s	it is indeed and that is a kazakhstan in
15011s	the starting hand for ali temu which i
15013s	would have to imagine
15015s	insta keep uh there's just
15018s	you know it's not even like with paladin
15019s	where you're like oh i have liadrin uh
15022s	or cariel in my starting hand what if
15024s	this means i missed some of my early
15025s	plays there are no early plays there's
15027s	nothing he cares about in his deck
15029s	everything does the same thing except
15031s	for kazakhstan so this is a fantastic
15033s	draw for alu temu right out of the gate
15037s	and uh who knows if hachikuji doesn't
15040s	hit a uh particularly efficient starting
15043s	hand to start setting up his combo this
15045s	kazakhstan could certainly come down in
15047s	time to clutch out the game
15049s	yep
15050s	rod in the hand so i'm always interested
15051s	at which point people start to dump
15053s	their cards and how their taps work when
15055s	you start off with a rod because you're
15057s	your card management becomes kind of
15059s	weird but for now
15061s	nothing worth reducing particularly
15063s	obviously there is but you know what i
15065s	mean he wants to get more than this so
15066s	tapping away quite happily
15072s	when glide becomes no longer a
15074s	consideration for the warrior i'll be
15076s	curious to see how aloo temu
15079s	approaches this
15080s	um because it could have just been heavy
15083s	plate on that turn armor is far from
15085s	inconsequential in this matchup just
15087s	because it can stop your opponent from
15089s	going for a kind of
15090s	halfway rag tag combo rather than the uh
15094s	the full tamzin double phylactery uh and
15098s	all the deathrattle damage one after the
15099s	other
15101s	uh but he is instead just prioritizing
15103s	uh fluidity of his deck drawing through
15105s	things nice and quickly
15107s	rather than getting the uh
15110s	the armor from heavy plate which again
15113s	makes sense he wants to see as much of
15114s	his deck as possible before kazakhstan
15117s	yeah we've seen what a disaster some
15118s	decks can be just on a very early
15120s	kazakhstan and then suddenly all the
15122s	good treasures cost too much and with no
15124s	backup plan
15126s	they still tend to win but you certainly
15128s	make it hard for yourself also of
15130s	interest now there is a viper in the
15132s	warlock but only the one there it is
15133s	thank you viper
15135s	so when to play the ball walk also a bit
15137s	more relevant this time you can yeah
15140s	safely assume they don't have to have
15142s	the viper before they go off so there's
15144s	a chance they don't so it it's a card
15146s	you've got to consider this time around
15148s	whereas in
15149s	demon hunter you know they're going to
15150s	draw their deck
15153s	the foreign temple i definitely favor
15155s	playing the outriders axe because
15157s	number one you can start getting some
15159s	face damage in which could be a nice way
15161s	to close out the game with just
15162s	kazakhstan into pure frost uh pure cold
15166s	not curious i still can't get that card
15168s	name right pure cold uh or an embers in
15171s	a timely fashion uh and if your opponent
15174s	does for some reason play rust rot viper
15176s	which they absolutely should not uh you
15178s	can just get bull walked down uh having
15180s	already dealt with the viper
15184s	first tick
15187s	on the weapon though
15189s	now down to six times the other two
15190s	fight actor down to three already making
15192s	some inroads into getting things done
15196s	yeah
15197s	hachikuchi does need to be a little bit
15198s	careful because if you bring tamzin's
15200s	phylactery all the way down to zero cost
15202s	if it gets reduced by both ticks of both
15204s	weapons uh it can no longer be doubled
15207s	up with tamzin because it obviously
15209s	costs zero and so tamzin
15211s	can not double down if
15213s	uh shadow spells already cost zero
15216s	uh and at that point uh ali temu can
15218s	very much out armor the uh the damage
15221s	from just a single tamson's phylactery
15223s	into the damage because if it's just
15225s	seven times eight fifty six you have one
15226s	damage on board uh oh sorry one minion
15229s	on board already that's pretty
15231s	survivable right especially if you have
15233s	a bull walk or whatever it is uh on
15235s	board later on but two times in
15237s	phylacteries no chance whatsoever so for
15239s	hachikuchi he does just need to be a
15241s	little bit careful of uh how he uses
15244s	these ruined mythal rods and not give
15246s	his opponent a fringe out of just
15249s	armouring up outside of the combo lethal
15251s	range
15252s	and to be fair to aletimo he's already
15254s	starting to get some of his own fringe
15256s	outs obviously keeping the kazakhstan
15258s	doing a little bit of damage
15259s	that's in embers range for instance like
15263s	things can happen here i know he's got
15265s	to get to 10 mana for the embers but
15267s	that's possible too
15270s	i also love the alu temu despite like
15273s	trading the heavy play earlier on and
15275s	clearly trying to draw through his deck
15277s	earlier on uh is saving the cutting
15279s	classes here because it is so much more
15281s	important that he has a lower overall
15284s	value game plan because he's got less
15286s	cards before kazakhstan that's much less
15289s	important than finding his kazakhstan
15291s	cards quickly uh because he just wants
15293s	to be able to draw like i said pure cold
15295s	book of the dead um
15298s	it's like armageddon but these kind of
15300s	combos that warlock can't deal with like
15303s	uh assistant plus uh
15308s	uh
15310s	yeah carvings mirror
15311s	copy copy all the uh
15314s	things
15315s	make the things
15317s	all right game time
15319s	change my deck into good cards
15322s	what they're gonna be
15327s	uh present
15329s	or yeah i'm tempted by presents but two
15333s	cutting classes already in hand okay
15335s	ancient reflections that's what i was
15336s	talking about numbers but it's three
15338s	turns away so he might not
15341s	i think he's still gotta take it but uh
15343s	it is expensive
15346s	that's a huge whiff puzzle box
15349s	oh man really he has nothing to combo
15352s	with it he didn't pick bubba i was going
15354s	to try and catch the owl but it's too
15355s	it's not going to happen because he's
15356s	going to oh
15358s	okay that's a good point oh yikes
15362s	krusty
15365s	oh it takes the spyglass kind of a whiff
15368s	all things considered
15370s	um
15371s	the embers are nice
15372s	but the ancient reflections really
15374s	missed anything uh
15376s	powerful to actually copy unless of
15378s	course we were to just see copy and owl
15381s	with the ancient reflections which would
15382s	be incredibly cool
15385s	oh my goodness yeah
15392s	i wonder if
15395s	i was curious last turn actually um if
15397s	he was going to wait a term before
15398s	kazakhstan i didn't think he would but
15400s	because embers cost 10 kazakhstan 8 into
15402s	coin embers felt like an out that was
15404s	available to him
15416s	wow
15417s	is this just lethal we're going for it
15419s	we're doing the oh
15421s	you can go sam's in tamzin
15424s	can you kill enough minions here
15429s	16 32
15432s	that's not enough he needs one more
15434s	effect than that but touch of the nazim
15435s	does that that's just there oh my god i
15438s	wasn't even considering that that was
15440s	enough
15441s	wow
15442s	yeah we're looking at the the double
15444s	combo but a sneaky 32 when you just hit
15446s	your opponent for eight yeah
15448s	gets it done
15449s	or 40 sorry
15452s	wow what a sick lethal there from
15454s	hachikuji
15456s	it's so rare you see them going players
15458s	even going for it without the school
15460s	spirits to blow up the entire board and
15462s	even with the best possible pan out on
15464s	alu temu's side of the board with coin
15466s	kazakhstan plenty of card draw to follow
15469s	up just wasn't even close right the
15470s	warlock steamrolling his opponent and
15473s	all of a sudden alu temu just looking
15475s	like a huge underdog going into the rest
15478s	of the series 2-1 down needing to win a
15481s	control warrior mirror and then burn
15483s	shaman against control warrior as well
15486s	that is a disastrous matchup to have to
15489s	face i mean i'm probably the burn
15492s	shaman apologist in the entire caster
15495s	lineup and i don't like this matchup for
15497s	the burn shaman at all so you know it's
15499s	in trouble when i'm sitting there saying
15501s	oh it's difficult um a caverns into a
15503s	lot of burn in your hand and to gather
15505s	up and do a
15507s	do a combo for 30 plus is definitely
15509s	possible sometimes just very
15511s	occasionally
15512s	you just hit him
15514s	just very rarely
15515s	but in general you find you do 12 damage
15518s	15 if you're lucky something like that
15520s	even with a good start and then you're
15523s	trying to get a guardian through but it
15525s	doesn't work and you're saving your
15526s	damage and it gets to 19 but they've got
15528s	23 armor
15532s	yeah i mean out number one like you said
15534s	is early wildport cabins that is a good
15537s	chunk of your small win percentage in
15539s	this matchup out number two i often find
15542s	is
15542s	well it's the burn half of the deck
15544s	which primarily comes through vash pro
15546s	uh lady vash drawing vash prime and then
15549s	copying that with macaw hoping your
15551s	opponent doesn't draw all their armor
15553s	and then surprising them with like a
15555s	random 30 damage burst because you like
15557s	discounted both your serpent shrine
15559s	portals and maybe you stuck a little bit
15561s	of damage along the way as well um that
15563s	is a lot smaller of a percentage of a
15565s	win condition and then even below that
15568s	your chance is fatiguing them after they
15570s	go for kazakhstan because they hit
15572s	absolute pure uh pure trash on the
15574s	treasures
15575s	that i count as like almost
15577s	inconsequential even mentioning because
15579s	it's so unlikely that that is gonna
15581s	happen along the way here
15583s	yeah that one only happens if they get
15586s	the trash and you had a good start to
15588s	put them under pressure so that they had
15590s	to take like their first two picks they
15592s	need to take removal
15594s	and then it puts them under pressure on
15595s	their last three picks and they get
15596s	unlucky and yeah it does happen but it's
15599s	very rare all the winds are very
15601s	uh the most likely one like you say is
15603s	the early caverns
15604s	and then we'll see some interesting
15606s	picks from studies maybe uh guild
15608s	traders
15610s	phoenix tends to be difficult to time
15612s	because you're kind of looking for a
15614s	moment when the warrior just misses a
15616s	bit of a beat
15618s	so we might see some guild traders we
15619s	might see lightning bloom saved later on
15623s	we might see coin sleep breaker into
15624s	sleep breaker but no he's just going for
15626s	it bloom caverns he knows where he's at
15628s	absolutely i think it's very very smart
15630s	from alexander this is the only thing
15632s	that realistically gives him a chance of
15634s	winning a game like i said is there
15636s	anything you have control over as well
15637s	like like i said maybe you hit lady of
15639s	ash maybe you don't uh but this you have
15641s	a good shot of hitting the caverns he
15643s	does not
15644s	um but he does find himself broken in
15647s	the starting hand which you know if he
15649s	can get himself another bloom and go
15651s	like bloomberg coin
15653s	and it has hit fire fire fire fire fire
15656s	every other turn yeah you know
15659s	it's a it's a thing those are words that
15662s	i said
15663s	and if you go fire two threes fire two
15665s	threes fire two threes it's a thing that
15668s	just keeps them occupied like you say
15670s	and then pick up some burn along the way
15672s	those sixes
15674s	really add up like even if you hit
15675s	occasional fire like one in three
15677s	instead of your one in four
15680s	oh
15682s	come on look at that little rye smile he
15684s	knows what's up he knows
15687s	let's go so silly but yeah and then
15690s	depending how he feels he's got the
15692s	parrots to just try and do it again
15694s	that's yeah really really all in though
15699s	this is just brew can
15701s	and the parrots that's the game plan
15703s	this is everything that's going on here
15706s	uh you're taking a fire and you're
15708s	probably like you said taking elementals
15710s	because i don't think there's any
15712s	downside right now even factoring in
15714s	rancor i'd rather just potentially get
15716s	some chip
15717s	my favorite 60s band bucan and the
15720s	pallets
15724s	it didn't last long
15726s	and they probably won't last long here
15727s	either but at least he's gonna have a
15729s	chance
15731s	okay minefield is
15735s	a little short obviously there's a
15737s	uh well a certainty that ali's head who
15739s	sticks some damage
15742s	but then you could clear up with the
15743s	rancor on the following turn uh the
15745s	alternative is of course that you could
15747s	let rip with just the shield shatter
15749s	right now
15750s	um
15750s	[Music]
15752s	which honestly is not ridiculous
15754s	actually like i do think it's probably a
15757s	little bit too
15759s	aggressive in terms of the board clear
15761s	uh but hachikuchi disagrees i mean four
15763s	damage on board you're not likely to see
15765s	much more than that anytime soon
15767s	and next turn don't forget our timber
15769s	has zero mana so
15771s	yes exactly that's that's an eight
15773s	health savings by wasting those it's not
15776s	like you're gonna get a surprise caverns
15777s	although he might get a surprise kevin's
15778s	next turn
15783s	hey just that clear
15786s	yeah and the rest of uh hachikuji's hand
15788s	is not
15790s	so potent in terms of the board clear uh
15793s	ragcor is a little bit awkward minefield
15796s	can of course be clear off a uh a single
15799s	stag but as long as ali temu keeps
15801s	hitting these fire hero powers
15804s	he can still pull himself back in this
15806s	one it's not over the dream is not dead
15808s	lorinda
15809s	yeah absolutely got a chance and again
15811s	it's a big match for him he does only
15813s	have only it's a decent number but he
15815s	only has those 11 points towards the
15817s	championships obviously he's got
15818s	multiple chances of getting through to
15820s	worlds
15821s	uh he's positioned really well in
15822s	various events oh
15824s	man that's one good one
15827s	oh
15828s	earth as well let's go aloo tavu kill
15831s	him happening derek
15834s	[Laughter]
15836s	okay just do that again
15838s	and then do it again five more times and
15840s	we're laughing we're all the way there
15843s	you want to win chiller two three before
15844s	it gets removed i do
15846s	uh yeah sure i mean it's annoying
15849s	because whichever one you freeze you can
15850s	obviously just chop the other one
15854s	but yeah card draw is certainly more
15855s	important so i definitely agree with
15856s	this play
15857s	because now at the moment hachikuji is
15860s	in some sort of range for
15863s	a lucky burn kill right
15866s	we can see alatem has already picked up
15868s	two burns three if you count the
15870s	overdraft but that'll probably get
15871s	cycled
15873s	i mean i want to say no i i think with
15875s	two
15876s	blooms having been used
15878s	23 25 is a little bit too much to ask
15882s	like if you can go
15884s	zap a zapper bolt bolt serpent shrine
15887s	serpentro and that's 20 and like yes you
15890s	can then technically oh no that's all
15892s	your mana spent already right so you
15893s	can't even fit in a uh
15895s	um
15896s	yeah you can overdraft the overdraft
15898s	over two turns so that you uh exactly
15901s	you overload yourself and then overdraft
15903s	at the start of the next turn for like a
15905s	huge overdraft and then do the other
15907s	overdraft at the end of that turn
15909s	yeah so i think realistically right now
15912s	hachikuchi should not be afraid of dying
15914s	anytime soon uh this is very much the uh
15917s	the mid game the mid to long game for
15919s	alu temu where he's hoping to get his
15921s	advantage
15923s	big choice decision here big choice
15924s	decision great words neil um whether to
15927s	use the parrot for another buchan gamble
15930s	but now he's got the multicaster he can
15931s	use it for double multicast and a lot of
15934s	cards like you say though the lack of
15935s	the blooms makes things
15937s	a little less powerful in terms of
15939s	saving up your hand
15945s	he's not sure but i think he's going to
15946s	just take an extra boucane shot
15950s	yeah i agree i i think it's absolutely
15952s	right to just try and get this chip
15954s	damage it's
15955s	only a 50 50 to hit fire but that's kind
15958s	of what we need to be seeing for him to
15960s	have a chance two threes not bad okay
15963s	now get the fire again oh my god
15966s	what
15969s	that's every time perfect
15973s	that's not how that works right because
15975s	like it's not like if you power the blue
15977s	can the next parrot is guaranteed to get
15979s	the same ones i don't forget the other
15981s	order anyway yeah like i know that's not
15983s	how it works but i'm starting to
15985s	question myself already here uh but
15987s	either way no harm no foul uchi uh sorry
15990s	hachikuji gets a perfect clear here
15993s	deleting the board and rancoring to gain
15996s	what 14 12 armor all on the same turn
16000s	ali temu's expression i think lets us
16003s	know
16004s	just how dire of a situation this is for
16006s	him as even with just
16007s	fire fire fire fire fire like five times
16010s	in this game which i don't think the
16012s	game's gonna last that long anyway he's
16014s	still not there
16017s	well another cabin so this game is going
16019s	to rumble on a little bit longer
16028s	but not too much longer because not only
16031s	is hachikuchi in quite a safe position
16033s	but he also has all of his big hitting
16035s	cards
16048s	not looking good is it that uh that big
16050s	hundo for aloo temu is looking further
16053s	and further away now he might be having
16056s	to end this masters tour on 99 wins
16060s	yeah which means it's wide open who's
16062s	gonna get there first no just kidding
16063s	he'll get there round one next
16064s	tournament but you know probably
16070s	i thought i thought i was the um
16073s	the pessimist around here
16076s	i am just kidding again right
16079s	he has assembled 12 damage well done
16087s	like snowfall just does literally
16089s	nothing like you're just
16091s	i don't know
16092s	it's just never threatening anything
16094s	right you have to freeze the kazakhstan
16096s	or the onixia maybe if they play a nixia
16098s	and you can go freeze freeze you get to
16100s	like punch them for 10 damage maybe 20
16103s	like if you're unbelievably lucky oh my
16106s	god
16108s	and there we go kazakhstan active
16111s	yep
16114s	achievement does have another six damage
16116s	next turn that'll take his opponent down
16118s	to a mere 35.
16120s	all right this needs to be horrendous if
16122s	you're an alitemu fan yeah it needs to
16124s	be absolutely atrocious and it does
16126s	nothing
16127s	literally zero value at all that doesn't
16129s	do anything
16131s	honestly wax rager alone i think is a
16134s	win condition here for hachikuji i'd
16135s	snap that right up so would i just to
16137s	make sure there is no accident in the
16139s	world where you're trying not to have an
16140s	accident the wax rager is so much
16142s	accident protection it's not a great
16145s	card until you've got the other stuff
16146s	but it's fine
16149s	yeah
16150s	sounds like you're going like billy mays
16152s	they're like advertising for adult
16154s	diapers or something with wax racing and
16156s	accident protection
16157s	uh this is not medical advice please
16160s	consult a position
16162s	purchasing this product
16164s	either way at the end i think those look
16166s	like some premium win conditions like
16168s	pure cold that'll probably do it i'm
16170s	pretty sure there was horn in there as
16171s	well that'll get the job done uh i
16174s	really really struggle to see uh aloo
16177s	temu
16178s	chewing through any of this primordial
16180s	studies into
16181s	[Music]
16182s	like if he'd got steward then he could
16185s	have discovered another spell which
16187s	would have allowed him to discover
16188s	another spell and if he discovers enough
16191s	spells
16193s	he can lose in a cooler fashion yeah i
16196s	think that's about where we're at right
16199s	now
16200s	he is assembling the guild trader
16202s	because why not it's the way he's gonna
16205s	win is some sort of super firepower
16208s	i mean to be fair this is a pretty
16210s	decent amount of damage now right how
16213s	much
16214s	mana is he spending on this it's
16217s	six eight right now right so if say he
16219s	finds the other
16220s	frostbite he can have
16223s	6 12 18 24 in one turn right yep and
16229s	then add in a couple of hero powers if
16231s	he rolls high again over the next two
16232s	yeah
16234s	you know
16236s	and if hachikuji hasn't got a poor walk
16238s	in his hand we know if he hasn't got a
16240s	ball working he hasn't got a mutinous to
16242s	chew up one of these spell damage cards
16244s	then it's almost getting to the point
16246s	where it could maybe get there
16250s	but this is just disastrous i mean guild
16252s	trader is probably worse for alu temu
16254s	but
16255s	they're both pretty disastrous to lose
16257s	to the
16258s	venus
16262s	yeah
16263s	and it's gonna be pretty short from this
16265s	moment on there's a more spell
16272s	okay so burn damage we are still looking
16275s	at uh well just 16 now uh if he were to
16279s	go serpent shrine first and hit
16282s	i want mini mage that would be another
16284s	three damage which
16286s	up to 19
16288s	uh and then if he gets two more hero
16290s	powers that's another 16.
16294s	wait oh no another 12 sorry which
16297s	he gets there
16299s	i mean he's dead in two turns he's dead
16301s	next turn actually
16303s	with pure cold weapon 15 on board
16310s	16 22 i count at the moment okay
16315s	i'm coming i'm coming
16320s	this storm is in
16325s	me don't maybe not no no i think i just
16328s	uh fudged those numbers i think that is
16329s	just lethal actually next turn
16332s	oh
16335s	okay landslide voracious reed is pretty
16338s	sick as well yeah refill his hand
16341s	there's a lot of damage here and if he
16343s	can refill a handful of more bursts
16345s	who knows maybe it's still there
16348s	20 and falling
16353s	landslide sleep breaker that's pretty
16355s	good it's not that thirsty
16362s	well wax rager army knife is a really
16363s	nice play
16364s	uh for
16366s	one or two turns time just to get
16368s	yourself
16371s	yeah i'm just getting rid of that
16373s	that's the way you lose this game just
16375s	get rid of it
16376s	i'm not even sure if you're supposed to
16378s	play the wax rager because if they
16381s	freeze it you then can't immediately do
16384s	anything with it with the no mesh army
16385s	knife
16387s	and that's potentially maybe the one way
16389s	you lose but
16391s	again even though i'm really glassing
16393s	grasping at straws now
16395s	yeah i think i think if you
16398s	maybe the only way you lose is now
16400s	assuming that you've got a bulwark in
16402s	hand is if
16403s	alotima gets enough turns to hit you
16405s	with like two hero powers
16408s	they're putting some pressure on just to
16409s	make sure you kill him
16412s	you might be right
16414s	guardian is bigger because of this yeah
16419s	yeah sure
16420s	yeah yeah yeah i think yeah
16423s	yeah probably
16424s	pretty similarly matched up to ali
16426s	temu's inner monologue here
16428s	well the mez yeah yeah
16432s	maybe a little bit sad as oh man it's
16434s	just so brutal for ali temu another
16437s	top eight of a masters tour here but
16439s	still has yet to get past that second
16442s	place
16443s	uh will remain after this weekend the
16446s	winningest player ever in masters tour
16449s	history
16450s	uh having secured 99 wins one off the
16453s	century as we said and he can hold his
16455s	head high for that one but
16458s	i'm still just not seeing it in this
16459s	game
16463s	no
16465s	well we didn't see all the other trash i
16467s	guess from the
16470s	oh he got the he got the annoyos didn't
16472s	he surely so
16473s	i mean i'm trying to think because i
16474s	feel like pure cold might have been
16476s	offered on the same one as horn but as
16478s	you know as long as he didn't pick
16479s	complete air and actually has some form
16482s	of a win condition
16484s	uh which like i said i think the wax
16485s	ragers alone are probably enough of a
16487s	win condition i do think he still gets
16490s	there
16491s	i'll team it down to six cards by the
16493s	way that's going to be hard to assemble
16495s	31
16496s	okay there's viper parrots
16500s	both parrots so freezing the board uh
16503s	you know add in for an item is not
16505s	really a possibility uh i mean the most
16507s	annoying thing here actually is that he
16509s	can't
16510s	overload currently because if he could
16513s	he could then obviously go double
16514s	landslide which would then delete the
16517s	life steal
16518s	from this uh wax rager um which you
16523s	could try and dig for in the form of
16525s	windchill i'm not entirely sure what he
16528s	has left over in terms of overload cards
16530s	it's not much because he's played double
16531s	bloom double bowl at least one
16534s	um
16535s	serpent shrine as well
16537s	i think he has a studies left which
16538s	might get him a steward which might get
16540s	him
16542s	winning card
16545s	i love winning that as i have now called
16547s	it it's called winning card
16550s	it's a one minute oh 42 damage
16553s	yeah 42 man that is so steep
16560s	a lot of
16563s	health that's actually doing a lot of
16565s	things right here that we haven't talked
16566s	about we've talked about them alluded to
16568s	them at least like keeping a nixie in
16570s	hand just to make sure that
16571s	no
16572s	giant guardians get made that sort of
16574s	thing we've been concentrating on the
16576s	other side but he's he's playing this
16578s	nice and steady and looks not to put
16580s	many feet wrong to be fair
16582s	that's a very good point and it's maybe
16584s	a big reason to not go for
16586s	horn as well because if you go horn and
16588s	they hit spell damage landslide they can
16590s	maybe clear it off alongside a uh
16596s	he's holding up for a miracle here and
16597s	tiny toys into
16600s	rust wicks
16602s	right
16603s	yes is that where we're at that could
16605s	theoretically be a win condition just
16607s	get a bunch of primes
16609s	um
16610s	what are the five drops are that can win
16612s	you the game
16615s	oh um
16616s	spammy arcanist because he's played both
16618s	of his wax rages
16621s	well but you get the minion right how
16623s	does he get it on the board back he
16624s	needs to get in
16625s	to his hand he's not rogue yeah having
16628s	lost her tickets against rogue recently
16631s	everything scares me
16637s	yeah
16638s	okay
16639s	yeah currently i mean unless you could
16641s	just get their own tempo right like
16642s	there's the obvious side that you could
16644s	just get um five uh burning blade
16648s	acolytes is that what they're called the
16650s	uh one one that summons healthy five
16652s	eight taunt yeah which uh
16654s	you know if you get four of them
16657s	maybe that just gets their own tempo
16658s	like i said and your opponent can't
16660s	quite keep up with all of that but more
16663s	realistically
16665s	i'm thinking rust wicks into solarium
16667s	prime
16673s	[Applause]
16675s	oh yeah that's the good outcome
16677s	yeah
16683s	here they come the toys
16685s	all right we need something big we need
16687s	something absolutely massive here for
16689s	alu termy
16700s	rat king
16702s	oh
16705s	yeah this is not getting there is it
16708s	i don't think so
16712s	just trouble checking i understand that
16713s	king properly yeah i do okay sure
16715s	unlucky yeah i mean resurrecting you're
16717s	not even gonna have that many mini eye
16719s	right to bring it back to life no
16726s	only he had another study so he could
16728s	get himself some sort of evolve effect
16737s	man and it's so brutal because even if
16738s	he had got rust looks like he'd have to
16740s	have to kill it off on the same turner
16742s	it would just be silenced and destroyed
16744s	uh by the wand anyway that is now drawn
16746s	for hachikuchi
16748s	how does hachikuchi deal with a huge
16751s	guardian right now
16753s	i mean there won't be a huge guardian
16754s	because he'd be very careful not to have
16755s	a huge guardian but
16758s	yeah i mean if he needed to he'd have
16760s	alex straza right because i don't think
16762s	he's going to play that before aloo temu
16765s	plays uh
16767s	his own board and so now at 39 health
16769s	representing quite handsomely lethal uh
16772s	ali temu just need to find a pretty
16775s	miraculous way back into this game
16777s	landslide can deal with the
16780s	taunt so that his other minions can go
16782s	face and of course the wind fury but
16783s	it's not going to
16786s	think this is a concede yeah it's not
16788s	going to stop his opponent from getting
16790s	the damage through he has to freeze he's
16792s	just thinking it all into the wax ragers
16794s	it's a characteristically well-mannered
16796s	and good humored end from ali termu but
16799s	he is going to be exiting the tournament
16800s	here where as hachikuji with a very
16803s	unconventional lineup to get all the way
16804s	through to the top eight let alone the
16807s	top four where he now finds himself is
16809s	looking like a real contender i honestly
16813s	despite him having some pretty auto wins
16815s	in a quite in like the last three games
16818s	of the series there to be honest i
16819s	really struggled to pick him up on any
16821s	big mistakes i think he just got given
16824s	the good matchups quite clearly
16826s	but he played them very well and gave
16827s	his opponent no extra outs
16830s	yeah and this is the
16831s	i mean it it accentuates it because of
16833s	alatima's lineup but this is the lineup
16835s	we don't see that often but sometimes do
16838s	see in conquest where there are two
16839s	dominant decks which is ban one and let
16842s	the other win just don't worry about it
16844s	just let the druid do its thing ban out
16846s	the demon hunter and concentrate on
16848s	having a lineup that beats the
16851s	the mediocre decks in the format the
16852s	ones that people are forced to play just
16854s	let them have that one zero start and
16856s	that seems to be working well for him
16859s	it does and that means that despite
16861s	having 99 victories a finals ain't won
16864s	for alu temu because he is
16867s	out of the runnings hachikuchi joining
16869s	gabby and holy water leaving us with i
16872s	believe a double representation for asia
16875s	pacific going into the finals uh into
16879s	the semi-finals sorry but not
16880s	necessarily guaranteed an apac player in
16883s	the finals yet as habugabu vs tincho is
16885s	i believe the uh the last hope for the
16887s	americas region in tincho versus
16890s	habugabu a player that i feel like is
16891s	unfortunately for him being overshadowed
16893s	by the likes of gabby and alu temu being
16895s	in this top eight which is it's gotta be
16897s	said pretty hyped that habu gabu has
16899s	made it through to this quarter-final he
16901s	is as i've said many times one of those
16903s	players that just engenders fantastic
16905s	games of hearthstone it's really
16907s	exciting every time you get it to see
16909s	and play be on stream or in a tournament
16912s	as well and uh i'm super happy for him i
16914s	wish him all the best because i really
16916s	do think he is uh a thoroughly
16918s	underrated very very strong hearthstone
16920s	player yeah in all formats as well but
16922s	i'll leave that for the other cast is to
16925s	introduce when the match begins but yep
16927s	looking forward to that one but for now
16929s	we are done with the third quarter final
16931s	we are going to set up that final
16933s	quarter final for you and we're back in
16935s	three
16964s	[Music]
16971s	yes
16981s	[Music]
16994s	is
17004s	oh
17010s	[Applause]
17036s	[Music]
17053s	messiah
17063s	me
17064s	[Music]
17079s	[Music]
17089s	do
17093s	[Music]
17131s	hello everybody and welcome back to
17133s	masters tour ruins of alterac my name is
17135s	tj i'm joined by
17137s	my good pal
17139s	model
17140s	are you ready for quarterfinal number
17142s	four
17143s	i
17144s	certainly am tj and looking forward to
17148s	seeing some tincho but first and
17150s	foremost i am excited for the reasons
17153s	that derek was laying out towards the
17155s	end of that last quarter final uh that
17158s	we have habu gabu in this quarterfinal
17160s	and he is just a magnet for banger
17163s	hearthstone series so that is what i am
17165s	expecting to see this time around
17169s	oh yeah we actually have uh
17171s	a little bit of crossover with the
17173s	lineups right both players um bringing
17176s	the uh charge warrior some variation of
17179s	it
17180s	both players bringing the uh quest
17183s	fell demon hunter and both players
17185s	having a variation of kazakhstan druid
17188s	so we have three archetypes that are
17189s	kind of crossed off the difference comes
17191s	in the fourth deck
17193s	with tincho opting for libra paladin and
17195s	habukabu often
17197s	bore the uh quest hunter the b stalker
17201s	tavish
17202s	quest hunter very cool
17207s	yeah and i think that difference is
17209s	going to be the crux of the series as
17210s	you would expect we haven't seen as much
17212s	quest hunter in this tournament as
17215s	i thought there was going to be leading
17217s	into it i really thought quest hunter
17218s	was going to make a splash when i was
17221s	theorycrafting for some lineups coming
17222s	into this tournament we haven't seen
17224s	that much uh we saw habu gabu do very
17226s	well with it earlier in the tournament i
17228s	believe it was on day one and but
17230s	outside of him it hasn't really seemed
17233s	to be a major factor towards the top of
17236s	the standings whereas libra paladin as i
17239s	was talking about extensively in the
17240s	series i just cast with gia a little bit
17242s	earlier on uh despite the reputation
17245s	that it gets for underperforming in gm
17248s	and in masters tours and how we do make
17249s	fun of it i think the time has finally
17252s	come where libra paladin is actually
17254s	becoming quite a sensible bring to a
17256s	number of tournaments as it is
17260s	all it took was a week of trio
17262s	and players complaining that they had to
17264s	play libra paladin yes exactly for them
17267s	to realize that wait a second the libra
17271s	paladin's actually good
17273s	um
17274s	and yeah there's some reasons for it
17276s	lifeforge carol is very good you have
17278s	some options for tech cards it's a deck
17280s	where you can play iron deep trog
17283s	and get away with it right
17286s	um so i you know it's got a lot of
17288s	things
17289s	working
17290s	in its favor i don't think it's the end
17292s	all be all
17293s	of dex
17295s	but in a tournament lineup in a conquest
17297s	format it has its place
17300s	um as does be stalker tavish
17305s	yeah certainly a car that has given an
17307s	added dimension to quest hunter a car
17309s	that i like a lot it does take a little
17311s	bit of
17312s	finessing it does mean you have to
17314s	engage your brain with quest hunter in a
17316s	way that some quest hunter players won't
17318s	quite enjoy because you don't just get
17320s	to point all your damage at your
17321s	opponent's face anymore you have to
17322s	think about timing and because the hero
17325s	power refreshes you have to think about
17328s	when you want to set off the quest procs
17331s	in terms of perhaps taking your new hero
17333s	power down to zero making that one
17334s	refresh instead if you want to line that
17336s	up but it really does help you navigate
17338s	some of those match-ups um against the
17340s	super armor-heavy druids against the
17342s	super armor heavy warriors even though i
17344s	think that matchup is okay already but
17345s	there are some decks where through power
17348s	of healing and armor they can just kind
17349s	of outlast the straight up damage plan
17352s	so in those matchups having the ability
17354s	to just swap to infinite animal
17356s	companion because there are very few if
17359s	any decks in hearthstone tj that can
17361s	resist
17363s	both a million damage being thrown at
17365s	your face and a million animal
17367s	companions also being thrown at your
17369s	face because they're all huffer
17372s	or
17374s	you know
17375s	five huffers two leox
17380s	that's it that's seven that didn't sound
17382s	like the end of your sentence but it
17383s	does kind of have to be due to the way
17384s	hearthstone works no that was the end
17387s	okay that's fine
17393s	that's uh and i'm done talking
17395s	oh good thanks for letting me know uh
17397s	i'll pick up the slack here with teen
17399s	shows demon hunter then uh just a
17402s	straight up uh
17403s	performers kind of old school version
17405s	almost at this point uh we've had this
17407s	rant already i believe closing the show
17409s	with lorinda last night i was talking
17411s	about how it's felt like
17413s	demon hunter has never stopped evolving
17416s	since the introduction of the quest
17418s	we've gone from otk demon hunter to
17421s	brute demon hunter to hybrid otk brute
17424s	demon hunter to fell demon hunter to
17426s	hybrid fell quest otk demon hunter to
17429s	kazakhstan then hybridizing with all of
17431s	those decks
17432s	to then kazakhstan also hybridizing with
17435s	brute which is already a hybrid version
17436s	with something else that's going to pass
17437s	previously but teen show has decided to
17439s	take at least
17441s	two steps back in time and gone back to
17444s	the expendable performers version and
17446s	just kind of standard uh quest fell
17448s	demon hunter as we have at the moment
17452s	boo
17455s	soccer is only one card that's it
17458s	shut up tj
17460s	i'm warning you
17461s	that's all you have to do is find one
17463s	card in your deck kazakhstan that's
17466s	literally the only thing
17469s	it's the quarterfinals of a masters tour
17473s	please
17474s	prioritize the game over trolling me for
17477s	one time in your life come on now this
17480s	is about the game
17481s	okay
17485s	so who's trolling who here huh
17490s	good question
17498s	wow this hand has already got fairly
17500s	awkward for teen show he drew need for
17503s	greed one turn too early
17506s	and he's already outcast locked on the
17508s	left-hand side because of that
17510s	expendable performance which means yep
17512s	just gonna go ahead and rip a spectral
17515s	site for one and that is not the
17517s	position that teacher is going to want
17518s	to be in
17521s	no
17522s	not at all um
17525s	at least he does have curtris in the
17529s	hand right but this is looking uh pretty
17531s	poor
17532s	uh to be quite honest
17534s	um
17535s	avogadro just going to prioritize
17537s	getting a minion on board not really
17539s	much else he could do looks like he did
17540s	play the uh
17541s	uh out the uh professor slate in this
17545s	instance
17546s	um
17551s	all right he's got the combo
17555s	oh
17556s	yeah we're set why are we even still
17558s	playing he's got the combo in his hand
17559s	that just must mean he wins
17560s	yeah he's just got to survive for
17563s	five more turns and he's good to go
17566s	yeah and then find what at least
17569s	um 12 points of health on an opponent's
17571s	board that doesn't play any minions that
17573s	seems fairly straightforward i would say
17576s	yeah i'd say so
17580s	um
17583s	i mean abigail's hand is kind of empty
17586s	but
17587s	furious how it exists
17590s	so
17592s	i wonder if there's anything cool we
17593s	could find with this resizing pouch
17595s	would be really cool
17598s	can't be helped can it whenever you see
17599s	a hand like this with nothing going on
17601s	in a resizing pouch you just immediately
17603s	start to invent weird worlds
17606s	i've already seen a couple of them i
17607s	think alatemu going specifically fishing
17609s	for mutinus early on digging for sevens
17611s	against demon hunter that was kind of
17613s	cool we've seen uh digging for threes in
17615s	particular in hunter is fairly popular
17617s	as is digging for two these days because
17619s	you can find a furious howl
17622s	and quick shot to be able to find
17624s	additional card draw from an empty hand
17626s	but at this point
17627s	abugabu just wants damage more than
17629s	anything else so he's just going to pick
17630s	up a desk him for that
17632s	shot yeah that's what you want
17636s	i have given up everything
17639s	not going to get there however
17642s	but it's about the best you could hope
17643s	for a piercing shot now i'm might be uh
17645s	tempted to piercing shot one of these
17647s	minions
17654s	that
17655s	was actually going to fully stand up and
17657s	pop off then at that draw as he
17659s	readjusted himself in his chair but no
17662s	calmness has resumed
17672s	interesting he is going to commit to
17673s	this first i was wondering with
17676s	sequencing here whether you wanted to
17677s	swing the weapon first whether what
17679s	secrets you got offered really changed
17680s	the equation here
17682s	on uh
17684s	whether you would be piercing shot on
17685s	opposing minion or your own in this spot
17687s	oh back into dumpable card dumpable card
17690s	furious how yet again
17693s	this is the source for harbough
17699s	still a little bit of ways to go here
17701s	however
17702s	uh tito does have obviously
17705s	curtrice up
17706s	and double aldrachi warblades
17710s	to be able to begin healing right
17717s	i like the optimism here from teen show
17719s	who says i will hero power first just in
17721s	case i get to hero power again it's
17723s	always important to be an optimist in
17725s	life
17726s	yup
17739s	normally against uh
17742s	quest hunter
17743s	just like yeah dump the immolation or
17745s	whatever so i'm really gonna do anything
17748s	but there's
17750s	the b soccer tavish in the deck which
17753s	makes me kind of want to at least have
17755s	one removal
17756s	but at this point if it's played you're
17758s	probably going to be facing
17760s	a lot more than just one emulation or
17762s	will handle and i like uh
17764s	just getting one out of the way still
17765s	got one in the deck he's got jace loaded
17767s	up
17768s	this is fine
17771s	this is fine indeed
17775s	now we have tavish to come down hero
17778s	power overwhelm can be used here to
17780s	reset if you would like it to but there
17782s	is some merit to just saying seven seven
17785s	in play which yeah i like i like
17787s	pause here i think at least thinking
17789s	about this is sensible because uh
17792s	lowering the health on your seven attack
17794s	minion does reduce the chance by a
17796s	significant percentage that it actually
17797s	gets to attack on the following term
17802s	yeah i was thinking about maybe holding
17803s	on to it for like blood mage thalnos
17805s	plus overwhelm
17806s	but then that kind of makes furious how
17809s	awkward because then you're refilling
17811s	your hand and so next turn he gives
17814s	himself the option of just
17815s	like getting the blood magenos on board
17817s	then furious how long furious howling
17821s	for full value and then getting an extra
17823s	card draw once the blood mage diagnose
17825s	actually dies so
17827s	i like this
17830s	big fan
17835s	oh boy
17843s	coming out the big guns are coming out
17850s	and the ball is going to be chewed up
17851s	here
17854s	oh nice this is cute i actually did not
17856s	think of this
17860s	be able to get the resume pick up three
17862s	healing from the uh fel screen blast
17867s	harvey garvey just gives himself a nice
17869s	little round of applause for being the
17870s	skillful player that he is and picking
17872s	up an explosive trap off the top
17883s	he just realized like oh no
17887s	because i believe that's the only
17888s	natural seeker played in the deck yeah
17890s	there's just one explosive trap
17894s	even two just one a single explosive
17896s	trap
17900s	there ever any merit to attacking your
17903s	own blood mage here
17904s	uh or pinging your own blood mage at
17906s	least i don't think it ever actually
17907s	saves any damage but essentially the
17909s	blood mage in play allows a minion to
17911s	attack which cannot currently attack
17913s	right which refreshes the hero power
17914s	provides some healing oh okay yep he
17916s	does do it
17918s	it's essentially the same thing right
17920s	because he's got now dracula warbles
17921s	equipped dealing two damage and
17932s	okay
17935s	gonna give him some things to attack
17936s	into
17942s	yeah that's a big deal
17944s	is it's not lethal because he's not
17946s	getting the resets
17948s	um because this is the
17951s	it's got to be that turn and
17953s	these are the
17954s	second round whatever
17957s	it's a lot of damage and a lot of
17958s	healing
17959s	it is it's a huge huge swing is what it
17962s	is
17965s	and uh in fact it is also a 12 12 on
17969s	board
17975s	releasing
17979s	sacrifice it doesn't probably because
17981s	it's more than 12 damage to sacrifice
17984s	but you don't proc an explosive in the
17986s	process
17987s	which it's not like he has another
17989s	explosive
17990s	that's true
17992s	that's 16 damage
18001s	i mean here's the question right what
18002s	good is 16 damage if it's not lethal you
18006s	know like i mean
18009s	it sets up for chase lethal he's got a
18011s	full barrage and a chaos strike no no
18012s	that is a good point yeah that's fair
18014s	that is very fair
18016s	or just g hero power
18018s	oh barrage obviously it doesn't play
18020s	around their big minions but he also has
18022s	an immolation aura and a fel scream
18023s	blast right
18026s	yeah no you're right i'm with you this
18028s	should go face
18043s	destroying your i don't know i guess be
18045s	stock or tavish by itself you're not
18047s	particularly worried about but like
18049s	you could be
18051s	stalker tavish and discover
18053s	super freezing trap
18056s	and then you
18058s	don't have damage anymore
18061s	oh
18063s	it's getting sick
18065s	damage it's just killing it
18069s	piercing shot the minion now get three
18071s	more to face hero power of the face yep
18073s	sure
18076s	teacher though with
18078s	his line he does still now have second
18080s	down dracky wall blades and the jace
18082s	available here oh
18085s	that is a very spicy looking fury off
18088s	the top
18090s	he can also uh stelina to just reduce
18093s	the amount of power yeah
18095s	and i guess
18096s	i guess he doesn't have to no he could
18098s	attack a duke explosive trap with uh
18099s	dracula is fine
18105s	yep attack first stelina after throw one
18108s	of these cards away
18111s	cards directly equate to damage against
18114s	this deck more so than any other so
18116s	stelina i think is picked far more often
18118s	in this matchup than any other for demon
18120s	hunter
18123s	and joe we'll just check exactly
18126s	how many minions could possibly be
18127s	summoned from that drakthar at this
18129s	point before making this decision
18131s	still to pull the rush right by pressure
18133s	on the deck
18140s	which means is it the drag that you
18142s	throw
18143s	back
18144s	i guess he does yeah i'm not sure if his
18146s	jace has enough clearing potential to
18148s	deal with it
18150s	i'll never stop searching
18165s	so uh what do you think he does this
18166s	turn tj
18168s	hmm
18174s	you start with an immolation aura then
18176s	go from there
18178s	i see we're just skipping hobby garbage
18180s	down entirely okay that seems fair
18184s	he doesn't have any cards
18191s	um
18194s	he's just double checking but i'm
18195s	certain this is lethal he's got one fury
18198s	one chaos strike one fell barrage and a
18201s	hero power and a hero power yeah that'll
18203s	do it
18205s	yeah tj gets to see it straight away
18207s	because you'll see the skull icon as
18208s	soon as you queue up the attack we have
18209s	to wait for all the animations all to
18211s	happen but yeah tj spot on i believe he
18213s	has got all the damage 100 right there
18216s	which means one overkill 10 damage going
18219s	through to nine health plus the fel
18220s	barrages and that is going to be a one
18223s	zero lead
18226s	[Music]
18227s	nicely done
18229s	looked a little scary for a moment
18231s	uh the explosive trap stopping tincho's
18234s	plan but obviously he had a backup plan
18237s	uh included in the original plan uh
18239s	which was to make theradon to actually
18241s	get those attacks and turns out the 16
18243s	damage to sink into the minion
18246s	turned out to
18248s	work out pretty well because habukapu
18249s	ended up putting a lot of damage into
18251s	the magtheridon itself
18254s	and uh that allowed him uh the multiple
18256s	turns to just heal back up with the
18257s	aldrachi warblades and then finish the
18258s	game with the jace so
18260s	um i mean honestly tj i think the
18262s	correct answer is they both would have
18264s	won the game by equal amounts in that
18266s	position
18267s	you know i can probably stand corrected
18270s	for that if there is a viable reason why
18271s	you would need to clear off that one
18273s	three and get 1212 for the cost of 16. i
18276s	don't know hang is probably a very close
18277s	decision but i think the i think the
18280s	damage was done as soon as you had the
18282s	magtheridon with the one ones on board
18284s	right i think just having that
18285s	combination of two cards knowing to set
18288s	that up the term previous which tincho
18290s	did with a very cute play right with the
18292s	he essentially sacrificed healing on one
18295s	turn by using a very low impact fel
18298s	screen blast to clear his own first wave
18300s	expendables to get full second wave
18302s	expendables which then set up that
18304s	two-turn set up with the mutanus on the
18306s	following turn even through explosive
18309s	trap
18310s	anything that came after that was the
18311s	relative formality like really he just
18314s	had a nice setup and executed it so good
18316s	game
18318s	gg
18320s	now teacher moves over to the charge
18322s	warrior and this is cool i don't know
18325s	why people weren't playing mac theradon
18327s	charge worry before
18331s	it is insane
18333s	okay
18334s	and
18335s	i know that it's insane from a one game
18338s	sample size that i played on ladder
18340s	against monsanto okay
18343s	and he played mac theradon
18345s	and then
18348s	he it emerged what i don't even know it
18351s	became undormant it activated whatever
18354s	word you want to use and then he faces
18356s	manipulated it
18359s	okay that's pretty and there were two
18361s	twelve twelves yeah yeah sure
18365s	and then i was like i lose
18368s	and i did lose
18372s	it's so good
18374s	well congratulations to uh monsanto
18377s	i guess it's the most i don't know
18379s	i don't know if he was the one who like
18381s	came up with it it was it was a while
18383s	ago it was uh
18385s	at least a week a week and a half ago i
18388s	love how that you are so used to
18390s	monsanto being america's only hope going
18394s	into these situations late in a master's
18395s	tour that even though you're here with a
18398s	completely different representative that
18400s	you could be supporting you still end up
18402s	talking about monsanto
18404s	well because it he was the only player
18406s	and the first player that i'd seen that
18408s	that played mctheradon in the uh
18411s	um in the charge warrior
18415s	it was
18416s	okay fine
18417s	it wasn't monsanto it was raven would
18420s	that change things
18423s	um yes does it matter who who the person
18427s	in the story is
18429s	yes
18431s	i don't think so the fact is it's cool
18433s	because it gives you sort of this
18435s	alternate wing condition in the deck
18437s	that's so one-dimensional
18439s	[Music]
18441s	that that's the
18443s	the point of the story okay okay
18445s	okay it was okay it was lorinda i was
18448s	playing a ladder game on america's
18450s	ladder against lorinda
18452s	and he played bank there on against me
18453s	and then faceless did
18455s	and i lost okay
18457s	you happy
18459s	no way it was it was teen show i was
18462s	playing a ladder game again
18463s	thank you finally
18465s	there you go he played there against me
18467s	and then faceless did
18469s	now i'm happy you're talking about the
18471s	players that are on the screen now i'm
18473s	happy tj this is all i wanted all along
18476s	you found it
18478s	and it it wasn't even me playing in that
18480s	ladder match it was actually
18484s	it wasn't even a ladder match it was the
18486s	quarterfinals of master short runes of
18488s	all track it's happening right now
18491s	absolutely flawless tj i love it
18495s	keep that energy
18499s	no make theradon right now for tincho
18502s	in fact
18504s	a whole lot of nothing going on here
18507s	um
18514s	he's got a muteness
18516s	that's his plan it and habugabu saw one
18519s	keep
18521s	what would you possibly keep except for
18526s	i guess corsair crash okay
18528s	but he didn't play corsair cash so what
18530s	else would you keep
18532s	besides mutinous in this matchup
18536s	yeah that's a good question um
18539s	i expect mutinous is something that will
18541s	be played around quite heavily from
18542s	habugabu it's not that hard to do with
18545s	quest hunter like it is in like quest dh
18548s	for example
18549s	um fairly easy usually to activate and
18553s	slam the tavish on the same turn uh
18556s	meanwhile i get the impression just
18559s	based on the way that habu gabu is
18561s	playing and his reaction to the cards
18563s	that have been drawn and the cards that
18564s	have not been offered uh via tracking
18568s	and such
18569s	that he is potentially looking at this
18572s	as a b stalker tavish matchup and that
18574s	he's trying to work towards that
18576s	and may now have to divert if he doesn't
18578s	find it soon because i think he cast
18579s	tracking and i believe
18581s	just based on kind of a cold read of his
18583s	reaction that that is what he was
18584s	looking for from the tracking and was
18586s	not able to find it
18597s	oh six damage going face from piercing
18600s	shot the forbidden play
18605s	forbid it
18609s	oh
18610s	oh nelly dj oh what he didn't do oh
18614s	nevermind he doesn't have a frozen
18615s	buckler that's a to the front that is a
18617s	to the front
18618s	classic raven draw a card though
18623s	that's true wait what no he isn't hang
18626s	on
18628s	with cutting class you mean oh no
18631s	never mind he didn't have equipped the
18632s	outright attacks this turn exactly yeah
18634s	i'm saying it was one
18636s	just forget everything
18638s	yeah yeah
18648s	[Music]
18656s	yeah okay
18658s	make sense go digging try and find a
18661s	solution to this magthon problem big fan
18664s	of making 1212s as soon as i possibly
18666s	can
18676s	yeah because he's a long way off
18679s	the real combo
18685s	[Music]
18687s	a long ways off
18690s	yes
18691s	as is on the other side who i am now
18694s	entirely convinced really did not want
18697s	to be using these damage spells on this
18699s	hero power but is now kind of forced to
18701s	do so
18711s	just gonna have to commit can't sit
18712s	around waiting forever
18717s	or the b stalker to turn this into an
18719s	animal companion game instead
18724s	he's just going in
18737s	he's like this is the last turn free be
18739s	able to play mutinous anyway so might as
18740s	well just put it on the board
18742s	yeah it makes sense um
18747s	he's in trouble because he has no armor
18749s	gain
18750s	still off from the combo
18753s	only plays one faceless so even do the
18755s	uh
18757s	um
18758s	like mr smite variation of dumbo
18761s	like double to the front mr smite
18763s	uh faceless which would still be three
18766s	damage off
18767s	anyways even if he did have a second
18769s	phase which he doesn't as i said
18772s	calm down saddle
18773s	um
18774s	what and i don't think he's even gained
18776s	enough armor to play galvangar
18780s	right in charge at the moment right um
18784s	so
18786s	he's in trouble
18795s	and you can tell that he's in trouble
18796s	because he's
18798s	constantly shaking his head
18801s	over and over
18804s	and now pray hands
18807s	now a hair swoop and back spray hands
18811s	those are the
18813s	five stages of drug drug
18824s	okay there we go the juice
18827s	now we're cooking
18831s	and it looks like he's going to take the
18832s	time to draw a card here instead of
18834s	playing my theradon because it's a
18835s	little late for make theradon
18849s	yeah i can clear the board anywhere with
18850s	the shield slam now picks up ricara
18852s	which is another stack of 10 genuine
18854s	armor on top of this
18856s	which means habu gabu is a lot further
18858s	away than he thought he was a couple of
18860s	turns ago
18862s	yeah
18863s	um
18866s	what about a pouch here
18871s	we could get we could look for a
18873s	mutinous we could look for an alextraza
18881s	like he's going straight for the nines
18889s	oh come on
18892s	gives him targets
18896s	he's just playing them right now
18900s	yeah recaro plus shield chatter is uh
18903s	yeah gonna be pretty brutal and now tico
18906s	does have lethal next turn
18910s	yeah double to the front in hand
18912s	with faceless and mr smite
18915s	yep that's 12 and then he's going to be
18917s	attacking two turns in a row
18919s	yep and uh that that would be enough so
18923s	oh oh oh
18925s	oh
18925s	[Music]
18927s	okay
18931s	okay but unironically
18933s	why was that not king crush
18937s	um so he could have minions on or to
18941s	block the combo one
18943s	that one turn only yeah i suppose that's
18945s	true okay that's who if they do live
18949s	uh he gets targets for his the minion
18952s	things in his hand
18959s	and i was going to say three because
18960s	clowns are cool the dinosaurs but that's
18962s	just false
18964s	that is incredibly false and i'm glad
18966s	that you did not say that i would
18968s	struggle to respect you after a
18969s	statement like that
18971s	yeah my children who are probably
18972s	watching me on the tv right now
18974s	passively they don't actually watch they
18976s	don't care
18977s	um
18979s	would come in here and attack me if i
18981s	said that clowns were better than
18982s	dinosaurs
18983s	[Laughter]
18986s	i mean this game's not over though
18988s	however
18993s	uh
18994s	do you want the armor or do you want the
18997s	12 12
18998s	i kind of want the 12 12 because
19002s	it's only three armor because this
19004s	minion would get to attack and if he
19006s	picks up a spell that can only target
19008s	minions
19010s	yes he would have it anyway because the
19011s	magtheridon though
19012s	yes but if that spell is then piercing
19014s	shot which i believe there's one left of
19016s	right i think only one has been used
19020s	yeah
19022s	i want the 12 12.
19037s	so this does set up for lethal also
19040s	um because hero power double to the
19042s	front faceless mr smite is still
19045s	all right this is lethal every time
19052s	yeah
19054s	nope
19057s	nope
19060s	so it's tavish
19066s	would you ever tavish here like it's a
19068s	weird read for habugabu to make right
19069s	that he's he's dead if he doesn't tavish
19072s	but he lives if he does tavish like
19074s	that's the reality
19076s	well tavis could also pick up freezing
19079s	trap which could block
19081s	true that is true
19083s	some level of combo right
19094s	and i think the freezing trap has more
19095s	value than the animal companion oh nope
19097s	not gonna go for it i guess ridling's
19099s	rifle still is the same thing still fine
19101s	freezing it's lower odds he's shaking
19103s	his head
19105s	yeah
19107s	oh he does get it he gets freezing okay
19108s	dead right
19109s	okay okay
19110s	nope why do you shake his head then
19113s	i guess explosive
19117s	is better no hard to say oh because
19120s	because he'd still be able to gain armor
19121s	first and then potentially go phase for
19123s	the damage right yeah
19125s	yeah i mean the way tincho's hand is um
19127s	no because he'd need that extra two
19129s	damage right yes um
19133s	because he could go to the front front
19134s	that's four faceless is one mr smite is
19137s	two
19139s	um so that's only seven and then you'd
19141s	have extra minute here power so now i'm
19143s	going to cash in on his 12 12.
19146s	and you probably just faceless
19150s	do you not face listen
19154s	a play around freezing trap because then
19156s	that sets up lethal
19158s	well he has lethal through freezing trap
19160s	anyway as long as there's a 12 12 that
19162s	can attack on board right
19167s	true
19168s	yeah
19170s	but in case he gets something else but
19171s	now he has freezing traffic
19173s	freezing trap
19178s	hey
19183s	oh easiest hopper my life
19187s	hey that's for armor
19190s	true
19194s	uh
19198s	i don't even want begin
19203s	to think about what this turn is
19206s	uh
19207s	right
19209s	there's explo
19211s	that is that improved explosive or is
19213s	that the explosive from that is
19216s	regular explosive that is from the uh
19219s	weapon
19220s	and there's ice trap to deal with as
19222s	well
19225s	yeah
19226s	you'd have to
19227s	dump bladestorm at the start of the turn
19230s	to mess with ice trap let's see
19233s	but then nicole's your 12-12 if it's not
19235s	ice trap oh god
19240s	you could bladestorm first without
19242s	hearing
19243s	the fortune yeah
19244s	[Music]
19246s	it's so hard what if it's not ice crab
19250s	exactly yeah yeah that's the thing we
19251s	could sit here and just be like okay
19253s	well here's like the best play you can
19255s	make against the exact four secrets that
19257s	are in play that's not teen joe's job
19259s	right now he doesn't know that's the
19261s	situation
19265s	okay well this worked out right
19268s	because now there's no freezing traps
19271s	and he's got the actual combo
19274s	and hubble gobble i think is confused at
19275s	the ordering
19281s	because didn't the weapon swing happen
19282s	last
19294s	all right
19294s	huffer it is right it's got to be second
19297s	huffer
19303s	you can't abuse your own huffers like
19305s	that and expect to get paid out okay i
19308s	mean
19310s	well he plays around gaining and getting
19312s	the armor he gets taunt
19315s	that's true yeah this is just kind of
19316s	strictly better huh
19319s	there's no breakpoint that one damage to
19320s	face actually ends up changing there
19322s	because it doesn't again that's regular
19323s	explosive trap so it doesn't change that
19325s	break point it's just three instead of
19326s	four and then you stop the arm again on
19328s	the other side makes sense
19336s	so this is all way too expensive
19342s	uh so it goes to the front
19345s	it gets ice trapped then to the front to
19347s	the front again so you spent seven mana
19349s	and that leaves them enough to galvan
19351s	faceless right
19354s	yeah
19354s	which is not enough to get and then he
19356s	just trades off the minions
19363s	but then his only route to a win
19365s	condition from that point is like
19367s	reactivating magtheridon at some point
19371s	well he has lethal on the board
19378s	oh sure yeah yeah presuming that harbour
19379s	wouldn't be able to deal with the
19380s	minions on the other side
19384s	bullwork however more attack minions
19386s	already belong he's got a viper
19390s	oh no
19391s	drake
19394s	well he could get the viper
19396s	it's about as not a viper a card as he
19399s	could have drawn from his deck tj
19403s	oh double taunt
19409s	but now the ice trap has dealt with
19411s	which means that you could theoretically
19414s	bladestorm but does that help you
19415s	there's two one health minions that you
19417s	have to deal with first
19420s	throws his hands up like yeah i'm right
19422s	there with you frank
19431s	rancor hero power beat storm
19439s	that gains
19442s	eight armor
19444s	hey all my clothes where's the board
19451s	doesn't use any combo pieces either
19459s	there must be a way
19472s	hello
19475s	[Music]
19480s	i i didn't even see that that's insane
19482s	what the heck
19485s	that is incredible that's every minute
19487s	destroyed
19488s	but yeah yeah
19495s	that has to be too much at this point
19496s	right how do you overcome that
19499s	back up at 20 and your hero is not even
19502s	doing direct damage anymore
19511s	now his faceless is gone though
19514s	but does that even matter
19517s	don't think so he still has galvan
19520s	and mr smite yeah and hero powers like
19523s	it just gets there
19526s	oh my goodness
19528s	like he just has the better hero power
19532s	the hunters switched allegiances the
19534s	true the true hunter hero power is now
19536s	on the side of teen show this game
19547s	okay he's still not dead
19550s	[Laughter]
19557s	uh still not
19561s	nope thanks to all this freezing
19565s	yeah you can spend sick on to the fronts
19570s	to gain
19571s	eight
19573s	cost reduction on both the minions still
19575s	doesn't work though
19577s	the mr smite would still cost four
19581s	all right let's play storm and hear up
19582s	out of the face
19584s	yep
19586s	what if he just keeps rolling taunt over
19587s	and over again though
19592s	he still wins because he just took a
19594s	turn okay
19595s	as long as you get the hero power to go
19596s	face every turn yeah like you could even
19598s	just use your mr smite to kill an animal
19602s	companion over the course of a couple of
19603s	turns right to help you win the race
19605s	which is the hero powers going face if
19606s	you really need to
19609s	it'd be okay yep and there it is
19612s	ninja knows this is explosive
19613s	trapezoidal and plays naturally in the
19615s	deck and
19616s	knows that that it's there because
19618s	they're freezing chat that was insane oh
19621s	my gosh
19622s	like everything that happened i had no
19624s	idea how to navigate the the secrets
19627s	there that was
19629s	that was a a crazy game of hearthstone
19632s	what did i tell you
19634s	he's just a banger magnet this is just
19636s	what happens when he plays hearthstone
19638s	you get games like this every single
19640s	time
19647s	all right the professor slate combo it
19649s	was just a sick spot
19655s	[Laughter]
19670s	yeah hero power and ranco on his own
19672s	gained a bunch of armor you could throw
19673s	like shield slam blade storm out there
19675s	as well to get stuff done like maybe
19677s	that was just like confused like maybe
19678s	that was just his brain being halfway
19680s	between three different plays already
19682s	and then he just decided on the
19683s	professor slate thing at the end which
19685s	uh was sick and i'm glad that we saw it
19690s	yep
19691s	all right last fourteen show is the
19693s	libra paladin
19695s	cena surprising out of this a little bit
19697s	different for tincho does have the
19699s	mutinous still but a mr smite instead of
19701s	a lord bharav
19703s	um
19704s	which i in my opinion
19707s	they both
19709s	are
19711s	awkward the same amount of times that
19712s	they're insane
19715s	but for different reasons
19717s	if that makes sense
19720s	like sometimes you have a lord in your
19722s	hand you're like this is useless
19723s	sometimes you have a mr smite in your
19724s	hand and you're like this is useless
19725s	sometimes you play lord barack and you
19727s	win the game sometimes you play mister
19729s	smite and you win the game
19732s	can i predict he mulled into b stalker
19734s	tavis yeah i didn't get out in time that
19735s	reaction
19737s	uh from hamugavu has he got the mulligan
19739s	i think yeah i'm a hundred percent
19741s	convinced that my soul read was correct
19743s	in the previous game as well now because
19744s	tavis showed up off the mole before we
19747s	even saw it you saw the reaction from
19749s	harbour garbage you see yup yeah of
19750s	course there you are yep that makes
19752s	sense
19760s	now the question is how does he navigate
19762s	us in the early game right
19763s	[Laughter]
19765s	he doesn't
19767s	it's a trog
19768s	and that's not an arcane shot
19770s	i have to what aim shot it next turn
19773s	with the way this is looking oh
19775s	okay this is a noble mount this is a
19778s	noble map take those every time plays no
19780s	ball mount it's never not noble mound
19784s	apart from the time it isn't
19787s	[Laughter]
19790s	all right
19791s	nice nice little aim shot action going
19794s	on all right he's good hubba gobbles
19796s	he's in the clear
19812s	somewhere on a distant end of the
19814s	country
19815s	a man named alexander bagooli sees one
19818s	health minions four mana and a piercing
19820s	shot
19821s	and his ears just prick up ever so
19823s	slightly
19836s	that's the call
19839s	you know when you have that little when
19840s	you uh
19842s	what was that
19843s	like the turkey call or whatever
19846s	the
19846s	little device
19848s	that plays a really weird like we'll
19849s	gobble sound oh sure
19851s	yeah yeah i'm with you
19853s	i i did i was incredibly make one of
19855s	those i realized that you're not just
19857s	speaking gibberish now i don't actually
19858s	understand what you mean
19860s	they make one of those it's just like a
19862s	little tiny horn device and when you
19864s	blow into it it's just my voice saying
19866s	paguli
19870s	that's what summons him and raven
19872s	emerges
19873s	he pops out
19876s	sometimes
19877s	multiple ghoulies pop out
19881s	oh the whole family
19885s	yeah yeah brothers right
19888s	there's a lot of them yeah
19894s	the beguily clan of famous
19897s	manchester folklore
19915s	ah noble man
19918s	always late to the party
19921s	we've had some trog fun this game
19927s	it is still pretty good here though
19930s	based on the knowledge that we can see
19931s	explosive trap but once again
19934s	bingo does not know what he's dealing
19935s	with
19936s	seems unlikely to be freezing in this
19939s	scenario
19940s	uh but it does know that it will be ice
19944s	why does he know oh this is the natural
19945s	secret and it's the only one in the deck
19946s	yeah yeah you're absolutely right
19952s	but still presents
19955s	a little bit of a weird situation
19961s	he's just going to try and preserve the
19963s	minion he gets the discounts on the
19964s	libra and also uh gets
19967s	orders in this way knowing that the
19969s	knight of norman's gonna die just to get
19971s	the extra reduction on the lever of hope
19973s	which could matter
19976s	yeah i mean i think this is
19979s	better in multiple factors right like
19980s	first he draws the holy spell discounts
19982s	it as well but also
19984s	you don't necessarily want to end your
19986s	turn with a one health minion in play
19988s	right so playing the one health minion
19989s	and then killing it on the explosive
19991s	trap is just kind of good outside of
19993s	discounting the holy spell as well so i
19995s	think the sequencing makes perfect sense
19997s	from teenshow
20010s	four more
20015s	that's a big number
20017s	it is big
20018s	bigger than two
20037s	yeah and
20039s	he knows that we're coming up on a
20040s	mutinous turn
20042s	and he doesn't have a way to
20044s	complete quest play at this turn
20047s	and
20049s	his turn otherwise is
20056s	are you about to finish my sentence
20059s	no wii u
20062s	oh well i said
20065s	his turn this turn is not the greatest
20067s	and then you said if anything and i
20068s	thought you were going to finish mine i
20069s	said
20070s	well i was going to jump in on the me on
20072s	the mutinous quest point and say if
20074s	anything tj i feel like he's got bigger
20076s	concerns than whether his quest reward
20078s	gets eaten in this position because
20080s	there's just 12 damage on the other side
20082s	of the board
20086s	that is a pretty significant problem
20092s	sure as heck is
20099s	um
20104s	uh wastewater
20106s	waste warden
20109s	[Music]
20111s	ah waste warden to attack human people
20114s	yes of course this makes
20119s	sense ah devout pupil is not of the
20122s	human tribe it is of the pupil tribe
20124s	[Laughter]
20127s	and try pupil modifier devout
20139s	so needs to complete quests get a couple
20141s	misha's clear the board
20144s	um
20146s	all right step one pleat next step clear
20149s	the board
20151s	find a way to deal 34 damage plus an
20153s	extra 16 damage through the liberum of
20155s	hope while also dealing with two divine
20158s	shield taunts
20163s	yeah it seems easy i think he's got this
20167s	it's really not
20168s	oh yeah
20183s	oh
20185s	he knows he's still dead though at the
20186s	very least he knows there is eight mana
20188s	carrier in hand right
20192s	yep
20192s	eight man i carry all clears the taunt
20194s	weapon swing goes face
20196s	and tina i'm sure will show him the
20198s	solution that habu gabu knows is there
20201s	and that means more discounted spells
20204s	but more crucially
20206s	a swing to the face with the immovable
20209s	object
20210s	3-0 for teen show quest hunter
20214s	not getting it done in this series
20216s	whatsoever habu gabu just beating his
20218s	head against the wall uh with that deck
20220s	over and over trying to get there and
20222s	clearly even though you got incredibly
20224s	excited about it tj it was not enough to
20227s	get anywhere close for habu gabu
20233s	nope
20234s	and libra power continues
20237s	to just be good
20240s	it like surprises me every time it's
20243s	it's a real deck you're right yeah um
20246s	and it just seems like it has the tools
20248s	necessary to go the distance as we've
20251s	been seeing right many players in the
20252s	top 16 now a good amount in the top
20254s	eight
20256s	now some in the top four uh libra
20258s	paladin just uh
20260s	ended up being a good bring to the
20262s	tournament and now we have our top four
20264s	settled gabby holy water hachikuji and
20267s	tincho we have one europe
20270s	one americas
20272s	and two asia pacific
20276s	this is weird the odds weird to me ah
20279s	it is indeed the odds are looking very
20281s	good for uh jia and i suppose derek
20284s	depending on what side of the bed he
20285s	chooses to get out of in the morning i
20287s	don't know where his allegiances lie he
20288s	just
20289s	he follows the trends doesn't he derek
20291s	he's well known for it um but of course
20294s	you do have to remember that no matter
20296s	how many representatives of other
20298s	regions there are tj gabby exists
20303s	this is true this is very true and uh
20305s	hasn't dropped a single match
20309s	thus far
20310s	gotta get the caveat
20312s	thus far and he honestly looks
20314s	unstoppable
20316s	um but i'm definitely excited for that
20319s	second one oh my god okay when i'm
20321s	blurry it makes me so sad you can't even
20324s	see the tears rolling down my face
20325s	because they're just too blurry
20328s	this is what you get for trying to run
20330s	the internet through your electricity tj
20332s	that's not a thing people do
20339s	i'm just moving so quickly
20341s	that's what it is
20342s	um
20343s	but yeah uh the battle of the miracle
20346s	pre-slash rally priest of gabby versus
20349s	holyoke should be something to watch
20350s	because they both seem incredibly fast
20353s	and well practiced at each of their
20355s	respective decks um i don't know if it
20357s	was you who said it or if it was gia who
20359s	said it i don't even know who said it
20361s	but it's rare that you actually see the
20363s	pop off reduce malagos play malagos dump
20367s	every spell from malygos
20369s	um that takes a lot of practice to be
20371s	able to know both the sequencing and
20372s	just the speed
20374s	um of decision making that you have to
20375s	do in order to get to that point just
20377s	that should be a good real quick good
20379s	semi-final
20380s	before we go final point on that i did
20382s	mention earlier the rally priest was the
20384s	highest win rate deck in the tournament
20385s	right now which i believe is still the
20387s	case um but the second highest win rate
20389s	deck in the tournament is also priest um
20392s	but not miracle priest it's shadow
20394s	priest so miracle priest uh has has gone
20397s	a lot lower down yeah i know ridiculous
20399s	right um but uh it goes to show that it
20402s	does seem like gabby has got it right
20404s	with the rally priest pick it does have
20406s	a pretty significant looking edge over
20408s	miracle priest overall not in that match
20410s	up specifically but just in general in
20412s	the tournament so it did seem like it's
20414s	going to end up being a pretty good
20415s	bring but that's enough set up from us
20418s	you'll have two brand new casters to
20420s	talk you through that one in just a
20421s	little bit
20424s	brian speaking new that's right um but
20426s	quarterfinals are over it's time to move
20428s	over to the semifinals only three more
20429s	matches left before we crown our masters
20432s	tour champion um but before we jump into
20435s	that first semifinal we are gonna have
20436s	to go to a quick break but plenty more
20438s	hearthstone action to come
20440s	so don't go anywhere
20442s	[Music]
20468s	oh
20469s	[Music]

[2022] Masters Tour Ruins of Alterac Day 3 | Top 16 & Top 8

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