[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Grandmasters | Last Call | Week 1 | Day 3 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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913s	it's a blast off the top pesco a 2-0 up
918s	in the finals
920s	it looked rough for him for a moment the
922s	shard of the naaru was so clutch
928s	who says he tried so hard he set up a
930s	lethal himself with the void charge and
933s	shadow form on the next string even if
935s	his ethic got cleared it was as good a
937s	plan as any
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946s	there it is the bowel master off the top
949s	for yala
952s	[Music]
963s	hello everybody and welcome to day three
965s	of the first week of hearthstone grand
967s	masters last call we're kicking off the
969s	show once again gia and amy here to
971s	bring you the first couple matches
973s	action as we figure out who will be the
976s	champion earning five points and putting
978s	themselves in the best position to make
980s	it through to playoffs amy it's been
983s	such a great weekend so far what are you
984s	most looking forward to seeing today
987s	well of course i'm looking forward to
989s	any potential mirror matches we see some
992s	potential mine rogue shenanigans in our
996s	match coming up next but then again uh
999s	we also saw yesterday and the day before
1001s	uh some
1003s	big spell mage potential where
1007s	you know the rune could give and take
1009s	away that's right
1012s	we did see quite a lot of rune action
1015s	yesterday like you said whether it was
1017s	very strong or very weak remains to be
1019s	seen but we are of course playing the
1021s	conquest format where every player needs
1024s	to get a win with all of their decks
1026s	after one of them is banned away and
1028s	that mage has been repeatedly played
1030s	because it kind of got bullied in at
1032s	least for the likes of chonsu but we are
1035s	of course now down to only half the
1038s	field
1039s	our top eight players will be battling
1041s	it out and amy can you take us a little
1043s	bit through how the dual tournament
1045s	system works
1050s	uh for sure so
1052s	yesterday we
1053s	saw um some matches
1056s	between
1057s	oh gosh sorry
1059s	um
1062s	oh sorry yeah the the prize pool of
1064s	course um
1065s	the winner of week one will
1068s	have the
1070s	the last call prize pool is basically
1072s	22.5
1074s	thousand uh in first place of course
1077s	second place is 15 000 and it goes on
1081s	because these are our top 16 players uh
1086s	they also get 6 000 just for
1089s	being here and climbing to the top and
1092s	it has been
1093s	a quite a journey for all of them
1097s	absolutely that twenty two thousand five
1099s	hundred dollars is a great prize of
1101s	course for whoever finishes in first
1104s	place after all our four weeks
1105s	proceedings are said and done but most
1107s	importantly first place also gets a
1109s	ticket through to the world championship
1111s	and if it so happens that if it's one of
1113s	the players that's already secured
1114s	themselves a spot there that could be
1116s	passed down so a lot of people looking
1119s	for that first place if
1120s	not just able to get to a top four and
1122s	hoping that somebody else already got
1124s	the championship at first uh but we are
1127s	up rewarding five points at most each
1130s	and every week every match that a player
1132s	wins uh contributes one point toward
1134s	them and everybody that is playing today
1137s	has already gotten two match wins so up
1139s	to three more points up for grabs we can
1141s	take a look at what happened a bit
1143s	yesterday amy we started with okazinski
1145s	and fury hunter
1147s	we did and we
1149s	are looking at some
1150s	a death sudden deathwing action here
1153s	but of course fairy hunter takes the win
1158s	it was a very close match but okay
1160s	shinsuke takes it back with his mind
1162s	rogue
1163s	shenanigans uh of course the matches
1166s	went to five games
1170s	uh we also had a chance to versus floyd
1172s	rusin yesterday uh oh and we see that
1176s	that epic um or a rather unfortunate
1180s	um
1181s	mage
1182s	rune where the entire void was cleared
1187s	yeah the entire board of the person who
1189s	played the rune unfortunately uh but we
1191s	did see fury hunter go up versus cuisine
1194s	next and cuisine did not have an easy
1195s	time of it because it also went down to
1197s	a five-game series where fury uh sort of
1200s	methodically picked apart that beast
1202s	hunter and then we saw in the
1203s	elimination okasinski versus chonsu and
1206s	it was chonsu who is able to make it out
1209s	very narrowly but then
1211s	fell to cuisine once again uh then after
1215s	that after our shift was done amy we saw
1217s	fled versus levick where this huge uh
1220s	huge lineup of 160 cards from flood and
1223s	super fake targeting shaman worked very
1225s	well in fled's favor and then we saw the
1228s	match of a century because it took a
1230s	century
1231s	bunny hopper versus pascua going down to
1233s	five games both players no stranger to
1235s	the rope and then pascoa of course the
1238s	fact that he was bringing quest priests
1240s	also lent the match up to an extended
1243s	length and he did take that victory
1244s	versus bunny hopper faced fled a bit
1246s	later and because vlad didn't really hit
1249s	his target in pascoa it was a very easy
1251s	3-0 there we ended out with bunny hopper
1255s	versus levick here in the elimination
1258s	match where bunny hopper did manage to
1260s	get the victory but then it was going to
1262s	be
1263s	fled versus bunny hopper where flood
1265s	once again struggled due to the fact
1267s	that there was no shaman to be targeted
1269s	here so bunny hopper i think was at a
1272s	pretty good advantage here finally
1273s	taking that win
1275s	that's right and after all that action
1278s	we have our top eight quarterfinals uh
1281s	possessing of course we'll go up against
1284s	lloyd grueson followed by some x plays
1287s	versus bunny hopper fury hunter versus
1290s	super fake and pascoa and judgment
1293s	duking it out against each other for
1295s	that semi-final spot and of course we
1298s	since we only have like a total of three
1301s	weeks
1302s	uh all all the points add up and they
1305s	really matter
1307s	absolutely we do have a little bit of an
1310s	adjustment in the order in which we'll
1311s	play out the matches instead of blize
1313s	versus bunnyhopper second we'll be going
1315s	with fury hunter versus super fake just
1318s	to make sure that we can uh get the
1321s	players in the most comfortable time
1323s	zone for them
1324s	we do also have of course that possesses
1327s	loy gruzin to start off with and
1330s	possessing has definitely seemed
1332s	unstoppable amy unflappable more likely
1335s	he's had not the cleanest play i think
1337s	even by his own admission but the cards
1339s	and the lineup have worked out very very
1342s	well for him that mine rogue has looked
1344s	very strong in all of his matches so far
1346s	the bar priest also in a pretty good
1349s	position uh he is going to face off
1351s	against gruzian who has a mine rogue of
1354s	his own so amy we could be getting that
1356s	wish of yours for some mirror matches
1359s	looking forward to it and i'm also
1362s	looking forward to seeing what they've
1364s	been from each other
1366s	uh
1366s	as you said uh
1368s	they do have that mind roll potential
1371s	mirror match but there's also that
1373s	hunter rivalry although possessing does
1376s	have the quest versus his opponent's
1378s	beast hunter
1379s	yeah i'm glad you pointed that out we do
1381s	have different hunter archetypes
1383s	although the druids and rogues are of
1385s	the same archetype the shaman has been
1387s	banned out from zlat cuisine whereas
1389s	it's the boar priest that's out of
1391s	contention for possessing so we're down
1392s	to actually class mirrors here where
1395s	both the druids are prestar both the
1397s	moans
1398s	sorry both the rogues are mine uh and
1400s	then both the hunters are different here
1402s	with the beast versus xl quest and that
1406s	really comes down to whether or not you
1408s	think beast hunter is in a better
1410s	position here amy would you rather be
1412s	playing that knowing that your opponent
1414s	has quest hunter or would you be on the
1416s	other side
1418s	ooh
1419s	i kind of favor beast hunter just a
1422s	little bit more than quest hunter uh
1424s	just because of all that be synergy then
1427s	again quest hunter does have the secret
1430s	package that um might put bees under a
1432s	bit of a pickle
1435s	yeah and we of course have possesses
1437s	updated record now here he actually has
1440s	slid a little bit from his previous
1442s	record of 61
1444s	um in the previous season but including
1447s	everything altogether now he's still at
1449s	59.3 which is still very very impressive
1452s	he's qualified through to world
1454s	championship this year which means he
1456s	has a shot at repeating his huge feat
1459s	from last year he could be the first
1461s	back-to-back world champion in
1463s	hearthstone history but he still has
1466s	quite a lot of work cut out for him he's
1468s	going to start off with that quest
1470s	hunter here which i think is just a very
1472s	powerful deck in the meta it has so many
1474s	resources now that it's able to run 40
1477s	cards doesn't die so quickly because it
1479s	has 40 health and i think it is in a
1482s	decent spot versus cuisine's
1485s	up um except maybe for the rogue
1493s	uh
1494s	yeah i mean
1496s	quest hunter versus mine rogue might not
1499s	always be the
1500s	best shot especially if mine rogue is
1503s	able to draw those key cards out quickly
1506s	before the hunter can even finish their
1508s	quest
1509s	uh
1510s	moving on though soy grews in
1513s	in terms of his updated statistics again
1515s	he is the top four masters tour under
1518s	city reaching top 16 at runes of all
1521s	track
1522s	and
1523s	he has participated in the second season
1525s	of grand masters so those sides are
1527s	nothing to look over
1530s	yeah it's right even though he has
1532s	perhaps less overall experience than
1534s	possessing i think it's uh fair to say
1536s	that cuisine has been doing better in
1538s	the masters tour system than the
1539s	reigning world champion he's had way
1542s	more good results in recent memory he's
1545s	been on stream at the masters tours
1547s	several times and even though he has
1549s	less grand masters experience he
1551s	definitely has a feel for
1553s	building a lineup that can
1556s	be good against a large field here it's
1558s	a little bit different the meta when you
1559s	approach grandmasters and it's down to
1561s	just 16 people
1563s	but a lot of the principles remain
1565s	similar in that it's very important to
1567s	get a good read on your potential
1569s	opponents cuisine is going to start off
1572s	with a mine rogue which i did point out
1573s	as maybe going to be a struggle match up
1576s	for that quest hunter from possession i
1578s	generally feel like the mineral can get
1580s	their damage going a lot faster than
1582s	quest hunter so for possessi it might
1585s	not be necessarily
1587s	a full-on quest game plan of trying to
1590s	get the tavish as soon as possible maybe
1592s	he goes instead for the bee stalker
1594s	tavish and goes for animal companions
1597s	and getting wide on board because that
1599s	is something that the mine rogue
1601s	struggles to deal with
1603s	yeah especially with the resources that
1605s	mineral has if soy gusen is able to have
1608s	that wide board
1610s	and keep pushing damage to face what and
1613s	if rogue uh cannot seem to draw into
1616s	those cards it desperately needs in the
1618s	uh
1619s	uh sorry in the early to mid game it
1622s	might be a struggle for possessing then
1624s	again we did see that possess the manual
1627s	gameplay i believe it was yesterday
1629s	where he simply just came back from one
1631s	hp finding lee though and using those
1634s	death battle bombs to the face
1637s	yeah the break points on mine rogue are
1640s	indeed always on a razor's edge and we
1643s	are going to see now possesses mulligan
1646s	here cuisine just goes for it instantly
1648s	keeping cutlass of course always makes
1650s	sense whether you're playing mine rogue
1652s	or jackpot rogue it's just a great way
1655s	to
1656s	spend your early turns because you don't
1657s	necessarily have minions you want to
1659s	curve out with it so happens for cuisine
1661s	that he has picked up a shatter chandler
1663s	to play on turn one so i think that
1664s	looks pretty decent but for possessing
1667s	here just the quest of course to start
1669s	off seems nice uh the rash rajna jean is
1673s	an interesting option for possessive
1674s	because that's usually a card that you
1676s	want to hold on to as quest hunter but
1678s	against mine rogue it could stick around
1680s	what do you think about playing it here
1685s	against
1688s	me it would be so are we talking about
1692s	possessive
1693s	okay
1694s	it might be uncured but he might have to
1697s	save it in one of those key pivotal
1699s	moments
1701s	yeah if he had played it there there
1703s	were certain punishes like the
1705s	extortion that we saw which was in
1707s	cuisine's hand or um the tooth if sorry
1711s	cuisine's not even running a tooth in
1713s	this list so it is actually just
1714s	extortion that easily removes the rajna
1717s	zhan and possessing says it's not worth
1719s	it rather weave in that hero power
1722s	it is a hand that looks to have a lot of
1726s	quest progression here so many damage
1728s	spells and even the expensive spells
1729s	have utility when you have raj dejan
1732s	because you can convert that mana into
1733s	damage so possesses has a bit of staying
1736s	power here going for the spring the trap
1738s	for the honorable kill getting the full
1740s	suite of secrets uh pretty nice opening
1746s	yeah definitely and just continuing to
1749s	weave in that hero power for some damage
1752s	to the face so my goose in here trying
1755s	to figure out what his next play would
1757s	be it looks like he is considering
1759s	preparation
1762s	because he saw that the coin went off
1764s	safely without triggering eye strap he
1766s	knows he can just play any more spells
1767s	here going to prep out that sketchy
1770s	information and uh get that counterfeit
1772s	blade active now that he has a naval
1774s	mine in hand it does look a bit
1776s	unintuitive to go for the sketchy before
1779s	you play snowfall graveyard essentially
1781s	missing out on 4 damage but because
1783s	grazing really wanted to play
1784s	counterfeit blade this turn he needed to
1786s	get the activation of naval mine from
1788s	the sketchy right away
1796s	all right so it is becoming a race for
1799s	face damage at the moment here uh do you
1802s	think that possession is gonna have time
1804s	here to play rajna john
1808s	[Music]
1811s	i mean
1816s	maybe it really depends on what sorry
1819s	goose has in store and if possessed he
1820s	feels threatened by lethal in the coming
1823s	turns we already see
1824s	some death throttle mines going off
1827s	uh
1829s	and soyuzn just carefully playing around
1832s	those secrets and checking what they are
1837s	yeah he has of course checked for that
1839s	ice trap now with the backstab so he
1841s	gets the more important spell off in the
1843s	snowfall graveyard and things are really
1845s	coming together gets that 12 damage
1848s	total uh from the swing and the eight
1851s	damage of the death rattle and he has 16
1853s	in hand with the naval mine and forsaken
1855s	lieutenant not in that order um the
1859s	wicked stab can actually close out the
1860s	game even though possessing started at
1862s	40 the only thing that cuisine has to be
1864s	concerned about is the freezing trap
1866s	which he knows is in play right now and
1868s	that could stop his uh lieutenant from
1871s	rushing
1875s	that's right and of course possessing
1876s	knows uh that a while continuing while
1880s	playing his
1881s	legendary plus
1884s	keeping in some of that hero power
1886s	damage uh
1888s	racing against time uh versus the minor
1892s	road
1893s	it was a bit of a question whether to
1895s	play explosive or ice trap their ice
1897s	trap of course more disruptive and i
1898s	think is the right decision here but it
1900s	was something to play explosive to get
1902s	more value from that rajna john because
1904s	as he knows though as long as he
1906s	survives this next turn he's in a very
1908s	good spot to take the game um
1910s	right away after so like cuisine hoping
1914s	and praying
1916s	that the ice trap would not be enough
1919s	and yeah it actually is not enough to
1921s	stop here because he doesn't even need
1924s	to rush the forsaken lieutenant due to
1927s	the fact that he had the backstab to
1929s	kill it off that first naval mine able
1931s	to die straight away from the shatter
1933s	shambler and that is going to be a win
1935s	for zoy cruisian just by the skin of his
1938s	teeth a very very close matchup if
1940s	possessing had one more turn that was
1942s	grazing dying right away after
1945s	yeah and just a clean finish with that
1947s	wicked stab to the face
1952s	um shoring up that last little bit of
1953s	damage here it was a pretty fortunate
1956s	draw for cuisine you have to admit right
1958s	where he got not only graveyard and the
1961s	weapon but also
1962s	enough procs on the navel mine and the
1964s	wicked stab for that last little bit of
1967s	damage um you can see the difference
1969s	that the extra 10 health from the prince
1971s	renathal makes in the match up the
1974s	mine rogue really has to get a large
1976s	combination of spells here didn't hit
1979s	any of the board-based game plan and
1980s	that was going to be enough to lock it
1983s	out uh so for possessive there this is
1986s	the first loss for the quest hunter but
1987s	i'm feeling that it could be the
1990s	problematic deck here i don't think it
1992s	has a great match up against prestar uh
1994s	but against beast druid it certainly has
1996s	its teeth still
1999s	[Music]
2001s	yeah that's right and assassin just
2004s	opting for press through drew it here uh
2006s	having key cards of course like prester
2009s	and the cards to draw her out
2012s	uh again uh the prince of nathal is
2015s	quite helpful because of the
2017s	10 additional cars to his deck plus that
2019s	10 extra health that might be direly
2022s	needed
2027s	the
2028s	kind of principle with playing renathol
2030s	in prestar is that because you have so
2032s	many tutor effects to get lady prestar
2034s	jared carpenter and the composting and
2037s	then you also just have a lot of regular
2039s	card draw that it doesn't matter that
2041s	you're diluting the deck with a lot of
2044s	bad minions you are going to find the
2046s	press star around turn around five mana
2049s	on average and that is going to
2052s	make sure that you just have that extra
2054s	10 health with almost no downside the 10
2057s	extra cards or even an upside once you
2059s	transform them into dragons so that you
2061s	have more and more stuff and we are
2063s	gonna see amy the press tour mirror this
2066s	one can get out of hand very very
2068s	quickly
2069s	yeah i'm excited to see uh whoever gets
2072s	played pressed her out and making and
2074s	make use of those
2075s	extra cards in their deck uh dragon
2078s	versus dragons gia
2080s	i'm hoping for some deathwing
2081s	shenanigans today but uh it's in the
2085s	cards
2088s	deathwings back and forth are definitely
2090s	possible here uh but more likely i think
2093s	we could see kazakhstan's back and forth
2095s	because in this matchup because you know
2098s	that your opponent when they play
2099s	prestor they have the capability of
2102s	generating board clears like brass wing
2105s	like a primordial drake like deathwing
2108s	and hala to a certain extent you know
2111s	that just going for a fully board-based
2113s	game plan is not always going to help
2115s	you can also get hit with a mirazoned on
2118s	the back end for example you play like a
2120s	2-1 nosdormu a 1-1 onyxia if your
2123s	opponent plays mirazon they get those
2124s	cards in full stats and sometimes just
2127s	playing for board can backfire here and
2129s	so i feel that trying to turbo turbo out
2132s	kazakhstan and go for a treasure-based
2135s	game plan with embers of ragnaros book
2137s	of the dead and a lot of reach is the
2140s	best way to approach the matchup but
2142s	we'll see if either player can even hit
2144s	that kazakhstan in the first place
2146s	yeah um i'm looking at zoi guzins and
2149s	possesses first turn so i putting out
2152s	that watchtower to
2154s	you know go up against possess these
2157s	cars in terms of spells possessing
2160s	uh using the drug to
2162s	uh
2164s	counter uh spells but of course zorguzen
2168s	sorry but of course possessing uses of
2170s	starfish to
2171s	cancel the towers uh ability
2175s	yeah the interplay of trog and far watch
2177s	post is a bit interesting right where
2180s	you can say all right i have my watch
2181s	post so you're going to have expensive
2183s	spells but possession was saying all
2185s	right the watch watchpost can't attack
2186s	so my truck is gonna stick around he has
2188s	equalized that by going for the starfish
2190s	and it doesn't actually end up in his
2193s	favor on board because now the watch
2195s	post even though it's not making his
2197s	cars expensive it's able to attack
2199s	however the early board exchanges are
2202s	not a huge deal in the matchup generally
2204s	4d health makes it so that any aggro
2206s	druid type of side game plan is
2209s	generally not going to get the job done
2211s	so possessing here can very reliably
2213s	just go for the turn to pull the prester
2215s	here with more supplies uh half of
2218s	capture cold tooth mine it's still gonna
2220s	be a turn before he can play it um
2222s	unless he top decks innervate but
2224s	he still has generally good things to do
2227s	cuisine though with the skulker and cold
2230s	tooth mine can be the first to play
2231s	prestor here just counting it to five
2234s	yeah just race it to who gets to play
2237s	presta first and make the most out of
2238s	those dragons uh possesses still has the
2242s	uh starfish for silence uh
2245s	like
2246s	maybe he needs to
2248s	play around those dragons as well while
2252s	making sure his own board of potential
2254s	dragons is still sticky and in play
2259s	yeah
2259s	he actually did already play the star
2263s	the thing in hand is amalgam uh but
2265s	i if you meant if you meant there's
2267s	still a starfish in deck that is true um
2271s	if he doesn't draw it this turn though
2272s	it's gonna get transformed and yeah that
2274s	means that no more starfishes are in
2277s	contention and that means now that the
2280s	threat of offensive starfish is
2283s	out of mind for at least the player from
2286s	their own perspective right they could
2288s	be thinking that the other player has it
2290s	in their pre-press store hand
2294s	yeah that's correct
2296s	and sloy cruz and after playing presser
2298s	has no hesitation here uh
2301s	sorry
2303s	prestor here draws into the azure drake
2305s	which gives him more dragon potential
2311s	considering his options he can
2314s	trade into the 2-3 or
2317s	perhaps
2318s	attack into the press store
2321s	or of course there are other options
2325s	available let's see the prestar even
2329s	though i said the early aggro druid game
2331s	plan is not a huge deal in the match-up
2334s	just that being a 6-7 and sticking
2336s	around for a couple of attacks can start
2338s	to lean the match up in favor of either
2341s	player here so it is a big deal that
2344s	graziane manages to end the exchange
2346s	still ahead on board and be the first
2348s	one to play the prestor he's also picked
2350s	up the guff now thanks to capture cold
2352s	tooth mine second copy
2355s	when lit gets
2356s	not great options for possessive the
2358s	aquatic form at least can be used and
2360s	the second copy as well
2366s	horizonte is very interesting maybe not
2368s	for this turn but to hold on for it that
2371s	can allow possession to copy grazing
2372s	scuff without playing his own guff
2374s	naturally
2377s	yeah and having that armor
2379s	and
2381s	an advantage may be what possessing
2385s	needs to not only control the board but
2388s	continuing to have all those dragons in
2391s	play
2393s	there's no hesitation in terms of trying
2395s	to discover something
2396s	to answers recruits and
2399s	play
2401s	this is from moonlit so it's a bit
2403s	unfortunate for possession that most of
2404s	these are quite expensive the spawn of
2406s	death wing you can take it but i think
2408s	there's some very valuable cards he
2410s	doesn't want to discard i do favor the
2412s	composting pick even though guff is a
2414s	very good card because he didn't have
2416s	the mana to actually draw the guff from
2419s	the
2420s	condition sorry from playing the first
2423s	copy here and so composting just for two
2426s	deathrattles is decent enough here and
2428s	we'll see how grazin responds the turn
2430s	probably starts with guff and then
2432s	proceeds to see what his draw is
2436s	oh you sarah
2439s	that's pretty great here because it
2441s	allows him to dream back the press star
2443s	removing the pressure and making sure
2445s	that possession doesn't get that death
2447s	throttle
2449s	that's right and there
2451s	of course her dream cards and give so he
2454s	gives a lot of value and flexibility in
2456s	terms of what he wants to do
2458s	with those nightmare cards and dream
2462s	and
2463s	and by using dream uh on possesses
2467s	suppressor he denies him of that compost
2470s	death rattle
2472s	lessening the card draw from his
2474s	opponent
2475s	however possessing does have a pretty
2477s	good response especially with this
2479s	primordial drake now he can sweep up
2480s	most of this board and then play murazon
2483s	which is going to get him a full stated
2485s	ysera full standard sleepy dragon guff
2487s	and play i was just wondering if he was
2489s	going to hero power before playing the
2492s	marathon so that you still have that one
2494s	attack to go along with the bubbler tray
2496s	to kill off the prestar but i think
2497s	possession is just thinking oh yeah
2499s	sorry he even gets the dream as well my
2501s	bad so there's no reason to even trade
2503s	off the presser here this is absolutely
2505s	huge possess he swung back the board in
2508s	his favor um most of these sorry couple
2510s	of these minions don't even die so yes
2512s	sarah awakens so cuisine back to the
2515s	drawing board
2517s	that's why we can see a bit of despair
2519s	in his face when he saw possessing
2521s	playing in that card just mirroring uh
2524s	his different decks and of course
2526s	possessing uh waste no time using
2528s	composting for those death rattle and
2530s	card draw
2532s	i think it's pretty clever that he goes
2534s	composting here even though it looks
2536s	like there's the potential to overdraw
2538s	he knows that two of these dragons are
2539s	high health beyond the range of ysera
2542s	awakens so he actually goes to i think
2545s	just 10 cards here still not ideal
2547s	because he's gonna overdraw one but he
2549s	was in a position where their composting
2551s	was not going to get much better than
2552s	that so he's just kind of saying all
2554s	right i'll overdraw one to make sure i
2557s	can still get the death throttle going
2559s	while he has all these small minions
2562s	oh finley for the hand reset and the
2565s	mallee to draw the spells back
2578s	all right
2580s	yeah composting for grazing is available
2583s	as well but what is the best way to
2585s	manage his hand space for it
2591s	oh he can play out some dragons for some
2594s	of that board control
2596s	and
2597s	taking out the sleepy
2601s	of course he picks yourself up without
2603s	hesitation though it does cause nine
2606s	mana nightmare into the time to get rid
2610s	of a minion later on
2613s	yeah it kind of protects the rest of his
2615s	board at least makes the trades right
2618s	now a bit awkward for possessing but he
2620s	is going to start off with the kala
2621s	ghost gets not amazing options but feral
2625s	rage looks okay
2628s	not the miracle growth that he was
2630s	hoping for but it's gonna do the job
2633s	just fine here crucially neither player
2636s	has found kazakhstan or been offered the
2638s	option to dredge it so we could be
2641s	looking at a game that does not involve
2643s	treasures here and if that's the case
2646s	then fatigue is a very real issue here
2648s	trying to milk maximum value out from
2650s	the yesera and at the moment cuisine is
2653s	not as deep in fatigue especially
2655s	factoring in the double composting draws
2657s	from possessive but hand quality wise
2659s	possessi has way more resources at the
2662s	moment
2663s	yeah that's right and that's fragrancy
2666s	and it's composting oh
2668s	wrestling is great right to
2671s	sweep up all the small minions here
2685s	gets to clear up this entire board
2688s	except the finley which is not a big
2689s	deal and
2691s	continue pushing damage here there's a
2693s	health differential of
2695s	12 here
2697s	yeah and just possessing using
2700s	that armor to get rid of the taunt
2702s	before
2703s	having his dragon
2705s	deal two damage to all the minions on so
2708s	much who's inside of the board
2711s	of course the series and popping uh down
2714s	that primordial drake for the uh almost
2717s	reverse ford clear trying for some
2719s	answers he does get alex draza
2722s	yeah and this looks like a good setup
2724s	for composting here he is discovering
2727s	full cost dragons from his amalgam which
2730s	at the moment looks inefficient but i
2732s	actually think will be very relevant
2733s	later on again this is looking like it's
2736s	not going to be a kazakhstan game it's
2737s	not confirmed yet
2739s	but if that's the case then actually
2741s	playing vanilla started full cost
2743s	dragons in the late game can be a way to
2746s	um
2748s	sort of close out and be game ending
2750s	threats
2751s	yeah definitely especially as you said
2753s	earlier without the starfish in playa's
2757s	threat
2758s	having those big stack minions although
2760s	it costs a lot of mana can really help
2762s	with more control in the lake in uh
2765s	versus possesses uh what one cost uh
2768s	sorry lower cost dragons
2772s	that's some pretty low low-cost spells
2774s	once again from the caligos i feel like
2777s	wrath has the most value here the wild
2779s	growth is technically the biggest
2781s	discount from the kalagos but he really
2783s	doesn't need the ramp so much i do like
2785s	the wrath being used alongside hale to
2788s	get these little pings off and maybe
2789s	kill off the smaller minions because as
2791s	he's in a position where he has seen two
2794s	amalgam discovers knows that the hand is
2796s	you know maybe a bit clunky for grazing
2799s	so it could be the uh signal for him to
2802s	be
2802s	as aggressive as possible on board and
2804s	push the damage because he knows that he
2807s	is deeper into fatigue than cuisine and
2809s	uh the long game would not necessarily
2811s	favor him
2814s	that's right trying to uh
2818s	take down as much health as possible
2820s	against cuisine especially with that
2822s	fatigue timer 11 cars left in his deck g
2826s	versus greece's 15. though possessing
2829s	does have that armor
2835s	that's a lot of composting as well which
2838s	means that even if grizzly and ghosty
2840s	sarah awakens on this board possession
2842s	will get so many card draw i feel like
2845s	the the two dragons on the left are
2847s	double stacked with composting right so
2849s	we actually got six draws from this
2851s	board blowing up
2860s	i'm a bit worried uh because of that gia
2864s	don't want too many uh draws at this
2867s	moment but again yeah he needs those
2870s	cards too answer whatever zoe guzen puts
2874s	on the board especially with his
2876s	full amount of dragons and both stats i
2879s	mean
2881s	doesn't actually end up overdrawing oh
2882s	grazing actually dreams the sarah back
2885s	so he doesn't take that damage and that
2887s	is to be fair a very safe play around
2890s	what would have killed him which is alex
2892s	draza plus that seven damage it feels a
2895s	bit sad though to give possession
2896s	long-term value but it was just
2898s	necessary for cuisine here possesses
2901s	draws are
2902s	pretty low value dragons actually it's
2904s	just such a relief for him that he has
2907s	this armor
2908s	from the discovered spells a while ago
2910s	to actually get more value from the
2912s	onyxian drakes but has option to
2914s	discover yet another natural alexstrasza
2916s	which means that over two turns he can
2919s	deal 18 damage to cuisine's face and
2921s	barring any healing that's a lethal
2923s	setup
2925s	that's right uh i did enjoy three since
2928s	discipline played i was just streaming
2930s	the year sarah back into possessive's
2932s	hand knowing that the possibility of
2934s	again that alexstraza which possessee
2937s	uh
2942s	this discovers here i definitely like
2943s	playing one alex out here plus enyxi and
2946s	drake the mana works out very nicely he
2948s	gets the lethal setup he's ahead on
2950s	board and now he's asking cuisine to not
2952s	only clear this board which has a
2954s	natural stated alexstrasza but also heal
2957s	up
2958s	the mirazon gets christine the potential
2960s	to swing the board back in his favor and
2963s	he can play a taunt
2964s	but at the moment there's not a way to
2967s	kill the alexstrasza other than using
2970s	his own alexstrasza which i think needs
2972s	to go on his own face
2975s	yeah and he's playing drag connect
2976s	operative to hopefully dig for answers
2982s	i'm going to make
2986s	going to give him a huge board every
2988s	dragon that possess he played last turn
2990s	is going to come back in full stats for
2992s	cuisine he's going to see what's in the
2995s	draw first though oh amber watcher now
2997s	means that he can both kill that alex
3000s	and he'll back up but it means he
3002s	doesn't have the mana to play muraz on
3004s	if he goes for both of those i wonder if
3006s	he thinks it's worth it
3009s	okay he does
3011s	if play is safe place
3017s	he's alive for now
3019s	as he's down to his last three cards i
3021s	think he should know what they are
3022s	because he's been dredging at some point
3024s	but i can't quite remember um
3029s	there's not another alex then it's not
3032s	lethal so better look what's in the
3034s	color goes first
3035s	[Music]
3039s	um all of the forest is interesting
3051s	now you can just play out
3053s	i guess the other alex to face still uh
3056s	grazing space
3057s	and then go for the soul of the forest
3060s	just to be as resilient on board as
3062s	possible
3063s	he kind of just wants any one minion to
3066s	stick and if it's a little treant plus
3070s	the four four from the nightmare he'll
3071s	get from yes yesera it's actually still
3074s	going to
3075s	constitute one damage off lethal so he
3078s	actually needs two treants to
3081s	life stick do you believe gia well well
3084s	so couldn't be able to not only clear
3086s	the board but survive
3089s	well
3090s	um
3094s	not
3095s	quite uh he has a couple of draws to try
3098s	um
3099s	the annoying thing is that this too far
3101s	taunt in the way actually makes it so
3102s	that he can't kill off all of his
3104s	minions and get the composting draws he
3106s	has to clear the two four first and
3108s	every little precious bit of mana he
3110s	spends means that maybe he's a mana off
3113s	from say getting an amalgam and then
3115s	discovering a full cost deathwing to
3118s	clear this
3119s	so it's a very difficult
3122s	branching path of how you should go
3123s	about getting the card draw he commits
3125s	to azure drake first
3127s	these are whiffs these are not saving
3129s	him
3132s	and the mirazonda is also not helping
3135s	him out here it does give him like a
3137s	full stats caligo's full stats onyxian
3140s	drake and a full stats alexstrasza but
3142s	it's not helping clear the board
3144s	yeah of forcing him to use those earlier
3147s	eastern cars to get rid of the cessy's
3151s	boys again as you said those streams are
3153s	sticking around
3155s	yeah
3156s	a good spot from cuisine though to go
3158s	for all of this uh to get the first
3161s	layer of minions through but we can see
3162s	the soul of the forest potentially
3164s	clutches this out for possessing and i
3166s	think it is 100 as long as he has the
3169s	hand space to play the yesera because
3172s	you see sarah and then you play
3173s	nightmare on a tutu that you awakens
3177s	oh wait no that's actually one damage
3179s	off right and he won't get the awakens
3181s	because
3182s	oh sorry yeah he does get the weakness
3183s	he doesn't get the nightmare drake
3188s	um
3190s	other taunt in the way is still a
3192s	problem oh okay he has brass wing that's
3194s	going to be enough
3196s	oh
3196s	just barely though
3204s	that last little bit of damage i
3206s	honestly thought possessing was in a bit
3208s	of a pickle there because the way to
3210s	clear the small taunt would also have
3213s	cleared his own small tree and right
3215s	whether he played the
3217s	primordial drake or tried to snipe it
3219s	with
3221s	i mean he could have tried to snipe it
3222s	with that spawn of deathwing but that
3224s	wasn't very likely so he actually did
3226s	need that last little bit of damage from
3227s	the brass wing to get the guaranteed
3229s	kill here it was a nicely navigated um
3233s	game plan from possessive where he did
3234s	realize he was going to lose the long
3236s	run and value but then just leverage
3239s	those alexstraszas even the hala in the
3241s	early game to get as much face damage as
3244s	possible and make sure that fatigue
3246s	never even came into play
3248s	yeah with i believe it looked like one
3250s	car remaining in his deck he was able to
3253s	take down swipe music
3255s	getting uh
3256s	using those
3258s	0 cards to go over the top plus
3262s	the dragon for 2 damage to uh everything
3265s	on this opponent's side
3268s	just that little bit of damage that
3272s	push does so it goes into the edge and
3274s	possessing
3275s	claiming the wind and tying up the score
3279s	i think grizzin did a very admirable job
3281s	of trying to stay alive he knew when he
3283s	had to commit dragons for healing but um
3285s	i think he also knew that with every
3287s	alexstrasza that was going on his own
3289s	face instead of um giving him a lot of
3292s	board presence it was also just slowly
3295s	um
3295s	going too much in favor of possessing uh
3298s	christine also found a very cool spotted
3302s	board clear on that last board with the
3304s	alextraza but the pick of the soul of
3306s	forest for possessing to give himself
3308s	that second layer of insurance knowing
3311s	that there's no more starfish in play is
3313s	very very uh heads up and that i think
3316s	was the play that won him the game we
3318s	are going to see gruzian try again on
3320s	the presser druid though up against the
3322s	mine rogue and um 40 health is a lot but
3327s	do you think the mine rogue is able to
3329s	get there
3332s	i mean we did see a similar match up
3335s	early on today where i was it the mind
3338s	road that came out on top uh yes
3340s	so i mean
3343s	again if possessor is able to draw into
3345s	those key combo cards you'll be able to
3348s	have those death rattles activate fairly
3350s	quickly uh while slayer cucina has to
3353s	quickly ramp up if he wants uh to get
3357s	the press
3358s	to uh you know play the prester and have
3361s	that dragon value
3364s	i wonder who will win this race chia
3367s	yeah it's tough to say because a while
3370s	ago grazing did have a lot of the
3372s	important pieces handed to him at the
3374s	top of his deck right now possessing has
3376s	the shutter chamber and the counterfeit
3378s	blade but missing actual naval mines um
3381s	missing a graveyard which is really the
3384s	combination of cards that starts the
3385s	damage ramping up um so we are going to
3389s	see him trade this cutlass first it
3392s	looks like i was wondering whether he
3394s	could just find the
3395s	time to play dagger
3399s	on the cute squirrel chia
3402s	yeah it must die no mercy
3409s	okay it did still die uh but
3412s	that honestly i don't know if possession
3414s	was happy about that there was the
3415s	option to maybe play out the cutlass so
3418s	that he could combo out the gone fishing
3420s	and got the draw but at the same time
3422s	the discount from the tradable and
3424s	trying to find something better is also
3426s	an option he could have gone for he does
3428s	now have naval mine and forsaken
3430s	lieutenant which represents a lot of
3431s	damage but the crucial missing piece
3434s	here is that snowfall graveyard
3438s	yeah and i think he needs it soon uh
3441s	if uh soy dresden is able to play that
3444s	press store he he has those extra
3447s	minions given from the scroll on his
3449s	deck for
3450s	some long-term value hoping he can
3452s	survive uh possessing just trying to
3455s	dredge up some answers we see the naval
3458s	mine there
3460s	it's also one is also already in his
3462s	hand though
3464s	so second mine and second lieutenant are
3467s	at the bottom of the deck which is a lot
3468s	of potential damage that possession will
3471s	never get but he still prioritizes the
3473s	trickster saying that he's in a bad
3475s	enough spot that he needs smoke screen
3477s	for this to work out well and that's not
3479s	smokescreen but close to the next best
3481s	outcome because of the shatter chamber
3483s	aura he can immediately get this 5 8 and
3486s	also another one from the forsaken
3488s	lieutenant making sure to get the attack
3489s	first before it transforms it's just a
3492s	nice little optimization here
3495s	yeah i'm considering whether or not to
3498s	attack into the number four
3500s	picking it up later
3503s	how what's like using it i
3505s	threw these stunts
3507s	well he prays for the good dragons um
3511s	he does get turned for prestor which is
3512s	amazing also waking up his stockade
3514s	prisoner because of the three cards
3516s	played but it is going to be minimum 11
3519s	damage going face so he
3521s	needs the good dragons asap
3524s	counterfeit blade is also after
3527s	uh by next turn going to give possessi
3529s	another 5 8.
3532s	yeah and those death metals
3536s	always threatening
3538s	down to 30 25 health now actually
3543s	but both
3545s	oh no
3546s	yeah
3546s	it's not great he
3548s	was really hoping for alexstrasza and
3550s	nyxia the big removal options even a
3552s	spawn of deathwing is considerable but
3555s	he does go for the skulker and cool
3557s	tooth mine to guarantee the guff that is
3560s	the highest that was the highest cost
3562s	card in his stack by that point after
3564s	presser had been pulled so now it is a
3566s	waiting game can he survive long enough
3569s	possibly going to get another 5 8 here i
3573s	don't know if he should be swinging that
3575s	face though i am kind of just looking at
3577s	swing face and then tooth on the
3579s	prester instead
3585s	yeah it looks like a present
3586s	with you um yes wing phase for a ton of
3590s	damage for 10.
3594s	we're using is a bit at a bit of a tough
3597s	spot here but he does have a go for the
3599s	card draw plus potentially cool
3603s	malygos is an absolutely
3608s	it's just such a godsend of a top deck
3610s	for gruzian here because he needs
3612s	something to remove these dragons he's
3614s	technically alive next turn by playing
3617s	goff um from his perspective he's even
3619s	alive on board the guff will save him
3621s	from the tooth burst in hand um but does
3624s	he have anything good enough after that
3627s	squirrels galore lets him get
3630s	a decent composting if he likes
3633s	oh the deathwing is back gia
3636s	it is but it blows up his entire hand so
3638s	i don't think it's being played out
3639s	right now but he's not gonna gain the
3642s	armor
3643s	oh you're right is he not gonna vape
3645s	guff
3648s	yesterday
3649s	versus composting play but oh he has
3652s	innervate which
3655s	okay he's not going guff red alert red
3658s	alert oh he's going deathwing right now
3660s	okay fair enough all right
3664s	so if you are going to deathwing then
3666s	the composting makes a lot of sense and
3668s	this is a very painful play to have to
3671s	make because it deletes his guff on top
3673s	of so many other resources but gerzin
3676s	knows that he had a very slim chance of
3678s	surviving if he left that board alive so
3680s	he's just kind of believing in his deck
3682s	to give him better dragons after that
3684s	these are not amazing ones but they'll
3686s	do for now because possessing is kind of
3688s	alive sketchy draws nothing he has naval
3692s	mind in hand and the other one was
3693s	already played right
3695s	oh wait no sorry the other navel's at
3696s	the bottom that's my bad
3702s	yeah possessive just weaponing up
3704s	uh here while smuggles in uh he has
3707s	those twilight drakes for
3709s	the
3710s	hp
3711s	and of course the whole that scalping
3714s	might be useful in terms of
3716s	creating a more threatening board hey he
3719s	has the amber washer for health too you
3721s	can get three of those played this turn
3723s	possession just never
3725s	gets lethal at this point anymore
3728s	amber amber amber or sure he doesn't
3730s	need to play all of it
3732s	because even if he just goes to 31
3735s	possess he hardly ever kills from that
3737s	position
3742s	it's slipping out of possession's grasp
3745s	and he knows that because one of those
3746s	came from moonlit guidance that there is
3748s	still another amber watcher in here
3752s	yeah i'm judging by
3753s	a
3754s	reaction he's just saying oh no this is
3757s	not good please stop healing up
3762s	uh
3763s	farsight
3766s	he was really hoping for like a
3768s	game-warping
3770s	spell generation like a drake fire
3771s	amulet of his own these are all very
3773s	middling outcomes it doesn't actually
3775s	give him much that didn't start in his
3778s	deck uh so he has to rely on the base
3780s	deck as a win condition at this point it
3783s	doesn't deal that much damage with a
3785s	forsaken lieutenant already used and the
3787s	other one being at the bottom he is just
3789s	taking provoked to trade it away finally
3792s	hit smoke screen though okay
3794s	that is a start
3796s	all right
3800s	now it's all in the car draw
3809s	you can dagger away the 2-1 and trade
3812s	his cutlass by the way the tooth target
3814s	on a 4-3 instead of cobalt scale vein
3817s	which is technically a 2-3 but it is
3820s	going to provide more attack over time
3821s	i'm not sure about
3830s	and here comes another uh brass wing if
3833s	soyuzen really wants to heal up back to
3836s	40
3837s	soon enough he's considering the toilet
3839s	trait just taking advantage of that
3842s	health
3844s	and his
3845s	hand size even though it is not a huge
3848s	hand size uh it might be just what he
3850s	needs
3851s	to
3853s	have that board control and slowly take
3855s	down a possessee's own board
3858s	yeah the fact that these have more than
3859s	one attack is already kind of good
3861s	enough for zorg zinnia so much time
3863s	because of all the healing we'll get the
3864s	honorable kill from the brass wing go up
3866s	to 35 remove some of possessi's board
3869s	and at this point grazien
3871s	is kind of running out of resources but
3874s	this board can certainly get him the
3876s	victory over time let's see if
3878s	possession is giving him that time
3880s	though because now there is finally the
3882s	snowfall graveyard which means that we
3884s	could see two more five-eighths plopping
3886s	on the board this turn
3889s	um
3891s	trying to see if he can get four or five
3892s	eighths if you prep graveyard you go
3896s	uh counterfeit blade you can't also
3899s	fit in
3901s	like the weapon replacement right
3904s	i think he's one mana short of getting
3905s	four or five eights this turn
3910s	deer
3912s	still a decent turn though because you
3914s	can get two five eights with snowfall
3916s	graveyard you can go burning blade
3918s	acolyte backstab it
3920s	uh draw the last mine from the bottom of
3922s	the deck
3925s	yeah and take advantage hopefully of
3928s	those snowfall graveyard spells
3930s	can do massive damage to the face so
3932s	again uh there are there is also
3935s	a perhaps four control game where he has
3938s	to
3939s	take out those drakes and the cobalt
3941s	scale being just continues to add some
3943s	damage to uh swordsmithing's dragons
3947s	although the touch does protect uh
3949s	possessing from a bit of that bleeding
3953s	jesse actually made the executive
3955s	decision to not go for a board here he
3958s	uh went for the naval mines and in the
3960s	order of sketchy first before the blade
3962s	so he wanted the chance at getting the
3964s	naval mine trigger instead of burning
3966s	blade acolyte missed on it and so his
3969s	total reach is not the maximum but it is
3972s	still a lot right there are 16 from two
3975s	mines and then a wicked stab for 20 but
3978s	there's still that amber watcher to
3979s	contend with and also he doesn't have a
3981s	way of killing the second mine
3982s	guaranteed uh he does however have gun
3985s	fishing which he knows there is still
3988s	that forsaken lieutenant at the bottom
3989s	of his deck so this could still work out
3991s	for possessing i just haven't done all
3994s	the math yet
3999s	um yeah we can get
4001s	16 phase 20 face 24 face if he finds a
4005s	way to kill off the second mine this is
4008s	lethal
4010s	we shall see
4012s	we can stab to the face
4014s	ooh swerker's in his reaction is always
4017s	fun to watch
4019s	[Music]
4022s	wait am i missing something oh sorry the
4024s	shatter chamber that's what i'm missing
4026s	i keep forgetting that the aura is
4027s	intact so yes all the naval mines get to
4030s	die and this is well above lethal for
4032s	possessing if that other mine was not
4035s	able to kill itself off he was exactly
4037s	one damage off of lethal but this was
4039s	very well calculated from possessing
4041s	knowing that even if he missed the 50 50
4043s	outcome on the naval mine proc on his
4046s	counterfeit blade which he did miss he
4048s	had enough damage to get there even past
4050s	the three amber watchers total played
4053s	throughout that game very very
4055s	impressive stuff and it means cuisine is
4057s	back to the drawing board with his
4058s	presser druid taken two losses on it so
4061s	far yeah which it means he will have to
4064s	face up against possesses hunter deck
4068s	which i will say is a pretty even
4070s	matchup gia uh but what do you think
4074s	um quest hunter into prestor druid i
4077s	actually really like the pressure drew
4079s	its odds into that um the hunter doesn't
4082s	quite get enough pressure rolling
4084s	earlier on to um deny the pressure druid
4088s	from safely getting down the lady
4090s	prestor and then later on when the
4092s	hunter is trying to beat them via damage
4095s	well pressure druid starts at 40 they
4097s	probably have a lot of armor from guff
4099s	by that point as well they can generate
4101s	a lot of healing and i think they are
4104s	more than likely to be able to kill off
4106s	the hunter uh one way i have lost the
4109s	match up frequently as druid versus
4113s	quest hunter is if the quest hunter gets
4115s	early b stalker tavish and then they go
4117s	for an animal companion based game plan
4119s	instead of burst based uh and then that
4122s	can sometimes generate one too many
4125s	boards and i have one too few death
4127s	wings to get through it
4130s	yeah um a matter of trying to get that
4132s	quest done um making use of that hero
4135s	power and of course that all those beast
4138s	energies
4140s	plus there's also the secret uh package
4142s	to contend with from zoy gruzin's side
4147s	yeah the
4149s	secrets from the quest hunter are
4151s	certainly
4153s	disruptive if it's ice trap i would say
4155s	against the pressure druid because they
4158s	don't have that many spells that they
4159s	can freely use to test for it if you're
4162s	in a position where for example you
4164s	really need many dragon resources and
4166s	your only card draw spell is the moonlit
4168s	guidance it takes five mana total to
4171s	play it through an ice trap and that can
4173s	be pretty annoying the explosive trap
4175s	can also be disruptive if all of your
4178s	dragons are two health or less and
4180s	that's not an uncommon situation because
4184s	a lot of the base minions are unhealthy
4188s	that's correct
4195s	hey sorry cruisin opting to keep the
4197s	peasant for that
4199s	extra card draw
4201s	i'm actually shocked at the peasant keep
4203s	here because he's going second so he
4206s	knows possess he plays quest on turn one
4208s	gruzen um
4210s	presumably plays his present on turn one
4212s	and it takes any damage though for
4214s	possession to remove that right away and
4216s	small damage spells are what possessee
4219s	wants to play to progress his quest
4221s	however gruzin is in a situation where
4224s	possessive has no cheap damage spell in
4226s	fact he's drawn double ice trap which is
4228s	terrible oh no i wonder if that is a
4231s	calculated risk from soya gruzen knowing
4235s	that there are a bunch of spells but
4237s	there is still that slight chance of not
4239s	having an answer
4241s	to
4242s	his one mana minion
4245s	and one peasant ends it man hunter race
4248s	was right possession is just going to
4250s	get soloed by this two one until turn
4252s	four it looks like when he can finally
4254s	kill it off at the very least he plays a
4257s	secret so he's
4259s	okay i was going to say he was bluffing
4261s	grazien to not attack with the peasant
4263s	because explosive and freezing would
4265s	both uh neuter the card draw but
4267s	christine is fearless here and with that
4269s	attack he now knows it's guaranteed ice
4271s	trap and he can remove the ice trap very
4273s	easily with just a coin or aquatic form
4276s	or innervate
4278s	no that's right and
4280s	just continuing to pepper possess his
4282s	face knowing what that secret is
4285s	uh constant damage and that peasant
4288s	value from all the way from turn one gia
4292s	yeah he's gonna get so much card draw
4294s	which is amazing giving given that he
4297s	still doesn't have a way to find prestor
4299s	at the moment going to cash in actually
4302s	on coin end innervate here to make sure
4304s	that he wakes up the stockade's prisoner
4307s	immediately and also gets the far watch
4308s	post down which is a pretty big deal he
4311s	is playing aggro druid essentially
4313s	against possessing here and possessing
4315s	finally picks up a damage spell can
4317s	remove that watch post but the peasant
4319s	is still alive and kicking and making up
4322s	for the fact that christine used so many
4324s	resources already
4326s	yeah that's right and if he wants to go
4328s	continue with the aggro road there's
4331s	that yeah that clothier attempt card for
4334s	it
4335s	that's amazing composting on four
4337s	targets is also great possessing doesn't
4339s	have room for a starfish or anything
4341s	like that in the
4343s	deck so gruzin will almost inevitably be
4346s	getting these four draws at some point
4350s	finally peasant has bit the dust
4353s	goodbye president
4355s	you've been
4357s	here for three turns
4364s	he still doesn't have a tutor effect for
4366s	prestar that's the good news for
4368s	possessee
4370s	yeah a bit slow on that prester
4373s	draw um
4374s	let's see on the other hand even if he
4377s	does get that explosive trap secret does
4379s	not look very good because soyuzi can
4381s	just take advantage of that composting
4383s	spell and draw into more answers and
4385s	potentially that prester and um dragons
4389s	later on
4391s	actually crazy that he's gotten
4392s	possessed down to 19 just by playing
4395s	aggro druid essentially to the point
4396s	where possesses forced off of
4398s	barracodobane here trying to stem the
4400s	bleeding
4403s	moonlit to find finally the presser has
4406s	appeared
4409s	now the downside is that he cannot play
4411s	it immediately this turn and just draw
4412s	the original copy but that's okay what
4415s	that's gonna do is transform the presser
4417s	in in the deck into a six mana six seven
4420s	dragon of some sort
4423s	yeah we always want to see uh more of
4425s	that dragon value
4428s	oh possessing having the card draw
4430s	hopefully he gets what he needs for the
4432s	quest
4433s	progression but he may also have to
4435s	worry a bit about the board uh
4439s	the smallest amount of damage adding up
4443s	because grazing has gotten so far ahead
4445s	in the early game he's in a position now
4447s	where it just takes like an alex strazza
4450s	or alex rasa plus hale
4453s	little bits of dragon damage to actually
4455s	kill possessi
4456s	and he's found the guff now as well so
4458s	he won't be running out of card draw any
4461s	time soon
4462s	uh possessive finally though is able to
4465s	get the hero power down to zero this
4467s	turn so if he wants there's a full board
4469s	clear with the aim shot mark shot and
4471s	hero power
4476s	yeah that's true
4478s	um he can get rid of the 2-1 with his
4480s	3-5 sorry 2-2 with the 3-5
4484s	or
4485s	of course deal with the lady press store
4487s	and discover
4488s	i spell for other answers
4491s	when price nice
4492s	it's a cheap spell that means that he's
4494s	able to get tavish in hand next turn i
4498s	do like this order of mark shot on the
4499s	press star and then the hero power goes
4501s	down to zero and then he can
4504s	hero power the two two and then aim shot
4507s	okay i don't like this order anymore he
4509s	just missed uh like he could have
4512s	left the four damage hero power for next
4514s	turn right if you go mark shot on
4516s	prester
4517s	zero cost two damage hero power on the
4518s	two two and then end with aim shot on
4520s	the presser to kill it then you have
4522s	four damage aim shot for something later
4524s	on
4527s	i thought he was gonna do the right
4528s	order but just fumbled a bit at the end
4537s	okay
4539s	any acorns board refilled ish okay
4543s	very refilled all right many cute
4545s	squirrels
4551s	and it's a pretty good composting setup
4553s	for next turn for grazing and possessing
4556s	is gonna be able to make quick work of
4558s	this because he has the wound prey which
4560s	can kill off two minions uh tavis can
4562s	come down now as well refresh the hero
4564s	power after playing i'd assume ice trap
4568s	and then he can hero power everything
4570s	and trade whatever's left
4574s	instead of okay okay
4577s	it's continuing to perhaps stem the
4580s	bleeding of from potential big dragons
4583s	finally using that 35 to trade off a
4586s	small minion as opposed to using his
4590s	hero power for it
4593s	augustine is going to test for ice trap
4595s	first with the capture cool tooth mine
4598s	he said it's not it he has a very easy
4600s	clear on the tavish with the onyxian
4602s	drake on it and then brass wing for two
4605s	damage aoe it still leaves up the
4606s	barracuda bin though so he's gonna keep
4608s	digging for a full clear doesn't find it
4612s	and at the moment outside of the brass
4614s	wing none of these dragons are pushing
4616s	immediate face damage so possessing has
4618s	hope here even though he's gonna go down
4620s	to 10 health and he is still going to
4623s	contend with so many resources from
4625s	cuisine he can at least keep up with the
4628s	board removal and still have mana to
4630s	keep drawing here
4631s	yeah and with playing tracking he
4636s	just to weave in that more more of that
4638s	hero power
4640s	get rid of zlatan's board
4644s	dunbar bunker represents car draw it
4646s	will get him his explosive trap which
4648s	has big implications because it means
4652s	the explosive can be played before
4653s	multicaster and it represents one more
4655s	spell school so the multicaster gets i
4657s	think three draws here he hasn't played
4659s	the nature spell
4660s	uh has he played arcane i can't remember
4665s	don't wait quite recall either
4667s	yeah
4668s	so i actually think the multicaster only
4669s	gets two draws which is really
4671s	unfortunate for turn nine right um he
4673s	hasn't played it this whole time because
4675s	prior to the explosive it only got him
4677s	one draw
4680s	yeah and
4682s	right now story goes in
4683s	a bunch of cars to consider trying to
4686s	uh
4687s	unveil them
4690s	and
4691s	turned into onyxia which is actually a
4693s	pretty good outcome for a cuisine right
4695s	because sometimes you get in a position
4696s	as presser druid where you're like okay
4698s	i can fill the board super easily but
4700s	nothing has good stats and you can't
4702s	have good ways to spend your mana but
4704s	with this six seven inexia he gets to
4706s	have his cake and eat it picks up an
4708s	arcane shot from possessive's deck which
4710s	i really like this option because even
4712s	if this board gets cleared if cuisine
4714s	just finds an alex jazza he has lethal
4716s	on possessing still
4718s	yeah that's right i also like how
4719s	soyuzin use one of the whelps to attack
4722s	into him to attack him to the minion
4724s	just to test and and just to test out
4727s	for that freezing
4729s	trap
4730s	uh now possessing has to weigh enough
4732s	cars and weave enough hero powers to
4735s	clear the board um
4737s	raybos and nixia now no longer immune
4741s	right he gets too isolated as well and
4743s	play these uh freezing trap and because
4746s	he found shell shot he's gonna get the
4747s	full not full but three draws rather
4750s	than two which is not so bad there's the
4752s	arcane spell that he was missing
4755s	uh
4756s	okay he's deciding whether he wants to
4758s	freezing trap this or put it down to one
4761s	health and thus within range of the
4763s	explosive trap the freezing is not
4765s	entirely safe because uh possessing
4767s	knows there's a whelp in hand which
4770s	cuisine can use to actually rush and
4772s	proc the freezing so i think possessing
4774s	should put the anexia down to one health
4776s	here
4778s	oh no he's not doing it though okay
4785s	well
4786s	he's just hoping that grazing doesn't
4788s	have four damage and currently he
4790s	doesn't
4797s	just fishing for alexstrasza from the
4800s	amalgam first i think that makes a lot
4801s	of sense
4805s	this is
4806s	okay the twilight dragon grey
4808s	interesting pick because of his huge
4810s	hand size
4814s	now test ice trap with the arcane shot
4821s	and now he's free to go for moonlit
4822s	guidance and look for alexstrasza again
4827s	this is but amber watcher is fine means
4829s	he almost never dies next turn the whelp
4833s	to test for freezing makes a lot of
4835s	sense here and he'll get the good news
4838s	that it wasn't even there
4842s	yeah we see a nod from him as well
4845s	seeing
4847s	[Music]
4854s	of course healing himself
4856s	up from
4857s	uh hunter hero
4859s	power in the beginning
4861s	yes of course the other amber watcher so
4863s	possessing is a long ways off from being
4865s	to kill grazien it is once again an
4868s	awkward situation where because the
4871s	um
4872s	brood mother onyxia resource whelps that
4874s	gives the raid boss anexia immune
4876s	possession can't just hide behind
4878s	explosive trap here he has to go
4879s	explosive and then freezing in that
4882s	order i believe to make sure that the
4884s	onyxia doesn't actually get to connect
4886s	face
4891s	or alternatively kill off all the whelps
4894s	and get through the anexia the hard way
4898s	this is when making use of those
4901s	cheap spells getting rid of one wealth
4903s	at a time
4904s	uh
4908s	slowly but shirtless yeah he he's gonna
4910s	get rid of all these pesky wells
4913s	yeah looks good um i would also like to
4915s	see him leave up
4917s	the brewed mother onyxia because that
4920s	will
4921s	reset grazing's board to full at the end
4923s	of this turn which possibly doesn't mind
4925s	at all because he has explosive trap as
4927s	long as he kills the raid boss onyxia he
4929s	won't actually take damage from that
4931s	board and that kind of leaves grazian in
4932s	a position where he has to attack anyway
4936s	and proc the explosive chop if he wants
4938s	to play any new minions and he certainly
4939s	will want to play new minions so we are
4942s	seeing possession leave up the brood
4944s	mother for that reason nicely done
4948s	yeah i'm happy and exclusive just in
4951s	case
4954s	oh
4956s	oh okay never mind uh i was gonna say
4960s	the amalgam might be useful but he needs
4962s	to
4963s	play another dragon before activating it
4965s	to try to dig for that
4968s	remaining damage perhaps and alexstrasza
4971s	there it is that's a game
4974s	it was just a waiting game honestly for
4977s	christine how many tries at alexstraza
4980s	did he miss um he still had four cards
4982s	in deck to potentially find something
4984s	there alex razza
4985s	and hale all of that could have
4987s	represented lethal so one way or another
4990s	um he was going to find it i think uh it
4992s	was kind of unlucky to not have found it
4994s	by that point possessing just being
4996s	given a little bit of false hope but in
4999s	the end the presser druid takes the
5000s	favorable and now they
5003s	are left with
5005s	uh
5006s	well xl hunter for possessing and then
5010s	it's going to be the beast hunter for
5011s	cuisine
5017s	very exciting i love these mirror
5019s	matches
5020s	as you already know
5023s	um
5024s	yeah i'm interesting to see how
5026s	possessive fares against the beast
5028s	hunter hopefully his
5030s	card draw in the early game would be
5033s	better this time around we saw in this
5035s	last game he wasn't able to answer some
5038s	cuisines a peasant which
5041s	was able to do i believe six damage to
5043s	face before it got it was uh gone by
5046s	possesses turn three
5049s	yeah never underestimate the peasant
5050s	here i thought it was such a weird keep
5053s	but
5054s	it worked out for grazian i'm just gonna
5056s	go ahead and say i still don't like the
5057s	keep when you're going second against
5060s	axel hunter but well it did its work and
5063s	peasant is in the list once again for
5066s	the beast hunter here which
5068s	makes a lot of sense because you're
5070s	running k9 tron having a variety of one
5073s	drops to potentially dredge up and get
5075s	some extra board presence is very good
5078s	but that is only half the game plan for
5080s	the beast hunter of course where they
5082s	are still waiting to build up to their
5084s	big beasts in the form of harpoon gun
5087s	dredging them out or having the ashar
5089s	and saber and sunken saber pulling them
5091s	from the deck
5094s	yeah that's right and you know having
5096s	that king crush at the end maybe perhaps
5099s	getting him out again with spells
5102s	uh possessing has a lot of
5105s	scary beasts to contend with
5108s	though he does have all those um secrets
5111s	that might help him
5113s	with freezing traps etc
5115s	yeah freezing trap in particular is a
5118s	really good one against beast hunter
5120s	especially if you're able to isolate
5122s	mountain bear on their board they really
5124s	don't want to attack and have that go
5125s	back into their hand um and in the early
5128s	game the small minions are generally
5130s	dealt with pretty easily by the small
5132s	spells from quest hunters so i do like
5134s	possessions chances here but if gruzian
5136s	gets off to one of those amazing quick
5138s	starts where he gets multiple uh beasts
5141s	out early that can be a little bit too
5143s	much for possessing to deal with that
5145s	first tracking already was an
5146s	interesting decision point for cuisine
5148s	though because he had the option to
5150s	guarantee b stalker tavish on turn six
5153s	and uh shift to
5155s	a bit of a hero power oriented game plan
5159s	but it is generally not as efficient as
5161s	the tavish for possessing would be
5163s	because possession gets that zero cost
5165s	hero power later
5167s	on yeah that's right he
5170s	plays this one with divine shield uh
5172s	although no max in hand for that
5176s	above
5178s	and the click clocker is actually a
5180s	pretty problematic minion for possessive
5182s	because uh the hunter quest doesn't
5184s	interact particularly well with divine
5186s	shield the condition is that you need to
5188s	deal damage with your spells and if you
5190s	play a spell into the divine shield it's
5192s	not actually dealing damage so if
5194s	possessing wants to remove this he has
5196s	to give up one spell without actually
5198s	progressing his quest uh
5200s	except if it's shell shot because this
5202s	deals um damage on the divine shield and
5205s	then on the regular body however it
5207s	deals the three damage burst so the
5209s	clickfucker will survive here um so he's
5212s	gonna coin out the barb nuts to finish
5214s	it off
5214s	yeah i'm using a total of four spells
5217s	uh with of course the addition of the
5219s	coin
5221s	may not be
5222s	super great in terms of taking out other
5224s	earlier minions but again some quest
5227s	progression on possessive's part
5231s	yeah bit unfortunate for cuisine that
5233s	he's picked up hydradon and mountain
5235s	bear but as long as he doesn't draw
5236s	other mountain bear and king crush um
5238s	early on then he still has some options
5241s	to draw good cards possessing insta
5242s	spring the trap looks really great you
5244s	don't have that many targets for
5246s	honorable kill here so i like that he
5247s	takes the opportunity while it was
5249s	presented to him christina is going to
5251s	get his sunken saber up now for one mana
5254s	next turn
5257s	we don't even see it but i know that's
5259s	what he picked
5265s	sassy has had a very good start with all
5268s	of the
5269s	secrets being drawn out by don baldar
5272s	bonker making his deck trimmed down
5274s	because on average a secret top deck is
5276s	not very good so the fact that he's
5278s	pulled them with bunker and with the
5280s	spring the trap makes things um a lot
5283s	better the prospects for his upcoming
5285s	draws problem is how to approach this
5287s	turn because it does look like a decent
5290s	timing to weave in the rajna john
5292s	because he doesn't have much better to
5293s	do with this mana however the roshan is
5295s	straight up dead to the harpoon gun on
5298s	the other side
5303s	that's right um
5309s	uh although he does
5311s	continue with some progression in his
5315s	quest even going as far as destroying
5317s	his
5318s	rush minion
5319s	just to weave in to help weave in that
5322s	hero power so we ping it up
5326s	getting that two damage to swing losing
5327s	his face
5330s	a bit rough for possessive that he
5331s	didn't have the mana to play explosive
5333s	as well since he prioritized getting
5335s	mark shot while there was a target and
5337s	that means that he didn't get
5339s	one more damage spell through this turn
5341s	it's fine though he can still get the
5342s	tavish in hand uh by playing explosive
5345s	and quick shot and i think all of these
5347s	are gonna go face he absolutely does not
5349s	need to bother with this mountain bear
5351s	this is just going to get frozen back to
5353s	the hand and possessing is making a very
5356s	quick headway towards just burning down
5359s	grazing he's going to be able to play
5360s	tavish next turn and he still has the
5363s	rajna john in hand for even more reach
5368s	yeah that's right and especially against
5371s	a
5372s	board
5373s	of minions
5375s	against soy disease or this elaine may
5378s	look a bit in hot water here uh
5380s	especially with potentially the two
5383s	explosive traps coming up
5386s	i like the choice to float three even
5388s	though like he could have spent it on
5390s	quick shot it just
5392s	he's in no danger of dying anytime soon
5395s	right and the tavish
5397s	if you the spell for post-tavish it just
5399s	represents two extra damage because of
5401s	the hero power refresh and it also
5403s	represents more damage when you're
5404s	playing raj
5406s	so pizassi i think
5408s	will be able to get lethal on turn eight
5410s	very very likely
5419s	i was gonna say is it ever failing
5422s	because cuisine's in a desperate enough
5424s	position where i felt like he needed
5426s	some amazing colossal like a kolak to
5429s	give him some breathing room i don't
5431s	know
5432s	first time i've ever called kolak
5433s	amazing
5438s	okay it does put possession in a
5439s	slightly awkward position now or if he
5441s	wants to play tavis it means cuisine can
5444s	kill off his ajar and saber into that
5445s	and potentially get a king crush going
5447s	face i think possession will quickly
5449s	realize though that's not enough damage
5451s	to be afraid of especially since he has
5453s	to freeze back the bear before any of
5455s	that can even happen
5459s	packet is a guaranteed king crush right
5461s	because the other mountain bear is in
5462s	hand now as well
5467s	oh yes that's wiggles in there pondering
5470s	his options
5475s	will he used quick shot to the base and
5477s	even more of that hero power damage yes
5482s	hey possess you just saying it's fine if
5484s	you get king crush i completely agree he
5486s	doesn't uh cuisine doesn't have enough
5488s	damage and he has to
5491s	um okay you can trigger the freezing
5493s	trap with the hydra head instead which
5496s	blur
5501s	and this actually means that cuisine is
5504s	going to be
5507s	a little bit off of like six damage off
5509s	of lethal yeah
5511s	not nearly enough to threaten possession
5514s	and that means that possession gets very
5517s	well above 13 damage next turn to close
5520s	out the game and take the series
5522s	i'm amazing
5525s	great gameplay from both players here
5528s	just knowing that secrets from soybeans
5531s	inside and try to play around that but
5533s	of course possessing does continue
5535s	weaving in his hero power having that
5537s	early uh
5539s	game
5540s	cheap spells to get rid of using minions
5543s	while doing his uh quest progression
5547s	these secrets really coming in a clutch
5549s	for him as well
5551s	right the freezing trap really showing
5553s	why it's so good against beast hunter
5555s	it's exactly what we talked about right
5557s	an isolated mountain bear it stopped
5559s	what 10 damage 15 damage over the course
5562s	of that game from one secret and really
5564s	taking advantage of the nature of beast
5566s	hunter possessing knew the game plan of
5569s	getting the damage through to face
5570s	didn't bother dealing with the sunken
5572s	saber he knew it was bait he knew that
5575s	even if a king crush were to be pulled
5576s	from that there was no way he was dying
5578s	that turn so just set up his own lethal
5581s	and nothing could stop that game plan
5583s	very nicely done and that means that
5585s	possessee gets to move on and amy today
5588s	is sunday which means that there's no
5590s	dual tournament action it is just single
5592s	elimination from here on out so
5594s	unfortunately for cuisine he has been
5596s	knocked out of the tournament he will be
5598s	walking away with two points this week
5601s	though and has a chance to accumulate
5603s	even more in the next coming weeks as
5605s	well
5608s	yeah that's right and with possessing
5610s	win he does head into the semi-finals
5614s	uh
5616s	next we do have some more quarter final
5619s	matches coming up uh
5624s	right yeah do you have fury hunter super
5627s	fake coming up next it's just a little
5628s	bit different from the graphic on screen
5630s	apologies for that we just had to adjust
5633s	some of the players to be more um
5635s	comfortable in their time zones and then
5638s	after that we will have blize bunny
5640s	hopper and then pasqua versus judgement
5643s	a great variety of lineups here i think
5645s	a lot of people are looking forward to
5647s	seeing super fake once again with that
5649s	160 card lineup unfortunately his
5652s	practice partner in fled has already
5654s	been knocked out so super fake is flying
5656s	the flag for the renathol stands here
5659s	only one left also a lot to look forward
5661s	to from pasqua's lineup uh i think he is
5665s	already well known for that extremely
5667s	long series versus bunny hopper
5669s	yesterday care of the quest priest and
5671s	we could see some more of that purified
5674s	shard action a bit later on but for now
5677s	we are just going to go to a quick break
5680s	while we wait for our players to get set
5682s	up don't go anywhere right after this
5684s	the quarterfinals of day three of week
5687s	one
5688s	continue
5692s	[Music]
5702s	[Applause]
5703s	[Music]
5707s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
5711s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
5714s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
5719s	with such ruthlessness
5722s	so deep and profound
5726s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
5733s	to uncover the truth
5735s	of murder most foul
5739s	the anima drifts across the floor
5742s	highlighting the creatures who walked
5744s	through my door
5746s	the motives are as black as night
5750s	avarice power revenge and blight
5756s	we watch the hero
5758s	uncover the clues
5760s	that lead to the truth
5764s	behind this dark blues
5768s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
5772s	choose your power without heavenly bias
5776s	for at the end
5778s	they will burn in the fire
5781s	when it is known whose slave
5786s	the sire
5788s	[Music]
5810s	[Music]
5843s	[Music]
5850s	[Music]
5888s	hello everybody and welcome back to
5890s	hearthstone grand master's last call
5892s	apologies for amy's camera it looks like
5895s	you've been having some issues but
5896s	you're here aren't you amy
5899s	thanks for having me here
5901s	that's right i couldn't possibly cast
5903s	one more series um just by myself it's
5907s	gonna be now the second quarter final of
5910s	the day between fury hunter and uh oh my
5915s	gosh
5916s	now my screen is messing up super fake
5918s	yes
5919s	we were very excited about this just a
5921s	while ago 160 card lineup anti-shaman
5925s	action and we already saw yesterday from
5928s	fled it not quite panning out so well
5930s	because there wasn't a shaman on the
5932s	other side but amy the target is here
5934s	it's appeared for super fake
5937s	yes it is
5939s	i am very excited to see this
5941s	uh fairy hunter versus super fake action
5944s	i mean we have big spellmish versus ping
5947s	page we have thief rogue there and the
5950s	unpredictability of that i'm excited to
5952s	see what the bands are and looks like
5954s	it's
5955s	druid for future hunter side and
5958s	hunt hunter for his opponent
5961s	that is right we won't be seeing any
5964s	celestial druid action nor will we be
5967s	seeing more of that xl quest hunter but
5971s	that's fine um we are getting a good
5973s	variety of other decks and amy i'm
5975s	actually super excited to be casting
5977s	super fake because uh we got to see that
5980s	cursed warlock which i know you're a fan
5981s	of and also paladin which was i think
5984s	banned away the first time we saw the
5985s	lineup and it's going to be pretty fun
5987s	to see how the 40 cards 40 health
5990s	interplay helps out with these you can
5993s	take a look first at fury hunter's
5994s	achievements though
5996s	yeah for sure again he played in the
5998s	second season with grand masters and
6000s	reached top us
6003s	and reached a very top position in those
6005s	masters tours but moving right on over
6008s	he has opted for his big spell mage deck
6011s	against uh whatever it is that super
6013s	fake would play uh
6017s	let's see of course we have the room the
6020s	arc mage shenanigans potentially
6023s	happening that can work in his favor or
6025s	against we've seen chansu uh with that
6028s	card and not
6030s	getting the best of the best outcomes
6032s	but maybe fury hunter will uh
6036s	have a great outcome with roon
6038s	of course there's also magister ground
6040s	grass for the extra spell
6043s	shenanigans
6045s	yeah and we have seen quite a few runes
6048s	played already this weekend fury hunter
6050s	has gotten a bit more fortunate with
6052s	them than chantsu has i think it's fair
6054s	to say i wonder if it will continue to
6057s	pan out well for him but taking a look
6059s	over at super fakes records here it's
6061s	just pretty fun to see that clean across
6064s	the board xl lineup and we also know
6067s	that it is his second season of grand
6069s	masters one of the relatively newer
6072s	players here and he's had a pretty good
6074s	record so far not the biggest sample
6076s	size but certainly the willingness to go
6079s	for risks and off-the-wall lineups has
6082s	been panning out well for him here it's
6084s	one thing to build wacky lineups it's
6086s	another to have them actually hit their
6088s	mark
6091s	and that's right and
6093s	just
6094s	getting to see all this action play i'm
6096s	very excited about that uh looks like
6099s	from super fake moving on uh he has
6103s	opted for the excel ping mage taken
6106s	advantage of that 10 extra those extra
6108s	cards from prince ronaldo plus that 10
6111s	extra health um
6114s	a bit more
6115s	favoring a big spell mage against ping
6119s	just because of the records but we've
6122s	seen super figs always rise to the
6124s	occasion uh and being very being
6127s	familiar with his deck and all these
6130s	uh moves uh
6132s	uh he he might be a great contender for
6136s	fairy hunter's big spell mage
6140s	uh it's pretty rare honestly that i see
6142s	this ping mage on the ladder let alone a
6145s	40 card version but boy has it been
6148s	putting in the work we saw super fake
6150s	and fled proving that they're not just
6152s	flat earthers with their lineup they
6154s	have a real reason for why they go for
6156s	these types of decks that additional
6158s	health gives them a lot more staying
6160s	power against board oriented decks just
6163s	like the boat rogue and the fel demon
6165s	hunter
6166s	those are not in the lineup for fury
6168s	hunter but the shaman is there which
6170s	super fake will want to be preying on
6172s	the crucial thing to note is that fury
6174s	hunter's rogue though is of the thief
6176s	variety so it has a bit more chance to
6179s	scam some of these 40 card control based
6182s	decks for now though we're gonna see big
6184s	spell mage versus ping mage and this is
6187s	right off the bat a very interesting
6189s	match-up because both players have
6191s	access to that magister dawn grasp
6196s	yeah that's correct uh looking forward
6199s	to any spell mage
6201s	unpredictability shenanigans both
6204s	players considering carefully here in
6206s	terms of what they want to mulligan and
6210s	keep
6211s	uh
6212s	oh connie uh potentially not so bad
6215s	maybe in the earlier game uh just speak
6218s	or the late game just to go against
6222s	those uh big spells
6224s	uh then again okay and the early game
6226s	did not could deny theory hunter of a
6232s	spell heavy deck or a very good minion
6236s	yeah okani is a very good one to bring
6238s	up because usually that being kept and
6241s	blocking a minion is one of the best
6242s	ways to play around barbaric sorceress
6245s	or belinda which fury hunter has been
6247s	very good at drawing on curve every time
6250s	he's been on stream so far he has kept
6252s	the barbaric sorceress alongside mailbox
6254s	dancer and that to me makes a lot of
6256s	sense the mailbox not only helps him
6259s	turbo out the barbaric sorceress a bit
6261s	faster its death rattle also potentially
6263s	lets fury swap one of his big cost
6265s	spells into zero cost if that coin is
6268s	left in hand uh by super fake or a fury
6270s	hunter times the mailbox dancer's
6272s	deathrattle in such a way that he can
6274s	get the ideal swap barbaric sorceress is
6276s	a card that i think you don't keep in
6278s	the big spell mage mirror but because
6280s	this is ping mage that doesn't run those
6283s	expensive spells they just have flurry
6285s	wildfire ice barrier things that are
6287s	pretty cheap the barbaric can get a lot
6289s	of work done
6293s	yes correct and
6295s	yuri hunter
6296s	going second and
6298s	using that mailbox dancer to potentially
6301s	give himself and fury hunter more coins
6304s	super fake there he has that three man
6308s	yup minion plate but there's also the
6311s	possibility playing finley to just reset
6314s	his hand
6315s	or of course just taking down that
6317s	mailbox to give himself more options
6321s	now he could have taken down the mailbox
6323s	just for the ping but i really like the
6324s	option to use first flame and ping face
6327s	for a couple of reasons pinging face is
6329s	part of his game plan later on even
6331s	though it's a small ping for now um he
6333s	is going to have to burn down fury
6335s	hunter one way or another and also using
6337s	the first flame uh gets him closer to
6339s	that active queen azshara which is
6341s	something he wants to get uh down as
6343s	soon as possible uh the okani being
6346s	played out here to prevent a potential
6348s	six drop coming down is huge he knows
6351s	that this is a possibility because fury
6353s	hunter started going second and he has
6355s	seen the mailbox dancer giving perry
6357s	hunter the double coins so fury hunter
6359s	here is just gonna sacrifice his
6360s	amplified snow flurry into the oconee
6362s	proc uh knows that there's not an easy
6365s	way around it and just accepting that
6368s	that minion will disappear into the void
6370s	the good news for super fake is that
6372s	barbaric sorceress currently doesn't
6374s	have a high cost spell enhanced swap but
6377s	come turn seven uh sorry come turn six
6380s	that will be available because fury
6382s	hunter can pull uh one of them with deep
6385s	water evoker
6388s	yeah that's right and
6392s	sorry i wasn't able to fully focus on
6394s	the board just because of some camera
6396s	issues but it looks like we're back
6398s	online
6399s	um but yeah we are heading into the mid
6403s	game now with your hunter trading off
6406s	the amulets and super facebook kanye on
6409s	board
6419s	all right azshara active
6421s	looking pretty good
6423s	um whether or not super fake takes
6426s	colossal or ring is up for debate though
6428s	generally the ring is a good option to
6431s	copy wildfire just get even more
6433s	stacking on the hero power but he's in a
6437s	situation where he doesn't really have
6439s	any spells he wants to copy and also
6442s	there's the finley that i feel like he
6444s	wants to use sooner rather than later
6447s	and if you
6448s	thinly um
6450s	with that ring in hand it's just kind of
6452s	a waste so maybe you could go ajara for
6454s	the colossal and then play the colossal
6456s	and then play finley afterward
6465s	oh yeah for sure and
6467s	not freezing that to make sure it
6468s	doesn't get a potential trade-in or just
6473s	getting
6474s	the perfect uh
6477s	minions down to lower health
6479s	uh he does have the option to
6482s	ping here
6484s	and again perhaps use that family to
6486s	reset his hand but of course he doesn't
6497s	okay um
6499s	barbaric sorceress is not a particularly
6502s	good option for fury because he has seen
6504s	the second flame used as well i seen a
6508s	flurry so not high odds that it actually
6511s	swaps one of his spells into something
6512s	cheap so probably just gonna hold on to
6515s	the coins to naturally play out either
6517s	rune or
6519s	amulet a little bit later on
6526s	yeah and you know having that farting
6528s	don grabs to continue to uh free super
6531s	fakes for
6533s	it is
6535s	really good um
6538s	just denying uh could contin that board
6541s	control
6542s	now super feed considering what his
6544s	options are he can't play the queen of
6546s	shara uh there is the of course reckless
6549s	apprentice as an option or the
6552s	multicaster
6554s	yeah the apprentice does allow for a
6556s	full board clear if he also pings the
6558s	varden but
6559s	it does get a lot more value later on
6562s	after he has played his own magister
6564s	dawn grasp so i do like the option for
6566s	multicaster it only gets two draws here
6568s	if i'm not mistaken from the fire and
6569s	frost spell schools not amazing but
6573s	super fake really needs a re-roll on
6575s	this hand he's just trying to get to his
6577s	own hero card as soon as possible really
6580s	like the option of taking down the
6581s	mailbox dancer and immediately using the
6583s	coin so that he doesn't leave fury
6585s	hunter the option of killing it off on
6587s	his own turn and then immediately
6588s	swapping with the barbaric sorceress
6592s	yeah very intricate
6593s	and insightful gameplay from a super
6596s	fake here
6597s	to get advantage of the coin just to
6600s	deny a fairy hunter
6605s	all right first amulet is played out
6607s	that is a kala ghost which means
6610s	potential zero cost rune next turn and
6612s	then anexia to fill out the board not
6615s	bad whatsoever
6617s	oh dawn grasp
6622s	there it is
6623s	do you believe gia or will he take a
6625s	more disciplined play
6628s	don grasp is just too good here i
6630s	it will upgrade the hero power to three
6632s	damage i think so he can get an
6635s	honorable kill on the anexia after
6636s	trading at 2 damage and a multicaster
6639s	into it
6641s	it feels terrible to have to leave
6642s	kalagos on board i am not going to deny
6645s	that but
6646s	i think super fake is meant to accept
6648s	the rune and pray it's not too
6651s	disruptive of him
6652s	have that scaling hero power and then
6654s	get the huge reckless apprentice next
6656s	turn
6658s	yeah the reckless apprentice will be
6660s	great against
6661s	any um minions that fear hunter might
6664s	uh
6665s	great oh
6667s	it's wildfire as well now so the hero
6669s	power deals four
6670s	uh does that mean he can't get an
6672s	honorable kill anymore i'm trying to
6673s	look for one uh
6677s	very hunter reacting oh sorry just vibe
6681s	okay i'm so sorry i probably missed a
6683s	wildfire proc at some point so actually
6686s	it was awkward a while ago but now that
6688s	it hits the wildfire from dawn grasp it
6690s	actually works out perfectly that is
6692s	absolutely insane for super fake hero
6694s	power dealing seven from this point
6700s	amazing
6701s	oh
6702s	what will fury hunter do
6706s	all right more dragons
6709s	all the dragons
6712s	average dragons
6717s	and we have that maligos
6721s	and an aggressive rune i think it is
6723s	very reasonable here oh he doesn't
6725s	attack with his webs first interesting
6727s	okay
6733s	i think secrets is pretty useful in
6736s	general here if only to just
6738s	distract super fake a little bit
6741s	um superfick also has knowledge that
6744s	the only spells in hand right now are
6746s	two second flames because he saw from
6747s	the deep breath that it only dealt one
6749s	damage
6756s	well i mean
6758s	the wealth they're managing to survive
6760s	the rune uh not needing to
6762s	trade
6764s	one of uh super fake's minions and just
6767s	going for a face with that one bit of
6769s	chip damage watch out for the cute
6771s	dragons gia they can
6773s	perhaps pack a punch over time
6776s	yeah perhaps perhaps
6779s	okay uh queen azshara is active but i
6783s	feel like super fake wants to be able to
6785s	ping every single turn from here this is
6786s	his win condition right just clocking
6789s	seven every single turn um it looks like
6791s	a decent reckless apprentice as well the
6793s	problem is if he pings face he's leaving
6796s	the caligos on board i say it's a
6798s	problem but it might not actually be
6801s	because super fake knows right now the
6802s	only spells in hand are just second
6804s	flames not huge discounts to be had from
6806s	the caligos so ping face and reckless
6810s	looks okay to me if he wants to get
6812s	greedy he can hold the reckless a little
6813s	bit longer um
6815s	the next turn he could also just think
6817s	about
6818s	weaving in the or finding time to play
6820s	the telon it's a very important card to
6822s	draw him his more dresh and get that
6824s	game ending damage
6827s	yeah that's right um sun sets i'm just
6830s	very excited and curious to see where he
6832s	uses his hero power
6835s	considering that
6840s	[Music]
6843s	face face face face face
6846s	i'm team ping face here
6849s	if it wasn't obvious
6852s	but i think he pointed at you sarah
6857s	oh okay fine
6859s	it's reasonable he just wants to be a
6861s	bit safer
6865s	oh what is the spell
6867s	okay
6869s	box time
6871s	what's in the box
6874s	probably something that blows up fury's
6876s	own board
6878s	maybe also damage is super fake maybe
6880s	draws him some cards too seven mana
6882s	wasted one draw 11 mana left to be spent
6886s	oh my goodness never mind that's a good
6888s	box
6889s	and that face too and not his own which
6892s	is always a plus
6894s	yeah he actually left his minions intact
6896s	like that never happens to me when i
6898s	play box on empty opponent board i
6901s	always blow up my own board
6903s	okay
6905s	um
6907s	okani seems okay here
6914s	it doesn't really
6917s	stop that much if fury hunter thinks
6919s	there are cheap minions or cheap spells
6921s	but
6922s	in the world where the only minions are
6925s	expensive the okani can block something
6927s	pretty good
6932s	or at worst eat a ping
6937s	yeah
6939s	probably does eat the ping here right so
6941s	that super fake can then safely land his
6944s	tail on
6957s	could be that super fake thought it was
6958s	spell counter that's why he went
6959s	starfish or he just thought even if it's
6961s	minion counter it's fine if he loses the
6963s	starfish the more important thing is to
6966s	land taylon it's actually pinging
6968s	kalagos he is fully committed to playing
6970s	control here
6972s	which is reasonable because he doesn't
6975s	have infinite health he's played his
6977s	last barrier
6978s	fair enough
6981s	that's true and
6984s	gosh i'm just worried about that 7
6987s	damage hero power super
6989s	uh super aggressive gameplay there and
6992s	if he does do a more control
6995s	line up as he said
6997s	having that hero power would be really
6999s	helpful against his opponent's board
7003s	i can't take him okay fury hunter going
7006s	for apprentice which
7009s	i mean
7010s	on the one hand he does know that
7011s	mordres is coming
7013s	but on the other hand he knows that if
7015s	he kills the tail on the same turn he
7016s	plays the for a watch post it at least
7019s	means super fake can not
7021s	ping and play more dash on the same turn
7024s	wait what's happening with fury why is
7026s	he panicking
7027s	are you confused
7033s	i don't know i thought that was planned
7034s	out deliberately that he would try to
7036s	get them more josh for nine so at least
7038s	um he goes through it and doesn't allow
7041s	a ping on the same turn
7046s	hey yeah and having that watch
7049s	uh having that tower just
7052s	denying the more dress plus ping was uh
7056s	fairly good on fairy hunters
7061s	was there zero spells in hand for super
7063s	fake so trades back the amulet
7066s	gets snow flurry to at least stop the
7068s	more dress from going face but the
7070s	problem is this hero power now gets an
7072s	honorable kill on the barbaric
7075s	and that means it's gonna deal night
7077s	damage
7079s	after this
7080s	oh goodness it's just the power of ping
7083s	mage uh you mentioned earlier that you
7085s	haven't seen it much in
7088s	the standard climate ladder
7091s	but you think it might be just
7093s	showcasing what a powerhouse ping which
7095s	can be especially without all that
7097s	increasing
7099s	um
7101s	paying damage as the game goes
7105s	late into the late game
7108s	goes for bran azshara now and
7110s	porn i also think is a very good option
7113s	at this point in the game usually it's
7115s	like not necessarily as good as straight
7118s	up damage but because fury hunter has
7120s	played double runes already on
7122s	apprentice hasn't played dawn grasp he
7124s	actually has almost no ways of dealing
7126s	with a white board off the second pick
7129s	though i was gonna say i was looking at
7130s	the time zone just to have a bit more
7132s	card draw it's gonna shuffle on average
7135s	some garbage into super fake snack but
7137s	it's immediately two more cards in hand
7139s	at least
7140s	yeah i like that he took advantage of
7143s	that brand of battle cry just continue
7145s	to get more of that spell
7148s	legendary spell value
7151s	now fury hunter has to think about uh
7153s	what it is that super fake has chosen
7155s	and how he would
7156s	counter that down the line
7159s	well unfortunately he can't really
7162s	because he already has to expend quite a
7164s	few resources to clear this board he
7166s	found the trades that lets him keep the
7168s	reckless apprentice at least but if it's
7171s	only 2 damage aoe there's
7173s	quite a few colossals that survive that
7178s	what's in the box gia
7181s	let's see
7190s	um
7192s	playing these spells will also activate
7194s	his commander sivara so he'll get back a
7196s	tidestone and uh horn of the colossus
7199s	horn of the ancients if he wants
7206s	now the najar gains him eight armor okay
7209s	face
7211s	setting up the lethal train
7214s	slowly but surely
7217s	yeah
7218s	you win not even worrying about the
7220s	magister
7221s	and
7223s	uh
7223s	the minion and with that fury hunter
7226s	bows out super fake taking the first win
7230s	that's right uh fury hunter i think knew
7233s	that it was already slipping out of his
7234s	grasp towards the end there even a
7237s	couple turns before we actually saw the
7239s	concede because superfic turned the
7241s	corner of dealing with the dragons
7243s	relatively quickly he hit the double
7245s	wildfires he hit the early magister dawn
7247s	grasp and that's the huge difference
7249s	maker there the downside of running xl
7252s	uh version for ping mage is that you are
7254s	less likely to find the dawn grasp early
7256s	so the fact that super fake got to have
7258s	his cake and eat it he got to have 40
7260s	cards 40 health and get the hero card
7263s	what was this like on curve basically or
7266s	turn eight then there was almost no
7268s	downside to running extra cards in the
7271s	deck so back to the drawing board for
7274s	fury hunter and the bad news is
7276s	he's not even taken a loss
7279s	on the shaman right that's the deck that
7281s	is the weakest in the lineup versus
7283s	super fake
7285s	oh what no
7288s	uh
7289s	yeah but you know always excited to see
7292s	what fear hunter has of his sleeve
7296s	we saw earlier on how
7298s	uh in this matchup in particular he did
7300s	have that now goes for those rune uh
7302s	discounts although he may not have been
7305s	like super in his favor
7306s	but
7307s	again moving on he
7309s	as you said and opting for the thief
7311s	rope next and uh i don't know about
7313s	eugene but again that that
7316s	unpredictability i quite like about the
7319s	thief rogue
7321s	yeah it's definitely a deck that can get
7324s	on somebody's nerves namely mine
7326s	especially when my opponent generates a
7328s	whirlpool or some sort of board clear
7330s	like that that they can play over and
7332s	over and over again because of
7334s	contraband stash because of tess gray
7336s	mean
7337s	they can definitely adopt different game
7340s	plans depending on what comes off of
7342s	that jackpot what comes off of azshara
7345s	generally for the colossal and then what
7348s	comes off of the reconnaissance like
7349s	they can play aggressive they can play
7351s	control but against the cursed warlock
7353s	the thief rogue definitely needs to have
7356s	more of an aggressive stunt in my
7357s	opinion they do not have infinite time
7360s	against the curses that stock up very
7363s	quickly
7364s	yeah that's true especially with cards
7366s	like abyssal wave in terms of
7368s	potentially clearing minions or like the
7370s	brand combo with super extra curses in
7374s	potentially fury hunter's
7376s	hand um he has a lot to deal with in
7379s	terms of using up that mana and rather
7382s	deciding whether or not to play out
7384s	those curses just to mitigate that
7386s	oncoming damage
7389s	true um the abyssal wave that you
7391s	highlighted is a very important one to
7394s	get rid of
7396s	a lot of the card generations from the
7399s	rogue however four damage break point
7402s	can sometimes come a little bit short
7404s	against the wild pawn knoll and against
7406s	the five five sharks from blood in the
7409s	water it's also a little bit short of
7410s	clearing queen azshara so actually for
7413s	the warlock abyssal wave tends to need
7415s	to be accompanied by some other things
7417s	their four damage break point also comes
7419s	from dragged below and that doesn't
7421s	interact that well with the thief rogue
7424s	toolkit however there's still the
7426s	entitled customer which generally can
7428s	clear a board of any size as long as
7430s	super fake has had the time to draw
7432s	we're gonna see him keep the rune
7433s	mithral rod which is a bit of a greedier
7436s	option but because he's on 40 health
7438s	that generally can still get a lot of
7441s	procs and discounts and can make those
7444s	huge curse combos with bran or
7447s	tamzin doable in the same turn
7451s	that's correct i
7454s	up high hopes for fury hunter there with
7456s	his wild pawn no discounts later on in
7459s	the game
7461s	i'm super fake just like tapping
7462s	immediately just to figure out what his
7464s	turn three play would be uh he has the
7467s	option of prince ornato for some tempo
7470s	but of course there are other options as
7472s	well
7473s	fairy hunter's opening hand is like so
7476s	close to being amazing right if he had
7478s	gotten a tradable on turn one that means
7481s	that the knolls both of them would have
7482s	been playable straight away on turn two
7485s	um he delayed a little bit by coining
7487s	the shroud but i do really like the play
7489s	of shroud before the jackpot which means
7492s	that you have a chance of discounting
7493s	the nose before you turn into a rogue um
7496s	the nulls now went to zero as it happens
7498s	because there was a curse put in his own
7500s	hand by super fake
7502s	these curses always have such weird
7504s	interactions
7506s	yeah
7507s	like how helping
7510s	helping in terms of potentially hand
7513s	size when it's dragons or
7515s	again with the curse they're helping
7517s	with the getting those nose out i'm
7520s	wondering what super fake would do to go
7523s	up up against these he doesn't have the
7525s	answer yet so he goes face of course
7528s	right picks up touch of the nathrism
7530s	which is a decent option from his
7532s	snuggling especially if his three four
7534s	gets to connect with the three five oh
7536s	my goodness this jackpot has found
7538s	dragon fire amulet drake fire amulet i
7542s	don't even know the name still but
7544s	all i know is that there's gonna be two
7546s	big dragons coming out on turn five for
7548s	fury hunter that's even earlier than big
7550s	spell mage does it yeah a term for lady
7553s	prester listen we have dragons under
7557s	uh on an earlier turn
7563s	so a bit rough for fury hunter that oh
7565s	sorry for super fake that he'll have to
7567s	leave these knolls on board but i do
7569s	think he needs to play the rune metal
7571s	rod now this is such a fickle card in
7573s	the sense that if you miss it out on
7575s	playing on curve it just becomes
7577s	progressively more and more terrible
7578s	because it means you're playing other
7580s	cards and discounting less of them but
7582s	here we go that's a deathwing cobalt
7584s	scale being fine
7587s	yeah lots lots of things to contend with
7589s	here especially with the kobo scalping
7592s	buffing up other minions that may go
7594s	face depending if super fake is able to
7597s	clear that board
7600s	he had the other customer in hand
7601s	already but playing the top duck one
7603s	sure um i don't think fury hunter can
7605s	get salty about that he rolled deathwing
7607s	he rolled drake fire in the first place
7609s	uh so
7611s	that means that super fake sets up for
7613s	clear on the following turn with the
7615s	second entitled customer but not before
7617s	he takes a solid 16 damage this turn
7622s	that must hurt
7628s	i wonder if he'll weave in the mistress
7630s	before or after the entitled customer
7634s	you could also play nagaling but
7642s	what are you thinking
7643s	or a mistress
7646s	the mystery stems to blink just a little
7648s	bit though
7649s	but
7651s	um
7652s	what is the spell on the nagaling again
7655s	uh do you recall it's touch of the
7657s	nazism so it actually does also stem the
7659s	bleeding but a little bit less than the
7660s	mistress and there's the line of playing
7663s	the customer and then mistress after
7665s	saying you eventually still get the
7667s	death throttle and you have that two-two
7669s	board presence but oh my goodness fury
7671s	hunter just has stab stab tooth and
7673s	swing he is one off lethal i believe
7680s	how is he one off already crazy
7689s	will get him two more random dragons
7699s	i'm going to go for the
7701s	command of neptulon instead which is
7703s	another amazing outcome here even though
7705s	it's half the cost of drake fire amulet
7708s	it's still a ton of stats to contend
7709s	with
7714s	it's raining just
7716s	clearing the board just peace
7724s	and now super fake can breathe just a
7726s	little bit
7729s	so tapping here will discount the entire
7732s	hand so he's able to play touch before
7734s	abyssal weight if he likes he doesn't
7736s	even actually have to play a vessel wave
7738s	after tapping he can go touch another
7740s	link to clear both the
7742s	five attack minions still gonna leave
7745s	the swift scale trickster but at the
7746s	very least you could play knoll before
7748s	all that or drag below
7752s	yeah and now he even has some light
7754s	steel for
7756s	this turn or later on if he wants to
7759s	get up some of that very precious
7761s	precious health
7763s	oh looks like the azshara's still on
7765s	zero spells played so i was thinking
7767s	dragged below touch nagaling and azshara
7770s	makes sense like playing more spells to
7772s	activate azshara but because she cannot
7773s	be activated with all of that this turn
7776s	it probably ends up being
7778s	all instead
7779s	uh he could also just play abyssal wave
7782s	but i favor holding on to that because
7784s	he's had to use both of the customers
7785s	already and he hasn't seen a single
7787s	stash
7790s	so maybe no renathol touch snuggling
7798s	and even play drug below
7809s	we hold on to the drag below fair enough
7812s	still has mana to play it with azshara
7814s	next turn anyway
7817s	that's right and
7818s	crossing his face oh
7821s	double eight eight without the
7823s	option to even choose
7825s	generally when i see drake fire amulets
7827s	played
7828s	off a random effect like it would just
7830s	pick amalgam fairy dragon and it's not
7832s	too bad but fairy hunter has
7835s	been getting some pretty good outcomes
7838s	here indeed
7841s	yeah that's right uh going into the long
7843s	game can't work out for warlock just
7845s	stacking up some more curses of course
7848s	with bran and uh tamzin combos but of
7851s	course fear hunter is still in the same
7853s	boat having uh played all those spells
7856s	and
7857s	minions from other classes
7859s	making his test screaming stronger and
7861s	as you uh we already saw um those two
7864s	eight egg dragons
7866s	are powerful stuff
7868s	yeah the nostalgia is going to stick
7870s	around here because the best super fake
7872s	can do to clear this board is abyssal
7874s	wave dragged below on the onixia and
7877s	drains hole on the test would still
7879s	leave an 8-4 nos dormu which is terrible
7884s	uh super fake would get a little bit of
7886s	healing but it's just not good enough to
7888s	win the game i don't think
7890s	and he also has to skip on the top if he
7892s	wants to fit in all of these clears
7902s	eating on board
7903s	all right
7905s	at least norris at least this one
7907s	doesn't have the uh 15 second timer
7912s	deer hunter because of that drain soil
7914s	is actually a bit off of lethal once
7916s	again 16
7919s	yeah is 20 including the dagger swing
7921s	and the three burst spells in hand uh so
7925s	i think he can delay a little bit longer
7927s	here there is a bit of a fear of dying
7929s	to curses
7931s	so he can take zalath from this um
7933s	uh azshara and play the bigger curse
7936s	this turn oh he takes ring okay
7939s	sure yeah ring just represents more than
7942s	zelita
7943s	i think
7947s	because he gets to copy a rank 3 wicked
7949s	stab so he is just hoping to not die
7952s	here it's very unlikely with three cards
7954s	i'm going to go ahead and say probably
7955s	even impossible so super fake is going
7958s	to go down with a loss here
7964s	oh dear
7968s	lifetime for answers
7969s	thinking about it
7971s	but as you said the odds do not look
7974s	very good fury hunter is just hit by his
7977s	reaction
7978s	he knows
7980s	tidestone time or or colossal like
7983s	colossal can get him a board clear but
7985s	it's just not safe against the amount of
7986s	bursts so it's tidestone for more boxes
7991s	bad box
7993s	hot box
7995s	uh finley swapperoo can get those random
7998s	spells
8002s	he coils first okay okay
8005s	why that's one last spell
8007s	i mean it's free and you get one damage
8009s	but i think i'd rather have an
8010s	additional card in hand
8015s	okay it doesn't get there couldn't even
8018s	clear the board and fury had
8020s	so much burst from hand even if the
8021s	board had gotten removed they're very
8024s	nicely set up the frog showing that when
8028s	you hit the jackpot you really do hit
8030s	the jackpot
8033s	and that's right and you know addition
8035s	with that test all those drag is on
8037s	board um
8039s	you know the despite the cursing the
8041s	super fake's hand
8042s	uh
8045s	in fury hunter's hand uh
8048s	he was able to
8050s	quickly
8050s	kind of rushed down super fake with all
8054s	those um
8056s	treasures and taking down his minions of
8059s	course that 12 12 to the face in the mid
8063s	game hurt a lot contributing to that
8066s	damage mistress of mixtures coming in
8068s	for some heels alongside
8070s	the
8072s	drain sole but it's just not enough
8076s	yeah the
8077s	continuous damage from the dragon
8078s	sticking around we saw every time super
8080s	fake played on aoe it always still just
8083s	left something the first customer left
8085s	the deathwing second customer
8088s	i mean there was still the dagger damage
8089s	going through i feel like and then the
8091s	abyssal wave also just left a dragon and
8094s	all of those um multiples of eight going
8098s	through just were too much for super
8100s	fake to contend with pretty unfortunate
8102s	outcome from him there it's not often
8104s	that the thief row gets those huge
8107s	minions but fury hunter hit big on the
8109s	jackpot and it means now that he can
8111s	switch over to his mage or shaman for
8114s	super fake
8115s	going to stay on the warlock still i was
8117s	gonna say i was looking forward to
8118s	seeing paladin because i haven't cast it
8120s	all weekend but looks like i'll have to
8121s	wait a little bit longer
8125s	right and with big spell mage in hand
8128s	again like just like the
8129s	unpredictability of that thief roll we
8132s	saw in last game it might work very well
8135s	for him uh both players trying to get
8137s	into
8138s	uh the
8140s	long game uh with super fake ramping up
8143s	curses potential sorry yeah uh super
8145s	fake ramping up uh curses where and fury
8148s	hunter just waiting for those runes
8152s	those discounts and dawn grabs uh
8154s	synergy to take down super fake and of
8157s	course uh summoning minions along the
8159s	way
8161s	the cards are right
8163s	so in this matchup we see if your hunter
8165s	tossed the barbaric sorceress which i do
8167s	agree with there's quite a few hefty
8169s	spells in the warlock list abyssal wave
8171s	most notably and if you you know spend
8173s	six mana to swap your drake fire into
8175s	six mana that's generally not a good
8177s	enough deal so mulliganing a bit harder
8179s	for the belinda makes sense to me
8181s	doesn't find it but the magister dawn
8183s	grasp is there alongside that uh deep
8186s	water evoker so just good things to do
8188s	on curve here we also see the more rush
8190s	so the ping half of fury hunter's deck
8193s	has come together here he's not of
8194s	course running wildfire naturally but
8196s	that damage can still suck up due to the
8198s	honorable kills
8208s	that's right and with some coins of your
8210s	hunter's hand now thanks for that
8212s	mailbox dancer earlier in the turn he
8214s	has options uh he opts for
8217s	a
8217s	starfish
8219s	yeah just the curve play makes a lot of
8222s	sense here because there's nothing that
8223s	he particularly wants to silence from
8225s	fury hunters uh sorry from super fake
8228s	side
8228s	and fear hunter also has a very clean
8230s	curve of turn four deep water evoker
8232s	after this and then turn five double
8234s	coin the dawn grass so turn five hero
8237s	card is one of the ways to try and beat
8240s	the train of curses here super fake it's
8242s	a pretty good hand though we're looking
8244s	at double drag below and the sierra cast
8247s	cultists that's a lot of the curse
8248s	effects abyssal wave as well so he can
8251s	get to the four damage curses pretty
8253s	soon and start to pressure fury hunter
8258s	yeah that's correct though the oh connie
8260s	there uh super fake has something to
8262s	think about uh what will he
8265s	start using
8267s	first uh
8270s	or
8270s	is playing a minion with ronaldo for
8273s	temple plus a light tapping uh in search
8275s	of answers let's turn
8280s	renaissance just being sacrificed into
8282s	okani's board it does feel a little bit
8284s	bad to do that but i agree it's the
8286s	least useful card for super fake at the
8288s	moment but here we go turn five dollar
8291s	grass if you can see from super fake's
8293s	expression that that is completely
8295s	filthy and it means that fury hunter
8298s	will begin to get honorable kill pings
8301s	if the damage works out in his favor no
8304s	two health minions available at the
8306s	moment but it's not too hard to set that
8308s	up in general
8312s	yeah uh super big hovering
8314s	over
8317s	the force mana spell there considering
8319s	if he wants more boy walkers on his head
8321s	and just doing some numbers to the
8323s	oconee and
8326s	i am thinking about drag below plus
8328s	syracuse cultist and then he can trade
8330s	the one one into the okani to finish it
8332s	off problem with using the cultist here
8334s	is that he actually gives up on his best
8336s	battle cry minion that he potentially
8338s	wants to use with the bran later on so
8341s	we could see a different line here okay
8343s	you could just go bran cultist now
8345s	actually yeah many options to consider
8348s	here
8349s	and of course reincarnation is giving
8352s	his opponent two occurs cards
8356s	so it begins
8358s	yeah uh she those boardwalkers
8361s	protecting the brand of it
8368s	not seeing a good break point for fury
8370s	hunter to get this ping uh he's one mana
8373s	short of being able to play spammy
8375s	arcanist which would deal two damage to
8377s	the brand and the circus and then
8378s	pinging as well uh so
8381s	might be a bit of a stall turn instead
8384s	he could take the time to get the deep
8386s	water evoker down get either 9 or 10
8388s	armor and
8390s	potentially set up for a barbaric
8392s	sorceress next turn
8396s	it's very scary to leave the bran up of
8397s	course so
8399s	maybe he
8400s	wants to
8401s	clear it some other way but i'm really
8403s	not even seeing a way that he can get
8404s	the spammy to work in his favor
8407s	yeah
8410s	some intense math going on fury hunter's
8412s	side can tell from his expression will
8415s	they play the curses or not
8419s	as those that do
8421s	kind of stack up in terms of damage
8424s	well
8425s	one of them only deals one damage so i
8427s	don't feel it's worth playing the other
8429s	one probably also not worth it the real
8432s	problem is the fact that there's a brand
8435s	sticking on board and because of that
8437s	query doesn't necessarily even want to
8439s	play that many cards because if you
8442s	leave the brand up and you have too many
8444s	cards in hand sometimes they can't
8446s	actually have all the space to play more
8447s	curses but you can see here first fury
8450s	hunter's sake at least there's no more
8451s	curse creating battle cry
8458s	that's right and like how he just paint
8460s	the brand there for a potential
8463s	guarantee
8464s	uh
8465s	in getting rid of it next
8471s	turn dragged below plus mistress of
8475s	mixtures looks reasonable here for super
8477s	fakie might not even ever play the
8479s	mistress because
8481s	the way his game plan looks it's almost
8484s	as if he wants curse cards and nothing
8486s	else and so the mistress can be retained
8488s	in hand and then swapped for something
8490s	at the bottom with finley a bit later on
8493s	the only priority here is to play drag
8495s	below and create a board state that
8497s	doesn't have any minion at exactly two
8499s	health which is the difficult part of
8500s	this
8502s	that means the brand has to take some
8504s	damage to prevent it being honorably
8505s	killed
8510s	incorrect
8513s	friend going into that ton uh giving it
8516s	that probably one hp uh
8519s	a time that we want in minion to not
8522s	have
8523s	that much health
8524s	is to prevent that honorable kill from
8526s	fury hunter
8528s	yeah super fake made a very similar
8530s	board state where once again nothing is
8531s	at two health and nothing can go to two
8533s	health from the trades however the
8535s	spammy is looking a lot better now for
8536s	fury hunter it allows honorable kill on
8540s	the ping on sierra cultist he
8542s	deliberately went for it in this order
8544s	like we could have seen fury hunter get
8546s	a full board clear if he pinged first
8547s	and then paid spammy but he says it's
8549s	more important to scale the hero power
8551s	than it is to clear two additional one
8553s	ones and i completely agree with that
8560s	that's correct and
8561s	super fake here considering his options
8564s	life tapping ooh
8566s	silence but it doesn't do
8568s	much for now
8571s	yeah
8572s	probably just going to play the gold
8574s	channel and the drag billow uh he will
8577s	float a little bit of mana there
8579s	but
8580s	at least for now he's free to play the
8582s	mistress of mixtures because it's not
8584s	getting honorably killed anymore by the
8585s	ping
8587s	ping's up to four damage here could also
8590s	see the spice bread baker while the hand
8592s	is this
8597s	full i kind of like
8599s	weaving in the track belows here
8602s	in my opinion this hand from super fake
8604s	is just begging to stack the curses and
8605s	then play finley so that he can look for
8608s	zakul look for other ways to get curses
8616s	that's right though
8618s	as you said um
8620s	drag the loop for that extra curse
8622s	damage and
8624s	rush to just clear out his minions and
8625s	of course denying a spirit hunter of
8630s	that
8631s	honorable kill
8633s	your hunter is getting a bit unhealthy
8636s	now um down to 15 he can of course gain
8638s	armor from the deep deepwater evoker
8640s	which is first order of business here
8642s	even if the turn just ends with ping and
8645s	play away the curse
8646s	i think that's very decent
8649s	uh
8650s	i just don't know if he's gonna get
8652s	greedy and ping his own minion for
8653s	honorable kill okay i like this he's
8655s	getting rid of the gnoll instead yeah
8660s	instead of like trading into his
8662s	uh minion or going face
8665s	although the risky gameplay thing
8685s	curse is up to four now that abyssal
8687s	curse will go up to five and then the
8689s	finley can potentially find the sixth
8691s	curse as well it's getting really scary
8694s	here and now fury has to figure out if
8697s	he wants to take the risk with barbaric
8698s	sorceress or just straight up play the
8700s	rune
8701s	okay
8702s	he's taking the risk going to remove the
8704s	curse first of course and he knows he
8707s	gets a small discount not too bad play
8710s	down the pelican dive oh it doesn't even
8712s	bother with the diver okay
8716s	samson's amazing here
8719s	let's super fake make sure he never runs
8721s	out of resources i'm honestly thinking
8724s	that he plays this starfish just to
8725s	remove this taunt and push five damage
8728s	face because it's really looking like a
8729s	very solid cursed game plan for lethal
8732s	over a couple more turns
8735s	yeah and this
8736s	that arm came from fury on turn from a
8740s	couple of turns before
8741s	if superman is able to continuously push
8745s	that extra damage
8747s	your hunter will continue to lose health
8749s	and be in trouble
8755s	the hellfire mainly just to create hand
8757s	space uh i was wondering if it would be
8759s	a bissell wave instead of thompson
8761s	because superfick's still gonna overdraw
8763s	one next turn but i guess it's fine
8768s	go now
8770s	alexia
8772s	aligos
8775s	not too shabby
8777s	second barbaric to discount the ruin but
8780s	it hits the hellfire oh
8783s	the one bad outcome for fury there
8788s	and now
8789s	gigafin
8800s	looks pretty good
8802s	uh i guess he's thinking is there a
8805s	better way to clear this board and also
8806s	weave in the curses like we could see
8808s	abyssal wave and then
8810s	null
8813s	touch
8814s	that clears
8815s	a decent amount of this board but i
8818s	still favor just a gigafin
8821s	what is taking so long
8833s	um
8835s	if we look at the alternative clear
8837s	right which is abyssal wave into null
8840s	and touch it actually only clears one
8842s	additional minion because the barbaric
8844s	goes down to three it's a little bit too
8846s	much health for the touch to actually
8848s	get rid of and it doesn't feel
8850s	particularly safe so i do prefer gigafin
8854s	and then play the knoll afterward
8861s	i've gotten to a point where i think
8863s	super fake is just never gonna play
8864s	either of the mistress of mixtures and
8866s	han because he's trying to kill fairy
8868s	hunter that death rattle is just
8869s	actively bad for super fake at this
8871s	point
8873s	yeah for sure and uh
8875s	you know just having the mistress there
8877s	in case he wants to use that finley for
8880s	the uh hand reset might be useful uh now
8884s	firehandser has to contend with that
8887s	gigafin
8888s	and hopefully get some of his minions
8890s	back gia
8892s	yeah all it takes is a ping on the seven
8894s	four which is why super fake was
8895s	hesitant about it uh but
8899s	it's fine for fury uh it's fine for
8901s	super fake even if fury hunter's board
8904s	returns
8907s	and he goes for more josh instead and
8909s	because the more josh simultaneously
8911s	kills
8912s	um it still is able to get the minions
8916s	back
8918s	oh yeah sorry he had to go it in this
8919s	order if he wanted the more dress played
8922s	otherwise he had no board space so
8924s	nicely done from fury
8927s	looks like we're spinning the hand
8929s	around
8931s	oh do you believe chia
8938s	there's just curses maybe because
8941s	uh superfic's not actually dead on board
8944s	he's close to it so it's scary but
8945s	there's a cool
8947s	and the syracuse oh my goodness that's a
8950s	lot of damage
8952s	um probably just gonna go customer to be
8955s	safer for now
8961s	all right that attempted hero power
8964s	coming into play with just some a bit of
8966s	board control
8968s	uh useless board i should say because he
8971s	has the customer here
8972s	oh no the male ghost is still up
8978s	okay
8980s	onyxia for rush not too shabby
8984s	but not enough i don't think
8992s	i think the curse counter for super fig
8994s	is on five now so he can deal 11 with
8996s	zakul and sierkas a little bit short of
8999s	lethal but it's okay he still has plenty
9002s	of board clear options uh customer being
9005s	the easiest one but the azara can also
9007s	potentially find a colossal don't think
9010s	she's active yet but okay we're opening
9012s	the box fury hit up pyro earlier on
9015s	today what is he gonna hit this time
9017s	mask
9018s	[Music]
9027s	well
9031s	perfect held onto his mortal coil last
9033s	turn as well which is great for him
9035s	because he can test counter spell very
9036s	easily now
9039s	just coil when he sees the outcome he
9042s	can abyssal wave and sierra cast
9044s	cultists
9045s	what is taking so long or times in coil
9048s	coil abyssal abyssal which is getting
9051s	value out of tamson abyssal wave which
9053s	is i think the last curse spell that's
9055s	available so nice spot
9058s	shovel off
9072s	doesn't technically have to play this
9074s	curse so
9076s	it's still not lethal but on the next
9078s	turn i i kind of favor playing it just
9080s	to put the things in hand that make
9082s	fury's mana as awkward as possible
9085s	and then he has the setup for next
9087s	during anyway with zakul and syracuse
9089s	cultist
9092s	looks like he does off for that play
9094s	ages to make fear hunter
9097s	sound a bit more awkward
9100s	so all that can be done now is to open
9103s	another box ordinary
9106s	or not let's go belinda
9111s	yeah but super fake knows he has this in
9113s	the bag now even with just zakul or just
9116s	tear cast cultists he's gonna deal seven
9118s	damage next turn he is gonna take a win
9121s	on the warlock he's gonna go to match
9122s	point and he is only gonna need to win
9125s	with paladin to secure himself a spot in
9128s	these semi-finals
9129s	yeah and it looks like you get to see
9131s	that holy paladin gameplay you wish for
9133s	earlier on gia very exciting stuff
9138s	and fury needs to
9140s	win versus that using that big spell
9142s	mage and that shaman which has forever
9145s	been the sticking point of the lineup
9148s	once it faces against the likes of super
9150s	fake and fled uh we'll see if fury
9153s	hunter wants to go for it with the
9155s	shaman immediately um but that it's
9158s	going to be difficult whatever board
9160s	fury hunter builds it's pretty easy for
9162s	paladin to pick apart with the
9165s	pyromancer with um blademaster samuro
9168s	etc etc and also the fact that
9171s	restaurant viper has pretty much
9173s	completely fallen out of the metagame
9175s	means that light forged carryol can
9176s	provide so much staying power for super
9179s	fake
9182s	yeah that's right i'm also excited to
9184s	see another kind of long matchup with
9188s	you know the
9189s	control cars that
9191s	the shaman can have against you know the
9194s	uh polio paladin that again has strong
9198s	minions but also some steam power
9202s	oh
9203s	oh and in the recap we were seeing that
9205s	double uh polymorphic
9208s	action
9210s	very difficult theory hunter's part
9212s	yeah i think he kind of had it coming
9214s	he's had a couple good boxes so far he
9216s	needed a chance to quality box at some
9218s	point uh if yuri decides to go for the
9221s	mage again it's also in my opinion not a
9223s	great matchup into the paladin because
9225s	paladin has answers for big minions um
9228s	equality and if it's a singular big
9230s	belinda for example just righteous
9232s	defense that and straight away she's
9234s	down to 1-1 and buffing something in the
9236s	paladin's hand uh super fake here with
9239s	the 40 card list has also made room for
9242s	the double immortalized in stone and the
9245s	garden's grace which are both expensive
9247s	spells right and that potentially makes
9249s	the barbaric sorceress from fury not the
9252s	easiest play either it's just not a
9254s	great matchup into paladin is it
9257s	yeah you're right um and if fury hunter
9260s	managed to get that mage synergy to
9263s	summon some big dragons of course as you
9265s	said before holy paladin has the option
9268s	of equality and
9270s	it even has the pyromancer there and
9272s	with all those spells it's just a full
9275s	board clear from there
9278s	peru um the one downside i would say for
9281s	paladin is that they do have a very
9284s	specific set of card or like you need
9287s	specific cards to answer specific
9288s	situations like if you hit on equality
9292s	but you're only faced with one big
9294s	minion on the other side you feel bad
9295s	about playing it instead of righteous
9296s	defense because later on maybe you need
9298s	the equality for a bigger board and so
9301s	the requirement for paladin to have the
9304s	particular answer they need at any one
9306s	particular time is harder to achieve
9309s	when you're running that 40 card list so
9311s	for super fake he is also going to need
9314s	to make sure he hits a lot of card draw
9315s	for which there's two mermadons in the
9318s	deck for that purpose
9320s	[Music]
9323s	we'll decide this that's right
9328s	it looks like we are getting the um
9331s	mage versus holy pal pilot in a matchup
9334s	gia
9336s	and the opening hand for super fake
9338s	looks pretty good both the three drops
9340s	are very decent to keep in the opener i
9342s	would say especially since batterman
9343s	followed up by sunfish is actually quite
9346s	a bit of pressure uh for fury hunter
9348s	though this is technically a curve it's
9350s	not the power cards but
9352s	i don't think it's the worst to just
9353s	keep this
9358s	he also uh if he doesn't drive to the
9360s	one and see me he also has the treasure
9363s	guard potentially in turn three for
9366s	death uh for cardra um after the death
9369s	rattle activation
9371s	although he is considering whether or
9373s	not to get rid of these and yes to get
9376s	all rid of all of them hopefully all
9377s	right you get a better curve
9380s	okay
9381s	very heavy on mana there
9383s	i think the two ways fear you could have
9385s	gone about that mulligan is either full
9387s	keep or full toss if you keep it you're
9389s	saying you have a decent game plan in
9391s	the early game making sure you spend all
9392s	your mana but you have lesser chance of
9395s	finding the power cards the belinda the
9397s	barbaric sources and the dawn grass fury
9399s	says decent curve is not good enough on
9402s	average versus paladin which is a very
9404s	fair assessment and he's gotten you know
9406s	a
9407s	like a heavier outcome here but it's the
9410s	more high impact cards the barbaric with
9412s	amulet can potentially swap something
9414s	nice and then immediately follow it up
9417s	with dawn grasp
9420s	job's done
9421s	really it's not too heavy right
9426s	one line's better than just puffing the
9428s	pellet in buffing up that uh fish as
9431s	well
9433s	big fish in a small pond
9436s	cute big fish
9439s	and yeah the defined shield being a bit
9442s	annoying
9448s	although there is the silence
9450s	if he wants to get rid of that buff
9453s	and
9454s	everything else
9456s	it's worth considering but painful to
9458s	have to give up on the car draw so there
9460s	is a world where fear even trades
9462s	his treasure guard and then goes
9464s	starfish if ever but um the starfish
9466s	certainly has
9468s	um better targets later on because we
9471s	can see so many buff minions from
9473s	righteous defense from the carrier hero
9474s	power from garden's grace so i think it
9476s	makes sense for a fury hunter to hold on
9479s	to it
9480s	for now super fake has double knight of
9484s	anointment to keep cycling and that
9485s	looks pretty good he can even trade the
9488s	fish and then flash of light it after to
9490s	get it completely healthy again
9498s	okay
9501s	deciding between vitality surge or flash
9505s	of light i think he doesn't oh okay okay
9508s	i'm going to go mermaid on here
9513s	actually that's really smart at five
9515s	health it just doesn't die to anything
9516s	this early from mage
9520s	yeah and just getting continually
9522s	getting that car draw can be helpful in
9524s	terms of
9526s	continuing to build a border
9528s	i'll find answers against theory hunter
9530s	of course finally the starfish goes down
9534s	uh now that it is more worth it uh
9536s	versus one fish a big fish minion
9540s	right
9541s	starfish was really the only way fury
9543s	could have denied that myrmidon from
9545s	getting multiple draws so super fake's a
9547s	bit upset to see that but he's not
9549s	starved for card draw here's still
9551s	plenty of cycle effects and generation
9553s	from the battle vicar
9555s	so i think that vicar is pretty decent
9558s	to start the turn off with
9560s	another righteous defense doesn't seem
9562s	bad to me he's gonna be seeing multiple
9564s	big minions throughout the game so
9566s	having a third one available just seems
9569s	nice
9579s	could consider judgment of justice
9581s	because it has a very similar outcome to
9583s	righteous defense where you negate a
9585s	threat into just a one one but it's a
9587s	little bit harder to maneuver of course
9589s	because you need to isolate the
9591s	appropriate minion from your opponent to
9592s	get that down and i'm not really sure
9594s	that conditionality is worth the two
9596s	mana that you save by picking it so yes
9598s	i do like that righteous defense pick
9600s	from super fake
9604s	another knight of anointing going down
9609s	cycling happening on super face side
9615s	did you miss an attack from night of
9616s	anointment a little bit of a rope out
9622s	okay so fury hunter now can
9626s	point out the dawn grasp if he wants it
9628s	doesn't replay anything
9631s	but
9632s	having that in place sooner rather than
9634s	later means more and more chances at
9636s	getting your hero power to stack
9639s	uh alternatively he could try to get the
9641s	barbaric sorceress he's seen a
9643s	discovered spell and generally those
9645s	tend to be cheaper so maybe he can swap
9647s	something good but he would have to coin
9648s	before playing barbaric and waste that
9650s	mana so i'm not a huge fan of that play
9655s	it also just spammy to clear
9658s	uh
9661s	it's part of me full clear though right
9665s	like if he trades the two four into
9667s	three four you only deal
9670s	four damage aoe and leave up the fish if
9671s	you trade the starfish into the shimmer
9675s	oh okay yeah it's a full clear if you
9677s	trade starfish into shimmering starfish
9680s	i'm sorry i don't know the names of all
9683s	the fish it's okay
9685s	the fishes are cute that's all that
9687s	matters
9694s	which i like he's not under too much
9697s	pressure can start scaling this ping
9700s	and
9702s	perfect is going to draw a minion
9710s	just a bit of an unfortunate spot where
9712s	he's had to play flash of light without
9716s	an active merbadon so
9718s	the second ramadan doesn't look like
9719s	it's going to get much value either can
9721s	play light ray to continue pressuring
9723s	though
9725s	i wonder
9729s	he may also have to consider
9731s	the big turns coming up for fury hunter
9733s	now that he has both players have more
9736s	mana although i'm surprised that that
9738s	sunfish is still on board gia it's
9741s	turn six
9744s	it's tough to clear five health started
9747s	at six
9751s	uh
9753s	even though it feels like a tiny minion
9755s	i was gonna say righteous defense seems
9758s	reasonable here so that super fake can
9760s	actually trade off the small minions and
9762s	make himself a bit more resilient to
9763s	spammy arcanist
9767s	yeah that's right uh
9769s	just denying that barclay and having
9771s	some board presence might help him in
9773s	the long run especially against any big
9777s	spells or minions theory hunter might
9779s	have in store for super fake
9783s	i fear you can't get an honorable kill
9785s	here but he can set it up if he wants to
9788s	just ping the three four and freeze with
9790s	barden so that he can ping again the
9792s	next turn alternatively just playing the
9795s	uh barbaric sorceress
9797s	most of the time gets him a discount but
9799s	we can see here there's a one in chance
9801s	that it gets only a tiny discount on the
9803s	immortalized and stone
9806s	other options i'm not seeing a good
9809s	spammy line here so not that
9818s	i mean he could spam me just to put one
9821s	damage on the on the battle vicar and
9823s	then ping it for honorable kill but
9825s	it feels like he needs to save the
9827s	spammy for a board clear
9830s	does hit the best outcome from the
9832s	barbaric sorceress though so a little
9834s	bit of good karma after swapping with
9836s	the 10 costs hellfire last game
9839s	yeah
9841s	oh with colossal beans going down
9847s	oh the garden's at the bottom okay
9850s	now super fake is
9852s	just sitting on this mr smite as well
9854s	his guardian's grace has to be very
9856s	cheap at this point i don't know if zero
9858s	but
9859s	uh even if fury clears this board and he
9862s	can with rune of the arc mage
9865s	super fake has the follow up for
9868s	pressure
9870s	right ooh a pyroblast
9872s	all right
9874s	uh-oh
9875s	uh oh it's not a clear
9880s	night is gonna freeze you need to chill
9882s	out
9883s	all right just
9884s	kind of
9885s	denying any damage to face super uh fear
9889s	hunter already at 15 healthier
9894s	and close within range of mr smite and
9897s	gardens grace however super fake still
9899s	doesn't know what this secret is so
9901s	probably gonna test counter spell first
9903s	um whether it be
9905s	with the righteous defense or discover
9907s	something from the battle vicar and then
9908s	play righteous defense
9911s	a vitality surge
9918s	now back in the day when misters might
9920s	cost six i would say oh sign me up for
9922s	that blessing of kings but it is simply
9924s	not playable on the same turn as mr
9926s	smite anymore so a bit too ambitious
9930s	gotta stop those pirates somehow chia
9941s	i think he plays righteous here i know
9944s	it's a tiny minion but i really don't
9946s	want super fake to play gardens like he
9950s	doesn't know that it's not counterspell
9952s	i feel like that card is too precious
9953s	here to save with mr smite to play into
9956s	a potential counter spell
9958s	quickly
9962s	i'm just ticking what will be the choice
9968s	ah okay
9973s	hey not a counter spell
9975s	they look super happy about that
9979s	the brave move um to
9981s	potentially lose your last card draw
9983s	option in the myrmidonist
9986s	but
9986s	yeah he didn't have the mackie roll
9988s	until after
9989s	seeing the draw so fair enough
9992s	uh huh
9995s	the more josh is still not active and
9998s	fury hunter cannot ping the divine
10001s	shield and then mordresh because
10003s	well the ping would not deal any damage
10005s	in that instance
10008s	yeah that those uh
10010s	paladin synergies going to bother the
10013s	mage once more especially with that
10016s	defined shield and the the super big
10018s	minion uh
10021s	there is
10022s	starfish into trade into the sunfish and
10025s	then spammy which i believe will be a
10027s	full clear it means super fake uh
10030s	doesn't get pinged this turn which is a
10032s	big deal
10033s	but he's still very much in the lead i
10035s	would say lots of resources left
10041s	now
10042s	if this azara had not been drawn he was
10044s	in a position to play both minions and
10046s	isolate the smite and hand so that the
10049s	righteous defense always buffs the smite
10051s	now that's a little bit
10053s	uh
10055s	less of a game plan so
10058s	yeah
10060s	well time to time
10062s	making use of that
10064s	uh
10065s	three token fiat zero power
10068s	oh
10069s	there there's roon again
10071s	but there is
10073s	alright did that
10074s	say seven left i didn't realize it was
10076s	so far off so yeah not playable yet but
10079s	he can just ping to get honorable kill
10082s	here
10084s	yeah with that armor game
10086s	uh gain
10087s	he is
10088s	less away from
10091s	litho
10092s	with the smite charging into him with
10095s	other cards
10098s	oh i'm surprised you didn't go okani
10100s	here
10106s	we trying to bait super fake into
10107s	playing a bigger board so that the more
10109s	dress can
10110s	remove even more of it oh that is
10113s	carryall
10114s	sign me up for that
10120s	i'm gonna attack face first to test ice
10121s	barrier still doesn't know for sure what
10123s	the secret is it could be ally from his
10125s	perspective and
10126s	not a great outcome for him here but the
10129s	carriage
10130s	is still going to make quick work of
10133s	the other two minions
10135s	and now he has this hero power that
10137s	every single turn has a chance of
10139s	buffing up the smite
10141s	yes
10143s	and of course not attacking this water
10145s	ellie
10149s	this is a 7 damage hero power but it
10151s	goes down to four only when pinging
10153s	carryall
10154s	uh so super fake has plenty of time here
10156s	he's also just sitting on the maki roll
10159s	and while the ping mage does put out a
10161s	lot of damage it's not all in one fell
10163s	swoop it's more like you know decent
10165s	chunks every single turn so super fake
10167s	will have
10168s	the time to heal up if necessary
10175s	yeah um the heels and plus the half
10178s	the damage mitigation for
10181s	carry all if your hunter might be in a
10184s	uh tight spot here
10186s	uh he needs some
10189s	amazing spells and you know just to
10191s	really activate that more dresser
10194s	yeah now that super fake knows the
10196s	secret he can safely go about a
10198s	pyroclear but honestly it's like a first
10201s	world problem where the best clear is
10203s	pyro mackie rolls but he has so much
10204s	health that he doesn't even heal from it
10206s	all boohoo
10213s	uh if you want you can go pyro city tax
10218s	righteous defense that's actually one
10221s	fell short of clearing most of this
10223s	right and there's also the okani to
10225s	contend with doesn't know if it's spell
10227s	or minion but he can test for minion
10229s	counter by sorry spell counter by
10231s	playing city tasks now he knows it's
10233s	minion and he can throw a pyro into the
10235s	void if he wants to
10242s	it's a big deal actually that the water
10244s	ali throws his face so he can't just go
10247s	for like righteous defense and then
10249s	swing into the okani to remove it
10253s	yeah that i want the oasis secret really
10256s	coming in clutch there just preventing
10259s	um that weapon
10262s	i'm not doing any damage to minions and
10265s	now there's a taunt in one day too
10268s	yeah and it swaps the righteous defense
10270s	which is a pretty important piece of the
10273s	puzzle for super fake to actually get
10275s	the smite to a big enough health total
10276s	so slowly but surely fury hunter is
10279s	pulling this back a little bit he still
10281s	has so much damage to account for
10283s	because of this carryall but um he's
10286s	made super fakes clear options quite
10288s	awkward indeed
10289s	cairo mackie roll looks like it's on the
10293s	menu here
10301s	that is also a very
10303s	wild pyromancer i see in
10313s	once again
10314s	doesn't look ideal because he only gets
10315s	to heal four face but he has to clear
10318s	this board at some point right and with
10320s	five activations of mackie plus the two
10321s	mana spend on pyromancer he still has
10323s	mana left to press the hero power button
10325s	which at that point has a 50 50 shot of
10328s	hitting the mr smite
10330s	uh
10330s	that will be his last pyro however
10335s	looks like he is going for the line
10336s	still has the mana to go for it
10339s	he's running out of time
10343s	okay that's the good
10357s	hunter's hero power is dealing nine i
10360s	believe
10365s	so
10366s	yeah it's either seven or nine i'm sorry
10368s	but if it were at seven super fake could
10371s	never get it get the pyro to a total
10373s	where it's honorably killed because the
10376s	last spell will always damage it at
10377s	least once let me remind you okay box
10381s	barrier is a big deal
10387s	goodbye by
10389s	we miss you
10393s	the ignite is pretty interesting because
10397s	i i really doubt that this was ever
10398s	going to go to fatigue but if there were
10400s	some weird outcome where super faker is
10402s	forced to play the smite for not lethal
10404s	it means that um it could get into a
10406s	fatigue situation and now that's not an
10409s	option because or it's not a realistic
10412s	game plan for super fake because now
10413s	fairy hunter has ignite in his deck
10417s	uh-huh
10419s	i am staring at zelitas but mandy's
10421s	spells are expensive
10427s	he hasn't seen the more dress yet so the
10430s	colossal isn't entirely safe but the
10433s	important thing is he's played azshara
10435s	smite's the only minion in hand so now
10438s	the smite is up to 14 attack i believe
10443s	and just
10444s	pops the secret that does mean if your
10447s	hunter has more health to claim
10452s	oh
10455s	and the second this more dress comes
10457s	down super fake actually
10460s	still has the mana to play righteous
10462s	defense and isolate the smite and hand
10464s	granted he doesn't draw another minion
10466s	like he could go hydraulic on and then
10468s	guarantee that the plus seven plus seven
10470s	hits his mr smite so we'll see if fury
10473s	hunter wants to be aggressive with that
10475s	card or just try and go for another rune
10477s	here
10482s	that the options are endless
10487s	he does play the more josh and now super
10489s	fake is like oh man i could get the
10492s	biggest righteous defense except he's
10494s	drawn another minion
10496s	so
10498s	he can delay the righteous a little bit
10499s	like he could just see
10504s	i don't know i mean like if he doesn't
10505s	righteous this turn then he's not
10508s	killing the mordres right unless he
10510s	wants equality
10512s	maybe you just
10513s	righteous and hope to hit the 50-50
10515s	hydraladon then righteous
10522s	and
10523s	malaki has that too many equality uh way
10526s	better than the nihimana one which is
10528s	unfortunate and it was hit earlier on by
10531s	fury hunter my patience
10534s	the two-man equality certainly makes for
10536s	a more efficient clear but i do like
10538s	using the righteous while a good target
10540s	is available it's just a 50 50
10543s	which he hits
10544s	but i was gonna say even if he missed
10547s	like that's still a good follow-up on
10548s	the next round with the big bannerman
10550s	and then the smite was still at 14 base
10557s	oh man
10560s	having some there
10562s	leaving in the weapon
10565s	attack just because hey
10567s	uh durability
10569s	it's never
10572s	a lot of recklesses
10574s	stealing nine right uh so it's gonna
10576s	deal five-face yeah
10580s	the damage is chunking away
10584s	super fake is not immortal
10587s	it only feels that way when he's
10588s	carryall
10597s	yeah the immortalize is not going to
10599s	help him against second reckless
10601s	apprentice so
10602s	i actually think that super fake goes
10604s	for
10606s	equality city tax alliance bannermen
10610s	and then
10611s	hero power my
10613s	patience really
10615s	the other order is also fine
10619s	ah okay he needs some damage medication
10623s	with the carriage drawn now he doesn't
10625s	necessarily
10627s	need to play equality from his
10629s	perspective
10631s	as it happens if he leaves up that
10633s	reckless apprentice
10635s	he is dead
10637s	so he does have to clear everything
10644s	yeah
10644s	but the carriage without equality is
10646s	tempting because
10648s	um
10649s	it lets him guarantee the hero power on
10651s	mr smite
10659s	would be the right move
10660s	uh also have to consider the
10663s	uh theory hunters
10665s	roon of the arc mage and again um as you
10668s	said a many
10669s	uh reckless
10671s	is being played where he has one more in
10673s	his hand
10675s	oh my gosh she's leaving the minion up
10678s	so i think super fake's exactly dead
10680s	here because reckless deals five ping
10682s	deals five and the reckless on board
10684s	deals two because of the rounding up of
10687s	the factor of carrio's weapon
10690s	and that means we are going down to game
10693s	five
10696s	oh it all comes down to this yeah
10702s	it's really close tough to say but
10706s	uh even though fury hunter just narrowly
10708s	got out of that one super fake still in
10710s	a fine spot right the lineup is built
10712s	attack against shaman and that's exactly
10715s	what fury hunter's last deck is
10719s	yeah the
10721s	just seeing more of that control
10723s	gameplay and having those tickers
10725s	against xiaomi will be really
10726s	interesting
10727s	um
10730s	yeah uh
10731s	the replay was
10732s	to hear spammy are doing its work for
10736s	those aboard
10737s	clears uh mackie roll of course
10741s	uh
10742s	putting those spoilers back to fury
10744s	hunter
10746s	it was honestly
10748s	a very
10749s	weird outcome to this matchup where the
10751s	barbaric sorceress actually did so much
10754s	in that it forced uh super fake to use a
10756s	mackie roll to get a efficient board
10758s	clear like that other equality costing
10760s	nine meant that the only good way to
10763s	deal with that board from a few turns
10765s	ago is to use the maki roll when uh
10767s	super fake wasn't even healing for very
10769s	much like he only gained four heal out
10771s	of that when it could have built uh 20
10773s	healing at a later point in the game and
10775s	that
10776s	or awkward sort of pan out meant that
10778s	fury hunter got the damage there with
10780s	the pings with the reckless apprentices
10782s	it has to be said though that like super
10785s	fake could have played around that he
10787s	could have um stayed alive on board at
10790s	least and against one apprentice in hand
10792s	by using the equality city tax but he
10794s	could have still died to that rune of
10796s	the arc mage on the other side who's to
10798s	say
10800s	yeah that's right
10803s	now with uh control murloc shaman versus
10807s	the paladin very excited to see uh
10808s	what's up especially with fear hunter's
10810s	side will he be able to throw the boar
10812s	and whoa that bloodlust come through
10815s	eventually uh of course we have glug to
10818s	contend with in the late game
10821s	yeah the glug is a pretty interesting
10824s	one it's i'm gonna say not too
10826s	consequential against paladin in fact
10828s	they can use the glug to their advantage
10830s	for example leaving it alive while
10832s	killing other things deliberately and
10835s	then playing righteous defense on the
10836s	glug when it's enormous that can work
10839s	out in paladin's favor but
10841s	first and foremost what fury hunter
10843s	needs to prioritize is curving out very
10846s	aggressively in the turns where the
10848s	paladin doesn't necessarily have the
10850s	answers to the board just yet
10856s	yeah that's right and
10858s	okay uh super fake i think the equality
10861s	uh keeping the equality in just in case
10864s	uh there are some
10867s	common shenanigans just steamboat the
10869s	board in the mid
10871s	in the early to mid game
10875s	oh the cute pirates are vegeta
10878s	red green blue the primary colors is the
10881s	combination we got this time
10883s	um
10886s	hold the bridge decent option for super
10889s	fake just to curve out next turn
10892s	for fury hunter though his curve also
10894s	looks quite good starting with schooling
10896s	is ideal from any shop and start i would
10898s	say and then the sleep breaker to follow
10902s	up he eventually can coin out that
10904s	gorlok ravager and make sure he doesn't
10905s	run out of resources
10911s	yeah correct move quickly
10917s	later but of course behold the bridge
10920s	now
10924s	yeah to hold the bridge interacts very
10926s	nicely to get the nice kill on that uh
10929s	sleep breaker rather than his battle
10931s	vicar being value traded itself
10946s	now here you can go triple piranha here
10948s	and trade the one attack and the three
10949s	attack to kill this
10955s	those
10957s	energy
10959s	i mean he decided really quickly which
10962s	piranha to leave alive it looks like
10963s	fairy hunter likes the color green
10966s	i would have thought longer about that
10976s	connie for minion looks very decent here
10978s	for super fake
10981s	nose there's quite a hand so spell is
10983s	not particularly valuable but you could
10985s	shut off
10986s	on curved school teacher for a minion
10987s	counter
10991s	here just you know having a big minion
10994s	board might be helpful ooh fear hunter
10996s	also having and okani uh hopefully he
10999s	doesn't
11000s	i don't know uh yet but he probably
11003s	knows what's up with super fake
11007s	i do think he'll start with windchill
11010s	he could technically start with coin but
11011s	i think fury will know that this is a
11013s	minion counter so
11015s	starting windchill
11017s	seeing that you cannot play a minion
11019s	safely dumping the sleep breaker after
11022s	looks okay start sleep breaker instead
11024s	fair enough
11026s	yeah we won't be seeing any okani versus
11028s	okani counters here
11039s	so with the draw of mermaid on super
11041s	fake already knows he has plenty of
11043s	resources in the long run he has mackie
11046s	roll to continuously draw cards with
11048s	that the question is will he have the
11051s	leisure to do so um
11054s	going to start with the flash of light
11056s	on it okay if he trades into the piranha
11058s	it's actually
11059s	not the easiest to kill the myrmidon but
11061s	the fact that fury hunter rolled the 1-1
11063s	totem is actually a big deal if he has
11066s	frostbite he can get the honorable kill
11067s	or the top that come out of neptulon
11069s	which is the best answer to this
11070s	situation
11081s	not a bad samurai it's a clear
11084s	[Music]
11092s	moving along very slowly is super fake
11095s	but he knows that inevitability is on
11097s	his side right the longer the game goes
11100s	the better of a win condition he can put
11102s	together because this is not the
11104s	bioluminescence shaman from fury hunter
11107s	it's just the regular mid-range one that
11109s	relies on board sticking to get damaged
11112s	through care of this bloodlust the one
11114s	of copy that fury hunter has now found
11117s	this turn can be dedicated to the gore
11120s	locked ravager if he wants but he has to
11122s	coin first to not overdraw
11125s	maybe we see schoolteacher instead
11134s	yeah he looks like he's considering his
11137s	options here though the time is kind of
11139s	ticking on his side he really needs a
11142s	boy to stick and
11144s	um especially soon um and not like drag
11147s	on the game for a long time as you said
11149s	before uh super fake having
11152s	that long game means that he can get out
11155s	the carriage and continue buffing his
11157s	hands of course the damage mitigation
11162s	it does go garlock ravager so pointing
11164s	out wind chill here to not overdraw
11167s	makes sense
11169s	one way that fury hunter can potentially
11171s	fight back is to set up a big mutinous
11174s	combo you need bolner and uh the
11177s	clownfish aura set up to get the
11180s	multiple chomps but that can be
11182s	devastating to paladin if they have a mr
11184s	smite in hand or a myrmidon something
11187s	that represents a lot of resources in
11188s	the long run
11190s	oh yeah we don't want uh any of those
11193s	big minions or above to get chomped at
11196s	all
11198s	here
11201s	kind of an awkward spot for super fake
11203s	where he would like to play the
11205s	righteous defense but it doesn't
11208s	actually
11209s	um
11211s	allow him to spend mana on that much
11213s	else efficiently
11215s	and the righteous defense cannot get a
11216s	lot better later on on like snowfall
11219s	guardian and glove etc
11224s	yeah we don't want to see those super
11226s	high attack minions on fury hunter's
11228s	side if we're super fake
11234s	the malcolm activated if he wants to
11236s	discover or something
11237s	but
11238s	then again we have
11241s	a couple of options here
11243s	the club coming in
11247s	yeah here's the thing
11250s	oh man is super fake gonna play with the
11252s	glove in such a way where he kills
11254s	everything and then righteous
11256s	you can do it right with some pyro play
11259s	um yeah
11262s	it involves using a mackie roll to
11265s	actually kill the glove at the end of it
11267s	but i think it's fine
11270s	so if he trades one one into two two one
11272s	one into two two five one and two
11275s	i mean it doesn't uh
11277s	he doesn't even have to trade if you go
11278s	like pyro mackie mackie and then
11280s	righteous defense
11283s	oh i see that the lioness like if you
11285s	pyro than makiro the light ray it stays
11287s	alive right
11289s	and then you can righteous defense after
11292s	all the tutus are dead that immediately
11294s	shrinks the glug and then gives all the
11297s	stats to something in your hand the
11298s	azara and then you can go face with the
11300s	library
11303s	super fake
11305s	is
11306s	going for something different
11307s	interesting
11310s	yeah you know he does have those tons up
11313s	to prevent any
11314s	super high glove damage
11322s	my play looked pretty fun but i
11324s	recognize that it is using a lot of
11326s	resources it's minus three cards in hand
11329s	and minus your activator for equality so
11332s	super fake is trying to get a little bit
11334s	a little bit more value from the pyro
11337s	later on i think that's super reasonable
11341s	yeah especially since fear hunter still
11344s	has some viola in terms of minions and
11346s	of course the impending blood of us
11358s	whatever fury does this turn it does
11360s	seem like a decent timing for the okani
11363s	as well because paladin generally takes
11365s	combinations of cards to deal with your
11367s	board like pyro equality or
11369s	equality plus city tax or pyro with many
11372s	mackie rolls and if you can play okani
11374s	and block one of those parts of the
11376s	combo that can make it so that they
11378s	don't have enough mana to actually get
11380s	everything done alongside rocking the
11382s	okani
11389s	it looks like he agrees with you
11394s	a spell counter i like that
11396s	anybody
11401s	i think he chose the extra bucks
11404s	i didn't see the options unfortunately
11406s	oh the night of annoyment is such a
11408s	clutch pickup for super fake because i
11410s	was gonna say he doesn't know if this is
11411s	minion or spell it's actually one of
11412s	those spots where it's hard to tell what
11414s	the counter is and if it were minion the
11416s	only way he safely gets the pyro to
11418s	activate is to sacrifice azshara except
11421s	now that he's drawn the knight of
11422s	anointment he could safely start the
11423s	turn with that and now he knows the
11425s	counter is on spell instead and that's
11427s	actually still kind of awkward for him
11429s	because it means like what throwing away
11432s	either a mackie roll or a garden's grace
11437s	yeah true oh gosh what spells does he
11442s	think he's worth the key what is the
11444s	question
11446s	okay the mackie roll
11451s	and
11455s	now it's in a position once again where
11457s	the glug can be righteous defense but
11460s	it's more difficult to actually get
11462s	everything else to die before the glove
11463s	to maximize your buffs so super fake
11466s	might delay once more here like go
11467s	gardens grace and i think azshara is
11469s	active by that point but i might be
11471s	wrong
11478s	meanwhile
11479s	keeps getting bigger but of course i
11482s	just defense fury hunter kind of
11484s	disappointed on that based on his
11485s	reaction
11487s	and now we have the defy shield and
11490s	taunt to mitigate some bleeding and
11493s	continuing on with the long game we're
11495s	about to hit 10 mana
11497s	for both players
11500s	i bet that azshara took two more spells
11502s	to activate so just azshara wasn't an
11505s	option there with the guardians grace
11508s	super fix actually really running out of
11510s	resources this azura needs to get him
11513s	card draw from the tidestone even it's
11515s	it's a weird enough spot where the
11517s	myrmidon only got one car draw he was
11520s	expecting it to stick around but just
11522s	couldn't quite achieve that fish clown
11525s	fish
11527s	spoon
11528s	for more fuel
11530s	means later on
11535s	i think he's trying to use the piranhas
11537s	to create the hand space to then play
11538s	the gorlok ravager as well and every
11540s	piranha that dies is also going to buff
11543s	his glug
11548s	that's cute
11550s	oh that's a big board i didn't realize
11552s	it was nothing could stop us so
11555s	that actually means the glove gets
11557s	many many buffs here
11562s	especially here it's for
11563s	super fake hair because he hasn't
11566s	drawn his
11567s	um
11568s	his hero card yet
11571s	i do like that he will holds back on the
11573s	cookie because he still has
11575s	um
11577s	on the upcoming murloc discount of four
11580s	four
11580s	but on the murloc after that a discount
11583s	of two so if the very next burlap he
11585s	plays is gorlok ravager he can still
11587s	maintain one of the discounts for the
11589s	mutanus that he'll get
11597s	if you have to play this as paladin you
11598s	know you're not in a great spot he's
11600s	just desperate for some card draw
11601s	ramadan would be the best
11605s	okay that's double card draw so pretty
11607s	good for super fake
11610s	and now fairy hunter might be going for
11612s	the mutants but if he does it doesn't
11614s	eat anything
11617s	probably has to freeze this board in
11619s	fact that's a 15 attack pyro
11622s	it might be the snowfall guardian
11624s	instead
11629s	super fake wondering oh dear hunter's
11631s	play will be
11634s	okay yes the snowfall
11641s	so vitality surged to start seems all
11645s	right
11648s	if he wants he could just straight up
11650s	play seven mackie rolls also and that
11652s	kills the snowfall guardian
11654s	um i think there's a way that he can
11656s	maintain most of his minions health as
11658s	well if he does that but
11660s	it does seem like a bit of a waste of
11662s	back hero oh my god kariel that's insane
11666s	will the ties turn
11668s	in this pond of
11671s	murlocs we have fish and we have
11673s	maggie rolls oh my god snow we have fish
11677s	and we have for some reason a fire
11680s	monster in the pool not being put out
11686s	you know ugly can be uh
11689s	you know
11690s	water minions
11692s	and
11693s	one whole pyromancer
11696s	here he's going nuts on the camera and
11698s	can you blame him this match has so many
11701s	implications as to whether he can get
11703s	points he can go to playoffs whether he
11704s	can go to worlds and that carol top deck
11707s	is making his life so much more
11708s	difficult but this is not the end of the
11711s	world he has many freezes that he can
11714s	chain if he wants to he can also remove
11716s	this board via aoe with the finger
11718s	fungal man surf lurgal
11724s	no we procrastinate the damage by
11727s	freezing or quickly remove
11729s	that 15 well together 20 damage to face
11733s	which is quite a lot
11735s	my goodness
11738s	so going for the fungal lancer flurgo
11740s	clear means that he needs to play a
11742s	minimum of three murlocs so cannot play
11744s	mutanus but wow he just picked up
11746s	another mutant
11748s	hey it's looking good for fury honestly
11759s	i think chieftain lets him kill the pyro
11761s	without having to sink his guardian into
11763s	it because he can use frostbite
11766s	or is it a little bit of damage off
11771s	oh yeah sorry i was inventing damage it
11773s	was like not a bit short
11789s	not the best card uh draw for a super
11792s	fake here
11794s	right there's me he has the starfish
11798s	oh varian is amazing here
11802s	he's super fake really not bothering to
11804s	press the hero power here because he
11806s	knows there's a mutantness in hand he
11807s	saw both the gorlok ravagers played
11809s	there could be a second one because of
11810s	the amalgam so
11812s	using hero power and not immediately
11814s	playing your minion would just be
11816s	helping fury hunter so i like this line
11819s	from super fake and picking up the
11820s	variant is absolutely incredible to get
11823s	rid of that fleurgal
11830s	down light ray seems pretty good just
11832s	deny the best mutinous target
11843s	now
11848s	oh i was just going to say that after
11850s	your hunt you have to contend with me
11857s	i'm just finding a relatively safe turn
11860s	to play brucons very important so he can
11861s	just continuously get value from this
11863s	hero power
11868s	frostbite is nice to disrupt super fake
11871s	a little bit here but amanda's here you
11875s	have an uphill battle like the health
11877s	total is moving by so slowly 37 and then
11881s	the carriage weapon aura intact
11886s	oh which is a big fish
11891s	the second fish or plus carriage roam
11894s	kind of like the carolyn rome
11897s	for the alliance and my family
11902s	just for the
11904s	russian
11905s	minions making sure
11907s	it doesn't have a board
11911s	also like the option to keep righteous
11913s	protector in hand it's just giving a 50
11915s	50 bad mutanus outcome and
11918s	the mutanus itself is not easy for fury
11921s	hunter to play this turn because that
11923s	would involve leaving up a six nine on
11925s	this board like
11927s	in other situations if he were ahead on
11930s	board he would be very happy to just go
11932s	mutinous with bran potentially and then
11935s	the next turn mccall mutanus
11939s	but all it eats
11941s	[Music]
11943s	hiddley won one
11954s	what a bad city talks all things
11956s	considered
11958s	he can use that and then kill off the
11960s	cookie with his weapon charge then also
11963s	hero power and play down the big sunfish
11967s	and that would mean he maintains zero
11969s	minions in hand which is actually a good
11971s	thing when you know the last battle cry
11973s	played as a mutinous there could be
11975s	macaw with bran coming up
11978s	and it's very likely i didn't notice
11979s	fury hunter is down to six cards in the
11981s	deck but yeah super fakes really
11984s	approaching just running fury completely
11986s	out of resources
11990s	yeah i really enjoyed things here about
11993s	or on to the only minion he has an
11995s	immediate bringing up that next
12011s	hey look brad
12017s	oh he's gonna eat nothing
12019s	super fake's like yup let's go
12025s	fury hunter had to try there was no real
12027s	other direction to victory right i mean
12029s	he could try to chain freezes but does
12031s	that even get there knowing that super
12034s	fake has equality in the deck and
12036s	righteous defense and now he has mermaid
12038s	on mackie role so he has all the
12040s	resources in the world there is just no
12042s	way that super fake can lose this one i
12044s	think
12046s	yeah and with the 17 cars left in hand
12049s	while beer hunt is just losing on
12051s	resources and approaching fatigue
12054s	doesn't spell well for uh
12057s	fury hunter
12059s	right
12060s	oh no
12062s	up to six draws from this myrmidon
12070s	seven draws
12073s	and the pubs
12074s	yeah
12077s	wait this is lethal 12 18.
12082s	i think he's like one off of lethal but
12084s	okay uh fury hunter is just gonna throw
12088s	it down there doesn't want to see the
12089s	end of that game and who can blame him
12092s	super fake just methodically taking
12094s	apart that deck showing why the lineup
12096s	is built to beat shaman and just exactly
12099s	how it goes about that game plan
12102s	yeah we see um fairy hunter shaman just
12106s	getting out those men trying to create a
12108s	sticky board but did not work out from
12110s	indiana just because of super fakes he
12112s	has those pi it has that pyromancer he
12115s	had the spells the card draw and then um
12118s	since it went into the super late game
12120s	he had carrier for that damage
12123s	mitigation and fox maintenance just
12125s	playing the million to using that hero
12127s	power to create a solid board against a
12130s	fury hunter
12132s	eventually helped him win that game
12135s	it's crazy that fury hunter looked like
12137s	he had so many resources he had more
12139s	cards in hand for like 90 percent of
12142s	that game uh and he also just did a very
12145s	good job of using those discovers to
12147s	create additional board states and
12148s	forcing super fake to use equalities but
12151s	super fake did not get baited by the
12154s	glove play that i kept talking about he
12156s	made sure that the pyro was used when
12159s	it's actually clearing multiple
12160s	resources instead of just a single glug
12162s	he found an early carryall which is a
12164s	very big deal
12166s	but also just made sure to be strong
12167s	around mutanus by um not hero powering
12170s	if he couldn't play the minion on the
12171s	same turn and making sure to keep like
12174s	weaker minions in hand for that mutants
12176s	to eat so now we have decided half of
12179s	our semi-finalists amy we have possessi
12182s	and super fake and soon we'll be finding
12184s	out who's joining them
12186s	yeah very excited to see these matchups
12189s	uh pascal judgement next place bunny
12191s	hopper
12193s	the the finals are approaching and
12198s	i cannot wait to see who actually get
12200s	the the uh points towards
12204s	those weekly points um every
12206s	match matters uh since again there's
12208s	only three weeks and whoever makes the
12210s	playoffs uh will get a better chance of
12213s	going to world
12215s	absolutely it's a heartbreaker for a
12218s	fury hunter because he is one of those
12220s	players that has nearly gotten to worlds
12222s	multiple times this year alone but he
12224s	will have other weeks to try it he walks
12226s	away with two points but for now
12228s	spotlight on possessive and super fake
12230s	with three points and the potential to
12232s	gain two more soon we'll be finding out
12235s	who the rest of our semi-finalists are
12237s	we're just gonna go to a quick break
12239s	don't go anywhere right after this the
12241s	continuation of day three of hearthstone
12243s	grand masters last call
12248s	[Music]
12258s	[Applause]
12259s	[Music]
12262s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
12265s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
12268s	horrific reasons
12271s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
12275s	with such
12276s	ruthlessness
12278s	so deep and profound
12282s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
12289s	to uncover the truth
12291s	of murder most foul
12295s	the anima drifts across the floor
12298s	highlighting the creatures who walked
12300s	through my door
12302s	the motives are as black as night
12306s	avarice power revenge and blight
12312s	we watch the hero
12314s	uncover the clues
12317s	that lead to the truth
12320s	behind this dark bruise
12324s	join us here with the grimm and empires
12328s	choose your power without heavenly bias
12332s	for at the end
12334s	they will burn in the fire
12337s	when it is known who slayed
12340s	danathrius the sire
12344s	[Music]
12361s	[Music]
12371s	[Music]
12377s	[Music]
12384s	[Music]
12397s	so
12399s	[Music]
12411s	[Music]
12425s	[Music]
12440s	[Music]
12452s	so
12460s	[Music]
12475s	don't
12478s	[Music]
12486s	[Music]
12495s	so
12502s	[Music]
12510s	[Music]
12524s	do
12526s	[Music]
12538s	[Music]
12544s	hello everyone and welcome back to
12547s	hearthstone at grand masters last call
12549s	it's time for myself and subtle to bring
12551s	you the action for the middle portion of
12553s	the day and that basically makes up the
12555s	next three matches we have but subtle i
12557s	know we've been watching the start of
12558s	the day with some pretty intense and
12560s	long games but now we have a very
12562s	interesting one coming up we've got
12564s	blyze versus bunny hopper
12566s	we do indeed yeah there's um a couple of
12569s	different lineups in general that are
12571s	starting to show they're doing well
12573s	obviously super fakes line up seems
12575s	fairly successful fled narrowly missing
12577s	out on making it here as well with the
12579s	same lineup uh really preying on those
12581s	players who have shaman in their lineup
12584s	but then on the other side you can kind
12585s	of bucket everything together and the
12587s	shaman-less players are also being quite
12589s	successful and that's what we're looking
12591s	at here with both blize and bunny hopper
12594s	running a lineup which does not feature
12596s	shaman in it other similarities between
12598s	the lineup both players running the
12600s	celestial druid
12602s	form of the renethal deck um which has
12604s	been showing decent success so far but i
12606s	think a good one to keep an eye on here
12608s	is the boar priest because
12610s	tiny sample yes but as of right now boar
12613s	priest is the highest win rate deck in
12615s	the tournament however it has only
12617s	played five games up until this point
12618s	because it is a low represented deck but
12621s	of course blize is a player who can put
12625s	um a lot of work into these combo heavy
12628s	um
12629s	type of decks and boar priest is very
12631s	much in his wheelhouse and he's shown
12633s	great success with it so far and really
12635s	shown great success in most things that
12637s	he's done in hearthstone so far yeah
12639s	it's annoying isn't he he's just good
12641s	that's about as far as much as you need
12642s	to know about things um one thing that
12644s	is going to be a little bit
12645s	disappointing at least for me is blyze's
12648s	hunter is going to be banned away so we
12650s	don't get to see more of that sort of xl
12652s	quest hunter that is uh very interesting
12654s	to watch indeed but instead we're going
12656s	to start things off with the xxl mage
12660s	with a few nice additions mainly that
12662s	guy the tectonic is a pretty cool
12665s	inclusion there and one that again it
12667s	kind of makes sense if you have those
12669s	slots to fill than having just a good
12671s	thing to do with one card it's going to
12673s	be a pretty strong most likely or at
12675s	least in a lot of the more maybe
12676s	aggressive match ups
12678s	yeah there was a moment of confusion i
12681s	think maybe yesterday maybe the day
12682s	before where blize played out the gaia
12685s	and then they was like wait where did
12686s	this come from wait this is in his deck
12688s	what's going on um it's just a strange
12690s	car dad in normally obviously um early
12693s	days of the expansion mech mage was
12695s	making a lot of waves and we saw a ton
12696s	of that card
12698s	um alongside the shark and so on to be
12700s	able to create massive burst damage
12702s	combos in the late game pick up those
12703s	discounts as well from the sea floor uh
12705s	but just throwing it in there as a
12707s	colossal i think people do forget how
12709s	much value the colossals themselves
12712s	individually represent and we see cards
12714s	like krabatoa for example just been
12716s	throwing in thrown into a deck it is
12718s	just an efficient good card for the
12721s	amount of mana that it costs i don't
12722s	think gaia is quite on that level but
12725s	yes when you are scrambling for card
12726s	number 37 38 39 and 40 to put in your
12729s	deck then yeah maybe gaia makes that
12731s	list just in terms of raw card quality
12733s	right and uh yesterday as we take a look
12736s	at bunny harper's beast hunter this
12737s	definitely felt like the deck that
12739s	struggled the most he uh
12741s	he lost one of the matches versus pascoa
12743s	with the last two losses being to uh
12745s	from that hunter and then he lost once
12748s	against levick with the hunter and won
12750s	the other three games and then lost
12752s	again versus fled as well so really
12754s	rough one there i think for bunny wants
12756s	to uh would be very happy i imagine to
12758s	just get that hunter obviously cued it
12760s	in first get a win with it and go thank
12762s	god right get that one out the way and
12764s	now i can focus on the rest because it
12766s	does seem to be the maybe ongoing deck
12768s	that he has had the most trouble with
12770s	yeah not just for bunny hopper the
12772s	overall stats reflect that as well uh
12774s	beast hunter currently 39 win rate in
12777s	this tournament 7 and 11 overall
12779s	but unfortunately not open all hours in
12781s	fact i think the only thing open all
12783s	hours has been bunny hopper's hand to
12785s	mountain bears because that seems to be
12787s	all he has drawn for this entire
12788s	tournament so far had some frustrating
12791s	draws on the deck so far but you know 18
12793s	games in a small tournament is a
12795s	relatively high sample just you know
12797s	contextually in terms of how many games
12799s	total are going to be played in the
12800s	tournament and so we will wait and see
12803s	whether the beast hunter can put on a
12804s	late recovery because honestly i
12806s	expected it to do fairly well against
12809s	some of the lineups that we are seeing
12810s	from other people
12812s	and it really just has not performed to
12814s	that level so far very disappointing
12815s	deck in the tournament so far completely
12818s	there it is yeah
12819s	but luckily it's not in the uh post
12822s	mulligan hand
12823s	but we will see if it can do well for
12825s	bunny hair again i think he would just
12827s	love it for maybe his own mindset to
12830s	actually just get a win with it and not
12832s	have to think about for the rest of this
12833s	series at least everybody's going to
12835s	take his time and have a quick look at
12837s	this it's going to be going up against
12838s	of course that mage from bly's and um
12842s	what the key cards yeah bunny hop is
12843s	really looking for here like is this
12845s	peasant just a keep to play on turn one
12848s	or will it be digging for something a
12850s	little bit more overall powerful
12853s	yeah obviously a little awkward overall
12855s	right the decision on the peasant
12857s	because you know you do always give mage
12859s	the option of dealing with it as and
12861s	when they want to but generally their
12863s	coin is a valuable resource overall that
12866s	they're not super interested in using
12868s	that early so if you can play it on one
12870s	get one card draw off it and then tie up
12871s	turn two in terms of pinging it that can
12874s	be a very nice deal and if you pick up a
12876s	second one to go alongside it suddenly
12878s	things start to get very interesting
12880s	because that's several turns now that
12882s	the mage is going to be behind the play
12884s	in dealing with those peasants even
12886s	though they do have that ping available
12888s	yeah the second one definitely not too
12890s	bad at all looking at blindside does
12892s	have far watch posts which can be a
12894s	little bit annoying as always for the
12896s	hunter because they do generally mainly
12898s	with the minions wantable come on in on
12900s	curve but blast
12903s	insta answer and bunny already losing it
12906s	he just cannot believe it he's cued
12908s	hunter and he's already on the struggle
12911s	bus
12912s	it's so maddening and i'm i'm
12914s	honestly like from an empathetic point
12916s	of view it's been nice to see that other
12919s	players have very similar reactions to i
12921s	that i do because you know i don't think
12923s	bunny is a player that particularly
12924s	reacts to that in a normal matchup like
12926s	i played my one drop and they had their
12927s	two drop in their opening hand that
12929s	counters my one drop right that's fairly
12930s	normal not really too big a thing to be
12932s	upset about you know the risks when you
12934s	play it when they have 40 cards in their
12937s	deck it's so much more frustrating when
12940s	this kind of stuff happens to you i'm
12942s	looking forward to the next like what
12943s	quickly a year and a half of salt
12945s	complaining about reddit though
12947s	yeah with certain draws it's uh we're
12949s	going to be in for a good time that's
12951s	all i'm going to say but
12953s	when you hop it i'm going to choose to
12955s	spend the mana killing the two three
12956s	again plane two one drops into it just
12959s	let supplies like farm them for free
12961s	effectively so i do like that approach
12964s	just get it off board but now
12966s	again i've spoken a lot about hunting
12969s	needs to be very consistent needs to
12971s	always be you know doing powerful things
12974s	pretty much every turn of the game
12977s	especially when they've got 40 damage to
12978s	deal and revive pair even just that
12981s	being you know costed as four
12984s	might actually bite him a little bit
12985s	later on
12987s	yeah like real talk like renaissance
12989s	concerns aside let's just rewind and
12991s	contextualize how big that snow flurry
12993s	draw is because we were talking about
12994s	the peasant curve and the ping
12995s	interaction from the start of the game
12998s	so let's say bunny plays a peasant on
13000s	one blize doesn't draw the snow flurry
13002s	probably passes bunny then plays a
13004s	second peasant on two blize can't play
13007s	watch post into two peasants i mean i
13009s	guess you could when the merit that's
13011s	saying like well if they draw cards
13013s	they're going to be more expensive
13014s	anyway but it would feel like a huge
13016s	risk to take if bunny just has like
13018s	quick shot for example to clear up your
13020s	watch post on the other side so suddenly
13022s	the watch post isn't coming down you're
13023s	just pinging away one of the two ones
13025s	you're still behind there's still
13026s	another one on board like that snow
13028s	flurry not being uh only being able to
13030s	come down and deal with the peasant but
13032s	also then being in a whole additional
13034s	minion in play to challenge the next
13036s	minion that was played by bunny was
13038s	absolutely massive
13039s	yeah now bryce is just a head on board
13042s	at this point the ocarina you know
13044s	technically an uncurved plate right now
13046s	costing five but it's all he can do and
13049s	the problem is there's still not a way
13053s	a bunny to kill this watch post
13056s	it's horrible
13059s	what he's even supposed to do right now
13065s	and i think this is it you're gonna have
13066s	to play your curve and you're probably
13068s	at this point
13070s	waiting until hydraulidon even to really
13072s	take back control of the board in this
13074s	position which is not the spot you
13076s	really want to be in you didn't see
13077s	there but this has to be spelled right
13082s	you're trying to block coin sorceress
13085s	yeah
13086s	or coin belinder
13087s	yeah
13091s	because the
13093s	the problem is because the uh mailbox
13095s	dances on board and can now trade away
13098s	because of the ocarina being played
13101s	yeah means that the coins going to be
13102s	there bunny could double trade into the
13105s	dancer and just coin if he's very afraid
13107s	of it and it looks like
13110s	like that might be what he's doing he's
13112s	holding the coins we're deciding to take
13113s	that risk oh
13117s	oh no
13120s	we could see of course there wasn't a uh
13123s	a spell to get around that
13125s	like he's gone with the minion
13128s	yeah and i do like that more because
13131s	playing um
13133s	minion or spell block both stop the
13136s	belinda or the barbara coming down on
13137s	the following turn right they both
13139s	uh create the same effect for that one
13141s	turn if you block spell you get your
13143s	opponent to blow a coin and you blow
13145s	that up whereas if you block minion they
13147s	have to play a minion that turn and
13149s	usually that's going to be something of
13151s	relative value right whether it be a
13154s	deep walker evoker a spammy arcanist
13157s	like something
13158s	um fairly impactful especially with the
13161s	amount of early game minions that have
13162s	already been thrown out from blyze in
13163s	that position so yep sure get to block
13165s	it for one turn at the very least
13168s	just one turn
13170s	for the shake of the head there because
13172s	that is the one thing he didn't want to
13174s	see was the spammy is guaranteed clear
13177s	because of how it interacts with
13178s	hydraulic
13180s	but even worse raven
13182s	that's what 20 hydraulodon heads that
13184s	have now gone into the revived pet which
13186s	makes that basically a guaranteed brick
13189s	at this point but that
13191s	might just be the card that gives bunny
13193s	hoppers some kind
13195s	some semblance of hope of getting back
13197s	into this series soon
13199s	yes this is
13201s	the one card i think at this point
13203s	especially because of what you were
13205s	talking about with the revive now being
13207s	almost useless
13209s	it's the one card that could save the
13212s	day
13213s	that's going through
13216s	hey
13219s	insane
13221s	now we find out that uh players actually
13223s	playing brewmaster in the list
13225s	yep bounces this right
13234s	the big problem is now
13239s	okay
13240s	never mind i was just gonna say if bunny
13243s	hopper's only really reliant on this
13245s	tavish for the next couple of turns and
13247s	the hydraulic of course um
13250s	will blize be able to just overpower him
13253s	once he starts getting to this late game
13254s	stage now right he has rune in hand he
13257s	has another barbara he has draw as well
13259s	with the four drop like is that going to
13262s	be a bigger problem but maybe with kodo
13264s	bane and tavish
13267s	and start looking at making something
13268s	work here
13271s	yeah really good couple of draws here
13273s	from bunny for sure
13277s	making sure that those resources can
13278s	refill which is a big deal because he
13280s	was extremely light hasn't really set up
13283s	any of the um kind of early beast
13285s	scamming that he's needed to do has been
13287s	disrupted by the watch post as well
13289s	so he's really just been playing not
13291s	only on curve but behind curve because
13293s	he's paying too much mana for the
13295s	majority of his cards now at this point
13298s	the fact that he now actually gets to
13299s	dig through a large portion of his deck
13302s	uh with the barrack code bane and also
13303s	just now has consistent minion pressure
13305s	with the uh be stopped
13308s	gonna be a really really big deal here
13310s	not to mention of course the potential
13311s	power of uh ice trap in this yeah but
13316s	barbara
13317s	is now going to make a huge mess of this
13319s	board state you would presume
13321s	yeah because of the of course the
13324s	the barrack being played three cards
13326s	drawn blinds knew exactly that there was
13328s	a one and two cost in hand so looking
13330s	good overall gonna be a mass polymorph
13332s	some secrets but i think most
13333s	importantly subtle the board clear
13336s	happened
13337s	indeed yeah mass polymorph obviously was
13339s	a huge deal there because once again
13341s	hydraulidon can really mess with those
13343s	random spells if they just keep hitting
13345s	on their heads without clearing up the
13347s	main body of the hydraulodon you can end
13349s	up really not having a significant
13350s	impact on the board so the mass
13352s	polymorph big deal there straight away
13354s	i wonder also puts a sheep in the pool
13357s	for the other revived yay
13360s	any sheep
13366s	i've got to be tavish at this point
13373s	hopefully we can get this uh dis
13375s	discover options fixed in the near
13377s	future so but we can actually see there
13379s	we go oh
13381s	magic
13384s	hopefully i can become a millionaire in
13386s	the near future
13389s	nope nothing happened never mind it was
13390s	worth a try
13394s	wow you checked your bank account that
13395s	quick oh yeah
13397s	there's a chance that millions just to
13399s	pay in it
13401s	for sure i will check it quickly
13411s	yeah as i was saying before the
13414s	second barbara came down for the one
13416s	mana rune of the art mage immediately um
13418s	because blize had not scammed out too
13420s	many spells in the early game
13422s	he will now have the fear of that ice
13425s	trap in the future which can be an
13426s	absolute disaster of course if it does
13428s	ever land on one of those full costed
13430s	spells the likes of which blize does
13432s	have now in hand with roon of the arc
13434s	mage bunny of course now has that
13436s	information as well from the deep water
13437s	evoker
13440s	yeah the next couple of draws for flies
13441s	are going to be pretty huge uh if he can
13444s	actually gain the board enough to make
13446s	that you know to be able to almost waste
13448s	a turn right depending what he draws i
13450s	think the best of course would be
13452s	belinda because it would at least only
13454s	spend five mana on testing the secret
13456s	instead of like 9 10.
13460s	do you even want to press that bunny
13462s	you know what throw that revive pet into
13464s	the count spell
13472s	probably just pet collector looking for
13475s	the saber gets the saber
13478s	you're no weapon inside but at the very
13479s	least that is uh step one kind of the
13482s	standard combo of the deck achieved i'm
13484s	just an extra minion on board right i
13486s	think that's the thing the uh he knew if
13488s	he decided to wait for that combo into
13490s	the sunken saber
13492s	he might be waiting all game at this
13493s	point and that's just not going to be
13494s	good enough he needs to be fairly
13496s	aggressive right now
13505s	although bryce gets to stack a lot of
13507s	armor here
13509s	yep which is at least
13511s	all
13515s	yeah you can play the coin into the ice
13517s	trap and then have his rune of the
13519s	archmage free
13520s	yes exactly i would suggest that you
13522s	want to do that on the same turn
13524s	presumably just to stop any potential
13526s	disruption from your opponent like go
13528s	coin into rune of the art mage on the
13529s	same turn
13533s	all right let's go throw it out right
13534s	now okay fine
13537s	yeah i think that's
13539s	okay because this isn't the quest hunter
13542s	right
13543s	so the secret package isn't there so
13545s	there's no naturalized trap gonna cause
13547s	any trouble
13548s	so i don't think there's anything i can
13550s	think of at least that actually will
13552s	stop this happening for blaisdell that's
13554s	fab
13561s	work done though i mean there's still
13562s	tons of armor and that's the the one
13564s	thing i feel like i always forget about
13567s	because some games you just never really
13569s	notice but the sheer volume of armor
13572s	that can be gained with this mage is
13573s	actually kind of ridiculous
13576s	okay
13581s	i'm coming together now for bunny does
13583s	finally find the huffer on the fourth
13585s	attempt
13587s	actually only third attempt that's
13589s	double misha from the uh yeah believe
13591s	it's right
13599s	that pick of course
13604s	it's the coin to
13606s	counter blyze's uh disruption so both
13609s	players gaining from that mailbox dancer
13611s	i suppose yeah i still think obviously i
13613s	mean obviously blize is happy with that
13615s	plan because he's the one that initiated
13617s	it but i still think blyze is the one
13618s	coming out ahead oh yeah or you know
13621s	bunny being able to play a ramming mount
13622s	or a revive pet or a doggie biscuit or
13625s	whatever else versus blize being able to
13627s	play rune of the arc mage i think i know
13629s	who's coming out ahead in that exchange
13631s	and now he gets to play with the parrot
13633s	as well
13634s	that's bad that's very bad that's so
13637s	much mana chewed up on an incredibly
13639s	ineffective spell on that board state
13643s	that's actually a pretty miserable box
13645s	oh okay
13647s	that phrase maybe would have preferred
13649s	it frozen just
13650s	instead of dead actually because that's
13652s	just added a little bit more damage to
13654s	the board that bunny wouldn't have had
13655s	this turn
13656s	yeah now with the saber
13658s	can actually trade this off
13664s	now it's just the two bears and the king
13667s	crush right
13669s	yes
13678s	a really clean way to do this
13682s	no obviously can't or i mean can but
13684s	doesn't really want to do it with the
13686s	saber which is obviously the most
13687s	efficient way to use the rush minion
13689s	that you have coming out now to deal
13690s	with the taunt because you would like
13692s	the taunt you would like the sunken
13693s	saber to die this turn and pull you out
13695s	a king crush
13697s	and but i think the way bunny is going
13698s	to go about it is just continuing to be
13700s	as efficient as possible here using the
13702s	rush meaning to break through push
13704s	maximum damage to the face
13708s	i really like second harpoon gun here
13712s	just for damage consistency more than
13714s	anything it's one more manner than the
13716s	biscuit but you don't need a minion for
13718s	it and also you can just get the
13719s	biscuits afterwards with the harpoon
13721s	good anyway right so
13723s	as a worst case so i i like just the
13725s	equip a weapon swing face done
13727s	as simple as that and suddenly
13730s	uh the the plan is coming together for
13732s	bunny in in using the the
13734s	saber to actually kill the taunt with
13736s	rush it does mean that he just pushed
13739s	maximum damage face and you can see
13741s	bunny is uh
13742s	does not want to play the long game here
13744s	does he
13746s	oh he's going to go rooney the arc mage
13747s	okay he had spammy options there there
13749s	is the perfectly clean one two three
13751s	four on the board currently to be able
13753s	to clean this up
13754s	could be scared of king crush
13757s	yeah very true
13763s	they'll have the attacking minions
13765s	available
13768s	okay
13769s	this is the scary one
13771s	that is the king crush how much mana do
13774s	we have left on spells okay
13780s	can be dealt with with the existing
13782s	minions as long as they both survive
13783s	this and it looks like from the way
13784s	these attacks are being cued that they
13786s	have
13790s	but they're still i'm guessing bunny did
13792s	pick the weapon there's still a hoof a
13794s	roll for this
13795s	yep or a hoof a resurrect
13801s	two shots for bunny just winning the
13802s	game and i'll be honest i don't think
13804s	there's much
13805s	oh wait there's still only seven right
13807s	yeah yeah sorry sorry yeah he needs
13808s	something oh there's a leader okay
13810s	that'll do it needed something else yeah
13812s	there we go and let's be honest i was
13814s	just gonna say no other play he isn't
13815s	playing tracking right so bunny gets it
13818s	done and i think you can see just from
13820s	his reaction and no real pop off but
13823s	more just a bit of relief and he's just
13825s	like yeah okay that could have gone very
13827s	wrong especially with how bly's opened
13830s	that was like the open against hunter in
13832s	that scenario
13833s	but bunny did a good job of keeping his
13835s	cool keeping the pressure up and he was
13838s	rewarded for it as well and that she
13840s	gets a win with the hunter i think that
13842s	is so big for this series
13844s	yeah i mean it absolutely is i mentioned
13846s	it right at the start hunter has been
13848s	struggling so far in this tournament uh
13851s	that win
13852s	now takes it up uh probably to what
13855s	eight and eleven i'm not sure if we've
13857s	seen any uh beast hunter in the previous
13859s	games before we joined today but i'm
13861s	using stats that were accurate from the
13862s	start of day at the very least
13865s	um so beast hunter has been a problem
13867s	for some of these players so far and as
13868s	you mentioned particularly for bunny
13870s	hopper who has had some pretty
13872s	unfortunate pan outs some clunky opening
13874s	hands drawing too many mountain bears
13876s	not really cheating out the beasts in
13878s	the way that you would really like to in
13880s	this scenario and i think after that
13882s	opening
13883s	bunny might be sat there thinking okay
13885s	is beast hunter just cursed yeah i'm
13887s	never gonna pick up a win with this deck
13888s	so to be able to re-establish from here
13891s	uh bly's really just whiffing pretty
13893s	hard in that mid game but also very
13895s	nicely navigated from bunny going for
13897s	the revive pet early still hitting that
13900s	additional hydraulidon and then
13901s	obviously that leok coming out as the
13903s	savior as well and as much as we
13905s	pooh-poohed the revived pets i think
13907s	they both ended up being incredibly
13909s	clutch uh for bunny hopper's eventual
13911s	eventual victory in the game 100 like i
13914s	said i think the turn the tavish and
13916s	then the uh kodobane turned up were key
13919s	without those bunny was gonna just limp
13922s	to a a loss i imagine uh bunny hopper of
13924s	course now is gonna be jumping over to a
13926s	different deck and that different deck
13928s	is the rogue and this is where we saw
13930s	some of the weirdest games which i think
13932s	is to expect with this deck and we saw
13935s	some very rubbish games i would say
13938s	yesterday just not really able to
13941s	narrate anything truly relevant and
13943s	that's the
13944s	the biggest questions i have about this
13946s	deck in general honestly is
13948s	you need different things for different
13950s	matchups and the second you like
13951s	mismatch those outcomes you just sort of
13954s	go oh well
13955s	okay i have control tools or a few
13957s	control to tools against a control deck
13960s	you know what i mean or a late game deck
13962s	as opposed to
13963s	against an anti-air and aggro deck sorry
13965s	so we'll see how this goes bunny opera
13967s	definitely knows what he's doing with
13969s	especially rogues that can generate
13970s	strange things as we've seen in the past
13972s	from him before but uh it's definitely a
13974s	deck that relies a lot on just having
13976s	that that little sprinkle of luck in
13978s	there getting at least one of those good
13980s	cards generated yeah it's interesting
13982s	right because quite often on ladder
13985s	you'll see the match up of like thief
13987s	rogue going up like against like a demon
13989s	hunter or a presto druid or a boat rogue
13993s	for example where if you play jackpot
13996s	um and you end up with like whirlpools
13998s	or flame strikes or whatever else and
13999s	you just get to play those every single
14001s	turn for the rest of the game that's
14002s	usually pretty good for a lot of the
14004s	matchups that you play against on ladder
14006s	but this time around we've been seeing
14007s	the thief road go up against more kind
14009s	of control match has more renathol decks
14011s	the curse warlocks um even the the the
14015s	control priest the quest priest that we
14017s	saw from pascua where hitting those
14019s	outcomes are really not what you want
14021s	and instead you want to do exactly what
14023s	fury hunter did in a game in a series uh
14026s	very recently where you just hit that
14028s	dragonfire amulet instead and just are
14030s	able to pop off with massive dragons
14032s	turn after turn instead and bunny hop
14034s	has just been hitting the the wrong side
14036s	of the boxes really but that is kind of
14038s	the nature of these box decks there's a
14040s	few of them in the meta right now and
14042s	they can be very very punishing when
14043s	they don't cooperate
14045s	well he's got the open to give us the
14047s	answers quickly hasn't he he's got the
14049s	jackpot and he's got the uh the naga as
14051s	well to be able to just uh start doing
14054s	pretty uh funky things if required so
14056s	let's see how this one goes bly's only
14058s	keeping the barbaric sorceress
14060s	in hand and we do see that gaia in the
14062s	hand as well definitely not going to be
14064s	impactful quite yet
14066s	never know he does have a curve that
14067s	will at least be average for him in the
14069s	near future
14076s	i'm just tense wait and see what's going
14078s	off this jackpot
14082s	yep roll those dice let's pull the lever
14085s	we are looking for triple cherries
14095s	let's have all right one which one has
14097s	the better spells in it i me
14102s	that one
14105s	let's go
14107s	i'll tell you what
14109s	we we've known bunny for a long time now
14111s	right
14112s	but that reaction is one you don't get
14114s	often from bunny hopper it's the the
14117s	full
14118s	shocked face reaction as he just sees
14121s	one of the best cards to get
14123s	trickster
14125s	dragons clap round of applause
14130s	eighty
14131s	four twelve ah it's actually
14134s	moderately close i would say between the
14136s	acera and the scale bane here i think
14139s	yeah i i think i still like you sarah
14141s	honestly
14145s	just because it's bigger
14148s	what is it though it is more total stats
14150s	but in terms of the one up top that
14152s	actually lumps damage into your
14154s	opponent's face the cobalt scale bane is
14156s	significantly bigger
14158s	it is but i like the health
14161s	okay i think that just gets to a point
14164s	where there's just nothing that's really
14165s	going to kill this for a long while i
14167s	mean that's kind of my question what
14168s	kills a kobold scale bane from mage this
14171s	early on you know
14174s	i have a think
14178s	five pings
14181s	honestly i think like the deciding
14183s	factor is because your first pick was
14185s	onyxia you're getting all these whelps
14186s	and so
14187s	i'm assuming sequencing would go end of
14189s	turn effect first the one you picked
14191s	first and then the one you picked second
14193s	so if you land on the buff on one of the
14195s	one ones it's relatively inconsequential
14197s	and can be dealt with in that situation
14199s	so it seems fine
14204s	putting up we're going to keep up with
14205s	the pressure here with the tooth
14215s	i like the look of frostbite actually
14222s	pain for those coins right is
14224s	relevant in itself right now
14227s	um i know blacks doesn't have any coins
14229s	at this point in time but you know what
14231s	i mean right it feels like the most
14232s	immediate
14233s	uh great pick righteous defense is
14236s	interesting because obviously in this
14238s	mage deck from bly's he wants to play
14240s	big minions especially if the barber is
14242s	going to come down in the near future
14244s	but
14246s	i just think the biggest problem you're
14248s	going to get is those spells being
14249s	played and there why not frostbite
14253s	you can also play it this turn right but
14255s	then just use the whelps to alter the
14257s	number on the treasure guard
14272s	uh all right okay yeah nothing really
14275s	not as good as the previous outcome but
14276s	power word fortitude is nothing to be
14278s	sniffed out here yeah no no excuse me
14281s	and although they
14283s	that's great and although they were um
14286s	yeah
14286s	although
14287s	the first one was great you only really
14289s	need one good one right i think that's
14291s	the thing as well you need one very
14293s	powerful generation from this rogue and
14296s	then you're kind of okay for the rest of
14297s	the game
14300s	let's find the contraband stash now as
14302s	well which is obviously key to being
14303s	able to re-spam these dragons as many
14306s	times as humanly possible
14311s	what are the good reasons not to
14313s	contraband this turn
14318s	if anything there's
14319s	i mean there's a small board on the
14320s	other side right when contraband stash
14322s	happens your dragons are chosen randomly
14324s	as opposed to you discovering which
14325s	means you do get a lot of like five five
14327s	size-ish things coming off them
14329s	sometimes you just hit amalgams
14331s	but the fact there's just a board on the
14332s	other side that could immediately
14334s	challenge you is perhaps a little bit
14335s	worrying but yeah i think this is good
14337s	enough at this point especially if you
14339s	roll the big eight eights there's a
14341s	flurry though available for flies that's
14343s	something at least
14345s	yeah
14346s	only rank one of course though when it
14347s	comes off the nargling
14350s	not gonna get the double freeze here
14351s	there will be a good chunk of damage
14353s	still being able to go through
14354s	but now the uh the clean up phase is
14357s	available for bunny hopper with this uh
14358s	crabber tower if he wants it which is
14361s	going to be really nice both claws can
14363s	clean up the two minions whilst pushing
14365s	four to face uh from the weapon sort of
14367s	between that of course
14370s	there's other options of getting powered
14372s	down but
14374s	i think i'm just a fan of just plain
14376s	crabbertoa because it's turned six so
14378s	it's never really a bad play is it
14380s	agreed
14386s	he crab play crab
14394s	i'm just damaged through
14396s	refresh the weapon swing in the
14398s	nagalings can chill you don't have to
14399s	worry about those right now you're just
14401s	trying to be as aggressive as humanly
14403s	possible here
14405s	oh wow just like that
14407s	bunny hopper goes up 2-0 and again look
14411s	at the difference right with these
14413s	generations the uh some of those of
14416s	lackluster ones we saw in other matchups
14419s	are a problem but when you hear oh my
14421s	you just get so far ahead and there was
14423s	just nothing blaze could do he didn't
14425s	have the sort of barbara coin
14427s	interaction right so he couldn't have
14429s	even tried to catch up or even anything
14431s	else and we all know blair subtle if he
14434s	feels like the game's all over he will
14436s	just say it's over and get out so i
14439s	completely respect the decision there
14440s	from blaise did try to fight back with
14442s	this cool vardon shattering blast that
14445s	but he took a great pleasure in watching
14447s	by the looks of things but it just
14449s	wasn't enough like i said the two big
14451s	dragons came out so bunny dodged that
14453s	issue you were talking about from
14455s	contraband backed up by krabatoa it
14458s	starts to get ridiculous for at that
14459s	point doesn't it applies
14461s	yeah and that's the thing is like even
14463s	if blize is able to get to the point of
14464s	recovery where you are starting to go
14467s	for some barbara plays like
14469s	b-frog has these cute interactions that
14471s	you can use to play around that like my
14473s	reaction to the second jackpot going off
14476s	uh the tower was never really a card
14477s	that was going to get played it is a 10
14479s	mana spell that you can just keep in
14481s	your hand for the rest of the game which
14482s	means even if barbara comes out that
14484s	could just land on the smoke screen or
14486s	the tower and then your spells only
14488s	ending up costing eight or ten anyway
14490s	you don't get the big tempo swing you're
14491s	looking for um so that jackpot
14493s	interaction against big spell mage
14496s	really worked out pretty perfectly for
14498s	bunny because he got the high tempo
14499s	option he was looking for and then he
14501s	got wildly expensive spells that he
14503s	could just keep in his hand for the rest
14505s	of the game that kind of messes with
14506s	that barbara option anyway blize did do
14509s	some blise things that game you know the
14510s	roll on the nuggling to hit the
14512s	shattering blast was disgusting and but
14514s	then bunny being able to pick up the
14516s	refill on that uh was of course crucial
14519s	to being able to get that game ending
14520s	pressure and then of course as we all
14522s	saw if you play krabatoa the game ends
14525s	immediately because that is just how
14526s	good that card is true and we are going
14529s	to see a mage mirror now blair sticking
14531s	to his rena film age bunny upper playing
14533s	big mage but not the renaissance version
14536s	so sticking to that a 30 card limit and
14540s	so
14542s	trying to move renathel bias aside here
14545s	subtle and
14547s	what do you think about it this matchup
14549s	is anyone particularly favored because
14552s	although there are the extra cards for
14554s	blize he does still have the tutor
14557s	effects for the spells just like bunny
14559s	hopper has right
14560s	yeah that's true um but you are still of
14563s	course less likely to draw a deepwater
14565s	revoker obviously that seems a little
14567s	bit silly when we're just staring at it
14568s	in bly's opening
14570s	but it is true yes
14572s	um and in a matchup that i think is
14575s	quite closely defined like this matchup
14577s	can end a couple of ways either one
14579s	player can hit the stuff early um cheat
14582s	out a potential a couple of big dragons
14585s	early on with the belinda which is
14587s	really the big card you're looking for
14589s	more so than the barbaric sorceress
14590s	because of the you know the makeup of
14592s	the spells in each player's decks being
14594s	the same it's a relatively symmetrical
14596s	effect when you find the barbara but if
14598s	one player finds belinda and then goes
14600s	big dragons it can be quite often
14601s	difficult for the other player to be
14603s	able to catch up from that position
14604s	because there's just too much pressure
14605s	then coming with parrots and so on um if
14609s	it gets past that point then quite often
14612s	it's the player that starts to get the
14613s	big dawn grasp going gets the really
14615s	juiced hero powers is pushing massive
14617s	hunter hero power damage to the face
14619s	every single turn
14620s	all of those things are more likely to
14622s	happen to bunny hopper so in my
14624s	experience the consistency of the
14627s	smaller deck is what i favor in this
14628s	situation okay well so far both players
14631s	looking
14633s	even-ish as you said they both have a
14635s	deep water evoker in hand uh which is
14637s	very important especially for blize to
14639s	be able to shoot with those spells gain
14640s	that armor and sort of make decisions
14642s	from that point uh bunny hopper
14646s	he's looking okay now he's picked up the
14647s	snow flurry but the hand doesn't look
14649s	overly great mainly because those two
14652s	parrots don't really get much done uh
14654s	for quite a while actually it's uh
14657s	surprising to see that this six drop
14659s	actually doesn't really come into effect
14661s	for quite a long time without help from
14663s	belinda of course so bunny maybe
14666s	slightly behind
14669s	and strictly behind on health
14678s	what to do
14680s	i mean even on ratio he is right 1 40th
14682s	of the health lost compared to 1 15th of
14685s	the health loss
14686s	just losing
14690s	we're in a full fractions now
14707s	and yeah we're going to hold on to the
14708s	ping again going back to what you were
14710s	saying if something big does come down
14712s	the deck does struggle to deal with them
14715s	in a freeze ping it's actually very very
14718s	powerful to buy a little bit of time
14719s	right yeah absolutely
14731s	um clearing options here with the spammy
14734s	arcanist but it doesn't look
14735s	particularly attractive we might just
14737s	see the drake fire being traded back in
14739s	here
14739s	again
14740s	i do think you want to maximize card
14742s	draw for those
14743s	key hits as much as you can
14747s	yeah and honestly the pelican if bunny
14750s	can fit that in this turn just doesn't
14752s	look so bad it's actually uh pretty
14754s	powerful to just push four damage again
14756s	even as a removal tool uh on the next
14759s	turn so looks like he actually is going
14761s	to go for the ocarina picking the minion
14763s	counter drawing dropping the pelican i
14766s	imagine it seems a bit too good to pass
14768s	up for just the uh amulet cycle at that
14770s	point
14771s	yeah i think i was always playing akane
14773s	this turn i was just perhaps looking
14774s	more at trading away the uh the drake
14776s	fire ambulance looking for those big
14778s	draws for belinda or vardhan
14783s	only burn a treasure guard and don't get
14785s	me wrong treasure guard very good card
14787s	but
14788s	rather that than a lot of the other
14789s	tools available for flies
14791s	yep
14793s	that's actually pretty strong right
14796s	getting the um even the natural ruin and
14799s	drake fire emblem it's a turn earlier
14809s	i was saying about the pirates right
14811s	they're so far away
14813s	i'm even wondering whether it's just
14814s	trade parrot
14817s	just to play a minion
14822s	i mean
14823s	it does spend all your mana
14826s	and i've heard that going forward
14830s	we're back in the fino era okay fino's
14832s	winning tournaments again so we have to
14835s	spend all our mana
14839s	go for the cycle on the amulet just have
14841s	to follow up with snow for you like
14843s	regardless and doesn't even have to use
14844s	the pink of course but
14849s	i'm fine
14859s	now with two of these available bly's
14861s	much more happy with trading them away
14864s	looks like he will just go ahead and
14865s	trade the second regardless
14874s	and pelican now for fly is going to be
14876s	really strong
14878s	i didn't really respect this card but
14880s	the more i see it the more i think wow
14882s	there's four damage for one man it's
14884s	pretty good yeah it just slaps
14886s	it's the fact that your opponent can't
14888s	never gets to choose right you always
14891s	choose
14892s	right yeah be strong
14896s	funny now with a second imagine if this
14898s	was a 4-4 that was also only ever
14901s	dormant for one turn because you could
14903s	spend five mana on spells super easily
14906s	that's not even being played
14911s	of course
14919s	the player really getting hold of
14920s	anything fantastic right
14925s	nowhere barbara options with a dancer
14929s	what to do
14930s	what to do nobody's on either side
14933s	i guess blize does have the rune
14938s	a whole turn away for now funny
14940s	considering the trade and the ping
14946s	probably is worthwhile killing it in
14949s	summers in some way right
14951s	just because of the uh maybe he's okay
14952s	with the zero mana hero power being used
14954s	but maybe if he could make the pelican
14957s	go into the watch post that would be a
14958s	like a victory for bunny hopper so to
14960s	speak
14969s	like this is a spammy line from bly's is
14972s	able to clear all this up quite
14973s	effectively
14974s	they control the board now and there is
14976s	that second space rock the first one of
14978s	course giving him that siphon manor
14979s	which did put him in a nice position
14981s	really in the course of the game getting
14983s	just a little bit ahead the fact that
14984s	both players are on the slow curve where
14987s	neither of them are really trading or
14989s	scamming the fact that blize does just
14991s	get to turn ahead with those amulets if
14993s	he's able to draw them back
15004s	and bunny afford to not play a bird
15007s	right now
15011s	because you've seen both players having
15013s	uh options to play reckless for a few
15015s	turns now holding on for obvious reasons
15018s	the uh dawn grasp
15020s	reckless combinations are way more
15022s	powerful later on
15028s	he could freeze
15030s	the um
15031s	the oh is he gonna freeze the three four
15035s	it killed the three four
15037s	okay quite the commitment actually m is
15041s	i do like the or i i like the effect one
15044s	way or the other freezing the tutu
15046s	because it gives blaze less options
15048s	obviously bunny doesn't know he just has
15049s	room to play on tourney but uh just
15052s	giving him less options potentially
15054s	there by freezing that out is quite
15055s	strong
15056s	oof good start
15059s	three five five
15063s	bonnie winston something that i'm
15065s	assuming was that
15067s	three mana remaining i believe okay yeah
15069s	sure why not round it out with an arcane
15071s	intellect yep sounds good gaia modresh
15073s	okay
15082s	ah the amount of mana being floated
15084s	every single turn by bunny hopper is
15086s	just hurting my brain raven
15090s	ah it's not good is it
15093s	and at this point after seeing that turn
15098s	i suppose feel very comfortable just
15100s	playing gaia here right just push
15104s	on a damage i don't see why not i think
15107s	what could bunny be holding on turn nine
15110s	exactly a drakefire hamula
15113s	and if so this is still good versus that
15115s	right because it just adds more stuff to
15117s	the board
15139s	what to do
15141s	weird spot because you know from the
15144s	roon door going off from the box
15146s	that there is a spell in the opponent's
15148s	hand right now so one of the only real
15150s	opportunities you have to be able to
15151s	deal with this
15153s	but no spell in your own hand right now
15155s	able to take advantage of it which is
15157s	very awkward obviously both players
15159s	choosing to trade away the rune of the
15161s	arc mage at various points over the
15162s	course of the game
15164s	which i do agree with like i said
15166s	because you do want to dig for those
15167s	like more impactful things in the early
15169s	and mid game and not just wait for that
15172s	big uh 910 mana play whenever you get
15174s	there manually
15177s	[Music]
15188s	and he doing the best he can here just
15190s	to reduce some of this down a little bit
15191s	but now the health difference is really
15193s	starting to stack up
15199s	oh
15202s	bonegrass being picked up it's so much
15205s	damage at this point i think blize just
15207s	becomes the hunter right
15211s	dawn grasp all face hero power face
15217s	you wish to match wits with me
15230s	nice
15232s	big fat yeah you see the smile coming
15234s	out from bunny again
15236s	flies winning the race to the dawn grass
15240s	is absolutely not what you want to see
15241s	in this situation and now all the points
15243s	from the beginning
15246s	yeah getting the double upgrade as well
15248s	that turned to is absolutely huge just
15251s	two pings away from a good time at an
15253s	absolute worst
15255s	the blaze there and this just looked so
15257s	one-sided saul it was unbelievable bunny
15260s	just had nothing to do until this exact
15263s	moment finally yes getting a rune of the
15265s	archmage in play
15269s	yeah this is the big problem right i
15270s	talked about how bunny does have a lot
15272s	of advantages in being able to draw
15274s	these curved plays more consistently
15276s	because of the nature of the smaller
15278s	deck but sometimes this does happen and
15280s	the bigger deck just gets there anyway
15282s	and this is when the advantage really
15283s	comes into play because
15285s	if blize gets there first and has the
15287s	extra health and has been curving out
15289s	more aggressively with the uh you know
15291s	more options that he does have in the
15293s	deck for on curved plays this is when it
15295s	becomes a huge problem and then when you
15297s	finish it off with the more dress on
15298s	curve as well
15299s	rough rough game for bunny but he's had
15301s	a couple of good ones up until now still
15304s	gonna be that big spell mage waiting to
15307s	pick up a win for bunny but blize gets
15308s	himself back in the series now one two
15311s	yeah players definitely fighting back
15313s	now he is going to be jumping over to
15314s	his druid i believe and that is going to
15317s	be that uh the alignment druid right
15319s	what we were talking about just a little
15320s	bit earlier with the renathol as well
15323s	and again another deck that kind of or
15326s	at least
15327s	has a good job of negating the negative
15330s	side of renathel which is arguably the
15331s	plus 10 cards uh because it's still
15334s	gonna run uh you know the sort of a cold
15337s	tooth mine style of stuff right the
15338s	moonlit guidance to actually try and
15340s	just
15341s	fish out cards uh exactly how they want
15343s	them so pretty strong overall we'll have
15346s	to see if players can keep on top of
15347s	this and get the job done with this
15349s	druid because again blize cannot afford
15351s	to lose a single game if he does he's
15353s	had a decent run but i wouldn't say a
15356s	good run for him which means that he's
15357s	out of the tournament this week and has
15359s	to wait till next week to try and gain
15360s	some more points
15362s	[Music]
15364s	and interesting to see the alignment
15365s	druid come out of course i think we've
15367s	been mostly having a press doors heavy
15369s	week
15370s	but we have seen the alignment druid
15371s	perform very well when it has seen play
15374s	as mentioned at the start of the series
15376s	both of these players playing the
15377s	alignment druid in their lineup both
15379s	players choosing to forgo the shaman as
15382s	well um which could serve them very well
15385s	as the tournament goes on with super
15387s	fake continuing to progress as well with
15390s	the sort of target shaman lineup overall
15392s	both himself and fled have seemed you
15395s	know kind of different beasts when they
15396s	play against shaman lineups versus
15398s	non-shaman lineups from what we have
15400s	seen so far and but before we get to any
15403s	of that this druid is going to have to
15405s	try and pick up a victory here and it is
15408s	a big deal of course because both of
15410s	these decks are trying to do very
15412s	similar things if you break it down uh
15414s	sort of skip the mid game as much as
15416s	possible mage doing it by cheating the
15418s	cost of their explosive spells we can
15420s	then set them up for the rest of the
15421s	game and then druid just of course using
15423s	the ramp into alignment to be able to
15426s	cheat out as much as possible now
15428s	you might argue that big spell mage
15431s	being what it is
15433s	the ability of alignment to just allow
15435s	mage to play some of those big cards
15436s	anyway might not give a big advantage
15439s	but i think
15440s	generally whenever you make that
15442s	argument against druid these days it's
15445s	pretty much a non-starter because the
15447s	level of disgusting filth that druid can
15450s	throw out after an alignment is just
15452s	usually miles above and beyond what can
15455s	come out from you just playing you know
15456s	one spell for two dragons or whatever
15458s	else you're able to respond with
15460s	let's see uh i think the argument i
15462s	would hear out the most is when a deck
15464s	can do multiple things right ends up
15466s	with zero cost cards somehow after a
15469s	line i think that absolutely i can i can
15471s	talk about but i agree with you in
15473s	general right that well yeah you get to
15475s	play one really good card they get to
15477s	play ten so who's winning
15479s	so yeah completely agree on that side
15482s	and guff already being in hand for blize
15484s	with the wild growth to just get him
15485s	there pretty easily looks like he's very
15488s	quickly on track to do the thing
15492s	yeah de water evoker will now at the
15494s	very least put another big spell into
15497s	bunny's hand for the eventuality
15500s	of the celestial alignment and i think
15502s	when you play against blize you know it
15504s	is an eventuality right like blize is
15506s	going while growth gaff alignment that's
15509s	that's just what he does we know this
15511s	it's a fact
15523s	bunny looks like he's playing some kind
15525s	of a
15527s	sort of uh an updated hearthstone in
15530s	like the year 3000 where you feel every
15533s	good troll
15534s	it's like oh goof and it's just like oh
15539s	coming in our next update we're
15541s	revealing a new feature emotional haptic
15543s	feedback wire yourself into the game and
15546s	be emotionally crushed every time your
15549s	opponent draws the nuts
15555s	again at this point for bernie the
15557s	general
15558s	okay ask you right does the general game
15560s	plan for this mage go out the window
15562s	against alignment druid and you should
15564s	try and play aggro if it's offered to
15566s	you so should reckless come down it's
15569s	just the biggest minion like or should
15571s	you know bunny opera should just be
15573s	playing out minions as quickly as
15575s	possible to try and like zoo his
15576s	opponent down here or do you think the
15578s	mage should still be trying to just play
15580s	the big mage game
15582s	yeah i mean i think what bunny is doing
15584s	makes sense right like ideally you do
15586s	want to just go like pelican into
15589s	mailbox dancer into whatever like play
15592s	aggressively static blood fend raptor
15594s	type cards on curve so you can try and
15596s	push 12 to 14 damage in the early game
15598s	and actually be threatening because if
15600s	the alignment happens you at least want
15603s	to be in that position where you can't
15606s	they you
15607s	push damage right you push 12 damage or
15609s	so in the early game they play alignment
15611s	you have that whole board still so you
15612s	just push a whole bunch of damage again
15614s	and play drake fire amulet right and get
15616s	two huge dragons off that then their
15618s	turn can't just be play all my massive
15621s	things it has to be clear the board as
15623s	well which is a little bit trickier to
15624s	do in some spots or gain a million armor
15627s	which is of course another option as
15628s	well not saying it's a good plan if they
15630s	hit the nuts but it at least gives you
15632s	outs in some positions to be able to
15634s	compete
15637s	suddenly bran
15639s	really the best draw
15644s	and i don't really see anything outside
15646s	of just a reckless go
15652s	i completely forgot saul that blize just
15655s	plays neptulon
15657s	yep it's just in the deck i see it you
15659s	love to see
15663s	now is this pink going to be used
15667s	it looks like he's going to make the
15668s	trades as well i did wonder whether this
15670s	was ever going to be just ping and still
15671s	push everything face
15673s	i think he still is right no he did okay
15676s	these target arrows
15679s	they confuse me all the time
15681s	yeah i would have been surprised to see
15682s	a trade there i think no real reason to
15686s	not be as aggressive as possible again
15687s	your fear is just alignment and your
15690s	best punish
15692s	in very uh sarcastic quotation marks for
15696s	that is just doing as much damage as
15697s	humanly possible
15702s	here comes the scale though gonna help
15704s	clear up the majority of this board not
15706s	quite all of course especially with the
15708s	high health on some of these minions but
15709s	still a good amount only three damage on
15711s	the board right now
15713s	and that's another factor on the freeze
15715s	as well right by leaving a minion frozen
15717s	instead of dead that's minus one board
15718s	space
15719s	which means minus one whelp which means
15721s	a little bit less clearing power not
15723s	super relevant with the odd numbered
15725s	breakpoints that bunny had on board
15728s	but still little things add up
15740s	ah but this is just a bit of a mess now
15742s	isn't it for bunny
15744s	nothing is really
15746s	good to play he might actually end up
15749s	thinking starfish
15751s	open up a a kill at some point maybe
15753s	through a uh
15755s	growth
15758s	just brand
15763s	because again i i don't think bunnyhop
15765s	is gonna be oh it's okay i'll save bran
15767s	for this great combo i just i
15770s	think that's really realistic so just
15773s	brand pink this turn seems fine can
15775s	trade in the uh the treasure guard
15777s	yeah i mean it can be again this is
15779s	getting optimistic in alignment worlds
15781s	but
15782s	you know a brand more dress combo for
15784s	example can happen on the second turn
15786s	after the alignment you know it doesn't
15788s	take that much for it to be able to
15789s	happen you do of course have to have
15791s	gotten your more dress to the point that
15793s	it's active before that point which is
15795s	still some way off
15796s	but brand combos are still very possible
15799s	because you normally
15801s	will get up to two or three mana if
15803s	you're at least able to survive before
15805s	your opponent really thinks about
15806s	hitting you with the second alignment to
15808s	lock you out of the game
15810s	that's fair
15812s	maybe i'm just a bit more pessimistic
15813s	about this matchup honestly
15816s	don't get me wrong
15817s	i am also very pessimistic about bunny's
15819s	chances in this matchup right now
15822s	let's have ruin though so that could
15824s	just solo the game for him
15826s	yeah true
15827s	neptune like how to even deal with this
15829s	neptune
15831s	doesn't
15838s	no
15840s	you're just gonna play spammy to at
15841s	least just
15843s	uh break the fists
15848s	[Music]
15849s	sounds like larinder after he's had a
15850s	bad day casting
15853s	or playing
15856s	or anything really yeah
15858s	sounds like lauren
15861s	yes makes sense at least take care of
15863s	the wind fury
15867s	the biggest problem dealt with at the
15869s	very least but now blize has
15872s	found himself in a position where he's
15873s	actually relatively comfortable on board
15876s	he's been waiting a long time at this
15878s	point for the alignment and it looks
15880s	like he might just continue to do so
15882s	here of course with guff on curve you do
15884s	open up various options
15887s	for example just looking for anacondra
15889s	and doing everything in the same turn
15890s	that's a very realistic possibility if
15892s	you get the mana up high enough and are
15893s	able to pop off and not give your
15895s	opponent a chance to react
15898s	yeah that's what i was going to ask you
15900s	actually like
15902s	i i know you you half explain but blaise
15904s	feels like he's actually just not that
15906s	fussed about alignment because
15908s	he's winning
15909s	yeah
15910s	right because he's just he's fine so you
15913s	know and again there is that slight
15915s	worry that if you do alignment you off
15917s	you actually offer bunny hopper good
15919s	plays that he didn't have so i actually
15921s	really like this
15922s	yeah he's going to go ahead and do it
15924s	now and i think this makes sense yeah
15925s	the re the reason why it wasn't played
15927s	on curve is because there was still a
15928s	fairly significant board state on the
15930s	other side right so if that scenario
15932s	then happens where blize played
15934s	alignment and then bunny was able to
15936s	push whatever the eight damage that he
15937s	had on board at that time slammed drake
15940s	by amulet in response
15942s	okay uh and then was able to get you
15944s	know a couple of 12 12s off that right
15946s	suddenly that's bly's in a losing
15948s	position that is otherwise seems very
15950s	unlikely so bly's weighted into oh my
15954s	goodness that volcano mancy is
15956s	absolutely revolting
15960s	just to finish the point bly's waited
15961s	until a point in two he was pretty much
15963s	actually a head on board by using the
15964s	bigger more efficient cards that he had
15966s	available with the guff manor and now
15968s	got himself into a position where he's
15970s	able to clear this board up but yes
15973s	unfortunately
15975s	the text that sometimes is a fairly
15978s	universal upside can be a downside in
15981s	the specific instance of uh
15984s	volcano mancy because of it giving all
15986s	control over to the opponent and how
15988s	that happens just leaving that one
15990s	minion alive on board and being able to
15992s	clear all this up perfectly yeah the
15994s	follow-up was getting absolutely huge
15997s	and now uh bunny
15999s	again not having access to the enough
16001s	damage for the muldresh to be active
16003s	means bran modresh isn't live so he goes
16006s	again
16007s	the ruin of the arc made reckless
16008s	apprentice though
16010s	okay help yeah and enough enough mana to
16013s	throw all of those cards out together in
16015s	one turn as long as the second alignment
16017s	does not come down however you know your
16019s	opponent has just played malygos
16022s	which means there's a very good chance
16023s	they do have that second alignment in
16025s	hand
16026s	and now tough choice oh
16028s	okay and never mind that wasn't an
16030s	option i was gonna offer in the choice
16031s	but it was either reckless there
16034s	uh just to try and bank it
16036s	or vardhan to freeze the damage out
16039s	right
16044s	like an okani pick up yeah
16048s	now blize gets to do a hundred
16051s	disgusting things
16055s	you go in three go in there's still a
16057s	one one surviving at the end of all this
16060s	bully for you bunny hopper
16068s	bonds obama being there caught up with
16071s	now
16072s	replies anaconda does get played opening
16074s	up the turn even more still has double
16076s	moonlit guidance and the celestial
16078s	alignment obviously can't quite fit all
16080s	that in right now
16082s	does have the options there
16084s	it's the knoll as well finally taking
16086s	care of that final problem pushes a
16088s	whole bunch of damage and i imagine this
16090s	could be a carney instead of the second
16092s	alignment yeah
16096s	i mean you encounter like yes but he has
16098s	three
16099s	mana to play with but
16102s	one of those is going to be counted if
16104s	it's a minion and then the other two
16106s	don't quite do the same job right
16108s	yeah i mean crucially on this turn this
16111s	blocks the bran apprentice mordresch
16113s	exactly right one of those cards that
16115s	doesn't work
16118s	and he does still have that varden
16119s	though which is going to be pretty huge
16121s	just buys a whole turn most likely
16149s	oh god both minions would have to go
16151s	into the 11 11
16155s	i want to do that
16163s	interesting okay takes part panther
16168s	yeah just absolutely the uh to do
16171s	yeah the raid boss in ixia was still
16172s	kind of spicy right because unless i'm
16175s	missing something
16177s	it wouldn't be immune which means that
16179s	you would actually still be able to play
16181s	both of them off the moonlit guidance by
16183s	trading the first one into the alex
16184s	trouser and into the index here on the
16186s	other side which is kind of key
16191s	the seed law be absorbed i'm also
16193s	weirdly surprised at this point in the
16194s	game that kazakhstan isn't active
16203s	yeah very true actually but i guess that
16204s	is part and parcel with the onixia being
16206s	buried in the deck still yeah
16208s	still very relevant
16210s	lies still able to clear that up i won't
16212s	say easily but still fairly
16215s	straightforward in the end
16217s	big impact belinda about to happen
16221s	you don't want to play one man or one
16222s	one or
16226s	maybe not maybe not
16229s	this is just good
16231s	that's good reckless mode
16233s	boom
16235s	one billion damage
16237s	what did i tell you raven you just gotta
16238s	believe in the combos you always get
16240s	there
16243s	i'll remember that
16248s	okay i think it might be juiced i'm just
16250s	going to go on ahead so this is enough
16252s	next time we're practicing i'm going to
16254s	like turn to you like i'll use that to
16256s	remove this key minion i'll be like nope
16258s	i believe in the combo
16263s	yeah basically maximum damage bunny hop
16266s	was gonna be able to put out this turn
16267s	brings blize all the way down to 14.
16272s	belinda go
16275s	push the one
16279s	do you take me for an ordinary i mean
16281s	you may as well
16283s	right at the very least it's card draw
16287s	and the card's playable next turn if the
16289s	alignment doesn't come out
16291s	this must be the way
16295s	panther again okay
16297s	fine i still have miracle growth as well
16300s	yep big deal
16310s	hmm
16312s	a little bit more awkward than he may
16313s	have hoped blize actually goes beast
16315s	fishing here
16318s	not a live drinker
16322s	another great card i miss shoulda woke
16325s	oof i mean oh that's a take right there
16328s	raven
16330s	it was fun you just played stuff from
16331s	one
16335s	sounds a lot like celestial druid
16337s	no yeah i think you have to think a
16338s	little bit more with semester oh okay
16342s	lies now is going to be able to get the
16344s	kazakhstan down with the help of the
16346s	amalgam of course
16347s	and suddenly this game is actually still
16349s	quite close
16351s	it is yeah
16364s	no alignment here either
16368s	suppose either way the uh drake fire
16371s	amulet will be playable
16372s	yeah you make a big difference and just
16376s	thinking on this at six seven
16380s	i can't think of any outcomes that
16383s	actually win bunny the game as in the
16385s	game ends now
16387s	i won off the amulet you mean yes yeah
16390s	sorry yeah right yeah i don't think
16392s	there's anything because one would be
16393s	like ray buster nixie to kill the seven
16395s	seven right that's like one
16397s	and then i just don't know
16400s	maybe weirdly enough the uh the better
16404s	it's funny
16405s	worth
16409s	okay
16410s	worth
16412s	pirate could make all right i think this
16414s	is what you always have to go digging
16415s	for
16417s	okay fine
16419s	and they can just triple trade and kill
16421s	their miracle growth right
16429s	so unlikely to be enough like
16431s	really even thinking about it more like
16433s	probably the out you would want to look
16434s	for even though it's impossible is that
16436s	you know your parrots were still your
16438s	runes in that position because it felt
16440s	like runes were going to be more likely
16442s	to get you out of that spot
16443s	oh can't cast embers though
16456s	we'll probably have to play the doggo
16462s	on note as well saul i know you'll
16464s	appreciate this maybe more than most
16467s	bagels birthday today
16469s	is it nice
16471s	how old is she
16472s	the big four
16474s	the big four no zero after that just
16477s	four
16480s	her cake came a little bit earlier today
16483s	wait she actually got a cake that's
16484s	great you'll see pictures
16486s	yeah no of course
16488s	i would expect no less
16494s	[Music]
16501s	another awkward position though there is
16503s	what seven damage
16507s	wait a minute
16510s	these interactions are all so dumb
16519s	right
16521s	at least
16523s	kill the kazakhstan
16527s	won't really matter because we can see
16528s	the embers but i'm just thinking from
16530s	his point of view of course
16538s	hmm
16542s	you would think so right you imagine if
16543s	your opponent that alignment has come
16545s	from the far left of the hand so it's
16547s	been there the entire time you know it's
16549s	not a new draw because obviously this is
16550s	a kazakhstan deck anyway but if they've
16552s	chosen this exact moment to set this up
16554s	you have to believe it's because of a
16556s	lethal setup based on one of the other
16558s	cards that they have in their hand right
16563s	yeah it's painful it's right on the cusp
16566s	where if you imagine while the uh a8
16568s	goes into the three seven
16571s	it's not actually lethal so maybe bunny
16574s	just says let's go push his foot to the
16576s	fence and hopes
16582s	i think now
16583s	there should be enough played to make
16586s	this 100 also there was the live drink
16589s	to help out if needed but that is gonna
16591s	be game number four going to blize a
16594s	surprisingly close game subtle i know
16596s	blizzard
16598s	was in control for the majority of that
16600s	one but with that uh the big reckless
16603s	apprentice with bran and the modresh
16605s	that really put the game up for grabs
16607s	there for bunny hoppers so a little bit
16608s	unfortunate maybe didn't get uh dawn
16611s	grasp a little bit earlier or at all i
16613s	guess in that game yeah just to try and
16615s	push a couple of additional pings out
16617s	but still i think bunny played well to
16619s	hold on and did go for that combo which
16621s	really gave him any real chance to win
16624s	yeah and i think blaise navigated it
16626s	very well i liked the delayed alignment
16629s	timing a lot just waiting until he felt
16631s	comfortable in his position i really
16633s	like the akani turn he played um which
16635s	the akani kind of functioned as his
16638s	second alignment on that particular turn
16640s	because normally you will alignment to
16642s	lock your opponent out when you're going
16644s	for a lethal setup or prevent them from
16645s	playing multiple card combos that you're
16647s	scared of in any instance this is the
16649s	multi-card combo in question that blize
16651s	was scared of for a couple of turns
16653s	but you can kind of see how difficult it
16655s	becomes for bunny when this full combo
16658s	happened
16659s	in response to the alignment and it
16661s	still did not end up getting there it
16663s	was very close
16664s	and but really what you need to be doing
16666s	in response to alignment is getting dawn
16669s	grasp in play really and then if you can
16671s	get that combo going with the dawngrass
16673s	hero power instead of the regular then
16675s	we can talk then maybe you do uh you are
16679s	in business just a little bit but now
16681s	fittingly raven we come down to the
16683s	final deck of the series and it was the
16685s	deck that i hyped up at the beginning
16687s	because it is currently the highest win
16688s	rate deck in the tournament with a very
16691s	very small sample size of course but
16693s	bly's has looked extremely comfortable
16696s	on this deck so far remains to be seen
16699s	though what this can do up against the
16701s	big spell mage on the other side because
16702s	i would say
16704s	there are several things that are quite
16706s	problematic about this match up from the
16707s	bore priest side of things there's a
16709s	couple of spells that are actually
16710s	extremely crucial to your win condition
16712s	which if they get turned into nine or
16714s	ten mana spells you can get into a
16716s	serious amount of trouble and then just
16718s	expounding that as well is the fact that
16720s	boar priest is a very difficult deck to
16722s	dump all spells from your hand on all
16724s	occasions right because of the amount of
16726s	cheap spells that are in there which
16728s	means you can also get blown out very
16730s	efficiently
16731s	uh by an early barbaric sorceress uh
16734s	boar priest again compounding that even
16736s	further it just stacks and stacks and
16738s	stacks raven uh is the fact that if they
16740s	get two 12 health minions off that
16742s	dragon drake fire amulet when they get
16744s	down to it
16745s	you're really looking at like some
16747s	insane zyrella combo or bust to be able
16750s	to deal with that at that point yeah
16752s	having said that um i have spoken to a
16755s	couple of board priests players who you
16757s	know you who can explain and understand
16759s	and really have played this match up
16761s	enough to be able to navigate their way
16763s	through all of those tricky spots who do
16765s	still consider this to be a fine matchup
16767s	for the boar priest and i know blyze
16769s	himself has put a ton of time into this
16772s	deck in particular so i think a very
16774s	fitting and very exciting end to our
16775s	series coming up
16777s	yeah uh that's the thing right if anyone
16780s	can do it it will be blind so i'm never
16783s	gonna count blize out even in a tough
16785s	matchup but i do agree it was something
16787s	i was going to talk about where we've
16789s	seen players already especially in for
16791s	example like warlock just throw cards
16794s	away right you know the mall coils touch
16797s	anything like that and you just simply
16799s	can't realistically do that uh with this
16802s	ball priest to try and dodge the
16803s	barbarous so we'll see if blize has any
16805s	tricks up his sleeve but for now we've
16807s	already seen the mulligans kicking blair
16809s	as i imagine kept the switcheroos yeah
16812s	uh well you know getting off to a good
16814s	start with the pelican on one
16824s	probably just the tradable here yeah
16827s	that's stacking it nice and early
16830s	right
16831s	but already right you can start breaking
16832s	this down and you'll see this and you
16834s	have seen this on multiple occasions
16835s	during the tournament where um for
16838s	example i think of a specific example
16840s	where super fake played a first flame
16842s	with a two damage ping to kill a minion
16844s	just because over the course of three
16846s	turns like turn three turn four turn
16848s	five he needed to do that to ration mana
16851s	to get all spells out of his hand before
16853s	he got to the barbaric sorceress point
16855s	you start looking at that now with this
16856s	priest hand you play one switcheroo on
16858s	three you play one switcheroo and trade
16860s	away and amulet on four like all you're
16862s	going to be doing is filling the rest of
16864s	your hand up with spells from those
16865s	trader balls anyway even with the
16867s	switcheroo drawing minions so you can
16869s	see it does start to get very very
16870s	tricky to make this happen and now with
16872s	the double coin this is going to happen
16875s	immediately
16876s	yeah and looking at this the the worst
16878s	outcome here for bunny is a three cost
16880s	right
16881s	or would you argue that that's actually
16883s	the best outcome
16885s	i would argue that might very well be
16887s	the best outcome yeah i guess i think
16889s	specifically the win condition card with
16892s	the amulet that needs to be thrown into
16893s	the combo with the pyromancer at the end
16895s	of the game
16896s	yeah worst when you look at the volume
16898s	or amount of mana you actually will end
16900s	up spending on ruin here but best when
16902s	you look at the odds of it just winning
16904s	you the game there and then
16906s	there might just be an internal debate
16908s	here from bunny about whether he's
16909s	interested in delaying one turn to go
16912s	fishing for an amulet instead with the
16914s	deep water evoker i wonder but there's a
16917s	lot of ifs butts and maybes involved in
16919s	that play
16920s	yeah
16923s	give splies more time to dump cards
16925s	right that's the problem as well i think
16928s	i like joe it's just a three seven as
16930s	well you know like that's the thing we i
16932s	feel like we always bring up he's like
16933s	oh did you know this card's actually got
16935s	stats you know
16936s	no no way what do you mean cards have
16939s	numbers on them shut up
16940s	okay you hit the shard
16943s	flies is kind of safe for now
16955s	the other place is just getting beaten
16957s	up here and without playing a pyro as
16960s	well
16961s	this pelican is actually starting to
16964s	stack up
16966s	this game just been there from the
16967s	beginning
16974s	so uh can i interest you in a
16976s	room of the arc mage song
16983s	i've just noticed you started saying
16984s	ruin a lot less
16986s	all right was this conscious effort yeah
16989s	uh
16990s	i'm not sure maybe
16992s	i have noticed i can like i sort of jump
16994s	between them both
16997s	but for no real reason you know what i
16999s	mean it's not like
17000s	it's just i don't know
17002s	the stress of casting with you kicking
17004s	in um but yeah i don't know i've not i
17007s	never noticed one way or the other i
17009s	just noticed it after the fact so what
17011s	do you mean you don't you don't enjoy
17012s	having a light shined on a particular
17014s	nuance of your casting while we're live
17016s	on air and being forced to discuss it
17017s	are you not enjoying this conversation
17019s	right now
17020s	no
17021s	oh okay ah sorry my bad then we can move
17024s	on i still have the conversation you
17025s	know me i just put up with it and get on
17027s	with it but so uh so shaman
17031s	not yet
17033s	gonna have to wait
17036s	oh have i already said it
17038s	oh honestly if you already said it i'll
17039s	be livid because i've definitely missed
17041s	it by this point
17045s	when he is going to take the slightly
17046s	slower approach though not going to be
17048s	playing the rune
17050s	out
17058s	all right pyro the first committed this
17060s	is always a big decision point with the
17061s	deck
17062s	because quite often once you've
17064s	committed this first pyro to clearing a
17065s	board that means that you only really
17068s	have xyrella left as a board clear for
17070s	the rest of the game because the second
17071s	pyro is almost demanded to be used as
17074s	the combo activator at the end of the
17076s	game
17081s	yeah we have seen instances of it not
17084s	being used to activate but those are few
17086s	and far between at best
17098s	and here for bunny do you think he was
17099s	just waiting till the board gets cleared
17102s	to play the room or
17104s	do you think it's a little bit too
17105s	dangerous when he was ahead on board is
17107s	that is that the reason for not just
17108s	jamming at asap and trying to just
17110s	snowball i think
17112s	i think the intention is probably just
17114s	to try and use roon as the finisher if
17116s	we get to that point and he's more
17118s	interested in just developing guaranteed
17119s	minion pressure for now chipping damage
17122s	away when possible and then when the
17124s	moment comes where kind of the indicator
17126s	that you're about to lose the game to
17128s	try and just go for the fireballs the
17129s	pyroblast whatever else to be able to
17131s	get that last bit of damage through and
17132s	of course if the opposing board is clear
17134s	at that point uh that if anything
17136s	maximizes your chances of any of those
17138s	direct damage spells actually going face
17142s	even now it's an interesting choice yet
17144s	again right because he could just kill
17146s	off the one two play it and go because
17148s	otherwise he's playing what treasure
17150s	guard
17151s	snow flurry
17152s	answer like is that
17155s	really strong enough maybe there's the
17157s	hope that zyrella's not there but i do
17159s	think as usual with a deck such as ball
17162s	priest
17163s	look at the amount of cards in blizz's
17164s	deck right you just assume xyrella is
17166s	there by now which means there is a ford
17168s	clear if flies wants it
17171s	yeah
17172s	but i think it's uh you know it's a
17174s	reflection of the spell pool to an
17175s	extent you know these aren't the days of
17177s	like power of creation firelands portal
17180s	you know a bunch of spells that
17182s	generated you big board states it's
17183s	really just drake fire amulet that does
17185s	that in impressive ways
17187s	um and sometimes the the five mana spell
17190s	that i'm forgetting the name of as well
17191s	that can if it hits on the the right
17193s	stats can get you a pretty big board as
17195s	well but i think bunny just more focused
17197s	right now on playing you know guaranteed
17199s	stats where possible
17202s	is going to be able to get the second
17204s	pig dead
17208s	and then with this handmaiden actually
17211s	uh i believe
17212s	the village is still doing it in the
17214s	deck yeah
17217s	lots of possibilities here actually
17219s	there was a very good chance probably
17221s	not on this turn but maybe
17222s	in one turn away where there could have
17224s	been a very surprised scammy ending to
17227s	this game uh using the priestess with
17229s	the amount of spells that were being
17230s	played to kind of find a lethal in a
17232s	spot that wasn't necessarily obvious
17235s	and but bly's now i think very clearly
17237s	setting up for something very soon
17242s	yep and bunny seems to have the same
17244s	idea
17246s	girlfriends this game is going to be
17248s	over pretty soon
17253s	none of this matters
17255s	that matters where's it gonna go that's
17257s	not the one
17260s	oh
17260s	[Music]
17263s	what spell oh does the battery's handful
17265s	right and is full yeah it does very nice
17268s	though card draw finding the akani is
17270s	very very relevant yeah
17290s	should
17291s	be okay i think counting the amount of
17293s	minions that has been played
17296s	running across the screen
17300s	it's like one of those people that you
17301s	employ to like stand like
17303s	like a greeter at the front of the store
17305s	when you give them like a clicker so
17306s	they actually count how many people come
17308s	in and out each day you know your foot
17309s	traffic
17313s	got found out pretty quick
17315s	yeah bunny choosing to go spell the i
17317s	guess with the priestess not being used
17320s	as well bunny just thinking there's two
17322s	there's one
17325s	wait the big reveal the void has melted
17328s	away
17330s	blyze has returned to reality at this
17332s	crucial moment in the series and then
17334s	there was light
17342s	oh my eyes it burned
17349s	let's get hold of the wild pyro number
17352s	two just sitting there pretty much at
17353s	the bottom of the deck frame there he's
17355s	going to clear this up with zyrella pass
17357s	it over and say bunny
17359s	i'll do something big my friend
17366s	never has the phrase pulling back the
17368s	curtain been more literal and more
17370s	appropriate raven i'm i'm very upset
17373s	that blize's void has just melted away
17375s	behind him i know this is a very crucial
17377s	moment of a very crucial series
17379s	this is far more important
17385s	all right let's open some more boxes
17392s	just gonna go again
17397s	good start
17401s	my hand is too full
17408s	goes from potentially brilliant to
17410s	disastrous because when a pyroblast hits
17413s	a minion not only is that 10 damage
17415s	missed it's also 10 mana choked on doing
17418s	basically nothing in terms of impacting
17420s	the board state so
17422s	ends up being a pretty miserable rune
17424s	overall
17428s	get the amulets
17430s	i believe that
17431s	enough now right
17434s	yes
17435s	but
17436s	there is not enough mana currently and
17438s	that is an explosive runes in play
17442s	he's gonna eat up the priestess here
17446s	also just die if he does it now right
17453s	splice just been sort of checkmated
17457s	i'm looking at it obviously we have the
17459s	knowledge behind the secret
17462s	even without like a solution why is
17465s	can't combo this turn
17468s	right
17469s	so then he can only press hero power
17480s	which doesn't give you a lot of
17481s	confidence health wise right you if you
17482s	can't clear these minions
17487s	who's gonna go devour instead to kill
17490s	the balls and now the priestess comes
17492s	down second amulet second devourer
17496s	is able to clear this up that devourer
17498s	also kills the mailbox dancer on the
17500s	other side which is super relevant
17505s	and that means the weapon swing goes
17506s	through but there's 40 armor on the
17508s	other side sorry 40 health total on the
17510s	other side which means three swings are
17512s	required here and bunny has a coin
17516s	and bunny has a reckless apprentice more
17518s	so than anything else which means that
17520s	juiced up wildfire hero power is gonna
17523s	do the four extra damage get over the
17525s	line really nicely navigated in the end
17527s	from bly's obviously not good enough to
17529s	end the game but seeing that line
17532s	uh obviously with explosive runes in the
17534s	forefront of his mind at that point i'm
17535s	sure um realizing that going the other
17538s	way around didn't really get him
17539s	anywhere but using the pyromancer to
17541s	explode and then actually getting the
17542s	benefit of the priestess actually
17544s	refreshing the manor it at least gave
17545s	him a world where the combo was
17547s	completed gave him bizarre outs to be
17550s	able to uh you know not make anything
17552s	happen on the other side so yeah very
17554s	nicely done i think overall yeah really
17556s	solid game from both players obviously
17557s	definitely a tricky one and a tricky
17559s	series in general blize almost made it
17562s	all the way back but the last match up
17564s	being this uh priest versus mage on
17566s	paper is a difficult one in itself but
17568s	it does mean that bunny hopper continues
17571s	on and gets off to a great start this
17573s	week whereas bly's unfortunately for him
17575s	is done i'll have to go back to the
17577s	drawing board for week two of grand
17579s	masters
17581s	but yeah really really tough series a
17583s	really high level of play and i think
17584s	that's honestly just what we expect
17586s	right so we've cast lies we've cast
17588s	bunny enough to know that these two
17590s	don't really make mistakes
17593s	yeah and i think you saw that in that
17594s	last game right i think blize was made
17597s	to play that match up on extreme hard
17599s	mode by bunnyhopper who did everything
17601s	right i ran out of time at the start of
17603s	the game talking about all the obstacles
17605s	mage can put in the in the way uh we
17607s	also saw again at the end of that game
17609s	another one of those obstacles that was
17611s	having the huge impact where even if
17613s	blize was able to get the puzzle solved
17615s	which he did even if he wasn't then
17618s	immediately dead on board which he was
17620s	with the reckless apprentice coming out
17621s	from the other side because bunny
17623s	applied hard mode level five which is
17626s	saving the amplified snow flurry with
17628s	the mage to be able to freeze the
17629s	opponent on the crucial term where you
17631s	think they're going to be able to
17632s	activate that weapon it's the swing of
17634s	the weapon that really makes the chaos
17636s	happen so if you're actually able to
17637s	freeze them out you then have the
17639s	complete freedom to do what everything
17641s	you want on the other side so when you
17643s	say these two don't really make mistakes
17645s	i do think that is a very nice way of
17647s	looking at it because what you got to
17648s	see in that was one player making really
17651s	smart decisions to make the other
17652s	players life as
17654s	as bad and as awful and as difficult as
17656s	humanly possible and then the player on
17658s	the other side navigating that extremely
17660s	well but in the end the odds just being
17662s	slightly too insurmountable for blize to
17665s	be able to get there so a very nice
17666s	final game for bunny looked like it was
17669s	going to be a much simpler day at the
17670s	office for bunny than it ended up being
17672s	as he went out to a 2-0 lead
17674s	but in the end managing to scrape over
17676s	the line finally with that mage on the
17678s	third attempt very nicely done great
17679s	series yep that's the third match of the
17681s	day completed but we've got plenty more
17684s	coming up so stay tuned as we go over to
17686s	pascoa and judgment after the break
17692s	[Music]
17701s	[Applause]
17702s	[Music]
17707s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
17710s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
17714s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
17718s	with such ruthlessness
17721s	so deep and profound
17725s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
17732s	to uncover the truth
17734s	of murder most foul
17738s	the anima drifts across the floor
17741s	highlighting the creatures who walked
17744s	through my door
17746s	the motives are as black as night
17749s	avarice power revenge and blight
17755s	we watch the hero
17757s	uncover the clues
17760s	that lead to the truth
17763s	behind this dark blues
17767s	join us here
17768s	with the grimm and in pious
17772s	choose your power without heavenly bias
17776s	for at the end
17777s	they will burn in the fire
17780s	when it is known who slayed
17784s	tenacious the sire
17787s	[Music]
17802s	[Music]
17810s	[Music]
17816s	[Music]
17842s	so
17846s	[Music]
17885s	welcome back everyone we are ready to
17888s	jump into the next game and it is going
17890s	to be between pasco and judgment uh saw
17892s	myself have the pleasure of casting
17894s	pasco yesterday we're gonna do so again
17897s	against one of the uh uk players
17900s	uh what what's wrong sol you don't want
17902s	to try and curse pasco again
17904s	yeah i mean
17906s	the the pled when you say we had the
17907s	pleasure of casting pasquale yesterday i
17910s	think pleasure is doing a lot of
17911s	unnecessary work in that sentence is all
17913s	but carry on
17915s	oh you carry on what's going on between
17917s	these two players all right fair enough
17918s	so of course uh pasqua does have the
17920s	renaissance heavy deck um particularly
17923s	the quest priest which was the deck that
17926s	again if we want to do uh a sentence
17928s	where a word is doing a lot of
17929s	unnecessary work the star of the show
17931s	yesterday uh it was unsuccessful on
17933s	multiple occasions in the series against
17935s	bunnyhopper which made that series an
17937s	absolute marathon but it was then a lot
17939s	more successful once the america's
17941s	casters stepped in i don't know how much
17942s	of that you caught um but pascual later
17945s	on had a lot more success with that
17946s	quest priest hitting the smoother curves
17948s	getting the early stages of quest
17950s	completed a lot more uh smoothly which
17953s	was really the big problem that he was
17955s	running into with this deck in this in
17957s	the early game that we saw against him
17959s	against bunnyhopper
17961s	so remains to be seen i guess what will
17963s	happen with the the xl quest mage this
17965s	time around but we can take a look at
17967s	some of pascua's information here um
17970s	really a very successful first season in
17972s	grand masters we talked yesterday about
17974s	his kind of pre-grand masters career how
17977s	i met him very early on in his
17978s	hearthstone career very early on in my
17980s	hearthstone career as well um he kind of
17983s	bubbled just under the top level for
17985s	quite some time then leading up to his
17988s	eventual promotion into grand masters
17990s	just that final point there of him being
17992s	the spreadsheet god you know that is the
17993s	kind of thing that leads you to come up
17995s	with some of these off-the-wall picks
17997s	like an xl quest priest for example and
18000s	i know in the the the practice group in
18003s	uh master tony orphan group he does a
18006s	lot of the work on spreadsheets for a
18007s	lot of the players i think even pocket
18009s	train uh in his winner's interview at
18011s	the end of the masters tour gave credit
18012s	to pascua specifically for the work that
18015s	he did on spreadsheeting for a lot of
18016s	their lineups coming into this so you
18018s	know clearly that is a good skill you
18020s	don't all have to be good at it but
18022s	having one of you that's good at
18023s	manipulating uh spreadsheets collating
18026s	and interpreting data having at least
18028s	one of those in your practice group is
18030s	definitely very beneficial 100 but then
18034s	we go on to his opponent judgment
18036s	whoever seems to be having a great first
18038s	week of grand master so far making out
18040s	of groups is definitely job one it does
18042s	mean you're banking at least a couple of
18044s	points to start stacking for the next
18046s	three weeks and again just glancing at
18048s	the record seemingly coming out of
18050s	nowhere and having a top four at silver
18052s	moon and then runner up at next year's
18054s	lair and doing enough to make it into
18056s	grand masters is absolutely fantastic to
18058s	see and their judgement is going to be
18060s	also running hunter in game number one
18062s	but it is gonna be the beast hunter uh
18064s	so we do get to see the sort of two
18066s	extremes of hunter right now which is
18068s	the beast package that we see here going
18070s	up against the excel quest hunter which
18072s	again as i mentioned in the first match
18074s	i am excited to see more of today
18078s	yeah for sure and obviously bunny making
18080s	a small recovery with his version of the
18083s	beast hunter judgment now stepping up
18084s	the plate to be able to do so um but the
18087s	quest hunter particularly the xl version
18090s	has looked pretty good so far and
18093s	actually when we were talking previously
18095s	about ball priest being the highest win
18096s	rate deck in the tournament i believe
18098s	now that will have been usurped uh just
18101s	sort of updating the stats in my head as
18103s	i go along as our particular spreadsheet
18106s	wizard uh lorinda not myself um
18109s	currently only has stats from the
18110s	beginning of the day for us but with the
18112s	ball priest picking up a loss for blize
18113s	in that previous series uh quest priest
18116s	picking up wins for possessing i know
18117s	early on and it was already seeing at 70
18120s	percent to boar priests 80 with a tiny
18122s	sample size going into this so we might
18125s	well end up now with uh blaise picking
18127s	up a loss and being out of the
18128s	tournament with uh quest hunter perhaps
18130s	being the dominant deck in the
18132s	tournament if things continue as they're
18133s	going at the moment yeah and i can see
18135s	it honestly because the deca it feels
18138s	like so many gaps have been filled with
18140s	the ability to not only gain additional
18142s	health but the sort of inevitable amount
18144s	of damage you do have and we have seen a
18147s	players uh with this quest hunter able
18150s	to just slot in a few extra tokens of
18153s	card draw in there mainly the
18154s	multicaster being probably the biggest
18156s	one
18157s	so being able to just draw more cards
18159s	because that is the one faulty sort of
18161s	uh
18162s	factor with hunter that can get you into
18164s	trouble it's just that lack of card draw
18166s	but i do think with a the dumbledore
18168s	bunker and then the uh the additional
18170s	card draw from multicaster that it is
18172s	going to be a pretty strong
18176s	insta mountain bear in the opening hand
18178s	as well as has been the style
18180s	for this deck in this tournament but
18182s	still pretty nice to be
18184s	looking at a trog biscuit opening
18186s	against quest hunter specifically
18188s	however unfortunately for judgement
18190s	there is just the arcane shot in hand on
18193s	the other side for pasco
18198s	yeah and it looks like the only
18200s	realistic play right there's nothing
18202s	that can really
18204s	make pasco think about
18206s	doing anything weird right with the
18207s	quest and then generating another trog
18209s	the fear of biscuit is probably just way
18212s	way too high because the second that
18213s	gets biscuit on it it starts to snowball
18216s	out of control
18220s	judgement now gonna have to make the
18221s	call between a hero power and a trade
18224s	using the manor and the time to actually
18226s	cycle and go for a three drop because
18228s	currently he'd be skipping nice turn
18229s	three as well so i do actually like to
18231s	see this just give them a slightly
18232s	higher chance of getting something
18234s	active to do
18236s	just thought i would look it up for my
18238s	own personal curiosity it appears that
18240s	fear of biscuits does not have a
18242s	specific name it is considered a branch
18244s	of cyberphobia
18247s	branch of
18248s	cyberphobia cybophobia oh i was like oh
18251s	sober you chose to call it that when
18255s	i mean to be fair
18257s	robot biscuits does sound quite
18258s	terrifying if you really burrow down
18260s	into depends on the size what if they're
18262s	actual size robot biscuits you just
18264s	flick it off the table you play all
18266s	right raven would you rather fight a
18269s	hundred biscuit-sized robots or one
18272s	robot sized biscuit
18274s	what's the robot you you matching it to
18277s	uh
18278s	like johnny five level
18282s	i'd rather fight the one biscuit i think
18284s	okay kids you just eat it
18288s	even if it was big
18292s	do you have a different answer would you
18294s	rather fight the little robots oh i mean
18296s	as part of the luxury of asking the
18298s	nonsense question i don't have to answer
18300s	it that's just how it works
18303s	i don't know what weapons the little
18304s	robots have
18306s	that's the thing whereas if there is
18308s	just a big biscuit that can move it's
18310s	like well it's still a biscuit you just
18312s	made me surprised you knew who johnny
18313s	five was of course okay
18317s	it wasn't a given
18318s	wait genius
18320s	you always fight the big biscuit because
18322s	you just make a giant cup of tea
18325s	ah they push it in
18326s	insta dunk yeah yeah yeah and obviously
18329s	the biscuit would not have the
18330s	structural integrity of like a digestive
18332s	you know like a proper tea biscuit so it
18334s	would just crumble away into the tea
18336s	yeah i love it we've solved it
18339s	were you alive when short circuit came
18341s	out um
18343s	you talk about the actual game and i'll
18345s	check 1986.
18347s	oh no you weren't right because that's
18348s	when i was born
18351s	yeah hey i thought you were 76
18353s	[Laughter]
18355s	raven and larinda's new favorite meme is
18357s	that i'm 40 for some reason i'm not sure
18359s	why that happened but here we are
18361s	because i said it once and it annoyed
18362s	you
18363s	okay yeah it makes sense
18366s	yeah though in the meantime while we're
18367s	talking absolutely nonsense
18369s	let's go it's starting with that quest
18372s	progression
18373s	but very quickly we'll want to make the
18375s	decision as to whether this is a tavish
18377s	game or not because the option is there
18389s	and it is one of those
18391s	decisions that i've heard
18393s	people really have different opinions on
18396s	right like which matchups require that
18398s	the tavis being sort of
18400s	melded with the hero power as opposed to
18402s	which ones you use tavish if you have to
18405s	at the sort of end game state or you
18407s	know if the secrets are going to do
18408s	insane work then sure you just play
18410s	tavis but it's definitely a tricky
18412s	decision to make
18419s	especially because pascal does just have
18420s	decent plays without having to coin
18423s	tavis right
18424s	yeah and i think in particular this is a
18426s	tricky matchup to evaluate it in because
18429s	there's different routes that the beast
18431s	hunter can go right they can either go
18434s	sticky deathrattles and colossals and
18436s	constant revivals of mountain bears and
18438s	so on at which point
18439s	fighting for board with
18441s	uh misha's and trying to push damage
18444s	with charge damage with huffers just
18445s	doesn't really work out that well
18447s	because of the sheer amount of taunts
18448s	that will come out on the other side if
18449s	that's the route that goes down
18451s	um whereas if they don't do that and
18453s	they try and just race you in a position
18454s	with revival of king crushers then
18456s	sometimes the board dominance and even
18458s	the misha's themselves coming out on
18459s	your side can actually end up being very
18461s	crucial with emergency maneuvers and so
18463s	on so i think even you know you're right
18465s	to say that different matchups is this
18467s	right is this wrong even in an
18469s	individual game state in some matchups
18471s	it can be hard to evaluate whether it's
18472s	right or wrong and that option still uh
18475s	up for grabs i guess for pasco to an
18477s	extent right because he's isolated the
18480s	sabre which means now depending on
18482s	what's offered he could uh look at the
18485s	potential of a sort of explosive
18487s	freezing kind of combination right uh if
18489s	he wants to do anything like that or if
18492s	he can actually bounce this 4-3 if for
18494s	some reason there isn't any minions
18496s	played because before turn seven you can
18498s	sometimes take that risk but we are
18500s	gonna see the palin get dropped down
18502s	here for judgment unfortunately for him
18504s	no harpoon but he does have the doggo
18510s	so unlucky no one drop joking of course
18513s	but still the dredge factor very nice
18516s	here
18517s	being able to take the pick of whichever
18519s	of these you would like i'm sure raven
18521s	is advocating hard for the kolak right
18523s	now would be the dumpster choice for
18526s	sure
18527s	i think it's the second choice
18530s	yeah
18532s	yeah
18533s	yeah
18534s	yeah
18537s	i do think i'm taking
18540s	over kolak there every time really
18547s	of course i think we're both agreeing
18548s	that glug was probably just the pick
18550s	right we can agree on that one we split
18552s	the other two
18559s	but again decision time once more for
18561s	pasco does have the option of the tavish
18564s	only the board's a little bit trickier
18567s	to clean up right
18570s	he wants to just use spells instead
18577s	take the great approach i've just dumped
18578s	loads of spells to face
18581s	not really playing hunter
18601s	i like this a lot just ignore it don't
18603s	let the saber go off again unless their
18605s	judgment can force it somehow right
18608s	and just start pushing damage
18610s	and this is a nice luxury that the
18612s	renaissance version of the deck has that
18614s	perhaps regular quest hunter wooden is
18616s	the
18617s	when you have 30 health you probably
18619s	can't afford to just tank a 4-3 against
18622s	hunter every single turn to not allow it
18624s	to go off whereas
18626s	when you have that extra buffer when
18627s	you're starting at 40 pascal probably
18629s	feels a lot more comfortable in just
18632s	taking the damage from this a few times
18634s	just to deny the threat of a king crush
18636s	or a mountain bear coming in
18640s	which wouldn't of course be honest even
18641s	even hydraulidon which is usually the
18643s	low roll still represents a lot of stats
18645s	in this position
18647s	which meant
18649s	a little bit of a think because again at
18650s	this point he's always got to factor in
18652s	five mana is almost certainly being
18654s	played on the tavish victory
18657s	knows there's a coin knocking about as
18658s	well but what's the follow-up that's the
18660s	big punish and honestly
18663s	isn't that much i think here the
18666s	unfortunate thing is there's nothing to
18667s	immediately trade into because the gluck
18670s	is very killable even at uh
18672s	even with five mana on the tavish
18674s	because of the refreshing hero powers
18677s	and i think that is one of the big
18678s	factors of the matchup from pasquale's
18680s	side obviously it's easy to do because
18682s	you're an extremely bored presence and
18684s	minion light deck in general
18687s	um but leaving minions on board is very
18689s	dangerous in this matchup because of all
18692s	the immediate tempo and scan potential
18695s	that you get from being able to rush
18696s	into opposing minions so keeping board
18699s	clear is good for a variety of reasons
18702s	glug being found from phalen and then
18704s	dredged is probably not top of the list
18706s	but it is certainly a factor as well
18718s	imagine if this oh
18722s	did he just count lethal is that what he
18724s	did in the previous not sure
18734s	i how it's kind of hard to count the
18736s	lethal by playing tavish
18738s	because you know that judgement can
18740s	choose to trade whatever he wants into
18742s	the tavis first that's fair yeah that
18744s	alters a lot of the potential plans on
18746s	the pacing shot yeah
18749s	so if cast four spells four spells is
18751s	eight damage just from the hero power
18754s	and then so quick shot is three so if
18756s	piercing shot did five that would be
18757s	guaranteed lethal at that point
18760s	is this double trade the two twos
18764s	and then
18766s	oh okay
18775s	look but crucially there's not enough
18778s	health even with the giant minion of the
18779s	tavish on the other side of the board
18781s	or judgment to be able to trade off all
18784s	of the small minions right which leaves
18785s	that 2-2 hanging around on balls
18788s	which means with the hero power at the
18789s	start of the turn factored in as well
18791s	that starts off the turn the four spells
18793s	do eight extra damage with the hero
18795s	powers the piercing shot does four the
18796s	quick shot does three
18798s	yep
18800s	going in there to help out and i think
18802s	pasco is very happy with this outcome
18804s	yep that's it
18808s	really nice play there just taking the
18810s	approach from very early on saying nope
18813s	i'm not going to interact that well with
18814s	this board i don't want to mess around
18816s	with the saber until i literally have to
18818s	and guess what it's when the tavish
18820s	comes down he has to so
18823s	i'm just going to start pushing for
18824s	damage and getting myself ahead in that
18826s	fashion and i think it's the right thing
18828s	to do in this matchup in general of
18830s	course
18833s	pasco our moments pause because of the
18835s	draw on the the end of the previous turn
18838s	giving himself more options for being
18840s	able to make this happen
18845s	coin effectively being two damage as
18846s	well looks quite good
18849s	and can just go shell short hero power
18850s	for the refresh as well
18853s	yeah and i'll do the job the peasy there
18856s	passcode game one
18858s	go into him and win it with the hunter
18860s	mirror great start and again i think
18862s	this
18863s	this was an expected outcome not
18865s	necessarily because of what the matchup
18866s	is but because of how the two decks have
18868s	been performing this weekend right like
18871s	i've definitely felt like the uh the
18873s	excel quest hunter has just generally
18875s	been doing very well as you were talking
18876s	about the stats earlier and and the
18879s	beast hunter has been struggling more so
18880s	you'd expect this kind of rough outcome
18882s	to happen anyway so great start there
18884s	for pascoa going 1-0 up and again i just
18887s	think his decision making was on point
18890s	he has the uh the heart of a hunter yeah
18892s	i've got two decisions one goes face and
18894s	one doesn't what's correct guess what go
18896s	face
18897s	yeah and i think that this right here
18899s	the trade into the failing term was the
18901s	turn it was identified right because
18904s	that turn you're pushing damage you're
18905s	actually also activating your tavish as
18908s	well and then from there you can reverse
18910s	engineer count back the two turns
18912s	subtracting for your opponent's health
18914s	hunter does not really have any toys to
18916s	play with in terms of gaining health in
18918s	most situations
18919s	that kolak would have obviously had an
18922s	impact if maybe there was a turn or two
18923s	left in the game but did not end up
18925s	doing so
18926s	uh so pascual was able to count it out
18928s	from that point and feel relatively
18930s	comfortable and you saw
18932s	just the finger counting and then
18933s	finally the nod come out once judgment's
18935s	term was completed pascua knowing that
18937s	he had it wrapped up but now
18939s	raven no into the breach once more hold
18943s	my hand and we can do it the quest
18945s	priest is coming back out to play once
18947s	more uh fingers crossed obviously um you
18950s	might have got the impression from
18952s	yesterday that i don't like this deck um
18955s	but i'm here to set the record straight
18957s	i'm actually a big big fan of i hate
18959s	this priest
18960s	and i want it to perform as well as
18962s	possible i think it's an incredibly
18964s	strong deck and if it comes into this
18966s	series now and it only gets played once
18968s	and then wins i think we can all agree
18970s	that's a pretty fantastic scenario for
18971s	everyone involved no okay first do you
18974s	halfway through that until you
18977s	finish that sentence i was about to say
18980s	subtle
18981s	blink twice if you're in trouble
18984s	who's behind you threatening you here
18987s	um but yes scanning searching for the
18990s	bit bit detectors where is it i can't
18992s	well there it is okay yeah there we go
18994s	yes priest needs to win so we never have
18997s	to see it again at least for the near
18998s	future uh judgment is going to be
19000s	playing the murloc shaymin though and i
19003s	think this is one of the more manageable
19005s	matchups for the priest uh just because
19008s	it is
19009s	the shayman very often just has a
19011s	straightforward game plan right build a
19014s	board try and win
19015s	if the board gets cleared build another
19017s	board try and win so on so on whereas
19020s	the priest does have a lot of answers
19022s	yes the answers are sort of far and
19024s	widespread across the many cards in the
19026s	deck but there is enough and there's
19028s	enough minions in there to stay
19030s	competitive on board at least at times
19032s	uh there's levels of aoe clears
19034s	especially with the undying disciple so
19036s	yeah this is definitely a matchup that i
19039s	wouldn't feel too upset about playing if
19041s	i was the priest
19042s	[Music]
19044s	yeah for sure it's the kind of matchup
19046s	we've talked about a lot right about how
19049s	the players with shaman in their lineups
19051s	are seeming to struggle against some of
19053s	these renathol decks on the other side
19054s	that can sustain the pressure that they
19056s	output in the early game
19060s	they're not super minion focused overall
19063s	so they don't really play into like the
19065s	snowfall guardian parrot lines that
19067s	shaman can come up with they have 40
19069s	health so even if it's a bioluminescence
19071s	version by a luminescence version of the
19073s	deck then they can generally resist
19075s	what's going on there hey
19077s	[Music]
19079s	one two three four
19082s	now this is pod racing raven
19086s	yeah at least one thing i really like
19087s	about uh pasco as well and one thing
19089s	that makes me happy that we get to cast
19091s	him is that he does even in the tense
19094s	games right you can tell he's engaged
19096s	you can tell he's enjoying it because no
19099s	one plays hearthstone this much and
19101s	doesn't actually just love it right so
19104s	uh really fun to see pascal sort of
19106s	having fun with it because he knows
19107s	yesterday especially when we cast him
19109s	these priests games were just a living
19111s	nightmare so it's a pretty pretty fun
19114s	just to see him enjoy that fact
19115s	yeah i uh after we finished broadcasting
19118s	yesterday i dropped the uh the salty
19120s	tweet like the delete priest tweet
19121s	immediately after broadcast and pascal
19123s	just pops up in my mentions like you're
19125s	welcome
19129s	so far you are right having the uh one
19132s	two three four especially with three
19135s	being the sorceress as well probably or
19137s	would you agree that the best three drop
19139s	to actually get uh
19141s	as your three drop activation
19143s	yep
19144s	unless you're up against like demon
19146s	hunter or something then probably
19148s	devouring plague is the one that you're
19149s	going to be looking for just to be able
19150s	to clear up those early board states and
19152s	stabilize a little bit but yeah this
19153s	kind of match up i would say just spider
19156s	tank and look for something to fill out
19157s	your quest stage two is probably exactly
19160s	what you're looking at
19166s	whirlpool as well in the hand is a card
19168s	well worth talking about in this matchup
19171s	because it can be super impactful in
19172s	general um you know lots of turns end
19175s	for example with a snowfall guardian or
19177s	a parrot in play and then if you're able
19179s	to delete the second one and by going
19182s	along with that then that can be a big
19183s	deal even something like a school
19184s	teacher hanging around on board right
19186s	can have a big impact in terms of
19188s	setting up weird late game win
19189s	conditions there's late game murlocs
19191s	played as well normally a lot of them
19193s	are played outright so that can be uh
19195s	the half of it that you actually get to
19196s	clear up too so yeah pretty interesting
19199s	overall score's got a choice now
19202s	where he wants to go with this nothing
19204s	anyone else find the card drown a bit
19207s	severe for the hearthstone vibe you know
19210s	like
19211s	drowning is terrifying i don't know
19213s	whether it's just me but like i i like
19215s	i'm not scared of water i can swim i'm
19216s	fairly happy with it but i am terrified
19219s	of drowning like i think that would be a
19220s	really really horrible way to go out so
19223s	just the fact that just a card called
19224s	drown where thematically you just grab a
19226s	minion and drown it and the picture is
19228s	just a guy drowning
19230s	i don't know it seems a bit much
19232s	yeah so think about how you feel about
19234s	it subtle and then know that i'm
19236s	terrified of deep water i do not swim
19239s	and it terrifies me every time i'm even
19241s	near relevantly deep water so yes i
19244s	agree even more so
19247s	and typically it's in priests so it's
19248s	like my two worst nightmares
19254s	oh so yeah what's the worst way to die
19256s	drowning no i can go you one better
19258s	drowning and anduin is also there yeah
19260s	laughing at you
19267s	dangerously close to veering into tj's
19269s	mountain bear discussion that comes up
19271s	at least once a tournament as well
19280s	or could just play the drown now if he
19284s	wants to
19285s	probably better to save the hexane right
19287s	because hex can can be very strong later
19290s	on yeah absolutely
19292s	and even though the strongest drown ever
19295s	it's better to save the hexagon
19298s	one spirit guide
19307s	he's having please best day ever he's
19309s	1-0 up in his first series
19311s	and he's drawing on code
19314s	pascua all curve all vibes
19320s	also beneficial because it's just a good
19322s	card in this match-up as well right like
19325s	it just gets work done we can see it
19327s	there's going to be command of neptulon
19329s	here available for judgment and that is
19331s	a very hard card to pass up on curve as
19333s	well it is going to sort of
19335s	chomp down on the five drop from pascoa
19337s	but again pascal is progressing quest
19340s	which is what he wants to do
19345s	yeah we'll represent an absolute ton of
19347s	pressure if pascua chooses to just lump
19349s	the five drop into this board because
19351s	it'll be what do we have the end of term
19353s	one one five one five four three four
19355s	will be the board state at the end of
19356s	the turn so five one eats the entire
19359s	torn everything else just goes face
19362s	i guess he could instead go hexen right
19365s	to steal one of them if that happens
19366s	possibly yep yeah very true just take
19368s	the turn off because he doesn't have a
19369s	six drop yet right
19371s	yeah that's fair
19373s	we've still got see if judgment goes
19375s	free does have other options frostbite
19376s	is available with the trade from the
19378s	fish
19380s	yeah i also do think a carney minion
19382s	counter at crucial times does have a lot
19384s	of impact in this matchup as well
19385s	because
19387s	quest stage one you can get done with
19389s	some spells but quest stage two
19391s	it's all just spirit guide talent light
19395s	shower undying disciple right those are
19397s	the cards that you have to play
19399s	for five and six to get the quest
19401s	completed unless you're discovering
19402s	things so a well-timed blade master
19404s	akani can actually have a significant
19406s	impact on the game as well
19410s	oh that's a lot of murlocs
19413s	got to remember of course as well that
19415s	that coin is still in pasco's hands so
19417s	we would talk about whirlpool earlier it
19419s	could actually be a turn seven whirlpool
19422s	which will be a pretty impactful
19425s	what to do
19430s	again though i do think it might be time
19432s	to uh command some neptulons
19444s	i wonder
19449s	yeah confessor was a little surprised
19451s	not to see it come out on the previous
19453s	turn
19455s	going with the gorlok instead which you
19457s	know does set you up for some pretty
19459s	high potential combos with the clownfish
19462s	brand that you already have as well you
19464s	can make some disgusting board states
19466s	happen but you haven't really pressed
19467s	the button for any board clears yet at
19469s	this point right it does feel a little
19471s	bit like doing it this way around has
19473s	just led to
19474s	significantly less value
19477s	from the command rush minions than they
19479s	would have got if they'd have gone the
19480s	other way around
19489s	ah pascua you suck where's your six drop
19492s	come on
19494s	okay he can draw a card and then coin
19498s	true actually
19500s	also coin and then call right
19504s	he really wanted to go for it i'm not
19506s	saying he should i'm just saying he
19507s	could the xyrella does end up being a
19510s	pretty strong draw here overall right
19513s	the the double gift in hand
19518s	like pascal's just gonna stall okay look
19521s	like it was played there for a second
19522s	but this makes sense hey
19524s	[Music]
19527s	you did it it actually looks fine as
19529s	well right taunt
19531s	and then brings everything low so he
19533s	doesn't even necessarily have to double
19534s	gif next to him with zyrella
19541s	i've got playing off curve
19543s	it is forbidden yeah did not progress
19546s	quest
19556s	yeah this is the this is
19558s	not showing what i was talking about all
19560s	the way at the start of the game here
19562s	where
19563s	the priest as long as it doesn't
19564s	completely whip feels like it has enough
19566s	to keep up as seen so far and like yeah
19570s	judgment can make a big board but we can
19572s	see there's two aoe options now kind of
19574s	two and a half if you count the disciple
19577s	yeah and
19579s	yeah outside of that i'm already stuck
19581s	for a game plan honestly there's no
19583s	snowfall yet and even if there was yet
19585s	again there is coin whirlpool there's
19589s	unfortunately for judgement didn't get
19590s	hold of mutinous which i think might
19592s	have been what he was going for with
19594s	gorlok
19596s	on the earlier turn
19599s	yeah just not really coming together is
19601s	it
19608s	even to an extent wonder if trade into
19610s	the hex and is even worth it for
19611s	judgements
19615s	okay gonna use the frostbite it makes
19616s	sense
19627s	frostbite and spell counter here really
19629s	trying to dig deep
19632s	to disrupt some of these clearing
19634s	options
19639s	scary board for pascal to play into for
19641s	sure because he absolutely does not want
19644s	to get the disciple minion counted under
19646s	any circumstance here that sets him back
19648s	so much
19650s	looks like to me at least he could
19652s	always start with coin this turn
19658s	because next turn he's going into a
19660s	natural whirlpool anyway
19664s	coins now at worst he's got five mana at
19667s	best he has six
19669s	and he gains the knowledge right
19672s	yeah and resets the uh the cost and all
19674s	of the other spells as well if it does
19676s	go off
19684s	sacrifice the ocarina into the potential
19687s	block
19688s	turns out it is in fact a spell
19690s	okay
19694s	oh
19695s	some nice options thrive is obviously a
19697s	big winner once you do get to the quest
19700s	completion stage
19704s	you're able to go digging
19715s	i think the existence of thrive in the
19716s	shadows is part of what even makes this
19719s	particular renewal build of this
19720s	archetype possible because
19723s	otherwise you have to have this very
19724s	awkward conversation like okay i'm
19726s	playing quest priest okay cool what's
19728s	quest priest well you do a bunch of
19729s	quest stages and then you shuffle a card
19730s	into your deck that when you draw it you
19732s	win the game okay cool so what have you
19734s	done how have you built that deck well i
19735s	put a bunch of other cards in my deck
19738s	make that less likely to happen
19740s	that does sound very weird but yeah the
19742s	existence of uh thrive specifically does
19745s	uh dig you out of a lot of those
19746s	situations if you do complete quest
19748s	quickly you are still gonna have a ton
19750s	of cards left in your deck but you do
19751s	have some of those discover options to
19752s	be able to thin it out
19754s	yeah every time i've lost this deck from
19756s	the quest it's been after a thrive every
19759s	single time
19760s	yep
19763s	the judgment go fishing again
19769s	now i believe has
19771s	every single murloc out of the deck
19773s	right now let me triple check
19779s	yep that's everything
19781s	yeah so now the threat of mutinous and
19784s	the parrot is going to be brutal here
19789s	because of the nature of the quest
19791s	obviously the final quest step is going
19793s	to be with you playing a seven or eight
19794s	mana card
19796s	which then means that you are not going
19798s	to have enough mana to be able to dump
19800s	the quest reward on the same turn
19802s	leaving you vulnerable to a potential
19804s	mutant
19808s	weirdly enough if he's worried about
19809s	mutinous does he just like pick renathel
19811s	here
19813s	just to hold an extra minion in there
19814s	just put it there yeah
19818s	predictable
19820s	coin just to start working through this
19822s	ocarina can't guarantee it will be dead
19824s	by the time next turn comes around
19828s	and of course because the coin is
19829s	counted
19830s	the frostbite aura is still in effect
19835s	the judgment really having done a lot of
19837s	work on the previous couple of turns in
19839s	terms of slowing down the spell
19841s	development from the opponent which is
19843s	quite cute in a way because it also
19844s	encourages the opponent to play minions
19846s	which is a thing that you really want
19847s	them to do so they don't have minions in
19849s	their hand
19852s	how does judgment go about this turn
19855s	because there are options with bran like
19857s	clown
19859s	clown
19860s	and fiesta i guess
19864s	bran clown clown fiesta yeah i'm
19865s	familiar with that play
19867s	intimately
19868s	i feel like bran is reserved
19871s	specifically for the mutants though
19872s	right i feel like that happened
19874s	no okay apparently not
19876s	really
19880s	you can still do if he does clown again
19882s	now right oh i see yeah that's kind of
19885s	what i was saying yeah yeah sorry i
19886s	didn't really okay specifically when i
19888s	was talking about the mutinous i was
19890s	imagining that the mutants would be at
19891s	least holding for the threat of the
19893s	quest award on the other side okay
19897s	there goes xyrella there goes dragon
19900s	again pascoa
19902s	doesn't really want to lose the xyrella
19904s	but knows he just has whirlpool right so
19907s	not the biggest deal right now we can't
19910s	cast it this turn of course because it's
19912s	too expensive
19913s	yes
19923s	i realize he does get the disciple which
19925s	clears up the majority of this right
19927s	yeah it's very fair
19932s	as well on stage three of the quest very
19934s	nice
19941s	yeah continuing to thin out the deck now
19943s	has two options for the thrive
19946s	that's always amused me just seeing that
19947s	jack just go off for no reason hello
19949s	everyone
19950s	i am also here i had death rattle
19960s	funny thing now is
19962s	because probably tempting
19968s	why not quite get the work done
19981s	do you think the uh khan
19985s	go fine with the mako right you can just
19987s	recon this turn hero power and then
19989s	potentially mccoy next turn that's still
19990s	quite strong
19993s	because you've
19997s	does he get locked into holding this
19999s	macaw right for the quest that's the big
20001s	question to us agree yeah i mean playing
20003s	the mutantness on the previous turn has
20005s	sort of kind of
20007s	put him in this position where he has to
20008s	be
20009s	very considerate of whether he wants
20012s	this macaw to be functioning as a mutant
20014s	but now obviously with the brukhan
20016s	battlecry played that is not going to be
20017s	a factor looks like judgment is all in
20020s	on the pressure plan from here
20023s	there's a lot of pressure this extra
20024s	damage and i'm going to predict this
20026s	rolled damage yes it did there was a
20028s	very subtle nod that came out from
20030s	judgment as he would have seen his hero
20032s	power reveal a few seconds before us i
20035s	think that's certainly the outcome he's
20036s	looking for here
20038s	scott does have
20039s	prayer and then whirlpool if he wants it
20041s	as well
20047s	or total way
20049s	is around ruby
20050s	over
20053s	this battle is far from over
20076s	gonna go again with the pecan makes
20078s	sense just going for the good value play
20081s	with the mutants cleared up i was gonna
20083s	suggest the the long shot of uh amalgam
20088s	try and find something
20099s	weird at this point as well right
20101s	because
20102s	the judgment what does the dredge
20104s	actually get him that he wants maybe
20106s	wild poor maybe bloodlust
20112s	i'm coming i'm coming
20145s	call again
20147s	not hit anything
20149s	super strong i would say
20151s	no heel for example would have been
20153s	absolutely huge frame there i have still
20155s	plenty with a couple of heel spells in
20157s	hand still has that double thrive
20160s	probably will try to save at least one
20163s	for the post quest world
20166s	yeah the humongous owl is a really big
20168s	deal though because we talked about this
20170s	a little bit yesterday we talked about
20172s	many things during the quest priest
20174s	games yesterday
20176s	um but seven is a problematic slot
20178s	because it's only mutinous and black
20179s	water behemoth and obviously he
20181s	whirlpooled a mutinous a few turns ago
20184s	uh which means he was down to just one
20186s	card in his deck
20188s	he's not done seven yeah that's my bad i
20190s	thought he'd already done seven yeah
20192s	that's huge then i take it all back
20193s	you're completely right i'm glad one of
20195s	us is paying attention to the quest
20197s	counter
20198s	he did eight with the xyrella but he
20200s	hasn't done seven and blowing up the
20201s	mutants yes he would lose the mutants
20203s	from the own deck so finding the owl
20205s	there is actually a really really big
20207s	deal
20209s	oh wait saul's favorite cards in hand
20213s	uh passcode
20215s	sorry oh good yeah no i i i looked down
20217s	and thought did judgement just draw
20218s	bloodlust is that what's happened no
20220s	okay fine
20225s	why issue now where
20228s	on average pasco will out heal the
20230s	prakhan's damage hero power right so
20233s	many choices
20235s	or maybe slightly not but still
20238s	the uh having the reliable five health
20240s	every other turn is going to make this
20242s	plan uh quite difficult
20254s	before the storm
20270s	armor up with the windchill
20278s	you wonder at this point
20281s	that's cool just whirlpool again
20289s	say nope
20292s	yeah that's the question here right is
20294s	when like pascua is weirdly in a weird
20296s	um like phylactery warlock position
20299s	right where he's just trying to find the
20301s	turn where he can safely play owl and
20303s	get away with it without dying
20307s	it's a question of whether you'd see
20308s	more pressure coming back the next turn
20310s	does drop the other thrive that's got to
20312s	be considered a pretty big win for
20314s	judgement at the very least but this
20316s	condemn is going to do a lot of work in
20317s	terms of clearing this board up and now
20319s	with judgment running so low on
20321s	resources he's in serious danger of just
20325s	losing this to res priests right exactly
20327s	with these minions that are coming down
20329s	so this is gonna start to get very
20331s	problematic very quickly yeah this is
20333s	what i was saying right just about the
20334s	the hero power now from pascoa with the
20336s	xyrella just drawn light shower as well
20339s	there is a silence in hand for judgment
20341s	but still like overall the hero power
20344s	being a little bit more consistent for
20346s	pasco is going to help him out a lot
20350s	and will you'd imagine still just win on
20352s	fatigue as well if it really came down
20354s	to it
20356s	and this was the debate from earlier
20358s	right when i was initially surprised to
20360s	see the mutinous coming down when it did
20362s	because of um as i described before that
20364s	like the quest reward does get stuck in
20366s	hand you have to pay at minimum seven on
20369s	a on a ten mana turn to complete the
20371s	quest and get that quest in hand which
20372s	means it is almost certainly guaranteed
20374s	to sit in your hand for at least one
20376s	turn
20377s	but it doesn't necessarily make this
20379s	mistake because judgment could easily be
20381s	evaluating like well if i sit around
20383s	here and do nothing with this brand and
20385s	all these cards in my hand for several
20387s	turns aren't i just gonna lose to
20389s	control priest anyway at that point like
20391s	surely i have to do something
20393s	went for the big mutants to win the game
20395s	but right now this is looking like a
20397s	disaster on all fronts from germany
20399s	that's the thing right the mutants was
20400s	really big it was winning the game it
20403s	just got whirlpooled right yeah which is
20405s	the risk judgment decided to take but
20407s	also by doing that he he could have made
20410s	it less likely the quest ever gets
20411s	completed right so
20413s	yeah it's definitely a tough one to
20415s	tough decision to make but his hand
20416s	wasn't going anywhere else so i respect
20418s	it
20419s	yeah and there's also the fact of the
20420s	you know by munching the handful of
20422s	minions i think i believe if my
20423s	recollection is correct we were at the
20425s	point of the game where it was like
20427s	light shower elementals and undying
20428s	disciples and things that you needed to
20430s	play at that point so you can
20431s	theoretically slow the quest down by
20433s	doing that by eating those minions
20435s	anyway i still don't love it i'm still
20437s	surprised to see the mutants being used
20439s	in that way um but i don't think you
20442s	know judgment just doesn't understand
20444s	what's going on i think he just had a
20445s	different plan of attacking just had to
20447s	make a call right yeah
20451s	you see of course the quest commission
20452s	with the owl coming down zyrella's ready
20455s	to go does that mean pascal necessarily
20457s	even has to play it this turn right it's
20459s	definitely good and it almost certainly
20461s	is but again i think pascoa
20464s	could still win by can that control
20466s	approach right and it just turns out
20468s	this turn he gets to do both yeah i mean
20471s	clear the board and play a five mana
20472s	seven second exactly probably the best
20474s	play that control priest could make here
20475s	as well right so yeah seems fairly
20478s	straightforward in that regard
20483s	this is what i was i mean okay it helped
20486s	that pasco did have a good opening for
20488s	once right or at least once when we're
20490s	casting don't get me wrong
20492s	but this is sort of the way i expect the
20495s	matchup to go right is that shaman just
20498s	never
20498s	really gets ahead and doesn't quite get
20501s	the job done judgment did a good job
20502s	pushing damage with the mutinous but the
20505s	second that's answered and there's a bit
20506s	of heal shaymin just slows down again
20509s	right and that's the problem
20516s	i think he saw the nod when there was
20517s	that turn the big turn where the mutant
20519s	is connected for 12 and then the brukhan
20521s	was played dealing the extra damage and
20524s	then it rolled
20525s	the six damage hero power on the turn
20527s	after i think you saw the nod from
20529s	judgement like okay like this plan might
20532s	be working just no whirlpool but then
20534s	yeah unfortunately the board clear
20535s	coming through on the other side was
20537s	kind of a disaster and you've seen from
20538s	there just how easy the stabilization is
20541s	right a couple of desperate prayers
20543s	couple of gifts at the naaru a couple of
20545s	hero powers
20546s	pasqua already back up at the lofty
20548s	heights of 25 health 29 health
20553s	34 health
20560s	again
20563s	even with this board pasco could
20566s	whirlpool here would get rid of the
20567s	other snowfall because the other still
20569s	in the deck
20571s	uh
20572s	just play a million other things as well
20574s	again i think this is uh pasco is game
20576s	to lose right now and i think
20579s	even if you just played two five drops
20581s	this turn
20582s	he would still be fine because he has
20585s	the whirlpool right if there's any
20586s	problems of board locking freezes and
20589s	stuff like that he just whirlpools it
20591s	all away
20598s	yeah i think at this point it's very
20600s	much air pick your poison for pascoa
20604s	get those engineers played
20608s	let's open some boxes come on that's
20610s	what we're all about the time
20617s	by the light of the gnar
20620s	cannot exist
20625s	wanna see
20627s	get correct minion choice for priest to
20629s	pick the annoyatron
20631s	absolutely
20639s	never been good in the history of
20641s	hearthstone on any turn
20643s	ever could push 18
20649s	seems good
20651s	if only i had some warm soup
20657s	that's the problem right three cards
20659s	left those three cards a schooling
20661s	school teacher and snowfall guardian for
20665s	judgement so
20667s	it has to be the best school teacher
20669s	ever
20671s	for anything to realistically happen
20673s	here there is the boner as well
20676s	again judgment especially with only
20678s	eight cards left for pascoa it's getting
20681s	progressively more likely the second
20683s	whirlpool is going to be in hand in the
20686s	very near future if not already
20688s	and that means even the plan to go okay
20690s	what if i go snowfall guardian with
20692s	bolner and then still have a mccall like
20694s	what happens there can i make something
20696s	big enough well no because whirlpool
20698s	exists and that's just the number one
20701s	problem right now for judgment
20703s	yeah absolutely
20706s	[Music]
20710s	here but obviously with the boner you
20711s	get the uh weird double interaction
20714s	with the double freeze but it is still
20716s	a the very least one final massive board
20720s	that has now been
20726s	old
20727s	deleted
20732s	it's a very excessive animation on the
20734s	decks isn't it oh look a card
20737s	yeah that's the other interaction right
20739s	with the uh spirit guide is that the
20741s	name of the card yeah yeah can just as
20743s	equally dig it out for you
20748s	right okay little fishes you got this
20752s	never mind you don't got this
20753s	congratulations to pasco winning game
20756s	number two and that was a much
20758s	better display of what quest priest is
20760s	capable of right and much better than
20761s	what we saw yesterday and subtle got his
20764s	wish priest had one game and one what
20767s	more can we want in life but
20769s	again i do think it's pretty cool right
20771s	where i think i spoke to you guys on you
20774s	guys the casters uh this week coming up
20777s	about how it feels a little bit strange
20778s	because grand masters has kind of
20780s	generally started with a new expansion
20783s	right we've seen that
20784s	in the past and now we start starting at
20786s	the end of an expansions life cycle with
20788s	nathria coming out quite soon but look
20791s	all the variety we've got right and
20793s	maybe that is down to how much of an
20795s	impact renatal exactly has made upon the
20798s	game which is fine but i do think it's
20800s	cool that there are just completely
20802s	different approaches players have taken
20804s	there's tons of different decks there's
20805s	different archetypes within those
20807s	classes as well so i think it's cool
20809s	that we do get to see these players have
20811s	more freedom than you generally expect
20814s	at the very sort of end of an expansion
20816s	cycle so
20817s	really really cool to see i've gone off
20818s	on a bit of a tangent here but i just
20819s	wanted to say that
20821s	no and i i'm interested in this topic so
20823s	i will follow up on it raven um i think
20826s	honestly in conquest that can often turn
20828s	out
20829s	uh to be a bit of a drawback maybe
20831s	drawback isn't the most precise word but
20833s	certainly a difficulty for the players
20836s	involved right because
20837s	in a meta where maybe ladder is
20840s	dominated by two or three decks that
20842s	makes the best decks lineup for conquest
20844s	very obvious right so if you want to
20846s	build the best x lineup you know what
20849s	that lineup is but then conversely if
20852s	you want to build a target lineup of the
20854s	most common lineup which is likely to be
20856s	the four best x lineup you probably know
20858s	what those four decks are going to be
20860s	and you know which one of them is the
20861s	easiest one to target and then you know
20863s	what the target lineup is going to look
20864s	like when there's this much variety in a
20867s	metagame you really have no good read on
20870s	exactly what the four deck 120 to 160
20874s	card why does rennethal have to ruin
20876s	everything we say raven um lineup that
20879s	your opponent is going to have so it
20880s	then makes it much more difficult to
20882s	target and in conquest if you're not
20885s	confident on what you can target and
20887s	you're not confident on what the vanilla
20889s	best x lineup is
20891s	you're kind of just flailing at that
20893s	point right like what are you even doing
20895s	like i guess i better just play some
20897s	stuff
20898s	hope for the best uh of course these
20900s	players put a lot of time practicing and
20902s	building these lines but it does make it
20904s	a little bit more difficult the more
20905s	things that are on offer but we are
20907s	going to jump into game number three
20909s	maybe even the last game of this series
20911s	if pasco can make this work he's going
20913s	to be on the mage and as we did see it
20915s	is that ping mage not the big spell mage
20917s	we've been seeing from the majority of
20919s	players going up against judgement as he
20921s	hops back over to the beast hunter
20930s	roondorb being held for pascua which i
20933s	imagine is his trog counter of choice in
20937s	this situation
20939s	uh because i believe judgement uh yeah
20941s	we saw it in the previous game yeah he's
20942s	like the trogg uh trog biscuit open
20945s	oh yes biscuits yes i remember where
20946s	this lettuce yeah okay
20948s	i remember that happening
20950s	great conversation
20952s	yeah i do like it here just to have an
20954s	answer because without that so much of
20956s	your
20956s	your game plan gets just thrown straight
20959s	out the window if there is trogging to
20960s	buff a wildfire on one as well subtle
20963s	now that is something you want to see if
20965s	you're the one playing ping mage
20968s	oh yes
20971s	have you had any more thoughts on this
20972s	uh ping mage deck now that we saw deep
20974s	into the game we've seen you know the
20976s	different versions of big mage different
20978s	versions of ping mage
20980s	clearly pasco has got this far so it
20982s	can't be that bad but do you have any
20984s	preference of this over big major do you
20986s	still think the the big mage still
20988s	reigns supreme
20990s	i think as just a generic
20992s	average win rate deck um the the big
20996s	spell mage is probably just a little bit
20998s	better as like a queueing up ladder kind
21000s	of deck but
21001s	certainly in terms of a tournament
21003s	strategy i think ping mage makes a lot
21006s	of sense
21007s	um i do you know personally prefer the
21010s	players that have gone with the 30 card
21012s	option although you know bly's made that
21013s	look very silly in the previous series
21016s	um so overall i think pascua has made
21018s	you know smart smart choices with his
21020s	lineup as a whole quest priest obviously
21022s	being such a good deck that it won in
21024s	one attempt in this series makes that a
21026s	fantastic choice to put in your lineup
21027s	as well so fully supportive of
21029s	everything that pascua is doing it is
21031s	interest i think the key point for me is
21034s	just from what i've watched this weekend
21035s	and not just from what we've cast but
21037s	overall the amount of times with big
21039s	mage it's been oh it needs to get dawn
21040s	grasp and start pinging away yeah you
21043s	actually win games you just think oh
21044s	well it probably is quite ping mage it's
21046s	probably quite good for this uh
21047s	tournament meta specifically as well so
21050s	yeah so i definitely get on board with
21052s	that
21053s	just the boost you get from a wildfire
21055s	or two in the early game when you get to
21057s	that dawn grass position it doesn't seem
21060s	like much with how quickly dawn grasp
21062s	can ramp up on its own with its own hero
21065s	power but just being able to manipulate
21068s	break points with wildfire at will um
21071s	and also just having a large selection
21074s	of minions which is fairly deliberately
21078s	engineered to have a nice spread of
21080s	health totals itself right in your own
21082s	deck you'll quite often see the position
21085s	where ping mages specifically just don't
21087s	play minions once they get to the late
21089s	game because the only reason they play
21091s	minions is to play the minion and then
21092s	ping that minion themselves because it
21094s	lines up perfectly with the exact break
21096s	point they have on their hero power to
21098s	be able to juice that over time and
21099s	that's not really a luxury that a big
21101s	spell mage ever has so
21103s	yeah this is a lot of words to say that
21105s	ping mage is better at pinging people
21107s	than big spell mages but yeah that is
21110s	kind of where we're at at this point
21112s	waiting for the new deck big ping mage
21115s	let's just see what
21116s	big ping mage xl
21119s	that's right yeah
21122s	hey though
21123s	sounds like a mumble wrap to be honest
21128s	let's go is facing down the annoying
21130s	opening from
21132s	these beast hunters which is when they
21134s	play cheap minions into buffs it's
21136s	always a bit of a problem to go for
21138s	and
21139s	looks like he's going for the
21141s	arcanologist i honestly would have even
21142s	hated
21144s	to see the um
21146s	and the starfish but again more likely
21149s	if he can actually starfish and kill the
21151s	minion in the same turn
21153s	right
21156s	has opened it up to the uh
21158s	fire sale health total now
21160s	yes you are
21169s	yeah awkward turn now if the expectation
21172s	is fire sale which i think it probably
21174s	is for judgement at this point this is a
21176s	very nice and awkward board state
21178s	leaving the divine shield intact and
21180s	having a full health minion on board
21182s	means that that is not really a
21185s	possibility for pascua this turn
21187s	um again even looking at
21190s	potentially starfish ping right
21192s	in the gate the saber remove the shield
21195s	for the 2-4 on board that might get
21197s	traded by the 4-4 then you can fire sale
21202s	yeah having the luxury of the extra mana
21204s	for fire sale plus ping on the following
21206s	turn is obviously a very very big deal
21208s	really changes the break points you're
21209s	able to hit because of that upgraded
21211s	hero power uh i think this was also the
21213s	big reason why pasqua has decided to
21215s	just take a bit of a beating from the k9
21217s	atron up until this point because
21219s	silence is a massively vulnerable
21222s	massively important effect there's so
21224s	many
21225s	uh high impact minions that are very
21226s	vulnerable to silence and chief amongst
21228s	them those sabers
21230s	uh which you want to manipulate as often
21232s	as possible we've seen games already
21234s	where it's freeze freeze starfish right
21236s	like that's the line constantly locking
21238s	that out from being able to summon
21240s	mountain bears or king crush so
21242s	starfish deemed very valuable from
21244s	pascua and he got a medium payoff for it
21246s	at the very least but he is absolutely
21249s	bleeding right now because of it
21252s	he's taking a lot of damage from the
21253s	harpoon as well not the best pickups for
21256s	judgment here could go for revive pets
21258s	so next could turn he can play it to get
21260s	the saber back
21265s	i think that's his best option
21267s	especially if he's expecting some level
21268s	of aoe
21270s	i was even a little bit surprised that
21272s	we didn't see the uh the one one and the
21274s	weapon going to the starfish but
21276s	very clearly judgment said nope i'm
21279s	gonna play old style hunter and just
21281s	kill you
21282s	yeah absolutely
21289s	awkward as well slightly off mana for
21292s	say like a barrier reckless right
21302s	weapon killing the barrier from the
21304s	viper almost forgot viper was in the
21306s	hand it's a card we see so rarely
21308s	nowadays
21326s	you're not a great position though the
21328s	eight health from the ice barrier almost
21330s	immediately wiped out i mean if you
21332s	factor in the hero power it is
21333s	immediately wiped out by the damage that
21335s	is showing
21337s	does of course cut off the three damage
21339s	from the weapon with the viper which is
21341s	in this spot probably more relevant than
21344s	the additional dredge effect victory is
21346s	in my grasp
21350s	yeah i was just trying to just stare at
21352s	the board and work out whether judgment
21354s	needs to proc the barrier
21357s	okay sure could just trade the minions
21359s	off in hero power
21360s	yeah
21361s	and then if he gets sunken and it pops a
21364s	king crush great if he doesn't fine you
21367s	know like either way
21369s	yeah nets i suppose two damage yeah in
21372s	total
21374s	you do do eight anyway and remove the
21376s	ice barra entirely but the hero power
21378s	would have done the two anyway so you
21380s	you do net two extra damage by doing it
21382s	that way but you are locking yourself in
21384s	hard to the hero power game plan at that
21386s	point
21387s	um and i suppose if i don't know dawn
21389s	grasp then comes down that's five extra
21391s	armor straight up that you do have to
21392s	deal with at that point
21394s	yeah that's going through it it's fine
21395s	yeah that's probably the big fear
21396s	because just as much as second ice
21398s	barrier could hit uh dawn grasp could
21400s	right and then that
21402s	really changes your clock
21405s	i think with the board that you're
21406s	developing as well it does come down to
21408s	the spells that are being replayed from
21409s	the dawn grass breaks it's just wildfire
21411s	at this point
21413s	you're not necessarily
21415s	going to have your board taken away not
21418s	to mention of course dawn grasp itself
21420s	can replay the ice barrier if you proc
21422s	that first ice barrier so there's
21424s	certainly arguments on both sides
21440s	could just trade go fire sale an ice
21443s	barrier anyway
21446s	gonna go oh right ran reckless okay
21450s	it's maximum to pressure right
21452s	developing extra minions you clear up
21454s	the board here anyway with the reckless
21456s	apprentice
21457s	get the extra stats on board
21459s	i definitely like this
21461s	oh yeah i can see it's probably one of
21463s	those plays that just might make him
21465s	lose but also might give him the highest
21466s	chance to actually win
21480s	and trade off a
21481s	saber yeah
21483s	is pretty interesting here
21488s	obviously just heads up hydraulidon
21490s	looked very tempting at the start of the
21491s	term but with pet collector coming into
21493s	hand this represents some very
21495s	interesting opportunities for judgement
21498s	on this turn
21499s	okay
21501s	oh oh
21502s	that's a bear
21508s	no real reaction from pascua he'll know
21510s	he's dodged there well most likely no
21511s	he's dodged there yeah got to press the
21514s	hero power though right
21518s	if it was turn eight i would definitely
21521s	say play selected breeder to just get a
21524s	king crush but it's not so
21526s	i think pushing the two damage feels a
21528s	little bit better
21533s	bottom of the deck is not brilliant
21535s	either right as we've seen uh from the
21538s	previous dredges when he ended up
21539s	picking up the revived pet i think it
21541s	was
21542s	it's like tracking and
21546s	something else
21552s	but still despite this mountain bear not
21554s	being immediately lethal it's still
21557s	a veritable nightmare here for pascua to
21559s	deal with does have the freeze effect
21562s	and can ice barrier to just like the 4-2
21564s	potentially attack right is that still a
21565s	plus four from the ice barrier
21568s	uh yeah
21573s	the 4-2 is very easy to clean up anyway
21575s	though with the first flame
21583s	that changes the clock significantly
21592s	yeah it was just interesting i just
21593s	wondered whether leaving the 4-2 to make
21595s	it attack the ice barrier was worthwhile
21597s	if you're freezing the bear
21599s	yeah i mean it's a question of like read
21602s	on your opponents
21603s	right as to whether you're actually
21604s	gonna ever think they do that which you
21606s	probably don't
21614s	not going to be going in
21617s	oh
21628s	this is okay right
21630s	harpoon gun hero power
21632s	and just read it
21634s	king crunch
21638s	jaw
21640s	don't put your opponent to one they
21641s	played dawngrass which puts them to six
21643s	and the dawn grass replays an ice
21645s	barrier which puts them to
21646s	14.
21649s	you would still have to attack him with
21651s	something at that point you have another
21653s	swing of the weapon you have a king
21654s	crush that's 11 you have a hero power
21656s	that's 13. presuming that pascua is also
21659s	able to clear the board entirely at that
21660s	point which i don't think you are if
21663s	you're playing dawn grasp
21665s	yeah with the bear
21666s	this does still seem to be a clean
21668s	lethal setup even through the worst case
21670s	scenario
21675s	and we got to see what that was
21677s	how's the tracking i think that was
21679s	chosen
21683s	yep there's only one play have to make
21685s	it
21686s	but as long as i've counted this
21687s	correctly i think pascual's still dead
21696s	you can't it can't even clip
21702s	okay well that made me laugh
21712s	but yeah if this play had been made and
21714s	the rune dorb had not hit pascua in the
21716s	face and the board was able to be fully
21718s	cleared on the other side
21720s	this would have prevented lethal
21731s	but now i just don't think this is
21732s	possible
21738s	yeah it's not going to be good enough
21743s	yeah just can't stop enough of this
21746s	especially with the rune dog making even
21748s	worse
21754s	that's what 16 available here
21757s	for judgment more than enough damage to
21759s	get this job done with only being 12 now
21761s	because of the roon knob that is going
21762s	to be a game going to judgement pasco
21765s	almost got active there with the uh
21768s	dawngrass but it was just a couple of
21770s	turns too late and judgment making there
21773s	some great calls honestly as to when to
21775s	go aggro when to try and
21777s	kind of ignore the board honestly and
21778s	just say you know what i've got enough
21780s	damage my opponent hasn't played ice
21782s	barrier yet because even the first ice
21783s	barrier was relatively late in the game
21785s	in terms of health sense so there was a
21787s	world where they just didn't have ice
21789s	barrier and then he wins even quicker so
21791s	good cause there from judgement getting
21792s	a game and a
21794s	little number one thanks to his name on
21795s	the scoreboard
21797s	yeah now leaving the rogue and the
21799s	shaman left which i think will be
21801s	slightly trickier match-ups from
21803s	judgement side uh although you know the
21806s	beast hunter has been generally letting
21807s	us down whenever we've said this should
21809s	be a relatively straightforward matchup
21810s	for the beast hunter so i'm sure
21812s	judgement will be pleased that it did
21813s	not let him down in this particular
21815s	situation uh but yeah judgment choosing
21818s	to go with the jackpot rogue and of
21820s	course the mid-range shaman that we've
21821s	already seen as well um and i think
21824s	again just with the mid-range shaman
21826s	problem that we've been seeing
21827s	throughout the tournament you know once
21828s	you've run into a couple of reckless
21830s	apprentices a couple of fire sales the
21833s	the clear
21834s	uh from the mordresh and then suddenly
21837s	magister dawngrass starts coming into
21839s	play as well like it's it's just enough
21841s	boards that can be picked apart while
21844s	also
21845s	dodging the big vulnerability that some
21847s	decks have to that snowfall guardian
21849s	strategy and if you're able to do both
21850s	of those things clear boards
21852s	consistently and win games without
21855s	having a big board yourself those are
21856s	generally the two things that you need
21858s	to achieve to have a good match up
21859s	against shaman well then lo and behold
21861s	you have a good matchup against shaman
21863s	yeah and that is what we are going to be
21864s	seeing of course in this next game uh
21867s	judgment deciding he's going to leave
21868s	the rogue till last potentially and
21870s	they're going to cue in that shaymin for
21873s	this next one so i agree i think
21875s	something big needs to happen here from
21877s	judgement to get the win because if it's
21878s	that sort of slow plodding along uh game
21882s	plan that shaymin often ends up doing in
21884s	games then it might just be a little bit
21887s	too slow as you said all the aoe and i
21889s	think a key one really is fire sale uh
21892s	even self killing pasco's minions is
21894s	absolutely fine just off the back of
21896s	what you were mentioning right so a
21897s	couple of cards that can really help him
21899s	out here but we are going to get
21900s	straight into the game no messing about
21901s	here
21906s	let's go with at least the arcanologist
21908s	as a realistic keep
21910s	is anything else worth keeping is the
21912s	apprentice in this match up just worth
21914s	throwing away and saying you know what
21916s	it's going to be way better later and
21917s	not good enough now
21919s	it's good against fish though
21922s	it is very good against fish yeah you
21924s	can end up getting absolutely smoked by
21926s	piranhas if you don't have that early
21928s	game answer to some of it
21930s	but i think there is enough early game
21932s	curve in the deck at least a little bit
21934s	and those uh piecemeal answers with the
21936s	first flame as well that uh pasquale can
21939s	look forward to be able to deal with the
21941s	situation
21942s	double flurry a little bit awkward must
21945s	be said but uh rune dorb archanologist
21947s	absolutely nothing wrong with that
21957s	the breath looks
21962s	okay
21963s	not quite
21964s	uh as strong as you may think because
21967s	there are a lot of minions in this deck
21969s	yeah
21973s	no coin for judgement so we can't get
21974s	the wild poor cava uh kevin out sorry
21977s	where's pascoa can go with the option of
21980s	actually coining into okani into spell
21983s	right which feels like one of the the
21985s	most consistent good things you can do
21987s	right shaman going into turn four
21995s	could even throw out a flurry to defend
21997s	the ocarina even more
22002s	ice barrier being found on curve here is
22005s	relatively appealing though i'm sure
22007s	just spend the managing the health while
22009s	you can
22010s	no real need to react to this board
22012s	stage this year
22019s	that's what clearly thinking about the
22020s	archanologist though
22024s	end up going for it a little bit
22026s	inefficient but make sure he's drawing
22027s	that other ice barrier out of the deck
22029s	before he finds it naturally now yeah
22030s	he's just drawn one right so if he draws
22032s	the other one soon before he plays the
22034s	arcanologist that's a big disappointment
22037s	yep
22040s	there is of course only one arcanologist
22042s	in the deck for this exact reason
22044s	playing two secrets and two
22045s	arcanologists is a little bit nonsense
22047s	because you'll end up with one of them
22048s	being dead way too often
22053s	bottler promoting one-offs index where
22056s	we are
22057s	i mean that is a rare occurrence
22061s	mark the calendar it happened
22064s	as a justifiable reason to play a one of
22066s	in your deck
22070s	so i could wait and just fill out this
22073s	term with ice barrier and wildfire the
22076s	only slight issue it's not even that
22078s	much of an issue but it does affect the
22080s	damage from deep breath right but it's
22082s	just a solid turn right get the barrier
22084s	down start improving that hero power
22087s	looks like hovering okay
22091s	and i think that was more so the merit
22092s	of the arcanologist on the previous turn
22094s	right he chose to improve his deep
22096s	breath as an aoe rather than decrease
22099s	the power of his deep breath as an aoe
22100s	playing a minion gaining a spell instead
22102s	of just playing out a spell a little bit
22104s	mana efficient had the small upside of
22106s	just removing the brick of drawing the
22108s	other ice barrier as we talked about
22111s	that's makes sense making sure this deep
22112s	breath is still nice and juicy is able
22114s	to deal with these full stag boards on
22116s	any occasion
22117s	yeah pigging spell there i imagine to do
22119s	his best to stop air command of neptulon
22122s	or a frostbite with a trade
22130s	it's definitely one of those turns where
22131s	it doesn't have to be spell right
22138s	the judgement will
22141s	potentially have to see what happens you
22143s	just have the uh
22147s	wind chills so we can just throw one
22149s	away immediately and just get that
22151s	knowledge okay either gets blocked or it
22153s	doesn't and then can go from there
22158s	yeah chose not to
22160s	you know what after having given okani a
22162s	hard time yesterday for being too
22165s	predictable himself that was actually
22166s	quite an interesting one because
22169s	obviously i saw the pick but being in
22172s	judgement's position i don't mind his
22174s	thought process because
22177s	pasqua had seen
22180s	the uh sleep breaker so he knows that
22183s	there's wind chills in hand right so
22184s	picking spell when you know your
22186s	opponent has windchill in hand like are
22188s	you really happy about countering a
22189s	windchill maybe you are
22191s	um but then i think that's what kind of
22193s	that's what judgment led towards there
22194s	and said you know what i'm gonna i'd say
22196s	this is minion so i'm just gonna
22197s	straight up frostbite it and then i
22198s	don't have to deal with the problem at
22200s	all and yeah just did not really work
22201s	out that way
22203s	yeah i would have been a worse than just
22204s	gone well it's only a wind chill i'll
22206s	try it
22207s	just to see what happens i would have
22208s	done it for potentially all the wrong
22209s	reasons
22213s	it's buried down now though and pascoa
22215s	in a much better position than he was
22217s	against uh judgment's hunter because
22219s	he's just not been beaten up yet so uh
22222s	definitely a better start overall
22228s	here comes the murloc army finally found
22231s	double clownfish with one amalgam and
22234s	the other amalgam in hand
22236s	is a lot of very immediate tempo but if
22240s	the discoverers are not kind and you're
22242s	not hitting like cold light seers for
22244s	example it's very very straightforward
22246s	for this mage to deal uh clear that up
22248s	in a couple of different methods
22251s	oscar has played
22253s	the three types of spells right which
22255s	means that this multicaster will uh
22258s	drive a relevant amount of cards
22260s	yep
22263s	but also
22265s	likely can do something with deep breath
22268s	that can flame and flurry if needed
22272s	although it seems like a lot of removal
22274s	with not a lot of actual game
22275s	progression at that point doesn't it
22278s	yeah that does seem kind of like
22280s	overkill to me
22283s	i think there's any real reason to panic
22285s	about this board state just yet
22290s	maybe multicast is just worth honestly
22293s	it could just be a multicast attack yeah
22297s	and then either ping or even coined
22299s	barrier as a potential
22301s	yep what comes out
22304s	first flames kind of nice
22313s	go with the flurry first okay
22316s	i think with hitting the two highest
22318s	attack minions you can afford to just
22319s	chill here take the ping potentially set
22322s	this up for uh like reckless apprentice
22324s	ping and one of the flames on the
22326s	following turn to be able to take out
22328s	this board state oh brian
22330s	or bran yeah
22332s	i imagine this is kind of the what the
22334s	kind of match up where you're more
22335s	interested in holding bran for a late
22337s	game combo though if you can get away
22338s	with it just to be able to end the game
22341s	super quickly in a lot of positions yes
22343s	i i guess it just depends doesn't it on
22345s	how much judgment's gonna uh keep
22346s	committing to this board or not right
22348s	because if judgment fills up
22350s	you i think you just take the value in
22352s	the instant modresh proc right
22355s	sure
22356s	yeah but just keep in mind coin still in
22358s	hand for pascua right now always
22360s	relevant when we are talking about brand
22361s	combos with this deck
22368s	it will depend on how wide to drink goes
22372s	the problem is he doesn't have modres he
22374s	doesn't have dawn grasp yet so
22377s	he waits too long he might just be dead
22388s	definitely like the mutinous discover
22390s	here i think this is one of the better
22391s	match-ups in the game
22394s	for mutants disruption
22396s	yep good wild pour as well just get that
22398s	played so it just starts taking away
22399s	over turns maybe forces pascoa to use
22402s	removal he might necessarily not want to
22411s	now have the fire sale
22414s	plus the first or second or both flames
22420s	yeah if you want to part ways with the
22421s	coin you can do fire sale apprentice as
22424s	well but that's kind of two for wanting
22425s	yourself on aoe i don't think you really
22427s	want to use two aoe effects in a single
22429s	turn in this kind of match up
22433s	deep breath of course still hanging out
22435s	over on the left hand side can pick
22436s	apart most of this board today on its
22438s	own as well
22450s	maybe it is time for that deep breath
22452s	actually
22455s	i'm gonna go with the fire the fire sale
22457s	instead does get a little scary right
22460s	the more you start using the other
22461s	spells first to remove the board the
22463s	less effective the deep breath ends up
22465s	being
22470s	i think we're gonna get the chumpy chump
22472s	now
22473s	i think so
22477s	this sucks either way
22482s	a square will not be a good news yep
22491s	just been basically deleting an absurd
22493s	amount of damage quite frankly
22496s	yep
22502s	a savara now being found is a very big
22504s	deal
22505s	yeah maybe we'll look at getting the
22507s	arcane intellect and the flurry in there
22518s	annoyingly deep breath currently doing
22521s	seven i believe starts at one is
22523s	improved by other spells
22525s	so one plus six
22529s	but irritating it's still after double
22531s	second flame as well
22533s	yeah yeah i see the seven
22542s	or as tj would phrase it it counts
22544s	itself
22546s	it doesn't
22548s	a big dumb dumb
22557s	end up going with the ping of course not
22558s	having to use both still got the mana
22560s	spare
22563s	a brand pickup
22565s	ever so slightly late to the party
22569s	as it turns out there was no extra value
22571s	to be had with the mutinous but still
22573s	didn't know that
22576s	although i think brent school teacher
22578s	looks pretty solid could even go amalgam
22582s	if the naga linga aren't spells aren't
22585s	relevant right
22587s	yeah
22588s	discover two more naga i mean looks good
22591s	to me
22592s	is this another bioluminescence angle
22593s	raven is that what you're telling me
22595s	it's always a bioluminescence angle okay
22598s	what to do
22601s	another nice tempo snowfall which i'm
22604s	not sure how i feel about that
22606s	murlocs instead it looks like going for
22608s	the double discover on the amalgam
22616s	start pressing the button
22623s	and wait
22624s	fiddly
22628s	get your finley here catch up and lisa
22636s	oh
22637s	okay
22638s	we're fine
22646s	got to be arcade intellect right there's
22648s	still a lot of good stuff left for
22650s	pascoa in the deck they can actually
22652s	help out with as well
22655s	oh
22656s	one thing you do need to pay attention
22657s	to this turn is exactly what you want in
22660s	your savara because i think it had the
22662s	it's got deep breath and the flame in it
22664s	now
22666s	whatever you cast now is going to be the
22667s	final piece of the puzzle for your
22669s	savara
22671s	i think i'm okay with arcade intellect
22672s	being that piece
22678s	yeah i think so too
22680s	is there still 13 cards he he isn't dawn
22682s	grasp yet
22684s	as i you know what i'm going to press
22685s	the button again that's twice in a few
22686s	seconds but look at the cards he has
22689s	left don't you just want all of those
22691s	asap and then just yeah right you
22693s	definitely want the more dress you
22694s	definitely want the fire sale you
22695s	definitely want the reckless
22697s	yep wildfire as well
22700s	yeah flurry is the choice
22702s	for the finals what do we know so i
22704s	guess what do we know
22705s	very little and you can take the deep
22708s	breath middle on the brand yeah this
22710s	makes a lot of sense with the guaranteed
22712s	kill there
22713s	yeah so what you have to keep in mind
22715s	there from pasquale's perspective is
22717s	fear of blood lust um believe it or not
22719s	some people are scared of blood lust for
22721s	some reason i'll never understand it
22722s	i've never been scared of blood lust in
22724s	my life
22725s	um but obviously if you go arcane
22726s	intellect there
22728s	you might find yourself in a little bit
22730s	of trouble over the course of a turn or
22731s	two if bloodlust is in hand and it kind
22734s	of represented a bloodlust set up from
22736s	judgement right the fact that it was go
22739s	wide with murloc specifically taking the
22741s	tidehunter as well to go super wide
22744s	um so i think the extra security of the
22746s	flurries might just be something that
22747s	pascual is interested in but you could
22749s	argue this the other way right because
22751s	additional aoe and sorry additional
22753s	clearing and additional freezes gives
22755s	him extra time to find a fire sale or a
22757s	reckless apprentice or whatever else to
22759s	clear this up arcane intellect just does
22761s	that quicker anyway but at the cost of
22763s	having less freeze to be able to maybe
22765s	be vulnerable to bloodlust lethal for
22767s	maybe one turn in the middle yeah so i
22770s	think it's a pretty tricky one to
22771s	navigate for sure yeah i mean the way i
22773s	saw it was the one flurry and the deep
22775s	breath and other flame were
22778s	enough right to just get him there if
22781s	the arcane was put in there so we'll
22783s	have to see how it pans out still wasn't
22785s	like one was a disastrous choice any
22786s	other was perfect
22790s	hello
22794s	probably still going to arcane intellect
22796s	first look at your other options because
22797s	that reckless apprentice is of course
22799s	the juice if you can do it later with
22802s	the uh magister dawn grasp
22805s	the option as well of going with the
22807s	viper this turn too right just get rid
22810s	of the weapon it's not a lot but it's
22811s	still something
22816s	maybe just trade it for more value in
22818s	general anyway
22821s	go for the dawn grasp
22829s	richmond definitely looks like he's
22830s	playing bloodlust doesn't he from
22832s	pascoe's point of view last two turns
22835s	yes
22844s	you can start to see now the hand
22846s	resolving down to those awkward cards
22848s	that just aren't good in the match up
22850s	right few more monologues to play out a
22852s	little bit more damage to be made and
22853s	then we're into snowfall guardian
22855s	territory which really ends up doing
22857s	very very little in this kind of matchup
22860s	i like this i respect this greed i was
22861s	just gonna say there's still a couple of
22863s	second flames in the hand which pascal
22865s	can afford to get rid of now they've
22867s	been hanging around
22868s	buffing deep breath for quite some time
22871s	right first the initial deep breath and
22873s	then pascal had the foresight to know he
22875s	would be getting another deep breath
22876s	back to hand at some point so having all
22878s	those cheap spells hanging around was
22880s	very beneficial but this seemed like a
22882s	good turn to get rid of them because
22883s	this is plenty secure right 35 health
22886s	only five showing plus a weapon no real
22889s	reason to be worried about this i think
22891s	you know why i've decided that play was
22893s	very good
22894s	because it's a play i think yala would
22896s	have made
22897s	yeah no precisely yeah
22899s	you know what i don't need to use this
22900s	i'll do it this way instead i'm still
22902s	fine it's like ah yes
22906s	command of neptulon probably one of the
22908s	juiciest draws that judgement could find
22910s	at this point though
22912s	single threat low resource allocation
22914s	but really turns this board into another
22917s	bloodlust uh
22918s	bluff i suppose
22927s	see what's in the box first before
22929s	potentially cycling the viper
22932s	cone
22938s	volcano ping is now just a straight up
22940s	board clue
22941s	saves the reckless apprentice yet again
22943s	yeah i can go for multicaster instead
22945s	right
22948s	a point
22950s	because again even though it
22952s	you know we could look at oh well how
22953s	quickly does pascoe get to fatigue i
22956s	don't know if fatigue matters that much
22958s	when he's
22959s	uh vardhan just
22961s	blasting his opponent every single turn
22964s	well you do have to get there first
22966s	right like the hero power is going to
22968s	juice up fairly slowly from this point
22970s	no bran for the reckless apprentice
22972s	which means the otk combos are a little
22974s	bit limited so i still would be a little
22978s	bit scared of going for multicaster in
22980s	this instance a squat i think he'll feel
22983s	like he can just use his cards one by
22985s	one for survival here
22987s	but the quicker you get there the quick
22989s	you can start beefing it up
22991s	yeah
22992s	but it's it's not really like it's not
22994s	necessarily the race of you against your
22995s	opponent it's the race of juicing your
22997s	own hero power versus uh running out of
22999s	cards and drawing fatigue in the deck
23001s	okay pasquale disagrees is gonna go
23003s	going to try and go
23004s	i think we're just having the
23007s	uh mold dress still around the reckless
23010s	apprentice that's true yeah i'm not it
23012s	does add up even without bran it really
23014s	it's very fair i'm actually not
23016s	factoring in that the more dress still
23017s	remains into the equation which i think
23020s	does enough to probably tilt it and the
23021s	fact that you get there before you end
23023s	up fatiguing yeah and it's a bold clue
23025s	as well right so if yeah exactly goes
23027s	again right you clear the board while
23028s	stealing 10 so does start to stack up
23031s	very very quickly indeed
23032s	just giving a little bit of a reminder
23034s	exactly what's left with the last six
23036s	cards for pasco varden as well
23039s	the wildfire number two
23042s	yeah still has flurry like three million
23045s	flurry varden as a potential option to
23048s	be able to react uh even the more dress
23050s	itself right even though there's no
23051s	brand the coin has been used there's no
23053s	big burst damage combo with either
23054s	reckless apprentice or mordresch coming
23056s	this game
23057s	if mordresh comes down clears board in a
23059s	situation where opponent is at you know
23062s	low teens mid-teens level of health
23065s	overall guardian is probably going to be
23067s	the only reasonable response that
23069s	judgment has to that in a lot of spots
23071s	and there's a starfish still in
23072s	scotland's hand so it might just end up
23075s	uh with that more dress being able to
23076s	attack for lethal at the end of the game
23079s	oh looks like uh judgments decided to
23081s	commit play a couple of the fish
23084s	percy and peter and then a snowfall
23086s	guardian in the middle
23092s	nowhere near enough to get me off this
23094s	train quick bloodlust check nope
23097s	stay awake
23099s	oh the flooring
23103s	the frozen bermuda triangle
23112s	there was a snowfall guardian in the
23114s	middle of it all along
23129s	all right a little bit distracted i can
23130s	hear my new cat being called a good boy
23133s	behind me outside in the hall so i'm far
23134s	more curious about what he's doing and
23136s	does that worry you or scare you no no
23139s	no i just i'm just scared that i'm
23140s	missing something very cute right now
23144s	pretty sure bagels had a cake and i
23146s	wasn't even there for it so
23149s	there's that interaction i was talking
23150s	about at the start of the game right
23152s	holding on to minions to be actually be
23153s	able to engineer the break points of
23155s	your own hero power yourself throwing
23157s	out the snow flurry shooting it yourself
23160s	reducing that hero power up an
23161s	additional level which then gives you a
23162s	much more powerful ball clear and a much
23165s	more powerful burst combo on the
23167s	following turn really like to see that
23168s	sort of stuff from the ping mages yeah
23170s	and i think when you're in the position
23171s	to do that comfortably you know you're
23173s	winning the game right because
23175s	although that is a strong play it's not
23177s	a play you can always afford to make
23184s	judgment just i wonder
23188s	again like snowfall guardian feels like
23191s	one of the strongest cards in the game
23192s	as well as being one of the worst
23194s	dependent on match up right and we've
23196s	seen a very good display of that
23199s	throughout this series and throughout
23200s	this weekend honestly
23208s	i'm just gonna say you know what we go
23210s	again still has the bloodlust in the
23212s	deck somewhere so you may as well
23213s	threaten it right but i think this is
23215s	the time for the big boy
23221s	i guess
23223s	actually
23227s	go wants to max greed he could farden
23229s	but i'm not sure what else you'd do with
23230s	the manner that makes farden even
23232s	worthwhile
23234s	yeah it's like 28 on the boards worth it
23237s	as an 88 honestly
23239s	right it's kind of plus one turn which
23241s	is plus one ping to face in this
23242s	scenario right which is something i
23245s	suppose
23247s	um but yeah i think probably creating a
23249s	bigger swing term being more threatening
23251s	here is in pascua's interest again like
23254s	even though i concede that this is
23255s	probably right to accelerate the game
23257s	this aggressively towards the end of
23258s	your deck pascal still does not have
23260s	infinite time by any regard here that he
23263s	absolutely does have to get on with it
23264s	and in this game
23266s	yeah
23267s	nobre khan for judgement as well which
23269s	is something that can mess with numbers
23271s	a lot actually yes
23274s	that's going to be a big deal here
23276s	judgment
23277s	probably i'm not 100 sure what's in that
23280s	nuggling but probably has to freeze this
23282s	turn
23283s	hmm
23285s	knowing that there's likely or almost
23287s	certainly pick me yeah yeah reckless
23292s	okay title surge is a really big deal
23294s	yeah i get to use the frostbite as well
23296s	i don't said it's actually huge there
23299s	yeah not only that was just for kills
23301s	that was just frozen instead of killed i
23303s	think judgment just straight up loses
23304s	the game on that turn
23313s	there's the other wildfire
23315s	i can still cast it and the reckless
23317s	apprentice and ping face
23321s	and again if pasco has been keeping
23322s	track he knows that mutants is still a
23325s	potential issue
23326s	i do think playing this reckless out at
23328s	this point especially with the wildfire
23330s	drawn is worthwhile
23341s	and this could be the
23343s	hand dump this turn and then potentially
23346s	ending on the finley once the resources
23348s	that have all been wanted to be used
23350s	have been used
23352s	exactly what we're going to see yep this
23355s	is smart
23357s	a few more cars are now exchanging five
23360s	cards for one card
23364s	it's like a terrible exchange rate
23366s	it does doesn't it
23376s	mutants doesn't look so cool now does it
23385s	i have to drop
23386s	the snowfall guardian
23389s	looking grim and if there's starfish is
23392s	off the top no okay could still go for
23394s	it with the vibe
23400s	is going to be good enough for pasqua to
23403s	get there that was a razor fine ending
23407s	though because
23409s	uh pasqua being in that position to have
23412s	to kind of dump his hand to relinquish
23415s	the fatigue certainly could have got
23417s	very sticky i think safe in the
23419s	knowledge pascua something that i wasn't
23421s	keeping track of at that time that the
23423s	last card remaining was the rust drop
23425s	viper is actually a really big deal
23427s	because he then gave himself multiple
23428s	shots of being able to find an answer
23430s	for the following turn answer either
23432s	being the uh starfish for the silence or
23435s	some sort of flurry or whatever other
23437s	tools you have to be able to answer the
23438s	ball which i think may have just been
23440s	the flurry at that point i know fire
23441s	sale as well was still remaining i
23443s	believe right to be able to clear things
23445s	up if need be
23447s	however
23448s	that clock like the fatigue clock versus
23451s	the damage clock versus judgement's
23454s	health
23454s	could have been influenced massively if
23457s	judgement was not looking at a bottom
23459s	six brukhans yes right
23462s	really has to be the heartbreaker for
23464s	judgment in that position but that means
23467s	now that we do
23468s	have our first final four our first two
23471s	semi-finals and our first four
23473s	semi-finalists
23475s	of the last call of hearthstone grand
23478s	masters two european representatives one
23481s	aipac one america's uh one south
23484s	american player as well which you know
23486s	sounds about right doesn't it yes in
23488s	terms of the power rankings of the three
23490s	regions yeah almost exactly correct
23492s	actually uh but yeah that is subtle just
23495s	showing us there exactly what matches we
23497s	have left for the day of course the two
23498s	semi-finals and the final and we are
23500s	going to join you shortly to do the
23502s	first semi-final which is going to be
23504s	possessive versus bunny hopper and then
23506s	tj and edelweiss are going to take over
23508s	to finish out the day just a little bit
23510s	later on but for now we're going to go
23512s	to a quick break while we set up the
23513s	first two players for the semi-final
23516s	we'll be right back
23519s	[Music]
23529s	[Applause]
23530s	[Music]
23533s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
23536s	seasons
23537s	where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific
23540s	reasons
23542s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
23546s	with such ruthlessness
23549s	so deep and profound
23553s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
23561s	to uncover the truth
23563s	of murder most foul
23566s	the anima drifts across the floor
23569s	highlighting the creatures who walked
23572s	through my door
23574s	the motives are as black as night
23577s	avarice
23578s	power revenge and blight
23583s	we watch the hero
23585s	uncover the clues
23588s	that lead to the truth
23591s	behind this dark bruise
23595s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
23600s	choose your power without heavenly bias
23604s	for at the end
23605s	they will burn in the fire
23608s	when it is known who slayed
23612s	denathrius
23613s	the sire
23615s	[Music]
23629s	[Music]
23637s	[Music]
23643s	[Music]
23717s	my
23721s	[Music]
23752s	so
23757s	[Music]
23865s	so
23868s	[Music]
23872s	[Applause]
23874s	[Music]
23888s	so
23893s	[Music]
23902s	[Music]
23907s	so
23910s	[Music]
23946s	so
23948s	[Music]
23971s	[Music]
23977s	do
23986s	[Music]
24007s	do
24011s	[Music]
24050s	do
24059s	[Music]
24127s	[Music]
24132s	hello everyone and welcome back to
24134s	grandmaster's last call we are nearing
24136s	the end of week one and there are only
24138s	three weeks available for these players
24140s	to get points for playoffs so we're
24142s	about to see who's going to be leading
24144s	the pack when it comes to points after
24147s	this a week first up though as the
24149s	semi-final number one happening is going
24151s	to be possessive versus bunny hopper i
24153s	feel like uh
24154s	uh specifically so i'll have been
24156s	following bunny hopper through his
24158s	journey this weekend as i feel like we
24159s	have cast him a lot uh but we haven't
24161s	cast possessee right so uh we do get to
24164s	see what he's bringing to the table and
24166s	the slightly more aggressive overall
24168s	approach than we've seen from some of
24170s	the other players
24171s	yeah so presto druid coming in instead
24173s	of the alignment druid again we've been
24175s	entirely dealing with alignment druid i
24178s	think in the games that we've cast so
24179s	far i think this is the first time that
24181s	we've been looking at prestor druid
24182s	which is obviously
24184s	uh you know you can frame it as the more
24185s	aggressive of the decks right curving
24187s	out consistently playing early minions
24189s	pushing early damage trying to finish
24191s	things quickly with big dragons after
24192s	the fact games can of course go long
24194s	with presto druid but you know generally
24196s	can be a quick ender but then also the
24198s	mine rogue thrown in there as well
24201s	uh which is
24202s	something that we've talked about quite
24204s	extensively it ends the game very
24206s	quickly one way or the other in general
24208s	although i will say possessee played
24210s	probably my favorite mine road game of
24212s	the tournament uh in his quarterfinal
24214s	where the game actually went long he
24216s	actually played survival for a little
24217s	bit found a later game win condition uh
24220s	with the lethal with the minds later on
24222s	so yeah pretty interesting one to see
24224s	for sure bunnies lineup i'm sure we're
24226s	all fairly familiar with at this point
24228s	if you've been following us so far
24230s	yes but if you are just joining the
24232s	broadcast uh bunny has probably
24235s	the most mid-rangey lineup i would say
24238s	in the tournament right now uh he
24240s	doesn't have the shaman which is a big
24242s	benefit for him we've seen the shaman
24244s	players kind of suffer the shaman
24245s	matchups have not been good so far
24248s	part of that i think is shaman having
24250s	genuinely bad matchups but part of that
24252s	is the shamans
24254s	in their like window match-ups in the
24256s	match-ups where they needed to get a big
24258s	victory they've then had the worst
24260s	possible draw they've had the worst draw
24262s	of the series and they've wasted some of
24264s	their good shaman draws on the match-ups
24266s	that they were never really going to win
24267s	anyway and so it's just panned out quite
24269s	unfortunately but this mid-range lineup
24271s	without the shaman in it has been
24272s	working quite well for bunny hopper so
24274s	far he's going to be kicking things off
24276s	with that jackpot rogue which suffered
24278s	for him a little bit on saturday i
24281s	believe but certainly in the previous
24282s	series today on sunday has put in a lot
24285s	of work for him so far yeah we do see as
24287s	well bunny's druid is actually going to
24289s	be fanned out and possesses loses the
24291s	mine rogue unfortunately but at least
24293s	you had you one good game from
24294s	possessing to watch it yeah sure maybe
24296s	re-watch later on we are going to jump
24298s	straight in and
24300s	realistically subtle because this is the
24303s	jackpot rogue it does have some ways to
24306s	fight back but how much of a problem is
24308s	possessing actually just curving out
24311s	against bunny in this early game going
24313s	to actually be
24314s	yeah i mean a medium too big one
24317s	obviously the druid has the more
24320s	consistent early game in this one for
24322s	sure
24323s	um but the minions are of such small
24325s	size in general that single knoll or
24328s	certainly double knoll can really
24329s	release most of the pressure
24332s	uh single-handedly in the early game if
24334s	bunny is able to get to that point so
24336s	there's no real panic i would say early
24339s	on for bunny but certainly if the nulls
24341s	aren't found then all that early chip
24343s	damage turns into permanent damage
24345s	against rogue we've talked about this
24346s	since really the beginning of time
24348s	rogue not really a class that has ever
24351s	featured a great deal of sustain and
24353s	that means you can quite easily get your
24354s	opponent into a position where it's just
24356s	like oh one alex straza off the top okay
24358s	cool you're dead you know next game from
24360s	that point moving forward so certainly
24362s	an important factor of the match up that
24364s	bunny tries to stem the bleeding as much
24367s	as possible in this early game really
24369s	interesting mulligan as well for bunny
24371s	they're throwing away the tooth which i
24373s	thought there's at least half an
24374s	argument to keep again
24376s	to relieve some of that early pressure
24378s	that we were talking about but also
24379s	keeping queen ashara is definitely an
24382s	interesting one not going not deciding
24384s	the hands terrible and say you know what
24386s	i'm going to go all in for the big stuff
24388s	and actually just holding ashara was
24390s	something i'm very excited to see what
24391s	bunny does with
24392s	yeah i mean i am a big fan of kind of
24394s	the scam cards in this matchup right
24396s	looking for jackpot jackpot trickster
24398s	contraband stash and ashara is very much
24401s	a part of that scam package as well we
24403s	have seen bunny
24405s	go for the route that i'm actually quite
24407s	a big fan of as well i've done this in
24408s	quite a few games with jackpot rogue
24410s	where you hold out for the ring instead
24412s	and actually use that as a burst damage
24414s	combo at the end of the game and we've
24416s	seen bunny do that on at least one
24417s	occasion in this tournament but
24419s	certainly against druid the threat of
24421s	big colossals early and then repeating
24424s	that over and over again um with your
24427s	thief style cards can be a lot of extra
24430s	value when you need it a bit of a weird
24432s	opening here from possessive with coin
24434s	postpost
24438s	nice null
24440s	okay that's just very funny um but yeah
24443s	kind of tricky uh bunny can of course
24445s	deal with one of them now but we'll lose
24447s	the maestro
24449s	i'll pick up here as well
24453s	hey but
24454s	i don't hate honestly
24456s	it's fine yeah
24461s	like crabato value
24468s	it's just because it's rush for me right
24470s	it's just a good enough card to get the
24472s	job done
24475s	actually with this opening for bunny
24476s	with that null being full full mana cost
24478s	because of the two watch posts so a
24480s	little bit of a tough one needs
24481s	something at least uh half defensive to
24483s	get going i think
24488s	one thing we can agree on is it's not
24490s	void gill
24494s	unless
24501s	exactly
24505s	pickup's very nice with the cold tooth
24507s	mine locked and loaded as well
24509s	almost a perfect early curve here from
24512s	for possession apart from the fact that
24514s	his minions don't get to attack so he's
24515s	not actually pushing any early damage
24517s	it's a very smooth opening curve so far
24520s	for possessing
24522s	yeah skoka
24523s	would require the use of the innovate
24525s	but again i think that's if that's
24527s	helping you get there
24529s	you kind of use the innovate to gain and
24530s	innovate right a bit of an odd way
24536s	just do that on four as well just do
24539s	something else this turn
24541s	and just do the skulker cold tooth mine
24543s	on for if you really wanted to
24547s	strictly
24549s	just going to go for it right now
24554s	the cold tooth mine for highest card if
24556s	you're not familiar with this
24557s	interaction it's a very common one in
24558s	the deck so you guarantee that the next
24560s	card you're going to draw is lady
24562s	prestor because cold tooth mine high
24563s	draws it every single time and then you
24565s	get your guaranteed discounted press
24567s	store which you can then play on five
24569s	instead of six very very common way to
24571s	curve out the early game with this deck
24574s	rig coming down there is moon in hand
24576s	now as well something very powerful for
24578s	possessing especially after the presses
24580s	have been used
24582s	get cold tooth
24584s	into guff
24585s	yeah
24588s	all coming together and hit this watch
24590s	post still getting work done right like
24593s	it might not seem like much much but
24595s	when you're adding the plus one mana to
24597s	multiple cards you do just make the
24599s	turns that little bit more clunky for
24601s	bunny
24602s	yeah and these watch posts have really
24604s	wreaked havoc on this queen ashara plan
24607s	from bunny as well because what bunny
24609s	would have wanted to have been doing in
24610s	this early game is just playing some
24613s	nice cheap efficient spells throughout
24615s	the early game right and being able to
24617s	curve out into that ashara fairly
24619s	aggressively especially with the
24620s	contraband stash already in hand
24624s	yeah everything's been put back by what
24626s	at least a turn probably two in general
24631s	i'm gonna use the wicked stab at dagger
24633s	play here from bunny just to get rid of
24634s	that post now defend some of the health
24637s	on the light shower
24638s	so you know what that'll have to do
24641s	[Music]
24650s	now the time to trade in this light
24651s	shower
24653s	just because he can heal back up with
24654s	the dagger swing or from the dagger
24656s	swing should they say
24657s	yeah it's not a bad trade all things
24659s	considered right being able to take care
24661s	of the
24662s	lady boulder fist ogre
24665s	it's weirdly the biggest problem in this
24668s	deck isn't it in terms of just raw stats
24670s	most of the time until you get to like
24671s	discover dragons or silent stuff
24674s	obviously much later on but it is the
24676s	the the minion that'll be the hardest to
24679s	kill
24679s	for a while
24681s	yeah we did see the uh the forbidden
24683s	interaction i believe earlier on in the
24685s	day where you moonlit guidance your
24687s	prestor but don't play it on the same
24689s	turns you have another press door
24690s	remaining in the deck and then you
24691s	actually get a boulderfist ogre-sized
24694s	dragon later in the game which is
24696s	rare but can happen sometimes that
24698s	turned out to be a raid boss onyxia in
24700s	that instance as well which is basically
24702s	the perfect thing for it to be
24708s	yeah we're off not a big surprise kind
24711s	of the go-to right for the deck
24713s	it's going to kill off the press that
24714s	makes perfect sense possession would
24716s	have to do a little bit of work to even
24717s	kill this ashara and never mind what
24720s	else is played afterwards oh
24721s	never mind well uh possession will have
24723s	to do no work to kill this ashari oh
24727s	these dragons they're all so beautiful
24733s	presto druid of course a true
24734s	connoisseur's deck as we all know
24741s	i love the different approaches to like
24743s	people's thought patterns for this deck
24745s	it's either
24746s	how well working out exactly how to play
24748s	each dragon and you know imagine the
24750s	resources and the other ones like you
24752s	just random dragons and hope they're
24754s	good enough
24755s	prestor goes birds yeah
24762s	oh
24763s	look at all this this is the stuff calm
24766s	down possessing it's only game one
24771s	just instantly powered up this is a
24773s	ruining every single anime arc i've ever
24775s	seen
24776s	yeah actually new rules for grandmasters
24778s	last call i don't know if you got the
24779s	memo but if you actually win the game
24781s	this hard
24783s	in game one you actually just win the
24784s	whole series you get given three wins
24785s	straight away so
24787s	make sense i'm okay with it
24792s	nelly not quite as strong
24795s	as it once was just reducing the cost of
24797s	the pirates by one not two one um so
24801s	uh a good enough in my opinion but uh
24803s	one that's gonna impact bunny quite a
24805s	lot because in the old days this would
24808s	be insane
24809s	yeah it wasn't the nerf i expected to
24812s	see i was i was expecting something like
24813s	discover three pirates that cost four or
24816s	less or five or less something like that
24818s	right
24819s	basically right yeah but um certainly i
24822s	mean it it deleted the card i can
24824s	certainly say that much
24825s	delete the class i can certainly say
24827s	that yeah yeah tell me about it i think
24829s	it's okay right because suddenly
24831s	especially with spike going to seven
24832s	it's like well
24834s	like six you still have to get it and
24836s	then the other pirates are gonna be hard
24837s	to whip in so there's still payoff if
24839s	you get that but it's not just oh my god
24841s	i'm dead
24844s	yeah like 47 percent dead or whatever
24846s	the odds were on the smite i forget
24848s	exactly what it was it was somewhere
24849s	around that level
24854s	the goose nothing super high value to
24858s	take advantage of the calico eggshell
24861s	might be a thing right because a lot of
24863s	the dragons have taunt and you wouldn't
24865s	mind copies but
24867s	it's a big mite
24869s	it's just composting isn't it let's what
24871s	is happening
24873s	these are the best drop what
24875s	stop
24876s	actually stop
24879s	hello
24882s	i was very quickly going to put an
24884s	official application into only cast apac
24886s	from now on
24887s	is this what it's like in aipac
24891s	it can be from personal experience that
24893s	crazy things do happen
24895s	just roll the nuts every single time
24897s	don't worry about it i can't remember
24898s	the token druid metal
24901s	true actually
24903s	every game
24904s	tokens go
24906s	speaking of trees difficult composting
24908s	decision here for possession can trade
24909s	off the rush minions first just to
24912s	reduce some overdraw potential
24914s	whether or not this actually even ends
24916s	up being a composting yeah it looks like
24918s	he's just going to go for a clean
24919s	food for minions no actually going to go
24921s	max tempo instead
24923s	i was wondering if it was just max
24924s	kazakhstan honestly
24927s	i
24928s	believe i mean you do have two and a
24931s	calicos and alex exactly
24934s	just kill him next turn easy
24936s	yeah and that that's the argument right
24940s	is do you want this composting to just
24942s	feed you the value after the kazakhstan
24944s	instead especially since there is zero
24946s	concerns with fatigue since you're able
24948s	to just uh put the second one back in
24955s	derek confirming this is exactly what
24957s	castle is like okay good thank you
24960s	remember
24971s	odds
24974s	okay
24982s	and he's just gonna do his best to clean
24983s	up as much as possible and
24986s	at the same time push damage with the
24988s	minions he has not gonna bother with any
24989s	trades and you know what i'm okay with
24991s	it okay minimal trades
24996s	oh
24997s	yeah
25000s	it's just a recipe to win the game what
25003s	do you actually mean moonlit guidance
25006s	off the top this time like what
25015s	what book
25017s	or rag yeah okay pick books so there's
25019s	embers
25021s	yeah onstar book i think for sure
25031s	maybe even trader 1-1 first
25033s	he's going to come posting something
25036s	wait what
25037s	oh okay so he's not gonna okay i was
25039s	just thinking like if he still has the
25041s	draw he still has
25044s	shouldn't he use moonlit
25047s	first
25048s	before drawing off composting yeah
25052s	uh
25053s	arguably
25054s	yes that's kind of that
25056s	that's where i was with the trades
25057s	happening all the composting happening
25059s	at all initially when the moon was in
25061s	hand i was thinking like well don't you
25062s	want to check out some other stuff first
25064s	and then go
25066s	you can draw one you can always draw one
25068s	right because you only remove one option
25070s	from the deck that option is still then
25071s	there to be discovered from the moonlit
25073s	guidance after the fact anyway it's not
25075s	like you ever delete an option from yeah
25076s	yeah guidance
25078s	i think that was always fine to do i
25080s	think if possessed he trades once there
25081s	and whiffs then he's going to go digging
25083s	with the moonlight guidance but he took
25084s	his one draw and because he hit he just
25086s	gets to entirely hold the moonlit
25088s	guidance for him just scared me because
25090s	as we've just recently been talking
25091s	about
25093s	i have cast apac before
25095s	yes
25096s	true
25099s	this is no ordinary apac player raven
25102s	this this is our world champion
25109s	what is bunny really supposed to do
25111s	right now
25112s	suddenly scabs isn't looking so cool is
25114s	it
25117s	no
25120s	probably still better than two immediate
25122s	card draws for the opponent into a
25124s	kazakus treasure deck though
25126s	when you've already seen a book of the
25128s	dead
25129s	let's be honest there's no good play
25141s	it's the second kazakhstan that's gonna
25143s	break bunny
25145s	if it even gets played oh no we're never
25148s	getting to that point this game's just
25150s	over
25153s	all right there was an embers taken
25154s	right there's an embers in the back yeah
25156s	there it is
25158s	the goose
25166s	where we get to play the game of what
25167s	combination of cards actually loses
25170s	possessing this game
25171s	i mean it's just
25173s	moonlit book
25175s	book
25177s	no you still it's still only first turn
25179s	i was thinking you could like discount
25181s	the embers with the calicos but you'd
25182s	have to end up doing that first anyway
25184s	there you go caligo sambas then do the
25187s	book you do this this and all these just
25188s	fine
25189s	anyway yeah yeah it doesn't matter
25191s	bunny hopper cannot believe
25194s	what just happened to him one of the
25196s	strongest sort of one two three four
25198s	five punches from this presta druid i
25201s	have ever seen actually i think
25204s	although we know how strong the deck is
25206s	or can be
25207s	i think that was close to like
25210s	at least from the presta point
25213s	perfect right the draws were insane
25216s	no no even before that it was a double
25219s	okay that was the best press doors
25221s	drawer i've ever seen in my life it was
25222s	watch post watch post and then the
25226s	skulker innovate tooth to get the presto
25229s	for five
25230s	and then jerry split tooth split mine
25233s	play the mine and then just get out the
25236s	guff right that's the perfect one two
25237s	three four and then prestor on five was
25240s	perfect and then we didn't see a dragon
25243s	of lower quality
25244s	than azure drake the entire game and the
25247s	azure drake was only taken because it
25250s	was taken over a calicos from a discover
25252s	that's how good the hand was i think it
25255s	was it's fair even to say we didn't
25257s	really see a dragon of lower quality
25259s	than legendary
25261s	right because the choice for the azure
25264s	drake was as you said over a legendary
25267s	option and just because of how good it
25268s	was so great start for possessing if you
25272s	ever want to start a series off you do
25274s	it like that in one of the most
25275s	overpowering fashions i've ever seen but
25278s	now he's jumping over to the quest
25280s	hunter another deck we've seen players
25282s	have some great success with so again
25284s	excited to see this because it feels
25286s	like it just very consistently gets the
25289s	job done and yet again there just aren't
25292s	that many decks
25294s	that actually engage with what he wants
25296s	to do in a positive fashion because
25298s	there aren't that many decks that play
25299s	like quest hunter at the moment in the
25301s	meta right there's not a lot of from
25303s	hand burn decks that even exist maybe
25305s	maybe even only quest hunt honestly
25308s	yeah it certainly has been toned down a
25311s	great deal in this expansion you know
25313s	quite bored focused even though um a lot
25316s	of the decks are kind of box decks right
25318s	um generally even with big spell mage
25321s	and with uh jackpot rogue like the cards
25324s	that you get from those huge spells
25327s	either generate boards or they clear
25328s	boards right so the board is still the
25330s	focus of a lot of the match-ups and for
25333s	quest hunter to come along and say what
25335s	did you did you all forget that the goal
25337s	of the game is to blow up the opponent's
25339s	face you're all way too busy just
25341s	slapping minions into each other on this
25343s	little
25344s	useless space in front of us forget
25347s	about that point stuff at your
25348s	opponent's face you dummies
25350s	the only defense saul
25352s	is soon
25354s	we'll be able to throw minions at each
25356s	other
25357s	i think is viable and fun
25361s	i don't think that card's good
25363s	i don't care
25364s	yeah okay fine i will be throwing
25366s	minions at people i'll be throwing a
25368s	king crush at someone let's see what it
25370s	is
25372s	it's that but like it's kind of been a
25373s	meme for a long time right like even
25375s	like when reckless apprentice was um
25378s	like came into the game and people like
25379s	what happens if you get this in another
25381s	class do you just throw a silver hand
25382s	recruit at someone
25385s	no that's not how it works well just
25386s	slaps into their face and dies
25389s	like putting someone into a catapult and
25391s	just firing them at a wall
25393s	top at all
25397s	oh brilliant if only there was an
25398s	animation for that
25400s	hey though so we get into the game
25402s	possessing of course getting that quest
25404s	equipped and now has an option of
25406s	secrets but it's not
25408s	generally what you're looking for with
25410s	this hunter you want all your secrets to
25412s	come off the bunker and not from natural
25414s	draws so a little bit unfortunate for
25416s	possessive but he does have a tracking
25418s	in hand to uh help him out if he really
25420s	needs it going forward
25422s	yeah an explosive trap is the one that
25423s	you're never super sad about seeing as
25426s	long as your opponent is going to play
25427s	minions at some point because it is a
25429s	quest proc when it happens
25432s	it's the one people played without
25434s	playing the secret package right so it's
25436s	worth
25439s	when he just tested seeing if it's the
25441s	old ice trap gets the news that is not
25443s	so it's safe to say uh safe to play
25445s	sorry refreshing spring water this turn
25449s	so
25449s	raven
25451s	celestial alignment
25453s	thoughts
25457s	oh yeah it's going in hand i thought
25458s	you're asking me about the druid deck
25460s	it's like a bit of a weird time to
25462s	but um
25472s	kind of good right
25476s	i think where i'm at is it's bad for
25479s	both players in general but worse for
25482s	the hunter so it's if you want to be
25485s	okay with it being bad for you as bunny
25487s	hopper to make something even worse for
25489s	the hunter for possessing so
25492s	it's really good against hunter i'm just
25493s	not sure if this deck actually supports
25495s	it so well from bunny's side so don't
25497s	know expense
25500s	a bit of a weird one
25504s	crowd probably to finish off this turn
25506s	yeah oh does find the trickster now okay
25510s	we're in business we can play alignment
25511s	next time
25521s	use the coin possessee while you still
25523s	can
25526s	doesn't know
25529s	i possess it really on the let's say
25531s	speed up this game plan right
25533s	those two quick shots instead of hero
25535s	power that's in
25543s	yeah is this ever a line like
25546s	well if you go queen into horn
25549s	play the horn play the colossal play
25551s	alignment and then just start hoping to
25554s	play tess and contraband stash for one
25556s	mana every single turn for the rest of
25558s	the game
25562s	is that a play does that win i think it
25564s	is i was worried you're gonna actually
25566s	start suggesting celestial well would
25568s	you celestial now in that plan i didn't
25570s	quite catch it
25571s	no i don't think so i think he played
25574s	queen horn and the first because the you
25577s	you'd be spending four mana this turn to
25580s	just do a play that you can spend five
25581s	mana on this turn anyway with the queen
25583s	right and then the the horn and the
25585s	thing only cost four mana anyway so you
25587s	don't actually end up saving that much
25588s	at that point yeah because i think
25590s	celestia is going to be so much better
25592s	when you hit flight turn six or seven
25594s	against the hunter right while still
25596s	allowing a bunny to do whatever he wants
25597s	anyway so i definitely like to see that
25600s	being held on too for now
25603s	this game silly isn't it
25607s	the game of hearthstone is quite silly
25608s	yes and that's why i love it
25616s	i was tracking right
25618s	yep
25619s	we could go net spring trap then again
25626s	i really need to honestly then again
25628s	shell shot equals shell shot so yeah no
25631s	no exactly yeah that's kind of where i
25632s	was getting to honestly
25635s	yeah because
25637s	he already has the secret draw kind of
25639s	done right with the dumbbell right has
25641s	kind of done that job
25643s	okay it's kind of done that job for him
25646s	well bunny you know what to do it's one
25648s	of the few times you don't have to grab
25649s	a tower
25653s	unless
25654s	now unless it is just grab a tower
25660s	so many options
25680s	when you really see those two options at
25682s	least right
25684s	either go colossus
25685s	or go for the um
25687s	[Music]
25688s	the crabber tower
25693s	oh
25694s	explosive just triggering the explosive
25695s	prop first and then he can still get the
25698s	minions out and play without having to
25699s	deal with it
25700s	does make sense
25704s	yep let's do it
25707s	big impact what kind of minion he gets
25709s	here
25710s	[Music]
25713s	cool
25719s	zesty needs to look at us about a
25720s	different angle to uh judge whether or
25722s	not
25724s	admiring the art from uh all different
25726s	perspectives
25740s	very interesting isn't it because ozumat
25743s	is strong
25744s	it's also a board nearly full of just
25747s	one attack minions right
25749s	yeah
25750s	like
25751s	does jesse just start jamming damage
25753s	phase
25758s	obviously from possessing's perspective
25762s	from possessive's perspective
25764s	this is
25765s	okay he feels like he will win this race
25767s	guaranteed right it's just the celestial
25769s	alignment that becomes the problem from
25771s	that point right
25787s	pretty good in between right he gets to
25788s	kill off the ozone which is the actual
25790s	only real threat on the board but the
25792s	explosive still leaves all them all the
25794s	tentacles alive as one ones
25796s	that's just super awkward for bunny
25799s	it is
25800s	oh
25802s	well now the ice trap as well is a
25806s	real nightmare on this turn
25809s	only gonna have to go ahead and use the
25810s	extortion yeah to proc the ice trap
25816s	and this plan has not gone as smoothly
25818s	as bunny would have hoped i think
25823s	yeah another quest proc these explosive
25825s	traps have done so much so far
25828s	forced buddy to like dagger up swing and
25830s	now it's
25831s	cr actually created an awkward board for
25833s	bunny honestly
25835s	you're gonna go celestial alignment now
25837s	looks like it
25841s	you have to right i mean you have to do
25843s	it before quest completion at the very
25844s	least
25845s	[Laughter]
25850s	so
25851s	right good news okay silver lining if
25854s	you're possessing here
25855s	the plan
25856s	that i alluded to three or four turns
25858s	ago
25859s	where you just went azhara into horn got
25862s	the colossal and then you just replayed
25864s	you played alignment and then you
25866s	replayed the colossal every single term
25867s	with tess and contraband stash or
25869s	whatever else
25870s	that doesn't work because bunny is a bad
25872s	player and decided to get the neutral
25874s	colossal instead which is a disaster for
25876s	his overall game plan however
25879s	celestial alignment still kind of just
25882s	feels like it wins right
25887s	i am just staring at
25889s	like what possess he can do because his
25891s	hero power is zero
25892s	yes
25895s	yeah obviously the earlier you can do
25896s	this the better but it was just
25898s	especially crucial that you got it done
25900s	before the quest reward was in hand
25902s	because now if the quest uh when the
25904s	quest goes into hand it's going to be
25906s	full cost
25907s	and unplayable for quite some time
25910s	it is only one zero mana hero power per
25913s	turn for quite some time
25917s	hmm how can we work it where bunny plays
25919s	crabator this turn
25923s	uh pick it up put it on the board there
25926s	you go
25935s	i think the only real question is how
25937s	many trades you make first
25943s	any number between two and four
25946s	is reasonable i think
25949s	it's tricky isn't it i'm actually even
25951s	just staring at just do the four trades
25953s	because then board space can be used for
25955s	other things right i think keeping these
25957s	one ones on board does not feel that
25959s	great
25961s	yeah so the merrier doing it this way of
25963s	course is that you get to push immediate
25965s	damage with the big weapon going face
25970s	i think i'm okay with yeah this is fine
25973s	this is what jumped out to me because
25974s	you are trying to race your opponent
25976s	right you can't just defend your own
25978s	health total you do have to try and
25980s	aggressively push damage to the opponent
25981s	as well because once they start getting
25983s	back up towards five you're in trouble
25985s	again two piercing shots that's so much
25989s	damage it is it is a disgusting amount
25992s	of damage actually
25993s	but does possessee have to respect the
25996s	krabatoa
25998s	i don't want to
26001s	you don't even need to ask me for my
26002s	answer saul you know oh i know
26004s	but i know you're not going to offer any
26006s	rational discourse in this discussion
26008s	your your contribution to this is me
26010s	hunter migo face
26013s	seriously that does he have to kill the
26014s	crab
26015s	fix is a lot
26017s	so let's count uh double piercing shot
26019s	does 10 plus the hero power is 12 to the
26022s	opponent opponent at nine that would
26024s	leave 13 14 15 damage showing on the
26027s	other side opponent has two mana one
26030s	wicked stab already used or was that the
26032s	previous game no that was the prestor
26033s	druid game right yes it was
26036s	um
26037s	so
26039s	15 to 25 is a hard gap to bridge but
26042s	then you yourself with three mana on the
26044s	following turn
26046s	have you have the lethal setup quick
26048s	shot and the naga right you have the
26050s	ancient yeah yeah it looks to me you can
26053s	go for it
26055s	oh
26065s	revoked
26068s	i mean he's still close
26071s	yep even as it is right now but he would
26073s	have it right
26077s	big shot ancient
26079s	hero power
26081s	it would have done four extra damage
26083s	yeah the opponent will be at nine
26086s	so many options
26100s	and if my calculations are right 15
26102s	coming back the other way needing 10
26104s	more with two cards essentially double
26107s	wicked stab only being eight
26109s	uh
26110s	nothing that i can recall in a test or
26113s	contraband stash that would contribute
26114s	direct damage krabato is obviously need
26116s	something to trade into to turn into
26118s	direct damage and there was no
26121s	generated cards right sitting in the
26123s	hand either so it's like possessing was
26125s	scared of like a pyro
26128s	yeah i mean i guess this is the real
26130s	fear right is that you know any replay
26133s	card just replays alignment and then you
26136s	don't have lethal because you're only
26138s	able to play one card reasonable but
26141s	possess he was trying to survive the
26143s	extra turn instead
26146s	to get like spell plus hero power into
26148s	minion plus hero power out over the
26150s	course of two turns which could then end
26152s	up being
26153s	lethal and now he's in trouble
26156s	really difficult
26157s	position to navigate honestly i'm very
26159s	unsure as to where i come down on this
26161s	and usually i like to scream in one way
26164s	or the other and insist i'm right and
26165s	i'm actually genuinely not sure what the
26167s	right player was for possessing
26180s	a quick shot hero power gives him a
26182s	three health window to play around with
26185s	right if i've counted correctly
26190s	on board yes but in reality yes yeah
26192s	from possessive's point of view of
26193s	course yeah we've been talking about
26195s	wicked stab for most of the game against
26197s	the tooth anyway so it doesn't matter
26200s	and what an odd game subtle i think it's
26202s	safe to say
26204s	that bunny yes you could replace that
26206s	with any other card and we would have to
26208s	have a completely alternate world style
26210s	conversation
26211s	but the celestial alignment was clutch
26214s	because that was the only real thing
26216s	stopping possessing wasn't it throughout
26218s	the whole game even not just on that
26220s	last turn but just celeste alignment
26222s	existing in that game was huge he put
26225s	possesses so far back
26227s	yeah i still think bunny navigated it
26229s	particularly well uh obviously i'm going
26231s	to say that because he played the curve
26233s	that i outlined like three turns before
26236s	he started doing it so of course i'm
26237s	going to agree with it and say that he
26239s	played well but yeah even after that
26241s	point just a little micro decisions like
26243s	dagger up attack face play your four
26245s	mana turn with the the horn and the
26246s	colossal right and even then with
26249s	rolling aussie mat which was probably
26251s	the worst outcome overall
26254s	just because it was not going to keep
26255s	coming back with the repeated plays just
26258s	the alignment being able to be replayed
26261s	with the thief cards was really going to
26263s	end up being enough because
26265s	possessing never got to the point where
26267s	it was combos of cards doing repeated
26269s	chunks of damage which is
26271s	really how uh quest hunter likes to
26273s	operate of course we could probably go
26275s	back and look several times over at that
26277s	two turn lethal setup option for
26279s	possessi
26281s	but it is a two-turn lethal setup that
26283s	falls apart as soon as you get hit by
26285s	tess or contraband stash replaying the
26287s	celestial alignment and then you're
26289s	almost certainly dead on board in that
26291s	scenario as well possessing left himself
26294s	in a position where he was not dead on
26295s	board and maybe had an extra turn to
26297s	operate however we did see just how
26300s	fragile the not dead on board part of
26303s	that equation was right incredibly
26305s	minimal amount of damage that bunny
26307s	needed to be able to follow that up but
26309s	certainly a lot more layers a lot more
26311s	factors than were immediately considered
26313s	in that uh sort of two-turn set-up
26315s	possibility for possessing really tricky
26317s	game for both players more so i would
26320s	say for possessive and bunny who kind of
26322s	got ended up being handed the solution
26325s	to the game and just had to recognize it
26327s	possessing pretty much just lacked
26329s	critical information for the majority of
26331s	the game did not know that he was
26333s	actually playing against a lineman druid
26335s	i think weirdly enough i've been singing
26337s	the praises of the quest hunter pretty
26339s	much all weekend but weirdly enough that
26341s	was probably the game where possessee
26343s	would have preferred to be on beast
26345s	hunter right because even through
26346s	alignment okay i'll drop a one mana bear
26348s	and i'll drop you know this and that you
26350s	know try and curve out and push that
26352s	in that fashion whereas
26354s	as a quest hunter
26356s	you can't work with one player turn
26358s	right you need something a little bit
26359s	stronger as you mentioned just like we
26361s	are going to go over to possession on
26363s	the ball priest and bunny hopper on the
26366s	beast hunter here so there's definitely
26368s	gonna be pigs flying around uh maybe
26370s	even on both sides of the board
26372s	but possesses maybe just a little bit
26374s	more valuable in this game
26379s	yeah what's a huffer to a 1-1 that's
26382s	what i say
26385s	possessi i think the now last remaining
26388s	boar priest player in the tournament
26389s	boar priest again very small sample size
26392s	but was performing very well for both
26394s	players who had brought it up until this
26395s	point
26397s	uh however blize fell by the wayside to
26400s	bunny hopper specifically with that boar
26402s	priest in what was a really nicely
26405s	navigated game by both players one of
26407s	the games of the tournament so far for
26409s	me overall bunny being as incredibly
26412s	disruptive as humanly possible against
26414s	the ball priest bly's finding creative
26416s	solutions to get out of it anyway but
26418s	just that final snow flurry and freeze
26421s	to the face really preventing anything
26424s	that blize was able to do to get over
26425s	the line so bunny has certainly
26427s	demonstrated an ability to navigate
26429s	through this deck and possessive by
26431s	getting to this point has clearly
26432s	demonstrated an ability to play it so
26434s	here we are yeah only real problem here
26437s	is that hunter has way less ability to
26440s	mess with the ball priest than any of
26443s	the decks we saw from bunny opera
26445s	earlier the mage specifically of course
26447s	so hunter has to play a very honest game
26450s	yes there's the bears to like taunt
26453s	through the weapon yes it can happen and
26456s	it can't win
26457s	but possess he will almost certainly
26460s	position himself in a way that he has a
26462s	silence left and then he can just hit
26464s	through that and then this hunter on one
26466s	mana does nothing
26469s	so it's uh it's a tough one that's the
26472s	thing right is shard allocation in this
26474s	matchup is huge because we've seen in a
26477s	lot of other matchups players have saved
26479s	their silences specifically for saber
26482s	and sunken saber interactions which does
26484s	make sense
26486s	sometimes priests might feel like they
26488s	just have to let that go because of how
26490s	important it can be to still have the
26492s	silence in the end game
26494s	because if you have to pyromancy your
26495s	way through an entire mountain bear and
26498s	both of the cubs that pop out afterwards
26500s	to get your weapons swinging you're not
26502s	going to be having a particularly good
26503s	time but what that means then conversely
26506s	is that is the one little window
26508s	that the hunter has to get things
26510s	rolling is if you just scan out a king
26512s	crush nice and early then you might be
26514s	in business however raven would you like
26516s	to identify for me the problem in trying
26518s	to scam out a king crush early this game
26522s	it's going to be
26523s	relatively difficult because there is a
26526s	king crush in hand and you can only have
26528s	one so
26529s	yeah it's going to be tough if that now
26531s	if bunny had played breeder we could
26533s	talk
26534s	because yes a second can crush
26537s	he has not so yeah no surprise king
26539s	crush out for him
26542s	what was the deck there was there was a
26544s	king crash combo deck that was never
26546s	very good but occasionally you'd play
26548s	against it like if you fell into
26550s	dumpster legend and it was like get a
26552s	whole bunch of king crashes in hand and
26553s	then there was a card that just like
26554s	summoned all beasts yeah the oryx right
26558s	yeah okay
26559s	yeah summons beast from your hand it was
26560s	a man of fighter
26563s	i played that dick it was pretty good i
26565s	thought you were talking about uh
26567s	uh cube crush
26569s	ah yeah way back when yep yep true
26574s	so far
26576s	zessie just doing ball priest things
26578s	right getting the the little jobs done
26580s	cycling the amulets uh going fishing for
26583s	the minion still has a switcher room in
26584s	hand as well to use in the near future
26587s	and does have at least one solid aoe
26590s	with that zyrella in hand
26597s	and now we do get to the crux of the
26598s	match up because shard in hand for
26600s	possessing
26601s	high value silenceable minion in hand
26604s	for bunny these are often some of the
26606s	more crucial decisions in the match-up
26608s	as to if and when the silences come out
26611s	if and when the hunter player decides to
26613s	play around or force a silence from the
26616s	opponent
26622s	those aren't it
26625s	no but pet collector doesn't look bad
26628s	yeah it's okay
26630s	just because of its interaction once the
26631s	sabers dead
26635s	ramming mount i believe
26637s	oh
26638s	oh what do i know
26641s	oh wait what made
26642s	i just was it ramming mouth on the far
26644s	left i just realized there's a ramming
26645s	mountain hand and i might have just been
26647s	full ron burgundying and just saying
26649s	there was a spell on the left and i
26651s	think that was the card that was taken
26653s	we'll find out
26655s	bunny didn't pick the uh five drop
26658s	of words later
26659s	yeah no my first nomination
26662s	there are sometimes some issues with the
26665s	spectator choices though not being quite
26667s	lining up with what the players actually
26669s	do so we'll wait and see
26676s	does he take his time
26679s	he offered the second shot
26685s	picking up a flash here though making
26686s	sure you got that juice yeah what's the
26688s	second ramen now
26692s	i think just choosing to play a aggro
26697s	want to
26699s	know i mean it's still fine picking
26702s	ramming mount because he has the second
26704s	charge right so he can always just swing
26706s	again
26707s	yeah for sure
26710s	i might let him off
26721s	going full aggro though
26723s	as he still has the xyrella still has
26726s	plenty of heel actually just if he wants
26728s	to commit i think bunny's doing a really
26730s	good job of putting out a bit of a wimpy
26732s	board but still doing a lot of damage
26735s	yeah absolutely
26738s	you know against ball priest you kind of
26740s	have to do this damage two or three
26741s	times over because the even without the
26744s	aoes
26745s	it's the aoe in combination with the
26747s	cards that activate xyrella just being a
26750s	ton of healing to begin with right like
26752s	this work can quite easily be undone by
26754s	flashy or desperate prayer gift of the
26756s	naaru and so on
26761s	very rare that it's just pure aggro and
26762s	damage that gets there like you normally
26765s	have to stick some sort of a board
26767s	persistently to be able to repeat damage
26769s	against the priest and one although we
26772s	spoke earlier about the negatives of
26773s	king crush beaning hand the positives
26775s	are that it is in hand so you can just
26777s	choose to play it right you know which
26780s	is reasonable right like
26782s	i think a lot of well a lot of games
26784s	actually we've had the point where it
26785s	wasn't a guaranteed pull and it was like
26788s	will you win the game if you get it and
26789s	lose the game if you don't where eight
26791s	damage would have just done the job
26792s	anyway don't get me wrong i'm not saying
26795s	it's good that it's in his hand but it
26797s	being in his hand at least gives him the
26799s	option to just play out and then push
26800s	the damage if he can
26802s	get possessing low enough
26804s	yeah i think the problem with that
26805s	specifically in this matchup though is
26807s	how often do you actually get to spend
26809s	nine mana playing against ball priest
26811s	right like the ball priest would
26812s	generally hope to have activated weapon
26814s	by turn nine uh it may very well be the
26817s	case in this particular game because
26820s	possessee is a pyromancer short of a
26822s	good time right now which means he's
26823s	very very short on card draw hasn't had
26825s	the big cleric pop-off turn yet
26829s	big choices now actually yeah you are
26830s	right it's a little bit slow for
26832s	possessing but there's still pet
26833s	collector with the saber
26836s	as well
26847s	i mean he does have about a million
26848s	buffs in hand so i can understand it
26855s	hey just wants to play stuff doesn't he
26857s	yeah once a curve
26860s	does options now if these things live we
26862s	could well be looking at the ramming
26863s	mounts if they don't live hydra
26867s	there is the pyro that we've been
26868s	waiting for all our lives
26871s	i believe now that is three and two on
26873s	the amulets as well assuming this one is
26875s	going to get traded and it is
26878s	things coming together
26880s	or possessing
26900s	so
26912s	yeah and that's the thing right again
26913s	just looking at the the deck size the
26916s	ball priest even when it stutters a
26918s	little bit does come together very very
26920s	quickly with just the help of a couple
26922s	of cards
26923s	yep
26929s	there's some serious counting to be done
26931s	for possessing right now by the way
26932s	because we saw the confirmation there my
26934s	count was correct we saw after i said it
26937s	was three and two we saw both amulets uh
26939s	which are now four and two the two one
26941s	being about to be drawn off the top on
26943s	the following term because of uh
26946s	illuminate which means it will also be
26947s	cheap
26948s	so therefore through some combination of
26951s	cleric gift illuminate uh sorry
26954s	desperate prayer on the following turn
26956s	and the priestess he might be able to
26958s	draw enough cards and cheat enough mana
26960s	back out just to make it all happen next
26962s	turn however
26963s	there's a mountain bear
26965s	yep gets the bear and i would actually
26967s	love to see double ramming mount this
26969s	turn and just push
26972s	because then there's still doggy biscuit
26974s	quick shot here or power the turn after
26976s	and then king crush the turn after that
26980s	oh the boars themselves that need to be
26983s	thrown into this mess as well before the
26984s	amulets can happen though
26986s	which makes things extremely awkward
26991s	uh pocket train pocket train is this
26994s	lethal
26995s	yeah still possible right uh to same
26997s	turn it would devour
26999s	that possession has one of in hand and
27001s	one in the deck
27003s	yeah
27004s	you can still do it all in the same turn
27006s	and there is still the one shard
27007s	remaining as well to be able to
27010s	bust through the bear and reduce the
27013s	vast majority of damage from the solid
27015s	sphere as well
27017s	relevant
27022s	is someone injured
27026s	okay cleric desperate prayer gift draw
27029s	five we'll draw four here actually
27031s	because you're gonna kill k9 trump
27041s	now you need these balls
27043s	immediately
27045s	oh no
27047s	oh no
27049s	um
27054s	guard boar second pyro at the bottom
27057s	three
27058s	quickly
27062s	uh how much mana does the priestess get
27064s	in
27066s	i think this was possible right if you
27068s	were able to go ball ball zero man of
27069s	spell this turn right now at this point
27071s	in the turn right you kill both the
27073s	balls you then play the priestess you
27074s	juice back up the only the only amulet
27078s	that costs you mana is the three mana
27079s	one the other one is free anyway
27083s	okay
27085s	okay
27086s	shard yes a job kind of done
27089s	fine
27090s	to an extent
27094s	oh was that possible
27096s	pocket train hit me up i want to know
27097s	yep we all want to know
27100s	either way though
27101s	zessy looking stressed can completely
27104s	understand that
27105s	but bunny doesn't actually have tons of
27108s	damage to push himself
27112s	right we'll have to be revived pet for
27114s	another uh well he can trade the bear
27116s	off and then revive pet
27122s	right
27123s	and like biscuit
27126s	quick shot or something
27127s	yeah i think the fact that the shard was
27129s	used but the turn wasn't you know quote
27132s	lethal we talk about lethal with this
27134s	deck being getting the weapon and
27136s	attacking with it that is generally
27137s	lethal
27138s	is a pretty big problem
27141s	this is the other player anyways
27144s	fine fine yeah yeah
27145s	sure i was scared for just a second but
27148s	it's okay now
27150s	yeah this works too absolutely fine
27152s	and now with the shards used that means
27154s	that possessee kind of has to interact
27156s	with these taunts in a way that he would
27158s	rather not thank you very much
27164s	may as well drop the quick shotting
27165s	because it's the most damaged
27166s	considering you are really relying on
27168s	this king crush system
27170s	yep
27174s	time for some pigs
27178s	only four spells though
27180s	five aoe including the devour
27185s	do you like to play with fire
27190s	gets the hit with the cleric though to
27192s	make six for at least one of them
27194s	yeah it's the seven six on the other
27196s	side it's a big problem though
27199s	obviously the taunts are also a big
27201s	problem there is also the significant
27203s	problem of counter lethal coming back
27205s	the other way which is a big issue right
27207s	now
27228s	at least there's a swing
27233s	there is yeah which means
27238s	[Applause]
27243s	that's nine possess he can even zyrella
27246s	the turn after right
27248s	yes
27250s	because there's also no
27252s	there's also a
27253s	no fear of
27256s	uh revive pet number two right because
27259s	if he keeps swinging he keeps the manor
27260s	at one
27262s	which means reviving the bear won't work
27271s	so
27272s	[Music]
27274s	yeah the trades probably just make sense
27276s	so the seven one can live
27279s	return
27280s	well there's xyrella hero power to
27282s	factor into this as well
27287s	[Applause]
27291s	right because possessing has to forego
27293s	the healing can't take the initial
27294s	priest hero power yeah
27297s	i mean we'll wait for this to happen
27299s	for a month or so
27306s	honestly so how happy i was that we
27309s	found out very quickly in the the
27311s	theorycraft test was that the nathrius
27313s	does its damage instantly oh yes
27316s	very very happy about things like that
27319s	loki though this peasant was actually
27321s	you the best drawer in the deck for
27323s	bunny offer right like
27325s	actually just gets to stick a two one
27328s	problem is the fatigue
27332s	just
27333s	oh we need this
27338s	can you just die from fatigue
27341s	well no because the
27343s	the hero power is going to roll back and
27345s	forwards right
27347s	[Music]
27351s	that's not it
27357s	yeah i'm just thinking wouldn't
27359s	died either way
27363s	not if you don't take seven here right
27365s	not immediately it's possible that the
27366s	clock still beats you but yeah i'm not
27368s	sure yeah i guess
27369s	he takes two and then he's on what six
27374s	next fatigue was it oh wait three oh i'm
27377s	an idiot i just can't count oh yeah he's
27378s	not fatigued
27379s	yeah sorry i thought he was way way more
27381s	empathy i don't even know why i thought
27383s	that that's strange but yep possessing
27386s	did his best but it wasn't quite enough
27389s	and bunny takes as smooth well smooth
27393s	you know what i mean
27394s	with the hunter uh against the priest
27397s	and again similar to what we talked
27399s	about in this matchup against bly is i
27401s	think getting that hunter through is
27403s	just a a nice mental boost for bunny
27405s	hopper because again we saw that it
27408s	could have been the one that sort of
27410s	fell apart for him there lost that ball
27412s	match up and then he has to worry about
27414s	the hunter mirror and so on after that
27416s	but i think possessee got a bit of a
27418s	rough end of the stick there not getting
27419s	the pigs at a relevant time and had to
27421s	spend time messing about activating the
27424s	very end game state i do think that was
27426s	unfortunate and they're frankly unlikely
27429s	in parts so a little bit of a rough one
27431s	but i think bunny opera did well knowing
27432s	exactly what he needed to do to stick
27434s	those bears and make it as awkward as
27436s	possible to possess yeah one pig bomb
27438s	three was definitely a problem right
27440s	because
27441s	uh going into that last turn like it was
27443s	on bunnyhopper's turn and i spied it was
27445s	like okay this looks lethal-ish from
27447s	here right just with the discounted
27449s	amulet the fact that you can draw a
27451s	million cards you do still have to draw
27453s	the ball but as long as your initial
27455s	burst of the cleric draws draws the
27457s	balls you can probably throw them out on
27458s	board play zero mana spells play
27460s	priestess get back the mana that you
27462s	need you just need three mana back at
27464s	that point right and then you can toss
27466s	the two amulets in there because one of
27467s	them was free and that probably ends the
27469s	game needed one more mana somewhere
27471s	along the line to be able to play shard
27473s	and silence the board state
27475s	the fact that step one and step two of
27477s	that got completed and there was still a
27479s	ball left in the deck that's when it
27481s	became a big problem and i'll hold my
27482s	hands up i do not know the correct line
27485s	from that point without going back and
27486s	studying it however
27488s	i think and this is this is catch 22
27491s	right possessing using the shard and not
27494s	completing the turn to lethal with the
27496s	weapon swing got himself in a massive
27498s	amount of trouble because then revive
27500s	pet or whatever else the the other saber
27502s	coming out was going to be a huge
27504s	problem in that position but if you
27506s	don't
27507s	throw out the shard at that point even
27508s	if you're bailing out of the turn there
27510s	was a freaking seven seven vicious
27513s	slither spear on the other side of the
27514s	board anyway right they've been hit with
27516s	ramming mounts and whatever other buffs
27517s	that was going to just straight up
27518s	murder you regardless so yeah i think
27520s	that was going to be a big problem
27522s	either way for possessi i'm fairly
27524s	confident the turn wasn't good
27526s	but without going back and examining it
27528s	after the super low roll of the balls
27531s	being heavily buried i couldn't tell you
27533s	what the exact solution was that's it
27536s	the turn that he went with might not
27537s	have been great or perfect but the term
27539s	was definitely hard right i think that's
27541s	something we can easily agree on at this
27543s	point but it does mean now bunny hopper
27546s	is only one game away from securing a
27548s	spot in the finals he's going to be on
27550s	the mage versus the uh excel quest
27553s	hunter from possessie again a sort of
27556s	historically bad matchup if we just say
27558s	mage versus quest hunter in general
27561s	uh a bad matchup for the mage i think
27563s	but we'll see how these new versions
27565s	clash going forward but again just a bit
27569s	of an overview we talked a lot about how
27571s	important the early points are or just
27573s	that the points in general and uh making
27576s	it to the finals in week one gives you a
27578s	lot of wiggle room going into the next
27580s	two weeks especially when we're talking
27581s	of like trio and then last hero standing
27584s	in a brand new meta this might be the
27587s	week to bank as many points as possible
27591s	oh
27591s	three keep from bunny
27593s	deep in the curve alongside the belinda
27595s	i was curious whether he might dig more
27597s	aggressively for like mailbox dancers
27600s	for example uh obviously a dangerous
27603s	card in general in this matchup because
27605s	of the extra coin going to the opponent
27607s	which can be a lot of value but when you
27609s	have the belinder in your hand
27610s	guaranteed it still can be somewhat
27612s	enticing
27621s	funny just keeping the curve
27623s	again not the best opening here for
27626s	possessing three secrets two of which
27628s	are trash is a bit of a rough one
27631s	i think possessing knows it
27644s	what to do
27649s	yeah i mean if you're gonna keep this
27650s	curve you play this curve right two on
27652s	two three and three
27653s	something something coin belinder yep
27656s	just play some stuff and then try to
27658s	just uh snowball the game very hard and
27661s	again
27663s	if these minions stick around is gonna
27666s	heavily
27667s	negate those freezing traps right
27669s	because that's the only hope possess he
27670s	has is freezing trap into belinda to buy
27673s	time
27674s	but even still that
27676s	if belinda hits 10 10 that is a huge
27679s	amount of damage to try and do as quest
27681s	hunter to a minion it doesn't really
27683s	happen often
27685s	yeah it is
27687s	bunny does choose to divert to the
27689s	mailbox dancer now so things are coming
27690s	out a turn sooner
27692s	however there is a nice trap picked up
27694s	for possessing that could have something
27696s	to say about it
27699s	just eyes trap and freezing it's like i
27701s	will freeze and cool you out like no
27704s	matter what
27709s	hero power instead maybe yeah i kind of
27712s	like the preservation of these freezing
27715s	traps if i'm honest
27717s	yeah my only worry is are there always
27719s	going to be too many minions to ever
27721s	play them and be reliable yeah if you
27724s	don't use one now for example right
27726s	yeah
27728s	definitely tricky though
27733s	reckless apprentice on curve
27736s	biggest minion all face
27748s	i like
27749s	it i think what bunny wants is just
27752s	stuff on board that won't just die
27754s	he's already seen explosive right which
27756s	takes a few boxes
27761s	but
27762s	actually go
27766s	one drop
27768s	and get a big value pacing shot on the
27771s	dancer
27773s	but that doesn't open up a freezing trap
27777s	the problem right now he's just short
27779s	really isn't he
27782s	of isolating these minions or one of
27784s	these minions obviously yeah obviously
27785s	like it's a turn delayed he can worry
27787s	about the freezing trap next turn but
27790s	you need to be able to play a freezing
27792s	trap and kill whatever other minions you
27795s	don't play this turn right so you don't
27797s	kill this turn
27800s	uh with six mana next turn and that's if
27802s	you're expecting belinda of course the
27804s	other option is to play around barbara
27806s	and just get cheap spells out of your
27808s	hand
27811s	quickly
27815s	oh is this like
27816s	you looking at setting up two freezing's
27818s	here with the coin like freezing trap
27820s	this time freezing trap next to him do
27822s	it that way
27823s	i think it's just going to be i think
27825s	he's just going to push one less damage
27826s	to have a 1-1 on board because that way
27828s	the 1-1 can do one damage to the 3-5 and
27831s	increase his odds of being able to deal
27834s	with it oh no okay just coin coins here
27835s	a power instead okay oh okay okay yep
27837s	yeah as we can see multiple options this
27840s	time for possessing as we were talking
27842s	about many different ways to do a fairly
27844s	limited turn
27845s	this is really good right because now
27847s	just with the wound prey and the
27850s	discounted hero power oh you'll be able
27852s	to he'll be able to get there if he gets
27854s	to that point and able to play freezing
27855s	trap yeah this is really nice
27857s	yeah this was just better than all of
27859s	the suggestions
27865s	again that's the issue right the
27866s	freezing trap is like slapping a
27869s	some sellotape on it to try and just
27871s	keep it together uh but
27875s	then drake fire emily comes out now
27877s	you've got to try and freeze three
27878s	things
27880s	and he gets backed up by something else
27881s	whether it's a rune or another drake
27883s	fire he knows there's at least the rune
27885s	in hand so
27886s	all starts to snowball out of control
27888s	here there is now the ice trap pick up
27891s	yep big deal
27893s	there is the coin in hand still though
27895s	or bunny
27902s	make sure these minions trade off board
27904s	get the hero power to go face board is
27905s	clear freezing trap is not now played
27909s	does
27910s	bunny attack saw
27914s	probably i mean it depends a lot on the
27916s	dragon outcome right i guess yeah yeah
27918s	yeah yeah
27919s	if the dragons are good you just attack
27921s	anyway right
27922s	exactly yeah
27927s	i do love there's also the
27929s	however there is also the explosive trap
27930s	consideration right which incentivizes
27932s	you to make that decision before you
27934s	play the dragons
27937s	do not put extra damage on your dragons
27939s	for no reason
27941s	i think though if you it's tough right
27943s	because the plan is to get big dragons
27947s	it does two damage
27949s	yep does two damage on those dragons
27952s	like how much more killable does it
27953s	actually make them
27955s	or i guess the argument is how many do
27958s	you need to be alive to like catch up in
27960s	this game
27961s	right
27963s	if it makes if if the answer if doing
27965s	this and now attacking into explosive
27967s	makes one of them killable
27969s	but the other two minions live
27971s	how much do you care right
27975s	as you'd imagine burn damage is being
27977s	used to kill them
27979s	that's the knowledge
27982s	yeah this is fine
27984s	obviously i'm sure there's people
27985s	looking at this going oh two damage on
27987s	your minions for no reason but there was
27988s	upside and downside either way and i
27990s	think this was the less devastating
27992s	downside as raven was talking about
27995s	okay
27997s	edge
27999s	yeah bit of a wave there from possessing
28001s	he knows he is out now because i believe
28004s	that
28005s	slides off camera shut your slides
28009s	make someone play him out
28012s	he just slides off the camera there
28015s	buddy albert takes the win
28017s	a big congratulations to him he's
28019s	definitely not had an easy run of it
28022s	to get to this point he's definitely
28023s	been taking part in some very very tough
28026s	matches uh so really good job for bunny
28028s	upper possession again though as i said
28030s	top four week one okay you you chalk
28033s	that up as a bit of a win right you get
28035s	a good amount of points uh a good amount
28037s	let's sort of leg up on everyone else
28039s	which is really good they're finished
28040s	below so a really good start there for
28043s	possessing but it's going to be bunny
28044s	hopper the eu grand master that's going
28047s	to be moving on into the finals
28050s	yeah amy darrick all in shambles apac
28053s	eliminated once again
28055s	uh possession will just have to make do
28057s	with that pesky world championship i
28059s	suppose
28060s	uh but yeah bunny hopper marches on and
28062s	it means we are still on course for the
28065s	dream final and i call it a dream final
28067s	only because we now no longer have to
28069s	cast it raven it's someone else's
28071s	problem if it gets to that point bunny
28073s	hopper versus pasqua the rematch of the
28076s	two and a half plus hour series uh that
28079s	we saw yesterday is very very possible
28081s	now in the final
28083s	yeah and now uh is uh time for solomon
28085s	myself to be done for the day but this
28087s	hot still hearthstone to come as tj and
28090s	edelweiss will be bringing you the final
28091s	two matches it's gonna be semi-final
28093s	number two between super fake and pascoa
28096s	and the winner of that will go into the
28097s	finals to face bunny opera to see who's
28099s	going to be our week one champion but
28101s	from us we're done thanks for watching
28103s	we'll see you next week but make sure to
28105s	stay tuned for those matches goodbye
28109s	[Music]
28121s	[Applause]
28122s	[Music]
28124s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
28127s	seasons
28129s	where ruthless eyes gawk for horrific
28132s	reasons
28133s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
28138s	with such ruthlessness
28140s	so deep and profound
28144s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
28152s	to uncover the truth
28154s	of murder most foul
28158s	the anima drifts across the floor
28161s	highlighting the creatures who walked
28163s	through my door
28165s	the motives are as black as night
28169s	avarice
28172s	[Music]
28179s	that lead to the truth
28182s	behind this dark blues
28187s	join us here with the grimm and empires
28191s	choose your power without heavenly bias
28195s	for at the end
28197s	they will burn in the fire
28200s	when it is known who slayed
28203s	to nathrius the sire
28206s	[Music]
28229s	[Music]
28263s	[Music]
28294s	now
28297s	[Music]
28332s	[Music]
28344s	do
28347s	[Music]
28435s	hello everybody and welcome back to
28436s	hearthstone grand masters last call it's
28439s	the final day here for week number one
28441s	and we're continuing on with the top
28444s	eight we have one more semi-final in the
28446s	finals and we're going to call it a day
28448s	my name is cj i'm joined once again by
28450s	our special guest here for week number
28452s	one it is edelweiss taylorvice how you
28453s	doing today you ready to cast some
28454s	hearthstone pretty good oh i'm super
28457s	pumped pesco made it through uh
28460s	i have to admit i was torn between
28462s	whether to root for possession or
28463s	bunnyhopper because on the one hand
28465s	possessing might give us the chance of a
28468s	not two and a half hour finals on the
28470s	other hand bunnyhopper complimented my
28472s	casting on twitter so you know i'm very
28475s	influenced by uh
28477s	by compliments
28479s	in the end we could have that bunny
28480s	hopper pasco rematch
28483s	yeah which uh
28485s	buckle up because that'll be a long one
28488s	but we still do have that semi-final to
28490s	get through it's possible that super
28491s	fake can make it through even though
28493s	based on the decklist
28495s	i would consider pascal at least a
28497s	slight favorite
28499s	but it's pretty cool because we have
28501s	super fake coming in with a anti-shaman
28504s	lineup at least it seems maybe with a
28506s	soft counter towards uh other board base
28508s	deck like the beast hunter uh whereas
28511s	pascoa
28512s	sort of similar and no shaman lineup as
28515s	well
28516s	but it seems like his decks might do a
28518s	little bit better against super fakes
28520s	who are very focused
28522s	um so
28523s	what are your what's your take on sort
28525s	of this matchup unless i
28527s	i took all the thunder and covered it
28528s	what you were gonna say no no you're
28530s	fine so it seems as though pascoa went
28533s	sort of a level deeper in his building
28536s	to still have a pretty reasonable chance
28538s	against some of the board-based decks
28540s	but to have win conditions that are
28542s	better at
28544s	also targeting these
28546s	target shaman lineups right with the
28550s	quest hunter and the quest priest and
28552s	the curse warlock like there's a lot of
28555s	overlap in terms of the picks here but
28557s	then also
28559s	not having the shaman having this quest
28561s	priest is just a bit of a wild card for
28563s	lineups like super fakes and fleds
28566s	yeah it's it could be an uphill battle
28569s	but you know we've these decks are not
28573s	so far into the
28575s	counter and board based strategies that
28577s	they don't have win conditions uh in
28579s	these other matchups it just makes it a
28582s	sl a little bit more difficult but you
28583s	saw the xl palette in there from uh from
28586s	super fake um so that's going to be the
28588s	deck that's queued up first uh mage band
28591s	away from pasco a hunter band away from
28593s	super fake and i i i suppose those make
28596s	sense because those are the decks that
28597s	sort of have the most inevitability
28600s	right with the ping mage uh being able
28603s	to take down some of these slower decks
28605s	and the other side i believe it was that
28607s	quest hunter
28608s	uh from what's in the quest center
28611s	yes center from pascal yeah quest hunter
28613s	the excel question which
28615s	does have inevitability as well
28617s	yeah i think both players with the quest
28619s	hunter in this match up and so pasco are
28621s	banning away super fakes quest hunter
28623s	because it is the most sort of direct
28625s	damage deck um i think there's an
28628s	argument that the mage if it gets online
28630s	with the here powers is similarly a
28632s	direct damage deck
28634s	you know three
28635s	not exactly shared but similar decklists
28638s	and i think pascal is really going to be
28640s	looking to try and beat up on this
28642s	paladin if possible
28644s	because it is the opposing deck that
28646s	cares most about the board
28650s	[Music]
28651s	that's right
28652s	we're going to be seeing oh okay we're
28655s	getting right into game um
28657s	i i guess coming into the middle of
28658s	things i'm used to when i start casting
28660s	we got like 10 minutes or so
28662s	just to chat
28663s	before these games happen but since
28665s	we're starting and the tournament has
28666s	already been going on i can imagine that
28668s	these players
28669s	have been waiting for some time to play
28671s	so they want to get right into it so
28672s	let's do just that and get right into it
28675s	going to be that quest hunter pascal and
28677s	the xl
28679s	holy
28681s	paladin
28683s	sure we'll call that i'm super fake
28686s	yeah and i think if you're super fake
28688s	the number one card you're looking for
28690s	is the carryall hero
28692s	um you don't have
28695s	like
28696s	quite enough healing or rather i should
28698s	say the holy mackerel you want to be
28701s	able to use for card draw or some board
28703s	clear some of the time
28704s	so it's not always like straight up
28706s	healing and so having
28708s	that carriage weapon to have damage
28710s	knowing that the hunter has
28712s	no vipers anymore that's no longer an
28715s	occlusion in quest hunters so
28719s	it's it's just mitigates a huge amount
28721s	of damage effectively doubling all your
28723s	healing as well that's kind of the
28724s	number one card if you're super fake and
28726s	then similarly for pascal if you can
28729s	afford to you'd really like to get
28731s	your hero down before you make the hero
28733s	power free
28735s	because
28736s	eventually the paladin will run out of
28738s	board clears and then you just even if
28741s	you're not rolling the huffers and leox
28743s	you can just sort of get there with
28744s	repetitive boards
28749s	we do have to
28752s	be parents here
28754s	40 car decks
28756s	cross it off on your caster bingo car or
28758s	the deck let's have 40 cars
28761s	though may not be able the heroes we've
28763s	seen have been pretty inconsistent to
28765s	find notably fled uh when we saw fled
28768s	play in his series yesterday
28770s	uh felt like when specifically playing
28773s	the paladin that he could never
28775s	find cariel uh which uh was a huge
28779s	detriment in uh in many of the games
28782s	ultimately finding one with the paladin
28783s	but
28784s	it was a it was a struggle um meanwhile
28787s	pascal the draws are
28789s	not finding many of the actual quest
28791s	completion spells but
28793s	is finding some of the sort of support
28796s	with you know multicaster
28798s	combined with the bunker
28800s	you're getting multiple different spell
28801s	schools with that so you can draw
28803s	further into the deck and if your game
28805s	plan is to try and find the the tavish
28807s	before you get the quest then this is
28809s	the sort of order that you want to be
28811s	drawing things
28812s	uh and then get them damaging spells
28814s	later on when the board matters a little
28816s	bit more to actually finish the quest
28818s	once tabish is played assuming you're
28819s	able to find it
28822s	yeah so you just gotta make sure you're
28824s	not falling behind too far i think
28826s	between the bunker and the spring the
28828s	trap you're sort of giving yourself the
28829s	best shot
28831s	to thin the deck of these secrets you
28833s	know before you would have drawn them
28834s	otherwise and and juice up the
28837s	multi-casters so many of the secrets are
28839s	where your spell schools come from in
28840s	terms of frost and fire so you pump up
28842s	that multicaster to really dig deep
28845s	for
28846s	the hero
28847s	but uh super fake with both of the
28850s	sunfish divine shields again pretty
28852s	annoying
28853s	for the hunter in terms of preventing
28856s	quest advancement if you use a spell to
28858s	pop the shield
28859s	so we might see pascoa sort of get into
28862s	phase two and try and chill out there
28865s	just to have the targeted hero power to
28868s	start being able to use that to clean up
28871s	board pop divine shields etc
28881s	now weirdly enough i was expecting sort
28884s	of a hold on the quick shot in this
28886s	situation
28887s	um
28888s	[Music]
28889s	because
28890s	weirdly enough it
28892s	you could leave the
28894s	uh the fish at five health and then get
28898s	the targeted hero power next turn and
28899s	targeted hero power spring the trap
28902s	um
28903s	but
28904s	i guess that can get a little bit
28905s	awkward considering it's not factoring
28908s	what super fake could play next turn
28909s	you're fully
28911s	giving up all your mana
28913s	you're also pulling another secret out
28915s	from the bunker which means that
28918s	you may want to play the secrets instead
28920s	of pulling them out of your deck
28922s	depending on what they are like an
28923s	explosive trap being pulled from spring
28925s	the trap would mean that you would get
28926s	the quest completion before a potential
28928s	tavis so your power would go to zero uh
28931s	which could be a detriment he wouldn't
28932s	be able to control when that happened so
28936s	yeah absolutely spring the trap great
28938s	for thinning but as you say it can give
28940s	some surprise it quest advancement with
28943s	the explosive um
28945s	it can be great but if you're trying to
28948s	slow a roll not so much so it'll be
28950s	interesting to see if he just holds on
28952s	to that spring in the trap because of
28954s	that situation and and not wanting to
28956s	progress the quest or if he decides you
28958s	know what uh we're just we have the
28961s	opportunity to complete the quest
28962s	quickly then we can just start piling on
28965s	the damage and not worry about finding
28966s	the hero
28976s	well
28978s	we're getting to that point of the game
28981s	when
28982s	there's still 28 cards left
28985s	no tavis picked up
28989s	a rock to keep spinning
28990s	yeah sure
28992s	like i'm not under a ton of pressure i
28994s	mean if we of course can see super
28996s	fake's hand is not mounting
28999s	any more pressure really or much card
29002s	draw maybe something comes off the
29003s	vitality surge but just a two five in
29005s	play like maybe you just play barack
29007s	draw three that you
29009s	know are not going to be tavish but that
29011s	gets you that much closer to finding it
29014s	it could end up picking up a tracking
29016s	from the one mana spell there's
29019s	uh
29020s	five what or no sorry seven one mana
29022s	spells left so with two trackings left
29025s	in the deck
29026s	maybe tracking could then pick you up
29028s	the tavish
29029s	uh
29033s	okay it's gonna go with spring the trap
29034s	still a a thinning way but this is gonna
29037s	be explosive and freezing
29047s	so at this point i almost feel like
29048s	you're just committing to
29050s	not playing the hero unless it comes off
29052s	the top right now
29055s	because it would be so challenging to
29057s	sort of keep the board
29059s	clean without advancing the quest you
29061s	can go maybe a couple of turns like that
29067s	probably one
29069s	unless super fake just had no minions
29071s	um and just had the hero power in which
29074s	you could just respond with your own
29075s	hero power but
29077s	yes uh
29078s	not looking like that's going to be an
29080s	option
29081s	um
29082s	but
29083s	super fake
29085s	it does pick up the myrmidon no holy
29087s	mackerel to go alongside with it no
29089s	targeted spells at all
29091s	uh to go alongside that
29093s	does have leviathan for next turn
29095s	uh you made a great point yesterday
29097s	about how it does feel like the
29099s	uh it might have been yesterday it might
29101s	have been the day before it's all about
29102s	swing turns
29104s	and
29104s	where you
29105s	don't really want to play out your
29107s	minions sort of one by one
29110s	um you want to try and wait for that
29112s	turn where you're
29113s	you're popping off with like multiple
29115s	light rays or light ray plus gardens
29117s	grace you're clearing your opponent's
29118s	board and building up a big board
29120s	yourself instead of layering out your
29121s	threats
29123s	yeah i find that with the xl version you
29126s	know because you don't consistently hit
29128s	carriale and because
29130s	once you do you won't necessarily have
29132s	as much time to go for a smite gardens
29134s	grace otk
29136s	i find you tend to play gardens grace
29138s	much earlier just for tempo saving stuff
29141s	like your light rays for you know the
29143s	turn you play varian or you go pyro
29145s	equality and then double light ray
29148s	and that's great against things like
29150s	shaman which is the target of the lineup
29152s	other board-based decks where you can
29154s	say i'm going to clear your board and
29156s	make a big one of my own on the
29157s	backswing
29159s	but against a quest hunter
29161s	it's not quite so useful so we may just
29164s	have to see things like the light ray
29166s	come down for some semblance of pressure
29183s	given up on the opportunity to uh
29186s	to play the hero beforehand just gonna
29188s	go on the damage plan which i think
29190s	makes sense certain point you can only
29192s	hold on so long
29194s	uh
29196s	sunfish can proc the freezing here and
29198s	then we play leviathan
29203s	yep
29211s	you seen
29212s	one
29214s	ice trap
29216s	thus far
29221s	so the secrets could be anything um
29225s	he noticed that there's two secrets in
29226s	the hand that were pulled from the
29227s	bunker
29228s	um
29229s	but
29233s	he knows it's more likely to be freezing
29234s	and explosive because there's a lot that
29236s	he
29237s	has not seen but i guess the freezing
29239s	trap is less so he's just going to go
29241s	with the leviathan it's the strongest
29243s	planet
29244s	oh
29244s	and there she is
29247s	right on time turned eight
29249s	carrial hero going to come down
29251s	that makes it significantly harder for
29253s	pascoa
29255s	to uh
29256s	deliver on this burn plan
29260s	yeah no we maybe could have seen uh
29264s	yeah it's doable it's definitely doable
29268s	but
29269s	with when it comes down on eight
29272s	and the holy mackey roll in hand there
29274s	assuming it doesn't get used for card
29276s	draw with myrmidon uh
29280s	your effect you're doubling all that
29281s	healing i mean it's just
29284s	there's there's no way around it and
29287s	i
29289s	i don't know if there's enough damage in
29292s	the deck even
29294s	even with the amount of card draw
29296s	available to pasco
29298s	uh we might see him eventually
29301s	just go for the two mana
29303s	hero power
29304s	it still refreshes but it costs two mana
29307s	and and so maybe you go for the boards
29309s	that way
29311s	yeah so use your expensive spells now so
29314s	that way you can hold on to the cheaper
29316s	spells for when you have tavish well he
29319s	doesn't know that yet
29321s	uh because he doesn't expect or he might
29324s	expect carol but
29326s	um
29327s	so many cards left in the deck could be
29329s	in hand could have been dredged but now
29332s	he will know for certain
29335s	it's amazing to me
29337s	that you can't just fit in one viper
29340s	with 40 cards
29343s	it does seem crazy doesn't it when it
29345s	presents so much of a problem but it
29347s	really is a tech card for a single
29349s	match-up
29350s	um
29351s	i think it for sure in a 40 card deck
29354s	it's it's a choice you can make
29357s	specifically
29358s	for a tournament lineup but you would
29361s	have to be
29362s	assuming people are going to bring
29363s	paladin which i think
29365s	many did not think that would be the
29367s	case
29368s	well i don't know it's got some it's got
29370s	some splash right you could
29373s	get rid of a harpoon gone on curve
29377s	cookie is played in shamans all the time
29380s	you can get rid of cookies weapon
29382s	against rogues they have their dagger up
29385s	they have crabato weapon and
29387s	a lot of times they can randomly
29388s	discover a crash boom you get rid of the
29391s	turtle spike
29392s	um oh and a lot of decks are playing
29394s	queen ashara
29397s	if for some reason on the off chance
29399s	that they picked the weapon boom you're
29401s	good you got you got the viper
29403s	yeah you you could take out a nifu like
29405s	that but
29406s	i think it's those are all instances of
29409s	sort of nice to haves and usually if
29411s	you're putting viper in the deck it's
29413s	because of a need to have
29415s	and there's really just the one match up
29417s	where it's a need to have so if you're
29419s	not expecting to see much paladin and
29422s	there's no other need to have viper
29424s	match up
29425s	i think
29426s	you know you're more inclined to just
29428s	sort of leave it out in favor of stuff
29430s	that's going to be a bit more consistent
29432s	the tradable does mitigate the risk
29435s	but
29436s	uh often like
29439s	i don't know it's it's just i'm not sure
29442s	the stats are there
29444s	you you're making great points you're
29446s	saying very intelligent things but
29448s	nothing can overwhelm my desire
29451s	to be results oriented in my thinking so
29455s	this is a technical
29457s	i'm gonna go ahead and say this is a
29459s	strict deck building miss play from
29462s	pasco all right
29463s	this one game sample size
29466s	should have put in a restaurant viper
29468s	into the deck
29470s	boom
29475s	i think the tech cards are often picked
29478s	based on
29479s	emotions certainly on ladder anyway uh
29483s	it's sort of the okay i desperately
29485s	don't want to lose this thing so i'll
29487s	pick a given tech card
29488s	but in in building lineups you've got to
29490s	be a little
29493s	a little more positive that it's going
29495s	to
29496s	affect your game plan and now the tavish
29499s	hero coming in uh just sort of taunting
29502s	pasco a bit bit too late uh
29505s	it's pretty tough just to clear these
29507s	stats on board
29509s	already at 22.
29511s	you gotta keep this damage here power
29513s	for a little longer just to clear the
29514s	board
29515s	yeah
29516s	could end up uh
29518s	just clearing off the pyro and then
29521s	playing the tavish and then
29523s	trying to find
29524s	the improved
29526s	uh freezing trap to answer the light ray
29529s	uh it's a possibility um
29533s	like you said i don't think he he's
29534s	gonna have enough damage to win the
29536s	traditional way with the normal damage
29539s	hero power so tavish is gonna have to be
29542s	in there
29543s	at some point it's just
29546s	is this the time for it i think it is
29548s	and then making the decision whether or
29549s	not to play the explosive trap i i think
29551s	it's wise to hold on to it it's a one
29552s	mana hero power reset
29554s	and the two or one damage to face is not
29558s	super relevant
29560s	for the time being when that could just
29562s	be an extra animal companion
29565s	yeah and you do see the improved
29567s	maneuvers come out which is such a
29569s	powerful secret i mean we haven't seen
29571s	much of playing the regular maneuvers
29573s	index but when you get two of the minion
29576s	back even if it's on something like
29578s	amisha huffer leok any of those
29579s	companions you're pretty happy with that
29582s	result and earlier in the event we saw
29584s	it being used on rajna jaan to great
29587s	effect for lethal
29589s	i think if you're pascal you're sort of
29590s	hoping that the paladin is running dry
29593s	on car draw
29594s	but some bad news with that varian top
29597s	deck
29607s	deciding whether it's worth it
29609s	i know
29611s	i feel like it's always worth it
29613s	um
29614s	but
29618s	what else are you gonna do he could i
29621s	mean in some sense light ray isn't
29624s	so bad to bounce
29627s	right because you get to replay it you
29628s	do lose the buff from the gardens grace
29630s	so that's the big consideration
29632s	consideration to just leave it in play
29639s	and it does protect this okani very well
29646s	and it's a buffed okani yes
29649s	i've been forgetting this hero power has
29650s	been rolling
29652s	oh i thought it got hit by what got hit
29654s	by a righteous defense because he used
29655s	to righteous defense on a 3-4 earlier i
29657s	guess the stats wouldn't make sense so
29659s	it's just a hero power buffed economy uh
29661s	i think they must
29662s	be on the myrmidon
29665s	okay be wrong about that but
29667s	i don't think we've seen
29669s	yeah
29670s	wait the wild pyromancer was a
29673s	nine-nine oh that's true that's true he
29676s	may have been on the power buffed and a
29677s	righteous defense buff
29680s	possible
29681s	yep that's it it's that line that
29683s	doesn't questions
29685s	i i don't know
29687s	pretty sure oh no it was garden gardens
29689s	graced
29692s	so was renderthal postcard no none of
29694s	that math adds up i don't know
29696s	whatever maybe he didn't write his
29698s	defensive prince around though i don't
29699s	know
29700s	um
29702s	but
29703s	now
29704s	uh
29706s	super fake could use
29708s	the varian
29710s	for the freezing trap
29712s	but
29714s	to get like double value now now it's
29716s	improved freezing trap never mind you
29718s	need to do it on the iocani or the light
29719s	ray
29721s	yeah to be able to have it playable
29723s	again i mean that's the thing is like do
29725s	you want to just completely sacrifice
29727s	another minion and just have an eight
29729s	men okani for later but at least you get
29731s	the battle cry again or would you rather
29732s	sacrifice the gardens grace buff and
29735s	potentially be able to play the light
29736s	ray for free at some point later on
29740s	and and looking back it was the
29743s	righteous defense buff on the
29745s	pyro because remember if it's a 3-4 then
29748s	you steal
29749s	two three stats from it
29751s	ah yeah because it puts two one one yeah
29753s	so two three plus a hero power right
29756s	yep
29758s	or plus a garbage grace sorry
29761s	well the gardens grace went on the light
29763s	ray oh wait on the light right yeah two
29764s	three plus a hero power my math still
29767s	isn't adding up
29771s	and the hero power gonna be a really big
29774s	problem for pasco just
29776s	four four
29777s	is just a lot of stats and so many of
29779s	these minions have divine shield as well
29782s	so
29785s	yeah lots of animal companion hero
29787s	powers might be able to get you there
29789s	but it's it's really going to be a very
29791s	grindy battle back and forth between
29793s	these two decks
29806s	what have we heard you really have to
29808s	think a little bit harder about how
29809s	you're spending your mana if you do want
29811s	to get the resets in
29813s	because it still costs two wasn't able
29815s	to get the tavish down
29817s	so if you want to maximize your hero
29819s	power resets you gotta think about every
29820s	mana that you spend to make sure that
29821s	you have enough for another animal
29823s	companion at the end of things
29825s	um there are
29828s	there's only a single secret left in the
29830s	deck
29832s	so bunker doesn't seem like a great
29834s	option
29835s	multicaster has been everything but
29837s	nature i don't think we've seen this no
29839s	both shell shots are still a deck
29841s	so
29843s	we've seen
29845s	an arcane shot so we have the other
29847s	three we have arcane frost
29852s	and is that the first hover of the game
29855s	i think it may be
29859s	no leaks i mean these mishas are quite
29862s	good for just
29864s	fighting on board being an annoyance
29868s	yeah
29869s	and i i suppose super fake does have to
29871s	make the decision of
29874s	when he wants to
29876s	go for the equality clear because that
29879s	would be the second equality
29882s	since the first one was used on the
29883s	cavish
29885s	uh the quest reward tavish
29888s	obviously there's
29889s	other ways to clear the board there's
29891s	still another wild pyromancer in deck
29893s	with the holy mackerel in hand there's
29896s	um
29897s	potential buffs onto the blade master
29898s	samuro
29900s	with the hero power so there's still
29902s	other ways
29904s	but that's the only guaranteed one that
29906s	he has at the moment so
29909s	an interesting choice there picking up
29911s	the consecrations to be able to go for
29913s	the one-sided board clear
29916s	with the equality
29918s	again not sure if he'll pick up
29919s	something like the city tax
29921s	in time so just having that consecration
29924s	available
29925s	and
29926s	discounted from the carriage and you
29929s	know it does two damage face not
29931s	completely irrelevant
29933s	it might have been tempting to pick up
29935s	the invigorating sermon just with the
29937s	number of minions in hand and in the
29939s	deck and getting at least a little bit
29941s	of a buff on to blade master samurai
29953s	another misha
29956s	you have just just meshes all the way
29957s	down
29959s	i wonder
29961s	if this match-up ever actually goes to
29963s	fatigue with the number of cards being
29965s	drawn here
29968s	i hope not
29970s	that's a lot oh there's a leok finally
29972s	okay there we go quite good with the
29974s	wound spray
29983s	oh
29985s	and i think you gotta kill the carriage
29987s	yeah those discounts are are just too
29989s	much but uh
29991s	uh nine damaged face here potentially
29998s	i think that's how that works
30005s	odd numbers are good
30010s	that varian really set things up well
30012s	for super fake not even having to commit
30014s	a holy mackerel mermaid on turn for card
30016s	draw i mean just a a wealth of options
30019s	here and being able to
30021s	then save the holy mackey rule for
30022s	healing his own face
30024s	uh definitely the position you want to
30026s	be in but
30027s	this is a board you kind of have to
30029s	answer and no buffs have landed onto the
30031s	samurai so
30033s	we might see
30035s	the equality consecrate come down
30038s	yeah it'd be a
30040s	reasonably large expenditure because of
30044s	the fact that the ice traps don't play
30045s	but it's not an improved eye strap
30047s	that's just a
30049s	uh a normal ice trap they improved were
30052s	freezing plus the emergency maneuvers
30055s	um so we're just gonna use the holy
30057s	mackerel to proc that ice trap it's
30059s	gonna go up to two but that'll be fine
30061s	again uh
30063s	we'll just be missing out on two healing
30064s	or one card draw depending on how he
30066s	uses it but plenty of options so
30069s	um and we'll get to fit in a
30072s	euro power probably after playing a
30074s	minion
30075s	uh
30077s	interesting going for potential
30080s	stats in play over
30082s	uh increasing the odds of hitting
30084s	samurai i think that's fine right if you
30087s	hit something like the argent protector
30089s	or in this case the renethal like that's
30090s	still just a very large minion your
30092s	opponent has to deal with
30096s	and pascal is at 18 and super fake does
30099s	have the weapon swings every turn plus
30101s	mr smite in hand
30103s	no buffs yet on mr smite though i think
30105s	yep
30106s	still huh
30108s	respectable respectful damage but
30111s	uh
30112s	seven minute fireball not exactly what
30114s	you want but if it is something
30116s	it gives your other pirates charge
30120s	uh and i think
30125s	i think sort of uh
30128s	not always recognized as the major
30131s	annoyance of this cariel weapon is just
30133s	its ability to swing for two every turn
30136s	and so
30137s	having cleared those taunts away uh
30140s	super fake might well of course there
30142s	they are again but uh super fake keeping
30145s	the board clear does allow him to just
30147s	get in for two anytime uh it's taunt
30150s	freeze so
30151s	that damage can just add up over time to
30153s	the point where you can get through with
30155s	something like mr smite
30166s	i believe the only only minion buffed in
30168s	the hand is the myrmidon on the far
30171s	left uh
30175s	so
30177s	not too much raw stats left
30182s	you may go for it just
30184s	because it it sort of has to be dealt
30186s	with and it is quite large
30190s	maybe start off with the hero power to
30191s	see what it hits
30194s	i think there's always this this play of
30197s	sort of well do i start with the hero
30199s	power and decide what to play based on
30200s	that or do i play something to make sure
30203s	my hero power doesn't hit it and and
30205s	increase the odds that it hits something
30207s	else
30214s	oh just
30215s	wants to push the set
30217s	whoa
30219s	okay oh my so pushing 13 here uh setting
30225s	up
30226s	you know a must-answer situation for
30230s	pascoa and
30232s	potential to just hateful to just hey if
30234s	i have three board clears i hit you in
30236s	the face three turns in a row
30240s	i'm a little surprised to see this
30242s	because you could still push a good
30244s	amount of damage making a similar line
30247s	and say going hero power
30250s	uh sunfish because you've now missed a
30252s	hero power to get that smite in
30255s	and i suppose
30257s	taking advantage of an opportunity where
30259s	there is only one taunt in play
30261s	but i feel like you sort of want
30265s	every hero power
30267s	buff to your hand that you can get
30274s	oh
30282s	pesco opting for more roles i suppose
30286s	hoping to hit another misha there rather
30289s	than just playing the kraken bane to
30292s	deal with the
30294s	renathol
30295s	yeah crack it bean plus just
30298s	a trade on one of the leocks seemed too
30301s	uh reasonable but
30305s	getting more rolls now and then
30306s	potentially holding on to the krakens to
30308s	deal with something bigger that you may
30310s	not have been able to deal with
30311s	previously
30312s	could be viable as well pesco is just
30314s	running out of
30317s	really playable spells
30320s	in hand anyway
30322s	um so front loading the animal
30323s	companions
30325s	but this is now
30328s	uh getting a little bit weird for super
30330s	fake like you said missed a hero power
30332s	still is going to be able to draw but
30334s	these this heal is going on to the mac
30336s	you are on to the myrmidon
30340s	that is a garden's grace though which
30342s	will not only draw a card but make this
30344s	myrmidon even tougher to clear
30347s	and in some respects
30350s	super fake may just be looking to
30352s	to have a voltron minion
30355s	uh and
30356s	be able to test with a rush for freezing
30359s	and as long as he can somehow get rid of
30361s	the taunts uh you know it's it's a bit
30364s	of a stretch there's a lot of things
30365s	going on in that
30367s	scenario but even willing to take extra
30369s	damage here to be able to clean up
30371s	amisha with a swing on the following
30373s	turn
30375s	just trying to end the game quickly
30377s	figuring hey i'm not gonna end up
30379s	beating this refreshing animal companion
30382s	hero power if i let things go too long
30391s	is there any combination for lethal here
30397s	i think with the half damage it's really
30399s	tough
30401s	so
30404s	it would certainly involve rolling more
30407s	leox and huffers
30410s	yeah
30412s	right now that's only
30414s	10 damage on board
30418s	oh misha
30420s	surprisingly good in this situation
30421s	because uh pascal just wants to minimize
30423s	the damage that he takes each turn
30429s	yeah i mean you maybe just crack and
30430s	bane and then kill it with the
30433s	huffer
30436s	and preserve your two taunts go face
30438s	with as much as possible
30440s	and try and protect your freezing uh
30443s	because either
30445s	it
30446s	stops you know the rush from osamaro to
30449s	to clear the taunts or it stops the
30451s	myrmidon itself you're sort of happy
30453s	with either of those in this position
30460s	domino doesn't have any buffs currently
30462s	though
30463s	uh one uh
30466s	no does it everyone wasn't played last
30467s	turn i thought the ban one bannermen was
30469s	played but there's two in hand so that
30470s	doesn't make sense
30474s	instead opted to go for uh
30479s	different played last turn instead of so
30481s	yeah it doesn't have any buffs
30483s	oh
30485s	huge pickup with the equality
30489s	that's just
30490s	not quite oh he does have enough mana
30493s	because of the city tech so going to be
30494s	able to you've got to rush with the
30496s	samurai before
30498s	to bounce because if you do the city to
30500s	x first there's nothing to rush into
30502s	wow
30505s	very very close game
30507s	super fake able to pick it up with the
30511s	the one card that really generates in
30514s	the deck there's not really a ton in
30516s	holy paladin but battle vicar is that
30518s	way you can get extra
30520s	extra tools like equality and uh
30523s	you know had he missed that window may
30525s	not have been able to uh pull out the
30528s	wind there
30530s	yeah what if needed to be like uh
30533s	[Music]
30534s	now kario rome wasn't even in the deck
30535s	had already been played so there wasn't
30537s	any any other rush medians left to be
30539s	able to activate that freezing trap it
30541s	would have been like a multiple turn
30542s	setup so
30543s	yeah i didn't expect it to be that close
30545s	but
30546s	um the animal companions
30549s	providing even though couldn't fit in as
30551s	many as he would have been able to fit
30552s	in pascal
30554s	if he'd gotten the free hero power was
30555s	still enough
30557s	uh to
30558s	put enough misha's in the way they ended
30560s	up being quite good
30562s	at the end of the day
30563s	so uh nicely done super fake uh takes
30566s	the win with the paladin and i feel like
30568s	that's a big win overall in the series
30571s	uh paladin maybe the deck that
30573s	i expected to struggle the most but that
30575s	might just be because of
30577s	uh what we've seen from the paladin like
30580s	from fled it just felt like it struggled
30582s	in flood series yesterday a lot
30586s	no i think that's true that the paladin
30588s	is the one that you sort of
30590s	maybe even cue first in hopes of
30594s	sneaking out a win because it does have
30596s	some pretty rough matchups i think
30598s	against quest priest is sort of
30600s	miserable because they have all these
30602s	easy ways of just clearing the board and
30603s	then their win condition doesn't care if
30605s	you have damage um you might have been
30608s	able to sneak it through against uh
30610s	curse lock as well but the matchups are
30612s	are not
30613s	amazing for the paladin so i gotta
30615s	imagine super fakes feeling good about
30617s	having that win through
30620s	and now moving on to the ping page the
30623s	xl
30624s	uh pig mage
30626s	um
30627s	[Music]
30628s	and uh i'm playing around this deck a
30630s	little bit
30631s	uh
30632s	it's uh
30635s	it's very cool uh because with the 40
30638s	cards you're able to fit in a lot of
30640s	these tech cards
30642s	but
30643s	there are situations where
30646s	you just get these awkward hands in some
30648s	matchups where you you're stuck with all
30651s	these cards that uh
30653s	are just not very good on the board it
30655s	takes a long time for you to find your
30657s	dawn grasp or to get your pings
30659s	uh
30660s	to a point where you're actually
30661s	threatening your opponent um
30664s	uh but you do have an answer for pretty
30667s	much every situation in your deck
30669s	which
30670s	is not the case for many other decks so
30673s	we'll see how it fares against the curse
30675s	warlock which pasco was gonna
30677s	swap to
30678s	now
30681s	yeah i mean i'm not sure we really
30683s	mentioned this earlier but in a lot of
30685s	ways this is like
30688s	the test of okay which is better 30
30690s	cards or 40 cards because there are
30692s	three similar
30694s	lists on the side of each of them i
30695s	guess both of them have the 40 card
30698s	quest hunter because that's just sort of
30702s	the accepted version but when it comes
30704s	to the mage and the warlock you've got
30706s	curses and ping and then one has 30
30708s	cards one has 40 cards so we'll sort of
30711s	get to uh you know determine once and
30712s	for all who's right should you be on 30
30714s	cards should you be on 40 cards between
30716s	them
30719s	oh wait am i
30720s	i just miscounted nevermind pasco does
30722s	have 40 card curse lock
30726s	i don't know how i missed that
30730s	it's so it's just had a 40 card cursed
30732s	warlock
30737s	or a 30 card i'm questioning you
30740s	[Laughter]
30742s	no that's cool
30747s	oh okay i it just looked like we saw
30749s	renethal activate twice i'm
30751s	i'm losing my mind
30754s	you know i was like oh if not then he
30755s	dealt 12 damage really fast um
30758s	but
30760s	reasonable opening opening hand for
30761s	super fake did find the wildfire no dawn
30763s	grasping hand but more dress in opening
30766s	hand is actually not i feel like it's
30767s	not that bad against curves warlock
30769s	because well the 30 card yeah a lot of
30772s	damage
30773s	yeah yep so
30775s	um
30777s	it is gonna there's
30779s	pascal has the ability for early boards
30781s	here with double knoll plus like school
30784s	teacher
30785s	so there's gonna be some pressure that
30788s	he could put on but super fake scott
30790s	first flame has an upgraded hero power
30791s	and a reckless apprentice to be able to
30793s	to answer some of these things so
30798s	yeah the null lines up just perfectly
30800s	here and
30802s	now with the tamson pickup you're
30804s	probably just looking to dump hands to
30806s	get that
30807s	plate as quickly as possible uh if only
30810s	just so you can keep hero powering and
30812s	it doesn't hurt
30820s	look a little tough to empty this hand
30822s	though
30824s	it's a lot of sex drugs uh yeah i'd say
30826s	so um you could go about it in a way
30829s	that you empty all the cheap stuff but
30831s	even then that's kind of hard because
30833s	queen ashara
30835s	is not that cheap in itself and adds
30836s	something else to your hand which then
30838s	could add
30839s	again something else to your hand
30842s	that you are holding on to for a while
30844s	school teacher adds something else to
30845s	your hand so
30849s	anybody oh
30851s	cursive agony is quite interesting not
30855s	as likely to get a ton of damage uh when
30858s	your opponent has 40 cards but it can be
30860s	brand and certainly compared to the
30862s	other options i think i like it the best
30864s	yeah the other option would have been to
30866s	go for like feeder circle uh just for
30868s	board presence and because it's an
30870s	excuse to get out of your hand early um
30873s	sure even though
30874s	you could just play a non-brand
30878s	noggling with curse of agony
30880s	they'll maybe get a little bit of extra
30881s	damage
30883s	throughout the course of the game
30886s	yeah i mean if if pascal really just
30888s	wants to go in on the empty the hand
30890s	plan could just play the noggling zolaid
30893s	play the other noggily and that's also
30895s	just six curses
30896s	you know there is
30898s	maybe some additional
30899s	value later yeah exactly just uh
30902s	you know get some healing empty the hand
30905s	the mage hasn't played any minions yet
30908s	and you do need to get going with
30911s	if this second wildfire comes down that
30912s	here power
30914s	is a real problem even just dealing
30916s	three each turn
30932s	this is a sort of situation i was
30934s	talking about with the
30937s	age where
30938s	it's a lot of i guess most of these
30940s	cards besides like renethal and starfish
30942s	are played in the uh
30945s	the 30 card version too but
30948s	super fake's got a card for every
30951s	situation
30952s	but
30954s	it's so difficult to decide which one
30956s	you want to play each turn like reckless
30958s	apprentice obviously
30959s	represents burst damage later on the
30961s	game but is it
30963s	relevant burst damage because you're
30964s	playing gets a 30 card cursed warlock
30967s	which are usually going to be
30968s	lower health totals uh vardin
30972s	curse warlock doesn't build that mega
30974s	boards
30975s	but ken with tampson at times because of
30977s	the three threes so when do you want to
30979s	use tamson
30980s	um then there's always the situation of
30983s	when you're playing a deck that usually
30985s	has a lot of cards in hand versus curse
30987s	warlock
30988s	uh trying to balance between keeping
30990s	your hand full and keeping your hand
30992s	empty
30993s	like do you
30994s	need to not be overdrawn so you need to
30997s	sort of empty your hand a little bit so
30998s	you have room in case curses come in or
31000s	do you want to limit the amount of
31001s	curses your opponent can put in your
31003s	hand because you don't want to take the
31005s	damage and so you keep your hand full
31007s	it's a fine
31008s	fine line
31014s	yeah definitely a tricky balance and and
31017s	tricky for pascal as well here just
31019s	trying to figure out how to get rid of
31021s	some cards still progress through the
31023s	deck
31024s	uh really just not able to get the
31027s	dreadlitch tamson down with the texture
31029s	of the hand
31030s	i almost wonder
31032s	if you ever just
31034s	play one of the abyssal waves there
31037s	to start getting the curses ticking and
31040s	and make some hand space you are just
31042s	blowing up your own board i guess the
31044s	only reason to do that would be if you
31045s	know about the reckless apprentice uh
31048s	because the the disadvantage of going
31050s	wide with a bunch of minions is one
31051s	reckless apprentice means mordrish is
31053s	immediately active and that's not super
31055s	thrilling
31059s	although i suppose with the hero power
31061s	dealing 3 that's just gonna be active
31063s	anyway
31064s	yeah
31067s	i wouldn't have hated it it's a really
31069s	tough card to use
31081s	super fake just fully utilizing
31088s	super fake fully utilizing the
31090s	40 health here saying hey it's just a
31092s	couple of minions i can clear them with
31094s	reckless whenever i want we'll just get
31096s	the barrier down
31099s	draw a few cards
31101s	now you've got options with uh
31103s	bran apprentice you can multicaster
31112s	and here it is just
31114s	blowing up the onboard to
31117s	get the curses ticking those are
31118s	ultimately going to be more damage than
31120s	what the minions can provide against the
31122s	mage
31128s	can you imagine if the curses were
31130s	shadow spells for the opponent how weird
31133s	that would get in terms of multicaster
31137s	you could have
31141s	i guess you would still be capped at
31143s	four spell schools
31145s	for mage
31147s	go up to five for hunter
31151s	oh yeah he would
31157s	i think the
31158s	the weird thing for mage is
31161s	just
31165s	i guess you well replaying them with
31166s	vardhan doesn't matter right because it
31168s	it's just the removing part it's not
31170s	like
31171s	you give yourself a curse by replaying
31173s	it with you
31174s	yeah
31177s	um
31178s	so
31181s	hand size is an issue for super fake as
31184s	well considering
31185s	many of the cards that he'd want to play
31187s	proactively in this instance
31190s	are
31191s	uh like replace themselves in the hand
31193s	multicaster would
31195s	uh draw a few at this point there's been
31197s	at least fire an arcane and frost
31199s	because the iceberg played so we're at a
31202s	full multicaster here
31204s	um
31205s	so just gonna go with the reckless
31206s	apprentice foregoing the combination
31209s	with bran for the damage just trying to
31211s	get a card out of the hand
31215s	yeah both players really just trying to
31217s	dump here i suspect we'll see something
31220s	like the renethal come down maybe the
31221s	varden from super fake next turn just
31223s	clear out cards
31225s	having access to that spindly is very
31228s	important though because
31230s	you can get to a point later on where
31232s	the warlock says i'm going to get you in
31234s	this double bind i give you a bunch of
31236s	curses and you can't both
31239s	you know spend the mana to get rid of
31241s	the curses and deal with something else
31243s	that i'm doing
31244s	well finley just says i'm gonna put
31246s	these curses on the bottom of my deck
31248s	for one mana i get rid of all of them
31250s	replace my hand with some new cards and
31253s	now i can still potentially react to
31255s	what's going on
31257s	there is i think just one copy of spice
31260s	bread baker though for the mage
31263s	so it's not like there's a ton of
31264s	healing that you can look for
31271s	there is like a
31273s	lady nas jar i suppose
31277s	uh yeah with a frost valve armor
31280s	yeah
31281s	but that's about it in terms of
31283s	life gain unless don grass hasn't been
31285s	played thus far but that's very minimal
31287s	and very expensive for
31289s	the amount of actual life you gain from
31291s	it um so pascoa did find it an
31294s	opportunity to get the tamson online
31297s	will overdraw but
31299s	there's not any like game breaking
31302s	uh overdraws that can occur
31304s	uh zakul would be pretty rough um
31308s	or one of the
31310s	cultists potentially
31312s	uh
31313s	because that limits your curses bran
31316s	ah bran
31318s	least like to burn
31321s	ah perfect that's fine that's perfect
31328s	you know in in the horrific scenario
31331s	that is the curse warlock mirror
31334s	which hopefully we will not have to
31336s	engage with but it it can be a bizarre
31340s	situation where neither of you is able
31342s	to present any real pressure and so it
31344s	becomes
31346s	a roll of the dice in terms of who can
31348s	shuffle in more fell rifts to their deck
31350s	and then burn them off the top
31354s	so that you're effectively
31356s	like
31358s	better off in fatigue because you burned
31360s	something that was a cast when drawn uh
31363s	the best way to do it is when you can
31366s	bran school teacher and find a noggling
31368s	that gives you the spell that shuffles
31370s	three riffs in
31374s	uh just because you said
31377s	you called it a monstrosity of a
31378s	match-up
31379s	it can happen in this series but it
31382s	could happen i should have kept my mouth
31384s	shut
31385s	until we were past it
31387s	and then we really get to see if a 40
31389s	card quest warlock is better than the 30
31392s	or not go small like cursed warlock
31394s	is better than a 40 card
31396s	um
31397s	because super fake has the xl warlock
31399s	and it is not banned it is left up so
31401s	it's a possibility uh but pascal might
31403s	be able to take a win in this one does
31405s	pick the ring uh which is usually the
31408s	choice it just gives you an extra curse
31410s	um in in some form or another whether
31413s	it's abyssal wave or the uh
31416s	the dragged below so super fake still in
31419s	this position where
31421s	uh yeah just play a mortgage sure
31424s	get the damage out now and put an 88 on
31426s	the board
31429s	yeah and i would imagine we're just
31431s	gonna see sort of the tamson
31433s	double curse here
31435s	uh you could even
31437s	if you want get an extra copy oh okay
31440s	entitled customer trying to keep things
31442s	flexible without uh
31444s	i'm not
31445s	changing
31456s	maybe not
31457s	um or even just like drag the hand is
31459s	fairly full
31463s	you know pasco i might just figure hey
31465s	i've got two entitled customers i've got
31467s	a gigafin i have multiple minion methods
31470s	of dealing with boards i'd like to gain
31473s	some life off this spice bread baker
31474s	while my hand is absolutely full and so
31477s	he can afford to sort of
31481s	wait a little bit and in the hopes of
31483s	the hand for the mage being less full
31486s	and being able to really pile on the
31488s	curses
31499s	and that lady in azshara could come down
31501s	for
31502s	eight armor
31505s	16 even 16 armor oh yeah
31509s	i like it i like it uh because
31512s	you know if you do find vardan and get
31513s	the hero powers upgraded
31516s	then
31516s	[Music]
31518s	you have some pretty good inevitability
31520s	anyways
31523s	so this is a lot of uh
31525s	protection although
31528s	you have without playing a multicast or
31530s	anything left yourself vulnerable to
31532s	a whole lot of curses now i think pascal
31535s	can give three curses to the hand this
31537s	turn
31547s	and then still have a zero mana wave
31550s	yep
31551s	and now we also have bran picked up so
31553s	we have
31554s	uh bran puzzle no cultist in hand but
31559s	starting to get towards the bottom of
31560s	the deck so these cursors are starting
31562s	to add up what is that three four five
31566s	yeah i mean four curses to the hand here
31570s	we might have to see the finley just to
31572s	get rid of them
31577s	but then you've got
31579s	access to the bran
31581s	noggiling zolo the noggling
31584s	and then
31585s	now you can't even draw off the top of
31587s	your deck for risk of taking a million
31589s	fatigue damage
31591s	[Laughter]
31601s	so super fake in some ways needs to set
31603s	up something
31605s	kind of threatening here maybe getting
31606s	that okani down
31613s	because the hand is
31615s	low for pascal
31618s	yeah i don't mind it i i don't know what
31621s	tyrion pulls at this point with mordrish
31623s	being used already
31624s	uh reckless apprentice spartan dawn
31626s	grasp or a multicaster
31630s	yeah you're happy with any of those i
31631s	think
31632s	yeah
31634s	so
31636s	it's
31637s	about the most power you can even get on
31640s	board none of the other
31643s	uh cheaper minions i i guess spice bread
31646s	baker is also three power
31649s	um
31650s	but gonna get banked more healing
31653s	i guess you can
31654s	you don't wanna
31659s	right right this is uh you know the most
31662s	cards super fake is going to have in
31663s	hand from this point but not getting the
31665s	okani down means that
31667s	if pesco is willing to just sort of
31669s	spend a turn here to give curses uh
31672s	different the other kind of curses
31674s	it could be quite a few i think 12.
31680s	i'm not getting any younger
31687s	it's not even that much mana so you
31688s	could hero power first if you want
31695s	i i think he is debating on whether or
31696s	not that's the play like how much damage
31699s	is that i mean it's
31701s	a lot but you also have to consider that
31704s	there's still a bunch of cards left for
31705s	super fake so not guaranteed to draw
31706s	them every turn but it does give
31709s	who knows even more of a sense of that
31713s	dread
31719s	oh wait of course the the zola battle
31721s	cry is doubled as well
31723s	so it's even more right you get two
31726s	noggilings so it's 18 agonies
31732s	oh wow
31734s	shuffle off
31740s	yeah that's why there's no uh tap first
31742s	because this just represents
31745s	he was counting mana to make sure that
31746s	he could like fit in a coil in between
31749s	and that's a lot of curses super pigs
31751s	like trying to count how many yeah it's
31754s	not even in the deck right you know some
31757s	people do this on purpose with uh
31760s	mini tams and and running curse of agnes
31763s	itself and you can get 12 that way
31766s	but here with the brand noggling zola i
31768s	mean it's just
31769s	more curse curses of agony that you even
31772s	get running them naturally
31776s	oh and it also has just shuffled the
31778s	deck
31781s	oh my goodness
31783s	the abyssal curses that super fake put
31785s	on the bottom are now in random spots so
31787s	there's still three more besides this
31789s	one that's the six damage one the
31790s	highest one there's so many bad draws
31794s	i know there's so there's 18 cursive
31797s	agonies and three abyssal curses in the
31799s	deck that's 21 cards spoken for
31802s	in in super fake's deck
31805s	that are uh not good
31808s	uh this one needs to be cast because
31810s	this is the highest damage curse that uh
31812s	super fake put back with the the finley
31814s	the six damage one
31816s	um
31817s	and
31818s	yeah also needs to be then
31820s	it goes in your civil
31824s	oh yeah
31828s	i i mean
31830s	like
31831s	yeah it's just if you play
31834s	uh savara at this point
31835s	you'll just have to
31837s	to play it again or else take that
31838s	damage so you're sort of committing to i
31840s	mean there's not a ton of reasons to
31842s	play savara at this point anyway for for
31845s	an extra gifts or an extra fire sale i
31846s	mean drawing cards is almost actively
31849s	bad
31850s	yeah
31851s	but i don't think you can win with
31853s	what's in the hand either
31855s	still no hero picked up
31857s	yeah it needs to be like dawn grasp and
31859s	very little curses picked up in
31862s	within the next few turns
31864s	so oh theocony on okani cannibalism it's
31868s	uh
31870s	pretty brutal but pascoa just wants to
31873s	get the curses rolling even more
31876s	it's a seven damage they'll also heal
31878s	for
31879s	uh seven at this point as well okay one
31882s	agony
31883s	two
31884s	two agony
31888s	oh just the two
31890s	yeah there's a potential lethal every
31891s	turn uh if enough cursive agonies are
31894s	drawn so
31896s	i mean 18
31898s	gosh is it 18 factorial
31901s	uh yeah get a computer to figure out how
31903s	much damage that actually is
31906s	there's a formula but it's i don't even
31908s	it's
31909s	we'll just say it's enough
31920s	i once upon a time i looked this up when
31923s	i was trying to figure out uh
31926s	what what the potential
31928s	damage outputs were for a curse agony
31930s	deck but i have since forgotten how it
31932s	works
31938s	um
31942s	ah
31943s	none of these
31944s	seem particularly appealing
31952s	yeah i i guess
31954s	the overflow is you know makes
31956s	a biggish minion
31958s	you're not even clearing the oh no right
31961s	the fire bla has here power does three i
31963s	forgot super fake has not been able to
31965s	weave in many hero powers recently
31976s	it's just this horrible situation where
31978s	the more cards your opponent draws the
31980s	more likely they are to find more curses
31983s	yeah
31984s	uh 171
31988s	damage
31990s	correct but that's my syracuse cultists
31993s	two of and a dragged below and a
31995s	schoolteacher it's just nothing good for
31998s	super fake in terms of pascoa's draws
32001s	yeah
32004s	and nowhere close without dawngrass no
32007s	way to buff the hero power even more
32008s	both wildfires played reckless
32010s	apprentice actually could be anywhere it
32012s	was brought to the bottom of the deck by
32014s	the finley swap but then was shuffled by
32017s	the agonies
32018s	so could be anywhere and uh nowhere way
32021s	to put on pressure with the uh the
32023s	current hand
32025s	um
32027s	yeah it's looking pretty bad maybe the
32029s	agonies are all at the bottom but
32031s	there's still 16 of them left so
32039s	yeah i mean it's really
32043s	just going to be tough for super fake to
32045s	both deal with
32047s	stuff like this gigafin i mean the
32048s	overflow helps there
32052s	but
32053s	you've got a pretty insubstantial amount
32056s	of pressure
32064s	i think just despair is setting in here
32067s	for super fake
32069s	yeah
32073s	didn't even get the ping off on the face
32075s	either
32087s	about some more agonies
32094s	it was 171.
32096s	okay
32100s	i mean that's in hearthstone that's
32102s	effectively infinite damage barring
32104s	stuff in wild where you're doing
32107s	the oh gosh
32109s	line cracker
32110s	earthen scales shenanigans to gain a ton
32112s	of armor
32113s	i mean 171 damage is is just
32116s	always enough uh of course it has to
32119s	actually be drawn but it's more likely
32122s	than not at this point
32124s	yeah i didn't see what the noggling was
32126s	picked up here
32128s	um
32129s	it was the
32130s	murloc
32131s	dredge uh grimoire or touch i feel
32135s	so i imagine it's
32136s	okay much
32139s	uh just because it's yeah healing just
32141s	in case just in case i don't know
32148s	but we are now at eight damage for
32149s	curses
32150s	and there is only
32153s	the
32154s	what was that when you showed the deck
32155s	it was two more there's one dragged
32157s	below and one cultist left but
32160s	yep
32161s	that's enough considering the
32165s	well there's now
32167s	168 damage in the deck since two curses
32170s	were already drawn
32174s	what point do you say oh screw it i just
32177s	have to multi-caster and draw some cards
32180s	and pray
32181s	that we're able to dodge because
32184s	what i've got right now isn't gonna cut
32186s	it
32187s	uh maybe one more turn i don't know like
32191s	see if don grass comes off the top next
32192s	turn and and then go from there
32195s	uh i feel like he needs to play the
32197s	curse here because that represents a lot
32198s	of damage doesn't need damage curse yeah
32201s	and then again he doesn't want to play
32203s	too many cards but he doesn't want to
32204s	draw too many cards like it's well i
32207s	guess you could play cards now there's
32208s	only two curses left
32213s	the fell rift pickup means that even if
32216s	the
32218s	well there's minions in hand anyway it's
32219s	not like
32221s	refusing to play a minion gets you out
32223s	of
32224s	the uh dragged below having a target
32227s	there's gonna be something to hit
32228s	yep
32229s	if anything he knows that there's a cold
32231s	to slop so he could just wait for the
32232s	cultist and then drag below and get that
32234s	extra damage so
32236s	that's a nine damage curse
32240s	and the curse of agony
32244s	oh no
32246s	no that's the three damage one okay it's
32249s	because that's the curse of four men
32250s	attacks
32252s	yep
32255s	i suppose you could leave the three
32257s	damage one i mean i think you're just
32260s	oh no
32262s	this has he not realized five damage
32265s	curse in it i believe
32267s	was it the five damage it's got two of
32269s	them in there there's two curses
32273s	that's what it's got to say
32275s	no oh no he's unintentionally taxed
32278s	himself further in pascal
32280s	having a laugh about it uh you know it's
32283s	one of those things that you don't
32284s	really think about
32285s	that those curses are in fact spells
32288s	it does not only pick up
32290s	your own spells that you play so
32294s	uh super fake a little bit of a misstep
32296s	but
32297s	you know you can forgive him to be
32298s	honest there's there's was not a whole
32300s	lot to be done there regardless and it
32303s	is just going to be
32305s	another curse of agony to uh seal things
32308s	up here ensuring that we will not have
32310s	to deal with the nonsense that is the
32312s	curse warlock mirror
32314s	uh congratulations to pascal very
32316s	well-sighted in terms of being able to
32318s	go for those agonies and just uh lock
32321s	the opponent out of safe draws
32323s	yeah that was uh that was a game of
32326s	hearthstone right there that's how
32327s	hearthstone's meant to be played
32330s	is brand plus a million curse of agonies
32332s	um
32334s	i'm sure all the warlock enthusiasts are
32335s	having a great time
32338s	all six of them um
32341s	they're few and far between these days i
32343s	feel i don't see that much and
32346s	if they do play it on ladder it's not
32348s	because they're an enthusiast it's just
32349s	because they're trying to counter
32350s	something specific that made him mad
32351s	when they were playing another deck
32353s	but series is tied 1-1 now uh so super
32356s	fake still has the xl curse warlock and
32360s	the xl ping major we just saw pascoa has
32363s	um the hunter as well as the quest
32365s	priest
32367s	which
32368s	i guess i could say made a big splash
32370s	yesterday
32373s	the series that pesco played
32375s	specifically with saddle uh i i heard
32379s	that he's a massive fan of the deck
32381s	um i know how excited he was the thought
32384s	was released
32385s	and i know how much he misses when uh
32388s	grand masters used to be just pre-smears
32390s	uh for days um and uh he got the best of
32394s	all those yeah priest and bunny hopper
32396s	all in the same
32398s	match
32399s	so
32400s	he'll be jealous that we get to cast
32401s	this and he doesn't
32404s	i know really takes you back to the
32405s	warrior specialist days where those
32407s	tournaments were just running 17 hours
32409s	long
32412s	don't remind me
32414s	[Laughter]
32416s	we were we were in a studio back then
32418s	this was uh pre-covered the specialist
32421s	gm days
32423s	uh the very first season that was
32425s	it um
32427s	and
32429s	yeah it's just bright lights just
32431s	hitting you constantly for
32433s	as you're casting the same match up over
32436s	and over and over again for 12 hours
32440s	in a chair that's kind of comfortable
32442s	but
32443s	like there's just a tiny little thing
32445s	wrong with it
32447s	so your butt gets sore after like hour
32449s	six and then you want to stand up but
32451s	then you get tired because you're
32452s	standing up and you're casting control
32453s	worry mirrors
32455s	oh man
32457s	and there's math too
32464s	oh well i was thinking of the the
32465s	brewmaster to bounce archivist aliciana
32469s	oh yeah archivist aliciana specifically
32471s	nerfed just for that
32473s	like it it never happened on ladder or
32476s	rarely uh but it was it's like one of
32479s	the only times that
32480s	uh there's been a few times where
32482s	competitive play
32483s	primarily has dictated a nerf uh to a
32486s	car with aliciana going up to nine mana
32489s	um
32491s	yeah when bombs were put in the deck
32493s	that was a a happy day actually
32497s	[Laughter]
32499s	at least there's some semblance of
32501s	inevitability even if it is car draw
32504s	energy
32505s	yeah
32507s	curious about this barrier pickup i mean
32509s	it is extra life but
32512s	it's not like the hunter does a lot of
32514s	attacking unless they do go for the hero
32517s	line
32525s	i admit i didn't catch what the other
32527s	options were
32531s	me neither
32537s	now there's a barrier in the sivara so
32540s	if it is relevant there's going to be
32542s	many of them
32554s	extra wildfire though is very nice i
32556s	think that's one of the major reasons
32558s	that savara is in the deck
32560s	and you're sort of happy to just play it
32562s	all over again
32566s	nothing else you're gonna do
32570s	yeah not really the okani turn that you
32572s	want when your opponent still has coin
32579s	oh
32581s	well the straight up quick quest
32583s	completion uh game plan is uh
32586s	sort of online here with barb nets bring
32588s	the trap
32590s	wouldn't pray now
32592s	oh pasco i can uh get go get moving on
32595s	a quick tavish with uh refill with in
32597s	the form of
32599s	in the form of multiple things furious
32600s	hal plus the bunker that's
32603s	getting these secrets each and every
32604s	turn so
32605s	already starting to piece together some
32607s	damage super fake already down to a
32609s	crisp 33 life
32613s	it's crazy i feel like every single
32615s	quest hunter i'm sure it's not actually
32617s	all of them but it's felt like all of
32619s	them have had the bunker very early on
32622s	which is sort of the perfect card both
32624s	to activate your multicasters and just
32626s	thin the deck of secrets
32629s	and it functions very differently when
32631s	you don't hit that
32634s	you're out of stuff
32637s	pretty fast uh if you don't hit it
32640s	because even multicaster
32643s	unless you're naturally drawing freezing
32644s	trap or ice trap then your multicaster
32646s	is not going to end explosive your
32648s	multicast is not going to be good
32650s	and if you're manually drawing secrets
32651s	it's the worst feeling in the world and
32653s	especially in a matchup like this one
32655s	where
32656s	the secrets aren't as good early on
32659s	i guess ice trap has some benefit but
32662s	um
32664s	uh
32667s	uh queen ashar seems reasonable here
32672s	you get to activate
32674s	gifts and
32677s	um instead of getting gifts for uh
32680s	savara you can find something else to
32682s	put in the savara
32685s	yeah i mean very crucial having one tick
32688s	left there so being able to get
32691s	horn and then another horn is just
32694s	really nice
32695s	um
32697s	you know minions are not necessarily
32699s	the the greatest way to to beat down the
32702s	hunter but colossals are pretty big and
32704s	challenging to deal with
32707s	so you'd rather present a whole lot of
32708s	stats at once rather than
32710s	you know something minor each turn
32718s	spring the trap
32721s	hold whatever other secrets are left in
32723s	the deck out
32724s	and yep that is crazy all of the secrets
32730s	that's what you want right just
32732s	get them taken care of early i think
32734s	what just that one ice trap was drawn
32737s	naturally that's a pretty good outcome
32739s	as the hunter
32740s	yeah
32744s	oh oh
32747s	ice
32749s	oh no
32752s	i mean i suppose it is safe to test and
32754s	and maybe you say hey it's going to be
32756s	challenging to
32758s	uh
32759s	to play this if it is ice trap and and
32762s	foregoing the possibility of getting two
32764s	of them
32765s	uh
32766s	yeah i i respect it you know when it's
32768s	randomly from the deck you really just
32771s	sort of you either play around nothing
32773s	or everything
32774s	because you have no information on
32778s	whether your opponent would have chosen
32779s	to play it in the situation
32785s	this is however slightly diplomatic for
32788s	pascoa because he has no damaging spells
32791s	left in the hand so he can take off one
32794s	of these
32796s	uh
32797s	tenets
32798s	um but it's not really going to reduce
32800s	damage by that much because g-log will
32802s	buff the remaining tentacles
32805s	um and super fake's not going to attack
32808s	because he now knows that it's yeah
32809s	explosive plus freezing after testing
32811s	for ice so pasco is going to take a ton
32814s	of damage he's going to try and put this
32815s	runathon in the way
32817s	uh to hope that
32818s	um it's gonna block some of these uh
32821s	some of this damage that's gonna be
32822s	coming out
32825s	yeah g-like in a lot of ways one of the
32827s	better colossals you can get if if you
32830s	do catch your opponent without some
32832s	damaging spells because you can just not
32834s	attack and keep piling on the damage i
32836s	think pascoa picked up the two worst
32838s	draws in the deck there between renethal
32840s	and dunbalder bunker
32843s	so
32844s	at this point i think pretty much
32845s	anything is better than those
32853s	this will be a nice clean first flame
32855s	second flame
32857s	and
32858s	a bunch more
32859s	they're not tentacles they're stalks
32863s	nine damage coming through that buff
32866s	really
32867s	escalating things quickly because if
32869s	once again pascal is only able to answer
32872s	one of the stocks well even minus one
32875s	stock it's still going to be eight
32876s	damage out of the other two
32886s	there's an answer and maybe two
32895s	oh
32899s	that's not quite it is it
32901s	no
32903s	um
32904s	no beast to revive
32907s	emergency maneuvers with raj is
32910s	interesting
32912s	because your opponent can't it's a nice
32914s	the one that
32919s	unless they have a transform
32921s	uh
32922s	or just silence it or something
32925s	i think it was the best pick but it's
32926s	not really what you were looking for
32930s	well even if you silence it i guess you
32932s	could silence it and ignore it and not
32934s	play into the emergency
32948s	you could just
32949s	play the maneuvers here making your
32951s	opponent think it's ice although super
32953s	fake can tell that it is randomly
32955s	generated
32960s	or discolored rather than super fake
32963s	oh no
32964s	[Music]
32965s	the zola on the g-lag
32969s	that seems pretty good
32979s	doesn't help much with the development
32981s	this turn but you saw how much of a
32983s	struggle it was to clear the stocks the
32985s	first time around and now the okani
32987s	coming down for
32989s	a bit of a lockout you know you can
32992s	you can say minion here because
32995s	your opponent has to
32997s	find some damaging spells to complete
32998s	the quest and you've seen them struggle
33001s	to do that already
33002s	so
33004s	in the instance where it is something
33005s	like this shell shot where you don't get
33007s	to pick the damage
33008s	you just can't play the minion reward
33027s	just the one damage coming down onto the
33029s	okani uh you kind of have to just play
33031s	the raj so that you can play the reward
33034s	next turn
33035s	and be able to uh go off with the coin
33038s	and secrets
33040s	to refresh the hero power but
33043s	super fake knows that two of these cards
33045s	in hand
33047s	are discounted secrets from bunker so
33049s	there's a potential option to just
33052s	play the additional g-lag without
33054s	activating the secrets
33057s	and so freeze the okani
33062s	that's true you could freeze the okani
33064s	or or even freeze g-lag play a g-leg
33068s	yeah
33069s	okay freezing savara instead
33073s	i think that's fine because it's the one
33075s	that would die to explosive trap anyways
33079s	so you get to push five
33084s	and this is just
33087s	a
33088s	pretty solid lethal setup there's no way
33090s	the hunter can heal there's no way they
33091s	can deal with the hero power the
33092s	following turn uh it's just game over
33096s	yeah
33097s	so well played to super fake
33100s	yeah that that was uh much faster of a
33102s	game than i expected it to be uh the
33106s	queen of shaw plus the horn and getting
33107s	the g-log pretty much
33109s	was just what that game was
33112s	for super fake and then playing around
33114s	the the various secrets
33116s	throughout the game there wasn't even a
33117s	potential
33120s	for a double horn from the sevara if
33124s	a super fake had to had decided to
33127s	um
33129s	uh
33130s	test for a different secret in that
33132s	instance right not make the read that it
33133s	was
33134s	ice trap
33135s	uh
33137s	but
33138s	um we're not made to read that it wasn't
33140s	ice trap because he played the gift
33142s	thinking that it was going to be ice
33143s	traps that way he could play the horn
33146s	that turn and play it but it ended up
33148s	working out
33149s	in the end because that damage started
33151s	to ramp up and pascoa just had no
33153s	damaging spells to answer any of the
33155s	stocks that just took too much damage so
33156s	now
33158s	super fake just with the xl
33161s	curse warlock remaining
33163s	uh it's the same thing just with a bunch
33165s	of extra stuff thrown in there like
33167s	demonic assaults and hellfires
33170s	and a surfin league and
33174s	what else methyl rods rune methyl rods
33176s	that's a big one actually
33179s	yeah the demonic assaults and hellfire
33181s	is there to
33183s	activate multicasters so you can get
33185s	those
33186s	three spell schools and draw three cards
33188s	really three is the number you want to
33190s	be hitting with a multicaster i don't
33193s	think we've really ever seen it played
33194s	in a deck that only has two spell
33196s	schools
33198s	not that it's terrible four mana for
33200s	three four draw two but but three is
33202s	where it becomes
33204s	good
33205s	so
33208s	this one could be tough still because
33212s	the hunter does have
33213s	direct damage and warlock does really
33216s	not like to see direct damage there is a
33218s	lot of healing
33219s	but
33220s	your hero power also hits you in the
33222s	face for two so
33225s	maybe uh
33227s	really tough for super fake to get
33229s	through this paladin and
33231s	but he's got two goes right you're sorry
33233s	not paladin get through the hunter if he
33236s	doesn't be the hunter can still get
33238s	there with the mage and you're just
33239s	praying that the mage hero is not within
33242s	you know the top 20 cards of the deck
33248s	all right
33250s	shells get into it
33252s	oh yeah
33254s	oh probably why you saw the prince read
33256s	a thought activate twice earlier is
33257s	because we see both perspectives at the
33260s	very beginning of the game
33262s	oh for the mulligans
33263s	right yeah you you see the prince
33265s	runethal activate for
33267s	one player but then the other player
33269s	also sees it activate but for their
33271s	opponent since we're getting both
33272s	perspectives
33274s	gotcha okay that must have been what
33277s	threw me
33280s	because that time we saw it four times
33283s	[Laughter]
33290s	oh um
33291s	dredlich thampson in hand
33294s	plus rod yeah
33297s	you almost wonder if you even tap
33300s	yeah
33300s	um
33303s	because you can play the null next turn
33304s	no
33305s	yeah
33306s	okay
33307s	yep preserving the life you know having
33310s	the dreadlocks pans in so early is
33312s	really great because
33314s	then you can continue to tap not only
33316s	does it draw you the three cards
33317s	initially but it lets you keep tapping
33320s	uh without hurting yourself
33322s	we really just oh okay figuring playing
33324s	it into the ice trap i think that's fair
33328s	um this is still fine because you can
33331s	play rod next turn and then dread the
33333s	temps in the trap do that you'll be in a
33334s	full hand but the knolls would be
33336s	discounted to zero so you could dump
33338s	both nulls
33340s	ah
33341s	yes that's always something i forget how
33343s	they interact with
33345s	discounts in that way well
33347s	one of them you'll get to play for zero
33348s	right and then the other one will go
33350s	back up to one
33352s	yeah but just emptying one it would
33353s	still be one overdraw though because
33355s	super fix currently at
33357s	uh
33358s	uh would it be
33360s	will be nine cards on the draw so yeah
33362s	there would be one overdraw
33365s	um on the dreadlitch tamps in play
33368s	but then you dump a null so you don't
33370s	overdraw on the following turn
33373s	but oh and i like this pescoa
33376s	oh
33377s	yeah just going all out
33389s	it was eight damage that turn
33392s	oh
33393s	it's it's turned six has already got
33395s	super fake at half health
33397s	yeah you can't play the knoll actually
33399s	because you won't the because there's
33401s	nine cards in hand you won't actually
33403s	get the final draw for the rod uh
33406s	activation oh so then it doesn't
33408s	discounted discount
33410s	so they just get played here for hand
33412s	space then
33414s	yes or one yeah
33422s	oh
33427s	bunker finally picked up a little bit
33430s	late to the party
33439s	it's probably just quick shot right you
33441s	already have a multicaster that you're
33442s	struggling to play
33446s	and if you have a multi-caster furious
33449s	hal becomes less valuable
33452s	and
33454s	you can go
33456s	bunker start getting some of the secrets
33458s	to get the additional spell schools
33460s	have card draw lined up that's a a mini
33463s	turn game plan a lot can happen in
33465s	between now and then but
33468s	um
33474s	that's the right choice quickly
33487s	i wonder if you do expect tamson you saw
33490s	no tap yeah there we go
33492s	oh my goodness yep yep yeah
33495s	there you go
33497s	it's
33498s	it's a tough decision your opponent's
33499s	sit at half health
33501s	uh
33502s	you know they have been dumping pretty
33504s	aggressively like you said with holding
33506s	the tap so you can have a pretty good
33509s	read
33511s	yeah
33512s	and and it's it's no decision even for
33515s	super fake you still do it
33517s	yeah too powerful
33519s	life gain card draw everything gets
33521s	reduced your tap
33523s	doesn't cost health anymore
33526s	everything you could ever want
33535s	one improv here that's going to be
33538s	pretty relevant in the next expansion
33540s	that this dredlich jamson creates imps
33543s	for the imp deck
33545s	or even just for the uh
33547s	the card draw based on em's
33549s	impending catastrophe
33562s	this is question
33563s	relenting
33566s	accepting that he does have to kill some
33567s	minions
33568s	yeah it's okay has multicaster follow-up
33572s	beyond this and this is tavis completion
33574s	this turn and playable
33577s	uh with the barb nets uh in the coin
33581s	um
33582s	still doesn't have the multicaster
33584s	juiced up but we'll draw another secret
33585s	at the end of the turn the secrets will
33587s	reset the hero power
33589s	is still relatively healthy
33591s	uh so i think this is
33594s	uh this is fine
33598s	yeah a little bit scary but you do have
33600s	if you're super fake the spice bread
33602s	baker and
33604s	zola
33605s	so able to sort of get some healing
33608s	uh going for a bit
33611s	but you're not too close to killing the
33615s	opponent yourself you know rod is
33616s	powerful but it's not like you're
33618s	that mine warlock that can straight up
33621s	kill the opponent out of nowhere
33624s	so he's gonna have to turn on the gas a
33626s	bit
33632s	i think the the biggest drawback here is
33635s	that
33636s	when you are behind like this on life
33638s	total and you're having to heal but also
33640s	advance your game plan with the curses
33643s	those curses are spells and that means
33646s	that pascoa can play the curses to get
33648s	them out of hand while refreshing the
33649s	hero power to deal you another two
33651s	damage
33652s	so until they've really gotten upgraded
33654s	to the point where they're dealing more
33655s	damage to the hunter
33657s	then the hunter is dealing to you
33660s	is it's really painful to just sort of
33664s	get those rolling
33666s	yeah
33668s	uh i mean there is a
33670s	a good amount in the hand right now but
33673s	um
33674s	no like zakul
33676s	which
33677s	could be pretty crucial because it sort
33679s	of negates that
33680s	you're giving them a spell to reset
33682s	their hero power kind of thing because
33684s	at least you get some immediate healing
33685s	from the initial curses but the healing
33688s	isn't super relevant until you do hit
33690s	sort of that critical mass of
33692s	curse damage
33693s	but it could be a good way to bounce up
33696s	um this is a small
33698s	multicaster
33700s	okay it's still two
33705s	yeah i think it was
33708s	nature
33709s	and
33710s	frost there because we saw
33712s	i believe it was an ice trap earlier
33715s	and
33715s	the
33717s	shell shot played but the explosive
33721s	trap if there were if there wasn't it
33722s	was an arcane shot so it was arcane and
33725s	okay
33727s	arcane and ice trap yeah so it was
33729s	arcane and frost
33731s	that that there was the shell shot was
33733s	previous okay
33738s	it all starts to blend together tj
33741s	i know
33744s	trust me i know
33746s	[Laughter]
33756s	just not even
33758s	utilizing the curse for extra damage
33760s	here i'm a bit surprised by that
33763s	maybe once they get a little bit
33765s	stronger
33766s	and
33767s	it's more
33771s	uh threatening to leave the curse in
33774s	hand i don't know
33775s	um
33776s	okay so there's the zakul so
33780s	that's cool
33783s	could do a a lot here with
33786s	uh
33787s	zola like you could cultist
33793s	uh i mean if you have brand the opponent
33795s	almost just explodes
33797s	yes while you heal yourself
33800s	yeah but you could go
33803s	zakul
33804s	zola the zakul
33806s	cultist
33810s	i don't know
33811s	that's not that powerful actually that's
33813s	only two curses immediately so it's only
33815s	uh five healing i guess you get the
33817s	additional one so six seal because the
33818s	curse is still in hand all right queen
33820s	of char sure
33822s	yeah i like this and then maybe you just
33823s	like play the baker or something draw a
33825s	card play baker
33834s	for going the hero power interesting
33844s	this is a two is this a two turn setup
33846s	with uh sakul cultist zola cultist next
33849s	turn
33850s	it would be
33853s	uh
33856s	four five six
33860s	if i'm not mistaken so not quite but it
33862s	is a pretty considerable amount of
33864s	damage
33865s	i think the the healing is really the
33867s	relevant portion there
33870s	because if it's just the damage it's not
33872s	quite enough but i think it does put you
33875s	out of range
33877s	of what the hunter can potentially do
33880s	while
33881s	representing your own potential lethal
33884s	so if it were
33886s	you know just another curse rather than
33889s	zakul i don't think it would be good
33890s	enough but the fact that it does heal
33892s	you
33893s	is extremely important
33904s	super fake always
33906s	very expressive just uh
33912s	waiting for this turn to end
33916s	we're gonna see
33918s	last hero power go on the baker
33921s	uh
33923s	yeah i meant it's down to nine an ice
33925s	trap is played but super fake with no
33928s	secrets up last turn use the spell
33930s	portion of
33932s	the curses in the hand so isn't
33934s	super worried about
33936s	the uh the eye sharp for the moment
33939s	isn't worried about really any secret
33941s	at this point so it would be four five
33943s	six
33944s	uh so
33947s	that represents 15
33950s	uh you can't really leave up the raj
33953s	no you can't
33956s	um
33965s	ah so your only answers are
33968s	wave or hellfire which does hit yourself
33971s	for three
33977s	yeah i mean you can play
33980s	you can play as a cool sierra cass zola
33984s	does a cool and and still hellfire
33986s	before all that
33988s	but there's an ice trap up
33991s	oh right
33993s	yeah i think in a lot of ways
33996s	yeah and just hope it's enough
33999s	yeah
34002s	reaching up the hands just hoping
34005s	okay you don't have it i'm at 24. do
34008s	your best you do have a rajna jaan i
34011s	know you've got at least three two mana
34013s	spells you can play so hoping there's
34015s	not enough uh
34017s	that is enough enough other spells
34021s	because each curse represents six
34024s	right um because it's a
34026s	oh no only four actually
34028s	so it might be short but with kraken
34032s	five well each curse is
34034s	two right well the raj so it's four
34038s	oh right right right yeah
34040s	yeah and then the the kraken is three
34043s	mana for five damage i think pascal is
34046s	just
34046s	playing it out because he has to and it
34048s	has to be lethal and if it isn't he
34049s	loses hacked is it exact
34052s	it's exact no way oh my goodness
34056s	wow
34058s	so actually it would have been enough
34059s	even without the kraken because you
34061s	could freezing trap hero power
34064s	oh no it wouldn't have been because the
34065s	sec the other secret went off another
34067s	freezing trap
34069s	yeah yeah
34070s	huh
34072s	wow
34073s	always the tricky bit with secrets is
34075s	that you you don't get to play the same
34077s	one twice and that can
34079s	uh
34080s	make things awkward in terms of the
34081s	damage but uh
34083s	very well played from both sides
34085s	really just razor's edge in terms of who
34089s	was going to come out on top there and
34090s	we are going to get to a game five
34094s	finally seeing that quest priest
34098s	oh geez quest priest versus
34101s	curse warlock
34108s	i know uh
34110s	it's good versus evil i guess anduin's
34113s	obviously the evil let's be clear here i
34116s	was gonna say by the culture who's the
34118s	good in this equation
34123s	all right
34124s	um
34125s	so
34127s	this match-up seems
34129s	like it's just going to be a straight-up
34131s	race
34132s	[Laughter]
34133s	because it doesn't seem like uh pasco is
34136s	going to be able to find any sort of
34138s	tempo win with minions
34141s	um
34142s	because of the amount of health and the
34144s	amount of removal et cetera et cetera et
34146s	cetera so it's going to be about pascoa
34148s	finding the shard completing the quest
34149s	and finding the shard before super fake
34151s	hits that critical mass of
34153s	of uh
34154s	of curse damage
34156s	so there there it is
34158s	there's the list it's it's a beast it is
34162s	a beast
34164s	yeah and i i think this is in some ways
34167s	going to come down to
34169s	how full pascag is able to keep his hand
34172s	because sometimes you do end up with
34174s	these sort of starved draws where yes
34176s	you've played things on curve but
34177s	without hitting crucially the spirit
34179s	guide
34180s	you just don't have that many cards in
34182s	hand and that allows the warlock to ramp
34185s	up their curses very quickly
34187s	if on the other hand you are able to
34189s	keep a pretty full hand
34190s	then you're only taking
34193s	one maybe two curses at a time and as a
34195s	priest you have access to all kinds of
34197s	healing
34198s	to sort of bounce back up you're also a
34200s	renethal deck so starting at 40
34203s	it really could
34205s	have a lot of life total swings in terms
34207s	of just taking curse damage healing back
34210s	up etc
34214s	could get weird here's the spirit guide
34225s	your guide does seem like
34228s	one of the most important cards for the
34230s	reason you mentioned but also because
34232s	there's very little fives
34234s	uh
34236s	in the deck in general and as discover
34238s	options
34239s	uh with the deck so
34241s	um
34243s	make knowing that you have a five to
34245s	look forward to is always good
34248s	uh currently missing a three as far as
34251s	uh initial quest completion goes but
34253s	there's a
34254s	a good handful of threes in the deck
34257s	scorpids uh entrap sorcerers prince
34259s	renethal devouring plague amulet
34262s	um so that's one of the more congested
34265s	mana slots
34266s	in the deck
34267s	i'm
34268s	almost surprised we didn't see the
34270s	condemn just roll out on two for the off
34273s	chance that pascoa picks up a three you
34275s	can just go two three four five
34279s	i can understand holding on to it
34280s	because you do want a holy spell and a
34283s	shadow spell to have light more active
34286s	the warlock does play some early game
34288s	minions like the priestess and the null
34291s	here
34292s	so it's not like it has
34294s	no value
34298s	oh shadow spell right on time
34301s	yep and it's also a three
34304s	yeah
34305s	which works out fine right then you can
34307s	spend your turn five playing a two and a
34308s	three
34315s	and then roll into five and then
34318s	maybe be able to pick up a light shower
34319s	elemental or an undying disciple along
34321s	the way
34323s	then you're just missing a seven and
34325s	then you're good
34332s	oh he just gave a two as well so
34335s	you can play the devouring plague as a
34337s	three and then the abyssal curse as a
34340s	two
34340s	yes
34344s	okay now we're just missing a six and we
34347s	have every man reaction was there
34350s	yeah could could be a pretty
34353s	swift quest completion because you do
34355s	get the discovery here
34359s	might be able to find a six off of it
34361s	yeah which we do not see nope
34363s	um
34366s	could fetch a six with venomous scorpion
34369s	like a light bomb
34379s	uh mutinous could also
34382s	uh just be uh better as a seven
34385s	um and just good to have in the hand
34388s	thrive is always good just because if
34390s	you think that you're gonna have pretty
34392s	easy quest completion then
34394s	thrive could be able to fetch the shard
34396s	to make the game
34397s	uh end a little bit faster
34400s	i'm not even sure what i would lean
34402s	towards here um i think between
34405s	the venomous scorpion and the thrive but
34407s	obstacle for the thrive it just has a
34409s	little bit of
34411s	extra flexibility
34413s	as this game is going to progress but i
34415s	think pasco is in a
34417s	pretty decent spot right now super fake
34419s	not really able to get much going no rod
34422s	no dredge tamps in
34424s	so not ways to accelerate that car draw
34426s	the damage that you take from tap isn't
34428s	super relevant just because the priest
34430s	isn't going to kill you unless
34432s	they're killing you with the shard
34434s	but right now i think it's just a
34436s	super fake trying to empty some cards
34438s	out of the hand get something
34442s	uh make room for something uh that can
34444s	get the ball rolling on these uh
34447s	on these curses
34450s	yeah and now pasco
34452s	having some hand issues of his own
34455s	trying to get this spirit guide played
34456s	for request advancement uh
34458s	getting rid of the desperate prayer to
34460s	do so uh just to not overdraw there's
34463s	still always the opportunity for the
34465s	warlock to overdraw you by giving you a
34467s	curse when you are sort of near full
34470s	hand size so if a curse and the kill on
34473s	spirit guide comes down
34475s	uh pascal will overdraw one i believe
34479s	but until the shard is shuffled in
34481s	you're not
34482s	too unhappy about that
34485s	like you said that thrive so flexible
34487s	lets you find the shard right away
34489s	sometimes so that you never have the
34490s	opportunity to burn it
34494s	that's a six
34496s	it is indeed
34498s	a six seven eight playing slightly off
34500s	curve but it works
34513s	maybe an ajax
34517s	i don't know i feel like you could pick
34518s	anything there and you can make an
34520s	argument for it yeah
34522s	at this point right you you've advanced
34524s	to the next phase you've got your seven
34526s	and eight lined up i think light
34527s	shower's fine just as like another thing
34529s	that heals you
34531s	we might see like coin serena here just
34534s	for hand
34539s	space yep
34541s	makes sense
34545s	and then next turn you have options if
34547s	you need a proactive play you can go
34548s	with the behemoth to get the seven
34550s	checked off
34551s	uh if you need to be reactive like if
34555s	super fake went for horn for whatever
34557s	reason which is pretty uncommon in
34560s	uh the cursed warlock usually go for the
34562s	ring
34563s	um
34564s	then you have an answer to a big board
34567s	or i guess a gigafin could come down on
34569s	eight just naturally played in the deck
34570s	so
34572s	looking pretty good for pasco
34573s	scott
34575s	answers for a lot of situations got
34577s	quest completion nice and smooth
34581s	and super fake hasn't really advanced
34582s	his own game plan much it's just been a
34585s	single curse with
34586s	not that much in hand i guess there's
34589s	bran
34590s	cultist zola and ring
34593s	so there's like the ability to ramp up
34595s	the curses quite quickly
34601s	yeah well
34603s	the silence is pretty nice here putting
34605s	azshara back up to a 5-5 although you're
34608s	almost happy to see the silence on the
34611s	spirit guide if you're pasco because it
34613s	does mean you can play the xyrella hero
34616s	after trading off the guide and get that
34619s	card draw without having to worry about
34621s	overdrawing
34630s	could just be the behemoth though as
34632s	you know big old pile of stats and
34634s	lifesteal
34638s	and you could play behemoth and then
34640s	take out the voidwalker with the undie
34643s	disciple so that means you have better
34645s	average target for uh the behemoth to
34650s	uh
34653s	retaliate against
34655s	i don't know
34657s	i was gonna say attack but he's not
34658s	really attacking he's being attacked to
34662s	lure uh yeah i don't know yeah sure yeah
34664s	an odd situation where you're forcing it
34666s	to attack you
34671s	[Music]
34675s	oh okay gonna get the eight out of the
34677s	way fine all right
34679s	gets rid of the other starfish
34682s	cleans up the board you don't have to
34684s	worry about the
34686s	overdraw potential with xyrella
34689s	and playing xyrella after you've gotten
34691s	the shard shuffled in can be nice at
34693s	using it as a way to
34695s	draw the shard itself
34697s	he's got the thing
34698s	curse of agony zola curse of agony
34702s	you could do it right back
34704s	not this turn but i think he wants he
34707s	wants revenge he's thinking about it
34710s	yeah i think i think he should
34712s	i think he should want revenge dragged
34714s	below to be clear is also quite strong
34716s	with branzola
34718s	yes
34720s	um but
34724s	yeah
34725s	yeah
34726s	i think he took it it's it's just too
34728s	perfect isn't it
34731s	are they considered shadow spells in
34733s	your desk
34735s	i don't think so
34737s	i don't know
34741s	i mean i i know the abyssal curses are
34743s	not shadow
34745s	but
34747s	i feel like there's
34748s	maybe just in general the curses don't
34750s	have tags since they're
34752s	yeah that matters weird other cards but
34754s	i oh they do they are tagged as shadow
34758s	they are tag oh no well that means that
34761s	if you want to play zyrella as pascoa
34763s	you have a chance of drawing
34766s	those curses of agony
34770s	it also makes the thrive so much worse
34783s	that's interesting that it has a tag
34785s	yeah because it the the actual card that
34788s	shuffled agony is what it's called cast
34791s	won't draw take more fatigue
34793s	says it's labeled as shadow
34794s	yep
34795s	and i think you'll get to see it because
34797s	it actually shows the curses shuffling
34799s	in yep they're tagged to shadow
34806s	[Laughter]
34814s	uh
34814s	you know each to the other
34819s	you can even put another curse
34823s	yep you can even kill off the eight six
34828s	people getting up because this one could
34829s	end right now
34831s	good it's a possibility
34840s	oh not even going for the kill on the h6
34844s	went for the 1-4 i think
34858s	it won oh super fake's counting it for
34861s	us
34862s	five no way
34865s	no six oh no we've seen them before we
34868s	are four
34870s	oh my goodness
34872s	just like the old bomb warrior days
34875s	six
34877s	let's go i can't believe it there's so
34878s	many other hits
34881s	that is quite a lot of damage right out
34884s	the gate there is eight lifesteals so
34886s	not being dead immediately you do get to
34889s	gain some of it back
34890s	but there is an abyssal curse in hand to
34892s	be gotten rid of those having the shadow
34894s	tag like we said
34896s	uh could cause problems for the
34900s	xyrella draw
34912s	i almost wonder if you just have to play
34914s	the 7-7 and thrive and hope you get it
34916s	next turn
34918s	i don't think pascal knows that the
34919s	curses have the shadow tag
34925s	still other shadow spells in the deck
34928s	true oh there it is nope there it comes
34931s	and that could start a chain okay
34939s	i don't even know what the abyssal
34940s	curses are at be quite honest with you
34943s	or maybe
34944s	i'm not sure either it's not really the
34946s	primary damage source at this point
34949s	yeah
34950s	can you still put another one in hand
34954s	yeah because the the one that's in hand
34956s	right now will dissipate so there's
34957s	still room for a curse of agony draws
34962s	which is important
34965s	and crucially pascal did not play the
34968s	xyrella quest reward last turn
34971s	um
34972s	so no opportunity to just rip the shard
34975s	yeah yeah
34980s	and there are still 12 no 11 cursive
34983s	agonies left in the deck the next one
34986s	drawn off the top we'll deal with just
34987s	so many
34989s	i don't think you can realistically heal
34991s	out of that
34993s	no and i think super fake school here is
34995s	going to be to set it up so he would
34997s	need two curse of agony draws and not
34999s	three
35000s	uh which will be this case because the
35002s	next eight nine
35004s	oh
35005s	nope not
35015s	it there any way for pesco wood who
35017s	plays xyrella and i know you don't want
35019s	to keep your hand full because then you
35021s	could just
35024s	uh
35025s	yeah it's it's truly what if you unless
35028s	you immediately discover it from thrive
35030s	yeah
35031s	what what if you hit autism with thrive
35035s	is that possible
35036s	because there are different iterations
35037s	of damage
35040s	uh i don't know because of the same
35042s	they're all considered the same card
35044s	okay they're all considered the same
35045s	okay i got excited for a second there
35047s	yeah
35048s	even though they have different texts
35050s	it's the same card
35056s	bold
35057s	oh one
35060s	oh jeez oh he's going forward again he's
35063s	so brave
35065s	oh
35066s	i mean what are you gonna do at this
35068s	point you're just dead the abyssal curse
35069s	finally hits the shard but it's just too
35072s	late
35073s	yeah just needs to uh pass the turn uh
35076s	super fake just needs to pass the turret
35077s	and the game ends because of the curse
35079s	in hand and there it is
35081s	another crazy game in the series a very
35084s	long series
35086s	at that
35087s	uh
35088s	you can see the relief
35090s	yeah
35091s	[Music]
35095s	it's still just gonna be an uphill
35097s	battle uh in terms of bunnyhopper also
35099s	not having the shaman but uh yeah every
35103s	little bit counts so you're very happy
35104s	to make it to the finals
35106s	yeah
35107s	yeah that was uh quite the performance
35110s	and uh
35112s	super fake and we both sort of said it
35114s	came in as maybe a slight underdog in
35117s	the series just because of how the decks
35119s	worked up but when you're talking about
35121s	both players having lineups that were
35123s	very slow a lot of long games
35125s	room to maneuver
35127s	super fake was able to get the better of
35129s	him and uh a crazy combo at the end so
35131s	many curses we got up to nine
35134s	uh at the end there so
35136s	half of the curse of agony's drawn
35139s	uh well above average for how many cards
35141s	pascoa actually drew between the time
35144s	they were shuffled and the time that the
35146s	game ended so for sure uh pretty
35148s	unfortunate but still a cool ending and
35151s	uh picks up the shard but slightly too
35154s	late there it is the finals are set up
35156s	bunny hopper versus super fake we don't
35158s	get the bunny hopper pasco agreement uh
35160s	rematch but
35162s	uh bunny hopper super fake should be
35164s	a good one at that
35168s	yeah i have to say as sad as i am not to
35170s	see our america's representative make it
35172s	into the finals there uh super fake and
35175s	i suppose fled as well who shared a
35176s	lineup they were sort of my favorites
35179s	throughout the tournament in terms of i
35181s	just really like that kind of deck
35183s	building i'm always a fan of target
35184s	strategies so
35186s	we'll see how it performs against a
35188s	lineup without that main target
35191s	yeah
35192s	got it done against pascoa but
35196s	another behemoth to face in bunnyhopper
35198s	not just in terms of lineup but just in
35200s	terms of tenure within competitive
35202s	hearthstone
35203s	uh in bunnyhopper in the finals but uh
35206s	that should be a good one uh we are
35208s	gonna have to
35209s	go to a break before we jump to the
35210s	finals uh give super fake a chance to
35213s	rest for just a bit
35215s	after that series because it was a long
35216s	one uh get refreshed uh remind himself
35219s	of what he's going up against in
35220s	bunnyhopper um but you don't want to go
35223s	anywhere because coming up after the
35224s	break we are going to have the
35225s	conclusion
35227s	to week number one here in grandmaster's
35228s	last call the finals between bunny
35230s	hopper and super fake don't go anywhere
35235s	[Music]
35246s	[Applause]
35246s	[Music]
35251s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
35254s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
35258s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
35262s	with such ruthlessness
35265s	so deep and profound
35269s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
35277s	to uncover the truth
35279s	of murder most
35281s	foul the anima drifts across the floor
35285s	highlighting the creatures who walked
35288s	through my door
35290s	the motives are as black as night
35293s	avarice power revenge
35297s	and blight
35299s	we watch the hero
35302s	uncover the clues
35304s	that lead to the truth
35307s	behind this dark rooms
35317s	without heavenly bias
35320s	for at the end
35321s	they will burn in the fire
35325s	when it is known who slayed
35328s	tenacious
35329s	[Music]
35350s	[Music]
35360s	[Music]
35366s	[Music]
35373s	[Music]
35384s	so
35401s	[Music]
35414s	[Music]
35441s	[Music]
35442s	so
35448s	[Music]
35467s	[Music]
35475s	[Music]
35484s	[Music]
35491s	[Music]
35497s	do
35499s	[Music]
35512s	do
35515s	[Music]
35529s	[Music]
35537s	[Music]
35545s	[Music]
35550s	so
35556s	[Music]
35564s	[Music]
35578s	so
35582s	[Music]
35590s	[Music]
35623s	so
35629s	[Music]
35637s	so
35640s	[Music]
35679s	do
35682s	[Music]
35693s	[Music]
35695s	do
35697s	[Music]
35707s	do
35708s	[Music]
35744s	um
35747s	[Music]
35805s	so
35806s	[Music]
35843s	[Music]
35850s	hello everybody and welcome back to
35851s	hearthstone grand masters last call my
35854s	name is cj joined by edelweiss once
35856s	again and we got the short shift today
35857s	but it doesn't feel like it's going to
35859s	be a short
35860s	day for us we had a two-hour series to
35863s	kick things off in our semi-final and
35865s	now we got another uh barn burner of a
35868s	finals
35869s	with uh bunny hopper versus super fake
35871s	so uh at a glance edelweiss what are
35874s	your your first takeaways from this
35876s	matchup between these two
35879s	yeah so
35880s	i would guess that with these lineups
35882s	we're going to see a super fake banning
35884s	out the alignment druid i think that's
35885s	sort of the toughest thing for his decks
35888s	to deal with
35889s	and
35890s	you're going to be shifting focus to
35892s	maybe trying to take advantage of the
35894s	beast hunter that is the most
35895s	board-centered deck that bunny hopper
35898s	has without the shaman so if you're
35901s	going to try and beat up on a single
35903s	deck in the lineup that's going to be
35904s	the one
35906s	going to be harder to do that against
35908s	things like the big spell mage
35910s	for for bunny hopper and the thief rogue
35912s	is always a wild card you never know
35914s	what's gonna happen there
35916s	yeah earlier in bunny hopper's first
35919s	series of the day uh he had his
35920s	alignment druid band but then got
35923s	alignment
35926s	and played it and then
35927s	played it again with the contraband
35929s	stash later on so
35931s	uh you can never escape it um these
35934s	things do happen
35936s	yeah uh
35937s	i
35938s	this deck i've lost so much faith in um
35942s	beast hunter over the course of the
35944s	weekend uh obviously you know we have a
35947s	lot of lineups that
35948s	uh at least me and you have cast
35951s	where they've been anti-board-centric
35954s	decks and this sort of falls into it but
35956s	um it has not been consistent in the
35958s	very small sample size of matches that
35960s	we've actually watched
35962s	so
35963s	it is a little bit worrying for me that
35965s	that's up in the lineup for bunnyhopper
35967s	so if he can get a quick win here
35970s	against the excel curse warlock from
35972s	super fake i think it's going to be
35974s	a huge advantage for bunny hopper in the
35976s	series
35978s	yeah i think that's really what he's
35979s	looking to do here right just get it out
35982s	of the way it is potentially the weakest
35984s	link so if you can pull the through pull
35986s	through the wind quickly you just don't
35988s	have to worry about it anymore it can
35990s	have some pretty snowbally openings
35993s	but
35994s	it's really i think something that is
35997s	very good on ladder and and just a
35999s	little more dicey when it comes to a
36001s	conquest play
36004s	yeah
36005s	but it's uh this is a single best of
36008s	five series to determine the champion uh
36010s	for the week anything can happen
36013s	and i mean anything
36015s	so
36015s	uh we can talk about who's favorite in
36018s	the series we can talk about who has an
36020s	advantage but
36021s	one game at a time and uh we'll see
36023s	who's gonna come out on top and
36025s	you know this is not the end all be all
36027s	this is week one right so both players
36029s	by making it to the finals have
36031s	uh earned a good chunk of points that
36034s	will go towards once we get into the
36035s	final week in that playoffs
36037s	um but
36038s	getting the win you get that little bit
36041s	of extra oomph you get better tie
36043s	breakers even though i think the tie
36044s	breakers have changed the season so
36047s	i'm not
36048s	up to date on them
36049s	uh as as i usually am but uh it's and
36053s	also it's
36055s	just
36056s	bragging rights to say okay yeah i won
36058s	the the very first
36060s	and the very last
36063s	first week
36064s	of grand master's last call
36068s	yeah absolutely uh and it just
36071s	really helps to prevent snowballing
36073s	mindset into a rough place right you can
36076s	imagine some of the players that
36078s	got eliminated early on now feel extra
36081s	pressure going into the upcoming weeks
36083s	so uh you're always happy if you can put
36086s	out a good performance right from the
36087s	start uh not to say that you will
36090s	you know perform worse in the following
36092s	weeks but in terms of your your mindset
36094s	it's just like there's not that huge
36096s	pressure weighing on you
36101s	okay
36104s	so
36105s	let's get into it peasant start for
36107s	bunny hopper the rest of the hand is uh
36109s	pretty good got a harpoon gun and a pet
36111s	collector
36112s	lots of fun things you can do with uh
36115s	uh that combination
36117s	um
36118s	super fake does have to make the
36119s	decision here
36120s	of
36122s	answer this peasant immediately to deny
36125s	the card draw with like a coin drain
36126s	sole or
36128s	just answer it by playing the mistress
36130s	giving up one card draw but playing more
36132s	on curve
36134s	yeah and i like the mistress play just
36136s	because there is the off chance that
36138s	your opponent does not have a doggie
36140s	biscuit and so you can just clear it
36142s	with the mistress yes you give them one
36144s	extra card but you get to save your coin
36146s	which can just be so crucial uh for
36149s	getting out one of your turn six board
36151s	clears of which there are five
36153s	so it's
36155s	it's that thing of like all right yes i
36158s	could coin out drains hole and deny them
36159s	a draw but then i'm just tapping for a
36162s	bit anyway
36163s	it's it's fine to just get out the
36165s	mistress and if there was a buff
36167s	that still came out you can always trade
36169s	in the mistress and drain soul and
36171s	that's still fine
36183s	oh gotta imagine it's the harpoon gun
36184s	here right
36186s	well
36187s	the click locker does set up for a
36189s	ramming mount play
36191s	uh in the following turn but harpoon gun
36194s	plays more to the curve can get stronger
36198s	power plays going into the next turn
36201s	no beasts
36204s	that is tough
36207s	and
36208s	okay nanotron not even that good because
36211s	you know two out of three cards that are
36212s	going to be on the next swing
36215s	um leaning towards doggy biscuit just to
36219s	try again
36220s	but damage could also be relevant with
36223s	the quick shot but not anytime soon
36226s	yeah i would have to agree you're almost
36228s	taking the doggie biscuit just for trade
36230s	or maybe the buff looking at a
36233s	click clocker plus ramming mount turn
36236s	together and then following that up with
36238s	pet collector you maybe save the weapon
36240s	swing so that you can
36241s	pet collector trade into something and
36243s	then reduce the
36245s	sunken saber
36248s	pose for the
36250s	mech though i guess this way you utilize
36252s	the battle cry of the clip clocker
36255s	and also you get to dredge something up
36258s	uh one of the other things before you
36261s	play
36266s	works out quite well there
36270s	but the question is do you bother
36271s	swinging or do you just
36273s	wait for the pet collector
36274s	yeah i think he wait for the pet
36276s	collector so now he knows uh
36279s	uh the options are the same
36282s	uh with one additional option from the
36284s	quick shot in the donkey biscuit
36286s	um since the vicious the slither spear
36288s	was the first was the new selection so
36292s	um
36294s	maybe you get something to trade into
36296s	with the pet with the uh saber next turn
36298s	who knows
36300s	yeah if there's like a null value trade
36303s	or something then that's a great target
36305s	to to trade the saber into
36308s	also just
36310s	there is no real threat of
36312s	restaurant viper so you can sort of save
36314s	the weapon
36315s	for as long as you need to and it can
36318s	just be used to clean up
36320s	a minion after a value trade or
36322s	something so that your minions that you
36324s	do have in play can push through
36338s	i mean this is still
36339s	a trade target
36341s	yeah this is ideal right kills off the
36344s	saber you can get the sunken
36347s	then you just need to make sure that you
36348s	don't play the sunken saber until it can
36350s	die on the same turn
36352s	because this is a list with double
36353s	starfish
36355s	you don't know that they're in hand but
36358s	it's always consideration
36368s	oh geez
36370s	uh
36371s	coin abyssal wave was what jumped at me
36373s	initially
36377s	and there's really nothing else going on
36379s	you could take a bunch of damage and get
36382s	the rude metal rod online but that seems
36384s	reckless
36386s	well you see how important it was having
36388s	that mistress to take out the peasant
36390s	instead of coining out the drain sole
36391s	because if you're in that spot having
36393s	drain sold the peasant on one no longer
36395s	have the coin you just take a ton of
36397s	damage before you can actually aoe the
36400s	board
36401s	yeah true
36403s	could also make the argument though that
36405s	bunny hopper would be one card
36407s	less deep into the deck and maybe
36408s	wouldn't have that pressure
36410s	but it just wasn't really hard
36412s	and uh
36414s	i i don't even remember where the
36416s	harpoon gun came off so i think it was
36418s	in the hand initially
36423s	might just be a full commit of buffs
36425s	here
36426s	is there an ice cream truck outside your
36428s	house
36430s	that does sound like what's going on i'm
36432s	sorry if that's coming through
36435s	i i think that
36437s	catching that ice cream truck is way
36439s	more important than casting the finals
36440s	of uh of grandmaster's last call so
36444s	if you need to go
36445s	don't worry i understand
36447s	no no i'm i'm fine
36450s	okay
36450s	i just apparently have very thin windows
36454s	or that ice cream truck is just
36456s	exceptionally loud i don't even know if
36458s	anybody else in the broadcast heard that
36460s	because i could barely hear it and i
36461s	have headphones on but
36463s	uh
36464s	i because i looked outside my window
36466s	first i was like oh is that the ice
36467s	cream truck
36469s	go send one of the kids to pick
36470s	something up
36471s	yeah
36477s	okani finally coming down now that
36480s	the board's a little less filled so
36483s	you do know there's a saber but it won't
36486s	kill it off
36489s	it's going into seven so you probably
36490s	just do minion anyway um
36493s	yeah
36495s	this is part of the strength of okani in
36497s	the meadow right now is there are so
36498s	many decks where you pick one option and
36500s	you sort of you know what it is but it's
36502s	still frustrating this is a hand almost
36504s	entirely of minions for bunny hopper so
36507s	if not for the click clock or pickup
36509s	there would not really be a great way to
36510s	test here
36523s	this does give super fake the
36525s	opportunity to silence though
36527s	yeah um but bunny hopper has a ton of
36531s	follow-up even if this doesn't pull a
36533s	beast
36534s	uh with
36536s	the uh hydraulidon or
36540s	even revive pet on the saber if it does
36543s	die but again there would be nothing to
36544s	trade into actually
36546s	unless he plays the knoll
36548s	but you can't
36551s	no you can't do that
36553s	because if you play the null
36555s	i guess you could no trade then silence
36558s	but that's awkward because then you
36559s	don't kill the saber so it value trades
36561s	anyway
36564s	yeah i think it was you know
36565s	consideration for a moment and then
36567s	realized ah it's probably not worth it
36573s	plus then you are vulnerable to an
36575s	immediate revive pet on the saber
36589s	question here is do you just revive pet
36591s	and go again or do you ruin your revive
36594s	pet pool and play the hydraulidon
36603s	yeah
36604s	just go wide
36607s	sure
36610s	can be one of the more frustrating
36611s	minions to deal with
36613s	but
36615s	not a ton of resources have been spent
36617s	yet often i feel like you like to save
36620s	the hydraulidon for later on where more
36622s	resources have been used and so it is
36624s	less likely that they're able to clear
36626s	off the main body but here we can just
36628s	see entitled customer come down
36631s	deal with the whole thing
36635s	you can't even fit in a life tap
36638s	still relatively healthy
36641s	uh there is a spiced bread baker in hand
36643s	so can bounce back up at any point that
36645s	there's not too much pressure on the
36646s	board
36647s	um
36649s	buddy hopper still has some reasonable
36651s	plays ahead i mean next turn if there's
36653s	not much on board
36655s	i could even
36657s	be just king crush hit face
36660s	uh as a play and then
36662s	you even though the
36664s	uh revived pet pool
36667s	is gonna be uh muddied up by
36670s	the hydraulidon plus the
36672s	heads
36674s	um and the ram
36677s	you could still have the option to uh
36679s	revive pedic king crush and just push up
36681s	absurd amounts of damage with harpoon
36683s	gun as well
36685s	yeah it's still a reasonable chance i
36687s	think a one in six to hit the crush and
36689s	well actually probably better than that
36691s	because you look at three different
36694s	discovers right it's not just
36696s	rule one so so reasonable odds to still
36698s	hit the crush even after all these have
36700s	been played no mountain bears yet
36702s	diluting it further
36708s	interesting
36718s	i know i'd certainly be interested in
36720s	just pushing that king crush and you can
36722s	use the well the mount doesn't have the
36724s	immune effect anymore
36726s	but uh yeah i guess you can just ship
36728s	everything face
36730s	yeah
36732s	the 19 points of damage
36735s	which is a lot put your opponent down to
36738s	11
36739s	which means that if you do hit the king
36740s	crush on the viper next turn that plus
36742s	the harpoon gun would represent lethal
36744s	outside of no healing
36749s	i think maybe super fake is considering
36752s	the revive pet here in terms of holding
36754s	the entitled customer leveraging that
36756s	extra life to be able to take this so if
36758s	it does come down here for
36761s	had it been the sunken saver recruiting
36763s	a mountain bear
36766s	who would be able to play
36767s	smothering starfish and the entitled
36769s	customer in the same turn for the clear
36778s	still taking uh quite a bit of damage
36782s	for that hedge
36795s	okay
36804s	second customer means you can spend one
36807s	of them if you don't want to take the
36808s	three from the hellfire
36810s	but no additional healing to be found
36814s	yeah
36816s	this is a little weird because from
36818s	super fake's perspective if he plays
36819s	entitled customer it means that he's
36821s	putting a minion in the way for the
36823s	uh sabre to trade into which could get
36825s	king crush
36826s	right uh oddly enough um
36830s	which would then
36831s	represent not lethal
36835s	but close to it it wouldn't be 14.
36839s	if he's worried about that then he
36840s	wouldn't want to fit in a life tap
36842s	uh because that would mean
36845s	uh king crush being pulled from the
36846s	saber after trading it would be enough
36848s	okay gonna look for what healing
36852s	yeah i suppose i think
36854s	touch or drain soul are really the only
36856s	ones um
36858s	you can go for full-blown evil here and
36859s	it's pretty decent clear
36865s	anybody i think that was the pick the
36866s	drain soul probably the one here
36869s	and then
36870s	full blown even evil noggling to
36873s	clear up exactly five damage for the
36875s	board
36888s	i mean you can play the saber and the
36890s	crush
36906s	maybe he wants to
36908s	use okani for disruption and then
36910s	squeeze in a hero power as well
36912s	yeah oh nope that was a quick shot i
36914s	think
36916s	yeah and that's
36918s	that's bad news for super fake you know
36920s	you've got the
36922s	the silence customer even clear it i'm
36924s	not sure
36925s	i would with the touch right
36927s	yeah and actually that's beneficial
36930s	because you want the healing as well
36931s	from the touch right right
36933s	if the starfish plus customer cleared
36935s	the whole board then you'd be stuck at
36936s	three which
36938s	you'd be dead to more damage
36940s	um i think that's reasonable again
36943s	though the problem's gonna be that super
36944s	fake doesn't have any additional healing
36946s	besides the touch in hand and
36949s	alternatively
36950s	you can trade the four three in and then
36952s	touch
36953s	and and then do the entitled customer
36955s	and not have to spend three mana on the
36956s	silence
36959s	[Music]
36961s	and then if you want to fit in the
36963s	noggling for a drain sole somewhere in
36964s	there as well
36966s	well then would the customer not clear
36971s	but the the three damage from the drain
36972s	sole is
36973s	makes up for it
36976s	oh that noggling is oh that noggling is
36978s	straight soul okay sorry i thought it
36979s	was still the first snuggling
36983s	i assume it's strangel
36989s	uh
36991s	didn't actually check if that's what was
36992s	picked
36994s	uh super fake are we okay
36998s	oh no
36999s	oh no
37002s	i don't think he got it off oh that's so
37005s	that's so tragic
37008s	yep
37009s	yeah i'm not sure if there would have
37011s	ultimately been a way out of that
37012s	anyways being at such a low life total
37014s	and facing the hunter hero power but you
37016s	do hate to see it when uh
37019s	rope hits you there i think bunny hopper
37021s	a little confused at what was going on
37023s	there it's it's you know not something
37024s	you expect to see
37026s	in the finals like this but it does
37028s	happen to everyone
37030s	yep
37031s	and uh you know maybe it's not likely
37033s	that super fake wins anyway from that
37035s	situation because of how much damage
37036s	that bunny hopper still had uh loaded up
37038s	with a with a connie like the hero
37040s	powers could have just whittled him down
37041s	with not much healing remaining so
37043s	who knows but that is a pretty crucial
37046s	error and bunny hopper gets the hunter
37048s	uh over the line on the first try
37051s	though that's a a big deal in terms of
37054s	the overall story of the series i feel
37057s	like
37058s	super fake could struggle
37060s	uh even more as this goes on
37063s	but we shall see still lots of
37065s	hearthstone left to play
37067s	uh bunny hopper still has the
37070s	uh thief rogue left remaining as well as
37072s	the mage
37073s	considering the druids been banned
37076s	um
37076s	and you know
37078s	fifro can just be a deck that you can
37081s	just beat three times in a row it's true
37084s	or sometimes it beats itself three times
37086s	in a row yes it can happen so yeah uh
37089s	yeah that's probably the next thing
37090s	you're looking to take advantage of if
37092s	you're super fake
37093s	and it's the next one coming out for
37095s	bunnyhopper
37096s	okay
37098s	uh he's been pretty consistent with his
37100s	debt cues
37103s	over the it seems like he's giving the
37105s	mage until last
37106s	uh as much as he possibly can over the
37109s	course of the the last few days so
37111s	we are going to get to see the deep
37113s	broken action and it is
37115s	full jackpot trickster
37120s	what other cards can i yell tess
37124s	reconnaissance
37125s	two yeah i think those are all the
37129s	all the burgers
37133s	um
37135s	yeah that's it
37136s	my extra technically but
37139s	null kind of
37142s	every
37143s	card uh but yeah uh very hit or miss
37146s	kind of deck uh sometimes you can just
37148s	win the game very quickly if you get a
37149s	good jackpot to start things off
37151s	sometimes your jackpots are terrible and
37153s	you actually have to win the
37154s	old-fashioned way of building a board
37156s	and then killing your opponent
37158s	but still a fun dick to watch
37161s	nonetheless
37163s	yeah always a surprise and for both the
37166s	players and and the casters
37171s	we've got that xl ping mage that i've
37173s	been enjoying so much this weekend uh
37176s	you know in
37177s	hs replay
37179s	we've seen like a naga xl deck
37183s	that was putting up
37185s	numbers and and really confusing us over
37187s	on the coin conceived podcast
37189s	but i like this development towards like
37192s	oh you don't have to do any of the naga
37194s	things you just run the really powerful
37196s	ones in queen azshara lady najar
37199s	commander sivara not concerned with
37202s	those pop-off turns but then you just
37204s	get to run all kinds of uh other things
37206s	for for card draw of course you've got
37208s	multicaster and have this more uh
37210s	defensive bent on the deck
37213s	really seems to have lined up well
37215s	against a lot of the uh decks here in
37218s	the uh grand masters last call
37221s	yep we'll see if it's gonna line up well
37223s	against thief rogue one of the things
37224s	about the frog is most of the time they
37226s	don't have ways to uh
37229s	to heal
37230s	to gain life
37232s	a lot of times the damage that you're
37233s	dealing to thief roads sticks so some
37235s	and it's not a xl deck so you're not
37238s	playing the metaphor you don't start at
37239s	40 so
37241s	little bits of incremental damage can be
37244s	pretty devastating because it opens up
37246s	opportunities for the ping page to
37248s	uh find lethals earlier than expected
37251s	though um
37253s	that's one of the things i've noticed
37255s	about being a weakness of the deep broke
37258s	thus far especially if they can't get
37260s	some early tempo for themselves
37262s	um starting things off archanologist for
37264s	super fake i believe he plays the double
37266s	berry but one arcanologist
37269s	in the deck which makes sense
37270s	and we have a trickster in the opening
37273s	hand
37274s	for bunnyhopper which
37276s	uh i imagine would be the keep i imagine
37278s	would be the only keep i suppose there's
37280s	argument for
37281s	uh extortion to be able to answer an
37283s	early game minion if you don't have
37284s	temple yourself but i think i'd rather
37286s	have better stuff
37289s	in that in that slot
37291s	i mean you don't tend to have any ones
37294s	anyway right so you keep the extortion
37296s	just to trade it and discount null
37300s	i see you jerking yes
37306s	and then of course it's there on the off
37307s	chance that you
37310s	pick up you know a minion you actually
37312s	want to kill although the tooth can fill
37314s	that role just nicely for a moment i was
37317s	a little bit confused seeing the druid i
37319s	was like wait it wasn't the druid and
37320s	and then i remembered oh yeah maestro
37322s	the card back that's the
37325s	indicator uh players are forced to play
37327s	the classic card back if they're playing
37328s	on my astro deck so there's no confusion
37330s	and no uh uh calls to admins
37333s	um saying i ban the druid in my
37335s	opponents playing it
37339s	more of an issue in the qualifiers i
37342s	think than in gms you sort of expect
37344s	people aren't going to be
37346s	cheating on broadcast like that but you
37349s	do want to keep the rules universal
37352s	i wonder how long if someone did
37355s	well not say uh
37357s	they were cheating but like accidentally
37358s	cued the wrong deck how long it would
37359s	take for everybody to notice right
37362s	right right especially if they actually
37364s	put the classic card back on uh
37369s	or the classic card back was there
37371s	for some reason
37373s	um and then
37375s	but they miscued how long it would take
37377s	not only us to notice
37379s	uh but the players to notice i guess the
37380s	other way around so um but uh build the
37384s	snowman is an a pretty good pickup uh
37387s	because its replayability is
37390s	can be quite nice but also awkward since
37392s	you're filling up your hand more when
37395s	you're playing those replay other class
37397s	cards effects
37399s	yeah it's a bit unusual i mean in some
37401s	respects you can
37403s	be able to trickster out a nine-nine
37405s	eventually and that's pretty cool and
37407s	you just get these huge boards but yeah
37410s	as you say if you're replaying it over
37412s	and over particularly the first phase
37414s	your hand is just overflowing
37417s	with snowmen eventually
37420s	[Music]
37427s	blood in the water pretty great tempo
37429s	play here uh particularly coined out
37431s	that's a very early five five but there
37433s	is
37434s	the damage spells to pick it off
37437s	yep i actually really like this opening
37440s	hand from super fake gets the
37441s	arcanologist out to pull secret has a
37444s	savara with some pretty high value
37446s	spells
37447s	a reckless apprentice to clear a board
37449s	an early wildfire um it's not not bad
37452s	also picks up a prune of the archmage
37455s	from the ruined door why not you know
37456s	just in case yeah always nice it's just
37459s	a nice to have
37468s	so this will mean i think that queen
37470s	azshara is active on five
37475s	uh
37478s	blood in the water
37479s	tooth and coin
37482s	yeah and snowman yeah very active
37490s	and that's always something you're
37491s	looking for as the rogue i mean we have
37493s	seen bunny hopper utilize the ring for
37496s	some late game wicked stab lethals for
37498s	18 but i suspect when you have the
37500s	opportunity to just play it on curve
37502s	here yep you're just going to pick up
37503s	that colossal hope for not a neutral
37506s	this time
37507s	some kind of class colossal that you'll
37509s	be able to replay over and over
37515s	or
37517s	yeah
37519s	where are you going
37520s	stone yeah
37523s	just just really get into the spirit of
37527s	uh of thief rogue you know
37529s	tidestone is very much the emergency
37531s	escape button of
37534s	any deck running queen azshara where
37536s	it's just like okay i'm going into
37538s	fatigue i need to shuffle cards into my
37540s	deck or i really need to draw two cards
37543s	so it's okay to shuffle some spells in
37546s	it's uh not something you take in
37550s	sort of optimal circumstances for the
37552s	most part
37558s	okay well super fake ton of removal
37562s	now
37562s	here power's upgraded to three so
37564s	reckless apprentice is
37565s	beefed up
37566s	uh two first flames plus another second
37569s	flame in the hand at the moment
37572s	uh so pretty much
37575s	as many ways as he would like to try and
37577s	remove boards see what the colossus is
37581s	glug is nice but it is a lot of board
37584s	space for being replayed uh particularly
37586s	if you were going to
37588s	play other snowmen
37591s	yeah and uh bunny hopper does know that
37594s	there's a guaranteed answer
37596s	in hand with just the hero power plus
37598s	the second flame or first flame
37600s	that's uh
37603s	that's tyrion that is a tyrion
37610s	that ashbringer could uh
37613s	really really
37615s	spoil things for super fake i mean it
37617s	could just be ashbringer swings alone
37619s	that end up carrying the game if they're
37621s	spaced out
37625s	no
37626s	silences in hand yet but i do believe
37628s	they are in the deck
37634s	uh super fake inspired by the build a
37636s	snowman spell now listening to the
37638s	soundtrack of frozen and jamming
37641s	i'm sure you've heard that plenty of
37643s	times tj what with your couple of kids
37645s	and all
37646s	oh no they don't like that they're
37648s	scared of it no
37649s	really oh my yeah
37652s	two-year-old and a four-year-old and
37653s	they're scared of the beginning of
37654s	frozen
37656s	well you've dodged a bullet on that one
37658s	i think uh many parents were going crazy
37661s	from no i want to hear it again i want
37662s	to hear it again
37664s	oh no they picked much worse shows i
37666s	don't know if you've ever heard of peppa
37667s	pig but uh oh my
37670s	that is their favorite show and it is
37673s	excruciating
37679s	other languages though
37681s	uh i don't know it's a good way of
37683s	learning uh diff the different dialects
37685s	of the uk
37688s	if you're very familiar with it then
37691s	what you do is you switch over and
37692s	you've already memorized the episodes in
37694s	english it's such simple words that they
37696s	use you listen to it in a foreign
37698s	language and you start picking up those
37700s	words
37701s	oh yeah well what it it actuality what
37704s	it's doing is uh
37706s	my four-year-old now speaks with a
37708s	british accent uh when he says certain
37711s	words or sentences so
37713s	i have heard that
37715s	it's gonna be
37717s	pretty fun when he goes to
37719s	preschool and
37721s	the teacher's like
37723s	was your son born in the uk like did he
37726s	grow up there
37727s	are you guys british nope he just
37730s	watches a lot of peppa pig
37739s	full spells utilized to activate the
37742s	queen azshara i'm not entirely sure what
37744s	you're looking for is super fake i guess
37746s	uh i guess ring
37748s	it does mean a second rune of the
37750s	archmage in this case so super fake
37751s	doing his best impression of big spell
37753s	mage for one man oh geez
37758s	uh
37758s	he's he's really jamming now he's
37760s	playing fast too he's he's feeling it
37762s	he's like yeah this game's in the bag
37764s	i'm at 40 life
37766s	i don't care about tyrion
37773s	just jamming out
37777s	um
37779s	jackpot maybe into craba no not crabato
37782s	ah
37783s	i guess crabato is fine
37785s	wow really hitting all the juice here
37787s	for bunny hopper almost too much i mean
37790s	glaciate's another great one to get
37791s	recast because it's just a random eight
37794s	drop even if it is frozen
37797s	those tend to be pretty big
37800s	might just see the crabatoa here for
37801s	pushing damage
37811s	yeah
37812s	you get to trade off the clean share and
37814s	push
37815s	10 damage
37817s	and you're not really worried about the
37819s	kravatos
37821s	weapon going away if deteriorating hits
37823s	deadwoods because you get a better
37825s	weapon and then you get more tyrants
37827s	later so you're okay with it
37829s	you always expect the kravito main body
37831s	to get dealt with anyway so trading a
37833s	2-1 weapon for a 5-3 weapon you know
37835s	i'll take that trade
37838s	rune of the archmage coming out
37839s	oh polymorph foot on the wrong one
37847s	wow
37851s	double hot streak fire sale could come
37853s	out
37860s	another rune
37862s	oh no
37864s	[Laughter]
37866s	this is
37867s	the greatest matchup ever
37869s	that room dorb at the end
37872s	oh it's just going to be triple rune and
37874s	bunny at least knows that there's going
37875s	to be two potentially because of the
37877s	ring
37880s	all right
37883s	what's the best pickup from glaciate
37887s	oh uh you know it it varies
37891s	pretty dramatically uh those are not
37893s	them
37895s	yeah i think here
37898s	although of course you can't hit alec
37900s	here in
37902s	in rogue but it being a shaman card
37904s	usually alicia is something that i'm
37905s	looking for
37907s	yeah
37909s	are there any natural rogue eight cost
37912s	cards oh the uh i don't believe so since
37915s	tess was uh buffed
37918s	yeah yeah yeah that's just an eight
37920s	eight
37921s	yeah
37922s	and i think it's mostly eight eights
37924s	hook test is the only rogue and then
37925s	there's the ones we saw there's like
37931s	there's moarg the demon that's eight
37933s	mana 88 taunt and when it dies you gain
37935s	eight armor that's definitely a really
37937s	nice hit because it's still
37939s	taunt in spite of being frozen for a
37941s	couple of turns i think there's also
37943s	another neutral 88 that has rush and if
37946s	it honorably kills it does eight to the
37948s	opponent's face so that can be nice just
37950s	because
37951s	uh even if you're not likely to
37953s	honorably kill anything the rush means
37955s	it's only frozen for one turn instead of
37957s	two
37958s	yeah the troll centurion
37962s	yes that's the one
37964s	and then arcane devour can be good in
37965s	some situations but only if you really
37968s	have a bunch of like cheap spells to
37969s	follow it up with immediately
37971s	yeah for sure abominable lieutenant can
37973s	be another great one
37974s	yep
37977s	um okay
37978s	so a lot of options
37980s	for bunny hoppers still two secrets
37982s	that i'm not sure have been really
37984s	tested for uh
37986s	last turn was glaciate plus
37989s	i don't don't even know what but
37992s	um
37995s	scabs get a maddest bomber back in hand
37998s	it's not a terrible scabs board
38001s	i mean i don't think you're particularly
38003s	doing it for the mattis bomber but sure
38006s	no you are
38013s	stick to the shadows
38016s	i i swear bunny hopper always draws at
38018s	least one gnaw off this card in this
38021s	case two one of them is just gonna gain
38024s	him a little bit of life by being high
38025s	toughness into the explosive
38039s	okay and should have this narrowed down
38041s	too sally good luck
38044s	yeah oh what was burned i looked away
38046s	for a second
38048s	look
38050s	what i also missed it i was so focused
38053s	on the stealth
38067s	minions um okay
38069s	using the
38072s	hero power again just to block some
38074s	damage i mean bunny hopper's been able
38076s	to stick some damage even despite only a
38078s	single swing of the ashbringer
38080s	uh super fake down to 23.
38083s	um
38084s	does have a
38085s	couple of runes of the arc mage
38087s	uh to back things up could do them both
38089s	in the same turn if you wanted to with
38090s	the ring
38091s	still available
38093s	uh potential lethals there
38096s	yeah in buddyhopper's mind he's probably
38098s	happy to see the fire sale having been
38101s	played thinking okay i won't have to
38103s	deal with another rune little does he
38105s	know
38111s	there it is the troll centurion
38118s	and gold i'm only able to summon two
38120s	appendages but uh i don't think you much
38122s	care when you have this gnoll able to
38124s	attack and buff it immediately
38127s	yep
38128s	sizzle um
38131s	so super fake does have the vardan to
38133s	buy a turret
38137s	um
38139s	or just double rune of the arc mage if
38142s	he thinks that that's going to clear the
38143s	board but i feel like with this kind of
38144s	board that's a little risky oh now he
38146s	doesn't anymore i guess that's floor you
38147s	can test for spell
38150s	house
38151s	minion
38153s	yeah that does force out
38155s	the flurry test i'm not sure what minion
38158s	you were maybe exactly the vardhan or
38160s	reckless apprentice or something
38162s	although reckless would not be good
38163s	enough gorgeous maybe
38165s	just putting faith in the rune here
38168s	first four man is a miss
38170s	that's a backup rune it's okay
38172s	yeah that glug's gonna get real big
38181s	yeah it it couldn't just be it
38185s	if that glug isn't cleared but
38186s	everything else is unless you find
38188s	something like polymorph just got to go
38189s	with the ring do it all over again
38192s	the slight eyebrow raise from bunny
38194s	hopper
38194s	it's like oh second one okay
38198s	look
38199s	bunny hopper has played plenty of runes
38201s	himself
38203s	oh
38204s	oh and a blast but still nothing on the
38206s	glug
38208s	oh disaster
38211s	flurry at the end
38214s	i think that's it that's all that's
38216s	funny oh no no no there's still more
38218s	another no another ally
38221s	not quite and blog surviving is just
38224s	gonna be immediate lights out
38228s	bunnyhopper up 2-0
38230s	[Music]
38231s	yeah
38232s	and uh
38234s	it seemed like super fake was not in a
38236s	terrible position it seemed like had a
38238s	ton of answers
38240s	but then it was just the glug getting
38241s	out of control in the room of the arc
38243s	mage casting
38244s	uh
38246s	a combination of counter spells and
38247s	oasis allies for like 15 mana this cast
38251s	the initial secrets and then after that
38253s	recast oasis ally twice and recast
38256s	counterspell once so
38258s	that also gave bunny hopper the
38259s	information that that's what the secrets
38261s	were not that it mattered because had
38263s	legal i think even through an ice
38265s	barrier
38266s	but still
38268s	that was a lot of pressure
38270s	really insult to injury the way that
38272s	works in terms of
38274s	not only are you denied extra mana of
38277s	casts because you hit the same secret
38279s	but now your opponent knows what the
38280s	secret is
38282s	yeah
38283s	um but yeah bunny hopper only with his
38285s	own mage
38287s	left remaining
38288s	uh as the the final deck and it is a 30
38292s	card
38293s	uh big spell mage
38296s	so just good old fashioned
38299s	big spell and we've seen some
38302s	uh very good play from bunny hopper in
38304s	this deck i will say a lot of creative
38306s	plays as well uh obviously understands
38309s	the deck at a at a very high level
38312s	and uh how to maximize
38314s	uh not only his ability to
38316s	make big stuff as big spell mage does
38318s	but also maximum disruption on what his
38321s	opponent can do so
38322s	um three tries at it i uh
38326s	a lot of faith in bunny hopper to close
38327s	out this series maybe not in the next
38329s	game specifically but
38331s	uh
38332s	a huge favorite now to take the series
38334s	down as well
38335s	it does seem like with just how well
38337s	he's been able to execute on this list
38339s	that it would be a tall order for super
38342s	fake to shut it down three games in a
38344s	row particularly with the decks
38346s	remaining
38347s	i was really impressed by bunny hopper's
38349s	play up against the boar priest
38352s	where just navigating
38354s	holding the freezes and everything to
38356s	not get your mana taken away
38359s	by the weapon swing and just creating
38361s	that lethal setup just very very well
38364s	played from from bunnyhopper and both
38366s	players for trying to navigate it but it
38367s	was of course bunnyhopper who came out
38369s	on top
38381s	okay
38383s	age versus me
38386s	um
38390s	super fake playing the ping variant not
38392s	the big spell variant uh
38395s	uh one of the good things is
38398s	there's it's a very minion heavy deck
38400s	the ping variation
38403s	so can
38406s	dump some spells early on to try and
38408s	make barbaric sorceress less of uh
38412s	uh
38413s	a big deal in terms of
38416s	not only making bunny hoppers people
38417s	have power plays earlier but also in
38419s	terms of
38420s	making your life easier as the the pink
38422s	mage
38425s	yeah you can dump a bit although
38428s	most of your spells are fairly cheap so
38432s	while that means you can get them out of
38434s	hand it means if you do pick any up at
38436s	the wrong moment
38438s	it means a huge swing for the big spell
38442s	mage something cheap to activate with
38445s	we see the uh two drop here
38448s	coming down for netflix plus an
38450s	additional to play this barbaric
38452s	sorceress as early as turn four
38455s	as well as dawn grasp in the hand
38457s	i gotta imagine this is
38459s	almost a a perfect setup for bunny
38462s	hopper
38464s	[Music]
38466s	it seems that way if you can get the uh
38469s	barbaric sorceress uh to
38472s	let's say discount the uh drake fire
38475s	amulet
38476s	um
38477s	and then
38479s	uh play that in before you play the
38481s	master don grass and get the double cast
38482s	of it
38484s	that's quite nice
38491s	so this could be that situation like you
38493s	were saying where super fake just tries
38495s	to
38496s	get the spells out of hand so there's
38498s	nothing to swap with you might just see
38500s	the ice barrier come down for now
38509s	nope gonna go ahead and pick up the coin
38516s	okay and spend it immediately sure why
38518s	not
38519s	yep this does mean you can play
38521s	multicaster next turn for two
38534s	okay
38537s	um
38541s	well if coincoin sorceress is the
38546s	plan for bunnyhopper then this turn
38548s	would be
38549s	ping pass
38551s	yeah really awkward i mean
38554s	or or like finley i'd you almost have to
38556s	draw a cheap minion to hit okay well i
38559s	mean three is not as bad as
38562s	one but i feel like there's almost no
38564s	way you can just avoid the the coin coin
38567s	barbaric you just gotta hope it's not
38568s	there
38569s	yeah i've heard of it okay
38573s	take the draw
38575s	now it oh no oh that got even worse
38578s	you know it could be
38580s	the flurry
38582s	oh
38583s	and it's playable yep hit the flurry i
38586s	can drake fire amulet immediately that
38588s	means it's going to be able to be recast
38590s	from the magister dawn grasp
38593s	and good hits as well caligo double
38596s	caligos
38597s	means rune could come out immediately
38599s	you don't necessarily want to do that
38602s	because you may end up just killing your
38604s	own board
38606s	but it does give you the option
38609s	always nice to have the option and now
38611s	super fake can't even because it was the
38613s	flurry that swapped can't even buy time
38615s	by playing the flurry
38617s	yeah it cuts on both ends
38620s	yeah
38621s	let's just go ahead and say yeah i don't
38622s	want this hand anymore let's uh reset
38624s	nothing really valuable here so let's
38627s	get the wildfire out of the way first to
38629s	make sure that
38631s	there are some options in the future
38633s	maybe start dealing some damage to this
38635s	board uh okay martin long grasp is
38639s	is a stall tactic another wildfire
38641s	there's dog grass okay all right both
38644s	players with dawn grass we could have a
38645s	game on our hands flurry being shuffled
38648s	in by the finley does mean that when
38650s	it's picked up again it will no longer
38651s	be 10 mana
38660s	do you go for it
38663s	do you go for the proactive rune in
38666s	hopes of getting a bunch of disruptive
38667s	secrets
38674s	still an option before that happened but
38676s	i assumed that you would play the okani
38678s	after if you were going for the rune of
38680s	the arc mage true yes um
38683s	oh i i this is fine i think that just
38687s	don't get ahead of yourself there's not
38689s	really a likelihood that you
38691s	actually there's no situation where you
38693s	kill him he's too healthy at 36.
38696s	there's not enough man that you can
38697s	spend to get there well
38701s	no there's not
38703s	if you cast all fireballs no
38707s	it would only be four five fireballs
38712s	in the news that it is counter minion
38714s	making the starfish
38716s	less appealing now the oconee's
38719s	battle cry is already gone
38721s	could just be
38724s	buy his little time until you can play
38726s	the hero
38736s	and this can be the trouble with
38738s	the dragons
38740s	off of drake fire these 12 health
38742s	caligos
38744s	they aren't super threatening in terms
38746s	of beating you down immediately
38748s	but
38750s	the 12 health just makes them so hard to
38752s	deal with i think that's
38753s	part of why bunny hopper picked them
38755s	both rather than
38757s	say you know
38758s	the a-date raid boss inyxia on one of
38761s	them just having these really chunky
38764s	stats that are challenging for
38766s	damage-based removal to deal with means
38768s	yeah i may not have eight damage but i'm
38770s	more likely to hit you more than once
38772s	with them
38773s	yeah
38777s	but the the reduced clock is
38781s	still relevant uh super fake not having
38784s	to use the varden
38786s	has a pretty clean uh dawn grasp next
38789s	turn could even
38791s	uh maybe not even play the flurry maybe
38793s	you'd want to have uh the ice barrier uh
38796s	as the uh frost spell pick and then play
38799s	the flurry as a follow-up
38801s	oh nope okay nevermind he's gonna play
38803s	the flurry first
38805s	just gonna increase the odds that you
38806s	replay it off the dawn grasp you have
38808s	played an ice barrier so
38811s	it uh
38812s	this makes it i think a little bit
38813s	better than the 50 50 does hit it for
38815s	the full freeze although i expect we'll
38817s	see bunnyhopper play
38819s	his own
38820s	hero card on the other side here
38825s	two more dragons loaded up
38829s	i'm a little surprised to see the
38832s	reckless apprentice come down on the
38833s	previous turn knowing that you do have
38835s	the dawn grasp to start
38837s	ranking up the hero power i suppose it
38839s	it was to play around you know something
38841s	like the freeze from flurry and just as
38844s	you say uh yes they're sturdy but now
38847s	your clock isn't as big so maybe you
38848s	just felt he needed the 3-5 body to push
38851s	a little faster
38866s	that is the only spell
38869s	school that bunny's played is the
38871s	drake fire
38873s	the only one you can get really
38875s	barring
38876s	uh roon finding you something else
38879s	yeah oh
38881s	okay
38884s	i guess you sarah
38887s	and deathwing
38889s	sure
38894s	the hero powers at five
38896s	for super fake
38898s	or six
38901s	were there two wildfires played prior
38906s	i'm not sure
38908s	then
38911s	i don't well no honorable kills yet so i
38913s	can't imagine it's
38915s	too high i think it would be at four
38918s	maximum
38921s	right i think there was only one
38923s	wildfire played
38925s	okay
38927s	i thought so there was one play and then
38928s	one replayed
38930s	potentially
38931s	although a lot of flames were played so
38935s	it would be unlikely that it was
38936s	replayed it might be at three
38939s	okay
38940s	which would make sense with uh
38942s	some of the hesitation here because
38944s	otherwise
38945s	uh you've got
38947s	an easy upgrade on these three fours
38956s	i always overestimate how high the dog
38959s	grass hero power
38963s	you need to is out but no here apart
38966s	this turns just going to go for dog
38967s	grasp plus the blade master okani no
38969s	minions can be played so i suppose you
38972s	oh did play minion okay
38974s	at least that's what it appeared to be
38979s	well you never
38981s	test
38982s	spell anyway since you only have the the
38985s	rune
38986s	to do it with
38988s	yeah
38996s	could just be hey my my board's frozen i
38998s	have two options i'll just play the hero
39000s	nope
39002s	i i guess you do just yellow the room
39004s	there
39004s	pyroblast means uh a lot of mana spent
39007s	does kill the oconee
39009s	drawing a couple cards pretty good
39012s	16 19
39015s	and 20.
39019s	well not a ton but you can still just
39022s	play the hero
39024s	yeah
39025s	right being free off the caligos
39027s	a little surprised to see the rune come
39030s	out there
39032s	when there was the chance of just mass
39034s	polymorphing your own board
39040s	okay
39044s	so if the hero part is at three the
39046s	first flame doesn't really help much
39049s	it does not include an even number and
39052s	first flame does not make it an odd
39054s	number
39055s	i guess there's fire sale
39058s	but i don't think it takes off enough
39061s	with fire sale
39062s	you can you can't fire sale plus ping
39065s	plus reckless like fire sale
39067s	beef up the hero power then reckless
39069s	well you can you can ping your own sun
39072s	fear or
39073s	right amplified snow flurry the snow
39075s	flurry okay and then reckless and
39079s	but that doesn't that means you don't
39080s	have the freeze available to ping the
39083s	12 12
39086s	which is pretty important to make happen
39089s	yes
39091s	sun sets
39098s	okay so this means you can now reckless
39101s	and it hits the
39104s	oh no just lightening up the board and
39105s	then freezing
39106s	[Music]
39107s	the death wing
39109s	using first flame to clean up some of
39111s	the smaller minions
39113s	more
39115s	settings
39119s	yeah we're setting up for the full like
39122s	wait the european elevator
39126s	how much did you do your power was at
39128s	five
39131s	oh okay
39134s	wait so so was that what wildfire
39137s	off of sivara and
39140s	yeah
39142s	oh but it doesn't matter that's going to
39143s	be lethal with the starfish so
39146s	as much counting as it took bunny hopper
39148s	finds the out and uh
39151s	talking to himself through that one as
39153s	well
39154s	but yeah another series where bunny
39156s	hopper is able to connect face with a
39158s	giant minion to win the game that was
39161s	all three games in that series and he
39163s	will be crowned the champion of week
39165s	number one for grandmaster's last call
39167s	so
39168s	a nice uh
39169s	seemed easy probably wasn't easy from
39171s	his perspective but from our perspective
39173s	a nice easy 3-0 win
39176s	yeah i think bunny hopper very happy not
39178s	to have to face that quest priest all
39179s	over again and and go through that slog
39182s	but uh yeah it's really just with that
39184s	mage
39185s	freeze does not save you because of the
39187s	prevalence of starfish it's really
39190s	freezes not as safe as it once was in
39193s	terms of stalling out the board state
39196s	particularly when you're trying to
39198s	freeze very very large minions that get
39200s	unfrozen and just immediately chunk you
39203s	for lethal so
39205s	well played really happy to see super
39207s	fake get as far as he did with this
39209s	target lineup even against
39212s	some folks not
39214s	running the counter he was looking for
39215s	but uh of course congratulations to
39217s	bunny hopper uh for a
39219s	quick 3-0
39222s	yeah it was a a very difficult day for
39224s	super fake having to uh start things off
39226s	against uh fury hunter who had a shaman
39229s	but it's fury hunter so you know sure
39232s	sure always tough and then two
39233s	non-shaman lineups in the semi-finals
39236s	and then finals uh to have to face up
39239s	again so
39240s	i think we can say that that lineup was
39242s	certainly a success but bunny hopper
39243s	with a no shaman lineup himself but
39245s	doing something a little bit different
39247s	um and i i like the the the choices uh
39250s	his celestial alignment druid was just
39252s	drawing bands left and right
39254s	and then the core of the thief rogue
39257s	the non-excel big spell mage and the
39260s	beast hunter uh just did some work just
39263s	did some work clean play overall on the
39266s	weekend from bunnyhopper and uh we have
39269s	a
39270s	again a tenured grandmaster taking the
39273s	first
39274s	week of grand masters last call and
39277s	one of them the most storied players
39280s	of all time in bunnyhopper um but
39283s	it'll vice will be back with you in a
39284s	moment because i've just uh found out
39286s	that we do have an interview ready with
39288s	our our champion of week number one uh
39290s	with bunny hopper so we'll get that set
39294s	up in just a moment maybe right now
39298s	there it is
39299s	hey bunny
39301s	hello can you hear me
39303s	hi i can hear you i cannot see what you
39305s	just want
39307s	okay well that's good i don't think you
39309s	want to look at me anyway um
39311s	but you just come coming off a win how
39312s	you feeling bud
39314s	now it feels good
39316s	uh
39317s	didn't expect to go that far but it's
39320s	it's pretty nice
39324s	why didn't you expect to go that far did
39326s	you not have faith in your lineup or
39329s	uh what were your expectations coming to
39331s	the weekend after like decklis were
39332s	revealed
39334s	i mean b sanders garbage but i feel like
39336s	it's the best garbage out there
39338s	i feel really confident in the other
39339s	three decks um
39343s	especially like thiefrock is one of my
39344s	favorite decks i feel like i know this
39346s	deck in and out
39348s	um but b center had very little
39350s	experience
39351s	in
39352s	leading up to the weekend and i didn't
39354s	like the power level of the deck as well
39357s	so because i think that's overestimated
39359s	because of how easy to play this but i
39361s	felt like i got to make it like some
39363s	really cute setups against possessive
39365s	like planning like three four times
39367s	ahead even with that deck so that that
39369s	felt good
39372s	yeah we're sort of in a unique situation
39374s	here because uh if i'm not mistaken this
39376s	will be the
39378s	uh last like big tournament we're gonna
39380s	play uh with conquest uh at least like
39383s	normal conquests on this patch
39385s	um so i'm not afraid to ask you
39387s	questions that could uh
39388s	uh dive into your strategy behind things
39391s	too much but uh what was sort of in
39393s	contention for the the fourth deck slot
39395s	you said uh hunter was a
39397s	is a garbage deck and but it's the best
39399s	of the garbage decks what other garbage
39401s	decks were you considering in bringing
39403s	that four slot as opposed to the hunter
39406s	i was considering a non-garbage deck
39408s	which is shaman shaman is a non-garbage
39410s	deck but i was like
39411s	well there's like fled in my group
39414s	and
39415s	i knew that pascoa was very likely to
39417s	target it so i was like
39419s	um
39421s	yeah let's let's not get our targeted
39423s	shaman i really love i love shaman i've
39425s	been climbing super hard with it on
39426s	ladder but i was like
39428s	i feel like flat and super fake are a
39430s	little bit of a one-trick pony in terms
39432s	of you kind of
39434s	know that there's going to be a target
39435s	strat they will never play normy decks
39438s	um
39439s	so
39440s	you have to at least adjust your
39441s	strategy a little bit to it because i i
39442s	did practice some with pascoa
39445s	as well
39447s	so um
39449s	yeah we always kind of have to like keep
39450s	this stuff in mind and we are obviously
39452s	both hoping to make it out of groups so
39455s	trying to not counter each other while
39457s	still wanting to play the playstyle that
39460s	we both had in mind
39465s	not only did you win this week but you
39466s	also i think set a record uh at least
39469s	for
39470s	uh
39471s	the
39472s	few the very near future of longest
39474s	series
39475s	of hearthstone uh against i'm innocent
39478s	yesterday
39479s	you're oh you're innocent okay so pascal
39482s	is the guilty party here
39484s	okay i wish i had my i wish i had the
39486s	firestone um hashtag ad um
39489s	in
39490s	no just kidding but i wish i had the
39492s	firestone feature on where like the
39494s	times i spend on my turns and the time i
39497s	he spent on his turns were recorded and
39499s	i know that i'm known as a roper but
39502s	i've
39503s	tried to cut it down to like a
39504s	reasonable amount and i feel like in
39505s	this match there's like enough turns
39508s	where
39509s	i just played them reasonably quick i
39511s	realized in like two seasons ago i was
39513s	just playing like trying to play other
39516s	people's speed and i made too many
39517s	mistakes but
39519s	i'm not totally innocent but
39522s	i feel like the the turns where i kind
39523s	of knew what to do and i didn't have
39525s	decisions that i really couldn't figure
39527s	out i tried to play them quickly but i
39529s	think he roped every single turn he like
39531s	he even roped lethal i mean
39536s	what's the eight mother freespell called
39538s	the
39540s	that was effectively lethal when he
39541s	played it and and he still roped up
39544s	where there was no other place so
39547s	that one i don't want to take all the
39549s	credit for okay
39551s	okay all right well uh you're off the
39553s	hook because also if in your favor in
39556s	this case is the fact that you didn't
39558s	have priest in your lineup
39560s	and he did have priests in his lineup so
39562s	you you get it you get another free pass
39564s	on uh the being the culprit of a two two
39568s	hour and forty minute series
39570s	i did play other five other
39572s	matches this this um
39575s	uh this weekend and i played i think 18
39578s	matches in chinese league and in in like
39581s	the 80s match 18 matches i played in
39583s	chinese lake i've gone
39584s	once one hour 45 and everything else was
39587s	like an hour or less and they're all
39589s	best of fives
39590s	so
39591s	i know that i'm a rope part but i'm
39592s	trying to get rid of this image there
39594s	there's
39595s	like
39596s	20 serious sample size saying that this
39599s	is no longer true
39601s	i love that this is the conversation
39603s	that we're having right now that
39605s	uh your your talk about what you need to
39608s	do to like improve is not at all about
39611s	the gameplay because you're just winning
39613s	it's about winning faster
39616s	and not roping as much as you once did
39618s	that's uh
39618s	that's incredible
39620s	but looking forward to next week um
39624s	uh i believe we're going to trios next
39626s	week is that is that the uh
39629s	for week two okay so we're going to trio
39631s	and the new expansion will not be
39632s	released so we're playing trios and we
39634s	don't know the pools yet at least as far
39636s	as i know um or at least as far as we're
39638s	allowed to stay on broadcast um but
39641s	uh how are you feeling going in next
39642s	week because you're coming off a win
39643s	it's the going to be the last sort of
39645s	tournament week before we have an
39646s	expansion release uh so
39649s	are you looking forward to next week or
39651s	are you feeling good are you still
39652s	nervous
39653s	i i felt good because um
39656s	i've gotten a little bit of practice in
39657s	intro as well like i already mentioned
39659s	earlier uh with team liquid we're
39661s	playing in a chinese theme league and
39663s	the last week has been trio
39664s	that went really well for us um
39667s	and next week is trio as well so i have
39669s	to submit some decks in a few hours
39672s	there there too so i feel like i have a
39674s	little bit of practice and i've gotten
39677s	um
39679s	a little bit better inside
39681s	practice wise than a lot of the other
39682s	people we had two weeks or trio there in
39685s	the last season that we played which
39686s	went really well for me personally so
39690s	i feel like i have a lot of practice or
39693s	at least some practice compared to the
39694s	others and i feel like that helps a lot
39696s	like for now i also had four weeks of
39699s	chinese league conquest so i played tons
39701s	and tons of conquest and it just really
39703s	helps me
39705s	stay on top of my game
39708s	yeah no that's a good point there's a
39709s	lot of uh the players that that are
39711s	coming in that didn't compete in the
39713s	season of gm at the beginning of the
39714s	year
39715s	um that have never seen trio so um
39718s	good point there you should have a good
39720s	advantage
39721s	going to next week at least that's what
39723s	i'll expect buddy hopper i don't think
39724s	i'm casting next week but i'll be
39726s	watching you and i'll be i'll have my
39727s	stopwatch ready
39729s	to count your turns so that's what i'm
39732s	looking for in terms of improvement
39733s	since you can't really improve on a win
39735s	i'll be looking for those ropes so you
39737s	better watch out but uh we got to cut it
39739s	now buddy hopper once again uh thanks
39741s	for joining me for the interview and big
39743s	congratulations on the win we'll see you
39744s	next week
39745s	thank you
39750s	hello hey device welcome back
39753s	bunny hopper oh my goodness that's fun
39755s	to talk to
39756s	hunter garbage deck but it was the best
39759s	garbage deck
39761s	i mean it seems in a lot of ways like
39763s	things just went exactly according to
39765s	plan right he and pascal practiced a bit
39767s	together both wanted to make it out of
39769s	groups so he doesn't pick shaman which
39771s	would be
39772s	apparently pascal's target as well as
39774s	flat and super fake
39776s	and
39777s	hey that's what happened they both made
39778s	it out of groups on opposite sides of
39780s	the bracket seems like it went according
39782s	to plan
39783s	yeah it was a great read i mean all the
39785s	way down to hunter being a garbage deck
39787s	it played out exactly as bunny hopper
39789s	said that he expected he faced a lot of
39791s	anti-shaman lineups with no shaman his
39793s	rogue and his mage seemed to get wins
39795s	very easily uh and that his hunter was
39797s	the deck that struggled but it was just
39799s	good enough
39800s	to be able to get across uh the finish
39802s	line in a lot of these series so um well
39805s	done and also
39807s	as he mentioned a big advantage going
39809s	into next week there's not many players
39810s	that have played
39811s	uh trios competitively
39814s	at least at a high enough level maybe in
39816s	some practice matches
39817s	uh especially as recently as he has
39820s	so we'll need to be keeping our eyes on
39822s	bunny hopper if he can get a couple of
39824s	good performances in the first couple
39826s	weeks he's going to be a big threat for
39828s	moving into the final stage in the
39830s	playoffs for
39831s	her last call so
39832s	very cool stuff very cool stuff
39836s	yeah the trios have not been announced
39838s	but i hope they've been available to the
39839s	players because that's important for
39840s	being able to practice for this format i
39843s	mean you can only really try so much
39846s	practice generating like your own sort
39848s	of groups because it's just so
39851s	variable depending on what the admins
39853s	pick
39854s	yeah so for
39855s	quickly because we're going to wrap
39857s	things up in a few moments here because
39858s	we have no more hearthstone to watch but
39859s	trio basically what it is is the uh
39863s	blizzard picks and the tournament admins
39865s	along with uh blizzard and the data that
39868s	they have pick pools of classes so pools
39871s	of three classes
39872s	um based on a number of things uh
39874s	notably like uh the perceived strength
39877s	of decks or the actual strength of decks
39879s	based on uh on uh data
39882s	um and you have to pick one of those
39884s	pools of decks you can build whatever
39887s	deck you want within the class that
39890s	that's in the pool
39891s	but you're limited to those three
39892s	classes of the pool that you pick so
39894s	um what that does is we get to see some
39897s	potentially off meta stuff if there's a
39900s	class that
39902s	luck warrior for instance that's not
39904s	really played too much competitively
39905s	anymore
39907s	but you have to include in your lineup
39909s	because it's in a pool with two very
39910s	strong classes
39912s	um it's it's interesting it's
39914s	interesting since you won't be here for
39915s	trio next week
39917s	uh uh what are your your your thoughts
39919s	on the format before you close things
39920s	out
39921s	well i think last time it was warrior as
39924s	well that was not
39926s	very highly played and ended up being in
39928s	every single pickable pool so it wasn't
39932s	even about oh i have to play warrior
39934s	because these other two best decks are
39936s	in with it
39937s	you just had to play warrior and so i
39940s	think some of the players are hoping
39941s	particularly with warrior being the zero
39944s	brings this week it's just not very well
39947s	positioned i think many players are
39948s	probably hoping that there won't be
39950s	every group containing warrior this time
39953s	around
39954s	yeah every pickable group with two other
39957s	playable uh classes for that matter but
39961s	uh that should be fun that'll be uh next
39963s	week week number two
39964s	um neither of us will be there i'm not
39966s	casting next week and uh in advice this
39968s	was your special guest cast for
39970s	grandmaster's last call so uh do once
39973s	again wanna thank you for joining me for
39975s	the weekend it was a blast and i think
39976s	you did a fantastic job and i will give
39978s	you this opportunity uh for any uh final
39981s	words uh that you'd like to give to our
39984s	amazing viewers before uh before i close
39986s	things out
39987s	uh well i'd of course like to thank uh
39990s	dragonrider donnie dk for helping me
39992s	practice for this she was willing to
39995s	give me some of her time to just kind of
39996s	go over some of the old grandmaster
39998s	games and we just sort of muted it and
40000s	cast it over to get used to it and of
40002s	course to my co-host wickedgood and
40004s	ridiculous hat on the coin concede
40005s	podcast i think
40007s	that helped me prepare a lot as well
40009s	just in terms of talking every week
40011s	about the game just gets you used to
40013s	filling the air and yeah it's been a
40015s	blast a huge shout out to to abar for
40019s	asking me to to guest it was
40022s	definitely my highlight of the year
40024s	good ol alex barhorst
40027s	and of course
40029s	viewers can follow you on twitter
40030s	adavice's twitter right down there
40032s	uh i suppose you enjoyed casting so uh
40035s	very nice but it is time for us to leave
40037s	uh week one of grandmasters last call is
40039s	in the books but don't worry we have
40041s	plenty more hearthstone action to come
40043s	in the coming weeks we have trio next
40044s	week for grandmaster's last call and
40046s	then we have a new expansion coming out
40047s	then we have a master's tour and then we
40049s	pick right back up with uh grandmasters
40052s	last call following that so
40054s	should be uh fun times over the next
40056s	couple months and a lot of competitive
40057s	hearthstone to watch but that's it from
40060s	us for myself edelweiss all the other
40062s	caches and the crew here thanks for
40063s	watching and we'll see you next week for
40065s	more hearthstone action
40083s	i'm just gonna um that up
40086s	[Music]
40100s	is
40108s	[Music]
40119s	[Music]
40127s	[Music]
40138s	[Music]
40146s	[Music]
40156s	yes
40157s	[Music]
40165s	[Music]
40174s	[Music]
40177s	it's a blast off the top pesco a 2-0 up
40182s	in the finals
40184s	it looked rough for him for a moment the
40186s	shard of the naaru was so clutch
40189s	[Music]
40192s	who says he tried so hard he set up a
40194s	lethal himself with the void chart and
40197s	shadow form on the next string even if
40199s	his ethic got cleared it was as good a
40201s	plan as any
40203s	[Music]
40210s	it is the bowel master off the top for
40213s	yala
40216s	[Music]
40241s	[Music]
40247s	[Music]
40254s	[Music]
40270s	you

[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Grandmasters | Last Call | Week 1 | Day 3

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