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| 809s | hello everybody and welcome to day |
| 811s | number two of the Hearthstone Master |
| 812s | tour fall Championship my name is TJ and |
| 815s | helping me kick off the show is adal B |
| 817s | ad Place how you doing today I'm doing |
| 819s | all right this was the closest I could |
| 822s | find to a costume sort of like vampire |
| 826s | style uh for for you know Halloween |
| 828s | weekend but uh yeah in general I'm I'm |
| 832s | hyped I'm ready to go can see our our |
| 834s | top eight |
| 836s | cut I'm dressed up like a |
| 840s | Hearthstone Caster a nearing middle-aged |
| 842s | Hearthstone Caster there you go that's |
| 844s | my get up this week I don't think I've |
| 847s | I've worn a different shirt on a Sunday |
| 850s | cast in six years this is my Sunday cast |
| 854s | shirt six years of time and and starring |
| 857s | TJ as himself |
| 859s | right yeah that's right actually you |
| 861s | know what I'm dressed up as me from one |
| 863s | year ago there you go just best past TJ |
| 866s | today that's my Halloween theme I I |
| 868s | looked around and I asked my wife I was |
| 870s | like I need a something like a mask a |
| 873s | hat anything I got nothing we got kids |
| 875s | costumes and they don't fit and my |
| 879s | youngest son we'll get into the Haron |
| 880s | stuff in a second this is important U my |
| 882s | youngest son is being Sid from Toy Story |
| 885s | and for Halloween which is literally |
| 887s | just he wears a black shirt with a skull |
| 888s | on it that's that's the costume like |
| 890s | that's the whole thing he even looks |
| 891s | like him he's got a big old head that's |
| 893s | bulbous and a short haircut like it it's |
| 896s | that's it so no costumes no nothing |
| 899s | um but we do have some Hearthstone today |
| 901s | I don't have a costume but we I still do |
| 903s | have uh some some Hearthstone to cast so |
| 906s | this is day two of fall Championship um |
| 909s | and uh taking a look at what happened in |
| 912s | yesterday's matches we ended up getting |
| 913s | to a pretty sick top eight a lot of the |
| 915s | streamers in the top eight but yesterday |
| 918s | had uh some ups and downs in terms of |
| 920s | gameplay but I think it was still an |
| 922s | exciting day we got to see some the |
| 923s | strengths and weaknesses of some of the |
| 925s | decks in this uh in this pretty new |
| 928s | metag game |
| 929s | yeah and we did have to say goodbye to |
| 932s | some uh favorite players you know |
| 934s | tonsoku |
| 936s | and uh Gabby Casey so and of course when |
| 941s | it's a Top Cut like this we we always |
| 943s | kind of know just about everyone but um |
| 947s | you know someone's someone's not going |
| 950s | to make it today too so yeah and I I |
| 954s | think uh the strength of some of the |
| 956s | Decks that we saw really came through I |
| 958s | feel like de Demon Hunter uh definitely |
| 960s | struggled the few players that brought |
| 962s | it we saw a little bit from tonsoku some |
| 964s | from Casey and it seemed like Demon |
| 966s | Hunter was tough to get wins Shaman as |
| 968s | well has been incredibly Hit or Miss um |
| 971s | and in where we see some matchups where |
| 974s | a players up 20 and it's like oh jeez |
| 976s | this is going to be close they have |
| 978s | Shaman left so I'm curious to see how |
| 980s | things are going to shape out today but |
| 981s | taking a look at the overall program |
| 983s | overview the goal for all these players |
| 985s | really is to compete at the world |
| 986s | championship which is um in a littleit |
| 989s | less than 2 months uh with the big prize |
| 991s | pull of |
| 991s | $350,000 uh each of these seasonal |
| 994s | championships we're currently in the |
| 995s | last one fall has a a respectable price |
| 997s | bll at |
| 998s | $50,000 and then uh the rest is just |
| 1001s | players that are going to be competing |
| 1003s | right we for the uh seasonal |
| 1005s | championships we started with 16 uh |
| 1007s | split between the regions and then the |
| 1011s | uh World Championship consists of each |
| 1013s | of the winners of these seasonal |
| 1014s | championships uh plus them the highest |
| 1016s | point earners uh throughout the year so |
| 1018s | still waiting for those spots um as we |
| 1022s | uh get closer to the world championship |
| 1024s | of course it is the conquest format each |
| 1026s | player brings four decks four unique |
| 1028s | classes ban one of their opponents which |
| 1031s | this tournament has mostly been Warrior |
| 1033s | and they cannot win with the same deck |
| 1035s | twice so that means it a lot of times |
| 1037s | comes down to the the fourth deck which |
| 1039s | is the big differentiator for most of |
| 1042s | these players uh that is those demon |
| 1044s | Hunters |
| 1046s | Hunters uh there was one warlock so so |
| 1049s | uh people are are really trying to |
| 1051s | figure |
| 1052s | out what's the best way to go for that |
| 1054s | fourth |
| 1055s | deck yeah and we'll see who's going to |
| 1057s | come out on top today there's your top |
| 1059s | eight bracket we're going to start |
| 1060s | things off with Hemlock versus levic and |
| 1062s | we have pocket train versus ream uh |
| 1064s | that's a a big highlight looking forward |
| 1066s | to that one MC Banner face versus weu |
| 1069s | and then Co versus |
| 1071s | balance um and I I mean in in terms of |
| 1076s | like past performances this is one of |
| 1079s | the best top eights we've seen right we |
| 1082s | have levic who's already qualified uh we |
| 1085s | have pocket train |
| 1087s | who basically already qualified but not |
| 1089s | through a seasonal Championship so |
| 1091s | looking to take the easy easy row and |
| 1093s | then um I think MC Banner face is |
| 1095s | definitely highlight as one of the best |
| 1097s | and top performing players from the |
| 1099s | America's region uh America's Last Hope |
| 1102s | which has been a a baton that has been |
| 1105s | passed down from generation to |
| 1107s | generation uh it was Monsanto in the |
| 1110s | past and now it's uh down to MC Banner |
| 1112s | face yeah and you mentioned how you know |
| 1115s | pocket is all all but in in terms of he |
| 1118s | hasn't won one of these yet but is very |
| 1119s | high in the points Hemlock uh is another |
| 1122s | player who has made it to I believe the |
| 1124s | top eight in each one of these events |
| 1127s | this year so has been a very consistent |
| 1130s | performer uh here on the control Warrior |
| 1133s | rainbow Mage secret Rogue and the Arcane |
| 1137s | Hunter |
| 1140s | yeah the Arcane Hunter kind of being the |
| 1143s | odd deck out um a deck that actually |
| 1146s | hasn't been performing that well I mean |
| 1148s | it really it's a deck that hasn't |
| 1149s | changed much in quite a long time its |
| 1152s | game plan is pretty simple and |
| 1153s | straightforward there's not a lot of |
| 1155s | wiggle room that you have in terms of |
| 1156s | what you can do but that's the deck that |
| 1159s | uh Hemlock has opted to go with |
| 1161s | interestingly enough favorite class is |
| 1162s | Druid but not many players brave enough |
| 1165s | to uh bring Druid after uh got hit with |
| 1168s | the the Nerfs pretty hard after a long |
| 1171s | streak of dominance uh in constructed so |
| 1175s | um well Hemlock still having success |
| 1180s | despite not being able to play that |
| 1181s | favorite |
| 1182s | class yeah and he has opted for the |
| 1185s | control Warrior which we say control a |
| 1188s | lot of people I think call it Odin |
| 1189s | Warrior just because that is the primary |
| 1193s | win condition you know of course you can |
| 1195s | get there just by controlling the game |
| 1197s | but a lot of times it is all about |
| 1200s | getting down Odin as quickly as possible |
| 1201s | and then your defense becomes your |
| 1203s | offense with all that armor gain |
| 1205s | converting to attack against the enemy |
| 1207s | hero uh really only two options for |
| 1210s | warriors between this version and the |
| 1213s | enraged |
| 1214s | Warriors yeah and not much wiggle room |
| 1217s | in terms of car choices as well I feel |
| 1219s | like all the Odin SL control Warriors |
| 1222s | are nearly identical the range War does |
| 1224s | have a couple spots that you can move |
| 1226s | around with but this one's pretty set in |
| 1229s | Stone um and definitely one of the most |
| 1232s | powerful decks uh in the meta game uh |
| 1236s | and it does have a couple weaknesses |
| 1238s | notably actually drawing Odin in |
| 1241s | matchups where you absolutely have to |
| 1244s | have uh pressure for a win condition uh |
| 1248s | like in some of the uh otk like in |
| 1250s | Shaman or rainbow Mage um but it's got |
| 1253s | so many tools to help it get there and |
| 1254s | surprising amount of tempo especially |
| 1256s | with the uh the Rifts and there's |
| 1260s | levic just jamming some Hearthstone yeah |
| 1263s | I mean levik just sitting pretty already |
| 1265s | having won the spring Championship just |
| 1267s | sort of accidentally made his way into |
| 1270s | this event uh you know it's it's crazy |
| 1274s | he he didn't he could have taken a break |
| 1276s | he didn't have to be jamming laders so |
| 1278s | much but uh know he's here again and |
| 1281s | maybe prepared to take so home some |
| 1283s | extra uh prize |
| 1286s | money yeah uh he just loves Hearthstone |
| 1290s | like it it's quite obvious when he plays |
| 1293s | um that he's having a lot of fun even |
| 1295s | when I interviewed him before the world |
| 1297s | championship last year uh he was talking |
| 1299s | about how like all of his practice just |
| 1301s | comes from basically jamming ladder and |
| 1303s | that he wasn't playing with people and |
| 1304s | that he just loves playing constructed |
| 1307s | ladder just rank matches just jamming it |
| 1310s | um which is cool to see and at this |
| 1312s | point in you know Hearthstone I feel |
| 1315s | like that's necessary to be successful |
| 1317s | is to really have that uh that love for |
| 1319s | the game and taking a look at levik's |
| 1321s | secret Rogue love to see the break dance |
| 1325s | in there break dance and the Mixtape |
| 1328s | this I feel like is a little bit of |
| 1332s | a off color Rogue it's it's missing the |
| 1336s | MC blingtron for the full uh the full uh |
| 1341s | dance party uh secret Rogue uh package |
| 1344s | there but uh couldn't fit it in with all |
| 1347s | the other tech cards that in there the |
| 1348s | prison of yogs are on uh in there as |
| 1351s | well sort of as like a pseudo |
| 1353s | replacement for the old yog uh that was |
| 1356s | changed um doesn't really fit in Rogue |
| 1359s | the benefit of having in a rogue before |
| 1360s | was Deb it was by the time you drew it |
| 1363s | it was free effectively and you could |
| 1366s | bounce it back with Shadow steps and |
| 1367s | break dances uh but now the prison is |
| 1370s | kind of the uh the get out of the get |
| 1372s | out of jail free card uh for the deck |
| 1375s | that you need in some of those matchups |
| 1376s | yeah it's a lot more of a gamble the the |
| 1379s | you know yog Unleashed was pretty |
| 1381s | consistent use it as a board clear mind |
| 1383s | control just very strong utility card |
| 1385s | now with it being nerfed to that set |
| 1387s | nine Mana cost and plays two random |
| 1390s | spells is a lot less guaranteed and and |
| 1392s | you can't really cheese it as much in |
| 1394s | the spell heavy decks so the location uh |
| 1396s | is just kind of a way of giving you a |
| 1400s | little bit of a gamble you know if if |
| 1402s | you desperately need a clear or you |
| 1403s | desperately need a lethal you can just |
| 1405s | press that button and you know you pay |
| 1408s | the cost of the first one and the next |
| 1410s | two are |
| 1411s | free yeah that's that's right and |
| 1414s | sometimes you can even use it for like C |
| 1416s | draw or in Desperate situations just |
| 1419s | Target yourself and sometimes you get a |
| 1421s | heal um like if you're dead on the board |
| 1424s | not recommended if you're just like I |
| 1426s | could use a heal um but maybe |
| 1429s | recommended if you're like if I don't |
| 1431s | heal I die uh so very flexible card in |
| 1436s | that regard I recommend putting it in |
| 1437s | all your decks |
| 1439s | because of just how flexible it is uh |
| 1442s | but looks like we're kicking things off |
| 1443s | Warrior versus |
| 1450s | Rogue and this is a bit of a unusual |
| 1455s | matchup we get to see in the sense that |
| 1457s | Warrior was not banned it's been banned |
| 1460s | I think something like 60% of games |
| 1465s | let's see here uh Warrior sorry ban rate |
| 1471s | 71% |
| 1473s | yep it's been pretty brutal and in the |
| 1478s | matchup that it hasn't been banned we |
| 1480s | have been seeing it win but not like |
| 1484s | handedly right it's it's been |
| 1486s | struggling at some points so notably |
| 1489s | like the recen match up yesterday |
| 1490s | against the rainbow Mage where the |
| 1491s | rainbow Mage just couldn't draw sip he |
| 1493s | was able to get out of range of an |
| 1495s | absurd amount of damage but like that's |
| 1497s | a lost game game most of the time when |
| 1500s | you look at it and that was like a game |
| 1502s | a serious side of game uh so we'll see |
| 1504s | if it's going how it's going to be able |
| 1505s | to do here uh against the secret Rogue |
| 1508s | which does have Tempo has a good amount |
| 1510s | of value you just have to piece together |
| 1513s | way to win the game before Odin comes |
| 1515s | online and you really don't have a way |
| 1517s | to protect yourself uh from from that |
| 1520s | much damage you don't have that many |
| 1521s | turns to work with after Odin if you let |
| 1524s | it come down safely yeah and there is |
| 1527s | also the factor that you know the stats |
| 1529s | we have are just for warrior as as a |
| 1531s | class so some of these are enraged |
| 1533s | warriors uh which of course has very |
| 1535s | different matchups from the Odin |
| 1545s | Warrior Bladestorm come down clean up |
| 1548s | mostly the 3-2 uh you know the the one |
| 1551s | two is |
| 1557s | collateral |
| 1559s | there's always a tricky sort of game you |
| 1561s | have to play against secret Rogue in |
| 1563s | terms of how much do you |
| 1567s | value keeping them from say getting two |
| 1570s | cards off a secret like double cross |
| 1572s | versus having a secret available for |
| 1575s | them to be able to activate a card like |
| 1577s | Gastly Gravedigger uh which of course |
| 1579s | can be know very annoying if you have a |
| 1581s | key card in hand that you you really |
| 1583s | don't want to lose and having that |
| 1585s | shuffled away into your deck one of the |
| 1587s | few effects that can do that could be uh |
| 1590s | pretty devastating at |
| 1592s | times |
| 1596s | yeah okay wow actually is going to play |
| 1600s | uh the shadow of demise with sticky |
| 1601s | situation just to keep up the pressure |
| 1603s | on the board and also to try and have a |
| 1605s | secret uh next turn for Gastly |
| 1608s | Gravedigger well actually next turn |
| 1610s | might just be mixtape plus private eye |
| 1612s | and this was just the best way to spend |
| 1613s | the |
| 1614s | Mana um but does have options going the |
| 1618s | next turn Hemlock is just all removal |
| 1621s | effectively there's the bridge Rift as |
| 1623s | well uh to try and get there but it's |
| 1625s | just a matter of trying to find the best |
| 1628s | way to sequence these turns to uh get |
| 1630s | the most M uh value out of these cards |
| 1633s | um cu the one thing that we're missing |
| 1635s | here is going to |
| 1637s | be uh card draw |
| 1640s | yeah and you know despite all that |
| 1644s | removal this secret of the spider is you |
| 1647s | know one the the better ones to to keep |
| 1650s | playing here just because the removal |
| 1653s | has to be spent before it spawns since |
| 1655s | it procs on spell trigger and so that |
| 1660s | makes Hemlock have to decide if he wants |
| 1662s | to spend another spell to remove the |
| 1664s | stealth spider uh most of the time it's |
| 1667s | not going to be worth it so levit can |
| 1668s | kind of guarantee that three damage |
| 1671s | coming |
| 1677s | in |
| 1686s | Bri rff of course the most powerful play |
| 1690s | I think available in the uh Warrior deck |
| 1692s | on turn five particularly replaying that |
| 1695s | first riff going to be able to very |
| 1697s | cleanly deal with these three fours one |
| 1700s | from the rush and the other from the |
| 1702s | attack buff to this |
| 1706s | weapon yeah think it's through but I I |
| 1712s | even bellowing flame is not a |
| 1715s | clean uh |
| 1717s | clear |
| 1721s | and would have the sticky situation left |
| 1724s | over as well afterwards |
| 1728s | but I don't really see anything I guess |
| 1731s | you could attack and then blade storm |
| 1733s | but then you're kind of in the same |
| 1734s | exact |
| 1735s | situation um and you're floating Mana |
| 1740s | doesn't feel so Hemlock also doesn't |
| 1744s | know whether it's necessarily the second |
| 1747s | situation or the second copy of double |
| 1750s | cross so I think this is a bit of a |
| 1755s | decision in terms of does he want to |
| 1758s | finale the bridge riff and and you know |
| 1760s | make the highest Tempo play or |
| 1762s | potentially leave some Mana up to not |
| 1765s | trigger double cross cuz the Rogue is a |
| 1767s | bit on cards and can actually run out if |
| 1771s | they aren't able to activate those |
| 1772s | double |
| 1781s | crosses so taking away that Belling |
| 1784s | Flames which is definitely the strongest |
| 1786s | removal tool in the hand |
| 1791s | there yep and also we're still |
| 1793s | continuing to see this problem with no |
| 1795s | card draw for hemlock I'm sorry I mean |
| 1798s | it's not did you see the card that just |
| 1802s | got burgled |
| 1806s | there no that was what was it front |
| 1810s | lines so uh for those not familiar with |
| 1814s | this card which I would not uh hold that |
| 1816s | against anyone this is a paladin card |
| 1818s | normally cost nine Mana that pulls |
| 1821s | minions out of both players decks until |
| 1823s | one person's side of the board is |
| 1826s | full now against something like this |
| 1829s | Warrior which has very few minions for |
| 1833s | the purpose of targeting draw on Odin uh |
| 1838s | there's a very real possibility that |
| 1839s | this front lines would be able to just |
| 1842s | pull out that Odin and put levic in a |
| 1846s | position where he could potentially just |
| 1849s | run the warrior out of wind |
| 1855s | conditions yeah you do have like |
| 1858s | couple of random ones in there uh like |
| 1861s | ignis and the U |
| 1864s | armors Finley's in the hand but when I |
| 1868s | looked at that card for a second I was |
| 1870s | like wait what I thought it was a a |
| 1872s | blood in the water oh no no but it's |
| 1877s | yeah you're right it was burgled and |
| 1879s | it's discounted so well again going back |
| 1882s | to that limited number of minions but |
| 1884s | this objection comes in to play uh very |
| 1889s | nicely here you know the only minion in |
| 1891s | hand being Finley Hemlock might be |
| 1893s | wanting to know sort of ditch this hand |
| 1896s | to to look for that Odin but uh next |
| 1900s | Minion's going to get countered and |
| 1901s | there's really no good minion that you |
| 1904s | want to let that happen |
| 1907s | to nope they all are very high |
| 1914s | value this Hemlock just |
| 1918s | struggling to do much of anything ah |
| 1920s | this is a little bit of an awkward |
| 1923s | situation don't really want to play the |
| 1925s | front lines cuz you you could |
| 1927s | just die no no real way to deal with it |
| 1931s | kboa you'd override |
| 1933s | your uh your other weapon |
| 1940s | here uh pure |
| 1946s | side |
| 1948s | I think he's maybe planning on going |
| 1950s | putride make the attack and then |
| 1952s | serrated bone |
| 1954s | Spike |
| 1957s | yeah it's a shame that the kraa isn't in |
| 1960s | the deck Oh no just going to run this |
| 1963s | out for the whole concoction you know if |
| 1965s | kboa were in the deck then levik would |
| 1968s | have the chance of front lines pulling |
| 1970s | it out which then means you know fewer |
| 1973s | minions pulled from his own deck because |
| 1976s | it it takes up those extra board slots |
| 1978s | so that's like better going into fatigue |
| 1980s | and would just be able to clear up some |
| 1984s | of the potentially threatening minions |
| 1986s | coming out of Hemlock side although I |
| 1988s | think there's really just two Minions |
| 1992s | that you're concerned with there's the |
| 1993s | Odin of course which is an 88 and then |
| 1996s | there is the warrior Titan which is not |
| 1999s | in all of these Odin lists but it is in |
| 2000s | hemlocks and I suspect that's one of the |
| 2003s | reasons maybe that levic has not been |
| 2005s | super interested in pulling the trigger |
| 2006s | on this front lines without having a a |
| 2008s | little bit better board position |
| 2011s | first yeah and I also think maybe with |
| 2014s | the objection in play he doesn't feel as |
| 2016s | pressured to do it um just because he |
| 2020s | knows that like Odin couldn't come down |
| 2023s | anyway uh if it was there |
| 2025s | so |
| 2027s | ioose I think he's just kind of taking |
| 2029s | in and shride with how this game state |
| 2032s | is though this the concoction that levic |
| 2034s | did get from the Peter side is probably |
| 2036s | the worst of |
| 2038s | pable um just because provides no value |
| 2042s | whatsoever and Hemlock even |
| 2045s | with this hand that just you know can't |
| 2049s | play Finley can't play a minion even if |
| 2050s | you draw off the top no card draw like |
| 2053s | no value generation whatsoever is |
| 2056s | still applying some pressure and that's |
| 2059s | a big draw off the top cuz it'll at |
| 2060s | least |
| 2062s | pull uh the secrets out of the deck or |
| 2066s | the the the secret |
| 2068s | uh just the perjury cuz everything's |
| 2069s | everything else has been played yeah and |
| 2072s | it's just going to play the temple game |
| 2073s | right back both deck thinning in terms |
| 2076s | of getting the the perjury out and I |
| 2078s | believe under the objection there there |
| 2080s | is also a |
| 2084s | um wait have both double crosses already |
| 2087s | happened maybe |
| 2089s | not uh well it's just two secrets and we |
| 2091s | know that there's an objection so it it |
| 2094s | would show on the the right side as well |
| 2096s | so it is objection and |
| 2098s | perjury |
| 2103s | [Music] |
| 2106s | Y and the options are that was a snap |
| 2110s | barrier I think because levic knows his |
| 2112s | only option left here is to just play |
| 2115s | front lines so if you can have that |
| 2118s | little extra barrier |
| 2120s | no really I'm I'm somewhat surprised at |
| 2124s | this I mean it's it's not great for |
| 2127s | either of them but I do feel like it is |
| 2131s | better for levic particularly with the |
| 2134s | break dance |
| 2136s | pickup just |
| 2138s | because I mean the warrior has I think |
| 2142s | more crucial things that they want to |
| 2144s | actually have the opportunity to play |
| 2147s | versus you know getting pulled out of |
| 2148s | their deck there's a lot of battlecries |
| 2149s | going on |
| 2154s | yeah L's going to die |
| 2158s | anyway the Titan picked up able to just |
| 2160s | throw down the uh the Finley into the |
| 2165s | objection and protect this |
| 2167s | Titan on and also gets to proc the stone |
| 2170s | skin armor to draw a couple more cards |
| 2173s | with the Titan activation There It Is |
| 2174s | Well didn't want to take the gamble on |
| 2177s | the front line so going to take it on |
| 2178s | the the |
| 2181s | prison let's see what we get bur RI |
| 2186s | okay |
| 2188s | oh oh actually clear |
| 2193s | sure and Drew a card I've seen better |
| 2195s | but still definitely could have been |
| 2197s | worse got some healing as well so yeah |
| 2200s | that's I'd say that's above average |
| 2202s | still but there comes the oh no have |
| 2206s | missed the opportunity to to pull it out |
| 2208s | of the |
| 2214s | deck and with the heavy play PL in hand |
| 2219s | and I don't |
| 2221s | believe any real way to clear these four |
| 2224s | fours can clear the |
| 2227s | Odin Shadow step break |
| 2231s | dance and also can play the uh one of |
| 2234s | the five Mana aelor to gain some armor |
| 2236s | so I mean this is |
| 2239s | uh you're technically alive but are you |
| 2242s | really you know I guess it buys you time |
| 2244s | to then praise yog once again |
| 2248s | yeah there's a heavy plate in hand so |
| 2250s | we're already at 16 points of damage a |
| 2252s | shield block off the top would just end |
| 2254s | the game or any armor gain really yeah |
| 2256s | there it is |
| 2258s | Bash yep that's effectively six |
| 2261s | damage plus the hero power so good |
| 2268s | enough uh a very weird game where both |
| 2271s | players had pretty much nothing for a |
| 2274s | long time like two uh three two cards in |
| 2278s | hand uh no card draw being found uh not |
| 2281s | really any generation being found from |
| 2283s | leic as well and uh the Odin picked up |
| 2286s | just in time the Odin had been picked up |
| 2288s | it it would have taken Hemlock at least |
| 2290s | a little bit of time to close out that |
| 2291s | game that could have allowed levic to |
| 2293s | use those asor to maybe call his way |
| 2295s | back but out just a time and Hemlock one |
| 2299s | zero yeah the Rogue you know it's this |
| 2302s | weird sort of attrition the Gastly |
| 2304s | graved diggers because while you are |
| 2306s | taking away card from your opponent |
| 2307s | you're spending your own cards to do so |
| 2310s | so each time you play Gravedigger Shadow |
| 2312s | step you're effectively hoping that what |
| 2315s | you're stealing from them is more worth |
| 2317s | it than the cards that you're spending |
| 2319s | to take away and in the games where you |
| 2322s | don't get the the draw cards |
| 2325s | concoctions that means you're you're in |
| 2327s | this strange sort of top deck mode where |
| 2328s | you're just hoping yours are better than |
| 2329s | the |
| 2330s | opponents yeah the pure side double |
| 2333s | damage potion that was used to kill a |
| 2336s | three4 for was not the best outcome |
| 2340s | pretty much anything else would have |
| 2341s | been decent in that situation even like |
| 2343s | double green wouldn't have been terrible |
| 2346s | um but was obviously looking for uh hazy |
| 2350s | uh or some card draw but unfortunately |
| 2353s | didn't get it but the Warriors out of |
| 2355s | the way I mean I would say the most |
| 2358s | powerful deck in hemlocks lineup uh |
| 2360s | that's why the control Warrior itself |
| 2362s | has been drawing band so much so uh |
| 2365s | we'll see if Lev can capitalize on some |
| 2366s | of the other decks him |
| 2372s | has yeah sort of uh Power for the course |
| 2375s | you know I think we've been expecting |
| 2376s | Warriors to get through' been expecting |
| 2378s | Mages to get through so it often ends up |
| 2381s | coming down to these last picks in terms |
| 2384s | of the shaman for levic and the Arcane |
| 2386s | Hunter for hemlock and that is honestly |
| 2391s | I think a a matchup that has been you |
| 2394s | know debated since both decks were were |
| 2397s | formed you know pre pre- Nerfs in terms |
| 2400s | of you know who has the edge in the |
| 2402s | hunter versus Shaman match |
| 2405s | up yeah I after seeing some of the |
| 2408s | hunter games uh throughout the day |
| 2411s | yesterday I kind of lost Pati you in the |
| 2414s | Arcane Hunter it just wasn't winning it |
| 2417s | just was not winning games and to be |
| 2419s | fair there's a lot of tough matchups for |
| 2420s | it um that's kind of the decision you |
| 2423s | have to make when you're it's a |
| 2425s | relatively fresh metag game because of |
| 2426s | the the balance patch that was on |
| 2428s | Thursday and you don't know what the |
| 2429s | best fourth deck is Arcane Hunter is |
| 2431s | kind of this consistent |
| 2435s | Beast um that will always do the same |
| 2438s | thing and capitalize on poor draws bad |
| 2442s | starts it's always going to be able to |
| 2444s | deal damage so oh this an interesting |
| 2447s | start from hemlock uh with the coin and |
| 2449s | Shadow of |
| 2450s | demise you can get a private eye out |
| 2453s | incredibly quickly yeah I mean I think |
| 2455s | you're not even terribly worried about |
| 2457s | comboing the second one when you've |
| 2459s | already got the first one comboed on the |
| 2461s | coin sort of the ideal hand for the |
| 2463s | secret Rogue just to make sure you can |
| 2466s | thin the deck of those Secrets early |
| 2470s | on in terms of levik's hand though uh no |
| 2474s | keyboard which I feel like is the first |
| 2476s | maybe the second time I've seen this |
| 2478s | weekend Mage not have keyboard onto into |
| 2483s | a cold case but a fenus circle is not a |
| 2487s | bad just turn three play to get a f |
| 2488s | spell and a few little Minions on |
| 2491s | board yeah start making a little |
| 2494s | bit of a push at least to fight back uh |
| 2498s | in the early game but yep there it is |
| 2500s | double coin into private eye with the |
| 2502s | shadow of the M getting those Secrets |
| 2503s | out yep and that's going to be a prettyy |
| 2507s | fast start for hemlock uh just the |
| 2510s | perjury oh no it is a sticky situation |
| 2513s | sorry so that's the best like Bard |
| 2515s | scenario and oh that hand pretty optimal |
| 2520s | secrets to pull there uh with with what |
| 2522s | levic had to do you know the earlier |
| 2525s | that double cross comes down the much |
| 2527s | harder it is for the opponent to to play |
| 2529s | around because there's just less Mana to |
| 2531s | spare to try and deny the Rogue those |
| 2535s | cards and then of course just getting a |
| 2537s | free three four to to start ramping up |
| 2540s | the pressure is uh always |
| 2545s | welcome |
| 2549s | okay just going |
| 2550s | to get the second one out I mean this is |
| 2553s | pretty much like all the secrets either |
| 2554s | pulled or drawn so this is very good |
| 2558s | very good for |
| 2563s | H Frozen touch going to be immediately |
| 2567s | able to |
| 2573s | infuse and uh yeah once again it's it's |
| 2577s | a double cross for |
| 2579s | hemlock so this Frozen touch is going to |
| 2583s | draw him a couple more |
| 2592s | cards perjury |
| 2595s | activates perjury is such a great tool |
| 2598s | for secret Rogue because it it lets you |
| 2600s | kind of guaranteed have a secret going |
| 2602s | into your turn so you can activate |
| 2604s | things like Gastly gravedigger my yeah |
| 2608s | and get get access to powerful Mage |
| 2612s | secrets well there is also that yeah |
| 2615s | counter spell and objection being sort |
| 2617s | of the two highest power ones most of |
| 2618s | the time |
| 2621s | yep |
| 2623s | oh this is where that attrition is |
| 2625s | brutal right taking away uh you know |
| 2628s | potentially levik's card draw here or |
| 2631s | first we took the power of Creation in |
| 2632s | terms of a clear and you know really |
| 2636s | just leaving levic much more star for |
| 2639s | cards whereas Hemlock has all these |
| 2641s | potion belts and another perjury HRI |
| 2645s | side just kind of sitting on a whole |
| 2647s | bunch of |
| 2648s | stuff |
| 2653s | yeah almost too much |
| 2665s | value |
| 2667s | yeah goes for the wisdom of |
| 2669s | norgon Cold Case pretty strong pickup |
| 2676s | though Le has no more of |
| 2682s | that looks like just playing into turn |
| 2685s | seven Elemental inspiration just trying |
| 2687s | to get all the spell schools out there y |
| 2690s | um reverberation can be sometimes hard |
| 2692s | card to use so three Mana left might as |
| 2694s | well throw it out there make this easier |
| 2695s | to uh |
| 2697s | uh to take care of |
| 2699s | but he's going to make it to turn seven |
| 2701s | with uh enough Health to really do |
| 2703s | anything uh is the |
| 2706s | question yeah there is the potential to |
| 2709s | hit life Steel on those Elementals but I |
| 2713s | think currently the Spells played have |
| 2716s | been Frost Shadow and |
| 2720s | fell and I'm not sure if there's been a |
| 2724s | chance to play Arcane yet is the wisdom |
| 2726s | of organon would have been the |
| 2729s | Arcane |
| 2731s | yeah so only four Elementals uh will be |
| 2735s | summoned at |
| 2755s | present |
| 2761s | so Hemlock just kind of able |
| 2764s | to relax in knowing that these have been |
| 2767s | some pretty weak turns from from levik's |
| 2769s | side you know might expect something |
| 2771s | like Elemental inspiration to come down |
| 2773s | next turn and and so might be willing to |
| 2776s | prepare for that but can also just |
| 2779s | choose to you know make a big board here |
| 2781s | go for for Double Summon three drops or |
| 2784s | something uh just |
| 2787s | has a lot of flexibility and those |
| 2790s | Elementals do come out can make some |
| 2792s | trades with with putride in play for a |
| 2795s | whole bunch of more |
| 2796s | value yeah I think he saw the elemental |
| 2799s | inspiration uh with the grap Digger too |
| 2801s | right wasn't that one of the options so |
| 2803s | should know that |
| 2804s | that's on the horizon um so just trying |
| 2811s | to set up for it here and I just like |
| 2815s | pushing Max damage yep trying to get |
| 2818s | there hopefully there's no rushes from |
| 2820s | the elemental inspiration to clear off |
| 2822s | more of this board and put l all out of |
| 2825s | six yeah six of course in range of |
| 2827s | double potion exactly just taking |
| 2830s | advantage of the lron debuff weapon |
| 2833s | while it's there and LEC I think knows |
| 2836s | that Elemental inspiration not the |
| 2839s | gamble that he wants to take little bit |
| 2841s | surprised to |
| 2842s | see this come down without having played |
| 2845s | the Arcane artificer first |
| 2850s | maybe was hoping |
| 2851s | for an additional like five Mana option |
| 2856s | that could have bailed him out so it' be |
| 2858s | played right away and he could get |
| 2859s | double value potentially yeah the only |
| 2861s | one I can think of is wisdom of norgon |
| 2864s | which would show up as five in the |
| 2866s | Discover and so getting to draw that two |
| 2869s | cards |
| 2871s | immediately uh oh and the objection to H |
| 2875s | is also the |
| 2879s | objection but now we just need single |
| 2881s | damage potion so high likelihood to just |
| 2885s | here there it is there it is |
| 2888s | y all right nice quick little 20 lead uh |
| 2893s | for hemlock against two different decks |
| 2894s | from leic but tried the Mage and the |
| 2896s | Rogue now he's going to have |
| 2898s | to make a comeback in this |
| 2901s | series but it's not looking good Hemlock |
| 2904s | fir on all cylinders right now feels |
| 2907s | yeah it is always possible to you know |
| 2910s | sweep these fourth Decks that people |
| 2911s | have I don't know if Hunter is quite the |
| 2916s | one that I would want to have to sweep |
| 2917s | particularly when I still have a rogue |
| 2919s | left on my side uh yeah Rogues not known |
| 2922s | for their healing |
| 2924s | capabilities not particularly but they |
| 2928s | do have a bunch of random generation so |
| 2932s | you know maybe that could uh find some |
| 2934s | healing but it's about finding the time |
| 2936s | to do that cuz sometimes it can be uh |
| 2938s | pretty expensive but if you get like |
| 2940s | those private eye |
| 2941s | starts you can you know get some |
| 2944s | perjuries and get some disruption early |
| 2946s | kind of stifle the pressure but there |
| 2949s | only one deck so also win with uh uh |
| 2951s | both the other decks too um against the |
| 2954s | hunter so I mentioned earlier Hunter |
| 2956s | it's kind of while it doesn't do |
| 2958s | anything |
| 2959s | crazy it does just deal damage very |
| 2963s | consistently it's game plan is not a |
| 2966s | secret it doesn't have any ways to |
| 2969s | deviate from that game plan |
| 2971s | usually uh but it does have some that |
| 2974s | consistency of being able to kill the |
| 2976s | opponent so we'll see love it tough road |
| 2981s | ahead yeah every every once in a while |
| 2983s | you know you use |
| 2984s | the immune weapon from uh from the Titan |
| 2989s | to buy time so that you can deal more |
| 2991s | damage right it's always a matter of if |
| 2994s | if you're in a race the only reason to |
| 2996s | not go face is if more time will get you |
| 3000s | more |
| 3004s | damage all right it's going to be uh |
| 3006s | Shaman |
| 3008s | first for |
| 3011s | levic these are the two uh I guess we |
| 3013s | could say weak |
| 3015s | links of the |
| 3019s | lineups yeah but of course you know both |
| 3022s | I think pretty solidly tier two death by |
| 3026s | comparison to some of the others we see |
| 3028s | and holler on brightwing definitely |
| 3031s | something that Hemlock wants to see in |
| 3032s | that opening hand as well as the costume |
| 3035s | singer which uh prior to it being nerfed |
| 3039s | was one of the highest win rate cards in |
| 3041s | the deck and probably is still pretty up |
| 3043s | there even as a one |
| 3054s | one it's great to be able to have the |
| 3058s | board yeah in the early game it's not |
| 3062s | going to stop |
| 3064s | either yeah I mean this point you just |
| 3067s | run out the feral Spirits I would |
| 3070s | expect yeah with hidden meaning I don't |
| 3073s | know if you're really |
| 3075s | too worried about it since you have the |
| 3077s | taunt to block y it's just spending the |
| 3079s | Mana and it will proc but you're not too |
| 3081s | worried about it and that's not a great |
| 3083s | one doesn't even M line up well against |
| 3085s | the feral Spirits with the to attack so |
| 3087s | I think levik should be feeling |
| 3089s | fantastic about this start it's not |
| 3091s | stopping got schooling to be able to |
| 3093s | continue fighting and then the Titan to |
| 3095s | be able to come down and if you have the |
| 3097s | board you can feel comfortable just |
| 3099s | going with card draw on the first |
| 3101s | activation |
| 3103s | which is going to be great for levic in |
| 3106s | the coming turns now there is of course |
| 3107s | the possibility of you know star power |
| 3112s | just going ahead and and doing a reset |
| 3115s | for him lock um then going to be able to |
| 3118s | swing things around I |
| 3120s | expect if that happens it's going to be |
| 3123s | a |
| 3124s | coin and so it's it's a matter for me of |
| 3128s | like do you coin brightwing this turn or |
| 3131s | do you coin star power next turn and |
| 3133s | with being this far behind feel like you |
| 3135s | have to coin the star power living all |
| 3144s | of probably hoping for uh Ricochet there |
| 3149s | yep |
| 3153s | um but at least it's not worms I |
| 3164s | guess turn the Tide's not bad yeah and |
| 3168s | overloading on this turn I think is much |
| 3170s | better than overlay on next turn so next |
| 3172s | turn you can probably just play |
| 3173s | schooling and then roll that right into |
| 3174s | Titan without having to overload exactly |
| 3177s | and I like the damage push as well I |
| 3179s | don't think mlock really has much to do |
| 3182s | in this game uh star power is going to |
| 3185s | be able to clear things up but already |
| 3186s | at 16 it's going to make things pretty |
| 3188s | easy for levic and Hemlock really hasn't |
| 3191s | progressed anything um hasn't been able |
| 3194s | to get rightwing down no spell power |
| 3196s | Buffs in |
| 3197s | hand uh but we'll |
| 3199s | see still still some time left before |
| 3203s | levic is able to piece together uh Le |
| 3206s | damage yeah and even though you know the |
| 3208s | board is now clear and a bunch of these |
| 3210s | tools were used in terms of the the |
| 3213s | zapper and spirits and everything you're |
| 3216s | totally happy with this outcome as the |
| 3217s | shaman you've you've gotten your |
| 3219s | opponent down through half their life it |
| 3221s | just makes your you know combo turn that |
| 3223s | much easier to make happen uh only |
| 3226s | having taken know two damage so far |
| 3228s | himself now four and uh totally free to |
| 3233s | just play your Titan and draw three |
| 3235s | cards |
| 3247s | here I think when you when you see the |
| 3250s | shaman play ganth for cards you you know |
| 3252s | you're in a little bit of |
| 3254s | trouble yeah you often want to be |
| 3256s | pressuring them so that they have to use |
| 3258s | it for heal and then maybe you can kind |
| 3259s | of starve them of |
| 3264s | cards |
| 3271s | second star power going to |
| 3273s | reset and the race is |
| 3278s | on |
| 3281s | o bioluminescence might not even be the |
| 3285s | pick here yeah just because it's too |
| 3287s | expensive and there's no weapon to |
| 3289s | reduce |
| 3290s | it yeah I mean we're very very close uh |
| 3295s | to |
| 3299s | lethal in fact with this three damage I |
| 3302s | think it might actually be 13 damage |
| 3306s | next |
| 3306s | turn um cuz it's eight from the |
| 3309s | lightning |
| 3311s | bolts uh with the Nava zapper and then |
| 3313s | the overdraft would be 1 two three four |
| 3316s | plus the one spell damage so that's five |
| 3317s | so that's 13 with just those four cards |
| 3320s | yep not even really you know your |
| 3322s | traditional combo turn that you look for |
| 3325s | and and with aelor being it its current |
| 3328s | iteration still a turn away from being |
| 3330s | able to gain any armor for |
| 3338s | hemlock you know one of the ways you |
| 3340s | often hope to kind of egge things out as |
| 3342s | a hunter in this matchup is maybe you |
| 3344s | you know have a forge Titan traps where |
| 3348s | you say get that uh deal six where they |
| 3352s | play three spells or or three cards |
| 3356s | and uh maybe you can you know pressure |
| 3359s | the shaman into being low enough Health |
| 3361s | that they aren't actually able to combo |
| 3363s | you because they'll end up dying on the |
| 3364s | combo turn but that is just not how |
| 3367s | things have played out this time around |
| 3368s | for |
| 3373s | hamlock all right that's just a bunch of |
| 3375s | extra damage yep left a two one on the |
| 3378s | board Jazz Bas picked up and L going to |
| 3380s | put a |
| 3381s | point on the board 2-1 now two more to |
| 3384s | go against the Hun here let's see if he |
| 3386s | can uh make it |
| 3396s | [Applause] |
| 3401s | happen I think definitely happy to have |
| 3404s | the shaman out of the way |
| 3409s | there it's |
| 3411s | just chill play as yep yep not not a |
| 3415s | care in the world remember he's got the |
| 3417s | least pressure on him in this |
| 3419s | event yeah I feel like levik's been in |
| 3422s | just every tournament in like the past |
| 3424s | two |
| 3425s | years it's just really uh milk and |
| 3428s | competitive Heartstone for all it's |
| 3430s | worth in 2022 2023 love to see it love |
| 3435s | to see it it was relatively unknown |
| 3436s | before that uh which is even one of the |
| 3438s | cooler parts uh obviously people knew |
| 3441s | them especially from |
| 3443s | ladder but beginning of last year was |
| 3446s | I guess the end of 2021 as well was when |
| 3449s | levic |
| 3450s | uh started to just rack up result after |
| 3456s | results but still in a tough spot here |
| 3460s | still down 21 not over the hump yet once |
| 3463s | you get to if you win another one get to |
| 3464s | game five and it's just one match just a |
| 3467s | best of one then you can forget about |
| 3469s | what happened for the rest of the series |
| 3471s | and just focus on that one but for now |
| 3474s | still an up pill |
| 3476s | CL ironically though I think having that |
| 3480s | you know lack of pressure in the sense |
| 3482s | that he's already qualified for worlds |
| 3485s | you know puts you in a better mental |
| 3486s | state for when you are down uh you know |
| 3489s | 20 like he was just earlier and you know |
| 3493s | maybe it gives you all the more |
| 3495s | possibility of you know overcoming a |
| 3498s | deficit like |
| 3504s | this |
| 3509s | once again hron in hemlocks opening hand |
| 3512s | maybe it'll pay off a little more this |
| 3514s | time |
| 3515s | although It's Tricky while howon is I |
| 3519s | think always a keep just because it |
| 3521s | Buffs your entire everything that you |
| 3523s | want to do right your hand and deck all |
| 3525s | your Arcane spells it's still it's a |
| 3528s | little slow now at that four Mana cost |
| 3530s | and so particularly on the play where |
| 3533s | you have fewer cards you're working with |
| 3536s | you're going to end up with hands like |
| 3538s | these where you okay well the anomaly |
| 3542s | fixed it but I was going to say you're |
| 3543s | going to end up with hands like these |
| 3545s | where you don't have as much of your |
| 3547s | early game |
| 3550s | cards yeah this is |
| 3553s | uh what the fifth sixth anomaly we've |
| 3558s | seen maybe seventh but I don't even know |
| 3560s | if we want to include |
| 3563s | the the yog |
| 3566s | cuz the Ys were never played |
| 3568s | uh-huh |
| 3570s | so that anomaly didn't count therez |
| 3573s | nobody got to make any use of it just |
| 3575s | dead card sitting in both players hand |
| 3577s | oh just side with bone spike in hand |
| 3580s | yeah knowing |
| 3584s | that uh the worms are |
| 3589s | there well it's awkward too you know |
| 3592s | turn one 14 that does not not line up |
| 3596s | well into any kind of damage based |
| 3598s | removal that Hunter can present this |
| 3600s | early |
| 3601s | on obviously you don't get a potion if |
| 3605s | it trades into one of the four ones |
| 3606s | because they die at the same time but |
| 3608s | even just presenting the threat of like |
| 3610s | okay next turn I can hero power get a |
| 3614s | potion while killing one of the four |
| 3615s | ones and then take out the other one you |
| 3617s | know that's definitely damage that the |
| 3620s | Rogue doesn't want to have to deal with |
| 3621s | and Hemlock not even going to bother |
| 3625s | running them |
| 3640s | out becomes a little bit difficult |
| 3642s | though because if you're not forcing |
| 3644s | levic to do anything he's able to just |
| 3645s | do whatever he |
| 3647s | wants and Temple is a real |
| 3650s | thing like these worms are what are |
| 3652s | they're just going to be useless for the |
| 3654s | rest of the game |
| 3656s | that's a little bit awkward well Rogues |
| 3659s | don't run fan of knives in standard |
| 3662s | these days |
| 3664s | so even though you know you'd like to |
| 3667s | get them down early it it's no small |
| 3670s | thing if you just play all three of the |
| 3671s | four ones in the same turn uh after you |
| 3674s | know swinging the board |
| 3676s | around yeah well the hard part is |
| 3678s | swinging the board around if you if the |
| 3680s | rogue's just consistently playing |
| 3681s | minions right uh and you're not |
| 3684s | answering them |
| 3685s | uh but that does make sense and we'll |
| 3687s | see if that's actually going to be able |
| 3688s | to happen bwing can come down next turn |
| 3691s | it's going to be a pretty big deal done |
| 3694s | oh the double green |
| 3701s | o question here is whether or not to |
| 3704s | break dance the putride I |
| 3706s | think what about the merlock |
| 3709s | holes no no I don't think it's ever that |
| 3714s | it's like a game in inside of a game |
| 3716s | yeah well the the dance is over pide is |
| 3719s | dead but he certainly did his job in |
| 3721s | terms of preventing those four ones from |
| 3724s | coming down in the early game |
| 3733s | there now the possibility of another |
| 3736s | double |
| 3742s | green yeah also just throw out the CH |
| 3745s | this too just for another 3-2 on the |
| 3753s | board got a rush nice great oh rush and |
| 3757s | a five five that is nice fantastic |
| 3761s | results |
| 3764s | Y and yeah if the trades aren't good we |
| 3767s | don't take |
| 3768s | them uh a little bit risky going into |
| 3771s | the star power turn |
| 3773s | but |
| 3776s | you do know that three of the cards are |
| 3778s | four |
| 3779s | ones |
| 3787s | yep okay yep this makes sense to |
| 3799s | be that uh Knight of the Dead should it |
| 3802s | come down Mana thirsted is |
| 3805s | healing in addition to being very high |
| 3808s | stats for the cost so I think levic is |
| 3811s | happy to be able to take advantage of |
| 3813s | the break dance rush to trade in there |
| 3816s | uh sort of hedge against a star power |
| 3820s | and then also have this tool in his back |
| 3822s | pocket for later on in the game of you |
| 3824s | know healing for I I believe it's five |
| 3831s | yeah double ricochets end up being |
| 3834s | pretty good here double Ricochet and |
| 3835s | just throw out all three |
| 3844s | worms leave a 3-2 which is awkward but |
| 3847s | hey can't win them |
| 3852s | all I'm not seeing the second Ricochet |
| 3856s | unless it's guaranteed off the trinket |
| 3858s | tracker he played it oh okay |
| 3861s | gotcha |
| 3863s | yeah |
| 3865s | yeah he played the first one and then |
| 3867s | thought for a very long time about the |
| 3868s | second one sh |
| 3872s | yeah but coming down at this later stage |
| 3875s | does make for easy pickings on these |
| 3879s | know smaller damage effects from levic |
| 3882s | and get that perjury |
| 3885s | down uh looks like a pretty good agar |
| 3887s | turn though yeah easy slam especially |
| 3891s | before a potential uh Mage secret yeah |
| 3895s | yeah seems good do have to think about |
| 3898s | what you want from it however um because |
| 3903s | I can |
| 3907s | see uh Merit to all three |
| 3912s | choices yeah I mean it's it's always |
| 3914s | like which which do you want three |
| 3917s | instances of do you want know three |
| 3919s | taunts do you want three cards do you |
| 3922s | want six more damage and |
| 3925s | yeah think basically if you are going |
| 3929s | face with the weapon then you maybe take |
| 3931s | the immune if you're going to clear I |
| 3935s | would probably lean towards the 3 |
| 3938s | three yeah I think clearing here oh no |
| 3942s | okay clearing here and then like |
| 3945s | protecting |
| 3947s | Titan for next turn could be |
| 3950s | good we are coming into the krabat TOA |
| 3953s | turn so this is going to get cleared off |
| 3955s | pretty easily but that's just netting |
| 3957s | some some damage here um hilock could |
| 3960s | just swing into the kraa |
| 3963s | which uh is quite good yeah this weapon |
| 3966s | does sacrifice damage but you kind of |
| 3967s | need to remove it at this point the the |
| 3969s | rare instance of you know okay we we |
| 3972s | have to send five damage not face so |
| 3974s | that we can protect ourselves although |
| 3976s | could be a double conjured Arrow instead |
| 3979s | on the |
| 3983s | krava HM after checking for uh secret of |
| 3994s | course that's a lot of card potential |
| 3997s | with howon you know each of those is |
| 3998s | drawing |
| 3999s | three |
| 4004s | yeah good check just with an Arcane shot |
| 4007s | here but no just going to rip the |
| 4011s | Contra at that point I mean maybe |
| 4013s | figuring hey I don't need multiples of |
| 4015s | these I would rather get the hidden |
| 4017s | meaning |
| 4019s | down cuz in in a sense hidden meaning |
| 4022s | goes |
| 4029s | face more secrets will also make that |
| 4032s | Starr strong bow cheaper should they be |
| 4043s | activated |
| 4050s | okay oh and snap mixtape coming out with |
| 4055s | the Titan Forge traps now the way this |
| 4057s | works is you do end up discovering Rogue |
| 4059s | Secrets because uh any class that you |
| 4062s | know gets something from another class |
| 4064s | that says discover Secrets you'll always |
| 4066s | discover from your own pool unless it's |
| 4069s | specifies |
| 4071s | yeah you could cheat death and play The |
| 4073s | Night of the Dead |
| 4077s | because it is man thirsted now true yeah |
| 4079s | yeah and it cost one |
| 4082s | Mana um if after it was cheat death |
| 4086s | back that's a I mean that's a yeah |
| 4089s | respectable amount of Health that uh the |
| 4092s | concoct okay I guess the hidden meeting |
| 4094s | was not played last turn and second |
| 4096s | concoct being cheat death is actually |
| 4098s | not terrible either so right right it |
| 4102s | also |
| 4103s | then you know kind of makes it a little |
| 4107s | less obvious right |
| 4111s | yeah and the order is such that if they |
| 4115s | die from the same effect like a star |
| 4117s | power it will be the the KN that returns |
| 4121s | yeah there's not a clean way for hemlock |
| 4122s | to really just remove this one to you |
| 4124s | don't want to sink four damage into it |
| 4126s | so the N of the Dead's the minion that |
| 4127s | would very likely die I think this |
| 4130s | Arcane shot is the |
| 4132s | last um one cost spell in the deck play |
| 4137s | both ricochets both Arcane shots in hand |
| 4139s | and both |
| 4140s | Tremors it is a lot of |
| 4142s | damage uh with the global spell damage |
| 4148s | effect we have Celestial |
| 4153s | Arrow |
| 4155s | or Arcane shot then would be 6 10 the |
| 4159s | second Arcane shot would be 13 18 20 |
| 4165s | yeah I mean it's it's really adding up |
| 4167s | for sure and I think you're kind of |
| 4169s | happy with just |
| 4171s | maybe you know clear these with the star |
| 4174s | power develop a little bit more uh keep |
| 4177s | pushing |
| 4180s | face cuz nice as that healing is it uh |
| 4184s | doesn't address the fact there's a |
| 4185s | couple of four ones in play and I think |
| 4188s | a lot of us were surprised just to see |
| 4190s | how these 4 ones end up playing out in |
| 4193s | terms of their ility to just acre damage |
| 4197s | over the course of a |
| 4209s | game our gift ofo Shields |
| 4217s | us aelor might have to come down early |
| 4221s | the aelor 8 just to to Ping these off |
| 4223s | the board |
| 4225s | yeah |
| 4229s | um I'd didn't be tempted to play double |
| 4233s | cross here cuz if you're daggering |
| 4235s | you're not really doing much you could |
| 4237s | Shadow step the night of the |
| 4239s | Dead just for an extra |
| 4242s | five knowing that asor is |
| 4245s | there to clean the board |
| 4248s | upo |
| 4251s | soon yeah it's a tough call for me |
| 4253s | between the extra five healing and the |
| 4256s | double |
| 4258s | cross double cross you don't know if |
| 4261s | you're going to get it uh this I can see |
| 4263s | as well |
| 4264s | cuz you know you're taking that four |
| 4267s | damage either way so you may as well |
| 4268s | clear the minion he's dead and it makes |
| 4272s | it harder for both of these to get |
| 4273s | cleared at least by any minion damage |
| 4279s | yeah so there is lethal I |
| 4282s | believe uh but Hemlock does not know |
| 4285s | what the secret is it's an explosive |
| 4286s | Rune so we can see that it doesn't |
| 4287s | matter to what Hemlock is trying to do |
| 4289s | he knows that it's not ice barrier so he |
| 4291s | needs to decide or think if he has |
| 4293s | lethal through a potential counter |
| 4296s | spell uh which I still think he |
| 4299s | does um you just throw the Arcane shot |
| 4301s | out there first the first one because |
| 4303s | that's just the three damage even if |
| 4305s | it's counter spell Celestial Arrow |
| 4309s | Celestial Arrow that's eight plus 2 plus |
| 4314s | two so |
| 4316s | 12 H if he place a hidden meaning he |
| 4318s | doesn't have it I think I just throw an |
| 4319s | Arcane shot to |
| 4339s | test wait what got to move fast okay |
| 4343s | with the yep yeah he still got |
| 4346s | there |
| 4350s | okay yeah realized that maybe would |
| 4353s | not have had lethal if he Arcane shoted |
| 4357s | it and it was counter spell mhm it might |
| 4360s | have been one Mana |
| 4362s | off |
| 4364s | um he used up all those cards and |
| 4366s | wouldn't have had enough Mana for the |
| 4368s | bow if he had done it but uh regardless |
| 4370s | takes the victory yep testing with the |
| 4372s | secret you know |
| 4374s | um a spell that you don't care about |
| 4377s | losing and |
| 4378s | then uh yeah just enough Mana with |
| 4381s | having access to both of the Arcane |
| 4382s | shots and still the the hero power to |
| 4384s | fill in for the extra two that would |
| 4386s | come off of the celestial so well played |
| 4389s | Hemlock uh you know remember this is the |
| 4392s | uh second player besides pocket train I |
| 4394s | believe who has been in all of the top |
| 4395s | eights this year and it really |
| 4398s | shows yeah now can add uh another top |
| 4401s | four to that resume so well done and um |
| 4407s | you know that like we had talked about |
| 4410s | the one thing about the Arcane Hunter is |
| 4411s | just you can you can beat it you can |
| 4414s | beat it twice in a row but beating it |
| 4415s | three times in the row is just very |
| 4417s | difficult eventually they're going to |
| 4419s | find a way to piece things together and |
| 4421s | I like the way lovic played that he |
| 4423s | played Super aggressive went for like |
| 4424s | the double green potion or got the |
| 4427s | double green potion and just tried to |
| 4428s | play Super for Tempo and it did put a |
| 4430s | lot of pressure but the double Ricochet |
| 4433s | shot into the star power is able to keep |
| 4434s | things clean and by time with the Titan |
| 4437s | which you |
| 4438s | foreshadowed uh I need to sacrifice |
| 4442s | damage to buy time so that I can deal |
| 4444s | more damage and that's exactly what |
| 4446s | happened because more damage did |
| 4449s | come yeah I mean the deck just has so |
| 4452s | much available particularly when you do |
| 4454s | have howon that early so everything has |
| 4457s | that that one bit of extra damage we |
| 4459s | didn't even see any of the uh two drops |
| 4463s | that |
| 4464s | you know extra spell damage to all the |
| 4466s | cards in your hand so uh yeah there's |
| 4469s | there's so much available that often |
| 4471s | times using that immune weapon is just a |
| 4474s | flexible tool of either you get it as |
| 4476s | nanite axe going face or can just use it |
| 4479s | to buy more time yeah that's right but |
| 4481s | hemlocks going to be moving on uh to the |
| 4484s | semifinals going to face off against the |
| 4486s | winner of pocket train versus W them |
| 4489s | which I believe is our next one so that |
| 4491s | should be a fantastic match but we we're |
| 4493s | just getting started for it that's just |
| 4494s | match one which means we have six more |
| 4496s | to go before we Crown a winner uh and |
| 4499s | Crown our fall Champion but before we |
| 4501s | get into our next quarterfinal we are |
| 4502s | going to have to go to a quick break but |
| 4503s | don't go anywhere more action to come |
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| 4850s | hello everybody and welcome back to the |
| 4852s | Hearthstone Max tour fall Championship |
| 4854s | my name is TJ and I'm joined by the one |
| 4856s | the only it's Neil Linda Bond AKA you |
| 4860s | can just call me Linda please how you |
| 4862s | doing bud I am doing great especially |
| 4865s | with what we've got coming up next TJ |
| 4867s | and I don't know how it's going for you |
| 4869s | but this is going flying by this |
| 4871s | tournament it's like everyone's brought |
| 4872s | all these aggro decks even the control |
| 4873s | decks just kill you now it's been a |
| 4876s | weird tournament for me like I'm so used |
| 4877s | to grindy slow tournaments but we're |
| 4879s | we're whizzing |
| 4881s | through whizzing on through yeah um I |
| 4885s | was expecting a little bit more in terms |
| 4888s | of like slower control decks you know I |
| 4890s | thought there'd be a little bit more |
| 4891s | control priest I thought control Warrior |
| 4893s | will come out and not be banned as often |
| 4894s | but we're not we're just not seeing it |
| 4897s | uh we're seeing combo and pseudo Agro |
| 4902s | and Rogue which does not have an |
| 4903s | archetype outside of just being called |
| 4905s | Rogue but uh this is a second match of |
| 4907s | the day let's go and take a look at the |
| 4908s | bracket um see how things have shaping |
| 4910s | up if you're just now tuning in we just |
| 4912s | got to watch Hemlock take a 3-1 victory |
| 4915s | over levik to make it to the semi-finals |
| 4917s | now we got pocket train versus ream |
| 4920s | coming up and uh this is a big one this |
| 4922s | is a real big one tell us why it's a big |
| 4925s | one it's a big one because it's big TJ |
| 4929s | really big um both these players have |
| 4932s | sort of helped along with bface and mey |
| 4935s | sort of put this program on their back |
| 4936s | this year and chose to stream large |
| 4939s | chunks of their action throughout the |
| 4940s | year so we've seen how the points have |
| 4942s | been gathered that have got them here |
| 4944s | firsthand and and that takes some doing |
| 4947s | right you you're streaming the game |
| 4948s | you're trying to finish rank one Legend |
| 4950s | and regularly doing so especially if |
| 4952s | you're pocket train um and still also |
| 4956s | talking to viewers and generally showing |
| 4959s | everything it's it's just incredible to |
| 4960s | me how they've gone with it and these |
| 4962s | have been two of the biggest proponents |
| 4963s | of that so fair play to them um in terms |
| 4967s | of qualification for worlds it's |
| 4968s | slightly less big than some of the other |
| 4970s | matches because pocket train barring |
| 4973s | disaster will make it through on points |
| 4974s | and Rec vanan probably will as well so |
| 4976s | they're both in a good spot but there's |
| 4978s | a lot of money at stake as well there |
| 4979s | 10,000 first prize in this tournament we |
| 4981s | we don't talk about that that often but |
| 4983s | it's still a huge chunk of |
| 4984s | change and you know pocket's taking |
| 4987s | seriously so he's brought rainbow Mage |
| 4989s | TJ rainbow Mage rainbow Mage looking at |
| 4994s | sort of the quote unquote Tech |
| 4996s | inclusions not much of it um well you |
| 5001s | just play all the expensive stuff and no |
| 5003s | solid |
| 5004s | Alibi uh some we see some players |
| 5006s | playing the solid Alibi but they got to |
| 5008s | cut an elemental inspiration they got to |
| 5010s | cut the |
| 5012s | norgon uh something along those lines um |
| 5016s | but this is the uh version I prefer if |
| 5018s | you really need a solid outby just |
| 5020s | discover one right you know um yeah |
| 5024s | that's how I that's my outlook on life |
| 5028s | just do what I want and if I really need |
| 5030s | something just find it if you you really |
| 5033s | need an Al just ask all your friends |
| 5034s | until you get one |
| 5037s | yeah exactly you get |
| 5041s | it um his opponent is going to be |
| 5047s | ragam there really up for this aren't |
| 5049s | they so early in the morning and by |
| 5051s | early in the morning I don't know what |
| 5052s | time it is here like 5:00 p.m. or |
| 5054s | something I was about to say it's not |
| 5056s | even not not even close to morning even |
| 5060s | for me morning in the old |
| 5063s | it's not the morning you get at like or |
| 5066s | something to get fed by the dogs or |
| 5068s | something no I slept in today I didn't |
| 5070s | wake up until like |
| 5072s | 620 620 I don't even have a 6 or 20 on |
| 5075s | my clock I just get up and it's a time |
| 5078s | yeah it's weird it's still dark out here |
| 5080s | at 620 at least until next week when the |
| 5082s | the clocks go back wait does that make |
| 5085s | it worse no that makes it get an hour |
| 5087s | extra in bed is what they say but |
| 5088s | actually you get the same amount of time |
| 5089s | in bed and the arbitrary number on your |
| 5092s | clock is different |
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| 5094s | yeah well like here's the we have alarms |
| 5099s | but kids and dogs do not so they're |
| 5102s | going to be up when they their bodies |
| 5104s | think that it's six which will be now be |
| 5108s | five yeah so um good for them changes |
| 5112s | nothing Hey look it's a through yeah he |
| 5114s | got through on this yesterday um looked |
| 5117s | like he wasn't going to win and got the |
| 5118s | wind Fury to get through on the the |
| 5120s | final card of the final game of the day |
| 5123s | of the final Tournament of the Year |
| 5126s | final Masters Tour Tournament of the |
| 5128s | year |
| 5129s | and looks like he's going to have to do |
| 5132s | it again obviously pocket train has the |
| 5133s | same deck the only difference in their |
| 5135s | lineup is that ream has that shadow |
| 5137s | priest whereas pocket has |
| 5140s | the |
| 5142s | Sharman um both of which are I I saw St |
| 5145s | and Raven talking about Shaman as if it |
| 5146s | was like winning everything really |
| 5148s | easily but I don't think we've had that |
| 5150s | experience where we've cast have we |
| 5151s | we've seen Shaman struggle some somewh |
| 5153s | uh not well in the last series uh levic |
| 5157s | just kind of tempo a win with Shaman uh |
| 5160s | which can happen uh it's not as common |
| 5164s | uh but it can happen so there was that |
| 5167s | um in terms of like like straight up |
| 5169s | combo no we haven't seen it it's been a |
| 5173s | Struggle Bus a little bit you say it's |
| 5176s | not as common to see it win on Tempo I |
| 5179s | think I've seen one bioluminescence cast |
| 5181s | like all tournament f |
| 5183s | well yeah it's like out of 10 games like |
| 5187s | two you win with combo two you win with |
| 5190s | Tempo and then six you |
| 5194s | lose like that's been our experience |
| 5197s | with the uh the Mage throughout |
| 5199s | throughout the weekend I feel that's a |
| 5201s | pretty good description of uh Shaman's |
| 5204s | history in the master fall |
| 5206s | Championship uh but we got Mage versus |
| 5208s | Rogue coming up right now so uh let's sh |
| 5213s | Let's uh shift gears |
| 5215s | deal that was close TJ that was close um |
| 5219s | the Mage is interesting cuz I think it's |
| 5220s | the most powerful deck there is but in |
| 5222s | the tournament if you do all the |
| 5223s | matchups Mage in theory is the weakest |
| 5226s | because everyone's brought their decks |
| 5227s | knowing they've got to face the Mage |
| 5229s | that being said the stats yesterday |
| 5231s | showed that Mage was still running at |
| 5233s | 56% um towards the end of yesterday so |
| 5236s | it's getting it done despite being soft |
| 5239s | targeted you can't Hard Target this deck |
| 5240s | it's just got too many moving parts to |
| 5243s | Target but it it's doing really well |
| 5247s | which isn't particularly |
| 5250s | surprising oh no what do you do without |
| 5253s | a weapon pocket TR is going to have to |
| 5254s | teach |
| 5255s | us I |
| 5257s | mean still a good hand reverberations |
| 5261s | versus me Rogue yep want one of those |
| 5264s | thanks yeah just having something to |
| 5267s | kill the first Mech without spending the |
| 5270s | coin also good this is |
| 5274s | I'm on boor I'm on board with this this |
| 5276s | is this is tough to deal with I mean |
| 5278s | he's going to have to play the oh he was |
| 5280s | going to have to play the worm to get |
| 5281s | the bolt so he's got reverberations coin |
| 5283s | ping next turn with the bolt but this is |
| 5285s | now giving him a decision does he want |
| 5287s | to try and kill the mechs or does he |
| 5288s | want to just make a million skeletons |
| 5290s | and four fours and kill his opponent |
| 5292s | before they kill him so now he's got to |
| 5294s | visualize the whole |
| 5296s | game against mechro it's kind of tough |
| 5298s | to kill your opponent before they kill |
| 5300s | you if you're not addressing their |
| 5303s | bardor |
| 5305s | um so I don't really like that game plan |
| 5309s | but if you can do both simultaneously |
| 5311s | then yeah amen um so you can go you |
| 5315s | could go keyboard into reverberation but |
| 5318s | it's just going to want to have |
| 5319s | something on the board multiple attacks |
| 5321s | right yeah has reverberation to deal |
| 5323s | with one big thing and now has attacks |
| 5325s | on board to deal with one big thing plus |
| 5328s | a small thing and it gives him the bolt |
| 5330s | as well right which means he can rever |
| 5331s | bolt if he needs need to on something |
| 5334s | terrifying |
| 5340s | yeah talk about a lot of moving |
| 5345s | Parts if I'm picking up lots of I know |
| 5348s | they're not spare parts but they're |
| 5349s | spare parts come on give me that one |
| 5352s | yeah come on be be honest with yourself |
| 5355s | you know you've got to |
| 5360s | be it kind of requires answer as well |
| 5362s | otherwise the the card Advantage will |
| 5364s | get out of |
| 5366s | hand well the card the card renewal it's |
| 5368s | never going to be an advantage cuz Mage |
| 5370s | always has a million cards but |
| 5376s | yeah all right choosing not to |
| 5383s | panic four Mana crap TJ how do you like |
| 5389s | that yeah this one's this one's done so |
| 5394s | the only question really is do you want |
| 5395s | to trade first so that your crab people |
| 5398s | don't get killed or do you want to trade |
| 5400s | with the crap |
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| 5403s | people the claws if you will I I think |
| 5407s | you can uh trade first throw the tutu |
| 5411s | Devon shield into one of the skellies |
| 5413s | then kboa and throw the |
| 5416s | uh crab thing so to elaborate on that |
| 5420s | point even further next turn you've got |
| 5422s | any and you want to make sure one your |
| 5423s | me is |
| 5424s | alive okay this turn you've got in it go |
| 5427s | for |
| 5428s | it we don't |
| 5430s | need it's going wide going real wide |
| 5435s | we're kind of in need of an inquisitive |
| 5437s | creation right now I would |
| 5440s | say yeah and you're going to get stomped |
| 5442s | next turn as well so doubly in need of |
| 5445s | it yeah and it's it's not even like that |
| 5450s | good it's only at three damage right cuz |
| 5452s | it's only been frosted fire that have |
| 5454s | been |
| 5455s | played um Reverb is not terrible here |
| 5459s | cuz you can Reverb on the |
| 5462s | ined um sure and and even ah you can't |
| 5466s | clear off both if you can't because it's |
| 5468s | reverbed so yeah |
| 5472s | yeah but you can like |
| 5475s | Reverb trade and then play a flame |
| 5479s | Elemental right cool uh or you can |
| 5482s | artificer Reverb that probably better |
| 5485s | just try and G A little bit of Health |
| 5486s | while you |
| 5488s | can oh it's horrible yeah it's all bad |
| 5492s | it's all bad |
| 5495s | reality yeah he's doing it but this is |
| 5498s | be grudging not you know he's not |
| 5500s | excited about |
| 5503s | this |
| 5508s | wow the only thing I guess that is |
| 5510s | happening here is Rec V's not piling on |
| 5512s | the damage I he's won the board he's |
| 5514s | going to get a stomper |
| 5518s | down or a |
| 5520s | spoa oh my so many |
| 5529s | options so pocket does have a little bit |
| 5532s | of |
| 5536s | time so normally it's instant spider |
| 5538s | right but I think the reason re's paying |
| 5540s | attention there is you know he's a |
| 5542s | Reverb go so the stealth's slightly less |
| 5545s | useful than usual some Worlds the coin |
| 5548s | was very |
| 5550s | tempting but yeah look at this with the |
| 5552s | Titan next turn oh my |
| 5564s | goodness |
| 5566s | yeah no aliis right in this |
| 5569s | deck |
| 5571s | nope if you really need one though you |
| 5573s | can find one got a lot of |
| 5575s | reverbs yeah oh no another |
| 5581s | spider 12 on board |
| 5585s | spider it's so expensive to play the |
| 5588s | spider because of the way the Mana works |
| 5590s | out |
| 5593s | but I |
| 5600s | wonder put your a opponent to 15 and |
| 5603s | just have a lot of stuff with Titan back |
| 5604s | up they keep making bigger boards okay |
| 5607s | yeah I think with |
| 5609s | stomper you don't really need the |
| 5611s | stealth like it's a 79 Reverb is the |
| 5613s | only way but Reverb I guess Reverb |
| 5618s | ping oh no you can't Reverb ping only |
| 5620s | going into six Mana so it shuts off |
| 5622s | Reverb ping which was pretty much the |
| 5624s | only thing that could answer it yeah no |
| 5627s | bolt no yeah cuz of all the yeah sure |
| 5629s | that |
| 5631s | works |
| 5636s | yeah close is |
| 5640s | it now this |
| 5642s | uh sick jazz flute is |
| 5647s | just perfectly apt for the situation at |
| 5651s | hand just explain further to those of us |
| 5654s | who aren't into jazz |
| 5656s | flutes I wouldn't say that I'm an |
| 5658s | individual who's into jazz flutes but I |
| 5661s | mean you seem to |
| 5664s | maybe yeah that's going to do it pocket |
| 5668s | train I mean it wasn't a terrible start |
| 5670s | It's |
| 5672s | just sometimes if Mech Rogue has a good |
| 5674s | start you need a perfect start in order |
| 5677s | to answer it and that just didn't happen |
| 5680s | for pocket train so ream gets a quick |
| 5683s | Victory with still quite a few choice in |
| 5685s | that game right pocket train had the |
| 5686s | choice to play weapon into coin Cold |
| 5688s | Case try and fight for board that way um |
| 5692s | obviously you don't know exactly what |
| 5694s | the Rogue is going to do whether they're |
| 5695s | going to stealth whether they just going |
| 5696s | to make a big thing whether they're |
| 5697s | going to go wide but he thought long and |
| 5700s | hard about that decision and ream had |
| 5701s | the choice when to play the |
| 5703s | stomper really good decision to play the |
| 5706s | in when he did I think you and I just |
| 5707s | saw crab play crab course it was the |
| 5709s | right maloc cost it cleared the board |
| 5711s | and it looked |
| 5712s | great uh so even though it was a short |
| 5714s | game there were still decisions being |
| 5715s | made there which I think people Overlook |
| 5717s | sometimes in those aggro games that take |
| 5718s | five |
| 5720s | turns yeah I think kbor probably would |
| 5723s | have been also good in that situation |
| 5727s | right yeah that's why I missed the play |
| 5728s | I saw the kbor I think I win if I play |
| 5731s | this krabat TOA so my brain then stops |
| 5734s | looking for better options |
| 5737s | yeah yeah what's better than winning |
| 5740s | winning |
| 5742s | better yeah finding a a use for any in a |
| 5746s | situation where any may not have been |
| 5748s | able to come down whereas kboa is always |
| 5751s | an option option um ended up just |
| 5754s | ditching it |
| 5755s | anyway with the gear shift |
| 5758s | but it is what it |
| 5760s | is um but now ream still with the the |
| 5764s | priest oh we're going to get to see the |
| 5765s | priest see if that can take some |
| 5769s | wins the shadow priest it's the shadow |
| 5772s | priest yeah which is |
| 5774s | fine which is fine as opposed to control |
| 5778s | priest which is absolutely not |
| 5780s | fine |
| 5782s | uh control piece is fine it doesn't it |
| 5785s | didn't get through we saw there's just |
| 5786s | one in the tournament right they didn't |
| 5788s | get through oh it's balance he's through |
| 5790s | so yeah we'll see balance in our fourth |
| 5794s | and final quarterfinal which is the |
| 5797s | exact correct number of control priests |
| 5799s | for a tournament one and I don't cast it |
| 5802s | it's |
| 5803s | fine I do cast it so actually should be |
| 5806s | pretty fun yeah hey I I I I practiced |
| 5809s | Shell PS for quite a long time this week |
| 5813s | PR yeah Shadow priest doesn't seem like |
| 5816s | a Neil kind of deck you know Shadow |
| 5818s | priest I've played Shadow priest for |
| 5819s | weeks um during one of the gem |
| 5821s | Seasons weeks Yeah well yeah cuz it was |
| 5825s | like the only |
| 5827s | deck it's like what do I practice I |
| 5829s | haven't already practiced n nothing I'll |
| 5831s | just play shadow piece again of it's the |
| 5833s | best |
| 5837s | deck now and thinks it is as well |
| 5840s | certainly not yeah it's going to be a |
| 5842s | bit awkward this |
| 5844s | deck it can be I mean it can have starts |
| 5847s | that are just impossible to beat |
| 5850s | but like everything outside of that is |
| 5853s | just quite mediocre so you're just |
| 5856s | hoping you know your other decks get a |
| 5859s | get a like a sweep going on you're up 20 |
| 5861s | you got three chances for the shadow |
| 5862s | priest you got three chances to just |
| 5865s | draw the absolute nuts |
| 5867s | so I think nutshell wow I think this is |
| 5871s | very much a fourth deck tournament as |
| 5873s | well like the shaman has been a lot of |
| 5875s | fourth decks I think again S and R were |
| 5877s | talking about this in different light |
| 5879s | yesterday um the control priest we've |
| 5882s | seen Triant Druid in that slot we've |
| 5885s | seen all kinds of stuff the thing that |
| 5888s | hasn't been the fourth deck has been the |
| 5890s | control Warrior which is running as like |
| 5891s | an 85% ban rate in this |
| 5894s | tournament yeah just good against the |
| 5898s | field that is here it's not necessarily |
| 5900s | the best deck in Hearthstone right now I |
| 5901s | think that might go to enrage |
| 5903s | Warrior but the control Warrior beats |
| 5905s | these things at a fair |
| 5910s | clip there you go that's how you play |
| 5913s | Mage keyboard coin Cold Case vam |
| 5921s | knows he just |
| 5922s | knows yeah and just pick a card on turn |
| 5927s | one yeah just literally literally |
| 5930s | just get a get a |
| 5934s | spell when you play discovery of Magic |
| 5936s | on turn one that's what it is and this |
| 5938s | cold case does everything I mean it does |
| 5940s | everything anyway but against Shaman in |
| 5941s | particular like two skeletons control |
| 5943s | the board four armor because you know |
| 5945s | you get low on health against Shaman and |
| 5947s | a four four because why wouldn't you |
| 5949s | want a four |
| 5950s | four lovely we |
| 5953s | go yeah pocket train with the very |
| 5956s | British sarcastic |
| 5959s | nod give the thumbs up last turn |
| 5964s | yeah he's applauding his friend ream |
| 5966s | nice to see such |
| 5968s | sportsmanship yeah wants to play inant |
| 5970s | next turn so does not want to overload |
| 5972s | with the feral Spirits no's going to |
| 5975s | just make two different spells happen my |
| 5978s | radi I got to watch pocket train for the |
| 5981s | entirity this time I don't care what he |
| 5982s | takes |
| 5984s | oh demonic Dynamics it's a fell you get |
| 5988s | two demons and they're |
| 5990s | buffed yeah we take that that probably |
| 5992s | he's trying to work out his next turn he |
| 5994s | probably wants to artifice and do some |
| 5995s | stuff next turn but I want the |
| 5999s | Dynamics he's probably trying to recall |
| 6001s | like are there any actual useful demons |
| 6003s | that heal me and stuff like |
| 6006s | that or are they all nine |
| 6013s | drops there's some pretty good |
| 6017s | ones he's just going he's just winning |
| 6019s | on Temple right now so |
| 6021s | that kind of helps with tempo right like |
| 6024s | it summons a tutu also so it's not like |
| 6026s | you're just sacrificing your he's |
| 6028s | thinking about Order in the Court right |
| 6030s | has has he got three turns lined up and |
| 6032s | he can just order |
| 6034s | now let's have a look at his list quick |
| 6036s | what are you looking for for order you |
| 6038s | want Elemental your good stuff |
| 6042s | right just going to check his exact list |
| 6044s | cuz they all slightly different |
| 6046s | lists I guess so he's got two Elemental |
| 6048s | Inspirations si in his hand then he gets |
| 6050s | norgan on |
| 6052s | two wisdoms which would be pretty cheap |
| 6054s | and Lady nzar basically in that |
| 6057s | order yeah cut out all the the little |
| 6060s | things like your your your bur basically |
| 6063s | but let's say this board gets dealt with |
| 6066s | like you have two turns before you're |
| 6067s | really doing much like you're not |
| 6069s | finding your your |
| 6071s | damage but he has another Prismatic I |
| 6073s | think that's what he spent so long |
| 6074s | thinking about but he's got the voice |
| 6075s | scripture as well so he's going to have |
| 6076s | two turns worth of stuff I think was |
| 6079s | his his thinking |
| 6083s | or rather one and a half and take your |
| 6085s | chance with the Prismatic if it gets |
| 6087s | tough |
| 6089s | like I like |
| 6091s | it yeah I just wanted demons and I'm |
| 6095s | really set upset right now but maybe |
| 6097s | this people who are raised by dogs |
| 6100s | probably want demons more often than |
| 6101s | average to be fair |
| 6105s | yeah this is just infinite |
| 6108s | stuff it kind of is like this is |
| 6113s | this is |
| 6119s | damage cl's up to 40 |
| 6123s | already and flash of lightning is |
| 6128s | also I mean you're you're dumping the |
| 6130s | second crash for sure clear the board um |
| 6134s | because you also get to discover another |
| 6135s | nature |
| 6136s | spell and not really sacrificing much |
| 6138s | damage on top of |
| 6140s | it |
| 6145s | yep oh and the Titan picked up too |
| 6148s | that's this is a big swing it really is |
| 6150s | cuz now we're going into turn six which |
| 6152s | is the turn that you were saying was |
| 6153s | Ream's awkward turn if he did go for |
| 6158s | the the order he will pick up uh noran |
| 6162s | on next |
| 6167s | turn and then he's got double |
| 6169s | inspiration the two turns after that |
| 6175s | which one do you |
| 6177s | fancy ah I |
| 6179s | mean probably norgon just so Titan can't |
| 6182s | be |
| 6183s | played but you're then you're leaving up |
| 6186s | the radiance but you don't really have a |
| 6187s | way to deal with the radiance anyway |
| 6188s | unless you use noron for |
| 6193s | damage but that could be worth |
| 6196s | though well you got Prismatic into Cold |
| 6199s | Case or whatever you pick up from the |
| 6200s | Prismatic so you then got better element |
| 6204s | next turn you still you still leave up |
| 6206s | the radiance I think noran on into |
| 6209s | damage might just be the best just get |
| 6211s | get the radiance out of the way I don't |
| 6214s | disagree it's not often it's just used |
| 6216s | for straight up removal like that but |
| 6218s | this is a very high value minion that's |
| 6220s | a permanent there it's double reduction |
| 6222s | next turn if the radiance lives cuz |
| 6224s | there was a flash of lightning plate as |
| 6226s | well |
| 6229s | y tough cool will your and this was |
| 6233s | always going to be the tough turn if |
| 6234s | things went wrong for him compr okay |
| 6238s | okay what with disruption so with |
| 6241s | there's uh one overload so the Titan |
| 6243s | can't be played but |
| 6245s | wait wait I'm waiting I'm |
| 6249s | waiting it's not |
| 6252s | lethal wait I'm waiting |
| 6256s | again now no it's not even close there's |
| 6259s | only two damage spells in hand uhhuh |
| 6264s | well you know sometimes that's enough |
| 6265s | just depends what the Spells are but for |
| 6267s | Shaman I sort of |
| 6273s | agree I mean you you might |
| 6276s | just all right just one crash totem plus |
| 6280s | one crash and then clear it off pretty |
| 6283s | lackluster turn but what are you going |
| 6284s | to do you |
| 6288s | know okay so there was two norgan under |
| 6291s | and a nasja if he plays this he gets |
| 6293s | the the other wisdom and the lady nasja |
| 6297s | the two next cards in his deck and then |
| 6299s | we're into volume ups and inquisitive |
| 6301s | Creations after |
| 6305s | that I |
| 6309s | wonder if you get to those Creations |
| 6311s | still on a decent Health total that |
| 6313s | might be |
| 6319s | nice |
| 6322s | this is really tricky navigation here |
| 6324s | for |
| 6334s | recam impressed by |
| 6336s | my |
| 6338s | [Music] |
| 6341s | display the call of |
| 6347s | sh he the call of |
| 6349s | what |
| 6352s | so what do you on about |
| 6354s | GES I I voice lines I struggle to pick |
| 6357s | out I play with sound off actually used |
| 6359s | to play with sound off a lot I play with |
| 6360s | it on these days because you know I play |
| 6363s | sound |
| 6364s | off all right double so many flashes |
| 6367s | dead he dead dead dead dead |
| 6372s | dead |
| 6379s | dead |
| 6383s | dead dead so much damage dead |
| 6389s | dead this double flash last turn |
| 6393s | too Ino was played yeah in's down flash |
| 6397s | at least single |
| 6398s | flash possibly double what |
| 6401s | this I thought it might be double but |
| 6403s | we'll see so is it down to just play |
| 6406s | your uh yeah your Prismatic and |
| 6409s | Hope |
| 6411s | what are you hoping for |
| 6414s | um |
| 6417s | bug something gains me 27 |
| 6423s | armor yeah was about the best he can do |
| 6426s | but he knows like he just drew his like |
| 6429s | his entire deck over the past couple |
| 6431s | turns used one crash I mean we're |
| 6434s | actually lacking |
| 6436s | damage it might not matter that |
| 6439s | overdraft is like a million |
| 6443s | cuz it's only the |
| 6445s | crash and turn the |
| 6452s | tides but |
| 6454s | it's he can play everything so it's plus |
| 6456s | seven spell damage yeah plus eight spell |
| 6459s | damage twice plus 16 spell damage so it |
| 6462s | doesn't even matter what you do yeah |
| 6465s | okay he's good it's literally two direct |
| 6468s | damage spells yeah this is TJ who few |
| 6471s | seconds ago said it's only two direct |
| 6472s | damage |
| 6474s | spells yeah turns out they could do a |
| 6476s | lot of damage take 21 Noob take 19 |
| 6482s | more and it's one all just like that and |
| 6484s | re had a really good start and the |
| 6487s | decision in this game was that Order in |
| 6488s | the Court which I I quite liked uh but |
| 6491s | you you did you wanted demons you wanted |
| 6494s | the temple on the board you didn't think |
| 6496s | you get to turn seven comfortably and |
| 6498s | you read it all |
| 6499s | right |
| 6502s | yeah it yeah it's just tough right um he |
| 6506s | was hoping that like norgon would buy |
| 6508s | time to get to turn seven comfortably |
| 6510s | like the one uncomfortable turn he could |
| 6513s | block with norgon making the the cards |
| 6515s | cost more but it didn't really stop |
| 6518s | pocket train much because he popped off |
| 6520s | the turn prior to that um and pocket |
| 6523s | train also knew was coming he knew it |
| 6524s | was in the hand so he knew when to |
| 6526s | pressure like it gives your opponent |
| 6528s | information it makes it so you you can't |
| 6531s | get creative with your plays because you |
| 6532s | know exactly what's going to be drawn |
| 6535s | like I at that point I wouldn't even |
| 6536s | really care about the demons I would |
| 6538s | just yeah I don't know um Elemental |
| 6542s | inspiration though is incredibly |
| 6544s | important in in that match up I feel |
| 6546s | because a lot of times they'll kill you |
| 6548s | before you can like get Sith uh and kill |
| 6551s | them like their combo happens much |
| 6553s | faster than yours so you need the minion |
| 6556s | pressure and the way to do that is |
| 6557s | Elemental inspiration |
| 6558s | but um like in order to get |
| 6562s | there maybe you just try and get there |
| 6565s | naturally instead of doing it the other |
| 6567s | way and then go with the demons to try |
| 6568s | and buy some Tempo along the way well |
| 6571s | pocket train was one who got there |
| 6572s | naturally in the end with the with the |
| 6574s | nature Shaman |
| 6577s | so we we're down to Mages Rogues and |
| 6580s | Priests pocket train slight advantage in |
| 6583s | my eyes here because he's got the what |
| 6585s | we've been calling the fourth deck out |
| 6587s | of the way I don't know how other people |
| 6589s | seeing Shaman it's definitely up for de |
| 6590s | wa but the shaman or the priest here I |
| 6592s | think are the fourth decks in this |
| 6593s | lineup that's my opinion and he's got |
| 6596s | his |
| 6596s | through |
| 6600s | yep I'm still worried about the |
| 6603s | priest I think yeah I mean there's only |
| 6606s | one of them in the tournament quite |
| 6607s | often that's a sign you're either going |
| 6608s | to win the tournament or you've brought |
| 6610s | the wrong deck but it hasn't looked too |
| 6614s | bad it's |
| 6616s | okay why are you worried about it what |
| 6618s | worries you about Shadow priest |
| 6621s | that's just about everything to be |
| 6622s | honest |
| 6626s | with what doesn't wor you about it so we |
| 6629s | can eliminate |
| 6631s | something uh like |
| 6636s | the uh I don't know the crazy |
| 6640s | starts yeah they can be good they can |
| 6643s | pull off a lot of |
| 6645s | times notably with like undying allies |
| 6649s | into like banshees and arm dealers and |
| 6654s | eggs and then they live and it's |
| 6657s | impossible to remove because if you |
| 6658s | remove the reborn Banshee it just Buffs |
| 6661s | everything else comes back and you can't |
| 6664s | do anything about it yeah yeah those the |
| 6666s | starts that can just kill you it's |
| 6668s | basically a bad version of Mech Rogue |
| 6670s | isn't it it just does the same thing but |
| 6671s | not as |
| 6673s | well uh they have more |
| 6676s | direct direct he weing at is he waving |
| 6679s | at us |
| 6681s | oh okay production was telling him to |
| 6684s | wave at at |
| 6685s | us he was requested to wave he's done |
| 6688s | everything else this season he's |
| 6688s | streamed his tournaments he's you know |
| 6691s | tweeted out various events and times |
| 6693s | he's talked to casters about you know |
| 6695s | situations and who's going to get to |
| 6696s | Worlds and stuff and now we're making |
| 6698s | him jump and wave at us he's done |
| 6700s | everything he's done it all now he's |
| 6702s | he's lead on the point with |
| 6705s | we the production team was probably like |
| 6708s | you're on camera and then he literally |
| 6710s | didn't move or change his facial |
| 6711s | expression at all yeah this is re being |
| 6714s | asked to wave and then they yelled and |
| 6716s | said wave or something then he gave his |
| 6719s | awkward little wave in his slice |
| 6721s | smk like I'm not here to wave I'm here |
| 6724s | to play Hearthstone a pokey train likes |
| 6726s | to |
| 6730s | wave I mean w waving can be pretty |
| 6734s | fun if you do it |
| 6736s | correctly can you can you do it wrongly |
| 6738s | how do you how do you wave wrongly |
| 6743s | you you'd know it if you saw it you'd |
| 6745s | know it if you saw it |
| 6749s | okay |
| 6754s | reality it's a |
| 6756s | major yep if only they could combine |
| 6759s | their hands into one super |
| 6764s | hand a what's happening they've to wave |
| 6769s | he was freaking out see that's weaving |
| 6771s | wrongly right there it's exactly I told |
| 6774s | you I told you you knew it if you saw it |
| 6777s | I saw it and I knew |
| 6780s | it interesting here that um in this |
| 6782s | mirror where the keyboard is a big deal |
| 6785s | cuz you end up getting so much Tempo |
| 6786s | because of his hand pocket train has |
| 6787s | chosen not to play the keyboard and just |
| 6789s | kept the pressure on |
| 6792s | board um it's not the end of the game if |
| 6795s | you go two into four and he hasn't got |
| 6797s | the four um as Mage versus Mage in the |
| 6799s | mirror because the Other M can still |
| 6800s | generate massive Tempo but it's a |
| 6803s | surprisingly big Tempo match up the |
| 6805s | mirror you don't have time to mess |
| 6807s | around and wait for C you just got to |
| 6808s | hit him with the |
| 6810s | stuff oh Blessing of Kings see that's |
| 6813s | how Tempo he pocket sees |
| 6818s | it oh my |
| 6823s | goodness it's one of those double |
| 6828s | whammies now he's established the |
| 6830s | keyboard the blessing oh TJ oh yeah oh |
| 6833s | it's juice look at all this |
| 6836s | stuff oh it's so good gets out of um |
| 6841s | creation range this needs to be good o |
| 6848s | Vis Vis I think you're |
| 6852s | fine Vis excuse me you okay yeah that's |
| 6857s | better |
| 6859s | ha what what do you Raven calls it by |
| 6863s | age I don't |
| 6864s | know yeah something like |
| 6867s | that he's just jamming his turns holy |
| 6871s | moly here's my stuff I'm going to hit |
| 6873s | you with it because I've got the bird to |
| 6874s | finish it off this is how the mirror |
| 6876s | goes again Sith what's a cth you just |
| 6879s | just just make things they are going to |
| 6881s | get unmade though for the large |
| 6884s | part |
| 6885s | yep o i Mana away from being able to do |
| 6889s | cool stuff |
| 6892s | oh uh too |
| 6894s | late I think you take |
| 6900s | equality puts everything in ping |
| 6908s | range but getting into burn range there |
| 6911s | is no armor gain for re in hand at the |
| 6916s | moment all this power is mine to me well |
| 6920s | Cold |
| 6922s | Case apart from the cold case this is |
| 6924s | what I was looking for and just didn't |
| 6925s | see as it was hidden there behind all |
| 6927s | the other cards |
| 6929s | obviously it's my |
| 6932s | excuse and it's a good one I don't think |
| 6935s | it is stick to it I'm sticking to it |
| 6937s | anyway but I don't think it is so what |
| 6939s | we got here weapon |
| 6941s | equality Cold Case and just work out do |
| 6944s | you want to one one from the equality or |
| 6945s | do you not want to one one from the |
| 6946s | equality that's what comes to mind to do |
| 6953s | I don't think you |
| 6954s | do because you're getting um Inquisitor |
| 6957s | or or creation I mean or because it's |
| 6961s | just a one one and it's |
| 6962s | rubbish because it's a one- one and it's |
| 6964s | rubbish |
| 6966s | okay I wonder sounds so unnatural say |
| 6970s | rubbish don't like it it's |
| 6977s | icky still have your seven seven next |
| 6979s | turn |
| 6982s | next I said next turn is if there's |
| 6984s | going to be one that was clever wasn't |
| 6988s | it I |
| 6993s | was it's got to move though he really |
| 7003s | has yep he agrees with you one one's a |
| 7005s | rubbish they're not good they're not |
| 7007s | they're not what you desire to have |
| 7010s | yep a decent swing but pocket Train's |
| 7013s | got uh answers lined up his own in |
| 7016s | inquisitive |
| 7019s | creation actually just rip an elemental |
| 7021s | inspiration off the top that sounds good |
| 7023s | too yeah chip another |
| 7032s | one |
| 7034s | uh I think he just got he's got to just |
| 7037s | do his |
| 7038s | own uh |
| 7042s | tra go like double go four4 trade then a |
| 7045s | Skelly |
| 7047s | trade uh what was it how many is it four |
| 7051s | three ah no I was going to go |
| 7056s | [Music] |
| 7061s | reeverb what do you even do what to do |
| 7065s | what to do I think it's |
| 7068s | three |
| 7080s | good shot another good shot look at them |
| 7083s | go yeah that was uh quite good actually |
| 7086s | sharp shooting from the skeletons I |
| 7087s | think worked out that was his best |
| 7089s | chance to win as well I don't I think |
| 7090s | while he got the roles he was looking |
| 7092s | for I think he looked at the line you |
| 7094s | were talking about was like okay but do |
| 7096s | I ever |
| 7097s | win yeah cuz you then you just get blown |
| 7099s | out by uh inquisitive |
| 7102s | creation test counter spell first with a |
| 7106s | spell that doesn't really matter that |
| 7114s | much yeah it's a little afterwards after |
| 7117s | you take it it comes |
| 7119s | back Bo gets |
| 7128s | me that one |
| 7130s | yeah that is the best it's the best one |
| 7132s | for sure all right now it's got to be |
| 7135s | Elemental inspiration hope for Rush |
| 7137s | five okay there's one Rush no |
| 7143s | taunt no life steal |
| 7147s | eight will be your salvation so much |
| 7152s | that's just you are |
| 7154s | un yeah could do you could do it either |
| 7156s | way you could use things first and then |
| 7161s | deal 10 or you can just copy it |
| 7163s | immediately deal five |
| 7165s | twice |
| 7170s | prer 10's more impactful looking isn't |
| 7172s | it you really blow your opponent out of |
| 7174s | the |
| 7175s | [Music] |
| 7178s | water all right pocket tra one game |
| 7181s | away from a semi-final against |
| 7184s | [Music] |
| 7186s | H that was |
| 7188s | uh look like re was like on the verge |
| 7192s | potentially mhm of a comeback just need |
| 7194s | to stabilize once but Elemental |
| 7197s | inspiration coming off the top then the |
| 7199s | norgan on and the reeverb was enough to |
| 7201s | finish it out could have been a number |
| 7203s | of burn spells right and even being that |
| 7206s | low like it's it can be tough right um |
| 7211s | so was able to get the job done in the |
| 7215s | mirror had a slight Advantage with the |
| 7218s | opening hand but fl's hand kind of |
| 7220s | caught up um it got better it did yeah |
| 7225s | get getting the weapon as |
| 7227s | well yeah catching right up but yeah |
| 7230s | this this ended it who needs Order in |
| 7231s | the Court when you just get the cards |
| 7233s | you need in the right order anyway |
| 7234s | that's that's the best way to do it yep |
| 7237s | so now only deck remaining for pocket |
| 7239s | train is going to be the |
| 7241s | Rogue which we'll see fine is |
| 7246s | right |
| 7248s | so has a decent chance obviously two |
| 7251s | shots of this |
| 7254s | no which is hard for |
| 7260s | him necro is probably the scariest deck |
| 7263s | for me in like a match against a good |
| 7267s | player like in the hands of a good |
| 7268s | player cuz there's so many it may seem |
| 7271s | like this super super oh both players |
| 7273s | have plus one attack on their turns |
| 7275s | that's actually really good for wck them |
| 7277s | yep i' I'd say um because he can clean |
| 7281s | up like Divine |
| 7283s | shields uh and you know like two ones he |
| 7286s | can keep control of the board a little |
| 7287s | bit better so and Ream's minions are a |
| 7292s | little bit more durable in the sense |
| 7293s | that the plus one attack may not matter |
| 7295s | that much or as much I'd say that uh |
| 7298s | this slightly favors ream in terms of um |
| 7303s | the power of this anomaly yeah getting |
| 7304s | rid a Divine Shield is a big deal I ran |
| 7306s | some Paladin the other day and whenever |
| 7308s | this came up I was like okay well |
| 7310s | that beats me obviously Mech Rog is a |
| 7312s | bit different to Paladin cuz it C takes |
| 7314s | you like eight health to take a shield |
| 7315s | off but even |
| 7320s | so rest of Ream's hand though hasn't |
| 7323s | turned out as he would have hoped no no |
| 7327s | no no |
| 7333s | [Music] |
| 7334s | no not particularly |
| 7338s | good |
| 7344s | okay not going to use the coin just |
| 7345s | going to go for Valle in a in a hit here |
| 7350s | fine with that I was thinking maybe you |
| 7351s | could just like mine sear and foul leg |
| 7353s | just to keep the board clean |
| 7355s | but I think this is |
| 7359s | fineway the m here next turn if there's |
| 7361s | only the one magnetic the m still clean |
| 7363s | the answers or if two mechs are played |
| 7365s | you could always hero power coin mines |
| 7367s | here to preserve your position on on the |
| 7374s | board need something here obviously he |
| 7376s | has got some sort of play but with a |
| 7378s | coin but really isn't going oh my |
| 7385s | goodness and if he doesn't top de |
| 7386s | something good next turn he's in a lot |
| 7389s | of trouble I feel yeah |
| 7392s | well grav digging could do some work but |
| 7396s | I don't know if there's going to be any |
| 7397s | trading going on with uh uh with paret |
| 7400s | train on the other |
| 7403s | [Music] |
| 7404s | end stealth first and ask questions |
| 7406s | later or ask questions now and then |
| 7408s | stealth up it's hard to |
| 7410s | know the ongoing debate with this card |
| 7413s | they go up to six and just get to answer |
| 7415s | by hero power so if you really want to |
| 7416s | keep the mech it'd be oh I guess you |
| 7419s | could trade and then just play the |
| 7421s | spoter afterwards |
| 7423s | [Music] |
| 7428s | yeah |
| 7432s | right what's he going to be for Ream he |
| 7433s | needs something to happen |
| 7438s | here don't keep your to |
| 7441s | yourself yeah that's an |
| 7445s | oh |
| 7447s | okay but now where you kind of want |
| 7450s | those cards to be |
| 7453s | played |
| 7455s | [Music] |
| 7458s | yeah if this all happened in a different |
| 7460s | order it' be so different for him |
| 7465s | but I guess next time you can only play |
| 7467s | one of them and then the turn after |
| 7470s | you'd rather have cheap stuff than play |
| 7471s | another four Mana thing is |
| 7480s | tough I must |
| 7483s | consider the Mind here is the big one |
| 7486s | right like the only real removal options |
| 7496s | yeah would he remember to |
| 7501s | swing yeah yeah of course he |
| 7504s | does okay Shadow word on death is pretty |
| 7507s | useful sometimes yeah I think this did |
| 7511s | improve the hand good |
| 7518s | amount |
| 7525s | 17 |
| 7536s | though taking a million next turn from |
| 7539s | where he's at we can see it's not |
| 7540s | actually at this exact second that bad |
| 7542s | although hit will change things don't |
| 7545s | keep your thoughts to |
| 7548s | yourself it's all in |
| 7552s | your yeah just decid I can't just can't |
| 7555s | get rid of it not going to mess around |
| 7556s | just going to get what damage I can |
| 7561s | in trying to race him |
| 7566s | but not working out too well and he has |
| 7569s | more on board than pocket train in terms |
| 7571s | of attack but this Pit Stop will change |
| 7573s | things |
| 7578s | up |
| 7580s | he took that so quick oh my |
| 7585s | goodness four |
| 7588s | five |
| 7591s | damage |
| 7593s | yeah on board plus an extra |
| 7597s | nine it's not enough to clear it has to |
| 7600s | rely on the Mind |
| 7603s | eater okay |
| 7607s | well B Spike |
| 7609s | that's |
| 7611s | helpful is it it's not no it actually |
| 7615s | isn't kill it |
| 7619s | no you bone spike your mind |
| 7624s | eater um I think you have to don't |
| 7638s | you |
| 7639s | yourself no just going to effectively |
| 7643s | concede and that'll be the end for reim |
| 7646s | as pocket train takes the |
| 7648s | series 3 to |
| 7650s | one and uh that seems to be my |
| 7654s | experience with these shadow priests |
| 7656s | it's |
| 7657s | just it's you have all these expensive |
| 7660s | cards that have no effect on the board |
| 7662s | and it's like in the matchups where you |
| 7664s | just need reactive tools you're only |
| 7665s | finding proactive tools like that game |
| 7667s | the game where you only need prodct |
| 7669s | tools you're only finding the reacted |
| 7670s | tools so um a a risky bring from reim |
| 7676s | got him to the quarterfinal so obviously |
| 7677s | not that risky but wasn't able to go any |
| 7680s | further as the mech |
| 7682s | bro is going to take him down in that |
| 7684s | final game still a good series though uh |
| 7686s | I like that one very fast paac with some |
| 7691s | quite aggressive decks like you know |
| 7693s | above average in terms of how aggressive |
| 7696s | uh they actually were yeah and pocket |
| 7700s | train goes on to meet hemlocks and it |
| 7702s | was pocket train this morning who was S |
| 7703s | I was asking around a little bit you |
| 7704s | know things I might have missed and |
| 7706s | pocket Train's major point to me was do |
| 7708s | not undersell Hemlock Hemlock is in his |
| 7711s | third consecutive top eight he's a |
| 7714s | monster on ladder to play against you |
| 7716s | know the players are saying they don't |
| 7717s | like playing against Hemlock because |
| 7719s | he's just pretty tasty at the game so |
| 7722s | pocket TR gets to play Hemlock in that |
| 7724s | semifinal a player that he himself is |
| 7727s | making sure the cast is hype up so here |
| 7728s | I am hying up Hemlock Way Hemlock he's |
| 7731s | he's good Pocky train says so Pocky |
| 7733s | Train's good as well yeah maybe it's |
| 7735s | just uh you know Galaxy brain thinking |
| 7738s | from pocket train he's like well I know |
| 7739s | I'm going to beat reim and I know |
| 7740s | Hemlock is going to win the other |
| 7741s | quarterfinal but I don't actually think |
| 7743s | Hemlock is that good but I'm going to |
| 7744s | talk him up just so it's that much more |
| 7745s | impressive when I beat him in that semi |
| 7747s | yeah yeah it's like the old pro |
| 7748s | wrestling thing right you never put your |
| 7750s | oppon he's so good that if I beat him |
| 7752s | I'm just the best I'm the sickest if I |
| 7755s | beat him cuz he's the sickest yeah no I |
| 7758s | really think that it's a lot of respect |
| 7760s | for hemlock with the results like that |
| 7762s | it's got to be um but yeah that match is |
| 7764s | going to be coming up in two matches |
| 7766s | from now three matches from now for the |
| 7768s | first semi-final so that's definitely |
| 7770s | going to be one uh they want to stick |
| 7771s | around for but another one you want to |
| 7773s | stick around for is going to be MC |
| 7774s | Banner face versus wieku which is going |
| 7775s | to be our very next quarterfinal uh |
| 7778s | that's going to be coming up so we are |
| 7780s | going to have to go to a break before we |
| 7781s | jump into that one but don't go anywhere |
| 7783s | more Hearthstone match to fall |
| 7784s | Championship |
| 7787s | action |
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| 8075s | hello everyone and welcome back to |
| 8077s | Masters talk fall Championship I'm Raven |
| 8079s | and joining me for this next match is |
| 8081s | subtle little bit weird as well feel |
| 8083s | like I've just joined in halfway through |
| 8084s | the day as I've sat just been watching |
| 8086s | the first few matches but what have you |
| 8088s | made of it so far as we are you know |
| 8091s | pretty swiftly moving through the single |
| 8092s | elimination bracket yeah I was tweeting |
| 8096s | about this to the effect that I think |
| 8097s | the the top half of the bracket was |
| 8099s | incredibly stacked with the players who |
| 8101s | have had the most success at the top top |
| 8103s | top level like obviously we've talked a |
| 8105s | lot already about all the players who |
| 8106s | are being here like these this is the |
| 8108s | actual undeniable cream of the most |
| 8111s | committed most talented Hearthstone |
| 8112s | players that we have available to us |
| 8114s | this year but I really think that top |
| 8116s | four if you look like levik already |
| 8117s | going to world |
| 8118s | uh Hemlock consistently making it to top |
| 8121s | eight pocket train consistently making |
| 8122s | it to top eight uh Rec vam uh as well in |
| 8126s | that mix so those first two I kind of |
| 8128s | tweeted about them both to the same |
| 8129s | effect of like you're going to watch two |
| 8131s | incredibly high level Hearthstone series |
| 8133s | here like the highest level of play that |
| 8135s | we kind of have available to us at the |
| 8136s | moment and uh no great surprise really |
| 8139s | if we're going to sort of talk about who |
| 8141s | we're expecting to Edge that to see |
| 8142s | Hemlock and pocket train just getting |
| 8144s | the |
| 8145s | edge yeah it's uh it's pretty impressive |
| 8148s | here we've got MC Banner versus Wu |
| 8150s | coming up so we can just check out who |
| 8152s | we are or or what we're going to see |
| 8154s | coming up in this one to No One surprise |
| 8156s | SLE we're having a Warriors baned out |
| 8158s | I'm sensing a theme continuing on |
| 8161s | through today too as we saw I think I |
| 8163s | was looking at some of the stats uh from |
| 8165s | day one and when Warrior got to play it |
| 8167s | was incredibly High win rate so I think |
| 8170s | everyone's you know got the gist of it |
| 8172s | now but check out mcbf face a player |
| 8175s | you've been a fan of for quite a while |
| 8177s | so yeah um a player who I have always |
| 8180s | acknowledged the greatness of I've been |
| 8182s | on the mcbf face hype train uh since the |
| 8185s | very beginning no a little being |
| 8187s | factious you know I had my doubts about |
| 8189s | banter as a player he kind of came in in |
| 8190s | that new wave of America's players that |
| 8194s | um tried to take over and eventually did |
| 8196s | so successfully from the likes of |
| 8199s | firebat Muzzy just sayyan right like |
| 8201s | that level of of OG America's |
| 8203s | Hearthstone player and then we were like |
| 8205s | okay who's the next era and then bace |
| 8207s | kind of got to mix it with with some of |
| 8208s | those in Grand Masters and I think I was |
| 8210s | a little dismissive of his level for uh |
| 8212s | quite some time but now absolutely I |
| 8214s | think he is perhaps the best player in |
| 8216s | the Americas overall in in Hearthstone |
| 8218s | so uh is here absolutely on Merit yeah |
| 8222s | we'll be checking out his Rogue that's |
| 8223s | going to be coming up we've seen Mech |
| 8225s | Rogue have and Rogue in general honestly |
| 8227s | have a good amount of success over the |
| 8229s | weekend so far uh at this point sot all |
| 8232s | after seeing you know everything that's |
| 8234s | happened all the lineups the players |
| 8235s | have brought would you have gone for |
| 8237s | Mech Rogue would you have gone for you |
| 8239s | know let's say secret concoction however |
| 8241s | you want to name that list yeah meog was |
| 8245s | uh in my lineup in fact I think banter |
| 8247s | face has my lineup yeah this well |
| 8249s | actually both he stole it hang on yeah |
| 8251s | yeah I talk about this a lot but |
| 8252s | generally I do like to just you |
| 8254s | hypothetically build a lineup before a |
| 8256s | tournament just sort of helps me get |
| 8258s | into that player mindset a little bit um |
| 8260s | and yeah Meg Rogue rainbow Mage and |
| 8262s | ancient Shaman Odin Warrior is kind of |
| 8264s | what I came in up with coming into this |
| 8266s | so um happy to see that multiple players |
| 8268s | have gone with that as well but I do |
| 8270s | think Mech Rogue had the potential to be |
| 8272s | a bit of a sleeper deck and I think you |
| 8273s | can still kind of put it in that |
| 8275s | category because a lot of other players |
| 8276s | went for uh secret Rogues and Casey had |
| 8279s | the miracle Rogue as well so even though |
| 8281s | Rogue was very popular it wasn't super |
| 8283s | dominated by Mech Rogue overall but to |
| 8285s | me this was a real eye opener because |
| 8289s | you know you you lose prism breaker you |
| 8291s | lose yog those were kind of the only |
| 8293s | things stopping those absolutely |
| 8296s | degenerate Mech boards that you can |
| 8298s | throw down very early yeah and we've |
| 8299s | already seen it this weekend sort of |
| 8301s | recover from not the best openings in |
| 8303s | the world but mcbf face wants to |
| 8305s | continue on throughout this tournament |
| 8307s | he's going to have to take down wiu |
| 8309s | another extremely strong player |
| 8312s | definitely one of the uh I guess newer |
| 8314s | players we've got to see you know time |
| 8316s | after time in the past year or um of |
| 8319s | course but still very impressive |
| 8320s | nonetheless also bringing the mech Rogue |
| 8324s | and and pretty much rocking the exact |
| 8326s | same lineup so again kind of what you |
| 8328s | were just saying subtle where like this |
| 8330s | lineup of Odin Warrior Shaman rainbow |
| 8332s | Mage and Mech Rogue seems to be the one |
| 8334s | that's getting the most work done |
| 8338s | overall yeah I would say so and I think |
| 8341s | um there are possibly still some |
| 8342s | improvements that could be made to this |
| 8344s | with the benefit of |
| 8346s | hindsight um not necessarily everything |
| 8348s | has gone flying through with awesome win |
| 8350s | rates I think Sharman is still a little |
| 8354s | questionable it's picked up uh back to |
| 8356s | around a 46% win rate over over all but |
| 8358s | um this is kind of the deck that was a |
| 8360s | little bit awkward overall but I think |
| 8363s | it is it's also the deck with um a lot |
| 8366s | of agency to it it's a deck where player |
| 8369s | mistakes can cost you win rate a lot a |
| 8372s | lot more obviously and readily than |
| 8373s | maybe it can with a couple of the other |
| 8375s | decks in this lineup in particular um so |
| 8377s | we'll we'll wait to see where things pan |
| 8379s | out when we get to the very end but |
| 8380s | honestly we're uh we're running out of |
| 8382s | time for the sample size to be affected |
| 8384s | with the number of games that we have |
| 8385s | left as we are really getting into the |
| 8387s | the meat and potatoes at this tournament |
| 8389s | now yeah so after just checking out some |
| 8391s | of those lists and talking a lot about |
| 8392s | the lineups H do we think that the the |
| 8395s | shaman win is the win to look for in |
| 8398s | this pretty much you know mirror match |
| 8399s | cuz I think we both agree you'd be |
| 8401s | fairly confident that Mage is getting |
| 8402s | over the line we've seen it time and |
| 8404s | time again this weekend uh and again |
| 8406s | Rogue has been performing well so is it |
| 8408s | Shaman is that the one we really need to |
| 8410s | laser focus on I think so yeah I think |
| 8413s | you know Warrior Warrior speaks for |
| 8415s | itself it's getting banned in this |
| 8416s | series 70% ban rate and then when it |
| 8418s | gets to play it still has close to a 60% |
| 8421s | win rate right so that goes to show you |
| 8423s | where that deck is positioned uh but |
| 8426s | because of the nature of the other Decks |
| 8428s | that are doing well um the Rogues and |
| 8430s | the Mages uh for example there's a lot |
| 8433s | of decks that get on board very very |
| 8435s | quickly and that's what can be a |
| 8437s | struggle for Shaman to deal with in |
| 8439s | particular if you can put pressure on |
| 8441s | Shaman to the point where they have to |
| 8443s | start throwing out like a a crash to AOE |
| 8446s | your board without really doing |
| 8447s | significant damage to face that can |
| 8449s | leave them really wanting in terms of |
| 8451s | actually ending the game and that's what |
| 8452s | a lot of these board Focus decks are |
| 8454s | really able to do with the amount of |
| 8456s | pressure they can put on early so I |
| 8457s | think that's why we're seeing Shaman |
| 8459s | just struggle that little bit but we |
| 8460s | have also seen the likes of pocket train |
| 8464s | really really finding those spots to |
| 8465s | just say actually no you're not going to |
| 8468s | put me in a defensive mindset I'm just |
| 8470s | going to sneak this lethal through that |
| 8471s | you're not going to be able to spot and |
| 8473s | really turn the tides uh pun intended so |
| 8476s | we'll see how it turns out well as game |
| 8478s | one between these two players begins we |
| 8480s | are going to see Wu on that Shaman so |
| 8483s | again a win would be huge for him here |
| 8484s | just to really Propel him into a favored |
| 8488s | uh situation in this series but of |
| 8490s | course M banter face with a pretty good |
| 8492s | opening with this Mech Rogue had the one |
| 8495s | drop and then has the spider sort of |
| 8496s | lurking in the hand for a little bit |
| 8498s | later on H maybe even not that later on |
| 8500s | with the coin actually so really good |
| 8502s | opening here I think for MCB face |
| 8504s | missing some of the spark Bots for now |
| 8507s | but not looking too bad at |
| 8510s | all oh options |
| 8513s | options yeah lowkey really important |
| 8515s | taor totem here |
| 8517s | because coin stealth is an option for |
| 8520s | banter um and if you want to do that |
| 8523s | you'd have to attack with your minion |
| 8524s | first to retain the stealth afterwards |
| 8526s | if you wanted to gain the benefits of |
| 8527s | the stealth of course that now makes it |
| 8529s | incredibly awkward because then You' |
| 8530s | have still have a taunt totem to deal |
| 8532s | with next turn with your magnetic minion |
| 8534s | wanting to go face which makes life a |
| 8536s | bit difficult |
| 8538s | um the alternative players just play Two |
| 8539s | Three on curve this turn but you know |
| 8541s | that goes straight oh it's a 3 four oh |
| 8543s | let me let me let me wind it all back uh |
| 8546s | not knowing where the click clocker |
| 8547s | landed I was assuming that was a two |
| 8549s | three uh which makes it very very |
| 8551s | awkward just going into jazz base on |
| 8552s | curve which is what the shaman very very |
| 8554s | often wants to do but since it comes |
| 8555s | down as a three four here I actually |
| 8557s | love this play it's just so annoying and |
| 8560s | disruptive for wiq to have to deal with |
| 8562s | if he wants to play jazz base we were |
| 8564s | both living in the same world there |
| 8565s | because I was like oh it would be nice |
| 8567s | if could get that inventor Matic just |
| 8569s | down right and just have it at least for |
| 8570s | one turn and really gain some kind of |
| 8572s | benefit but we can see that and and |
| 8574s | obviously ban Fates knows Shaman has a |
| 8576s | good sort of widespread of removal that |
| 8578s | could just get rid of it but you're |
| 8580s | completely right as a 34 probably just |
| 8583s | the best singular outcome for that |
| 8585s | situation from a banit face because now |
| 8588s | you know questions can really start to |
| 8590s | be asked in where does bace put these |
| 8592s | stats and also just how hard does he |
| 8594s | choose to push and this is a small |
| 8596s | detail it's not like a massively |
| 8598s | impressive thing for a player at this |
| 8599s | level to get right but I just want to |
| 8601s | point it out wi holding on to the first |
| 8603s | charge of this Jazz base I think way too |
| 8606s | many people just put the Jazz base on |
| 8608s | and go oh the point of this weapon is |
| 8610s | for me to use both charges of it I want |
| 8612s | to get it down to the second charge as |
| 8613s | quickly as possible no in a lot of |
| 8615s | matchups you still want to use both |
| 8617s | charges very effectively as a fiery |
| 8620s | warax right like we don't have two Mana |
| 8623s | fiery War axes in the game for a reason |
| 8625s | now right so the fact you can play a |
| 8626s | three Mana FY warx with this much upside |
| 8629s | yes get those uses out of the swings |
| 8631s | don't just throw away the first one for |
| 8633s | sure and look at this now really uh well |
| 8635s | dealt with here gets the piranha and the |
| 8637s | weapon swing to finish this off but also |
| 8639s | gets hold of a hex which is going to be |
| 8642s | potentially like super important in this |
| 8645s | matchup first huge minion problem dealt |
| 8648s | with and this uh this Divine Shield |
| 8651s | might not actually be a big deal if if |
| 8653s | hex can just get sent its way if it's |
| 8655s | not stealth then Wu's kind of sitting in |
| 8658s | a good spot even though his health is |
| 8660s | relatively low for turn four I think it |
| 8662s | might well end up being stealth though |
| 8665s | because you know the pool of cards that |
| 8668s | that card has been discovered from right |
| 8669s | and it's not just hex that would punish |
| 8671s | you it's also potentially just altered |
| 8673s | cord right because you know there's |
| 8674s | piranhas to bump The Shield uh and then |
| 8677s | altered cord be able to make a mess is |
| 8679s | it stealth this turn though because this |
| 8682s | hand doesn't scream to turn lethal to |
| 8685s | me true you do actually with the double |
| 8688s | coin um picked up from the the squirrel |
| 8691s | on the previous turn you can actually |
| 8694s | make a big enough minion that you would |
| 8696s | be resistant to aled cord and it would |
| 8698s | only be the hex that ends up punishing |
| 8700s | you so there might actually be a |
| 8701s | temptation to just ignore the stealth |
| 8703s | part and just get all the damage face |
| 8705s | but you can also use that as a mimon |
| 8708s | setup which it looks like what banter is |
| 8710s | going to go for here yeah I like this a |
| 8712s | lot because again if you wanted to |
| 8713s | retain the stealth you can't attack oh |
| 8715s | sorry you you would push one let's say |
| 8718s | um and and then like is that really |
| 8720s | setting up enough anyway so I actually |
| 8722s | really like this uh sort of slight pivot |
| 8724s | from McAn here because I think this just |
| 8726s | ticks all the boxes resistant to options |
| 8729s | your opponent may have whilst also |
| 8732s | giving you Progressive ways to actually |
| 8734s | win the game as opposed to this is |
| 8736s | stealth this turn I hope I draw a high |
| 8739s | damage magnetic thing right and hope |
| 8742s | that's going to work whereas this seems |
| 8743s | a lot safer for me final choice you |
| 8746s | could put into the mix I'm not not |
| 8747s | advocating for this I don't think it was |
| 8748s | right but if you want to give credit for |
| 8750s | that card uh the hex card that we've |
| 8752s | been talking about if banter wants to |
| 8753s | say Hey what if that's primordial wave |
| 8755s | you could have actually played this out |
| 8757s | as just straight up three separate |
| 8758s | minions this turn right and just have |
| 8760s | the the biggest spread but I don't think |
| 8762s | that was really worth going |
| 8766s | for feral spirit always looks appealing |
| 8770s | against Mech Rog as just some speed |
| 8771s | bumps to get in the |
| 8775s | way lightning Bol always looks appealing |
| 8778s | because face |
| 8781s | but going to go for overdraft |
| 8786s | okay I mean this definitely helps open |
| 8789s | up mana for the following turn but I was |
| 8791s | kind of surprised the plan wasn't even |
| 8792s | potentially just feral |
| 8806s | feral |
| 8809s | B face now has to try and break down as |
| 8811s | to whether he can get through these |
| 8813s | taunts in a an efficient way whilst |
| 8815s | again kind of protecting what he can we |
| 8818s | know that there's just a hex sitting |
| 8819s | there ready for anything big so do you |
| 8821s | think there's Merit or do you think MCB |
| 8823s | phase will actually try and spread stats |
| 8826s | or try and build a wider board as |
| 8828s | opposed to the single Target Allin kind |
| 8830s | of uh strategy we've seen quite often |
| 8832s | from me Rogue POS very possibly yeah |
| 8835s | because again you're starting to |
| 8837s | look at the PO of cards that this |
| 8839s | discovered option can be to and the |
| 8841s | reason I'm focusing on this so much by |
| 8842s | the way is that when you start making |
| 8844s | like 10 Health Plus Mech the cards in |
| 8847s | charman's deck don't really exist to |
| 8850s | deal with that it is the discovered |
| 8851s | options from lightning reflexes a lot of |
| 8853s | the time they end up punishing you um so |
| 8855s | I think you're relatively confident at |
| 8857s | this point that you're not going to be |
| 8859s | dealing with primordial wave for example |
| 8861s | cuz I think you would have seen that on |
| 8862s | the previous turn if that was the case |
| 8864s | to deal with the mimon for sure to deal |
| 8865s | with the mimon yeah so I think think hex |
| 8867s | is certainly something that you have to |
| 8869s | consider at this |
| 8871s | time and this is a nice bonus as well |
| 8873s | like the stomper coming out it it |
| 8876s | doesn't scream game-winning but at least |
| 8879s | the benefit we can see is if hex has to |
| 8881s | be played that's all that's getting |
| 8883s | played so it would have to you know a |
| 8885s | lot of Trades would would go down and |
| 8887s | still leave mcbf face with something on |
| 8889s | the board um unless I'm missing |
| 8891s | something but yeah I feel like that's |
| 8893s | quite likely and I think that's a card |
| 8894s | that you also want to get value out of |
| 8897s | um because it was on the far left of |
| 8898s | your hand before you start doing your |
| 8900s | gear shift turn right like it's a very |
| 8902s | very good card in the matchup so even if |
| 8904s | it's not going to be the optimal turn to |
| 8906s | play it you want a turn to play it |
| 8908s | before you refill with that later ex it |
| 8911s | always does something as opposed to yeah |
| 8913s | sometimes it just wins you the game on |
| 8914s | the right turn but it always does |
| 8916s | something good and bface is going to get |
| 8918s | that knowledge now see the hex and at |
| 8920s | least can take off that box say okay |
| 8923s | there's the one the Discover Cards |
| 8926s | gone |
| 8929s | yeah and I was trying to look for a |
| 8931s | reaction from banter just to try and see |
| 8933s | if he could pick up on whether that was |
| 8934s | something that he had been planning for |
| 8936s | but um you know in a typical banter |
| 8939s | fashion not giving an awful lot away |
| 8941s | with the facial |
| 8946s | expression looks like a gear shift turn |
| 8949s | to |
| 8952s | me toys are much more fun |
| 8956s | to |
| 8970s | and the thing you got to remember as |
| 8971s | well is like weq had a really good ter |
| 8974s | with that hex for sure but he isn't out |
| 8977s | the woods yet by any means because but |
| 8980s | we we've seen Rogue just get the job |
| 8982s | done time and time again and we could |
| 8984s | yeah can build a board has another base |
| 8987s | as well has some card draw but that's |
| 8989s | all got to be done without overloading |
| 8991s | too much without leaving some sort of |
| 8992s | awkward room here the BF actually going |
| 8995s | to go a little bit wide with these mechs |
| 8996s | now drop the reborn spark bot and then |
| 8999s | yeah lock in that gear shift to No |
| 9000s | Surprise and tidy up some of this |
| 9002s | board oh another |
| 9006s | stomper yeah second stomper is very nice |
| 9009s | I think the big decisions that turn from |
| 9011s | banter were just a how high he wanted to |
| 9014s | stack the magnetics and then B whether |
| 9017s | the spark bot for example was worth |
| 9019s | playing or whether having two Mana |
| 9021s | remaining instead of one after the prep |
| 9023s | gear shift was important for for |
| 9024s | anything that he could draw but I think |
| 9026s | since it was a relatively High stated |
| 9028s | vanilla minion that he was dropping the |
| 9030s | reborn on I do think this makes a lot of |
| 9032s | sense yeah and it's just the extra |
| 9034s | question cuz if something can be |
| 9036s | magnetized on the start of the next turn |
| 9038s | right um you're really in a a good |
| 9045s | spot well I was going to say this is a |
| 9047s | hand that is a long way away from really |
| 9049s | being able to turn the turn the corner |
| 9051s | and do something aggressive but if |
| 9053s | you're going to draw two cards that |
| 9054s | allow you to start thinking about that |
| 9056s | in the near |
| 9058s | future oh there's |
| 9062s | crash yeah you've always got to have at |
| 9064s | least an eyeball on conductivity though |
| 9066s | it can allow you to do some very very |
| 9068s | degenerate |
| 9073s | things the storm is in me |
| 9077s | it's going to be uh that overdraft that |
| 9080s | was picked up earlier on going to pay |
| 9081s | off quite a lot here going to clear up |
| 9083s | all of that overload for next turn not |
| 9086s | too shabby at all yeah and |
| 9088s | simultaneously able to take care of the |
| 9092s | full bronze gatekeeper with the reborn |
| 9094s | as |
| 9095s | well the interesting Factor here for me |
| 9098s | is this second speaker stomper like is |
| 9100s | there room to deal with enough of this |
| 9103s | board and play the stomper and |
| 9107s | threaten lethal enough with having that |
| 9109s | speaker stumper down I think so right |
| 9111s | it's I think with with the bone Spike |
| 9114s | pretty perfect with the bone Spike and |
| 9116s | the bronze gatekeeper right just take |
| 9117s | out the two taunts and then you can |
| 9119s | think about you know cuz you're playing |
| 9120s | speaker stomper you might even just get |
| 9122s | to push face at that point and just say |
| 9123s | that's fine have your plus two spell |
| 9125s | damage I'm not super worried about |
| 9131s | it it's really tricky isn't it |
| 9135s | because if you make |
| 9137s | more trades that's fine but then you |
| 9140s | further away but you are playing around |
| 9142s | just leaving that spell damage on you |
| 9144s | know even if there's just any even like |
| 9146s | a a normal crash or something right just |
| 9149s | something to to deal any kind of AOE |
| 9151s | damage mhm it looks like it is going to |
| 9154s | be respect given to the |
| 9157s | zappers he going to trade down |
| 9160s | instead and I think if you're not making |
| 9163s | the push here to be as aggressive as |
| 9164s | possible it's not speaker side time |
| 9167s | either yeah |
| 9172s | agree now is this going to be primordial |
| 9176s | just to again switch off or hopefully |
| 9179s | for wiq uh switch this problem off in |
| 9182s | terms of stealth minion I mean as nice |
| 9184s | as that Mech is it is all stacked on a |
| 9186s | one drop so it is hard to imagine a |
| 9189s | better Target for your primordial way |
| 9191s | and there's just a fish as well if you |
| 9192s | really want to save the |
| 9195s | Spells |
| 9212s | while stealth it cannot |
| 9216s | torn is there something that banf can |
| 9219s | like realistically draw with the |
| 9221s | knowledge we have of this primordial |
| 9223s | that's going to pull him back into this |
| 9224s | game or do you think wiu sort of you |
| 9227s | know managed to get over the hill at |
| 9228s | this |
| 9230s | point I mean it's very very hard for |
| 9235s | mecro I mean I was going to lead the |
| 9237s | sentence was going to lead towards Titan |
| 9239s | um but it's very very hard for mecr to |
| 9242s | do any sort of damage from hand while |
| 9245s | out of cards uh sorry when when off |
| 9247s | board it's just not really a thing that |
| 9248s | they excel at doing |
| 9252s | um part of my eyes lighting up at |
| 9255s | pushing a little bit of damage on the |
| 9257s | previous turn is then at least you can |
| 9258s | start thinking about like crab a to off |
| 9260s | the top it pushes a little bit of damage |
| 9262s | with the weapons and then maybe you can |
| 9264s | scrape over the line um but I think |
| 9266s | there's some cast Vision involved in |
| 9268s | that where I could see that the board |
| 9270s | was going byby no no matter what banter |
| 9273s | did because of that primordial wave that |
| 9274s | was available and then the Piranhas that |
| 9277s | could come down to clear it up at the |
| 9278s | end uh I think what banter did made the |
| 9281s | most sense in a vacuum um but I think |
| 9285s | this was the best draw in Ban's deck and |
| 9287s | it's still not particularly good enough |
| 9289s | you can see just from Ban's reaction |
| 9292s | right it's kind of just like eh right |
| 9295s | what has to happen for this to be okay |
| 9297s | sure I'll you know obviously B is not |
| 9300s | going to just concede at this point in |
| 9303s | the game especially uh with the Voltron |
| 9305s | draw |
| 9307s | but it's looking a little bit dicey |
| 9312s | mhm |
| 9314s | oh that's a good draw |
| 9318s | sure |
| 9322s | is now the real |
| 9325s | question is this play everything in go |
| 9332s | face oh are you respecting the minions |
| 9335s | and just lightning bolting them |
| 9341s | away this it's a real tricky decision |
| 9345s | right |
| 9349s | it is Voltron is very scary to leave |
| 9352s | alive especially when your opponent has |
| 9355s | not played their any yet correct is |
| 9358s | still remaining in the de what about can |
| 9361s | I interest you in half kill the vultra |
| 9363s | and leave the little |
| 9367s | flipper I'm just I I don't know if I can |
| 9369s | look at the screen while light two |
| 9371s | lightning bolts go to minions oh you |
| 9373s | don't have the lightning bolt that I |
| 9374s | mean you can just weapon the penguin |
| 9376s | okay I'm also okay with this yeah I |
| 9380s | think it's just too clean right like |
| 9381s | your the natural play which will play |
| 9383s | all of the cards in your hand gives you |
| 9385s | a six damage lightning bolt so I think |
| 9387s | at that point it would be fairly |
| 9388s | irresponsible to leave the Voltron alive |
| 9391s | but you know |
| 9392s | me I'm a deeply irresponsible person at |
| 9396s | least I know |
| 9398s | it and now bner face has to just try and |
| 9402s | fight back on this board weirdly enough |
| 9404s | the player on barely any health is the |
| 9406s | one very ahead right |
| 9409s | now yep get some eviscerates in your |
| 9413s | rogue deck that's what I say no |
| 9416s | I'm is there a world where MC Banner |
| 9419s | actually |
| 9420s | like ever passes this turn oh it's going |
| 9424s | to trade the stomper okay I didn't know |
| 9425s | if he wanted to keep the stomper but |
| 9429s | sure I was wonder if he like could trade |
| 9431s | H sorry could wait one turn and then |
| 9434s | likely draw a Mech then go with the |
| 9436s | spark Bots and then play stomper you |
| 9438s | know next turn try and like package all |
| 9440s | of that together it's maybe a long shot |
| 9443s | but I feel like Banner needs a long shot |
| 9445s | to work here and I'm not sure if the |
| 9447s | tradeable was I mean I'd have to look |
| 9450s | but I don't know how likely that was to |
| 9452s | hit something high impact this turn or |
| 9455s | more high impact than a stomper |
| 9459s | right and with seeing all that damage |
| 9461s | and all those cards played out like if I |
| 9463s | was banner I would assume I had the time |
| 9468s | yeah I don't think you're necessarily |
| 9469s | expecting to die next turn right cuz |
| 9473s | like this board just already doesn't |
| 9476s | exist right yeah but I think I think you |
| 9479s | can flip that on his head right I think |
| 9481s | from banter side if you can say okay |
| 9483s | I'll play these cards they trade |
| 9485s | relatively one for one with my |
| 9486s | opponent's board if it come comes down |
| 9489s | to an empty is board and both players |
| 9491s | top decking I like the Rogue in that |
| 9495s | situation |
| 9497s | okay maybe we just disagree then that's |
| 9499s | fair I'm just looking at the weapon and |
| 9502s | thinking well that weapon swing already |
| 9504s | leaves weu ahead yeah I mean that's |
| 9507s | that's |
| 9510s | fair it's very close though I'm not I'm |
| 9512s | definitely not saying it's it's you know |
| 9515s | the the the the risk factor of well what |
| 9517s | if the next troll was a 2-1 for Banner |
| 9519s | pH then then he basically passed a turn |
| 9521s | for nothing right that's the downside of |
| 9524s | my suggestion for sure yep |
| 9527s | I think there's any great Merit to just |
| 9529s | not being a card deeper in your deck |
| 9531s | right but I do think like maybe even |
| 9533s | after the tradeable you see your next |
| 9534s | card and you start to think about okay |
| 9536s | what if I just hold on to these four one |
| 9538s | Mana cards well one of them cost zero |
| 9540s | because of the effect of the the one |
| 9542s | drop um and then just like pray for in |
| 9545s | next turn and then I can do all of that |
| 9547s | in in one turn arguably like there's |
| 9549s | there's some options for sure cuz it's |
| 9552s | like any this crab a towerer mhm but |
| 9555s | outside of that I wouldn't say there's |
| 9557s | like a card hey there you go |
| 9562s | see like I I think bant is just simply |
| 9566s | ahead now right yes this is very |
| 9569s | scary oh |
| 9573s | my working out whether he wants to like |
| 9577s | where he wants to face trade because he |
| 9580s | has krabat TOA to deal six right so he |
| 9583s | doesn't |
| 9585s | like |
| 9587s | [Music] |
| 9589s | H he could throw away a weapon charge to |
| 9594s | take one instead of two I guess that's |
| 9596s | the decision right now right |
| 9599s | yeah there's uh there's still this guy |
| 9601s | that you've got to think about as well |
| 9603s | though |
| 9604s | right good old Big Goal pretty big |
| 9607s | problem if that comes out and you're |
| 9608s | suddenly healing for six |
| 9611s | yeah but the krabat toe is pretty |
| 9614s | resilient from a top deck right yes from |
| 9617s | from Wu that is fairly resilient right |
| 9619s | now I think weirdly enough taunt totem |
| 9621s | is the scariest thing for weu to do next |
| 9626s | turn going take the two going to lock in |
| 9628s | the weapon that gives him ways for taunt |
| 9630s | totem but there's flash of lightning |
| 9632s | Okay go |
| 9634s | again turn oh it's going to be ta totem |
| 9639s | oh no it's not it doesn't matter yeah oh |
| 9642s | wow I look at B's face that is also my |
| 9645s | face face and I'm not even |
| 9650s | playing like obviously turn the tides |
| 9652s | technically clears the 65 but you just |
| 9654s | can't do it you're just not allowed to |
| 9655s | face tank it yep there it is that game |
| 9659s | was a roller coaster and honestly |
| 9661s | correct me if I'm wrong sole but I think |
| 9663s | mcbf face will be very happy with the |
| 9666s | outcome of that one because I'm pretty |
| 9668s | sure he was thinking right well there |
| 9670s | goes game one I'll have to deal with it |
| 9672s | all in game two but yeah starts to Ser |
| 9674s | he's off with a win so two points |
| 9677s | firstly you know that that game was |
| 9679s | crazy because uh banter Face's |
| 9682s | expression changed like 14 times towards |
| 9684s | the end which I think is some sort of |
| 9686s | world record just going to say changed |
| 9688s | changed full stop yeah um also just but |
| 9692s | just following up on what you said at |
| 9693s | the end like I think banter is |
| 9695s | experienced enough and will have played |
| 9696s | that match up enough times to know that |
| 9698s | it's not over right like when the the |
| 9701s | the biggest problem that Shaman has is |
| 9705s | uh being being low on cards if it's low |
| 9707s | on cards it can't really do anything to |
| 9710s | you right it really really does rely on |
| 9713s | big big combinations so when it comes |
| 9715s | down to this kind of top deck War I do |
| 9717s | think that's where banf Face's head was |
| 9719s | at it's like okay let's let me find a |
| 9722s | situation where we both play the |
| 9724s | remaining cards in our hand and we're |
| 9726s | both still alive and playing Hearthstone |
| 9728s | and I think if he can get himself to |
| 9730s | that position all he needed to do was |
| 9732s | draw krabat TOA and yes he got lucky in |
| 9734s | order to do that immediately with the |
| 9736s | very first draw after he got down to |
| 9737s | that point but it's in there and there |
| 9740s | are other cards in there that are card |
| 9741s | draw that can find can get him to that |
| 9743s | point so I think he would have been you |
| 9746s | know feeling unfavored but certainly not |
| 9748s | abandoning the game sure and I I I could |
| 9751s | sorry I could just imagine the chat now |
| 9753s | after you uttering the word is well all |
| 9755s | I needed to do was draw this exact one |
| 9758s | card Drew uh but yeah I think kbor was |
| 9761s | of course the uh the the key to Victory |
| 9764s | there for MCB face but like I said just |
| 9766s | a fantastic start because even if he |
| 9770s | wasn't expecting to just straight up |
| 9771s | lose it was not an overly uh comfortable |
| 9774s | game of hearthstone let's say so we're |
| 9776s | going to jump straight into game two and |
| 9778s | we're going to have the Mage mirror SLE |
| 9780s | M banter face is currently leading the |
| 9782s | match one Z and there's the uh I guess |
| 9785s | signature opening of whatever keyboard |
| 9788s | and then no doubt a cold K is coming up |
| 9789s | soon uh weq though is H really looking |
| 9792s | to make a big stride forward getting a |
| 9794s | win on the board here in the mdle |
| 9797s | match forget about Cold Case we're |
| 9799s | hitting something even better than Cold |
| 9801s | Case from this Prismatic Elemental |
| 9803s | that's what's Happening |
| 9807s | Here have we had any uh love everlasting |
| 9809s | Mage games yet this uh this tournament I |
| 9812s | don't remember any I don't think so okay |
| 9815s | but I still remember the first time I |
| 9817s | did that and I was like how is this |
| 9819s | allowed I know I honestly was like wait |
| 9823s | why aren't more people talking about |
| 9825s | this yeah obviously like if if it was |
| 9826s | from like discover a spell right it'd be |
| 9828s | really rare and it wouldn't happen that |
| 9830s | particularly often but because you can |
| 9832s | curate a pull down to okay I'm going to |
| 9835s | three see three spells and one of them |
| 9837s | is going to be a holy spell like it |
| 9840s | happens a lot |
| 9841s | yeah oh yeah got some of that strangle |
| 9844s | Thorn Heart On The |
| 9845s | Go bellowing Flames it deals 10 no one |
| 9849s | knows |
| 9850s | why not even the devs Noe think it was a |
| 9854s | code in error too embarrassed to change |
| 9855s | it now |
| 9858s | what do you mean you put it in in |
| 9861s | binary Cosmic keyboard coming down no |
| 9864s | for MCB face I think uh looking at just |
| 9866s | the straightforward turns one and twos |
| 9868s | from both players I think I'd rather |
| 9869s | have a keyboard than the elemental right |
| 9873s | now |
| 9875s | [Music] |
| 9878s | same |
| 9884s | okay yeah up Forge the |
| 9891s | Flames now obviously your opponent |
| 9893s | having the keyboard coin Co start is the |
| 9897s | nuts but if you're going to want |
| 9898s | anything in response to that it's a card |
| 9900s | that deals |
| 9902s | 10 for two man for some |
| 9906s | reason uh I think you'll find it's four |
| 9909s | because you have to forge it yes yeah |
| 9914s | yeah |
| 9919s | I'm enjoying this uh hopefully this |
| 9921s | continues with this new extra way we |
| 9923s | describe cards now is just this card |
| 9925s | costs this much and Deals this much |
| 9928s | damage it's just like how we've |
| 9929s | described minions for the past five or |
| 9931s | six years I've called it bellowing |
| 9933s | Flames at least twice already I don't |
| 9934s | know what more you want from me |
| 9944s | Raven |
| 9950s | wait where did the other one go oh the |
| 9951s | creation okay I didn't even see the |
| 9952s | other one go off yeah yeah it just |
| 9955s | didn't really have an animation that did |
| 9956s | it it was just like you are now |
| 9962s | too inro to Fallout |
| 9966s | three about as good as it's going to get |
| 9969s | here for weu with the board clear |
| 9971s | because this is the situation I feel in |
| 9972s | the mirror where you do start to slip if |
| 9974s | you're in in you know on weu side of the |
| 9976s | board here um but as you mentioned |
| 9979s | dealing 10 is quite good and clearing up |
| 9981s | a lot of the board |
| 9983s | but this is going to get him back into |
| 9986s | it a little bit because otherwise I feel |
| 9987s | like you just taken too much damage and |
| 9989s | then suddenly you're just going to burn |
| 9990s | out pretty quick yeah |
| 9992s | agreed needed a card of significant |
| 9995s | power level to be able to swing back |
| 9997s | from uh being |
| 10000s | behind rewind yeah |
| 10004s | sure |
| 10006s | okay I'll take a free m y I mean fine |
| 10012s | yeah is it worth doing |
| 10014s | a like killing the two two just to get |
| 10016s | the |
| 10020s | infinitize killing the 2 two just to get |
| 10023s | the infinite Oh you mean Arcane bolting |
| 10024s | it yeah yeah yeah sorry yeah bolting |
| 10027s | mhm problem is that it also eats your |
| 10030s | last keyboard charge as well right which |
| 10032s | is a little bit painful yeah I mean this |
| 10035s | turn |
| 10037s | instead I was going to say I'm okay with |
| 10039s | just going artificer and going |
| 10040s | infinitize I think this is the one I |
| 10042s | would end up on personally I was |
| 10044s | wondering whether it was just artificial |
| 10045s | and Prismatic Elemental and just look |
| 10047s | for something better to use the last uh |
| 10049s | the last keyboard charge on but yeah |
| 10051s | difference is like going for a bigger |
| 10052s | minion versus just having an extra spell |
| 10055s | in hand um or at least at least |
| 10057s | utilizing infinitize is probably more |
| 10060s | accurate since you get a spell from the |
| 10061s | elemental |
| 10064s | anyway |
| 10069s | I like this as well after billowing |
| 10070s | flames you building a little bit of a |
| 10072s | board not overly threatening but again |
| 10075s | if you take if you manage to deal an |
| 10076s | extra two three damage here and there |
| 10078s | that does start to stack up inquisitive |
| 10080s | creation for Wu is going to be drawn now |
| 10082s | so that option is there to just clear |
| 10084s | that up I didn't even look but I'm |
| 10086s | easily assuming it's more than three |
| 10088s | right now or at least three should I say |
| 10091s | yeah Co case and Flames have both been |
| 10093s | played right so certainly certainly |
| 10094s | Frost and |
| 10102s | I was also a wisdom in |
| 10105s | hand oh sure yeah that that also helps |
| 10114s | yeah remember the Arcane giant era where |
| 10117s | there was also yog in the |
| 10120s | game and people used to say well I mean |
| 10122s | how am I supposed to know how many |
| 10124s | spells they've casted like literally |
| 10125s | tells you just look at that card in |
| 10127s | their |
| 10143s | hand this is where things are getting a |
| 10145s | little bit tricky now and this is where |
| 10147s | the the the full display of mage skills |
| 10150s | is going to come into play because these |
| 10153s | decisions even though they're |
| 10155s | discovering a spell that they may not |
| 10157s | use for the next five six turns M |
| 10160s | getting those choices right I feel makes |
| 10162s | such a big impact on the game CU at |
| 10164s | least many times I played I picked a |
| 10166s | spelling on this will be great later on |
| 10169s | and then it just never does anything |
| 10171s | whereas you know picking the right |
| 10173s | options getting use out of everything |
| 10174s | you've picked can actually just pull you |
| 10176s | ahead in the |
| 10179s | game one situations right where like |
| 10181s | Reverb is a fantastic card but is it how |
| 10185s | long is it going to take for that to pay |
| 10187s | off yeah and sometimes you have to look |
| 10189s | at situations like this and like solar |
| 10192s | eclipse is only not broken because the |
| 10196s | developers get to design the rest of the |
| 10198s | cards you're supposed to play with solar |
| 10200s | eclipse in that class right so if you |
| 10203s | get offered it in a different class |
| 10204s | you're probably just supposed to take |
| 10206s | solar eclipse you'll end up doing |
| 10207s | something broken and also by the way |
| 10209s | solar eclipse is pretty broken even in |
| 10211s | Druid anyway oh you know that card |
| 10214s | that's pretty much been played in every |
| 10216s | Druid since the cards existed oh yeah |
| 10218s | pretty |
| 10221s | good yeah even that option right where |
| 10224s | MC bface went for solar and you broke |
| 10226s | down why um but there was could have |
| 10229s | cleared the board that turn right like |
| 10231s | that was an option but getting these |
| 10233s | decisions right really does make the |
| 10235s | difference especially when you play in |
| 10236s | the mirror yeah and I think um just |
| 10239s | breaking down the turn from weu a couple |
| 10240s | of turns ago cuz we were immediately |
| 10241s | like okay inquisitive creation just |
| 10243s | clears the board that looks good um |
| 10245s | helpfully uh Elemental inspiration has |
| 10247s | just appeared on our screen and that is |
| 10249s | a card that you always have to have in |
| 10250s | the back of your mind so instead of |
| 10252s | playing the creation on the previous |
| 10254s | turn uh wiq has gone from a situation |
| 10256s | where his wisdom of norgon cost three |
| 10259s | when we were talking about it at the |
| 10260s | time to where it now cost zero meaning |
| 10262s | he's cast five different spell scools |
| 10264s | already up until this point so now |
| 10266s | having spent the last two turns doing |
| 10268s | all that and still being sat on that |
| 10270s | inquisitive creation he can actually |
| 10272s | respond really really nicely to |
| 10274s | Elemental inspiration if it comes out on |
| 10276s | the other side of the |
| 10281s | board yeah things are going to start |
| 10283s | heating up now like MC bace can draw 1 |
| 10285s | million cards if he wants to wiq has got |
| 10288s | a hold of Sith now so even though he |
| 10290s | took a bit of a beating early on there's |
| 10292s | a counter spell to back up sort of at |
| 10294s | least slow down um at banf face this |
| 10297s | turn even though we can see it won't |
| 10299s | really slow much down at all H and and |
| 10301s | then there is Sith like locked and |
| 10303s | loaded not quite going to go yet but |
| 10305s | just having it there is going to be very |
| 10310s | nice so yeah 2 4 six uh volume up that's |
| 10315s | nine get solar eclipse in there as well |
| 10317s | yeah yeah million cards yeah no that's |
| 10318s | right you're correct I mean come |
| 10331s | on this is where I would already be |
| 10333s | stressed if I was M ban face cuz he's |
| 10335s | obviously sat going through the turn in |
| 10337s | his head but he's running out of time |
| 10338s | and he can do a lot of things this time |
| 10341s | correct yeah so I'm getting I'm already |
| 10343s | watching this bar timer go down I'm |
| 10345s | getting more stressed it is a um a drum |
| 10350s | I've banged a lot over time people like |
| 10352s | not making the first Fork decision soon |
| 10355s | enough in their turn so then the quality |
| 10357s | of the decisions they make later in the |
| 10358s | turn are worse what I will say is trying |
| 10361s | to work out what you do about objection |
| 10364s | counter spell exposive runes etc etc on |
| 10366s | that ter was a very very difficult first |
| 10369s | Fork decision but yes I think that is a |
| 10371s | very valid point to raise that it's kind |
| 10374s | of this trick of the human brain right |
| 10375s | of like well I know what this first |
| 10377s | decision is so I'll take a really really |
| 10379s | long time to try and work it out but |
| 10381s | there are there might be five or six |
| 10382s | other decisions left over the course of |
| 10384s | the turn that your your brain just |
| 10385s | doesn't know about you and even now you |
| 10388s | can see that Banner finished his turn 10 |
| 10391s | cards maybe that was unavoidable maybe |
| 10393s | it wasn't but |
| 10395s | um but still not exactly where he would |
| 10398s | like to |
| 10408s | be another counter spell going to be |
| 10410s | dropped down there for weu I imagine |
| 10411s | this is going to be |
| 10414s | traded oh no never mind just going to |
| 10417s | lock it in yeah I think just doesn't |
| 10419s | want to spend Mana dealing with the |
| 10422s | artificer and also wants to be looking |
| 10425s | very very hard at setting up a lethal on |
| 10427s | 10 right so doesn't want B to be gaining |
| 10428s | armor because you now have Forge molten |
| 10431s | Rune and the Arcane bolt you had a |
| 10434s | couple of shots from the infinitize to |
| 10436s | find another one mana burn spell that |
| 10438s | could fit into that for zero as well |
| 10440s | yeah and it just locked in holy as well |
| 10442s | right cuz I don't think that was holy |
| 10443s | played beforehand so y yeah I mean that |
| 10446s | that was discovered from History of |
| 10448s | Magic so right yeah yeah of course yeah |
| 10450s | yeah so yeah just ticking enough boxes |
| 10452s | to waren being played there and I guess |
| 10454s | yeah is that actually what it's called |
| 10455s | or is that just the Harry Potter class |
| 10457s | I've just |
| 10459s | made uh what did you say discovery of |
| 10462s | magic okay good yeah History of Magic |
| 10465s | come on Ron we're late for history of |
| 10468s | magic I mean yeah valid it's Leviosa not |
| 10473s | Leviosa oh you would you that would be |
| 10476s | you it would actually just that was a |
| 10478s | line you would write for that uh |
| 10483s | film |
| 10485s | time runs out |
| 10487s | on and again my banner tons of stuff but |
| 10492s | getting use of it getting these cards |
| 10494s | out of hand is just as important as |
| 10495s | creating them at this point cuz again |
| 10498s | just another kind of weird situation |
| 10501s | where |
| 10503s | the it probably sounds worse than I'm |
| 10506s | sorry it's probably not as bad as I'm |
| 10508s | making it sound but it feels like Banner |
| 10510s | isn't really progressing too |
| 10512s | much here where is weaky I don't know |
| 10515s | looks like he's got a really good handle |
| 10516s | on this game yeah stacking a little bit |
| 10519s | of armor is giving him really strong |
| 10520s | defense against the dark arts right now |
| 10522s | though so that's |
| 10523s | something |
| 10526s | reality |
| 10528s | [Music] |
| 10534s | Wen fine I guess be like that Raven see |
| 10539s | if I can what |
| 10543s | sorry thank you very good very good I |
| 10546s | see what you did |
| 10549s | there I was just letting it sit letting |
| 10552s | it |
| 10561s | simuns I think nature is the last |
| 10564s | remaining spell from mhm uh spell score |
| 10567s | from |
| 10568s | weq Quick work on the uh the link find |
| 10573s | like a hex or a primordial wave some |
| 10575s | sort of transmogrification effect like |
| 10577s | that maybe oh no RAV I could do this all |
| 10580s | day okay don't don't challenge me is too |
| 10583s | full well I was expecting something a |
| 10585s | bit more natury honestly give me a plant |
| 10590s | name |
| 10591s | so I'm doing names of subjects Raven |
| 10594s | that's the that's the |
| 10596s | bit yeah you know need nature could have |
| 10599s | gone with herbology but didn't could |
| 10600s | have gone with herbology yeah that's a |
| 10602s | good |
| 10603s | sh |
| 10610s | I'm a banner doing the typical thinking |
| 10613s | pose right |
| 10616s | now someone quick make a |
| 10626s | statue the tried and tested Cold Case |
| 10629s | again gaining more and more armor trying |
| 10630s | to defend but there gets to a point |
| 10633s | where |
| 10635s | you know defending gaining Armor All |
| 10636s | game isn't really going to cut it and |
| 10638s | there's still so much that Banner has to |
| 10640s | drop here because I mean it's I'm not |
| 10642s | going to lie it's hard to keep track of |
| 10643s | all the cards in hand but cth is |
| 10646s | there it's just that there's no bird |
| 10649s | available yeah and unfortunately for |
| 10652s | banter this all of this armor is |
| 10654s | incredibly necessary because uh while |
| 10657s | I've been messing around with uh with |
| 10659s | Harry Potter subjects wiq has gathered I |
| 10661s | did talk about it the uh the extra burn |
| 10663s | zero Mana picked up from uh from |
| 10666s | infinitize which can stack in there with |
| 10668s | the Sif as well has a two Mana molten |
| 10670s | Rune that can be thrown in as well if |
| 10672s | you finds one other one mana burn spell |
| 10674s | for |
| 10675s | example I do think we need to make it a |
| 10677s | requirement that all the players play |
| 10679s | the signature versions of the cards |
| 10681s | because I'll be honest I didn't notice |
| 10683s | until just that when I said it that CIF |
| 10685s | had been in hand from panda face for |
| 10686s | that long oh really he's not because |
| 10688s | he's not playing the signature one right |
| 10689s | so it's like what kind of animal doesn't |
| 10691s | play signature |
| 10692s | S I like this choice as well uh burning |
| 10696s | the |
| 10697s | Arcane Arcane Bolt from weq just to have |
| 10700s | an Arcane spell get cast in order to uh |
| 10702s | set up the lady in order to get the |
| 10704s | discount on everything else cuz now you |
| 10706s | can actually cast both of those molten |
| 10708s | runes both forged in the same turn with |
| 10711s | cth so you throw away a little bit of |
| 10712s | damage to gain a lot of damage on the |
| 10714s | following ter yeah now it's just going |
| 10716s | to be nice armor friend in the next turn |
| 10719s | cuz it just probably won't |
| 10723s | matter |
| 10731s | banter again just trying to think of a |
| 10733s | way out of this cuz there's just there's |
| 10735s | just not much going on there is the uh |
| 10737s | the solar Cold Case if he just wants to |
| 10740s | keep going down that road but is it |
| 10742s | actually going to progress the game plan |
| 10744s | is it going to get him anywhere three |
| 10745s | cards left for |
| 10748s | B yeah that million card that does not |
| 10751s | show it at all that that million cards |
| 10754s | that Drew earlier is uh proving to be a |
| 10756s | little bit of a problem right |
| 10761s | now all this power is mine |
| 10774s | to |
| 10778s | Fireball yeah R because there's Sith |
| 10781s | solar blast and stuff right like |
| 10786s | don't think it's going to matter |
| 10787s | especially with the extra five from |
| 10789s | having the minion stick on board not |
| 10791s | that it's going to matter to much as |
| 10792s | approximately 1 million damage the same |
| 10795s | amount of cards that M bface Drew he's |
| 10797s | going to take in damage form right now |
| 10799s | as weu looks to be in a good position to |
| 10801s | take game number two and even up this |
| 10804s | series Yeah clean game in the end I |
| 10807s | think was behind early certainly was |
| 10810s | helped relieve a little bit of that |
| 10811s | early pressure with the bellowing Flames |
| 10812s | otherwise we might have been just |
| 10813s | looking at game that panned out entirely |
| 10816s | differently but I think what w did very |
| 10818s | very well there is recognize he was |
| 10821s | heading towards the cth otk and I know |
| 10824s | that sounds very obvious cuz a lot of |
| 10826s | people will just look at that and say |
| 10828s | well it's a cth otk deck that's what it |
| 10831s | does but it's a very um it's a real |
| 10834s | Swiss army knife of a deck it can win in |
| 10836s | a large variety of ways and sometimes |
| 10838s | you have to identify what that win |
| 10839s | condition is several turns in advance |
| 10841s | and step towards it and I think that's |
| 10843s | what weq did very well from sort of the |
| 10846s | eight Mana turn up until the turn where |
| 10848s | banter face actually exploded I think |
| 10849s | that was all mapped out very very nicely |
| 10852s | to progress weq down that Garden Path |
| 10854s | towards the end of the game very nice |
| 10856s | game yeah and like we said though the |
| 10858s | Mage taking a win for wiq fantastic the |
| 10861s | Rogue being on MB side for the win is |
| 10864s | great but there's still those shamans |
| 10866s | left over and we said ourselves earlier |
| 10869s | on the Mages I don't think there's |
| 10871s | anything too much to worry about banter |
| 10873s | of course someone had to lose the Mage |
| 10875s | mirror but if B decides to Q Mage again |
| 10877s | I think he'd be very confident in any of |
| 10880s | the matchups that he's got going there |
| 10881s | so tough one for atand face there trying |
| 10883s | to deal with uh maybe too many cards in |
| 10886s | hand and and not getting hold of the |
| 10887s | actual you know sort of nailed down plan |
| 10890s | that you really want that for example |
| 10891s | weu did but still plenty left in this |
| 10894s | series that we just one and one and if |
| 10896s | you just joined us recently this is a |
| 10898s | top eight match single elimination so |
| 10900s | the loser is going to be done and dusted |
| 10902s | the winner moves on to that top four so |
| 10904s | a lot on the line for these players a |
| 10906s | world a guaranteed World Championship |
| 10908s | spot is on the line as the one you know |
| 10911s | the last chance for some of these |
| 10912s | players uh this weekend so yeah a lot on |
| 10915s | the line here although I think a fair |
| 10917s | few of them are pretty doing pretty well |
| 10919s | on points as well now so that's |
| 10920s | something we'll have to look at and |
| 10922s | investigate when the time comes it is a |
| 10925s | a speed bump for lovers of smooth |
| 10928s | narratives that players have been |
| 10930s | incredibly consistent throughout the |
| 10931s | year not not only in which players have |
| 10934s | qualified but also which players have |
| 10936s | made top eights so we've had it through |
| 10938s | consistently throughout the year that a |
| 10939s | lot of the players who are in the top |
| 10941s | eight it's like okay they're playing for |
| 10942s | a spot of world sure but they're also |
| 10943s | actually in really good standing overall |
| 10945s | in terms of the number of points that |
| 10946s | they have in total so it has made things |
| 10948s | a little bit awkward in some places um |
| 10951s | we are now going to see the reverse of |
| 10953s | the match that we saw previously with |
| 10955s | banter uh picking up the mantle on the |
| 10957s | Sharman weu looking to build those early |
| 10959s | boards on |
| 10961s | Rogue Wu's opening looks quite good to |
| 10967s | me would you say like this is the |
| 10969s | opening is there anything weu is really |
| 10971s | missing as a macro K that you would swap |
| 10974s | something for anything for a frequency |
| 10976s | oscillator uh squirrel on two squirrel |
| 10979s | on two on the play is what you |
| 10980s | absolutely want |
| 10983s | sure not far away though not far away |
| 10986s | yeah it just means that you kind of have |
| 10987s | to delay for that extra turn but drone |
| 10989s | deconstructor is a nice consolation |
| 10992s | prize right because you can find Stealth |
| 10995s | you could find Divine shield for example |
| 10996s | if your one drop wasn't click clocker |
| 10998s | and already had the Divine Shield you |
| 10999s | can find ways to consolidate that board |
| 11003s | and try and protect yourself from the |
| 11004s | coppertail Snoop which will start to |
| 11007s | cause some |
| 11012s | damage where does the Snoop go here |
| 11015s | though well now that your opponent has |
| 11019s | drawn |
| 11020s | schooling things start to get quite |
| 11022s | complicated |
| 11024s | cuz you may even oh I hate |
| 11030s | myself yeah I mean I guess you do have |
| 11032s | the tradeable yeah I was about to say |
| 11033s | you might even just play invento Matic |
| 11035s | cuz again this time I did notice it's a |
| 11038s | 34 which I think makes the most awkward |
| 11040s | board against the Piranhas but then as I |
| 11043s | started to say that I threw up in my |
| 11044s | mouth because it floated a mana and then |
| 11046s | I realized that you could just trade |
| 11047s | away the speaker stomper which is a |
| 11049s | downside sure because we've seen already |
| 11051s | speaker stomper can do some work in this |
| 11053s | matchup but uh I do think it just makes |
| 11055s | the most irritating over it's not a Mana |
| 11058s | floated downside put it that way exactly |
| 11060s | yeah it's like yeah this is a good turn |
| 11062s | now for banter right but it's the whole |
| 11064s | turn and now the squirrels are gone and |
| 11067s | you could okay okay here's the actual |
| 11070s | thing that I didn't want you to kill now |
| 11071s | I will drop that on the board yeah the |
| 11074s | Piranhas are gone so all getting mixed |
| 11076s | up with his animals of course but they |
| 11077s | are what did I say he said the squirrels |
| 11079s | have gone the squirels G the squirrels |
| 11082s | there some kind of that's my cat hunting |
| 11085s | in the park behind our |
| 11088s | house T of TI's going to be used here to |
| 11091s | clean up some of this but again not |
| 11093s | quite all going to have to use the |
| 11095s | overdraft as |
| 11097s | well do I didn't even say his name why |
| 11100s | is he just wandered in the room I he |
| 11103s | like you summoned me master yeah did you |
| 11105s | just respond to the word squirrel is |
| 11108s | where you sure it's a cat and not a dog |
| 11112s | no |
| 11116s | or is At The Mention of |
| 11118s | squirrels one of my dogs is still just |
| 11120s | snoring next to me so really a good |
| 11123s | hunting dog this one isn't |
| 11128s | him so great news for banter is that he |
| 11133s | was able to pass the threat check of the |
| 11135s | coppertail Snoop uh if he didn't this |
| 11137s | game was pretty much over because innie |
| 11139s | was coming down behind that and there |
| 11141s | was the gear shift to be able to draw |
| 11142s | cards to actually have things to spend |
| 11145s | all of those coins on because sometimes |
| 11147s | that does become a problem you can curve |
| 11149s | out perfectly into any but then you've |
| 11152s | played your whole hand so the fact that |
| 11153s | you're getting three or four coins every |
| 11155s | turn from your coppertail snoops doesn't |
| 11157s | actually mean diddly squat the bad news |
| 11159s | is though there is an inie so there is |
| 11163s | that is something you would love to |
| 11164s | avoid if you can if you're on MC |
| 11166s | Banner's side of this |
| 11168s | board but what's the setup Pig like can |
| 11170s | can Banner afford to just weapon pass |
| 11173s | here |
| 11175s | oh okay I like |
| 11178s | this yeah I do too |
| 11180s | Max Max Tempo draw some cards you don't |
| 11183s | face any overloads you still get to drop |
| 11185s | the Gogan on the next |
| 11188s | turn |
| 11192s | Okay |
| 11198s | noises |
| 11202s | my dam it presumably yeah you want to |
| 11205s | hits twice you do hit minions twice this |
| 11207s | shuts down the Titan play some of the |
| 11210s | time from banter uh luckily banter |
| 11213s | already has the turn the tides to go |
| 11215s | with the Titan |
| 11218s | though making it an actual legal play on |
| 11221s | the |
| 11224s | SP this would have been so brutal |
| 11226s | without right cuz it's like yeah you can |
| 11228s | kill one but that's |
| 11232s | it |
| 11234s | winess |
| 11237s | the and then you'd be looking at Voltron |
| 11239s | Prime inie which is possibly the most |
| 11242s | fun two card interaction in the |
| 11245s | game who |
| 11248s | okay both players no crab no crab he |
| 11253s | literally just said no crab both players |
| 11257s | just uh you know swinging at this |
| 11261s | point going to get rid of the this makes |
| 11264s | sense right like you don't want to rely |
| 11265s | on the top deck just try and cycle some |
| 11267s | more cards and build into it |
| 11273s | later H yeah any getting shoved back in |
| 11277s | the deck it's a weird card like it's so |
| 11279s | close to being cutable in this deck |
| 11281s | because it does do that in a lot of |
| 11283s | games like you sit there staring at it |
| 11286s | in your hand going this in is going to |
| 11288s | be the nuts as soon as I get to play it |
| 11291s | and you just never do cuz your opponent |
| 11293s | is desperately killing every Mech you |
| 11295s | play for the entire game but any turn |
| 11298s | you do land an in it's just so powerful |
| 11300s | though it feels like you just win right |
| 11303s | yeah it just retains its place in the |
| 11304s | deck just on overall power level see for |
| 11307s | just one card so for just one card |
| 11311s | mhm problem here is this is just simply |
| 11315s | a million |
| 11321s | damage it it has to be |
| 11324s | coin hero power right no |
| 11328s | okay are F |
| 11339s | to trying to magnetize the crab Robo |
| 11342s | crab unfortunately is not not not |
| 11351s | possible M face down to one |
| 11354s | potentially she going to lose this game |
| 11356s | and start to slip away Shaman once again |
| 11359s | looking to be in a tough spot and that's |
| 11361s | going to be it yeah Wu takes game number |
| 11364s | three 2-1 up so far and and it it really |
| 11368s | does just seem like we're just going to |
| 11369s | talk about Shaman for the rest of this |
| 11371s | match and maybe the rest of the Daya at |
| 11373s | this point because Mage getting the job |
| 11376s | done Rogues getting the job done again |
| 11379s | if mcbf face chooses to Q Mage I think |
| 11382s | he would be really confident in whatever |
| 11383s | match up you get well it would be the |
| 11385s | shaman one now be confident and it |
| 11387s | really is just like who's going to get |
| 11389s | Shaman over the line I do feel like this |
| 11391s | class has really fallen in to that |
| 11393s | everpresent fourth slot right like |
| 11396s | there's always that fourth deck that's |
| 11398s | like oh this is worse than all my other |
| 11400s | three but yes I accept what you're |
| 11403s | saying right but then if you look at |
| 11405s | some of the other Decks that have been |
| 11407s | brought in that fourth slot Druid has a |
| 11409s | 16% win rate Demon Hunter has a 33 % win |
| 11413s | rate uh warlock is killing it but it's |
| 11416s | two wins and one loss that's just not a |
| 11418s | real sample looks good to me yeah so |
| 11420s | like yes okay Shaman has been brought by |
| 11423s | a lot of people as kind of that fourth |
| 11424s | deck um but still yes this Series has |
| 11428s | not done it any favors but it was |
| 11429s | running at 45 before we started this |
| 11431s | series right so it was doing okay it was |
| 11434s | it was underwhelming but it wasn't the |
| 11436s | catastrophe that we seeing some others |
| 11438s | right and even even hunter that we've |
| 11440s | seen a lot at is in the 40s as well |
| 11442s | right like the that fourth deck by |
| 11445s | Nature right like if you bring a to a |
| 11448s | deck a lineup to Conquest and all four |
| 11450s | of your decks across the whole |
| 11451s | tournament have above 50% win rate well |
| 11455s | done shake my hand you probably won the |
| 11457s | tournament right like yeah it's not |
| 11459s | often that things work out like that |
| 11461s | yeah and and don't get me wrong I |
| 11463s | definitely don't think uh Shaman was I |
| 11465s | wouldn't even call it a mistake or |
| 11467s | anything I just think it's becoming |
| 11469s | glaringly obvious that it is that number |
| 11472s | four right I think Rogue um is is really |
| 11477s | stepped up because I was a bit unsure of |
| 11479s | what to think how Rogue would do going |
| 11480s | into this tournament if I'm completely |
| 11481s | honest was confident on Mage confident |
| 11483s | Warrior but the Rogue looks the Rogue |
| 11485s | choices should I say look to be really |
| 11487s | shining whereas Shaman does seem to be |
| 11490s | the uh the struggle deck right yeah I |
| 11492s | was very bullish coming into this that |
| 11495s | Mech Rogue was going to do very very |
| 11496s | well in this |
| 11499s | T and I think that has been borne out |
| 11502s | Rogue itself has has done extremely well |
| 11504s | in this tournament how how well that has |
| 11506s | broken down between the secret Rogues |
| 11508s | and the mech Rogues I'm not entirely |
| 11510s | sure at this point we are going to see |
| 11512s | as we go into game four though mcbf face |
| 11514s | on this Mage hoping to even this match |
| 11517s | up and give us a good old shame and |
| 11519s | mirror for the game five but for now weu |
| 11522s | still has the ability to fight back here |
| 11524s | and and just end this match quickly |
| 11526s | especially with this hand looking quite |
| 11528s | good the Piranhas are available some |
| 11530s | earlier plays that you know if need be |
| 11532s | can be used to Tempo but maybe just |
| 11534s | missing just a little bit on some |
| 11536s | guaranteed sort of good amount of card |
| 11537s | draw here yeah I think really this yeah |
| 11541s | if this hand drew a three on three if it |
| 11543s | drew feral Spirits or uh turn the tides |
| 11546s | suddenly everything was looking |
| 11548s | fantastic because yeah you have thorm |
| 11550s | you have Flow Rider but you currently |
| 11552s | have no way to overload which means you |
| 11553s | currently have no way to draw cards uh |
| 11556s | you also don't have a particularly good |
| 11557s | Tempo play on three which are I just |
| 11561s | named a pretty comprehensive list of the |
| 11562s | things things this deck wants in the |
| 11564s | early game um wiq does have the Piranhas |
| 11567s | though which means he's not going to be |
| 11569s | taking a ton of damage in the early game |
| 11571s | which is nice uh but yeah it's still a |
| 11573s | hand that needs a couple of extra pieces |
| 11575s | to pull it |
| 11578s | together and I like this as well just |
| 11580s | don't try and get too fancy just play |
| 11582s | the three piranhas leave one on the |
| 11584s | board if it gets pinged great if it |
| 11587s | doesn't great you know whatever at this |
| 11589s | point yeah spend your Mana right there |
| 11592s | was |
| 11593s | effective way to do that unless you just |
| 11595s | want to play a vanilla spider tank Thor |
| 11597s | but that does not seem worth it |
| 11599s | there you |
| 11613s | yep flash of lightning is the Mana spend |
| 11616s | and then you'd still be able to go Flow |
| 11619s | Rider thorm next turn but it just wasn't |
| 11622s | a flash of lightning hand was it like it |
| 11624s | kind of is now when you have a lightning |
| 11626s | reflexes in it but before you pick that |
| 11628s | off the Flow Rider it just cly was not |
| 11630s | yeah the rist the rist didn't look like |
| 11631s | it was worth the payoff right or even |
| 11633s | the potential |
| 11634s | payoff C case again from B to face just |
| 11638s | doing it the usual doing the |
| 11641s | basics just playing Mage having a good |
| 11651s | time |
| 11655s | this hand is coming together though I |
| 11657s | would say like whenever there's double |
| 11659s | crash you have to always just sit there |
| 11661s | and be like |
| 11664s | hm what's achievable in the near |
| 11670s | future decision now really I'd guess |
| 11673s | between the weapon and the feral Spirits |
| 11677s | here yeah and it is that decision as to |
| 11680s | I whether we actually have to fight for |
| 11683s | board and play the the tempo battle this |
| 11685s | game or whether we can just ignore all |
| 11688s | of that and say hang on I've got like a |
| 11690s | light I've got lightning reflexes flash |
| 11691s | double crash in my hand like can I just |
| 11694s | get there the chance of drawing the |
| 11696s | Titan as well right like just not |
| 11698s | overloading into six and I know you know |
| 11700s | it's a one in 19 at this point but You' |
| 11703s | still if you've got a good enough turn |
| 11705s | without the overload why not right I |
| 11707s | think that's fair |
| 11710s | yeah Arcane ball take off the floor R |
| 11713s | banf face is just going to keep the |
| 11715s | tempo and keep pushing damage with these |
| 11717s | skeletons not looking too bad at |
| 11726s | all what's he thinking about here cuz |
| 11728s | that was a quick early decision followed |
| 11730s | by a long pause to whether he wants to |
| 11736s | [Music] |
| 11738s | draw yeah I guess |
| 11741s | so |
| 11743s | just seemed like a surprising delay |
| 11745s | that's all |
| 11750s | mhm |
| 11752s | oh okay it's kind of weird isn't it cuz |
| 11756s | like I was going to say C immediately |
| 11758s | looks tempting but when you look at what |
| 11760s | you can do next turn into Elemental |
| 11763s | inspiration Suddenly It's like hm yeah I |
| 11766s | like |
| 11769s | no Wu is saying I've had enough I can't |
| 11772s | get hit and then get hit by the death |
| 11774s | rattles again so yeah just going to take |
| 11776s | a beating now go down to 11 set up the |
| 11778s | weapon |
| 11781s | swing but nor for plus one is coming |
| 11784s | down this time right and that's why this |
| 11785s | was the choice un is that you absolutely |
| 11789s | had to lock this down from your opponent |
| 11791s | cuz you are constantly scared of that |
| 11797s | setup the tit wasn't far off one turn |
| 11800s | late but still yeah |
| 11812s | uh suddenly a really really ugly spot to |
| 11814s | be in for the Sharman |
| 11818s | right I think it is just Titan right I |
| 11821s | think it is just Titan yeah you can go |
| 11823s | reflexes and look for the uh the 54 |
| 11825s | rushes to be able to answer but at that |
| 11829s | point why are you betting your future on |
| 11831s | a situation where you can just shoot it |
| 11833s | for 20 anyway makes more sense |
| 11841s | yeah it's going to hold doesn't use the |
| 11845s | spell discount |
| 11846s | yeah once the feral spirits to be |
| 11849s | playable next turn is potentially |
| 11850s | guaranteed Minions on board so you can |
| 11852s | either draw the bioluminescence or find |
| 11854s | it from that lightning reflexes |
| 11856s | potentially yeah or even just generating |
| 11859s | the overload as well right yeah yeah |
| 11861s | yeah absolutely |
| 11869s | a little bit tricky here from at banter |
| 11872s | face does have the elemental inspiration |
| 11875s | but in a weird situation where |
| 11877s | suddenly the Titan didn't use the deal |
| 11880s | damage heal right it's like oh that's |
| 11882s | just still |
| 11885s | there yeah you just can't let this thing |
| 11887s | live like your opponent's hand would |
| 11889s | have to be something kind of random in |
| 11892s | order you with a second charge Jazz base |
| 11895s | and an alive Titan discounting a spell |
| 11897s | by three yeah how do you not die next |
| 11900s | turn in that sitation I guess like the |
| 11903s | long shot is you saw them play a crash |
| 11905s | but that's too long of a shot for me |
| 11908s | still I am the of our |
| 11915s | Queen those are not it actually having |
| 11918s | drawn bio number one off the top these |
| 11920s | were not the cards that weak you would |
| 11923s | have wanted to see this |
| 11931s | turn lightning Bol and crash not |
| 11936s | bad but it's more about how this turn is |
| 11939s | going to finish right like what's the |
| 11941s | outcome here cuz no heal available |
| 11944s | either yeah so Zappa |
| 11948s | ferals swing the |
| 11951s | weapon six put your opponent 23 you have |
| 11954s | plus five spell |
| 11956s | damage plus six with the zapper you have |
| 11959s | to go in and do it yeah I agree with |
| 11964s | this B |
| 11966s | faces the eyebrow |
| 11972s | rais he's waiting for the third burn |
| 11974s | spell he's waiting for the third burn |
| 11976s | spell and it's not going to come and it |
| 11977s | turns out that he is still in this |
| 11979s | series cuz he has sift double Arcane |
| 11981s | bolt coming back the other away oh my |
| 11983s | God the desync is so intense I promise |
| 11985s | you what you just saw from bter Face's |
| 11988s | reaction was him realizing that the |
| 11989s | third burn spell was not there from wiq |
| 11993s | and that means he gets to take this one |
| 11995s | down and square the series up at two |
| 11998s | games to two and we are going to go all |
| 12000s | the way to a game five deciding yeah I |
| 12003s | was going to say that I'm not sure what |
| 12005s | spell damage exactly SI was on but I'm |
| 12007s | pretty sure the answer was enough right |
| 12010s | so yeah it was a fair play for we there |
| 12012s | going for it I think as you mentioned |
| 12014s | that the turn was correct right you just |
| 12016s | dump it all go and see what happens next |
| 12018s | turn if you're still alive uh couldn't |
| 12020s | get the Titan to heal didn't get hold of |
| 12022s | any extra heal as well for any sort of |
| 12024s | security and yeah just uh fell to the to |
| 12027s | the Wayside there and we are going to |
| 12028s | come down to a shaman mirror h i i uh |
| 12032s | wasn't too much of a prediction really I |
| 12034s | would say but the Rogues did their job |
| 12037s | the Mages did their job and now it's |
| 12038s | just down to a shaman face off and it's |
| 12041s | going to be a really tricky one how how |
| 12043s | do these mirrors normally go subtle is |
| 12046s | the person who wins board early |
| 12048s | generally the one who's going to take |
| 12050s | Victory or is there opportunities for a |
| 12053s | very back and forth |
| 12055s | game uh yes to the first question but |
| 12058s | also somewhat yes to the second question |
| 12061s | um the benefit of having early tempo of |
| 12064s | just like Landing fish on the board |
| 12065s | playing feral spirits on three dropping |
| 12068s | crash on the board and pushing through |
| 12069s | early chip damage is that there's an |
| 12072s | incredible fear equity in doing that for |
| 12074s | the plays that your opponent then has to |
| 12076s | make right if you chip your opponent |
| 12078s | down to 20 and you pass the turn to them |
| 12081s | and you've got two minions in play |
| 12084s | You're sat I'm sat there looking at that |
| 12085s | board going well if I don't pay |
| 12088s | attention to that they can kill me from |
| 12090s | 20 this turn because I'm leaving them |
| 12092s | with two Minions on the board so |
| 12093s | suddenly this card draw that I want to |
| 12095s | play I might not get to play this cuz I |
| 12097s | have to I have to deal with the board |
| 12098s | instead um so oh this is my first |
| 12101s | anomaly of the tournament Raven um oh I |
| 12104s | looked away for one second which one was |
| 12106s | it plus plus five Health oh okay thank |
| 12108s | you so um that actually changes things a |
| 12112s | little bit right cuz that actually gives |
| 12113s | the players a little bit more of a |
| 12115s | buffer to play with you're going to be |
| 12117s | less scared of turn five turn six |
| 12119s | lethals if you're leaving boards up on |
| 12121s | the other side and they do get the Jazz |
| 12122s | base down early but you can still see |
| 12125s | right like even though common wisdom |
| 12128s | might tell you well this is an otk deck |
| 12130s | against an otk deck Wu just keeps |
| 12133s | schooling and plays schooling on one |
| 12135s | because getting that Tempo battle right |
| 12138s | in the early turns is so huge this deck |
| 12140s | is so underrated as a Tempo deck um in |
| 12144s | terms of how to most effectively play it |
| 12147s | right it's a big reason why this version |
| 12149s | of the deck one out over the totem heavy |
| 12152s | version of the deck right with the |
| 12153s | infused spell and then that's much |
| 12155s | better at being an otk deck but it |
| 12158s | cannot Tempo so it loses that this is |
| 12161s | Hearthstone we're playing okay it's |
| 12162s | taken us 10 years to learn this but I |
| 12165s | thought we would have finally got there |
| 12166s | by now yeah we've seen it time and time |
| 12168s | again with these styles of decks where |
| 12170s | your end game plan doesn't mean anything |
| 12173s | if your opponent just plays stuff and |
| 12174s | kills you right so like we you know |
| 12176s | we've seen it time and time again as you |
| 12178s | said we even going to see the the tempo |
| 12181s | piranhas available uh getting dropped |
| 12183s | down there for wiq just to say you know |
| 12185s | what I'm just going to play these down |
| 12186s | you're not really going to kill them off |
| 12187s | and I'm going to have that board |
| 12189s | Advantage going in now exactly what I |
| 12192s | was referring to in the lead up right |
| 12193s | now these three these three little fish |
| 12195s | just get to chip away some damage push |
| 12197s | banter into the vicinity of 20 Health if |
| 12200s | they were starting at at 30 which |
| 12202s | they're not um and then suddenly that |
| 12205s | Fear Factor is huge I think right B |
| 12208s | banter having seen this schooling coming |
| 12209s | down will actually be somewhat thankful |
| 12211s | for that uh anomaly giving him a sort of |
| 12213s | a free renal at this |
| 12218s | point I mean b already kind of agonized |
| 12222s | over the choice here because they're all |
| 12225s | good but what's correct right like turn |
| 12228s | the tides again feels like the type of |
| 12230s | card you want |
| 12233s | playable also that's a thought has |
| 12235s | anyone talked about this how many renals |
| 12237s | are in this |
| 12239s | tournament 64 decks and I is it two |
| 12242s | control priests and that's it for renor |
| 12244s | deck maybe yeah and then the anomalies |
| 12247s | yeah yeah but but yeah yeah I think |
| 12249s | you're right |
| 12251s | actually |
| 12254s | well the biggest upset of this |
| 12255s | tournament all is zero paladins |
| 12257s | [Laughter] |
| 12260s | okay why did you want there to be |
| 12262s | Paladin I I was ready to cast some |
| 12265s | Divine Justice okay because there's |
| 12268s | something just I don't know all these |
| 12269s | fancy decks where Paladin's just like |
| 12271s | I'm just going to play a dude and hit |
| 12272s | you in the face MH just an honorable |
| 12275s | deck right now that's all I'm saying I |
| 12276s | do like the idea that you know because |
| 12279s | of like Order in the Court and the |
| 12280s | various effects that have cuz like most |
| 12281s | good Paladin effect uh decks abuse Order |
| 12284s | in the Court to some degree right |
| 12286s | massively yeah um whether it's like do |
| 12288s | this then I draw my pator and then that |
| 12289s | draws me all my light rays or whatever |
| 12291s | like that that kind of thing or the |
| 12292s | other version where you you play Order |
| 12294s | in the Court and then you always draw |
| 12295s | the garden's Grace but then the into |
| 12298s | your second one yeah and then guns great |
| 12300s | always cost zero by the time that you |
| 12301s | play it like because that's the nature |
| 12304s | of Paladin decks they basically just |
| 12305s | play the same game over and over and |
| 12307s | over and over again great and that game |
| 12310s | is get them |
| 12316s | yeah here the |
| 12318s | weu arguably has board control with the |
| 12320s | totem down but looks like this is going |
| 12322s | to be a weapon equip and go I don't |
| 12325s | think there's that much Merit of just |
| 12328s | playing turn the tides for a minion when |
| 12330s | you have the the Jazz uh bass |
| 12338s | available it kind of is though it's a |
| 12340s | three three on the board that |
| 12343s | yeah I like this I was thinking about it |
| 12345s | but I just thought it was just going to |
| 12346s | set up the weapon instead and just have |
| 12347s | that Flex for next turn yeah I just |
| 12350s | don't again it's I don't think the |
| 12353s | weapon is going to be popped two turns |
| 12356s | from that turn four that we you just |
| 12358s | played so if that's going to be the case |
| 12361s | then just take the extra 3 three a turn |
| 12363s | earlier right and just have that extra 3 |
| 12365s | three in play this is |
| 12370s | fine 17 by by the way he started at |
| 12374s | 35 I was going to say I guess it's still |
| 12376s | a little bit early of thinking maybe |
| 12378s | comboing them both to kill a Titan for |
| 12380s | example right or to help kill a Titan |
| 12383s | still a bit early in the game for that |
| 12384s | so yeah agreed and I think honestly with |
| 12388s | the the hand that we's staring at here |
| 12390s | now with the Jazz BL Jazz Bas lined up |
| 12394s | it's not so much killing a Titan I mean |
| 12396s | he is killing a Titan but that Titan is |
| 12398s | the Titan of the America's Hearthstone |
| 12400s | scene MCB face that's who going to be |
| 12402s | killed |
| 12403s | here one day I'll forgive you please I |
| 12407s | just want you to like me |
| 12411s | vter it's I'm sorry okay I'm |
| 12418s | sorry I haven't been this far in the mud |
| 12420s | with an America's player until like |
| 12421s | since I called Muzzy a choke artist live |
| 12424s | on oh that was a whole Ark wasn't it it |
| 12426s | was a whole lot that never got old we we |
| 12428s | we used that for like a good two years |
| 12430s | straight this is the thing you have to |
| 12433s | understand it's all excellent television |
| 12435s | though isn't it that's the |
| 12441s | point kind of interesting choices here |
| 12443s | is this just hex because he doesn't need |
| 12445s | the health and hex is |
| 12449s | cheap yeah sounds |
| 12452s | right sometimes the simple answers are |
| 12455s | the correct answers more often than not |
| 12457s | I'd say actually is there any juice in |
| 12459s | this Jazz base because there's a uh |
| 12462s | there is a little niche trick that you |
| 12463s | can do where you can actually |
| 12465s | potentially stack both charges of jazz |
| 12467s | base right like so if you have one like |
| 12469s | this and then you overwrite it with the |
| 12471s | second Jazz base and then swing that |
| 12473s | jazz base that you've just equipped you |
| 12475s | get the first spell discount effect then |
| 12477s | also going into the next turn you can |
| 12479s | swing the second Jazz basically just |
| 12481s | equipped and get it again uh usually |
| 12484s | there's not much of a way to get that to |
| 12485s | gain you more than one discount because |
| 12488s | you obviously you can't cast other |
| 12489s | spells before popping the second base or |
| 12492s | the whole thing's redundant um but it is |
| 12494s | a weird Niche spot a difficult lethal |
| 12497s | situation that does come up |
| 12507s | sometimes tournament life on the |
| 12511s | line both players trying to get there |
| 12513s | trying to piece together some kind of |
| 12516s | burst but weu definitely ahead by miles |
| 12519s | at least |
| 12520s | healthwise yeah n on 10 months of work |
| 12524s | on the line right now as |
| 12529s | well is |
| 12532s | little I'm ban to |
| 12534s | finding |
| 12537s | nothing how dare you insult lightning |
| 12540s | Bol like |
| 12545s | that yeah I think this is just Banner |
| 12548s | face just saying I've got to do |
| 12551s | something let's |
| 12558s | go right 28 without being able to get |
| 12561s | the second bio down |
| 12566s | yeah |
| 12572s | yep I'm sure weu was thinking not like |
| 12575s | this not not the fifth bur spell not the |
| 12578s | fifth bur spell not from |
| 12580s | 35 yeah |
| 12585s | yeah now uh 14 seems like a more |
| 12588s | attainable number |
| 12591s | yeah I'm just trying to honestly my |
| 12594s | brain struggles so much with doing crash |
| 12596s | numbers you can stop there |
| 12599s | mate H just you just your brain |
| 12602s | struggles so much end of sentence H but |
| 12606s | true but fair look we all struggle it's |
| 12610s | okay some than others I think so the |
| 12614s | problem here for Wei's hand is just |
| 12615s | minion generation right just can't |
| 12617s | really get enough stuff on board for the |
| 12619s | the |
| 12622s | bioluminescence one discount currently |
| 12625s | coming from the Jazz base on the |
| 12627s | previous turn so if you find feral |
| 12629s | Spirit from Flow Rider you're paying two |
| 12632s | for it you do still have an overdraft so |
| 12635s | you can get that one Mana back but you |
| 12637s | would if overdraft wasn't your first |
| 12639s | spell which it wouldn't be you'd be |
| 12641s | paying one for one man to get that one |
| 12643s | Mana back |
| 12648s | anyway this just going to stabilize |
| 12651s | instead or at least attempt |
| 12654s | it yeah this looks okay right clear the |
| 12657s | board and just say you don't have seven |
| 12659s | after all that yeah that was a it was a |
| 12663s | hand by the way like banter going for it |
| 12665s | 100% full force with his chest on the |
| 12667s | previous ter was absolutely correct |
| 12669s | because of this thorum being able to |
| 12671s | reset this on the following turn anyway |
| 12674s | um but we's turn on that previous turn I |
| 12676s | don't know if some Mega genius finds |
| 12678s | some god tier line on that turn it was |
| 12680s | one of those hands having played this |
| 12681s | deck a lot that's like it's screaming at |
| 12684s | me that there's some hidden God play in |
| 12685s | it but I just could not work out what it |
| 12687s | was I think it was just like a manner or |
| 12689s | two short wasn't it I think if if this |
| 12691s | was turn eight turn nine maybe we could |
| 12694s | definitely talk about outs but I think |
| 12696s | just a lack of Mana was the real problem |
| 12699s | mhm and this is so tired two players |
| 12702s | been working like 10 months fighting for |
| 12704s | a world championship spot and it's only |
| 12707s | the anomaly really that is keeping them |
| 12710s | alive at this |
| 12713s | point yeah cuz weirdly that that would |
| 12716s | have been it right mben would have |
| 12718s | lethal Wu in this exact game obviously |
| 12720s | the game maybe and well would have been |
| 12722s | played differently and so on but yeah |
| 12726s | just as maybe Wu could have done the |
| 12727s | other turn better if there was less |
| 12729s | health of course but there's Zappa all |
| 12733s | you tell |
| 12736s | me Zappa Flow Rider go |
| 12740s | looking I have the overdraft anyway |
| 12742s | right yeah overdrafts there yep and |
| 12744s | there's the crash with the uh |
| 12749s | ferals |
| 12752s | TI T is three but then crash still costs |
| 12757s | three oh for |
| 12759s | sure what's that on the left left okay |
| 12763s | how is this game still going |
| 12765s | on I don't know but they are now both |
| 12768s | officially dead sounds anomaly so you |
| 12770s | know we have that going for us I just |
| 12772s | feel like it's that thing where you just |
| 12774s | poke them both with a stick and say do |
| 12776s | something it's like it wasn't it wasn't |
| 12779s | there |
| 12780s | right two |
| 12782s | minions bioluminesence and overd Dr |
| 12785s | you'd be overloaded for two so it would |
| 12788s | just do four yeah no that wasn't it |
| 12793s | how could you not do eight that turn I |
| 12795s | don't believe it that must have been |
| 12798s | lethal and banner can't believe it |
| 12800s | either I think he was so sure he was |
| 12802s | dead so now is this just Titan AOE |
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| 12809s | heal Titan draw three is true yeah I I |
| 12812s | didn't even look how low his deck was |
| 12814s | and there it is that plus lightning Bol |
| 12817s | I think M bface can't believe it either |
| 12819s | that's not only going to be game but |
| 12821s | that is going to be Matt MCB takes the |
| 12823s | victory there and look at that that was |
| 12826s | so close and there you go I love that |
| 12829s | it's the fist pump of yes I won and then |
| 12832s | the actual reaction of how the heck did |
| 12835s | I win that game of hearthstone because I |
| 12837s | think both players at multiple turns |
| 12840s | throughout that end game expected each |
| 12842s | other to or expected themselves I guess |
| 12845s | to lose and die because there was so |
| 12847s | many turns where in maybe any other game |
| 12850s | the shaman would just thought oh yeah |
| 12852s | sure I'm going to do this I'm going to |
| 12854s | press end turn I'm pretty much dead |
| 12856s | whatever you know I'll see what happens |
| 12857s | and I think what twice it happened where |
| 12860s | just neither player could get there and |
| 12861s | I think you know if we would have had |
| 12863s | cameras for both players you would have |
| 12864s | seen shock on MCB face and weu there |
| 12867s | after each of those turns really |
| 12869s | incredible last game and you can take |
| 12871s | that back to the the Rogue versus Shaman |
| 12873s | game as well right like bface thought he |
| 12876s | was cooked twice this series like for |
| 12879s | sure he absolutely thought he was dead |
| 12882s | um in oh it was the Mage game Sorry like |
| 12884s | where actually all three right the Rog |
| 12886s | yeah the Rog yeah he was he thought he |
| 12888s | he thought he was out of it with the |
| 12889s | Rogue until the crab top deck kept him |
| 12891s | back in here and just just straight out |
| 12892s | fact that he wasn't dead to the shaman |
| 12893s | on the other side the Mage he was one |
| 12895s | burn spell away from dying and he |
| 12897s | thought that burn spell existed and then |
| 12898s | he had the Sith counter lethal and then |
| 12900s | the shaman mirror so all three games weq |
| 12903s | lost with Sharman banter probably would |
| 12906s | have thought he was out in all three of |
| 12908s | them uh and two of those the Mage and |
| 12910s | the mirror were actually at tournament |
| 12913s | life on the line and that at that point |
| 12914s | in the scores as well so that seems like |
| 12917s | an incredibly unlikely series from Ban's |
| 12920s | perspective to have won but I think you |
| 12922s | know banter is a phenomenal player this |
| 12924s | was two great players with two good |
| 12927s | records with very similar lineups going |
| 12930s | up against each other so the margins |
| 12931s | were always going to be that fine but |
| 12934s | yeah I don't think too many of us would |
| 12935s | have predicted that ending of just an |
| 12937s | anomaly and just a few bad draws |
| 12939s | basically keeping both players players |
| 12941s | in it for that one extra turn and |
| 12942s | allowing things to fall in favor of bter |
| 12945s | yeah luckily for banter and I guess for |
| 12947s | us we've got a little bit of time to |
| 12948s | recover as we're going to go to a break |
| 12950s | while we set up the final top eight |
| 12952s | match of the day and then we'll |
| 12953s | obviously continue into that top four so |
| 12955s | don't go anywhere we'll be right back |
| 12957s | with some more he |
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| 13241s | Hello everybody welcome back to the |
| 13242s | Hearthstone Masters Tour fall |
| 13244s | Championship my name is TJ I'm joined by |
| 13246s | adal Vice once again we kicked off the |
| 13248s | show and now we're back for the final |
| 13250s | quarterfinals how you doing I'm doing |
| 13253s | great what a series to follow I think |
| 13255s | that's probably my favorite match of the |
| 13257s | weekend so |
| 13259s | far yeah that was a a good one very |
| 13262s | close every game was close every game |
| 13264s | you could look at it for the last five |
| 13266s | turns and be like no idea who's going to |
| 13269s | win literally no idea aide um and maybe |
| 13272s | that's just the nature of Shaman get it |
| 13275s | nature of Shaman I need to that um but |
| 13278s | yeah we got one spot left in the |
| 13280s | semi-finals and it's going to go to co |
| 13281s | or balance as the two players that are |
| 13285s | going to be competing here in this next |
| 13287s | match yeah and balance I believe is one |
| 13291s | of the few priest |
| 13296s | players control |
| 13298s | priest heyo I'm sorry wait a minute I'm |
| 13302s | seeing Co has control priest please tell |
| 13304s | me they don't both |
| 13309s | sorry wait did I look at it wrong I |
| 13311s | didn't think so wait okay no no it's |
| 13314s | balanced all right I was I had a heart |
| 13317s | attack for a moment thinking we had been |
| 13319s | stuck with control priest mirror oh no |
| 13322s | we have I'm correct go and balance both |
| 13325s | have the XL control priest which uh is |
| 13330s | kind of curious are the only two players |
| 13332s | who have brought it and both of them |
| 13333s | make it into the top eight so uh maybe |
| 13336s | they just had a read kind of unfortunate |
| 13338s | for them to then run into each other as |
| 13341s | I think even priest players are not |
| 13343s | terribly happy to see that |
| 13346s | mirror oh jeez I have the completely |
| 13348s | wrong decks |
| 13350s | open but uh yeah Co does have on the |
| 13353s | other hand the enrage Warrior rather |
| 13356s | than the Odin Warrior so at least doing |
| 13358s | us a favor by going a little more |
| 13360s | aggressive Ive on that side of things |
| 13362s | I'm I've always been pretty big fan of |
| 13365s | enrage Warrior uh I don't know about you |
| 13367s | youj but I just I don't know I like |
| 13370s | getting those huge stat numbers which |
| 13372s | which you can yeah definitely do now |
| 13375s | with battle war faceless and anima |
| 13376s | extractor it's pretty fun Temple Deck |
| 13378s | with a lot of skill expression which is |
| 13380s | cool I also love small steam |
| 13384s | Guardians I don't know why it's small |
| 13386s | but it's small um and an interesting uh |
| 13390s | list that doesn't run um the RoR roria |
| 13395s | yeah roria or Grom I think yeah know |
| 13399s | previously when we had sort of Druid |
| 13402s | Stone going on one of the arguments for |
| 13404s | for cutting that big top end was you |
| 13406s | just had to kill them quicker than that |
| 13408s | and I think that's that certainly can be |
| 13411s | a continued argument even even now but |
| 13415s | uh I would prefer to have those going |
| 13417s | into another control priest player |
| 13420s | certainly |
| 13423s | yeah it kind of need it for the the |
| 13426s | damage but we'll see if we uh if we get |
| 13428s | to that point uh in the series um moving |
| 13433s | over to talk about |
| 13435s | balance uh it's kind of interesting |
| 13438s | actually I completely skipped over on Co |
| 13441s | and even putting up my deck list for |
| 13443s | this round I didn't even put his up uh |
| 13447s | hit the correct decks up that so many |
| 13449s | priest players actually made it in uh to |
| 13451s | the top eight because we actually did |
| 13452s | see even though we lost ream earlier |
| 13454s | with the shadow priest uh make it into |
| 13457s | the top eight as well so even though the |
| 13460s | times we've seen the deck on stream have |
| 13462s | been quite |
| 13464s | lackluster uh the deck is obviously |
| 13466s | performing well or the class is |
| 13468s | obviously performing well across both |
| 13470s | archetypes to make it to this point |
| 13473s | perhaps the the players uh you know |
| 13475s | priest is at least as of our previous |
| 13478s | stats not |
| 13480s | still not the greatest performance win |
| 13483s | percentage wise it's at uh |
| 13486s | 42.86% now I don't know if that is you |
| 13490s | know the shadow priest dragging down the |
| 13494s | controls or or vice versa in terms of |
| 13496s | stats but uh it's a little surprising |
| 13500s | that all three of them made it to the |
| 13501s | top eight when the stats for it have not |
| 13504s | been |
| 13506s | Stellar yeah um but 40% is still |
| 13510s | respectable like it's you know winning |
| 13512s | nearly half the match that half the |
| 13515s | matches that takes part in half the |
| 13517s | games that it takes part in and control |
| 13519s | priest is much different than control |
| 13520s | priest of old you actually get to play |
| 13522s | things and you can be proactive with the |
| 13524s | deck uh as opposed to you know in |
| 13527s | previous iterations of control priest |
| 13529s | where you were just reactive until super |
| 13532s | late stages in the game uh one of the I |
| 13534s | think most important cards in control |
| 13536s | priest nowadays probably ignis um yeah |
| 13540s | gives you so much flexibility it gives |
| 13542s | you ways consistent ways to like gain |
| 13544s | armor Beyond just um you know generated |
| 13549s | effects right which helps a lot uh in |
| 13552s | many matchups in the current metag game |
| 13554s | getting above certain thresholds of life |
| 13556s | and also you can make a bunch of ignes |
| 13559s | you can just ignis all day every day and |
| 13563s | make a bunch of weapons that fit every |
| 13564s | situation you know get a five cost for |
| 13566s | Tempo sure yeah then get a 10 cost for |
| 13569s | that you know and endgame win condition |
| 13572s | uh you could do it |
| 13573s | all yeah a lot of times if priest is |
| 13576s | able to beat out some of these you know |
| 13579s | more direct damage decks it is because |
| 13582s | of armor from ignis giving it the |
| 13583s | capability to do something it is |
| 13586s | normally not able to which is exceed the |
| 13589s | maximum life total of know 35 with |
| 13591s | renthal but yeah getting so many ESS |
| 13594s | from power of creation from power cord |
| 13597s | synchronize like priest is a lot more |
| 13600s | now about like finding key minions and |
| 13602s | just getting tons of copies of |
| 13605s | them yep and that is more fun than just |
| 13610s | taking your opponent's cards and hoping |
| 13612s | that's something good or waiting for |
| 13614s | your opponent to play big stuff and then |
| 13615s | killing it and that's |
| 13617s | it so uh definitely much more of a fan |
| 13621s | of the control per still tends to be |
| 13622s | long games they still tend to be quite |
| 13624s | grindy and you know like to uh grind out |
| 13628s | decks and that's why we're talking about |
| 13629s | the AR because games do tend to go a |
| 13631s | little bit longer um but they can end |
| 13634s | games which |
| 13636s | is thumbs up they can win they can win |
| 13639s | games of hearthstone not just not lose |
| 13642s | games of hearthstone and we're going to |
| 13644s | get to see it right off the |
| 13645s | bat certainly matchup wise uh in terms |
| 13649s | of being the priest here versus the |
| 13652s | enrage Warrior you're probably feeling |
| 13655s | pretty good as balance and we're coming |
| 13656s | in a few turns in but see the the |
| 13660s | Cathedral location here for the priest |
| 13662s | even though there's not a ton of minions |
| 13663s | it's just really great tool for card |
| 13666s | draw you know once you pay that three |
| 13668s | Mana up front you can then use it uh for |
| 13671s | for just you know three cards over time |
| 13674s | right you pay your tax set at at the |
| 13676s | start and then the next ones are free |
| 13677s | and this is a very common use case where |
| 13679s | you even just buff the enemy minion |
| 13682s | right before you kill it just to get |
| 13683s | that card |
| 13688s | draw the |
| 13692s | bori I can't call it anything else |
| 13696s | now yeah it it can be an obnoxious card |
| 13700s | for control decks to deal with but |
| 13702s | priest specifically is sort of the the |
| 13704s | king of you know silences or or dealing |
| 13708s | with threats without actually triggering |
| 13710s | stuff so uh no silence present just yet |
| 13714s | but there are certainly two copies of |
| 13717s | Shard of Naru in the list somewhere yeah |
| 13720s | and could be crucial in this game as |
| 13723s | well |
| 13725s | um just to try and stop these eggs get |
| 13729s | rid of some Buffs that are going to |
| 13730s | happen on the board later on in the game |
| 13733s | uh even like trial by |
| 13734s | fire |
| 13740s | um I don't think it's sangs because I |
| 13742s | don't think you want three locations on |
| 13744s | the board but it could be okay it is s |
| 13746s | it's just the cheapest it's rare |
| 13748s | situation where you have three locations |
| 13750s | on the |
| 13752s | board I mean sometimes a a ping is nice |
| 13756s | you know maybe thinking well it pairs |
| 13758s | with the Holy Nova |
| 13761s | and uh you know allows you to take out |
| 13764s | this this 3 |
| 13765s | three I'm not sure there were any really |
| 13768s | great options there so yeah just kind of |
| 13770s | the cheapest to get out of the way and |
| 13772s | you don't usually care about Ford space |
| 13774s | as much as the priest so kind of okay to |
| 13777s | play a bunch of locations yeah |
| 13786s | for Co |
| 13788s | though it's not you know it's looking |
| 13792s | okay with the number of board clears |
| 13794s | that priests have access to you're |
| 13796s | always a little bit on edge of you know |
| 13799s | how long is this going to last how much |
| 13800s | value can I get out of it so I'm sure |
| 13802s | he's thinking |
| 13804s | about what resources he wants to spend |
| 13807s | you know is it worth doing champ session |
| 13810s | plus the uh crispy Skipper we sometimes |
| 13813s | call it the sunfury there to get two |
| 13815s | procs on you know acolyte for card |
| 13824s | draws op just keep things as |
| 13829s | is and I think not playing the sanguin |
| 13832s | deps last turn for balance was an odd to |
| 13835s | picking up this trial by fire right so |
| 13838s | one situation where board space would |
| 13839s | would |
| 13840s | matter |
| 13842s | yes and one of the only ones I wonder um |
| 13847s | he's going to go there was pretty clean |
| 13848s | clear with just two bumps into the steam |
| 13850s | Guardian then acolyte Thor bori but it's |
| 13853s | just going to make use of actually this |
| 13857s | is actually what a |
| 13859s | full full |
| 13862s | full clear crucially only one attack |
| 13866s | used on the aqualite right so don't end |
| 13868s | up drawing the opponent too many cards |
| 13870s | going to leave up the egg for |
| 13873s | now |
| 13875s | yep pretty clean turn ends with the two |
| 13878s | four fours that are full health uh after |
| 13880s | the location hit so nicely done |
| 13884s | and for en rage Warrior it's always |
| 13886s | tough to kind of start from scratch um |
| 13889s | obviously theor Bor is going to do some |
| 13892s | work in trying to fight back this board |
| 13894s | but when you fall behind on board within |
| 13896s | rage War it can be kind of difficult to |
| 13898s | get back unless you've done |
| 13900s | significant amount of damage to your |
| 13901s | opponent and can try and go for uh those |
| 13906s | otks |
| 13908s | um have a little bit in the |
| 13910s | makings of it with the crazy wrch and |
| 13914s | the copy with jam session but still not |
| 13918s | nearly enough and quite has to just |
| 13922s | think if it's worth trial by fire for |
| 13924s | four right now because there's no board |
| 13926s | space we just roaring Applause and then |
| 13927s | see what happens |
| 13931s | yeah I mean this is certainly the |
| 13933s | matchup where you would wish to have |
| 13935s | something like a gromos of course grash |
| 13938s | plus location plus the battle warn |
| 13940s | faceless is a way that you can get a |
| 13943s | massive amount of Gobo damage I think it |
| 13946s | goes up |
| 13947s | to like what is it |
| 13950s | 204 damage |
| 13954s | or grash plus location is 12 and then |
| 13959s | you you copy it so yeah |
| 13960s | 24 and that can be one way you take the |
| 13963s | priest by |
| 13968s | surprise going to have to do it the |
| 13970s | oldfashioned way |
| 13971s | here yeah actually Grom plus en rage is |
| 13974s | the old fashioned way but going to have |
| 13977s | to do it have old old fashioned way yeah |
| 13979s | going to have to do with the new |
| 13981s | fashioned way with a bunch of cards in a |
| 13983s | single turn and then |
| 13986s | killing and these trial by fires for Co |
| 13990s | are actually kind of awkward because of |
| 13992s | this this egg you know I'm wondering |
| 13996s | like how long he's going to be sitting |
| 13999s | on this reduced jam session together |
| 14002s | with the craze WR and things because one |
| 14004s | of the options on the previous turn |
| 14006s | would have been to buff the egg uh |
| 14011s | awaken Thor balour and you know jam |
| 14014s | session on that |
| 14018s | board |
| 14030s | seems like the goal is to go for just a |
| 14034s | massive hand buff turn I think Co is |
| 14037s | going to try and curate the hand so that |
| 14039s | all the Buffs land on that craze |
| 14043s | wretch yep also has um the bonus of |
| 14048s | being able to clean this board up as |
| 14050s | well CU you |
| 14052s | can |
| 14054s | alternate |
| 14055s | attacks with the thory Bel |
| 14058s | Lord as you play these fire spells just |
| 14061s | what resources want to get rid of |
| 14063s | strengthes the |
| 14065s | ashes |
| 14067s | moral Soul full of |
| 14071s | sin now this is uh a little bit |
| 14074s | surprising to me uh battle war faceless |
| 14076s | very powerful card in in Rage Warrior |
| 14079s | but it does have the awkward sort of |
| 14083s | anti- synergy |
| 14085s | with um animal extractor where any Buffs |
| 14089s | that it eats are kind of wasted if you |
| 14092s | end up using it for the copy effect |
| 14094s | because it it transforms so |
| 14099s | uh yeah usually I like to copy the |
| 14103s | extractor itself so you can kind of |
| 14104s | minimize that happening but you are you |
| 14108s | know sometimes star for Mana in terms of |
| 14110s | being able to do |
| 14117s | that still a lot of resources generated |
| 14119s | a lot of Buffs being placed got two on |
| 14122s | the craze wretch is decent I saw uh at |
| 14126s | least one go on to the disat ogre as |
| 14128s | well so yep there's some damage being |
| 14131s | racked up |
| 14136s | here and this uh one Mana weapon for |
| 14139s | balance you know typically you're |
| 14141s | looking for on a one Mana weapon you |
| 14143s | know say the the death rattle deal one |
| 14145s | to everything and poisonous but uh it's |
| 14149s | still just an efficient weapon here uh |
| 14151s | with life steal and gain two |
| 14158s | Arbor it's like the only way to clear |
| 14160s | the board but it ging over somebody yeah |
| 14164s | attack first okay there we go I was |
| 14166s | about to say if he's going to do it how |
| 14167s | I think he's going to do it then is |
| 14170s | going to be a lot of Buffs thrown |
| 14174s | over this will clear and |
| 14177s | then follow up with the sanguin depths |
| 14180s | not sure if it may be meant to do the |
| 14184s | armor vendor |
| 14185s | but the the important plays got |
| 14189s | through there is another extractor now |
| 14193s | so even though the battle war faceless |
| 14195s | ate some of those Buffs earlier on uh Co |
| 14198s | might be able to just |
| 14200s | go again and and this time copy the |
| 14203s | Animo |
| 14216s | extractor there's always the the risk |
| 14218s | though of dirty rat but as the enrage |
| 14221s | Warrior I kind of feel like you don't |
| 14223s | really have another plan like you sort |
| 14227s | of have to go for this all in |
| 14230s | uh hand buff strategy |
| 14232s | and yeah I just hope you you can dodge |
| 14234s | the rats because it's very very unlikely |
| 14238s | that you end up actually sticking a |
| 14255s | board and terms of okay balance just |
| 14259s | looking to clear and draw cards that's |
| 14262s | kind of the constant uh name of the game |
| 14264s | for the |
| 14265s | priest |
| 14267s | yeah has a lot of |
| 14269s | ways to do that with the cler plus |
| 14273s | handmaiden as |
| 14275s | well uh parkour synchronize |
| 14279s | H not really anything currently to use |
| 14282s | that on I guess in a pinch you could use |
| 14284s | it on like armor |
| 14285s | vender |
| 14288s | um the Behemoth The probably not great |
| 14292s | can't be used this |
| 14295s | turn but it's likely going to be wide |
| 14297s | unless you're staring at a single Minion |
| 14299s | which Co doesn't really have too much in |
| 14301s | the way of the single minions caniz is |
| 14303s | fantastic here just be able to stop |
| 14306s | these buff from coming on it is it |
| 14308s | fantastic I mean that's not really how |
| 14310s | you want to use that card there's not |
| 14312s | really anything else you're going to use |
| 14314s | it for in this match up though there not |
| 14315s | like big stuff and well I think often |
| 14318s | times you know your ideal use case is up |
| 14321s | against something like uh you know you |
| 14324s | play your dirty rat you hit their big |
| 14326s | minion they've been buffing all game in |
| 14328s | hand and then and then you can |
| 14330s | cannibalize |
| 14331s | that yeah but no dirty rat in hand I |
| 14336s | mean I guess a lot of card draws |
| 14338s | still just trying to find ways to spend |
| 14341s | the |
| 14345s | Mana and with this many |
| 14347s | cards |
| 14350s | I don't know in this situation I feel |
| 14352s | like it was |
| 14353s | decent I I mean I think had to do it I |
| 14356s | think you're just not necessarily happy |
| 14358s | about it right |
| 14366s | yeah in terms of CO's plays here I mean |
| 14370s | these Embers are a lot less useful when |
| 14373s | you're not doing the sort of you know |
| 14374s | sunfury Embers anima |
| 14377s | extractor |
| 14380s | combo uh so I'm little surprised that we |
| 14384s | did not see that coming down a little |
| 14387s | bit earlier but you know the the flip |
| 14391s | side of saving this battle warn faceless |
| 14394s | like this is and I'm sure Co is thinking |
| 14396s | about it in this way you get to save it |
| 14399s | for the craze wretch so you know he's |
| 14401s | been sitting on this craze dret and jam |
| 14403s | session for quite a while now and I'm |
| 14405s | sure has it in his mind |
| 14407s | to you know use the location in play |
| 14411s | plus the sangin depths in hand plus jam |
| 14413s | session on The Craze wretch and then |
| 14416s | copy it with the faceless and and so |
| 14418s | that is kind of the amount of burst |
| 14420s | damage that that Co has been working |
| 14423s | towards is it a 47 right now he hasn't |
| 14426s | moused over in a |
| 14428s | while yeah uh |
| 14432s | unfortunately and there goes the |
| 14435s | faceless and there goes the other one |
| 14437s | out of the deck that is one of the the |
| 14440s | you know really tough things about if |
| 14443s | you you let things get to the point of |
| 14444s | dirty rat whirl poool is you not only |
| 14446s | lose copy in play that you lose copy in |
| 14448s | your deck and I think Co was looking to |
| 14450s | pull the trigger on the next |
| 14456s | turn 36 and it would have been a lethal |
| 14458s | setup as well unless balance had been |
| 14461s | able to gain a lot of |
| 14465s | Life what 24 something like that but now |
| 14470s | back to square one only four cards left |
| 14472s | in the deck I don't just don't know if |
| 14473s | it's going to be enough damage to get |
| 14474s | there it's got to kind of go wide and |
| 14477s | then hope yeah I mean you need something |
| 14479s | to |
| 14482s | stick you know no silence on the thory |
| 14486s | has meant a considerable amount of value |
| 14489s | out of its you know recursions just |
| 14492s | making it all the more Awkward for for |
| 14495s | balance to keep getting |
| 14497s | clears yeah and |
| 14500s | here's the weapon finally is I think |
| 14503s | that might be both weapons in the bottom |
| 14505s | three cards which is in the |
| 14507s | B yeah for a second I I was I had to |
| 14511s | double check that they were there I was |
| 14513s | like wait a second this doesn't seem |
| 14516s | uh this doesn't seem particularly good |
| 14520s | but yeah they are there they're just at |
| 14521s | the bottom there have been some players |
| 14525s | that have actually been cutting Ena |
| 14527s | extractor or or going down to one copy |
| 14529s | in their latter list uh this was during |
| 14532s | the Druid meta but uh just |
| 14534s | because they saw battle war faceless as |
| 14537s | kind of the the better card and since |
| 14540s | there is that bit of anti- synergy there |
| 14543s | they were you know looking at ways of |
| 14545s | just going lower to the ground and not |
| 14547s | worrying about hand buffing so much as |
| 14548s | just taking advantage of the weapon but |
| 14550s | I don't think there's any lists that |
| 14552s | have cut in bux it is just way too good |
| 14555s | of a snowball |
| 14557s | card quick |
| 14560s | good snowball card can also be a good |
| 14562s | setup card at times if you just need to |
| 14565s | be proactive just making a bunch of |
| 14566s | stats on the board getting them out of |
| 14568s | range certain |
| 14573s | a this |
| 14575s | is just very awkward here for balance |
| 14579s | you know this only clears the thory and |
| 14584s | you know you like to have saved it for |
| 14585s | the following turn out of I don't think |
| 14588s | this is |
| 14592s | enough it's it's not infused but it's 10 |
| 14595s | 13 14 15 + 4 |
| 14600s | 19 yeah 2021 jam session is 24 both Jam |
| 14605s | sessions oh both Jam sessions yes this |
| 14607s | is the last card and also c r |
| 14610s | too uh just |
| 14613s | to add to it so balance just not able to |
| 14617s | find something |
| 14620s | to get that last push uh taken care of |
| 14623s | from CO's side that was a little bit |
| 14626s | awkward not what I expected to be quite |
| 14629s | Frank again this is usually quite |
| 14631s | favored for the priest I think it really |
| 14633s | comes down to the fact that balance |
| 14634s | never saw any Shard of the Naru which |
| 14637s | are a huge card in the matchup you know |
| 14639s | very good against all all the Buffs |
| 14641s | against story bour which Co was able to |
| 14644s | get massive value out of so I think if |
| 14646s | you're Co you're very happy with that |
| 14648s | game one result not just because of the |
| 14650s | win but because a win into an |
| 14652s | unfavorable yeah that's |
| 14654s | uh a huge win maybe a loss for us |
| 14658s | because the priest is still on the |
| 14660s | table I was thinking that it means |
| 14663s | higher odds that we see that priest |
| 14665s | mirror yeah I was like I I'm I was about |
| 14669s | to breathe the S relief I was like okay |
| 14671s | got the faces is out of the deck decent |
| 14674s | life total one last push to take care of |
| 14677s | and balance just couldn't take care of |
| 14679s | it and I feel like that's a weakness |
| 14681s | we've seen from priests quite often |
| 14684s | because they're sometimes they get forc |
| 14686s | to these positions where they're have to |
| 14687s | be so |
| 14688s | reactive um and but they just run out of |
| 14692s | tools against uh these types these |
| 14694s | styles of decks which just keep |
| 14697s | refilling that's the one benefit I guess |
| 14700s | if you want to call it that for Co of |
| 14702s | having like jam session and bux at the |
| 14704s | bottom right was that a the AC early on |
| 14709s | both light of the phoenixes came like at |
| 14711s | the perfect time uh to be able to |
| 14713s | continuously have a full hand size |
| 14716s | throughout the entire portion of that |
| 14717s | mid game and that allow him to have like |
| 14720s | sort of waves to push as you mentioned |
| 14721s | the sh of the Naru just not being there |
| 14723s | um balance may have just run away with |
| 14726s | the game that Thor balora had been just |
| 14728s | taken care of uh earlier on because he |
| 14731s | used that to trade in to so many minions |
| 14733s | and then to deal a good amount of face |
| 14735s | damage at the end as well yeah I I think |
| 14739s | you know one of the problems priest can |
| 14741s | have is actually just too many cards in |
| 14743s | a hand balance couldn't make enough hand |
| 14745s | space to actually play that handmaid |
| 14747s | into to draw three to find the cards |
| 14749s | that he actually needed right you play |
| 14751s | something like identity theft get two |
| 14752s | cards from your opponent I mean the |
| 14755s | trial by a fire was a pretty good pickup |
| 14757s | but besides that I mean it's just you're |
| 14760s | replacing cards in your hand with other |
| 14762s | cards that you don't necessarily want |
| 14764s | and then never having the hand space to |
| 14766s | play handmaiden for the the draw three |
| 14768s | that might have found a board clear that |
| 14770s | much |
| 14771s | earlier I see you've |
| 14774s | broughtest |
| 14776s | light and the |
| 14778s | impure all right getting some Mage |
| 14781s | versus |
| 14782s | priest going on here we just need one of |
| 14787s | these priests to win before they face |
| 14789s | each other |
| 14791s | that's it's going to be the last deck |
| 14793s | for both |
| 14794s | players that's the that's the |
| 14797s | trajectory uh we're heading down so |
| 14800s | we'll see balance fighting Tempo with |
| 14801s | Tempo here just temping out the |
| 14805s | artificer certainly Mage has been you |
| 14808s | know one of the better uh performers |
| 14812s | it's pretty likely it seems that people |
| 14815s | end up getting you know wins with Mage I |
| 14818s | suppose it's kind of middle of the pack |
| 14820s | Rogue has |
| 14821s | been the best but uh yeah it's it's an |
| 14826s | awkward matchup for the |
| 14829s | priest where you have to kind of dirty |
| 14833s | rat Sif but then also there's a lot of |
| 14836s | boards you still have to |
| 14838s | clear |
| 14843s | mhm sort of need to get copies on the |
| 14846s | dirty rat tube |
| 14848s | to be able to hit the Minions that you |
| 14851s | need at |
| 14853s | times snap |
| 14857s | Ignus |
| 14861s | there's potential for four ignis this |
| 14865s | game yep and that's the beauty |
| 14870s | of getting it from the protocol is that |
| 14873s | it that's your Forge also taken care of |
| 14876s | for the ignes yeah absolutely don't even |
| 14879s | have to worry about it so now um that's |
| 14882s | a a Big Boon for Co just gives you |
| 14886s | proactive stuff in especially It just |
| 14888s | fits the curve perfectly yeah I think Co |
| 14891s | is just happy to have seen you know the |
| 14893s | volume up happen before the cold case so |
| 14896s | that does give time uh for feel a little |
| 14900s | safer playing the ignis on four you'd |
| 14903s | probably do it either way but just not |
| 14905s | quite taking that chip damage just yet |
| 14907s | feels pretty |
| 14915s | nice and I think you go for a five here |
| 14919s | yeah just play on |
| 14922s | curve yep took the five when Fury summon |
| 14927s | perhaps it's good Tempo |
| 14931s | option there was armor too but I don't |
| 14933s | think you're really needed at this |
| 14936s | point well the armor is less useful if |
| 14939s | it's just getting chipped down by things |
| 14942s | like volatile skeletons anyway right |
| 14945s | like you do have healing in the deck |
| 14950s | yeah so yeah wind Fury summon makes a |
| 14952s | whole lot of sense to me take out the |
| 14954s | skeleton and then the |
| 14962s | artificer o that's a good |
| 14967s | one very good |
| 14972s | one oh but so is love everlasting for |
| 14976s | balance they were just just talking |
| 14978s | about it |
| 14982s | too I don't know that there's a game you |
| 14984s | ever don't want love everlasting as I |
| 14986s | know |
| 14988s | yeah yeah |
| 14991s | it's absolutely |
| 14995s | broken I mean there's no for some pretty |
| 14998s | insane sift combos too insane sift |
| 15001s | combos it just Smooths everything along |
| 15003s | like there's pretty much no turn in |
| 15005s | which you're not playing a spell anyway |
| 15007s | so it's just free like you never end up |
| 15010s | like the priest sometimes does where you |
| 15012s | feel like you have to play a spell or |
| 15014s | else you're going to lose your love |
| 15015s | everlasting in Mage it's |
| 15018s | just it just happens you're just playing |
| 15021s | spells anyway |
| 15023s | yeah the only time where you may have to |
| 15026s | think about it is like it's turn six and |
| 15028s | you got norgan on and it's a really good |
| 15034s | play wither is the pick here for the the |
| 15038s | second discovery of magic and uh |
| 15043s | honestly even without the undead Synergy |
| 15046s | with the volatile skeletons I think it'd |
| 15048s | be a solid pick just as a one Mana |
| 15049s | nature |
| 15050s | spell |
| 15054s | yep us |
| 15056s | all that's not a good |
| 15059s | one those two are less good yeah |
| 15063s | certainly if you if you take the stats |
| 15066s | from both of them it's pretty |
| 15070s | average the 38 and the 1 one |
| 15074s | but alone it's not |
| 15077s | great still another ignis exactly oh |
| 15083s | wow okay going for the |
| 15086s | melanic that's pretty cool |
| 15091s | actually I'm a little surprised to see |
| 15094s | it play Turn well it gets rid of the |
| 15097s | love ever foric potentially right most |
| 15101s | most most of the time it doesn't I guess |
| 15103s | but in this instance it it might just I |
| 15108s | mean it kind of forces the elemental |
| 15110s | inspiration |
| 15112s | right |
| 15114s | yeah I think that might be worth it even |
| 15117s | though noran just fits the curb so |
| 15121s | well oh it's yeah you're right it's four |
| 15124s | already because there was even a holy |
| 15125s | spell |
| 15126s | played |
| 15131s | but you're you're facing up against a |
| 15133s | board yeah but the norgon isn't doing |
| 15136s | much either right what what do you do |
| 15137s | just kill the |
| 15141s | 43 yeah that's true and you lose your |
| 15143s | love |
| 15149s | everlasting not having an inquisitive |
| 15151s | creation to sort of answer back on this |
| 15154s | is definitely a tough spot for balance |
| 15162s | but a lot of times priests has |
| 15165s | symmetrical board clears so even though |
| 15169s | he may not have wanted to it was kind of |
| 15170s | forced into this Elemental inspiration |
| 15173s | it does present a bunch of stuff that Co |
| 15175s | has to address |
| 15182s | now going for a 10 no these are ones so |
| 15186s | that was probably a poisonous and then a |
| 15187s | deal |
| 15189s | too |
| 15195s | yep and I'd be a little surprised yeah |
| 15198s | if we didn't see this other synchronize |
| 15200s | coming down on the ignis uh cuz we are |
| 15202s | nearing that 10 point and a lot of the |
| 15204s | tens are very very good for what the |
| 15206s | priest wants to do here oh |
| 15216s | yeah |
| 15226s | no card draw no inquisitive creation |
| 15229s | this is just a a really weird spot for |
| 15234s | balance to be in right |
| 15235s | now yeah can make use of the uh wither |
| 15239s | to get that out of the way |
| 15243s | yep that only steals two though after |
| 15246s | you summon the skeletons |
| 15251s | yeah but it's still something |
| 15255s | yeah and it's another spell in the pool |
| 15259s | imulation |
| 15262s | Aura I don't believe we've done fell yet |
| 15266s | it actually might not even be bad to |
| 15268s | kill your own skeletons off right away |
| 15271s | if you or you could wither and then |
| 15273s | imulation right right and that's like |
| 15276s | okay lighting reflexes |
| 15279s | also |
| 15284s | fine doesn't add to the current number |
| 15287s | of spell schools though and uh not |
| 15289s | getting a terribly big clear here |
| 15295s | so perfect amanul onto the skeletons |
| 15301s | there |
| 15306s | potential all right let's see what the |
| 15308s | pick |
| 15309s | is |
| 15311s | World evil dragon |
| 15320s | Bane there's no fire spells in |
| 15323s | Priest |
| 15330s | so yeah Dragon band is really the only |
| 15333s | one that makes any sense whatsoever so |
| 15336s | it's not terrible |
| 15338s | it could be a little bit of damage like |
| 15339s | a last push of damage too yeah |
| 15341s | absolutely if need |
| 15343s | be try and put a little bit of pressure |
| 15347s | on and this is the power of love |
| 15350s | everlasting coage was not able to heal |
| 15353s | and so you know that forg molten Rune is |
| 15356s | just enough doubling the spell damage |
| 15359s | and uh yeah three instances |
| 15363s | that's 27 damage it's not even so |
| 15367s | something I was looking for because |
| 15369s | eight Mana is not really the turn you |
| 15371s | expect to SI but yeah like you said the |
| 15374s | love everlasting uh just able to let you |
| 15376s | do things |
| 15378s | that uh feel a little bit unfair at |
| 15381s | times and I that was like a decent game |
| 15385s | from coage too like there was a good |
| 15387s | amount of pressure good amount of tempo |
| 15391s | I mean lost a game with dirty rat in |
| 15393s | hand and ways to like answer C it had if |
| 15397s | it had come out with like a board in |
| 15400s | play uh that's the only sort of thing |
| 15403s | that you could point out that maybe |
| 15404s | could have been done differently is just |
| 15405s | ripping the dirty |
| 15407s | rat |
| 15408s | um but it's hard to expect that damage |
| 15412s | to come out I mean maybe the turn that |
| 15414s | the molten Rune was forged that could |
| 15416s | give you maybe a slight |
| 15418s | indication uh which was the previous |
| 15420s | turn as you set up for it um but that |
| 15423s | was it like that was the only like thing |
| 15425s | that said yeah you're he's going to kill |
| 15427s | me this turn so yeah it was maybe a |
| 15430s | slightly unusual spot for someone to to |
| 15432s | forge a molten Rune that maybe that |
| 15434s | could give you an indication uh perhaps |
| 15436s | I should dirty rat but I I think you |
| 15439s | know it maybe got carried away with |
| 15441s | playing the pressure game and was like |
| 15443s | well but I'm I'm keeping them on the |
| 15445s | back foot I'm not dead right and and as |
| 15448s | you say you're just not used to on that |
| 15451s | turn being dead to the sift from you |
| 15454s | know a fairly healthy life total at 25 |
| 15457s | but love everlasting just makes those |
| 15460s | plays |
| 15461s | happen it certainly |
| 15464s | does and now we get one step closer to a |
| 15467s | game five priest miror it's feels like |
| 15470s | at this point it's just |
| 15473s | inevitability um cuz both players just |
| 15476s | can't seem to get a win on the deck I |
| 15479s | prob be PR versus Rogue right now should |
| 15481s | it come to that there is one small |
| 15483s | Comfort which is that from what I see |
| 15486s | here Co does have sister swna in an |
| 15491s | Etc and ah I believe balance does not |
| 15496s | yeah there is no sister no Etc even or |
| 15500s | balance balance took more of a strictly |
| 15502s | like |
| 15504s | anti a sort of tech strategy without |
| 15507s | really thinking about the mirror cuz |
| 15510s | saalna is not super relevant most of the |
| 15513s | time I would say |
| 15515s | facing current metad decks besides |
| 15519s | another priest so I think I can I can |
| 15521s | respect hanging it out but of course |
| 15522s | then runs into the the one player where |
| 15524s | maybe it would matter if they end up in |
| 15526s | that |
| 15528s | mirror not something to be expected it's |
| 15531s | great for the value these uh priest |
| 15534s | mirors don't tend to really go to |
| 15536s | fatigue |
| 15538s | anymore um so like previously we used to |
| 15541s | see this game where both players would |
| 15543s | play towards fatigue and just try and |
| 15546s | pick as many drowns as |
| 15548s | possible um to make sure that they were |
| 15550s | winning in that race but I feel like you |
| 15552s | have access to enough big threats and |
| 15554s | and multiple Ines to where you know one |
| 15557s | player can can pull ahead a lot of the |
| 15560s | time uh in sort of those those board |
| 15563s | battles enough to put it on pressure to |
| 15565s | win |
| 15566s | so I mean the other unspeakable sort of |
| 15570s | outcome in those matchups was players |
| 15572s | using Finley to intentionally shuffle |
| 15574s | cards into their deck to do better in |
| 15578s | fatigue |
| 15581s | yep yeah it was uh brutal we didn't see |
| 15585s | that many though that was the the one |
| 15587s | Saving Grace for us they they were few |
| 15590s | and far between and you know every once |
| 15592s | in a while I can appreciate like those |
| 15593s | type of long stle games cuz you don't |
| 15595s | get to experience them much in like |
| 15596s | ranked play sure um because not many |
| 15599s | people are playing decks on ladder and |
| 15601s | then if you get into it they have to be |
| 15603s | like of equal skill level enough to get |
| 15605s | to that point in the game and then three |
| 15608s | you have to find someone willing to sit |
| 15609s | there and play it out cuz a lot of times |
| 15611s | one player will concede cuz they just |
| 15613s | want to save themselves some time when |
| 15615s | you're playing in rank so it really |
| 15617s | tests like that Hearthstone uh game |
| 15620s | knowledge right that the sort of |
| 15623s | instincts uh that you need um so we're |
| 15627s | not going to get it though it's going to |
| 15629s | be Rogue versus priest now again one |
| 15631s | step closer to the the mirror to end all |
| 15636s | mirrors see if that ends up being the |
| 15638s | case I feel like when these kinds of |
| 15642s | lineup uh matchups happen it puts me in |
| 15646s | this very awkward position of I never |
| 15647s | want to root for priest except that |
| 15650s | rooting for priest is what prevents me |
| 15652s | from having to deal with both players |
| 15654s | eventually being |
| 15656s | priest |
| 15663s | [Music] |
| 15665s | yep |
| 15668s | and uh balance his hand looking pretty |
| 15672s | good here I know if I'm on Rogue I |
| 15675s | definitely always like to start with |
| 15679s | potion |
| 15680s | belt I think that's a fine result |
| 15684s | right yeah I guess it's a bold choice |
| 15688s | but but a fine result yeah just a free 2 |
| 15691s | six no information I want to taunt into |
| 15694s | this 32 and I hope you don't have kboa |
| 15696s | right |
| 15699s | yep nicely |
| 15701s | navigated think good potion zacho is |
| 15705s | maybe yelling at the |
| 15707s | screen oh there's the |
| 15713s | graat would have had the cannibalize in |
| 15716s | two turns to be able to deal with it I |
| 15719s | suppose I know leaving a full crao up |
| 15721s | potentially for two turns would be |
| 15723s | pretty rough yeah kind of devastating |
| 15729s | [Music] |
| 15738s | oh yeah this is a hearstone hand right |
| 15742s | here location pass location pass I guess |
| 15747s | actually this is a great mixtape right |
| 15749s | because you're guaranteed to hit the |
| 15751s | cathedral really like that |
| 15755s | play |
| 15760s | Cathedral being used as intended for |
| 15762s | face |
| 15764s | [Music] |
| 15777s | damage sticky situation helping to kind |
| 15779s | of keep some semblance of pressure here |
| 15784s | you know the awkward thing for a rogue |
| 15785s | going against something like PR is bone |
| 15788s | Spike becomes a very challenging card to |
| 15793s | use |
| 15795s | yeah but I feel like it hasn't been too |
| 15799s | detrimental it's made |
| 15802s | things a little bit take a little bit |
| 15805s | longer like getting this private eye out |
| 15807s | but it wasn't even there yet |
| 15809s | so overall not the biggest of deals and |
| 15812s | can kind of just have his way with this |
| 15814s | early game get some tempo Co just has to |
| 15817s | decide |
| 15818s | now all right so now there's dirty rat |
| 15821s | and there's a cannibalize in hand right |
| 15824s | you can do the same turn |
| 15826s | yeah but not going to be the play uh cuz |
| 15830s | you're still not really answering the |
| 15831s | three fours that are on board and you |
| 15833s | just give them good trades into the |
| 15834s | dirty rat even if it did pull out |
| 15836s | something |
| 15837s | good so little surprised at the trade |
| 15840s | there which could potentially have |
| 15842s | triggered the uh double cross |
| 15851s | yeah kboa again another thing a lot |
| 15854s | worse when your opponent doesn't have a |
| 15855s | minion play you don't get to make that |
| 15857s | attack for |
| 15858s | four yeah play it on curve is quite good |
| 15862s | there we go we found our shadow step |
| 15865s | Target pack it |
| 15867s | up |
| 15868s | yeah see |
| 15871s | you you is it too greedy to n there's a |
| 15875s | cathedral I was going to say too greedy |
| 15876s | just hold it for a turn no just just go |
| 15878s | in three times right it also activates |
| 15881s | your queen ajara for next |
| 15883s | turn just get rid of the whole hand yeah |
| 15888s | end with a break |
| 15892s | dance cuz the ice barrier is going to be |
| 15894s | there next turn also yeah you're still |
| 15897s | going to have a |
| 15898s | secret yeah I mean the ice barrier was |
| 15900s | just there as something that was never |
| 15901s | going to get proed and also is a mage |
| 15903s | secret that has to be played |
| 15905s | around |
| 15912s | oh that's just |
| 15917s | rude better play that power cord |
| 15920s | synchronize cuz it's you're losing the |
| 15929s | hand where is their game plan this game |
| 15931s | is just emptying each other's hands okay |
| 15933s | oh synchronize on the queen of Shara I |
| 15936s | do like like this uh cuz Co is not |
| 15938s | working with much here so trying to get |
| 15941s | some additional value out of cards |
| 15942s | outside of just dirty ring everything |
| 15945s | but he's on three cards he knows it's |
| 15947s | not sticking |
| 15950s | around oh unless unless we're taking a |
| 15952s | break for |
| 15954s | kboa yeah definitely it's a solid kboa |
| 15957s | break going on right now I guess you can |
| 15960s | wait until a couple of spells have been |
| 15962s | played before you steal the queen aara |
| 15964s | because it's ly not active I |
| 15970s | think oh never |
| 15972s | mind just do all of the |
| 15976s | things at this point you take |
| 15978s | cannibalize Queen ofar doesn't matter if |
| 15980s | it doesn't activate yeah and still needs |
| 15982s | two more spells for it so even if |
| 15984s | there's a spell drawn off the top that's |
| 15986s | playable oh okay F this is |
| 15991s | just like the the peak of annoyance out |
| 15996s | of this rogue deck you know normally I |
| 15999s | think people would be most frustrated at |
| 16003s | what priest has to do I think secret |
| 16006s | Rogue brings to the table an element |
| 16008s | that players are finally like no no this |
| 16010s | is not |
| 16013s | okay this is a perfect game to Showcase |
| 16016s | it uh is alive at |
| 16020s | three oh no at 1 okay now at |
| 16025s | four um |
| 16027s | draw first and then you don't hit |
| 16029s | anything yeah you just land prison here |
| 16031s | I think mhm for sure yeah prison prison |
| 16033s | for sure absolutely y it's always lethal |
| 16036s | no no there we go oh no it |
| 16038s | actually yeah found the line there still |
| 16042s | I stick by my uh by my call there you |
| 16044s | definitely slam prison no one can tell |
| 16046s | us that prison wasn't lethal since it |
| 16049s | wasn't played yeah so multiple ways to |
| 16052s | lethal actually prison probably |
| 16054s | represents more of a lethal more damage |
| 16057s | the psychic damage it's it's the mental |
| 16060s | damage yeah but that's uh three games so |
| 16064s | far this series and uh three priest |
| 16066s | losses uh so far this series doing some |
| 16070s | serious damage to that win rate |
| 16073s | yep oh yeah that's where that's where we |
| 16077s | are right now just Sunday final day the |
| 16080s | master tour fall |
| 16081s | Championship hanging |
| 16083s | around watching priest lose that's uh |
| 16087s | exactly how I expected my Sunday to go |
| 16090s | but TJ Sunday is a fun day come |
| 16093s | on yeah it's fun for the player in each |
| 16097s | individual game that's not playing |
| 16099s | priest and then in game five when it's |
| 16100s | inevitably build priest then it's not |
| 16102s | fun for anybody |
| 16104s | so that's where we are right now I can |
| 16106s | imagine we're going to see priest versus |
| 16107s | Rogue in this next game |
| 16112s | um so we're getting there is like that |
| 16116s | yeah nice little lethal spot at the end |
| 16118s | if I had looked at that for like 45 more |
| 16120s | seconds I would have seen it if my brain |
| 16124s | had not already slammed the prison I |
| 16126s | mean realistically like Whirlpool could |
| 16129s | have come down there for Co and had it |
| 16132s | not been a lethal that turn and there |
| 16134s | still would have been very low odds of |
| 16136s | winning that game yeah not much you can |
| 16140s | really do maybe was could have been an |
| 16144s | ignis potentially I don't even know if |
| 16145s | there was the card for that game um it's |
| 16148s | blending together with the previous |
| 16149s | priest game but balances one game away |
| 16153s | with the priest they do they really do |
| 16155s | always blend together that is absolutely |
| 16163s | true all |
| 16165s | right is this the one is going to be |
| 16167s | playing the RO someone has to not play |
| 16169s | okay all right is the you can do it |
| 16171s | balance you've got |
| 16174s | this there's so much on the line rooting |
| 16178s | for no other reason than that no one |
| 16180s | wants to see priest |
| 16186s | Mir there's probably few out there who |
| 16191s | do it's all right they understand at |
| 16195s | least |
| 16198s | yeah |
| 16199s | Chu I see you've brought |
| 16205s | guest |
| 16216s | I don't know between the clergy and the |
| 16218s | armor vendor |
| 16220s | and |
| 16223s | yeah clergy has higher immediate upside |
| 16227s | and the armor vendor potentially has |
| 16230s | higher long-term |
| 16232s | upside obviously entirely dependent on |
| 16234s | the game state if you can copy it |
| 16237s | to get a little bit of Health to live an |
| 16239s | otherwise lethal situation then maybe |
| 16241s | but yeah I mean I think playing the |
| 16244s | clergy on one is where you you do the |
| 16247s | most in terms of threatening the |
| 16248s | opponent with you getting value and |
| 16251s | so uh you know had there |
| 16255s | been a magnetic like a poisonous |
| 16257s | magnetic there then you could expect it |
| 16259s | would have been played to kill the |
| 16260s | clergy |
| 16265s | yeah |
| 16266s | [Music] |
| 16271s | of course now is that card worth |
| 16285s | it very curious to hear the thought |
| 16287s | process here for balance like what he's |
| 16290s | debating |
| 16292s | between I mean I think it's between hero |
| 16294s | power or like coining the holy NOA |
| 16297s | cuz Hol NOA often doesn't get a ton of |
| 16300s | value in this match up it can but very |
| 16304s | frequently you know the the Rogue is |
| 16305s | just all about making a big minion and |
| 16307s | so uh doing two damage to the board |
| 16309s | isn't really doing a whole |
| 16311s | lot yeah I mean I could have also seen |
| 16315s | just like armor vendor like pass yeah |
| 16319s | just to have multiple attacks on the |
| 16320s | board to be able to clean up like this |
| 16322s | uh small mechs and also with like Shard |
| 16325s | the Naru in hand it allows you to clean |
| 16327s | up the mechs after they're silenced |
| 16330s | potentially um |
| 16333s | so but Tri the Naru is such a premium |
| 16335s | card it's hard to know like |
| 16340s | fully when to use it and I feel like |
| 16343s | that's a often times a big deal in this |
| 16345s | matchup a lot of times when you can |
| 16347s | clear the board simultaneously to be |
| 16349s | able to keep the X clear but now we have |
| 16351s | two so we can be a little bit more |
| 16353s | liberal with our usage yeah and and |
| 16355s | there getting the uh solid holy NOA that |
| 16359s | I wasn't sure if it would come or not uh |
| 16361s | Pop Quiz TJ I should have done this |
| 16362s | earlier when there were two Blues but |
| 16364s | what are the spark bots in |
| 16366s | hand this is terrible for someone who's |
| 16368s | color blind oh no I'm so |
| 16374s | sorry uh the I don't know there's a one |
| 16378s | of the blue ones and two of the green |
| 16380s | ones I don't know which blue it is |
| 16383s | they're so close green it is in color |
| 16385s | right so the earlier like kind of |
| 16387s | lighter blue one that got played of |
| 16388s | course was the reborn this is the wind |
| 16390s | Fury and then we've got poisonous and |
| 16393s | stealth I was going to I was actually |
| 16395s | going to go with reborn that was going |
| 16397s | to be my 5050 guess but I would have |
| 16399s | been incorrect now to be fair I'm not as |
| 16400s | colorblind as Brian |
| 16402s | Kibler |
| 16404s | um who's like three magnitudes has three |
| 16408s | magnitudes worse color blindness than I |
| 16410s | do o I mean this is the kind of deck |
| 16414s | that the Rogue is is right you can hedge |
| 16417s | a little bit you know putting one of |
| 16419s | them onto the enhanc attic but no matter |
| 16422s | what you can't really play around sh of |
| 16424s | the Naru and uh this has got to be one |
| 16426s | of the more polarized matchups there |
| 16430s | is so understand Co wanting to just kind |
| 16432s | of try and get it out of the way you |
| 16435s | know you hope that The Shard is not |
| 16437s | there but if it is there's not a whole |
| 16440s | lot you can |
| 16444s | do |
| 16447s | now this is going to be |
| 16451s | tough cuz now there's going to be |
| 16454s | multiple turns where Co is just trying |
| 16456s | to set up yeah trying to find like a |
| 16459s | spoter there's a couple things that he |
| 16461s | has to hope for he has to Hope or he can |
| 16462s | make a push before turn eight warpool |
| 16464s | comes online and also has to hope that |
| 16466s | the second sh of the Nar is not there |
| 16469s | yeah well turns out both of those things |
| 16470s | are not the case so uh going to be in a |
| 16474s | world of hurt we got Rush double wind |
| 16477s | Fury so uh you know reasonable there get |
| 16482s | to rush in the Divine Shield take out |
| 16484s | the 32 push in for eight but I mean |
| 16488s | there's just a wealth of of answers here |
| 16491s | in terms of sh of the Naru cannibalize I |
| 16494s | mean there's just so many tools that |
| 16497s | priest has access to that make the Rogue |
| 16500s | miserable it's sort of unless you can |
| 16502s | kind of catch them with their pants down |
| 16504s | in those first few turns uh it's it does |
| 16508s | not get better after turn |
| 16510s | [Music] |
| 16526s | five I |
| 16528s | wonder balance in a great position but |
| 16531s | just trying to figure out the most |
| 16532s | efficient way to spend Mana |
| 16534s | here |
| 16537s | I mean I think the love everlasting |
| 16539s | coming into the hand is is a little bit |
| 16541s | of the the question like you're always |
| 16543s | want to get that down as soon as you can |
| 16545s | but it means going for shard instead of |
| 16548s | cannibalize here |
| 16550s | and |
| 16552s | cannibalize while you know really good |
| 16555s | for dealing with a buffed minion does |
| 16558s | have the issue of if there is a stealth |
| 16561s | you're not able to Target it whereas you |
| 16563s | know Shard of thear of course gets |
| 16564s | around that problem |
| 16572s | yeah but getting the love everlasting |
| 16573s | online does open up World Pools as early |
| 16575s | as next |
| 16580s | turn I don't know about you but I have |
| 16582s | not been loving the speaker Stompers |
| 16585s | this weekend at least in the |
| 16592s | Rogue |
| 16593s | yeah it feels like either a dead card or |
| 16596s | a win more card in a lot of |
| 16599s | situations um but maybe we're just |
| 16602s | seeing too small of a sample |
| 16608s | size get a good read on it I don't know |
| 16611s | it doesn't even look like it's doing |
| 16612s | anything this turn because it's balanced |
| 16614s | out by the love |
| 16617s | everlasting |
| 16619s | yeah at least not for the first |
| 16623s | spell all right |
| 16626s | that's a good one okay |
| 16629s | yep we're we're a turn away from |
| 16632s | Whirlpool though U mimran could have |
| 16635s | could have been used |
| 16643s | earlier now Co I think is is in kind of |
| 16647s | Allin mode right he seen two shards he |
| 16651s | seen uh I believe one |
| 16654s | cannibalize uh |
| 16657s | yes but of course the whirlpool |
| 16659s | shatterer of Dreams here reduced by the |
| 16662s | love |
| 16664s | everlasting I mean I think you had to |
| 16666s | play the mimran there right you just you |
| 16668s | got to |
| 16668s | go |
| 16673s | yeah but with second WHL poool loaded up |
| 16676s | I mean balance at this point could just |
| 16678s | like run Co out of cards like |
| 16681s | that's not even just win the game but |
| 16683s | just completely neutralize every card |
| 16686s | that Co has I mean all that |
| 16690s | said there is a a risk of the Prime |
| 16696s | coming down at some point in |
| 16698s | here and balance has not been able to to |
| 16701s | hero power gain life for for many turns |
| 16705s | so it's getting you know a little bit |
| 16708s | danger |
| 16710s | territory this is |
| 16713s | true can F in a hero power |
| 16720s | here if Whirlpool would be the option |
| 16723s | which kind of has to be with the life |
| 16725s | total |
| 16730s | here |
| 16732s | yep so Co just got to be thinking all |
| 16735s | right |
| 16736s | that's that's got to be that's |
| 16738s | everything right that's got to be |
| 16740s | everything no more yeah frequency |
| 16742s | oscillator not not the turn nine pickup |
| 16744s | you want as the Rogue uh Rog yeah this |
| 16748s | 62 so far on on day two uh and has won |
| 16752s | five straight games but I think that |
| 16754s | streak is about to |
| 16761s | end there's so many good hits here yeah |
| 16765s | Am On th is one armor vendor is another |
| 16770s | honestly yeah just to be super |
| 16774s | safe |
| 16777s | right yeah you can just double armor |
| 16779s | vendor Shore up that that healing you're |
| 16782s | concerned about finally there's a minion |
| 16785s | that light it burns is actually able to |
| 16788s | clear weave in the hero power or just |
| 16792s | play the second in location yeah World |
| 16794s | Zer waser at this point if you're |
| 16797s | priest that's that should very well be |
| 16802s | it too much life gained Co on the back |
| 16804s | foot not many resources left whatsoever |
| 16808s | okay there's the prime but it's it's |
| 16810s | about to turn too late |
| 16813s | yeah if that was picked up last turn |
| 16815s | maybe a |
| 16817s | [Music] |
| 16827s | shot yeah I was going to say you kind of |
| 16829s | have to go for more value here |
| 16833s | yep okay spoter yeah spider's good but |
| 16837s | can't quite play it this |
| 16845s | turn and I think between the the two |
| 16848s | attacks and dissonant plus Holly NOA |
| 16851s | there is another clear there's even |
| 16853s | potential |
| 16855s | for you know power |
| 16857s | cord on the |
| 16862s | [Music] |
| 16864s | Voltron |
| 16866s | prep |
| 16867s | sure oh wait it was on the six damage |
| 16869s | side yeah yeah so I don't even need the |
| 16874s | Nova gets a squirrel to boot I think the |
| 16877s | only reason Co is still you know in this |
| 16879s | game is because it's not |
| 16881s | ladder |
| 16886s | yeah and now effectively has to wait for |
| 16889s | the spider like that that's it and even |
| 16892s | then it's just feels like it's not going |
| 16894s | to get there I mean balance doesn't |
| 16895s | really have much to do but even just |
| 16898s | these couple small minions will |
| 16900s | eventually uh be able to close it out Co |
| 16903s | rubbing the eyes knowing |
| 16906s | that this will soon come to an end oh |
| 16909s | that's I mean that's just salt in the |
| 16910s | wound seeing your |
| 16913s | opponent get an extra copy of Prince |
| 16915s | renial just for for |
| 16918s | pressure just for a 3 four like just a |
| 16921s | just a spider tank okay one one of the |
| 16924s | better remaining top deex but I mean |
| 16927s | when you're at this point where both |
| 16929s | gear shifts are gone so it's it's really |
| 16931s | just about your top card every turn uh |
| 16935s | there's there's really just no keeping |
| 16937s | up with uh all the value that that |
| 16940s | priest has available to it |
| 16944s | yeah add a minions though I mean that's |
| 16947s | the yep oh there's |
| 16954s | ignis this is uh dredge though so no |
| 16958s | reduction for picking the ignis but with |
| 16960s | the location in play you are able to get |
| 16963s | that ignis |
| 16967s | immediately I think just lock in any |
| 16970s | defensive options it'll probably be a |
| 16977s | five let's get out of the way right |
| 16980s | now is that 10 yeah 10 yeah all right |
| 16983s | sure yeah 10 NOA just just try it would |
| 16987s | have been perfectly fine yep are are we |
| 16989s | done here like come |
| 16993s | on yeah for for Co you got you got to |
| 16996s | feel you know wanting to to play it out |
| 16999s | have as much time uh on broadcast in the |
| 17002s | master tour as possible but it it's you |
| 17004s | know these are those kind of |
| 17005s | heartbreaking ends that why uh control |
| 17008s | priest tends to be the |
| 17012s | villain also could it just take once |
| 17014s | they get ahead it just takes them some |
| 17016s | time to win the game yes |
| 17019s | yeah like they give you small bits of |
| 17022s | Hope here and there but that's the end |
| 17024s | of the deck so is it just spider and oh |
| 17027s | my |
| 17033s | goodness this might actually have been a |
| 17035s | little bit scary two turns |
| 17041s | ago |
| 17043s | but yeah seeing the lethal damage on |
| 17046s | board Coit finally decides to pack it in |
| 17050s | um you know Valiant effort sticking |
| 17052s | through to the end just on the off |
| 17054s | chance that that you know maybe there |
| 17056s | was something but uh balance going to |
| 17059s | going to take the win there and you |
| 17061s | know CO's loss is our gain in that we |
| 17065s | have dodged the priest |
| 17068s | Mir we did yeah uh priest still took |
| 17071s | quite the beating uh in that series for |
| 17075s | sure um there was a priest in every game |
| 17077s | and it only won in the very last one so |
| 17081s | not sure if that bodess well for balance |
| 17085s | moving into the |
| 17086s | semi-finals uh later this afternoon |
| 17089s | later this evening whatever time zone |
| 17091s | you're |
| 17091s | in um but seems like playing the decks |
| 17095s | well and the other decks are are taking |
| 17097s | wins um and that's the kind of position |
| 17100s | that he needs to to put himself in um |
| 17102s | but the last priest remaining in the |
| 17104s | tournament now I believe with ream being |
| 17106s | eliminated now Co also being |
| 17108s | eliminated uh has to rep for the the |
| 17111s | priest players in this tournament which |
| 17114s | is you know a huge weight on balance's |
| 17117s | shoulders do we count WV among priest |
| 17121s | players in that number that was a a |
| 17124s | purple priest I don't know if that no |
| 17126s | absolutely that's a priest reim is a |
| 17129s | Bonafide priest enjoyer and don't ever |
| 17133s | let him forget it that's |
| 17136s | uh that's a |
| 17138s | fact and one that he'll never be able to |
| 17141s | escape I don't think he even really |
| 17143s | necessarily agreed with the priest |
| 17144s | choice but couldn't find anything better |
| 17146s | in the two days that these players had |
| 17149s | to prepare on the new patch which it |
| 17151s | always happens this way like the |
| 17153s | smallest patches I guess this one wasn't |
| 17155s | that small in the grand scheme of things |
| 17157s | but um basically one deck being brought |
| 17161s | down and Rogue being slightly brought |
| 17163s | down cuz they were |
| 17165s | also in a user of two of the carts that |
| 17168s | were uh taking a hit from Rogue still |
| 17171s | like on fire both |
| 17174s | variations uh on fire we actually had |
| 17176s | three variations technically in this |
| 17177s | tournament cuz I think there was one |
| 17178s | like old school Miracle Rogue player but |
| 17182s | the top eight yeah the one hold out um |
| 17185s | but both seet Rogue and Mech Rogue |
| 17188s | firing all cylinders like feels like |
| 17189s | they can't lose the game as you |
| 17190s | mentioned with the stat that you said |
| 17191s | earlier uh with the win rate um |
| 17194s | especially today's that's out six games |
| 17195s | in a row that we've seen from from Rogue |
| 17197s | uh that are |
| 17198s | W yeah it's now so it's now 72 on day |
| 17202s | two Rogue is and is now won six straight |
| 17205s | well no no cuz cuz Rogue finally broke |
| 17208s | the streak there Rogue finally lost so |
| 17210s | oh Rogue finally lost oh yeah it was on |
| 17212s | five straight wins and then lost to the |
| 17214s | you play you play one squirrel and all |
| 17216s | of a sudden I think you're a rogue one |
| 17219s | squirrel and all of a sudden I think |
| 17220s | you're a rogue yeah you're absolutely |
| 17221s | right got that backwards I was just so |
| 17223s | accustomed to priest losing I was like |
| 17224s | there's no way that priest would have |
| 17226s | lost there yeah and I think the the |
| 17229s | priest is is rubbing off on us a little |
| 17231s | bit from seeing it so much we've been' |
| 17233s | been going on quite long but we are |
| 17235s | going to go to a break and uh be back |
| 17237s | with the uh first semi-final match after |
| 17241s | this catch you |
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| 17523s | hello everyone and welcome back we've |
| 17525s | got semifinal number one coming up for |
| 17527s | you in just a few minutes but what a day |
| 17530s | it's been already subtle as we're about |
| 17532s | to get into Hemlock versus pocket |
| 17534s | train yeah with the the standard we've |
| 17537s | had so far it's amazing that things |
| 17539s | could even be considered to be going |
| 17540s | upwards but uh I think it is I think |
| 17543s | this is the match to be looking forward |
| 17545s | to I think these are the two players um |
| 17548s | out of this year's system overall um |
| 17551s | we'll really dig in deeper later as just |
| 17553s | to how impressive these two players are |
| 17555s | pocket train in particular just that |
| 17557s | little Cut Above I would add to that as |
| 17559s | well but we are now in top four stages |
| 17563s | semifinals of the last chance for direct |
| 17566s | qualification through to that world |
| 17568s | championship yeah of course and just in |
| 17571s | case you were you know just tuning in or |
| 17573s | haven't quite caught some of the |
| 17574s | discussion around it h this isn't the |
| 17576s | only way to qualify for the World |
| 17578s | Championship this is just the guaranteed |
| 17580s | way to do it um which is to finish first |
| 17583s | place of in this Master's tour but there |
| 17585s | are um Top Cut points going in as well |
| 17588s | so points gained basically throughout |
| 17589s | the year um to be able to qualify to |
| 17591s | fill up those last spots that are |
| 17593s | available for the world championship so |
| 17595s | still lot to play for for these players |
| 17597s | but of course the number one goal for |
| 17600s | them this year is to win a master's tour |
| 17602s | to just get that |
| 17604s | guaranteed yeah and you can see hemlocks |
| 17606s | route to attempting to do just that I |
| 17609s | think Hemlock to me number two player on |
| 17611s | the circuit this year overall um he has |
| 17614s | put in some fantastic performances as |
| 17617s | has Rogue as a class so far in this |
| 17620s | tournament really deciding to already |
| 17622s | showing to be the a big winner for the |
| 17624s | players who have brought it uh which is |
| 17626s | most of them to be fair but I think the |
| 17628s | debate may still rage um between the |
| 17632s | mech Rogue and the secret Rogue and how |
| 17634s | things break down you see hemlocks |
| 17636s | version of the deck here uh is still |
| 17639s | choosing to include uh prison breaker |
| 17641s | even after the Nerf which you know Fair |
| 17644s | enough and I think also a single copy of |
| 17645s | break dance in there as well a |
| 17648s | particularly interesting card to look |
| 17649s | out yeah I think the big difference for |
| 17652s | me with the Rogue so far has been um |
| 17655s | probably expected but when Mech Rogue |
| 17657s | wins it feels like it really wins but |
| 17659s | when it loses it feels like it really |
| 17662s | loses um whereas I feel like the secet |
| 17664s | Rogue um at least at surface level looks |
| 17668s | to always have a way to get back into |
| 17670s | the game H we'll see how it's been going |
| 17672s | for pocket train of course of course um |
| 17674s | what a journey pocket Train's been on |
| 17677s | over the last I guess couple of years at |
| 17679s | this point especially um and it's been |
| 17681s | going well for him so far wants to just |
| 17683s | sort of seal this uh World Championship |
| 17685s | spot up with today without having to |
| 17687s | worry about anything going on with |
| 17689s | points yeah I feel like uh the Journey |
| 17692s | of pocket train is a nice way of putting |
| 17694s | it I feel like pocket has like aged |
| 17696s | about seven years in the last 2 years |
| 17698s | just from the pure stress of playing |
| 17700s | high level Hearthstone um as well and as |
| 17703s | often as he has over that time we did |
| 17705s | just see him there on the shaman |
| 17707s | although we are looking at the Mage |
| 17709s | pocket train interestingly I think is |
| 17710s | one of the few players who's kind of not |
| 17712s | suffered the shaman curse so far this |
| 17714s | tournament his Shaman has his Shaman |
| 17716s | play has seemed pretty smooth he's kind |
| 17718s | of got it out of the series and the way |
| 17719s | he's needed to um but this rainbow Mage |
| 17723s | I think has been perhaps the success |
| 17724s | story of the tournament right uh |
| 17726s | although no one really would have found |
| 17729s | that to be unexpected right I think |
| 17731s | generally people coming into this |
| 17733s | tournament um if you put a little bit of |
| 17735s | thought into it you would I think we |
| 17737s | most people would get as far as Warrior |
| 17739s | Bann a lot Mage winning a lot I think a |
| 17741s | lot of people would have got over that |
| 17743s | yeah I'm with you I was just going to |
| 17744s | add exactly if you're expecting Warrior |
| 17747s | to be banned one way or the other |
| 17749s | whether it's OD him whether it's in Rage |
| 17751s | or whatever then you would just put Mage |
| 17753s | like yes okay there's a reason pretty |
| 17755s | much everyone brought it there's a |
| 17756s | reason pretty much every single player |
| 17758s | brought the same style of Mage and |
| 17761s | that's because it's just extremely |
| 17763s | strong and uh it gets the job done as |
| 17765s | proven time and time again through the |
| 17767s | matches we've seen but we can see both |
| 17769s | players getting ready they must feel so |
| 17772s | close but still so far away subtle right |
| 17775s | cuz like yes when you're in the finals |
| 17777s | you know it's that last match but semis |
| 17779s | you think I've got to win this one and |
| 17782s | then even if I do there's still one more |
| 17784s | so even though they've got so far to get |
| 17787s | to this exact point to make it to top |
| 17790s | four it still feels so far away yeah yes |
| 17794s | and it's a familiar story for both of |
| 17796s | these players I talked a lot already |
| 17798s | about how good their records are overall |
| 17800s | but just to break it all down so three |
| 17802s | major Masters Tour events so far this |
| 17804s | year right Hemlock was fifth through eth |
| 17807s | in Spring he was fifth through eth in |
| 17809s | summer and he's top four again now he's |
| 17812s | also fifth overall in the actual point |
| 17814s | standings that you get from the ladder |
| 17816s | finishes to get to this point which can |
| 17818s | then just get you through to the world |
| 17819s | championship in like a second chance |
| 17821s | Last Chance kind of thing if you don't |
| 17822s | win The Masters Tour right incredible |
| 17824s | record but then when I talk about pocket |
| 17826s | just being a cut above that pocket third |
| 17829s | fourth in Spring runner up in summer and |
| 17832s | now top four again and is tied for first |
| 17836s | overall in the number of points um |
| 17838s | gained through ladder finishes so both |
| 17840s | of these players have incredible records |
| 17842s | incredible levels of consistency and |
| 17845s | we've talked about this for years and |
| 17847s | years and years consistency is really |
| 17849s | the marker of great Hearthstone players |
| 17851s | and there really isn't anyone who's been |
| 17852s | more consistent than the these two |
| 17854s | players this year but when you talk |
| 17855s | about how okay now this is top four but |
| 17858s | we still have to push it that extra step |
| 17861s | to make this 10 months of work that |
| 17863s | we've put in actually worth it and to |
| 17866s | hold that world championship invitation |
| 17868s | in our hands as if it was a tangible |
| 17871s | object which it isn't but ignore that um |
| 17874s | this is another Harry Potter reference |
| 17875s | is there an owl going to deliver the |
| 17876s | world championship inite or something |
| 17879s | AIO World Championships no um but yeah |
| 17882s | they like both of these players have |
| 17884s | fallen at the last hurdle right is the |
| 17886s | point I'm making here they have both |
| 17888s | consistently got very very close but |
| 17891s | then just haven't quite made it over the |
| 17892s | line of the last step well let's dive |
| 17896s | straight in it's going to be Rogue on |
| 17897s | the top for hemlock and pocket train |
| 17900s | going to be sitting on that Mage and we |
| 17902s | have a bit of a wild game one |
| 17905s | subtle yes indeed double shifter zerus |
| 17910s | one of them already been gobbled up by |
| 17912s | Hemlock on the other side uh does find |
| 17916s | amusingly a second copy of private eye |
| 17918s | in the hand from the shifter Z that's |
| 17920s | fun yeah this is probably one of the |
| 17922s | more wild anomalies right you see like |
| 17924s | oh you know plus one Health every turn |
| 17927s | or both Heroes get plus one attack this |
| 17929s | is like oh both players just get two |
| 17932s | shifter zeros could be anything let's go |
| 17935s | what I will say like just in case anyone |
| 17936s | is watching this who is primarily a |
| 17938s | Battlegrounds player who has experienced |
| 17940s | the similar anomaly in Battlegrounds |
| 17942s | it's it's a little bit different in |
| 17944s | construed because in Battlegrounds your |
| 17946s | zerus will just transform into a six |
| 17947s | drop and then you have a six drop right |
| 17949s | like that that's that's just it you |
| 17951s | could have a six drop on turn three or |
| 17953s | whatever how you can't if you get like |
| 17955s | some massive game impacting crazy card |
| 17958s | it's probably going to cost a lot of |
| 17960s | Mana right so that doesn't end up having |
| 17962s | a huge impact in the early game honestly |
| 17965s | a lot of the time I play this anomaly |
| 17967s | it's just a frustration that I have two |
| 17969s | extra cards in my hand like you know |
| 17971s | just for hand space issues cuz generally |
| 17973s | play Decks that draw a lot of cards um |
| 17975s | but certainly things can have a big big |
| 17977s | impact if you hit the right say that's |
| 17979s | why I think like the way Hemlock has |
| 17982s | whether chosen to or not or just made |
| 17985s | that decision at the time but oh just |
| 17988s | play a card that you can play right it's |
| 17990s | not a negative get one out on one as a |
| 17992s | one three that you didn't have regard |
| 17994s | you know you wouldn't have had otherwise |
| 17996s | right so like yeah just play it get it |
| 17998s | out the hand and it's still beneficial |
| 18000s | not I think the goal of of utilizing |
| 18002s | these kind of on what you said is not to |
| 18005s | make like oh this this um zeros has won |
| 18008s | me the game but it's more oh this is |
| 18011s | just an extra card to plop down p a |
| 18013s | little bit more pressure on when |
| 18014s | otherwise I wouldn't have necessarily |
| 18016s | been able to so like hey just two extra |
| 18018s | little minions right like it's fine a |
| 18020s | little bit of synergy as well God tier |
| 18022s | Synergy your putride is a two4 Now |
| 18025s | Incredible scenes but if you look at |
| 18028s | both these players positions now |
| 18030s | hemlocks got the zerus out and is piling |
| 18033s | on the pressure is that Fierce outside |
| 18035s | of crimson sigil Runner it is right |
| 18037s | that's fun okay big |
| 18041s | fan pocket train is going to now defend |
| 18045s | get rid of the putride himself well it's |
| 18047s | it's a pretty intense Tempo swing right |
| 18049s | because you actually get the double |
| 18050s | value from the putri side as |
| 18053s | well which is really really nice |
| 18056s | obviously the putri side gets cleaned up |
| 18057s | very easily here with the two one Health |
| 18058s | Minions on board but you actually just |
| 18060s | get a full mix concoction out of that |
| 18062s | play from uh from pocket think was a |
| 18063s | really nice spot yeah both players just |
| 18066s | making the most out of what they've got |
| 18067s | right |
| 18074s | mhm pocket did get a hazy as well pocket |
| 18076s | is a uh is long renowned as a fan of of |
| 18079s | hazy |
| 18083s | concoctions going as far as to say on |
| 18086s | numerous occasions that it is always |
| 18092s | hazy going to get cleaned up nothing too |
| 18095s | crazy going on but does get that 43 on |
| 18097s | board which is going to be you know at |
| 18099s | least you maybe for hemlock trade trade |
| 18102s | fairly with the 3 |
| 18106s | three both players just using these |
| 18108s | early turns is s of shimmy for |
| 18118s | position I |
| 18122s | wonder |
| 18127s | okay might the leap ahead on board |
| 18130s | presence here for pocket train to use |
| 18132s | discovery of magic or history of magic |
| 18134s | or whatever else you want to try and |
| 18136s | call it to give him a few more options |
| 18138s | going forward in the next few turns not |
| 18139s | too bad at all especially with the |
| 18141s | inquisitive creation just sat there cuz |
| 18144s | to me that's it might sound a bit stupid |
| 18147s | but that's when it feels most powerful |
| 18149s | is when you've just got it sat waiting |
| 18151s | and ready to go right not when you've |
| 18153s | had to throw it out for an emergency |
| 18154s | clear but when it's just sat there and |
| 18156s | you know that yeah more or Le you know |
| 18159s | most boards I can just clear away kind |
| 18160s | of |
| 18164s | effortlessly it's not a particularly |
| 18167s | familiar Rogue hand on the other side |
| 18169s | from hemlock is it just a bunch of |
| 18171s | Minions that all cost quite a lot of |
| 18172s | Mana it's not really what you associate |
| 18175s | with playing |
| 18177s | Rogue would you like some cards with |
| 18179s | your |
| 18181s | cards yeah |
| 18184s | just a little awkward no real smooth |
| 18186s | options with you know you're not firing |
| 18188s | off zero Mana concoctions no crazy |
| 18190s | Shadow step synergies happening here |
| 18192s | it's just a handful of uh fairly |
| 18195s | mediocre mid-range |
| 18199s | minions yeah the prison break's probably |
| 18203s | not too far is probably too far away |
| 18206s | right even with the prep like prep |
| 18208s | concoction that's probably I don't think |
| 18210s | there's been that many spells has there |
| 18214s | uh no Hemlock spent a lot of mana on |
| 18216s | playing the uh the zerus minions so I |
| 18219s | wouldn't have thought so I think |
| 18221s | whatever this turn looks like hemlocks |
| 18223s | just thinking what gives me the best |
| 18225s | krabat TOA next turn that's what I would |
| 18228s | be looking at |
| 18231s | anyway Tess okay |
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| 18237s | sure again it's that kind of thing like |
| 18239s | Tess is a card that could be kind of |
| 18241s | crazy for rainbow mage great you spend a |
| 18243s | lot of time playing uh discovery of |
| 18245s | magic and Prismatic Elementals and |
| 18247s | getting cards from different classes but |
| 18249s | again it's a situation I was talking |
| 18250s | about before because it's constructed |
| 18252s | shift ASAS you do need the amount of |
| 18254s | Mana required to play the card you can't |
| 18256s | just jam it and play it |
| 18267s | right and already now pocket just |
| 18270s | getting himself in a fantastic position |
| 18272s | you know way ahead on board Hemlock not |
| 18274s | really been able to really challenge it |
| 18277s | while still having plenty of juice in |
| 18278s | the tank as well in the hand has no gun |
| 18280s | in available for next turn on curve has |
| 18284s | um said unstable Elemental or something |
| 18286s | I just made up the name of a card I |
| 18288s | think but Elemental inspiration is what |
| 18290s | I meant uh for the followup so the whole |
| 18292s | board pressure is there um it's just |
| 18294s | missing just maybe a little bit of burn |
| 18295s | options from |
| 18301s | hand |
| 18304s | I imagine this is krabat |
| 18306s | TOA I think what Myra is the closest to |
| 18309s | that actually being a card wasn't that |
| 18311s | the actual name of that card Myra's |
| 18313s | unstable element the the draw the rest |
| 18315s | of your Deck card where I've got it from |
| 18317s | yeah but everyone just called it Myas |
| 18319s | right might even be wrong on |
| 18326s | that oh got to go for prison breaker |
| 18329s | instead okay look at that nerfed card in |
| 18332s | full effect having to do so much extra |
| 18335s | work to deal with this board State and I |
| 18337s | think it's something the pocket had |
| 18338s | understood and was leveraging for |
| 18341s | basically every turn up until that point |
| 18343s | like yes the prison breaker was not uh |
| 18345s | active because of the amount of Mana |
| 18347s | that was spent on minions early from |
| 18348s | hemlock but pocket train just had no |
| 18350s | real fear of just playing three Mana |
| 18352s | spells and feral spirits and whatever |
| 18353s | else and just getting a whole board full |
| 18355s | of three Health minions not a thing that |
| 18357s | would have been game-winning pre- |
| 18359s | balance patch all right let's see the |
| 18362s | exposive Run come out now and going to |
| 18363s | go for shooting star number 500 today |
| 18366s | it's going to help clear up some of the |
| 18368s | boards leave the 4 one |
| 18375s | though not really the best is it the |
| 18378s | best offerings I've ever seen no Arcane |
| 18381s | Defenders obviously will end up as a |
| 18383s | seven Mana card but when it's fight |
| 18386s | fighting for attention with elemental |
| 18388s | inspiration it seems a little bit |
| 18390s | underwhelming did go for it okay |
| 18396s | yeah just not really good |
| 18398s | choices yeah I was wondering if just |
| 18400s | noing a card just as a backup plan maybe |
| 18404s | was ever worthwhile but yeah you know |
| 18407s | Echo your thoughts not the best choices |
| 18415s | overall really slow turn overall from |
| 18417s | pocket decent amount of value but it's |
| 18420s | going to mean Hemlock gets to just pile |
| 18422s | on some of this pressure right now and |
| 18424s | going to deal significant damage yeah it |
| 18427s | is significant damage good damage being |
| 18429s | pushed with the uh actual blingtron |
| 18431s | effect MC blingtron my second favorite |
| 18434s | MC in this tournament after MC banter |
| 18442s | phas you know that got me when I knew it |
| 18444s | was coming I still sort of half chuckled |
| 18446s | to myself |
| 18451s | mhm |
| 18462s | not going to be a little bit tricky I |
| 18463s | mean again crap TOA just seems good |
| 18467s | right to just push reasonable amounts of |
| 18469s | damage again will get hold of the board |
| 18471s | I think trying to get aelor down doesn't |
| 18474s | really scream proactive to |
| 18481s | me |
| 18484s | it goes back to your point about the uh |
| 18486s | the inquisitive creation just chilling |
| 18488s | in hand though right like if it wasn't |
| 18489s | there if that if that safety blanket |
| 18491s | wasn't there Hemlock pushed a lot of |
| 18494s | damage stuck a nice board and if you |
| 18496s | know Mage just kind of had to play into |
| 18497s | that and not clear it suddenly you'd be |
| 18499s | looking at you know a couple of uh |
| 18501s | damage discovers from this potion belt |
| 18503s | and you might be just pushing lethal for |
| 18505s | hemlock but inquisitive creation is just |
| 18507s | such a good card for maintaining control |
| 18509s | of these |
| 18511s | things |
| 18514s | the crab is going to come to |
| 18517s | play would you say krabat TOA has been |
| 18519s | the most impactful Colossus now that |
| 18522s | we're you know many long time down the |
| 18524s | line |
| 18525s | impactful no like yeah I'm going to be |
| 18528s | very pedantic over your choice of words |
| 18530s | like most most ubiquitous maybe most |
| 18534s | common like it just it it does just seem |
| 18536s | to show up in just about every rogue |
| 18538s | deck after time people sometimes argue |
| 18540s | about whether or not it should be in |
| 18542s | some rogue deck |
| 18549s | andal does that not make it the most |
| 18551s | impactful possibly in every deck |
| 18556s | yeah I'm just saying like the actual |
| 18558s | impact of it hitting the board on a |
| 18560s | caseby casee basis is fairly low because |
| 18563s | it's cheaper than others right which |
| 18565s | guess you could AR the way you said that |
| 18567s | then talking about words I'm just |
| 18569s | thinking like does the graphical and |
| 18571s | sound effect make it hit the board |
| 18573s | harder than some of the other some of |
| 18575s | the other Colossus it's like I don't |
| 18577s | know down deep Rabbit Hole ask one of |
| 18580s | those various Psychopaths that still |
| 18582s | have screen Shake on after this time oh |
| 18585s | probably the best change task done |
| 18586s | that's ever happened was when that |
| 18588s | option it some of the things used to |
| 18589s | actually make me feel sick honestly if |
| 18591s | you still have screen Shake on you're a |
| 18593s | bad person it's as simple as that I'm |
| 18595s | sorry I just being honest I hate to |
| 18597s | break it to |
| 18599s | you I'm sorry you had to find out this |
| 18601s | way |
| 18607s | wow remember when uh who was it |
| 18609s | yesterday that went fishing needing |
| 18610s | exactly double damage for lethal and hit |
| 18612s | it and then Hemlock needing double |
| 18614s | damage for lethal got neither of them |
| 18616s | right does get the consolation prize of |
| 18618s | draw four |
| 18622s | though it's kind of strange isn't it |
| 18624s | because we can see that pocket does not |
| 18627s | have a high burn aggressive hand but |
| 18629s | Hemlock just doesn't know that right |
| 18632s | it's kind of kind of tricky Hemlock has |
| 18634s | a couple of ideas on some of the cards |
| 18635s | OB he knows the elemental knows the |
| 18637s | zerus knows the Infiniti other than that |
| 18641s | I don't think anything's a sure thing |
| 18642s | here but he has managed to build a bit |
| 18643s | of a board gain some of that armor as |
| 18646s | well which is going to push him up 17 |
| 18648s | which makes him feel at least half safe |
| 18650s | you would |
| 18653s | say |
| 18655s | rag play it I mean come |
| 18659s | on take us back to what was it worlds |
| 18661s | 2016 |
| 18666s | mhm I remember there was a really good |
| 18669s | play in that tourament I can't remember |
| 18671s | who it was specifically but someone |
| 18673s | represented not having rag for quite a |
| 18675s | long time to bait the other rag out of |
| 18677s | the opponent's hand first so that they |
| 18679s | could rag the rag and then just you know |
| 18681s | they won rag tennis essentially is what |
| 18684s | they did it was really |
| 18688s | good that was the tournament where we |
| 18690s | were uh vibing in the crowd while we |
| 18692s | were commentating wasn't it good times |
| 18694s | good |
| 18699s | times feel like good times at the time |
| 18702s | but no probably was wish there was some |
| 18704s | way to |
| 18705s | know you're in the good times before |
| 18708s | they're |
| 18713s | over oh someone who's not having good |
| 18715s | times right now is hemlock facing down |
| 18717s | an absolute flurry of |
| 18721s | Elementals |
| 18733s | decided that Queen Asar is the best |
| 18735s | chance |
| 18737s | here it's a giga fin angle yeah now is |
| 18741s | this the most impactful |
| 18749s | colossa |
| 18751s | um |
| 18754s | doesn't look great and also really not a |
| 18757s | lot of time to make decisions at that |
| 18759s | point anyway not that it probably |
| 18761s | mattered and that means pocket is going |
| 18764s | to go up 1 Z against Hemlock so far H |
| 18768s | again another Victory chalk it up for |
| 18770s | mage there you go but I think really |
| 18772s | well controlled from both players um I |
| 18775s | think Hemlock got away with having those |
| 18777s | zerus nice and early to be able to just |
| 18779s | pile on a bit of board pressure but I I |
| 18781s | really do just think think it was pocket |
| 18784s | gaining board and having the inquisitive |
| 18787s | Creation in the hand that really sealed |
| 18789s | the deal because it was just okay |
| 18790s | Hemlock had to fight to get the board |
| 18792s | back and then pocket could just go okay |
| 18794s | there you go gone again and I think that |
| 18797s | really just put enough of a delay on |
| 18799s | hemlocks plans that pocket could then |
| 18800s | just do the Mage thing right and just |
| 18802s | get to those late game stages where you |
| 18804s | can suddenly start pulling H rabbit out |
| 18806s | of |
| 18808s | hats one rabbit out of multiple hats I |
| 18812s | mean you know if you're going to be a |
| 18814s | magician these days you've got to |
| 18815s | subvert the form to some extent right so |
| 18818s | and also that' be impressive imagine you |
| 18819s | line up 10 hats and one rabbit's just |
| 18821s | jumping through yeah yeah if you pulled |
| 18823s | the same rabbit out of multi like |
| 18825s | genuinely like yeah I'm down pen andella |
| 18827s | make it happen um yeah scramble at the |
| 18830s | end from hemlock for sure um I do I take |
| 18833s | your point I think both players really |
| 18834s | just used the early zerus minions as |
| 18837s | soon as they could right like as soon as |
| 18839s | they got a thing that did something I |
| 18840s | think Pockets ended up being a little |
| 18842s | more impactful because that uh Reverb on |
| 18844s | the Putra side and then rush into the |
| 18846s | putri side get a fully stacked potion on |
| 18849s | your own side was um a much bigger swing |
| 18852s | than Hemlock got from any of his uh |
| 18855s | zerus minions and I think was a large |
| 18857s | reason why things eventually snowboard |
| 18859s | in the way for pocket train but good |
| 18861s | good opening games two uh two solid |
| 18862s | players long way to go in this one |
| 18864s | pocket train staying hydrated it's nice |
| 18866s | to see of course could still be a long |
| 18868s | way to go in this one a long way to go |
| 18870s | in this tournament but he's looking he's |
| 18872s | looking energized he's looking he's |
| 18874s | looking youthful attentive he's been a |
| 18876s | very bitter and jaded man for many an |
| 18879s | occasion over the last few months but uh |
| 18881s | he's looking good so far yeah I also |
| 18882s | enjoy that we don't even have to |
| 18884s | remotely think oh you know what time is |
| 18886s | it for pocket you know how's he how's he |
| 18889s | getting on with the time zone like no |
| 18890s | not too much of a big deal for us mhm |
| 18894s | hey we going into game two pocket going |
| 18896s | to jump over to the shaman whereas |
| 18898s | Hemlock saying it's my turn to play Mage |
| 18900s | now and very light Al get a win if the |
| 18903s | weekend's anything to go by but pocket |
| 18907s | we'll need to pull something out the bag |
| 18908s | with this Shaman list but more than cap |
| 18910s | the same rabbit after it's come out of |
| 18912s | all the hats pull it out on the bag as |
| 18914s | well yeah and then in the end bunny |
| 18916s | Hopper just comes out of the bag and he |
| 18918s | like why didn't see that coming |
| 18922s | go and then bnny Hopper just wins the |
| 18925s | World Championships again despite not |
| 18927s | being |
| 18928s | entered it's just it's just the hay maze |
| 18931s | again isn't it |
| 18933s | Brock Lesnar at money in the |
| 18939s | bank we should have stuck to the office |
| 18942s | references yeah sorry all I know is ah |
| 18955s | wrestling again solid start for pocket |
| 18958s | train just having access to those |
| 18960s | piranhas give some flexible choices in |
| 18963s | the early game if Hemlock drops that |
| 18966s | keyboard no weapon on two for hemlock is |
| 18970s | great news if you are pocket train uh I |
| 18973s | think obviously this goes without saying |
| 18977s | weapon has a huge impact on uh most |
| 18979s | matchups keyboard that is on the Mage |
| 18981s | side um but I think against Sharman in |
| 18984s | particular they the difference between a |
| 18987s | game plan where the Mage pressures them |
| 18989s | early and a game plan where the Mage |
| 18990s | does not pressure them early is just |
| 18993s | phenomenally large and the way that Mage |
| 18995s | pressures early is almost exclusively |
| 18997s | with that keyboard so having missed that |
| 18999s | pocket train now has a lot of luxury to |
| 19001s | just be getting on with his game plan |
| 19003s | here yeah I'm just seeing some Deja Vu |
| 19006s | going on here as I swear those piranhas |
| 19007s | were dead a second ago um but yeah more |
| 19010s | piranhas back on board for pocket going |
| 19012s | to contest once again but this time |
| 19013s | Hemlock has a cold case did have to use |
| 19016s | that fire cell to be able to clear off |
| 19017s | the previous |
| 19019s | push and again I think this is the |
| 19022s | the respect the players have for this |
| 19025s | early game right is when pocket just |
| 19027s | drops three piranhas against Mage right |
| 19030s | early cuz that's it looks kind of weird |
| 19032s | maybe if you not played the match up |
| 19033s | much or not played the deck much but |
| 19035s | this forces Hemlock into awkward |
| 19037s | situations luckily for hemlock he's |
| 19039s | managed to respond reasonably well so |
| 19045s | far oh there it is at |
| 19050s | last |
| 19056s | yeah still just about in time I would |
| 19058s | say a little bit awkward because of the |
| 19060s | uh vague anti- Synergy with the chaos |
| 19062s | strike you'd want to play The Cosmic |
| 19065s | keyboard first just to get an extra two |
| 19067s | drop from the chaos strike but then to |
| 19069s | get the damage from the chaos strike |
| 19070s | little bit weird yeah I wonder if it's |
| 19072s | even just get the keyboard loaded and |
| 19077s | just go Arcane worm ping like is |
| 19080s | that |
| 19082s | is that crazy I don't |
| 19085s | know don't think it's |
| 19090s | crazy I think like having the two one on |
| 19092s | board utilizing the Ping saving you know |
| 19094s | saving the keyboard for maybe something |
| 19096s | a bit more |
| 19099s | impactful I was so I was wondering about |
| 19102s | this but I thought this would have a |
| 19104s | discovery of magic in the turn as well |
| 19106s | which apparently it does not oh okay so |
| 19108s | hok is actually still going to play the |
| 19110s | keyboard and probably use an arcane bolt |
| 19112s | to take one of these off the board and |
| 19113s | just getting an extra one drop like |
| 19115s | actual Max Tempo yeah okay I'm fine with |
| 19118s | that see I was thinking this wasn't a |
| 19120s | keyboard turn and you'd spend that uh |
| 19122s | one Mana that was just spent on the |
| 19124s | Arcane bolt on the discovery of magic |
| 19125s | instead and just try and look for |
| 19126s | something playable this turn um and then |
| 19129s | you can potentially still ping off the |
| 19131s | uh the 31 if you want to or you might |
| 19133s | find something uh more impactful from |
| 19135s | discovery of magic but yeah Hemlock just |
| 19136s | saying you know what I don't need |
| 19137s | massive value uh from these keyboard |
| 19140s | charges I just need stuff on board now I |
| 19142s | need pressure now I need to give pocket |
| 19144s | train some actual questions to answer so |
| 19146s | he can't just merily March his way |
| 19148s | drawing through his |
| 19153s | deck pocket meanwhile merrily marches on |
| 19156s | drawing through his own deck well H's |
| 19159s | going to try and keep up now with that |
| 19160s | CH strike getting played there's the |
| 19162s | creation as |
| 19164s | well so now I imagine you really want to |
| 19167s | play another spell this turn just so you |
| 19170s | can uh get that attack through without |
| 19172s | costing yourself the the |
| 19175s | durability I could even see this being |
| 19178s | oh okay oh yeah fair enough sure I was |
| 19182s | thinking of Maude yeah I was thinking of |
| 19184s | just like cycle the Viper discovery of |
| 19187s | magic and then infinitize and just do it |
| 19189s | that way but yeah whatever |
| 19200s | works |
| 19206s | but this is when games creep up on you |
| 19209s | because pocket looks like he's falling |
| 19211s | behind which on BD he is but with that |
| 19214s | card draw focus with some of discovers |
| 19216s | and you know with the right card drawn |
| 19218s | here and there Hemlock could be in a lot |
| 19220s | of trouble because it's that benefit |
| 19222s | isn't it of clash that not only does it |
| 19224s | often push tons of face damage but it's |
| 19227s | also clearing the board a lot of the |
| 19228s | time as well yeah oh it's going to get |
| 19231s | the command of nepon going to come out |
| 19233s | and help with this |
| 19235s | instead second flash is pretty good okay |
| 19238s | just going to drop the turn the tides |
| 19240s | sure Max |
| 19242s | Tempo I thought pocket might just go for |
| 19244s | a more Allin turn than that but I think |
| 19247s | just finding three Rush minions off the |
| 19249s | lightning reflexes he just decided this |
| 19250s | was good enough but uh pocket was really |
| 19252s | one of the first people I saw doing this |
| 19254s | with the original version of the well |
| 19256s | the original pocket version of the deck |
| 19258s | lots of people were playing various bad |
| 19260s | versions of the deck before that |
| 19262s | um he was kind of the first person I saw |
| 19264s | doing these kind of Mini popop turns |
| 19265s | where you'd actually all in your entire |
| 19267s | hand but because you just had thorm in |
| 19269s | your hand it didn't matter play the Thor |
| 19271s | in the next turn and then just redraw |
| 19273s | like a pretty full hand straight |
| 19275s | afterwards yeah I think there was a real |
| 19277s | temptation to just uh you know play The |
| 19279s | Flash that turn and go for that way |
| 19281s | right because you just think hm next |
| 19283s | turn could get very interesting yeah I |
| 19286s | think if you'd have found like cheaper |
| 19288s | nature spells like bolts and crashes you |
| 19290s | might have seen like the novice zapper |
| 19291s | novice zapper bolts and crashes turn and |
| 19294s | then just you know deal whatever 12 to |
| 19296s | 16 damage to your opponent with whatever |
| 19298s | you discover and overload for three or |
| 19300s | four and then just slam the thorum next |
| 19302s | turn right to to get all those cards |
| 19306s | back as it happened he discovered board |
| 19310s | cards so he played board |
| 19313s | cards sounds simple when you break it |
| 19318s | down I feel like creation should be like |
| 19321s | I don't know seven Mana at this point |
| 19324s | storm is in me it just always gets the |
| 19328s | job done |
| 19329s | in you call down the of |
| 19334s | Thunder there's thorm though going to |
| 19336s | start cycling a ton of cards here for |
| 19342s | pocket yeah this this is where things |
| 19344s | start to get spicy right when double |
| 19346s | crashes in hand lightning bolt there as |
| 19348s | well obviously the two zaps already on |
| 19350s | board um means that they're almost |
| 19353s | certainly not going to add to any of |
| 19355s | this potential pressure next turn but |
| 19356s | still it's a lot of power it is the |
| 19360s | issue pocket has though is just no no |
| 19363s | Jazz base and uh flash of lightning not |
| 19367s | really seeming like it's queued up in |
| 19368s | the near future right so it's hard to |
| 19371s | convert this hand into any kind of |
| 19373s | realistic lethal and if he doesn't start |
| 19375s | doing that in the next one to two turns |
| 19378s | you kind of have to be fearful of the |
| 19380s | Sith burst coming back from the other |
| 19381s | side |
| 19392s | M himl so far though just going to |
| 19395s | defend obviously get these spell damage |
| 19396s | minions off the board try and be as safe |
| 19398s | as possible but again another |
| 19402s | um slowish |
| 19408s | turn |
| 19410s | oh okay |
| 19411s | that is the drawer I think yeah I was |
| 19414s | going to say I'm trying to think of a |
| 19415s | better draw |
| 19435s | here is it deal heel I'm guessing has to |
| 19438s | be right yeah |
| 19442s | I think card draw is not something he |
| 19444s | overly needs right |
| 19446s | now get double trade minions deal heal |
| 19449s | and then actually just push the damage |
| 19450s | face to face so you clear up the three |
| 19453s | four I guess you clear the three four |
| 19454s | make the 5 S as annoying as possible is |
| 19456s | that a real thing though against the |
| 19458s | Reverb class probably not but I guess it |
| 19460s | is just responsible to to take the |
| 19469s | trade I think primarily in this match up |
| 19471s | like you might sit there thinking oh |
| 19473s | draw three is really good but then your |
| 19476s | opponent just reverbs you and uses the |
| 19478s | good ability against you because it's |
| 19479s | still remaining so even if it's not |
| 19482s | necessarily the best choice for you in |
| 19484s | the moment it's very often just correct |
| 19486s | to do it that way just to deny the Mage |
| 19488s | access to that ability off their |
| 19490s | inevitable Reverb yeah and I think |
| 19493s | really for me it's never a bad choice it |
| 19497s | feels like right you know okay well not |
| 19499s | never is a strong word but you know what |
| 19500s | I mean right it's never terrible to do |
| 19502s | it especially if your opponent got that |
| 19504s | board so y looking good overall reverb's |
| 19506s | going to come down though no true |
| 19508s | surprise I imagine pocket was uh |
| 19510s | expecting this |
| 19521s | mhm that is a cast that we've still not |
| 19523s | really done isn't |
| 19525s | it the uh full cast being uh just sound |
| 19528s | effects made by |
| 19530s | us |
| 19532s | well there was the one where they |
| 19534s | thought that the sound wasn't going out |
| 19536s | live and then they did sound effects the |
| 19537s | entire time and then it was going out |
| 19539s | live but that was an fgc cast |
| 19542s | so yeah we've done bits of games before |
| 19545s | but not actually like a whole |
| 19551s | game pocket with the flash now all the |
| 19555s | cards in the world in his hand and |
| 19558s | definitely setting up lightning bolt |
| 19560s | available over going to be the choice |
| 19561s | though to help clear out some of that |
| 19563s | space and some of that |
| 19567s | mana and this is terrifying isn't |
| 19570s | it look at the hand available for pocket |
| 19573s | and Hemlock needs to pull something out |
| 19575s | the back of I think that's what pocket |
| 19577s | just did then right just raised the hand |
| 19579s | saying well let's see yeah this is the |
| 19583s | turn that you like expect to die right |
| 19585s | where if they've drawn cth there's a |
| 19587s | good chance with 10 Mana cth kills you |
| 19590s | um it's not there pocket train however |
| 19592s | does have a different problem to deal |
| 19594s | with which is the solid Alibi which has |
| 19596s | now come off the rewind as well yeah and |
| 19598s | you saw I think pocket train knows okay |
| 19601s | they didn't have Sith cuz I didn't die |
| 19603s | so if they're just playing one solid |
| 19604s | Alibi I'm fine with that like we can |
| 19606s | wait one turn and then if they don't |
| 19608s | draw Sith the next turn I'm probably |
| 19610s | still winning the game when you see |
| 19611s | solid Alibi into |
| 19613s | rewind then you start to think maybe you |
| 19616s | might have some long-term issues this |
| 19618s | game yeah that's really tough isn't it |
| 19620s | because |
| 19621s | it's just that scary moment where you |
| 19623s | know the the raw impact of them just |
| 19625s | drawing the one card they need and even |
| 19628s | as you said like one turn even two turns |
| 19630s | feel scary now seeing the card draw on |
| 19633s | top of that it's not as if it's just |
| 19635s | saying oh well two aliis means they draw |
| 19638s | two cards to try and hit Sith right no |
| 19641s | because the Mage has tons of card draw |
| 19642s | access anyway yeah you just sort a |
| 19644s | wisdom come into the hand obviously uh |
| 19647s | volume up was cast which can't actually |
| 19648s | draw cth but it thins your deck out so C |
| 19651s | becomes a more likely draw to follow up |
| 19652s | and if you do if you then play you know |
| 19654s | if you play volume up and it puts a zero |
| 19656s | Mana draw two in your hand that's made |
| 19658s | it exceedingly more likely that you are |
| 19660s | going to find the |
| 19663s | Sith okay altered cord coming out for |
| 19665s | pocket it's going to |
| 19677s | help is this seven like H think it's |
| 19680s | like is this ever just neptulon to just |
| 19683s | play it and just |
| 19685s | threaten a little bit more damage even |
| 19687s | if it's to damage next to an extra I |
| 19690s | suspect so yeah the other option is uh |
| 19693s | zap just cuz zap actually gains you Mana |
| 19696s | right especially because you've actually |
| 19697s | just equipped a fresh Jazz base um so if |
| 19700s | you then play you know zero Mana for a |
| 19702s | zap that actually gains you one extra |
| 19704s | mana on the spell discount |
| 19706s | immediately um but I don't think it's |
| 19708s | required with this hand |
| 19709s | necessarily |
| 19713s | Buck it's just like has he got it this |
| 19720s | time it must be a really tough position |
| 19723s | obviously we are only in game two it's |
| 19725s | not as if the winner of this game is w |
| 19726s | and moves on to the finals yet and there |
| 19729s | is still plenty of time but it is |
| 19733s | a a rough position to be and you can see |
| 19736s | by pocket's reactions right the squint |
| 19737s | in he's almost can't even look because |
| 19740s | any single turn he may just be dead and |
| 19743s | with solid Alibi there's not a lot he |
| 19745s | can really do about |
| 19750s | it I love the slight delay it's like no |
| 19753s | no no no no no we can see he's already |
| 19755s | played alivi it's like finds the second |
| 19758s | one as well I'm not going to use the |
| 19760s | Viper actually just Cycles the Viper I |
| 19762s | was thinking he needs to kind of get |
| 19763s | another card out of his hand so he can |
| 19764s | play the second wisdom yeah wants to |
| 19767s | draw more but I guess he can still do |
| 19768s | that on the following turns there also |
| 19771s | whether he wants to forge now yeah there |
| 19773s | you go |
| 19786s | okay so at this point does pocket have |
| 19789s | access to anything that |
| 19792s | can increase his chances to have not |
| 19794s | dying to |
| 19796s | safe I don't think so right no I believe |
| 19799s | it's just to set up and go I believe |
| 19801s | both reflexes have been played which is |
| 19803s | where you find your altered chords from |
| 19805s | so the the life gains out yeah there's |
| 19808s | Flow Rider um there's one Flow Rider |
| 19811s | left in the deck I believe Flow Rider |
| 19812s | ins a overdraft and lightning bolt I |
| 19817s | think yeah sounds |
| 19820s | right wisdom both players pretty much in |
| 19824s | the bottom of the deck still no wait is |
| 19827s | there no more card draw nope so it's |
| 19830s | going to be what infinitize or but like |
| 19833s | at that point you're spending two mana |
| 19835s | on the infinitize you'd be spending more |
| 19836s | mana on the card draw like you you just |
| 19839s | still don't have it then |
| 19841s | right so |
| 19844s | defense solid Alibi |
| 19853s | again and Pockets reaction any second |
| 19858s | there we |
| 19859s | go |
| 19861s | oh |
| 19864s | no he's thrown his hands up in the air |
| 19867s | but in fact he does |
| 19879s | care yeah going to take the flash just |
| 19882s | for more heal quisitive creation going |
| 19885s | to clear the board not that it overly |
| 19887s | matters at this point I would say in the |
| 19889s | game |
| 19892s | yeah it does find one more card here |
| 19893s | from the flash of light as |
| 19900s | well I |
| 19902s | mean with the |
| 19905s | Viper it it it's so close I mean it just |
| 19909s | is right it's just it feels just like |
| 19912s | automatic game right because there's |
| 19915s | Alibi and a Viper |
| 19918s | trade with the natural draw and then the |
| 19921s | turn after even if it's bottom card |
| 19923s | there's Viper trade again yeah you see |
| 19926s | so you can see two nonv cards from your |
| 19928s | deck this turn right have a straight |
| 19930s | 50/50 of one of those being si uh you |
| 19933s | then play solid Alibi again this turn |
| 19935s | but you're still out of card draw so now |
| 19937s | you have the Viper in your decks and now |
| 19939s | next draw you're actually 66% of the |
| 19941s | time you don't draw CIF right because |
| 19943s | one of those cards is now the Viper but |
| 19945s | if you get the Viper you can trade the |
| 19947s | Viper back in if you spend one Mana |
| 19949s | trading the Viper though you can only |
| 19950s | cast cth and molten Rune so H there's |
| 19956s | there's there you're telling me there's |
| 19958s | a chance |
| 19965s | my which kind of makes Hellfire here |
| 19968s | pretty attractive right cuz you can just |
| 19970s | burn them down now to the point where |
| 19973s | just SI and the M are |
| 19977s | lethal as long as Alibi comes out it |
| 19980s | doesn't really matter what your health |
| 19981s | looks like does |
| 19983s | it oh wait didn't actually play the |
| 19986s | Hellfire didn't play the Hellfire no oh |
| 19989s | okay star power does a million but not |
| 19991s | to |
| 19998s | face problem now of course as well is |
| 20000s | that there's also just a board on the |
| 20002s | other side which uh pocket kind of has |
| 20004s | to deal with or else certainly be |
| 20009s | dead can it afford to |
| 20012s | crash I think you just have to I guess |
| 20014s | you can't afford not to precisely yeah |
| 20017s | but like I think there should still be |
| 20019s | enough right with the with the double |
| 20022s | lightning bolt crash in |
| 20024s | hand okay so there's the Viper so this |
| 20026s | is the exact situation I was talking |
| 20028s | about |
| 20031s | surely but can but there's also even if |
| 20035s | the Viper whiffs can't it just be nog on |
| 20037s | and plus one plus one yeah yeah oh |
| 20040s | please tell is this going to be keyboard |
| 20042s | lethal with the deadly |
| 20047s | poison you ever beaten a man to death |
| 20049s | with a keyboard before not a musical |
| 20059s | one |
| 20062s | oh is it still in the |
| 20067s | deck so yeah we're no Plus oneing |
| 20070s | salvation can pocket make it work cuz |
| 20074s | the thing with this as well is this |
| 20075s | means no Cold Case right so no armor |
| 20079s | gain |
| 20084s | yes ohal five oh deal five Reverb plus |
| 20089s | one to take the damage off the board |
| 20095s | sure which is plus two now of course yep |
| 20098s | yeah yeah no good point good point that |
| 20099s | could actually be a massive difference |
| 20101s | as well yeah that's just better right |
| 20104s | like simply as as a play leaving just a |
| 20107s | one one on board obviously the weapons |
| 20109s | there as well but the the difference |
| 20111s | between one and two feels the difference |
| 20113s | between doable and not doable yeah so |
| 20116s | would this have to be |
| 20118s | like oh no this is just oh God so it has |
| 20122s | to crash again |
| 20126s | right if it's not Le like pocket trade |
| 20129s | is being very careful here that this |
| 20131s | isn't lethal I don't think it is and if |
| 20136s | it's not then yes you just have to crash |
| 20138s | all of this away and just try and get |
| 20139s | there with the lightning bolts next |
| 20142s | turn so this is guaranteed safe if |
| 20145s | Hemlock wants |
| 20148s | it but at this point I don't even know |
| 20151s | what the that spell damage |
| 20156s | is it's actually crazy what |
| 20161s | so now you can you can trade the Viper |
| 20164s | and then you can get Sith and you can |
| 20165s | still cast Hellfire and Arcane |
| 20169s | bolt probably not in that |
| 20172s | order correct but that would still not |
| 20176s | be enough right I really feel like you |
| 20177s | were supposed to just rip this Hellfire |
| 20179s | at some |
| 20180s | point yes or even noon in five damage to |
| 20185s | minion right yeah so there's even yeah |
| 20192s | but I think if you're going to say noon |
| 20193s | five damage to face you have to be able |
| 20196s | to tell me how much damage pocket train |
| 20198s | can do from his hand with plus two on |
| 20201s | every card right because if you don't |
| 20202s | know the answer to that question you |
| 20204s | can't take that risk as to whether like |
| 20206s | that extra three damage you left up on |
| 20208s | board ends up killing you that way yeah |
| 20210s | true but I think like Hemlock could do |
| 20212s | that math right because of how limited |
| 20214s | the card pool is I don't know if he did |
| 20216s | or didn't but I think he could because I |
| 20218s | don't think there are any huge impact I |
| 20220s | guess there the one Flow Rider question |
| 20223s | mark |
| 20225s | right yeah Al fire how is this game |
| 20228s | still going I I don't |
| 20235s | know so that's the five |
| 20237s | armor I am surely this is enough |
| 20241s | right |
| 20243s | yes cuz there's |
| 20246s | double |
| 20248s | bio it both qu draft yeah yeah that has |
| 20251s | to that's it right yeah yeah again I I I |
| 20255s | know I shouldn't be questioning this |
| 20256s | like it's not but it's with the way this |
| 20259s | game's gone I'm shook I'm just I don't |
| 20261s | know how how it this like I neither does |
| 20263s | Pock it look he's like I don't even know |
| 20265s | how I won this game of hearthstone right |
| 20267s | now Hemlock with a Sith that just |
| 20270s | doesn't want to come out to play that is |
| 20273s | brutal that honestly huge win for pocket |
| 20277s | of course but I feel really bad for |
| 20279s | hemlock cuz that felt like one of the |
| 20281s | roughest games of hearthstone I've seen |
| 20283s | in a long time but it is one of those |
| 20286s | moments where there'll be a lot of |
| 20289s | opportunity to rewind that game and take |
| 20292s | a look at different moments like as you |
| 20293s | were talking about I think the biggest |
| 20295s | question was I think the nor Ganon turn |
| 20297s | was very good to get the plus two but |
| 20300s | could it have been a five to face |
| 20301s | reliably that's the question or was |
| 20304s | there a spot to get the Hellfire in and |
| 20306s | still say yes they can't kill me with |
| 20309s | whatever no one or not gun two whatever |
| 20311s | it ends up being so I think there were |
| 20313s | moments there for hemlock and and no |
| 20315s | doubt Hemlock will do this at some point |
| 20317s | is look back on that game and see if |
| 20318s | something could have changed but either |
| 20321s | way super unlucky to have cth just stick |
| 20324s | to the bottom of the deck yeah I think |
| 20327s | Hemlock played the version of the game |
| 20329s | that you win as long as cth isn't your |
| 20332s | last card and isn't found off any of the |
| 20334s | Viper trades throughout the course of |
| 20336s | the game perfectly the problem the |
| 20339s | question is can you also find a line |
| 20342s | that wins that game where it's the last |
| 20344s | card as well and I feel like the answer |
| 20346s | to that question is yes um and again |
| 20350s | like we came into this one I certainly |
| 20351s | came into this one um talking about how |
| 20354s | we could be seeing the highest level |
| 20356s | series of hearthstone that we see all |
| 20357s | weekend all year potentially as well |
| 20359s | with how good these two players have |
| 20361s | been so those are the standards that you |
| 20363s | have to hold people to uh so you really |
| 20367s | really intense game right the way down |
| 20369s | to the the finest razor wire in the end |
| 20372s | you can see the reaction from pocket |
| 20374s | train what four minutes ago four solid |
| 20378s | aliis yet to plow through in the end |
| 20380s | like absolutely absurd stuff and again |
| 20382s | this has been a consistent story of the |
| 20384s | tournament like sometimes just through |
| 20386s | pocket train being really good at the |
| 20388s | deck and sometimes just through a little |
| 20389s | bit of good fortune pocket train is |
| 20392s | getting Sharman through the series and |
| 20395s | other players are not and that right now |
| 20397s | is the big difference as to why he's now |
| 20400s | favored to make it to the final and a |
| 20402s | lot of other players who have brought |
| 20403s | Shan have been struggling a lot |
| 20405s | more yeah for sure and the play is not |
| 20408s | wasting any time that you okay |
| 20412s | Rick Rick wait what yeah flare |
| 20417s | oh yeah that's all I heard so I was like |
| 20421s | right I didn't know a change casting |
| 20423s | partner a uh not really an association I |
| 20426s | want these days Raven just to but the |
| 20429s | noise is the Noise Okay yeah yeah yeah |
| 20432s | okay yeah diving straight in Pocket |
| 20435s | could tidy this match with a quick well |
| 20438s | quick in air quotes three three 0 I feel |
| 20441s | that last game really uh took out of us |
| 20443s | all but could be moving on to the finals |
| 20445s | if you can just make it work with this |
| 20447s | Mech Rogue Hemlock though on the Mage |
| 20449s | just needs to hold off and hope uh this |
| 20452s | game goes a little bit better than the |
| 20453s | last one and we are landing a |
| 20458s | mimon |
| 20463s | beautiful stuff obviously even if this |
| 20465s | gets reverbed the board is clear so you |
| 20467s | still get to play a full turn of |
| 20468s | hearthstone with mimon in play and you |
| 20470s | will take that any day of the week and |
| 20472s | twice on Sunday Unfortunately today is |
| 20480s | Sunday but what else can you |
| 20485s | do he |
| 20488s | my |
| 20491s | yeah this is definitely a tricky one |
| 20492s | here as pocket starts to really develop |
| 20494s | on the |
| 20495s | board and he's uh planning to cause some |
| 20499s | Havoc prep spark Bots you've got wind |
| 20506s | Fury we've got all the reborn in the |
| 20509s | world y this whole game's going to |
| 20511s | reborn at this |
| 20516s | point look at the like the of things |
| 20520s | that are happening here for turn |
| 20523s | three going to give it reborn again oh |
| 20526s | that's okay I like that that's kind of |
| 20527s | cool I promise you I wouldn't have seen |
| 20530s | this play and I don't know why cuz it's |
| 20532s | really obvious now but I promise you I |
| 20534s | never would have done this I I would |
| 20536s | have just dealt the damage and just they |
| 20539s | been wind furied in the in the head like |
| 20540s | yesterday yeah but like this is so |
| 20542s | clearly |
| 20544s | better screw you pocket train why are |
| 20546s | you better at Hearthstone than |
| 20548s | me |
| 20556s | and this is this is the problem because |
| 20558s | at this stage in the game Mage just |
| 20560s | doesn't have the capability to do as |
| 20563s | much stuff as pocket train just did |
| 20566s | right yeah so here that's the problem |
| 20568s | for hemlock like he Hemlock can have a |
| 20570s | decent turn right has keyboard has a |
| 20572s | void uh scripture but that is not enough |
| 20575s | and that's the big problem here volcano |
| 20578s | mansy though is something to consider |
| 20580s | yeah that is definitely a card in this |
| 20584s | scenario but how would |
| 20586s | you like would it be like keyboard or |
| 20589s | the |
| 20591s | elemental oh wait no he's got the Mana |
| 20594s | for some reason I didn't think he had |
| 20595s | the Mana for it okay perfect yes by |
| 20597s | definition of the card he has the Mana |
| 20599s | left to play the card that just |
| 20601s | activated |
| 20606s | yes this why that rebor is just so |
| 20608s | clever right like trade off and just |
| 20610s | spend the last mana on on the reborn |
| 20612s | again and like now you just have gig |
| 20615s | Fury Mech coming down this turn right |
| 20617s | like it's just so |
| 20619s | smart oh reborn |
| 20627s | again really wants to keep rolling for |
| 20629s | Mana yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's the |
| 20631s | one you want you want the |
| 20633s | preps you can just keep on playing these |
| 20636s | mechs yeah and there's that way I think |
| 20639s | again with he's crossed the line where |
| 20642s | there's no point with uh or overly |
| 20645s | worrying about the um the stealth one |
| 20647s | because he has cloak field anyway but |
| 20649s | even if he didn't I think Seven health |
| 20651s | is fine right of just saying you could |
| 20653s | just push the damage |
| 20655s | anyway suddenly Hemlock is in a |
| 20658s | disastrous state right now with just 10 |
| 20661s | damage mimon Embers is a card it says |
| 20665s | Taun on |
| 20666s | it you're not wrong I believe that is |
| 20669s | what it |
| 20675s | says yeah just get just pay the |
| 20677s | artificer behind it for some |
| 20682s | armor and looks like I wish it cost |
| 20687s | two and you get a sap and you get a |
| 20692s | sap maximum damage coming through from |
| 20695s | mimon really really beautifully played |
| 20697s | like this seems straightforward this |
| 20698s | entire game seems trivial this game was |
| 20701s | losable you had to get turn four right |
| 20703s | and pocket train absolutely did get turn |
| 20705s | four right in a way that was basically |
| 20707s | unbeatable I think overall so in the end |
| 20711s | what I hyped up as potentially one of |
| 20712s | the closest Titus series ended up being |
| 20715s | the second freest 3-0 that we've seen |
| 20718s | all day since Man City at Old Trafford |
| 20720s | so sorry I guess we underd |
| 20722s | delivered yes and no because I will say |
| 20726s | that the the shaman versus Mage game uh |
| 20729s | where pocket just somehow beat that many |
| 20731s | aliis because of you know one pocket's |
| 20734s | you know good play of course but also |
| 20735s | just hemlocks like slight look factor or |
| 20738s | lack of it should I say when it comes to |
| 20740s | drawing safe I think that one game |
| 20743s | really sums up the uh the potential of |
| 20745s | these two players because it was so |
| 20747s | close so many times yes game three |
| 20750s | looked one-sided and it was but again |
| 20752s | echoing your thoughts I think uh pocket |
| 20755s | played it very well with those rebound |
| 20756s | trades getting the maximum value out of |
| 20758s | what he had ailable to him but yeah a |
| 20761s | series that doesn't look close |
| 20762s | score-wise but had some very very close |
| 20765s | moments and I think that's just you know |
| 20767s | a shout out to both Pocky and Hemlock at |
| 20769s | how good both of these players have been |
| 20771s | all year so it's a shame to see Hemlock |
| 20773s | lose but that's the nature of these top |
| 20775s | fours right someone has to lose someone |
| 20777s | has to go onto the finals and that is |
| 20779s | going to be pocket train we're doing it |
| 20782s | all over again Saul yeah making his |
| 20784s | second final of the year um and as |
| 20787s | mentioned like pocket is joint top of |
| 20790s | the overall standings which means um in |
| 20793s | these tournaments as each individual |
| 20795s | player gets eliminated they start |
| 20797s | rooting for pocket train particularly if |
| 20799s | they're European because you know if if |
| 20801s | pocket gets an actual automatic spot to |
| 20802s | Worlds through winning that opens up |
| 20804s | another point standings in the The Last |
| 20806s | Chance qualifications uh for all the |
| 20808s | players behind there's a few |
| 20810s | relationships like that going on in the |
| 20811s | tournament right now like wiu and banter |
| 20813s | face was a similar thing with the the |
| 20815s | head-to-head that they had with them |
| 20816s | both being fighting for America's spots |
| 20818s | so yeah pocket train second bite of the |
| 20821s | Cherry second final out of three |
| 20823s | available so far this year you know |
| 20825s | leader of the point |
| 20826s | standings he's he's he's a player let's |
| 20829s | let's just put it that way he knows what |
| 20831s | he is doing with a Hearthstone board in |
| 20833s | front of him well we have got two more |
| 20836s | matches left today we've got semi-final |
| 20838s | 2 and then of course the finals to |
| 20840s | decide our champion so make sure you |
| 20843s | don't go anywhere there's just a little |
| 20845s | bit more Hearthstone left for the day |
| 20846s | we're going to go to a break I'll be |
| 20847s | right back with semi-final number two |
| 20850s | too reborn again oh that's okay I like |
| 20853s | that that's kind of cool I promise you I |
| 20856s | wouldn't have seen this play and I don't |
| 20857s | know why cuz it's really obvious now but |
| 20860s | I promise you I never would have done |
| 20862s | this I I would have just done the damage |
| 20864s | and oh they' |
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| 21083s | [Applause] |
| 21087s | hallelu |
| 21117s | oh |
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| 21144s | hello everyone and welcome back to the |
| 21146s | Masters Tour we have semifinal number |
| 21148s | number two coming up to see who's going |
| 21150s | to face off against pocket train in the |
| 21153s | final I am still here but I'm now joined |
| 21155s | by the idol Vice welcome uh I know you |
| 21158s | were just watching that semi-final what |
| 21160s | did you think of it what do you think of |
| 21161s | the quick three from pocket I I mean I |
| 21163s | just about blinked and missed it you |
| 21165s | know after the the series The TJ and I |
| 21167s | cast I was ready to settle in you know |
| 21169s | watch another five game set nope Pockets |
| 21172s | just like get in get out get on with it |
| 21175s | yeah it was it was really incredible and |
| 21177s | I'm really looking forward to to cuz I |
| 21179s | will not be casting the finals I get to |
| 21181s | just put my feet up and enjoy as a |
| 21183s | spectator but for now we like I said we |
| 21185s | have to decide who is going to be facing |
| 21187s | pocket in that finals it's going to be |
| 21189s | mcbf face versus balance H so going to |
| 21192s | be a really spicy one again so much on |
| 21194s | the line so much work all year gone into |
| 21197s | this for these players to get to this |
| 21199s | like sort of one two matches away from |
| 21202s | just a world championship direct invite |
| 21204s | which is got to be the dream right to |
| 21206s | just say we don't have to worry about |
| 21208s | points any more all that goes out the |
| 21209s | window I'm just going that's what these |
| 21212s | players really want yeah absolutely I |
| 21214s | think for every single one of them just |
| 21217s | would be a huge relief if could just |
| 21220s | focus on practicing for worlds generally |
| 21223s | rather than trying to grind out for the |
| 21225s | points to get there yeah M bface had a |
| 21229s | really uh spicy matchup against wiq with |
| 21232s | some very surprised moments earlier on |
| 21235s | uh because again we've seen this |
| 21236s | throughout the day because this sort of |
| 21240s | natural he myself there we go because we |
| 21244s | can uh we've been seeing a lot of Mage |
| 21246s | and Shaman both decks have the burst |
| 21248s | potential that you see a lot of these |
| 21250s | players going ah I can't kill them I'm |
| 21252s | probably dead and then they don't die |
| 21254s | and then it's going to be you know okay |
| 21255s | suddenly what's the recovery looking |
| 21256s | like and at least there some really |
| 21258s | really out there uh matchup so we are |
| 21261s | going to check in uh with MCB faces Mage |
| 21264s | probably you know we're not going to |
| 21265s | talk about Warrior yet but um mage proba |
| 21268s | probably the the star of the show this |
| 21271s | weekend absolutely yeah Mage has been |
| 21273s | sort of that number two deck both in |
| 21275s | terms of players who brought it and in |
| 21278s | terms of performance for a lot of folks |
| 21280s | uh Rogue another strong performer but |
| 21282s | Mage is really just this one deck |
| 21284s | whereas you know Warrior and Rogue are |
| 21287s | kind of split between you know en rage |
| 21288s | and Odin or Mech and secret Mage is is |
| 21293s | just rainbow Mage except for CJ Kaka on |
| 21295s | the Naga Mage the one player and yeah |
| 21299s | it's been you know it's been holding |
| 21302s | up yeah I'm just looking at the bands |
| 21304s | for this match and um I I think it we we |
| 21308s | were told it was double Warrior sorry |
| 21310s | there were no Warrior bands but I |
| 21311s | actually think there might be a warrior |
| 21313s | band so we'll see that soon we we'll see |
| 21315s | the outcome of that in the near future |
| 21317s | but on the other side of course been |
| 21318s | talking a lot about mukban face but |
| 21320s | balance has been the one uh wielding the |
| 21323s | dreaded control priest um the the deck |
| 21326s | archetype that haunts my nightmare after |
| 21329s | uh after certain you know grandm stints |
| 21332s | in the European region that seemed |
| 21334s | endless at times with a lot of control |
| 21337s | Warrior mirrors but we will not get the |
| 21338s | mirrors in this I do believe there's |
| 21340s | Shaman Bann out uh from mukban face and |
| 21343s | the enrage Warrior from balance has been |
| 21346s | banned out as far as I'm as far as I |
| 21348s | believe so we won't be seeing the enrage |
| 21350s | Warrior but if bace is going to win |
| 21352s | we're going to see some of that Odin |
| 21354s | Warrior yeah and I think that may be a |
| 21357s | nod to Co thinking that you know on this |
| 21360s | priest if it does end up having to face |
| 21362s | the Odin Warrior there are a limited |
| 21364s | number of minions in that deck so |
| 21366s | there's an opportunity to just go for |
| 21369s | multiple copies of dirty rat and and |
| 21371s | going into that M turn eight or whenever |
| 21373s | feels the opportune time just being able |
| 21375s | to snipe it out of the opponent's hand |
| 21377s | and at that point you've got plenty of |
| 21379s | ways to just run the warrior out of |
| 21382s | stuff yeah it's very interesting isn't |
| 21384s | it because like the Odin Warrior has a |
| 21386s | lot of control control aspects of you |
| 21389s | know older control Warrior archetypes |
| 21392s | but it really does just have that now I |
| 21395s | kill you sort of button which is Odin |
| 21397s | right you play that and suddenly control |
| 21400s | goes out the window it's face face face |
| 21402s | H damage so it'll be very interesting to |
| 21404s | see if there's any way to recover if |
| 21406s | that matchup happens and if those dirty |
| 21408s | rats can start causing some Shenanigans |
| 21410s | so it's going to be a cool matchup cuz |
| 21412s | I've not cast Warrior at all all weekend |
| 21414s | so at least you know I get to cast maybe |
| 21417s | some form of warrior uh before I go uh |
| 21420s | but going to be pretty interesting with |
| 21421s | this lineup overall because one thing |
| 21423s | that surprised me was balance is |
| 21425s | bringing rainbow Mage makes sense it's |
| 21428s | extremely powerful as we've seen a rogue |
| 21431s | secret Rogue at this point but still the |
| 21433s | Rogues have been doing well overall in |
| 21435s | Rage Warrior it's one of the two |
| 21436s | extremely good warrior decks but then |
| 21439s | the control priest right it's like it's |
| 21441s | not like there was some out there lineup |
| 21443s | that you know control priest really |
| 21445s | benefited from so what do you actually |
| 21447s | make of just it looks like a I don't |
| 21450s | mean this as it sounds but it looks like |
| 21451s | a real lineup and then you just stuck |
| 21453s | control priest on the end for balance |
| 21455s | like do you like this uh otherwise I |
| 21458s | mean I think it's got to be some kind of |
| 21461s | comfort pick or something in my mind |
| 21462s | because there doesn't seem to be a |
| 21465s | particular strategy built around the |
| 21468s | control priest you know it's not like |
| 21469s | you're assembling a control lineup or |
| 21472s | anything uh certainly with the enrage |
| 21474s | Warrior over the uh over the Odin |
| 21479s | Warrior so it yeah it is a bit of an |
| 21483s | unusual pick here in Balance but it's |
| 21485s | also it's built in a slightly unusual |
| 21487s | fashion it's |
| 21489s | very targeted in terms of you know all |
| 21492s | these tech cards and things and there's |
| 21495s | no extra value no Etc no salna so really |
| 21499s | not built for the mirror I think balance |
| 21501s | was relieved not to have to play out |
| 21504s | that mirror because as were we |
| 21507s | all |
| 21509s | in terms of you know just competition |
| 21511s | terms uh it would have had a slight |
| 21513s | disadvantage in terms of value going |
| 21515s | into Co CO's version well here we go |
| 21518s | game one already underway again if you |
| 21521s | were just joining us the winner of this |
| 21522s | goes on to face pocket train in the |
| 21524s | finals with a world championship spot on |
| 21528s | the line Bank face going to be on the |
| 21530s | Mage and we're going to see this priest |
| 21532s | nice and early and how do you feel this |
| 21535s | priest does versus the Mage um is it you |
| 21538s | talked about dirty rat and it has the |
| 21540s | you know the potential to actually pull |
| 21541s | SI and maybe kill it as well which is |
| 21543s | obviously a big deal but do you think |
| 21545s | balance has to go to that level of |
| 21547s | extreme to win this matchup or do you |
| 21549s | think he can do it let's say fair and |
| 21551s | square I mean it's very hard as the |
| 21554s | priest with your limited number of tempo |
| 21556s | tools to actually just try and you know |
| 21559s | win out that way it's not really the |
| 21561s | game that a control priest is playing so |
| 21565s | in a sense you you sort of have to just |
| 21567s | deal with every threat that the Mage has |
| 21570s | to offer and that is very challenging |
| 21574s | against this particular Mage which is so |
| 21576s | filled with value I mean we see |
| 21577s | infinitize maxud as just infinite value |
| 21580s | potentially literally infinite depending |
| 21583s | depend on how you play it out |
| 21585s | yeah Ignus is a way that you can uh get |
| 21588s | there with pressure |
| 21590s | though yeah as usual and as has often |
| 21593s | been the case with a lot of controlled |
| 21595s | priests in the past as well is |
| 21598s | there's not not a lot of standard ways |
| 21601s | to win certain matchups but there's a |
| 21603s | lot of weird ways to win certain |
| 21605s | matchups even if you look at cards such |
| 21607s | as uh identity theft as well right and |
| 21610s | things like that can can sort of create |
| 21612s | odd conditions for you to actually steal |
| 21614s | winds so and again I think you're |
| 21617s | exactly right where this must be some |
| 21620s | level of comfort pick for balance and if |
| 21622s | you're that comfortable with a deck that |
| 21624s | has to create weird Wing conditions a |
| 21625s | lot of the time you're going to be used |
| 21627s | to it so I think that's definitely going |
| 21628s | to go in his favor for this one but mban |
| 21631s | just playing like the raw good deck |
| 21634s | gives me a lot of confidence in him for |
| 21635s | this |
| 21637s | guy yeah and although no keyboard in |
| 21641s | hand for banter being able to go coin |
| 21642s | Cold Case into second Cold Case is |
| 21644s | always just a lot of pressure you know |
| 21646s | you force out that Shard of Naru because |
| 21647s | priests don't want to have to deal with |
| 21649s | all that extra chip damage from killing |
| 21651s | the skeletons and balances in position |
| 21654s | where you know he can go for a big draw |
| 21655s | turn here but uh not necessarily the |
| 21660s | cleanest clears |
| 21665s | besides it's always a question of when |
| 21667s | you do actually go for the dirty rat in |
| 21669s | this matchup is probably the toughest |
| 21671s | thing cuz there's a lot of Minions that |
| 21673s | you don't really want to |
| 21675s | hit yeah it's definitely tricky isn't it |
| 21678s | because there's not even the the other |
| 21681s | than just letting the game go on and |
| 21684s | knowing that your opponent say has had |
| 21686s | five cards in hand for the last five |
| 21689s | turns let's say there's no signifier |
| 21692s | right there's no often not a setup turn |
| 21694s | that makes it obvious that they're about |
| 21696s | to do something so it it could be really |
| 21699s | really difficult uh to to try and time |
| 21701s | this against at least against cth |
| 21705s | specifically yeah |
| 21706s | definitely and you have to kill it in |
| 21708s | the same turn or silence it because Sil |
| 21712s | otherwise it is immediate death |
| 21714s | otherwise you've just done them a favor |
| 21716s | yeah I think like one of the tough ones |
| 21719s | because I would say versus The Warrior |
| 21721s | you would just play Rat before turn |
| 21724s | eight right and just not let them drop |
| 21726s | it on curve potentially and that's |
| 21728s | that's just straightforward because they |
| 21730s | want to play it ASAP whereas that is |
| 21732s | obviously not the case with s so yeah |
| 21734s | very very tricky |
| 21738s | overall yeah the warrior both has fewer |
| 21741s | misses in terms of there's fewer minions |
| 21743s | overall you know they've built a deck |
| 21745s | around chorus riff and a limited number |
| 21747s | of minions so that chus Rift has higher |
| 21749s | odds of drawing Odin or if you miss on |
| 21751s | Odin draws Finley and then you flip your |
| 21753s | deck upside down to to pick up that Odin |
| 21757s | and uh you know it is better the earlier |
| 21760s | you play it with Odin C is not that way |
| 21763s | C A lot of times is better the later you |
| 21765s | play it uh in some seex you know apart |
| 21767s | from winning the game earlier you do |
| 21769s | need to power it up and that can take |
| 21771s | time so in this matchup a lot of times |
| 21773s | as the Mage you're kind of happy if you |
| 21775s | don't pick up C until the turn you're |
| 21778s | going to play it for the win yeah and |
| 21780s | then that goes to an extreme and you're |
| 21781s | called Hemlock and you never pick up |
| 21784s | safe even though there's only one card |
| 21785s | left in your deck H which is what we saw |
| 21787s | a little bit |
| 21788s | earlier although very likely against a |
| 21791s | priest that would be a perfectly fine |
| 21793s | situation yes yes true |
| 21798s | true and this is one of those weird |
| 21800s | spots for balance where and and again |
| 21803s | this has often been the case for priests |
| 21805s | where it's just like there's not really |
| 21807s | a lot to do you've got nearly you got |
| 21809s | plenty of cards in hand but because so |
| 21811s | many of them are like semi situational |
| 21813s | it's just like huh I guess do I just |
| 21816s | pass even you can see him hovering the |
| 21818s | dirty rat and yeah he's going to go for |
| 21821s | one probably hits a creation yeah again |
| 21823s | you'd be reasonably happy with this |
| 21824s | outcome right creation definitely one of |
| 21827s | the more annoying cards to try and deal |
| 21829s | with yeah it's just such a powerful |
| 21832s | board swing you know only having to |
| 21834s | spend four mana on the clear and and |
| 21836s | then being able to devel up whatever you |
| 21838s | want on the other side and having a |
| 21840s | three four as well I think especially |
| 21842s | with yeah picking up the ignis off the |
| 21845s | creation instead of more dirty rats it's |
| 21848s | just kind of more reliable in terms of |
| 21851s | making things awkward for the |
| 21858s | Mage Banner face now does have a pretty |
| 21862s | reasonable amount of Health to sort of |
| 21863s | Chunk through here with this 47 dirty |
| 21866s | rat right and normally when you see a |
| 21868s | dirty rat come down you're like nah |
| 21869s | whatever you know it doesn't do much you |
| 21871s | know once it's had its ability done of |
| 21872s | course but this is a significant minion |
| 21874s | that Panet face is going to have to push |
| 21876s | through |
| 21878s | it I think one of the reasons it's you |
| 21881s | know almost an auto include in so many |
| 21882s | lists is it it it pairs very well with |
| 21885s | the location so sometimes you know when |
| 21887s | you do just play it out early for either |
| 21889s | hand space or you know you're up against |
| 21891s | something where there's not really bad |
| 21893s | hits and you just want a big taunt uh |
| 21895s | getting that plus two power plus one |
| 21898s | toughness uh really makes things |
| 21901s | challenging for your opponent to trade |
| 21910s | into rewind never a bad pick to look at |
| 21914s | Gifts of aaras fine but I do think |
| 21916s | overall rewind is going to be more |
| 21917s | tempting here for |
| 21919s | B yeah the card draw is a bit Limited at |
| 21923s | present so you're maybe even looking for |
| 21924s | wisdom of |
| 21926s | norgan H |
| 21930s | or Another Cold Case you know those |
| 21932s | always feel pretty |
| 21934s | solid that's a pretty good pick up for |
| 21936s | balance |
| 21943s | though what Mana weapon would you take |
| 21945s | here five it's always 10 always 10 no |
| 21949s | matter what it's always 10 I I |
| 21953s | remember I this might have been in the |
| 21956s | theory casting that we did |
| 21958s | uh well that is 10 when we were talking |
| 21961s | about ignis I me and Saul I remember |
| 21963s | saying yeah look at the 10 weapons it's |
| 21965s | always 10 so I was like no no anything |
| 21967s | that's made a weapon it's always the you |
| 21969s | know anything that discovers like a a |
| 21971s | builder Builder card is always ended up |
| 21974s | being the cheapest is the best I was |
| 21976s | like no no it's always going to be 10 |
| 21977s | and for once in my life it kind of |
| 21979s | worked that it was in fact always 10 |
| 21982s | especially pre |
| 21984s | Nerf and I think especially in in Priest |
| 21987s | you know where where you do often have |
| 21989s | the resources to to get to that 10 mana |
| 21992s | and I mean look we've picked up a wind |
| 21995s | Fury armor weapon I think so you know |
| 21998s | fantastic combination both just for |
| 22001s | damage and uh getting 16 armor every |
| 22004s | turn that that's in play is just massive |
| 22008s | in terms of putting this wall between |
| 22011s | yourself and and the CIF lethal uh it's |
| 22015s | not know that's one of the ways where |
| 22016s | you don't need something like a dirty |
| 22018s | rat on is where you just gain so much |
| 22021s | armor that it's it's impossible for the |
| 22024s | Mage to get there without being able to |
| 22026s | s a |
| 22034s | board yeah it's kind of interesting as |
| 22036s | well like obviously Mage draws a very |
| 22038s | increased uh rate but even with balance |
| 22041s | drawing plenty of cards themselves |
| 22043s | there's still nowhere in there worrying |
| 22045s | about fatigue right so what four cards |
| 22048s | behind face at this point so you know |
| 22051s | all the card draw as well is just going |
| 22053s | to help give them some more options as |
| 22055s | they check out this |
| 22059s | discover surely you want dirty R right |
| 22062s | at the top yeah I mean with already one |
| 22065s | ignis in reserve and a powerful 10 Mana |
| 22067s | weapon available weirdly enough I feel |
| 22070s | like there is such a thing has too much |
| 22073s | value doesn't happen often but it does |
| 22076s | happen there's safe yep |
| 22081s | okay four minions in hand so pretty good |
| 22085s | odds if balance just just decide to go |
| 22087s | for a dirty rat play next turn alongside |
| 22091s | I don't know if you would play Behemoth |
| 22092s | just because you don't need the healing |
| 22095s | but yeah I mean I think stage one is |
| 22098s | play the dirty rat and see what happens |
| 22099s | right like that's uh cuz as you said |
| 22102s | it'll be Shadow word or Shadow the |
| 22103s | narrow to silence the Sur if it hits uh |
| 22106s | one way or the other but if not yeah I |
| 22109s | think just F out the turns probably |
| 22113s | good cuz I do think the behemoth at this |
| 22117s | kind of stage is more a big minion than |
| 22120s | would you really save it for heal right |
| 22123s | you play more is just a big threat as |
| 22125s | opposed to saying oh well they'll get me |
| 22127s | a bit low and then I'll just heal it's |
| 22128s | like well a bit low might just be dead |
| 22130s | against Mage |
| 22133s | so K strike being the choice there from |
| 22136s | P the face I just adding to the |
| 22138s | potential overall damage output oh and |
| 22141s | going for a very early reduction now |
| 22143s | having already gotten the Sith in hand |
| 22146s | so yeah I mean when I talked earlier |
| 22149s | about are there any signals for |
| 22151s | C that's probably one of them if you're |
| 22154s | going to get one right you see the |
| 22156s | damage uh sorry the cost reduction come |
| 22158s | out I think if there's ever a time to |
| 22160s | snap dirty right it's probably now well |
| 22162s | that may be why banter went for the fire |
| 22166s | spell there you know both because uh it |
| 22171s | maybe signals oh I'm I'm not quite ready |
| 22173s | right I'm having to spend a fire spell |
| 22175s | and also because if the rat is played |
| 22178s | there's you know a one twoo in hand that |
| 22179s | you don't mind just getting R play yeah |
| 22183s | I think this is really good because you |
| 22185s | can always say oh it could have saved it |
| 22187s | for more damage it's like well it won't |
| 22188s | be any damage if Sith gets pulled right |
| 22190s | so yeah I'm completely with you I think |
| 22192s | adding an extra minion to the hand |
| 22194s | because if you look at the the burst |
| 22196s | potential anyway it's pretty high as it |
| 22200s | is yeah absolutely and I I like this |
| 22203s | from balance going in on the uh identity |
| 22207s | theft first just to take a peek take a |
| 22209s | peek at the hand you know if you see |
| 22211s | that there's a safe there certainly you |
| 22213s | go in on the dirty rat right |
| 22216s | now just a quick lean to see your |
| 22218s | opponent's hand see what's going on or |
| 22219s | at these bits of it yeah he's going to |
| 22221s | go with a behemoth |
| 22223s | instead does remove the uh you know it's |
| 22226s | not healing but it does remove an amount |
| 22228s | of damage right like preemptively almost |
| 22230s | by killing this off |
| 22232s | y that's just another thing that has to |
| 22235s | be dealt with I think balance wants to |
| 22237s | feel safe going |
| 22239s | into this turn 10 like thinking okay I'm |
| 22243s | a very unlikely dead from 35 if my |
| 22245s | opponent just played one of their zero |
| 22248s | mana burn spells and I want them to have |
| 22251s | to deal with this board so that I can |
| 22253s | play my runic hammer and and just start |
| 22257s | 16 armor every single turn and this is |
| 22260s | getting pretty close this is going to be |
| 22261s | Arcane ball |
| 22269s | yeah so what's that is there three |
| 22272s | Arcane bolts in the hand I think yeah |
| 22275s | yep two of which cost zero so |
| 22278s | yeah Ho Holy |
| 22281s | SP the second one is free I |
| 22286s | suppose |
| 22289s | there is the elemental um not Elemental |
| 22292s | inspiration inquisitive creation there |
| 22295s | too many of these similarish words come |
| 22297s | on and for those wondering why banter |
| 22300s | might have taken Garden Grace there I |
| 22302s | think it was it was just a matter of |
| 22303s | discovery of magic if you only have one |
| 22305s | spell school left that you haven't |
| 22307s | played you don't have a choice yeah it |
| 22310s | kind of is what it is like you can't |
| 22312s | really uh be fussy when there's only one |
| 22315s | option wow suddenly like this is this |
| 22320s | dirty rat or dead at this point I think |
| 22323s | I |
| 22324s | mean it's tough call cuz at 35 Plus the |
| 22328s | 16 you know it sounds pretty |
| 22332s | healthy but that's a lot of damage with |
| 22335s | the Reverb right |
| 22336s | [Music] |
| 22338s | yeah it's just the fact that you know |
| 22342s | there's a reduction on at least you |
| 22345s | would guess at least a couple of cards |
| 22347s | right cuz the reduction came down and it |
| 22350s | um |
| 22351s | it it wouldn't have it wouldn't have |
| 22353s | happened right if there was hitting like |
| 22355s | one spell right like banet face would |
| 22357s | not have have reduced one spell though |
| 22359s | so see what the outcome is here for |
| 22361s | balance there's a forged Rune as well so |
| 22364s | even if you don't know about you know |
| 22366s | the reduced |
| 22367s | Reverb there is the factor of you saw |
| 22370s | the forge yeah you saw the forge so if |
| 22373s | you're playing around molten Rune and |
| 22375s | you know a couple of Arcane bolts you |
| 22378s | know there's an extra one from the void |
| 22380s | scripture |
| 22383s | right so sorry yeah I just look at B |
| 22386s | Face's response to the AR was like |
| 22391s | no it might still be enough with the |
| 22395s | Reverb I'm trying to think you can't |
| 22396s | play both Reverb and the molten Rune |
| 22399s | yeah I feel like if it was enough |
| 22401s | balance would already be dead so I'm |
| 22404s | assuming that it is not enough he's |
| 22407s | counting it out it might be just shy I |
| 22410s | don't know from that that expression |
| 22412s | this is how I work out lethals um when |
| 22416s | casting if the player hasn't locked it |
| 22418s | in when it's just like this spell damage |
| 22420s | Minion plus burst then it's not lethal |
| 22423s | that's that's the the the way I approach |
| 22425s | these things a lot of the time mainly |
| 22427s | the issue we've got is I can't quite see |
| 22428s | what um Si's at yeah I mean I think it's |
| 22431s | everything but holy but I I don't recall |
| 22434s | the max number you can have |
| 22437s | the problem is that if he waits a turn |
| 22440s | there's there's just more armor yeah |
| 22442s | seven so you Reverb because it's always |
| 22444s | dead |
| 22447s | anyway so that's plus 14 spell damage |
| 22450s | means each these 17 why does my bace |
| 22453s | look like surprised this outcome yeah |
| 22455s | it's exact lethal didn't as bface let my |
| 22458s | strategy down oh no yeah I think he yeah |
| 22461s | I think this I think this reaction and |
| 22463s | the fact he's going to get up and just |
| 22465s | have a moment here really sums this up |
| 22468s | because I respect mcbf a lot as a player |
| 22471s | and I would have assumed that even after |
| 22474s | the armor swing that mcbf face would |
| 22477s | have just known how much damage he could |
| 22479s | do right just straight off the bat |
| 22481s | before the turn even happened from |
| 22483s | balance he would have said at this |
| 22485s | moment with this hand I have X amount of |
| 22486s | damage uh so I was really surprised and |
| 22489s | that's why I was saying if he's not |
| 22490s | locked it in I just assume it's not |
| 22491s | lethal because surely would have counted |
| 22493s | but I think that it's that moment where |
| 22496s | there's some much pressure and you know |
| 22499s | even with players that are seasoned as |
| 22501s | MCB face there's got to be that thought |
| 22503s | in your head that goes I need to count |
| 22506s | this again and I need to count it again |
| 22508s | and then count it again because you |
| 22510s | think if I mess this up and lose this |
| 22513s | game that could be the difference |
| 22515s | between a world championship spot and |
| 22516s | not so yeah I think at that moment he |
| 22519s | was kind of half surprised that it was |
| 22521s | just lethal but still congratulations |
| 22523s | what a what a weird ending to that game |
| 22526s | to be completely honest you know had it |
| 22528s | had it been me playing there I almost |
| 22530s | would have just gone in because I know |
| 22532s | if that weapon gets to attack again |
| 22533s | there's there's no way you're overcoming |
| 22535s | you know an additional 32 armor over the |
| 22537s | next two turns so uh yeah just going for |
| 22541s | it at the end whether he he double |
| 22543s | checked his his work and and realized or |
| 22546s | or just knew that he had to go in uh |
| 22548s | yeah exact |
| 22549s | lethal yeah really really big win there |
| 22552s | from atand theace cuz that started to |
| 22554s | slip away as you mentioned right with |
| 22556s | the um uh with the ignis weapon suddenly |
| 22559s | that's a way that priest can even |
| 22561s | without dirty rat actually stabilize and |
| 22564s | feel some level of safety but yeah |
| 22566s | mukbanf face got through there so |
| 22568s | there's a loss for the priest for |
| 22569s | balance mcface getting the Mage over the |
| 22572s | line H but there's still plenty more to |
| 22575s | to go where that came from because |
| 22577s | there's like I've been saying all |
| 22579s | weekend I feel like any player who gets |
| 22581s | to play Mage in a match should win right |
| 22585s | at some point like mage shouldn't be the |
| 22587s | deck that causes them trouble uh so yeah |
| 22590s | we'll have to see how the rest of this |
| 22591s | match up goes but what a close start to |
| 22594s | this |
| 22596s | series yeah absolutely and you know |
| 22599s | priest is a deck that you're always |
| 22602s | giving your opponent time and so uh Mage |
| 22607s | usually just has more options the longer |
| 22609s | the game goes I think it's it's really |
| 22611s | just that big weapon that can sometimes |
| 22614s | shut the door but turn 10 is very very |
| 22618s | long time to give them age as very |
| 22621s | frequently it's it's on 10 Mana where |
| 22623s | they do kill you yeah I feel like that |
| 22626s | matchup is just all about timing right |
| 22628s | because you can see oh well what if a |
| 22630s | dirty rat came down earlier you know to |
| 22633s | try and get the SA or what if maybe |
| 22636s | there was one turn delayed from at ban |
| 22638s | face so suddenly the weapon could swing |
| 22640s | again then we play a completely |
| 22642s | different game of hearthstone and things |
| 22644s | look very very different overall so I I |
| 22646s | think there is or or that was clearly |
| 22648s | just that sweet spot of it's just in |
| 22651s | time to push that damage cuz any later |
| 22653s | and it would have been game over I think |
| 22655s | from at bface but also any earlier like |
| 22658s | before the weapon gets to swing there |
| 22660s | was a chance that at bface could kill |
| 22661s | them then right so those like just |
| 22664s | really really clear timings are very |
| 22666s | very difficult to sort of guess at when |
| 22668s | you're in that position but without |
| 22670s | further Ado we're get into game number |
| 22671s | two banter face jumping onto the Warrior |
| 22674s | One of the uh the rarest classes |
| 22677s | seen out in the wild this weekend going |
| 22679s | up against this priest once again I've |
| 22681s | got a funny feeling ID Vice that bounce |
| 22683s | is going to stick on priest till he wins |
| 22685s | with it or goes home I mean I can |
| 22688s | respect that right it's it's sort of the |
| 22690s | deck that you just like all right this |
| 22693s | one I I need to get a win with it is it |
| 22695s | was the one you know potential awkward |
| 22697s | or weak link |
| 22699s | and you know again I feel like it must |
| 22702s | be a comfort pick if you brought it so |
| 22705s | yeah |
| 22707s | so in this |
| 22710s | matchup if the Odin doesn't |
| 22714s | happen would you say it's very likely to |
| 22717s | just be game to balance is that is that |
| 22719s | as as if we were going to oversimplify |
| 22721s | the |
| 22722s | matchup would you agree I think I would |
| 22725s | agree because you know there's two ways |
| 22728s | there's there's a late Odin and there's |
| 22729s | a dirty ratted Odin and uh certainly |
| 22734s | the dirty ratted Odin is is just very |
| 22737s | unlikely you're going to get there it |
| 22738s | kind of comes down to ignis weapon at |
| 22740s | that point I mean in in sort of both |
| 22742s | situations it comes down to ignis weapon |
| 22743s | I think you're you're looking for that |
| 22745s | wind Fury at least in the case of a late |
| 22747s | Odin sometimes you can set up situations |
| 22750s | where you get that wind Fury weapon and |
| 22753s | you just sort of save it until you |
| 22755s | finally throw down Odin and you get to |
| 22759s | just multiply your armor cards in |
| 22762s | particular the the tradable ones that |
| 22764s | you've maybe been holding on to this |
| 22765s | whole time and |
| 22766s | furiously trading to look for that Odin |
| 22769s | but if it gets dirty rat it's it's tough |
| 22771s | times for The Warrior yeah well let's |
| 22774s | see how it goes here is B uh starts to |
| 22777s | try and get going here with the priest |
| 22779s | of course just going to go Forge that |
| 22781s | creation |
| 22784s | protocol and just start this the slow |
| 22786s | buildup right uh just build up all the |
| 22789s | resources again I think we saw in the |
| 22791s | previous game right where there was what |
| 22792s | three or I think there was only three |
| 22794s | locations on board at the same time for |
| 22796s | balance right just you know build that |
| 22798s | sort of preload that value uh in there |
| 22801s | is love everlasting as well available in |
| 22803s | hand looks like it's going to get |
| 22804s | dropped down on curve but yeah just |
| 22806s | getting everything set up but again a |
| 22810s | lot of the game will revolve around how |
| 22813s | this Odin makes an |
| 22816s | appearance yeah and once again I think |
| 22818s | the best time to draw Odin in this |
| 22821s | matchup is on turn eight as soon as you |
| 22825s | are on eight Mana if it comes into the |
| 22827s | hand then because there's there's no way |
| 22829s | for the priest to sort of steal it away |
| 22831s | from you |
| 22834s | thename |
| 22841s | never and we're not seeing the discovers |
| 22844s | here but I imagine as the priest we're |
| 22846s | going for a |
| 22852s | five well this is another matchup where |
| 22854s | you can go for a 10 |
| 22856s | assuming the Odin doesn't come down |
| 22858s | terribly early and out armor what the |
| 22860s | warrior is able |
| 22861s | to present in terms of |
| 22877s | damage having a a little bit of |
| 22880s | technical difficulties in terms of not |
| 22882s | seeing the discovers and LU we'll find |
| 22885s | out quickly and and we we have a rough |
| 22888s | guess as to what balance we'll want |
| 22890s | right generally speaking oh actually |
| 22892s | went for five so went for an on curve |
| 22894s | play okay it's I guess it's not always |
| 22896s | 10 I'm slightly upset I mean there's not |
| 22899s | a lot of fives in the deck I I feel like |
| 22901s | it was frequently five or 10 with the |
| 22904s | caveat that if there's something that |
| 22906s | needs to be addressed immediately you |
| 22908s | take a one right if you're in a very |
| 22910s | aggressive match up like frequently |
| 22911s | against Mech Rogue you do ones looking |
| 22913s | for poisonous deal damage |
| 22922s | I would say the premium five in the |
| 22924s | circumstance would be wind Fury and |
| 22926s | summon a four |
| 22928s | drop yeah I would say so just pressure |
| 22931s | pressure pressure right you're trying to |
| 22932s | get a hold of that |
| 22933s | board do you have this in a |
| 22940s | bigger there is Banter ignis which is |
| 22943s | another thing that you don't terribly |
| 22945s | want to get dirty ratted |
| 22947s | Yeah It's Tricky though cuz like you |
| 22949s | said that it's not like there are |
| 22952s | hundreds of minions in the deck right |
| 22954s | from it Banner face to try and clog the |
| 22956s | hand on purpose to try and Dodge it |
| 22958s | because he does need to be uh proactive |
| 22960s | himself I see second ignis come down now |
| 22964s | so again we'll discover the Discover |
| 22967s | when we see it we do have some uh |
| 22970s | discover I think it's just the spectator |
| 22972s | discover bug that happens sometimes does |
| 22974s | go for a 10 the second time round which |
| 22976s | makes |
| 22977s | sense yeah absolutely and I'm banter |
| 22981s | face here you know this isn't really |
| 22983s | pressure you're not terribly worried |
| 22984s | about pressure from the priest but you |
| 22986s | do maybe want to just go ahead and Forge |
| 22988s | and play your own ignis try and look for |
| 22991s | that wind Fury |
| 22996s | weapon and in the case of the warrior |
| 22998s | you're happy to take ones because all |
| 23000s | you really care about most of the time |
| 23002s | is having that wind Fury tag these |
| 23005s | priests do 10 run so you can't really |
| 23008s | your weapon picking a |
| 23016s | 10 decisions decisions from bner face |
| 23020s | here really tricky CU there are just a |
| 23023s | lot of options even with this Finley |
| 23025s | right it's like oh do I leave the Finley |
| 23028s | in hand to try and cause shenanigans |
| 23031s | that way um do you want to play Finley |
| 23034s | to just cycle through or reverse cycle |
| 23036s | the deck kind of tricky but they just go |
| 23038s | for the board presence instead is going |
| 23040s | to say you know what forget about Odin |
| 23042s | for now I'm going to go for plan a which |
| 23045s | is just beat my opponent |
| 23047s | up yeah and there are you know a few of |
| 23049s | these board building cards available so |
| 23052s | the warrior the primary one |
| 23054s | being uh this this riff the bridge riff |
| 23057s | although banter did foro a minion draw |
| 23060s | there by by taking this route since the |
| 23063s | bridge Rift was not finaled uh to get |
| 23066s | the the double meant losing out on |
| 23069s | replaying aorus riff we do get to see |
| 23071s | this five Mana weapon uh which is the |
| 23074s | deal for and life steal just keep |
| 23076s | balance topped off in the mid game |
| 23085s | here when does this prison of yog come |
| 23088s | into play my question when are we going |
| 23090s | to start seeing |
| 23091s | fireworks you know this used to be I |
| 23093s | think just a regular yog pre pre- |
| 23096s | balance patch but uh right has since |
| 23098s | been swapped back for the prison is just |
| 23100s | sometimes you need an X Factor and I |
| 23103s | suppose that's something I I hadn't |
| 23104s | listed because I I'm not really a prison |
| 23107s | of Yong player myself but you know every |
| 23111s | once in a |
| 23112s | while you have to be a True Believer to |
| 23114s | play that card you have to just close |
| 23116s | your eyes press the button and |
| 23119s | go we've had quite a few Believers this |
| 23121s | tournament there is the wind fury on the |
| 23123s | second one we'll get to see what Mana |
| 23125s | cost was picked and it is the one Mana |
| 23127s | so that is the optimal weapon for the |
| 23129s | warrior you see the thumbs up from B |
| 23132s | there even the gain two armor I think |
| 23136s | yeah why not right |
| 23140s | I I guess that the pause here is does |
| 23144s | banter want to use it to actually just |
| 23146s | draw cards because we doesn't have Odin |
| 23149s | yet right is there a world where he |
| 23150s | actually wants the card draw to be able |
| 23152s | to just use it to try and get to that |
| 23154s | Wing condition or is he saving the |
| 23157s | weapon for the win condition yeah I mean |
| 23160s | there that's possibility there's always |
| 23162s | the option as well of just like well I'm |
| 23163s | going to take some time so my opponent |
| 23165s | doesn't know that I got the best weapon |
| 23167s | possible uh and you know then you maybe |
| 23170s | just hold on to this go for turn nine |
| 23174s | you Finley and try and play Odin that |
| 23177s | same |
| 23180s | turn and yeah this is go time for the |
| 23182s | dirty rats from balance yeah there goes |
| 23186s | the MCB face will be very happy to see |
| 23188s | especially if there's a second one |
| 23190s | getting played now yeah pulling no |
| 23192s | minions |
| 23195s | yeah balance gets the bad |
| 23198s | news you know still good position on |
| 23201s | board |
| 23202s | but Bo is kind of irrelevant for most if |
| 23206s | not all of of this match up for these |
| 23209s | two |
| 23210s | decks yeah it's like oh B the face is |
| 23213s | like oh I can use my removal cards now |
| 23218s | perfect yeah this would now be the |
| 23220s | perfect time to draw Odin and not only |
| 23222s | is it exactly on curve but also just |
| 23225s | seeing those dirty rats get played out |
| 23227s | but not going to be drawn quite |
| 23231s | yet I almost wonder at what point you |
| 23234s | prison for |
| 23235s | codra well I think you know the shield |
| 23238s | Block in hand right like there is the |
| 23240s | well there's maybe the weapon I'm not |
| 23242s | sure exactly the outcome of what the |
| 23244s | weapon was after what I'm imagine was wi |
| 23249s | Fury it all depends on what ban or where |
| 23254s | banter feels he he is in this matchup |
| 23256s | right after seeing those rats is is this |
| 23259s | just like oh well you know as long as |
| 23262s | there's no crazy disaster that comes out |
| 23264s | I'll be fine or is it I still have to |
| 23267s | get a lot of work |
| 23269s | done I think banter can |
| 23272s | expect that the 10 Mana weapon is you |
| 23275s | know what's waiting in the wings here |
| 23277s | right having seen the five come down you |
| 23279s | figure all right there is going to be a |
| 23281s | 10 meta weapon to contend with my |
| 23282s | opponent still has coin so being a |
| 23285s | little conservative with the removal |
| 23287s | just using the trial by fire saving the |
| 23290s | blade storm uh once again like you know |
| 23293s | board usually not super impactful so |
| 23297s | just trying to conserve as many |
| 23298s | resources as |
| 23304s | possible |
| 23307s | one thing I will say is M bface looks |
| 23308s | pretty relaxed at this point in the |
| 23312s | game the most emotive of players but |
| 23315s | also just the fact that he's just s sat |
| 23317s | back and thinking y it's fine we'll get |
| 23319s | there I mean apart from you know not |
| 23322s | getting the opportunity to Finley he has |
| 23325s | dodged the big hurdle which is getting |
| 23328s | dirty ratted going into your turn eight |
| 23331s | and now it's just a matter of making |
| 23334s | sure that Odin is you know somewhere in |
| 23336s | the next in the top half of his deck |
| 23338s | well I was going to say that is a |
| 23340s | potential problem right because with |
| 23342s | Finley being gone now because it that |
| 23344s | did get pulled by dirty rat there's no |
| 23346s | like uh oh well it's not in this there |
| 23348s | it is never mind um it's not in this |
| 23352s | part of the deck I'll search for the |
| 23353s | bottom half right uh but obviously now |
| 23355s | with Odin coming out yeah banter giving |
| 23357s | the nods he is quite happy about the |
| 23360s | outcome of this so far and we might see |
| 23363s | fireworks next turn put it that way |
| 23366s | way yeah the strike from history being |
| 23369s | used from amul means that there is some |
| 23373s | other removal that has to be played so |
| 23374s | no coin weapon from balance even if |
| 23377s | there were some good defensive options I |
| 23379s | can see there's wind fury on that runic |
| 23381s | great hammer I'm not sure if uh there is |
| 23384s | the eight armor again which would have |
| 23386s | been something that balance is looking |
| 23387s | for |
| 23389s | but yeah now balance is very much on the |
| 23392s | back foot that Viper does not do |
| 23394s | anything to this one Mana wi Fury weapon |
| 23398s | as long as it it comes down the turn |
| 23400s | that lethal is happening yeah that's the |
| 23402s | benefit isn't it of going for the one |
| 23404s | Mana is the fact that you you equip it |
| 23407s | and and go basically on the same turn |
| 23409s | almost all the time right so uh yeah any |
| 23412s | removal isn't the end of the world good |
| 23413s | taunt to uh summon from balance though |
| 23416s | that's going to help out a little |
| 23418s | bit does have light to uh deal with its |
| 23424s | Odin light and then can even location on |
| 23428s | the what is it I think that did say gain |
| 23430s | armor yeah it just goes weapon gain |
| 23432s | armor right oh right the discount yeah |
| 23434s | yeah yeah so he does have I was |
| 23436s | forgetting the discount as long as you |
| 23438s | order it properly where you uh do the |
| 23440s | light first there is still double bash |
| 23443s | Shield block and you know a million ways |
| 23445s | to deal with this board and push a lot |
| 23447s | of damage uh so is that very smug |
| 23451s | eyebrow raise from MC face I'm not sure |
| 23454s | well this |
| 23456s | complicate things for sure |
| 23463s | yeah prison okay are we are we blad |
| 23467s | storming what's What's Happening Here |
| 23469s | prison first my |
| 23473s | interest there is always some risk to |
| 23476s | the prison as well cuz there's uh |
| 23479s | potential to burn things although that |
| 23481s | was the only minion left in the deck and |
| 23484s | also potential to discard your hand |
| 23487s | there is that tampering that's a |
| 23490s | possible random spell which discards |
| 23493s | your hand and shuffles one cost copies |
| 23495s | into your |
| 23508s | deck it does have the blade storm but |
| 23511s | unfortunately now because the prison |
| 23513s | doesn't really have a good way to clear |
| 23515s | the rest of this |
| 23517s | off but on the other hand the last |
| 23520s | ability remaining is the make a copy so |
| 23522s | unless balance plays something a little |
| 23524s | scary to make a copy |
| 23526s | of there's not a whole lot of use being |
| 23530s | U you know made out of |
| 23538s | it yeah the hand doesn't scream uh you |
| 23543s | know winning moment here from balance |
| 23545s | does it I think obviously the weapon is |
| 23547s | fantastic but other than that nothing |
| 23551s | really feels like it gets worked and |
| 23553s | like all this weapon disruption or |
| 23556s | removal is good in theory but with Odin |
| 23559s | it kind of becomes null and void is this |
| 23562s | just going to be a a renthal and copy |
| 23572s | it get a pair of five sixes no |
| 23576s | okay together in harmony |
| 23584s | quickly are we actually going to see a |
| 23587s | Titan be able to |
| 23589s | attack I know what a rarity or the |
| 23595s | treat that's an ah I'm not sure I've |
| 23599s | ever seen that card played |
| 23604s | hedra |
| 23610s | yeah it's kind of interesting with the |
| 23611s | world |
| 23613s | poool right like it's a Potential Threat |
| 23618s | I guess is is the word I'll |
| 23620s | use and balance placing some pretty high |
| 23623s | value on the two Mana reduction from |
| 23625s | love everlasting you know could have |
| 23627s | just let it let it pass there figure |
| 23629s | we're on 10 Mana don't need it anymore |
| 23630s | but willing to kill his own five5 saying |
| 23633s | you know hey damage does matter for me |
| 23635s | this game I just need to run you out of |
| 23637s | stuff so I may as well you know keep |
| 23639s | this buff going another way to do that |
| 23642s | though would have been to actually go |
| 23643s | for like a putride angle maybe play |
| 23646s | putride copy it and kill the one three |
| 23650s | get a couple of potions and use those to |
| 23652s | keep the love everlasting |
| 23654s | going yeah I think it's okay though cuz |
| 23657s | if you think about it the the ruin isn't |
| 23660s | going to get much value against MCB face |
| 23663s | right there's like nothing really to hit |
| 23667s | pretty much with with shadowwood |
| 23670s | ruin yeah true Odin it was the only big |
| 23673s | minion and that having passed I mean |
| 23676s | there's I think no minions left in the |
| 23678s | deck for for bace right so it's just you |
| 23681s | it's I think it's one of those just just |
| 23683s | get it out the hand right just get it |
| 23685s | thrown away while you can while you've |
| 23686s | got the |
| 23689s | time looks like it's going to be putride |
| 23692s | now though now this is about as much Val |
| 23695s | as balance could expect to get off the |
| 23696s | pure |
| 23707s | side though I think we do have to use |
| 23710s | the the weapon if we want to clear that |
| 23715s | 36 which is sinking 10 |
| 23720s | damage yeah I think if that's the case |
| 23722s | then you just don't bother yeah cuz |
| 23725s | this's the whirpool right I think like |
| 23727s | the the whirpool might even come down |
| 23729s | just to sort of juice oh never mind no |
| 23731s | I'm just going to play the hedra now |
| 23739s | okay oh I wonder if balance made the |
| 23745s | mistake that I was making in my head |
| 23746s | there which is thinking that hedra was |
| 23749s | based off the spells that were in your |
| 23750s | hand not the ones you played while it's |
| 23752s | in your hand oh right yeah that's why I |
| 23754s | was talking about whirpool right because |
| 23756s | like you know you play out whilst |
| 23758s | hedra's there and then suddenly that's |
| 23760s | actually a pretty you know pretty |
| 23761s | serious threat on average at least but |
| 23764s | balance sitting on 1 million Health MCB |
| 23767s | face on am measly 11 but there's like |
| 23770s | infinite armor to gain at this |
| 23774s | point yeah the only reason B has been |
| 23777s | holding back on the armor has been just |
| 23779s | because it it does also convert to |
| 23781s | damage right but I think |
| 23785s | probably this this sanitize is going to |
| 23787s | get ripped if he doesn't feel like Child |
| 23791s | by fire is good |
| 23793s | enough yeah I think so I think it's just |
| 23795s | I think that was the moment right just |
| 23797s | uh using the sanitize well I think is so |
| 23800s | key for this deck because if you sort of |
| 23804s | throw it away too early it can be really |
| 23806s | punishing because it does have that sort |
| 23808s | of just remove board effect right like |
| 23811s | that's what it feels like that the text |
| 23813s | says in a lot of these instances is just |
| 23815s | clear the |
| 23818s | board and I like this you know not a |
| 23821s | particularly great three drop Elemental |
| 23823s | to get but it is guaranteed no two |
| 23825s | damage and balance's location is coming |
| 23828s | up so you kind of disincentivize using |
| 23830s | that this |
| 23833s | turn it's also interesting as well cuz |
| 23835s | like banf face is just holding and |
| 23837s | holding um with all this because he just |
| 23839s | knows well it's not lethal so whatever |
| 23843s | and he knows he can't die as well right |
| 23845s | like nothing that balance is going to do |
| 23847s | to him will kill him from an empty board |
| 23850s | not that I can think of anyway you know |
| 23853s | nothing but random generation I think |
| 23855s | sure you know some people might be a |
| 23858s | little scared about you know say if this |
| 23861s | blingtron off of the random legendaries |
| 23864s | were an alakir then combined with this |
| 23866s | location you know that would be 10 first |
| 23869s | damage potential right but yeah largely |
| 23872s | outside of those Fringe scenarios the 10 |
| 23875s | Mana weapon was about as much damage as |
| 23877s | you can expect out of the priest and now |
| 23879s | that's out of the way you can feel |
| 23881s | pretty secure in your you know 16 health |
| 23883s | over |
| 23892s | there oh looks like it's going to be the |
| 23894s | whirpool as well again balance thinking |
| 23897s | well there's not going to be that many |
| 23898s | more minions left can't really deal with |
| 23900s | these and don't want to be taking any |
| 23902s | extra armor damage cuz that's kind of |
| 23904s | like the the weird issue um with armor |
| 23908s | on the priest right is that well you |
| 23909s | can't really heal it so once it's gone |
| 23911s | it's gone uh to an extent anyway |
| 23915s | so yeah armor becomes a very precious |
| 23918s | resource any damage you took before you |
| 23920s | got it you're you're fine with being |
| 23921s | able to heal up but uh the armor once |
| 23924s | it's gone it's |
| 23929s | gone now I believe the last riff played |
| 23934s | was a verse |
| 23936s | riff |
| 23937s | [Music] |
| 23940s | I I think I'm with you on |
| 23947s | that so if there was some scenario to |
| 23951s | like play that one Mana weapon and |
| 23954s | finale the verse riff we have potential |
| 23957s | for quite a bit of damage but yeah just |
| 23959s | going to go for the bridge rift this |
| 23961s | turn it's not lethal yet I think it's |
| 23963s | probably going to involve both of |
| 23966s | the I can never remember the name of the |
| 23968s | spell but the tradable the one he just |
| 23970s | got rid of combined with the oh heavy PL |
| 23973s | sword yeah heavy plate yeah yeah yeah |
| 23976s | yeah I I think so too and I think that's |
| 23977s | what's I I I was quiet for a second CU |
| 23980s | I'm just staring at Ban's cards that's |
| 23983s | left you know trying to see if you know |
| 23985s | what's available is he waiting for |
| 23987s | anything specific but there's like I |
| 23989s | think there's like two from the depth |
| 23991s | which doesn't really do anything at this |
| 23992s | point um there's uh there's not that |
| 23996s | much more in the deck apart from as you |
| 23999s | mentioned those heavy plates so I'm |
| 24001s | right there with you I think that's |
| 24002s | what's going to be needed here there is |
| 24004s | the trial by fire just to um defend a |
| 24006s | little bit here and I think that's the |
| 24007s | benefit of these Rifts is that you just |
| 24010s | saw or bace just saw balance have to use |
| 24013s | a whirpool to deal with a quite a small |
| 24015s | board so it's like right if these |
| 24017s | minions again get to a just peel this |
| 24019s | armor or any of this armor then it's |
| 24021s | they're going to be very very successful |
| 24023s | indeed at helping him get uh you know |
| 24025s | the finisher on this game cuz even like |
| 24027s | look at that even the behemoth's kind of |
| 24029s | useless apart from as a actual minion |
| 24032s | threat as opposed to Healing right |
| 24037s | right he's going to be able to clear the |
| 24039s | board and represent some uh threats |
| 24041s | himself but |
| 24042s | again oh there's even this Hammer to |
| 24044s | sort of do some you know peel more of |
| 24046s | this armor away until you can get hold |
| 24048s | of the the big burst turn as well yeah |
| 24052s | absolutely and and you know meanwhile |
| 24054s | you're feeling safe on your own life |
| 24055s | total so you don't even need to clear if |
| 24057s | you don't want to yeah as long as this |
| 24060s | armor number from balance goes downwards |
| 24063s | uh M Bandon face is going to be pretty |
| 24066s | happy I think the the interes in fact |
| 24069s | sorry um is just can or or how long will |
| 24073s | M bface have to wait to get hold of both |
| 24076s | heavy plates if they're needed right I |
| 24078s | think that's the the question mark I |
| 24081s | have yeah for sure and it's you know |
| 24083s | just a little trick here when you're |
| 24085s | drawing one card a turn you kind of need |
| 24088s | both but when you've seen one you're |
| 24090s | trading to look for other stuff to do in |
| 24092s | the meantime so that makes it a lot |
| 24094s | harder to you know actually piece two of |
| 24096s | them together in a turn I think |
| 24097s | Craftsman Hammer is one of the you know |
| 24100s | things that Panter was maybe looking for |
| 24102s | in this moment yeah to help fill the Gap |
| 24104s | yeah but it may come down to a you know |
| 24108s | prison result in terms of actually being |
| 24110s | able to pick up both of those heavy |
| 24113s | plates to use on the same |
| 24118s | turn and again he's like is this world |
| 24122s | poool is this uh |
| 24124s | Behemoth it's probably going to be Viper |
| 24126s | one way or the other right like this |
| 24128s | Viper is not going to get a better |
| 24130s | chance |
| 24132s | because I don't think there's a world |
| 24134s | where balance thinks that this weapon in |
| 24137s | hand from at bace is going to be a 10 |
| 24139s | cost mhm so this Viper's not getting any |
| 24144s | any more value than killing this weapon |
| 24146s | now when the blink Tron actually is you |
| 24150s | know interesting as a kind of sneaky |
| 24153s | secondary weapon destruction so I I |
| 24155s | would think you may be just again |
| 24157s | protecting that armor you go in on the |
| 24159s | Whirl poool figuring there's not too |
| 24160s | many minion boards left you can play the |
| 24162s | Viper on the other side of it and then |
| 24165s | if that does mean that banter is like oh |
| 24168s | the Viper is used I can play a 10 Mana |
| 24170s | weapon which of course we can see isn't |
| 24172s | there but it's got to be inbalance mind |
| 24175s | of okay well at least I have this backup |
| 24178s | of if there's 10 Mana weapon I can still |
| 24180s | destroy |
| 24182s | it I was actually wondering if there was |
| 24185s | a world where balance synchronizes the |
| 24187s | armor vendor |
| 24189s | there yeah he's going to rush drop Viper |
| 24192s | break the weapon and say your turn my |
| 24196s | friend this can help with the |
| 24200s | um with the draw as well right from the |
| 24203s | deps I I wasn't valuing it that much but |
| 24206s | I guess if it gets to |
| 24208s | guarantee none of those are heavy |
| 24212s | played oh and you have to put one of |
| 24214s | them on |
| 24216s | top yeah I mean it's what would you say |
| 24221s | it's probably Bladestorm right there are |
| 24223s | no minions left in the deck so chorus |
| 24225s | riff is |
| 24226s | just not nothing because it has finale |
| 24229s | right but it's kind of nothing it's |
| 24232s | about as nothing a card that exists in |
| 24233s | the B Face's final six cards here see if |
| 24236s | I can show you the cards is it going to |
| 24238s | work no it is not I don't know why I |
| 24240s | pressed that |
| 24241s | button no no it it it works yeah |
| 24245s | first oh well it's showing it's showing |
| 24247s | the hand as well yes I was going to say |
| 24250s | that's showing way more than six cards |
| 24253s | but still that is going to be some card |
| 24254s | draws you said prison now coming out |
| 24257s | there is a prison and I think this is |
| 24259s | why people are willing to play it |
| 24262s | because when it is you know the resource |
| 24265s | of Last Resort sometimes it just gets |
| 24267s | you there and that is a yeah huge swing |
| 24270s | for banter getting those those cards |
| 24273s | picking up both heavy plates we see one |
| 24275s | of them did get the reduction even |
| 24276s | though it wasn't viewable in the dredge |
| 24279s | earlier but uh yeah getting Miracle |
| 24283s | growth and uh you know a 99 taunt if he |
| 24286s | wants it on the following turn at this |
| 24287s | point dirty rat's just going to be |
| 24288s | hilarious if it comes out because |
| 24291s | suddenly there is a little bit scary I |
| 24294s | don't think it is going to come out |
| 24295s | because of that of course I me balance |
| 24297s | knows what's there right that there were |
| 24298s | no minions in deck before and now |
| 24299s | there's a 99 in |
| 24304s | hand but B face I think there was trying |
| 24307s | to just quickly add up things work out |
| 24308s | what he could afford to play what he |
| 24310s | couldn't afford to play how much man he |
| 24311s | needs to spend kind of similar to what |
| 24313s | we just saw in the well what we just saw |
| 24315s | what feels like an age ago now in the uh |
| 24317s | the Mage matchup of just working out |
| 24319s | exactly what this uh from at Ban's side |
| 24322s | of things hopefully the final turn no no |
| 24325s | no he's playing it for the Tot |
| 24329s | but oh he's just going to |
| 24331s | sron wait there's not enough Mana to |
| 24334s | replay another one I mean it would just |
| 24336s | be to keep the spell discount going but |
| 24340s | yeah I think balance was was just kind |
| 24342s | of in his head oh there's no minions |
| 24344s | left I'm going to play this taunt out |
| 24346s | sort of forgot that that means there's a |
| 24347s | N9 there yeah I thought this would have |
| 24352s | been again maybe slightly miscounted of |
| 24354s | just saying oh well actually if you play |
| 24357s | another one now that's still more taunts |
| 24359s | than there are Minions on board right uh |
| 24362s | so that would have been something but |
| 24363s | yeah kind of interesting there but |
| 24365s | there's runic sword and here's about to |
| 24367s | be 18 bajillion damage yeah and it |
| 24371s | really came down to like you said all |
| 24373s | that armor was gained earlier on but |
| 24375s | because it was earlier on bender had all |
| 24377s | his time to sort of chip away and it |
| 24380s | can't can't be healed back up now he |
| 24382s | finally goes for this Mass massive swing |
| 24385s | uh look at |
| 24387s | this going to be nearly |
| 24389s | 60 yeah yeah yeah nice 54 damage yeah |
| 24394s | basically a million if you round it up |
| 24397s | oh no the game two 5 |
| 24399s | 56 and uh but yeah really really good |
| 24402s | win there from abanda face of course the |
| 24404s | dirty rat on the oding did not happen |
| 24406s | the oding came a relevant time but I |
| 24408s | think for me the real trick there for |
| 24411s | MCB face was good Rec nition of how much |
| 24415s | damage he can do you know at whatever |
| 24418s | point in the game and also acknowledging |
| 24420s | that he should just take it slow there's |
| 24422s | no rush the priest is unlikely to |
| 24426s | surprise kill him as long as he's not on |
| 24428s | like three health or something right um |
| 24431s | and then saying yeah balance has gained |
| 24434s | all this armor fantastic I think was a |
| 24436s | 35ish armor at the highest point I think |
| 24439s | which is a lot but it can't be healed it |
| 24442s | can only be more armor or nothing so the |
| 24444s | heels don't work and it's just I'll just |
| 24446s | Chip Away Chip Away chip away and then |
| 24448s | when it comes down to it when it comes |
| 24450s | down to that final turn it's going to be |
| 24452s | game because that armor will all be gone |
| 24454s | so it's really tricky from balance's |
| 24456s | side because on one hand you could say |
| 24458s | oh it should have saved the weapon |
| 24460s | swings for later you know to gain the |
| 24461s | armor at the last moment but when do you |
| 24463s | know when the last moment is if Odin's |
| 24465s | already been played right that's the |
| 24467s | problem right and once you've started |
| 24469s | you kind of have to keep going because |
| 24471s | it's it's getting chipped away no matter |
| 24474s | what so what do you say Well they're not |
| 24478s | going to be able to they're going to be |
| 24479s | able to Chip Away 16 but but not more |
| 24481s | than that or or like where's the waiting |
| 24483s | moment I think it it's totally |
| 24484s | reasonable to just go all in say I'm |
| 24486s | going to protect this as much as |
| 24487s | possible and you're not always able to |
| 24489s | protect it |
| 24490s | perfectly yeah and suddenly we're only |
| 24493s | one game away is mcbf going to be able |
| 24495s | to clear this up 3-0 or is balance going |
| 24498s | to be able to fight back um bface now |
| 24501s | only has his Mech Rogue left the Nate |
| 24505s | Shaman was banned out H so it's just |
| 24507s | Mech Rogue to go against basically the |
| 24509s | whole lineup uh from balance so very |
| 24512s | very scary indeed because time after |
| 24515s | time this weekend we've seen Mech Rogue |
| 24517s | get the job done either through you know |
| 24519s | an extremely aggressive openings or |
| 24521s | surprisingly still managing to to finish |
| 24524s | the job in the mid to late |
| 24526s | game yeah it's a deck that you know on |
| 24529s | on one level you think oh it's just |
| 24531s | turbo and if you don't win by turn five |
| 24533s | it's its game over but uh it does have a |
| 24535s | lot of staying power if it is able to |
| 24538s | you know pick up those gear shifts Etc |
| 24541s | and there's just so many like little |
| 24545s | plays you can make with with mimran to |
| 24547s | like squeeze out extra value or with |
| 24550s | Ultron uh and uh a lot of times we we've |
| 24554s | seen yeah the game goes long but they're |
| 24555s | able to just squeeze in a little damage |
| 24557s | here a little damage there such that I |
| 24559s | mean krabo has almost been the allstar |
| 24561s | in those situations for just right |
| 24563s | getting that bit of extra damage over |
| 24564s | the Finish Line yeah and I can only |
| 24567s | imagine what's going through B's head |
| 24568s | right now because those have been two |
| 24571s | you know pretty rough games right of not |
| 24574s | I I don't want to say hopeless games but |
| 24575s | probably feeling like that when you're |
| 24577s | playing the sort of slow control deck |
| 24580s | and then you just die right and again |
| 24583s | it's not like mcface did anything to out |
| 24586s | of this world it's just that's what |
| 24587s | those two decks the Mage and the warrior |
| 24589s | do but it it feels a little bit rough |
| 24591s | when you're not hitting right it didn't |
| 24593s | hit the didn't hit the uh the Odin but I |
| 24595s | guess that's the sort of game you play |
| 24597s | right if you bring a control priest and |
| 24599s | a lot of these sort of burst otk |
| 24601s | matchups come down to dirty rats when |
| 24603s | you hit you hit when you miss you miss |
| 24605s | we're going to go jump in to game number |
| 24607s | three though and I think that was |
| 24608s | fortifications the plus one Health per |
| 24610s | turn um on a minion correct me if I'm |
| 24612s | wrong if you sorry uh it it was and that |
| 24615s | is a pretty good one for the mech Rogue |
| 24619s | but we are actually going to see uh |
| 24621s | Rogue V Rogue I think balance needed a |
| 24623s | break there from the control priest |
| 24626s | understandable even though I would say |
| 24628s | this is the matchup that you want with |
| 24630s | the control priest there's definitely |
| 24633s | some Merit to saying okay well let's get |
| 24634s | my harder matchups out of the way and |
| 24636s | then hopefully it's a cruise if you get |
| 24639s | to play that control freest again yeah I |
| 24641s | think a lot of it honestly is that there |
| 24643s | are certain players that go one way |
| 24645s | certain players that go the other when |
| 24646s | it comes to this kind of situation but I |
| 24649s | would guess that bounce is just like I |
| 24651s | just need a moment away from priest cuz |
| 24653s | those were two very you know drawn out |
| 24656s | kind of long crazy games let's just jump |
| 24658s | over to somewh else because he's going |
| 24659s | to have to play priest versus Metro if |
| 24661s | he wants to win this match up anyway he |
| 24663s | has to win with all three of his decks |
| 24665s | so um you know that's going to come when |
| 24667s | it |
| 24669s | comes and I think that's why a lot of |
| 24672s | players have opted not to bring |
| 24674s | something like a control priest to an |
| 24675s | event like this because there is just |
| 24677s | added mental strain in terms of your |
| 24680s | games are longer and you know should you |
| 24683s | continue to lose with priests your |
| 24685s | losses are longer so uh I think I |
| 24689s | totally understand why you know so many |
| 24691s | players have opted for other options |
| 24693s | like the you know nature Shaman or |
| 24695s | Arcane Hunter these faster decks just |
| 24699s | because even if you do say oh I feel |
| 24702s | okay about control priest I mean three |
| 24704s | priests did make it to the top eight one |
| 24707s | of them Shadow but it's just not a deck |
| 24711s | that certainly I would want to be |
| 24714s | you know going all in on for an event |
| 24716s | like this where it's just taking up so |
| 24718s | much time and and mental strain |
| 24721s | throughout the |
| 24722s | event yeah it's something I look I |
| 24724s | struggle as a SLE well knows once I get |
| 24727s | to the four and a half hours straight |
| 24729s | casting Mark I struggle to even remotely |
| 24731s | make sense so in terms of playing I |
| 24733s | respect the players who can bring these |
| 24734s | uh slightly slower lineups so far though |
| 24737s | B has been able to put forward some |
| 24739s | level of Defense here against MC Banner |
| 24741s | face keeping things uh keeping the mech |
| 24744s | Rogue in check at least for |
| 24745s | now but he's going to be able to answer |
| 24747s | with the gatekeeper magnetized going to |
| 24750s | make this nice value trade and this is |
| 24752s | where you start to get a little bit |
| 24753s | afraid right if you're balanced in this |
| 24755s | situation cuz you just sat there |
| 24757s | thinking oh oh no like that's going to |
| 24760s | stick and now I'm |
| 24762s | afraid yeah and oh let's Health buff |
| 24767s | again you know I said from the beginning |
| 24769s | I think this favors the mech Rogue |
| 24772s | and sure enough we're we're kind of |
| 24774s | running away with this one that wind |
| 24775s | Fury coming down all the extra coins and |
| 24779s | I think the eyebrow raise there from |
| 24781s | balance is all we need to know yeah want |
| 24784s | to hear my just a bit like ah so that's |
| 24786s | how it's going to go M banter face hands |
| 24788s | in the air just saying right do you have |
| 24791s | something do you not are there any kind |
| 24792s | of concoctions that are going to help |
| 24794s | and just like that Palance has just said |
| 24797s | no thank you that's enough for me and M |
| 24800s | banter face is going to be going to the |
| 24803s | the finals to face off against pocket |
| 24806s | train two very intense games earlier |
| 24810s | finished off by me Rogue being me Rogue |
| 24814s | what a way to end this match yeah |
| 24817s | absolutely and I got to say I'm I'm a |
| 24819s | little you know biased in terms of |
| 24822s | wanting bface to get through there right |
| 24824s | is our our our last hold out for |
| 24826s | America's region but uh also in terms of |
| 24829s | you know I catch his streams every once |
| 24831s | in a while he's he's a really fun guy |
| 24833s | and and uh yeah he's been I mean all of |
| 24836s | these players have been grinding |
| 24838s | massively but bface has been a recurring |
| 24840s | name this year uh you know not |
| 24843s | necessarily in the the top eight of |
| 24844s | every event the way the pocket has been |
| 24846s | but certainly been present at each of |
| 24847s | these events this year yeah and and |
| 24850s | honestly what a final it's going to be |
| 24852s | uh there's going to be some uh some |
| 24854s | Stakes on the line extra at least for |
| 24856s | the casters since it's going to be |
| 24857s | pretty much UK versus the America so uh |
| 24860s | that's going to be a pretty spicy one |
| 24862s | and I am |
| 24863s | one I would love to cast it of course |
| 24865s | but I I am off for this next match but I |
| 24867s | will very much enjoy putting my feet up |
| 24869s | and watching this finals because it's |
| 24871s | going to be fantastic simply two of the |
| 24873s | best players we've had at at least all |
| 24875s | year at the very least even saying that |
| 24878s | so it's going to be absolutely fantastic |
| 24879s | we're going to go to a quick break while |
| 24881s | we get this finals set up but don't go |
| 24884s | anywhere it's going to be amazing we'll |
| 24885s | be right |
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| 25350s | it's finals time everybody and what a |
| 25353s | final we have got mcbf face pocket train |
| 25356s | sttle they're all here all of your three |
| 25358s | favorite people um two of them are |
| 25360s | streamers one of them used to do so |
| 25361s | sttle how's it going uh it's going great |
| 25365s | it was a bit of a deranged intro but I'm |
| 25367s | I'm here for it I am a genuinely really |
| 25371s | really really excited for this final I |
| 25374s | think in terms of quality of players we |
| 25377s | very arguably have the best player in |
| 25380s | Europe against the best player in |
| 25381s | Americas um I think that's almost |
| 25383s | inarguable on pocket side for for Europe |
| 25386s | on and you know bit of an argument for |
| 25387s | bface on the other side I think also you |
| 25390s | know sometimes you you have to put your |
| 25392s | personal biases aside and sometimes you |
| 25394s | just have to declare your personal |
| 25396s | biases and I think also in terms of just |
| 25398s | people that both of us like and actually |
| 25400s | have kind of like personal relationships |
| 25402s | with with and talk to regularly two |
| 25404s | players that we're really delighted are |
| 25405s | doing really well in this tournament as |
| 25407s | well so um I am really really excited to |
| 25411s | get my team sunk into this one I think |
| 25413s | it should be a fantastic final for our |
| 25416s | yeah and I think from the viewers right |
| 25417s | I think people have watched these two |
| 25419s | players come through the whole 10mon |
| 25421s | grind to get here um on stream a lot of |
| 25424s | the time I know pocket train slowed it |
| 25426s | down a bit but people know these two |
| 25428s | players they're two of the players |
| 25429s | who've streamed the most of this |
| 25430s | tournament throughout the whole year and |
| 25433s | I think that people would be delighted |
| 25434s | to see these two here obviously there's |
| 25436s | recr there one of the other players |
| 25437s | who's done that me we didn't get to see |
| 25439s | much this weekend but another one they |
| 25441s | they've really helped this tournament |
| 25443s | Along by showing us the insights of how |
| 25445s | the ladder has |
| 25448s | unfolded probably two of the best |
| 25449s | players they absolutely are and you see |
| 25451s | some of those final moments of POG train |
| 25453s | getting over the line I think it's very |
| 25454s | fitting that we are looking at the |
| 25455s | nature Sharman here because I made this |
| 25457s | point uh during pocket semi-final is I |
| 25460s | think part of the reason why he has been |
| 25462s | so successful is that he has had an |
| 25464s | easier time getting this Shaman out the |
| 25467s | series than a lot of other players have |
| 25470s | some of that has been good play some of |
| 25472s | that has been good fortune some of that |
| 25474s | has been bad play from the opponents |
| 25476s | some of that has been a combination of |
| 25477s | you know maybe a little from column A |
| 25479s | and C with that that weird game against |
| 25482s | in the semi-final with CIF being the |
| 25483s | last card but maybe they're being |
| 25485s | different ways out of the game but |
| 25486s | certainly nature Shaman um you know |
| 25490s | glass half empty glass half full you can |
| 25492s | kind of say yeah you know it's sub 50% |
| 25494s | win rate it's not doing great and you |
| 25496s | can frame it that way or you can stack |
| 25498s | it up against the other Decks that a lot |
| 25500s | of other people have put in that fourth |
| 25501s | deck slot and say well it's doing a lot |
| 25503s | better than any of those are um so but I |
| 25506s | do think it's a real talking point for |
| 25507s | the tournament of uh whether that was |
| 25509s | the bring in terms of the the out thebox |
| 25512s | deck that at least every player has at |
| 25514s | least one of it seems and something I |
| 25516s | don't think we've touched on necessarily |
| 25518s | this tournament which is unusual for |
| 25520s | this group of casters is it's very much |
| 25522s | a pocket trained sort of deck draw some |
| 25525s | cards do some stuff count your health |
| 25526s | total know how much you die to know your |
| 25528s | outs kill your opponent somehow like yep |
| 25531s | it's it's his wheelhouse entirely he's |
| 25533s | very good at all of hearthstone but this |
| 25535s | deck is very much like how you define |
| 25538s | him or priest defines him this is |
| 25540s | remarkably similar in a lot of ways to |
| 25542s | that yeah it was one of the fears I had |
| 25544s | coming into this tournament as a pocket |
| 25546s | train enjoyer or is like was there |
| 25547s | really was this really a pocket train |
| 25549s | meta right like you you mentioned B |
| 25551s | priest of course |
| 25552s | um but we've also seen it with mlock |
| 25555s | where he was probably a top five mlock |
| 25557s | player with you only Fury Hunter and a |
| 25559s | couple of others really uh stepping |
| 25561s | above him um he really does like those |
| 25564s | you know card draw heavy bursty damage |
| 25566s | heavy decks in general and this feels |
| 25569s | like a very Tempo focused board-based |
| 25572s | aggr meta overall uh where you know it's |
| 25575s | boards and it's disruption and control |
| 25576s | on the other side um so finding that way |
| 25579s | to just sneak nature Shaman in there I |
| 25581s | think just as a little Comfort pick for |
| 25583s | pocket train has been very very |
| 25585s | interesting but speaking of uh board |
| 25588s | based decks and snowballing and aggro no |
| 25590s | deck in the game really does that better |
| 25592s | than Mech Rogue does and we've seen uh |
| 25594s | both of these players now pocket train |
| 25596s | and MC bface almost one uping each other |
| 25598s | with how gross a start they could get |
| 25601s | rolling with Mech Rogue in their two |
| 25603s | yeah how good must Mech Rogue be if |
| 25606s | anace has brought it instead of bringing |
| 25608s | Miracle like Miracle Rog is one of his |
| 25610s | go-to decks when he he's you wants a |
| 25613s | comfort pick he's brought the Mets I |
| 25615s | think that's um yeah he can play |
| 25617s | anything but it's just as a sign of how |
| 25619s | good this deck must be and it's it's |
| 25621s | shown it right every game we cast Mech |
| 25623s | Rogue it looks like oh they got lucky |
| 25625s | yeah 17 times in a row or something I |
| 25627s | it's not quite that many but you know |
| 25628s | many times in a row the Met has just won |
| 25631s | from nowhere now but got it work out |
| 25633s | against the Sharman because they can |
| 25634s | turn your good card into a pudding and |
| 25637s | that's the end of the game yeah |
| 25639s | primordial pudding that that well-known |
| 25640s | Shaman card um um it's yeah I think me |
| 25644s | Rog was something that I did I was very |
| 25646s | very bullish on would be a good deck in |
| 25648s | this tournament because um you know like |
| 25650s | I played a lot of Mech Rogue I turned |
| 25652s | you on to Mech Rogue and you had a good |
| 25653s | time with Mech Rogue as well um and I |
| 25656s | really stopped having any success with |
| 25658s | it at all as soon as yog appeared |
| 25661s | essentially because then we fell into |
| 25662s | that prison breaker yog meta where if |
| 25664s | you were dumb enough to try and put |
| 25666s | things in the middle and play minions um |
| 25669s | well yog just came along and just you |
| 25671s | stole your one giant magnetic minion oh |
| 25673s | okay I won't make one giant magnetic |
| 25675s | minion I'll spread a little bit wider |
| 25677s | instead okay well yog Mia now that's |
| 25679s | gone anyway right that there felt like |
| 25681s | nothing that you could do with mecro to |
| 25683s | play around that so with Y gone this |
| 25685s | just felt like a natural extension back |
| 25688s | in to the uh to The Meta game what I'll |
| 25691s | be interested to see here as the game |
| 25692s | and final have started is how this feral |
| 25696s | Spirits get used do you just jam it or |
| 25697s | do you wait for a moment when your |
| 25699s | opponent's got an 1111 that's about to |
| 25701s | kill you and then just PL po it on the |
| 25702s | board and say you can't get through this |
| 25703s | it's too difficult I think the only |
| 25705s | thing that makes that question is that |
| 25707s | there is also a turn the tides in hand |
| 25709s | and there is also a jazz base in hand |
| 25711s | right like if um I talk about this a lot |
| 25713s | but this deck really really really wants |
| 25716s | to play a Tempo 3 on turn three a lot of |
| 25718s | the time there I think pocket train |
| 25720s | doing the exact opposite of that and |
| 25723s | playing flash of lightning instead but I |
| 25725s | think understanding already that because |
| 25727s | there is a 47 Divine shield on the board |
| 25730s | none of his threes are Tempo threes |
| 25732s | anymore right like feral Spirits kind of |
| 25734s | garbage doesn't contest turn the Tide's |
| 25736s | kind of garbage doesn't contest so he |
| 25738s | has to go flash of lightning lightning |
| 25740s | reflexes instead this has to be his way |
| 25742s | out of it to go digging with the |
| 25743s | lightning reflexes this time yeah and |
| 25745s | I'm amused obviously because you are the |
| 25747s | main proponent in the entire world of |
| 25749s | playing flash as early as possible in |
| 25752s | this sort of |
| 25753s | situation so oh my |
| 25756s | goodness no |
| 25758s | still what not even close the one that |
| 25762s | looks like wind Fury is reborn that's |
| 25764s | not what hang on hey they all look the |
| 25766s | same all the all the blue |
| 25770s | ones right so here's the pop well the |
| 25772s | early pop off gets the |
| 25777s | hex is a massive deal it is a really |
| 25781s | really big deal |
| 25782s | yeah and this allows him to use the |
| 25785s | feral Spirits as you were describing |
| 25788s | like okay if more Buffs and wind Fury |
| 25790s | come down now like I I might still take |
| 25792s | some damage depending on how good the |
| 25793s | hand is but it's unlikely that you know |
| 25795s | they can make uh this a 10 attack minion |
| 25798s | and connect face twice right and then |
| 25799s | I'm really in trouble |
| 25801s | so yeah I was looking through the win |
| 25803s | percentages of you know all the matchups |
| 25805s | obviously that's kind of my job coming |
| 25808s | into this and this is one of the more |
| 25809s | lopsided ones in favor of the um Sharman |
| 25812s | which is not your first instinct I don't |
| 25814s | think but the more we've seen it played |
| 25816s | the more we've seen Sharman have |
| 25818s | multiple ways with the taunts with the |
| 25820s | hexers with the evolve effects to deal |
| 25822s | with stuff it's only 58% like |
| 25825s | everything's 50/50 in this meta give or |
| 25826s | take yeah but yeah it's one of the more |
| 25829s | upsid ones I think that was a surprise |
| 25830s | to me when I first saw it thinking that |
| 25833s | the Rogue should just steamroll this |
| 25835s | just just enough little tricks that the |
| 25836s | shaman has if played correctly yeah I |
| 25838s | think so |
| 25842s | too so how are you going to use your |
| 25844s | inie we had this question I think you |
| 25846s | raised it earlier with Raven like in is |
| 25848s | great but they're killing every Mech |
| 25850s | that they can kill so what does innie |
| 25852s | actually do a lot of the time yes um |
| 25855s | obviously the dream is um in with some |
| 25858s | sort of magnetic squirrel uh it is |
| 25861s | continues to Astound me how nonsense |
| 25863s | some of the sentences this job makes you |
| 25864s | say are but um that is kind of the dream |
| 25869s | but sometimes if you keep that dream if |
| 25870s | you clutch onto that dream too tight you |
| 25872s | end up just having a dead in in your |
| 25874s | hand the entire game like I think |
| 25876s | generally any if you can point it at a |
| 25879s | Mech is probably the best play in your |
| 25882s | hand obviously you can't do that this |
| 25884s | turn but I think a lesson that you have |
| 25885s | to learn very quickly is like just just |
| 25888s | use it it's really good um if you don't |
| 25891s | use it you're probably going to end up |
| 25893s | gear shifting it away at some |
| 25895s | point and facing that horrible situation |
| 25898s | going into this turn six where you know |
| 25900s | what can happen to you so yeah make a |
| 25902s | board that doesn't involve getting blown |
| 25904s | up |
| 25907s | everything there's some words I just |
| 25910s | said get doesn't involve getting blown |
| 25912s | up everything yeah those rearrange these |
| 25914s | words into a popular |
| 25916s | [Laughter] |
| 25919s | sentence into a popular sentence yeah |
| 25921s | it's probably more popular than any in a |
| 25923s | magnetic squirrel right I imagine |
| 25925s | whatever the correct version of your |
| 25926s | sentence was has been said more often |
| 25929s | than my previous |
| 25930s | sentence true or at least at the time |
| 25932s | that I said it yours may have caught up |
| 25936s | okay so pocket train still on 26 still |
| 25940s | with a feral in hand has an active Titan |
| 25943s | he's got card draw in hand and a crash |
| 25945s | this looks really good for Shaman right |
| 25947s | now it does look very good yeah there's |
| 25949s | a choice here though oh that was not one |
| 25952s | of the choices I was about to lay down |
| 25954s | okay yeah there was actually three ways |
| 25956s | to go about that right one was this uh |
| 25958s | spend the spell discount and then you |
| 25960s | shoot for 20 there was also draw three |
| 25964s | and then use turn the tides and send |
| 25967s | face and the minion into the |
| 25969s | 66 uh and then there was um deal three |
| 25973s | heal six and then use just the minion |
| 25977s | and not your face from turn the tides to |
| 25979s | clear the entire board right like all |
| 25981s | three of those have relative merits uh |
| 25983s | kind of weird actually to play a Titan |
| 25986s | and actually have all three a serious |
| 25988s | consideration for the ability on the T |
| 25990s | yeah really cool I me it's one of the |
| 25992s | best Titans if not the best just in |
| 25993s | terms of raw power level um but |
| 25996s | something that pocket train does and I |
| 25997s | think you also highlighted this earlier |
| 25999s | is whenever you see his play like oh |
| 26000s | that's obvious you can't kill my Titan |
| 26002s | now I can use the deal three ability |
| 26004s | next turn they they very rarely actually |
| 26006s | get rid of it here obviously you do this |
| 26009s | yeah the so the reverbed mimon where he |
| 26011s | reborned his mimon traded the two |
| 26013s | reverbed memons into each other to get |
| 26015s | an unreversed |
| 26031s | I'll be telling my grandkids about that |
| 26034s | lucky them yeah can't they just watch |
| 26036s | the |
| 26038s | VOD right so now because of his previous |
| 26040s | play he has another use of his ability |
| 26043s | which means he can just draw the rest of |
| 26044s | his important cards and win some |
| 26047s | Hearthstone yeah and like serious point |
| 26049s | I think that's why this play wins the |
| 26052s | battle because it put taunts up and the |
| 26055s | one thing that Mech Rogue really has to |
| 26057s | deal with minions from hand is Krab TOA |
| 26060s | so by having the feral |
| 26061s | in it kind of shut down really any |
| 26064s | option for B to be able to remove theg |
| 26067s | which I think just made this really |
| 26068s | really really smart |
| 26073s | overall and uh yeah like pocket tra like |
| 26077s | banter face has just just got got Tempo |
| 26080s | Kong this game like this is why pocket |
| 26082s | train is arguably the best player with |
| 26084s | this deck in the world like he wins an |
| 26086s | inordinate amount of games by just |
| 26089s | winning Bard which isn't really thing |
| 26091s | that should seem possible with this deck |
| 26093s | winning board but like this this is the |
| 26095s | thing that I think he does incredibly |
| 26097s | well again other top players will also |
| 26098s | do it incredibly well um he still |
| 26101s | lightning bolts face as well with a plus |
| 26102s | five it's not just the he manages to mix |
| 26104s | the direct damage and the tempo to a |
| 26107s | very early lethal I know it's not |
| 26109s | particularly amazing but you I'm sitting |
| 26111s | there going do I temper or do I hit them |
| 26113s | in the face with the Spells no you just |
| 26115s | do |
| 26116s | both you've got two things to win the |
| 26118s | game |
| 26120s | with |
| 26124s | this is a |
| 26134s | lot |
| 26139s | yeah forced to take down the spell |
| 26141s | damage minions to have any sort of |
| 26143s | remote chance down of |
| 26150s | ther |
| 26153s | just unlock a whole bunch of free Mana |
| 26156s | again uh turn the tides and overdraft |
| 26161s | one |
| 26162s | [Music] |
| 26163s | off |
| 26164s | 6 |
| 26167s | 36 probably six on board oh no sorry I |
| 26171s | was counting the turn the tides is doing |
| 26172s | six damage which it doesn't you're |
| 26174s | further off than that it's only 11 |
| 26180s | total |
| 26183s | something that's come up throughout this |
| 26185s | tournament time and again is the rogue's |
| 26186s | lack of ability to actually hurt you |
| 26188s | when it gets going so you can just tank |
| 26190s | six or seven there just so comfortably |
| 26193s | if it keeps you the board yeah this is |
| 26195s | about the scariest situation for rogue |
| 26197s | that exists or me Rogue that is like |
| 26199s | they haven't played their krabat TOA yet |
| 26200s | so that's some amount of damage you can |
| 26202s | take from the weapon and they have a |
| 26204s | couple of mimon Gadgets in hand right |
| 26206s | which can also be damage but even in |
| 26208s | that scenario you're super chilling at |
| 26211s | 19 with an empty |
| 26213s | board yeah V's having to use his weapon |
| 26215s | to just hurt himself over and over |
| 26218s | again |
| 26222s | a go on little buddy you got |
| 26229s | this well there's my hand good luck |
| 26233s | everyone I like these nice slow paac |
| 26235s | finals where the players take their time |
| 26237s | and rope every turn yeah yeah yeah for |
| 26239s | sure everything on the line taking their |
| 26242s | time to make sure they get it |
| 26243s | right |
| 26245s | fish |
| 26247s | fish |
| 26249s | fish fish p face hasn't got any cards |
| 26254s | stop it's not |
| 26257s | fair fish |
| 26260s | fish |
| 26262s | fish there we go just Just Fish them |
| 26265s | till they leave that's the that's the |
| 26267s | way why was the fifth fish the one that |
| 26270s | broke the back |
| 26272s | so I've seen enough fish now I want to |
| 26273s | see what colors they |
| 26275s | were well okay one schooling okay one |
| 26278s | fish two fish three fish oh I think I |
| 26281s | can beat that oh Red Fish Blue Fish on |
| 26283s | top of that as well oh okay I'm out you |
| 26285s | got me just the wrong color fish and |
| 26288s | anace gives it up and pocket train who |
| 26290s | played at lightning speed there one Zer |
| 26293s | ahead Yeah clean game um like I said |
| 26296s | pocket train is is kind of unparalleled |
| 26298s | at being able to do that kind of stuff |
| 26300s | with uh with nature Sharman just turning |
| 26303s | the handful of tempo cards that the deck |
| 26305s | has which are incredibly good right like |
| 26309s | schooling buff feral Spirits is only one |
| 26311s | overload turn the tides those cards are |
| 26314s | really good at winning boards between |
| 26315s | turn one and turn four right like |
| 26317s | they're so so good at it but if you can |
| 26319s | do it consistently and then keep that |
| 26321s | board for a couple of extra turns |
| 26322s | through your gogen you win a lot of |
| 26324s | games of hearthstone just by being ahead |
| 26326s | on board through the early turns and I |
| 26328s | think it's a lot a thing that even with |
| 26330s | the version that ended up getting nerfed |
| 26332s | a lot of people struggled to understand |
| 26334s | for quite a long time is that it's a |
| 26336s | much better Tempo deck than it seems |
| 26339s | apparent immediately uh but pocket train |
| 26342s | has always been ahead of the curve with |
| 26344s | that kind of thing right like even with |
| 26346s | M lock right like there was probably |
| 26348s | Fury Hunter who's better at playing for |
| 26350s | Tempo with melck and then pocket train |
| 26351s | was probably the closest one behind that |
| 26353s | as understanding how a deck somehow with |
| 26355s | like zero minions in it can actually |
| 26358s | still sometimes play for Tempo which is |
| 26359s | incredibly bizarre |
| 26361s | um and I think that is the mark of |
| 26363s | Mastery for a combo player it's that |
| 26365s | they actually still manage to play for |
| 26367s | Tempo with combo decks because at the |
| 26369s | end of the day I said this earlier this |
| 26371s | is Hearthstone it is an incredibly Tempo |
| 26374s | focused card game and just before we get |
| 26377s | into this Mage Mo where nobody has a |
| 26379s | keyboard um did you catch how many C |
| 26381s | there's one did you catch how many cards |
| 26382s | pocket train had left in his deck at the |
| 26384s | end there when we saw the replays I did |
| 26386s | not no did you he had eight cards left |
| 26388s | in his deck nice so not only he |
| 26391s | generated all that Tempo but in eight |
| 26393s | turns he had drawn 22 cards in some way |
| 26395s | or other nice so he's doing all the |
| 26398s | things it's not like it's luck that he |
| 26400s | happened to have those cards he's drawn |
| 26402s | his deck so he's going to have those |
| 26406s | cards small thing here but keyboard not |
| 26409s | being played onto uh just playing the |
| 26411s | spell playing the minions a again swings |
| 26413s | the tempo you're now ever slightly ahead |
| 26415s | on 10 point ever slightly behind |
| 26417s | secondly you don't really have anything |
| 26419s | to do on turn three any anyway so if |
| 26422s | You' done it the other way around you |
| 26423s | play Cosmic keyboard on two you take a |
| 26424s | little bit of Chip damage from the |
| 26426s | minion that you leave up from banter |
| 26428s | which is important and then you end up |
| 26429s | burning one of your charges on that one |
| 26432s | Mana spell on turn three when you end up |
| 26434s | doing the same thing anyway whereas the |
| 26436s | way pocket did it he ends up in a |
| 26438s | scenario where now he gets to spend all |
| 26440s | three of these charges on nice juicy |
| 26442s | four Mana plus |
| 26444s | spells yeah and yeah you see Banta sort |
| 26446s | of shrugging a bit this match up I don't |
| 26448s | know what the stats are it's massively |
| 26449s | favored from the first keyboard but it's |
| 26451s | definitely not over like there's so much |
| 26453s | generation so much can go on that yeah |
| 26456s | if you get through this somehow and you |
| 26458s | have your own keyboard later yours |
| 26459s | generate s s so you do have a chance to |
| 26461s | come back into this I did wonder where |
| 26463s | that was going I did for a moment think |
| 26465s | you might be having a stroke when you |
| 26466s | started well I haven't really looked at |
| 26467s | the matchup data for this mirror match |
| 26469s | yeah I was I was kind of wondering where |
| 26471s | you going no the match up data for |
| 26472s | people getting keyboard first yeah yeah |
| 26474s | it's massive right so ridiculous but you |
| 26478s | can win by coming through the other side |
| 26481s | and generating your own bigger stuff |
| 26483s | later on it's the same it's the same |
| 26485s | thing I was just talking about right |
| 26486s | like it's it's two Decks that are |
| 26488s | resiliant enough that they aren't going |
| 26490s | to lose to the other one on board a lot |
| 26491s | of the time so it does make it an otk |
| 26494s | deck versus an otk deck but the tempo is |
| 26496s | still phenomenally important because if |
| 26499s | you're ahead and you're chipped you're |
| 26501s | pushing chip damage to your opponent you |
| 26503s | might only have to do 20 with your siif |
| 26505s | at the end of the game right whereas the |
| 26507s | other person who's been scrambling to |
| 26509s | clear boards the entire time is going to |
| 26511s | have to do 30 35 40 depending on how |
| 26513s | much armor you've stacked so banter is |
| 26516s | actually doing a phenomenal job right |
| 26519s | now even though pocket train has had all |
| 26520s | the tempo cards to be able to stay ahead |
| 26522s | banter is just going okay no no no no |
| 26524s | small minion small minion small minion |
| 26526s | clear your stuff push a little bit of |
| 26527s | Chip damage every turn yeah and it it |
| 26530s | came to play there with um like one of |
| 26532s | the turns was artificier into worm into |
| 26535s | bolt your two Health thing just so I've |
| 26537s | got some little things on the board |
| 26539s | there they're still there one three one |
| 26541s | two one two chipping three a turn |
| 26543s | defending a little bit something massive |
| 26544s | comes |
| 26545s | down um making this nor and you know |
| 26548s | still very powerful but at least they |
| 26550s | could do something to |
| 26552s | it you want six attack on the |
| 26559s | board po taken his time it's it's rare |
| 26563s | that the first Norman isn't plus cards |
| 26566s | uh or plus one to |
| 26568s | cards but again with a six damage on the |
| 26570s | Bo that that plus one to card is |
| 26572s | supposed to defend you but six damage |
| 26575s | already there that plus one to card |
| 26576s | isn't defending you much yeah I think |
| 26579s | the question you have to ask though is |
| 26580s | like if your opponent like wind Furies |
| 26582s | all their minions into your norgon and |
| 26584s | then throws a spell at it cost too much |
| 26586s | is that not still not a good turn yeah I |
| 26588s | think I think this is right all |
| 26593s | right I guess my point is Imagine This |
| 26595s | turn if he hadn't got six attack on the |
| 26597s | board oh 100% yeah |
| 26601s | o |
| 26603s | ooh now then now they all live or most |
| 26607s | of them |
| 26609s | live yeah yep yep yep okay two of them |
| 26612s | live but you know that's most 50% |
| 26615s | rounded up three of them live cuz only |
| 26617s | two have to attack in yeah okay I was |
| 26620s | right well long I knew it you're a |
| 26622s | secret genius yeah pretty sure that's |
| 26626s | true very well kept |
| 26629s | secret and again just ripping two four |
| 26632s | five and a 7 |
| 26634s | Seven what's in his |
| 26638s | hand banter is so much more Juiced on |
| 26641s | the uh on the spell School front as |
| 26643s | well just gets to counter swing this and |
| 26647s | he survived the the weapon and he's come |
| 26649s | out of it kind of ahead and he's got rid |
| 26651s | of the Titan as well he's he's in an |
| 26653s | okay spot in the long term here I think |
| 26655s | he's in a very good |
| 26659s | spot |
| 26661s | pocket is going to need some sort of |
| 26663s | answer from discovery of magic probably |
| 26665s | to be able to deal with this board |
| 26667s | State yeah or uh wisdom of nogan into |
| 26671s | creation but again the the spell skools |
| 26673s | just aren't jued enough like nogan costs |
| 26675s | uh three so we're only two spell scools |
| 26676s | deep right |
| 26678s | now and those are not it if if he |
| 26682s | doesn't deal with this just B to just |
| 26683s | rip the other one knowing that these |
| 26684s | can't be dealt with so okay off we go if |
| 26687s | he doesn't deal with this he might be |
| 26689s | dead also |
| 26693s | true death born yeah |
| 26701s | sure |
| 26703s | okay but banter knows that was a |
| 26706s | scramble right there's a good idea that |
| 26708s | was a |
| 26715s | scramble just a little bit scary in |
| 26718s | terms of what happens to the seven one |
| 26721s | not scary but awkward you don't you |
| 26723s | don't want to trade you don't want to |
| 26724s | trade either of your four threes into it |
| 26726s | right you don't want to necessarily |
| 26728s | throw one of your one Mana Spells at it |
| 26729s | because you have a siif in your hand you |
| 26731s | also don't really want to coin ping |
| 26733s | because King po coin is an incredibly |
| 26736s | good card in this scenario as well y it |
| 26739s | it does help a lot when you get three |
| 26741s | Rush from your thing though that's |
| 26743s | pretty |
| 26744s | good oh option four who cares about |
| 26747s | it I think you can trade the other |
| 26749s | skeleton and yeah so if |
| 26752s | you that's very frustrating yeah you see |
| 26754s | the little slight curl of the mouth from |
| 26757s | banter face so with the first Rush going |
| 26760s | into the skeleton if that skeleton had |
| 26762s | hit either of the other two Rush minions |
| 26764s | I think you can just toss that Rush |
| 26766s | Minion that's already damaged into the |
| 26767s | seven one right and not feel too bad |
| 26769s | about it because you do want to protect |
| 26771s | this coin but yeah I think at this point |
| 26773s | the Minions that you have left that can |
| 26775s | attack are all more valuable than that |
| 26779s | coin |
| 26788s | Reverb just to get the yeah just casting |
| 26791s | Reverb to get the shadow cast oh nice |
| 26794s | nice nice nice |
| 26808s | nice okay |
| 26815s | yeah seems good I agree |
| 26818s | banter is he just counting next turn |
| 26820s | lethal though before he just plops this |
| 26824s | down like he could Forge oh I mean |
| 26826s | that's that's what I'm referring to is |
| 26828s | just foring the molten room |
| 26831s | potentially to |
| 26833s | do cuz the the primary disruption that |
| 26836s | your opponent has is the norgon of their |
| 26838s | own which is already gone right so it is |
| 26841s | largely uninterruptible apart from |
| 26843s | discovered things on the other side and |
| 26845s | you're very unlikely to be dead you just |
| 26847s | to work out do you need to kill off this |
| 26849s | 4 four for I mean that's trivial right |
| 26852s | like killing the 4 |
| 26855s | four cuz it's uh it's reverbs like you |
| 26857s | could have just pinged it if you were |
| 26858s | really that desperate to do it no I |
| 26860s | realized I just it's Mana but he's got |
| 26862s | zero Mana spells well this is just a |
| 26863s | million next turn he's decided he's not |
| 26865s | taking 20 whatever it is three |
| 26868s | mhm seems a good thing to |
| 26871s | realize yeah I mean your opponent played |
| 26873s | Shadow spell wisdom for two Mana last |
| 26877s | turn right so they're not you know you |
| 26879s | know quite comfortably that they're not |
| 26880s | they're not like seven eight spell |
| 26882s | scools deep at this |
| 26894s | point why don't good players die they |
| 26896s | just find things it's because they know |
| 26899s | what they're looking for obviously ly |
| 26900s | but you know he's going to die |
| 26918s | now and it's one on in one of the |
| 26921s | fastest Pac finals I've ever |
| 26924s | seen oh and banter face has 16 corpses |
| 26928s | incredible oh that's what we really |
| 26930s | needed to know yeah yeah yeah B squares |
| 26933s | up the series and honestly like big big |
| 26936s | pat on the back it's you know you talked |
| 26938s | about it keyboard versus no keyboard but |
| 26940s | really really impressive the way that |
| 26942s | banter responded to it like as soon as |
| 26944s | he saw that keyboard come down he was |
| 26945s | like okay fine here are all my small |
| 26947s | minions and then I will throw my entire |
| 26950s | hand at clearing your keyboard stuff |
| 26952s | every single turn just so I can chip |
| 26955s | away with these minions in the end not a |
| 26958s | huge Factor because he had a million |
| 26960s | damage in hand because of the way things |
| 26962s | Drew out in the end but it there were |
| 26964s | lots of Worlds where that was incredibly |
| 26966s | relevant right where he didn't just |
| 26968s | naturally draw into the Naga and the |
| 26971s | Reverb and everything else at the end of |
| 26973s | the game and he just had to put together |
| 26975s | a little scrappy do lethal instead um |
| 26977s | then that the way that early game was |
| 26979s | played uh gave him way more outs in |
| 26982s | terms of uh you know how quickly he |
| 26984s | could get through his deck and find that |
| 26985s | burn damage I mean it made the |
| 26987s | anti-magic shell perfect like there's |
| 26989s | time well I get offered anti Magic Shell |
| 26991s | I haven't got a minion on the board but |
| 26992s | he's got four of them even though they |
| 26993s | were small yes it's a good good thing to |
| 26995s | rip but also if you got the four minions |
| 26997s | there and half I don't know if it's half |
| 26999s | a large number of the spells in half |
| 27000s | Zone affect your minions and you're |
| 27002s | going to get random cards let's have |
| 27004s | some Minions that we can affect and he |
| 27005s | did that as well so just trying to |
| 27007s | highlight what H's also saying about the |
| 27010s | the importance of having stuff on the |
| 27011s | board especially in that Mage Miller but |
| 27013s | in all of heart think s ramble that home |
| 27015s | this |
| 27016s | weekend I'll find some other point to |
| 27019s | Ram home I've got plenty of them don't |
| 27021s | worry about it I've been doing it for |
| 27023s | years um yeah Mage Mage picking up a win |
| 27027s | I'd think was largely expected I think |
| 27029s | it's been largely expected for the |
| 27030s | tournament um it's outside of warrior |
| 27032s | it's been the most successful class and |
| 27034s | the only reason I'm calling Warrior more |
| 27036s | successful is that you have to do |
| 27038s | relative percentage taking bands into |
| 27041s | account as well right which I think |
| 27042s | makes Warrior a more successful deck |
| 27044s | overall the |
| 27045s | Mages uh so uh that Mage picking up a |
| 27048s | win I think well I guess what I'm saying |
| 27050s | is the Sharman win for pocket train I |
| 27052s | think is a more important win Conquest |
| 27054s | is a weird format where sometimes the |
| 27055s | score doesn't reflect uh the who is |
| 27058s | actually favored in a series right just |
| 27060s | because the series is 1 one does not |
| 27062s | mean it's evenly poised and I do think |
| 27064s | the Sharman was a bigger win for pocket |
| 27066s | train than the Mage was for banter face |
| 27069s | overall and but we will see how things |
| 27071s | go because this is a mirrored series |
| 27074s | overall I'm not sure if we have uh made |
| 27076s | that point yet met crog rainbow Mage and |
| 27079s | nature Sharman being the three decks |
| 27080s | left up for both players with Odin Mage |
| 27082s | uh Odin Mage no please stop um Odin |
| 27086s | Warrior being the deck that was banned |
| 27088s | out by both people that that would |
| 27090s | actually be gross by the way imagine |
| 27092s | with the 1 three Elemental and you just |
| 27093s | start casting infinite spells and just |
| 27096s | gaining a bunch of armor and smacking |
| 27097s | your opponent in the face that sounds |
| 27099s | yeah just Cold Case yeah makes a 4 four |
| 27102s | two two tws and hits your opponent in |
| 27104s | the head for four gives you four armor |
| 27105s | yeah it sounds all right that card um |
| 27108s | but yeah I agree with you large I think |
| 27110s | that the Mage |
| 27111s | stats it's interesting right you look at |
| 27113s | top thousand stats and they're nothing |
| 27115s | like the stats when the top 16 play and |
| 27117s | that's something I don't think we've |
| 27118s | talked about as much this time as in the |
| 27119s | previous two masters tours where there's |
| 27122s | 25 players in the world who are |
| 27123s | substantially better than all the others |
| 27125s | yeah yeah I I made the point earlier um |
| 27128s | it might have been yesterday that I |
| 27130s | think you know looking at publicly |
| 27132s | available stat tracking websites and |
| 27134s | trying to draw conclusions about highle |
| 27136s | competitive Hearthstone is as futile now |
| 27139s | as it is ever been it's a combination of |
| 27141s | a few factors um there's more |
| 27143s | competition in the market for that kind |
| 27144s | of stuff right now so the user bases |
| 27146s | split several ways in terms of what data |
| 27148s | is being reported where um and also the |
| 27151s | difference between a 1,000 Legend and a |
| 27154s | top 50 Legend is bigger now than it ever |
| 27156s | has been um because there's only a small |
| 27158s | portion of players that are taking it |
| 27160s | seriously to the point of being able to |
| 27162s | qualify for these tournaments yes um so |
| 27165s | those conclusions are very hard to reach |
| 27167s | sometimes but it's interesting that you |
| 27169s | say you know you look at Mage as a |
| 27171s | general uh sample on on stat tracking |
| 27174s | websites and it has kind of lower stats |
| 27176s | overall than when the very very good |
| 27178s | players play it because I think you'd |
| 27180s | agree the only conclusion that you can |
| 27182s | draw from that Neil is that Mage is a |
| 27183s | very skillful deck that the best players |
| 27185s | can get a lot out of no the conclusion I |
| 27187s | draw is that everyone was scared of Mage |
| 27189s | and brought Decks that beat |
| 27191s | it so why is Mage doing well hang on |
| 27194s | what what we say why is it doing well um |
| 27197s | because the other decks are getting |
| 27200s | unlucky okay all right |
| 27204s | good do you want to like you know make |
| 27206s | your stance on Mage clear so I have to |
| 27209s | stop trying to needle it out of you or |
| 27210s | are we we just no you can watch me on |
| 27212s | stream I'll make it clear there later in |
| 27213s | the week just just check it |
| 27217s | out uh yeah I mean pocket train and |
| 27219s | banter face both regulars in uh the |
| 27222s | stream that Linda appears on camera on |
| 27225s | which you know that calls Linda's stream |
| 27228s | but I think everyone really knows SLE |
| 27230s | stream deep down I think we all know |
| 27232s | what's there for it's everybody's stream |
| 27234s | this was another option of not playing a |
| 27236s | keyboard on two by the way which is was |
| 27238s | a less obvious one this time around last |
| 27240s | time the curve kind of worked cuz it was |
| 27242s | the three into the four there was no |
| 27243s | three drops but this time just still |
| 27246s | faving moving the mech which again kill |
| 27249s | mechs they they kill you yes um but |
| 27251s | forfeiting the turn two tempo of lack of |
| 27254s | tempo of the keyboard to even with a |
| 27257s | Reverb in hand just make sure that Mech |
| 27260s | were dying kill Mech or they kill you I |
| 27263s | think the Terminator series would have |
| 27264s | way worth synopsis if written by Linda |
| 27267s | just turn out then it's it's very |
| 27270s | understandable I think between me and |
| 27271s | Raven we could come up with some good |
| 27272s | synopsis for all sorts of |
| 27281s | things this is interesting we the |
| 27283s | speaker guys have been pretty lethargic |
| 27287s | this entire weekend but this is a |
| 27288s | situation where B try and leverage them |
| 27290s | pretty |
| 27298s | strongly yeah they've been fine I can't |
| 27301s | really remember any like blowout moments |
| 27304s | where it's like well I guess I just have |
| 27305s | to make this play and if if they have |
| 27306s | speaker stomper I lose the game |
| 27308s | automatically like we've definitely seen |
| 27310s | those games in previous tournaments and |
| 27312s | there haven't been too many of them so |
| 27314s | far that I can remember in this one but |
| 27316s | I do still think they are a fine |
| 27318s | addition in most decks of this kind of |
| 27320s | style with Mech Rog you know I think if |
| 27322s | you were playing like I don't know |
| 27324s | plague DK or some sort of Unholy DK |
| 27326s | you'd want them in there as well like |
| 27328s | what so any deck that's like super Allin |
| 27330s | and having board all the time uh I do |
| 27333s | think you need them in there to defend |
| 27334s | from the the likes of Mage and nature |
| 27336s | Shaman and all that kind of stuff I |
| 27337s | think the reason they've been a bit |
| 27339s | below par this weekend is because |
| 27340s | there's so much aggro and so many |
| 27342s | minions in this particular tournament |
| 27345s | like sure yeah there's very few Decks |
| 27347s | that it targets apart from the Mage |
| 27349s | there's been no plague DK at all which I |
| 27351s | think is something we thought we'd |
| 27353s | see one or two priests two priests in |
| 27355s | the whole tournament you know yeah I |
| 27358s | don't thought we'd see like feared we'd |
| 27360s | see would be more accurate from my |
| 27362s | perspective I like I yeah it's less bomb |
| 27366s | Warrior less plague DK please things |
| 27369s | where you just Shuffle things into your |
| 27370s | opponent's deck nah not my |
| 27373s | vibe |
| 27378s | Shuffle |
| 27383s | okay I'm excited when I see stealth and |
| 27386s | then Titan in the same hand yeah are |
| 27392s | feels like damage waiting to |
| 27404s | happen there is an imulation aura in |
| 27407s | pocket's hand that's kind of the most |
| 27408s | useful |
| 27410s | uh random effect that he's been able to |
| 27413s | get his hands on so far but not really |
| 27415s | going to have any kind of impact on this |
| 27423s | board that's a lot lined up with a |
| 27435s | prime |
| 27438s | okay |
| 27442s | this is now a very awkward board against |
| 27444s | the prime right like there's what's |
| 27446s | what's the good option to take from |
| 27447s | Voltron Prime against |
| 27451s | this |
| 27453s | yeah |
| 27455s | well like I think plus damage is still |
| 27457s | the strongest but then you would expect |
| 27459s | that board to get dealt with you haven't |
| 27461s | drawn cards from the prime your board |
| 27463s | gets cleared how do you rebuild from |
| 27465s | that point you kind of don't shoot Dam |
| 27469s | out there and hope they don't have |
| 27470s | another turn but you know they've got |
| 27471s | another turn cuz they've got a weapon |
| 27473s | and seven Mana next turn |
| 27478s | y right like best case scenario you you |
| 27481s | voltr on Prime you do double damage it |
| 27483s | kills the two five ones and you be push |
| 27485s | face with the minion that you have |
| 27487s | you're still probably losing that entire |
| 27489s | board next turn right so what what good |
| 27492s | does that actually do so did he look for |
| 27494s | stealth into wind Fury here just to just |
| 27497s | end it as an out he still looking for |
| 27499s | stealth that's why this ended up being |
| 27501s | the pick |
| 27510s | yeah now how do you |
| 27516s | win that's the F pretend stealth if I |
| 27519s | you pretend |
| 27528s | stealth |
| 27535s | oh oh the creation comes into hand as |
| 27539s | well yeah I was going to say it's a |
| 27541s | pretty good imulation Aura but it was an |
| 27544s | even better inquisitive creation as that |
| 27546s | came off the top I think the one way you |
| 27548s | end up losing there is getting baited |
| 27550s | into playing Elemental inspiration on |
| 27552s | curve even though it was fantastic if |
| 27553s | you get Zero Rush from it there are |
| 27555s | worlds where you just randomly die out |
| 27557s | of |
| 27558s | nowhere |
| 27559s | pocket train too smart to get baited |
| 27561s | into that world creation coming off the |
| 27563s | top making it basically a formality to |
| 27564s | sweep that |
| 27566s | board so bface needs to set up lethal |
| 27569s | for next turn and that might not be |
| 27571s | enough CU there's so many ways around it |
| 27574s | yeah so many |
| 27580s | options like spark bot draw to or you |
| 27583s | can go spark bot for damage try and get |
| 27585s | some of the damage to go face and then |
| 27587s | like you draw exactly crab off the |
| 27591s | top |
| 27593s | yeah I think it's card |
| 27596s | draw no he's going to go for the full |
| 27598s | damage |
| 27603s | okay yeah I |
| 27605s | mean like whatever and I'm sure there's |
| 27607s | a better option and a worse option there |
| 27609s | but they were both like sure I'm not |
| 27610s | going to argue whatever you choose there |
| 27612s | partly cuz you're better than me but |
| 27613s | partly because they're all Desperate |
| 27615s | Measures don't you whatever me Linda I |
| 27618s | what B to face this is F this is finals |
| 27622s | the winner of this goes to Worlds I'm |
| 27624s | not accepting whatever as an answer okay |
| 27628s | explain in great detail why Pit Stop |
| 27629s | wasn't better look for stealth so I |
| 27633s | actually as I reflect on this I actually |
| 27636s | think this was better cuz it creates a |
| 27640s | one in N how many minions are in play I |
| 27642s | can't actually remember it creates a |
| 27644s | niche out where both shots for four go |
| 27646s | face and then with your one dagger swing |
| 27648s | you can put youron to four exactly and |
| 27651s | then you draw crab off the top and you |
| 27652s | win the game that is a better out than I |
| 27654s | can think of than by drawing two cards |
| 27658s | and not dealing any damage that turn so |
| 27660s | in lie of me being able to give you a |
| 27662s | better out with two extra cards I think |
| 27663s | banter Face's decision there is correct |
| 27665s | I wanted to draw a buffed stealth minion |
| 27668s | stick it on the board my opponent |
| 27669s | doesn't roll toward and I kill them with |
| 27671s | it with the cards next |
| 27674s | turn where are you getting a buff |
| 27676s | stealth Minion from I'm discovering |
| 27679s | yeah oh so you want to draw the other |
| 27682s | pit stop and then play the other pit |
| 27684s | stop and get the okay yeah sure that's |
| 27687s | still two turns away though right |
| 27688s | because you're spending all your Mana oh |
| 27690s | that that turn on one drop and Titan |
| 27693s | right so you then have to spend the next |
| 27694s | turn playing the pit stop uh so it's |
| 27697s | still a couple of turns away which I |
| 27698s | think makes life pretty pretty awkward |
| 27700s | overall but as predicted hey the Mage |
| 27703s | picked up a win who who saw that coming |
| 27705s | right Linda so it's just met Rogue uh |
| 27708s | left for pocket train on the other side |
| 27711s | which it's only Mech Rogue left between |
| 27714s | pocket train and what has been a 10mon |
| 27717s | journey which genuinely without |
| 27719s | exaggeration has destroyed this man's |
| 27722s | Soul yeah part of is wondering if if we |
| 27725s | get to talk to him later if he does win |
| 27728s | if his answer is going to be why didn't |
| 27730s | I do that sooner yes are you are you |
| 27733s | happy you won this tournament no I |
| 27735s | should have won a different one I'm I'm |
| 27737s | half expecting that to be a reply if |
| 27738s | that's a question that gets asked yeah |
| 27741s | it's been it's been incredibly arduous |
| 27744s | this the system this year has asked a |
| 27746s | lot from our players and these players |
| 27749s | who are here deserve incredible |
| 27750s | Commendation for accepting that |
| 27752s | challenge and stepping up to this plate |
| 27754s | to be here um but certainly like pocket |
| 27758s | train looked I'm about 12 years old in |
| 27761s | January 2023 I'm pretty sure and now |
| 27763s | look he's got facial hair he's frowning |
| 27766s | you can see the the the fear IND his |
| 27769s | eyes like this man has we hope that's |
| 27773s | water he's gone through a journey |
| 27775s | whereas there's bface same as bface has |
| 27777s | looked since the beginning of time I'm |
| 27779s | pretty sure there he is look yeah I |
| 27781s | wonder if he looked sort of this this |
| 27782s | mid 20s look when he was at school as |
| 27784s | well cuz I don't remember him ever |
| 27785s | looking any different I wonder if it's |
| 27787s | just a loop on his webcam that he's been |
| 27789s | playing for like the last 5 years |
| 27792s | now it explain so much it would explain |
| 27795s | Raven's problems if identifying whether |
| 27796s | he'd won or not |
| 27797s | earlier |
| 27800s | all right fish we've seen how that can |
| 27802s | go |
| 27807s | down schooling's absolutely the draw |
| 27810s | that you want though I think I I again |
| 27812s | you want to talk about keyboard stats I |
| 27814s | don't specifically know the stats in |
| 27817s | this matchup for mulligan win rate of |
| 27819s | schooling but I would imagine it is |
| 27821s | pretty |
| 27823s | massive sounds good doesn't it |
| 27826s | like to the point that he's considering |
| 27830s | he's shaking his head cuz he has to lose |
| 27831s | two fish |
| 27833s | but |
| 27835s | yeah go try and get better value out of |
| 27837s | them by waiting for the the full six |
| 27840s | attack rather than the the |
| 27843s | three oh |
| 27846s | hello |
| 27849s | oh unfortunately three fish do six |
| 27852s | damage so you can't just safely land a |
| 27854s | mimr on here that's not a |
| 27857s | thing |
| 27861s | is that reborn that is reborn that's |
| 27864s | huge yeah that's that's the |
| 27870s | boy do you play the |
| 27880s | weapon like weapon and swing and just |
| 27884s | delay fish again hope that they don't |
| 27886s | get stealthed up |
| 27890s | what to |
| 27896s | [Music] |
| 27902s | do so all the bad things that can happen |
| 27905s | to you here um outside of everything so |
| 27908s | squirrel comes down on curve right like |
| 27910s | that's the big one that you have to |
| 27911s | think about so you need one bump to beat |
| 27914s | the Divine shield and then you need uh |
| 27916s | four damage to at least be able to reset |
| 27919s | it back to the second click clocker that |
| 27920s | will come off the reborn that's fine |
| 27924s | actually you probably need five damage |
| 27927s | because they'll use the coin to play |
| 27929s | another spark bot presumably so assuming |
| 27931s | it's they're all bad spark Bots that |
| 27933s | don't do anything that ruins your plan |
| 27935s | you can do all that with three fish |
| 27937s | right one the one one fish to take off |
| 27939s | the shield then you have the two attack |
| 27940s | fish and the three attack fish does this |
| 27943s | allow you to knowledge |
| 27945s | though knowledge as well as clear with |
| 27948s | the fish not if anything relevant comes |
| 27951s | down to magnetize onto it |
| 27957s | no CU you can only do three to it right |
| 27959s | so this is the same as just having a |
| 27961s | squirel magnetized onto it right it |
| 27963s | would have full health either way and |
| 27964s | you can only deal three to it if you |
| 27965s | play ancestral knowledge at the same |
| 27967s | time I think I've known you too long and |
| 27970s | I'm getting way too ambitious now I want |
| 27972s | to flash an ancestral here and close my |
| 27976s | eyes ra put this that doesn't last for |
| 27979s | it that just doesn't work I kind of love |
| 27983s | it i' got loads of Mana next turn I've |
| 27987s | got reduced cards I've got two two |
| 27988s | reductions in my in my |
| 27992s | base okay he's going to play sens damn |
| 27997s | it oh he can do this and like he could |
| 28000s | have also flashed he could still |
| 28002s | Flash no no no no you |
| 28007s | can't |
| 28009s | oh using the weapon you mean yeah yeah |
| 28011s | you absolutely correct yeah he could |
| 28013s | have done but I think at that point use |
| 28015s | weapon and ancestor knowledge is just |
| 28017s | better right cuz the re the reason to |
| 28019s | flash there is to say okay I'll just put |
| 28021s | a bit of paper over this scary board for |
| 28023s | now and then I'll reveal it again next |
| 28025s | turn and use all my discounted Mana to |
| 28027s | deal with it next turn once you've |
| 28029s | actually dealt with that board I think |
| 28030s | the the relevance of playing flash on |
| 28032s | that board actually goes away quite a |
| 28033s | lot and the BL flexus was there by the |
| 28035s | way which he will have |
| 28037s | noticed was the next card you mean like |
| 28039s | it one two with the ACC he would have |
| 28042s | had the reflexes in the flash turn mhm |
| 28045s | turn down |
| 28048s | that hey you remember when we said we'd |
| 28051s | never really seen a game where speaker |
| 28052s | stomper just locked someone out yeah |
| 28056s | yeah kind of this one huh very much so |
| 28059s | it's not going to lock out just the game |
| 28061s | so I think it's going to lock out the |
| 28067s | tournament |
| 28071s | he's looking for anything to do can you |
| 28073s | see |
| 28080s | anything can see things it's just a |
| 28083s | question of whether those things are |
| 28084s | actually any |
| 28086s | good I think the answer to that is |
| 28088s | probably |
| 28092s | no there's another stomper in the hand |
| 28095s | even if there's not a lethal right off |
| 28097s | the top |
| 28102s | you could have gone lightning reflexes |
| 28104s | for altered cords which would have cost |
| 28107s | three less one more less but then two |
| 28111s | more because of the speaker stomper so |
| 28114s | cost three as long as you were |
| 28115s | overloaded which would have been |
| 28117s | playable and just shot the mimon if you |
| 28118s | hit exactly aled cord off first option |
| 28121s | that's probably not good enough to go |
| 28127s | for |
| 28129s | yeah just making annoying shapes now as |
| 28135s | well me being me there would just Jam |
| 28138s | the second stomper cuz hey they didn't |
| 28140s | have it last time but |
| 28143s | yeah |
| 28147s | nope technically that keeps you alive |
| 28151s | right the |
| 28152s | Gogan uh you'd have to use the discount |
| 28156s | to throw a lightning bolt at something |
| 28158s | thing as well just leave up the the |
| 28164s | 55 uh but is it is it more winning to |
| 28167s | open the lightning reflexes for |
| 28169s | primordial wave |
| 28171s | instead because the base of the minion |
| 28173s | on the right is a click clocker right so |
| 28175s | it turns into a penguin yes I |
| 28181s | believe yeah the The Goth play feels |
| 28184s | like it yeah I survived but it's still |
| 28187s | horrible |
| 28190s | mhm I let your play I want to open the |
| 28192s | box there's |
| 28194s | also Radiance reflexes and shoot for the |
| 28198s | crash of lightning as well cuz you have |
| 28200s | zero Mana lightning bolts at that point |
| 28202s | but if you were going to go for that |
| 28203s | line you needed to have started 30 |
| 28204s | seconds |
| 28215s | ago |
| 28217s | okay |
| 28218s | oh it's it's all it's yog it's prison of |
| 28220s | yog to go to Worlds I mean that come on |
| 28222s | we come on I mean we can talk about what |
| 28225s | the right players all as much as we |
| 28227s | want like pocket did you come this far |
| 28231s | to be a coward like you're get it there |
| 28233s | anyway pocket come on you're the points |
| 28235s | leader you can do it |
| 28237s | honestly pathetic kind of cringe to be |
| 28241s | honest mhm what just two six Sixers yeah |
| 28246s | yeah a not being at the World |
| 28249s | Championships |
| 28251s | already could have just gone yeah could |
| 28255s | have just pointed prison of yog at your |
| 28257s | opponent's face and you'd be fist |
| 28259s | pumping already this is how much he |
| 28261s | doesn't want to play in |
| 28266s | November uh alter cord is there but I |
| 28270s | think really banter wanted this to be a |
| 28272s | cheap Reby spell which you might just |
| 28275s | have to end up taking conductivity to do |
| 28280s | that I mean feral is there but yeah I |
| 28283s | was just looking F spirit is just |
| 28284s | taunting him as it were |
| 28287s | [Music] |
| 28293s | there it's what he hasn't had all game |
| 28295s | is he yeah this is how pocket train won |
| 28297s | the reverse of this which in a mirror |
| 28299s | matches what you want like he had the |
| 28300s | double feral like 30 seconds bant you |
| 28303s | got to |
| 28304s | go yeah I think this is the choice now |
| 28307s | altered cord is |
| 28309s | incredible but isn't there primordial is |
| 28312s | now |
| 28313s | though that is two snow flipper penguins |
| 28316s | and a playable |
| 28317s | crash oh |
| 28321s | no |
| 28323s | wow oh the Spells cost one more that is |
| 28327s | an absolute |
| 28330s | [Music] |
| 28332s | disaster both players head in hands in |
| 28335s | the end pocket train barely even looking |
| 28338s | satisfied yes that is correct you are |
| 28341s | looking at the player that won and I |
| 28344s | think you are just seeing the emotion of |
| 28346s | everything Dawn on this player of what |
| 28348s | they have gone through this year to get |
| 28350s | to this point yeah second Masters Tour |
| 28352s | win of course first one of this year but |
| 28354s | also beating someone who I suspect is a |
| 28356s | pretty close friend at this point |
| 28358s | because all of the people have been |
| 28359s | streaming this and all of the people |
| 28360s | have been hanging out who have been in |
| 28362s | the top 16 as well been hanging out |
| 28364s | together sort of in it together all year |
| 28366s | so yeah um yeah |
| 28368s | there is a little bit of sadness in |
| 28369s | putting your friend potentially out of |
| 28371s | the tournament and bface now is going to |
| 28373s | have to perform miracles on the points |
| 28376s | to be honest to get into Worlds now um |
| 28378s | on the system because weq is just going |
| 28380s | so well in the America system so tinge |
| 28383s | with sadness for pocket trade but also |
| 28384s | the emotion of finally winning one after |
| 28387s | a final earlier in the year and yeah 10 |
| 28390s | months of grinding out and lad to get |
| 28393s | here yeah it's been a long whole journey |
| 28396s | for uh for everyone involved but I think |
| 28399s | pocket train after everything is is a |
| 28402s | wonderful player you know I I called it |
| 28404s | out during his semi-final just in |
| 28406s | comparison to |
| 28409s | um everyone else in this tournament who |
| 28411s | have accolades and things that you can |
| 28414s | praise them for and then you compare |
| 28416s | that next to what pocket has done and |
| 28419s | start to realize just you know how much |
| 28422s | better pocket is than some of even the |
| 28423s | best players that we have in the world |
| 28425s | so I personally am delighted have him |
| 28428s | guaranteed at the World Championships um |
| 28430s | and it does really now open up that |
| 28432s | extra spot in the race as well for uh |
| 28435s | players to try and make it then yeah |
| 28437s | let's have a look at how it went down |
| 28439s | after this because it has been a week |
| 28443s | just going to have a look at the top |
| 28444s | four though so pocket train beating |
| 28445s | Hemlock which um you know I was hyping |
| 28447s | up this one because this is the people |
| 28449s | we know of stream but Hemlock was sort |
| 28451s | of pocket trains not his pick but the |
| 28453s | person he wanted to make sure we talked |
| 28455s | about a lot because he says that Hemlock |
| 28457s | is was wasn't getting the plaudit he |
| 28458s | deserved and and then he beat him so |
| 28460s | it's the perfect setup really well done |
| 28464s | pocket and bface beating out balance |
| 28466s | balance struggled a little bit with the |
| 28468s | pressure one of the first times we've |
| 28469s | really seen him deep in the tournament |
| 28471s | made one or two mistakes I think in that |
| 28472s | semi-final um but also a fantastic |
| 28474s | performance just to get here and then to |
| 28476s | get all the way to that semi-final uh |
| 28478s | with priest as well which was not a |
| 28480s | popular bring this weekend so well done |
| 28482s | to balance as well yeah I think very |
| 28485s | very impressive you're right again to |
| 28487s | call out Hemlock you know when I was |
| 28488s | saying you can take a player that has an |
| 28490s | incredibly good record this year um |
| 28493s | Hemlock was kind of the example I was |
| 28495s | going for there where Hemlock has three |
| 28498s | top eights now overall two top eights |
| 28499s | and a top four in the three tournaments |
| 28501s | are available is stood fifth overall |
| 28503s | globally in the point standings again |
| 28505s | prior to this event um but then you |
| 28508s | stack that up against pocket who's had a |
| 28510s | third fourth a second and now a first |
| 28513s | and is joint first in the standings |
| 28515s | globally overall like yes there is a |
| 28519s | smaller sample of tournaments that are |
| 28522s | available to be competed in at the top |
| 28524s | level this year than there have been |
| 28525s | before but in terms of just complete |
| 28528s | domination of the field and consistency |
| 28530s | throughout the whole year it's lad |
| 28532s | finish after ladder finish after ladder |
| 28533s | finish into there being three major |
| 28536s | tournaments available and he's been top |
| 28537s | four in all of them in a card game in a |
| 28540s | game where there will be people watching |
| 28543s | this stream right now saying oh what |
| 28546s | what are we watching this for it's all r |
| 28547s | anyway like no shut up it isn't some |
| 28550s | people are just better than others and |
| 28552s | pocket train is one of those people yeah |
| 28554s | and not to mention that he won an open |
| 28556s | Masters Tour in 2022 as well which you |
| 28559s | know give or take 350 400 players |
| 28562s | whatever it is and he had other strong |
| 28565s | results in those tournaments as well |
| 28566s | player that's really com to his own we |
| 28568s | saw him coming he was one of the players |
| 28569s | we did sort of know was on the way from |
| 28572s | a long way out he like this guy's going |
| 28573s | to be good he just needs to get bit |
| 28575s | confidence I think he struggled a little |
| 28576s | bit on camera like like everybody does |
| 28579s | the first few times out I remember |
| 28580s | talking to all sorts of players who have |
| 28581s | said they've struggled on camera you |
| 28583s | after they've won three or four big |
| 28584s | events like yeah I used to be really |
| 28586s | scared didn't want people thinking I was |
| 28588s | stupid well win then then then they |
| 28590s | don't think was stupid um people over |
| 28593s | getting nervous but he's done all that |
| 28595s | now and yeah the emotion there at the |
| 28597s | end fantastic to see hopefully have a |
| 28600s | little chat with him as well yeah |
| 28601s | exactly if you're wondering why we are |
| 28603s | uh quite clearly just vamping for time |
| 28605s | right now we are hopefully going to get |
| 28606s | pocket train on the line to have a few |
| 28608s | words with him but I guess now would be |
| 28610s | a good moment as well to shift the focus |
| 28611s | to Banter face for a second because um |
| 28615s | you know he has has come on Leaps and |
| 28617s | Bounds I think this is not the time to |
| 28620s | be you know throwing out the meme again |
| 28622s | but he's a player that I I undervalued |
| 28624s | and underappreciated for quite some time |
| 28627s | um during his time in America's Grand |
| 28629s | Masters and I think you know he really |
| 28632s | since then has been able to separate |
| 28633s | himself from the pack and make the point |
| 28636s | that he make the AR argument that he |
| 28638s | could just be the best player in |
| 28639s | americaas um and coming as close as he |
| 28643s | did you know we've talked about it from |
| 28645s | the perspective of pocket train where |
| 28647s | it's like okay he's put all this time in |
| 28649s | and imagine that outpouring of emotion |
| 28651s | of like oh my God I actually did it like |
| 28653s | this is all been worth it the goal is |
| 28654s | there you then have to flip that and |
| 28657s | think what does it feel to a player |
| 28659s | that's now thinking oh hang on I |
| 28661s | invested all this time and I got you |
| 28663s | know one card one discover one decision |
| 28667s | here away from making that a reality and |
| 28670s | now it's all been snatched away and |
| 28671s | again like you said the uh the the |
| 28674s | standings for the Americans |
| 28676s | qualification uh wiq has a pretty |
| 28679s | substantial lead overall over banter |
| 28681s | alog together so going to be a really |
| 28683s | really rough one from banter from here |
| 28685s | but he has made an incredible accounting |
| 28687s | of himself this year overall to to to |
| 28690s | play as well as consistently as he has |
| 28692s | yeah and I think of all the people have |
| 28694s | talked about who've been streaming the |
| 28696s | event he's been the one who has |
| 28698s | constantly put in infinite hours uh I |
| 28701s | know me's put in a lot of time as well |
| 28703s | obviously uh but bace he managed to |
| 28706s | mix doing the infinite hours but still |
| 28709s | playing a wide variety of things you |
| 28711s | know the end of some months yeah |
| 28712s | obviously he goes down and Knuckles down |
| 28713s | and plays the best deck but he didn't |
| 28715s | just play the same thing to qualify |
| 28717s | every time he he showed his versatility |
| 28720s | on stream all year and hopefully he |
| 28722s | continues to do that even I presume he |
| 28725s | will take some break of this this has to |
| 28726s | be training for him but presumably we'll |
| 28728s | see him back in streaming |
| 28730s | and probably playing a little bit more |
| 28732s | Mimi like he enjoys doing as well um |
| 28735s | another point I just want to make while |
| 28736s | we're waiting for pocket train to be set |
| 28738s | up is I think one of the reasons you may |
| 28740s | have underrated him is something we |
| 28742s | always struggled with casting him was |
| 28744s | because of the decks he brought he liked |
| 28746s | to play Hunter he liked to play the more |
| 28747s | aggressive stuff the selling point was |
| 28749s | he didn't make mistakes he wasn't one of |
| 28751s | these players like pocket train playing |
| 28753s | B priest playing 27 cards a turn drawing |
| 28756s | his deck and killing you he just didn't |
| 28758s | mess up he just did the right thing over |
| 28761s | and over and it was very hard to |
| 28763s | identify the really good plays it was |
| 28766s | yeah and again |
| 28769s | like no but like you were you you were |
| 28771s | casting America's Grand Masters right |
| 28773s | and so true the the the standard of like |
| 28776s | oh okay well this player just isn't |
| 28778s | making mistakes when you cast Europe |
| 28780s | Grand Masters you're unimpressed by a |
| 28782s | player that just doesn't make mistakes |
| 28784s | right because you're used to seeing |
| 28786s | people who always have the right lineups |
| 28788s | are always playing at the top of their |
| 28789s | game are actually like innovating the |
| 28791s | way that matchups are being played at a |
| 28793s | top level um and I think that's where |
| 28796s | banter has arguably made that extra step |
| 28798s | forward as well yeah yeah just to word |
| 28800s | it's slightly better he was not he |
| 28803s | wasn't playing Decks that allowed him to |
| 28805s | show off his flare because yeah so the |
| 28808s | the the reduction was he's not making |
| 28810s | mistakes |
| 28811s | yeah theer didn't also allow him to need |
| 28814s | to make flashy plays yeah I think ready |
| 28817s | though to have a word with our champion |
| 28819s | Pock you can see some of the moments he |
| 28822s | went through to get to that point the uh |
| 28825s | the variation of emotions uh through the |
| 28828s | earlier games in the tournament and that |
| 28830s | final moment as he was able to uh step |
| 28833s | past a good friend of his uh in mcbf |
| 28836s | face in the final he's been through a |
| 28838s | long road not just today but over the |
| 28840s | entire year to uh to get to this |
| 28843s | point indeed he |
| 28846s | has |
| 28847s | to face crushing moment at the end like |
| 28850s | yeah primordial wave was great but |
| 28852s | obviously you're devolving away your own |
| 28854s | uh your own discount at that point which |
| 28857s | means then you're just that one Mana |
| 28858s | short of being able to play anything |
| 28860s | relevant to clear up the board so an |
| 28861s | absolute Heartbreaker a banter face in |
| 28863s | the end but we do get to find out the |
| 28865s | emotions of the winner |
| 28869s | now you hear me hello you pocket train |
| 28873s | you did it you're going to Worlds I mean |
| 28876s | I think you knew you were probably going |
| 28877s | to Worlds but uh we saw it in the |
| 28879s | realization how does it feel to actually |
| 28881s | be going to Worlds got to be honest man |
| 28883s | that's the worst way to do it I really |
| 28886s | like I'm very confident that I was going |
| 28889s | to have enough points to make worlds |
| 28890s | anyway I really don't want to have to |
| 28892s | grind ladder for the last month but uh I |
| 28895s | felt really bad beating bant over all |
| 28897s | people um like I was hoping he would |
| 28900s | make it obviously so that I have just a |
| 28902s | stretch three finals and I was I was |
| 28904s | super happy the entire time last last |
| 28906s | master to the finals like it showed I |
| 28908s | was stressed I knew like there and then |
| 28911s | win this get to Worlds and I botched it |
| 28913s | as a result but now like one month to go |
| 28916s | it's like I I haven't even skipped the |
| 28918s | year I've done the hard part and then uh |
| 28921s | one at the worst possible moment and |
| 28923s | denied a friend a world spot so it's |
| 28925s | it's a bit Bittersweet but I am happy |
| 28926s | that uh it's finally |
| 28929s | over um so that's that's nice but uh |
| 28932s | yeah uh the whole Banda thing is is is a |
| 28935s | little bit bit sweet sure |
| 28938s | so first off uh nice nice to once again |
| 28941s | have a proper Accent on the stream |
| 28942s | pocket welcome um secondly uh I think |
| 28946s | you know you just I was going to ask you |
| 28947s | about you know we saw the emotions on |
| 28949s | your face which were best described as |
| 28950s | mixed at the end of that game um but I |
| 28953s | think you've described that accurately |
| 28955s | already so I guess we'll just talk |
| 28956s | Hearthstone stuff instead um you tweeted |
| 28959s | your lineup talking about like least bad |
| 28961s | decks um I think the decision in there |
| 28964s | was like Mech Rogue when a lot of other |
| 28966s | people were bringing secret and as well |
| 28967s | like nature Shaman being the fourth deck |
| 28969s | out of the the the field of fourth Decks |
| 28972s | that were available what was the |
| 28973s | reasoning behind those two like a little |
| 28975s | bit more in depth so I mean I I prepped |
| 28979s | mostly with Casey and mey for this one I |
| 28981s | I would have prepped with ream but he |
| 28983s | said he didn't want the distraction from |
| 28985s | ladder and studies or something and then |
| 28986s | he prepped like a maniac anyway um just |
| 28989s | on sort of slightly on his own um a bit |
| 28991s | of a tangent and uh just in testing |
| 28995s | every deck felt bad for pretty much and |
| 28998s | then I played Metro and it went like 70% |
| 29000s | Plus in testing just stomped everything |
| 29003s | and then I thought okay well since every |
| 29005s | deck feels bad there's no way I'm not |
| 29007s | bringing this one because it actually |
| 29008s | feels good and then I've got one more |
| 29009s | deck to deal with and I was actually on |
| 29013s | Relic Demon Hunter like Casey until like |
| 29015s | the last 10 minutes oh um and |
| 29018s | then I think I spoke to bter actually |
| 29022s | with like 10 minutes to go and we like |
| 29024s | exchanged lineups even though we didn't |
| 29026s | really prep together and then he had the |
| 29029s | same lineup as me but with I think no |
| 29031s | Mech Rogue and he had drum Druid and I |
| 29035s | had um The Relic D instead of the shaman |
| 29040s | you said a proper accent I was kind of |
| 29041s | hoping ra Raven would hit be here so we |
| 29043s | could unfiltered speak the truth of how |
| 29045s | to pronounce Shaman but |
| 29047s | uh um all right C interview over kick |
| 29050s | him out like he out his |
| 29052s | time we we we like swapped a deck each |
| 29054s | and then it just turned out to be the |
| 29056s | best lineup cuz we met in the finals uh |
| 29058s | which was which was quite nice uh cuz |
| 29061s | yeah the last deck just felt bad no |
| 29064s | matter what it was Relic DH felt okay |
| 29066s | but it just couldn't beat met grogue the |
| 29069s | idea was get stuff that's decent into |
| 29071s | Mage and Relic did a better job of that |
| 29074s | but it felt like it did a worse job |
| 29075s | against everything else than the nature |
| 29077s | Shaman which is yeah I felt validated |
| 29081s | when everyone else started bring when |
| 29082s | when everyone else was bringing it |
| 29083s | because I thought okay at least uh if |
| 29085s | I'm in the bin I'm I'm in the bin with |
| 29087s | everyone else so there's a chance that I |
| 29088s | just hire Al mirror at least we're all |
| 29091s | just scrapping in the same dumpster yeah |
| 29093s | um how do you how do you feel you played |
| 29095s | overall because I know you were kind of |
| 29096s | critical of your performance in the last |
| 29097s | Masters Tour a little bit like do you |
| 29099s | feel you reached the standards you set |
| 29101s | for yourself in this one not in the |
| 29104s | final um but up until then I'm very |
| 29108s | happy with it because I was playing |
| 29110s | stress free for the most part but not so |
| 29112s | stressfree that I got a bit sloppy which |
| 29114s | I think I did in the final for sure um |
| 29118s | but up until then I was very very happy |
| 29120s | with my play I think um yeah especially |
| 29124s | like I felt like I had no right to win |
| 29126s | any game against Hemlock and then and |
| 29128s | then three 0 which |
| 29130s | uh that that had me buzzing for a very |
| 29133s | very long time |
| 29135s | um uh the earlier rounds I yeah I |
| 29138s | remember the first match on stream |
| 29140s | against tansu specifically that one made |
| 29142s | me feel great because I went into this |
| 29144s | not feeling the most confident because |
| 29146s | prep wasn't as in-depth as it has been |
| 29148s | in the past and then I came away from |
| 29150s | that Series going there's a there's a |
| 29152s | chance I played every turn perfectly and |
| 29154s | then just built Confidence from then and |
| 29157s | uh yeah it's felt kind of good stress |
| 29160s | free since because I I've always had |
| 29162s | this feeling that I kind of needed to |
| 29163s | prove myself and then I feel like with |
| 29165s | what I've done previously this year that |
| 29167s | was kind of gone so whatever happened |
| 29169s | happened this time I I could lose I'd be |
| 29171s | at Worlds then then do the business |
| 29173s | there uh so yeah it's been a little bit |
| 29175s | stress free so I think I think my plays |
| 29177s | have been |
| 29177s | more more clear because last time |
| 29181s | distress kind of it makes your brain all |
| 29183s | muddy and stuff stuff just gets a bit |
| 29185s | bit overwhelming but this time yeah |
| 29187s | thoughts have been mostly |
| 29189s | clear I don't think I've ever seen a |
| 29191s | clearer example of the pocket train plot |
| 29193s | armor than that Series against Hemlock |
| 29195s | like that that was absurd how you were |
| 29196s | still in your tournament this tournament |
| 29198s | after that I have absolutely no idea but |
| 29200s | uh we've been told that we do have to |
| 29201s | let you go so we'll give you one last |
| 29203s | final opportunity any thank yous |
| 29205s | commiserations shout outs any thing that |
| 29206s | you want to give the floor is yours well |
| 29208s | the the biggest thank you for sure for |
| 29210s | well banter he gave me he gave me a deck |
| 29212s | that I won the Masters Tour with um and |
| 29214s | obviously commiserations to him I really |
| 29216s | wanted to see him at world so I do feel |
| 29217s | a bit rough for for doing that to him um |
| 29222s | uh mey Casey who I'm very happy to have |
| 29225s | helped out because he he needed one of |
| 29227s | the ladder spots so hopefully he can get |
| 29228s | the ladder finishes to qualify for |
| 29230s | worlds because um I thought I let a few |
| 29233s | people down last time uh yeah Casey |
| 29235s | prepped with me hopefully yeah um mey |
| 29239s | wfam those are the main people I |
| 29241s | practiced with um yeah Fury hunters in |
| 29244s | and around it still he didn't really |
| 29245s | help this time but he gave me the I |
| 29247s | think the best lineup for the last |
| 29248s | Master's tour just like five minutes |
| 29250s | into joining our prep group he said |
| 29251s | bring this it's the best and then like a |
| 29253s | week later I was in a master to final |
| 29257s | but yeah those are those are the big |
| 29258s | names |
| 29260s | um that's mostly it cool it's been great |
| 29264s | talking to you pocket train as it always |
| 29266s | is anyway but going to have to let you |
| 29268s | go now to go and celebrate or chill or |
| 29270s | go to sleep or whatever it is that |
| 29271s | pocket train does when he's just W |
| 29273s | tournament bit of everything and yeah |
| 29276s | enjoy your next month of chilling and |
| 29279s | try and bring that relaxed attitude to |
| 29281s | the World Championships I guess but |
| 29282s | great to see you and we'll see you at |
| 29285s | Worlds you heard it you heard it was |
| 29288s | there it may have been underneath Linda |
| 29290s | but you heard it he said he was going to |
| 29291s | stream absolutely yeah we will see you |
| 29294s | in your stream then most likely yeah |
| 29297s | that's the end of another Masters Tour |
| 29299s | the final Master's tour of 2023 sttle um |
| 29302s | other than the champion any any |
| 29303s | interesting takeaways anything you want |
| 29304s | to say before we go no I just I think it |
| 29308s | just shows the the resiliency of our |
| 29311s | talent pole in Hearthstone by which I |
| 29313s | don't mean us the the broadcast talent I |
| 29316s | mean the talent of the players right is |
| 29318s | that um this the system that we had this |
| 29321s | year presented a very unique set of |
| 29322s | challenges and we still had an |
| 29324s | incredibly high level of of cream rising |
| 29327s | to the top of when we get to these |
| 29329s | events the the standard that is set is |
| 29332s | still so incredibly high like yes you |
| 29336s | know people have their various |
| 29337s | criticisms of the grand Masters era of |
| 29339s | hearthstone or whatever but I think it's |
| 29341s | indisputable that after we went through |
| 29342s | a few iterations of relegation with that |
| 29345s | system we had an absurdly high level of |
| 29348s | hearthstone being played um in the |
| 29350s | competitive scene at that point and I |
| 29353s | think the greatest Testament to the |
| 29355s | players that we have in these |
| 29356s | tournaments so they are continuing to |
| 29358s | hold that standard set by the likes of |
| 29361s | Gabby and bli and yer and all the |
| 29363s | players that came out of that grand |
| 29364s | Masters system so we are putting |
| 29367s | together an incredibly stacked field of |
| 29370s | players to compete a world championships |
| 29372s | and they have a very illustrious group |
| 29375s | of names to live up to whoever is going |
| 29377s | to pick up that mantle of being the next |
| 29379s | World Champion but I am already very |
| 29381s | confident that we are going to have |
| 29383s | someone who fits right in with the like |
| 29386s | of firebat and lion and Bunny Hopper and |
| 29388s | all of these incredible players that |
| 29390s | we've had before that have been world |
| 29391s | champions so yeah um GG I love |
| 29394s | Hearthstone that's basically the way |
| 29395s | that you sign off every tournament at |
| 29397s | this point uh yeah it's been great yeah |
| 29399s | always emotional for the cast as well |
| 29401s | it's two great days of action that we |
| 29403s | get to see a little bit too rarely but |
| 29405s | there's so much more still to come |
| 29407s | because December the 16th December the |
| 29409s | 17th the World |
| 29412s | Championships uh will be played we will |
| 29414s | be here with that here as always |
| 29416s | and you know who three of the players |
| 29418s | are going to be but there's five more |
| 29419s | still to be found keep an eye on Twitter |
| 29422s | and twitch I guess to see who those are |
| 29423s | going to be we'll let you know as soon |
| 29425s | as we can as well but that's it that's |
| 29427s | the end of another Masters Tour so |
| 29429s | thanks to all the production to the |
| 29431s | players to a of ice TJ Raven and |
| 29433s | everybody for watching we'll see you |
| 29435s | next time at |
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