2024 Hearthstone Masters Tour Summer I Day 2

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862s	hello everyone and welcome to day two of
864s	the hearstone grand uh Grand Masters I
867s	was going back in time then Hearthstone
869s	Masters Tour there we go I'll get
871s	Masters in there somewhere summer
873s	Championship it's just pure excitement
875s	for day two h of course I'm Raven I'm
877s	going to be kicking it off with everyone
878s	else on screen once again stle Linda
880s	Dragon Rider and TJ we are all back and
883s	we're going to be going through group C
884s	and D today to he's joining the other
886s	four players in that top eight bracket
889s	uh first off sutle how do you feel about
891s	yesterday I feel good about yesterday
894s	from uh from an entertainment product
895s	perspective I think we had a great mix
898s	of different styles of decks different
899s	quality of play like all sorts of things
901s	that lead to a highly entertaining
904s	Hearthstone Esports broadcast a
907s	fantastic episode of the television show
910s	Hearthstone
912s	woo thanks than great job
917s	someone it was really special right we
919s	had everything we had some really really
921s	powerful plays we had um some really UNP
924s	powerful plays as well yala showing some
926s	tiredness at the end of the day just
928s	played a card that the game was lost um
932s	but yeah we had a lot of stuff going on
934s	lots of really skillful decks on display
936s	lots of variety on display despite the
938s	fact three or four of classes aren't
939s	here there's variety within the stuff
941s	we've got every build is different of
943s	similar archetypes so I think we are
946s	seeing um players making decisions right
948s	the away from lineup building right the
949s	way through to the the decisions Within
953s	game yeah it it was a really exciting
956s	day and I think one thing for me is the
959s	uh kind of ju a position between
961s	yesterday and today with yesterday kind
963s	of having a lot of those big names and
965s	getting to see kind of how those
967s	different players ended up doing well or
971s	not as well uh throughout those games
973s	but all kind of being more big names and
976s	then we're going to kind of see the
977s	opposite today and see those lesser
979s	names uh or well-known names and get to
982s	see that so I'm very excited but
984s	yesterday was an exciting way to kick
986s	off this weekend
990s	I'm looking forward to kind of the
993s	contrast between the two groups today uh
996s	between Group C and D where Group C is
998s	the the group of Rogues and I hope that
1000s	some players actually get tested on
1002s	Rogue you know a pop pop quiz uh on the
1006s	deck and then Group D is you know wild
1009s	and all over the place there's only a
1010s	single Rogue in group D there's multiple
1013s	shamans multiple death Knights uh and
1017s	those decks just feel like they haven't
1018s	performed
1020s	um so I'm curious to see who's going to
1023s	come out on top uh either way so should
1026s	be a fun one today yeah for sure I think
1029s	uh the shamans especially did not really
1031s	look too convincing at least from the
1033s	games on stream I think Saul you you
1036s	mentioned yesterday when we were talking
1037s	about nature shaming that um it actually
1040s	won the first game off stream U I think
1042s	when me and TJ were talking about it so
1044s	that she won that no problem but it
1046s	didn't feel like it was at least to me
1048s	filling a particularly strong role
1051s	honestly in terms of like the actual
1054s	meta right now maybe I'm off with that
1056s	and maybe I'm just uh biased because of
1058s	the games we saw so we'll see if that
1060s	can or Shaman in general can perform
1062s	going forward but let's check out just a
1064s	bit of a recap if you've only just
1066s	joined us today and didn't catch
1067s	yesterday bit of a recap as to what's
1069s	exactly going on this weekend and what
1071s	the players are actually competing
1073s	for yeah first up um updates to the
1077s	world championship which is a big one if
1079s	uh you didn't tune in yesterday or
1081s	haven't been paying attention uh World
1084s	Championship prize pool now
1086s	$500,000 doubled the number of global
1088s	qualifiers from 8 to 16 uh because now
1092s	arstone is is back in China so we need
1094s	to expand the world championship to
1096s	include them and that expansion includes
1098s	uh four players from China from their
1100s	qualifiers as well as expanding the
1102s	amount of players that are going to be
1103s	qualifying from points uh from those
1105s	latter rankings and they will join uh
1108s	you know that original eight cast of
1110s	eight uh that we have planned uh at the
1113s	beginning of of the year so exciting
1115s	news exciting updates for the world
1117s	championship it's going to be this
1118s	bigger grander event uh which I'm really
1120s	excited
1121s	for yeah and what we're seeing this
1124s	weekend and what we saw in the spring is
1126s	kind of how they get there with these uh
1130s	Master's tour championships for spring
1132s	and summer getting 16 players total four
1137s	from each region plus the top four point
1140s	earners total and there's still more
1143s	qualifying Seasons so we're going to
1145s	find out uh over the course of this
1147s	weekend who will get those spots for the
1149s	world championship and who will join
1151s	throughout the year based on those
1153s	points yep and here's the for my
1155s	overview it's the same as it's been for
1156s	many years now but people still do join
1159s	and want to know exactly how Conquest
1161s	works you bring four decks um you ban
1164s	one of them that LE you with three decks
1165s	cuz four - one is three and then you
1167s	have to win with all your decks once um
1169s	when your deck is won you can't use it
1171s	again and it's best of five cuz that's
1172s	how winning three times
1175s	works and here is what we are playing
1178s	for those World invites are worth a lot
1182s	of money half a million tournament or
1183s	half a million season um overall $10,000
1188s	plus that invitation for first place and
1190s	1,000 just for getting here which um I
1192s	say just for getting here it's not that
1195s	easy to get here at the moment you got
1197s	to do well on ladder n these players has
1199s	just rolled out of bed and just
1200s	accidentally ended up at the Master's
1202s	tour that's absolutely what happened
1204s	yeah very true actually but what they
1206s	have been doing is jamming an awful lot
1207s	of perils in Paradise which is the most
1210s	recent Hearthstone expansion I think
1212s	it's been a generally very well-received
1213s	expansion overall um and I think for the
1216s	sake of the competitive format it's been
1218s	great to have the format breathe as well
1221s	we've only just recently hit our first
1222s	balance patch of the expansion which
1224s	came at a very astute time I think just
1227s	as development had started to stagnate a
1229s	little bit and now we're seeing
1230s	development kickoff all over again and
1232s	we're at a tournament where the meta is
1233s	still very much in a state of flux with
1236s	uh you know Infinity Rogue for example
1237s	being a very late development over the
1239s	last couple of days sneaking into these
1241s	these players lineups for this
1242s	tournament great stuff yeah I think
1244s	what's really been cool for me this
1246s	expansion is when I've been watching a
1247s	lot of Cu we're in the fortunate
1249s	position where a lot of the bigger
1250s	streamers in Hearthstone are the best
1252s	players as well which is pretty nice to
1254s	uh to have you can just watch good
1256s	players play Hearthstone every day which
1258s	is great but but I feel like every time
1260s	I'm sort of tuning into these different
1262s	players they are sort of exploring
1264s	different decks trying to you know work
1266s	out how to actually build those decks
1268s	because even though we've got you know
1270s	there's a sort of a rough consensus with
1272s	the lineups sort of this weekend uh with
1274s	the actual builds of those decks there
1276s	is a lot of variety and I think still no
1280s	one's decided it's not as if they
1281s	submitted and this weekend everyone said
1283s	oh this is the 30 cards to bring I think
1285s	that discussion is going to go on and
1287s	then there'll be a mini set which will
1289s	change everything again and so on like
1291s	that so um I think it's been really fun
1293s	just to see variety it's not just here's
1295s	the three best decks and when you go to
1298s	watch the best players they're just
1299s	playing the three best decks all day
1301s	every day nonstop there are some players
1302s	who do commit a lot of course and and
1304s	try and explore specific decks
1306s	themselves but it's been cool to see
1308s	that variety uh but what are some of the
1309s	Highlight decks for you guys what have
1311s	you been playing that's been uh been
1312s	super fun this
1315s	expansion first I've played a lot of
1318s	insanity uh to start with I played a lot
1320s	of concierge Druid because coner Druid
1322s	is so much fun for me personally I know
1324s	some people don't find it that way but
1326s	um you're constantly balancing the
1327s	temper on the board the damage in your
1329s	hand uh your card draw I find juggling
1331s	all that doesn't totally break my brain
1334s	but I find it enjoyable whereas Rogue
1336s	totally breaks my
1338s	brain for sure mine too but I've been uh
1341s	I've been enjoying learning overheal
1343s	priest and playing that that's been
1345s	another one of those decks that's been
1347s	uh quite exciting to see kind of resurge
1349s	a little bit and the different changes
1351s	and I'm excited to see the slight
1353s	variations in the Pricks that we're
1356s	going to see today as
1358s	well teach I I mean I think I said it
1362s	yesterday with uh Linda but we're both
1364s	coner jward enjoyers but what I've been
1367s	uh enjoying lately is playing handbuff
1369s	Paladin where you take out the four or
1371s	five tech cards and you literally put in
1373s	any random
1374s	minions um and and you see how you do uh
1378s	I I I swear it does not affect your win
1381s	rate at all um as long as the minions
1383s	cost like three or less like you're good
1387s	you can put in literally anything and
1389s	you're absolutely fine so um that's uh
1393s	that's been my enjoyment and some of the
1395s	players in this event feels like that's
1396s	what they did with handbuff Paladin so
1399s	you know jeez shots fired well we can
1401s	see players had various levels of
1404s	success with which autocomplete cards
1406s	they chose to put in their handbuff
1407s	paladins and various others uh enough
1409s	about what we've been wanting to play
1411s	the what these players chose to bring to
1413s	the tournament is much more important
1415s	you can see four players through if you
1417s	missed it yesterday to our top eight
1418s	already we have a real Marquee match at
1421s	the top there with Fury Hunter and McAn
1424s	face classic Europe versus America
1426s	showdown between two of the real flag
1428s	bearers for those regions and then gu
1431s	who is kind of my pick for breakout
1434s	player of this new system really he is
1436s	phenomenal particularly when it comes to
1438s	the deck building lineup building phase
1440s	of a tournament and then Mai who I think
1442s	would I put the the Dark Horse coming
1444s	into this one out of these four players
1446s	I don't know if everyone else would
1447s	agree with that
1448s	assessment I think purely based on just
1451s	how well we know all the players right
1453s	is just you look at Players like Fury
1455s	Hunter him at Banner face and it's like
1456s	well yeah you know we've known these
1458s	players many years then so I do feel
1461s	like we've not spent as much time with
1463s	Mar so I would have to agree but I do
1465s	think the groups we've got coming up
1467s	today are incred incredibly spicy and
1470s	again just in case you weren't with us
1471s	yesterday uh we are going to be going um
1474s	all the way through group C in the first
1476s	half of the day then we're going to be
1477s	doing Group D a little bit later on so
1479s	I'm excited to check those uh those
1482s	groups out but yeah really really strong
1484s	top eight so far not to not that we'd
1486s	really expect anything
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1490s	less yeah it's hard to not have a strong
1492s	top eight when you have this tournament
1494s	and here's Group C uh some of it has
1498s	already taken place obviously initial
1499s	matches we still get to see every player
1501s	in the tournament though the way that
1502s	the broadcast Works um but maxibon won
1505s	the Battle of the the youngsters I'm
1507s	going to call them but they're still
1508s	both very experienced players and gamer
1511s	rvg won the Battle of American Ladder
1514s	players you can't say young I think
1516s	youngsters is the only word you could
1518s	say that makes you sound older than you
1520s	actually are and you managed to pull it
1522s	off that's incredible pesky kids
1526s	honestly and then now you just sound
1528s	like like a Scooby-Doo villain I
1531s	mean yeah
1536s	guilty so that is going to be groupy as
1538s	we just got very very distracted and
1540s	this is a bit of a recap of uh it was
1542s	Gabby versus maxibon uh the match we
1545s	were kind of watching it before the uh
1547s	before the show was starting no this is
1549s	Tiny Patron versus dead patreon oh sorry
1552s	apologies that's Gabby at the top on the
1554s	nature Sharman you don't know it's
1555s	nature Sharman because I think in this
1557s	recap you might see it do precisely
1561s	nothing yeah I mean TJ saw that a bit
1563s	yesterday as well nature shame and not
1565s	exactly uh getting
1566s	work well no the with nature Shaman
1569s	feels bad the nature Shaman games
1572s	yesterday like dead draw did a lot of
1574s	things it's just none of them ended up
1576s	being particularly effective in the end
1578s	whereas this series he Gabby just died
1582s	turn six like every game just 3-0 in
1585s	like 20 minutes it was it was outrageous
1588s	and played basically no cards it was
1590s	actually rid we we were lucky enough to
1591s	be able to watch it which we don't us to
1592s	get to watch the off off screen games
1594s	ourselves but it was just ridiculous R
1597s	even went to have his breakfast I
1599s	honestly walked away I said right we've
1602s	got some time before I have to be on
1603s	camera I wasn't ready people may think
1606s	I'm still not ready by the looks of me
1607s	but I promise you I walked away put a
1609s	shirt on did my hair a bit came back as
1611s	the series was ending I was like what
1614s	what's happened here I missed all this
1615s	so yeah very very quick games overall H
1618s	so we may have some more quick games
1620s	today who knows H but we do have our
1622s	first match coming up very very soon but
1625s	of course we do need our group
1626s	prediction so sole I'm going to be
1628s	starting with you yeah Group C is a real
1633s	challenge for me because I don't oh
1635s	we're going we're going straight through
1636s	the game apparently everyone else is
1637s	gone no one gets to predict it's just us
1640s	hello dwn how are you
1642s	doing
1643s	yes uh I don't know if you're hearing
1645s	these names being shouted in but Linda
1648s	went for gamer RBG Raven went for Gabby
1650s	I'm also going to go for gamer RBG for
1652s	this group Dawn do you want to you want
1653s	to throw one out there yeah I'm actually
1655s	going to go for Maxi Bon I think that
1658s	he's been doing pretty well lately and
1660s	it's been exciting seeing him stream as
1662s	well so uh top Wild player but also very
1666s	very good at standard as well
1668s	soed and apparently it's an ice cream I
1671s	learned yes it is this is the thing I so
1673s	I don't know for a fact that Maxi bond
1675s	is actually named over the after the ice
1677s	cream but if you are americ and you
1679s	don't know the Delights of a maxibon you
1681s	are missing out I promise you but yeah D
1683s	why don't you tell us a little bit about
1685s	this first match that we've got coming
1686s	up yeah so our first match is going to
1689s	be uh maxibon versus gamer
1693s	rvg and we did see a little bit of that
1697s	uh recap of Maxi Bond taking that 30
1702s	over uh over Gabby earlier but behind
1707s	the scenes well things were applying out
1710s	uh apparently a 31 happened in the
1713s	background as well so uh we didn't get
1716s	to see that one but uh what do you think
1718s	of both of these players that we're
1720s	going to be seeing in this matchup yeah
1723s	so I mean maxibon is is next up right he
1726s	is the next as 75-year-old Linda would
1729s	say the next youngster on the on the
1731s	Block making too much noise and running
1733s	around way too fast there does always
1736s	seem to be at least one right and I told
1738s	aled about this a little bit yesterday
1740s	you can trace this all the way back for
1742s	to the Young Savage amnesiac and then
1745s	like pav kind of usurped that and then
1748s	then Gabby starts coming along and then
1750s	there's also like lies and the likes of
1751s	that when we got to the the younger
1754s	generation of EU Grand Masters through
1756s	that era and now we've got Maxi as well
1758s	and him coming in and just you know
1760s	showing that 18-year-old Gabby is
1762s	completely Washed by Smashing him 30-0
1764s	off stream in 20 minutes before we even
1766s	get to the broadcast uh that's that's
1768s	Peak Maxi I think coming into this one
1770s	so I'm a big fan of Maxi I think he's an
1773s	incredibly strong player I think he's
1775s	just got that that uh that zomer energy
1777s	of just playing a million games of
1779s	hearthstone and just absorbing data left
1781s	right and Center uh which I think is is
1784s	a huge Boon for these ladder Grinders
1786s	turn tournament Players but when I
1789s	mention those players the amnesiacs the
1791s	pavles the gabbi's it quite often takes
1794s	them a tournament or two just to kind of
1796s	adjust to high stakes comp competitive
1799s	Hearthstone um coming from ladder
1801s	players so I think that's kind of the
1802s	final hurdle that that Maxi now has to
1804s	leave over yeah and I'm kind of curious
1807s	if that is another reason for some of
1808s	these card choices as well or if they're
1811s	texts for what Maxi was expecting in
1813s	this meta because as we see this Rogue
1815s	here is this Infinity Rogue that we've
1817s	been talking about but it's got even a
1819s	couple of different car choices than
1821s	what we saw throughout yesterday uh for
1824s	example Val's gift oh manager and Mike
1827s	drop uh so a little bit of kind of
1830s	different card choices than everybody
1832s	else as well which is very very
1833s	interesting yeah so the USP of this Maxi
1836s	build um and it is I just believe Maxi
1839s	the one that's playing it is it's it's
1841s	Highlander Rogue essentially we just
1842s	need to sh to shove Areno in here
1844s	there's only one copy of each minion um
1847s	with the logic being that if you have
1849s	two copies of minions in your hand you
1850s	generally don't ever need the second one
1853s	right if you have one pirate one Naga
1854s	one obious you have one son you uh in
1857s	your hand then you're kind of ready to
1859s	go off um so the minion Shooters the
1861s	Elven minstrels the dig for treasure
1863s	every time you draw one individual
1865s	minion you then remove that completely
1867s	from the pool of things that Elvin
1868s	minstral and dig for treasure can then
1870s	hit so you get a range of minions in
1872s	your hand quicker is the idea um it does
1875s	fall apart sometimes in my opinion you
1877s	know if you have scoundrel and Sonia in
1879s	your hand and you're looking
1881s	specifically for the Naga for typo pupil
1883s	at that point that's when it becomes
1885s	awkward because drawing naturally
1887s	through your deck it then becomes harder
1888s	to hit the people but it's an
1890s	interesting idea and I'm I'm really uh
1892s	looking forward to seeing how it plays
1893s	out yeah and on the other side uh Maxi
1896s	Bond's going to be facing up against
1898s	gamer rvg who is uh not a stranger to
1902s	competition been doing quite a bit uh
1904s	and we see a paladin deck there that
1907s	hand buff that uh TJ was talking about
1909s	earlier but gamer uh as we did mention
1913s	yesterday did a lot of preparation work
1916s	with uh both Hunter and MC banter face
1920s	who both made it through to the top
1922s	eight yesterday so I have high hopes for
1925s	gamer making it through in this but up
1928s	against Maxi Bond after taking that uh
1931s	very decisive quick 3-0 against Gabby
1935s	earlier uh I'm not sure if that's going
1937s	to be the easiest thing to do for
1940s	gamer no absolutely um I do think the
1945s	choice of tech cards in h Paladin as
1947s	much as TJ was uh trolling earlier is
1949s	super important I think one of the
1951s	reason so TJ's point is real right like
1954s	the reason why you're seeing so much
1956s	Huff Paladin in this tournament is you
1958s	can just put razor scales or Customs
1961s	enforces or CER fights or speaker
1963s	Stompers or whatever you want in them
1965s	and you kind of lose very little for
1967s	doing that because they're still wildly
1969s	overstated by the time you play them
1971s	anyway obviously they're less un
1973s	overstated than other things could be or
1975s	they have less you know powerful effect
1976s	they don't have rush or cleave or you
1978s	you know other things that you want your
1979s	minions to have but in terms of
1981s	disruption tools for the likes of Rogue
1983s	Druid um warlock even with the
1985s	crescendos coming out like Paladin is
1987s	one of the best classes of being able to
1988s	do that and I think everyone who's
1991s	bringing hambar Paladin to this
1992s	tournament has some level of spell
1994s	disruption card uh thrown in there as
1996s	well which you makes an awful lot of
1998s	sense to me overall so I think hamb
2000s	palden versus Rogue is kind of going to
2001s	be one of the decisive matches of the
2004s	tournament overall to keep an eye on
2006s	throughout uh today and tomorrow as we
2007s	get into top eight
2008s	which makes a lot of sense and I think
2010s	explains exactly why we are seeing a
2012s	double priest ban in this series here as
2016s	well these players have those Texs for
2018s	the Rogue so they're leaving that Rogue
2020s	up and hoping to take a win against the
2022s	Rogue with the Paladin uh but Banning
2024s	out that overheal priest so we won't be
2026s	seeing either of those which I am a
2030s	little bit sad at least that we're not
2031s	going to see Maxi bonds priest just
2033s	because there is the interesting uh I
2036s	guess not Tech but the interesting card
2039s	change of two mixologists instead of two
2043s	tide poool pupils which uh is very
2045s	interesting I know on his stream he was
2047s	talking about uh the fact that
2049s	mixologist uh can just be a better holy
2051s	Nova as well so no holy novas in the
2054s	list as well so yeah a little bit more
2056s	flexibility for that deck if you don't
2058s	find the the kind of key cards and
2060s	things you're looking for in the priest
2062s	yeah priest is a hard deck to build
2064s	because any minion that you look at and
2066s	go o that might work in my deck you
2068s	pretty much have to cut a minion to
2070s	bring it in because as soon as your uh
2073s	creation pull gets too bloated then
2076s	suddenly you're just not you're not
2077s	hitting Haller consistently enough when
2078s	you need to hit Haller and the whole
2080s	deck kind of falls apart right so yeah
2082s	it's it's an interesting build that
2083s	Maxi's gone with I do respect the the
2085s	double priest uh ban both players
2087s	playing Paladin warlock combo which I
2089s	think leads you towards a priest ban
2091s	there are some differing opinions in
2094s	Insanity warlock versus Overhill priest
2096s	personally for me I think if as long as
2098s	priest hits a injured huler and can just
2101s	deal with like a conductor early there's
2104s	very few other ways that they lose that
2106s	game apart from the you know standard
2108s	seven crescendos before turn six or
2109s	whatever that sometimes happens that no
2111s	one can beat but I think generally
2113s	Paladin and Insanity warlock don't
2115s	really want to be dealing with the
2116s	Overhill priest so it's a ban that makes
2119s	sense well speaking of the Paladin we
2122s	are actually going into the first game
2125s	and we are seeing a paladin mirror match
2128s	here this is this is real Hearthstone
2131s	that's what this is Huff Paladin versus
2133s	Huff Paladin this this is how
2136s	Hearthstone was meant to be played I
2139s	love it I love
2142s	it some people who know which decks I
2144s	generally favor might think I'm trolling
2146s	right now but I actually do really like
2148s	H Paladin and think this mirror is super
2151s	interesting well it really is and I was
2153s	going to ask how do you feel about the U
2155s	Mulligan decisions here maxibon already
2156s	did his Mulligan and ended up uh with a
2159s	couple of muscle Atron but gamer rvg
2162s	doing a full keep here with instrument
2164s	Tech Tigers plushy and Leroy yeah okay
2168s	so I I'll try and be as concise as
2170s	possible here which isn't necessarily my
2172s	strong point uh Tempo is really good in
2175s	this matchup sometimes if you go past
2177s	into instrument Tech into coin weapon
2180s	and they've gone grim street on two
2183s	buffed minion on three buffed minion on
2185s	four in response to that you can just
2188s	die um which makes the standard curve a
2191s	little bit slow um but what Gamer rvg
2193s	does by keeping the slow curve with
2195s	instrument Tech into weapon he also just
2197s	says okay I'm also keeping plushy so
2199s	that removes the world where I just die
2201s	to the first few Minions that they play
2203s	if they get the quick Buffs um and I can
2205s	feel a little bit more secure playing
2208s	that that slower curve fortunately he
2210s	then molds straight into drone
2212s	deconstructor as well which means his
2213s	start his start absolutely is not slow
2215s	in any way yeah and now he has the
2218s	decision of whether to magnetize the
2221s	spark bot and make a trade or just play
2222s	the instrument Tech here but it looks
2224s	like just go for the instrument Tech on
2226s	this turn because did pick up the second
2228s	instrument Tech so it could potentially
2231s	just be the other instrument Tech on uh
2234s	turn three there but on the other side
2236s	maxibon uh dides also have the Drone
2243s	so and Maxi has the opportunity to play
2247s	the the greediest Hearthstone you can
2249s	imagine here which is Forge muscle Tron
2254s	on two Forge the other muscle Tron on
2257s	three and then just coin the magatha on
2261s	four and then just have both uh muscle
2263s	BS left to to buff afterwards but as I
2265s	mentioned earlier I think if you try and
2268s	do that you are just going to take an
2269s	enormous amount of damage uh and it
2271s	would still be what another turn after
2274s	that before you're developing any
2275s	meaningful life steal right because
2277s	you'd have to you'd spend turn six
2279s	playing double muscle Tron or turn five
2281s	playing D playing one musle Tron turn
2283s	six playing musle Tron number two and a
2285s	minion um so it might be a little tricky
2287s	for you to catch up from that point so
2290s	Maxi instead uses I think what most
2293s	people would consider one of the best
2295s	possible resources you can ever have in
2297s	this deck which is a wind Fury spark bot
2299s	just to challenge the board super
2301s	aggressively which is really interesting
2303s	with this much buffing power in
2305s	hand yeah and I think just it's really
2309s	good as well against uh the kind of
2312s	slower keep that gamer had as
2319s	well does make things a little bit
2321s	awkward here because gamer was able to
2323s	pick up uh the
2328s	taunt so you could you could have a
2330s	brief think about just leaving this
2332s	board State as it is and then say well
2334s	if my 21 wind Fury lives cuz my my
2337s	righteous protector is is guarding right
2339s	now then I can coin TM next turn and I
2341s	have a giant uh I think 48 it would be
2343s	with the single buff right now uh
2345s	windfury but you know your opponent just
2347s	played instrument Tech so they're
2348s	playing painted virtue next turn so
2350s	there's absolutely no way that 21 is
2352s	going to live even if you take no trades
2355s	but Maxi just looks at the board State
2356s	and says I don't really see anything
2358s	better than that
2361s	anyway and do you think this is just the
2363s	painter's virtue here it has to be
2366s	right with both in hand yeah can't
2369s	imagine it
2373s	isn't let me think razor scale has a
2378s	tiny bit of Merit just to block coin in
2381s	case your opponent is trying to coin tar
2383s	or coin magatha both of those plays are
2386s	a little scary for you right now as it
2388s	happens of course um Maxon actually has
2391s	both available but nowhere near enough
2394s	fear to stop yourself just playing the
2396s	best card in your de by some
2402s	both razor scales picked up they're not
2405s	really doing anything in this matchup
2407s	unfortunately but here we're going to
2409s	see Maxi Bond actually get to coin out
2412s	and kind of deciding between that toy
2415s	captain terum and magatha but but
2418s	imagine it's just the magatha at this
2421s	point like I say though like Tempo is
2423s	really good in this match up like it's
2426s	the difference between 166 and two four
2428s	rates it's a big
2431s	difference does kind of get ahead of the
2434s	Buffs that gamer rvg is going to start
2436s	building up with this painters virtue
2437s	too
2439s	right it would also
2441s	mean uh so plushy would have to be kind
2444s	of full sent just into the for8 that's
2446s	weapon attack uh the buff plushy and the
2450s	one one just to get through the torns
2452s	it's kind of Gamer's whole turn in kind
2455s	of a best case scenario spent dealing
2457s	with half off of what Maxi did last
2460s	turn it's a big
2462s	Edge
2467s	yeah this is such a bad feeling when
2470s	your opponent goes big TM and you're
2472s	behind on board and you have to develop
2473s	and fight into that but you know any
2475s	minion that you play can just be made a
2477s	one- one immediately on the following
2478s	turn it can feel very very
2485s	hopeless can but is that something the
2487s	gamer just wants to try to bait out a
2490s	little bit earlier before things are too
2492s	large I think so yeah it's not it's not
2494s	getting any better so i' would imagine
2497s	so it also you know even though it is
2499s	only a one Mana thing it can be
2501s	disrupted for your opponent as you can
2502s	see here like I think Maxi absolutely
2505s	does want to play magatha here and will
2507s	um so even you know putting a giant if
2510s	you had some random 8 in your board you
2511s	can almost argue just throw that out
2513s	there just to try and force your
2514s	opponent to do less powerful things um
2517s	by spending one mana on doing the shrink
2520s	but yeah I think Maxi's done this the
2521s	right way around right took Tempo first
2523s	gained a whole turn just by being ahead
2526s	so now Maxi can take the slow turn and
2528s	actually when these two turns level out
2530s	they're probably going to be about even
2531s	on board right and then Maxi can just go
2533s	into the giant buff uh with musle Tron
2536s	number two potentially still no painters
2538s	virtue on the other side though which is
2540s	uh going to become a problem if this
2542s	game keeps going long and no instrument
2545s	Tech either to even try to find it right
2550s	so in the long game do you think that
2552s	because gamer was able to find these
2554s	painters virtues that this actually can
2556s	just go kind of long and gamer have the
2560s	advantage with these large minions is
2562s	yes if an acceptable answer um so gamer
2565s	still needs to hit a resource card at
2567s	least one because as it stands right now
2570s	Maxi will just two for one all of his
2572s	minions into Gamer's minions stay alive
2575s	because he has Tiger plushy and
2577s	eventually
2578s	just run gamer rvg out of cards right
2580s	even though Gamer's cards are a little
2581s	bit bigger um but as long as gamer can
2584s	find mag of his own or the amus so he
2587s	can just click draw two on the amus um
2590s	he will eventually just take over
2592s	because of the painter's virtues but
2594s	there is still a distinct possibility
2595s	that Gamer's hand runs out of cards with
2598s	the the draw that he's had so
2603s	far yeah unless he can find something
2606s	like a magatha but Yep this point not
2614s	available could be one punish for
2617s	keeping the kind of slower hand with
2618s	things like the
2632s	Leroy Maxi just working out exactly how
2636s	he wants to get this stuff SE sequence
2638s	obviously you're now in the spot where
2639s	you have to make that additional
2640s	decision with the tan mini as well like
2643s	do you just want to throw it out now
2645s	while it's still a one one for you know
2647s	massive Effectiveness as a defensive
2649s	tool cuz once youve dropped a couple of
2650s	Buffs on it you're then kind of at that
2652s	point where you have to wait for it to
2653s	get big enough to actually be a buff to
2655s	your minions again for it to be
2657s	effective although in this mirror um You
2660s	probably still get good value of of
2662s	shrinking one of your opponent's minions
2664s	to to a three three or a 44 even a lot
2666s	of the times so it's not as bad
2670s	although Maxon does have the Buffs to
2674s	potentially uh just even turn something
2676s	like one of the two tws or a two three
2678s	right just turn the Panner into a 44 or
2681s	five5 and push extra damage or make an
2684s	extra value trade and board is extremely
2686s	important in this mirror match so now
2689s	maxibon kind of has control of the board
2691s	a little bit and it's just up to gamer
2693s	to see if he can actually swing it back
2694s	in his favor but if maxibon can use that
2698s	for one of his minions and make a valy
2699s	trade could go a long
2704s	way game has got a tough choice to make
2707s	here because he can try and stretch this
2710s	hand out a little further by for example
2713s	forging the muscle the muscle Tron this
2715s	turn instead of playing the audio medic
2716s	just be a little bit heavy on Tempo just
2719s	leave the two two up on board still be
2721s	slightly ahead but not significantly
2723s	ahead um that would stretch his hand out
2725s	a little bit further and allow him to on
2727s	value for longer but because he has this
2729s	massive Leroy getting buffed in his hand
2731s	as well right now I think he's more in
2734s	interest of just I want some minions to
2736s	stick on board so I can start to do some
2738s	chip damage through uh potential like
2740s	tiger plushy heal um and actually just
2742s	get there with this giant
2745s	Leroy yeah and I think the Leroy is at
2748s	what 10 attack currently should be 10
2750s	right now yeah yeah it's not uh not
2753s	going to take much longer to get to that
2755s	point
2758s	got to see a heal come down this turn
2760s	fortunately for Maxi he has all the heal
2762s	options in the world you see the Grimace
2764s	number one come out from gamer he wants
2766s	to be dodging as much life steel as
2768s	possible uh unfortunately for him this
2771s	aggro plan is absolutely not going to
2774s	work now cuz not only do we have two
2776s	more tiger plushies which are buffed we
2778s	also have the opportunity to now outfit
2781s	tailor the one one plushy as well so
2783s	that's at least three massive heals that
2787s	can still come out from Max so I think
2789s	gamer rvg is going to very quickly run
2792s	out of steam with trying to push
2794s	lethal he going to have to find magor or
2797s	amus I think to stay in this
2800s	game although actually I should say I'm
2803s	so used to am being in the deck I should
2805s	actually check some play yeah gamer rvg
2807s	actually is one of the players that has
2809s	cut it
2814s	completely do you think there's ever a
2816s	world where gamer can find the Sala deck
2820s	hand or his
2822s	own
2823s	uh
2825s	moly extra Buffs I I'm just trying to
2829s	think how gamer can get there this point
2832s	through all of those heals it's
2834s	difficult for sure yeah like I think
2836s	absolutely at this point gamer is
2840s	relatively
2841s	unlikely uh to win massively on board
2845s	you know this is kind of the last push
2846s	at this point yes just finding an outfit
2848s	Taylor and starting to buff that as well
2850s	would be a big deal but the best way to
2852s	do that is just to rip magatha really um
2856s	because even if it's not immediately
2858s	this turn like how many more Buffs do
2860s	you have left to even play on an outfit
2862s	Taylor to or or a deck hand to to get
2865s	that additional
2866s	damage yeah and I think uh I think this
2868s	was talked about quite a bit yesterday
2870s	as well but at this point now gamer rvg
2873s	not really having anything in hand and
2875s	as you mentioned going through all those
2876s	Buffs
2878s	everything now that's drawn is just
2880s	going to be kind of a a plain plain old
2884s	minion no buff for them so they're not
2887s	going to be as valuable or doing as much
2889s	work that gamer rvg really is going to
2891s	need them to be
2905s	doing I must move quick
2909s	feels like Maxi Bon has just so many
2911s	options at this
2913s	point yeah and you can you can count it
2916s	out from here right uh with how much
2919s	healing you want to use whether you have
2921s	to play the additional righteous
2922s	protector for example whether you needed
2925s	to go um outfit Taylor whether you
2927s	needed to play the the mini tiger plushy
2930s	you could count if your opponent had
2932s	Leroy and deck hand and they had both
2935s	been buffed well no so there's only one
2937s	card in hand that could have been buffed
2939s	from the beginning of the game right so
2940s	you call that Leroy which it is so it's
2942s	got buffed six times uh plus the the
2945s	tailor that's on board so that' be 13
2946s	damage Max and then that deck hand if
2949s	that razor scale was a deck hand that
2951s	can't be significantly buffed cuz that's
2953s	a fairly new card if Maxi Bon is is
2955s	tracking the hand which I'm sure he will
2956s	be so I don't think there is any
2958s	possible way that Maxi can die here um
2961s	and with tools like amst being removed
2965s	uh from the deck overall that does limit
2967s	the ability to swing back from positions
2969s	like this so I think Maxi is feeling
2971s	incredibly secure about his his chances
2974s	of just grinding this game out
2977s	now yeah speaking of dying as well gamer
2980s	seemed like was doing some calculations
2982s	of his own to see if he was potentially
2984s	going to be dead there making these
2986s	trades clearing the board there was
2988s	already 16 on board uh before any
2991s	potential leroys and again as you
2994s	mentioned watching the hand the two
2995s	razor scales in hand for maxi have been
2997s	sitting there for quite a while now so
2999s	those could be a LeRoy uh
3007s	themselves yeah four Buffs on them I
3009s	believe they all came off the uh the
3011s	magath turn on turn six and have eaten
3014s	all of the muscle Tron Buffs since then
3016s	so just two forged muscle trons or uh
3019s	one regular muscle Tron a gri street
3022s	Outfitter and a forge muscle Tron I
3023s	think is what's happened y um
3027s	see yeah big damage Potential from Maxi
3029s	but honestly Maxi is not even really the
3031s	one that needs to be pushing at this
3033s	point he can just quite happily uh pick
3036s	this board apart minion by minion and
3038s	gamer is going to have to assemble some
3041s	kind of otk which I don't think is even
3043s	going to be possible from this
3046s	position I guess the only potential hope
3050s	for gamer is that there hasn't been the
3053s	painters virtues come out so maybe there
3056s	just isn't enough damage but you know 10
3058s	cards left uh both painters virtues and
3061s	both instrument techs still in the
3063s	bottom of that deck uh for Maxon but
3067s	even still considering that I don't see
3071s	a way that gamer can pull this out yeah
3074s	no I agree this is where uh definition
3077s	was it definition shows up from
3078s	yesterday and just goes oh uh here's my
3080s	Etc with a keeper strength inside it now
3083s	I blow up your entire board
3091s	yeah it's a natural product of um there
3093s	being less uh control Warrior Less
3096s	anilia in general in the meta decks like
3098s	Huff Paladin used to have to play things
3100s	like yog specifically to be able to
3103s	steal anilia AES away so they didn't get
3105s	resed a million times um but also just
3107s	more late game tools like amst to be
3109s	able to sustain in games where they
3111s	don't you know blow out win quickly um
3113s	because this is the very like trim down
3116s	uh slim down meta it's a very trim down
3118s	slim down deck list and that does
3120s	decrease your ability to come back in
3122s	SPS like this because a y would
3124s	certainly be a card that would make this
3126s	game winnable from this position but I
3128s	think absolutely the right decision from
3130s	from gamer rvg based on the strategy
3132s	that he has with the deck of just trying
3134s	to blow out other decks uh that are too
3136s	slow um has the build put together
3139s	nicely but this is not the
3143s	one also I think I have found or figured
3147s	out
3149s	potential lethal for gamer he's going to
3152s	have to draw Sand
3155s	Castle sure Roy is that going to be
3159s	enough there is a 5 five righteous
3161s	protector in play now which does seem
3164s	kind of a problem did I say 5 five sorry
3167s	uh allow me to
3169s	readjust is this actually just lethal
3171s	coming back the other way actually looks
3173s	like it we just sending yeah yeah that's
3176s	a lot of
3178s	damage was a lot of damage and I'm not
3182s	sure that Leroy sat in hand the entire
3184s	time even though it did seem like he had
3187s	a game plan just wasn't able to pull it
3189s	off for gamer so I don't know if that
3192s	was uh kind of a punish for keeping the
3194s	slower hand as you kind of talked about
3196s	but could have just been a result of the
3199s	the way the game played out what the
3201s	draws after the Mulligan were so I think
3205s	um punish is a is a harsh word right
3207s	because I think against most players uh
3211s	gamer might have just got there because
3212s	he would have been ahead on board longer
3214s	and push more damage in the early game
3216s	like you got to go back to what Maxi did
3217s	right which was play a wind Fury spark
3219s	bot on turn two on his one two just to
3222s	get board control immediately 99% of
3225s	players don't do that because they just
3227s	see wind Fury as like a lethal card in
3229s	this deck right and they hoard it and
3231s	they buff it and they just try and land
3232s	it on a me and get it down for lethal um
3234s	even on turn four with the coin right
3236s	when went for the hard Tempo line with
3238s	the two 48s instead of the greedy
3241s	magatha line with a handful of buff
3243s	cards which you know looked probably
3244s	would have looked more appealing to lots
3246s	of people so I think if maxibon hadn't
3249s	played so aggressively for Tempo then
3251s	Gamers board may have just been ahead
3253s	for longer push a little bit more damage
3254s	and then maybe Leroy gets there with a
3256s	with an outfit tailor draw or a deck
3257s	hand draw or whatever but um so I I
3260s	don't necessarily want to call anything
3262s	that gamer did wrong I'd rather give
3264s	credit to Maxi for understanding the
3267s	kind of things that he lost to and
3268s	managing to play around things um with a
3271s	hand that didn't draw painters virtue
3273s	for the entire game right which is AB
3275s	kind of difficult to nav Navigate
3277s	sometimes so just well played to to Maxi
3279s	I was talking earlier about how these uh
3281s	the these young Savages have to pass the
3283s	test of high high intensity lights and
3287s	cameras in your face tournament
3288s	Hearthstone U Maxi's doing a great job
3291s	so far 4-0 so far in game score in this
3293s	tournament yeah absolutely and that does
3295s	mean uh that he just one step closer to
3299s	getting through this group stage and
3301s	making it through to tomorrow without
3303s	having to play that deciders match which
3306s	the less games they have to play the
3307s	more that they can practice or rest or
3310s	focus on what they need to focus on for
3312s	that top
3313s	eight oh is it actually a rogue mirror D
3316s	please please tell me this is real I
3318s	want the Rogue mirror so
3320s	badly of course you do of course you do
3324s	sdle yeah we're getting confirmed it's
3326s	real so not only do I want to watch
3328s	Rogue mirrors all day because this deck
3330s	is sick um but my experience of the
3335s	Rogue mirror in the testing that I've
3336s	done with this deck uh my discourse with
3340s	other players when I've asked very very
3342s	good players about things about matchups
3345s	with this deck and my experience of
3347s	watching saor who is currently you know
3349s	double digits deep ahead on rank one
3351s	Legend with this deck um is that Rogue
3355s	mirrors end up being pretty heavily
3358s	decided by Stompers a lot of the
3362s	time uh Maxi doesn't play any of those
3364s	but Maxi claims that his list with all
3368s	of the oneoff minions wins the mirror
3371s	anyway without the stomper I don't know
3374s	why Maxi is smarter than me so I'm not
3377s	saying that's wrong but I don't know why
3379s	so I am super down to just watch it
3382s	happen and find
3384s	out I mean I'm really interested in the
3387s	inclusions of things like the mic drop
3390s	uh dealing extra damage especially um
3393s	the own manager and Val's gift are also
3396s	very interesting I think we talked about
3397s	that earlier uh but on the other side
3400s	Gamer does play a stomper so I'm curious
3402s	to see if uh that's going to be a
3405s	[Music]
3412s	payoff so subtle can you walk us through
3416s	these initial starting hands because the
3418s	Rogues are very interesting just this
3421s	deck in general is very difficult High
3423s	skill cap deck but there are a lot of
3427s	situations where you can look at these
3428s	rans and just say I have cards that do
3431s	nothing what am I supposed to do with
3433s	these and are these hands that speak to
3437s	that or are these cards that these
3439s	players are looking for uh so Maxi's
3442s	hand is pretty great he was able to draw
3444s	a card on one and they call him quick
3447s	pick it on two so he's able to
3450s	effectively uh oh he actually drew the
3452s	uh the duie off the top which allows him
3454s	to motor on even quicker uh short
3457s	version is turns one to three in a
3460s	matchup where your opponent isn't
3462s	playing minions against you you want to
3464s	spend your time drawing cards with all
3467s	of your Mana every turn right so dig for
3470s	treasure on one quick pick on to uh coin
3472s	Elven Minstrel for example is is a is a
3475s	possible curve you can have that does
3477s	that if you then have things like
3478s	backstabs or Shadow step even to to dump
3480s	some cards after that gamer kept the
3483s	Elven Minstrel hoping to do something
3485s	similar to that but hasn't actually hit
3487s	anything to spend mana on effectively up
3490s	until that point so I'd say Maxi is
3492s	having a a smoother curve through the
3494s	opening turn so far than gamer
3499s	is speaking of gamer now we're looking
3502s	at a discover option here trolley
3505s	problem or pock pocket sand or lay down
3507s	the law as you mentioned not a lot of
3509s	minions so lay down the law might not be
3512s	the greatest option pocket sand does
3514s	deal damage which is something these
3516s	decks are looking to do and
3519s	significantly with the quick draw the
3521s	opponent's cards cost more so this could
3523s	potentially slow down what maxibon wants
3525s	to do decides to just play the Quick
3527s	Pick anyways but not being able to go
3530s	for additional draw
3532s	there uh as you mentioned is kind of
3534s	important in those first few turns
3539s	gamer being at least a little bit saved
3542s	Now by that quick
3544s	pick find something to do couldn't combo
3547s	the minro on that turn anyway so this
3549s	makes sense just to be able to get
3551s	something done coin scoundrel for
3554s	maxibon I think this is the uh if you're
3556s	looking to learn this deck this is the
3557s	easiest rule that you can possibly
3559s	internalize it's basically never wrong
3561s	if you can play a scoundrel and you're
3563s	not dead you play the scoundrel that one
3566s	a pirate going into your hand is one of
3568s	the biggest activators in this deck uh
3571s	for your possible power
3576s	turns that tide pull pupil is full now
3579s	as well has the uh the backstab the
3582s	quick sand and the stickup don't you
3587s	just love it when the Hearthstone Gods
3588s	come together to demonstrate a point
3592s	what just happened to gamer rvg here is
3594s	exactly what Maxi's build of the day
3596s	deck cannot ever do gamer doesn't want
3599s	two Scoundrels there's very few
3601s	situations where you want two Scoundrels
3604s	so that second scoundrel in Maxi's deck
3606s	that could be Sonia that could be anaga
3608s	that could be whatever missing uh piece
3610s	of the puzzle you actually need H
3613s	whereas gamer still sat here with a with
3615s	a pretty clunky hand
3616s	overall yep think you got a step step
3619s	the El minstral you got to find better
3621s	cards than this
3627s	Maxi's number one problem now if there
3629s	is one is just hand size though needs to
3632s	find a way to slim this down a little
3634s	bit now this is
3637s	treasure there so you will probably yeah
3640s	just see him play some cards out and
3642s	then discard some of these break dances
3644s	from his hand essentially and there is
3646s	the
3647s	Sonia so anytime this deck has a Sonia a
3651s	one Mana scoundrel and a naga in hand uh
3654s	alongside a one Mana break dance uh they
3657s	are ready to go so maxibon can start
3660s	doing incredibly powerful things
3662s	starting with next turn uh gamer is
3664s	going to need some stomper disruption to
3667s	stop that from happening or else I think
3668s	he's way too far behind in this
3672s	game yeah and I like as you mentioned
3675s	the hand size uh we saw Maxi Bon just
3677s	kind of throw out the the tar slick
3679s	previous turn just deal damage to
3681s	Gamer's face y not that it's uh really
3684s	relevant for the damage but more so for
3686s	the hand space there at that
3689s	point uh and drawing into the grifta and
3692s	Sonia is another reason why I also like
3695s	the one copy of each minion that just
3697s	makes the Elvin manol feel even more
3699s	consistent in drawing the things that he
3701s	really wants to have absolutely
3704s	yeah okay there is the
3708s	stomper there were very peculiar worlds
3712s	where you went just like straight for
3714s	prep Minstrel that turn and then if you
3716s	hit hit the stomper you were able to
3718s	play it and then break dance it uh
3722s	because you'd be under the prep still
3724s	but that would break the golden rule
3726s	that I mentioned last turn ago last turn
3728s	about are you dead no well in which case
3730s	you play
3742s	scoun maxibon immediately as soon as the
3745s	turn starts making actions which I love
3748s	this because one of the most difficult
3750s	things on these pop off turns is uh not
3753s	only how many actions you have to make
3755s	but also the animations uh the
3758s	animations on some of these like some of
3760s	the the break dance animation the grifta
3763s	with the Discover choices uh those
3765s	things can take quite a while the Sonia
3768s	copying the spells like there's just so
3771s	many things that happen and those
3772s	animations take forever so we're seeing
3774s	U Maxi Bond just expertly navigate this
3778s	turn here finding the damage from
3780s	grifta just just be good at the game
3783s	that's it's all you have to do yeah yeah
3786s	gamer rvg with the round of applause
3787s	that is not guaranteed obviously I'm
3789s	sure most of you know I believe it's a
3790s	three out of seven to hit six damage
3792s	from grifter Maxi had two shots at it so
3795s	you're entitled to hit it that that turn
3797s	and the way you generally sequence it is
3800s	playing the one Mana scoundrel you play
3802s	the Sonia you then use whatever step
3804s	method that you have to get the one man
3806s	a pirate back to your hand you replay it
3808s	you then play a grifter that grifter you
3810s	played cost one so that duplicates off
3812s	the Sonia so you then immediately get
3814s	two shots at hitting that six damage
3816s	amulet uh and then if you hit the six
3818s	damage amulet you find a way to get an
3820s	empty Naga back into your hand which is
3823s	Trivial you can just play one it
3824s	duplicates you break dance it back to
3826s	your hand you step it back to your hand
3827s	whatever and then essentially you are
3829s	looping that infinitely you are capped
3832s	on Mana there is no way to continue
3835s	doing that without ever spending Mana um
3837s	but you are technically capable of doing
3840s	more damage in a turn than any
3842s	hearthstone deck is realistically going
3844s	to uh going to attain so it is
3847s	functionally infinite if you're able to
3849s	get that going the important thing
3851s	though about this deck that we may or
3853s	may not see over the course of this
3854s	tournament I'm sure we will is even if
3856s	Maxi had started that turn that we just
3858s	saw without the grifter in hand there's
3861s	kind of no reason not to do what he did
3864s	anyway because it still makes theall
3866s	board right you still break dance a
3868s	bunch of minions so all the stats that
3869s	you play are permanent they just stick
3871s	on board with the break dance afterwards
3873s	and you get all of those key cards the
3875s	Sonia the the one Mana scoundrel and the
3877s	nagas back into your hand again at the
3879s	end of turn so you can just keep doing
3881s	that and it forces your opponent to
3883s	react to your board every turn which
3886s	means they can't then pressure you they
3888s	can't set up their own game plan right
3890s	they're too busy dealing with all the
3891s	Minions that you put in play so it is a
3894s	disgusting deck uh you really get to
3896s	grips with it it is very very hard to
3899s	learn but I think when you start to
3901s	understand the mentality of just do an
3905s	infinite thing every turn not
3906s	necessarily like try and find a lethal
3909s	combo and execute it every turn um
3911s	that's when you start really getting to
3913s	grips with the deck as a whole but hey
3915s	I'm very excited about Rogue mirrors I'm
3917s	sorry I've yapped too much we can move
3919s	on that's all right well we we talked
3922s	earlier in the five uh when all of us
3924s	were were there right about
3926s	it's kind of going to be a a day of
3929s	looking at the Rogues and seeing who can
3931s	kind of pass that test and who can who
3933s	can play it well and we definitely saw
3935s	maxibon do that and that does mean that
3937s	Maxi Bon's up two Z and it looks like
3939s	we're going to be seeing maxibon now
3941s	with his final deck the Warlock into
3944s	Gamers Paladin uh how do you feel about
3947s	this matchup
3949s	overall um so I I think even the most
3953s	Ardent Insanity warlock supporters would
3955s	agree that this matchup kind of sucks
3957s	for them um big minions coming down
3961s	early is kind of the counter to Insanity
3963s	warlock in general um the reason why for
3966s	example pain loock doesn't necessarily
3969s	uh just just beat the hell out of
3971s	insanity warlock is that in order to do
3973s	that they have to go down to very low
3975s	health and then they can just die to
3976s	like encroaching Insanity Crescendo or
3978s	something coming back the other way
3980s	Paladin does that while also just
3983s	permanently affixing the number 30 to
3985s	their health total for the entire game
3987s	cuz they just have immense amounts of
3989s	Life steel uh so Insanity warlock has to
3993s	find a way to actually deal with board
3996s	and otk um throughout the course of the
3999s	game which is it's very difficult to do
4000s	both you kind of have to pick one of the
4002s	other a lot of the time um because
4004s	setting up otks usually involves doing
4006s	things like playing crescendos early for
4010s	not much damage to get them into a Naga
4013s	which is if that's something that you do
4015s	against Paladin
4016s	then you're probably going to you know
4017s	tickle their bard of five fivs that they
4019s	made and they're going to hit you for 20
4021s	the next turn which kind of sucks but
4023s	the one way you can get out of it is by
4026s	doing what Maxi is doing here and just
4028s	having the board from turn
4030s	one yeah and also the list is really
4033s	interesting as well for Maxi Bon I I
4035s	love Maxi Bon's uh overall lineup and
4037s	all of the the different Tech inclusions
4040s	but in this warlock there are two copies
4043s	of the thorn Vil tentacle which we are
4044s	seeing the first one come down right now
4046s	just take out that uh grim street
4049s	Outfitter and there's also a domino
4052s	effect and a reverberations which could
4054s	definitely help in this matchup once
4056s	there are some larger things but uh even
4059s	though there's only one copy of each of
4061s	those the tide pull pupils can help get
4064s	more copies of those uh or can be used
4067s	later to get more copies of crescendos
4069s	and things depending on how the game
4071s	kind of plays
4073s	out yeah Reva coming in in place of
4077s	almost a direct replacement for fizzle I
4079s	would say um is kind of a tech call in
4083s	in this meta where specifically almost
4086s	for this matchup you can think of things
4088s	like giant Tigress plushies or thigh as
4092s	well as another huge one that if you can
4093s	use Reverb on it not only deals with a
4095s	huge minion that you probably have no
4097s	other way of killing uh but it can also
4099s	stabilize your health total and allow
4101s	you to a resist lethal but B also then
4104s	continue to play cards cuz you just
4107s	managed to fit to you heal for eight or
4109s	n off that plushy that you just played
4111s	so I think that card definitely has a
4113s	place uh in this matchup
4116s	specifically
4117s	yeah um how do you feel about the uh
4121s	Symphony of sins as well that's another
4122s	one that some players include some
4124s	players don't uh it is included in Maxi
4127s	Bond's list here and we see it that
4129s	could potentially be played next turn on
4132s	curve I I like it as a card a lot
4135s	honestly I think symphony is a card that
4138s	whenever I play it I kind of feel good
4140s	and whenever I see my opponents play it
4142s	I feel sad you know and that to me is
4144s	the mark of a hearstone card that you
4146s	probably want to put in your deck so I I
4148s	think Symphony gets an awful lot of work
4150s	done personally as a a pretty underrated
4153s	card
4156s	overall I also want to talk about the uh
4158s	minion placement from gamer rvg the
4161s	placing the largest Health minion in the
4163s	center very good placement against the
4165s	Domino heck
4168s	yeah again another fairly miserable
4172s	handbuff Paladin draw no no painters
4174s	virtue no muscle Tron even just a couple
4176s	of grime streets so far in terms of hand
4178s	buff but those Buffs have both landed on
4182s	a uh on a ziliax and this is the zil
4185s	that doubles attack at the start of
4187s	every turn and summons a copy of itself
4189s	so uh in Huff this is a monstrous card
4193s	that can just set up lethal by itself if
4195s	it can't get cleared so that is at least
4198s	a little seed of hope that uh the gamer
4201s	rvg can plant for the next turn he can
4203s	just put these two big minions in play
4205s	with the zelc and just hope that they
4208s	stick and very important when he does
4210s	that next turn to get the positioning
4212s	right against domino effect by the way
4215s	yes on this uh first Crescendo coming
4218s	out from Maxi Bond just for two damage
4220s	but the gem tosser coming out clears the
4222s	board those are exactly the hits that
4224s	maxibon was looking for with
4227s	that six eight ziles here they are going
4231s	for that Tempo so this is lethal right
4234s	like if these minions stick the game
4237s	ends it is an incredibly punishing card
4240s	because these both go to 12 attack next
4248s	turn so Maxi has to find a way to answer
4251s	this he does have Reverb of course as we
4253s	were talking about before
4258s	even Reverb Domino only kills off
4264s	one he has I believe the crescendo did
4268s	end up in the Naga right it did
4274s	yes so has enough Mana for Naga
4276s	Crescendo and
4277s	Reverb that doesn't clear up either does
4281s	an eat the Imp in the Naga which doesn't
4283s	particularly help
4286s	yeah definitely going to have to be at
4287s	least one Reverb
4289s	though this is big damage still this is
4291s	this is Maxi's whole turn spent dealing
4293s	with this
4307s	yeah oh wind
4309s	[Music]
4313s	Fury okay the lero is only at eight
4316s	that's 20 damage needs five more 22 with
4320s	the existing spark bot magnet
4324s	yeah so 23 no not enough Mana you can't
4328s	play existing spark bot Leroy the Drone
4330s	and the new spark bot right he going to
4333s	go for the Drone deconstructor first
4335s	Divine Shield could also be huge here
4336s	life steel not one of the good ones
4339s	though so has to now allocate a rush to
4342s	go into the opponent zelc as well you
4345s	would
4349s	imagine yeah try to protect the board as
4351s	much as possible
4354s	yeah so I think the life steal spark bot
4357s	gets uh magnetized onto the zelc just to
4359s	push a little bit extra you play The
4361s	Rush spark B separately no he's just
4363s	going to push Max actually is this
4365s	important to
4367s	AIC yeah use the audio medic inste
4370s	dead
4373s	sure feel that he
4381s	reporting for
4384s	Duty I'm not sure how necessary this
4386s	hero power is by the way you might have
4388s	considered just skipping this entirely
4390s	because it would make you more
4392s	vulnerable to uh let's say that domino
4394s	effect that just got played when ended
4396s	up in a Naga you're now just more
4397s	vulnerable on your five Health ziac due
4399s	to the one one that you just summoned
4405s	which is a little
4409s	scary oh Insanity pick up is
4413s	[Music]
4414s	huge yeah Insanity plus the crescendo
4416s	that was just picked
4418s	up but the weapon is gone the weapon is
4422s	gone the crescendo deals
4424s	five how big is the Leroy eight it's
4428s	only buffed twice right I think so yeah
4431s	oh
4434s	no oh absolute
4437s	disaster and no weapon in sight no
4441s	instrument Tex possible so this house
4443s	see deck hand just sitting in hand doing
4445s	absolutely
4447s	[Music]
4448s	nothing so just hero power tar just make
4452s	a couple of three sevens threaten lethal
4454s	again make them have the answer
4457s	again yeah double check that that says
4459s	eight on it that is very
4462s	important for
4464s	Duty your toy St belongs to the Titan
4468s	again do you get the one one in play
4470s	just to have a one one in play I guess
4471s	you
4478s	do it makes sense to me right like if a
4481s	one one lives that's pushing lethal so
4483s	you you want that in play as far as I'm
4487s	aware I think so I think it also
4490s	threatens the uh just a top deck
4493s	painters virtue as lethal yeah
4498s	sure some more potentials but I'm sure
4501s	Maxon figures there's the Leroy in hand
4503s	at this
4506s	point okay does
4508s	[Music]
4512s	hold does have the F string harp and
4514s	picks up another encroaching Insanity
4517s	gain some health here push a little bit
4519s	more damage to Gamer's face yeah no
4522s	clear currently though and no full clear
4526s	available from this
4528s	Symphony just gets the buff which
4530s	enables him to take one out healed for
4533s	two with the life tap but that means
4535s	three damage survives on board and that
4537s	eight health eight damage Leroy sorry is
4541s	just going to be enough to get the gamer
4544s	reving in his uh moment of victory in
4546s	the series at the very least and
4548s	Insanity warlock falls down to uh what
4551s	is one of its worst matchups I think in
4553s	in the whole meta right now gamer rbgs
4555s	all was uh not particularly good that
4558s	game it Bears repeating and still you
4560s	can see the uh the struggles that
4562s	Insanity warlock can have with dealing
4564s	with with that size of Minion coming out
4566s	consistently from the
4568s	opponent I love the uh little exchange
4571s	of emotes there and some uh Little
4573s	Smiles and smirks from both
4576s	[Music]
4580s	players yeah still I think gamer rvg is
4583s	a player that um he he's an old hat at
4586s	this uh you know Neil was was talking me
4589s	through some some stats earlier about
4591s	how gamer rvg is now the the most
4594s	experienced Masters Tour player in the
4596s	world apparently with uh the combination
4598s	of the old system where I think he
4600s	missed only one and then this system
4603s	where he he's qualified for all of them
4604s	so no one else has played more Masters
4606s	tours uh through the last two
4607s	competitive systems uh than gamer RBG
4610s	has if I've got any of that wrong then
4612s	Linda can can sharp and correct me later
4615s	but but credit to them for the stats as
4617s	always um so you know he's gamer is not
4620s	going to get flustered by this kind of
4621s	situation you know he's he's been around
4622s	the block before he can chill out he can
4625s	he can talk to the fellow Pro players
4627s	who uh live above him on the bunk bed
4630s	and uh get some advice on on how to to
4632s	get through this series he knows there's
4634s	a long way to go and he knows there's an
4635s	insanity warlock on the other side of
4637s	the of the the series which you know my
4641s	my bias and hatred aside it is a deck
4645s	that can brick I don't think anyone
4646s	disputes that right like there are hands
4648s	that can brick and there are bad
4650s	matchups for it in the meta um those do
4653s	exist so I don't think staring over at a
4655s	at a one two series and just looking at
4657s	Insanity warlock as a deck that you have
4659s	to beat with Rogue and a mirror is
4661s	something where you're going to feel
4662s	like you're really out of it oh
4664s	absolutely and even in games and Series
4667s	where we've uh seen less than those
4671s	ideal matchups or even even matchups uh
4674s	we've seen people reverse sweep and
4676s	comeb back in series so uh you know it's
4678s	Hearthstone anything can
4681s	happen it certainly can particularly
4683s	when Rogues are involved uh quite
4685s	literally just about anything can happen
4687s	when Rogues are involved there's not
4689s	quite the uh the range of game that
4691s	excavate Rogue uh presents for example
4694s	where literally anything can happen in a
4696s	game of excavate Rogue but uh still this
4699s	is an incredibly flexible deck the best
4701s	players uh really really enjoy finding
4703s	creative routes through games with
4705s	uh gamer rvg I know has put in the grind
4708s	to uh pick up this deck some the problem
4711s	with this deck right is when people talk
4713s	about how difficult a deck is sometimes
4715s	they like reach to mechanics as a point
4718s	of difficulty generally the hardest
4720s	thing in harstone is the strategy behind
4723s	a deck but sometimes decks do come along
4725s	that are also very mechanically
4727s	difficult some players don't pick up
4729s	mechanics particularly quickly uh see
4732s	Linda's streams recently if you want
4734s	examples of people that can't do
4736s	mechanics very well um so you know some
4739s	players for example can just pick up
4740s	Rogue and they understand the mechanics
4742s	of all the bouncing nagas and Scoundrels
4745s	and everything immediately they just
4746s	they just kind of get it right and then
4747s	they still have to learn the very very
4750s	difficult part of uh understanding the
4753s	strategy behind the deck as well gamer
4756s	as far as I've heard is a player that
4758s	had to actually put some time into just
4759s	learning the raw mechanics of the deck
4761s	as well before he even got to like
4763s	deeper on deeper strategic things so I
4765s	hope for his sake he is coming correct
4768s	with this deck to this tournament
4770s	because now it is crunch time TJ was
4772s	talking about the pop quiz on Rogue
4774s	coming into this day yeah gamer rvg
4776s	needs to have
4778s	studied yep here it is the it's time for
4781s	the pop quiz we're going to find out if
4783s	he can pass and go onto that game number
4786s	five or if uh it's going to be a little
4788s	bit of a struggle hopefully a bit of a
4790s	better hand or better sequencing than
4793s	the previous game where uh did feel like
4796s	it struggled a little bit Sy of
4801s	Darkness all right a little bit smoother
4803s	in terms of card draw here for gamer rvg
4807s	has the minstral that he had before but
4809s	also has that on coin so it's a lot
4810s	easier to combo and on top of that was
4813s	able to play dig for treasure on one
4815s	which is something not available for
4817s	gamer in the previous
4818s	game yeah and it actually could go for
4821s	the coin uh dubious purchase as well so
4824s	lots of draw potential whether it's uh
4827s	wanting to clear a minion and draw three
4830s	cards or Draw specifically some uh
4833s	minions probably shadow step that Elvin
4836s	minstral back in hand as well uh now
4838s	also picking up the speaker stomper so
4840s	there's tons of turn four options or
4843s	coining on turn three next turn but not
4847s	a lot to do on turn
4849s	two does trade the stomper okay always a
4853s	decision when you play stomper in this
4854s	deck by by the way of
4856s	um there's a bit of this with tradeable
4859s	anyway of like do I want to spend one
4860s	Mana trading this cuz it adds a card to
4862s	my deck that I can redraw right why
4865s	slightly worse a card but specifically
4867s	when you're going into an Elven Minstrel
4869s	turn at some
4871s	point trading the speaker stomper back
4873s	into your deck means that is
4874s	specifically a minion that you can then
4876s	draw that you couldn't draw otherwise
4878s	gamer rvg just says no to any of that
4881s	nonsense by just drawing the stomper
4882s	back immediately after trading into the
4884s	deck
4889s	and on the other side maxibon has just
4890s	been kind of playing the tempo game we
4892s	keep talking about that all weekend but
4893s	the void virtuoso into an imp into just
4897s	turn three Gump tosser push more face
4900s	damage and has the turn four popar if he
4904s	even chooses to do
4907s	so imagine this just has to be coin
4910s	Dobie which it is needs to hit one of
4914s	the bigger I does not do so does not
4917s	that is a lot of
4920s	pressure no breakdown either I think the
4922s	dream would have been something like
4924s	prep break dance here that would have
4926s	been huge in terms of uh relieving
4928s	pressure on the following turn uh but
4931s	right now significant pressure coming
4933s	the other way
4951s	so stickup can find Heatwave trolley
4955s	problem misfire here all of those are
4957s	very
4959s	solid uh no Naga that it's going into
4962s	though so no hope for turning it into a
4965s	gorm later which is I think something
4967s	that you would absolutely want to do at
4969s	this
4970s	point doesn't hit any of those options
4973s	either
4976s	oh it's not going
4984s	great farm hand lay down the law silver
4987s	serpent what do you even take
4990s	here
4996s	sh gamer rvg just has to do something to
5000s	stem the bleeding a little bit here from
5001s	the board and just put something
5003s	together but
5005s	he kind of threw his hand up a little
5006s	bit too like just okay here this is what
5009s	I have this is what I got to do yeah
5012s	tell tsic Heat Wave would have cleared T
5015s	tsic meat uh meat fire tsic misfire
5018s	would have cleared uh didn't either of
5021s	those trolley problem of course just
5022s	contested board really well as
5031s	well now as well the pop guard coming
5033s	down one of barrel of sludges and that
5036s	does mean that a barrel of sludge
5038s	encroaching Insanity uh could be played
5041s	next turn to uh setup for the pupils
5045s	getting more barrel of
5047s	sledges yes which means gamer rvg will
5050s	need to find Healing either from the
5052s	grifter amulet or the second stick up
5055s	into a
5056s	gorm uh but has a more pressing problem
5059s	right now of how to deal with this board
5060s	you can do it with uh Deen and dubia
5063s	purchase
5066s	that does get you into overdraw
5067s	territory but I think you kind of know
5071s	that the opponent's hand is pretty face
5073s	up at this point and you are outright
5074s	dying if this pop guard
5077s	lives yeah I mean honestly just the two
5080s	Minions on board plus one barrel of
5082s	sludge is already e just leaving two
5085s	health so yeah there's there's very high
5089s	Insanity Crescendo any Naga like you die
5092s	to basically everything at that point
5101s	yeah
5103s	well Gamer does clear up one of those
5106s	going to hope that that is enough
5109s	to turn the game in his favor set up for
5113s	the next turn with the scoundrel but how
5115s	many spells are in the Naga is a spell
5119s	in the yeah there is right there's at
5121s	least one barrel right Barrel so you can
5123s	go Barrel that kills the minion
5124s	encroaching Insanity deals three so
5127s	you're then pushing five to
5130s	face so you're one off then with naret
5133s	into another Barrel oh that's
5137s	unfortunate
5138s	yeah yeah I think Maxi won off that
5145s	turn all right so gamer is in the game
5148s	the game exists okay both options are
5151s	available now grifa into 12 healing
5154s	amulet or the stick up gor gorm route
5166s	sorry game are really taking a lot of
5168s	time to think about
5173s	this yeah I
5175s	don't think there's any reason why you
5178s	can't check both because you have the uh
5180s	the
5181s	scoundrel to be able to cheat as much
5183s	Mana as you need
5188s	lay down the law does answer the
5190s	popar doesn't get it no no no healing no
5193s	damage can try again
5201s	though you're stepping grifter this turn
5204s	for sure right so you do that first
5206s	before the discount yes
5212s	okay and even though game is taking a
5215s	little bit of time on this uh does show
5218s	just the amount of practice no
5241s	healing oh the uh warlock really likes
5244s	this counts here we go maxom just
5246s	starting to uh slam some cards the
5249s	Reduce by one now means that uh both
5253s	insanities are
5254s	playable uh from Hand by Maxi and that
5257s	means that gamer rvg is going to go down
5260s	uh 3 to one in this one he does at least
5263s	put a scratch on Maxi bomb which is
5265s	something that Gabby failed to do in the
5267s	opener queuing up nature Sharman three
5269s	times and uh falling 03 uh but in the
5272s	end um you know we to be fair we built
5275s	that up a bunch of the start of like oh
5276s	can can gamer rvg pass the Rogue test I
5279s	don't think he did anything particularly
5280s	badly there certainly not to my
5283s	moderately trained Rogue eye I'm sure um
5286s	if some of the real Rogue enjoyers cast
5287s	an eye over it they'd have some
5289s	criticisms but it's not like there was
5291s	some catastrophic throw or failure of
5293s	mechanics or not understanding how the
5295s	deck worked in general right it was just
5297s	kind of an ugly hand it was good
5298s	pressure from Maxi again if you want to
5301s	flip it around cuz that was a a
5303s	relatively un impressive uh Insanity
5306s	warlock hand right very few fatigue
5308s	cards he just kind of played some
5309s	minions then played popar and some
5311s	barrels and then just had typo people to
5313s	to finish the game
5315s	with uh so gamer I think did his best to
5317s	navigate way through and I think had two
5321s	three out of sevens to just probably be
5324s	significantly ahead in the game if he
5326s	was able to to hit the healing from that
5328s	point but yeah in the end it is going to
5330s	be Maxi that goes through and takes out
5333s	the winner spot in group see in the
5335s	upper
5336s	bracket yes it was a a very solid
5340s	showing from Maxi Bond again we kind of
5342s	saw some highlights from the first
5343s	series and then we got to watch that uh
5347s	full series between Maxi Bond and gamer
5350s	uh there but Maxi Bond performing
5353s	extremely well now gets to kind of take
5355s	a break for the rest of the day prep for
5357s	the top eight tomorrow and just get
5360s	ready for that but you know this is a
5363s	group stage so as you mentioned gamer
5366s	not out of it just going down to that
5367s	deciders match uh but we have only just
5372s	casted the first series of the day sole
5374s	there is still a lot more Hearthstone to
5376s	be seen and what do we have coming up
5378s	next is going to be uh Gabby versus
5382s	Photon so don't go anywhere we're going
5385s	to catch that match after this quick
5386s	break
5398s	[Music]
5425s	[Music]
5454s	[Music]
5481s	[Music]
5537s	[Music]
5569s	hello everyone and welcome back we are
5571s	getting ready to get into our second
5573s	match of the day and this second match
5574s	of Group C I'm Raven and joining me is
5577s	TJ we've got a bit of a spicy one coming
5580s	right up TJ we do yeah it's going to be
5583s	the elimination match for Group C it's
5584s	going to be Gabby versus
5587s	Photon and uh you know kind of I don't
5590s	want to say opposite stories because
5591s	they're both lad Heroes but Boton is a
5593s	lad hero who's uh stepping into
5596s	competitive play and Gabby is this you
5600s	know mythical creature that was once at
5603s	the very top
5605s	yeah one's at the very top of the uh um
5609s	Hearthstone Elite and now H has some
5614s	some to prove uh we'll say that um but
5617s	still you know that that level of
5620s	understanding for the game never goes
5621s	away so we'll see if Gabby can uh get
5624s	back to that dominating form once again
5628s	maybe with the help of his favorite card
5630s	snow flipper
5632s	penguin yeah the ultimate
5634s	cute art although there are some
5636s	merlocks that have contested that but I
5638s	think generally Everyone likes the snow
5640s	flipper but yeah Gabby uh at times an
5643s	Unstoppable force in Hearthstone
5645s	honestly so uh definitely a gabby fan
5647s	over here and he's going to be bringing
5648s	uh the first deck that is going to be uh
5650s	out on display is going to be this
5652s	priest and uh probably I guess this and
5655s	Rogue is kind of like the talk of the
5657s	meta at the moment both pretty uh scary
5661s	decks to not only come up against but to
5663s	also try and pilot your yourself and
5665s	this one is going to be the bird
5666s	watching and chilling Vin version um are
5669s	you a fan of this version or are you a
5671s	fan of some of the others we've seen
5672s	over the course of this
5674s	weekend yeah I like this version it just
5676s	gives you some um like that that fetch
5679s	from your deck that MH uh is crucial in
5684s	many matchups where you need to kind of
5687s	get to your comboy turns just a little
5690s	bit
5691s	faster uh so uh big fan of that and uh
5696s	Photon has the same overheal priest deck
5700s	um but alongside that has the pain lock
5704s	heyo um this graphic confuses me
5708s	TJ why there one master tour is that one
5711s	or seven I think it's that's a one
5714s	because look at the four point first
5716s	official Hearthstone tournament first
5718s	first official this is the that one was
5720s	or this is this one is oh this one okay
5724s	so it's not previously okay sorry I
5726s	thought I thought okay this is including
5728s	this one perfect so we do see the um the
5731s	difference between Photon and Gabby CU I
5733s	think Gabby was like what 22 or
5735s	something was the number for him there
5737s	so very very experienced in that
5739s	competitive H Stone H that graphic threw
5742s	me off just a little bit H but photon is
5744s	going to be starting off on this drew it
5746s	does have the speaker Stompers in there
5748s	as well to try and stop some of the more
5751s	crazy shenanigans that can happen uh at
5753s	least for a turn also with these do you
5755s	like this Tech I know you mentioned uh
5758s	removing Paladin tech cards and putting
5760s	any other cards in in that deck but what
5762s	do you think of the tech choices in this
5764s	one yeah I do like the uh speaker
5767s	stomper in the deck because a lot of
5769s	times you do have to with this deck just
5771s	build a big board preferably early on in
5774s	the game which is definitely possible
5777s	with much Tempo tools and ramp you have
5779s	um and then protect it with speaker
5781s	stomper cuz a lot of times this ramp
5783s	Droid would struggles with is uh finding
5786s	that closing power once it's you know
5789s	had its big push or its two big pushes
5791s	dealt with so having speaker stomper to
5794s	kind of protect there uh makes a lot of
5796s	sense um uh but the the big
5801s	thing oh no never mind I didn't remember
5804s	seeing that on the graphic but for some
5806s	reason I was like it had to have cut
5808s	some top end but didn't really in the
5810s	grand scheme of things when you're
5811s	looking at ramp Druid still has the
5813s	Marin still has the y still has the zelc
5816s	so oh I've missed it TJ the gab Jam I've
5820s	missed it just Gabby instantly on Camera
5823s	Head Bopp to whatever music is listening
5825s	to it feels like the old days uh but
5828s	yeah we're getting off to a good start
5829s	here Gabby up top on the priest of
5831s	course Photon on this Druid and um
5834s	pretty interesting to see how Gabby
5836s	Pilots the openings I do think the
5839s	priest openings obviously there the more
5841s	straightforward like super powerful ones
5844s	but I do enjoy seeing when these players
5846s	like when they decide to go a bit in
5849s	right and when they start trying to do
5850s	some combos when they start deciding to
5852s	drop um uh Hadis for example all these
5857s	things are super interesting to me so be
5859s	cool to see how Gabby approaches it
5862s	Photon has gone oh no he's back now okay
5865s	perfect uh Photon does have a very uh
5868s	potentially Tempo heavy opening with
5870s	double Nest
5872s	matron yeah double nest matron into the
5875s	flower child uh could be good often
5878s	times you want to go ramp Tempo flower
5881s	child into a Marin and then refill with
5883s	the wand and
5885s	then um just keep rolling uh through
5888s	your turns like that and that's kind of
5890s	your your big push that's where I like
5893s	the speaker Stompers protect that but uh
5896s	no ramp currently uh New Heights was
5899s	what's been cut from the
5901s	list um in order
5904s	to uh make room for these speaker
5907s	Stompers uh I would assume so there is a
5910s	little bit less ramp but it still exists
5912s	in the form of malurian gifts or splush
5915s	bash W yeah I really like the Hidden Gem
5918s	Choice there from Gabby whe
5920s	unfortunately didn't see his discover
5921s	choices um but the hidden Gem's nice
5923s	because now spell damage swipe with just
5926s	one spell damage doesn't actually clear
5928s	it off right so it just makes that just
5930s	a little bit more frustrating to deal
5932s	with a photon uh so that's a really good
5934s	pick up there for Gabby getting that
5936s	clergy down as well just uh getting that
5938s	card draw cooking but we are um not too
5941s	long away from a dragon Fiesta right now
5946s	TJ what to do yeah but how he spaced out
5949s	these turns is pretty
5951s	important
5954s	um I don't know I was there's not really
5958s	any great players I was thinking well
5960s	you're behind on board what if you just
5961s	coin out Puppet Master but like a power
5963s	w syn would just allow value trades on
5966s	the board which is not uh not
5968s	particularly good but it's going to go
5970s	with the coin swipe the curve makes
5971s	sense with this because next turn you
5973s	can go double matron plus CH Drake and
5976s	then float that right into the flower
5978s	child so I do like the swipe in this or
5981s	even Puppet Master right even Puppet
5983s	Master but the double Nest matron into
5986s	Chia Drake just
5988s	feels
5989s	that's so much power but puppet M Puppet
5993s	Master into flower child is a great
5995s	combo because you get those uh double up
5998s	on the minions the
6008s	puppets to no one's surprise we're going
6010s	to see double Nest Pon come down is
6011s	going to be a puppet master coming out
6013s	here I do like this though because
6015s	although we just saw zelc draw uh this
6017s	is just going to hit um well all well
6020s	yeah it will just hit unless it gets
6021s	killed this turn and we'll be able to
6023s	get that uh like Aon and stuff right so
6025s	like this is going to be really big for
6026s	Photon I think Anar and marin oh for
6029s	free oh oh
6033s	yeah doesn't look too bad to me TJ and
6037s	this is the problem of because of these
6040s	Tempo starts it's really funny to me how
6042s	many games for Druid you think of this
6045s	Druid and you think oh you know the ramp
6047s	into all the big stuff blah blah blah
6049s	but so many starts or so many games are
6052s	just won because drewy just does this
6053s	this and then it's like well well I
6056s	can't really come back from this right
6058s	so we'll see if Gabby has a way to fight
6060s	back there are ways in the deck of
6061s	course but especially with this gem
6064s	revealed from stealth it's going to be a
6065s	little bit
6071s	tricky
6073s	right the perfect Tiding
6077s	spot this Tempo is pretty huge because
6079s	you can keep trading with this Hidden
6081s	Gem and then heal it right back up now
6084s	the doubles are on the board which means
6086s	that it's not going to get
6088s	hit but here we go got anr fi and
6095s	Marin and uh the doomin as well is
6102s	uh in the deck which can be pretty
6104s	potent but does hit anr Marin which I
6107s	think is just the most raw power in
6110s	terms of
6111s	the high cost cards left in the deck so
6114s	Puppet Master putting in some
6124s	work yeah this is looking huge I'm like
6128s	don't get me wrong priest can really uh
6131s	you know do some miraculous things
6133s	during games we've seen this already
6135s	yesterday on stream with some of the
6137s	games but
6139s	uh but all of this power as you said
6142s	double Marin Double AA even the zelc
6144s	kind of just sat there there is the ramp
6146s	missing of course for Photon Photon
6148s	hasn't actually been able to ramp up so
6150s	even though there's the one drop
6151s	versions yeah the followup isn't super
6154s	strong because the lack of power but the
6155s	one drop Marin into the wand is going to
6158s	be very very strong indeed Gabby does
6160s	get hold of the um amthal though so
6162s	there could be Shenanigans going forward
6164s	with that next turn at least or at least
6166s	trying to build towards next
6174s	okay going to make some cleaner trades
6175s	probably going to get rid of that puppet
6177s	as well
6179s	yeah very important and this holds on to
6182s	a ton of tempo and now with the alond
6186s	has the way to deal with the big stuff
6188s	so
6191s	um does would be very beneficial at this
6195s	point to find that second
6199s	clergy going to go for the one no
6201s	surprises here
6206s	you got to go for the alpha plan and
6207s	just rip the
6209s	legendaries you'll get the one
6211s	eventually you
6213s	thinking okay yeah he going to go splish
6215s	spash first Aon then refill I imagine
6219s	into
6220s	one it's kind of going for legendaries
6223s	these are you know some these are
6225s	definitely some minions a lot of the big
6227s	stuff's already been pulled from the
6229s	deck um uh the best draw there would
6234s	have been the Doom
6241s	kid just to block uh amenu potential
6245s	yeah I guess yuron would have been quite
6247s	good as
6250s	well not bad though Fire coming going to
6252s	come down and help clear up some of this
6255s	uh
6256s	these these minion are being a little
6258s	bit pesky the gem so getting rid of the
6260s	slightly bigger one is going to help
6263s	he's Trading off could have held on to
6264s	the inter vate and gone the free Chia
6266s	Drake and then F without using the
6271s	interv to get the F out since a minions
6275s	was being traded anyway yeah is he
6278s	saving it for specific reasons wanting
6280s	to hold the spell damage
6282s	potentially yeah free spell damage but
6284s	there's not much left there's a swipe
6288s	and I guess there's gifs as
6291s	well but has already used to swipe
6294s	I don't know it's just now the option to
6297s	go
6299s	um uh to inate yuron is gone right uh
6304s	yeah which would have been huge here so
6306s	this is pretty big though right because
6308s	the amonth on board it's not been copied
6312s	but it did get a
6314s	Resa so and hits the interv anyway ah
6319s	yeah it's getting the resk is probably
6322s	about as good as it gets a lot of the
6323s	time or at least on average forthal so
6325s	it's not too bad but this yog's going to
6328s	do a little bit of a stealing a little
6330s	bit of
6335s	thievery hope is an
6343s	illusion
6346s	okay oh
6348s	jeez do does instantly unfreeze cuz the
6352s	amthor didn't actually use an ability
6354s	and ability classes is like kind of it's
6356s	like an action right free stops you
6358s	attacking but it also stops actions
6360s	let's say
6377s	yep take a good look you ain't never
6380s	seen a again a bit of a tricky yeah res
6384s	go
6385s	though there is rest in peace as well
6388s	for Gabby going forward so there are
6391s	options
6393s	but it's just going be to one of the
6395s	Amon Thor I think you kill the yog
6399s	right yeah Gabby got an for is going to
6402s	be nice going to be able to regen some
6403s	Mana as well oh I'm going to go again
6405s	now with the Resa right
6408s	yep and then copy
6412s	it Gabby played this game
6418s	before okay low
6422s	World got both oh my gosh not bad and
6425s	then gets to summon as
6427s	well not a great
6431s	discover I it looked like he may have
6434s	like I don't know we didn't get to see
6436s	it so I don't know if that's the best
6437s	option regardless but it looked like he
6440s	was frustrated cuz he might have like
6442s	been spam clicking in in to click I
6444s	don't know
6445s	yeah yeah cuz that choice got made quite
6448s	quickly right and it normally you're not
6450s	snap picking Finly it's not not the the
6453s	one you expect to see uh picked up they
6455s	going to go for Marin number two though
6457s	now that Photon has to spend real mana
6459s	on these cards as opposed to pain one
6462s	yep and wand and now there are two
6464s	crowns in the deck so honestly that's
6467s	probably what we're looking for here cuz
6468s	that's the last remaining bit of power
6470s	there's one oh and Cobalt
6476s	grybow makes things real tough yeah I
6478s	was going to say grey BAU uh even though
6480s	I I I like big stats Greybar actually
6483s	looks all right here
6485s	yeah what if it's just cobal TJ ah the
6489s	zc is still there is the
6493s	only it's really the only card I
6496s	want but exactly right and that's one of
6499s	many cards in hand
6502s	so can I tempt you with a load of random
6505s	legendaries
6528s	herion that's a second Honis discovered
6531s	from the alond tool yeah
6533s	one right
6536s	yeah also got the calos there as
6552s	well in Harmony and then probably end
6555s	turn with yeah
6567s	world of
6570s	evil is a full hand mhm both players
6574s	full hand all right second you don't
6577s	really you don't need a second one not
6579s	the end of the world yeah well yeah yeah
6581s	not the end of the world at all the only
6582s	the only time that's good is if it
6584s	wasn't drawn that turn you play monkey
6587s	it's rubbish and then you get a rroll
6589s	but that's like very specific outcome
6591s	right yeah h
6595s	grabot just makes these boards even more
6597s	of a
6598s	puzzle Gabby at this point just has way
6601s	more raw power uh in the hand I mean
6605s	Photon can obviously change that with
6607s	the Cobalt but yeah maybe trying to find
6609s	an excuse to use the ziliax
6613s	first and then we can swap with the
6616s	Cobalt I mean lot of great traes the
6619s	Cobalt's zero anyway right so that can
6621s	come out even in the same turn
6627s	yeah even now are going to start being
6630s	annoying right cuz they can attack yeah
6632s	looks like he's going for a swipe
6635s	play that there a lot of spell damage
6639s	yeah
6641s	ah bro too many
6644s	actions we're
6650s	back even hearstone can't hand handle
6652s	hearstone
6662s	sometimes G's back all right Hidden Gem
6665s	not a huge
6676s	deal let still that calos in hand as
6679s	well to maybe get away with some
6681s	Shenanigans the fate of the yep Gabby
6684s	going to go
6686s	fishing though we don't know what
6693s	for at this point with the discovers
6695s	we're uh we're on the journey with
6697s	Photon here
6725s	just wants to make things awkward with a
6728s	million gray bows I
6731s	guess that old taunt Druid all over
6740s	again bit healing from the gems going to
6743s	going to be nice as well
6745s	o there's still still a crown in the
6748s	deck right from the Second Marin oh that
6752s	hand dump as much as possible into
6754s	goblet Crown that's Hearthstone we want
6756s	to
6759s	see but there's also a lot
6763s	of you could goblet into goblet oh my
6769s	gosh is this still a gift in the deck
6774s	uh yes cuz that would be quite
6778s	good endless
6783s	swipes I do think we could potentially
6786s	see the Cobalt soon though I don't think
6789s	this hand is it that's apart from
6791s	exactly the goblin of
6797s	course okay going to start killing off
6799s	the minions to reduce some of this uh
6801s	gayb about annoyance but of course Gabby
6803s	is going to have access to uh a little
6805s	bit of refill does have that first spell
6807s	costing Zero Effect from calagos still
6809s	active of course so gets a little bit
6811s	more freedom with the things you can do
6813s	this
6817s	turn on your left you
6821s	a what do we
6830s	got that's the that's the put prison
6834s	yeah
6842s	yeah okay not too
6846s	bad popup book
6852s	sure it would have been
6856s	TJ it could have been possible it could
6859s	have been possible
6874s	our work now shapes Life as we know
6883s	it yeah this game's getting a little
6886s	little wacky little too wacky for my
6889s	taste wait I I don't think I've seen
6891s	this interaction if Cal swaps the hand
6896s	the cards aren't chained anymore
6899s	right I have no idea I was going to say
6903s	maybe it's just me but I've never right
6904s	okay it's Photon you know what you need
6906s	to do for science I think everyone says
6909s	oh
6911s	perfect okay ah yeah they do on chain
6915s	cuz they're just new cards okay cool oh
6920s	jeez there's nothing mindblowing
6923s	C here there is flint
6927s	though Flint with full
6929s	Mana okay okay a hero
6936s	worm not too
6939s	bad horseshoe
6941s	sure cheap enough to go
6944s	again Kos is like
6950s	okay J G okay
6960s	there is still the two hadanas here as
6962s	well in hand so that can actually we
6964s	getting to the point where that that
6966s	could just be enough honestly with this
6968s	gem if we can heal them up with the uh
6971s	the holy Waters yeah cuz there's flash
6974s	heal also yeah there's also the there's
6977s	also a
6978s	holler so you clear the try and clear
6981s	the board with holler
6984s	I need to find a new
6990s	gig yeah good Target for the spring
6992s	water as well we'll get that overheal in
6994s	hand this is going to be
6996s	nice what do you think like try and
6998s	clear the board and then say well the
7000s	average legendaries aren't going to just
7002s	randomly fight this and then next turn
7005s	just go Hadis
7008s	Hadis yeah
7014s	so there's still
7016s	clergy uh
7019s	s yeah think clergy is the big one draw
7024s	a card at the end of
7028s	this and this does
7030s	clear uh everything now right it'll
7033s	clear it all at the end with the gem and
7036s	then that'll stop the gray B being a
7037s	pain as well a really nice clean clear
7040s	there from Gabby that's really what you
7042s	want to see just dissect the board uh
7044s	with minimal frustration and now the is
7047s	still RCA
7049s	right uh yeah it should be right takes
7052s	base Mana doesn't it
7055s	yeah and here's the problem for Photon
7058s	now like any given legendary does not
7061s	deal with this board
7063s	therefore Gabby can sort of just do
7065s	whatever he wants next
7069s	turn yeah I can't even make a board
7071s	Space by doing the dance floor
7075s	[Music]
7076s	mhm is this worth going like a stargazer
7081s	here Stargazer gift yeah I don't know
7084s	what you're looking for Dra well there's
7086s	still another Crown isn't there no that
7089s	was the second Crown oh was that the
7090s	second oh sorry my bad okay then yeah
7092s	that's not as good yeah the first one
7094s	was for the gray boughs oh yeah yeah
7097s	yeah yeah yeah yeah
7102s	for now I mean just feels like lethal
7107s	Tyrion go oh my
7111s	God 2014 he
7114s	Stone okay so now there can
7119s	be Gabby can choose if he wants to
7122s	guarantee the owner
7124s	here
7127s	right you can bump over heal to do the
7131s	two damage for me
7137s	yeah or or just do that yeah you know
7139s	whatever if you decides he doesn't
7141s	need wants the board space I think
7144s	because uh the anr would stealing the
7146s	minion blocks another board space
7149s	probably drop location
7151s	right location or p in this instance
7156s	yeah but location probably better cuz
7158s	you get all the the many procs yeah
7164s	yep going to flourish back up to full
7166s	Mana
7167s	crystals oh now can't drop the location
7170s	oh well it's still very good oh yeah cuz
7172s	of the uh yeah yeah yeah
7174s	yeah it would have had to have done it
7176s	the other way round right played the
7178s	location not the
7181s	heal yeah it's still
7183s	enough yeah really good win there really
7186s	tricky mid game as both players were
7189s	sort of scrambling with uh sort of weird
7191s	resources is but that again is uh the
7194s	strength of priest I know salt was
7196s	talking about at the start of yesterday
7198s	where priest has the ability to pop off
7200s	early and win and then play really long
7203s	drawn out sort of uh games based on
7206s	Creative plays from you uh and Gabby
7208s	made that work I think the really clean
7210s	board clear with the setup was really
7212s	nice there for Gabby and I do think that
7215s	Photon got a just a little bit stuck
7218s	honestly had a really good start with
7219s	the puppet master dragon opening but
7221s	once that was dealt with it just never
7223s	really felt like it was good enough and
7225s	this was huge though the Resa being
7227s	generated so that then the um the uh the
7231s	resurrects are always going to hit resus
7233s	to be able to do multi cers was
7234s	absolutely huge and I think key for
7236s	Gabby taking this yeah
7238s	absolutely um and it's a big win but
7242s	Raven TJ I'm
7245s	I Gabby cannot be satisfied if this
7250s	nature Shaman is still without a win in
7254s	a series that the deck just has not
7257s	performed um over the course of the
7259s	weekend thus
7260s	far um we saw a dead draw with it
7264s	yesterday even though um you know was
7267s	able to get a win in the first series
7269s	with it and the series that we saw on
7271s	stream very really struggled and then we
7274s	we got a quick Glimpse at the highlights
7277s	of Gabby's first match and it just lost
7280s	three quick ones in a row versus Maxi
7282s	Bond
7283s	so uh it was not the best not the best
7286s	yeah so we'll see if it it's going to be
7288s	better suited here uh which it it could
7293s	be I mean we have pain lock on the side
7296s	of
7297s	photon um which can go fast but it's
7300s	board-based so you may win against the
7304s	pain lock if it does nothing for a few
7306s	turns like we saw but the pain Lock's
7308s	low enough to just lightning Bol them on
7310s	like turn five and it's over maybe
7312s	that's maybe that's the grand plan there
7314s	but yeah we did see very briefly Gabby
7317s	struggle with it in the previous matchup
7318s	and again we didn't really touch on this
7320s	too much cuz we saw Dove straight into
7321s	game one but this is an elimination game
7324s	right this is the lower bracket match in
7326s	group C so the loser of this is just
7328s	done and will not progress to tomorrow
7330s	the winner still has to win you know a
7332s	little bit more going forward so uh yeah
7335s	really important matchup here and if we
7336s	see that Shaman sort of struggle again
7339s	we will have to start asking some
7340s	questions as uh it's not the most
7342s	impressive thing in the world on stream
7344s	but we are going to see Gabby now on the
7345s	Druid by looks of things and Photon on
7348s	that Warlock and we've spoken a lot of
7350s	TJ about Insanity um but what what do
7353s	you think about pain
7356s	warlock ah I mean it has some very high
7360s	highs and some very low lows we'll just
7363s	put it that way yeah um you kind of have
7367s	to you know flirt with disaster a lot of
7370s	times when you're playing against Decks
7371s	that do have a lot of of damage from
7373s	hand I kind of wanted to see Gabby try
7375s	and get the nature Shaman out of the way
7377s	just because if he does lose this game
7380s	um and the pain warlock gets through I
7382s	think that might have been his best
7383s	chance to win with the TJ yeah but maybe
7388s	he doesn't care what his final matchup
7389s	is on the nature Shaman has more cough
7391s	against something else cuz pain lock can
7393s	go very quickly but that is uh quite the
7397s	start that is I would say close to
7400s	perfect yeah because R uh g r welp is
7404s	going to contest the early push from uh
7406s	Photon Splish Splash is going to kind of
7409s	help do that but also ramp and then your
7411s	battery dragon is going to be F and if
7413s	that gets reduced that's one of the key
7415s	cards that can help you recover from one
7417s	of the very aggressive openings that
7419s	pain loock aims to do so yeah ticking a
7421s	lot of boxes here for Gabby at least in
7423s	the opening innovate TJ can Splish
7426s	Splash on
7429s	two I wouldn't even be surprised here at
7431s	photon just coins out a Spirit Bomb yeah
7434s	I think this is just go yeah yeah yeah I
7436s	like this protect the board just go
7439s	imprison horror is already lined up for
7441s	next
7442s	turn um you could even fit in mass
7444s	production with it like
7448s	where cruising towards a molten giant
7451s	real
7454s	quick yeah you want to get this out to
7457s	not only to ramp but just contest this
7459s	flame imp as well Force the trade
7464s	that's production going to come out here
7465s	no
7470s	problemo a little trade off okay got the
7473s	sheriff that could come in useful as
7474s	well if a th is going to contest can
7477s	maybe lock it away in in jail for a
7479s	little bit yep for crimes against
7485s	warlocks o no
7487s	hits yeah
7493s	just going have to use the Mana on the
7494s	old hero power gain a tiny bit of
7497s	armor yeah and I hope for the
7501s	best double
7504s	giant oh flame that's a good one we
7509s	going to see probably double molten
7510s	giant very very
7512s	soon I mean even just a single molten
7515s	giant next turn is going to
7517s	be good enough draws off the top will
7520s	let him fit both but against the jid
7523s	this is a little bit
7525s	um a little bit scary right you could
7529s	just freeze the for2
7531s	pupil yeah this is huge cuz there's just
7533s	enough for pupil to be active right so
7536s	it's like just enough to lock it
7538s	in it's going to go for the hero power
7541s	to take down the flame him just remove
7542s	that minion that threat off the
7546s	board okay yeah we're
7550s	uh we're Double Mountain shining
7554s	well you put a lot of power on board
7557s	this is a two- turn lethal setup oh I I
7559s	think if you not I think if you're not
7562s	doing this then you're not playing the
7564s	deck for me personally anyway maybe I'm
7567s	a bit overzealous but I just think if
7569s	you're not going like kind of making
7570s	these Allin board players then this is
7573s	not a deck you should be bringing to a
7575s	tournament cuz this is how you win right
7577s	like this is how the deck wins it goes
7579s	super low plays everything on board and
7581s	says that is good
7590s	enough I mean
7592s	there's not really too many options here
7596s	can I go for the h going to
7599s	pass so
7601s	there's 24 damage on board and needs two
7604s	so there's multiple Symphony of
7610s	sins that win the game here H actually
7613s	no cuz you have to pick which one you
7619s	want cuz if you attack with everything
7622s	first or you attack with the four
7623s	attacks
7625s	first then see your
7628s	Symphony yeah I think that's and then
7630s	you fine though right oh oh just going
7633s	to go speaker St St okay that's
7638s	that's more so locks in the win yeah we
7642s	do see five but yeah five will not be
7644s	enough and that's it and I appreciate
7645s	that there from Photon fights back very
7647s	very quickly indeed with this pain lock
7649s	gets it over the line as well but I I
7652s	really H think like that was the way to
7654s	go the pain log is one where as you
7656s	mentioned when I asked you about it
7657s	earlier you kind of really gamble with
7661s	your own health total especially against
7662s	exactly this Druid from Gabby uh which
7665s	is sort of built to do that burst spell
7666s	damage so I like it a lot that he kind
7668s	of um I don't even really want to say
7670s	went all in because I do think that's
7672s	what the the deck does right it's what
7673s	the deck's built to do but I like that
7675s	it was just like yes we we'll push and
7678s	uh then some restraint with the speaker
7680s	stomper at the
7683s	end I would have definitely just clicked
7686s	Symphony and and chose to believe
7690s	yeah and I probably would have lost
7692s	because of
7694s	it yeah little bit risky but I do like
7698s	the uh the play there and now we're tied
7700s	up one one and that's also the pain
7703s	lock uh out of the way for Photon mhm
7707s	and I think that might be a hindrance
7710s	for Gabby but we'll see Gabby might feel
7714s	more confident against uh the priest or
7716s	the the Druid on the on the other side
7718s	so well I do believe we've got The
7721s	Druids going up against each other now
7723s	uh and obviously they're not the same
7724s	Druid Gabby is on that con's Druid and
7726s	then uh we did see the sort of ramp
7729s	Druid from Photon earlier on um which
7732s	one in this matchup which one would you
7734s	like to be here TJ What whose position
7736s	would you like to be in right now for
7738s	The
7740s	Druids that's a tough one um because it
7743s	does depend a lot on the early ramp
7745s	right coner Druid can get some very
7748s	quick wins um but the problem is uh the
7752s	ramp Druid can make just these massive
7754s	boards right um uh pretty early on into
7758s	the game and I'm not even talking about
7760s	just like the nestm I'm talking about
7761s	like if you are able to get like Marin
7763s	on curve and then you can wand and do a
7766s	couple more big things that's where
7768s	coner really struggles because they
7771s	can't lethal if you have things on board
7774s	um that's the the big deal now MAV Vista
7777s	can can change a lot of that yeah cuz
7780s	you're effectively like tripling up in
7782s	some cases if you're able to find uh
7786s	those chales in time for M Vista because
7789s	when M Vista recasts say the first drink
7793s	of the Chalice you also get the the the
7796s	second drink and thus the third drink
7799s	from from each one so um you're you if
7803s	you miss the Vista and then can just
7805s	throw some damage out or try and clear
7806s	the board with the first couple then
7808s	you're basically reloading your hand
7810s	with more chalises for the second go
7812s	maybe this time with you know more spell
7814s	damage or concierge I do really enjoy
7816s	when I first saw Mr Vista I was like oh
7818s	what combos do you do with this you know
7821s	like what wild things can you do and
7823s	then quickly realized it's just three
7826s	turns like that's just a lot of stuff so
7829s	you know we see like in this situation
7831s	gab's like just keeping it in the
7833s	opening hand to be like well yeah it's
7835s	just a lot of stuff we don't need to
7836s	specifically do anything overly fancy
7839s	when a lot of the time just that many
7841s	turns of stuff uh is is going to be good
7844s	enough so yeah I do like to see a lot
7847s	like you know sleep under the STS for
7848s	example that just being played is going
7849s	to be huge
7853s	so I wouldn't mind just going Nest
7855s	matron into gem tosser
7858s	here just for some Tempo and then next
7862s	turn you can
7863s	still interat our coin whichever one you
7866s	don't use this turn into flower child
7868s	the following turn
7874s	but
7876s	but yeah but you're sacrificing the
7878s	ability to maybe get one of your more
7879s	expensive cards out a little bit sooner
7882s	for Tempo actually it's just going to
7883s	rip the flower child now so okay this
7886s	kind of still puts something on board
7888s	but cuts out kind of the step of the
7889s	process the only problem with this is
7891s	that um you don't get the opportunity to
7894s	like Nest matron into uh gem tosser next
7898s	turn because doing it this turn it it
7901s	only push three but you still get the
7903s	activation of gem tosser since you'd
7905s	only bring yourself back up but speaker
7907s	stomper is a perfect card to pair with
7909s	it I was going to say do you like this
7911s	is a less of a um combo stopper and more
7915s	of just I'm just going to be annoying
7917s	this turn and build a board cuz I kind
7919s	of
7919s	do yeah I think the curve is you know
7924s	pretty well spoken for in this instance
7926s	with you doom next
7929s	turn let's put on some
7932s	pressure yeah gab's giving it a nod
7934s	because Gabby's okay with this to an
7935s	extent right cuz he has Mr Vista so it's
7938s	not a big deal to be uh you know locked
7940s	out of this uh of this stuff the Spells
7943s	this turn so not a huge deal but still
7945s	both players building up that board and
7947s	trying to get some uh little bit of
7949s	damage through but the Doom kin followup
7951s	for five is going to be pretty nice it
7952s	does reduce some of Gabby's
7962s	options yeah into Mar next turn into W
7965s	and to build a big board yeah it's
7969s	looking pretty good o
7973s	okay did get the Chalice pickup as
7977s	well I wonder if you just unload now
7980s	yeah the spell damage with the location
7982s	swipe chalice chalice like yeah I like
7987s	it cuz it gives up more options for next
7989s	turn as well there at worst a splish
7991s	spash welp into something next turn this
7994s	also is likely to push uh the five to
7997s	face never mind
8005s	and this is a bit of a slow turn from
8008s	Photon right like the Marin coming down
8011s	on curve generally would say oh well
8013s	that's good but playing this and just
8016s	leaving at least five damage to go face
8019s	is a little bit scary when you're not
8022s	the burst deck right
8026s	yeah does have the zelc of course for
8028s	next turn which is going to be useful or
8030s	the fire depending on the situation but
8033s	this is just a little bit scary is there
8036s	ever a world where like swipe gem tosser
8040s	does this to save the five damage this
8045s	turn swipe that works I still want to
8049s	just Marin you have seven mana and a
8051s	Marin in your hand yeah it's just but
8054s	but you also have 24 well 19 Health
8057s	right to an
8060s	extent yeah but the faster you Marin the
8062s	faster you can get your health total
8064s	even higher but do you not think sure
8067s	I'm just thinking if Photon plays Marin
8069s	the next turn is photo not extremely
8071s	likely to play zelc which means the
8073s	one's not getting played
8075s	anyway yeah but then you still have
8078s	seven Mana that you have to spend to get
8079s	Mar down at some point in the
8082s	game true true but that's like maybe
8085s	that's an a now turn right it's like
8086s	turn turn now Marin wand yeah I suppose
8097s	does have access to uh build the option
8100s	of building up a board and playing F
8102s	here as well you were talking earlier
8105s	about like having a lot of things on
8107s	board is strong against this deck yep do
8110s	you like that more than the
8116s	zelc zelc is never going to get
8119s	cheaper or I could maybe just for Mana
8124s	expenditure though the gift WP well plus
8127s	five I think is more health because even
8129s	after the
8130s	attack you're going to have more Health
8134s	remaining yeah on the board overall as
8137s	well yeah yeah yeah
8139s	yeah pushes two to the face as well not
8142s	too bad they little heal take them up 29
8145s	it's exactly the same amount of Health
8147s	oh was it I just believe it's 11 versus
8149s	11 yeah you could have said it was any
8151s	number I would have agreed with you yeah
8153s	it's 11 versus 11
8158s	Health Gabby probably going to go dig in
8161s	now wants to get hold of some spell
8162s	damage does still have tide pool in in
8164s	hand does have the concierge as
8167s	well needs to just not die though
8169s	because that's quite
8173s	important yeah so with draw two cards
8176s	you can still refresh twice hit tide
8178s	pool get the last
8180s	one um um it's still a
8183s	lot so we have a last drink two drinks
8186s	and then a tide pool with the three
8188s	drinks left so we're looking at plus two
8190s	spell
8191s	damage with six total so 24 damage worth
8200s	of worth of juice
8203s	mhm so we'll need the second tide pull
8206s	or an additional spell damage or swipe I
8210s	suppose cuz that can also take Health
8212s	off the
8221s	board what to do so that's effectively
8224s	what we're looking for for Gabby next
8225s	turn
8227s	is uh another chalice another tide poool
8232s	pupil yeah just just like an extra push
8235s	right is is all he's really waiting for
8237s	now just one extra thing to really
8239s	unlock the hand zil is going to come
8241s	down though get some work
8244s	done importantly not heal Gabby up with
8247s	the Divine Shield trade into the five
8249s	was quite
8252s	nice I found
8271s	I'm going to go for a lot of card draw
8274s	going to some regen as well of course
8277s	yeah for forget my zelc and five being
8279s	the same health I keep look thinking
8282s	that he's got to make a
8283s	copy oh the the wrong mod right yeah
8286s	yeah yeah yeah he's got like the rush
8289s	life steal
8292s	poisonous elusive
8295s	reborn Woods
8298s	[Music]
8303s	dang
8309s	modules go for swipe to clean up a chunk
8312s	of
8314s	this this is putting it into the tide
8317s	pool as well though so it's not you know
8319s	all
8325s	lost but that looks like lethal to me
8327s	with a double swipe from the gift with
8328s	the spell damage and the zelc push from
8331s	Photon so it looks like uh Gabby got
8334s	close and was you know acquiring all the
8336s	pieces of the puzzle but just the
8338s	Relentless pressure Gabby had to
8340s	basically clear what two two three times
8343s	maybe in a row whilst trying to progress
8345s	the game plan H and I think the
8348s	inclusion of or the the F coming down on
8350s	the board for Photon really messed up
8352s	the Mr Vista turn so or the Mr Vista
8354s	proc I guess so yeah a really good game
8357s	there for Photon just getting a little
8359s	bit one step ahead there of Gabby and
8361s	not really letting Gabby get comfortable
8362s	with the deck yeah Gabby was that
8366s	following turn the very next turn would
8368s	have
8369s	been infinite damage yeah 8 million
8372s	damage about yeah
8374s	so
8376s	um cuz he had would have had access to
8378s	three spell
8380s	damage uh for effectively nothing cuz
8383s	the uh two would have been free with the
8386s	location um and
8389s	then a pupil which would have gotten a
8391s	three three drink and then at least what
8395s	four left in in
8398s	hand yeah seven with plus three spell
8401s	damage plus would uh would have have
8404s	enough Mana to maybe pull another spell
8406s	damage out of the deck
8407s	so uh a lot a lot a lot a lot a lot a
8411s	lot so now that we've calculated it it
8413s	would have been a lot it does mean that
8416s	Photon goes up in the series though and
8418s	uh We've not even got to the nature to
8421s	Shaman yet TJ we've not even got to that
8423s	discussion yet um so we'll have to see
8425s	Gabby's definitely got an uphill climb
8427s	as he is going to be going up against
8429s	photon's uh priest which I'm just going
8432s	to triple check I'm sure we'll have a
8434s	look at it at some point but just Tri
8436s	checking the build yes it's the it's
8438s	bird is the word along with of course
8441s	the VIN which is a natural inclusion
8443s	since that is the rules uh so yeah just
8446s	going to go for the bird build there of
8448s	the priest not too bad it is the build
8450s	I've played the least because I've been
8452s	playing the uh the Puppet Theater build
8455s	which has been a lot of fun uh but yeah
8457s	this is H fun in a different way is that
8459s	VIN as well has actually is a card that
8462s	can sort of yink games right uh because
8465s	it's just like sort of surprise damage
8467s	in a lot of instances so we'll see how
8469s	it goes this could be the last game of
8470s	this series and maybe the last game of
8473s	uh Gabby's tournament here if Photon can
8476s	take the win on this priest on the
8479s	bottom yeah then photon get ahead on the
8481s	board early this can get out of control
8484s	for the Druid very quickly cuz they can
8487s	just continually clear your board
8489s	and uh keep their minions
8492s	healthy um and then you know they have
8495s	high Health on board it's harder to
8497s	combo and you're consistently taking
8499s	damage
8501s	so not a great opening for Gabby that is
8506s	uh Tempo is called concierge Druid but
8509s	that's not what you want to see early
8513s	cleric there's heels there's creation
8516s	protocol there's bird watching there's
8518s	uh on the other hand I quite like
8520s	photons opening right now oh fan club as
8526s	well this is one thing I I have fun with
8530s	with the priest is how do you actually
8533s	play this kind of hand cuz there's so
8534s	many options right there's even like
8537s	Forge for creation protocol this turn
8539s	take it a bit slower can heal just a
8541s	draw can just set up the fan club and
8544s	maybe heal with funnel or Flash could
8547s	just click bird watching to kind of do
8548s	the protocol thing in a roundabout way
8551s	so there's a lot can be done looks like
8553s	is going to be bird watching into uh
8555s	question mark right now could go full
8557s	Turbo with the
8559s	clergy yep I like it get to push some
8563s	damage
8564s	too get them both on board oh yeah this
8569s	game is pretty much done oh jeez I think
8572s	even there was a win there for Gabby
8574s	it's just like two three fours that draw
8576s	cards on turn two okay sounds
8582s	good so there's options of like just fan
8585s	wait fan
8590s	club what does working
8594s	out haa funnel cake things here as
8599s	well I I just
8601s	just going to keep it simple okay
8605s	yeah keep the
8607s	board reasonably
8610s	healthy Hidden
8612s	Gem I don't think you really need Amad
8615s	as much in this
8616s	matchup not with this opening as well
8619s	right like this opening is just you've
8622s	got the board so keep it is the way I
8625s	I'd look at this make Gabby have to do
8627s	extreme things to try and stop these
8629s	clergy
8632s	give that well up into the uh Che is not
8636s	too
8637s	bad oh put some stuff on the
8640s	board but this could get a bit filthy
8642s	now though right depends again like
8644s	Photon could take it a little bit slow
8646s	with love his lasting but there was just
8649s	a whole of like funnel cake flash
8651s	whatever whatever whatever also Gabby
8654s	has the turbo combo hand
8661s	being able to go double spell damage
8664s	with the miniat Chia Drake and then go
8668s	with the float and concierge with Double
8670s	T
8673s	P if you draw a chalice off the top you
8676s	have double spell damage triple fully
8679s	juice
8681s	chalice I mean there going to be a lot
8683s	of Health on on the board in form of
8684s	minions but that could be a way to kind
8687s	of force Photon to start over at the
8690s	very least
8692s	the going to go double
8694s	gem the perfing
8699s	spot okay just going absolute turbo here
8704s	with the
8705s	draw I can respect it I just thought
8708s	that would have been a potential holler
8709s	turn but what do I know
8722s	oh this is
8725s	o o that's all I've got TJ it's my cting
8729s	analysis o very good very gone yeah
8734s	basically the the threats just pushed
8736s	out and this is where in a roundabout
8738s	way Photon light is rewarded for going
8740s	turbo draw because there is just a
8742s	handful of stuff to sort of react with
8745s	and there is the huler that can be able
8746s	to clear this board
8749s	up but there's not the I feel like the
8751s	support cards are now gone from from the
8753s	options right cuz like double gem gone
8756s	double clergy gone I it is just holler
8759s	in the dream right
8765s	now I need to find a
8769s	new there's the creation protocol in
8771s	hand though so next turn that could look
8772s	at getting forged and create some value
8775s	there for Photon so it's not all
8778s	bad yeah with the double fan club set up
8781s	on the board and still a lot of cheap
8782s	healing in the
8784s	hand empty board means Honis coming into
8787s	the hand at any point
8789s	is going to be a pretty big deal yeah we
8793s	didn't see uh sole's favorite play
8795s	though which is just Hadis on curve
8796s	against
8799s	Druid maybe we'll see that in the rest
8802s	of the day
8813s	I have 100% lost track of what's in uh
8815s	Gabby's pup right now good stuff I
8820s	imagine
8822s	swipe yeah there's the freeze as well
8824s	right yeah the freeze spell
8827s	damage and um something Stars I think oh
8833s	is it stars
8838s	okay is this the time to uh make maybe
8840s	go a little bit slow get love
8842s	everlasting down maybe Forge the
8844s	creation protocol and go from
8857s	there oh just play okay well there is
8860s	well there you go TJ you're a prophet
8871s	probably got to be safe for next
8875s	turn oh you
8878s	think yeah he's got flash heel funnel
8881s	cake I guess pupil I guess I want this
8885s	you can love everlasting so one of those
8887s	things is
8890s	free I do feel that photon's just taken
8893s	an approach this game of you know I'm
8895s	not going to try and go even remotely
8897s	slow there's been no forges on the
8899s	creation protocol it's just go go go we
8902s	need to end this quickly because of the
8904s	Druid Deck Of course that gab's playing
8906s	not really going to be able to rely on
8907s	some healing here
8913s	yeah and we're getting to the stage in
8915s	the game where I look at Gabby's hand
8917s	every turn and go lethal question mark
8920s	cuz that's what it feels
8922s	like maybe not quite yet with this hand
8925s	but you never know
8931s	I found
8941s	a going use the pupil here to go for the
8949s	drawers time for no one and get GI r
8953s	five I don't think there was even that
8955s	many dragons left so a lot of Health
8958s	being put on the board here which is uh
8961s	pretty big deal also fiveing there yeah
8964s	exactly just for the uh the headiness
8967s	right just being able to
8969s	soak oh jeez there's so
8973s	many oh did get there's so much going on
8976s	here so you need one sick pick up one
8981s	two three
8983s	four five 6 7 8 n 10 just shout Le TJ 10
8989s	Over Heals 10 Over Heals so you get 1 2
8993s	3 4 5 6 7
8998s	8
9003s	one
9007s	two okay killing off the small minions
9010s	it's going to get funnel cake to uh beef
9012s	this manner up again
9022s	wait is this potentially one
9026s	off yeah but then you leave the fire
9029s	yeah yeah yeah yeah I was just trying to
9030s	think that even in you know which outs
9033s	there you sure surely you just lock this
9036s	in
9037s	right I don't know cuz you can just get
9040s	another Honis from the creation protocol
9042s	and go again
9051s	oh Gabby already starting to lock stuff
9053s	in himself
9057s	though yeah I mean photon's out of card
9059s	so Gabby just kind of has to go pop off
9062s	here and
9064s	then not die and not die yeah so you can
9068s	go
9071s	concierge might just be
9073s	concierge swipe and then there's the
9076s	inovate there as
9077s	well yeah w
9081s	hit chalice again all right there we go
9083s	okay well let me just do a quick count
9086s	on there 1 million yep sounds
9090s	good
9100s	48 but is the time to lock it all
9104s	in yeah sometimes the animations can be
9107s	weird especially if you haven't cast any
9109s	yet and the game has has to show you
9110s	that hey look I'm a tourist
9113s	drinks oh yeah yeah yeah to say hello
9118s	yeah t like 5
9119s	Seconds
9121s	yeah got explain I know this that he's
9125s	playing in true it this may look like a
9127s	mage card but look I'm a
9130s	tourist and photon's I'm just going to
9132s	and grab a drink while this
9134s	happens well Gabby Fights Back TJ that
9137s	was very very very close
9140s	um if just a you little bit more burst
9143s	healing maybe that if that F exactly
9146s	wasn't down TJ to soak that much damage
9149s	that could have easily gone the other
9151s	way oh yeah that was a ton of healing
9154s	right off the bat but needed a little
9156s	bit more juice had eight individual heal
9158s	sources needed 10 in order to secure
9161s	Victory well I needed 10 to guarantee it
9165s	but yeah you know need needed six to go
9168s	face because the break point was 20 6 um
9172s	so one over one of the five break points
9174s	which is like the most awkward amount of
9175s	Health to be on cuz they may as well be
9176s	at 30 in that instance
9180s	so but now TJ it's time time for the
9184s	nature
9186s	shotan it's time is Gabby going to be
9189s	able to achieve anything with the nature
9191s	Shaman before he may or may not die we
9194s	will see um n shame not been doing too
9197s	well at least on stream that we've seen
9199s	so far and on the other hand a lot of
9203s	players put a lot of respect on the
9204s	priest the priest has multiple ways to
9206s	go although stopping burst damage is not
9210s	the priest's like big strength right
9213s	they can AOE boards down they can heal a
9215s	bit they can do a lot of late game
9218s	Shenanigans H but if Gabby does get a
9220s	hold of you know like the put puts the
9222s	pieces together for some big Shaman
9224s	burst then a lot of the time there's not
9226s	too much the priest can actually do
9229s	about it or at least in this build
9230s	anyway so it will be pretty interesting
9233s	how this goes but we've seen time and
9235s	time again that if Shaman's like forced
9238s	to use a lot of this burn to remove
9240s	early pushes it can fizzle out a little
9242s	bit and we just saw in the in the
9244s	previous game early pushes are very
9246s	possible with this priest so let's get
9249s	to it final game everything on the line
9252s	for these players the loser goes home or
9255s	I guess stays home and the winner gets
9257s	to move on through the tournament
9267s	okay looks like photon's opening hand is
9269s	going to choose to uh sort of build for
9271s	the at least mid to late game with that
9273s	keeping of love everlasting and of
9275s	course the creation protocol and we'll
9277s	see if he goes for a forge or if he
9279s	continues the theme of nope I just want
9282s	to get the card the no clergy and he
9285s	cheered like that's how yeah that's how
9289s	big that is yeah and this is a very good
9291s	hand can curate this hand in a lot of
9294s	different ways with jazz base uh into
9297s	draw with ancestral knowledge Flow Rider
9299s	when you're
9300s	overloaded uh this totem is not going
9302s	anywhere the world is Gabby's oyster if
9304s	he loses this game I don't know what to
9307s	[Music]
9315s	think but yeah love everlasting is good
9318s	very good y just get it set up and
9320s	although it's a bit of a slow initial
9322s	turn just to get that cast it saves you
9325s	so much going forward so literally from
9327s	turn three onwards photon is going to
9329s	feel ahead of the game Halla pretty good
9333s	pick up with this spring water kind of
9335s	like the exact open you can see Gabby
9337s	respond there of like oh the exact two
9339s	cards I did not want to see this turn
9342s	but there it
9346s	is oh got a bit of Jing on the cards TJ
9350s	I like it
9359s	yep Gabby just going to keep uh building
9362s	up the resources in hand photon is able
9365s	to set up a few things himself I think
9367s	Forge creation looks pretty good now
9369s	with the fan club followup maybe can hit
9372s	a clergy as well and and choose to go
9374s	that
9378s	route the the SLE play is that good in
9380s	this one just hit Honis and slam
9382s	[Music]
9387s	it I don't hate it
9393s	honestly just just say all
9396s	in he's going to
9398s	forge is going to get the
9406s	clergy P for a coin
9411s	hey look you've got to spend money to
9412s	make money right spend a pupil make a
9418s	coin that famous
9429s	phrase trying to think what I would be
9431s	specifically looking for
9438s	here oh way to kill the holler I
9442s	suppose people has two
9463s	left overdraft going to help out a
9466s	little bit here just to progress the
9467s	turn does mean that Gabby still over
9470s	loaded for one next turn with the
9471s	followup of ancestral knowledge but does
9473s	clear off the uh at least initially the
9475s	scary minion on board but triple cleric
9479s	location
9486s	go Gabby's just eye close at that as the
9490s	clerics came marching out oh
9494s	my would you like to draw your whole
9496s	deck TJ cuz uh I think Photon would
9509s	power power cord go
9513s	again he's just going to go
9518s	creation there is coin Hidden Gem
9520s	available
9522s	however however it can only hold so many
9526s	cards in hand there was a shake of the
9528s	head from Photon there was that was
9530s	Photon just trying to like just go for a
9532s	raw heris there because yeah probably
9535s	there's not many other minions you can
9536s	find the Amon THS already in hand
9545s	yeah we're pipping
9550s	it double
9555s	pip just this is where if I was I don't
9558s	often get in this position that photons
9561s	purely because I know I can't handle
9563s	this many
9565s	cards and this many options I'm just I'm
9568s	a straightforward gamer just I'll Point
9570s	things at the face and hope my opponent
9572s	explodes
9574s	yeah got be fist pump
9577s	there I'm guessing cuz this gives
9579s	options to clear the cleric but it is
9581s	pretty expensive cuz you'd have to use
9584s	conductivity popup book with the
9587s	uh wait a second
9591s	wait what's in the there is it ancestral
9595s	knowledge what's in the pupil I'm
9597s	rubbish at this game remember you just
9599s	go could you go zapper conductivity
9603s	popup book conductivity swing
9610s	Jive if you can I think Gabby should
9613s	that's that's my answer
9615s	TJ oh no there's not enough
9618s	Mana that would be six man all
9621s	right well the good thing is with a um
9624s	huler already
9625s	gone oh no it is oh is it enough it is
9630s	enough Mana
9632s	yep nice doesn't use the first
9634s	connectivity just goes double pop you
9636s	could just swing on the okay yeah g just
9639s	raises the arms like well die
9644s	insect okay well this game escalated
9647s	very very quickly
9653s	oh there
9655s	there's but the locations are on cool
9664s	down and
9667s	now wait wait wait this is fine right
9670s	yeah just don't coin first okay yes I
9672s	was going to say yeah holy spring water
9674s	to go up to 14 coin I'm in th yeah Gabby
9676s	knows it get rid of two ragnaros and
9679s	then just say
9680s	there we go it's going to have to
9682s	do yeah I was so scared that Photon was
9685s	going to coin CU I know it's something I
9687s	would do oh yeah just coin coin it out
9689s	yeah no
9693s	problem oh who you liking
9695s	here razza looks like the
9703s	go-to I think Snake Eyes Snake Eyes
9705s	allow some things so there's still
9711s	oh no he's got zero
9715s	Mana so there's some options for Gabby
9717s	uh press end turn now press end turn
9721s	later because I don't think this Zapp is
9723s	going anywhere but face
9726s	TJ or do you think he's going to try and
9728s	snipe down manthal is that a reason
9732s	to to
9734s	trade cuz otherwise Photon gets a copy
9737s	of rag right
9740s	yeah take it back here maybe this is
9742s	this is just it does hit
9747s	okay oh no the pepper that brings back a
9752s	rag but then you can just get rid of it
9754s	again yeah it's just bring G th back
9758s	click click gone
9763s	[Music]
9771s	oh no removes it from the game d yeah
9773s	yeah yeah yeah yeah um yeah I was with
9775s	you there yeah World cleans of
9786s	evil that's a bit of a weird Choice a
9789s	weird set of choices not the choice phot
9790s	I made but the options he
9793s	had I like just doing heris
9797s	now press buttons
9802s	I
9806s	found oh maybe with the spring water
9809s	pickup wait for next
9814s	turn no oh
9817s	okay still has one manner available for
9819s	the flash so can Flash first and double
9821s	tap the uh locations I
9823s	imagine 14 doesn't feel extremely safe
9826s	versus shamman I'll be honest
9855s	X does get
9857s	contivity what was that as a choice
9860s	oh digging straight down three Treasures
9864s	yeah okay um that's definitely a
9870s	plan do have the lightning bolt as well
9873s	to clear up the Aron
9875s	th okay does not looking as disastrous
9879s	right now still not the best spot to be
9881s	in but
9885s	still snake your luck is running out
9890s	double fours some more
9892s	Honis three I didn't even see the other
9894s	one o Observer Mysteries is pretty
9902s	cool
9904s	exist Boulder fist old oh
9910s	yeah Bo how can you ignore the classic
9921s	ooh that died yeah yeah I mean you
9924s	definitely go for that
9927s	right
9930s	surely it's going to go for mix again I
9933s	think he's just going to
9935s	heal stay at full
9937s	health yeah summon a friendly M that
9939s	died gain four armor boton's realized
9942s	his game plan is now
9952s	win by
9961s	[Music]
9968s	attrition okay there's the
9975s	flash I found a
9981s	he thought he was going to be able to
9983s	flash but he had already played a
9986s	spell yeah frustration there from Gabby
9990s	little bit of
9992s	a a Miss
9996s	there wouldn't have known he would have
9998s	had the flash if he didn't use uh the
10002s	the treasure first so
10010s	it you know it's order of operations but
10013s	at the same time
10015s	like he wouldn't have had the flash
10021s	anyway so like you play gogen first
10023s	there then what do you spend the Mana on
10026s	for your free spell and
10028s	that's the draw
10037s	card quickly
10049s	is going to be able to make use of the
10051s	VIN
10053s	though stealing the health again
10056s	um what definitely one of the cards from
10060s	uh one of the taist that does have a a
10063s	large impact on the game or can have a
10065s	large impact as the card itself not just
10067s	the cards it allows you to bring cuz
10069s	some of the tourists like maybe don't
10071s	quite have that level of impact but I do
10073s	think volun is going to be pretty nice
10075s	allow Photon to be able to put forward a
10077s	little bit of a scary
10084s	board
10087s	okay last chance for Gabby next turn did
10090s	all he
10094s	could just a few spells available for
10097s	for photon
10099s	there's a lightning reflex still in the
10101s	deck for
10105s	Gabby going to spend one and then
10107s	probably going to look at how to utilize
10109s	the PIP again
10116s	right o yeah that's a the one you didn't
10120s	want to show up yeah but can gain a ton
10124s	of Health here has the double four
10127s	armor okay better
10130s	has triple four armor actually at this
10132s	point with the double
10134s	pip even
10137s	better wait a minute can you get a copy
10141s	of oh no that won't work never
10146s	mind oh not going for bot
10153s	face not looking too bad here though
10156s	yeah I don't care about the minion
10157s	anymore yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
10159s	especially if You' got um the amthal and
10161s	p uh power cord
10163s	right yeah you just synchronize you just
10166s	like well now our value is is done for
10169s	the game now at this point is just do
10171s	not
10178s	die oh he's got to go connectivity
10181s	amphibious that's first
10189s	okay
10192s	hex now just another conductivity
10195s	right oh
10197s	Jive
10202s	okay are you saying there's a chance
10206s	TJ there's no way to generate minions
10208s	there's no more pop-up
10214s	books go the
10226s	hold cuz there's still the swing of the
10228s	uh the weapon as
10231s	well double
10233s	CH that's have a hex for at least the
10236s	initial
10243s	Lal Flash and
10245s	crash going to be double crash right Oh
10249s	no just going for the one
10252s	okay yeah this is the problem isn't it
10255s	we're we're more or less looking at
10256s	gabb's full hand and Photon can just go
10260s	amthal and just go
10262s	again what can we do to get
10268s	minions azerite chunk into
10273s	Gorgonzola into cheese
10279s	these are definitely
10292s	words it's just pop
10295s	right here can bring back
10298s	Honis oh true true his pop not just way
10302s	safer yeah cuz you also bring back you
10306s	could bring back uh alad
10311s	duel says three
10314s	attack yeah pop this
10324s	safer all right how much overload is
10326s	there I don't think there's that
10329s	much almost out ofs well there still the
10332s	weapon swing as well lightning reflex
10335s	okay there pup get another jve it's
10338s	another iion storm is zap into lightning
10342s	storm okay things are at least happening
10346s	there's still obviously the crash on the
10351s	[Music]
10360s	[Music]
10366s	lab I found a
10372s	lightning reflex again okay Gabby is
10376s	definitely doing a lot of stuff this
10378s	turn
10380s	appreciate no wasn't I don't think
10383s	so oh is that that's treasure
10393s	yeah I mean gab's doing a lot with a
10396s	little here to be fair like this was a
10398s	pretty good turn all things considered
10401s	can still driive here is this
10410s	double gets the drive
10412s	down oh I mean it's better than what I
10416s	would have done I'll tell you that for
10418s	that's good of a turn yeah
10422s	yeah also hitting the deal three here
10425s	but he's going to have
10426s	pop to just clean it up so so
10431s	good and then Photon basically just says
10434s	okay do it again and no it's not going
10437s	to be the case here Gabby on the last
10439s	cards a bit of a wave goodbye fantastic
10442s	effort getting this far of course but is
10445s	going to concede to Photon and what a
10448s	last game we talked a lot about nature
10452s	Shaman but you know it's struggling but
10455s	that definitely felt like Gabby was
10456s	making a lot of things work I just think
10459s	Photon just achieved the overwhelming
10462s	power that priest currently wields in
10464s	these sort of situations so I think
10466s	Photon uh really positioned himself well
10469s	uh to defend right and those the triple
10471s	ragnaros with the Jive uh was a good
10473s	push there from Gabby but it just wasn't
10476s	enough because Photon was just ready
10477s	just had the arm and Thal lot loaded
10479s	ready to go and I think that was
10481s	probably the uh the pivot point for the
10483s	whole game
10484s	obviously yeah it really
10486s	was um I'm just surpris after all that
10490s	like Gabby still gave himself an out to
10492s	win it was still so good yes like at the
10495s	end there if that second discover from
10499s	the lightning reflexes was a
10502s	conductivity that
10505s	that's game over right like the photon
10509s	has no way to clear all the rags right
10513s	um
10515s	so but I think Photon played that
10518s	exception well understanding where the
10519s	game pivoted from all right I need to
10522s	win by just overwhelming my opponent or
10525s	killing them to I need to win by getting
10527s	my health total as high as possible
10529s	winning by attrition and make sure that
10530s	I have a board every turn so Gabby can't
10533s	just have a free turn right so and even
10536s	that was very well building up building
10538s	up on the potions to then go okay uh
10541s	forging you know into pit and then
10543s	getting the multiple Pips into the
10544s	potions and as you said then
10545s	acknowledging when to get the right
10548s	value from the potions and when not to
10550s	so yeah really well played there from
10552s	Photon and as you can see in group C now
10554s	photon is going to be moving on to that
10556s	decider match which will be coming up
10558s	soon versus gamer rvg the winner is
10561s	going to go on to join maxibon to get
10562s	out of group C and make it to tomorrow
10565s	and uh yeah I mean just that series it
10567s	was a long one uh TJ but it was a good
10569s	one as far as I'm concerned we saw a lot
10571s	of ups and downs a lot of flashy plays
10573s	and big combos but then also just that
10575s	last one which was a a true back and
10577s	forth between two fantastic players so
10580s	for me can't ask a much more from a
10583s	match of hearthstone but we are going to
10585s	go to a quick break while we set up the
10586s	next match don't go anywhere we'll be
10588s	right back
10611s	[Music]
10641s	[Music]
10668s	e
10697s	[Music]
10753s	[Music]
10787s	oh apparently we are are having some mic
10789s	issues on Dawn's side so I will take
10791s	over say thank you for that lovely
10793s	introduction Dawn um but yes we are
10796s	getting ready for some gamer rvg versus
10800s	Photon both of whom coming through the
10802s	lower bracket uh both having a rough
10805s	road to get here I think uh that was I
10807s	feel a little bit sorry for Photon
10809s	honestly having to play another series
10811s	immediately after what that one we just
10813s	saw on because that has to have taken a
10816s	lot out of photon even coming out on The
10817s	Winning Side
10820s	yeah that was quite the long series but
10823s	if anybody can do it I have faith that
10825s	Photon after what we just saw can do it
10828s	so we'll see what happens but uh gamer
10831s	has had some time to uh rest up a little
10834s	bit we'll see if that's uh going to pay
10837s	off or not yeah I do think this is a
10840s	very interesting series lined up uh this
10842s	actually I think is one of the best like
10844s	push and pull matchups in the game right
10846s	now that we're potentially seeing in the
10847s	opener with Paladin against Rogue as we
10850s	take a little bit of a closer look at
10852s	gamer rvg uh favorite card New Heights
10856s	I'm going to assume that is a favorite
10858s	card from current meta because surely
10860s	New Heights is not anyone's favorite
10862s	card of all time that sounds absurd um
10865s	but is bringing the Huff Paladin into
10868s	this one which we saw him struggle with
10870s	a little bit in the first series um but
10873s	as I think I mentioned during that
10875s	series with udor this is kind of the
10878s	deck that people have brought to this
10879s	tournament teched out to gain percentage
10883s	against Rogue specifically so I'm always
10885s	super interested in uh seeing that
10887s	matchup play out and whether they were
10889s	right to put as much Faith as they do in
10891s	this deck's ability to get on board and
10893s	stay there against
10895s	R yeah absolutely and we are going to
10897s	see it in the first game but first let's
10900s	talk about Photon uh a little bit less
10903s	known but we did just see a pretty
10906s	strong performance there bringing in
10909s	these uh overheal pain lock ramp and
10912s	infinity I think the uh kind of
10913s	interesting talking point with this one
10915s	is that uh the difference in deck lists
10919s	a little bit here from kind of everybody
10921s	else the Rogue is actually uh the kind
10924s	of more shuffling infin infinite Rogue
10929s	instead of just the kind of infinity
10931s	Rogue that we've been looking at most of
10933s	the weekend uh with these Playhouse
10935s	Giants as well as the choice to bring
10938s	the uh difference in warlock decks yeah
10943s	yeah I think the warlocks in particular
10945s	no surprise if you've been listening to
10946s	me throughout the weekend the warlocks
10948s	are the Decks that I have question marks
10949s	with uh I'm not sure what entirely made
10951s	it to air because our prediction SE
10953s	segment kind of got cut short a little
10955s	bit um in terms of how predictions being
10960s	made but I think I was saying to the
10962s	rest of you folks off camera that I was
10964s	trying to pick between gamer rvg and
10966s	Photon for my pick for this group and it
10968s	was the two warlocks that were really
10970s	giving me problems in terms of what I
10971s	wanted to do I don't mind the idea of
10974s	pain loock uh backed up by Speaker
10976s	stomper which is what Photon has gone
10978s	with right 88s plus you can't cast
10981s	spells is very effective against a lot
10983s	of the Decks that we're seeing uh
10985s	Insanity warlock Rogue um and coner
10987s	Druid is is a huge chunk of this metod
10989s	that we're seeing Overhill PRI as well
10991s	has to rely on spells to be able to
10992s	clear a board like that most of the time
10995s	it's just the problem is you have to put
10998s	yourself down to like 10 HP to get to
11000s	that point and then a lot of the time
11001s	like a druid can still just swipe you in
11003s	the face and you die kind of thing like
11004s	if you miss the speaker stomper you
11006s	explode as pain lock which really uh
11009s	worries me a lot of the time so I think
11011s	warlocks and their respective matchups
11013s	in this series is going to be one of the
11014s	big talking points for sure but I think
11017s	you're right to highlight uh photon's
11018s	difference with the Rogue as well cuz
11021s	few different theories in terms of the
11023s	player base what those extra Giants in
11025s	the the infinity Rogue do which match
11028s	ups they affect but certainly the
11030s	ability to play chap Giants super early
11033s	and then potentially rush them using
11035s	break dances in this kind of matchup can
11038s	actually weirdly help you out as a board
11040s	control tool which is not really what
11043s	you'd consider them to be
11045s	initially yeah I was going to ask how
11047s	you feel about this matchup in
11049s	particular we are getting into game
11051s	number one rvg on the Paladin and photon
11054s	with this uh Rogue does pick up a
11056s	Gaslight gatekeeper in the Moran but did
11059s	decide to keep that speaker stomper that
11060s	you were talking about as
11063s	well yeah so
11067s	uh wait can speak stomper against
11069s	Paladin we sure did did not just migan
11072s	into this that seems like an incredibly
11073s	strange
11075s	key just a tradeable on one to increase
11078s	card draw
11080s	maybe but I'd be a little surprised we
11083s	shall see especially with dig for
11085s	treasure in h i don't know if that was
11086s	mulliganed into afterwards if there's
11088s	nothing else to do on one I guess it
11089s	kind of makes
11093s	sense well we'll have to wait and find
11095s	out cuz photon's just AFK for turn one
11098s	all right we're back yeah okay trade the
11100s	stomper on one sure
11103s	yeah it did look like he had kept that
11106s	so that's why I brought it up uh but on
11109s	the other side the neo fights uh in the
11112s	Paladin you talked about how much the
11114s	Paladin is teched out nail fights are
11115s	something that a lot of players have
11116s	brought and I feel like we actually
11118s	haven't really seen a ton of the neo
11120s	fights and when we have honestly they
11122s	have just been big bodies after being
11128s	buffed yeah razor scale in hand as well
11130s	and the NEOS um are going to be useful
11133s	against this deck there is so again I
11135s	get into these arguments that the
11136s	players who play the Giants version of
11138s	this deck make
11140s	um some will say that it helps them win
11143s	the mirror because they can just play
11144s	Infinite 88s every turn I don't
11146s	necessarily buy that personally
11149s	um some people would say that it helps
11150s	them play around like near fight and
11152s	razor scale and stomper because as soon
11153s	as you get 188 in play your opponent
11156s	can't just play overcosted Tech cards
11158s	all the time right like they just have
11159s	to fight for board very aggressively
11161s	which is something I pay a little bit
11163s	more attention to I think but I think in
11165s	general my personal take on this is that
11168s	this deck just feels a little bit
11170s	bloated in comparison uh to what the the
11174s	straight up uh infinity Rogue with just
11176s	the the the small selection of minions
11177s	does but I can understand why uh the
11181s	power level of what this can do I think
11182s	is a lot more immediately apparent when
11184s	you first pick it up we playing
11188s	games
11190s	yeah and just going for the tempo tide
11193s	pull pupil
11196s	okay so wants to make sure to be able to
11199s	challenge that gold Panner as
11201s	effectively as possible but that is a
11203s	big sacrifice when you've got a a gas
11205s	light in hand because every card you
11207s	play and do not continue to amass in
11209s	your hand means less cards are getting
11211s	drawn on the turn you play that gas
11215s	gatekeeper yeah and for gamer on the
11217s	other side drawing into the second razor
11219s	scale and an audio medic there's not a
11222s	ton of options here but either the neoy
11224s	or Razer scale do stop this coining into
11227s	the
11228s	gatekeeper so just spend all the Mana
11230s	play that Razer scale and prevent the
11232s	coin being used here yeah I think the
11235s	interesting proposition as well there
11237s	was a medic kind of burned a mana and
11239s	was a little inefficient but did also
11241s	just protect your gold Panner for
11243s	another turn which was also quite
11245s	interesting considering this hand is not
11247s	the most exciting right now but I think
11250s	um having found the instrument Tech off
11252s	the drawer at the end of the turn having
11253s	mag as well I think gamer RBG will be
11255s	pretty happy with where this hand is
11262s	going oton going for the mixologist
11264s	getting a spell unfortunately still not
11267s	going to cost one but there were some
11269s	interesting options in there deal two to
11271s	all minions deal three damage for the
11273s	second choice so I could be beneficial
11276s	to start clearing some of the boards
11277s	since we're already at gamer rbg's turn
11280s	four and no Buffs have been played
11288s	yet yeah it's so frustrating even to get
11291s	instrument Tech just one turn late cuz
11294s	you can see how disruptive to this curve
11296s	it is now right like even if you play
11297s	Tech this turn then you're kind of
11299s	committing to playing painters virtue
11301s	next turn and that means you're not
11303s	spending turn five playing these three
11306s	fantastic five drop options that you
11308s	have in hand this comes up more often
11310s	now like sand castle became such a
11312s	natural fit in this deck because
11314s	sometimes the deck does just miss
11315s	something generically powerful to do on
11318s	turn five after the the weapon swings
11320s	have started coming down uh TM is kind
11323s	of it in terms of mass Tempo magatha is
11325s	a great resource play but doesn't you
11327s	know massively impact the board the turn
11329s	you play it so s Castle kind of came
11331s	into the deck and was like this is
11332s	perfect this goes exactly in the slot
11335s	where I want something else powerful to
11336s	do but when you draw all three of those
11339s	cards I just mentioned in the same hand
11340s	it can start to get a little
11344s	cluttered yeah and I was I was going to
11346s	bring up the point of from Gamer's
11348s	perspective as well taking the board the
11351s	previous turn with a double trade with
11353s	that audio medic and the razor skill I
11355s	guess there could have been a potential
11357s	thought of just still playing one of
11359s	those five drops on curve and waiting
11361s	until turn six to play painters virtue
11363s	yeah I think so uh because he already
11365s	had the board but as we saw with our
11368s	Caster Vision Photon just had the answer
11370s	of the mixologist spell to deal three to
11372s	face and do everything clear the board
11375s	but second razor scale coming down now
11377s	for gamer rvg so this coin in photon's
11380s	hand and all of these spells still
11382s	really
11384s	expensive
11386s	o no option that kills the razor scale
11389s	is kind of devastating here gamer rvg
11393s	working really hard just to keep A
11395s	disruption card in play just making the
11397s	huge swing turn as impossible as uh
11401s	possible if you excuse that awful turn
11403s	of phras uh Photon choosing to divert
11405s	here even from the gas light just to be
11407s	able to go to uh stick up lots of
11410s	options that could have dealt with the
11413s	uh the two4 razor scale this turn did
11415s	not hit any of them
11421s	yeah does Photon just want to go for the
11424s	farmand and get a minion on board
11426s	there's not a ton of
11429s	options I guess even then it's not like
11432s	you can just discover like a really
11433s	cheap one and Tempo it out here because
11435s	the razor scale prevents it it's so
11439s	irritating yeah everything just felt
11442s	really awkward there and with the coin
11445s	and prep both costing two
11448s	it's just disrupting everything in hand
11450s	yep for Photon
11453s	yep yeah so what was it like trolley
11456s	problem dehydrate lay down the law
11459s	misfire all cleared well all cleared the
11462s	razor scale at
11464s	least did not hit any of those that's uh
11467s	yeah that's a little
11472s	unfortunate well so now for gamer could
11475s	go for the painters virtu this turn but
11478s	honestly feels like could want to
11480s	protect this razor scale and just
11482s	completely try to clear this out so is
11484s	the painters virtue and a trade with the
11486s	Panner the best option here what do you
11488s	think uh gamer wants to do I think the
11491s	best possible way to protect the razor
11494s	scale is to tar in the razor scale and
11498s	then uh one Mana tar in the 4 three and
11501s	just trade the gold pan right that would
11503s	be like absolute maximum protection for
11505s	your Tech card um but I think that is
11508s	probably a little bit too old in and
11510s	gamer RBG just quite rightly I think
11512s	choosing to do something just a little
11513s	bit more aggressive which makes
11516s	sense yeah I like it especially against
11518s	the Rogue just getting on board getting
11520s	that Tempo trying to push damage and
11523s	just as you said be aggressive
11525s	especially with the uh disruption and
11529s	really not doing anything on the other
11532s	side for Photon there's really not been
11534s	any interaction at all also correction I
11537s	just completely forgot the symmetry of
11539s	Razor scale the uh the one Mana the mini
11541s	Taran would have ended up costing two
11542s	which would have made that play
11543s	impossible so it would have left the 43
11545s	kind of hanging around on board which
11546s	means yeah no way that play work out at
11550s	all does hit with the juus purchase
11554s	though and now he's just gear shifting
11556s	away his Gaslight gatekeeper that's the
11558s	point we've got to with this game and
11561s	can actually dropping everything this
11562s	everyone oh draws the other one back as
11564s	well making this a huge turn in theend
11570s	C uh can I can I see that's a skeleton
11573s	crew and uh it's the candle thing right
11576s	hidden behind the gear shift I think yes
11594s	yeah that is a massive turn from Photon
11598s	you can see the playhouse Giants are
11600s	becoming very very cheap now and both
11602s	razor scales have been dealt
11604s	with so Photon will be able to get those
11606s	down for zero pretty likely one uh typo
11609s	pupil has already been played to try and
11611s	uh fight for board against that gold pan
11613s	early but the second one is in hand uh
11616s	to start loading up potentially infinite
11618s	break dances
11620s	into so I think gamer rvg has a real
11622s	uphill battle from
11625s	here they must move quickly
11629s	yeah this has been a very slow game and
11633s	gamer has been able to get a couple of
11635s	Boards out but every time it's actually
11636s	been able to be answered which was
11638s	looking really awkward for Photon at
11640s	first but ultimately Photon able to
11644s	piece together some turns and still be
11647s	able to kind of Cobble something
11649s	together and that last turn as you
11651s	mentioned was absolutely
11654s	massive okay there is the break dance
11658s	uh this uh this Mana issue is a much
11661s	more temporary problem now with the cult
11663s	NE
11674s	fight no Sonia just yet for Photon
11680s	obviously can get this Playhouse giant
11683s	down for zero oo finds a samb box as
11689s	well so it can actually now go giant
11693s	sandbox
11696s	breakdowns which clears up his board
11698s	that's huge this treasure ain't
11701s	for the way Hearthstone works is that
11703s	the uh the game client does actually log
11705s	negative costs so when you apply a
11708s	scoundrel discount to a one Mana card it
11710s	actually costs negative two which means
11712s	it still costs zero even when near fight
11714s	is making cost one more and draws raen
11717s	to the other Playhouse giant as well oh
11720s	yes and once again where is the ETC with
11724s	a keeper strength in it would even be
11726s	playable this time no nor would it
11730s	clear you have a fraction of my power
11734s	yeah that's the TM of course taking care
11736s	of one of the issues there are many many
11739s	more issues to
11742s	come not enough Mana to play the Grim
11745s	Street Outfitter and the zilia both in
11748s	this turn for gamer rvg either can try
11751s	to put out just more taunts to make this
11753s	awkward but no he just going to give it
11756s	up and say I can't do anything about
11758s	this and Photon will take game number
11760s	one with the
11763s	Rogue very very weird game uh gamer rvgs
11767s	what Paladin draws have not been in this
11770s	tournament uh there is I I don't think
11773s	there's well actually there was the game
11774s	so he did specifically go um
11778s	instrument Tech into weapon in the first
11780s	game that we saw in the mirror right
11782s	which was a conscious choice to keep
11783s	that hand with the Leroy as well um and
11786s	just ended up getting kind of outmoded
11788s	by by Maxi in that game I believe but
11790s	then since then has kind of had these
11792s	weird peace meal awkward looking Paladin
11794s	hands um and that was so weird because
11797s	it was two Decks that are kind of
11798s	considered to have very linear game
11800s	plans right Paladin play your weapon on
11802s	four buff up your hand start playing big
11804s	minions uh and then Gaslight Rogue which
11807s	is build up your hand play a gas light
11808s	on four see if you hit the Giants or the
11810s	everything must go and then go from
11812s	there both of those decks did neither of
11815s	those things uh on photon's side much
11818s	more willingly he actually had that
11821s	route through the game available but
11822s	then just threw a tide Poole pupil out
11824s	on board to fight for Tempo against a a
11827s	gold Panner on turn two which completely
11830s	changed the outcome of the game because
11832s	all of a sudden you saw even Photon
11834s	later on gear shifting The Gaslight
11836s	gatekeeper away way um and just going
11839s	that way through with the the card draw
11840s	instead still getting to zero Mana
11842s	Giants which is something I have gained
11844s	a little bit of respect for recently I I
11846s	don't like gas like gatekeeper Clockwork
11848s	giant as a combo I haven't really
11850s	enjoyed any of the Decks that it's it's
11852s	been
11853s	in um
11854s	but it is it does become more more
11858s	apparent when you get more used to it
11860s	that's not the only way you can get
11861s	Giants down to zero right like Quick
11863s	Pick dubious purchase gear shift
11865s	suddenly you're like most of the way
11866s	there at that that point already plus
11868s	the the natural card draw that you get
11869s	at the start of turn I've just realized
11871s	been calling them Clockwork Giants this
11872s	entire time hav
11874s	I yes I'm I'm really good at doing that
11877s	I'm I'm just going to keep doing um so
11880s	yeah it's a deck that I have gained a
11882s	large amount of respect for over time
11884s	and I think Photon there just showed
11887s	some of the flexibility that you do have
11888s	available to you to uh problem solve in
11891s	interesting ways right which I think is
11893s	is generally what makes hearstone decks
11895s	interesting
11898s	yeah and I'm just excited to see the
11900s	playhouse giant being used and winning
11903s	games in a master's tour because that
11905s	was one of the few cards that I got to
11907s	reveal during the uh reveal season of
11909s	that expansion so I'm personally very
11911s	very happy about it what you just heard
11914s	there by the way dear viewers uh is a
11916s	little bit of broadcast chops where Dawn
11918s	deliberately said the real name of the
11920s	cards just in case she needed to remind
11923s	me who's been using the wrong name of
11924s	the card the entire time what the name
11926s	of the card is so uh so thank you for
11929s	that you're
11931s	welcome continue calling it Clockwork
11933s	it's I am I'm going to you can't stop
11936s	me I can't and I won't very few people
11940s	can stop me doing anything
11943s	honestly well we are going to jump into
11945s	game number two now it is the Warlock
11948s	versus the Warlock now as we mentioned
11951s	uh and you were talking about sdle
11953s	earlier that this is really interesting
11955s	because uh these warlocks are kind of
11957s	the big talking point and we are seeing
11958s	them in the mirror here not a full
11960s	mirror just a class mirror because these
11962s	are the two different uh deck lists as
11965s	gamer is on the uh Insanity Warlock and
11969s	Photon has brought that pain warlock
11971s	absolutely right yeah um and this
11975s	is this matchup has swung back and forth
11978s	we kind of have we're in a position now
11980s	where Decks that can use uh typo pupil
11984s	in the new expansion have had match up
11987s	changed enormously against other Decks
11989s	that used to exist but now or still
11992s	exist but don't use tyool pupil because
11994s	tyool pupil is such a massively swingy
11997s	card um so this matchup used to be um
12001s	fairly even if not pain loock favored
12003s	depending on who you talk to uh but
12007s	these days the ability to use early
12009s	crescendos to clear early boards and
12011s	then still have crescendos left later
12014s	because you can store them in nagas to
12016s	be able to kill kill your opponent from
12018s	10 or 15 or whatever Health total they
12019s	end up on which is very very easy I
12022s	think has made the the insanity Wallock
12024s	a lot more dangerous in this matchup and
12026s	it is a it is a razor wire thin tight
12029s	RPP that the uh the pain lock has to
12031s	walk in this matchup just navigating
12033s	between applying pressure uh and not
12036s	just not just getting immediately
12038s	detonated by the cards in gamer RV's
12044s	hand yeah speaking of gamer rg's hands
12047s	there is a thorn Veil tentacle that
12049s	could come down here clear off one of
12051s	these 1 ons um that is what we're going
12054s	to see Gamer's going to just make the
12055s	trades try to keep the board here there
12057s	is a crescendo that could come out the
12059s	next turn to buff up that craze
12061s	conductor for the following turn so very
12063s	good curve
12065s	here yeah speaking of great curves
12068s	though malefic Rook double
12072s	imprisoned the dream
12075s	[Music]
12078s	do you like flying the blood Triant as
12086s	well
12088s	yes but I am already getting
12095s	terrified yeah I do think you get
12101s	it
12103s	fragile oh okay Photon disagrees
12108s	interesting guess because of the
12110s	existence of Crescendo because of the
12113s	exist activator letter yeah I think
12116s	that's definitely it my reasoning for
12118s	wanting to have it in play is that if it
12120s	live if there's no
12121s	Crescendo then you have a tutu to clear
12124s	up one of these Minions on board next
12125s	turn whereas right now you kind of feel
12128s	obligated to send a minion that you want
12130s	to go face with into one of these three
12133s	twos or two two on
12135s	board but certainly if you just have the
12138s	read that your opponent has Crescendo
12139s	which they do have a card that they've
12140s	kept and haven't played so that is a
12142s	reasonable read to have then yeah
12144s	holding on to the the blood triamp for a
12146s	turn just does make an awful lot of
12147s	sense oh it's all damage and not the
12151s	right
12153s	way no could double treant doeses allow
12158s	the zelc deluxe to be played here
12160s	correct so that could be something it
12162s	does feel like it's kind of going all in
12165s	and as you said earlier right setting
12168s	setting your own health to 10 or sub
12172s	10 not the greatest feeling sometimes
12175s	especially after you've just seen the
12177s	Imp and already won Crescendo from the
12181s	insanity
12185s	warlock oh pain loock why are you like
12191s	this so if you go Trant Triant zelc you
12193s	push six your opponent's at
12195s	21 they play their on curve play and
12198s	take three damage they're at 18 do you
12201s	have 18 you do not you have 15 yeah so
12206s	it wouldn't even set up lethal they they
12208s	they'd still just basically be allowed
12209s	to play craze conductor and then you'd
12211s	end up having to trade into their stuff
12213s	anyway which feels kind of
12221s	miserable phon did not look impressed
12223s	there with uh his hand
12227s	the her is upon
12248s	us the other CRA conductor being picked
12251s	up does mean that even if photon is able
12253s	to find a way to clear
12255s	this just refills the board
12259s	again
12262s	yeah little awkward where this attack
12265s	goes is an interesting proposition
12268s	trading is a little better against
12270s	zelc uh sending face would mean that
12273s	your opponent couldn't play uh Symphony
12276s	into six AOE on curve because they would
12279s	just
12284s	die so I think that's a very real debate
12287s	gamer had there about face or trade
12289s	obviously we pass the threshold either
12291s	way where molten giant considerations
12293s	are a thing molten Giants would be in
12295s	play now if they were
12297s	around
12303s	yeah this is just one of the the
12306s	downsides sometimes to playing the pain
12309s	lock is that you have these awkward
12311s	hands where you've done all this damage
12312s	to yourself and as you said earlier
12315s	sometimes your opponent can just kind of
12316s	capitalize I on that yep kill you from
12319s	this bit of
12334s	damage I guess actually on the board
12337s	just going back to the previous turn
12338s	we'll see if this fracking hits lethal
12341s	first of course it does in pick we're
12344s	playing Insanity warlock of course we
12345s	hit cresendo yeah but go back to the
12347s	previous I'm not even sure if the trade
12349s	even plays around
12351s	ziliax cuz you'd kind of be in the same
12353s	position of like okay they'd be able to
12355s	eat an extra 3 three but you'd still
12356s	have a two two on the board and it would
12357s	have put two damage already um so yeah I
12360s	don't know small details but still uh I
12363s	think gamer RBG was in a very very
12364s	comfortable position no matter what
12366s	happened there uh even if the crescendo
12370s	hadn't been found off the cracking I
12371s	think there are very few drawers that
12374s	get um Photon out bit from there it
12377s	would have had to have been probably
12378s	like Runner Runner infernal giant or
12382s	giant infernal and even then I think um
12387s	gamer would have had outs to just put
12388s	Photon to two to prevent the the tap
12391s	from happening anyway and make that kind
12392s	of situation impossible to achieve so
12395s	yeah I think uh gamer start just too
12397s	good like four or five um ramp cards for
12400s	T cards coming out in the the opening
12402s	hand in the first 10 cards of the deck
12404s	just kind of too much to deal with uh
12407s	when Photon kind of only Drew self
12410s	damage and apart from that initial Board
12412s	of uh 56 plus 244s that were made didn't
12416s	actually draw any payoff for that uh
12418s	self damage didn't draw molten Giant and
12420s	then wasn't able to recover with
12421s	infernal afterwards so uh that's that
12424s	that is my fear with pain lock in a
12426s	nutshell it's such a fragile
12429s	deck that you can argue like okay but
12431s	you know I'm Photon I'm one of the best
12433s	players in the world I'll just play this
12435s	deck better than other pain lock players
12437s	play it and then that'll give me the
12438s	small edges to to walk this razor wire
12441s	that I need to walk but you are also up
12443s	against the best players in the world on
12445s	the other side and that's not normally
12447s	who you're playing against on ladder at
12448s	the same time so I think they get more
12450s	efficient at at punishing those windows
12453s	that pain lock leave open as well so
12455s	it's a scary deck for me I think warlock
12457s	in general was a scary class to bring
12459s	for me but hey I guess good news for
12460s	warlock enjoyers is that the the Warlock
12462s	had to be Victorious on one side in that
12464s	match up
12466s	yes it did well for our priest enjoyers
12470s	we're going to have the overheal priest
12472s	versus uh Photon Druid up next and this
12476s	is uh going to be an interesting matchup
12479s	I feel like but how how do you like to
12481s	look at this matchup or what are the uh
12483s	the important things that we need to
12484s	know about this so the direct answer is
12487s	yes I do just like to look at this
12489s	matchup in general this is probably uh
12492s	one of my favorite matchups in the game
12494s	I won't say favorite matchup in the game
12497s	um I think we saw you know an awesome
12499s	example in the previous series with
12501s	Gabby where it can turn into an absolute
12505s	late game grindfest with both players
12507s	just having seven minions in play the
12508s	entire time and just random legendaries
12510s	flying around left right and center and
12512s	just you know proper randin wi Rin style
12516s	era random Hearthstone and but at the
12518s	same time you do have the opportunity as
12521s	priest to just go full aggro and gamer
12523s	rvg has a fairly aggro looking hand here
12526s	uh with the heartbreaker danis in Play
12529s	Already doesn't have any immediate ways
12532s	to heal that up though like sometimes
12535s	the dream curve against Druid is just
12536s	location on one gem on two coin hyanis
12540s	for the full
12540s	[Music]
12542s	heal yeah that's the absolute dream but
12544s	Gamer rvg does kind of have lower Tempo
12547s	stuff into the Hadis but does have um
12550s	clergy and funnel cake available now if
12553s	this bird watching hits the other clergy
12556s	then you're in
12559s	business because you just instantly buff
12561s	the clergy and take the value
12566s	trade is it going to be the
12570s	clergy seems like it probably isn't I
12573s	feel like he likely would have taken it
12576s	already unless there is something else
12577s	that he wants more huler probably I
12581s	think if you saw a huler here you might
12583s	just consider giving up your clergy and
12585s	taking the Haller yeah I think that's
12586s	it's very
12590s	possible it
12593s	is but will never
12605s	know Photon just going to coin the
12609s	ramp so was a little surprised to learn
12611s	when I first looked this up like how uh
12614s	how low a win rate play that report as
12616s	as stats using gift for for ramp with
12619s	three
12620s	Mana any any polar stats that you find
12622s	on it seems to report that it's just
12624s	significantly worse than the other fors
12626s	of ramp which you know I I would I would
12628s	expect it to be the worst one but
12630s	perhaps not by as much as it
12635s	is but still any ramp better than no
12638s	ramp I think uh
12642s	agreed this is uh really
12646s	good setup I feel like by gamer rvg here
12649s	even with the buff on the holler the
12652s	initial damage does mean swipe clears it
12654s	up but currently that is the highest
12657s	cost thing that has died so could just
12659s	go for rest in peace plus a heal this
12662s	turn if he uh wants to or sdle turn four
12666s	could just play that Honis and get that
12668s	Out Boy as you like to say oh the
12673s	boy yeah so gamer is so gamer knows
12676s	right you can tell from this reaction
12677s	gamer knows the wisdom that you are
12679s	supposed to just Jam this early then
12681s	rest in peace it then kill your opponent
12683s	with it and Druid kind of dies to that
12685s	very
12686s	often but the dream is that you're ahead
12689s	the first time that you play it because
12691s	you're kind of supposed to be ahead uh
12694s	you're significantly behind here so if
12696s	you just play your 4 four your opponent
12698s	value trades it and then they just play
12700s	more minions the next turn the Hadis
12703s	that you res the next turn actually
12704s	doesn't do very much against the board
12706s	that you're expecting them to have so
12709s	yeah as much as I've been banging the
12710s	drum about jamming the boy on four in
12712s	every game that we've been watching I do
12715s	think this makes
12716s	sense yeah I like this a lot as
12725s	well
12727s	now no additional Dragon to Discount
12731s	toy and delayed even more if
12738s	okay just take all five I mean
12744s	[Music]
12749s	sure
12756s	o I mean it's a much better hadanas turn
12758s	this
12760s	turn it but it does make life very
12763s	awkward like the immediate turn of hadan
12765s	flash heel if you then sniper 32 is
12767s	fantastic uh the problem is the followup
12770s	that you have next turn Which is less
12774s	exciting uh
12777s	because if this 32 h is alive it's even
12780s	worse CU this 32 can attack you in the
12782s	face and now suddenly you just don't
12784s	have a overheal target for the holy
12786s	Spring Water you'd have to trade into
12788s	the 3-2 first with the
12790s	hadanas so it gets a little bit awkward
12792s	either way at least at that point you
12794s	can then Pop Copy some thing with pit
12798s	but it's all just a little too awkward I
12800s	think if you are the Overhill priest in
12802s	this
12805s	situation needs some resource generation
12807s	very soon I
12809s	think yeah that is the one thing that
12812s	gamer seems to be missing out on right
12814s	now and the the other awkward thing for
12817s	Photon was the the health break point
12820s	there with the full heal on that Honis
12823s	meant that there was no option of uh
12826s	inating into the FI and trading both and
12828s	killing the hadanas that would have
12829s	lived at one Health so y sure also
12832s	another awkward
12834s	point so gamer here has to decide
12837s	whether to start with the Thrive or
12840s	whether he's just going to commit to the
12842s	holy Spring Water pit line
12845s	instead looks like he's doing it this
12847s	way he is just committing to the
12851s	L yep
12858s	you see how quickly this damage ramps up
12859s	when you draw this thing early against
12861s	priest they really just struggle to kill
12864s	[Music]
12868s	it yeah
12871s	okay against the Druid right what did I
12874s	say sorry against the priest oh okay so
12877s	I was like really confused for a second
12882s	mhm yeah and especially after seeing uh
12885s	no answer for the previous turn when
12887s	there was already something on the board
12888s	as well uh that could have traded yep
12892s	just means like okay well they couldn't
12894s	kill it last turn I don't think they can
12896s	have a followup to kill it this turn
12897s	either so just full
12900s	send and you also so you know obviously
12903s	the immediately apparent thing about
12905s	this is you're just sticking a big
12906s	minion that wins the game because it
12908s	pushes ludicrous amounts of damage you
12910s	also have to think about what resources
12912s	this is sucking away from your opponent
12914s	right like the injured huler a few turns
12915s	ago a a trog on like turn six or
12918s	whatever it was that's that's 16 damage
12920s	you're not taking later if this game
12922s	resolves all the way down to like an
12924s	Arenal back and forth uh value off right
12927s	that's just huge burst that you remove
12929s	from your opponent by making them shoot
12931s	it to remove some of your key minions
12933s	same thing if they end up just having to
12935s	throw swipes to kill hadanas that's not
12937s	coming down with like massive zero Mana
12938s	spell damage from Marin later in the
12940s	game and ending you that
12943s	way yeah so now at this point with no
12946s	answer for the Honis Photon just and to
12950s	go for some draw dig through the deck a
12951s	little bit and try to put as much on the
12953s	board as possible to hope to uh soak up
12955s	some of those Honis
12960s	hits yeah just going to go for resources
12963s	this makes
12966s	sense don't know if we saw power Cod
12968s	synchronize as an option there but that
12970s	was a little awkward my mind kind of
12972s	leap to it immediately but you would end
12974s	up power cord syncing the pip just to
12976s	Juke two more healing spells but you
12978s	wouldn't play any of them this turn uh
12980s	which would then mean that you know this
12982s	board kind of Trades through the board
12984s	that you already have uh and it's all
12986s	kind of for nothing in
12990s	here so yeah going for resources with
12992s	minions is a big deal oh the Marin
12996s	though is so
12998s	huge can just go fi and doom kin this
13002s	turn just to have access to 10 natural
13004s	Mana next turn to be able to go Marin
13006s	and wand and that's probably just going
13009s	to be too much power for gamer rvg to
13011s	deal
13012s	with
13015s	with
13019s	yeah got to be D th right yeah this
13022s	makes no
13033s	sense okay
13037s	I mean I think that's kind of the only
13039s	card that wins in this
13043s	spot yeah Aran th a fantastic
13047s	pickup yep can Aran th the 48 and the 34
13051s	trade into the 4 two it means if your
13054s	opponent does go Marin this turn they
13056s	have to
13058s	hit off the wand or your Aran Thor just
13064s	lives it's the only player
13067s	yeah also find some absolute dream outs
13069s	here even if it's just one legendary
13072s	find a tear you find a Sonia something
13075s	like that there are so many utterly
13077s	broken random legendaries that you can
13088s	find this game
13090s	considering like copy on the th right
13093s	it's never better
13097s	okay
13099s	world the
13109s	EV aulin aulin okay I mean that's just a
13112s	card you play in your deck fine
13116s	yeah
13118s	rela all right Photon does need to hit
13122s	here there's lots of hits left in the
13125s	deck Photon hasn't drawn any of them
13131s	yet
13133s	okay so the hits still exist but Photon
13136s	still has to find
13138s	[Music]
13144s	them
13147s	no over to you
13154s	Tru oh
13157s	alalon The Observer Cru Captain Laura
13162s	scarus awward yeah I think it's just
13165s	scarus cuz they're the
13166s	biggest yeah but it does mean this
13170s	arth's living and I don't think gamer
13172s	rvg was necessarily expecting this
13174s	outcome going into this
13176s	turn power cord synchronized but not
13179s	enough Mana to
13183s	play kind of filthy not enough heal
13188s	procs if you had a funnel cake here you
13190s	could like play a hauler copy the hauler
13193s	with the amthal even a location or a gem
13196s	right you could start to look at
13198s	clearing this
13199s	board it's just not there the
13213s	gameer yeah gamer had the better early
13218s	game but this has gotten really awkward
13220s	and out of hand a doom kin for the six
13224s	manat taon not the greatest not the
13227s	one what if it's power for the mini
13232s	Drake cuz then if you play the mini
13234s	Drake you have five Mana remaining you
13237s	draw a spell you hit funnel
13239s	cake and then you can still get two
13241s	injured hallers into play obviously
13244s	before you've summoned the six drop
13246s	tauns you still have the coffee
13247s	available to
13250s	you I don't like that's a that's
13252s	desperation out kind of thinking but my
13255s	mentality is in a desperation out kind
13257s	of situation right now like you know
13260s	they have the other scenarios in their
13261s	hand right now right that can that can
13263s	buff these minions and trade this board
13266s	down right feels like gamer kind of did
13269s	a a halfway
13272s	play what to do
13279s	I was really surprised not to see the
13280s	power uh the power cord
13294s	there there's only one Dragon left in
13297s	the
13298s	de cool big
13304s	F it's going to innovate the
13307s	scenarios take some trades can drop the
13309s	trog at the end of all of this I think
13311s	you take the safety trades probably okay
13314s	no just going to rip it first yeah I
13316s	guess a lot of the time this allows you
13317s	to kill two minions instead of one
13319s	whereas the other way around that
13320s	doesn't happen it didn't happen this
13322s	time either though so I think Halla goes
13325s	and amthor stays weirdly yeah
13333s	okay uh
13338s	okay holler fan club does clear a couple
13342s	of things but really not the together in
13351s	harmony quite enough
13353s	still yeah it's only one heal right so
13356s	you know even if you got the hallers in
13357s	play and copied them yeah you're only
13360s	getting one activation off one of them
13362s	with the hero power
13367s	it's not good
13368s	enough need some uh some weirdo
13371s	legendary
13375s	outs just synchronize the amond th and
13378s	try
13379s	again yep or create more
13382s	taunts but I feel like it's probably
13385s	just going to be remove a couple of
13386s	minions at this point should be uh you
13388s	snipe the Tor and either the 58 or the
13392s	73 and
13394s	then I get
13397s	yeah it doesn't work right you have to
13400s	take the highest attack
13401s	stuff I wanted to be optimistic and sort
13404s	of leave the lower Health stuff lying
13406s	around so maybe you can huler clear them
13408s	on the following turn but you are just
13410s	going to die if you try and do
13411s	that okay a
13414s	popar I think swipes are just lethal
13416s	though yeah they
13418s	are they don't even need spell damage
13421s	nope just enough to get there with the
13423s	bodies on the board so that does mean
13424s	that photon is going to take it up two
13426s	to
13430s	one as we wait for these animations oh
13433s	that happen don't you
13436s	worry I wasn't worried they were just
13440s	slowly
13442s	happening fair Fairly straightforward
13444s	game there in the end for uh for Photon
13447s	I do think that uh marand draw right in
13449s	time like Mar and such a key card for
13451s	Ram Druids in general and it just set up
13455s	the perfect turn with the uh was it Doom
13458s	kin and F to be able to clear up the
13460s	Hadis which is representing all the
13462s	pressure up until that point uh and then
13464s	that perfectly ramped into the uh the
13466s	Marin wand and honestly considering the
13469s	makeup of the rest of the deck at that
13470s	point it was a pretty unimpactful wand
13473s	like yes three scenarios came out of it
13476s	in the end um but that that was far from
13479s	worst case scenarios as our friend Linda
13481s	would say every single broadcast at
13483s	length uh cuz it's the one joke they
13485s	know um because you know there was still
13488s	an En in the deck still a yog in the
13489s	deck still a zelc in the de like
13491s	basically all the big hitters were still
13492s	in the deck at that point uh I think
13494s	sleeps were still in there as well which
13496s	when you gain a zero Mana sleep is just
13498s	plus nine Mana to your turn it's
13499s	basically a second enr at that point uh
13502s	which is disgusting so yeah really uh
13506s	just shows how powerful Marin can be
13509s	even when it misses in spots like this
13511s	just because of the the pure resources
13512s	that it generates
13514s	[Music]
13516s	yeah well now looking at the next game
13519s	that we're going to have Photon one more
13521s	deck left
13524s	subtle it's going to be that
13529s	warlock it sure is yeah warlock
13533s	remaining to win you s so infused yeah I
13536s	was just sort of glancing over the the
13538s	matchups we've got Overhill priest uh
13540s	which is a matchup I have played a huge
13543s	amount of from the priest side very
13545s	little from the Warlock side uh and then
13547s	the Paladin as well which I think
13549s	warlock against Paladin Photon will feel
13551s	okay um pain lock is one of those decks
13554s	where if it hits it just does too much
13556s	too quickly for huff Paladin you know
13558s	Huff Paladin will be considered an aggro
13560s	deck by some people but it kind of afks
13563s	until turn four or five a lot of the
13565s	time um and by that point uh pain loock
13568s	just has you know 20 power in play if
13570s	they've done their thing so uh you can
13572s	get run over pretty effectively I think
13574s	obviously the razor scales and stuff can
13577s	come into play in that situation to just
13579s	stop molten Giants costing zero if need
13582s	be but that's kind of desperation
13584s	stations at that point uh priest on the
13586s	other hand I think is a tricky tricky
13589s	match up for pain to navigate because as
13591s	long as they hit Haller or uh a card
13594s	that discovers Haller bird watching um
13597s	or uh mine's gone BL I'm not doing well
13601s	with the card names today what's the
13602s	forge Discover Card called creation
13604s	protocol came to me um as long as you
13607s	can get that hauler in hand early enough
13609s	then that first board that they make
13611s	which is usually you know 32s four fours
13614s	and maybe a 56 you can usually clean up
13616s	pretty effectively and they don't really
13619s	have a card in their deck that removes
13622s	the 37 after you clear the board with it
13625s	which makes it really really hard for
13626s	them to redevelop they need uh Sheriff
13628s	Barrel brim basically explicitly at that
13631s	point um so yeah I think this matchup
13634s	Photon will feel a lot more comfortable
13636s	in in trying to get his win
13638s	in yeah so it does look like it's going
13640s	to be that warlock versus the
13643s	Paladin I I wonder if gamer just wants
13646s	to get this over with just queue it up
13649s	this is it potentially last game if he
13652s	gets the win might feel pretty
13654s	comfortable going into game five he
13656s	loses he's out done this is this deider
13660s	match so that's just going to be it for
13662s	the tournament oh boy but you know what
13665s	I see I see a painter's virtue in hand I
13668s	don't know if Gamer's going to want to
13669s	keep it but I think this is the first
13672s	game of the Paladin we've seen where
13673s	it's actually been in hand before turn
13677s	five gamer just admiring the art I like
13680s	wow I've never seen this card before
13682s	look it's like a hammer with a paper
13683s	Rush on the end wow it's the first time
13685s	I've laid eyes on this card in my
13690s	[Music]
13691s	lifetime it really is it's the first
13693s	time we've laid eyes on it seems
13702s	like another reason by the way I I I
13705s	really like the Paladin brings to this
13707s	tournament I've talked about it a lot as
13708s	it you know being able to play NE fights
13710s	and Stompers and razor scales and
13712s	Customs enforcers whatever you want uh
13715s	it's also so good against your opponents
13717s	who have those cards in their deck right
13719s	like nothing makes you look stupider
13721s	than playing a speaker stomper against
13723s	handbuff Paladin because it's the only
13725s	play you have in your hand because you
13726s	put it in your deck right and then just
13728s	the the 28 minion 2 weapon deck just
13731s	laughs at you and smashes you in the
13732s	face so if you're expecting lots of
13735s	speaker stomper style Tech in the
13736s	tournament hamb Paladin does get quite a
13738s	lot better by extension of
13747s	that there's another thing we did not
13749s	see previously is that infernal coming
13752s	into hand now for Photon uh that would
13754s	have been quite helpful in that previous
13757s	game with the oh in the second one too
13760s	uh with this deck but
13765s	no damage no things to actually really
13768s	deal damage all of the payoffs nothing
13771s	to deal
13780s	damage Photon now left in a position I
13783s	would imagine trying to decide between
13784s	tra on coin
13787s	tap coin tap of course very useful in
13790s	dealing two extra damage to you that
13791s	turn you could theoretically get those
13793s	Horrors down to to guaranteed zero next
13796s	turn if you wanted
13804s	[Music]
13809s	to awkward
13813s	hands I do like scale here though cuz
13816s	one of the big plays that you are scared
13817s	of would be
13820s	um the 56 into imprisoned Horrors right
13823s	this would prevent the imprisoned
13825s	Horrors coming down for zero makes a lot
13827s	of sense
13832s	yeah and
13834s	still not really a ton going on in this
13836s	hand for Photon does pick up the geode
13840s	so could just geode and coin out
13845s	get a couple of Minions on board or
13848s	could just play one of
13851s	the uh no it doesn't quite work right
13853s	like the coin coin doesn't gain you Mana
13855s	here cuz the coin cost
13857s	two oh right
13860s	yeah you could just go for
13863s	geode but it doesn't play on curve
13868s	no can also just trolley problem discard
13871s	the coin which I think is the highest
13872s	Tempo thing you can do this turn yeah
13874s	this makes sense just solve the problem
13876s	right it's like I okay I get it your
13878s	Tech card worked yes I do want to play
13880s	my zero Mana cards you're right and I'll
13882s	just waste my turn dealing with it I
13884s	think that makes sense to
13887s	me but gamer rvg is in this game right
13890s	this is what I was talking about where
13892s	at the point Gamer does this as the
13895s	Paladin sometimes the Warlock is playing
13897s	molten Giants against you and photon is
13901s	so far away from doing that 16 Health in
13904s	fact away from doing
13907s	that
13911s	yeah well second party fiend does mean
13914s	that uh can go quite a bit wider on
13918s	board
13921s	here both imprison Horrors annoying uh
13925s	one Mana off being able to have a pretty
13926s	huge uh flame jugler turn there as well
13929s	I think Photon will have to take
13933s	it about as good as it's going to get at
13936s	the for the time being we're almost in
13938s	the position where like the play that
13941s	you absolutely never see anymore was was
13944s	starting to look like the best line
13945s	there used to be a thing where before I
13947s	think before mass production was
13949s	released and found its way into the deck
13951s	that sometimes you actually played
13952s	infernal to damage yourself down to 15
13955s	and then played a blood Triant
13956s	afterwards so that you went down to 10
13958s	and then you could play your blood uh
13960s	your molten Giants because you didn't
13961s	have as much consistent self damage but
13964s	now with with like party fiend and with
13966s	mass production in the deck or whatever
13968s	you damage yourself so quickly that that
13970s	never ever ever happens and we almost
13972s	got into a position where it was the
13974s	fastest way that Photon could deal
13976s	damage to
13977s	himself yeah luckily did pick up uh
13981s	couple of those damage
13987s	cards couple more here Spirit Bomb does
13991s	help answer a little bit of this board
13993s	now from gamer
13998s	oh this is a scary turn
14001s	though you could
14004s	theoretically just you know fire off
14006s	with Spirit Bomb flame imp flame juggler
14009s	molten
14011s	giant but you'd just be saying okay if
14014s	you have any charge in your hand you win
14017s	the game which is a scary Prospect for
14023s	sure the alternative involves just not
14026s	getting your big cards on the board
14027s	which feels like losing
14032s	anyway man this is a tough call
14047s	yeah yeah going
14050s	in oh sorry I was counting M like it was
14053s	still uh still 10 Health it's just going
14055s	to be lethal now for gamer it is yeah
14057s	this is exactly what I was talking about
14059s	so much self damage that the Leroy is
14061s	going to end
14067s	you gamer rvg doing less damage in order
14071s	to uh to do the polite thing as some
14074s	weirdos to think is the case by showing
14076s	your your opponent the lethal
14078s	immediately as if those two seconds
14080s	really matter an awful lot but hey it is
14083s	squared up the series 2
14085s	now and we are going down to what I was
14088s	going to imagine uh was be the Crocs of
14091s	this series and suddenly I think the
14093s	momentum of the series has swung
14094s	enormously because I think that was the
14096s	scarier matchup for gamer
14098s	rvg now you know get back to me in 5
14101s	minutes or so when gamer rvg is on turn
14103s	five and he's not seen a hauler uh or
14105s	any Discover Cards in his opening hand
14107s	as priest but I would certainly feel
14109s	more comfortable playing this match up
14110s	as the Overhill priest
14112s	person I agree with you as well yeah I I
14115s	I think that's a much better matchup
14117s	than what we just
14123s	saw just look in
14126s	[Music]
14129s	here all right gamer has the bird
14134s	watching
14136s	version yeah which is a big deal because
14138s	it does mean two extra copies of those
14140s	cards that can help find you a nice
14142s	early turn three four fiveish injured
14145s	huler depending on what your hand
14147s	does but photon is going to be needing a
14149s	much more explosive hand than we've seen
14151s	him have so far we've seen one game of
14154s	pain lock where it was all self damage
14156s	no payoff we've seen one game of pain
14158s	lock where it was all payoff and not
14160s	enough self damage you know we saw
14162s	double infernal molten giant flame
14164s	juggler and just not that the damage
14166s	just came in too slowly really uh with
14168s	gamer rvg disrupting a little bit with
14170s	the razor scale as well photon's going
14172s	to want some real early 4 four is coming
14175s	out here like you know that that malefic
14177s	Rook double 44 for zero curve is what
14179s	we're going to be looking for for Photon
14181s	and just cross fingers and say that the
14184s	uh the huler is not there on the other
14186s	side otherwise this is this is a tough
14188s	match
14190s	up yeah I guess there could be the uh
14194s	potential of depending on what's found
14198s	of uh some damage stuff and then Sheriff
14201s	Barrel brim to answer something from
14203s	Gamer's side but uh we're seeing a
14205s	little bit of damage here with the flame
14207s	imp that is being kept a geod coming
14209s	into hand and mass production as well so
14212s	finding the self damage needs the payoff
14214s	now yeah good hand good hand for Photon
14218s	to be able to start powering through
14220s	some early
14223s	pressure should point out as well that
14226s	uh Photon does play the uh double
14229s	speaker stomper in his pain lock pretty
14231s	common these days but uh no surprise to
14233s	see that in there from on but again
14235s	that's a card that is a luxury right if
14238s	you if you get the early start with the
14240s	malefic rook and the four fours coming
14241s	down if you get an early molten giant
14243s	down anything along those lines then the
14245s	speaker stomper can lock out the game
14247s	for you and prevent that injured Haller
14250s	AOE coming back the other way but if you
14252s	don't get that early pressure it's all
14254s	for
14258s	nothing gamer did do a what looked like
14261s	a full
14262s	Mulligan yeah yeah it was a full Mo and
14265s	this flame imp is so huge cuz this flame
14269s	imp means that gamer canot go clergy on
14271s	one power cord sink on two which I think
14274s	would just about end up ending the game
14276s	with uh with this funnel cake in
14280s	hand is it too slow to try to do it next
14283s	turn H I think you do still do it next
14286s	turn but the turn slower that it ends up
14288s	being could make all the difference for
14291s	for photon's chances
14298s	it also does mean that coin has to be
14300s	used which uh means no coin Heartbreaker
14303s	hos
14306s	yep it does now die on board because uh
14309s	Photon had the followup for the two drop
14310s	as well which might just put gamer off a
14313s	little
14317s	bit which play do you like more
14320s	subtle I like the two five in play right
14322s	now just contest the board buy yourself
14324s	a little bit of
14328s	time the big fear here is trolley
14330s	problem I think if you make this play
14332s	and your opponent has trolley you're
14334s	kind of
14335s	doomed but I think against most other
14337s	hands this buys you so much time because
14340s	your opponent just has to double trade
14341s	in like you're seeing
14345s	yeah is starting to find some of the
14347s	payoff cards flame juggler whor
14358s	yeah need some
14360s	juice
14369s	okay technically and out but it doesn't
14372s	really do anything next turn anyway even
14375s	if you hit the
14379s	Haller the weird spot where funnel cake
14381s	doesn't actually gain you any Mana next
14384s	turn anyway anyway cuz it wouldn't
14385s	overheal the the injured holer
14393s	mhm well we were talking about the
14395s	better chances with this priest stack
14397s	into this but this has been a very good
14401s	game so far very good start for
14403s	Photon yeah yeah photon's drawers have
14406s	lined up in the way where he's got the
14408s	good draw in the matchup where he needed
14411s	a good draw to win
14416s	Gamer rvg does find the hall
14425s	though and I think might now be
14427s	considering whether to just throw a two5
14429s	t into play yeah it does just throw
14431s	essentially a minion that must be
14435s	killed uh it's a speed
14442s	bump this honestly could just be sick
14445s	six I think
14447s	so yeah just drop the
14449s	infernal for a body so many
14456s	possibilities it's scary
14461s	though so how much damage would you set
14463s	up you put 66 in play you then have to
14465s	trade your 66 with the 25 you go face
14469s	for seven opponents at
14471s	20 and you have uh uh 19 in play okay
14476s	just for end and say that yeah fine fine
14478s	fine fine
14480s	okay so that does leave the extra minion
14483s	up for the funnel
14493s	cake yeah I guess with no location no
14496s	Hidden Gem in play this does actually
14498s	just make sense you really do not have
14499s	to respect this clergy all that much at
14501s	all I think this is very very good
14503s	recognition from photon
14505s	I need to you can see the worst case
14506s	scenario is okay it's an extra minion
14508s	there for my opponent to have funnel
14520s	cake but he ends up having to use the
14522s	funnel kick on the opposing side of the
14524s	board anyway does not draw the card but
14525s	has now stabilized does get the three
14529s	procs but bad news for
14532s	gamer oh oh oh that speaker stomper is
14535s	so close to ending the
14538s	game can't get it down alongside the
14541s	giant by one
14552s	man oh man that so
14555s	close does Photon just want to play the
14557s	giant anyways I think so I think so
14563s	yeah this is kind of what you were
14565s	talking about earlier right just getting
14566s	the big bodies down on board following
14568s	it up with the speaker stomper
14577s	yep but it does mean like Spirit Bomb
14581s	trade play the giant you don't actually
14584s	have lethal set up on board next
14587s	turn so your speaker stomper might not
14590s	necessarily be pushing lethal depending
14592s	on what happens here
14595s	gamer rvg saying okay is that is that it
14598s	that is
14599s	it but what kind of turn can gamer rvg
14602s	have here to stop that speaker stomper
14604s	ending the name ending the
14608s	game yeah I also really like that
14610s	decision by Photon as well I think it it
14613s	really speaks to that same play pattern
14615s	that you were talking about in the
14617s	previous turn right of just recognizing
14620s	there's no location there's no Hidden
14622s	Gem even Honis coming down with one
14625s	spell here okay sure is there even
14628s	anything that can end the game I can
14630s	just follow up with an infernal next
14632s	turn and I can set up for a two- turn
14634s	lethal instead or the speaker stomper
14636s	can come down but either way it doesn't
14638s	seem likely that uh Photon would even be
14641s	dead
14642s	here it just that was a a good
14649s	setup and I think this bird
14652s	watching means that no matter what
14655s	happens oh they both hit the hole okay
14658s	that's funny I don't think I've ever
14659s	actually seen uh both copies of bird
14662s	watching just hit the same
14663s	minion and just make them utterly
14675s	massive the sheriff Barrel brim being
14678s	picked up that I mentioned earlier
14680s	there's so many options for Photon yeah
14683s	I think barel Bri ends up being a little
14685s	quote unquote safer than the stomper in
14687s	the end like if you played stomper and
14689s	went face you could still theoretically
14692s	as gamer rvg play two one Mana spells to
14695s	overheal clear the four four and then
14697s	your seven attack guy finishes off the
14699s	rest of the molten Giant and you live uh
14702s	you could also use location for example
14704s	as you just saw JN there which wouldn't
14705s	end up being a
14707s	spell so yeah I think the uh the barrel
14710s	brim off the top actually ends up being
14711s	the dream scenario for sure
14719s	this is a great spot from gamer to drop
14721s	the power
14722s	cord and we are technically
14731s	alive and now now we've got some Arman
14735s	THS in
14739s	play geode can still hit Symphony which
14742s	can still represent lethal
14749s	yeah or the tradeable with speaker
14752s	stomper if he really wants to go that
14754s	route for one less Mana but not
14757s	necessary for that specific out that's
14762s	fair the problem is like as soon as you
14764s	hit your out for miss your out for
14766s	lethal you've actually then got to start
14768s	thinking defensively right you have to
14770s	think okay do I actually have to now
14771s	spend my turn playing infernal so I
14773s	don't just randomly die yeah this is the
14776s	nature of pain
14779s	lock man was it I go back to that last
14781s	turn like Barrel brim versus the speaker
14785s	stomper so stomper they can play
14788s	location they can play gem both of those
14791s	things are unaffected and heal up the uh
14793s	the huler that would still be in play
14795s	man when I look at the outcome of this
14797s	of like what power sink did he in this
14800s	spot all this hurts
14811s	okay going to go for the Charlie problem
14814s	and
14817s	infernal but that alond can come down
14820s	clear both of these up and set up for
14823s	the next turn for the
14826s	Honis with 2 Hp in a dream gamer rvg R
14832s	aero's potential
14843s	of evil as soon as he can stabilize he
14846s	has the fan club and hero power to be
14848s	able to pull out of range of any of the
14849s	symphony
14853s	outs both players of course get uh
14856s	access back to the jail next turn oh the
14859s	Resa as
14860s	[Music]
14862s	well Symphony have has to be SYM
14866s	okay it's a trolley
14871s	problem lots of options to draw cards
14874s	though
14877s	mhm matter of which way Photon wants to
14881s	do it if he's going to go for that
14885s	out I feel like you just either go for
14887s	the tap or the geode here just 15 if
14890s	you're looking at
14892s	Honis uh 15 doesn't matter versus 13
14896s	Health still
14897s	playable still
14901s	five oh no
14915s	disaster desperately trying to get a big
14918s	minion into play here as well can do it
14920s	with the flame juggler takes a lot of
14922s	damage this turn problem is the jail is
14925s	just waking up on the other side anyway
14927s	popar as
14931s	well next turn I was not even thinking
14935s	about popar but yeah the 2 Hp yeah would
14938s	have left the uh the lowest Target
14940s	anyway and that means now the board is
14942s	going in with a jail and a Haller waking
14947s	up and now fan club can just start to
14950s	pull Gaber rvg out of range
14967s	small minions in play are very
14968s	beneficial here as well because they
14971s	will help you to play around popart as
14973s	an
14975s	out so every small winion here is worth
14977s	it wased weight in gold the huler will
14980s	get healed up above where your hero is
14983s	going to so won't end up being a factor
14985s	so I for multiple reasons like getting
14987s	the clergy in play
14990s	here I don't think there's any Merit to
14992s	going for the lethal with hadanas so I
14994s	like that we have entertained that
14996s	thought process oh oh that's so
15000s	good plus eight yes
15003s	please only spring water just a face
15006s	puts them out of range of the potential
15009s	Symphony popar one sludge
15016s	so there's now one three in play as well
15018s	which definitely tanks one of the
15021s	sludges symphony popart and sludges
15024s	don't end up being playable all in the
15025s	same turn not enough Mana to do
15032s	that no jail activation but the molten
15035s	giant does wake up again this turn and
15037s	no locations active for gamer rvg on the
15040s	following turn either
15044s	oh suddenly out of nowhere game is
15046s	looking like a big
15050s	favorite gamer rvg just drew two Mana
15053s	heal eight off the top and it ended the
15055s	game
15061s	like the top decks this game have been
15064s	absolutely nutty yes they
15068s	have this entire game has been nutty
15070s	this has been a really fantastic game
15076s	hey going for the
15078s	popar trolley discards one of the
15081s	barrels for free very very nice rarely
15083s	seen as an interaction these days but
15085s	kind of one of the uh I think intended
15087s	designs of the
15090s	pack gets to drop another imprisoned
15093s	horror on the board another body to
15096s	potentially soak up hadana's damage but
15098s	also to threaten damage of his
15102s	own and now Resa can trade and then rest
15105s	in peace res is
15108s	Resa yeah which will swing this entire
15111s	board State I don't believe has a molten
15114s	Giant died yet for Photon I don't think
15116s	so right it's just been uh put in jail
15118s	the entire
15120s	time so I don't think the res brings
15123s	back yeah just a four four yeah perfect
15126s	that's a full
15128s	clear just heal the face and I think
15132s	that is game and gamer RV agrees the
15134s	fist pump I think he's feeling
15136s	comfortable in this game for the first
15138s	time perhaps in this series for the
15141s	first
15145s	time gets his arthor back next turn as
15148s	well which is huge by the way waking up
15150s	from the
15151s	jail even if there was kind of some
15154s	stabilization turn
15156s	here which they can be has the jail for
15159s	the 88 has Symphony to uh to block or to
15162s	clear the 26
15165s	but I think the amthor waking up is just
15167s	going to represent too
15168s	much gamer rvg also getting both of his
15171s	locations back next
15185s	turn well
15189s	a
15191s	yeah oh okay
15194s	excuse
15197s	me is this still just playing around
15200s	Honis oh this is fine yeah cuz of course
15203s	the arthor has already used the remove
15205s	option right so actually bigs in play
15206s	makes a lot of
15208s	sense so you can actually just go to
15210s	three and just ask Priest The Immortal
15213s	question of can you do one damage which
15215s	no no they cannot at any point in
15220s	history thriving the shadows for power
15223s	cord synchronize is lethal here if there
15225s	is one remaining in the deck which I
15227s	believe there
15230s	is no there isn't no there isn't one was
15233s	used on the clergy on early and then one
15236s	was used on the uh Sheriff right that is
15238s	not there yes that's an
15242s	noia into magador oh my God it's all
15246s	over in so oh my gosh G gamer just
15250s	jumped out of his seat and ran off
15252s	screen he
15254s	oh he's back he is
15255s	celebrating absolutely
15258s	celebrating as he should that was an
15261s	incredibly well played game to close out
15264s	the
15265s	series what an utterly ludicrous game of
15270s	hearthstone that ended up being I mean I
15272s	I told you priest was favored the entire
15274s	time I don't know what we were worried
15275s	about come on um I think Photon will be
15279s	having nightmares over and I don't know
15282s	it still feels kind of kind of correct
15284s	me right because Sheriff gets punished
15286s	by power cord synchronize of which there
15288s	is only one left in the deck right and
15290s	it's a discoverable out yes cuz they
15292s	play Thrive but they only play one copy
15294s	of Thrive as well if you just go for the
15296s	speaker stomper there's two copies of
15298s	location there's two copies of gem and
15300s	the gem are discoverable outs as well
15303s	potentially although you'd have to spend
15305s	a lot of mana on the spell to discover
15307s	the gem in the first place um but I
15309s	think that does end up regardless of how
15311s	you look at it that is the game def in
15313s	moment right the choice to go for
15315s	Sheriff barbri uh over the the speaker
15318s	stomper on that crucial term where he
15320s	was trying to set up the lethal because
15322s	since that moment it just became a very
15324s	very slow downward spiral of just losing
15326s	the grip on the game as pain lock yeah
15330s	and as you said very very good
15332s	recognition by gamer to make a copy of
15335s	it and use it to his own Advantage oh I
15338s	love that celebrating at the end but
15340s	here we go the bracket for Group C
15344s	as we see gamer rvg take that decider
15346s	match and close that out to go ahead and
15350s	join Maxi bon in the top eight
15355s	tomorrow yeah let's go really really
15358s	strong group overall I think um great
15360s	mix of styles like we've had some some
15363s	Mega grindy games like even that so that
15365s	game that we just watched of priest
15367s	versus warlock was definitely not on the
15368s	table to be that grindy but ended up
15370s	being incredibly grindy but we also saw
15373s	uh was was a gabby series with Overhill
15374s	priest against Druid just going
15376s	basically all the way to the last
15377s	threats in the deck and then we've also
15379s	seen some some combo deck showdowns the
15382s	one thing we haven't necessarily seen is
15383s	just any board aggro so far but there's
15386s	an awful lot of death Knights to come in
15388s	the uh the remaining group that we still
15390s	have to cover so I think we'll uh we'll
15392s	get that chalked off as well before the
15393s	end of the day so I think great variety
15396s	really exciting group overall a couple
15398s	of absolute Banger games thrown in there
15400s	as well uh and gamer rvg making it out
15403s	which means I am now three for three on
15405s	group predictions throughout the uh the
15407s	weekend so far so give myself a little
15409s	pat on the back for
15411s	that that's right well there is still an
15414s	entire group left to go as you mentioned
15417s	so still a ton more action to go here at
15421s	the casting desk today so don't go
15423s	anywhere we'll have more Hearthstone
15424s	action for you right after this
15430s	[Music]
15459s	[Music]
15463s	e
15486s	[Music]
15515s	[Music]
15542s	[Music]
15571s	[Music]
15598s	[Music]
15609s	hello everybody and welcome back to the
15611s	Hearthstone Masters Tour summer Cham
15613s	Championship my name is TJ I'm joined by
15614s	the one the
15616s	only Neil orend Bon Neil how you doing
15620s	buddy I hope I'm the only one I'm doing
15622s	great that was exciting wasn't it two
15624s	health for about six turns or something
15626s	just didn't die gameer getting through
15629s	enjoy yeah wait no he was two health for
15632s	many turns and he did die oh okay you
15634s	were talking about gamer
15636s	rvg not Photon he was also two health
15639s	and just didn't die for very many turns
15641s	that was that one but yeah that was a
15644s	good one very cool ending to that one
15646s	and it was a rematch of the initial
15648s	match uh for that group um and gamer RBG
15652s	coming on top of both of those uh to
15654s	move on but still I would say untested
15657s	against a wider field only had to beat a
15659s	single player twice in order to move on
15660s	so curious to see how gameer RPG fares
15662s	once we get into the uh top eight uh
15666s	tomorrow but now we're heading over to
15668s	Group D the final group to resolve we
15671s	had some matches happen earlier in the
15673s	today and Ogo and anuro were the two
15676s	players that moved into that Winner's
15678s	match absolutely yeah and m smile and KT
15681s	8298 as you see there at the bottom of
15684s	the bracket they still get a chance to
15686s	get through of course um oo Ando is
15689s	where we're going to be I believe though
15691s	TJ um oo we we we're going with oo we're
15694s	not quite sure what name so if anyone
15696s	knows better please let us know we like
15698s	to get it right um and enoro has been
15701s	around quite a while been a lot of
15703s	Master's tours um but best performance
15705s	in Master's tour in 11 attempts was five
15708s	and three which he did twice so one of
15711s	those players that's not necessarily
15713s	transitioned from um ladder play into
15716s	really strong tournament play yet but
15718s	we've seen it many times before
15719s	sometimes it takes people a while to to
15722s	start playing four decks at
15724s	once yeah or it takes you know a while
15727s	for yourself to get to that level where
15731s	you're kind of passing the rest of the
15732s	field right it's in relation to the rest
15734s	of the field but um Ogo been playing
15737s	HearthStone for quite a long time
15740s	favorite card dony biscuit fav dick AGR
15742s	Hunter cool cool cool cool cool cool all
15745s	right uh wow death knight kicking things
15748s	off right off the bat uh for Ogo that
15751s	Frost
15753s	rainbow death knight uh not many uh
15756s	throughout the rest of the tournament
15757s	but we do have a few uh scattered around
15761s	uh Group D I believe there's three death
15764s	Knights out of the four players in this
15766s	group um as well as two Shaman out of
15768s	the four players in this group so above
15770s	average in terms of you know that that
15773s	different fourth deck you like to see
15776s	yeah we are seeing seven different
15778s	classes in this match um the Druid is
15781s	copied and all the others are
15783s	different yeah which is very cool um
15787s	because it's not really something we've
15789s	seen throughout the rest of the
15790s	tournament I mean the the decks have
15792s	differed right we've seen different
15793s	variations of Rogue we've seen different
15794s	variations of Shaman we've seen
15796s	different variations of Druid Paladin's
15798s	Paladin right um it's got a you know a
15802s	core 25 and then you just go through
15804s	your collection and whatever's left
15805s	whatever's golden uh you put in as the
15807s	last five cards in that deck it seems
15810s	sometime but yeah you mentioned in kurl
15813s	uh many Master stores in the books
15816s	absolutely yeah um have a look now
15818s	favorite C cards coin shadowstep azerite
15821s	scorp I'm noticing a theme there can't
15825s	quite put my finger on
15827s	it oh yeah it's Road cards I remember
15830s	that oh yeah you're
15834s	right our
15836s	cards Insanity warlock bant told
15841s	favorite against everything
15845s	TJ yep it is um this is the non tourist
15850s	Mage tourist version uh with the eat the
15854s	imps and that
15856s	um the I always forget the name of it
15860s	party party party there we go yep party
15863s	feiend and a cheeky little near fight
15865s	thrown in there just there there's
15866s	there's often one slot in that deck if
15867s	you take out the the random tourist that
15871s	na was your Frosty stuff and yeah uh
15874s	just decides he wants a a near fight in
15875s	there got the double
15877s	um hasn't got the double life steel
15881s	though which there's a a few slots in
15884s	that deck I feel that are that you can
15886s	play around with we've seen a lot of
15887s	players go with the Symphony of
15889s	sins um fizzle is is a cud at times
15894s	double tentacle single tentacle zero
15896s	tentacles I'm playing around with the
15898s	number of Party fiends whether it's one
15900s	or
15901s	two uh small variations to the deck
15904s	across the field um but the core is
15906s	still there and that's the the fatigue
15909s	ramp and the popar the crescendos and
15913s	the conductors and that's what we're
15915s	going to be looking towards uh as we get
15917s	into this first game yeah one of the
15920s	tough things with building this
15921s	particular deck like the first I don't
15923s	know 24 cards just put themselves in the
15926s	deck they're really obvious you need the
15928s	heart you need all the fatigue package
15931s	um you pretty much need the virtuoso
15933s	unless you're really Brave um but then
15937s	you get down to eat the Imp which isn't
15939s	that great and the problem becomes your
15941s	pupils don't have it if you do it like
15944s	as optimally as you would like you end
15945s	up with very few spells in the deck uh
15947s	but you want your pupils to have extra
15949s	crescendos extra insanities they want
15951s	them to be really good and they're not
15954s	really good unless you play some kind of
15956s	garbage spells that's why we get this
15957s	eat the Imp stuff that's why we get the
15959s	frost package um because we want to be
15962s	putting crescendos in imp oh and this is
15964s	what we want to be doing with our pupils
15967s	putting crescendos in them curious to
15969s	see if he keeps it he probably doesn't
15971s	but here we go
15973s	the people that is we always keep
15981s	obviously razzled
15983s	Dazzle yep that's my input that's your
15987s	input oh look at this he keeps the pupil
15990s	and he's rewarded instantly by getting
15992s	popart that's how you play this deck TJ
15995s	ble Dazzle again missing a conductor and
15997s	then
15998s	we're ah you can draw that on three it's
16000s	fine or four it's okay
16004s	uh one of the great things about having
16005s	the pop G Crescendo in your opener apart
16007s	from the fact that it's obviously an
16008s	incredibly powerful combo is you can go
16011s	really really crazy with your insanities
16013s	and your conductors and stuff you just
16014s	don't care you just throw them out there
16015s	you're going to heal for 8 million later
16027s	on oh that is another card that's in
16030s	there as a spell consumption
16037s	what do you think about death knight
16040s	TJ I feel like I feel like it's a good
16044s	deck yeah that's that's the end there's
16047s	a there's a lot in there right a good
16050s	deck is not a great tournament deck a
16052s	good deck is not a good necessarily a
16055s	good Conquest deck I think the deck very
16058s	consistently does what it needs to do
16061s	but it's a little bit slower to get on
16062s	the board as some others it's a little
16064s	bit slower to end the game as other
16066s	board-based
16067s	decks um it it doesn't have the hyper
16072s	longevity that some of the other board
16074s	based decks do uh like pre like priest
16077s	or
16079s	Druid um the ramp Druid ramp Dragon
16082s	Druid so it's kind of just Middle Ground
16085s	across the board but that consistency
16087s	can help a lot uh and the upside of you
16091s	know like razzled Dazzle is a lot and
16094s	they do have some finishing power maybe
16097s	not as much as other decks but one of
16099s	the cards being Mar manipulator up there
16101s	on the top that's decent decent as well
16104s	so um I think it's good i' if I had
16107s	built a lineup for this event I'd
16108s	probably would not have brought death
16109s	knight but it would have been close yeah
16113s	I think I prefer the frost list to the
16114s	double rainbow list as we're calling it
16116s	this weekend apparently um just because
16120s	of that slightly better finishing power
16122s	I do feel that all the Death Knight
16124s	builds have this they're a collection of
16127s	really powerful cards with some fairly
16129s	cute synergies but the synergies don't
16131s	quite end the game very often unless you
16134s	in the other version just go Eliza and G
16137s	Knight G Knight that that end some games
16140s	and sometimes marrow manipulator just
16141s	ends games here I feel like your your
16144s	collection of good cards isn't it's just
16147s	a little bit
16148s	Fair it is
16150s	yeah a little bit too Fair
16153s	times yeah ooh we actually have an
16156s	interesting choice here mted magma
16159s	offers a pretty clean clear on the
16162s	board um but buttons is
16167s	buffed
16168s	buff yeah so uh that's also quite an
16174s	enticing uh option available I feel like
16177s	mted magma allows you more flexibility
16180s	when it comes to the conductor turns so
16184s	like if you use multi bagman now and you
16186s	kind of clear down your board your if
16188s	conductor does come out next turn and
16191s	you're you're stuck looking at a a
16194s	couple three threes and a 34 going to be
16196s	tough or we could just horn and do both
16199s	and you are expecting that conductor
16201s	right um inor kept three cards you don't
16203s	keep many cards in this deck uh he kept
16206s	three so you're expecting one of those
16207s	three which he hasn't played yet to be
16208s	the
16210s	conductor as it happens it's not going
16212s	oh my goodness this game is
16222s	ending oh
16226s	wow it's just a little bit awkward to
16228s	organized because if you mess around for
16229s	too long here waiting one more
16232s	turn
16236s	um you end up dying but I think pop gar
16240s	cendo uh
16243s	coin play the play one of your sludges
16246s	to
16248s	clear doesn't quite clear but to tidy up
16250s	and then next turn just you've got
16252s	double imp is that
16255s	[Music]
16262s	enough and K might be trying to work out
16264s	if he can die if he plays an insanity in
16266s	like a near fight or
16268s	something just
16270s	to dodge up those pupils a little
16278s	bit decided he can't
16280s	die yep and he can
16284s	die uh not quite wait yep he can with
16288s	hero power yeah down with the ship hero
16290s	power down with the ship mted magma yeah
16292s	he took the risk and I think he had to
16294s	do that right uh because that would mean
16296s	next turn would be popar
16300s	Crescendo TI uh pupil Crescendo and then
16304s	it's pretty and then you're back up to
16306s	full your uh your crescendos are beef
16310s	you still have another Crescendo plus
16312s	the
16312s	sludges uh with the other pupil plus the
16315s	sludges in hand so I like the risk there
16317s	I don't think going with the popar on
16320s	that turn and like Crescendo plus coin
16324s	uh sludge would have been enough because
16326s	if you don't hit the 64 there would have
16327s	been a one one on board so you would hit
16330s	the 64 just lose your you lose your
16333s	popar and uh it's even a value trade cuz
16335s	it would have been a 63 versus a 26 and
16338s	so you're staring at a 61 you're gaining
16340s	Health but not that much health and then
16341s	you're back to square one and with no
16344s	way to block damage in hand no virtuoso
16346s	no harp in order to clear the board with
16348s	crescendos in the future you're taking
16350s	even more damage and yeah uh and then we
16353s	get into Mar manipulator turns so I like
16355s	the risk that en curl took there just
16356s	saying you don't have the the three
16358s	damage that you need but you did May
16362s	maybe it was um neight and chaotic
16367s	consumption then you're not ramping for
16369s	your Crescendo though you're not but
16372s	you're going to have three kendos
16374s	available to you as long as you put
16375s	three spells in there because of the two
16377s	pupils over time true true I I like the
16381s	play he made I
16384s	well yeah it was
16387s	fine it's fine but he's one zero down
16390s	and death Knight's out of there and that
16392s	was I think the weaker Link in the
16394s	lineup um I think the Shaman's a little
16397s	bit more powerful in to inco's lineup so
16401s	really good start for Ogo
16403s	there yeah Shaman surprisingly can end
16406s	games very quickly uh well death I can I
16408s	also I guess if you look at it yeah um
16411s	if we just see what happened there with
16413s	a turn five win um but Shaman can do it
16417s	as well uh with like you know early
16420s	patches and Sigil of
16422s	diving uh it can be uh fast games all
16427s	around but we're going to get into
16429s	warlock versus Druid now so K going to
16432s	throw out the insanity warlock
16434s	again and Ogo going to move to the Druid
16436s	which oo's Druid is just good old
16440s	ramp yeah absolutely one gift one take
16443s	to this guy is ramp like they're the
16445s	only two cards I even look at these days
16448s	um and it's usually one of each and it
16450s	is one of each so here we are
16453s	the the ramp you know and love that
16455s	you've played against on ladder
16457s	occasionally a lot actually probably
16460s	quite a
16463s	bit and we something super satisfying
16466s	about playing desert Nest matron that I
16469s	that I feel like just attracts a lot of
16473s	players the it is the fact that your
16477s	other good cards often cost four as well
16479s	so it's just like hey my Zer M 4 four is
16481s	just
16484s	great or you can play with the Torell
16486s	and again it only costs two and it acts
16488s	like old
16491s	innovate when you dig it out your
16495s	deck but no one does that in this deck
16497s	obviously no one does it chal but they
16501s	[Music]
16503s	should those soles any
16508s	problem
16510s	um oh
16512s	oh
16513s	yeah turn three swipe turn four Doran
16516s	from the other side is looking
16518s	terrifying
16520s	though yeah but this is just a turn one
16523s	five five basically
16527s	mhm and you have to against Druid like
16529s	you do have to push that damage it's it
16531s	is still Druid it has a lot more
16533s	defensive tools and Druids um you know
16535s	that are forefathers new
16538s	but it is still Druid you're still best
16541s	off putting your things on the board as
16542s	quickly as possible and hitting them as
16544s	hard as you can
16554s	yeah going to hero power one of these
16558s	down just in case if you draw splish BOS
16561s	W you you probably still play that I'd
16565s	imagine
16570s	uh so
16573s	I mean they didn't so that's helped that
16575s	cause but if you swipe here how does
16578s	your opponent represent
16580s	six into your
16584s	D it's not
16589s	easy and now the premere ACT me
16605s	it always gets the the heart baate going
16607s	a little bit you just can I can I just
16608s	play my D can I can I just put it on the
16612s	board there do and
16618s	about you're five and 16 to kill it with
16621s	a
16623s	truck
16629s	only yeah
16632s	one in three chance it was well
16635s	taken
16639s	yep that was massive though wasn't it he
16642s	knew what he had to do and
16646s	yeah swip's gone and suddenly there's
16649s	nine damage bearing down on
16654s	ogu I think I'm in the business of the
16656s	coin doomin here or inate whatever same
16660s	thing
16668s	uh you do that you take
16671s	nine
16673s	only I think taking nine is
16678s	fine yeah I think I agree with you
16680s	actually
16681s	right nah this is probably better cuz
16684s	then you can Doom can next turn and then
16686s	inate zelc the following
16689s	turn what are the modules actually twin
16692s	and perfect okay
16698s	yeah I you're taking nine again that's
16701s	the thing yeah doing it earlier to me
16705s	made more sense because the board's not
16707s	going to get better it's just going to
16708s	get worse yeah okay was a good good spot
16710s	for the trog and you but
16715s	yeah and warlock only needs five or six
16717s	Mana to function the do the doing
16719s	doesn't really hurt it here it's
16721s	obviously always nice to ramp and hurt
16723s	your opponent's manner but oh my
16731s	goodness and just for good
16734s	measure we're going to fizzle nearly the
16738s	perfect cards just in
16741s	case what's the way to play the
16744s	deck oh nasm's actually a good pick up
16747s	here I've been trying to explain this to
16749s	sutle for weeks honestly just get
16752s	Crescendo get a pupil put the crescendo
16754s	in the pupil play the popar do lots of
16757s	crescendos your opponent dies for some
16759s	reason he thinks that doesn't happen
16761s	every
16763s	game didn't happen last game and he had
16765s	all those things I mean k k is kind of
16767s	knew you know he'll get there he'll work
16769s	it
16770s	out yeah he'll eventually you just learn
16772s	to play him
16774s	faster eventually you just play the deck
16776s	so much that you just will pop guard to
16779s	be cheaper
16783s	just actually
16785s	just get it into your brain just get it
16791s	there all right everything's going
16793s	according to plan
16799s	here back up to nearly full
16807s	yeah super tough
16812s	um this bit obviously not super tough
16814s	but Druid has done the Druid things and
16817s	just needs to draw any of its top end
16819s	cards in the next couple of turns cuz
16820s	he's not dying
16821s	immediately for all of my excitement
16823s	about this
16838s	St he is going to need to draw that
16840s	photo I think if he's going to win this
16844s	game the deck looks at a lot of cards he
16847s	can draw it for
16848s	sure oh jeez is you double spellar swipe
16855s	here
16860s	um I don't know if you can afford that
16862s	if the if second conductor comes off the
16864s	top you're just done for I think you got
16866s	a draw what can we get from the cheer
16870s	Drake there's a sleep under the stars in
16872s	the Shar rakes quite
16875s	often so go looking for one of those
16877s	seems
16882s	good two goes at something to do next
16885s	turn probably don't die
16889s	here you want that
16898s	one time waits for no one
16903s	or that one jeez
16913s	ouch yeah and now oh this is so much
16917s	damage available now syphony of
16923s	Darkness oh my goodness oh my God the
16927s	snapshot off the top snap shot has popar
16932s	and Crescendo yeah yeah so he just
16934s	clears consumption but for good
16941s	measure chose not to clear this board
16943s	okay fine cuz he might end up facing an
16945s	anr board or something you know
16947s	disgusting next turn this board is not
16950s	threatening and these draws are just
16953s	atrocious two curated spell draws
16956s	and no sleep under the stars drawn at
16959s	all
16961s	it's really e draw this
16964s	badly
16970s	yeah the the Double Draw with a cheer
16973s	Drake just not hitting anything of use
16975s	was incredibly
16983s	nasty now you have to trade and you're
16985s	just dead yeah I think you in this order
16989s	you hit the ramp just so you have the
16990s	full 13 Mana next next turn and just
16994s	concede the fact that these are not
16996s	going to be
17000s	[Music]
17002s	buffed time waits for no
17006s	one just look at this disgusting hand in
17009s	Co has got oh my goodness it's so much
17012s	it doesn't he he look at it from an
17015s	outside View and you're like wait this
17016s	hand is not good at all yeah it doesn't
17018s	do anything right yeah it's just got a
17020s	two one uh and a removal spell what
17023s	could possibly go
17024s	wrong he says 12 Mana is
17027s	enough I want the extra plus two plus
17031s	two we'll show you what could possibly
17034s	go
17035s	on yep that'll do it this just so much
17039s	damage I
17041s	found
17044s	uh actually not that much damage 21
17057s	chose not to go for the um the other
17062s	boot yeah actually it was a lot of
17064s	damage cuz that would have been an extra
17065s	eight instead of just a four that was he
17067s	does six seven and eight if he plays the
17070s	P it's 21 from hand yeah but only needed
17073s	the
17075s	17 and that's because the snapshot does
17077s	remember the entire hand and its state
17080s	so the pupil did have one spell already
17082s	in
17085s	there you don't often get to manipulate
17088s	your you know your stap shot you just
17090s	play it when you've got a good hand and
17091s	when you need to play a 3 three but yeah
17094s	always nice to do members of the state
17095s	usually means that the pupils don't take
17096s	that much filling up when you go for
17099s	those lethal
17103s	turns yeah I think the big deal here was
17106s	probably the uh Puppet
17109s	Master uh being snip
17112s	yeah by the gem tosser that just allowed
17114s	en curl so much more room to maneuver
17118s	um and Ogo just not having enough
17120s	resources and the puppet master living
17122s	would have been more resources uh to
17125s	move this game along also the snapshot
17128s	being pretty much right off the top gave
17131s	him a lot of room uh to maneuver as
17133s	well so uh nicely done showcasing the
17138s	the high upside of that insanity Warlock
17142s	and now we're going to get to see the
17144s	Rogue uh take on the ramp Jud and and
17146s	C's Rogue is the uh
17149s	Giants uh in Infinity
17155s	infinite
17159s	broke with gas likee keeper with
17161s	everything must go uh with the gear
17164s	shift
17166s	so uh we saw it do pretty well earlier
17169s	as well um
17171s	against uh gamer
17174s	rvg uh deck seed uh with uh Photon
17178s	playing that deck you can see the the
17181s	power level of the deck you can build
17184s	bigger boards a little bit
17186s	easier um but the the the lows of the
17190s	deck are a little bit more lower than
17192s	this the standard Rogue we're seeing in
17194s	the event um but the highs are a little
17196s	higher I feel uh because you can get out
17199s	those giants very early on into the game
17201s	game and everything must go can be super
17204s	high Tempo very very early on into the
17206s	game with Gaslight
17209s	gatekeeper yeah it's it feels a lot more
17213s	straightforward as well um you know
17216s	you've still got the son stuff going on
17218s	at least some of it but just play
17221s	gatekeeper play gatekeeper woo here's an
17223s	8 bouncing back that's another 88 here's
17226s	another 88 no one can deal with 3 88
17228s	games over play another one and if that
17231s	all goes wrong you can still do your son
17233s	your grifter messing
17243s	around we are back to the Druid on the
17245s	other side I think mentioned so that's a
17248s	lot of ramp um that's a lot of ramp this
17251s	time there's also some
17259s	cards you yeah a little little bit
17262s	awkward that the gear shift
17264s	is smack dab between the Giant and the
17269s	gatekeeper cuz you want the giant to go
17271s	back
17274s	but yeah gatekeeper you'd like to
17279s	have but we're all
17281s	right you've always been a bit of a a
17284s	whiz on Druid ramping uh do you like how
17287s	this Mulligan took place
17296s	yeah I guess he don't want too much
17300s	ramp this curve is relatively smooth
17304s	okay it's not smooth anymore I was going
17306s	to say coin splish blash W into CH Drake
17309s	I would have liked to see one other form
17311s	of ramp maybe the new
17313s	heights there was also the gift that
17315s	could have been kept for
17317s	ramp but that can also be good later on
17319s	the game for extra board clear by
17321s	getting a a swipe a little bit more
17323s	flexible of a
17326s	card got a
17328s	gatekeeper Al
17330s	yep okay n major very
17335s	good yeah it's so much stats isn't
17340s	it obviously it's a little bit more
17342s	manageable now the the che Dres are only
17344s	a
17349s	two4 I like the do purchase here first
17352s	cuz then you can gatekeeper next turn
17353s	and then if you draw the everything must
17355s	goes then they're free and the Giants as
17358s	well are going to be pretty cheap 1 2 3
17362s	4 5 6 7 8
17366s	9 nine they're going to cost two one or
17370s	two yep if they cost one you can get
17373s	them down next turn might cost
17377s	one but damage is rolling in so down to
17381s	14 it this pretty much has to be a go
17384s	turn and there's
17386s	six 11 it's actually lethal represent on
17389s	board with a swipe in
17391s	hand I think we're so well adjusted to
17394s	knowing that we have to stop Druids
17396s	early that you we we we we're used to
17399s	dying to Druid with eight and nine drops
17400s	on turn seven or six or something but
17404s	Zer Dr unche could just do this yeah
17406s	here is all the stuff what I'm yapping
17411s	and the break dance with the giant
17413s	that's uh mhm quite good this is going
17416s	to be nearly a full board clear that's
17418s	like the ideal scenario with the
17419s	gatekeeper there for
17428s	enur your
17434s	turn
17436s	H it's just 31 damage on board there's a
17440s	fight that will um die to duus half the
17447s	time
17450s	dubs we already seen one dubs he may
17453s	just double trade to get rid of the four
17456s	five and then it does die to the
17462s	dubs
17466s	oh that is such a board
17475s	what do you think of um Demon Hunter
17478s	spells from the
17486s	past there not really that much of a
17488s	past for demon h no I guess there is
17492s	it's been around for four
17494s	years is it four years oh my goodness
17497s	where the I guess it was cuz we we we
17499s	you and I have cast some Hunter m in our
17502s	time yeah maybe even 5 years was it
17505s	2019 yeah was released
17509s	2019
17512s	hun all
17515s	right there you
17522s	go 28 damage plus the mic drop the mic
17526s	drop is
17527s	30 all
17529s	right in um Li's achievements as uh eth
17534s	to 12th was his best so if he wins this
17537s	next one game of hearthstone in this
17539s	Winner's match he will make his first
17540s	top
17542s	eight he looks calm he does very
17547s	calm you can play the uh the the giant
17550s	Rogue in his sleep it feels like cool
17553s	common collected whole way through just
17556s	at 13 Health on turn five just rips both
17559s	everything must goes Playhouse Giant and
17563s	the break dance full clears the board
17566s	sets up a a a counter lethal effectively
17570s	and calls it a day and now we just got
17571s	the Druid left for inur so uh has a
17575s	mirror matchup uh which those can tend
17577s	to get quite crazy if both players can
17580s	answer board for board um and it is a
17583s	mirror by the way it's 30 cards the same
17587s	30 cards the same and then we have
17588s	shaman on the side of Ogo uh if he wants
17591s	to give that a shot uh to start things
17594s	off which can do okay against Druid if
17597s	you get like this early board and just
17599s	kind of
17600s	snowball um while they're they're
17603s	attempting to ramp and just try and make
17606s	a big board
17608s	early one of the strategies for this
17610s	tournament coming in to look at was can
17613s	you target Druid because a lot of people
17615s	going to bring it and what you've just
17618s	said kind of explains why nobody seems
17620s	to have done that it's like Shaman can
17622s	do all right you know Paladin obviously
17624s	can do all right the Warlock can do all
17626s	right but there's no Decks that just
17628s	straight up destroy Druid or not enough
17630s	Decks that straight up destroy Druid
17632s	right it's just too powerful to
17637s	Target yeah it's got a lot of
17639s	flexibility is one of the big things um
17642s	long long gone are the days where ramp
17645s	Druid just didn't play minions early on
17649s	um just having ramp attach to like
17651s	Splish Splash welp
17653s	and uh you know having the gift wrap
17656s	welp as well to just be a one drop play
17658s	that can also just help the next few
17660s	minions you play it's pretty good but we
17663s	are going to get the Druid miror
17665s	here and it's going to be all about this
17667s	ramp early doomin is huge in this
17671s	matchup hitting your own ramp into
17673s	doomin is just so so
17677s	important do we keep nest maton on the
17679s	bottom hand
17682s	coin New Height Nest maton CH is that
17684s	worth the
17687s	[Music]
17691s	keep
17693s	wait you wouldn't be able to coin n
17695s	Matan into Chia you said New Heights
17698s	coin NM into New Heights
17701s	Chia so just on two you just coin New
17703s	Heights on two and then n on three oh
17706s	okay okay thought you said it the other
17708s	way around like that I don't talk very
17711s	well that's what I
17717s	meant yep he thinks it's good
17720s	enough I think it's good
17724s	enough yeah we just talked about hitting
17726s	people with Druids and best and winning
17728s	the ramp Wars this kind of does
17733s	both ooh now he draws all the nine drops
17747s	and the curb shall continue yeah oo's
17750s	going to need some ramp or something to
17753s	do here or he's going to be in a world
17754s	of trouble I think there we go we
17758s	go just in
17764s	time stay alert my children
17773s	K is playing very quickly isn't
17776s	he it's almost
17788s	KCs this could be a swipe turn
17793s	huh
17795s	yeah yeah it does it's pretty clean but
17798s	then you don't if you play Drake
17801s	well you got a couple in the deck gake
17803s	does let fi come down next
17809s	turn F on six does buy you time to do
17812s	your sleep on seven as well which is
17814s	what you really want to
17816s	do you're not going to take massive
17819s	amount of damage usually but the Minions
17822s	on board just match up so well like even
17826s	if you if you just play CH Drake here
17828s	and then you go like there's just value
17830s	trades on the other side oh okay okay
17834s	this is just oh this actually is even
17837s	cooler because you still get to play
17838s	five next turn but you're cleaning up
17840s	the trades on
17842s	board um to make it so that the FI
17846s	actually has a bigger impact next turn
17848s	the value TR just come
17851s	through sleep to turn early if you think
17853s	you're going to get there which you're
17854s	not going to because this is going to be
17855s	pretty brutal for Muro here
17868s	TJ I don't want to spend seven on a
17871s	fi I think that's a lot of Mana for a
17874s	f spell damage swipe still an
17877s	option I want to do this I want to draw
17880s	some
17881s	cards yeah
17894s	yeah now i' got the ramp want to draw
17896s	some more
17901s	cards
17903s	yeah yeah are the Druid is just pretend
17908s	your opponent has nothing when they have
17910s	everything or something like that
17913s	sun yeah it is can't confirm
17927s	H people who plan their turns I've
17928s	played this Nest maton already by now
17930s	it's just on the
17932s	board
17934s	yeah ah spell damage swipe still an
17936s	option Nest matran CH Drake draw small
17940s	CH Drake spell damage
17944s	swipe yeah he's getting to the point
17946s	where he does kind of need to clear
17947s	isn't he yeah stay alert is quite a
17952s	board swing as well I like it this also
17956s	gets that five down and cost quite a
17960s	bit yeah I wasn't a fan of it costing
17963s	seven that was so much Mana
17981s	not enough for Dorian and some um draw
17985s	but you
17992s	know splish blash
17995s	F yeah I like it and by the I also um
17999s	the order that oo did this in is very
18001s	good because it makes makes the spell
18002s	damage is on the bigger minion
18005s	so just one little small optimization uh
18008s	to point out you'd think well what if I
18010s	draw a spell that I want to play well
18012s	it's not really going to be a spell you
18014s	want to play other than swipe so you
18016s	might as well just go for the spell
18017s	damage
18019s	first then get the card draw knowing
18021s	you're going to swipe uh beyond that
18024s	so definitely a big
18027s	fan and this is a pretty good spot for
18030s	zelc the trades are clean one one of
18034s	them plus the CHR goes into the FI and
18037s	the other one goes into the splish blash
18038s	welp
18042s	I want to play sleep again I like
18043s	playing that card it's fun um but yeah
18046s	the do we want to get the new heights
18048s	played here so that way we could sleep
18050s	in a minute into more stuff we can play
18052s	loads of stuff you really want to sleep
18056s	I do really want to
18059s	sleep okay no going to get summerflower
18062s	shot out I guess once I get closer to
18063s	Marin which I believe is guaranteed oh
18066s	no it's a y okay Marin's the third one
18069s	but this still very good I
18072s	know get out of here yog come on man
18077s	we've told youing
18080s	times you're not welcome yog you're
18087s	bad
18091s	Perfection
18094s	perfe could have aard and then uh zelc
18097s	there but I think
18100s	and kurl was worried about the
18102s	possibility of the a being able to take
18104s	the the uh anr or not even take it but
18108s	just go for a full board ceric so wants
18110s	to space out his threats knowing that
18113s	he's seen a few of the
18115s	uh uh six pluss and wants to make sure
18118s	that board's a little bit protected from
18121s	uh from the Axiron
18123s	clear so I know that anr is always
18127s	without any exceptions always just more
18129s	Mana right just do it again I wonder if
18133s	inor is trying to get Dorian a anr fill
18135s	my hand it only draws like five cards
18137s	from your deck cuz your hand fills up so
18138s	quick it fills up with one Mana good
18142s	things which is kind of like a delayed
18145s	way of having a load more Mana it gains
18148s	far more than 10 or 12 Mana it gains
18149s	like a
18151s	million it's it's little the
18155s	opposite instead of getting more Mana
18157s	you have you have more Mana that you
18160s	need to
18162s	spend but the next thing you have loads
18164s	of one Mana nine
18166s	drops
18168s	yeah I don't think that'll happen I
18171s	think he'll
18183s	be Ena get more
18186s	Mana cheer Drake for a spell see what it
18189s	is
18196s	Ys first
18198s	loses I
18205s	wonder y only clears half the time on
18207s	this board but you if it misses you can
18209s	always bump in your F and hero power to
18212s	make sure it
18217s	clears what to do
18224s	okay
18225s	no scared the Y will blow it up I
18234s	guesse
18235s	oh what do we got next oh no
18242s	oh and the buff went on the anr as well
18251s	just totally
18266s	wasted meanwhile Ogo because of those
18269s	sleeps has got such um a lot going on up
18272s	there yeah I think because the yog's
18274s	gone on the other side OG can feel free
18277s	to just yog and take this F
18283s	yeah uh even an anr with the y g you can
18286s	anr
18288s	refresh yeah just it's just a lot right
18291s	I thought inur might do that himself but
18292s	he's scared of the opposing yog of
18294s	course yeah you can in our refresh yog
18298s	gem
18300s	tosser that's a
18302s	l might as well fit in an extra 32 here
18305s	as
18308s	well you think you not refreshing this
18310s	is why you always refresh you just make
18312s	so much stuff
18314s	anywhere illusion and take it
18319s	only oh
18323s	jeez the aura too is just nuts those are
18327s	some good yog spells always the risk of
18329s	yog especially if you're building a
18331s	board that yog just comes back to bite
18332s	you with the two random spells
18333s	afterwards but Ogo got double helpful
18337s	so well it's an extra six drop at the
18340s	end of the turn so just a full board and
18343s	this is uh yeah this is sober uh well
18347s	there's a m possibility here right so
18349s	anr um refresh Dorian flower child
18356s	Marin okay
18363s	yep for one yeah and then you get
18366s	innovate into yeah you got it you got
18367s	the
18368s	Mana in to draw three but what are you
18370s	even trying to draw at this point I
18373s	guess draw the legendaries you draw the
18376s	the
18378s	crown I found with Marin you unless
18381s	you've got a very specific situation
18383s	just just draw the card he'll tell you
18385s	what to do he's like a sort of a yog but
18387s	a little bit more um
18394s	civilized I was going for just
18398s	a little spell damage swipe here yeah
18401s	just get rid of some of this
18404s	stuff get rid of a lot of this stuff now
18406s	with a
18407s	gift I don't think he has time I don't
18410s	think he has
18422s	time cleans up some of it
18427s	though and can still still has the uh
18430s	Puppet Master flower child next
18434s	turn you're merely a for the there's
18440s	um very little
18442s	left here for
18449s	Ogo there you
18455s	go my port is full at this
18463s	only I could clear my own board with
18467s	stuff yeah just go
18470s	face you want to trade your minions in
18472s	so you have space anyway
18476s	yeah it's got to be close to
18479s	lethal with the gem tosser yeah and then
18481s	you can inter gem tosser as well we saw
18484s	this yesterday it's going to be the same
18485s	one today it 13 yeah it is they got
18490s	there actually spotted
18494s	two yeah I didn't think you could make
18496s	the
18498s	space you
18504s	could nicely
18508s	done now it comes down to Shaman versus
18512s	[Music]
18514s	Druid uh I prefer the Druid but it could
18516s	definitely lose the shaman could
18518s	definitely do this
18522s	Jam's got to get ahead
18526s	early it really has yeah feel like it's
18529s	the key look through
18533s	there accidentally deleted it earlier uh
18536s	but I backed enough so the shaman should
18539s	be there again my bad I was looking over
18542s	there I was like wait a second where'
18544s	the Shaman deck go oh it's gone
18551s	H and it is a I bet I bet you I broke
18553s	some tech by doing that watch we're
18555s	going to show the shamama deck list it's
18556s	going to be
18557s	empty cuz I accidentally deleted it
18562s	earlier how did you accidentally delete
18565s	a deach I have no idea I have no
18569s	idea oh but I
18575s	did I was only borrowing it for a minute
18577s	I was going to put it back yeah yeah
18580s	yeah you're learning all these excuses
18582s	for your children right it's
18585s	like
18588s	yep all right winner moves on to the top
18591s	eight
18593s	tomorrow top eight in 13
18597s	attempts Ogo never made a top
18602s	eight yeah two on knowledge in an
18605s	attempt
18611s	yeah could have gone
18613s	by uh previous name otherwise but we
18616s	have to be corrected if we're wrong
18618s	there just going with the information
18621s	that Neil
18622s	has going to say that we have but I
18624s	don't have that
18625s	information Neil has that information no
18627s	I have information relating to names
18629s	unfortunately U I no longer have access
18631s	to all of the things I sometimes used to
18633s	have look with to be able to identify
18635s	people oh I used to have access to
18638s	everything oh you didn't you just you
18639s	used to have access to me I used to have
18642s	access to things that I didn't even know
18643s	what they
18645s	were hope you didn't delete too many of
18647s	them by mistake TJ if I did I put him
18650s	back I
18653s	promise all right we got skydiving at
18655s	the top but we've got a lot going on
18657s	inu's hand with
18660s	we
18663s	[Music]
18666s	take okay the bouncer
18671s	encouraging to to wait a turn for the
18673s	skydiving obviously with the bouncer
18675s	there so it's nice and
18677s	[Music]
18680s	guaranteed nice little uh gift
18684s	growth go play so
18688s	fast it's probably seen every one of
18691s	these hands like a million times it's
18693s	not that much variance and ramp to it
18695s	yeah
18704s	that's awkward turn because you kind of
18706s	want to get the skydiving into the wave
18710s	[Music]
18711s	turn I want but at the same time if you
18713s	go skydiving
18716s	now you could bounce her next turn yeah
18720s	and then wave the turn after which is
18721s	why I want to put up B face now because
18723s	if you pop up B face now and play
18725s	skydiving then you bouncer when the one
18728s	On's are sort of vulnerable to swipe
18730s	there's two five Health minions there
18732s	even spell damage SP swipe doesn't get
18734s	rid of both of
18736s	them and then you're threatening this
18739s	big wave of Druid beating wave of
18750s	homework I think the skydiving is fine
18752s	by itself right I don't think he need
18754s	the popup book I'm just greedy stay
18755s	alert my children
18761s	tough choice nestm always happens this
18765s	is what you were talking about earlier
18766s	ah actually planting out your turn just
18768s	play The Nest matron just free yeah yeah
18771s	just he just always playing it you've
18772s	got board space you're okay yeah but
18774s	it's going to play along the curve here
18776s	so like
18782s	[Music]
18785s	this matching outfits
18789s	[Music]
18794s	not particularly good
18795s	here think just keep it simple just
18798s	remind you and sttle
18802s	yesterday go Friday but doing it for
18807s	years slowly
18809s	losing the casters that actually have
18812s	Flamingo shirts though over the over the
18815s	course
18816s	of the last
18819s	was the first Flamingo Friday believe
18821s	the first Flamingo Friday was in
18823s	2021 that sounds about right I've never
18826s	had a shirt I just had a
18829s	flamingo still
18831s	counts good it's Flamingo Friday not
18833s	Flamingo shirt
18836s	Friday good point I had a flamingo hat
18840s	as well I don't know where that
18842s	went it's a weird thing to
18845s	lose it's a weird thing to own to be
18848s	honest also so true
18852s	yeah okay putting that point of damage
18854s	into the nest M so makes these trades a
18858s	lot more Awkward or
18861s	irritating plays around swipe right if
18863s	you're getting swiped you might as well
18865s	do the damage to
18875s	something
18876s	yeah yep doesn't want the value trades
18879s	in into wave so he's just going to
18881s	double trade in even though the trades
18883s	are not
18888s	fantastic are you good at Homework TJ uh
18892s	we're not going to see it
18894s	here not yet but we would at some point
18897s	maybe matching outfits ah or
18904s	zelc totem
18906s	zelc
18908s	yeah seems good
18911s	that's a big
18912s	board that is and that ziliax is
18916s	um currently unkillable that can change
18921s	it's
18923s	changed that changed
18926s	fast o Dr spell damage swipe and F oh my
18931s	gosh this is actually nuts yeah that is
18934s	the
18938s	juice yeah with sleep in hand as well I
18940s	keep talking about sleep that's your
18942s	your reload in this deck cuz you don't
18944s	have much
18945s	reload let's see what's in the box you
18948s	pop up B the one one and you wave it's
18950s	the only play it's the only
18956s	play I can't see anything
18961s	else the only
18965s	play so I ask you again TJ you good at
18968s	homework we're getting HK only
18974s	play you can read all this
18980s	text those are those are garbage oh my
18984s	goodness why did my opponents get that
18987s	they're all
18990s	garbage the Spider-Man meme for the fin
18992s	Finley
18994s	too uh yeah yeah
18997s	superb they even looking each
19000s	other
19003s	great and now goes out of stuff and C's
19007s	got plenty of stuff
19010s	yeah like K is going to go through to
19012s	his first ever top eight to
19017s	me is a nice
19020s	progress has sort of I I had to look
19022s	through his tournament results he has
19023s	got um steadily better when he's played
19025s	tournament healthstone what to do
19036s	yeah your opponent's just waved right
19038s	that tells you that your opponent is
19040s	struggling like waved on a sort of two
19041s	versus or three versus
19043s	two yeah I think I think you know
19045s	they're out of
19049s	stuff you haven't got a lot of stuff
19051s	yourself but that second cheer right can
19053s	find stuff the mini
19067s	yeah I mean I don't even know what we're
19069s	looking for off the top here for Ogo
19073s	maybe ganth Gorgon
19077s	zoru yeah it's bit late for
19080s	[Music]
19086s	cheese it's me playing that deck right
19089s	now all that's left is the wine I
19096s	think I don't
19098s	know probably want to wait for a little
19100s	bit bigger of a board
19102s	here I guess I mean you're right but
19105s	also
19110s	look okay well these are the things he
19113s	owns
19124s	yeah this is not the most powerful of
19126s	Druid hands but all the powerful cards
19128s	are still left in the deck so you just
19129s	have to get there inter o now I want to
19133s	Doom kin because that's the one that
19134s	buys me the turn the best right yeah so
19138s	okay nothing happened this turn nothing
19140s	happened to my opponent either let's
19141s	let's I don't
19145s	know okay he going to get the Gem tosser
19147s	out there put on some pressure
19150s	only good for
19156s	smash yep you're not waving
19163s	me 7even man oh that's an 88 cuz you can
19166s	play that and then play the no it's
19170s	long can make evolve it for double
19173s	double
19176s	kills and you can get a lightning storm
19178s	clear up most of the
19180s	board you could roll for spell power
19184s	totem try and clean up the whole
19187s	board you have enough Mana to do
19190s	everything if you Gren see giant cost
19193s	two grin totem up that's four Mana no
19197s	then you wouldn't have enough Mana to a
19198s	lightning
19199s	storm such a simple
19203s	hand n not if you grow in
19206s	Totem oh you go C giant now then
19209s	lightning storm you don't have man at a
19211s	totem to try and go for the full board
19215s	clear but you can evolve your C joined
19217s	into the Rush
19224s	Minion yeah I mean that it's a world
19227s	where that's better cuz then you can
19229s	actually growth in next
19231s	turn big grow
19235s	in oh dear
19240s	yeah oh go hate to see it I mean there
19243s	was a bunch of dead draws in a row for
19245s	an Crow he was bound to draw something
19246s	big at some
19248s	point okay yeah there's
19253s	Crown um I mean just nalia I guess yeah
19258s	that's what I want here yeah it just
19260s	does things doesn't it
19270s	no Elementals are
19272s	beasts right I don't think so I was
19275s	trying to wear that out as well I don't
19276s	think they are
19279s	doomin doomin a
19282s	beast don't know no no
19288s	type dragons if that helps does that
19292s	help am I
19294s	helping nah I'm usually helping I feel
19300s	talking of helping
19304s	um this is
19310s	[Music]
19311s	awkward matching outfits and evolve is
19314s	all we've got in the world
19326s	right oh you win this
19329s	all right just goes ahead and Scoops out
19332s	of this one not much to do once that
19334s	initial board was clear and that's going
19335s	to be in curl moving on to the top eight
19339s	and oo's not
19340s	out uh and that was a fun Series so I'm
19342s	excited to see Ogo play again later uh
19345s	in that decider match um cuz does have
19348s	some uh some more of those some more fun
19351s	decks I want to see more Shaman I want I
19354s	should just play Shaman that's what I
19356s	should do should play more Shaman you
19357s	can see whatever you want to see just by
19359s	playing it yourself yeah please r car
19362s	though um you know slowly but surely
19364s	getting better and better Tournament
19365s	results absolutely solid on ladder and
19370s	yeah we're finally going to get a go on
19372s	Championship Sunday so see how he
19375s	performs then uh he did play very
19377s	quickly I don't know if that's his
19378s	normal style or if that's a sign of a
19379s	little bit of nerves it's hard to tell
19381s	when we don't see that much of him come
19383s	on he was playing
19384s	Druid you still take like every game
19388s	yeah
19390s	yeah Ogo did actually play pretty slow
19392s	with the Druid a lot of decision points
19394s	especially as you get later in the game
19395s	with Druid but yeah um all could also be
19397s	just a sign of you know that
19399s	comfortability with the the lineup uh
19402s	put which means he put in the work yes
19405s	um but yeah little little tiny little
19408s	celebration there at the end and yeah
19410s	oo's going to move on to face the winner
19411s	of KT and me
19412s	smile and uh still a chance at that top
19416s	eight uh but does have to play another
19418s	another one and that seemed like a
19420s	pretty tiring series went all the way to
19422s	five games and there were some some
19424s	longer ones there were some shorter ones
19425s	as well some turn FS uh but there were
19428s	certainly some longer ones yeah go seems
19431s	solid enough but he is up against
19433s	potentially well one of the next players
19435s	is also incredibly solid whichever one
19437s	wins through um excited to see KT play
19440s	now I know who that is um I'll let sttle
19443s	and ven explain more when they come on
19445s	but yeah looking forward to this next
19448s	match and see who goes through this
19450s	group yeah and we are going to have to
19452s	take a quick break before uh we get into
19455s	that elimination match we have two
19456s	matches left on the day before we look
19459s	forward uh to our top eight on Sunday so
19461s	don't go anywhere more hearstone action
19463s	right after this
19483s	[Music]
19510s	[Music]
19539s	[Music]
19566s	[Music]
19595s	[Music]
19622s	[Music]
19646s	hello everyone and welcome back I'm
19649s	Raven joining me is sutle we're going to
19650s	take you through the next match another
19653s	elimination match sttle as we're going
19655s	to say goodbye to another player now and
19658s	uh what what you made of the day so far
19659s	cuz it's definitely felt a bit different
19661s	to uh day
19664s	one yeah and there's a natural it's like
19667s	a natural extension of that which is
19669s	that the the lineups are kind of causing
19671s	that to an extent like this group for
19672s	example we're not seeing as much Rogue
19675s	in this group as we're seeing which
19676s	means which leaves the ban open to be
19679s	priest which then effectively removes
19681s	Rogue and priest from the the equation
19684s	completely I think Rogue priest hambu
19686s	Paladin that trifecta has kind of driven
19690s	The Narrative of a lot of the first day
19692s	and a halfish but certainly the first
19695s	day um and then
19697s	weirdly the players in this group also
19700s	like aren't bringing Huff Paladin in
19703s	general like they're kind of going off
19705s	book right yeah so you know they're the
19708s	player like the players in this group I
19710s	think would have got kind of blasted by
19713s	the the Rogue priest lineups but they
19715s	all managed to get in a group together
19716s	when no one was doing that and that
19719s	could just be good prep on their part
19720s	like scouting opponents and figuring out
19722s	what opponents will bring and
19723s	recognizing what they need to bring uh
19726s	themselves but it does mean that yeah
19728s	we're dealing with with very very
19730s	different games of pass from what we've
19731s	been seeing on on day one and taking a
19734s	look at this evolve shamer for me smile
19736s	I actually did the key cards for this
19737s	and I thought there were some really
19738s	interesting choices cuz they like the
19740s	dangerous Cliff side not I've seen this
19743s	obviously in Evol sham and again you
19745s	just want you know Minions on board but
19747s	also the L claws as well I was a little
19750s	bit surprised that not cards I'm I'm too
19751s	used to seeing in evolve Shaman Spirit
19754s	claws you mean uh spirit claws yeah
19755s	lightning CL I'm names you know what
19758s	cheese claws cheese claws yeah the old
19761s	the old noodle claws we we know we call
19763s	them call them that for years uh yeah it
19765s	makes sense right like having those
19767s	extra attacks available like basically
19769s	evolve Shaman all builds of evolve
19771s	Shaman want some way of cheating minions
19773s	into play that the opponent can't
19775s	interact with that's what the sigil is
19777s	for uh just summoning minions at the
19779s	start of your turn that you can then use
19781s	to leverage zelc or wave of nostalgia or
19783s	whatever else same with the patches
19785s	spells that go into the deck um and you
19788s	know Spirit claws location is just
19790s	another one of those
19792s	interactions yeah and uh going up
19794s	against him is going to be KT we did
19796s	take a quick glance at that warlock um
19798s	and also had a frost L Jana as the
19802s	favorite card not sure what I think
19804s	about that yeah I'm not sure what I
19805s	think about that that's maybe lowered my
19807s	opinion a little bit that's that's an
19809s	insta DQ if I've ever seen one right
19811s	there like get them get them out the
19813s	tournament yeah this is a very strange
19817s	matchup though at least I feel anyway
19819s	because of course Mile's going to be uh
19821s	building up the board and trying to
19823s	pressure out with those uh with with the
19825s	you know threatening evolve at least uh
19828s	whereas KT has ways to clear the board
19832s	but only if they've already sort of uh
19835s	already built up that fatigue right so
19837s	it's going to be really tricky one and
19839s	I'll confess in my sort of practice for
19841s	this tournament I did not specifically
19843s	run into this matchup too many times
19847s	yeah there's there's so there's a few
19848s	traps that you can fall into against um
19851s	Sharman and it's like it generally comes
19855s	down to I think relying too much on
19856s	spells to keep control of board
19859s	generally the best way to control board
19860s	against
19861s	sh is to play your own minions right so
19866s	you'll you know you'll play Druid and
19867s	you think oh maybe I should keep swipe
19868s	no no no don't keep swipe just play a
19870s	3-2 on turn one and then coin your 43
19873s	splish flash well and then play desert
19874s	Nest matron like you just have better
19877s	minions then so you can dictate and
19878s	control the board however you want
19880s	especially now that zelc is one
19884s	directional like you aren't discounting
19886s	your opponent's zelc by playing a bunch
19887s	of minions yourself um and I think it's
19889s	the same thing with warlock honestly
19891s	where if you go salesman into imp into
19894s	you know trolley problem as it used to
19895s	be a card in the deck but you know
19896s	whatever else just curve out curve Out
19899s	jam
19900s	conductor you can use those minions to
19902s	control board because those minions are
19903s	just better than the minions your
19905s	opponent has however the alternate
19908s	solution is just to do what every
19910s	Crescendo player does which is just draw
19913s	all of the crescendos all of the time
19916s	and the pupil every game but yeah it's
19919s	kind of like the uh the teacher man to
19922s	fish scenario right whereas you can
19923s	clear the board once with some AOE uh
19926s	but that Spell's gone whereas if you
19927s	build up the minions they can get a
19929s	couple of Trades each maybe and then
19930s	it's going to look quite good but yes
19932s	crescendos are available but me smile's
19935s	got you know building up to a pretty
19936s	solid start right patches now has drawn
19939s	that sigil obviously not playable this
19941s	turn but has a good enough opening to
19943s	give him options and some level of board
19946s	control
19958s	decent trades has eat the Imp now
19960s	available as well with two uh pretty low
19962s	value minions in play to be able to
19965s	cycle through look for popar look for
19967s	conductor to be able to turn these
19969s	Crescendo clears into some actual tempo
19972s	of his
19975s	own mile just kind of plugging away at
19978s	the moment okay got the parachute double
19981s	parachute okay keep them going keep them
19983s	going insta zelc no
19985s	okay honestly it feels like
19988s	um patches pirates that it just has
19992s	Shuffle infinite amounts cuz I feel like
19994s	they just never end they just they'll
19995s	just keep appear and it's crazy but
19997s	really good start though for me SM p on
19999s	the pressure and um still just about uh
20002s	good
20004s	enough yeah Domino goes down though
20007s	takes care of that initial board these
20009s	crescendos are looking a little weak
20011s	right now just cuz we haven't hit any
20013s	other fatigue cards just yet to be able
20015s	to buff them
20019s	but again some nice tools
20024s	already okay does have wave now which is
20027s	huge so definitely will want to uh
20030s	preload the sigil this turn I would
20032s	imagine and then I'm expecting to see uh
20035s	Needle Rock totem come down alongside
20037s	that see if you can get the old lethal
20039s	totem you know what lethal totem
20042s	is lethal totem
20046s	yeah this one it'll get fatigue if you
20049s	leave it no it's just it's just needle
20051s	Rock totem that lives for one turn that
20053s	you you literally never you never lose a
20056s	game of hearthstone if that
20058s	happens I will not show you my
20061s	history cuz I uh I may disprove that
20064s	theory
20071s	unfortunately yeah KT going to clean
20073s	this up it is a lot of self damage to uh
20077s	do all of this with
20078s	protection but one two fatigue into
20081s	three fatigue but still going to get the
20083s	three Pirates here to drop wave of
20084s	nostalgia on and is just looking for
20086s	some minions oh yeah free minions okay
20092s	okay how why is it Sol why is this not
20094s	locked in already why am I not being
20097s	nostalg looking for minions with more
20100s	than four Health that's what we're
20101s	looking for here except uh me smile well
20105s	that I mean that's what me smile will be
20107s	looking for we can see the reality which
20109s	is he needs minions with more than nine
20111s	Health which is a lot more
20115s	difficult okay I mean that's not bad at
20119s	all it's very threatening right like
20122s	that's the the key factor yes so
20125s	crucially this does demand both
20126s	crescendos and if it demands both
20128s	crescendos you can't put a void virtuoso
20131s	into play oh the crescendo didn't even
20133s	go in oh my bad I forgot about the coin
20137s	oh no I thought I I I kind of assumed
20141s	there was a crescendo in if I'm being
20142s	completely honest
20144s	because I literally wrote it down and
20146s	just missed coin so I'm extra shocked
20149s	cuz I thought I knew you fool yeah see
20154s	if you assume you know nothing you're
20155s	never disappointed I know Raven handing
20157s	out life lessons here there you go aim
20160s	as low as humanly possible and you can
20161s	never be
20164s	disappointed
20166s	now those
20168s	do Domino does not achieve anything
20171s	right not really no wave of nostalgia's
20174s	domino positioning was actually uh he
20181s	is KT just staring at these thinking
20184s	wait why none these cards
20191s	green okay uh did the thing just happen
20195s	sutle I think it did wave of nostalgia
20199s	into win uh that was a kind of an ABC of
20202s	how you want to want the sh evolve
20204s	shaming games to go right build up those
20206s	boards keep up the pressure hit wave of
20209s	nostalgia on an empty board that's kind
20211s	of the dream not always possible and
20213s	then yeah the minions as I said there
20215s	are a lot of whiffs there are a lot of
20218s	like nothing minions you can get from
20220s	that but all of those were very
20222s	threatening and not in their like
20224s	legendary abilities or anything but just
20226s	in their attack right even even if like
20228s	one of them lived it would likely that
20230s	the game would end so yeah really asking
20232s	KT to do it all there and he could not
20235s	manage it and me smile going up to a
20237s	very very quick one
20239s	zero yeah four yetis won the game there
20242s	right like five five five Health was The
20244s	crucial number every minion that you had
20246s	that had five Health was basically
20248s	Immortal uh like especially because the
20250s	second Crescendo didn't go in the pupil
20252s	I thought at very least if you made them
20254s	use both crescendos they had to do 9 10
20257s	damage to whatever it was and then
20259s	you're actually in a position where you
20260s	could just maybe straight up push for
20261s	lethal like draw location off the top
20263s	you got Spirit claws in the deck all
20264s	that kind of stuff just outright push
20266s	for damage but with no second Crescendo
20268s	even in there that was just doomed as
20270s	long as you hit decent mid-range size
20273s	Nostalgia
20274s	minions so the players just absolutely
20278s	diving into the next game uh s couldn't
20280s	even finish his sentence before we're in
20282s	game two here going to be on the be fair
20284s	though Raven my sentences are very long
20287s	they
20288s	sometimes you go on a bit I'm going to
20289s	be honest you um KT on the bottom though
20292s	on the death knight going to be on the
20294s	rainbow DK of course I'm just seeing if
20296s	there was anything too crazy in there um
20300s	oh yeah it's the it's all the the the
20302s	tech cards in this one of you seen this
20304s	list uh KT's list yeah yes yeah yeah I
20308s	know I looked at it yeah kind of
20310s	interesting got some cold feet in there
20312s	some mixologist as well interested to
20314s	see how this one goes yeah hard run hard
20317s	runs the cold feet which is something a
20319s	little something I've seen people
20321s	doing of course you do want to know get
20324s	a couple of you want to get redundancy
20326s	for all of the different spell scores in
20327s	there right you don't necessarily want
20328s	to just run like you know one Frost
20330s	spell one fire spell etc etc you want to
20332s	look for that little bit of redundancy
20333s	where you can um and I think
20336s	particularly cold feet uh with in terms
20339s	of expecting Rogue if you are expecting
20342s	Rogue it's the Minions that do most of
20345s	the work right like you can disrupt
20346s	spells but it is still possible if your
20350s	opponent has like one Mana pirate Sonia
20354s	glowstone gorm that they can absolutely
20357s	just swing the board back without
20358s	playing a single spell but if they can't
20360s	play A Sonia then they can't do anything
20362s	pretty much right this hand though is
20365s	very nice for KT this is a solid opening
20367s	something stuck on board uh the cheese
20370s	is in the hands but also while the
20373s	cheese gets buff uh the threads of
20376s	Despair are there right so like threads
20378s	plus ghoul can really help out on boards
20380s	like this for example um and that's
20383s	going to be a big deal because that
20385s	allows the cheese to grow it's such a
20387s	funny card when it gets drawn in
20390s	situations where it just doesn't
20392s	particularly do anything
20399s	yeah but you can just go corpsicle cold
20403s	feet stay behind but not too far behind
20406s	for a turn if you want him here but
20408s	there's also weapon yeah I was just
20409s	going to say yeah I think it's just
20411s	weaps I like
20413s	it saids then I was like what are we
20418s	talking about little bit of uh lemonade
20420s	you know that's what we need cheese and
20422s	lemonade that famous
20425s	combination but nothing else just a
20427s	block of cheese yeah yeah
20435s	yeah I think everyone's just eating a
20437s	block of cheese at some point in their
20439s	life haven't they oh yeah I was going to
20442s	say at first I was like oh i' murder a
20445s	block of cheese but then I realized it's
20446s	not that big a deal is it like everyone
20448s	I think everyone's been
20449s	there middle of the night go down to the
20451s	fridge oh want's the snack on just a
20454s	block of cheese let's go yeah I'm wrong
20458s	with
20458s	that oh gem tosser been available now
20461s	not too bad is a bit of a Tempo
20464s	play yeah me Spar diverted away from The
20468s	Craze conductor line I would imagine
20470s	just through outright fear of threads
20474s	with with the weapon and the one minion
20476s	in play already it's kind of terrifying
20479s	yeah the board just goes right there's
20480s	not even a question of if the clear
20482s	happens at that
20484s	point is this
20487s	a time for the cheese tax
20491s	here say cheese
20494s	[Music]
20496s	tax not seen the cheese tax dog
20501s	videos you've got to pay you've got to
20503s	pay the cheese
20504s	tax people in chat will back me up on
20507s	this I'll show the videos soon I fully
20510s	understand the concept just based on
20512s	that that basic uh explanation but no I
20515s	have never seen them they're worth it
20518s	but I'm just going to hold off and I
20519s	like this though cuz this is what I was
20520s	talking about earlier about the opening
20522s	curve for KT is the longer you hold on
20524s	to this like once you hit the five drops
20528s	or more the cheese become such a terror
20531s	for two Mana right you just play it and
20533s	suddenly there's massive threats on
20535s	board and a lot of a lot of opponents
20537s	can't really do much about it so I do
20538s	like uh the potential of the the big
20541s	cheese and then the cold feet uh coming
20544s	down together honestly where are we in
20545s	harstone nowadays cuz this is actual
20548s	casting the big cheese and the cold feet
20550s	um I'm I'm I'm surprising myself at this
20553s	point I'm actually kind of saying card
20555s	names so I'm going to be honest I miss
20557s	90% of what you were saying cuz I was
20559s	listening to the cheese tax song but I
20560s	did come back time did you watch I did
20564s	yeah yeah yeah it's good um I I can't
20567s	report yeah very entertaining uh but I
20569s	did come back in time for the big cheese
20571s	so yeah here we go four cost not too bad
20574s	normally Rush as well okay gets the
20577s	clean kill too yep honorable kill for
20580s	the card drawer on nostalgic
20584s	gnome love to see it this is getting
20588s	kind of huge now because res is getting
20591s	uh quite playable soon
20595s	yes is it time for a a cold feet you
20599s	think like it's it's a good time for KT
20601s	to play Cold Feet in this matchup or is
20603s	it really just you've built a board play
20606s	cold feet cuz you've got the Mana and
20608s	just use
20609s	it I think anytime you're sort of
20611s	roughly threatening lethal which you
20614s	kind of are right now you play Cold Feet
20617s	just to block the popart is the best
20619s	usage for it but so it so it's a leading
20623s	question right is like is there a good
20625s	time for it sometimes the best play with
20628s	a card in your deck is just to ignore
20630s	that it's there right cuz you know you
20632s	might just not develop this 32 because
20634s	you're just trying to get usage out of
20635s	this cold feet that you put in your deck
20637s	sometimes it probably is uh better to
20639s	accept that it's just kind of a bad Tech
20641s	card for this matchup and just get on
20643s	with
20645s	it is the crescendo of course still
20648s	sitting there on the left in mis's hand
20650s	so this board can get dealt
20653s	with it's going to cost him
20657s	though and it won't cost him cheese
20659s	it'll cost him
20667s	Health me SM a bit uh nothing too
20670s	threatening in the hand does have access
20672s	to some card draw but KT can kind of
20674s	just go again
20679s	could and also these corpsicle if these
20682s	corpsicle going to start getting woven
20683s	into turns it's going to start being a
20685s	problem right cuz it's damage that can't
20688s	be mitigated right like me can clear
20690s	boards and can you know blah blah blah
20693s	whatever but like the corpsicle just
20694s	chipping away one after the other H
20697s	becomes a little bit frustrating to deal
20699s	with incredibly uh aggressive Resa which
20703s	I'm fully on board with and uh then KT
20706s	just also said saying you know what no
20708s	popar for you this turn because uh I'm
20710s	representing lethal potentially over the
20712s	next couple of
20717s	turns yeah one uh one cops could draw
20720s	off from a good time here as well in
20722s	terms of lethal self although the harp
20724s	will have something to say about that
20725s	now yeah harp is huge that is the
20728s	healing that will be available even
20729s	without the uh the pop guard being
20731s	playable
20739s	oh that's made this honestly the cold
20741s	feet has made this turn kind of rubbish
20747s	right uh I mean was it better if you
20750s	could play 31 ones not really right I
20753s	was more talking about the the pupil
20755s	potentially get the pupil down for some
20757s	options and then could actually kill it
20759s	to draw cards right sure O
20762s	Okay some rasle dazzlin three nice
20765s	chunky minions four if you're including
20767s	the
20769s	body again and get
20775s	feated I'm surprised you didn't say uh
20779s	footsies out foot seed
20782s	no no no Hearthstone doesn't have foot
20785s	seed this game's all neutral skips
20788s	actually the foots foot seed doesn't
20790s	matter it's all just people out trying
20791s	to out neutral skip each
20793s	other yes fgc words
20798s	agreed you started it I didn't know I
20802s	you're supposed to talk about and use
20803s	phrases I know specifically not the ones
20806s	I don't okay I know what neutral is I
20809s	just don't know what the skipping part
20810s	is so you know you know Lily right where
20812s	you can just do ex ex Condor dive and
20814s	you're just like you're just safe on
20816s	block you can just go across the entire
20818s	screen I've done that many times yes
20819s	that that's a neutral skip that's what
20821s	that means oh okay okay okay I
20824s	understand now thank you for the lesson
20826s	I'm sure many people in chat something
20827s	new as well
20835s	mhm I was going to say I thought that
20838s	for a second it looked like that cob
20839s	skull was aimed at a minion I was like
20841s	do not upset me K that's to go to face
20844s	don't you
20845s	dare is this going to be uh pretty funny
20848s	though because it can like juice the
20849s	pupil on its own right yeah yeah yeah
20855s	true all right rendo number two got the
20859s	virtuoso as well to help this out but
20862s	the big deal is no it's just Le oh wait
20865s	how
20866s	much
20868s	Tapo yeah I didn't even look never mind
20871s	I was going to say no pop guard for the
20873s	heal but he doesn't need it what am I
20874s	talking about me smile takes game two I
20877s	just didn't respect the uh the gem
20879s	tosser for some reason I just can't
20880s	count so yeah me SM going enough to a
20882s	quick two lead um and I feel like uh KT
20886s	might be a bit frustrated with that one
20888s	because that looked like you know it was
20890s	one of those ones where give me one more
20891s	turn and it's kind of in the bag yeah
20894s	yeah I mean I think that's fair but also
20897s	at the same time like you have to point
20899s	some fingers at those cold feet right
20901s	like they didn't I mean that's a weird
20902s	sentence um but you have to because they
20905s	just ended up doing absolutely nothing
20907s	they they sat they sat in hand just for
20910s	turns where they could have potentially
20912s	been you know more aggressive cards that
20913s	could have played out and been more
20914s	pressure and then yeah theoretic
20917s	basically we blocked some popar with it
20919s	um for the later turns but as misar then
20922s	demonstrated even if the popar was being
20924s	blocked on those turns he just ends up
20926s	winning the game anyway because the pop
20927s	C guard just never ended up being needed
20929s	for the entire game to to get the lethal
20930s	anyway so kind of underwhelming looking
20933s	Tech choices uh for the matchup that was
20935s	played although obviously they might
20937s	have their spot to shine in others yeah
20939s	I think it was further like uh you know
20941s	infored by the fact that drawing one
20943s	sure you get you know you can like you
20946s	said kind of block a dodgy turn out but
20948s	when you draw two when you're running
20949s	out of cards that's when you know you're
20951s	in pain a little bit right it's just a
20953s	little bit you know you've going to feel
20955s	that's just touch awkward doesn't mean
20957s	we are going to game three oh you want
20960s	to talk about foot Seas raver this is it
20963s	Street Fighter 2 Shoto V shto pure
20965s	footsies all mind games super turbo
20968s	style Rose versus Rose Alpha crouching
20970s	strong nothing else Death Knight Death
20973s	Knight come
20974s	on of all the classes at the moment for
20977s	you to pop off about you know in an fgc
20981s	term I didn't think it was going to be
20983s	the death knight mirror St I'll be
20985s	honest I was expecting literally any
20987s	other class so where I've gone with this
20989s	bit right is that footsies is playing
20992s	yetis and running them into each other
20994s	that's that's that's the narrative that
20996s	I've gone with here you see so that's
20998s	where We've Ended up
21001s	interesting I feel like it could you
21003s	could actually also say the the uh like
21006s	pain lock
21007s	or even Insanity mirror right cuz you're
21010s	both trying to get get close to lethal
21012s	but
21013s	not cuz you're messing with your own
21015s	health like that's a recent one yeah you
21018s	take one step forward they press like
21020s	crouching medium kick to try and block
21021s	you but actually you were one pixel I.E
21024s	one Health out of range and then you
21026s	just and then you whiff punish them and
21028s	delete their entire health bar and the
21030s	the classic foot is the freeze Mage the
21033s	freeze Mage mirror from a yes yeah yeah
21036s	know that definitely is FES here though
21039s	as uh we check out The Mulligans for KT
21042s	not too bad at all me smile uh oh not
21045s	going to keep elizer okay I'm normally
21048s	an
21048s	elizer Keeper in the me when I've been
21052s	jamming a lot of that night I'm very
21054s	down on Eliza as a card uh Eliza and
21058s	Horizon's Edge the location I'm pretty
21060s	negative on both of them as cards
21063s	honestly um and it might be a very
21065s	self-fulfilling thing because it's just
21067s	a thing I've started doing where anytime
21069s	those cards get played I just replace
21070s	them with like a mediumsized four Mana
21074s	minion instead of what actually happened
21077s	um which tends to look more effective
21080s	most of the time cuz Eliza Eliza's a big
21083s	Tempo loss for like a turn or two after
21085s	you play it right cuz it's so small and
21087s	easy to kill that your opponent can like
21088s	swing back against it but obviously it
21090s	catches up over time with with ghou
21092s	Knight and all that kind of stuff
21095s	but yeah go on Horizon's Edge yeah it's
21099s	kind of just like bad pyro blast if you
21101s	think about it and it only cost four
21103s	uhhuh yeah yeah well there you go how
21105s	much more selling do you need on a card
21107s	it's a four Mana pyro blast if not
21109s	better quite a lot actually do know but
21113s	do you know do you know what else is a
21114s	is a do you know a one Mana pyro
21118s	blast
21119s	uh are you going to say Rune of darkness
21124s	no I'm going to say any minion that you
21125s	play on turn one and it just
21127s	keeps hitting your opponent you know
21129s	like this is this is what wait a minute
21132s	if I load up your death knight deck is
21134s	it going to be minus Eliza minus two
21137s	Horizon's Edge and then just three One
21140s	Drops randomly in there just like wait a
21143s	minute what yes absolutely okay okay
21148s	fair I mean look if that's how you feel
21149s	fair enough
21152s	yeah like mining casualties is basically
21155s	pyro blast right we can all agree with
21156s	that
21158s	oh yeah but that's two Mana it's a whole
21161s	extra Mana than planned yeah
21164s	true this this going to be an
21166s	interesting one though cuz both players
21167s	have the razzled dazzlers available it's
21170s	just how they get to it and how powerful
21172s	they are because thread suddenly needs a
21174s	little bit more work if you're going
21176s	against you know again four or five
21178s	drops on razzledazzler H sorry going
21180s	going against I meant the account amount
21183s	of minions apologies I'm getting
21184s	confused with a shaman now but um yeah
21187s	if you're going against like a a bulky
21189s	board it's not quite it's a little bit
21191s	more difficult with threads to clear it
21193s	up mhm see now this would have done
21196s	double the damage if AA was
21200s	there think about
21202s	that true oh God these cold feet just
21205s	make me sad every time I see them why
21208s	there's no coin wrestle D in there yeah
21212s	although the quartz site is looking
21214s	quite nice yeah yeah for for sure well
21217s	actually no because the quartz site's
21219s	already connected the other way so it
21220s	ends up doing absolutely nothing so
21223s	you're going to have to go muled magma
21225s	instead here I would imagine do you not
21228s	just equip the quartz site anyway and
21229s	just say there's only one more
21232s	swing yeah that's probably Fair yeah
21234s	yeah why
21240s	not Razzle dazle but the Razzle is going
21243s	to get you okay smallish minions but I
21247s	think still big
21250s	[Music]
21261s	enough yeah this is
21264s	problematic and there's not even the
21266s	threads to even discuss if it's easy to
21268s	clear or not so it's a slight
21274s	issue just got outfut this game yeah
21278s	seamstress can
21280s	kill like seamstress and then drink one
21287s	drop I know seems just drink
21292s	drink kills off two of
21297s	them there only it's uh one drink left
21300s	right I think oh sorry sorry is it one
21303s	oh apologies apologies I thought there
21304s	was I thought there was two left uh
21306s	obiously with the coin as well but yeah
21309s	well that is uh coin hero Pirates going
21311s	to have to do the job then that's fine
21314s	yeah coin hero power seems
21316s	fine and now you actually do get to
21318s	attack next turn with the court site I
21321s	think you're absolutely right with the
21322s	Call of just getting that in Play
21325s	preemptively It's potion time now
21333s	though deal three I'm guessing was
21336s	picked
21343s	oh deal three draw a card and pupil has
21345s	that in it
21347s	now
21349s	pyro pyro blast if only there was one
21352s	more Mana this game would be
21360s	over one those solves any problem okay
21366s	teach build up the board taking the time
21368s	for the one drop hero prob not going to
21370s	rush the tide pool out because it's not
21372s	really going to change anything right
21374s	may as well have a bit more board
21376s	presence seamstress
21380s	again okay it's just Razzle right I was
21384s	going to say is it time to just say I'm
21385s	getting a Rush Minion oh yeah might be
21388s	or three or three
21391s	actually it's only one it's two copies
21395s	so three minions in total I think yeah
21405s	okay let me just do some quick maths yep
21408s	it appears to be lethal KT fights back
21411s	in the death KN mirror and um I do feel
21414s	the mirror does go like that quite often
21416s	whoever gets ahead normally stays there
21420s	unless there's some kind of all in play
21422s	and then the the defender has a like
21424s	threads and a big board clear cuz
21426s	outside of that you are just scrapping
21428s	for the board most of the time and the
21430s	difference between getting a a razzled
21432s	dazzler off swinging the quart site
21434s	first uh is huge as we saw right like
21438s	the board presence but basically KT was
21440s	winning the weapon swing really pushed
21442s	him out as well with' been able to swing
21443s	that a weapon back from me smile just
21445s	never quite got there yeah yeah and I do
21448s	owe cold feet a little bit of an apology
21451s	it did sort of um control the tempo of
21453s	who got to razzled Dazzle right it it
21455s	stopped me smile from going coin razzled
21458s	dazle first which KT was would then
21462s	struggle to respond to really even with
21463s	the massive Health lead um so cold feed
21466s	did actually get some work done there in
21467s	that position but uh comes off the back
21470s	of just the stronger curve opening into
21472s	the the first quartsite Crusher uh with
21474s	death knight and this is kind of the way
21476s	that a lot of mirrors go right is both
21478s	decks trying to do very similar things
21479s	the person that gets to do them first is
21481s	generally in an extremely good position
21483s	because the opponent's deck can't do
21485s	anything buried to come back against it
21488s	they're just trying to do the same thing
21489s	but a little bit slower um but still KT
21491s	very pleased I'm sure to uh to get the
21493s	win on the board is now going to move
21494s	over to the
21497s	Druid yes I'm just looking at just to
21500s	reminding myself exactly what's in the
21502s	list cuz honestly we said it at the
21504s	start of the day but that's what's been
21506s	really fun is everyone's not on the same
21509s	30 for these decks and I find it so much
21512s	fun that I do have like I don't just
21514s	look at the list and go oh uh you know
21516s	ramp J or whatever oh okay I know the 30
21518s	cards I do have to go oh right wait
21520s	which version is this what are they
21521s	playing how many are they playing and so
21524s	on so on so it's definitely been super
21525s	fun for that so far this weekend but I
21528s	do um personally again I've been playing
21532s	death Knight's probably the most I've
21533s	been playing uh most class this season
21535s	and I do feel pretty comfortable against
21537s	Druid I'm not sure if you have different
21538s	thoughts on the matchup cuz I would
21540s	imagine you've probably played more of
21541s	the Druid side of this and I've probably
21544s	played more of the death knight but I
21545s	think it's a pretty decent match up at
21547s	least for me SM yeah I've played a good
21550s	amount from both sides but certainly
21554s	more from the Druid side uh and I
21558s	personally would take the Druid
21560s	basically all the time in this one I
21562s	think so I mean it's not it's not a
21564s	blowout blowout um but I do think Dru is
21566s	a strong favorite I think things have
21568s	come a long way from weirdly last meta
21571s	like rainbow Druid was a deck that some
21573s	people at very high Legend started
21574s	playing because 100% of every other
21576s	player was playing Ram Druid and somehow
21579s	rainbow death knight then actually just
21581s	kind of got there against rampid you did
21584s	mean rainbow death knight right rainbow
21587s	death knight yeah yeah yeah you said
21589s	rainbow Druid scared me I was like we
21591s	can't have another Rainbow Deck we've
21593s	discussed yeah yeah yeah you can bring a
21594s	full rainbow lineup now rainbow Mage
21596s	rainbow death knight rainbow Druids all
21599s	got them yeah so people played old
21600s	rainbow death knight um just meaning red
21603s	blue green as opposed to meaning lots of
21605s	spell schools um because it actually had
21607s	a good matchup against the ramp Droid or
21609s	at least some people thought it did um
21611s	but I think the evolution now just with
21614s	the trogs being able to provide
21616s	lethality from hand has made a big big
21619s	difference because you can't just out
21622s	value on board anymore you actually have
21624s	to be able to end the game at some point
21627s	as the death knight which is a lot more
21628s	difficult to do because if you don't end
21629s	the game at some point the Druid
21631s	freaking will right I do love how Mis
21635s	sm's been playing this though coin out
21637s	get the cheese spread you know go wide
21639s	on the board there's elizer there's
21641s	Horizons you know that if you've got
21643s	this kind of hand now this the ghouls
21645s	Knight this is just go go go
21648s	go but again my issue here is that a Lia
21652s	is so catastrophically slow this turn
21657s	that it feels like the third best play
21658s	in your hand right now which is a bad
21660s	position for your like supposed carry
21663s	legendary to be in cuz I would genuinely
21665s	fear here right right if you go Eliza
21668s	and then KT just goes cool drop my my
21671s	like discounted Marin and then just have
21673s	my wand ready to go next turn if that
21675s	wand hits you probably just lose the
21676s	game right but then you ghouls KN when
21679s	it's too
21682s	each going to go for Horizon's Edge
21684s	Instead This is a lot of damage cuz
21686s	there's a chance that this can proc like
21688s	three times this turn depending on how
21689s	these cannons get shot and likely will
21692s	yeah yeah so you can probably just chunk
21695s	the shell spot into it cuz that dies to
21698s	spell damage swipe
21699s	anyway I think so and just push the
21704s	damage yeah I've always found myself
21706s	thinking ooh should I save the click for
21709s	next turn and I was like n let's put it
21711s	to face like every single time one Marin
21715s	please thank
21719s	you talked a lot uh in the Rogue groups
21723s	about am I dead if no play Scout no
21726s	further thinking that is also true of
21729s	the card
21747s	Marin yeah KT definitely uh knowing the
21750s	potential reach right just playing the
21752s	mar and going yeah it's fine basically
21755s	um it's not looking too bad at
21759s	all yeah nine is uh it's kind of a
21762s	million right now on this board state
21775s	right I have but little
21779s	time and now me smile facing down the
21782s	problem that many a Hearthstone player
21783s	has had over time
21787s	which is looking at this board State and
21789s	going can I make a play that beats Marin
21792s	High rolling and the answer is uh no no
21795s	you can't sorry about that the only
21797s	thing I was looking at there was looking
21800s	at seamess into Frost strike to get hold
21804s	of you like a corpsicle or something MH
21807s	and then go from there but that Revolt
21810s	like like that involves like your whole
21811s	turn basically fighting a
21814s	marin oh oh
21816s	a that's not even one of the better
21818s	outcomes but it's very
21825s	cool do you not innovate the no okay
21830s	interesting I would have you innovated
21833s	the other cheer and saved a zero Mana
21837s	swipe because it was just a full clear
21838s	on its own right but I guess you just
21839s	want to have the innovate still
21841s	available for the
21843s	zelc yeah I think it's a good backup
21847s	right and just have options because
21849s	there can also be some other stuff drawn
21851s	like y could be picked up as well or
21853s	maybe just W in the enovate to get
21854s	something out Cannon's going to get shot
21856s	out
21857s	though and hilariously all going face
21859s	you've got to love it which is probably
21862s	the right place for them to go from
21864s	mepa's perspective cuz I don't think
21866s	he's winning board back from
21870s	here look at all those twos
21879s	uhhuh we're getting
21886s	there I think one more damage would have
21888s	been great on the
21893s	mar well even then you're like having to
21896s	Mega H roll off this last location
21898s	charge to hit it right yeah just just
21900s	hit
21903s	it I still think this could well just
21906s	just be like what like corpsicle face
21909s	going to corsal Mar
21912s	okay well now this ziliax is going to oh
21917s	my God never
21920s	mind I'm never going to hear the end of
21922s	this uh Horizon's Edge hate from SLE
21925s	after
21926s	this never going to hear the end of it
21929s	was that
21930s	not no they were lethal out but not
21933s	worth going for I think when you can
21935s	make this play 100% not worth which is
21937s	lethal
21938s	yeah uh
21941s	well resa is a card
21946s	right resca is a card you are you are
21949s	not wrong but other than that I I
21951s	completely agree oh
21958s	okay yeah just say nope I am done KT
21963s	takes the victory with the Druid now and
21966s	suddenly we're going to a game five um
21969s	and the Death Knight looks like it's
21971s	struggling Just a Touch for me smile
21974s	just not quite getting there you know
21976s	what we needed so go on we needed some
21980s	helas we did we did need some helas uh
21984s	so Helia as an
21986s	effect is really good in the game right
21989s	now like in this mattera because it's so
21992s	disruptive to like Infinity Rogue for
21995s	example to just you know be drawing a
21997s	frost plague every other turn because
21998s	they draw so many cards through their
22000s	deck um the problem is the rest of the
22003s	deck that exists around Helia not being
22006s	high Tempo enough to back that up most
22008s	of the time like you kind of just need
22010s	the absolute Mega nuts to to fit with
22012s	that curve yeah I I think I'm really
22016s	biased because I really like the card
22019s	but seeing death knight lists that
22021s	aren't playing hell you just because as
22023s	well you have options and this could
22025s	well be a meta call of course as well
22027s	but if you because you every because
22029s	everyone's running double Runes of
22030s	Darkness as well it just feels like
22033s	having that option to just start pumping
22036s	plagues into you know some of these
22037s	matchups is really powerful and hell you
22040s	can really escalate things but uh could
22042s	definitely just be a metac call and I
22044s	know I am I'm I'm 100% biased cuz I do
22047s	like the card but it did surprise me
22049s	when I started seeing a lot of list pop
22050s	up that are cutting it even though I
22052s	think it's pretty
22054s	strong yeah you you also factor in right
22057s	with the kind of thing that I'm
22058s	complaining about where you have
22059s	Horizon's Edge that's in the deck the
22061s	cost four that's sometimes just kind of
22064s	low Tempo a Liza that's in the deck that
22066s	cost four that's sometimes just kind of
22068s	low Tempo you then want to also add
22070s	Helia which is in the deck yeah you've
22073s	got loads of great low Tempo four drops
22075s	then SS yeah exactly so like you got
22078s	options S I Love Options yeah yeah yeah
22080s	you've got you've got all of these
22082s	different options about how to curve out
22083s	perfectly and then relinquish all of
22085s	your pressure by playing really slow
22087s	cards it just doesn't doesn't seem ideal
22090s	yeah speaking of
22091s	tempo virtu also hitting the board on
22093s	one here as we get into our final game
22096s	between me versus
22101s	KT this is another weird matchup I feel
22105s	like all these death KN matchups are
22107s	like uh cuz I don't feel they're
22109s	particularly strong against any one deck
22112s	it just feels like just an allrounder
22115s	approach maybe that's why I like it I
22117s	don't feel super bad about any given
22119s	matchup and I don't feel super great
22120s	about any either um but yeah this is a a
22124s	tricky one is it again it can pressure
22126s	with a lot of damage but it doesn't have
22128s	a great way to answer oh they just
22130s	crescendoed to full
22132s	health yeah I can't remember who I said
22134s	this to yesterday but like death knight
22136s	depending on who you talk to is either a
22139s	deck that's like 51% in most matchups
22141s	and has a few bad matchups or is 48% in
22144s	most matchups and has a few r bad
22146s	matchups and that kind of depends
22147s	whether or not you that that decides
22149s	whether or not you are a death knight
22151s	player right like yeah
22152s	exactly oh look at this
22155s	Tempo Eliza on board look Dr
22159s	Eliza coined we coined a card with the
22161s	stats of a three Mana minion the tempo
22164s	is unbelievable I mean look if I told
22167s	you elizza was a three cost you'd like
22169s	it oh yes correct if you told me the
22172s	card was way better than it currently is
22174s	I would think it was better yeah you got
22178s	me
22179s	there I'm going to beat you with death
22181s	knight and Eliza soon we going to have
22183s	to have a show match or something all
22186s	right wait no no no we have to meet in
22188s	tour they're show match you confirmed it
22192s	no oh crap never lost a sa in a show
22196s	match in my life never won against me in
22199s	a serious competitive match but yes he
22201s	is 100% against me in show matches and
22203s	what really matters with real
22206s	competitive matches or silly games of he
22208s	stone for nothing
22211s	Well footsies that's what really matters
22214s	yes
22217s	yeah wow this is a simply a lot of
22219s	damage and I think you just explain how
22221s	strong two of the best cards in the deck
22223s	are when they're together Eliza and
22224s	Horizon's Edge pressuring out a lot of D
22228s	putting KT on the back
22230s	foot Raven being the master of spin as
22234s	always
22236s	don't call me a Spin Master Raven for
22239s	nothing bin Master did you say bin
22242s	Master SP spin
22248s	spin not really the best options because
22252s	gem tosser isn't reliably going to
22254s	achieve much here for
22256s	KT I think you just weapon and tap yeah
22259s	I actually you don't want to put
22261s	anything in play this time for the Eliza
22263s	to die because then suddenly ghoul
22265s	Knight is threatening lethal against you
22267s	yeah you are
22269s	one yeah sorry I was just going to say
22271s	one Mana away from the uh the play of
22274s	kill your own Eliza into ghouls KN right
22276s	so that is super important right now for
22278s	KT exactly yeah and if your opponent
22281s	just tries to go ahead and just Jam
22282s	ghoul Knight now and just sell the two
22284s	turn lethal well then you're you're Mega
22286s	Reno in the next turn right yeah
22295s	and the Mystery
22303s	is okay reap what you saw is
22308s	damage it's kind of huge
22313s	actually I uh did enjoy the uh the game
22317s	earlier where Gabby completed the
22320s	excavate reward as nature Sharman that
22322s	was exciting yes that was very fun
22326s	well we go popg we go Crescendo we go
22330s	Crescendo again and then we play a
22333s	barrel and then we play the tide
22342s	pole all right just going to play both
22344s	barrels while we can important to note
22346s	though that the tyool does have uh
22348s	Crescendo and Barrel in it though yes
22351s	options options options now here's the
22354s	problem death knight doesn't often heal
22356s	that much yeah important to note here of
22359s	course that uh everything you watched
22360s	matters and not just whether or not KT
22364s	had the popar and all of those
22365s	crescendos or not really really
22367s	important just a little death knight
22370s	that could did its best and then popar
22372s	rocked up with his friend Crescendo
22377s	yeah
22379s	so going go weapon okay
22384s	that's interesting
22396s	cuz what what weapon is me SM digging
22399s	for here foam render I
22408s	guess cuz I would have looked to I mean
22411s	you can argue if it's risky or not but
22413s	the ghouls Knight to start and then if
22416s	you whiff you just have corpsicle right
22418s	cuz you'd imagine one hits the the pop
22421s	car
22423s	sure you imagine one hits oh
22427s	no oh no okay is a fair and balanced
22434s	game so blood plague does that do
22437s	anything whatsoever it is a blood plague
22439s	that went
22440s	in it's not a blood plague that comes
22442s	out though that is a crescendo that
22444s	comes out
22451s	just got to find a way to uh spend one
22455s	more Mana precisely there we go glacial
22458s	Shard there's one more Mana that'll do
22462s	void Verso will do the trick as well get
22464s	trog nice and final lead and that is
22468s	going to be the game KT with the reverse
22470s	sweep on death knight just a complete
22472s	blowout for the the death knight in that
22474s	series
22476s	um and I think that is kind of the
22477s	talking point in this group right is for
22480s	me I think if you stack some of the
22481s	lineups up in this group against some of
22483s	the lineups in group ABC that we've seen
22485s	so far they are not going to come out
22487s	particularly favorably and it is because
22489s	of the increased presence of uh some of
22491s	those decks like death knight that we
22493s	are seeing and and I do think especially
22496s	in these few games uh it did highlight
22499s	the weakness of at least current builds
22501s	of death knight uh which is they can
22504s	build up pressure but ending a game can
22508s	actually be quite hard right unless you
22509s	completely blow someone out right which
22511s	is like fair enough but when you get to
22513s	like points like this because there is
22515s	classes that can heal gain armor
22517s	whatever or maybe kill you faster that
22520s	is the problem that does come up pretty
22522s	often with death knight is that actually
22523s	just finishing the game off is uh can be
22527s	tricky compared to a lot of other
22528s	classes in the game right now when we're
22530s	looking at the likes of warlock uh Druid
22533s	priest uh you even Huff Paladin all of
22537s	these decks excel at like ending the
22540s	game death knight excels at like getting
22543s	to an end point but not quite having the
22546s	final push to get it done but also then
22550s	struggle to reset from that point as
22552s	well like if you use priest as an
22554s	example right like priest can have crazy
22557s	fast starts uh with clergies and funnel
22560s	cakes and power cord synchronize and
22561s	whatever else right like yeah that could
22563s	totally happen they can have early combo
22565s	kills with Hadis uh uh why am I start
22569s	saying Hadis now with hinis um and a
22572s	bunch of heels but if that misses or if
22575s	they fall behind or if the opponent has
22577s	a huge swing turn against them they can
22579s	then reset back to amthor power cord
22582s	synchronize res the aren Thal and start
22584s	grinding out the long game uh with death
22587s	knight it seems like they have one
22589s	catchup gimmick and that's Resa which
22592s	has to be quite late in the game and
22595s	have been drawn or had extra copies
22597s	discovered and you can do the good
22599s	Target right and you can do the good
22601s	Target your opponent has agency to play
22602s	around that as well whereas it feels
22604s	like priest has all of that stuff kind
22606s	of baked into the deck with the amount
22608s	of reload and sustain that they can pull
22610s	together with Arman Thal and an extra
22611s	board clears so it just to me death
22614s	knight just feels like I'm definitely a
22617s	48% in every matchup kind of guy when it
22619s	comes to death knight I don't think it's
22621s	a bad deck by any means I think if
22622s	you're a good player and you play it on
22623s	ladder you'll climb and you get to good
22625s	ranks because you'll just outplay a lot
22627s	of people with a deck that is fine but
22630s	then when you show up in a tournament
22631s	like this and you're playing against 15
22633s	other of the best players in the world
22635s	fine just doesn't quite cut it it really
22639s	doesn't and uh that was that match for
22641s	now we do have one more match to go
22644s	before we wrap up the day and get our
22646s	top eight players for tomorrow we are
22648s	going to have to go to a quick break
22649s	while we set that one up but don't go
22651s	anywhere we'll be right back
22661s	[Music]
22690s	[Music]
22717s	[Music]
22746s	[Music]
22773s	[Music]
22802s	[Music]
22834s	what Hello everybody welcome back to the
22836s	hearstone master tour summer
22837s	Championship once again my name is TJ
22839s	and I'm joined by the one the only back
22842s	again for the duo it's Neil render Bond
22846s	how you doing Neil doing great TJ doing
22850s	great looking forward to this next one
22852s	as always um it's going to be great as
22854s	well because I started doing my matchup
22856s	grid for misar when he was two up you
22859s	preparing for the thing like a diligent
22860s	little worker and now there's just
22862s	cuttings out and mistakes everywhere cuz
22865s	I had to change it because he got
22866s	reverse SWAT so at some point I'm just
22868s	going to say something incredibly dumb
22870s	which would be a first I know I know you
22873s	know we can wait for that going be
22878s	great I'm waiting for it oh I'm I don't
22882s	know when it's going to happen it's
22883s	going happen double death knight that
22885s	sounds okay
22887s	anyway uh let's have a look at the
22890s	text yeah let's have a look Frost
22893s	rainbow death knight brogo we got to see
22894s	this in action earlier we also got to
22896s	see KT's in action too um but the death
22899s	knight I mean it's got a lot going on um
22902s	it's
22904s	it's you know the win rate of it I feel
22906s	like it's been probably exactly 5050 or
22910s	close to it
22913s	um oh find it per
22918s	group wait we one out of five games in
22920s	group
22923s	a okay it's probably not close to 50/50
22925s	that it's been winning more today
22927s	because it's kind of had to because
22929s	every every player has it and somebody's
22931s	got to win with it uh KT does have
22934s	the um the standard-ish rainbow
22940s	version uh I don't know if you want to
22942s	call it standard because they're being
22943s	brought at uh around the same rate but
22946s	uh it's DK nonetheless a lot of the same
22948s	tools uh but uh some differences among
22952s	the uh the list here so
22955s	the player I think that gets the DK out
22957s	of the way in this mirror is I I feel in
22961s	a big Advantage moving forward and
22964s	personally um and it is just a a feel
22967s	thing not a stats thing I prefer the
22970s	version with the with the frost spells
22973s	with the mar manipulator I think Horn of
22974s	winter is a really good addition for
22977s	your um buttons to find I just think
22980s	that it's all
22982s	around makes more sense as a deck
22986s	whereas I think that the the more
22988s	traditional all three rainbow colors
22992s	it's just a selection of good cards that
22994s	don't really have any
22997s	Synergy we've seen just we've seen good
23001s	card decks just win a lot in the past
23004s	though so yeah maybe that's the recipe
23007s	that
23010s	yeah and then there's cold feet oh
23015s	e double
23018s	cheese double meat double cheese double
23022s	cheese
23024s	oh it's just pizza isn't
23029s	it double cheese pizza or double
23034s	cheeseburger oh yeah representing
23038s	America America yes us
23041s	Americans uh well
23046s	it's going to be um case of who do you
23050s	want to cheese first or do you want to
23051s	cheese
23053s	last problem he who cheeses last last
23056s	cheeses longer or
23058s	something well you want a
23060s	board um board can be pretty back and
23063s	forth especially with the uh uh the
23065s	location going on um but it's the entire
23070s	early to mid game is just going to be
23071s	fighting for the board the first person
23072s	who sticks an unanswerable board is the
23075s	one that wins is basically how this
23078s	goes yeah so I think you just want to
23081s	play as aggressively for the board as
23084s	possible and that's why we
23085s	see uh The Rush come in there instead of
23088s	say greedy partner which better sets up
23090s	for future
23091s	turns and
23094s	cheese and we're going to see a cheese
23096s	as well I
23098s	imagine yeah yep double vessel dzz is a
23101s	bit of a shame at the moment because no
23103s	spell scools been played get those going
23106s	sooner than
23110s	[Music]
23112s	later which may tempt him to corpsicle
23114s	the 3 three and keep the board that way
23116s	and hold the
23119s	cheese Chee been held yeah it can be
23123s	hard to weave in corpsicle as you get
23127s	lader like you can get greedy and hold
23129s	it for corpses but just using it as
23132s	removal is often times the best
23135s	he's using rasle Dazzle right as well
23137s	he's not much time rle Dazzle also yeah
23139s	to get both of those two
23141s	[Music]
23146s	rles delicious
23148s	cheese oh
23152s	cheesy I don't think it's aged quite
23154s	enough H maybe it has there's not really
23156s	any other plays yeah three cost I'll
23158s	take it and cold feet yeah because it's
23161s	a frost spell that we've already played
23163s	a frost spell so h
23166s	uh there's nothing else to do on the
23167s	turn and you really don't want your
23169s	opponent to be able to clear this board
23171s	but Ogo does have the I mean NOS he has
23174s	cheese also has the location and
23176s	location seems pretty good here um uh
23181s	you get a lot of uh board clear
23184s	potential yeah yeah I think he was
23186s	trying to bait the cheese as well with
23188s	the cold Fe On Top of just spend your
23190s	Mana um because he has his own Horizon's
23192s	Edge which would have been really good
23193s	against a not very old
23196s	cheese um but it's gone the other way
23200s	and oh these are
23205s	good these are good
23207s	cannonballs they
23212s	are unlike some of the ones in the the
23215s	previous match we just kept going oh
23219s	very good gets to hold on to Board gets
23223s	to age the
23225s	just a little bit
23229s	longer okay Soul breaker it
23235s	is in
23240s	the uh also has the cheese spell
23244s	School the cheese spell
23247s	school yeah
23257s	don't tempt them the devs watch this
23260s	show you
23262s	know Shadow fire
23268s	Chee you forgot
23272s	Arcane and fire and
23275s	fell isn't there one more this right
23279s	nature but we don't talk about nature
23281s	because then Gabby will there's eight
23283s	there's eight is that counting cheese or
23286s	not
23288s	yeah okay you can't catch me I've worked
23291s	with you for too long
23295s	TJ I have but little
23299s	time oh these are some big cheeses now
23304s	whoa
23306s	oh can't attack that can't
23309s	attack but it's
23313s	big that's what counts
23316s	all
23318s	right
23332s	ooh asess we both try to scramble to
23334s	remember what this card
23339s	does um
23341s	[Music]
23347s	H is it 5050
23350s	things I I'm I'm thinking it's
23358s	50/50 ah the ogre gang Ace yeah whenever
23363s	this attacks gain Divine Shield 50%
23365s	chance to gain life
23367s	steal there you go
23381s	[Music]
23385s	so the other spells cool shadow with the
23387s	Runes of
23390s	Darkness oh thank
23392s	you for the weapon discover got it frost
23396s	and so confused
23401s	there and now um because I take time to
23405s	thread
23406s	this and the Horizon mainly used up KY
23411s	does just get to
23412s	jam another rled dazzler here and in a
23416s	lot of Worlds from where he sat U's in
23419s	trouble here but me may have something
23421s	to say about
23430s	that Resa plus manipulator rasa Plus
23433s	razal dazle
23437s	that's a
23440s	lot that is a metric
23455s	lot and then do you use The Horizon's
23458s	Edge to see if that helps like yeah if
23462s	you get two shots into the one two into
23463s	the one three three which is very
23466s	unlikely by the way actually this works
23468s	too well yeah you can
23472s	now hero power down the 1
23475s	three um and then your option yeah and
23479s	then your options are better for Resa so
23481s	you can clear off two and then you're
23482s	pretty safe to razzled
23484s	Dazzle
23486s	yeah uh cuz you're only looking at one
23488s	minion on the board nice
23492s	work good stuff
23497s	very precise in the other match we saw
23498s	him in as well I know I know he lost
23500s	that match but he looked like he's
23501s	playing
23502s	pretty Doom C
23509s	Dome
23515s	oh you miss the
23522s	attack yeah
23529s	[Music]
23530s	you can mixologist and threads and then
23533s	you attack the 51 into the uh Doom guard
23537s	oh no no Harbinger and
23539s	threads no mixologist yeah cuz then you
23541s	have one
23543s	two three with the
23546s	mixologist for five full board clear is
23550s	eternal or just mining
23552s	C mining C works as
23555s	well it's
23558s	cheaper I have little time that's 1 2 3
23562s	four five
23568s	yep and then you get to stick
23572s	minions and it's turned around once more
23575s	such a didn't even see the
23580s	options okay
23585s	mixologist is getting into more and more
23588s	decks slowly but surely isn't it it's
23590s	not just exclusively combo now it's just
23592s	a reasonable card with a lot of um
23595s	options available to it a lot of
23603s	options all right well a plan it
23605s	involves
23607s	yep spending all my mana and playing my
23610s	cards yeah it's good plan in Hearthstone
23613s	honestly
23616s	and we have seen some things
23620s	Miss he only has 26 corpses to work with
23623s	though yeah little little light on the
23626s	corpses okay there's
23629s	buttons
23634s	uhhuh cold
23636s	feet o we're looking for the crusher
23639s	there almost
23641s	certain C be actually slows it down it's
23644s	too
23653s	funny yeah think you just go for a cheap
23655s	weapon here yeah it's a shame cuz I'm a
23659s	giant Fon fan but it's almost never the
23662s	right
23667s	answer I actually played that in
23670s	Frost was good could use that for him
23681s	ah now there's exactly 16 Health on
23682s	board and 16
23685s	damage go so that is going to be
23691s	it on was the
23694s	play funnily enough it was but saw the
23697s	other Mar manipulator and thought okay
23699s	no way I die to the uh the second one
23702s	back to back but did no is going to take
23704s	game one and the death knight uh mirror
23707s	sort of mirror uh Victory I think is a
23710s	big deal moving forward yeah um it's not
23713s	like a huge wink Link in the lineup but
23715s	I do think it is a wink link wink Link
23717s	in the lineup for both players so
23719s	getting that Victory out of the
23720s	way massive deal now we can play some
23722s	real decks now we can play some real
23725s	decks well ogu can as well um KT still
23729s	has to play gu
23734s	and somebody has a shaman right and
23736s	somebody
23738s	yeah H still has Shaman yep hogo has
23743s	Shaman palad D oh he went for the full
23746s	board collection didn't he oh
23750s	yeah just likes
23752s	minions and bans priests so that his
23755s	minions don't get
23757s	pried yeah it's smart plan board base
23761s	decks ban the deck that beats boards
23767s	yeah and don't play any Rogues just
23770s	avoid the
23771s	Rogues yeah or just sack loss well
23775s	sometimes you can just be faster than
23777s	the Rogues and uhuh still get there or
23781s	just you know hope that there's a lot of
23784s	players that just haven't put enough
23786s	time into
23787s	Rogue because when you play when you
23790s	play board-based decks it actually puts
23792s	more pressure on the Rogue to do rogue
23795s	things yes yeah they have to think a lot
23798s	harder because they can't just you know
23800s	assemble their combo pieces and have all
23802s	the time in the world to think through
23804s	and try and figure out how to kill you
23806s	or build big boards themselves they also
23808s	have to worry about your board and build
23810s	their board and think about ways to kill
23813s	you
23814s	so um I think putting that pressure on
23816s	makes a lot of sense and now we're going
23817s	to see KT once again go to the death
23819s	knight and Ogo is going to move over to
23821s	this hand buff holiday in and this might
23825s	be KT's chance TJ to get out of here I
23827s	think I think you might need this
23831s	one death knight matches up okay against
23833s	the Paladin I feel it's one of the
23835s	reasons to bring it to this tournament
23837s	in my opinion I wouldn't have brought DK
23840s	but if you get the read there's going to
23841s	be a lot of hand buff I think you can
23843s	bring it in that
23847s	circumstance let's find out how wrong I
23849s	am usually not very honestly
23871s	no it's sank
23873s	aelle okay yeah sure and you were
23876s	waiting for you've been waiting for that
23877s	for days haven't you yep just to correct
23881s	the first person say it's a s Castle
23885s	nope San cazelle okay I refuse to
23887s	believe that those words together make
23889s	sand
23890s	castle San
23892s	[Music]
23893s	kazel sank AEL okay I'm with you come on
23896s	we got
23901s	this I say Sharman the stupid way now as
23904s	well instead of Shaman just so I don't
23906s	have to agree with
23909s	Raven even though he's right
23927s	okay must move quickly what I feel we
23930s	haven't seen do anything in this
23932s	tournament and it's a decent card is the
23934s	um the one for the dread Hound Handler I
23936s	think it's called no no not the handle
23938s	of the other
23939s	one one four
23942s	thing well that give
23945s	two man DK I can never remember what
23947s	it's
23957s	called yeah I'm blanking I know the card
23961s	I just don't know what it's called yeah
23962s	yeah it's not in any of these two decks
23964s	s will tell us s tells it is in one of
23966s	these two decks okay
23976s	brittle bone
23979s	Buccaneer that's the
23981s	oneone deck yeah I did the thing finally
23984s	with a me spile um mess that I had all
23987s	over my board and it wasn't even his
23989s	opponent that I had the mess for told
23991s	you that would happen some more
23993s	alliteration going on I should have
23996s	known yeah you let us down TJ you did
24000s	say that you going to have all the
24001s	alliteration and Rhymes down to a
24004s	t yep KT
24009s	[Music]
24012s	8298 Oho uh plan this out quite nicely
24017s	couple options here can um Forge the
24021s	muscle and audio medic after an attack
24024s	and that'll clear off the buttons
24025s	alternatively can go for the
24029s	plushy uh to clear this
24031s	off and
24034s	two like two options there you can buff
24036s	the plush to have a bigger minion on
24037s	board or you can get a clean trade and
24039s	then buff the miniaturized version of
24041s	it yeah um the muscle is a little
24045s	greedier but it looks like we're going
24046s	to
24051s	see uh I don't know still don't know
24054s	what we're going to see Still Still both
24057s	options I think I'm leaning towards the
24058s	forge plus the audio medic but the audio
24061s	medic won't stick on the board is only
24064s	going to have one Health so does want to
24066s	go for board presence just have
24068s	something bigger on
24070s	board yeah you got to keep your sank ail
24074s	then yeah you want things to
24081s	buff no Crushers oh my
24084s	God so good against handbuff Paladin
24087s	they rely so much on the weapon yeah be
24090s	able to freeze it out is pretty good
24094s	but Fe also very good
24098s	yeah but he's not really developing
24102s	anything so you're buying a turn for
24104s	rasle Dazzle
24105s	but nothing to put in the way to block
24109s	more we saw this in his other match as
24111s	well right um he was trying to shut out
24112s	a popar and as s Raven described you
24115s	know the popar ended up just not even
24116s	being important opponent just W without
24120s	it
24121s	anyway so the cold feet kind of I pass
24125s	you pass then you're back to where you
24127s	started yep obviously if you've got a
24130s	massive board or if you up against a
24131s	Sona then that's a bit different
24134s	but you've got to beat the field as well
24136s	as Sonia I'm afraid stri razzled Dazzle
24141s	a big
24143s	one all the way
24146s	across not that
24148s	[Laughter]
24152s	big oh
24156s	oh
24159s	superb and then there all right what can
24161s	we do
24162s	[Music]
24167s	here fit in a muscle and then the plushy
24170s	becomes big cuz this thing is
24172s	forged
24176s	mhm and then maybe instrument Tech
24179s	plushy
24181s	[Music]
24183s	how are we working Titan into our game
24185s	plan over the next two or three
24191s	turns it's good question I feel we want
24195s	to be playing the Titan very soon so
24198s	must move
24199s	quickly that makes me want to
24202s	just clear as much as this I can right
24205s	now so I can drop it kind of
24207s	safely
24211s	yeah the toy
24214s	okay go with the
24217s	T this is most stats I
24220s	think I just always like to play the
24222s	instrument Tech whenever I
24224s	can but this does set up for the Titan I
24227s	think the
24228s	best muscle plushy instrument Tech still
24232s	would have
24234s	cleared some but it would have left a
24236s	good it would have left one additional
24237s	minion on board I think stats would have
24239s	been a little bit more spread out and he
24242s	would have picked a weapon out your hand
24243s	to give yourself more options in the
24244s	future but this is a lot of power in
24248s	play this kills Horizon's Edge right
24250s	this is
24251s	like yeah he's going to play it cuz he's
24253s	going to do a lot of damage but there's
24255s	two 10 Health minions there to
24269s	hit and one one thing to not about
24271s	Horizon's Edge I I loved it I was I was
24273s	in The Raven camp for the longest time
24274s	and days of sttle like cying at me made
24277s	me think about it a bit more it's not
24280s	always efficient to clear as well some
24281s	of the some of the um things it fires
24283s	just gets wasted like onto this 67
24286s	plushy right now it's just doing kind of
24289s	irrelevant damage no damage is
24291s	irrelevant you know what I mean it's not
24293s	ideal it's not perfect
24295s	damage yeah
24304s	okay it does clean up a good amount of
24306s	stuff but uh down to just 18
24311s	now so one more board if it's big enough
24315s	and
24316s	it's got a lot of opportunity here to be
24327s	big just got to think about what
24330s	punishes there are if he goes wide here
24333s	I want to play the Titan I always want
24334s	to play the
24335s	Titan that was the whole point of the go
24338s	Max
24343s	stats if it lives oh yeah guess if your
24346s	max stats live then that's even
24348s	better yeah yeah
24352s	okay muscle instrument
24357s	Tech double one doesn't seem too
24359s	appealing cuz the tarum is still
24363s	the miniatur t is still pretty small
24365s	there you go so you can just go medic
24367s	and that's Max stats that's a lot of get
24371s	push
24383s	six how does he get back on the board
24385s	here not sure he
24391s	can the answer here is normally if you
24393s	can't get back on the board kill your
24395s	opponent well that's not
24399s	happening oro's about to go to 2 I
24404s	think you could use
24407s	a can they clean up
24411s	[Music]
24422s	enough don't think think
24428s	so and what are you calling enough
24430s	enough that he doesn't die on the spot
24435s	little
24445s	freeze youself the best chance of the
24447s	horiz to hit
24455s	o
24463s	and not quite
24468s	enough plus eight plenty yeah kept the
24471s	sanzel in the hand and it was the last
24474s	card played in the game so obviously it
24476s	was
24477s	correct
24479s	yep nicely
24481s	done nicely done and uh yeah that's a 2
24487s	start for
24488s	Ogo and the Death Knight just not
24490s	getting there for KT that's why I said
24493s	you know losing that mirror match up
24495s	that was probably the best match up on
24496s	honestly uh for KT to try and win
24500s	so was just a shaman left yes it is okay
24506s	well that's I guess a a decent match up
24508s	for Death Knight as well because they
24510s	can fight very heavily for board and
24511s	keep you off board a lot
24515s	um but you got to get the right draws
24518s	early on to be able to contest the board
24519s	because they can get out of control
24521s	really quickly you can see what happens
24524s	when there's giant boards on the other
24526s	side death knight is pretty good at
24529s	being able to clean up those like small
24531s	to medium siiz boards especially with
24533s	Horizon's Edge uh but once it gets past
24535s	a certain point they use a lot of
24537s	resources just to put a dent in it and
24539s	that's not what you want against both
24542s	pal and shaman
24544s	yeah then he has to two decks as well
24546s	yeah so Shaman just needs
24549s	one one good hand the shaman with a good
24551s	hand just beats anything sometimes he
24553s	just goes you turn three turn four
24556s	here's wave of homework and you do your
24559s	homework you read all the cards in front
24560s	of you you rope out and the cards before
24563s	you anyway it's
24567s	fine just get three chances to do
24571s	that and then he'll make a top
24574s	potentially in what we believe is his
24576s	first Master's
24578s	[Music]
24581s	tour yes so please correct us if we're
24583s	wrong well please do yeah absolutely
24586s	I've I've tried very hard
24588s	to to find evidence of him playing
24591s	somewhere else uh I haven't done but
24593s	that definitely doesn't mean
24599s	doesn't all
24601s	right very pleased pleased with this
24603s	opening for
24607s	Ogo no Buccaneer though for KT I want to
24611s	see the buccaneer do the thing where it
24613s	you makes your cards
24618s	good
24619s	[Music]
24621s	my smart play just want to keep him off
24623s	the board play up the
24627s	curve okay
24630s	[Music]
24634s	there's always this argument when you're
24636s	playing against like other board based
24637s	decks whether you want to play the sigil
24639s	now to keep fighting for board or if you
24642s	want to hold the sigil to go into the
24643s	wave of nostalgia turn my inclination is
24646s	usually to just play it right away
24648s	because let's say you do wait and your
24650s	turns are weak KT may have a very good
24654s	board going into that turn where you
24656s	want to play sigil into wave um and if
24659s	that's the case then you're just kind of
24661s	playing a slot machine with the wave uh
24664s	and hoping your opponent gets
24666s	worse uh legendaries than you do which
24670s	is never a good feeling but Ogo is going
24671s	to hold
24672s	it probably going to see totem caror
24674s	next turn and then into sigil plus
24676s	something and then into wave yeah and
24679s	it's worse than that right because
24680s	outside of the few that have got rush or
24681s	charge like your opponent gets to go
24683s	first with so even if you've got three
24685s	and they've got two you're there to get
24688s	the first first dibs on doing something
24691s	usually yeah
24699s	okay I think set we can't tell what the
24702s	totem
24704s	car
24708s	yeah sorry
24710s	TJ for the unacceptable I'm just done
24719s	talking oh mining casualties
24725s	yeah mining casualties going into the U
24727s	wave turn is a potential nightmare for
24729s	you right yeah yeah yeah
24733s	yeah we still have the skydiving and
24737s	popup book next
24739s	turn um there's even potential for nah
24743s	there's no potential for zelc KT is
24745s	going to
24746s	wisely clean some things off the
24750s	board um
24753s	but yeah I think skydiving pop a book
24756s	and trade so you isolate one minion on
24758s	the board and then you have two of which
24761s	only one can be cleared off and so next
24764s	turn you do have an
24766s	advantage um it does signal the wave but
24771s	really you know KT would want to play
24773s	buttons next turn but would have to play
24775s	mining casualties would probably just
24777s	play most of the hand to put things
24780s	into uh in the way of the wave
24785s	it's such a weird distraction isn't it
24787s	because you know trading into the one-
24789s	one here and just playing the bouncers
24791s	perfectly acceptable hardstone
24793s	turn um the wave is a constant
24795s	distraction of what we going to do yeah
24798s	ogre decides I want to wave we going go
24799s	with TJ's
24801s	playz I'm going to have loads of minions
24803s	but like you've just said KT has got so
24806s	many minions he can play here and he
24808s	knows what's coming cuz turn
24811s	oh okay
24818s	[Music]
24819s	okay well then I mean it's still four
24823s	versus two like KT could still end up
24826s	with more power on the
24827s	board yeah especially if he goes he's
24829s	get first so he has to you know he he
24831s	does get the use out of all those cards
24832s	he just
24833s	drew
24835s	um which damage drink she does work yeah
24841s	it's not the only play there are other
24844s	options could totem sea
24848s	giant could just
24851s	uh hit hit face bouncer or clear the one
24854s	one
24855s	bouncer
24857s	[Music]
24860s	uhhuh but wave ah they're all going face
24864s	this is a wave here we
24869s	go a okay Rush
24873s	okay it didn't fetch bars what's
24881s	happening
24888s	ah pull some garbage de my R just random
24894s	one
24899s	two there's just not a lot of Mana to
24901s	work with for
24905s	KT yeah his roles were about equal which
24908s	is you know not good enough when it's
24911s	four on
24914s	[Music]
24915s	two my rule is eternal this tough
24923s	work plus obviously one of the 101 came
24925s	out which
24926s	is old y
24941s	that could have been worse I think I
24942s	think KT's made a good job of making it
24944s	look respectable at
24947s	least
24951s	yeah just keep pulling minions out the
24954s	shall we shall we try
24958s	again
24960s	no h no I don't find
24963s	yeah yeah I'm just kidding there's two
24966s	one ones on the other side of the board
24967s	definitely don't want to try again this
24969s	is probably just a couple of Trades um
24972s	totem bouncer is my instinct trade
24976s	yashash over the 34 put the
24979s	43 um into the
24981s	51 and then uh totem bouncer there's
24985s	probably uh what I'm looking at I like
24989s	it I want to protect this Yu like the
24990s	incremental pulling a few things out the
24992s	deck's going to be good fun for him
24997s	so good fun for us too don't want to
24999s	pull out the
25000s	G
25002s	is
25019s	absolutely just inserting
25026s	hello C giant oh my
25030s	gosh that's
25034s	amazing what could KT do about this with
25037s	no
25040s	resker it's looking good for getting to
25042s	day
25044s	two my l means I can die here
25048s	though
25050s	uhuh but this what I saying a minutes
25052s	ago like even if this churns 15 damage
25055s	all over the
25057s	place there's so much health on the
25059s	board it needs to be more accurate than
25061s	just doing 15 random damage it needs to
25064s	never go
25069s	face ah one
25071s	face okay came over then I me yeah need
25075s	need not going face much just to be
25077s	clear h i mean this looks like a clear
25083s	see this is
25086s	a this is a
25089s	clear pretty
25092s	much yeah getting everything down to the
25096s	minimum so that the
25098s	um location has the best chance a be oh
25103s	so close still very good yeah it dodged
25107s	face a lot
25109s	there yeah
25118s	I think it's also showing how good that
25119s	t to face was last turn somehow being on
25121s	20 with an 82 on the board looks kind of
25124s	precarious if you hadn't put that 10 to
25126s	face last
25128s	turn KT being on 30 you fancy him to
25130s	have time to start to unravel this with
25133s	the rasa dazzler and
25134s	stuff KT has a ton of resources
25138s	though that's what I mean Giant's going
25140s	to get picked off by the corpsicle next
25142s	turn even if you
25147s	bouncer I I mean it's just got to be
25149s	totem Bouncer and then hit face
25157s	yep is little
25178s	okay and say okay deal with
25184s	it you kind of
25190s	can just triple magma trade is
25194s	something it's better than that
25205s	yeah triple magma trade is probably the
25207s	best if you corpsicle here then oh you
25210s	can Corps dump a one a one
25213s	drop it's going to say it's going to
25215s	come
25224s	back it's now and never I think f
25237s	what are we doing
25238s	here we waving and hoping I I'm trying
25242s	to count blood lust outs as well but
25244s	yeah doesn't add
25247s	up W hope seems all
25254s	right he pulled the Drone out of his he
25257s	only plays one drone he pulled it out of
25258s	his deck
25260s	yes uh well no uh I was thinking I was
25263s	looking at other lines the zelc and
25268s	trusty okay now we can totem and bouncer
25275s	again I mean KT did struggle not
25278s	struggle but KT did only have enough
25281s	mana and time to kill everything last
25283s	turn with a very similar size board to
25284s	what this will be so I guess the theory
25287s	is it's going to be same struggle again
25289s	next turn except with half the health to
25291s	start with
25297s	yeah now it's going to be the same exact
25300s	play corsal triple
25306s	magma but now you're going into your
25308s	role with the legendaries with your
25310s	opponent having nothing on the
25313s	board yeah we need a cheap minion here
25316s	so we can totem cheap minion wave I mean
25319s	he's allowed to hit us a pirate right he
25321s	played Pat in this game I
25325s	think he one one just appear and then he
25329s	just wave into a couple of things that's
25331s	that's allowed
25332s	to alternatively we can
25335s	go totem totem
25339s	ziliax yeah and then you're drawn
25341s	through your deck a little
25344s	bit or just totem totem wave and say you
25348s	know what that's two legendaries might
25350s	get some stats out of it
25353s	probably opponent can't at least put
25354s	pressure onto
25355s	me yeah that's a tough
25359s	call the the two totems come down
25364s	regardless okay it's going to be wave
25367s	all right needs big stuff
25371s	here okay those are big Nas doru he's
25374s	got to go oh my gosh he's got to
25378s	go I miss those days oh oh might have
25382s	been it though okay he can relax for a
25385s	second but not long oh my
25390s	gosh he's got to
25393s	go oh that's horrible gold feet oh
25398s	[Laughter]
25401s	jeez oh just play the
25406s	zelc yeah he's trying to work MPS and
25410s	um cheeky Evol maybe
25415s	no no time there's no time Neil I miss
25420s	these days where's life coach when you
25422s	need
25425s	him oh my goodness there it is oh
25429s	RKA never I mean the nazoru is still
25432s	going to exist it is and the rope's
25435s	right at the end oh he took the zilly
25439s	axe oh
25445s	so much
25447s	torn oh no he can 21 of
25452s	them oh he can he he can can he clear it
25455s	all with uh lightning
25460s	storm nearly very nearly he has to yeah
25463s	no D gets healed as
25466s	well did he get
25469s	there he got there nice work
25479s	wasn't nice work it's actually quite a
25481s	mess this has yeah this has life
25484s	steal both these have life steel
25486s	actually the 41 has life steel but the
25488s	effect overrides the life
25493s	steal now the game ofone
25497s	returns and where the dust is settled
25499s	quite literally I think from that nooru
25502s	KT's massively in
25509s	[Music]
25513s	control soes don't work out there's a
25515s	play where he could have um gone for an
25516s	evolved lethal at some
25522s	point and why he couldn't work that in
25524s	15 seconds I'll never
25527s	know oh yeah on NZ dormu yeah nazor
25532s	eight you can get King plush for six
25536s	yeah something like that's what I was
25537s	looking for six
25541s	damage needs what triple triple Pirate
25546s	into
25550s	gift sure that's lethal
25557s	right quadruple Pirate into gift oh no
25562s	no cookie Cookie's not going to do
25566s	it evolve
25572s	uh no oh that was so close exciting
25578s	game nice jot play Under Pressure from
25580s	from KT that might have men ail uh
25583s	coming in clutch there that was a very
25585s	close one but at is going to take the
25588s	victory smooth sailing never stressed
25592s	easy peasy yeah absolutely easy game had
25594s	it under control sip of drink to prove
25596s	it that's what they will do when they
25597s	win a game 21 in the
25601s	tournament with everything on the line
25603s	TJ as we know we know this one goes
25605s	through to tomorrow to the qu finals the
25609s	loser has to wait for some time SD's
25614s	over here talking about he wants to
25615s	watch real decks these are the realest
25618s	of real decks this is where it's at
25620s	honestly y
25627s	yeah very good turn to clear
25629s	up 26 Health worth of giant
25634s	stats then the quick pick on the on the
25637s	might of
25638s	meniel was able to help him seal the
25640s	deal a little bit and this was so so so
25644s	so close that zelc buffing things out of
25647s	range there were no Minions on the board
25650s	there or you know just the sour Fang not
25653s	being pulled to to block right it's just
25657s	yeah a lot going on in that in that
25660s	series of events but now go still just
25662s	has the shaman left KT is going to move
25664s	over to the Druid and it is the standard
25669s	ramp Druid
25671s	and Druid this can get out of hand very
25674s	quickly for the shaman they need to get
25677s	big
25678s	fast because druid's leg game is Just
25682s	very good you know once you start
25684s	getting into zelc fi and Y territory
25688s	your boards are going to be gone
25690s	so got to kind of get On The Board fast
25693s	and and keep
25696s	it that'll do it some of that needle
25703s	Ro I don't even know if needle Rock's
25705s	good enough here too slow too
25710s	slow h
25713s	[Music]
25716s	I don't think Needle Rock is even that
25717s	high of a win rate card normally as well
25723s	okay yeah it's a cactus cutter I'm
25727s	looking for patches looking for
25728s	skydiving looking for Gorgon
25732s	zoru looking for totem totem bro get
25735s	some cheese down
25747s	just pass go skydiving in a bouncer it's
25750s	most
25753s	likely that's
25756s	my first
25758s	instinct I don't think you're really
25760s	worried about a 21 coining out um the
25763s	small things just doesn't seem worth it
25768s	here show there's no dragon crazy is
25772s	going to absolutely destroy you on turn
25773s	four at least for
25793s	now yeah so he's going with your play
25796s	sigil into the bouncer get some four FS
25799s	on the board and say these are going to
25800s	get it done while I build there my
25806s	board we're sticking to the game
25810s	plan yeah both sides are KT getting very
25814s	ready to draw some early Doom kiny stuff
25818s	early
25821s	Marin we got to do some C giant math
25824s	here
25826s	too it might ah no you might be worried
25829s	about swipe I don't know scking whether
25832s	or not you trade or whether or not you
25833s	go face if you go all face and bouncer
25835s	you preserve an extra minion and there's
25836s	not a good trade for the two one on
25837s	board anyway cuz the two taunts are in
25839s	the way and if that affects the C giant
25841s	going into the next
25843s	turn but in case swipe is there it's
25846s	probably just better to clear so you
25849s	preserve both bouncers even if swipe is
25851s	present yes this makes
25853s	sense so giant could
25857s	be he's just jamming through these cards
25860s	all right eight Mana dog that's a big
25862s	deal six-man a marin oh my gosh the late
25866s	game has
25868s	arrived yeah and it's turn
25873s	four oh the only problem with this is
25877s	that Marin doesn't have these big things
25880s	to pull for zero
25882s	Mana or or to say copy with a zero Mana
25885s	Puppet
25886s	Master
25889s	yeah to work out po
25892s	you just have to trust mavin like you
25894s	have to trust yog honestly it's always
25896s	fine
25899s	yeah okay go just trusty
25903s	companion get a value trade push the
25906s	uh um draw the second bouncer
25911s	mhm or we're going to try and get C
25914s	giant down next
25917s	turn cuz I don't even know if I wanted
25919s	to give this 34 ton cuz it gives a value
25921s	tra on the other side but it's
25924s	fine this does also give us a wave that
25926s	might just win the game if you top deck
25929s	it before y gets
25932s	active it's also right right now wave
25935s	off the
25936s	top yeah it's not a gift out because
25940s	gift doesn't not have made it a gift
25944s	lust no feels like they should be given
25947s	my opponent just played Marin but yeah
25948s	you're right it's a lot of damage though
25953s	it
25959s	is is he maybe thinking about upgrading
25962s	one of these one ones into something and
25964s	the Sea
25968s	giant if you play SE joint he just has
25970s	spare Mana
25972s	right he he can buff things
25978s	obviously I think it's probably C giant
25981s	Gorgon zor
25983s	see giant two trades Gorgon
25985s	Z sure I like
25988s	it then you're missing two
25996s	damage I can see trusty companion value
25998s	trade as
26000s	well over the mar Marin
26006s	yeah no value trades I just want to
26008s	point it yeah
26011s	yeah and he's just yeah just going to
26013s	waste the waste the two minions I think
26015s	it's just
26016s	fine
26019s	okay I'll take it like one ones do more
26022s	damage than zero ones if they live right
26024s	so stay
26035s	[Music]
26037s	alone wants to pull dragons out of the
26040s	deck cuz knows he's going to wand anyway
26042s	and the card's going to be free so once
26043s	the better opportunity that is good that
26046s	is good that is good oh my that's
26050s	infinite
26052s	Mana so much Mana this turn stay alert
26056s	my
26060s	children oh my
26064s	goodness he's going to get to fire as
26066s	well let swipe
26071s	it's going to be infinite taunts as well
26073s	as infinite Mana isn't it
26077s	yep for no
26080s	one yeah no that's good really like to
26083s	spell damage this because I want to
26084s	trade my Marin into the
26088s	68 thank you well the spell damage it
26092s	would have already done it with just
26094s	one oh we spell damage the first one my
26096s	bad
26099s	sorry and now we can also fit in
26102s	Defi and that's
26109s	game you sound so
26112s	confident yeah ain't no way what if we
26115s	wave and our opponent gets six blood
26117s	Mage
26118s	thos and we
26127s	get something that does one damage to
26129s	all the Minions at end of turn
26145s	[Music]
26155s	oh it's so demoralizing playing its
26157s	Druid isn't
26159s	it when it when it has its moment
26176s	is little
26182s	time
26185s	yeah yeah you ain't getting through
26188s	this there's no flukes available now
26191s	either like with your on sort of low
26192s	Health like he kind of
26195s	was something weird might happen but not
26202s	now going be two all
26205s	TJ heading for deciding game in the
26208s	deciding match of Group D
26222s	KT has just finished that really
26224s	grueling um Eliminator match as well
26227s	he's playing these back to
26232s	back and that was a reverse sweep can he
26234s	do that
26239s	twice I think he
26246s	can he's not dead
26252s	technically yeah yor
26254s	says you're
26258s	dead just looking for a swipe there it
26261s	is now he's dead that says you're dead
26263s	yeah y can actually just blow your board
26265s	up or something so this is
26268s	so yeah swip's very dead oh it's so dead
26273s	incredibly dead most dead board you've
26276s	ever seen yeah so game five it is it is
26280s	going to come down to
26282s	to Shaman
26285s	versus
26289s	warlock I think so Shaman versus
26293s	warlock I'm actually confused cuz I
26295s	thought the Druid was banned from K2 so
26299s	yeah it would be
26300s	the war
26303s	[Music]
26309s	[Music]
26311s	Shaman versus warlock's a interesting
26313s	one if it is
26316s	that yeah it feels like Shaman just had
26319s	just doesn't have the finishing
26321s	power it's just too
26324s	Fair yeah I guess the Warlock it can
26326s	just stick like a very basic early curve
26330s	the bouncers for instance the Warlock
26332s	can't always deal with straight away and
26333s	they just come in for eight a couple of
26334s	times andot dies
26338s	yeah um yeah a couple of
26341s	early one one um if one of your minions
26344s	goes tall like you play a one one then
26346s	you buff it and you buff it again uh
26349s	that can just really hassle the Warlock
26351s	cuz it doesn't do very well early on
26352s	dealing with one big
26355s	minion sneaky SE giant might finish it
26358s	uh but sometimes you just get pop guard
26360s	triple
26361s	crescendoed and your board explodes your
26363s	head explodes
26372s	I think I'd favor the Warlock personally
26373s	that about you yeah Insanity warlock
26376s	beats everything I mean bface told you
26378s	it like it is and apparently Shaman
26381s	beats
26383s	nothing yes no matter which Shaman it
26388s	is just doesn't win
26392s	games looking at KT's Warlock deck it's
26400s	um it's a glacial
26405s	Shard there is two glacial shards in
26410s	there double glci Shard double domino
26413s	effect as
26414s	well which we've seen occasionally
26418s	throughout yeah no tentacle right that's
26421s	what's the glacial sh replaces so he's
26423s	choosing to stop bigger stuff rather
26426s	than shoot down gems we're coming in on
26429s	turn three
26432s	the players are Keen give them
26441s	that that is a cheese it is a cheese I
26446s	mean this is a this hand just kind of
26448s	needs some
26451s	payoff and we're good but KT
26457s	has uh
26463s	so did he tap on two and three I'm
26465s	trying to work that out on the left hand
26466s	side I think he tapped on two and three
26468s	which means he hasn't got any fatigue so
26471s	far yeah that look like a Frack maybe
26475s	the cendo you can see is on um one
26478s	fatigue so yeah no fatigue points in the
26481s	pin so look like tap look like Miracle
26484s	cells One Tap two tap fracking yeah on
26489s	three
26496s	now's probably got to go harp into
26502s	Insanity yeah or you get the immediate
26504s	yeah get the board immediately just say
26506s	this is
26507s	okay this play is
26509s	underrated um it's quite a lot of attack
26513s	for just four Mana it's not great but
26515s	it's fine oh there's the wave
26521s	you know what's on the other side though
26522s	what KT has there's the
26528s	Domino and there's a tide pool which
26531s	will have another Domino or
26537s	cresendo if KY can organize everything
26540s	nicely I think he's okay here I think
26542s	he's I think he's got the reverse sweep
26544s	again ready to get into day two
26553s	put insia down
26558s	sorry toys are much more fun to
26567s	bre yeah cuz you can trusty companion
26570s	this which pulls the zelia out of the
26573s	deck and then you can play it it's one
26576s	Mana very nicely done and where do we
26578s	want this yeah where do you want it good
26581s	luck with that
26582s	question not
26586s	there oh no this is fine yeah clear off
26589s	the board oh this is good this is very
26591s	good good stuff
26595s	yes yeah I thought he was going to leave
26596s	it all up and go face I was going well
26598s	don't put it next to your four6 this is
26599s	this is perfect
26602s	positioning yeah there's
26606s	tidepool there's been only fracking
26608s	played so you could
26611s	so many possibili um Insanity Crescendo
26615s	uh you still leave
26618s	the what about weapon be a 35 on the
26621s	board weapon Insanity glacial Shard and
26624s	just say hit me for
26626s	seven yeah that works
26630s	too so many possibilities
26647s	wow okay still doesn't
26650s	clear doesn't
26653s	oh another
26656s	one we're still
26660s	waving
26661s	right wave and then if it gets cleared
26664s	you follow up with
26669s	cheese that last cend looks so
26671s	incredibly suspicious from the other
26673s	side like there's going to be more I
26675s	think you've got to try and get out of
26676s	range I think you've got to
26686s	wave like that last turn wasn't a
26688s	desperation turn
26691s	because or maybe it was it was pretty
26696s	awful yeah there's another Crescendo
26699s	well there's one more spell needed no
26701s	there's not one more spell needed you
26702s	can Tide pull Crescendo immediately yeah
26703s	wave big stuff oh no that's perfect for
26707s	the crescendo oh no it's four it's
26710s	exactly
26716s	four it's okay we got the
26719s	cheese the cheese is
26726s	alive this is why I wanted to do the
26728s	insanity last turn by the way and get
26730s	the set
26732s	up yeah he can't Crescendo anymore no he
26736s	had to use the um spell right he want to
26740s	Crescendo yeah actually he would have
26742s	died if he used Crescendo so he can't
26743s	use
26747s	that yeah no this makes sense yep would
26751s	have taken too much
26753s	fatigue would have taken 3 four five
26756s	yeah it would have been too
26758s	scary so heals a little bit all right
26761s	another
26762s	pirate still got some
26766s	cheese cheeses are getting big got gift
26770s	plus blood
26772s	[Music]
26774s	lust a lot of things coming in hot
26778s	here everything's just slightly off
26781s	slightly awkward yeah for both of them
26784s	as it happens
26798s	never getting
26799s	played oh it could be it could be played
26816s	actually five
26818s	cost o
26827s	is I want to get rid of this
26830s	46
26831s	nope going for more stats
26836s	yeah yeah he didn't trust
26839s	um pv7 KT with pend put in the
26849s	bin getting out of range as much as you
26852s	can and that's exactly out of range
26855s	right yeah crescendo's at six six
26860s	damage he got the trog though there's
26863s	another five damage all right so now we
26866s	have double
26870s	Crescendo you're going to go with this I
26872s	think you have to avoid virtuoso as
26874s	well
26879s	yep found
26882s	be honest I don't know what the death R
26883s	all that left me
26898s	is
26900s	um it's not the one that comes back if
26903s	you have armor is
26906s	it I don't think it is a symphony of
26909s	Darkness
26912s	oh maybe you're
26922s	right oh okay it's time to
26925s	[Laughter]
26927s	wave pop up wave go again
26932s	wow what a swingy game five there's so
26935s	much on the line and it's just go back
26937s	and forth
26946s	let's see what's in the box oh no oh
26950s	he's just oh he's
26953s	dead uh is it dead dead or is it nearly
26956s	dead eight shots and two have to go face
26959s	yeah so you oh no hang on Sy of dark
26963s	yeah yeah he's got to be careful he
26964s	can't play the the conductor because
26965s	there wouldn't be space for the tro yep
26968s	so he's got to spend R in other way
26970s	that's fine and now he's going to trog
26973s	and unless something crazy happens with
26975s	this trog this is going to be his second
26977s	reverse sweep in a row for KT and
26979s	everything's green he got it he got
26983s	it heartbreak for oo but KT back to back
26988s	and I mean back to back there's three
26989s	minutes break between the two matches
26992s	back to back reverse sweeps he must be
26995s	exhausted and it's crazy o' in the
26998s	morning as well so
27001s	yeah get some sleep KT oh my
27005s	goodness yeah very nicely done that's a
27007s	a rough couple of series uh to have to
27011s	play that late but kept cool under
27013s	pressure and the waves of nostalgia just
27016s	not getting it done for Ogo uh even like
27020s	the really good ones like with the
27021s	yashar were just kind of picked apart
27024s	and Shaman continues to be a real
27026s	weakness among many players lineups uh
27029s	in this event whether
27031s	this evolve Shaman or the nature sham
27033s	Shaman we've seen it struggle so much
27035s	over the last two days um so but well
27039s	done KT and Ogo I think played some
27041s	pretty good uh Hearthstone and did the
27043s	best he could with that evolve Shaman
27045s	but just couldn't get there in the end
27047s	it's not a weakness in many people's
27048s	decks anymore TJ I think most of them
27050s	are out y are all of them out continue
27053s	to be a weakness I haven't checked be
27055s	honest I haven't checked but most of
27057s	them are out I think if me smile oh go
27061s	out Gabby
27067s	out uh there was another one in group b
27069s	right dead draw out yla out they're all
27072s	out there's
27074s	none what was that six and all six
27077s	failed to get through is how many there
27079s	were yeah six and all six failed to get
27081s	through six out of the eight players
27083s	that failed to pass into day three uh
27086s	into that top eight um have Shaman so we
27089s	got none none represented here that is
27092s	daming evidence it is it really is um
27096s	but yeah there's our top eight um pretty
27099s	sick to be honest I'm just
27102s	happy uh we got a couple old America's
27104s	Grand Masters faces amongst the top B
27107s	for us Phil Americans Neil yeah and they
27109s	can meet to the final look at that
27111s	they've seeded them obviously being
27113s	American and the best players it could
27115s	that would honestly be historic if it
27119s	wasn't all America's finals for the
27122s	first time
27124s	ever they didn't leave us for long did
27126s	they now we don't think it's the first
27127s	time
27129s	Europeans ah back to being a bottom
27132s	bar yeah
27134s	unfortunate or middle barers for so long
27138s	today wait middle bar yeah when we cast
27142s	we're right in the middle middle Road
27145s	okay sure
27147s	just weekend goes on I guess you have a
27150s	list of one thing the one is in the
27152s	middle technically right so is it at the
27155s	top that makes yes it is also at the top
27159s	yeah not sure don't apply logic to the
27162s	situation Raven they're American that's
27164s	the point true we need to get the
27166s	measurements right or something Don
27168s	unmute on
27170s	Discord good job TJ um I see I hear you
27173s	I see you talking but we we couldn't
27175s	hear you maybe the broadcast could so we
27177s	weren't talking over
27178s	you um yes yeah crazy day overall I
27182s	think the the big thing for me I'd like
27185s	to hear your thoughts as you were just
27186s	touching on it towards the end there as
27188s	well and guess we've talked about most
27189s	of the day is just the strength of
27192s	lineups we've talk we've had this in
27193s	Conquest throughout the past but more so
27195s	in certain matters than others and it
27198s	feels like uh this one so far based on
27200s	our top eight lineup has been uh really
27203s	really good for some players and very
27205s	punishing for
27207s	others yeah I think KT specific
27210s	specifically can kind of count his lucky
27212s	stars um you know I apologize it's
27215s	getting late and my ability to filter my
27217s	thoughts gets uh worse the the more
27219s	tired I get but it seems like KT has
27222s	made it through to top eight because he
27223s	faced other people with worse lineups
27225s	than his that's kind of the position
27227s	that he's been in right he lost games
27229s	early and then went up against the
27232s	unplayable deck in his opponent's lineup
27234s	and just reverse swept it that's how
27236s	he's out of the group um to a lesser
27238s	extent we saw some of that earlier on uh
27240s	as well where like this is a little
27242s	harsh on Insanity warlock but I'm just
27244s	doing the bit where like Ban's warlock
27246s	got like banter got out of groups with
27248s	his warlock only ever winning the mirror
27250s	that's not fair because his warlock did
27251s	get banned in one series which is
27253s	functionally picking up a win so that's
27255s	not as representative but there has been
27258s	little bits and pieces of that
27259s	throughout groups but now we're in top
27261s	eight where we've already selected for
27264s	the good lineups right so we've just
27266s	supposedly got to do good lineups
27267s	against good lineups and that's where
27269s	that's where things going to get a a
27271s	little bit tougher I think yeah and
27272s	after sot as usual has took way more
27274s	time than should be allowed very quickly
27277s	you bottom rowers um if you uh give us
27280s	any final thoughts for the day before we
27282s	wrap it up maybe any final thoughts on
27284s	the top eight bracket I'm actually just
27287s	want to pick on sttle very very briefly
27289s	there I'm starting to think that maybe
27290s	he's going to argue that handb Paladin
27292s	is good I'm going to argue it's a a deck
27295s	four format where you've only got three
27296s	good decks to choose from your fourth
27297s	deck is always kind of rubbish
27303s	I'm not allowed to respond to that
27304s	because I've said too much already see
27306s	he's talking again he's talking again
27308s	you just can't keep him quiet
27311s	Dawn uh yeah I'm just going to say that
27313s	I I really enjoyed uh Group C especially
27316s	I think we had some really really cool
27318s	matches in that so for today that was
27321s	really exciting and I hope that we have
27322s	more series like that tomorrow with the
27325s	top
27327s	eight teach Sandy warlock's just the
27329s	best deck in the game and it's not even
27332s	close and the winner will have Insanity
27335s	warlock in their lineup tomorrow
27337s	probably both in the finals to be quite
27338s	honest with you
27340s	so um okay and I'm going to rub it in
27343s	SD's face the whole day okay well we've
27346s	got plenty more Hearthstone coming up
27348s	tomorrow and maybe we will get the
27350s	rarest of outcomes of two America's
27353s	players in the finals so just you need
27355s	to at least tune in just to see if that
27357s	happens cuz that's going to be once
27358s	every thousand years or something but
27360s	yeah we've had a great day today it's
27362s	plenty more coming up tomorrow thanks a
27363s	lot for watching and we'll be back
27365s	tomorrow at same time same place we'll
27367s	see you then
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