[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour Vashj'ir | Day 3 | Hearthstone Dev Tracker

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940s	harvey's like there's no shot no shot
942s	did he just bm well played me when he's
944s	actually about to win through something
945s	incredibly scammy right now that was
948s	just an incredibly diplomatic and
949s	well-mannered concede from your opponent
952s	and habu
953s	we can break the news to you right now
955s	my friend
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964s	i'm gonna call it too soon but yeah
966s	there we go that's the big moment there
968s	for habu gabu he can't believe you're
970s	still counting
972s	he comes back takes the victory
979s	that is why we do this that is why we
983s	play this game
988s	hello everyone and welcome to the final
991s	day of masters tour this year we've got
993s	a ton of great hearthstone action coming
995s	up for you which will ending the day
997s	with a crowning of a champion and uh get
1000s	our first look at the first play who's
1002s	gonna make the winter championships i'm
1004s	raven and joining me is gia to kick off
1006s	the day uh are you excited for this one
1008s	because we've got a heck of a match to
1010s	start off with
1011s	raven i cannot overstate how exciting
1014s	this is just during the rehearsal we
1016s	were talking about how our top 16
1018s	featured match is definitely a world's
1021s	finals caliber match it's definitely two
1024s	all-stars of hearthstone at the moment
1026s	and on top of that we've also got some
1029s	new cards to reveal after that match
1031s	yeah make sure you stick around after
1033s	the first match is over because we do
1035s	have some cards to look at from the new
1037s	expansion that you will not want to miss
1040s	but before we get too far ahead of
1042s	ourselves let's just check out uh the
1043s	overview of the tournament of course it
1045s	is going to be conquest as it has been
1047s	all weekend but just in case you're
1048s	tuning in for the final day
1050s	where the real spice happens it's gonna
1053s	be best of five of course and we are in
1056s	that top 16 bracket where now there's no
1059s	oh i had a bad round we'll move on and
1062s	try and do better later this is single
1064s	eliminations if you win you move on if
1066s	you lose you've had a great tournament
1068s	making top 16 but it does mean your
1070s	tournament ends there
1072s	it's correct raven and we also have
1075s	conquest of course a format that we are
1077s	all very familiar with although the
1078s	context of it somewhat changes from meta
1081s	to meta for this particular masters tour
1084s	the flavor of the week is renathol
1086s	whether or not you run a 40 card deck
1088s	which decks um are viable to have 40
1091s	cards in and we're already seeing
1093s	different decks that end up becoming
1095s	sort of the weak link that can be preyed
1098s	upon in conquest but compared to last
1100s	masters tour we did have rogue coming up
1103s	short quite often although it's become a
1105s	pretty high win rate deck in this
1107s	masters tour yeah it's definitely been
1109s	very interesting watching how the
1110s	lineups have developed and even some of
1112s	the decks that have made it into top 16
1115s	i am excited as we will be featuring one
1117s	of them again in that first match
1119s	believe it or not we're excited about
1120s	the first match we do see the prize pool
1123s	here and obviously as you can see we'll
1124s	be starting at that sort of 9th to 16th
1127s	and then every win from there we'll move
1129s	up a very significant amount of money as
1132s	well as just adding more wins to the
1135s	pile and anyone in this top 16 that you
1138s	see here is off to a great start already
1141s	but let's take a look at all the
1142s	shenanigans that happened yesterday as
1145s	per was a pretty big mixed bag in terms
1147s	of lineups and we saw a lot of matches
1149s	where there were like clashing lineups
1151s	of a lot of different decks take place
1153s	as we can see even a mech paladin made
1155s	it on stream yeah carob i am jose who is
1158s	part of the pony dojo practice group um
1161s	everybody's starting off at
1164s	that we showed because it was the last
1166s	half of swiss that happened yesterday
1168s	yuyuan taking a very convincing victory
1170s	there and then we saw pikahara versus
1173s	spring here another presser druid coming
1175s	out to play and showing the power of
1178s	hala when it is managed to be discovered
1180s	in this deck i think another big
1182s	storyline going into this masters tour
1184s	was what druid to bring prestor or
1186s	alignment or neither we do have gabby
1189s	representing team prester here and team
1192s	press up i guess with that very very fun
1195s	performance uh taking down viper mateo
1197s	in a close series
1199s	yeah it was very close it did look like
1201s	it was gonna be a very swift 3-0 but
1203s	viper matteo fought back and then we had
1205s	fury hunter versus road uh which was a a
1209s	truly maddening game here where fury
1211s	hunter took the victory overall and
1213s	those two players we just talked about
1215s	fiori and gabby will be that first
1217s	matchup we keep hinting at uh for the
1219s	day so make sure not to miss that one at
1222s	all let me add alex jp versus cromwell
1224s	go in and again just more of this druid
1227s	of the alignment version and then
1229s	they're going up with the shaman as well
1231s	oh sorry wasn't the alignment version
1232s	right this is the presta it was just
1234s	confusing with some of the cards but the
1236s	shaman did take a loss there even though
1238s	i do think shaymin is very very strong
1241s	at the moment yeah it was very unique to
1243s	see the bioluminescence burn version of
1245s	shaman because i think the majority of
1247s	the field has brought the control murloc
1249s	instead which has been a pretty solid
1251s	bring picking up a lot of bands on the
1253s	way but this very first match that we'll
1256s	be having doesn't feature shaman we do
1258s	also have a couple beast hunters in the
1260s	mix which is a deck that i was probably
1262s	unfairly down on i thought it was not a
1264s	great bring to the tournament but it's
1265s	proved to have a pretty good win rate
1268s	here we see however fire noodle not
1270s	managing to get the win with it when he
1271s	faced very fat cat who is the 8 and 0
1274s	player of the swiss here now raven in
1277s	recent tournaments the 8-0 has not
1279s	proven to be a curse we've had winners
1281s	taking absolutely no losses throughout
1283s	masters tours i wonder a very fat cat
1285s	can replicate that
1287s	yeah definitely possible if if he
1289s	manages to play about four root uh uh
1291s	rune of the arc mage per game like we
1294s	saw yesterday to an extent then yeah
1296s	very very possible indeed we did finish
1298s	the day uh with that one there it was a
1300s	bit of a rough one there for draevo
1301s	maybe not the best highlight of that
1303s	warlock deck but we'll see how it goes
1305s	for the rest because we do have the top
1307s	16 we are going to start with that gabby
1309s	versus fiori hunter and depending on how
1311s	quick that match is we may get to show
1314s	some uh some of the other matches some
1316s	of the other games from elsewhere but
1318s	it's very likely we will be going
1320s	straight to top eight so uh pretty spicy
1323s	top 16 overall of course we're going to
1325s	be looking at gabby versus fury but
1327s	we've got habu gabou in there we've got
1328s	very fat cat the eighth player uh we've
1331s	also got pocket train on the right side
1333s	of that bracket and then ewing below
1335s	that so a ton of well-known air high
1338s	caliber players are going to be duking
1340s	out uh today for that spot for being
1342s	named champion of masters toravashi
1345s	that's right we've got a great mix of
1347s	veterans and superstars of the scene
1349s	some people that have kind of been
1350s	bubbling under the surface where maybe
1352s	if you're a bit more ingrained in the
1353s	community if you've heard of them even
1354s	though they haven't necessarily had a
1356s	big breakout performance like pocket
1358s	train
1359s	and then we have some new players that
1362s	haven't necessarily had so much masters
1364s	tour experience and then we also have a
1365s	good mix of lineups where another thing
1369s	to watch out for is mine rogue which is
1371s	a deck that didn't see very much
1373s	representation in the master's tour but
1374s	proved to be the highest win rate
1377s	archetype here um of course not the
1378s	hugest sample size but we do have two
1381s	mine rogue players still here in the top
1383s	16 and i'm so excited to see whether it
1385s	can take it all the way to the winning
1387s	lineup of the whole masters tour it is
1390s	one thing you always keep an eye out for
1391s	when we have a masters tour with a
1393s	relatively fresh meta is that you
1396s	you've always got to think is someone
1397s	gonna do it is someone gonna break the
1399s	game right and just take it all the way
1401s	with a lineup or even just a deck that
1404s	has completely over performed past
1406s	everyone's expectations so i'm excited
1407s	to see the rogue maybe a little bit
1409s	later on but for now geo we have gabby
1411s	versus fiori two of uh easily two of the
1415s	best players in europe almost certainly
1417s	two of the best players in the world and
1419s	the only thing that's a shame about this
1421s	for me is that it isn't the finals uh it
1423s	means one of those players is gonna lose
1425s	and be done for the day one of them is
1426s	gonna move on but still i am very happy
1429s	to be sat here casting this one we see
1431s	druid band away from fury hunter and
1433s	rogue band away from gabby and i just
1436s	want to ask you like speaking of these
1437s	sort of fringe decks that may have been
1439s	a bit of a surprise gabby seemingly
1441s	making warlock work which i think
1443s	everyone or nearly everyone was
1445s	skeptical of warlock going into this
1447s	tournament
1448s	yeah myself included although there were
1450s	a fair few amount of warlocks that we
1452s	cast on day two so at least the people
1454s	who were doing well throughout the
1456s	latter half of swiss but there's also
1458s	just a lot to be said about the build of
1460s	warlock i've called it quite an
1462s	inconsistent deck because you run 40
1464s	cards a lot of those are tech choices
1467s	and you don't necessarily find the curse
1469s	package or the removal package as
1472s	often as you would before that 10 health
1474s	of course gives the warlock a lot of
1476s	breathing room to keep tapping but we
1478s	see from gabby's list that he has
1480s	included sort of a swiss army knife list
1483s	he has the
1485s	demon seed in there as attack for the
1486s	mirror he has dreaded mount as a tech
1489s	for boar priest which will not
1491s	necessarily be getting much of a target
1493s	in fury hunter's lineup he has only one
1496s	starfish which i could see as a bit of a
1499s	problem because if we're looking at the
1501s	lineups head to head the only difference
1503s	in class here is that warlock for gabby
1504s	versus the wig priest for fury and i
1507s	don't think that's a particularly good
1508s	matchup for the warlock
1511s	yeah yeah we saw something yesterday i
1513s	think uh me and sal were casting to
1514s	finish off the day and we saw their
1516s	warlock struggle in certain matchups the
1519s	biggest one was like a ball priest match
1521s	up because the ball priest just got to
1523s	their combo way smoother than warlock
1525s	that just had a ton of these sort of
1527s	extra cards as you mentioned the sort of
1529s	different packages that the warlock has
1531s	to run to sort of uh have decent
1534s	match-ups across the board uh it's
1536s	difficult to get hold of those so
1537s	excited to see
1539s	how that turns out but it doesn't like
1540s	we are going to start with the druid
1543s	from gabby going up against fury hunters
1546s	mage to kick it off with but honestly
1548s	you just look at the stats for these two
1549s	players and cry as i wish i was even
1552s	remotely as good at hearthstone as one
1554s	players never mind them both
1557s	yeah crazy the amount of accolades
1559s	between these two players both of them
1561s	previously having won a master's tour in
1563s	gabby's case two masters tours uh
1566s	including one from this year and both of
1569s	them uh very
1571s	very nearly booking a ticket to this
1573s	year's world championship of course
1575s	gabby present at last year's but very
1578s	much hungry to take a victory that a lot
1579s	of people were expecting him to and then
1581s	fury hunter also just a few matches away
1584s	from qualifying during the summer
1586s	championship so both of them very much
1588s	hungry to book themselves another chance
1590s	at the fall championships instead and
1593s	potentially get there either through the
1596s	total wins or just winning another
1598s	masters tour which we know both of these
1600s	players have proven to be capable of
1603s	there's an extra level of spice added to
1605s	this matchup as well between the two
1607s	players because
1608s	gabby i think yesterday tweeted that wig
1611s	priest was trash and anyone who brought
1613s	it was bad and fury has it in his lineup
1616s	so uh just an extra level of well if
1619s	fiori wins he can then
1621s	potentially respond or laugh at that
1623s	tweet either way but if gabby wins you
1625s	know it's uh just backing up the the
1627s	bragging
1628s	power that he has we'll just have to see
1630s	if uh gabby feels comfortable enough
1633s	going against fiore to start throwing
1635s	out the air the exercise mid game that
1637s	we saw a lot yesterday because uh
1640s	something that i noticed was while he
1642s	was doing that he obviously wasn't
1643s	watching his opponent's turn play out
1646s	right is
1648s	fine if you win but like against the
1650s	play like fury i don't know if well i
1653s	wouldn't have that confidence but again
1655s	i'm not gabby so we'll have to see i'm
1657s	gonna be interested to see if it comes
1658s	out to play if gabby's gonna go full try
1661s	hard mode here and actually just make
1663s	sure he can grab the win but already gia
1665s	we are into game one the first match of
1668s	the day and the first match of round of
1670s	16 here it's gonna be that uh druid on
1672s	the top for gabby and mage on the bottom
1675s	for fury hunter
1677s	right i mean i'm inclined to say i don't
1679s	think gabby will be doing too much
1682s	between his turns because this is the
1684s	top 16 now and he's very very hungry to
1687s	get that win and go to seasonals again
1690s	but every time i feel like gabby can't
1692s	get more confident he does something to
1694s	prove that he's even more confident so i
1696s	don't know raven i've been in shambles
1698s	before so we shall see fury hunter here
1702s	with the big spell mage like you said
1704s	has access to deep water evoker although
1707s	i'm not sure if he's looking for armor
1709s	necessarily in the match-up prester
1711s	druid doesn't give you a whole lot of
1713s	time to outlast in the late game because
1716s	of the sheer power of the dragons and
1718s	the consistency with which they can pick
1720s	up a kazakhstan active early in the game
1723s	so i thought fury potentially might look
1725s	at having as many chances to draw
1728s	belinda as possible but i do like the
1730s	heap of barbaric sorcerers to make sure
1732s	that he can
1733s	if he does play deepwater invoker make
1735s	whatever he gets off of it cheaper
1738s	yeah i think i do like oh wow okay well
1741s	there's belinda i do like this keep
1743s	overall because it's the problem where
1745s	gabby could just play out the first four
1748s	turns of the game by just jamming loads
1749s	of minions and if there's if the orient
1752s	has nothing to do if he does mulligan a
1754s	lot of this away and just have like the
1756s	big spells and has to wait for them he
1758s	could just get overran pretty easily
1760s	there so i do like the keep of just the
1762s	guaranteed uh smaller minions have
1764s	access to some level of uncurve play but
1767s	ooh indeed as belinda is drawn and there
1770s	are coins to play around with as well so
1772s	even without this fabric uh or barbara
1775s	should i say in hand just the fact that
1777s	there's a high chance of being able to
1779s	just coin coin belinda on four is huge
1783s	both players access to double coins
1785s	because both players played mailbox
1787s	dancers so not only is there the double
1790s	coin belinda there's coin coin lady
1792s	prester for gabby which happens first in
1795s	this instance
1798s	yeah literally nowhere
1800s	power build up no fill episodes in this
1802s	series right it's just both players max
1805s	powers straight away not messing about
1808s	at all
1808s	uh fiori has a one more turn to kill
1811s	before he can really go for this belinda
1813s	and treasure guard
1814s	i would arguably say just the best card
1816s	to have drawn for that turn yeah great
1819s	challenges the pelican very nicely
1820s	unless him keeps cycling now fury here
1823s	i'm sure that he'll be upset to see
1825s	prester on turn four because he didn't
1826s	see any um tutor effects for it no jerry
1830s	regno capture cold tooth mine played so
1832s	he didn't really have full information
1834s	that presser would happen this turn
1835s	gabby taking the time to consider where
1837s	whether he should guff first though
1839s	because on the flip side gabby also has
1841s	no idea whether or not there's a belinda
1844s	in hand for fury which from his
1845s	perspective is probably not so likely so
1848s	both players having access to their
1851s	power plays immediately gabby gonna
1852s	throw out the aquatic form to play
1854s	around a barbaric sorceress
1857s	and immediately picks up a mural oh my
1862s	oh fury hunter does get to respond with
1865s	the coin coin belinda and star doing big
1867s	things himself this is a kind of
1869s	hilarious that now it's like big dragons
1871s	versus baby dragons right now
1874s	for the two players they've just got
1876s	access to their basic end game plan
1878s	straight away uh it's about as powerful
1881s	as both decks are going to be especially
1882s	with gabby just having gov available
1884s	right now as the insta follow up not
1886s	only opening up card draw but of course
1888s	mana as well
1890s	that's huge now gaby can choose to merge
1892s	on here just to gain two coins played
1894s	and i guess a vanilla five five belinda
1897s	on board uh not sure if that's
1900s	necessarily worth it because he can get
1902s	most likely a drake fire amulet copied
1904s	if he just holds on to a turn so um he
1907s	is just going to ramp up with guff here
1910s	has the finley to try and reroll some
1912s	dragons later but the hand is looking a
1914s	little bit dry he really needs an onixia
1917s	for himself to get enough targets on
1919s	composting
1921s	they're going to go for the kala ghost
1923s	as well to help out with their options
1925s	for next turn and just have a lot of
1927s	health on board again although gabby
1930s	will be playing high-powered effects
1932s	from these dragons the actual minions
1934s	themselves are quite small so just
1936s	sitting on 12 health is pretty huge here
1938s	but gabby responds with the ghost of his
1940s	own with scale of iniquity if he so
1943s	chooses wow
1945s	both players doing the best things
1947s	that's what we are just seeing both
1950s	players world cup world championship
1952s	caliber players with a world
1954s	championship caliber draws and discovers
1956s	at the moment and that means that gabby
1959s	gets to
1961s	i mean draw so many more resources here
1964s	this never stops and he just gets kala
1965s	ghost after kalaros these are premium
1968s	dragons
1969s	i guess the morrison as well of course
1971s	that he had from last turn to be able to
1972s	generate something that's a deathwing
1975s	for a casual 12 power on board as well
1978s	and he's still got four mana left uh
1980s	this just seems unfair to you
1982s	a referee check this please
1985s	doesn't matter that he has amalgam off
1987s	of the discover the 12 12 is more than
1990s	enough to make up for all that has
1992s	nixian warder if he wants even more rush
1995s	just to fill out the board seems decent
1997s	here i don't think this is a hand that
1998s	gabby ends up playing finley on because
2001s	he's got above average quality dragons
2004s	already plus the moonlit guidance which
2006s	can go wild especially if he finds a
2008s	hala in the deck
2012s	okay well spammy alchemist can actually
2016s	clear up this board if that's something
2017s	fury wants to do
2020s	the
2021s	the hope i guess if clearing the board
2023s	is the plan for fury is that
2025s	if he clears now that's as big as the
2028s	board's gonna look for the near future
2030s	at least stat wise because of that
2032s	deathwing so
2034s	what do you think do you think this is
2035s	worth it it feels bad to trade 10 attack
2038s	in
2039s	yeah
2042s	if you'd like i mean oh
2043s	it's just gonna die
2045s	correct i think this is a necessary evil
2047s	for fury don't get me wrong he is not
2049s	winning here i don't think he feels like
2051s	he's winning but
2052s	from this point you cannot just leave
2054s	that many dragons on board he doesn't
2056s	have enough of a
2058s	comeback mechanism so he just has to
2060s	hope that gabby whips on whatever he
2062s	discovers but that is not the case
2065s	miracle growth after scale with
2067s	composting are you joking this is insane
2071s	yeah the problem with plays like miracle
2073s	growth like being able to get that
2075s	amulet played on gabby's side is the
2078s	minions are now bigger than they should
2080s	be the one benefit you have against this
2083s	deck when presta goes off is the minions
2086s	themselves are generally small right
2088s	that's like the one benefit you have but
2090s	suddenly there was a death wing now
2093s	there's the uh big sort of mossy horror
2095s	uh 10 10 on board
2096s	now we can see there's a just a fully up
2099s	powered alex straza and kazakus in hand
2103s	it's just best of both worlds at this
2105s	moment in time for gabby and fiori now
2107s	has to work some kind of magic and i
2111s	think that magic will be
2112s	not die and try and get ruined of the
2114s	arcmap all right
2117s	i love the fact that he waits to do this
2119s	when he knows he's so far ahead it
2121s	doesn't matter
2123s	i was thinking maybe he throws out a bit
2125s	more respect for players like fury
2127s	hunter but i guess even fury hunter in a
2129s	situation like this gabby knows there is
2132s	little to nothing exactly i i think the
2134s	respect was shown by the fact that gabby
2136s	waited this long to do this because he
2139s	he did this long in his other match yeah
2141s	he didn't wait this long in his other
2142s	match he had to wait until he was pretty
2144s	sure he's gonna win
2145s	oh lord
2147s	now fury's still full focused here he
2149s	knows what a dismal position he's in but
2152s	he is still going about it in such a way
2156s	to gain any small percent that he
2158s	possibly can we can see from gabby's
2160s	hand that it's all for not uh almost
2164s	lethal straight up with the alexstrasza
2166s	here
2169s	oh wait whether you started it actually
2170s	is with a nightmare forgot to count that
2172s	plus five right
2174s	that's four
2176s	oh yeah sorry plus five i'm living in
2177s	the past yeah i see him in the past but
2180s	yeah that is gonna be game one going to
2182s	gabby and again that's kind of the
2186s	problem
2187s	right when you match these two decks up
2189s	like yes either one can definitely win
2191s	the match up but when both players
2192s	effectively do the most powerful thing
2195s	they can do
2196s	we'll guess what depressed to droid wins
2198s	that as we well saw a really really
2200s	rough one for fury uh when basically the
2202s	amulet just wasn't big enough or
2204s	impactful enough to do anything because
2206s	gabby was already so far ahead and a uh
2209s	pretty rapid and good win there for
2211s	gabby for game one
2213s	yeah definitely showing the power
2215s	ceiling on the prester druid now i have
2217s	been very vocal about how powerful i
2219s	think this deck is one that does things
2221s	like this it obviously looks like it is
2224s	too
2225s	powerful indeed it's like you're not
2227s	playing hearthstone you're playing
2228s	tavern brawl hearthstone
2231s	which is insane of course but you know
2233s	gabby had an above average outcome there
2235s	with the prester on turn four with the
2239s	guff immediately to follow up and
2241s	amazing dragons right off the bat and no
2243s	shortage of card draw
2246s	the deck doesn't always pan out this way
2248s	but
2249s	in the hands of a good player you even
2252s	maximize the percentages a little bit
2254s	more getting the juice out of cards like
2257s	cala cala ghost and all these different
2259s	discover effects
2261s	to maximum potential and it's why i
2264s	think gabby has banned away the
2266s	alignment druid from fury that's kind of
2269s	the only deck that can really throw a
2271s	wrench in the works of a perfect press
2272s	tour draw on top of having a good
2275s	matchup against the cursed warlock as
2277s	well which gabby cues up now yeah it is
2279s	important to note though i think for in
2281s	fury's defense to an extent this is
2284s	conquest gabby needs to win with all
2286s	three decks and i think going into this
2288s	series if if you asked fury which deck
2290s	is most likely to get a win against you
2293s	it would probably be presta druid once
2295s	the bands have shaken out of course so i
2297s	think even though that was unfortunate
2298s	for fury you just say okay presta druid
2301s	won it's probably going to win if it
2303s	gets played sure now move on and let's
2306s	focus on the mage and the warlock which
2308s	are two
2309s	way more beatable decks in this scenario
2312s	for me
2313s	that's right fairy moving over to his
2315s	wig priest here which i do think has a
2317s	very solid match up against the uh
2321s	ranathal curse warlock especially that
2323s	gabby only runs one starfish here which
2326s	i feel is the most important card to try
2328s	and stabilize against this deck just
2330s	yesterday we saw fury play against a
2332s	warlock that had hit triple starfish
2334s	like one of them was zolod
2336s	in the upper half of their deck but fury
2338s	still managed to get there with the wig
2341s	priest kind of abusing the fact that
2343s	warlock doesn't have that much mana to
2346s	play with they do have tons of cards as
2348s	options but a lot of those are often too
2351s	expensive to get the full clear against
2353s	a whig priest that knows what they're
2355s	doing and i'll be super interested to
2357s	see how gabby approaches this because he
2359s	has been not too quiet at all about what
2362s	he thinks of this priest deck yeah
2365s	yeah it's uh i'm very excited to see if
2368s	fury wins this game and then maybe even
2370s	takes the series we'll have to see but
2372s	so far for the mulligan definitely not
2375s	bad but without a wig i do think at
2377s	minimum the priestess and the school
2379s	teacher can be thrown away and maybe
2381s	even the devourer as well and then just
2383s	go hard to actually just get mercur
2384s	scribe with wig in hand i think that is
2387s	always gonna be priority one for this
2389s	deck and just start making the big
2390s	minions as quickly as possible
2393s	right if you don't have wig and you
2394s	don't have thrive you already have to
2396s	think about is this hand a full mull um
2399s	it's only really the scribe that i think
2401s	is worth keeping here potentially but
2403s	fury says no he needs the
2406s	most important card doesn't find it at
2409s	the moment but has at least curves of
2411s	three drop into three drop which all
2413s	cycle through his deck so not a complete
2416s	disaster
2419s	oh both players with double treasure
2420s	card in hand
2422s	even the shot now just to trade away
2424s	thrive big pick up there if it wasn't
2426s	gonna be wig you would want it to be
2427s	thrive for next turn so you can actually
2429s	get hold of the wig and potentially
2431s	actually do that and then coin with
2433s	treasure guard and wig the turn after
2436s	right or crush claw uh but okay he does
2438s	find the wig i definitely favor going
2440s	drive this turn over coin into a three
2442s	drop though because treasure guard
2444s	doesn't have too much uh pressure just
2446s	played as uh on an empty board and if
2449s	you go for a crushed flaw enforcer you
2450s	leave yourself very weak too dragged
2452s	below which is definitely a two of in
2454s	the deck so fury now gets the
2457s	opportunity to start placing some wigs
2460s	question is is it treasure or crush claw
2463s	i do like the crush claw so it
2465s	challenges the sierracus cultists
2467s	yeah and also a treasure guard can be
2470s	super powerful later on as well which is
2472s	such a high base health means that even
2475s	late like four or five turns from now
2477s	you can play it build it up with some
2479s	buffs and it becomes very threatening
2481s	in most cases as well i actually didn't
2484s	see what the nargling got that was too
2485s	fast for me because i was looking at
2486s	something else
2487s	was unstable shadow blast which is an
2489s	amazing outcome against wig priest
2492s	imagine one vana to deal six damage and
2495s	most of the time you don't get the
2497s	overkill and self-damage against wig
2499s	priests because the minions have so much
2500s	health on them this is looking like a
2502s	fantastic start for gabby here getting a
2505s	head on or not necessarily ahead but
2507s	getting bored presents right and using
2509s	those minions to fight back while
2510s	they're still relevant and then later on
2513s	having that mana built up towards his
2515s	big clears like the entitled customer
2519s	yeah 100 just having stuff to do is
2521s	absolutely huge here it looks like fury
2523s	is gonna split the wigs there and just
2526s	uh oh push face as well not gonna bother
2528s	with the trades assuming i imagine that
2531s	gabby will do some trades for him
2533s	yeah i think that's a very fair
2535s	assumption here um all of the single
2537s	target removal except the snuggling from
2539s	the warlock generally don't deal enough
2542s	damage to one shot any of these four
2545s	sixes so um fury they're just saying
2548s	okay if you have to clear the board you
2549s	have to trade anyway
2553s	yuri is piecing together some very
2555s	powerful tools though with the raiding
2557s	elementals and najak hexman now as well
2560s	still just has the one wig i think
2562s	that's the drawback right now if he if
2564s	he had this hand but with two wigs
2566s	things can get out of control very
2568s	quickly
2569s	but it's not looking good
2575s	i think it's going to be
2576s	another
2578s	two minions played here as opposed to
2580s	just treasure guard and wig which i
2583s	quite like because the treasure guard at
2586s	two attack doesn't necessarily challenge
2588s	the school teacher on the other side off
2590s	of this discover i guess another
2593s	treasure guard
2598s	it's not ideal but the others don't
2600s	really have much synergy with the
2602s	gameplan oh it takes glow scale as a
2604s	cheaper naga option
2605s	maybe planning to go for a big pop-up
2608s	with a radiant soon
2611s	yeah that was the trade-off right the
2612s	overall better card in the form of the
2614s	treasure guard versus just saving one
2616s	mana which i can definitely get behind
2621s	abby though
2623s	oh yeah that's very clean
2625s	incredible pickup lets him full clear
2627s	this board even though he has to trade
2629s	both minions into the amalgam he's not
2631s	too upset about that gabby i think is
2634s	looking to clear up some hand space
2635s	leading into a dreadlitch tamsin turn
2638s	uh he could also adjust times in here
2640s	although it would make him overdraw
2644s	yeah i was looking for the times in
2646s	actually just to get it cooking looks
2648s	like he's just going to drop her zach
2651s	right i lost
2654s	into milfury for something significant
2657s	and it's going to be
2660s	a shard
2662s	yeah not bad for fury i don't think you
2664s	really need chart against warlock
2667s	yeah also just a big deal for the fact
2668s	that there's just a 6'5 on an empty
2670s	board right
2672s	so fiori has to like build up a board
2674s	and then hope the 6'5 doesn't just tear
2676s	it down again uh he does have hexen but
2680s	not really the strongest defense options
2682s	for hexan either right like if he steals
2685s	the the magic then sorry if he steals
2687s	the zuckel then it
2689s	probably just instantly dies next turn
2691s	anyway
2692s	yeah i would agree it's just weak to so
2695s	many removal options from gabby
2696s	especially now he's on above six mana
2699s	all the aoe available even just a single
2701s	drag below or assault plus trade can
2704s	kill off that hexane so i don't think
2705s	that's going to be a priority for fury
2707s	here he's also just kind of getting beat
2709s	down by the curses from gabby who has
2711s	managed to not only stay ahead on board
2714s	but get the curse train rolling faster
2716s	than average i would say
2721s	yeah it's definitely an interesting
2723s	style right less sort of comboy and more
2725s	just do stuff so your opponent can't
2728s	from gabby here with the swallow yeah i
2730s	love it it's a very proactive game plan
2732s	null now which is quite good if he wants
2736s	to slot in the dragged below as well it
2738s	could also still be a tamzin play which
2741s	lets him get a full board clear but it
2743s	would clear off his own zakul after the
2745s	trade allow me
2750s	the knoll's still one mana too expensive
2752s	right after the draws
2756s	yeah i think this is still okay though
2758s	even though he loses the actual board
2760s	presence does get a mistress of mixtures
2762s	he wants to play that out now but looks
2764s	like
2765s	thinking about it okay choosing not to
2768s	doesn't want their that on board to help
2769s	with the heel and and wow the fury yeah
2772s	i kind of forgot just down to 15 now
2774s	because of those curses uh but still
2776s	just look at the power that gabby has
2778s	available to him and now with the tamzin
2780s	might just have extra three threes pop
2783s	out has that hero power which is much
2784s	stronger in general than the live tap
2786s	it's all looking good as he kind of has
2789s	an answer to everything now that he's
2790s	picked up the starfish right so that's
2792s	what i was saying earlier the guard is
2795s	really really strong at this kind of
2796s	stage in the game because out of nowhere
2798s	there's nine health on board but with
2800s	the starfish that can all just be fully
2802s	negated anyway
2804s	ooh perfect for gabby here i really like
2806s	the mistress hold to make sure the knoll
2808s	is that it's cheapest on the following
2810s	turn if he had seen no big board
2812s	development from fear he could have gone
2813s	null and mutinous for yet another
2815s	proactive line which has been giving him
2818s	such an advantage thus far and instead
2820s	we see noel plus board clear options
2822s	super simple here means fury has no real
2825s	comeback mechanism all that the wig
2828s	priest can do when they're behind on
2830s	board and don't have samuro is just
2832s	build their own big minion and that's
2834s	just not enough in this scenario it's
2836s	only a couple more ticks of curse and
2838s	then fury hunter is not only getting
2841s	beaten via board control but just
2843s	aggression as well
2845s	what do you think of hexane on the null
2846s	now just to trade off
2849s	i mean kind of have to to stay alive but
2852s	it is not winning the game
2855s	or is any other line that i can see and
2857s	i think if there is some sort of school
2860s	teacher option that pulls fury out of
2862s	this
2864s	um
2870s	i'm not seeing it
2872s	yeah so like hex and
2874s	play the curse and just heal and hope
2878s	that hexan lives
2879s	is that as desperate as fury is right
2882s	now well you can trade the noel
2884s	immediately so
2886s	oh yeah yeah of course yeah okay yeah
2888s	trade the null away i'm saying i'd play
2889s	the curse uh and just put a heel down
2892s	with hero power and then just right
2894s	i definitely see the point
2896s	yeah
2897s	like it's not important that it lives to
2899s	protect the knoll on your side it's
2901s	important that it lives just so fury has
2903s	a target for
2904s	any of these wigs
2906s	but
2906s	that is not necessarily going to be the
2908s	case here gabi feeling safe enough that
2910s	he can just drop the mutant as it's a
2912s	radiant which is not a huge deal because
2914s	fury has the other one but the bigger
2917s	headline here is um he needs to get this
2920s	handmaiden to roll some amazing draws
2923s	here probably of a leash to really have
2925s	enough mana to work with on this turn
2927s	yeah this is looking okay though right
2929s	the hexane's going to get big the
2930s	handmaid i'm going to draw there's still
2931s	the wig for zero because the other
2933s	elemental
2934s	and there is bless as well so oh another
2936s	devour too
2938s	okay
2939s	yeah these these are the kind of turns
2942s	you need to make in these games where
2943s	you actually just steal the win as this
2945s	priest it's very possible it's going to
2947s	be difficult because we're staring at
2948s	twisted nether
2950s	but still this is the kind of turn you
2952s	make right uh where the deck can
2954s	surprise how late it could still play
2958s	right um the voidwalker sticking around
2960s	is actually a big deal because it means
2963s	that fury can't clear the mutanus and go
2965s	face with a huge bless minion this turn
2968s	if the one one were not there he could
2970s	distribute one wig to the other three
2972s	two or two wigs rather have that trade
2974s	and then have that hexson be pretty
2976s	uncontested and also his own health
2979s	total at this point the bigger worry is
2981s	not the fact that he's not dealing
2983s	lethal himself it's the fact that the
2985s	mutanus can go face for
2987s	six if he doesn't trade it and he's just
2989s	dead to any curse
2991s	i do like this though he's seen a good
2993s	chunk of curses there is still 20 what
2995s	six cards left in the deck a few less
2997s	actually because of the imps but i like
2999s	this because
3000s	by trading is fury really gonna win at
3003s	this point knowing that there's silence
3004s	knowing that there's removal i think
3006s	just pushing damage and hoping for the
3007s	best really is the the
3009s	the out that he has available to him
3011s	right now oh my god the gig
3014s	yep that seals it
3017s	nothing to be done here for fury that is
3021s	going to be a quick 2-0 lead for gabby
3025s	it really is yeah fury going for the
3026s	school teacher just to look right and
3029s	when you're in this spot why not open
3030s	the box and just have a quick look
3032s	what's inside but unless i'm missing
3034s	something none of those will solve solve
3037s	fury's problems here and that's going to
3039s	be a very rough game indeed
3043s	yeah um not only is it extremely
3046s	demoralizing to go down 02 this quickly
3048s	i kind of felt like fury hunter's
3051s	best chance of bullying the lineup from
3053s	gabby was to get multiple wins on this
3055s	warlock but the fact that it's gotten
3057s	through so easily didn't even look close
3059s	i mean
3061s	who's actually favored in the matchup i
3063s	swear it's wig priest but
3066s	i feel like it definitely should be but
3068s	it's not been the case for this one and
3070s	gabby
3071s	takes another victory goes two
3074s	zero up in this series i mean he did do
3076s	this yesterday when we were casting as
3078s	well and did then sort of have a bit of
3080s	a shaky
3081s	moment and then it went all the way to
3083s	game five fury hunter definitely capable
3086s	of bringing this one back but suddenly
3088s	gabby only has his mage left and again
3091s	and mage i think
3093s	hasn't been doing as well as people
3095s	thought it would but has actually not
3097s	been doing badly either right it's just
3099s	been doing well i think is the best way
3102s	to describe it so definitely still
3104s	looking good for gabby only needing one
3106s	win with this mage out of uh the three
3109s	chances he has and i think mage is well
3112s	capable of taking that win indeed this
3115s	is a deck that if it just hits one of
3118s	its uh one of these two key cards on the
3120s	left early enough you get such a big
3123s	advantage in any matchup indeed looking
3126s	at the small tech choices that could
3127s	maybe shift a few percentages around we
3130s	see thinly in here over pelican diver
3133s	you see a restaurant viper which i feel
3135s	was you know that's a card that i really
3137s	thought would fall off for this meta
3138s	because vipers traditionally only had
3141s	real big use against paladin where
3144s	control paladin and back paladin aren't
3146s	particularly popular in the field and i
3148s	didn't think they would be but we see
3150s	gabby of course like even from the
3152s	warlock we can see his mindset with the
3153s	deck building is to make sure he doesn't
3155s	have any truly abysmal match up so
3157s	trying to hedge a little bit there uh
3159s	one parrot is one less than i'm used to
3162s	seeing in most lists but i don't hate it
3165s	yeah it's it's it's interesting isn't it
3166s	i think a lot of the time pirate does
3168s	feel very extra in the deck and then
3170s	when you suddenly say well run two of
3172s	them i feel like you play tons of games
3175s	where you don't ever actually play one
3176s	never mind two so yeah i could
3179s	definitely see that being an acceptable
3181s	cut here fury hunter gonna be locking in
3183s	the boat rogue first or the uh pirate
3186s	rogue or whatever rogue you want to call
3188s	it a crabber tower rogue i'm sure saul
3190s	will want to call it at this point uh
3192s	but still a deck more than capable of
3195s	piling on the pressure early which is i
3197s	think the biggest chance you have versus
3199s	this mage for the majority of the decks
3201s	in the meta right now right you just
3203s	want to pile on the pressure and make
3205s	them feel awkward about getting that
3207s	sort of plain belinda on curve or on a
3210s	mage curve should i say which doesn't
3212s	necessarily have to be turn six
3214s	but just make them feel a little bit
3216s	difficult right because even though
3217s	belinda is extremely strong it is
3219s	basically player minion that does
3222s	nothing that turn and pass right which
3224s	is something you can really try and
3225s	punish for your opponent
3227s	right and even on the turn after if the
3229s	spell picked up was say double drake
3232s	fire and no rune you are not necessarily
3234s	answering the board of the rogue on the
3236s	next turn either given that not too many
3239s	dragons have rush
3240s	um fury hunter here i do completely
3243s	agree with your assessment that he has a
3246s	big chance of beating down gabby in the
3248s	early game but this hand is not it and
3251s	it also is kind of dependent on whether
3253s	or not gabby finds evoker no armor to be
3256s	found for now so that's a plus for fury
3258s	but he really needs knowles or at least
3260s	a preparation to get this vessel out uh
3262s	sooner rather than later
3265s	yeah there's belinda and also um i saw
3268s	wiki good talk they're doing some great
3270s	deck breakdown breakdowns and card
3272s	breakdowns for the archetypes uh talking
3275s	about how good ram rider has been in
3277s	this tournament even though a lot of
3279s	players have looked at cutting it and uh
3281s	yeah you can see why right suddenly in
3284s	this matchup obviously there's the prep
3285s	now for fury which has changed things
3287s	again but even just with the ram rider
3289s	right like the match-up is competitive
3291s	in these first few turns right there's
3293s	something to play now there's the one
3294s	ones in hand now the evoker's been drawn
3298s	it's not looking too bad at all
3300s	yeah evoker just smooths out the curve
3302s	perfectly for gabi here like the
3303s	starfish removing stealth isn't a big
3305s	deal make no mistake but he is just
3307s	playing whatever he can for board i i
3310s	also like this because it actually sets
3312s	up for a potential reckless apprentice
3314s	as well right um if there's a trade into
3317s	the 2-2 and then the starfish lives the
3319s	starfish gets to hit one of the other
3321s	three threes and then just uh reckless
3323s	cleans it up quite nicely as well as
3325s	putting the solid body on the board a
3327s	little bit different now
3328s	because the knoll has come down from
3329s	fury but still not a bad setup
3332s	yep that's your point about ram
3334s	commander it's great also to potentially
3336s	set up spammy arcanus boards and the
3338s	fact that the commander adds two ramps
3341s	to the hand makes the knolls in the list
3344s	a bit cheaper um if gabby were to find
3346s	them and he's doing a very good job of
3348s	stabilizing here gonna get nine or ten
3350s	armor from the deepwater evoker and fury
3353s	already the window for him to
3356s	uh pile on the beatdown is quickly
3358s	closing
3359s	puff right gabby's managed to
3361s	stay competitive on this early board and
3363s	we know things are only going to get
3365s	crazier as time goes on and i do feel
3368s	like if fury hunter wants to win this
3370s	and judging from these plays this is how
3372s	he wants to do it he needs to keep tooth
3375s	of nefarian both of them in hand along
3377s	with wicked stab to just chuck
3379s	everything to the face i think that's
3381s	fury's general game plan and i think the
3384s	second he starts using those removal
3385s	tools although those damage tools for
3388s	removal is when he starts to throw the
3390s	game away
3391s	it's a really tough situation to tell
3393s	because at 28 health you kind of also
3396s	say this reach is not getting there
3398s	especially if you expect
3400s	barbaric sorceress or belinda on the
3402s	very next turn so he's going for
3405s	the other line of hoping that the tooth
3407s	gets him some miracle spell
3409s	these are not it though
3412s	yeah i do think what i was saying was
3414s	definitely more true before the evoker
3416s	just put 10 armor on on gaby right at 18
3419s	it does feel a little bit more
3420s	reasonable but fury of course has to
3422s	react to what gabby does he's gonna i
3425s	believe uh pick those boats to get the
3427s	extra three threes next turn but for now
3429s	gonna make the choice as to whether he
3430s	wants to trade again and he does put a
3433s	tooth into the reckless to just try and
3435s	retain some level of board and get some
3436s	repeat damage from these minions
3439s	right it's a painful
3441s	price to pay losing that six damage
3443s	burst but fury was just kind of hoping
3445s	maybe gabby didn't have the perfect card
3447s	on this turn as well but
3449s	it's there
3451s	um
3452s	two three threes would stealth
3454s	definitely going to help though the
3455s	long-term game plan the gun fishing
3457s	doesn't actually pull the 3-3s anymore
3460s	because they were judged up by
3461s	illuminate
3462s	um so i guess this is going to be an
3465s	edwin turn instead
3469s	um
3471s	yes i'm actually wondering
3476s	how much like how often wicked stab
3477s	actually gets played here
3481s	yikes okani too late if only it came
3485s	down last year into block belinda or
3486s	barbara but not the case
3489s	and sherry quickly counting up whether
3491s	the dagger has
3493s	more long-term value than gone fishing
3496s	or if it's just wicked stab face like
3497s	you said because mr smite can come down
3499s	on curve next turn so if he pushes 10
3502s	this turn with the wicked stab he would
3505s	need to
3506s	uh then deal 12 the next turn which is
3508s	technically doable with the 233 stealth
3510s	and the smite so i am thinking it is
3513s	just a wicked stab angle right
3515s	yeah but it is reliant on their
3519s	no real trades happening but yeah i
3521s	think again just fury has to do this if
3523s	he starts trying to do some trades and
3525s	this is going to be difficult here going
3527s	to be a shadow step in a replay i
3529s	imagine of the pirate here
3530s	oh an additional stealth minion to help
3533s	uh push some extra damage next turn with
3535s	the smite gonna be awfully closey
3542s	oh the spammy is the most difficult
3545s	thing to play around
3547s	and that's just
3548s	it's just all gone there's just no
3550s	chance one turn too early for uh for
3553s	scabs smite doesn't even get close this
3557s	would have to be what okani and stab the
3560s	belinda oh
3562s	yes that doesn't win
3565s	it's the only play fury has right now so
3568s	of course it's game three he's 20 down
3571s	he's going to make the play
3573s	but
3574s	it's rough and i think fiori has just
3577s	had such a rough series here gabby is
3579s	sort of just steamrolled through each
3581s	game and there's just been nothing fury
3583s	can really do about it the setup the
3586s	pushing for damage all looked correct
3588s	from where i was sat and the mr smite
3590s	itself even with the shadow step on the
3592s	pirate looked great but gabby's just has
3595s	an answer for every single thing fury
3597s	has done in this series not even this
3598s	game
3601s	i'm gonna go ahead and say this is not a
3602s	hundred percent over obviously it's
3604s	looking terrible for fury hunter but
3606s	this is a good scab stern to follow up
3608s	he is not dead uh he still has the smite
3611s	in hand and there's still two filet
3613s	fighters in the deck right technically
3615s	there is still enough reach to get there
3616s	there is however not a lot of card draw
3619s	especially after having played the edwin
3621s	but fury has these two four twos and
3624s	gabby currently doesn't have another
3626s	spammy in hand oh sorry wait wait wait
3629s	yeah he does he gets it back yeah he
3630s	gets
3631s	all right so they're gone if he plays
3633s	ram spammy
3637s	uh three mana left over could just go
3640s	mailbox afterwards
3644s	if he's very brave can also just not
3647s	clear these and go for counter
3648s	development with dragons because
3650s	technically on two cards in hand it's
3652s	very unlikely he dies
3655s	even on the board if he's very brave he
3657s	just plays rune of the archmage and just
3659s	says
3660s	yeah
3661s	i mean it's reasonable again you you
3663s	have certain expectations from the
3665s	average rune of the arc mage which is
3667s	sort of some form of aoe some form of
3670s	potential freeze and then you know a
3672s	secret and some damage right like he's
3674s	normally how you'd expect that to go
3676s	does look like he is gonna just play out
3678s	the spammy he was looking at the rune of
3680s	the arc mage but thought you know what
3681s	setting up what seven power this turn
3683s	eight damage with a ping next turn it's
3685s	probably going to be good enough
3687s	right
3688s	i do like this line sorry i thought that
3690s	roon was straight up another drake fire
3692s	you couldn't already drag that turn uh
3694s	but fury does have a pretty decent
3697s	answer here with the krabatoa gets to
3699s	push another four damage face remove
3701s	enough power from board that he is
3703s	almost never dead next turn i say almost
3706s	because there's a rune
3709s	oh the hull breaker might hurt him too
3711s	much maybe not the best idea
3715s	but it might be necessary at the same
3717s	time obviously the big whiff if is if
3719s	you hit a giant vessel
3722s	is this just rodent nest
3725s	i'm still looking at the hull breaker
3726s	i'm sorry i i don't know like
3729s	okay even if you do take the five from
3731s	the boat there's not eight on board
3733s	after the claws trade and then you would
3735s	have hero power smite boat right for 12
3738s	damage first and if you don't hit
3741s	the boat then you hit one of your cheap
3743s	spells and it's good
3745s	okay okay i'm slowly being sold
3748s	maybe i just like the hunter cards
3751s	okay he did take the five
3756s	but he does have the 12 burst right plus
3758s	the crab weapon which is
3761s	probably just gonna be two damage by
3763s	next turn
3764s	so it's
3765s	actually one off lethal with this setup
3768s	for fury
3771s	gabby just gonna press rune
3774s	uh-huh it's really the only choice he
3777s	has right i mean he can there is a
3779s	knicks here right
3780s	yeah
3782s	you can also weave in the barbaric if he
3784s	coins first um but it's not guaranteed
3787s	because he knows there's a vessel in
3788s	hand with the five damage anyway let's
3791s	open the box polly jelly
3794s	explosive that's insane actually because
3796s	of the smite
3798s	yeah
3800s	yeah it just kills the smite right yup
3803s	straight up
3806s	it doesn't ignite to the face because
3808s	why not it's probably going to be
3810s	jellyfish going down all the snap freeze
3812s	as well
3815s	this one's looking pretty over
3818s	oh my god oh my
3822s	god coin out taunt i imagine yeah with
3824s	the barbara
3826s	yeah
3827s	oh he just kicks it out
3832s	okay
3835s	okay
3836s	that was let's be honest as good as it
3838s	was gonna get right for for picking up
3840s	something to play
3845s	so the boat can actually still be coined
3847s	out here thank you mailbox dancers so
3852s	this is a clear
3853s	and some meager damage pushed face but
3856s	i'm pretty sure this anexia is going to
3859s	seal the game because after this fight
3861s	has been played fury has no more
3862s	prospects of reach um
3865s	i guess one we could stab in the deck
3866s	but it's just not nearly enough yeah i
3868s	think the reach is just the wicked stab
3871s	right that's about it
3873s	especially because it's likely only be
3875s	drawing one card there's two phillip
3876s	fighters of course but
3878s	if you want to call deal one to face
3880s	reach sure we can but you understand the
3882s	point right oh is that another ignite
3884s	and that's just gonna be the game yeah
3887s	the ignite getting shuffled in gabby
3889s	pulling it out
3890s	doing some press-ups to end the game but
3892s	again a lot less than we saw in his
3894s	matches from yesterday so gabby
3896s	definitely understanding there's only
3898s	time for shenanigans once he's decided
3901s	he's already won huge congratulations to
3904s	gabby there on the victory 3-0 puts him
3906s	in the top eight with some ease but i
3908s	will say uh you know sad to see from
3910s	fiori there
3911s	i think he played really well did
3913s	everything he could but there are some
3914s	series you were just not going to win
3916s	and i think that was one of them
3918s	unfortunately
3919s	i would have to agree i think even gabby
3921s	will admit um in quite a few of those
3923s	games he was handed um some hands on a
3925s	silver platter in the warlock game i do
3928s	really like how he approached it though
3929s	the mix of going for board presence
3932s	curses weaved in and removal only when
3934s	absolutely necessary i think was a great
3936s	way to actually prove to me that wig
3939s	priest is not at least in this
3941s	tournament favored against curse warlock
3944s	uh warlock has currently 33 wins to 31
3948s	from the wig priest here uh gabby going
3950s	to be very happy since he got a quick
3953s	series and can rest a little bit before
3956s	playing his quarter quarter final match
3958s	i do think we also have to wait a little
3960s	bit more before we see who's actually
3962s	rounding out the top eight here and for
3964s	fury hunter definitely hoping that we
3967s	see him put in another good performance
3969s	at the next couple mts
3971s	still has a chance to win one still has
3973s	a chance to make it through to
3976s	seasonals via win totals which i'm sure
3979s	he's more than capable of doing yeah
3981s	also fiore is going to be in last call
3982s	as well so i fear he still continues to
3985s	be in everything because guess what he's
3987s	a very good hearthstone player and we
3989s	seem to just now expect him to make it
3991s	deep into these masters tours but i
3994s	think it's about time we'll find out
3996s	very shortly but we did promise you some
3999s	card reveals here from the new expansion
4002s	so i do think we will be able to check
4004s	those out now so for the first time to
4006s	reveal them on stream here is the first
4009s	one to you and i love the name already
4011s	stuart keep it simple but it's stuart
4014s	the stewie with a three mana paladin
4016s	legendary deathratt i'll give your next
4018s	silver hand recruit you summon plus
4020s	three plus three and this death rattle
4023s	so as long as they don't get silenced
4024s	it's basically just an an
4026s	air a never-ending fall for from your
4029s	hero power or maybe some other ways to
4031s	generate silver hand recruits so really
4034s	really strong overall and i do think as
4036s	we can get you can hear your opinions on
4038s	this geo we do have a bit of a video as
4039s	well just to show you the uh the
4040s	gameplay of this card all right first
4043s	opinion steward of scrolls get out of
4045s	here we have a new steward on the block
4049s	and it is like you said with this sort
4051s	of infinite loop deathrattle definitely
4053s	giving some very strong leapfrogger
4056s	vibes except for these silver hand
4058s	recruits so already it's looking like
4061s	dude paladin is coming back here this is
4063s	a legendary card so definitely a card
4066s	that you can only play one of in the
4068s	deck because this effect is so powerful
4071s	and obviously the stronger uh sorry the
4073s	earlier you play it the stronger it is
4075s	we can see this in action in just a bit
4078s	here we go and you say play one of g i'm
4081s	just waiting for the zola uh to
4083s	stick and then you start really stacking
4086s	those uh those hero powers to go so yeah
4088s	it does get played out as a 3-3 and uh
4091s	like i said this is just going to be a
4093s	sort of never-ending buff unless
4095s	obviously the card with the death rail
4097s	is transformed or it's a silent so again
4100s	requiring your opponent to really put
4102s	effort into clearing this up and i think
4104s	for the three mana three three i can see
4107s	this definitely just fitting into any
4109s	deck that ever even considers having the
4112s	chance to play the hero power you see
4114s	you're gonna be pressed now and there we
4116s	go two men of four four that will create
4118s	another two mana four four with the hero
4121s	power when it dies so looks pretty solid
4123s	to me and obviously if you can make more
4125s	than one stewart then that's gonna be
4127s	pretty good but look at the next card
4129s	that geod you want to break this one
4130s	down for us as it appears we may have a
4132s	theme going on here yep that's right
4134s	dude paladin coming back in a full for
4137s	sinful sous chef one mana 2 1 common
4140s	death rattle add two silver hand
4141s	recruits to your hand which immediately
4144s	brings to mind the old dry gulch jailer
4146s	i think from all the way back in mean
4148s	streets of gadgetzan that was a two mana
4150s	one one death rattle add three silver
4152s	hand recruits to your hand but obviously
4154s	that was understated for its mana cost
4156s	and just kind of slow but a one drop
4159s	with a competitive stat line that gives
4161s	you this upshot of silverhand recruits
4164s	that are amazing especially if you
4166s	already played steward i think is very
4168s	much playable here and because we know
4170s	the doves have mentioned that they were
4173s	looking towards these next few
4174s	expansions with board-based combat in
4177s	mind i feel like silverhand recruits
4179s	especially if you can keep getting
4181s	deathrattle is going to be a very
4183s	powerful mechanic indeed
4185s	100 is that benefit of it's one of those
4188s	cards that said it's a turn one play
4190s	that at worst gives you a decent turn
4193s	two play of just two other one ones
4194s	being able to check out if you want need
4196s	to keep up on tempo and also may have
4199s	some synergy with the third card that we
4201s	have to reveal i believe third and final
4203s	card for powder we are going to reveal
4205s	for you and it's kind of the payoff card
4207s	right it's the buffet bigen which
4210s	battlecries summon two silver hand
4212s	recruits and infuse three give them plus
4215s	to attack and divine shield infuse is if
4218s	this card is in your hand and three
4221s	minions in this instance die whilst this
4223s	is in your hand three friendly minions
4225s	i'll add then it transforms into gaining
4228s	that effect of give them two attack and
4229s	divine shield so suddenly if you are
4232s	playing these cards out on curve as we
4234s	just saw you will have three minions
4236s	that are very likely to be dead by turn
4238s	four if this starts out in your hand you
4240s	get four mana two four that summons two
4243s	silver hand recruits
4244s	that have plus two attack and divine
4246s	shield and just in case you managed to
4248s	play stuart as well one of those could
4250s	have gained that death rattle buff as
4252s	well it's huge but yeah it's incredibly
4255s	powerful of course if buffet bigen is
4257s	active on curve now whether or not you
4259s	can get this active on curve is
4261s	dependent on how uh well your early game
4264s	went but if you do get this payoff it's
4266s	incredible right the two silver hand
4268s	recruits effectively scarlet crusaders
4271s	when the infused effect has been
4274s	fulfilled and we're seeing you know um
4276s	infused as a keyword that is sort of
4279s	reminiscent of other cards that take on
4281s	a different form after a certain
4283s	condition has been met right like the
4285s	old corrupt um infused you can see it as
4288s	maybe being more or less difficult to
4290s	achieve depending on how the leading up
4293s	turns go and i'm super excited to see
4295s	whether just playing good old minions on
4298s	curve is making a big comeback in
4301s	the uh murder at castle nothing our new
4304s	expansion coming out next month yeah
4306s	that's what's going to be interesting
4307s	just as a final note on infuse if we
4309s	look at how the game is being played
4311s	right now and kind of how the meta is
4313s	well yeah there's loads of minions being
4315s	played out that die all the time because
4317s	a lot of trades happens and clears so
4319s	i think in views just from the cards
4322s	we've seen uh we'll see a decent amount
4324s	of play because i do think it's going to
4325s	go off on a regular basis at least for
4327s	the smaller infused amounts but we'll
4329s	just have to see how the meta shapes up
4332s	so again there thanks for letting us
4333s	show off those cards hope you enjoyed
4335s	checking them out and we did just have
4337s	our first match of top 16 then but i
4339s	believe we are going to go to a quick
4340s	break while we maybe set up maybe some
4342s	glances at some of the rest of the top
4344s	16 as well so don't go anywhere we'll be
4346s	right back
4355s	[Music]
4360s	[Applause]
4361s	[Music]
4364s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
4367s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
4370s	horrific reasons
4373s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
4377s	with such ruthlessness
4380s	so deep and profound
4386s	[Music]
4392s	to uncover the truth
4394s	of murder most foul
4397s	the anima drifts across the floor
4400s	highlighting the creatures who walked
4403s	through my door
4405s	the motives are as black as night
4408s	avarice power revenge and blight
4414s	we watch the hero
4416s	uncover the clues
4419s	that lead to the truth
4422s	behind this dark bruise
4426s	join us here with the grimm and empires
4431s	choose your power without heavenly bias
4435s	for at the end
4436s	they will burn in the fire
4440s	when it is known who slayed
4443s	tenacious
4444s	[Music]
4460s	[Music]
4469s	[Music]
4471s	so
4472s	[Applause]
4474s	[Music]
4489s	so
4493s	[Music]
4499s	so
4502s	[Music]
4519s	so
4529s	[Music]
4546s	welcome back everyone it is finals day
4549s	here at masters tour this year and
4551s	welcome to a lesson on why you never
4553s	make plans we were so confident we were
4555s	not going to need to fill time between
4557s	the opening round we had card reveals
4559s	and everything we thought there's no way
4562s	but yeah here we are we did not we
4564s	forgot to solve for gabby we forgot to
4567s	put gabby into the equation and that
4568s	crushing 3-0
4570s	left us with a little bit of time to
4572s	fill before we can uh give you the top a
4574s	and get into those all-important top
4575s	eight games we just saw gabby speaking
4578s	of top eights become the player with the
4580s	most top eights in masters tour history
4582s	we saw fury miss out on the opportunity
4584s	to overtake alutemu as the player with
4587s	the most wins but we can now move on to
4589s	two players who are really from my
4591s	perspective just starting to forge a bit
4593s	of a legacy at this point uh some way
4596s	short of the feats so far of the likes
4597s	of gabby and fury hunter but a great
4599s	opportunity to write a first chapter of
4601s	their masters tour history in this event
4603s	that's right both of them coming from
4605s	quite strong countries in the
4606s	hearthstone scene as well very good
4609s	representation from japan as always in
4611s	master stores and in lobby legends it so
4614s	happens and then gabame a player that's
4616s	been active in the french scene for
4617s	quite some time and uh they have a fair
4620s	amount of local tournaments as well very
4622s	solid player nice to see that he is
4624s	making a splash on the masters tour
4627s	stage and he does have that mine road
4630s	that we have been keeping an eye on for
4632s	quite some time saddle however it's been
4635s	banned away uh on top of the fact that
4637s	as we are joining the series he's
4639s	already taken a win with both
4641s	his bar priest and his big spell mage
4645s	yeah it held up actually um end of day
4648s	two obviously i was referring to it a
4649s	lot yesterday based on end of day one
4651s	stats of mine rogue being the highest
4653s	win rate deck in the entire tournament
4655s	it actually held up past uh day two as
4658s	well with mine rogue finishing day two
4659s	as the highest win rate deck in the
4660s	tournament as well uh in fact the top
4663s	three highest win rate decks in the
4665s	tournament of significant sample size
4666s	are all rogues bomb boat and jackpot in
4670s	that order so a little bit different
4672s	from what um what we've been seeing in a
4674s	couple of recent big tournaments where
4675s	rogues seem to be the struggle bus deck
4677s	a little bit uh rogue really just just
4680s	balling out in this tournament so far
4682s	and uh it is now the rogue looking to
4684s	start the comeback for karagami with
4687s	just the druid left on the other side
4690s	that is right and it is going to be the
4693s	alignment druid for gabo may so not a
4696s	big surprise to see katagami queueing up
4698s	his rogue first now i do think that
4701s	between this and boat rogue for this
4703s	matchup in particular you would much
4705s	rather have the boat to try and be more
4708s	consistently aggressive in the early
4709s	game against this runathol um
4713s	alignment deck however
4716s	that's not to say that jackpot rogue
4717s	doesn't have a great matchup there i
4719s	mean i wouldn't say it's great it's
4721s	still decent though um you have the
4723s	knolls that can get there early and
4724s	there are of course some amazing
4726s	outcomes from jackpot which can very
4729s	easily out value what you would get from
4732s	a couple 33s anyway yeah for comparison
4736s	54 for this match up against anaconda
4739s	druid 65 for boat rogue so that is a
4743s	massive difference between the two decks
4744s	with kind of the extra aggro thrown in
4746s	there based on what we've seen in this
4747s	tournament so far uh of course this is
4750s	the renathol variation uh raven referred
4753s	earlier to a little stat stump thread
4755s	that we could put up on twitter recently
4757s	where obviously one tournament sample
4759s	blah blah blah blah all the necessary
4761s	caveats but from the data that we have
4762s	to go on it does seem like 40 card
4765s	alignment does improve the win rate over
4768s	30 card alignment obviously much more
4770s	brewing to be done on that one but also
4772s	i think the most important conclusion is
4775s	that prestor druid as a whole has just
4777s	outperformed alignment druid in this
4779s	tournament which i think is perhaps a a
4782s	bigger takeaway and a more important
4783s	thing for the players to have got right
4784s	in line up construction in this
4786s	tournament and most importantly still an
4788s	overall dub for a subtle overload
4791s	yeah
4792s	that is what matters once again welcome
4795s	to team smart people wow
4798s	all right we do have agave starting off
4800s	with that jerry rig carpenter which is
4802s	always amazing to see even more so than
4804s	just the nourish itself because make
4806s	sure you have things to do in the early
4808s	game and perhaps in the renatal version
4811s	i would say very important that you get
4813s	to split the ramp and draw aspects of
4816s	nourish because you often first of all
4819s	want to use the ramp nourish but in the
4821s	runathol version of the deck you run so
4824s	many cards that it can be hard to find
4825s	card draw so the fact that you get to
4827s	double up on that nourish even if you
4829s	spend 10 mana total on it is very much
4832s	an important factor
4838s	this is looking like a
4840s	very rapid start that park panther in
4843s	hand again referring to wicked good's
4846s	excellent work has had a positive win
4847s	rate in terms of inclusion in some of
4849s	these decks a very very useful card to
4852s	have it seems for this tournament if you
4854s	are going to go the alignment route
4856s	certainly just relieving some of that uh
4858s	mid game tension that you can really get
4860s	punished for when you are playing
4861s	celestial alignment and just focusing so
4863s	heavily on ramping up
4869s	yeah kabumi with one more turn i would
4871s	say to phil before he can go for nourish
4874s	ramp here because i'm looking at the
4875s	implications of coining out rampant
4877s	growth and innervating it this turn
4879s	already he would go to six mana next
4881s	turn which doesn't necessarily lead to
4884s	any amazing play like it does let you go
4887s	park panther and amalgam but it doesn't
4889s	change the fact that you would still
4890s	have the seven mana turn to fill before
4892s	alignment so
4894s	i am thinking that gaboumei would just
4896s	hold back on the nourish this turn
4899s	oh reef is insane
4901s	yeah reef is incredible here for sure
4904s	i do have a far more important question
4905s	though which has just sort of struck my
4907s	mind is category playing from a sauna
4909s	because it really looks like
4911s	based on his web camera no
4913s	i wanted to ask that as well but i i am
4917s	trying not to intrude on his personal
4919s	space you know all right fair
4921s	fair my curiosity got the better of me i
4923s	apologize yeah
4926s	although that hasn't stopped me from
4927s	asking is dmitry kazav playing from a
4930s	chapel or something
4938s	his blind is playing from the void the
4940s	actual void yes
4942s	the answer to that is simply yes
4946s	thank you finally gotten some conclusive
4948s	answers here because the other questions
4950s	we will never know oh that's the one
4953s	it's not a hot take that is the one i
4954s	can confirm for sure uh all right gabame
4957s	continuing along this fairly
4959s	straightforward path that has been
4960s	presented to him thanks to that early
4962s	split on the nourish he's still an
4965s	anacondra away from really being doing
4966s	anything particularly oppressive
4969s	uh did turn down a couple of like big
4972s	bombs that could be used for post
4974s	alignment off the dredge effects that he
4975s	had previously um but i think just due
4978s	to the the way the dredge works he
4979s	wanted to draw the card immediately so
4980s	on and so forth and just how insane that
4982s	drew to the reef was for uh relieving
4984s	pressure immediately it does all make
4986s	sense
4987s	speaking of big bombs we see katagami
4989s	with the option to go for one of his
4992s	jackpot cards or just blood in the water
4995s	although i think glaciate is where i
4997s	would end up with here he says not worth
4999s	it for the freeze effect though even
5001s	even though an eight drop is probably
5003s	better than a five five on average just
5005s	goes for the protect the innocent here
5007s	honestly it's not a very high impact
5009s	swift scale trickster i don't think gaba
5011s	may should be too upset about that
5013s	especially since he still has so much
5014s	health to work with care of renathal um
5018s	question is whether this is just an
5019s	immediate alignment even though there's
5021s	no amazing follow-up like you said with
5023s	anacondra there's still both halves of
5026s	that other nourish and further ramp to
5028s	be had
5033s	i like buying time here is still
5035s	fine he has so much potential clearing
5037s	power with the rush minions and he still
5040s	has a due to the reef to come out
5041s	alongside this as well which will take
5043s	care of things very nicely
5046s	all right she's also got a beast here
5048s	okay fine
5049s	yeah just to fill out the man i think
5051s	it's fine piranha swarmer sure
5054s	time goes short lets him get that clean
5057s	break point so we can then use the
5058s	attack on the swift scale trickster
5061s	uh there's also the interaction to note
5063s	of alignment
5065s	into a rogue that has already played
5066s	jackpot is kind of scary because you
5068s	might be giving them a free super
5070s	expensive spell that they may or may not
5073s	have held back for a post alignment
5075s	response
5076s	yeah it's a very it's a weird read to
5078s	make right because you saw your opponent
5081s	have zero mana spells available on the
5082s	previous turn and that's what they did
5084s	with it but at the same time you do
5087s	sometimes play mind games with that with
5088s	the alignment deck and you want a
5089s	punishment punish them really hard on
5091s	the turn they play alignment so that's
5093s	you save something really powerful to
5094s	counter that because that's when you can
5096s	you know force them to sort of hang
5098s	themselves by playing alignment in a
5099s	position where you're not predicting so
5101s	i think it's a tough kind of read to
5103s	make but i just think on that turn it
5105s	was
5106s	just too clean to make the removal play
5109s	from gabamay what he had available so it
5111s	makes sense to me now having picked up
5113s	the guff this is looking like a much
5115s	more promising alignment hand with the
5117s	uh the extra ramp and the card drawer
5119s	available with the guff as well oh what
5122s	a draw that is
5124s	yeah that is absolutely perfect to
5126s	relieve some pressure and get that cycle
5128s	going through now i think
5131s	okay he can decide later whether or not
5134s	he needed to ramp with a nourish given
5137s	that there's too well growth but i think
5138s	yeah at this point because that is the
5140s	only piece of nourish right now that
5142s	actually immediately refreshes crystals
5144s	that's insane yeah noel clears the five
5147s	five
5148s	this is just getting out of control very
5150s	quickly
5153s	the fact that katagami's already used
5155s	tests for only one card
5159s	is going to be
5161s	a problem for
5167s	him i mean if he wants to go maximum
5170s	pressure again he can just replay that
5172s	protect the innocent with the contraband
5174s	stash and i guess play blood in the
5175s	water to clear the six-six
5179s	a frozen a-bomb still eats but a frozen
5183s	arcane devourer also still grows
5186s	and a frozen forge fiend still taunts
5188s	and gains eight armor these these are
5189s	all things that are true yeah i i like
5192s	the devourer overall just making the
5194s	biggest stats it makes the most sense
5198s	yeah i completely agree it's tough for
5200s	gabba may to clear that um without using
5203s	spells first
5204s	no starfish at the moment
5212s	gonna go digging still
5216s	connie into
5218s	the immediate post alignment turn is
5220s	amazing especially if you can go okani
5222s	and then
5223s	alignment
5225s	but at this point not necessarily that
5228s	good
5229s	wait is there just a spammy clear here
5230s	that'd be kind of sick
5234s	you could make well you could make a two
5236s	with the alex on the arcane devourer you
5238s	have a one in your hand with the jerry
5240s	rig
5241s	did you make a three somewhere else to
5243s	then fight because then this
5246s	yeah i mean there might have been this
5248s	is fine like i don't think there's any
5249s	reason to go looking that hard for it
5251s	but i think it was a possibility
5253s	maybe maybe
5257s	and my mind immediately crosses out
5259s	okani when the minions have that sorry
5261s	uh spammy when the minions have that
5263s	much health but
5264s	certainly something worth revisiting
5266s	later on but with the route gabomei has
5269s	taken definitely still a decent position
5272s	uh the devourer
5273s	still frozen
5279s	deep dragon to make sure kazakhstan is
5282s	active sooner rather than later
5285s	it's such a bad card the fact that like
5288s	unless you summon a rush or charge
5289s	minion you're functionally freezing the
5291s	minion you summon for two turns because
5293s	it has to miss an attack before it
5295s	becomes unfrozen it's so gross like why
5298s	are these cards still frozen who would
5300s	ever play this card
5304s	i don't know
5308s	still threatening though that 8 12
5310s	looming in the distance only growing
5317s	blood in the water
5318s	one total like just a little bit of
5321s	damage short of taking down the
5324s	antenna cleanly but he can use the
5326s	damage on something else
5339s	you use the russian push yeah i suppose
5342s	that makes sense
5345s	so now a 16 health minion that does
5348s	actually have to be dealt with but that
5350s	is a very timely scale of inixia pickup
5355s	right just trying to figure out
5358s	what the clear actually looks like here
5360s	it might be some combination of scale
5362s	and spammy going to draw first
5367s	so if you scale you only get five whelps
5370s	three of them go in the five five
5373s	two of them can go in the
5376s	devour maybe that's not worth it
5381s	but you can't really make board space
5382s	before playing the scale anyway right
5385s	does he start spamming you do this then
5387s	fairy dragons spam me yeah this is what
5389s	i was looking at this does this does
5391s	four damage then to the devourer and
5393s	then you can potentially follow this up
5396s	with the scale of anixia after you make
5397s	the trade yeah exactly this
5399s	very clean
5401s	even gets to maintain some welts at the
5402s	end and play that kazakhstan
5412s	[Laughter]
5421s	okay that was not great probably yeah
5425s	yeah i think he's now having to look at
5426s	what's in his deck because he has no
5428s	idea based on the end of that turn
5432s	good enough he got an 88 in play
5436s	indians now free to be played i don't
5438s	think the okani was ever actually
5439s	procked on the other side right it died
5441s	before actually being procked but now
5443s	obviously the minions are free to be
5445s	played
5446s	i'll call lag
5448s	you hate to see kolak kolak the leok of
5451s	the colossal minions
5457s	i mean he didn't do anything wrong he's
5459s	just a turtle but
5461s	all the other colossals are just so much
5463s	better
5472s	beastly beauty
5474s	not terrible here actually
5477s	but i think the more salient points here
5480s	are to gain health for gaboume so with
5482s	the fans with the earthen scales that
5484s	can all be accomplished easily
5487s	ashley beasley is fine right at 21 he's
5489s	still safe
5492s	you're off everything but azshara
5495s	everything but no old then okay i'm not
5497s	a monster
5502s	and you know you didn't get to pick your
5503s	cards when you have a beastly beauty in
5505s	your deck that's that's how you know
5509s	and you know it's been a good game when
5511s	it still wins you the series cabo may
5514s	going up 3-0 here taking out katagami
5518s	and advancing through to the quarter
5520s	finals which means subtle we have
5523s	another chance to actually see mine
5524s	rogue
5526s	we do yeah finally it's been such a
5529s	strong performer in the tournament um we
5532s	have dipped into a couple of the mine
5533s	rogue players uh series but mostly only
5537s	on wrap-up games and usually then only
5539s	at the point where they've already
5540s	picked up the win with mine rogue
5542s	kind of suffering from success it's
5545s	winning so early that by the time we
5547s	join the series it's being played in we
5549s	don't actually get to see so yeah still
5552s	still waiting to see of course there was
5554s	i believe two uh mine rogue players in
5557s	this top 16 with uh gamma and dravo i
5560s	believe the two french representatives
5561s	who played off against each other in
5563s	what looked like a winning in but they
5565s	actually ended up both making it and
5567s	would you look at that they've both made
5570s	it to top a as well dravo being rewarded
5573s	with a up against plastique and jj with
5575s	gaboume but now
5577s	if you thought gabby's hard work was
5579s	over he's had the uh the
5582s	unenviable task of having to vanquish
5584s	fury hunter and now
5586s	he goes up against the player who i was
5588s	thinking about this overnight and i
5590s	think habugabu's like first six months
5592s	of 2022
5594s	might be like the best streak of form in
5597s	hearthstone history and i know that's a
5599s	bold claim and there's like zixo and
5601s	super jj and life coach things that you
5603s	can throw out against it but that this
5605s	is back to back to back top 16s with a
5609s	summer championship thrown in the middle
5611s	of it for habukabu it's absolutely
5613s	outrageous
5615s	yeah that's tough to argue with and even
5617s	in more recent history you could throw
5619s	names like blize and gabby himself into
5621s	that mix but it's not four events in a
5624s	row like top tier results right so habu
5628s	definitely still definitely a contender
5631s	here but speaking of masters tours of
5633s	old
5634s	definitely feels like we've
5636s	been put in a time capsule saddle where
5639s	there's too many french players that i'm
5641s	used to seeing in the top 8 again
5645s	yeah i mean we we kind of had that that
5647s	french takeover for a while where
5649s	everyone getting promoted into grand
5650s	masters was french but then most of them
5652s	were just getting immediately relegated
5654s	again there was very there was a few
5656s	french grandpa simpsons just in and out
5658s	the door in grand masters so it didn't
5660s	you know the uh the the french takeover
5663s	was kind of exaggerated for a while but
5664s	there is no disputing as much as i'm
5667s	poking fun that they are one of the very
5668s	best countries in the world at
5670s	hearthstone even through that period you
5672s	know the likes of gabby and blize came
5674s	up and hung around and become two of the
5675s	very very best players in the world let
5678s	alone in the european region so yeah
5680s	massive french representation china
5682s	representation there as well of course
5684s	but i think once again we're all looking
5686s	forward to potentially that gabby versus
5688s	habu series later on and three other
5690s	fantastic quarterfinals as well so we
5692s	will not keep you waiting any longer
5695s	we've done our job we have filled in the
5697s	time we are ready now to go with top a
5699s	and we're gonna take a very very quick
5700s	break and then that top eight will be
5702s	coming right
5704s	[Music]
5712s	[Music]
5717s	[Applause]
5718s	[Music]
5722s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
5726s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
5730s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
5734s	with such ruthlessness
5737s	so deep and profound
5741s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
5748s	to uncover the truth
5750s	of murder most foul
5754s	the anima drifts across the floor
5757s	highlighting the creatures who walked
5759s	through my door
5761s	the motives are as black as night
5765s	avarice power revenge and blight
5771s	we watch the hero
5773s	uncover the clues
5776s	that lead to the truth
5778s	behind this dark rooms
5783s	join us here with the grimm and empires
5787s	choose your power without heavenly bias
5791s	for at the end
5793s	they will burn in the fire
5796s	when it is known who slayed
5799s	tenacious
5800s	[Music]
5817s	[Music]
5825s	[Music]
5831s	[Music]
5845s	so
5847s	[Music]
5873s	do
5875s	[Music]
5900s	welcome back everybody to master's tour
5901s	this year and we just got eight players
5904s	remaining and derek what our lineup of
5907s	these eight players are we couldn't ask
5909s	for much better at all i don't think
5911s	yeah it's absolutely fantastic it kind
5914s	of often happens that you feel like
5915s	you're a little bit cursed at this point
5916s	in the tournament where you get a really
5918s	good top 16 and then the top eight you
5920s	know it's a lot of the less well-known
5921s	players but i think we have such a
5923s	really gorgeous mix here of uh very
5925s	well-known players uh some players who
5928s	have been grinding away for a long time
5929s	but haven't maybe got that recognition
5932s	for those really really strong finishes
5934s	and some up-and-comers trying to make
5935s	their mark on the scene and uh to start
5938s	things off here in our first match of
5941s	the top play i think that for trevor
5943s	especially uh definitely fits into that
5945s	second category where you know he is no
5947s	spring chicken in hearthstone he has
5949s	been around the block a few times but
5951s	maybe it doesn't have that really top
5953s	level recognition in competitive
5955s	hearthstone which uh you know a top
5958s	eight or maybe better at masters tour is
5960s	exactly how you remedy that yeah drover
5962s	became one of my favorite players to
5964s	talk about a year or two ago it was the
5966s	time when everyone's getting money for
5968s	just turning up and they're going 0-1
5970s	and dropping a lot of the top players
5971s	and drover went 0-1 in that tournament
5974s	and tweeted well i'm not dropping like
5976s	you know unlucky i'm gonna carry on when
5978s	eight and one got into the top eight and
5980s	had a decent tournament out of it and
5982s	i've always liked him since then
5983s	occasionally watch his stream it's
5984s	getting bigger he has a lot of stuff
5986s	going on on there um so really looking
5988s	forward to see him you know perform at
5991s	his best in this top eight and he's up
5993s	against plastic as you mentioned someone
5995s	we haven't seen that much of um but you
5998s	mentioned we've got a diverse group of
5999s	players in this topic we've got a
6001s	diverse group of decks what's the
6003s	metadata what's happening in this
6004s	tournament what's dravo even doing
6007s	yeah he's got something a little bit
6008s	funky here we uh we already saw from
6010s	gabby uh earlier on in the day his
6013s	warlock which is of course the uh the
6015s	curse warlock the more standard version
6017s	of warlock that players are being
6018s	bringing uh driver's not even going for
6020s	the owl warlock though he's going for
6022s	like number three on the pecking order i
6024s	would say of warlock decks which is not
6026s	an especially high priority class in its
6028s	own right uh with mine warlock uh
6030s	functioning very similarly to our
6032s	warlock where you have the tams it's
6034s	phylactery in order to uh duplicate the
6036s	death rattle of a particular minion but
6038s	instead of al it's the mine which of
6040s	course does half as much damage but it
6043s	always goes face and it's still very
6044s	easy to get the the lethal if you draw
6047s	through your deck and of course a two
6048s	mana minion is a lot easier to play than
6051s	a seven mana minion later on in the game
6053s	uh but for plastic on the other side
6055s	it's a little bit more of the standard
6056s	stuff i think it's fair to say uh with
6059s	that demon hunter slotted in as i would
6061s	argue the fourth deck
6062s	given the on stream i want to say
6065s	warlock has not looked especially power
6067s	oh sorry the demon hunter uh has not
6069s	looked especially powerful so far it's
6071s	definitely been a struggle deck for a
6072s	lot of players
6073s	yeah something we saw yesterday with
6075s	that demon hunter it doesn't seem to
6077s	have the sweet curve it used to have
6078s	somehow it sort of just gathers some
6080s	cards still has explosive finishes still
6082s	has very powerful things it can do but
6085s	sometimes it just draws the wrong half
6087s	of the deck it never used to be like
6088s	this but as it has evolved it's had to
6091s	get more and more explosive to to finish
6093s	people off and that has led to some very
6095s	inconsistent things happening but what
6098s	do we know it's banned
6101s	yep it's banned out the way and you know
6103s	you can kind of see where drevo is
6105s	coming from with that one the the demon
6107s	hunter i think should have a decent
6108s	match up against the rogue against the
6110s	likes of the warlock as well yeah you
6112s	are probably struggling against all that
6113s	aggression all that burst damage later
6115s	on when you just want to be focusing uh
6117s	on your own combo uh but it's a big deal
6120s	here for plastic i think to be at this
6122s	point this is his fourth masters tour uh
6124s	as i count it and it's uh the first one
6127s	in which he's gone positive it hasn't
6129s	been a very successful run for him thus
6131s	far uh but i'm glad to see him uh get on
6135s	stream show us what he's got because a
6136s	seven and one score line in the swift uh
6139s	in the swiss sorry uh is very very
6140s	impressive and the decks that he has
6143s	brought alongside him are
6147s	like i said just a good representation
6148s	of i think the standard metagame for
6150s	something a little bit spicier from
6152s	drevo on the other side yeah and i think
6155s	plastic in this one is in a pretty good
6157s	spot on paper as well drevo's decks are
6160s	needing a little bit of time to get
6162s	going apart from the rogue which is as i
6164s	keep saying just because it's not to say
6166s	the best deck but it's always
6167s	the fourth deck in every lineup that you
6169s	put in you don't go i'm going to build a
6171s	rogue lineup what shall i do doesn't
6173s	mean it's the worst deck where when i
6174s	call it the fourth deck trying to
6176s	backtrack rapidly before subtle tears
6178s	into me later saying it is the fourth
6180s	best but it's usually the last one you
6182s	slot into your lineup to make it work um
6185s	other than that dravo's dex that little
6187s	bit slower and plastic might just
6189s	beat him up if he gets reasonable draws
6192s	we'll have to wait and see i'm sure
6193s	drove has beaten people with this sort
6195s	of lineup already be incredible if he
6197s	hasn't played against the all tournament
6199s	so curious to see how it goes and really
6201s	looking forward to a look at this
6202s	warlock deck in action
6204s	yeah i agree i think that uh
6207s	dravo is going to be struggling a little
6209s	bit in this series because he's got some
6211s	pretty heavy combo decks uh in his
6213s	lineup the the warlock uh obviously very
6215s	much so the boar priest again pretty
6217s	much a pure combo deck the mine rogue
6220s	that he's got in there instead of the
6221s	more traditional bow rogue or jackpot
6224s	rogue again
6225s	not a combo deck obviously in the
6227s	strictest sense but it has a very linear
6229s	game plan similarly to
6231s	uh the
6233s	uh combo decks in hearthstone where
6234s	you're not playing the null anymore
6236s	you're pretty much all in on hitting
6238s	those mines getting them with smoke
6240s	screen cheating out some big spells with
6241s	the swift scale trickster
6244s	and maybe getting yourself a bit of
6245s	extra time with the burning blade
6246s	acolytes in there as well which is
6248s	pretty cool to see and so because of
6250s	that heavy combo strategy uh some of the
6253s	aggressive decks from plastic i think
6254s	should be in a really good spot presto
6256s	druid i'm looking to be fantastically
6258s	placed here the the jackpot rogue a
6260s	little bit less so but if it can get off
6262s	to a nice strong tempo start obviously
6264s	in a good spot and then big spell mage
6267s	it's just straight down the middle if he
6269s	hits the big spells in time good uh but
6271s	i do think that will be the the biggest
6273s	struggle uh for plastic in this series
6276s	is getting big spell mage over the
6277s	finish line
6279s	yeah i mean you know i'm a big big spell
6281s	mage fan i think that against these
6283s	lineups it's very hard for the decks to
6285s	just dump their spells not the naught on
6288s	one manners but even you know the three
6290s	and four mana spells they've got going
6291s	on in draven's lineup i think the mage
6294s	will have access to being able to
6296s	fairly consistently swap spell costs if
6298s	it doesn't draw the belinda in the first
6300s	place
6301s	so i do think it should be okay but
6304s	again
6305s	i'm massively biased and i love my big
6308s	spell mage so
6309s	um
6310s	so far i've been proven on broadcast to
6312s	be incredibly wrong on this what's new
6316s	yeah what do you know uh with plastic
6319s	lining up his
6320s	renathul
6322s	prestor druid
6324s	uh which is a deck that i have very much
6327s	warmed to over the course of the
6329s	tournament it was you know it was on my
6331s	radar but to be perfectly honest i
6332s	wasn't really considering it that much
6334s	of a top contender in the tournament
6337s	especially not with the renathol in
6338s	there uh but when you start to run down
6340s	the list it's again a very
6343s	uh napkin maths kind of approach to uh
6346s	analyzing a deck but as you run through
6348s	if there are no cards that you really
6350s	turn your nose up and there's not any
6352s	weird mana cost slots that are being put
6354s	in there then you could probably be
6356s	pretty happy with the list like bubbler
6358s	yeah it's fine as a card to put in there
6360s	as well the bad cards as you're running
6362s	down like maybe mailbox dancer is a
6364s	little bit shaky but it does allow you
6366s	to get pressed or down a little bit
6368s	quicker
6369s	and everything else just kind of makes
6371s	sense in the list you're always hitting
6372s	this very smooth curve considering
6374s	almost everything costs one or two
6376s	uh and so i really like that consistency
6378s	in the list as long as you can find
6380s	presto yeah something subtle mentioned
6382s	something i also agreed with him on i
6384s	didn't like to admit it at the time but
6385s	skulker at the start of the event i'm
6387s	looking at skulkers in this and thinking
6389s	this card's just rubbish why is it in
6392s	here it's actually not bad at all it
6394s	does flatten your curve
6396s	i think we've seen it hit pressed or
6398s	twice which obviously is effectively a
6399s	one in 39 chance but hey why not um and
6403s	yeah it is it's just reasonable quite
6406s	often let's play two things on turns
6407s	three and four turns three or four
6410s	um just to fill out that board while
6411s	you're waiting to do the stuff you want
6413s	to do so
6415s	yeah most of the cars here at least
6416s	passable and with all the fetch you just
6418s	end up ignoring it all anyway just play
6420s	your press store on five or six and get
6422s	on with your life
6424s	which
6425s	i've heard some people even even
6426s	reasonable players say they would
6428s	consider playing these 40 cards anyway i
6431s	don't believe them because if that's the
6432s	case why didn't you
6435s	like you had that option before probably
6437s	why wouldn't you talk about it before at
6439s	least like i'd like to play more cards
6441s	obviously why didn't you use it against
6442s	the rules but you know
6444s	um yeah
6446s	why didn't you talk about this
6447s	previously but it because you just keep
6450s	drawing more and more stuff you quite
6451s	often get most of the way through your
6453s	deck and so on um yeah people are saying
6456s	they might have just run it without the
6457s	health gain again i don't really believe
6459s	them
6459s	[Music]
6461s	all right jumping into the first match
6463s	of the top eight obviously huge
6466s	implications for our players just for
6468s	the possibility of winning a masters
6469s	tour but get themselves that little bit
6472s	closer to qualifying through to the full
6473s	championships get that spot up worlds as
6476s	well and uh interestingly enough taking
6478s	a look at the numbers now for dravo if
6481s	he continues to do well in this
6482s	tournament
6483s	by the end of the year i think it's not
6485s	outside the realms of possibility uh
6488s	that he could hit that hundred win mark
6491s	in the remaining two masters tours which
6493s	was a uh an incredibly impressive feat
6496s	only four players have done it up to
6498s	this point and dravo is currently
6499s	sitting down uh 18th in terms of masters
6503s	tour wins overall
6505s	uh which uh
6507s	i think should uh enter him into like
6508s	the hearthstone hall of fame already
6510s	it's very very impressive indeed and uh
6513s	i'm uh holding out for him
6515s	okay well
6517s	capture culture with mine straight away
6519s	for plastic
6520s	nice settler if he's not that used to
6522s	being on stream so
6524s	gonna get going with his deck uh dravo
6526s	going to have to
6528s	get on with it there's the ball which is
6529s	gonna make him able to get on with this
6531s	pretty quickly with the pyro with the
6533s	zero cost spells in hand he's going to
6535s	at least be able to get into
6537s	the things he wants to do with the deck
6540s	i like what we're seeing from plastic
6541s	here as well like this turn is arguable
6544s	i would you know hear out that you maybe
6546s	want to go for a moonlit guidance on
6547s	this turn uh but basically going for the
6549s	combo of skulker plus cold tooth mine on
6551s	turn 4 guarantees you a five mana press
6555s	store to just cheat out a turn earlier
6558s	and you could tell as he was fiddling
6559s	with cold tooth mind that he realized
6561s	that or decided upon it halfway through
6564s	his turn too
6565s	and i think it's a very very clever
6567s	setup having pressed or down and two
6569s	guidances in hand this is gonna be a
6572s	huge amount of pressure for draevo to
6574s	deal with yeah and there's the skulker
6576s	interaction which i neglected in my one
6578s	for one in 39 obviously you've got the
6580s	interactions that allow your press tools
6581s	just to be drawn
6583s	i mean other ways and here we go turn
6585s	five presto
6587s	start blowing things up the fact she's a
6589s	six seven is also huge in its own right
6591s	it's just gonna be difficult to deal
6593s	with the minion itself so you've
6594s	automatically got board presents
6596s	most cards like this that swing games
6599s	around are very badly static right yeah
6602s	you play your two two miss a turn and
6604s	then next turn you pop off
6606s	but presto is just a six seven that
6608s	starts you off on the board it's nutty
6610s	it's true
6612s	is absolutely popping off here if he
6614s	needed a response this is it off of the
6616s	handmaiden on the previous turn managed
6618s	to find the gift of the naru popping off
6620s	with double cleric on the same turn
6622s	having played and killed both balls
6625s	already this combo is looking
6628s	very very possible to complete by turn
6630s	eight i don't want to jinx it by saying
6632s	turn seven because that rarely happens
6634s	that you get the turn seven sword swing
6636s	but if ever it was going to be possible
6638s	this is the game
6640s	absolutely it's one of those where um in
6643s	the olden days when you played stuff
6644s	like bran in this deck you would
6646s	definitely get it done next turn if you
6648s	didn't make some terrifying mistake out
6650s	of the millions of pitfalls along the
6652s	way that i was so familiar with
6654s	um but this time it really does look
6656s	like drover's going to get through the
6657s	whole deck
6661s	we'd have a chance there's going to be a
6662s	zero available
6664s	and it turns out at the start of that
6665s	turn the fourth from bottom card in his
6668s	deck was the amulet of the undying which
6670s	is the perfect card to get as the one
6673s	extra option on the second dredge to
6676s	bring that down to zero now again all he
6678s	needs to do is start trading these
6680s	amulets and uh hey turn seven it's still
6684s	possible i'm still sensing it and turn a
6687s	absolute latest this sword swing is
6689s	coming down which means the plastic
6691s	needs to turn up the heat right now
6694s	having a look at the options off of
6695s	malagas oh sorry off of the kalagos and
6698s	one of those options
6700s	is celestial alignment against ball
6704s	priest are you kidding me
6708s	oh my goodness like so just as
6712s	around home how important that is ball
6715s	priest has about a seven percent win
6717s	rate against alignment druid obviously
6719s	this isn't alignment druid it's not
6720s	built in its own right to deal with its
6722s	own alignment
6724s	that's what the magnitude of this card
6726s	is in this spot it's going to make
6727s	things really difficult for drover
6730s	the mailbox dancer is a bit of a weird
6732s	one because if you play it then you give
6735s	yourself a coin which will cost one and
6738s	when it dies you will give your opponent
6740s	a coin which costs zero which is
6741s	actually quite bad
6743s	so i do fully understand holding back on
6745s	the mailbox here even if you would
6746s	rather turn up the pressure as much as
6748s	possible and let's just look for the
6750s	moment that dravo sees his game plan
6753s	slip away this becomes
6756s	so so so so much harder to achieve the
6759s	combo now this is an incredible game of
6761s	hearthstone you and i cast a series
6763s	yesterday which was the opposite of this
6765s	where both players just couldn't draw
6767s	anything of purpose at all
6769s	this one is both decks just doing their
6771s	things going absolutely off the charts
6775s	uh but dravo really has got it to do
6777s	here
6781s	okay just playing that for
6783s	some armor to dump the card from hand i
6785s	guess as well
6787s	yeah just also trying to buy a little
6789s	time right the extra five health might
6791s	do something some healing he might do
6792s	something he knows he needs
6794s	two or three more turns
6798s	but like i was saying like plastic isn't
6800s	built to deal with alignment himself
6802s	he's not gonna have the massive
6803s	nourishes and pop-offs like you would
6804s	normally get so he also needs to make
6806s	good decisions here this isn't over even
6808s	though it's pretty terrifying
6813s	i mean aquatic form and capture cold
6814s	tooth wine are kind of similar you may
6817s	as well just go for aquatic because you
6819s	get to kind of pseudo discover
6821s	uh from your deck where you to play in
6823s	next turn yeah you play next turn you
6826s	discover and yeah it's great
6831s	yeah just getting the numbers out there
6838s	you never get to
6839s	draw
6841s	because everything costs once
6844s	uh but you get the other aquatic form
6846s	because it was from the uh
6849s	moonlight guidance i don't know i i
6850s	still question if that was necessarily
6852s	worth it though
6853s	19 so not in lethal range next turn
6858s	which
6858s	was definitely a consideration
6862s	yeah i think mailbox dances fine right
6864s	it just gets there before drover can
6866s	kill it and if he kills it he's sort of
6868s	spent his whole turn getting rid of it
6869s	by playing other stuff so
6872s	two turn lethal here or two more turns
6873s	for plastic
6875s	pretty powerful
6876s	shadower devour though even if played on
6880s	like
6880s	i don't know the kalagos
6882s	um
6884s	six power off the board
6886s	uh
6888s	it doesn't really slow down the clock
6890s	though
6892s	uh
6893s	still might have to do it anyway
6895s	um it'd be 11 and 12 which is still the
6897s	23 but he's got healing it definitely
6899s	hurts it gives him some more options
6901s	definitely
6902s	you might as well if you've got nothing
6903s	else going on
6904s	well he kind of does have other stuff
6906s	going on because he needs to propagate
6908s	his own game plan in the form of trading
6910s	these amulets that's the most important
6912s	thing right now uh as i
6914s	don't think he's traded any or very few
6917s	up until this point
6919s	uh so that definitely needs to happen
6920s	before the game is won
6923s	yep
6926s	wow
6929s	double devour the man
6931s	that does slow down the clock though
6933s	that that almost certainly means he has
6935s	two more turns yeah
6939s	all right let's find some real stats
6941s	let's find some dragons that do
6943s	something raid boss onyxia is something
6948s	obviously he's scared of just pyro
6950s	killing off the whelps but the other
6951s	stuff didn't do anything so let's go
6954s	yeah it's it's as good of a knicks here
6956s	as you're ever gonna hit because you've
6957s	just seen double devour uh and you've
6959s	seen one pyro already so they're very
6961s	likely going to want to save their pyro
6963s	uh until the uh
6965s	a combo turn
6971s	you're wondering here actually how many
6972s	amber watches he could have taken to try
6974s	and stay alive if dwevo gets it going as
6976s	well
6978s	because duver has used the zoella now so
6984s	okay there's priestess bullish though
6986s	which is very spicy two cards uh two
6990s	spells have been played already this
6991s	turn uh so we need to see
6995s	i mean you really want this to be a
6997s	priestess volition because i don't think
6998s	you're gonna play more spells in a
7000s	single turn than right now
7003s	oh there's the zyrella
7008s	or currently three aoe that's not bad
7011s	that clears up quite a bit it's enough
7013s	here for now
7015s	oh but there's village flash heal plus
7019s	zyrella able to clear off the pyro
7022s	uh
7024s	ira i think you have to hold on to for
7026s	the combo turn right oh he's used both
7029s	yeah yeah
7033s	do you trade again i think you do need
7035s	one more trade before you can do the
7037s	combo
7038s	so just trade one more time and then
7041s	guyrella
7044s	maybe you just chill i mean if you're
7045s	not dying there's basically nothing that
7047s	you uh lose to on the spot or very
7050s	limited things it'd have to be like an
7051s	alex straza generated off the dragons
7054s	which is you know not impossible at all
7059s	this however guarantees it definitely
7061s	surviving the turn as
7063s	one one deathwing for one a hilarious
7072s	this has been an incredible game already
7077s	all right so you obviously have to clear
7078s	up with second
7080s	anixia
7083s	uh and i think that'll be enough dragons
7084s	for kazakhstan
7089s	to find something that wins you the game
7091s	very cheaply
7092s	don't know what term the book would cost
7094s	right now
7096s	or embers i think is too expensive to be
7099s	considering banana split
7101s	annoying too expensive
7104s	yeah honestly probably exerciser just to
7106s	have three burst damage
7108s	i think the game just ends too quickly
7110s	for canopic to ever be relevant
7113s	puzzle box they're probably just going
7115s	to kill off all their balls on the same
7117s	turn i think you take puzzle box here
7119s	anyway just because hey maybe it can do
7122s	something
7122s	play it yeah i don't know maybe they're
7125s	forced into leaving a boar on board by
7127s	some mistake i don't know just the rest
7129s	of doing things you may as well pick it
7131s	for a chance
7133s	okay
7137s	i grow short of cards
7143s	okay that's three on the amulet i think
7145s	it's two on the other one already easily
7146s	so
7148s	that's good to go
7149s	but he's just
7151s	one
7152s	mana short if he goes trade the shard
7156s	then he can go pyro
7160s	into the amulet but he can't go for
7163s	everything on the same turn yeah he
7165s	needs to buy himself one more turn here
7168s	he just needs to survive this turn
7171s	and he should be able to get there
7173s	because i think he can clear off enough
7175s	stuff on the one turn
7176s	uh again the problem is that even after
7179s	he brings his opponent down to one
7183s	mana yeah he's still gonna know he'll
7185s	have
7186s	well yeah that he still can potentially
7188s	die and also there's still enough mana
7190s	to play a dragon from hand
7192s	um the problem is that because plastic
7194s	played the kazakhstan and replaced his
7196s	deck with treasures none of that is
7198s	gonna be playable
7211s	there we go there's the sword there's
7213s	the clear there's the heel the five as
7216s	well
7219s	lastly twice had a chance to take amber
7221s	watch it
7222s	shouldn't be enough
7225s	that's true you have seen the xyrella
7226s	already haven't you that's that's what i
7228s	mean right if you could just heal twice
7229s	for eight that that means that the
7231s	priest has to find some extra damage i
7233s	know they've got their hero power but
7234s	yeah
7235s	um rather than trying to go for the
7236s	beats if you take both amber watches
7238s	especially the second one uh which were
7240s	one mana he could have played those
7242s	and that would have made the game very
7243s	interesting but the game was interesting
7245s	anyway with both of them popping off and
7247s	dravo finding a way
7249s	to take a 1-0 lead like these
7250s	experienced players seem to do in these
7252s	situations
7253s	yeah i gotta say a gorgeous game from
7255s	drevo i think that was a very very
7257s	level-headed way to play you know that
7259s	that is the mindset of a player who's
7261s	played in almost every masters tour up
7264s	until this point like one of the biggest
7266s	veterans of the masters tour scene um
7270s	and it showed in his play like even if
7272s	we go back to right after the celestial
7274s	alignment playing zyrella the hero card
7277s	just for one mana with no death rattle
7279s	effect
7280s	really surprised me you know that's not
7282s	where my head was at i was thinking okay
7283s	we have to trade the ambulance maybe we
7285s	play a thrive in the shadows or
7286s	something like that that all felt a
7288s	little bit more proactive
7290s	but when he made that play it really
7292s	started to make sense he can use these
7294s	heels to buy himself more time the five
7296s	armor becomes very relevant as well and
7298s	then when you have more mana available
7300s	all in one turn then you can go for the
7302s	big pyro pop-offs win the game then uh
7305s	very very nicely spotted by drover
7308s	and now
7309s	it's time for the mine
7311s	david
7313s	what is this it's actually far more
7315s	simple to explain than it looks as you
7316s	explained it to me earlier when i had
7318s	not seen much mine warlock at all it's
7320s	our lock but with mines right that's how
7322s	this goes
7325s	yeah pretty much uh it's still just a
7327s	straight up and down uh combo deck where
7330s	you play naval mine you trade wicked
7333s	shipments so that they uh increase in
7336s	the number of imps that they summon
7338s	every time you trade it and then you go
7340s	for shipment
7342s	hamzen's phylactery may be alongside
7344s	tams in rome herself so that you can
7346s	double up on the time since phylactery
7348s	and then you deal
7349s	i don't know 40 damage maybe a little
7352s	bit less maybe a little bit more uh to
7353s	your opponent with all the naval mines
7356s	and they blow up and you win the game
7358s	uh-huh sounds easy when you word it like
7360s	that but this druid sounds like it's
7362s	gonna have a lot of time to hit you with
7364s	big stuff while you're setting that up
7365s	so i'm excited to see this in action
7369s	uh it was on stream yesterday during um
7371s	one of my breaks where i happened not to
7373s	see that one game but yeah i'm excited
7375s	to see how this goes
7378s	all right not an especially uh
7382s	exciting hand for drevo uh but given
7385s	this is up against prestor druid we do
7388s	obviously need to consider the defensive
7389s	options which hey perfect i was gonna
7392s	bring up demonic assault
7394s	because you know
7395s	the classic thing with any kind of
7397s	warlock deck that isn't zoo there isn't
7399s	an aggro deck is if you're trying to
7401s	fill up your hand you can just do that
7402s	with taps you don't necessarily need to
7404s	hard mulligan for card draw and so just
7407s	having the most efficient answers in the
7409s	early game is a nice way to go about it
7411s	and demonic soul is often exactly that
7414s	it's just a really really efficient
7416s	hearthstone card the druid might
7418s	struggle against
7419s	yeah look at this shipment straight away
7421s	here already
7423s	just being used as a perfect defensive
7426s	unit on this particular spot
7430s	the plastic's going okay though not
7432s	great but having guff in your hand i
7433s	consider going okay
7436s	idea
7438s	it's okay you're right it's okay as long
7440s	as he can i mean if you can find himself
7441s	pressed or then this hand really starts
7444s	to pick up without that i want to say
7447s	it's a bit too flimsy i don't know it's
7449s	too cute of a hand like going for wild
7452s	guff to ramp up that's not what you need
7454s	you need the meat of your deck to really
7455s	just start battering down the gate and
7458s	finishing off this game before the combo
7460s	can come online
7461s	because right now dravo is just very
7463s	happily keeping up with tempo and uh
7466s	drawing away to his heart's content nice
7468s	turn here though peasant squirrel
7469s	composting drawer card seems pretty nice
7473s	yeah it's not bad at all
7475s	it's not great you're up against it your
7477s	your army of garbage is definitely not
7479s	getting the early job done but there's a
7481s	lot of cards on the way now especially
7483s	with the talking to composting coming up
7485s	soon if needed but starfished
7489s	just lightning fast gameplay from drevo
7492s	this these are the plays of a man who
7494s	has seen this situation 100 times before
7497s	already
7498s	and seems to be quite comfortable in it
7501s	as well guff does come down one drop
7503s	comes alongside it in the form of
7505s	vibrant squirrel i do agree that's the
7506s	way to go instead of the iron deep frog
7509s	just try and get these nuts in your deck
7511s	and uh find some extra squirrels to go
7513s	for composting alongside
7517s	yeah and like you say the speed from
7518s	dubai shows how often he's been here
7520s	just not letting these compostings get
7522s	there whenever possible he's been doing
7524s	maximum damage to every single opposing
7526s	minion you know it's one of those where
7529s	if you hadn't played hearthstone before
7530s	just talk the rules this is how you
7532s	would play and then you try and big
7533s	brain yourself and sort of save
7535s	resources and mess around and then you
7537s	come out the other side and you're back
7538s	to no this actually works this is how
7539s	you're supposed to play this deck
7542s	all right huge aquatic form here for
7545s	plastic
7547s	and he
7549s	these are disasters
7551s	absolute
7552s	bubble of a form
7559s	oh drawing with guff the turn after you
7561s	play it never feels good you just want
7563s	to spam that manner every single turn
7567s	but again i think he is making the
7569s	correct play he's realized that you need
7571s	to hit presto to be able to catch up in
7573s	this game
7577s	okay
7580s	do what he can composting next turn into
7583s	some rubbish but
7585s	still just get it taken down or even
7588s	then playing the trog like is that
7591s	really the way to go you have composting
7593s	in hand i
7595s	feel like that was probably supposed to
7597s	keep on the trunk at the end felt a
7599s	little bit like a frustration play to be
7601s	perfectly honest yeah you don't want
7603s	composting on a million things here but
7604s	you need composting on two things and
7606s	hope you hit you haven't got time to get
7608s	it on a million things i don't feel oh
7610s	that's not the one i mean it's it's
7612s	cheap you can play it with the
7613s	composting but he needs a minion type
7615s	none of these have minion types why is
7617s	human not a minion type there's another
7620s	minion type peasant and you just pick up
7622s	like three gold or something
7625s	minion type steve
7627s	[Laughter]
7629s	all right well he's gonna try and draw
7630s	some cards that's all he's got in him
7633s	obviously the one thing he has got on
7635s	side which feels like it's running out
7637s	fast is the fact that the warlock deck
7639s	doesn't it's not gonna kill him with a
7640s	two three and a normal
7643s	oh man
7646s	this is heartbreaking
7648s	double innovate drawn off the top dravo
7651s	i mean to be fair like
7653s	he's not
7655s	especially close to his own win right
7657s	right now like naval mine hasn't been
7659s	played it hasn't died yet there's no
7661s	tams lactory in hand there's no tabs in
7663s	rome in hand prestor has just been drawn
7667s	by plastic as well
7672s	just take 36 from bombs and then play
7674s	mozart i'm sure that doesn't work like
7676s	that but i want it to
7678s	mirazon plays the weapon that's kind of
7681s	nothing
7682s	uh you could consider taking acorn here
7684s	because you'll draw it yeah and then
7687s	just get another random card the
7689s	question is would you rather have a two
7690s	one and a random card or one of these
7693s	cards
7694s	uh
7695s	i think i'd rather just have one of
7697s	these cards than mess around with an
7698s	acorn yeah i think that's operative
7700s	might get you something that draws you a
7702s	card or a game it might do something
7705s	yeah there we go
7707s	yeah you'll just take the shipment i
7709s	think
7711s	wait a shipment or play a thousand
7712s	probably take a shipment okay
7715s	you want immediate trades unless you
7716s	want to go vape fake thalnos which i
7718s	don't think i do
7721s	sounds awful
7723s	but you might want to do it in fairness
7725s	but yeah
7726s	that sounds awful
7728s	all right dravo time
7730s	like you say he's not that close to
7731s	combo but there's only 14 cards left so
7733s	how far away it really can he be even
7735s	worst case
7737s	still no more card draw though uh he has
7740s	tap customer
7742s	um
7743s	which will probably end up being the
7744s	play it's just a very very efficient
7746s	board clear and even get some a little
7747s	bit of uh board presence at the end of
7750s	it all
7752s	oh hang on there's some damage oh now
7755s	we're talking so much
7760s	that's actually huge doubt because the
7762s	three spells now the shipment can
7763s	actually just be played not cycled now
7765s	yeah exactly
7769s	okay sure
7771s	okay you're gonna hit a mine just do it
7776s	set up for an even bigger halo turn
7781s	there's just not many spells in the deck
7782s	are there just do it all
7788s	okay the result for
7791s	the uh the customer i don't think so
7795s	oh these are not he's drawn most of his
7799s	spells actually up until this point
7800s	right we've seen
7802s	uh double innovate a cold tooth
7805s	yeah i think maybe a uh moonlit guidance
7808s	as well uh but probably still the best
7810s	pick even if you can just get you a
7811s	couple of cards
7813s	he really wants to go malygos into
7815s	all my spells next term but just knows
7818s	that two one he's never surviving
7820s	against warlock
7821s	but i think he's gonna exist
7824s	gets the hellfire back if he wants here
7825s	with the mowers on
7836s	that's a lot less like it
7840s	i guess you stop with mirrors on just
7843s	because it clears the 3-2 and
7846s	deals a little bit of damage and then
7848s	follow up with the mallee he wants to
7850s	play in the mallee but i don't know i
7852s	think he might want stuff on board
7855s	the mallee actually doing unless you get
7857s	another chance to do damage mistakes
7860s	spinning your deck it just means
7861s	everything
7862s	is sure
7867s	job's done
7872s	all right as you said not many spells
7874s	left let's see how many there are this
7875s	is the acorns oh yeah you get the nuts
7877s	okay yeah no sorry that's definitely
7878s	good enough
7880s	down the mallet of course yeah yeah
7887s	all right well in that case a very nice
7889s	board and a full hand being generated
7891s	here as well
7898s	fresh out of the oven
7908s	and it's gone it's gone again still
7911s	though dravo does not have his actual
7913s	win condition online he's got one more
7915s	stool guaranteed in the entitled
7918s	customer so that's fine that'll be able
7920s	to clear off whatever plastic can play
7922s	uh but no tams in no tamsense for
7925s	lactory either
7926s	it's still not guaranteed to be able to
7929s	get there quite yet for drevo even
7931s	though i'm still putting him uh in the
7933s	lead right now it feels like he's a
7935s	massive favorite with only seven cards
7937s	left in the deck but like you say tilly
7939s	actually gets there
7941s	um plastic is going to be able to spam a
7943s	lot of stuff for turns now
7946s	of course drevo's customers down to four
7948s	mana now
7951s	it's not the big um problem it was early
7953s	in the game to just play it and still do
7955s	your things
7957s	oh man again no alex strasses that's
7960s	really what you want to find in these
7961s	matchups uh just to burst them down
7964s	uh mirrors on can get you a pretty
7967s	decent selection of cards actually yeah
7970s	uh with the multicast of the gnoll the
7972s	rod the mine the snake as well
7974s	um
7995s	mirror another mother zond
7999s	bit harder this time obviously
8004s	sewer can do another four damage
8013s	right gotta challenge drover you've got
8015s	to keep clearing these boards
8017s	obviously that's kind of what the deck
8018s	does but
8020s	make him do it
8021s	oh cali as well to give you that little
8023s	bit of a a wild card factor maybe you
8026s	can get yourself a buff or a bit of
8028s	extra damage uh some extra discover
8030s	effects to cycle through to some burst
8032s	damage from hand as well all very very
8034s	tempting
8035s	uh as still travel doesn't find any of
8039s	the combo pieces he's entitled customer
8041s	as well not quite big enough to be
8044s	clearing off this board uh you can do
8046s	most of it but there's still a 710 in
8048s	play which is getting pretty scary
8051s	and plastic's hand is gonna cost
8053s	basically nothing next turn because it's
8056s	a stupid weapon
8058s	that's true oh my goodness i don't even
8061s	have the board space for any of that to
8063s	matter but
8064s	it's amusing anyway
8066s	i mean if that i don't think the 710
8069s	will survive because you can go customer
8071s	plus touch uh or drain soul uh but if it
8074s	had you know there was some plays that
8076s	could have got there right you go yosera
8077s	plus nightmare to buffalo
8080s	into
8081s	uh you know one of the damage spells one
8083s	of the druid attack buff spells and it
8085s	could have maybe got there
8086s	uh in this instance though obviously no
8089s	it's not happening uh dravo managed to
8091s	stabilize once again and just needs a
8094s	tiny bit extra to get the combo done two
8097s	cards left in deck
8098s	uh makes it like tamzin and shipment
8101s	right those have got to be the only two
8103s	cards left
8106s	that's right
8109s	alignment alignment oh my god it'd be
8113s	right there's no shot
8116s	with both weapons having been used
8121s	row already
8122s	on his aggro deck is ending on celestial
8125s	alignment to try and get it done
8128s	that's ridiculous it's absolutely silly
8135s	he's gone from despair to well what do i
8136s	do all this lot okay
8141s	where eight
8143s	or alex
8145s	is huge
8148s	[Music]
8151s	oh it's so close neuro doesn't get you
8154s	any extra damage you sarah there's
8156s	nothing attacking for you to get the
8158s	attack buff on
8159s	oh man yeah you've got to just end on
8162s	the alignment right
8168s	[Music]
8170s	all right so you have hellfire on this
8172s	turn and then next turn
8178s	oh but you kind of need the hellfire to
8180s	kill your minions though right
8183s	uh i guess tamzin could do that actually
8185s	tam's in uh or hellfire but the problem
8187s	is you're actually very low on health
8189s	drawing three cards from towns it gets
8191s	you pretty close to just dying
8193s	especially if you're hellfire right
8194s	you're just just gonna keep yourself to
8196s	death
8198s	go hellfire this turn
8201s	that's not good enough yeah he needs to
8202s	find another route i think it is the
8204s	demonic assault
8211s	okay you have one manner so you sarah
8213s	into
8214s	nightmare is available but of course
8218s	there are
8219s	no ways to do it
8221s	raid boss and nixie though down at zero
8223s	manicures of the weapon that is gonna
8225s	get the job done
8227s	oh what a game
8229s	that's two nutty alignment games from
8232s	the press tournament i told you
8233s	alignment was better than pressed or
8234s	dirt
8236s	here live
8237s	[Music]
8240s	i'm not gonna say i can't argue with
8242s	that i'm gonna go with i won't argue
8243s	with that because uh i still have a
8245s	couple of brain cells rattling around
8247s	that i want to hold on to i've been
8249s	trying to get rid of those one by one
8250s	over the years i've done a pretty good
8252s	job down i'm getting there slowly but
8254s	yeah that was an absolutely nutty game
8256s	looked for all the world like plastic
8258s	was never getting there in this one
8260s	and um
8262s	yeah the alignment sorting it out once
8264s	again well i say once again last time it
8266s	didn't sort it out but it looked like it
8267s	happened
8268s	yeah it's got to be said that was a bit
8270s	of a rough draw for drevo like having
8274s	dreadlitch tams in plus regular tamzin
8278s	down at the bottom of the deck tamzin's
8280s	phylactery not much further from the
8281s	bottom of the deck like i think it's
8283s	reasonable to expect that like turn nine
8286s	maybe turn ten
8288s	uh you're consistently killing your
8290s	opponent like turn 10 on even takes a
8291s	little bit late a lot of the time
8293s	because you're not even having to play a
8294s	full seven mana owl in this version of
8296s	the deck it's two mana you're playing
8297s	for the mine which is very very cheap
8299s	indeed uh but despite all his drawing
8302s	efforts all his mana reduction draven
8304s	was unable to find the necessary combo
8307s	pieces which is a big win for plastic i
8309s	will say but as i said i do still think
8311s	that the presto druid was the most
8313s	likely of his decks to be able to get
8315s	over the finish line uh even if the
8317s	warlock isn't necessarily the deck i was
8319s	expecting him to do it again
8321s	yeah i agree and obviously you know we
8324s	talked about drover having a really bad
8325s	um draw which he did but plastic didn't
8327s	get the press store until very very late
8330s	himself in that one so kind of a wash on
8333s	how slow they were but now it's jackpot
8335s	rogue time we've cast a few of these and
8338s	we've been unimpressed with our tiny
8340s	sample size of just the cards we've been
8342s	getting on stream which obviously is all
8344s	that matters in all of hearthstone right
8345s	now uh with the jackpots we've seen some
8347s	real rubbish picked up
8349s	yeah exactly
8350s	you never want
8352s	i should say you don't ever want to it's
8354s	it's never wise to blame poor win rates
8357s	on
8358s	uh just drawing badly getting unlucky
8361s	but i do think in the games on stream
8362s	that kind of has just happened like yeah
8364s	cards drawn off of jackpot have just
8366s	been nothing uh the knolls haven't been
8368s	coming readily enough
8370s	so
8371s	i don't know even though it's doing very
8372s	well overall in the statistics on stream
8374s	we have not seen that so let's see if
8376s	plastic can bolster that on stream win
8379s	rate a little bit more here with wild
8381s	porno in hand it's a good way to get
8384s	things started for sure uh but it's not
8386s	the be all and end all now against these
8388s	kind of slower control decks you really
8390s	do feel the difference between three and
8392s	four attack of the null uh because you
8394s	just kill them so much slower with three
8396s	attack
8397s	yeah however compared to say the press
8399s	door deck we just saw a lot of these
8401s	minions are gonna have a lot of health
8402s	they're gonna be a lot more awkward to
8404s	remove for drovo than just i'll hit you
8406s	any of my spells kills your 3-2
8408s	some of these are going to stick around
8410s	for a turn or two depending exactly what
8412s	happens of course
8415s	wow okay
8417s	we both go here aren't we yeah jackpot
8420s	and reconnaissance in hand means that
8422s	you could play both on turns three uh
8424s	two and three
8426s	and then just play the null on turn
8428s	three for zero mana as well
8432s	uh the
8433s	grunt is interesting here
8436s	will kind of suck oh you don't want
8437s	grunt right
8440s	it's never grunt
8442s	sure
8443s	okay krabatoa in hand means that azshara
8446s	and sabre drops quite heavily in
8448s	estimations as well
8450s	uh i
8451s	think it's maybe still just as iron as
8453s	uh azshara say because it has rush uh
8456s	but if not yeah the lone shark uh i
8458s	don't know maybe you can burn a card
8459s	from your opponent yeah it might give
8460s	some proper hand size issues i agree
8471s	all goes quiet while we wait to see what
8472s	the jackpot has in store
8477s	oh okay
8478s	not bad
8480s	party up to get you what five
8482s	adventurers uh tutus that have uh some
8486s	kind of bonus taunt stealth wind fury
8488s	poisonous uh you know it's 10 10 worth
8491s	of stats if you can find a swift scale
8493s	trickster as we see there in hand that's
8495s	a pretty good development
8497s	yep
8502s	it's a little bit annoying in rogue i
8504s	will say though to have your stats
8506s	spread out so wide you'd rather than be
8508s	concentrated a little bit taller uh one
8510s	because warlock has very good small aoe
8514s	uh and also just because your board
8516s	fills up very quickly you can't go party
8518s	up contraband contraband krabatoa
8520s	because you just run out of board space
8522s	they're just looking to do anything here
8523s	that's a nice pickup with the tooth of
8525s	course
8531s	any beast is the shark a beast bit late
8533s	unfortunately yeah the shark is a beast
8538s	problem is that
8539s	lone shark is a rogue card right so it's
8543s	not actually going to
8545s	uh replay off the contraband stash so it
8548s	feels less and less likely that the dire
8549s	frenzy will actually
8551s	activate
8552s	when it's replayed
8556s	doesn't get to burn a card but does get
8559s	to put driver in a bit of a mess
8563s	and driver to saying hit me with the
8565s	full nine see if i care
8567s	and uh plastic i think we'll be more
8569s	than happy to oblige yeah he might know
8571s	there's blood in the water as well
8574s	yeah blood in the water krabatoa
8577s	all very tempting
8579s	gonna get to see if um the repeated
8581s	heals the repeated clears and the
8583s	warlock are up to this this is going to
8584s	be a very sustained attack
8592s	planning out this is the awkward part of
8594s	this deck is planning so many turns
8596s	ahead for when you want to play the
8597s	stash
8600s	reconnaissance again
8602s	find a four or five and off you go
8605s	yeah
8606s	i think i'd rather get the prep honestly
8609s	like i don't know
8610s	was this not just like a uh coin blood
8613s	in the water right like it's not like
8615s	that deletes the usefulness of your
8617s	swift scale trickster
8619s	and i know they're likely to clear your
8621s	board anyway on the next turn but who
8623s	cares you have so much follow-up you can
8625s	just go bang bang bang bang bang power
8627s	power power for the next four turns at
8629s	least uh with this hand after you go
8632s	trickster plus party up uh on the
8634s	following turn yeah i think i'm bored
8636s	with that i think i'm on board with your
8637s	discussion there um i don't if he's
8639s	specifically looking for a cartridge of
8641s	this that does damage to the face but
8647s	i feel like he was just a case of being
8649s	greedy with a stash here rather than
8650s	just getting on with like you say the
8652s	blood in the water
8659s	yeah he just wanted to clear out a card
8661s	from hand
8662s	free blue
8678s	as is grimoire actually honestly uh i
8680s	could see either here
8684s	yeah or both
8685s	yeah just just get rid of it all
8689s	i guess when you just need to dump cards
8690s	so aggressively it does make sense
8699s	so much mana available this term but
8701s	really not that much to do with it
8705s	right so you can go swift scale
8707s	trickster
8709s	party up gone fishing and if you hit
8712s	shadow step you'd be able to shadow step
8714s	the swift scale trickster and play blood
8715s	in the water as well okay
8718s	uh that's
8719s	quite a heavy committal you know that's
8721s	all seven board spaces used up uh and
8723s	your opponent will more than likely be
8725s	able to clear
8727s	but i don't think i would be too upset
8729s	with that
8730s	you've got to go for it anyway yeah i
8732s	think you can't give him many more turns
8735s	he's drawn so many cards on the other
8736s	side
8737s	like maybe you get some divine shields
8739s	off the party up so at least some amount
8741s	of damage sticks yeah there you go
8743s	fine
8757s	the jackpot can bring next turn
8763s	multicaster will bring this down to uh
8767s	another reduction
8769s	yeah from the rod assuming he's played
8771s	two spell schools which i think just as
8773s	in
8774s	shadow
8775s	yeah all this removal is getting
8777s	incredibly cheap i will remove it
8782s	yeah
8784s	not dying anytime soon
8788s	okay
8790s	not even a clear at all oh just grip one
8792s	yeah okay
8798s	the nice turn and it's getting scarier
8800s	and scarier for plastic now the combo is
8802s	really coming together for draevo in
8805s	this game he's got the shipment in hand
8807s	which you know is obviously nice to
8809s	upgrade it a little bit more but far
8810s	from necessary you can just build a
8812s	board the old-fashioned way by playing a
8813s	few minions and then uh phylactery plus
8816s	hellfire ready to go plus some more
8819s	cheapening uh if drevo wants it with the
8822s	second rod in hand as well plastic needs
8824s	to close out this game very very fast
8829s	if he's gonna grab a toe is probably the
8831s	card is gonna help do that but
8834s	and full of value when you're in a hurry
8836s	is not necessarily where you want to be
8839s	you want a handful of doing things
8843s	i think trickster was one of the other
8845s	options off of the last gone fishing
8848s	which would be a great card to get here
8850s	there you go
8855s	and these other two options are uh
8858s	pretty high priority cards i guess scabs
8860s	is a bit flimsy against
8863s	the warlock they're not gonna put
8864s	themselves in a situation where they
8865s	lose the game uh to his scabs
8870s	goes with queen
8873s	fair enough fair enough getting those
8874s	colossals is very very important
8877s	with uh with two contraband stashes in
8879s	hand davos still hasn't really got
8882s	everything he needs though
8886s	it feels like he's miles in front but
8888s	then you sort of go card by card through
8890s	the hand
8893s	yeah i mean it just depends whether you
8895s	want to fit another rod in this game
8897s	which i think
8900s	i was kind of looking at like rod trade
8902s	the shipment hero power
8904s	um just because then next turn you have
8906s	a decent shot of activating the rod and
8909s	then you can just go like minion minion
8911s	minion
8912s	uh phylactery hellfire something like
8914s	that
8915s	without even ever having to need to hit
8918s	the the wicked shipment or the times and
8920s	in your deck
8921s	but it's close yeah this is your point
8924s	now as well just
8928s	how much do you want to just clear a 6'5
8931s	off the board how much do you just want
8932s	to do nothing about it
8934s	of course yeah it's a lot of damage plus
8936s	you've got a lot of not knowing what's
8938s	going on in your opponent's hand because
8940s	the way right rogue functions
8943s	yeah it does look like you might end up
8945s	on the rod here
8949s	a little bit uncharacteristic from
8951s	draper we haven't seen any real
8952s	uncertainty from him so far in this
8954s	series i would say like there have been
8956s	tough spots but it felt like you know
8958s	when he's made up his mind he's made up
8959s	his mind uh whereas this was a bit of a
8962s	flim flaming halfway through the turn
8964s	yeah when you're electing to drain life
8966s	a minion for three but leave it up
8968s	you've got to just guess yourself the
8970s	pirate blast could allow some cheeky
8972s	setups now
8974s	where's that trickster now man nice
8976s	queen azshara you have in hand when you
8978s	could be going trickster pyro contraband
8981s	stash or miracle growth like
8984s	trickster here is
8986s	insane and it's just at the bottom of
8988s	the deck he's never to see it yeah
8994s	oh man
8995s	pyro with test going on oh uh actually
8999s	sorry having said that there is a
9000s	tracking in the contraband stash so it's
9002s	very unlikely he could just like one in
9005s	15 it uh to get the uh the trickster
9008s	from the tracking
9010s	ah it's like a baby trickster
9016s	it's something it means he can just go
9018s	pyro uh why he could have done that with
9020s	the coin anyway but he can fit in a
9021s	little bit more stuff
9023s	uh in one turn maybe like a pyro plus
9025s	contraband stash in the next turn
9031s	for the near future
9032s	problem now is dravo's running out of i
9036s	mean he's still got somebody's running
9037s	out of cheap ways to not take damage
9039s	when he kills things
9043s	so you can't go i i think this wicked
9045s	shipment is on just two i'm not certain
9048s	but i think it is in which case you
9050s	could go shipment thalnos
9054s	the lactory hellfire it's not good
9056s	enough that's only 12.
9059s	we do need to see some more time being
9061s	bought here with the entitled customer
9063s	however that uh cheeky 4 3 on the right
9066s	side of the board is just dealing more
9068s	and more damage as it keeps being
9070s	re-summoned this pyroblast creeping
9072s	closer and closer to lethal
9076s	ah
9079s	first you need a board of course over
9081s	and over again
9083s	yeah this warlock deck just refuses to
9085s	go down to a low health total
9087s	driver doing everything he can to make
9089s	sure it stays at the maximum like that
9090s	drain life a couple of turns ago
9093s	you have coin prep miracle growth uh if
9096s	you wanted it just to be able to get a
9098s	really big fat minion on the board and
9100s	draw a few cards but it's just straight
9102s	up second contraband stash
9104s	does get you a pretty decent board
9106s	presence i suppose
9110s	that was a bit quick on the that's kind
9112s	of like the ocarina drawn you've got at
9113s	least right how that affects your next
9115s	turn
9119s	it's just it's not a very good card
9121s	against warlock though especially when
9123s	they have the weapon like if you go
9124s	spell they just play
9126s	a drain soul or you know a wicked
9129s	shipment whatever
9135s	pyro from the ring of tides okay
9148s	go on then have ten
9150s	you what you can do god
9152s	so disgusting
9154s	is it actually just gonna be 20 damage
9157s	from pyro into the ring to close out the
9159s	game that's such a sick combo but that
9161s	is tamsin ready to go alongside tamzin's
9164s	phylactery i think it's just one
9167s	devastating turn too late for plastic
9170s	here it was such a sick set up with the
9172s	queen to go for double pyro
9175s	but as we can see dravo in the nick of
9178s	time hits the lethal
9181s	and that's how i know it's gonna be 2-1
9183s	and not um 3-0 but that's how the match
9185s	has failed hasn't it is everybody just
9187s	doing everything with half a turn
9189s	difference either side making what
9190s	happens
9194s	these silly bombs i like how they're
9195s	coming from the right part of the screen
9196s	so you can see how many there are still
9198s	together it's just hundreds of these
9200s	things still coming there's one on the
9201s	right hand side still to come there we
9202s	go that's the last one take 33 to the
9205s	face extra noob
9207s	and it's 2-1
9209s	and obviously the best deck of the
9211s	tournament is currently mined warlock
9216s	yeah obviously one-on-one on stream the
9218s	greatest hearthstone deck of all time
9221s	uh
9222s	a weird game overall i mean i i think
9224s	pretty much
9226s	uh i didn't agree with much from dravo
9228s	like not playing the the weapon on the
9230s	turn that he tapped and then played the
9232s	weapon i think was a little bit of a uh
9235s	you know maybe hopeful maybe he was
9237s	hoping for something off the top instead
9238s	that he could have played instead of the
9239s	weapon but either way i do think i
9241s	disagreed with that line uh for plastic
9242s	as well like overall i think his head
9244s	was very much in the right place uh i
9247s	did disagree a little bit with some of
9249s	his mana expenditure in the mid game
9251s	around like turn five or six where i
9252s	think it could have been a little bit
9253s	more aggressive like yes you're over
9256s	extending in the traditional sense but
9258s	he had so many threats with double
9260s	contraband stash in hand and a test and
9262s	a blood in the water uh it was just time
9265s	to go for me to start throwing these
9267s	stats on the board
9270s	and the reason i agree is looking at
9272s	this hand now this is the end of the
9273s	game look at all that stuff still in
9275s	hand like you didn't need more stuff you
9277s	need to get the stuff you played you've
9279s	got and hope it gets there that's my
9280s	opinion on that um whenever that happens
9283s	it's not like drevo was going to take
9284s	another million turns so
9287s	yeah somebody just got to hope that your
9288s	stuff's good enough and i hear derek
9290s	that you like mines
9292s	[Music]
9294s	some more
9296s	more mines i mean it's a clean deck
9298s	right just straight up 15 uh duplicates
9301s	right down the middle as far from a uh
9303s	renauthol reno deck as you could
9305s	possibly get
9306s	uh and it's a deck that i have played
9308s	against a couple times on ladder with
9309s	the smoke screen the burning blade
9311s	acolytes tossed in there as well it's a
9313s	cool list it's a sensible evolution of
9316s	mine rogue ever since they started um
9320s	uh cutting the uh the knolls sorry from
9323s	the list when you cut my estrogen does
9325s	make sense and you can get some pretty
9327s	powerful combos off alongside it if you
9329s	do manage to hit of course that
9331s	trickster into the smoke screen it's
9332s	devastatingly powerful but the main
9335s	heart of the deck is still very much
9337s	there you hit the graveyard you double
9339s	up on your death rattles and it kills
9341s	jackpot rogue a hell of a lot quicker
9344s	than jackpot road kills you if you hit
9346s	that kind of hand
9347s	yeah and again it's it's weird to see
9349s	the decklist like just having that nice
9351s	clean build so
9353s	let's see if that stands him in good
9355s	stead it should do i think i think it's
9356s	a pretty good match up against the the
9358s	road
9360s	every time by the way i haven't done it
9361s	yet every time i look at the screen and
9362s	see a shaman i'm like but this is a
9364s	rogue right
9366s	still haven't got myself
9372s	can be very very strong with a couple of
9374s	key draws uh be that smoke screen be
9377s	that the mine itself uh this can really
9379s	turn around quickly even a burning blade
9381s	acolyte would actually not be bad with
9383s	the shambler already in play
9385s	but right now it's a little bit lacking
9386s	definitely needs a bit of help to get
9388s	over the finish line
9390s	that's not really the help he was
9391s	looking for but okay
9398s	wow okay
9401s	is it gonna be like trickster golden
9403s	fish in next turn
9406s	yeah i guess you just go for them both
9407s	now fair
9409s	evil mine i think we'll take that quite
9411s	happily
9416s	i think he's planning what to do with
9417s	the other gone fishing so the ordering
9419s	of the cards more than the actual
9422s	yeah
9422s	yeah i mean you just know that it's the
9424s	right one on top first
9425s	right yeah i mean you're going to draw
9427s	this one so whatever you picked off the
9428s	first one you're always going to draw
9429s	off the top next turn
9432s	um
9433s	no you're going to draw this one off the
9435s	top next i think that was what he was
9436s	pausing for you draw this right now
9438s	because it's the second one and then
9440s	yeah sure yeah and then you get the
9440s	other one next turn yeah yeah yeah uh so
9443s	next time you're gonna have access to
9444s	both of them does end up picking the
9445s	weapon which i think is correct uh
9447s	instead of the extra tutu just because
9449s	it's more damage he already has all the
9451s	infrastructure in place now he just
9453s	needs the mine to go alongside that and
9457s	that's the nature of dredge he knows
9458s	that next turn the mine will be
9460s	delivering itself into the hand as we
9463s	look at plastic straws and they are
9465s	decidedly
9467s	worse outcomes this time than they were
9469s	in the previous game these spells are
9472s	rash
9474s	i can't say that because it's got an r
9476s	in it but i agree once again with you
9478s	derek and they're they're just not going
9480s	to get the beating done quickly enough
9482s	look the graveyard and the mine down
9484s	plenty of ways to activate multiple
9486s	mines already on the go
9488s	no hero plastic yeah plastic shaking his
9490s	head he knows where this is at
9492s	yeah he knows exactly what's up you go
9494s	trickster blood in the water you hope
9497s	that by some miracle they don't have a
9499s	decent follow-up
9500s	uh but just with alone the counterfeit
9502s	blade swing that's essentially game
9508s	wicked stab as well
9510s	mia
9512s	nowhere finding heal now i don't think
9514s	before plastic
9516s	only three more turns away from scabs
9518s	that'll get there
9520s	uh akane is a big draw that does stop
9524s	guaranteed lethal on the following turn
9526s	as long as you pick spell which of
9528s	course he does uh honestly it doesn't
9530s	with the swing of the weapon and the
9531s	double activation yes sorry it's still
9533s	just game
9535s	uh because i think the graveyard is
9536s	still in play right this is turn
9539s	anyway
9540s	yeah
9541s	that's gonna be it plastic saying gg
9544s	throwing it down dravo with the mine
9546s	warlock the mine rogue probably the most
9549s	innovative of the lineups available in
9551s	our players in the top eight gets
9553s	himself that spot in the semi-finals and
9556s	i've gotta say i feel like a bit of a
9559s	an idiot right about now because as i
9561s	was going through those predictions in
9563s	the top eight the obvious names that
9565s	jump out right out the gate gabby and
9566s	habu gabu number ones pocket trainers i
9569s	believe you predicted was also a real
9570s	consideration for me but dravel when you
9573s	really start to think about it he's been
9575s	here from the start one of the most
9578s	winningest players in a masters tour
9580s	history right up in the top 20
9582s	potentially entering the top 15 at the
9584s	end of this tournament as well and based
9586s	on that performance you can see why that
9589s	was just a very solid display yeah a
9591s	couple of those games came down to
9594s	one turn decisions very close calls made
9597s	early in the game that made it work
9598s	later in the game and getting himself
9601s	through there and we're all going to
9602s	look like dummies as well talking about
9604s	every deck apart from the ones he's
9606s	playing for the whole tournament if he
9607s	goes on to win it it's like well this is
9609s	the best out of this deck that doesn't
9610s	matter and this other deck that doesn't
9611s	matter direct well it's mine warlock and
9613s	mine work obviously
9615s	obviously and as i was talking about
9617s	there the two
9619s	biggest names it's fair to say in this
9621s	uh top eight habu gabu and gabi
9625s	uh habu gabi is a great ship name if
9627s	nothing else uh are gonna be going up
9629s	against each other in the next quarter
9631s	final it's just gonna split the cast of
9633s	predictions right down the middle with
9635s	myself and raven on habugabu gia and
9637s	subtle on gabby that is an absolute
9640s	cracker such a great match right there
9642s	yeah why do you think i picked pocket
9643s	train two of you are gonna be out before
9645s	you even have to think about anything
9647s	i'm just gonna be in the top three on
9648s	the bronze medal
9650s	cheering away celebrating in third place
9653s	before we even start uh but that is the
9655s	first quarter final in the books we've
9656s	got a lot more to get on with so gonna
9659s	take a short break and then cue up that
9661s	massive match gabby vs habugabu right
9664s	after this
9672s	[Music]
9677s	[Applause]
9677s	[Music]
9682s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
9685s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
9689s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
9693s	with such ruthlessness
9696s	so
9697s	deep and profound
9700s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
9708s	to uncover the truth
9710s	of murder most foul
9713s	the anima drifts across the floor
9716s	highlighting the creatures who walked
9719s	through my door
9721s	the motives are as black as night
9725s	avarice power revenge and blight
9730s	we watch the hero
9733s	uncover the clues
9735s	that lead to the truth
9738s	behind this dark blues
9742s	join us here with the grimm and in pious
9747s	choose your power without heavenly bias
9751s	for at the end
9753s	they will burn in the fire
9756s	when it is known who slayed
9759s	tenacious the sirens
9762s	[Music]
9791s	[Music]
9796s	[Music]
9804s	[Music]
9807s	so
9831s	[Music]
9834s	so
9844s	[Music]
9859s	hello everyone welcome back we are ready
9861s	to jump into our second quarter final of
9863s	the day and it is going to be habu gabu
9865s	vs gabi or habu gabi you are whichever
9868s	way you want to go with this uh
9870s	pick your poison uh but for now we're
9873s	looking at the lineups lorinda how are
9875s	you feeling about this series we've seen
9876s	gabby already uh dominate in his first
9878s	match on stream of the day versus fiore
9881s	uh with a very swift 3-0 but how do you
9883s	think his chances fare against habu gabu
9886s	well i am going to sound like a broken
9888s	record here but in my play testing which
9890s	i did more than you probably expect um
9893s	this is where i got the opinion that
9894s	rogue was the fourth deck for these sort
9896s	of lineups i think it will come down
9899s	very much to who can get the rogue
9901s	through and out of there the quickest
9902s	obviously you've got to get it out there
9903s	to win so that's kind of an easy
9905s	prediction but i think
9906s	that the rogue is the weak link when
9909s	this sort of lineup goes up against
9910s	itself i know it's not quite a mirror
9913s	but it's the sort of the obvious decks
9915s	the decks we expect the top five or six
9917s	decks and this is where the rogue is at
9920s	its weakest in my opinion uh that's not
9922s	doubling down i've already conceded i've
9924s	seen the stats rogue's doing incredibly
9926s	well in this tournament but in this
9927s	particular matchup i think the rogue
9929s	might well prove to be awkward for both
9931s	of them yeah interestingly enough as
9933s	well we have had the bands through where
9934s	gabby's warlock has actually been banned
9936s	away and the mage has been banned away
9938s	from haboo gabon which means we do get
9941s	to see some of the shame and play out
9942s	it's a a deck i think is very strong but
9945s	not a deck i feel like we've seen too
9947s	much on stream as of yet uh at least not
9950s	as much as i expected to see at least so
9952s	yeah we'll have to see how this one pans
9954s	out because now suddenly outside of
9956s	those rogues you were talking about and
9958s	we've got a lot of different decks going
9960s	at each other right so we are going to
9962s	see the wig priest and the uh the rogue
9965s	of course and the control but i would
9967s	generally call it mid-range shaymin
9968s	honestly uh going up there for habukabu
9971s	and uh what a streak he's on right now
9974s	not only uh defining the meta as he is
9977s	want to do uh with his uh crazy deck
9979s	creations but also a a very recent
9982s	champion uh as well as a back-to-back
9984s	top eight it's all all looking good for
9986s	habu gabby right now yeah and those
9988s	stats at the bottom there is
9989s	significantly higher than that that's
9990s	from the last event so
9993s	um he's got another load to add on to
9996s	that i believe or at least from
9997s	yesterday and there's definitely some
9999s	more wins to go on there so yeah just
10001s	just unbelievable it's it's only three
10003s	tournaments ago he went 03 drop
10006s	and still managed to get through to the
10009s	the champs which is a big deal when you
10011s	start off with no points at all
10014s	uh you've got to do it all in two
10015s	tournaments what everyone else did in
10017s	three then wins the championships then
10019s	you know has just become the person that
10021s	everybody
10022s	marks their their decks by like just
10025s	just created just an all-around great
10027s	hearthstone any format of hearthstone
10030s	player
10030s	and interesting to me
10032s	that gabby banned away the mage i know
10035s	i've rant about how much i think mage is
10036s	great but there are other choices here
10039s	and gabby went have a job on mage don't
10041s	want it you know take it away from him
10043s	to see what we can do yeah i mean we
10044s	already know that gabby doesn't really
10046s	respect the wig priest so i didn't think
10048s	that was going to see a band but we do
10050s	get to see this first match up which is
10051s	the shaman versus the presta druid
10053s	obviously presta jury's been running
10055s	rampant uh sort of uh since uh renathel
10058s	came out
10060s	and also just gonna be an interesting
10061s	matchup for me because although presta
10063s	druid is strong there are no questions
10066s	about that in any way shape or form and
10068s	i do feel the shaman does have some
10070s	gameplay against this mainly due to
10073s	those snowfall guardians uh get the
10075s	ability to keep up with the sort of one
10078s	to four drop turns of the druid as well
10081s	with some of the openings so i'm
10083s	actually very interested to see this
10084s	matchup played out by two of the very
10086s	best players we have uh right now in
10088s	this top eight so it'll be good to see
10090s	there's of course always the factor
10092s	which is the main factor of this druid
10094s	deck that presta comes out early and
10096s	then the dragons start to do their thing
10098s	but i do think the shaymin does have a
10100s	game plan no absolutely and that's when
10103s	i was looking through the bands i
10104s	thought oh will it be the shaman or the
10105s	mage and
10107s	i thought that maybe gabby would leave
10108s	the mage up honestly because of the
10110s	rogue matchup being you know
10111s	non-terrible but yeah
10113s	he has got to deal with the shaman
10114s	instead now and that could be a big deal
10117s	here it's a very explosive deck it's
10119s	also against the druid does have the
10121s	capabilities in the hands of good
10124s	players at least to
10126s	to grind out a really tedious last few
10129s	damage sometimes
10131s	anyone looks like we're diving straight
10132s	into game number one here again the
10135s	winner gets to go on to the semi finals
10137s	which would be
10139s	incredible for either of these players
10140s	right and i don't mean just the fact
10142s	that of course it's good to move on to
10143s	the semi-finals but to just add it to
10146s	the recent list of results that both
10148s	these players do have
10150s	right now so
10151s	really excited to kick this one off
10152s	looks like gabby is just keeping hold of
10154s	the peasant for turn one and then happy
10157s	does have some interesting choices here
10158s	because again it's likely that the druid
10161s	will play out a bit of a curve for the
10163s	first few turns of the game so that
10165s	might lean towards habu just staring at
10168s	this boldness staring at this amalgam
10170s	and seeing if it's worth keeping but i
10172s	think the overall strength of the hand
10174s	wasn't there so i do like the full
10176s	mulligan and just get hold of schooling
10178s	which is it turned out to be i think a
10181s	way more powerful and effective card
10183s	than i think the majority of players
10185s	thought it would be
10187s	i agree um it's one of those cards that
10189s	will come and go in matters i think
10190s	though if the boards become less
10192s	important the schooling will become a
10194s	lot worse uh but yes it's definitely
10196s	functioned really well
10198s	in this tournament in this current
10199s	matter it just seems to get so much work
10201s	done
10202s	yeah and i think
10204s	because it's exactly a shame in card
10206s	like i feel like hero the shaming hero
10209s	power has been the weakest hero power in
10210s	the game for a very long time you almost
10212s	just never want to press it right now
10216s	so i do think even just the fact of
10218s	having things to do in the first couple
10220s	of turns
10221s	with schooling is very very strong
10223s	indeed there is of course the coin
10224s	wildpoor cavern something you are
10226s	looking for in every single matchup
10228s	you're gonna have a shaman because it's
10230s	just that strong
10231s	but gabby of course is gonna start
10233s	kicking out these curved players as
10235s	expected yeah you can see that habu
10237s	though was having a good think about um
10239s	whether to use the coin there just to
10241s	get rid of the peasant obviously
10242s	card draw for this druid is incredibly
10244s	important because it's got 40 of them to
10246s	get through to some degree
10248s	um and you sort of saw the angry stare
10251s	like yeah i've got to leave this this up
10252s	but the coin while paw is just way too
10255s	important to to mess with here
10257s	uh let's get that recurving
10259s	free minion kind of
10262s	going
10263s	an interesting point here now where habu
10265s	can go for the coin a wild paw but
10268s	knowing there's a pelican gonna come out
10270s	there is a world where he actually just
10271s	goes with the other schooling and then
10273s	just plays some piranhas
10275s	to trade away because suddenly it goes
10277s	from the pelican having a fantastic
10279s	trade to having a horrible one just
10282s	going into a
10283s	small piranha there so even though i
10286s	think it's almost never correct to not
10290s	coin wildpoor cavern we might be
10292s	witnessing one of the few occasions here
10294s	which color are you going for raven
10297s	um
10298s	i actually end up playing left to right
10299s	most of the time with this out of pure
10301s	habit uh i do like the red one the most
10304s	though yeah a lot of people say that you
10306s	should play left to right just to get
10308s	out of habits keep your habits strong
10309s	i've heard real players say that
10312s	no offense to you of course
10315s	but we know red ones go faster but it
10317s	looks like he's gonna
10319s	uh leave the red one on the um
10322s	in the hand for now but again like look
10324s	how horrible this pelican potential
10326s	trade actually is so uh good job from
10329s	habu just giving gabby not great things
10331s	to do uh gabby also not got hold of
10334s	presto yet so looks like he's going to
10336s	re-roll the hand here with finn
10338s	yeah i think that makes a lot of sense
10340s	draw four different ones you're looking
10341s	for one in particular you're looking for
10343s	the mines obviously all that good stuff
10344s	that we know by now
10346s	um so why not have four goes at it
10349s	and that
10350s	was almost terrible
10353s	but it's not like he can do it again
10355s	because he'll just get the other hand
10357s	back he doesn't have the composting now
10358s	though um if he wants to spend quite a
10360s	lot of resources doing that but it is
10362s	more cards time he knows that the
10364s	pressure's on here the coin's still in
10366s	habi's hand
10368s	it's kind of like a double whammy isn't
10370s	it can't fin well could finley because
10372s	arguably his hand before he played the
10375s	first finley was better just just have
10377s	stuff to play but also aquatic form has
10380s	the same problem right if he does
10381s	aquatic form well he knows roughly what
10384s	he's going to get offered and knows that
10386s	it won't make a huge difference so i do
10388s	think he has to fall back on just
10390s	getting some form of additional actual
10392s	card draw
10393s	available and does have to make this
10395s	horrible trade how about gonna instantly
10398s	drop the wild poor cavern now just get
10400s	to retain the coin as well so i do think
10402s	abuse definitely put himself in a very
10404s	very solid spot for now
10406s	yeah all the garbage that druid uses to
10408s	stay alive through the first three or
10410s	four turns is all well and good but if
10412s	you don't draw your press still in there
10414s	and it you usually do let's be honest
10416s	here you normally get it but if you
10418s	don't this garbage is now getting
10419s	completely outpaced by the the real
10421s	cards on the other side
10423s	yeah the second composting being used
10425s	here is gonna help
10427s	but again still no presta still no guff
10430s	which really is priority one and two
10432s	here
10434s	it'll be a long thing for happy this
10436s	turn uh because it's the turn where he
10438s	needs to plan out everything that's
10439s	going to lead to that blood lust winning
10441s	the game
10443s	in theory there's a lot of other things
10444s	that can happen along the way but
10447s	in
10448s	late forward terms i think that's where
10449s	he's at here with his turn
10451s	we're gonna discover again starfish not
10454s	really something you want against this
10456s	druid for now and could coin it out
10458s	exactly this turn to deny a draw um
10461s	which is
10463s	you know worth looking at but i think
10465s	starfish you don't want to play against
10467s	druid in the later stages is it will
10468s	just simply buff um a lot of the cards
10471s	anyway so
10472s	it could be a
10479s	a lot of the dragon things rely on two
10481s	one whelps for instance to trade into
10483s	something right so just sitting there
10485s	with five five stealth it's a bit slow
10487s	it's a bit garbage but with a blood lust
10488s	in hand just cases whether he's ever
10490s	going to get the time to play it or
10491s	whether he wants the starfish for just a
10494s	little bit of versatility
10496s	it's tricky as well because the
10497s	hippogriff isn't even that terrible as a
10500s	3-7 just trading multiple dragons i do
10502s	think either way what's going to be a
10504s	frostbite this turn does give gabby the
10506s	extra card draw
10508s	oh
10510s	yeah
10512s	every time
10513s	abu
10514s	obviously unhappy about that like the
10516s	extra draw arguably got him straight to
10518s	press to on curve and now things can
10521s	start getting a little bit funky but
10523s	if habu looks so like could know the
10525s	hand from gabby he'll be overly upset
10529s	right because there's no card draw and
10531s	there's no sort of cycling through the
10533s	deck i mean it's finley
10536s	how true yeah there is finally that
10538s	should be this lot of way and turn it
10539s	all into dragons that do good stuff yeah
10542s	you are completely right very fair point
10545s	actually sort of didn't even look at the
10546s	finley on the farm yeah
10551s	it's gonna be a rough one i think
10556s	might very quickly just be a jam
10558s	everything face and go kind of plan now
10562s	yep just try and get one board to stick
10564s	once and bloodlust and maybe you win the
10566s	game
10571s	they come it's dragon time
10574s	i know this game is going to drag on
10576s	much longer to be honest
10578s	i get it okay
10579s	see
10580s	it doesn't need to understand there's
10582s	need to be some removal here though
10585s	because i think bloodlust is like 27
10589s	here
10590s	maybe 26 depending on where presta goes
10593s	oh okay let's get some
10596s	again the whelps absolutely massive
10598s	there that dramatically reduces down the
10600s	damage that's available
10603s	yeah it's starting to push back some
10605s	sort of lethal effort the other way now
10607s	as well
10612s	forgot to draw the clownfish always
10615s	um
10616s	it rough for the showman
10618s	yeah especially because there is flurgo
10620s	right but right now there is flurgo
10622s	cookie amalgam
10624s	to do two aoe and then potentially clear
10626s	up the rest that's definitely possible
10628s	here for habu looks like he's going to
10630s	coin gulp instead
10632s	look sorry glock the gold gulper
10637s	yeah
10638s	phil's solid way here just stacking up
10640s	one huge minion with these trades
10642s	especially when the plants go because
10643s	again
10645s	with these dragons outside of haha
10647s	deathwing um
10649s	there's not really a way to target
10651s	specific minions there's like alex
10653s	straza which again the uh
10656s	plug is already too big for
10659s	so
10660s	pretty solid actually just going for the
10662s	colossal what and definitely the best
10664s	artwork
10666s	oh it's superb all the colossus is
10669s	good i think gabby has to commit the
10671s	deathwing and all of that the empty hand
10674s	to end up being a 1-3 when abu's hand is
10677s	completely full is a very very big deal
10680s	here suddenly um
10682s	uh okani can be a very big deal right
10684s	yeah i've been able to block her minion
10687s	it's going to be
10688s	helpful
10689s	i mean gabby big brains this by playing
10691s	my mutants right
10693s	hell yeah
10695s	can't eat my minions now
10697s	but yeah it does look like hubby is
10699s	going to be able to set up
10700s	um
10701s	a very strong board
10704s	yeah i'm looking at okay and then like
10706s	what just fleurgal and cookie maybe
10710s	yeah just oh wait develop some stuff
10713s	sorry i meant uh cookie and amalgam
10715s	apologies
10716s	you might be guaranteed to draw
10719s	clown fishes next time
10724s	another goal
10728s	sure let's do it
10731s	there is little time
10732s	it awkward not quite the manner to play
10735s	the fleurgal and the cookie
10737s	do we just leave the akani now and then
10739s	he gets another turn and then next turn
10740s	he pops off
10742s	um
10744s	just getting a load of cards on the
10746s	board doing a lot of damage with both
10747s	floggles next turn i think
10751s	i can see
10754s	yeah i mean i was gonna say habu was
10756s	like unhappy that there was the uh the
10760s	spell off the top but most of the spells
10763s	drawn minions at this point right which
10766s	the minion would still not be playable i
10768s	think the biggest problem would be uh if
10770s	that was exactly guff for example like
10773s	that would be the i think the worst
10775s	thing for abu there but really really
10777s	good job there for habu just putting
10779s	gabby in an awkward position
10782s	and just going wide enough that gabby
10784s	had to respond with the deathwing
10786s	through the whole hand away because he
10787s	had uh the wrong type of onyxia i think
10790s	was the main factor there was getting
10791s	off at broodmother and not raid boss if
10793s	it was raid boss this game would have
10795s	looked very very different indeed but
10796s	great start fabo gabriel they're getting
10798s	a win on that shaymin and then taking
10800s	press to druid just down just a touch
10803s	yeah and taking that one seriously
10805s	gabby's really having it tough today
10807s	with respect to all the other players in
10809s	this top 16 which is a very strong
10810s	lineup you start off with fury hunter
10813s	you think okay that's that's the tough
10815s	one done at least you know there you go
10817s	the next round like we talk about how
10819s	hard it is to play against gabby but
10821s	gabby wouldn't have wanted to pick these
10822s	two opponents to start off the day that
10824s	is true but i will just draw attention
10827s	to the gabby versus fury hunter match
10829s	which basically fury hunter was not
10831s	really allowed to play hearthstone
10833s	so although unlucky an opponent but had
10836s	a good end of the stick in his first
10838s	match going there for a quick 3-0 uh is
10840s	going to be jumping over to his wig
10842s	priest
10843s	for the next game and i believe gabby
10845s	has changed over to rogue again another
10848s	interesting matchup where rogue
10850s	does want to get on board early
10851s	especially with those gnolls but the
10853s	priest can cause some issues because
10855s	rogue just doesn't
10856s	really have good answers to big minions
10859s	yeah if the priest gets going and the
10861s	vogue just has an average start this is
10863s	why the priest in my opinion is favored
10865s	in this match up uh you just just lose
10868s	like unless the boat does something
10869s	nutty and actually kills you really
10871s	quickly which
10872s	it's quick but it's not like a super
10875s	face deck or anything it's more of a
10877s	fast mid-range deck unless they can
10879s	smite you or something before you you
10880s	whack them with some
10882s	some things that have been buffed by the
10884s	wigs
10885s	yeah i think very tough for the vogue to
10887s	actually finish it off i think there's
10888s	going to be two key factors here which
10891s	shakaro one is early nulls coming out
10894s	but also something from tooth of
10896s	nefarian right can always cause issues
10898s	where you can get something you
10900s	shouldn't be allowed to have which can
10902s	be an answer to the big minions right
10904s	and there's that and then arguably as
10906s	well crabatoa because it does just pump
10908s	out a lot of damage on the turn it's
10910s	played so there's a few things that can
10912s	help if habu starts to run away with the
10914s	game but those are very few in them in
10917s	and of themselves you sound like my old
10919s	teachers at school no you're not allowed
10921s	that savannah highmane put it back
10923s	you're not allowed to have that yeah
10925s	seems completely reasonable to me and
10927s	i'd be like no i'm playing rogue i'm
10928s	keeping it
10930s	abu got one half of the perfect opening
10933s	which is slow the spare and handmaiden
10936s	but doesn't have the wig i honestly
10938s	would love to just see priestess and
10940s	once slitherspear get thrown and just go
10944s	all in on getting the perfect opening
10946s	hand do you need to though that's the
10948s	question like when you're in a favored
10949s	matchup do you need to take that chance
10951s	yeah he's he's split the difference even
10953s	further okay and he's hit the wig yeah
10956s	but that's the thing right if you just
10957s	play two slither spears that is
10959s	something rogue can deal with right
10962s	without the wigs then
10964s	your deck is just playing just some naga
10966s	with no buffs which is pretty terrible
10968s	so yeah good mulligan there for happy as
10971s	he does get hold of the wig gabby though
10973s	gets hold of the null so a pretty big
10975s	deal as well might even go for the armor
10976s	up this turn depending on how he's
10978s	feeling
10979s	it depends whether he feels the need to
10981s	get rolling with tooth with minions on
10983s	board
10985s	you can't always try to deal with habu
10988s	at source if you can't have a 1 3 on the
10991s	board you can't turn it into a bigger
10992s	minion so
10994s	i'm going to mean that we can't just set
10996s	up very very easily however
11000s	yeah this is why it's so strong right
11002s	it's just suddenly a three five yes this
11004s	can be cleared up now which is very very
11006s	strong here going to get the uh the stab
11009s	and the tooth come out to be able to get
11011s	that discover
11013s	yeah let's see what he's offered
11016s	okay bash not bad extra three damage
11019s	from hand if needed but now he's gonna
11021s	have to do this kind of every single
11022s	turn from here on in
11033s	is he considering
11035s	there's your guard
11038s	or at least look at it right
11040s	oh 100 yeah i think treasure guard coin
11043s	wig looks strong because it does just
11045s	contest the nice drum board but there's
11048s	always options to go a different route
11050s	because of what's in hand right there is
11052s	queen's guard not quite for yet teacher
11054s	wouldn't have been a terrible
11057s	either
11063s	double devours interesting because
11064s	you're facing a 3-2 right now it allows
11066s	you to do some funky things in a couple
11068s	of turns but in a couple of turns your
11069s	vogue opponent's likely to have a lot
11071s	more going on that's the problem here
11074s	obviously always drawn to bless but yeah
11076s	well i i think the choice here weirdly
11078s	enough is actually devour or
11080s	thrive because thrive can get hold of
11082s	the second wig and devour is just
11084s	incredible anyway especially when you're
11087s	sitting on a treasure guard like the
11088s	amount of health that can get to is kind
11090s	of ridiculous but i imagine yeah he's
11092s	gonna go for the thrive just drop the
11094s	queen's car to contest this maestro once
11096s	again but i do like the uh the potential
11099s	dig for the second wig here because
11101s	that's how it's really gonna snowball
11103s	out of control
11108s	if the akani just keep things nice and
11110s	steady
11113s	then stops and looks at bash non because
11116s	that exists
11124s	yes this is going to be spell i think
11127s	spell feels more disruptive than minion
11129s	because the spells are devour wig
11133s	bless and thrive basically
11148s	yeah the good news i think it's good
11150s	news he only loses one mana here
11153s	yeah and also again it just shows that
11155s	habu is uh prioritizing the thrive over
11159s	the devour because that's how you get an
11161s	additional wig
11162s	stay to this wig raven i know it is all
11165s	over the place it needs tidings just
11167s	needs to sort this wig out
11175s	another tough choice right because if he
11177s	buffs the guard to trade into the okani
11181s	that looks strong but then it means the
11183s	maestro gets to value trade the uh oh i
11186s	guess it won't value trade right because
11189s	it'll just flat trade he can choose to
11191s	actually make the slither spare value
11193s	trade into the maestro so it won't
11194s	actually happen from gabby that looks
11196s	like what he's going for but if he
11198s	played the wig the slither spear would
11199s	go to two attack but it would die to the
11202s	maestro
11203s	yeah these are the decisions that you
11205s	know on a one to four one basis i can
11206s	get most of them right but over and over
11209s	again eventually i'm just gonna make a
11210s	terrible decision with where to spit the
11212s	wigs
11218s	interested in this viper in gabby's deck
11220s	as well
11224s	so there's very little going on for
11226s	vipers
11235s	anybody
11238s	um
11240s	probably just smite you look at the
11242s	plague and it looks better it might not
11243s	kill anything
11248s	um
11250s	yeah i can get behind that
11255s	really
11256s	need the card draw with the maiden in
11258s	hand
11259s	actually can he double trade and leave
11262s	so the
11263s	plague finishes off the two three twos
11268s	and the problem is it won't this turn
11270s	right
11275s	oh maybe he can actually do what i mean
11276s	he trades into the edwin trades into the
11278s	akani and then plays the
11280s	play to finish off the others but then
11281s	he's got a load of really weak things
11283s	hanging around quickly
11285s	yeah i guess after seeing the um
11288s	one stab and one tooth maybe that's just
11291s	okay
11297s	yeah
11299s	oh you can't trade for 12 you only had
11300s	one minion
11304s	there you go then
11306s	we'll never know
11310s	anderson's picked up here for gabby
11312s	could go fishing but it would
11315s	lower his ability to deal with this
11317s	board instead he could could have just
11319s	equipped the cutler and go for bash
11321s	instead
11322s	grab a tower
11332s	every time i see that card now i just
11333s	have to remember that subtle exists it's
11336s	horrible it's even more scary than the
11338s	crab itself
11339s	i'm interested here as well he was
11341s	hovering spirit guide but i think i do
11342s	like the bash a lot more and then just
11344s	double trade into the teacher sit on the
11347s	board with a null and then there's
11348s	crabatoa to build on next turn this
11350s	might end up being just krabatoa smite
11353s	go kind of game plan here
11356s	going
11369s	increasing on habitable side
11375s	we assume that the nagaling will remove
11377s	this knoll depending whatever he took
11379s	that everything he seemed to remove it
11381s	right interesting turn where it could be
11383s	treasure guard elemental wig
11387s	gaggling wig
11391s	yeah and he needs to check the numbers
11393s	how that lines up with krabatoa and so
11395s	yeah
11399s	oh he's gonna go elsewhere though gonna
11400s	go fishing with thrive
11402s	oh now he's going though
11405s	and gabby saw the speed at which that
11406s	was taken and instantly adjusted into
11408s	the oh my goodness position
11418s	yeah it's still going to be a clear with
11420s	krapatoa though
11421s	yep because the knoll was left up
11425s	this is nutty slowly but surely kevin
11428s	just chipping away keeping the minions
11430s	under control
11435s	it did cost there gabby quite a lot
11437s	though right he's going to lose this
11438s	null finally there is just krabatoa and
11440s	the weapon on board right now yeah i've
11442s	constantly got this feeling that gabby
11444s	can't keep staying alive honestly but
11447s	every single turn that is proved to be
11450s	wrong for one more turn
11466s	really useful to know what's in the the
11468s	naga link
11470s	is uh
11471s	plague then you can actually clear this
11474s	up right
11475s	with devour now and plague with the wigs
11478s	i think that would be incredibly strong
11479s	and the fact he's going for it makes me
11482s	think he did pick up the plague
11488s	now he's nearly there obviously if he
11490s	does kill this it's huge because he's
11492s	well is very safe on health total on 18
11496s	if you remove this six four
11498s	quickly
11499s	whereas on 12
11501s	not so much
11506s	yeah is devouring play we've got to
11508s	assume it's played
11513s	now he's in full force with
11515s	two decent sized minions that look like
11517s	at least one will stick finally for habu
11526s	didn't get everything you wanted i don't
11528s	think okay just casually gets two three
11531s	man and five five taunts on the board
11533s	why not but the thing is habu gets to
11535s	stick the board gets to pop off with the
11537s	wigs again there's at minimum
11540s	two naga to play this turn which means
11542s	that there's going to be a a lot of wigs
11545s	as the key factor here being that the
11547s	elemental stuck which means that these
11549s	wigs are free every single time which is
11553s	so many stats yeah with a blessing hand
11556s	as well it won't be long for this world
11558s	after these taunts have gone
11561s	is haboo just looking at death scale
11563s	here because i would not hate it
11568s	uh you've got to at least try and work
11569s	it out right
11571s	well
11571s	most rogue minions are three health or
11573s	at least the ones he's scared of now
11575s	three spells i think that's pretty easy
11578s	with the with the wig you can just get
11580s	that active right now and then next turn
11583s	he just does deal three to all enemies
11585s	that looks like a great pick and
11587s	definitely not one you see often because
11589s	a lot of the time you look for either
11590s	the cheap naga or naga that generate
11593s	things right but yeah that is the death
11596s	scale is huge right now
11599s	just need to go remind that this is a
11600s	european player playing on asian ping
11602s	we've had a couple of players mentioned
11604s	that you know they they weren't quite
11606s	ready for it
11608s	uh he's gonna be fine though he's played
11610s	a whole tournament with it he should be
11611s	okay
11612s	yeah get to ending on the okani as well
11615s	that's gonna cause gabby even more
11618s	issues
11620s	look at the strength of this board and
11622s	the fact that we know
11624s	there's the deal three to all enemies
11626s	right now which means this vessel is
11628s	gonna do a whole lot of nothing
11631s	especially if it just gets blocked by
11633s	ocarina in which it's gonna do even less
11635s	i did like the death scale pick from
11637s	habu but it was not needed in the end he
11639s	had a backup plan for a backup plan
11641s	right there and habu lorenda goes up to
11643s	2-0 against gabby uh really well played
11648s	i think there was some tricky decisions
11649s	there and some decisions i think a lot
11651s	of
11652s	people in that position would not have
11654s	made and that's the thing you constantly
11656s	have to wrap your head around as their
11658s	wig priest is that you don't have to go
11661s	all in every single turn right you can
11664s	play slower because you have the ability
11666s	to just keep making these boards and i
11667s	think habit did very very well and it
11669s	means that there's only the rogue left
11671s	over this i've already cast one three
11673s	zero match today am i gonna get another
11675s	is this how my day is gonna go no this
11678s	is gonna be three two don't know who to
11680s	and it's gonna be rogue versus rogue in
11682s	game five
11683s	okay there's lorinda's call we'll see if
11686s	it comes true but i i think
11688s	that just displays the problem and why
11690s	again i think the mulligan was so good
11692s	from habu because if you have those wigs
11694s	and some playable naga you will just
11698s	keep making slightly bigger minions in
11700s	the rogue and as we saw gabby did a
11703s	great job of fighting there he he did
11705s	a really good job of just pushing back
11707s	even through some awkward turns but the
11709s	one turn he got forced to leave the
11711s	elemental up when he knew two wigs were
11713s	in hand that was the beginning of the
11715s	end for me
11716s	yeah i think what happened also does
11717s	well which we saw all of these top
11718s	players do well to be fair is
11720s	just working out what shapes they go
11722s	with
11723s	yeah and it looks like gabby is going to
11725s	jump back to the presta druid for this
11727s	one and of course habugabu on the rogue
11730s	wild porn knoll straight away
11733s	in hand there with shroud as well
11736s	not looking too bad for habu might end
11738s	up throwing away the shroud as well
11740s	depends on what your thoughts are about
11741s	just waiting till turn three to go yeah
11743s	but we'll have to see
11746s	i think he'll throw the shroud but i
11747s	could be wrong yeah gabby with a mine he
11749s	is out of here he's going
11750s	yeah mailbox sensor and cold tooth mine
11753s	is
11754s	exactly what you're looking for here to
11756s	get that presser out as quick as
11757s	possible
11760s	we just get the turn one cycle but good
11762s	chance he just ends up on the stab which
11764s	is an idea we're now picking up the
11765s	crabatora so he does have
11767s	something okay going into the pistol too
11770s	yeah weapon into weapon with the cutlass
11772s	there isn't too bad just gives him more
11773s	tradables or he can just play the null
11775s	out on curve right now
11777s	there is actually just an small argument
11780s	for trading the weapon and just wicked
11782s	stabbing the two one
11783s	uh but it really does decide on where
11785s	happy wants to
11787s	leave this
11789s	you can leave it in the lap of the gods
11791s	raven trade it and see if the knoll gets
11792s	reduced or not
11799s	i think either way the peasant dies it's
11801s	just how he gets to do it
11807s	decided for him
11809s	and look what he hit
11810s	he has got the vessel set up
11816s	that's right
11819s	oh
11822s	if he wants to you just play it
11828s	big deal as well now picking up smite so
11830s	that on turn seven there's every chance
11832s	he could have some some nonsense going
11834s	on or just turn eight possibly with the
11836s	fishing
11838s	yeah
11839s	it's tricky though right because yes he
11841s	can play it but he loses his null so is
11844s	that really worth it
11848s	oh he's gonna do this okay this is
11850s	better because he gets to keep the null
11851s	the shadow step trade into vessel this
11854s	was correct uh the straight up trade
11856s	wouldn't have really got him as far
11857s	ahead as it looked but this looks much
11860s	much better indeed
11862s	yep it does mean that he has to trust
11864s	his deck next turn and the turn after
11867s	but at least he's got something for
11870s	that to do i was just about to say
11872s	looking picking up a press store but we
11874s	knew that was going to happen
11876s	kind of the point okay imagine it's
11878s	going to be priest hero yeah with the
11879s	heel
11881s	oh haboo clown oh yeah that'll do that
11884s	will do
11885s	yeah the board's so wide and this this
11888s	is the the way you can pray on this
11889s	druid right habibu's got such a sick
11891s	opening and gabby
11893s	almost certainly has to coincoin presta
11896s	which is effectively
11899s	pass
11900s	for the terms
11903s	it's not saying that this is a bad play
11905s	in any way shape our form but now happy
11908s	just gets another full turn of attacks
11910s	and then goes into crabatoa smite okay
11913s	things are looking about as good as you
11915s	want them to right now but he does need
11917s	to hit something off the top and he has
11919s	if he'd missed there gabby would have
11921s	had moonlit guidance into whatever he
11923s	hit twice
11925s	and stuff may well have got nasty
11927s	quickly but just by hitting anything to
11929s	do for habu gabu here has put him in a
11931s	fantastic position look at this he's
11933s	just going to murder this board down
11935s	he's going to halve gabby's health total
11937s	and gabby is a guidance and a prayer
11939s	away from going out of this tournament
11941s	yeah this is pretty huge right the
11943s	ability to actually go defector and kill
11944s	presta means that that's not a problem
11947s	anymore pushes a ton of damage crabato
11949s	is going to come out now and the weapon
11952s	will just get to swing face right
11954s	there's the world where gabby doesn't
11956s	play a minion this turn is the world
11958s	where happy wins anyway double amber
11960s	watcher
11961s	okay
11965s	do it all again
11969s	this is still okay though this is not
11972s	exactly what happy wanted but the
11974s	response with the crabatoa keeps this
11976s	board under control piles on the damage
11979s	and look at that gabby just healed for a
11980s	million yeah and look at gabby's
11983s	response to the krabatoa so that just
11985s	shows you what i'm saying right like
11987s	like even though that wasn't good for
11988s	habu
11989s	he's still absolutely fine here
11992s	yeah
11994s	yeah the reason i got excited because it
11996s	needed to be something like that into
11998s	something else of course but
12000s	yeah even now it's absolutely messy
12004s	okay aquatic at least gives gabby some
12006s	level of choice over what happens next
12009s	again the wrong nixia if it was raid
12012s	boss we could talk but brood mother just
12016s	too slow especially lorinda because
12018s	we've been staring at mr smite in hand
12020s	all game
12022s	let's get a nice little shield slam on
12024s	the crabber toe with this uh so nice
12025s	little play here with the nixon drake
12028s	let's get to ramp as well and still fit
12030s	this in
12033s	that's what three six nine eleven
12038s	smite
12040s	double cutlass
12042s	i think it does end up just being tempo
12044s	smite right
12046s	ah
12048s	the thing is if you go for cutlass and
12050s	you pick up a fishing then next turns
12052s	nutty even if gabby clears your board
12055s	but that said there's still 22 cards in
12057s	the deck right but i mean you can play
12059s	the two cards you hit right
12061s	yeah he might hit the fishing but also
12062s	you might just find some stuff you might
12064s	find phillip fighting you might find
12066s	another step you know i guess my
12068s	question is how often does this might
12070s	actually die right because you don't
12072s	usually trade you keep it on five health
12075s	do this trade that he's done now and
12077s	then just say well here's loads of
12079s	damage i'm pushing
12081s	you have to kill smite this turn or
12083s	you're in mega trouble
12086s	okay
12087s	not quite draw
12090s	there's another spell we can talk
12092s	oh no
12094s	that's just a whole lot of nothing and
12096s	just like that what did i say about me
12098s	casting three o's today habu takes the
12102s	victory over gabby puts a stop to
12104s	gabby's dominant performance so far and
12107s	habu
12108s	looking
12109s	great gonna be going into top four it's
12112s	getting mildly ridiculous these two
12114s	players right now along with fiori i
12116s	mean what a ridiculous top 16 overall
12118s	and they've all had to kind of play each
12119s	other which is absolutely brutal but
12122s	what a series from habu i think just as
12125s	much as uh gabby sort of looked
12128s	dominating over fury habu did the same
12131s	to gabby himself i'm actually getting
12133s	confused with the amount of times of
12134s	saying these names it sounds similar
12136s	but i will say i think habu or at least
12138s	gabby had some opportunity
12140s	or at least more than fury did but habu
12143s	i think just played super well
12144s	especially in the previous game just
12146s	piled on the pressure and just got the
12148s	job done with for me
12150s	the
12151s	series winning game really was game one
12154s	honestly lorenda for me the shaming over
12155s	the jewelry getting that victory was
12157s	huge
12158s	yeah and gabby is just destined this
12160s	year to win the world championships
12162s	having to go through every single
12164s	possible trying boots to entry um the
12167s	semifinals here picks him up eight
12169s	points going towards the win uh the full
12171s	championships so he'll be fine he'll
12173s	just pick up some more points next two
12175s	we'll see him again but if he's going to
12177s	become world champion he's just gonna
12178s	have to do it the hard way no easy
12180s	qualifications by coming first in the
12182s	tournament yet
12183s	and i still expect him to get it done
12185s	honestly but yeah that's a heck of a
12188s	semi-final we've got lined up there
12189s	raven and proving once again that
12191s	nothing gets in the way of raven trying
12193s	to go to bed early
12196s	true or at least maybe not for the last
12197s	two days uh but yeah huge
12199s	congratulations there to haboo gaboo uh
12201s	definitely just another player it's
12203s	tough right because like i said there
12205s	are some great players we have yet to
12207s	see you know that will be playing out
12209s	the next few matches don't get me wrong
12211s	but when you've got top 16 at least for
12213s	us lorenzo maybe slightly biased but
12215s	when there's fiori gabby habugabu in top
12218s	16
12219s	and those three basically play across
12222s	two matches it's hard to not just
12224s	realize we're in some peak hearthstone
12226s	right now in terms of just level of
12228s	competition because we've only talked
12230s	about three players out of the 16 but
12232s	even just that small pocket of players
12234s	is incredible so
12235s	really really cool to see this uh these
12238s	play out and maybe start some rivalries
12240s	which i'm all for because gabby for one
12242s	he's definitely uh not shy on twitter
12244s	when he wants to be
12246s	but for now with that match over we are
12247s	going to go to a quick break and very
12249s	swiftly get the next ones out for you
12250s	guys don't go anywhere and we'll be
12252s	right back
12260s	[Music]
12265s	[Applause]
12266s	[Music]
12271s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
12274s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
12278s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
12282s	with such ruthlessness
12285s	so deep and profound
12289s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
12296s	to uncover the truth
12298s	of murder most foul
12302s	the anima drifts across the floor
12305s	highlighting the creatures who walked
12308s	through my door
12310s	the motives are as black as night
12313s	avarice power revenge and blight
12319s	we watch the hero
12321s	uncover the clues
12324s	that lead to the truth
12327s	behind this dark rooms
12331s	join us here with the grimm and empires
12336s	choose your power without heavenly bias
12340s	for at the end
12341s	they will burn in the fire
12344s	when it is known whose slave
12348s	tenacious the siren
12351s	[Music]
12366s	[Music]
12370s	so
12374s	[Music]
12378s	[Applause]
12380s	[Music]
12394s	so
12398s	[Music]
12408s	[Music]
12449s	welcome back to masters tour this year
12450s	we're making our way through the quarter
12453s	final matches now with some speed as
12455s	well habigabu taking a 3-0 sweep over
12458s	gabby in a tremendous fashion which
12460s	makes me personally very happy as i am
12464s	still in the runnings in the predictions
12465s	whereas subtle your blind fanaticism is
12468s	your undoing once again
12470s	i mean listen this is just the rules you
12472s	know like it says
12473s	it's a percentage game it doesn't work
12475s	out every time but it's the first rule
12478s	in the predictions handbook if gabby is
12480s	eligible you must pick gabby it's just
12483s	that simple
12484s	well speaking of uh just playing the
12487s	odds i don't think jojo's got much of a
12489s	shot here because he's the last
12491s	remaining asia pacific representative
12493s	and we all know how that goes maybe he
12495s	can hope for a second place uh but
12498s	historically speaking apec has not been
12500s	able to do any better than that uh going
12502s	up against kaboom he's got himself a
12505s	pretty interesting lineup both players
12507s	here actually with i would say two of
12510s	the uh the slower lineups left in the
12513s	top eight
12515s	yeah for sure a little bit different uh
12517s	again
12518s	nice to be seeing a mine rogue lineup
12520s	from the start this time around um i
12523s	know i think it was yourself and lorinda
12525s	that got to dig into it last time from
12526s	drevo's side with a couple of absolutely
12529s	insane series
12531s	myself and raven were watching in the
12532s	virtual green room and right before that
12535s	second alignment appeared i was like
12536s	like this is always alignment i've read
12538s	it i've read this script before this box
12541s	has alignment in it every single time
12543s	and yes so it was and i do think mine
12546s	rogue uh is a very interesting deck
12548s	overall i think um the combo lineup i
12551s	suppose has been a little bit
12552s	underrepresented i'm sure many people
12555s	watching will be very celebratory of
12558s	that fact
12559s	because combo decks have been quite
12561s	dominant at a high level in hearthstone
12562s	for quite some time but i feel like the
12564s	you know mine warlock mine rogue boar
12566s	priest kind of line up we haven't seen
12568s	having too much success but the stats do
12570s	show that the players who have brought
12572s	it have disproportionately over
12575s	performed there are too many players
12577s	with this lineup in top a in comparison
12579s	to how many brought it in the first
12581s	place um which kind of goes to show that
12583s	it's an over-performing lineup so really
12585s	interesting now to see um with gabby of
12588s	course the hot favorite for all sane
12590s	people uh out of the running whether the
12592s	likes of gaboom or dravo can take it
12594s	down
12595s	yeah i feel like combo's just in a
12596s	really interesting spot at the moment
12598s	where
12600s	last year a lot of the really good combo
12602s	decks felt like their best matchups were
12604s	actually against aggro
12605s	because you could just so easily use all
12607s	your
12608s	removal pieces to just deal with those
12610s	early turns and they transitioned so
12612s	well into an alternate anti-agra game
12614s	plan whereas i think now
12616s	at least for the average player like
12618s	ball priest is really really difficult
12620s	to play against aggro
12622s	it's quite easy to play against the
12624s	slower decks because you're given all
12625s	the time uh to do your combo uh but now
12628s	with like again uh ball priest uh the
12630s	mine rogue uh curse or mine warlock as
12633s	well i would slightly argue although to
12635s	a lesser degree uh they're pretty
12636s	vulnerable some of the aggro strats so
12638s	the likes of uh the rogues arguably
12641s	prestor druids demon hunters as well you
12643s	can find yourself getting run over
12645s	pretty quickly
12646s	unless you are incredibly well versed on
12648s	the deck as our players in the top are
12651s	which is i think a big reason for their
12653s	capability to get so far with such a
12655s	lineup
12656s	yeah absolutely um and i think the
12658s	players who have brought this sort of
12659s	lineup uh have taken a risk uh
12663s	particularly because i think the
12666s	the 40 health decks have really thrown a
12668s	spanner in the works they have kind of
12669s	new match-ups that you have to learn and
12671s	i think you know one thing that can be
12672s	said from for combo decks even if you're
12674s	one of those people that is is kind of a
12677s	combo down player that wants to say oh
12678s	you know you just kind of wrote learn a
12680s	flow chart for each match up and then
12682s	you execute the same thing every time
12684s	even they i think would agree that when
12686s	new matchups appear and you have to then
12689s	relearn a new flowchart for a new match
12690s	up that is kind of an overtly difficult
12692s	thing to do with a combo deck initially
12695s	so having to learn the new interactions
12697s	the weird tech cards that sneak in to
12700s	the 40 card list that aren't in the 30
12702s	card lists what it takes to do that
12703s	extra 10 damage in some positions um i
12706s	think that is kind of putting yourself
12708s	out there and really taking a risk when
12709s	you bring this sort of lineup that uh
12711s	kaboom and of course previously dravo
12712s	have to this tournament all right well
12715s	starting things off with the warlock
12716s	verse the
12717s	war priest uh on both sides in your
12720s	experience is the ball priest finding
12723s	itself in with those uh one of those
12725s	cushy matchups where you just have all
12727s	the time in the world to get your combo
12729s	down the sword activated and lethal that
12731s	way or does the the warlock have enough
12733s	tricks up its sleeve to be able to
12735s	counter that
12736s	well i was going to give you the inner
12737s	word yes but then you multi-claused the
12739s	question and that didn't make any sense
12740s	anymore yeah um pretty much yeah priest
12743s	is still i would say king of these kind
12745s	of race to combo match-ups because on
12748s	average they get their quickest
12749s	especially
12750s	uninterrupted right like you could argue
12753s	that some of the warlock decks are able
12755s	to be efficient with removal and draw
12757s	cards at the same time in the way that
12759s	priests can't necessarily do sometimes
12761s	they have to choose one or the other
12763s	but if you're not really pressuring them
12766s	their ability to just draw 10 plus cards
12769s	in one turn cycling through you know a
12771s	pyromancer term with a handmaiden and a
12774s	priestess as well all of that kind of
12775s	stuff thrown in there i think it's very
12777s	rare that another combo based strategy
12779s	can keep up with that
12782s	respectable looking hand for kaboom as
12784s	well the switch obviously a keep
12786s	illuminate i'm a little bit less fond of
12789s	especially when you have one of the
12791s	better cards to illuminate into uh in
12793s	the switcheroo already in hand
12796s	and so i think i'm just more so trying
12797s	to find the uh the hand maidens at this
12799s	point and maybe some of the pyro cleric
12802s	combo as well
12804s	i would agree with that assessment yes i
12806s	do think pyrocleric pieces are very very
12809s	nice indeed in this matchup to have
12811s	and maiden always a bonus you always
12813s	like to see one of those banked in the
12815s	opening hand and even you know early
12817s	priestess in this matchup i don't think
12818s	is the worst thing in the world to see
12820s	because you can really start to plot
12821s	when your insane pop-up pop-off turn is
12824s	going to come down somewhere around turn
12826s	five turn six i heard you talking about
12828s	this in one of the previous rounds where
12831s	uninterrupted unchallenged boar priests
12833s	should try to weapon on eight if you can
12836s	find some magical method to do it on
12838s	seven then good for you but it is a very
12840s	rare instance so planning backwards from
12842s	there is usually the way this uh this
12844s	kind of matchup is going to pan out
12847s	big tournament as well for uh ford joe
12850s	he has played in a surprising number of
12852s	masters tours uh considering how uh
12856s	unknown he is to me as a player he has
12858s	not had the best run he's one of those
12859s	unfortunate players who does still have
12861s	a negative win rate in masters tours
12863s	even factoring in uh his good
12865s	performance this weekend
12867s	but he can put all of those uh qualms
12869s	all those doubts to rest with a good
12871s	performance this weekend
12874s	uh and so jumping into things just
12875s	looking very very smooth now for kaboom
12878s	switcheroo could solve all his problems
12880s	if it can find him a wild pyromancer and
12882s	they're very likely to get the gift as
12884s	well off of the thrive
12886s	uh but currently a good hand but far
12889s	from an auto win
12891s	yeah meanwhile just to so pick up on
12893s	that point kaboom kind of on the other
12894s	side of the card he's one of those
12896s	low-key players hasn't actually played a
12898s	great deal of masters tours only four
12900s	under his belt but he's at a plus 60 win
12903s	rate currently 18 and 11 overall in
12905s	those fours masters tour appearances and
12906s	there are a few players like that um
12909s	matty from czech republic comes to mind
12911s	as the first one who just puts up these
12913s	insane numbers has insane win rate in
12915s	masters tours uh matty did has
12917s	eventually made the top 16. obviously
12919s	we're looking at gaboom here in his
12921s	first top 16 as well but there are a few
12923s	players like that which
12925s	this new year's tournament format will
12928s	reward a bit more previously than in the
12930s	past where for example even a player
12931s	like dead draw was missing out despite
12934s	being one of the four most winningest
12936s	players in the entire system but you
12938s	know these days it's it's much more
12940s	equated to one win equals one point and
12942s	what that means for going forward for
12943s	qualification for other major
12945s	tournaments so players like kaboom who
12947s	are putting up um big numbers in small
12950s	samples can certainly start to make a
12951s	name for themselves very quickly
12954s	so for jojo here speaking of some of
12956s	those tricks that you have access to uh
12958s	the big one to me the obvious point is
12961s	curse warlock puts cards in your
12963s	opponent's hand that really feels like
12964s	the main strategy you have access to in
12967s	this matchup to try and hope a slim
12968s	chance if you burn a boar or an amulet
12971s	and just win the game that way uh how
12973s	consistent of a plan is that and how
12976s	much do you have to greed these curse
12978s	cards that he has in hand with the
12979s	syracuse i would say fairly inconsistent
12983s	overall because again if we're setting a
12986s	goal as the priest player to try and
12988s	weapon on eight or you know let's say
12990s	nine at a push in most situations
12993s	as long as you're dumping cards from
12995s	hand with regularity and you do have a
12997s	lot of zero cost cards that you can use
12999s	to dump um you know desperate prayer
13001s	right now for example might even just be
13003s	a consideration for kaboom to just keep
13004s	that space out of the hand you're really
13006s	looking at some kind of like bran curse
13009s	late game combo to try and fill up your
13011s	opponent's hand in a lot of positions
13013s	and that usually requires a rod to have
13015s	come down it requires a lot of cards to
13016s	have been drawn and so on and so forth
13019s	by the time you've done all that you're
13020s	probably on turn seven turn eight by
13022s	this point anyway and the priest on the
13024s	other side is likely just to trying to
13026s	kill you so you really have very little
13028s	time to execute that kind of disruption
13031s	strategy but i do absolutely agree i
13033s	think it's a great thing to bring up
13034s	because i think in terms of the power
13036s	dynamics and the balance of the matchup
13038s	that it is something that both players
13039s	will be looking at whether or not it
13041s	actually ends up being a factor both
13044s	players are going to be counting cards
13046s	in their hand every single turn right
13047s	it's just a thing that you are going to
13048s	be keeping track of 100 and one of the
13052s	things that was brought to my attention
13053s	that i kind of hadn't even realized
13055s	although it's very obvious when you say
13056s	it is because of the way that the curses
13058s	interact uh given that they
13061s	activate before you draw yes at the
13063s	start of your turn if you have a uh a
13066s	curse that only has one durability left
13068s	in your hand you're never going to
13070s	overdraw so the curse warlock needs to
13072s	try and go all in on one turn uh where
13074s	they just go for bran plus a as uh zakul
13078s	or the syracuse in order to put them all
13080s	in at once uh which is very difficult to
13082s	do but if you were to do so this weapon
13084s	the rod really helps you to get to that
13088s	point where you are able uh to get all
13090s	those curses in hand at once since
13093s	everything in hearthstone is now called
13094s	stewart by the way can we also call rod
13097s	stewart just
13098s	for reasons
13101s	i'm on board okay good
13110s	a flash heel not bad to try and keep up
13113s	with the uh the nordstrom cleric draw
13115s	train uh but you obviously read the
13118s	gift of the naaru with highest priority
13124s	prayer dump i think is the consideration
13127s	again i don't think it's a priestess
13130s	turn but uh difference between six cards
13132s	and seven
13133s	could end up being relevant kaboom
13135s	chooses to take the risk and i respect
13136s	it um as we talked about no real sign of
13139s	big discounts no multi-card combo really
13142s	available from your opponent's hand just
13144s	yet so i think it's very reasonable no
13146s	great reason to panic about hand size
13147s	just yet
13150s	only
13151s	one spell has been played by jajo so far
13154s	i believe in the coin itself
13156s	um
13157s	so trying to activate this queen azshara
13160s	is probably pretty high priority i would
13162s	say given this hand
13165s	so just drains on mortal coil i think
13167s	you know it's the obvious play i suppose
13169s	but also just manages to
13172s	further your own game plan and increase
13175s	your options like it doesn't just have
13177s	to be the cursed game plan you can get
13179s	there uh with a big colossal off a queen
13187s	you're no gift
13190s	somewhat irritatingly
13192s	you are a kaboom fan
13194s	this might just be a clear up the board
13196s	state kind of turn
13199s	it does activate the handmaid that's
13201s	true yeah okay fine yeah i think you
13204s	just don't care about this board like
13205s	the fact that the the mistress of
13207s	mixtures heal you when they die anyway
13209s	uh this is really just not a concern
13211s	right now
13212s	yeah
13215s	there is first trade on the other amulet
13217s	putting that one up to two now
13220s	still no gift though like i do respect
13222s	this play because obviously if this play
13223s	hits on the gift then you are
13226s	potentially in business you could even
13228s	find weird ways to go off this term with
13229s	the priestess
13231s	even though you'd probably end up
13232s	waiting one more turn for maximum
13234s	efficiency but not hitting gift again
13236s	here just kind of puts kaboom right back
13238s	in the same spot again next time which
13240s	is a little bit awkward
13242s	looks like it is going to be the board
13244s	clear
13245s	wow i mean it's a board clue it's also a
13247s	hand up uh quite important
13249s	yes
13250s	at this point you know you are getting
13252s	afraid they have a discount they could
13254s	be seeing you know brand doubles
13256s	syracuse is a possibility as slim as it
13258s	may be
13259s	i
13260s	absolutely agree yeah completely agree i
13263s	think even though i called it a board
13264s	clear you are correct that is
13266s	three cards out of hand wearing a trench
13269s	coat disguised as a board right like
13270s	that's all that really was because
13272s	especially with the rod discount going
13275s	off that turn right you are starting to
13277s	become a little bit scared about burning
13279s	a couple of cards on the next turn
13289s	however counterpoint your opponent has
13291s	40 cards in their deck they never have
13293s	the thing they need to make
13294s	like forget about it it's very true yeah
13297s	yeah
13298s	i'd yeah i don't know i just think
13299s	you're so likely
13301s	to win this game at this point anyway
13304s	i agree
13305s	you may as well just make it a little
13306s	bit harder for them for a turn uh given
13308s	that it doesn't really ruin his game
13310s	plan like it hurts to lose the priestess
13312s	sure
13313s	but i don't think it's
13315s	with the way this is looking like going
13317s	to give you lethal a turn earlier uh
13320s	most likely
13322s	uh maybe if you'd hit the uh
13324s	the gift of the nari that would be a
13326s	different story uh but right now it's
13328s	just another whiff for gaboon
13331s	it's similar to the scenario from the
13333s	previous masters tour where we kind of
13334s	had the debate about the ball being
13336s	committed to the board and then jack hex
13338s	and shadow step happening
13339s	um it's a situation where i was arguing
13341s	there was no reason to take that risk
13343s	because you were so far ahead by every
13345s	other metric that just don't get your
13347s	ball stolen i think that's kind of where
13349s	kaboom's head is at right now okay that
13352s	is such a massive hit
13355s	wow finds the gift of the narrow picks
13357s	up in a couple of extra cards big big
13359s	deal down to seven cards in deck now
13361s	that is huge uh amulets have both been
13364s	traded once each i believe so he still
13367s	needs one more amulet trade to throw
13369s	into this as well and bran does make an
13372s	appearance
13373s	at the top there for jojo with 25 cards
13375s	still left in deck thanks for showing up
13377s	buddy
13379s	which means uh double circus available
13382s	on this turn for
13384s	um
13385s	or curses put in the other hand which is
13388s	a very annoyingly inefficient uh or
13391s	ineffectual uh number of cards to be
13393s	placed there so are we looking at
13396s	alternate routes with like bran
13399s	queen
13401s	feel like it's winning does it
13403s	yeah so that's circus on the far left as
13405s	well right tucked in the corner yeah
13410s	and you know even then if you go for
13412s	those roots you're leaving a cleric in
13413s	play
13414s	true actually
13426s	well at least makes
13433s	that's what you want to see
13434s	trade illuminate feels pretty good to me
13437s	trade illuminate feels great yeah
13442s	a lot of damage still stacked in hand
13444s	here let's not forget about though
13446s	that's true yeah yeah
13448s	another cool 10 next turn
13455s	however as long as he can hit the other
13457s	amulet of the illuminate it
13460s	is guaranteed
13463s	to hit the sword next turn
13476s	now if you hit it don't you because you
13477s	can still
13479s	if you get it down to zero you can spend
13481s	two mana on drawing a card off the
13482s	cleric so you illuminate you get on top
13484s	you use two mana to draw and you just oh
13487s	good point
13489s	yeah that felt like it was worth a shot
13492s	yeah because you wouldn't have
13493s	accidentally killed the cleric would you
13499s	uh oh actually no because you'd have to
13500s	heal the cleric first before you dredged
13503s	or else you would end up killing the
13505s	cleric because the cleric would have
13506s	been on one health so you couldn't cast
13507s	the illuminate first
13509s	yeah all right sure
13511s	fine moving on
13518s	i didn't actually see what he got off of
13520s	the uh
13521s	illuminate there at the end it happened
13522s	so fast but i'm gonna work under the
13525s	assumption that it was amulet it's a
13526s	pretty good shot of finding it
13529s	oh well 50 50 i suppose
13534s	now it just needs to not take 20
13538s	well it's a little bit more complex than
13540s	that because if jojo can push a little
13542s	bit of curse damage here and make a
13544s	board of minions that survive the pyro
13546s	turn
13548s	then you might be able to push counter
13550s	lethal past the first weapon swing
13553s	possibly rue yeah so how are you going
13556s	about doing that because you can't
13557s	really do both at once the um the
13560s	customers are just not really big enough
13561s	to do anything so it would have to be
13563s	queen
13565s	horn and then play the uh yeah
13569s	colossal at the end but starting with
13571s	the tap uh locks out even that
13573s	possibility
13576s	yeah tapa's a little bit weird looking
13578s	to me i have to
13580s	did not mind the queen horn colossal
13583s	player that looked fine uh
13586s	not an outcome that would have presented
13588s	lethal too often
13590s	okay
13591s	going with the ring uh two series in a
13594s	row seeing the ring pretty surprisingly
13596s	does of course allow you to double up on
13597s	those curses
13602s	oh
13604s	it's so huge it was the gift and not the
13607s	amulet found from the illuminate on the
13609s	previous turn to the big big deal but
13612s	now that is a two amulet and a three
13614s	amulet ready to go with two pigs already
13616s	in the bank
13619s	so you have five damage now from this
13622s	curse
13623s	and then next turn they're going to be
13625s	able to play the one mana leftover
13629s	ring
13630s	a curse which means they can deal
13634s	11 to you with the five and the six but
13637s	then i think kaboom will be able to heal
13640s	up out of range and play them at that
13642s	point so uh
13643s	still don't quite see it getting there
13645s	even though it was a clever setup by
13647s	jaja
13665s	also for the armor and everything else
13667s	now we sit here for three hours while
13668s	this happens
13674s	yeah yeah yeah yeah jojo just says yeah
13676s	all right five armor that's fine i lose
13678s	to that i'm not waiting for these
13680s	animations
13680s	unlucky broadcast team you have to sit
13683s	there and watch them all i'm out i'm
13684s	already queueing the next yeah
13688s	it's a stupid way to win the game but a
13690s	well-played game by gaboom uh at all
13692s	points i think he very very clearly uh
13696s	had the overdraw consideration at all
13699s	points in the game as unlikely as it was
13701s	as you said because it is a 40 card deck
13703s	uh he just knew how favored he was so
13705s	he's playing around even the fringe outs
13707s	which is uh exactly what you do in a
13710s	combo deck like this it's just very
13711s	clean
13712s	yeah and the the point that got cut off
13714s	because of that crazy term where he went
13716s	fishing hit the shard of the naaru on a
13718s	really clutch term which may have
13720s	actually ended up being game-winning
13722s	right the fact that that turn ended up
13724s	making him go one turn quicker than he
13725s	might have done otherwise was probably a
13727s	really big deal with the way that end
13729s	game state panned out so
13731s	um the fact that he did that was cutting
13733s	me off from the point i was making
13734s	whereas we've talked about boar priest
13736s	mistakes in the past about
13739s	failing to play around very niche
13741s	counters from the opponent however
13744s	priest is a deck that gets into a
13746s	situation where you're never going to
13748s	lose to any other method which is i
13750s	think is quite close to where gaboom was
13752s	this game where he could afford to just
13755s	essentially throw three cards out of his
13757s	hand for minimal effect just so that he
13759s	didn't uh get caught with some sort of
13760s	brand curse overdraw and you saw i think
13763s	on one turn what was it four curses went
13765s	into the hand on a five card hand
13766s	perfectly managed the entire time there
13768s	for kaboom so uh certainly a decently
13770s	navigated game there for kaboom couple
13773s	of risky players taken but they paid off
13775s	big in the end and that means that ball
13777s	priest is gonna be getting out of the
13778s	series weak deck overall in terms of
13781s	stats in the tournament but clearly
13784s	pocket train kaboom the players who are
13786s	doing well with it they are the ones
13787s	that are flying the flag and that is
13789s	always going to be the eternal debate
13791s	with a deck like war priest
13793s	yeah exactly right it was
13795s	i don't want to say
13797s	definitely going to get a win in the
13798s	series but quite likely when you're up
13800s	against the warlock the ping mage uh
13803s	oh yeah it is pink mage sorry i was
13804s	gonna say am i making a mistake big
13806s	spell mage no sorry it is just ping mage
13808s	as well a fantastic match up in my
13810s	opinion for the ball priest as well uh
13812s	it's a nice win but far from a uh
13817s	still very consequential win uh but far
13819s	from a you know an unlikely one to get
13821s	through uh with jojo going on the ping
13823s	mage here this is another deck that i've
13825s	got to be honest feels like it's gonna
13827s	struggle against gaboom's pretty slow
13830s	uh comboish sort of lineup
13833s	yeah uh definitely a very left field
13837s	deck overall i would say
13839s	mage being predominantly big spell mage
13842s	from what we've seen so far uh 58
13844s	players in total bringing ping mage just
13846s	having looked it up which is even a
13848s	little bit more than i would have
13849s	perhaps expected
13851s	um so uh oh no sorry i was looking at
13853s	completely the wrong thing that's not
13855s	true at all ignore that entirely um but
13857s	we have seen a whole lot more uh big
13859s	spell mage in general and for good
13861s	reason that's a deck that's kind of been
13862s	running havoc all the way through ladder
13864s	recently uh and if you want to play more
13867s	dress you can just put more dress in big
13869s	spell mage it's fine it's not the end of
13870s	the world you don't have to play
13872s	wildfire if you really don't want to i
13874s	saw it there was a series was it day one
13876s	where you just like someone put a big
13877s	spell mage list on the screen with more
13879s	dress in it and you just lost your mind
13881s	like you could not comprehend what you
13882s	were looking at boom right there what do
13885s	you what do you think about that buddy
13887s	oh it's so stupid like
13891s	eight mana eight eight in your deck you
13892s	have to work so hard to activate that
13895s	goddamn thing like you're gonna play two
13898s	reckless apprentices on like a four
13900s	minion board each time i i don't know
13902s	okay case for the defense first off
13904s	clarification i played a good amount of
13906s	big spell mage i do not play more dress
13908s	in my version of the deck i don't think
13909s	it's optimal i do think it's fine though
13912s	because there are situations where you
13913s	do don't work that hard at all like you
13915s	just play dawn grasp and you play one
13917s	reckless apprentice that might just do
13920s	it you know like you could just be a bit
13922s	then able to play more dress on the next
13923s	turn after you've just done that
13925s	depending on what your opponent's board
13927s	stay is whether the hero powers scaled
13929s	alongside the reckless apprentice so on
13931s	there are ways for it to happen and i
13933s	have seen it look incredibly powerful i
13935s	just don't think it has
13936s	the consistency that you really want
13938s	like for me big spell mage has like
13941s	eight to ten cards that are the roulette
13944s	table right you just roll them you see
13946s	what happens and see and outside of that
13948s	i think you want the rest of the deck to
13950s	be as consistent as humanly possible um
13953s	and more dress to me just doesn't really
13955s	fit that bill over
13956s	agreed there were two conditions needed
13959s	to play that card that's like two too
13961s	many conditions pair it to the pelican
13963s	you just slam that bad boy on one it
13966s	dies to a piranha on turn two and you
13968s	move on with your life it's just good
13972s	yeah agreed although um looking at
13974s	wikigood's reporting on you know card
13976s	influence in this tournament uh it's
13978s	actually the rams that have seemingly
13980s	put in the most work in terms of those
13982s	and he was calling it you know which
13984s	arena cards do you play in the deck and
13986s	the the combination of pelican and the
13988s	rams and so on and so forth you can fit
13990s	in that slide it's actually turned out
13991s	the rams have actually ended up being
13993s	the the best choice so that is certainly
13994s	interesting because i would say that's
13996s	not the most popular outcome on ladder
13999s	for sure and even in this tournament
14001s	from what at least from what we've seen
14002s	on broadcast
14004s	yeah and another innovation the surprise
14006s	surprise habugabu has been on to for a
14008s	while now he posted his uh his ram
14010s	version of the mage uh a little while
14012s	ago titled very inappropriately uh but
14015s	doing very well for him uh overall uh
14018s	and so i'll be uh curious to see how
14021s	this particularly de uh teched out
14023s	version of the big spell mage before
14026s	good boom works out uh i've gotta say
14028s	that uh aside from whether or not you
14030s	include more dress in it or not i feel
14032s	like
14033s	this is the kind of deck that ping mage
14035s	again sort of struggles against because
14038s	ping mage ideally has this very smooth
14041s	but very
14042s	uh
14044s	this very smooth curve of power that
14045s	ends at a very high level right where if
14047s	you're able to deal with their minions
14049s	one at a time get the pings in obviously
14050s	you are doing ludicrously powerful stuff
14053s	by the end of the game
14054s	but
14055s	big spell mage is not a deck that ramps
14057s	up in power at a smooth level in its own
14060s	right it does nothing nothing nothing
14061s	and then shoots up in the air which ping
14063s	mage really struggles to respond against
14066s	and so i do think if you're hearing the
14067s	sorceress or the belinda uh then the
14069s	ping mage is really gonna be in trouble
14072s	yeah for sure having now actually
14074s	properly confirmed the numbers 17 total
14077s	ping mages in the tournament in
14078s	comparison to 188
14080s	big spell mages so you can certainly see
14083s	the level of discrepancy we're doing
14084s	with here but again i talked about this
14086s	previously some of these decks that
14088s	we're seeing in top 16 right like just
14091s	because your lineup matches the hive
14093s	mind right just because you're bringing
14095s	the deck that 70 of the field has
14097s	brought that doesn't mean you've got it
14099s	right in fact in most situations it
14101s	means there was probably a line up that
14103s	you could have gone digging for that was
14104s	a level higher you don't necessarily
14106s	want to be doing the same thing as
14107s	everyone else you want to be doing that
14109s	one thing that goes one tier deeper and
14112s	is beating that thing that everyone else
14113s	is doing so when we look at things like
14116s	um you know mine rogue only being three
14119s	percent of the field and there's two of
14120s	them in in top 16 two of them now in top
14123s	eight as well ping mage only being five
14125s	percent of the field and there's one of
14126s	those hanging out in top eight as well
14128s	those are the decks that you sometimes
14130s	have to look at where they're being over
14132s	proportionally represented in the time
14134s	in by the time you get to the the top
14136s	top level the end of the tournament
14138s	those are really the decks sometimes to
14139s	keep an eye on
14141s	all righty kaboom giving us a little
14145s	sheesh uh that draw uh with the mailbox
14149s	dance of the belinda on the coin can you
14151s	do that in french instead see a
14153s	difference or a
14156s	there you go perfect thank you
14161s	he's counting it out it's not especially
14163s	complicated buddy you play the dancer
14165s	and then you coin coin belinder and you
14166s	win the game he found it
14168s	[Applause]
14170s	yeah no it's still worth just looking at
14172s	like okay do i actually play any of
14174s	these cards on any other of these turns
14176s	no no you don't no
14180s	oh he's drawn the blizzard as well
14182s	we talked about this i think it was
14184s	myself and raven um you know again
14186s	getting caught up in the more dress
14187s	discussion there's a lot of weirdness
14190s	going on with this version of the deck
14191s	that we didn't touch on going into the
14193s	intro of this like the list has a
14196s	blizzard in it it has doomsayers in it
14199s	it's very different from you know let's
14201s	say the habugabu list that we've been
14203s	seeing
14204s	more and more from other people so
14206s	certainly that blizzard introduces let's
14208s	say a failure rate to the belinda it's
14211s	not like it's necessarily bad if that
14213s	happens but yeah having belinda in the
14216s	opening hand and then first draw topping
14218s	the blizzard heck yeah this is the
14220s	absolute nuts for kaboom this game
14223s	a decent pick up here though for jojo
14225s	obviously in the form of
14227s	wildfire you can get these pings rocking
14229s	and rolling
14231s	and it's another
14232s	spell school to go with the multicaster
14235s	honestly you could consider just going
14237s	flurry first in this instance to play
14240s	multicast and next turn for the full
14241s	suite of draws
14243s	yeah it's not a bad idea actually
14245s	definitely worth thinking about and just
14247s	the way i think the turn started and was
14250s	about to happen automatically there for
14252s	jojo and then he went hang on a second i
14254s	think that might just be what he's
14255s	looking at here
14259s	like your opponent kept another card in
14261s	hand
14261s	it's
14264s	you know it's reasonable to assume they
14265s	have a belinda or a sorceress or some
14267s	way uh barbaric sorceress sorry some way
14269s	of cheating out a big spell uh but i
14272s	don't think you really want to be
14274s	playing in that world like you know
14275s	belinda is such a powerful card that you
14278s	can kind of say if they have it you're
14280s	struggling to win the game anyway
14282s	the problem is the two options are
14284s	diametrically opposed right because if
14287s	they have barbara in hand you absolutely
14290s	want to dump the flurry in the coin as
14292s	quickly as possible yeah if they have
14294s	belinda in hand you absolutely don't
14296s	want to dump the flurry under any
14298s	circumstance because you want to freeze
14300s	the 910 or the 1010 when it comes down
14302s	instead so unfortunately the two options
14305s	are just a straight up 50 50 as opposed
14308s	to which one ends up serving your game
14309s	plan better
14311s	and i i would argue that you know it's
14313s	good to go for that game plan uh where
14315s	you play the flurry a turn earlier and
14318s	then you
14318s	[Music]
14319s	pretty funny uh
14321s	go for it a turn earlier and then
14325s	uh go for the full draw on the
14326s	multicaster because again like i said if
14328s	they have belinda your odds of winning
14330s	the game drop
14332s	just catastrophically
14334s	yeah
14336s	answers of victory drastic go down yeah
14339s	i mean it's so heartbreaking it's
14340s	exactly that 50 50 i was talking about
14342s	jojo played great around the barbaric
14345s	sorceress indeed right instead of going
14347s	for the multicaster he just dumped every
14349s	cheap spell in hand instead left himself
14351s	with just the mass polymorph
14352s	so at best it was gonna be you know a
14356s	nine or ten spell going into a seven at
14358s	worst it could have been blizzard
14359s	getting more expensive with the way the
14361s	boomstick actually works which is a
14363s	great play around 50 of the things that
14366s	end up hurting you against the other
14368s	option it's terrible because not only
14370s	have you under developed by playing ice
14372s	barrier instead of multicaster on that
14374s	turn you also dumped your flurry which
14376s	means guess what idiot there's just a
14378s	910 hitting you in the face this turn
14380s	like it's so heartbreaking
14383s	ah what a deck aren't we all happy this
14385s	exists
14387s	well not jojo uh that's for sure uh he
14390s	does have a
14393s	reasonable stall plan uh with vardhan
14396s	into
14398s	the mass polymorph into now wildfire at
14401s	the end of all that if you wanted to
14403s	which does remedy the situation
14406s	you know actually quite a lot the rune
14408s	of the archmage is very far from a uh a
14410s	wind condition
14412s	it's more often a catch-up mechanism
14413s	when it's at its most powerful
14416s	yes very true
14421s	yeah the parrot does not help that
14423s	situation but it's it means there's
14425s	something for giajo to be moving on it
14427s	doesn't but if you go vardhan into mass
14429s	polly
14430s	there's not going to be enough board
14432s	space for a couple of turns for that
14433s	para into the drake drake fire to
14436s	actually have an impact on the game for
14438s	quite some time so it does buy you a lot
14440s	of time to actually get something
14441s	rolling
14445s	i don't think in this instance that you
14447s	can play roon either i i know it's
14449s	tempting because it's just the only way
14451s	to effectively use your mana here
14454s	uh but you just really really want that
14456s	grace age parrot to copy the the amulet
14459s	rather than the rune i think
14461s	yeah i think i agree i want the parrot
14463s	to be drake fire for as long as possible
14479s	just ping one of your own one ones here
14481s	that's like the incredible cast division
14483s	suggestion in this position looking at
14485s	mass polymorph on the other side but
14487s	with hands face up that might end up
14490s	being the play that you make no anyway
14491s	it doesn't matter because the nixie is
14492s	still on board anyway we just refill it
14494s	at the end of this
14495s	yeah i mean it doesn't make a difference
14498s	well the question here with polly is
14500s	like
14502s	actually do you trade in first with your
14505s	two minions rather than five two one one
14507s	sheep it agreed i know that they can
14510s	ping away one of their minions but it
14511s	leaves them with a lot less mana and one
14514s	full less board space
14517s	yep
14517s	you are obviously you know from the
14520s	stats that appeared on belinda that the
14522s	other cheap spell is a rune and not the
14524s	other drake fire so you are playing
14526s	around parrot specifically by doing that
14529s	but i think for the sake of not having
14530s	two one ones on board that get traded
14533s	anyway like yeah what's the downside
14536s	right like i think presenting that
14539s	level of difficulty to the opponent is
14541s	probably worth it in that spot
14545s	oh
14546s	oh spicy okay
14551s	i guess you know that there's a second
14553s	flame in hand right so you have a decent
14554s	shot being able to just play
14556s	uh roon on this turn but
14559s	then once again do you really want to
14561s	play uh the rune on this turn
14563s	is the question again
14565s	yeah i mean i understand the hesitance
14566s	to parrot because you're still a board
14569s	space short once you factor in the
14571s	parrot right you're still only feeling
14573s	one dragon but
14574s	barbaric when you in particular have
14576s	that blizzard in hand as well like
14578s	hitting a one to three mana blizzard or
14580s	whatever you might end up with in that
14582s	situation does not really feel like a
14584s	particularly good use of your mana
14585s	either um but it's one of these weird
14587s	mid-game spots the uh big spell mage
14589s	just kind of gets stuck into is like
14591s	sometimes unless you're just willing to
14594s	cast roon every turn for the rest of the
14595s	game sometimes there's just not really
14597s	much else that you can do that isn't as
14599s	detrimental to you as it is to your
14601s	opponent
14603s	does manage to get the board clear at
14605s	the end of it all uh for which kaboom
14607s	will be very happy that he saved the
14610s	uh parrot to be in drake fire amulet
14612s	mode i don't think it's quite at the
14614s	point where you can just go for double
14615s	rune and hope that that gets you there
14617s	if they were like 15 health i think you
14619s	could talk about it a little bit more
14621s	and hope to just get there with pings to
14623s	close it out uh but right now it's just
14625s	well ruined room being cast at one now
14627s	anyway wouldn't even affect it anyway
14629s	right oh of course yeah
14639s	nice choice
14641s	parrot not always the best picker of
14642s	dragons but did okay in that spot
14644s	actually
14645s	good job parrot
14652s	the amount of card drawer available now
14654s	obviously
14655s	but i think this brand needs to be saved
14656s	for something a little more impressive
14664s	they're a way to clear up around this
14667s	get the flurry to come down with some
14669s	level of consistency
14671s	i've met a second flame that'll do it i
14674s	mean it kind of does yeah
14679s	alter your turn in terms of freezing but
14680s	it's immensely damaging to your
14682s	self-respect to have to pay five mana
14684s	for a second flame on any given turn
14687s	oh is it really bran
14689s	surprised by that
14694s	definitely feels like just a coin
14696s	multicaster to stop
14700s	can i ever dump enough for brand
14702s	multicasting you can right if you drop
14705s	this snow flurry yeah
14709s	get down to four cards in hand draw six
14712s	i kind of just felt like you might want
14713s	to save brand for like brand reckless
14716s	apprentice or like maybe even bran
14718s	mordresh with the coin that was still
14720s	available in hand
14734s	wow another parrot very very juicy
14742s	but if that's an attack face i think
14744s	that's going to end up being a rune to
14746s	start the turn
14747s	yeah could still end up being both again
14749s	of course but it does feel like that's
14752s	probably over committing into a mordres
14755s	at that point obviously no guarantee no
14757s	real control over the size of these
14759s	additional dragons that might come out
14768s	oh
14769s	not that one
14772s	wrong order two
14774s	okay go middle no fine
14778s	wha what what was that actually what
14780s	happened that's unacceptable i would i
14783s	require a refund on my one mana i'm
14786s	actually upset that we paid one mana for
14788s	that this term
14790s	i mean you get what you pay for that is
14792s	rune of the arc major home right there
14802s	or the apprentice as well for three
14804s	damage aoe this is getting very spicy
14807s	but judger wants nothing to do with it
14809s	just throwing down finley
14812s	what are we looking for finley's getting
14813s	countered by the board
14815s	sorry he tested the okani first with the
14817s	first flame and then confirmed it was
14819s	minion so he just threw out the finley
14821s	to get rid of it and then boom guitar
14823s	solo time
14827s	oh yeah it does work with uh
14831s	apparently
14832s	i wasn't 100 sure wait does it work like
14834s	that yeah used to me interesting
14840s	i wasn't willing to
14842s	should have believed in myself
14848s	oh okay this one's a little bit more
14850s	like it it is indeed
14853s	you're the best of both worlds with the
14855s	amulet coming out anyway
14857s	yeah
14858s	and now the second rune of the arc mage
14860s	is really getting towards the point
14861s	where it can close out the game coupled
14863s	with a two mana ping oh sorry a two
14865s	damage ping uh to close out over the
14867s	next couple turns it needs to be some
14869s	high damage plays from jojo to close it
14872s	out which he does kind of have there's
14875s	six a uh sorry six damage face on this
14877s	term with the reckless apprentice
14879s	uh but it just needs a little helping
14882s	hand to get over the finish line
14889s	i can't take them
14892s	[Music]
14894s	ending on snow flurry here presumably
14897s	be able to deal with the biggest threat
14908s	once again
14909s	you send this face and you just cue up
14912s	the archmage pray that it delivers
14918s	or you can just unsilence your a takeout
14920s	face and win the game it's even simpler
14922s	good sound works too
14926s	nicely done the ping mage again as i was
14928s	kind of talking about struggling with
14930s	that uh
14932s	the tempo of big spell mage that one big
14934s	spike of power that the ping mage just
14937s	didn't have time to ramp up into
14939s	yeah for sure and i think we saw the
14942s	opening hand it looked like the pink
14944s	major was going to be in trouble the
14945s	whole way through whenever you're able
14947s	to go coin coin belinda you're going to
14948s	be in trouble but particularly the way
14951s	that jojo chose to play it where he had
14953s	a very simple forked path in front of
14955s	him but the best way to play around two
14957s	options he chose to play around the
14960s	barbaric sorceress which you can argue
14963s	is correct from a number of different
14964s	angles right firstly there's two of them
14967s	and there's only one belinda so that
14969s	just makes sense it's twice as likely
14971s	that there is a barbaric sorceress
14972s	especially having seen the kept card
14974s	you're twice as likely to have seen a
14975s	barbaric sorceress in your mulligan
14977s	twice as likely to have held onto it
14979s	twice as likely to have drawn it since
14980s	then whatever metric you want to apply
14982s	there's two of them in the deck is the
14984s	short version of all of this waffle the
14986s	other method is like
14987s	do you ever really beat belinda on four
14990s	like is that even a work that's even a
14992s	world worth playing around so you know
14995s	when you see your opponent keep a card
14996s	in that position let's go okay let's
14998s	assume it's the one i can beat and play
15000s	around that instead which yeah you know
15002s	i respect the way that jajo played that
15004s	game but i think in the end with it
15005s	being coincoin belinda ah what you're
15007s	really gonna do
15009s	well now surely at the end of all that
15010s	misery i feel like jojo must have earned
15012s	himself a halfway decent match up with
15015s	the presto druid on his side versus the
15017s	one remaining deck for kaboom the death
15020s	rattle minor rogue that has to be a deck
15023s	this week to aggro it feels like it's so
15025s	good against everything else
15027s	yeah absolutely uh presto druid is a
15029s	deck that i was a big fan of a big
15031s	advocate for coming into this one uh
15033s	however i have just had a quite a lot of
15035s	time off today as the schedule kind of
15038s	got a little bit resilient shuffled
15039s	myself in gear just i needed a very very
15041s	quick shift at the start of the day so
15043s	i've been jamming some ladder i noticed
15045s	i had a couple of druid quests i was
15046s	like all right cool i'll play a little
15047s	bit of presser druid haven't played it
15048s	in a couple of days it really let me
15051s	down for like eight or nine games
15052s	straight as i was trying to play it so
15054s	it's currently in my bad books however
15056s	i'm not gonna let that small sample uh
15058s	change what i have seen from the deck so
15060s	far and it was my hot tip for uh
15063s	performance in this tournament has
15064s	dropped off a little bit as we've got
15067s	towards the end of day two start of day
15069s	three and i think that's to be expected
15072s	um because as we were talking about
15074s	before end of day two start of day three
15076s	is when you start to see decks like boar
15079s	priest and the combo decks and you know
15081s	all of those things start to creep up a
15083s	little bit more and more of the vanilla
15086s	curve decks drop off a little bit um
15088s	contrary to that though is just the
15090s	continued over-performance of rogue
15092s	overall in this tournament
15094s	with uh mine rogue on the other side
15097s	being still the best performing deck in
15099s	the tournament right now
15103s	well i think for kaboom it's
15106s	very much just uh another day at the
15108s	office with this deck it doesn't
15109s	especially matter i think whether you're
15111s	against aggro whether you're against
15112s	control you're still just going for the
15114s	full out burn game plan uh
15117s	there's a little bit of a difference now
15119s	as we saw in those key cards now that
15120s	there's smoke screen in the list in
15122s	addition to burning blade acolyte so you
15124s	can hope to hit some kind of a tempo mid
15128s	game uh but that's never really what
15130s	you're aiming for and just going all in
15132s	on the burn plan is still the best
15135s	approach in my opinion
15136s	even if your opponent has 40 health
15140s	and looking at the stats from the
15141s	tournament which i've had to scale the
15143s	sample size all the way down to actually
15145s	find the data on this one uh 7-4 to the
15149s	bomb to the mine rogue against preston's
15151s	druid in this tournament
15153s	yes some total of 11 games have been
15156s	played of this matchup in this
15157s	tournament
15159s	surprisingly
15162s	maybe i'm uh underestimating the miner
15164s	as you said still just the highest win
15166s	rate deck in the tournament uh but for
15168s	jojo it's a really quite slow start to
15171s	the game like keeping presta in your
15173s	starting hand yeah i probably agree even
15176s	against mine rogue which really want to
15178s	get the tempo moving it's still just so
15180s	powerful of a card uh but holding on to
15182s	both captured cold tooth mine and the
15185s	moonlit guidance and finley which you're
15187s	never gonna play on turn one uh is a
15190s	very very slow start to the game yeah i
15193s	have like there has been a couple of
15195s	occasions in like day one day two of
15197s	this meta where i was playing quite a
15199s	lot of press or druid where i've opened
15201s	my collection i've looked at it um
15204s	in the deck list builder and thought is
15206s	there any way we can slip in just like a
15208s	couple of extra aggro druid finishes so
15211s	that in some match-ups you can just
15214s	decide you're never going to play presto
15216s	and just straight up kill them with
15217s	aggro druid stuff because i think that's
15220s	sometimes something that you would like
15221s	to do in a match up like this against
15222s	mine rogue on the other side but then
15224s	you start to really break down what that
15226s	requires and what impact it has on like
15228s	your draw hydra or low situations or
15230s	that kind of stuff it just ends up
15232s	seemingly not being worth it but yeah
15234s	aggro druid is still a you know
15236s	functional deck that can put the beating
15238s	on a lot of things but
15240s	when you remove all of the actual
15242s	finisher cards some of which have just
15244s	been straight up removed from the game
15245s	these days you kind of have to play
15248s	presto to have a chance in most spots
15250s	now we're talking though snowfall
15253s	graveyard off the top with double navel
15256s	mine in hand
15261s	counterfeit laid as well has to be where
15264s	your head is at i think
15268s	like that right now
15271s	it's very nearly just counting time at
15273s	this point isn't it
15276s	more or less
15279s	which yeah speaking of which gaboom just
15282s	assumed the counting position for a
15284s	second there what shall i do
15288s	oh yes you have 12
15291s	oh well 16 i suppose all factored in
15293s	once you play the snowfall next turn off
15295s	of this weapon 12 more from here down to
15297s	15. you still need a little bit extra
15301s	even if both of these mines go off with
15303s	the snowfall grave in play
15305s	uh you're not quite there so hoping that
15307s	the top of his deck delivers
15312s	bronze explorer probably over the
15314s	kazakhstan in this spot yep respect it
15324s	it just looks like sound sure
15332s	uh fairy dragon is playable i didn't
15335s	expect that i kind of thought it might
15337s	oh
15337s	[Laughter]
15341s	well well well
15344s	whoa as well
15345s	how does that bra swing interact because
15347s	it's
15350s	gonna kill the naval mines if kaboom
15352s	wants to but it also heals for every
15355s	naval mine yeah that's killed off that's
15357s	really quite strange
15358s	sure enough actually
15362s	that's all for now
15366s	okay yep fine moving on
15372s	yeah weird game uh mine rogue just kind
15374s	of running out of steam immediately like
15376s	honestly it has to be this way right
15379s	we've spent
15380s	two and a half days just looking at like
15383s	me looking over my other monitor like
15384s	our mine rogue's actually still doing
15386s	really well i have mine rogue's being
15387s	sick i hope we get to see some of the
15388s	mine rogue players on stream nope never
15390s	see him oh great okay we're going to the
15392s	mine rogue players there and if they're
15393s	in a they're in a side match now we'll
15394s	go into them what's that oh my rogue's
15396s	already won on both sides in this series
15398s	before we join it okay cool and finally
15401s	we get into top eight mandated now that
15404s	we actually get to see the mine rogue
15405s	play and then that happens like come on
15409s	that's not what i put in the script
15411s	we're gonna get to see it again this is
15413s	the uh you know
15415s	act three here right we're uh yeah yeah
15417s	in our darkest hour before the
15419s	redemption comes through here for gaboom
15421s	as he still has the uh the warlock and
15423s	the mage left over two decidedly better
15426s	matchups i mean it just has to be
15428s	against the likes of warlock which again
15430s	even though it is another of these 40
15432s	health decks is just much more
15434s	susceptible to this style of gameplay uh
15437s	they have healing
15439s	uh you know plenty of it in the form of
15441s	double spiced bread baker and a lot of
15442s	these cheap spells as well but i don't
15445s	think they consistently have the kind of
15447s	healing that can fight back against a
15450s	good uh bomb rogue plan
15453s	yeah 10-6 in this tournament for the
15455s	bomb rogue against the curse warlock so
15457s	far so a crisp 60 and i think everything
15460s	you give us explanation for that makes
15461s	sense but the one thing i'd also add is
15463s	they don't have the ability really to
15464s	play a boulder fist ogre on turn four
15466s	that puts your opponent on the clock
15468s	incredibly quickly and actually counter
15470s	pressures in a situation like uh druid
15473s	was able to do which i think can be a
15474s	very very big deal as well
15478s	oh smoke screen kept in the starting
15481s	hand you'd love to see it that is a bold
15483s	keep
15497s	of course worth noting as well that like
15499s	this burning blade acolyte version where
15501s	you kind of have the the multitude of
15503s	roots that you can go with straight up
15504s	damage and board presence as well like
15506s	this isn't the only version of mine
15507s	rogue that you can play but it does seem
15509s	to be the one that the french players
15510s	have favored and the players who have
15512s	been successful with mine rogue and got
15513s	to top 16 and top eight have chosen to
15516s	go with does give you a little bit of
15517s	extra flexibility but i guess less
15519s	consistent streamlined damage output in
15522s	a lot of spots
15526s	oh very slow uh start for both players
15530s	here
15531s	uh kaboom i think having this slightly
15533s	better time of it for the moment because
15535s	he can really start spending his mana
15536s	proactively now with having got the
15538s	navel mind he can set up the snowfall
15540s	graveyard as well in the near future
15542s	whereas jojo for the moment uh doesn't
15545s	really have any strong
15547s	proactive way of spending his mana like
15549s	the demonic assault is fine
15551s	but it's
15552s	uh
15554s	not the ideal start
15556s	yeah
15557s	suitably annoying for rogue to deal with
15560s	i certainly remember like back in d6
15562s	warlock days that sometimes and there
15564s	was like weapon rogues or whatever on
15565s	the other side just slamming this on
15567s	turn four into your rogue opponent's
15569s	face was sometimes just irritating
15571s	enough to get you there but those days
15573s	are long gone and guardio doesn't really
15575s	have the juice to back this up as
15577s	rapidly as he would like i would imagine
15587s	nice little buffer turn though at the
15588s	very least like jojo can probably assume
15590s	he's not going to be under significant
15591s	pressure this turn just because he has
15593s	two void walkers in the way uh b the
15595s	nature of the deck on the other side and
15597s	that means a fairly safe rod turn coming
15600s	up on the next turn for jojo most likely
15604s	okay so you go graveyard is it ever coin
15607s	lieutenant because you could go for the
15609s	forsaken lieutenant
15611s	uh and then burning blade acolyte as
15614s	well
15616s	but you don't even have a way to
15617s	sacrifice into it you'd have to go for
15618s	like backstab on it
15620s	uh i don't know i was just trying to
15621s	find some way of uh speeding up uh our
15625s	game plan with uh
15627s	death rattles uh but the shambler
15629s	obviously speeds that up drastically
15631s	with two five eights here as well this
15634s	is getting a little tricky for jojo to
15635s	deal with instantly
15637s	it is yeah i completely agree
15641s	i do think uh
15642s	in particular what's the name of the
15644s	card chatter shambler has the least
15647s	appropriate usage of the word butt that
15649s	i've ever seen in my life your next
15650s	death row minion costs one less but
15652s	immediately dies when played no that's
15655s	what you want death row minions to do
15657s	that's the point the word and please
15661s	come on
15663s	i'll give you a million pounds but you
15666s	also have to eat some chocolate cake
15676s	oh okay double lieutenant here alongside
15680s	naval mine backstab on the last turn i
15683s	believe that the uh
15686s	uh the graveyard is active uh you can
15689s	kill off one of them uh by rushing in
15692s	and then the backstab to take out the
15693s	other so it is a pretty effective amount
15695s	of damage on this turn leading up into a
15697s	coin smoke screen next turn
15713s	what shall i do
15718s	oh
15719s	the other man are being spent on if he's
15720s	doing it in that order
15723s	all right looks like we've diverted back
15725s	no very unsure this turn i'm kind of
15726s	curious as to what the alternate plan is
15729s	okay i guess we get to find out
15731s	i think the main benefit of holding on
15734s	to the other one is that it doesn't
15736s	leave anything on the board so they
15738s	can't play their touch of natural zims
15740s	uh quite so easily and their drain souls
15742s	quite so easily either
15744s	okay sure
15748s	and then with coin smoke screen like you
15750s	have a decent shot of finding the other
15754s	uh the other mine to copy with the
15757s	forsaken lieutenant
15779s	okay
15786s	very interesting indeed
15789s	only gets to keep uh play the card he
15791s	kept in his mulligan
15804s	also guaranteed to get you the
15807s	other mine in your deck
15809s	uh which led to a
15811s	pretty interesting decision actually at
15812s	the end there as to whether you use the
15814s	backstab uh because
15816s	there was some
15818s	real consideration holding on to it just
15820s	to activate the other mine in the day
15824s	magic
15826s	i've heard of it
15831s	oh bread bacon now found as well second
15834s	proc of the rod coming up very very soon
15837s	this is looking very much like jojo
15839s	might be going back up to the lofty
15840s	heights of 30 and even 40 yet again with
15843s	the the state of this hand right now
15853s	all right so how can we respond to this
15855s	second smoke screen to find the acolyte
15857s	feels
15858s	uh you know very risky and there's not
15860s	even much reward at the
15862s	end of it so where you to go
15865s	blade
15866s	and then swing in i don't think you can
15870s	realistically expect to hit the uh
15872s	the lethal on the following turn
15875s	uh especially as you know the uh
15879s	the other graveyard is at the bottom of
15880s	the deck based on the gone fishing on
15882s	turn one
15895s	what shall i do
15900s	time's ticking presumably this is
15902s	sketchy with the remaining mana if he's
15904s	going with the lethal setup the lethal
15906s	setup is probably entirely out of the
15908s	window now based on the fact that he got
15909s	the burning blade death rattle here
15911s	instead of the death rattle as well
15915s	just going to use the wicked staff to
15917s	buy time instead all right fine
15927s	yeah lack of prep lack of tricks to this
15930s	game i think has been a big problem for
15931s	kaboom after the smokescreen keep
15935s	you have alluded to a couple of times
15936s	it's just made him all the much slower
15939s	in that mid game if a swiss scale
15941s	trickster hadn't been drawn on time then
15943s	obviously that would have been a very
15945s	very different game overall
15948s	meaning now that
15950s	jojo is
15951s	you know homing in on lethal actually if
15953s	he'd drawn any number of curse cards but
15955s	with only one having been presented to
15957s	him all game uh that's looking less and
15960s	less likely
15961s	instead taking the backup route if you
15963s	can even call it that
15965s	of just double breadbaker on this turn
15968s	if you want to to heal up to essentially
15970s	full health i also think it would be
15972s	reasonable to hold on to cash in these
15973s	touches of naturalism
15975s	all this stuff on the board
15978s	derek you absolute noob imagine calling
15980s	29 nearly full health come on oh yeah
15984s	sorry we have 40 now imagine come on
15987s	what are you doing
15989s	okay well it's all relative i was of
15991s	course factoring in the double touch of
15992s	the naturalism to get up to uh to 37.
15995s	yeah
15997s	very reasonable indeed
15999s	well it appears to have been so powerful
16001s	that it is broken hearthstone uh
16003s	hopefully not irreparably as uh i do
16006s	think that jojo looked like he was
16008s	rounding the corner there for kaboom the
16010s	only
16011s	real avenue back into the game i think
16012s	would be to hit the other gone fishing
16014s	to find the graveyard that we know is at
16016s	the bottom of the deck yes uh or
16019s	arguably is the next best draw just to
16021s	hit trickster to go smoke screen and
16023s	then draw most of the rest of his deck
16026s	you can then activate the burning blade
16028s	acolyte that way activate the mine if
16030s	you find it that way as well and you
16032s	know you're approaching the realms of
16035s	possibility again uh but at the same
16037s	time you're facing down a pretty scary
16039s	board on the other side
16041s	i love that like jojo is still just
16044s	wildly speculating about what the
16046s	maximum amount of damage he could
16048s	possibly take
16049s	he has zero mana he's at 29. he does of
16052s	course have the possibility to go up
16055s	significantly higher here and i think
16057s	you do keep seeing him glancing to his
16059s	right which i would imagine is just
16061s	looking at deck lists and played cards
16063s	and so on
16064s	for what kaboom has set up
16070s	and i think i agree force them to find
16073s	an answer on this turn
16077s	yeah that's not what you want to see
16090s	how complicated
16098s	being it at all you can get yourself a
16100s	5a in the way with the swing of the
16102s	weapon
16103s	uh for which jojo has very very easy
16106s	answers because he held on to all of his
16108s	removal cards
16110s	how complicated
16114s	yes yes yes we get it your deck's hard
16116s	to play you don't have to keep telling
16118s	us
16120s	yeah lorenda
16123s	yes lorinda and every deck
16133s	oh it's a
16143s	thinker he's just shifting gears
16145s	completely
16147s	yeah the board control game plan i
16149s	respect it the the bomb or sorry the
16151s	mind game plan was never ever getting
16153s	there
16156s	yeah i don't mind it i think it's a
16157s	pretty low percentage line you're kind
16159s	of playing into what warlock does best
16162s	like if this was a no rod game i would
16165s	say okay you know i'd be relatively
16168s	trying to stay relatively optimistic
16170s	from kaboom side right wait like okay
16172s	maybe they don't have enough removal for
16174s	cheap enough that they can necessarily
16175s	stack up against this board they kind of
16177s	need exactly second entitled customer to
16180s	interact with me right but i think in
16182s	this spot just even if there wasn't the
16184s	straight up lethal being presented yeah
16186s	you're on the other side there would
16188s	have been easily enough uh removal to
16191s	take this down with the amount of
16192s	discounts that you've seen coming out
16193s	from the rod so it was a futile attempt
16196s	but it was a respectable attempt on the
16198s	other side for gaboon because his deck
16200s	was just not particularly kind
16203s	and once again i'm not sure what act you
16206s	said we were in last time but we are
16208s	going into the third and final act this
16210s	time around again who writes this script
16213s	we wait two and a half bleeding days to
16216s	wait to see some mine rogue action and
16217s	it looks like an absolutely unplayable
16220s	atrocity when we actually get it on
16222s	stream
16223s	that is true
16224s	but again as according to the script
16227s	gaboom has gone up against the two
16229s	renathol decks now which does feel as we
16231s	saw there i think like a pretty good
16233s	counter to mine rogue it's one of those
16235s	decks where at 30 it's a good deck if
16238s	hearthstone classes had 20 health it
16240s	would be the best deck in the game and
16242s	with 40 health they start to look a lot
16244s	less playable because it's just so
16245s	difficult to get up to that number
16247s	against ping mage i think it has to be
16249s	by far the uh the weakest of joe's decks
16252s	up against the mine rogue you have very
16256s	little armor gain ice barrier very often
16258s	just doing absolutely nothing in the
16260s	match up as a one way of gaining armor
16262s	you have little aggression in the early
16264s	turns which is the other way that minero
16266s	could potentially lose a game uh it just
16269s	feels like there are none of the usual
16270s	avenues to fight back
16272s	well i've been hitting you with the
16274s	stats for the tournament play for mine
16276s	rogue so far with i would say decreasing
16278s	levels of relevancy due to sample sizes
16281s	uh so we might as well top it off uh
16284s	mine rogue versus ping mage in this
16286s	tournament based on a three game sample
16290s	size no sorry sorry a two game sample
16293s	size is a 50
16295s	match up for both decks it's one and one
16297s	baby there it is call it right down the
16300s	middle it could not be any closer as we
16302s	come down to game five in this one
16306s	yeah you're right two games it could not
16307s	be any closer it couldn't really be
16309s	anything else other than just a hundred
16311s	zero 50.
16312s	[Laughter]
16314s	so we'll take the down the middle here
16316s	uh as kaboom getting himself navel mine
16319s	is mine the kind of card that you're
16320s	looking
16321s	to hold even in good matchups like this
16324s	just to guarantee yourself that death
16326s	rattle synergy
16327s	i think personally i don't mind the
16328s	mulligan here because i think the more
16330s	important cards to have are the cards
16332s	that operate around your death rattles
16335s	whereas you specifically have cards
16337s	um
16338s	that tutor deathrattle effects for
16340s	example with sketchy information so you
16342s	can dig that card back out of your deck
16343s	no problem um you kind of want those in
16345s	your deck in case you're able to go like
16347s	trickster into smokescreen or anything
16349s	like that i think that the more
16350s	difficult cards to get hold of are like
16352s	weapons snowfall graveyard those kind of
16354s	things so having those auxiliary cards i
16356s	think generally is more like what i'd be
16358s	looking to mulligan for and that looks
16360s	not too bad from gaboom in the opening
16363s	hand
16364s	it looks fantastic as
16368s	wincing uh at the draw of his hand
16371s	and uh you can see why i mean it's kind
16373s	of an average ping mage draw to be
16375s	perfectly honest there's not much better
16377s	that you can get in terms of aggression
16378s	at the start uh but
16381s	when you have to look at it dead in the
16382s	face it feels terrible
16390s	one
16392s	we're getting there
16394s	it's such a good rogue hand as well oh
16397s	my god our double prep now as well to be
16401s	able to power through some of these
16403s	spell turns yep we know where that's
16405s	going
16407s	take three idiot
16409s	oh man it's turn two
16412s	and he's playing like six cards on his
16414s	turn
16417s	prep sketchy
16419s	oh
16420s	trigger the death rattle take eight
16429s	jajo is the deadest man i think i've
16432s	ever seen
16435s	ping
16437s	two
16440s	coin weapon activate the death rattle
16442s	that's already been activated you don't
16444s	have to play the card you just have to
16446s	activate the death rattle so this
16447s	already counts take 12 more over the
16451s	course of this weapon actually 16 more
16453s	over the course of this weapon coming
16455s	through yeah this is uh
16457s	pretty gross
16459s	pretty disgusting 12 represented next
16462s	turn so not lethal quite yet
16465s	uh especially as jojo has one of the few
16467s	cards that feels like it does anything
16469s	at all uh in blade master akani
16472s	uh
16473s	the only other play i could see any
16476s	merit for would be trade the fire sale
16478s	to try and hit uh ice barrier
16481s	specifically eric look at your hand look
16483s	at that more dress on the left hand side
16485s	this is a ping amplified snow flurry
16488s	turn god you gotta weave in those pings
16491s	derrick
16492s	said i said one and then i said two i
16494s	want to say three this turn or i'm not
16496s	going home happy
16504s	do it
16513s	[Music]
16515s	three
16516s	three
16524s	all right you love to see it
16527s	well this does mean that the the
16528s	graveyard loses its uh
16531s	effect at the end of this turn so yep
16534s	really good gacho not out of the running
16536s	he has a very very nice looking blade
16538s	master akani as well for
16540s	minion i want to say probably next turn
16543s	just to specifically try and counter the
16545s	burning blade acolyte yep smart though
16548s	just break the wii the weapon with the
16549s	re-dagger effect
16551s	make sure you get that damage going face
16553s	instead of that four damage and now you
16555s	have very little excess damage left to
16557s	do
16558s	assuming that this uh mine doesn't get
16560s	polly jellied or mass polymorphed or
16562s	something ridiculous further down the
16564s	line
16565s	you're uh you're a wicked stab a second
16567s	mine a second weapon away from just
16569s	straight up winning the game at this
16570s	point
16573s	oh okay
16576s	holy
16584s	instead fine
16588s	oh
16590s	[Music]
16596s	that's the stuff
16598s	that is the goodness one last turn for
16601s	joe to find a way to survive ice barrier
16604s	doesn't do it because you can just hero
16605s	power oh you can yeah that's so gross
16608s	with the arcanologist off the top as
16609s	well yeah
16611s	i
16613s	don't actually think there are any outs
16615s	anymore
16616s	uh
16617s	you can
16618s	[Music]
16620s	what multicast it into second snow
16622s	flurry freeze the face again and then
16624s	it's still just hero power kills you
16626s	yeah
16628s	yeah
16631s	yeah i hope your opponent throws it's
16633s	the best you got
16636s	oh a heartbreaker for jajo going down
16638s	0-2 clawing it back all the way to game
16641s	five
16642s	and uh at the end it is going to be
16644s	gaboom taking the win
16647s	for asia pacific
16649s	falls alongside jojo as gaboom showing
16652s	us that france truly has the funkiest
16655s	freshest moves in masters tour history
16659s	yeah i mean
16661s	over like based on what four masters
16663s	tours now i'd say tournament performance
16665s	excellent 60 plus at this point can't
16668s	ask for much more mind rogue play pretty
16670s	solid from what i've seen so far dancing
16672s	yeah
16673s	needs a bit of work i would say i'm not
16675s	sure i'm ready to sign off on that one
16676s	just yet but regardless a very very
16679s	strong performance and derek i think
16681s	it's only fitting to give you
16685s	the last word on the last apac
16687s	representative going out of a master's
16689s	tour once again
16691s	i don't know what you're talking about
16692s	man
16693s	uh gm's all one region now i have no
16695s	affiliation today anymore i feel nothing
16699s	the long game flake has finally come
16702s	full circle he is truly assimilated to
16705s	become the omni caster he represents all
16708s	regions now
16711s	exactly yeah and i mean with pocket
16713s	train versus yu ying at the end we are
16715s	guaranteed uh either at this point as is
16718s	just always the case it doesn't even
16720s	bear saying at this point either an eu
16722s	or a chinese player winning the masters
16724s	tour um and uh with yu ying being the
16727s	last chance we could just be guaranteed
16729s	an eu winner at the end of this either
16732s	way uh i would be very happy i'm
16734s	obviously kind of rooting for pocket
16735s	train as a uh a member of the uh mr tony
16739s	often group practice group a
16741s	fellow brit as well and just an
16743s	all-around very very nice guy but yu
16745s	ying has been plugging away masters tour
16748s	after masters tour and is finally
16750s	starting to see those results pile up
16752s	by the way um we talk a lot i think
16755s	about what france japan china
16758s	in terms of major countries in in
16760s	hearthstone and recent power level and
16762s	tournament performances can we start to
16764s	put some respect on the uk's name
16766s	because like
16768s	recent performances dead draw judgment
16770s	pocket train like we're doing pretty
16773s	darn great right now like bring back
16775s	hearthstone global games that's what i
16776s	say we're ready i'll i'll take our 4v4
16779s	team against anyone else in the world
16781s	let's go
16782s	as will i yeah it is funny as well to
16784s	see the the rise of most of the uk and
16787s	then uh jamboree for for some reason
16790s	seeing less results in his uh his heart
16792s	i think why i honestly can't figure it
16794s	out yeah enjoying his life now who knows
16796s	uh but with that all said we're gonna
16799s	jump into that be a warning gabby
16802s	yeah true actually enough of those
16803s	press-ups all right you're looking good
16805s	enough already uh but uh that is us all
16808s	done with our third quarter final match
16811s	one final left to go in
16812s	first pocket train to find out whether
16815s	anyone can stand up against eu or
16817s	whether pocket train will round us out
16819s	with a guaranteed e winner in the top
16822s	four plenty more to come from masters
16824s	tour this year when we come back from
16825s	this quick break
16827s	[Music]
16835s	[Music]
16840s	[Applause]
16840s	[Music]
16843s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
16846s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
16850s	horrific reasons
16852s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
16857s	with such ruthlessness
16859s	so
16860s	deep and profound
16863s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
16871s	to uncover the truth
16873s	of murder most foul
16877s	the anima drifts across the floor
16880s	highlighting the creatures who walked
16882s	through my door
16884s	the motives are as black as night
16888s	avarice power revenge and blight
16894s	we watch the hero
16896s	uncover the clues
16898s	that lead to the truth
16901s	behind this dark bruise
16906s	join us here with the grimm and empires
16910s	choose your power without heavenly bias
16914s	for at the end
16916s	they will burn in the fire
16919s	when it is known whose slave
16922s	tenacious the sire
16925s	[Music]
16938s	so
16940s	[Music]
16947s	so
16948s	[Music]
16952s	[Applause]
16954s	[Music]
16982s	[Music]
16999s	foreign
17002s	[Music]
17022s	hello everyone and welcome back we're
17024s	ready to jump into the final quarter
17026s	final of the day this is going to be yu
17028s	ying versus pocket train i'm really
17031s	happy uh ju to see pocket train make it
17033s	this far i think it's a player a lot of
17035s	uh other players and that we respect a
17038s	lot of cars and there's definitely a
17039s	does make waves uh throughout the
17042s	hearthstone scene so really cool to see
17044s	him go up against uh one of the
17046s	great players from china as well that's
17048s	um definitely been featured in masters
17050s	tours in the past
17052s	yeah that's right yuying i think it's
17054s	been over a year though since he's had a
17056s	big finish in a master's tour so it's
17058s	nice to see him still grinding out those
17061s	top placements and with a pretty cool
17064s	lineup as well it's just like it's been
17066s	a hot minute since we've seen paladin
17067s	and a control paladin on that uh not a
17072s	mech palette in here pocket train on the
17074s	other side of course already hyped up by
17076s	your fellow uk casters raven a while ago
17079s	um he is a member of the mr attorney
17082s	oven group and perhaps most well-known
17085s	for his boar priest gameplay just
17088s	thousands of games on this deck it's
17091s	incredible the deck hasn't been viable
17093s	for that long
17095s	yeah i think it's one of those things
17096s	where certain players and we do see this
17098s	where certain players will just attach
17101s	themselves to a deck they just find an
17103s	archetype that really fits their play
17105s	style and again with ball priest it is a
17107s	deck that's very rewarding if you do
17109s	master it so you know hopefully we get
17111s	to see some of that mastery on display
17113s	as it isn't actually banned out from
17115s	pocket train here so it's likely he'll
17118s	get to play in this series but you are
17120s	right eugene bringing another control
17122s	paladin
17123s	i think the only player who really made
17125s	a big impact in this masters tour with
17127s	control paladin so very excited to see
17130s	how that performs in this uh going up
17133s	against pocket trains because uh
17134s	honestly when you look at the priest
17137s	the mage even uh you would think that
17140s	paladin might suffer just a little bit
17142s	in a in some of these sort of slower
17144s	matchups that can go toe-to-toe with the
17146s	late game of the parliament i totally
17149s	agree i think paladin it has a place in
17151s	the meta the control variant only to
17153s	prey on rogues and demon hunters but
17156s	that being said i don't really see the
17158s	merit to bringing a control paladin in
17160s	the same lineup as an alignment druid
17162s	which traditionally preys on the
17164s	opposite side of deck and struggles to
17166s	rogue and demon hunter especially when
17169s	that alignment druid is of the 30-card
17171s	variant that yu ying is rocking but it's
17173s	quite possible that he has one of those
17175s	conquest lineups that's not necessarily
17177s	hard targeting something just bringing
17179s	four decks that seem good overall and
17182s	something that yu ying would be
17183s	comfortable with and he has had his
17185s	alignment druid banned away so
17188s	potentially that paladin could still get
17189s	a win against rogue later on uh moving
17193s	over to pocket train has the same amount
17195s	of empty appearances as yu ying and a
17197s	slightly higher win rate actually um in
17200s	masters tours before today and yes he
17204s	will tell you that boar priest is 60
17206s	favorite against you or higher
17209s	yeah ball priest is the new rogue of any
17212s	given archetype where the rogue player
17214s	has historically been felt favored in
17216s	most matchups but you were talking about
17218s	the paladin only really looking like
17220s	it's going to do well against rogue well
17222s	guess what yeah the paladin's going
17224s	against rogue game one and i think if yu
17226s	yin can get this piled in
17228s	over the line straight away that's gonna
17230s	boost his chances of winning the series
17232s	quite dramatically yeah i completely
17235s	agree this paladin i think maybe had to
17238s	win some sort of mind game to get the
17240s	right q into rogue and yu ying has
17242s	definitely won it so far i don't
17245s	necessarily agree with what you said
17247s	about boar priest being the new rogue of
17249s	any player who pilots it says it's
17251s	favored because i think a lot of bar
17253s	priests players are not as confident in
17255s	their own play as pocket train
17257s	deservedly is because he has so much
17260s	experience on the deck and to this day
17262s	is still critical of himself like
17265s	sitting in on some of the mtog practice
17268s	between players of the caliber of pocket
17270s	train on bar priest against fury hunter
17273s	every small mistake they make they
17275s	immediately call it oh i threw this game
17277s	this doesn't count as i'm lost trying to
17279s	figure i like i don't know they just
17281s	call any tiny um
17283s	lion that wasn't completely optimal as
17286s	immediately a throw that is the standard
17289s	that these types of players hold
17290s	themselves to but before i get too
17292s	excited about the boar priest we do have
17294s	to take a look at the game on our hands
17296s	here and i do say that paladin is
17298s	favored here because they have
17300s	everything in their toolkit necessary to
17302s	deal with rogue lots of board clears
17304s	lots of healing and then making it all
17307s	the way to carryall to lock out any huge
17310s	burst potential as well
17312s	yeah we talked a little bit earlier on
17313s	about uh the lack of vipers or the
17316s	players including viper in the lineups
17319s	being a bit of a whiff but i imagine
17321s	pocket train really wishes he had the
17323s	viper in this list uh because he's one
17326s	of the players who isn't bringing it and
17327s	i guess this is the one match up where
17329s	you'd really really favorite in general
17331s	uh look at the opening hands here though
17333s	eugene does have a very solid start
17336s	with the two bannermen in hand ready to
17338s	start not only drawing cards but also
17340s	just beefing up the hand in general uh
17343s	with those buffs that's gonna look
17344s	pretty good so far whereas pocket train
17347s	bit of a slow opening and that's again
17349s	something you don't really want versus
17351s	this paladin
17353s	yeah uh pocket train on turn one if you
17355s	saw there was crossing his fingers i
17357s	think hoping for no night of anointment
17359s	on one thing is there is a knight of
17361s	anointment in hand but yuhyen has chosen
17364s	not to play it which i can only assume
17365s	means he wants to greet it out for turn
17368s	four looking at the context of this hand
17370s	he does get to go bannerman on three
17372s	into bannermen most likely nights on
17375s	turn four and that knight goes all the
17377s	way up to 3-3 with this particular
17380s	situation and that's probably more
17381s	useful than it is as a one one on turn
17383s	one not often that you see this but i'm
17386s	liking the line
17389s	yeah it's definitely looking okay for
17391s	now i imagine now is going to be the
17393s	abandonment time
17396s	yeah no two ways about it yeah just to
17399s	recycle i mean yeah okay
17401s	you eating just looking at what what you
17403s	really wants to do here of course that
17405s	night just gonna be two-two-thin now but
17407s	there is a null that is the the saving
17410s	gracie for pocket train that now of
17412s	course he does have boat but even so
17415s	just having access to that null is huge
17417s	can coin it out as well just to make the
17420s	board that a little bit wider and that's
17422s	suddenly put pocket train in a fairly
17424s	solid position especially when we look
17426s	at the crabatoa look at the potential of
17428s	scabs a little bit later on as well
17430s	right i was honestly so excited to make
17433s	the pun of why not both when you
17436s	mentioned there's no and azshara and
17438s	vessel available here but unfortunately
17440s	there is a very good reason for
17442s	porque no dos dos here because the coin
17445s	is very very valuable to get down the
17447s	crabato a bit earlier given the context
17449s	of pocket train sound which has a lot of
17451s	support cards and not too many curve
17454s	options uh we do see yu ying now going
17456s	for second banner but and the knight
17458s	which was held on turn one for this
17461s	uh exact reason right it's now able to
17464s	challenge the three threes from the
17466s	azsharan vessel and it makes for not the
17468s	cleanest okani turn unless pocket train
17471s	wants to coin out the wild paw to fully
17473s	clear the board and get that uncontested
17476s	economy
17477s	yeah really tricky though because as you
17479s	were saying if the coin is used now it
17481s	still has an issue with not being able
17483s	to play crabato at the turn after so a
17485s	really tough call to make here and i
17488s	think this is as you said purely down to
17490s	yu ying just greeting the night and
17492s	actually just putting forward a really
17494s	threatening board the follow up from yu
17496s	ying we can see isn't fantastic but
17499s	still has the uh the fish to play down
17502s	is an absolute worst case scenario so
17504s	still not too bad
17505s	yeah and sunfish was a card that even
17507s	prior to knoll having three attack was a
17510s	nightmare for rogue to deal with because
17513s	they would have to usually already have
17515s	dagger equipped to deal with the shield
17518s	and then also have the filet fighter
17520s	alongside noel to get a clean trade on
17522s	the sunfish um not so possible anymore
17526s	with null on three attack and let alone
17528s	pocket train doesn't have all of those
17531s	required cards
17533s	i do really like this play from pocket
17534s	train though just not trying to be fancy
17536s	with the shadow step just getting it
17538s	used and
17539s	pushing everything off the board whilst
17541s	retaining the most health possible on
17543s	the pirates so definitely looking good
17545s	for now but again you've just got to
17547s	stare and
17548s	pocket trades face just sums that up
17550s	pretty nicely just seeing the four seven
17552s	divine shield taunt hit the board is a
17555s	little bit infuriating but again that's
17557s	what the bannerman bannerman sort of
17559s	draw kind of does right it just it does
17561s	hit a couple of minions and they are
17563s	going to be pretty beefy with those
17565s	extra stats
17566s	this fish has been eating bananas and
17568s	apparently that buffs it up to four no
17571s	it does work out yeah bananas and bg and
17573s	even in standard they give plus one plus
17575s	one uh the kravatoa here
17579s	is kind of clean but it still requires
17582s	pocket train to either give up on one
17584s	charge of the claw weapon or one of his
17587s	knolls to get um the clean trades
17590s	through the
17591s	uh fish yeah there is the other way
17594s	right where this happens and then one
17597s	clause traded in
17599s	and then you just hold the weapon and
17600s	trade in a 3-3 instead and then just
17603s	hope it doesn't lit yeah i hope the
17605s	other claw doesn't die before you get to
17607s	swing again but he's just going to use
17609s	the wicked stab along with okani which
17611s	again bit of a slower approach
17614s	means the crabateal is going to come out
17615s	naturally on six instead but it does
17618s	create some form of problem for yu ying
17620s	because we can see
17621s	weirdly enough with all that there's no
17624s	minions in hand that are even playable
17626s	right now and all the spells like yes
17628s	flashlight and everything that can
17631s	help just draw into something but there
17633s	is just that fear where something is
17635s	just going to get absolutely counted
17636s	here and now eugene gets the knowledge
17638s	that it is going to be minion as the
17640s	choice from okani so even if one was now
17643s	drawn from flash of light it's just one
17645s	it would have to be cheap enough to be
17646s	played and then it would get counted
17648s	anyway
17650s	yeah the choice between minion and spell
17652s	is not necessarily blocking anything on
17655s	curve here because there's no six drop
17657s	from yu yang that pocket train really
17658s	want to stops it's not like belinda or
17661s	presser in a different match up but
17663s	blocking minion here stops a pyroclear
17666s	potentially and also it just blocks more
17668s	mana on average than spells i would say
17670s	because there are so many cheap spells
17672s	that union would be easily able to proc
17676s	that counter with
17678s	okay that's interesting looks like he's
17679s	hovering the mackie roll again but i
17681s	would have thought with the knowledge
17683s	that it is actually going to be
17685s	minion that it might have been play the
17688s	murmured in then just to get the block
17689s	out of the way and open up the leviathan
17692s	for next turn
17694s	now that is a strong consideration
17697s	but
17698s	perhaps valuing that ramadan because he
17701s	has in a couple turns access to double
17704s	gardens grace and mackie roll on it
17706s	which is pretty much infinite card draw
17707s	by that point whether or not he can get
17710s	there is the question right because uh
17712s	given that he hasn't removed the minion
17714s	block he is really hoping to draw city
17717s	tax
17718s	um yeah pretty much just that to get a
17720s	full clear next turn
17724s	oh we're okay
17727s	bit of a black out there for a second
17728s	but we're safe we're all good
17731s	looks like pocket train wants to hold
17733s	the krabatoa and honestly i like this a
17736s	lot because yuying knows
17738s	that spells
17740s	are available right so why commit the
17742s	crabber tower when it can't actually do
17744s	anything this turn anyway and
17745s	potentially get the whole board cleared
17747s	when you can have that in reserve right
17749s	for if needed if ewing does like say
17751s	clear aboard and develop a minion
17753s	suddenly crabato is like a hundred times
17755s	better next turn
17757s	bit of a sour look from pocket train
17759s	because he saw his dredge options i mean
17761s	yes we know the vessel is there and it's
17763s	good to get oh pyro huge yu yin can now
17765s	get the full clear just proc the counter
17768s	with the myrmidon and then go pyro
17770s	equality a bit sad to lose ramadan
17774s	but
17775s	it's a necessary evil here he will just
17777s	have to get karja from the leviathan
17779s	instead
17780s	but going back to the earlier point
17782s	pocket train saw that the mr smite is
17784s	also at the bottom so it means that he
17786s	will not have access to that for a very
17788s	long time moving forward
17791s	and now there's a pretty hefty
17792s	pyromancer on board but that's the sort
17794s	of thing krabato is there for and those
17796s	claws are going to start
17798s	uh grabbing here they're going to be
17800s	able to clear this one off
17802s	i'm still putting on a good amount of
17804s	pressure and weirdly enough if the
17805s	grabatora doesn't die this is one of
17807s	those pretty like weird but solid scabs
17810s	turns right where you could just bounce
17811s	the grabba tower back and go again and
17813s	we can see of course the leviathan is
17815s	most definitely gonna stop that being an
17817s	option and again big bored presence now
17820s	from yuying if he wants it leviathan
17822s	comes down gonna be able to draw some
17824s	cards get the uh
17826s	reg going but also has the option of
17828s	dropping light ray and gardens grace
17830s	instead whether that happens
17833s	is going to be the question of how
17834s	fearful he is of these scabs
17837s	right i do think light ray makes sense
17839s	but no need to commit the spell here to
17841s	be safer against cabs i also like that
17843s	he took the divine shield off of the
17845s	appendage of leviathan
17847s	even though it wasn't necessary to kill
17848s	the crab just get that card draw going
17851s	and now he has
17853s	a pretty decent answer to the scabs at
17855s	least just being able to replay the
17858s	light ray and then put some additional
17860s	insurance on it with the garden's grace
17864s	not great options for pocket train
17867s	i am looking at crash because it
17870s	technically represents quite a bit of
17872s	damage after it dies but the tarantula
17875s	is you know more damage as soon as it
17876s	hits the board so fair enough yeah i
17878s	think i like the tarantula really just
17880s	because of the deathrattle effect right
17881s	two where one one poison rush is
17883s	actually really strong against what
17885s	paladin will want to do which is uh just
17888s	drop those big minions right obviously
17890s	divine shield bit of a question mark but
17892s	in general i just think the stats
17894s	overall on tarantula plus those one ones
17896s	as a threat is going to be a bit of a
17898s	potential problem for you going forward
17902s	i think it might be too slow looking at
17904s	it again maybe pocket train took it for
17906s	the tradable honestly i feel he's in a
17908s	position where if not getting lethal in
17910s	the next couple turns he needs edwin to
17912s	really have enough resources to try and
17914s	fight against a paladin that has gotten
17917s	this many resources he's going to be at
17919s	least given the news that there's no
17920s	carryall in hand um
17923s	these are not particularly good for yu
17926s	ying maybe avenge just to have a cheap
17928s	spell that maybe throws pocket train off
17933s	yeah that's fair
17934s	i do look i the pocket trains response
17936s	to every time you
17938s	turn it's like oh no please don't have
17940s	the best card please stop the best
17942s	it's just hilarious to watch he's going
17943s	to go blessing of kings again um
17946s	does have access to
17948s	an amount of cheap cards i guess again
17950s	that could pair nicely with the
17952s	blademaster if there's some kind of
17954s	last-ditch attempt to build a board from
17956s	pocket train
17958s	yeah you can definitely see that
17960s	happening blessing of king samuro pretty
17963s	much tomorrow roblox in a different form
17970s	another role at recon now jack hexson
17973s	would be insane here
17976s	yeah it is just getting traded away but
17978s	that is not a good reroll whatsoever
17981s	this recon has to come in clutch
17984s	all breaker
17987s	okay he can get saber trade it in
17990s	get the other one and then draw the
17992s	tarantula again
17994s	ah
17996s	right
17996s	[Music]
17998s	yeah
17999s	it's all coming together
18004s	i think it's slipping away obviously the
18005s	fel radar rattler does the most to clear
18008s	the board but it's hardly enough here so
18010s	i'll break her to try and cycle towards
18012s	something some miracle tooth can
18015s	represent miracles
18017s	there's a convenient one three just sat
18019s	there as well that you can roll the dice
18021s	with just have a prep as well to help
18023s	out with any potential discover options
18025s	right now
18027s	uh
18030s	wait
18031s	the lactory
18033s	after the 4-3 dies you can draw two more
18035s	spell no i don't think that's like this
18038s	would have been great
18039s	it would have been great yeah if the
18041s	tarantula died right like that would
18042s	have been pretty sick actually yeah just
18045s	a plague here to remove some divine
18047s	shields but unfortunately missus won
18050s	extra damage on the light race so pocket
18052s	train couldn't get a full clear values
18054s	keeping the stealth on his minions
18055s	instead but yuying now approaching
18058s	lethal honestly
18060s	yeah this is the big play right there's
18062s	a minion on board this targetable with
18064s	an attack so suddenly samurai plus
18066s	blessing of kings is
18069s	probably gonna close this game out i
18072s	never like calling them too early but
18073s	especially after seeing the double
18075s	reconnaissance like there's not much
18078s	that can really dig pocket train out of
18080s	this even if they're in the most extreme
18081s	of circumstances right scab's been
18083s	played double reconnaissance played that
18086s	was not just damage straight off the top
18088s	anyway and 17 i think is a bit of a
18090s	stretch to one regardless so yeah not
18093s	looking too great for now
18096s	another tooth which can get honorable
18099s	kill if he commits wicked stub on the
18100s	light ray first
18114s	a true true
18116s	that's something again like it means
18118s	it's not strictly dead
18121s	yeah
18122s	it's a full board clear in fact with the
18124s	fog fighter
18127s	never bring a sword i'd as well play the
18129s	other one at stealth yep can hero power
18131s	out the maestro
18134s	alive coming together
18136s	this is part of the plan all along
18144s	a lot of bus being played i think there
18145s	is a reasonable argument to not swing
18147s	into the 1-1 here and just
18150s	every single point of damage you
18151s	possibly can it looks like pocket train
18153s	agrees with gonna of course drop the
18155s	maestro on board just maximum power and
18158s	hope that at this point unions used a
18160s	lot or enough of the resources to not
18162s	have a strong turn but we can see an
18165s	absolute worst case scenario there's
18167s	just holy mackey roll right and a fish
18169s	which would probably be just good enough
18170s	to seal the deal here
18172s	right all manner of sea creatures here
18174s	good enough to seal the deal here i
18176s	definitely like the decision to leave up
18178s	the one one like you said double gardens
18180s	grace already used and the card from
18182s	battle vicar so not really threatening
18184s	too much there but the entire aquarium
18188s	is going to put the wrench in the works
18190s	for pocket train here i don't even see a
18192s	way he can get honorable kill with the
18194s	tooth he can't right
18196s	that's brutal
18198s	we didn't even get to see the potential
18199s	one last hope the one hour stitch
18202s	attempt to being able to just generate a
18203s	spell that does something
18206s	yeah i don't think this is going to cut
18208s	it
18211s	he's alive on board
18214s	and probably alive through the turn
18215s	because this is paladin they don't
18217s	really kill you until they really kill
18218s	you
18220s	yeah i do think just 10 minutes worth of
18223s	holy mackey roll is probably enough now
18228s	i mean not that it massively matters but
18231s	i imagine okay where was that say tax
18233s	though
18234s	yeah
18237s	uh
18238s	only relevant draw for pocket off the
18240s	top is edwin here but even then i don't
18242s	think that can do enough
18245s	even with the perfect train chain of
18247s	draw afterward
18252s	i wouldn't be surprised if this is just
18254s	six minutes worth of mackie roll yeah
18256s	makes sense right just
18258s	again
18258s	extremely unlikely if not impossible
18261s	that anything happens but you've got the
18262s	manner you've got the heels just do it
18264s	yeah there you go and then make that an
18266s	absolute 100 certainty ying takes game
18269s	one with the paladin and of course you
18272s	know don't get us wrong ewing's played
18273s	this lineup all the way to the this far
18276s	in the tournament so it must be doing
18277s	something right but i do think just
18279s	getting the parliament off the table
18281s	this quickly and getting that match up
18283s	against rogue has solved a lot of
18285s	potential problems from this series yeah
18288s	i completely agree i think the only
18289s	reason that yu ying has been able to get
18292s	wins with paladin uh thus far has been
18295s	rogues and demon hunters maybe i can be
18297s	corrected by lorenda on this but the
18299s	vast majority of its match-ups that it
18301s	can uh try and sneak through a series
18304s	win is because it queues into a good
18307s	deck
18308s	in its favor because it really has an
18311s	awful match up against a lot of the
18312s	other things running around in the meta
18315s	um just can out value it and potentially
18319s	just
18319s	kind of make the control package almost
18322s	completely useless here gets the right
18324s	target though so it means yu ying is
18326s	down to his big spell mage and a
18329s	boat rogue of his own to try and get a
18331s	win with and that mage is something that
18333s	we'll have to keep our eyes on because i
18336s	do think the boat rogue um could
18339s	potentially struggle against the boar
18341s	priest from pocket train and maybe the
18343s	big spell mage also but that's a match
18345s	up that can definitely go either way
18347s	yeah and it looks like for now we are
18348s	going to jump into the rogue mirror it
18350s	looks like both players have locked in a
18352s	rogue now and again just a very uh
18355s	knife's edge kind of uh battle this one
18357s	very aggressive uh fighting for the
18359s	board as you would expect in a lot of
18361s	mirror matches or at least non-combo
18363s	mirror matches and yeah we'll just have
18365s	to see big openings are going to be
18367s	those uh wild pawn knolls but especially
18369s	i think even more important than just
18371s	like that opening to me in this mirror
18374s	is just a a smooth curve like just doing
18378s	things most turns of the game is what's
18381s	really valuable because i think once you
18382s	fall behind and you have some of those
18384s	hands that are like you know a bit too
18386s	heavy on shadow step cutlass and you're
18389s	just the cards that don't really impact
18391s	too much of the game if they're on their
18392s	own i think that's when i've seen the
18394s	most rogues lose out in this mirror big
18396s	time even if they have a good opening
18398s	yeah i'd agree especially on the point
18400s	of making do with shadow step even if
18403s	the target is not ideal even if you're
18405s	using it just to heal a bit more health
18407s	on a wild panel that's already taken a
18409s	value trade it's completely worth it
18411s	getting too greedy with that card can be
18414s	extremely punishing in the match up
18415s	because your opponent also has nose they
18417s	can clear most of your boards in the
18420s	blink of an eye if they get the right
18421s	set of draws there's also tooth of
18424s	nefarian generations to
18426s	kind of have in the back of your head
18428s	because if that can ever find some sort
18430s	of mass board clear that can easily turn
18433s	the match up on its head the
18435s	reconnaissance outcomes are huge of
18437s	course nadjak and gigafan always being
18439s	the most important ones of those but in
18442s	the bare bones state of rogue versus
18444s	rogue it's a battle of first vessel
18447s	having a huge advantage and also how
18450s	many knolls you can get because if you
18452s	get only one i feel like you're not
18454s	supposed to play the null just straight
18455s	up for tempo because it can get value
18458s	traded
18459s	on the other side but if you get two
18460s	that's sometimes enough pressure to
18462s	justify playing them for no rush value
18465s	yeah completely agree just the sheer
18467s	amount of stats you get to put on board
18468s	with two is a lot and look at these
18471s	mulligans jia uh oh okay the
18474s	being kept from yuying what do you think
18476s	about that the extortion makes sense to
18478s	an extent with the tradable effect but
18480s	the okani is something i've not seen too
18482s	often
18484s	right expression i completely agree with
18485s	you just always keep tradables
18487s	especially in this matchup because early
18489s	nulls are amazing uh but the okani that
18492s	i am not necessarily used to seeing i
18495s	feel like in
18497s	this matchup in the mirror it's not
18498s	particularly great because oftentimes
18500s	you play okani into a board where
18502s	there's already two three threes with
18503s	stealth and they straight up value trade
18506s	the okani but it can definitely seal a
18507s	position where one rogue is ahead into a
18510s	complete victory maybe coined out on
18512s	turn three it could block something from
18515s	pocket train uh early
18517s	hands though and hero power wise i think
18520s	yu ying has a big advantage here
18524s	literally the best hero power to be
18527s	given uh as rogue here and just the fact
18530s	that there's enough stuff to do again no
18532s	nulls yet but still tradables in the
18535s	hand still a bit of removal if needed
18538s	and even the ability to go fishing so
18541s	not looking too bad
18543s	bad sorry at all for you
18545s	pocket train gonna have to commit the
18547s	reconnaissance here and have a little
18548s	look at what he wants to do again i
18551s	think this is the second time i've
18552s	suggested this to you today maybe it was
18554s	yesterday it's all going to one but i
18556s	never hate the road at nest here just
18558s	because how cheap it is it's a lot of
18560s	stats actually
18562s	all three are
18563s	good options depending on the situation
18565s	in the mirror like meda is insane if you
18568s	can safely land it and you know you
18570s	cycle a fair bit with the deck you get
18572s	the regeneration uh cast when drawn
18575s	pretty often and that life steal usually
18577s	locks out some of the reach game plans
18580s	from your opponent on top of winning you
18581s	the board
18582s	and the undying disciple is a way to
18586s	answer a board full of three threes on
18588s	the other side but the rodent nest is
18590s	just the best tempo especially going
18592s	into the very next turn meeda and
18595s	disciple were still a couple turns away
18597s	from being playable so i do like the
18598s	choice of rona nast candy played with
18600s	the wild pawn noel and those one ones
18603s	even though they don't look like much on
18605s	board just allow so much trading
18607s	initiative to the rogue that plays at
18609s	first
18610s	yeah and we do see pocket train
18612s	committing to the board now i think this
18614s	turn again you talk about tempo this
18616s	term was just too good to turn down
18618s	right the rat and the null hitting
18620s	that's just so many stats that ewing
18622s	would have to fight to to even just even
18624s	up the board at this point and you ain't
18627s	still
18628s	just looking at hero power and looking
18630s	at when it's possible to actually start
18632s	committing cards because you will of
18634s	course transform into actual rogue but
18636s	so far even though the hand is very full
18640s	there's nothing really sticking out
18642s	apart from the obvious uh crabatoa which
18644s	is quite a ways away
18646s	and not amazing options he definitely
18648s	has his nose down to zero now but hasn't
18651s	found them in hand uh he has the option
18654s	to honorable kill the knoll by playing a
18656s	cutlass and tooth but it goes for filet
18658s	fighter instead into gone fishing really
18661s	looking for a knoll of his own and hits
18666s	it has to be the pick here
18669s	i think so yeah and then the question is
18671s	is the coin going to be used to actually
18674s	clear off the null in any way
18677s	that is the question i think you can
18680s	hold on to it for this turn
18683s	maybe just press out the tooth actually
18686s	oh true that can be done hold coin for
18688s	krabatoa i just think actually removing
18690s	this null is going to be huge it's a bit
18692s	frustrating because the the rat gets to
18694s	just trade into the null anyway which is
18696s	i think why you ying just backed off on
18698s	that plan and just said you know what
18700s	it's a good trade let my opponent try
18702s	and do it but their pocket trains gonna
18704s	respond with a tooth of his own yeah
18706s	this is extremely clean yo feast of
18708s	souls uh no we can't really trade that
18710s	many
18711s	i was just looking at rats and how much
18713s	cards yeah yeah yeah quick give them
18715s	rush somehow where's the broom
18719s	uh still going to take it though which i
18721s	think is very reasonable because most of
18723s	these rats are living through the next
18725s	couple turns there's just no good way in
18727s	the base rogue deck to deal with this
18730s	shape of board they need to generate
18732s	something off of tooth going back to yu
18733s	ying's previous turn though i do like
18735s	his decision to hold on to coin because
18737s	i feel having krabatoa on turn five is
18740s	one of the few ways you can get back in
18742s	the match up but in that case
18744s	i think it might have been better to
18746s	just hold on to the knoll in hand
18748s	yeah just not play at all look at this
18750s	though this ocarina is literally just
18752s	going to tank rats and it's gonna draw
18755s	pocket train one million cards
18759s	yeah but pocket has to
18760s	first consider if this is a spell
18762s	counter so you might have to trade three
18765s	rats
18766s	before or two rats uh dagger hit and the
18768s	null before he can apply the feast of
18770s	souls
18772s	okay prep let some test oh my goodness
18774s	yeah that's perfect now
18782s	so many resources
18785s	is he just going to actually know this
18786s	okay now
18787s	yeah is it even necessary looking at it
18789s	again it's a lot of card draw but at the
18792s	same time the rats are just way more
18793s	annoying for yu yang being on board you
18796s	know it's more annoying than
18797s	five more cards in hand for pocket
18799s	trains so i really like the approach
18801s	just gonna hold on to feast of souls for
18803s	later on yeah that's just the the big
18806s	difference in options right like do do
18808s	do you want to play aggressive and be
18809s	more annoying for your opponent or do
18811s	you just want more options yourself and
18813s	we do see the crabatora coming down for
18815s	yu ying no surprise whatsoever but we
18817s	also see that ewing is almost forced to
18819s	attack pace because the hit like trading
18822s	for damage of the weapon into a 1-1 is
18825s	pretty horrendous but it does retain the
18828s	minions on board for pocket train so yet
18830s	again there is an option of a feast if
18832s	pocket train that wants to and i do
18835s	think the crabato is way more likely to
18837s	die
18838s	for this turn than the ocarina was last
18840s	time yeah absolutely
18843s	i think this could end up starting with
18845s	edwin for pocket train here because he
18848s	doesn't need maximum value off the feast
18849s	right i would like to see him continue
18851s	piling on pressure
18856s	and even if you go like extortion feast
18860s	trade trade you can still go with edwin
18862s	later you have a little bit less mana to
18864s	work with but he's giving himself the
18866s	option of seeing what these two draws
18868s	are first and okani is a strong
18870s	consideration
18872s	um oh wait it's just shadow step philip
18874s	now right
18876s	and i just have smite and a
18878s	big fill coming out
18880s	yeah that is a very clean setup
18883s	and the okani can be played to prevent i
18885s	don't know
18886s	i don't know what minion or spelling
18888s	really stops this yeah
18889s	like reconnaissance for a taunt is the
18891s	theoretical counter to the setup but
18894s	like if you're countering spell it's
18895s	very likely they can dump some other
18897s	spell before doing that however it's all
18899s	just backup plans for backup lines
18901s	because pocket knows he is way ahead
18902s	here
18909s	yep you ain't no doubt gonna start with
18911s	prep almost no matter what the overall
18912s	plan is for this turn just prep see if
18914s	okay blocks it still got another prep in
18917s	the hands it doesn't overly matter
18921s	we are seeing sort of the feaster famine
18923s	nature of okani for yu ying right if
18926s	you're ahead it's amazing if you're
18929s	trying to stave back a board on the
18932s	other side it's really not quite too
18934s	impactful still a chance though to find
18936s	something to stop this lethal from tooth
18938s	desperate prayer and sentries yeah okay
18947s	definitely the better pick here over the
18950s	healing
18952s	yeah not too bad because of this phillip
18953s	fire and just the um
18956s	the trade from the oconee can just
18957s	completely clear the board if you ying
18959s	wants to but yet again looks like you
18961s	much uh would rather push the two
18963s	instead of trading one off
18967s	okay
18968s	he's gonna empty just make these taunts
18970s	as reliable as possible this time
18973s	pockets eyes went wide for a bit there
18976s	after he saw the double taunts but he's
18978s	not in a disaster situation just yet 19
18981s	health to work with and he still has
18983s	that smite filet fighter game plan for a
18987s	post cab stern just needs to survive
18989s	this push basically but that first edwin
18991s	draw is a complete disaster probably has
18994s	to commit wicked stab on the knoll now
18997s	yeah i think so just be ultra safe right
19001s	knows he's there's still a whole turn
19003s	before his opponent can scabs right so
19006s	he's safe
19007s	from that he just needs like the one
19009s	turn window i guess the
19013s	potential fear
19015s	is
19016s	if he stabs the null and not the taunt
19020s	it yeah again becomes difficult to say
19022s	that the two taunts will be gone next
19024s	turn which means that smite in there
19027s	phillip won't necessarily make it
19029s	through for lethal
19032s	eventually
19033s	i'm gonna commit the filet fighter as
19035s	well here oh and maestro okay it's a
19037s	full board push game plan from pocket
19039s	train which i can get behind as well um
19042s	technically he didn't have to stab the
19045s	null or remove any minions and he
19046s	wouldn't be afraid of lethal because
19049s	it would only be smite as the maximum
19052s	push from yu ying
19054s	i guess that's not true there could be
19055s	some weird combination of spells that's
19057s	kind of right but two preps used is
19060s	always like a bit of a relief for pocket
19062s	train there
19064s	both players going vancleef into boats
19066s	which is the card you are not looking
19069s	for from van cleef
19071s	a little bit unfortunate but you've got
19072s	to say fair is fair both players did it
19075s	so
19076s	you can already kind of tell when it
19078s	happens to your opponent because they're
19079s	like edwin straight away start of turn
19081s	and then a big long pregnant pause
19087s	it's the option to go tooth here on the
19089s	van cleef by trading yeah that's going
19091s	to be the plan for you and go dig in for
19093s	something that's going to help although
19094s	with one mana
19096s	unlikely it's gonna necessarily help
19098s	right now
19100s	these are not great
19103s	fortitude even though it's giga
19105s	expensive i think is the most
19108s	appropriate for the game plan right now
19109s	for yu ying which is now he is the
19111s	beatdown
19114s	bit awkward that the fillet fighter
19116s	sticks around nicely navigated by pocket
19119s	train and he can return that to hand
19121s	with the scabs this turn
19124s	it's one off lethal
19136s	[Music]
19139s	that was my first instinct but every
19141s	time you scabs in the mirror your first
19143s	fear is the counter scabs right that's
19145s	the best possible answer from the other
19147s	rogue which
19148s	gives them the four twos and puts yours
19150s	back in hand and that would put yu ying
19153s	at 15 health and that's slightly out of
19156s	range of smite and filet fighter it's
19160s	not out of range of smite filet fighter
19162s	and both though but i don't think he has
19164s	nevana to do everything even with the
19166s	scabs hero power yeah so if it's not
19168s	scabs then it's going to just be
19170s	everything else except smite right and
19172s	just wicked stab play the boats and say
19174s	you know what this'll be enough with the
19176s	three three stealth
19178s	yeah it looks like it's the philippine
19179s	the trade there
19181s	that's fine still without scabs there's
19184s	enough damage on board
19185s	right
19186s	the trade there respects a potential
19189s	slight filet on the other side as well
19192s	trading
19194s	okani over the knoll i imagine it's just
19196s	some sort of hedge around shadow step
19199s	right
19204s	ying is in
19206s	a disaster situation now knows he can't
19209s	stop these three threes all he can do is
19212s	apply plus three plus five to his null
19214s	which is hardly relevant in this
19216s	situation
19222s	yeah not even sure what's really
19224s	could pull him out of this situation
19226s	from shroud either right it's just
19228s	nothing
19230s	i don't think so no generation effects
19232s	to be found edwin already played mr
19235s	smite too expensive
19237s	yuying just has to play as though there
19239s	is not lethal in hand for pocket train
19241s	and in that situation you probably just
19243s	vessel maestra and pray
19249s	oh
19250s	just a little bit too late uh just get
19253s	hold of the smite from the shroud but
19255s	that's gonna be it
19257s	and if i can actually manage to count
19259s	correctly these very basic numbers
19261s	that's gonna be game two going to pocket
19263s	train evening it up and my first non 3-0
19267s	cast off the wow congratulations raven
19271s	maybe not so congratulate yeah
19274s	you're not getting to sleep as early as
19276s	possible yeah that's okay though because
19278s	honestly this is my last cast of the day
19280s	so i'm happy to go a bit longer on this
19282s	match just to get as much hearthstone as
19284s	possible uh yeah a big win there for
19287s	pocket train getting the win in the
19288s	rogue mirror means you don't have to
19290s	worry about that too much and uh a
19292s	really tricky one i think this game even
19294s	though it was a little bit crazy with
19296s	the rats of course which i think was a
19297s	great choice from pocket train just
19299s	shows how close this mirror is and how
19302s	like every point of damage you know
19305s	every trade has to be like just
19307s	calculated to perfection to just
19310s	maximize damage and get yourself that
19312s	like one step ahead of your opponent
19314s	because the second air pocket train
19316s	doesn't have that setup well suddenly
19318s	yuying's open for lethal right and it's
19319s	just it really was like just a half a
19322s	turn difference between both players
19324s	yeah i think pocket train navigated that
19326s	very very well right from the choice of
19328s	the rodent's nest and perhaps even more
19330s	importantly the choice to leave the one
19332s	ones on board until much later on and he
19335s	didn't even try to go for max value with
19337s	his feast of souls just traded a couple
19339s	of them enough to make sure he had solid
19342s	things to do for the next couple turns
19344s	um already locked up but realized that
19347s	the 1-1 bodies were still relevant there
19349s	to push pressure and make the trades
19351s	awkward for yu ying
19353s	and at the end playing around scabs even
19355s	though it wasn't there making sure that
19356s	he had an answer even if yu yang had the
19359s	scabs himself was very very clever on yu
19362s	ying's side he did have a good recovery
19364s	towards the end game that looked a lot
19366s	closer than i thought it would be after
19367s	the rodent's nest but i'm really not
19369s	sure about the okani keep in the mirror
19371s	and also his usage of the first knoll
19374s	yeah and looking at yu ying's a big
19375s	spell mage i believe we're about to jump
19377s	into another mirror edgy of a big spell
19380s	made on both sides but different builds
19383s	uh for yu ying he does have the one null
19386s	in there uh which is uh very important
19389s	it's just one of the choices a lot of
19391s	players have lent towards and one of the
19392s	big differences as well is pocket train
19395s	actually running double spammy arcanist
19397s	which i can definitely see the value of
19400s	but not necessarily in this specific
19402s	matchup right not really a card you
19404s	you're leaning towards in the mirror
19406s	match
19407s	that's right he does have something
19409s	that's good for the mirror though in
19410s	vardhan don grass because if you get in
19412s	that situation where both players have
19413s	hit their early um drake fire amulet
19416s	then you can
19418s	just say if you're the first one to play
19420s	two big dragons they play two dragons
19422s	encounter freeze that board push face
19424s	you have a lethal setup because that is
19426s	just the average quality of a drake fire
19428s	amulet that being said whether or not a
19431s	player can cheat out amulet is very
19434s	contentious in this matchup because you
19436s	might just be swapping around a 10 cost
19439s	spell for another 10 cost spell with
19441s	your barbaric sorceress it's pretty
19443s	funny how that works out other
19444s	differences in the list include the more
19447s	dress there for yu ying but not in
19449s	pocket trains list and that could be a
19451s	big difference maker if yu ying is able
19453s	to take the game long enough where the
19456s	more josh will be active
19458s	yeah it's a really difficult one as well
19460s	because you might think oh well why is
19462s	moderation there because
19464s	uh there's none of the buffs to the uh
19466s	the hero power apart from dawn grasp of
19468s	course but the idea being that against a
19470s	lot of more board focused decks the
19472s	reckless apprentice could really stack
19474s	up fast
19475s	if you just get to play on you know
19477s	three four minions suddenly you're just
19479s	about halfway but um but in this matchup
19482s	again i feel like it's unlikely the
19484s	board gets wide enough so i think there
19486s	would have it would have to be like a no
19488s	belinda game on either side for that
19490s	mode dress to really end up being
19491s	relevant
19492s	yeah uh belinda kind of speeds up the
19495s	tempo of expected plays a little bit too
19498s	much and maybe that mordres can't get
19500s	too much uh work done but i do think on
19504s	average it should come out as a slight
19506s	favorite uh slight favor in the at least
19509s	in terms of the list for yu ying because
19511s	he does run quite a few more greedy
19514s	options here the spammy like you said
19516s	not overly relevant so pocket train
19518s	having that second copy might not be too
19520s	happy for this particular match-up
19523s	these are all just tiny percentages
19525s	moving around though because the most
19526s	important thing is who is able to hit
19529s	their power card first who is able to
19531s	find belinda and sometimes who is able
19535s	to find the sorceress here um it only
19539s	really happens if one player isn't
19540s	careful with their coin though so i
19542s	doubt that'll be a big deal
19544s	yeah it will get very interesting if
19545s	there's like multiple mailbox dancers
19547s	from both sides early in the game it's
19549s	like wow how do i spend these coins when
19551s	do i spend the coins like we'll be just
19553s	a little bit tricky but we are jumping
19555s	into game number three now
19558s	both players were there
19560s	at least halfway mulligans and they're
19561s	pretty rough opening for yu ying
19563s	honestly versus pocket train that
19566s	seemed to have access to a much smoother
19568s	opening curve with the watch post the
19571s	mailbox dancer even having
19573s	the choice between okani or the uh
19576s	evoka as well
19577s	right he did keep both the watch posts
19580s	on the opani which works out as a turn
19582s	two into turn three curve it's amazing
19584s	if yu yang doesn't find anything in the
19587s	early game for himself uh but we see
19589s	here pocket train choosing not to coin
19591s	out that watch post for a variety of
19594s	reasons right um
19597s	like going for it into mailbox dancer
19599s	isn't necessarily the best curve you can
19601s	go for retaining coins is technically
19603s	better if you're going to find belinda
19605s	and having early okani if you are ahead
19608s	can also make things even more awkward
19610s	for yu ying
19613s	well the players getting the guards down
19615s	now so oh and both now have access to
19618s	the ogani as well uh which is kind of
19620s	hilarious there is actually the option
19622s	of like
19623s	if the ocani comes down from yu ying and
19625s	pocket train assumes it's minion which i
19627s	think is a
19628s	fair assumption there is the option to
19630s	like coin pelican and then okani back so
19634s	as
19635s	few uh fun things they could do between
19637s	players here but it doesn't like it's
19638s	going to be just a pink and a snow
19640s	flurry instead they're from ewing just
19642s	going a little bit wider and whipping in
19644s	that ping to reduce the health down on
19646s	the other side of the board
19647s	yeah ying potentially hoping that pocket
19650s	train uses coin early and maybe he can
19652s	okani in such a way where he has to
19655s	force pocket train to guess whether it
19657s	really is minion or spell without having
19659s	an easy way to test it
19662s	okani to block
19664s	six mana is obviously the first priority
19667s	here
19676s	not going to cash in the hero power yeah
19678s	the 3-4 is just not a high priority
19681s	target to freeze
19685s	predictable
19687s	block removed
19696s	it does look good here no ping to
19699s	actually kill off the taunt but i guess
19700s	uh in some respects it means that eugene
19703s	has to make the trade himself if he
19705s	wants to draw an additional card and i
19707s	think right now i wouldn't hate it
19710s	whichever way ewing wants to go but if
19712s	he kills off his treasure guard i think
19713s	it would be pretty useful here
19715s	yeah he really needs this draw because
19717s	currently there is no minion that's
19719s	convenient to remove the counter with so
19722s	two three and two and into the other
19724s	treasure guard put his own treasure
19726s	guard in the okani and hope he picks up
19728s	like a one drop minion honestly would be
19730s	ideal uh of which he only runs finley
19733s	though having said that so there's not a
19735s	high likelihood i guess you'd take a ram
19737s	commander
19738s	yeah
19740s	just anything playable that lets him
19742s	follow up with the evoker i guess is the
19745s	generally hoped for outcome here
19750s	okay okani into the one two instead of
19752s	the two one makes sense because
19755s	he can just retain more health on
19758s	okani by trading to one into the other
19761s	okani instead
19763s	oh
19765s	oh he doesn't kill off the treasure
19767s	guard
19768s	so is this just a full pass from yu ying
19770s	i feel like
19771s	maybe has to give up on one of these
19773s	evokers
19775s	wow
19776s	call me crazy but i was even looking at
19778s	whether there's a chance you just throw
19780s	the pirate out there now while the
19782s	matter doesn't really matter and then
19784s	just keep the evokers to actually just
19785s	draw the spells anyway
19788s	yeah i think that was also reasonable
19789s	but now pocket train kinda knows he has
19792s	this extremely valuable two-four on
19795s	board that he wants to preserve at all
19797s	costs
19798s	the reckless apprentice
19801s	is a little bit short of clearing the
19804s	board really nicely
19806s	but i still think it's decent
19808s	one manner of a good time here right
19810s	just nearly had the ability to coin
19812s	reckless reckless uh which would have
19814s	been insane on this board
19819s	reckless ping still able to
19822s	get rid of the snow flurry and after a
19824s	trade of the evoker into treasure guard
19826s	his oconee is still safe on board
19828s	technically he runs out on me
19832s	yeah it does look like the cleanest
19834s	option at least from where i'm sitting
19838s	also preserves coin which means that he
19840s	can still get a potential early drake
19842s	fire finding time to weave in mailbox
19845s	dancer could also be a big deal
19852s	yeah i think i'd really at this point if
19854s	belinda's haven't been drawn yet you
19856s	definitely can't rely on them being
19858s	drawn so i've been able to just double
19860s	coin out some of the biggest spells like
19861s	rude of the archmage or drake fire will
19864s	be huge eung is going to drop the dawn
19867s	grass now though and have that improved
19869s	hero power
19870s	right
19871s	okay i'd be shocked if he doesn't take
19873s	this opportunity to remove the okani but
19875s	he really doesn't care wow he still
19878s	could have got an honorable kill with
19879s	the trade and then ping
19886s	um
19888s	okay so
19889s	um we know now that the ping is at four
19893s	damage so technically can still easily
19895s	remove the okani
19898s	so for pocket train here i wonder if
19899s	he's now supposed to take a vt with the
19901s	akani to prevent it from getting
19903s	honorable killed
19905s	yeah i can definitely see that actually
19907s	it's just it's a pretty difficult hand
19909s	to just
19911s	work out here for pocket training i
19913s	think again although he had to i think
19915s	pink last time the
19918s	can he do anything there no not really i
19920s	think the fact that he just couldn't get
19922s	that other coin was really just a big
19924s	problem for him last turn
19928s	yeah this mailbox dancer you can't quite
19930s	kill it off himself and then put the
19932s	coin in yuyun's hand to try and then
19935s	snipe the barbaric sorceress with a good
19937s	swap but he is going to attempt that
19940s	setup over two turns here i really like
19942s	the damaging of his own akani to prevent
19944s	honorable kill
19949s	but even with just the four attack hero
19951s	power yu ying is making headway towards
19953s	this more josh being active
19956s	yeah that's a huge deal right not only
19958s	a probable board clear but also just a
19961s	ton of damage push face
19963s	there's still this minion counter active
19965s	after how many turns but yu ying has
19967s	just refused to remove it one way or
19969s	another obviously he can get rid of the
19971s	akani itself now with the ping finally
19974s	cycles into some armor and we are
19976s	reaching the very tense point of the
19978s	game raven when the big spells are
19980s	finally playable and that is a drake
19982s	fire off the top
19985s	yeah it gets to use up those coins as
19987s	well so nowhere sorcerer's shenanigans
19989s	at least for now does get raid boss and
19992s	nyxia
19996s	i would imagine so it looks like it
19999s	easily has the highest upside here and
20001s	gets to push a good chunk of damage as
20002s	well
20004s	crucially there was the option for
20006s	pocket train to trade his mailbox and
20008s	then try and play his own barbaric
20011s	sorceress after having used his own
20012s	coins of course to potentially disrupt
20014s	yu ying but he also knew that there was
20017s	a rune of the arc mage in hand for yu
20019s	ying or was the drake fire forgot and it
20021s	just got traded but he got something off
20023s	the evoker so it wasn't a guaranteed
20025s	barbaric uh that was good for pocket
20028s	train
20032s	uh hero power's still dealing for here i
20034s	think
20035s	and that is going to get the honorable
20037s	kill on the starfish yeah and then
20039s	reckless apprentice pretty nice actually
20041s	guess this up to uh five i'm gonna be
20043s	able to clear this off and go up oh six
20045s	sorry yeah
20047s	and more josh definitely active now i
20050s	think it's active yeah after that term
20052s	maybe
20054s	just a small hunch
20058s	is it time to open some boxes
20061s	the pirate doesn't let you pick the
20063s	dragons after replaying
20066s	yeah i think so right like one way or
20069s	the other open some boxes here it's
20071s	gonna be the ruin of the arc mage pocket
20073s	train just raises his hands and says
20075s	well let's see what happens we've seen
20077s	some truly filthy rune of the archmages
20080s	so far this weekend
20081s	ice blood power
20084s	four boxes whoa jake fire whoa hell oh
20088s	my goodness counter spell as well not
20090s	terrible
20096s	i don't think anything prevents you from
20098s	just going more josh here ping the hala
20101s	uh he can
20102s	consider whether he wants to trade
20104s	jellyfish or just ping
20108s	okay
20112s	so yeah this is still fine
20114s	yeah yeah you trade first and then even
20116s	if it's oasis ally marjosh can clear
20118s	clean up
20119s	it's nice
20121s	and we've seen that yu ying very
20123s	heavily focused on this pink hero power
20126s	right uh doing everything he can to
20128s	actually just up the damage and just say
20130s	you know what my opponent's on 20
20132s	and guess what things like counter spell
20135s	and okay don't do it stop me pinging so
20138s	i'm just gonna keep pressing that button
20146s	is it clear he has still so much mana to
20148s	spend and it usually goes wrong at this
20150s	point because it just starts clearing
20151s	your own board okay yeah so much mana
20153s	spent on a whole load of nothing it's
20155s	really a sheep now too
20161s	transform a sheep into a sheep
20164s	like dolly you know cloning sheep
20169s	uh evoker
20172s	to gain armor just while there is a
20174s	spell possible i don't even know how
20176s	many big spells are left in the deck for
20178s	pocket train because that armor might
20181s	even be more valuable than the spell
20182s	itself
20184s	true yeah like i said it's the fact it's
20186s	just the fact right that
20188s	the ping is so dangerous from yuying now
20191s	and pocket train
20193s	kind of just not getting a good rune of
20195s	the archmage again yes it's card draw
20198s	yeah it's the wildfire got played but
20202s	not looking great for now and yu ying
20204s	can just easily keep pressing that hero
20206s	power and almost like not care about the
20209s	rest of the the turn as long as that two
20212s	man is spent
20213s	completely agree he knows there is
20216s	almost nothing pocket train can do to
20218s	try and race the damage um even with all
20222s	these boxes open they don't actually
20223s	deal that much face damage on average
20225s	here
20227s	get serial power down to 12 little bit
20228s	unfortunate the ewing's just
20230s	a smidge off being able to hero power
20232s	twice to win the game because again
20234s	there is a nice barrier active there is
20236s	a counter spell active so not that easy
20239s	for ewing to actually push through
20240s	damage any other way but with the nice
20242s	little trade and the avocado last turn i
20244s	think yu ying should be very comfortable
20247s	in saying i will survive two more turns
20249s	of this game
20250s	yeah pocket train with no real recourse
20253s	here doesn't have his own
20255s	don grass hero card and don grass the
20258s	four drop is not doing anything relevant
20260s	here
20261s	uh just going to succumb to the pings in
20265s	a few more turns time
20272s	i would love to see you yang just open a
20274s	box for the sake of it though but
20276s	unfortunately i'll try to
20279s	unfortunately it means you won't have
20281s	mana to ping as well
20283s	well now now he can get a coin though
20285s	best of both worlds
20291s	yeah is there a way even if he could
20293s	play arc rune of the arc mage is there a
20295s	way that that ever like loses him the
20297s	kit the game so it's just worth ping
20299s	pass or you could play like a taunt and
20302s	stuff
20303s	yeah it could play like all card draw
20305s	and he lose on fatigue i don't know
20309s	yeah i think as long as ying's pressing
20311s	that hero power
20313s	game's going to be now and unwinnable
20314s	for pocket train because again he just
20316s	can't make up the damage and that's like
20319s	one of the odd things about this deck is
20323s	it can be very explosive damage wise but
20326s	then it can also struggle and feel very
20328s	slow and clunky sometimes as well
20332s	when
20333s	your big minions aren't likely to stick
20335s	because your opponent is running their
20337s	big removal as well
20339s	then it sort of comes down to
20341s	cancelling out on both sides and then
20343s	you see who has other
20345s	pools in their kit and yu ying has that
20347s	whole pink package had the dawn grasp
20350s	early navigated it in such a way that he
20352s	would get as many honorable kills as
20354s	possible got that huge more dash and
20356s	from there was unstoppable i think it
20358s	was a very solid overall game plan well
20360s	recognized by yu ying how to play the
20362s	mirror
20363s	yeah i completely agree i really just
20365s	like the focus on uh on the pings there
20368s	and saying let's just simplify this game
20370s	very easily and they're just the
20373s	prioritization as well of just maxing
20375s	that armor shuffling the dra the amulet
20377s	back uh just to be able to get the max
20379s	amount of armor possible and uh yeah
20382s	just stay alive as long as possible for
20383s	those pings to really kick out and it
20385s	does mean now jia you you ain't gonna
20387s	need one game away from a semi-final
20390s	spot here and he is gonna have to go
20392s	back to that rogue but when you look now
20394s	that there's the ball priest and the
20396s	mage left for pocket train how are you
20399s	feeling the chances for you yinga taking
20401s	a win in one of those two with the rogue
20403s	definitely over 50 factoring in both of
20407s	the decks uh against this one match up i
20410s	do think he is unfavored against bar
20412s	priest in general and doubly so against
20414s	pocket train on boar piece definitely
20417s	gonna have a better shot against mage
20418s	but yeah you're absolutely right raven
20421s	we do always have to specify when we say
20423s	one game away sometimes we mean one
20426s	rogue away which is potentially two or
20428s	three games away um and pocket train is
20431s	not going to give yu ying the easy way
20433s	out cueing his better match up first and
20436s	i am so happy that we get to cast the
20439s	marvel i mean pocket train doesn't
20442s	hype himself up this much but he is
20444s	certainly a very very skilled player on
20446s	the deck it's not quite that we're able
20448s	to do it justice because we can't really
20450s	speak to every small calculation that's
20453s	going through his head as we cast the
20455s	game but um certainly you're going to
20457s	see the small differences that pocket
20459s	train applies that lets him get some
20461s	extra percentage on what is easily the
20464s	most difficult deck in the meta
20466s	if we talk about win rates of matchups
20469s	how much extra percent would you add
20473s	to this matchup oh just any matchup
20475s	pocket train is playing if he's playing
20477s	ball priest what extra percentage does
20480s	he gain from being a pocket train at
20482s	this point
20483s	i would say five percent okay actually
20485s	since we also have our our graphic that
20487s	says he's 60 against everything
20490s	true and uh for those of you who may be
20493s	newer to hearthstone and think oh five
20495s	percent that's nothing five percent is a
20497s	lot when it comes to win rate so that
20500s	was a compliment even if you may not
20502s	realize it but yeah that's going to be a
20503s	big deal but already we're in the first
20505s	few turns of the game going to be rogue
20507s	for yu ying on top the last deck he has
20509s	to be able to get a win with a move on
20511s	to the semi-finals pocket train gonna
20513s	try to fight back does have that double
20516s	switcheroo in the opening which means he
20518s	does have access to very easy going card
20520s	draw and the ability to probably dig
20522s	those like balls and pyromancers out
20524s	pretty easily
20525s	right seeing this opening hand i want to
20528s	add another 10 to this one right here
20530s	double switcheroo is amazing of course
20532s	to find early on especially when you're
20534s	not under pressure of knowles
20537s	and yu ying does have no early pressure
20540s	but access to boat in the near future
20543s	and the shroud and potentially can still
20546s	make this work because a lot of the time
20548s	the early pressure you put forward as a
20550s	rogue doesn't necessarily end up
20552s	mattering against boar priest if they
20554s	have one of those hands that is um full
20556s	of removal and able to get healing
20558s	efficiently which is almost all boar
20560s	priest hands let's be real
20562s	yeah i think the main hurdle you have to
20565s	get over against ball priest if you're
20567s	playing you know minion focus kind of
20569s	aggro style deck
20570s	is you have to just beat the xyrella
20573s	right i think you have to expect to be
20575s	xyrellared at some point and you have to
20577s	be okay with it and still have enough
20579s	juice to be at least that like there's
20582s	like pyro can go wrong and and things
20584s	like that but i think zyrell is the real
20586s	scary one because of how big the aoe can
20588s	be
20589s	sorry he hovered reconnaissance so i was
20591s	about to cut you off and say najak check
20593s	because the game could just end on the
20594s	spot right here
20595s	it does not end right here okay okay
20597s	moving on yeah
20600s	that was uh your nash check update for
20602s	the day and we'll be back
20604s	brought to you by me i guess
20608s	uh battleground not terrible though
20610s	because it does make an eventual crabato
20613s	a bit cheaper later on and gets that
20615s	nice rush so the knoll is clear to go
20618s	face for sure here
20621s	yeah and it's just the right kind of
20623s	shape right it's yeah it's only got two
20625s	health it's relatively easy to clear up
20627s	but it's threatening a lot of damage so
20629s	that's kind of what you want here
20631s	pressure the priest into using aoe
20634s	sooner than they would want it to
20635s	because as with any aoe if you're
20637s	playing defensively you really want to
20639s	greet it out as much as possible so you
20641s	can get the most value but okay
20643s	really good follow-up when you've
20645s	already got the board and the board's
20646s	fairly aggressively shaped as it is so
20649s	question there was i think that was
20650s	minion pick i did just glance away for a
20652s	split second but uh do you think that's
20654s	the right choice here for you
20657s	yeah i think it is almost always just
20659s	minion versus boar priests because all
20661s	of their clears actually require minions
20664s	zarella or pyro plus stuff um
20667s	in the case you take spell there's
20669s	plenty of spells that they're able to
20671s	dump and that's why we see pocket train
20673s	actually not trading the shard last turn
20675s	i think because he knew okani was a very
20677s	real possibility that turned and shard
20679s	is really the only convenient way to
20682s	deal with uh an okani protected board as
20685s	bar priest yeah it's about as cheap as
20687s	you're gonna get isn't it and they're
20688s	not really a vital card in this matchup
20691s	as well uh so yeah really ticking those
20693s	boxes does get a ton of card draw has
20695s	the priestess available to him as well
20697s	if he wants to keep going
20699s	but i think
20701s	a good chance he just stops there
20705s	yeah two refreshes not too much i don't
20708s	think would allow him to fit in another
20710s	thrive but i think it can get a lot
20712s	better than that however here is the
20714s	step okay
20715s	this is yeah
20717s	this is just the way to play rogue
20718s	versus bar priest get as many minion
20721s	counters as you can online force them to
20723s	have both the shards and even if they do
20726s	have both the shards you can push some
20727s	incremental damage in the meantime
20730s	pocket fortunately for him does have the
20732s	second shard here but doesn't have a
20735s	healing spell to activate xyrella at the
20738s	moment
20740s	yeah the really clean follow-up as well
20742s	obviously doing the shadow step on the
20744s	ocarina that's ticking the main box but
20747s	then just having the the stab in the
20749s	maestro means that there's actually not
20750s	only the orcani but again a pretty
20753s	threatening board
20757s	illuminate can be a dumpable card here
20759s	for pocket train if he so chooses
20762s	can also still end up being of a leash
20764s	turn but i still don't think it's quite
20766s	good enough maybe if he hits desperate
20768s	prayer off of thrive that does allow for
20771s	a zyrella play
20776s	it's okay ooh prayer prayer
20786s	um hold on can this work if you go
20789s	the leash if you eliminate again valeesh
20793s	handmaiden to get the prayer and zero i
20794s	don't think there's enough mana there
20798s	yeah you'd have to be another kind of
20799s	citizen it's a little bit short isn't it
20805s	you might have been able to do it with
20806s	like a tradable amulet like you
20808s	illuminated again play values trade
20810s	amulet play prayer but
20815s	big big deal yes gabs shook everything
20818s	back in hand and
20821s	is that actually going to burn did he
20822s	play the pig first he did
20824s	okay
20826s	would have died here it counts as dying
20828s	if it oh sure yeah but the overdraw is
20831s	still a real real fear here wait we know
20833s	it's prayer right yeah okay never mind
20835s	sorry
20836s	that was stretched to the top
20839s	it does get offered more healing for the
20841s	xyrella but
20842s	still
20843s	a little bit rough here because now
20845s	ewing's going to be able to utilize that
20846s	hero power to just pound the pressure
20848s	and guess what still has an ocarina
20851s	that's playable
20853s	which is hilarious in itself
20855s	and pocket train is out of shards by
20858s	that point and we're also just looking
20860s	at smite boats
20861s	which
20863s	oh wow um
20865s	playable this turn
20867s	but not enough reach so we're gonna
20869s	start with the okani probably play one
20872s	boat and just leave it stealth
20874s	have the setup for next turn and now
20876s	pocket
20878s	needs to respect every single board
20879s	moving forward i think eugene's played
20882s	this game so well it like i yes he's had
20885s	the tools to do so but the pressure that
20888s	he's actually piled on here is actually
20890s	pretty crazy yeah just really putting
20892s	pocket train on the back foot and
20893s	forcing him to use that you know the
20895s	shards as you mentioned which are useful
20897s	tradable tools as well yeah they're just
20899s	gone and pocket train i think is gonna
20902s	have to pull something out of the bag
20903s	here it's getting close though
20906s	right
20907s	starts with illuminate on the off chance
20909s	that yu ying has gone for the mind game
20910s	and not taken minion here but obviously
20912s	minion is even better after the two
20914s	shards have been played so if pocket
20916s	wants to play pyro he needs to dump a
20919s	card first so it looks like the pyro is
20920s	going to be the sacrifice to let the
20922s	handmaiden go off instead and then rely
20925s	on valeesh to find
20927s	something to deal with this board
20935s	oh
20936s	there's so much damage
20942s	flash heal as well just going to play
20944s	this out okay
20948s	oh oh yeah you can proc now right
20949s	because he's got whoa
20951s	i have no idea you can prop this
20952s	straight yeah yeah yeah
20954s	this is the pocket train difference
20957s	i'll tell you now i would have lost this
20959s	game 10 minutes ago if i was playing the
20961s	priest right now or 100
20965s	yeah no kidding
20968s	just can't even follow all the layers
20970s	he's thinking of like everything from
20972s	holding on to cheap spells and dredging
20976s	in the right order to make sure that you
20978s	have enough things to actually get the
20981s	bores procked even without a pyro
20984s	holding on to extra minions to get rid
20986s	of the okani procs knowing when to hold
20988s	on to silence it's all just pristine
20993s	it really is and yuying's still able to
20995s	fight here with the help of the hero
20996s	power and the prep putting more pirates
20998s	in play
20999s	but
21001s	what a game honestly i'm just i'm just
21003s	sat i think i need to re-watch this game
21005s	about five times before i pick up on
21007s	everything pocket trains done uh he's
21009s	gonna do the second swing and then
21011s	re-equip or equip uh zyrella i guess if
21014s	we want to use the word equip i don't
21016s	really know what uh but that extra armor
21018s	is going to be extremely useful does
21020s	have flash heal although i guess the
21022s	hero power at this point for even more
21024s	healing potential and i think
21027s	that's just gonna end it here for yu
21030s	ying um it's likely we are gonna go to
21031s	game five
21034s	raven i'm still in disbelief i'm sorry
21035s	this is just like one of those bar
21037s	priests games where i might be on the
21039s	other side of rogue on ladder for
21040s	example thinking i've done everything
21042s	right i've okanied i've set up enough
21044s	pressure
21045s	i've made the priest's life as difficult
21047s	as possible but somehow they pull the
21049s	rug out from under you they've planned
21051s	it in advance getting the right dredges
21054s	on the um amulets to make sure that he
21057s	actually had enough mana to work with to
21059s	get the full combo off there's just too
21062s	many little things going on here i can't
21064s	even appreciate all of it
21066s	it's the fact as well like you said the
21068s	um the amulets were traded enough times
21072s	even though the shards were basically
21074s	thrown away throughout the game which is
21077s	you know normally how it helps you cycle
21079s	through and just rotate those cards
21081s	throughout to help prop the amulets like
21083s	that was such a sick game and honestly
21085s	i'm so glad we saw it because uh we
21088s	we've all spoken a lot about pocket
21090s	train and this boar priest and i think
21093s	i'm just glad we got the ability to just
21095s	look watch a master class basically this
21098s	wasn't just a you ying true terribly so
21100s	pocket train just did the thing and won
21102s	and this was a difficult game i think
21104s	eugene played very well piling on the
21106s	pressure turn after turn controlling the
21109s	okani getting able to shadow step it
21111s	then bounce it to
21112s	create the headaches for pocket trade
21114s	and pocket train just won anyway
21117s	it's kind of just ridiculous
21119s	looking at that final board state and
21121s	recognizing that the least valuable
21124s	minion to him there was wild pyromancer
21126s	is already just such a tough thing to
21128s	identify usually that's the card that
21130s	activates all of your combos it's a card
21132s	that lets you draw it's the card that
21134s	lets you clear board but pocket realized
21136s	he didn't need to draw anymore he
21137s	already had just enough tradables to get
21140s	there he didn't need to clear the board
21141s	just swinging the sword and making sure
21143s	desperate prayer could get him out of
21144s	some weird prep lethal range from the
21147s	other side was enough to get there and
21149s	he's really showing why he is i think
21152s	the only boar priest to make it this far
21154s	in the tournament and one of the reasons
21155s	that var priest doesn't have such an
21157s	abysmal win right there the little
21159s	things really matter with this deck the
21162s	only question i have raven is
21164s	is it going to be the next step with the
21166s	okani meta if you always just assume as
21169s	the priest that they're picking minion
21171s	counter because it's the most
21173s	destructive what if they just pick spell
21176s	counter and then you completely waste a
21177s	shard does that do anything um
21180s	i don't think so i don't if it's exactly
21183s	shard no because the shard gets spent
21186s	and then there's no alchany anyway right
21188s	that outcomes the same but it's when
21190s	someone decides to test it with a
21192s	different spell right and then things
21194s	can maybe get a little bit funky but
21196s	yeah it was just great great play from
21199s	both players honestly throughout this
21201s	series and i'm glad we are going to this
21203s	game five rogue of course again for yu
21206s	ying and then pocket train gonna have to
21208s	grab a win with the mage and you know
21210s	what it's a pretty good start
21213s	that's probably the card you want versus
21215s	rogue two of the elementals to freeze
21217s	with those pings the evoker to gain the
21220s	armor and then the belinda to just uh
21222s	seal the deal
21223s	that's the absolute nuts pocket train
21226s	gets to give his brain a break i've
21228s	heard him say in practice that he never
21230s	is happy to play boar priest he doesn't
21232s	want to play barbris because he has to
21234s	think a lot and when he does it he still
21236s	gets the job done with this hand he can
21239s	have the best of both worlds
21244s	though for you yankee is on warlock hero
21246s	power which again is pretty fantastic it
21249s	does go for the shroud of concealment
21251s	really hoping for a null and he gets it
21255s	uh so gets that nice and easy with the
21257s	zero mana looks like he's gonna trade as
21259s	well
21260s	but knowing that there's big uh ping
21263s	potential from pocket train as a
21265s	response here with that zero mana
21267s	although looking great for pocket train
21270s	that's to refresh that zero cost hero
21272s	power as well
21274s	uh apologies there are actually already
21276s	two barbies in top four it looks like
21278s	watching that game melted my brain more
21279s	than i always the best
21287s	um
21288s	shadow step on noel can still get some
21291s	decent work done here like obviously it
21293s	doesn't feel great to use it for not
21295s	burst damage in this matchup but it's
21298s	going to be a long way before um like
21300s	the filet fighters can be stepped for
21302s	burst no smite in hand
21304s	i
21305s	do you think yu ying should just try and
21306s	clear the runway for a vessel next turn
21310s	can get behind that because i think
21312s	it's more important to not fall behind
21315s	on board against their against big spell
21318s	mage than it is to like hold a shadow
21320s	step in hopes of the big combo later
21322s	right so completely agree with this play
21324s	you think going to uh do a little bit of
21326s	fishing by the looks of things
21331s	man that prep has a turn too late
21335s	but it's still going to be the pick here
21337s	does let yu yang potentially fit in
21339s	maestro next turn alongside the vessel
21341s	because this game plan is very
21343s	straightforward right double delay
21345s	fighter for tempo he is just trying to
21348s	play for maximum aggression but it is
21350s	quickly met by the reckless apprentice
21352s	cleaning up most of this and giving
21354s	pocket train definitely enough time to
21357s	coin belinda next turn
21360s	yeah it's all looking at pretty good so
21362s	far
21365s	rocket train just staring at this hero
21367s	power staring at the knoll
21370s	staring back at the hero power
21373s	and then pressing enter i feel like
21375s	there is some meme waiting to be born
21377s	here but i'll leave derek to it
21385s	maestro looking pretty straightforward
21388s	maximum pressure game plan if you expect
21391s	barbaric sorceress or if you expect the
21395s	oh okay okay wicked stab over maestra
21400s	like
21401s	i don't think this plays around sources
21402s	because you still have a spell of the
21403s	same cost in hand right
21406s	so i kind of thought maybe playing
21408s	as many minions on board as possible
21410s	made sense
21412s	yeah i'm not really sure what the
21413s	benefit is there as you said if that was
21415s	the only spell then we can definitely
21417s	have that conversation right but
21420s	yeah still gonna be there but the
21421s	belinda does come out double drake fire
21423s	amulet here and the pocket train is
21426s	gonna
21429s	just start piling on the pressure and
21431s	again there is the scabs but that scabs
21434s	feels like it's an eternity away right
21436s	now if pocket train starts just dropping
21438s	big dragons
21439s	[Music]
21440s	it's three turns away and guess what it
21442s	takes this belinda three hits face to
21444s	clear the pocket train and give him the
21447s	series when even without the drake fire
21449s	amulets um
21451s	in consideration if there's something i
21453s	like it's very basic maths and i can do
21456s	that maths ten times three let's go
21461s	oh just slightly off the okani as well
21464s	which is a bit of a shame like that
21465s	could have caused massive headaches the
21467s	pocket train this turn but just not got
21470s	the manner
21472s	right could have been dealt with by
21474s	belinda of course but it is 10 less
21476s	damage to face which we all know you
21479s	hate raven
21480s	is a whole extra turn towards scabs
21482s	right that's a big deal
21489s	all right
21493s	eight eight
21496s	or twelve with taunt
21498s	yeah excellent
21501s	and the ten damage to the face from
21503s	belinda
21505s	can i interest you in 13 total
21507s	yes i was going to say if you're going
21509s	to say 14 no you cannot because i like
21512s	the minion here looks like he's going to
21513s	trade away yeah pocket train just saying
21515s	you know what as long as i protect
21516s	belinda this game's over and it's hard
21519s	to disagree with that thought pattern
21521s	right like as long as there's just as
21523s	much protection as possible this
21524s	basically just sets up lethal and i just
21527s	don't
21528s	think there's a way for you to stop this
21531s	right
21532s	there is none at all pocket train is
21535s	going to advance to the semi-finals and
21537s	raven i really don't think it's an
21539s	exaggeration to say that not many
21541s	players except except specifically
21545s	pocket train could have won the series
21546s	because of how that burpees versus road
21548s	game panned out
21550s	yeah this was so huge and even just this
21553s	setup right is just so perfect the trade
21556s	the freeze means that like even with
21558s	smite a zero mana null
21561s	to go out there for for what nine extra
21564s	damage it still doesn't deal with this
21566s	board there's still enough and there the
21568s	fist bump on the pop-off from pocket
21570s	train it's a smooth quarter past five
21574s	at least over this way and it's uh still
21576s	got the energy for the for the pop off
21578s	so a big win there and that's going to
21580s	be a pocket trainer going through to the
21583s	semi finals
21584s	absolutely huge yeah i do just want to
21587s	say though i think both players played
21589s	exceptionally well this game i think
21590s	yuying uh in the mage game specifically
21593s	just uh did some very a very different
21595s	route to the victory but a very steady
21597s	one as well looked like it was the most
21599s	consistent way to get there and their
21601s	pocket train of course with the ball
21602s	priest set up was huge the crazy play of
21605s	just throwing away the second pyro which
21608s	was is the one card i wouldn't have
21610s	picked if i was given multiple choices
21612s	like i said i would have lost that game
21614s	every single time so some great heads up
21617s	play and of course we ended on this mage
21619s	win of course you know belinda being
21621s	played helps out a ton but again just
21623s	doing everything right saving those
21625s	pings really considering when to throw
21627s	out the freezes there to get the maximum
21629s	value and there you are g there's our
21632s	top four of masters told this year
21634s	yeah that's a lot of eu raven um
21638s	isn't it always
21639s	this is my response okay it's usually
21642s	like three eu and one rest of world
21645s	maybe most likely china sometimes apac
21648s	but it's okay to say three eu and one
21651s	china or apac and definitely not
21653s	america's that's a
21655s	statement as well just to let you know
21658s	yeah it's also a lot of border priests
21659s	because i'm a complete idiot i forgot to
21661s	reboot
21662s	gaboom are playing that indeed it's
21664s	habukabu still rocking the whig priest
21667s	in there and we do have a very high
21670s	caliber of players joining us in our top
21673s	four very exciting stuff for pocket
21675s	train i'm pretty sure this is best
21677s	masters tour showing to date very happy
21680s	to see it you saw on camera how much it
21681s	meant to him as well he looked like he
21683s	could hardly believe it and he's gonna
21685s	have some time to relax first because
21688s	our first semi-final of the day is
21690s	coming up very very soon yep we've got
21693s	drovo versus habu gabu coming up next
21696s	we're gonna go to a quick break while we
21697s	set that one up so don't go anywhere and
21699s	we'll be right back
21709s	[Music]
21714s	[Applause]
21714s	[Music]
21719s	in the darkest of seasons where ruthless
21722s	eyes gawk for horrific reasons
21726s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
21730s	with such
21731s	ruthlessness
21733s	so deep and profound
21737s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
21745s	to uncover the truth
21747s	of murder most foul
21750s	the anima drifts across the floor
21753s	highlighting the creatures who walked
21756s	through my door
21758s	the motives are as black as night
21761s	avarice power revenge
21765s	and blight
21767s	we watch the hero
21770s	uncover the clues that lead to the truth
21775s	behind this dark rooms
21779s	join us here with the grimm and empires
21784s	choose your powers without heavenly bias
21788s	for at the end
21789s	they will burn in the fire
21793s	when it is known who slayed
21796s	to nathrius
21797s	the sire
21799s	[Music]
21828s	[Music]
21833s	[Music]
21841s	[Music]
21869s	me
21881s	[Music]
21896s	it's semi-finals time and i'm looking
21898s	forward to these two matches that we
21900s	have coming up we're going to have to
21903s	start with david versus habu gabu and
21906s	then we're going to get on with the
21907s	other one straight afterwards subtle who
21910s	is going to win this you haven't got a
21911s	gabby to pick here you must be in no
21914s	ruins what are you gonna do
21917s	i have to think i have to go back to
21919s	step one and two in the working out
21920s	who's gonna win things process because
21922s	you don't get the gabby by default rule
21925s	honestly can my answer just be pocket
21927s	trade i'm still reeling honestly from
21929s	that series at the end like
21931s	when that pyromancer got played once i
21934s	was able to adjust my brain to okay
21936s	pocket train's good at hearthstone and
21937s	he's just played pyromancer there so
21939s	let's make sense of why he's done that i
21941s	very quickly got to oh because it's
21943s	lethal that makes sense like i then saw
21945s	the rest of the line right how you start
21947s	that term with wild pyromancer into
21950s	akane is beyond me that's just not even
21952s	something i would have considered at
21953s	that point clean ball priest play uh the
21957s	pocket train ball priest narrative has
21959s	certainly lived up to the script even if
21961s	the mine rogue narrative has struggled a
21963s	bit so far but we are going to be able
21965s	to get take two of the mine rogue
21967s	narrative now as uh dravo is gonna have
21970s	to rock it out in this case uh dravo is
21973s	also wait it's oh no
21976s	oh
21977s	it's fanned okay fine mine rogue is
21980s	officially cursed but yeah we do at the
21982s	very least get to see some more boar
21984s	priests as that means that is not banned
21985s	out of this series uh boar priest
21988s	again as mentioned i think multiple
21990s	times not a wildly commonly brought deck
21993s	not a deck with a massive win rate
21995s	overall but three of the players in the
21999s	top four have boar priest in their
22001s	lineup which is pretty crazy when you
22004s	look at it as a what 44 win rate deck
22007s	over the whole tournament for the field
22009s	which is pretty
22010s	crazy drevo has got a very combo heavy
22013s	lineup with the mine warlock the mine
22016s	rogue the boar priest and then that uh
22018s	40 card druid thrown in there as well
22021s	of course a very strong representative
22024s	from a very strong country in france but
22026s	not one of the names i would say we're
22028s	too used to heaping praise on at this
22031s	point lorinda i've heaped praise on
22033s	drover before sotol and allow me to tell
22035s	the story for the second time in
22038s	literally everyone that doesn't count
22041s	drevo was the savior when everyone was
22043s	getting paid for paying one round of
22044s	masters tours and dropping he tweeted at
22047s	0-1 well i'm not dropping and then i
22049s	don't think he said rude words but he
22051s	just told everyone you know i'm not
22052s	dropping drop if you want went eight and
22054s	one and made the top eight and from that
22057s	point onwards he has been one of my
22059s	favorite players to cheer for
22061s	yeah and of course uh habu gabu on the
22064s	other side is the model of how if you
22066s	just drop and you can't really be
22067s	bothered to have a tournament there's no
22069s	there's no way you can be successful in
22071s	hearthstone right like that's right
22073s	we're going with yeah owens three in the
22076s	first masters tour of the year makes it
22078s	through to winter champions i don't know
22079s	how you do that by the way on just two
22081s	tournaments when the other one just an
22082s	oh and three wins it and then here he is
22085s	again just beating everybody all the
22087s	time
22087s	absolutely
22090s	i mean in the in the very short term the
22092s	best player in the world on results at
22094s	least in recent times
22095s	i'll pose you the question because i
22097s	know you do fancy yourself a little bit
22099s	of a hearthstone historian keeper of
22101s	records and all that things
22103s	um i mentioned to gia earlier that i'm
22106s	starting to come around to the opinion i
22108s	was thinking about this in bed last
22109s	night when i say last night i mean
22111s	whatever on earth hour go to sleep while
22114s	we're doing this
22115s	um that this current streak for habu
22117s	gabu might be the best streak of form in
22119s	hearthstone history top 16 top 16 summer
22122s	champion and now top four like in i'm
22125s	just saying it wasn't summer
22126s	championship
22128s	yeah like saying remember
22130s	jj
22131s	jj 19 i think it was back in the day
22134s	with like a dream hack with two big
22136s	things in between
22137s	saying went through 30
22139s	same way let's call it 31 but there's
22141s	all sorts of ways to define that number
22143s	because he lost a final
22145s	in an upper bracket thing which he then
22148s	won a tournament with so do you count
22150s	that as a match as you can that's two
22151s	matches etc but i'm not sure how many
22154s	things he actually won during that
22155s	streak he won a dream hack he won a
22157s	couple of other things so probably
22159s	saying but this is up there if habu wins
22161s	this
22162s	i know there's blize as well i mean i
22164s	know it's only two tournaments but just
22166s	back to back 400 player plus tournaments
22169s	as i hear the narrative goes
22171s	um is probably up there as well just
22173s	because of the magnitude of what those
22175s	two tournaments were but yeah
22179s	the reason i throw it in there and yeah
22181s	i think saiyan saiyan hunter ace jj
22185s	maybe zixo were the names that i had
22187s	thrown together while i was thinking
22188s	about it but for me like sam was doing
22191s	great things in tour stops right but
22193s	like tour stops weren't necessarily the
22195s	size of tournament that harbour has been
22198s	topping in over and over again and you
22200s	know specifically obviously when i pop
22202s	off about lies it's the back to back 400
22204s	player tournament thing like that's the
22206s	size of field that harbour has been
22208s	going through over and over again on
22210s	this streak and then
22211s	actually has a big trophy lofted above
22214s	his head with a summer championship
22215s	thrown into that as well so i think it's
22216s	an interesting debate
22218s	one more in there before you talk about
22220s	this actual hearthstone broken out on
22222s	our screens fury home to three top
22224s	master 16s in a row including a win and
22227s	he's still doing it again today
22230s	he's missed a couple in between
22232s	but fiori hunter might be in that
22234s	equation too depending how you want to
22235s	define things if habu wins this i will
22237s	give you he's in that top two or three
22239s	for sure
22240s	okay fine
22241s	meanwhile i think he's gonna suppose uh
22244s	we've talked about drovo's lineup
22245s	earlier today
22247s	and
22247s	when you do it on paper when you look at
22249s	the stats he shouldn't be very good
22252s	against these fairly aggressive lineups
22254s	which is what habu has but he's been
22256s	doing it over and over again over to you
22258s	so talk about some hearthstone go
22260s	yeah sure um first of all i think i will
22264s	just disagree with that a little bit um
22268s	the type of decks that harbough has i
22270s	think when you describe them as fairly
22272s	aggressive for me rogue is the only one
22274s	that really fits in there you can argue
22276s	about naga priest but to me
22279s	naga priest bs mage and shaman all kind
22283s	of fall into the same category which is
22286s	a little bit slow to start and then mid
22288s	game power spikes which for me when
22291s	you're very adept at combo decks which
22293s	i'm sure dravo is to have got to this
22295s	point with the combo lineup that he has
22297s	that's the kind of deck that you can
22298s	exploit because you use that slow start
22300s	to set up and by the time they've got to
22302s	their mid-game power spikes
22303s	boom you're sort of a thousand true
22305s	thing or you're doing a million damage
22306s	with your mind or whatever so i think
22308s	that is kind of the route that these
22309s	players exploit and we saw that a little
22311s	bit from pocket train in the previous
22312s	series as well
22314s	um so yeah i'm looking very eager to see
22316s	how this one panned out for example this
22318s	game that we have largely glossed over
22320s	up until this point i think you saw
22322s	harbour's reaction there as he drew the
22324s	wild port off the top because without
22326s	that wild pour i think he was going to
22328s	be a little bit light on consistent
22330s	pressure for the next turn or two and
22333s	probably would allow drevo significant
22335s	time especially with a rod still
22338s	equipped to just run away with this game
22339s	so that extra stack coming out every
22341s	turn here i think could make the world
22343s	of difference between how much pressure
22344s	he's able to pile up yeah especially
22346s	given the nature of the warlock removal
22348s	right the stag sort of staggers around
22350s	that removals as it were
22352s	producing one per turn of just
22354s	irritating size
22356s	uh whereas the warlock likes to just
22358s	remove a lot of stuff in one go and then
22360s	one for one on the smaller stuff if
22362s	there's anything hanging around
22364s	um but the relentless somehow it's just
22365s	irritating
22367s	you know it's just the name of the card
22369s	right stag guards like they've already
22370s	made the joke for you you have to force
22373s	that pun to happen okay
22375s	i like explaining jokes
22377s	okay good
22379s	i think it's funny because it's not
22381s	funny
22383s	yeah because of course when you explain
22384s	a joke you can somehow force people to
22387s	really dig past the lack of comedy to
22389s	then find the comedy in the lab
22392s	right it's why explaining how comedy
22394s	works is obviously very beneficial in a
22395s	lot of situations that's the joke
22398s	yep
22400s	thanks for explaining
22403s	yeah we're not entirely sure how many
22405s	levels deep we are at this point but
22406s	it's in there somewhere you couldn't do
22408s	exceptions this out of sight for sure
22413s	obviously draevo holding back minions
22415s	now in case the mine gets eaten we
22417s	should slow him down somewhat
22420s	he's already played one he's he's got
22422s	okay mine already banked yeah in the
22424s	early game might have been talking about
22425s	win streaks and things
22427s	yeah
22428s	with my marginally younger brain i was
22431s	able to multitask and keep track of
22433s	multiple things it was a good job that
22435s	one of us was we have established that
22437s	we are the same age from this point on
22440s	yeah otherwise otherwise you have to
22441s	keep counting
22443s	yeah yeah famously of course i am now 40
22446s	as we all know that was raven's fault by
22448s	the way
22449s	i can now establish that as canon if you
22451s	like
22452s	yeah there's a very long story which you
22454s	probably won't go into on this stream
22455s	but subtle is now officially 40 years
22457s	old in all circles where he hangs out
22460s	yeah
22464s	and it is definitely a circle
22467s	right
22468s	davo
22470s	operating with very low health total
22471s	which is sort of stifling his card draw
22473s	to some degree here
22476s	hey and that'll do it
22479s	yeah our fish colossal pressure from
22481s	these staggards
22484s	and the starfish is going to be able to
22485s	push through just that final okani
22488s	willing to do enough even with the rods
22490s	just not quite enough of that smooth
22494s	healing that you need to find in the
22495s	early game uh no big removal options as
22498s	well i think was the big one there no
22500s	entitled customer being found hellfire
22503s	just being ineffective because of the
22505s	size of the three fours on the other
22506s	side um but honestly dravo i think would
22509s	have been one entitled customer away
22511s	from a good time in that one if he'd
22512s	been able to pick it up get it
22513s	discounted blow up this entire board and
22516s	then from that point that reset that one
22519s	big board reset probably would have just
22521s	allowed him to run away with that like
22522s	the discounted hand there with the
22524s	tamzin and everything else all it takes
22526s	is one drain sole one touch of the
22529s	nathrezem off the top right and suddenly
22530s	you're away to the races so an
22532s	unfortunate draw uh overall from dravo
22536s	but honestly it does seem
22539s	like these combo decks are a little bit
22541s	camera shy at the moment right like
22543s	they're obviously stomping for both of
22545s	these players gaboom and dravu when
22547s	they're playing off stream yeah but as
22549s	soon as we shine the bright lights on
22551s	them it does seem like they're wilting
22552s	under the pressure a little bit and by
22553s	that i do mean the decks and not the
22555s	players it just seems like the decks are
22557s	putting themselves in the wrong order
22558s	and making the players lives massively
22560s	difficult i haven't spotted really
22562s	anything from either of the two players
22564s	that would um
22565s	suggest that they're nervous or choking
22567s	from playing on stream it just seems to
22569s	be they're hitting the unfortunate draws
22571s	for the decks at the most unfortunate
22573s	time in the highest pressure situations
22576s	or is that a function of playing against
22578s	these players who are eking every last
22580s	bit of damage against them out is that a
22582s	function that you know in a 320 player
22585s	tournament but now you're up against the
22586s	best eight in theory let's say some of
22588s	the best eight if you want to be you
22589s	know
22590s	sensible about things maybe these
22592s	players are just getting that extra
22593s	couple of points taking a turn away from
22595s	them
22601s	certainly a valid angle as well we will
22604s	now move on
22606s	we have some bs mage going up against
22608s	the warlock on the other side tap on two
22611s	over playing the naval mine is fairly
22613s	standard here i think the key point here
22615s	is that barbara in hand for habu gabi
22617s	because this is one of the match-ups
22618s	where um i know you've been sort of
22621s	having this this discussion this
22622s	argument on multiple occasions
22624s	is the ability for various decks to be
22627s	able to play around the barbara on six
22629s	or on five or on four depending on how
22631s	many coins you have warlock
22634s	there is no way you are managing to keep
22636s	a fully empty hand of spells with any
22639s	reliability there might be
22641s	specific situations where you can find a
22643s	moment to get all the spells out of your
22645s	hand which i think is something dravo
22647s	might just be leaning towards here able
22649s	to dump the four on four and now just
22650s	has the three ones in hand but it's
22652s	certainly not something that you can do
22654s	reliably so that barbara could be about
22657s	to wreak some real havoc yeah and the
22659s	question also becomes at what cost if
22661s	you dump all your removal this mage does
22663s	have some sort of mid-rangey just stuff
22665s	going on if you dump too much as well
22670s	it's doable
22673s	yeah just gonna go with the mine instead
22675s	yep tempo out to take it from this
22677s	position
22678s	i like it respect it get on with your
22679s	own game plan don't panic about it too
22681s	much
22683s	breakneck speed coming from these
22685s	players harbour with the massive fist
22687s	bump drake fire amulet four
22690s	one i think is the dream outcome for
22692s	harbour site unseen in that position
22696s	you know what the dream outcome is now
22697s	is some sheep
22700s	mine is just sitting there remember
22703s	from a drake fire amulet oh he's got the
22704s	drake fire sorry i thought it's the moon
22706s	there you go
22713s	i know gia referenced dolly the sheep
22714s	earlier but i'm pretty sure we never got
22716s	as far as cloning sheep dna into dragons
22719s	i'm relative even in our incredibly
22721s	advanced 90s animal biology laboratories
22724s	i'm pretty sure we never got that how
22725s	would that even work
22729s	[Laughter]
22732s	oh no that's a good point i played this
22734s	game for many years subtle
22736s	dragons are becoming real and realer
22738s	yeah
22740s	okay so this is
22742s	a heck of a clock now it's going to keep
22744s	on coming on with a dawn glass next turn
22747s	even if this is cleared up just
22749s	repeated large dragons uh
22753s	i know that a lot of people just talk
22754s	about the box in this deck but honestly
22757s	in these sort of matchups just getting
22759s	repeated eight eights and four twelves
22761s	it's just so much work to deal with
22764s	yeah
22764s	yeah i mean it's a very surface level
22766s	take but as a very general rule of the
22769s	big spells
22770s	roon is your anti-aggro card drake fire
22772s	amulet is your anti-control card right
22774s	like that's that's generally the way it
22776s	works out
22785s	doing it relatively well so far having
22787s	the initial test and then going with the
22789s	hero card tanzan which is of course
22790s	unaffected by either
22793s	very nice discounts
22795s	can clean up most of this certainly not
22797s	under any immediate threat of death
22799s	right now
22801s	yeah that is one of the downsides of the
22802s	mage deck i think i've harped on about
22804s	how good i think it is but the actual
22806s	finishing blow
22808s	is sometimes oddly hard to find okay
22810s	yeah you can pipe a blast in the face i
22812s	get it but a lot of the time the roon
22813s	just casts a whole bunch of nothing you
22815s	don't really want to play it when you've
22817s	got the board anyway
22818s	and actually closing out the last 6 ten
22821s	damage can just be a bit awkward
22823s	sometimes
22824s	actually they've got little bits of hair
22825s	like annoying heel
22828s	i do like this decision from habukapu if
22830s	you can get some face damage some card
22832s	draw some value
22833s	he'll take it i don't think you really
22836s	want to over develop here uh with the
22838s	other drake fire amulet because if you
22840s	go like drake fire amulet for zero and
22843s	then dawn grasp casting another drake
22845s	fire amulet there's a pretty good chance
22847s	that you don't get dragons higher than
22850s	eight health
22852s	as as is the case here and then your
22854s	entire board is just getting deleted by
22856s	entitled customer on the following turn
22858s	so habu using the free spell on the rune
22860s	of the arc mage i think was very very
22862s	wise there because
22863s	this board is going to go by by pretty
22865s	much no matter what he did is it going
22867s	to happen is more dresh actually going
22869s	to finish again is it going to prove its
22872s	worth
22874s	this card's fine like again i i i don't
22877s	think it's good i think it's optimal i
22878s	don't play in my version of the deck but
22881s	i don't understand really the back like
22883s	i think we saw in in yu ying series even
22886s	like how quickly you can get there
22888s	without wildfire just by playing dawn
22890s	grasp and just running a few pings out
22892s	it's a it's a very effective card that
22895s	particularly i think with the amount of
22897s	other mages that are in the tournament i
22899s	think having more dress in your deck is
22900s	probably pretty freaking good in the
22902s	mirror especially as evidenced uh by
22904s	what we saw in that yu ying
22908s	he's going to be online on turn nine
22910s	most likely depending if drover decides
22912s	to leave this customer up
22925s	oh
22926s	fel rifts are very nice here i think for
22929s	harbour
22933s	because of that reckless apprentice that
22934s	is just extra juice potentially getting
22936s	in that hero power
22940s	and now it's decision time
22946s	i mean there's
22947s	too much garbage hanging around in the
22948s	hand right so do you play sensibly or do
22951s	you dump the garbage and then do it next
22953s	turn
22955s	it's going to get you attention quicker
22960s	i think the dragons are too late now
22961s	we're just going to the face for damage
22963s	we're going to pump up our hero power
22965s	and then play the apprentice and then
22967s	more direction next turn is that the
22968s	plan
22970s	i think so isn't it that's what i'm
22972s	looking at is just hero power damage
22973s	into guitar solo like i'm i i feel like
22976s	the dragons might just end up being too
22978s	slow
22978s	two dragons individually here against a
22980s	double discounted hand from the opponent
22982s	you've been only one null one customer
22985s	and really not that much other removal i
22988s	think even if you get to 12 health
22990s	dragons they can probably just get
22992s	picked apart by the opponent's hand at
22994s	that point
22996s	i think it has to be a damage plan
23001s	not um
23003s	the most fun damage plan ever in some
23005s	ways here it's not quite lethal yeah he
23007s	needs this three i think
23010s	is the setup here
23015s	that's the way the mana works out next
23016s	turn oh that's fine he gets the ping in
23017s	this turn so that's fine he's good
23020s	he's good
23021s	i'm always the one
23024s	however double bread baker might have
23026s	something to say about this touch of the
23028s	navrazem comes down and i suppose you
23030s	know if you want to remove like
23032s	confirmation bias or just biases in
23034s	general from what i said on the previous
23036s	turn
23037s	i just kind of wanted to go with the
23038s	damage plan and then formed an argument
23040s	around that basically everything i said
23042s	about well if you go for the board think
23043s	about all the removal they still have
23045s	left that punishes you well if you go
23046s	for a damage plan think about all the
23048s	bread bakers and touch of the netherism
23049s	and tamzin and drain soul that they
23051s	still have available that punishes you i
23053s	think
23053s	the the real takeaway here is
23056s	you're kind of on the back foot
23057s	regardless of what you do i think your
23059s	wing condition here as habu gabu is less
23062s	about what you're doing and more about
23064s	the position of the phylactery in
23066s	draefo's deck at this point
23069s	but i have a long thing about this
23070s	palette right he can get the um
23072s	the trigger again for another five which
23074s	would be ten to face into more dress
23076s	ping next turn depending how much um
23078s	healing he thinks is left
23083s	yeah i learned how this card worked in
23084s	the previous series i genuinely while
23087s	playing this deck read the card and was
23089s	like oh okay well if i cast rune of the
23091s	art mage for one it's not going to
23092s	change like i've played every game based
23094s	on that interaction but never actually
23096s	tested it and then i saw it in the other
23097s	series oh it does still reset
23099s	interesting
23103s	no
23104s	not happening
23107s	uh
23108s	oh okay that's enemy only and that ends
23110s	up doing nothing so just gonna take the
23111s	five damage and move on
23113s	or one on board still dravo just hunting
23117s	for the phylactery here
23123s	kicking away that rod
23129s	now this i will give you is what are the
23131s	instances of these decks not behaving on
23133s	stream we have seen several of these
23135s	games where it should be kind of over
23137s	but 12 cards left just not hitting
23140s	i've heard of it
23142s	still plenty of time though and a lot of
23144s	these cards are riffs so it will dig
23147s	through itself fairly quickly especially
23149s	with the benefit of the life tap yep
23150s	there you go
23152s	deck thing thing itself out quite nicely
23154s	now there is the tams in just in case
23156s	you would need it
23158s	uh but the mines just do so much
23160s	freaking damage yep
23165s	bomb seven
23167s	my no discounts available now all four
23170s	charges of the rod stewart's are now
23173s	used up
23174s	i'm not gonna let you have that one i
23175s	heard you say it earlier i'm gonna just
23177s	blank it
23180s	it was reason i thought it was quite
23181s	good it wasn't
23185s	bad refuse to acknowledge it more than
23187s	this one time
23190s	oh
23198s	is there anything better than
23200s	last face and clear that's kind of all
23203s	i'm seeing
23204s	paris and hope if you think this is your
23205s	last term my calculations are correct
23209s	true
23210s	yeah
23216s	uh he decides he doesn't think it's his
23218s	last turn or he just doesn't get i mean
23219s	he doesn't get that way off there's very
23221s	little face damage actually happens
23223s	actually
23224s	no no this is just a better out right if
23226s	you're panicking that you feel like
23227s	you're going to lose the game this turn
23229s	your best out is to try and hit the
23231s	phylactery and give them a 10 mana
23233s	phylactery right and swap because if
23235s	you're saying it's my last turn that
23236s	means they have phylactery in hand so
23238s	what you're trying to do there is make
23239s	the phylactery cost 10 so the combo
23241s	doesn't actually work in a single turn
23243s	at that point yep i'm buying that one
23246s	gold
23248s	hey
23252s	and it's gone
23254s	and it's gone i love how the bombs go
23257s	off like from the appropriate positions
23259s	now so you can actually see how many
23260s	more times you're going to get hit in
23262s	the face quite amuses me you mean
23264s	visually like moves across the screen
23266s	from left to right yeah yeah i do like
23267s	that too
23270s	is it nearly over yet raise one death
23272s	rattle information and yet as we give
23274s	with one hand we will take away with the
23275s	other please the sword of a sound
23277s	thousand truths
23279s	please please change it
23282s	it's so bad ryan thor just has to turn
23286s	off every time he sees it
23288s	yeah
23290s	there we go
23295s	minus twins
23297s	that will indeed do it yeah one a piece
23300s	and the warlock is out of here
23302s	and now actually what i i think might be
23304s	slightly uncharted territory if you look
23306s	at the stats drover hasn't got a chance
23308s	on this point on but that's because
23310s	there's only about 12 people in the
23311s	world can actually play ball priest even
23313s	though hundreds attempt it
23317s	yeah it's not far off the truth um in
23320s	terms of what tournament stats as a
23324s	whole
23325s	boar priest against shaman is not doing
23329s	great it's uh what 48 win rate overall
23332s	uh you would suggest then that the uh
23335s	the pocket train stats make that 53 54
23339s	in favor of the ball priest based on uh
23341s	jia's hypothesized five percent buff but
23343s	yeah it's a pretty similar story
23346s	uh across the board with many of the
23348s	other decks that are available as well
23351s	and dravo it looks like is going to be
23353s	skipping all of that nonsense for now
23355s	and going on with the alignment druid
23358s	which i think i will pass over to you
23360s	lorinda because i think it'll be
23361s	interesting uh i am done after this
23363s	series so final word on the subject
23365s	obviously we've had the debate both on
23368s	and off
23369s	character yeah i mean fair enough both
23371s	in and out of character um about whether
23374s	or not presto or a lineman druid 30
23377s	cards 40 cards etcetera what's the way
23379s	to go what's your final take away now
23380s	we've reached the semi-final stage of
23382s	the tournament um well i was right all
23383s	along
23385s	um
23387s	the stats wiki good sort of sorted out
23389s	all the stats for us and it was
23390s	significantly better on the 40 cards so
23394s	i'm not going to argue with statstottle
23395s	if i can't produce my own stats to prove
23397s	that i'm right i'm going to use somebody
23398s	else's and that's where i'm at with
23399s	wicked good stats thank you so much as
23401s	always for producing those on twitter
23403s	um it was significantly better with the
23406s	40 cards
23407s	and again i
23409s	we know why this might be but it's gonna
23412s	take a long time before any of us has a
23413s	real feel for it is the true answer
23415s	right because we know this equation now
23418s	does the ten health buy you enough extra
23420s	time compared to the inconsistency of
23422s	the deck we're gonna have to play things
23423s	millions of times as a community before
23425s	we actually really know i'll be honest
23428s	the one that really shook me to my very
23431s	core when i read that same thread that
23433s	you are referring to
23434s	was the burn shaman improved
23437s	dramatically by turning into a 40 card
23439s	deck and like not that car if that's
23442s	true
23443s	i quit
23444s	get that sure yeah i can't even i can't
23446s	process that one
23448s	if that's true we're changing renathol
23451s	okay like no i'm not ready to cope with
23452s	the fact that everyone's just gonna play
23454s	40 cards in their deck i'll even go as
23456s	deep as beast hunter maybe right like
23459s	it's it's well-tuned deck but 10x of
23461s	hell just buys that extra time to get
23462s	your big stuff rolling i'll even go that
23465s	far but even i yeah burn sherman how
23467s	could how can that be you're looking for
23469s	two specific cards
23471s	with some puns shaman that goes with the
23473s	beast hunters we put the beasts in your
23475s	shaman friend's house
23477s	it's full of dolly the sheep being
23479s	cloned by big spell mage i hate the way
23481s	you think the same way as me but you get
23482s	priority to speak really annoys me
23484s	[Laughter]
23489s	no it's just my you know decade plus
23491s	younger brave sure a little bit quicker
23494s	yeah yeah that's we'll go with that
23495s	rather than just being the rules around
23497s	here yes which is my defense in this
23500s	situation of course because i've never
23502s	spoken over my my analyst ever in my
23504s	life
23507s	i'll be with his hands up seeing the
23509s	growth come out from the opponent and he
23511s	knows it's about to get worse as well
23513s	because he's already seen jerry on two
23516s	and jerry on two into growth on three
23519s	usually spells disaster for you at
23521s	sacrifice that's the second time i've
23523s	made that reference
23525s	what to do i did watch the promo quite
23527s	recently it is stuck in my head
23530s	i'm so lost right now i don't know why
23532s	i'm lost
23534s	oh wait it's a million a.m
23536s	you've actually watched more tna than i
23539s	have it's the steiner maths promo surely
23541s	oh sure kind of maths promo yeah yeah
23542s	yeah okay sure i'm with you now
23545s	i have actually watched significantly
23547s	more tna than you which is weird because
23548s	i haven't watched more of anything than
23550s	you
23551s	no no that is also true apart from maybe
23554s	hearts uh well
23556s	how about we divert
23558s	from the uh
23562s	i i think it's a good plan good best
23564s	card in hearthstone in your hand let's
23566s	play it like this
23570s	obvious reaction
23572s	oh the anaconda as well okay oh
23576s	oh yeah i mean imagine questioning this
23578s	deck it's clearly the nuts
23580s	why why would you play 30 cards when you
23582s	can do the same thing with 4 10 more
23584s	health there's 40 there's 40 cards in
23587s	his deck and he's drawing like this get
23589s	in the fin oh why is this entire
23592s	expansion designed to tilt specifically
23595s	me
23596s	i mean when we had you referencing
23598s	losses you had in 2015 the other day
23600s	just because of the way the expansion's
23602s	panning out we know we've got you you're
23604s	on the vote you're done
23607s	absolutely all over
23609s	ah
23610s	jerry on two growth on three
23613s	uh guff on four scale on five alignment
23617s	on six anacondra game over on seven
23621s	yeah forget about the other 34 cards in
23623s	your deck i suppose who needs them
23625s	who's got a boxing coming though if he
23628s	wants it
23629s	what to do
23630s	what to do that's how it's gonna save
23633s	him but it's a box
23636s	do it
23639s	you know it's gonna cost five
23641s	unless you hit the alignment which is
23642s	you've lost anyway
23649s	what to do what else can he do
23658s	can my opponent really have everything
23666s	if finley's he can't find anything
23668s	useful right
23671s	yeah i mean the finley it's just again
23673s	it's one of those weird situations at
23675s	the deck like the finley certainly does
23676s	not seem to be doing much right now
23679s	you have to make a play with this hand
23681s	that you have i think
23683s	all right he's just going to be reckless
23684s	apprentice for now
23691s	so now
23693s	you're joking aside of how good this
23694s	draw is dravo does actually have
23696s	decisions to make here because in this
23697s	match-up you don't necessarily auto
23700s	alignment as soon as you have eight mana
23703s	there is a line where you just kind of
23704s	hold on you play normally you just kind
23706s	of um allow the mage to trickle along
23709s	slowly
23710s	uh and then you can get to the point
23712s	where you can actually just anacondra
23713s	alignment all in the same term when
23715s	you've already played guff right as soon
23716s	as you have the ability to get 10 mana
23718s	that becomes possible and then you can
23720s	just pop off from there in a single turn
23722s	and what that does is it does not allow
23723s	your opponent to respond with one mana
23726s	drake fire amulet one mana rune or
23728s	whatever
23728s	um
23729s	by you just playing alignment and
23731s	passing and then that way you get put
23732s	under a good amount of pressure you just
23734s	do so much in a single turn by going
23736s	alignment straight away with the
23738s	anacondra but they're going to be
23739s	resistant to it but dravo i think you
23741s	know the pause the hesitation that term
23743s	was thinking about exactly what i was
23745s	just describing but in the end decides
23746s	to go with it anyway i think when you
23748s	start mapping it out the time is going
23749s	to take him to get to 12 13 mana
23752s	required to have a go at that
23754s	then habu is going to already be
23755s	starting to play boxes and belinda's and
23757s	stuff anyway so
23759s	you might as well just go for it now i
23761s	do believe that's exactly what he was
23762s	thinking about when you actually start
23764s	planning how long will this take me
23766s	you're facing this lot anyway you might
23767s	as well get on with it with your
23768s	advantage
23772s	sometimes when players get all my
23774s	opponents playing cards salty on camera
23776s	i'm the first to jump on their back
23779s	in this situation
23780s	i 100 stand with you this is some
23783s	nonsense this is not okay the draw that
23786s	you have been up against this game
23787s	against the 40-card deck is not okay and
23791s	the authorities will be informed and
23793s	dravo will be arrested immediately i
23795s	think one thing that habu does have when
23797s	he does this though he snaps out of it
23799s	in a second he doesn't actually care
23801s	yeah yeah
23802s	he's like oh my goodness why now okay
23804s	well next case then let's go
23807s	like he's already back to reality and
23809s	thinking about game number four here
23813s	speaking of getting back to reality
23814s	driver needs to get back to the reality
23816s	of this board today very quickly because
23818s	there is a lot of lollygagging going on
23820s	right now and there's a lot of possible
23822s	actions still to come particularly with
23825s	the malagas still to play yeah and i
23827s	think we have now officially reached the
23829s	point of do something good enough that
23831s	kills some things on board as opposed to
23833s	doing what was optimal dravo i think
23835s	just a little bit messy towards the end
23838s	of that turn
23839s	yeah
23841s	of course he does play some
23843s	battlegrounds i believe as well so he'll
23844s	be used to that exact situation when he
23847s	gets there it's like okay just do some
23848s	stuff make it work
23851s	my hand is too full
23855s	blizzard
23857s	nope less of that
23859s	okay
23861s	is that it that's it
23867s	right now we're in the very sad position
23869s	of having to trade one of these minions
23871s	into the anacondra
23873s	yes indeed name ain't no one about that
23877s	life
23878s	rush
23879s	no rush
23882s	this is horrific yeah
23885s	no i'm not worried just
23887s	rope again see what happens
23891s	dare you
23892s	just morally objected to the idea of
23895s	trading into that anacondra
23902s	maybe he didn't vote maybe he just ran
23904s	out of things to do last turn huh with
23906s	his seven mana and his ten cards and
23907s	they will cost one
23909s	i mean it is a fair assessment the deck
23911s	doesn't have like the infinite nature
23914s	spells over and over again the build of
23916s	the deck is very different from what
23918s	like original alignment druid was um so
23921s	harbour might genuinely just be thinking
23923s	well you know what a lot of them were
23924s	dumped already on the early turns
23927s	and to be fair he's not far off with
23929s	that assessment looking at um drivers
23932s	his awkwardness here of what's going on
23952s	going to do some nasty stuff here
23956s	another mallee okay fine
23968s	how we might be able to deal with this
23969s	right next turn you know
23972s	it's not looking far off yeah
23976s	i think minions are getting cleared up
23977s	though but i spy
23979s	one two three at the very least he's got
23982s	a bunch of one ones he can do what he
23983s	likes
23984s	that is also true yeah i'm not gonna
23987s	work it out but you can definitely do
23988s	what you like when you've got that many
23989s	one ones lying around
23991s	yeah that is very fair
23994s	in which case you want to make the trade
23997s	so the chain stops before seven because
24000s	that way you get to keep your own onyxia
24002s	at the end of the turn
24006s	yeah
24008s	you also much rather be doing this with
24010s	reckless apprentice as well now that you
24012s	look at it right with the hero power
24013s	already juiced up because same deal
24015s	could cry you could cut you could create
24017s	like a perfect 2 3 4 across the board
24020s	right so the hero power just juiced over
24022s	and over again off a reckless apprentice
24037s	yeah it would have been
24039s	right the reckless could have been
24041s	picked up would have been absolutely
24043s	crazy
24047s	maybe nick's turn
24049s	the one ones are back
24053s	yeah there's such good spammy food right
24055s	for both players
24056s	yep
24070s	my poor little brain started i can't get
24072s	him out of cards here forgetting that
24074s	kazakhstan is still a thing that exists
24075s	in hearthstone
24077s	yeah kazakhstan is very much a thing
24079s	that still exists and i think is the
24081s	biggest problem that harbour really has
24083s	to deal with this game
24085s	uh these knolls though have been a big
24087s	problem for drover a big reason i think
24088s	why he hasn't been able to clear
24090s	effectively is that he hasn't had these
24091s	zero mana knolls available
24093s	are so strong when you get into this
24095s	position yeah imagine this at any point
24096s	right like a board gets presented from
24098s	habugabu moonlit guidance into knoll or
24101s	there's zero mana 10 power in terms of
24104s	removal that you just throw straight
24105s	back at you compromise
24110s	capture culture's mine huh
24113s	yeah you take cold tooth mine for betty
24116s	kazakhstan i would imagine yeah i agree
24119s	they just find the one card you need to
24120s	win the game are you in the game with it
24123s	yeah the interaction's just so strong
24125s	because of the way that uh book of the
24127s	dead works with draw high it just sits
24128s	in your deck as a 14 cost card the
24130s	entire time that you can always hit with
24132s	draw high which is pretty insane
24134s	why did i ooh there yes great five mana
24136s	skills yeah i'll play a player one man
24139s	or one one nice
24141s	just can't wait
24144s	uh
24146s	i mean one man or one one draw two cards
24149s	all right
24151s	they're two good cards
24158s	are they actually is it still remaining
24160s	at this point actually
24161s	uh drake fire's been played and arun has
24163s	been played i think so i'm not sure
24165s	what's still left remaining in the deck
24169s	the more dress is juiced though now
24172s	nicely
24176s	you're putting this pressure on
24178s	yep for sure moon in hand as well
24184s	so now we're into
24185s	might get lucky territory on top of big
24188s	board and opponent on 18 territory it's
24190s	a long long way to get out of this of
24193s	course but hey i'm an optimist right i'm
24195s	known for it
24199s	the leader nyx here trade off the whelps
24202s	first
24206s	initial instinct from dravo was to go
24209s	with the alex straza first and foremost
24211s	but i think he's now going to pivot and
24212s	use that as healing instead since he has
24213s	the immuno nyxia that you can trade with
24215s	anyway
24217s	oh really
24220s	wow must be actually
24222s	remaining from the deck
24224s	okay want to go a line does he just want
24227s	to end on alignment okani from here is
24228s	that the plan
24230s	looks lucky doesn't it
24233s	shut your opponent down
24235s	and by another turn
24239s	okay yeah seems fine
24241s	go with kazakhstan now just make sure
24242s	you make these picks fairly rapidly
24246s	uh it would help if you don't get
24247s	offered complete garbage that would make
24248s	your choices a lot easier what is going
24250s	on what is this cards please okay oh
24252s	there's a good card not there in the end
24255s	two good cards and eight piles of
24256s	garbage like honestly if you draw a book
24258s	off the top next turn you might just
24260s	kazakusan again immediately just to get
24263s	rid of all the other garbage i mean of
24264s	course he's going to draw the book he's
24265s	making a 40 card deck and do everything
24267s	else why wouldn't he draw the book next
24269s	time we are all yup and then a carny
24272s	alignment to end all right yeah i love
24273s	it
24274s	uh initial instinct was to hold on to
24276s	the miners we were talking about for
24278s	post kazakhstan but i was completely
24280s	forgetting that the akani was still
24281s	hanging around in the deck so
24283s	guaranteeing that you draw that and then
24284s	having this uh this power play turned to
24286s	be able to shut everything down
24288s	now this needs to be a box subtle
24291s	epic proportions
24294s	great start
24298s	much worse
24300s	going downhill oh oh where's it going
24303s	okay if that if that went to the ocarina
24305s	and actually froze both of the a8s that
24307s	would have been absolutely absurd it was
24309s	still
24310s	as it stands considering 10 mana got
24312s	wasted on the ice blood tower that was
24314s	actually a pretty sick box
24318s	but it needed to be beyond even that it
24320s	was good it did i disagree with you but
24323s	it needed to be
24325s	even crazier
24329s	and now it begins
24330s	he's finally starting to take damage
24332s	he's gone 45 what's happening in
24334s	hearthstone
24337s	how did mage have 53 health going on
24341s	i mean i know why it's a revoker yeah
24343s	it's like another drug i know why i know
24346s	how i just don't know why
24349s	or how
24351s	oh how
24354s	ah
24357s	belinda
24360s	i'm just going to see the belief
24370s	now he's starting to feel it
24375s	uh-huh don't need a translator for that
24378s	one
24379s	no
24380s	his english is very good
24384s	i'm not even
24386s	that's right
24388s	this is the moment to tilt i think this
24390s	game was kind of out of reach did i miss
24391s	a potential oh i don't think it was
24395s	i don't think this game was over by any
24397s	means like just look at this yeah like
24400s	imagine imagine there was not an eight
24402s	eight and a 12 12 added to this this
24404s	turn comes out from abu dhabi
24409s	kind of insane
24412s	yep
24419s	yeah i may have misassessed this
24422s	is he deciding whether to play another
24424s	kazakhstan before the malagas here
24429s	uh you're never going to play you don't
24431s	have enough mana right to play another
24433s	kazakhstan at this point just be filling
24434s	your whole deck with unplayable cards
24437s	that you'd be able to deal with
24440s	because the the second alignment was
24442s	played on this existing kazakhstan
24446s	i think you need to be uh ramping up a
24448s	little bit of mana before you get to any
24450s	of this
24451s	he's back to 40.
24454s	[Laughter]
24466s	do that thing shall we say
24468s	displease the way this game has gone
24472s	yeah i'm not surprised but also drove
24474s	has played it very solidly all the way
24476s	through from your descriptions
24479s	yeah i absolutely think so this is
24482s	always total desperation in this
24483s	situation in this matchup by the way
24485s	because
24486s	taking cards from hand to deck removes
24488s	enchantments so all of those cards have
24490s	now gone back into the deck at full cost
24492s	yeah yeah obviously a long-term disaster
24496s	but at least for the short term
24498s	is something that might be able to keep
24500s	him alive for one more time
24502s	oh
24503s	and has
24505s	stay where you are at number two to come
24508s	out stay where you are
24512s	that's really frozen
24520s	need to kill it here yeah you need to do
24523s	something at the very least hero power
24525s	takes out yeah this is really good very
24526s	smart from harbours he's playing around
24528s	starfish here right you don't want to
24529s	just leave the board
24531s	and being frozen in that position
24532s	because it's just so much power that uh
24535s	you would end up getting punished by
24537s	starfish really really strong turn in
24539s	response from harbour like i said long
24541s	term wildly detrimental to his overall
24544s	game plans he now has a bunch of full
24545s	cost cards in his deck that he can't
24547s	play as he draws them off the top but in
24549s	terms of a short turn gambit
24551s	back in the game
24552s	also shows how you you know how right
24554s	you were with it not being over like
24558s	look at the board he's making it okay
24559s	that 40 health is yeah absolute disaster
24562s	but
24564s	let's have a 20.
24566s	but honestly there's only three cards
24568s	left right for habu to get through
24570s	then drover would be forced to be
24572s	playing a kazakhstan
24574s	when he'd have what six mana naturally
24578s	if he wasn't ramping but i think at this
24580s	point he will start ramping with the
24581s	hero power if it's an option that
24583s	becomes available to him so that he can
24585s	set up for the long game with that
24586s	second kazakhstan if needs be
24588s	and haber's basically out of stuff after
24590s	this poet as well not quite his hero
24592s	power is pretty good but yeah
24595s	although i haven't actually sanity check
24596s	yes okay it was i realized i hadn't like
24598s	failed safe checked whether the second
24600s	kazakhstan was actually activated like
24602s	at what point it got discovered whether
24604s	enough dragons were played so on and so
24605s	forth you can see the yellow border
24610s	yes to see the yellow border i don't
24611s	know how i didn't see it for so long
24614s	okay
24617s	that
24618s	actually now draws a ten mana spell or
24621s	not
24624s	both helpful and unhelpful
24629s	true actually
24632s	yeah lines are being seen
24641s	so what is this um
24643s	parrot for a box into
24647s	oh you can only do four things you want
24649s	to do five things
24654s	pinging this yep
24657s	eight damage straight up
24662s	what if your hero power just gets there
24664s	this game have we considered that
24666s	i mean i thought it might earlier but
24669s	since the kazakhstan was played i kind
24671s	of gave up on it but
24673s	maybe it's in play
24677s	all right there's book number one
24681s	that is not book number two
24685s	our boo is alive it just plays stuff
24688s	when she gets each other
24690s	on turn eight million
24694s	is alive but how is he going to do
24698s	30 damage with his hand
24701s	i don't know okay stop asking difficult
24704s	questions i'm working my job is to ask
24706s	difficult questions yours is to answer
24708s	them all right
24710s	yeah that's how this works yeah that's
24712s	the bad news that is the bad news from
24715s	harvoo now that he gets the news of the
24716s	last card is book he knows exactly that
24719s	that last card is book because anything
24721s	else would mean that he was dead in this
24722s	situation yeah
24724s	let me remind you who you're dealing
24727s	with an idea
24730s	wait spring water no
24733s	not enough
24736s	i'm presuming based on this as well that
24737s	the last of the expensive spells have
24740s	been consumed by the tower that was cast
24742s	from the previous rune of the arc mage
24744s	and that's why the deep water revoker is
24745s	not currently hitting anything this
24747s	makes sense yeah
24749s	otherwise this would not be the line
24751s	from harbough hasn't hit a single ignite
24754s	in like 700 boxes
24762s	of some sort
24764s	i mean that's going to take an
24766s	incredibly long time against
24773s	remaining two cards now are snow flurry
24776s	and ram commander so yeah the the whole
24777s	thing with the evoker drawing an actual
24780s	expensive spell and then to them
24781s	flipping it yeah that was never a real
24783s	thing it was just never available really
24785s	really good game though i would say from
24787s	harbough side like even in defeat
24789s	sometimes it's nice to highlight that
24791s	like i think you set it up really nicely
24794s	it was like clearly
24795s	very openly and visibly frustrated with
24798s	the way that game was going and again
24800s	rightly so 40 card deck jerry on two
24803s	growth on three guff on four blah blah
24805s	blah blah you've heard it all already
24806s	but stayed focused kept playing for the
24809s	outs knew that he had to wait as long as
24811s	possible not to panic he knew when to
24813s	pull the panic switch with the finley to
24815s	try and set himself up something but as
24817s	soon as that finley was played that was
24819s	kind of last chance saloon right you
24820s	needed to make something happen
24822s	extremely quickly from that point and i
24824s	think with the tower consuming the
24827s	remainder of the expensive spells from
24829s	the deck at that point that was the last
24831s	push that had to win the game from that
24833s	point and you can yeah start to see some
24835s	of the visible frustration coming out
24837s	from habugabu in this one
24839s	still one more to go though and it is
24841s	against the poor priest uh driver though
24843s	has been very clean from what we've seen
24845s	and from the fact he has great results
24846s	it's also a hint at that
24849s	um but yeah is going to have to
24852s	play at his very best you have to draw
24854s	well to get through this one
24857s	drover though probably the furthest he's
24859s	been in a big event now he's right on
24861s	the on the hill 2-1 so let's see if he
24864s	can maintain his composure i think he
24866s	can i think he plays infinite
24867s	hearthstone on stream and off stream all
24869s	the time in all formats and all modes so
24872s	i think he'll be fine
24873s	i mean he seemed incredibly unbothered
24877s	by the in the whole proceedings up until
24879s	this point right the the
24881s	100 of his time spent on camera has
24884s	seemed just entirely unflappable and in
24887s	fact unflapped by what's going on around
24889s	him he's just been he's just been
24891s	jamming games of hearthstone as if he
24892s	was he was playing on ladder in his
24894s	underpants right like thankfully
24897s	for the sake of the broadcast but he is
24900s	still just seemingly calmly and
24902s	collectively jamming games of
24903s	hearthstone and doing very very well
24906s	indeed not bad for a weekend's work up
24908s	until this point but he will of course
24910s	want to go the one step further and the
24912s	two steps further from here to be able
24913s	to take home the title of masters tour
24915s	champion
24917s	five percent gsas
24920s	five percent more than average the good
24923s	for priest players
24925s	yeah says sorry i i heard five percent
24928s	gsa like almost it like it was this
24930s	prince in a commercial
24932s	yeah like five six gsa three percent do
24934s	not consult your physician or something
24936s	yeah oh yeah our all-natural orange
24938s	juice contains less than five percent
24940s	gsa
24942s	that's why i i had no idea what you were
24944s	talking about
24945s	she's the first because everyone always
24947s	knows what i'm talking about
24950s	have you always said says instead of
24952s	says because i know it's you do you do
24953s	that like i've made the i've made the
24955s	word says sound as stupid as possible
24957s	for contrast there but you do very
24959s	clearly announce
24960s	says yes says and rd you always laughs
24962s	at me before i say again instead of
24964s	again as well
24967s	are you laughing at my accent this is
24970s	how low i've come
24974s	imagine
24975s	uh the guilford school of acting by the
24977s	way
24980s	is jesus
24981s	really
24983s	i just thought of that there meditated
24985s	for a moment and it appeared
24987s	yep
24988s	it has been a distinct lack of people
24990s	going silent and meditating and then
24992s	just suddenly having information during
24994s	this tournament i wonder why that is
24995s	yeah we miss you tj see you see you soon
24998s	next tournament
25003s	meditation man
25004s	look at it
25007s	i still haven't done it yet i still
25008s	haven't looked down and gone hey habbo
25010s	on the demon hunter but i'm trying to
25013s	every game i've come so close
25016s	for those of you at home who haven't
25017s	followed along with this narrative uh
25019s	what lorinda has been doing all
25021s	tournament is internally making that
25023s	mistake every single time and instead of
25026s	saying it out loud
25028s	saying i haven't yet made that mistake
25030s	despite continually making that mistake
25033s	over and over again but that's how
25034s	casting works if you don't say it out
25035s	loud it doesn't count
25037s	have you ever known me think of
25039s	something and not say it out loud
25040s	simultaneously
25042s	true actually i take it all back i have
25044s	no idea why i even said that you're
25045s	absolutely right the thought of anything
25048s	entering your brain and not coming out
25049s	of your mouth is ridiculous and i'm
25052s	sorry i even broke that subject thank
25053s	you you accused me of not talking enough
25056s	in one of the rounds what is happening
25057s	to you
25060s	all right two one dravo on the hill with
25062s	a spot in the finals on the line first
25065s	ball has been found habu is transformed
25067s	and revealed nol has hit the board and i
25070s	think very crucially akani has been
25073s	found the one-two punch of how to win
25075s	this match up as rogue is very much in
25078s	play early pressure plus okani that's
25082s	kind of the two things that you are
25083s	really really looking for and if you
25084s	can't have one you would like mountains
25087s	of the other if you don't find akane you
25089s	need mountains of pressure if you don't
25091s	have pressure you need
25093s	so many of khanis akane step okani step
25096s	okani scabs get your akani back play it
25099s	again
25101s	over and over and over again you either
25103s	need both or one or the other in massive
25105s	quantities and right now harbour is on
25107s	the both train
25109s	yeah and the boat train starting next
25111s	turn as well the vessel will of course
25113s	get cleared up by the pyromancer but
25115s	with the gone fishing set up for the the
25117s	later on mr smite kill if you can get
25119s	enough early damage in as well
25121s	everything will be set up nicely i think
25124s	but forget about both of those
25125s	irrelevant trains because the train that
25127s	dravo needs to get on in this position
25129s	is the pocket train as
25131s	clearly demonstrated
25133s	in the previous series this is basically
25135s	the exact scenario that pocket train was
25137s	facing down masses of pressure plus
25140s	ocarina where he was able to come up
25142s	with that you know game-winning solve at
25144s	the end
25145s	who to
25146s	navigate those last two or three turns
25148s	really really expertly and uh make a
25150s	fool out of basically everyone watching
25152s	i would imagine i think there are very
25154s	few players in the world who would have
25155s	won that game
25159s	okay there's the first reset for draevo
25161s	and now things start to just get a
25163s	little bit tougher
25165s	to vessel immediately do you want to
25166s	actually get some cards what would you
25169s	like to
25170s	do is the decision here
25173s	first point to assess
25174s	crushing sadness because the akani died
25178s	right like when you play the first one
25180s	you don't necessarily think that first
25183s	one's gonna win the game but what you
25185s	really don't want to see
25187s	is the xyrella clear on your first akani
25190s	because you want to be able to hold on
25191s	to it long term find shadow steps find
25193s	scabs replay it over and over again
25196s	without that now
25197s	habu is a hundred percent all in on
25200s	pressure it's his only route to victory
25202s	so
25202s	the answer to the question what do you
25204s	want to do this turn is basically always
25206s	going to be
25208s	figure out what the max stats are and
25210s	put them in play because that's
25211s	basically all habu has left yep exactly
25216s	edwin's second knoll are these
25218s	the bottom
25220s	that's a crab though okay i was about to
25222s	say second no edwin being on the bottom
25224s	not good news those are two really
25226s	strong cards that you'd like to draw
25228s	crab being the next draw however
25230s	suddenly
25231s	has perked me back up again
25234s	[Music]
25238s	we're still looking at the numbers
25239s	there's a lot of damage to be done but
25241s	crap being there into what do we need
25243s	next after crab if you're a haboo fan
25246s	what would you like
25248s	well i would say edwin but i know that's
25250s	impossible no it's not there you can get
25251s	it on the bottom of the deck yeah
25254s	exactly so
25255s	um
25257s	something even from tooth at that point
25259s	or uh reconnaissance picking up another
25261s	chunky death rattle at that point just
25263s	something to curve out spend mana you
25265s	have a few tradables to go with after
25267s	that point as well
25269s	i probably lose this game right here
25270s	though from drovo's side um i'd have
25272s	probably cleared this board rather than
25273s	just eating 12 points of damage
25278s	yeah i think you have to wait here yeah
25280s	i think it's right have you seen it done
25282s	i can see how right it is but yeah
25286s	no reason to panic i think double gift
25288s	in hand still desperate prayers
25289s	available
25290s	i think drove those chilling
25293s	happy just to take the damage here i
25294s	think we'll be a little bit more peeved
25297s	at the fact he's taking the extra damage
25298s	from the crabapple as well this turn
25301s	uh as you can see that is drevo's peeved
25303s	base that's about as far as he's got in
25305s	this entire tournament so far
25307s	oh yeah look at the anger seething out
25309s	of him
25311s	he blinked
25314s	yeah absolutely stoic all the way
25316s	through the tournament
25320s	i think this time you might want to
25322s	clear the board subtle
25324s	i'm
25326s	in favor yes
25330s	gotta dump some cards first though
25331s	because you want to weave in the cleric
25333s	pyro turn alongside everything else
25337s	get some cards out of hand yeah gonna
25339s	lead with the flash heal first
25343s	and then pyrocleric shard gift and hope
25346s	your draws are kind
25349s	want priestesses you want prayers
25355s	do it
25357s	can actually go wrong can't it
25360s	it can it can go wrong very very easily
25366s	it hasn't gone wrong because the cards
25367s	have gone there the cards have gone
25369s	green
25370s	yeah that means there's a priestess
25371s	coming there it is spoiler alert but the
25374s	priestess did come off the top on the
25376s	very last card and now as long as draevo
25377s	can execute on the rope which has been a
25380s	little bit shaky for him up until now
25382s	yep plenty of time nothing to worry
25384s	about i think he's significantly ahead
25386s	of where we are on these animations just
25388s	based on the way
25389s	yeah i was just watching him like
25390s	waiting for the panic and there just
25392s	wasn't a single flicker of any sort of
25394s	panic
25395s	unfortunately the panic is coming from
25397s	habu gabu now he's um
25399s	[Music]
25401s	not out of options obviously but he he
25403s	knows how this ends up now
25405s	joey goes down to two cards in the deck
25410s	i wonder yep
25412s	and they are
25416s	one hamlet and the other one shadow the
25418s	naaru i believe is the other remaining
25420s	card
25421s	yeah i think even at this point with the
25424s	boar's dead this is kind of the
25425s	desperation mode sometimes it's rogue
25427s	where you're like okay let's go tooth
25429s	fishing for polly boar or go fishing for
25432s	najak hex and yep
25435s	find something to get yourself out of it
25437s	but with the boars already dead
25440s	really not seeing the solution it is big
25442s	time for habu
25444s	not finding it whatsoever
25458s	i think we've got our first finalist
25459s	lorenda yeah i think we have it's going
25461s	to be drobo taking down javier gabo in
25463s	this top half of the draw that was
25465s	absolutely nutty the bottom half of the
25467s	drawer is absolutely nutty but pales to
25469s	this top half of
25471s	just the who's who of current
25473s	hearthstone and drevo is the one who's
25475s	going to come out of this half
25477s	and very well done very well deserved
25479s	with a lineup that
25481s	none of us were talking about even
25483s	yesterday
25485s	apart from when we have hey hey hey hey
25487s	hey
25489s	don't try i have been talking about this
25491s	lineup all tournament thank you very
25493s	much i will not take that slander and my
25496s	name by any degree
25498s	i have been talking about this taught
25500s	this line-up portal at least since
25502s	mid-day one when it started to emerge
25504s	that mine rogue was winning games for
25506s	some reason
25508s	yeah and if you missed that like i did
25510s	you could check the vods after we
25511s	finished don't forget to like subscribe
25513s	and follow everything and off you go let
25515s	me check the vod straight after we
25516s	finish and hunt down sottle and his um
25519s	and then tweet him the clips of me
25522s	talking about this constantly for the
25524s	last two days absolutely i'll take it
25526s	i'll take it on the chin if you do all
25527s	that good for you
25529s	um but yeah drovo very well deserved in
25531s	the final um slightly unused well very
25535s	unusual lineup compared to what everyone
25536s	else is playing and a tough lineup in a
25539s	master's tour to execute over and over
25541s	again over these hours he's now ahead of
25544s	us so he's had an even worse sleep
25545s	schedule that we've been crying about
25547s	and getting it done in the middle of the
25549s	night with difficult decks and long long
25552s	matches as well so good for drover
25553s	getting there uh commission relations to
25555s	have but he's had a pretty good run this
25557s	year and looks like he's going to be
25559s	back for the winter championship so if
25561s	he gets two even half decent
25562s	performances in the rest of this year
25565s	uh hill zero three drop next tournament
25567s	just to annoy you um i i do think couple
25569s	of last takeaways from that bracket as
25572s	we look at it uh firstly i've just
25574s	realized uh like north western europe
25578s	absolutely farming uk i think northern
25580s	france is considered geographically
25582s	northwestern europe and southern france
25584s	isn't something like that and then
25585s	finland as well like there's a very
25587s	specific region making up the top four
25589s	but also
25590s	now specifically with habu gabu knocked
25593s	out yeah you can meditate and find the
25594s	answer i was going to change my mind
25596s	because we're closing in a sec yeah
25598s	yeah
25599s	um but specifically with habu now out of
25601s	the tournament that means the three
25602s	players remaining in the tournament as
25604s	of right this moment right now
25607s	are all ball priest players top three in
25610s	this tournament based chronologically
25611s	from remaining in all with the ball
25613s	priest in the lineup despite once again
25616s	among the entire field ball priest being
25618s	a weak deck and that kind of has been
25620s	the narrative from the beginning of time
25622s	with ball priest and with these kind of
25624s	combo decks in general is yeah in the
25626s	hand of the masses it might not seem
25628s	that powerful but when you give it to a
25629s	specialist special things can happen and
25631s	that's kind of what we're seeing this
25633s	tournament
25634s	and with those closing notes from sottle
25637s	we are going to have to set up two more
25639s	ball priests by the sound of things so
25641s	we're gonna take a short moment to set
25643s	that up we're back in just about three
25645s	minutes i imagine
25653s	[Music]
25658s	[Applause]
25659s	[Music]
25662s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
25665s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
25669s	horrific reasons
25671s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
25675s	with such
25677s	ruthlessness so deep and profound
25682s	then he comes with his mullockian scowl
25690s	to uncover the truth
25692s	of murder most foul
25695s	the anima drifts across the floor
25698s	highlighting the creatures who walked
25701s	through my door
25703s	the motives are as black as night
25706s	avarice power revenge and blight
25712s	we watch the hero
25714s	uncover the clues
25717s	that lead to the truth
25720s	behind this dark bruise
25724s	join us here with the grimm and impious
25729s	choose your power without heavenly bias
25733s	for at the end
25734s	they will burn in the fire
25738s	when it is known who slayed
25741s	tenacious the sire
25744s	[Music]
25758s	[Music]
25766s	[Music]
25772s	[Music]
25804s	my
25806s	[Music]
25841s	it is time for the seven's uh second
25843s	semi-final of masters tour this year
25846s	we've already sent trevo through to the
25848s	final and gia now it is time to find out
25850s	whether it will be an all french final
25853s	or whether good old blighty has a chance
25855s	of getting that win at a masters tour
25859s	that is correct dark i mean it's not
25862s	uncommon for us at this point to see an
25864s	all french final but i know a lot of
25866s	people on the casting desk and also just
25869s	fans of boar priest in general have been
25871s	rooting for pocket train so kaboom has
25873s	his work cut out for him he also has a
25876s	boar priest of his own not to mention a
25878s	lineup that is not too conventional
25880s	perhaps not quite as out there as
25883s	drevo's including that mine warlock but
25886s	there's certainly still this mine rogue
25887s	to watch out for which took admittedly
25889s	quite some time to get rolling in his
25892s	previous series
25893s	that's right yeah it was a little bit of
25895s	a questionable deck but here for kaboom
25898s	in the semi-finals i think that mine
25900s	work is going to be really nicely placed
25903s	uh for uh pocket train on the other side
25906s	his own rogue feels like it's gonna be
25907s	probably a little bit too slow uh to be
25910s	able to fight back effectively in time
25912s	the priest as well can feel a little bit
25915s	tough uh unless it's able to get up to a
25917s	very very quick win condition there uh
25920s	and then also uh to round it out uh i
25923s	think just uh
25925s	uh sorry the druid feels like it might
25927s	be the one decent matchup uh for pocket
25929s	train given the uh prince renathal in
25932s	there as well to bolster up the health
25934s	uh so for the mine right i think is
25936s	gonna be very very nice it's just
25937s	whether the rest of the lineup will be
25939s	able to get the job done as well
25941s	that is right the bands are in and both
25944s	of the celestial alignment druids are
25946s	out of contention here so we're not
25948s	going to be seeing any runathol business
25951s	here both players with the big spell
25954s	mage both players with some version of
25956s	rogue and both players with boar priests
25958s	so this mine rogue i do agree with your
25960s	assessment that it is in a very good
25962s	spot against pocket trains lineup i'd
25964s	even go so far as to say it's favored
25967s	against the boar priest even with pocket
25969s	train piloting it uh because there is
25972s	the capability for the mine rogue to go
25974s	for a full 30 to zero combo and not give
25978s	the boar priest any time to heal it
25980s	takes some time to set up but i think
25981s	that time is certainly there against
25983s	that deck
25985s	i definitely agree uh which will be very
25988s	fascinating should we get to see it
25990s	first of all i think it is going to be
25991s	the big spell mage versus the uh the
25994s	boat rogue from pocket train a matchup
25996s	that we've seen many many times already
25998s	with them being i think the two most
26000s	brought decks to the tournament uh where
26002s	are you coming down on this deck does
26004s	the boat rogue have the uh the
26005s	aggression to get there before the big
26007s	spell mage comes online
26009s	yeah i do think it is a slight favorable
26011s	for boat rogue but it's by no means a
26013s	terrible matchup for the mage right uh
26015s	if the mage gets to check uh check check
26018s	check a few um specific boxes wow i
26021s	don't even have an excuse i'm not that
26023s	sleepy i don't know what's going on with
26024s	me sorry um
26026s	if the mage is able to check a few
26028s	specific boxes in the early game their
26030s	percent skyrockets most important of
26033s	which of course is that early belinda or
26036s	the barbaric sorceress but also
26037s	importantly the deep water evoker to
26040s	give them that 10 extra health basically
26042s	playing a runathol thanks to that armor
26045s	9 or 10 gain depending on which big
26047s	spell they draw and that often gives
26050s	them the leeway to have you know a
26052s	couple dead turns of just playing big
26054s	minions and then forcing the rogue to
26056s	eventually respond because the reach
26058s	won't be enough throughout all that
26060s	armor
26061s	yeah i think that's a very very
26063s	reasonable assessment i'm trying to
26064s	think of any of the the techs in mage
26066s	have come into uh
26068s	effect so far uh kaboom is one of the
26071s	players running more dress fire item
26073s	which the debate is raging back and
26075s	forth uh against mage is probably just
26077s	gonna be one of those dead cards uh but
26079s	only one smothering starfish yeah that's
26082s	probably fine you're not looking for
26083s	that card too often anyway can be used
26085s	to clear off the stealth uh on some of
26087s	those uh pirates uh but for the most
26089s	part it's just the uh the good
26091s	old-fashioned game plan for the mage in
26093s	trying to look for barbaric sorceress
26096s	for uh belinda as well um
26099s	it's gonna be an interesting match
26100s	jumping into the uh the implications for
26103s	both of our players as well because
26105s	pocket train has been off to
26107s	uh a reasonable start to this year in
26110s	terms of master store performances he is
26112s	still i always forget a pretty newcomer
26114s	uh to competitive hearthstone uh given
26117s	how well he's been performing and how
26119s	well his stream has been going for him
26120s	as well uh so it's cool to see that he
26123s	is uh getting off to a strong start
26125s	whereas kaboom on the other side has
26126s	been here for a little bit longer i
26128s	think in terms of competitive play
26130s	definitely a lot of people uh most
26132s	likely french uh fans in our chat
26135s	correcting us on how to even pronounce
26137s	his name so sorry about that he is
26138s	definitely a player who's had a long
26140s	competitive history already i think
26142s	especially with local tournaments
26144s	winning several arma cups or placing
26146s	well in those and max lines etc we have
26149s	pocket train as as you said a relative
26152s	newcomer but already building a very
26153s	strong brand for himself with that
26155s	excellent bar priest play but he is
26158s	going to be on the rogue first and made
26161s	from gaboom even though we did highlight
26164s	the mordres tech perhaps a more
26166s	impactful one for the matchup is the two
26168s	doomsayers that he has in the list which
26170s	is by no means standard he's cut out the
26173s	ram commander and while uh uh gold chair
26175s	knoll package to make room for that and
26177s	i do think it should help his percentage
26179s	against rogue a little bit
26184s	pocket train nodding his head there i
26186s	wonder what he was expecting his
26187s	opponent to play uh on turn two other
26190s	than like an amplified snow flurry
26192s	uh but it's a reasonable start still
26195s	here all things considered for pocket
26197s	train he's able to go for the shroud
26200s	while still in
26201s	uh druid form while still disguised
26204s	which means that the nulls were they to
26206s	be drawn uh would still be playable uh
26209s	the rest of his hand though is a bit of
26211s	a weird one it looks almost more uh
26215s	reactive than aggressive with coining
26217s	out that shadowcrafter scabs being uh an
26219s	expected play on turn seven to maybe
26221s	answer an early belinda or barbara
26225s	could be i would say if the belinda or
26228s	barbara is that early then i don't think
26231s	pocket train really lives until turn
26232s	seven to safely coin out scabs but if it
26235s	is just a general uncurved one he
26237s	definitely has the leeway to go and play
26240s	the long game his hand is really not
26241s	allowing him to do much else at the
26243s	moment but at least he can prep out this
26245s	shroud now and i think all the nulls are
26247s	down to zero cost given that he's drawn
26249s	three rogue cards and traded twice i'm
26252s	gonna hold on to prep though
26255s	that'll do nicely uh carney not bad at
26257s	all either
26258s	right
26260s	you've seen how much of a back breaker
26261s	okani for minion can be into the big
26264s	spell mage especially when they don't
26265s	run too many one drops for gaboom only
26268s	sir finley in there
26272s	okay not a bad little draw opens up the
26275s	barbaric saucers quite nicely
26279s	were that to be drawn
26283s	now with the
26284s	uh go ahead
26286s	oh just gonna say that is uh a very
26288s	respectable life total circle boom
26289s	probably has many many turns uh to work
26291s	with now
26293s	definitely would agree with that pocket
26294s	train now with the info that it is
26297s	rune in hand and not necessarily drake
26300s	fire
26301s	uh
26302s	i would assume the okani is top of mind
26305s	here because we are approaching turn
26307s	five with coin for good boom so able to
26309s	play belinda or barbara if they are in
26312s	hand but the problem is there's a lot of
26314s	pressure on the other side for pocket
26316s	train he needs to
26317s	commit the extortion and a trade to make
26320s	sure okani's not dead
26330s	i mean i think he can pretty much give
26332s	up on the idea of actually winning board
26334s	control anytime soon uh but it's the
26336s	kind of hand that can fight back and at
26338s	least keep things a sort of equilibrium
26340s	uh for the near future unless there's
26342s	any really powerhouse plays like a a big
26345s	edwin or a uh boat plus uh gone fishing
26349s	um but having said that i think just
26351s	going for some kind of play like
26356s	trade into
26358s	try and play amplified and then coin out
26360s	okani uh if that doesn't work
26364s	i can definitely see that
26367s	of course okani on the mages side i
26369s	would say is way less impactful than it
26371s	has been for pocket train because pocket
26373s	train will have more board presence and
26376s	potentially more different ways to clear
26379s	the mage is a lot more predictable in
26381s	how they want to go about killing
26382s	minions because they don't have single
26384s	target removal they rely on their
26386s	minions as a whole
26388s	choosing to sacrifice these starfish
26390s	instead which i think is reasonable the
26392s	snow flurry here it's battle cry is
26394s	definitely not irrelevant
26398s	even the coin as well also pretty
26399s	impactful for uh roon a turn earlier can
26403s	be very very important as that's kind of
26405s	about the turn where the board becomes
26406s	truly unmanageable uh
26409s	but for the moment sorry the board looks
26411s	very manageable that was at least until
26413s	a jar and vessel came off the top and
26416s	was discounted as well
26418s	it's exactly what pocket train needed to
26421s	see with this mr smite in hand as well
26423s	that's an incredible top deck and i do
26425s	favor him using the prep here even
26427s	though it doesn't look necessary because
26429s	of the discount it allows him to even
26431s	the philly fighter which i think is
26432s	pretty relevant to just paying off the
26434s	31 and even just as a 3-1 body on board
26437s	is quite threatening to kaboom
26442s	not interested in saving the uh the
26444s	fillet fighter for mr smite
26447s	could also be and looks like pocket
26449s	train is going with that line if he's
26451s	taking this trade uh
26454s	merit to daggering here is that it
26456s	allows him to scabs next turn
26458s	immediately and still have that dagger
26460s	intact because as soon as he replaces
26462s	his hero he can no longer necessarily
26465s	dagger but he's going to commit the
26467s	coins here play around barbara as best
26469s	as he can and that is a huge relief for
26472s	kaboom honestly because these scabs is
26474s	just so far off now pocket train not
26476s	even committing the maestra
26479s	it works out fine for kaboom because his
26480s	opponent just dumped their hand for no
26482s	reason at all
26484s	from his perspective
26486s	uh but at the same time you know
26488s	yes your opponent is playing poorly but
26490s	that oh sorry playing around cards that
26492s	you don't have i should say making a
26493s	play that in this instance is bad um but
26497s	he doesn't have the cards that would be
26498s	good were they to not make that play
26500s	anyway so he can't really do much with
26502s	uh that situation he just has to play
26504s	like a 3-3 here yes it saves him some
26506s	health uh but it's really not locking
26508s	down the board and it's giving pocket
26510s	train a lot of time to start setting up
26512s	some real damage
26518s	that being said pocket trains next turn
26521s	is looking pretty miserable if he
26523s	doesn't draw something impactful
26525s	obviously edwin another shroud or boat
26528s	would be ideal here
26533s	oh
26537s	and the mr smite nerf really hurts
26540s	doesn't it
26545s	game is quickly slipping away from
26547s	pocket train here gaboom is only two
26549s	turns away from being able to coin out
26552s	that rune of the arc mage and he's still
26554s	at 39 health here uh probably gonna go
26558s	down to 33 at the end of this turn but
26560s	that's still above starting health no
26562s	problems at all
26565s	agreed completely and what are the draws
26567s	that could even like start to help this
26569s	situation for pocket train
26572s	edwin to fill out turn seven is
26574s	definitely decent
26576s	yeah um especially if you can get it to
26578s	a health total where it is more
26580s	resilient to your average rune outcomes
26585s	outside of edwin though there's really
26586s	not that much to be honest and kaboom's
26589s	only just starting to ramp up his power
26591s	level he's not slowing down at all
26594s	but would still be decent here and maybe
26596s	tooth to find something to spend the
26598s	rest of this mana
26604s	it's ordering yeah
26607s	well not trading first is that
26610s	yeah that's fine
26614s	it's 7am it's fine we'll let that one
26620s	um
26623s	yeah pretty much has to just let this
26625s	board go unless he wants to commit smite
26628s	and dagger into the doomsayer and your
26630s	smite is dead on board
26633s	you have to expect to coin roon as well
26636s	uh at this point yeah he hundred percent
26639s	knows it's in hand oh yeah of course
26641s	yeah because of the uh the
26643s	evoker uh so i agree i think you just
26645s	let this one go and set up for
26648s	you know play the scabs play the ajar
26650s	and vessel and then hope to get card
26652s	draw into
26654s	double gone fishing with mr smite some
26656s	nonsense like that yeah
26659s	it does need to be supreme nonsense and
26662s	to a certain extent the doomsayer going
26664s	off that sometimes makes the average
26666s	quality of our rune worse because so
26668s	many of these spells only target minions
26671s	and so we actually see gaboom going for
26673s	okani over roon here saving the coin for
26675s	the drake fire amulet instead which i
26677s	completely agree with i think it makes a
26679s	lot of sense here as to what he should
26681s	counter i think minion personally
26683s	because from his perspective i think
26685s	edwin is the scariest card at the moment
26688s	yep agreed completely
26690s	um
26691s	fortunately for him scabs is neither
26694s	minion nor smell a spell nor uh
26697s	mineral animal vegetable whatever it's
26700s	its own thing
26706s	wait till they release diamond okani
26708s	that lets you counter hero cards as well
26712s	or a new a new blade master that
26714s	counters either hero card or location
26716s	card oh that sounds cool
26721s	all right here we go dragons
26727s	oh wow
26729s	allergos probably yeah cali's just
26732s	always been so strong oh and the tines
26740s	you can
26746s	just a little field work
26748s	nope
26749s	uh disciple yeah it's like just the most
26753s	expensive but it's not really like even
26754s	that good
26756s	yeah can be played alongside vessel so
26759s	maybe that is just the line if he wants
26760s	to push damage immediately he can take
26762s	the fel rattler which is effectively 4
26764s	damage on the primordial drake
26778s	train knows he is a million miles away
26781s	from getting his game plan online and
26782s	he's now vulnerable to ruin but he is
26785s	just gonna pray that kaboom opens some
26788s	below average boxes i guess
26791s	yeah that's the out here so
26793s	they draw some garbage on two
26795s	consecutive runes
26797s	uh that's not great
26799s	that's a bit better but that is a pretty
26801s	hilarious
26803s	10 10.
26804s	that's that's literally it
26806s	okay
26808s	but barbara hits here naga boom knows
26810s	there's either a prep or a shadow step
26812s	in pocket shane's hand that costs nine
26815s	another rune for free and an okani to
26818s	top off the turn
26820s	kaboom is playing
26822s	22 mana worth of spells
26825s	worth of cards this turn
26826s	absolutely disgusting oh that's not more
26829s	than golf
26834s	is it actually 32 is there a drake fire
26836s	left yeah there's a drake fire left in
26838s	the deck and he got ice blood right off
26839s	of the first spell
26843s	yeah and he only got a copy of it right
26845s	they're still the one in the deck as
26846s	well oh man
26851s	uh so trade
26855s	allows you to clear off the whole board
26857s	right because you've upgraded it once
26858s	with wildfire
26860s	uh but he's going with the akani instead
26862s	only one dragon
26865s	no more space
26868s	poor pocket train completely outclassed
26872s	by this mage uh
26874s	honestly the draw was quite perfect but
26877s	also the way gaboom approached it was
26879s	very smart i think he held off on okani
26881s	at the right turns held off on rune when
26884s	it wasn't necessary and pocket train the
26886s	curve just wasn't kind enough to him
26893s	i respect him still thinking this
26895s	through but
26897s	i would be staggered if he can find
26899s	anything even if he could order the
26901s	cards in his deck exactly how he wanted
26903s	them
26904s	there's nothing here
26909s	well um
26911s	he can
26913s	attempt to get the undying disciple
26916s	deathrattle
26918s	to deal with
26920s	part of this board
26923s	uh i'm getting inspiration
26926s	he
26927s	cannot play spidey because
26930s	okani most likely counters minion from
26932s	his perspective
26936s	oh man the seven mana step
26940s	seven mana step i mean it does counter
26943s	both halves of akane being able to step
26945s	the other pirate which is kind of funny
26948s	for seven mana what a great deal
26952s	bargain
26955s	is this just lethal
26958s	14 16 ping 18
26962s	oh it's not over yet
26965s	is the more josh active after ping i
26966s	don't think so yeah i don't think so
26968s	either just go for the owl
26972s	i mean another parrot sorry yeah
26975s	pirate might be the one way this goes
26977s	wrong
26978s	um completely fringe out of all card
26980s	draw into fatigue i don't know probably
26983s	doesn't even happen what is the most
26985s	card draw you can get from a parrot like
26987s	six a eyes and yeah a gift of azshara
26991s	which is yeah 13 draw
26994s	someone and kill him
27000s	sir that's a math problem waiting to
27002s	happen
27005s	you have 20 mana to spend how many cards
27007s	can you draw
27013s	forgot he was just hard running blizzard
27014s	as well
27016s	yeah that's been the the sticking point
27018s	in his deck it hasn't looked great so
27021s	far but you know it's an interesting
27023s	tech and it has a lot of utility
27025s	obviously against rogue with all the
27027s	stealth they have
27035s	all right we can finally let this one
27037s	end i think finally
27040s	looks like train has a bit of a
27041s	sense of humor about it though given his
27044s	facial expressions doing whatever the
27046s	heck he can which is not very much
27049s	except gather his thoughts for game two
27052s	because kaboom takes a completely
27055s	one-sided victory in our first match of
27058s	the day the big spell mage showing why
27061s	it is so universally um just
27064s	applauded as one of the best decks in
27066s	the meta
27068s	just really killing the absolute living
27071s	daylights out of that sleepy dragon
27074s	making his way out of the game game one
27076s	going to kaboom and a a nice win as well
27079s	with the mage i think that could have
27082s	been potentially a bit of a sticking
27083s	point uh versus pocket train the priest
27086s	feels like it has a nice match up
27087s	against that the rogue again like you
27089s	said feels slightly favored against it
27091s	so a really nice start for the series
27092s	for gaboom leaving him with uh just uh
27096s	some slightly better matchups i think
27098s	that rogue still looking very nice
27101s	i can't wait to see that mine rogue in
27103s	action it really hasn't shown its
27106s	amazing win rate on stream so far but
27109s	the numbers still come out in its favor
27110s	in the masters tour as a whole i think
27112s	what was it just a dozen players
27114s	bringing that deck two of them in the
27116s	top four it certainly needs to be
27119s	re-examined i feel by the larger field
27121s	as the week goes on and that clean list
27125s	only one column taken up here and we do
27128s	have to talk about if it is going to be
27130s	the switch to bar priest for pocket
27132s	train how exactly the mine rogue should
27135s	play the match up i'm pretty sure the
27137s	way is to make sure that when you play
27139s	snowfall graveyard in the very next turn
27142s	you are able to get a full 30 damage and
27145s	that includes a pre-equipped counterfeit
27148s	blade that already went face once it
27150s	includes i think several shatter
27152s	shamblers and mines and you know some
27154s	combination of those alongside the
27157s	forsaken lieutenant if it has something
27159s	to rush into but it's certainly possible
27161s	given enough mana
27163s	yeah exactly and especially when you
27164s	factor in the smoke screen that i think
27167s	was such a nice inclusion in the deck it
27168s	obviously gives you that uh kind of high
27170s	roll potential with the
27173s	um
27175s	burning blades uh acolyte sorry as i'm
27177s	forgetting the name of it uh to go
27180s	alongside that for a bit of extra static
27182s	a bit of extra torn in the way of the
27183s	aggro decks but like you say it just
27185s	draws through your entire deck and
27186s	allows you to set up these close to uh
27188s	one turn otks or sometimes actually true
27192s	uh full otk's in one turn uh but it's
27194s	not gonna be against the priest it's
27196s	going to be against the mage where that
27197s	is a little bit less of a concern i
27199s	think and it's really just about finding
27201s	the uh you know keeping each turn and
27204s	the next two or three turns in mind but
27206s	just finding the most damage efficient
27208s	route possible no matter how many turns
27210s	it takes to do it
27212s	right and there is pseudo healing
27213s	available to the mage in the armor game
27215s	from the evokers but even let's say with
27219s	19 armor gained for the mage which is
27221s	about the best well 20 is the best they
27223s	can do but let's say 19 on average if
27225s	they manage to find both evokers i think
27227s	the mine rogue is still well within
27229s	enough damage to get the job done uh
27232s	with the help of a couple five eights
27234s	from the burning blade acolyte the
27236s	question is whether they'll have the
27238s	time here this is also a match-up where
27241s	in some situations you can get stuck
27243s	with unbind on board and no necessarily
27246s	uh not necessarily a way to kill it off
27248s	especially when the mage can freeze
27250s	forsaken uh sorry um before
27254s	if you get in a situation where the mine
27257s	has transformed your forsaken lieutenant
27259s	but it's not died yet you can't
27261s	necessarily rush that mind with attack
27263s	if it gets frozen there's a lot of weird
27265s	small interactions to keep in mind here
27268s	and another one is the interaction of
27270s	the barbaric sorceress with smokescreen
27272s	which is one of the whips for barbara to
27275s	hit
27277s	indeed yeah uh
27280s	that could be a bit of a
27282s	a sticking point uh for pocket train
27284s	where it's come up uh pretty cool start
27287s	though for kaboom unfortunate draw with
27289s	the burning bait blade acolyte uh but
27291s	i'm glad that we are getting to see
27293s	these with scale tricks the plus
27294s	smokescreen combo hopefully come up uh
27297s	at some point here uh as the backstab
27300s	wallet is really nice to kill off the
27302s	navel mine i do definitely think it's
27304s	worth it here just to get this cleared
27306s	off you have to do that before the
27307s	tricks to pop off anyway
27309s	yeah i completely agree a little bit of
27312s	connection issues that i hope will be
27313s	resolved soon both are players playing
27315s	in an unfortunate time zone i'm sure
27318s	really fatigued and this certainly
27321s	doesn't help mental but
27323s	we will get them reconnected as soon as
27325s	possible there okay looking good
27327s	poketrain's hand is looking very
27328s	promising he has the mailbox dancer to
27332s	have one of his powerful six drops on
27334s	turn five and i assume that will be
27336s	belinda because i think he will see on
27339s	turn three that kabum is already going
27341s	to start playing spells from hand
27347s	well if you ever needed a hand that
27348s	could fight back against the uh the mine
27352s	rogue this certainly looks like the one
27354s	to do so the pickup of the evoker is
27356s	absolutely spot on the money to be able
27358s	to gain a bit of extra health get some
27360s	more stats and bridge you through uh to
27363s	probably the belinda on turn six uh to
27366s	get those spells online archetrain has
27368s	assumed the position of a man who's
27370s	about to get smoke screened
27374s	nothing nothing nothing nothing and
27378s	nothing no death throttles triggered
27380s	here
27381s	i mean
27382s	every time this happens to me suddenly
27383s	i'm facing down four or five eighths on
27385s	the other side of the board because
27386s	they've already also played snowfall
27388s	graveyard oh of course yeah yeah
27395s	not too bad but for gaboom
27398s	obviously it's still good to get this
27399s	cycle right even without the upside of
27402s	smoke screen you did just kind of play
27404s	four mana draw five which is in most
27407s	circumstances pretty good
27410s	yeah and it's still not bad here
27412s	over drawing the navel mine does hurt
27415s	uh but thankfully for him the other one
27417s	in hand uh
27419s	it helps but that sketchy information is
27421s	now actually doing nothing as well right
27422s	that's a uh gets the other acolyte
27426s	uh it's only three or less uh so oh yeah
27430s	you're right
27432s	yeah it is actually doing nothing here
27434s	um
27436s	so shatter shambler
27439s	set up for that acolyte on the next turn
27441s	i think makes
27442s	some sense here because
27444s	uh i think gaboom will quickly realize
27447s	that with only one mine and especially
27449s	without graveyard in hand the pure
27452s	bomb based damage is not going to get
27454s	there against pocket train on 38.
27458s	so he has to somehow connect a couple of
27459s	the death rattles from acolyte to face
27466s	time's ticking
27470s	i guess if you're going to be going
27471s	about that you kind of have to start
27473s	using some of these burn spells or
27476s	combo ish spells like backstab uh on
27479s	just clearing the board like first of
27481s	all pray they don't have belinda uh or
27483s	the barbaric sorcerer
27485s	but then also get rid of all those cards
27488s	and also get rid of the coin as well you
27490s	could argue to play around barbaric
27492s	sorceress uh but for uh bagoom
27495s	thankfully for kaboom uh it's belinda
27498s	anyway
27500s	barbara belinda and bagoom
27503s	all the good buddies here yeah i think
27505s	gaboom was certainly aware of the
27507s	potential for barbara on this turn but i
27509s	think it's one of those spots where like
27511s	as bore priests you sometimes play the
27513s	boar even if you know there's a
27514s	potential for it to get magicked or
27516s	something on the other side it just
27518s	hurts you too much to use the coin for
27520s	no real value there so he held on to it
27522s	i think it's very reasonable but it's
27524s	not the barbara which becomes the bane
27527s	of his existence here but the belinda
27529s	instead going to start going face with
27532s	the counterfeit blade this represents 12
27535s	damage over the course of two turns um
27538s	maybe more if he can find himself that
27539s	snowfall graveyard but this is looking
27542s	terrible because even that forsaken
27544s	lieutenant has no targets with both the
27546s	bombs just used
27549s	yeah it's just looking terrible i think
27551s	pocket train will also very quickly come
27552s	to the conclusion as well that you can
27554s	just go for the drake fire amulet right
27556s	30 with no
27558s	um
27560s	uh sorry with uh no graveyard setup is
27563s	just a little bit too much and you can
27565s	just save the evoker for next turn
27567s	whilst setting up lethal
27569s	right even if the hand were like prep
27572s	graveyard
27574s	wicked stop wicked stab that would not
27576s	be enough to kill from 30.
27585s	it's true especially because again
27586s	you've seen the other naval mine you
27588s	know that the graveyard shenanigans are
27590s	somewhat unlimited
27598s	love the halipic honestly kind of a
27601s	formality but
27602s	it's fine
27604s	yeah
27604s	not the best options there even taking
27606s	just the cobalt scale bane although from
27608s	the looks of
27613s	okay if he was gonna miss click at any
27615s	point very thankful for pocket train
27617s	that it was at the situation where he
27618s	has pretty much 100 won the game
27622s	a man's brain is absolutely melting out
27625s	of his ears right now
27626s	[Laughter]
27630s	[Music]
27633s	i mean it doesn't matter at all but i
27635s	just love how confused he is right now
27638s	it is pretty entertaining man these
27640s	players have really been through the
27642s	ringer right it's an absolute marathon
27645s	that they've had to play through what
27647s	time is it now in the uk derek
27649s	7am coming up on waking up in the
27652s	morning
27654s	yeah i mean waking up in the morning in
27655s	about five hours time usually for me
27658s	uh yeah uh big win uh for pocket train
27661s	of course both majors ticked off which
27663s	means it is a priest on both sides it is
27665s	the ball priest uh for both players as
27668s	well right which means the only
27670s	difference is this uh this mine rogue
27673s	versus the traditional boats rogue four
27675s	pocket train which again i think hasn't
27677s	changed the equation
27679s	all too much when it was the full best
27681s	of five i do just still think that
27683s	kaboom is in a pretty good situation
27685s	this mine rogue very well positioned
27689s	right he is going to
27691s	move away from that rogue for now though
27693s	on to the boar priest and we are gonna
27695s	get to see a matchup that i haven't cast
27698s	and what feels like forever dark it's a
27700s	boar priest mirror
27704s	yeah this is uh the one the pocket train
27707s	when i was talking to him uh just before
27709s	this match was saying
27711s	he uh he probably has to end up queueing
27713s	this one and winning it for him to have
27715s	a chance of winning the series which
27716s	absolutely looks to be the case uh very
27718s	well prognosticated by him
27721s	uh but uh
27723s	yeah it's a word i shouldn't be trying
27725s	to use it this time i'm definitely gonna
27726s	mess it up and say something
27727s	inappropriate by accident
27731s	uh boom here uh it's gonna be a tough
27733s	one right uh again you do not wanna go
27735s	up against uh pocket train on the boar
27737s	priest uh especially not in the mirror
27740s	when he is just the best ball priest
27742s	player in the world
27744s	yeah i think not many people will argue
27746s	with that but you know we gotta shout
27748s	out a lot of our players like anybody
27750s	who's made it this far with boar priest
27752s	is definitely among the best boar priest
27754s	players in the world especially since
27757s	because we we keep bringing up the fact
27759s	that bar priest overall in the master's
27761s	tour has had what a sub 50 win rate
27763s	something like 47. so there's a few
27765s	select people that are you know trying
27768s	to hold up the integrity of this deck
27771s	and in the end in our top four is still
27773s	outnumbering any other archetype of
27776s	priest and they have been playing well
27778s	above the quality of the rest of the
27780s	field um gaboom definitely hasn't really
27784s	shown too many questions on his play so
27786s	far i think it's been very solid on that
27788s	boar priest but the mirror is a whole
27790s	different beast eric you have to be so
27792s	careful about your
27794s	hand size and whether or not you can
27797s	afford to leave a cleric on board answer
27799s	to that is usually no
27803s	good good tip for both the players
27805s	hopefully they're listening into the car
27808s	as we see kabum holding on to uh the
27811s	amulet which makes sense you know you
27813s	can just trade that away on turn one and
27816s	you are replacing it whilst also
27818s	furthering your own game plan but the
27820s	ball keep in the starting hand is a
27822s	little surprising
27824s	really i feel like it's a decent one to
27826s	go for maybe the fact that he's kept two
27829s	cards which aren't like strict card draw
27831s	you can kind of say tradable is card
27834s	draw um to a certain extent but the boar
27837s	itself doesn't
27839s	feel necessary till later on i would
27841s	agree but it's never something you're
27842s	upset to see in the opening hand
27843s	especially in a match up where
27845s	it can sometimes be hard to get it dead
27848s	without committing a pyro because
27850s	there's not too many minions on the
27851s	other side
27853s	okay pretty juicy hand coming in for
27855s	both players now uh with
27858s	boom having access to north shia cleric
27861s	and the uh the gift of the naaru so a
27864s	switcheroo into a pyro gives him a very
27867s	very impressive uh draw turn indeed
27870s	whereas pocket train on the other side
27872s	has found the missing piece of his
27874s	pyrocleric gift draw turn which means
27877s	both players are looking to get off to a
27879s	very very fast start
27882s	something to take note of with the
27884s	cleric pyro combo is that you don't
27886s	often have minions on the other side of
27889s	the board to take advantage of as
27891s	damaged there's not often too many gonna
27894s	be left there so sometimes you need to
27896s	make do with just uh
27898s	not too many draws from your pyro and
27900s	cleric turn and that can be fine as long
27903s	as you've kind of planned it out that
27904s	you have enough card draw to generally
27907s	meet the bottom of your deck here so
27910s	kaboom
27911s	with the option to play an active
27913s	handmaiden this turn right
27917s	a little expensive but
27920s	you know none of the cards that he would
27922s	be expending are crucial in the form of
27925s	shard shadow word coin handmaiden uh i
27928s	think he still has the core combo of
27930s	cleric gift and then a pyro which he
27932s	will hopefully draw in the next one or
27934s	two turns
27935s	right
27937s	this works out very cleanly for his
27939s	curve at the very least he can play a
27941s	handmaiden again next turn and dump a
27943s	card like that illuminate
27945s	uh should the illuminate be played this
27947s	turn i don't think so he can save that
27950s	for a pyro turn or a valish turn
27954s	big problem for pocket train right now
27956s	which that holy smite may have just
27958s	solved
27959s	is that his north shore cleric has four
27960s	health after it was swapped with zyrella
27963s	so it's actually going to be a little
27964s	bit difficult to clear off on the turn
27967s	where he goes for pyrocleric draw uh
27970s	which as you so correctly laid out the
27972s	star is a massive liability your
27973s	opponent can overdraw you quite a lot of
27975s	cards if you allow them to do so
27978s	um but as i said with the other north
27980s	shire cleric picked up all the holy
27982s	smite it should be fine for pocket train
27983s	to go in on the draw next time
27986s	pretty good pick up from the dredge for
27988s	gaboom in the flash heel if only to just
27990s	draw one more card at the end of the
27993s	turn but he still needs to find
27995s	something else to kill the cleric it can
27996s	just be two spells from here to be fair
28000s	heal anything but the cleric so
28002s	exclusively the pyro and then you're
28004s	good
28006s	oh wait my bad yeah the gift is gonna
28008s	heal the cleric right further so he
28011s	needs to get something from
28013s	uh these next couple draws still has
28015s	mana to work with next to the leash
28016s	though
28017s	oh it's actually possible to do it now
28019s	with the gift that's oh sorry with the
28021s	desperate prayer that's so sick yeah
28023s	that's great that he doesn't need to
28025s	commit the leash this turn you could
28026s	still though and just weave in the
28028s	handmaiden because that is plenty of
28030s	mana to be refreshed might as well right
28032s	going to weave in the hero power before
28035s	finally putting the cleric to rest here
28039s	he's done her job and now she's just a
28042s	complete danger no more tears my queen
28052s	very nicely done from goboom i think
28054s	getting the
28055s	vast
28056s	majority of possible draw there i was
28058s	wondering if there was any angle with
28060s	handmaiden instead but this definitely
28061s	looks solid he can still go handmade and
28063s	next turn
28067s	it almost looks like pocket train is not
28069s	going in okay no you're still going for
28071s	the draw in this turn not going for the
28073s	uh
28074s	the
28075s	holy smite first and that's fine he can
28077s	go for the illuminate finds himself
28078s	amulet the perfect card to get off the
28081s	illuminate to allow him to get the the
28083s	combo almost guaranteed on turn eight
28086s	now
28087s	and uh
28090s	with the way this is looking it's
28093s	uh no probably not available next turn
28095s	but a good setup for a turn eight sword
28097s	swing as is the most common play that
28099s	you're going for
28100s	it'd give the shake of a head though
28102s	because that's not too many spells to
28104s	work with here to keep the valise train
28107s	going potentially
28109s	he has seen to be fair double gift on
28112s	the other side so leaving cleric is less
28114s	scary than it would normally be in this
28116s	position and gaboom's also in a spot
28118s	where if he wants to spend like two mana
28121s	or one mana of flash heal or the two
28123s	mana hero power to try and overdraw a
28126s	pocket train he would need to do it two
28128s	times and that probably wrecks his own
28131s	game plan
28136s	there's the other piggy
28143s	and with a zero mana amulet of his own
28145s	i'm thinking once again that's looking
28147s	to be a turn eight swing for kaboom
28149s	however he is obviously going second so
28151s	the turn eight swing becomes very often
28154s	just not good enough right
28158s	doesn't pick up the other amulet here
28160s	because
28161s	maybe the smite to kill off his own bore
28164s	is prioritized
28166s	definitely needs to dump it here though
28172s	and pocketrain breaking all the rules
28175s	right leaves the cleric on board a while
28177s	ago plays a pyro into anokhani and it
28179s	just works out because of the specific
28181s	situation recognition i don't think he's
28184s	ahead though let's see how he can
28186s	leverage this that handmaiden can be
28189s	activated here and the valish can
28191s	potentially keep this turn going far
28193s	longer than it normally would
28195s	okay trait you can take i think the zero
28199s	mana amulet back because i don't think
28203s	the other one is at
28204s	level three
28206s	uh so you do need to keep trading on
28207s	this turn most likely
28210s	question is what's the handmaiden
28212s	activation at because i think that
28214s	heavily informs whether or not pocket
28216s	train is going to dump this shard
28219s	okay there we go that's ready
28222s	yeah all the trading needed done
28225s	uh so it
28226s	is probably just setting up for play a
28229s	bunch of small spells plus priestess
28233s	extern i suppose but i didn't really
28236s	actually accomplish that much he just
28237s	needs to be able to kill the ball and
28239s	then basically pray that he gets the
28241s	other amulet off the top of the deck now
28244s	right
28245s	there might be a world where he can
28247s	continue to dig with handmaid and all in
28249s	the same turn is killing the boris
28251s	because that other amulet costs zero and
28253s	the
28254s	uh valeesh also lets him work with a lot
28256s	more mana he is just kind of scared of
28258s	himself dying this turn if there is
28261s	double zero cost amulet from
28263s	or some sort of
28265s	mana cheat combination like that we can
28267s	see though only one amulet for now and
28269s	crucially a bore still in hand that
28271s	needs to be killed off by this holy
28273s	smite and no devourer or pyro to kill
28277s	off the activations from the amulet so i
28279s	think in most instances pocket train
28281s	still gets ahead here but he needs the
28283s	draws to be kind to him because i don't
28285s	think he can see the very bottom of his
28287s	deck next turn
28291s	is there any way that kaboom can kind of
28293s	fudge a two turn setup where you
28297s	ah the man is just not quite there i was
28299s	wondering if you could go for like kill
28300s	the ball play the three mana amulet and
28303s	then next turn play the zero mana amulet
28305s	to get the sword
28308s	anyway if you can play maybe the uh
28312s	the devour alongside it but i don't
28314s	think pocket trains really gonna give
28316s	that to him
28318s	it is certainly worth thinking about but
28320s	yeah you're right the mana just isn't
28322s	there
28323s	um and even if he could i feel like
28326s	being the second to equip sword still
28328s	works out in against your favor
28331s	okay there you go this is the turn for
28333s	pocket change picks up a zero cost spell
28335s	which is amazing if only to both create
28338s	some more hand space and uh work as more
28341s	refreshes for this priestess valish
28343s	there it is that's uh-huh
28346s	uh board space is
28349s	fine
28350s	as long as you go with the uh the two
28353s	first then the three
28354s	no worries whatsoever
28356s	absolutely
28357s	can't even valish for good measure
28360s	because she's not really doing much
28361s	after this turn anyway
28364s	yes this line to stick the pyro on board
28367s	and represent a minion thread on top of
28370s	having the sword pocket train gets
28372s	across the finish line even though it
28374s	looked like he was much slower on the
28375s	car draw train i think the
28378s	prioritizing of saving valeesh for the
28380s	combo turn as something that needs to be
28382s	looked at as well it is finished
28384s	and the thing that i love most about
28386s	this after what appears for all intents
28388s	and purposes to be an incredibly clean
28390s	game of poor priest pocket train is
28393s	already thinking all the ways that he
28394s	can criticize himself all the ways he
28397s	threw in that game he can just always
28399s	find something he's the nit pickiest of
28401s	players with this deck which is uh what
28404s	makes him such a strong player with the
28405s	deck overall
28407s	so a huge win getting the ball priest
28408s	out of the way means that now it's just
28410s	the rogue that he needs to get over the
28412s	finish line so it's boat rogue versus
28414s	boar priest and boat rogue verse mine
28417s	rogue on the other side for two final
28420s	chances for uh for pocket train to take
28423s	the win i'd put him in the lead at this
28425s	point given that he's two one up but not
28427s	by a huge margin because i don't like
28428s	the look of either of those two
28429s	match-ups especially
28431s	yeah that is true i think that the
28433s	latest iteration of mind rogue that now
28435s	has the capability of getting random
28437s	five eight taunts has helped its match
28439s	up against boat rogue quite a bit and i
28442s	don't think it was terrible even before
28444s	this version was out because just kind
28445s	of beating down the rogue sorry the boat
28448s	rogue when they don't get the double
28449s	knoll start is pretty reliable um
28452s	we are going to see this match up first
28455s	and pocket train does have vessel
28457s	available to him and extortion
28459s	and
28460s	certain the extortion is a keep i was
28462s	going to say vessel is
28463s	questionable as to whether he has time
28466s	but obviously if he picks up prep that's
28468s	the best way to actually end up racing
28470s	the mine rogue
28476s	okay
28477s	very very welcome pickup indeed uh for
28479s	pocket train here
28482s	this is so interesting how to approach
28484s	these early turns because on top of
28486s	having two different tradables he's also
28488s	the warlock hero power which is normally
28491s	great for the uh boat rogue but every
28494s	tap and every it's both damaging you
28497s	getting closer within certain break
28499s	points of the mine rogue and also a turn
28502s	where you're not developing minions here
28503s	so we could see pocket train forgo the
28506s	hero power all together in favor of
28507s	coining out the prep vessel
28512s	i think in this instance though again
28514s	specifically mine rogue every single
28517s	turn is so crucial and getting out this
28519s	pressure as soon as possible uh i do
28522s	think is just that a little bit too
28523s	important which is why i'm a big fan of
28524s	this play you've got the cutlass to
28526s	trade away next turn as well you should
28528s	be able to find something
28529s	i completely agree you're on a very
28532s	tight clock as the boat rogue here
28534s	versus mine rogue and that's why i do
28537s	favor pocket train not getting baited by
28539s	maestro giving him the good hero power
28541s	in the one match up where it's not that
28543s	good
28544s	and also just the decision to trade
28547s	cutless over extortion on turn one
28550s	normally i would say trade extortion
28552s	first because that's the card that you
28554s	don't want to get discounted by the
28555s	cutlass but i think pocket train was in
28557s	a position where just trying to hire all
28560s	that discount on the vessel so we could
28562s	get it down as soon as possible was a
28565s	reasonable line
28567s	and both players starting to draw pretty
28570s	dead though with swift scale trickster
28572s	being the best option available took a
28574s	boom
28575s	really really praying for the uh
28578s	the smoke screen now obviously for the
28580s	best draw in his deck by a country mile
28582s	uh whereas pocket trade i think could
28583s	just keep uh quite happily trading away
28586s	here reconnaissance fine just a way to
28588s	spend your mana
28590s	a question derek i know you're not
28592s	american but the term country mile is
28595s	that longer or shorter than just a
28598s	straight up mile a regular mile i have
28600s	no idea
28603s	is it closer to a kilometer oh no kaboom
28606s	this top deck it's terrible
28609s	he has no death throttle synergy and no
28612s	good hits for the trickster relegated to
28615s	clearing the board as mine rogue
28618s	unimaginable
28622s	and this fossil dealer pickup is amazing
28625s	isn't it
28626s	yeah sorry i'm just doing my best tj
28629s	impression here but i think a country
28630s	mile from i can tell just means a mile
28633s	it's just uh
28634s	another way of saying it as to
28636s	differentiate from a nautical mile i
28638s	think perhaps oh i see
28641s	or just because
28643s	imperial is looking stupid
28648s	well that's finally a mine found for
28650s	gaboom which means he can now get some
28653s	activation on the counterfeit blade
28655s	represents 12 damage maybe more if he
28658s	finds the graveyard but he's even been
28660s	robbed of his trickster here i think
28662s	there is no way on earth that kaboom is
28665s	going to commit damage into this jailer
28667s	so that trickster is just completely in
28669s	the void now
28674s	oh chomping up the mine as well
28678s	that's so sick
28682s	it was there
28684s	elsa jayla says no mine uh and takes it
28687s	for himself getting a good amount of
28689s	pressure on the board at the same time
28692s	uh you know
28694s	at the start of this game pocket train
28695s	was was getting nowhere he was just uh
28698s	you know doing his best impression of a
28700s	crypto enthusiast trading back and forth
28703s	but having absolutely nothing to show
28705s	for it uh but now finally he's getting
28708s	somewhere
28709s	wait that's the other mine and there was
28710s	a shatter shambler played so attack
28713s	is just you know either a wicked stab or
28716s	um
28717s	a
28718s	snowfall graveyard away from lethal next
28720s	turn this is still very real hands
28723s	together in prayer
28726s	it's possible it's still possible we're
28728s	looking for the the graveyard is that
28731s	out right now
28733s	tradable
28734s	graveyard
28735s	or
28736s	wicked stab would get the job done right
28739s	because the mine explodes upon playing
28742s	it and then there's eight damage right
28744s	now from the blade
28747s	he has to keep going what is this this
28749s	is giving me flashbacks of glory versus
28751s	possessing tradable trainable
28754s	oh no
28756s	he's he doesn't have enough mana if he
28758s	could only play this blade and blow it
28761s	up in the same turn that would have been
28763s	enough
28764s	oh it's so close there's just exactly
28767s	for pocket train next turn i mean
28769s	ignoring the obvious way over lethal
28771s	that he has but i think that's gonna be
28772s	it a final kaboom for kaboom but it's
28775s	not enough as pocket train sends himself
28778s	through to the grand finals he has done
28782s	it dravo first pocket train is gonna be
28785s	the finals of masters tour for sure
28788s	immediately typing in what i can only
28790s	assume is the mr attorney often group
28793s	let's head there to
28795s	everybody on his results and absolutely
28798s	he should be proud of it that is an
28800s	amazing showing there on the bar priest
28802s	of course as his signature deck at this
28804s	point but also showing that he has very
28806s	good matchup understanding on all the
28809s	other decks on the rogue here i think a
28810s	lot of players could have potentially
28812s	got invaded by the warlock hero power
28815s	the tricepic fel soul jailer was
28817s	definitely the right one here it denied
28820s	gaboom of a mine for lethal and a
28823s	trickster for you know potential
28825s	smokescreen if it had been drawn very
28828s	very cleanly done there
28830s	uh derek my only regret is that we don't
28832s	get the chance to see a mine rogue
28834s	versus a deck that has pelican diver and
28836s	i cannot truly make use out of my mind
28838s	mine joke
28839s	[Laughter]
28841s	as uh hilarious as that would have been
28843s	gia uh i'm happy to let that one slide
28846s	uh as uh drivo as we see there versus
28849s	pocket train it's gonna be a really
28851s	interesting finals i think actually
28853s	because uh driver has got himself uh
28855s	again that very very unique lineup with
28859s	the mine warlock the mine rogue um just
28862s	very very slow decks in general that
28864s	tend to prey on the uh the slightly
28866s	slower decks in their own right given
28867s	that it's mainly combo decks whereas
28869s	pocket train is the kind of the premier
28871s	combo player in his own right on that
28874s	ball priest uh so i think there's uh
28877s	gonna be some really interesting
28878s	counterplay no matter what here uh as uh
28881s	we have it all set and for no matter
28883s	what here for dravo habu gabu gaboom and
28886s	pocket train uh it's looking like a
28888s	great start to the second half of the
28890s	year here uh with them all in great
28892s	standing to try and make the full
28894s	championships but the winner being in
28896s	decidedly better stead
28899s	definitely so derek i think all these
28901s	players should already be very proud of
28902s	their performances putting themselves in
28905s	a great spot to make it through towards
28907s	the fall championship but right now all
28909s	eyes on drevo and pocket train to see
28912s	which one of them can get themselves
28914s	that ticket to the championships right
28916s	here and now it's all coming down to
28919s	this the grand finals are coming right
28921s	up
28922s	that's right so while we get that set up
28924s	we're gonna go to a break i'd imagine
28926s	maybe a slightly longer one just so
28928s	pocket train can get uh his uh his band
28931s	set up whatever other strategizing he
28933s	needs to do pre-match as uh drevo had a
28936s	good amount of time to do so himself uh
28938s	but when we come back the grand finals
28940s	of masters tour this year it's finally
28942s	time and we're gonna crown our champion
28944s	we'll be right back
28954s	[Music]
28959s	[Applause]
28959s	[Music]
28962s	welcome to raven dress in the darkest of
28965s	seasons where ruthless eyes gawk for
28969s	horrific reasons
28971s	for a hidden hand has struck me down
28975s	with such ruthlessness
28978s	so deep and profound
28985s	[Music]
28990s	to uncover the truth
28992s	of murder most foul
28994s	[Music]
28995s	the anima drifts across the floor
28998s	highlighting the creatures who walked
29001s	through my door
29003s	the motives are as black as night
29007s	avarice power revenge and blight
29012s	we watch the hero
29015s	uncover the clues
29017s	that lead to the truth
29020s	behind this dark bruise
29024s	join us here with the grimm and empires
29029s	choose your power without heavenly bias
29033s	for at the end
29035s	they will burn in the fire
29038s	when it is known who slayed
29041s	tenathius the sire
29044s	[Music]
29059s	so
29072s	[Music]
29078s	[Music]
29086s	[Music]
29113s	[Music]
29126s	[Music]
29153s	[Music]
29161s	[Music]
29176s	do
29179s	[Music]
29187s	[Music]
29191s	to
29197s	[Music]
29205s	um
29211s	[Music]
29226s	so
29230s	[Music]
29241s	do
29250s	[Music]
29257s	[Music]
29266s	so
29268s	[Music]
29277s	[Music]
29290s	[Music]
29302s	[Music]
29306s	[Applause]
29308s	[Music]
29335s	so
29338s	[Music]
29394s	do
29405s	[Music]
29420s	[Music]
29527s	my
29529s	[Music]
29547s	[Music]
29562s	over 300 players started this journey
29564s	three days ago and only two remain here
29568s	at massachusetts and with me the two of
29571s	us that remain derek brown and myself
29573s	are going to bring you the action with a
29574s	uk player in the final dalek are we
29577s	going to get it done this time
29579s	i'm feeling it man the uk has been on
29581s	the rise in competitive past and we've
29583s	had judgement we've had dead draw we got
29585s	pocket train as well now flying the flag
29588s	for the uk in the finals but cannot be
29591s	stressed enough this is not going to be
29593s	an easy match for either of our two
29595s	players as dravo has been one of the
29598s	most one of the longest running masters
29600s	tour players he's been here right from
29602s	the start he's played in a whole bunch
29604s	of them top 20 in terms of all-time
29606s	masters tour wins coming into this
29609s	weekend and i think he might have crept
29610s	up there over the course of today as
29612s	well like he's overtaken possessing i
29614s	think at this point uh current
29616s	hearthstone world champion and a good
29618s	few other names as well to cap that off
29621s	with a victory here at masters tour this
29623s	year i think would truly cement dravo as
29626s	the the household name that he deserves
29628s	to be yeah playing very calmly on stream
29631s	playing a lineup that we really haven't
29633s	seen that much of outside of the the
29635s	french players as well uh taking on
29637s	pocket train who has the lineup that the
29641s	their play test group settled on after
29642s	like 10 minutes into the meta
29645s	the other sort of changed the deck here
29646s	and there most of them taking out the
29648s	boar priest because
29650s	who can play ball priest well the answer
29652s	is both of these two players because
29653s	it's poor priest and ball priest in the
29655s	final and with the druids band away we
29658s	are going to see
29659s	that board piece in action which i've
29661s	got to say though that excites me
29662s	because watching good ball plays players
29664s	never gets old
29665s	it doesn't yeah exactly that's why i
29667s	tend not to bother playing it myself
29669s	because it's just it just pales in
29671s	comparison it just feels like we're
29672s	playing entirely different decks when
29674s	you can play it uh compare it to the
29675s	likes of drevo and uh pocket trade in
29678s	particular uh but i gotta say speaking
29680s	of the ball priest that does kind of set
29681s	the uh the stage for where both players
29683s	are in terms of their lineup draver
29685s	going all in on the combo strategies
29688s	he's got the ball priest obviously as
29690s	the uh the most common of the combo
29692s	decks he's got mine rogue of which two
29696s	managed to get through to the
29697s	semi-finals despite only about 12
29699s	players bringing it i think so clearly
29701s	massively over-performing uh in terms of
29704s	the expected uh results of the deck and
29707s	also mine warlock which is i think even
29710s	less represented uh than the mine rogue
29712s	but it managed to get all the way
29714s	through to the final and when you start
29716s	to run through all the matchups for
29717s	dravo
29718s	it really does start to make sense how
29721s	he's done so well the fact that big
29723s	spell mage was so popular but seems to
29725s	struggle so much against the likes of
29727s	mine rogue and mine warlock really
29729s	bolsters his win percentage so heavily
29732s	and if you consider the second most
29734s	popular deck of like boat rogue or
29735s	jackpot rogue they're often pretty much
29738s	the same in terms of their match-up
29739s	spread mine rogue again starts to look
29742s	very very good so as much as i am
29744s	rooting uh for pocket train to be that
29746s	first uk winner of a masters tour i do
29750s	think draevo is in a slightly superior
29752s	spot statistically yeah i've been saying
29754s	all weekend that i'd sort of the stats
29756s	don't bear that out but the stats in
29758s	this tournament and dravo's performances
29760s	absolutely do
29761s	so let's see how we are but um the druid
29764s	being banned by both players surprised
29767s	me a little bit here pocket train maybe
29769s	in the same boat as me saying well you
29772s	know these mind decks they're not real
29774s	but at some point you've got to accept
29775s	that they are so going to be interesting
29777s	to see if that ban
29779s	comes off uh the graphic there is not
29780s	updated i did have something on the
29782s	bottom um
29783s	that i didn't mention previously but
29785s	really should have pocket train was rank
29787s	one legend on america's and europe at
29790s	the end of june
29793s	did he get was that a finish
29796s	or
29797s	yeah both at once he finished he
29798s	finished with both at once wow i mean
29801s	that's like that's back to cat right as
29803s	the the last time was the last one yeah
29806s	the last one the person that did that
29807s	yeah uh very very impressive uh indeed
29810s	and you know it
29811s	it's no secret pocket train is just
29813s	absolutely no life in hearthstone right
29816s	now he is playing an ungodly amount of
29819s	hearthstone which
29821s	is showing it's obvious you know if you
29824s	watch his stream where he's jamming an
29825s	awful lot of uh of boar priest in
29828s	particular you will be blown away by the
29830s	level of his play i absolutely guarantee
29832s	you and uh the fact that he's here
29834s	through to the finals of the master
29836s	store is also bearing the fruit uh of
29839s	his labor uh but it just goes to show
29841s	you know this is not by accident the
29844s	pocket train has come relatively
29846s	recently to competitive hearthstone and
29848s	is already having so much success it is
29850s	through sheer force of will sheer grit
29853s	and just putting his nose to the
29854s	grindstone uh which we love to see also
29858s	having fairly recently turned on his
29860s	stream for the first time and seems to
29861s	be enjoying that greatly uh just goes to
29864s	show this man's love for hearthstone
29866s	yeah and i mean we've seen big spell
29868s	majors we've talked about that a lot
29869s	carry on talking about pocket train for
29871s	a minute he um he's one of these players
29873s	that sort of reminds me of muzzy and
29875s	frozen where
29877s	amazing ladder player everyone knows who
29878s	they are and then play a few tournaments
29881s	do okay and nothing special and suddenly
29883s	make the breakthrough and the last two
29885s	or three times pocket train's been
29886s	playing tournaments he's been up there
29888s	sort of knocking at the door and already
29890s	into this final uh i think this won't be
29893s	the first this it will be the first
29895s	final he's in but it won't be the last
29897s	final we see pocket training i think he
29899s	is going to be right up there if he
29900s	carries on streaming if he carries on
29902s	playing this much with with some of the
29904s	greats and it's a bit early to say he's
29905s	one of them yet but i think this is
29907s	where the train leaves the station derek
29910s	and heads towards a very long um run of
29914s	victories
29916s	wow well it's got some stiff competition
29918s	uh working to continue doing so all of
29920s	course this year coming from the meesa
29923s	tony often groupen with both habugabu uh
29927s	yuri hunter and now pocket train as well
29929s	representing the uh the undeniably best
29932s	practice group in hearthstone right now
29935s	jumping into game one of the grand
29937s	finals we see dravo with an interesting
29940s	starting hand the sketchy information to
29942s	draw yourself that mine is very
29944s	interesting indeed uh but for pocket
29947s	train this is the juice mailbox dancer
29950s	into a turn for belinda into a turn five
29954s	amulet
29955s	it's perfect yep absolutely the hand you
29958s	want and one we haven't seen that much
29960s	of during this tournament but depending
29962s	what drove it does it might not matter
29964s	let's have a look how the vogue performs
29966s	the mage just may have zero agency in
29968s	the game it happens sometimes oh my
29970s	goodness
29974s	this is a very impressive start yeah
29976s	absolutely trade that away you don't
29978s	care about the barbaric sorceress too
29980s	much it's all about belinda right now
29983s	yeah barbaric sources is very much the
29985s	backup plan one that you use like
29987s	two-thirds of the time but it's still
29988s	the back-up plan the plan is just jamma
29991s	belinda and off you go
29993s	and needs to work out the consequences
29995s	of potentially playing the mailbox
29997s	dancing
30000s	one of which is it allows your opponent
30002s	to dump a backstab
30008s	so just get that coin
30010s	might play it next turn as he's probably
30012s	going to do nothing on turn three then
30014s	turn four he can double coin belinda
30017s	yeah it's very specific cards your
30020s	opponent would need to have to be able
30021s	to punish it like if they're gonna go
30023s	swift scale trickster into smoke screen
30026s	one turn earlier they then also have to
30028s	have the backstab to be able to kill it
30029s	off first uh so personally i think it is
30033s	definitely worth the risk to just slam
30034s	down the mailbox here um
30037s	and you might draw something better on
30038s	turn three to play anyway like the
30040s	treasure guard
30045s	okay one more turn and then it's all
30047s	going to go crazy on both sides of this
30050s	board the mine obviously in hand drawn
30052s	as expected
30055s	get rid of that
30057s	okay that's a good draw that's actually
30059s	handy yeah the armor's relevant
30061s	very very relevant
30070s	okay
30074s	oh
30075s	nothing doing really
30078s	yeah some pretty big whiffs here we're
30079s	really looking for that uh
30082s	that graveyard to be able to double down
30084s	on these death rattles obviously smoke
30086s	screen is just the best drawer in the
30088s	deck with this swift scale trickster
30090s	still in hand so while there are many
30092s	many good draws available to drevo he's
30095s	not finding them right now and he really
30097s	only has
30099s	one maybe two more turns to draw them
30102s	because this is a lot of pressure coming
30104s	into the pocket yeah he's got two turns
30106s	to win the game and that's if pocket
30108s	doesn't decide to gain 10 armor next
30109s	turn to make it even more difficult
30113s	that's just an absolute whiff for drover
30118s	it's just so silly at 9 10. forgetting
30120s	the reductions of the card it's just a
30121s	huge minion
30125s	honestly it kind of feels like you are
30127s	just supposed to pass i think you know
30129s	you can see this game is very rapidly
30131s	slipping away from you but the way to
30133s	respond to that isn't to panic and play
30135s	all your cards it's to wait for the
30136s	graveyard it's to prep that out and you
30139s	go
30140s	uh lieutenant lieutenant coin mine uh on
30144s	the same turn i think is available okay
30147s	factored in as well and then with the
30149s	back stab you're not necessarily killing
30151s	your opponent
30152s	uh but
30154s	that's a lot of damage right it's 8 16
30157s	it's 24 damage you know if you draw that
30158s	on the next turn you are potentially
30160s	looking at lethal uh which is i think
30162s	most certainly the out right now yeah
30164s	i'm interested to see how pocket train
30166s	goes about his turn actually having what
30168s	yeah assuming that drover does nothing
30170s	here
30171s	uh will he just gain the armor first or
30173s	will he start launching with the spells
30177s	because he does just buy you another
30178s	turn a lot of the time here
30181s	okay taking the risk on playing the
30184s	lieutenant obviously it has stealth so
30186s	it's somewhat difficult to interact with
30192s	and there's a big torn is a very very
30195s	big deal for pocket drain stop this two
30197s	damage going face for draevo we're
30199s	really looking again for the graveyard
30202s	to be able to win the game i think
30203s	actually on this turn
30205s	but doesn't find it yeah and uh
30208s	this means he
30210s	is
30212s	very very likely to be dead on the
30214s	following turn
30222s	most probably at least
30224s	get only three damage to face
30229s	isn't a certainty there's a lot of
30231s	rubbish happens he doesn't have oh he
30233s	does he gets the zero man off so he will
30235s	be able to play
30236s	um
30239s	anything that gets put in his hand
30242s	yeah i think you just slam the deep
30244s	water revoker every single time and then
30247s	you can think uh from there you can push
30251s	three off lethal on this turn so i do
30254s	think it probably ends up as roon of the
30256s	archmage um
30258s	i think because there's a
30260s	very decent shot at finding lethal uh
30262s	but pocket trains feeling even more
30264s	confident than that uh just going with
30266s	the drake fire amulet instead to double
30268s	down on this minion pressure and
30271s	therefore dravo i think even with a top
30274s	deck of uh
30278s	the graveyard at this point is going to
30279s	be just short
30282s	if he gets it see if we can count
30286s	or also got to be said what a clever
30288s	spot from pocket train as well a really
30290s	subtle play but pinging the mine but not
30293s	destroying it means that it can't be
30294s	backstabbed any yeah because it's
30296s	damaged so even if a snowfall graveyard
30299s	is found this naval mine can't actually
30301s	be killed alongside only the one in the
30303s	hand uh can be done here we go
30306s	i know it's not going it's fine
30308s	yes spokesperson instead
30318s	good turn you know it's a very very
30320s	powerful play indeed
30322s	but it's still just not preventing
30324s	lethal poke trade quickly adds it up i
30326s	mean he knew it was beforehand but he's
30328s	just double checking to make sure
30330s	yeah i feel like he does that sort of
30331s	thing to keep himself going sometimes
30333s	like he's bored he knows he's in the
30334s	game what could my opponent have done
30336s	that's how he gets so good so fast
30338s	and takes that one zero lead little nod
30340s	from pocket chain there
30342s	and one ahead very quickly in the final
30344s	and getting the mage out of there
30346s	exactly yep got very lucky in uh his
30349s	draw with the mage but hey now is the
30351s	time to get lucky if any series of
30354s	hearthstone is the time to do it it's
30355s	now as drawing the belinda the mailbox
30358s	dancer the deepwater evoker as well the
30360s	perfect mage hand in any matchup and
30363s	especially here against the mine rogue
30365s	whereas drapeo he had multiple turns
30367s	where he had outs for lethal just needed
30369s	a little bit of extra help from the top
30370s	of his deck but uh again we're seeing
30373s	this very interesting development from
30375s	both drevo and
30377s	both of whom brought the the mine rogue
30380s	i'd be curious to know whether they
30381s	practiced together not entirely sure
30383s	but they're players who both keep half
30385s	of the combo in terms of draw we've seen
30388s	kaboom keep smoke screen in hand with no
30390s	trickster and we saw there uh dravo
30393s	keeping trickster in hand with no smoke
30395s	screen uh which both times has worked
30398s	out terribly for them the half of the
30400s	combo has been stuck in hand for almost
30402s	the entire game with nothing to
30404s	synergize alongside it
30406s	um i think that's just one of the
30407s	problems with the deck though right i
30409s	think if you don't you do have to try
30410s	and get the combo together one way or
30412s	another right
30414s	you know there isn't much else going on
30415s	in there like a little tiny bit of
30417s	survivability but not really
30420s	it's a pretty all-in sort of deck
30422s	yeah indeed and i'm not saying that what
30424s	they're doing is wrong at all i think
30426s	it's the kind of play that looks
30428s	bad because you know a lot of the time
30429s	it doesn't work out but it's the kind of
30431s	play that i trust them to have done the
30433s	work and to figure out that it is
30435s	actually good and does boost your win
30436s	rate quite a lot uh even if it's not
30438s	working out for them right now
30442s	uh but here is a very very important
30444s	matchup indeed for pocket train it's
30446s	only the ball priest and the rogue left
30448s	the boar priest i mean it's pocket train
30450s	man we have to expect that it can get a
30453s	win at some point so if he can sneak the
30455s	win in with his rogue against the uh the
30458s	miner oak i think pocket train can all
30461s	but uh take the trophy right now oh that
30464s	would destroy all narratives if he goes
30466s	2-0 up here and then can't get him done
30468s	with the ball priest i think i might
30469s	imagine myself to sleep no that's that's
30472s	not the narrative we want
30474s	um if he's going to lose it fine dravo
30476s	winning fine but don't do it by losing
30479s	the ball please three times thanks
30483s	interesting opener here as well from
30484s	pocket train um
30486s	matchup where it's kind of hard to get
30487s	the pressure but the akani so good
30491s	against pretty much everything honestly
30492s	on curve yeah extortion sure you know
30496s	just have a tradable to further reduce
30498s	the cost of
30500s	um the nulls that you are hopefully
30502s	drawing the real question mark in the
30503s	hand was akarni and to be perfectly
30505s	honest i was leaning towards tossing it
30508s	my reasoning being you just really
30511s	really really want to hit the knolls at
30513s	all costs in order to ramp the pressure
30515s	up as quickly as possible
30518s	but
30519s	this rogue can suffer against
30522s	blademaster to be fair if you go for
30524s	minion they don't have very many removal
30527s	options in terms of their spells and so
30529s	you can really clog up their game plan
30531s	where they can't play down a lieutenant
30534s	a mine uh trickster some of these very
30536s	powerful necessary cards so i was lucky
30539s	that as he started hovering over how
30541s	many spells he had in his hand to count
30543s	them
30545s	because it's a million o'clock in the
30547s	morning or a million o'clock at night
30549s	and he needs to know how much the
30550s	fortitude was gonna cost
30554s	wow this hand is so
30556s	weird for pocket train uh
30560s	you feel you're fine enough behind to
30562s	just jam edwin and see what happens here
30567s	is edwin and just win the game if you
30568s	get it
30569s	yeah but you don't right you've got
30571s	double prep in hand it never pops off
30573s	really
30574s	uh i think you just go coina carney if
30577s	you're gonna
30584s	uh but for that matter it's really not
30586s	gonna work out for pocket trade uh
30588s	because dravo can just go with uh
30590s	counterfeit blade backstab
30594s	probably killing off the icarny but
30598s	honestly you could consider uh just
30600s	going face at this point
30603s	probably kill it off probably wants to
30605s	kill it off just because
30607s	see no oh no no shot
30610s	imagine
30612s	wow
30615s	i was gonna say if you have the
30616s	graveyard in hand then sure yeah you
30618s	just launch everything face because
30619s	you're gonna get there anyway but here
30620s	oh it's a little bit riskier
30625s	uh gets another shadow step here which
30630s	i mean i guess you just throw it down on
30632s	the edwin
30633s	there's a mr smite in hand i don't know
30636s	how desperate do you think you are
30638s	that's the thing do you just go for the
30639s	monster double prep head i know that's
30641s	terrible i understand but yeah he's
30643s	gonna play it safe um but you have to at
30645s	some point think oh i'm so dead do i
30647s	just need to draw into spell after spell
30649s	and draw a million cards but even that
30650s	wouldn't get you there
30652s	he's just drawn no board presence at all
30655s	oh poor pocket train i mean
30659s	he could play the vessel on oh no sorry
30662s	what am i talking about prep prep god it
30663s	is early in the morning isn't it next
30665s	year yeah he can play the azshara vessel
30668s	uh if not on this turn
30672s	which is you know pretty good if he can
30673s	then find the
30675s	gone fission to synergize with the mr
30677s	smite there's a very good shot at lethal
30680s	in the near future
30684s	uh
30685s	trevos
30687s	so close to his own lethal here
30691s	oh now you've gotta kill it right surely
30696s	i don't think you might just get through
30698s	oh you just lose the lieutenant okay
30700s	fair enough yeah
30702s	i guess you lose four damage this way
30704s	instead of six damage this way it's a
30706s	pretty simple equation oh is it just
30708s	lethal for that yeah hey there we go
30710s	that'll do it
30714s	yeah fun game pocket i agree
30717s	the look of the rogue player who draws
30719s	double prep double shadow step has not
30721s	changed over the years and nor has
30723s	drevo's look when he wins games of
30725s	hearthstone
30726s	just looks the same whether he's winning
30728s	or losing and that's got to be the key i
30729s	think but
30731s	yeah that's all done without a graveyard
30733s	as well
30734s	actually lorinda you're you're kind of
30736s	wrong because if you had offered a
30738s	hearthstone player in 2014 2015 hey you
30741s	can draw a double prep double shadow
30742s	step and edwin in your starting hat sure
30744s	yeah yeah actually you know what that
30746s	sounds pretty good i'll take that uh
30748s	this no other minions maybe not yeah
30751s	this one not so much
30754s	pocket train
30755s	you know looking a little belligerent
30757s	for a person who just drew uh belinda on
30760s	turn four into the uh the amulet on the
30764s	uh following turn you know you high
30767s	rolled and then you've got high rolls
30769s	the first two games were pretty
30770s	one-sided either way not a lot that the
30772s	losing player could have done now we
30774s	enter the real meat of the serious
30776s	lorinda with the ball priest still ready
30778s	to go on both sides and that mind
30780s	warlock for draevo which is i think
30782s	really just the secret sauce of his
30784s	lineup
30785s	yeah the secret sauce the slightly spicy
30788s	secret sauce just haven't seen this deck
30790s	i know
30791s	sottle apparently called it in the
30792s	middle of day one or something
30794s	sure um yeah of course he did derek yeah
30798s	exactly
30799s	but nobody was talking about this deck
30801s	until the start of today when we said
30803s	like what's this doing here why are you
30805s	here what are you doing in this lineup
30807s	and here he is in the final and
30810s	no stats to go on to mean anything we're
30812s	just sort of flying blind on this deck
30814s	to some degree
30816s	yeah exactly i mean we're basing our uh
30819s	match-up knowledge off of owl warlock
30821s	because it is for the most part very
30823s	very similar just
30825s	i think probably a slightly improved
30827s	version of the deck
30828s	we can argue about
30831s	the
30833s	the speed at which the combo happens
30834s	because obviously owl slows down the
30837s	speed at which you're going for the
30838s	combo because you have to spend a turn
30840s	playing a seven mana card which feels
30842s	absolutely horrible uh but
30844s	you do then have to do less death
30846s	rattles in order to kill your opponent
30848s	most of the time uh with navel mind
30851s	there's a good chance that you need to
30852s	fit in tamzin plus tamzin's phylactery
30854s	to double down on giving all your
30856s	minions deathrattle but i think that's
30858s	more than made up for the fact that
30859s	you're playing a two mana naval mine a
30862s	one maybe even a zero mana navel mine uh
30864s	if the ruined myth roads play play ball
30867s	with you in your efforts
30869s	and so i do think this is a very very
30870s	stripped down version of the deck and
30873s	honestly i'm kind of on board i think it
30875s	does decently well against the aggro
30877s	decks a little bit better than the curse
30879s	version because you're also playing
30881s	hellfire in those early turns you still
30883s	have the full removal suite package and
30885s	you don't have some of those clunky more
30886s	expensive curse cards and it also does
30889s	very well against the slower decks
30890s	because it's just an otk deck
30893s	yeah it does seem to fit very well as do
30895s	all of duovo's combo decks they all seem
30897s	to be roughly the same speed apart from
30899s	sometimes rogue kills you on turn three
30901s	but in general
30903s	uh they're all
30905s	pretty much the same thing i guess the
30906s	rogue deck is the faster uh the one
30908s	thing with this warlock deck needing so
30910s	much
30911s	combo though to do the the full amount
30913s	of damage is that it does have to
30916s	survive an awfully long time without
30918s	whiffing like it does have to get very
30920s	deep in the deck by the nature of three
30922s	card combo
30925s	pogo training me i think both making
30927s	pretty much the exact same face at that
30929s	point uh of uh being very thoroughly
30932s	impressed with how this game is going
30934s	coin prep
30935s	vessel obviously uh available uh just to
30939s	kick things off uh but it's not
30941s	necessarily quite so obvious as that
30943s	because there's a lot of other options
30945s	here revolving more heavily around knoll
30948s	uh in order to be able to kick this hand
30950s	off a little bit quicker
30952s	yeah i quite like the vessel early which
30953s	means it will be wrong um
30956s	it's because it curves nicely into
30958s	shroud and then whatever other stuff you
30959s	have but obviously knoll
30961s	is the cheapest safer option it's worked
30963s	nicely here into
30965s	whatever he wants to do honestly next
30966s	turn
30968s	yeah i am a big fan of this line uh the
30970s	pocket train is going forth you are able
30973s	to get you know less stats online
30976s	immediately but much more survivable
30978s	stats online a couple of three threes
30981s	uh die
30982s	uh pretty quickly straight up to
30984s	hellfire to drain soul once they attack
30986s	as well uh and this just makes a board
30988s	that's a little bit tougher to answer
30990s	right the differing health totals mean
30992s	that hellfire is not quite good enough
30994s	just knoll isn't quite good enough
30996s	you're very likely to get some
30997s	subsequent damage through as well
31000s	note yourself mine has been played
31005s	and now he slows it down just a touch
31007s	obviously
31010s	fight which makes this an easy decision
31011s	not a harder one where you'd have to
31013s	burned it the other way
31015s	you weren't going to use any potential
31017s	smite finishes later on but it's nice
31019s	when you've got two of them you can just
31020s	put one away nicely
31024s	probably just a uh nice easy hellfire
31027s	take the four healing while you're at it
31029s	why not you're gonna have plenty of
31030s	cards in hand and so dumping them while
31032s	you can is very smart i think
31038s	now we're talking gone fishing please
31042s	you're begging for that anytime soon
31044s	absolutely yeah and with that in mind
31046s	you might just want to
31047s	play the other vessel now just to
31051s	make sure your opponent isn't drawing
31052s	cards they're busy dealing with your
31054s	stealthy three threes just you're just
31056s	hassling them
31057s	into a carny the turn after and then you
31060s	see where you're at
31061s	uh i mean you talk about denying them
31064s	from being able to draw
31066s	cards because they're clearing your
31067s	board but they can actually do both at
31069s	the same time
31071s	uh which is kind of why i was interested
31074s	in going for edwin like you know again
31076s	you're not playing against a 40 card
31078s	deck here there's a very reasonable shot
31081s	that they have tams in in hand at this
31083s	point and edwin even if it does
31085s	literally nothing else just is a 4-4
31087s	drawer card it survives you can play the
31089s	philip fighter alongside it if you like
31091s	and you get to push something face uh
31094s	whereas here in the disaster scenario
31096s	that they do have tams in uh pocket has
31098s	nothing to show for his efforts yeah and
31100s	that is how it turned out
31102s	let's get the icarnian picks the minion
31107s	i think makes sense because there's so
31108s	many spells they're so cheap to proc
31110s	away
31112s	that this um gives you a chance of
31114s	hitting
31115s	that one
31118s	[Laughter]
31119s	yeah drawing afterwards uh before
31122s	yeah that's a 9am play
31125s	yeah
31127s	you remembering the plus one
31132s	an international man of mystery i just
31134s	had to check to make sure you had
31135s	remembered the plus one there for a
31137s	second
31139s	[Music]
31147s	yucky
31151s	yeah i think he stabbed the okani right
31154s	it's it's surely gonna die at some point
31156s	soon okay
31160s	okay i guess it depends on what you draw
31162s	how big the edwin can get
31165s	okay shadow step again on the uh
31169s	maestro that's fine
31172s	uh
31174s	oh
31176s	probably worth it to play it the the
31179s	problem is though that you know if you
31180s	shadow step it here and replay it yes
31183s	you get one extra card but you lose a
31185s	shadow step when you have mr smite and
31187s	philip fighter in hand
31189s	uh and so i think pokedrain actually
31191s	ended up
31192s	with the same thought process that i did
31194s	of i'd rather lose plus two plus two on
31197s	my edwin and hold the shadow step it's
31200s	gonna die to uh entitled customer anyway
31204s	uh
31206s	yeah that's fair i was thinking that
31207s	seven's a lot more than five but the
31209s	customer if you're on eight you're just
31211s	still dying so sure
31214s	viper's irritating to over just keeps
31216s	coming back for more
31218s	does need to play a one-man a minion
31219s	which is
31220s	fine because you can play the knoll get
31222s	that counted
31224s	and then slam the customer
31226s	are you gonna clean that up
31229s	customer is slammed
31234s	in oh how about that's just lethal right
31237s	right six
31239s	twelve it's mega lethal 18 mega lethal
31242s	yeah that's the prep tooth 21
31245s	yeah
31247s	huge draw for pocket train out of
31249s	nowhere that will perk him up for the
31251s	final potential game of the series
31254s	getting the win with this boat rogue
31256s	enormous only his signature deck pocket
31260s	train left with just the ball priest as
31263s	the single best ball priest player in
31266s	the world right now he's got to be on
31268s	cloud nine the victory is within
31270s	touching distance
31272s	i mean he might be signed by any number
31273s	of teams derek but yeah
31274s	[Music]
31278s	more priest we've talked about it all
31280s	tournament how good he is on this deck
31282s	we haven't seen much of him on it the
31283s	one time we really got to see him go he
31286s	played fantastically
31288s	um
31288s	and yeah
31290s	as much as i like draevos play as much
31291s	as i'd love drover to win this
31293s	tournament pocket train winning this
31294s	tournament on boar priest
31297s	it it's got to be hasn't it surely he
31299s	can't lose twice with it
31302s	it's favored against everything if your
31304s	pocket train or so he says well that's
31306s	the annoying thing because he's one of
31308s	those players who will say that his pet
31310s	deck is favored against everything and
31312s	for him it's true for you it's not i
31314s	guarantee if you just want to go and
31316s	queue up uh ball priest on ladder if you
31319s	haven't played it before you will lose a
31321s	lot of games before you start winning
31323s	some just ask my co-caster
31326s	yup
31327s	nine star gamers signing in and it's all
31329s	four peaceful
31332s	last season was horrible because my ball
31334s	preached endeavors i tell you
31337s	um
31338s	but boy do i spot a ball please mistake
31340s	when i see one
31341s	you've seen i see it coming a mile off
31343s	but not with this man
31348s	all right how are we feeling about this
31350s	hand handmaiden tick
31352s	cleric plus gift of the naru is
31355s	interesting of course because it means
31357s	that you're just a pyro away from
31359s	getting that big sweeping draw turn
31362s	but i do see where he's coming from by
31364s	throwing it away we'd rather find cards
31366s	like thrive in the shadow fantastic uh
31369s	the uh
31370s	sorry the switcheroo as well basically
31373s	any way to play spells that do things in
31375s	their own right which then of course
31377s	activate the handmaiden as well this
31379s	hand right now is gorgeous
31382s	yeah and this is going to be tough for
31383s	drover i think because this one is
31385s	pretty much a race there will be a
31387s	little tiny bit of pressure applied at
31389s	some point by drover but nothing to mean
31391s	anything really
31392s	in fact he may not even apply it because
31394s	it's just more cars for pocket train to
31396s	draw
31397s	so
31398s	i think that the priest is probably just
31400s	that little bit quicker i don't know the
31402s	match up i'm not going to claim that i
31403s	do but i feel like the warlock has to
31406s	draw its whole deck and so does the
31407s	priest but the priest does it so much
31409s	quicker
31410s	there is a caveat that warlock can just
31412s	win if it draws the white cards
31414s	yeah that's right because we we always
31416s	talk about how turn eight is poor priest
31420s	that is when they swing the sword uh
31423s	i wanna say that on average the mine
31425s	warlock is probably looking a turn later
31428s	it's just based on intuition uh but i do
31431s	think you know turn a is is early it
31433s	feels like for the quest uh sorry for
31436s	the uh the mine warlock because i mean
31438s	look at this right it's turn five
31441s	and
31441s	he's nowhere close he's played a mine
31444s	yes but he needs to trade the shipments
31446s	he need to draw the phylactery and he
31449s	very possibly needs to draw tams in as
31451s	well uh not that one the 1-3-10
31456s	yeah the other one uh in order to be
31458s	able to
31460s	actually get the combo online
31463s	and look at this hand if you want to
31465s	draw cards if you want to get boards in
31466s	the graveyard it's just everything you
31469s	could want even i know this yeah this is
31472s	fantastic uh wow he does end up taking
31475s	the handmaiden i think there uh off of
31479s	the
31481s	illuminate which is very interesting
31482s	because there was the option for a
31487s	uh
31487s	sorry for an amulet as well but one of
31489s	the things that i always miss with this
31491s	deck that pocket train was actually
31492s	talking a little bit about when i was
31494s	casting tyson's tavern with him was you
31497s	know when you have two illuminates when
31499s	you play the second one it's going to be
31501s	the same cards on the bottom whatever
31502s	you wanted to hit you could just hit
31504s	then and so i think it's a really clever
31506s	realization to take the second hand
31507s	maiden find the other illuminate and
31510s	then use the other one uh the second
31512s	illuminate to get that uh
31514s	that amulet off the bottom of your deck
31517s	to get the combo ready for turn eight
31520s	yup if you're gonna do it on turn eight
31521s	you might as well just do it on turn
31523s	eight draw the cards don't take us it's
31526s	like less risk right
31528s	the only risk the i think the thing that
31530s	i would end up doing in this situation
31532s	direct is running out of things tradable
31534s	i'd draw my whole deck think i was
31536s	really clever
31537s	and then have no cards and then not have
31539s	enough tradables left on the ambulance
31540s	now pocket train won't do that but i
31542s	thought i'd highlight how you don't play
31544s	this deck just for a moment
31547s	as pocket trained as quickly google's on
31549s	the side monitor how to play ball priest
31552s	and then back he goes
31555s	yeah okay i'll trade these now well i've
31557s	still got cards in my deck tick
31561s	yeah you're very happy to play boar in
31563s	this matchup there's no transform
31564s	effects no steel effects that is always
31566s	dying
31569s	and from the looks of it so is drevo uh
31572s	still no way to complete his own uh otk
31576s	no way to build up a board that can
31578s	threaten the priest even through the
31580s	sword swing
31583s	and uh pocket train just has
31586s	the mother of all set up to i recognize
31588s	that look he thinks he's got it
31590s	oh he thinks it's there now but i
31592s	don't think he's gonna go for it because
31594s	he hasn't got the time now oh there's no
31596s	shot you have it here right
31599s	is there no shot is someone injured
31602s	i mean
31603s	there's always a shot but
31606s	the only thing that could possibly go
31608s	wrong here for him is he can overdraw by
31610s	doing something tired and horrible right
31613s	don't think he's even i think his muscle
31614s	memory just won't let that happen but
31616s	that's the
31617s	the one thing he can mess up here i
31619s	think
31620s	or he can die next turn but how's that
31622s	possible right yeah i agree i think
31624s	that's so unlikely to happen with a rod
31626s	not having been played yet
31631s	yeah he's just got to wait i think this
31633s	is very smart like he was doing some
31635s	furious counting there that was like
31637s	some good will hunting stuff right there
31640s	uh
31640s	but he does hold off for the moment as
31643s	dravo now finds the rod that's a good
31645s	draw that's the kind of draw that can
31647s	set up for these powerful uh lethal
31649s	surprise lethal turns uh on turn 10 i
31652s	want to say most likely uh but pocket
31655s	train has to has have his eyes set on a
31658s	play earlier than turn 10.
31660s	yeah i think
31663s	he's he's going i think
31666s	this i can fully believe is lethal
31669s	with a zero mana amulet in the deck i
31671s	think them all having been traded as
31673s	much as you need
31674s	i just think so yeah
31676s	very lethally he might need one more
31678s	trade but i think they've all been done
31683s	oh i get is when i see the double cleric
31686s	because i'm bad not because he's bad
31689s	it's so perfect as well right you're
31690s	swapping the health back and forth even
31692s	though the cleric came in to play with
31693s	one it doesn't matter because you're
31695s	able to suck up to give it more health
31698s	there's one amulet in hand we just need
31700s	one more we need the mana from priestess
31703s	felice the cleric is still alive the
31705s	pyro ready to whirlwind the amulet of
31708s	the undying coming down the boar's
31710s	getting it done dravo can scenes and
31712s	pocket train is the winner of masters
31716s	tour vashir what a performance
31718s	and what a response from pocket train
31721s	i'm so pleased to see him win this
31723s	honestly we hyped up the ball priest for
31724s	him i picked him by the way i don't
31726s	usually pick people i want to win
31728s	because he curses them but they do a
31729s	good job of cursing themselves i don't
31731s	pick them so i just picked him a so
31733s	please and the last three days he's been
31735s	rank one on two ladders and won a
31738s	masters tour and this has been coming
31740s	down and he's gonna he's gonna do more
31742s	he is going to be a player we see again
31744s	this isn't a one-hit wonder and neither
31746s	by the way is draevo who has slowly but
31748s	surely be marching up through the
31749s	rankings tournament after tournament
31751s	really don't want to miss him out of
31753s	this either at this moment because he's
31754s	had a great one too
31755s	but
31756s	it's a uk moment it's a pocket train
31758s	moment
31759s	we got it done he got it done
31762s	and boar priest got it done
31766s	yeah the uh the easiest bring of his
31768s	life and he manages to get there in the
31770s	end as uh i've got to say you know it's
31772s	obviously very impressive that he won
31774s	the masters tour but again the amount of
31776s	hearthstone that he's playing anything
31777s	less than a win would have just been
31779s	kind of embarrassing he needed something
31781s	to show for his efforts because he's
31782s	just like 10 hours a day jamming
31785s	hearthstone streaming like a madman as
31787s	well and uh yeah jokes aside i am so so
31790s	happy for the man i really am right
31791s	there with you i think he's a an
31793s	extremely strong up-and-coming talent uh
31797s	who uh honestly i i kind of struggle to
31799s	even apply the moniker to him i feel
31801s	like because he's so new in the scene i
31803s	should be calling him up and coming but
31805s	it really doesn't feel like that anymore
31806s	he's just setting the stage setting the
31808s	standard for how uh these very very
31810s	difficult finicky decks should be played
31813s	and uh
31814s	everyone else it's time to follow suit
31816s	because he's looking like a real strong
31817s	contender going forward to the full
31819s	champs and potentially even the world
31821s	championships yeah and he's done the
31823s	thing as well where he's been on a few
31824s	streams had a few mediocre tournaments
31826s	had a few mediocre performances um it's
31829s	only about a year ago maybe even less
31831s	that he was like well i can play two or
31832s	three decks well but i just can't bring
31834s	the tournament line up because
31836s	of four decks knowing them inside out
31838s	how can i do that and now here we are
31841s	like i don't know again nine months a
31843s	year later he played the dreamhack
31844s	beyond and got to the top eight there
31846s	you know did okay
31848s	uh but now he's finally got the hang of
31851s	i'm just going to play all the decks and
31852s	then i'll know four decks easily and
31854s	that's where we're at
31855s	yeah that is where we're at but i think
31858s	we can hear the words from his own mouth
31860s	as we have a winner standing by
31863s	mr swinton
31864s	can you hear me i can indeed hello
31869s	you did it how are you feeling
31871s	i i'm in disbelief i think i'm a little
31874s	bit too tired to be that happy i don't
31875s	know what happened
31878s	something just like switched and all the
31879s	nerves went away and i was just having a
31881s	good time and along the way i won a
31883s	masters tour
31885s	he just woke up from a fugue state and
31887s	hey wow i'm a hearthstone superstar oh
31889s	yeah
31891s	uh congratulations man i've got to say
31893s	that final was absolutely nerve-wracking
31896s	uh but it it felt like you were just in
31898s	your rhythm it was
31900s	very few mistakes i could pick up on at
31902s	all
31903s	yeah i um i definitely didn't play like
31906s	perfectly in top eight but i played a
31907s	lot better than i expected to under the
31909s	pressure
31910s	it's like uh
31912s	with a lot of people watching it's very
31913s	difficult but i'm quite happy with how i
31914s	played i think i mean i must've done
31916s	something right
31918s	uh oh yeah 100 yeah the ball priest
31919s	games
31921s	didn't lose on stream very thankful i
31923s	was a little bit worried when i was two
31924s	one up
31926s	to lose twice with bull priest and
31927s	that's how i went out that was uh
31929s	i was a little concerned but uh
31931s	that's just too good
31933s	yeah the scriptwriters aren't that cruel
31936s	but obviously coming into this
31937s	tournament i think it's fair to say that
31939s	boar priest was a 100 bring for you uh
31942s	but how difficult was it to find the
31943s	rest of the decks in your lineup and uh
31945s	how much did it change over the course
31947s	of your practice
31949s	um i was
31952s	like bald priest was the only deck i
31953s	liked in the game for a long long time
31956s	and then i started playing big spell
31957s	mage on ladder and won a lot of games
31960s	drew a lot of blinders like i've been
31961s	doing on stream here
31963s	um finished double one
31965s	with uh with mage so i thought okay i'll
31967s	just put that in that's a good deck
31969s	then when the new card came out
31971s	all the alignment druid stats just went
31973s	to it's suddenly favored against aggro
31975s	why wouldn't you bring it um that kind
31977s	of thing and uh i'm drew didn't go
31980s	positive record for me but i think it
31982s	got banned more than any other deck like
31983s	maybe more than the others combined
31986s	so i was happy with that and then boat
31987s	road was very much the fourth deck
31990s	but uh
31992s	because it didn't seem to fit the lineup
31993s	but then
31994s	[Music]
31996s	i don't know no deck really did so i
31998s	just
31999s	stuck in a deck that uh
32001s	has been winning a lot on ladder so i i
32003s	thought
32005s	can't go too far wrong and uh well it
32006s	went went pretty well
32009s	went fantastically well and uh yep we've
32012s	seen such a uh a rise it feels like in
32015s	the last few months in the last few
32016s	master tours of the meesters tourney
32018s	often group and squad coming together
32020s	specifically habugabu fury and now you
32023s	as well uh what is it about the synergy
32025s	between you guys that's working so well
32027s	at the moment
32028s	i think it's just
32030s	we we all play a lot of the game so
32032s	there's always someone to talk to that's
32033s	very helpful and
32036s	uh we're very analytical with stuff
32039s	that's like you can put your biases
32041s	aside a little bit when there are loads
32042s	of people like people told me not to
32044s	bring bald priests but uh
32045s	you know i did put my foot down there
32047s	but uh it's good having a lot of high
32049s	level voices to
32051s	like put you in your place at times
32053s	when when you're a little wrong with
32054s	stuff but um
32056s	another person pascoa he's a huge huge
32059s	huge part of all of our preparation he's
32061s	he's a wizard with stats and
32064s	i definitely couldn't couldn't have got
32066s	this far without the help of him and all
32068s	the others
32069s	uh it's ridiculous i don't know how how
32071s	we're getting these results
32074s	i mean you're playing some blooming good
32076s	hearthstone i would say is helping you
32077s	along the way uh but i remember seeing
32080s	in the uh the calls uh while you were
32082s	getting ready you were saying now that
32083s	ladder doesn't really have any effect on
32085s	qualification for the rest of the year
32087s	but on stream you're gonna divert away
32089s	from the hardcore
32090s	uh boar priest belinda big spell mage
32094s	over to some slightly memier decks now
32096s	that you're the greatest hearthstone
32097s	player to ever live are you still gonna
32099s	be doing that or is it just all
32100s	competitive all the time
32103s	i'm not sure i mean if i am truly the
32105s	greatest then it doesn't matter what
32106s	deck i'm playing right
32108s	so uh maybe i'll just finish rank one
32110s	with the with a meme deck unlikely but
32112s	uh it'd be nice to
32115s	take a take a month off distressive
32117s	grinding ladder well take a few months
32119s	off i guess now at this point
32121s	um
32121s	and just try and
32123s	i haven't really enjoyed this meta to be
32125s	completely honest
32126s	but um approaching it is a very very
32129s	intense competitive player that that can
32131s	just happen it doesn't matter it's not
32133s	necessarily the game's fault so it'd be
32136s	nice to
32137s	like look at it with fresh eyes just
32138s	kind of enjoy myself
32140s	rather than just play to win
32144s	which is kind of what i was doing in in
32146s	the end of this but uh
32148s	winning winning game along the way
32151s	yeah what do you know having fun in
32152s	hearthstone what a novel concept for a
32154s	competitive player uh but with that all
32156s	said and done uh one final
32158s	congratulations and a chance for you to
32160s	say anything you want to say and say
32162s	thanks to anyone that you want to
32164s	i just want to thank the practice group
32166s	as again uh the mr tony orphan group i
32170s	it's dutch i butchered the name but uh
32172s	i'm i could not be anywhere near
32175s	where where i've come today uh without
32177s	the help of them they're all brilliant
32179s	there are too many names to name
32180s	uh but like they know who they are
32183s	people should know who they are they're
32184s	all brilliant players every one of them
32186s	and uh everyone everyone helps so much
32190s	[Music]
32192s	awesome
32192s	well uh i'll
32194s	fantastic i'll let you go and celebrate
32196s	by falling face first into bed and
32198s	sleeping for 12 hours oh yeah uh
32200s	congratulations again man
32202s	thank you thank you very very much
32205s	all right bye
32208s	there it is larinda the winner of
32209s	masters tour this year such a a humble
32212s	presence uh but a lovely guy as well and
32215s	a uh a very very strong hearthstone
32216s	player indeed as we just saw a humble
32219s	presence until everyone has to listen to
32221s	him now in the group saying how he was
32223s	right about poor peace now his
32225s	percentages were right all along and how
32227s	they should have listened to him
32229s	but yeah absolutely it was a great
32231s	interview he really sort of
32233s	spoke a lot of helpful words there and
32235s	it gave a good insight into how that all
32236s	functioned very nice
32239s	it's kind of true but i mean like pocket
32241s	train saying you should just bring ball
32243s	priest it's kind of like saying use
32244s	usain bolt saying you should just run
32246s	faster like yeah sure it's easy for him
32248s	to say as the uh the best in the world
32251s	uh but yeah there we go pocket train got
32253s	that victory uh looking forward to him
32256s	playing throughout the rest of the year
32257s	in the masters tours of course which
32259s	he's now got guaranteed qualification i
32261s	think he had anyway because of all his
32263s	uh ladder finishes to be perfectly
32264s	honest uh and then uh seeing him in the
32268s	full champs later on in the year
32269s	fighting for that spot in the world
32270s	championships will be very exciting
32272s	indeed the other thing obviously which
32274s	means that i now win everything i got
32276s	the predictions right and he confirmed
32279s	fourth deck in the lineup absolutely
32282s	it's almost like i've been listening to
32283s	them or something earlier in the week
32284s	yeah
32285s	also he mentioned the pressure in that
32287s	interview something we've talked about a
32288s	lot with with players who go from ladder
32291s	into tournaments and yeah he won't feel
32294s	the pressure as much ever again after
32296s	finding a way to get through that top
32298s	eight
32298s	so congratulations once again to pocket
32301s	trainees it's superb and i'm very happy
32303s	for him and again with the other top
32305s	eight top 16 competitors we've seen
32307s	today or whatever you want to call
32309s	whatever we're now at yesterday tomorrow
32311s	i don't know where we are anymore um you
32313s	know thanks to all them as well for
32315s	showing up and putting in a great
32316s	performances because this has been a
32317s	really good top 16.
32320s	it has yeah i've had an absolutely
32322s	fantastic time uh speaking of some of
32324s	the other things that we can be looking
32326s	forward to i believe there is a lobby
32327s	legends event to be started next weekend
32331s	uh and then uh gm grand masters last
32335s	call kicks off in uh two weeks after
32338s	that uh which is going to be very
32340s	exciting the final chance for our last
32342s	remaining grand masters uh to get that
32344s	one last spot at the world championship
32347s	uh so make sure you're here on the uh
32349s	the hearthstone youtube channel to be
32350s	catching all of that action
32353s	absolutely and i think that says
32355s	everything derek is there anything else
32357s	you want to say from your own viewpoint
32359s	rather than just things that are coming
32360s	anything you just stood out to you in
32362s	this tournament apart from the winner
32364s	uh i mean it was just a great start to
32367s	uh the second half of the year as we
32369s	were saying getting a better look at
32370s	who's going to be going through to the
32371s	full championship great play along the
32373s	way fantastic story lines with habu gabu
32375s	making another top 16 gabby being like
32378s	the top 18 player in masters tour
32380s	history as well now the stories are
32382s	really starting to ramp up as we get
32384s	towards the end of the competitive year
32386s	and uh of course thank you so much to
32388s	everyone for watching uh you make it all
32390s	possible and uh even if we were rambling
32393s	quite incoherently at the end uh due to
32396s	the time zone i still had a great time
32398s	yeah me too and with that it is goodbye
32401s	from us from the other casters from the
32403s	production and from all the people
32404s	behind the scenes thank you for watching
32407s	and we'll see you next time
32411s	[Music]
32418s	[Music]
32424s	[Music]
32441s	[Applause]
32445s	[Music]
32451s	[Music]
32461s	[Music]
32467s	now
32470s	[Music]
32480s	[Music]
32489s	[Music]
32497s	[Music]
32519s	[Music]
32527s	[Music]
32538s	[Music]
32546s	[Music]
32554s	[Music]
32564s	[Applause]
32565s	[Music]
32567s	oh
32570s	[Music]
32590s	[Music]
32592s	there's no shot no shot did he just bm
32594s	well played me when he's actually about
32596s	to win through something incredibly
32598s	scammy right now that was just an
32599s	incredibly diplomatic and well-mannered
32601s	concede from your opponent and habu
32604s	we can break the news to you right now
32607s	my friend
32613s	[Music]
32616s	i'm going to call it too soon but yeah
32617s	there we go that's the big moment there
32619s	for habu gaboo hodge believe
32623s	he comes back takes the victory
32630s	that is why we do this that is why we
32634s	play this game
32647s	[Music]
32651s	[Applause]
32653s	[Music]
32656s	do
32659s	[Music]
32670s	you

[2022] 2022 Hearthstone Masters Tour Vashj'ir | Day 3

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