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| 872s | it's a bless off the top pesco a 2-0 up |
| 877s | in the finals |
| 879s | it looked rough for him for a moment the |
| 881s | shard of the naaru was so clutch |
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| 887s | who says he tried so hard he set up a |
| 889s | lethal himself with the void chart and |
| 892s | shadow form on the next turn even if his |
| 894s | ethic got cleared it was as good a plan |
| 896s | as any |
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| 905s | there it is |
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| 922s | welcome back to the final day of the |
| 924s | final week of grand masters last call |
| 926s | before we head to the playoffs next week |
| 930s | incredibly exciting stuff here as all of |
| 932s | our players this weekend |
| 934s | aside from bunnyhopper still have |
| 935s | something to play for here to fight for |
| 937s | those spots in the playoffs and crawl up |
| 939s | into better and better spots if they do |
| 941s | manage to get themselves there so some |
| 943s | fantastic in hearthstone will ensue i'm |
| 946s | sure and jia are you as excited as i |
| 950s | absolutely dark it is |
| 952s | always a bittersweet feeling i feel as |
| 954s | we approach the last tail end of any |
| 957s | season of grand masters usually around |
| 959s | this time we had already been saying our |
| 961s | goodbyes to certain players for being |
| 963s | relegated out and it's true that to a |
| 965s | certain extent there are some players |
| 966s | that are no longer in contention but |
| 968s | there is an overall more uplifting |
| 970s | feeling is what comes to mind for me as |
| 973s | we have all eight players left outside |
| 976s | of like you said bunny hopper playing |
| 977s | for either the chance to get into |
| 979s | playoffs in the first place a better |
| 981s | seating in there and ultimately later on |
| 985s | a ticket to the world championship |
| 988s | well i cannot wait to see who's gonna |
| 989s | round out uh our |
| 992s | world championship with us having quite |
| 993s | a few of the players already found out |
| 995s | still the full championships later on |
| 997s | this year to find out the rest of those |
| 999s | spots to fill it out and uh even though |
| 1002s | i no longer should technically have an |
| 1004s | allegiance to asia pacific given that |
| 1006s | we've done with the uh the regional form |
| 1008s | of grand masters still kind of hoping |
| 1010s | for an apac winner here just to uh |
| 1012s | bolster our numbers uh at the world |
| 1014s | championships after tansoku's victory at |
| 1017s | the master tour last week and i'm riding |
| 1019s | a high |
| 1020s | and it's going to be interesting to see |
| 1021s | the strategies that players employ to |
| 1023s | get to that point where they can get to |
| 1024s | the world championships as this is last |
| 1026s | hero standing again which has led to uh |
| 1030s | i think |
| 1030s | coming into it a few different ideas as |
| 1033s | to how you could uh deal with the most |
| 1035s | popular classes in the game right now |
| 1037s | but as the dust is settled i think we're |
| 1040s | getting a pretty good picture on what |
| 1041s | strategies are viable and which are not |
| 1043s | that is right the vast majority of our |
| 1045s | field have been going for either ban |
| 1047s | druid or ban rogue and depending on |
| 1049s | which of those two powerhouse decks you |
| 1051s | leave up you need to make sure that you |
| 1053s | have at least two counters in your |
| 1055s | lineup accounting for a possible ban on |
| 1057s | one of them from your opponent we've had |
| 1059s | a couple of priest vans here and there |
| 1061s | whether it's against quest priest or |
| 1062s | even the off the wall who priest from |
| 1065s | chonsu just to try and maybe take a risk |
| 1068s | to let that rogue get a sweep through |
| 1069s | but we've seen that it's not just a |
| 1071s | quest priest and that weird priest that |
| 1073s | have a good counter on rogue we've seen |
| 1075s | it fall at the hands of mage as well so |
| 1078s | those three classes in particular |
| 1081s | alongside druid are the ones to watch |
| 1083s | out for and it's no surprise that those |
| 1085s | four all together make up the vast |
| 1087s | majority of our field |
| 1089s | and we can see in our |
| 1091s | first match here we might be seeing some |
| 1093s | of that uh interplay again with a little |
| 1095s | twist uh from chonsu again as you said |
| 1097s | with the huh priest uh and uh he's gonna |
| 1100s | be fighting tooth and nail to get out of |
| 1102s | this one because of course the uh the |
| 1103s | prizing for this season of grand masters |
| 1106s | is not done week by week it's all a |
| 1108s | chunk at the end uh with uh |
| 1112s | the last place players 13th through 16th |
| 1114s | walking with six thousand dollars which |
| 1116s | is a couple of our players right down at |
| 1117s | the bottom of the leaderboard right |
| 1119s | mighty i think destined to finish in |
| 1120s | that position i can't remember who else |
| 1122s | is down there |
| 1125s | oh yes uh locked in i suppose at this |
| 1127s | point be a less mythical way of saying |
| 1129s | it uh but everyone else fighting for |
| 1131s | that first place of course for the 22 |
| 1132s | and a half thousand or even just fifth |
| 1134s | through eighth right if they can get |
| 1135s | into playoffs they already bolster their |
| 1136s | prize money a little bit and they could |
| 1138s | set their height sights on uh higher |
| 1141s | prize pool as the playoffs progress |
| 1144s | but again for this week less focusing on |
| 1146s | the prize pool more on the points |
| 1148s | because a couple of our players down |
| 1150s | towards the bottom of the leaderboard as |
| 1151s | we've mentioned a couple of times |
| 1152s | dimitri kazov in last place chonsu not |
| 1154s | much higher up oka shinsuke creeping up |
| 1157s | slowly levick as well i believe pretty |
| 1159s | far down the leaderboard all of these |
| 1161s | players looking for those high win score |
| 1165s | goal lines to get as many points as |
| 1166s | possible one more win gets them three |
| 1169s | points two gets four and first place |
| 1171s | gets them the full five points and all |
| 1173s | of those players who are currently |
| 1175s | outside of the uh the playoffs uh |
| 1178s | promotion slots uh are very much looking |
| 1180s | forward for those points in particular |
| 1182s | yeah because we've only had three total |
| 1184s | weeks where you're able to accrue points |
| 1186s | it's crazy how quickly one player can |
| 1189s | overtake another player that was |
| 1190s | previously like 10 spots above them |
| 1192s | that's the difference that five points |
| 1194s | can make and we have so many of those |
| 1196s | players that have had pretty lackluster |
| 1198s | first two weeks looking to make up for |
| 1200s | it with their last splash here in lhs we |
| 1203s | can see our top eight very very shortly |
| 1206s | but like you said dimitri kazov has the |
| 1208s | most to account for and here we go right |
| 1211s | in their first match we have bunny |
| 1213s | hopper and chonsu two players that are |
| 1215s | on the very opposite ends of the bracket |
| 1218s | prior to this week chonsu only had one |
| 1220s | point and bunny already had nine and now |
| 1222s | they're currently with plus two more on |
| 1224s | their totals |
| 1226s | yeah already clawing their ways up and |
| 1229s | uh getting closer to those spots uh like |
| 1231s | i said chonsu gonna be one i'm looking |
| 1233s | very closely on it was my prediction for |
| 1235s | this weekend uh when the top eight was |
| 1237s | settled to take the whole thing i |
| 1239s | believe in uh the hot chonsus summer and |
| 1242s | that he could take down the the trophy |
| 1244s | uh but a lot of the matches uh well all |
| 1246s | the matches really having huge |
| 1248s | implications here uh the standout one |
| 1250s | being levick versus dimitri kazov as |
| 1252s | it's two players down at the bottom of |
| 1253s | the leaderboard up against each other |
| 1255s | whereas all the others are kind of one a |
| 1257s | lot higher one a fair bit lower uh one |
| 1260s | in and one out whereas for those players |
| 1262s | it is very definitively whoever loses |
| 1264s | they are out of contention uh for |
| 1267s | playoffs entirely |
| 1268s | uh which i think is uh |
| 1271s | a scary position for dimitri kasov to be |
| 1272s | in because levick has been looking on |
| 1274s | fire uh lately if you ask me all that |
| 1276s | ladder grinding that he's getting in day |
| 1278s | after day has been working wonders on |
| 1280s | his deck building in particular even |
| 1282s | more so than his play very unafraid of |
| 1284s | taking risks and in my opinion having |
| 1286s | found some of the uh the meta breaking |
| 1289s | decks a week before a lot of the other |
| 1290s | players |
| 1291s | ooh but dmitry kaza of course looking to |
| 1294s | make sure he doesn't close out his |
| 1295s | grandmaster's run with a lackluster last |
| 1298s | week as well then we move on to super |
| 1300s | fake versus okasinski we're super fake |
| 1302s | you know going into this week was in a |
| 1303s | pretty safe position sixth place with |
| 1306s | four points uh but of course to be |
| 1308s | completely safe for a play also wants to |
| 1310s | take as many wins as he can and still |
| 1312s | has a shot at making one of the top |
| 1314s | seedings actually if he wins the entire |
| 1316s | weekend also depending on how blyze does |
| 1319s | but oka shinsuke also in a little bit of |
| 1320s | trouble he was at two points before this |
| 1322s | week so currently at four another player |
| 1324s | that wants to take it as far as possible |
| 1327s | and then in our last match of the day we |
| 1329s | do have blaise who is currently second |
| 1331s | in standings looking |
| 1332s | completely safe for playoffs but has |
| 1335s | that small risk of not getting the top |
| 1337s | seeding for that free win for next week |
| 1339s | and then habugabu who is you know the |
| 1342s | breakout player of the entire year as a |
| 1344s | whole but in grand masters has had a bit |
| 1345s | of a middling performance he's already |
| 1348s | secured tickets to a ticket to world but |
| 1350s | i think he would like to you know just |
| 1352s | prove his consistency even more |
| 1354s | i mean i think the big risk for blyze |
| 1356s | right now is giving himself a hernia if |
| 1357s | he has to play against any more ropers |
| 1360s | over the course of uh today's players |
| 1362s | that was uh excruciating for him i could |
| 1364s | tell uh but you know |
| 1366s | putting him in his discomfort zone i |
| 1367s | guess uh and it almost worked out uh for |
| 1370s | uh pascal uh but for the rest of those |
| 1372s | games yeah you could just tell how much |
| 1374s | it means to these players because a lot |
| 1376s | of the you know the frankly less emotive |
| 1378s | players oka schinsky i'm thinking in |
| 1379s | particular we've seen them out of their |
| 1381s | chair at miss plays celebrating |
| 1384s | jubilantly whenever they take the |
| 1385s | victory really showing us just how much |
| 1388s | they want to take this victory and get |
| 1389s | through to the world championship uh as |
| 1391s | oka shinsuke again as i've said we've |
| 1393s | seen a whole bunch in apac gm i believe |
| 1395s | he's one of those players that can get |
| 1397s | the job done uh if he just |
| 1400s | keeps a calm mindset and doesn't end up |
| 1402s | in one of these situations where he is |
| 1403s | uh narrowly missing lethal in a |
| 1405s | situation exactly like this uh where |
| 1408s | possess he was able to take the win over |
| 1410s | the ball priest from judgment which in |
| 1412s | the end just proved to be his achilles |
| 1413s | heel time and again this tournament |
| 1416s | then we moved on to shantu vs super fake |
| 1418s | which is an extremely close series but |
| 1420s | chonsu had this complete whiff of a big |
| 1424s | spell mage draw in the late game that |
| 1426s | led super fake to a relatively easy |
| 1427s | victory at least in the last game but i |
| 1429s | was happy to see his overall quality of |
| 1432s | play in that series then he moved on to |
| 1434s | face possessi and strangely enough |
| 1436s | possessing i feel has had one of the |
| 1438s | cleanest weeks of grand masters play in |
| 1441s | recent memory but still wasn't able to |
| 1443s | take it super fake just looking on point |
| 1445s | lineup working very well |
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| 1448s | going to again managing to take a uh a |
| 1451s | nice clean win over judgment 30 sweep |
| 1454s | with all the decks falling at the hands |
| 1456s | of the rogue i was saying how i didn't |
| 1458s | expect it to be a 3-0 sweep given that |
| 1460s | rogue usually tends to have these strong |
| 1462s | counters but for judgment the boar |
| 1463s | priest was just not the counter that i |
| 1465s | think he was expecting it to be to be |
| 1467s | able to take down the rogue and it did |
| 1468s | end up being the terror that we expected |
| 1470s | it to be coming into this weekend as it |
| 1472s | was again for chonsu in the decider |
| 1475s | match taking down possessi he is looking |
| 1478s | absolutely on point with this rogue in |
| 1480s | particular i think it really suits his |
| 1482s | play cards play style that you and i |
| 1485s | have uh lauded him for in the past and |
| 1488s | we saw possessive pretty much sideways |
| 1490s | head off of the camera at that point |
| 1492s | which is also a position that blize |
| 1494s | assumed somewhere in the middle of this |
| 1496s | series literally taking a nap because |
| 1498s | pascoa was deliberately trying to tilt |
| 1500s | him with some rope tactics it's not |
| 1503s | often that we get to see some meta |
| 1505s | gameplay like that but blize was not |
| 1507s | phased took down pascoa in a very very |
| 1510s | long series and then moved on to qualify |
| 1513s | to playoffs after jimmy tri kazov of |
| 1516s | course also took a very clean sweep |
| 1518s | against lloyd grizzin blaise though |
| 1520s | repaying the favor with a sweep of his |
| 1522s | own using mage |
| 1524s | yep working out very very nicely for him |
| 1526s | leading us into the elimination match uh |
| 1529s | between sloigruzine and pascoa |
| 1532s | ultimately culminating i think in the uh |
| 1534s | the end of the road uh |
| 1537s | uh in this season of grand masters once |
| 1539s | again uh taking a bad beat uh in game |
| 1543s | five to lose there as uh pasco did in |
| 1546s | his own right these druid mirrors can be |
| 1548s | incredibly frustrating when they don't |
| 1549s | go their way and even more so when you |
| 1551s | get hit with an 82 damage danatherius to |
| 1554s | round it out |
| 1556s | yeah that one was pretty crazy and i |
| 1558s | think another takeaway we have from our |
| 1561s | top eight now is sort of the tale of the |
| 1563s | druid builds i think a lot of the |
| 1565s | kazakhstan versions have slowly been |
| 1567s | called away even possesses that wasn't |
| 1569s | going kazakhstan but more of the heavy |
| 1570s | token package with the flipper friends |
| 1572s | in there wasn't able to stand up to the |
| 1575s | many giants druids that were |
| 1577s | included by many other players and i |
| 1580s | think that was a very smart bring going |
| 1581s | into this weekend it gives you a leg up |
| 1583s | in the mirror and also in my opinion |
| 1585s | helps in the mage match-up because |
| 1587s | you're running the starfish as well |
| 1589s | indeed but jumping into our first match |
| 1592s | of the day chauncey versus bunny hopper |
| 1595s | and chancellor again i want to get right |
| 1596s | into it with an interesting ban here |
| 1598s | with the priest which he has been |
| 1601s | consistently |
| 1602s | banning where available the one time he |
| 1604s | hasn't done so i believe was against |
| 1606s | judgement who had the boar priest again |
| 1608s | which is a completely different factor |
| 1610s | there |
| 1611s | but against possessive uh super fake as |
| 1613s | well he's consistently banned away the |
| 1615s | priest what do you think is going on |
| 1616s | there for him to be so afraid of this |
| 1618s | quest priest in particular |
| 1620s | well i think that's the deck that he |
| 1622s | doesn't necessarily have multiple |
| 1624s | counters into like the mage is a good |
| 1626s | match up into it but um if he expects |
| 1629s | his own druid to get banned away the |
| 1632s | mage is really the only one that has any |
| 1633s | game against that quest priest and he's |
| 1635s | maybe just hoping to get several wins in |
| 1638s | there with the miracle rogue he does |
| 1640s | know that bunny's lineup does tend a |
| 1643s | little bit towards countering that |
| 1645s | temple rogue a little bit with both the |
| 1646s | quest priest and the big spell mage |
| 1649s | having decent matchups but the big spell |
| 1651s | mage is not a hard target on it so i |
| 1653s | think it's pretty reasonable for chonsu |
| 1655s | to assume that his row gets left up |
| 1657s | given bunny's previous band strategy of |
| 1659s | druid always and that the rogue doesn't |
| 1661s | have a truly weak match up once you get |
| 1664s | rid of that quest piece so maybe going |
| 1666s | for that 3-0 |
| 1668s | bonnie hopper relying on this big spell |
| 1670s | mage which uh |
| 1672s | feels like it's uh |
| 1675s | getting texts more and more to be better |
| 1677s | against the |
| 1679s | modern versions of rogue that are all in |
| 1681s | on these really really big minions |
| 1682s | having a little bit of extra heal in |
| 1683s | there with the consistent deep water |
| 1685s | evokers to fight back against the weapon |
| 1687s | from drakka as well uh which i do think |
| 1690s | the last hero standing specifically is |
| 1692s | probably the way to go just so you have |
| 1694s | as you said these strong counters in |
| 1695s | priest and mage do need to have two |
| 1697s | counters to a rogue if you're not going |
| 1699s | to be banning it away in case they get |
| 1700s | rid of one of yours which uh has |
| 1702s | happened uh for chonsu getting rid of |
| 1705s | the priest once again |
| 1706s | uh and overall i just think it's |
| 1709s | pretty standard list right now uh no um |
| 1712s | because it's the big spell mage none of |
| 1714s | those extra tech cards you can fit in in |
| 1716s | the ping version like mass poly or |
| 1717s | blizzard but for the most part |
| 1720s | i think how good the belinda and barbara |
| 1723s | effects are against specifically the |
| 1725s | rogue will still put you in a good |
| 1727s | position even if you don't have those |
| 1728s | nice texts |
| 1729s | that is right and we do have chonsu who |
| 1733s | is already on his eighth season of grand |
| 1735s | masters been here for a very very very |
| 1737s | long time but we can see that his most |
| 1739s | recent large accomplishment is not |
| 1741s | recent at all it's all the way back from |
| 1743s | 2016 and yet he has consistently proven |
| 1746s | that he is still hungry to make another |
| 1749s | world's appearance gotten very very |
| 1751s | close in the last couple seasons earlier |
| 1753s | on this year we were saying it was so |
| 1754s | nice to see chonsu kind of finally come |
| 1756s | into his own bringing lineups that were |
| 1759s | taking risks where appropriate and also |
| 1761s | playing a lot cleaner than we were used |
| 1763s | to seeing maybe in his first couple ten |
| 1765s | years at grand masters but now is the |
| 1768s | very very last chance to qualify to |
| 1770s | worlds through grand masters into |
| 1772s | playoffs so |
| 1774s | this is crunch time for chonsu and he |
| 1776s | has gotten himself not a great matchup |
| 1779s | to start with but he did take this risk |
| 1781s | willingly knowing that bunny would leave |
| 1783s | up rogue and banning away the quest |
| 1786s | priest he is just trying to make sure |
| 1788s | that he can just scale this first hurdle |
| 1790s | with the rogue the one bad matchup and |
| 1792s | if it gets through then he is having a |
| 1794s | very good time because it's only good |
| 1796s | matchups remaining i feel whereas if the |
| 1799s | flip side happens if chonsu loses with |
| 1801s | the rogue then he's in a tough spot |
| 1803s | because he doesn't have a particularly |
| 1804s | good counter to the mage from bunny |
| 1807s | that's right yeah he'd just be having to |
| 1808s | rock the mage mirror i guess because i |
| 1810s | really do not trust this priest against |
| 1813s | anything except rogue uh if i'm being |
| 1815s | perfectly honest uh but i do trust |
| 1817s | chauncy which is why i think this first |
| 1819s | game against the big spell mage is is |
| 1821s | still extremely winnable you know like |
| 1823s | we talk about all the things that are |
| 1824s | specifically in mage to deal with this |
| 1827s | rogue most of them are pretty far |
| 1829s | through into the game uh it's uh |
| 1833s | gaining armor which can help stall the |
| 1834s | game with the deep water evoker but then |
| 1836s | it's you know reducing the cost of your |
| 1839s | uh rune of the archmage to be able to |
| 1841s | deal with these big boards freeze them |
| 1843s | transform them whatever gaining a bunch |
| 1844s | of big taunts with the drake fire amulet |
| 1847s | all of this stuff doesn't actually |
| 1848s | happen for a little while so for chonsu |
| 1851s | the pressure is on to get the combo |
| 1853s | going quickly before bunny hopper finds |
| 1855s | these big answers but a turn four may be |
| 1858s | a turn five pop off and he's in the |
| 1860s | money |
| 1861s | absolutely but once again we talk about |
| 1863s | the nature of rogue and which part of |
| 1866s | its payoff cards it would rather have |
| 1867s | against mage and it is almost always |
| 1870s | certainly draca because the mage can |
| 1872s | freeze minions from the location and in |
| 1874s | the case of bunnyhopper's list can't |
| 1876s | even destroy the location he has drawn |
| 1878s | the one of demolition oh vader once |
| 1881s | again |
| 1883s | well i did like pictures no no i still |
| 1886s | believe i still believe okay okay |
| 1889s | well chancy once again has to contend |
| 1891s | with the |
| 1892s | ideas whether he is meant to play the |
| 1894s | location just to pre-load it um goes for |
| 1897s | knoll here which is obviously not um an |
| 1900s | autoplay location also would have |
| 1902s | stopped his null gaining discount so |
| 1904s | maybe it's just fine to play the knoll |
| 1906s | while it can take the value trade but uh |
| 1908s | it's certainly still tempting to preload |
| 1911s | the location here walking right into |
| 1913s | that demolition renovator on turn four |
| 1915s | unfortunately we didn't get to see the |
| 1917s | mulligan so we don't know how much info |
| 1919s | chonsu has |
| 1920s | but that is getting chomped up insta |
| 1923s | i love the bunny winces he's like oh man |
| 1926s | i i hate that i legally i have to do |
| 1929s | this according to the rules of grand |
| 1930s | masters there's nothing on the line for |
| 1932s | me but i have to crush this man's soul |
| 1935s | yep |
| 1937s | let's see with a small grimace i mean |
| 1941s | i feel so bad for him already bunny has |
| 1943s | literally nothing to play for he has |
| 1945s | secured either first or second seed |
| 1947s | which means that he is going into |
| 1949s | playoffs with the best possible position |
| 1951s | whereas chonsu hasn't even secured a |
| 1953s | playoffs ticket yet yeah |
| 1956s | bonnie just like why are you making me |
| 1958s | do this i don't want to hurt you man but |
| 1959s | i have to |
| 1962s | but it's not over yet no uh starfish in |
| 1965s | hand for bunny hopper which means this |
| 1967s | edwin is getting awful chunky uh right |
| 1970s | now |
| 1972s | and the train doesn't stop the shadow |
| 1973s | step can be catched in on the null |
| 1976s | pretty interesting decision for chonsu |
| 1977s | to use the backstab and tooth combo on |
| 1980s | the charger guard specifically to get |
| 1982s | the honorable kill i'm not sure if i |
| 1983s | would have valued that more than |
| 1985s | removing the higher attack minion in the |
| 1988s | renovator immediately but there are some |
| 1991s | interesting choices here i thought |
| 1994s | um of the consecration just for |
| 1997s | immediate damage but on the off chance |
| 1999s | chonsu manages his other location to be |
| 2001s | drawn and pay off on a big minion then |
| 2004s | that's like huge aoe i recently saw a |
| 2006s | tweet from i think gaywan from the cn |
| 2008s | scene |
| 2010s | where he said that a couple wig priests |
| 2012s | are tucking in whispers of the deep as a |
| 2014s | removal option |
| 2016s | oh |
| 2017s | just uses it now |
| 2019s | but |
| 2020s | but |
| 2021s | when you're silent |
| 2022s | oh no |
| 2024s | what did he think that that would deal |
| 2026s | the full seven damage |
| 2029s | i think he did that that is the sign of |
| 2031s | a person who never went through the um |
| 2034s | selfish shellfish priest stage i did |
| 2037s | i did not agree that but i learned some |
| 2041s | things playing that deck |
| 2043s | don't take the edwin man no buddy stop |
| 2046s | please he's already dead |
| 2049s | he's playing like garbage just let him |
| 2052s | have one game please |
| 2055s | oh |
| 2056s | oh no |
| 2059s | yeah buddy he's even like okay he's |
| 2062s | playing into my one tech cards which i |
| 2064s | have to play he's playing like trash i |
| 2066s | just feel bad at this point come on |
| 2069s | even gives him roondurf he actually is |
| 2071s | helping him that's like the one good |
| 2072s | spell that can dig him out oh god i i |
| 2075s | really don't know what's going through |
| 2077s | bunny's head at this point is this |
| 2078s | active cringe or is it just |
| 2081s | is it i don't know |
| 2085s | oh my god what is it like |
| 2087s | the play was obviously like silence the |
| 2089s | null with the the whispers of the deep |
| 2091s | and then step it and play it again you |
| 2092s | can get the kill leave the edwin on |
| 2094s | board step it next turn and go off again |
| 2096s | yeah potentially just save the whispers |
| 2098s | as well because like it can be used on a |
| 2100s | location minion which would get a lot of |
| 2102s | aoe |
| 2103s | depending on what stats you got into |
| 2107s | but it doesn't work when the stats are |
| 2109s | green |
| 2110s | it does not work |
| 2112s | and so now bunny can go |
| 2114s | bran edwin |
| 2116s | bredwin |
| 2117s | redwin |
| 2121s | yeah he is the breadwinner of this hey |
| 2124s | there it is |
| 2127s | yeah |
| 2128s | oh it's so hard to get back in the right |
| 2130s | rental space after that i'm not gonna |
| 2132s | lie but okay let's see what's in the |
| 2134s | roon door looking for a convenient way |
| 2135s | to get rid of the staggered uh can just |
| 2139s | be the double first flame or first name |
| 2141s | second flame |
| 2143s | and there really is something uniquely |
| 2144s | funny about edwin into ten mana spell |
| 2148s | directly afterwards |
| 2150s | that's still a one mana five five draw |
| 2153s | card |
| 2154s | that's pretty good yeah |
| 2156s | two cards even because he played one |
| 2158s | spell off of it |
| 2162s | okay uh |
| 2164s | temporary door of shadows can find the |
| 2166s | other noel maestra or drakka yeah that's |
| 2170s | the big one |
| 2173s | what if he gets roondorb |
| 2176s | into what's the biggest rogue spell |
| 2179s | smokescreen |
| 2181s | and then swaps it with the second flame |
| 2185s | oh biggest in terms of cost okay okay |
| 2188s | but |
| 2189s | i mean it draws cards doesn't activate |
| 2191s | anything but |
| 2192s | the the |
| 2194s | problem for chonsu is how to get enough |
| 2196s | fuel for the draca to actually be |
| 2198s | relevant so it is still a thing that can |
| 2200s | happen you know |
| 2202s | drawing cards |
| 2204s | yeah okay nevermind i mean i was gonna |
| 2206s | say are there any rogue spells that |
| 2208s | likes |
| 2208s | copy spells from your opponent's class |
| 2211s | anymore |
| 2212s | um no but he could get contraband stash |
| 2215s | and that would replay |
| 2217s | like this wildpaw cavern and arun |
| 2219s | eventually uh |
| 2221s | true yeah yeah good point good point |
| 2224s | so |
| 2226s | this game has already |
| 2227s | turned very wacky |
| 2230s | but |
| 2230s | one thing's for sure you're correct to |
| 2232s | say that the normal win condition for |
| 2235s | chonsu is certainly no longer online |
| 2238s | no longer |
| 2246s | yeah |
| 2248s | and the chaka just cannot get enough |
| 2250s | juice especially with the gun fishing |
| 2252s | being the the pull from the barbaric |
| 2256s | brutal |
| 2258s | in death |
| 2267s | all right three damage face that's a |
| 2269s | start uh-huh |
| 2272s | how about some dragons |
| 2273s | oh one man |
| 2275s | murloc homes |
| 2277s | the bralette bronze |
| 2280s | the bronze |
| 2283s | i mean brown apprentice is also really |
| 2284s | good here even just to clean up the two |
| 2286s | minions on the left he has a giant |
| 2288s | sleepy dragon and chonsu doesn't want to |
| 2290s | stay in this any longer can you blame |
| 2292s | him he just didn't know how the card |
| 2294s | worked |
| 2296s | honestly i feel like we're all just in |
| 2298s | shock after that game like |
| 2300s | i don't know how to react chance who |
| 2301s | didn't bonnie clearly doesn't know how |
| 2303s | to react there like it it was just uh a |
| 2306s | weird game because as we said you know |
| 2307s | we saw it in the graphic chan soon needs |
| 2309s | not just a victory but a spot all the |
| 2312s | way through to the uh the finals if he |
| 2314s | wants to be able to uh have any chance |
| 2317s | at playoffs sorry this replay with the |
| 2319s | physical pin on bunny's face i've never |
| 2322s | seen that from a person at their own |
| 2324s | misplay i've never seen that from bleis |
| 2327s | having to endure the roping every single |
| 2330s | turn when he wants to be the fastest |
| 2331s | player in the world just yesterday i've |
| 2333s | seen no greater pain than when bunny saw |
| 2336s | his opponent miss play yeah |
| 2340s | oh sorry wrong button uh yeah it |
| 2342s | honestly does it it i can't even think |
| 2344s | of what the perfect technology is but it |
| 2346s | it if you know it's like a villain who's |
| 2348s | forced to do something like it's bunny's |
| 2350s | like thanos in this instant he doesn't |
| 2352s | want to do what he has to do but he's |
| 2353s | like he feels he has to do it |
| 2355s | for the good of the universe like bonnie |
| 2357s | did not want to punish someone who just |
| 2359s | made that play but he has to in the |
| 2361s | rules of grand masters yes |
| 2365s | oh god probably did secretly enjoy it a |
| 2367s | little bit as well um but now chonsu |
| 2370s | moving on over to the big spell mage big |
| 2372s | difference here already the huge talking |
| 2374s | point 30 verse 40 uh in big spell mage i |
| 2378s | think even more so than spooky mage uh |
| 2380s | it's a monstrous difference in terms of |
| 2382s | how the deck plays on average |
| 2385s | that is right and if i were to assess |
| 2387s | the match up derek can i have a little |
| 2389s | bit of a story time here i'll go for it |
| 2392s | yeah so as a filipino i have very very |
| 2397s | distinct childhood memories of sunday |
| 2399s | mornings where there would be none of |
| 2401s | the usual |
| 2402s | traffic that you would expect on the |
| 2403s | road because everybody was staying home |
| 2406s | on their television |
| 2408s | excited to watch manny pacquiao's next |
| 2410s | big fight okay yes he is obviously one |
| 2413s | of the greatest athletes of all time |
| 2415s | very very skilled has that iconic |
| 2418s | southpaw stance a great win record |
| 2422s | but even he |
| 2423s | has never been in a boxing match of the |
| 2425s | caliber of a big spell mage mirror |
| 2430s | wow i was really wondering how that |
| 2432s | would uh |
| 2433s | wrap around |
| 2436s | but uh i don't think so either |
| 2439s | yeah these can be brutal |
| 2441s | and that is going to be my assessment of |
| 2443s | 30 versus 40 doesn't matter it's about |
| 2446s | the boxes |
| 2451s | there we go sorry i've got to be honest |
| 2453s | i didn't actually get i thought you |
| 2454s | meant just because big minions punching |
| 2455s | against each other oh that's a good one |
| 2458s | okay sorry i'm scared |
| 2460s | that's all right i don't know i thought |
| 2462s | it was just like filipino wants to talk |
| 2464s | about manny pacquiao i'll take any |
| 2466s | opportunity to do it as shoehorned in as |
| 2468s | it is |
| 2470s | oh boxes |
| 2472s | i get it |
| 2474s | it was like when i was uh |
| 2476s | yeah no i get it i get it it's a good |
| 2478s | one |
| 2479s | when i was uh staying with uh super fake |
| 2482s | at the uh |
| 2483s | um |
| 2484s | at the solari party you'll never guess |
| 2486s | as a portuguese person who he has as a |
| 2488s | screensaver on his phone |
| 2492s | yeah i don't know that sport but i'm |
| 2493s | certain it's nothing |
| 2495s | oh okay why is ronaldo and it was |
| 2496s | hilarious it was just like yeah of |
| 2498s | course he does |
| 2501s | okay i can confirm manufacture is not my |
| 2503s | screensaver though not a full stereotype |
| 2506s | okay |
| 2508s | yeah breaking down barry is good for you |
| 2511s | all right so box check um neither player |
| 2514s | has it at the moment but bunny has deep |
| 2516s | water evoker which has a 50 50 of |
| 2519s | pulling box it can be of course a drake |
| 2522s | fire centric match if it comes down to |
| 2524s | that but either player has access to |
| 2527s | generating freeze effects or destroying |
| 2529s | their varden so sometimes it doesn't |
| 2531s | come down to that we already see the |
| 2533s | location for bunny that's why i put more |
| 2535s | emphasis on rune of the archmage than |
| 2537s | the drake fire amulet but we'll see |
| 2540s | ah |
| 2541s | not a pacquiao fan i see |
| 2543s | [Laughter] |
| 2545s | all right theater right out of the gate |
| 2548s | finding the dawn grasp is so big here |
| 2551s | for chonsu because we talk about the |
| 2553s | boxes sure but uh dawn grasp can be the |
| 2556s | real difference maker |
| 2559s | okay what to give though these are all |
| 2561s | pretty precious resources like knowing |
| 2563s | that you will have bunnies don grasp you |
| 2565s | want to keep your reckless apprentice it |
| 2567s | represents so much damage in the long |
| 2569s | run okani though can potentially mess |
| 2572s | with the dawn gas coming down on turn |
| 2574s | six by countering spell for once in the |
| 2576s | big spell mage magemary you usually |
| 2578s | count our minion but it is a real |
| 2580s | consideration and then the parrot is |
| 2582s | something that can replay a spell that |
| 2585s | you know is in bunnyhopper's hand from |
| 2586s | the evoker |
| 2591s | kind of leaning okani |
| 2593s | but it's certainly punishable chonsu |
| 2595s | just needs to make sure that he has a |
| 2597s | way to answer okani if that is what uh |
| 2600s | bunny plays on the next turn and to be |
| 2602s | fair there are pretty testable ways |
| 2604s | right you can go mailbox dancer which |
| 2606s | essentially tests both minion and spell |
| 2608s | because if it's minion it just never |
| 2610s | enters the board and if it's spell it |
| 2611s | gives you the coin with which to test |
| 2613s | but he gives rekkles away okay yeah |
| 2615s | that's the one i was leading to second |
| 2617s | uh i think you you had swayed me in the |
| 2619s | end uh by okani uh but it's followed |
| 2623s | it's obviously not so good of a card for |
| 2624s | your opponent because they don't have |
| 2626s | dawn grasp right now they're unlikely to |
| 2628s | be able to steal it back in time it's |
| 2630s | bad because it will be good for you at |
| 2632s | some point in the game the apprentice |
| 2634s | but i think even then it gets big spell |
| 2635s | mage it's a little tricky to get it to |
| 2638s | the point where you're juicing up and |
| 2639s | consistently getting those uh honorable |
| 2641s | kills with the apprentice |
| 2642s | very fair |
| 2644s | counterpoint three reckless apprentices |
| 2646s | with a more rash in hand even if your |
| 2648s | hero power isn't upgraded by john grasp |
| 2650s | that can pretty likely activate the |
| 2652s | mordresh sooner rather than later chance |
| 2654s | is the one playing 30 health and he's |
| 2656s | behind on board so actually |
| 2659s | the apprentice apprentice apprentice |
| 2661s | curve into more dress for bunny might be |
| 2664s | the winning line so we'll see how chonsu |
| 2667s | plays this out going to freeze the |
| 2670s | evoker i guess with this ping unless he |
| 2671s | wants to be a bit greedy with it |
| 2675s | yeah i mean this is the big problem |
| 2676s | right the 30 health has given him much |
| 2678s | more consistency here at the theater he |
| 2680s | stole the dawn grasp um but it does |
| 2683s | leave him in a much more |
| 2685s | glass cannon position |
| 2686s | if he takes too much damage early on in |
| 2688s | the game even without |
| 2690s | the dawngrass he could be in big trouble |
| 2692s | so i do think you are supposed to be |
| 2694s | very |
| 2695s | very defensive here basically and i |
| 2697s | wouldn't have hated to see the ping at |
| 2698s | all just to slow it down even more |
| 2704s | all of them well the one thing that you |
| 2707s | can be a bit more lenient about compared |
| 2710s | to playing against real spooky mages |
| 2712s | that big spell mage doesn't run |
| 2714s | deathborn and so leaving a board like |
| 2717s | this and play is very tenuous but it |
| 2719s | doesn't leave you the chance to be |
| 2720s | punished by a bunch of skeletons on the |
| 2722s | other side all those trades end up |
| 2724s | clearing chonsu's board |
| 2727s | it's so annoying |
| 2729s | because uh the dawn grass was i think |
| 2731s | the hero power was really being kept for |
| 2732s | a two-man honorable kill |
| 2734s | uh sorry two damage honorable kill on |
| 2736s | the zero mana hero power uh for chonsu |
| 2739s | uh not a possibility anymore though |
| 2741s | still |
| 2742s | fully agree though it's dawngrass time |
| 2746s | and i do think he ends up committing the |
| 2747s | ping if only to freeze a minion because |
| 2750s | this leaving nine damage on board feels |
| 2753s | really scary he's down to 19 after this |
| 2755s | and bunny can just start counting |
| 2757s | towards his more dress the problem is |
| 2759s | the apprentices still don't have very |
| 2760s | many targets um and obviously you know |
| 2763s | that barbaric sorceress in the mirror is |
| 2766s | not a card that you want to play unless |
| 2768s | your opponent has a coin |
| 2770s | which you can give them over two turns |
| 2772s | by killing off the mailbox dancer |
| 2781s | i honestly don't hate the tempo |
| 2783s | apprentice spend your mana |
| 2786s | agreed yeah you want to force them to |
| 2788s | find it clear that they very possibly |
| 2790s | sorry very possibly don't have given |
| 2791s | that they've given you their reckless |
| 2793s | apprentice and the next turn for bunny |
| 2795s | it's probably just coin roon to try and |
| 2797s | close out the game |
| 2800s | his own dancer to prevent the honorable |
| 2803s | kill but chancy can still get it using |
| 2805s | his own apprentice because the evoker |
| 2807s | was one of the earlier minions on board |
| 2809s | okay he could also ping his own skeleton |
| 2811s | so the apprentice starts off dealing |
| 2814s | four to everything that works too |
| 2817s | yeah i like that a lot |
| 2819s | and then he'll pick up the coin |
| 2821s | once again allowing him to also play |
| 2823s | okani this room |
| 2826s | pretty sick |
| 2828s | big swing |
| 2831s | one that requires an equally big swing |
| 2834s | on the other side |
| 2835s | however |
| 2843s | oh he leaves the coins in hand wow |
| 2846s | okay |
| 2847s | bunny is |
| 2848s | taking the risk with barbaric first and |
| 2850s | i think it's you know very likely that |
| 2852s | he hits it because he knows about two |
| 2853s | coins i'm really shocked for chonsu to |
| 2856s | actually leave both coins ah insta pyro |
| 2860s | oh oh |
| 2862s | no way |
| 2863s | dude he's better than pacquiao |
| 2865s | [Laughter] |
| 2870s | okay we'll take that |
| 2874s | best boxing i have ever seen |
| 2877s | [Music] |
| 2879s | reckless |
| 2880s | yep second pick |
| 2883s | you don't really know but probably not |
| 2885s | reckless because one is in your hand so |
| 2886s | he goes parrot makes sense yeah yeah |
| 2890s | and you know that the other reckless is |
| 2891s | not enhanced |
| 2892s | [Music] |
| 2897s | i was actually gonna think that from |
| 2899s | bunny's perspective |
| 2901s | oh sorry chonsu played a reckless yeah |
| 2903s | so there's no way it's in deck played |
| 2904s | reckless played theater yeah correct |
| 2907s | even ending it with the murloc homes |
| 2909s | famous exclamation upon solving a |
| 2912s | crime of waving his hands in the air |
| 2917s | okay how far is bunny's mardresh from |
| 2920s | completion |
| 2922s | because he can get like two sets of |
| 2924s | three damage pings from two recklesses |
| 2926s | this turn |
| 2929s | and if that activates more dresh then |
| 2931s | next turn it is just lethal |
| 2936s | but we're boxing we're just boxing again |
| 2938s | of course iro again dude let's go |
| 2943s | waiting for the knockout |
| 2946s | not quite not quite |
| 2948s | not a bad one |
| 2954s | that's the knockout oh my gosh |
| 2959s | oh so volcano dancing goes off before |
| 2960s | the death part because i was thinking |
| 2962s | the skeletons would be summoned and then |
| 2963s | get volcano right straight away kill |
| 2965s | chonsu but i think he's still dead |
| 2967s | either way |
| 2968s | i think that does it yep oh my god |
| 2976s | boxing champion bodybuilder |
| 2979s | bonnie like bunny is actively tilted at |
| 2982s | the way these games are going even |
| 2984s | though he's absolutely steamrolling his |
| 2986s | opponent like this is the stupidest |
| 2989s | series of hearthstone i think he's ever |
| 2991s | played and bunny knows it he's you know |
| 2993s | he's coming out on top of it chonsu is |
| 2995s | in an |
| 2996s | unbelievably bad situation like |
| 2999s | sponsor is not turning this around |
| 3001s | basically like straight up this priest |
| 3003s | he has left over |
| 3004s | it's like i don't know |
| 3006s | it's trying to build the eiffel tower |
| 3008s | with like a toothpick as the only tool |
| 3010s | he has left like and the rogue is a bit |
| 3012s | of uh cabbage stuck in his teeth like |
| 3014s | yeah it does that really well but it's |
| 3016s | not gonna do anything else you need to |
| 3018s | do |
| 3018s | oh my god |
| 3021s | this is just too hilarious everything |
| 3023s | down to the fact that bunny is playing |
| 3026s | boxes when there's another routine |
| 3028s | that's perhaps more consistent |
| 3031s | to the fact that bunny himself looks |
| 3033s | like he's in pain having to do this |
| 3037s | and this time chonsu didn't even do |
| 3039s | anything particularly wrong right i i |
| 3042s | there was no like strict misplay there |
| 3044s | and and the murloc homes he got it right |
| 3045s | and none of those cards were necessary |
| 3049s | yeah all just red herrings it turned out |
| 3051s | uh-huh |
| 3053s | damn |
| 3055s | all right so as i said the priest the |
| 3057s | one deck left over for chonsu has to |
| 3059s | beat |
| 3061s | first of all |
| 3062s | the mage right still two games on uh |
| 3065s | undefeated so far for bunny hopper then |
| 3068s | after the mage which is a bad match up |
| 3070s | the rogue great he gets a good one |
| 3072s | that's a nice easy 90 match up if you |
| 3075s | want to believe the uh fanatical ravings |
| 3077s | on social media |
| 3079s | and then druid which uh |
| 3081s | i think if we're being very generous we |
| 3083s | call it a 50 50. |
| 3084s | okay |
| 3086s | but unfortunately for chonsu this is not |
| 3088s | one of those conquest situations where |
| 3090s | he has the liberty of choosing the order |
| 3092s | with which he accuses dex to get the |
| 3094s | sweep this is lhs he has one deck left |
| 3097s | and bunny hopper has just been |
| 3099s | absolutely pummeling him and this is the |
| 3102s | worst matchup yet it's the priest into |
| 3104s | the mage this priest has four minions |
| 3107s | total |
| 3108s | it has some identity theft |
| 3111s | potential for shenanigans but we already |
| 3113s | saw chonsu attempt that and even hit the |
| 3116s | dawn grasp yesterday still didn't quite |
| 3119s | get there so i'm really not liking his |
| 3121s | chances |
| 3123s | oh great |
| 3125s | uh |
| 3126s | struggling to keep up the role play of |
| 3128s | uh believing in chelsea no matter what |
| 3130s | and him being the best player in the |
| 3132s | world at this point gotta be honest with |
| 3134s | this absolute pile of poo that he has in |
| 3137s | his remaining uh 30 cards but still i |
| 3141s | shall stick to the bit |
| 3143s | uh in a slightly metal way and still say |
| 3145s | chonsu |
| 3146s | full reverse sweep i believe bunny |
| 3148s | hopper |
| 3149s | literally worst player in the world he's |
| 3152s | going to throw every game my man |
| 3153s | chauncey's got this yeah you should |
| 3155s | retire if he wants to go into boxing |
| 3157s | though not too late for your shift |
| 3160s | okay realistically though the priest |
| 3162s | does a very specific thing consistently |
| 3165s | right it builds a huge minion um it |
| 3168s | builds a second wave of huge minions and |
| 3170s | then puts |
| 3172s | a boon of the ascended on it and that's |
| 3174s | kind of it that's it for the rest of the |
| 3176s | game and for being generous let's say it |
| 3178s | gets to 2020 in stats |
| 3181s | uh big spell mage doesn't deal with that |
| 3183s | quite as consistently as ping mage does |
| 3186s | because there are less freeze effects no |
| 3188s | flurry in here but there are um still |
| 3191s | the amplified snow flurries still the |
| 3192s | location still the vardhan dawn grasp |
| 3194s | and then once you just clear the finish |
| 3196s | line to the rune of the archmage you |
| 3198s | have a shot at mass polying at freezing |
| 3201s | again back and forth back and forth |
| 3204s | but if bunny is to rely on the |
| 3208s | usual win condition from back in the day |
| 3210s | of just belinda and having that stick on |
| 3211s | board it doesn't necessarily get the job |
| 3213s | done because belinda always dies to |
| 3216s | light it burns unless she gets exactly |
| 3219s | the |
| 3220s | 9 attack and 10 health in that order |
| 3224s | okay |
| 3225s | good point |
| 3227s | uh bunny opera again looking slightly |
| 3231s | pained that he seems to have drawn the |
| 3232s | absolute nuts against this game |
| 3235s | with okani or theater alongside the bran |
| 3238s | to uh help with his game plan should he |
| 3240s | so desire |
| 3243s | the coin is the |
| 3245s | oh no oh my god oh no |
| 3247s | please no i can't take it he has to |
| 3250s | i can't take it |
| 3253s | i was going to say coin is the same |
| 3254s | choice because it synergizes the best |
| 3256s | with your deck but if you're a real |
| 3258s | gamer and you believe you're going to |
| 3259s | get don grasp on the second one but more |
| 3261s | trash |
| 3263s | but this one is instaroon yup yup |
| 3267s | once who's put on his own gloves |
| 3270s | and now bunny can take it back from his |
| 3273s | own deck |
| 3274s | it's not stealing if it's yours |
| 3278s | it goes okani though |
| 3280s | pretty nice |
| 3282s | there's no way that shansu can get a |
| 3284s | minion through this because he can't |
| 3286s | kill though |
| 3287s | sacrifice a minion into the void |
| 3291s | he's just won that's it uh-huh |
| 3294s | it's just over |
| 3296s | okay okay |
| 3297s | like chance you can wait and get to the |
| 3299s | rune right uh-huh |
| 3302s | and like i mean i guess |
| 3305s | beefa he could go |
| 3308s | moon |
| 3309s | the |
| 3311s | belinda |
| 3313s | oh yeah look it's busting you go coin to |
| 3316s | dispel the |
| 3317s | the counter spell |
| 3320s | as long as he doesn't get nine and then |
| 3321s | ten didn't okay great |
| 3324s | all right it's double take it's ten and |
| 3325s | then ten okay sure whatever there's some |
| 3327s | nonsense occurring it dies to the light |
| 3328s | it burns that's the main headline here |
| 3330s | right |
| 3331s | you go coin |
| 3335s | boon |
| 3336s | light it burns that doesn't actually |
| 3338s | kill it i just realized now because it's |
| 3339s | going to gain 2 extra health that's a |
| 3341s | problem |
| 3343s | um you definitely boon it before you |
| 3346s | light it for or not |
| 3349s | but it gains two extra health right so i |
| 3350s | wouldn't actually die |
| 3351s | at that point fair |
| 3354s | yeah |
| 3355s | okay scrap that plan b okay okay |
| 3359s | where you followed plan b yeah just get |
| 3362s | to the roon |
| 3363s | get to the rune love it all right |
| 3366s | it's a siege he's just got a bunker down |
| 3368s | survive |
| 3371s | until turn seven you need to survive one |
| 3373s | more turn i believe in you chonsu uh-huh |
| 3376s | he's got this |
| 3377s | bunny doesn't quite have burst he has |
| 3380s | he has theater though if he wants to |
| 3382s | yoink it back and he will he's no excuse |
| 3385s | for batman no box no okay |
| 3389s | uh give them |
| 3391s | noble sacrifice |
| 3393s | give them the barbaric oh no okay |
| 3396s | oh there's the box gg oh dude |
| 3403s | i mean chance coin coin drake fire but |
| 3405s | there aren't two dragons that are enough |
| 3407s | to stop this are there |
| 3408s | oh you do get priest dragons though what |
| 3410s | does that open up uh |
| 3413s | eurozone yeah um how can it operative |
| 3416s | not great |
| 3417s | okay it's worse |
| 3424s | god give him murloc homes let him have |
| 3425s | fun and play in the sandbox while you |
| 3428s | punch him in the face oh my god |
| 3430s | [Music] |
| 3431s | he didn't take the box |
| 3433s | oh my god he's that on board okay he can |
| 3435s | heal to not be dead on board but he |
| 3437s | knows there's a fortitude in hand so |
| 3439s | he's just dead |
| 3441s | so you have to go |
| 3443s | boone yeah to get yourself a big old |
| 3445s | taunt |
| 3449s | that keeps you alive |
| 3450s | you go boone and he go ruin |
| 3452s | [Laughter] |
| 3456s | oh yeah the classic one two punch the |
| 3458s | boone and rune |
| 3461s | i'm appreciating you validating |
| 3464s | my long story with all these boxing |
| 3466s | jokes by the way derek thank you i felt |
| 3469s | bad i didn't get it at first |
| 3471s | it was very |
| 3473s | out of nowhere i was going to say out of |
| 3474s | left field and i realized that's not |
| 3476s | that sport so |
| 3479s | out of left hook |
| 3487s | okay realistically no need to ruin here |
| 3491s | but there's no need |
| 3493s | there's no need not to as well |
| 3502s | well |
| 3504s | now chonsu gets to do the thing |
| 3506s | [Music] |
| 3508s | all right let's go buddy your entire |
| 3510s | deck does nothing so let's do the one |
| 3512s | card from their deck that maybe gives |
| 3514s | you a chance |
| 3516s | ah this is hearthstone in 2022. |
| 3522s | okay |
| 3523s | that's a way to start it doesn't even |
| 3525s | kill it |
| 3527s | but it puts it in flame strike rage and |
| 3529s | fire sales oh |
| 3530s | okay |
| 3534s | the alabama can't die to arun on the |
| 3536s | other side |
| 3538s | unless it's seven siphon madness or some |
| 3540s | six siphon banners six roon orb |
| 3543s | flash heel for the heel as well he's got |
| 3545s | the coin for drake fire next turn simply |
| 3549s | winning |
| 3552s | wait does it not ruin |
| 3557s | here just needed a couple roondorfs |
| 3560s | siphon manas |
| 3562s | just a couple a frozen touch yeah |
| 3564s | there's a bunch of cheap damaged spells |
| 3568s | okay |
| 3569s | dragons |
| 3571s | there's the mural |
| 3575s | okay |
| 3576s | okay |
| 3578s | all right come on bonnie do it to him |
| 3583s | you know how this has to end we all know |
| 3585s | it was leading back to this |
| 3589s | the dancer died |
| 3592s | okay |
| 3598s | isn't great so far you can play the |
| 3601s | other one though because you got the |
| 3602s | coin oh my god that's true |
| 3605s | okay wildfire |
| 3608s | that |
| 3609s | nice |
| 3611s | but it is game next turn |
| 3614s | if more i think more josh is active |
| 3616s | or like it's for sure active if you |
| 3618s | start with ping next year and soon yeah |
| 3622s | uh |
| 3623s | so he'll in a big way needed on this |
| 3626s | turn for chonsu if he is to win this |
| 3628s | series flash heel |
| 3630s | incredible start to meet that specific |
| 3633s | criteria |
| 3634s | for their parrot no okay he doesn't do |
| 3637s | it |
| 3641s | oh yeah that's true that would have been |
| 3642s | cool |
| 3647s | he's trying |
| 3650s | god help him he's trying |
| 3651s | [Music] |
| 3655s | there's a board clear available but yeah |
| 3657s | the the more dress just |
| 3660s | ends this game |
| 3667s | mad i just have no idea what to make of |
| 3670s | this series |
| 3672s | you posted it on social media yet |
| 3676s | they haven't i can still change my |
| 3678s | prediction all right |
| 3682s | classic rookie mistake predicting |
| 3684s | somebody that was on in game one |
| 3686s | yeah exactly i could definitely juice |
| 3688s | that a little bit |
| 3691s | oh man poor chonsu what else can you say |
| 3695s | i'm sure even bunny is thinking that |
| 3698s | yep |
| 3700s | he's half thinking that and half |
| 3702s | thinking |
| 3704s | foolish noob |
| 3706s | as he takes another 3-0 sweep and gets |
| 3708s | through to the semi-finals huge |
| 3710s | congratulations to bunny hopper |
| 3712s | i don't even know if that's technically |
| 3713s | technically the correct thing to say |
| 3714s | because i don't know if he's happy about |
| 3716s | what happened in that series to be |
| 3717s | perfectly honest he might be more upset |
| 3719s | than chonsu with the way their |
| 3721s | expressions are but |
| 3723s | just like that jia as strangely as he |
| 3725s | arrives he mysteriously slinks back into |
| 3729s | the darkness that is the end of chonsus |
| 3731s | run in hearthstone grand masters |
| 3735s | i mean it's been some good times hasn't |
| 3738s | it derek from his drip drip from a |
| 3740s | couple seasons ago i mean even until |
| 3742s | this season he has some very iconic |
| 3743s | shirts like that one with the smiley |
| 3745s | face on it i will never forget that |
| 3747s | chonsu with some iconic misplays as well |
| 3751s | left us with one of them in this series |
| 3753s | i'm so sad but also it couldn't have |
| 3755s | happened any other way could it have |
| 3758s | it really couldn't yeah it's been an |
| 3760s | absolute delight start to finish we |
| 3761s | really have had some good uh shirts in |
| 3764s | apac haven't we we've got colon capital |
| 3766s | d from chonsu uh never give up on |
| 3769s | something good you can do it or you are |
| 3772s | so great i think from yeah yeah yeah yep |
| 3775s | that was a good one uh dragon man i |
| 3777s | think in his picture that he has uh in |
| 3780s | the uh |
| 3781s | uh the masters tour says like |
| 3784s | uh |
| 3784s | knowledge speaks wisdom listens |
| 3787s | something to that to that nature which |
| 3789s | is so sage yeah |
| 3791s | uh |
| 3793s | unfortunately he didn't necessarily |
| 3794s | apply it to the uh to the play in grand |
| 3796s | masters but uh |
| 3797s | uh yeah |
| 3798s | uh there we go bunny hopper takes the |
| 3800s | win and sends me a message can't even |
| 3803s | lose lol as dry as he might he still |
| 3806s | ended up winning the bm oh my god oh my |
| 3810s | buddy stop oh man |
| 3814s | not ending his grandmaster's run with a |
| 3816s | great position on the leaderboards but |
| 3819s | yeah let's focus on the positives derek |
| 3821s | like what you said shirt leaderboard |
| 3823s | chonsu definitely towards the top there |
| 3825s | oh yeah and that means that we only have |
| 3828s | one match left to cast today one between |
| 3831s | levick and dimitri kaza which does not |
| 3833s | feature any decks so i am very much |
| 3837s | hoping and expecting that that series |
| 3839s | will be less one-sided |
| 3841s | me too yeah it's gonna be g and i on an |
| 3843s | all-non-apex series of hearthstone |
| 3845s | something you rarely get to see |
| 3847s | and uh |
| 3850s | may never get to see it again uh but |
| 3852s | with that said and done we're gonna go |
| 3853s | to a break before we come back the |
| 3854s | second course final match here at grand |
| 3856s | masters last call |
| 3861s | [Music] |
| 3872s | so |
| 3880s | [Music] |
| 3885s | [Music] |
| 3893s | [Music] |
| 3905s | [Music] |
| 3921s | my |
| 3933s | [Music] |
| 3948s | [Music] |
| 3960s | [Music] |
| 3983s | do |
| 3986s | [Music] |
| 3994s | [Music] |
| 4004s | [Music] |
| 4011s | do |
| 4018s | [Music] |
| 4034s | [Music] |
| 4040s | [Applause] |
| 4042s | [Music] |
| 4053s | welcome back everybody to hearthstone |
| 4055s | grand masters uh last call i think i may |
| 4059s | be misspoke uh at the end of that last |
| 4061s | series saying that we'll be bringing you |
| 4063s | an all eu match i think the the games |
| 4065s | are actually not in the exact order uh |
| 4067s | of what they uh appeared on the uh |
| 4071s | the graphics i think we're instead going |
| 4073s | to super fake vs okachinsky here instead |
| 4075s | having had a look at the uh the tracker |
| 4077s | sheet we have here which uh i mean hey |
| 4080s | i'm not complaining about right i was |
| 4081s | saying that i have been loving watching |
| 4083s | oka shinsuke play these last couple |
| 4085s | weeks in the last call it feels like a |
| 4086s | different man the fire ignited beneath |
| 4089s | him as he's just on that threshold of |
| 4092s | being able to make it through into |
| 4093s | playoffs just needs to get a couple more |
| 4095s | wins first to lock it in |
| 4097s | i definitely misspoke as well but same |
| 4100s | sentiment starok i am very happy to cast |
| 4103s | this match as well not only has |
| 4105s | okasinski been on a pretty strong streak |
| 4108s | recently super fake also |
| 4110s | looked on point with his play yesterday |
| 4112s | there was a little bit of emotiveness |
| 4115s | against chonsu because let's face it you |
| 4117s | do just start to become a bit paranoid |
| 4119s | when you face the huh priest and they |
| 4121s | haven't |
| 4122s | conceded after you remove their four |
| 4124s | minions and that's it um but he will be |
| 4127s | facing a more conventional lineup in |
| 4130s | okashinskis |
| 4131s | right here okay did have a pretty |
| 4134s | crucial error just the other day one |
| 4137s | that i am very happy to have seen him |
| 4140s | not be phased by later on like he played |
| 4142s | very clean after that picked himself up |
| 4145s | didn't get too tilted even though we did |
| 4146s | see him you know have a lot more visible |
| 4150s | um emotion on camera than usual but it's |
| 4153s | not led to a decline in the overall |
| 4155s | quality of play in fact i think he's |
| 4157s | gotten better since then so nice to see |
| 4160s | and we will find out who between them |
| 4162s | can move forward and take more points |
| 4164s | okay though has a lot more that he needs |
| 4166s | to play for |
| 4168s | yeah exactly a win needed here fog |
| 4170s | shinsuke |
| 4171s | at least one if not more to be able to |
| 4173s | get his spot in the playoffs and if he |
| 4175s | does make into playoffs he still wants |
| 4176s | to be avoiding those bottom couple of |
| 4178s | spots in the seventh and eighth players |
| 4180s | uh in playoffs getting an automatic loss |
| 4183s | heading into uh the first round of play |
| 4185s | which is of course not a position in |
| 4187s | which you want to be uh both players |
| 4189s | employing the different strategies that |
| 4190s | we talk about here the two main schools |
| 4193s | of thought band druid ban rogue oka |
| 4195s | schinsky banning the rogue super fake |
| 4197s | banning the druid all making a good |
| 4199s | amount of sense thus far and leading us |
| 4201s | into mage vs rogue again uh to start off |
| 4204s | this series and super fake going with |
| 4206s | what i would argue is a pretty heavily |
| 4207s | text version of the uh the ping mage |
| 4210s | with double blizzard a para and mass |
| 4213s | polymorph two of uh in there as well |
| 4215s | just to give you a little bit more |
| 4216s | consistency in the mid game against this |
| 4218s | rogue yeah that's right super fix lineup |
| 4221s | in my opinion has no room to be flexible |
| 4223s | with the band it is absolutely going to |
| 4225s | get rid of druid because by virtue of |
| 4227s | running this ping mage and the quest |
| 4229s | priest to be having two strong matchups |
| 4232s | against rogue you have two bad matchups |
| 4234s | against druid so super fake still finds |
| 4236s | his mark very reliably you're going to |
| 4238s | find rogue in every single lineup so it |
| 4240s | makes sense to have brought two counters |
| 4243s | to it in case one of those gets banned |
| 4245s | away but okachinsky decides to ban |
| 4247s | neither of them and it's just kind of |
| 4249s | using his rogue as a throwaway slash |
| 4251s | scout deck knowing that it never really |
| 4253s | gets to hit a good target it's fine to |
| 4255s | queue at first here and even if you take |
| 4257s | a loss okay can then counter queue with |
| 4260s | his deck of choice |
| 4262s | yeah exactly the priest should be able |
| 4264s | to very handily uh take it out as that |
| 4266s | is a really quite rough match up for the |
| 4268s | rogue uh okoshinskay as we said coming |
| 4271s | into this season of grand masters was a |
| 4274s | true 50 record in both gm and masters |
| 4277s | tours which i still find very impressive |
| 4279s | i'm not sure how many other players at |
| 4281s | any point could have boasted uh that |
| 4282s | exact uh scoreline given again there |
| 4285s | have been that many uh grand masters |
| 4287s | compared to masters tour competitors uh |
| 4290s | but it's |
| 4291s | kind of uh as i've said before |
| 4294s | uh |
| 4295s | indicative of oka shinsuke's career that |
| 4298s | we've seen him since he qualified |
| 4300s | through to grand masters like two top |
| 4302s | eight is impressive but it's not spiking |
| 4305s | a tournament right it's not getting a |
| 4306s | victory 50 50 in gm is impressive making |
| 4309s | it through to last call is pretty good |
| 4311s | surviving through the last couple |
| 4313s | seasons of gm is impressive in its own |
| 4314s | right but it's not going to the world |
| 4316s | championships it's not winning these |
| 4318s | tournaments which is now really what we |
| 4320s | want to see there's a very much baseline |
| 4322s | level of good hearthstone play that |
| 4324s | we're getting from him but we need those |
| 4325s | sparks of brilliance that are going to |
| 4327s | propel him through to the world |
| 4329s | championships |
| 4330s | speaking of sparks of brilliance there's |
| 4333s | also a little bit of creativity in the |
| 4335s | list from okasinski now we've seen |
| 4337s | players either cutting one or two of the |
| 4339s | backstops or one or two of the sinister |
| 4341s | strikes for their tech option of choice |
| 4343s | we saw judgment with the silver leaf |
| 4346s | poison and now we're seeing okasinski |
| 4348s | with the yoink in there a card that i |
| 4349s | haven't seen since back in the days of |
| 4352s | garot rogue and the i think a more |
| 4354s | popular list in china was running yoink |
| 4357s | that is a card that can get you know |
| 4359s | some decent hero powers of course you're |
| 4361s | always looking for warlock but in |
| 4363s | certain situations hunter can be clutch |
| 4365s | as well for that little bit of extra |
| 4368s | damage |
| 4369s | for now though the opening hand from |
| 4370s | okoshinski is very minion heavy and |
| 4372s | these are two of the most important |
| 4374s | cards in the deck but i'm not sure if |
| 4375s | you want to keep them as opposed to the |
| 4378s | ideal tradable into knoll opener |
| 4380s | especially when you have the two shrouds |
| 4381s | of concealment |
| 4385s | oh it's a really tough one to call |
| 4387s | because if you're keeping edwin you're |
| 4388s | not playing it till turn four earliest |
| 4391s | unless you pick up a shadow step |
| 4392s | beforehand in which case that changes |
| 4394s | the equation uh i think it's probably |
| 4396s | still strong enough to be holding on to |
| 4397s | it just for a power spike around turn |
| 4399s | three or four |
| 4400s | especially because the defense that |
| 4402s | rogue has is |
| 4404s | generally revolving around doing like |
| 4406s | one big board freeze all at once when |
| 4409s | you have a bunch of big minions which is |
| 4411s | obviously very effective against rogue |
| 4412s | but say you just have a seven seven on |
| 4414s | board if they don't hit the location it |
| 4417s | could be a little difficult for them to |
| 4418s | deal with that without going massively |
| 4420s | overkill in the form of vardhan blizzard |
| 4422s | or mass polly |
| 4424s | here |
| 4425s | super fake |
| 4427s | though with a triple keep and uh for |
| 4429s | very justifiable reasons this is amazing |
| 4432s | it's the one drop to discount that |
| 4433s | blizzard and usually when mage loses the |
| 4436s | matchup it's because they're not able to |
| 4438s | clear that six mana break points safely |
| 4440s | maybe they're under too much pressure |
| 4442s | from draka but now that the blizzard can |
| 4443s | come down as early as turn four if he |
| 4445s | saves the coin then he is very strong |
| 4447s | against minion based pressure from |
| 4449s | okasinski and he also has the frostweave |
| 4452s | dungeoneer to |
| 4454s | potentially get him some one ones and be |
| 4456s | annoying to okasinski now that |
| 4458s | annoyingness is very conditional though |
| 4460s | because there are some rogue hands where |
| 4461s | you would rather have less minions on |
| 4463s | board so you give them less fuel for |
| 4465s | their backstabs and serrated bone spikes |
| 4467s | to get locations but you really can't |
| 4469s | have that read and on average i do think |
| 4471s | it's better to just get these on board |
| 4472s | and the cycle going to the point that |
| 4474s | super fake even coins it out for |
| 4477s | the curve but misses on the frost spell |
| 4480s | yeah that's a huge whiff on the one ones |
| 4482s | there because this hand for okasinski |
| 4483s | right now is very tracker oriented with |
| 4487s | double shroud to guarantee him every |
| 4489s | minion in his deck uh both knolls |
| 4491s | dracker and |
| 4492s | less importantly maestra |
| 4495s | he's in a very good position to be able |
| 4496s | to pop off on turn five most likely uh |
| 4499s | but he would still really like to find a |
| 4502s | location number one to get that extra |
| 4504s | status alongside the big damage of the |
| 4507s | dagger but also just some real fuel for |
| 4509s | this he needs to start picking up uh the |
| 4512s | bone spikes as you said uh sinister |
| 4514s | strike any of these spells that work |
| 4516s | with prep effectively to double down on |
| 4518s | this damage |
| 4520s | so he has missed on the knolls both of |
| 4522s | them with the first shroud which is not |
| 4524s | completely insignificant because there |
| 4526s | are some outcomes where the mage ends up |
| 4528s | racing the mage uh other rogue if they |
| 4530s | do get a pretty heavily damage oriented |
| 4533s | hand with the wildfires maybe a sevara |
| 4535s | and so the fact that these two attack |
| 4537s | minions stick around a bit longer can be |
| 4539s | annoying for oka shinsuke i do think |
| 4541s | they're going to stick around at least |
| 4543s | two more turns because i think |
| 4544s | okashinsky will want to save those zero |
| 4546s | cost nulls he'll get for the draco turn |
| 4549s | like you said though the setup and fuel |
| 4551s | for draca isn't entirely there and nor |
| 4554s | does he have a shadow step to like |
| 4555s | pre-discount the edwin and have that |
| 4557s | played on the same turn as draka so this |
| 4560s | starts to become a little bit scary for |
| 4562s | okasinski so many options |
| 4565s | the obvious play i'm looking at being |
| 4566s | still shroud probably yoink uh alongside |
| 4571s | that and i would be happy with |
| 4574s | hunter |
| 4575s | uh |
| 4576s | warrior or priest not being terrible |
| 4579s | either i don't think just to gain you a |
| 4580s | little bit of extra time uh without |
| 4582s | having to worry about this board |
| 4584s | yeah it's so weird that this is like the |
| 4586s | one spot where you're not even certain |
| 4588s | about insta picking warlock if it's |
| 4590s | available |
| 4591s | but even then maybe it's still worth it |
| 4594s | because with the right pickups from |
| 4596s | okashinsuke this hand even though he |
| 4598s | takes a lot of pummeling from these |
| 4600s | minions from super fake can swing the |
| 4602s | board all at once very very quickly um |
| 4605s | just it needs a couple bone spikes |
| 4612s | there it is |
| 4614s | warrior or warlock that's the choice i |
| 4616s | think he okay wow i think he was still |
| 4619s | gonna pick warlock and take the risk but |
| 4622s | actually |
| 4623s | and it's with myestra and not shroud |
| 4626s | really |
| 4628s | so that makes me think he's going to |
| 4629s | prep the shroud next turn and just use |
| 4632s | that as part of the draca chain so he's |
| 4633s | saying that a |
| 4635s | six card lead up into draca is |
| 4638s | sufficient yeah |
| 4640s | i don't know if that's the case it's |
| 4642s | sometimes more than six we'll see what |
| 4644s | he picks up off the top and when he gets |
| 4645s | from the tooth |
| 4649s | oh |
| 4651s | can't afford to play it though this has |
| 4653s | to be the draco because he's going all |
| 4654s | in now |
| 4658s | and it's just not game-winning though is |
| 4660s | it |
| 4662s | but the location is so weak against mage |
| 4665s | especially when they have so much mana |
| 4667s | already |
| 4668s | okay what are we looking for sierra |
| 4670s | manor like flurry is that the nazi |
| 4672s | yeah |
| 4675s | condemn |
| 4677s | i guess that can make him shift away |
| 4679s | from the draco plan now because condemn |
| 4680s | lets him get a full board clear plus an |
| 4682s | old trade and the location instead of |
| 4684s | draca seems clean to me but that's true |
| 4687s | okay takes touch instead |
| 4697s | it looks like it's still gonna be draca |
| 4698s | in the end |
| 4699s | because it's not as though if you say |
| 4701s | okay clearing the board that means my |
| 4703s | sin stone will get there that's not |
| 4705s | necessarily true right because it's |
| 4707s | still very freezable it means you give |
| 4709s | yourself more time but there being less |
| 4710s | pressure on the other side but if you |
| 4712s | use all that fuel and have the jacka |
| 4715s | stuck in hand and never going to get a |
| 4716s | big dagger you're not really pushing the |
| 4718s | most consistent win con against mage |
| 4720s | however seven damage dagger not enough |
| 4724s | it's not yeah and i i i wonder if for me |
| 4727s | i i appreciate what he was doing with |
| 4729s | prep shroud on this turn alongside the |
| 4731s | draco to guarantee him a spell that he |
| 4733s | could play for one mana more activations |
| 4735s | bigger dagger all things you want to do |
| 4737s | but if you played the shroud at the end |
| 4739s | of the previous turn on turn four |
| 4741s | instead of the maestro i wonder if he |
| 4743s | could have maybe got away with an edwin |
| 4745s | turn |
| 4746s | on turn five where you play the edwin |
| 4748s | you have the nulls in hand so if you're |
| 4749s | really dying you can make yourself a |
| 4751s | decent sized edwin maybe throw down one |
| 4754s | of the knolls you have a shot at finding |
| 4757s | a shadow step as well in order to bounce |
| 4759s | it back and play it again and then on |
| 4761s | this turn six when you build up a little |
| 4762s | bit more hand resources and mana you can |
| 4765s | then go for a big tracker pop off |
| 4768s | yeah that's definitely a potential line |
| 4770s | okay i guess just saying he didn't have |
| 4772s | the time to go for that i guess let's |
| 4774s | see if it pans out like i'm honestly not |
| 4777s | sure yeah there's also a world where the |
| 4779s | edwin still lets you play draca that |
| 4780s | turn if you hit bone spikes i think and |
| 4783s | prep them out instantly true |
| 4787s | but the edwin on this follow-up is still |
| 4790s | not too shabby gets the instant shadow |
| 4792s | steps but the rope is burning location |
| 4794s | needs to come down now |
| 4802s | all |
| 4803s | right pretty good it's a pretty good |
| 4806s | board |
| 4808s | going into six mana though and |
| 4810s | unfortunately for okay second blizzard |
| 4812s | is in hand for super fake so he is going |
| 4816s | to survive for now and he will have the |
| 4819s | um either mass poly if he wants the next |
| 4821s | turn or the chance to replay blizzard |
| 4824s | with don gras it's not 100 because he |
| 4825s | played a cold case |
| 4829s | the good thing now for a christian skate |
| 4831s | is his hand is still pretty good after |
| 4833s | having had basically two pop-off turns |
| 4835s | it's pretty rare in rogue that you still |
| 4837s | have |
| 4838s | options after that of any time at all |
| 4840s | which is uh you know a big talking point |
| 4842s | or a big uh benefit of his line of play |
| 4845s | that he did go for |
| 4847s | probably |
| 4848s | whether he can still connect minions |
| 4850s | face right because in terms of burst |
| 4852s | damage after this dagger is gone uh he's |
| 4855s | used a tooth so the other tooth and two |
| 4858s | wicked stabs are what's left and that |
| 4860s | isn't quite enough to clear 20 damage so |
| 4864s | he needs to still i think prioritize |
| 4866s | getting as much stats as he can online |
| 4878s | i really want any of these i guess stab |
| 4880s | so it's not on the bottom of your deck |
| 4882s | yeah right |
| 4886s | and you can wow |
| 4889s | okay |
| 4892s | trading that i guess |
| 4893s | there's an argument to just play it so |
| 4895s | you get a slightly bigger location |
| 4896s | minion |
| 4901s | okay that was for the three three just |
| 4904s | needs a little bit more damage to |
| 4906s | connect face and then hopefully gets |
| 4907s | there with the wicked stab the problem |
| 4909s | is the other one is at the bottom like |
| 4910s | you said that's a parrot which will |
| 4913s | replay blizzard |
| 4915s | there's another card that could replay |
| 4917s | blizzard uh two out of three times i |
| 4920s | believe for super fake with having |
| 4922s | played two blizzards and a cold case at |
| 4924s | this point |
| 4926s | dawn grasp is definitely the best play |
| 4928s | if it hits |
| 4929s | i just don't think it's worth the risk |
| 4931s | though |
| 4934s | it's super scary i mean mass poly |
| 4936s | obviously removes a lot of stats as well |
| 4938s | but even just taking the three damage |
| 4940s | from the sheeps you generate is kind of |
| 4942s | scary from his perspective because he |
| 4945s | hasn't seen either stab or tooth and if |
| 4947s | you're being generous and saying this |
| 4949s | gets to the 10 mana mark let's say all |
| 4952s | the spells from hand are 15 burst |
| 4954s | because of the rank three wickets |
| 4957s | and then you account for three damage |
| 4960s | from the sheep |
| 4962s | that is 18 |
| 4964s | right and then the swing from a black |
| 4966s | water cutlass could be lethal |
| 4968s | so |
| 4970s | can he afford to take three damage is |
| 4972s | the question |
| 4976s | he opposed to say yes |
| 4978s | and as we know stab on the bottom but |
| 4980s | door could find it |
| 4984s | and he could infuse it himself if he |
| 4986s | wants to |
| 4989s | you've done your work sheep |
| 4994s | i mean |
| 4996s | so many options it's not particularly |
| 4999s | good odds for okachinsky but he knows he |
| 5001s | needs a little bit extra right i think |
| 5003s | oh he's doing it |
| 5005s | the self-infuse |
| 5008s | it's |
| 5011s | it also loads up the location a little |
| 5013s | bit so it's tough |
| 5016s | oh that reaction i feel like you got a |
| 5018s | damage spell oh he did |
| 5023s | okay three extra first temporary yeah |
| 5026s | you may as well use the other two |
| 5027s | there's a good chance that stab ends up |
| 5030s | as a uh |
| 5031s | rank three |
| 5032s | two |
| 5037s | add a six six to the board |
| 5040s | certainly threatening and getting to the |
| 5042s | point where alibi also |
| 5044s | still is scary taking the one damage at |
| 5047s | a time but that flurry is very clutch i |
| 5049s | think that allows you to take the window |
| 5051s | to play the dawn grasp now |
| 5053s | agreed yeah if you hit cold case it kind |
| 5055s | of becomes the good outcome in this |
| 5056s | instance because then you can just |
| 5057s | freeze and alibi and clear and whatever |
| 5060s | else you need |
| 5064s | hey |
| 5067s | this is cold case so no additional armor |
| 5073s | oh |
| 5074s | man |
| 5075s | any one one okay two two no you don't |
| 5078s | two two because you want the wicked |
| 5079s | stuff to upgrade |
| 5081s | would you take a one one |
| 5087s | i don't think so what is there left in |
| 5089s | the deck |
| 5091s | i think there's a slight mistake hearing |
| 5093s | that there's no edwin but everything |
| 5095s | else i'm pretty sure is still |
| 5097s | in the deck there's one wicked stab |
| 5100s | another door |
| 5101s | uh |
| 5103s | but everything else is really kind of |
| 5104s | useless |
| 5106s | and do you remember the order of the |
| 5108s | dredge options |
| 5110s | because if the wicked stop was far right |
| 5112s | then okay can time as to when he finds |
| 5115s | it and i i misspoke the other day the |
| 5117s | far right dredge is actually the one |
| 5119s | that's highest in the deck the far left |
| 5121s | is the one at the very bottom oh really |
| 5123s | i didn't know |
| 5128s | okay if middle then |
| 5130s | uh well it's basically down at the |
| 5131s | bottom you need to draw six cards before |
| 5133s | then that's not really happening right |
| 5135s | there won't be six turns left in the |
| 5136s | game |
| 5137s | well that what the right is at the top |
| 5139s | you said so like yeah uh wasn't it |
| 5141s | middle and the cutlass was the right one |
| 5144s | so does that mean it shifts along or |
| 5145s | another one is it still second from |
| 5147s | bottom |
| 5149s | i |
| 5150s | don't know about it |
| 5152s | i think it's sorry |
| 5154s | i think it's i think you're right yeah |
| 5156s | yeah |
| 5156s | and with this armor gain that pretty |
| 5158s | much locks out any chances okasinski has |
| 5162s | uh all the teeth used so you can't |
| 5164s | really discover anything either i think |
| 5166s | super fake has just cleared the line |
| 5169s | uh sorry it was one armor but even |
| 5171s | having said that it's enough |
| 5174s | it's still a big difference maker yeah |
| 5177s | now we just need to see counter lethal |
| 5178s | applied as quickly as possible |
| 5181s | which |
| 5185s | yeah get some more minions on board |
| 5188s | the only question is as to whether he |
| 5190s | wants to play around exactly double |
| 5192s | wicked stab ranks |
| 5194s | which would necessitate playing solid |
| 5197s | alibi |
| 5199s | but i think that though you're still |
| 5201s | dead to it next turn |
| 5202s | exactly uh now that he's got cold case |
| 5205s | though he can get away with playing the |
| 5207s | alibi this turn and then |
| 5209s | lock in the game with the cold case next |
| 5211s | turn |
| 5214s | oh door but he can't he can't infuse it |
| 5218s | but that door has the chance of pulling |
| 5219s | the other wicked stab natural copy |
| 5222s | next turn |
| 5228s | oh |
| 5230s | oh my god |
| 5231s | he actually won because he played the |
| 5233s | alivoi oh my goodness |
| 5237s | another problem is super fake oh he just |
| 5240s | goes to 12 right with a dagger hit face |
| 5242s | you have to here as a kishinski yeah |
| 5245s | and then the cold case will get him out |
| 5247s | of range of these double stabs |
| 5250s | and okay can also never attack face from |
| 5252s | this point because the other one one |
| 5254s | survived |
| 5255s | yeah exactly and the flurry freezes the |
| 5258s | stealth as well |
| 5261s | stay where you are |
| 5265s | by the skin of his teeth super fake |
| 5268s | clutches this out |
| 5270s | i think he does right there's no other |
| 5272s | damage effects in the deck extortion |
| 5274s | can't go face |
| 5275s | cutless isn't gonna matter because as he |
| 5277s | said he can't attack face |
| 5281s | good extortion the one one in |
| 5283s | anticipation to attack face next turn |
| 5285s | but then you'd have to wicket stab |
| 5287s | something yeah he's just dead on board |
| 5289s | so yeah no way out for okay |
| 5292s | that was incredibly close though |
| 5294s | especially for a hand that didn't really |
| 5296s | give him that big of a drakka |
| 5298s | yeah |
| 5301s | it was a very interesting starting |
| 5303s | couple of turns i'm pretty sure i would |
| 5304s | have played it differently to oka |
| 5305s | shinsuke um but |
| 5310s | i looking back on it i don't know if |
| 5311s | that was necessarily better because he |
| 5313s | he was under a lot of pressure he was |
| 5315s | scared at that point in the game which i |
| 5316s | fully understand because his opponent |
| 5318s | was applying a lot of pressure he was |
| 5319s | under real threat of dying to like a you |
| 5321s | know a more dress or some kind of |
| 5323s | apprentice play |
| 5324s | and he decided to make an immediate |
| 5326s | pop-up turn clear off a lot of the board |
| 5327s | get seven damage weapon and i would say |
| 5330s | against uh the mage that's not enough a |
| 5332s | lot of the time but it very nearly was |
| 5334s | he put in his opponent in a position |
| 5336s | where with one slight misplay not |
| 5338s | playing the alibi uh he would have ended |
| 5340s | up taking the game |
| 5342s | so fair play to okoshinskay it was an |
| 5344s | interesting rogue pan out |
| 5346s | it's crazy that super fake needed both |
| 5349s | the good opening curve into blizzard |
| 5352s | into mass polymorph i i used both when i |
| 5354s | meant to say all because these are a lot |
| 5356s | of things i'm listing but he needed gold |
| 5358s | case he needed the armor from dawn grasp |
| 5361s | he needed the solid alibi as well like |
| 5363s | there's a couple unfortunate outcomes in |
| 5365s | the middle like the evoker pulling a |
| 5367s | wildfire and the first dungeoneer not |
| 5369s | getting both won ones but i still think |
| 5371s | it was a pretty above average outcome |
| 5374s | here and okushinsky did the best he |
| 5376s | could with the hand he was given but |
| 5378s | that just is not a very good matchup for |
| 5381s | his rogue however we did talk about how |
| 5384s | at the beginning of the series okasinski |
| 5386s | queued up this rope pretty safely |
| 5388s | because this is sort of the throwaway |
| 5390s | the scout deck where he knows it doesn't |
| 5392s | have any good matchups in the series |
| 5394s | once he bans away |
| 5396s | what he's chosen against super fake so |
| 5398s | now he gets to go for his choice and |
| 5402s | that is going to be the mirror |
| 5404s | where there are still some boxes |
| 5406s | available |
| 5409s | uh indeed yeah okay is still on the ping |
| 5413s | variant without the belinda without the |
| 5415s | barbarics uh in there as well but double |
| 5418s | rune of the archmage uh and he's also |
| 5421s | got the dinatrius packages i think the |
| 5422s | main thing he's making room for here uh |
| 5425s | by cutting the |
| 5427s | uh the owl uh sorry the parrot not the |
| 5429s | out uh when compared to |
| 5433s | uh super fakes list and the second |
| 5435s | polymorph as well uh i do think that |
| 5436s | obviously favors okacinski uh having so |
| 5439s | many more late game hitters uh to close |
| 5441s | it out uh as we said in the form of |
| 5443s | donations even the runes can be a huge |
| 5446s | factor in their own right |
| 5447s | still |
| 5449s | i do think this is for uh first and |
| 5451s | foremost and last most as well |
| 5453s | uh a race to find that dawn grasp |
| 5456s | that's right but the early board does |
| 5458s | matter we did see this pan out yesterday |
| 5461s | where uh one player getting ahead and |
| 5463s | pushing that chip damage does make it so |
| 5465s | that by the time they find don grass |
| 5467s | even if their opponent finds it one turn |
| 5469s | sooner sometimes they can still clutch |
| 5471s | out the victory and so opening curve |
| 5474s | looking great for um super fake i think |
| 5477s | he probably throws sevara and death born |
| 5479s | but the one in the three makes a lot of |
| 5481s | sense for okachinsky probably only keep |
| 5483s | the dungeon here |
| 5486s | agreed yep just the highest tempo |
| 5488s | minions that mage has at the start |
| 5492s | really it's kind of sick how |
| 5494s | much tempo mage minions |
| 5496s | offer you at the start of the game i |
| 5498s | feel like it's something that i wouldn't |
| 5499s | have expected mage to be designed to |
| 5501s | specialize in but they really do have |
| 5502s | some absolute premium minions |
| 5505s | yeah i mean back in the day enchanted |
| 5507s | raven was something that bistro yeah |
| 5510s | druid wanted to do on turn one and now |
| 5511s | it's just better in shivering sorceress |
| 5518s | decides to keep sivara which is super |
| 5520s | interesting to me especially since he's |
| 5522s | off coin that's a relatively difficult |
| 5525s | card to activate without it but uh he |
| 5528s | does have that dungeoneer which promises |
| 5530s | the draw of a spell |
| 5535s | yeah it's definitely not a play i would |
| 5537s | have made again we are looking very |
| 5538s | heavily for |
| 5540s | the hero card uh if you find exactly ai |
| 5543s | then you are potentially able to double |
| 5545s | down on your card draw a little bit more |
| 5547s | but that's really clunky amounts of mana |
| 5550s | that you're working with there in terms |
| 5551s | of drawing twice off of ai whilst also |
| 5554s | filling up your hand with the savara so |
| 5556s | it can be tough to make hand space |
| 5558s | rest of super fix hand getting a bit |
| 5561s | awkward and also the fact that he drew |
| 5563s | alibi before the deathborn was in hand |
| 5565s | makes the discount on the shivering |
| 5567s | pretty awkward almost always you would |
| 5569s | rather discount a more expensive spell |
| 5571s | because it's not difficult to weave in |
| 5573s | the alibi even at two mana |
| 5576s | but an earlier ramp death board can |
| 5578s | really catch your opponent off guard |
| 5580s | however oka shinsuke has missed on the |
| 5583s | frost spell |
| 5585s | not the worst outcome though because the |
| 5586s | ai does guarantee more cycle later on |
| 5589s | but like i said it does depend heavily |
| 5591s | the early game on board control both |
| 5593s | players miss on their one ones |
| 5598s | i'm not sure who that's |
| 5600s | worse for right now because |
| 5603s | super fake has a weak hand in terms of |
| 5605s | pro activity 100 |
| 5608s | but |
| 5609s | it's a |
| 5610s | pretty good defensive hand like once |
| 5612s | turn five is all turned six rolls around |
| 5614s | nothing's going face nothing's surviving |
| 5616s | for quite a while and therefore the |
| 5619s | aggressive potential from okashinsuke |
| 5621s | limited though it may be you know it's |
| 5622s | not great i do anticipate him getting a |
| 5624s | head on board in these next couple turns |
| 5626s | uh it's not really going to matter it |
| 5628s | kind of ends up in this stalemate for |
| 5630s | the moment where both players are equal |
| 5633s | in power it's the immovable object and |
| 5636s | the unstoppable force uh or the pathetic |
| 5639s | object and the pathetic force that kind |
| 5641s | of equals the same effect anyway |
| 5643s | and we just end up both players trying |
| 5644s | to stall to find a real power play uh in |
| 5647s | the mid game |
| 5648s | uh really rough or super fake to find |
| 5650s | the apprentices this early and have them |
| 5652s | be the only playables because these are |
| 5654s | so valuable post don grass but i think |
| 5657s | he is making a justified concession to |
| 5659s | play one out here to not fall too far |
| 5661s | behind early on after this turn he does |
| 5664s | have strong things to do whether it's |
| 5666s | just chained deathborns and with the |
| 5670s | face attack from okasinski last turn i |
| 5672s | do think that was warranted but if he |
| 5674s | doesn't take trades this turn he'll be a |
| 5676s | bit weak into deathborn |
| 5682s | anna is super awkward for okushin's game |
| 5684s | i think he ends up on ai and just hopes |
| 5687s | to pick up something cheap with the rest |
| 5689s | of his mana but |
| 5693s | it's conceding tempo for sure what to do |
| 5696s | it really is kind of crazy how similar |
| 5698s | both players hands are right now they're |
| 5701s | truly mirrored and just both doing more |
| 5702s | or less nothing |
| 5707s | there's zero spells in the sivara at the |
| 5709s | moment for oka shinsuke so that's |
| 5710s | another reason that i'd like to see him |
| 5712s | start playing ai |
| 5715s | um |
| 5717s | anything to cycle and get closer to |
| 5719s | dawngrass the wildfire is a very big |
| 5721s | deal as well |
| 5723s | yeah honestly even a flurry just to |
| 5725s | activate this savara you wouldn't turn |
| 5727s | your nose up at |
| 5735s | and even playing solid alibi i would be |
| 5737s | tempted to just jam that to to activate |
| 5740s | the silvara you get it back anyway |
| 5745s | logic |
| 5746s | makes sense when you feel you have the |
| 5748s | time to play sevara very soon but it's |
| 5750s | not necessarily going to happen with the |
| 5753s | shape of the hand from okay that's true |
| 5755s | maybe he's going to chain blizzard into |
| 5757s | deathborn |
| 5761s | but it does get awkward if those are the |
| 5763s | last spells put into sevara because you |
| 5765s | hardly have time to |
| 5766s | replay those new copies |
| 5769s | and atheist though found sooner rather |
| 5771s | than later is pretty nice as long as it |
| 5773s | doesn't get theotard away you can get |
| 5775s | that juiced up nice and early |
| 5778s | and now we're entering the uh what seems |
| 5780s | to be the freeze portion of the game |
| 5782s | with blizzard being the uh expected |
| 5785s | player for ogashinsky you could argue |
| 5787s | frostweed plus uh prince renophile uh |
| 5790s | but i think you're walking a little too |
| 5792s | heavily into either your opponent just |
| 5794s | ignoring your board going face and |
| 5796s | playing blizzard uh or a deathborn on |
| 5798s | the other side which could be pretty |
| 5799s | devastating too |
| 5801s | the symmetrical nature of deathborn i |
| 5804s | think is something that you always have |
| 5805s | to consider in the mage mirror and |
| 5807s | okazinski knows he's given two potential |
| 5810s | deathborn targets here but that |
| 5811s | deathborn would leave three targets on |
| 5814s | board so if he wanted to respond with |
| 5815s | his own he ends up ahead in that |
| 5817s | exchange |
| 5823s | problem for super fake is he can't |
| 5825s | really |
| 5826s | do anything about it right then doesn't |
| 5828s | do anything else if he wants to play |
| 5830s | polymorph that still gives okay a good |
| 5832s | death porn |
| 5835s | i guess it is just deathborn and then |
| 5837s | set up for parrot deathborn |
| 5840s | on the following turn if your opponent |
| 5841s | has three on board maybe you can get |
| 5843s | three |
| 5844s | possibly even four if the parrot dies as |
| 5846s | well |
| 5849s | or just uh polly them away |
| 5852s | true |
| 5853s | but i do like the current porn here |
| 5855s | because the skeletons represent so much |
| 5857s | damage in the long run i was going to |
| 5858s | say the location presents an opportunity |
| 5861s | for okashinsuke to not take the |
| 5864s | um middle deathborn plate like he could |
| 5866s | go for an even more bored tense option |
| 5868s | where he freezes and |
| 5871s | draws with the dungeoneer sometimes gets |
| 5873s | two one once and he feeds super fake a |
| 5875s | bigger deathborn but then he would save |
| 5877s | his own deathborn to respond to it |
| 5879s | this is a lot of back and forth and |
| 5882s | generally you're fine to do that as long |
| 5884s | as you have the higher health total |
| 5887s | you could dig for the slim outer of |
| 5890s | wildfire off the frost we've done janae |
| 5892s | in order to give you a clear with the |
| 5894s | reckless apprentice uh i feel like i'm |
| 5897s | leaning more towards just |
| 5900s | mass polly though i know it's the only |
| 5901s | one in his deck but |
| 5903s | this is a lot of potential damage that |
| 5905s | you can delete |
| 5906s | on this coming turn |
| 5908s | it is |
| 5909s | i am looking at sivara which |
| 5912s | if he plays it |
| 5914s | first um he would only get two spells so |
| 5917s | he would not get the death barn as the |
| 5918s | last one which is a bit problematic |
| 5920s | right |
| 5922s | uh if you start cold case you can get |
| 5923s | all three but then you would overdraw |
| 5926s | which i don't think you can afford to do |
| 5928s | at this point agreed |
| 5931s | maybe it does end up just being mass |
| 5932s | poly which is a huge concession in |
| 5934s | temple but |
| 5936s | perhaps unnecessary evil |
| 5939s | and it's close like even looking at |
| 5941s | alternative options uh location cold |
| 5944s | case is not absurd you've seen two |
| 5946s | deathborns from your opponent oh sorry |
| 5948s | one and the parrot it's kind of unlikely |
| 5950s | they have the uh the last copy ready to |
| 5953s | go as well |
| 5957s | really tough turn |
| 5961s | yet again all the responsive draws and |
| 5963s | none of the heavy hitters for both of |
| 5965s | our players |
| 5967s | but |
| 5968s | as time goes on if okachinsky is not |
| 5970s | under too much pressure he's still in |
| 5972s | the lead because he has this denatrius |
| 5974s | in hand as the ace in the hole |
| 5976s | it's not particularly big yet but |
| 5979s | there is definitely opportunities to |
| 5982s | replay deathborne okay that |
| 5984s | opens up a lot of hand space for oka |
| 5986s | shinsuke now |
| 5987s | oh yeah still a matter of being able to |
| 5989s | play the deathborn as well which is |
| 5991s | obviously very frustrating against a |
| 5993s | board like this |
| 5997s | but he could potentially just like try |
| 5999s | and freeze to stop the opponent |
| 6002s | attacking with these minions at all if |
| 6004s | you go |
| 6005s | uh location for lurie |
| 6008s | and then |
| 6009s | king away one of the sheep that remains |
| 6016s | clear instead okay |
| 6018s | definitely still fine it just feels |
| 6021s | weird to give up such a death barnable |
| 6023s | board right exactly yeah |
| 6027s | but |
| 6028s | you just kind of |
| 6030s | um trust in your opponent having such a |
| 6032s | similar deck that they would build |
| 6034s | another one or they make yours death |
| 6035s | barnable at some point i suppose |
| 6039s | i guess yeah |
| 6043s | but super fake is gonna ping a minion |
| 6045s | away here even though it's frozen i like |
| 6047s | that a lot |
| 6049s | and after stealing 12. it's actually so |
| 6051s | close to lethal |
| 6054s | and now an alternate path has reared its |
| 6058s | ugly head |
| 6059s | [Music] |
| 6062s | i do think it's just double cold case |
| 6064s | ping though |
| 6064s | agreed yeah |
| 6066s | because if they deathborn that then you |
| 6068s | can go with savara deathborn after |
| 6071s | what to do yes and hand space is always |
| 6073s | fine because you have the flurry as well |
| 6075s | if needed |
| 6078s | okay |
| 6079s | the sanctum cold case runneth all to |
| 6084s | remove troll cards from the hand sure |
| 6087s | yeah it's more efficient as well the |
| 6088s | pink really is not doing much oh okay |
| 6097s | it really is just such a roundabout way |
| 6099s | of thinking you have to do in the mage |
| 6100s | mirror sometimes where |
| 6102s | sometimes you don't want to give your |
| 6104s | opponent a deathborn board but sometimes |
| 6106s | you do if you have your deathborn but it |
| 6108s | gets punished if they have the third or |
| 6110s | the fourth one and it just goes on and |
| 6111s | on and on and there's potential to |
| 6113s | change so many because there's parrots |
| 6114s | and there's sevara |
| 6116s | but i just think in okashinsky's case he |
| 6118s | has the |
| 6119s | opportunity to be more aggressive |
| 6121s | because he is a head on health total and |
| 6123s | has the nathrius in hand just in case |
| 6125s | something goes wrong or just for |
| 6127s | straight up lethal |
| 6129s | yeah 100 |
| 6130s | uh |
| 6132s | it's like it's true that oceanside can |
| 6134s | be more aggressive but you can kind of |
| 6135s | also just be more passive like in this |
| 6137s | race where both players are doing |
| 6138s | nothing uh he's coming out on top right |
| 6140s | now because he's got the rune he's got |
| 6142s | the genetics anyway this goes except for |
| 6146s | dawn grasp next turn for super fake and |
| 6148s | no dawn grasp for oka shinsuke for 20 |
| 6150s | turns uh okazinski comes out on top |
| 6153s | right |
| 6154s | yeah they're doing nothing quickly turns |
| 6156s | into lethal with all this incremental |
| 6158s | damage the cold case into deathborn here |
| 6161s | gives oka shinsuke |
| 6163s | the |
| 6164s | full board of skeletons because of the |
| 6167s | location taking one spot |
| 6170s | and juices his denatrius even more |
| 6173s | if there's a vardan the minion here for |
| 6176s | super fake that actually becomes a |
| 6177s | little bit problematic for a christian's |
| 6179s | game but only for one train |
| 6184s | i |
| 6185s | think that dynamics could be lethal even |
| 6187s | do the apprentice here but i'm not sure |
| 6192s | give us a peek where are we at |
| 6196s | uh |
| 6197s | i mean you can't do it just just like |
| 6200s | next turn |
| 6204s | yeah it's better to do that than i think |
| 6206s | like they're more likely to win with top |
| 6207s | deck theater |
| 6209s | right |
| 6210s | or just playing minions so that another |
| 6212s | does less damage face and okay is out of |
| 6215s | ways to build big board after this so |
| 6217s | yeah just freeze first and then |
| 6219s | denny |
| 6220s | and then the super fake |
| 6222s | can just go next |
| 6228s | okay ai for the one of out |
| 6233s | that's not a dawn grasp that's gg |
| 6238s | wow that was a dawn graspless game which |
| 6241s | is an interesting way of seeing it pan |
| 6243s | out but yeah i didn't really emphasize |
| 6246s | how much the incremental damage in the |
| 6247s | early game matters but more so than that |
| 6249s | the inclusion of denatrius in |
| 6252s | okoshinski's list which is obviously |
| 6254s | built to be better against druid and |
| 6256s | better in the mirror whereas super fakes |
| 6258s | is built to be better against a rogue |
| 6260s | all |
| 6261s | these overarching decisions having long |
| 6264s | reaching implications right and super |
| 6266s | fake had a very comfortable match |
| 6268s | against the rogue because of that and i |
| 6269s | do think okazinski is less reliably |
| 6272s | going to face rogue and that's why their |
| 6274s | band's strategies are a bit different |
| 6277s | yeah |
| 6277s | both players doing the jobs that they |
| 6280s | were meant to do with their deck having |
| 6281s | been tuned slightly differently to get |
| 6283s | different uh |
| 6284s | outcomes |
| 6285s | uh meaning that we are getting the druid |
| 6287s | as the counter to super fake which i do |
| 6290s | still think ends up as a favorable |
| 6291s | matchup even though as you uh put this |
| 6294s | deck from okchinski's design to be |
| 6296s | better against the druid than it |
| 6298s | normally is i still don't think it's |
| 6299s | good uh versus the druid overall uh very |
| 6302s | much dependent on the list though as |
| 6304s | super fake is a |
| 6306s | kazakhstan enjoyer uh which you and i |
| 6309s | most decidedly are not |
| 6312s | uh and i do think again against mage |
| 6316s | like in the games where they don't hit |
| 6318s | dawn grasp you're probably winning with |
| 6320s | whatever druidy stuff you're doing in |
| 6321s | the long run anyway and if they do |
| 6324s | kazakhstan feels a little bit too slow |
| 6327s | uh to me a lot of the time based on the |
| 6328s | games that i've seen with it which i |
| 6331s | don't think helps super fake's chances |
| 6333s | but it's still druid it's still got ramp |
| 6335s | it's still got the denatrius at the end |
| 6337s | you can focus on that half of the deck a |
| 6338s | little more right if anything i feel the |
| 6341s | alextraza inclusion is more relevant for |
| 6344s | them |
| 6344s | the kazakhstan itself uh because i think |
| 6348s | my prediction the other day of not |
| 6350s | seeing a single active kazakhstan this |
| 6352s | weekend has been holding up i haven't |
| 6354s | watched every single game but in |
| 6356s | everything i've seen it's never gotten |
| 6358s | to see play and the giants have |
| 6360s | certainly proven more effective in the |
| 6362s | match-up but still the druid can |
| 6364s | reliably get a big damage than atheists |
| 6367s | to just go over the top against mage |
| 6370s | that is very scary though if it gets |
| 6372s | theotard away so for okashinsuke |
| 6375s | first order of business is to find the |
| 6378s | good curve and the two cards in the |
| 6380s | middle even sank them to a certain |
| 6382s | extent because he's on coin represent |
| 6384s | that good curve i wonder if he thinks |
| 6386s | this is good enough |
| 6388s | yeah middle to 100 for me the sanctum |
| 6391s | like |
| 6392s | coin dungeoneer and then if you miss on |
| 6395s | the one ones are you freezing the |
| 6396s | dungeoneer itself with the |
| 6399s | sanctum okay you're still pulling flip |
| 6401s | uh pretty far ahead on board |
| 6403s | did you keep vardan okay he tossed that |
| 6406s | and in the cold case all right |
| 6408s | so the cold case |
| 6410s | um understandable why you would keep it |
| 6412s | i don't hate it but also understandable |
| 6414s | why you throw it away because |
| 6417s | um |
| 6418s | generally you don't expect to close the |
| 6420s | game out with full board from mage like |
| 6422s | it's a combination you need of a good |
| 6424s | starting curve into |
| 6426s | that uh early dawn grasp |
| 6429s | hero card i should say |
| 6431s | as hit theater though which can happen |
| 6434s | as part of the curve |
| 6438s | or |
| 6439s | a real tempting planted evidence as well |
| 6442s | on three mana which is what you would |
| 6444s | have access to wild growth number one |
| 6446s | plot of sin uh can be very strong as |
| 6448s | well just get a bit of extra early tempo |
| 6451s | uh in addition to this the usual yeah |
| 6453s | kennel sorry that's a good one |
| 6455s | uh and just good two mana spells as well |
| 6457s | the thorn growth centuries |
| 6459s | natural causes uh cold tooth mine is a |
| 6462s | big one to try and you're denaturous |
| 6464s | it's a 50 50 because you run sonyxia |
| 6466s | um there's also the |
| 6468s | brave aquatic form available if he wants |
| 6471s | to try and hit innervate here |
| 6473s | like very brave |
| 6474s | or jerry i suppose |
| 6476s | yeah true both of those are pretty good |
| 6478s | these are all drawable so not a huge |
| 6481s | i mean that's above average for sure all |
| 6484s | right still got full mana spare ends up |
| 6486s | with roots for one ones yeah sure yeah |
| 6492s | yeah really not amazing because he |
| 6494s | doesn't even have denatures in hand to |
| 6496s | benefit from these tokens but |
| 6499s | in the world rural cushions it's a good |
| 6501s | curve it's nice to have a couple minions |
| 6504s | to fight back |
| 6506s | and now we're just curving out right |
| 6507s | we're going coin sanctum get down the |
| 6509s | dungeoneer afterwards as well uh theater |
| 6513s | or deep water on four depending on the |
| 6515s | situation |
| 6517s | sounds good to me |
| 6518s | yep |
| 6520s | oh he's even got a very spicy play of |
| 6522s | kale fast finley uh on turn seven to |
| 6525s | just truly spin the wheel with spindly |
| 6527s | and see what you get |
| 6533s | oh okay okay never mind we're not |
| 6535s | spinning |
| 6536s | we're taking five |
| 6538s | [Laughter] |
| 6541s | yeah not often i would suggest the trade |
| 6543s | as mage here but i think it's pretty |
| 6545s | relevant to protect one of the little |
| 6547s | one ones here |
| 6553s | okay ramping again very few cards left |
| 6556s | in hand for super fake |
| 6558s | uh and actually no card draw at all like |
| 6561s | these are the kind of situations where i |
| 6562s | find theater is very very good as the |
| 6564s | mage because you have a good shot of |
| 6566s | hitting uh nourish anixia |
| 6570s | miracle growth all these really high |
| 6572s | value cars that they're ramping up into |
| 6573s | scale of vinix you would be huge as well |
| 6576s | uh but for okachinsky he's gonna see |
| 6578s | three cards and think ah the other one's |
| 6580s | definitely the miracle growth uh little |
| 6582s | does he know they're actually just all |
| 6583s | pretty trash right now for super fast i |
| 6585s | mean if he pulls super takes theater |
| 6587s | though that's insane for okay that's |
| 6589s | huge he protects his own dawn grasp and |
| 6591s | his own denathrius and gives him another |
| 6594s | go at finding super fixed denatures |
| 6596s | later on |
| 6597s | is no excuse for bad manners |
| 6602s | wait we don't see you |
| 6604s | but he's not pleased |
| 6606s | i mean |
| 6606s | that's so unlucky if he doesn't hit the |
| 6608s | theo the 25 percenter to miss |
| 6614s | uh |
| 6615s | okay maybe he's hesitating what to give |
| 6618s | super fake i don't know |
| 6621s | man |
| 6623s | maybe oh okay there we go goodbye spin |
| 6627s | lee |
| 6631s | i'm so curious what okay shinsuke's |
| 6633s | other options to give were because if he |
| 6635s | saw two out of three |
| 6638s | of the other cards from super fix hand |
| 6639s | and saw they're terrible you don't |
| 6641s | really want to give them spin me right |
| 6642s | because that's a reroll on their hand |
| 6645s | i agree i guess the other options would |
| 6647s | probably like |
| 6649s | dawn grass roon dawn grasp kale |
| 6652s | something like that where you could |
| 6653s | really open up their hand |
| 6657s | honestly giving them |
| 6659s | is not super scary if you have their |
| 6661s | guitar right i don't know |
| 6664s | yeah there's always one card left in |
| 6666s | hand like if you see they have the the |
| 6667s | one drop uh as well the druid of the |
| 6670s | reef and you're like giving them enough |
| 6671s | mana to tempo out and onyxia it's so |
| 6674s | unlikely but it it is scary |
| 6679s | well |
| 6681s | okay |
| 6682s | is so far ahead right now can continue |
| 6684s | curving out with the deep water evoker |
| 6687s | and the shivering sorceress |
| 6689s | the order of which doesn't really matter |
| 6692s | because it's always gonna |
| 6694s | discount our rune whether it's the one |
| 6696s | in hand or the one drawn from the deep |
| 6698s | water |
| 6700s | stop shutting you going again does he |
| 6702s | want his fiddly back |
| 6704s | he's cute he's fine |
| 6708s | oh my gosh |
| 6710s | what why is the evoker green is he has |
| 6713s | he given it the super vape |
| 6716s | oh yeah used |
| 6718s | actually i think that's because it was |
| 6720s | still playable before theater was played |
| 6722s | and like the oh |
| 6724s | like the game hasn't counted it as being |
| 6726s | resolved yet like is the theater still |
| 6728s | green as well oh |
| 6730s | i think it's how it works when you have |
| 6731s | these weird spectator issues |
| 6734s | oh but he did give he did as well man |
| 6737s | are we are we full murloc homes now |
| 6739s | trying to figure out the missing |
| 6741s | how the spectator bugs operate |
| 6746s | oh okay |
| 6747s | come on man get those clicks in |
| 6751s | he took on earthen scales as well which |
| 6753s | is |
| 6754s | not great in mage i mean it's a nature |
| 6756s | spell that has non-graspable replay but |
| 6758s | it |
| 6759s | and it only hits friendly oh oh oh |
| 6762s | a box |
| 6764s | out of nowhere it's the box |
| 6768s | that's a great way to start oh he |
| 6770s | doesn't oh no that's bad |
| 6772s | but |
| 6772s | draw three you take those that's bad too |
| 6775s | that's potentially bad too |
| 6779s | oh no |
| 6782s | what's happening man |
| 6786s | oh my god okay |
| 6788s | oh my god |
| 6790s | he's just gonna overdraw at some point |
| 6792s | oh what's happening |
| 6796s | and he convoked the living heck out of |
| 6798s | those spirits |
| 6800s | he sure did is he supposed to wait |
| 6803s | thinly just to not overdraw but this |
| 6804s | hand is so good now there's no way all |
| 6807s | the strong cards yeah yeah you'd vape |
| 6809s | pass before you vape thinly yeah |
| 6812s | yeah yeah yeah yeah |
| 6818s | and anyway this board doesn't actually |
| 6820s | get cleaned up that easily by okay sure |
| 6823s | only part of it |
| 6824s | if there's blizzard or deathborn |
| 6830s | not bad right you have trade in hope |
| 6833s | that the death rattle doesn't kill the |
| 6835s | 3-1 correct and then summon another one |
| 6837s | and then deathborn you get like |
| 6840s | three guaranteed maybe four maybe five |
| 6842s | in like a really ideal world |
| 6845s | oh |
| 6846s | okay okay |
| 6850s | ah you are locked in at four now but |
| 6851s | that's still good |
| 6856s | and the overdraws are probably gonna be |
| 6857s | trash except for denny oh |
| 6861s | god how come super makes good cards |
| 6861s | my my |
| 6865s | next to each other look at their order |
| 6866s | topiar devourer onyxia kazakhstan guff |
| 6870s | all the good cards shortly followed by |
| 6873s | the nathrius |
| 6876s | uh okay guff here does make |
| 6880s | sense i don't think you're under too |
| 6882s | much pressure to the point where you |
| 6883s | have to go |
| 6884s | like devourer uh or in nyxia because you |
| 6886s | can go guff this turn |
| 6889s | and then you have a multitude of clean |
| 6891s | up options uh for the following turn |
| 6900s | yeah the guff is so enticing just to get |
| 6903s | that nana ceiling higher and really get |
| 6905s | to the point where you can do insane |
| 6907s | things with topiar but i am so concerned |
| 6909s | for a super fake's long-term game plan |
| 6912s | and maybe that's why he went onyxia |
| 6913s | because without dinatrius |
| 6915s | and without theater his only avenue to |
| 6917s | win the game is through the board which |
| 6919s | is really difficult to do against mage |
| 6922s | so maybe he's saying play onyxia as soon |
| 6924s | as possible try and connect this damaged |
| 6926s | face because that's the only way he |
| 6928s | really wins the game i'm not even sure |
| 6930s | if he can get the kazakhstan active with |
| 6932s | all of the overdraws |
| 6934s | maybe he can |
| 6936s | i think he can amalgam was at the |
| 6939s | bottom of his deck right off the dredge |
| 6942s | uh |
| 6943s | because there was a scale and an amalgam |
| 6944s | at the bottom alongside the druid of the |
| 6946s | reef |
| 6947s | which does make it a lot harder for sure |
| 6950s | but as long as the hope for four dragons |
| 6952s | is available then |
| 6954s | has a very real win condition other than |
| 6956s | the board which is huge because i i |
| 6958s | really don't think druid can get there |
| 6960s | just playing topiar and shrubs this is |
| 6963s | not even any giants from super fate |
| 6967s | that's true but having said that because |
| 6970s | the theater and daenerys have been |
| 6972s | chewed up bran |
| 6975s | becomes probably the highest value |
| 6977s | battle cry |
| 6978s | to double up on at this point |
| 6980s | which does mean you get a lot more board |
| 6982s | control as the game carries on |
| 6985s | the |
| 6987s | oh briotar |
| 6987s | sorry the bro |
| 6989s | bro |
| 6994s | whatever it is |
| 6995s | god we can't stop doing this academy |
| 6998s | actually i'm saying we it's mainly just |
| 7000s | me and your and your humoring me thank |
| 7001s | you |
| 7003s | oh worries calculations are correct okay |
| 7005s | i'm almost free |
| 7007s | [Laughter] |
| 7010s | trying to figure out a clean way to get |
| 7013s | the clear and the scale hero power box |
| 7016s | box box oh |
| 7020s | even i didn't want to box here |
| 7023s | oh |
| 7025s | oh the hero power |
| 7027s | oh actually |
| 7029s | uh oh no order doesn't |
| 7031s | work because |
| 7033s | yeah he doesn't scale it again but but |
| 7036s | he still gets to fully clear the board |
| 7038s | which is a big deal |
| 7039s | yeah and it does upgrade once that's |
| 7041s | fine |
| 7043s | oh yeah it's correct to do in this order |
| 7045s | because then the damage goes face |
| 7046s | instead of |
| 7052s | that's one of the precious threats left |
| 7055s | for super fake easily answered by |
| 7057s | okochinski both boxes still intact |
| 7060s | so |
| 7061s | my prediction of no kazakhstan's active |
| 7064s | could be wrong derek it feels like |
| 7065s | that's the only real win condition for |
| 7067s | super fake now |
| 7068s | looking that way |
| 7071s | it's obviously annoying that |
| 7073s | bran kazakhstan the brazakazan does not |
| 7076s | work um in replacing your deck twice but |
| 7079s | you can get some nice |
| 7081s | battle cries right to copy down on |
| 7084s | um this must be the way |
| 7087s | or can you i'm trying to think what |
| 7088s | those are most of them aren't actually |
| 7089s | that good aren't they |
| 7090s | a movement in a in in a pre-kazakhstan |
| 7093s | world |
| 7094s | the only thing you really want i i |
| 7096s | thought was |
| 7097s | the amalgam so he gets a faster |
| 7099s | kazakhstan activation but it looks like |
| 7101s | super fake is still trying to double |
| 7103s | down on the board game plan which to be |
| 7106s | fair he doesn't know about the boxes in |
| 7108s | hand doesn't go for the bropiore though |
| 7112s | yo oh is his ramp not true sorry |
| 7114s | uh yeah i was going to say like what is |
| 7116s | he saving the brand for now what is |
| 7118s | there left that's actually good |
| 7121s | potentially post kazakhstan you can run |
| 7124s | evoker to get two spells oh that's |
| 7127s | true i don't know if that's better than |
| 7130s | you know the persistent extra 3 3 though |
| 7133s | yeah let me refresh myself from what |
| 7134s | battle cry minions there are crab yeah i |
| 7137s | mean that kind of works like devourer |
| 7139s | right which is another potential combo |
| 7141s | bubba does nothing |
| 7144s | yeah it's kind of here there really |
| 7145s | aren't actually very many good battle |
| 7146s | cries to copy my calculations are |
| 7148s | correct |
| 7149s | you could save it for amalgam also |
| 7152s | because there's only onyxia as the |
| 7154s | dragon that hasn't been played right |
| 7156s | that's a very good point |
| 7158s | um again makes it a little weird as to |
| 7160s | why he didn't pick the amalgam off of |
| 7163s | the |
| 7165s | of the guidance |
| 7168s | anyway over back to okasinski he is in a |
| 7171s | very weird spot where he is worried |
| 7173s | about this kazakhstan he knows that's |
| 7175s | the only real win condition left since |
| 7177s | he stole uh saw the dinatrius burned and |
| 7180s | the theater is gone for super fake so |
| 7183s | you on one hand are kind of thinking i |
| 7185s | don't wanna box this early oh my god |
| 7188s | it's always box it's always boss |
| 7191s | on one hand you're thinking you kinda |
| 7192s | wanna save that for a wider board but on |
| 7194s | the other hand this is the best window |
| 7196s | he has to be aggressive i have an idea |
| 7202s | manny pacquiao |
| 7205s | level box i don't know |
| 7209s | yeah that is on a whole nother level |
| 7211s | super fake just taking 12 |
| 7214s | with the other scale being the last card |
| 7216s | in his deck right or the second to the |
| 7217s | last card |
| 7219s | uh can now find it though with the uh |
| 7223s | that's not ideal but |
| 7225s | eventually along the way that's going to |
| 7227s | gain him some armor right in a |
| 7229s | roundabout way |
| 7231s | [Applause] |
| 7232s | okay |
| 7234s | here's the board and it's scary |
| 7236s | but |
| 7237s | still very deal with a bull just with an |
| 7239s | apprentice honestly |
| 7245s | another topiar |
| 7249s | institute oh i forgot it's a dragon so |
| 7251s | actually yeah his kazakhstan's already |
| 7254s | active now |
| 7256s | one two three four yeah correct |
| 7259s | [Music] |
| 7261s | okay hero power check this is at six |
| 7264s | right |
| 7266s | i think so yeah |
| 7267s | no wildfires as of yet |
| 7269s | which makes things tough |
| 7272s | i mean that's a ping face territory for |
| 7274s | me it's like martin |
| 7276s | face and then you have ping face |
| 7278s | apprentice next turn my calculations are |
| 7280s | correct maybe not varden like blizzard |
| 7282s | is more expensive but the vardan lets |
| 7284s | you weave in the frost weave dungeoneer |
| 7286s | or the deep water evoker so kind of |
| 7288s | leaning that way |
| 7292s | there's um |
| 7294s | oh there's two starfish in super fakes |
| 7296s | list that's a big deal he also left |
| 7298s | himself board space to play it |
| 7301s | but if there were to be a starfish |
| 7303s | played 15 19 |
| 7306s | 25 27 okay is technically not dead on |
| 7309s | board ooh i guess there's very little |
| 7312s | burst damage is there |
| 7314s | right |
| 7316s | so maybe the good halfway is to just |
| 7318s | play the evoker for a little bit of |
| 7319s | armor on average or then ping face you |
| 7322s | still set up the lethal i honestly can't |
| 7324s | remember how many urban skills are left |
| 7327s | there's one left because none have been |
| 7329s | played one was stolen and it's the one |
| 7331s | on the bottom of the deck i think okay |
| 7334s | so you can guaranteed get it with the |
| 7336s | form |
| 7338s | it's not a guaranteed lethal setup from |
| 7340s | okay but it's plenty of damage still |
| 7344s | and by committing the apprentice this |
| 7346s | turn he's less weak to |
| 7351s | starfish of them for that matter |
| 7358s | so i do think realistically even if |
| 7360s | you're playing kazakhstan this turn you |
| 7362s | have to |
| 7363s | get the scales uh |
| 7365s | the healing of kazakhstan is too |
| 7369s | flimsy yeah i don't think you can rely |
| 7370s | on it here |
| 7372s | yeah that's fair |
| 7374s | this is the guaranteed two mana heal 11 |
| 7377s | yep as opposed to maybe getting a no |
| 7379s | mesh army knife for infinites |
| 7383s | okay here we go it's been a while since |
| 7386s | you've seen this it really has |
| 7390s | blue box box |
| 7392s | kind of good |
| 7394s | you're cold |
| 7396s | however it is |
| 7398s | these are none of the defensive ones |
| 7400s | though yeah |
| 7401s | puzzle fox yeah probably not |
| 7405s | euro healing |
| 7406s | yeah no healing at all it's a big deal |
| 7409s | oh this 17 health is all he has to work |
| 7412s | with but he'll have a solid control of |
| 7414s | the board |
| 7416s | and |
| 7418s | you can put okashinsuke very solidly |
| 7420s | within range of embers that's true and |
| 7423s | if he uses this remaining four mana to |
| 7426s | ramp two of it then he can even double |
| 7428s | embers in a turn potentially |
| 7431s | ah still no embers though |
| 7433s | what is this and not technically |
| 7436s | guaranteed to get it next turn |
| 7438s | yeah |
| 7439s | three pair |
| 7444s | okay |
| 7445s | 10. |
| 7447s | oh that's so late |
| 7450s | the blizzard feels a lot safer now |
| 7453s | because |
| 7454s | you've seen a starfish and then all the |
| 7456s | old hand has been shuffled to the bottom |
| 7458s | of the deck |
| 7459s | right and of course he doesn't know |
| 7461s | about the embers |
| 7465s | certainly on his mind but you just can't |
| 7467s | play around it so |
| 7470s | you |
| 7471s | can't you though |
| 7473s | how |
| 7477s | lethal with books |
| 7479s | oh that oh okay man |
| 7482s | are we are we going for a second world |
| 7484s | record break on best box ever |
| 7487s | i think so |
| 7488s | i mean just do the same thing again a |
| 7490s | pyro and uh |
| 7492s | a siphon manor face that's lethal with |
| 7494s | the pink easy |
| 7499s | uh the problem is like |
| 7501s | weaving in the ping here is so expensive |
| 7503s | because it necessitates either boxer |
| 7505s | blizzard at the end and with this little |
| 7507s | time left i think he's going to end up |
| 7509s | on blizzard and that means he doesn't |
| 7510s | cycle further with the |
| 7512s | primal |
| 7514s | i mean the dungeoneer or the deepwater |
| 7516s | evoker which are both super important |
| 7520s | the out now for okachinsky is that super |
| 7522s | fake misses draws with the hero power |
| 7524s | misses again |
| 7527s | on both embers |
| 7529s | okay never mind but there's minions now |
| 7530s | oh but but yeah they're gone with |
| 7533s | oh |
| 7535s | i have to eat major humble pie derek |
| 7538s | kazakhstan not only active but winning |
| 7540s | the game here |
| 7542s | it was huge uh he lost a good chunk of |
| 7544s | his win condition right losing theater |
| 7547s | over overdrawing the donathrius still |
| 7549s | managing to find a way to take the win |
| 7551s | with the kazakhstan |
| 7552s | sorry it was uh some very nice play uh |
| 7554s | by uh super fake i still feel that at |
| 7557s | some point along the way he could have |
| 7559s | got some more value out of bran that |
| 7561s | just end up being sat there in hand for |
| 7563s | the entire game but i mean honestly i i |
| 7566s | think that maybe comes from me like |
| 7567s | thinking okay we've got to milk all the |
| 7570s | value we possibly can out of this game |
| 7572s | rather than super fake's more nuanced |
| 7574s | look at the game which was i know what i |
| 7576s | need to do to win let's get from point a |
| 7578s | to point b as quickly as we can which |
| 7580s | was just play the kazakhstan swap the |
| 7582s | hand with finley and then take the game |
| 7584s | that way |
| 7585s | and i forgot about this convol so many |
| 7588s | things happened on that game that was |
| 7589s | such a tense and amazing convo he drew |
| 7592s | all the good cards built a huge board |
| 7595s | over to denaturas so it was a real |
| 7598s | roller coaster of emotions and okay you |
| 7600s | saw he felt like he was winning from |
| 7602s | that point but the kazakhstan even |
| 7604s | against uh vardhan on curb was not |
| 7606s | necessarily uh going to get there that |
| 7610s | was |
| 7611s | so so intense very fun outcome for this |
| 7614s | matchup that i haven't seen in quite |
| 7616s | some time |
| 7618s | it means oka shinsuke needs to go back |
| 7620s | to the drawing board to try and counter |
| 7622s | druid |
| 7624s | that's right uh he has |
| 7627s | one deck remaining now right that he has |
| 7629s | to win two games with in the priest |
| 7633s | uh which is an okay first star against |
| 7635s | the druid again i feel like this is one |
| 7636s | of the major reasons to bring this |
| 7638s | priest because druid is going to really |
| 7640s | struggle especially this variant with |
| 7642s | kazakhstan uh in dealing with all these |
| 7645s | large buffed minions that are coming |
| 7646s | down turn after turn |
| 7648s | uh the double starfish will help the |
| 7650s | druids of the reef can help in clearing |
| 7652s | up these early board but it's specific |
| 7654s | draws that leave druid in with a chance |
| 7657s | uh and then of course it'll be the the |
| 7658s | priest of his own for super fake to |
| 7660s | close out the series if okoshinski can |
| 7662s | take the win so i will say that for |
| 7664s | koshinsky it's looking very tough uh to |
| 7667s | get the full double win uh and take back |
| 7670s | the series now |
| 7671s | especially with being on the play with |
| 7673s | nothing you want to keep this is a |
| 7676s | wig priest classic throw away the hand |
| 7678s | and pray pray pray pray pray for the one |
| 7680s | drop and the wig |
| 7685s | wow not a bad hand until soup fake just |
| 7688s | spending his manner in these starting |
| 7690s | turns |
| 7691s | keeping |
| 7692s | even on board most likely |
| 7694s | and keeping theater which is very |
| 7696s | effective against big priests as well |
| 7698s | pulling a wig or sometimes pulling their |
| 7700s | draw effect handmade handmaiden can be |
| 7702s | game winning on the spot |
| 7705s | and i hate drawing a one drop on turn |
| 7707s | two it just sucks |
| 7709s | i know right |
| 7711s | but he still plays it i think over |
| 7712s | amalgam yeah probably |
| 7716s | um this is a match up where you can just |
| 7719s | throw down the pelagos on curve |
| 7721s | especially if you haven't seen them play |
| 7723s | jerry rig or something um there's always |
| 7726s | a chance it gets starfished but if it |
| 7727s | sticks around boy oh boy does that |
| 7730s | snowball out of control quickly |
| 7740s | and as for the druids perspective right |
| 7742s | whether they see a 2 3 or a one three |
| 7744s | they want to kill it off with their |
| 7745s | three one right they do so i kind of |
| 7748s | feel just play the vicious and maybe |
| 7750s | hope to get value out of the amalgam |
| 7752s | later but okay disagrees he's looking to |
| 7755s | be a bit more efficient with his mana |
| 7762s | it was the curb was originally you know |
| 7765s | i was thinking um |
| 7768s | druid the reform one calling wild growth |
| 7770s | theater to round it out but now you have |
| 7772s | to do this |
| 7775s | i will possibly end up on a coin theater |
| 7777s | pelagos is a very scary play and there |
| 7779s | are specific cards you can hit to deny |
| 7781s | it |
| 7781s | uh but especially now that you've got |
| 7783s | the starfish i think you have the |
| 7785s | liberty to disco wild growth |
| 7788s | that is nuts |
| 7791s | and the boon here doesn't get the |
| 7793s | theater buff like it becomes a white and |
| 7796s | then theater becomes an 80s so that's a |
| 7798s | bit unfortunate yeah sorry the fella |
| 7800s | goes my bad how dare i slander this car |
| 7803s | i love fellow ghosts i hate theater |
| 7807s | but yeah the 1 8 being silenced still |
| 7810s | has its stats but they're not impressive |
| 7812s | so |
| 7814s | spell only having been played for oka |
| 7816s | shinsuke means |
| 7819s | uh what does the best top decks become |
| 7821s | like thrive in the shadows becomes big |
| 7823s | to activate the handmaid and get |
| 7824s | yourself a wig uh as well to go |
| 7826s | alongside the sliver spear |
| 7829s | but basically i think anything outside |
| 7830s | of a couple of spells very quickly uh |
| 7833s | very quickly becomes not good enough uh |
| 7836s | because just playing minions on curve is |
| 7838s | not going to stack up against this |
| 7839s | really beefy hand for super fake |
| 7843s | yeah thrive was a good one bless i think |
| 7845s | was the biggest one just to you know |
| 7847s | turn this 180 into a threat again |
| 7850s | even the location would have been decent |
| 7852s | there to start getting some cycle and |
| 7854s | decent amounts of buffs but felicia is |
| 7856s | absolutely not it this probably ends up |
| 7858s | just being |
| 7860s | treasure guard |
| 7862s | uh and heel face i don't know if this |
| 7864s | leather sphere should even hit the board |
| 7866s | because once you do find the wigs it's |
| 7868s | minus one naga nagaland |
| 7885s | pokes the starfish |
| 7890s | maybe it for a future samurai clear |
| 7895s | but yeah that's a safe topiar hitting |
| 7897s | the board which spells |
| 7899s | doom for okasinski |
| 7902s | wow innovate that i did not |
| 7904s | necessarily expect uh given that this |
| 7907s | one five is not really showing much sign |
| 7909s | of being scary right now |
| 7911s | i agree that vape to maybe got an |
| 7914s | earlier devourer i thought exactly |
| 7918s | why if they have bliss bless is just |
| 7920s | good they're getting value out of that |
| 7922s | no matter what correct and there it is |
| 7928s | uh yeah it's got to be blessed and not |
| 7931s | another boon |
| 7933s | i was gonna say thrive again and then |
| 7935s | try to hit the bless this way just to |
| 7936s | pull the other thrive from your deck is |
| 7938s | not bad because he has volisha anyway if |
| 7941s | he wants to just keep everything done |
| 7943s | this turn |
| 7944s | oh wig |
| 7949s | i guess that's why we're doing this line |
| 7950s | as well so slitherspear |
| 7953s | wig |
| 7955s | unleash |
| 7957s | yeah that refreshes the spells |
| 7961s | get down the hand |
| 7964s | i'm not sure if that's better than |
| 7966s | wigging again and maybe healing a bit |
| 7970s | okay your value trades |
| 7972s | yeah that makes sense |
| 7974s | right now this 210 is his biggest asset |
| 7976s | and honestly it's looking pretty fragile |
| 7980s | with the topiar already active but on |
| 7982s | the off chance that it lives that's his |
| 7985s | ticket to |
| 7986s | another boon |
| 7991s | [Music] |
| 7997s | now the theater which is |
| 7998s | super fake has really good chances of |
| 8001s | hitting the wig |
| 8003s | but |
| 8004s | if super fake also sees handmaiden he |
| 8006s | might deem that as the better steal and |
| 8008s | i would agree true yeah |
| 8012s | and the punish i'm not keeping the bait |
| 8014s | as well like bait while growing |
| 8016s | so sick no excuse for a bad man |
| 8020s | yeah 100 |
| 8023s | i mean he's upset he didn't get wig but |
| 8025s | handmaiden is better than like |
| 8028s | because he sees the other cards and he |
| 8030s | knows there's no naga left so the wig is |
| 8031s | just not doing as much as handmaiden |
| 8036s | um |
| 8037s | okay hope that's okay yeah that's not |
| 8039s | doing much is it |
| 8048s | okay kashinsky needs something big off |
| 8051s | the top that's a naga |
| 8052s | um |
| 8054s | go with |
| 8057s | as in not gonna be enough |
| 8060s | [Music] |
| 8062s | yikes |
| 8064s | go back to boxing puns please |
| 8068s | i must consider |
| 8070s | uh i guess the way it goes on the |
| 8072s | samurai |
| 8077s | yeah you have samurai and then trading |
| 8079s | the the leash into the |
| 8082s | theater and then uh obviously traded to |
| 8084s | the topia to clear the board |
| 8088s | okay |
| 8089s | yeah really not great |
| 8093s | my but |
| 8095s | he can also commit devour if he wants to |
| 8097s | like damage the samurai a bit less like |
| 8100s | trade into the theater instead of the |
| 8101s | topiar it's true |
| 8107s | i think realistically though these |
| 8109s | spells have to be kept for a potential |
| 8113s | run or run a draw of naga plus |
| 8115s | handmaiden or spell plus handmaiden |
| 8118s | uh in order to |
| 8120s | activate it |
| 8121s | fair enough |
| 8123s | that devourer is infused now so super |
| 8125s | fake is chilling here just miracle |
| 8128s | growth and he even gets the three three |
| 8130s | to rush and dt the samurai if you want |
| 8134s | yeah i do a great thing to be afraid of |
| 8138s | i don't think that this uh |
| 8140s | planted evidence is juicy enough to |
| 8142s | deviate me away from a miracle growth uh |
| 8144s | right now because |
| 8146s | uh |
| 8147s | well the convoke the spirits is not |
| 8149s | available |
| 8150s | and |
| 8151s | the |
| 8153s | scale of an x here is really the only |
| 8155s | good outcome which is okay |
| 8157s | but not quite busted enough here for me |
| 8162s | the handmaiden which was activated by |
| 8164s | hokashinsuke is benefited from by super |
| 8168s | fake |
| 8169s | oh painful |
| 8171s | and now it's just yeah nature nature |
| 8173s | nature wrath is fantastic here plot of |
| 8176s | sin would be fine as well just to get |
| 8178s | more stats and more efficiently spend |
| 8179s | your mana |
| 8181s | uh very close to a full board clear here |
| 8183s | i think you have to leave a tutu samurai |
| 8185s | in play but that's a game-winning play |
| 8187s | to me |
| 8188s | [Applause] |
| 8189s | i agree and i do think you leave this |
| 8192s | hammer rather than the three two because |
| 8193s | he has seen the shadower devour so yeah |
| 8196s | less vts |
| 8198s | in this position makes more sense that's |
| 8200s | a complete whiff of a draw for okasinski |
| 8203s | and i'm just gonna call it here i think |
| 8205s | okashin's case run sadly ends here |
| 8209s | in the top eight |
| 8211s | looking that way isn't it not a good day |
| 8214s | for the uh apac players so far with the |
| 8216s | okasinski in a nail biter of a series |
| 8219s | and chonsu losing a game against the |
| 8221s | player who actively wanted to lose and |
| 8224s | still couldn't take it |
| 8228s | [Laughter] |
| 8232s | yeah really rough yep and that really |
| 8236s | just seals it for oka shinsuke not much |
| 8238s | to be done i think he |
| 8241s | played pretty clean throughout the day |
| 8243s | only real mistake was when we saw maybe |
| 8245s | missing one attack with a skeleton in |
| 8247s | the game before this but not super |
| 8249s | consequential in the long run |
| 8252s | it's super fake though looking nigh on |
| 8253s | unstoppable very very nice play |
| 8256s | throughout |
| 8257s | the past two days |
| 8259s | um |
| 8261s | yeah jovial is ever on camera |
| 8265s | can't wait for a reddit hate thread |
| 8266s | about that too |
| 8268s | there is something i want to hate on |
| 8270s | which is complaining about not hitting |
| 8271s | wing it was so much better to hit |
| 8273s | handmade yeah yeah yeah like it was |
| 8275s | better to not be offered wings so you |
| 8277s | don't get tempted by it that's true the |
| 8279s | better card yeah that was kind of toxic |
| 8282s | [Laughter] |
| 8284s | but other than that no hate super fake |
| 8286s | how can you hate him yeah 100 |
| 8289s | very very glad that he's got himself |
| 8290s | through uh this victory i think just 100 |
| 8293s | locking himself in for playoffs now if |
| 8295s | he wasn't even already uh with another |
| 8297s | victory here as he will be up against |
| 8299s | bunny uh in the first semi-final match |
| 8302s | of the day |
| 8303s | well played |
| 8305s | there it is okay finally throwing it |
| 8308s | down |
| 8309s | end of the run him for him here in grand |
| 8312s | masters he gave it his absolute all in |
| 8315s | these last three weeks which i love to |
| 8317s | say you know some of the players who |
| 8318s | have made it through to gm uh last call |
| 8321s | they already had their world tickets |
| 8323s | this was just a chance to maybe have one |
| 8325s | final goodbye and uh they weren't |
| 8327s | practicing as much as they should but i |
| 8329s | could feel how much okacinski was |
| 8331s | practicing how much he wanted the win |
| 8333s | and uh how well he was playing uh |
| 8335s | compared to some of the uh the previous |
| 8337s | uh performances we've seen from him uh |
| 8339s | so very well played overall and uh a fun |
| 8341s | goodbye to oka shinsuke from gm |
| 8344s | i would absolutely agree but |
| 8346s | congratulations to super fake who |
| 8348s | continues to move forward in the bracket |
| 8350s | he entered this week with four points so |
| 8352s | by moving on now to the semi-finals he |
| 8355s | actually has pretty good odds still of |
| 8358s | trying to get a better placement |
| 8360s | securing a seating we shall see if he |
| 8363s | can get those full nine points locked up |
| 8365s | a lot of his fate also depends on how |
| 8367s | well explies does later on today and i |
| 8371s | am just very happy to congratulate a |
| 8374s | fellow |
| 8374s | um stan of their country's most iconic |
| 8378s | athlete |
| 8379s | [Laughter] |
| 8382s | yeah what am i gonna do change my |
| 8383s | profile picture to david beckham or |
| 8385s | something i don't know who's |
| 8387s | england's number one across the world |
| 8390s | either way it's probably him yeah |
| 8392s | probably yeah yeah well i did misspeak |
| 8394s | it's not going to be super fake up |
| 8395s | against bunnyhop but apologies because |
| 8397s | we are running through these in a |
| 8398s | different order to give us the pleasure |
| 8399s | of casting apac players losing every |
| 8402s | single match which unfortunately means |
| 8404s | that they are out of the running in this |
| 8405s | top eight uh we're going to be relying |
| 8407s | on the players already in the top eight |
| 8410s | for asia pacific which is |
| 8413s | possessing |
| 8414s | uh |
| 8415s | is that it |
| 8418s | that might be true |
| 8420s | mighty was the other player's ox i think |
| 8421s | we had four and mighty finished uh with |
| 8424s | only one point at the end so once again |
| 8426s | the hopes of the nation uh of the entire |
| 8428s | region uh resting squarely on |
| 8432s | possessive's uh shoulders |
| 8434s | yeah that can only go well very very |
| 8436s | fickle shoulders sometimes completely |
| 8439s | straight and ready to be focused and |
| 8441s | sometimes they're just rolling away on |
| 8443s | his chair who knows |
| 8446s | yeah off into the distance uh but that |
| 8448s | is gonna be us all done for the day gia |
| 8450s | and myself plenty more matches to come |
| 8452s | we are running through all the top eight |
| 8454s | here to crown our champion for week |
| 8457s | three up next levick versus dimitri |
| 8459s | kazov and then exploits versus habu gabu |
| 8462s | so we are going to say goodbye for this |
| 8463s | week uh from gia as well for the uh for |
| 8466s | the rest of gm right that was uh that |
| 8468s | was it that was your last gm cast yeah |
| 8471s | i'm taking next week off to handle my |
| 8473s | move |
| 8477s | i can't believe it |
| 8478s | yeah and i really turned up my corniness |
| 8481s | for this last one |
| 8483s | we appreciate it we appreciate it uh |
| 8486s | yeah wow well that's it i mean we still |
| 8489s | got the hopefully the rest of the uh the |
| 8491s | master tours right and uh rest of the |
| 8493s | casting obligations for the year so i i |
| 8495s | don't think i'll be the end for gia and |
| 8497s | myself quite yet |
| 8500s | but uh |
| 8501s | in terms of gm man end of an era we did |
| 8505s | it we made it through it's been a great |
| 8507s | run derek and i was so happy to see how |
| 8510s | this last day panned out honestly even |
| 8512s | though we didn't get an apac player |
| 8514s | winning we had a lot of the apac |
| 8515s | specials from the drip drip to the weird |
| 8518s | plays to the very weird outs we were |
| 8520s | looking for in the realm of needs to be |
| 8523s | griffin from mount self |
| 8525s | just oh |
| 8527s | it's been three years so we've been |
| 8529s | doing this |
| 8531s | thanks for putting up with me this long |
| 8533s | oh no |
| 8534s | seriously thank you for for hard |
| 8536s | carrying me the entire way through i |
| 8538s | don't think people would have put up |
| 8539s | with me otherwise |
| 8540s | [Music] |
| 8541s | but yeah we'll uh we'll spare everyone |
| 8544s | the the sappiness for too much longer |
| 8545s | and we'll let production uh carry on |
| 8547s | with the day as we are rapidly derailing |
| 8550s | this broadcast uh but thank you so much |
| 8551s | for everyone for watching not only today |
| 8553s | but of course all of grandmasters you |
| 8555s | make all of this possible and have made |
| 8557s | it the truly special experience it has |
| 8558s | been for all of us here on the casting |
| 8561s | desk so thank you and from gia and |
| 8564s | myself for the final time we're signing |
| 8566s | off from grand masters goodbye |
| 8570s | [Music] |
| 8586s | [Music] |
| 8588s | so |
| 8590s | [Applause] |
| 8592s | [Music] |
| 8616s | so |
| 8619s | [Music] |
| 8638s | um |
| 8647s | [Music] |
| 8689s | [Music] |
| 8701s | do |
| 8704s | [Music] |
| 8737s | bye |
| 8739s | [Music] |
| 8764s | hello everyone and welcome back to grand |
| 8766s | masters it's time for myself and mr |
| 8768s | jamboree to take over the broadcast for |
| 8771s | now uh we've had some pretty what feels |
| 8773s | like a fast day but obviously when derek |
| 8775s | and g only cast two matches it's going |
| 8777s | to feel a little bit faster but we've |
| 8779s | had some pretty crazy matchups already |
| 8781s | with bunny hopper taking a 3-0 with mage |
| 8783s | already um and they're made for doing |
| 8786s | pretty decent in the super fake versus |
| 8787s | okasinski matchup but for now jamboree |
| 8790s | we have levick versus dimitri kazava |
| 8793s | both players i think we cast over the |
| 8794s | past few a couple of days um and we're |
| 8797s | both |
| 8798s | pretty similar lineups i think once |
| 8800s | again we have the the sort of hybrid |
| 8802s | warlock or curse warlock versus the raw |
| 8804s | imps in this series |
| 8806s | yeah and uh levicks levitz's players |
| 8808s | just impressed me |
| 8809s | so much this weekend that i've predicted |
| 8811s | him actually to be the overall winner |
| 8814s | for uh |
| 8816s | last uh gm last call this week |
| 8819s | yeah |
| 8820s | don't talk about predictions |
| 8823s | oh yes yeah yeah |
| 8825s | myself and derek made a uh slight miss |
| 8827s | play predicting chan su who then |
| 8829s | instantly got three owed straight out so |
| 8831s | uh yep not the best week for us but uh |
| 8834s | as long term casters we are |
| 8835s | unfortunately used to terrible |
| 8837s | predictions it seems to be one of our |
| 8839s | specialty gifts uh but for now yes we do |
| 8841s | have lubbock versus dimitri i believe as |
| 8843s | well a double rogue ban |
| 8845s | coming out from both players here so |
| 8848s | both players highly respecting the rogue |
| 8850s | but you see levick here as he said one |
| 8852s | of the newer grand masters here but |
| 8854s | again has done it fantastically well and |
| 8857s | he's already making that shot to the air |
| 8858s | world championship so he said it's all |
| 8861s | looking good and i i just echo your |
| 8863s | thoughts say when i cast the masters |
| 8864s | tour while back where levick did very |
| 8866s | well he was just looking great i every |
| 8869s | single game looked solid um and i expect |
| 8872s | to see more of that today |
| 8873s | yeah it was just something that i |
| 8874s | noticed when he was playing like there's |
| 8876s | a little smirk when the opponent does |
| 8878s | play that he was so sure what the |
| 8881s | opponent was about to do on the next |
| 8882s | turn uh it just made me just think that |
| 8885s | yeah this is a guy just he's so |
| 8887s | comfortable with his own play like most |
| 8888s | of his time was just thinking |
| 8890s | what am i predicting from the the |
| 8892s | opponent on the next turn and how to |
| 8893s | encounter that best |
| 8895s | and that's the thing as well you can |
| 8897s | tell that he's i mean he's here right |
| 8899s | but he's obviously good enough to be |
| 8902s | able to deal with that right and it's |
| 8903s | that general thing where if you if your |
| 8906s | opponent is making those expected plays |
| 8908s | that you're ready for they're also |
| 8909s | probably good players and if they don't |
| 8911s | make them well you're even more ahead |
| 8914s | generally speaking right so if you're |
| 8916s | prepared for the plays you expect you're |
| 8917s | looking quite good overall it's going to |
| 8919s | be this hybrid warlock here and the deck |
| 8923s | it's really tough it's one of those |
| 8925s | decks where when it wins it feels like |
| 8927s | it it was never going to lose in most |
| 8929s | instances but when it loses it feels |
| 8932s | like it was never going to win so i have |
| 8934s | no clue where i stand with it being |
| 8937s | you know a submission in itself but do |
| 8939s | you like it overall in this current meta |
| 8942s | for this format of course |
| 8944s | i think i like this style of warlock a |
| 8946s | bit more especially if you're going for |
| 8949s | a ban rogue strat um the rogue is very |
| 8951s | good against both variants of this imp |
| 8954s | style warlock but if you're leaving up |
| 8956s | the likes of mage |
| 8957s | you really want to have like an |
| 8959s | alternate win condition when your your |
| 8961s | board gets frozen which it will do |
| 8963s | repeatedly so |
| 8965s | i like the it's like sort of hedging for |
| 8966s | the the lhs format where you know if you |
| 8970s | get your win against the druid you're |
| 8971s | gonna be met with a mage afterwards so |
| 8973s | you need a few extra tools to give you a |
| 8976s | little bit bit of a bonus in that match |
| 8977s | up |
| 8978s | yeah it's one of those more flexible |
| 8980s | decks when you look at the match-up |
| 8981s | spread overall so it might be something |
| 8983s | we see |
| 8984s | come into play and of course with levitt |
| 8986s | cueing it first here though we take a |
| 8987s | look at dimitri kazov he has a lot of |
| 8989s | work to do this weekend or today |
| 8991s | specifically now he's made it this far |
| 8994s | but by the looks of things he needs to |
| 8996s | literally win all out today and be |
| 8998s | finished first to have a chance at the |
| 9001s | top eight cut so it's a big ask but at |
| 9003s | least in one way he knows what he needs |
| 9005s | to do right he's got his goal and uh he |
| 9008s | knows he knows what he needs to achieve |
| 9009s | to get there |
| 9011s | yeah it kind of takes off a little bit |
| 9012s | of pressure because |
| 9014s | you |
| 9015s | obviously have to win every match but |
| 9016s | this is |
| 9017s | this match now isn't the |
| 9019s | one that's going to qualify you for it |
| 9021s | so |
| 9022s | you just got to take it one step at a |
| 9023s | time today and just uh |
| 9026s | for me at least it will just take the |
| 9027s | pressure off a little bit knowing that |
| 9029s | it is a tool last eventually so |
| 9032s | it's not like you're one winning and |
| 9034s | then |
| 9035s | you get there yeah it's an odd one isn't |
| 9037s | it because although it sounds weird |
| 9038s | they're saying well you've got like |
| 9040s | three winning and you know three must |
| 9042s | win matches basically but really it's |
| 9045s | like well if we win here great but none |
| 9049s | of it matters unless i get to the finals |
| 9051s | and win that as well so i can just be |
| 9054s | like yeah you know what we'll play out |
| 9055s | see if i get there it's a big ask but |
| 9057s | sometimes the long shots are the ones |
| 9059s | you feel less pressure about because |
| 9061s | maybe you're just not expecting it to |
| 9063s | happen and i think you were saying the |
| 9064s | other day right where a lot of players |
| 9067s | and we've seen this going back years now |
| 9069s | in hearthstone we've heard from many |
| 9071s | players over that time that the more |
| 9073s | relaxed and the more it's not like they |
| 9075s | don't care but just the the the more |
| 9077s | they go into a tournament or match or |
| 9079s | series or whatever uh thinking that oh |
| 9082s | well you know what i'm just gonna play |
| 9083s | you know we'll just see how it goes |
| 9084s | we'll play the game and when they're |
| 9086s | more relaxed actually just play so much |
| 9088s | better it's actually incredible |
| 9091s | i mean these are all players who |
| 9093s | qualified for these tournaments through |
| 9095s | ladder through tournaments where the |
| 9097s | pressure wasn't quite as high and they |
| 9099s | did it because they're good |
| 9101s | so when the pressure's not high because |
| 9102s | you're relaxed about the game you're |
| 9104s | going to play good |
| 9106s | and if you play good you're going to win |
| 9108s | yeah i mean that's it really at the end |
| 9110s | of the day i think um it's something |
| 9112s | i've definitely suffered from even you |
| 9114s | know the the odd times i've been quite |
| 9116s | high on the ladder it feels like right |
| 9118s | well if i can just win a few more games |
| 9120s | i'll get you know i can post this top x |
| 9122s | tweet and then and then you realize i |
| 9124s | quickly play worse because i'm feeling |
| 9126s | the pressure i'd rather just just jam |
| 9128s | games and not really think about it but |
| 9130s | we are getting in to game number one now |
| 9132s | and i think levick at the start there |
| 9134s | definitely had some raised eyebrows at |
| 9136s | this opening because it looked quite |
| 9138s | good but i do think i agree with the one |
| 9140s | circle throw away |
| 9142s | yeah it's just |
| 9144s | it's a card you definitely want but you |
| 9146s | just need the one of really that your |
| 9149s | board space is going to be filled up you |
| 9150s | want really the payoff cards for the |
| 9152s | circle as well which you're looking at |
| 9154s | the impending catastrophe and the |
| 9156s | location |
| 9158s | you'd get a flame him for his trouble |
| 9160s | which you know what it's a better turn |
| 9161s | one than their voidwalker right in in |
| 9163s | this matchup so still a positive overall |
| 9166s | it has the option to actually even play |
| 9168s | avoid walker uh while still trading the |
| 9172s | five drop here if he wants to sort of uh |
| 9174s | refresh what he's got in his hand |
| 9177s | ah |
| 9178s | i hate trading to watch posts raven |
| 9181s | i was really i was debating whether he's |
| 9183s | going to do it he just instantly did it |
| 9184s | i would |
| 9186s | a little bit more |
| 9188s | whenever there's a watch post i'd never |
| 9189s | want to change it i can see lavick's |
| 9190s | pain though in his face when he did it |
| 9192s | though right it was like oh it just has |
| 9195s | to happen because |
| 9196s | i do agree especially with this deck |
| 9198s | there are too many things it can hit |
| 9200s | right and there is a world where it |
| 9202s | starts to like uh debuff like two three |
| 9205s | cards maybe and suddenly turns get very |
| 9207s | janky |
| 9209s | yeah that is true when you're giving up |
| 9211s | a flame which is |
| 9213s | if it's unanswered |
| 9215s | it is nine damage 12 damage sometimes |
| 9217s | even yeah |
| 9220s | we are against a |
| 9221s | mage who does have uh obviously the |
| 9223s | location which would stop |
| 9225s | the face damage so it's not really |
| 9227s | guaranteed so i can definitely |
| 9228s | understand it |
| 9230s | yeah it looks like m kangaroo farm is |
| 9232s | all the way infused now which means |
| 9234s | levitt can take this turn off right to |
| 9236s | an extent if you know what i mean right |
| 9237s | just kill off the reckless with the |
| 9239s | start stacking the curse and then have |
| 9241s | coin reform into bartender the turn |
| 9244s | after for like a really really big push |
| 9248s | yeah and the the this is a big spell |
| 9251s | mage variant so the the |
| 9254s | blizzard the |
| 9255s | flurries these soul effects aren't there |
| 9258s | so it's a little bit harder for |
| 9260s | this mage to stop a big board push but |
| 9263s | oh |
| 9264s | they're a farm |
| 9265s | getting stolen from theater here i'll |
| 9267s | give them the cut i love this |
| 9271s | i'll tell you something this morning |
| 9273s | i've had the worst theater look in the |
| 9275s | world right i have lost about five games |
| 9277s | in a row because of dodgy theater |
| 9279s | whether it's from me or my opponent but |
| 9281s | one thing that still cheers me up about |
| 9283s | the card is when you can just hand back |
| 9285s | a curse that's being given to you |
| 9287s | because it's just funny like no matter |
| 9289s | which way you look at it |
| 9294s | and that is just completely newted |
| 9296s | levick's whole game play he was he was |
| 9298s | looking so strong here with that curve |
| 9301s | but it was entirely reliant on this one |
| 9303s | card |
| 9306s | and |
| 9307s | even deviating to a curse plans just |
| 9309s | kind of too slow here you just don't |
| 9310s | have any card drawer available you don't |
| 9312s | have multiple cursors |
| 9315s | one of your cursors got bounced back to |
| 9316s | you so there's a even |
| 9319s | even less damage you've got to push face |
| 9322s | yeah at least it was the one |
| 9324s | damage curse right if one's gonna be |
| 9326s | given back at least it was just the one |
| 9327s | damage |
| 9330s | i imagine now we are going to see that |
| 9332s | bartender traded next turn unless |
| 9334s | something really crazy gets picked up |
| 9336s | here dimitri at this point though |
| 9339s | just needs to chill right yeah maybe |
| 9341s | even literally with all these freezes uh |
| 9343s | because he just needs to just now not |
| 9345s | get over and protect his life total as |
| 9348s | well because he knows there's still that |
| 9350s | big curse package as long as he can |
| 9352s | protect this armor then i think it's |
| 9354s | pretty solid overall |
| 9357s | yeah i mean he's had a little look at |
| 9358s | the hand and |
| 9360s | there's really not a great turn coming |
| 9362s | up here unless there's a top deck |
| 9366s | so he could instead of trying to bunker |
| 9368s | down an armor up which probably is a |
| 9371s | valid strategy he could even look to be |
| 9372s | a bit more aggressive and say i'm not |
| 9374s | going to give you the time to |
| 9376s | get to all of your curses |
| 9381s | dimitri know that having a quick think |
| 9383s | have i had any imps die |
| 9385s | yes get him nope okay never mind |
| 9391s | okay |
| 9392s | it |
| 9393s | it would actually be an incredible |
| 9395s | fabric saucer that's right and he's |
| 9396s | gonna get it one mana rune |
| 9399s | yeah it's kind of curious he just i |
| 9400s | guess he didn't want it to hit the |
| 9402s | amulet |
| 9405s | yeah well i guess it was more he cycles |
| 9408s | the amulet |
| 9409s | didn't know that the spell was in hand |
| 9412s | he'd already seen two drag belows get |
| 9414s | played right so he's not really |
| 9417s | expecting loads of spells so i do think |
| 9420s | it was well i want to cycle this anyway |
| 9423s | and then at worst if it does hit big i |
| 9425s | have it hitting on roon so i'm fine |
| 9429s | yeah yeah um and maroon's just like a |
| 9431s | get out of jail card really for this |
| 9433s | mage so |
| 9436s | when you're in a good |
| 9437s | position playing just regular players |
| 9439s | are just going to keep you in that good |
| 9440s | position but if things start to go wrong |
| 9442s | you're going to want a way to swap it |
| 9444s | around |
| 9445s | yeah i even think weirdly enough because |
| 9447s | of what the hand looks like for dimitri |
| 9449s | right now |
| 9451s | i wouldn't really be upset just like |
| 9453s | ruining to parrot depending on what |
| 9454s | happens right um and just just play |
| 9457s | tempo and just assume the runes never |
| 9460s | really gonna do anything that bad |
| 9461s | because |
| 9462s | it often can't in this kind of situation |
| 9465s | yeah i mean even on just a board like |
| 9467s | this with a |
| 9468s | few three three so it's just gonna |
| 9469s | either freeze them or remove them |
| 9473s | maybe give you some secrets that i |
| 9475s | usually does |
| 9476s | yeah |
| 9477s | it just seems like it's never gonna go |
| 9479s | wrong right no i mean you've got a |
| 9481s | second chance anyway |
| 9485s | well yep seems good |
| 9490s | you don't want to see the first ball |
| 9492s | clear as the first spell then you know |
| 9494s | your rest of your boards getting cleared |
| 9495s | up |
| 9496s | yeah still a win though nine health for |
| 9498s | levick |
| 9499s | not a lot of options and dimitri sitting |
| 9502s | pretty on well over 30 and he can pretty |
| 9506s | much do what he wants at this point this |
| 9507s | was just a very |
| 9508s | rough theo tower game here from levick |
| 9511s | because |
| 9512s | if that m king reform got coined |
| 9514s | we're looking at a very very different |
| 9516s | game |
| 9517s | yeah absolutely we're looking at |
| 9520s | maybe the the health title gained very |
| 9522s | very low and dimitri just using this |
| 9524s | room to survive in that case but |
| 9527s | yeah the theater just showing why it's |
| 9528s | such a powerful card in this meta game |
| 9534s | gonna see the abyssal curse most likely |
| 9536s | just to deal with the board but it's |
| 9538s | such a |
| 9539s | a mountain to climb you have to get the |
| 9540s | tempo back and then beyond that you need |
| 9543s | to do all this massive health |
| 9546s | total |
| 9547s | just seems uh insurmountable at this |
| 9550s | point |
| 9551s | yeah there's even a |
| 9552s | i just a dawn grasp there now |
| 9555s | with a ping why not and honestly even |
| 9558s | this |
| 9559s | pelican is a bit of a pain to deal with |
| 9561s | it would like need fiendish circle and |
| 9563s | grimoire just to kill a four one that |
| 9564s | was going to basically lethal you next |
| 9567s | turn right it's a super awkward |
| 9570s | yeah i mean the more dress is two away |
| 9572s | from ready so it just seems like hero |
| 9574s | card ping into more dress |
| 9576s | gonna lock this one up i think there's a |
| 9578s | lot of things like let's be honest i |
| 9580s | think dimitri could have just played |
| 9582s | tempo modresh and that's too big to |
| 9584s | clear with double m drag below gone |
| 9587s | and an abyssal wave so yeah many options |
| 9589s | here but i |
| 9590s | completely |
| 9597s | true |
| 9598s | but yeah doing this just to remove the |
| 9600s | curse why not i suppose uh and just know |
| 9603s | that ping into madras next turn he's |
| 9605s | going to end it regardless |
| 9608s | if it's going to try and hold on though |
| 9610s | and start stacking some curses |
| 9618s | this play doesn't look like it's going |
| 9620s | to be a as disastrous |
| 9622s | some of the other ones we saw with this |
| 9624s | card yesterday |
| 9626s | yeah that's still going to result in the |
| 9628s | same uh score for the amount i think |
| 9630s | yeah |
| 9633s | rough on there for levick because |
| 9635s | honestly he was set up so well he had |
| 9638s | the imp aggro start that you want with |
| 9640s | this deck and then he had the back up |
| 9643s | with the curses there but with pink and |
| 9645s | a modresh this is just gonna be a simple |
| 9647s | game number one to dimitri and i think |
| 9649s | that's a really big win not only have we |
| 9651s | been seeing all weekend mage's sheer |
| 9654s | ability to just sweep in lhs but also |
| 9658s | he's just removed one of the potential |
| 9660s | trickier matchups with that warlock |
| 9662s | right and just knowing that because i do |
| 9664s | think the warlock has the ability to |
| 9665s | beat the mage uh you know pretty |
| 9667s | straightforwardly honestly so getting |
| 9669s | ready to win that match up holding on to |
| 9671s | the mage for the rest of this and now |
| 9674s | levick's only got druid and mage himself |
| 9676s | which does not feel too great especially |
| 9678s | when dimitri has the import lock to |
| 9680s | maybe even counter the druid with |
| 9683s | yeah i'm kind of curious on like the q |
| 9685s | order potential in it because we keep |
| 9687s | seeing time and time again mage just |
| 9688s | getting thrown out to begin with and |
| 9690s | it's such a strong deck into most of the |
| 9692s | field |
| 9693s | our players just like supposed to start |
| 9695s | queuing up druid first to try and hit |
| 9697s | druid into mage as they're gonna |
| 9700s | often times just have to cue that anyway |
| 9702s | i i was honestly wondering as we take a |
| 9704s | look at the druid that's being cued into |
| 9706s | the mage of course um i was honestly |
| 9709s | wondering when you look at everything |
| 9711s | together |
| 9712s | are you supposed to just cue your mage |
| 9714s | first and try and win the mirror |
| 9716s | because that feels so strong i know it's |
| 9718s | kind of rough to choose to play a |
| 9719s | potential mirror match but if they don't |
| 9722s | cue mage i feel like that sets you up |
| 9724s | pretty well most of the time and if they |
| 9726s | do q mage you have a mirror and if you |
| 9729s | win you are mega ahead in the series and |
| 9731s | it doesn't mean if you lose your behind |
| 9733s | but you might end up queuing that mage |
| 9735s | mirror anyway depending you know if you |
| 9737s | do cue that druid first and it loses you |
| 9740s | probably have to cue the mirror |
| 9741s | regardless |
| 9743s | yeah it's just like |
| 9745s | there's obviously these players have |
| 9746s | gone down and looked to the the |
| 9748s | percentages of it and seen oh this one's |
| 9750s | slightly bad but |
| 9751s | that doesn't really factor in reads like |
| 9754s | if your opponent's always going to be |
| 9755s | doing this always mage then you should |
| 9758s | be queueing the countless |
| 9759s | first like the default for lhs is just a |
| 9762s | cute either a good all-round deck or a |
| 9764s | throwaway deck first and then just go |
| 9766s | from there |
| 9769s | i think that's why we're seeing all the |
| 9770s | mages right because it's proven very |
| 9772s | quickly that it's just good right now |
| 9777s | and we're seeing a pretty nice hand from |
| 9779s | uh dimitri again |
| 9781s | choose to throw away the location |
| 9785s | i can see it against druid honestly like |
| 9787s | yeah you cash in the manner but you |
| 9789s | could also just draw a better card |
| 9791s | instead right because you're not often |
| 9794s | facing down the big board he already has |
| 9795s | far watch post turn two and to |
| 9798s | potentially soak up a druid of the reef |
| 9800s | or something so i do like that actually |
| 9803s | throwing away the location and just |
| 9804s | trying to draw something more impactful |
| 9807s | oh |
| 9808s | this hand from leric though |
| 9810s | starting with just the innovate i've |
| 9812s | been giving this |
| 9816s | oh you'll be proud of me as well |
| 9818s | jamboree this morning i played brown as |
| 9820s | druid on three then played widow bloom |
| 9823s | the brand still lived and then played |
| 9824s | golf i was a five manner ahead of my |
| 9826s | opponent |
| 9828s | best use of bran in this deck |
| 9831s | forget |
| 9832s | forget the fire |
| 9835s | though levick can just go straight into |
| 9838s | the guff |
| 9841s | um yeah could go the other way instead |
| 9843s | start with the other ramp and then guf |
| 9845s | hero power the turn after yeah i think |
| 9848s | that's generally what you want to do |
| 9849s | particularly if you're not ramping into |
| 9850s | a play for next turn |
| 9854s | kind of |
| 9856s | weird to do it now because even if you |
| 9858s | get the the usual good out of an |
| 9860s | innervate it's going to be increased |
| 9861s | from the |
| 9862s | watch post |
| 9863s | yeah it's like you're drawing an extra |
| 9866s | card into the watch post right whereas |
| 9868s | you could nourish and then you know go |
| 9870s | from there i guess it would kind of |
| 9871s | happen either way levitt just wants to |
| 9873s | start really using that hero power |
| 9874s | instead of ramping i guess or maybe he |
| 9877s | feels he needs the nourish to draw |
| 9882s | i'm not sure i mean yeah you could maybe |
| 9884s | go for the |
| 9886s | ramping of the hero power into the widow |
| 9888s | bloom and then maybe save the nourish |
| 9890s | withdrawal later |
| 9892s | it's just it's just normally this order |
| 9894s | if you're gonna ramp with the nourish |
| 9896s | you go to the nourish first so that you |
| 9897s | just have a little bit more manner on |
| 9899s | the next term of guff because you can't |
| 9901s | press the hero power of goff anywhere |
| 9903s | right it's not that you end up with more |
| 9904s | mana overall than two turns |
| 9907s | i was even thinking there whether it's |
| 9909s | gain the mana and then draw three cards |
| 9912s | try and hit em |
| 9913s | scales and then yes scales will be eight |
| 9915s | mana but you'll have eight mana that |
| 9917s | turn uh well next turn and then you can |
| 9920s | finally get rid of this tower |
| 9923s | yeah the board of course |
| 9926s | i think generally like at least what i |
| 9928s | try to do is i get to around the |
| 9930s | 10-minute mark and then you can |
| 9932s | feel a bit more comfortable using guff |
| 9934s | to just draw each turn instead of ramp |
| 9936s | if your hand is bad |
| 9942s | and this hand is bad |
| 9944s | it is |
| 9946s | from the smallest seed |
| 9950s | i guess so if you get to play with 20 |
| 9952s | mana everything costing one more doesn't |
| 9954s | really matter too much |
| 9958s | oh we got the scales okay |
| 9961s | yeah wait wait wait |
| 9963s | this |
| 9964s | is the zola just to proc that carny yeah |
| 9968s | i mean you're gonna use those scales to |
| 9970s | clear off i think |
| 9973s | yeah because he knows it's not spell |
| 9975s | right and i think zola could be clutch |
| 9978s | especially with that uh giant in hand |
| 9982s | yeah there's a lot of tempo down the |
| 9983s | line |
| 9985s | i love it's like haha 10 mana is no |
| 9987s | problem for me |
| 9991s | the chubby missed the earthen scales |
| 9992s | though full epic that would have been a |
| 9994s | little bit more brutal |
| 9996s | yeah |
| 9997s | this watch post doing nevik's favor is |
| 9999s | making his cars expensive so the uh |
| 10001s | the barbara doesn't have as much of an |
| 10003s | impact oh no counter synergy |
| 10005s | why am i running both of these cards |
| 10007s | yeah it just makes no sense |
| 10009s | these mage players need to rethink |
| 10010s | things |
| 10014s | okay |
| 10019s | he's gonna go for the giant immediately |
| 10023s | but like as you said you could use the |
| 10025s | zod on it i suppose it's not going to |
| 10026s | die anyway so that play is still |
| 10028s | available yeah i think it's just very |
| 10031s | likely levick's assuming that the |
| 10033s | location just hits it this turn right it |
| 10035s | just feels so natural to use it dimitri |
| 10038s | has three charges still left on the |
| 10039s | location he's got plenty of time to gain |
| 10042s | so why not and that does open up the |
| 10044s | zola here |
| 10044s | [Music] |
| 10050s | we'll say this has been a very weird |
| 10052s | game that we've seen yeah of mage versus |
| 10055s | druid it definitely feels like druid has |
| 10056s | a little bit more impact by now |
| 10060s | yeah they had the dream start just into |
| 10064s | yeah nothing |
| 10066s | so |
| 10068s | of course we saw the whiff on the the |
| 10070s | barbaric so it's been a bit slow down |
| 10072s | but there are some power turns coming |
| 10073s | out especially from the mage |
| 10076s | right now |
| 10077s | it's still facing down this watch post |
| 10084s | yeah this watch post added like what |
| 10086s | like eight or nine maybe even 10 mana to |
| 10088s | the game right now for levick |
| 10093s | because of the extra cards live extra |
| 10095s | and of course yeah yeah it's it's just |
| 10098s | per shifting i have to say no you know |
| 10101s | what you don't have to be drawn next |
| 10103s | game you've done your job day off |
| 10107s | i think just gonna bank the mana now and |
| 10110s | the armor don't normally expect too much |
| 10113s | more than nine from any given earthen |
| 10115s | scales and you can do it of course with |
| 10118s | certain air cards like devourer there |
| 10120s | you go |
| 10121s | but |
| 10121s | generally speaking i think you're okay |
| 10123s | with a nine hit but did you use to just |
| 10125s | press the button instead |
| 10127s | yeah it's just you don't need the armor |
| 10129s | now so try and find cards actually help |
| 10132s | you get bored back a bit |
| 10134s | you see the coin amulet here makes a lot |
| 10137s | of sense particularly you've got the |
| 10138s | power and the |
| 10139s | dawn grasping hand as potential |
| 10141s | follow-ups to recast this |
| 10144s | this is huge it might look rough but the |
| 10147s | trading to the 88 is great because all |
| 10149s | it's doing is giving dimitri time right |
| 10151s | he can just he's not going to get 16 |
| 10153s | next turn or whatever right doesn't have |
| 10155s | to worry about the fact that actually |
| 10157s | dimitri has no freeze options in his |
| 10160s | hands so he can't just delay any attacks |
| 10164s | there is of course two starfish in |
| 10166s | levick's deck as well so it's definitely |
| 10168s | something to uh to bear in mind |
| 10175s | the baron hounds are pretty nice for the |
| 10177s | lover so if we are going to see a |
| 10178s | repeated amulet after of course this uh |
| 10182s | next year turn |
| 10184s | yeah it's such a good answer to it just |
| 10186s | eats both the dragons |
| 10188s | yeah devourer then scales is gonna be |
| 10190s | nice is it worth actually like trading |
| 10192s | left and then leave in the malagas |
| 10195s | oh like because the dragons get |
| 10198s | the dragons get summoned to the right |
| 10199s | right |
| 10200s | you can't control that |
| 10202s | that is true |
| 10204s | just gain 12 health on the devourer like |
| 10206s | i don't know |
| 10210s | i mean |
| 10211s | yeah it's kind of reasonable yeah if the |
| 10213s | maligos trades off anyway then okay my |
| 10216s | opponent traded the dragon in fine |
| 10224s | push i mean it's kind of painful to even |
| 10226s | kill this malagasa right you have to |
| 10227s | send in all your bumps |
| 10230s | yeah i think i would have left it and |
| 10231s | just traded it into the 3-2 and then |
| 10234s | just pushed eight to face |
| 10236s | yeah i mean what's it realistically |
| 10239s | doing |
| 10240s | on this turn it it'll probably kill a |
| 10242s | whelp or maybe it helps it trades into |
| 10244s | an eight eight but with the whelps the |
| 10246s | whelps would have to be cleared up first |
| 10248s | for it to trade into the |
| 10250s | raid boss |
| 10252s | i always quite like doing that just |
| 10253s | leaving a couple of whelps so that your |
| 10255s | your raid boss is like immune to this |
| 10256s | freeze or it's immune to any damage |
| 10259s | effects it's always a little bit more |
| 10260s | annoying |
| 10262s | and like like you said the punish for |
| 10265s | the re-summoning is just so huge |
| 10269s | and it's going to be good anyway oh the |
| 10270s | hell the potential health on that |
| 10272s | devourer |
| 10275s | he gets to play the box though |
| 10283s | okay i think you're generally happy okay |
| 10286s | well i don't think they stack |
| 10290s | are you genuinely happy to see solid |
| 10291s | alibi definitely a card you uh and not |
| 10293s | upset seeing coming out from any kind of |
| 10295s | display |
| 10296s | generation |
| 10297s | yeah yeah |
| 10301s | wow |
| 10302s | this is so unlucky for lyric |
| 10305s | random dragons three summoned from uh |
| 10307s | dawngrass to give you the ability to box |
| 10310s | now |
| 10311s | yeah i also forgot that because he cast |
| 10313s | the box the damage comes out from the |
| 10315s | 412 right oh yeah |
| 10317s | so we just got to ping him and kill off |
| 10319s | one of the raid boss |
| 10322s | rootle oh oh you could brand brandevara |
| 10326s | and make it so huge |
| 10328s | it just gets frozen like oh |
| 10330s | yeah annoying even an even left mana to |
| 10333s | uh kelsey this must be the way give you |
| 10335s | a bit more this turn |
| 10337s | oh |
| 10338s | wait you could go bran |
| 10340s | chao thus |
| 10341s | devourer |
| 10343s | then theater and you can give them |
| 10347s | i don't know |
| 10349s | all your expensive cards the wild growth |
| 10351s | and the widow blue yeah yeah |
| 10353s | is that not strong |
| 10355s | i mean it seems good because it's also |
| 10357s | one of your theaters because love it |
| 10359s | will have two because that's a bonus |
| 10361s | one knows what secrets will uncover |
| 10365s | my past cannot change me yeah and even |
| 10367s | enough manage to use the urban skills on |
| 10368s | this huge dragon |
| 10370s | uh devourer it looks here if it doesn't |
| 10372s | it's not actually a dragon now |
| 10374s | i think if this had any minion type it |
| 10377s | would be potentially the most broken |
| 10378s | card in the game |
| 10380s | yeah |
| 10382s | i mean it's pretty strong already |
| 10385s | yeah that's what i mean right if it had |
| 10386s | like synergy with other things or it was |
| 10388s | discoverable through like you know |
| 10390s | discover a dragon amalgam into it or |
| 10393s | something it would be like oh this is |
| 10394s | just film |
| 10396s | oh it steals the starfish |
| 10399s | so that this these stats from this uh |
| 10401s | devourer are just gonna stick kind of |
| 10403s | smooth 21 armor that'll do |
| 10406s | that's a huge turn from levick |
| 10411s | well there's a box of eggs |
| 10414s | before those fails |
| 10416s | also there is the 100 |
| 10419s | freeze |
| 10420s | on the devourer for this turn at least |
| 10423s | anyway because again you know your |
| 10425s | opponent's got a starfish but you can't |
| 10426s | exactly do it to unfreeze a devourer |
| 10429s | unless it's the 4 damage is lethal |
| 10431s | because it will lose all the stats |
| 10434s | yeah |
| 10435s | i mean it will stick there for a long |
| 10437s | time saying you need to freeze me every |
| 10439s | turn |
| 10441s | box box box |
| 10447s | no not like this |
| 10450s | oh okay working away on that health i |
| 10452s | like it |
| 10454s | only 45 more to go |
| 10459s | okay what do you say about freezing |
| 10461s | every turn |
| 10463s | how about freeze everything every turn |
| 10465s | and then box again |
| 10468s | okay |
| 10471s | we're gonna see a theater again next |
| 10473s | time i imagine |
| 10477s | maybe levitt will give him a taste of |
| 10478s | his own medicine |
| 10481s | devourer |
| 10484s | let's start with the card draw i imagine |
| 10486s | though yep |
| 10488s | all mutants is huge |
| 10496s | not a lot of great targets in hand |
| 10498s | no and he knows the widow blooms in |
| 10500s | there as well right he knows two of the |
| 10501s | cards guaranteed |
| 10503s | yeah it's still just good good to uh |
| 10506s | even like kind of clearing the way for |
| 10508s | this theater getting rid of all these |
| 10510s | terrible hits that you don't want to get |
| 10512s | back |
| 10513s | and then you could uh try and snipe some |
| 10515s | of the better cards |
| 10519s | but you don't what do you want to give |
| 10520s | them you don't want to give them |
| 10522s | the devourer ever you don't want to give |
| 10523s | them the starfish |
| 10525s | and it is brand this theater so you're |
| 10527s | going to have to give them two cards |
| 10531s | well if you just don't bran |
| 10533s | and give them bran |
| 10535s | is that crazy |
| 10539s | what do you mean just |
| 10542s | but if you just play a flat theater oh |
| 10544s | no sorry there's already on the board |
| 10546s | i'm staying at the one in hand like yeah |
| 10547s | yeah i forgot the brands in the middle |
| 10549s | there just frozen you completely right |
| 10551s | i'm a uh but yeah i guess it's |
| 10553s | just not theotar then because i can't |
| 10555s | see any good way you'd do this and be |
| 10557s | forced to give them either the starfish |
| 10559s | or a mage card you stole |
| 10562s | right yes it's weird |
| 10563s | the only thing you could do is like |
| 10564s | maybe take a terrible card to begin with |
| 10566s | and then just give it back to them |
| 10570s | which i feel ruins the idea of playing |
| 10572s | theater in the first place so i do like |
| 10574s | the hold here |
| 10576s | there's plenty of stats on board and |
| 10579s | this is getting to the point where |
| 10580s | dimitri |
| 10582s | has to freeze |
| 10583s | even two minions every single turn of |
| 10585s | the game now right because this 12 14 |
| 10588s | yep it's only 12 attack but it's still a |
| 10591s | relevant number |
| 10593s | yeah |
| 10595s | most importantly can dmitry ramp his air |
| 10598s | pink this turn he can |
| 10600s | he can it's on five and because of the |
| 10602s | mutant |
| 10603s | being the nine nine you can trade the |
| 10604s | four one and |
| 10607s | which is kind of unfortunate that |
| 10609s | because when you play the mutants you |
| 10610s | actually just no idea what it's actually |
| 10611s | going to end up on and at two things |
| 10614s | yeah and gained five attack and five l |
| 10617s | yeah |
| 10618s | it's not really what you're expecting |
| 10619s | from a brand newtonis but there you go |
| 10627s | oh okay i quite like this actually |
| 10633s | close up the brand would really like to |
| 10635s | kill the last guess it does |
| 10637s | freeze is the big one okay well main job |
| 10640s | done there for dimitri |
| 10643s | we're not seeing any of the big cards |
| 10645s | for that book |
| 10648s | well you can start withdraw as always |
| 10650s | but he can feel tar and almost |
| 10652s | guaranteed to just give them the reno |
| 10654s | fill oh |
| 10658s | that's a bit of an odd thing right now |
| 10659s | as well because |
| 10661s | with them |
| 10662s | with the nathrius still in the deck for |
| 10664s | levick |
| 10665s | it's going to be difficult to ramp it |
| 10668s | right yeah scale of enyxia now one of |
| 10671s | left right |
| 10674s | a little bit awkward to get some like |
| 10676s | big damage |
| 10678s | straight into the cow spell |
| 10684s | [Music] |
| 10693s | [Music] |
| 10696s | you now |
| 10697s | give them the starfish |
| 10701s | oh yeah were you wait we're not supposed |
| 10703s | to give them the starfish first to try |
| 10704s | and |
| 10705s | then take the starfish back |
| 10708s | no i think what you're supposed to do is |
| 10710s | not take the rune |
| 10711s | on the first one |
| 10714s | given the starfish here seems crazy like |
| 10717s | you have a 2141 |
| 10719s | and i know it there's freeze effects but |
| 10721s | the location's not active |
| 10723s | yeah |
| 10724s | i was just thinking because of the yeah |
| 10726s | i guess it's diff i'd have to think |
| 10728s | about it more but there's different ways |
| 10730s | to go about it right you don't take the |
| 10732s | rune |
| 10733s | take something else to give it them back |
| 10735s | and then maybe take them |
| 10737s | yeah or you could have given them the |
| 10739s | starfish and then maybe |
| 10741s | take the stuff get the second discovered |
| 10742s | to take it back |
| 10746s | and then give them renathel for the |
| 10747s | starfish right would be the perfect out |
| 10751s | right |
| 10752s | okay so box is very good |
| 10754s | but it's not as good as starfish is on |
| 10756s | this board it's not |
| 10758s | 2141 like right the starfish is so |
| 10762s | strong here i feel like |
| 10763s | if you wanted the rune you had to just |
| 10765s | not take it on the first one |
| 10767s | what is you can't give them the starfish |
| 10771s | dimitri's trying to get a ping first |
| 10773s | right |
| 10774s | yeah why is he putting damage into this |
| 10776s | but he wants of course you always ramp |
| 10779s | i love demetrium he knows the rules yeah |
| 10782s | he knows what's up he's done this before |
| 10785s | a little more dress just like |
| 10786s | sure i can take some damage for a turn |
| 10788s | but i can just deal with it on the next |
| 10790s | turn |
| 10791s | he gets a cheeky card drawer as well |
| 10793s | yeah |
| 10795s | i feel like that theater |
| 10797s | just really hurt levick more than it |
| 10799s | helped him |
| 10800s | yeah |
| 10804s | so daenerys and then play miracle growth |
| 10807s | maybe |
| 10809s | yeah i think you want to ramp up the |
| 10811s | sire at this stage |
| 10813s | i mean there's |
| 10815s | there's nothing else that looks like |
| 10816s | that appealing there |
| 10822s | causes just for another minion no okay |
| 10824s | he wants to push some damage instead |
| 10830s | so much matter you can still box if he |
| 10833s | wants |
| 10846s | yeah just utilizing this map spending |
| 10848s | maximum and also drawing maximum cards |
| 10850s | because with the um |
| 10853s | the aquatic form he knows the other |
| 10855s | scale of a nixier is at the bottom of |
| 10857s | the deck right yeah so uh that again |
| 10860s | although he might not end up needing it |
| 10862s | that is a card that can ramp his |
| 10863s | tenacious very quickly so he knows |
| 10865s | that's at the bottom so why not just go |
| 10867s | all out here i do like this from levick |
| 10869s | he's in a bit of a tough spot with that |
| 10871s | airsoft dodgy theo tar before but this |
| 10874s | is a plan i can definitely get behind |
| 10877s | yeah i mean it was such a good |
| 10879s | damage pushed here like i think he's |
| 10881s | gonna be in a decent shape i mean he |
| 10883s | managed to steal away the arm again |
| 10885s | from dimitri as well from that theater |
| 10888s | so |
| 10889s | wasn't all doom and gloom |
| 10891s | but the mage is on 12 you do have this |
| 10893s | side getting buffed up |
| 10895s | that's the only odd outcome as well with |
| 10897s | the way the game's played out is if |
| 10899s | dimitri goes moderate ping face which |
| 10902s | looks very good right now it is good and |
| 10904s | it kills the armor or a lot of it |
| 10907s | and levick denaturist doesn't actually |
| 10908s | really heal him for that much so like |
| 10911s | dimitri actually has some level of |
| 10912s | damage permanence right now because the |
| 10914s | lifesteal only heals him for six |
| 10919s | yeah i just |
| 10921s | eventually it's gonna do enough to |
| 10924s | kill the mage like that the healthcare |
| 10925s | of the druids so high because of that |
| 10928s | the huge urban scales play earlier |
| 10930s | that it takes even with the |
| 10933s | nine damage return from these pings i |
| 10935s | believe it actually takes quite a while |
| 10936s | to |
| 10937s | actually deliver the leaf |
| 10942s | there is still a two reckless apprentice |
| 10945s | in the deck as well for dimitri |
| 10948s | that's something that could help him |
| 10950s | ramp up the damage a lot |
| 10952s | oh wow i just didn't ping this turn as |
| 10954s | well |
| 10955s | just decide to play a mailbox instead |
| 10958s | i'm shocked what's he using the coin for |
| 10961s | he does have a plan with that he just |
| 10963s | thinks that you know what this mailbox |
| 10965s | stance is gonna push more than nine it's |
| 10967s | gonna live |
| 10968s | maybe he's worried that he would just be |
| 10970s | dead to |
| 10970s | denaturous at this point |
| 10972s | so he's wearing more bodies on the board |
| 10974s | right |
| 10975s | i don't know do you ever feel like two's |
| 10977s | enough though do you think two's gonna |
| 10979s | be the difference between life or death |
| 10982s | oh this is just game now right |
| 10984s | there's plenty of minions died since |
| 10985s | that yeah wow |
| 10988s | what a game jamboree like this was so |
| 10991s | back and forth literally any player |
| 10994s | could have won at various moments |
| 10995s | throughout that game and really i was |
| 10998s | starting to write certain players off at |
| 11000s | certain times and just goes to show |
| 11002s | there's still a plenty of gas in the |
| 11004s | tank here for both of them actually |
| 11005s | obviously towards the end there i do |
| 11007s | think the power of the wild and the big |
| 11009s | damage push was really strong but |
| 11010s | suddenly and dimitri was just under so |
| 11013s | much pressure health-wise that the um |
| 11016s | that the nathri has sealed the deal |
| 11018s | there but i do think dimitri was in a |
| 11020s | great spot sort of time and time again |
| 11022s | especially after that theater conundrum |
| 11025s | earlier on |
| 11027s | yeah it did look quite good for him but |
| 11028s | then suddenly i don't know |
| 11032s | you're playing a long game against druid |
| 11034s | you think i've ramped so many times with |
| 11036s | my pings surely they're you know dead in |
| 11038s | a couple times they just look over and |
| 11039s | they're on 70 health yeah |
| 11042s | okay actually this game's a bit longer |
| 11044s | than i than i anticipated yeah i think |
| 11047s | one of the big problems as well is you |
| 11049s | play the long game versus druid |
| 11051s | but you didn't snipe denathrius so |
| 11055s | you will lose right like eventually it |
| 11057s | feels like because again like dimitri um |
| 11061s | just wasn't getting the damage through a |
| 11063s | quick enough rate and you always assume |
| 11065s | that especially towards the end game the |
| 11068s | druid just has whatever cards it wants |
| 11070s | even though that's just not strictly |
| 11072s | true but with moonlit with them aquatic |
| 11075s | form and just the volume of card draw |
| 11077s | you just assume they have done atheists |
| 11079s | right i think it's more of a folly to |
| 11081s | assume they don't uh and |
| 11084s | you just know it's gonna end if you |
| 11085s | don't really take it out if you don't |
| 11086s | either beat them quickly or steal it |
| 11088s | away but for now yeah an expected choice |
| 11091s | from dimitri kazakh generate with the |
| 11093s | import lock |
| 11094s | yeah this uh the natural counter towards |
| 11097s | druid |
| 11099s | this is the the more traditional one |
| 11101s | that uh with the just purely board base |
| 11103s | so it's even harder for a calendar to do |
| 11105s | it |
| 11107s | and |
| 11109s | i can say it suffers a bit more |
| 11111s | when you win this match up and then get |
| 11113s | tried to counter |
| 11115s | counter the counter you know yeah what |
| 11117s | does levick need to do because i know |
| 11119s | it's a obviously a good match up for the |
| 11120s | warlock but what what does the druids |
| 11122s | good game plan look like here |
| 11126s | i think the best thing for druid is is |
| 11129s | not to focus too heavy on the ramp |
| 11131s | you want to have some like early removal |
| 11133s | just to stop the snowball to give |
| 11135s | yourself that health cushion for later |
| 11138s | the theater is actually quite an |
| 11139s | interesting keep as well because it's |
| 11140s | gonna |
| 11142s | basically just stop some of the power |
| 11143s | plays like refarm |
| 11147s | and that's the thing as well unless the |
| 11149s | opening is like |
| 11151s | exactly |
| 11152s | one two |
| 11154s | uh |
| 11155s | three or one two impending do impending |
| 11158s | catastrophe then they're often you get |
| 11160s | to just choose from whatever their hand |
| 11162s | is right like unless exactly impending |
| 11164s | catastrophe is played then theotar gets |
| 11167s | to just look at the whole hand by turn |
| 11169s | four |
| 11173s | yeah like traditionally if george just |
| 11175s | want to keep ramping keep ramping then |
| 11177s | you |
| 11178s | deal with the board of scales of the |
| 11179s | next year and then go from there but |
| 11181s | this import lock actually just has so |
| 11183s | many like strong |
| 11185s | buffs available that scales just |
| 11187s | tends to fall flat and if you spend all |
| 11189s | your mana before that |
| 11191s | just ramping up to do a play that |
| 11193s | doesn't quite get there it usually ends |
| 11195s | up with you just losing so i think at |
| 11198s | least in my experience the best thing to |
| 11200s | do is just to try and go toe-to-toe on |
| 11202s | those early boards for a bit and then |
| 11204s | just your natural |
| 11206s | mana ramp you get each turn is going to |
| 11207s | allow you to get to the |
| 11209s | those scales and those other late game |
| 11211s | plays and have them have more of an |
| 11213s | impact |
| 11214s | you could almost say in poor imporlock |
| 11215s | outscales the scales |
| 11218s | yes |
| 11219s | i mean it usually does |
| 11221s | yeah especially like a lot of the |
| 11222s | minions are like odd health |
| 11224s | which is uh really annoying for scales |
| 11226s | of the next year |
| 11227s | yeah it's very common right because of |
| 11229s | just i don't know why but i feel like |
| 11231s | the average number of imps with the |
| 11233s | library on board always makes the mod |
| 11235s | health or at least when i'm playing |
| 11236s | druid it does like great gotta throw an |
| 11238s | extra two one away |
| 11240s | yeah i just like that |
| 11242s | there's the mischievous they're three |
| 11244s | threes you've got this librarian there's |
| 11245s | a one one three i mean the one ones |
| 11248s | themselves |
| 11252s | it's gonna go for a bit of the ram not |
| 11253s | going for the theater right now |
| 11257s | something else bonus of drawing exactly |
| 11260s | a nature spell right so it does mean |
| 11262s | that you do have those extra options |
| 11265s | going forward and next turn you'll be |
| 11267s | able to use the uh the one drop along |
| 11269s | with deota if you want obviously holding |
| 11271s | these starfish is pretty nice as well uh |
| 11274s | even if it's just to switch off like a |
| 11276s | one big imp from a location right like |
| 11279s | they play the location they activate it |
| 11281s | they probably hit you but then you turn |
| 11283s | it off and the location can't happen |
| 11285s | again for a whole extra turn |
| 11288s | yeah it's got like a lot of safety nets |
| 11290s | there the theater for the big plays the |
| 11292s | starfish as you said |
| 11294s | uh i think like it made sense his |
| 11295s | previous turn as well if he does high |
| 11297s | roll the nourish from the the drawn |
| 11299s | major spell is just a natural |
| 11301s | follow-up and there is a big reason to |
| 11303s | ramp right now which is the raid boss in |
| 11305s | next year in hand |
| 11308s | from dimitri's side we do have the |
| 11310s | location picked up |
| 11313s | yeah is it crazy to suggest like |
| 11315s | location flaming |
| 11317s | off |
| 11318s | maybe the 2 3 |
| 11320s | and then grimoire |
| 11323s | either of the imps is that is that silly |
| 11328s | it's like |
| 11330s | you you it makes it does spend mana i |
| 11332s | like that raven |
| 11333s | okay great i've got at least a c in my |
| 11336s | results for this i'm waiting i'm hoping |
| 11339s | it goes up but i'm expecting it's going |
| 11340s | to be a c minus at the end and the turn |
| 11342s | with a zero in the bottom right that's |
| 11344s | fine |
| 11345s | i mean you're basically trading off the |
| 11346s | grimoire for i guess your flame at this |
| 11349s | at this point |
| 11350s | um |
| 11352s | trade wise on board |
| 11355s | probably the flame just dies to the |
| 11356s | three two |
| 11357s | so |
| 11358s | we're kind of using the grimoire just to |
| 11360s | uh |
| 11363s | essentially |
| 11365s | force the trade that's probably gonna |
| 11366s | happen so it's not |
| 11368s | hugely important i mean the alternative |
| 11370s | like we did miss quite a bit of face |
| 11372s | damage here |
| 11373s | as well yeah the double trade i thought |
| 11374s | at least the one one was going to stay |
| 11376s | because i understand dimitri's |
| 11377s | protecting the 2-1 here to an extent but |
| 11382s | is that the end of the world i know it's |
| 11384s | an extra imp for the buff but |
| 11387s | i guess it's just going all in on this |
| 11388s | uh bartender |
| 11390s | potentially just hitting both imps |
| 11393s | i think it's actually quite good |
| 11394s | recognition from dmitry that |
| 11397s | my hand's not strong enough to just |
| 11400s | leaf all this druid before they get to |
| 11401s | their good plays |
| 11403s | if i just let some bad trades happen on |
| 11405s | board my my board's just getting even |
| 11407s | weaker |
| 11408s | and i just don't have like enough of a |
| 11410s | tempo push now to finish the game so i'm |
| 11412s | gonna |
| 11413s | go a little bit greedier take some value |
| 11415s | trades and just try and go like dig in |
| 11417s | for the long game |
| 11418s | because this this warlock deck can do |
| 11420s | well against druid later on in the game |
| 11422s | like |
| 11423s | you these buffs are still big |
| 11425s | yeah on like 10 8 or so |
| 11428s | and especially if you can drop some c |
| 11429s | giants down as well |
| 11431s | i think it was quite smart |
| 11433s | yeah druid does unless they're already |
| 11435s | obviously way far ahead jimmy does |
| 11437s | actually struggle to deal with multiple |
| 11439s | big minions right |
| 11441s | especially if you split them so they're |
| 11443s | away from a uh devourer of course but |
| 11446s | like if you drop a c giant and a big |
| 11448s | buff on opposite sides of the board you |
| 11450s | know druid has to commit a lot to |
| 11452s | actually deal with that especially when |
| 11453s | there's you know the one ones or |
| 11454s | whatever imps knocking around as well |
| 11457s | yeah like you said it's really the |
| 11458s | devourer is the main big way of doing it |
| 11462s | okay okay |
| 11464s | that's something |
| 11468s | yeah and dimitri does need something |
| 11472s | braids don't look as cool though this |
| 11473s | time around do they because |
| 11475s | can obviously buff one of the imps or |
| 11477s | one of the minions |
| 11479s | but it means that there's still going to |
| 11480s | be a two attack minion left afterwards |
| 11485s | which one do you go for you do have the |
| 11487s | shady bartender in hand so like |
| 11489s | if you buff the other one then you get |
| 11491s | more buff next turn potentially |
| 11496s | i think i agree with the double face uh |
| 11499s | just it's a lot of damage to put into |
| 11501s | two twos and two ones isn't it |
| 11504s | yeah and it's like those trades aren't |
| 11505s | even protecting you from much |
| 11511s | looks like it's the starfish though and |
| 11513s | suddenly oh yeah trades are a lot |
| 11515s | stronger |
| 11516s | yeah value trade even coming in |
| 11519s | oh that trend is like oh yeah i've heard |
| 11522s | my keep today |
| 11524s | oh that's a very big pickup actually get |
| 11527s | some tempo back here |
| 11530s | the top selfie |
| 11532s | x |
| 11536s | with two scales in hand and the onyxia |
| 11541s | you have to think that the druid can get |
| 11542s | out of this yeah most importantly |
| 11546s | gaels then in ixia right it's not like |
| 11548s | two turns of scales because the iniquity |
| 11550s | does so much at beating the buffs right |
| 11552s | because it's just eight damage uh |
| 11555s | through one trade yeah which helps a lot |
| 11557s | from the buffs uh potential that dimitri |
| 11559s | has so yeah scale now to clean up the |
| 11562s | majority of the fear and then the anixia |
| 11565s | should just put the foot down i think |
| 11567s | yeah and even weaving the hero higher |
| 11569s | just to |
| 11570s | help clear up an extra million |
| 11574s | it's got to be worth it hasn't it sent |
| 11576s | him kill it |
| 11577s | yeah |
| 11578s | oh the the fear here i suppose is the |
| 11580s | farm coming down |
| 11586s | outside of that there's there's really |
| 11588s | not great refill available |
| 11595s | oh he sees the tap he knows there's no |
| 11596s | mana left for a farm |
| 11600s | i really feel like he's like all right |
| 11602s | okay i'm i'm winning this |
| 11604s | yeah there is still the fact that the |
| 11606s | starfish is in hand it means that if uh |
| 11609s | at least from dimitri's point of view |
| 11610s | right if like a miracle growth comes out |
| 11613s | he can just ignore it taunt wise so |
| 11616s | that's like what's one small light at |
| 11617s | the end of the tunnel here for dimitri |
| 11619s | but |
| 11620s | this anixia might just be too much |
| 11623s | because once this deck's off board |
| 11625s | it stays off board |
| 11627s | there's no damage coming anywhere else |
| 11630s | there's no way to kill this elixir and |
| 11631s | you just have a scales fall off as well |
| 11634s | and there'll still be no way to kill the |
| 11636s | enixia after the scales so yeah it's all |
| 11638s | looking good |
| 11644s | and as well this isn't one of the uh i |
| 11646s | know players were sort of you know |
| 11650s | testing out gig cards like gigafin right |
| 11652s | and you know just some more of the late |
| 11654s | game cards but this is not the deck uh |
| 11656s | for dimitri there's just those sea |
| 11658s | giants at the top end |
| 11661s | yeah i mean it's not cursed it's like |
| 11663s | we've seen the other version there's |
| 11664s | really no comeback tool once you are off |
| 11666s | board |
| 11668s | at this stage of the game right |
| 11671s | and i think that game the library nerf |
| 11674s | actually |
| 11676s | impacted the game a lot because there |
| 11678s | are so many terms where you just held |
| 11680s | the button because it just wasn't quite |
| 11681s | worth it enough when you only have like |
| 11683s | one or two m's you're just like i'm just |
| 11684s | going to wait and get better but before |
| 11686s | you're just pretty happy to just you |
| 11688s | know plus three plus three one of your |
| 11689s | minions |
| 11691s | it's even the difference we saw a lot |
| 11693s | especially in the the masters tour where |
| 11695s | it was like flamin library buffett right |
| 11699s | because then it becomes a four health |
| 11700s | which is super difficult to deal with on |
| 11702s | turn two uh but when you realize that |
| 11704s | suddenly becomes like three |
| 11707s | that's way more killable you know like |
| 11709s | that's not quite as valuable anymore so |
| 11712s | it do it it's weird that what doesn't |
| 11714s | look like a huge nerf on like a surface |
| 11716s | level um actually does make a massive |
| 11719s | impact because those break points cause |
| 11721s | everything we saw how aggressive both |
| 11724s | players were at trading and you know |
| 11725s | trying to keep those trades positive |
| 11727s | extra health changes all of the numbers |
| 11729s | there so a big win there though for |
| 11731s | levick though right like getting the win |
| 11733s | with his druid means that he's now going |
| 11735s | into game four with a druid mirror and |
| 11739s | uh again this one's a bit of a spicy one |
| 11741s | because even if levick loses and he has |
| 11744s | his |
| 11745s | mage to end up on which again even |
| 11748s | though isn't a particularly amazing |
| 11750s | match for matchup for mage it doesn't |
| 11752s | seem to be a terrible one either |
| 11756s | yeah it's it's something very winnable |
| 11758s | we've seen it time and time again i mean |
| 11760s | you obviously put it for the druid |
| 11761s | against the mage yeah but having two |
| 11763s | chances |
| 11765s | one be in the mirror i mean you've got |
| 11766s | to be feeling fairly comfortable |
| 11769s | i do wonder on the the first cube of uh |
| 11772s | warlock by levitt with whether that was |
| 11774s | just going on a sort of a soul read that |
| 11776s | dmitry might just start cueing the druid |
| 11778s | first because |
| 11780s | ideally as levick you'd want to have |
| 11782s | saved your warlock for the opposing |
| 11784s | druid |
| 11785s | and |
| 11786s | and in this mirror match although |
| 11788s | they're pretty much playing the same |
| 11790s | deck there are differences uh levick |
| 11792s | playing those uh |
| 11794s | naga giants uh dimitri is not he's |
| 11797s | running you know these sort of earlier |
| 11798s | game package the living roots |
| 11800s | and the compostings as well and natural |
| 11804s | causes and also those double flipper |
| 11806s | friends |
| 11807s | do you think one player particularly has |
| 11808s | an advantage over the other in this |
| 11811s | matchup like which build would you |
| 11812s | rather play here |
| 11814s | i think i'd rather play the build with |
| 11816s | the extra early cards |
| 11818s | druid's not |
| 11820s | amazing at clearing early boards and the |
| 11822s | damage does matter |
| 11824s | uh if you can just start with like an |
| 11827s | aggressive style of druid |
| 11829s | play some of your early game and then |
| 11830s | maybe you can get a lucky planted |
| 11832s | evidence to buff it up even more right |
| 11834s | it's really hard for the opposing druid |
| 11836s | to deal with that |
| 11838s | yeah there are a lot of like bald buff |
| 11840s | cards in druid right we just don't maybe |
| 11842s | don't think there are at the moment |
| 11844s | because aggro druid isn't really a deck |
| 11846s | anymore or token druid or whatever but |
| 11848s | there is actually still a lot of like |
| 11850s | plus damage buffs available yeah |
| 11853s | and even something like uh flipper |
| 11855s | friends if you just spread wide for one |
| 11857s | ones against a druid |
| 11859s | what do they do they have to have their |
| 11861s | scales into your one ones to do all that |
| 11863s | they need big swipe don't they yeah it's |
| 11865s | kind of tough |
| 11869s | they're both players keeping it there |
| 11871s | even for now |
| 11873s | youtube could step it up with the norris |
| 11875s | draw though |
| 11876s | yeah that's pretty clean you've got the |
| 11878s | natural cause as well to deal with the |
| 11880s | 3-2 |
| 11884s | well levick does have the best of both |
| 11886s | worlds with the split nourish so he can |
| 11888s | sort of not mirror the turn obviously |
| 11891s | but still mirror the ramp oh now double |
| 11894s | druid of the reef if he really wants it |
| 11896s | it might be a little bit over the top |
| 11897s | since he has kel pass in hand |
| 11899s | but uh the option is there |
| 11904s | yeah |
| 11906s | all right if you only had one more mana |
| 11907s | let's send it to a |
| 11909s | zola player as well it's going to hold |
| 11911s | both the true |
| 11915s | okay |
| 11917s | well this mutant is potentially really |
| 11919s | strong |
| 11920s | i hope you |
| 11922s | well to me pretty whenever you can land |
| 11924s | top here and not be upset that it's the |
| 11926s | seven mana five five you're feeling very |
| 11928s | good about life right because this is |
| 11930s | feels like a freebie right now |
| 11933s | yeah it's so strong in the mirror when |
| 11935s | you get when one either ahead or you're |
| 11937s | not too far behind because when one |
| 11939s | player has them one doesn't |
| 11941s | it's just an extra three three i've |
| 11943s | already trade everything just put on the |
| 11944s | pressure it's just so hard to recover |
| 11946s | from that i was watching fino yesterday |
| 11948s | and he was still saying that it's either |
| 11950s | a two or two and a half star card |
| 11952s | you were in that field |
| 11954s | yeah |
| 11959s | i think that three is reasonable okay |
| 11962s | i i play a version of druid without |
| 11964s | topiar and it does fine |
| 11966s | it's just like |
| 11968s | when you get topia on curve |
| 11971s | and you still have like a bunch of major |
| 11972s | spells ready to go it just seems so so |
| 11974s | strong right |
| 11976s | that's the thing as well right dimitri |
| 11977s | is running extra nature spells as well |
| 11979s | right so you could say that actually |
| 11981s | having topia for exactly dimitri's build |
| 11984s | on curve is even better right because he |
| 11986s | just has you know all of these extra |
| 11988s | spells |
| 11991s | i mean and your extra spells can find |
| 11993s | more nature spells |
| 11995s | it's like i'd like aquatic form but it |
| 11998s | isn't nature |
| 12001s | well it does go through |
| 12004s | i mean that was a two two and a three |
| 12006s | three you missed |
| 12007s | basically just said i didn't want no |
| 12009s | yeah in in order to see the bottom of my |
| 12011s | deck it's just like same comment i like |
| 12013s | aquatic form but it's not nature |
| 12017s | you said composting composting could be |
| 12019s | very very strong |
| 12020s | you're kind of lacking some |
| 12023s | e-card sir |
| 12027s | just flip friends the otters and when |
| 12029s | composting let's go |
| 12032s | yeah i think he's holding back doing it |
| 12033s | just now because |
| 12035s | potential for staff |
| 12040s | it does it does lose you a lot of tempo |
| 12042s | not going through it |
| 12044s | only on this time but on the next time |
| 12045s | because it just cost you so much mana |
| 12047s | i think now with the moonlit as well he |
| 12049s | wants max manor next turn right if he's |
| 12052s | gonna potentially hit that moonlit into |
| 12054s | whatever |
| 12055s | yeah i think it's just fine even if you |
| 12057s | get started it's not like you're out of |
| 12059s | value |
| 12061s | and the thing is as well like well if |
| 12063s | you're really gonna wait till your |
| 12065s | opponents are head on board till you |
| 12067s | compost in is that really the correct |
| 12069s | plan you know like wait till your |
| 12070s | opponent's winning and then i'll play |
| 12072s | some cards like what |
| 12078s | there's options for levitt care he could |
| 12081s | do big kelfast plays or he could just |
| 12084s | keep it simple like mutinous zola the |
| 12086s | mutinous and then mutinous again with |
| 12089s | kel that's the turn after |
| 12090s | i wonder if you could just |
| 12092s | draw of nourish this turn to get this |
| 12094s | nugget down cheaper oh wait |
| 12097s | do the mutinous solar thing right |
| 12099s | with this |
| 12101s | he has three mana left you can just zolo |
| 12102s | it |
| 12103s | yeah but |
| 12104s | it stops there right he can't do |
| 12106s | anything else oh yeah he just contains a |
| 12109s | mutinous yeah yeah |
| 12110s | yeah that's why i was wondering whether |
| 12112s | if you just spend the mana on |
| 12114s | this draw this turn get this naga giant |
| 12116s | really cheap |
| 12118s | and then go for this play |
| 12120s | maybe you can get a double activation |
| 12121s | it's just a bit |
| 12122s | stronger and who knows maybe you end up |
| 12125s | getting like a next year into your hand |
| 12127s | or something just be something better to |
| 12129s | pull out |
| 12131s | oh wow we have to keep an eye on how |
| 12133s | many minions are going to be left at the |
| 12135s | end of this turn in hand for dimitri |
| 12139s | yeah i mean those are the moons in this |
| 12145s | what i would do in the spot when you're |
| 12147s | scared of a mutant is just |
| 12150s | make it so that they take too much face |
| 12153s | damage if they go for it |
| 12154s | right it takes up most of your turn it's |
| 12157s | not very |
| 12158s | defensive play so if you can |
| 12160s | do a big swing here |
| 12161s | in tempo |
| 12164s | which is going to be tough to be honest |
| 12166s | because the ball is quite big |
| 12168s | it does have a lot of nature spells |
| 12171s | though right and a lot of these three |
| 12172s | threes to trade away and draw more cards |
| 12175s | with so even at worse he can like fill |
| 12177s | up his hand potentially as well the only |
| 12179s | problem is druid doesn't |
| 12182s | naturally fill the hand with loads of |
| 12183s | minions right |
| 12185s | yeah |
| 12186s | you can vote let's go |
| 12207s | i thought you'd even just |
| 12209s | play your friends as a whale or |
| 12210s | something here |
| 12211s | just something yeah play something |
| 12214s | something play a card he could have he |
| 12216s | could have done the hero power fun |
| 12217s | growth or yeah like like he said the |
| 12218s | whale you get six six three three |
| 12223s | it seems just uh |
| 12225s | weird like you're not really |
| 12229s | i like the whale as well because it |
| 12230s | soaks up so many uh whelps right from |
| 12233s | scales |
| 12234s | like it's three just to get through the |
| 12236s | taunt and then you've got other stuff as |
| 12238s | well like it seemed quite okay there and |
| 12240s | there is some mutants here from levick |
| 12242s | whether he chooses to go for it but |
| 12244s | unless you're gonna |
| 12246s | wait all day for bran |
| 12248s | i don't see why not to go for it with |
| 12250s | this hand uh the only the other other |
| 12253s | thing is you do have this naga giant so |
| 12255s | it's like |
| 12257s | it's not the only turn |
| 12259s | yeah where you can mute us and like it |
| 12261s | doesn't have really |
| 12263s | any read whether there's a siren hand on |
| 12266s | other than the fact that maybe dimitri |
| 12268s | just floated a lot of mana so maybe he |
| 12270s | had options to play minions but he was |
| 12271s | scared |
| 12273s | that the mutants would eat a key one so |
| 12275s | it could be looking like a lot of |
| 12277s | minions in hand |
| 12281s | if you're purely going off reads |
| 12290s | any sort of amount of armor there again |
| 12292s | levick has fallen behind on health for |
| 12294s | now |
| 12298s | that's a huge pick up |
| 12301s | yeah he picked it from aquatic farm last |
| 12303s | turn right |
| 12304s | oh i see yes i think he put it to the |
| 12306s | top with aquatic um the interesting |
| 12309s | thing here will be though like both |
| 12310s | players don't have guff yet so this |
| 12313s | brand denathrius is a long way away if |
| 12316s | that's going to be the plan for dimitri |
| 12328s | until there are tons of cards in hand |
| 12330s | here but |
| 12332s | i wonder if there's more minions |
| 12334s | this trade seemed odd to me |
| 12337s | he traded away the 3-3 to get more |
| 12339s | whelps but he did such a bad |
| 12341s | couple of trades to do it was it even |
| 12342s | worth it i think he could have ended the |
| 12344s | board with |
| 12345s | a 3-3 going faith there in the |
| 12348s | the next year in the welsh in a similar |
| 12350s | position |
| 12352s | i like you jamboree always optimizing |
| 12354s | face damage that's what we want to hear |
| 12356s | it's like wait a minute i could have |
| 12358s | pushed one more damage this turn i |
| 12359s | didn't i'm an idiot |
| 12363s | one of the awkward things in the mirror |
| 12365s | match though uh since the card was been |
| 12368s | played right is if you are next year |
| 12370s | first you have to be prepared to be an |
| 12372s | exit back |
| 12373s | yeah and just with the |
| 12375s | one additional welp just enables the |
| 12378s | the immune trade which just makes it so |
| 12380s | much more punishing |
| 12385s | i love options here you could just box |
| 12388s | that's the that's the one that doesn't |
| 12390s | make you have to think so i like that |
| 12392s | one yeah scales does the |
| 12395s | double job of clearing the board and |
| 12397s | buffing your dinethrius |
| 12401s | true |
| 12401s | i mean that seems pretty nice you can go |
| 12403s | scales and then follow with like the |
| 12404s | form groove |
| 12408s | ready for next turn just assume |
| 12411s | there's no way to kill it even though |
| 12413s | there's probably about 50 ways in your |
| 12414s | opponent's hand |
| 12416s | you never know |
| 12420s | [Music] |
| 12422s | oh is he just going like actual max |
| 12425s | deaths which sounds horrible when we |
| 12427s | talk about otters especially when |
| 12429s | they're making these noises every time |
| 12436s | away |
| 12449s | do you like dimitri just not playing any |
| 12452s | minions though as in actual minions |
| 12454s | these are minions on board but from |
| 12456s | spells of course but he knows he needs |
| 12459s | to protect this to nathrius because |
| 12461s | again he isn't running the naga giants |
| 12463s | right all these extra spells we've seen |
| 12465s | from dimitri that's that's his other |
| 12468s | stuff instead of giants and a few other |
| 12470s | threats which means that if fitness |
| 12472s | donations gets chomped or stolen |
| 12474s | his odds of winning go |
| 12476s | really really down |
| 12479s | oh my |
| 12480s | god |
| 12482s | dimitri did his best as i was just |
| 12484s | saying to protect the donations with a |
| 12486s | little cushion of expendable |
| 12489s | yours minions |
| 12490s | matter i'm playing all my minions next |
| 12492s | time just to show them how lucky they |
| 12495s | were yeah |
| 12496s | feel bad |
| 12498s | yeah |
| 12498s | yeah feel so |
| 12500s | lucky with scratch |
| 12504s | okay that was the worst worst possible |
| 12507s | outcome yeah |
| 12509s | let's look at the bright side you'd |
| 12510s | still |
| 12512s | have a topia you're active and your |
| 12513s | opponent doesn't |
| 12515s | oh now he's got two |
| 12517s | theotars he's gonna try and steal but |
| 12519s | he's gonna probably end up with |
| 12520s | devourers for his trouble |
| 12523s | you've been in the trashy minions |
| 12524s | they're pretty good |
| 12526s | into a mutants oh |
| 12528s | miracle growth |
| 12533s | oh these are so painful ones can't take |
| 12535s | devour and give him starfish right we |
| 12537s | we've we've discussed this |
| 12539s | yes he gave him starfish oh okay is he |
| 12542s | gonna steal it oh but the other davara |
| 12544s | you just take the other devourer right |
| 12551s | i guess but then what big minions is |
| 12554s | your opponent making |
| 12556s | well the thing is if you devour |
| 12558s | disputing us and they just devour your |
| 12560s | devourers |
| 12562s | and as a |
| 12564s | i think that this makes more sense to |
| 12566s | just protect you yeah then you can theo |
| 12568s | tar the |
| 12569s | starfish next turn |
| 12572s | yeah |
| 12573s | because long term i suppose there is |
| 12576s | messiah you have to deal with but you're |
| 12578s | gonna be ahead on board i was just a |
| 12580s | little bit |
| 12581s | surprised that dimitri wasn't just okay |
| 12584s | giving his opponent a miracle growth in |
| 12587s | at this spot in the game |
| 12590s | because if they make a big taunt you |
| 12591s | have a starfish or a devourer |
| 12594s | and they've already like luvx already |
| 12596s | got a million cards in hand right so and |
| 12599s | he knows he's already got the um the |
| 12601s | draw from nourish the split of nourish |
| 12603s | in hand |
| 12605s | yeah |
| 12606s | that's true i mean |
| 12608s | maybe we're overselling how important |
| 12610s | this starfish is |
| 12612s | like even if |
| 12615s | if you're devouring it gets starfished |
| 12618s | like it's just a 4-4 plus we know that |
| 12620s | levick's running starfish anyway as we |
| 12622s | can see there's another one in hand yeah |
| 12624s | so it's like are you actually giving |
| 12626s | them any more value here |
| 12628s | true i mean it's got three starfish now |
| 12630s | needs bran's twin that lets you do |
| 12633s | battle cries two extra times |
| 12635s | one extra time |
| 12643s | on odd play |
| 12646s | this is actually such a good thunderbolt |
| 12648s | i understand it because it looks so good |
| 12651s | because he's actually silenced his |
| 12652s | muteness away right so the devourers he |
| 12654s | knows his opponent has |
| 12656s | stuck |
| 12660s | you do i mean you have a starfish i |
| 12661s | guess for eventuality yeah |
| 12666s | i think it's more like the bran he |
| 12668s | didn't want to leave on board |
| 12669s | the theater as well |
| 12672s | i know it's okay |
| 12676s | i think i would |
| 12679s | okay |
| 12681s | how much mana does he have all these |
| 12683s | cards are still green |
| 12685s | it i usually mean it's gonna alignment |
| 12687s | innovate |
| 12688s | if they're all korean |
| 12689s | but it could be a spectator issue |
| 12692s | oh |
| 12693s | is it gonna happen |
| 12694s | yeah i do |
| 12696s | jump right you were good this is why |
| 12697s | you're on the desk |
| 12699s | this is how you know i've played far too |
| 12700s | much box druid that i i recognize these |
| 12702s | uh these signals |
| 12704s | it's so you know i play convoke |
| 12708s | oh no i mean that's not a bad card to |
| 12710s | get though the sunken gardens right from |
| 12712s | the aquatic that was auto applied |
| 12715s | okay |
| 12716s | something |
| 12717s | i mean was it bad alignment yourself not |
| 12720s | really you've not played gus yet |
| 12723s | i mean you have a lot of expensive cars |
| 12725s | in hand anyway |
| 12728s | i think it was actually kind of good |
| 12730s | yeah a lot of tempo as well |
| 12738s | the only awkward thing is a little bit |
| 12740s | painful now |
| 12743s | because it's their alignments not both |
| 12744s | ways anymore so you'll be like oh i've |
| 12746s | got your ten cost oh |
| 12749s | i guess you still steal it away from |
| 12751s | your opponent though if we're talking |
| 12752s | about cards like dinah threes yeah but |
| 12754s | you have to give them one of your one |
| 12755s | mana cards |
| 12757s | true |
| 12759s | okay there's living roots |
| 12760s | yeah |
| 12762s | there's the prince they can have a |
| 12765s | cheaper three four sure |
| 12767s | a one mana spider tank that's insane no |
| 12769s | it's even buffed it's a four five sig |
| 12771s | yeti okay you can't give them that |
| 12773s | that's what |
| 12774s | cross the line don't even think about it |
| 12782s | okay |
| 12783s | he has the option for the mine here |
| 12786s | wow |
| 12788s | that was not so he's really scared right |
| 12791s | of taking a million damage here because |
| 12794s | i was even looking at moonlit because he |
| 12796s | could just potentially get two sires |
| 12798s | sorry you could just get a bonus sire in |
| 12800s | hand so um |
| 12802s | because he's only got like 12 cards left |
| 12804s | right and you see three of them like |
| 12806s | it's decent numbers to go for it but i |
| 12809s | think he's just really scared of dying |
| 12811s | so yeah it's gonna go for more castable |
| 12813s | nature spells i guess to try and just |
| 12815s | pressure out this board |
| 12817s | yeah i think |
| 12819s | because we've seen the sire already been |
| 12822s | uh eaten |
| 12824s | from the mutanus he knows like he needs |
| 12826s | to win with the board |
| 12828s | so if i can just keep him off board as |
| 12830s | much as i can |
| 12832s | i should be okay |
| 12834s | and then eventually i can i can just use |
| 12836s | my own |
| 12837s | sire to uh |
| 12838s | heal up a bit at the end |
| 12840s | yeah i'm just worried about when they |
| 12842s | eventually happened because will the |
| 12844s | sire do enough damage |
| 12846s | yeah it's one of the worries right he's |
| 12848s | running out of cards like |
| 12850s | an odd game where we've got two of 240 |
| 12852s | card druid decks and we're on like less |
| 12854s | than 10 cards each more or less |
| 12856s | yeah and it's also the awkward part |
| 12858s | where if i put the sire in my hand |
| 12862s | it's weak to getting stolen from theater |
| 12864s | as well yeah |
| 12866s | it's good for it |
| 12874s | that's the problem you have in this late |
| 12875s | game scenario right dimitri's just got |
| 12877s | no clue if if psy has been there for |
| 12880s | five six seven eight turns or whether |
| 12882s | it's there at all right you've just got |
| 12884s | no clue so it's really difficult to work |
| 12886s | it out this is one hedge you can do |
| 12888s | against it right just put loads of |
| 12890s | health on the board and just hope it's |
| 12891s | uh |
| 12892s | it's not gonna do enough |
| 12900s | i actually forgot excess mana isn't |
| 12902s | nature which does make sense |
| 12905s | it pretty nice if it was oh yeah |
| 12910s | what process happens to make the wild |
| 12912s | growth |
| 12913s | a nature spell but then |
| 12915s | the other one not nature |
| 12919s | i can logically if you want me to |
| 12923s | having excess mana |
| 12925s | is not a nature issue it's just a wizard |
| 12928s | issue right |
| 12929s | um so you don't have to |
| 12932s | be a nature user to have excess mana |
| 12936s | wizard as you shoot yeah i think it's |
| 12938s | the first time i've heard someone say |
| 12940s | wizard issue yeah real wizard problems |
| 12947s | time waits for no one |
| 12948s | [Music] |
| 12950s | elephant just can't get this danethrious |
| 12952s | right |
| 12953s | look how quickly the cards he does have |
| 12955s | left is bottom eight |
| 12958s | uh ignore the devourers |
| 12960s | yeah he can't even play as naga john |
| 12962s | because he knows there's a pharah |
| 12970s | he can't actually do any of the plays |
| 12972s | that he actually wants to do |
| 12974s | now what do you like here for the steel |
| 12976s | there's the giant for the actual threat |
| 12978s | but taking bran out of the equation for |
| 12981s | a potential dinathrius is pretty big in |
| 12984s | itself |
| 12985s | yeah it's like the ultimate win |
| 12988s | condition for levick at the end of the |
| 12990s | game is the brand style so if you take |
| 12992s | away the bran |
| 12993s | maybe the size is not ever going to be |
| 12995s | good enough to actually finish you off |
| 12997s | and with all like the value you have |
| 13000s | just long term board control i think |
| 13002s | you'd be fine it goes for the giant |
| 13003s | which is also |
| 13005s | pretty reasonable i mean there's no |
| 13007s | devours from the opponents so that you |
| 13008s | could just go for a huge board push |
| 13010s | right now |
| 13011s | yeah |
| 13013s | yeah yeah oh |
| 13015s | okay miracle growth sure i mean that's |
| 13017s | also a big minion |
| 13020s | maybe save the devourer for |
| 13022s | something really scary to have a snap |
| 13024s | answer to a sort of emergency donathios |
| 13026s | maybe |
| 13028s | yeah i mean how do you answer this board |
| 13030s | as leather there's no |
| 13032s | areas you haven't ramped with the guff |
| 13034s | you can't brand the nitrous anyway |
| 13040s | so there isn't earthen scales right so |
| 13042s | he could miracle growth into earthen |
| 13045s | scales to try and stall one turn |
| 13049s | i |
| 13056s | we're kind of seeing like one of the |
| 13057s | problems with the |
| 13058s | giant build is in the mirror it's just |
| 13061s | such a good target for |
| 13062s | devourers right yeah |
| 13066s | i can see |
| 13068s | yeah that's just going to be wow what |
| 13070s | what a game again just a long drawn-out |
| 13073s | game both players sort of taking shots |
| 13075s | at each other i think the one um |
| 13078s | frustrating part for that i imagine for |
| 13080s | levick was that dinathrius was so far |
| 13083s | down in the bottom of the deck and and |
| 13085s | he just couldn't get it going because if |
| 13086s | at any point of course there was the |
| 13088s | theotor plays and you can always argue |
| 13090s | that lifting atheros was in hand theotar |
| 13092s | could have stole it yep completely |
| 13093s | understand but the second it's not |
| 13095s | stolen levick just plays it by that |
| 13098s | point and just demolishes all of the |
| 13100s | health from dimitri but yeah demetri did |
| 13103s | a great job to hang on there even in a |
| 13105s | rough spot of getting exactly as dinah |
| 13107s | three is killed by the mutinous and |
| 13109s | there yeah i managed to hang on and |
| 13111s | actually take the game so we're going |
| 13112s | all the way to game five |
| 13114s | can i just point out |
| 13116s | neither player played guff that game |
| 13119s | how far into the deck did we get |
| 13121s | eight cards seven cards down for both |
| 13124s | yeah that's that's insane yeah that is |
| 13126s | very odd and and again like it was both |
| 13129s | players didn't get guff and one players |
| 13131s | dinatrius was like sixth or seventh from |
| 13134s | bond it's like so many levels of |
| 13136s | awkwardness oh there was a guff the last |
| 13138s | turn with five cards left yeah six cards |
| 13142s | crazy game overall and not |
| 13144s | the way we see druid play out too often |
| 13146s | it doesn't feel like the mirror match |
| 13148s | gets that drawn out right you normally |
| 13150s | feel like one player does the |
| 13152s | overpowered thing and there's an answer |
| 13154s | or there isn't and then the game ends we |
| 13156s | are gonna jump over to game five though |
| 13158s | and that means lavic is gonna have to |
| 13159s | take the win on the big spell mage here |
| 13162s | against the druid and this is where it |
| 13165s | could really go anyway but suddenly you |
| 13168s | would lean towards dimitri having the |
| 13170s | edge here |
| 13171s | yeah |
| 13172s | generally speaking like the druid does |
| 13174s | have an edge especially over the big |
| 13176s | spell made variants but |
| 13178s | i mean majors just made it it can do |
| 13181s | anything at this this weekend it seems |
| 13183s | um |
| 13184s | i mean one coin coin belinder and it and |
| 13186s | it's all over isn't it that's the thing |
| 13188s | yeah joey can't really answer a belinda |
| 13190s | honestly on curve a lot of the time |
| 13192s | right |
| 13193s | or not well anyway |
| 13196s | well yeah not really |
| 13198s | it's just so many stats early on like |
| 13200s | even if they do eventually answer it |
| 13202s | like you just put yourself in such a |
| 13203s | good position |
| 13205s | let's get into it again look at this |
| 13207s | opening mulligan here for levick i |
| 13209s | imagine oh okay never mind |
| 13212s | not a keep i was expecting |
| 13215s | honestly there uh so |
| 13217s | what is levick hoping for exactly with |
| 13219s | this opening because i did not expect |
| 13221s | him to keep |
| 13223s | all of those cards is the barbaric |
| 13224s | sorceress just good versus druid it's |
| 13226s | just a play on curve if you need to |
| 13229s | well it's just uh |
| 13231s | one of the best ways to beat druid is |
| 13233s | just big |
| 13234s | big minions if they don't have the |
| 13237s | uh infused devourers or a lot of ramp to |
| 13239s | get there they're just going to be so |
| 13241s | much |
| 13242s | of a pain to get through with things |
| 13243s | that scale over next year i mean he has |
| 13245s | the sanctum on turn three so any of this |
| 13248s | early |
| 13249s | spell based boards |
| 13251s | you're going to be able to keep in check |
| 13253s | quite easily and then from there like |
| 13256s | there's so many cheap spells anyway |
| 13258s | usually from this uh druid deck from |
| 13260s | dimitri that the sorcerer's gonna hit |
| 13262s | something and then next time you will be |
| 13264s | able to play the amulet |
| 13266s | it just seems fine to me |
| 13268s | yeah it does look |
| 13269s | it doesn't like he's playing on like |
| 13271s | coin in sorceress to hit exactly amulet |
| 13274s | and then just say that will be enough |
| 13277s | right |
| 13278s | yeah i mean it just paves the way for |
| 13281s | all of the other future plays like if |
| 13282s | the parrots |
| 13284s | the uh the hero card right |
| 13288s | now though dimitri's got to make some |
| 13289s | choices |
| 13292s | just cash in the hero power to clean |
| 13293s | this up but |
| 13295s | again aquatic farm he does have more |
| 13297s | lower cost spells right and although you |
| 13299s | can argue that you don't necessarily |
| 13300s | want them you could just do the plan of |
| 13302s | well yeah you don't want them in your |
| 13304s | hand for the turn they play sorceress |
| 13306s | but until then |
| 13307s | by all means spam them out |
| 13312s | you could have tempered the starfish |
| 13313s | here i suppose that you're against the |
| 13314s | mage you want to try and save that for |
| 13315s | late game but your hands are really not |
| 13318s | cleaning yourself to a late game |
| 13320s | strategy right now yeah |
| 13322s | and again like dimitri doesn't play the |
| 13324s | giants right so a lot of his big threats |
| 13326s | if he has to silence them they don't |
| 13328s | quite do the same level of job |
| 13331s | yeah it's like a 2-4 on board here's |
| 13333s | just kind of good |
| 13336s | i mean and especially if you're going |
| 13337s | for moonlit guidance you're not going to |
| 13339s | have the mana ready to double down on |
| 13341s | that see what you cannot do right |
| 13344s | i do like out of those pics though |
| 13346s | getting just an extra urban scales in |
| 13348s | the game i think that's valuable right |
| 13350s | versus this mage |
| 13352s | yeah you can definitely see that dimitri |
| 13354s | is going for a long term strategy |
| 13357s | i would just i would for me i would have |
| 13359s | personally just play the starfish just |
| 13361s | try and get some early tempo to like |
| 13363s | cause the mage a bit of a nuisance maybe |
| 13366s | that just gives you the cushion to |
| 13368s | get you towards those late game like |
| 13370s | right now if you're going too slow maybe |
| 13371s | you're gonna be behind me and you're the |
| 13373s | one who has to play catcher |
| 13375s | and very quickly levick's plan is |
| 13378s | starting to really kick in right next |
| 13380s | turn coin sorceress |
| 13382s | and then he's got two amulets in hand |
| 13385s | and there's |
| 13386s | even if dimitri |
| 13389s | plays everything and only leaves the |
| 13391s | flipper friends well |
| 13394s | fine right because that's still a five |
| 13396s | mana amulet for the turn after right and |
| 13398s | then the the sage uh the gray sage |
| 13400s | pirate after that like it's so much |
| 13404s | tempo |
| 13406s | and right now there's not a lot dimitri |
| 13408s | can do about this |
| 13410s | no it's gonna hurt |
| 13412s | unless oh okay this is one way that it |
| 13414s | can knock her |
| 13417s | you would think |
| 13418s | oh he just sees the package what does he |
| 13421s | take what he doesn't realize is apart |
| 13422s | from the coin that package is duplicated |
| 13425s | in hand right now |
| 13427s | so stealing that sorceress is not gonna |
| 13429s | stop it happening which is |
| 13431s | hilarious to us brutal to dimitri |
| 13434s | just take the amulet though because |
| 13437s | it's an amulet |
| 13438s | yeah all right so they could have |
| 13440s | duplicates in hand |
| 13443s | sure you know that they've drawn an |
| 13444s | amulet |
| 13447s | yeah just remove one right because you'd |
| 13449s | rather them reduce the rune wouldn't you |
| 13451s | yeah |
| 13453s | it also has the benefit like if they do |
| 13455s | decide to go for the sorceress you have |
| 13456s | that chance that it just swaps with you |
| 13458s | all with your ammo that you already have |
| 13460s | yeah |
| 13461s | now it's gonna be one in three you would |
| 13463s | argue right for levick to either |
| 13466s | break good things to happen or bad |
| 13468s | things to happen |
| 13470s | there's so many options there belinda |
| 13472s | drawn as well |
| 13474s | yeah i i think belinda just guarantees |
| 13476s | what you want to do right |
| 13478s | make a big thing |
| 13479s | that's too cheap rune of the arc mage |
| 13482s | right |
| 13486s | it's just you really want to get the |
| 13488s | amulet played because of |
| 13489s | all your hands with the manchester |
| 13493s | and the parrot |
| 13496s | i can understand this there's no |
| 13498s | guarantee that there's any other cheap |
| 13499s | spells in hand |
| 13504s | nice usage of that zero mana ping that |
| 13506s | leverk's been holding on to for a while |
| 13507s | there to just push three extra damage to |
| 13509s | face love to see it |
| 13513s | yeah now does dimitri go for like |
| 13516s | nourish and ramp into his his amulet i |
| 13519s | guess what to do |
| 13523s | yeah it's just |
| 13525s | the amulet and this devourer i can't |
| 13527s | quite see how many needs for that |
| 13530s | yeah only ones died for the devourer |
| 13532s | right |
| 13533s | it was just the one that died that turn |
| 13535s | okay yeah |
| 13538s | i mean the flipper friends is a way of |
| 13540s | activating that devourer but you |
| 13542s | obviously need to spend an extra turn |
| 13543s | doing so |
| 13545s | oh this is a huge no we can yeah you can |
| 13546s | do it right |
| 13547s | yeah with the discounted flipper friends |
| 13550s | wow it's actually really huge |
| 13566s | he went for the |
| 13567s | six six rather than the one ones |
| 13570s | he just didn't want to take nine or like |
| 13572s | to reduce his odds of taking nine i |
| 13574s | guess yeah he just doesn't get the |
| 13576s | infused device anymore yeah and the |
| 13578s | weird thing as well is like the three |
| 13580s | four and the two two trading in with a |
| 13582s | ping |
| 13583s | make him take nine right |
| 13585s | yeah i just i feel like the one for just |
| 13587s | that sorry |
| 13589s | [Music] |
| 13591s | oh good positioning with the old uh |
| 13593s | pelican just in case the devourer is |
| 13598s | oh |
| 13600s | this is rough |
| 13606s | oh he also doesn't know the secret right |
| 13608s | so he just |
| 13610s | i wonder |
| 13611s | is car drake fire does he have to just |
| 13614s | devour the belinda |
| 13617s | i mean |
| 13619s | yes but drake fights and it is counter |
| 13622s | maybe he just has to risk it but if he |
| 13623s | drake fires and it's counter spell in |
| 13625s | his mind well he's just insta lost right |
| 13627s | like that's just the game and he's done |
| 13630s | i wonder |
| 13632s | it's just what is strong enough to win |
| 13633s | because the devourer you kill the 99 |
| 13635s | sure but you're still taking a lot of |
| 13637s | damage and you don't have eleven with a |
| 13639s | pink yeah |
| 13641s | you don't have an answer for |
| 13643s | what in the future i respect this yeah |
| 13646s | same |
| 13648s | even this though is just |
| 13651s | how strong is it oh it's trading |
| 13653s | i remember i was not expecting i do not |
| 13655s | respect this |
| 13658s | okay |
| 13661s | yeah i mean this again is under i would |
| 13663s | would have respect the ballsy play with |
| 13665s | just playing the amulet but this again |
| 13668s | like i said at least keeps him alive for |
| 13670s | now but i completely agree with your |
| 13672s | point right and it's something you learn |
| 13673s | in hearthstone there's almost no point |
| 13675s | surviving making the game go one turn |
| 13678s | longer if it's never going to win you |
| 13680s | the game anyway right um this is 1313. i |
| 13684s | guess the plan here is |
| 13685s | levick doesn't kill him this turn which |
| 13688s | i think is unlikely right um and then he |
| 13690s | draws exactly uh scales plus maybe yeah |
| 13694s | something else right that's really the |
| 13696s | the danger of leaving this 1313 on board |
| 13699s | it's just |
| 13700s | the scales |
| 13701s | just bring them straight back |
| 13703s | is it kind of shocking that levick's |
| 13706s | doing this and not just playing starfish |
| 13712s | insane |
| 13715s | it kills it anyway oh my god |
| 13727s | now the dreaded watch post we've seen |
| 13729s | the damage this card can do in this |
| 13730s | series already |
| 13736s | just to make sure it really can't attack |
| 13738s | yeah |
| 13743s | okay he's got the starfish ready to go |
| 13745s | for |
| 13749s | lethal oh true yeah |
| 13755s | he also still doesn't know it's not |
| 13757s | counter spell right right |
| 13760s | all he's tested is uh |
| 13763s | explosive right |
| 13766s | yeah it can still be oasis ally |
| 13769s | uh the visage |
| 13771s | or garage |
| 13774s | or as it is a barrier or the count spot |
| 13777s | i think |
| 13780s | i mean |
| 13782s | surely surely you just |
| 13783s | why you never had to innovate does he |
| 13785s | need the banner anyway |
| 13787s | maybe he's saying like |
| 13788s | if it's counter spell on it |
| 13810s | are you gonna take down one of the |
| 13812s | skeletons |
| 13817s | that's just it now |
| 13821s | starfish does it right yeah starfish |
| 13823s | pink |
| 13826s | oh it's just maximizing damage in case |
| 13828s | the starfish doesn't work |
| 13830s | he's like wait i've never done this |
| 13832s | before but yeah starfish watchtower |
| 13835s | finally fulfills its lifelong dream that |
| 13837s | one day it was going to be a minion that |
| 13839s | could attack and it's going to be lethal |
| 13842s | levick takes it your pick is still in |
| 13845s | jamboree it was definitely a tough |
| 13846s | series but levitt got the job done and |
| 13848s | again i think yeah it's pretty solid |
| 13851s | play from both players honestly levick |
| 13853s | again continues to impress but there |
| 13855s | were those types of games where it was |
| 13857s | difficult to just say oh that was wrong |
| 13859s | that was right that was wrong because |
| 13861s | there was so much going into each game |
| 13863s | right |
| 13863s | yeah i mean it's like one of those spots |
| 13865s | where you kind of wish you had |
| 13867s | like a simulation to go over it hundreds |
| 13869s | and hundreds of times yeah |
| 13871s | i mean i i |
| 13873s | don't know about you but a lot of |
| 13874s | players put a lot of importance on |
| 13876s | how did this decision affect this |
| 13878s | particular game |
| 13881s | but what they should really do is just |
| 13882s | take a step back |
| 13884s | and realize that the most important |
| 13885s | thing in hearthstone |
| 13886s | is twitter followers so head on over to |
| 13888s | genre hs and give us a follow |
| 13892s | perfect i could not agree more but yeah |
| 13894s | make sure to go over to jamboree hs in |
| 13896s | there give him a good follow there well |
| 13898s | deserved so far but we'll see how we |
| 13900s | will reserve that judgment till the end |
| 13902s | of the day before the weekend's finished |
| 13903s | um |
| 13904s | we are going to move on uh shortly to go |
| 13907s | into our next match of course as levick |
| 13909s | does move on through now and next match |
| 13911s | coming up i believe is going to be blize |
| 13913s | versus habu gabu so a great eu face-off |
| 13916s | going on there but for now we are going |
| 13918s | to go to a break while we set that one a |
| 13919s | ride up don't go anywhere and we'll be |
| 13921s | right back |
| 13925s | [Music] |
| 13936s | so |
| 13938s | [Music] |
| 13944s | [Music] |
| 13978s | so |
| 13981s | [Music] |
| 13994s | do |
| 13997s | [Music] |
| 14115s | welcome back everyone to hearthstone at |
| 14117s | grand masters last call uh we've got a |
| 14121s | great matchup coming right up it's going |
| 14122s | to be blize versus habu gabu and then |
| 14125s | after that we're going to have a bunny |
| 14127s | hopper versus levick so it's a eu all |
| 14130s | the way down as far as i see it |
| 14132s | guaranteed another eu top four are you |
| 14134s | even surprised jamboree oh it's just |
| 14137s | another day at the office at this point |
| 14138s | for european players |
| 14141s | yep clock in win the matches go home job |
| 14143s | done um but yeah looking to be really |
| 14145s | stacked though as well when we look at |
| 14147s | the type of like you know bunny opera |
| 14148s | versus levick's gonna be a great one a |
| 14150s | little bit later on and then also super |
| 14152s | fake versus either blize or habu gabou |
| 14154s | coming up for the second semi-final so |
| 14156s | a lot of great matches coming up but i |
| 14158s | am excited for this one always excited |
| 14160s | of course to see blaise play and also |
| 14162s | habu |
| 14163s | having a great year this year and also |
| 14166s | just i think more and more people have |
| 14168s | realized how good habu is at the game |
| 14171s | and how he has that strange ability |
| 14174s | similar to someone else i know to just |
| 14176s | make weird decks and then everyone's |
| 14178s | trash with them but he has the ability |
| 14180s | to win with them and it's very very odd |
| 14182s | yeah i love having he's uh he's my kind |
| 14185s | of player he's not afraid to to do a bit |
| 14187s | of experimenting he doesn't take himself |
| 14190s | too seriously either he is an excellent |
| 14192s | player all round |
| 14194s | uh he's shown that time and time again |
| 14196s | this year |
| 14197s | for me as well it's even in different |
| 14198s | game modes right he's done very well in |
| 14200s | battlegrounds in the past and then when |
| 14201s | mercenaries came out he played it he |
| 14204s | just put a team together that of cour of |
| 14206s | characters that no one was even thinking |
| 14208s | about because they looked trash and then |
| 14210s | just won and got like i think i think he |
| 14213s | got first on the ladder with it it was |
| 14214s | like wait what is going on |
| 14216s | there crazy mad scientist there but not |
| 14219s | a bad record in masters tours either |
| 14221s | um |
| 14222s | three consecutive empty top eights |
| 14225s | that's uh it's not a bad run rate that |
| 14227s | is it not a bad run rate at all |
| 14230s | yeah that is that's actually an insane |
| 14232s | start three top eights in a row we're |
| 14234s | looking at |
| 14235s | like the likes of dead draw and blize to |
| 14237s | match stats equal to that in the recent |
| 14239s | years yeah and of course the 2022 summer |
| 14242s | champion as well like everything's just |
| 14245s | coming up habu this year isn't it like |
| 14247s | it's just a great record across the |
| 14249s | board and he's continuing to do well |
| 14251s | obviously um has a chance now to make it |
| 14253s | into top four and i don't want to say |
| 14255s | like i will say it's not really needed |
| 14258s | for habu because he he's got a spot at |
| 14260s | worlds anyway but um but again you want |
| 14264s | to have the best year possible there's |
| 14265s | more prize money and so on so on so it's |
| 14268s | still extra and you you will hopefully |
| 14270s | agree with this jamboree but even if |
| 14272s | you're doing well you still want to do |
| 14274s | better right you still want to have |
| 14276s | ridiculous results so you put yourself |
| 14278s | above even some of the best players in |
| 14280s | the world |
| 14281s | i mean you don't want people to say oh |
| 14284s | it was just a fluke or whatever you want |
| 14285s | to just keep keep |
| 14287s | keep going keep going every time i mean |
| 14289s | bonnie hopper this this past few weeks |
| 14291s | in gm has been absolutely crushing it |
| 14293s | and if there's one player to take him |
| 14295s | down who's equally having good results |
| 14297s | right now it might be a habit of gabby |
| 14299s | yeah there's habu with his results in |
| 14302s | masters tours obviously championship and |
| 14304s | grand masters and then also there's |
| 14306s | bunny hopper you know doing |
| 14308s | exceptionally well in grand masters and |
| 14309s | also having a great uh uh results in the |
| 14312s | chinese team league right as well |
| 14315s | not only his team but him specifically |
| 14317s | he's doing really well so uh glad to see |
| 14320s | overall but then we have blize the |
| 14322s | show-stopper coming out here with his |
| 14324s | lineup and a player who's also known to |
| 14327s | be pretty good at masters tours uh |
| 14329s | winning those back-to-back ones |
| 14331s | apparently here he needs to a win to |
| 14333s | secure a top two spot so to really push |
| 14336s | him through in those playoffs which is |
| 14337s | something he will no doubt be going for |
| 14340s | bly is one of the players that has |
| 14341s | quickly become uh the player that's |
| 14345s | been so close but so far right and i |
| 14348s | think a player that no one would be |
| 14350s | shocked if bly's won worlds right |
| 14353s | because he definitely has that ability |
| 14355s | he's been showing us his play for a long |
| 14356s | time now uh but he still does just have |
| 14358s | to get there and make it happen he's |
| 14360s | going to be queueing the mage going up |
| 14362s | against rogue and we get to cast rogue |
| 14364s | for the first time today hey jamboree i |
| 14366s | love it |
| 14367s | oh yeah like the road games they're nice |
| 14369s | and quick |
| 14370s | and it's all about uh i like it's my |
| 14373s | style of deck rogue really just just uh |
| 14375s | build up build up build up lots of self |
| 14377s | and then it's just swing down |
| 14378s | i mean |
| 14380s | i've made maybe like 10 decks in total |
| 14382s | just like that maybe this year |
| 14385s | yeah it's uh very similar to a certain |
| 14388s | evolved shaming lists that have pained |
| 14390s | my life because it's a deck i hate |
| 14392s | playing against um but yeah it is brutal |
| 14396s | you'd like don't do too much don't do |
| 14397s | too much oh wait i've won |
| 14401s | same with the nazmani priest as well |
| 14403s | yeah it's just that style |
| 14405s | yeah absolutely filthy but i'm excited |
| 14406s | for this series overall again |
| 14408s | bly's starting with the mage they're |
| 14410s | hoping to echo what bunny hop has |
| 14412s | already done today with a swift 3-0 mage |
| 14415s | win uh even with some uh fun plays and |
| 14418s | outcomes there in the bunny upper series |
| 14420s | early today and so let's see how it goes |
| 14422s | a bit of a tricky match up isn't it |
| 14425s | because on paper i feel like as mage you |
| 14428s | sort of |
| 14430s | logically think you can have answers to |
| 14432s | this rogue deck but then rogue can do |
| 14434s | its thing and you just die |
| 14437s | yeah |
| 14437s | it's it's not that you just need answers |
| 14439s | you need like a long-term |
| 14442s | uh health total to to get there as well |
| 14445s | because there is a lot of burn damage |
| 14447s | available |
| 14448s | beyond just the initial turns from this |
| 14450s | rogue deck |
| 14451s | are you surprised at all with the |
| 14454s | players who are choosing to leave rogue |
| 14456s | up and they're playing decks like mage |
| 14458s | like druid are you surprised that |
| 14461s | there's just no rust drop viper knocking |
| 14463s | around right now |
| 14466s | uh |
| 14467s | no i'm not actually i think |
| 14469s | the decks themselves are actually just |
| 14470s | naturally good enough to counter they |
| 14472s | don't need this in addition okay and i |
| 14475s | think the viper is just like it's just |
| 14478s | not very useful into any other deck |
| 14479s | right now so you just hurt in your other |
| 14481s | matchups like it's not like it would be |
| 14483s | bad into this rogue they could be |
| 14484s | actually very very good but |
| 14486s | it's just not worth it as a tech |
| 14488s | conclusion right now i think yeah just a |
| 14490s | bit too niche yeah if you're only really |
| 14492s | hitting one class right there's even you |
| 14494s | know people playing hunter with the |
| 14496s | spirits like it's probably still not |
| 14498s | worth to play the viper against that |
| 14501s | yeah yeah definitely hear that so far |
| 14504s | habu's done a pretty good job taking a |
| 14506s | lot of boxes right now has the zero man |
| 14508s | in all has edwin has location and also |
| 14511s | running sprint as well which we saw from |
| 14515s | someone yesterday but i forgot who was |
| 14517s | it pascal |
| 14518s | i remember yeah pascal had it in his tag |
| 14522s | i mean it's going to help in in this |
| 14524s | particular matchup because we've seen a |
| 14525s | lot of times rogue |
| 14527s | once their initial push is answered they |
| 14529s | just run out of gas and the sprint's |
| 14530s | just a tool to help against some of |
| 14532s | these counters |
| 14533s | like the mage like quest priest just to |
| 14536s | give you like |
| 14537s | the chance to go for another push later |
| 14539s | on or just to finally find all your burn |
| 14543s | like weirdly enough is a card you kind |
| 14545s | of want to see in your hand because that |
| 14546s | means that edwin's not going to draw |
| 14548s | into it yeah |
| 14550s | you want exactly sprint and edwin in |
| 14553s | hand |
| 14554s | right okay i'm good i've got the the |
| 14555s | combo that's not a combo |
| 14559s | i'll be there going off with two five |
| 14561s | five stealths again not the biggest |
| 14562s | minions but that kind of damage does |
| 14564s | stack up if not answered ever again |
| 14567s | flies having the good answers to this uh |
| 14569s | with the issue with location and ping |
| 14572s | against these stealths is that well you |
| 14574s | can't target them so it's kind of tough |
| 14576s | but the blizzard coming in clutch to buy |
| 14578s | him some time and this is where it gets |
| 14580s | tricky right for habu one he's weirdly |
| 14583s | nearly dead i feel like i blinked and he |
| 14585s | lost a lot of health but now it's the |
| 14588s | time where he has the big resources he |
| 14589s | has the big payoff cards but how does he |
| 14592s | fit it all in and this is where the |
| 14593s | skill of this rogue deck comes into play |
| 14596s | yeah i mean |
| 14597s | there's not a lot of value from the mage |
| 14599s | side i mean we can see in hand it's also |
| 14601s | like a lot worse than maybe habbo thinks |
| 14603s | it is |
| 14605s | but the health title is low |
| 14608s | and there's no way of like recovering it |
| 14610s | realistically |
| 14611s | as habitable so you gotta be a bit |
| 14613s | concerned for it |
| 14615s | using the bone spike to clear off some |
| 14617s | damage here |
| 14618s | it it does also protect these frozen |
| 14620s | minions on board |
| 14621s | which |
| 14624s | the mage can't just |
| 14626s | deal with for free especially with their |
| 14627s | hand size so low |
| 14631s | go for the sprint and try and maybe go |
| 14633s | for a big pop off |
| 14635s | the downside of using this bone spike is |
| 14637s | uh of course you have preps left in the |
| 14639s | deck and prep bone spike is just such a |
| 14642s | huge tool with especially draco or |
| 14644s | adamant |
| 14645s | feel like you're a druid for just |
| 14646s | moments don't you yeah i have so much |
| 14648s | manner |
| 14651s | yeah it almost feels a little bit like a |
| 14653s | waste sometimes to use it as just uh |
| 14657s | essentially a lunar eclipse from the |
| 14659s | past |
| 14660s | on these turns |
| 14661s | my past cannot be like this though from |
| 14663s | blyze just get the freeze and play a |
| 14665s | four seven he's gonna take three but |
| 14666s | he's got 40 health so who cares |
| 14672s | uh he has to work out exactly what he |
| 14674s | wants to do with these resources like |
| 14677s | is it crazy to look at like |
| 14680s | a tradable turn there to just reduce |
| 14682s | your damage spells down and then pop off |
| 14685s | that's actually pretty reasonable yeah |
| 14687s | because you have |
| 14689s | all the payoffs but you just don't have |
| 14690s | enough cheap cards |
| 14692s | it could be a good opportunity to just |
| 14694s | take a turn where you uh |
| 14697s | i trade the extortion then the two |
| 14698s | weapons and suddenly you've got zero |
| 14700s | mana sinister zero mana wicked stab |
| 14702s | probably |
| 14703s | yeah |
| 14706s | i mean how scared of you are this kalpas |
| 14707s | is also an issue |
| 14709s | if you go in here with just the stealths |
| 14712s | whilst killing the kill first you're |
| 14713s | probably pretty happy right |
| 14718s | feel good and you've seen a lot of |
| 14719s | freeze already used right happy so um |
| 14722s | he's already seen the um the flurry he's |
| 14724s | seen a blizzard come out as well he's |
| 14726s | seen a ping from the minion so he knows |
| 14727s | the thing isn't juiced i don't think |
| 14732s | oh wait the pink is |
| 14734s | freezing isn't it |
| 14736s | all blizzard |
| 14739s | oh wow what's the top deck |
| 14742s | i think without a bad draw here i think |
| 14744s | blize was in serious trouble |
| 14751s | i mean there's still 17 damage |
| 14754s | base here right |
| 14756s | yeah oh you can do a lot and get a |
| 14758s | massive tracker here i think |
| 14762s | at this point you could just equip the |
| 14763s | weapons right if you wanted to |
| 14767s | and just equip over them |
| 14769s | or another prep |
| 14770s | oh |
| 14773s | yeah i mean |
| 14775s | true test can you execute this plan |
| 14777s | right i think that's the hard bit |
| 14779s | honestly if i was in exactly the |
| 14780s | situation i'd just be like right very |
| 14783s | quickly what does a lot of good stuff |
| 14784s | and gets me a big weapon i wouldn't even |
| 14786s | count i'll try and optimize this which |
| 14788s | is why i'm not playing goodness and uh |
| 14790s | people like happy and blizzard but i |
| 14792s | would just be like i just don't want to |
| 14793s | end the turn and whiff stuff you know |
| 14795s | what i mean miss attacks miss damage or |
| 14797s | whatever |
| 14799s | yeah curious go for the is this lethal |
| 14802s | weapon if this is amount of damage |
| 14805s | it might be you've got the prep bone |
| 14806s | spike |
| 14808s | play though |
| 14809s | oh you play the weapon and then play |
| 14811s | prep bonus fight tracker there's so much |
| 14813s | damage |
| 14817s | even if it's not lethal it's a million |
| 14818s | damage and a huge stealth right yeah |
| 14822s | i mean it's just |
| 14825s | that's not too turn level with the |
| 14826s | weapons |
| 14835s | and i mean sprint was a huge factor in |
| 14837s | this game it just gave abuse so many |
| 14839s | resources to |
| 14841s | allow him to do this big pop off |
| 14844s | yeah i |
| 14845s | i will say like oh there we go just like |
| 14846s | that i will say sprint when we're |
| 14848s | talking about uh poor krapatoa being cut |
| 14851s | sprint has seemed like if we're gonna |
| 14853s | just match up cards i can't i can see |
| 14856s | myself swapping grab a towel for because |
| 14858s | it does just a good job right i think |
| 14860s | all the others uh it's hard to really |
| 14863s | judge like what an extra sinister strike |
| 14866s | ads |
| 14867s | or a yoink adds to any given game but a |
| 14870s | sprint i mean it's just obvious right |
| 14872s | the one thing you can like sometimes is |
| 14873s | refill |
| 14875s | yeah it's just |
| 14876s | when you don't have that sprint you're |
| 14878s | basically putting all all your eggs in |
| 14880s | one basket which is edwin basically to |
| 14882s | draw you your cards edwin |
| 14884s | yeah it's edwin exactly |
| 14886s | and i mean he doesn't have |
| 14889s | infinite card draw like you have to wait |
| 14891s | until quite late into the game if you |
| 14893s | really really want to play like a lot of |
| 14895s | cards if you play him on turn five maybe |
| 14897s | he draws you a few |
| 14898s | or if you're really lucky uh more than a |
| 14900s | few but it's not going to get you to the |
| 14902s | end of your deck |
| 14903s | yeah |
| 14904s | really tricky overall though but the |
| 14905s | spring coming in clutch for habu and it |
| 14907s | does mean he's going to be on his rogue |
| 14908s | once again uh no real surprise that |
| 14911s | blize is going for the priest here but |
| 14913s | now i'm pretty interested in just how |
| 14915s | the match pans out overall because you |
| 14918s | it feels like this weekend you never |
| 14920s | want to lose the mage right uh blize |
| 14922s | does have priest available uh druids |
| 14925s | band but then there's like habu with his |
| 14928s | own mage and his 40 card quest hunter so |
| 14931s | i do think habu even if he loses this |
| 14934s | has still got plenty of game to be up on |
| 14936s | this praise |
| 14939s | yeah and i mean we're gonna if this is |
| 14941s | the the counter match up and it fails i |
| 14944s | mean the sprint inclusion apparently has |
| 14946s | uh flipped the match up on its head |
| 14948s | according to some people |
| 14951s | i mean this rogue just might just run |
| 14952s | rampant |
| 14953s | yeah might do a chantsu from yesterday |
| 14955s | right yeah swift 3-0 and let rogue carry |
| 14958s | the way but it is a very volatile deck |
| 14961s | isn't it um because you could also just |
| 14964s | if you give priests just a few turns to |
| 14966s | collect some resources they'll end up |
| 14968s | having answers and speaking of |
| 14970s | restaurant viper jamboree |
| 14972s | uh there's one |
| 14974s | and that's gonna be a big deal do you |
| 14976s | think |
| 14977s | if given the option how who ever goes |
| 14980s | for i know this is difficult to say |
| 14981s | because it's very situation dependent |
| 14983s | but |
| 14984s | how much do you think habibu would be |
| 14985s | thinking of shadow step um uh the weapon |
| 14988s | if he has it as an option |
| 14991s | uh it's really just gonna be context on |
| 14993s | his hand really like it knows there's a |
| 14995s | viper in the other looks so |
| 14998s | he could potentially hedge and say i'm |
| 14999s | going to make a medium-sized weapon not |
| 15001s | going to go all in on it and then if the |
| 15002s | viper comes down yeah i can go again |
| 15004s | later |
| 15006s | certainly reasonable it's just going to |
| 15007s | be dependent on how many resources he |
| 15009s | has |
| 15010s | but the nice thing of this viper keep |
| 15013s | this priest deck is really really good |
| 15015s | at dealing with the stealth minions |
| 15020s | you have the likes of uh |
| 15023s | two shadow world ruins in the deck that |
| 15025s | can do over against old odds can |
| 15027s | sometimes deal with it if uh |
| 15030s | it happens to line up right and then you |
| 15032s | also have zarella so i think |
| 15034s | shadow would ruins too right yeah |
| 15036s | because if that's not working then great |
| 15038s | the stealth are |
| 15039s | small |
| 15040s | perfect |
| 15042s | it's kind of hard to expect as the rogue |
| 15044s | to get a lot of damage in from the |
| 15046s | stealth which is usually |
| 15048s | something that can happen in a lot of |
| 15049s | matchups against quest priest in |
| 15051s | particular it's something that you can't |
| 15052s | really rely on |
| 15054s | yeah okay so |
| 15056s | have we made the play but i was going to |
| 15057s | ask as well with that in mind and with |
| 15060s | priests being so good at just mass aoe |
| 15062s | clearing the huge boards uh do you like |
| 15065s | this this approach of saying you know |
| 15067s | what what if i just play more of a tempo |
| 15069s | style game here play a minion out |
| 15072s | make him try and deal with it play |
| 15074s | another minion out if it's relevant go |
| 15076s | again you know that kind of |
| 15078s | trip feeding damage as opposed to going |
| 15080s | all in like the deck is kind of built to |
| 15082s | do |
| 15083s | you know i i definitely like it uh |
| 15086s | like |
| 15086s | priests are very good at dealing with a |
| 15088s | board around turn |
| 15090s | seven and eight get rid of everything if |
| 15092s | you put everything all at once what |
| 15094s | they're not very good at doing is |
| 15095s | removing early boards they're just kind |
| 15097s | of relying on their health cushion to |
| 15099s | get them to those later turns so |
| 15101s | tempering them know early is just going |
| 15103s | to get them for a lot of damage turn off |
| 15105s | the turn of the turn |
| 15107s | even going for the second one here |
| 15109s | ice does have a coin against all odds to |
| 15112s | just shut this down completely if he |
| 15114s | does one |
| 15117s | but you might want to save it because |
| 15119s | it's not the most although it's annoying |
| 15121s | it's not the most threatening board |
| 15122s | right and he has this five five instead |
| 15124s | which does just on paper be the nulls |
| 15128s | [Music] |
| 15129s | it does i mean against the odds |
| 15132s | always answers edwin i believe |
| 15136s | there isn't a whole lot else there |
| 15137s | answers that you |
| 15139s | need it for like you have the room for |
| 15141s | the staffs |
| 15142s | it's really these knowledge is a good |
| 15144s | good play to use against so i'm curious |
| 15146s | that he went for |
| 15148s | the five five here because it does |
| 15149s | enable just like a target for the rogue |
| 15152s | to use all their removal cards on |
| 15156s | it's tricky isn't it |
| 15159s | maybe because he has viper he's like |
| 15162s | yeah |
| 15162s | pop off |
| 15164s | you either pop off into the weapon or |
| 15166s | you pop off into edwin |
| 15168s | and i still clear your board next turn |
| 15170s | you know what i mean like maybe that's |
| 15171s | the plan is like let them like go with |
| 15174s | it |
| 15175s | yeah i don't know |
| 15182s | of trying to go in at all he's just |
| 15184s | saying i'm pushing my six a turn that's |
| 15186s | good if you don't answer it |
| 15190s | oh okay this is quite quite nice |
| 15194s | and pretty special using someone else's |
| 15196s | cards |
| 15202s | collateral |
| 15205s | uh snowed in as well not too bad |
| 15210s | if you can get something damaged |
| 15214s | then let's just answer the board for a |
| 15216s | time |
| 15219s | look at this against all odds double |
| 15221s | shadow would ruin shadow would death |
| 15224s | hold him now there's ah paint |
| 15234s | it's a bit weird that you you kind of |
| 15236s | want to |
| 15237s | not play your cheap spells at all and |
| 15239s | just |
| 15240s | hold hold hold then do a big |
| 15243s | uh tracker turn and try and get there |
| 15245s | with your burn as well afterwards |
| 15250s | yeah i mean this is a fun pickup |
| 15252s | actually |
| 15255s | in stone make a four-four and be like ha |
| 15257s | dodging everything no against all odds |
| 15260s | or shadow would room for you |
| 15265s | have to play the uh the sprint as well |
| 15267s | again i mean yeah the old edwin sprint |
| 15270s | yeah it's kind of picked up at like the |
| 15271s | perfect time here where edwin's just run |
| 15273s | out of |
| 15275s | mana to use |
| 15277s | and no it's not going to be in depth for |
| 15279s | the future |
| 15280s | yeah he's managed to like |
| 15283s | cycle here and hold a lot of cheap |
| 15285s | spells not only in hand but in deck |
| 15288s | potential for a very very large tracker |
| 15291s | the path is clear |
| 15299s | hands on head lean forward hang on a |
| 15302s | minute what can i even do this turn |
| 15304s | because seven mana normally you're so |
| 15306s | used to seeing rogue pop off by now |
| 15308s | right that the hands don't be a lot |
| 15310s | smaller but this is like full hand seven |
| 15313s | mana two preps bone spike |
| 15317s | like there's a lot going on right here |
| 15319s | right now |
| 15322s | i'm kind of interested in like the play |
| 15323s | you suggested last game whereas you take |
| 15325s | it just a turn |
| 15327s | to just discount things with your |
| 15330s | your tradable weapons and just have it |
| 15332s | even bigger |
| 15333s | because yeah you get an extra mana as |
| 15335s | well |
| 15336s | going to turn eight |
| 15338s | makes it a bit easier to do everything |
| 15339s | you want to and you're never dying right |
| 15342s | like there's no huge punish for waiting |
| 15344s | a turn apart from obviously your |
| 15345s | opponent having one more mana one more |
| 15347s | card blah blah blah right |
| 15351s | maybe he's doing now just because he's |
| 15352s | got the sprint right that he's got the |
| 15354s | refill to carry on uh i mean can i say |
| 15356s | carry on he's just gonna have an empty |
| 15358s | deck in a minute so |
| 15360s | let's happy do all this get shadow wood |
| 15363s | roon vipered and just concede |
| 15366s | yeah it's just |
| 15369s | it's big 10 is big but |
| 15371s | i feel like it's not big enough |
| 15374s | yes |
| 15375s | i mean there's there's a little bit of |
| 15377s | hill available from |
| 15379s | lies |
| 15380s | there is still a lot of burn also from |
| 15382s | happy but with the |
| 15384s | with the viper it just feels |
| 15387s | gonna be slightly tough to get the rest |
| 15389s | of the damage now |
| 15392s | he does have to off shadows procked |
| 15394s | right |
| 15396s | yep that's actually quite |
| 15398s | quite a big deal |
| 15400s | what's he got oh he had another shadow |
| 15402s | step left as well |
| 15406s | yeah the wicked stab |
| 15409s | looking like the one you want to pick up |
| 15410s | i don't know if there's any way you can |
| 15411s | like |
| 15413s | fudge it a bit so that you're more |
| 15415s | likely to pick up the wicked stab if |
| 15417s | you'd like to do some other place first |
| 15418s | doesn't really |
| 15419s | look like the case is he ever better of |
| 15421s | getting hold of the shadow step and try |
| 15424s | and go in for another weapon |
| 15426s | oh true |
| 15427s | because you can't assume a you know a |
| 15429s | couple of wicked stabs he's gonna deal |
| 15430s | 28 right |
| 15432s | but maybe oh |
| 15434s | two shadow steps |
| 15436s | well now we're playing hearthstone |
| 15438s | yeah this is a big deal |
| 15441s | they all got plenty of mana as well |
| 15448s | okay he knows |
| 15452s | the wicked stabs |
| 15453s | third from bomb |
| 15455s | it's gonna be i guess it's next door i |
| 15457s | was wondering if there's any other other |
| 15459s | line where you try to uh hold this door |
| 15461s | of shadows to get to oh is he stabbed is |
| 15464s | he but stepping the ghost |
| 15467s | oh wait did he not do it |
| 15469s | no okay |
| 15471s | yeah at one point i think he hovered the |
| 15473s | step on the ghost to just get one extra |
| 15476s | but oh no he did something at the end |
| 15478s | okay he ended up stepping yeah that this |
| 15479s | makes sense right he can make another |
| 15483s | let's just say five attack dagger right |
| 15486s | just very roughly speaking |
| 15489s | yeah i mean |
| 15491s | the three four on board don't do nothing |
| 15496s | share this load like life title for the |
| 15498s | priest |
| 15500s | habit doesn't run |
| 15502s | yeah it doesn't run starfish right no |
| 15504s | okay no |
| 15506s | huge though right because blyze does not |
| 15508s | have a lot of healing |
| 15509s | no |
| 15513s | the sprint |
| 15515s | probably won't want to use it with only |
| 15517s | three cards left |
| 15519s | to hold off |
| 15522s | his next draw is the wicked stuff |
| 15526s | i can understand him for |
| 15528s | not remembering that |
| 15530s | and then the spot but it's just |
| 15531s | something you want |
| 15538s | you can just wait can you just play sin |
| 15540s | stone and just wait |
| 15546s | the thing is you might even want the sin |
| 15548s | stone to deduce another tracker down the |
| 15550s | line |
| 15552s | if it comes to that |
| 15554s | door yeah probably won't |
| 15558s | i think there's there's actually that |
| 15560s | not that much here oh yes |
| 15562s | oh the game of hearthstone we need the |
| 15565s | one one ghost that's what i'm talking |
| 15567s | about |
| 15568s | oh theo tarda dracker but that doesn't |
| 15571s | really save him does it |
| 15573s | no |
| 15576s | shadow would ruin to do the eight damage |
| 15578s | do you have to just ruin heal |
| 15582s | but he must know he knows there's a |
| 15583s | sprint right |
| 15585s | he knows some of the cards left like |
| 15587s | sprint extortion he must know there's |
| 15589s | wicked stabs coming his way i just don't |
| 15592s | know if there's anything buyers can |
| 15593s | actually do to tick all these boxes |
| 15595s | right now |
| 15596s | yeah it's actually kind of smart not |
| 15598s | trading last time from |
| 15600s | habit actually to |
| 15602s | not give them the chance to even steal |
| 15603s | the the wicked stub |
| 15606s | i just you have to ruin |
| 15609s | yeah you just you can't you can't deal |
| 15612s | with the dagger right so you've got to |
| 15614s | deal with the minion you can deal with |
| 15615s | that also you know deals insane damage |
| 15619s | i mean |
| 15619s | [Music] |
| 15620s | this car can't win on this |
| 15624s | unless there's somehow a desperate |
| 15625s | prayer in yeah yeah wow big win there |
| 15628s | from habu and it came down to the shadow |
| 15631s | step being available there for the |
| 15634s | drakka and i think you know habu holding |
| 15637s | his nerve there because like i said |
| 15639s | abu popped off with weapon and edwin and |
| 15642s | so on |
| 15643s | got his board laughed at which is what |
| 15645s | you expect when you're against quest |
| 15647s | priests right it's kind of what the deck |
| 15648s | does |
| 15649s | but held on got hold of the step in time |
| 15652s | because the draco was still alive on |
| 15653s | board and made it work just about very |
| 15657s | impressive play |
| 15658s | yeah it's just kind of a textbook game |
| 15660s | of how you want to play against these |
| 15662s | quest priests where they're so good at |
| 15663s | dealing with your stealth minions |
| 15665s | you say all right i'm gonna push all my |
| 15667s | damage from not my stealth minions i'm |
| 15670s | just gonna hit you in the head with a |
| 15671s | weapon and just finish you with the burn |
| 15673s | yep just gonna whack you with the weapon |
| 15675s | and then i hope that's good enough but |
| 15677s | yeah tons of damage coming out there |
| 15678s | from happy bly's of course did what he |
| 15681s | could do but it's one thing the quest |
| 15683s | priest struggles with is |
| 15684s | they have fantastic ability to clear |
| 15687s | boards but if you ask them to clear and |
| 15689s | do stuff every single turn of the game |
| 15692s | it's too much right they just don't have |
| 15694s | that ability and it's not quite on the |
| 15696s | level of mage where they can at least |
| 15698s | try and freeze for many turns into like |
| 15701s | alibi and stuff like that right like |
| 15703s | they just don't have that ability it |
| 15705s | does mean now we're gonna get to a rogue |
| 15707s | mirror if abby wins this he not only |
| 15710s | moves on but also has just a pretty |
| 15712s | sweet match under his belt of a threo |
| 15714s | with this rogue deck |
| 15716s | yeah it's just been really good play |
| 15717s | from happy throughout as well on these |
| 15719s | on these road games so |
| 15721s | interesting to see how the mirror goes |
| 15723s | like |
| 15724s | we said we touched on this yesterday |
| 15725s | there's a lot of ways you can go about |
| 15726s | it do you go in early or you just hold |
| 15729s | if you go in too early you give your |
| 15731s | opponent just chances to use their |
| 15733s | removal on your minions and make their |
| 15735s | turns even stronger right |
| 15740s | let's see |
| 15741s | very very tricky one because again the |
| 15744s | sometimes going in first is correct it's |
| 15747s | it's so difficult to judge it there's no |
| 15749s | really base rule you can stick to like |
| 15751s | you said right so |
| 15753s | it's gonna be pretty interesting to see |
| 15754s | how both players go about this though in |
| 15756s | the opening here habu |
| 15758s | does have a tradable but |
| 15760s | that's about it for now |
| 15762s | whereas bly's already having that null |
| 15764s | it's looking pretty good yeah i like the |
| 15767s | weave from habu |
| 15768s | probably not gonna be spending all his |
| 15770s | mana next turn anyway |
| 15771s | so |
| 15772s | chance to weave twice |
| 15776s | i was like playing uh quest demon hunter |
| 15778s | from a while ago always weave on turn |
| 15780s | one yeah |
| 15782s | one damage you're never going to lose a |
| 15784s | game and say you didn't push the one |
| 15792s | it's ice cream time again |
| 15794s | yeah |
| 15796s | they liked me so much they decided to |
| 15797s | come back |
| 15799s | this actual visit is just for you it's |
| 15801s | just stopped outside your house |
| 15803s | specifically yes |
| 15808s | the blind has the choice now to play at |
| 15810s | least a little bit tempo with this null |
| 15816s | having access to really any of the the |
| 15818s | big pop-off cards as of yet the shroud |
| 15820s | is a big pick up here |
| 15823s | and happy i think is kind of excited by |
| 15825s | this look at him he's like wait a minute |
| 15827s | are you saying you just turn is just |
| 15828s | null draw a card and do nothing else |
| 15832s | yeah this is what i'm saying that epin |
| 15834s | time |
| 15834s | yeah one of the downsides of playing the |
| 15836s | knowledge just enabled this play from |
| 15837s | happy |
| 15840s | his hand was looking kind of bad like |
| 15842s | what would he do with the |
| 15844s | the null wasn't |
| 15846s | oh it's so disgusting with the bone |
| 15849s | spike as well |
| 15851s | yeah |
| 15853s | and there's no real way to stop face |
| 15855s | damage |
| 15856s | right in the mirror right so like this |
| 15858s | damage just is gonna get there and this |
| 15860s | means |
| 15861s | basically habu needs to push six extra |
| 15865s | damage and there's four in hand next |
| 15867s | turn right that's if none of the minions |
| 15869s | attack but there's just a wicked |
| 15871s | stabbing hand blaze he's gonna respond |
| 15874s | with his own pop off but the problem is |
| 15877s | is he just that one turn behind now is |
| 15880s | the big question right because this |
| 15881s | edwin can get very very big |
| 15883s | but is it gonna be big enough to sort of |
| 15885s | break the the um |
| 15887s | uh the the points which are important |
| 15889s | right the health |
| 15892s | don't think so he just he just doesn't |
| 15893s | have the uh |
| 15895s | reward |
| 15897s | in hand in addition to the edwin for |
| 15899s | using all these spells like oh |
| 15901s | as well he just can't step it right |
| 15903s | because he needs the damage |
| 15906s | i have to take the three damage as well |
| 15908s | which i think is just the damage |
| 15909s | required that having needed this |
| 15911s | there's no way you're you're dying next |
| 15913s | time so i think |
| 15915s | there's just no way out for flies other |
| 15917s | than |
| 15918s | discovering something does happen just |
| 15921s | stab and just not play any more minions |
| 15923s | now right just not let blize interact |
| 15926s | with his board |
| 15928s | yeah it just seems fine just no need |
| 15930s | right he has the swing yeah there you go |
| 15932s | yeah really good play there habbo just |
| 15934s | lined it up he got the big dagger blaze |
| 15936s | had to scramble for something but he was |
| 15938s | just that little bit too slow and just |
| 15940s | like that jamboree we've got another 3-0 |
| 15943s | with rogue habu looking fantastic as he |
| 15946s | often does very clean play and again |
| 15949s | we've seen this from happy with the |
| 15950s | likes of naga mage where these intricate |
| 15953s | you know multi cards like big pop off |
| 15956s | turns and a lot of players can do them |
| 15958s | well haboo can do them perfectly it |
| 15960s | seems |
| 15962s | yeah |
| 15963s | i mean |
| 15965s | sorry if you can still see it hear my |
| 15966s | ice cream truck um |
| 15969s | it's your ice cream truck the story |
| 15971s | develops |
| 15972s | i didn't know you had a side job |
| 15974s | jamboree of an |
| 15977s | over there by the side a bunch of kids |
| 15979s | are waiting right now in between the |
| 15980s | cast i just over give them a few |
| 15983s | sounds great |
| 15985s | some uh some real clinical play from |
| 15988s | habu |
| 15989s | draco just showing the power of the card |
| 15991s | all three games just seem to just come |
| 15993s | down to just the huge track of potential |
| 15996s | uh i thought i talked a bit earlier with |
| 15998s | some of the players from my practice |
| 16000s | group isn't there included and i was |
| 16002s | wondering like why is rogue getting |
| 16004s | banned so much because |
| 16006s | from what we've seen |
| 16008s | a lot of the time it just falls flat and |
| 16010s | i was just saying it's one of those |
| 16012s | decks and that can just sweep if |
| 16014s | you don't get it with the counter and |
| 16016s | that's why it's just so scary |
| 16019s | yeah it's a deck that |
| 16021s | it's one of those things right yeah it |
| 16022s | can look so flimsy but when it does its |
| 16026s | thing it's pretty much unbeatable right |
| 16029s | there's just barely anything that can |
| 16031s | actually stop it because the damage |
| 16032s | output is simply ridiculous uh but there |
| 16035s | we go we do have our top four bunny |
| 16037s | hopper versus levick super fake versus |
| 16040s | haboo gaboo so a great top four i'm |
| 16042s | really looking forward to who's gonna |
| 16044s | take that first place obviously uh tj |
| 16046s | and larinda will be taking over a little |
| 16047s | bit later on but we've still got one |
| 16049s | more match left in here so we're gonna |
| 16050s | go to a break while we set that one up |
| 16052s | don't go anywhere and we'll be right |
| 16054s | back |
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| 16247s | welcome back everyone we are ready for |
| 16249s | our third match of the day but obviously |
| 16252s | much more than that going on throughout |
| 16253s | the day as it is the final day of the |
| 16255s | third week of grand masters we've got |
| 16257s | bunny hopper versus levick and we were |
| 16259s | just chatting in the break that bunny |
| 16261s | hopper has only dropped a single game so |
| 16264s | far this week i believe to oka shinsuke |
| 16266s | in the opening game of his opening |
| 16268s | series but after that he's been sweeping |
| 16270s | everyone that's come up against him but |
| 16272s | this time it's going to be levick going |
| 16274s | up against bunny harper for this match |
| 16276s | and levick has chosen to uh simply make |
| 16279s | it impossible for him to get swept by |
| 16281s | bunny opera's mage because he's banned |
| 16283s | it yeah it's like one of the few times |
| 16286s | that he's seen a mage band this weekend |
| 16288s | despite this seemingly |
| 16291s | dominant performance |
| 16293s | it's uh it's kind of interesting uh how |
| 16296s | it's gonna pan out for him i mean the |
| 16298s | mage is very good against his warlock |
| 16300s | anyway and the rogue so if he's |
| 16302s | expecting a druid band from bunny hopper |
| 16304s | it does make a lot of sense |
| 16306s | to get rid of the mage |
| 16308s | from the other end yeah it is |
| 16310s | interesting isn't it because previously |
| 16311s | from levick we've seen rogue bands but |
| 16313s | they've come from |
| 16315s | uh players that are also i think trying |
| 16317s | to ban rogue so that becomes a much more |
| 16319s | simple equation right it's like if they |
| 16321s | take away my rogue i probably have |
| 16323s | similar weaknesses so i take away their |
| 16325s | rogue and then we just played the |
| 16326s | potential set of mirror matches but yeah |
| 16328s | not the case here for levick uh bunny |
| 16330s | opera does ban the druid away and it |
| 16332s | means we're still going to start on that |
| 16334s | key match-up jamboree of druid versus |
| 16336s | mage |
| 16337s | again bunny oppa likely to have the |
| 16339s | slight edge overall but we've seen what |
| 16342s | mage can do so pretty excited to get |
| 16344s | into this one i think if bunny does well |
| 16346s | here and let's say maybe even wins this |
| 16349s | week he's had a truly incredible season |
| 16352s | like what last season of gm for him |
| 16354s | right he was just pretty much dominated |
| 16356s | it from week one onwards |
| 16359s | yeah he just can't stop winning and we |
| 16360s | even saw in the quarter-final match |
| 16363s | against chonsu he even looked annoyed |
| 16365s | that he was just winning so easily |
| 16369s | please i'm already qualified just give |
| 16370s | me my sunday yeah i think he literally |
| 16373s | messaged derek saying that i just can't |
| 16376s | stop winning because he said i think on |
| 16378s | the it was that i think the day he got |
| 16380s | out of groups on friday i think |
| 16382s | obviously he realized like yeah i'm kind |
| 16384s | of locked in for top two now so i'm fine |
| 16388s | and he's like well i i guess i'll keep |
| 16390s | playing right like he has to and he just |
| 16392s | keeps winning to play even longer so |
| 16394s | it's kind of hilarious overall but yeah |
| 16396s | he's gonna be playing this naga giant |
| 16398s | druid and for me |
| 16400s | it's a |
| 16402s | this is the kind of list there i mean |
| 16403s | i've actually been playing this exact |
| 16405s | list on ladder but uh this is a list i |
| 16407s | like over all the smaller spells because |
| 16409s | even though the the extra small spells |
| 16411s | help out in some matchups i do feel like |
| 16414s | this is a better all-rounder deck |
| 16417s | because i feel like those giants offer |
| 16419s | you just so much of an extra win |
| 16421s | condition in the the mid to late game |
| 16424s | yeah the real nice one for me is just |
| 16426s | the irvin scales target |
| 16428s | yeah you just it gives you that cushion |
| 16430s | to make that card good and you really |
| 16432s | want to run that card if you're playing |
| 16434s | a late game deck just to allow you to |
| 16436s | get to those later terms about the the |
| 16438s | worry that you're just being counterfeit |
| 16441s | yeah it's one of the scary things when a |
| 16442s | lot of time with druid i think a lot |
| 16444s | players will feel overconfident they |
| 16446s | know how powerful druid can be |
| 16448s | with the ramp but in a lot of matchups |
| 16450s | you sit there ramping you're like oh |
| 16451s | well there's another eight damage gone |
| 16453s | through oh wait there's another 10 |
| 16454s | damage gone through i really need this |
| 16456s | ramp to pay off or i'm dead and those |
| 16458s | scales are definitely a a great way to |
| 16460s | pay that off and just insta recover |
| 16462s | anything but it's gonna be the big spell |
| 16464s | mage again from levick again it's a |
| 16468s | weird match up because to me |
| 16471s | druid should be fine because what it |
| 16474s | does i feel is just generally more |
| 16476s | powerful |
| 16477s | but |
| 16478s | if they drop belinda into big dragons |
| 16482s | then it becomes an aggro deck against |
| 16485s | druid and a very big aggro deck at that |
| 16487s | which i think can be very very scary |
| 16489s | indeed so i think a lot does hinge on |
| 16491s | that potential like mid-game pop-off |
| 16493s | play right yeah it's just whether or not |
| 16496s | the druid ramps quick enough or has |
| 16498s | plays to avoid |
| 16499s | potential barbaric sorceresses |
| 16502s | if you can get the early ammo and then |
| 16504s | have the follow follow up with like the |
| 16506s | parrots and stuff it's really hard to |
| 16507s | deal with as a druid player |
| 16510s | yeah it's just a little bit too much too |
| 16511s | fast but again in case you are just |
| 16513s | joining us this is the final normal week |
| 16516s | of grand masters there will be playoffs |
| 16518s | next week and uh it's going to be a lot |
| 16520s | on the line this is a world champion |
| 16522s | spot available so i will have to see |
| 16524s | what happens there which players make it |
| 16526s | but for now at least i had this open |
| 16528s | somewhere |
| 16529s | i don't have current up-to-date numbers |
| 16531s | because obviously every single time a |
| 16533s | match goes past i'm not mentally keeping |
| 16534s | track uh but really it's still looking |
| 16537s | like bunny hop is looking great uh even |
| 16539s | though bly's lost he's still i think |
| 16542s | locked in for top eight |
| 16544s | to go through i think but again |
| 16547s | we'll see there at the end of the day |
| 16548s | don't trust me on that but really um |
| 16552s | it's maybe even habu gabu and super fake |
| 16554s | uh specifically uh and levick they're |
| 16557s | basically the other uh three players |
| 16559s | that can actually make it deep here |
| 16561s | because those are all the players that |
| 16562s | are on the cusp right and a win would |
| 16564s | actually push them into it either |
| 16566s | sticking top eight or a make it into top |
| 16569s | eight in levick's perspective so um not |
| 16572s | as much to play for for bunny except |
| 16573s | just to say i absolutely stomped the |
| 16575s | last season of grand masters but for the |
| 16577s | other players a lot on the line |
| 16579s | especially when we look at the next |
| 16580s | match coming up later |
| 16583s | [Music] |
| 16586s | uh yeah there we go okay i was just |
| 16587s | checking someone um yeah so first start |
| 16589s | now bunny hopper and levick |
| 16592s | is going to be kicking it off with this |
| 16593s | druid versus mage we'll see what happens |
| 16596s | in this first game see if we can have |
| 16597s | another quick 3-0 sweep to add to bunny |
| 16599s | hopper's tally today or if things are |
| 16602s | gonna go just a little bit different |
| 16605s | oh never mind yeah okay it's not mage |
| 16609s | it's rogue |
| 16611s | everything we talked about was pointless |
| 16612s | let's talk about rogue i like this deck |
| 16615s | yeah rogue where he's a cool deck |
| 16617s | not even role-playing as a mage this |
| 16619s | time so well that's the one thing as |
| 16621s | well it was super confusing because i |
| 16623s | looked at the cards and i was like it's |
| 16625s | mage wait is it just the picture the pro |
| 16628s | like the the hero picture of the mage |
| 16631s | that's confusing me is it rogue is it |
| 16633s | mage what are we even doing but no the |
| 16635s | cards are row cards therefore it is |
| 16637s | rogue so i bring everything back to it a |
| 16639s | simple level that i'm more comfortable |
| 16641s | with |
| 16642s | yeah changing this one up uh how does |
| 16645s | this go for druid jamboree because we've |
| 16648s | seen rogue pop off and we're talking |
| 16650s | about aggro decks and big minions that |
| 16652s | mage can kick out rogue can sometimes do |
| 16654s | it quicker |
| 16656s | yeah we talked a bit about it quest |
| 16658s | priest and maybe the mage they're good |
| 16660s | at freezing these uh big minions or just |
| 16662s | killing them from stealth druids not |
| 16665s | so the graveyard in this matchup is |
| 16667s | actually huge |
| 16669s | you get a big minion down against the |
| 16671s | druid it's actually just gonna |
| 16673s | do what it says hit the face and the |
| 16675s | stats are gonna matter |
| 16677s | look at this opening as well |
| 16680s | yeah filming double knoll |
| 16686s | lavic needs to slow down i've got |
| 16688s | questions here i want time for jambray |
| 16690s | to tell me things i was going to say |
| 16692s | like |
| 16693s | because it's druid do you just throw |
| 16695s | them out do you hold off for something |
| 16697s | big because since don'ts there so many |
| 16699s | decisions made so fast by loving |
| 16702s | yeah it's just like you could wait a |
| 16704s | turn and get a |
| 16706s | i guess |
| 16707s | three three stealth but you do have the |
| 16710s | the maestro you can just play on board |
| 16712s | anyway so |
| 16714s | that's kind of comparable so i i kind of |
| 16716s | agree just throwing out the nose now and |
| 16718s | just push the ship damage with them and |
| 16719s | then later on down the line you can get |
| 16722s | a |
| 16722s | pretty decent graveyard turn and then |
| 16724s | hopefully by the time it rolls around |
| 16726s | again you'll just have another good |
| 16728s | graveyard turn because you've drawn some |
| 16729s | card draw |
| 16730s | yeah even looking at this now there's |
| 16732s | potential for a big sin stone |
| 16735s | but it would also |
| 16737s | weirdly require you to sacrifice like |
| 16739s | your maestro here right |
| 16743s | yeah |
| 16744s | because you could just stab and and like |
| 16746s | bone spike |
| 16748s | tooth face or something you know you |
| 16750s | know what i mean like you could go in |
| 16751s | with everything um and |
| 16754s | i just don't know if that's right or |
| 16755s | wrong you'd lose a 3-2 but gain a |
| 16757s | slightly bigger stealth minion maybe you |
| 16759s | just stop um |
| 16761s | just the medium-sized one instead |
| 16764s | yeah it just doesn't seem quite worth it |
| 16766s | like the stats you lose are kind of the |
| 16768s | same as the stats you gain |
| 16770s | plus it costs you an extra card |
| 16772s | and it's not like this the bonus fight |
| 16775s | is completely useless there are |
| 16776s | potential taunts down the line that you |
| 16778s | might see right from the druid |
| 16782s | okay it might see a backstab on his own |
| 16784s | minions |
| 16788s | or |
| 16789s | decide to save that because the damage |
| 16791s | is relevant on your own minions for like |
| 16794s | a scalable next year down the line yeah |
| 16796s | and it's still a backstab still an |
| 16797s | activator right for potential cards |
| 16799s | going forward as well |
| 16801s | yeah after all that is only a four or |
| 16804s | four |
| 16805s | i mean it's a lot pressure still |
| 16807s | it's a 4-4 with friends though isn't it |
| 16809s | right so i think that's the important |
| 16811s | thing here and right now |
| 16813s | when he's gone the |
| 16816s | ramp into |
| 16818s | miracle growth but again is that really |
| 16821s | gonna cut it not that he has much option |
| 16825s | is he |
| 16826s | that's the big thing this five health is |
| 16828s | so huge because even if he went draw |
| 16831s | to try and just go all in for scales |
| 16834s | a scale of a nixia then |
| 16837s | it just doesn't even do that much right |
| 16839s | takes three to kill a null |
| 16845s | yeah i mean this this is actually the |
| 16847s | real power of this style of very |
| 16849s | compared to previous miracle builds |
| 16851s | we've seen before it is the knolls |
| 16853s | um you saw like win rates of the coin |
| 16856s | version of miracle rogue even though you |
| 16857s | can do a lot flashier plays it's just |
| 16860s | abysmal yeah but it's a consistent |
| 16863s | pressure |
| 16864s | from these early knolls that just really |
| 16865s | take this one over the edge |
| 16868s | right shoulder charge here could even |
| 16870s | put it on the maestro right just for to |
| 16873s | make it not as killable with the extra |
| 16875s | little bit of health |
| 16876s | yeah i think you you want to just put |
| 16878s | on one of your even minions there |
| 16881s | so that if the heels come down it's like |
| 16885s | a bit harder to clear stuff so either |
| 16887s | stuff all the moisture but nevertheless |
| 16889s | this makes one minion a bit bigger a big |
| 16892s | minion bigger right which is probably |
| 16894s | better versus druid in general |
| 16896s | yeah |
| 16898s | local growth coming out here but unless |
| 16901s | exactly innovate into a thingy comes out |
| 16904s | scales |
| 16909s | this is big enough |
| 16911s | now because the backstab right backstab |
| 16913s | put six in six left over and that is |
| 16916s | just gonna be a quick concede a small |
| 16917s | nod from levick |
| 16919s | and that is the game you want to start |
| 16921s | with yeah because |
| 16923s | uh lorinda did confirm here at least for |
| 16925s | me that levicks this is a winning inn |
| 16928s | for levick so apparently if he wins this |
| 16930s | match he's actually just in top eight |
| 16932s | and there's no shenanigans that can push |
| 16935s | him out i believe uh so great start to |
| 16938s | the series right if you ever have a |
| 16940s | series you want to do this in it's this |
| 16942s | one gets the rogue win and i think as |
| 16944s | well |
| 16945s | just as much as winning with rogues you |
| 16947s | get to play rogue more is strong i think |
| 16949s | knocking out the druid is fantastic |
| 16952s | because druid again is one of those |
| 16954s | decks where it can just overrun a series |
| 16957s | right i think that even though there are |
| 16958s | counters they never feel like reliable |
| 16961s | counters because druid is druid and can |
| 16963s | do silly silly things |
| 16965s | yeah and it just opens up the |
| 16967s | avenue for levick's mage to potentially |
| 16969s | sweep later down the line if this rogue |
| 16971s | is answered because |
| 16972s | bunny hopper doesn't really have a great |
| 16975s | counter towards it left in his decks |
| 16978s | yeah he's going to be going for the |
| 16979s | quest priest something we saw from bly's |
| 16980s | of course blize did a great job at |
| 16983s | initially pushing back the pressure we |
| 16985s | saw how brutally initially looked uh but |
| 16988s | habu gabou managed to do the old well |
| 16991s | i'll just make a second huge weapon and |
| 16993s | push it from there so we'll see if |
| 16995s | levick can replicate that kind of |
| 16997s | success and here for bunny though again |
| 17000s | for him he just really needs to focus on |
| 17003s | clearing the board and keeping it empty |
| 17005s | but again that back-to-back players is |
| 17007s | tough so we'll be interesting once again |
| 17009s | here to see if levick sort of mimics |
| 17012s | what habeu did in the matchup which i |
| 17013s | assume he will try to where what if you |
| 17016s | have a null plate and then play another |
| 17017s | one and then just stack things instead |
| 17019s | of just going all in and relying on that |
| 17022s | yeah and |
| 17024s | there is a slight difference in decklis |
| 17025s | there is no sprint for levick |
| 17028s | so |
| 17028s | in terms of long-term value it's not as |
| 17030s | guaranteed as it was for happy even |
| 17031s | though we saw that abu didn't end up |
| 17033s | needing the sprint against the quest |
| 17035s | priest |
| 17036s | you're not always going to get that a |
| 17037s | massive amount of card draw |
| 17040s | available so it's a bit easier i think |
| 17042s | for the quest priest to just exhaust the |
| 17044s | rogue of resources but again you do need |
| 17047s | to deal with all the early push all the |
| 17050s | early threats |
| 17051s | to get to that stage |
| 17053s | yeah and i do think here for levick of |
| 17055s | course he would like to |
| 17057s | win the game right and continue on and |
| 17060s | be more ahead but i think if he wins |
| 17063s | this it will truly be a bonus victory i |
| 17066s | think if he loses yes it'll suck but |
| 17068s | he'll just be like okay rogue gotta win |
| 17071s | and then force my opponent to cue priest |
| 17074s | so now i can queue into priest and keep |
| 17076s | that one game ahead which is often feels |
| 17078s | so powerful it's like the complete |
| 17080s | opposite of how conquest works a lot of |
| 17082s | the time right where when you win the |
| 17084s | first game in lhs you all feel like you |
| 17086s | always have initiative whereas in |
| 17088s | conquest it matters a lot less because |
| 17091s | the decks that win just go away and you |
| 17092s | still have to push through with all your |
| 17094s | decks anyway |
| 17095s | yeah i mean i think if levick loses this |
| 17098s | game he's actually just completely fine |
| 17100s | right he's gone right he's got his |
| 17101s | warlock and he's got his mage which are |
| 17103s | both pretty decent into this quest |
| 17105s | priest it really does just feel like |
| 17106s | he's just got a free shot at an extra |
| 17108s | weight yeah right you know he's just |
| 17109s | let's see if it works if it doesn't fine |
| 17111s | if it does great like the series becomes |
| 17114s | almost unlosable |
| 17116s | oh let's start again |
| 17120s | it looks okay |
| 17122s | yeah with the edwin picked up so higher |
| 17124s | chance of knowles there |
| 17130s | just okay one null one tracker i think |
| 17131s | is fine |
| 17132s | yeah |
| 17134s | i'd be very interested i know this is |
| 17136s | definitely something if this deck sticks |
| 17138s | around i'm always going to get caught up |
| 17139s | on it on this matchup but i'm very |
| 17141s | interested to see if the um |
| 17144s | the step is how it's used right yeah i |
| 17147s | just think |
| 17148s | yes it worked last time and that was |
| 17150s | nice but i think just versus priests |
| 17152s | because they have heels and everything |
| 17154s | and they have some potentially very |
| 17156s | powerful heels that stepping and getting |
| 17158s | two weapons is so big in specifically |
| 17160s | this matchup |
| 17162s | i mean yeah there's just so many uses |
| 17163s | for step in this deck stepping the |
| 17165s | edwin's also really strong stepping the |
| 17167s | knoll just for increased buffs straight |
| 17170s | away |
| 17171s | [Music] |
| 17172s | it's really like not clear what the best |
| 17174s | uses are there's a second one okay |
| 17176s | well um with that one levick that one |
| 17178s | seems reasonable at worst that was that |
| 17181s | problem |
| 17184s | so uh |
| 17185s | just stop here now |
| 17188s | yes you can buff the edwin in hand a |
| 17190s | little bit more but in doing so you're |
| 17192s | taking away the coin which is potential |
| 17194s | for the tracker |
| 17196s | and the trade right you might just want |
| 17198s | to tradeable depending on what happens |
| 17201s | i like the hold |
| 17207s | yeah |
| 17210s | i think the thing levick's missing now |
| 17212s | is sin stone right |
| 17214s | that's the the one extra he needs to |
| 17216s | like fill everything out |
| 17221s | true true it's not that much you want |
| 17223s | the graveyard that much but like a four |
| 17226s | four graveyard's kind of an interesting |
| 17227s | way about going it because |
| 17229s | it dodges that shadow word ruin whilst |
| 17231s | also presenting |
| 17233s | like a pretty good |
| 17235s | threat i just think it's useful to like |
| 17237s | force certain threats out because |
| 17239s | something we saw in the previous match |
| 17240s | with buyers is that |
| 17243s | you have to spend mana killing these |
| 17244s | things right so if you make a let's say |
| 17247s | a six six now |
| 17249s | and it's stealth if when he feels he |
| 17251s | needs to deal with it well that's four |
| 17252s | of his mana on the shadow would ruin |
| 17254s | he's probably not doing much else that |
| 17255s | turn right so it is something to bear in |
| 17257s | mind that priests still it's not like |
| 17259s | priests gets to remove everything for |
| 17260s | free right like they have to utilize |
| 17263s | their manner and and it limits what they |
| 17264s | can do on any given turn but |
| 17267s | has the tools to have the ultimate pop |
| 17269s | off here |
| 17271s | yeah and as you're saying like with the |
| 17274s | ruin |
| 17275s | if you go in on it |
| 17277s | if you have |
| 17278s | non-ruined minions on board as well |
| 17280s | they're just safe for a turn essentially |
| 17282s | because right |
| 17283s | they get to push again it's so often |
| 17285s | ruined pass right like roon heel pass |
| 17288s | like |
| 17289s | yeah i wonder if he's going to go for a |
| 17290s | 4-4 though |
| 17292s | just because he's doing so much else |
| 17293s | with this turn and the edwin's going to |
| 17295s | be big |
| 17302s | you have to imagine the tracker's coming |
| 17303s | down so like if you make a four four |
| 17306s | stealth whilst doing all that |
| 17310s | what's the answer from the priest gonna |
| 17312s | be |
| 17315s | i love watching this deck right now |
| 17316s | because i think there's still a lot of |
| 17319s | work to do on it on how to play it and |
| 17323s | it could be so different based on the |
| 17324s | matchup |
| 17326s | yeah this is an interesting play because |
| 17328s | he steps the edwin |
| 17330s | in in order to draw more later on |
| 17336s | yeah |
| 17338s | i mean it takes off the board the a8 |
| 17340s | requires some sort of |
| 17343s | answer to the response yeah |
| 17348s | oh you could |
| 17350s | buff one of these minions and then it's |
| 17351s | in ruin range right |
| 17355s | if you you put your cathedral buff onto |
| 17357s | the knoll then it goes to five |
| 17362s | still the other minion that needs to be |
| 17364s | dealt with |
| 17369s | well liverpool know what's coming now or |
| 17370s | what's likely to be coming after that |
| 17374s | yeah you're locked in at this point |
| 17377s | the only other outcome is either rune |
| 17379s | happens or your opponent in a really bad |
| 17381s | way because they've had to draw off you |
| 17383s | you know an enemy minion |
| 17387s | i do wonder right now is this a |
| 17388s | potential finley |
| 17391s | do you think he's close enough to |
| 17392s | whirlpool to to not do that |
| 17396s | i think |
| 17398s | he needs to kind of milk his healing |
| 17400s | resources here |
| 17402s | because |
| 17403s | we've seen both shadow steps used so it |
| 17405s | means that this is the last weapon |
| 17408s | and then it's just burn damage so if you |
| 17409s | can deal with the burn and this |
| 17411s | weapon |
| 17413s | all you need to do is deal with all the |
| 17416s | all the boards as well and then you'll |
| 17418s | be fine |
| 17420s | it's just such a hard thing to do |
| 17423s | adults |
| 17424s | got two minions on board |
| 17430s | looks good to me |
| 17432s | million damage coming out here from |
| 17433s | levick and look at look at levick he |
| 17436s | needs this he's like if i win this |
| 17439s | matchup |
| 17441s | it's so favored to win the series it's |
| 17443s | not even yes |
| 17445s | like i said but this is you know for |
| 17446s | what lorinda said is a winning in to top |
| 17449s | eight for levick |
| 17455s | burning light |
| 17458s | even seeing amulet come down there just |
| 17460s | just so you could weave the extra hero |
| 17462s | power |
| 17463s | but like i said because the second step |
| 17465s | was used like it really is a case of do |
| 17468s | i have enough burn to finish the game |
| 17471s | because you have to expect the priest is |
| 17473s | able to answer your your stealth minions |
| 17475s | at this stage of the game i think that |
| 17477s | my lavix got left |
| 17479s | not much actually not much at all |
| 17483s | yeah that's that's i mean that's why it |
| 17485s | kind of like |
| 17487s | i was curious about the the second step |
| 17489s | usage because we saw how effective it |
| 17491s | was for habigabu |
| 17492s | to use it on the tracker and the thing |
| 17495s | as well is funny doesn't have rust rot |
| 17497s | in his list no so you're getting you |
| 17499s | know a lot of swings of that dagger |
| 17501s | throughout the whole game right because |
| 17503s | there's there's nothing really unless |
| 17505s | something really weird happens that |
| 17506s | bunny hopper can do about it |
| 17510s | yeah i mean |
| 17512s | stephanie edwin there is no sprint |
| 17515s | in this list so if you don't step the |
| 17516s | edwin maybe you just don't get an |
| 17519s | opportunity to play that many spells or |
| 17521s | you don't get to the end of your deck to |
| 17522s | find these this burn damage |
| 17525s | i think it's something |
| 17527s | yeah yeah one thing i would think is |
| 17529s | like would a 4-3 or 5-3 weapon be plenty |
| 17533s | right you know what i mean which is |
| 17534s | probably doable for your second tracker |
| 17536s | even with not the best drawer in the |
| 17538s | world so that's where you'd think like |
| 17540s | hang on a minute how much you don't need |
| 17542s | two 10 attack daggers over the course of |
| 17544s | a game right true true i mean |
| 17547s | a five attack weapon is 15. |
| 17550s | ashbringer |
| 17551s | yeah it's that's okay |
| 17553s | we take this |
| 17555s | either this might be where it slips away |
| 17556s | because whirlpool's available here for |
| 17559s | bunnies just going to take the draw and |
| 17561s | delete these again there was an option |
| 17563s | there i think |
| 17564s | for levick to just use one of the |
| 17567s | locations and alternate them |
| 17574s | [Music] |
| 17584s | it's gonna be hard to just get there now |
| 17586s | at this point even with double teeth |
| 17588s | it's you're not |
| 17589s | oh never lethal |
| 17591s | literally |
| 17594s | i just think that's it |
| 17596s | yeah is it this is this is what we've |
| 17598s | been seeing from rogues more often just |
| 17599s | they just |
| 17601s | fall a little shy and then they just |
| 17602s | can't get any more to the face |
| 17611s | one thing to think about here is has |
| 17613s | there been a light shower there hasn't |
| 17615s | right |
| 17616s | no oh at least the the zyrella that we |
| 17618s | can see won't give him that but oh |
| 17620s | desperate prayer |
| 17622s | oh yeah just |
| 17623s | generally you're gonna find something |
| 17625s | good here |
| 17626s | your own zorella for four mana |
| 17629s | so just there's just so many cards it's |
| 17630s | like impossible to prick on |
| 17632s | one of them that does something good huh |
| 17634s | yeah light shower there you go |
| 17636s | there it is that's probably well almost |
| 17638s | certainly going to be game now |
| 17640s | levitt got so close but i do think there |
| 17643s | were different options there i mean easy |
| 17645s | for us to say because we can see the |
| 17647s | hands but |
| 17649s | and maybe i'm getting way too all in on |
| 17651s | this uh shadow step the tracker thing |
| 17654s | but i think with one shadow step |
| 17656s | naturally used on the edwin because it |
| 17657s | was part of the edwin draw right i think |
| 17660s | the first time he played it yeah i think |
| 17662s | the second one like you can always make |
| 17664s | something happen and even a four five |
| 17666s | six attack weapon uh it's still relevant |
| 17669s | right so i do think that |
| 17672s | of course levitt got maybe a little bit |
| 17673s | unfortunate with those door of shadows |
| 17675s | one both of them being quite late in the |
| 17677s | deck and then also whiffing on the only |
| 17680s | burn cardiac left but uh but yeah so |
| 17683s | close but so far for levitt we are going |
| 17685s | to go to a one-to-one school |
| 17688s | yeah and just |
| 17689s | a little bit more on that tracker thing |
| 17690s | it's like it's a two mana track but it's |
| 17692s | quite easy to play a lot of cards before |
| 17694s | that if you want to juice up again |
| 17698s | so close as well when you just look at |
| 17700s | it in this replay right yeah actually he |
| 17703s | basically got a turn away from a good |
| 17704s | time right now |
| 17707s | yeah not meant to be there for levitt |
| 17709s | but like we said going into it levick of |
| 17711s | course would have loved to win that game |
| 17713s | because then he's just like laughing for |
| 17715s | the rest of the series uh he didn't but |
| 17717s | i think he's still in a good shape here |
| 17718s | but he's going to be forced to kill his |
| 17720s | priests once again as his last hero |
| 17722s | standing format rules and it does look |
| 17724s | like levick's gonna say you know what |
| 17726s | i'll play druid then and see what |
| 17728s | happens because druid not normally a |
| 17730s | deck that fears too much going into the |
| 17732s | late game especially when they get into |
| 17734s | their late game about 20 years before |
| 17736s | priest does |
| 17738s | yeah yeah very true i mean druid's just |
| 17740s | a natural counter to |
| 17742s | freeze that you're both going slow but |
| 17745s | you've got ramp tools so you just get |
| 17747s | there faster |
| 17749s | yeah and also like druid like priest has |
| 17752s | that ability although you might think oh |
| 17753s | well you both play late game and priest |
| 17755s | has a card that just says you win the |
| 17757s | game on it right like that's very strong |
| 17760s | but priest doesn't smoothly do that a |
| 17762s | lot of the time it's actually relatively |
| 17765s | difficult in most games to just curve |
| 17767s | through your quest whereas druid does |
| 17770s | consistently get to its end game because |
| 17771s | they have like a million ramp cards a |
| 17773s | million draw cards and that solves all |
| 17775s | problems so although on paper if you had |
| 17778s | an infinite length game yes of course |
| 17780s | priest wins but druid doesn't let them |
| 17782s | have that and they also have enough |
| 17784s | threats and potential threats that the |
| 17787s | priests can't just sit and play removal |
| 17789s | every turn because that's just never |
| 17790s | going to be good enough |
| 17792s | yeah and alongside those |
| 17795s | those threats to supplement it they just |
| 17796s | have |
| 17798s | a couple of incredibly strong disruption |
| 17800s | tools against quest priest and |
| 17802s | particularly as theotaro and the |
| 17803s | decklist and mutinous alongside a zola |
| 17806s | to even double down on some of those so |
| 17808s | it's going to be very hard to just go |
| 17810s | for the quest reward and expect that to |
| 17812s | just |
| 17812s | win you the game when and where it has |
| 17814s | that arsenal yeah and when you assume |
| 17817s | generally when that happens for for |
| 17819s | quest priests to actually finish their |
| 17821s | quest and get the five drop as irela |
| 17824s | it's probably got the ability to play |
| 17827s | mutinous and theotar or bran and |
| 17830s | mutinous bran or theotar sometimes all |
| 17832s | four depending on you know of those |
| 17834s | options depending on what's going on so |
| 17836s | there really is a threat where bunny |
| 17838s | hopper will of course be progressing his |
| 17841s | game plan in general but he will have to |
| 17843s | keep an eye out for any extra ways to |
| 17845s | win the game because priests can |
| 17846s | generate certain cards can weirdly |
| 17849s | enough play an aggro deck style if their |
| 17852s | drawer is like perfect curve but other |
| 17854s | than that it is going to be an uphill |
| 17856s | climb here for bunny hopper |
| 17859s | yeah it really is i mean in terms of |
| 17861s | answering druid boards you've got |
| 17863s | plenty of ways to do that they're just |
| 17865s | the druid deck's so much more than a |
| 17868s | board deck right now |
| 17869s | i mean decide to not show us when |
| 17871s | condition is always very very scary and |
| 17873s | just |
| 17874s | just oh wait yeah i just realized the |
| 17876s | druid's banned don't know why we talked |
| 17877s | about it so like did we see druid before |
| 17879s | or am i just making that up i thought he |
| 17881s | queued true |
| 17882s | it's gonna be mage ignore everything we |
| 17884s | well don't ignore everything we said |
| 17886s | it's true about the match up we weren't |
| 17887s | lying it's actually made yeah druid's |
| 17890s | banned i don't know why we got onto the |
| 17891s | subject of druid no doubt my fault um |
| 17894s | but yeah sorry it's gonna be mage versus |
| 17896s | priest and again some of the things we |
| 17898s | said was still true priest is gonna take |
| 17900s | a long time to get to that quest |
| 17902s | progression uh to you know to end the |
| 17904s | game that way and i think again where |
| 17907s | the differences lie is |
| 17909s | mage has the ability to really stack |
| 17910s | like effectively infinite high damage |
| 17913s | right so like the the the bunny will |
| 17916s | have to really accelerate this game plan |
| 17919s | if he wants to beat out just taking a |
| 17920s | million damage a turn |
| 17923s | yeah |
| 17924s | the thing with like the amulet |
| 17926s | some of the removal spells just aren't |
| 17928s | very good against it that you'd expect |
| 17930s | like |
| 17931s | light bomb |
| 17932s | if you've got a four twelve doesn't hurt |
| 17934s | same thing for strata would ruin |
| 17936s | and if you just use your your one or two |
| 17939s | whirlpools that you might have in hand |
| 17941s | it's just gonna be more threats coming |
| 17943s | down again from the mage so quite hard |
| 17945s | to actually exhaust the mage of damage |
| 17947s | and there's always the |
| 17949s | the hero card to back you up just |
| 17951s | infinite pings every time |
| 17954s | oh so this is a pretty funny and uh |
| 17956s | awkward opening here uh for bonnie |
| 17959s | hopper from levick there's like double |
| 17961s | watch post just available right now |
| 17964s | which priest |
| 17966s | has the tools to deal with |
| 17969s | like a |
| 17970s | minion or two in the early game but |
| 17972s | double watch post feels like it's going |
| 17974s | to be an absolute nightmare lavic even |
| 17976s | coining it out it's committing |
| 17978s | yeah this has the the funny effect if |
| 17981s | they aren't dealt with |
| 17983s | how do you do |
| 17984s | your quest progression as the priest |
| 17987s | yeah but your cards are too expensive |
| 17989s | yeah |
| 17993s | there's the schoolfield |
| 17996s | he does get prince rene fell for drum |
| 18002s | is xyrella for six mana |
| 18005s | that's not cool |
| 18007s | no |
| 18007s | [Music] |
| 18009s | i mean he still needs a two right so |
| 18016s | oh this is just so funny |
| 18018s | just get to kill off one of course which |
| 18020s | is going to help out a lot gets |
| 18021s | cathedral down here to help him out with |
| 18023s | card draw as well still going to cross |
| 18025s | one more but at least he gets to draw |
| 18026s | them |
| 18028s | yeah |
| 18029s | he'd love to have this uh scorpion |
| 18032s | survivor turn but |
| 18034s | ah |
| 18036s | the thrives is too rare |
| 18039s | yeah that's actually brutal |
| 18043s | again the old counter synergy with a |
| 18045s | sorceress |
| 18048s | it's fine |
| 18049s | we'll deal with it |
| 18053s | that's a weird use of a potential use of |
| 18056s | coin from bunny next turn right like he |
| 18058s | has it he might be scared of barbaric |
| 18060s | sorceress of course but |
| 18063s | how does he use like just coin heal |
| 18066s | i'll just throw it away pass it's kind |
| 18068s | of frustrating because his cards cost |
| 18069s | more so we'll want he would love the |
| 18071s | coin to help out with that but he can't |
| 18074s | just sit with it in his hand right |
| 18077s | yeah |
| 18079s | i mean you're not the thing is you have |
| 18081s | other spells in your hand |
| 18083s | you're not really playing around |
| 18084s | barbaric here by throwing away this coin |
| 18087s | like sure they can't play the big thing |
| 18089s | immediately |
| 18091s | but they're going to be able to do it on |
| 18092s | the next turn anyway |
| 18095s | okay hits the three |
| 18097s | now they're thrive very good card in the |
| 18099s | deck not quite as strong at 10 man it's |
| 18101s | a bit of an |
| 18104s | knows the game could go long enough |
| 18106s | all these twos being drawn is not |
| 18108s | playable |
| 18111s | savage |
| 18114s | oh this is it's a very nice synergy for |
| 18116s | the cathedral on the berm off |
| 18119s | every time i see this card played i'm |
| 18120s | like why is this seven mana |
| 18123s | like it feels way too strong even though |
| 18125s | i know in general it isn't way too |
| 18128s | strong but it just feels like it |
| 18130s | yeah i mean it's the thing with uh |
| 18133s | the break points right on eight it just |
| 18135s | felt way too weak on seven it's very |
| 18137s | strong |
| 18139s | but |
| 18140s | i don't know about too strong |
| 18142s | this is a very good minion though before |
| 18144s | it was very bad |
| 18149s | okay |
| 18151s | okay the watch post's alive |
| 18154s | yeah i'm curious what |
| 18156s | bunny hopper wanted to go into the 108 |
| 18159s | on that turn |
| 18167s | okay just goes for an 8-8 right |
| 18169s | yeah like this is the time where you're |
| 18171s | kind of protected from shadowhead burn |
| 18173s | because it would kill bunny's own minion |
| 18176s | so i feel like dude pick sleepy |
| 18179s | you did get an xc though so there's got |
| 18180s | to fill the board |
| 18182s | yeah next is very very good |
| 18186s | i guess at this point now levick's |
| 18188s | taking the approach of |
| 18190s | he's at full health don't really care if |
| 18191s | he heals |
| 18192s | for a couple of turns with this um |
| 18194s | behemoth right like it's not actually |
| 18196s | healing him so he'll just get as big a |
| 18199s | board as possible and take it down next |
| 18200s | turn |
| 18205s | yeah i'm not really seeing like the |
| 18206s | value cards from |
| 18208s | uh from levick at this stage so it's |
| 18210s | kind of playing into the priest's hand |
| 18212s | of |
| 18213s | i don't really deal with that much |
| 18215s | uh long-term value right now i can just |
| 18218s | go a bit slow but we're seeing like |
| 18219s | there's no progression at all on the |
| 18221s | quest because of this watch post |
| 18223s | which is it's definitely a problem |
| 18226s | oh |
| 18227s | yeah but you say you know what i've had |
| 18228s | enough |
| 18231s | that wasn't necessary right it would |
| 18233s | just take the trade anyway |
| 18237s | uh |
| 18239s | because of the you know you could just |
| 18241s | trade into the watch post and then the |
| 18242s | two minions would bump into each other |
| 18246s | um unless there's an interaction where |
| 18247s | the one ones would come down as well who |
| 18249s | knows that i'm not sure |
| 18253s | oh yeah maybe the one one's come down |
| 18254s | first right |
| 18256s | because it is every turn |
| 18259s | i wonder if it would be the case because |
| 18260s | because the behemoth played first |
| 18263s | it would do the trade and then the one |
| 18266s | once would still come down i would |
| 18268s | assume that but i don't know it for a |
| 18270s | fact so yeah maybe maybe neither did |
| 18272s | bunny so he's just saying you know what |
| 18274s | if i do that and it trades into a one |
| 18276s | one i'm gonna feel very silly |
| 18281s | blepharic's like |
| 18282s | 10 minutes thrive |
| 18284s | i'm interested |
| 18286s | [Music] |
| 18294s | i've seen so many so many starfishes uh |
| 18296s | swapped bonanza |
| 18298s | from the |
| 18299s | yeah class today |
| 18304s | money like nope don't want any of these |
| 18306s | they cost way too much thank you |
| 18310s | yeah i'd be pretty happy not to draw |
| 18311s | those cards ever again |
| 18315s | oh and he gets thrived for normal he can |
| 18317s | progress his life quest |
| 18319s | actually does that the cost of those |
| 18320s | cars get reset because they went back |
| 18322s | into the deck so if you were to draw |
| 18324s | them again they'll be |
| 18325s | back to normal |
| 18327s | oh yeah i think it's only trade the ball |
| 18330s | that sticks yeah i think right he resets |
| 18332s | it right yeah i think finley resets |
| 18341s | there you go finley watch post cleanser |
| 18345s | the tech card |
| 18347s | gets all those watch post decks out |
| 18348s | there |
| 18349s | so many |
| 18351s | quickly |
| 18354s | these these locations the cathedrals |
| 18356s | have really done so much work in this |
| 18357s | game yeah how is this little er well |
| 18360s | what used to be a little whale thing |
| 18361s | still alive |
| 18364s | or even the fortitude here looks pretty |
| 18366s | strong you got so many spells |
| 18368s | [Music] |
| 18370s | just to go for the aoe instead |
| 18374s | yeah just plain as a control don't make |
| 18375s | sense |
| 18376s | problem here for levick is that he um |
| 18379s | he just doesn't really have any power |
| 18381s | cards right now and no way to draw |
| 18385s | yeah i guess in this match i'd really |
| 18387s | rather swap the locations and give them |
| 18389s | the freeze and you have the draw oh yeah |
| 18392s | 100 because you just want to get there |
| 18393s | don't grasp right yeah |
| 18396s | or even just like the parrots like |
| 18399s | oh he pushes it down yeah the only |
| 18401s | picture of the dragon is so much better |
| 18403s | there's just stuff to back it up |
| 18404s | afterwards |
| 18413s | i'm not sure what the quests on is it |
| 18415s | any two's been played still |
| 18420s | there's the the two that he picked up |
| 18422s | from the discover |
| 18427s | [Music] |
| 18433s | give me that whirlpool back |
| 18438s | oh |
| 18439s | nice |
| 18445s | wing condition |
| 18447s | yeah |
| 18449s | i never skipped |
| 18453s | you like identity theft |
| 18455s | the the causes of theaters it's like |
| 18457s | some sort of heist movie where they just |
| 18459s | keep one-upping each other all the time |
| 18463s | yeah it's just the uh the rick and morty |
| 18466s | episode yeah |
| 18469s | oh that's so stupid that episode |
| 18473s | i loved it |
| 18474s | i love how stupid things can be |
| 18479s | now |
| 18480s | does bunny just slam dawn grasp now |
| 18484s | i see a two health thing on the board |
| 18487s | and i've heard you do always ramp |
| 18490s | very true |
| 18492s | do you have another hero card which you |
| 18493s | kind of don't want to override your dawn |
| 18495s | grasp for i'll never play it's fine yeah |
| 18500s | i mean it does seem like just got |
| 18503s | oh it goes for this this could backfire |
| 18505s | it if you were going for |
| 18509s | for dumbbells |
| 18510s | could it backfire how |
| 18512s | well and if you want to ramp off the 2-2 |
| 18514s | oh to recast yeah yes do it the other |
| 18517s | way around right right play dawngrass |
| 18519s | then do it |
| 18521s | yeah you are right you're right |
| 18526s | this is on both the boxes here |
| 18530s | i'm the mage now |
| 18534s | oh |
| 18536s | this is like such a slap in the face |
| 18539s | isn't it |
| 18542s | when your older sibling used to make |
| 18543s | yourself punch yourself in the face |
| 18546s | they quit hitting yourself |
| 18548s | yeah it feels like |
| 18551s | mine didn't do that |
| 18552s | just me then |
| 18559s | so many reckless |
| 18570s | i mean even if this is a really good box |
| 18577s | just the late game that the priest has |
| 18579s | available you don't even need to worry |
| 18580s | about your quest so much maybe you just |
| 18583s | you're just winning as the ping mage |
| 18594s | get a lot of pings from these skeletons |
| 18596s | actually right with this play with a |
| 18597s | volcano |
| 18608s | there's so much value from bonnie's hand |
| 18611s | this is such a bunny hand actually |
| 18613s | yeah |
| 18614s | the only other player this could |
| 18616s | possibly be if you just got shown the |
| 18618s | hand would be yala yeah i don't know how |
| 18621s | it just manages to get |
| 18623s | so much value in these long games every |
| 18625s | single time |
| 18627s | [Music] |
| 18630s | those games were you feel like the the |
| 18631s | player didn't actually do anything but |
| 18633s | they never died and they got a million |
| 18636s | cards and you're like wait how is this |
| 18637s | working i die whenever i don't do |
| 18639s | anything you wish to match wits with me |
| 18641s | dawn grasp it |
| 18643s | rough one for levick because now he |
| 18645s | knows that like this is this is a race |
| 18647s | he wasn't planning on taking part in in |
| 18649s | this game actually but now the the pings |
| 18652s | can start stacking up |
| 18656s | got the whirlpool back anyway from the |
| 18658s | second identity theft |
| 18661s | just in case |
| 18666s | [Music] |
| 18672s | can't even really use his location now |
| 18674s | right |
| 18677s | now not i'm not until the ramps come i |
| 18680s | guess oh he's doing anyway |
| 18682s | yeah bunny's |
| 18683s | curious look on his face he was like are |
| 18685s | you ready give me a tutu |
| 18687s | yeah |
| 18689s | when you know i've got reckless as well |
| 18691s | this just gives them two ramps here |
| 18693s | it's actually insane |
| 18696s | let's have to |
| 18698s | ping first right otherwise |
| 18700s | the four health one went |
| 18703s | uh jumped off because it was played |
| 18705s | first played first right yeah yeah |
| 18708s | so he's got ping and then reckless if he |
| 18710s | wants two ramps |
| 18715s | wait won't give him two though right |
| 18718s | well over the course of the turn oh ping |
| 18720s | there sorry yeah yeah yeah yeah i'm with |
| 18722s | you i was thinking something else |
| 18723s | [Music] |
| 18725s | it happens a lot don't we |
| 18728s | okay this is actually just disgusting |
| 18730s | love excite no that's what i wanted to |
| 18732s | do to you what's going on |
| 18736s | yeah it was a bit weird i mean levitt |
| 18737s | could |
| 18739s | should have known that would have |
| 18740s | happened right |
| 18741s | yeah |
| 18742s | you know he knew the reckless was taken |
| 18744s | from him |
| 18745s | i wonder if he's just slipping a little |
| 18747s | bit because of how silly this game is |
| 18750s | yeah like his priest opponent that he |
| 18752s | should have felt very confident going |
| 18754s | into |
| 18754s | has don grasp active and reckless |
| 18757s | apprentices before you do |
| 18759s | right you're like it is a bit of a |
| 18761s | tilter |
| 18763s | imagine we're in this spot after that |
| 18765s | double watch based stuff |
| 18767s | yeah it's looking so good |
| 18772s | nothing a uh sir spinly can't fix |
| 18776s | true |
| 18779s | oh |
| 18780s | there's gotta be a way to ramp |
| 18786s | oh there is |
| 18786s | [Laughter] |
| 18789s | literally always a way to ramp |
| 18793s | wait |
| 18796s | sounds sick |
| 18798s | [Music] |
| 18807s | taste of your own medicine mate this is |
| 18809s | what it feels like |
| 18811s | it's so brutal |
| 18813s | where you followed |
| 18822s | what do you think of that uh let's drop |
| 18824s | the secret card |
| 18828s | i played a little bit of quest priest |
| 18831s | unfortunately but um |
| 18833s | i quite like it actually because i like |
| 18836s | having one more two drops and it can |
| 18838s | lead you into |
| 18840s | a three drop |
| 18842s | by itself which i think helps a lot and |
| 18844s | also just priest having secrets i think |
| 18846s | it's crazy uh compared to everything |
| 18848s | else they can do so i do like the the it |
| 18851s | fills the priest's gap |
| 18853s | uh or fills out more of what priest does |
| 18855s | is just annoy your opponent to death |
| 18857s | yeah i think bunny operas did a great |
| 18859s | job of it in this game because i would |
| 18861s | be annoyed if i is the mage lost to a |
| 18863s | don grass priest that's pinging me for a |
| 18866s | million each turn and so brutal brutal |
| 18869s | game there for levick and suddenly |
| 18872s | it just might be getting to him and i'll |
| 18874s | tell you what i'd understand why this is |
| 18876s | winning in for top eight and this game |
| 18878s | of hearthstone just happened and now |
| 18880s | suddenly it's gonna be priest versus |
| 18883s | warlock |
| 18886s | yeah we talked about the stats on this |
| 18888s | deck is the cursed variant of warlock so |
| 18891s | it does a bit better against these |
| 18893s | i'm going to remove everything you do |
| 18895s | sort of decks |
| 18899s | it should do pretty fine i think we said |
| 18902s | the stats yesterday were about 60 in |
| 18904s | favor of the warlock yeah |
| 18907s | the problem is it should do fine but we |
| 18909s | thought the mage would do fine and then |
| 18911s | yeah |
| 18911s | so you can't feel too comfortable and i |
| 18915s | i do worry honestly that |
| 18917s | maybe and again this is just from what i |
| 18919s | see i can't speak to levick right now so |
| 18921s | i don't know but the tourney made the |
| 18924s | skeletons when he knew the ramp was just |
| 18926s | going to happen at that point |
| 18928s | i don't know whether that was levick |
| 18930s | just slipping a bit because he was |
| 18931s | frustrated and understandably so or |
| 18934s | whether levick was like well i can't win |
| 18936s | if i had to pass every turn yeah so do i |
| 18938s | just do it anyway and just let him |
| 18940s | whatever because |
| 18942s | that's also reasonable right you could |
| 18943s | argue whether it's right or wrong but |
| 18945s | that approach is like well |
| 18947s | just because my opponent's ping mage now |
| 18949s | if i pass i just die |
| 18951s | so i have to do something try and push |
| 18953s | some level of damage and make something |
| 18955s | happen so i can't understand it but |
| 18957s | we'll have to see as we move on through |
| 18959s | this series um leviticus going to be on |
| 18962s | this hybrid warlock again on paper good |
| 18965s | versus priest but again if this just |
| 18967s | steals if there's certain cards gained |
| 18969s | if the aoe is there initially into a lot |
| 18972s | of sustain later on uh levick will have |
| 18975s | to do a very specific setup and it would |
| 18978s | only take a dark vein being stolen away |
| 18981s | to really really put a damper on this |
| 18983s | series for levick |
| 18984s | yeah and i think also like bonnie's deck |
| 18986s | is actually tech pretty nicely to deal |
| 18988s | with what warlock can do early on like |
| 18990s | we see in hand the light more never |
| 18992s | drake available he has access to |
| 18994s | venomous scorpions which while they |
| 18996s | don't seem like much they're pretty |
| 18997s | annoying if you're trying to just buff |
| 18999s | up one minion with the location |
| 19006s | like while a lot of other players have |
| 19008s | sort of just text their quest priests to |
| 19010s | like |
| 19011s | do a lot better against rogue bunny |
| 19013s | seems to just make it a bit more general |
| 19015s | purpose which is really gonna help in |
| 19017s | this particular matchup |
| 19022s | and even in this instance right yes it |
| 19024s | gets farmed by the imps but if this one |
| 19027s | scorpio is killing three imps |
| 19030s | yeah you'll be okay with that like you |
| 19032s | know that's a trade you're willing to |
| 19033s | make |
| 19034s | yeah it's like if imagine the library |
| 19036s | was available here like you'd have to |
| 19038s | just library and then |
| 19039s | trade off the other three yeah it |
| 19041s | doesn't feel amazing |
| 19045s | oh it's so much card drawn now |
| 19049s | and identity theft is shadow right |
| 19053s | yes |
| 19054s | this now the drake's acting |
| 19056s | that never drake is active |
| 19060s | oh and |
| 19064s | it's brutal you don't want the scorpion |
| 19066s | to just sit there but |
| 19067s | can you really trade three of your ribs |
| 19070s | oh i don't want to trade three m's you |
| 19073s | can trade into my flame members i think |
| 19075s | even levick there he's just like i did |
| 19077s | that yeah i'm good about doing that but |
| 19080s | i did it like |
| 19082s | oh yeah and now bunny doesn't have to |
| 19084s | play the nether drake |
| 19086s | i think if those imps were left up he |
| 19088s | would be forced into it |
| 19090s | yeah smart not he had mana identity |
| 19093s | theft here but of course he needs the |
| 19094s | shadow spell for |
| 19096s | the activation |
| 19099s | and again stage one for bunny is not |
| 19101s | quest progression that is not his goal |
| 19103s | right now his goal is to not get him |
| 19106s | then he can worry about stuff later on |
| 19108s | right because if he doesn't get him then |
| 19110s | later on |
| 19111s | he could he's playing a different game |
| 19112s | at hearthstone |
| 19119s | you almost never really |
| 19121s | in this matchup at least you're not ever |
| 19123s | worried about going for the final stage |
| 19125s | it's just all about survival room if |
| 19127s | anything when i was playing i found |
| 19129s | identity theft really strong to fill |
| 19132s | your hand right one card makes two and |
| 19134s | then you can block curses |
| 19137s | yeah that's a little bit easier |
| 19139s | especially if you can pick like it does |
| 19141s | sometimes happen especially because |
| 19144s | lennox filled up his own hand when he |
| 19145s | gets those later terms he's gonna have |
| 19147s | drawn his hero card |
| 19148s | if you can steal that that's gonna throw |
| 19150s | your hand up even more yep |
| 19154s | cannot exist without the dark oh bunny |
| 19158s | really uh greed in the nether drake here |
| 19160s | the top selfie |
| 19162s | x |
| 19163s | yeah he just it needs to sort of bridge |
| 19166s | towards the world i guess and with so |
| 19169s | many cards in hand you know if you clear |
| 19170s | this board |
| 19171s | you're very much |
| 19173s | going to be met with just mr simpson or |
| 19175s | even a farm sometimes straight away and |
| 19177s | the good thing here he does just have |
| 19179s | shard of the narrow right oh okay well |
| 19181s | now he has light button he's just gonna |
| 19182s | clear the board like that which is great |
| 19183s | because like you said that does bridge |
| 19185s | the gap but he also has a like for now |
| 19187s | if we're farms played he can just shout |
| 19189s | of the narrow nether drake right and |
| 19191s | he's just okay |
| 19192s | yeah i wonder if it is better to do the |
| 19195s | shard drake turn |
| 19197s | immediately because just because |
| 19199s | the light bomb answers the reform board |
| 19202s | completely whereas the never drake |
| 19203s | doesn't actually kill the farm true true |
| 19208s | worried about on that health leaving |
| 19209s | there because a 4-1 would be alive right |
| 19214s | before uh |
| 19216s | against the farm or at the nether drake |
| 19219s | you know the drake the |
| 19220s | four health lives |
| 19223s | oh |
| 19234s | [Music] |
| 19237s | 19 he would have definitely taken at |
| 19239s | least another four you know what i mean |
| 19241s | i think that was just to let's just |
| 19242s | clear it up and hopefully |
| 19244s | yeah and he's fine he has he has the |
| 19246s | light it burns anyway for potential |
| 19248s | reforms |
| 19257s | gotta be worth it right because levick |
| 19260s | isn't playing pure imp so there's no uh |
| 19263s | c giants |
| 19266s | oh he's just gonna okay yeah sure this |
| 19268s | kind of works as well right this is just |
| 19270s | more card draw one card for two again |
| 19272s | yeah this is just this is very smart |
| 19274s | from bunny he's just he's got his mind |
| 19276s | on the long term curses he's like i |
| 19279s | can't just like play the light burns |
| 19280s | i'll just shard her my hand side's gonna |
| 19283s | get too small even though it deals with |
| 19284s | the minion |
| 19286s | i like this |
| 19288s | it's quite smart yeah |
| 19290s | he's annoying that he's this smart isn't |
| 19292s | he |
| 19293s | now look at it gazing off and outside |
| 19295s | into the window like i could have been a |
| 19297s | football player |
| 19298s | where did i get my brain so big would |
| 19300s | have been anything |
| 19301s | gazing off into the |
| 19307s | countryside haven't heard of me |
| 19311s | maybe there's a seagull outside or |
| 19313s | something muslim what's the seagull up |
| 19314s | to well i'll just ponder my next turn |
| 19318s | here though levick is gonna at least |
| 19320s | cash in some level of value get a couple |
| 19323s | of those cheap spells get the extra drag |
| 19325s | below as well start stacking these |
| 19326s | curses so bunny i think that's a |
| 19328s | reasonable enough tell that well we're |
| 19331s | farms just not there right i think |
| 19333s | that's a fair assumption from bunny |
| 19334s | right now because the board push has |
| 19337s | stopped at this point yeah |
| 19339s | there's some smart order there from |
| 19341s | levikon's turn taking the trade last to |
| 19344s | cause the overdraw |
| 19346s | and also ending on the the cursed card |
| 19349s | so the dark paint's actually ready to go |
| 19352s | that's |
| 19353s | nine he goes down to seven if he plays |
| 19355s | two curses and then can go back up to |
| 19357s | nine if he plays identity theft |
| 19362s | the smile from levick saying oh i just |
| 19363s | gave him his quest completion yeah oh |
| 19365s | yeah wait he goes up to yeah he can go |
| 19367s | up to 10 if he really wanted to as well |
| 19369s | he's got a lot of options as always uh |
| 19372s | this turn for to play around curses here |
| 19374s | you followed all these cards that just |
| 19376s | replaced themselves it's so sick yeah |
| 19378s | there's so many actually |
| 19380s | oh kidnap for dark vein |
| 19384s | oh probably not the best attack |
| 19387s | [Music] |
| 19390s | sadly the the vaccine still goes off |
| 19400s | uh yeah i mean you could just tams in |
| 19402s | here right |
| 19404s | i think so because i think at this point |
| 19405s | levick really wants bran right |
| 19410s | oh |
| 19411s | you can fiendish catastrophe |
| 19416s | yeah i mean either way card draws good |
| 19418s | here right |
| 19421s | he just |
| 19422s | he's done |
| 19423s | a good chunk of the job but i think bran |
| 19426s | has to be the finisher for levick |
| 19429s | yeah i suppose this just gives him the |
| 19430s | man to play this uh this cultist for |
| 19432s | another curse to ramp up a bit more |
| 19436s | at this stage if the priest keeps his |
| 19438s | hand sizeable you might just be limited |
| 19439s | to |
| 19441s | one curse a turn so to |
| 19443s | to get that damage in |
| 19445s | while you can |
| 19446s | before the hands full is uh important |
| 19450s | it's just get tricky now though cause |
| 19452s | bunny hopper if he clears this board |
| 19454s | he's got a point like you said where |
| 19456s | he's already taking one curse a turn |
| 19460s | and it's gonna be a little bit tricky |
| 19462s | for levick to actually push the damage |
| 19463s | through he's used so many of his curse |
| 19465s | cards already |
| 19469s | yeah and like you said before the |
| 19471s | identity theft coming in clutch here |
| 19473s | just to fill up the hand what was that |
| 19475s | called heal for one oh |
| 19477s | uh |
| 19479s | hills for |
| 19480s | one |
| 19482s | yeah two if he doesn't play the curse |
| 19484s | again oh it's a big deal |
| 19487s | is there any relevant shadow spell i |
| 19489s | mean there's the identity theft it's a |
| 19490s | shadow spell if you take the dark thing |
| 19493s | true i will have a million cards in my |
| 19495s | hand at all times |
| 19497s | i mean that's good right you can just |
| 19498s | it means you can play your other cards |
| 19500s | and then the dark vein refills your hand |
| 19503s | again if it if it dies |
| 19505s | and now bunny has the knowledge as well |
| 19507s | that ref refarm and at least one of the |
| 19510s | abyssal waves is in the deck and he |
| 19512s | knows that dark veins in the hand okay |
| 19515s | well now my statement is incorrect but |
| 19517s | at least a time of play bunny new reform |
| 19520s | was in the deck |
| 19528s | it's tricky you have to |
| 19530s | at this stage try to force |
| 19533s | the priest to play their cards but |
| 19535s | how do you do that so many threats been |
| 19538s | played i mean let's take a look at |
| 19539s | what's left in levick's deck threat wise |
| 19542s | it's |
| 19543s | kind of a whole lot of nothing those two |
| 19545s | void walkers they look buff but they're |
| 19547s | not really uh |
| 19549s | threatening in themselves many |
| 19551s | possibilities |
| 19554s | you need to you just need to make a |
| 19556s | board |
| 19557s | that forces them to use |
| 19560s | more than one card if you can |
| 19562s | just like the imps and |
| 19565s | bartenders |
| 19567s | yeah the bartender might be good we're |
| 19569s | doing it just going for uninfused reform |
| 19574s | that's still decent right hey it's the |
| 19576s | library yeah it's a board you know it's |
| 19579s | a it's a threat level |
| 19594s | oh well there's a bold clue |
| 19599s | we're careful it's on |
| 19603s | think enough what knowledge do the stars |
| 19606s | provide |
| 19608s | okay |
| 19609s | i was actually kind of expecting to see |
| 19610s | the uh |
| 19612s | oh we didn't pick the lady dark vein in |
| 19614s | the end actually |
| 19617s | because i call instead |
| 19620s | yeah i'm also a bit of an idiot which is |
| 19622s | no real surprise but brand's not in the |
| 19624s | list i've been talking about bran as if |
| 19626s | flevik's got it and he's just not right |
| 19629s | you double check for me chambray in case |
| 19631s | i really am being in a moment |
| 19633s | yeah |
| 19635s | okay that gives uh bunny quite a bit |
| 19637s | more |
| 19638s | yeah a safety net in terms of health |
| 19641s | especially if this um light shower goes |
| 19644s | off at some point which you know we |
| 19645s | almost certainly will if he gets like |
| 19647s | xyrella or something right and he just |
| 19649s | pops the death rattles again not only |
| 19652s | does his hand fill up a bit more but he |
| 19653s | heals for a lot |
| 19658s | to try and clean up as much of the |
| 19661s | board as possible here |
| 19663s | does have the option of another grimoire |
| 19665s | if he wants |
| 19670s | yeah apparently still has |
| 19673s | a class card left to reactivate the uh |
| 19677s | lady dark thing |
| 19680s | oh yeah he wants safe grimoire for the |
| 19682s | wave dark vein right |
| 19688s | i think being pressured now |
| 19690s | almost certainly has to play that curse |
| 19691s | out before he does anything else |
| 19699s | i wonder if he's ever tempted by |
| 19700s | mutinous here |
| 19707s | you and us |
| 19710s | do you need to go for it just because |
| 19723s | feeling safe enough to be fair he does |
| 19725s | know |
| 19726s | that |
| 19727s | levick has to spend a turn playing wave |
| 19731s | right before he can dark vane so if he |
| 19734s | sees wave he knows he's facing down dark |
| 19736s | vein |
| 19738s | the turn after almost certainly i'll say |
| 19740s | yes |
| 19743s | quickly |
| 19744s | and he he really wants xyrella right for |
| 19747s | the armor the heel off the light shower |
| 19750s | yeah |
| 19752s | just needs one big burst of hell |
| 19763s | so two classes right now do 11. |
| 19772s | and bunny knows there's no way for him |
| 19774s | to do three curses right |
| 19778s | does he have a uh |
| 19783s | uh |
| 19785s | drag below left right |
| 19789s | oh sorry yeah he does |
| 19791s | yeah so you could do three actually |
| 19794s | sometimes |
| 19795s | if you're lucky |
| 19797s | enough you'd have i'm not sure it was |
| 19800s | just work |
| 19801s | i was just thinking because he just |
| 19802s | didn't trade the light shower into the |
| 19804s | three one right he just pushed six |
| 19808s | yeah i think he recognized that |
| 19810s | he's |
| 19811s | he needs to push the damage to close the |
| 19813s | game |
| 19814s | sometimes |
| 19816s | it's just if there was a chance at a |
| 19817s | cursed lethal |
| 19819s | you know that he get he created by not |
| 19821s | trading and getting the heel right it |
| 19823s | was just |
| 19825s | interesting mean it's very unlikely the |
| 19827s | lethal because i think you have to |
| 19829s | activate the |
| 19830s | lady with the grimoire and then right |
| 19835s | and then things have to happen |
| 19837s | yeah i think only you can't you can't |
| 19839s | activate both anyway |
| 19840s | so at most there's only two curses |
| 19844s | it's going to see abyssal wave and if |
| 19845s | that's not a a nod to what's coming next |
| 19848s | i don't know what is at this point in |
| 19850s | the game here |
| 19852s | what is that is that seven now |
| 19855s | oh it's five five yeah |
| 19868s | he's gonna get a little bit of hills if |
| 19870s | this |
| 19870s | uh is a cool stays alive on board |
| 19875s | kind of hard to do that with this oh we |
| 19876s | can finley the curse away that's kind of |
| 19878s | funny |
| 19882s | yeah i mean it saves some money on it |
| 19883s | yeah then he could get xyrella |
| 19886s | i actually really like this thing these |
| 19888s | handy's not that good no |
| 19892s | they don't win play was like wave but |
| 19894s | then wave kills he's like oh |
| 19898s | okay so that |
| 19900s | zarella also draws right yes uh as long |
| 19903s | as there's the spells in the deck which |
| 19906s | i there just is because there's a |
| 19907s | million spells left in the deck |
| 19909s | oh he's not playing tyrella |
| 19914s | it's not necessary isn't it |
| 19916s | because |
| 19917s | you're not dead to two curses there's |
| 19919s | only two casters right now |
| 19921s | always no there's three curses coming |
| 19923s | right |
| 19933s | no no no i'm saying on the next turn |
| 19935s | he's going to go dark vain grimoire |
| 19938s | right so that's two |
| 19940s | two more right but you might have the it |
| 19942s | might have the third one from the deck |
| 19944s | as well |
| 19945s | oh sure |
| 19947s | it's guaranteed from the deck actually |
| 19948s | so it's three casters |
| 19964s | wait |
| 19974s | yeah i wonder if you were supposed to |
| 19975s | zorella the previous term because |
| 19978s | it filled up your hand and it gave you |
| 19980s | the heel from the the light shower |
| 19981s | elemental |
| 19983s | and the armor so and i don't you could |
| 19985s | take the trade i don't think you died |
| 19987s | i was really surprised because like the |
| 19989s | drawback is you can't hero power and get |
| 19992s | the five health right and then next turn |
| 19994s | it's five damage right like that's a |
| 19996s | drawback of going finley's xyrella but |
| 19999s | the upside |
| 20000s | these it felt pretty strong right you |
| 20003s | heal for above one you yield for more |
| 20006s | than ten |
| 20007s | you draw cards |
| 20011s | and also you only spend a card right you |
| 20013s | thinly and then spend one card which |
| 20016s | means your hand's pretty full anyway |
| 20018s | whereas this |
| 20019s | like um i think bunny hopper did a few |
| 20021s | things that turn right i can't remember |
| 20022s | what last turn was but he opened his |
| 20025s | hand up a bit more and didn't draw so |
| 20028s | yeah it's just really surprised i mean |
| 20030s | he had some healing it just wasn't quite |
| 20032s | enough to deal with three curses maybe |
| 20034s | he only anticipated two |
| 20037s | but with the knowledge available you |
| 20039s | have to expect it was three coming that |
| 20041s | time so well the thing is as well |
| 20044s | that's the maximum your opponent can |
| 20046s | even do |
| 20048s | if you got out of range of that do you |
| 20051s | ever lose right would i guess be my |
| 20053s | question i'd have to go back and look at |
| 20055s | it of course i'm not saying i've sat and |
| 20056s | done all the numbers for every outcome |
| 20058s | but it just felt like xyrella was just |
| 20061s | did more than what he actually ended up |
| 20063s | doing that turn but again you'll have to |
| 20065s | go back and look at it but crazy i |
| 20067s | thought bunny upper was all over that |
| 20069s | game honestly and looked very |
| 20071s | comfortable but it means |
| 20073s | not going to come down to this final |
| 20074s | game levick has one more chance it's |
| 20076s | going to be this curse lock but it is |
| 20078s | going up against the miracle rogue from |
| 20080s | bunny hopper |
| 20081s | [Music] |
| 20082s | yeah and this is a this is a matchup |
| 20084s | that the castle generally doesn't want |
| 20086s | to see the novels in particular is |
| 20088s | really really good at dealing with the |
| 20090s | imps and |
| 20092s | as a warlock i mean there's so much |
| 20093s | damage |
| 20095s | that you take from just playing your own |
| 20096s | cards let alone what rogue's got to |
| 20098s | sling at you as well so |
| 20100s | it's it's also all the rogue tools that |
| 20103s | rogue sometimes have to find creative |
| 20105s | ways of using they just don't have to do |
| 20107s | that in this matchup because you know |
| 20108s | bone spike extortion if they don't want |
| 20110s | to trade and like all of these cards |
| 20113s | like removal or damage tools |
| 20115s | there's just always a target and if |
| 20117s | there isn't the rogue's probably winning |
| 20119s | right so yeah it lines up very very well |
| 20122s | indeed and we do see shroud of |
| 20123s | concealment and edwin kept hold off |
| 20125s | backstab and shadow step well that's a |
| 20128s | good starter kit if i ever saw one yeah |
| 20131s | it's almost |
| 20132s | keeping the edwin here not not because |
| 20134s | he intends on playing it early but |
| 20136s | because it just increases the chance |
| 20137s | that he gets those knowledge out from |
| 20139s | the shroud of concealer and doubled |
| 20144s | okay |
| 20148s | likely to see the coin shroud |
| 20156s | oh okay |
| 20157s | greedy boy that's so greedy |
| 20161s | i mean yeah this could be like a term |
| 20163s | where the draw happens or the |
| 20166s | library |
| 20169s | does the curse count for null reduction |
| 20172s | oh no it's draw right it's draw not |
| 20174s | okay |
| 20175s | okay so he didn't do any tradables right |
| 20178s | so if he went coin |
| 20180s | uh shroud the nose one zero that turn i |
| 20183s | think |
| 20190s | pretty unlucky in the only two minions |
| 20192s | that aren't knowledgeable |
| 20194s | he's also choosing not to backstab and |
| 20196s | burn a card |
| 20200s | oh the castle's gonna go right so |
| 20202s | doesn't it oh sorry yeah the curse goes |
| 20204s | before the draw yeah yeah sorry i'm beat |
| 20206s | it's been a long day jamboree it's been |
| 20207s | a long day i think this is one of my |
| 20209s | favorite interactions just like |
| 20212s | aha |
| 20214s | you block any more curses and then get |
| 20217s | to draw anyway |
| 20220s | all right you're gonna want to be seeing |
| 20221s | some noise |
| 20222s | yeah bunny up on 16 health like he's |
| 20225s | very quickly running out of time |
| 20228s | and livik just has the uncurves that |
| 20230s | cool it's a good tempo play something |
| 20232s | you don't see too often |
| 20235s | oh |
| 20237s | that's a brick dead |
| 20239s | not literally but more or less |
| 20244s | i mean it feels like it they just can't |
| 20246s | recover the tempo |
| 20247s | really anymore |
| 20252s | no preps no knowles |
| 20256s | no tradables to discount any of this |
| 20258s | hand or |
| 20260s | for the early times it was actually a |
| 20261s | really rough draw for a bunny hopper |
| 20263s | here |
| 20264s | and like |
| 20266s | maybe you can do |
| 20268s | the board on the next turn but then you |
| 20269s | have to |
| 20270s | account for all these curses coming into |
| 20272s | your face |
| 20276s | yeah like i said this is that cool nice |
| 20278s | damage with the curse of course but it's |
| 20279s | a 6'5 right like |
| 20282s | it's actually just tempo right now which |
| 20283s | is huge |
| 20286s | half a step |
| 20288s | yeah |
| 20289s | gonna need some |
| 20290s | knowledge and some preps please |
| 20295s | oh |
| 20296s | that's so annoying because |
| 20299s | it |
| 20300s | it stops the edwin chain right because |
| 20303s | he's on ten cards right now and it |
| 20307s | oh effectively |
| 20308s | yeah yeah |
| 20312s | oh this is rough this is rough these |
| 20314s | dead one |
| 20316s | yeah this is |
| 20318s | painful does he have to go like |
| 20320s | tooth |
| 20321s | bone spike here maybe |
| 20326s | just |
| 20328s | it's just not a clean way |
| 20332s | you have to spend mana on another card |
| 20334s | which |
| 20336s | yeah do this and then maybe you can hit |
| 20339s | prep |
| 20343s | okay freeing up hand space right |
| 20346s | yeah i was thinking about it because you |
| 20348s | needed to hit prep anyway you wanted to |
| 20350s | do the door first so that you could prep |
| 20352s | the bone spike |
| 20354s | okay oh but i mean let's get rid of the |
| 20356s | board |
| 20357s | yeah that's something right and possibly |
| 20359s | a little bit more again bunny opera |
| 20361s | feeling a little bit spicy here on eight |
| 20363s | health but there's nothing immediate |
| 20370s | honestly nothing |
| 20372s | great for levick to do here |
| 20374s | yeah how many empty actually had died |
| 20377s | this game |
| 20378s | two |
| 20379s | is that oh is that one to say two i want |
| 20381s | to agree with you on two yeah |
| 20384s | so even just the like we saw the last |
| 20386s | time that the tempo reforms not looking |
| 20388s | that attractive right now |
| 20395s | i'm just going to go for the cursor |
| 20397s | one more castle yeah one more curse away |
| 20400s | from just winning also forces bunny to |
| 20403s | spend two mana or prep right you know |
| 20405s | like |
| 20406s | to deal with the curse one way or |
| 20408s | another |
| 20409s | you can't just have it held in hand |
| 20412s | oh my god these edwin's they're so bad |
| 20419s | look at nodding he's like yes jack |
| 20422s | nicholson all over again |
| 20424s | i just feel like i can set a brick every |
| 20426s | time oh there you go those are some |
| 20429s | no nolls that are very late to the party |
| 20431s | you need to buy those guys a watch |
| 20435s | yeah |
| 20436s | does it sound playful |
| 20438s | it's got |
| 20441s | any curse draw |
| 20443s | there that'll do it it is |
| 20446s | levick gets his winning in it was a long |
| 20449s | series it was one i honestly thought |
| 20452s | levick was done with |
| 20454s | and that bunny hop was gonna take the |
| 20455s | win but levick managed to turn it around |
| 20458s | and this warlock gets the job done |
| 20461s | very very happy i imagine levick to |
| 20464s | finish that series on top |
| 20466s | yeah |
| 20468s | what a win for him getting the |
| 20469s | qualification |
| 20470s | towards the |
| 20472s | top eight happening next week |
| 20474s | and |
| 20476s | wow |
| 20477s | i mean what a series it was so back and |
| 20479s | forth those last few games there's so |
| 20481s | many decision points there's really |
| 20483s | nothing that was a clear cut and i think |
| 20485s | it just could have gone either way at |
| 20487s | any point |
| 20488s | and it was huge right because ludwig |
| 20490s | started off with rogue versus druid and |
| 20492s | just one which is great start especially |
| 20494s | on the rogue but then bunny hopper one |
| 20497s | versus rogue which is fine on the priest |
| 20499s | you kind of expect it even though levitt |
| 20501s | got close and i think could have won the |
| 20503s | game |
| 20504s | and then the priest versus mage was the |
| 20506s | big one right where when he said you |
| 20508s | know what i actually fancy playing mage |
| 20510s | even though it's banned and just decided |
| 20511s | to become a mage for that game and won |
| 20514s | that way i thought well that's just it |
| 20515s | right bunny's got two shots at winning |
| 20517s | one game against curse lock but leving |
| 20520s | managed to turn it around so really |
| 20522s | really big win for him i believe that |
| 20524s | gets levitt confirmed into top eight so |
| 20526s | he's gonna be playing playoffs next week |
| 20528s | but as always |
| 20529s | we will see wait till the end of the |
| 20531s | show when i'm i think tj and lorinda |
| 20532s | will be revealing the confirmed top |
| 20535s | eight because again not my job to |
| 20536s | confirm things but yeah that does mean |
| 20539s | we are done for the day and uh done for |
| 20541s | the weekend jamboree that was it did it |
| 20542s | how how did it go did you enjoy it oh i |
| 20545s | had so much fun actually it was it was a |
| 20547s | blast um |
| 20548s | really great games throughout the |
| 20549s | weekend a lot of drama a lot of emotion |
| 20552s | uh and a lot of great hearthstone i just |
| 20555s | i had such a great time |
| 20556s | yeah because it was great to have you it |
| 20558s | was a pleasure to have you as a guest |
| 20560s | chambray it was a lot of fun and just |
| 20562s | like that we blinked and it's done |
| 20564s | there's our three matches over for the |
| 20565s | day and like i said uh don't go anywhere |
| 20567s | though because tj and lorinda of course |
| 20569s | will be here to finish up the rest of |
| 20571s | the day and see who's gonna make it into |
| 20573s | top eight of grand masters last call but |
| 20575s | from us we're done thanks a lot for |
| 20577s | watching and we'll see you next time |
| 20582s | [Music] |
| 20588s | so |
| 20595s | [Music] |
| 20599s | so |
| 20601s | [Music] |
| 20629s | [Music] |
| 20655s | so |
| 20657s | [Music] |
| 20686s | do |
| 20687s | [Music] |
| 20698s | [Music] |
| 20713s | [Music] |
| 20767s | [Music] |
| 20773s | hello everybody and welcome back to |
| 20775s | hearthstone grand masters last call it's |
| 20778s | our final week and our final day |
| 20780s | of the regular season and uh we're |
| 20782s | coming to the coming to the end of it |
| 20784s | only got two more matches left the |
| 20785s | second semifinal as well as the finals |
| 20788s | to determine the winner my name is cj |
| 20790s | i'm joined of course by neil larinda |
| 20792s | bond aka |
| 20794s | bond |
| 20796s | comma neil quotation mark lorenzo |
| 20798s | quotation mark how are you doing buddy |
| 20800s | i am doing great tj absolutely great |
| 20802s | especially that wonderful intro i think |
| 20804s | you've been working a long time now and |
| 20807s | you still haven't nailed the |
| 20809s | the neil nail |
| 20810s | like how are you going to aka me i don't |
| 20812s | think i think you need to to work on |
| 20814s | that for next week please |
| 20816s | yeah we'll do you know the people you |
| 20818s | worked with you've got the akas down |
| 20820s | absolutely pat |
| 20822s | with me it's a little bit awkward |
| 20823s | sometimes and i don't know you need to |
| 20825s | work on it but today has been |
| 20828s | a pretty good day of hearthstone action |
| 20830s | it's not quite all determined yet apart |
| 20832s | from who's actually going to win the |
| 20834s | week's event and pick up a chunk of cash |
| 20837s | um more chunk of points |
| 20839s | super fake can still get a buy if i've |
| 20842s | worked it out correctly which i usually |
| 20844s | have but not always i think if super |
| 20845s | fake wins this tournament he will |
| 20847s | overtake blize on the points |
| 20849s | and get second place and get that first |
| 20851s | round bye so |
| 20852s | plenty to play for for him at the very |
| 20854s | least |
| 20856s | that's right that's right um |
| 20858s | the previous match was a |
| 20861s | a winning in i believe for levick |
| 20864s | which means that levick is now qualified |
| 20867s | for playoffs um because he made to the |
| 20870s | finals so that means here four points |
| 20872s | and also means his best score would be a |
| 20875s | second place which is better than any of |
| 20877s | the other players that would have that |
| 20879s | would uh ended the week at five points |
| 20882s | and so uh we're we've seen this sort of |
| 20885s | playoff shake up um and super fake |
| 20887s | coming into week at four bly's coming |
| 20889s | into the weekend three |
| 20891s | are at seven sorry bly's losing in the |
| 20894s | quarterfinals |
| 20895s | duper fake winning would tie blize but |
| 20898s | then have a win |
| 20900s | right they'd be tied at nine points but |
| 20903s | super fake his best result would be a |
| 20905s | win so i'm also going to corroborate |
| 20908s | your story here bly's best result is |
| 20910s | also win so you need to dig deeper you |
| 20913s | need to dig deeper which means what is |
| 20915s | your second best result and that would |
| 20917s | be also super that would be super fake |
| 20919s | right because super fast has another |
| 20921s | semifinals appearance whereas blize does |
| 20923s | not is that correct we are on the same |
| 20925s | page we are that's why i asked because i |
| 20927s | want to make sure we both agree that's |
| 20928s | the situation without sort of giving you |
| 20931s | the numbers that i've worked out yeah |
| 20932s | you're looking at things that i'm |
| 20933s | looking at and we've got the same result |
| 20935s | but that's good so seems very good |
| 20937s | playing for this top two unofficially we |
| 20939s | always throw that in there because we |
| 20940s | are just but mere casters we are not |
| 20943s | anything official or important or |
| 20945s | anything at all really we just talk |
| 20946s | about potatoes |
| 20948s | that's right that's right our favorite |
| 20950s | pastime |
| 20951s | uh is uh |
| 20953s | potato statistics but we have a |
| 20955s | hearthstone match in front of us and we |
| 20956s | got a double druid band |
| 20959s | coming in this one which makes a lot of |
| 20961s | sense right um both players kind of uh |
| 20964s | uh |
| 20965s | not bringing the |
| 20967s | aggressive i guess |
| 20969s | lineup it's really just amp lock that we |
| 20971s | see thrown into lineups and then your |
| 20973s | band changes from rogue |
| 20975s | or from drew to rogue yeah um but |
| 20977s | different takes on it with habagabu |
| 20979s | actually bringing the quest hunter which |
| 20981s | coming out of left field quest hunter |
| 20983s | actually doing quite well i would have |
| 20985s | liked to see other players kind of |
| 20986s | experiment with that lineup a little bit |
| 20988s | but super effects gonna be opening with |
| 20989s | tempo rogue and this is pretty standard |
| 20992s | opted to go for double sinister strike |
| 20994s | one backstab |
| 20996s | uh in the uh in the sort of tech slots |
| 21000s | and uh it also looks like uh we're going |
| 21002s | to be seeing rogue from habugabu this is |
| 21005s | tradition here |
| 21006s | in week number three of hearthstone |
| 21008s | grand masters last call is if both |
| 21010s | players have rogue available to them |
| 21012s | in the match |
| 21014s | it's a |
| 21015s | a cup it's custom it's honorary to play |
| 21018s | the rogue in game number one in a mirror |
| 21021s | yep and there you see the vogue with a |
| 21024s | sprint in it we haven't seen it cast yet |
| 21026s | i don't think |
| 21027s | um but you talked about the different |
| 21029s | takes on the week's build up habu with |
| 21032s | his hunter because look at that rogue |
| 21034s | deck we've seen it a million times i |
| 21035s | don't care um he bought his hunter |
| 21037s | basically saying i don't think vogue is |
| 21039s | that good |
| 21040s | i think it's good i'm scared of it but i |
| 21042s | think that druid is the deck to get rid |
| 21043s | of whereas we see the quest priest from |
| 21046s | super fake later on |
| 21048s | which is actually designed to target the |
| 21050s | rogue |
| 21051s | and |
| 21052s | so far i feel that habu has been proved |
| 21054s | writing that argument maybe everyone's |
| 21056s | just a little bit too scared of rogue at |
| 21057s | the start of the week you don't need to |
| 21058s | counter it you just need to make sure |
| 21060s | you're not too weak to it |
| 21064s | yeah |
| 21065s | i i i think that's |
| 21067s | that makes sense right players value |
| 21070s | rogue |
| 21071s | um differently uh in the current |
| 21073s | metagame |
| 21074s | it's the metagame has kind of settled to |
| 21076s | the point where |
| 21078s | oh man i don't think i've faced a single |
| 21079s | rogue in my last 10 15 |
| 21082s | uh uh ladder games just because |
| 21084s | the they do have some polarized matchups |
| 21087s | obviously they can beat everything but |
| 21088s | you kind of need to draw the nuts |
| 21090s | and there's some matchups that it's just |
| 21092s | really difficult and other decks are |
| 21094s | adjusting putting in tech cards in order |
| 21096s | to make sure that they're strong against |
| 21097s | rogue and so it's kind of been a knock |
| 21099s | down a pig |
| 21101s | and it's sort of a healthy metagame deck |
| 21102s | if players came to that realization |
| 21104s | early |
| 21105s | then they |
| 21107s | like coming into this week |
| 21109s | they would have realized that you know |
| 21112s | rogue is beatable even if you don't have |
| 21114s | a direct counter to it |
| 21116s | and if you if that if that's the case |
| 21118s | then you don't really need to bring this |
| 21120s | hard counter that's not really going to |
| 21121s | do well against |
| 21123s | other decks in your opponent's lineup so |
| 21124s | just bring something that kind of has |
| 21126s | this good spread of matchups but can |
| 21128s | also beat rome and then lee broke up and |
| 21130s | i think that's what habu gabo has done |
| 21131s | and it's worked out well yeah and to |
| 21133s | emphasize what you were saying there he |
| 21134s | had two days to work that out |
| 21137s | like at the time they submitted the |
| 21139s | decks most people were still like oh |
| 21140s | rogue oh no we need to nerf every card |
| 21143s | in rogue and the hero and delete the |
| 21145s | libra from the game forever because it's |
| 21147s | that strong and |
| 21149s | it's his great strength is coming to |
| 21151s | conclusions about things really really |
| 21153s | quickly they're not always right but he |
| 21155s | backs himself and he's right very very |
| 21157s | often and that that makes for a good |
| 21159s | player like the week that he just |
| 21161s | brought quest warrior for instance it |
| 21163s | was good enough he threw that deck |
| 21164s | together and it was fine |
| 21169s | yeah |
| 21171s | wine is apt |
| 21173s | considering it was quest warrior and not |
| 21175s | really worked on he just threw some |
| 21176s | cards in it |
| 21178s | yeah yeah |
| 21180s | yeah |
| 21180s | um trio makes people do some crazy |
| 21183s | things |
| 21184s | uh but i'm gonna get rolling here super |
| 21187s | fake's hand is pretty poor but uh edwin |
| 21190s | plus shadow step opens up a lot of |
| 21192s | possibilities especially with the pickup |
| 21194s | of the synthstone graveyard could have a |
| 21196s | pop-up turn next turn |
| 21197s | abugabu is just |
| 21200s | oh |
| 21202s | it's just rolling |
| 21204s | in |
| 21205s | fat stacks of cash |
| 21207s | with this hand uh just the |
| 21210s | the absolute goods uh going on right now |
| 21213s | uh not the absolute goods missing a prep |
| 21215s | but has no shadowstep |
| 21218s | gone fishing and a draca like that right |
| 21220s | there just opens up possibilities it all |
| 21222s | depends though |
| 21224s | oh |
| 21225s | needed one or less |
| 21227s | unfortunate |
| 21228s | yeah double bone spike means that some |
| 21230s | crazy crazy stuff can happen it can |
| 21232s | always happen but |
| 21234s | particularly more than usual |
| 21236s | fake hand |
| 21238s | oh this is |
| 21240s | this one is just |
| 21242s | ripe |
| 21243s | for a bone spike |
| 21245s | very much so it was just it was picked |
| 21248s | off |
| 21249s | the edwin tree two days ago |
| 21251s | and let's sit at room temperature |
| 21254s | and now it's just perfectly juicy |
| 21257s | and ripe |
| 21258s | dig into it with a serrated bone spike |
| 21263s | all right |
| 21265s | super fake has to |
| 21268s | decided to |
| 21269s | skip forward in time to where |
| 21272s | the edwin is still ripe but |
| 21275s | a little brown on the edges |
| 21277s | it is yeah |
| 21279s | sort of like the white potato i think at |
| 21282s | this point because it's not going to be |
| 21283s | around for much prep |
| 21285s | or prep |
| 21288s | now you can prep |
| 21292s | something prep |
| 21295s | this is gonna be a nine attack weapon i |
| 21296s | think |
| 21300s | you can prep bone spike bone spike |
| 21303s | i don't even know i think he's got |
| 21304s | playing sprint at the end of this turn |
| 21306s | in mind some what a mana you float a |
| 21308s | mana but that's fine |
| 21310s | you get a one additional attack on your |
| 21312s | dagger |
| 21314s | oh oh look at it |
| 21316s | he's he's cutting around the brown parts |
| 21318s | he made it ripe again and now he just |
| 21320s | need the good bits |
| 21322s | yeah he's a nine that's right cool i |
| 21324s | can't count |
| 21326s | bang nine |
| 21328s | i mean just two more swings in the tooth |
| 21330s | is lethals yeah |
| 21332s | and there's gotta really uh |
| 21335s | uh dig deep here and |
| 21339s | god rogue mirrors are weird i'd keep |
| 21341s | digging because |
| 21342s | until he comes out the other side into |
| 21344s | game two because |
| 21346s | no number digging's getting out of this |
| 21347s | one i don't think |
| 21350s | like some of my jokes i just keep |
| 21352s | digging they just don't get anywhere |
| 21360s | uh-huh |
| 21364s | even though you've got left yeah |
| 21368s | you only need two fingers you stop it |
| 21369s | two |
| 21371s | the super big has to operate under the |
| 21373s | assumption that he's got three turns |
| 21375s | no he doesn't because he's not killing |
| 21377s | people |
| 21379s | um wait wait no no you can we could stab |
| 21382s | the draka okay |
| 21384s | wild paul knoll |
| 21387s | uh traded into the knoll |
| 21390s | finisher strike bone spike the knoll |
| 21393s | then |
| 21395s | you know the best play here for abigail |
| 21396s | next turn is to just tooth super fake in |
| 21399s | the face so he knows he's lost and we |
| 21400s | can get on the next game |
| 21402s | yeah |
| 21403s | it's not the best ever that's what i |
| 21405s | would say i mean it could go shroud |
| 21407s | which draws some combination of edwin |
| 21410s | noel and maestro |
| 21412s | it's fine it's only it's fine |
| 21414s | [Music] |
| 21415s | it's so little |
| 21418s | 11 so he needs six damage next turn from |
| 21429s | i was trying to find a way to make it |
| 21430s | work tj for you know |
| 21432s | like to have a lethal but |
| 21434s | oddly enough |
| 21436s | yeah |
| 21437s | and funnily enough the maestro comes off |
| 21439s | the |
| 21440s | uh shroud so you can just play maestra |
| 21442s | and it's stealth and you can't interact |
| 21444s | with it it's just 12 damage set up |
| 21451s | the super fake needs |
| 21454s | um |
| 21455s | you can't always trust what you see |
| 21458s | there's not even any tooth targets |
| 21461s | no which is deliberate presumably |
| 21466s | i don't know i've won the mirror with |
| 21467s | like heavy plate before |
| 21469s | there you go |
| 21471s | that'd be nice |
| 21472s | he needs to create a tooth target |
| 21476s | yeah it's not possible |
| 21479s | dj don't give up on him he can do this |
| 21482s | you would have to have door of shadows |
| 21486s | into |
| 21486s | [Music] |
| 21489s | a |
| 21490s | backstab |
| 21492s | the super fake does play backstab and |
| 21495s | then |
| 21498s | shroud into a gnoll |
| 21500s | he's broken the game by conceding |
| 21502s | he's got to see that the game's just |
| 21504s | enshroud into a knoll backstab the knoll |
| 21507s | and then have picked up a tooth |
| 21508s | somewhere as well and then toot the |
| 21510s | knoll |
| 21511s | and then you'd have two mana left so you |
| 21513s | could |
| 21515s | racing cold |
| 21518s | you'd bracing cold and then you'd pick |
| 21521s | up another tooth |
| 21524s | no no |
| 21525s | bracing cold and then reduce something |
| 21527s | [Music] |
| 21528s | thank you i i asked you not to give up |
| 21530s | and you did not give up that's that's |
| 21532s | all i could ask for |
| 21533s | from you there yeah that's right i tried |
| 21536s | it's now going to be i predict using my |
| 21539s | predictive skills |
| 21541s | quest priest |
| 21542s | i'm super fake |
| 21547s | oh yeah given that it doesn't beat any |
| 21549s | of the other decks in this lineup i |
| 21550s | think that would be a good cue |
| 21553s | we said that about fled and then he went |
| 21554s | 300 with it so |
| 21556s | i'm looking at the screen right now i |
| 21558s | think you're right i think it'd be |
| 21559s | ridiculous not to play the quest breeze |
| 21561s | here because what would the quest bridge |
| 21562s | be in your lineup for |
| 21565s | uh yeah it's quest priests it's quest |
| 21567s | priest |
| 21569s | all right so the whole point of quest |
| 21571s | piece is to beat the rogue but the point |
| 21573s | is you're not 1-0 down when you do it |
| 21575s | you're supposed to be one zero up when |
| 21577s | you do it |
| 21578s | which is difficult because everyone |
| 21580s | could use vogue mirrors first but you |
| 21582s | know with that in mind |
| 21584s | we've seen quest priests actually win uh |
| 21586s | multiple times throughout many of our |
| 21588s | series |
| 21590s | look fled won all three games with it |
| 21592s | against the lineup very much like this |
| 21594s | yeah it nearly won |
| 21596s | all three games are now two games in |
| 21599s | another series but |
| 21600s | um |
| 21602s | i mean it i think it might have drawn um |
| 21606s | i might have drawn the winning card all |
| 21608s | three times but yeah counted once yeah |
| 21611s | things happen |
| 21612s | sometimes |
| 21613s | things happen |
| 21615s | yeah uh |
| 21616s | no more america's players left so |
| 21619s | that happens sometimes is this |
| 21621s | unfortunate but you know we'll be back |
| 21624s | 2023 baby |
| 21626s | you have americas |
| 21628s | yeah that's right all right |
| 21630s | getting into it here we go quest priest |
| 21633s | versus |
| 21635s | rogue |
| 21639s | how do you feel about this like |
| 21641s | is the plan do you just have to go at it |
| 21643s | immediately with the vote try and find a |
| 21645s | five or six turn lethal is there |
| 21646s | anything you can do to make it go longer |
| 21649s | i think you just want to play for tempo |
| 21651s | or the game you want to get minions on |
| 21652s | the board as fast as possible right |
| 21655s | we've seen uh players |
| 21657s | and by players i mean pretty much |
| 21659s | specifically habugabu is the one doing |
| 21661s | this is purposefully making like four |
| 21663s | attack ghosts from the sin stone |
| 21666s | graveyard |
| 21667s | like relatively early on in the game |
| 21670s | just to play around the different types |
| 21672s | of removal yeah because the removal |
| 21675s | that's going to come in the early game |
| 21676s | is like clean the scene which is |
| 21678s | normally |
| 21679s | three or less |
| 21681s | on turn five you can't really get it |
| 21682s | infused that quickly |
| 21684s | shadow would ruin it's five or more so |
| 21686s | four |
| 21687s | ends up being the sweet spot in that |
| 21689s | case |
| 21690s | if you get a couple knolls on the board |
| 21691s | that are continuously attacking get a |
| 21693s | four attack ghost that can continuously |
| 21695s | attack and then follow that up with like |
| 21697s | a drakka dagger like a big drop attacker |
| 21699s | that's ideal because if you just try and |
| 21701s | make a big ghost or a couple big ghosts |
| 21704s | you're just gonna get blown out of the |
| 21705s | game |
| 21706s | um by the uh |
| 21708s | shadow word ruin so |
| 21710s | and |
| 21711s | we do have |
| 21714s | uh a |
| 21715s | quest toss here |
| 21718s | for super fake which |
| 21720s | we've seen |
| 21722s | from pretty much everybody in the rogue |
| 21724s | matchup |
| 21725s | because all you have to do is survive |
| 21727s | and kill other stuff you don't have to |
| 21730s | find the shard |
| 21731s | sometimes the quest can help in finding |
| 21733s | a specific answer |
| 21735s | but you you don't have the luxury or the |
| 21738s | time |
| 21740s | to |
| 21741s | like play |
| 21744s | something like potentially off curve |
| 21747s | in order to make that happen right so |
| 21750s | next turn is going to be silly now |
| 21752s | because um i needed to pick up a spell |
| 21755s | there |
| 21757s | thing's things gonna be so cheap next |
| 21759s | turn now |
| 21762s | and there you go there's the uh what |
| 21763s | you're talking about with the tempo |
| 21765s | playing the knoll despite having |
| 21766s | graveyard in hand |
| 21768s | yep |
| 21769s | and because this knoll is gonna attack |
| 21771s | for multiple turns like |
| 21773s | it's gonna get in that damage |
| 21778s | is his brother |
| 21780s | with all the minions in the deck so |
| 21782s | second shroud is useless |
| 21788s | damn |
| 21793s | oh theater oh |
| 21797s | if this hits drakka it's going to be |
| 21799s | very hard for habakkuk |
| 21803s | and habakaba knows because super fake |
| 21806s | insta picked |
| 21809s | just |
| 21810s | didn't didn't even have a chance to see |
| 21812s | like if they'd lit up on it just yep i'm |
| 21814s | having this card it's blue i know it's |
| 21816s | the one i want |
| 21819s | weirdly enough i think you give a light |
| 21821s | shower elemental |
| 21824s | oh no let it burn out if you have |
| 21826s | another light shower mental you're |
| 21827s | probably never going to play two the |
| 21828s | lighter burns is good it's just a way to |
| 21829s | deal with that one okay found the shadow |
| 21831s | word ruin |
| 21833s | we cooking |
| 21834s | this needs to be an edwin |
| 21837s | of |
| 21838s | edwin proportions |
| 21841s | you could go for a graveyard play here |
| 21844s | it's probably better than me feel with |
| 21845s | the edwin |
| 21846s | yeah the light it burns actually clears |
| 21849s | the way for them quite a bit of damage |
| 21852s | so you start with what graveyard and |
| 21854s | gone fishing |
| 21855s | and then |
| 21857s | see where that leads you where you're at |
| 21859s | yeah |
| 21866s | are you moisture have a load of stuff on |
| 21868s | the board and hope your opponent doesn't |
| 21869s | have any removal spells in their removal |
| 21878s | just go light it burns gone fishing |
| 21880s | that's why he's gonna fill up the |
| 21881s | graveyard |
| 21895s | [Music] |
| 21899s | then next turn make a million things and |
| 21901s | hope they stick cool we're good oh cool |
| 21904s | cool |
| 21908s | oh yeah one one weapon coming up |
| 21911s | oh you can light it burns |
| 21913s | and then draca and clear off one of the |
| 21915s | knolls |
| 21920s | put it in a sack |
| 21922s | [Laughter] |
| 21932s | oh edwin |
| 21938s | this is sort of a problem because super |
| 21940s | fake's not dealing with these knolls |
| 21945s | anytime |
| 21946s | edwin and then pop off |
| 21948s | and you click the graveyard when it's at |
| 21950s | four attack |
| 21953s | yes |
| 21953s | like along the way |
| 21955s | along the way that's what that's what i |
| 21958s | i can see because i can see some fixed |
| 21960s | hand is the best player hubba may sense |
| 21962s | weakness |
| 21967s | now he can make as many things as he |
| 21969s | wants to along the way |
| 21971s | yeah or you can make one for attack one |
| 21973s | and then one giant one |
| 21981s | is working out and also working out when |
| 21982s | to prep |
| 21989s | your decision there oh there you go now |
| 21991s | he's gonna go |
| 21996s | yeah they're up to four now there's a |
| 21998s | four |
| 22001s | and oh here we go |
| 22003s | one of each |
| 22004s | what a beach |
| 22009s | oh i like this i like this |
| 22014s | i'll just do it again |
| 22015s | we don't need a nine-nine we're just |
| 22017s | gonna hit you with three fives with four |
| 22019s | balls |
| 22020s | and a big ghost |
| 22024s | really big ghost |
| 22027s | yeah and just get one of these cutlasses |
| 22029s | yeah it draws a card and you just attack |
| 22031s | get that damaged in i don't know |
| 22033s | why hubba gabba was so isn't that |
| 22035s | [Music] |
| 22039s | i think this is fine right |
| 22041s | yeah like lord |
| 22043s | if you want to shut the word ruin then |
| 22045s | you've got two mana left and your |
| 22046s | opponent's still got over 10 attack on |
| 22048s | board or 10 attack plus the weapon on |
| 22049s | board yeah |
| 22052s | you're playing ghostbusters with that |
| 22053s | for long |
| 22060s | watch our elemental blocks a lot |
| 22067s | okay this will clear up one of the |
| 22069s | knolls with the shadow shadow word ruin |
| 22071s | and then you have light the light it |
| 22073s | burns for the edwin |
| 22075s | that's not really an a problem |
| 22077s | there will be another ghost though oh |
| 22079s | they went not for two turns i guess |
| 22081s | yeah so you have time to sort of answer |
| 22084s | that |
| 22085s | um |
| 22090s | this sprint in this deck might come in |
| 22092s | handy because super fake's to go super |
| 22094s | low on health at some point here |
| 22096s | like super sub 10 |
| 22099s | and sprinting into just some damage at |
| 22101s | the end |
| 22103s | while superflex is still stabilizing is |
| 22104s | definitely on the cards here |
| 22106s | yeah they're still both wicked stabs |
| 22108s | plus a sinister strike left in deck and |
| 22110s | two tooths in hand |
| 22112s | and only ten cards and an edwin |
| 22115s | that's a lot of damaging coming |
| 22118s | yeah |
| 22121s | like i think that i'd still rather have |
| 22122s | the priest but you can just see how the |
| 22124s | wind conditions are |
| 22125s | hanging out here for habit |
| 22127s | yeah so hubba gobble next or sorry super |
| 22130s | fake next turn is probably planning for |
| 22131s | light shower elemental plus the light it |
| 22133s | burns |
| 22137s | oh no |
| 22140s | no it's a spirit it's too many cards |
| 22144s | just in the wrong place |
| 22146s | yeah |
| 22148s | because if you play the sprint that |
| 22150s | means that |
| 22151s | you overdraw the car that the edwin |
| 22155s | so many options would uh need to |
| 22159s | keep drawing cards |
| 22161s | that's fine just make yourself so you |
| 22163s | win next turn do all the damage now |
| 22167s | go ahead and have lethal next turn with |
| 22169s | sprint |
| 22171s | maybe they've both been used |
| 22176s | ah there's one prep |
| 22178s | once you have a second |
| 22180s | sprint prep double |
| 22182s | stop and some stuff |
| 22184s | yeah two extortions a door of shadows |
| 22188s | two stabs one sitter strike one shadow |
| 22190s | step one prep |
| 22193s | still some burn |
| 22196s | yeah uh it's impossible to die from 12 |
| 22201s | if you just play a light child mental |
| 22202s | there's not 12. |
| 22204s | stab door stab stop |
| 22210s | that door steps what are you talking |
| 22212s | about |
| 22212s | oh if if |
| 22214s | the door is infused |
| 22218s | yes there is |
| 22223s | so you trade one in the door gets |
| 22225s | infused |
| 22229s | you hit stab |
| 22233s | and then you s |
| 22235s | ah the mana doesn't work out doesn't |
| 22236s | work out now you have to draw |
| 22239s | one of the stabs where that shadow step |
| 22241s | is off the turn start the turn |
| 22245s | and it works out i |
| 22247s | think ah |
| 22254s | doesn't work out |
| 22265s | can you set it up so it gets their next |
| 22267s | turn |
| 22275s | yes i think there's a champs |
| 22277s | i mean |
| 22278s | is there a |
| 22282s | 16 now |
| 22287s | he's gonna stealth it |
| 22290s | okay a lot of damage set up dwarf |
| 22293s | shadows is there with two burn spells |
| 22295s | left in hand guard left in deck so even |
| 22297s | if you draw one you can get the second |
| 22299s | uh behemoth here is really the only |
| 22302s | oh no quest |
| 22305s | unlucky |
| 22307s | yeah so confused shower elemental more |
| 22311s | the light shower elemental and you can |
| 22313s | heal |
| 22315s | so you'd be at 16 effectively at 24 with |
| 22318s | eight damage on board blackwater |
| 22320s | behemoth you'd go up to 22 |
| 22324s | and you take out one of the minions if |
| 22325s | you take out the six six there's 10 |
| 22327s | damage being represented you'd be at 22 |
| 22329s | and need 12. |
| 22331s | i don't know this is going to come down |
| 22332s | to what this door of shadows hits well i |
| 22334s | mean |
| 22335s | habu can just draw the whole deck next |
| 22337s | turn his case where they can infuse the |
| 22338s | other door but |
| 22340s | yeah but the the burn damage won't be |
| 22342s | enough to kill super fake regardless of |
| 22344s | which place you use unless the door hits |
| 22346s | one of the burn spells yes |
| 22348s | um |
| 22350s | there's |
| 22351s | the three spells left are |
| 22353s | extortion sinister strike wicket stab so |
| 22355s | if habakabu draws extortion off the top |
| 22357s | it's legal |
| 22363s | all right |
| 22365s | and if he doesn't can he |
| 22367s | and it's a 50 50 to door the |
| 22370s | burn spell |
| 22376s | there's no way a minute because oh he |
| 22377s | draws it of course he does |
| 22381s | wait is the oh you don't have the mana |
| 22384s | the the mana is the limiting factor here |
| 22390s | yeah the mana doesn't work out |
| 22392s | if you door sinister strike you go |
| 22394s | sinister strike sinister strike that's |
| 22396s | six i'm almost done and you wicked stab |
| 22399s | door but then you don't have the other |
| 22401s | wicked stab |
| 22405s | are you doing the mana for the other |
| 22406s | what you do you do yeah i'm just triple |
| 22409s | counting this to make sure yeah three |
| 22411s | is it it's off though isn't it |
| 22417s | no no it's is it exact |
| 22420s | i'm sure it's there i just can't count |
| 22422s | it quickly |
| 22423s | is too fast |
| 22424s | 12 |
| 22428s | door wicked |
| 22437s | okay |
| 22439s | but there's so much burn lined up for |
| 22441s | next turn |
| 22444s | and minions and both um |
| 22448s | elementals have gone up gift is good |
| 22459s | it's good |
| 22461s | yeah so next turn there is |
| 22465s | 11 from hand |
| 22468s | plus the behemoth hits the six six |
| 22474s | there's 18 |
| 22476s | and super fake will be at 16. |
| 22483s | that's two light shower elementals plus |
| 22484s | five armor |
| 22486s | that's 21 health |
| 22489s | 10 13 |
| 22492s | that's not enough |
| 22494s | it is enough |
| 22498s | there's 13 damage on board and and 12 |
| 22501s | from hand so that's 25 |
| 22503s | and you go up to 29. oh 29 |
| 22507s | yeah |
| 22508s | but then you're in the same position |
| 22509s | next turn |
| 22510s | no you're not because all those yeah |
| 22512s | yeah |
| 22513s | okay well no that so habagawa will |
| 22515s | probably hold until 10 to get the six |
| 22517s | damage booking stabs but xyrella is |
| 22518s | actually good you could also roll the |
| 22520s | heel for next turn |
| 22527s | um which would give you more health and |
| 22529s | behemoth would give you even more health |
| 22532s | yeah |
| 22533s | that's probably saved him |
| 22550s | so that's the damage so you take out the |
| 22552s | 4-4 and behemoth |
| 22556s | now or 15 plus one |
| 22560s | oh jeez this is so close |
| 22563s | if you heal for six you get hit for |
| 22565s | seven plus the damage in hand so there's |
| 22567s | many uh that doesn't work |
| 22577s | oh this is close so there's still heal |
| 22579s | left in the deck for super fake there's |
| 22580s | one desperate prayer one gift of the |
| 22582s | naaru |
| 22586s | that's really it |
| 22588s | condemn |
| 22592s | so |
| 22593s | super fake knows that there's 15 from |
| 22595s | hand so what you you have to do is go |
| 22598s | here power the 4-4 and then behemoth and |
| 22600s | hope it hits the 6-6 what if it hits the |
| 22602s | 3-2 so you'd heal for eight |
| 22606s | uh |
| 22607s | you'd go up to |
| 22609s | 23. that's not enough and there's 22 in |
| 22612s | hand |
| 22613s | plus the diabetes oh they'd be exactly |
| 22615s | 23 so you need to hit the six six |
| 22620s | so you hear a power of the four four and |
| 22621s | then you have to hit the six six |
| 22623s | yep get that quest played |
| 22625s | oh it would be exact lethal right |
| 22629s | it is a 50 50 yeah |
| 22636s | oh |
| 22637s | it's a it's 23 right oh it's 22. it's |
| 22640s | 22. |
| 22642s | one off |
| 22644s | one off |
| 22646s | [Music] |
| 22648s | and we can't count well you can i can't |
| 22651s | oh it's one off |
| 22655s | oh one damage oh no that's a disaster |
| 22660s | the xyrella pickup off the top and |
| 22661s | having played both light shower |
| 22663s | elementals was |
| 22665s | clutch |
| 22666s | from super fake that was so much damage |
| 22669s | and props to habugabu because that was |
| 22672s | the absolute |
| 22674s | maximization does that work probably of |
| 22677s | damage that you could possibly do |
| 22679s | getting both doors infused using the |
| 22681s | temporary copies when you could holding |
| 22684s | on to the last two stabs |
| 22687s | just |
| 22689s | absolute max damage |
| 22691s | pushage |
| 22695s | cross priest oh jeez and that's just |
| 22699s | yeah to make the deck do what it's |
| 22700s | supposed to right like you're supposed |
| 22702s | to cruise through this chilling get a |
| 22704s | free win |
| 22706s | and now have you gets his real decks |
| 22707s | back online that are you know |
| 22709s | not gonna get quest feastified |
| 22714s | it seemed like he was always just one |
| 22715s | man or one health away every turn there |
| 22718s | and that's with super fake drawing |
| 22719s | pretty well in the clutch so |
| 22723s | yeah wow that was uh |
| 22725s | very very |
| 22727s | very close |
| 22729s | of a game so but now |
| 22731s | we get to uh move to quest priest versus |
| 22734s | the |
| 22736s | xxl mage that's right |
| 22739s | it's so large we needed two x's |
| 22742s | not only is it an xl mage because it's |
| 22745s | 40 cards but it's also xl because the |
| 22748s | spells are big |
| 22751s | big spells |
| 22753s | big big large spell message |
| 22757s | and a pelican |
| 22759s | because this pelican diver is just in |
| 22761s | everything right now |
| 22764s | it's sorting out |
| 22773s | two starfish that we didn't talk about |
| 22774s | the tech |
| 22776s | there we go |
| 22777s | oh this is the ravager deck right this |
| 22779s | is the gorlok ravage i mean finley |
| 22783s | yeah |
| 22784s | you gotta really dig deep |
| 22788s | to find |
| 22789s | 36 minions to put in the deck |
| 22793s | like yes good point uh sorry 35 because |
| 22797s | you played manchester dawn grass because |
| 22799s | it's big spell mate so you really only |
| 22800s | want to play ruin and drake fire amulet |
| 22802s | that's all he plays so you gotta dig |
| 22804s | deep to find 35 million sorry 33 because |
| 22807s | you played nightclub sanctum as well |
| 22813s | more minions in your deck then a lot of |
| 22816s | decks have cards and most decks have |
| 22819s | deck yeah |
| 22820s | yeah which is |
| 22821s | so that's why you're seeing murloc homes |
| 22825s | that's why you're seeing |
| 22827s | a gorlok ravager with only three murloc |
| 22830s | four murlocs in the deck |
| 22832s | uh |
| 22834s | two of which in habuzz pelicans |
| 22837s | suspicious alchemists |
| 22841s | the ravager now just draws the other |
| 22843s | ravager and finley that's it yep |
| 22847s | and then the second ravager draws |
| 22849s | nothing |
| 22850s | just a five mana four three oh it does |
| 22852s | it draws the other way because you thin |
| 22855s | lead it back in your deck yeah yeah yeah |
| 22857s | there you go |
| 22860s | yeah but it's at the bottom so that you |
| 22862s | just never draw it |
| 22865s | at the bottom of your 40 card |
| 22867s | yeah yeah all right watch post time |
| 22873s | no point playing um |
| 22875s | murloc homes yet right |
| 22878s | i mean murloc homes with quest priest is |
| 22880s | not bad because if you played earlier on |
| 22883s | the game oh |
| 22884s | you get quest i've gotten quests before |
| 22887s | like homes against the please i see |
| 22891s | can you complete it |
| 22893s | oh easily yeah oh yeah you have 33 |
| 22896s | minions in the deck |
| 22898s | of all sizes |
| 22900s | shapes yeah you can get that beat that |
| 22901s | quest |
| 22906s | uh okay that's a seven and an eight now |
| 22909s | however if this uh |
| 22911s | muteness goes away then quest cannot be |
| 22914s | completed |
| 22916s | unless you get identity theft into |
| 22918s | something |
| 22920s | or |
| 22922s | your light bomb gets buffed by the watch |
| 22924s | post |
| 22929s | ah yes |
| 22930s | poor your |
| 22932s | light shower elementals |
| 22935s | get buffed from six mana to seven man |
| 22938s | are doing exactly the same thing |
| 22942s | what we call buffs |
| 22944s | in the trade |
| 22947s | you wanna condemn just to get rid of |
| 22948s | this watch puss |
| 22951s | inside |
| 22953s | where you followed what's in the sketchy |
| 22956s | stranger first i'm looking at this |
| 22958s | sketchy board there's just so much |
| 22960s | rubbish out there right now oh sticky |
| 22963s | situation |
| 22966s | what about counter spell against the |
| 22968s | deck it kind of smells probably better |
| 22969s | it's like four spells in the deck |
| 22972s | it's just gonna be there forever oh no |
| 22974s | sticky situation it is |
| 22978s | similar |
| 22979s | but different |
| 22984s | that the spell not happening |
| 22993s | oh my it's one of those days |
| 22996s | every day is one of those days to be |
| 22997s | fair |
| 22999s | here at america's grim oh no made myself |
| 23002s | sad |
| 23004s | worry tj we can pretend |
| 23012s | okay this is why you don't play counter |
| 23014s | spell |
| 23017s | this is why you play sticky situation |
| 23020s | oh well the event is going to proc but |
| 23022s | the skeleton's going to deal damage so |
| 23024s | this pelican is oh no he's going to sink |
| 23027s | it's just a car |
| 23029s | look at it |
| 23033s | it's just an absolute unit of a bird |
| 23038s | just eaten |
| 23042s | it's the biggest chad of |
| 23044s | of avians everywhere |
| 23049s | i'm so glad you're not with derek right |
| 23050s | now in this conversation |
| 23052s | just |
| 23053s | that'd be it that'd be the broadcast |
| 23055s | derailed rather than the sensible |
| 23056s | broadcast which it is at the moment |
| 23058s | uh this mutant is looking interesting |
| 23060s | it's already um lining up a couple of |
| 23062s | tasty targets from |
| 23065s | it's gonna be real good |
| 23068s | because if it hits the mutinous on super |
| 23070s | fake side |
| 23071s | there's no longer a seven super fake |
| 23074s | would have to get a finley |
| 23076s | and then shuffle it back into his deck |
| 23078s | and draw it naturally and he doesn't |
| 23080s | play fairly natural in the deck so he'd |
| 23082s | have to like identity theft into |
| 23083s | something to complete the quest |
| 23086s | oh okay oh i like this |
| 23090s | good like launch things |
| 23093s | no it's just because super fake's never |
| 23096s | gonna guess |
| 23097s | yeah we'll say that |
| 23099s | [Music] |
| 23102s | i know you can't have any cool |
| 23105s | oh this is going to answer our question |
| 23108s | that we had like |
| 23109s | last week or something i don't even know |
| 23110s | if it was you this is going to answer a |
| 23112s | question what was the question |
| 23114s | there's the question if you silence |
| 23115s | these suspicious alchemists your |
| 23117s | opponent does not get to uh |
| 23120s | uh |
| 23121s | choose |
| 23123s | if your suspicious alchemist goes away |
| 23124s | or gets silenced |
| 23126s | the opponent does not get the option to |
| 23128s | pick |
| 23130s | i assume that's why it's worded the way |
| 23131s | it is |
| 23132s | yeah |
| 23134s | definitely wasn't me because i'd have |
| 23135s | said obviously that that's how it should |
| 23137s | work |
| 23138s | yeah obviously |
| 23141s | i wouldn't have |
| 23142s | everybody knows that |
| 23145s | i would not have had a clue |
| 23151s | i'll be real honestly you have no idea |
| 23152s | what this discover is from |
| 23154s | is it from |
| 23156s | it's from quest completion before yeah |
| 23158s | it is some question yeah sometimes you |
| 23160s | just lose track you look away for a |
| 23162s | second you come back and then boom |
| 23164s | there's just a discover window up yeah |
| 23166s | you've just got three things on the |
| 23167s | screen you've got like discover window |
| 23169s | the gdp of potatoes in france and |
| 23172s | some some decks and you're like okay |
| 23174s | where's this we go oh |
| 23177s | wait no |
| 23180s | oh okay yeah |
| 23185s | i |
| 23193s | running away with this board this was |
| 23195s | the whole play right he took the ten |
| 23196s | mana spell |
| 23197s | so that he could belinder it to try and |
| 23199s | ruin the quest completions as well |
| 23202s | yeah |
| 23204s | that was a two-term setup for this play |
| 23207s | because now there's a 10 mana light bomb |
| 23209s | in super fake's hand |
| 23214s | is no good to anybody especially super |
| 23216s | fake right now yeah |
| 23219s | can't really mutinous because then you |
| 23222s | make it impossible for yourself to |
| 23223s | complete the quest but you kind of want |
| 23225s | a mutinous and then just hope you find a |
| 23227s | seven somewhere |
| 23230s | with identity theft specifically |
| 23234s | then if you mutinous your opponent's |
| 23236s | mutinous that's a good thing overall but |
| 23238s | then that's one less card that you can |
| 23240s | identity theft for a seven |
| 23244s | i think he's |
| 23245s | oh no abby's heading off at the past |
| 23250s | this is |
| 23251s | there's no there's no more |
| 23254s | identity theft to do a magister dawn |
| 23257s | grasp or else he can't complete the |
| 23259s | quest |
| 23261s | uh having headed off musicians of the |
| 23263s | past anyway by just filling his neck |
| 23264s | full of rubbish minions it's fine |
| 23267s | yeah or wait he could like i said i |
| 23270s | didn't exception to sir finley certainly |
| 23271s | away the behemoth |
| 23273s | and then draw it later |
| 23275s | or something |
| 23278s | good spot to be in it sounds like |
| 23280s | yep |
| 23282s | i like the identity theft is like the |
| 23284s | new york ceron it's like how does he get |
| 23286s | out of this identity theft about this |
| 23288s | book identity theft it's just the answer |
| 23290s | to every problem that he's used |
| 23294s | yep |
| 23297s | meanwhile having is just beating super |
| 23299s | fake down with an arena board |
| 23301s | yep |
| 23303s | rogue can't get through this but this |
| 23305s | selection of things no trouble bam |
| 23316s | well happy's never going to guess that |
| 23318s | theater is in super fake's hand if |
| 23320s | that's offered |
| 23323s | no chance of that one |
| 23328s | yeah i was in the starting hand |
| 23330s | rather because he played it on three yep |
| 23332s | yeah i'm guessing |
| 23333s | right now |
| 23335s | is what he's gonna guess not cathedral |
| 23338s | oh |
| 23341s | now he knows that there's a theater as |
| 23342s | well yeah |
| 23344s | he was never guessing that because yeah |
| 23345s | you knew it was a cathedral because both |
| 23346s | cathedrals have been played right |
| 23348s | uh yeah |
| 23351s | no that's not true |
| 23353s | only one of them's been played we played |
| 23354s | the last turn so |
| 23356s | i played the other one last game |
| 23359s | yeah i played two last game |
| 23361s | there you go |
| 23362s | maybe not maybe that was this game |
| 23364s | whatever how about look holmes i've got |
| 23366s | two which of these cars did your |
| 23368s | opponents could be lethal |
| 23369s | i split tower casseroon you gotta head |
| 23372s | on a swivel |
| 23373s | you go |
| 23375s | and it's guaranteed to cast the other |
| 23377s | trick fire aimless in him so |
| 23380s | that freezes six down just |
| 23382s | get |
| 23397s | explosive runes |
| 23398s | come on |
| 23401s | yeah |
| 23402s | still a difficult situation for super |
| 23404s | fake |
| 23405s | has some heal in hand |
| 23407s | though uh |
| 23413s | hmm |
| 23418s | yeah just for counter spell |
| 23422s | how does he win this game |
| 23425s | like he cannot die |
| 23427s | for a long time |
| 23430s | but |
| 23431s | actually winning seems really hard here |
| 23440s | [Music] |
| 23443s | it is |
| 23444s | there it is |
| 23445s | it draws a gorlok ravager |
| 23451s | does he use the finley |
| 23453s | oh no anna finley you're right yeah yeah |
| 23454s | so you can get rid of all of this |
| 23455s | rubbish all these second flames and turn |
| 23457s | them into actual cards |
| 23461s | you want to do it this turn now |
| 23463s | uh it depends i put the drake fire back |
| 23465s | you might i mean maybe you say turn them |
| 23467s | into actual cards but |
| 23469s | this is |
| 23470s | about average for the deck there's still |
| 23472s | a chance for lethal here there's room |
| 23474s | another room is going to cast |
| 23476s | [Music] |
| 23478s | oh there's no spells in the deck |
| 23481s | wildfire is good |
| 23482s | more damage our canada like |
| 23486s | connie that's not bad ignite in the deck |
| 23488s | we've seen this before |
| 23489s | except he drew it for some reason but |
| 23491s | you know |
| 23495s | oh frozen touch |
| 23498s | down to three |
| 23500s | double reckless in hand and there was a |
| 23501s | wildfire cast i think |
| 23505s | so |
| 23509s | better get healthier |
| 23510s | brand double reckless |
| 23515s | there is |
| 23516s | well that's 11 mana but |
| 23519s | yeah but what i'm saying is you could |
| 23521s | like spread them out over two turns you |
| 23522s | go like reckless hero power and then |
| 23524s | bran reckless hero power |
| 23528s | that's a whopping 10 damage |
| 23533s | and that'll just be game |
| 23536s | yeah this is just yeah this is just six |
| 23540s | cool he's on six |
| 23542s | yep |
| 23545s | nice |
| 23550s | pelican stands alone |
| 23554s | i don't need dawn glass |
| 23556s | don't you know that that that if if |
| 23558s | hubbleguppa wasn't killing this turn |
| 23560s | that would have been disastrous |
| 23563s | funnily enough it would have been |
| 23564s | disastrous for both players because |
| 23565s | super fake wouldn't be able to complete |
| 23567s | the quest because smash stars would be |
| 23568s | gone there wouldn't be a seven cost |
| 23570s | minion that existed in the game |
| 23573s | oh god a seven cost card that existed in |
| 23576s | the game but abu gabi wouldn't have been |
| 23578s | able to do anything so |
| 23580s | habagabu gets the uh the counter win and |
| 23582s | now we get to go into a mirror match uh |
| 23584s | habigaba versus super fake they're both |
| 23587s | playing |
| 23588s | big big |
| 23590s | bell mage i believe uh |
| 23593s | yes |
| 23594s | uh no this oh no no spooky |
| 23597s | yeah super fakes playing big spooky |
| 23600s | but it's the big it's big weird spooky |
| 23603s | right it's like the super defensive |
| 23606s | mass polymorph times two spooky yeah |
| 23609s | that one |
| 23611s | like |
| 23612s | like you're you're drawing nothing every |
| 23614s | turn but |
| 23615s | you have an answer to everything |
| 23618s | and then your opponent plays um dorm |
| 23621s | grasp before you play dawn grass |
| 23623s | and you don't have an answer to it and |
| 23625s | you die slowly |
| 23626s | yeah |
| 23628s | but who can find the don grass faster |
| 23630s | than it feels well not for habukabu |
| 23632s | because habagaba's got big spells so |
| 23635s | um a little bit different of a game plan |
| 23637s | but for super fake |
| 23638s | i feel like it's got to be |
| 23640s | [Music] |
| 23642s | like this |
| 23644s | there's no other threats in the deck |
| 23645s | they just aren't |
| 23648s | with a starfish well there's not even a |
| 23650s | box it's just |
| 23651s | it's still grasping yeah there it is |
| 23654s | uh the double mass polymorph |
| 23659s | i mean it does have like the double win |
| 23660s | condition with both mortars and |
| 23661s | kel'thuzad but like that's standard for |
| 23664s | a 40 guard |
| 23666s | uh spooky mage but it's got double solid |
| 23669s | alibi double blizzard double deathborn |
| 23672s | double mass poly |
| 23674s | [Music] |
| 23676s | yeah |
| 23677s | mainly they're not totally dead cards |
| 23679s | but pretty useless in this matchup |
| 23684s | yeah they'll get some work done they'll |
| 23685s | stop him from dying to a board |
| 23689s | harry can probably only build like two |
| 23690s | or three boards anyway there will be |
| 23692s | rubbish so |
| 23693s | happy just going full on |
| 23697s | looking for dawn grasp super fake's |
| 23699s | gonna decide how to do the theater thing |
| 23703s | which is the other part of this matchup |
| 23705s | can you steal the opposing dawngrass to |
| 23707s | overtake them in the race to get the |
| 23709s | first dawn grasp and will it be stolen |
| 23711s | back |
| 23728s | a smidge of this |
| 23736s | so i think tj might have finished so you |
| 23738s | finished this season nope |
| 23740s | you just long serious i was hydrating |
| 23742s | hydrating okay |
| 23746s | words of wisdom everybody out there take |
| 23747s | a hydration break it's important |
| 23750s | all right tent |
| 23752s | fuel your bodies |
| 23759s | what a selection of i'm sure you take |
| 23760s | the pirate blast |
| 23766s | you already have two mouse plymouth so |
| 23767s | you don't take that |
| 23769s | right |
| 23770s | i want to take the |
| 23772s | yeah |
| 23775s | yeah |
| 23776s | it has |
| 23777s | i don't know like what would you do if |
| 23779s | you were in hobbies position you |
| 23780s | probably picked the most expensive spell |
| 23781s | right you picked the most expensive and |
| 23783s | the one that i think super fake just |
| 23785s | picked the one that he want the most |
| 23795s | you're getting to 10 mana |
| 23797s | i like it |
| 23808s | um just in case you pick up like savara |
| 23811s | off the top |
| 23812s | then cold case |
| 23814s | we haven't seen many good survivors this |
| 23816s | week have we seen a few it's really hard |
| 23818s | to get good savaras with uh |
| 23821s | with like the 40 card spooky mage |
| 23823s | because |
| 23825s | you don't |
| 23826s | you're not drawing that many cards and |
| 23829s | your deck is larger so you're not |
| 23831s | hitting consistent spells how much you |
| 23833s | have so many expensive spells too |
| 23838s | we saw the whole flowy thing go off a |
| 23840s | couple of times last week |
| 23842s | but like you say it's |
| 23852s | look at this hand the pelicans that's it |
| 23856s | who's got in the world |
| 23862s | oh |
| 23866s | you can't stop this yeah absolutely |
| 23872s | both players just fiddling around here |
| 23874s | trying to find something to do until |
| 23876s | the people turn up |
| 23882s | just a heck of a hearthstone going on |
| 23883s | right now you know they're really |
| 23885s | hearthstoning for the um |
| 23888s | dorm class at this point |
| 23890s | oh there we go arkan intellect time to |
| 23892s | accelerate this game |
| 23895s | card theater my good cards have got no |
| 23898s | good cards |
| 23903s | nothing's accelerating about this game |
| 23908s | though you know there's a rune in hand |
| 23911s | pretty likely to hit it if you did the |
| 23913s | guitar right now but i think it's just |
| 23916s | playing up the curve here |
| 23918s | these victims rolling |
| 23920s | you theater on six so it's one turn |
| 23922s | before they're |
| 23923s | gone |
| 23925s | oh you can but the odds that they have |
| 23927s | at this point are pretty low |
| 23929s | but it's your maximum chance right if |
| 23930s | you do it on six |
| 23933s | yeah |
| 23934s | and at the very least you could you |
| 23935s | could |
| 23937s | nag a rune because you saw the nine |
| 23939s | armor gained from the deep water broker |
| 23941s | so you know what's in hand |
| 23945s | yep |
| 23947s | you know they've probably got a |
| 23948s | pyroblast as well |
| 23955s | everything's gone face |
| 23957s | i don't know what's happening in this |
| 23958s | game there's so much rubbish |
| 23965s | you brought these cars to the tournament |
| 23967s | you play them |
| 23969s | nope not gonna theater just gonna |
| 23971s | because with the internet |
| 23974s | the dig for his own daughters |
| 23978s | now how he's gonna rip dawn grasp off |
| 23980s | the top and end the game |
| 23982s | oh |
| 23983s | jeez |
| 23985s | i think i hydrated |
| 23987s | yeah |
| 23988s | this otherwise how would you watch all |
| 23989s | these hearthstone cards flying about |
| 24000s | darfish watch post is so tempting for no |
| 24002s | particular reason here other than |
| 24006s | you get to push some childish levels of |
| 24009s | damage |
| 24011s | what to do |
| 24013s | what to do |
| 24018s | far more sensible |
| 24025s | yep i mean the damage is starting to |
| 24027s | compound right |
| 24030s | it's not negligible damage especially |
| 24033s | the pirate blasted hand |
| 24036s | hear it |
| 24039s | uh yeah what did that say are you just |
| 24040s | taking |
| 24044s | taking stuff |
| 24046s | i'm getting worried |
| 24048s | no it's a it's it's clearing with dawn |
| 24049s | grasp |
| 24052s | you know that one card's a are paralyzed |
| 24054s | one character like |
| 24058s | it's really good actually it switches |
| 24059s | the board around so much knowing that |
| 24061s | having probably dude yeah don't worry |
| 24063s | about it |
| 24065s | because they can do nothing next turn |
| 24066s | but you know |
| 24067s | of course he can |
| 24078s | that's the other reason i might have |
| 24079s | played theater earlier if there was the |
| 24081s | time because |
| 24083s | you're never if it's not in their hand |
| 24085s | now you're never hitting it i know those |
| 24087s | other things you can steal but |
| 24089s | yeah |
| 24090s | i i think now it's time to go for the |
| 24092s | rune |
| 24095s | like steal the rune yeah you can play it |
| 24097s | next turn |
| 24098s | you can parrot it i don't know i feel |
| 24100s | like without |
| 24101s | dawn grasping your opponent having dawn |
| 24103s | grasp you kind of just need to get |
| 24105s | things rolling and then you'll give them |
| 24107s | finley probably since their hand will be |
| 24108s | pretty empty and yeah |
| 24110s | i think that might be why he's playing |
| 24111s | the cold case actually |
| 24113s | you want cold case in your hand right |
| 24115s | you want that to be one of the options |
| 24116s | to give away no i don't think so i think |
| 24118s | you specifically want to give findlay |
| 24120s | okay so you play cold case first so |
| 24122s | you're guaranteed to |
| 24125s | have a fin need to give |
| 24126s | yeah |
| 24129s | because you don't want to give a |
| 24130s | reckless apprentice right because |
| 24132s | there's a donkey no no represents more |
| 24134s | damage you don't want to give a parrot |
| 24135s | because you kind of want to parrot the |
| 24137s | rune yep |
| 24140s | it's just a matter of if you want to |
| 24141s | play cold case or if you want to play |
| 24143s | reckless just |
| 24144s | guarantee give them the finley |
| 24151s | here we go nicely worked |
| 24155s | quite a bit of damage out there too for |
| 24157s | now to keep the skeleton up |
| 24160s | also didn't attack with the dog not |
| 24162s | attack with the dawn grasp |
| 24164s | interesting |
| 24167s | did he not attack with the dog grasp i |
| 24170s | i'm really bad at spotting if someone's |
| 24172s | attacked i just assume they have |
| 24173s | or assume it was frozen or something |
| 24175s | oh he didn't attack with the dog grass i |
| 24177s | don't think it was frozen |
| 24180s | interesting |
| 24184s | oh well uh traded off the uh |
| 24186s | other guy because he didn't want to play |
| 24188s | it give something for her here power |
| 24190s | target that makes sense yeah he's not |
| 24191s | attacking the dawn grasp |
| 24201s | gorilla ravager actually is pretty sick |
| 24208s | do it again |
| 24210s | you could count it do it again count to |
| 24212s | the moon they stole from you |
| 24215s | sun sets |
| 24217s | i think it's cold case that you know |
| 24219s | that there's stuff there but oh my |
| 24226s | oh |
| 24228s | actually his arcane brilliance just okay |
| 24229s | here yeah |
| 24231s | it's fine |
| 24233s | yeah |
| 24236s | oh yeah second gorlok ravager we're |
| 24238s | cooking now so he knows it's roonedore |
| 24241s | that's the one oh |
| 24243s | because he saw it being cast all right |
| 24245s | he's we're |
| 24247s | ruining it |
| 24251s | box wars let's giddy up |
| 24257s | okay card draw is fine |
| 24259s | country's really good he needs he really |
| 24261s | needs to catch |
| 24263s | up guess more judge is something you'll |
| 24265s | need to keep an eye on yourself oh |
| 24269s | oops |
| 24271s | that's not good |
| 24273s | oh no |
| 24275s | oh yes |
| 24277s | oh card draw fine |
| 24279s | open things |
| 24281s | oh something's getting burned |
| 24284s | whoops |
| 24287s | there goes the board |
| 24290s | this game is so silly |
| 24293s | all right |
| 24298s | we're lockholmes mutinous and the |
| 24300s | natural |
| 24302s | natural |
| 24304s | the natural that's |
| 24312s | that's obvious which is in the deck it's |
| 24315s | got to be deathborn because the atari |
| 24316s | and brand have already been played yep |
| 24319s | i thought these cards are specifically |
| 24321s | useful |
| 24322s | uh |
| 24324s | but hey they're good to throw away with |
| 24325s | finley |
| 24327s | yep |
| 24328s | finley the natural merger |
| 24331s | as they call him |
| 24341s | super fake needs to cobble together a |
| 24343s | plan |
| 24344s | yeah and i think that plan is just a |
| 24346s | giddy up right yeah |
| 24350s | get some |
| 24351s | skeletons onto the board |
| 24357s | yeah so maybe you can start with a roon |
| 24359s | door face see what happens |
| 24361s | yeah i like it |
| 24364s | face cold case |
| 24367s | yep |
| 24368s | i can flame ping on the ravager |
| 24370s | oh no cool case gives a ping target |
| 24373s | rune door face that starts first |
| 24375s | i see where you're at you're uh |
| 24378s | how many death points do you want yeah |
| 24379s | let's do it |
| 24380s | yeah |
| 24382s | and then you're not gonna be able to |
| 24383s | play around the hero powerful you just |
| 24384s | can't do it it's impossible |
| 24387s | but i think you still you cold case then |
| 24389s | you second flame ping freeze the murloc |
| 24392s | homes and play a uh |
| 24394s | shivering sorceress |
| 24397s | yeah |
| 24399s | i mean i agree it's just at the start of |
| 24401s | the turn the plan was to giddy up and |
| 24403s | now we're playing two skeletons and a |
| 24405s | two-two sorceress because that's our |
| 24407s | definition |
| 24409s | i know there's double death |
| 24411s | this freezes the ravager in pink's face |
| 24413s | just to |
| 24416s | start pushing |
| 24417s | damage nothing in this grace age period |
| 24420s | right |
| 24421s | no uh |
| 24423s | did he play a box no he's still got the |
| 24425s | box so no |
| 24426s | nothing in it |
| 24431s | but |
| 24445s | yeah now he's in trouble |
| 24454s | now he's got issues |
| 24465s | so |
| 24466s | giddy up was the order of the day |
| 24469s | and |
| 24470s | super fake able to do |
| 24473s | not gonna to death |
| 24475s | why it feels like that was a lot |
| 24480s | getting to |
| 24481s | box instead |
| 24489s | okay |
| 24492s | are you scared of the death born back |
| 24494s | from the palace on the other side |
| 24497s | i mean the answer's gonna be yes oh |
| 24499s | maybe |
| 24506s | damage fireball |
| 24508s | eight damage fireball |
| 24512s | jellyfish who's the jellyfish you can't |
| 24514s | stop |
| 24515s | this stop mordress is |
| 24518s | can't be close right |
| 24520s | without one |
| 24521s | it can't be it shouldn't be but every |
| 24524s | time we say that mordos is just juiced |
| 24526s | up |
| 24527s | yeah i agree it shouldn't be |
| 24534s | oh no |
| 24538s | these mage modes get sillier and sillier |
| 24540s | i mean mutants are |
| 24543s | correct is |
| 24545s | not good at all |
| 24546s | yeah yeah okay mortgage is active with |
| 24548s | this ping because four |
| 24551s | needs everything to happen here |
| 24554s | yep i mean super picks down to 10 also |
| 24556s | oh ignite oh it's a three damage ignite |
| 24562s | how much does it need i can't see it |
| 24564s | at least two |
| 24567s | i don't know how many |
| 24568s | you can you can solid alibi |
| 24576s | which also which gives you a skeleton |
| 24583s | ignite face pink face |
| 24586s | i feel like just happens |
| 24589s | we got four mana left solid alpha |
| 24592s | now you have already have six male now |
| 24594s | you have solid i'll be at four oh can |
| 24596s | you can you flame your skeleton take 50 |
| 24598s | 50s at any point here |
| 24601s | you could do it right now |
| 24604s | you can also death born to do it which |
| 24605s | spawns another this goes phase that's |
| 24607s | lethal yep there it is ignite ping |
| 24609s | going to game five |
| 24612s | what a game |
| 24615s | mages versus mages and now we have the |
| 24618s | quest hunter after i just want to forget |
| 24620s | that game was there be honest |
| 24623s | that was |
| 24624s | oh my gosh just uh crazy back and forth |
| 24628s | game like |
| 24631s | uh hubbugawa didn't play any runes but |
| 24633s | got don grass online |
| 24636s | then super fake just played two runes |
| 24638s | that were good enough to get there |
| 24644s | in his hand |
| 24645s | but it's not any more than it is that |
| 24647s | it's not |
| 24648s | like the hands get shuffled around and |
| 24650s | stolen and shuffled back in and |
| 24653s | messed around with so many times yeah |
| 24657s | in that search for dawn grasp |
| 24660s | and then all those went face that was an |
| 24662s | absolute killer like i think one or two |
| 24663s | missed but a huge number in face |
| 24669s | and |
| 24678s | like one frame from the end of that um |
| 24681s | review happy was like oh and then right |
| 24683s | then he just like |
| 24684s | he's calmed down in quarters he realizes |
| 24687s | that okay we're going to game five i |
| 24688s | still got quest hunter left |
| 24691s | um |
| 24692s | which |
| 24693s | you know it's it's quest honor |
| 24697s | it is a 30-card quest hunter so you are |
| 24700s | oh no it's nice it carts except he's got |
| 24702s | 40 carbs in it yeah yeah it's a 30 card |
| 24704s | quest hunter uh plus 10 |
| 24707s | um |
| 24708s | and you get |
| 24710s | also 40 health because of that plus 10. |
| 24713s | so what he did was he he built a 30 card |
| 24715s | quest hunter |
| 24717s | then he added renethal and then nine |
| 24718s | more cards |
| 24720s | to arrive at all the spirits |
| 24723s | yeah |
| 24724s | mighty was the one playing a 30 card |
| 24725s | question all right yes |
| 24727s | okay |
| 24728s | like th this works because you get to |
| 24731s | add all the wild seeds and it doesn't |
| 24735s | mean you have to |
| 24736s | not play a spell right that's the main |
| 24738s | reason you go 40. |
| 24740s | uh it just happens to be approximately |
| 24743s | sort of 36 good-ish enough cards you can |
| 24746s | put in and because they're spells not |
| 24748s | minions you can |
| 24749s | kind of get away with it because they're |
| 24751s | representing quite a bit of damage in |
| 24752s | the late game |
| 24753s | yeah |
| 24755s | in this 40 card deck from super fake |
| 24757s | there are roughly 45 cards that are |
| 24760s | useless for the matchup |
| 24764s | against habi's build right he he brought |
| 24766s | this deck because he wasn't scared of |
| 24767s | vogue enough or yeah like everybody else |
| 24770s | was |
| 24771s | yeah |
| 24772s | um |
| 24773s | no your early game minions just are |
| 24776s | fodder for the hunter to complete their |
| 24778s | quest |
| 24779s | late game spells do nothing |
| 24782s | uh-huh ass polymorph deathborn blizzard |
| 24785s | just all |
| 24787s | poor |
| 24789s | uh-huh |
| 24792s | yup that's something |
| 24794s | we even |
| 24795s | 20 or 19 more of those |
| 24800s | against this deck it might get there |
| 24804s | just |
| 24806s | sweet and pings |
| 24808s | how is that awful hand |
| 24811s | now he's fine |
| 24815s | if you're both just pinging each other |
| 24817s | non-stop back and forth like |
| 24819s | hunter wins |
| 24820s | two bigger than one the mage cheats |
| 24823s | halfway |
| 24825s | and catches up that's all yeah so still |
| 24828s | wind |
| 24832s | oh my |
| 24837s | do i want to play a mini in this game |
| 24840s | huh |
| 24843s | can i win without it |
| 24845s | also huh |
| 24848s | why am i minions so bad |
| 24850s | uh-huh |
| 24853s | there you go that's the thought process |
| 24854s | of um |
| 24858s | right now |
| 24861s | all right so happy's gonna start loading |
| 24862s | up the um |
| 24864s | the multicaster |
| 24873s | this is uh |
| 24875s | this feels impossible i know it's not i |
| 24876s | know that major can win this match up |
| 24878s | but |
| 24879s | it feels so difficult oh wildfire |
| 24881s | there's no |
| 24883s | that's the way |
| 24884s | like |
| 24885s | he only gained one armor that's a |
| 24888s | problem hubba gabba gets a good spring |
| 24890s | the trap here |
| 24892s | i'm gonna get the honorable kill |
| 24894s | two secrets from the deck it's gonna be |
| 24896s | a freezing and an ice trap |
| 24898s | and more importantly those cars aren't |
| 24900s | in his deck anymore |
| 24901s | yep |
| 24905s | because why would you not have a 40 card |
| 24907s | deck that just has 10 cards you have to |
| 24909s | rip out |
| 24910s | yep |
| 24912s | i think deep water revoker again plus a |
| 24914s | wildfire or he just wildfire eat the ice |
| 24917s | trap wildfire again and ping |
| 24921s | yeah i don't know |
| 24925s | i do know he's down at 34. |
| 24935s | what's the optimal number of cards for |
| 24937s | health tj |
| 24938s | i've asked this before |
| 24942s | what what are you talking about so if |
| 24943s | renato let you choose like if it was a |
| 24946s | slider between |
| 24948s | 30 and 40. yeah yeah what's the right |
| 24951s | number |
| 24952s | 40. |
| 24954s | you see that |
| 24955s | yeah |
| 24956s | you could play 60 cars and start with 60 |
| 24958s | health that'd be a that'd be good |
| 24963s | yeah imagine the stuff you'd have to |
| 24965s | play |
| 24967s | yeah it doesn't matter you've 60 health |
| 24970s | yeah but you can't kill anything and all |
| 24972s | your minions are trash |
| 24974s | no |
| 24975s | just uh |
| 24976s | go to the hearthstone |
| 24978s | the client search for |
| 24979s | draw |
| 24980s | yeah |
| 24983s | just |
| 24984s | everything with a draw or search or |
| 24987s | shuffle written on it in the entire |
| 24988s | universe |
| 24990s | i hope it gets there because you've got |
| 24992s | 60 health |
| 24997s | like one of the old priests benedict's |
| 25000s | priest decks they felt like i had 60 |
| 25001s | cards from the |
| 25005s | start the original benedict is not the |
| 25008s | shadow i wonder |
| 25015s | well |
| 25016s | the other problem here is that nobody |
| 25017s | had to prep for this deck |
| 25019s | because nobody brought the quest time to |
| 25021s | apart from knight and heaven |
| 25024s | and you didn't need to prep for mighty's |
| 25026s | version apparently |
| 25033s | you just get to this point you go why |
| 25035s | have i got no cards |
| 25042s | all right do that skeleton thing that |
| 25044s | you do this coin again |
| 25055s | like modern hearthstone is really |
| 25056s | overpowered but somebody from 2014 is |
| 25059s | watching this right now going so hunter |
| 25061s | just plays loads of traps and uses the |
| 25064s | hero power and that wins got those cards |
| 25066s | a week now |
| 25070s | nothing else so far |
| 25072s | traps and pings |
| 25075s | because he doesn't need to he's just |
| 25077s | setting up amazing multi-casters and |
| 25079s | filling his deck |
| 25083s | wonderful i love it |
| 25090s | oh |
| 25091s | okay |
| 25094s | it's no rush but it's |
| 25096s | mine i've heard of it |
| 25099s | oh superfix getting the deathborn here |
| 25101s | we go |
| 25106s | best way to sum up the entire game no |
| 25109s | rush |
| 25110s | ping away |
| 25115s | um |
| 25118s | don't even um me |
| 25122s | i want to um you tj because otherwise |
| 25124s | this is gonna be a very very tedious |
| 25126s | game five |
| 25129s | how many turns is habit away from |
| 25131s | actually just winning the game |
| 25132s | considering he's done nothing yet other |
| 25134s | than set things up he's not far away |
| 25136s | right |
| 25137s | really close suddenly |
| 25141s | [Music] |
| 25143s | he's gotta do the whole |
| 25145s | you know i need to wait till i can |
| 25148s | complete my quest before |
| 25151s | i play the |
| 25154s | last spell |
| 25156s | oh yeah that thing yeah |
| 25158s | it's theatre |
| 25160s | yes |
| 25165s | good point well made |
| 25173s | some stuff right there |
| 25182s | and can't play a |
| 25184s | spell now because |
| 25186s | would run the risk of super fake being |
| 25188s | able to get through |
| 25189s | properly explosive |
| 25193s | that's just the question |
| 25194s | they just draw three cards while you're |
| 25196s | waiting |
| 25196s | [Music] |
| 25197s | yeah fine |
| 25199s | but yeah there's a little bit extra |
| 25200s | damage this is so much damage |
| 25210s | mass polymorph which i think was |
| 25212s | probably brought to beat naga priests |
| 25215s | has just been waiting for this moment |
| 25217s | all its life |
| 25221s | i doubt it gets used but |
| 25223s | it it's on the bench it's got a chance |
| 25226s | warming |
| 25229s | up okay so this has to be a deathborn |
| 25231s | right like yeah it does |
| 25234s | you can ping the five four |
| 25240s | i want to see where the skeleton you |
| 25242s | know i suppose you want to death burn |
| 25243s | bonnet |
| 25244s | yeah |
| 25246s | i think trade into the 2-5 ping the 5-4 |
| 25249s | then death board and hope the skeleton |
| 25250s | hits the now a 2-2 |
| 25254s | because then you'd get another |
| 25256s | minion |
| 25257s | or just do this there we go |
| 25261s | i'll trade in |
| 25264s | and that's polymorph |
| 25265s | it's run of not being played just |
| 25268s | sitting on the bench watching deathborn |
| 25270s | who's bigger and better in every way |
| 25275s | he's jealous |
| 25277s | [Music] |
| 25284s | oh jeez |
| 25290s | there's so much damage being pushed to |
| 25291s | face here |
| 25293s | gel shot plus barb nets let's quest be |
| 25295s | complete |
| 25297s | and he's playable just to |
| 25299s | emphasize your point |
| 25304s | all right we've done the tippy toeing |
| 25308s | yeah now we start the dial real quick |
| 25310s | tippity-tapping now begins yeah |
| 25314s | tippity tap |
| 25316s | tippity tab number one next turn is |
| 25317s | gonna be number two number three number |
| 25319s | four and probably number five |
| 25322s | and then we done boulder our opponent in |
| 25337s | i don't think you can solid alibi |
| 25341s | can you not |
| 25343s | i guess you have to push your luck |
| 25345s | you do yeah you do turn after |
| 25347s | yeah but then if you do with the turn |
| 25349s | after then one day which might like be |
| 25351s | enough just depending on how much you |
| 25353s | took yeah yeah you're on six it's like |
| 25355s | pew pew pew pew you know |
| 25357s | that's six i'm lucky |
| 25368s | this 18 |
| 25370s | plus |
| 25371s | five this is 23 damage if you go all in |
| 25377s | game shot or hear a power aim shot |
| 25380s | you're a power aim shot |
| 25382s | you're a power stag charge here of power |
| 25385s | 23. |
| 25388s | i'm gonna say yes i counted like 20 or |
| 25390s | 21 so you'll be right i'm always |
| 25394s | mr power two |
| 25396s | then aim shot era power nine |
| 25402s | then aim shot |
| 25404s | you're a power |
| 25406s | 16 |
| 25408s | and stag charge here probably only 21 |
| 25410s | okay let's do |
| 25414s | i was right another aim shot oh my |
| 25417s | or you could take rats of extraordinary |
| 25420s | size |
| 25424s | just juice up the death board on the |
| 25426s | other side just like really get it |
| 25428s | rolling |
| 25431s | takes the aim shot |
| 25433s | car |
| 25434s | quickly i think it's going to work out |
| 25436s | if he can actually waste a team because |
| 25438s | he still have lethal now |
| 25448s | this is where the solid alibi comes in |
| 25449s | right |
| 25451s | it is |
| 25460s | 23 available for hobby last time just to |
| 25462s | emphasize the point of him setting up |
| 25464s | the lethal there and still killing |
| 25465s | minions |
| 25466s | the three aim shots and the four hero |
| 25468s | powers |
| 25477s | the cards they do nothing |
| 25480s | why do i have these cards and why am i |
| 25482s | still in this tournament with them |
| 25495s | all right so the problem isn't |
| 25497s | how to survive one more turn we can see |
| 25499s | that solid alibi would work the problem |
| 25501s | is |
| 25503s | you know you're probably dying next time |
| 25504s | because why else would happy clear the |
| 25506s | board not hit you in the face |
| 25508s | how do you kill habu in the world where |
| 25510s | you get two turns ever |
| 25514s | yeah there is lethal from 22 and yeah |
| 25517s | yeah yeah he set that up three aim shots |
| 25519s | that's it |
| 25521s | 23 i think it is 23. yeah he's got the |
| 25524s | explosive so it's even more no he hasn't |
| 25526s | he has an explosive trap up so he can't |
| 25528s | do it |
| 25529s | yeah |
| 25530s | plus |
| 25531s | and that'll be it |
| 25535s | a nice setup |
| 25537s | the quest hunter coming in clutch |
| 25541s | and despite losing that uh mage mirror |
| 25543s | uh is still able to get across the line |
| 25545s | here |
| 25546s | and uh and take the win move on to the |
| 25548s | finals |
| 25552s | where he will play |
| 25558s | largely just for seeding at this point |
| 25561s | yeah |
| 25563s | both of them have avoided the bottom two |
| 25565s | both of them can avoid the top two |
| 25571s | right bragging rights weekly pride you |
| 25574s | know all that good stuff |
| 25575s | yeah |
| 25578s | and happy life |
| 25579s | good currently on |
| 25582s | [Music] |
| 25584s | the top eight is bunny hopper blize |
| 25586s | possession |
| 25588s | fury hunter |
| 25589s | super fake |
| 25591s | babugabu and lebanon i've heard of it um |
| 25595s | levick has already passed super faking |
| 25597s | tiebreaker |
| 25600s | as livik doesn't have the point super |
| 25601s | fake's got seven |
| 25603s | rebecca has five currently |
| 25606s | is the levick he's ahead of um |
| 25608s | fury hunter he's the head of cuisine |
| 25613s | there's two people below him |
| 25615s | in that top eight |
| 25616s | he's in the top six which is all he |
| 25618s | needs and he can't get to nine points so |
| 25620s | he's in that three four five six and |
| 25622s | habu kind of the same deal |
| 25627s | yeah so they're they're already yeah |
| 25629s | they've already avoided the bottom two i |
| 25630s | thought maybe lubbock if you didn't win |
| 25632s | might have not avoided it but just by |
| 25633s | getting to the finals has avoided it |
| 25636s | yes and actually by getting to the |
| 25637s | finals was the only way he could even |
| 25639s | get in the top eight yep there's one of |
| 25641s | those players who had a terrible start |
| 25642s | zero points week one |
| 25644s | then like put the key in the ignition |
| 25646s | last week and got one point and then |
| 25648s | this week boom |
| 25651s | more points already |
| 25653s | four points just like that i had two |
| 25655s | weeks off and now he's just |
| 25657s | making up for it and he gets to play |
| 25660s | in the last |
| 25662s | week three final |
| 25664s | yeah uh should be a good finals um |
| 25667s | kind of one of the only players going |
| 25668s | against the grain with the |
| 25670s | not specifically targeting anything but |
| 25672s | just leaving rogue up and saying i can |
| 25674s | beat it right yeah i really like that |
| 25677s | honestly yeah |
| 25679s | so uh i |
| 25681s | have liked the way he built that lineup |
| 25683s | you know i like players that tend to go |
| 25685s | against the grain and don't just conform |
| 25687s | to what the |
| 25688s | statistically best approach is |
| 25691s | and then levick is uh you know one of |
| 25694s | the many players who opted for the band |
| 25696s | rogue leave up druid but bring warlock |
| 25698s | as a counter |
| 25700s | um so uh i i've |
| 25704s | liked the approach from both players |
| 25707s | uh coming into this one |
| 25708s | even though levicks was shared by many |
| 25710s | others he was the one that came out on |
| 25712s | top he beat many of them |
| 25714s | uh to to get to this point right so |
| 25717s | obviously his lineup the the tech |
| 25718s | choices and the like which type of mage |
| 25722s | has worked out better than some of the |
| 25724s | other players that have also had similar |
| 25726s | ideas |
| 25727s | with their strategy so we have a good |
| 25728s | face-off to determine |
| 25730s | um who has the best approach to last |
| 25732s | year's standing coming up in the finals |
| 25734s | so |
| 25735s | uh it should be a good one should be a |
| 25737s | good one we've all set it up but we've |
| 25738s | reached that point neil |
| 25740s | we've reached the halfway point of our |
| 25742s | shift |
| 25743s | because we're casting two matches today |
| 25744s | we've cast one which means we have one |
| 25745s | left which is right smack dab |
| 25748s | in the middle so |
| 25749s | uh before we jump into the finals so |
| 25751s | we're gonna have to uh take a break |
| 25753s | habukapu himself uh needs a break just |
| 25755s | played a really long series we're gonna |
| 25756s | give him 10 minutes uh to reset gather |
| 25759s | himself and get ready to play levick in |
| 25760s | the finals so don't go anywhere at the |
| 25762s | conclusion to the final week of the |
| 25764s | regular season here at hearthstone grand |
| 25766s | master's last call right after this |
| 25769s | [Music] |
| 25783s | do |
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| 25808s | so |
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| 25839s | oh |
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| 25868s | do |
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| 25891s | so |
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| 25933s | so |
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| 25950s | [Applause] |
| 25953s | [Music] |
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| 25977s | so |
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| 26032s | so |
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| 26229s | do |
| 26235s | [Music] |
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| 26271s | so |
| 26274s | [Music] |
| 26383s | hello everybody welcome back to |
| 26384s | hearthstone grand masters last call |
| 26386s | we've reached the final match of the day |
| 26388s | and would you look at that it's the |
| 26390s | finals between habukabu and levick |
| 26394s | as you can see below on the screen my |
| 26395s | name is tj i'm joined by neil |
| 26398s | larinda bond aka |
| 26400s | we don't really know or have figured out |
| 26402s | an aka just yet we'll work it out one |
| 26405s | day that that's the ak but yes we'll |
| 26406s | work it out one day |
| 26408s | uh solid we'll be casting it for year |
| 26409s | and a half but whatever there you go |
| 26410s | that's how these players got here at |
| 26412s | least from the semifinals loving feet of |
| 26414s | bunny hopper we just saw hobbical defeat |
| 26417s | super fake in a |
| 26418s | quite a long and back and forth series |
| 26421s | but only one can be crowned the last |
| 26424s | call champion at least for week three |
| 26425s | the final week of the regular season |
| 26428s | and who's it going to be neil it's going |
| 26429s | to be loving us |
| 26432s | last gm standing standing champion |
| 26435s | yep that's the official time it's going |
| 26437s | to be |
| 26439s | levick |
| 26441s | and it's going to be levick because he |
| 26444s | has a point to prove |
| 26447s | i think he gets left out of discussions |
| 26448s | about being best player in the world all |
| 26450s | those discussions quite often when |
| 26452s | actually he plays very solid very |
| 26454s | consistent hearthstone and we talk about |
| 26455s | habu we talk about bunny we talk about |
| 26457s | fury |
| 26458s | all the time |
| 26460s | and so i think it's all about who wants |
| 26462s | it the most tj because that's how |
| 26464s | strategic card games work |
| 26466s | yep if you want it more |
| 26469s | you'll get it |
| 26470s | that's that's exactly right um |
| 26473s | but bands are coming in uh same bands as |
| 26476s | they've been making the entire |
| 26477s | tournament because lubbock has brought |
| 26479s | the |
| 26481s | uh hybrid imp curse warlock which has a |
| 26484s | good match up into druid that's a good |
| 26486s | counter deck against druid |
| 26488s | he's afforded the luxury of leaving up |
| 26489s | druid |
| 26491s | um and bans away the rogue whereas on |
| 26493s | the other side habugabu |
| 26495s | is banning |
| 26497s | the rogue or |
| 26498s | no |
| 26499s | [Laughter] |
| 26500s | the opposite |
| 26501s | yeah ain't the druid because he's |
| 26503s | confident enough that he can beat the |
| 26505s | drew with one of his decks even though |
| 26506s | he doesn't have a direct counter |
| 26509s | for it |
| 26510s | uh which is interesting |
| 26511s | a lot of players thought the rogue would |
| 26513s | be the strongest or one of the strongest |
| 26514s | decks coming to this weekend that you |
| 26516s | would absolutely have to have a counter |
| 26517s | for it like quest priest |
| 26521s | but nope hubba gabba said i'm just gonna |
| 26523s | bring quest hunter and have good |
| 26524s | matchups against pretty much everything |
| 26526s | else |
| 26526s | yeah i'm just gonna beat rogue because |
| 26528s | i'm a hubble gabriel i can beat whatever |
| 26530s | i like uh both players in their first |
| 26532s | series season of gm as well |
| 26535s | yeah within uh |
| 26538s | playing well this year |
| 26539s | that's right |
| 26540s | there's the miracle rogue from levick it |
| 26542s | is the double backstab double signature |
| 26545s | strike uh variation of the deck so |
| 26548s | in terms of early game consistency it's |
| 26550s | there i imagine we're own |
| 26554s | abugabuki drew it first okay i like this |
| 26558s | uh druid would likely get countered by |
| 26561s | the warlock anyway so just throw it out |
| 26562s | there right now just do it just do it |
| 26565s | yup if it's gonna get counted then get |
| 26567s | it over with |
| 26568s | yeah |
| 26570s | and then beat everything with it |
| 26574s | um statistics |
| 26578s | they just say |
| 26580s | he's good |
| 26582s | honestly if i could just get a marker |
| 26584s | pen |
| 26585s | from the bottom left to the top right of |
| 26586s | those three boxes that i fill in it's |
| 26588s | like he is good in red pen across |
| 26592s | diagonally upwards |
| 26594s | and sum it all up much better than |
| 26595s | having to read numbers and words |
| 26598s | yep |
| 26599s | because he is good he's also the 2022 |
| 26602s | summer champion |
| 26603s | which is the thing that makes us think |
| 26605s | he's good i guess |
| 26607s | yep |
| 26608s | that's correct that makes me think that |
| 26610s | he's really good |
| 26612s | you just have those three things all |
| 26614s | interconnected like the masters top |
| 26615s | eight got him that win rate at the |
| 26617s | bottom which qualified for him for the |
| 26619s | first thing which is the summer |
| 26621s | championships which he then won |
| 26623s | there's actually just one big stat |
| 26626s | which is why he's good subs i'm so much |
| 26628s | better yep you know what else is good |
| 26631s | druid |
| 26632s | this is the giant |
| 26634s | druid giant ramp druid queen ashara |
| 26637s | thrown in there just for good measure |
| 26640s | um |
| 26643s | very interesting uh queen ashara |
| 26646s | you can queen ashara okay |
| 26648s | yup listen up okay listen |
| 26651s | queen ashara |
| 26652s | get the horn okay you're still listening |
| 26655s | he'll also cross one boom yeah balloon |
| 26658s | colossal two colossals |
| 26660s | double the appendages |
| 26663s | did you listen |
| 26665s | i listened |
| 26666s | you blown away |
| 26668s | amazing tj but where's the druid gonna |
| 26670s | get all that mana from |
| 26672s | you don't that's the thing neil last |
| 26674s | thing you're listening |
| 26675s | you don't even need that much mana |
| 26678s | cast a couple spells all you need is |
| 26680s | five mana queen of shark next turn |
| 26682s | i need a seven |
| 26685s | mana easy-peasy it comes for free |
| 26688s | it's big that's baked into the class |
| 26691s | you know what else is good |
| 26693s | guff |
| 26694s | guff stuff |
| 26696s | wild heart |
| 26700s | he's girl all right oh here we go |
| 26705s | got got the mana hearthstone when your |
| 26707s | true target throws man at you |
| 26710s | yep it just throws it |
| 26724s | the trouble is when you're a rogue it |
| 26726s | throws damage at you if you're um yeah |
| 26729s | yep |
| 26732s | so habibu is actually planning ahead |
| 26733s | here when to play this planted evidence |
| 26735s | because it is something that |
| 26737s | could be pretty useful in actually |
| 26739s | winning this game because he's going to |
| 26741s | respond pretty quick i think if you want |
| 26743s | it sorry if you want to get it out early |
| 26745s | you're either using it this turn to dig |
| 26747s | for a while growth |
| 26749s | um or |
| 26751s | you're you're using it next turn |
| 26753s | delaying the wild blue seeds man to look |
| 26755s | for something to kill a knoll with rid |
| 26756s | of the reef right |
| 26758s | um |
| 26759s | that's armor oh that's armor that's just |
| 26762s | that's just free armor xxx |
| 26765s | xl druid |
| 26771s | nole okay so no tracker |
| 26774s | but |
| 26775s | with the noko |
| 26777s | oh he was back |
| 26778s | he's just hiding |
| 26781s | now he's really hiding |
| 26787s | [Music] |
| 26796s | yeah i'm just kidding |
| 26803s | okay so it's easy no that draws and and |
| 26807s | bigs |
| 26810s | that sounds like some sort of um |
| 26812s | poem |
| 26814s | and all the draws and bigs |
| 26817s | is jabberwocky |
| 26821s | i don't think i know what do i know |
| 26826s | it's done graveyard easy peasy that is |
| 26829s | large seven seven |
| 26834s | all right so this is the druid |
| 26836s | that looks like it's a really good |
| 26838s | position i know 45 seconds ago |
| 26842s | has lost |
| 26846s | it's done |
| 26849s | don't count your |
| 26852s | mana before they have eggs |
| 26856s | why not |
| 26861s | i guess it's probably wise |
| 26866s | what why would you count chickens at all |
| 26869s | just don't count your chickens that |
| 26870s | would that would do as a phrase just |
| 26872s | don't count |
| 26873s | there's a lot of them they make a lot of |
| 26874s | noise they smell just just don't count |
| 26876s | them just |
| 26877s | there's some chickens a whole lot of |
| 26879s | chickens |
| 26885s | all right |
| 26886s | so habakkuk does have scale for next |
| 26888s | turn which will deal with the ghost plus |
| 26890s | the edwin |
| 26892s | problem is |
| 26894s | after that it's just question mark |
| 26895s | question mark question mark |
| 26898s | yeah |
| 26899s | i don't know profit not at the end |
| 26903s | yeah |
| 26906s | there's another |
| 26907s | it's all burn in levick's hand yeah |
| 26909s | levin's just |
| 26915s | uh-huh |
| 26917s | would you like some more urban or would |
| 26919s | you like a drucker |
| 26925s | it's a heavy question |
| 26927s | that's heavy |
| 26928s | you're probably getting scaled you've |
| 26930s | got six attack on board if you do get |
| 26932s | scaled |
| 26935s | yeah okay bail out and take the sensible |
| 26937s | card |
| 26939s | [Music] |
| 26942s | but really it was sensible |
| 26945s | yeah |
| 26946s | okay |
| 26951s | ah it's still really expensive |
| 26954s | yeah these 20 mana cards on turn seven |
| 26956s | even for druid a little bit awkward |
| 26959s | [Applause] |
| 26970s | oh no there wasn't okay yeah |
| 26972s | because even though there's the right |
| 26974s | amount it's not spreading the right way |
| 26978s | it's 14 damage you're trying to do 14 |
| 26980s | but you can't do it in packets of one |
| 26982s | and a half oh no |
| 26988s | oh no |
| 26990s | disaster ah but he can make another |
| 26992s | minion you can make a 3-3 ghost |
| 26995s | backstab that as well |
| 26997s | i'd be a four or four ghost because you |
| 26999s | also get the draka |
| 27001s | no he wants to play the draco afterwards |
| 27006s | how do you oh you make a ghost and then |
| 27008s | you backstab the ah |
| 27010s | i see i see i see sc |
| 27013s | and he's just |
| 27014s | double checking that's not really stupid |
| 27016s | like you had to |
| 27021s | yep |
| 27024s | we got a nice 5-3 dagger loaded up |
| 27029s | dead |
| 27031s | yep |
| 27034s | we told you how great it was that how we |
| 27035s | decided that rogue was easy to beat this |
| 27037s | week and look at what it's got him |
| 27041s | a whole lot of damage in the face |
| 27044s | you gotta be scrappy with scraps and |
| 27047s | this is the downside of that strategy |
| 27048s | right joking aside because now you |
| 27050s | haven't got a druid anymore which is the |
| 27053s | best deck in the game possibly |
| 27055s | and your opponent still has a rogue |
| 27057s | yeah so you gotta cue |
| 27060s | the mirror |
| 27061s | no you can't keep the mirror because |
| 27067s | yeah |
| 27068s | it's okay you can win that match but |
| 27071s | again it's another sort of |
| 27073s | round numbers 45 |
| 27075s | job which you're just assuming isn't |
| 27077s | going to keep beating you but it's last |
| 27078s | hero it can just keep beating you so |
| 27081s | habu |
| 27083s | i mean i guess he's got a point to prove |
| 27084s | he's already proved his point he's got |
| 27086s | to the final he's got enough points to |
| 27087s | qualify for the top eight and all that |
| 27089s | good stuff |
| 27090s | but a bit of a point to prove here if he |
| 27092s | does get swept by vogue in the final |
| 27093s | yeah |
| 27094s | that's actually going to be mage from |
| 27096s | hobokabu looking at this okay that makes |
| 27098s | more sense it is the excel xl xxl |
| 27102s | a big spell |
| 27105s | oh we're we heard we said it before this |
| 27107s | mage is big okay |
| 27109s | it's |
| 27110s | a large mage |
| 27113s | big it actually be in this situation |
| 27114s | should be x x x l |
| 27118s | h because |
| 27119s | it's big because it's got big spells |
| 27121s | it's big it's got 40 cards and it's big |
| 27123s | because it kind of needs to be thrown |
| 27124s | right now |
| 27126s | big deal |
| 27128s | big deal yep |
| 27129s | got ways to do it |
| 27132s | it |
| 27133s | has i mean |
| 27135s | like deep water evoker is pretty premium |
| 27139s | right now |
| 27141s | our fish is kind of i don't think you |
| 27142s | keep it but starfish is handy as a thing |
| 27146s | yeah and can be handy if you're not |
| 27149s | already dead |
| 27151s | yeah the guitar can be good as well um |
| 27155s | alibi keeps you there one more turn have |
| 27157s | you otherwise he hasn't got eyebrows |
| 27158s | because he's big mage |
| 27160s | oh yeah |
| 27161s | caught myself just |
| 27163s | so theater in the opening hand manager |
| 27164s | dawn grabs not really doing anything |
| 27166s | because you're not recasting any spells |
| 27168s | and you can't really spend seven man |
| 27169s | against five right |
| 27171s | uh watch post is good |
| 27172s | watch post is good theater is good i |
| 27174s | think those are the two keeps |
| 27177s | watch post obviously you know |
| 27179s | all your cards cost naught if they turn |
| 27181s | into cards that cost one they cost |
| 27182s | infinitely more |
| 27184s | and it really hinders edwin really |
| 27186s | hinders what you're trying to do |
| 27188s | we've seen what happens with expensive |
| 27189s | cards in that vogue deck with haboo's |
| 27192s | sprint when he drew it for instance so |
| 27193s | yeah |
| 27195s | just adding a lot of mana to those cards |
| 27197s | superb |
| 27199s | no need to keep the dawn glass because |
| 27200s | your way of winning this game is to |
| 27203s | run them out of their four threats |
| 27205s | what's amused you tj threw away a |
| 27208s | gorlach ravager in the mulligan just |
| 27209s | gets back at gorlock ravager in the same |
| 27211s | spot |
| 27217s | uh |
| 27218s | yeah |
| 27220s | [Music] |
| 27223s | there you go |
| 27224s | turn two watch post |
| 27226s | it's so good it's just so good |
| 27232s | what are you gonna do |
| 27236s | bone spike it |
| 27237s | uh |
| 27239s | i wanna tooth it |
| 27241s | but there's a problem |
| 27243s | with not having that |
| 27246s | so there's been |
| 27248s | one |
| 27249s | two |
| 27251s | four the knolls are free right already |
| 27254s | because of the life tab |
| 27256s | post a live tap |
| 27259s | he tried to hit that sort of tooth or |
| 27260s | something but ends up hitting prep |
| 27266s | oh no it's an absolute emergency |
| 27272s | you gone fishing and then you shroud |
| 27275s | i mean |
| 27277s | yeah |
| 27278s | because you know the shroud's still at |
| 27280s | the bottom and you want to get the gone |
| 27282s | fishing out of there right yeah |
| 27284s | yeah just jam renault take control of |
| 27286s | the board |
| 27291s | oh |
| 27295s | oh |
| 27296s | all right game changes a little bit |
| 27300s | the atar |
| 27303s | oh joe me and edwin |
| 27305s | yeah sean edwin |
| 27309s | there it is |
| 27313s | and harbour thinks he's hit the bad card |
| 27315s | in the hand |
| 27318s | i |
| 27319s | where's ooh actually |
| 27322s | you don't want to get many of these |
| 27326s | uh |
| 27329s | don't grasp |
| 27334s | yeah but don grass was your way to deal |
| 27335s | with the things that you're not taking |
| 27338s | like or that you're |
| 27340s | okay sure yeah |
| 27342s | that's all right they're never playing |
| 27344s | it you'll deal with them somehow |
| 27346s | it's haboo he deals with things somehow |
| 27348s | that's why the roads up in the first |
| 27349s | place |
| 27351s | faith in yourself |
| 27358s | don't need a lot of faith in himself |
| 27369s | what is this |
| 27371s | what's going on |
| 27373s | with the enemy just do what he likes |
| 27375s | yeah dagger |
| 27378s | expensive prep |
| 27381s | initial strike |
| 27384s | yeah press the button cheat pip stop |
| 27388s | it's going oh no we're going all in okay |
| 27391s | just do it |
| 27393s | we're in there it has so rubbish just |
| 27395s | just just see if this |
| 27397s | ghost can get it done on its own that |
| 27399s | looks like thanks for the dawn grasp |
| 27403s | yeah |
| 27404s | some tempo next turn from it |
| 27411s | surprisingly so |
| 27413s | needs some card draw however sprint |
| 27415s | would be quite nice |
| 27419s | dog glass would be quite nice |
| 27421s | yeah |
| 27421s | second shroud would be fantastic |
| 27426s | you edwin just to draw a card |
| 27429s | that's too slow right |
| 27430s | you're probably just a vocal pelican |
| 27434s | that makes more sense |
| 27443s | because evoker negates an attack from |
| 27445s | that 10-10 which is important what about |
| 27447s | bran edwin |
| 27450s | what to do |
| 27451s | what to do |
| 27453s | you got to keep the coins now you've got |
| 27454s | to keep the coin i mean if your goal is |
| 27456s | to draw cards you're playing gorlock |
| 27458s | ravager like |
| 27460s | it's bigger than that oh okay so they're |
| 27462s | cool yeah all right we |
| 27464s | we got there |
| 27465s | my goal is to draw cards |
| 27467s | you know how to do it |
| 27469s | between us what a team |
| 27475s | hit you for 14 though |
| 27477s | oh |
| 27479s | this is uh |
| 27482s | me |
| 27492s | next turn but currently like that's just |
| 27499s | i wonder why you backstab there if |
| 27501s | you're |
| 27502s | already |
| 27504s | hardening it |
| 27507s | um |
| 27509s | assert dominance |
| 27512s | starfish |
| 27513s | starfish |
| 27517s | you played vardy because it sets up |
| 27519s | potential lethals |
| 27523s | and then you want to kill it because you |
| 27525s | can because you need every sword because |
| 27528s | starfish |
| 27530s | it is solid armor |
| 27536s | back to 40. |
| 27538s | uh-huh |
| 27541s | door |
| 27543s | could be good |
| 27544s | what's in the door |
| 27548s | extortion |
| 27552s | are we playing there just to kill the |
| 27554s | bran |
| 27555s | apparently not is the sinister strike |
| 27557s | instead |
| 27563s | oh no |
| 27565s | yeah you gotta kill the brand |
| 27568s | you're still pushing 13 but |
| 27572s | this 1010 is going to have to attack |
| 27574s | quite a few more times |
| 27576s | once |
| 27577s | depending what's going on the top |
| 27579s | be fair |
| 27582s | ah but now |
| 27585s | we're just |
| 27587s | laying back |
| 27593s | the fix down to 16 because all the face |
| 27595s | attacks he's had to do as well i know |
| 27598s | i click sanctum fantastic amplified snow |
| 27601s | flurry fantastic double night looks yeah |
| 27603s | yeah |
| 27605s | yeah |
| 27606s | i don't need a band rogue i can beat it |
| 27608s | any way i like and yeah for a moment |
| 27611s | though it looked a bit like it might not |
| 27612s | work but suddenly |
| 27614s | having complete control |
| 27616s | yeah |
| 27618s | okay whatever |
| 27619s | i kind of wanted to look at |
| 27623s | alas all right trout is something |
| 27627s | i also lost two minions you can't always |
| 27630s | try yeah after uh having salt there's |
| 27632s | probably more damage than if you held |
| 27633s | onto my astra |
| 27635s | uh for another turn |
| 27640s | who knew that theater was a good card |
| 27642s | huh |
| 27648s | that was oh you can do what he likes he |
| 27650s | can't he's just going to look for lethal |
| 27651s | now he knows he can do what he wants |
| 27654s | there's there's no way for lethal |
| 27656s | i can't take him |
| 27659s | this gives you nice clean skeleton |
| 27662s | trades |
| 27672s | yeah that's the play i was looking at i |
| 27673s | just got to that point i'm like well now |
| 27675s | i know i cannot die next to her can i |
| 27677s | win this turn |
| 27681s | i was right |
| 27682s | he could win this turn |
| 27686s | you were right all along but there you |
| 27687s | go abugabu takes out the ropes now we're |
| 27689s | back to parody however |
| 27691s | lubbock does get an opportunity to |
| 27694s | counter |
| 27694s | [Music] |
| 27696s | uh the mage which is going |
| 27699s | actually |
| 27701s | [Music] |
| 27703s | because the druid is |
| 27705s | not yeah that's the problem right like |
| 27707s | the warlock is there to beat the druid |
| 27709s | and there is no druid anymore |
| 27712s | oh you're going to have a warlock in the |
| 27713s | mage |
| 27721s | right i know you played me |
| 27724s | you play mage into mage and then |
| 27727s | you're looking at that |
| 27728s | then the quest hunter beats the mage |
| 27732s | and then you put your warlock into the |
| 27733s | hunter |
| 27734s | then you put your warlock into the |
| 27735s | hunter yep so so we're gonna most likely |
| 27737s | gonna be seeing a mage mirror here but |
| 27738s | i'm looking at my other screen here and |
| 27740s | it's actually gonna be warlock so wow |
| 27742s | i'm surprised but levick |
| 27745s | no he's better than those better than |
| 27747s | most people i think with this warlock |
| 27748s | deck |
| 27749s | because it's the right collection of |
| 27751s | cards |
| 27752s | i mean you have a ton of time if you can |
| 27754s | get some early damage in uh with this uh |
| 27757s | hybrid imp curse warlock and |
| 27760s | i mean you could win the game with |
| 27762s | curses the problem is like you saw just |
| 27764s | how much armor |
| 27766s | the mage can gain |
| 27767s | um |
| 27768s | with like |
| 27769s | the deep water evoker |
| 27771s | you know you trade back the drake firing |
| 27773s | light the water broker again |
| 27777s | yeah |
| 27778s | it doesn't have to do that but it's kind |
| 27780s | of built to just not die isn't it |
| 27787s | interesting though |
| 27789s | look this apprentice obviously super |
| 27791s | useful but |
| 27792s | kind of behind the ball sometimes so you |
| 27795s | need it because coinvictus apprentice |
| 27796s | cleans up a circle so that's nice |
| 27803s | and there's the avoca and the brown |
| 27807s | is the armor covered so now he just has |
| 27808s | to not die to the three twos and the |
| 27811s | middling the three three minions |
| 27814s | clear those up you should be a good spot |
| 27824s | [Music] |
| 27832s | yeah for the maze this is the |
| 27834s | nope |
| 27836s | are you pinging the three two here |
| 27838s | yep |
| 27839s | if elaborate comes out and it gets |
| 27841s | buffed whatever the ping wasn't really |
| 27843s | going anywhere anyway |
| 27855s | he's like oh yay |
| 27857s | everything's gonna die |
| 27864s | however |
| 27865s | i can't take them it's gonna be a reload |
| 27867s | here with a mischievous imp |
| 27869s | yeah |
| 27870s | and then a reload with imking reform so |
| 27872s | it's been still a lot of damage coming |
| 27874s | habigabu's way |
| 27879s | keep your trust eight nine things |
| 27881s | already so |
| 27882s | wardrobe is fine |
| 27887s | oh yeah fortress is like active |
| 27890s | nearly |
| 27893s | yep no time to mess up with brands three |
| 27895s | fours too good shape to mess around |
| 27897s | obviously |
| 27898s | yep |
| 27901s | okay that's a minion |
| 27903s | let the ritual oh wow |
| 27908s | okay |
| 27909s | that that surprised me but i guess it |
| 27911s | just plays on |
| 27912s | it doesn't have a death throttle it's |
| 27913s | just two ones but |
| 27915s | i mean this is how you beat big spell |
| 27916s | mage right like they they don't have any |
| 27918s | spells |
| 27920s | outside of the big ones so their ways to |
| 27922s | interact with the board are severely |
| 27924s | limited |
| 27925s | best named deck ever |
| 27928s | they don't have any other spells apart |
| 27930s | from their big ones mage |
| 27933s | yep there we go |
| 27934s | is going to come down and |
| 27936s | even though you're not getting the full |
| 27937s | resurrect you're still buffing |
| 27940s | if he draws a cheap spell this could get |
| 27942s | nasty |
| 27944s | it's fine |
| 27945s | okay i look forward to this all right |
| 27947s | yeah bubblegum was like ah |
| 27951s | for a second i thought i might be clear |
| 27954s | yeah and there's no cheap spelling hand |
| 27956s | levitt dodged that particular |
| 27959s | small issue |
| 27962s | yep |
| 27963s | yeah i don't think loving even cares |
| 27964s | with this watch post |
| 27968s | i'm not doing anything |
| 27970s | in fact at this point it's probably just |
| 27971s | helping |
| 27972s | yeah alex oh yeah be so good eight |
| 27975s | 14 17 |
| 27978s | 27 |
| 27979s | 30 damage on board |
| 27981s | let's pull the 26 |
| 27983s | yeah there's a starfish |
| 27986s | which blocks a good amount right that |
| 27988s | takes off |
| 27992s | four six |
| 27994s | and powerful four ten twelve |
| 27998s | stop these no thanks two no |
| 28000s | five mm |
| 28005s | guess what i did yeah okay you know |
| 28008s | oh there's dawn girls but it's |
| 28011s | way too late |
| 28014s | i mean you don't even want to grasp in |
| 28016s | this matter it doesn't cast anything |
| 28018s | that's what i mean yeah it's just you |
| 28020s | can't ping like one finger turn it's way |
| 28022s | too slow not way too late yeah i mean |
| 28024s | it's not too late it's perfectly on |
| 28026s | curve yeah |
| 28032s | i want to make a board space for like |
| 28034s | cultists |
| 28038s | like he traded one one and a 33 into the |
| 28041s | starfish and then cultist |
| 28046s | that happens |
| 28048s | yeah |
| 28050s | nah |
| 28052s | oh okay yeah |
| 28053s | but just push the extra damage |
| 28057s | okay |
| 28060s | that's one curse |
| 28064s | i'm looking at the board the curses the |
| 28066s | casting costs nothing's adding up well |
| 28068s | for hubble here |
| 28070s | blizzard or bust |
| 28073s | where where |
| 28075s | bob says no |
| 28077s | you could hope that there's a cheap |
| 28079s | bell in hand |
| 28084s | or you can concede all right levick 2-1 |
| 28086s | up |
| 28087s | gets the one with the warlock and now |
| 28088s | it's only quest hunter |
| 28091s | left remaining for habukapu still |
| 28094s | very doable |
| 28095s | right absolutely yeah |
| 28098s | and again i've said it all week and i've |
| 28100s | run out of things to say so i'm gonna |
| 28101s | say it again |
| 28102s | i'm very surprised that we only saw two |
| 28104s | quest hunters brought this week but |
| 28106s | again |
| 28108s | easy to say that now but have to put |
| 28110s | yourself in the |
| 28111s | last thursday at meta mainly last |
| 28114s | wednesday which is where people are |
| 28115s | testing their submissions right so |
| 28117s | they're submitting on a thursday morning |
| 28120s | did you want to bring quest hunter and |
| 28122s | risk how it's going to be |
| 28125s | i think it was a risky bring very good |
| 28126s | bring as it turns out i think but |
| 28128s | yeah |
| 28130s | we should have seen more of them but we |
| 28131s | didn't but yeah absolutely got a chance |
| 28133s | here |
| 28134s | um |
| 28135s | it can beat the imps and it can be the |
| 28138s | mage so |
| 28140s | major i'd like uh the major i like um |
| 28144s | warlock is a little bit more |
| 28148s | like on the edge right because it's a 40 |
| 28150s | card |
| 28151s | quest hunter your draws are not as |
| 28154s | impactful you may not get any early |
| 28157s | removal and all of the support around |
| 28161s | uh the actual damage spells for the deck |
| 28165s | and the import lock could run away with |
| 28167s | the game as they do |
| 28169s | but on the other hand |
| 28171s | luvx playing a hybrid so could end up |
| 28173s | with a hand full of cursed nonsense and |
| 28177s | not really hit the early game power that |
| 28180s | you've come to know and curses in quest |
| 28182s | time to have that interaction that's |
| 28184s | favorable for the hunter |
| 28188s | later on |
| 28189s | yeah yeah that's yeah but |
| 28192s | it might be um having to time it but the |
| 28194s | first things first first of all |
| 28196s | it can just win with libraries nymphs |
| 28199s | yeah everything just goes that way |
| 28202s | probably not against this hand though |
| 28204s | yeah this is a very reasonable hand for |
| 28206s | hubba gabba though shell shot is a very |
| 28210s | good clear |
| 28212s | because it deals three damage or six |
| 28214s | damage that's split in three ways so |
| 28217s | there's often |
| 28218s | like nice favorable boards for it |
| 28221s | levick's got stuff but this mischievous |
| 28223s | imp is just not going to uh be active on |
| 28227s | four just not going to get there see |
| 28228s | this is the |
| 28230s | draw on all the curses |
| 28232s | yep |
| 28233s | yeah this deck i i i played it quite a |
| 28235s | bit |
| 28236s | or version of it before the masters tour |
| 28238s | because i saw there's quite a few |
| 28239s | possible ones in there and i was |
| 28240s | struggling with the deck |
| 28243s | and it's going to take a long time to |
| 28244s | evaluate how good it is because when |
| 28245s | it's good it's really really good but it |
| 28248s | seems like so inconsistent to me |
| 28253s | yeah as a lot of these decks through |
| 28256s | hearthstone's history have been when you |
| 28257s | play half of one thing half another and |
| 28259s | sort of wedge them together and hope to |
| 28261s | draw the right half |
| 28266s | [Music] |
| 28270s | you lose so you do lose |
| 28273s | the worst of your imps |
| 28275s | you do lose sort of some of the one |
| 28276s | threes and two fours and two fives that |
| 28278s | aren't really that punishing |
| 28280s | but by not having them in there like |
| 28282s | you've just said you lose a lot of the |
| 28283s | synergies that go with having just an |
| 28285s | imp |
| 28289s | and just see where warlock ends up |
| 28291s | because i don't think we're there yet |
| 28292s | with any of the villains |
| 28304s | meanwhile |
| 28306s | he's just |
| 28307s | doing what he can to not take too much |
| 28308s | damage |
| 28309s | still 37 still got card draw still got a |
| 28312s | way to occupy the board |
| 28320s | this is all |
| 28322s | like the entire cursed side of the deck |
| 28327s | i'm glad was just chugging along though |
| 28328s | can go wild spirits and a quick shot |
| 28330s | here |
| 28331s | if this hits the rush which it does not |
| 28335s | it was a full clear |
| 28337s | yeah he's fine |
| 28339s | now at least yeah |
| 28343s | oh face nice |
| 28346s | i mean they don't have much health |
| 28348s | they only have 30 to start with what |
| 28349s | sort of decks that |
| 28356s | hearthstone xl |
| 28359s | oh |
| 28362s | all right it's cultist cult |
| 28364s | i was really tempted by that that looked |
| 28366s | like a lot of damage oh |
| 28369s | here we go |
| 28373s | this is all this is like all the |
| 28375s | not all of it it's nearly all of it |
| 28379s | the curse stuff we're missing like it's |
| 28380s | not cool and an abyssal wave and then |
| 28381s | we're good |
| 28383s | even like the lady arcbane is |
| 28388s | like not bad in this situation yeah |
| 28391s | it's a drag below it's still a lot of |
| 28393s | minion |
| 28394s | connected a little bit of face damage in |
| 28396s | there as well |
| 28398s | those curses a bit more realistic |
| 28400s | because they're quite a long way off for |
| 28401s | now |
| 28404s | and now |
| 28406s | this is this is the secret thing right |
| 28407s | with the hunter |
| 28409s | this is where you just you used to just |
| 28410s | be able to point a spell at the face |
| 28412s | every single turn with the secrets sort |
| 28414s | of added for various reasons mainly |
| 28416s | because you want 40 cards and pull them |
| 28418s | out that's what we do with our 40 card |
| 28419s | decks |
| 28421s | you can hit this just stall where you do |
| 28423s | nothing for food |
| 28434s | that being said |
| 28437s | doing nothing pretty quickly |
| 28451s | you've got two turns at most here levitt |
| 28459s | kinda gotta go |
| 28462s | 28 i think is too much |
| 28468s | deal with curses |
| 28472s | i do too |
| 28473s | uh if you don't you're dead i think |
| 28478s | can't get a minion through i mean you |
| 28480s | can tamzin to get more health and hope |
| 28482s | that buys you a turn |
| 28486s | ah it's too slow |
| 28491s | yeah so therefore you kind of have to go |
| 28494s | for cursors even though you know they're |
| 28495s | not going to get there you're almost out |
| 28497s | of time |
| 28498s | of course they might |
| 28503s | haven't heard of me |
| 28516s | this makes sense |
| 28522s | wait this is how much much is going to |
| 28523s | be next turn |
| 28525s | it's |
| 28527s | one |
| 28528s | two |
| 28533s | three four |
| 28539s | four curses |
| 28541s | cultist |
| 28542s | vein which then has |
| 28547s | the drag belows |
| 28550s | is that enough damage |
| 28553s | no |
| 28554s | i don't think so three four five six |
| 28557s | oh 18 |
| 28560s | 18 what you just said |
| 28565s | do what you do is you take the two |
| 28566s | numbers at the edges and then add them |
| 28568s | together and then multiply by two |
| 28572s | for those people who can't add three |
| 28573s | four five and six |
| 28575s | i have to pick up a zakoor oh |
| 28579s | that would be handy now that would |
| 28582s | maybe alter the clock although i'm not |
| 28584s | convinced even then |
| 28588s | but yeah that's a good call that'll get |
| 28590s | us talking |
| 28600s | i don't know |
| 28602s | surprisingly close |
| 28604s | now we're getting five right because |
| 28606s | five would do it |
| 28609s | that'd be exactly 25. |
| 28612s | now |
| 28631s | you're more of a sacrifice |
| 28633s | which |
| 28634s | it's going to be dragged below again |
| 28636s | though |
| 28638s | oh it's not cool |
| 28645s | wait |
| 28648s | [Music] |
| 28650s | has one spell that's not caspal with the |
| 28652s | explosive trap it has a taunt in the way |
| 28656s | it's |
| 28658s | so cool plus cultist is |
| 28662s | uh four and five |
| 28665s | sure nine heal uh |
| 28668s | but you're also giving habagabu spells |
| 28670s | to cast |
| 28672s | but they only do two and they heal you |
| 28674s | for four and five so that's fine |
| 28677s | yep it might not be fine you might die |
| 28679s | but mathematically you're gaining ground |
| 28681s | doing it is what i'm trying to say |
| 28683s | yeah |
| 28694s | if they can't kill you they have to kill |
| 28695s | their cause it heals you for another |
| 28697s | five |
| 28698s | it goes up to 14 there's only those are |
| 28700s | the only caspal spells oh trucking |
| 28707s | we're looking for what aim shot and it's |
| 28709s | a win |
| 28711s | tracking again that's |
| 28713s | beautiful |
| 28715s | nice and cheap |
| 28723s | yep stag charged and that's enough |
| 28726s | very close very very close |
| 28730s | wow |
| 28736s | wow wow |
| 28738s | yeah |
| 28739s | that's amazing next turn was |
| 28742s | um |
| 28744s | like |
| 28745s | coldest was |
| 28747s | fix and then there would have been one |
| 28749s | more curse needed so anything to kill |
| 28752s | off one of the shadows from lady dark |
| 28754s | man right because it had a drag below in |
| 28755s | it |
| 28757s | two-thirds |
| 28760s | a lot of it or even like uh you know |
| 28764s | shady bartender or something to get the |
| 28766s | extra face damage from the board |
| 28768s | because habuka was just digging for |
| 28770s | lethal that could have been bad for abu |
| 28771s | ghabou but ties up the series |
| 28774s | that was a lot closer than i thought it |
| 28775s | would be at this point when the hand |
| 28777s | didn't look that good and habitable was |
| 28779s | clean and he's up right they're not |
| 28781s | hobbling for person pushing face damage |
| 28783s | when he did right |
| 28785s | right at that spot ignoring the board |
| 28786s | and pushing face up rathal |
| 28789s | put a lot of chip damage in early |
| 28790s | because knew that this game needed to go |
| 28792s | quickly especially without the handle |
| 28793s | shaping up |
| 28795s | so very nicely done i also liked |
| 28797s | levick's plays to just stay alive right |
| 28800s | long enough to make these curses |
| 28802s | actually be good |
| 28804s | though yeah finding a way to have a |
| 28806s | chance of winning that game because i |
| 28808s | went tracking tracking exact lethal |
| 28810s | right now what one overlapping i can |
| 28812s | tracking one over yeah so |
| 28814s | that's a pretty good turn for habbo at |
| 28817s | that point so really levick bought |
| 28820s | you know 20 30 chance winning that game |
| 28822s | out of that play which was yeah that |
| 28824s | draw pretty incredible |
| 28826s | [Music] |
| 28827s | yep now we move over to big cell mage |
| 28830s | versus quest hunter so |
| 28833s | a little scary for lubbock |
| 28840s | 30 health not a lot it's not |
| 28844s | but |
| 28844s | hey |
| 28847s | we'll be fine |
| 28850s | you think habit gets this |
| 28853s | probably |
| 28854s | oh yeah hunter's been crushing |
| 28857s | [Music] |
| 28859s | imagine |
| 28861s | two people bring hunter one of them is a |
| 28863s | 30 card deck and the other one wins the |
| 28864s | tournament |
| 28865s | and everybody else thought they were |
| 28867s | right all along |
| 28871s | [Music] |
| 28875s | it's kind of interesting but there are |
| 28876s | minions to trade into at some point |
| 28878s | needed |
| 28885s | [Music] |
| 28888s | oh belinda |
| 28890s | okay |
| 28891s | remember those days when belinda was |
| 28893s | just all we talked about in 30 card made |
| 28895s | you know there's so much other nonsense |
| 28896s | going on |
| 28900s | just forget to mention it |
| 28903s | i've already seen like two |
| 28905s | four tournaments |
| 28907s | turn four belinda |
| 28909s | just play a brand |
| 28913s | yeah just occupy your opponent |
| 28915s | they have to do something |
| 28918s | i like it |
| 28931s | could be pretty big later on |
| 28933s | just sack the pelican like |
| 28937s | there's one health for you to do |
| 28940s | whatever you want with |
| 28941s | all the other casters look for the best |
| 28943s | players and me and you are just sitting |
| 28945s | there going go on play after that ah |
| 28947s | come on |
| 28949s | he thought about it can he just thought |
| 28951s | about it murloc's this turn don't care |
| 28954s | if he needs to i just get every can |
| 28957s | yeah |
| 28958s | but yeah the background was interesting |
| 28960s | as weird as it sounds ice trap here to |
| 28962s | block coin coin something |
| 28966s | oh |
| 28967s | yeah oh yeah |
| 28975s | okay |
| 28985s | yeah you don't want a coin ice trap |
| 28987s | because they're near the exact same spot |
| 28988s | next turn they could just play another |
| 28990s | ice trap |
| 28997s | yeah we're at zero out of you |
| 29002s | looking at this pelican diver |
| 29004s | yeah shoot it |
| 29007s | in the damage that thing can do |
| 29012s | guaranteed clear if you haven't put that |
| 29014s | three health |
| 29015s | it's one more side to the first one the |
| 29017s | second one will die to the next two |
| 29022s | and then coin coin |
| 29026s | was one of them's gonna get trapped |
| 29029s | yep |
| 29030s | and then the turn after you'll have the |
| 29033s | oh it's still gonna be awkward but sure |
| 29036s | and after you box |
| 29040s | if you get a box number two |
| 29043s | sometimes well you have a coin now |
| 29047s | do you take me for an extra |
| 29052s | okay amulet and amulet double amulet oh |
| 29056s | no |
| 29057s | i mean it's not obviously |
| 29059s | horrendous but it is the worst thing you |
| 29061s | can get you're you're racing to 30 right |
| 29063s | now and habugabu's got a big lead |
| 29067s | yeah |
| 29069s | he changed those come to 12 12 with a 10 |
| 29071s | 10 on the board |
| 29072s | yep and has a nice |
| 29076s | easy finish next turn don't complete the |
| 29078s | quest to play around theater |
| 29086s | yeah |
| 29087s | some hubbus |
| 29089s | two big dragons they need to be |
| 29092s | xxl dragons |
| 29095s | kalagos |
| 29097s | yup respell if you have a chance of |
| 29099s | something happening next turn is good |
| 29101s | and most power |
| 29104s | eight |
| 29106s | take the eight dragon that's what it's |
| 29107s | called now |
| 29110s | former terror of the meta is just |
| 29112s | reduced to oh that eight eight thing |
| 29114s | yep |
| 29119s | because |
| 29121s | uh |
| 29122s | hunger dragon's actually better in this |
| 29123s | spot because the |
| 29127s | the i guess emerging next turn you don't |
| 29128s | want to take the three-phase damage from |
| 29130s | the weapon |
| 29131s | also you can attack and eat up a |
| 29133s | freezing trap of sorts as well which |
| 29135s | gives you 18 |
| 29137s | pesos you want to attack with this on to |
| 29139s | preserve the thing you want |
| 29141s | yeah |
| 29144s | but |
| 29145s | out now for habu a lot of two spells in |
| 29147s | hand tracking as well |
| 29151s | not much not much left to go here in |
| 29154s | terms of |
| 29156s | damage needed |
| 29158s | is this just powers and prey |
| 29161s | oh yeah it's the other drink |
| 29167s | you've got to set up lethal at the same |
| 29168s | time |
| 29170s | yeah so you drake fire amulet |
| 29173s | um your mailbox dancer and coin to test |
| 29175s | for the second ice trap |
| 29181s | okay |
| 29187s | oh hang on |
| 29190s | i mean |
| 29191s | the tracking might mean none of this |
| 29192s | matters but be able to freeze your board |
| 29194s | and just whack them twice that might be |
| 29195s | the way out of this |
| 29197s | oh |
| 29199s | you could also sorceress levick knows |
| 29201s | that the coin is still in hand |
| 29203s | uh-huh |
| 29210s | and then you get to play the dragon |
| 29211s | amulet as well and disrupt one of the uh |
| 29214s | one of them i have taunts yeah i just |
| 29216s | have taunty stuff everywhere as well |
| 29219s | yeah you have to take this too |
| 29227s | i mean the reality is that he's almost |
| 29229s | always dead here but the actuality is |
| 29244s | yeah you take the most power for both of |
| 29245s | these i'm pretty sure i think you have |
| 29247s | to be so close to not winning anyway |
| 29250s | yep then |
| 29253s | seven seven |
| 29254s | yes |
| 29257s | all right i was gonna do well with the |
| 29260s | tracking |
| 29262s | because lethal is set up |
| 29264s | it just needs damage |
| 29266s | that's not damaged |
| 29269s | it's a spell though |
| 29274s | so aim shot is lethal yeah |
| 29277s | is it |
| 29278s | many of the things will be what i think |
| 29281s | oh no |
| 29282s | oh |
| 29287s | oh oh |
| 29288s | you you got to take the howl right |
| 29292s | yeah |
| 29293s | but then what hope that howl trolls you |
| 29295s | into |
| 29296s | aim shot |
| 29298s | yeah is that right |
| 29300s | yeah because you get a hero power so |
| 29302s | levick's effectively at eight here oh |
| 29304s | yeah you've got the coin the coins only |
| 29305s | cost four yeah dumbbell dog bunker he'd |
| 29308s | be at four he just needs a spell that |
| 29310s | deals any damage or two or more damage |
| 29317s | okay |
| 29319s | nope oh multicaster oh no |
| 29323s | i've heard of it |
| 29325s | oh no game shot was the next card oh no |
| 29330s | oh there it is levick wins |
| 29333s | wow three regular season |
| 29337s | champion oh |
| 29339s | that was a very intense game |
| 29342s | coming down to the absolute |
| 29345s | wire ah that was |
| 29348s | i he needed so much stuff to go right |
| 29350s | and hobby needed so much stuff to go |
| 29352s | wrong but i feel like that's big spell |
| 29354s | page in a nutshell right like |
| 29357s | the you put the drake fire emotes |
| 29359s | barbaric sorcerers belinda |
| 29361s | and roon of the archmage in your deck |
| 29365s | what do you expect that was a very nice |
| 29366s | setup from levick understood okay i just |
| 29369s | need to |
| 29370s | i'm gonna i'm gonna take the taunt here |
| 29372s | not the kala ghost to block the weapon |
| 29374s | damage |
| 29375s | uh now i'm gonna barbaric sorceress |
| 29377s | because i know coins in hand so i at |
| 29379s | least have a one and three to hit coin |
| 29382s | or something cheap |
| 29384s | uh to be able to go so i guess the turn |
| 29386s | to look at would be |
| 29388s | um |
| 29389s | the previous term from habugabu if |
| 29392s | habugabu had coin at the turn he played |
| 29395s | um |
| 29396s | tavish he could have |
| 29398s | used used the coin and the tracking |
| 29402s | to play around barbaric sorceress i |
| 29403s | guess right |
| 29405s | sure |
| 29407s | but then i thought it would have |
| 29408s | mattered a few spells at that point so |
| 29411s | he's he's got fewer spells he can pick |
| 29413s | something a little more expensive |
| 29414s | because it's still the same amount of |
| 29415s | damage regardless because he was getting |
| 29417s | tavish online so coin was still two |
| 29419s | damage tracking was still two damage |
| 29421s | he may not have known what he needed at |
| 29423s | that point or maybe wanted to conceal |
| 29424s | damage all right |
| 29426s | also the only thing i can think of that |
| 29428s | might have |
| 29429s | helped in that situation |
| 29430s | um you can also realistically assume |
| 29433s | he's just going to win next turn he just |
| 29434s | drew minion |
| 29436s | bunker |
| 29437s | minion |
| 29438s | secret or something like that in that |
| 29440s | order |
| 29441s | like from his four looks or his five |
| 29443s | looks even though he has a howl he still |
| 29445s | missed so |
| 29446s | he had a lot of looks to win that game |
| 29448s | uh but yeah he could have |
| 29450s | possibly |
| 29452s | know what you said with a coin yeah |
| 29454s | i don't know if it would have changed |
| 29456s | the outcome because they still would |
| 29457s | have netted the same amount of damage |
| 29458s | actually would have been two more damage |
| 29459s | because the coin was not even usable |
| 29462s | um |
| 29462s | but uh |
| 29463s | [Music] |
| 29466s | but yeah a very intense last game and |
| 29469s | you know |
| 29472s | props to levick right because that he |
| 29474s | had a lot of very |
| 29476s | difficult series uh over the course of |
| 29478s | the the weekend a lot of back and forth |
| 29481s | a lot of like kind of playing to outs |
| 29484s | and |
| 29484s | he stayed close in series that i thought |
| 29487s | he was 100 lost in |
| 29489s | like that one is as soon as |
| 29492s | habugabu like started throwing damage to |
| 29494s | the face and completed the quest on like |
| 29496s | turn five or turn six |
| 29498s | i was like this one's over there's no |
| 29500s | way you develop enough power |
| 29502s | through the freezing trap in order to |
| 29504s | get there and he found a way to get |
| 29506s | there even the previous game that he |
| 29508s | lost with the curse warlock as soon as |
| 29510s | he started drawing on the curse though |
| 29511s | it's always gonna be a 30 damage |
| 29513s | but played to his outs and nearly won |
| 29516s | at the end of it |
| 29518s | uh so |
| 29520s | levitt reaching the final i mean winning |
| 29522s | the final fantastic i'm glad he's |
| 29524s | finally one of one of these big events |
| 29526s | as well but |
| 29528s | levick winning those four points he |
| 29530s | needed just to get into the playoffs |
| 29532s | next week um that was quite a lot of |
| 29534s | pressure so yeah excited for levick to |
| 29536s | take one of these down absolutely |
| 29539s | yeah |
| 29540s | uh very cool very cool um but yeah you |
| 29543s | know |
| 29544s | shout out to abugabu right it |
| 29546s | went with a different take on |
| 29549s | on lineups than most of the other |
| 29551s | players in the field went with the quest |
| 29552s | hunter |
| 29554s | not a hard counter to rogue but |
| 29555s | obviously his you know xl big spell mage |
| 29558s | did a lot of work against broke |
| 29559s | throughout the tournament he kind of |
| 29560s | relied on that that happening |
| 29562s | um his own rogue did a lot of work too |
| 29565s | uh so |
| 29566s | uh brought a cool lineup but at the end |
| 29568s | of the |
| 29569s | day levick was the one who came out on |
| 29572s | top i'd that curse imp warlock |
| 29575s | actually that strategy you know leaving |
| 29577s | up druid and playing those decks you |
| 29580s | have like multiple counters to druid so |
| 29581s | you're you're okay with like opening |
| 29583s | with rogue every game |
| 29585s | once druid comes out you throw out the |
| 29586s | cursed warlock it was just wrecking drew |
| 29588s | it's all weekend long |
| 29590s | um |
| 29591s | a big spell mage |
| 29593s | as like the the deck to round everything |
| 29595s | out |
| 29596s | it was just beating pretty much |
| 29598s | everything like there was not many decks |
| 29599s | where big spell mage was losing too |
| 29601s | consistently |
| 29602s | so |
| 29603s | it just ended up being |
| 29605s | the bring the lineup |
| 29608s | as is proven by winning |
| 29611s | one match against the hunt today |
| 29614s | yeah one matching saturday all right |
| 29616s | well whatever it thinks about that yeah |
| 29617s | yeah we do have uh an interview ready i |
| 29620s | believe i'm being told |
| 29622s | uh with our our champion of the week |
| 29625s | uh who is levick |
| 29628s | wait till i see him there's levick hey |
| 29630s | levick can you hear me |
| 29632s | hello hello yeah sure i was hearing you |
| 29634s | for the last maybe 10 minutes already |
| 29638s | really glad to hear you oh well yeah |
| 29641s | because when you hear me that means that |
| 29643s | you've won so uh first off |
| 29645s | congratulations |
| 29646s | uh |
| 29647s | secondly |
| 29649s | you came here this week with one |
| 29651s | there's one little tiny little point uh |
| 29654s | what what was your your thoughts coming |
| 29656s | into the week were you hopeful that you |
| 29658s | were gonna be able to qualify for |
| 29659s | playoffs they were just like ah whatever |
| 29661s | i'm just gonna come and play hearthstone |
| 29662s | [Music] |
| 29664s | i don't know what to say uh i |
| 29666s | i was like okay i i need to win this |
| 29670s | week or at least get to the finals so |
| 29673s | i'm definitely gonna do my best and i |
| 29676s | the only thing i |
| 29678s | like want to mention is that |
| 29680s | i wanted to bring maybe |
| 29683s | a bit |
| 29684s | risky lineup this |
| 29686s | big spell mage i wasn't really confident |
| 29689s | with it |
| 29690s | this is uh |
| 29691s | that can |
| 29692s | that can actually lose to anyone and |
| 29695s | that can beat anyone so i |
| 29697s | thought that i have to be a bit lucky |
| 29700s | and if |
| 29702s | the game loves me i i will get to the |
| 29705s | finals and go to the playoffs |
| 29708s | and here i am yeah |
| 29711s | i feel like that's big spell mage that's |
| 29713s | what the deck does though like if the |
| 29715s | game loves you you're gonna win if the |
| 29717s | game doesn't love you you're gonna lose |
| 29718s | that just feels like uh what big spell |
| 29720s | mage is but i'm curious what was the |
| 29723s | risky lineup uh if you you know don't |
| 29725s | mind talking about it now i mean i mean |
| 29727s | the the biggest damage was the risky |
| 29729s | part about it |
| 29732s | okay the all the all the three |
| 29734s | other three decks i was super confident |
| 29737s | with it the curse of warlock is |
| 29742s | my favorite deck so far i played it |
| 29744s | really a lot before the |
| 29746s | match it became a bit worse another |
| 29749s | after the popularization of rogue but in |
| 29753s | lhs uh i think it's |
| 29755s | probably the best |
| 29757s | deck in this format |
| 29759s | and also i'm i was really happy how i |
| 29761s | managed to |
| 29762s | pilot it |
| 29763s | during all my series |
| 29766s | so again |
| 29768s | yeah that's the lineup |
| 29772s | was there any decks that you were |
| 29774s | like thinking about bringing but didn't |
| 29776s | end up bringing like any decks that you |
| 29779s | almost made the cut for your lineup but |
| 29782s | like you you ended up like settling for |
| 29784s | big spell mage were there any decks that |
| 29786s | almost made it into your lineup |
| 29788s | i don't know we uh yes you could see we |
| 29791s | prepared with uh |
| 29793s | and we took the similar |
| 29795s | lineups so uh we pretty fast came up |
| 29798s | with a |
| 29799s | rogue |
| 29800s | druid |
| 29802s | and dwarf liner like we chose this free |
| 29804s | decks pretty quickly and then we had to |
| 29808s | decide |
| 29808s | uh do we want to ban rogue or druid i |
| 29811s | think that was the only two options |
| 29814s | uh in lhs in current method and i think |
| 29818s | almost all the players |
| 29820s | came for either a druid band or one |
| 29823s | and |
| 29824s | it was actually not my idea but the |
| 29827s | gruesome just told that |
| 29829s | you can't count the rogue |
| 29831s | so |
| 29832s | we want to ban wrong |
| 29836s | and the |
| 29837s | last part of the preparation was to |
| 29840s | find the fourth deck and |
| 29842s | we |
| 29844s | invested a lot of time |
| 29847s | to it and |
| 29848s | we were like three hours before the |
| 29851s | submission we were extremely tired it |
| 29853s | was a very an early a morning for us and |
| 29856s | we |
| 29857s | were choosing between pink mage 40 cards |
| 29861s | some kind of mage big spell mage and i |
| 29863s | just told |
| 29865s | okay i i i have to hire all some boxes |
| 29868s | here |
| 29869s | so we're gonna |
| 29870s | for a big spell mage |
| 29873s | [Music] |
| 29874s | oh it worked out it worked out at the |
| 29877s | end so uh prep paid off |
| 29879s | um i do want to ask your thoughts on |
| 29881s | rogue currently because you know |
| 29883s | obviously |
| 29884s | all the players had to submit was it |
| 29886s | four days ago yeah four days ago |
| 29889s | and it was only a couple days after the |
| 29890s | balance |
| 29891s | uh edwin was buff people everybody kind |
| 29894s | of knew that rogue was going to be good |
| 29896s | but not how good |
| 29897s | uh everything was going to be the best |
| 29899s | deck but since then right like ladder |
| 29901s | the latter metagame has evolved there's |
| 29903s | less rogue there's more quest priests um |
| 29906s | right now not when you submit it but |
| 29908s | right now what are your thoughts on on |
| 29910s | sort of the the power level of of road |
| 29913s | do you think it's you know one of the |
| 29914s | best decks do you think it's just in the |
| 29915s | middle ground |
| 29916s | because it was a big conversation uh |
| 29919s | point throughout the weekend was the |
| 29920s | rogue |
| 29921s | yeah i got you honestly i didn't play uh |
| 29924s | any |
| 29925s | hearthstone except |
| 29927s | for my i got master games after the deck |
| 29930s | a submission so i normally don't play |
| 29933s | ladder |
| 29934s | during the tournaments |
| 29936s | but as i told uh |
| 29938s | [Music] |
| 29940s | while we were |
| 29941s | preparing we were sure that rock is |
| 29945s | by far the best deck in the game and we |
| 29949s | we're gonna run it and we actually |
| 29951s | banned it and uh for me |
| 29954s | performed well |
| 29956s | i don't know what what else to say i'm i |
| 29959s | still i'm still sure that rogue is the |
| 29961s | best deck and |
| 29963s | also we tried to counter it with decks |
| 29966s | like priest or maybe some |
| 29969s | vacuum some vacuum image decks and |
| 29973s | didn't manage to even maintain a percent |
| 29976s | with rate in this matchup so from my |
| 29978s | perspective frog is by far the the best |
| 29981s | deck |
| 29983s | yeah that's uh that's the answer i was |
| 29985s | looking for um it did seem to do |
| 29988s | quite well and obviously your strategy |
| 29990s | of banning rogue worked out because you |
| 29991s | ended up winning so |
| 29993s | um but yeah that's all the questions i |
| 29994s | have it was a pleasure to watch you |
| 29996s | throughout the weekend and uh once again |
| 29998s | uh big congratulations and uh i look |
| 30001s | forward to seeing you play in playoffs |
| 30002s | next week |
| 30004s | thank you guys uh also |
| 30006s | that was a |
| 30008s | pleasure to hear so many a kind words |
| 30011s | from you and other |
| 30012s | casters i really enjoyed |
| 30014s | watching my games |
| 30016s | with |
| 30017s | your commentaries so yeah |
| 30020s | thanks for the great job |
| 30022s | oh thank you nobody ever oh it's me at |
| 30024s | the end of the interview that's great uh |
| 30026s | well thank you so much levick and uh |
| 30028s | many more nice words to come next week |
| 30030s | when you play in playoffs oh thank you |
| 30033s | so much |
| 30034s | [Music] |
| 30037s | all right is new is neil back i'm back |
| 30041s | yeah okay neil's back |
| 30043s | uh yeah |
| 30045s | finally hear from levick he's had such a |
| 30047s | good year as you catch me just |
| 30048s | stretching there on the camera um has |
| 30051s | had such a good year we haven't had a |
| 30052s | chance really to hear his thoughts on it |
| 30055s | and |
| 30055s | having some insight into it vogue's just |
| 30058s | the best so we banned it uh it sounds |
| 30060s | simple when you put it like that but all |
| 30062s | weekend i've been saying how i think |
| 30063s | vogue might not be the best but |
| 30065s | levick showed me |
| 30067s | levick showed you all right well here's |
| 30070s | the standings and these are i've been |
| 30072s | told |
| 30073s | correct |
| 30074s | standings |
| 30076s | uh with uh uh seating put in it's |
| 30078s | actually |
| 30079s | pretty easy there was just one |
| 30080s | tiebreaker and it was between fury |
| 30081s | hunter zoe grushan and pascoa to see who |
| 30084s | was gonna get seven and eight |
| 30086s | uh but seven and eight is broken up by |
| 30087s | those five points so if your hundred and |
| 30088s | soy cruising will be at that seventh and |
| 30090s | eighth seed they'll start off playoffs |
| 30092s | uh with a a a loss in their first match |
| 30095s | so they'll start in the elimination |
| 30096s | match for their group uh whereas on the |
| 30099s | other end bunnyhopper 12 points out of a |
| 30102s | possible 15 very impressive run |
| 30105s | throughout grand master's last call |
| 30107s | uh him and blys will get the the top two |
| 30109s | seeds and thus a bye for the first round |
| 30112s | so they'll start off with a win and be |
| 30114s | in the winner's match of their group |
| 30116s | to kick off playoffs and everybody else |
| 30119s | just starts in the normal spot super |
| 30120s | fake habugabu levick and possessee |
| 30123s | we'll all be facing off in some mixture |
| 30126s | of |
| 30127s | players uh in the groups uh for our |
| 30130s | initial matches so |
| 30131s | uh pretty cool and you know obviously |
| 30134s | we're still showing everybody else shout |
| 30136s | out to all the other players that uh |
| 30138s | competed in in last call |
| 30140s | um gave us some some good entertaining |
| 30143s | matches uh but alas we are left with our |
| 30147s | our top eight and our playoffs are set |
| 30151s | yep europe versus aipac to see who goes |
| 30153s | the wheelchair |
| 30156s | he had to say it i wasn't even gonna |
| 30158s | mention it oh i've got a curse a pack at |
| 30160s | this point so we can go down in the same |
| 30163s | ship as them |
| 30164s | yeah yep yep yep yep but um keep in mind |
| 30167s | uh next week four playoffs we will be on |
| 30170s | conquest but here's the twist it's best |
| 30172s | of seven |
| 30174s | conquest which is |
| 30176s | it's the same format but it's an |
| 30178s | entirely different format |
| 30180s | that's eight but |
| 30183s | almost there you go that's seven just |
| 30185s | hide your thumb good job |
| 30186s | um because normally conquest you try and |
| 30189s | uh |
| 30190s | make it in best of five you try and make |
| 30192s | it so you have good matchups against a |
| 30194s | deck that you know is going to be in the |
| 30195s | field and kind of corner that deck and |
| 30197s | make it very difficult for it to get a |
| 30198s | win |
| 30199s | it's nearly impossible to do that when |
| 30201s | you have to do it four times |
| 30203s | so uh we end up seeing a lot of just the |
| 30206s | best decks which for a best of seven |
| 30208s | very intense like playoffs and finals |
| 30212s | works out because you have sort of these |
| 30213s | back and forth series where you don't |
| 30215s | really have a clear favorite going in uh |
| 30217s | it makes it exciting to watch it's a lot |
| 30219s | of hearthstone a lot of hearthstone |
| 30221s | that's what's in store for us next week |
| 30223s | neil |
| 30224s | yeah looking forward i haven't seen best |
| 30225s | of seven since what |
| 30227s | 2017 playoffs |
| 30230s | 16 playoffs |
| 30232s | um but yeah it is a pretty crazy format |
| 30234s | as you've just described uh you can |
| 30237s | target a deck because you know what |
| 30238s | decks they're gonna have because they're |
| 30239s | gonna have all of them |
| 30241s | um but yeah essentially |
| 30243s | this it's gonna be hard to find a lineup |
| 30246s | that does that so you can either target |
| 30248s | two decks or |
| 30249s | yeah like you say just bring the best |
| 30251s | stuff and i hope you get there but i |
| 30253s | hope somebody thinks of something fun |
| 30255s | super fake hopes on you to bring some |
| 30258s | craziness i think |
| 30260s | how that goes |
| 30261s | also |
| 30262s | could have a plan |
| 30264s | to try and break the mold uh find find |
| 30266s | the lists right find the text |
| 30270s | so yeah that's uh that's what we have in |
| 30272s | store but neil we've come to that point |
| 30275s | in the broadcast you know what time it |
| 30276s | is |
| 30277s | it's time to end the show but as is |
| 30280s | tradition |
| 30281s | i have to ask you now that we've uh |
| 30284s | concluded the final week of the regular |
| 30285s | season for our grandmaster's last call |
| 30288s | do you have |
| 30289s | any final words that you'd like to say |
| 30291s | before i close out the show |
| 30293s | i don't think i will this week |
| 30296s | because |
| 30298s | saving it all for next week i'll just |
| 30300s | save it yeah saving it all leveling down |
| 30303s | i'm going to keep asking you every day |
| 30305s | even when we're not on broadcast even |
| 30306s | when we have our off days this week |
| 30308s | waiting for it i'm going to ask you i'll |
| 30309s | be like you have any final words today |
| 30310s | neil any final words today |
| 30313s | and once once you actually give your |
| 30314s | final words it's going to be glorious |
| 30315s | but |
| 30316s | uh it really is time for us to end the |
| 30318s | show we do this every day i'm sure |
| 30319s | production always gets mad at us we talk |
| 30320s | for forever when we're supposed to close |
| 30322s | out the show sometimes we can go on and |
| 30324s | on and on |
| 30325s | we do go on a bit it's been known yeah |
| 30328s | but uh but okay i am gonna stop there so |
| 30330s | we've concluded the regular season of |
| 30331s | grand masters last call which means we |
| 30333s | only have one more week left it is going |
| 30334s | to be playoffs we're going to start next |
| 30336s | week on friday |
| 30338s | um with best of seven conquest where |
| 30340s | we're gonna kick off the groups and |
| 30342s | march towards |
| 30344s | uh the finals of grand master last call |
| 30346s | so uh thanks so much for everybody for |
| 30348s | tuning in for myself |
| 30350s | from neil from broadcast crew from the |
| 30352s | other casters thanks for watching and |
| 30354s | we'll see you next week for more |
| 30355s | hearthstone action |
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| 30366s | [Applause] |
| 30374s | kill me |
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| 30430s | so |
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| 30442s | [Applause] |
| 30448s | [Music] |
| 30456s | [Music] |
| 30465s | one |
| 30467s | [Music] |
| 30472s | so |
| 30486s | [Music] |
| 30487s | god |
| 30494s | [Music] |
| 30503s | cheers |
| 30513s | [Music] |
| 30519s | so |
| 30532s | ah |
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| 30542s | [Applause] |
| 30547s | [Music] |
| 30550s | it's a bless off the top pesco a 2-0 up |
| 30555s | in the finals |
| 30557s | it looked rough for him for a moment the |
| 30559s | shard of the naaru was so clutch |
| 30566s | has he tried so hard he set up a lethal |
| 30568s | himself with the void chart and shadow |
| 30570s | form on the next string even if his |
| 30572s | ethic got cleared it was as good a plan |
| 30574s | as any |
| 30576s | [Music] |
| 30583s | there it is the bowel master off the top |
| 30586s | for yala |
| 30589s | [Music] |
| 30597s | so |
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| 30610s | [Applause] |
| 30612s | [Music] |
| 30619s | hmm |
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